1 Peter 3 Cross References - Moffatt

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, ² when they see how chaste and reverent you are. ³ You are not to adorn yourselves on the outside with braids of hair and ornaments of gold and changes of dress, ⁴ but inside, in the heart, with the immortal beauty of a gentle and modest spirit, which in the sight of God is of rare value. ⁵ It was in this way long ago that the holy women who hoped in God adorned themselves. They were submissive to their husbands. ⁶ Thus Sara obeyed Abraham by calling him 'lord'. And you are daughters of Sara if you do what is right and yield to no panic. ⁷ In the same way you husbands must be considerate in living with your wives, since they are the weaker sex; you must honour them as heirs equally with yourselves of the grace of Life, so that your prayers may not be hindered. ⁸ Lastly, you must all be united, you must have sympathy, brotherly love, compassion, and humility, 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; ¹⁰ he who would love Life and enjoy good days, let him keep his tongue from evil and his lips from speaking guile: ¹¹ let him shun wrong and do right, let him seek peace and make peace his aim. ¹² For the eyes of the Lord are on the upright, and his ears are open to their cry; but the face of the Lord is set against wrongdoers. ¹³ Yet who will wrong you if you have a passion for goodness? ¹⁴ Even supposing you have to suffer for the sake of what is right, still you are blessed. Have no fear of their threats, do not let that trouble you, 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; 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. ¹⁷ For it is better to suffer for doing right (if that should be the will of God) than for doing wrong. 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 ²⁰ who had disobeyed at the time when God's patience held out during the construction of the ark in the days of Noah — the ark by which only a few souls, eight in all, were brought safely through the water.) 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 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.)

⁵ Blessed are the humble! they will inherit the earth.

⁹ Blessed are the peacemakers! they will be ranked sons of God. ¹⁰ Blessed are those who have been persecuted for the sake of goodness! the Realm of heaven is theirs. ¹¹ Blessed are you when men denounce you and persecute you and utter all manner of evil against you for my sake;

¹¹ Blessed are you when men denounce you and persecute you and utter all manner of evil against you for my sake; ¹² rejoice and exult in it, for your reward is rich in heaven; that is how they persecuted the prophets before you.

²³ So if you remember, even when offering your gift at the altar, that your brother has any grievance against you, ²⁴ leave your gift at the very altar and go away; first be reconciled to your brother, then come back and offer your gift.

³⁹ But I tell you, you are not to resist an injury: whoever strikes you on the right cheek, turn the other to him as well;

⁴⁴ But I tell you, love your enemies and pray for those who persecute you, ⁴⁵ that you may be sons of your Father in heaven: he makes his sun rise on the evil and the good, and sends rain on the just and the unjust.

¹³ and lead us not into temptation but deliver us from evil.'

¹⁴ But the road that leads to life is both narrow and close, and there are few who find it.

¹⁸ and you will be haled before governors and kings for my sake — it will be a testimony to them and to the Gentiles.

¹⁸ and you will be haled before governors and kings for my sake — it will be a testimony to them and to the Gentiles. ¹⁹ Now, when they bring you up for trial, do not trouble yourselves about how to speak or what to say; what you are to say will come to you at the moment,

¹⁹ Now, when they bring you up for trial, do not trouble yourselves about how to speak or what to say; what you are to say will come to you at the moment, ²⁰ for you are not the speakers, it is the Spirit of your Father that is speaking through you.

²⁰ for you are not the speakers, it is the Spirit of your Father that is speaking through you. ²¹ Brother will betray brother to death, the father will betray his child, children will rise against their parents and put them to death, ²² and you will be hated by all men on account of my name; but he will be saved who holds out to the very end.

²⁸ Have no fear of those who kill the body but cannot kill the soul: rather fear Him who can destroy both soul and body in Gehenna.

³¹ fear not, then, you are worth far more than sparrows!

³⁹ He who has found his life will lose it, and he who loses his life for my sake will find it.

²⁹ Take my yoke upon you and learn from me, for I am gentle and humble in heart, and you will find your souls refreshed;

¹⁶ But blessed are your eyes for they see, and your ears, for they hear! 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.

²⁵ for whoever wants to save his life will lose it, and whoever loses his life for my sake will find it.

¹⁵ If your brother sins [against you], go and reprove him, as between you and him alone. If he listens to you, then you have won your brother over;

¹⁹ I tell you another thing: if two of you agree on earth about anything you pray for, it will be done for you by my Father in heaven.

³³ Ought you not to have had mercy on your fellow-servant, as I had on you?'

³ Then the Pharisees came up to tempt him. They asked, "Is it right to divorce one's wife for any reason?" ⁴ He replied, "Have you never read that He who created them male and female from the beginning ⁵ said, Hence a man shall leave his father and mother, and cleave to his wife, and the pair shall be one flesh? ⁶ So they are no longer two, but one flesh. What God has joined, then, man must not separate." ⁷ They said to him, "Then why did Moses lay it down that we were to divorce by giving a separation-notice?" ⁸ He said to them, "Moses permitted you to divorce your wives, on account of the hardness of your hearts, but it was not so from the beginning. ⁹ I tell you, whoever divorces his wife except for unchastity and marries another woman, commits adultery; and he who marries a divorced woman commits adultery."

