Luke 10 Cross References - Moffatt

¹ After that the Lord commissioned other seventy disciples, sending them in front of him two by two to every town and place that he intended to visit himself. ² He said to them, "The harvest is rich, but the labourers are few; so pray the Lord of the harvest to send labourers to gather his harvest. ³ Go your way; I am sending you out like lambs among wolves. ⁴ Carry no purse, no wallet, no sandals. Do not stop to salute anybody on the road. ⁵ Whatever house you enter, first say, 'Peace be to this household!' ⁶ Then, if there is a soul there breathing peace, your peace will rest on him; otherwise it will come back to you. ⁷ Stay at the same house, eating and drinking what the people provide (for the workman deserves his wages); you are not to shift from one house to another. ⁸ Wherever you are received on entering any town, eat what is provided for you, ⁹ heal those in the town who are ill, and tell them, 'The Reign of God is nearly on you.' ¹⁰ But wherever you are not received on entering any town, go out into the streets of the town and cry, ¹¹ 'The very dust of your town that clings to us, we wipe off from our feet as a protest. But mark this, the Reign of God is near!' ¹² I tell you, on the great Day it will be more bearable for Sodom than for that town. ¹³ Woe to you, Khorazin! woe to you, Bethsaida! Had the miracles performed in you been performed in Tyre and Sidon, they would long ago have been sitting penitent in sackcloth and ashes. ¹⁴ But it will be more bearable for Tyre and Sidon at the judgment than for you. ¹⁵ And you, O Capharnahum! Exalted to heaven? No, you will sink to Hades! ¹⁶ He who listens to you listens to me, he who rejects you rejects me, and he who rejects me rejects him who sent me." 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. ²⁰ Only, do not rejoice because the spirits obey you: rejoice because your names are enrolled in heaven." ²¹ He thrilled with joy at that hour in the holy Spirit, saying, "I praise thee, Father, Lord of heaven and earth, for concealing this from the wise and learned and revealing it to the simple-minded; yes, Father, I praise thee that such was thy chosen purpose." Then turning to the disciples he said, 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." ²³ Then turning to the disciples he said privately, "Blessed are the eyes that see what you see! ²⁴ For I tell you many prophets and kings have desired to see what you see, but they have not seen it: and to hear what you hear, but they have not heard it." ²⁵ Now a jurist got up to tempt him. "Teacher," he said, "what am I to do to inherit life eternal?" ²⁶ He said to him, "What is written in the law? What do you read there?" ²⁷ He replied, "You must love the Lord your God with your whole heart, with your whole soul, with your whole strength, and with your whole mind. Also your neighbour as yourself." ²⁸ "A right answer!" said Jesus; "do that and you will live." ²⁹ Anxious to make an excuse for himself, however, he said to Jesus, "But who is my neighbour?" ³⁰ Jesus rejoined, "A man going down from Jerusalem to Jericho fell among robbers who stripped and belaboured him and then went off leaving him half-dead. ³¹ Now it so chanced that a priest was going down the same road, but on seeing him he went past on the opposite side. ³² So did a Levite who came to the spot; he looked at him but passed on the opposite side. ³³ However a Samaritan traveller came to where he was and felt pity when he saw him; ³⁴ he went to him, bound his wounds up, pouring oil and wine into them, mounted him on his own steed, took him to an inn, and attended to him. ³⁵ Next morning he took out a couple of shillings and gave them to the innkeeper, saying, 'Attend to him, and if you are put to any extra expense I will refund you on my way back.' ³⁶ Which of these three men, in your opinion, proved a neighbour to the man who fell among the robbers?" ³⁷ He said, "The man who took pity on him." Jesus said to him, "Then go and do the same." ³⁸ In the course of their journey he entered a certain village, and a woman called Martha welcomed him to her house. ³⁹ She had a sister called Mary, who seated herself at the feet of the Lord to listen to his talk. ⁴⁰ Now Martha was so busy attending to them that she grew worried; she came up and said, "Lord, is it all one to you that my sister has left me to do all the work alone? Come, tell her to lend me a hand." ⁴¹ The Lord answered her, "Martha, Martha, ⁴² Mary has chosen the best dish, and she is not to be dragged away from it."

¹ And summoning his twelve disciples he gave them power over unclean spirits, power to cast them out and also to heal every disease and every ailment. ² These are the names of the twelve apostles: first Simon (who is called Peter) and Andrew his brother, James the son of Zebedaeus and John his brother, ³ Philip and Bartholomew, Thomas and Matthew the taxgatherer, James the son of Alphaeus and Lebbaeus whose surname is Thaddaeus, ⁴ Simon the Zealot and Judas Iscariot who betrayed him.

⁷ And summoning the twelve he proceeded to send them out two by two; he gave them power over the unclean spirits, ⁸ and ordered them to take nothing but a stick for the journey, no bread, no wallet, no coppers in their girdle; ⁹ they were to wear sandals, but not to put on two shirts, he said. ¹⁰ Also, he told them, "Wherever you enter a house, stay there till you leave the place. ¹¹ And if any place will not receive you and the people will not listen to you, shake off the very dust under your feet when you leave, as a warning to them." ¹² So they went out and preached repentance; ¹³ also they cast out a number of daemons and cured a number of sick people by anointing them with oil.

¹⁷ he will go in front of Him with the spirit and power of Elijah to turn the hearts of fathers to their children, turning the disobedient to the wisdom of the just, to make a people ready and prepared for the Lord."

⁷⁶ And you, my child, shall be called a prophet of the Most High; for you shall go in front of the Lord to make his ways ready,

⁴ as it is written in the book of the sayings of the prophet Isaiah, The voice of one who cries in the desert, 'Make the way ready for the Lord, level the paths for him. ⁵ Every valley shall be filled up, every hill and mound laid low, the crooked made straight, the rough roads smooth; ⁶ so shall all flesh see the saving power of God.'

¹³ And when the Lord saw her, he felt pity for her and said to her, "Do not weep."

¹ Calling the twelve apostles together he gave them power and authority over all daemons as well as to heal diseases. ² He sent them out to preach the Reign of God and to cure the sick.

⁵² He sent messengers in front of him. They went and entered a Samaritan village to make preparations for him,

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." ³ Then after fasting and praying they laid their hands on them and let them go. ⁴ Sent out thus by the holy Spirit, they went down to Seleucia and from there they sailed to Cyprus.

³ But I will allow my two witnesses to prophesy for twelve hundred and sixty days, clad in sackcloth ⁴ (they are the two olive-trees and the two lampstands which stand before the Lord of the earth): ⁵ whoever tries to harm them, fire will issue from their mouth and consume their enemies; whoever should try to harm them, so must he be killed." ⁶ They have power to shut up the sky, so that no rain falls during the days when they are prophesying; and they have power over the waters, to turn them into blood, and also to smite the earth with all manner of plagues as often as they choose. ⁷ But, when they have finished their testimony, the Beast that ascends from the abyss will make war on them and conquer them and kill them, ⁸ and their corpses will lie in the streets of that great City whose mystical name is Sodom and Egypt — where their Lord also was crucified. ⁹ For three days and a half men from all peoples and tribes and tongues and nations look at their corpses, refusing to let their corpses be buried; ¹⁰ and the dwellers on earth will gloat over them and rejoice, sending presents to congratulate one another — for these two prophets were a torment to the dwellers on earth.

