John 14 Cross References - Moffatt

¹ Let not your hearts be disquieted; you believe — believe in God and also in me. ² In my Father's house there are many abodes; were it not so, would I have told you that I was going to prepare a place for you? ³ And when I go and prepare a place for you, I will come back and take you to be with me, so that you may be where I am. ⁴ And you know the way to where I am going." ⁵ "Lord," said Thomas, "we do not know where you are going, and how are we to know the way?" ⁶ Jesus said to him, "I am the real and living way: no one comes to the Father except by means of me. ⁷ If you knew me, you would know my Father too. You know him now and you have seen him." ⁸ "Lord," said Philip, "let us see the Father; that is all we want." ⁹ Jesus said to him, "Philip, have I been with you all this time, and yet you do not understand me? He who has seen me has seen the Father. What do you mean by saying, 'Let us see the Father'? ¹⁰ Do you not believe I am in the Father and the Father is in me? The words I speak to you all I do not speak of my own accord; it is the Father who remains ever in me, who is performing his own deeds. ¹¹ Believe me, I am in the Father and the Father is in me: — or else, believe because of the deeds themselves. ¹² Truly, truly I tell you, he who believes in me will do the very deeds I do, and still greater deeds than these. For I am going to the Father, ¹³ and I will do whatever you ask in my name, that the Father may be glorified in the Son; ¹⁴ I will do whatever you ask me in my name. ¹⁵ If you love me you will keep my commands, ¹⁶ and I will ask the Father to give you another Helper to be with you for ever, ¹⁷ even the Spirit of truth: the world cannot receive him, because it neither sees nor knows him, but you know him, because he remains with you and will be within you. ¹⁸ I will not leave you forlorn; I am coming to you. ¹⁹ A little while longer and the world will see me no more; but you will see me, because I am living and you will be living too. ²⁰ You will understand, on that day, that I am in my Father and you are in me and I am in you. ²¹ He who possesses my commands and obeys them is he who loves me, and he who loves me will be loved by my Father, and I will love him and appear to him." ²² "Lord," said Judas (not Judas Iscariot), "why is it that you are to appear to us, and not to the world?" 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. ²⁴ He who does not love me does not obey my word; and what you hear me say is not my word but the word of the Father who sent me. ²⁵ I have told you all this while I am still with you, ²⁶ but the Helper, the holy Spirit whom the Father will send in my name, will teach you everything and recall to you everything I have said. 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. ²⁸ You heard me tell you I was going away and coming back to you; if you loved me, you would rejoice that I am going to the Father — for the Father is greater than I am. ²⁹ I tell you this now, before it occurs, so that, when it does occur, you may believe. ³⁰ I will no longer talk much with you, for the Prince of this world is coming. He has no hold on me; ³¹ his coming will only serve to let the world see that I love the Father and that I am acting as the Father ordered. Rise, let us be going."

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.)

⁴⁰ It is the will of my Father that everyone who sees the Son and believes in him should possess eternal life, and that I should raise him up on the last day."

²⁵ Jesus said to her, "I am myself resurrection and life: he who believes in me will live, even if he dies, ²⁶ and no one who lives and believes in me will ever die. You believe that?" ²⁷ "Yes, Lord," she said, "I do believe you are the Christ, the Son of God, who was to come into the world" —

³³ Now when Jesus saw her wailing and saw the Jews who accompanied her wailing, he chafed in spirit and was disquieted.

²⁷ My soul is now disquieted. What am I to say? 'Father, save me from this hour'? Nay, it is something else that has brought me to this hour:

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

¹⁹ I am telling you this now, before it occurs, so that when it has occurred you may believe who I am.

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. ²⁸ You heard me tell you I was going away and coming back to you; if you loved me, you would rejoice that I am going to the Father — for the Father is greater than I am.

³ This they will do to you, because they have not known the Father nor me.

⁶ No, your heart is full of sorrow at what I have told you.

²² So with you. Just now you are in sorrow, but I shall see you again and your heart will rejoice — with a joy that no one can take from you. ²³ And on that day you will not ask me any questions. Truly, truly I tell you, whatever you ask the Father, he will give you in my name;

¹⁵ and you killed the pioneer of Life. But God raised him from the dead, as we can bear witness. ¹⁶ (He it is who has given strength to this man whom you see and know, by faith in His name; it is the faith He inspires which has made the man thus hale and whole before you all.)

⁷ so that instead of censuring you should now forgive him and comfort him, in case the man is overwhelmed by excessive remorse.

⁸ on every side I am harried but not hemmed in, perplexed but not despairing, ⁹ persecuted but not abandoned, struck down but not destroyed — ¹⁰ wherever I go, I am being killed in the body as Jesus was, so that the life of Jesus may come out in my body:

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

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

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

¹⁴ For this reason, then, I kneel before the Father ¹⁵ from whom every family in heaven and on earth derives its name and nature, ¹⁶ praying Him out of the wealth of his glory to grant you a mighty increase of strength by his Spirit in the inner man. ¹⁷ May Christ dwell in your hearts as you have faith!

³ to prevent anyone being disturbed by these troubles. (Troubles are our lot, you know that well; ⁴ for we told you beforehand, when we were with you, that "we Christians are to have trouble" — and, as you know, it has been so.)

² not to let your minds get easily unsettled or excited by any spirit of prophecy or any declaration or any letter purporting to come from me, to the effect that the Day of the Lord is already here.

¹² So up with your listless hands! Strengthen your weak knees! ¹³ And make straight paths for your feet to walk in. You must not let the lame get dislocated, but rather make them whole.

²¹ it is by him that you believe in God who raised him from the dead and gave him glory; and thus your faith means hope in God.

²³ No one who disowns the Son can possess the Father: he who confesses the Son possesses the Father as well. ²⁴ Let that remain in you which you learned from the very beginning; if what you learned from the very beginning remains with you, then you will remain in the Son and in the Father.

¹⁰ He who believes in the Son of God possesses that testimony within himself; he who will not believe God, has made God a liar by refusing to believe the testimony which God has borne to his Son. ¹¹ And the testimony is, that God gave us life eternal and this life is in his Son. ¹² He who possesses the Son possesses life: he who does not possess the Son does not possess life.

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. ²⁸ For which of you wants to build a tower and does not first sit down to calculate the expense, to see if he has enough money to complete it? — ²⁹ in case, after he has laid the foundation and then is unable to finish the building, all the spectators start to make fun of him, ³⁰ saying, 'This fellow started to build but he could not finish it.' ³¹ Or what king sets out to fight against another king without first sitting down to deliberate whether with ten thousand men he can encounter the king who is attacking him with twenty thousand? ³² If he cannot, when the other is still at a distance he will send an embassy to do homage to him. ³³ So with everyone of you who will not part with all his goods he cannot be a disciple of mine.

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

³³ My dear children, I am only to be with you a little longer; then you will look for me, and, as I told the Jews I tell you now, where I go you cannot come.

³⁶ "Lord," said Simon Peter, "where are you going?" Jesus replied, "I am going where you cannot follow me at present; later on you will follow me."

⁴ I have told you all this, so that when the time for it arrives, you may remember what I said to you. I did not tell you about this at the beginning, because I was with you then;

²⁴ Father, it is my will that these, thy gift to me, may be beside me where I am, to behold my glory which thou hast given me, because thou lovedst me before the foundation of the world.

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

¹ I know that if this earthly tent of mine is taken down, I get a home from God, made by no human hands, eternal in the heavens.

⁹ for God destined us not for Wrath but to gain salvation through our Lord Jesus Christ,

⁴ So much so, that throughout the churches of God we are proud of you, proud of the stedfastness and faith you display through all the persecutions and the troubles in which you are involved. 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, 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).

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

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

⁸ By this the holy Spirit means that the way into the Holiest Presence was not disclosed so long as the first tent

²³ Now, while the copies of the heavenly things had to be cleansed with sacrifices like these, the heavenly things themselves required nobler sacrifices. 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. ²⁵ Nor was it to offer himself repeatedly, like the high priest entering the holy place every year with blood that was not his own: — 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.

¹⁰ he was waiting for the City with its fixed foundations, whose builder and maker is God.

¹⁴ Now people who speak in this way plainly show they are in search of a fatherland. ¹⁵ If they thought of the land they have left behind, they would have time to go back, ¹⁶ but they really aspire to the better land in heaven. That is why God is not ashamed to be called their God; he has prepared a City for them.)

¹⁴ (for we have no lasting city here below, we seek the City to come).

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

¹² 'As for the conqueror, I will make him a pillar in the temple of my God (nevermore shall he leave it), and I will inscribe on him the name of my God, the name of the city of my God (the new Jerusalem which descends out of heaven from my God), and my own new name.'

²¹ 'The conqueror I will allow to sit beside me on my throne, as I myself have conquered and sat down beside my Father on his throne.'

² And I saw the holy City, the new Jerusalem, descending from God out of heaven, all ready like a bride arrayed for her husband.

