2 Timothy 3 Cross References - Murdock

¹ But this know thou, that in the latter days hard times will come: ² and men will be lovers of themselves, and lovers of money, boasters, proud, censorious, unyielding towards their own people, denyers of grace, wicked, ³ calumniators, addicted to concupiscence, ferocious, haters of the good, ⁴ treacherous, rash, inflated, attached to pleasure more than to the love of God, ⁵ having a form of respect for God, but wide from the power of God. Them who are such, repel from thee. ⁶ For of them are they who creep into this and that house, and captivate the women who are plunged in sins and led away by divers lusts, ⁷ who are always learning, and can never come to the knowledge of the truth. ⁸ Now as Jannes and Jambres withstood Moses, so also do these withstand the truth: men whose mind is corrupted, and they reprobates from the faith. ⁹ But they will not make progress, for their infatuation will be understood by every one, as theirs also was understood. ¹⁰ But thou hast followed after my doctrine, and my manner of life, and my aims, and my faith, and my long suffering, and my love, and my patience, ¹¹ and my persecution, and my sufferings. And thou knowest what I endured at Antioch, and at Iconium, and at Lystra; what persecution I endured: and from all these my Lord delivered me. ¹² And likewise all, who choose to live in the fear of God, in Jesus the Messiah, will be persecuted. ¹³ But evil and seducing men will add to their wickedness, while they deceive and are deceived. ¹⁴ But continue thou in the things thou hast learned and been assured of; for thou knowest from whom thou learnedst; ¹⁵ because from thy childhood, thou wast taught the holy books, which can make thee wise unto life, by faith in Jesus the Messiah. ¹⁶ All scripture that was written by the Spirit, is profitable for instruction, and for confutation, and for correction, and for erudition in righteousness; ¹⁷ that the man of God may become perfect, and complete for every good work.

¹ Then was Jesus led by the Holy Spirit into the desert, to be tempted by the Calumniator

¹⁰ Blessed are they that are persecuted on account of righteousness: for the kingdom of heaven is theirs! ¹¹ Blessed are ye, when they revile you and persecute you, and speak every evil thing against you, falsely, on my account. ¹² At that time, rejoice and be glad: for your reward in heaven is great. For so they persecuted the prophets that were before you.

¹⁵ Beware of false prophets; who come to you in the garb of sheep, but internally they are rapacious wolves.

²¹ And brother shall deliver up his brother to death, and a father his son; and children shall rise up against parents, and cause them to die. ²² And ye shall be hated by every one, on account of my name. But he that shall endure to the end, shall have life. ²³ And when they persecute you in one city, flee to another: for verily I say to you, Ye shall not have completed all the cities of the house of Israel, till the Son of man shall come. ²⁴ No disciple is better than his rabbi; nor a servant, than his lord. ²⁵ It is sufficient for the disciple, that he be as his rabbi; and the servant, as his lord. If they call the lord of the house Beelzebub, how much more the children of his family?

²⁸ Come unto me, all ye wearied and heavily burdened, and I will ease you.

¹¹ And he answered, and said to them: Because, to you it is given to know the mysteries of the kingdom of heaven, but to them it is not given.

⁵² He said to them: Therefore every Scribe who is instructed for the kingdom of heaven, is like a man who is master of a house, who bringeth forth from his treasures things new and old.

⁶ And thus ye make void the word of God, for the sake of your tradition.

²⁴ Then said Jesus to his disciples: If any one desireth to come after me, let him deny himself; and let him bear his cross, and come after me.

⁴² Jesus said to them: Have ye never read in the scripture, The stone which the builders rejected, hath become the head of the corner: this is from the Lord; and it is marvellous in our eyes?

²⁹ Jesus answered, and said to them: Ye do err, from not knowing the scriptures, nor the power of God.

³¹ But as to the resurrection of the dead,: have ye not read what was spoken to you by God, who said: ³² I am the God of Abraham, the God of Isaac, the God of Jacob? Now he is not the God of the dead, but of the living.

⁴³ He saith to them: How then doth David, by the Spirit, call him Lord? for he said:

¹³ Woe to you, Scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites: for ye devour the houses of widows, under the disguise of protracting your prayers. Therefore ye shall receive greater condemnation.

²⁷ Woe to you, Scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites: for ye are like whited sepulchres, which appear comely without, but are within full of bones of the dead and all impurity. ²⁸ So ye also, outwardly, appear to men as righteous; but within, ye are full of iniquity and hypocrisy.

³⁴ Wherefore, behold, I send unto you prophets, and wise men, and scribes; some of whom ye will kill and crucify, and some of them ye will scourge in your synagogues, and will persecute them from city to city:

⁵⁴ But how then would the scriptures be fulfilled, that thus it must be?

⁵⁶ And this occurred, that the writings of the prophets might be fulfilled. Then the disciples all forsook him and fled.

¹⁹ and the cares of this world, and the deceitfulness of riches, and the residue of other lusts enter in and choke the word, and it is without fruits.

¹¹ But ye say: If a man say to his father or to his mother, Be it my oblation, whatever thou mayest gain from me: ¹² then ye suffer him not to do any thing for his father or his mother.

³⁰ who will not receive a hundredfold, here in the present time, houses, and brothers and sisters, and mothers and children, and lands, with persecution; and in the world to come eternal life.

²⁴ Jesus said to them: Is it not on this account that ye err, because ye understand not the scriptures, nor the power of God?

³⁶ For David himself saith, by the Holy Spirit: The Lord said to my Lord; Seat thyself on my right hand, until I place thy enemies as a footstool beneath thy feet.

³ it seemed proper for me also, as I had examined them all accurately, to write out the whole, methodically, for thee, excellent Theophilus:

¹⁵ For he will be great before the Lord; and he will not drink wine nor strong drink, and will be filled with the Holy Spirit even from his mother's womb.

⁴⁰ And the child grew, and was strengthened in spirit, and was filled with wisdom; and the grace of God was upon him.

¹⁶ He that heareth you, heareth me; and he that despiseth you, despiseth me; and he that despiseth me, despiseth him that sent me.

¹⁵ And he said to his disciples: Beware of all avarice, for life consisteth not in abundance of riches.

²⁶ He that cometh to me, and hateth not his father and his mother, and his brothers and his sisters, and his wife and his children, and his own life also, cannot become a disciple to me. ²⁷ And he that doth not take up his cross and come after me, cannot become a disciple to me.

¹⁴ And the Pharisees, when they heard all these things, because they loved money, derided him.

²⁷ Then he began from Moses, and from all the prophets, and expounded to them concerning himself from all the scriptures.

³² And they said one to another: Did not our heart burn within us, while he talked with us by the way, and explained to us the scriptures?

⁴⁵ Then he opened their mind to understand the scriptures.

²⁰ For every one that doeth abominable things, hateth the light, and cometh not to the light, lest his deeds should be reproved.

²⁰ For every one that doeth abominable things, hateth the light, and cometh not to the light, lest his deeds should be reproved. ²¹ But he that doeth right, cometh to the light, that his works may be known to be done in God.