³⁶ As he saw the crowds he was moved with pity for them; they were harassed and dejected, like sheep without a shepherd. ³⁷ Then he said to his disciples, "The harvest is rich, but the labourers are few; ³⁸ so pray the Lord of the harvest to send labourers to gather his harvest."

¹ For the Realm of heaven is like a householder who went out early in the morning to hire labourers for his vineyard;

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

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

²⁰ while they went out and preached everywhere, the Lord working with them and confirming the word by the miracles that endorsed it. (b) But they gave Peter and his companions a brief account of all these injunctions. And, after that, Jesus himself sent out by means of them from east to west the sacred and imperishable message of eternal salvation.

¹ Calling the twelve apostles together he gave them power and authority over all daemons as well as to heal diseases.

³⁵ You have a saying, have you not, 'Four months yet, then harvest'? Look round, I tell you; see, the fields are white for harvesting! ³⁶ The reaper is already getting his wages and harvesting for eternal life, so that the sower shares the reaper's joy. ³⁷ That proverb, 'One sows and another reaps,' holds true here: ³⁸ I sent you to reap a crop for which you did not toil; other men have toiled, and you reap the profit of their toil."

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

¹⁹ Now those who had been scattered by the trouble which arose over Stephen made their way as far as Phoenicia and Cyprus and Antioch, but they preached the word to none except Jews.

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.

⁹ A vision appeared to Paul by night, the vision of a Macedonian standing and appealing to him with the words, "Cross to Macedonia and help us." ¹⁰ As soon as he saw the vision, we made efforts to start for Macedonia, inferring that God had called us to preach the gospel to them.

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.

²¹ But he said to me, 'Go; I will send you afar to the Gentiles — — '"

¹⁵ 'Who are you?' I asked. And the Lord said, 'I am Jesus, and you are persecuting me. ¹⁶ Now get up and stand on your feet, for I have appeared to you in order to appoint you to my service as a witness to what you have seen and to the visions you shall have of me. ¹⁷ I will rescue you from the People and also from the Gentiles — to whom I send you, ¹⁸ that their eyes may be opened and that they may turn from darkness to light, from the power of Satan to God, to get remission of their sins and an inheritance among those who are consecrated by faith in me.'

⁶ I did the planting, Apollos did the watering, but it was God who made the seed grow. ⁷ So neither planter nor waterer counts, but God alone who makes the seed grow. ⁸ Still, though planter and waterer are on the same level, each will get his own wage for the special work that he has done. ⁹ We work together in God's service; you are God's field to be planted, God's house to be built.

²⁸ That is to say, God has set people within the church to be first of all apostles, secondly prophets, thirdly teachers, then workers of miracles, then healers, helpers, administrators, and speakers in 'tongues' of various kinds.

¹⁰ But by God's grace I am what I am. The grace he showed me did not go for nothing; no, I have done far more work than all of them — though it was not I but God's grace at my side.

¹ I appeal to you too, as a worker with God, do not receive the grace of God in vain.

⁷ But each one of us is granted his own grace, as determined by the full measure of Christ's gift. ⁸ Thus it is said, When he ascended on high he led a host captive and granted gifts to men. ⁹ What does he ascended mean, except that he first descended to the nether regions of the earth? ¹⁰ He who descended is he who ascended above all the heavens to fill the universe; ¹¹ he granted some men to be apostles, some to be prophets, some to be evangelists, some to shepherd and teach, ¹² for the equipment of the saints, for the business of the ministry, for the upbuilding of the Body of Christ,

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

²⁵ As for Epaphroditus, however, my brother, my fellow-worker, my fellow-soldier, and your messenger to meet my wants, I think it necessary to send you him at once,

³⁰ for he nearly died in the service of Christ by risking his life to make up for the services you were not here to render me.

²⁹ I labour for that end, striving for it with the divine energy which is a power within me.

¹² Epaphras, who is one of yourselves, salutes you — a servant of Christ Jesus who is always earnest in prayer for you, that you may stand firm like mature and convinced Christians, whatever be the will of God for you.

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

¹² Brothers, we beg you to respect those who are working among you, presiding over you in the Lord and maintaining discipline;

¹ Finally, brothers, pray for us, that the word of the Lord may speed on and triumph, as in your own case,

¹² I render thanks to Christ Jesus our Lord, who has made me able for this; he considered me trustworthy and appointed me to the ministry, ¹³ though I had formerly been a blasphemer and a persecutor and a wanton aggressor. I obtained mercy because in my unbelief I had acted out of ignorance; ¹⁴ and the grace of our Lord flooded my life along with the faith and love that Christ Jesus inspires.

¹⁰ that "we toil and strive because our hope is fixed upon the living God, the Saviour of all men" — of believers in particular.

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

¹⁷ Presbyters who are efficient presidents are to be considered worthy of ample remuneration, particularly those who have the task of preaching and teaching: ¹⁸ Scripture says, You must not muzzle an ox when he is treading the grain, and A workman deserves his wages.

³ Join the ranks of those who bear suffering, like a loyal soldier of Christ Jesus. ⁴ No soldier gets entangled in civil pursuits; his aim is to satisfy his commander. ⁵ Again, a competitor in the games is not crowned unless he observes the rules. ⁶ The farmer who has done the work must have the first share of the fruit.

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

¹ Paul a prisoner of Christ Jesus and brother Timotheus, to our beloved fellow-worker Philemon,

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

¹ To the angel of the church at Ephesus write thus: — These are the words of him who holds the seven stars in his right hand, who moves among the seven golden lampstands:

² but omit the court outside the temple, do not measure that, for it has been given over to the Gentiles; and the city will be under their heel for two and forty months. ³ But I will allow my two witnesses to prophesy for twelve hundred and sixty days, clad in sackcloth

¹⁵ Beware of false prophets; they come to you with the garb of sheep but at heart they are ravenous wolves.

¹⁶ I am sending you out like sheep among wolves; so be wise like serpents and guileless like doves.

²² and you will be hated by all men on account of my name; but he will be saved who holds out to the very end.

¹² The hired man, who is not the shepherd and does not own the sheep, deserts them when he sees the wolf coming; he runs away, leaving the wolf to tear and scatter them,

²⁰ Remember what I told you, 'A servant is not greater than his master.' If they persecuted me, they will persecute you; if they hold to my word, they will hold to yours.

² They will excommunicate you; indeed the time is coming when anyone who kills you will imagine he is performing a service to God.

² and asked him for letters to the synagogues at Damascus empowering him to put any man or woman in chains whom he could find belonging to the Way, and bring them to Jerusalem.

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

²⁹ I know that when I am gone, fierce wolves will get in among you, and they will not spare the flock; yes.

⁹ you are not to take gold or silver or coppers in your girdle, ¹⁰ nor a wallet for the road, nor two shirts, nor sandals, nor stick — the workman deserves his rations. ¹¹ Whatever town or village you go into, find out a deserving inhabitant and stay with him till you leave. ¹² When you enter the house, salute it; ¹³ if the household is deserving, let your peace rest on it; but if the household is undeserving, let your peace return to you. ¹⁴ Whoever will not receive you or listen to your message, leave that house or town and shake off the very dust from your feet.