¹⁰ So he carried me off, rapt in the Spirit, to a huge, high mountain, where he showed me the City, the holy Jerusalem, descending from God out of heaven, ¹¹ with the glory of God. The sheen of it resembled some rare jewel like jasper, clear as crystal; ¹² it has a huge, high wall with twelve gates, twelve angels at the twelve gates, and names inscribed thereon which are the names of the twelve tribes of the sons of Israel, ¹³ three gates on the east, three gates on the north, three gates on the south, and three gates on the west. ¹⁴ And the wall of the City has twelve foundation-stones, bearing the twelve names of the twelve apostles of the Lamb. ¹⁵ He who talked to me had a golden wand by way of a measuring-rod, to measure the City and its gates and wall; ¹⁶ the City lies foursquare, the length the same as the breadth, and he measured fifteen hundred miles with his rod for the City, for its breadth and length and height alike; ¹⁷ he made the measure of the wall seventy-two yards, by human, that is, by angelic reckoning. ¹⁸ The material of the wall is jasper, but the City is made of pure gold, transparent like glass. ¹⁹ The foundation-stones of the city-wall are adorned with all sorts of precious stones, the first foundation-stone being of jasper, the second of sapphire, the third of agate, the fourth of emerald, ²⁰ the fifth of onyx, the sixth of sardius, the seventh of chrysolite, the eighth of beryl, the ninth of topaz, the tenth of chrysoprase, the eleventh of jacinth, the twelfth of amethyst. ²¹ The twelve gates are twelve pearls, each gate made of a single pearl; and the streets of the City are pure gold, clear as crystal. ²² But I saw no temple in the City, for its temple is the Lord God almighty and the Lamb. 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. ²⁴ By its light will the nations walk; and into it will the kings of earth bring their glories ²⁵ (the gates of it will never be shut by day, and night there shall be none), ²⁶ they will bring to it the glories and treasures of the nations. ²⁷ Nothing profane, none who practises abomination or falsehood shall enter, but those alone whose names are written in the Lamb's book of Life.

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.

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

¹⁸ I will not leave you forlorn; I am coming to you. ¹⁹ A little while longer and the world will see me no more; but you will see me, because I am living and you will be living too. ²⁰ You will understand, on that day, that I am in my Father and you are in me and I am in you. ²¹ He who possesses my commands and obeys them is he who loves me, and he who loves me will be loved by my Father, and I will love him and appear to him." ²² "Lord," said Judas (not Judas Iscariot), "why is it that you are to appear to us, and not to the world?" 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.

²⁸ You heard me tell you I was going away and coming back to you; if you loved me, you would rejoice that I am going to the Father — for the Father is greater than I am.

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."

⁵⁹ So they stoned Stephen, who called on the Lord, saying, "Lord Jesus, receive my spirit!" 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.

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

⁶ Come what may, then, I am confident; I know that while I reside in the body I am away from the Lord ⁷ (for I have to lead my life in faith, without seeing him): ⁸ and in this confidence I would fain get away from the body and reside with the Lord.

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.

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; ¹⁷ then we the living, who survive, will be caught up along with them in the clouds to meet the Lord in the air, and so we shall be with the Lord for ever.

¹² so that the name of our Lord Jesus may be glorified in you (and you glorified in him), by the grace of our God and the Lord Jesus Christ.

¹² if we endure, then we shall reign with him, if we disown him, then he shall disown us,

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.

² We are children of God now, beloved; what we are to be is not apparent yet, but we do know that when he appears, we are to be like him — for we are to see him as he is. ³ And everyone who rests this hope on him, purifies himself as he is pure.

²² But I saw no temple in the City, for its temple is the Lord God almighty and the Lamb. 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.

³ None who is accursed will be there; but the throne of God and the Lamb will be within it, his servants will serve and worship him, ⁴ they will see his face, and his name will be on their foreheads. ⁵ Night there shall be none; they need no lamp or sun to shine upon them, for the Lord God will illumine them; and they will reign for ever and ever.

²⁶ Had not the Christ to suffer thus and so enter his glory?"

¹⁶ For God loved the world so dearly that he gave up his only Son, so that everyone who believes in him may have eternal life, instead of perishing. ¹⁷ God did not send his Son into the world to pass sentence on it, but to save the world by him.

³⁶ He who believes in the Son has eternal life, but he who disobeys the Son shall not see life — God's anger broods over him."

⁶⁸ Simon Peter answered him, "Lord, who are we to go to? You have got words of eternal life, ⁶⁹ and we believe, we are certain, that you are the holy One of God."

⁹ (I am the Gate; whoever enters by me will be saved, he will go in and out and find pasture.)

³ the Father had put everything into his hands — knowing that he had come from God and was going to God,

² In my Father's house there are many abodes; were it not so, would I have told you that I was going to prepare a place for you?

²⁸ From the Father I came and I entered the world; again, I leave the world and I go to the Father."

¹⁷ He noted this and said to them, "Why do you argue you have no bread? Do you not see, do you not understand, even yet? Are you still dull of heart? ¹⁸ You have eyes, do you not see? you have ears, do you not hear?

¹⁹ He answered them, "O faithless generation, how long must I still be with you? how long have I to bear with you? Bring him to me."

²⁵ He said to them, "O foolish men, with hearts so slow to believe, after all the prophets have declared!

¹⁶ Whereupon Thomas (called 'the Twin') said to his fellow-disciples, "Let us go too, let us die along with him!"

¹² This is my command: you are to love one another as I have loved you.

²⁵ and when the rest of the disciples told him, "We have seen the Lord," he said, "Unless I see his hands with the mark of the nails, and put my finger where the nails were, and put my hand into his side, I refuse to believe it." ²⁶ Eight days afterwards his disciples were together again, and Thomas with them. Though the doors were closed, Jesus entered and stood among them, saying, "Peace be with you!" ²⁷ Then he said to Thomas, "Look at my hands, put your finger here; and put your hand here into my side; cease your unbelief and believe." ²⁸ Thomas answered him, "My Lord and my God!"

¹¹ On this point I have a great deal to say, which it is hard to make intelligible to you. For you have grown dull of hearing. ¹² Though by this time you should be teaching other people, you still need someone to teach you once more the rudimentary principles of the divine revelation. You are in need of milk, not of solid food.

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

⁴ In him life lay, and this life was the Light for men:

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

¹⁷ while the Law was given through Moses, grace and reality are ours through Jesus Christ.

²¹ for as the Father raises the dead and makes them live, so the Son makes anyone live whom he chooses.

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. ²⁸ Do not wonder at this; for there is a time coming when all who are in the tombs will listen to his voice ²⁹ and come out, the doers of good to be raised to life, ill-doers to be raised for the sentence of judgment.

³³ for the bread of God is what comes down from heaven and gives life to the world."

⁵¹ I am the living bread which has come down from heaven; if anyone eats of this bread, he will live for ever; and more, the bread I will give is my flesh, given for the life of the world."

⁵⁷ Just as the living Father sent me and I live by the Father, so he who feeds on me will also live by me.

⁶⁸ Simon Peter answered him, "Lord, who are we to go to? You have got words of eternal life,

³² you will understand the truth, and the truth will set you free."

⁵¹ Truly, truly I tell you, if anyone holds to what I say, he will never see death."

⁷ so he said to them again, "Truly, truly I tell you, I am the shepherd of the sheep;

²⁸ and I give them eternal life; they will never perish, and no one will snatch them out of my hand.

²⁵ Jesus said to her, "I am myself resurrection and life: he who believes in me will live, even if he dies, ²⁶ and no one who lives and believes in me will ever die. You believe that?"

¹⁹ A little while longer and the world will see me no more; but you will see me, because I am living and you will be living too.

¹ [Chapters 15 & 16 are placed in the middle of verse 13:31] "I am the real Vine, and my Father is the vine-dresser;

² since thou hast granted him power over all flesh to give eternal life to all whom thou hast given to him. ³ And this is eternal life, that they know thee, the only real God, and him whom thou hast sent, even Jesus Christ.

³⁷ "So you are a king?" said Pilate, "you!" "Certainly," said Jesus, "I am a king. This is why I was born, this is why I came into the world, to bear testimony to the truth. Everyone who belongs to the truth listens to my voice."

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

¹² There is no salvation by anyone else, nor even a second Name under heaven appointed for us men and our salvation."

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

²¹ so that, while sin had reigned the reign of death, grace might also reign with a righteousness that ends in life eternal through Jesus Christ our Lord.

⁸ Christ, I mean, became a servant to the circumcised in order to prove God's honesty by fulfilling His promises to the fathers, ⁹ and also in order that the Gentiles should glorify God for His mercy — as it is written, Therefore will I offer praise to Thee among the Gentiles, and sing to thy name;

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

⁴⁵ Thus it is written, 'The first man, Adam, became an animate being, the last Adam a life-giving Spirit';

¹⁹ for the Son of God, Jesus Christ, who was proclaimed among you by us (by myself and Silvanus and Timotheus) was not 'yes and no' — the divine 'yes' has at last sounded in him, ²⁰ for in him is the 'yes' that affirms all the promises of God. Hence it is through him that we affirm our 'amen' in worship, to the glory of God.

¹⁸ for it is through him that we both enjoy our access to the Father in one Spirit.

⁹ It is in Christ that the entire Fulness of deity has settled bodily,

¹⁷ All that is the mere shadow of what is to be; the substance belongs to Christ.

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

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

¹⁹ Brothers, since we have confidence to enter the holy Presence in virtue of the blood of Jesus, ²⁰ by the fresh, living way which he has inaugurated for us through the veil (that is, through his flesh), ²¹ and since we have a great Priest over the house of God, ²² let us draw near with a true heart, in absolute assurance of faith, our hearts sprinkled clean from a bad conscience, and our bodies washed in pure water;

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

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.

