1 Peter Cross References - Moffatt

¹ Peter an apostle of Jesus Christ, to the exiles of the Dispersion in Pontus, Galatia, Cappadocia, Asia, and Bithynia, ² whom God the Father has predestined and chosen, by the consecration of the Spirit, to obey Jesus Christ and be sprinkled with his blood: may grace and peace be multiplied to you. ³ Blessed be the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ! By his great mercy we have been born anew to a life of hope through the resurrection of Jesus Christ from the dead, ⁴ born to an unscathed, inviolate, unfading inheritance; it is kept in heaven for you, ⁵ and the power of God protects you by faith till you do inherit the salvation which is all ready to be revealed at the last hour. ⁶ You will rejoice then, though for the passing moment you may need to suffer various trials; ⁷ that is only to prove your faith is sterling (far more precious than gold which is perishable and yet is tested by fire), and it redounds to your praise and glory and honour at the revelation of Jesus Christ. ⁸ You never knew him, but you love him; for the moment you do not see him, but you believe in him, and you will thrill with an unspeakable and glorious joy ⁹ to obtain the outcome of your faith in the salvation of your souls. ¹⁰ Even prophets have searched and inquired about that salvation, the prophets who prophesied of the grace that was meant for you; ¹¹ the Spirit of messiah within them foretold all the suffering of messiah and his after-glory, and they pondered when or how this was to come; ¹² to them it was revealed that they got this intelligence not for themselves but for you, regarding all that has now been disclosed to you by those who preached the gospel to you through the holy Spirit sent from heaven. The very angels long to get a glimpse of this! ¹³ Brace up your minds, then, keep cool, and put your hope for good and all in the grace that is coming to you at the revelation of Jesus Christ. ¹⁴ Be obedient children, instead of moulding yourselves to the passions that once ruled the days of your ignorance; ¹⁵ as He who called you is holy, so you must be holy too in all your conduct — ¹⁶ for it is written, You shall be holy because I am holy. ¹⁷ And as you call upon a Father who judges everyone impartially by what he has done, be reverent in your conduct while you sojourn here below; ¹⁸ you know it was not by perishable silver or gold that you were ransomed from the futile traditions of your past, ¹⁹ but by the precious blood of Christ, a lamb unblemished and unstained. ²⁰ He was predestined before the foundation of the world and has appeared at the end of the ages for your sake; ²¹ it is by him that you believe in God who raised him from the dead and gave him glory; and thus your faith means hope in God. ²² Now that your obedience to the Truth has purified your souls for a brotherly love that is sincere, love one another heartily and steadily. ²³ You are born anew of immortal, not of mortal seed, by the living, lasting word of God; ²⁴ for All flesh is like the grass, and all its glory like the flower of grass: the grass withers and the flower fades, ²⁵ but the word of the Lord lasts for ever — and that is the word of the gospel for you.

¹⁸ As he was walking along the sea of Galilee he saw two brothers, Simon (who is called Peter) and his brother Andrew, casting a net in the sea — for they were fishermen;

² These are the names of the twelve apostles: first Simon (who is called Peter) and Andrew his brother, James the son of Zebedaeus and John his brother,

²² Had not those days been cut short, not a soul would be saved alive; however, for the sake of the elect, those days will be cut short.

⁴¹ In the morning he met his brother Simon and told him, "We have found the messiah" (which may be translated, 'Christ'). ⁴² He took him to Jesus; Jesus gazed at him and said, "You are Simon, the son of John? Your name is to be Cephas" (meaning 'Peter' or 'rock').

³⁵ The Jews said to themselves, "Where is he going, that we will not find him? Is he off to the Dispersion among the Greeks, to teach the Greeks?

⁵² and not merely for the nation but to gather into one the scattered children of God.)

¹⁵ Then after breakfast Jesus said to Simon Peter, "Simon, son of John, do you love me more than the others do?" "Why, Lord," he said, "you know I love you." "Then feed my lambs," said Jesus. ¹⁶ Again he asked him, for the second time, "Simon, son of John, do you love me?" "Why, Lord," he said, "you know I love you." "Then be a shepherd to my sheep," said Jesus. ¹⁷ For the third time he asked him, "Simon, son of John, do you love me?" Now Peter was vexed at being asked a third time, "Do you love me?" So he replied; "Lord, you know everything, you can see I love you." Jesus said, "Then feed my sheep.

⁵ Now there were devout Jews from every nation under heaven staying in Jerusalem. ⁶ So when this sound was heard, the multitude gathered in bewilderment, for each heard them speaking in his own language. ⁷ All were amazed and astonished. "Are these not all Galileans," they said, "who are speaking? ⁸ Then how is it that each of us hears them in his own native tongue? ⁹ Parthians, Medes, Elamites, residents in Mesopotamia, in Judaea and Cappadocia, in Pontus and Asia, ¹⁰ in Phrygia and Pamphylia, in Egypt and the districts of Libya round Cyrene, visitors from Rome, Jews and proselytes, ¹¹ Cretans and Arabians, we hear these men talking of the triumphs of God in our own languages!"

⁹ Some of those who belonged to the so-called synagogue of the Libyans, the Cyrenians, and the Alexandrians, as well as to that of the Cilicians and Asiatics, started a dispute with Stephen,

⁴ Now those who were scattered went through the land preaching the gospel.

⁶ They crossed Phrygia and the country of Galatia, the holy Spirit having stopped them from preaching the word in Asia; ⁷ when they got as far as Mysia, they tried to enter Bithynia, but the Spirit of Jesus would not allow them,

² There he came across a Jew called Aquila, a native of Pontus, who had recently arrived from Italy with his wife Priscilla, as Claudius had ordered all Jews to leave Rome. Paul accosted them,

²³ After spending some time there he went off on a journey right through the country of Galatia and Phrygia, strengthening the disciples.

¹⁰ This went on for two years, so that all the inhabitants of Asia, Jews as well as Greeks, heard the word of the Lord.

¹⁶ This was because Paul had decided to sail past Ephesus, to avoid any loss of time in Asia; he wanted to reach Jerusalem, if possible, by the day of Pentecost. ¹⁷ From Miletus he sent to Ephesus for the presbyters of the church. ¹⁸ When they came to him, he said, "You know quite well how I lived among you all the time ever since I set foot in Asia,

¹⁹ The churches of Asia salute you. Aquila and Prisca, with the church that meets in their house, salute you warmly in the Lord.

⁸ Now I would like you to know about the distress which befell me in Asia, brothers. I was crushed, crushed far more than I could stand, so much so that I despaired even of life;

² with all the brothers who are beside me, to the churches of Galatia;

¹² remember you were in those days outside Christ, aliens to the commonwealth of Israel, and strangers to the covenants of the Promise, devoid of hope and God within the world.

¹⁹ Thus you are strangers and foreigners no longer, you share the membership of the saints, you belong to God's own household,

¹⁵ You are aware that all the Asiatics have discarded me, including Phygelus and Hermogenes.

¹³ (These all died in faith without obtaining the promises; they only saw them far away and hailed them, owning they were 'strangers and exiles upon earth.'

¹ James, a servant of God and the Lord Jesus Christ, to the twelve tribes in the Dispersion: greeting.

¹¹ Beloved, as sojourners and exiles I appeal to you to abstain from the passions of the flesh that wage war upon the soul.

¹ Symeon Peter, a servant and apostle of Jesus Christ, to those who have been allotted a faith of equal privilege with ours, by the equity of our God and saviour Jesus Christ:

¹¹ "Write your vision in a book, and send it to the seven churches, to Ephesus and Smyrna and Pergamum and Thyatira and Sardis and Philadelphia and Laodicea."

²⁴ for false Christs and false prophets will rise and bring forward great signs and wonders, so as to mislead the very elect, — if that were possible.

³¹ He will despatch his angels with a loud trumpet call to muster his elect from the four winds, from the verge of heaven to the verge of earth.

²⁰ Had not the Lord cut short those days, not a soul would be saved alive; but he has cut them short for the sake of the elect whom he has chosen.

²² for false Christs and false prophets will rise and perform signs and wonders to mislead the elect if they can.

²⁷ Then he will despatch his angels and muster the elect from the four winds, from the verge of earth to the verge of heaven.

⁷ And will not God see justice done to his elect who cry to him by day and night? Will he be tolerant to their opponents?

¹⁶ You have not chosen me, it is I who have chosen you, appointing you to go and bear fruit — fruit that lasts, so that the Father may grant you whatever you ask in my name. ¹⁷ This is what I command you, to love one another. ¹⁸ If the world hates you, remember it hated me first. ¹⁹ If you belonged to the world, the world would love what it owned; it is because you do not belong to the world, because I have chosen you from the world, that the world hates you.

²³ this Jesus, betrayed in the predestined course of God's deliberate purpose, you got wicked men to nail to the cross and murder;

¹⁸ who makes this known from of old.

³² And now I entrust you to God and the word of his grace; he is able to upbuild you and give you your inheritance among all the consecrated.

⁵ through whom I have received the favour of my commission to promote obedience to the faith for his sake among all the Gentiles,

⁷ to all in Rome who are beloved by God, called to be saints, grace and peace to you from God our Father and the Lord Jesus Christ.

¹³ If you live by the flesh, you are on the road to death; but if by the Spirit you put the actions of the body to death, you will live.

²⁹ For he decreed of old that those whom he predestined should share the likeness of his Son — that he might be the firstborn of a great brotherhood. ³⁰ Then he calls those whom he has thus decreed; then he justifies those whom he has called; then he glorifies those whom he has justified.

³³ Who is to accuse the elect of God? When God acquits,

²³ What if he means to show the wealth that lies in his glory for the objects of his mercy, whom he has made ready beforehand to receive glory — ²⁴ that is, for us whom he has called from among the Gentiles as well as the Jews?

² God has not repudiated his People, his predestined People! Surely you know what scripture says in the passage called 'Elijah'? You know how he pleads with God against Israel:

⁵ Well, at the present day there is also a remnant, selected by grace. ⁶ Selected by grace, and therefore not for anything they have done; otherwise grace would cease to be grace. ⁷ Now what are we to infer from this? That Israel has failed to secure the object of its quest; the elect have secured it, and the rest have been rendered insensible to it —

²⁸ So far as the gospel goes, they are enemies of God — which is to your advantage; but so far as election goes, they are beloved for their father's sake.

