1 Corinthians 15 Cross References - Riverside

¹ LET me recall to your minds, brethren, the good news which I announced to you and which you accepted, in which also you stand, ² through which also you are being saved, if you hold fast the message that I announced to you, unless your faith was thoughtless. ³ For among the first things I passed on to you what I had received, that Christ died for our sins according to the Scriptures, ⁴ and that he was buried, and that he was raised on the third day, according to the Scriptures, ⁵ and that he was seen by Cephas, then by the twelve, ⁶ then he was seen by more than five hundred brethren at once, of whom the most are still living, but some have fallen asleep, ⁷ then he appeared to James, then to all the apostles. ⁸ Last of all, as if to one untimely born, he appeared also to me. ⁹ For I am the least of the apostles and am not fit to be called an apostle, because I persecuted the church of God. ¹⁰ But by the grace of God I am what I am, and his grace toward me was not without result, but I labored more abundantly than all of them, yet not I, but the grace of God that was with me. ¹¹ Whether then it was I or they, so we proclaim and so you believed. ¹² But if Christ is proclaimed — that he has been raised from the dead — how do some among you say that there is no resurrection of the dead? ¹³ If there is no resurrection of the dead, then neither has Christ been raised. ¹⁴ If Christ has not been raised, then our proclamation is an empty thing and your faith is an empty thing. ¹⁵ And we are found false witnesses of God because we testified regarding God that he raised up Christ, whom he did not raise if the dead are not raised. ¹⁶ For if the dead are not raised, neither has Christ been raised. ¹⁷ And if Christ has not been raised, your faith is futile, you are still in your sins. ¹⁸ Then also those who have fallen asleep in Christ have perished. ¹⁹ If in this life only we have hope in Christ, we are of all men most pitiable. ²⁰ But now Christ has been raised from the dead, the first-fruit of those who have fallen asleep. ²¹ For since by a man came death, by a man also came resurrection of the dead. ²² For as in Adam all die, so also in Christ all will be made alive. ²³ But each in his own order. The first-fruit is Christ, then those who are Christ's, at his coming. ²⁴ Then will be the end when he delivers up the kingship to God his Father, when he has defeated every archangel and authority and power. ²⁵ For he must be king until he "puts all his enemies under his feet." ²⁶ The last enemy to be defeated will be death. ²⁷ For "he subjected all things under his feet." But when it says, "all things have been subjected," it is plain that it means all things except God who subjected all things to him. ²⁸ But when all things have been subjected to him, then the Son himself will be subjected to him who subjected all things to him, that God may be all in all. ²⁹ Then what shall they do who are baptized for the dead? If the dead do not rise at all, why are they then baptized for them? ³⁰ And why do we run risks every hour? ³¹ I die every day, I swear it by the boast I make of you and which I have in Christ Jesus our Lord. ³² If, humanly speaking, I fought wild beasts at Ephesus, what is my gain? If the dead do not rise, "let us eat and drink, for to-morrow we die." ³³ Do not be led astray; "bad associations corrupt good morals." ³⁴ Return to soberness and cease to sin, for some are ignorant of God. I say it to your shame. ³⁵ But some one will say, How are the dead raised, and with what sort of bodies do they come? ³⁶ Thoughtless man! What you yourself sow does not come to life unless it dies. ³⁷ And what you sow is not the body that will come, but a mere grain, perhaps of wheat or of something else. ³⁸ But God gives it a body as he has pleased, and to each kind of seed a body of its own. ³⁹ All flesh is not the same flesh, but there is one kind of flesh of men, another flesh of beasts, another flesh of birds, and another flesh of fishes. ⁴⁰ There are bodies celestial and bodies terrestrial. But the glory of the celestial is of one kind and the glory of the terrestrial is of another. ⁴¹ There is one glory of the sun and another glory of the moon and another glory of the stars. For star differs from star in glory. ⁴² So also will be the resurrection of the dead. It is sown in decay; it is raised imperishable. ⁴³ It is sown in dishonor; it is raised in glory. It is sown in weakness; it is raised in power. ⁴⁴ It is sown an animal body; it is raised a spiritual body. If there is an animal body there is also a spiritual body. ⁴⁵ Just as it is written, "The first man Adam became a living animal," the last Adam became a lifegiving spirit. ⁴⁶ But the spiritual is not first, but the animal, then the spiritual. ⁴⁷ The first man was from the earth, earthly; the second man is the Lord from heaven. ⁴⁸ As is the earthly man such are also those who are earthly, and as is the heavenly man such are also those who are heavenly. ⁴⁹ And as we have borne the image of the earthly man, we shall bear the image of the heavenly man. ⁵⁰ But I say this, brethren, flesh and blood cannot inherit the kingdom of God, nor will decay inherit imperishability. ⁵¹ I am telling you a mystery. We shall not all fall asleep, but we shall all be transformed, ⁵² in a moment, in the twinkling of an eye, at the last trumpet-call. For the trumpet will sound and the dead will be raised imperishable, and we shall be transformed. ⁵³ For this perishable must clothe itself with imperishability, and this mortal must clothe itself with immortality. ⁵⁴ When this perishable has clothed itself with imperishability and this mortal has clothed itself with immortality, then will come to pass the word that is written, "Death has been swallowed up in victory. ⁵⁵ O Death, where is thy victory? O Death, where is thy sting?" ⁵⁶ The sting of death is sin, and the power of sin is the Law. ⁵⁷ But thanks be to God who gives us the victory through our Lord Jesus Christ! ⁵⁸ So then, my beloved brethren, be firm, immovable, always abounding in the work of the Lord; since you know that your labor is not fruitless in the Lord.

²³ "Behold the virgin will conceive and will bear a son, and they will call his name Immanuel" (which means, God is with us).

²⁰ For it is not you who speak, but the Spirit of your Father that speaks within you. ²¹ Brother will betray brother to death, and father will betray child, and children will rise up against parents and put them to death. ²² And you will be hated by all for my name's sake. He who endures to the end, that one will be saved.

²² And you will be hated by all for my name's sake. He who endures to the end, that one will be saved. ²³ "When they persecute you in one city, flee to another. I tell you truly, you will not have gone through the cities of Israel before the Son of Man comes. ²⁴ The scholar is not above his teacher, nor the servant above his master. ²⁵ It is sufficient for the scholar to fare like his teacher and for the servant to fare like his master. If they have called the master of the house Beelzebul, how much more the members of his household.

⁴⁰ He who receives you receives me, and he who receives me receives him that sent me. ⁴¹ He who receives a prophet because he is a prophet will get a prophet's reward, and he who receives a righteous man because he is a righteous man will get a righteous man's reward. ⁴² Whoever gives merely a cup of cold water to one of these little ones to drink because he is a disciple, I tell you truly he will not lose his reward."

²⁷ "All things have been delivered tome by my Father, and no one knows the Son but the Father, nor does any one know the Father but the Son and he to whom the Son may choose to reveal him.

⁴⁰ For as Jonah was in the belly of the whale three days and three nights, so will the Son of Man be in the heart of the earth three days and three nights.

³⁹ The enemy that sowed them is the Devil. The harvest is the end of the world. The reapers are angels. ⁴⁰ As the weeds are gathered up and burned with fire, so shall it be at the end of the world. ⁴¹ The Son of Man will send his angels and they will gather up from his kingdom all stumbling-blocks and those who practice lawlessness, ⁴² and will cast them into the furnace of fire. There will be wailing and gnashing of teeth. ⁴³ Then will the righteous shine out like the sun in the kingdom of their Father. He who has ears, let him hear.

⁴³ Then will the righteous shine out like the sun in the kingdom of their Father. He who has ears, let him hear.

⁹ In vain they worship me while they teach as precepts the commands of men.' "

¹⁷ Jesus replied, "Blessed are you, Simon Bar-Jonah, for flesh and blood have not revealed it to you, but my Father in heaven.

²¹ From that time Jesus began to make plain to his disciples that he had to go away to Jerusalem, and suffer greatly from the elders and high priests and scribes, and be killed and on the third day be raised.

¹⁸ "We are going up to Jerusalem, and the Son of Man will be betrayed to the high priests and the scribes, and they will condemn him to death ¹⁹ and will deliver him to the Gentiles to mock and to scourge and to crucify, and on the third day he will be raised."

¹⁹ and will deliver him to the Gentiles to mock and to scourge and to crucify, and on the third day he will be raised."

²² Jesus answered, "You do not know what you are asking. Can you drink the cup that I am about to drink?" They said to him, 'We can?'

²⁹ Jesus replied to them, "You are all astray because you do not understand either the Scriptures or the power of God. ³⁰ For in the resurrection they neither many nor are married, but are like the angels in heaven.

⁴⁴ 'The Lord said to my Lord, Sit at my right hand until I put your enemies under your feet'?

⁴ Jesus answered them, "Make sure that no one misleads you.

⁹ Then they will deliver you up to persecution and will kill you, and you will be hated by all the Gentiles on account of my name.

¹¹ Many false prophets will arise and will lead many astray,

¹³ But he who endures to the end, he will be saved.

²⁴ For false Christs and false prophets will arise and will give great signs and wonders so as to mislead, if possible, even the chosen.

³¹ And he will send his angels with a loud trumpet-blast, and they will gather his chosen from the four winds, from one end of heaven to the other.

³¹ "When the Son of Man comes in his glory, and all the angels with him, then he will sit on his glorious throne ³² and all the nations will be assembled before him. And he will divide them one from another as a shepherd divides the sheep from the goats. ³³ He will place the sheep on his right hand and the goats on his left. ³⁴ Then will the King say to those on his right hand, 'Come, you who have been blessed by my Father, inherit the kingdom prepared for you from the foundation of the world! ³⁵ For I was hungry and you gave me food; I was thirsty and you gave me drink; I was a stranger and you took me in; ³⁶ naked and you clothed me. I was sick and you cared for me. I was in prison and you came to me.' ³⁷ Then will the righteous answer, 'Lord, when did we see you hungry and feed you, or thirsty and give you drink? ³⁸ When did we see you a stranger and take you in, or naked and clothe you? ³⁹ When did we see you sick or in prison and come to you?' ⁴⁰ The King will answer, 'I tell you truly, inasmuch as you did it to one of these my brothers — even the least — you did it to me.'

²⁸ for this is my blood of the covenant, which is shed for many for the forgiveness of sins.

⁵⁷ In the late afternoon there came a rich man of Arimathaea, named Joseph, who also himself was a disciple of Jesus. ⁵⁸ This man went to Pilate and asked for the body of Jesus, and Pilate ordered it to be given to him. ⁵⁹ Joseph took the body and wrapped it in a clean linen sheet ⁶⁰ and laid it in his own new tomb, which he had hewn in the rock. Then he rolled a great stone up to the door of the tomb and went away.

⁶³ and said, "Sir, we remember that that deceiver said while he was alive, 'After three days I shall be raised up.' ⁶⁴ So give orders to have the tomb guarded until the third day. Otherwise his disciples may come and steal him away and tell the people, 'He has been raised from the dead,' and the last error will be worse than the first."

¹ LATE on the Sabbath, as the first day of the week was drawing near, Mary Magdalene and the other Mary came to look at the tomb. ² And suddenly there was a great earthquake. For an angel of the Lord descended from heaven and came to the stone and rolled it away and sat upon it. ³ His appearance was like lightning and his raiment white as snow. ⁴ For fear of him the guards trembled violently and became like dead men. ⁵ The angel said to the women, "Do not you be afraid. For I know that you are looking for Jesus who was crucified. ⁶ He is not here. He has been raised, as he told you. Come see the place where he lay.

¹⁰ Then Jesus said to them, "Do not be afraid. Go and take the message to my disciples to go away to Galilee and there they will see me."

¹⁶ The eleven disciples went to Galilee, to the mountain where Jesus had appointed to meet them, ¹⁷ and they saw him and bowed down before him; but some doubted. ¹⁸ Jesus came to them and talked with them. He said, "To me has been given all authority in heaven and on earth.

¹⁶ These are they likewise who received seed on stony places — such as hear and immediately and gladly receive the word, ¹⁷ but, since they have no root, but are fickle, whenever trouble or persecution arises on account of the word, immediately they fail. ¹⁸ Others are those who receive seed among thorns — such as hear the word, ¹⁹ but the cares of this world and the deceitfulness of riches and the passions for other things come in and choke the word, and it turns out barren. ²⁰ These are those who received seed in good ground — such as hear the message and receive it and yield thirty, sixty, or a hundred fold."

²⁶ He said again, "The kingdom of God is like this: A man casts seed on the ground ²⁷ and goes on sleeping by night and rising by day, and the seed sprouts and grows up, he knows not how. ²⁸ The ground of itself yields fruit: first the stalk, then the ear, then comes the full grain in the ear. ²⁹ When the grain is ripe immediately he puts in the sickle because the harvest has come."

