2 Timothy 4 Cross References - Moffatt

¹ In the presence of God and of Christ Jesus who will judge the living and the dead, in the light of his appearance and his reign, ² I adjure you to preach the word; keep at it in season and out of season, refuting, checking, and exhorting men; never lose patience with them, and never give up your teaching, ³ for the time will come when people will decline to be taught sound doctrine and will accumulate teachers to suit themselves and tickle their own fancies; ⁴ they will give up listening to the Truth and turn to myths. ⁵ Whatever happens, be self-possessed, flinch from no suffering, do your work as an evangelist, and discharge all your duties as a minister. ⁶ The last drops of my own sacrifice are falling; my time to go has come. ⁷ I have fought in the good fight; I have run my course; I have kept the faith. 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. ⁹ Do your best to come soon to me, ¹⁰ for Demas, in his love for this world, has deserted me and gone to Thessalonica; Crescens is off to Gaul, Titus to Dalmatia, ¹¹ Luke is the only one who is with me. Pick up Mark and bring him along with you, for he is of great use in helping me. ¹² (I have had to send Tychicus to Ephesus.) ¹³ When you come, bring the mantle I left at Troas with Carpus, also my books, and particularly my paper. ¹⁴ Alexander the blacksmith has done me a lot of harm: the Lord will pay him back for what he has done (beware of him), ¹⁵ for he has been bitterly hostile to anything I have said. ¹⁶ The first time I had to defend myself, I had no supporters; everyone deserted me. God grant it may not be brought up against them! ¹⁷ But the Lord supported me and gave me strength to make a full statement of the gospel and let all the heathen hear it. I was rescued from the jaws of the lion. ¹⁸ The Lord will rescue me from every assault of evil, he will bring me safe to his own realm in heaven. To him be glory for ever and ever! Amen. ¹⁹ Salute Prisca and Aquila and the household of Onesiphorus. ²⁰ Erastus stayed on at Corinth: I left Trophimus ill at Miletus. ²¹ Do your best to come before winter. Eubulus salutes you; so do Pudens, Linus, Claudia, and all the brotherhood. ²² The Lord Jesus be with your spirit. Grace be with you all.

²⁷ For the Son of man is coming in the glory of his Father with his angels, and then he will reward everyone for what he has done.

³¹ When the Son of man comes in his glory and all the angels with him, then he will sit on the throne of his glory, ³² and all nations will be gathered in front of him; he will separate them one from another, as a shepherd separates the sheep from the goats, ³³ setting the sheep on his right hand and the goats on his left. 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. 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.' ⁴¹ Then he will say to those on the left, 'Begone from me, you accursed ones, to the eternal fire which has been prepared for the devil and his angels! ⁴² For I was hungry but you never fed me, I was thirsty but you never gave me drink, ⁴³ I was a stranger but you never entertained me, I was unclothed but you never clothed me, I was ill and in prison but you never looked after me.' ⁴⁴ Then they will answer too, 'Lord, when did we ever see you hungry or thirsty or a stranger or unclothed or ill or in prison, and did not minister to you?' ⁴⁵ Then he will answer them, 'I tell you truly, in so far as you did not do it to one of these, even the least of them, you did not do it to me.' ⁴⁶ So they shall depart to eternal punishment, and the just to eternal life."

¹² "A nobleman," he said, "went abroad to obtain royal power for himself and then return.

¹⁵ However he secured the royal power and came home. Then he ordered the servants to be called who had been given the money, that he might find out what business they had done.

⁴² And he added, "Jesus, do not forget me when you come to reign."

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. ²⁵ Truly, truly I tell you, the time is coming, it has come already, when the dead will listen to the voice of the Son of God, and those who listen will live; ²⁶ for as the Father has life in himself, so too he has granted the Son to have life in himself, ²⁷ and also granted him authority to act as judge, since he is Son of man.

⁴² when he enjoined us to preach to the People, testifying that this was he whom God has appointed to be judge of the living and of the dead.

³¹ inasmuch as he has fixed a day on which he will judge the world justly by a man whom he has destined for this. And he has given proof of this to all by raising him from the dead."

¹⁶ on the day when God judges the secret things of men, as my gospel holds, by Jesus Christ.

⁹ it was for this that Christ died and rose and came to life, to be Lord both of the dead and of the living. ¹⁰ So why do you criticize your brother? And you, why do you look down upon your brother? All of us have to stand before the tribunal of God — ¹¹ for it is written, As I live, saith the Lord, every knee shall bend before me, every tongue shall offer praise to God.

