Genesis Cross References - Moffatt

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

¹⁹ for those days will be days of misery, the like of which has never been from the beginning of God's creation until now — no and never shall be.

¹ THE Logos existed in the very beginning, the Logos was with God, the Logos was divine. ² He was with God in the very beginning: ³ through him all existence came into being, no existence came into being apart from him.

²⁴ and on hearing this the entire company raised their cry to God, "O Sovereign Lord, thou art he who made heaven, earth, and sea, and all that in them is,

¹⁵ shouting, "Men, what is this you are doing? We are but human, with natures like your own! The gospel we are preaching to you is to turn from such futile ways to the living God who made the heaven, the earth, the sea, and all that in them is.

²⁴ The God who made the world and all things in it, he, as Lord of heaven and earth, does not dwell in shrines that are made by human hands;

¹⁹ For whatever is to be known of God is plain to them; God himself has made it plain — ²⁰ for ever since the world was created, his invisible nature, his everlasting power and divine being, have been quite perceptible in what he has made. So they have no excuse.

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

⁶ but for us there is one God, the Father, from whom all comes, and for whom we exist; one Lord, Jesus Christ, by whom all exists, and by whom we exist.)

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

¹⁶ for it was by him that all things were created both in heaven and on earth, both the seen and the unseen, including Thrones, angelic Lords, celestial Powers and Rulers; all things have been created by him and for him; ¹⁷ he is prior to all, and all coheres in him.

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

¹⁰ and, 'Thou didst found the earth at the beginning, O Lord, and the heavens are the work at thy hands;

⁴ (Every house is founded by someone, but God is the founder of all.)

³ It is by faith we understand that the world was fashioned by the word of God, and thus the visible was made out of the invisible.

⁵ They wilfully ignore the fact that heavens existed long ago, and an earth which the word of God formed of water and by water.

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

¹⁴ Then to the angel of the church at Laodicea write thus: These are the words of the Amen, the faithful and true witness, the origin of God's creation.

¹¹ "Thou deservest, our Lord and God, to receive glory and honour and power, for it was thou who didst create all things: they existed and were created by thy will."

⁶ and swore by Him who lives for ever and ever, who created the heaven and what is in it, the earth and what is in it, and the sea and what is in it, "There shall be no more delay;

⁷ he cried aloud, "Fear God and give him glory, for the hour of his judgment has come; worship him who made heaven and earth, the sea and the fountains of water."

⁶ Then he said, "All is over! I am the alpha and the omega, the First and the Last. I will let the thirsty drink of the fountain of the water of Life without price.

¹³ [Relocated to follow vs 16] I am the alpha and the omega, the First and the Last, the beginning and the end.

³ so he stretched his hand out and touched him, with the words, "I do choose, be cleansed." And his leprosy was cleansed at once.

⁵ amid the darkness the Light shone, but the darkness did not master it.

⁹ The real Light, which enlightens every man, was coming then into the world:

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;

⁴³ So saying, he exclaimed with a loud cry, "Lazarus, come out!"

⁶ For God who said, "Light shall shine out of darkness," has shone within my heart to illuminate men with the knowledge of God's glory in the face of Christ.

⁸ For while once upon a time you were darkness, now in the Lord you are light; lead the life of those who are children of the light

¹⁴ Thus it is said, 'Wake up, O sleeper, and rise from the dead; so Christ will shine upon you.'

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.

⁵ Here is the message we learned from him and announce to you: 'God is light and in him there is no darkness, none.'

⁸ And yet it is a new command I am writing to you — realized in him and also in yourselves, because the darkness is passing away and the true light is already shining.

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

¹³ still, whatever the light exposes becomes illuminated — for anything that is illuminated turns into light.

⁵ you are all sons of the Light and sons of the day. We do not belong to the night or the darkness.

²⁷ Men marvelled at this; they said, "What sort of man is this? the very winds and sea obey him!"