³¹ For he was teaching his disciples and telling them that the Son of Man would be betrayed into the hands of men and that they would kill him, and that three days after being killed he would rise.

³³ He said, "See, we are going up to Jerusalem, and the Son of Man will be delivered to the high priests and the scribes, and they will condemn him to death and will hand him over to the Gentiles, ³⁴ and they will make sport of him and spit on him and scourge him and kill him. But after three days he will rise."

²⁴ Jesus said to them, "Do you not err for the reason that you do not know either the Scriptures or the power of God? ²⁵ For when they rise from the dead, they neither marry nor are given in marriage, but are like the angels in heaven.

³⁶ David himself, guided by the Holy Spirit, said, 'The Lord said to my Lord, sit at my right hand till I put your enemies under your feet.'

⁴³ Joseph of Arimathaea, a councilor of high standing, who himself was looking for the kingdom of God, took courage to go in to Pilate and ask for the body of Jesus. ⁴⁴ Pilate wondered whether he was already dead, but he called in the Centurion and asked him whether Jesus had been long dead. ⁴⁵ Upon learning this from the Centurion, he granted the body to Joseph. ⁴⁶ Joseph bought a linen sheet and took him down and swathed him in it and laid him in a tomb which had been hewn out in the rock. He then rolled a stone against the door of the tomb.

² Very early in the morning of the first day of the week they came to the tomb. The sun had risen. ³ They were saying to one another, "Who will roll away the stone from the door of the tomb for us?" ⁴ But when they looked they saw that the stone had been rolled away. It was very large. ⁵ Entering the tomb, they saw a young man sitting on the right side dressed in a white robe, and they were frightened. ⁶ But he said to them, "Do not be frightened. You are looking for Jesus the Nazarene who was crucified. He has risen. He is not here. This is the place where they laid him. ⁷ But go tell his disciples and Peter, He has gone before you into Galilee. There you will see him, as he told you."

⁷ But go tell his disciples and Peter, He has gone before you into Galilee. There you will see him, as he told you."

¹⁴ Later he appeared to the eleven as they were reclining at table, and reproached them for their lack of faith and dullness of mind because they had not believed those who had seen him since his resurrection. ¹⁵ He said to them, "Go into all the world and proclaim the good news to all the creation. ¹⁶ He who believes and is baptized will be saved, but he who does not believe will be condemned.

¹⁶ and many of the sons of Israel will he turn to the Lord their God. ¹⁷ He will go before him in the spirit and power of Elijah, to turn the hearts of fathers to their children and the disobedient to the wisdom of the righteous, to make ready for the Lord a people prepared for him."

¹¹ for there was born for you to-day in the city of David a Savior, who is Christ and Lord.

¹³ Those on the rock are those who, though they receive the message with joy, yet have no root, who for a while believe, but in the time of trial desert. ¹⁴ That which fell among thorns means those who hear, and as they go on are choked by the cares and riches and pleasures of life and bring nothing to completion.

²² telling them that the Son of Man must suffer many things and be rejected by the elders and high priests and be killed, and on the third day be raised.

²⁵ For what will it profit a man to gain the whole world if he has lost or forfeited himself?

²² "All things have been committed to me by my Father, and no one knows who the Son is but the Father, or who the Father is but the Son, and he to whom the Son may will to reveal him."

⁴⁰ You foolish men, did not he who made the outside make the inside too?

¹⁹ and I will say to my soul, Soul, you have many goods laid up for many years, take your ease, eat, drink, be merry!' ²⁰ But God said to him, 'Foolish man, this night your soul will be required of you; and the things that you have prepared — whose will they be?'

²³ And in Hades he lifted up his eyes, being in torments, and saw Abraham far off and Lazarus in his bosom.

³² For he will be handed over to the Gentiles and he will be made sport of and insulted and spit upon, ³³ and they will scourge him and kill him, and on the third day he will rise."

³⁵ but those who are judged worthy to reach that world and the resurrection of the dead neither marry nor are married, ³⁶ neither can they die, for they are like angels and are children of God, since they are children of the resurrection.

³⁶ neither can they die, for they are like angels and are children of God, since they are children of the resurrection.

⁴² David himself says in the book of Psalms, 'The Lord said to my Lord, Sit at my right ⁴³ until I make your enemies your footstool.'

³⁴ Take care that your hearts are not dull through overeating and drinking and the cares of life, so that that day may come on you unexpectedly like a trap.

⁵⁰ There was a man named Joseph, a member of the Council, a good and upright man ⁵¹ who had not participated in their plan and action. He was of Arimathaea, a city of the Judaeans, and was looking for the kingdom of God. ⁵² This man went to Pilate and asked for the body of Jesus. ⁵³ He took it down and wrapped it in fine linen and laid him in a tomb cut in the rock where no one was yet lying.

⁵ They were frightened and bowed their faces to the ground, but the men said to them, "Why are you looking for the living among the dead? ⁶ He is not here, but has risen. Remember how he told you while he was still in Galilee ⁷ that the Son of Man must be betrayed into the hands of sinful men and be crucified and rise on the third day."

²⁵ Jesus said to them, "O men lacking insight and slow in heart to believe all that the prophets spoke! ²⁶ Did not the Christ have to suffer these things and enter into his glory?"

²⁶ Did not the Christ have to suffer these things and enter into his glory?" ²⁷ Then, beginning with Moses and all the prophets, he interpreted to them in all the Scriptures the things about himself.

³¹ And their eyes were opened and they recognized him; but he vanished from their sight.

³³ Then, rising that very hour, they returned to Jerusalem and found the eleven and their associates assembled ³⁴ and saying, "Really the Lord has risen and he has appeared to Simon." ³⁵ They then narrated what had happened on the road and how they knew him by his breaking the bread. ³⁶ While they were talking of these things, Jesus himself stood in the midst of them and said to them, "Peace be with you!"

³⁶ While they were talking of these things, Jesus himself stood in the midst of them and said to them, "Peace be with you!" ³⁷ They were terrified and much alarmed, and thought that they were seeing a spirit. ³⁸ But he said to them, "Why are you troubled? And why do doubts arise in your hearts? ³⁹ See my hands and my feet — that it is I myself. Feel me and see, for a spirit does not have flesh and bones as you see me having." ⁴⁰ Saying this, he showed them his hands and his feet. ⁴¹ While they still were doubting for joy and wondering, he said to them, "Have you anything here to eat?" ⁴² They gave him a piece of broiled fish, ⁴³ and he took it and ate before them. ⁴⁴ He said to them, "This is what I said to you while I was still with you, that all the things written in the Law of Moses and in the Prophets and Psalms about me must be fulfilled." ⁴⁵ Then he opened their minds to understand the Scriptures, ⁴⁶ and he said to them, "Thus it is written that the Christ is to suffer and rise from the dead on the third day,

⁴⁶ and he said to them, "Thus it is written that the Christ is to suffer and rise from the dead on the third day,

⁴⁶ and he said to them, "Thus it is written that the Christ is to suffer and rise from the dead on the third day, ⁴⁷ and in his name change of heart for forgiveness of sins is to be proclaimed to all the nations, beginning at Jerusalem.

⁴⁷ and in his name change of heart for forgiveness of sins is to be proclaimed to all the nations, beginning at Jerusalem. ⁴⁸ You are witnesses of these things. ⁴⁹ And, see, I am sending upon you the promise of my Father. But you are to stay in the city until you are clothed with power from on high." ⁵⁰ He led them out as far as Bethany and lifted up his hands and blessed them.

⁴ In him was Life, and the Life was the Light of men.

²⁹ The next day John saw Jesus coming toward him, and said, "Behold, the Lamb of God, who takes away the sin of the world!

⁴² He led him to Jesus. Looking at him, Jesus said, "You are Simon, the son of John. You shall be called Cephas" (which is in Greek, Peter, that is, Rock).

¹⁹ Jesus answered them, "Demolish this Temple and in three days I will raise it again." ²⁰ The Jews said, "It took forty-six years to build this Temple, and will you raise it in three days?" ²¹ But he was speaking of the temple of his body. ²² So when he arose from the dead his disciples remembered that he had said this, and they believed the Scripture and the word that Jesus had spoken.

³ Jesus answered, "Truly, truly, I tell you, unless a man is born from above he cannot see the kingdom of God." ⁴ Nicodemus said to him, "How can a man be born when he is old? Can he enter into his mother's womb a second time and be born?"

⁴ Nicodemus said to him, "How can a man be born when he is old? Can he enter into his mother's womb a second time and be born?" ⁵ Jesus answered, "Truly, truly, I tell you, unless a man is born of water and the Spirit he cannot enter into the kingdom of God. ⁶ What is born of the flesh is flesh, and what is born of the Spirit is spirit.

⁶ What is born of the flesh is flesh, and what is born of the Spirit is spirit.

⁹ Nicodemus answered him, "How can these things be?"

¹² If I have told you earthly things and you do not believe, how will you believe if I tell you heavenly things? ¹³ No one has ascended into heaven but he who descended from heaven — the Son of Man.

³¹ He who comes from above is above all. He who is of the earth is of the earth and he speaks of the earth. He who comes from heaven is above all.

³⁵ The Father loves the Son and has placed all things in his hand.

¹⁰ Jesus answered her, "If you knew the gift of God and who it is that is saying to you, 'Give me a drink,' you would have asked him and he would have given you living water."

¹⁴ But whoever drinks of the water that I will give him will never thirst, but the water that I will give him will become in him a well of water, flowing out into life eternal."

¹⁴ Afterwards Jesus found him in the Temple court and said to him, "See, you have become well. Sin no more, for something worse might happen to you."

²¹ For as the Father raises the dead and gives them life, so also the Son gives life to whom he will.

²¹ For as the Father raises the dead and gives them life, so also the Son gives life to whom he will. ²² Neither does the Father judge any one, but he has committed all judgment to the Son, ²³ that all may honor the Son just as they honor the Father. He who does not honor the Son does not honor the Father who sent him. ²⁴ Truly, truly, I tell you, he who hears my word and believes him who sent me has life eternal and does not come into condemnation, but has passed over from death into life. ²⁵ Truly, truly, I tell you that the hour is coming, and is now here, when the dead will hear the voice of the Son of God, and those who hear will live.

²⁵ Truly, truly, I tell you that the hour is coming, and is now here, when the dead will hear the voice of the Son of God, and those who hear will live. ²⁶ For as the Father has life in himself, so also he has granted to the Son to have life in himself. ²⁷ He has given him authority to do judgment, because he is Son of Man. ²⁸ Do not wonder at this, because the hour is coming in which all who are in the tombs will hear his voice

²⁸ Do not wonder at this, because the hour is coming in which all who are in the tombs will hear his voice ²⁹ and will come forth — those who have done good to a resurrection of life and those who have done evil to a resurrection of condemnation.

²⁸ They said to him, "What are we to do to work the works of God?" ²⁹ Jesus answered them, "This is the work of God, to believe in him whom he has sent."

³³ For the bread of God is he who came down from heaven and gives his life for the world."

³⁹ and this is the will of him who sent me, that of the whole that he has given me I should lose nothing, but should raise all up on the last day. ⁴⁰ For this is the will of my Father, that every one who looks upon the Son and believes in him shall have life eternal, and I will raise him up on the last day."

⁵⁴ He who eats my flesh and drinks my blood has life eternal, and I will raise him up on the last day.

⁵⁷ As the living Father sent me and I am living because of the Father, so he who eats me — he will live because of me.

⁶³ The spirit is what gives life; the flesh is of no account. The words that I have spoken to you are spirit and are life.

⁶⁸ Simon Peter answered him, "Sir, to whom shall we go? You have the words of life eternal,

¹¹ She said, "No one, Sir." Jesus said, "Neither do I sentence you. Go. From now on sin no more."]

²¹ He said again to them, "I am going away and you will search for me and will die in your sin. Where I am going you cannot come."

²¹ He said again to them, "I am going away and you will search for me and will die in your sin. Where I am going you cannot come." ²² The Jews said, "Will he kill himself, and so says, 'Where I am going you cannot come'?" ²³ He said to them, "You are from below; I am from above. You are of this world; I am not of this world. ²⁴ Therefore I said to you that you will die in your sins. Unless you believe that I am he, you will die in your sins."

²⁴ Therefore I said to you that you will die in your sins. Unless you believe that I am he, you will die in your sins."

³¹ Jesus said to the Jews that had believed him, "If you continue in my word, you are truly my disciples, ³² and you will know the truth and the truth will make you free."

¹⁰ They said to him, "How then were your eyes opened?"