⁴ for, although I am not conscious of having anything against me, that does not clear me. It is the Lord who cross-questions me on the matter. 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.

⁹ Hence also I am eager to satisfy him, whether in the body or away from it; ¹⁰ for we have all to appear without disguise before the tribunal of Christ, each to be requited for what he has done with his body, well or ill.

⁴ When Christ, who is our life, appears, then you will appear with him in glory.

¹⁵ For we tell you, as the Lord has told us, that we the living, who survive till the Lord comes, are by no means to take precedence of those who have fallen asleep. ¹⁶ The Lord himself will descend from heaven with a loud summons, when the archangel calls and the trumpet of God sounds; the dead in Christ will rise first;

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).

⁸ Then shall the Lawless One be revealed, whom the Lord Jesus will destroy with the breath of his lips and quell by his appearing and arrival —

²¹ In the presence of God and the Lord Jesus Christ and the elect angels, I adjure you to be unprejudiced in carrying out these orders; be absolutely impartial.

¹³ In the presence of God who is the Life of all, and of Christ Jesus who testified to the good confession before Pontius Pilate, I charge you ¹⁴ to keep your commission free from stain, free from reproach, till the appearance of our Lord Jesus Christ —

¹⁴ Remind men of this: adjure them before the Lord not to bandy arguments — no good comes out of that, it only means the undoing of your audience.

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.

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

²⁷ And just as it is appointed for men to die once and after that to be judged, 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.

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.

⁵ but they will have to answer for that to Him who is prepared to judge the living and the dead

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

¹¹ you will thus be richly furnished with the right of entry into the eternal realm of our Lord and saviour Jesus Christ.

¹⁷ when he was invested with honour and glory by God the Father, and when the following voice was borne to him from the sublime Glory, "This is my son, the Beloved, in whom I delight."

²⁸ Remain within him now, my dear children, so that when he appears we may have confidence, instead of shrinking from him in shame at his arrival.

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.

¹¹ Then I saw a great white throne, and One who was seated thereon; from his presence earth and sky fled, no more to be found. ¹² And I saw the dead, high and low, standing before the throne, and books were opened — also another book, the book of Life, was opened — and the dead were judged by what was written in these books, by what they had done. ¹³ The sea gave up its corpses, Death and Hades gave up their dead, and all were judged by what each had done. ¹⁴ Then Death and Hades were flung into the lake of fire, ¹⁵ and whoever was not found enrolled in the book of Life was flung into the lake of fire — which is the second death, the lake of fire.

¹⁸ The Spirit of the Lord is upon me: for he has consecrated me to preach the gospel to the poor, he has sent me to proclaim release for captives and recovery of sight for the blind, to set free the oppressed, ¹⁹ to proclaim the Lord's year of favour.

⁴ When they reached Jesus they asked him earnestly to do this. "He deserves to have this favour from you," they said,

²³ And blessed is he who is repelled by nothing in me!"

⁶⁰ Jesus said to him, "Leave the dead to bury their own dead; you go and spread the news of the Reign of God."

⁶ and Jacob's spring was there. Jesus, exhausted by the journey, sat down at the spring, just as he was. It was about noon, ⁷ and a Samaritan woman came to draw water. Jesus said to her, "Give me a drink" ⁸ (his disciples had gone to the town to buy some food). ⁹ The Samaritan woman said, "What? You are a Jew, and you ask me for a drink — me, a Samaritan!" (Jews do not associate with Samaritans.) ¹⁰ Jesus answered, "If you knew what is the free gift of God and who is asking you for a drink, you would have asked him instead, and he would have given you 'living' water."

³² But he said to them, "I have food, of which you know nothing." ³³ So the disciples asked each other, "Can anyone have brought him something to eat?" ³⁴ Jesus said, "My food is to do the will of him who sent me, and to accomplish his work.

⁵ On reaching Salamis they proclaimed the word of God in the Jewish synagogues, with John as their assistant.

¹³ On the sabbath we went outside the gate to the bank of the river, where as usual there was a place of prayer; we sat down and talked to the women who had gathered.

³¹ "Believe in the Lord Jesus Christ," they said, "and then you will be saved, you and your household as well." ³² And they spoke the word of the Lord to him and to all in his house. 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.

⁷ On the first day of the week we met for the breaking of bread; Paul addressed them, as he was to leave next day, and he prolonged his address till midnight

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 how I served the Lord in all humility, with many a tear and many a trial which I encountered owing to the plots of the Jews, ²⁰ how I never shrank from letting you know anything for your good, or from teaching you alike in public and from house to house, ²¹ bearing my testimony, both to Jews and Greeks, of repentance before God and faith in our Lord Jesus Christ.

