1 Peter 3 Cross References - Riverside

¹ IN the same way you wives are to be submissive to your own husbands, so that if any disbelieve the message they may be won over by the lives of their wives without argument, ² when they look at your pure, reverential behavior. ³ Your adornment must not be of the external kind — braiding the hair and putting on gold and wearing fine dresses; ⁴ but the hidden personality of the heart must wear the imperishable beauty of a gentle and quiet spirit, which is in God's sight most precious. ⁵ For so of old the holy women who hoped in God adorned themselves. They were submissive to their own husbands, ⁶ as Sarah obeyed Abraham and called him Master. You have become her children when you do well and feel no terror. ⁷ In the same way, you husbands must live with your wives wisely, since woman's sex is weaker, but you must give them honor as fellow heirs of the grace of life, so that your prayers may not be hindered. ⁸ Finally, all must be like-minded, sympathetic, full of brotherly love, compassionate, humble-minded, ⁹ not repaying evil for evil or abuse for abuse, but rather blessing, for that is what you were called for — to inherit a blessing. ¹⁰ For "He who would love life and see good days must keep his tongue from evil and his lips from speaking deceit. ¹¹ He must turn away from evil and do good; he must seek peace and pursue it. ¹² For the eyes of the Lord are upon the righteous and his ears are open to their prayer, but the face of the Lord is against wrongdoers." ¹³ And who is it that will harm you if you become earnest for the good? ¹⁴ But if you should suffer for being righteous, you are blessed. Have no fear of them and do not be disturbed; ¹⁵ but exalt Christ as Lord in your hearts and be always ready to defend yourselves to every one who asks you to give account of the hope that is in you, yet with gentleness and reverence. ¹⁶ Keep a good conscience that, although you are slandered, those who misrepresent your good life in Christ may be put to shame. ¹⁷ For it is better to suffer, if that should be God's will, for doing good than for doing wrong. 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, ¹⁹ in which he went and made proclamation to the imprisoned spirits ²⁰ who were once disobedient, when the long-suffering of God waited in the days of Noah while the ark was being prepared, into which a few, that is eight souls, went and were saved through water. ²¹ This is a type of baptism, which now saves us — not the putting off of soil from the flesh, but the endeavor for a good conscience toward God through the resurrection of Jesus Christ. 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.

⁵ "Blessed are the gentle! For they will inherit the land.

⁹ "Blessed are the peacemakers! For they will be called sons of God. ¹⁰ "Blessed are those who have been persecuted for righteousness! For theirs is the kingdom of heaven. ¹¹ "Blessed are you when men revile you and persecute you and say every evil thing against you falsely for my sake!

¹¹ "Blessed are you when men revile you and persecute you and say every evil thing against you falsely for my sake! ¹² Rejoice and be exceedingly glad, for your reward is great in heaven. For so they persecuted the prophets who were before you.

²³ So then if you are bringing your gift to lay on the altar, and there you remember that your brother has something against you, ²⁴ leave your gift there before the altar and go, first be reconciled to your brother, and then come and offer your gift.

³⁹ But I tell you not to resist a wicked man, but if any one strikes you on the right cheek, turn to him also the other;

⁴⁴ But I say to you, Love your enemies and pray for those who persecute you, ⁴⁵ that you may be sons of your Father in heaven; for he makes his sun to rise upon the bad and the good, and sends rain upon the just and the unjust.

¹³ And bring us not into trial, But save us from evil.'

¹⁴ but narrow is the gate and contracted is the road that leads into life, and few there are who find it.

¹⁸ and you will be brought before governors and kings for my sake, for a witness to them and to the Gentiles.

¹⁸ and you will be brought before governors and kings for my sake, for a witness to them and to the Gentiles. ¹⁹ But when they deliver you up, do not worry how or what you are to speak. For it will be given to you in that hour what you are to say.

¹⁹ But when they deliver you up, do not worry how or what you are to speak. For it will be given to you in that hour what you are to say. ²⁰ For it is not you who speak, but the Spirit of your Father that speaks within you.

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.

²⁸ Do not fear before those who kill the body but cannot kill the soul. Rather fear him who can destroy both soul and body in Gehenna.

³¹ So do not fear. You are worth more than many sparrows.

³⁹ He who finds his life will lose it, and he who loses his life for my sake will find it.