¹⁰ The thief comes only to steal and kill and destroy. I have come that they may have life and have it abundantly.

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

²⁵ Jesus said to her, "I am the Resurrection and the Life. He who believes in me even though he dies will live,

²⁵ Jesus said to her, "I am the Resurrection and the Life. He who believes in me even though he dies will live, ²⁶ and no one who lives and believes in me will ever die. Do you believe this?"

²⁴ Truly, truly, I tell you, unless a grain of wheat falls into the ground and dies, it remains alone. But if it dies it bears much fruit.

⁴⁸ He who rejects me and does not accept my words has a judge. The message that I have spoken — that will judge him on the last day.

³ Jesus, knowing that the Father had given all things into his hands and that he had come from God and was going to God,

⁶ Jesus said to him, "I am the Way and the Truth and the Life. No one comes to the Father except through me.

¹⁹ After a little while the world will no longer see me, but you will see me; because I am living you too will live.

²⁸ You heard that I said to you I am going away and am coming back to you. If you loved me you would be glad that I am going to the Father, for the Father is greater than I.

² They will put you out of the synagogues. Indeed, the hour is coming when every one who kills you will think that he is offering a sacrifice to God.

³³ I have spoken these things to you that in me you may have peace. In the world you have distress. But he courageous. I have conquered the world."

² as thou hast given him authority over all flesh, that he may give life eternal to all that thou hast given him. ³ This is life eternal, to know thee, the only true God, and him whom thou hast sent, Jesus Christ.

³⁸ After this, Joseph of Arimathaea, who was a disciple of Jesus, but secretly for fear of the Jews, asked of Pilate permission to carry away the body of Jesus, and Pilate granted it. So he came and carried his body away.

¹⁹ In the evening of that day, the first day of the week, when the doors had been closed where the disciples were, for fear of the Jews, Jesus came and stood in the midst and said to them, "Peace be with you."

¹⁹ In the evening of that day, the first day of the week, when the doors had been closed where the disciples were, for fear of the Jews, Jesus came and stood in the midst and said to them, "Peace be with you." ²⁰ When he had said this, he showed them his hands and his side. The disciples were filled with joy on seeing the Master. ²¹ He said to them again, "Peace be with you. As the Father sent me forth so I am sending you." ²² When he had said this, he breathed on them and said, "Receive the Holy Spirit. ²³ If you forgive the sins of any, they are forgiven. If you retain the sins of any, they are retained." ²⁴ Thomas, one of the twelve, called Didymus (the Twin), was not with them when Jesus came. ²⁵ The other disciples said to him, "We have seen the Master." But he said to them, "Unless I see in his hands the print of the nails and put my finger into the print of the nails and put my hand into his side, I will not believe it." ²⁶ After eight days the disciples were again within and Thomas was with them. Jesus came and stood in the midst and said, "Peace be with you."

²⁶ After eight days the disciples were again within and Thomas was with them. Jesus came and stood in the midst and said, "Peace be with you."

² down to the day when, after giving commands, through the Holy Spirit, to the apostles whom he had chosen, he was taken up to heaven.

² down to the day when, after giving commands, through the Holy Spirit, to the apostles whom he had chosen, he was taken up to heaven. ³ By many proofs he revealed himself to these men as still alive after his sufferings; for he was seen by them for forty days and spoke of things relating to the kingdom of God.

³ By many proofs he revealed himself to these men as still alive after his sufferings; for he was seen by them for forty days and spoke of things relating to the kingdom of God.

³ By many proofs he revealed himself to these men as still alive after his sufferings; for he was seen by them for forty days and spoke of things relating to the kingdom of God. ⁴ Also while eating with them, he charged them not to leave Jerusalem, but to wait for the promise of the Father, "which," said he, "you have heard from me.

⁴ Also while eating with them, he charged them not to leave Jerusalem, but to wait for the promise of the Father, "which," said he, "you have heard from me. ⁵ For John baptized with water, but you will be baptized with the Holy Spirit not many days hence."

⁵ For John baptized with water, but you will be baptized with the Holy Spirit not many days hence." ⁶ When they came together, they asked him, "Master, will you at this time restore the kingdom to Israel?"

⁶ When they came together, they asked him, "Master, will you at this time restore the kingdom to Israel?" ⁷ He said to them, "It is not yours to know the times and seasons which the Father has put under his own authority.

⁷ He said to them, "It is not yours to know the times and seasons which the Father has put under his own authority. ⁸ But you will receive power after the Holy Spirit has come upon you, and you will be witnesses for me in Jerusalem and in all Judaea and in Samaria and to the ends of the earth."

⁸ But you will receive power after the Holy Spirit has come upon you, and you will be witnesses for me in Jerusalem and in all Judaea and in Samaria and to the ends of the earth." ⁹ He said this and then, while they were looking on, he was taken up and a cloud lifted him from their sight.

⁹ He said this and then, while they were looking on, he was taken up and a cloud lifted him from their sight. ¹⁰ They were gazing into the sky as he went, when suddenly two men in white robes were standing beside them

¹⁰ They were gazing into the sky as he went, when suddenly two men in white robes were standing beside them ¹¹ and said, "Men of Galilee, why are you standing and looking up into the sky? This Jesus, who has been taken from you into heaven, will come back in the same way that you have seen him go into heaven."

¹¹ and said, "Men of Galilee, why are you standing and looking up into the sky? This Jesus, who has been taken from you into heaven, will come back in the same way that you have seen him go into heaven." ¹² They then returned to Jerusalem from the mountain called the Olive Orchard, which is near Jerusalem, a Sabbath day's journey distant.

¹² They then returned to Jerusalem from the mountain called the Olive Orchard, which is near Jerusalem, a Sabbath day's journey distant. ¹³ When they came into the city, they went up to the upper room where they were staying. There were Peter and John, and James and Andrew, Philip and Thomas, Bartholomew and Matthew, James the son of Alphaeus and Simon the Zealot, and Judas the son of James. ¹⁴ All of these continued earnestly and unitedly in prayer with the women and Mary the mother of Jesus and with his brothers.

²³ But when he had been delivered up according to the fixed purpose and foreknowledge of God, you crucified and killed him through the hands of lawless men. ²⁴ But God freed him from the pangs of death and raised him up, since it was impossible that he should be held under the power of death.

²⁴ But God freed him from the pangs of death and raised him up, since it was impossible that he should be held under the power of death. ²⁵ For David says of him, 'I saw the Lord always before my face, for he is at my right hand so that I may not be cast down. ²⁶ Therefore my heart is glad and my tongue rejoices, and my flesh still dwells in hope ²⁷ that thou wilt not leave my soul to Hades and wilt not let thy holy one see decay.

²⁷ that thou wilt not leave my soul to Hades and wilt not let thy holy one see decay. ²⁸ Thou makest me know the paths of life. Thou wilt fill me with joy in thy presence.' ²⁹ "Brethren, allow me to say frankly to you regarding the patriarch David that he died and was buried and his tomb is among us to this day. ³⁰ But being a prophet and knowing that God had sworn to him an oath to place a descendant of his body upon his throne, ³¹ he foreseeing spoke of the resurrection of the Christ, saying that he was not left to Hades and that his flesh did not see decay.

³¹ he foreseeing spoke of the resurrection of the Christ, saying that he was not left to Hades and that his flesh did not see decay. ³² This Jesus, God raised up, and all of us are witnesses of it.

³² This Jesus, God raised up, and all of us are witnesses of it. ³³ Therefore having been exalted to the right hand of God and having received from the Father the promise of the Holy Spirit, he has poured out this which you see and hear. ³⁴ For David did not ascend into the heavens, but he says, 'The Lord said to my Lord, Sit at my right hand,

⁴¹ Those who accepted his message were baptized, and there were added on that day about three thousand souls.

⁴⁷ praising God and having favor with all the people. The Lord added daily to their number those who were being saved.

¹⁵ You killed the Author of life, but God raised him from the dead. Of this we are witnesses.

¹⁸ God in this way fulfilled what he had predicted through the mouths of all the prophets that his Christ should suffer.

¹⁰ be it known to all of you and to all the people of Israel, that by the name of Jesus Christ the Nazarene, whom you crucified, whom God raised from the dead — by this name, this man stands here before you sound.

³³ With great power the apostles continued to bear witness to the resurrection of the Lord Jesus. Great grace was upon them all.

³¹ God has exalted him as Leader and Savior at his own right hand to give to Israel change of heart and forgiveness of sins.

⁶⁰ Kneeling he cried aloud, "Lord, do not lay up this sin against them!" After saying this he fell asleep.

³ Saul cruelly hounded the church from house to house, entering and dragging out men and women and handing them over into prison.

¹³ Simon himself also believed and was baptized and attached himself to Philip, and seeing the signs and great miracles that took place he was astonished.

¹ SAUL was still breathing out threats and murder against the disciples of the Lord. He went to the High Priest ² and asked from him letters to the synagogues in Damascus, that if he should find any persons who were of the Way, whether men or women, he might bring them bound to Jerusalem. ³ On his journey he was getting near to Damascus when suddenly a light from heaven flashed round him.

³ On his journey he was getting near to Damascus when suddenly a light from heaven flashed round him. ⁴ He fell to the ground and heard a voice saying to him, "Saul, Saul, why are you persecuting me?"

⁴ He fell to the ground and heard a voice saying to him, "Saul, Saul, why are you persecuting me?" ⁵ He asked, "Who is speaking?" The answer was, "I am Jesus whom you are persecuting.

⁵ He asked, "Who is speaking?" The answer was, "I am Jesus whom you are persecuting.

⁵ He asked, "Who is speaking?" The answer was, "I am Jesus whom you are persecuting. ⁶ But stand up and go into the city and it will be told you what you must do."

⁶ But stand up and go into the city and it will be told you what you must do." ⁷ The men who were on the road with him stood struck dumb, hearing the voice, but seeing no one. ⁸ Saul rose from the earth and opened his eyes, but he could see nothing. Taking him by the hand they led him into Damascus, ⁹ and he was three days without seeing, and neither ate nor drank. ¹⁰ There was in Damascus a certain disciple named Ananias. The Lord said to him in a vision, "Ananias." He answered, "Here I am, Lord." ¹¹ The Lord said to him, "Rise and go to the street called Straight street, and ask in the house of Judas for a man named Saul from Tarsus. He is now in prayer, ¹² and has seen a man named Ananias come in and lay his hands on him in order that he may receive his sight." ¹³ Ananias answered, "Lord, I have heard about this man from many people — how many wicked things he has done to thy holy ones in Jerusalem, ¹⁴ and here he has authority from the high priests to bind all who call upon thy name." ¹⁵ But the Lord said to him, "Go, for this man is a chosen instrument of mine to carry my name before nations and kings and the children of Israel. ¹⁶ I will show him how much he must suffer for my name." ¹⁷ Ananias went and entered the house and put his hands on Saul, and said, "Brother Saul, the Lord has sent me — Jesus who appeared to you on the road as you were coming — that you may receive your sight and be filled with the Holy Spirit."

¹⁷ Ananias went and entered the house and put his hands on Saul, and said, "Brother Saul, the Lord has sent me — Jesus who appeared to you on the road as you were coming — that you may receive your sight and be filled with the Holy Spirit." ¹⁸ Immediately scales seemed to fall from his eyes and he could see, and he arose and was baptized, ¹⁹ and after taking food he regained his strength. Saul passed some days with the disciples who were in Damascus,

³⁶ As to the message which he sent to the children of Israel telling the good news of peace through Jesus Christ — who is Lord of all —

³⁹ We are witnesses of all that he did in the country of the Jews and in Jerusalem. They hung him on a cross and so killed him. ⁴⁰ But God raised him up on the third day and granted that he should become visible, ⁴¹ not to all the people, but to witnesses previously chosen by God, namely, to us who ate and drank with him after his resurrection from the dead.

⁴¹ not to all the people, but to witnesses previously chosen by God, namely, to us who ate and drank with him after his resurrection from the dead. ⁴² God commanded us to proclaim to the people and to testify that he is the divinely appointed Judge of the living and the dead.

¹ THE apostles and the brethren throughout Judaea heard that the Gentiles also had received the message of God.

¹⁷ He motioned to them with his hand to be silent, and explained to them how the Lord had delivered him out of the prison, and he said, "Tell this to James and the brethren." Then he left and went to a different place.

²⁹ When they had completely done all that had been predicted about him, they took him down from the cross and laid him in a tomb. ³⁰ But God raised him from the dead

³⁰ But God raised him from the dead ³¹ and he appeared for many days to those who had gone up with him from Galilee to Jerusalem. They are now his witnesses to all the people.