³⁹ Search the scriptures; for in them, ye think, there is life eternal for you; and they testify of me. ⁴⁰ And ye are unwilling to come to me, that life eternal may be yours.

⁴⁴ How can ye believe, who receive glory from one another, and seek not the glory which cometh from God only?

⁷⁰ Jesus said to them: Have not I chosen you twelve? Yet one of you is a devil.

³⁵ If he called them gods, because the word of God was with them, and the scripture cannot be nullified;

⁴² And of the chiefs also, many believed on him; but on account of the Pharisees, they did not confess him, lest they should be put out of the synagogue; ⁴³ for they loved the praise of men, more than the praise of God.

¹⁹ And if ye were of the world, the world would love what is of it. But ye are not of the world, for I have chosen you out of the world; for this cause, the world hateth you. ²⁰ Remember the word that I spoke to you, That there is no servant, who is greater than his lord. If they have persecuted me, they will also persecute you; and if they have observed my teaching, they will also observe yours. ²¹ But all these things will they do to you, on account of my name, because they know not him that sent me.

² For they will eject you from their synagogues; and the hour will come, that whoever shall kill you, will suppose that he presenteth an offering to God.

³³ These things have I said to you, that in me ye might have peace. In the world ye will have trouble: but, take courage, I have vanquished the world.

¹⁴ I have given them thy word: and the world hath hated them, because they are not of the world, even as I am not of the world.

¹⁶ Men, brethren, it was right that the scripture should be fulfilled, which the Holy Spirit spake, by the mouth of David, concerning Judas who was guide to them that apprehended Jesus.

⁴² And they persevered in the doctrine of the legates; and were associated together in prayer, and in breaking the eucharist.

³⁶ For before this time, rose up Theudas, and said of himself, that he was some great one; and there went after him about four hundred men. And he was slain; and they who went after him, were dispersed and became as nothing.

²¹ Thou hast no part nor lot in this faith; because thy heart is not right before God. ²² Nevertheless, repent of this thy wickedness, and entreat of God, if perhaps the guile of thy heart may be forgiven thee.

¹⁶ For I will show him, how much he is to suffer on account of my name.

²³ And when he had been there many days, the Jews formed a conspiracy against him, to kill him. ²⁴ And the plot which they sought to execute upon him, was made known to Saul: and they watched the gates of the city by day and by night, in order to kill him. ²⁵ Then the disciples placed him in a basket, and let him down from the wall by night.

³⁶ And there was in the city of Joppa, a certain female disciple named Tabitha; and she was rich in good works, and in the alms which she did.

⁴³ And of him all the prophets testify, that whoever believeth in his name, will receive remission of sins.

²³ And when he came there, and saw the grace of God, he rejoiced: and he entreated them, that with all their heart, they would adhere to our Lord.

⁸ And this sorcerer, Bar-Suma, (whose name is interpreted, Elymas,) withstood them; because he wished to divert the proconsul from the faith. ⁹ And Saul who is called Paul, was filled with the Holy Spirit; and he looked upon him, ¹⁰ and said: O thou full of all subtilties, and all mischiefs, thou child of the calumniator, and enemy of all righteousness; wilt thou not cease to pervert the right ways of the Lord? ¹¹ And now, the hand of the Lord is upon thee, and thou shalt be blind, and shalt not see the sun for a time. And immediately there fell upon him a mist and darkness; and he went about, inquiring who would take him by the hand.

¹¹ And now, the hand of the Lord is upon thee, and thou shalt be blind, and shalt not see the sun for a time. And immediately there fell upon him a mist and darkness; and he went about, inquiring who would take him by the hand.

¹⁴ And they departed from Perga, and came to Antioch, a city of Pisidia: and they entered the synagogue, on the sabbath day, and sat down.

²⁹ And when they had fulfilled all that was written concerning him, they took him down from the cross, and laid him in a sepulchre.

³⁸ Know therefore, brethren, that through this man remission of sins is proclaimed to you. ³⁹ And every one that believeth in this man, is made just from all things, from which ye could not be made just by the law of Moses.

⁴⁵ And when the Jews saw the great assembly, they were filled with envy, and set them selves against the words which Paul spoke, and blasphemed.

⁵⁰ But the Jews stirred up the chiefs of the city, and the opulent women who with them feared God, and set up a persecution against Paul and against Barnabas, and expelled them from their borders. ⁵¹ And when they went out, they shook off the dust of their feet against them, and went to the city of Iconium.

¹ And they came and entered into the synagogue of the Jews, and so spoke with them, that many of the Jews and of the Greeks believed. ² But Jews of the class of unbelievers, excited the Gentiles, to maltreat the brethren.

⁵ And an assault was made on them, by the Gentiles, and by the Jews and their chiefs, to insult them, and to stone them with stones. ⁶ And when they knew it, they departed and fled to the cities of Lycaonia and Lystra and Derbe, and to the villages around them;

¹⁹ But Jews came hither from Iconium and Antioch, and excited the people against them. And they stoned Paul, and dragged him out of the city, supposing that he was dead. ²⁰ And the disciples assembled around him; and he arose, and went into the city. And the next day, he departed from there, with Barnabas; and they came to the city of Derbe. ²¹ And while they were preaching to the inhabitants of that city, they made many disciples. And turning back, they came to the city Lystra, and to Iconium, and to Antioch, ²² confirming the souls of the disciples, and entreating them to persevere in the faith; and they told them, that it was necessary, through much affliction, to enter into the kingdom of God.

²⁴ We have heard, that some have gone from us and disquieted you, by discourses, and have subverted your minds, by saying, That ye must be circumcised and keep the law; things which we have not commanded them.

² And Paul, as was his custom, went in to them; and during three sabbaths he discoursed with them from the scriptures;

³¹ Because he hath appointed a day, in which he will judge all the earth, with righteousness, by the man whom he hath designated: and he turneth every man to faith in him, in that he raised him from the dead.

²⁵ He had been instructed in the ways of the Lord, and was fervent in spirit; and he discoursed and taught fully respecting Jesus, while yet he knew nothing except the baptism of John.

¹⁵ And the evil demon answered and said to them: Jesus I well know, and Paul I know, but as for you, who are ye? ¹⁶ And the man in whom was the evil demon leaped upon them, and overpowered them, and threw them down: and they fled out of the house denuded and bruised. ¹⁷ And this became known to all the Jews and Gentiles, who resided at Ephesus. And fear fell on them all, and the name of our Lord Jesus Messiah was exalted.

¹⁸ And when they had come to him, he said to them: Ye yourselves know, how, at all times, since the first day that I entered Asia, I have been with you; ¹⁹ laboring for God, in great humility, and with tears, amid the trials which beset me from the plottings of Jews: ²⁰ and I shunned not that which was advantageous to your souls, that I might preach to you, and teach in the streets and in houses,

²³ except that the Holy Spirit in every city, testifieth to me and saith: Bonds and afflictions await thee. ²⁴ But my life is accounted by me as nothing, so that I may but finish my course, and the ministration which I have received from our Lord Jesus, to bear testimony to the gospel of the grace of God.

