Romans 11 Cross References - Moffatt

¹ Then, I ask, has God repudiated his People? Never! Why, I am an Israelite myself, a descendant of Abraham, a member of the tribe of Benjamin! ² God has not repudiated his People, his predestined People! Surely you know what scripture says in the passage called 'Elijah'? You know how he pleads with God against Israel: ³ Lord, they have killed thy prophets, they have demolished thine altars; I alone am left, and they seek my life. ⁴ Yet what is the divine answer? I have left myself seven thousand men who have not knelt to Baal. ⁵ Well, at the present day there is also a remnant, selected by grace. ⁶ Selected by grace, and therefore not for anything they have done; otherwise grace would cease to be grace. ⁷ Now what are we to infer from this? That Israel has failed to secure the object of its quest; the elect have secured it, and the rest have been rendered insensible to it — 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. ¹² Well, if their lapse has enriched the world, if their defection is the gain of the Gentiles, what will it mean when they all come in? ¹³ I tell you this, you Gentiles, that as an apostle to the Gentiles I lay great stress on my office, ¹⁴ in the hope of being able to make my fellow-Jews jealous and of managing thus to save some of them. ¹⁵ For if their exclusion means that the world is reconciled to God, what will their admission mean? Why, it will be life from the dead! ¹⁶ If the first handful of dough is consecrated, so is the rest of the lump; if the root is consecrated, so are the branches. ¹⁷ Supposing some of the branches have been broken off, while you have been grafted in like a shoot of wild olive to share the rich growth of the olive-stem, ¹⁸ do not pride yourself at the expense of these branches. Remember, in your pride, the stem supports you, not you the stem. ¹⁹ You will say, "But branches were broken off to let me be grafted in!" ²⁰ Granted. They were broken off — for their lack of faith. And you owe your position to your faith. You should feel awed instead of being uplifted. ²¹ For if God did not spare the natural branches, he will not spare you either. ²² Consider both the kindness and the severity of God; those who fall come under his severity, but you come under the divine kindness, provided you adhere to that kindness. Otherwise, you will be cut away too. ²³ And even the others will be grafted in, if they do not adhere to their unbelief; God can graft them in again. ²⁴ For if you have been cut from an olive which is naturally wild, and grafted, contrary to nature, upon a garden olive, how much more will the natural branches be grafted into their proper olive? ²⁵ To prevent you from being self-conceited, brothers, I would like you to understand this secret: it is only a partial insensibility that has come over Israel, until the full number of the Gentiles come in. ²⁶ This done, all Israel will be saved — as it is written, The deliverer will come from Sion, he will banish all godlessness from Jacob: ²⁷ this is my covenant with them, when I take their sins away. ²⁸ So far as the gospel goes, they are enemies of God — which is to your advantage; but so far as election goes, they are beloved for their father's sake. ²⁹ For God never goes back upon his gifts and call. ³⁰ Once you disobeyed God, and now you enjoy his mercy thanks to their disobedience; in the same way they at present are disobedient, ³¹ so that they in turn may enjoy the same mercy as yourselves. ³² For God has consigned all men to disobedience, that he may have mercy upon all. ³³ What a fathomless wealth lies in the wisdom and knowledge of God! How inscrutable his judgments! How mysterious his methods! ³⁴ Who ever understood the thoughts of the Lord? Who has ever been his counsellor? ³⁵ Who has first given to him and has to be repaid? ³⁶ All comes from him, all lives by him, all ends in him. Glory to him for ever, Amen!

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.

⁴ How I lived from my youth up among my own nation and at Jerusalem, all that early career of mine, is known to all the Jews.

⁴ Never! Let God be true to his word, though every man be perfidious — as it is written, That thou mayest be vindicated in thy pleadings, and triumph in thy trial.

³ I could have wished myself accursed and banished from Christ for the sake of my brothers, my natural kinsmen;

²² Are they Hebrews? so am I. Israelites? so am I. Descended from Abraham? so am I.

⁵ I was circumcised on the eighth day after birth; I belonged to the race of Israel, to the tribe of Benjamin; I was the Hebrew son of Hebrew parents, a Pharisee as regards the Law,

¹ From the Jordan Jesus came back full of the holy Spirit,

¹ Now when the Lord learned that the Pharisees had heard of Jesus gaining and baptizing more disciples than John ² (though Jesus himself did not baptize, it was his disciples), ³ he left Judaea and went back to Galilee.

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?

¹⁷ Now I know, brothers, that you acted in ignorance, like your rulers —

⁴⁰ They told Aaron, 'Make gods that will march in front of us! As for this Moses who led us out of Egypt, we don't know what has happened to him!'

⁴⁸ When the Gentiles heard this they rejoiced and glorified the word of the Lord and believed, that is, all who had been ordained to eternal life;

¹⁸ who makes this known from of old.

²⁹ For he decreed of old that those whom he predestined should share the likeness of his Son — that he might be the firstborn of a great brotherhood. ³⁰ Then he calls those whom he has thus decreed; then he justifies those whom he has called; then he glorifies those whom he has justified.