¹⁷ He said to him, "Why do you ask me about what is good? One alone is good. But if you want to get into Life, keep the commands."

²⁹ Everyone who has left brothers or sisters or father or mother or wife or children or lands or houses for my name's sake will get a hundred times as much and inherit life eternal.

⁵ Tell the daughter of Sion, 'Here is your king coming to you, He is gentle and mounted on an ass, And on a colt the foal of a beast of burden.'

⁴⁴ The Lord said to my Lord, 'Sit at my right hand, till I put your enemies under your feet.'

²⁶ Blind Pharisee! first clean the inside of the cup, so that the outside may be clean as well.

³⁷ As were the days of Noah, so will the arrival of the Son of man be. ³⁸ For as in the days before the deluge people ate and drank, married and were married, till the day Noah entered the ark; ³⁹ and as they knew nothing till the deluge came and swept them all away; so will the arrival of the Son of man be.

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.

³⁹ Then he went forward a little and fell on his face praying, "My Father, if it is possible, let this cup pass me. Yet, not what I will but what thou wilt."

⁴² Again he went away for the second time and prayed, "My Father, if this cup cannot pass unless I drink it, thy will be done."

⁶⁹ Now Peter was sitting outside in the courtyard. A maidservant came up and said to him, "You were with Jesus the Galilean too." ⁷⁰ But he denied it before them all; "I do not know what you mean," he said. ⁷¹ When he went out to the gateway another maidservant noticed him and said to those who were there, "This fellow was with Jesus the Nazarene." ⁷² Again he denied it; he swore, "I do not know the man." ⁷³ After a little the bystanders came up and said to Peter, "To be sure, you are one of them too. Why, your accent betrays you!" ⁷⁴ At this he broke out cursing and swearing, "I do not know the man." At that moment a cock crowed. ⁷⁵ Then Peter remembered what Jesus had said, that 'before the cock crows you will disown me three times.' And he went outside and wept bitterly.

¹⁹ Besides, when he was seated on the tribunal, his wife had sent to tell him, "Do nothing with that innocent man, for I have suffered greatly to-day in a dream about him.")

²⁴ Now when Pilate saw that instead of him doing any good a riot was rising, he took some water and washed his hands in presence of the crowd, saying, "I am innocent of this good man's blood. It is your affair!"

¹⁹ go and make disciples of all nations, baptize them in the name of the Father and the Son and the holy Spirit,

³⁵ for whoever wants to save his life will lose it, and whoever loses his life for my sake and the gospel's will save it.

¹⁷ As he went out on the road a man ran up and knelt down before him. "Good teacher," he asked, "what must I do to inherit life eternal?"

²⁹ Jesus said, "I tell you truly, no one has left home or brothers or sisters or mother or father or children or lands for my sake and for the sake of the gospel,

³⁶ David himself said in the holy Spirit, The Lord said to my Lord, 'Sit at my right hand, till I make your enemies a footstool for your feet.'

⁷ The poor you always have beside you, and you can be kind to them whenever you want; but you will not always have me.

¹⁶ he who believes and is baptized shall be saved, but he who will not believe shall be condemned.

¹⁹ Then after speaking to them the Lord Jesus was taken up to heaven and sat down at the right hand of God,

⁷⁹ to shine on those who sit in darkness and in the shadow of death, to guide our steps into the way of peace."

³⁷ and having been a widow for eighty-four years. She was never away from the temple; night and day she worshipped, fasting and praying.

⁹ Then Jesus said to them, "I ask you, is it right on the sabbath to help or to hurt, to save life or to kill?"

²² Blessed are you when men will hate you, when they will excommunicate you and denounce you and defame you as wicked on account of the Son of man; ²³ rejoice on that day and leap for joy! rich is your reward in heaven for their fathers did the very same to the prophets.

²⁷ I tell you, my hearers, love your enemies, do good to those who hate you: ²⁸ bless those who curse you, pray for those who abuse you. ²⁹ If a man strikes you on the one cheek, offer him the other as well: if anyone takes your coat, do not deny him your shirt as well;

³⁵ No, you must love your enemies and help them, you must lend to them without expecting any return; then you will have a rich reward, you will be sons of the Most High for he is kind even to the ungrateful and the evil.

² and by some women who had been healed of evil spirits and illnesses, Mary called Magdalene (out of whom seven daemons had been driven), ³ Joanna the wife of Chuza the chancellor of Herod, Susanna, and a number of others, who ministered to him out of their means.

²⁵ Now a jurist got up to tempt him. "Teacher," he said, "what am I to do to inherit life eternal?"

³³ However a Samaritan traveller came to where he was and felt pity when he saw him;

⁴⁰ Foolish men! did not He who made the outside make the inside of things too?

⁴ I tell you, my friends, have no fear of those who kill the body but after that can do no more; ⁵ I will show you whom to fear — fear Him who after he has killed has power to cast you into Gehenna. Yes, I tell you, fear Him.

³² Fear not, you little flock, for your Father is delighted to give you the Realm.