¹⁶ as a priest of Christ Jesus to the Gentiles in the service of God's gospel. My aim is to make the Gentiles an acceptable offering, consecrated by the holy Spirit.

¹⁹ Everyone has heard of your loyalty to the gospel; it makes me rejoice over you. Still, I want you to be experts in good and innocents in evil.

²⁶ has now been disclosed and made known on the basis of the prophetic scriptures (by command of the eternal God) to all the Gentiles for their obedience to the faith —

³⁰ This is the God to whom you owe your being in Christ Jesus, whom God has made our 'Wisdom,' that is, our righteousness and consecration and redemption;

¹¹ Some of you were once like that; but you washed yourselves clean, you were consecrated, you were justified in the name of our Lord Jesus Christ and in the Spirit of our God.

⁵ I demolish theories and any rampart thrown up to resist the knowledge of God, I take every project prisoner to make it obey Christ,

¹⁴ The grace of the Lord Jesus Christ and the love of God and the fellowship of the holy Spirit be with you all.

⁴ He chose us in him ere the world was founded, to be consecrated and unblemished in his sight, ⁵ destining us in love to be his sons through Jesus Christ. Such was the purpose of his will,

¹² As God's own chosen, then, as consecrated and beloved, be clothed with compassion, kindliness, humility, gentleness, and good temper —

¹³ Now we are bound always to thank God for you, brothers beloved by the Lord, because God has chosen you as the first to be reaped for salvation, by the consecration of your spirit and by faith in the Truth;

¹⁰ All I endure is for the sake of the elect, to let them obtain their share of the salvation of Christ Jesus and also of eternal glory.

¹ Paul a servant of God and an apostle of Jesus Christ for the faith of God's elect and for their knowledge of the Truth that goes with a religious life,

⁹ and by being thus perfected he became the source of eternal salvation for all who obey him,

¹⁹ for after Moses had announced every command in the Law to all the people, he took the blood of calves and goats, together with water, scarlet wool and hyssop, sprinkling the book and all the people, ²⁰ and saying, This is the blood of that covenant which is God's command for you. ²¹ He even sprinkled with blood the tent and all the utensils of worship in the same way. ²² In fact, one might almost say that by Law everything is cleansed with blood. No blood shed, no remission of sins!

²² let us draw near with a true heart, in absolute assurance of faith, our hearts sprinkled clean from a bad conscience, and our bodies washed in pure water;

²⁸ It was by faith that he celebrated the passover and performed the sprinkling by blood, so that the destroying angel might not touch Israel's first-born.

²⁴ to Jesus who mediates the new covenant, and to the sprinkled blood whose message is nobler than Abel's.

²² Now that your obedience to the Truth has purified your souls for a brotherly love that is sincere, love one another heartily and steadily.

⁹ But you are the elect race, the royal priesthood, the consecrated nation, the People who belong to Him, that you may proclaim the wondrous deeds of Him who has called you from darkness to his wonderful light —

² grace and peace be multiplied to you by the knowledge of our Lord.

¹ The presbyter, to the elect Lady and her children whom I love in the Truth (and not only I but all who know the Truth)

¹³ The children of your elect Sister greet you.

² mercy, peace and love be multiplied to you.

¹³ who owe this birth of theirs to God, not to human blood, nor to any impulse of the flesh or of man.

³ Jesus replied, "Truly, truly I tell you, no one can see God's Realm unless he is born from above." ⁴ Nicodemus said to him, "How can a man be born when he is old? Can he enter his mother's womb over again and be born?" ⁵ Jesus replied, "Truly, truly I tell you, unless one is born of water and the Spirit, he cannot enter God's Realm. ⁶ What is born of the flesh is flesh: what is born of the Spirit is Spirit. ⁷ Do not wonder at me telling you, 'You must all be born from above.' ⁸ The wind blows where it wills; you can hear its sound, but you never know where it has come from or where it goes: it is the same with everyone who is born of the Spirit."

²⁵ Jesus who was delivered up for our trespasses and raised that we might be justified.

⁴ endurance produces character, and character produces hope — ⁵ a hope which never disappoints us, since God's love floods our hearts through the holy Spirit which has been given to us.

¹⁰ If we were reconciled to God by the death of his Son when we were enemies, much more, now that we are reconciled, shall we be saved by his life.

¹⁵ but the gift is very different from the trespass. For while the rest of men died by the trespass of one man, the grace of God and the free gift which comes by the grace of the one man Jesus Christ overflowed far more richly upon the rest of men. ¹⁶ Nor is the free gift like the effect of the one man's sin; for while the sentence ensuing on a single sin resulted in doom, the free gift ensuing on many trespasses issues in acquittal. ¹⁷ For if the trespass of one man allowed death to reign through that one man, much more shall those who receive the overflowing grace and free gift of righteousness reign in life through One, through Jesus Christ. ¹⁸ Well then, as one man's trespass issued in doom for all, so one man's act of redress issues in acquittal and life for all. ¹⁹ Just as one man's disobedience made all the rest sinners, so one man's obedience will make all the rest righteous. ²⁰ Law slipped in to aggravate the trespass; sin increased, but grace surpassed it far, ²¹ so that, while sin had reigned the reign of death, grace might also reign with a righteousness that ends in life eternal through Jesus Christ our Lord.

¹¹ And if the Spirit of Him who raised Jesus from the dead dwells within you, then He who raised Christ from the dead will also make your mortal bodies live by his indwelling Spirit in your lives.

²⁴ We were saved with this hope in view. Now when an object of hope is seen, there is no further need to hope. Who ever hopes for what he sees already?

¹² let your hope be a joy to you; be stedfast in trouble, attend to prayer,

¹³ May the God of your hope so fill you with all joy and peace in your faith, that you may be overflowing with hope by the power of the holy Spirit!

¹³ Thus 'faith and hope and love last on, these three,' but the greatest of all is love.

²⁰ But it is not so! Christ did rise from the dead, he was the first to be reaped of those who sleep in death.

³ Blessed be the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, the Father of tender mercies and the God of all comfort,

³ Blessed be the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ who in Christ has blessed us with every spiritual blessing in the heavenly sphere!

⁷ in whom we enjoy our redemption, the forgiveness of our trespasses, by the blood he shed.

¹⁷ May the God of our Lord Jesus Christ, the glorious Father, grant you the Spirit of wisdom and revelation for the knowledge of himself,

⁴ But, dead in trespasses as we were, God was so rich in mercy that for his great love to us

⁶ together with Christ he raised and seated us within the heavenly sphere in Christ Jesus, ⁷ to display throughout ages to come his surpassing wealth of grace and goodness toward us in Christ Jesus. ⁸ For it is by grace you have been saved, as you had faith; it is not your doing but God's gift, ⁹ not the outcome of what you have done — lest anyone should pride himself on that; ¹⁰ God has made us what we are, creating us in Christ Jesus for the good deeds which are prepared beforehand by God as our sphere of action.

²⁰ Now to him who by the action of his power within us can do all things, aye far more than we ever ask or imagine,

²³ that is, if you adhere to the foundations and stability of the faith, instead of moving away from the hope you have learned in the gospel, that gospel which has been preached to every creature under heaven, and of which I Paul was made a minister.

²⁷ It is His will that they should understand the glorious wealth which this secret holds for the Gentiles, in the fact of Christ's presence among you as your hope of glory.

³ as we recall your active faith and labour of love and patient hope in our Lord Jesus Christ, before our God and Father.

¹³ We would like you, brothers, to understand about those who are asleep in death. You must not grieve for them, like the rest of men who have no hope.

¹⁴ and the grace of our Lord flooded my life along with the faith and love that Christ Jesus inspires.

¹³ awaiting the blessed hope of the appearance of the Glory of the great God and of our Saviour Christ Jesus,

⁴ But "the goodness and affection of God our Saviour appeared; ⁵ and he saved us, not for anything we had done but from his own pity for us, by the water that means regeneration and renewal under the holy Spirit ⁶ which he poured upon us richly through Jesus Christ our Saviour,

⁶ Christ is faithful as a Son over God's house. Now we are this house of God, if we will only keep confident and proud of our hope.

¹⁸ so that by these two solid facts (the Promise and the Oath), where it is impossible for God to be false, we refugees might have strong encouragement to seize the hope set before us, ¹⁹ anchoring the soul to it safe and sure, as it enters the inner Presence behind the veil.

¹⁸ It was his own will that we should be born by the Word of the truth, to be a kind of firstfruits among his creatures.

²³ You are born anew of immortal, not of mortal seed, by the living, lasting word of God;

² Like newly-born children, thirst for the pure, spiritual milk to make you grow up to salvation.

²¹ Baptism, the counterpart of that, saves you to-day (not the mere washing of dirt from the flesh but the prayer for a clean conscience before God) by the resurrection of Jesus Christ

²⁹ As you know he is just, be sure that everyone who practises righteousness is born of him.

³ And everyone who rests this hope on him, purifies himself as he is pure.

⁹ Anyone who is born of God does not commit sin, for the offspring of God remain in Him, and they cannot sin, because they are born of God.

⁷ Beloved, let us love one another, for love belongs to God, and everyone who loves is born of God and knows God;

¹ Everyone who believes Jesus is the Christ, is born of God; and everyone who loves the Father, loves the sons born of him.

⁴ for whatever is born of God conquers the world. Our faith, that is the conquest which conquers the world.

¹⁸ We know that anyone who is born of God does not sin; He who was born of God preserves him, and the evil One never catches him.

³⁴ Then shall the King say to those on his right, 'Come, you whom my Father has blessed, come into your inheritance in the realm prepared for you from the foundation of the world.

¹⁸ that their eyes may be opened and that they may turn from darkness to light, from the power of Satan to God, to get remission of their sins and an inheritance among those who are consecrated by faith in me.'

¹⁷ and if children, heirs as well, heirs of God, heirs along with Christ — for we share his sufferings in order to share his glory.

²⁵ Every athlete practises self-restraint all round; but while they do it to win a fading wreath, we do it for an unfading.

⁵² changed in a moment, in the twinkling of an eye, at the last trumpet-call. The trumpet will sound, the dead will rise imperishable, and we shall be changed. ⁵³ For this perishing body must be invested with the imperishable, and this mortal body invested with immortality; ⁵⁴ and when this mortal body has been invested with immortality, then the saying of Scripture will be realized, Death is swallowed up in victory.

¹⁸ If the Inheritance is due to law, it ceases to be due to promise. Now it was by a promise that God bestowed it on Abraham.