⁶ It is not, of course, as if God's word had failed! Far from it! 'Israel' does not mean everyone who belongs to Israel;

²³ What if he means to show the wealth that lies in his glory for the objects of his mercy, whom he has made ready beforehand to receive glory —

² Do you not know the saints are to manage the world? If the world is to come under your jurisdiction, are you incompetent to adjudicate upon trifles?

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;

¹ Many were the forms and fashions in which God spoke of old to our fathers by the prophets, ² whom God the Father has predestined and chosen, by the consecration of the Spirit, to obey Jesus Christ and be sprinkled with his blood: may grace and peace be multiplied to you.

¹¹ and though the children were still unborn and had done nothing either good or bad (to confirm the divine purpose in election which depends upon the call of God, not on anything man does),

²⁷ And Isaiah exclaims, with regard to Israel, Though the number of the sons of Israel be like the sand of the sea, only a remnant of them shall be saved;

⁶ Selected by grace, and therefore not for anything they have done; otherwise grace would cease to be grace. ⁷ Now what are we to infer from this? That Israel has failed to secure the object of its quest; the elect have secured it, and the rest have been rendered insensible to it —

²⁸ So far as the gospel goes, they are enemies of God — which is to your advantage; but so far as election goes, they are beloved for their father's sake.

⁵ destining us in love to be his sons through Jesus Christ. Such was the purpose of his will, ⁶ redounding to the praise of his glorious grace bestowed on us in the Beloved,

²⁷ Then what becomes of our boasting? It is ruled out absolutely. On what principle? On the principle of doing deeds? No, on the principle of faith. ²⁸ We hold a man is justified by faith apart from deeds of the Law altogether.

⁴ Now a worker has his wage counted to him as a due, not as a favour; ⁵ but a man who instead of 'working' believes in Him who justifies the ungodly, has his faith counted as righteousness.

²⁰ Law slipped in to aggravate the trespass; sin increased, but grace surpassed it far, 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.

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.

²¹ I do not annul God's grace; but if righteousness comes by way of the Law, then indeed Christ's death was useless.

⁴ You are for justification by the Law? Then you are done with Christ, you have deserted grace,

⁴ But, dead in trespasses as we were, God was so rich in mercy that for his great love to us ⁵ he made us live together with Christ (it is by grace you have been saved); ⁶ together with Christ he raised and seated us within the heavenly sphere in Christ Jesus, ⁷ to display throughout ages to come his surpassing wealth of grace and goodness toward us in Christ Jesus. ⁸ For it is by grace you have been saved, as you had faith; it is not your doing but God's gift, ⁹ not the outcome of what you have done — lest anyone should pride himself on that;

⁹ who has saved us and called us to a life of consecration — not for anything we have done but because he chose to do it himself, by the grace which he gave us ages ago in Christ Jesus

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

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.

²⁴ "Strive to get in through the narrow door, for I tell you many will try to get in and not be able,

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.

⁹ Well now, are we Jews in a better position? Not at all. I have already charged all, Jews as well as Greeks, with being under sin —

¹⁵ What follows, then? Are we 'to sin, because we live under grace, not under law'? Never!

²⁸ We know also that those who love God, those who have been called in terms of his purpose, have his aid and interest in everything.

¹⁸ Thus God has mercy on anyone just as he pleases, and he makes anyone stubborn just as he pleases.

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 —

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.

⁵ Well, at the present day there is also a remnant, selected by grace.

²⁵ To prevent you from being self-conceited, brothers, I would like you to understand this secret: it is only a partial insensibility that has come over Israel, until the full number of the Gentiles come in.

¹⁹ Do I imply, you ask, that 'food offered to an idol has any meaning, or that an idol itself means any thing'?

¹⁴ Besides, their minds were dulled, for to this very day, when the Old Testament is read aloud, the same veil hangs. Veiled from them the fact that the glory fades in Christ!

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.

⁴ He chose us in him ere the world was founded, to be consecrated and unblemished in his sight,

¹⁸ What does it matter? Anyhow, for ulterior ends or honestly, Christ is being proclaimed, and I rejoice over that; yes and I will rejoice over it.

¹⁰ and with the full deceitfulness of evil for those who are doomed to perish, since they refuse to love the Truth that would save them. ¹¹ Therefore God visits them with an active delusion, till they put faith in falsehood, ¹² so that all may be doomed who refuse faith in the Truth but delight in evil. ¹³ Now we are bound always to thank God for you, brothers beloved by the Lord, because God has chosen you as the first to be reaped for salvation, by the consecration of your spirit and by faith in the Truth; ¹⁴ it was for this that he called you by our gospel, to gain the glory of our Lord Jesus Christ.

¹⁷ You know how later on, when he wanted to obtain his inheritance of blessing, he was set aside; he got no chance to repent, though he tried for it with tears.

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.

¹¹ and he said to them: "The open secret of the Realm of God is granted to you, but these outsiders get everything by way of parables, ¹² so that for all their seeing they may not perceive, and for all their hearing they may not understand, lest they turn and be forgiven."