⁸ and ordered them to take nothing but a stick for the journey, no bread, no wallet, no coppers in their girdle; ⁹ they were to wear sandals, but not to put on two shirts, he said. ¹⁰ Also, he told them, "Wherever you enter a house, stay there till you leave the place. ¹¹ And if any place will not receive you and the people will not listen to you, shake off the very dust under your feet when you leave, as a warning to them."

³ And he told them, "Take nothing for the journey, neither stick nor wallet nor bread nor silver, and do not carry two shirts. ⁴ Whatever house you go into, stay there and leave from there. ⁵ Whoever will not receive you, leave that town and shake off the very dust from your feet as a testimony against them." ⁶ So they went out from village to village preaching the gospel and healing everywhere.

⁵⁹ He said to another man, "Follow me"; but he said, "Let me go and bury my father first of all." ⁶⁰ Jesus said to him, "Leave the dead to bury their own dead; you go and spread the news of the Reign of God."

⁴ Carry no purse, no wallet, no sandals. Do not stop to salute anybody on the road. ⁵ Whatever house you enter, first say, 'Peace be to this household!' ⁶ Then, if there is a soul there breathing peace, your peace will rest on him; otherwise it will come back to you. ⁷ Stay at the same house, eating and drinking what the people provide (for the workman deserves his wages); you are not to shift from one house to another. ⁸ Wherever you are received on entering any town, eat what is provided for you, ⁹ heal those in the town who are ill, and tell them, 'The Reign of God is nearly on you.' ¹⁰ But wherever you are not received on entering any town, go out into the streets of the town and cry, ¹¹ 'The very dust of your town that clings to us, we wipe off from our feet as a protest. But mark this, the Reign of God is near!' ¹² I tell you, on the great Day it will be more bearable for Sodom than for that town.

³⁵ And he said to them, "When I sent you out with neither purse nor wallet nor sandals, did you want for anything?" "No," they said, "for nothing."

¹² When you enter the house, salute it; ¹³ if the household is deserving, let your peace rest on it; but if the household is undeserving, let your peace return to you.

⁹ And Jesus said of him, "To-day salvation has come to this house, since Zacchaeus here is a son of Abraham.

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);

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.

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

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

² 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 ³ among whom all of us lived, we as well as you, when we obeyed the passions of our flesh, carrying out the dictates of the flesh and its impulses, when we were objects of God's anger by nature, like the rest of men.

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

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

¹⁸ and the peacemakers who sow in peace reap righteousness.

¹⁴ Be obedient children, instead of moulding yourselves to the passions that once ruled the days of your ignorance;

¹⁰ nor a wallet for the road, nor two shirts, nor sandals, nor stick — the workman deserves his rations. ¹¹ Whatever town or village you go into, find out a deserving inhabitant and stay with him till you leave.

¹⁰ Also, he told them, "Wherever you enter a house, stay there till you leave the place.

⁴ Whatever house you go into, stay there and leave from there.

¹⁵ When she was baptized, along with her household, she begged us, saying, "If you are convinced I am a believer in the Lord, come and stay at my house." She compelled us to come.

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

⁴⁰ So they left the prison and went to Lydia's house, where they saw the brothers and encouraged them; then they departed.

⁴ Have we no right to eat and drink at the expense of the churches? ⁵ Have we no right to travel with a Christian wife, like the rest of the apostles, like the brothers of the Lord, like Cephas himself? ⁶ What! are we the only ones, myself and Barnabas, who are denied the right of abstaining from work for our living? ⁷ Does a soldier provide his own supplies? Does a man plant a vineyard without eating its produce? Does a shepherd get no drink from the milk of the flock? ⁸ Human arguments, you say? But does not Scripture urge the very same? ⁹ It is written in the law of Moses, You must not muzzle an ox when he is treading the grain. Is God thinking here about cattle? ¹⁰ Or is he speaking purely for our sakes? Assuredly for our sakes. This word was written for us, because the ploughman needs to plough in hope, and the thresher to thresh in the hope of getting a share in the crop. ¹¹ If we sowed you the seeds of spiritual good, is it a great matter if we reap your worldly goods? ¹² If others share this right over you, why not we all the more? We did not avail ourselves of it, you say? No, we do not mind any privations if we can only avoid putting any obstacle in the way of the gospel of Christ. ¹³ Do you not know that as men who perform temple-rites get their food from the temple, and as attendants at the altar get their share of the sacrifices, ¹⁴ so the Lord's instructions were that those who proclaim the gospel are to get their living by the gospel? ¹⁵ Only, I have not availed myself of any of these rights, and I am not writing in order to secure any such provision for myself. I would die sooner than let anyone deprive me of this, my source of pride.

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

¹⁷ It is not the money I am anxious for; what I am anxious for is the interest that accumulates in this way to your divine credit! ¹⁸ Your debt to me is fully paid and more than paid! I am amply supplied with what you have sent by Epaphroditus, a fragrant perfume, the sort of sacrifice that God approves and welcomes.

¹³ Besides, they become idle unconsciously by gadding about from one house to another — and not merely idle but gossips and busybodies, repeating things they have no right to mention.

⁶ The farmer who has done the work must have the first share of the fruit.

⁵ Beloved, you are acting loyally in rendering any service to the brothers and especially to strangers; ⁶ they have testified to your love before the church. Pray speed them on their journey worthily of God; ⁷ they have started out for his sake and declined to take anything from pagans; ⁸ hence we are bound to support such men, to prove ourselves allies of the Truth.

⁴⁰ He who receives you receives me, and he who receives me receives Him who sent me.

⁴⁸ then he said to them, "Whoever receives this little child in my name receives me, and whoever receives me receives him who sent me. For it is the lowliest of you all who is great."

¹⁰ But wherever you are not received on entering any town, go out into the streets of the town and cry,

²⁰ (Truly, truly I tell you, he who receives anyone I send receives me, and he who receives me receives him who sent me.)"

²⁷ When an unbeliever invites you to dinner and you agree to go, eat whatever is put before you, instead of letting scruples of conscience induce you to ask any questions about it.

² "Repent, the Reign of heaven is near."

¹⁷ From that day Jesus began to preach, saying, "Repent, the Reign of heaven is near."

⁷ And preach as you go, tell men, 'The Reign of heaven is near.' ⁸ Heal the sick, raise the dead, cleanse lepers, cast out daemons; give without paying, as you have got without paying;

³⁰ He said also, "To what can we compare the Realm of God? how are we to put it in a parable?

¹³ also they cast out a number of daemons and cured a number of sick people by anointing them with oil.

² He sent them out to preach the Reign of God and to cure the sick.

¹¹ 'The very dust of your town that clings to us, we wipe off from our feet as a protest. But mark this, the Reign of God is near!'

²⁰ On being asked by the Pharisees when the Reign of God was coming, he answered them, "The Reign of God is not coming as you hope to catch sight of it; ²¹ no one will say, 'Here it is' or 'There it is,' for the Reign of God is now in your midst."

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

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

⁷ There was an estate in the neighbourhood which belonged to a man called Publius, the governor of the island; he welcomed us and entertained us hospitably for three days. ⁸ His father, it so happened, was laid up with fever and dysentery, but Paul went in to see him and after prayer laid his hands on him and cured him. ⁹ When this had happened, the rest of the sick folk in the island also came and got cured; ¹⁰ they made us rich presents and furnished us, when we set sail, with all we needed.