²⁹ Take my yoke upon you and learn from me, for I am gentle and lowly in heart and you will find rest for your souls.

¹⁶ But blessed are your eyes, for they see, and your ears, for they hear. ¹⁷ I tell you truly many prophets and righteous men desired to see the things you see, but they did not see them, and to hear the things you hear, but they did not hear them.

²⁵ For whoever chooses to save his life will lose it, and whoever loses his life for my sake will find it.

¹⁵ "If your brother sins against you, go and show him his fault between yourself and him alone. If he listens to you, you have won over your brother.

¹⁹ "Again I tell you that, if two of you agree on earth regarding any matter, whatever they pray for will come to them from my Father in heaven.

³³ Ought you not to have had pity on your fellow servant as I had pity on you?'

³ Then some Pharisees came to him to test him. They said, "Is it allowable for a man to divorce his wife for any and every cause?" ⁴ He replied, "Have you not read that the Creator in the beginning 'made them male and female,' ⁵ and said, 'For this cause shall a man leave his father and his mother and shall cleave to his wife and the two shall become one flesh'? ⁶ So they are no longer two, but one flesh. What, therefore, God has yoked together let not man put asunder." ⁷ They said to him, "Why, then, did Moses command to give a writing of dismissal and divorce her?" ⁸ He said to them, "Moses, because of your hard-heartedness, permitted you to divorce your wives, but at the beginning it was not so. ⁹ And I tell you, whoever divorces his wife, except for unchastity, and marries another, commits adultery."

¹⁷ He said to him, "Why do you ask me about the good? One only is the Good. But if you wish to enter into life, keep the commandments."

²⁹ And whoever has left houses or brothers or sisters or father or mother or children or lands for my name's sake will receive manifold more and will inherit life eternal.

⁵ "Say to the daughter of Zion, Behold thy king comes to thee, gentle and riding on an ass and on a colt, the foal of a beast of draught."

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

²⁶ Blind Pharisees, cleanse first the inside of your cup so that the outside of it may become clean also.

³⁷ For, as the days of Noah were, so will the coming of the Son of Man be. ³⁸ As in the days before the flood they were eating and drinking, marrying and giving in marriage, until the day that Noah went into the ark, ³⁹ and they knew nothing until the flood came and swept them all away, so will the coming of the Son of Man be.

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!

³⁹ Then he went a little farther and fell on his face and prayed, "My Father, if it is possible, let this cup pass from me. Yet not as I will, but as thou wilt."

⁴² Again a second time he went away and prayed, "My Father, if this cannot pass unless I drink it, thy will be done."

⁶⁹ Peter was sitting outside in the court. A maid came up to him and said, "You too were with Jesus the Galilaean." ⁷⁰ But he denied it before all, saying, "I do not know what you mean." ⁷¹ When he had gone out into the gateway, another maid saw him and said to those who were there, "This man was with Jesus the Nazarene." ⁷² Then again he denied with an oath, "I do not know the man." ⁷³ After a little those who were standing there came up and said to Peter, "Truly you are one of them, for your accent proves it." ⁷⁴ Then he began to curse and swear, "I do not know the man." Immediately the cock crew, and ⁷⁵ Peter remembered what Jesus had said, "Before the cock crows you will disown me three times," and he went out and wept bitterly.

¹⁹ While he was sitting on the judge's seat, his wife sent to him a message, "Do not have anything to do with that righteous man. For I have suffered much to-day in a dream because of him."

²⁴ When Pilate saw that he was doing no good, but rather that an uproar was arising, he took some water and washed his hands before the crowd and said, "I am innocent of this blood. You will have to see to it."

¹⁹ Go, therefore, and make disciples of all the nations, baptizing them in the name of the Father and of the Son and of the Holy Spirit,

³⁵ Whoever wishes to save his life will lose it; but whoever loses his life for my sake and the sake of the good news will save it.

¹⁷ While he was going out into the road, a man came running and knelt before him and asked, "Good teacher, what shall I do to inherit life eternal?"

²⁹ Jesus said, "I tell you truly there is no one who has left house or brothers or sisters or mother or father or children or lands for my sake and for the sake of the good news,

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.'

⁷ The poor you have always with you, and whenever you will you can do them good, but me you have not always.