¹⁰ so he said, "It is granted you to understand the open secrets of the Reign of God, but the others get it in parables, so that for all their seeing they may not see, and for all their hearing they may not understand.

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.'

¹⁴ Besides, their minds were dulled, for to this very day, when the Old Testament is read aloud, the same veil hangs. Veiled from them the fact that the glory fades in Christ! ¹⁵ Yes, down to this day, whenever Moses is read aloud, the veil rests on their heart;

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

¹⁹ There was a rich man, clad in purple and fine linen, who lived sumptuously every day. ²⁰ Outside his door lay a poor man called Lazarus; he was a mass of ulcers, ²¹ and fain to eat up the crumbs that fell from the rich man's table. (The very dogs used to come and lick his ulcers.) ²² Now it happened that the poor man died, and he was carried by the angels to Abraham's bosom. The rich man died too, and was buried. ²³ And as he was being tortured in Hades he raised his eyes and saw Abraham far away with Lazarus in his bosom; ²⁴ so he called out, 'Father Abraham, take pity on me, send Lazarus to dip his fingertip in water and cool my tongue, for I am in anguish in these flames.' 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.

¹⁷ Charge the rich of this world not to be supercilious, and not to fix their hopes on so uncertain a thing as riches but on the living God who richly provides us with all the enjoyments of life; ¹⁸ tell them to be bountiful, rich in good works, open-handed and generous, ¹⁹ amassing right good treasure for themselves in the world to come, in order to secure the life which is life indeed.

² For if the divine word spoken by angels held good, if transgression and disobedience met with due punishment in every case,

²¹ Though they knew God, they have not glorified him as God nor given thanks to him; they have turned to futile speculations till their ignorant minds grew dark.

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.

¹⁸ their intelligence is darkened, they are estranged from the life of God by the ignorance which their dulness of heart has produced in them —

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:

¹⁷ These people are waterless fountains and mists driven by a squall, for whom the nether gloom of darkness is reserved.

⁶ while the angels who abandoned their own domain, instead of preserving their proper rank, are reserved by him within the nether gloom, in chains eternal, for the doom of the great Day —

¹³ wild waves foaming out their own shame, wandering stars for whom the nether gloom of darkness has been reserved eternally.

⁴² As Paul and Barnabas went out, the people begged to have all this repeated to them on the following sabbath.

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! ⁴⁷ For these are the Lord's orders to us: I have set you to be a light for the Gentiles, to bring salvation to the end of the earth." ⁴⁸ When the Gentiles heard this they rejoiced and glorified the word of the Lord and believed, that is, all who had been ordained to eternal life;

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."

¹⁸ and saw Him saying to me, 'Make haste, leave Jerusalem quickly, for they will not accept your evidence about me.' ¹⁹ 'But, Lord,' I said, 'they surely know it was I who imprisoned and flogged those who believed in you throughout the synagogues, ²⁰ and that I stood and approved when the blood of your martyr Stephen was being shed, taking charge of the clothes of his murderers!' ²¹ But he said to me, 'Go; I will send you afar to the Gentiles — — '"

²⁴ Some were convinced by what he said, but the others would not believe. 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."

¹⁹ Then, I ask, "Did Israel not understand?" Why, first of all Moses declares, I will make you jealous of a nation that is no nation, I will provoke you to anger over a nation devoid of understanding.

¹ Then, I ask, has God repudiated his People? Never! Why, I am an Israelite myself, a descendant of Abraham, a member of the tribe of Benjamin!

¹² Well, if their lapse has enriched the world, if their defection is the gain of the Gentiles, what will it mean when they all come in?

¹⁴ in the hope of being able to make my fellow-Jews jealous and of managing thus to save some of them.

³¹ so that they in turn may enjoy the same mercy as yourselves.

¹⁵ For if their exclusion means that the world is reconciled to God, what will their admission mean? Why, it will be life from the dead!

³³ What a fathomless wealth lies in the wisdom and knowledge of God! How inscrutable his judgments! How mysterious his methods!

⁸ less than the least of all saints as I am, this grace was vouchsafed me, that I should bring the Gentiles the gospel of the fathomless wealth of Christ

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.

¹⁵ Then the seventh angel blew; and loud voices followed in heaven, crying, "The rule of the world has passed to our Lord and his Christ, and he shall reign for ever and ever." ¹⁶ Then the four and twenty Presbyters who are seated on their thrones before God, fell on their faces and worshipped God, ¹⁷ saying, "We thank thee, Lord God almighty, who art and wast, that thou hast assumed thy great power and begun to reign; ¹⁸ the nations were enraged, but thine anger has come; the time has come for the dead to be judged, the time for rewarding thy servants the prophets, and the saints who reverence thy name, both low and high, the time for destroying the destroyers of the earth." ¹⁹ Then the temple of God in heaven was thrown open, and the ark of his covenant was seen inside his temple; there were flashes of lightning, loud blasts, peals of thunder, an earthquake, and a hailstorm.

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

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."

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

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.'