²⁷ For I have not shunned to acquaint you with all the will of God.

³² And immediately he took a centurion and many soldiers, and they ran upon them. And when they saw the Chiliarch and the soldiers, they desisted from beating Paul. ³³ And the Chiliarch came up to him, and seized him, and ordered him to be bound with two chains: and he inquired respecting him, who he was, and what he had done.

¹⁰ And, as there was great commotion among them, the Chiliarch was afraid lest they should tear Paul in pieces. And he sent Romans, to go and pluck him from their midst, and bring him into the castle.

¹² And when it was morning, several of the Jews assembled together, and bound themselves by imprecations that they would neither eat nor drink until they had slain Paul. ¹³ And they who had established this compact by oath, were more than forty persons. ¹⁴ And they went to the priests and Elders, and said: We have bound ourselves by imprecations, that we will taste of nothing, until we shall have slain Paul. ¹⁵ And now, do ye and the chiefs of the congregation request of the Chiliarch, that he would bring him unto you, as if ye were desirous to investigate truly his conduct: and we are prepared to slay him, ere he shall come to you. ¹⁶ And the son of Paul's sister, heard of this plot: and he went into the castle, and informed Paul. ¹⁷ And Paul sent and called one of the centurions, and said to him: Conduct this youth to the Chiliarch; for he hath something to tell him. ¹⁸ And the centurion took the young man, and introduced him to the Chiliarch, and said: Paul the prisoner called me, and requested me to bring this youth to thee, for he hath something to tell thee. ¹⁹ And the Chiliarch took the young man by his hand, and led him one side, and asked him: What hast thou to tell me? ²⁰ And the young man said to him: The Jews have projected to ask thee to bring down Paul to-morrow to their assembly, as if wishing to learn something more from him. ²¹ But be not thou persuaded by them: for, lo, more than forty persons of them watch for him in ambush, and have bound themselves by imprecations, that they will neither eat nor drink until they shall have slain him: and lo, they are prepared, and are waiting for thy promise ²² And the Chiliarch dismissed the young man, after charging him: Let no man know, that thou hast showed me these things. ²³ And he called two centurions, and said to them: Go and prepare two hundred Romans to go to Caesarea, and seventy horsemen, and shooters with the right hand two hundred; and let them set out at the third hour of the night. ²⁴ And provide also a saddle beast, that they may set Paul on it, and carry him safely to Felix the governor.

³ And they petitioned him, asking of him the favor, that he would send for him to come to Jerusalem; they placing an ambush to slay him by the way. ⁴ But Festus made answer: Paul is in custody at Caesarea, whither I am in haste to go.

⁴ The Jews themselves, if they would testify, know well my course of life from my childhood, which from the beginning was among my nation and in Jerusalem.

¹⁷ And I will deliver thee from the people of the Jews, and from other nations; to whom I send thee,

²² But unto this day God hath helped me; and lo, I stand and bear testimony, to the small and to the great; yet saying nothing aside from Moses and the prophets, but the very things which they declared were to take place:

²⁵ And they went out from him, disagreeing among themselves. And Paul addressed to them this speech: Well did the Holy Spirit, by the mouth of Isaiah the prophet, speak concerning your fathers,

² (which he had before promised, by his prophets, in the holy scriptures,

²⁸ And as they did not determine with themselves to know God, God gave them over to a vain mind; that they might do what they ought not, ²⁹ being full of all iniquity, and lewdness, and bitterness, and malice, and covetousness, and envy, and slaughter, and strife, and guile, and evil machinations, ³⁰ and backbiting, and slander; and being haters of God, scoffers, proud, vain-glorious, devisers of evil things, destitute of reason, disregardful of parents, ³¹ and to whom a covenant is nothing, neither affection, nor peace, and in whom is no compassion.

³¹ and to whom a covenant is nothing, neither affection, nor peace, and in whom is no compassion.

²⁰ and an instructor of those lacking knowledge, and a preceptor to the young; and thou hast the appearance of knowledge and of verity in the law :

²⁰ and an instructor of those lacking knowledge, and a preceptor to the young; and thou hast the appearance of knowledge and of verity in the law : ²¹ Thou therefore, who teachest others, teachest thou not thyself? And thou who teachest that men must not steal, dost thou steal? ²² And thou who sayest, Men must not commit adultery, dost thou commit adultery? And thou who contemnest idols, dost thou plunder the sanctuary? ²³ And thou who gloriest in the law, dost thou, by acting contrary to the law, insult God himself? ²⁴ For, the name of God, as it is written, is reviled among the Gentiles on your account.

² Much, every way. And first, because to them were intrusted the oracles of God.

²³ And not for his sake alone, was it written, that his faith was accounted for righteousness;

³⁵ What will sever me from the love of Messiah? Will affliction? or distress? or persecution? or famine? or nakedness? or peril? or the sword? ³⁶ As it is written: For thy sake, we die daily: and, we are accounted as sheep for the slaughter. ³⁷ But in all these things we are victorious, by means of him who loved us.

¹⁸ do not glory over the branches. For if thou gloriest, thou sustainest not the root, but the root sustaineth thee.

²⁰ Very true. They were plucked off, because they believed not; and thou standest by faith. Be not exalted in thy mind, but fear.

⁵ One man discriminateth between days; and another judgeth all days alike. But let every one be sure, in regard to his knowledge.

¹ We then who are strong, ought to bear the infirmity of the weak, and not to please ourselves. ² But each of us should please his neighbor, in good things, as conducive to edification. ³ Because Messiah also did not please himself; but, as it is written: The reviling of thy revilers fell upon me. ⁴ For every thing written of old, was written for our instruction; that we, by patience and by the consolation of the scriptures, might possess hope.

¹⁷ And I beseech you, my Brethren, that ye beware of them who cause divisions and stumblings among you, aside from the doctrine which ye have learned: and that ye stand aloof from them.

¹⁷ And I beseech you, my Brethren, that ye beware of them who cause divisions and stumblings among you, aside from the doctrine which ye have learned: and that ye stand aloof from them. ¹⁸ For they who are such, do not serve our Lord Jesus Messiah, but their own belly: and by bland speeches and good wishes, they beguile the hearts of the simple.

¹⁸ For they who are such, do not serve our Lord Jesus Messiah, but their own belly: and by bland speeches and good wishes, they beguile the hearts of the simple.

²⁶ but is at this time revealed, by means of the scriptures of the prophets; and by the command of the eternal God, is made known to all the Gentiles, for the obedience of faith;)

¹ And I, my Brethren, could not talk with you, as with spiritual persons, but as with the carnal, as with babes in Messiah. ² I gave you milk, and did not give you solid food: for ye were not then able to receive it; and even now, ye are not able. ³ For ye are still in the flesh. For, as there are among you envying, and contention, and parties, are ye not carnal, and walking in the flesh? ⁴ For, while one of you saith, I am of Paul; and another saith, I am of Apollos; are ye not carnal?