¹¹ in the Christ in whom we have had our heritage allotted us (as was decreed in the design of him who carries out everything according to the counsel of his will),

¹⁴ which is the pledge and instalment of our common heritage, that we may obtain our divine possession and so redound to the praise of his glory.

¹⁸ illuminating the eyes of your heart so that you can understand the hope to which He calls us, the wealth of his glorious heritage in the saints,

⁵ due to the hope which is laid up for you in heaven. You heard of this hope originally in the message of the Truth, in that gospel

¹² thanking the Father who has qualified us to share the lot of the saints in the Light,

³ for you died and your life is hidden with Christ in God. ⁴ When Christ, who is our life, appears, then you will appear with him in glory.

⁸ Now the crown of a good life awaits me, with which the Lord, that just Judge, will reward me on the great Day — and not only me but all who have loved and longed for his appearance.

¹⁵ He mediates a new covenant for this reason, that those who have been called may obtain the eternal inheritance they have been promised, now that a death has occurred which redeems them from the transgressions involved in the first covenant.

¹¹ up comes the sun with the scorching wind and withers the grass, its flower drops off, and the splendour of it is ruined: so shall the rich fade away amid their pursuits.

⁹ never paying back evil for evil, never reviling when you are reviled, but on the contrary blessing. For this is your vocation, to bless and to inherit blessing;

⁴ Then you will receive the unfading crown of glory, when the chief Shepherd makes his appearance.

²⁷ Nothing profane, none who practises abomination or falsehood shall enter, but those alone whose names are written in the Lamb's book of Life.

¹⁴ but anyone who drinks the water I shall give him will never thirst any more; the water I shall give him will turn into a spring of water welling up to eternal life."

²⁴ Truly, truly I tell you, he who listens to my word and believes him who sent me has eternal life; he will incur no sentence of judgment, he has already passed from death across to life.

²⁸ and I give them eternal life; they will never perish, and no one will snatch them out of my hand. ²⁹ My Father who gave me them is stronger than all, and no one can snatch anything out of the Father's hand. ³⁰ I and my Father are one — ."

⁴⁸ He who rejects me and will not receive my words has indeed a judge: the word I have spoken will judge him on the last day,

¹¹ I am to be in the world no longer, but they are to be in the world; I come to thee. Holy Father, keep them by the power of thy Name which thou hast given me, that they may be one as we are one. ¹² When I was with them, I kept them by the power of thy Name which thou hast given me; I guarded them, and not one of them perished — only the son of perdition, that the scripture might be fulfilled.

¹⁵ I pray not that thou wilt take them out of the world, but that thou wilt keep them from the evil one.

³¹ Now what follows from all this? If God is for us, who can be against us? ³² The God who did not spare his own Son but gave him up for us all, surely He will give us everything besides! ³³ Who is to accuse the elect of God? When God acquits, ³⁴ who shall condemn? Will Christ? — the Christ who died, yes and rose from the dead! the Christ who is at God's right hand, who actually pleads for us! ³⁵ What can ever part us from Christ's love? Can anguish or calamity or persecution or famine or nakedness or danger or the sword? ³⁶ (Because, as it is written, For thy sake we are being killed all the day long, we are counted as sheep to be slaughtered.) ³⁷ No, in all this we are more than conquerors through him who loved us. ³⁸ For I am certain neither death nor life, neither angels nor principalities, neither the present nor the future, ³⁹ no powers of the Height or of the Depth, nor anything else in all creation will be able to part us from God's love in Christ Jesus our Lord.

²⁰ Granted. They were broken off — for their lack of faith. And you owe your position to your faith. You should feel awed instead of being uplifted.

²⁴ (Not that we lord it over your faith — no, we co-operate for your joy: you have a standing of your own in the faith.)

²⁰ I have been crucified with Christ, and it is no longer I who live, Christ lives in me; the life I now live in the flesh I live by faith in the Son of God who loved me and gave himself up for me.

⁸ For it is by grace you have been saved, as you had faith; it is not your doing but God's gift,

¹⁷ May Christ dwell in your hearts as you have faith!

⁶ of this I am confident, that he who has begun the good work in you will go on completing it until the day of Jesus Christ.

³ as we recall your active faith and labour of love and patient hope in our Lord Jesus Christ, before our God and Father. ⁴ O brothers beloved by God, we know he has chosen you;

¹³ Now we are bound always to thank God for you, brothers beloved by the Lord, because God has chosen you as the first to be reaped for salvation, by the consecration of your spirit and by faith in the Truth; ¹⁴ it was for this that he called you by our gospel, to gain the glory of our Lord Jesus Christ.

¹⁴ to keep your commission free from stain, free from reproach, till the appearance of our Lord Jesus Christ — ¹⁵ which will be brought about in due time by that blessed and only Sovereign, King of kings and Lord of lords,

¹⁵ remember you have known from childhood the sacred writings that can impart saving wisdom by faith in Christ Jesus.

¹² so that instead of being slack you may imitate those who inherit the promises by their stedfast faith.

²⁸ so Christ, after being once sacrificed to bear the sins of many, will appear again, not to deal with sin but for the saving of those who look out for him.

¹³ Brace up your minds, then, keep cool, and put your hope for good and all in the grace that is coming to you at the revelation of Jesus Christ.

² We are children of God now, beloved; what we are to be is not apparent yet, but we do know that when he appears, we are to be like him — for we are to see him as he is.

¹ Judas, a servant of Jesus Christ and a brother of James, to those who have been called, who are beloved by God the Father and kept by Jesus Christ:

²⁴ Now to him who is able to keep you from slipping and to make you stand unblemished and exultant before his glory —

¹² rejoice and exult in it, for your reward is rich in heaven; that is how they persecuted the prophets before you.

²⁸ Come to me, all who are labouring and burdened, and I will refresh you.

³⁷ But he took Peter and the two sons of Zebedaeus along with him; and when he began to feel distressed and agitated,

⁴⁷ My spirit has joy in God my Saviour:

¹⁰ but the angel said to them, "Have no fear. This is good news I am bringing you, news of a great joy that is meant for all the People.

²⁰ Only, do not rejoice because the spirits obey you: rejoice because your names are enrolled in heaven."

²² So with you. Just now you are in sorrow, but I shall see you again and your heart will rejoice — with a joy that no one can take from you.

³³ I have said all this to you that in me you may have peace; in the world you have trouble, but courage! I have conquered the world.

²² strengthening the souls of the disciples, encouraging them to hold by the faith, and telling them that "we have to get into the Realm of God through many a trouble."

² Through him we have got access to this grace where we have our standing, and triumph in the hope of God's glory.

¹¹ Not only so, but we triumph in God through our Lord Jesus Christ, by whom we now enjoy our reconciliation.

² when I say that I am in sore pain. I suffer endless anguish of heart.

⁹ For it seems to me that God means us apostles to come in at the very end, like the doomed gladiators in the arena! We are made a spectacle to the world, to angels and to men! ¹⁰ We, for Christ's sake, are 'fools'; you in Christ are sensible. We are weak, you are strong; you are honoured, we are in disrepute. ¹¹ To this very hour we hunger and thirst, we are ill-clad and knocked about, we are waifs, ¹² we work hard for our living; when reviled, we bless; when persecuted, we put up with it; ¹³ when defamed, we try to conciliate. To this hour we are treated as the scum of the earth, the very refuse of the world!

⁷ But I possess this treasure in a frail vessel of earth, to show that the transcending power belongs to God, not to myself; ⁸ on every side I am harried but not hemmed in, perplexed but not despairing, ⁹ persecuted but not abandoned, struck down but not destroyed — ¹⁰ wherever I go, I am being killed in the body as Jesus was, so that the life of Jesus may come out in my body: ¹¹ every day of my life I am being given over to death for Jesus' sake, so that the life of Jesus may come out within my mortal flesh.

¹⁷ The slight trouble of the passing hour results in a solid glory past all comparison,

¹⁰ grieved but always glad, a 'pauper', but the means of wealth to many, without a penny but possessed of all.

²³ Ministers of Christ? yes perhaps, but not as much as I am (I am mad to talk like this!), with all my labours, with all my lashes, with all my time in prison — a record longer far than theirs. I have been often at the point of death; ²⁴ five times have I got forty lashes (all but one) from the Jews, ²⁵ three times I have been beaten by the Romans, once pelted with stones, three times shipwrecked, adrift at sea for a whole night and day; ²⁶ I have been often on my travels, I have been in danger from rivers and robbers, in danger from Jews and Gentiles, through dangers of town and of desert, through dangers on the sea, through dangers among false brothers — ²⁷ through labour and hardship, through many a sleepless night, through hunger and thirst, starving many a time, cold and ill-clad, and all the rest of it.

⁹ but he told me, "It is enough for you to have my grace: it is in weakness that [my] power is fully felt." So I am proud to boast of all my weakness, and thus to have the power of Christ resting on my life. ¹⁰ It makes me satisfied, for Christ's sake, with weakness, insults, trouble, persecution, and calamity; for I am strong just when I am weak.

²² But the harvest of the Spirit is love, joy, peace, good temper, kindliness, generosity, fidelity,

²⁶ for he has been yearning for you all. He has been greatly concerned because you heard he was ill.

³ We are the true Circumcision, we who worship God in spirit, we who pride ourselves on Christ Jesus, we who rely upon no outward privilege.

⁴ Rejoice in the Lord always. I will say it again, 'rejoice.'

⁶ and you started to copy us and the Lord, welcoming the word, though it brought you heavy trouble, with a joy inspired by the holy Spirit.

³⁵ Some were given back to their womankind, raised from the very dead; others were broken on the wheel, refusing to accept release, that they might obtain a better resurrection; ³⁶ others, again, had to experience scoffs and scourging, aye chains and imprisonment — ³⁷ they were stoned, sawn in two, and cut to pieces; they had to roam about in sheepskins and goatskins, forlorn, oppressed, ill-treated ³⁸ (men of whom the world was not worthy), wanderers in the desert and among the hills, in caves and gullies.

⁷ It is for discipline that you have to endure. God is treating you as sons; for where is the son who is not disciplined by his father? ⁸ Discipline is the portion of all; if you get no discipline, then you are not sons but bastards. ⁹ Why, we had fathers of our flesh to discipline us, and we yielded to them! Shall we not far more submit to the Father of our spirits, and so live? ¹⁰ For while their discipline was only for a time, and inflicted at their pleasure, he disciplines us for our good, that we may share in his own holiness. ¹¹ Discipline always seems for the time to be a thing of pain, not of joy; but those who are trained by it reap the fruit of it afterwards in the peace of an upright life.