³¹ and he appeared for many days to those who had gone up with him from Galilee to Jerusalem. They are now his witnesses to all the people. ³² "We tell you the good news that the promise to our fathers has been kept;

³² "We tell you the good news that the promise to our fathers has been kept; ³³ for God has fulfilled it for our children in raising up Jesus, as it is written in the second psalm, 'Thou art my son; to-day I have become thy father.'

³³ for God has fulfilled it for our children in raising up Jesus, as it is written in the second psalm, 'Thou art my son; to-day I have become thy father.' ³⁴ And as to his raising him from the dead, never to return to decay, he spoke thus; 'I will give you the holy and sure promises made to David.' ³⁵ Therefore he says also in another psalm, 'Thou wilt not let thy holy one see decay.' ³⁶ For David after serving the will of God in his own generation fell asleep and was laid with his fathers and saw decay.

³⁶ For David after serving the will of God in his own generation fell asleep and was laid with his fathers and saw decay. ³⁷ But he whom God raised up saw no decay. ³⁸ "Therefore let it be known to you, brethren, that through him forgiveness of sins is proclaimed to you. ³⁹ Yes, every one who believes in him is cleared from all the sins from which you could not be cleared by the Law of Moses.

²² reassuring the minds of the disciples and encouraging them to be steadfast in the faith, saying, "Through many trials we must enter into the kingdom of God."

³¹ since he has set a day in which he will soon judge the world in justice by the man whom he has appointed, and of whom he has given evidence to all men by raising him from the dead." ³² When they heard of the resurrection of the dead, some sneered; others said, "We will hear you again about this."

⁴ But in the synagogue every Sabbath he reasoned and endeavored to persuade both Jews and Greeks. ⁵ When Silas and Timothy came down from Macedonia, Paul was absorbed by the message, bearing witness to the Jews that Jesus was the Christ.

⁹ The Lord spoke in the night by a vision to Paul, "Do not fear, but speak and be not silent,

¹⁹ They came to Ephesus and Paul left his companions there. He himself went into the synagogue and debated with the Jews.

¹ WHILE Apollos was in Corinth, Paul, after passing through the upper country, came to Ephesus and found certain disciples.

²³ At that time there arose no small commotion about the Way. ²⁴ For a certain man named Demetrius, a silversmith, a maker of silver shrines of Artemis, was bringing to the artisans no small gain. ²⁵ He gathered these and the workmen employed about such things and said, "Men, you know that from this business we get our wealth, ²⁶ and you see and hear that not only at Ephesus, but also throughout almost all Asia this Paul has persuaded and drawn away a large number, saying that hand-made gods are not gods at all. ²⁷ Not only is this trade of ours in danger of coming into disrepute, but also the temple of the great goddess Artemis is in danger of being held of no account, and she whom now all Asia and the wide world worship will be deposed from her majesty." ²⁸ Upon hearing this, they became full of anger and shouted, "Great is Artemis of the Ephesians!" ²⁹ The city was filled with confusion, and the people rushed with one mind into the theater, having gotten hold of Gaius and Aristarchus, fellow travelers of Paul's. ³⁰ When Paul wished to go in and face the people the disciples would not let him. ³¹ Some of the city officials who were his friends sent to him and begged him not to expose himself in the theater. ³² Some were shouting one thing and some another, for the assembly was in confusion, and the most did not know why they had come together. ³³ Some of the crowd fixed on Alexander, since the Jews were putting him forward. And Alexander motioned with his hand and wished to make a defense before the people. ³⁴ But when they recognized that he was a Jew, there arose one shout from all for about two hours, "Great is Artemis of the Ephesians!" ³⁵ Then the City Clerk quieted the crowd and said, "Men of Ephesus, who is there of all men who does not know that the city of Ephesus is the temple-keeper of the great Artemis, and of her image which fell down from Zeus? ³⁶ Since these things are indisputable, you ought to be calm and do nothing rash. ³⁷ For you have brought here these men who are not robbers of temples nor defamers of your goddess. ³⁸ If Demetrius and the artisans with him have a charge against any one, there are court days and there are proconsuls; let the parties state their cases. ³⁹ If you are seeking anything further, it shall be settled in a lawful assembly. ⁴⁰ For we are in danger of being called in question regarding to-day's mob, and we shall not be able to give a reason for this tumult." ⁴¹ By saying this he dissolved the gathering.

²¹ urging upon both Jews and Greeks the need of a change of heart toward God and of faith in our Lord Jesus.

²³ except that the Holy Spirit testifies from city to city that chains and trials are waiting for me.

⁴ I persecuted this Way to the death, binding and delivering into prison both men and women, ⁵ as the High Priest and all the eldership can testify for me. From them I received letters to the brethren and was journeying to Damascus in order to bring back in chains to Jerusalem for punishment those who had gone there.

¹⁴ He said, 'The God of our fathers has appointed you to know his will, and to see the Righteous One and to hear the voice from his mouth,

¹⁸ and saw Jesus saying to me, 'Hasten and depart quickly from Jerusalem, for they will not receive your testimony concerning me.'

⁸ For the Sadducees say that there is no resurrection nor any angel or spirit, but the Pharisees confess both.

⁸ "Why do all of you consider it incredible if God raises dead men? ⁹ I thought with myself that I ought to do much against the name of Jesus the Nazarene. ¹⁰ And I did it in Jerusalem and many holy men I shut up in prison, getting authority from the high priests, and when they were put to death I gave my vote against them. ¹¹ In all the synagogues and often I punished them and compelled them to say profane words. Being excessively mad against them, I pursued them even to foreign cities.

¹⁶ But rise and stand on your feet: for I have appeared to you for the very purpose of appointing you a servant and a witness of the times you have seen me and of the times I shall appear to you.

²² But obtaining help from God I have continued until this day witnessing to small and great, saying nothing but what the prophets and Moses said would be, ²³ that the Christ would suffer and that he first, by rising from the dead, would proclaim light to our people and to the Gentiles."

²³ that the Christ would suffer and that he first, by rising from the dead, would proclaim light to our people and to the Gentiles."

³⁵ Saying this he took a loaf and gave thanks to God before all and broke it and began to eat.

¹⁶ For I am not ashamed of the good news. It is the power of God for salvation to every one who believes, to the Jew first and also to the Greek.

²² Boasting of being wise, they became fools ²³ and changed the glory of the incorruptible God into images of mortal man, and of birds and beasts and reptiles.

²⁸ And as they did not think fit to keep God in their knowledge, God gave them over to an abandoned mind, to do the things that are shameful,

⁷ To those who by constancy in good work seek for glory and honor and immortality he will award life eternal.

¹⁶ on the day when God judges the secrets of men through Jesus Christ, as my good news sets forth.

⁷ But if the truth of God has become more abundant to his glory through my lie, why am I still condemned as a sinner? ⁸ We are not going to say, as some people slanderously affirm that we say, "Let us do evil that good may come," are we? The condemnation of such people is just.

¹⁹ We know that all that the Law says, it says to those who are under the Law, that every mouth may be shut and all the world may come under the condemnation of God. ²⁰ Therefore by works of the Law no human being will be pronounced righteous before him. For through the Law comes the knowledge of sin.

²⁵ whom God has set forth as a propitiation by his blood through faith, for the manifestation of his righteousness, because of the passing over of previous sins in the forbearance of God —

¹⁵ For the Law works wrath. But where there is no law, neither is there lawbreaking.

²⁴ but also for our sake, to whom it will be credited if we believe in him who raised up from the dead Jesus our Lord, ²⁵ who was delivered up on account of our sins and was raised again that we might be accounted righteous.

²⁵ who was delivered up on account of our sins and was raised again that we might be accounted righteous.

² Through him we obtained entrance into this grace in which we stand and exult in hope of the glory of God.

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

¹² Therefore as through one man sin entered the world, and through sin death entered, and so death spread to all men, since all sinned —

¹² Therefore as through one man sin entered the world, and through sin death entered, and so death spread to all men, since all sinned —

¹² Therefore as through one man sin entered the world, and through sin death entered, and so death spread to all men, since all sinned —

¹² Therefore as through one man sin entered the world, and through sin death entered, and so death spread to all men, since all sinned — ¹³ for down to the time of the Law sin was in the world, and yet sin is not charged where there is no law;

¹³ for down to the time of the Law sin was in the world, and yet sin is not charged where there is no law;

¹³ for down to the time of the Law sin was in the world, and yet sin is not charged where there is no law;

¹³ for down to the time of the Law sin was in the world, and yet sin is not charged where there is no law; ¹⁴ but death reigned from Adam to Moses even over those who had not sinned like Adam, who is the type of him who was coming.

¹⁴ but death reigned from Adam to Moses even over those who had not sinned like Adam, who is the type of him who was coming.

¹⁴ but death reigned from Adam to Moses even over those who had not sinned like Adam, who is the type of him who was coming.

¹⁴ but death reigned from Adam to Moses even over those who had not sinned like Adam, who is the type of him who was coming. ¹⁵ But the gracious gift is not like the fall. For if by the fall of the one the many sinned, much more did the grace of God and the free gift by the grace of the one man Jesus Christ abound to the many.

¹⁵ But the gracious gift is not like the fall. For if by the fall of the one the many sinned, much more did the grace of God and the free gift by the grace of the one man Jesus Christ abound to the many.

¹⁵ But the gracious gift is not like the fall. For if by the fall of the one the many sinned, much more did the grace of God and the free gift by the grace of the one man Jesus Christ abound to the many. ¹⁶ And the free gift was not like the sentence that came through one who sinned; for the sentence came from one fall for condemnation, but the free gift was that men should be called righteous in spite of many falls.

¹⁶ And the free gift was not like the sentence that came through one who sinned; for the sentence came from one fall for condemnation, but the free gift was that men should be called righteous in spite of many falls. ¹⁷ For if by the fall of one man death reigned through that one, much more those who receive the abounding grace and the free gift of righteousness will reign in life through one, that is, through Jesus Christ.

¹⁷ For if by the fall of one man death reigned through that one, much more those who receive the abounding grace and the free gift of righteousness will reign in life through one, that is, through Jesus Christ.

¹⁷ For if by the fall of one man death reigned through that one, much more those who receive the abounding grace and the free gift of righteousness will reign in life through one, that is, through Jesus Christ. ¹⁸ As then through one fall sentence came upon all men and they were condemned; so through one righteous act the free gift came to all men so that they are pronounced righteous and live. ¹⁹ For as by the disobedience of the one man the many were set down as sinners, so by the obedience of the one the many will be set down as righteous. ²⁰ But law came in alongside that the fall might be greater; but where sin became greater grace became greater still,

²⁰ But law came in alongside that the fall might be greater; but where sin became greater grace became greater still, ²¹ in order that as sin reigned in death grace might reign through righteousness and issue in life eternal through Jesus Christ our Lord.

²¹ in order that as sin reigned in death grace might reign through righteousness and issue in life eternal through Jesus Christ our Lord.

³ Are you ignorant that all of us who have been baptized into Christ Jesus were baptized into his death? ⁴ We were buried with him by baptism into death, in order that as Christ was raised from the dead through the glory of the Father, so we too might walk in newness of life.

⁴ We were buried with him by baptism into death, in order that as Christ was raised from the dead through the glory of the Father, so we too might walk in newness of life.

⁶ For we know this, that our old-time humanity was crucified with him, in order that the sinful body might be made powerless, that we might no longer be slaves of sin.

¹² Do not let sin reign in your mortal body so that you will obey its lusts,

¹⁹ I am speaking humanly on account of the weakness of your human nature. As you did present your members as servants to impurity and to lawlessness to do lawlessness, so now you have presented your members as servants to righteousness for holy living.

²³ For the wages of sin is death, but the gracious gift of God is life eternal in Christ Jesus our Lord.

⁵ For when we were in the flesh the sinful passions that arise through the Law were active in our members, so that we bore fruit to death. ⁶ But now the Law has been made inoperative on us, since we have died to that by which we were held, so that we serve in newness of the spirit and not in oldness of the letter. ⁷ What shall we say then? Is the Law sin? Never. But I should not have come to know sin except through the Law. I should not have known lust if the Law had not said, "Thou shalt not lust." ⁸ Sin, taking occasion through the commandment, worked in me every lust. For apart from the Law sin is dead. ⁹ I was living once, apart from law. But when the commandment came, sin began to live and I died, ¹⁰ and the commandment which meant life was found to mean death. ¹¹ For sin, taking occasion through the commandment, deceived me and by it killed me. ¹² So the Law is holy and the commandment is holy and just and good. ¹³ Did then what is good become death to me? Never. But sin, that it might appear sin, worked death in me through the good, in order that it might become beyond measure sinful.

²⁵ Thanks be to God through Jesus Christ our Lord! So then I myself with my mind serve the Law of God, but with my flesh the law of sin.

