Psalms 85 Cross References - NSB

¹ ([Psalm of Korah]) You favored your land, O Jehovah. You restored the prosperity of Jacob. ² You removed your people's guilt. You pardoned all their sins. ³ You laid aside all your fury. You turned away from your burning anger. ⁴ Restore us, O God of our salvation. Put an end to your anger against us. ⁵ Will you be angry with us forever? Will you ever let go of your anger in the generations to come? ⁶ Will you not restore our lives again so that your people may find joy in you? ⁷ Show us your loving-kindness, O Jehovah. Grant us your salvation. ⁸ I want to hear what the Lord Jehovah says, because he promises peace to his people, to his godly ones. But they must not go back to their stupidity. ⁹ Indeed, his salvation is near those who reverence him, and his glory will remain in our land. ¹⁰ Mercy and truth have met. Righteousness and peace have kissed. ¹¹ Truth springs from the ground, and righteousness will look down from heaven. ¹² Jehovah will certainly give us what is good, and our land will produce crops. ¹³ Righteousness will go ahead of him and make a path for his steps.

⁴² »‘I will remember my promise to Jacob, Isaac, and Abraham. I will also remember the land.

¹¹ All the articles of gold and silver numbered 5,400. Sheshbazzar brought all of them along with the exiles who traveled from Babylon to Jerusalem.

⁷ If only salvation for Israel would come from Zion! When Jehovah restores his captive people, Jacob will rejoice. Israel will be glad.

¹ ([Sons of Korah]) As the deer desires the water brooks, so I desire you, O God.

⁷ Will Jehovah reject us forever? Will he be favorable no more?

¹ When Jehovah brought back the captive ones of Zion, it was like a dream. ² Then our mouths were filled with laughter and our tongues with joyful songs. Then the nations said: »Jehovah has done spectacular things for them.«

¹⁸ »This is what Jehovah says: »I am going to bring the captives back to Jacob's tents and show compassion on their homes. Cities will be built on the ruins, and fortified palaces will be built in their rightful place.

²³ Jehovah of Hosts, the God of Israel says: »Once again they will speak this word in the land of Judah and in its cities when I restore their prosperity. They will say: ‘Jehovah bless you, O abode of righteousness, O holy mountain!’

²⁵ »This is what the Lord Jehovah says: ‘Now I will bring back Jacob's captives and have compassion for the whole nation of Israel. I will stand up for (show exclusive devotion for) my holy name.

¹⁸ Jehovah was zealous for his land, and had pity on his people.

¹ »Behold! At that time I will bring back the captivity of Judah and Jerusalem.

¹⁶ »Therefore,« said Jehovah: »I will return to Jerusalem with compassion. My house will be built in it,« said Jehovah of Hosts, »and a measuring line will be stretched over Jerusalem.«

¹⁹ »By your great love, please forgive these people’s sins, as you have forgiven them from the time they left Egypt until now.«

¹ ([Psalm of David]) Blessed is the person whose transgression is forgiven and whose sin is pardoned.

³⁸ But he is compassionate. He forgave their sin. He did not destroy them. He restrained his anger many times. He did not display all of his fury.

⁸ Do not hold the crimes of our ancestors against us. Reach out to us soon with your compassion, because we are helpless. ⁹ Help us, O God of our salvation, for the glory of your name. Rescue us, and provide atonement for our sins for the honor of your name.

²⁰ »‘In those days and at that time,« says Jehovah, »people will look for Israel's crimes, but they will find none. They will look for Judah's sins, but none will be found. I will forgive the faithful few whom I have spared.

¹⁸ Who is a God like you who pardons iniquity and passes over the transgression of the remnant of his heritage? You do not keep your anger forever, because you delight in loving-kindness (unchanging love).

³⁹ »Through him all who believe are justified from all things. You could not be justified through the Law of Moses.

¹³ You were dead through your trespasses and the uncircumcision of your flesh. He made you alive together with him, having forgiven us all our trespasses.

¹¹ »But Moses pleaded with Jehovah his God. »Jehovah,« he said, »why are you so angry with your people? These are your people whom you brought out of Egypt using your great power and mighty hand! ¹² »Do not let the Egyptians say: ‘He was planning all along to kill them in the mountains and wipe them off the face of the earth. That is why he brought them out of our land.’ Do not be so angry. Reconsider your decision to bring this disaster on your people.