¹⁶ When we did reach Rome, Paul got permission to live by himself, with a soldier to guard him.

³⁰ For two full years he remained in his private lodging, welcoming anyone who came to visit him; ³¹ he preached the Reign of God and taught about the Lord Jesus Christ quite openly and unmolested.

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!

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

⁶ Those who are taught must share all the blessings of life with those who teach them the Word.

²⁵ for I am a minister of the church by the divine commission which has been granted me in your interests, to make a full presentation of God's message —

²⁸ This is the Christ we proclaim; we train everyone and teach everyone the full scope of this knowledge, in order to set everyone before God mature in Christ; ²⁹ I labour for that end, striving for it with the divine energy which is a power within me.

¹¹ how (as you know) we treated each of you as a father treats his children, beseeching you, encouraging you, and charging you ¹² to lead a life worthy of the God who called you to his own realm and glory.

¹⁴ We beseech you, brothers, keep a check upon loafers, encourage the faint-hearted, sustain weak souls, never lose your temper with anyone;

²⁰ never disdain prophetic revelations

¹³ Attend to your Scripture-reading, your preaching, and your teaching, till I come.

¹⁵ Attend to these duties, let them absorb you, so that all men may note your progress. ¹⁶ Watch yourself and watch your teaching; stick to your work; if you do that, you will save your hearers as well as yourself.

²⁰ Those who are guilty of sin you must expose in public, to overawe the others.

²¹ If one will only keep clear of the latter, he will be put to noble use, he will be consecrated and useful to the Owner of the House, he will be set apart for good work of all kinds.

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

¹⁰ Now you have followed my teaching, my practice, my aims, my faith, my patience, my love, my stedfastness,

¹³ That is a true statement. So deal sharply with them, to have them sound in the faith

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

²² I appeal to you, brothers, to bear with this appeal of mine. It is but a short letter.

¹⁹ I reprove and discipline those whom I love; so be in warm earnest and repent.

²⁶ Woe to you when all men speak well of you! that is just what their fathers did to the false prophets.

¹⁹ At that hour the scribes and high priests tried to lay hands on him, but they were afraid of the people. They knew he had meant this parable for them.

¹⁹ And this is the sentence of condemnation, that the Light has entered the world and yet men have preferred darkness to light. It is because their actions have been evil; ²⁰ for anyone whose practices are corrupt loathes the light and will not come out into it, in case his actions are exposed, ²¹ whereas anyone whose life is true comes out into the light, to make it plain that his actions have been divinely prompted.

⁴⁵ It is because I tell the truth, that you do not believe me.

²¹ (For all the Athenians and the foreign visitors to Athens occupied themselves with nothing else than repeating or listening to the latest novelty.)

¹ Thus when I came to you, my brothers, I did not come to proclaim to you God's secret purpose with any elaborate words or wisdom.

⁴ what I said, what I preached, did not rest on the plausible arguments of 'wisdom' but on the proof supplied by the Spirit and its power,

¹⁶ Am I your enemy to-day, because I have been honest with you?

¹⁰ immoral persons, sodomites, kidnappers, liars, perjurers, and whatever else is contrary to sound doctrine

¹ But in later days, the Spirit distinctly declares, certain people will rebel against the faith; they will listen to spirits of error and to the doctrines that daemons teach ² through plausible sophists who are seared in conscience — ³ men who prohibit marriage and insist on abstinence from foods which God created for believing men, who understand the Truth, to partake of with thanksgiving.

¹ Mark this, there are hard times coming in the last days. ² For men will be selfish, fond of money, boastful, haughty, abusive, disobedient to their parents, ungrateful, irreverent, ³ callous, relentless, scurrilous, dissolute, and savage; they will hate goodness, ⁴ they will be treacherous, reckless and conceited, preferring pleasure to God — ⁵ for though they keep up a form of religion, they will have nothing to do with it as a force. Avoid all such. ⁶ Some of them worm their way into families and get hold of the women-folk who feel crushed by the burden of their sins — wayward creatures of impulse,

¹ Still, false prophets did appear among the People, as among you also there will be false teachers, men who will insinuate destructive heresies, even disowning the Lord who ransomed them; they bring rapid destruction on themselves, ² and many will follow their immorality (thanks to them the true Way will be maligned); ³ in their lust they will exploit you with cunning arguments — men whose doom comes apace from of old, and destruction is awake upon their trail.

⁵⁷ With a loud shriek they shut their ears and rushed at him like one man.