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. ¹⁷ Now in Christ Jesus I can be proud of my work for God. ¹⁸ I will not make free to speak of anything except what Christ has accomplished by me in the way of securing the obedience of the Gentiles, by my words and by my deeds, 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 —

¹⁶ and when he chose to reveal his Son to me, that I might preach him to the Gentiles, instead of consulting with any human being,

² (It was in consequence of a revelation that I went up at all.) I submitted the gospel I am in the habit of preaching to the Gentiles, submitting it privately to the authorities, to make sure that my course of action would be and had been sound.

⁷ On the contrary, when they saw I had been entrusted with the gospel for the benefit of the uncircumcised, just as Peter had been for the circumcised ⁸ (for He who equipped Peter to be an apostle of the circumcised equipped me as well for the uncircumcised), ⁹ and when they recognized the grace I had been given, then the so-called 'pillars' of the church, James and Cephas and John, gave myself and Barnabas the right hand of fellowship. Our sphere was to be the Gentiles, theirs the circumcised.

⁷ and I was appointed to be its herald and apostle (I am not telling a lie, it is quite true), to teach the Gentiles faith and truth.

¹¹ Of that gospel I have been appointed a herald and an apostle and a teacher, ¹² and this is why I am suffering. Still, I am not ashamed of it; I know whom I have trusted and I am certain he is able to keep what I have put into his hands till the great Day.

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.

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.

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

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

⁴ to the God who desires all men to be saved and to attain the knowledge of the Truth.

¹⁶ Watch yourself and watch your teaching; stick to your work; if you do that, you will save your hearers as well as yourself.

¹⁰ All I endure is for the sake of the elect, to let them obtain their share of the salvation of Christ Jesus and also of eternal glory.

¹² I am sending him back to you, and parting with my very heart.

²⁰ understand that he who brings a sinner back from the error of his way saves his soul from death and hides a host of sins.

²⁴ for my son here was dead and he has come to life, he was lost and he is found.' So they began to make merry.

³² We could not but make merry and rejoice, for your brother here was dead and has come to life again, he was lost but he has been found.' "

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. ¹¹ Not only so, but we triumph in God through our Lord Jesus Christ, by whom we now enjoy our reconciliation.

¹ Then, I ask, has God repudiated his People? Never! Why, I am an Israelite myself, a descendant of Abraham, a member of the tribe of Benjamin! ² God has not repudiated his People, his predestined People! Surely you know what scripture says in the passage called 'Elijah'? You know how he pleads with God against Israel:

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. ¹² Well, if their lapse has enriched the world, if their defection is the gain of the Gentiles, what will it mean when they all come in?

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.

¹⁰ so to order it in the fulness of the ages that all things in heaven and earth alike should be gathered up in Christ —

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. ²¹ Once you were estranged yourselves, your hearts hostile to him in evildoing; but now he has reconciled you by dying in his mortal body,

¹¹ But after three days and a half the breath of life from God entered them; they stood on their feet (terror fell on those who saw them)

⁴ And I saw thrones with people sitting on them, who were allowed to judge — saw the souls of those who had been beheaded for the testimony of Jesus and God's word, those who would not worship the Beast or his statue, and who would not receive his mark on their forehead or hand; they came to life and reigned along with the Christ for a thousand years. ⁵ As for the rest of the dead, they did not come to life until the thousand years were completed. This is the first resurrection. ⁶ Blessed and holy is he who shares in the first resurrection; over such the second death has no power, they shall be priests of God and the Christ, and reign along with him during the thousand years.

¹⁷ Supposing some of the branches have been broken off, while you have been grafted in like a shoot of wild olive to share the rich growth of the olive-stem,

¹⁴ For the unbelieving husband is consecrated in the person of his wife, and the unbelieving wife is consecrated in the person of the Christian brother she has married; otherwise, of course, your children would be unholy instead of being consecrated to God.

¹⁸ It was his own will that we should be born by the Word of the truth, to be a kind of firstfruits among his creatures.

⁴ They have not been defiled by intercourse with women — they are celibates; they follow the Lamb wherever he goes; they have been ransomed from among men, as the first to be reaped for God and the Lamb.

¹¹ Many, I tell you, will come from east and west and take their places beside Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob in the Realm of heaven, ¹² while the sons of the Realm will pass outside, into the darkness; there men will wail and gnash their teeth."

⁴³ I tell you therefore that the Realm of God will be taken from you and given to a nation that bears the fruits of the Realm.

² he cuts away any branch on me which is not bearing fruit, and cleans every branch which does bear fruit, to make it bear richer fruit.

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.

³⁹ For the promise is meant for you and for your children and for all who are far off, for anyone whom the Lord our God may call to himself."

¹⁵ We may be Jews by birth and not 'Gentile sinners,'

¹¹ Remember, then, that once upon a time you Gentiles in the flesh, who are called 'the Uncircumcision' by that so-called 'Circumcision' which is itself the product of human hands in the flesh — ¹² remember you were in those days outside Christ, aliens to the commonwealth of Israel, and strangers to the covenants of the Promise, devoid of hope and God within the world. ¹³ Whereas now, within Christ Jesus, you who once were far away have been brought near by the blood of Christ.