² Greet it as pure joy, my brothers, when you come across any sort of trial,

⁹ Let a brother of low position exult when he is raised;

⁹ Lament and mourn and weep, let your laughter be turned to mourning, and your joy to depression;

⁷ that is only to prove your faith is sterling (far more precious than gold which is perishable and yet is tested by fire), and it redounds to your praise and glory and honour at the revelation of Jesus Christ. ⁸ You never knew him, but you love him; for the moment you do not see him, but you believe in him, and you will thrill with an unspeakable and glorious joy

⁷ Now the end of all is near. Steady then, keep cool and pray!

¹² Beloved, do not be surprised at the ordeal that has come to test you, as though some foreign experience befell you. ¹³ You are sharing what Christ suffered; so rejoice in it, that you may also rejoice and exult when his glory is revealed.

¹⁰ Once you have suffered for a little, the God of all grace who has called you to his eternal glory in Christ Jesus, will repair and recruit and strengthen you.

²⁸ Jesus said to them, "I tell you truly, in the new world, when the Son of man shall sit on the throne of his glory, you who have followed me shall also sit on twelve thrones to govern the twelve tribes of Israel.

²¹ His master said to him, 'Capital, you excellent and trusty servant! You have been trusty in charge of a small sum: I will put you in charge of a large sum. Come and share your master's feast.'

²³ His master said to him, 'Capital, you excellent and trusty servant! You have been trusty in charge of a small sum: I will put you in charge of a large sum. Come and share your master's feast.'

²⁰ But God said to him, 'Foolish man, this very night your soul is wanted; and who will get all you have prepared?' ²¹ So fares the man who lays up treasure for himself instead of gaining the riches of God."

³³ Sell what you possess and give it away in alms, make purses for yourselves that never wear out: get treasure in heaven that never fails, that no thief can get at, no moth destroy.

⁴⁴ How can you believe, you who accept credit from one another instead of aiming at the credit which comes from the only God?

²⁶ If anyone serves me, let him follow me, and where I am, there shall my servant be also: if anyone serves me, my Father will honour him.

²⁰ Peter said to him, "Death to you and your money, for dreaming you could buy the gift of God!

⁷ eternal life to those who by patiently doing good aim at glory, honour, and immortality,

²⁹ he is a Jew who is one inwardly, and circumcision is a matter of the heart, spiritual not literal — praised by God, not by man.

³ Not only so, but we triumph even in our troubles, knowing that trouble produces endurance, ⁴ endurance produces character, and character produces hope —

¹³ but in every case the nature of his work will come out; the Day will show what it is, for the Day breaks in fire, and the fire will test the work of each, no matter what that work may be.

⁵ So do not criticize at all; the hour of reckoning has still to come, when the Lord will come to bring dark secrets to the light and to reveal life's inner aims and motives. Then each of us will get his meed of praise from God.

⁷ and repay you who are troubled (as well as us) with rest and relief, when the Lord Jesus is revealed from heaven together with the angels of his power ⁸ in flaming fire, to inflict punishment on those who ignore God, even on those who refuse obedience to the gospel of our Lord Jesus, ⁹ men who will pay the penalty of being destroyed eternally from the presence of the Lord and from the glory of his might, ¹⁰ when he comes to be glorified in his saints and marvelled at in all believers on that day (for our testimony has found confirmation in your lives). ¹¹ In view of this we always pray for you, asking our God to make you worthy of his calling and by his power to fulfil every good resolve and every effort of faith, ¹² so that the name of our Lord Jesus may be glorified in you (and you glorified in him), by the grace of our God and the Lord Jesus Christ.

³ sure that the sterling temper of your faith produces endurance; ⁴ only, let your endurance be a finished product, so that you may be finished and complete, with never a defect.

¹² Blessed is he who endures under trial; for when he has stood the test, he will gain the crown of life which is promised to all who love Him.

² your wealth lies rotting, and your clothes are moth-eaten; ³ your gold and silver lie rusted over, and their rust will be evidence against you, it will devour your flesh like fire. [Moved to the end of 5:1] You have been storing up treasure in the very last days;

⁵ and the power of God protects you by faith till you do inherit the salvation which is all ready to be revealed at the last hour.

⁴ come to him then — come to that living Stone which men have rejected and God holds choice and precious,

⁷ Now you believe, you hold him 'precious,' but as for the unbelieving — the very stone the builders rejected is now the cornerstone,

¹² Beloved, do not be surprised at the ordeal that has come to test you, as though some foreign experience befell you.

⁴ bestowing on us thereby promises precious and supreme, that by means of them you may escape the corruption produced within the world by lust, and participate in the divine nature —

¹⁰ The day of the Lord will come like a thief, when the heavens will vanish with crackling roar, the stars will be set ablaze and melt, the earth and all its works will disappear. ¹¹ Now as all things are thus to be dissolved, what holy and pious men ought you to be in your behaviour, ¹² you who expect and hasten the advent of the Day of God, which dissolves the heavens in fire and makes the stars blaze and melt!

⁷ Lo, he is coming on the clouds, to be seen by every eye, even by those who impaled him, and all the tribes of earth will wail because of him: even so, Amen.

¹⁰ Have no fear of what you are to suffer. The devil indeed is going to put some of you in prison, that you may be tested; you will have a distressful ten days. Be faithful, though you have to die for it, and I will give you the crown of Life.

¹⁰ Because you have kept the word of my patient endurance, I will keep you safe through the hour of trial which is coming upon the whole world to test the dwellers on earth.

¹⁸ I advise you to buy from me gold refined in the fire, that you may be rich, white raiment to clothe you and prevent the shame of your nakedness from being seen, and salve to rub on your eyes, that you may see.

¹⁶ 'Woe and alas, for the great city, robed in linen, in purple and scarlet, her ornaments of gold, of jewels and pearl! ¹⁷ And all this splendour gone in one brief hour!' And all shipmasters and sea-faring folk, sailors and all whose business lies upon the sea, stood far off

³⁷ He who loves father or mother more than me is not worthy of me; he who loves son or daughter more than me is not worthy of me:

³⁵ For I was hungry and you fed me, I was thirsty and you gave me drink, I was a stranger and you entertained me, ³⁶ I was unclothed and you clothed me, I was ill and you looked after me, I was in prison and you visited me.' ³⁷ Then the just will answer, 'Lord, when did we see you hungry and fed you? or thirsty and gave you drink? ³⁸ when did we see you a stranger and entertain you? or unclothed and clothed you? ³⁹ when did we see you ill or in prison and visit you?' ⁴⁰ The King will answer them, 'I tell you truly, in so far as you did it to one of these brothers of mine, even to the least of them, you did it to me.'

⁴² Said Jesus, "If God were your father, you would love me, for I came here from God; I did not come of my own accord, I was sent by him.

¹⁵ If you love me you will keep my commands,

²¹ He who possesses my commands and obeys them is he who loves me, and he who loves me will be loved by my Father, and I will love him and appear to him."

²⁴ He who does not love me does not obey my word; and what you hear me say is not my word but the word of the Father who sent me.

²⁹ Jesus said to him, "You believe because you have seen me? Blessed be those who believe though they have never seen me."

³⁴ He took them up to his house and put food before them, overjoyed like all his household at having believed in God.

¹⁷ The Reign of God is not a matter of eating and drinking, it means righteousness, peace, and joy in the holy Spirit;

²² 'If any one has no love for the Lord, God's curse be on him! Maran atha!

²² who stamped me with his seal and gave me the Spirit as a pledge in my heart.

¹⁸ for those of us whose eyes are on the unseen, not on the seen; for the seen is transient, the unseen eternal.

⁷ (for I have to lead my life in faith, without seeing him):

¹⁴ for I am controlled by the love of Christ, convinced that as One has died for all, then all have died, ¹⁵ and that he died for all in order to have the living live no longer for themselves but for him who died and rose for them.

¹⁵ Thanks be to God for his unspeakable gift!

⁴ this man was caught up to paradise and heard sacred secrets which no human lips can repeat.

⁶ in Christ Jesus circumcision is not valid, neither is uncircumcision, but only faith active in love.

¹³ You also have heard the message of the truth, the gospel of your salvation, and in him you also by your faith have been stamped with the seal of the long-promised holy Spirit ¹⁴ which is the pledge and instalment of our common heritage, that we may obtain our divine possession and so redound to the praise of his glory.

²⁴ Grace be with all who have an undying love for our Lord Jesus Christ.

²⁵ I am sure it is, and so I know I shall remain alive and serve you all by forwarding your progress and fostering the joy of your faith.

¹ Now faith means we are confident of what we hope for, convinced of what we do not see.

²⁷ It was by faith that he left Egypt, not from any fear of the king's wrath; like one who saw the King Invisible, he never flinched.

⁶ You will rejoice then, though for the passing moment you may need to suffer various trials;

¹⁹ We love, because He loved us first. ²⁰ If anyone declares, 'I love God,' and yet hates his brother, he is a liar; for he who will not love his brother whom he has seen, cannot possibly love the God whom he has never seen.

²² but now that you are set free from sin, now that you have passed into the service of God, your gain is consecration, and the end of that is life eternal.

²¹ so clear away all the foul rank growth of malice, and make a soil of modesty for the Word which roots itself inwardly with power to save your souls.

¹⁷ I tell you truly, many prophets and good men have longed to see what you see, but they have not seen it; and to hear what you hear, but they have not heard it.

²⁴ The Son of man goes the road that the scripture has described for him, but woe to the man by whom the Son of man is betrayed! Better that man had never been born!"

²⁴ For I tell you many prophets and kings have desired to see what you see, but they have not seen it: and to hear what you hear, but they have not heard it."

²⁵ He said to them, "O foolish men, with hearts so slow to believe, after all the prophets have declared! ²⁶ Had not the Christ to suffer thus and so enter his glory?" ²⁷ Then he began with Moses and all the prophets and interpreted to them the passages referring to himself throughout the scriptures.

⁴⁴ Then he said to them, "When I was still with you, this is what I told you, that whatever is written about me in the law of Moses and the prophets and the psalms must be fulfilled."