⁹ But I suppose, that God hath placed us legates the last, as for death; since we have become a spectacle to the world, to angels and to men. ¹⁰ We are fools, on account of Messiah; but ye are wise in Messiah! We are feeble; but ye are strong! Ye are lauded, we are contemned. ¹¹ Unto this hour, we hunger, and thirst, and are naked, and are buffeted, and have no permanent home:

⁵ Therefore, deprive not one another, except when ye both consent, at the time ye devote yourselves to fasting and prayer; and return again to the same disposition, that Satan tempt you not because of the concupiscence of your body.

⁹ But if they cannot endure it, let them marry: for it is more profitable to take a wife, than to burn with concupiscence.

² that ye have been pagans; and have been, without distinction, led away after idols, in which there is no speech.

⁷ And to each man, there is given a manifestation of the Spirit, that it may aid him.

³ For I delivered to you from the first, as I had received it; that the Messiah died on account of our sins, as it is written: ⁴ and that he was buried and arose on the third day, as it is written:

¹⁹ And if, in this life only, we have hope in the Messiah, we are the most miserable of all men.

⁸ But, my brethren, we wish you to know, respecting the affliction that was upon us in Asia, that we were afflicted exceedingly, beyond our strength, insomuch that our life was ready to terminate. ⁹ And we passed a sentence of death upon ourselves, that our confidence might not be in ourselves, but in God, who raiseth up the dead; ¹⁰ who rescued us from imminent death: and we hope that he will again rescue us,

¹² For our rejoicing is this, the testimony of our conscience, that in simplicity and purity, and by the grace of God, and not in the wisdom of the flesh, we have conducted ourselves in the world, and especially towards you.

¹⁷ When therefore I thus purposed, did I purpose as one inconsiderate? Or, were the things I purposed, things of the flesh; so that there should be in them Yes, yes, and No, no?

⁸ And in every thing we are oppressed, but not suffocated; we are corrected, but not condemned; ⁹ we are persecuted, but not forsaken; we are prostrated, but perish not. ¹⁰ For we bear in our body, at all times, the dying of Jesus; that the life also of Jesus might be manifested in our body. ¹¹ For if we are delivered over alive unto death, for Jesus' sake, even so also will the life of Jesus be manifested in this our mortal body.

¹⁵ And he died for all, that they who live should not live to themselves, but to him who died for them and rose again.

⁴ But we, in all things, would show ourselves to be the ministers of God, in much endurance, in afflictions, in necessity, in distresses, ⁵ in scourgings, in imprisonments, in tumults, in toil, in watching, in fasting; ⁶ by purity, by knowledge, by long suffering, by benignity, by the Holy Spirit, by love unfeigned, ⁷ by the speaking of truth, by the energy of God, by the armor of righteousness on the right hand and on the left; ⁸ amid honor and dishonor, amid praise and contumely; as deceivers, and yet true; ⁹ as not known, and yet we are well known; as dying, and behold, we live; as chastised, yet not killed; ¹⁰ as sorrowful, yet always rejoicing; as indigent, yet enriching many; as possessing nothing, yet having all things.

⁸ For it is in the power of God, to make all good abound to you, so that ye may have, at all times, and in every thing, what is sufficient for you; and may abound in every good work.

¹³ For they are false legates, crafty workers, and feign themselves to be legates of the Messiah. ¹⁴ And in this there is nothing strange. For if Satan feigneth himself an angel of light, ¹⁵ it is no great thing if his ministers feign themselves ministers of righteousness; whose end shall be according to their works.

²³ If they are ministers of the Messiah, (in defect of understanding, I say it,) I am superior to them: in toils more than they, in stripes more than they, in bonds more than they, in deaths many times. ²⁴ By the Jews, five times was I scourged, each time with forty stripes save one. ²⁵ Three times was I beaten with rods: at one time I was stoned: three times I was in shipwreck, by day and by night; I have been in the sea, without a ship. ²⁶ In journeyings many, in peril by rivers, in peril by robbers, in peril from my kindred, in peril from Gentiles: I have been in peril in cities; I have been in peril in the desert, in peril in the sea, in peril from false brethren. ²⁷ In toil and weariness, in much watching, in hunger and thirst, in much fasting, in cold and nakedness: ²⁸ besides many other things, and the thronging around me every day, and my anxiety for all the churches.

⁵ Examine yourselves, whether ye stand in the faith: prove yourselves. Do ye not acknowledge that Jesus the Messiah is in you? And if he is not, ye are reprobates. ⁶ But, I trust, ye will know that we are not reprobates.

⁷ which doth not exist, except as there are some who would disquiet you, and are disposed to pervert the gospel of the Messiah. ⁸ But if we, or an angel from heaven, should announce to you differently from what we have announced to you, let him be accursed. ⁹ As I have just said, and now I again say it, that if any one announce to you differently from what ye received, let him be accursed.

⁴ And in regard to the false brethren, who had crept in to spy out the liberty we have in Jesus the Messiah, in order to bring me under subjection; ⁵ not for the space of an hour, did we throw ourselves into subjection to them; so that the truth of the gospel might remain with you.

⁸ For, because God knew beforehand that the Gentiles would be made just by faith, he preannounced it to Abraham; as saith the holy scripture, In thee shall all nations be blessed.

¹⁰ For we are his creation; who are created in Jesus the Messiah, for good works, which God hath before prepared for us to walk in.

¹¹ And he gave some, legates; and some, prophets; and some, evangelists; and some, pastors and teachers: ¹² for perfecting the saints, for the work of the ministry, for the edification of the body of the Messiah; ¹³ until we all become one and the same, in faith and in the knowledge of the Son of God, and one complete man according to the measure of the stature of the fullness of Messiah: ¹⁴ and that we might not be children, agitated and turned about by every wind of the crafty doctrines of men who plot to seduce by their subtilty:

¹⁴ and that we might not be children, agitated and turned about by every wind of the crafty doctrines of men who plot to seduce by their subtilty: ¹⁵ but that we might be established in our love; and that every thing in us might progress in the Messiah, who is the head: ¹⁶ and from him it is, the whole body is framed together and compacted by all the junctures, according to the gift that is imparted by measure to each member, for the growth of the body; that his edifice may be perfected in love.

¹¹ And have no commerce with the works of darkness which are unfruitful, but reprove them. ¹² For the things they do in secret, it is nauseous even to mention. ¹³ For all things are exposed and made manifest by the light: and whatever maketh manifest, is light.

²¹ For they all seek their own, not the things of Jesus the Messiah. ²² But ye know the proof of him, that as a son with his father, so he labored with me in the gospel.

¹⁸ For there are many who walk otherwise; of whom I have often told you, and I now tell you, with weeping, that they are adversaries of the cross of the Messiah; ¹⁹ whose end is destruction; whose god is their belly, and their glory their shame; whose thoughts are on things of the earth.

² that their hearts may be comforted, and that they, by love, may come to all the riches of assurance, and to the understanding of the knowledge of the mystery of God the Father, and of the Messiah,

⁵ Mortify therefore your members that are on the earth; whoredom, impurity, and the passions, and evil concupiscence, and avarice which is idolatry.