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

⁸ If we say, 'We are not guilty,' we are deceiving ourselves and the truth is not in us;

²³ No one who disowns the Son can possess the Father: he who confesses the Son possesses the Father as well.

⁶ Jesus Christ, he it is who came by water, blood, and Spirit — not by the water alone, but by the water and the blood.

²⁰ We know that the Son of God has come, and has given us insight to know Him who is the Real God; and we are in Him who is real, even in his Son Jesus Christ. This is the real God, this is life eternal.

⁹ Anyone who is 'advanced' and will not remain by the doctrine of Christ, does not possess God: he who remains by the doctrine of Christ possesses both the Father and the Son.

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

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.

⁸ And when it took the scroll, the four living Creatures and the four and twenty Presbyters fell down before the Lamb, each with his harp and with golden bowls full of incense (that is, full of the prayers of the saints), ⁹ singing a new song: "Thou deservest to take the scroll and open its seals, for thou wast slain and by shedding thy blood hast ransomed for God men from every tribe and tongue and people and nation;

⁹ After that I looked, and there was a great host whom no one could count, from every nation and tribe and people and tongue, standing before the throne and before the Lamb, clad in white robes, with palm-branches in their hands; ¹⁰ and they cried with a loud voice, "Saved by our God who is seated on the throne, and by the Lamb!" ¹¹ And all the angels surrounded the throne and the Presbyters and the four living Creatures, and fell on their faces before the throne, worshipping God ¹² and crying, "Even so! Blessing and glory and wisdom and thanksgiving and honour and power and might be to our God for ever and ever: Amen!" ¹³ Then one of the Presbyters addressed me, saying, "Who are these, clad in white robes? where have they come from?" ¹⁴ I said to him, "You know, my lord." So he told me, "These are the people who have come out of the great Distress, who washed their robes and made them white in the blood of the Lamb. ¹⁵ For this they are now before the throne of God, serving him day and night within his temple. and he who is seated on the throne shall overshadow them. ¹⁶ Never again will they hunger, never again will they thirst, never shall the sun strike them, nor any scorching heat;" ¹⁷ for the Lamb in the midst of the throne will be their shepherd, guiding them to fountains of living water; and God will wipe every tear from their eyes."

⁷ He was allowed to wage war on the saints and to conquer them, and given authority over every tribe and people and tongue and nation; ⁸ and all the dwellers on earth will be his worshippers, everyone whose name has not been written from the foundation of the world in the book of Life.

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.

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.

¹ Then he showed me the river of the water of Life, bright as crystal, flowing from the throne of God and of the Lamb

¹⁷ "Come," say the Spirit and the Bride: let the hearer too say, "Come"; and let the thirsty come, let anyone who desires it, take the water of Life without price.

²² "All has been handed over to me by my Father: and no one knows who the Son is except the Father, or who the Father is except the Son, and he to whom the Son chooses to reveal him."

¹⁸ Nobody has ever seen God, but God has been unfolded by the divine One, the only Son, who lies upon the Father's breast.

⁴⁶ Not that anyone has seen the Father — he only, who is from God, he has seen the Father.

¹⁹ "Where is your Father?" they said. Jesus replied, "You know neither me nor my Father; if you had known me you would have known my Father also."

⁹ Jesus said to him, "Philip, have I been with you all this time, and yet you do not understand me? He who has seen me has seen the Father. What do you mean by saying, 'Let us see the Father'? ¹⁰ Do you not believe I am in the Father and the Father is in me? The words I speak to you all I do not speak of my own accord; it is the Father who remains ever in me, who is performing his own deeds.

¹⁶ and I will ask the Father to give you another Helper to be with you for ever, ¹⁷ even the Spirit of truth: the world cannot receive him, because it neither sees nor knows him, but you know him, because he remains with you and will be within you. ¹⁸ I will not leave you forlorn; I am coming to you. ¹⁹ A little while longer and the world will see me no more; but you will see me, because I am living and you will be living too. ²⁰ You will understand, on that day, that I am in my Father and you are in me and I am in you.

²⁴ They would not be guilty, if I had not done deeds among them such as no one has ever done; but, as it is, they have seen — and they have hated — both me and my Father.

¹³ However, when the Spirit of truth comes, he will lead you into all the truth; for he will not speak of his own accord, he will say whatever he is told, and he will disclose to you what is to come. ¹⁴ He will glorify me, for he will draw upon what is mine and disclose it to you. ¹⁵ All that the Father has is mine; that is why I say, 'he will draw upon what is mine and disclose it to you.' ¹⁶ In a little while, you will behold me no longer; then, after a little, you shall see me."

³ And this is eternal life, that they know thee, the only real God, and him whom thou hast sent, even Jesus Christ.

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.

⁸ for I have given them the words thou gavest me, and they have received them; they are now sure that I came from thee and believe that thou didst send me.

²¹ may they all be one! As thou, Father, art in me and I in thee, so may they be in us — that the world may believe thou hast sent me.

²³ I in them and thou in me — that they may be made perfectly one, so that the world may recognize that thou hast sent me and hast loved them as thou hast loved me.

²⁶ so have I declared, so will I declare, thy Name to them, that the love with which thou hast loved me may be in them, and I in them."

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.

¹⁵ He is the likeness of the unseen God, born first before all the creation — 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 May their hearts be encouraged! May they learn the meaning of love! May they have all the wealth of conviction that comes from insight! May they learn to know that open secret of God, the Father of Christ, ³ in whom all the treasures of wisdom and knowledge lie hidden!

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 fathers, I am writing to you, because you know him who is from the very beginning: young men, I am writing to you, because you have conquered the evil One. Children, I have written to you, because you know the Father:

⁸ Blessed are the pure in heart! they will see God.

⁴³ Next day Jesus determined to leave for Galilee; there he met Philip and told him, "Follow me." ⁴⁴ Now Philip belonged to Bethsaida, the same town as Andrew and Peter; ⁴⁵ he met Nathanael and told him, "We have found him whom Moses wrote about in the Law, and also the prophets — it is Jesus, the son of Joseph, who comes from Nazaret." ⁴⁶ "Nazaret!" said Nathanael, "can anything good come out of Nazaret?" "Come and see," said Philip.

⁵ On looking up and seeing a large crowd approaching, he said to Philip, "Where are we to buy bread for all these people to eat?" ⁶ (He said this to test Philip, for he knew what he was going to do himself.) ⁷ Philip answered, "Seven pounds' worth of bread would not be enough for them, for everybody to get even a morsel."

²¹ they came to Philip of Bethsaida in Galilee and appealed to him, saying, "Sir, we want to see Jesus." ²² Philip went and told Andrew; Andrew and Philip went and told Jesus.

²⁵ I have told you this in figures, but the time is coming when I shall speak to you in figures no longer; I shall let you know plainly about the Father.

⁵⁶ You hypocrites, you know how to decipher the look of earth and sky; how is it you cannot decipher the meaning of this era?

³⁰ I and my Father are one — ."

⁴⁵ and he who beholds me beholds him who sent me.

⁷ If you knew me, you would know my Father too. You know him now and you have seen him."

²⁰ You will understand, on that day, that I am in my Father and you are in me and I am in you.

¹² Now if we preach that Christ rose from the dead, how can certain individuals among you assert that 'there is no such thing as a resurrection of the dead'?

⁶ Though he was divine by nature, he did not set store upon equality with God

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

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.

³² He] is testifying to what he has seen and heard, and yet no one accepts his testimony. ³³ Whoever does accept it, certifies to the truth of God. ³⁴ For he whom God has sent utters the words of God — God gives him the Spirit in no sparing measure;

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

¹⁹ So Jesus made this answer to them: "Truly, truly I tell you, the Son can do nothing of his own accord, nothing but what he sees the Father doing; for whatever he does, the Son also does the same.

³⁸ for I have come down from heaven not to carry out my own will but the will of him who sent me, ³⁹ and the will of him who sent me is that I lose none of those who are his gift to me, but that I raise them all up on the last day. ⁴⁰ It is the will of my Father that everyone who sees the Son and believes in him should possess eternal life, and that I should raise him up on the last day."

¹⁶ Jesus told them in reply, "My teaching is not my own but his who sent me;

²⁸ So Jesus cried aloud, as he was teaching in the temple, "You know me? you know where I come from? But I have not come on my own initiative; I am sent, and sent by Him who is real. You do not know Him, ²⁹ but I know Him, because I have come from Him and He sent me."

²⁸ so Jesus said, "When you have lifted up the Son of man, you will know then who I am, and that I do nothing of my own accord, but speak as the Father has taught me.

³⁸ I speak of what I have seen with my Father, and you act as you have learned from your father."

⁴⁰ but now you want to kill me — to kill a man who has told you the truth, the truth I have learned from God. Abraham did not do that.

³⁸ but if I am, then believe the deeds, though you will not believe me — that you may learn and understand that the Father is in me and I am in the Father."

²⁶ and no one who lives and believes in me will ever die. You believe that?"

⁴⁹ for I have not spoken of my own accord — the Father who sent me, he it was who ordered me what to say and what to speak.

²¹ may they all be one! As thou, Father, art in me and I in thee, so may they be in us — that the world may believe thou hast sent me. ²² Yea, I have given them the glory thou gavest me, that they may be one as we are one — ²³ I in them and thou in me — that they may be made perfectly one, so that the world may recognize that thou hast sent me and hast loved them as thou hast loved me.