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

¹³ For though you were dead in your trespasses, your flesh uncircumcised, He made you live with Christ, He forgave us all our trespasses,

⁴ (they are the two olive-trees and the two lampstands which stand before the Lord of the earth):

³³ Peter answered, "Supposing they are all disconcerted over you, I will not be disconcerted."

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.

²² You are worshipping something you do not know; we are worshipping what we do know — for salvation comes from the Jews.

¹⁶ I have other sheep, too, which do not belong to this fold; I must bring them also, and they will listen to my voice; so it will be one flock, one shepherd.

²⁷ Then what becomes of our boasting? It is ruled out absolutely. On what principle? On the principle of doing deeds? No, on the principle of faith.

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

²⁰ Granted. They were broken off — for their lack of faith. And you owe your position to your faith. You should feel awed instead of being uplifted.

¹² So let anyone who thinks he stands secure, take care in case he falls.

²⁹ Now if you are Christ's, then you are Abraham's offspring; in virtue of the Promise, you are heirs.

¹⁹ Thus you are strangers and foreigners no longer, you share the membership of the saints, you belong to God's own household, ²⁰ you are a building that rests on the apostles and prophets as its foundation, with Christ Jesus as the cornerstone;

²³ And even the others will be grafted in, if they do not adhere to their unbelief; God can graft them in again. ²⁴ For if you have been cut from an olive which is naturally wild, and grafted, contrary to nature, upon a garden olive, how much more will the natural branches be grafted into their proper olive?

¹⁴ I tell you, he went home accepted by God rather than the other man; for everyone who uplifts himself will be humbled, and he who humbles himself will be uplifted."

¹⁷ The woman replied, "I have no husband." Jesus said to her, "You were right in saying, 'I have no husband'; ¹⁸ you have had five husbands, and he whom you have now espoused is not your husband. That was a true word."

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

³ Even supposing some of them have proved untrustworthy, is their faithlessness to cancel the faithfulness of God?

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

¹⁸ do not pride yourself at the expense of these branches. Remember, in your pride, the stem supports you, not you the stem.

¹⁶ Keep in harmony with one another; instead of being ambitious, associate with humble folk; never be self-conceited.

¹³ Watch, stand firm in the faith, play the man, be strong!

²⁴ (Not that we lord it over your faith — no, we co-operate for your joy: you have a standing of your own in the faith.)

⁵ I demolish theories and any rampart thrown up to resist the knowledge of God, I take every project prisoner to make it obey Christ,

¹² Therefore, my beloved, as you have been obedient always and not simply when I was present, so, now that I am absent, work all the more strenuously at your salvation with reverence and trembling,

⁷ fixed and founded in him, confirmed in the faith as you have been taught it, and overflowing with thankfulness to God.

⁴ the adversary who vaunts himself above and against every so-called god or object of worship, actually seating himself in the temple of God with the proclamation that he himself is God.

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

³ callous, relentless, scurrilous, dissolute, and savage; they will hate goodness, ⁴ they will be treacherous, reckless and conceited, preferring pleasure to God — ⁵ for though they keep up a form of religion, they will have nothing to do with it as a force. Avoid all such.

¹² Brothers, take care in case there is a wicked, unbelieving heart in any of you, moving you to apostatize from the living God.

¹⁹ Thus we see it was owing to unbelief that they could not enter.

⁶ Since then it is reserved for some to enter it, and since those who formerly got the good news failed to enter owing to their disobedience,

¹¹ Let us be eager then to enter that Rest, in case anyone falls into the same sort of disobedience.

¹⁹ You believe in one God? Well and good. So do the devils, and they shudder.

⁶ Yet he gives grace more and more: thus it is said, The haughty God opposes, but to the humble he gives grace.

¹⁷ And as you call upon a Father who judges everyone impartially by what he has done, be reverent in your conduct while you sojourn here below;

⁵ You younger men must also submit to the presbyters. Indeed you must all put on the apron of humility to serve one another, for the haughty God opposes, but to the humble he gives grace. ⁶ Humble yourselves under the strong hand of God, then, so that when it is time, he may raise you;

⁹ Resist him; keep your foothold in the faith, and learn to pay the same tax of suffering as the rest of your brotherhood throughout the world.

¹² By the hand of Silvanus, a faithful brother (in my opinion), I have written you these few lines of encouragement, to testify that this is what the true grace of God means. Stand in that grace.

¹⁷ You declare, 'I am rich, I am well off, I lack nothing!' — not knowing you are a miserable creature, pitiful, poor, blind, naked.

⁷ As she gloried and played the wanton, so give her like measure of torture and tears. Since in her heart she vaunts, 'A queen I sit, no widow I, tears I shall never know,'

³² The God who did not spare his own Son but gave him up for us all, surely He will give us everything besides!

¹⁹ You will say, "But branches were broken off to let me be grafted in!"