²⁸ Be sure of this, then, that this salvation of God has been sent to the Gentiles; they will listen to it."

³¹ he preached the Reign of God and taught about the Lord Jesus Christ quite openly and unmolested.

¹⁴ Whoever will not receive you or listen to your message, leave that house or town and shake off the very dust from your feet.

⁵ Whoever will not receive you, leave that town and shake off the very dust from your feet as a testimony against them."

⁵¹ They shook the dust off their feet as a protest and went to Iconium.

⁶ But as they opposed and abused him, he shook out his garments in protest, saying, "Your blood be on your own heads! I am not responsible! After this I will go to the Gentiles."

¹¹ And if any place will not receive you and the people will not listen to you, shake off the very dust under your feet when you leave, as a warning to them."

⁹ heal those in the town who are ill, and tell them, 'The Reign of God is nearly on you.'

²⁶ Brothers, sons of Abraham's race and all among you who reverence God, the message of this salvation has been sent to us.

⁴⁰ Beware then in case the prophetic saying applies to you:

⁴⁶ So Paul and Barnabas spoke out fearlessly. "The word of God," they said, "had to be spoken to you in the first instance; but as you push it aside and judge yourselves unworthy of eternal life, well, here we turn to the Gentiles!

⁸ No, what it does say is this: — The word is close to you, in your very mouth and in your heart (that is, the word of faith which we preach).

²¹ He also says of Israel, All the day long I have held out my hands to a disobedient and contrary people.

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;

¹⁵ I tell you truly, on the day of judgment it will be more bearable for Sodom and Gomorra than for that town.

²⁴ I tell you, it will be more bearable for Sodom on the day of judgment than for you."

²⁰ Then he proceeded to upbraid the towns where his many miracles had been performed, because they would not repent. ²¹ "Woe to you, Khorazin! Woe to you, Bethsaida! Had the miracles performed in you been performed in Tyre and Sidon, they would have repented long ago in sackcloth and ashes. ²² I tell you this, it will be more bearable for Tyre and Sidon on the day of judgment than for you. ²³ And you, O Capharnahum! Exalted to heaven? No, you will sink to Hades! — for if the miracles performed in you had been performed in Sodom, Sodom would have lasted to this day.

²² Then they reached Bethsaida. A blind man was brought to him with the request that he would touch him. ²³ So he took the blind man by the hand and led him outside the village; then, after spitting on his eyes, he laid his hands on him and asked him, "Do you see anything?" ²⁴ He began to see and said, "I can make out people, for I see them as large as trees, moving." ²⁵ At this he laid his hands on his eyes once more, and the man stared in front of him; he was quite restored and saw everything distinctly. ²⁶ And Jesus sent him home, saying, "Do not go even into the village."

¹⁰ Then the apostles came back and described all they had done to Jesus. He took them and retired in private to a town called Bethsaida, ¹¹ but the crowds learned this and followed him. He welcomed them, spoke to them of the Reign of God, and cured those who needed to be healed. ¹² Now as the day began to decline the twelve came up to him and said, "Send the crowd off to lodge in the villages and farms around and get provisions there, for here we are in a desert place." ¹³ He said to them, "Give them some food yourselves." They said, "We have only got five loaves and two fish. Unless — are we to go and buy food for the whole of this people?" ¹⁴ (There were about five thousand men of them.) He said to his disciples, "Make them lie down in rows of about fifty." ¹⁵ They did so, and made them all lie down. ¹⁶ Then taking the five loaves and the two fish and looking up to heaven he blessed them, broke them in pieces and handed them to the disciples to set before the crowd. ¹⁷ And they all ate and had enough. What they had left over was picked up, twelve baskets full of fragments.

⁵ Jesus replied, "Truly, truly I tell you, unless one is born of water and the Spirit, he cannot enter God's Realm. ⁶ What is born of the flesh is flesh: what is born of the Spirit is Spirit.

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, ²⁶ when he said, Go and tell this people, 'You will hear and hear but never understand, you will see and see but never perceive.' ²⁷ For the heart at this people is obtuse, their ears are heavy at hearing, their eyes they have closed, lest they see with their eyes and hear with their ears, lest they understand with their heart and turn again, and I cure them. ²⁸ Be sure of this, then, that this salvation of God has been sent to the Gentiles; they will listen to it."

²⁹ Indeed, as Isaiah foretold, Had not the Lord of hosts left us with some descendants, we would have fared like Sodom, we would have been like Gomorra. ³⁰ What are we to conclude, then? That Gentiles who never aimed at righteousness have attained righteousness, that is, righteousness by faith; ³¹ whereas Israel who did aim at the law of righteousness have failed to reach that law. ³² And why? Simply because Israel has relied not on faith but on what they could do. They have stumbled over the stone that makes men stumble — ³³ as it is written, Here I lay a stone in Sion that will make men stumble, even a rock to trip them up; but he who believes in Him will never be disappointed.

⁸ as it is written, God has given them a spirit of torpor, eyes that see not, ears that hear not — down to this very day. ⁹ And David says, Let their table prove a snare and a trap, a pitfall and a retribution for them; ¹⁰ let their eyes be darkened, that they cannot see, bow down their backs for ever. ¹¹ Now I ask, have they stumbled to their ruin? Never! The truth is, that by their lapse salvation has passed to the Gentiles, so as to make them jealous.

² through plausible sophists who are seared in conscience —

³ But I will allow my two witnesses to prophesy for twelve hundred and sixty days, clad in sackcloth

⁴⁷ The servant who knew his lord and master's orders and did not prepare for them, will receive many lashes; ⁴⁸ whereas he who was ignorant and did what deserves a beating, will receive few lashes. He who has much given him will have much required from him, and he who has much entrusted to him will have all the more demanded of him.

¹⁹ And this is the sentence of condemnation, that the Light has entered the world and yet men have preferred darkness to light. It is because their actions have been evil;

²² They would not be guilty, if I had not come and spoken to them; but, as it is, they have no excuse for their sin — ²³ he who hates me hates my Father also. 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. ²⁵ It is that the word written in their Law may be fulfilled: they hated me for no cause.

¹ Therefore you are inexcusable, whoever you are, if you pose as a judge, for in judging another you condemn yourself; you, the judge, do the very same things yourself.

²⁷ And shall not those who are physically uncircumcised and who fulfil the Law, judge you who are a breaker of the Law for all your written code and circumcision?)

¹³ he left Nazaret and settled at Capharnahum beside the lake, in the territory of Zebulun and Naphtali

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

²³ And you, O Capharnahum! Exalted to heaven? No, you will sink to Hades! — for if the miracles performed in you had been performed in Sodom, Sodom would have lasted to this day.

¹ When he had finished what he had to say in the hearing of the people, he went into Capharnahum. ² Now there was an army-captain who had a servant ill whom he valued very highly. This man was at the point of death;

²⁸ There you will wail and gnash your teeth, to see Abraham, Isaac, Jacob and all the prophets inside the Realm of God and yourselves put outside.

²³ And as he was being tortured in Hades he raised his eyes and saw Abraham far away with Lazarus in his bosom;

⁴ For if God did not spare angels who had sinned, but committing them to pits of the nether gloom in Tartarus, reserved them under punishment for doom:

⁵ and whoever receives a little child like this for my sake, receives me.