²² Aaron said, »Do not be angry with me. You know the people as well as I do. They are determined to do evil.

¹⁷ »Do not take anything that is put under ban. If you comply (obey), Jehovah may turn from his burning anger and show mercy to you. He may have compassion on you and make you increase, just as he swore to your fathers.

²³ God said he was going to destroy them, but Moses, his chosen one, stood in his way to prevent him from exterminating them.

⁷ He touched my mouth with it and said: »See! This has touched your lips, your guilt is taken away and your sin forgiven (pardoned) (atoned for).«

¹ In that day you will say: »I will praise you, O Jehovah. Although you were angry with me, your anger has turned away and you have comforted me.

⁷ »For a brief moment I abandoned you, but with deep compassion I will bring you back. ⁸ »In a surge of anger I hid my face from you for a moment, but with everlasting kindness I will have compassion on you,« says Jehovah your Redeemer. ⁹ »To me this is like the days of Noah, when I swore that the waters of Noah would never again cover the earth. So now I have sworn not to be angry with you, never to rebuke you again. ¹⁰ »Though the mountains be shaken and the hills be removed, yet my unfailing love for you will not be shaken nor my covenant of peace be removed,« says Jehovah. »I have compassion on you.«

⁹ »Who knows whether God will turn back and change his mind, and turn away from his fierce anger that we will not perish?«

²⁹ The next day he saw Jesus coming to him. He boldly declared: »Behold! The Lamb of God that takes away the sin of the world!«

² I trust you, O my God. Do not let me be put to shame. Do not let my enemy’s triumph over me.

¹ ([Psalm of David]) Jehovah is my light and my salvation. Whom shall I fear? Jehovah is the stronghold of my life. Who is there to be afraid of?

³ O God, restore us and cause your face to shine (smile on us) (show us favor) that we will be saved.

⁷ O God, commander of armies, restore us and smile on us so that we may be saved.

¹⁹ O Jehovah God, commander of armies, restore us, and cause your face to shine (smile) on us so that we may be saved.

²⁵ »Very soon my anger against you will end and my wrath will be directed to their destruction.

¹⁸ »I hear the people of Israel say in grief, ‘Jehovah, we were like an untamed animal, but you taught us to obey. Bring us back for we are ready to return to you, Jehovah our God.

²¹ Make us come back to you, O Jehovah, and let us be restored. Make our days new again as in the past.

¹⁶ »O Jehovah, according to all your righteousness, let your anger, I pray you, be turned away from your city Jerusalem, your holy mountain. Because of our sins, and the iniquities of our fathers, Jerusalem and your people have become a reproach to all those who are round about us.

⁷ But as for me, I will look to Jehovah! I will wait for the God of my salvation! My God will hear me.

¹⁸ Who is a God like you who pardons iniquity and passes over the transgression of the remnant of his heritage? You do not keep your anger forever, because you delight in loving-kindness (unchanging love). ¹⁹ You will again have compassion on us. You will tread our iniquities under foot. You will throw all our sins into the depths of the sea. ²⁰ You will give truth to Jacob, and show loving-kindness (unchanging love) to Abraham. For you have sworn this to our fathers from the days of old.

⁶ »He will turn the hearts of the fathers to the children, and the hearts of the children to their fathers and bring them together again before I come and strike the earth with destruction (a curse).«

²² »You worship what you do not know. We worship what we know. Salvation is from the Jews.

¹ ([Psalm of Asaph]) God, why have you rejected us forever? Why do you smoke with anger against the sheep of your pasture?

⁹ Has God forgotten to be gracious? Has he, in anger, withheld his compassion?

⁵ How long, O Jehovah? Will you remain angry forever? Will your fury (zeal) continue to burn like fire?

⁴ O Jehovah God, commander of armies, how long will you be angry against the prayer of your people?

⁴⁶ How long, O Jehovah? Will you hide yourself forever? How long will your anger continue to burn like fire?