³⁸ how God consecrated Jesus of Nazaret with the holy Spirit and power, and how he went about doing good and curing all who were harassed by the devil; for God was with him.

¹⁹ For in Christ God reconciled the world to himself instead of counting men's trespasses against them; and he entrusted me with the message of his reconciliation.

¹⁹ For it was in him that the divine Fulness willed to settle without limit,

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

⁴ Jesus answered them, "Go and report to John what you hear and see: ⁵ the blind see, the lame walk, lepers are cleansed, the deaf hear, and the dead are raised.

²¹ Jesus at that moment was healing many people of diseases and complaints and evil spirits; he also bestowed sight on many blind folk. ²² So he replied, "Go and report to John what you have seen and heard; that the blind see, the lame walk, lepers are cleansed, the deaf hear, the dead are raised, and to the poor the gospel is preached. ²³ And blessed is he who is repelled by nothing in me!"

³⁶ But I possess a testimony greater than that of John, for the deeds which the Father has granted me to accomplish, the very deeds on which I am engaged, are my testimony that the Father has sent me.

²⁵ Jesus replied, "I have told you, but you do not believe; the deeds I do in the name of my Father testify to me, but you do not believe,

³² Jesus replied, "I have let you see many a good deed of God; for which of them do you mean to stone me?"

³⁸ that the word spoken by the prophet Isaiah might be fulfilled: Lord, who has believed what they heard from us, And to whom has the arm of the Lord been revealed? ³⁹ This was why they could not believe; for Isaiah again said, ⁴⁰ He has blinded their eyes and made their hearts insensible, to prevent them seeing with their eyes and understanding with their hearts and turning for me to cure them.

¹⁰ Do you not believe I am in the Father and the Father is in me? The words I speak to you all I do not speak of my own accord; it is the Father who remains ever in me, who is performing his own deeds.

²² Men of Israel, listen to my words. Jesus the Nazarene, a man accredited to you by God through miracles, wonders, and signs which God performed by him among you (as you yourselves know),

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

²¹ Jesus answered, "I tell you truly, if you have faith, if you have no doubt, you will not only do what has been done to the fig tree but even if you say to this hill, 'Take and throw yourself into the sea,' it will be done.

¹³ and noticing a fig tree in leaf some distance away he went to see if he could find anything on it; but when he reached it he found nothing but leaves, for it was not the time for figs.

¹⁷ And for those who believe, these miracles will follow: they will cast out daemons in my name, they will talk in foreign tongues,

¹⁷ The seventy came back with joy. "Lord," they said, "the very daemons obey us in your name." ¹⁸ He said to them, "Yes, I watched Satan fall from heaven like a flash of lightning. ¹⁹ I have indeed given you the power of treading on serpents and scorpions and of trampling down all the power of the Enemy; nothing shall injure you.

³³ Then said Jesus, "I will be with you a little longer, then I go to Him who sent me;

³⁹ (he meant by this the Spirit which those who believed in him were to receive: — as yet there was no Spirit, because Jesus had not been glorified yet).

⁷ Yet — I am telling you the truth — my going is for your good. If I do not depart, the Helper will not come to you; whereas if I go, I will send him to you.

⁴ and they were all filled with the holy Spirit — they began to speak in foreign tongues, as the Spirit enabled them to express themselves. ⁵ Now there were devout Jews from every nation under heaven staying in Jerusalem. ⁶ So when this sound was heard, the multitude gathered in bewilderment, for each heard them speaking in his own language. ⁷ All were amazed and astonished. "Are these not all Galileans," they said, "who are speaking? ⁸ Then how is it that each of us hears them in his own native tongue? ⁹ Parthians, Medes, Elamites, residents in Mesopotamia, in Judaea and Cappadocia, in Pontus and Asia, ¹⁰ in Phrygia and Pamphylia, in Egypt and the districts of Libya round Cyrene, visitors from Rome, Jews and proselytes, ¹¹ Cretans and Arabians, we hear these men talking of the triumphs of God in our own languages!"

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

⁴¹ So those who accepted what he said were baptized; about three thousand souls were brought in, that day.

⁶ But Peter said, "I have no silver or gold, but I will give you what I do have. In the name of Jesus Christ the Nazarene, [get up and] walk!" ⁷ And catching him by the right hand he raised him. Instantly his feet and ankles grew strong, ⁸ he leapt to his feet, started to walk, and accompanied them into the temple, walking, leaping, and praising God.

⁴ (A number of those who heard them speak believed, bringing up their numbers to [about] five thousand.)

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. 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."

¹⁶ "What are we to do with these men?" they said. "It is plain to all the inhabitants of Jerusalem that a miracle has admittedly been worked by them. That we cannot deny.

³³ the apostles gave their testimony to the resurrection of the Lord Jesus with great power, and great grace was upon them all.

¹⁵ In fact, invalids were actually carried into the streets and laid on beds and mattresses, so that, when Peter passed, his shadow at anyrate might fall on one or other of them.

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

⁷ For unclean spirits came screaming and shrieking out of many who had been possessed, and many paralytics and lame people were healed.

³⁴ "Aeneas," said Peter, "Jesus the Christ cures you! Get up and make your bed!" He got up at once.

⁴⁰ Peter put them all outside; then he knelt down and prayed, and turning to the body said, "Tabitha, rise." She opened her eyes, and on seeing Peter she sat up.

⁴⁶ for they heard them speak with 'tongues' and magnify God. At this Peter asked,

¹⁸ She did this for a number of days. Then Paul turned in annoyance and told the spirit, "In the name of Jesus Christ I order you out of her!" And it left her that very moment.

¹² people even carried away towels or aprons he had used, and at their touch sick folk were freed from their diseases and evil spirits came out of them.

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

¹⁰ one has prophecy, another the gift of distinguishing spirits, another the gift of 'tongues' in their variety, another the gift of interpreting 'tongues.' ¹¹ But all these effects are produced by one and the same Spirit, apportioning them severally to each individual as he pleases.

⁷ Ask and the gift will be yours, seek and you will find, knock and the door will open to you;

²² All that ever you ask in prayer you shall have, if you believe."

²⁴ So I tell you, whatever you pray for and ask, believe you have got it and you shall have it.

⁹ So I tell you, ask and the gift will be yours, seek and you will find, knock and the door will open to you;

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."

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

³⁷ Now on the last day, the great day, of the festival, Jesus stood and cried aloud, "If anyone is athirst, let him come to me and drink;

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

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

¹⁴ I will do whatever you ask me in my name.

⁷ If you remain in me and my words remain in you, then ask whatever you like and you shall have it.

¹⁶ You have not chosen me, it is I who have chosen you, appointing you to go and bear fruit — fruit that lasts, so that the Father may grant you whatever you ask in my name.

²³ And on that day you will not ask me any questions. Truly, truly I tell you, whatever you ask the Father, he will give you in my name;

²⁶ On that day you will ask in my name, and I do not say to you I will ask the Father on your behalf;

⁴ I have glorified thee on earth by accomplishing the work thou gavest me to do; ⁵ now, Father, glorify me in thy presence with the glory which I enjoyed in thy presence before the world began.

⁸ three times over I prayed the Lord to make it leave me,

¹² through whom, as we have faith in him, we enjoy our confidence of free access.

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

²⁰ Now to him who by the action of his power within us can do all things, aye far more than we ever ask or imagine, ²¹ to him be glory in the church and in Christ Jesus throughout all generations for ever and ever: Amen.

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

¹³ In him who strengthens me I am able for anything.

¹⁷ Indeed, whatever you say or do, let everything be done in dependence on the Lord Jesus, giving thanks in his name to God the Father.

¹⁵ for ours is no high priest who is incapable of sympathizing with our weaknesses, but one who has been tempted in every respect like ourselves, yet without sinning.

¹⁵ And by him let us constantly offer praise to God as our sacrifice, that is, the fruit of lips that celebrate his Name.

⁵ Whoever of you is defective in wisdom, let him ask God who gives to all men without question or reproach, and the gift will be his.

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.

⁵ come and, like living stones yourselves, be built into a spiritual house, to form a consecrated priesthood for the offering of those spiritual sacrifices that are acceptable to God through Jesus Christ.

²² and we get from him whatever we ask, because we obey his commands and do what is pleasing in his sight.

¹⁴ Now the confidence we have in him is this, that he listens to us whenever we ask anything in accordance with his will;

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

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.'

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

²¹ He who possesses my commands and obeys them is he who loves me, and he who loves me will be loved by my Father, and I will love him and appear to him." ²² "Lord," said Judas (not Judas Iscariot), "why is it that you are to appear to us, and not to the world?" 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. ²⁴ He who does not love me does not obey my word; and what you hear me say is not my word but the word of the Father who sent me.

¹⁰ If you keep my commands you will remain within my love, just as I have kept my Father's commands and remain within his love. ¹¹ I have told you this, that my joy may be within you and your joy complete. ¹² This is my command: you are to love one another as I have loved you. ¹³ To lay life down for his friends, man has no greater love than that. ¹⁴ You are my friends — if you do what I command you;

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

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

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

⁸ I am not issuing any orders, only using the zeal of others to prove how sterling your own love is. ⁹ (You know how gracious our Lord Jesus Christ was; rich though he was, he became poor for the sake of you, that by his poverty you might be rich.)