³⁷ "Whoever receives one of these little ones in my name receives me, and whoever receives me receives not me but him who sent me."

²² Indeed the Father passes judgment on no one; he has committed the judgment which determines life or death entirely to the Son, ²³ that all men may honour the Son as they honour the Father. (He who does not honour the Son does not honour the Father who sent him.)

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

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,

⁴ When it remained unsold, did it not remain your own? And even after the sale, was the money not yours to do as you pleased about it? How could you think of doing a thing like this? You have not defrauded men but God."

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

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

¹ After that the Lord commissioned other seventy disciples, sending them in front of him two by two to every town and place that he intended to visit himself.

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

¹⁰ Then Jesus told him, "Begone, Satan! it is written, You must worship the Lord your God, and serve him alone."

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.

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)

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.)

¹ The fifth angel blew, and I saw a Star which had dropped from heaven to earth; he was given the key of the pit of the abyss,

⁷ And war broke out in heaven, Michael and his angels fighting with the dragon; the dragon and his angels also fought, ⁸ but he failed, and there was no place for them in heaven any longer. 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,

¹⁸ they will handle serpents, and if they drink any deadly poison, it will not hurt them; they will lay hands on the sick and make them well."

¹⁷ You will be hated by all on account of my name; ¹⁸ but not a hair of your head will perish.

⁵ However, he shook off the creature into the fire and was not a whit the worse.

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

⁵ Keep your life free from the love of money; be content with what you have, for He has said, Never will I fail you, never will I forsake you. ⁶ So that we can say confidently, The Lord is my helper, I will not be afraid. What can men do to me?

⁵ whoever tries to harm them, fire will issue from their mouth and consume their enemies; whoever should try to harm them, so must he be killed."

²² Many will say to me at that Day, 'Lord, Lord, did we not prophesy in your name? did we not cast out daemons in your name? did we not perform many miracles in your name?' ²³ Then I will declare to them, 'I never knew you; depart from my presence, you workers of iniquity.'

¹ And summoning his twelve disciples he gave them power over unclean spirits, power to cast them out and also to heal every disease and every ailment.

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

⁵ Then he flung down the silver pieces in the temple and went off and hung himself.

² I may prophesy, fathom all mysteries and secret lore, I may have such absolute faith that I can move hills from their place, but if I have no love, I count for nothing; ³ I may distribute all I possess in charity, I may give up my body to be burnt, but if I have no love, I make nothing of it.

³ And you, my true comrade, lend a hand to these women, I beg of you; they have fought at my side in the active service of the gospel, along with Clement and the rest of my fellow-workers, whose names are in the book of life.

²³ to the assembly of the first-born registered in heaven, to the God of all as judge, to the spirits of just men made perfect,

⁵ 'The conqueror shall be clad in white raiment; I will never erase his name from the book of Life, but will own him openly before my Father and before his angels.'

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.

¹² And I saw the dead, high and low, standing before the throne, and books were opened — also another book, the book of Life, was opened — and the dead were judged by what was written in these books, by what they had done.

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.

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.

²⁵ At that time Jesus spoke and said, "I praise thee, Father, Lord of heaven and earth, for hiding all this from the wise and learned and revealing it to the simpleminded; ²⁶ yes, Father, I praise thee that such was thy chosen purpose. 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.

¹¹ He replied, "Because it is granted you to understand the open secrets of the Realm of heaven, but it is not granted to these people. ¹² For he who has, to him shall more be given and richly given, but whoever has not, from him shall be taken even what he has. ¹³ This is why I speak to them in parables, because for all their seeing they do not see and for all their hearing they do not hear or understand. ¹⁴ In their case the prophecy of Isaiah is being fulfilled: You will hear and hear but never understand, you will see and see but never perceive. ¹⁵ For the heart of this people is obtuse, their ears are heavy of hearing, their eyes they have closed, lest they see with their eyes and hear with their ears, lest they understand with their heart and turn again, and I cure them. ¹⁶ But blessed are your eyes for they see, and your ears, for they hear!

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

¹⁶ they said to him, "Do you hear what they are saying?" "Yes," said Jesus, "have you never read Thou hast brought praise to perfection from the mouth of babes and sucklings?"

¹⁵ I tell you truly, whoever will not submit to the Reign of God like a child will never get into it at all."

⁵ When he finds it he puts it on his shoulders with joy,

⁹ And when she finds it she gathers her women-friends and neighbours, saying, 'Rejoice with me, for I have found the shilling I lost.'

⁴¹ Then they removed the boulder, and Jesus, lifting his eyes to heaven, said, "Father, I thank thee for listening to me.

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. ²⁵ O just Father, though the world has not known thee, I have known thee, and they have known that thou hast sent 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."

⁹ Faithful is the God who called you to this fellowship with his Son Jesus Christ our Lord. ¹⁰ Brothers, for the sake of our Lord Jesus Christ I beg of you all to drop these party-cries. There must be no cliques among you; you must regain your common temper and attitude. ¹¹ For Chloe's people inform me that you are quarrelling. ¹² By 'quarrelling' I mean that each of you has his party-cry, "I belong to Paul," "And I to Apollos," "And I to Cephas," "And I to Christ." ¹³ Has Christ been parcelled out? Was it Paul who was crucified for you? Was it in Paul's name that you were baptized? ¹⁴ I am thankful now that I baptized none of you, except Crispus and Gaius, ¹⁵ so that no one can say you were baptized in my name. ¹⁶ (Well, I did baptize the household of Stephanas, but no one else, as far as I remember.) ¹⁷ Christ did not send me to baptize but to preach the gospel. And to preach it with no fine rhetoric, lest the cross of Christ should lose its power! ¹⁸ Those who are doomed to perish find the story of the cross 'sheer folly,' but it means the power of God for those whom he saves. ¹⁹ It is written, I will destroy the wisdom of the sages, I will confound the insight of the wise. ²⁰ Sage, scribe, critic of this world, where are they all? Has not God stultified the wisdom of the world? ²¹ For when the world with all its wisdom failed to know God in his wisdom, God resolved to save believers by the 'sheer folly' of the Christian message. ²² Jews demand miracles and Greeks want wisdom, ²³ but our message is Christ the crucified — a stumbling-block to the Jews, 'sheer folly' to the Gentiles, ²⁴ but for those who are called, whether Jews or Greeks, a Christ who is the power of God and the wisdom of God. ²⁵ For the 'foolishness' of God is wiser than men, and the 'weakness' of God is stronger than men. ²⁶ Why, look at your own ranks, my brothers; not many wise men (that is, judged by human standards), not many leading men, not many of good birth, have been called! ²⁷ No, God has chosen what is foolish in the world to shame the wise; God has chosen what is weak in the world to shame what is strong; ²⁸ God has chosen what is mean and despised in the world — things which are not, to put down things that are; ²⁹ that no person may boast in the sight of God.

⁶ We do discuss 'wisdom' with those who are mature; only it is not the wisdom of this world or of the dethroned Powers who rule this world, ⁷ it is the mysterious Wisdom of God that we discuss, that hidden wisdom which God decreed from all eternity for our glory. ⁸ None of the Powers of this world understands it (if they had, they would never have crucified the Lord of glory).