⁹ Do not be too angry, Jehovah. Do not remember our sin forever. Now look, we are all your people. ¹⁰ Your holy cities have become a wilderness. Zion has become a desert. Jerusalem is a wasteland. ¹¹ Our holy and beautiful Temple where our ancestors praised you has been burned to the ground. All that we valued has been ruined. ¹² Despite these things, Jehovah, will you restrain yourself? Will you be silent and make us suffer beyond measure?

²⁴ »They will be killed by the edge of the sword. Some will be led captive into all the nations. The people of the nations will tread down Jerusalem until the time of the Nations is fulfilled.

²¹ A mighty angel took up a stone like a great millstone, and hurled it into the sea. He said: »With violence the great city Babylon will be thrown down, and it will not be found any longer. ²² »The sound of harp players, and musicians, and of pipers, and trumpeters, will not be heard anymore in you. No craftsman will be found in you. The sound of a millstone will not be heard in you anymore. ²³ »There will no longer be the light of a candle in you. The voice of the bridegroom and of the bride will be heard no more at all in you. Your merchants were the great men of the earth; for by your spiritistic practice all nations were deceived.

¹¹ They praised Jehovah and thanked him, saying: »He is good; his loving kindness to Israel is for all generations.« All the people gave a joyful cry. They praised Jehovah because the foundation of Jehovah’s house was in place. ¹² Some of the priests, Levites, heads of families and old men who had seen the first house were present. When the foundation of this house was laid before their eyes they were overcome with weeping; and a number were crying out with joy: ¹³ So that in the ears of the people the cry of joy was mixed with the sound of weeping. The cries of the people were loud and came to the ears of those who were a long way off.

⁸ »Now for a little time grace (favour) has come to us from Jehovah our God, to let a small band of us go free and to give us a nail in his holy place. Our God gives light to our eyes and a measure of new life in our prison chains. ⁹ »We are servants. Our God has not been turned away from us in our prison. He had mercy on us before the eyes of the kings of Persia, to give us new strength, to put up again the house of our God and to restore its desolate places, and to give us a wall in Judah and Jerusalem.

⁶ Oh that the salvation of Israel would come out of Zion! When Jehovah brings his people back from captivity, Jacob and Israel will rejoice and be glad.

²⁰ You who have shown us many and bitter troubles, you will let me live. You will bring us up again from the depths of the earth.

¹⁸ Then we will never turn away from you. Give us life again, and we will call on your name.

¹⁴ Satisfy us every morning with your loving kindness so that we may sing for joy and rejoice all our days.

⁷ Even though I walk into the middle of trouble, you guard my life against the anger of my enemies. You stretch out your hand, and your right hand saves me.

² Let Israel find joy in their creator. Let the people of Zion rejoice over their king.

¹⁵ The High and Lofty One who inhabits eternity, whose name is holy, says: ‘I dwell in the high and holy and also with him who has a contrite and humble spirit. I revive the spirit of the humble, and the heart of the contrite ones.’

¹¹ »Yes, you will hear the sounds of joy and happiness and the sounds of brides and grooms. You will hear those who bring thank offerings to Jehovah’s Temple.«’ »‘They will say: Give thanks to Jehovah of Hosts because Jehovah is good, because his mercy endures forever. I will restore the prosperity of the land to what they were before,«’ says Jehovah.

² »He will revive us after two days. He will raise us up on the third day that we will live before him.

² O Jehovah, I heard the report about you and I am afraid of your actions. O Jehovah, make it live in the midst of the years. In the midst of the years make it known! When you are angry remember mercy.

²³ »Whoever offers thanks as a sacrifice honors me. I will let everyone who continues in my way see the salvation that comes from God.«

¹⁶ I will satisfy you with a long life. I will show you my salvation.

¹² For the reason that I am merciful, I will make him have mercy on you and let you go back home. I Jehovah have spoken.

⁷ About that time Jacob’s sons were coming in from the fields. When they heard about it, they were shocked and furious that Shechem had done such a thing. He had insulted the people of Israel by raping Jacob’s daughter.

²⁵ »You should not take this worthless person Nabal seriously. He is like his name. His name is Nabal (Godless Fool). He is foolish. But I did not see the young men you sent.

¹¹ Jehovah will give power (strength) to his people. Jehovah will bless his people with peace (prosperity) (health) (safety).