⁴ and studying myths and interminable genealogies; such studies bear upon speculations rather than on the divine order which belongs to faith.

⁷ Shut your mind against these profane, drivelling myths; train for the religious life.

²⁰ O Timotheus, keep the securities of the faith intact: avoid the profane jargon and contradictions of what is falsely called 'Knowledge.'

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

¹⁴ instead of studying Jewish myths and rules laid down by men who have discarded the Truth.

²⁵ Grace be with you all. Amen.

¹⁶ For it was no fabricated fables that we followed when we reported to you the power and advent of our Lord Jesus Christ; we were admitted to the spectacle of his sovereignty,

³⁴ It is like a man leaving his house to go abroad; he puts his servants in charge, each with his work to do, and he orders the porter to keep watch.

³⁷ Watch: I say it to you, and I say it to all."

³⁷ Blessed are those servants whom the lord and master finds awake when he comes! I tell you truly, he will gird himself, make them recline at table, and come forward to wait on them.

³⁰ and men of your own number will arise with perversions of the truth to draw the disciples after them. ³¹ So be on the alert, remember how for three whole years I never ceased night and day to watch over each one of you with tears.

⁸ and started next morning for Caesarea, where we entered the house of Philip the evangelist (he belonged to the Seven,

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 —

¹¹ he granted some men to be apostles, some to be prophets, some to be evangelists, some to shepherd and teach,

¹⁷ And tell Archippus, 'Attend to the ministry you have received in the Lord; see that you fulfil it.'

⁶ Well then, we must not sleep like the rest of men, but be wakeful and sober;

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

¹⁵ Attend to these duties, let them absorb you, so that all men may note your progress.

⁸ So do not be ashamed to testify to our Lord, and do not be ashamed of a prisoner of the Lord like me; join me in bearing suffering for the gospel by the power of the God

³ Join the ranks of those who bear suffering, like a loyal soldier of Christ Jesus.

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.

¹⁰ Now you have followed my teaching, my practice, my aims, my faith, my patience, my love, my stedfastness, ¹¹ my persecutions, my sufferings — all that befell me at Antioch, Iconium and Lystra, all the persecutions I had to undergo, from which the Lord rescued me. ¹² Yes, and all who want to live the religious life in Christ Jesus will be persecuted.

¹⁷ Obey your leaders, submit to them; for they are alive to the interests of your souls, as men who will have to account for their trust. Let their work be a joy to them and not a grief — which would be a loss to yourselves.

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 Wake up, rally what is still left to you, though it is on the very point of death; for I find nothing you have done is complete in the eyes of my God.

²³ I am in a dilemma between the two. My strong desire is to depart and be with Christ, for that is far the best.

¹⁷ Even if my life-blood has to be poured as a libation on the sacred sacrifice of faith you are offering to God, I rejoice, I congratulate you all —

¹⁴ since I know my tent must be folded up very soon — as indeed our Lord Jesus Christ has shown me. ¹⁵ Yes, and I will see to it that even when I am gone, you will keep this constantly in mind.

¹⁵ As for the seed in the good soil, that means those who hear and hold fast the word in a good and sound heart and so bear fruit stedfastly.

²⁸ But he said, "Blessed rather are those who hear and who observe the word of God!"

³⁴ Jesus said, "My food is to do the will of him who sent me, and to accomplish his work.

⁶ I have made thy Name known to the men whom thou hast given to me from the world (thine they were, and thou gavest them to me), and they have held to thy word.

²⁵ And as John was closing his career he said, 'What do you take me for? I am not He; no, he is coming after me, and I am not fit to untie the sandals on his feet!'

²⁴ But then, I set no value on my own life as compared with the joy of finishing my course and fulfilling the commission I received from the Lord Jesus to attest the gospel of the grace of God.

²⁴ Do you not know that in a race, though all run, only one man gains the prize? Run so as to win the prize. ²⁵ Every athlete practises self-restraint all round; but while they do it to win a fading wreath, we do it for an unfading. ²⁶ Well, I run without swerving; I do not plant my blows upon the empty air — ²⁷ no, I maul and master my body, in case, after preaching to other people, I am disqualified myself.

¹³ Brothers, I for one do not consider myself to have appropriated this; my one thought is, by forgetting what lies behind me and straining to what lies before me, ¹⁴ to press on to the goal for the prize of God's high call in Christ Jesus.

¹⁸ I transmit these instructions to you, Timotheus my son, in accordance with what the prophets said who first directed me to you; fight the good fight on these lines,

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.

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

¹ Therefore, with all this host of witnesses encircling us, we must strip off every handicap, strip off sin with its clinging folds, to run our appointed course steadily, 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.