³⁹ You search the scriptures, imagining you possess eternal life in their pages — and they do testify to me —

⁵² They answered him, "And are you from Galilee, too? Search and you will see that no prophet ever springs from Galilee."

²² for Moses said, The Lord our God will raise up a prophet for you from among your brotherhood, as he raised me: you must listen to whatever he may tell you. ²³ Any soul that will not listen to this prophet shall be exterminated from the People; ²⁴ and all the prophets who have spoken since Samuel and his successors have also announced these days.

⁵² Which of the prophets did your fathers fail to persecute? They killed those who announced beforehand the coming of the Just One. And here you have betrayed him, murdered him! —

⁴³ All the prophets testify that everyone who believes in him is to receive remission of sins through his Name."

²⁷ The inhabitants of Jerusalem and their rulers, by condemning him in their ignorance, fulfilled the words of the prophets which are read every sabbath; ²⁸ though they could find him guilty of no crime that deserved death, they begged Pilate to have him put to death, ²⁹ and, after carrying out all that had been predicted of him in scripture, they lowered him from the gibbet and laid him in a tomb.

¹¹ where the people were more amenable than at Thessalonica; they were perfectly ready to receive the Word and made a daily study of the scriptures to see if it was really as Paul said.

²³ So they fixed a day and came to him at his quarters in large numbers. From morning to evening he explained the Reign of God to them from personal testimony, and tried to convince them about Jesus from the law of Moses and the prophets.

⁴⁰ God had something better in store for us; he would not have them perfected apart from us.

¹¹ the Spirit of messiah within them foretold all the suffering of messiah and his after-glory, and they pondered when or how this was to come;

¹⁹ and thus we have gained fresh confirmation of the prophetic word. Pray attend to that word; it shines like a lamp within a darksome spot, till the Day dawns and the daystar rises within your hearts — ²⁰ understanding this, at the outset, that no prophetic scripture allows a man to interpret it by himself; ²¹ for prophecy never came by human impulse, it was when carried away by the holy Spirit that the holy men of God spoke.

⁴¹ (Isaiah said this because he saw his glory and spoke of him.)

²² To this day I have had the help of God in standing, as I now do, to testify alike to low and high, never uttering a single syllable beyond what the prophets and Moses predicted was to take place. ²³ that the Christ is capable of suffering, and that he should be the first to rise from the dead and bring the message of light to the People and to the Gentiles?"

⁹ But you are not in the flesh, you are in the Spirit, since the Spirit of God dwells within you. Anyone who does not possess the Spirit of Christ does not belong to Him.

⁶ It is because you are sons that God has sent forth the Spirit of his Son into your hearts crying 'Abba! Father!'

¹⁸ Christ himself died for sins, once for all, a just man for unjust men, that he might bring us near to God; in the flesh he was put to death but he came to life in the Spirit. ¹⁹ (It was in the Spirit that Enoch also went and preached to the imprisoned spirits

²¹ for prophecy never came by human impulse, it was when carried away by the holy Spirit that the holy men of God spoke.

¹⁰ Then I fell before his feet to worship him; but he said to me, "No, not that! I am but a servant like yourself and your brothers, who hold the testimony of Jesus. Worship God" (for the testimony borne by Jesus is the breath of all prophecy).

²⁵ At that time Jesus spoke and said, "I praise thee, Father, Lord of heaven and earth, for hiding all this from the wise and learned and revealing it to the simpleminded;

²⁷ All has been handed over to me by my Father: and no one knows the Son except the Father — nor does anyone know the Father except the Son, and he to whom the Son chooses to reveal him.

¹⁷ Jesus answered him, "You are a blessed man, Simon Bar-jona, for it was my Father in heaven, not flesh and blood, that revealed this to you.

¹⁵ And he said to them, "Go to all the world and preach the gospel to every creature:

²⁶ indeed it had been revealed to him by the holy Spirit that he was not to see death before he had seen the Lord messiah.

⁶ So they went out from village to village preaching the gospel and healing everywhere.

¹⁰ So, I tell you, there is joy in the presence of the angels of God over a single sinner who repents."

²⁶ When the Helper comes, whom I will send to you from the Father, even the Spirit of truth which issues from the Father, he will bear witness to me;

⁷ Yet — I am telling you the truth — my going is for your good. If I do not depart, the Helper will not come to you; whereas if I go, I will send him to you. ⁸ And when he comes, he will convict the world, convincing men of sin, of righteousness, and of judgment: ⁹ of sin, because they do not believe in me; ¹⁰ of righteousness, because I go to the Father and you see me no more; ¹¹ of judgment, because the Prince of this world has been judged. ¹² I have still much to say to you, but you cannot bear it just now. ¹³ However, when the Spirit of truth comes, he will lead you into all the truth; for he will not speak of his own accord, he will say whatever he is told, and he will disclose to you what is to come. ¹⁴ He will glorify me, for he will draw upon what is mine and disclose it to you. ¹⁵ All that the Father has is mine; that is why I say, 'he will draw upon what is mine and disclose it to you.'

² when suddenly there came a sound from heaven like a violent blast of wind, which filled the whole house where they were seated. ³ They saw tongues like flames distributing themselves, one resting on the head of each, ⁴ and they were all filled with the holy Spirit — they began to speak in foreign tongues, as the Spirit enabled them to express themselves.

¹⁷ In the last days, saith God, then will I pour out my Spirit upon all flesh, your sons and daughters shall prophesy, your young men shall see visions, your old men shall dream dreams: ¹⁸ on my very slaves and slave-girls in those days will I pour out my Spirit, and they shall prophesy.

³³ Uplifted then by God's right hand, and receiving from the Father the long-promised holy Spirit, he has poured on us what you now see and hear.)

⁸ Then Peter, filled with the holy Spirit, said to them: "Rulers of the people and elders of Israel,

³¹ At their prayer the place of meeting was shaken, and they were all filled with the holy Spirit, speaking God's word fearlessly;

²⁵ After bearing their testimony to the word of the Lord and preaching it, the apostles went back to Jerusalem, preaching the gospel to a number of the Samaritan villages;

⁴⁴ While Peter was still speaking, the holy Spirit fell upon all who listened to what he said.

¹⁰ As soon as he saw the vision, we made efforts to start for Macedonia, inferring that God had called us to preach the gospel to them.

¹⁵ Hence my eagerness to preach the gospel to you in Rome as well.

¹⁷ God's righteousness is revealed in it by faith and for faith — as it is written, Now by faith shall the righteous live.

¹⁵ And how can men preach unless they are sent? — as it is written, How pleasant is the coming of men with glad, good news!

¹⁹ by the force of miracles and marvels, by the power of the Spirit of God. Thus from Jerusalem right round to Illyricum, I have been able to complete the preaching of the gospel of Christ —

¹⁰ And God has revealed it to us by the Spirit, for the Spirit fathoms everything, even the depths of God.

⁶ with innocence, insight, patience, kindness, the holy Spirit, unaffected love,

¹² no man put it into my hands, no man taught me what it meant, I had it by a revelation of Jesus Christ.

¹⁶ and when he chose to reveal his Son to me, that I might preach him to the Gentiles, instead of consulting with any human being,

¹⁰ intending to let the full sweep of the divine wisdom be disclosed now by the church to the angelic Rulers and Authorities in the heavenly sphere,

⁵ for our gospel came to you not with mere words but also with power and with the holy Spirit, with ample conviction on our part (you know what we were to you, for your own good), ⁶ and you started to copy us and the Lord, welcoming the word, though it brought you heavy trouble, with a joy inspired by the holy Spirit.

⁹ Brothers, you recollect our hard labour and toil, how we worked at our trade night and day, when we preached the gospel to you, so as not to be a burden to any of you.

⁴ while God corroborated their testimony with signs and wonders and a variety of miraculous powers, distributing the holy Spirit as it pleased him.

² For we have had the good news as well as they; only, the message they heard was of no use to them, because it did not meet with faith in the hearers.

³⁹ They all won their record for faith, but the Promise they did not obtain. ⁴⁰ God had something better in store for us; he would not have them perfected apart from us.

²⁵ but the word of the Lord lasts for ever — and that is the word of the gospel for you.

¹¹ Then I looked, and I heard the voice of many angels round the throne and of the living Creatures and of the Presbyters, numbering myriads of myriads and thousands of thousands,

³⁵ Keep your loins girt and your lamps lit,

⁸ Will the man not rather say to him, 'Get some thing ready for my supper; gird yourself and wait on me till I eat and drink; then you can eat and drink yourself'?

³⁰ So will it be on the day the Son of man is revealed.

³⁴ Take heed to yourselves in case your hearts get overpowered by dissipation and drunkenness and worldly anxieties, and so that Day catches you suddenly like a trap. ³⁵ For it will come upon all dwellers on the face of all the earth.

¹³ let us live decorously as in the open light of day — no revelry or bouts of drinking, no debauchery or sensuality, no quarrelling or jealousy.

⁴ All such words were written of old for our instruction, that by remaining stedfast and drawing encouragement from the scriptures we may cherish hope. ⁵ May the God who inspires stedfastness and encouragement grant you such harmony with one another, after Christ Jesus, ⁶ that you may unite in a chorus of praise and glory to the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ! ⁷ Welcome one another, then, as Christ has welcomed yourselves, for the glory of God. ⁸ Christ, I mean, became a servant to the circumcised in order to prove God's honesty by fulfilling His promises to the fathers, ⁹ and also in order that the Gentiles should glorify God for His mercy — as it is written, Therefore will I offer praise to Thee among the Gentiles, and sing to thy name; ¹⁰ or again, Rejoice, O Gentiles, with his People; ¹¹ or again, Extol the Lord, all Gentiles, let all the peoples praise him; ¹² or again, as Isaiah says, Then shall the Scion of Jessai live, he who rises to rule the Gentiles; on him shall the Gentiles set their hope. ¹³ May the God of your hope so fill you with all joy and peace in your faith, that you may be overflowing with hope by the power of the holy Spirit!

⁷ Thus you lack no spiritual endowment during these days of waiting till our Lord Jesus Christ is revealed;

¹⁴ Hold your ground, tighten the belt of truth about your loins, wear integrity as your coat of mail,

⁶ Well then, we must not sleep like the rest of men, but be wakeful and sober; ⁷ for sleepers sleep by night and drunkards are drunk by night, ⁸ but we must be sober, we who belong to the day, clad in faith and love as our coat of mail, with the hope of salvation as our helmet —

⁷ and repay you who are troubled (as well as us) with rest and relief, when the Lord Jesus is revealed from heaven together with the angels of his power

⁵ Whatever happens, be self-possessed, flinch from no suffering, do your work as an evangelist, and discharge all your duties as a minister.