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

¹⁶ praying Him out of the wealth of his glory to grant you a mighty increase of strength by his Spirit in the inner man. ¹⁷ May Christ dwell in your hearts as you have faith! ¹⁸ May you be so fixed and founded in love that you can grasp with all the saints what is the meaning of 'the Breadth,' 'the Length,' 'the Depth' and 'the Height,'

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

²⁰ my eager desire and hope being that I may never feel ashamed but that now as ever I may do honour to Christ in my own person by fearless courage. Whether that means life or death, no matter! ²¹ As life means Christ to me, so death means gain. ²² But then, if it is to be life here below, that means fruitful work for me. So — well, I cannot tell which to choose; 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.

⁷ But for Christ's sake I have learned to count my former gains a loss; ⁸ indeed I count anything a loss, compared to the supreme value of knowing Christ Jesus my Lord. For his sake I have lost everything (I count it all the veriest refuse) in order to gain Christ ⁹ and be found at death in him, possessing no legal righteousness of my own but the righteousness of faith in Christ, the divine righteousness that rests on faith. ¹⁰ I would know him in the power of his resurrection and the fellowship of his sufferings, with my nature transformed to die as he died, ¹¹ to see if I too can attain the resurrection from the dead.

⁸ You never knew him, but you love him; for the moment you do not see him, but you believe in him, and you will thrill with an unspeakable and glorious joy

³ This is how we may be sure we know him, by obeying his commands. ⁴ He who says, 'I know him,' but does not obey his commands, is a liar and the truth is not in him; ⁵ but whoever obeys his word, in him love to God is really complete. This is how we may be sure we are in him:

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

² This is how we are sure that we love God's children, by loving God and obeying his commands ³ (for love to God means keeping his commands). And his commands are not irksome,

⁶ To live by his commands, that is what love means: and the command is, live in love as you have learned to do from the very beginning.

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."

¹⁸ I will not leave you forlorn; I am coming to you.

²⁶ but the Helper, the holy Spirit whom the Father will send in my name, will teach you everything and recall to you everything I have said.

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

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

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

²⁶ On that day you will ask in my name, and I do not say to you I will ask the Father on your behalf; ²⁷ for the Father loves you himself, because you have loved me and believed that I came forth from God.

⁹ I pray for them — not for the world but for those whom thou hast given me do I pray; for they are thine ¹⁰ (all mine is thine and thine is mine), and I am glorified in them. ¹¹ I am to be in the world no longer, but they are to be in the world; I come to thee. Holy Father, keep them by the power of thy Name which thou hast given me, that they may be one as we are one.

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

²⁰ Nor do I pray for them alone, but for all who believe in me by their spoken word;

³¹ Now, all over Judaea, Galilee, and Samaria, the church enjoyed peace; it was consolidated, inspired by reverence for the Lord and by its invocation of the holy Spirit, and so increased in numbers.

⁵² As for the disciples, they were filled with joy and the holy Spirit.

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

¹⁵ You have received no slavish spirit that would make you relapse into fear; you have received the Spirit of sonship. And when we cry, "Abba! Father!", ¹⁶ it is this Spirit testifying along with our own spirit that we are children of God;

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.

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!

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

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

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

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

¹ So by all the stimulus of Christ, by every incentive of love, by all your participation in the Spirit, by all your affectionate tenderness,

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

¹⁶ And may our Lord Jesus Christ himself and God our Father who has loved us and given us eternal encouragement and good hope,

¹ My dear children, I am writing this to you that you may not sin; but if anyone does sin, we have an advocate with the Father in Jesus Christ the just;

²⁰ for you are not the speakers, it is the Spirit of your Father that is speaking through you.

¹⁶ and I will ask the Father to give you another Helper to be with you for ever,

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.

¹³ However, when the Spirit of truth comes, he will lead you into all the truth; for he will not speak of his own accord, he will say whatever he is told, and he will disclose to you what is to come.

⁹ But you are not in the flesh, you are in the Spirit, since the Spirit of God dwells within you. Anyone who does not possess the Spirit of Christ does not belong to Him. ¹⁰ On the other hand, if Christ is within you, though the body is a dead thing owing to Adam's sin, the spirit is living as the result of righteousness. 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.

¹³ If you live by the flesh, you are on the road to death; but if by the Spirit you put the actions of the body to death, you will live. ¹⁴ For the sons of God are those who are guided by the Spirit of God.

¹⁴ The unspiritual man rejects these truths of the Spirit of God; to him they are 'sheer folly,' he cannot understand them. And the reason is, that they must be read with the spiritual eye.

¹⁶ Do you not know you are God's temple and that God's Spirit dwells within you?

¹⁹ Do you not know your body is the temple of the holy Spirit within you — the Spirit you have received from God? You are not your own,

¹⁵ Very well then, I will pray in the Spirit, but I will also pray with my mind; I will sing praise in the Spirit, but I will also sing praise with my mind.

¹⁶ What compact can there be between God's temple and idols? For we are the temple of the living God — as God has said, I will dwell and move among them, I will be their God and they shall be my people.

⁵ Put yourselves to the proof, not me; test yourselves, to see if you are in the faith. Do you not understand that Christ Jesus is within you? Otherwise you must be failures.

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

²² and in him you are yourselves built into this to form a habitation for God in the Spirit.

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

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.

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

²⁷ but the unction you received from him remains within you, and you really need no teaching from anyone; simply remain in him, for his unction teaches you about everything and is true and is no lie — remain in him, as it has taught you to do.

²⁴ he who obeys his commands remains within him — and He remains within him. And this is how we may be sure he remains within us, by means of the Spirit he has given us.

⁴ My dear children, you belong to God, and you have conquered all such, for He who is within you is greater than he who is in the world.

⁶ we belong to God — he who knows God listens to us, he who does not belong to God does not listen to us. This is how we recognize the spirit of truth and the spirit of error.

¹² God no one has ever seen; but if we love one another, then God remains within us, and love for him is complete in us. ¹³ This is how we may be sure we remain in him and he in us, because he has given us a share in his own Spirit;

¹⁷ Let anyone who has an ear listen to what the Spirit says to the churches: 'The conqueror I will allow to share the hidden manna, and I will give him a white stone inscribed with a new name, unknown to any except him who receives it.'

²⁰ For where two or three have gathered in my name, I am there among them."

³ And when I go and prepare a place for you, I will come back and take you to be with me, so that you may be where I am.

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

² grace and peace to you from God our Father and the Lord Jesus Christ. ³ Blessed be the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, the Father of tender mercies and the God of all comfort, ⁴ who comforts me in all my distress, so that I am able to comfort people who are in any distress by the comfort with which I myself am comforted by God. ⁵ For as the sufferings of Christ are abundant in my case, so my comfort is also abundant through Christ. ⁶ If I am in distress, it is in the interests of your comfort and salvation; if I am comforted, it is in the interests of your comfort, which is effective as it nerves you to endure the same sufferings as I suffer myself.

¹⁸ It is as he suffered by his temptations that he is able to help the tempted.

⁵⁶ He who feeds on my flesh and drinks my blood remains within me, as I remain within him. ⁵⁷ Just as the living Father sent me and I live by the Father, so he who feeds on me will also live by me. ⁵⁸ Such is the bread which has come down from heaven: your ancestors ate their bread and died, but he who feeds on this bread will live for ever."

²¹ Then he said to them again, "I go away, and you will search for me, but you will die in your sin; where I go, you cannot come."

²⁵ Jesus said to her, "I am myself resurrection and life: he who believes in me will live, even if he dies,

³⁵ Then Jesus said to them, "The Light will shine among you for a little longer yet; walk while you have the Light, that the darkness may not overtake you. He who walks in the dark does not know where he is going.

¹⁶ In a little while, you will behold me no longer; then, after a little, you shall see me."

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

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

¹⁰ wherever I go, I am being killed in the body as Jesus was, so that the life of Jesus may come out in my body: ¹¹ every day of my life I am being given over to death for Jesus' sake, so that the life of Jesus may come out within my mortal flesh. ¹² In me then death is active, in you life.

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 ² (the Life has appeared; we saw it, we testify to it, we bring you word of that eternal Life which existed with the Father and was disclosed to us) — ³ it is of what we heard and saw that we bring you word, so that you may share our fellowship; and our fellowship is with the Father and with his Son Jesus Christ.

⁵⁶ He who feeds on my flesh and drinks my blood remains within me, as I remain within him.

⁵ I am the vine, you are the branches. He who remains in me, as I in him, bears rich fruit (because apart from me you can do nothing). ⁶ If anyone does not remain in me he is thrown aside like a branch and he withers up; then the branches are gathered and thrown into the fire to be burned. ⁷ If you remain in me and my words remain in you, then ask whatever you like and you shall have it.

⁷ They know now that whatever thou hast given me comes from thee,

¹¹ I am to be in the world no longer, but they are to be in the world; I come to thee. Holy Father, keep them by the power of thy Name which thou hast given me, that they may be one as we are one.

¹ Thus there is no doom now for those who are in Christ Jesus;

⁷ Salute Andronicus and Junias, fellow-countrymen and fellow-prisoners of mine; they are men of note among the apostles, and they have been in Christ longer than I have.

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

¹⁷ There is a new creation whenever a man comes to be in Christ; what is old is gone, the new has come.