⁵ For our preaching among you, was not in words only; but also in power, and in the Holy Spirit, and in genuine persuasion. Ye also know, how we were among you for your sakes.

¹³ Therefore also we give thanks unceasingly to God, that the word of God which ye received from us, ye did not receive as the word of men, but as being truly the word of God, which worketh efficiently in you and in them that believe.

³ lest any of you should be disheartened by these afflictions; for ye know, that we are appointed thereto. ⁴ For also when we were with you, we forewarned you, that we were to be afflicted; as ye know did occur.

⁸ He therefore who spurneth, spurneth not man but God, who hath given his Holy Spirit in you.

³ Let no one deceive you in any way; because that day will not come, unless there previously come a defection, and that man of sin be revealed, the son of perdition; ⁴ who is an opposer, and exalteth himself above all that is called God and Worshipful; so that he also sitteth in the temple of God, as a God, and displayeth himself, as if he were God.

⁴ who is an opposer, and exalteth himself above all that is called God and Worshipful; so that he also sitteth in the temple of God, as a God, and displayeth himself, as if he were God. ⁵ Do ye not remember, that, when I was with you, I told you these things? ⁶ And now, ye know what hindereth his being manifested in his time.

⁶ And now, ye know what hindereth his being manifested in his time. ⁷ For the mystery of the evil One already beginneth to be operative: and only, if that which now hindereth shall be taken from the midst;

⁷ For the mystery of the evil One already beginneth to be operative: and only, if that which now hindereth shall be taken from the midst; ⁸ then at length will that evil One be revealed; whom our Lord Jesus will consume by the breath of his mouth, and will bring to naught by the visibility of his advent.

⁸ then at length will that evil One be revealed; whom our Lord Jesus will consume by the breath of his mouth, and will bring to naught by the visibility of his advent. ⁹ For the coming of that evil One, is the working of Satan, with all power, and signs, and lying wonders,

⁹ For the coming of that evil One, is the working of Satan, with all power, and signs, and lying wonders, ¹⁰ and with all the deceptiveness of iniquity, in them that perish; because they did not receive the love of the truth, by which they might have life.

¹⁰ and with all the deceptiveness of iniquity, in them that perish; because they did not receive the love of the truth, by which they might have life. ¹¹ Therefore God will send upon them the operation of deception, that they may believe a lie;

¹¹ Therefore God will send upon them the operation of deception, that they may believe a lie; ¹² and that they all may be condemned, who believe not the truth, but have pleasure in iniquity.

⁶ And we enjoin upon you, my brethren, in the name of our Lord Jesus the Messiah, that ye withdraw from every brother who walketh wickedly, and not according to the precepts which ye received from us.

¹⁴ And if any one hearkeneth not to these my words in this epistle, separate that man from you, and have no intimacy with him, that he may be ashamed.

³ When I was going into Macedonia, I requested thee to remain at Ephesus, and to charge certain persons not to teach different doctrines;

¹⁹ in faith and a good conscience; for they who have repudiated this, have become destitute of faith; ²⁰ like Hymeneus and Alexander, whom I have delivered up to Satan, that they may learn not to be blasphemers.

² for kings and magistrates, that we may dwell in a quiet and tranquil habitation, with all reverence for God, and with purity.

⁴ who would have all men live, and be converted to the knowledge of the truth.

³ and not a transgressor in regard to wine, and whose hand is not swift to strike; but he should be humble, and not contentious, nor a lover of money;

⁶ Neither let him be of recent discipleship; lest he be uplifted, and fall into the condemnation of Satan.

¹¹ So also should the wives be chaste and of vigilant minds; and they should be faithful in all things; and they should not be slanderers.

¹⁶ and truly great, is this mystery of righteousness, which was revealed in the flesh, and justified in the spirit, and seen by angels, and proclaimed among the Gentiles, and believed on in the world, and received up into glory.

¹ But the Spirit saith explicitly, that in the latter times, some will depart from the faith; and will go after deceptive spirits, and after the doctrine of demons.

¹ But the Spirit saith explicitly, that in the latter times, some will depart from the faith; and will go after deceptive spirits, and after the doctrine of demons. ² These will seduce, by a false appearance; and will utter a lie, and will be seared in their conscience;

² These will seduce, by a false appearance; and will utter a lie, and will be seared in their conscience; ³ and will forbid to marry; and will require abstinence from meats, which God hath created for use and for thankfulness, by them who believe and know the truth.

⁶ If thou shalt inculcate these things on thy brethren, thou wilt be a good minister of Jesus the Messiah, being educated in the language of the faith, and in the good doctrine which thou hast been taught.

¹² And let no one despise thy youth; but be thou a pattern for the believers, in speech, and in behavior, and in love, and in faith, and in purity. ¹³ Until I come, be diligent in reading, and in prayer, and in teaching.

¹⁶ Be attentive to thyself, and to thy teaching; and persevere in them. For in doing this, thou wilt procure life to thyself and to them who hear thee.

⁶ But she who followeth pleasure, is dead while she liveth.

⁸ But if any one careth not for them who are his own, and especially for them who are of the household of faith, he hath rejected the faith, and is worse than the unbelievers.

³ But if there be any one, who teacheth a different doctrine, and doth not accede to the salutary words of our Lord Jesus the Messiah, and to the doctrine of the fear of God, ⁴ he is one that exalteth himself, while he knoweth nothing; and he languisheth in the search and inquiry about words, from which come envy, and contention, and railing, and evil surmising, ⁵ and the disputation of men, whose minds are corrupt and destitute of the truth, and who suppose that gain is godliness. But from these stand thou aloof.

⁹ But they who desire to become rich, fall into temptations, and into snares, and into many lusts which are foolish and hurtful, and which drown men in destruction and perdition: ¹⁰ for the love of money is the root of all these evils. And there are some who, coveting it, have erred from the faith, and brought themselves into many sorrows. ¹¹ But thou, O man of God, flee from these things; and follow after righteousness, and rectitude, and faith, and love, and patience, and humility.

¹⁷ Charge the rich of this world, that they be not uplifted in their minds; and that they confide not in riches, in which is no security; but in the living God, who giveth us all things abundantly for our comfort:

⁵ by the recollection which I have, by thy genuine faith, which dwelt first in thy grandmother Lois, and in thy mother Eunice, and also, I am persuaded, in thee.

¹³ Let the form of sound words, which thou hast heard from me, abide with thee; with faith and love, in Jesus the Messiah.

² And the things thou hast heard from me by many witnesses, these commit thou to faithful men, who are competent to teach others also.

¹⁶ Avoid vain discourses, in which there is no profit; for they very much add to the wickedness of those occupied with them.

¹⁶ Avoid vain discourses, in which there is no profit; for they very much add to the wickedness of those occupied with them. ¹⁷ And their discourse, like an eating cancer, will lay hold upon many. And one of these is Hymeneus, and another Philetus;

²¹ If therefore any one purge himself from these things, he will be a pure vessel for honor, fit for the use of his Lord, and prepared for every good work. ²² Fly from all the lusts of youth; and follow after righteousness, and faith, and love, and peace, with them that invoke our Lord with a pure heart. ²³ Avoid those foolish discussions which afford no instruction; for thou knowest, that they generate contests.