²⁴ "Strive to get in through the narrow door, for I tell you many will try to get in and not be able, ²⁵ once the master of the House has got up and closed the door. You may stand outside and knock at the door, crying, 'Lord, open for us,' but he will answer you, 'I do not know where you come from.'

¹⁵ So he told them, "You are the people who get men to think you are good, but God knows what your hearts are! What is lofty in the view of man is loathsome in the eyes of God.

²⁶ And just as it was in the days of Noah, so will it be in the days of the Son of man; ²⁷ they were eating, drinking, marrying and being married, till the day Noah entered the ark — then came the deluge and destroyed them all. ²⁸ Or just as it was in the days of Lot; they were eating, drinking, buying, selling, planting and building, ²⁹ but on the day that Lot left Sodom it rained fire and brimstone from heaven and destroyed them all. ³⁰ So will it be on the day the Son of man is revealed.

¹⁸ Then a ruler asked him, "Good teacher, what am I to do to inherit life eternal?"

⁴² Why, David himself says in the book of psalms, The Lord said to my Lord, 'Sit at my right hand,

¹⁴ So resolve to yourselves that you will not rehearse your defence beforehand, ¹⁵ for I will give you words and wisdom that not one of your opponents will be able to meet or refute.

⁴⁷ Jesus saw Nathanael approaching and said of him, "Here is a genuine Israelite! There is no guile in him."

³¹ God, we know, does not listen to sinners; he listens to anyone who is devout and who obeys his will.

²⁵ He who loves his life loses it, and he who cares not for his life in this world will preserve it for eternal life.

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

²⁷ Peace I leave to you, my peace I give to you; I give it not as the world gives its 'Peace!' Let not your hearts be disquieted or timid.

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

¹¹ who said, "Men of Galilee, why do you stand looking up to heaven? This Jesus who has been taken from you into heaven will come back, just as you have seen him depart to heaven."

¹⁴ All these men resorted with one mind to prayer, together with the women, with Mary the mother of Jesus and with his brothers.

¹ During the course of the day of Pentecost they were all together,

³⁴ For it was not David who ascended to heaven; David says, The Lord said to my Lord, 'Sit at my right hand, ³⁵ till I make your enemies a footstool for your feet'. ³⁶ So let all the house of Israel understand beyond a doubt that God has made him both Lord and Christ, this very Jesus whom you have crucified."

³⁸ "Repent," said Peter, "let each of you be baptized in the name of Jesus Christ for the remission of your sins; then you will receive the gift of the holy Spirit.

¹⁴ but you repudiated the Holy and Just One; the boon you asked was a murderer,

²¹ who must be kept in heaven till the period of the great Restoration. Ages ago God spoke of this by the lips of his holy prophets;

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

⁸ Then Peter, filled with the holy Spirit, said to them: "Rulers of the people and elders of Israel, ⁹ if we are being cross-examined to-day upon a benefit rendered to a cripple, upon how this man got better,

⁹ if we are being cross-examined to-day upon a benefit rendered to a cripple, upon how this man got better, 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.

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. ¹¹ He is the stone despised by you builders, which has become head of the corner.

¹¹ He is the stone despised by you builders, which has become head of the corner. ¹² There is no salvation by anyone else, nor even a second Name under heaven appointed for us men and our salvation."

¹² There is no salvation by anyone else, nor even a second Name under heaven appointed for us men and our salvation." ¹³ They were astonished to notice how outspoken Peter and John were, and to discover that they were uncultured persons and mere outsiders; they recognized them as having been companions of Jesus,

¹⁹ But Peter and John replied, "Decide for yourselves whether it is right before God to obey you rather than God.

³² [Relocated to before vs 34] Now there was but one heart and soul among the multitude of the believers; not one of them considered anything his personal property, they shared all they had with one another.

²⁹ Peter and the apostles answered, "One must obey God rather than men. ³⁰ The God of our fathers raised Jesus whom you murdered by hanging him on a gibbet. ³¹ God lifted him up to his right hand as our pioneer and saviour, in order to grant repentance and remission of sins to Israel.

³⁶ As they travelled on, they came to some water, and the eunuch said, "Here is water! What is to prevent me being baptized?"

¹⁶ I will show him all he has to suffer for the sake of my Name."

³⁶ At Joppa there was a disciple called Tabitha (which may be translated Dorcas, or 'Gazelle'), a woman whose life was full of good actions and of charitable practices.

³³ Then he took them at that very hour of the night and washed their wounds and got baptized instantly, he and all his family.

⁹ And the Lord said to Paul in a vision by night, "Have no fear, speak on and never stop, ¹⁰ for I am with you, and no one shall attack and injure you; I have many people in this city."

¹⁴ As he would not be persuaded, we acquiesced, saying, "The will of the Lord be done."

³⁹ Paul said, "I am a Jew, a native of Tarsus in Cilicia, the citizen of a famous town. Pray let me speak to the people."

¹⁴ Then he said, 'The God of our fathers has appointed you to know his will, to see the Just One, and to hear him speak with his own lips.

¹⁶ And now, why do you wait? Get up and be baptized and wash away your sins, invoking his name.'

¹⁶ Hence I too endeavour to have a clear conscience before God and men all the time.