⁵ »Gather around me, my godly ones who have made a covenant with me through sacrifices.«

⁴ But there is forgiveness with you, that you may be reverenced.

¹¹ A word fitly spoken is like apples of gold in settings of silver.

²² Though you grind a fool in mortar his foolishness will not depart from him.

¹⁹ I create the fruit (praise) of the lips: Peace, peace to the near and the far off, says Jehovah, and I will heal him.

¹ I will stand at my guard post at the tower on the wall. I will watch [and wait] to see what he will say to me and what I will answer when I am reproved.

⁹ »The glory of this house will be greater than it was before. I will give my people peace.« Jehovah of Hosts has spoken.

¹⁰ »I will destroy the war chariot from Ephraim, and the horse from Jerusalem. The battle bow will be dismantled. He will speak peace to the nations! His dominion will be from sea to sea, and from the River to the ends of the earth.

¹⁴ Later Jesus found him in the temple and told him: »Now that you are healed do not sin anymore and avoid worse things happening to you.«

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²⁷ »Peace I leave with you! My peace I give to you. I do not give as the world gives to you. Do not let your heart be troubled or full of fear.

¹⁹ It was evening of the first day of the week. The disciples shut the doors where they stayed for fear of the Jews. Jesus came and stood in the midst, and said to them: »May you have Peace.«

²⁶ Eight days later the disciples were inside with the doors shut and Thomas was with them. Jesus came in and stood in the midst, and said: »Peace be with you.«

²⁶ »God raised up his servant and sent him to you first. He sent him to bless you and to turn every one of you from your wicked ways.«

³⁶ »You know the Word of God was sent to the children of Israel. He (Jehovah God) presented peace through the anointed Lord (or Master) of all, Jesus Christ. (Acts 2:36) (Jesus identified his father, Jehovah God, as Lord of all heaven and earth at Matthew 11:25)

¹⁸ All things are from God who reconciled us to himself through Christ. He gave the ministry of reconciliation to us. ¹⁹ God was reconciling the world to himself through Christ. He was not imputing their trespasses against them, for he had committed the word of reconciliation to us. ²⁰ We are ambassadors for Christ, as though God were making entreaty through us. We implore you on behalf of Christ that you be reconciled to God.

⁹ Now that you have come to know God, or rather to be known by God, how is it that you turn back again to the weak and poor fundamental things? Do you want to slave for them all over again?

¹ Paul, an apostle of Christ Jesus through the will of God, to the holy ones who are at Ephesus and the faithful in Christ Jesus: ² Grace to you and peace from God our Father and the Lord Jesus Christ.

¹⁷ He came and preached peace to you who were far off, and peace to those who were near.

¹⁶ Now may the Lord of peace always grant you peace in every circumstance. The Lord be with you all!

¹⁹ The foundation of God stands firm having this seal: »Jehovah knows those who belong to him,« and: »Everyone who names the name of Jehovah is to abstain from wickedness.«

²⁶ If we continue to (practice) (deliberately persist in) sin willfully after we have received the knowledge of the truth, there remains no more sacrifice for sins. ²⁷ But there remains a certain fearful expectation of judgment and a fiery indignation, which will devour God’s enemies. ²⁸ He that despised Moses’ Law died without mercy under two or three witnesses. ²⁹ What about those who despise the Son of God? Those who treat as a cheap thing the blood of God’s covenant that purified them from sin? Those who insult the Spirit of grace? Think how much worse the punishment they deserve will be!

²⁵ Be careful, then, and do not refuse to hear him who speaks. Those who refused to hear the one who gave the divine message on earth did not escape. How much less shall we escape then, if we turn away from the one who speaks from heaven!

²⁰ After they have escaped the defilements of the world through the knowledge of the Lord and Savior Jesus Christ, they are again entangled and overcome; the last state is worse with them than the first. ²¹ For it were better for them not to have known the way of righteousness, than, after knowing it, to turn back from the holy commandment delivered to them. ²² It happened to them according to the true proverb: »The dog returns to his own vomit, and the sow that had washed to wallowing in the mire.«

⁴ »'However I have this against you: you do not love me now as you did at first. ⁵ »'Think how far you have fallen! Turn from your sins (repent) and do what you did at first. If you do not turn from your sins, I will come to you and remove your lamp stand from its place.