¹⁶ He who believes and is baptized will be saved, but he who does not believe will be condemned.

¹⁹ Then the Lord Jesus, after talking with them, was taken up into heaven and sat down on the right hand of God.

⁷⁹ To give light to those who sit in darkness and the shadow of death, To guide our feet into the path of peace."

³⁷ and having been a widow for now eighty-four years. She never left the Temple courts, but worshiped by fastings and prayers, night and day.

⁹ Jesus said to them, "I ask you, is it lawful on the Sabbath to do good or to do evil, to save life or to destroy it?"

²² "Blessed are you when men hate you and when they shut you out and reproach you and cast out your name as evil because of the Son of Man! ²³ Rejoice on that day and leap for joy. For, indeed, your reward will be great in heaven. Just so their fathers treated the prophets.

²⁷ But I tell you, my hearers, love your enemies; act nobly to those who hate you; ²⁸ bless those who curse you; pray for those who insult you. ²⁹ To him who strikes you on one cheek, offer also the other. To him who takes your cloak, do not refuse your tunic.

³⁵ But love your enemies and do good and lend without hope of return, and your reward will be great and you will be sons of the Most High. For he is generous to the ungrateful and wicked.

² and certain women who had been relieved of evil spirits and infirmities — Mary, who was called Magdalene, out of whom seven demons had gone, ³ and Joanna, the wife of Chuzas, Herod's manager, and Susanna, and many others. These women provided for Jesus and his apostles out of their means.

²⁵ Then a certain lawyer stood up to test him, and said, "Teacher, what must I do to inherit life eternal?"

³³ But a certain Samaritan as he traveled came near him, and saw him and pitied him,

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

⁴ I tell you, my friends, never fear those who kill the body and after that have nothing more that they can do. ⁵ But I will show you whom you should fear. Fear him who, after he has killed, has power to cast into Gehenna. Yes, I say, fear him.

³² Never fear, little flock! For it is your Father's good pleasure to give you the kingdom.

²⁴ "Try hard to enter through the narrow door; for many, I tell you, will try to enter and will not be able. ²⁵ After the house-holder has arisen and has shut the door, then you will begin to stand outside and knock at the door, and say, 'Master, open to us.' And he will answer you, 'I do not know you or where you come from.'

¹⁵ He said to them, "You are those who justify yourselves before men, but God knows your hearts. For what is highly esteemed among men is an abomination before God.

²⁶ As it happened in the days of Noah, so will it be in the days of the Son of Man. ²⁷ They were eating and drinking, marrying and being given in marriage, until the day that Noah went into the ark and the flood came and destroyed them all. ²⁸ Just so it was in the days of Lot; they were eating and drinking, buying and selling, planting and building. ²⁹ But on the day that Lot went out of Sodom it rained fire and brimstone from heaven and destroyed them all. ³⁰ So will the Son of Man be on the day that he is revealed.

¹⁸ One of the rulers asked him, "Good Teacher, what shall I do to inherit life eternal?"

⁴² David himself says in the book of Psalms, 'The Lord said to my Lord, Sit at my right

¹⁴ Settle it, then, in your hearts not to prepare beforehand to defend yourselves. ¹⁵ For I will give you a mouth and wisdom which all your opponents will be unable to resist or reply to.

⁴⁷ Jesus saw Nathanael coming to him, and said, "See, here is a true Israelite in whom there is no deceit."

³¹ We know that God does not listen to a sinner, but if any one is God-fearing and does his will, God hears him.

²⁵ He who loves his life destroys it, and he who hates his life in this world will keep it for life eternal.

¹ "LET not your heart be troubled. Believe in God and believe in me.

²⁷ Peace I leave with you. My peace I give to you. Not as the world gives do I give to you. Let not your heart be troubled, nor fearful.

¹⁵ I do not pray thee to take them out of the world, but to keep them from the evil.

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."

¹⁴ All of these continued earnestly and unitedly in prayer with the women and Mary the mother of Jesus and with his brothers.

¹ DURING the course of the day of Pentecost they were all together in the same place,

³⁴ For David did not ascend into the heavens, but he says, 'The Lord said to my Lord, Sit at my right hand, ³⁵ till I make your enemies your footstool.' ³⁶ Let all the house of Israel know surely that this Jesus, whom you crucified, God has made both Lord and Christ."