⁸ Lo, I have set a door open before you which no one is able to shut; for though your strength is small, you have kept my word, you have not renounced my Name.

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.

¹⁹ Store up no treasures for yourselves on earth, where moth and rust corrode, where thieves break in and steal: ²⁰ store up treasures for yourselves in heaven, where neither moth nor rust corrode, where thieves do not break in and steal.

²² Many will say to me at that Day, 'Lord, Lord, did we not prophesy in your name? did we not cast out daemons in your name? did we not perform many miracles in your name?'

³⁶ Now no one knows anything about that day or hour, not even the angels in heaven, but only my Father.

¹² I tell you, on the great Day it will be more bearable for Sodom than for that town.

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.

²³ and not only so, but even we ourselves, who have the Spirit as a foretaste of the future, even we sigh to ourselves as we wait for the redemption of the body that means our full sonship.

⁹ No, as it is written, what no eye has ever seen, what no ear has ever heard, what never entered the mind of man, God has prepared all that for those who love him.

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

² It makes me sigh indeed, this yearning to be under the cover of my heavenly habitation,

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

¹⁰ and to wait for the coming of his Son from heaven — the Son whom he raised from the dead, Jesus who rescues us from the Wrath to come.

⁴ But, brothers, you are not in the darkness for the Day to surprise you like thieves;

⁵ They are proof positive of God's equity; you are suffering for the realm of God, and he means to make you worthy of it — ⁶ since God considers it but just to repay with trouble those who trouble you,

¹⁹ amassing right good treasure for themselves in the world to come, in order to secure the life which is life indeed.

¹² and this is why I am suffering. Still, I am not ashamed of it; I know whom I have trusted and I am certain he is able to keep what I have put into his hands till the great Day.

¹⁸ (may he find favour with the Lord on the great Day! The Lord grant it!). And you know very well what a help he was to me in Ephesus.

⁵ Again, a competitor in the games is not crowned unless he observes the rules.

¹ In the presence of God and of Christ Jesus who will judge the living and the dead, in the light of his appearance and his reign,

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 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.

⁴ born to an unscathed, inviolate, unfading inheritance; it is kept in heaven for you,

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.

⁴ also round the throne four and twenty thrones, and on these thrones four and twenty Presbyters seated, who were clad in white raiment with golden crowns upon their heads.

¹⁰ the four and twenty Presbyters fall down before him who is seated on the throne, worshipping him who lives for ever and ever, and casting their crowns before the throne, with the cry,

¹¹ Then I saw heaven open wide — and there was a white horse: his rider is faithful and true, yea, just are his judgments and his warfare.

²⁰ He who bears this testimony says, "Even so: I am coming very soon." Amen, Lord Jesus, come!

⁴ When I recall the tears you shed when we parted, I long by night and day to see you again. That would fill me with joy,

²¹ Do your best to come before winter. Eubulus salutes you; so do Pudens, Linus, Claudia, and all the brotherhood.

⁵⁶ However, this has all happened for the fulfilment of the prophetic scriptures!" Then all the disciples left him and fled;

⁶¹ Another man also said to him, "I will follow you, Lord. But let me first say good-bye to my people at home." ⁶² Jesus said to him, "No one is any use to the Reign of God who puts his hand to the plough and then looks behind him."

²⁶ "If anyone comes to me and does not hate his father and mother and wife and children and brothers and sisters, aye and his own life, he cannot be a disciple of mine; ²⁷ whoever does not carry his own cross and come after me, he cannot be a disciple of mine.

³³ So with everyone of you who will not part with all his goods he cannot be a disciple of mine.

¹³ No servant can serve two masters: either he will hate the one and love the other, or else he will stand by the one and despise the other, you cannot serve both God and Mammon."

³² (remember Lot's wife).

¹³ Setting sail from Paphos, Paul and his companions reached Perga in Pamphylia; John left them and went back to Jerusalem,

³⁸ Paul held they should not take a man with them who had deserted them in Pamphylia, instead of accompanying them on active service.

⁶ They crossed Phrygia and the country of Galatia, the holy Spirit having stopped them from preaching the word in Asia;

¹ Travelling on through Amphipolis and Apollonia they reached Thessalonica. Here there was a Jewish synagogue,

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.

¹³ But when the Jews of Thessalonica heard that Paul was proclaiming the word of God at Beroea as well, they came to create a disturbance and a riot among the crowds at Beroea too.

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

¹³ my spirit could not rest, because I did not find Titus my brother there; so I said goodbye and went off to Macedonia.