²⁵ but when he argued about morality, self-mastery, and the future judgment, Felix grew uneasy. "You may go for the present," he said; "when I can find a moment, I will send for you"

³ Next day we put in at Sidon, where Julius very kindly allowed Paul to visit his friends and be looked after.

⁷ There was an estate in the neighbourhood which belonged to a man called Publius, the governor of the island; he welcomed us and entertained us hospitably for three days.

⁴ and installed as Son of God with power by the Spirit of holiness when he was raised from the dead — concerning Jesus Christ our Lord,

⁴ Or are you slighting all his wealth of kindness, forbearance, and patience? Do you not know his kindness is meant to make you repent? ⁵ In your stubbornness and impenitence of heart you are simply storing up anger for yourself on the Day of anger, when the just doom of God is revealed.

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.

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

¹ As we are justified by faith, then, let us enjoy the peace we have with God through our Lord Jesus Christ. ² Through him we have got access to this grace where we have our standing, and triumph in the hope of God's glory.

⁶ For when we were still in weakness, Christ died in due time for the ungodly. For the ungodly! ⁷ Why, a man will hardly die for the just — though one might bring oneself to die, if need be, for a good man. ⁸ But God proves his love for us by this, that Christ died for us when we were still sinners.

¹⁴ Nevertheless, from Adam to Moses death reigned even over those whose sins were not like Adam's transgression. Adam prefigured Him who was to come,

³ Surely you know that all of us who have been baptized into Christ Jesus have been baptized into his death! 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. ⁵ For if we have grown into him by a death like his, we shall grow into him by a resurrection like his, ⁶ knowing as we do that our old self has been crucified with him in order to crush the sinful body and free us from any further slavery to sin

⁶ knowing as we do that our old self has been crucified with him in order to crush the sinful body and free us from any further slavery to sin

¹⁷ Thank God, though you did serve sin, you have rendered whole-hearted obedience to what you were taught under the rule of faith;

² Thus a married woman is bound by law to her husband while he is alive; but if the husband dies, she is done with the law of 'the husband.'

¹⁹ I cannot be good as I want to be, and I do wrong against my wishes.

²¹ So this is my experience of the Law: I want to do what is right, but wrong is all I can manage; ²² I cordially agree with God's law, so far as my inner self is concerned,

³ For God has done what the Law, weakened here by the flesh, could not do; by sending his own Son in the guise of sinful flesh, to deal with sin, he condemned sin in the flesh,

⁶ The interests of the flesh mean death, the interests of the Spirit mean life and peace.

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.

²⁶ So too the Spirit assists us in our weakness; for we do not know how to pray aright, but the Spirit pleads for us with sighs that are beyond words, ²⁷ and He who searches the human heart knows what is in the mind of the Spirit, since the Spirit pleads before God for the saints. 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.

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.

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!

³⁸ For I am certain neither death nor life, neither angels nor principalities, neither the present nor the future,

¹ I am telling the truth in Christ — it is no lie, my conscience bears me out in the holy Spirit

⁷ they are not all children of Abraham because they are descended from Abraham. No, it is through Isaac that your offspring shall be reckoned — ⁸ meaning that instead of God's children being the children born to him by natural descent, it is the children of the Promise who are reckoned as his true offspring. ⁹ For when God said, I will come about this time and Sara shall have a son, that was a word of promise.

²² What if God, though desirous to display his anger and show his might, has tolerated most patiently the objects of his anger, ripe and ready to be destroyed?

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; ¹⁰ for with his heart man believes and is justified, with his mouth he confesses and is saved.

¹⁶ But they have not all given in to the gospel of glad news? No, Isaiah says, Lord, who has believed what they heard from us?

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.

¹⁰ Put affection into your love for the brotherhood; be forward to honour one another;

¹⁴ Bless those who make a practice of persecuting you; bless them instead of cursing them. ¹⁵ Rejoice with those who rejoice, and weep with those who weep. ¹⁶ Keep in harmony with one another; instead of being ambitious, associate with humble folk; never be self-conceited. ¹⁷ Never pay back evil for evil to anyone; aim to be above reproach in the eyes of all; ¹⁸ be at peace with all men, if possible, so far as that depends on you. ¹⁹ Never revenge yourselves, beloved, but let the Wrath of God have its way; for it is written, Vengeance is mine, I will exact a requital — the Lord has said it. No, ²⁰ if your enemy is hungry, feed him, if he is thirsty, give him drink; for in this way you will make him feel a burning sense of shame. ²¹ Do not let evil get the better of you; get the better of evil by doing good.

³ Magistrates are no terror to an honest man, though they are to a bad man. If you want to avoid being alarmed at the government-authorities, lead an honest life and you will be commended for it;

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

¹⁹ Peace, then, and the building up of each other, these are what we must aim at.

⁵ May the God who inspires stedfastness and encouragement grant you such harmony with one another, after Christ Jesus,

¹⁰ Brothers, for the sake of our Lord Jesus Christ I beg of you all to drop these party-cries. There must be no cliques among you; you must regain your common temper and attitude.

⁶ Now I have applied what has been said above to myself and Apollos, to teach you ... that you are not to be puffed up with rivalry over one teacher as against another.