¹ For I would have you know this, my brothers, that while our fathers all lived under the cloud, all crossed through the sea, ² all were baptized into Moses by the cloud and by the sea, ³ all ate the same supernatural food, ⁴ and all drank the same supernatural drink (drinking from the supernatural Rock which accompanied them — and that Rock was Christ), ⁵ still with most of them God was not satisfied; they were laid low in the desert. ⁶ Now this took place as a warning for us, to keep us from craving for evil as they craved. ⁷ And you must not be idolaters, like some of them; as it is written, the people sat down to eat and drink, and they rose up to make sport. ⁸ Nor must we commit immorality, as some of them did — and in a single day twenty-three thousand of them fell. ⁹ Nor must we presume upon the Lord as some of them did — only to be destroyed by serpents. ¹⁰ And you must not murmur, as some of them did — only to be destroyed by the destroying angel. ¹¹ It all happened to them by way of warning for others, and it was written down for the purpose of instructing us whose lot has been cast in the closing hours of the world. ¹² So let anyone who thinks he stands secure, take care in case he falls.

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 if he did not spare the ancient world but kept Noah, the herald of righteousness, safe with seven others, when he let loose the deluge on the world of impious men: ⁶ if he reduced the cities of Sodom and Gomorra to ashes when he sentenced them to devastation, and thus gave the impious an example of what was in store for them, ⁷ but rescued righteous Lot who was sore burdened by the immoral behaviour of the lawless ⁸ (for when that righteous man resided among them, by what he saw and heard his righteous soul was vexed day after day with their unlawful doings) — ⁹ then be sure the Lord knows how to rescue pious folk from trial, and how to keep the unrighteous under punishment till the day of doom,

⁵ Now I want to remind you of what you are perfectly aware, that though the Lord once brought the People safe out of Egypt, he subsequently destroyed the unbelieving,

⁹ instead of presuming to say to yourselves, 'We have a father in Abraham.' I tell you, God can raise up children for Abraham from these stones! ¹⁰ The axe is lying all ready at the root of the trees; any tree that is not producing good fruit will be cut down and thrown into the fire.

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

³¹ So Jesus addressed the Jews who had believed him, saying, "If you abide by what I say, you are really disciples of mine:

⁴ Remain in me, as I remain in you: just as a branch cannot bear fruit by itself, without remaining on the vine, neither can you, unless you remain in me. 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. ⁸ As you bear rich fruit and prove yourselves my disciples, my Father is glorified. 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.

²³ When he came and saw the grace of God he rejoiced, and encouraged them all to hold by the Lord with heartfelt purpose

²² strengthening the souls of the disciples, encouraging them to hold by the faith, and telling them that "we have to get into the Realm of God through many a trouble."

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

⁷ eternal life to those who by patiently doing good aim at glory, honour, and immortality,

²² What if God, though desirous to display his anger and show his might, has tolerated most patiently the objects of his anger, ripe and ready to be destroyed? ²³ What if he means to show the wealth that lies in his glory for the objects of his mercy, whom he has made ready beforehand to receive glory —

² the gospel by which you are saved — provided you adhere to my statement of it — unless indeed your faith was all haphazard.

⁹ Never let us grow tired of doing what is right, for if we do not faint we shall reap our harvest at the opportune season.

⁵ Well then, unable to bear it any longer, I sent to find out about your faith, in case the Tempter had tempted you and our labour had been thrown away.

⁸ It is life to me now, if you stand firm in the Lord.

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.

¹⁴ For we only participate in Christ provided that we keep firm to the very end the confidence with which we started,

²³ let us hold the hope we avow without wavering (for we can rely on him who gave us the Promise);

³⁵ Now do not drop that confidence of yours; it carries with it a rich hope of reward. ³⁶ Steady patience is what you need, so that after doing the will of God you may get what you have been promised. ³⁷ For in a little, a very little now, The Coming One will arrive without delay. ³⁸ Meantime my just man shall live on by his faith; if he shrinks back, my soul takes no delight in him. ³⁹ We are not the men to shrink back and be lost, but to have faith and so to win our souls.

¹⁹ They withdrew from us, but they did not belong to us; had they belonged to us, they would have remained with us, but they withdrew to make it plain that they are none of us.

²⁰ But do you, beloved, build up yourselves on your most holy faith and pray in the holy Spirit, ²¹ so keeping yourselves within the love of God and waiting for the mercy of our Lord Jesus Christ that ends in life eternal.

⁵ Now, remember the height from which you have fallen; repent and act as you did at first. If not, I will come to you [very soon] and remove your lamp stand, unless you repent.

³⁹ For I tell you, you will never see me again till you say, Blessed be he who comes in the Lord's name."

¹⁶ though whenever they turn to the Lord, the veil is removed.

¹⁷ Supposing some of the branches have been broken off, while you have been grafted in like a shoot of wild olive to share the rich growth of the olive-stem, ¹⁸ do not pride yourself at the expense of these branches. Remember, in your pride, the stem supports you, not you the stem.

³⁰ Once you disobeyed God, and now you enjoy his mercy thanks to their disobedience; in the same way they at present are disobedient,

²⁴ they will fall by the edge of the sword, they will be carried prisoners to all nations, and Jerusalem will be under the heel of the Gentiles till the period of the Gentiles expires.