² I know a man in Christ who fourteen years ago was caught up to the third heaven. In the body or out of the body? That I do not know: God knows.

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

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.

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

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

¹⁵ If you love me you will keep my commands,

⁹ As the Father has loved me, so I have loved you; remain within my love. ¹⁰ If you keep my commands you will remain within my love, just as I have kept my Father's commands and remain within his love.

¹⁴ You are my friends — if you do what I command you;

¹⁴ He will glorify me, for he will draw upon what is mine and disclose it to you.

²⁷ for the Father loves you himself, because you have loved me and believed that I came forth from God.

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 So he settled there for a year and six months, teaching them the word of God.

¹⁸ and saw Him saying to me, 'Make haste, leave Jerusalem quickly, for they will not accept your evidence about me.'

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.

⁸ three times over I prayed the Lord to make it leave me,

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.

²² The Lord Jesus be with your spirit. Grace be with you all.

²³ and the scripture was fulfilled: Abraham believed God, and this was counted to him as righteousness — he was called God's friend. ²⁴ You observe it is by what he does that a man is justified, not simply by what he believes.

⁵ but whoever obeys his word, in him love to God is really complete. This is how we may be sure we are in him:

¹ 'Born of him!' Think what a love the Father has for us, in letting us be called 'children of God!' That is what we are. The world does not recognize us? That is simply because it did not recognize him.

¹⁸ My dear children, let us put our love not into words or into talk but into deeds, and make it real. ¹⁹ Thus it is that we may be sure we belong to the truth and reassure ourselves ²⁰ whenever our heart condemns us; for God is greater than our heart, and he knows all. ²¹ If our heart does not condemn us, beloved, then we have confidence in approaching God, ²² and we get from him whatever we ask, because we obey his commands and do what is pleasing in his sight. ²³ Now this is what he commands, that we believe in the name of his Son Jesus Christ, and love one another as he has commanded us to do; ²⁴ he who obeys his commands remains within him — and He remains within him. And this is how we may be sure he remains within us, by means of the Spirit he has given us.

³ (for love to God means keeping his commands). And his commands are not irksome,

²⁰ Lo, I stand at the door and knock; if anyone hears my voice and opens the door, I will come in and sup with him, and he with me.

¹⁴ Blessed are those who wash their robes, that theirs may be the right to the tree of Life, the right to enter the gates of the City!

³ Philip and Bartholomew, Thomas and Matthew the taxgatherer, James the son of Alphaeus and Lebbaeus whose surname is Thaddaeus,

¹⁸ Andrew, Philip, Bartholomew, Matthew, Thomas, James the son of Alphaeus, Thaddaeus, Simon the zealot,

¹⁶ Judas the son of James, and Judas Iscariot (who turned traitor).

⁴ Nicodemus said to him, "How can a man be born when he is old? Can he enter his mother's womb over again and be born?"

⁹ Nicodemus answered, "How can that be?"

¹¹ "Sir," said the woman, "you have nothing to draw water with, and it is a deep well; where do you get your 'living' water?

⁵² The Jews then wrangled with one another, saying, "How can he give us his flesh to eat?"

⁶⁰ Now many of his disciples, on hearing it, said, "This is hard to take in! Who can listen to talk like this?"

¹⁷ So some of his disciples said to one another, "What does he mean by telling us, 'In a little while, you will behold me no longer; then, after a little, you shall see me'? and, 'I go to the Father'?" ¹⁸ They said, "What is the meaning of 'In a little'? We do not understand what he is saying."

¹³ On entering the city they went to the upper room where they were in the habit of meeting; there were Peter, John, James, Andrew, Philip and Thomas, Bartholomew and Matthew, James (the son of Alphaeus) and Simon who had been a Zealot, with Judas the son of James.

⁴⁰ but God raised him on the third day, and allowed him to be seen ⁴¹ not by all the People but by witnesses whom God had previously selected, by us who ate and drank with him after his resurrection from the dead,

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:

¹⁷ The reply of Jesus was, "As my Father has continued working to this hour, so I work too." ¹⁸ But this only made the Jews more eager to kill him, because he not merely broke the sabbath but actually spoke of God as his own Father, thereby making himself equal to God. ¹⁹ So Jesus made this answer to them: "Truly, truly I tell you, the Son can do nothing of his own accord, nothing but what he sees the Father doing; for whatever he does, the Son also does the same.

¹⁷ even the Spirit of truth: the world cannot receive him, because it neither sees nor knows him, but you know him, because he remains with you and will be within you.

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

²⁴ Let that remain in you which you learned from the very beginning; if what you learned from the very beginning remains with you, then you will remain in the Son and in the Father.

¹⁵ Whoever confesses that 'Jesus is the Son of God,' in him God remains, and he remains in God; ¹⁶ well, we do know, we have believed, the love God has for us. God is love, and he who remains in love remains in God, and God remains in him.

²⁰ Lo, I stand at the door and knock; if anyone hears my voice and opens the door, I will come in and sup with him, and he with me. ²¹ 'The conqueror I will allow to sit beside me on my throne, as I myself have conquered and sat down beside my Father on his throne.'

²² But I saw no temple in the City, for its temple is the Lord God almighty and the Lamb.

³ None who is accursed will be there; but the throne of God and the Lamb will be within it, his servants will serve and worship him,

²¹ Jesus said to him, "If you want to be perfect, go and sell your property, give the money to the poor and you shall have treasure in heaven; then come and follow 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."

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

³⁸ his word you have not kept with you, because you do not believe him whom he sent.

²⁸ So Jesus cried aloud, as he was teaching in the temple, "You know me? you know where I come from? But I have not come on my own initiative; I am sent, and sent by Him who is real. You do not know Him,

²⁶ I have a great deal to say about you and many a judgment to pass upon you; but he who sent me is true, and so I tell the world what I have learned from him."

⁴⁴ And Jesus cried aloud, "He who believes in me believes not in me but in him who sent me, ⁴⁵ and he who beholds me beholds him who sent me. ⁴⁶ I have come as light into the world, that no one who believes in me may remain in the dark. ⁴⁷ If anyone hears my words and does not keep them, it is not I who judge him; for I have not come to judge the world but to save the world. ⁴⁸ He who rejects me and will not receive my words has indeed a judge: the word I have spoken will judge him on the last day, ⁴⁹ for I have not spoken of my own accord — the Father who sent me, he it was who ordered me what to say and what to speak. ⁵⁰ And I know his orders mean eternal life. Therefore when I speak, I speak as the Father has told me."

¹⁶ We know what love is by this, that He laid down his life for us; so we ought to lay down our lives for the brotherhood. ¹⁷ But whoever possesses this world's goods, and notices his brother in need, and shuts his heart against him, how can love to God remain in him? ¹⁸ My dear children, let us put our love not into words or into talk but into deeds, and make it real. ¹⁹ Thus it is that we may be sure we belong to the truth and reassure ourselves ²⁰ whenever our heart condemns us; for God is greater than our heart, and he knows all.

²⁹ I tell you this now, before it occurs, so that, when it does occur, you may believe.

¹¹ I have told you this, that my joy may be within you and your joy complete.

¹ I have told you all this, to keep you from being repelled. ² They will excommunicate you; indeed the time is coming when anyone who kills you will imagine he is performing a service to God. ³ This they will do to you, because they have not known the Father nor me. ⁴ I have told you all this, so that when the time for it arrives, you may remember what I said to you. I did not tell you about this at the beginning, because I was with you then;

¹² I have still much to say to you, but you cannot bear it just now.

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. ⁷ They know now that whatever thou hast given me comes from thee, ⁸ for I have given them the words thou gavest me, and they have received them; they are now sure that I came from thee and believe that thou didst send me.

¹⁸ The birth of [Jesus] Christ came about thus. His mother Mary was betrothed to Joseph, but before they came together she was discovered to be pregnant by the holy Spirit.

²⁰ but after he had planned this, there appeared an angel of the Lord to him in a dream saying, "Joseph, son of David, fear not to take Mary your wife home, for what is begotten in her comes from the holy Spirit.

¹¹ I baptize you with water for repentance, but he who is coming after me is mightier, and I am not fit even to carry his sandals; he will baptize you with the holy Spirit and fire.

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

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.'

¹¹ Now when they carry you off to trial, do not worry beforehand about what you are to say; say whatever comes to your lips at the moment, for he who speaks is not you but the holy Spirit.

¹⁵ for he shall be great in the sight of the Lord, he will drink neither wine nor strong drink, he will be filled with the holy Spirit from his very birth;

³⁵ The angel answered her, "The holy Spirit will come upon you, the power of the Most High will overshadow you; hence what is born will be called holy, Son of God.

⁴¹ and when Elizabeth heard the salutation of Mary, the babe leapt in her womb. Then Elizabeth was filled with the holy Spirit;

⁶⁷ And Zechariah his father was filled with the holy Spirit; he prophesied in these words,

²⁵ Now there was a man in Jerusalem called Symeon, an upright and devout man, who was on the outlook for the Consolation of Israel. The holy Spirit was upon him;

²² and the holy Spirit descended in bodily form like a dove upon him; and a voice came from heaven, "Thou art my son, the Beloved, to-day have I become thy father."

¹³ Well, if for all your evil you know to give your children what is good, how much more will your Father give the holy Spirit from heaven to those who ask him?"