² For the law of the Spirit of life in Christ Jesus has freed you from the Law of sin and death.

¹⁰ If Christ is in you the body is dead because of sin, but the spirit is life because of righteousness. ¹¹ If the Spirit of him who raised up Jesus from the dead dwells in you, he who raised up Christ Jesus from the dead gives life even to your mortal bodies, through his indwelling Spirit in you.

¹¹ If the Spirit of him who raised up Jesus from the dead dwells in you, he who raised up Christ Jesus from the dead gives life even to your mortal bodies, through his indwelling Spirit in you.

²¹ because the creation itself will be freed from the slavery of decay into the glorious freedom of the children of God.

²³ And not the creation alone, but we ourselves also who have the first-fruits of the Spirit, groan within ourselves in expectation of the sonship, the liberation of our bodies.

²⁹ For those whom he foreknew he also predetermined to be conformed to the image of his Son, that he might be the first-born among many brethren.

³³ Who shall bring a charge against God's elect? God pronounces them righteous. ³⁴ Who is there to condemn? Christ Jesus died, or rather was raised, and he is on the right hand of God interceding for us.

³⁶ (As it is written, "For thy sake we are killed all the day. We are counted as sheep for slaughter.")

³⁶ (As it is written, "For thy sake we are killed all the day. We are counted as sheep for slaughter.") ³⁷ On the contrary, in all these we more than conquer through him who loved us.

³⁷ On the contrary, in all these we more than conquer through him who loved us. ³⁸ For I am persuaded that neither death nor life nor angels nor archangels, nor things present nor things to come, nor powers,

³⁸ For I am persuaded that neither death nor life nor angels nor archangels, nor things present nor things to come, nor powers, ³⁹ nor height nor depth nor any other created thing will be able to separate us from God's love in Christ Jesus our Lord.

¹⁹ You will say to me then, "Why does he still find fault? For who has opposed his will?"

¹ I SAY then, can it be that God has repudiated his people? Never. For I am an Israelite, a descendant of Abraham, of the tribe of Benjamin.

⁵ So at this present time there is a remnant according to a gracious selection. ⁶ But if it is by grace it is no longer because of works, for then grace would be no longer grace.

²² See the kindness and the rigor of God, toward those who fell rigor, but toward you God's kindness, if you continue in his kindness, else you too will be cut off.

³ Through the grace given to me I say to every one among you not to think of himself more highly than he ought, but to think so as to become wise, as God has allotted to each a measure of faith.

¹¹ Live thus because you know this crisis, for it is already time for you to awake from sleep. For now our salvation is nearer than when we became believers. ¹² The night is far spent, the day draws near. Let us put away the deeds of darkness, let us put on the weapons of light. ¹³ Let us live becomingly as in the day, not in revelry and drunkenness, not in sensuality and licentiousness, not in quarrelling and jealousy. ¹⁴ But put on the Lord Jesus Christ and make no provision for gratifying physical passions.

¹⁷ I do boast in Christ Jesus of my work for God. ¹⁸ For I will not venture to speak except of what Christ has done through me to promote obedience of Gentiles, by word and deed, ¹⁹ through the power of signs and wonders, by the power of the Holy Spirit, so that from Jerusalem around to Illyricum, I have fully proclaimed the good news of Christ, ²⁰ being ambitious to tell the good news where Christ has not been named, so that I might not build on any other man's foundation,

⁴ I am always thanking God for you because of the grace of God given to you in Christ Jesus, ⁵ that you are rich in him in everything, in readiness of speech and in all knowledge, ⁶ so that my testimony to Christ has been confirmed among you ⁷ and so that you are not lacking in any gift while waiting for our Lord Jesus Christ to be revealed. ⁸ He will keep you strong to the end and free from reproach on the day of our Lord Jesus Christ.

¹² I mean that each of you is saying, "I belong to Paul," "I belong to Apollos," "I belong to Cephas," or, "I belong to Christ."

¹⁸ For the message of the cross is foolishness to those who are perishing, but to us who are being saved it is the power of God.

²¹ For when in the wisdom of God the world by its wisdom did not come to know God, God was pleased to save through the foolishness of our proclamation those who believe.

²³ but we proclaim Christ crucified, to Jews a stumbling block, to Gentiles folly, ²⁴ but to those who are called, whether Jews or Greeks, Christ, the power of God and the wisdom of God.

² For I determined to know nothing among you but Jesus Christ — and him crucified.

² For I determined to know nothing among you but Jesus Christ — and him crucified. ³ And I came to you in weakness and in fear and in much trembling, ⁴ and my speech and my proclamation were not in persuasive words of wisdom, but with spiritual and powerful proof, ⁵ that your faith might not depend on the wisdom of man but on the power of God. ⁶ We do speak wisdom among the mature, but a wisdom not of this world nor of the defeated rulers of this world. ⁷ But we speak a wisdom of God in a mystery, the hidden wisdom which God predestined before the world began for our glory.

⁷ But we speak a wisdom of God in a mystery, the hidden wisdom which God predestined before the world began for our glory.

⁶ I planted, Apollos watered, but God made the seed grow. ⁷ So then neither is he who planted anything nor he who watered, but God who makes the seed grow. ⁸ Each will receive his own reward according to his own labor.

²² Paul or Apollos or Cephas or the world or life or death or things present or things to come — all are yours ²³ and you are Christ's and Christ is God's.

¹ LET a man view us as servants of Christ and stewards of God's mysteries.

¹ LET a man view us as servants of Christ and stewards of God's mysteries. ² Moreover, in the case of stewards it is required that a man be found faithful.

⁷ For who gives you superiority? What have you that you did not receive? Why are you boasting as if you had not received it?

⁹ For it seems to me that God has set us apostles out last of all as men doomed to death, that we may be a spectacle to the world and to angels and to men. ¹⁰ We are fools for Christ's sake, but you are wise in Christ; we are weak, but you are strong; you have glory, but we are despised. ¹¹ Up to this present hour we are hungry and thirsty and naked and beaten. We wander about ¹² and labor, working with our own hands. When abused we bless, when persecuted we endure it, ¹³ when slandered we entreat. We have come to be, as it were, the sweepings of the world, the riffraff of all things up to now.

⁶ Your boasting is unbecoming. Do you not know that a little yeast sets the whole mass fermenting?

³ Do you not know that we are to judge angels, to say nothing of affairs of this life? ⁴ If then you have affairs of this life, do you ask men who in the view of the church count for nothing to sit as judges? ⁵ I say this to your shame. Is it true that there is among you no one wise enough to judge between a man and his brother,

⁹ Do you not know that unrighteous people will not inherit the kingdom of God? Make no mistake, neither the unchaste, nor idolaters, nor adulterers, nor those who practice unnatural vices,

¹³ Food of all kinds is for the stomach and the stomach for foods. But God will end the function of one and the other. The body is not for unchastity, but for the Lord, and the Lord is for the body. ¹⁴ God raised the Lord and will also raise us through his power.

²⁹ But this I say, brethren: The time is shortened. For what remains let those who have wives be as if they had none,

⁷ But all have not this knowledge. Some, having been accustomed to idols up to the present time, eat the food as a sacrifice to an idol, and their conscience being weak is stained.

¹ AM I not free? Am I not an apostle? Have I not seen Jesus our Lord? Are you not my work in the Lord?

⁵ Have we not the right to take about with us a sister as wife, as the rest of the apostles do and the brothers of the Lord and Cephas?

² I praise you because you remember me in all things and hold firmly the traditions as I passed them on to you. ³ I wish you to know that the head of every man is Christ, and the head of a woman is her husband, and the head of Christ is God.

²³ For I received from the Lord that which I passed on to you that the Lord Jesus, on the night in which he was betrayed, took bread,

⁶ And there are varieties of products, but the same God who produces all things in all.

² And if I have the power of prophecy and understand all mysteries and all knowledge, and if I have all faith, so as to remove mountains, but have not love, I am nothing.

² through which also you are being saved, if you hold fast the message that I announced to you, unless your faith was thoughtless. ³ For among the first things I passed on to you what I had received, that Christ died for our sins according to the Scriptures,

³ For among the first things I passed on to you what I had received, that Christ died for our sins according to the Scriptures, ⁴ and that he was buried, and that he was raised on the third day, according to the Scriptures,

⁴ and that he was buried, and that he was raised on the third day, according to the Scriptures, ⁵ and that he was seen by Cephas, then by the twelve, ⁶ then he was seen by more than five hundred brethren at once, of whom the most are still living, but some have fallen asleep,

⁶ then he was seen by more than five hundred brethren at once, of whom the most are still living, but some have fallen asleep, ⁷ then he appeared to James, then to all the apostles. ⁸ Last of all, as if to one untimely born, he appeared also to me. ⁹ For I am the least of the apostles and am not fit to be called an apostle, because I persecuted the church of God. ¹⁰ But by the grace of God I am what I am, and his grace toward me was not without result, but I labored more abundantly than all of them, yet not I, but the grace of God that was with me. ¹¹ Whether then it was I or they, so we proclaim and so you believed.

¹¹ Whether then it was I or they, so we proclaim and so you believed. ¹² But if Christ is proclaimed — that he has been raised from the dead — how do some among you say that there is no resurrection of the dead? ¹³ If there is no resurrection of the dead, then neither has Christ been raised.

¹³ If there is no resurrection of the dead, then neither has Christ been raised. ¹⁴ If Christ has not been raised, then our proclamation is an empty thing and your faith is an empty thing.

¹⁴ If Christ has not been raised, then our proclamation is an empty thing and your faith is an empty thing. ¹⁵ And we are found false witnesses of God because we testified regarding God that he raised up Christ, whom he did not raise if the dead are not raised. ¹⁶ For if the dead are not raised, neither has Christ been raised.

¹⁶ For if the dead are not raised, neither has Christ been raised.

¹⁶ For if the dead are not raised, neither has Christ been raised. ¹⁷ And if Christ has not been raised, your faith is futile, you are still in your sins.

¹⁷ And if Christ has not been raised, your faith is futile, you are still in your sins.

¹⁷ And if Christ has not been raised, your faith is futile, you are still in your sins. ¹⁸ Then also those who have fallen asleep in Christ have perished.

¹⁸ Then also those who have fallen asleep in Christ have perished.

¹⁸ Then also those who have fallen asleep in Christ have perished. ¹⁹ If in this life only we have hope in Christ, we are of all men most pitiable.

¹⁹ If in this life only we have hope in Christ, we are of all men most pitiable. ²⁰ But now Christ has been raised from the dead, the first-fruit of those who have fallen asleep.

²⁰ But now Christ has been raised from the dead, the first-fruit of those who have fallen asleep. ²¹ For since by a man came death, by a man also came resurrection of the dead.

²¹ For since by a man came death, by a man also came resurrection of the dead. ²² For as in Adam all die, so also in Christ all will be made alive.

²² For as in Adam all die, so also in Christ all will be made alive. ²³ But each in his own order. The first-fruit is Christ, then those who are Christ's, at his coming.

³¹ I die every day, I swear it by the boast I make of you and which I have in Christ Jesus our Lord. ³² If, humanly speaking, I fought wild beasts at Ephesus, what is my gain? If the dead do not rise, "let us eat and drink, for to-morrow we die."

³⁸ But God gives it a body as he has pleased, and to each kind of seed a body of its own. ³⁹ All flesh is not the same flesh, but there is one kind of flesh of men, another flesh of beasts, another flesh of birds, and another flesh of fishes. ⁴⁰ There are bodies celestial and bodies terrestrial. But the glory of the celestial is of one kind and the glory of the terrestrial is of another. ⁴¹ There is one glory of the sun and another glory of the moon and another glory of the stars. For star differs from star in glory. ⁴² So also will be the resurrection of the dead. It is sown in decay; it is raised imperishable.

⁴² So also will be the resurrection of the dead. It is sown in decay; it is raised imperishable. ⁴³ It is sown in dishonor; it is raised in glory. It is sown in weakness; it is raised in power. ⁴⁴ It is sown an animal body; it is raised a spiritual body. If there is an animal body there is also a spiritual body. ⁴⁵ Just as it is written, "The first man Adam became a living animal," the last Adam became a lifegiving spirit.

⁴⁵ Just as it is written, "The first man Adam became a living animal," the last Adam became a lifegiving spirit.

⁴⁵ Just as it is written, "The first man Adam became a living animal," the last Adam became a lifegiving spirit. ⁴⁶ But the spiritual is not first, but the animal, then the spiritual.

⁴⁶ But the spiritual is not first, but the animal, then the spiritual. ⁴⁷ The first man was from the earth, earthly; the second man is the Lord from heaven.