¹⁹ »'I reprove and discipline those whom I love: be zealous therefore, and repent.

⁴ He who has clean hands and a pure heart, who has not lifted up (turned) to falsehood and has not sworn deceitfully. ⁵ He will obtain blessing from Jehovah and righteousness from the God of his salvation.

¹⁵⁵ Salvation is far from the wicked for they do not seek your statutes.

⁵ Then Jehovah will create over the entire area of Mount Zion and over her assemblies a cloud by day, even smoke, and the brightness of a flaming fire by night. A canopy (shelter) will be over all as the glory (honor).

¹³ »I bring near my righteousness. It is not far away. My salvation will not be delayed. I will grant salvation to Zion, my splendor to Israel.«

²⁰ then I will bring you down with those who go down to the pit (grave), to the people of old, and I will make you dwell in the lower parts of the earth. It will be like the ancient waste places, with those who go down to the pit (grave), so that you will not be inhabited; but I will set glory in the land of the living.

⁷ »I will shake all the nations and make them afraid. The treasures of all the nations will be brought here. I will fill this house with glory. ⁸ »The silver and gold of the world is mine,« said Jehovah of Hosts. ⁹ »The glory of this house will be greater than it was before. I will give my people peace.« Jehovah of Hosts has spoken.

⁵ Jehovah said: »I will become to her a wall of fire around her, and I will be the glory in the midst of her.«

⁸ »Jehovah of Hosts proclaims: ‘He sent me after glory! He sent me to the nations that plundered you. For he that touches you touches the pupil of his eye.’

³² The scribe said to him: »It is true teacher you’ve said it well that he is one and there is no one else besides him. ³³ »To love him with all the heart, and with all understanding, and with total strength, and to love his neighbor as himself, is much more than all the whole burnt offerings and sacrifices.« ³⁴ When Jesus saw that he answered intelligently he said to him: »You are not far from the kingdom of God. No man dared ask any questions after that.«

³² »It is a light of revelation to the nations, and the glory of your people Israel.«

¹⁴ The Word [Jesus] became flesh (a human being) and lived with us. We saw the glory of the only begotten son from the Father. He was full of loving-kindness and truth.

¹⁷ »If any man does his will he shall know the teachings. He will know if it is from God, or whether I speak from myself.

² He was a devout man who respected God with his entire household. He gave many gifts of mercy to the people and prayed to God always. ³ About the ninth hour of the day he clearly saw a vision. An angel of God came to him and said, »Cornelius.« ⁴ He looked at him and was afraid. »What is it, Lord?« He replied. The angel said: »God hears your prayers and sees your gifts of mercy.

¹³ »He showed us how he had seen an angel in his house that stood and said to him, ‘Send men to Joppa, and call for Simon, whose surname is Peter.’ ¹⁴ »He will bring you a message so that you and your household shall be saved.

¹⁶ Then Paul stood up gestured with his hand and said: »Men of Israel, and you who reverence God, listen.«

⁶ Jehovah then passed in front of him and called out: »I, Jehovah, am a God who is full of compassion and pity. I am not easily angered and show great love and faithfulness. ⁷ »I keep my promise for thousands of generations and forgive evil and sin. But I will not fail to punish children and grandchildren to the third and fourth generation for the sins of their fathers.«

³ The mountains shall bring prosperity to the people. The hills bring the fruit of righteousness.

¹⁴ Righteousness and justice are the foundation of your throne. Loving kindness and truth go before you.

⁵ For Jehovah is good. His loving kindness is everlasting and his truth endures to all generations.

³ Do not let kindness and truth leave you. Bind them around your neck. Write them on the tablet of your heart.

¹⁶ Then justice will live in the wilderness, and righteousness will be at home in the fertile field. ¹⁷ An act of righteousness will bring about peace and security forever. ¹⁸ My people will live in a peaceful place, in safe homes and quiet places of rest.

²⁴ »It will be said of me: ‘Certainly, righteousness and strength are found in Jehovah alone. All who are angry with him will come to him and be ashamed.