¹⁸ Let no one deceive himself about this; whoever of you imagines he is wise with this world's wisdom must become a 'fool,' if he is really to be wise. ¹⁹ For God ranks this world's wisdom as 'sheer folly.' It is written, He seizes the wise in their craftiness, ²⁰ and again, The Lord knows the reasoning of the wise is futile.

³ Even if my gospel is veiled, it is only veiled in the case of the perishing;

⁵ destining us in love to be his sons through Jesus Christ. Such was the purpose of his will,

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

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!

¹ So off with all malice, all guile and insincerity and envy and slander of every kind! ² Like newly-born children, thirst for the pure, spiritual milk to make you grow up to salvation.

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.

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

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.

³⁵ the Father loves the Son and has given him control over everything.

²² Indeed the Father passes judgment on no one; he has committed the judgment which determines life or death entirely to the Son, ²³ that all men may honour the Son as they honour the Father. (He who does not honour the Son does not honour the Father who sent him.) ²⁴ Truly, truly I tell you, he who listens to my word and believes him who sent me has eternal life; he will incur no sentence of judgment, he has already passed from death across to life. ²⁵ Truly, truly I tell you, the time is coming, it has come already, when the dead will listen to the voice of the Son of God, and those who listen will live; ²⁶ for as the Father has life in himself, so too he has granted the Son to have life in himself, ²⁷ and also granted him authority to act as judge, since he is Son of man.

⁴⁴ No one is able to come to me unless he is drawn by the Father who sent me (and I will raise him up on the last day). 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. ⁴⁶ Not that anyone has seen the Father — he only, who is from God, he has seen the Father.

¹⁵ (just as the Father knows me and I know the Father,) and I lay down my life for the sheep.

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

² since thou hast granted him power over all flesh to give eternal life to all whom thou hast given to him.

⁵ now, Father, glorify me in thy presence with the glory which I enjoyed in thy presence before the world began.

¹⁰ (all mine is thine and thine is mine), and I am glorified in them.

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."

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.

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.

²¹ above all the angelic Rulers, Authorities, Powers, and Lords, above every Name that is to be named not only in this age but in the age to come —

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.

⁸ putting all things under his feet. Now by putting all things under him, the writer meant to leave nothing out of his control. But, as it is, we do not yet see all things controlled by man;

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.

¹⁶ But blessed are your eyes for they see, and your ears, for they hear! ¹⁷ I tell you truly, many prophets and good men have longed to see what you see, but they have not seen it; and to hear what you hear, but they have not heard it.

⁵⁶ Your father Abraham exulted that he was to see my Day: he did see it and he rejoiced."

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

³⁹ They all won their record for faith, but the Promise they did not obtain.

¹⁰ Even prophets have searched and inquired about that salvation, the prophets who prophesied of the grace that was meant for you; ¹¹ the Spirit of messiah within them foretold all the suffering of messiah and his after-glory, and they pondered when or how this was to come; ¹² to them it was revealed that they got this intelligence not for themselves but for you, regarding all that has now been disclosed to you by those who preached the gospel to you through the holy Spirit sent from heaven. The very angels long to get a glimpse of this!

¹⁶ Up came a man and said to him, "Teacher, what good deed must I do to gain life eternal?" ¹⁷ He said to him, "Why do you ask me about what is good? One alone is good. But if you want to get into Life, keep the commands." ¹⁸ "Which?" he said. Jesus answered, "The commands, you shall not kill, you shall not commit adultery, you shall not steal, you shall not bear false witness, ¹⁹ honour your father and mother, and you must love your neighbour as yourself."

³⁴ When the Pharisees heard he had silenced the Sadducees, they mustered their forces, ³⁵ and one of them, a jurist, put a question in order to tempt him. ³⁶ "Teacher," he said, "what is the greatest command in the Law?" ³⁷ He replied, "You must love the Lord your God with your whole heart, with your whole soul, and with your whole mind. ³⁸ This is the greatest and chief command. ³⁹ There is a second like it: you must love your neighbour as yourself.

³⁰ but the Pharisees and jurists, who had refused his baptism, frustrated God's purpose for themselves.)

⁴⁵ One of the jurists said to him, "Teacher, when you say this you are insulting us as well." ⁴⁶ He said, "And woe to you jurists! you load men with irksome burdens, and you will not put a single finger to their burdens.

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

³⁰ and brought them out (after securing the other prisoners). "Sirs," he said, "what must I do to be saved?" ³¹ "Believe in the Lord Jesus Christ," they said, "and then you will be saved, you and your household as well."

¹⁸ If the Inheritance is due to law, it ceases to be due to promise. Now it was by a promise that God bestowed it on Abraham. ¹⁹ Whatever the Law says, we know, it says to those who are inside the Law, that every mouth may be shut and all the world made answerable to God;

¹⁴ For if it is adherents of the Law who are heirs, then faith is empty of all meaning and the promise is void. ¹⁵ (What the Law produces is the Wrath, not the promise of God; where there is no law, there is no transgression either.) ¹⁶ That is why all turns upon faith; it is to make the promise a matter of favour, to make it secure for all the offspring, not simply for those who are adherents of the Law but also for those who share the faith of Abraham — of Abraham who is the father of us all

⁵ Moses writes of law-righteousness, Anyone who can perform it, shall live by it.

¹² and the Law is not based on faith: no, he who performs these things shall live by them), ¹³ Christ ransomed us from the curse of the Law by becoming accursed for us (for it is written, Cursed is everyone who hangs on a gibbet),

²¹ Then the Law is contrary to God's Promises? Never! Had there been any law which had the power of producing life, righteousness would really have been due to law, ²² but Scripture has consigned all without exception to the custody of sin, in order that the promise due to faith in Jesus Christ might be given to those who have faith.

¹⁹ honour your father and mother, and you must love your neighbour as yourself."

³⁷ He replied, "You must love the Lord your God with your whole heart, with your whole soul, and with your whole mind. ³⁸ This is the greatest and chief command. ³⁹ There is a second like it: you must love your neighbour as yourself. ⁴⁰ The whole Law and the prophets hang upon these two commands."

³⁰ and you must love the Lord your God with your whole heart, with your whole soul, with your whole mind, and with your whole strength. ³¹ The second is this: You must love your neighbour as yourself. There is no other command greater than these."

³³ Also, to love him with the whole heart, with the whole understanding, and with the whole strength, and to love one's neighbour as oneself — that is far more than all holocausts and sacrifices." ³⁴ Jesus noted his intelligent answer and said to him, "You are not far off the Realm of God." After that no one ventured to put any more questions to him.

⁹ You must not commit adultery, you must not kill, you must not steal, you must not covet — these and any other command are summed up in a single word, You must love your neighbour as yourself.

¹³ Brothers, you were called to be free; only, do not make your freedom an opening for the flesh, but serve one another in love.

¹⁰ This is the covenant I will make with the house of Israel when that day comes, saith the Lord; I will set my laws within their mind, inscribing them upon their hearts; I will be a God to them, and they shall be a People to me;

⁸ If you really fulfil the royal law laid down by scripture, You must love your neighbour as yourself, well and good;

¹⁸ My dear children, let us put our love not into words or into talk but into deeds, and make it real.