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!

³ The husband must give the wife her conjugal dues, and the wife in the same way must give her husband his;

¹⁶ O wife, how do you know you may not save your husband? O husband, how do you know you may not save your wife?

¹⁹ Why, free as I am from all, I have made myself the slave of all, to win over as many as I could. ²⁰ To Jews I have become like a Jew, to win over Jews; to those under the Law I have become as one of themselves — though I am not under the Law myself — to win over those under the Law; ²¹ to those outside the Law I have become like one of themselves — though I am under Christ's law, not outside God's Law — to win over those outside the Law; ²² to the weak I have become as weak myself, to win over the weak. To all men I have become all things, to save some by all and every means.

³ But I would like you to understand this: Christ is the head of every man, man is the head of woman, and God is the head of Christ.

¹³ For by one Spirit we have all been baptized into one Body, Jews or Greeks, slaves or freemen; we have all been imbued with one Spirit.

²² Quite the contrary. We cannot do without those very members of the body which are considered rather delicate, ²³ just as the parts we consider rather dishonourable are the very parts we invest with special honour; our indecorous parts get a special care and attention ²⁴ which does not need to be paid to our more decorous parts. Yes, God has tempered the body together, with a special dignity for the inferior parts,

²⁶ Thus if one member suffers, all the members share its suffering; if one member is honoured, all the members share its honour.

¹ Make love your aim, and then set your heart on the spiritual gifts — especially upon prophecy.

³⁴ women must keep quiet at gatherings of the church. They are not allowed to speak; they must take a subordinate place, as the Law enjoins.

²⁴ Then comes the end, when he hands over his royal power to God the Father, after putting down all other rulers, all other authorities and powers.

¹² My proud boast is the testimony of my conscience that holiness and godly sincerity, not worldly cunning but the grace of God, have marked my conduct in the outside world and in particular my relations with you.

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.)

¹⁵ I live for God as the fragrance of Christ breathed alike on those who are being saved and on those who are perishing, ¹⁶ to the one a deadly fragrance that makes for death, to the other a vital fragrance that makes for life. And who is qualified for this career?

² I disown those practices which very shame conceals from view; I do not go about it craftily; I do not falsify the word of God; I state the truth openly and so commend myself to every man's conscience before God.

¹⁶ Hence I never lose heart; though my outward man decays, my inner man is renewed day after day.

²¹ For our sakes He made him to be sin who himself knew nothing of sin, so that in him we might become the righteousness of God.

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 I appeal to you myself by the gentleness and consideration of Christ — the Paul who is 'humble enough to your face when he is with you, but outspoken enough when he gets away from you.'

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.

⁴ For though he was crucified in his weakness, he lives by the power of God; and though I am weak as he was weak, you will find I am alive as he is alive by the power of God.

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

¹³ Christ ransomed us from the curse of the Law by becoming accursed for us (for it is written, Cursed is everyone who hangs on a gibbet),

²⁷ (for all of you who had yourselves baptized into Christ have taken on the character of Christ).

²² Surely it is written in the Law that Abraham had two sons, one by the slave-woman and one by the free-woman; ²³ but while the son of the slave-woman was born by the flesh, the son of the free-woman was born by the promise. ²⁴ Now this is an allegory. The women are two covenants. One comes from mount Sinai, bearing children for servitude; that is Hagar, ²⁵ for mount Sinai is away in Arabia. She corresponds to the present Jerusalem, for the latter is in servitude with her children. ²⁶ But the Jerusalem on high is free, and she is 'our' mother.

²² But the harvest of the Spirit is love, joy, peace, good temper, kindliness, generosity, fidelity, ²³ gentleness, self-control: — there is no law against those who practise such things.

¹⁰ So then, as we have opportunity, let us do good to all men and in particular to the household of the faith.

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 —

¹⁶ so as himself to give the death-blow to that feud by reconciling them both to God in one Body through the cross; ¹⁷ he came with a gospel of peace for those far away (that is, for you) and for those who were near, ¹⁸ for it is through him that we both enjoy our access to the Father in one Spirit.

⁶ namely, that in Christ Jesus the Gentiles are co-heirs, companions, and co-partners in the Promise.

² with perfect modesty and gentleness, showing forbearance to one another patiently, zealous in love

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, ²³ and be renewed in the spirit of your mind, ²⁴ putting on the new nature, that divine pattern which has been created in the upright and pious character of the Truth.

³⁰ And do not vex God's holy Spirit, by whom you have been sealed for the day of redemption. ³¹ Drop all bitter feeling and passion and anger and clamouring and insults, together with all malice; ³² be kind to each other, be tender-hearted, be generous to each other as God has been generous to you in Christ.

¹ Copy God, then, as his beloved children,

²² Wives, be subject to your husbands as to the Lord, ²³ for the husband is the head of the wife as Christ also (though he is the saviour of the Body) is the head of the church; ²⁴ as the church is subject to Christ, so wives are to be subject to their husbands in every respect. ²⁵ Husbands, love your wives, just as Christ loved the church and gave himself up for her ²⁶ to consecrate her by cleansing her in the bath of baptism as she utters her confession,

²⁶ to consecrate her by cleansing her in the bath of baptism as she utters her confession, ²⁷ in order to have the church as his very own, standing before him in all her glory, with never a spot or wrinkle or any such flaw, but consecrated and unblemished. ²⁸ So ought husbands to love their wives — to love them as their own bodies (he who loves his wife loves himself).