¹¹ For the grace of God has appeared to save all men, ¹² and it schools us to renounce irreligion and worldly passions and to live a life of self-mastery, of integrity, and of piety in this present world, ¹³ awaiting the blessed hope of the appearance of the Glory of the great God and of our Saviour Christ Jesus,

¹⁹ anchoring the soul to it safe and sure, as it enters the inner Presence behind the veil.

³⁵ Now do not drop that confidence of yours; it carries with it a rich hope of reward.

³ Blessed be the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ! By his great mercy we have been born anew to a life of hope through the resurrection of Jesus Christ from the dead, ⁴ born to an unscathed, inviolate, unfading inheritance; it is kept in heaven for you, ⁵ and the power of God protects you by faith till you do inherit the salvation which is all ready to be revealed at the last hour. ⁶ You will rejoice then, though for the passing moment you may need to suffer various trials; ⁷ that is only to prove your faith is sterling (far more precious than gold which is perishable and yet is tested by fire), and it redounds to your praise and glory and honour at the revelation of Jesus Christ. ⁸ You never knew him, but you love him; for the moment you do not see him, but you believe in him, and you will thrill with an unspeakable and glorious joy ⁹ to obtain the outcome of your faith in the salvation of your souls.

¹⁵ but reverence Christ as Lord in your own hearts. Always be ready with a reply for anyone who calls you to account for the hope you cherish, but answer gently and with a sense of reverence;

⁸ Keep cool, keep awake. Your enemy the devil prowls like a roaring lion, looking out for someone to devour.

³⁰ Such ages of ignorance God overlooked, but he now charges men that they are all everywhere to repent,

⁴ Our baptism in his death made us share his burial, so that, as Christ was raised from the dead by the glory of the Father, we too might live and move in the new sphere of Life.

² Instead of being moulded to this world, have your mind renewed, and so be transformed in nature, able to make out what the will of God is, namely, what is good and acceptable to him and perfect.

² in which you moved as you followed the course of this world, under the sway of the prince of the air — the spirit which is at present active within those sons of disobedience

¹⁸ their intelligence is darkened, they are estranged from the life of God by the ignorance which their dulness of heart has produced in them — ¹⁹ men who have recklessly abandoned themselves to sensuality, with a lust for the business of impurity in every shape and form. ²⁰ That is not how you have understood the meaning of Christ ²¹ (for it is Christ whom you have been taught, it is in Christ that you have been instructed — the real Christ who is in Jesus); ²² you must lay aside the old nature which belonged to your former course of life, that nature which crumbles to ruin under the passions of moral deceit,

⁶ Let no one deceive you with specious arguments; these are the vices that bring down God's anger on the sons of disobedience.

⁵ So put to death those members that are on earth: sexual vice, impurity, appetite, evil desire, and lust (which is idolatry), ⁶ things that bring down the anger of God on the sons of disobedience. ⁷ Once you moved among them, when you lived in them;

⁵ not to gratify sensual passion like the Gentiles in their ignorance of God —

³ For we ourselves were once senseless, disobedient, astray, enslaved to all manner of passions and pleasures; we spent our days in malice and envy, we were hateful, and we hated one another. ⁴ But "the goodness and affection of God our Saviour appeared; ⁵ and he saved us, not for anything we had done but from his own pity for us, by the water that means regeneration and renewal under the holy Spirit

² nerve you to spend the rest of your time in the flesh for the will of God and no longer for human passions. ³ It is quite enough to have done as pagans choose to do, during the time gone by! You used to lead lives of sensuality, lust, carousing, revelry, dissipation and illicit idolatry,

⁴⁸ You must be perfect as your heavenly Father is perfect.

⁷⁴ that freed from fear and from the hand of our foes we should worship him ⁷⁵ in holiness and uprightness all our days within his presence.

²⁸ We know also that those who love God, those who have been called in terms of his purpose, have his aid and interest in everything.

²⁴ that is, for us whom he has called from among the Gentiles as well as the Jews?

¹ As these great promises are ours, beloved, let us cleanse ourselves from everything that contaminates either flesh or spirit; let us be fully consecrated by reverence for God].

¹ Copy God, then, as his beloved children, ² and lead lives of love, just as Christ loved you and gave himself up for you to be a fragrant offering and sacrifice to God.

²⁷ Only, do lead a life that is worthy of the gospel of Christ. Whether I come and see you or only hear of you in absence, let me know you are standing firm in a common spirit, fighting side by side like one man for the faith of the gospel.

¹⁵ so as to be blameless and innocent, faultless children of God in a crooked and perverse generation where you shine like stars in a dark world; ¹⁶ hold fast the word of life, so that I can be proud of you on the Day of Christ, because I have not run or worked for nothing.

¹⁴ to press on to the goal for the prize of God's high call in Christ Jesus.

²⁰ But we are a colony of heaven, and we wait for the Saviour who comes from heaven, the Lord Jesus Christ,

¹² to lead a life worthy of the God who called you to his own realm and glory.

³ It is God's will that you should be consecrated, that you abstain from sexual vice, ⁴ that each of you should learn to take a wife for himself chastely and honourably, ⁵ not to gratify sensual passion like the Gentiles in their ignorance of God — ⁶ no one is to defraud or overreach his brother in this matter, for the Lord avenges all these sins, as we told you already in our solemn protest against them. ⁷ God did not call us to be impure but to be consecrated;

¹² Let no one slight you because you are a youth, but set the believers an example of speech, behaviour, love, faith, and purity.

⁹ who has saved us and called us to a life of consecration — not for anything we have done but because he chose to do it himself, by the grace which he gave us ages ago in Christ Jesus

¹¹ For the grace of God has appeared to save all men, ¹² and it schools us to renounce irreligion and worldly passions and to live a life of self-mastery, of integrity, and of piety in this present world, ¹³ awaiting the blessed hope of the appearance of the Glory of the great God and of our Saviour Christ Jesus, ¹⁴ who gave himself up for us to redeem us from all iniquity and secure himself a clean people with a zest for good works.

⁸ It is a sure saying. I want you to insist on this, that those who have faith in God must profess honest occupations. Such counsels are right and good for men.

¹⁴ Our people must really learn to profess honest occupations, so as to be able to meet such special occasions; they must not be idle.

¹⁴ Aim at peace with all — and at that consecration without which no one will ever see the Lord;

⁵ Keep your life free from the love of money; be content with what you have, for He has said, Never will I fail you, never will I forsake you.

¹³ Who among you is wise and learned? Let him show by his good conduct, with the modesty of wisdom, what his deeds are.

¹² Conduct yourselves properly before pagans; so that for all their slander of you as bad characters, they may come to glorify God when you are put upon your trial, by what they see of your good deeds.

¹⁶ see that you have a clean conscience, so that, for all their slander of you, these libellers of your good Christian behaviour may be ashamed.

³ Inasmuch as his power divine has bestowed on us every requisite for life and piety by the knowledge of him who called us to his own glory and excellence — ⁴ bestowing on us thereby promises precious and supreme, that by means of them you may escape the corruption produced within the world by lust, and participate in the divine nature — ⁵ for this very reason, do you contrive to make it your whole concern to furnish your faith with resolution, resolution with intelligence, ⁶ intelligence with self-control, self-control with stedfastness, stedfastness with piety, ⁷ piety with brotherliness, brotherliness with Christian love. ⁸ For as these qualities exist and increase with you, they render you active and fruitful in the knowledge of our Lord Jesus Christ; ⁹ whereas he who has not these by him is blind, shortsighted, oblivious that he has been cleansed from his erstwhile sins. ¹⁰ So be the more eager, brothers, to ratify your calling and election, for as you practise these qualities you will never make a slip;

¹¹ Now as all things are thus to be dissolved, what holy and pious men ought you to be in your behaviour, ¹² you who expect and hasten the advent of the Day of God, which dissolves the heavens in fire and makes the stars blaze and melt! ¹³ It is new heavens and a new earth that we expect, as He has promised, and in them dwells righteousness. ¹⁴ Then, beloved, as you are expecting this, be eager to be found by him unspotted and unblemished in serene assurance.

⁷ Then to the angel of the church at Philadelphia write thus: — These are the words of the true Holy One, who holds the key of David, who opens and none shall shut, who shuts and none shall open.

⁸ The four living Creatures, each with six wings apiece, are full of eyes all over their bodies and under their wings, and day and night they never cease the chant, "Holy, holy, holy, is the Lord God almighty, who was and is and is coming."

¹⁰ and they cried aloud, "O Sovereign Lord, holy and true, how long wilt thou refrain from charging and avenging our blood upon those who dwell on earth?"

⁹ Let this be how you pray: 'our Father in heaven, thy name be revered,

⁷ Ask and the gift will be yours, seek and you will find, knock and the door will open to you; ⁸ for every one who asks receives, the seeker finds, the door is opened to anyone who knocks. ⁹ Why, which of you, when asked by his son for a loaf, will hand him a stone? ¹⁰ Or, if he asks a fish, will you hand him a serpent? ¹¹ Well, if for all your evil you know to give your children what is good, how much more will your Father in heaven give good gifts to those who ask him?

¹⁶ They sent him their disciples with the Herodians, who said, "Teacher, we know you are sincere and that you teach the Way of God honestly and fearlessly; you do not court human favour.

³⁴ Then Peter opened his lips and said, "I see quite plainly that God has no favourites, ³⁵ but that he who reverences Him and lives a good life in any nation is welcomed by Him.

¹⁰ but glory, honour, and peace for everyone who does good, for the Jew first and for the Greek as well. ¹¹ There is no partiality about God.

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

⁶ Come what may, then, I am confident; I know that while I reside in the body I am away from the Lord

¹¹ See what this pain divine has done for you, how serious it has made you, how keen to clear yourselves, how indignant, how alarmed, how eager for me, how determined, how relentless! You have shown in every way that you were honest in the business.

⁶ Besides, the so-called 'authorities' (it makes no difference to me what their status used to be — God pays no regard to the externals of men), these 'authorities' had no additions to make to my gospel.

¹⁴ For this reason, then, I kneel before the Father

⁹ And as for you masters, act by your servants in the same way, and stop threatening them; be sure that they and you have a Lord and Master in heaven, and there is no partiality about him.