⁶ But the God who comforts the dejected comforted me by the arrival of Titus.

⁶ This has led me to ask Titus to complete the arrangements for the same gracious contribution among yourselves, as it was he who started it.

¹⁶ Thanks be to God who has inspired Titus with an interest in you equal to my own;

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

¹ Then, fourteen years later, I went up to Jerusalem again, accompanied by Barnabas; I took Titus with me also. ² (It was in consequence of a revelation that I went up at all.) I submitted the gospel I am in the habit of preaching to the Gentiles, submitting it privately to the authorities, to make sure that my course of action would be and had been sound. ³ But even my companion Titus, Greek though he was, was not obliged to be circumcised.

²¹ Everybody is selfish, instead of caring for Jesus Christ.

¹⁴ Our beloved Luke, the doctor, salutes you; so does Demas. ¹⁵ Salute the brothers at Laodicea, also Nympha and the church which meets at her house.

¹⁰ For love of money is the root of all mischief; it is by aspiring to be rich that certain individuals have gone astray from the faith and found themselves pierced with many a pang of remorse.

¹⁷ Charge the rich of this world not to be supercilious, and not to fix their hopes on so uncertain a thing as riches but on the living God who richly provides us with all the enjoyments of life;

¹⁶ The first time I had to defend myself, I had no supporters; everyone deserted me. God grant it may not be brought up against them!

⁴ to Titus my lawful son in a faith we hold in common; grace and peace from God the Father and Christ Jesus our Saviour.

²⁴ So do Mark, Aristarchus, Demas and Luke, my fellow-workers.

¹⁵ they have gone wrong by leaving the straight road, by following the road of Balaam son of Bosor, who liked the profits of evil-doing —

¹⁵ Love not the world, nor yet what is in the world; if anyone loves the world, love for the Father is not in him. ¹⁶ For all that is in the world, the desire of the flesh and the desire of the eyes and the proud glory of life, belongs not to the Father but to the world;

⁴ for whatever is born of God conquers the world. Our faith, that is the conquest which conquers the world. ⁵ Who is the world's conqueror but he who believes that Jesus is the Son of God?

³⁰ Many who are first shall be last, and many who are last shall be first.

¹⁶ So shall the last be first and the first last."

³⁰ Some are last who will be first, and some are first who will be last."

¹² When he grasped the situation, he went to the house of Mary, the mother of John who was surnamed Mark, where a number had met for prayer.

²⁵ After fulfilling their commission, Barnabas and Saul returned from Jerusalem, bringing with them John who is surnamed Mark.

³⁹ So in irritation they parted company, Barnabas taking Mark with him and sailing for Cyprus,

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.

¹⁰ Aristarchus my fellow-prisoner salutes you; so does Mark, the cousin of Barnabas, about whom you have got instructions (if he comes to you, give him a welcome);

¹⁴ Our beloved Luke, the doctor, salutes you; so does Demas.

¹³ Your sister-church in Babylon, elect like yourselves, salutes you. So does my son Mark.

⁴ His company as far as Asia consisted of Sopater of Beroea (the son of Pyrrhus), Aristarchus and Secundus from Thessalonica, Gaius of Derbe, Timotheus, and Tychicus and Trophimus from Asia.

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.

²⁵ I know to-day that not one of you will ever see my face again — not one of you among whom I moved as I preached the Reign.

²¹ Our beloved brother Tychicus, a faithful minister in the Lord, will give you all information about me, so that you may know how I am;

⁷ Tychicus, that beloved brother and faithful minister and fellow-servant in the Lord, will give you all information about me.

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

¹² Whenever I send Artemas or Tychicus to you, do your best to come to me at Nicopolis, for I have decided to winter there.

⁸ and so they passed Mysia by and went down to Troas.

¹¹ Setting sail then from Troas we ran straight to Samothrace and on the following day to Neapolis.

⁵ They went on to wait for us at Troas, ⁶ while we sailed from Philippi, after the days of unleavened bread, and joined them five days later at Troas. There we spent seven days. ⁷ On the first day of the week we met for the breaking of bread; Paul addressed them, as he was to leave next day, and he prolonged his address till midnight ⁸ (there were plenty of lamps in the upper room where we met). ⁹ In the window sat a young man called Eutychus, and as Paul's address went on and on, he got overcome with drowsiness, went fast asleep, and fell from the third storey. He was picked up a corpse, ¹⁰ but Paul went downstairs, threw himself upon him, and embraced him. "Do not lament," he said, "the life is still in him." ¹¹ Then he went upstairs, broke bread, and ate; finally, after conversing awhile with them till the dawn, he went away. ¹² As for the lad, they took him away alive, much to their relief.