³³ However, let every man of you love his wife as himself, and let the wife reverence her husband.

⁵ Servants, be obedient to those who are your masters here below with reverence and trembling, with singleness of heart as to Christ himself;

¹⁸ praying at all times in the Spirit with all manner of prayer and entreaty — be alive to that, attend to it unceasingly, interceding on behalf of all the saints

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.

²⁹ For on behalf of Christ you have the favour of suffering no less than of believing in him,

¹⁶ Only, we must let our steps be guided by such truth as we have attained.

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

⁸ Finally, brothers, keep in mind whatever is true, whatever is worthy, whatever is just, whatever is pure, whatever is attractive, whatever is high-toned, all excellence, all merit. ⁹ Practise also what you have learned and received from me, what you heard me say and what you saw me do; then the God of peace will be with you.

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

²¹ Once you were estranged yourselves, your hearts hostile to him in evildoing; but now he has reconciled you by dying in his mortal body, ²² so as to set you consecrated and unblemished and irreproachable in his presence — 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.

¹² when you were buried with him in your baptism and thereby raised with him as you believed in the power of the God who raised him from the dead.

¹ Since then you have been raised with Christ, aim at what is above, where Christ is, seated at the right hand of God;

³ for you died and your life is hidden with Christ in God.

⁹ Tell no lies to one another; you have stripped off the old nature with its practices, ¹⁰ and put on the new nature which is renewed in the likeness of its Creator for the knowledge of him.

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

¹⁵ Also, let the peace of Christ be supreme within your hearts — that is why you have been called as members of the one Body. And you must be thankful.

¹⁸ Wives, be subject to your husbands; that is your proper duty in the Lord. ¹⁹ Husbands, love your wives, do not be harsh to them.

²² Servants, obey your masters here below at every point; do not work simply when their eye is on you, like those who court human favour, but serve them with a single heart out of reverence for your Lord and Master.

⁵ Let Christian wisdom rule your behaviour to the outside world; make the very most of your time; ⁶ let your talk always have a saving salt of grace about it, and learn how to answer any question put to you.

⁴ that each of you should learn to take a wife for himself chastely and honourably,

¹¹ also, endeavour to live quietly, attend to your own business, and — as we charged you — work with your hands,

¹⁵ see that none of you pays back evil for evil, but always aim at what is kind to one another and to all the world;

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,

¹² Now in the Lord Jesus Christ we charge and exhort such persons to keep quiet, to do their work and earn their own living.

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.

¹⁹ keeping hold of faith and a good conscience. Certain individuals have scouted the good conscience and thus come to grief over their faith —

² for kings and all in authority, that we may lead a tranquil life in all piety and gravity;

⁹ Women in turn are to dress modestly and quietly in seemly garb; they are not to adorn themselves with plaits of hair, with gold or pearls or expensive finery, ¹⁰ but with good deeds (as befits women who make a religious profession).

¹⁰ but with good deeds (as befits women who make a religious profession). ¹¹ A woman must listen quietly in church and be perfectly submissive; ¹² I allow no woman to teach or dictate to men, she must keep quiet.

¹⁵ However, women will get safely through childbirth if they continue to be faithful and loving and holy as well as unassuming.

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

⁵ The really forlorn widow has her hope fixed on God, night and day she is at her prayers and supplications;

¹⁰ she must have a reputation for good service, as a woman who has brought up children, shown hospitality, washed the feet of the saints, relieved distress, and interested herself in all good works.

¹² fight in the good fight of the faith, secure that life eternal to which you were called when you voiced the good confession in the presence of many witnesses.

¹⁸ tell them to be bountiful, rich in good works, open-handed and generous,

³ I render thanks to God, the God of my fathers whom I worship with a pure conscience, as I mention you constantly in my prayers.

²⁵ he must be gentle in his admonitions to the opposition — God may perhaps let them change their mind and admit the Truth;

²⁵ he must be gentle in his admonitions to the opposition — God may perhaps let them change their mind and admit the Truth; ²⁶ they may come to their senses again and escape the snare of the devil, as they are brought back to life by God to do his will.

² serving in hope of the life eternal which God, who never lies, promised ages ago —

³ Tell the older women also to be reverent in their demeanour and not to be slanderers or slaves to drink;

³ Tell the older women also to be reverent in their demeanour and not to be slanderers or slaves to drink;

³ Tell the older women also to be reverent in their demeanour and not to be slanderers or slaves to drink; ⁴ they must give good counsel, so that the young women may be trained to love their husbands and children,

⁴ they must give good counsel, so that the young women may be trained to love their husbands and children,

⁴ they must give good counsel, so that the young women may be trained to love their husbands and children, ⁵ to be mistress of themselves, chaste, domestic, kind, and submissive to their husbands — otherwise it will be a scandal to the gospel.