¹² Therefore, my beloved, as you have been obedient always and not simply when I was present, so, now that I am absent, work all the more strenuously at your salvation with reverence and trembling,

²⁵ for the wrongdoer will be paid back for his wrongdoing — there will be no favour shown.

¹ Well then, as the promise of entrance into his Rest is still left to us, let us be afraid of anyone being judged to have missed it.

¹³ (These all died in faith without obtaining the promises; they only saw them far away and hailed them, owning they were 'strangers and exiles upon earth.' ¹⁴ Now people who speak in this way plainly show they are in search of a fatherland. ¹⁵ If they thought of the land they have left behind, they would have time to go back, ¹⁶ but they really aspire to the better land in heaven. That is why God is not ashamed to be called their God; he has prepared a City for them.)

²⁸ Therefore let us render thanks that we get an unshaken realm; and in this way let us worship God acceptably —

² "Why do your disciples transgress the tradition of the elders? They do not wash their hands when they take their food." ³ He replied, "And why do you transgress the command of God with your traditions?

⁵¹ Stiff-necked, uncircumcised in heart and ear, you are always resisting the holy Spirit! As with your fathers, so with you! ⁵² Which of the prophets did your fathers fail to persecute? They killed those who announced beforehand the coming of the Just One. And here you have betrayed him, murdered him! —

³⁴ but when they discovered he was a Jew, a roar broke from them all, and for about two hours they shouted, "Great is Artemis of Ephesus! Great is Artemis of Ephesus!" ³⁵ The secretary of state then got the mob calmed down, and said to them, "Men of Ephesus, who on earth does not know that the city of Ephesus is Warden of the temple of the great Artemis and of the statue that fell from heaven?

²¹ Though they knew God, they have not glorified him as God nor given thanks to him; they have turned to futile speculations till their ignorant minds grew dark.

²⁰ and again, The Lord knows the reasoning of the wise is futile.

²⁰ you were bought for a price; then glorify God with your body.

²³ (for you were bought for a price; you must not turn slaves to any man).

⁴ who gave himself for our sins to rescue us from the present evil world — by the will of our God and Father,

¹⁷ Now in the Lord I insist and protest that you must give up living like pagans; for their purposes are futile,

¹⁴ who gave himself up for us to redeem us from all iniquity and secure himself a clean people with a zest for good works.

⁷ that is only to prove your faith is sterling (far more precious than gold which is perishable and yet is tested by fire), and it redounds to your praise and glory and honour at the revelation of Jesus Christ.

³ It is quite enough to have done as pagans choose to do, during the time gone by! You used to lead lives of sensuality, lust, carousing, revelry, dissipation and illicit idolatry,

²⁸ just as the Son of man has not come to be served but to serve, and to give his life as a ransom for many."

²⁸ this means my blood, the new covenant-blood, shed for many, to win the remission of their sins.

²⁹ Next day he observed Jesus coming towards him and exclaimed, "Look, there is the lamb of God, who is to remove the sin of the world!

³⁶ he gazed at Jesus as he walked about, and said, "Look, there is the lamb of God!"

³² Now the passage of scripture which he was reading was as follows: — he was led like a sheep to be slaughtered, and as a lamb is dumb before the shearer, so he opens not his lips. ³³ By humbling himself he had his doom removed. Who can tell his family? For his life is cut off from the earth. ³⁴ So the eunuch said to Philip, "Pray, who is the prophet speaking about? Is it himself or someone else?" ³⁵ Then Philip opened his lips, and starting from this scripture preached the gospel of Jesus to him.

²⁸ Take heed to yourselves and to all the flock of which the holy Spirit has appointed you guardians; shepherd the church of the Lord which he has purchased with his own blood.

⁷ Clean out the old dough that you may be a fresh lump. For you are free from the old leaven; Christ our paschal lamb has been sacrificed. ⁸ So let us celebrate our festival, not with any old leaven, not with vice and evil, but with the unleavened bread of innocence and integrity.

¹⁴ In him we enjoy our redemption, that is, the forgiveness of sins.

¹² not taking any blood of goats and oxen but his own blood, and entered once for all into the Holy place. He secured an eternal redemption. ¹³ For if the blood of goats and bulls and the ashes of a heifer, sprinkled on defiled persons, give them a holiness that bears on bodily purity, ¹⁴ how much more shall the blood of Christ, who in the spirit of the eternal offered himself as an unblemished sacrifice to God, cleanse your conscience from dead works to serve a living God?

²² He committed no sin, no guile was ever found upon his lips; ²³ he was reviled and made no retort, he suffered and never threatened, but left everything to Him who judges justly; ²⁴ he bore our sins in his own body on the gibbet, that we might break with sin and live for righteousness; and by his wounds you have been healed.

¹⁸ Christ himself died for sins, once for all, a just man for unjust men, that he might bring us near to God; in the flesh he was put to death but he came to life in the Spirit.

⁷ but if we live and move within the light, as he is within the light, then we have fellowship with one another, and the blood of Jesus his Son cleanses us from every sin.

² he is himself the propitiation for our sins, though not for ours alone but also for the whole world.

⁵ and from Jesus Christ the faithful witness, the first-born from the dead, and the prince over the kings of earth; to him who loves us and has loosed us from our sins by shedding his blood —

⁶ Then I noticed a Lamb standing in the midst of the throne and the four living Creatures and the Presbyters; it seemed to have been slain, but it had seven horns and seven eyes (they are the seven Spirits of God sent out into all the earth),

⁹ singing a new song: "Thou deservest to take the scroll and open its seals, for thou wast slain and by shedding thy blood hast ransomed for God men from every tribe and tongue and people and nation;

¹⁴ I said to him, "You know, my lord." So he told me, "These are the people who have come out of the great Distress, who washed their robes and made them white in the blood of the Lamb.

¹ Then I looked, and there was the Lamb standing on mount Sion, and along with him a hundred and forty-four thousand bearing his name and the name of his Father written on their foreheads!

²⁵ Now you are the sons of the prophets and of the covenant which God made with your fathers when he said to Abraham, all families on earth shall be blessed in your offspring. ²⁶ It was for you first that God raised up his Servant, and sent him to bless you by turning each of you from your wicked ways."

²⁵ whom God put forward as the means of propitiation by his blood, to be received by faith. This was to demonstrate the justice of God in view of the fact that sins previously committed during the time of God's forbearance had been passed over;

²⁵ [Now to Him who can strengthen you by my gospel, by the preaching of Jesus Christ, by revealing the secret purpose which after the silence of long ages ²⁶ has now been disclosed and made known on the basis of the prophetic scriptures (by command of the eternal God) to all the Gentiles for their obedience to the faith —

⁴ but when the time had fully expired, God sent forth his Son, born of a woman, born under the Law,

⁴ He chose us in him ere the world was founded, to be consecrated and unblemished in his sight,

¹⁰ so to order it in the fulness of the ages that all things in heaven and earth alike should be gathered up in Christ —

⁹ and enlighten all men upon the new order of that divine secret which God the Creator of all concealed from eternity —

¹¹ in terms of the eternal purpose which he has realized in Christ Jesus our Lord,

²⁶ of that open secret which, though concealed from ages and generations of old, has now been disclosed to the saints of God.

⁹ who has saved us and called us to a life of consecration — not for anything we have done but because he chose to do it himself, by the grace which he gave us ages ago in Christ Jesus ¹⁰ and has now revealed in the appearance of our Saviour Jesus Christ, who has put down death and brought life and immortality to light by the gospel.

² serving in hope of the life eternal which God, who never lies, promised ages ago — ³ he gave effect to his word in due time by a proclamation with which I have been entrusted by command of God our Saviour: —

² but in these days at the end he has spoken to us by a Son — a Son whom he appointed heir of the universe, as it was by him that he created the world.

²⁶ for in that case he would have had to suffer repeatedly, ever since the world was founded. Nay, once for all, at the end of the world, he has appeared with his self-sacrifice to abolish sin.

² (the Life has appeared; we saw it, we testify to it, we bring you word of that eternal Life which existed with the Father and was disclosed to us) —

⁵ and you know he appeared to take [our] sins away. In him there is no sin;

⁸ he who commits sin belongs to the devil, for the devil is a sinner from the very beginning. (This is why the Son of God appeared, to destroy the deeds of the devil.)

⁹ This is how the love of God has appeared for us, by God sending his only Son into the world, so that by him we might live. ¹⁰ Love lies in this, not in our love for him but in his love for us — in the sending of his Son to be the propitiation for our sins.

⁸ and all the dwellers on earth will be his worshippers, everyone whose name has not been written from the foundation of the world in the book of Life.

¹⁸ Then Jesus came forward to them and said, "Full authority has been given to me in heaven and on earth;

³⁴ For he whom God has sent utters the words of God — God gives him the Spirit in no sparing measure;

²² Indeed the Father passes judgment on no one; he has committed the judgment which determines life or death entirely to the Son, ²³ that all men may honour the Son as they honour the Father. (He who does not honour the Son does not honour the Father who sent him.) ²⁴ Truly, truly I tell you, he who listens to my word and believes him who sent me has eternal life; he will incur no sentence of judgment, he has already passed from death across to life.

⁴⁴ And Jesus cried aloud, "He who believes in me believes not in me but in him who sent me,

³¹ When he had gone out, Jesus said, Now at last the Son of man is glorified, and in him God is glorified: [if God is glorified in him,] ³² God will glorify him in Himself and glorify him at once.

¹ Let not your hearts be disquieted; you believe — believe in God and also in me.

⁶ Jesus said to him, "I am the real and living way: no one comes to the Father except by means of me.

¹ So Jesus spoke; then, lifting his eyes to heaven, he said: "Father, the time has now come; glorify thy Son that thy Son may glorify thee,

²⁴ but God raised him by checking the pangs of death. Death could not hold him.

³² This Jesus God raised, as we can all bear witness. ³³ Uplifted then by God's right hand, and receiving from the Father the long-promised holy Spirit, he has poured on us what you now see and hear.)

¹³ The God of Abraham and the God of Isaac and the God of Jacob, the God of our fathers has glorified Jesus his servant, whom you delivered up and repudiated before Pilate. Pilate had decided to release him,

¹⁵ and you killed the pioneer of Life. But God raised him from the dead, as we can bear witness.