⁵ »The days are coming,« declares Jehovah, »when I will raise up for David a righteous Branch. He will reign as king and act wisely and do justice and righteousness in the land. ⁶ »In His days Judah will be saved. Israel will dwell securely. This is his name by which he will be called, Jehovah Is Our Righteousness.

²⁰ You will give truth to Jacob, and show loving-kindness (unchanging love) to Abraham. For you have sworn this to our fathers from the days of old.

⁵⁴ »He has helped Israel his servant that he might remember mercy. ⁵⁵ »He spoke to our fathers. To Abraham and his seed forever.«

¹⁴ »Glory to God in the highest. Peace on earth among men with whom he is pleased.«

¹⁷ The law came through Moses. Loving-kindness and truth came through Jesus Christ.

²⁵ God displayed Christ publicly as propitiation (atonement) by his blood through faith. It demonstrated his righteousness. It was through the forbearance of God that he passed by the sins that had taken place before. ²⁶ It showed his righteousness at this present season that he might himself be righteous, and the justifier of he who has faith in Jesus.

¹ We are justified (acquitted) (made righteous) by faith. And we have peace with God through our Lord Jesus Christ.

²¹ And what for? Just as sin reigned in death, even so might grace reign through righteousness to everlasting life through Jesus Christ our Lord.

² Abraham apportioned a tenth part of everything to him. He was first of all, by translation of his name, »King of Righteousness,« and then he was also ruler of Salem, which means, »King of Peace.«

² In that day the Branch of Jehovah will be beautiful and glorious. And the fruit of the earth will be the delight (pride) (joy) and the adornment of the survivors of Israel.

²¹ Jehovah is a God who is eager to save. He exalted his laws and teachings, and he wanted his people to honor them.

⁸ »Rain down from above, you heavens, and pour down righteousness, you skies. Let the earth open. Let salvation and righteousness sprout. Let them spring up for I Jehovah have created them.«

² He grew up before him like a tender shoot, and like a root out of dry ground. He had no beauty or majesty to attract us to him. Nothing in his appearance will make us desire him.

¹⁷ Then a voice from heaven said: »This is my Son whom I love and whom I have approved.«

⁵ While he was still speaking, a bright cloud overshadowed them. A voice came out of the cloud, saying: »This is my beloved Son, in whom I am well pleased. Listen to him.«

⁶ Jesus proclaimed: »I am the way, the truth, and the life! No one comes to the Father except through me.

²¹ He made the one who knew no sin to be sin on our behalf. That way we might become the righteousness of God in him.

⁶ This is to the praise of the glory of his kindness, with which he freely honored us, the loved ones.

²⁰ We know that the Son of God has come and has given us understanding. We know him that is true for we are in him who is true, [and] in his Son Jesus Christ. This is the true God and everlasting life. ²¹ My little children guard (protect) yourselves from idols.

⁴ »‘I will send you rain at the proper time. Then the land will produce crops and the trees will bear fruit.

⁶ The earth has yielded its increase. God, even our own God, will bless us.

¹⁶ There shall be abundance of grain throughout the land. Its fruit sways like Lebanon. Let it flourish, thriving like the grass of the field.

¹¹ For Jehovah God is a sun and shield. Jehovah will give favor and honor. He will not withhold blessing from those who walk faithfully in truth.

²³ Jehovah will give you rain for the seed that you plant in the ground, and the food that the ground provides will be rich and nourishing. When that day comes, your cattle will graze in large pastures. ²⁴ The cattle and the donkeys that work the soil will eat a mixture of food that has been winnowed with forks and shovels.

¹⁵ The Spirit will be poured out upon us from on high. Then the wilderness will be turned into a fertile field, and the fertile field will be considered a forest.

⁸ He told you, O lowly man, what is good and what Jehovah requires of you. You should display justice, love kindness, and walk humbly with your God!

¹² »There will be peace for the seed. The vine will give its fruit. The ground will yield its increase. The heavens will offer their dew and I will cause the remnant of this people to inherit all these things!

⁸ »Some fell on good ground and yielded fruit, some a hundredfold, some sixty, and some thirty.