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

³⁴ Jesus noted his intelligent answer and said to him, "You are not far off the Realm of God." After that no one ventured to put any more questions to him.

⁴³ "I suppose," said Simon, "the man who had most forgiven." "Quite right," he said.

⁴ Now Christ is an end to law, so as to let every believer have righteousness.

¹² and the Law is not based on faith: no, he who performs these things shall live by them),

⁴³ You have heard the saying, 'You must love your neighbour and hate your enemy.' ⁴⁴ But I tell you, love your enemies and pray for those who persecute you,

³⁶ Which of these three men, in your opinion, proved a neighbour to the man who fell among the robbers?"

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

⁹ He also told the following parable to certain persons who were sure of their own goodness and looked down upon everybody else. ¹⁰ "Two men went up to pray in the temple; one was a Pharisee and the other was a taxgatherer. ¹¹ The Pharisee stood up and prayed by himself as follows; 'I thank thee, O God, I am not like the rest of men, thieves, rogues, and immoral, or even like yon taxgatherer.

² This, that if 'Abraham was justified on the score of what he did,' he has something to be proud of. But not to be proud of before God.

³ They would not surrender to the righteousness of God, because they were ignorant of his righteousness and therefore essayed to set up a righteousness of their own.

¹¹ And because no one is justified on the score of the Law before God (plainly, the just shall live by faith, —

²⁴ You observe it is by what he does that a man is justified, not simply by what he believes.

³¹ Then he took the twelve aside and told them, "We are going up to Jerusalem, and all the predictions of the prophets regarding the Son of man will be fulfilled;

²⁸ With these words he went forward on his way up to Jerusalem.

¹³ for the judgment will be merciless to the man who has shown no mercy — whereas the merciful life will triumph in the face of judgment. ¹⁴ My brothers, what is the use of anyone declaring he has faith, if he has no deeds to show? Can his faith save him? ¹⁵ Suppose some brother or sister is ill-clad and short of daily food; ¹⁶ if any of you says to them, "Depart in peace! Get warm, get food," without supplying their bodily needs, what use is that?

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.

¹⁷ Then all [the Greeks] caught hold of Sosthenes the president of the synagogue and beat him in front of the tribunal; but Gallio took no notice.

² For men will be selfish, fond of money, boastful, haughty, abusive, disobedient to their parents, ungrateful, irreverent,

⁵ These twelve men Jesus despatched with the following instructions, "Do not go among the Gentiles, and do not enter a Samaritan town,

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

⁵² He sent messengers in front of him. They went and entered a Samaritan village to make preparations for him, ⁵³ but the people would not receive him because his face was turned in the direction of Jerusalem.

¹⁶ and he fell on his face at the feet of Jesus and thanked him. The man was a Samaritan. ¹⁷ So Jesus said, "Were all the ten not cleansed? Where are the other nine? ¹⁸ Was there no one to return and give glory to God except this foreigner?"

⁹ The Samaritan woman said, "What? You are a Jew, and you ask me for a drink — me, a Samaritan!" (Jews do not associate with Samaritans.)

⁴⁸ The Jews retorted, "Are we not right in saying you are a Samaritan, you are mad?"

⁴³ You have heard the saying, 'You must love your neighbour and hate your enemy.' ⁴⁴ But I tell you, love your enemies and pray for those who persecute you, ⁴⁵ that you may be sons of your Father in heaven: he makes his sun rise on the evil and the good, and sends rain on the just and the unjust.

⁸ She has done all she could — she has anticipated the perfuming of my body for burial.

⁷ she gave birth to her firstborn son, and as there was no room for them inside the khan she wrapped him up and laid him in a stall for cattle.

²⁰ if your enemy is hungry, feed him, if he is thirsty, give him drink; for in this way you will make him feel a burning sense of shame.

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

² and after agreeing with the labourers to pay them a shilling a day he sent them into his vineyard.

¹³ No, when you give a banquet, invite the poor, the maimed, the lame, and the blind.

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

²⁵ He said, "Yes." But when he went indoors Jesus spoke first; "Tell me, Simon," he said, "from whom do earthly kings collect customs or taxes? Is it from their own people or from aliens?"

²⁸ Tell me what you think. A man had two sons. He went to the first and said, 'Son, go and work in the vineyard to-day'; ²⁹ he replied, 'I will go, sir,' but he did not go. ³⁰ The man went to the second and said the same to him; he replied, 'I will not,' but afterwards he changed his mind and did go. ³¹ Which of the two did the will of the father?" They said, "The last." Jesus said to them, "I tell you truly, the taxgatherers and harlots are going into the Realm of God before you.

⁴² "Tell me," he said, "what you think about the Christ. Whose son is he?" They said to him, "David's."

⁴² As they were unable to pay, he freely forgave them both. Tell me, now, which of them will love him most?"

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

²³ Woe to you, you impious scribes and Pharisees! you tithe mint and dill and cummin, and omit the weightier matters of the law, justice and mercy and faithfulness; these latter you ought to have practised — without omit ting the former.

³² If you love only those who love you, what credit is that to you? Why, even sinful men love those who love them. ³³ If you help only those who help you, what merit is that to you? Why, even sinful men do that. ³⁴ If you only lend to those from whom you hope to get something, what credit is that to you? Even sinful men lend to one another, so as to get a fair return. ³⁵ No, you must love your enemies and help them, you must lend to them without expecting any return; then you will have a rich reward, you will be sons of the Most High for he is kind even to the ungrateful and the evil. ³⁶ Be merciful, as your Father is merciful.

¹⁵ for I have been setting you an example, that you should do what I have done to you. ¹⁶ Truly, truly I tell you, a servant is not greater than his master, nor is a messenger greater than he who sent him. ¹⁷ If you know all this, blessed are you if you really do it.

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.)

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,' ¹⁹ by knowing the love of Christ which surpasses all knowledge! May you be filled with the entire fulness of God!

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

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.

²¹ It is your vocation; for when Christ suffered for you, he left you an example, and you must follow his footsteps.

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.

¹⁰ Love lies in this, not in our love for him but in his love for us — in the sending of his Son to be the propitiation for our sins. ¹¹ Beloved, if God had such love for us, we ought to love one another.

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 —

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

¹ Now there was a man ill, Lazarus of Bethany — the village of Mary and her sister Martha. ² (The Mary whose brother Lazarus was ill was the Mary who anointed the Lord with perfume and wiped his feet with her hair.) ³ so the sisters sent to him, saying, "Lord, he whom you love is ill." ⁴ When Jesus heard it, he said, "This illness is not to end in death; the end of it is the glory of God, that the Son of God may be glorified thereby." ⁵ [Relocated to follow vs 2] Jesus loved Martha and her sister and Lazarus;

¹⁹ a number of Jews had gone to condole with Martha and Mary about their brother; ²⁰ Then Martha, hearing of the arrival of Jesus, went out to meet him, while Mary sat at home.

¹ Six days before the festival, Jesus came to Bethany, where Lazarus stayed (whom Jesus had raised from the dead). ² They gave a supper for him there; Martha waited on him, and Lazarus was among those who reclined at table beside him. ³ Then Mary, taking a pound of expensive perfume, real nard, anointed the feet of Jesus and wiped his feet with her hair, till the house was filled with the scent of the perfume.