⁴⁷ The first man was from the earth, earthly; the second man is the Lord from heaven. ⁴⁸ As is the earthly man such are also those who are earthly, and as is the heavenly man such are also those who are heavenly.

⁴⁸ As is the earthly man such are also those who are earthly, and as is the heavenly man such are also those who are heavenly. ⁴⁹ And as we have borne the image of the earthly man, we shall bear the image of the heavenly man.

⁴⁹ And as we have borne the image of the earthly man, we shall bear the image of the heavenly man. ⁵⁰ But I say this, brethren, flesh and blood cannot inherit the kingdom of God, nor will decay inherit imperishability.

⁵⁰ But I say this, brethren, flesh and blood cannot inherit the kingdom of God, nor will decay inherit imperishability.

⁵⁰ But I say this, brethren, flesh and blood cannot inherit the kingdom of God, nor will decay inherit imperishability. ⁵¹ I am telling you a mystery. We shall not all fall asleep, but we shall all be transformed,

⁵¹ I am telling you a mystery. We shall not all fall asleep, but we shall all be transformed,

⁵¹ I am telling you a mystery. We shall not all fall asleep, but we shall all be transformed, ⁵² in a moment, in the twinkling of an eye, at the last trumpet-call. For the trumpet will sound and the dead will be raised imperishable, and we shall be transformed.

⁵² in a moment, in the twinkling of an eye, at the last trumpet-call. For the trumpet will sound and the dead will be raised imperishable, and we shall be transformed.

⁵² in a moment, in the twinkling of an eye, at the last trumpet-call. For the trumpet will sound and the dead will be raised imperishable, and we shall be transformed. ⁵³ For this perishable must clothe itself with imperishability, and this mortal must clothe itself with immortality.

⁵³ For this perishable must clothe itself with imperishability, and this mortal must clothe itself with immortality. ⁵⁴ When this perishable has clothed itself with imperishability and this mortal has clothed itself with immortality, then will come to pass the word that is written, "Death has been swallowed up in victory. ⁵⁵ O Death, where is thy victory? O Death, where is thy sting?"

¹⁰ If Timothy comes, see to it that he becomes free from fear in his relations to you. For he is doing the Lord's work, just as I am.

⁸ For we do not wish you to be ignorant, brethren, regarding the distress that came on us in Asia — that we were exceedingly weighed down, beyond our strength, so that we despaired even of life. ⁹ Indeed we have the sentence of death within ourselves, that our trust may not rest on ourselves, but on God who raises the dead. ¹⁰ He delivered us from such a death and will deliver, and we have hope in him that he will go on delivering, ¹¹ while you help by your prayers for us, so that from many persons thanksgiving may arise for the gift granted to us through the prayers of many for us. ¹² For this is what we boast of, the witness of our conscience that in holiness, and sincerity before God, not in fleshly wisdom, but in the grace of God, we have lived in the world and especially toward you.

²⁴ Not that we are lords over your faith, but fellow workers sharing your joy, for you are standing firm in the faith.

¹⁴ Thanks be to God who always leads us in his triumph in Christ and spreads through us the sweet odor of the knowledge of him in every place. ¹⁵ For we are for God a sweet odor of Christ — in the saved and in the perishing.

⁵ Not that of ourselves we are fit to reason out anything as from ourselves, but our fitness is from God,

¹⁸ And we all, with unveiled face, reflecting the glory of the Lord, are changed into the same likeness from glory to glory as by the Spirit of the Lord.

⁷ But we have this treasure in earthen jars, that the surpassing power may be God's and not ours — ⁸ in every way distressed, but not reduced to straits, perplexed, but not in despair, ⁹ persecuted, but not forsaken, cast down, but not destroyed, ¹⁰ always bearing about in our bodies the death of Jesus that the life also of Jesus may be manifest in our bodies.

¹⁰ always bearing about in our bodies the death of Jesus that the life also of Jesus may be manifest in our bodies.

¹⁰ always bearing about in our bodies the death of Jesus that the life also of Jesus may be manifest in our bodies. ¹¹ For we, though living, are always delivered up to death for Jesus' sake, that also the life of Jesus may be manifested in our mortal flesh.

¹¹ For we, though living, are always delivered up to death for Jesus' sake, that also the life of Jesus may be manifested in our mortal flesh.

¹¹ For we, though living, are always delivered up to death for Jesus' sake, that also the life of Jesus may be manifested in our mortal flesh.

¹¹ For we, though living, are always delivered up to death for Jesus' sake, that also the life of Jesus may be manifested in our mortal flesh. ¹² So death works in us, but life in you.

¹² So death works in us, but life in you. ¹³ Having the same spirit of faith, as it is written, "I believed, therefore I spoke," we too believe and therefore speak, ¹⁴ knowing that he who raised up Jesus will also raise us up with Jesus and place us in his presence with you.

¹ FOR we know that if this tent, our earthly home, is thrown down, we have a building of God, a home not made by hands, eternal in the heavens. ² For in this we sigh in earnest desire to put on our dwelling that comes from heaven, ³ since if we put that on we shall not be found naked. ⁴ For while we are in this tent we sigh being burdened, not that we wish to be unclothed, but to put on the other, that what is mortal may be swallowed up in life.

²¹ Him who knew no sin God made sin for our sake that we might become the righteousness of God in him.

¹ AS God's fellow workers we also beg you not to receive his grace fruitlessly.

⁹ as unknown yet well known, as dying and yet we are living, as chastised yet not put to death,

¹ HAVING then these promises, beloved, let us purify ourselves from every defilement of flesh or spirit, in reverence for God making our holiness complete.

⁶ Remember this, he who sows sparingly will reap sparingly and he who sows bountifully will reap bountifully.

¹⁵ Thanks be to God for his unspeakable gift!

⁷ Look at what is right before your eyes. If any one is confident that he belongs to Christ, let him again consider this regarding himself, that just as he belongs to Christ so also do we.

¹² We do not venture to class ourselves or compare ourselves with some of those who are commending themselves. But they, measuring themselves among themselves and comparing themselves with themselves, do not understand. ¹³ We will not boast beyond measure, but according to the measure of the measuring rod which God assigned to us, and that reaches as far as you. ¹⁴ For we are not stretching ourselves, as if we did not reach to you, for we were the first to reach you with the good news of Christ. ¹⁵ We are not boasting beyond measure in the labors of others, but we have hope that as your faith grows we may have larger influence among you according to our measure and beyond, ¹⁶ so that we may tell the good news to the regions lying beyond you and not boast of things already done in some other man's territory.

⁵ I consider that I am in nothing inferior to the most eminent apostles.

²³ Are they servants of Christ? (I speak as if I were out of my mind) I superlatively — in labors beyond measure, in prisons beyond measure, in floggings excessively, in deaths often.

²³ Are they servants of Christ? (I speak as if I were out of my mind) I superlatively — in labors beyond measure, in prisons beyond measure, in floggings excessively, in deaths often.

²³ Are they servants of Christ? (I speak as if I were out of my mind) I superlatively — in labors beyond measure, in prisons beyond measure, in floggings excessively, in deaths often. ²⁴ From Jews five times I received forty stripes less one,

²⁴ From Jews five times I received forty stripes less one, ²⁵ three times I was beaten with rods, once I was stoned, three times I was ship-wrecked, a night and day I have been in the deep;

²⁵ three times I was beaten with rods, once I was stoned, three times I was ship-wrecked, a night and day I have been in the deep; ²⁶ in journeys often, in perils of rivers, in perils of robbers, in perils from my own race, in perils from Gentiles, in perils in the city, in perils in the open country, in perils on the sea, in perils among false brethren;

²⁶ in journeys often, in perils of rivers, in perils of robbers, in perils from my own race, in perils from Gentiles, in perils in the city, in perils in the open country, in perils on the sea, in perils among false brethren; ²⁷ in toil and labor, in many a sleepless night, in hunger and thirst, in fastings often, in cold and nakedness.

²⁷ in toil and labor, in many a sleepless night, in hunger and thirst, in fastings often, in cold and nakedness. ²⁸ Aside, from other things there is that which weighs on me daily, anxiety for all the churches. ²⁹ Who is weak and I am not weak? Who stumbles and I am not burning? ³⁰ If there must be boasting, I will boast of the things that show my weakness.

¹ I MUST boast, though it is unprofitable. I will come to visions and revelations of the Lord. ² I know a man in Christ fourteen years ago — whether in the body I know not, or out of the body I know not; God knows — such a man caught up to the third heaven. ³ I know such a man — whether in the body or out of the body I know not; God knows — ⁴ that he was caught up into Paradise and heard unspeakable words which it is not lawful for man to speak. ⁵ Of such a one I will boast, but of myself I will not boast except of my weaknesses. ⁶ Even if I choose to boast I shall not be foolish, for I shall speak the truth. But I guard myself that no one may think of me beyond what he sees me to be, or hears from me,

¹¹ I have become foolish; you made me. For I ought to have been recommended by you. For in nothing have I been inferior to the most eminent apostles, even though I am nothing.

⁴ He was crucified in weakness, but he is living by the power of God. And we are weak in him, but we shall live with him by the power of God for you.

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

⁴ who gave himself for our sins to deliver us from the present wicked world according to the will of our God and Father!

⁶ I am astonished that you are so quickly changing over from him who called you by the grace of Christ to a different kind of good news, ⁷ though it is not another good news. But there are some who are perplexing you and wishing to pervert the good news of Christ. ⁸ But even if we, or an angel from heaven, should bring you any good news different from what we did bring you, let him be accursed! ⁹ As I said before, I say now again, if any one brings you good news different from what you have received, let him be accursed! ¹⁰ Am I now trying to please men or God? If I were still trying to please men I should not be Christ's servant. ¹¹ For I assure you, brethren, that the good news which I brought is not of man's devising. ¹² For neither did I receive it from man nor was I taught it through man, but through a revelation of Jesus Christ.

¹² For neither did I receive it from man nor was I taught it through man, but through a revelation of Jesus Christ. ¹³ You have heard of my former life in Judaism, that I furiously persecuted the church of God and made havoc of it,

²³ Only they had heard that "he who used to persecute us is now telling the good news of the faith of which he once made havoc,"

² I went up by revelation, and I stated to them the good news which I proclaim among the Gentiles. But I did this privately before those who were most esteemed, that I might not be running, or have run, to no Purpose.

⁸ for he who had worked in Peter for the apostleship to the circumcision had worked in me for the Gentiles,

⁴ Have you suffered such things to no purpose? — if it is to no purpose.

¹⁰ For all who are of the works of law are under a curse, for it is written, "Cursed is every one who does not abide by all the precepts of the book of the Law and do them." ¹¹ But that by law no one is declared righteous before God is plain, because, "He who is righteous by faith shall live." ¹² But the Law is not of faith, but "He who does these things shall live by them." ¹³ Christ redeemed us from the curse of the Law by becoming a curse for our sake, for it is written, "Cursed is every one who hangs on a tree,"

¹³ Christ redeemed us from the curse of the Law by becoming a curse for our sake, for it is written, "Cursed is every one who hangs on a tree,"

¹⁵ Brethren, I am speaking humanly, a ratified covenant, although but a man's, no one can set aside or add to.

¹⁷ I mean this, a covenant ratified by God, the Law that came four hundred and thirty years afterward does not annul, so as to defeat the promise.

²⁷ All who have been baptized into Christ have put on Christ.

²⁹ If you are Christ's, then you are Abraham's offspring and heirs according to the promise.

¹¹ You make me afraid that I have labored over you uselessly.

¹¹ But I, brethren, if I am still proclaiming circumcision, why am I persecuted? Then the offensiveness of the cross has been done away.

¹⁶ I say, walk in the Spirit and you will not carry out the passions of the flesh.

²⁴ Those who belong to Christ Jesus have crucified the flesh with its emotions and passions.

⁷ Do not be deceived; God is not mocked; what a man sows that he will also reap.

⁹ Let us not grow discouraged in doing what is noble, for in due time we shall reap if we do not grow faint.

⁷ in whom we have redemption through his blood, the forgiveness of our sins, according to the wealth of his loving kindness

⁹ He has made known to us the mystery of his will according to his grace which he purposed in him

¹² and we were made God's heritage in order that we might bring praise to his glory — we who first have fixed our hope on Christ. ¹³ In him you also, after hearing the message of the truth, the good news of your salvation, and putting your faith in him, were sealed by the promised Holy Spirit,

²⁰ which he put forth in Christ when he raised him from the dead and made him sit at his own right hand in the heavenly heights,

²² He put all things under his feet and placed him as head over all for the church, ²³ which is his body, the fullness of him who fills all in all.