³⁸ Peter said to them, "Repent and be baptized every one of you in the name of Jesus Christ, for the forgiveness of your sins, and you will receive the gift of the Holy Spirit.

¹⁴ You disowned the holy and righteous one and begged to have a murderer granted you.

²¹ but whom heaven must receive until the times of the restoration of all things, of which God spoke through the mouths of his holy prophets of old.

⁸ Then Peter, full of the Holy Spirit, said to them, "Rulers of the people and elders,

⁸ Then Peter, full of the Holy Spirit, said to them, "Rulers of the people and elders, ⁹ if we must answer to-day regarding a benefit done to an infirm man, by what name he has been healed,

⁹ if we must answer to-day regarding a benefit done to an infirm man, by what name he has been healed, 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.

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. ¹¹ This is the stone which was despised by you the builders, and which has become the corner stone.

¹¹ This is the stone which was despised by you the builders, and which has become the corner stone. ¹² Nor is there salvation in any other. For there is no other name under heaven given among men by which we must be saved."

¹² Nor is there salvation in any other. For there is no other name under heaven given among men by which we must be saved." ¹³ Observing the fearless outspokenness of Peter and John and perceiving that they were common, uneducated men, they were astonished, and they recognized them as former companions of Jesus.

¹⁹ But Peter and John answered them, "Whether it is right in the sight of God to listen to you rather than to God, judge for yourselves.

³² The multitude of those who had believed was of one heart and one soul, and no one said that any part of his property was his own, but they had all things in common.

²⁹ Peter, answering for the apostles, said, "God must be obeyed rather than men. ³⁰ The God of our fathers raised up Jesus whom you had killed by hanging him on a cross. 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.

³⁶ As they were going along the road they came to water, and the eunuch said, "Here is water. What is there to hinder my being baptized?"

¹⁶ I will show him how much he must suffer for my name."

³⁶ In Joppa there was a disciple named Tabitha (in Greek Dorcas, Gazelle). She abounded in good works and acts of kindness which she was accustomed to do.

³³ He took them at that hour of the night and washed their stripes. Then he was baptized, he and all of his household, immediately.

⁹ The Lord spoke in the night by a vision to Paul, "Do not fear, but speak and be not silent, ¹⁰ for I am with you and no one shall attack and harm you, for I have many people in this city."

¹⁴ When he would not be persuaded, we stopped talking, saying, "The Lord's will be done."

³⁹ Paul said, "I am a Jew from Tarsus, in Cilicia, a citizen of no insignificant city. I beg you to let me talk to the people."

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,

¹⁶ And now why delay? Rise, be baptized and wash away your sins, calling upon his name.'

¹⁶ And in this I take pains, to have always a clear conscience toward God and toward men.

²⁵ While Paul was reasoning about righteousness and self-discipline and the judgment that is to come, Felix became alarmed and said," Go for the present. When I find a convenient time I will send for you."

³ On the next day we reached Sidon, where Julius treated Paul kindly and allowed him to go to see his friends and enjoy their attentions.

⁷ In the neighborhood of that place were lands belonging to the Governor of the island, whose name was Publius. He welcomed us and for three days hospitably entertained us.

⁴ and was with power proved to be the Son of God according to the Spirit of holiness by his resurrection from the dead);

⁴ Or do you despise the wealth of his kindness and forbearance and long-suffering, not knowing that the kindness of God is calling you to a change of heart? ⁵ Are you with a hard and unrepentant heart treasuring for yourself wrath for the day of wrath and for the revelation of the just judgment of God?

²⁹ But he who is one secretly is a Jew, and circumcision is of the heart and in the spirit, not in the letter. His praise is not from men, but from God.

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

¹ SO then, since we have been accounted righteous by faith, let us have peace with God, through our Lord Jesus Christ. ² Through him we obtained entrance into this grace in which we stand and exult in hope of the glory of God.

⁶ For while we were still without strength Christ, at the due time, died for the unrighteous. ⁷ Hardly for a righteous man will any one die. For a good man some one perhaps may dare to die. ⁸ But God shows his own love to us in that while we were still sinners Christ died for us.

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.

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. ⁵ For if we have grown into union with him by the likeness of his death, surely we shall be united with him by the likeness of his resurrection. 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.

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.