¹⁰ If anyone comes to you and does not bring this doctrine, do not admit him to the house — do not even greet him,

⁴⁶ Three days later they found him in the temple, seated among the teachers, listening to them and asking them questions,

³⁵ The people came out to see what had occurred and when they reached Jesus they discovered the man whom the daemons had left, seated at the feet of Jesus, clothed and sane. That frightened them.

¹ Now there was a man ill, Lazarus of Bethany — the village of Mary and her sister Martha.

³ Then Mary, taking a pound of expensive perfume, real nard, anointed the feet of Jesus and wiped his feet with her hair, till the house was filled with the scent of the perfume.

³ "I am a Jew, born at Tarsus in Cilicia, but brought up in this city, educated at the feet of Gamaliel in all the strictness of our ancestral Law, ardent for God as you all are to-day.

³² I want you to be free from all anxieties. The unmarried man is anxious about the Lord's affairs, how best to satisfy the Lord; ³³ the married man is anxious about worldly affairs, how best to satisfy his wife — ³⁴ so he is torn in two directions. The unmarried woman or the maid is also anxious about the Lord's affairs, how to be consecrated, body and spirit; once married, she is anxious about worldly affairs, how best to satisfy her husband. ³⁵ I am saying this in your own interests. Not that I want to restrict your freedom. It is only to secure decorum and concentration upon a life of devotion to the Lord. ³⁶ At the same time, if any man considers he is not behaving properly to the maid who is his spiritual bride, if his passions are strong and if it must be so, then let him do what he wants — let them be married; it is no sin for him. ³⁷ But the man of firm purpose who has made up his mind, who, instead of being forced against his will, has determined to himself to keep his maid a spiritual bride — that man will be doing the right thing. ³⁸ Thus both are right alike in marrying and in refraining from marriage, but he who does not marry will be found to have done better. ³⁹ A woman is bound to her husband during his lifetime; but if he dies, she is free to marry anyone she pleases — only, it must be a Christian. ⁴⁰ However, she is happier if she remains as she is; that is my opinion — and I suppose I have the Spirit of God as well as other people!

¹⁵ When evening fell, the disciples came up to him and said, "It is a desert place and the day is now gone; send off the crowds to buy food for themselves in the villages."

²² Peter took him and began to reprove him for it; "God forbid, Lord," he said, "This must not be."

²¹ And when his family heard this, they set out to get hold of him, for what they said was, "He is out of his mind."

⁵⁵ But he turned and checked them.

²⁹ So do not seek food and drink and be worried;

²⁷ Work for no perishing food, but for that lasting food which means eternal life; the Son of man will give you that, for the Father, God, has certified him."

²⁵ Therefore I tell you, do not trouble about what you are to eat or drink in life, nor about what you are to put on your body; surely life means more than food, surely the body means more than clothes! ²⁶ Look at the wild birds; they sow not, they reap not, they gather nothing in granaries, and yet your heavenly Father feeds them. Are you not worth more than birds? ²⁷ Which of you can add an ell to his height by troubling about it? ²⁸ And why should you trouble over clothing? Look how the lilies of the field grow; they neither toil nor spin, ²⁹ and yet, I tell you, even Solomon in all his grandeur was never robed like one of them. ³⁰ Now if God so clothes the grass of the field which blooms to-day and is thrown to-morrow into the furnace, will not he much more clothe you? O men, how little you trust him! ³¹ Do not be troubled, then, and cry, 'What are we to eat?' or 'what are we to drink?' or 'how are we to be clothed?' ³² (pagans make all that their aim in life) for your heavenly Father knows quite well you need all that. ³³ Seek God's Realm and his goodness, and all that will be yours over and above. ³⁴ So do not be troubled about to-morrow; to-morrow will take care of itself. The day's own trouble is quite enough for the day.

¹⁹ but the worries of the world and the delight of being rich and all the other passions come in to choke the word; so it proves unfruitful.

¹⁴ As for the seed that fell among thorns, that means people who hear but who go and get choked with worries and money and the pleasures of life, so that they never ripen.

²² To his disciples he said, "Therefore I tell you, do not trouble about what you are to eat in life, nor about what you are to put on your body;

³⁴ Take heed to yourselves in case your hearts get overpowered by dissipation and drunkenness and worldly anxieties, and so that Day catches you suddenly like a trap.

³² I want you to be free from all anxieties. The unmarried man is anxious about the Lord's affairs, how best to satisfy the Lord; ³³ the married man is anxious about worldly affairs, how best to satisfy his wife — ³⁴ so he is torn in two directions. The unmarried woman or the maid is also anxious about the Lord's affairs, how to be consecrated, body and spirit; once married, she is anxious about worldly affairs, how best to satisfy her husband. ³⁵ I am saying this in your own interests. Not that I want to restrict your freedom. It is only to secure decorum and concentration upon a life of devotion to the Lord.

⁶ Never be anxious, but always make your requests known to God in prayer and supplication with thanksgiving;

³⁶ What profit is it for a man to gain the whole world and to forfeit his soul?

¹⁸ So take care how you listen; for he who has, to him shall more be given, while as for him who has not, from him shall be taken even what he thinks he has."

²⁰ But God said to him, 'Foolish man, this very night your soul is wanted; and who will get all you have prepared?'

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

² So he summoned him and said, 'What is this I hear about you? Hand in your accounts; you cannot be factor any longer.'

²⁵ But Abraham said, 'Remember, my son, you got all the bliss when you were alive, just as Lazarus got the ills of life; he is in comfort now, and you are in anguish.

²² When Jesus heard this he said to him, "You lack one thing more; sell all you have, distribute the money among the poor and you will have treasure in heaven; then come and follow me."

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

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

²⁷ My sheep listen to my voice, and I know them and they follow me; ²⁸ and I give them eternal life; they will never perish, and no one will snatch them out of my hand.

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

³ I may distribute all I possess in charity, I may give up my body to be burnt, but if I have no love, I make nothing of it.

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

¹⁰ it is in him that you reach your full life, and he is the Head of every angelic Ruler and Power; ¹¹ in him you have been circumcised with no material circumcision that cuts flesh from the body, but with Christ's own circumcision, ¹² when you were buried with him in your baptism and thereby raised with him as you believed in the power of the God who raised him from the dead. ¹³ For though you were dead in your trespasses, your flesh uncircumcised, He made you live with Christ, He forgave us all our trespasses, ¹⁴ He cancelled the regulations that stood against us — all these obligations he set aside when he nailed them to the cross, ¹⁵ when he cut away the angelic Rulers and Powers from us, exposing them to all the world and triumphing over them in the cross. ¹⁶ So let no one take you to task on questions of eating and drinking or in connexion with the observance of festivals or new moons or sabbaths. ¹⁷ All that is the mere shadow of what is to be; the substance belongs to Christ. ¹⁸ Let no one lay down rules for you as he pleases, with regard to fasting and the cult of angels, presuming on his visions and inflated by his sensuous notions, ¹⁹ instead of keeping in touch with that Head under whom the entire Body, supplied with joints and sinews and thus compacted, grows with growth divine.

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.

⁴ born to an unscathed, inviolate, unfading inheritance; it is kept in heaven for you, ⁵ and the power of God protects you by faith till you do inherit the salvation which is all ready to be revealed at the last hour.

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.