¹⁰ you and the people of Israel must all understand that he stands before you strong and well, thanks to the name of Jesus Christ the Nazarene whom you crucified and whom God raised from the dead.

²⁴ but for our sakes as well; faith will be counted to us as we believe in Him who raised Jesus our Lord from the dead,

⁹ Confess with your mouth that 'Jesus is Lord,' believe in your heart that God raised him from the dead, and you will be saved;

¹² to make us redound to the praise of his glory by being the first to put our hope in Christ. ¹³ You also have heard the message of the truth, the gospel of your salvation, and in him you also by your faith have been stamped with the seal of the long-promised holy Spirit

¹⁵ Hence, as I have heard of your faith in the Lord Jesus and your love for all the saints,

²⁰ which he exerted in raising Christ from the dead and seating him at his right hand in the heavenly sphere, ²¹ above all the angelic Rulers, Authorities, Powers, and Lords, above every Name that is to be named not only in this age but in the age to come — ²² he has put everything under his feet and set him as head over everything for the church, ²³ the church which is his Body, filled by him who fills the universe entirely.

⁹ Therefore God raised him high and conferred on him a Name above all names, ¹⁰ so that before the Name of Jesus every knee should bend in heaven, on earth, and underneath the earth, ¹¹ and every tongue confess that 'Jesus Christ is Lord,' to the glory of God the Father.

¹ Paul an apostle of Christ Jesus by command of God our Saviour and Christ Jesus our Hope,

⁹ what we do see is Jesus who was put lower than the angels for a little while to suffer death, and who has been crowned with glory and honour that by God's grace he might taste death for everyone.

¹ Let us pass on then to what is mature, leaving elementary Christian doctrine behind, instead of laying the foundation over again with repentance from dead works, with faith in God,

²⁵ Hence for all time he is able to save those who approach God through him, as he is always living to intercede on their behalf.

²² who is at God's right hand — for he went to heaven after angels, authorities, and powers celestial had been made subject to him.)

³⁴ I give you a new command, to love one another — as I have loved you, you are to love one another. ³⁵ By this everyone will recognize that you are my disciples, if you have love one for another."

³ You are already clean, by the word I have spoken to you.

¹⁷ This is what I command you, to love one another.

¹⁷ Consecrate them by thy truth: thy word is truth.

¹⁹ and for their sake I consecrate myself that they may be consecrated by the truth.

⁷ And the word of God spread; the number of the disciples in Jerusalem greatly increased, and a host of priests became obedient to the faith.

⁹ in cleansing their hearts by faith he made not the slightest distinction between us and them.

⁸ but anger and wrath to those who are wilful, who disobey the Truth and obey wickedness —

¹⁶ Do you not know you are the servants of the master you obey, of the master to whom you yield yourselves obedient, whether it is Sin, whose service ends in death, or Obedience, whose service ends in righteousness? ¹⁷ Thank God, though you did serve sin, you have rendered whole-hearted obedience to what you were taught under the rule of faith;

⁹ Let your love be a real thing, with a loathing for evil and a bent for what is good. ¹⁰ Put affection into your love for the brotherhood; be forward to honour one another;

¹ O senseless Galatians, who has bewitched you — you who had Jesus Christ the crucified placarded before your very eyes?

⁵ for it is by faith that 'we' wait in the Spirit for the righteousness we hope for;

⁷ You were doing splendidly. Who was it that prevented you from obeying the Truth?

³ to preserve the unity of the Spirit by binding peace upon yourselves.

⁹ And it is my prayer that your love may be more and more rich in knowledge and all manner of insight, enabling you to have a sense of what is vital,

¹² And may the Lord make you increase and excel in love to one another and to all men (as is my love for you),

⁸ hence, he who disregards this, disregards not man but the God who gave you his holy Spirit. ⁹ You need no one to write you upon brotherly love, for you are yourselves taught by God to love one another,

³ We are bound always to thank God for you, brothers — it is proper that we should, because your faith grows apace and your mutual love, one and all, is increasing.

³ As I asked you when I was on my way to Macedonia, stay where you are at Ephesus and warn certain individuals against teaching novelties

⁵ Whereas the aim of the Christian discipline is the love that springs from a pure heart, from a good conscience, and from a sincere faith.

² older women like mothers, younger women like sisters — with perfect propriety.

¹⁴ Keep the great securities of your faith intact, by aid of the holy Spirit that dwells within us.

¹⁰ God is not unfair; he will not forget what you have done, or the love you have shown for his sake in ministering, as you still do, to the saints.

¹⁴ how much more shall the blood of Christ, who in the spirit of the eternal offered himself as an unblemished sacrifice to God, cleanse your conscience from dead works to serve a living God?

⁸ It was by faith that Abraham obeyed his call to go forth to a place which he would receive as an inheritance; he went forth, although he did not know where he was to go.

¹ Let your brotherly love continue.

¹⁵ Suppose some brother or sister is ill-clad and short of daily food; ¹⁶ if any of you says to them, "Depart in peace! Get warm, get food," without supplying their bodily needs, what use is that?

⁸ draw near to God, and he will draw near to you. Cleanse your hands, you sinners, and purify your hearts, you double-minded.

¹⁷ Do honour to all, love the brotherhood, reverence God, honour the emperor.

¹ In the same way, you wives must be submissive to your husbands, so that even those who will not believe the Word may be won over without a word by the behaviour of their wives,

⁸ Lastly, you must all be united, you must have sympathy, brotherly love, compassion, and humility,

⁸ Above all, be keen to love one another, for love hides a host of sins.

¹⁷ It is time for the Judgment to begin with the household of God; and if it begins with us, what will be the fate of those who refuse obedience to God's gospel?

⁷ piety with brotherliness, brotherliness with Christian love.

¹¹ For this is the message you have learned from the very beginning, that we are to love one another:

¹⁴ We know we have crossed from death to life, because we love the brotherhood; he who has no love [for his brother] remains in death. ¹⁵ Anyone who hates his brother is a murderer, and you know that no murderer has eternal life remaining within him. ¹⁶ We know what love is by this, that He laid down his life for us; so we ought to lay down our lives for the brotherhood. ¹⁷ But whoever possesses this world's goods, and notices his brother in need, and shuts his heart against him, how can love to God remain in him? ¹⁸ My dear children, let us put our love not into words or into talk but into deeds, and make it real. ¹⁹ Thus it is that we may be sure we belong to the truth and reassure ourselves

²³ Now this is what he commands, that we believe in the name of his Son Jesus Christ, and love one another as he has commanded us to do;

¹² God no one has ever seen; but if we love one another, then God remains within us, and love for him is complete in us.

²⁰ If anyone declares, 'I love God,' and yet hates his brother, he is a liar; for he who will not love his brother whom he has seen, cannot possibly love the God whom he has never seen.

⁴ But I have this against you: you have given up loving one another as you did at first.

³⁵ Heaven and earth will pass away, but my words will never pass away.

³ through him all existence came into being, no existence came into being apart from him.

³ Jesus replied, "Truly, truly I tell you, no one can see God's Realm unless he is born from above."

⁵ Jesus replied, "Truly, truly I tell you, unless one is born of water and the Spirit, he cannot enter God's Realm.

⁶³ What gives life is the Spirit: flesh is of no avail at all. The words I have uttered to you are spirit and life.

²³ they have exchanged the glory of the immortal God for the semblance of the likeness of mortal man, of birds, of quadrupeds, and of reptiles.

¹² For the Logos of God is a living thing, active and more cutting than any sword with double edge, penetrating to the very division of soul and spirit, joints and marrow — scrutinizing the very thoughts and conceptions of the heart.

³ Blessed be the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ! By his great mercy we have been born anew to a life of hope through the resurrection of Jesus Christ from the dead,

¹⁰ but let one who is rich exult in being lowered; for the rich will pass away like the flower of the grass — ¹¹ up comes the sun with the scorching wind and withers the grass, its flower drops off, and the splendour of it is ruined: so shall the rich fade away amid their pursuits.

¹⁴ you who know nothing about to-morrow! For what is your life? You are but a mist, which appears for a little and then vanishes.

¹⁷ and the world is passing away with its desire, while he who does the will of God remains for ever.

¹⁸ (I tell you truly, till heaven and earth pass away not an iota, not a comma, will pass from the Law until it is all in force.

¹⁷ Yet it is easier for heaven and earth to pass away than for an iota of the Law to lapse.

¹ THE Logos existed in the very beginning, the Logos was with God, the Logos was divine.

¹⁴ So the Logos became flesh and tarried among us; we have seen his glory — glory such as an only son enjoys from his father — seen it to be full of grace and reality.

²¹ For when the world with all its wisdom failed to know God in his wisdom, God resolved to save believers by the 'sheer folly' of the Christian message. ²² Jews demand miracles and Greeks want wisdom, ²³ but our message is Christ the crucified — a stumbling-block to the Jews, 'sheer folly' to the Gentiles, ²⁴ but for those who are called, whether Jews or Greeks, a Christ who is the power of God and the wisdom of God.

² I determined among you to be ignorant of everything except Jesus Christ, and Jesus Christ the crucified.

¹ Now, brothers, I would have you know the gospel I once preached to you, the gospel you received, the gospel in which you have your footing, ² the gospel by which you are saved — provided you adhere to my statement of it — unless indeed your faith was all haphazard. ³ First and foremost, I passed on to you what I had myself received, namely, that Christ died for our sins as the scriptures had said, ⁴ that he was buried, that he rose on the third day as the scriptures had said,

¹⁷ he came with a gospel of peace for those far away (that is, for you) and for those who were near,

⁸ less than the least of all saints as I am, this grace was vouchsafed me, that I should bring the Gentiles the gospel of the fathomless wealth of Christ

³ he gave effect to his word in due time by a proclamation with which I have been entrusted by command of God our Saviour: —

¹² to them it was revealed that they got this intelligence not for themselves but for you, regarding all that has now been disclosed to you by those who preached the gospel to you through the holy Spirit sent from heaven. The very angels long to get a glimpse of this!

¹⁹ and thus we have gained fresh confirmation of the prophetic word. Pray attend to that word; it shines like a lamp within a darksome spot, till the Day dawns and the daystar rises within your hearts —

¹ It is of what existed from the very beginning, of what we heard, of what we saw, of what we witnessed and touched with our own hands, it is of the Logos of Life

³ it is of what we heard and saw that we bring you word, so that you may share our fellowship; and our fellowship is with the Father and with his Son Jesus Christ.