⁷ that he might show in the ages to come the surpassing richness of his grace in his kindness to us in Christ Jesus. ⁸ For by grace you have been saved through faith, and that not of yourselves; it is the gift of God,

⁸ For by grace you have been saved through faith, and that not of yourselves; it is the gift of God,

³ that by revelation the mystery has been disclosed to me, as I wrote before briefly,

⁷ of which I became a servant according to the free grace of God which was given me by the inworking of his power. ⁸ To me, the least of all the holy, has this grace been given, to proclaim to the Gentiles the good news of the unsearchable riches of Christ

⁹ What does "he ascended" mean, except that he had descended into the lowest parts of the earth? ¹⁰ He who descended is also he who "ascended" high above all the heavens to fill all things. ¹¹ And he "gave" to some to be apostles, some prophets, some tellers of the good news, some shepherds and teachers,

¹⁷ This then I say and solemnly protest in the Lord: that you are no longer to live as the Gentiles live in vacancy of mind,

²² that you should put away the old man who belonged to your former way of life and was perishing in deluding passions, ²³ and that you should be made new in the spirit of your minds ²⁴ and put on the new man formed as God approves in the righteousness and holiness of truth.

²⁴ and put on the new man formed as God approves in the righteousness and holiness of truth.

² and live in love, as Christ loved us and gave himself for us, an offering and sacrifice to God yielding a fragrant odor.

⁶ Let no one deceive you with empty words; for because of these things the wrath of God comes on the sons of disobedience.

¹⁴ Therefore it says, "Wake, O sleeper, and rise from the dead and Christ will give you light." ¹⁵ Be strictly careful, then, how you live, not as unwise but as wise.

²⁰ giving thanks always for all things in the name of our Lord Jesus Christ to God the Father.

³² "This mystery is great, but I am speaking of Christ and the church.

⁹ And this is my prayer that your love may abound more and more in knowledge and all insight,

¹¹ filled with the fruit of knowledge through Jesus Christ to the glory and praise of God.

⁹ Therefore, God has highly exalted him and has graciously given him the name which is above every name, ¹⁰ that at the name of Jesus every knee may bow, of beings in heaven and those on earth and those under the earth, ¹¹ and every tongue confess that Jesus Christ is Lord, to the glory of God the Father.

¹³ For it is God who is working in you both the willing and the doing because of his kindness.

¹⁶ holding forth the message of life, so that on the day of Christ I can boast that I did not run in vain or labor in vain.

³⁰ because for the work of Christ he was near to death, hazarding his life to complete the service you were not here to do for me.

³ For we are the circumcision, we who worship in the Spirit of God and exult in Christ Jesus, and have no confidence in the flesh,

⁶ as to zeal persecuting the church, as to the righteousness of the Law blameless.

¹⁰ that I may know him and the power of his resurrection and the fellowship of his sufferings, becoming like him in death,

²⁰ For the state of which we are citizens is in the heavens and from there we are expecting a Savior, the Lord Jesus Christ. ²¹ He will transform the body we have in our low estate into the likeness of the body he has in glory by the power by which he can subject all things to himself.

²¹ He will transform the body we have in our low estate into the likeness of the body he has in glory by the power by which he can subject all things to himself.

¹³ I can do all things through him who gives me strength.

¹⁷ Not that I am seeking for the gift, but I am seeking for the fruit that increases to your credit.

¹⁸ And he is the head of the body, the church. He is the beginning, the firstborn from the dead, that he may be first in all things,

²³ if you remain in the faith, firm and steadfast, never moving from the hope of the good news which you have heard and which has been proclaimed in all the creation under heaven, and of which I, Paul, became a servant.

²⁸ And we are announcing him, warning every man and teaching every man in all wisdom in order that we may present every man complete in Christ. ²⁹ For this also I labor, wrestling with the energy of him who works powerfully within me.

⁴ I say this that no one may deceive you by plausible arguments. ⁵ For even though I am absent in the flesh, yet in the spirit I am with you, rejoicing to see your good order and the firmness of your faith in Christ.

⁷ rooted and built up in him, growing strong in the faith as you have been taught, and overflowing with thanksgiving.

¹² You were buried with him in baptism and raised again through faith in the inworking of God who raised him from the dead.

¹ IF then you have been raised with Christ, seek the things above, where Christ is sitting at the right hand of God. ² Have your minds on the things above and not on the things on the earth. ³ For you have died and your life is hidden with Christ in God. ⁴ When Christ, our life, appears, then you also will appear with him in glory.

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

⁹ Do not lie to one another. You have stripped off the old self with his practices ¹⁰ and have clothed yourselves with the new self, which is being renewed into knowledge in the image of its Creator. ¹¹ Here there is no Greek or Jew, circumcision or uncircumcision, barbarian, Scythian, slave or freeman, but Christ is all and in all.

³ unceasingly remembering your work of faith and labor of love and patience of hope in our Lord Jesus Christ before God our Father.

⁶ You became imitators of us and of the Lord, receiving the message in great affliction with joy which the Holy Spirit gave,

¹³ For this reason we unceasingly give thanks to God that when you received from us the report of the message of God you accepted it not as the message of men, but, as it truly is, the message of God, which also is doing its work in you who believe.

¹⁹ For what is our hope or joy or crown to boast of before our Lord Jesus at his coming? Is it not you?

³ that no one might be disturbed in these trials. For you yourselves know that we are destined to this.

⁵ Therefore, when I could no longer endure the anxiety, I sent to know about your faith for fear that the tempter had tempted you and our labor had gone for nothing.

⁹ For how can we be grateful enough to God for you in view of all the joy we have because of you,

¹² The Lord make you to abound and overflow in love toward one another and toward all men, just as we do toward you,

¹ TO conclude, brethren, we beg of you and urge you in the Lord Jesus that, as you learned from us how you ought to live to please God, and are living, you will excel still more.

⁵ not in the passion of lust, as the Gentiles do who know not God;

¹³ We do not wish you to be ignorant, brethren, regarding those who are sleeping, that you may not sorrow as the rest of men who have no hope.

¹³ We do not wish you to be ignorant, brethren, regarding those who are sleeping, that you may not sorrow as the rest of men who have no hope. ¹⁴ For since, as we believe, Jesus died and rose, so too God will through Jesus bring with him those who have fallen asleep.

¹⁴ For since, as we believe, Jesus died and rose, so too God will through Jesus bring with him those who have fallen asleep.

¹⁴ For since, as we believe, Jesus died and rose, so too God will through Jesus bring with him those who have fallen asleep. ¹⁵ This we tell you by the word of the Lord: We, the living, who have been left until the coming of the Lord, will not have the start of those who have fallen asleep.

¹⁵ This we tell you by the word of the Lord: We, the living, who have been left until the coming of the Lord, will not have the start of those who have fallen asleep. ¹⁶ For the Lord himself will descend from heaven with a shout, with the voice of an archangel and with God's trumpet-call, and first the dead in Christ will rise.

¹⁶ For the Lord himself will descend from heaven with a shout, with the voice of an archangel and with God's trumpet-call, and first the dead in Christ will rise. ¹⁷ Then we, the living, who are left, will be caught up along with them into the clouds to meet the Lord in the air. And thus we shall forever be with the Lord.

³ We ought always to thank God for you, brethren, as is fitting, since your faith is growing greatly and the love of each and all of you toward one another is increasing,

¹⁰ when he comes to be glorified among his holy ones and to be wondered at on that day among all believers — for our testimony to you was believed.

¹⁰ and in every kind of wicked deception of those who are perishing, because they did not receive the love of the truth so that they might be saved.

¹⁵ Now then, brethren, stand firm and hold fast the teachings that you have been taught whether by our words or by our letter.

¹⁷ encourage your hearts and make you strong in every good word and work.

⁶ We charge you, brethren, in the name of the Lord Jesus Christ, to stand aloof from every brother who is living in a disorderly way and not according to the teaching that you received from us.

¹³ though before that I spoke profanely and was a persecutor and insolent in outrages. But I received mercy because I did it ignorantly in unbelief. ¹⁴ And the grace of our Lord overflowed in me with faith and love in Christ Jesus. ¹⁵ The saying is trust-worthy and deserving of full acceptance that "Christ Jesus came into the world to save sinners," of whom I am the foremost.

¹⁵ The saying is trust-worthy and deserving of full acceptance that "Christ Jesus came into the world to save sinners," of whom I am the foremost. ¹⁶ But I received mercy for this reason, that in me, as the foremost, Jesus Christ might show all of his long-suffering for an example for those who are to believe in him and gain life eternal.

¹⁶ Confessedly great is the mystery of godliness: "Who was manifested in flesh, declared righteous in spirit, seen by angels, proclaimed among Gentiles, believed on in the world, received up in glory."

¹⁵ which in due time he will show, who is the blessed and only Potentate, the King of kings and Lord of lords,

⁹ It is he who saved us and called us with a holy calling, not according to our deeds but according to his own purpose and grace, given to us in Christ Jesus ages ago ¹⁰ but now manifested by the appearance of our Savior Christ Jesus, who has defeated death and brought to light life and immortality by the good news.

¹² and for this reason I am suffering these things. But I am not ashamed, for I know in whom I have put my faith, and am confident that he is able to guard what I have entrusted to him until that day.

⁴ No one while serving as a soldier entangles himself in the affairs of life, for the soldier must please him who enlisted him.

¹⁶ But shun profane and empty talk. It will grow into greater impiety, ¹⁷ and its teachings will spread like a gangrene. Hymenaeus and Philetus are of this sort. ¹⁸ They have gone astray as to the truth, saying that the resurrection has already taken place, and they are overthrowing the faith of some.

¹⁸ They have gone astray as to the truth, saying that the resurrection has already taken place, and they are overthrowing the faith of some.

¹² And all who are determined to live religiously in Christ Jesus will be persecuted.

⁸ Now the crown of righteousness is awaiting me. The Lord the righteous judge will give it to me on that day, and not only to me but to all those who have loved his appearing.

¹⁴ who gave himself for us to redeem us from all sin and purify us as his own people earnest in honorable work.

¹³ To which of the angels did he ever say, "Sit at my right hand till I make thine enemies thy footstool"?

¹ FOR this reason we should give special attention to the things that we have heard, so as not to drift away from them.

⁸ All things thou hast put under his feet." When he put all things under him he left nothing that was not put under him. We do not yet see all things put under him,

¹⁴ Since then the children share in blood and flesh, he himself in the same way shared in them, in order that through death he might defeat him who had the power of death, that is, the Devil,

¹⁴ Since then the children share in blood and flesh, he himself in the same way shared in them, in order that through death he might defeat him who had the power of death, that is, the Devil, ¹⁵ and set free all those who through fear of death were all their lives doomed to slavery.

⁶ but Christ as a Son over his own house. We are his house if we hold firmly to the end our confidence and the hope of which we boast.

¹⁴ For we become sharers with Christ if we hold firmly to the end the assurance with which we began.

¹⁴ Since, then, we have a great High Priest who has passed through the heavens, Jesus, the Son of God, let us hold fast our confession.

¹ FOR every high priest taken from among men is appointed in behalf of men in things relating to God to offer gifts and sacrifices for sins.

³ For this reason he must bring an offering for his own sins, just as he does for those of the people.

¹¹ Regarding Melchizedek we have much to say that is hard to explain, since you have become dull of hearing. ¹² For when, considering the time, you ought to be teachers you need to have some one teach you again the first principles of the revelations of God. You have come to need milk and not solid food.

¹⁰ For God is not so unjust as to forget your work and the love that you have shown to his name as you have served and are still serving the holy.

²³ And many of them became priests because they were prevented by death from continuing, ²⁴ but he, because he continues forever, has an unending priesthood. ²⁵ And so he is able to save perfectly those who come to God through him, since he is forever living to intercede for them. ²⁶ For such was the High Priest that we needed, holy, innocent, unstained, separated from sinners, and made higher than the heavens. ²⁷ He has not the daily need, like the other priests, first to offer sacrifices for his own sins and then for those of the people. This latter he did once for all when he offered himself. ²⁸ For the Law makes high priests of men who have infirmities, but the word of the oath, which comes after the Law, makes High Priest of a Son who is perfected forever.

²² Almost everything is cleansed with blood, according to the Law, and without the shedding of blood there is no forgiveness. ²³ It was necessary, then, that the copies of the things in heaven should be cleansed with these sacrifices, but the heavenly things themselves with better sacrifices than these. ²⁴ For Christ did not enter into a holy place made by hands, a copy of the true, but into heaven itself, now to appear before the face of God in our behalf. ²⁵ Nor was it to offer himself often, as the High Priest enters into the holy place every year with blood not his own; ²⁶ then he must have suffered often since the foundation of the world. But now, once for all, at the end of the ages, he has appeared to do away with sin by his sacrifice. ²⁷ And as it is appointed for men once for all to die and after this comes judgment,

²⁷ And as it is appointed for men once for all to die and after this comes judgment, ²⁸ so Christ was once for all offered to bear the sins of many and will appear the second time, apart from sin, to those who are looking for him, and bring them salvation.