¹³ Brothers, I would like you to understand that I have often purposed to come to you (though up till now I have been prevented) so as to have some results among you as well as among the rest of the Gentiles.

⁷ Now what are we to infer from this? That Israel has failed to secure the object of its quest; the elect have secured it, and the rest have been rendered insensible to it — 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.

²⁵ [Now to Him who can strengthen you by my gospel, by the preaching of Jesus Christ, by revealing the secret purpose which after the silence of long ages

¹ For I would have you know this, my brothers, that while our fathers all lived under the cloud, all crossed through the sea,

¹ But I want you to understand about spiritual gifts, brothers.

¹⁴ Besides, their minds were dulled, for to this very day, when the Old Testament is read aloud, the same veil hangs. Veiled from them the fact that the glory fades in Christ! ¹⁵ Yes, down to this day, whenever Moses is read aloud, the veil rests on their heart; ¹⁶ though whenever they turn to the Lord, the veil is removed.

³ how the divine secret was disclosed to me by a revelation (if you read what I have already written briefly about this, ⁴ you can understand my insight into that secret of Christ

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

⁸ Beloved, you must not ignore this one fact, that with the Lord a single day is like a thousand years, and a thousand years are like a single day.

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;

⁷ in the days of the seventh angel's voice, when he now blows his blast, then shall the secret purpose of God be fulfilled, as he assured his servants the prophets."

¹⁵ Then the seventh angel blew; and loud voices followed in heaven, crying, "The rule of the world has passed to our Lord and his Christ, and he shall reign for ever and ever."

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. ⁴ And I saw thrones with people sitting on them, who were allowed to judge — saw the souls of those who had been beheaded for the testimony of Jesus and God's word, those who would not worship the Beast or his statue, and who would not receive his mark on their forehead or hand; they came to life and reigned along with the Christ for a thousand years.

²¹ She will bear a son, and you will call him 'Jesus,' for he will save his people from their sins."

²⁶ It was for you first that God raised up his Servant, and sent him to bless you by turning each of you from your wicked ways."

¹⁴ who gave himself up for us to redeem us from all iniquity and secure himself a clean people with a zest for good works.

²⁹ Next day he observed Jesus coming towards him and exclaimed, "Look, there is the lamb of God, who is to remove the sin of the world!

⁸ Whereas God does find fault with the people of that covenant, when he says: The day is coming, saith the Lord, when I will conclude a new covenant with the house of Israel and with the house of Judah. It will not be on the lines of the covenant I made with their fathers, ⁹ on the day I took them by the hand to lead out of Egypt's land; for they would not hold to my covenant, so I let them alone, saith the Lord. 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; ¹¹ one citizen will no longer teach his fellow, one man will no longer teach his brother, saying, 'Know the Lord,' for all will know me, low and high together. ¹² I will be merciful to their iniquities, and remember their sins no more.

¹⁶ This is the covenant I will make with them when that day comes, saith the Lord, I will set my laws upon their hearts, inscribing them upon their minds, he adds,

⁵⁴ He has succoured his servant Israel, mindful of his mercy

⁶⁸ "Blessed be the Lord the God of Israel, for he has cared for his people and wrought them redemption; ⁶⁹ he has raised up a strong saviour for us in the house of his servant David ⁷⁰ as he promised of old by the lips of his prophets ⁷¹ to save us from our foes and from the hand of all who hate us, ⁷² to deal mercifully with our fathers and to be mindful of his holy covenant, ⁷³ of the oath he swore to Abraham our father, ⁷⁴ that freed from fear and from the hand of our foes we should worship him ⁷⁵ in holiness and uprightness all our days within his presence.

⁴⁵ But when the Jews saw the crowds they were filled with jealousy; they began to contradict what Paul said and to abuse him. 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!

² [Move to follow vs 3] But the refractory Jews stirred up and exasperated the feeling of the Gentiles against the brothers.

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.

⁵ the patriarchs are theirs, and theirs too (so far as natural descent goes) is the Christ. (Blessed for evermore be the God who is over all! Amen.)

⁷ Now what are we to infer from this? That Israel has failed to secure the object of its quest; the elect have secured it, and the rest have been rendered insensible to it —

¹⁵ who killed the Lord Jesus and the prophets, who harassed ourselves, who offend God and oppose all men ¹⁶ by hindering us from speaking words of salvation to the Gentiles. So they would fill up the measure of their sins to the last drop! But the Wrath is on them to the bitter end!

²⁸ We know also that those who love God, those who have been called in terms of his purpose, have his aid and interest in everything.

²¹ Previous priests became priests apart from any oath, but he has an oath from Him who said to him, The Lord has sworn, and he will not change his mind, thou art a priest for ever.

⁹ What! do you not know that the wicked will not inherit the Realm of God? Make no mistake about it; neither the immoral nor idolaters nor adulterers nor catamites nor sodomites ¹⁰ nor thieves nor the lustful nor the drunken nor the abusive nor robbers will inherit the Realm of God. ¹¹ Some of you were once like that; but you washed yourselves clean, you were consecrated, you were justified in the name of our Lord Jesus Christ and in the Spirit of our God.