⁴⁹ And I will send down on you what my Father has promised; wait in the city till you are endued with power from on high."

²² and when the disciples recalled what he had said, after he had been raised from the dead, they believed the scripture and the word of Jesus.

⁴⁵ In the prophets it is written, and they will be all instructed by God; everyone who has listened to the Father and learned from him, comes to me.

¹⁶ (His disciples did not understand this at first; but when Jesus was glorified, then they remembered this had been written of him and had happened to him.)

¹³ However, when the Spirit of truth comes, he will lead you into all the truth; for he will not speak of his own accord, he will say whatever he is told, and he will disclose to you what is to come. ¹⁴ He will glorify me, for he will draw upon what is mine and disclose it to you.

²² And with these words he breathed on them, and added, "Receive the holy Spirit!

² down to the day when, after issuing his orders by the holy Spirit to the disciples whom he had chosen, he was taken up to heaven.

⁴ Also, as he ate with them, he charged them not to leave Jerusalem but to wait for what the Father promised — "for what you have heard me speak of," said he;

⁸ You will receive power when the holy Spirit comes upon you, and you will be my witnesses at Jerusalem, throughout all Judaea and Samaria, and to the end of the earth."

⁴ and they were all filled with the holy Spirit — they began to speak in foreign tongues, as the Spirit enabled them to express themselves.

³ "Ananias," said Peter, "why has Satan filled your heart and made you cheat the holy Spirit by appropriating some of the money paid for the land?

⁵¹ Stiff-necked, uncircumcised in heart and ear, you are always resisting the holy Spirit! As with your fathers, so with you!

⁵⁵ He, full of the holy Spirit, gazed up at heaven and saw the glory of God and Jesus standing at God's right hand.

¹⁶ and I remembered the saying of the Lord, that 'John baptized with water, but you shall be baptized with the holy Spirit.'

² As they were worshipping the Lord and fasting, the holy Spirit said, "Come! set me apart Barnabas and Saul for the work to which I have called them."

⁴ Sent out thus by the holy Spirit, they went down to Seleucia and from there they sailed to Cyprus.

⁸ The God who reads the hearts of all attested this by giving them the holy Spirit just as he gave it to us;

²⁸ The holy Spirit and we have decided not to impose any extra burden on you, apart from these essential requirements:

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

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

³⁵ I showed you how this was the way to work hard and succour the needy, remembering the words of the Lord Jesus, who said, 'To give is happier than to get.'"

²⁵ As they could not agree among themselves, they were turning to go away, when Paul added this one word: "It was an apt word that the holy Spirit spoke by the prophet Isaiah to your fathers,

¹⁰ And God has revealed it to us by the Spirit, for the Spirit fathoms everything, even the depths of God. ¹¹ What human being can understand the thoughts of a man, except the man's own inner spirit? So too no one understands the thoughts of God, except the Spirit of God. ¹² Now we have received the Spirit — not the spirit of the world but the Spirit that comes from God, that we may understand what God bestows upon us. ¹³ And this is what we discuss, using language taught by no human wisdom but by the Spirit. We interpret what is spiritual in spiritual language.

³ so I tell you now, that no one is speaking in the Spirit of God when he cries, 'Cursed be Jesus,' and that no one can say, 'Jesus is Lord,' except in the holy Spirit.

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

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

¹³ You also have heard the message of the truth, the gospel of your salvation, and in him you also by your faith have been stamped with the seal of the long-promised holy Spirit

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

³⁰ And do not vex God's holy Spirit, by whom you have been sealed for the day of redemption.

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

⁸ hence, he who disregards this, disregards not man but the God who gave you his holy Spirit.

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

⁷ Therefore, as the holy Spirit says, To-day, when you hear his voice,

¹⁵ Besides, we have the testimony of the holy Spirit; for after saying,

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!

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

²⁰ Now, you have been anointed by the holy One, and you all possess knowledge.

²⁰ But do you, beloved, build up yourselves on your most holy faith and pray in the holy Spirit,

¹¹ Let anyone who has an ear listen to what the Spirit says to the churches: 'The conqueror shall not be injured by the second death.'

²⁶ Fear them not: — nothing is veiled that shall not be revealed, or hidden that shall not be known;

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

¹⁴ "Glory to God in high heaven, and peace on earth for men whom he favours!"

⁵ Whatever house you enter, first say, 'Peace be to this household!'

⁴ I tell you, my friends, have no fear of those who kill the body but after that can do no more;

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

¹⁹ On the evening of that same day — the first day of the week — though the disciples had gathered within closed doors for fear of the Jews, Jesus entered and stood among them, saying, "Peace be with you!"

²¹ Jesus then repeated, "Peace be with you! As the Father sent me forth, I am sending you forth."

²⁶ Eight days afterwards his disciples were together again, and Thomas with them. Though the doors were closed, Jesus entered and stood among them, saying, "Peace be with you!"

³⁶ You know the message he sent to the sons of Israel when he preached the gospel of peace by Jesus Christ (who is Lord of all);

⁹ And the Lord said to Paul in a vision by night, "Have no fear, speak on and never stop,

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.

¹ As we are justified by faith, then, let us enjoy the peace we have with God through our Lord Jesus Christ.

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

³ grace and peace to you from God our Father and the Lord Jesus Christ.

¹⁸ It is all the doing of the God who has reconciled me to himself through Christ and has permitted me to be a minister of his reconciliation. ¹⁹ For in Christ God reconciled the world to himself instead of counting men's trespasses against them; and he entrusted me with the message of his reconciliation. ²⁰ So I am an envoy for Christ, God appealing by me, as it were — be reconciled to God, I entreat you on behalf of Christ. 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.

³ grace and peace to you from God our Father and the Lord Jesus Christ

¹⁶ On all who will be guided by this rule, may peace and mercy rest, even upon the Israel of God.

¹⁴ For he is our peace, he who has made both of us a unity and destroyed the barrier which kept us apart; ¹⁵ in his own flesh he put an end to the feud of the Law with its code of commands, so as to make peace by the creation of a new Man in himself out of both parties, 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,

⁷ so shall God's peace, that surpasses all our dreams, keep guard over your hearts and minds in Christ Jesus.

² to the consecrated and faithful brothers in Christ at Colossae: grace and peace to you from God our Father.

²⁰ and by him it willed to reconcile in his own person all on earth and in heaven alike, in a peace made by the blood of his cross.

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.

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

¹⁶ May the Lord of peace himself grant you peace continually, whatever comes. The Lord be with you all.

⁷ for God has not given us a timid spirit but a spirit of power and love and discipline.

² who had a tenth part of everything assigned him by Abraham — this Melchizedek is primarily a king of righteousness (that is the meaning of his name); then, besides that, king of Salem (which means, king of peace).

²⁰ May the God of peace who brought up from the dead our Lord Jesus, the great Shepherd of the sheep, with the blood of the eternal covenant,

⁴ John to the seven churches in Asia: grace be to you and peace from HE WHO IS AND WAS AND IS COMING, and from the seven Spirits before his throne,

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.

⁸ but as for the craven, the faithless, the abominable, as for murderers, the immoral, sorcerers, idolaters, and liars of all kinds — their lot is the lake that blazes with fire and brimstone, which is the second death."

¹⁸ Here is my servant whom I have selected, my Beloved in whom my soul delights; I will invest him with my Spirit, and he will proclaim religion to the Gentiles.

⁵¹ And as he blessed them he parted from them [and was carried up to heaven]. ⁵² They [worshipped him and] returned with great joy to Jerusalem, ⁵³ where they spent all their time within the temple, blessing God.

¹⁸ But this only made the Jews more eager to kill him, because he not merely broke the sabbath but actually spoke of God as his own Father, thereby making himself equal to God.

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 — ."

¹⁶ Truly, truly I tell you, a servant is not greater than his master, nor is a messenger greater than he who sent him.

² In my Father's house there are many abodes; were it not so, would I have told you that I was going to prepare a place for you? ³ And when I go and prepare a place for you, I will come back and take you to be with me, so that you may be where I am. ⁴ And you know the way to where I am going."

¹² Truly, truly I tell you, he who believes in me will do the very deeds I do, and still greater deeds than these. For I am going to the Father,

¹⁶ In a little while, you will behold me no longer; then, after a little, you shall see me." ¹⁷ So some of his disciples said to one another, "What does he mean by telling us, 'In a little while, you will behold me no longer; then, after a little, you shall see me'? and, 'I go to the Father'?" ¹⁸ They said, "What is the meaning of 'In a little'? We do not understand what he is saying." ¹⁹ Jesus knew they wanted to ask him; so he said to them, "Is this what you are discussing together, why I said, 'In a little while, you will not see me: then, after a little, you shall see me'? ²⁰ Truly, truly I tell you, you will be wailing and lamenting while the world is rejoicing; you will be sorrowful, but then your sorrow will be changed into joy. ²¹ When a woman is in labour she is sorry, for her time has come; but when the child is born she remembers her anguish no longer, for joy that a human being has been born into the world: ²² So with you. Just now you are in sorrow, but I shall see you again and your heart will rejoice — with a joy that no one can take from you.

¹⁷ Jesus said, "Cease clinging to me. I have not ascended yet to the Father, but go to my brothers and tell them, 'I am ascending to my Father and yours, to my God and yours.'"

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.