¹¹ To this very hour we hunger and thirst, we are ill-clad and knocked about, we are waifs,

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.

³³ Some of the mob concluded it must be Alexander, as the Jews pushed him to the front. So Alexander, motioning with his hand, wanted to defend himself before the people; 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!"

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,

⁶ since God considers it but just to repay with trouble those who trouble you,

²⁰ including Hymenaeus and Alexander, whom I have made over to Satan. That will teach them to stop their blasphemous ongoings!

¹⁶ If anyone notices his brother committing a sin which is not deadly, he will ask and obtain life for him — for anyone who does not commit a deadly sin. There is such a thing as deadly sin; I do not mean he is to pray for that.

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?"

⁶ Render to her what she rendered to others, aye, double the doom for all she has done; mix her the draught double in the cup she mixed for others.

²⁰ O heaven, rejoice over her! Saints, apostles, prophets, rejoice! For God has avenged you on her now."

¹⁶ I am sending you out like sheep among wolves; so be wise like serpents and guileless like doves. ¹⁷ Beware of men, they will hand you over to sanhedrins and scourge you in their synagogues,

² Beware of these dogs, these wicked workmen, the incision-party!

⁸ For these guides of theirs are hostile to the Truth, just as Jannes and Jambres were hostile to Moses; they are depraved in mind and useless for all purposes of faith.

⁵⁰ Then they left him and fled, all of them;

³² Behold, the time is coming, it has come already, when you will be scattered to your homes, everyone of you, leaving me alone. But I am not alone, for the Father is with me.

⁶⁰ Then he knelt down and cried aloud, "Lord, let not this sin stand against them!" With these words he slept the sleep of death.

¹ "Brothers and fathers, listen to the defence I now make before you."

¹⁶ I told them Romans were not in the habit of giving up any man until the accused met the accusers face to face and had a chance of defending himself against the impeachment.

³ Here is my reply to my inquisitors.

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.

⁷ It is only natural for me to be thinking of you all in this way, for alike in my prison and as I defend and vindicate the gospel, I bear in mind how you all share with me in the grace divine.

¹⁷ but the former proclaim Christ for their own ends, with mixed motives, intending to annoy me as I lie in prison.

¹⁰ for Demas, in his love for this world, has deserted me and gone to Thessalonica; Crescens is off to Gaul, Titus to Dalmatia,

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;

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,

¹⁵ for I will give you words and wisdom that not one of your opponents will be able to meet or refute.

¹⁵ But the Lord said to him, "Go; I have chosen him to be the means of bringing my Name before the Gentiles and their kings as well as before the sons of Israel.

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."

¹¹ On the following night the Lord stood by Paul and said, "Courage! As you have testified to me at Jerusalem, so you must testify at Rome."

¹⁷ I will rescue you from the People and also from the Gentiles — to whom I send you, 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.'

²³ For last night an angel of the God I belong to and serve, stood before me, ²⁴ saying, 'Have no fear, Paul; you must stand before Caesar. And God has granted you the lives of all your fellow-voyagers.'

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 —

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.

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

¹² I would have you understand, my brothers, that my affairs have really tended to advance the gospel; ¹³ throughout the whole of the praetorian guard and everywhere else it is recognized that I am imprisoned on account of my connexion with Christ, ¹⁴ and my imprisonment has given the majority of the brotherhood greater confidence in the Lord to venture on speaking the word of God without being afraid.

¹² I render thanks to Christ Jesus our Lord, who has made me able for this; he considered me trustworthy and appointed me to the ministry,

¹¹ my persecutions, my sufferings — all that befell me at Antioch, Iconium and Lystra, all the persecutions I had to undergo, from which the Lord rescued me.

³³ men who by faith conquered kingdoms, administered justice, obtained promises, shut the mouth of lions,

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

⁹ then be sure the Lord knows how to rescue pious folk from trial, and how to keep the unrighteous under punishment till the day of doom,

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

⁴³ Then the just will shine like the sun in the Realm of their Father. He who has an ear, let him listen to this.

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.

⁴ and forgive us our sins for we do forgive everyone who has offended us; and lead us not into temptation."

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

²⁹ so, even as my Father has assigned me royal power,

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 — ."

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

³⁶ All comes from him, all lives by him, all ends in him. Glory to him for ever, Amen!

²⁷ to the only wise God be glory through Jesus Christ for ever and ever: Amen.]

¹³ No temptation has waylaid you that is beyond man's power; trust God, he will never let you be tempted beyond what you can stand, but when temptation comes, he will provide the way out of it, so that you can bear up under it.