⁴ For the blood of bulls and goats is powerless to take away sins. ⁵ Therefore on coming into the world he says, "Sacrifice and offering thou dost not desire: a body thou hast prepared for me. ⁶ Whole burnt offerings and sin offerings thou dost not delight in. ⁷ Then I said, 'Here I have come — in the roll of the book it is written of me — to do thy will, O God.' " ⁸ He first says, "Sacrifices and offerings and whole burnt offerings and sin offerings thou dost not desire nor delight in," such as are offered according to the Law, ⁹ and then he says, "Here I have come to do thy will." He takes away the first to establish the second. ¹⁰ By this "will" we are made holy through the offering of the body of Jesus Christ once for all. ¹¹ Every priest stands daily doing service and offering many times the same sacrifices, although they never can take away sins. ¹² But this Priest after offering one sacrifice for sins forever, took his seat at the right hand of God,

¹² But this Priest after offering one sacrifice for sins forever, took his seat at the right hand of God,

¹² But this Priest after offering one sacrifice for sins forever, took his seat at the right hand of God, ¹³ for the future only waiting until his enemies are made his footstool.

²³ Let us hold fast the confession of our hope without wavering, for he is faithful who has promised,

¹⁵ Be on your guard that no one shall fail of the grace of God, that no bitter root shall sprout up and trouble you and through it many be stained,

¹⁵ Through him then let us offer to God always the sacrifice of praise, that is, the fruit of lips that make confession in his name. ¹⁶ Do not forget kindness and generosity, for with such sacrifices God is well pleased.

²⁰ May the God of peace, who brought up from the dead our Lord Jesus, the great Shepherd of the sheep through the blood of an eternal covenant, ²¹ equip you with every good thing for doing his will, doing in you what is well-pleasing in his sight through Jesus Christ, to whom be glory for the ages of the ages. Amen.

²⁶ If any one thinks himself religious while he does not bridle his tongue, but deceives his own heart, that man's religion is worthless.

¹⁴ Of what use is it, my brethren, for any one to say that he has faith, if he has not works? Can faith save him?

¹⁷ Just so faith by itself, if it has no works, is dead.

²⁰ Are you willing to learn, O vacant-minded man, that faith without works is useless?

²⁶ For as the body without the spirit is dead, so faith without works is dead.

³ Blessed be the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, who according to his great mercy has given us a new birth into a living hope through the resurrection of Jesus Christ from the dead — ⁴ a birth into an inheritance immortal, unstained and unfading, kept in heaven for you

¹¹ inquired and searched, trying to find out what time, or what sort of time, the Spirit of Christ which was in them was disclosing when it witnessed beforehand regarding the sufferings of Christ and the glories to follow.

²¹ who through him are faithful to God, who raised him from the dead and gave him glory, so that your faith and hope are in God.

²⁴ He bore our sins in his own body on the tree that we might die to sins and live to righteousness.

¹⁸ For Christ once for all died for sins, a righteous man for unrighteous men, so that he might lead us to God. He was put to death in the flesh, but made alive in the spirit,

²² Now that he has gone into heaven he is at the right hand of God, and angels and authorities and powers have been made subject to him.

⁷ The end of all things is near. Therefore be serious and sober and give yourselves to prayer.

¹² By Silvanus, your faithful brother, as I esteem him, I am writing to you briefly, to encourage you and to testify that this is the true grace of God. Take your stand in it.

⁴ and thereby great and precious promises have been granted to us, that through them you may escape the corruption that is in the world through passion and become sharers in the divine nature, ⁵ for this very reason make it your whole endeavor to supply to your faith virtue, and to your virtue knowledge, ⁶ and to your knowledge self-control, and to your self-control endurance, and to your endurance reverence, ⁷ and to your reverence brotherliness, and to your brotherliness love. ⁸ For when you have these in abundance they make you to be neither idle nor fruitless regarding the knowledge of our Lord Jesus Christ. ⁹ But he who lacks these is blind, dim-sighted, and has forgotten that he was cleansed from his former sins.

² Many will follow their shameless ways and by these the path of truth will be profanely spoken of.

¹² But they, like irrational creatures, born mere animals for capture and destruction, while speaking profanely of things they are ignorant of, will be corrupted by their own corruption,

¹⁸ For by speaking great empty swelling words they entrap in the passions of the flesh — wanton excesses — those who are nearly escaping from those who live in error. ¹⁹ While they promise them liberty they themselves are the slaves of corruption; for by whatever any one is overcome to that he is enslaved. ²⁰ For if, after they have escaped the defilement of the world by the knowledge of the Lord and Savior Jesus Christ, they have been again entangled and overcome, their last state has become worse than the first.

⁴ and saying, "Where is his promised coming? for since the fathers fell asleep all things remain as they have been since the beginning of the creation?"

¹⁰ But the day of the Lord will come like a thief. On that day the heavens will pass away with a loud noise and the burning elements will be dissolved and the earth and the things in it will not be found.

¹⁴ Therefore, beloved, since you expect this, endeavor earnestly to be found by him in peace, spotless and faultless,

¹⁷ You, then, beloved, since you know these things beforehand, be on your guard not to be led away by the error of the lawless and fall from your own steadfastness, ¹⁸ but grow in grace and in knowledge of our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ. To him be glory now and to the day of eternity!

¹ WHAT was from the beginning, what we have heard, what we have seen with our eyes, what we looked upon and our hands touched — it is about the Word of Life ² (the Life appeared and we saw and testify to it and tell you of the Life eternal which was with the Father and appeared to us) — ³ what wo have seen and heard we are telling you also, so that you may have fellowship with us. And our fellowship is with the Father and with his Son Jesus Christ.

² And he is an atoning sacrifice for our sins, and not for ours only but for those of the whole world.

² Beloved, we are now children of God and it is not yet plain what we shall be. But we know that if he appears we shall be like him, for we shall see him as he is.

⁴ because all that is born of God conquers the world. And this is the victory that conquers the world, our faith. ⁵ Who is the conqueror of the world but he who believes that Jesus is the Son of God?

¹¹ This is the testimony: that God has given to us life eternal and this life is in his Son. ¹² He who has the Son has life; he who has not the Son of God has not life.

¹⁰ But these speak profanely of whatever they do not know, and all that physically as irrational animals they do understand, in these things they corrupt themselves.

⁵ and from Jesus Christ, the faithful witness, the first-born of the dead, and the ruler of the kings of the earth. To him who loves us and freed us from our sins by his blood,

¹⁸ and the living one. I became dead, but now I am living for the ages of the ages, and I have the keys of death and of Hades.

² Then I saw the seven angels who stand before God, and seven trumpets were given to them.

¹³ Then I looked and I heard an eagle that was flying in mid-heaven say with a loud voice, "Woe, woe, woe to those who are living on the earth, because of the rest of the trumpet-blasts which the three angels are soon to sound!"

¹⁰ They have tails as scorpions have, and stings, and with their tails they have power to harm men five months.

¹³ The sixth angel sounded his trumpet and I heard a voice from the horns of the golden altar before God ¹⁴ saying to the sixth angel with the trumpet, "Loose the four angels that are chained at the great river Euphrates."

⁹ Then was hurled down the great Dragon, the ancient serpent who is called the Devil and Satan, who misleads the whole world — he was hurled to the earth and his angels were hurled with him.

¹¹ But they have conquered him because of the blood of the Lamb and because of the word of testimony to him, and they loved not their lives even to death.

⁸ All the inhabitants of the earth will worship him, all whose names have not been written from the foundation of the world in the slain Iamb's Book of Life. ⁹ If any one has an ear let him hear. ¹⁰ If any one is destined to captivity, into captivity he will go. If any one is to be killed by the sword, by the sword must he be killed. Here is the endurance and the faith of the holy. ¹¹ Then I saw another Beast coming up out of the land. It had two horns like those of a lamb, but it spoke like a dragon. ¹² It exercises all the authority of the first Beast in his presence. It compels the earth and its inhabitants to worship the first Beast whose mortal wound was healed. ¹³ It does great signs, making fire descend from heaven to earth in the sight of men. ¹⁴ It leads astray the inhabitants of the earth because of the signs which it has been granted power to do in the presence of the Beast. It tells the inhabitants of the earth to make an image of the Beast which was wounded by the sword, yet lived.

¹³ Then I heard a voice from heaven saying, "Write: Blessed are the dead who die in the Lord henceforth." "Yes," says the Spirit, "that they may rest from their toils. For their works follow with them."

² Then I saw what was like a sea of glass mixed with fire, and those who had come victorious from the Beast and his image and the number of his name standing by the glassy sea with harps of God. ³ They were singing the song of Moses the servant of God and the song of the Lamb, saying: "Great and wonderful are thy works, Lord God Almighty. Just and true are thy ways, O King of the nations.

³ The second angel poured out his bowl upon the sea, and it became blood like that of a dead man and every living thing that was in the sea died.

¹¹ Then I saw heaven open and there was a white horse, and he who was sitting on it was called Faithful and True, and in righteousness he judges and makes war. ¹² His eyes are a flame of fire and on his head are many diadems. He has a name written which no one but himself knows, ¹³ and he is clothed in a garment dipped in blood and his name has been called The Word of God. ¹⁴ The armies that are in heaven follow him on white horses clothed in fine linen white and clean. ¹⁵ From his mouth issues a sharp sword to smite the nations. He will shepherd them with a rod of iron, and he treads the winepress of the fierce wrath of God Almighty. ¹⁶ He has on his robe and on his thigh a name written, "King of kings and Lord of lords." ¹⁷ Then I saw one angel standing on the sun, and he shouted with a loud voice, saying to all the birds that fly in mid-heaven, "Come, gather for the great feast of God, ¹⁸ to eat the flesh of kings and the flesh of generals and the flesh of mighty men, and the flesh of horses and of those who sit on them, and the flesh of freemen and of slaves, of small and great." ¹⁹ Then I saw the Beast and the kings of the earth and their armies gathered to do battle with him who sits on the horse and with his army. ²⁰ And the Beast was captured and with him the False Prophet who did miracles in his presence and thereby misled those who received the mark of the Beast and who worshiped his image. The two were flung alive into the lake of fire that burns with brimstone. ²¹ The rest were slain with the sword of him who sits upon the horse, the sword that issued from his mouth, and all the birds were gorged with their flesh.

² He laid hold of the Dragon, the ancient Serpent, who is the Devil and Satan, and chained him for a thousand years ³ and flung him into the abyss and shut it and sealed it over him, so that he should not mislead the nations until the thousand years were ended. After that he must be loosed for a little while. ⁴ Then I saw thrones, and men took their seats on them and the power to judge was granted to them. I saw the souls of those who had been beheaded for their testimony to Jesus and for God's message, and who had not worshiped the Beast nor his image and had not received his mark on their foreheads or on their hands. They lived and reigned as kings with Christ a thousand years,

¹⁰ and the Devil who was misleading them was flung into the lake of fire and brimstone, where are also the Beast and the False Prophet, and they will be tormented day and night for the ages of the ages. ¹¹ Then I saw a great white throne and him who was sitting on it, from whose face earth and heaven fled away and no place was found for them. ¹² And I saw the dead, the great and the small, standing before the throne, and books were opened. And another book was opened which is the Book of Life. The dead were judged out of what was written in the books according to their deeds. ¹³ The sea gave up the dead that were in it, and Death and Hades gave up the dead that were in them, and they were judged each according to his deeds.

¹³ The sea gave up the dead that were in it, and Death and Hades gave up the dead that were in them, and they were judged each according to his deeds. ¹⁴ Death and Hades were flung into the lake of fire. This is the second death — the lake of fire.

¹⁴ Death and Hades were flung into the lake of fire. This is the second death — the lake of fire.

¹⁴ Death and Hades were flung into the lake of fire. This is the second death — the lake of fire. ¹⁵ If any one was not found written in the Book of Life he was flung into the lake of fire.

⁴ He will wipe every tear from their eyes. Death shall be no more; neither shall there any longer be sorrow or wailing or painful toil; for the first things have passed away."

⁶ He said to me, "They have come to pass. I am the Alpha and the Omega, the beginning and the end. To him who is thirsting I will give from the spring of the water of life freely.

¹ THEN he showed me a river of water of life bright as crystal, issuing from the throne of God and of the Lamb.

¹⁷ The Spirit and the Bride say, "Come." Let him who hears say, "Come." Let him who thirsts come. Let him who will take the water of life freely.