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. ²⁵ For he must reign until all his foes are put under his feet. ²⁶ (Death is the last foe to be put down.) ²⁷ For God has put everything under his feet. When it is said that everything has been put under him, plainly that excludes Him who put everything under him; ²⁸ and when everything is put under him, then the Son himself will be put under Him who put everything under him, so that God may be everything to everyone.

⁶ Though he was divine by nature, he did not set store upon equality with God ⁷ but emptied himself by taking the nature of a servant; born in human guise ⁸ and appearing in human form, he humbly stooped in his obedience even to die, and to die upon the cross.

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. 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;

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. ¹⁰ In bringing many sons to glory, it was befitting that He for whom and by whom the universe exists, should perfect the Pioneer of their salvation by suffering. ¹¹ For sanctifier and sanctified have all one origin. That is why he is not ashamed to call them brothers, ¹² saying, 'I will proclaim thy name to my brothers, in the midst of the church I will sing of thee,' ¹³ and again, 'I will put my trust in him,' and again, 'Here am I and the children God has given me.' ¹⁴ Since the children then share blood and flesh, he himself participated in their nature, so that by dying he might crush him who wields the power of death (that is to say, the devil) ¹⁵ and release from thraldom those who lay under a life-long fear of death.

¹ Holy brothers, you who participate in a heavenly calling, look at Jesus then, at the apostle and high priest of our confession; ² he is faithful to Him who appointed him. For while Moses also was faithful in every department of God's house, ³ Jesus has been adjudged greater glory than Moses, inasmuch as the founder of a house enjoys greater honour than the house itself. ⁴ (Every house is founded by someone, but God is the founder of all.)

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

¹⁷ When I saw him, I fell at his feet like a dead man; but he laid his hand on me, saying, "Do not be afraid; I am the First and Last, ¹⁸ I was dead and here I am alive for evermore, holding the keys that unlock death and Hades.

²⁴ for false Christs and false prophets will rise and bring forward great signs and wonders, so as to mislead the very elect, — if that were possible. ²⁵ (I am telling you this beforehand.)

⁴ I have told you all this, so that when the time for it arrives, you may remember what I said to you. I did not tell you about this at the beginning, because I was with you then; ⁵ but now I am going to him who sent me. And yet not one of you asks, 'Where are you going?' ⁶ No, your heart is full of sorrow at what I have told you. ⁷ Yet — I am telling you the truth — my going is for your good. If I do not depart, the Helper will not come to you; whereas if I go, I will send him to you. ⁸ And when he comes, he will convict the world, convincing men of sin, of righteousness, and of judgment: ⁹ of sin, because they do not believe in me; ¹⁰ of righteousness, because I go to the Father and you see me no more; ¹¹ of judgment, because the Prince of this world has been judged. ¹² I have still much to say to you, but you cannot bear it just now. ¹³ However, when the Spirit of truth comes, he will lead you into all the truth; for he will not speak of his own accord, he will say whatever he is told, and he will disclose to you what is to come. ¹⁴ He will glorify me, for he will draw upon what is mine and disclose it to you. ¹⁵ All that the Father has is mine; that is why I say, 'he will draw upon what is mine and disclose it to you.' ¹⁶ In a little while, you will behold me no longer; then, after a little, you shall see me." ¹⁷ So some of his disciples said to one another, "What does he mean by telling us, 'In a little while, you will behold me no longer; then, after a little, you shall see me'? and, 'I go to the Father'?" ¹⁸ They said, "What is the meaning of 'In a little'? We do not understand what he is saying." ¹⁹ Jesus knew they wanted to ask him; so he said to them, "Is this what you are discussing together, why I said, 'In a little while, you will not see me: then, after a little, you shall see me'? ²⁰ Truly, truly I tell you, you will be wailing and lamenting while the world is rejoicing; you will be sorrowful, but then your sorrow will be changed into joy. ²¹ When a woman is in labour she is sorry, for her time has come; but when the child is born she remembers her anguish no longer, for joy that a human being has been born into the world: ²² So with you. Just now you are in sorrow, but I shall see you again and your heart will rejoice — with a joy that no one can take from you. ²³ And on that day you will not ask me any questions. Truly, truly I tell you, whatever you ask the Father, he will give you in my name; ²⁴ hitherto you have asked nothing in my name; ask and you will receive, that your joy may be full. ²⁵ I have told you this in figures, but the time is coming when I shall speak to you in figures no longer; I shall let you know plainly about the Father. ²⁶ On that day you will ask in my name, and I do not say to you I will ask the Father on your behalf; ²⁷ for the Father loves you himself, because you have loved me and believed that I came forth from God. ²⁸ From the Father I came and I entered the world; again, I leave the world and I go to the Father." ²⁹ His disciples said, "Now, you are talking plainly at last, not speaking in figures. ³⁰ Now we are sure you know everything, and need no one to put questions to you. This makes us believe you have come forth from God." ³¹ Jesus replied, "You believe it, at last?

⁵³ Day after day I was beside you in the temple, and you never stretched a hand against me. But this is your hour, and the dark Power has its way."

⁴⁴ Then he said to them, "When I was still with you, this is what I told you, that whatever is written about me in the law of Moses and the prophets and the psalms must be fulfilled." ⁴⁵ Then he opened their minds to understand the scriptures. ⁴⁶ "Thus," he said, "it is written that the Christ has to suffer and rise from the dead on the third day, ⁴⁷ and that repentance and the remission of sins must be preached in his name to all nations, beginning from Jerusalem. ⁴⁸ To this you must bear testimony. ⁴⁹ And I will send down on you what my Father has promised; wait in the city till you are endued with power from on high."

³¹ Now is this world to be judged; now the Prince of this world will be expelled.

¹¹ of judgment, because the Prince of this world has been judged. ¹² I have still much to say to you, but you cannot bear it just now.

³ After his sufferings he had shown them that he was alive by a number of proofs, revealing himself to them for forty days and discussing the affairs of God's Realm.

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.

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.

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

¹² For we have to struggle, not with blood and flesh but with the angelic Rulers, the angelic Authorities, the potentates of the dark present, the spirit-forces of evil in the heavenly sphere.

¹³ rescuing us from the power of the Darkness and transferring us to the realm of his beloved Son!

²⁶ Such was the high priest for us, saintly, innocent, unstained, lifted high above the heavens, far from all contact with the sinful,

¹⁹ but by the precious blood of Christ, a lamb unblemished and unstained.

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

⁵ and you know he appeared to take [our] sins away. In him there is no sin; ⁶ anyone who remains in him does not sin — anyone who sins has neither seen nor known him. ⁷ Let no one deceive you, my dear children: he who practises righteousness is just, as He is just; ⁸ he who commits sin belongs to the devil, for the devil is a sinner from the very beginning. (This is why the Son of God appeared, to destroy the deeds of the devil.)

¹⁹ We know that we belong to God, and that the whole world lies in the power of the evil One.

⁹ So the huge dragon was thrown down — that old serpent called the Devil and Satan, the seducer of the whole world — thrown down to the earth, and his angels thrown down along with him.

² he gripped the dragon, that old serpent (who is the devil and Satan), and bound him for a thousand years, ³ flinging him into the abyss and shutting and sealing it on the top of him, to prevent him seducing the nations again until the thousand years were completed — after which he has to be released for a little while.

⁷ But when the thousand years are over, Satan will be released from his prison, ⁸ and he will emerge to seduce the nations at the four corners of the earth, even Gog and Magog, mustering them for the fray. Their number was like the sand of the sea,

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."

⁴⁶ Come, get up and let us go. Here is my betrayer close at hand!"

⁵⁰ I have a baptism to undergo. How I am distressed till it is all over!

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

¹⁸ No one takes it from me, I lay it down of my own accord: I have power to lay it down and also power to take it up again; I have my Father's orders for this.

⁹ As the Father has loved me, so I have loved you; remain within my love.

¹ Having said this, Jesus went out with his disciples across the Kidron ravine to an orchard, which he entered in the company of his disciples. ² Judas the traitor also knew the spot, for Jesus and his disciples often met there. ³ So after procuring troops and some attendants belonging to the high priests and the Pharisees, Judas went there with lanterns and torches and weapons. ⁴ Then Jesus, who knew everything that was to happen to him, came forward and asked them, "Who are you looking for?"

¹¹ whereupon Jesus said to Peter, "Sheathe your sword. Am I not to drink the cup which the Father has handed me?"

⁸ and appearing in human form, he humbly stooped in his obedience even to die, and to die upon the cross.

⁷ In the days of his flesh, with bitter cries and tears, he offered prayers and supplications to Him who was able to save him from death; and he was heard, because of his godly fear. ⁸ Thus, Son though he was, he learned by all he suffered how to obey,

⁵ Hence, on entering the world he says, Thou hast no desire for sacrifice or offering; it is a body thou hast prepared for me — ⁶ in holocausts and sin-offerings thou takest no delight. ⁷ So I said, 'Here I come — in the roll of the book this is written of me — I come to do thy will, O God.' ⁸ He begins by saying, thou hast no desire for, thou takest no delight in, sacrifices and offerings and holocausts and sin-offerings (and these are what are offered in terms of the Law); ⁹ he then adds, Here I come to do thy will. He does away with the first in order to establish the second.

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. ³ Compare him who steadily endured all that hostility from sinful men, so as to keep your own hearts from fainting and failing.