²⁵ I have no orders from the Lord for unmarried women, but I will give you the opinion of one whom you can trust, after all the Lord's mercy to him.

¹ Hence, as I hold this ministry by God's mercy to me, I never lose heart in it;

¹ And as with us so with you. You were dead in the trespasses and sins 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

¹⁹ Thus you are strangers and foreigners no longer, you share the membership of the saints, you belong to God's own household, ²⁰ you are a building that rests on the apostles and prophets as its foundation, with Christ Jesus as the cornerstone; ²¹ in him the whole structure is welded together and rises into a sacred temple in the Lord,

⁷ Once you moved among them, when you lived in them;

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

³ For we ourselves were once senseless, disobedient, astray, enslaved to all manner of passions and pleasures; we spent our days in malice and envy, we were hateful, and we hated one another. ⁴ But "the goodness and affection of God our Saviour appeared; ⁵ and he saved us, not for anything we had done but from his own pity for us, by the water that means regeneration and renewal under the holy Spirit ⁶ which he poured upon us richly through Jesus Christ our Saviour, ⁷ that we might be justified by his grace and become heirs to the hope of life eternal."

¹⁰ you who once were no people and now are God's people, you who once were unpitied and now are pitied.

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

⁷ he came for the purpose of witnessing, to bear testimony to the Light, so that all men might believe by means of him.

³² But I, when I am lifted up from the earth, will draw all men to myself."

²² but it is a righteousness of God which comes by believing in Jesus Christ. And it is meant for all who have faith. No distinctions are drawn.

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.

⁴ to the God who desires all men to be saved and to attain the knowledge of the Truth. ⁵ For "there is one God" and "one intermediary between God and men, ⁶ the man Christ Jesus who gave himself as a ransom for all": — in due time this was attested,

⁴ Or are you slighting all his wealth of kindness, forbearance, and patience? Do you not know his kindness is meant to make you repent?

⁷ in whom we enjoy our redemption, the forgiveness of our trespasses, by the blood he shed.

⁷ to display throughout ages to come his surpassing wealth of grace and goodness toward us in Christ Jesus.

¹⁰ intending to let the full sweep of the divine wisdom be disclosed now by the church to the angelic Rulers and Authorities in the heavenly sphere,

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.

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,'

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!

¹⁶ For who ever understood the thoughts of the Lord, so as to give him instruction? No one. Well, our thoughts are Christ's thoughts.

¹⁵ Can I not do as I please with what belongs to me? Have you a grudge because I am generous?'

⁷ Who singles you out, my brother? What do you possess that has not been given you? And if it was given you, why do you boast as if it had been gained, not given?

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

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

³⁸ saying, "Blessed be the king who comes in the Lord's name! Peace in heaven and glory in the High places!"

²⁵ he is not served by human hands as if he needed anything, for it is he who gives life and breath and all things to all men. ²⁶ All nations he has created from a common origin, to dwell all over the earth, fixing their allotted periods and the boundaries of their abodes,

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

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

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

¹² for as woman was made from man, so man is now made from woman, while both, like all things, come from God.)

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

²¹ to him be glory in the church and in Christ Jesus throughout all generations for ever and ever: Amen.

⁶ one God and Father of all, who is over us all, who pervades us all, who is within us all. 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;

²⁰ Glory to God our Father for ever and ever: Amen.

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.

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

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

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.

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.

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

¹¹ If anyone preaches, he must preach as one who utters the words of God; if anyone renders some service, it must be as one who is supplied by God with power, so that in everything God may be glorified through Jesus Christ. The glory and the dominion are his for ever and ever: Amen.

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

¹⁸ but grow in the grace and knowledge of our Lord and saviour Jesus Christ. To him be the glory now and to the day of eternity: Amen.

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

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 — ⁶ he has made us a realm of priests for his God and Father, — to him be glory and dominion for ever and ever: Amen.

¹⁰ the four and twenty Presbyters fall down before him who is seated on the throne, worshipping him who lives for ever and ever, and casting their crowns before the throne, with the cry, ¹¹ "Thou deservest, our Lord and God, to receive glory and honour and power, for it was thou who didst create all things: they existed and were created by thy will."

¹² crying aloud, "The slain Lamb deserves to receive power and wealth and wisdom and might and honour and glory and blessing." ¹³ And I heard every creature in heaven and on earth and under the earth crying, "Blessing and honour and glory and dominion for ever and ever, to him who is seated on the throne and to the Lamb!" ¹⁴ "Amen," said the four living Creatures, and the Presbyters fell down and worshipped.

¹⁰ and they cried with a loud voice, "Saved by our God who is seated on the throne, and by the Lamb!"

¹ After that I heard what was like the shout of a great host in heaven, crying, "Hallelujah! salvation and glory and power are our God's!

⁶ Then I heard a cry like the shout of a great host and the sound of many waves and the roar of heavy thunder — "Hallelujah! now the Lord our God almighty reigns! ⁷ Let us rejoice and triumph, let us give him the glory! For now comes the marriage of the Lamb; his bride has arrayed herself,

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