⁵ to be mistress of themselves, chaste, domestic, kind, and submissive to their husbands — otherwise it will be a scandal to the gospel. ⁶ Tell the young men also to be masters of themselves at all points;

⁶ Tell the young men also to be masters of themselves at all points; ⁷ set them an example of good conduct; be sincere and serious in your teaching, ⁸ let your words be sound and such that no exception can be taken to them, so that the opposite side may be confounded by finding nothing that they can say to our discredit.

⁸ let your words be sound and such that no exception can be taken to them, so that the opposite side may be confounded by finding nothing that they can say to our discredit. ⁹ Tell servants to be submissive to their masters and to give them satisfaction all round, not to be refractory, ¹⁰ not to embezzle, but to prove themselves truly faithful at all points, so as to be an ornament to the doctrine of God our Saviour in all respects. 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.

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. ¹⁵ Tell them all this, exhort and reprove, with full authority; let no one slight you.

² they must abuse no one, they must not quarrel, but be conciliatory and display perfect gentleness to all men.

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, ⁷ that we might be justified by his grace and become heirs to the hope of life eternal."

⁷ that we might be justified by his grace and become heirs to the hope of life eternal."

³ He, reflecting God's bright glory and stamped with God's own character, sustains the universe with his word of power; when he had secured our purification from sins, he sat down at the right hand of the Majesty on high;

¹³ To what angel did he ever say, 'Sit at my right hand, till I make your enemies a footstool for your feet'? ¹⁴ Are not all angels merely spirits in the divine service, commissioned for the benefit of those who are to inherit salvation?

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.

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

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,

¹⁴ I will indeed bless you and multiply you.

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. ²⁰ There Jesus entered for us in advance, when he became high priest for ever with the rank of Melchizedek.

¹ The point of all this is, we do have such a high priest, one who is seated at the right hand of the throne of Majesty in the heavens,

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?

²⁴ For Christ has not entered a holy place which human hands have made (a mere type of the reality!); he has entered heaven itself, now to appear in the presence of God on our behalf.

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.

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.

¹² He offered a single sacrifice for sins and then seated himself for all time at the right hand of God,

⁷ It was by faith that Noah, after being told by God what was still unseen, reverently constructed an ark to save his household; thus he condemned the world and became heir of the righteousness that follows faith. 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.

¹¹ It was by faith that even Sara got strength to conceive, bearing a son when she was past the age for it — because she considered she could rely on Him who gave the promise.

¹⁹ for he considered that God was able even to raise men from the dead. Hence he did get him back, by what was a parable of the resurrection.

² our eyes fixed upon Jesus as the pioneer and the perfection of faith — upon Jesus who, in order to reach his own appointed joy, steadily endured the cross, thinking nothing of its shame, and is now seated at the right hand of the throne of God.

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

¹ Let your brotherly love continue.

¹⁶ Do not forget beneficence and charity, either; these are the kind of sacrifices that are acceptable to God.

¹⁸ Pray for me, for I am sure I have a clean conscience; my desire is in every way to lead an honest life.

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.

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.

²⁶ Whoever considers he is religious, and does not bridle his tongue, but deceives his own heart, his religion is futile.

¹³ for the judgment will be merciless to the man who has shown no mercy — whereas the merciful life will triumph in the face of judgment.

¹ My brothers, do not swell the ranks of the teachers; remember, we teachers will be judged with special strictness. ² We all make many a slip, but whoever avoids slips of speech is a perfect man; he can bridle the whole of the body as well as the tongue. ³ We put bridles into the mouths of horses to make them obey us, and so, you see, we can move the whole of their bodies. ⁴ Look at ships too; for all their size and speed under stiff winds, they are turned by a tiny rudder wherever the mind of the steersman chooses. ⁵ So the tongue is a small member of the body, but it can boast of great exploits. What a forest is set ablaze by a little spark of fire! ⁶ And the tongue is a fire, the tongue proves a very world of mischief among our members, staining the whole of the body and setting fire to the round circle of existence with a flame fed by hell. ⁷ For while every kind of beast and bird, of creeping animals and creatures marine, is tameable and has been tamed by mankind, ⁸ no man can tame the tongue — plague of disorder that it is, full of deadly venom! ⁹ With the tongue we bless the Lord and Father, and with the tongue we curse men made in God's likeness; ¹⁰ blessing and cursing stream from the same lips! My brothers, this ought not to be.

¹³ Who among you is wise and learned? Let him show by his good conduct, with the modesty of wisdom, what his deeds are. ¹⁴ But if you are cherishing bitter jealousy and rivalry in your hearts, do not pride yourselves on that — and be false to the truth. ¹⁵ That is not the wisdom which comes down from above, it is an earthly wisdom, sensuous, devilish; ¹⁶ for wherever jealousy and rivalry exist, there disorder reigns and every evil. ¹⁷ The wisdom from above is first of all pure, then peaceable, forbearing, conciliatory, full of mercy and wholesome fruit, unambiguous, straightforward;

¹⁷ The wisdom from above is first of all pure, then peaceable, forbearing, conciliatory, full of mercy and wholesome fruit, unambiguous, straightforward;

¹⁷ The wisdom from above is first of all pure, then peaceable, forbearing, conciliatory, full of mercy and wholesome fruit, unambiguous, straightforward; ¹⁸ and the peacemakers who sow in peace reap righteousness.