¹⁰ The axe is lying all ready at the root of the trees; any tree that is not producing good fruit will be cut down and thrown into the fire.

³⁰ Now if God so clothes the grass of the field which blooms to-day and is thrown to-morrow into the furnace, will not he much more clothe you? O men, how little you trust him!

¹⁶ You will know them by their fruit; do men gather grapes from thorns or figs from thistles? No, ¹⁷ every good tree bears sound fruit, but a rotten tree bears bad fruit; ¹⁸ a good tree cannot bear bad fruit, and a rotten tree cannot bear sound fruit. ¹⁹ [Relocated to follow vs 20] Any tree that does not produce sound fruit will be cut down and thrown into the fire. ²⁰ So you will know them by their fruit.

²⁸ (For the earth bears crops by itself, the blade first, the ear of corn next, and then the grain full in the ear.)

⁴³ No sound tree bears rotten fruit, nor again does a rotten tree bear sound fruit: ⁴⁴ each tree is known by its fruit. Figs are not gathered from thorns, and grapes are not plucked from a bramble-bush.

⁷ For land which absorbs the rain that often falls on it, and bears plants that are useful to those for whom it is tilled, receives a blessing from God;

¹² Can a fig tree, my brothers, bear olives? Or a vine, figs? No more can salt water yield fresh.

²⁴ He put another parable before them. "The Realm of heaven," he said, "is like a man who sowed good seed in his field, ²⁵ but while men slept his enemy came and resowed weeds among the wheat and then went away. ²⁶ When the blade sprouted and formed the kernel, then the weeds appeared as well.

⁴⁴ each tree is known by its fruit. Figs are not gathered from thorns, and grapes are not plucked from a bramble-bush.

¹⁰ He who furnishes the sower with seed and with bread to eat will supply seed for you and multiply it; he will increase the crop of your charities —

⁷ Make no mistake — God is not to be mocked — a man will reap just what he sows;

² asking, "Where is the newly-born king of the Jews? We saw his star when it rose, and we have come to worship him."

² He replied, ³ — -

²⁹ Immediately after the misery of those days the sun will be darkened, and the moon will not yield her light, the stars will drop from heaven and the orbs of the heavens will be shaken.

²⁴ But when that misery is past, in those days, the sun will be darkened and the moon will not yield her light,

²⁵ And there will be signs in sun and moon and stars, while on earth the nations will be in dismay with bewilderment at the roar of sea and waves, ²⁶ men swooning with panic and foreboding of what is to befall the universe. For the orbs of the heavens will be shaken,

⁴⁵ owing to an eclipse of the sun; the curtain in the middle of the temple was torn in two.

¹⁹ And I will display wonders in heaven above and signs on earth below, blood and fire and vapour of smoke: ²⁰ the sun shall be changed into darkness and the moon into blood, ere the great, open Day of the Lord arrives.

¹² And when he opened the sixth seal, I looked; and a great earthquake took place, the sun turned black as sackcloth, the full moon turned like blood,

¹² The fourth angel blew; and a stroke fell on a third of the sun, a third of the moon, and a third of the stars, so as to darken one third of them, withdrawing light from a third of the day and likewise of the night.

² and he opened the pit of the abyss, and smoke poured out of the pit, like the smoke of a huge furnace, till the sun and the air were darkened by the smoke from the pit.

⁴⁵ Now from twelve o'clock to three o'clock darkness covered all the land,

⁴¹ There is a splendour of the sun and a splendour of the moon and a splendour of the stars — for one star differs from another in splendour.

⁸ The fourth angel poured out his bowl upon the sun; and the sun was allowed to scorch men with fire, ⁹ till men, scorched by the fierce heat, blasphemed the name of the God who had control of these plagues; yet they would not repent and give him glory.

²³ And the City needs no sun or moon to shine upon it, for the glory of God illumines it, and the Lamb lights it up.

⁴⁷ For these are the Lord's orders to us: I have set you to be a light for the Gentiles, to bring salvation to the end of the earth."