²⁵ that with mildness he may enlighten those who dispute against him, if perhaps God may give them repentance, and they may acknowledge the truth,

⁴ treacherous, rash, inflated, attached to pleasure more than to the love of God,

⁸ Now as Jannes and Jambres withstood Moses, so also do these withstand the truth: men whose mind is corrupted, and they reprobates from the faith.

¹⁵ because from thy childhood, thou wast taught the holy books, which can make thee wise unto life, by faith in Jesus the Messiah. ¹⁶ All scripture that was written by the Spirit, is profitable for instruction, and for confutation, and for correction, and for erudition in righteousness; ¹⁷ that the man of God may become perfect, and complete for every good work.

² Proclaim the word; and persist in it with diligence, in time and out of time; admonish, and rebuke, with all patience and instructiveness. ³ For the time will come, when they will not give ear to sound teaching; but, according to their lusts, will multiply to themselves teachers, in the itching of their hearing;

³ For the time will come, when they will not give ear to sound teaching; but, according to their lusts, will multiply to themselves teachers, in the itching of their hearing; ⁴ and will turn away their ears from the truth, and incline after fables.

⁷ I have fought a good combat, I have completed my race, I have preserved my fidelity;

¹⁵ And do thou also beware of him; for he is very insolent against our words.

¹⁷ But my Lord stood by me, and strengthened me; that by me the preaching might be fulfilled; and that all the Gentiles might hear: and I was rescued from the mouth of the lion. ¹⁸ And my Lord will rescue me from every evil work; and will give me life in his heavenly kingdom. To him be glory, for ever and ever. Amen.

¹ PAUL, a servant of God, and a legate of Jesus the Messiah; according to the faith of the elect of God, and the knowledge of the truth which is in the fear of God,

⁸ But he should be a lover of strangers, and a lover of good deeds, and be sober, upright, kind-hearted, and restraining himself from evil passions;

¹⁰ For many are unsubmissive, and their discourses vain; and they mislead the minds of people, especially such as are of the circumcision. ¹¹ The mouth of these ought to be stopped: they corrupt many families; and they teach what they ought not, for the sake of base gains.

¹⁶ And they profess that they know God, but in their works they deny him; and they are odious, and disobedient, and to every good work reprobates.

³ And so also the elder women, that they be in behavior as becometh the fear of God; and not to be slanderers; and not to be addicted to much wine; and to be inculcators of good things,

⁷ And in every thing show thyself a pattern, as to all good works: and in thy teaching, let thy discourse be healthful,

¹² and it teacheth us, to deny ungodliness and worldly lusts, and to live in this world in sobriety, and in uprightness, and in the fear of God,

¹⁴ who gave himself for us, that he might recover us from all iniquity, and purify for himself a new people, who are zealous in good works.

¹ And admonish them to be submissive and obedient to princes and potentates; and that they be ready for every good work;

³ For we also were formerly reckless, and disobedient, and erring, and serving divers lusts, and living in malice and envy, and were hateful and also hating one another.

¹⁰ An heretical man, after thou hast instructed him once and again, avoid:

⁷ Because the Holy Spirit hath said: To-day, if ye will hear his voice,

¹² For the word of God is living, and all-efficient, and sharper than a two-edged sword, and entereth even to the severance of the soul and the spirit, and of the joints and the marrow and the bones, and judgeth the thoughts and reasonings of the heart:

¹¹ Now, concerning this person, Melchisedec, we have much discourse, which we might utter; but it is difficult to explain it, because ye are infirm in your hearing.

¹¹ And we desire, that each one of you may show this same activity, for the completion of your hope, even to the end:

²² Let us, therefore draw near, with a true heart, and with the confidence of faith, being sprinkled as to our hearts, and pure from an evil conscience, and our body being washed with pure water.

²⁴ And let us look on each other, for the excitement of love and good works.

³³ and ye were a gazing stock, and also were the associates of persons who endured these things: ³⁴ and ye were grieved for those who were imprisoned; and ye cheerfully endured the plundering of your goods, because ye knew that ye had a possession in heaven, superior and not transitory.

¹ Now faith is the persuasion of the things that are in hope, as if they were in act; and it is the manifestness of the things not seen.

³² What more shall I say? For I have little time to tell of Gideon, and of Barak, and of Sampson, and of Jephtha, and of David, and of Samuel, and of the other prophets: ³³ who, by faith, subdued kingdoms, and wrought righteousness, and received promises, and shut the mouths of lions, ³⁴ and quenched the force of fire, and were rescued from the edge of the sword, and were healed of diseases, and became strong in battle, and routed the camps of enemies, ³⁵ and restored to women their children, by a resurrection from the dead. And some died under tortures, and did not hope to escape, that there might be for them a better resurrection; ³⁶ and others endured mockings and, scourgings; others were delivered up to bonds and prisons; ³⁷ others were stoned; others were sawed; others died by the edge of the sword; others roamed about clothed in sheep skins and goat skins, and were needy, and afflicted, and agitated; ³⁸ persons of whom the world was not worthy, and yet they were as wanderers in the desert, and in mountains, and in caves, and in caverns of the earth.

⁹ Be not led away by strange and variable doctrines. For it is a good thing, that we strengthen our hearts with grace, and not with meats; for those have not been benefited, who walked in them.

⁶ But ye have despised the poor man. Do not rich men exalt themselves over you, and drag you before the tribunals?

⁸ And if in this ye fulfill the law of God, as it is written, Thou shalt love thy neighbor as thyself, ye will do well:

⁶ But our Lord hath given us more grace. Therefore he said: The Lord humbleth the lofty, and giveth grace to the lowly.

¹⁶ They glory in their vaunting. All such glorying is evil.

¹⁰ that life namely, about which the prophets inquired, when they were prophesying of the grace which was to be given to you. ¹¹ And they searched for the time which the Spirit of the Messiah dwelling in them did show and testify, when the sufferings of the Messiah were to occur, and his subsequent glory. ¹² And it was revealed to them, in regard to all they were searching, that, not for themselves were they inquiring, but for us they were prophesying of those things, which are now manifested to you by means of the things we have announced to you, by the Holy Spirit sent from heaven; which things the angels also desire to look into.

²⁰ But they who endure afflictions on account of their offences, what praise have they? But if, when ye do well, they vex you, and ye endure it; then great is your praise with God. ²¹ For unto this were ye called; because the Messiah also died for us, and left us this pattern, that ye should walk in his steps.

¹⁴ But if it should occur, that ye suffer on account of righteousness, happy are ye. And be not terrified, by those who would terrify you, nor be agitated:

¹² My beloved, be not dismayed at the trials that befall you, as if some strange thing had come upon you; for these things are for your probation. ¹³ But rejoice, that ye participate in the sufferings of the Messiah, that so ye may also rejoice and exult at the revelation of his glory. ¹⁴ And if ye are reproached on account of the name of the Messiah, happy are ye: for the glorious Spirit of God resteth upon you. ¹⁵ Only let none of you suffer, as a murderer, or as a thief, or as an evil-doer. ¹⁶ But if he suffer as a Christian, let him not be ashamed; but let him glorify God on account of this name.