²³ »He that was sown upon the good ground hears the word, and understands it. He bears fruit, producing sometimes a hundredfold, sometimes sixty, and sometimes thirty.«

⁴¹ Those who gladly received his word were baptized. About three thousand persons were added the same day.

²⁰ Those who heard it glorified God. They said to him: »You see brother, how many thousands there are among the Jews who have believed. They are all zealous for the law.

³⁰ It is because of him you are united with Christ Jesus, who became wisdom to us from God, and righteousness, and sanctification, and redemption.

⁶ I have planted, Apollos watered; but God caused the growth. ⁷ Neither he that plants and neither he that waters is anything; but God gives the increase. ⁸ Now he who plants and he who waters are one [in purpose] and every man will receive his own reward according to his own labor. ⁹ For we are fellow workers together with God. You are God's field under cultivation. You are God's building.

³ Blessed be the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ. He has blessed us with every spiritual blessing in the heavenly places through Christ.

¹⁷ Every good gift and every perfect gift is from above. It comes down from the Father of lights (truth and spiritual purity), with whom there is no variation. He does not change like shifting shadows.

² He will judge your people with righteousness, and your poor with justice. ³ The mountains shall bring prosperity to the people. The hills bring the fruit of righteousness.

³⁵ Make me walk in the path of your commandments, for I delight in it.

⁸ »Your light will break out like the dawn. Your recovery will speedily spring forth. Your righteousness will go before you and the glory of Jehovah will be your rear guard.

²⁷ And he who will be first among you will be your attendant (servant) (minister). ²⁸ »The Son of man came not to be ministered to, but to minister, and to give his life a ransom in payment for many.«

¹⁴ »If the Teacher and Lord washed your feet you should wash one another’s feet. ¹⁵ »I have given you an example. You should also do as I have done to you. ¹⁶ »Truly I tell you, a servant is not greater than his master. Neither is one that is sent greater than he that sent him.

³⁴ »I give you a new commandment, that you love one another. Just as I have loved you, you also love one another.

¹⁸ We all, with unveiled face, behold as in a mirror the glory of God and are transformed into the same image from glory to glory, exactly as from God’s Spirit.

²⁰ I have been impaled with Christ. It is no longer I that live, but Christ lives in me. The life that I now live in the flesh (physical body) I live by faith. This is the faith that is in the Son of God. He loved me and gave himself up for me.

¹ Therefore imitate God like beloved children. ² Walk in love, even as Christ also loved you, and gave himself up for us. He was an offering and a sacrifice to God for a sweet smelling odor.

⁵ Have this attitude (mind-set) (understanding) (mental state) in you that was also in Christ Jesus. ⁶ He existed in the form (shape and nature) of God but did not try to be equal with God. He did not even consider it! ⁷ He emptied (humbled) himself by taking the form of a servant. He was made in the likeness of men. ⁸ He obtained the appearance as a man, humbled himself, and became obedient even to death, yes, death on the stake.

¹ A great cloud of witnesses surround us. Therefore let us lay aside every weight, and the sin that easily entangles us. Let us run with endurance the race that is set before us. ² Look to (consider without distractions) Jesus, the Leader (Predecessor) and Finisher (Perfecter) of our faith. He despised the shame. He endured the stake for the joy that was set before him. Then he sat down at the right hand of the throne of God.

¹⁸ Servants, be in subjection to your masters with all respect, not only to the good and gentle master but also to the hard to please. ¹⁹ For this is to your credit to suffer wrongfully and endure grief because of your conscience toward God. ²⁰ What value is there when you sin, and are buffeted for it, you take it patiently? But if, when you do well and suffer for it, you take it patiently, this is acceptable with God. ²¹ For this you were called because Christ also suffered for you. He left you an example (a copy for imitation) (a model) that you should follow in his steps. ²² He committed no sin and deception was not found in him. ²³ When he was reviled (insulted), he did not revile in return. When he suffered he did not threaten, but committed himself to him that judges righteously. ²⁴ He bore our sins in his body upon the stake, that we, having died to sins, might live to righteousness. You were healed because of his wounds (stripes).

¹ Since Christ suffered physically for us, you too must strengthen yourselves with the same way of thinking that he had. Whoever suffers physically has ceased from sin.

⁶ He that says he lives in union with him should walk as he walked.