²⁵ he is not served by human hands as if he needed anything, for it is he who gives life and breath and all things to all men.

⁴⁰ for as Jonah was three days and three nights in the belly of the whale, so the Son of man will be three days and three nights in the heart of the earth.

¹⁷ The reply of Jesus was, "As my Father has continued working to this hour, so I work too."

²³ Jesus answered, "If anyone loves me he will obey my word, and my Father will love him, and we will come to him and take up our abode with him.

²⁰ You talk of some things that sound strange to us; so we want to know what they mean."

²⁶ All nations he has created from a common origin, to dwell all over the earth, fixing their allotted periods and the boundaries of their abodes,

²⁸ for it is in him that we live and move and exist — as some of your own poets have said, 'We too belong to His race.' ²⁹ Well, as the race of God, we ought not to imagine that the divine nature resembles gold or silver or stone, the product of human art and invention.

⁷ Man does not require to have a veil on his head, for he represents the likeness and supremacy of God; but woman represents the supremacy of man.

¹⁸ But we all mirror the glory of the Lord with face unveiled, and so we are being transformed into the same likeness as himself, passing from one glory to another — for this comes of the Lord the Spirit.

⁴ there the god of this world has blinded the minds of unbelievers, to prevent them seeing the light thrown by the gospel of the glory of Christ, who is the likeness of God.

²⁴ putting on the new nature, that divine pattern which has been created in the upright and pious character of the Truth.

¹⁵ He is the likeness of the unseen God, born first before all the creation —

¹⁰ and put on the new nature which is renewed in the likeness of its Creator for the knowledge of him.

⁶ One writer, as we know, has affirmed, What is man, that thou art mindful of him? or the son of man, that thou carest for him? ⁷ For a little while thou hast put him lower than the angels, crowning him with glory and honour, ⁸ putting all things under his feet. Now by putting all things under him, the writer meant to leave nothing out of his control. But, as it is, we do not yet see all things controlled by man; ⁹ what we do see is Jesus who was put lower than the angels for a little while to suffer death, and who has been crowned with glory and honour that by God's grace he might taste death for everyone.

⁷ For while every kind of beast and bird, of creeping animals and creatures marine, is tameable and has been tamed by mankind,

⁹ With the tongue we bless the Lord and Father, and with the tongue we curse men made in God's likeness;

⁷ The Spirit is the witness to this, for the Spirit is truth.

⁴ He replied, "Have you never read that He who created them male and female from the beginning

⁶ But from the beginning, when God created the world, Male and female, He created them:

⁷ Man does not require to have a veil on his head, for he represents the likeness and supremacy of God; but woman represents the supremacy of man. ⁸ (Man was not made from woman, woman was made from man; ⁹ and man was not created for woman, but woman for man.)

¹⁰ God has made us what we are, creating us in Christ Jesus for the good deeds which are prepared beforehand by God as our sphere of action.

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

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.

¹¹ give us to-day our bread for the morrow,

²⁵ Therefore I tell you, do not trouble about what you are to eat or drink in life, nor about what you are to put on your body; surely life means more than food, surely the body means more than clothes! ²⁶ Look at the wild birds; they sow not, they reap not, they gather nothing in granaries, and yet your heavenly Father feeds them. Are you not worth more than birds?

¹⁷ though as the bountiful Giver he did not leave himself without a witness, giving you rain from heaven and fruitful seasons, giving you food and joy to your heart's content."

²⁴ The God who made the world and all things in it, he, as Lord of heaven and earth, does not dwell in shrines that are made by human hands; ²⁵ he is not served by human hands as if he needed anything, for it is he who gives life and breath and all things to all men.

²⁸ for it is in him that we live and move and exist — as some of your own poets have said, 'We too belong to His race.'

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;

⁴ Anything God has created is good, and nothing is to be tabooed — provided it is eaten with thanksgiving,