⁵ And ye juniors submit yourselves to your seniors; and clothe yourselves, stringently, with lowliness of mind one towards another; because God resisteth them who exalt themselves, and giveth grace to the humble.

⁹ Therefore resist him, being steadfast in the faith: and know ye, that the same sufferings befall your brethren that are in the world. ¹⁰ Now it is the God of grace, who hath called us to his eternal glory by Jesus the Messiah, that hath given us, while we sustain these light afflictions, to be strengthened, and confirmed, and established by him for ever:

⁵ And, while ye apply all diligence in the matter, add to your faith moral excellence; and to moral excellence, knowledge; ⁶ and to knowledge, perseverance; and to perseverance, patience; and to patience, the fear of God; ⁷ and to the fear of God, sympathy with the brotherhood; and to sympathy with the brotherhood, love.

¹⁹ And we have moreover a sure word of prophecy; and ye will do well, if ye look to it as to a light that shineth in a dark place, until the day shall dawn, and the sun shall arise in your hearts; ²⁰ ye having the previous knowledge, that no prophecy is an exposition of its own text. ²¹ For at no time was it by the pleasure of man, that the prophecy came; but holy men of God spoke, as they were moved by the Holy Spirit.

¹ But in the world, there have been also false prophets, as there will likewise be false teachers among you, who will bring in destructive heresies, denying the Lord that bought them; thus bringing on themselves swift destruction. ² And many will go after their profaneness; on account of whom, the way of truth will be reproached. ³ And, in the cupidity of raving words, they will make merchandise of you: whose judgment, of a long time, is not idle; and their destruction slumbereth not.

³ And, in the cupidity of raving words, they will make merchandise of you: whose judgment, of a long time, is not idle; and their destruction slumbereth not.

⁹ the Lord knoweth how to rescue from afflictions those who fear him; and he will reserve the wicked for the day of judgment to be tormented, ¹⁰ and especially them who go after the flesh in the lusts of pollution, and despise government. Daring and arrogant, they shudder not with awe while they blaspheme; ¹¹ whereas angels, greater than they in might and valor, bring not against them a reproachful denunciation. ¹² But these, like the dumb beasts that by nature are for slaughter and corruption, while reviling the things they know not, will perish in their own corruption;

¹² But these, like the dumb beasts that by nature are for slaughter and corruption, while reviling the things they know not, will perish in their own corruption; ¹³ they being persons with whom iniquity is the reward of iniquity, and by them rioting in the daytime is accounted delightful; defiled and full of spots are they, indulging themselves at their ease, while they give themselves up to pleasure; ¹⁴ having eyes that are full of adultery, and sins that never end; seducing unstable souls; and having a heart exercised in cupidity; children of malediction:

¹⁴ having eyes that are full of adultery, and sins that never end; seducing unstable souls; and having a heart exercised in cupidity; children of malediction:

¹⁴ having eyes that are full of adultery, and sins that never end; seducing unstable souls; and having a heart exercised in cupidity; children of malediction: ¹⁵ and, having left the way of rectitude, they have wandered and gone in the way of Balaam the son of Beor, who loved the wages of iniquity,

¹⁵ and, having left the way of rectitude, they have wandered and gone in the way of Balaam the son of Beor, who loved the wages of iniquity, ¹⁶ and who had for the reprover of his transgression a dumb ass, which, speaking with the speech of men, rebuked the madness of the prophet. ¹⁷ These are wells without water, clouds driven by a tempest, persons for whom is reserved the blackness of darkness. ¹⁸ For, while they utter astonishing vanity, they seduce, with obscene lusts of the flesh, them who have almost abandoned these that walk in error.

¹⁸ For, while they utter astonishing vanity, they seduce, with obscene lusts of the flesh, them who have almost abandoned these that walk in error. ¹⁹ And they promise them liberty, while they themselves are the slaves of corruption: for, by whatever thing a man is vanquished, to that is he enslaved.

¹⁹ And they promise them liberty, while they themselves are the slaves of corruption: for, by whatever thing a man is vanquished, to that is he enslaved. ²⁰ For if, when they have escaped the pollutions of the world by the knowledge of our Lord and Redeemer Jesus the Messiah, they become again involved in the same, and are vanquished, their latter state is worse than the former.

²⁰ For if, when they have escaped the pollutions of the world by the knowledge of our Lord and Redeemer Jesus the Messiah, they become again involved in the same, and are vanquished, their latter state is worse than the former. ²¹ For it would have been better for them, not to have known the way of righteousness, than after having known it, to turn back from the holy commandment that was delivered to them. ²² But the true proverb hath happened to them: the dog returneth to his vomit and the sow that was washed, to her wallowing in the mire.

³ knowing this previously, that there will come in the last days scoffers, who will scoff, walking according to their own lusts;

¹¹ As therefore all these things are to be dissolved, what persons ought ye to be, in holy conduct, and in the fear of God,

¹⁶ as also in all his epistles, speaking in them of these things, in which there is something difficult to be understood; and which they who are ignorant and unstable, pervert, as they do also the rest of the scriptures, to their own destruction. ¹⁷ Ye therefore, my beloved, as ye know these things beforehand, guard yourselves, lest, by going after the error of the lawless, ye fall from your steadfastness.

¹⁸ My children, it is the latter time; and as ye have heard that a false Messiah was to arise, so there are now many false Messiahs; and from this we know that it is the latter time.

¹ My beloved, believe not all spirits; but discriminate among spirits, whether they are of God: for many false prophets have gone out into the world.

¹¹ And this is the testimony, that God hath given to us life eternal, and this life is in his Son. ¹² Every one that taketh hold of the Son, taketh hold of life; and every one that taketh not hold of the Son, hath not life.

⁹ Every one who transgresseth, and abideth not in the doctrine of the Messiah, God is not in him. And he who abideth in his doctrine, he hath the Father and the Son. ¹⁰ If any one cometh to you, and bringeth not this doctrine, entertain him not in your house, nor say to him, Joy to thee:

¹⁰ If any one cometh to you, and bringeth not this doctrine, entertain him not in your house, nor say to him, Joy to thee: ¹¹ for he that saith to him, Joy to thee, is a participator in his evil deeds. ¹² Having many things I could write to you, I would not with paper and ink; but I hope to come to you, and to converse mouth to mouth, that our joy may be complete.

⁴ For some have obtained entrance, who from the beginning were registered beforehand under this condemnation: wicked men, who pervert the grace of God to impurity, and deny him who is the only Lord God and our Lord, Jesus the Messiah.