¹⁷ [follows 2:26] Whoever, then, knows what is right to do and does not do it, that is a sin for him.

⁶ you have condemned, you have murdered the righteous — unresisting.

¹¹ See, we call the stedfast happy; you have heard of the stedfastness of Job, and you have seen the end of the Lord with him, seen that the Lord is very compassionate and pitiful.

¹⁶ So confess your sins to one another and pray for one another, that you may be healed; the prayers of the righteous have a powerful effect.

¹⁹ My brothers, if anyone of you goes astray from the truth and someone brings him back, ²⁰ understand that he who brings a sinner back from the error of his way saves his soul from death and hides a host of sins.

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,

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,

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!

¹⁵ as He who called you is holy, so you must be holy too in all your conduct —

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;

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;

¹ So off with all malice, all guile and insincerity and envy and slander of every kind!

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.

¹⁵ for it is the will of God that by your honest lives you should silence the ignorant charges of foolish persons.

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

¹⁹ for it is a merit when from a sense of God one bears the pain of unjust suffering.

¹⁹ for it is a merit when from a sense of God one bears the pain of unjust suffering. ²⁰ Where is the credit in standing punishment for having done wrong? No, if you stand suffering for having done right, that is what God counts a merit.

²⁰ Where is the credit in standing punishment for having done wrong? No, if you stand suffering for having done right, that is what God counts a merit.

²⁰ Where is the credit in standing punishment for having done wrong? No, if you stand suffering for having done right, that is what God counts a merit. ²¹ It is your vocation; for when Christ suffered for you, he left you an example, and you must follow his footsteps.

²¹ It is your vocation; for when Christ suffered for you, he left you an example, and you must follow his footsteps. ²² He committed no sin, no guile was ever found upon his lips;

²² He committed no sin, no guile was ever found upon his lips;

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;

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.

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, ² when they see how chaste and reverent you are.

² when they see how chaste and reverent you are.

² when they see how chaste and reverent you are. ³ You are not to adorn yourselves on the outside with braids of hair and ornaments of gold and changes of dress, ⁴ but inside, in the heart, with the immortal beauty of a gentle and modest spirit, which in the sight of God is of rare value.

⁴ but inside, in the heart, with the immortal beauty of a gentle and modest spirit, which in the sight of God is of rare value. ⁵ It was in this way long ago that the holy women who hoped in God adorned themselves. They were submissive to their husbands. ⁶ Thus Sara obeyed Abraham by calling him 'lord'. And you are daughters of Sara if you do what is right and yield to no panic.

⁶ Thus Sara obeyed Abraham by calling him 'lord'. And you are daughters of Sara if you do what is right and yield to no panic. ⁷ In the same way you husbands must be considerate in living with your wives, since they are the weaker sex; you must honour them as heirs equally with yourselves of the grace of Life, so that your prayers may not be hindered.

¹⁴ Even supposing you have to suffer for the sake of what is right, still you are blessed. Have no fear of their threats, do not let that trouble you,

¹⁴ Even supposing you have to suffer for the sake of what is right, still you are blessed. Have no fear of their threats, do not let that trouble you, 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;

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;

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; 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.

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

¹ Well, as Christ has suffered for us in the flesh, let this very conviction that he who has suffered in the flesh gets quit of sin,

⁶ (for this was why the gospel was preached to the dead as well, that while they are judged in the flesh as men, they may live as God lives in the spirit).

¹³ You are sharing what Christ suffered; so rejoice in it, that you may also rejoice and exult when his glory is revealed. ¹⁴ If you are denounced for the sake of Christ, you are blessed; for then the Spirit of glory and power, the Spirit of God himself, is resting on you. ¹⁵ None of you must suffer as a murderer or a thief or a bad character or a revolutionary;

¹⁵ None of you must suffer as a murderer or a thief or a bad character or a revolutionary; ¹⁶ but if a man suffers for being a Christian, he must not be ashamed, he must rather glorify God for that. 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?

¹⁹ So let those who are suffering by the will of God trust their souls to him, their faithful Creator, as they continue to do right.

⁵ You younger men must also submit to the presbyters. Indeed you must all put on the apron of humility to serve one another, for the haughty God opposes, but to the humble he gives grace.

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.

⁷ piety with brotherliness, brotherliness with Christian love.

⁵ if he did not spare the ancient world but kept Noah, the herald of righteousness, safe with seven others, when he let loose the deluge on the world of impious men:

¹¹ Now as all things are thus to be dissolved, what holy and pious men ought you to be in your behaviour,

¹⁵ And consider that the longsuffering of our Lord means salvation; as indeed our beloved brother Paul has written to you out of the wisdom vouchsafed to him,

⁹ if we confess our sins, he is faithful and just, he forgives our sins and cleanses us from all iniquity;

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.

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

¹¹ Beloved, do not imitate evil but good; he who does good belongs to God, he who does evil has never seen God.

⁵ And on their lips no lie was ever detected; they are stainless.

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).

⁷ But when the thousand years are over, Satan will be released from his prison,