¹⁰ he rescued me from so terrible a death, he rescues still, and I rely upon him for the hope that he will continue to rescue me.

⁵ to whom be glory for ever and ever: Amen.

²³ May the God of peace consecrate you through and through! Spirit, soul, and body, may you be kept without break or blame till the arrival of our Lord Jesus Christ!

³ However, the Lord is faithful; he will be sure to strengthen you and protect you from the Evil one.

¹⁷ To the King of eternity, immortal, invisible, the only God, be honour and glory for ever and ever: Amen.

¹⁶ who alone has immortality, who dwells in light that none can approach, whom no man has ever seen or can see. To him be honour and eternal dominion: Amen.

²¹ furnish you with everything for the doing of his will, creating in your lives by Jesus Christ what is acceptable in his own sight! To him be glory for ever and ever: Amen.

⁵ Listen, my beloved brothers; has not God chosen the poor of this world to be rich in faith and to inherit the realm which he has promised to those who love him?

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.

¹¹ The dominion is his for ever and ever: Amen.

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 — ²⁵ to the only God, our saviour through Jesus Christ our Lord, be glory, majesty, dominion and authority, before all time and now and for all time: Amen.

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,

¹⁸ After waiting on for a number of days Paul said goodbye to the brothers and sailed for Syria, accompanied by Priscilla and Aquila. (As the latter was under a vow, he had his head shaved at Cenchreae.)

²⁶ In the synagogue he was very outspoken at first; but when Aquila and Priscilla listened to him, they took him home and explained more accurately to him what the Way of God really meant.

³ Salute Prisca and Aquila, my fellow-workers in Christ Jesus, ⁴ who have risked their lives for me; I thank them, and not only I but all the Gentile churches as well.

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

¹⁶ May the Lord show favour to the household of Onesiphorus, for many a time he braced me up; he was not ashamed of my imprisonment — ¹⁷ no, he made eager search for me when he reached Rome, and he found me ¹⁸ (may he find favour with the Lord on the great Day! The Lord grant it!). And you know very well what a help he was to me in Ephesus.

²² So he despatched two of his assistants to Macedonia, Timotheus and Erastus, while he himself stayed on awhile in Asia.

¹⁵ Sailing thence on the following day we arrived off Chios; next day we crossed over to Samos, and [after stopping at Trogyllium] we went on next day to Miletus.

¹⁷ From Miletus he sent to Ephesus for the presbyters of the church.

²⁹ (They had previously seen Trophimus the Ephesian along with him in the city, and they supposed Paul had taken him inside the temple.)

²³ Gaius, my host and the host of the church at large salutes you. Erastus the city-treasurer salutes you; so does brother Quartus.

²⁶ for he has been yearning for you all. He has been greatly concerned because you heard he was ill. ²⁷ And he was ill, nearly dead with illness. But God had mercy on him, and not only on him but on me, to save me from having one sorrow upon another.

²¹ Timotheus my fellow-worker salutes you; so do my fellow countrymen Lucius, Jason, and Sosipater. ²² I Tertius, who write the letter, salute you in the Lord. ²³ Gaius, my host and the host of the church at large salutes you. Erastus the city-treasurer salutes you; so does brother Quartus.

²⁰ All the brotherhood salutes you. Salute one another with a holy kiss.

¹³ All the saints salute you.

²² All the saints salute you, especially the Imperial slaves.

⁹ Do your best to come soon to me,

¹³ When you come, bring the mantle I left at Troas with Carpus, also my books, and particularly my paper.

¹³ The children of your elect Sister greet you. ¹⁴ I am hoping to see you soon, and we will have a talk. [15] Peace to you! The friends salute you: salute the friends one by one.

²⁰ and teach them to obey all the commands I have laid on you. And I will be with you all the time, to the very end of the world."

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.

²⁰ The God of peace will soon crush Satan under your feet! The grace of our Lord Jesus Christ be with you.

²³ The grace of the Lord Jesus be with you.

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

¹⁸ The grace of our Lord Jesus Christ be with your spirit, brothers. Amen.

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

¹⁸ This salutation is in my own hand, from Paul. 'Remember I am in prison. Grace be with you.'

²¹ Certain individuals have failed in the faith by professing that. Grace be with you. [Amen.]

²⁵ The grace of the Lord Jesus Christ be with your spirit. Amen.

¹⁴ Salute one another with a kiss of love. Peace be to you all who are in Christ [Jesus].

²¹ The grace of the Lord Jesus Christ be with you all. Amen.