⁸ In the same manner, too, these sensual dreamers defile the flesh and despise authority, and revile excellency. ⁹ But Michael the archangel, who, in debate with the Accuser, contended about the body of Moses, did not venture to bring against him a reviling declaration; but said, The Lord will rebuke thee. ¹⁰ But these men revile things which they do not understand; and in the things of which they have a natural persuasion as animal beings, in these they corrupt themselves. ¹¹ Woe to them; for they have gone in the way of Cain; and, after the error of Balaam, they have lusted for gain; and, in the rebellion of Korah, they have perished.

¹⁶ These are they who murmur and complain of every thing, while they walk according to their lusts; and their mouth speaketh shocking things; and they flatter people, for the sake of gain. ¹⁷ But do ye, my beloved, remember the words which were before spoken by the legates of our Lord Jesus the Messiah; ¹⁸ because they told you, that in the end of the times there would be scoffers, going after wickedness, according to their lusts.

¹⁸ because they told you, that in the end of the times there would be scoffers, going after wickedness, according to their lusts. ¹⁹ These are they that separate themselves, sensual persons, not having the Spirit.

¹⁹ These are they that separate themselves, sensual persons, not having the Spirit.

⁹ I John, your brother, and partaker with you in the affliction and suffering that are in Jesus the Messiah, was in the island called Patmos, because of the word of God, and because of the testimony of Jesus the Messiah. ¹⁰ I was in the Spirit on the Lord's day; and I heard behind me a great voice, as of a trumpet, which said:

⁶ But this thou hast, that thou hatest the deeds of the Nicolaitans, which I also hate.

¹⁴ Yet I have a small charge against thee. Thou hast there them who hold the doctrine of Balaam, who taught Balak to throw a stumbling-block before the children of Israel, that they might eat the sacrifices of idols, and might commit whoredom. ¹⁵ So also thou hast them who hold the doctrine of the Nicolaitans. In like manner, repent thou.

²⁰ But I have a charge against thee, because thou sufferest thy woman Jezabel, who saith she is a prophetess, and teacheth, and seduceth my servants to whoredom, and to eating of the sacrifices of idols.

¹⁴ And I said to him: My lord, thou knowest. And he said to me: These are they who came from great affliction; and they have washed their robes, and made them white in the blood of the Lamb.

¹ And when he had opened the seventh seal, there was silence in heaven, for about half an hour. ² And I saw the seven angels, who stood before God; and to them were given, seven trumpets. ³ And another angel came and stood by the altar; and he held a golden censer: and much incense was given him, so that he might offer, with the prayers of all the saints, upon the golden altar before the throne. ⁴ And the smoke of the incense of the prayers of the saints went up before God from the hand of the angel. ⁵ And the angel took the censer, and filled it with fire from the altar, and cast it upon the earth: and there were thunders, and lightnings, and voices, and an earthquake. ⁶ And the seven angels, who had the seven trumpets, prepared themselves to sound. ⁷ And the first sounded; and there was hail, and fire, which were mingled with water: and these were thrown upon the earth; and a third part of the earth was burned up, and a third part of the trees were burned, and all green grass was burned. ⁸ And the second angel sounded, and, as it were a great mountain burning with fire, was cast into the sea; and also a third part of the sea became blood. ⁹ And a third part of all the creatures in the sea, that had life, died; and a third part of the ships were destroyed. ¹⁰ And the third angel sounded, and there fell from heaven a star, burning like a lamp; and it fell upon a third part of the rivers, and upon the fountains of water. ¹¹ And the name of the star was called Wormwood; and a third part of the waters became wormwood; and many persons died from the waters, because they were bitter. ¹² And the fourth angel sounded, and a third part of the sun was smitten, and the third part of the moon, and the third part of the stars; so that the third part of them were dark, and they became dark; and the day did not give light for the third part of it, and the night in like manner. ¹³ And I saw and heard an eagle, which flew in the midst, and it had a tail of blood, while it said, with a loud voice: Woe, woe, to them who dwell on the earth, because of the remaining sounds of the trumpets of the three angels, who are to sound.

⁴ And his tail drew along the third part of the stars of heaven, and cast them on the earth. And the dragon was standing before the woman, who was about to bring forth, so that, when she should bring forth, he might devour her child.

⁷ And there was war in heaven: Michael and his angels fought against the dragon, and the dragon and his angels fought, ⁸ and prevailed not; nor was their place found any more in heaven. ⁹ And the great dragon was cast out, the old serpent, who is called the Deceiver, and Satan, who seduceth all the inhabited world: he was cast upon the earth, and his angels were cast out with him.

⁹ And the great dragon was cast out, the old serpent, who is called the Deceiver, and Satan, who seduceth all the inhabited world: he was cast upon the earth, and his angels were cast out with him. ¹⁰ And I heard a great voice in heaven, which said: Now is there deliverance, and the power and the kingdom of our God, and the dominion of his Messiah: because the Accuser of our brethren is cast out, who accused them day and night before our God.

¹ { And I saw a beast of prey come up from the sea, having ten horns, and seven heads; and upon his horns ten diadems, and upon his heads names of blasphemy.}

⁵ And there was given to him a mouth speaking great things, and blasphemies: and authority was given him to operate forty and two months. ⁶ And he opened his mouth in blasphemy towards God, to blaspheme his name and his tabernacle, and them who dwell in heaven.

¹⁴ And he seduced them that dwell on the earth, to erect an image to the beast of prey who had the wound from a sword and recovered. ¹⁵ And it was given him to put life into the image of the beast of prey; and to cause that all they who would not worship the image of the beast of prey, should be slain:

¹⁷ so that no one might be able to buy or to sell, except those who had the mark of the name of the beast of prey, or the number of his name.

⁶ For they have shed the blood of saints and prophets; and thou hast given them blood to drink, for they deserve it.

⁹ And men were scorched with great heat; and men blasphemed the name of God, who hath authority over these plagues; and they repented not, to give glory to him.

¹¹ and they blasphemed the God of heaven, on account of their pains and their ulcers, and did not repent of their deeds.

²¹ And a great hail, as it were of a talent weight, fell from heaven upon men: and the men blasphemed God, on account of the plague of hail; for the plague of it was very great.

⁶ And I saw that the woman was intoxicated with the blood of the saints, and with the blood of the witnesses of Jesus. And when I saw her, I wondered with great amazement.

¹² no more, the cargo of gold, and silver, and precious stones, and pearls, and fine linen, and purple, and silk, and scarlet, and every aromatic wood, and all vessels of ivory, and all vessels of very precious wood, and of brass, and of iron, and of marble, ¹³ and cinnamon, and amomum, and aromatics, and unguents, and frankincense, and wine, and oil, and fine flour, and wheat, and beasts of burden, and sheep, and horses, and chariots, and the bodies and souls of men.

²³ And the light of a candle, shall not be seen in thee; and the voice of a bridegroom and bride, shall no more be heard in thee: for thy merchants were the great men of the earth, because all nations were seduced by thy sorceries.

¹⁰ And I fell at his feet, to worship him. And he said to me, See, thou do it not; I am thy fellow-servant, and of those thy brethren who have the testimony of Jesus. Worship ye God: for the testimony of Jesus is the spirit of prophecy.