¹⁷ Thanks be to God that though you were slaves of sin you became obedient from the heart to the type of teaching in which you were instructed.

² For a married woman is by law bound to her husband while he is living. But if the husband dies, she is freed from the law of her husband.

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²¹ I find then this rule, when I choose to do the right, that evil is present with me. ²² I delight in the Law in my inner man,

³ For, what was impossible for the Law, because it was weak through the flesh — God, sending his own Son in the form of sinful flesh and for sin, condemned the sin that is in the flesh,

⁶ Fleshly mindedness is death, but spiritual mindedness is life and peace.

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.

²⁶ Thus also the Spirit helps us in our weakness. For we do not know what to pray for as we ought, but the Spirit itself intercedes for us with sighs beyond words. ²⁷ And he who searches hearts knows what is the mind of the Spirit, because he intercedes for the holy according to the will of God. ²⁸ We know that all things work together for good to those who love God, to those who are called according to his purpose.

³⁰ And those whom he predetermined he also called, and those whom he called he also pronounced righteous, and those whom he pronounced righteous he also glorified.

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.

³⁸ For I am persuaded that neither death nor life nor angels nor archangels, nor things present nor things to come, nor powers,

¹ I AM speaking the truth in Christ; I am saying nothing false; my conscience bears witness with me in the Holy Spirit

⁷ nor because they are descendants of Abraham are they all children; but "through Isaac shall your descendants be named." ⁸ That is, not the physical descendants are children, but the children of the promise are counted for descendants. ⁹ For the wording of the promise was, "At this time next year I will come and Sarah shall have a son."

²² What if God, choosing to exhibit his wrath and to make known what he can do, bore in long patience the vessels of wrath made for destruction,

⁹ that if you confess with your mouth the Lord Jesus and believe in your heart that God raised him from the dead you will be saved. ¹⁰ For with the heart a man believes and becomes righteous, and with the mouth he confesses and attains salvation.

¹⁶ But have not all heard the good news? For Isaiah says, "Lord, who has believed our report?"

² Do not follow the fashions of this world, but be transformed by the renewal of your minds so as to recognize what is the good and pleasing and perfect will of God.

¹⁰ Have brotherly love toward one another like family affection, in honor preferring one another,

¹⁴ Pray for blessings on your persecutors, blessings, not curses. ¹⁵ Rejoice with those who rejoice, weep with those who weep. ¹⁶ Be in harmony with one another. Do not be thinking of high things, but be content with humble things. Do not become conceited. ¹⁷ Repay to no one evil for evil. Aim at what is honorable in the sight of all men. ¹⁸ If possible, so far as depends on you, live at peace with all men. ¹⁹ Do not revenge yourselves, beloved, but give place to God's wrath. For it is written, "Vengeance is mine; I will repay, says the Lord." ²⁰ But, "if your enemy is hungry, feed him; if he is thirsty, give him drink; for in so doing you will heap coals of fire on his head." ²¹ Do not be overcome by evil, but overcome evil with good.

³ For rulers are not a terror to good deeds, but to bad. Do you wish not to fear the authority? Do what is good and you will have praise from it.

¹⁷ For the kingdom of God is not food and drink, but righteousness and peace and joy in the Holy Spirit.

¹⁹ Therefore, let us seek for what makes for peace and our mutual upbuilding.

⁵ May the God of patience and encouragement grant to you to have harmony with one another, in the manner of Christ Jesus,

¹⁰ I beg you, brethren, in the name of our Lord Jesus Christ, all to say the same thing and not to have divisions among you, but to be united in the same mind and in the same opinion.

⁶ All this, brethren, I have applied to myself and Apollos for your sake, that you may learn the maxim, "Nothing beyond what is written," and may not be puffed up in partisanship for one against the other.

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.

³ Let the husband pay his wife conjugal dues and the wife her husband.

¹⁶ For how do you know, O wife, whether you will save your husband? Or how do you know, O husband, whether you will save your wife?

¹⁹ For though I am free from all I have enslaved myself to all that I may gain the more. ²⁰ I became to the Jews a Jew, to gain the Jews; to those under law as under law, though not myself under law, to gain those who are under law. ²¹ To those without law, I became as without law, though not without the law of God and under the law of Christ, to gain those who are without law. ²² To the weak I became weak to gain the weak. To all men I became all things in order by all means to save some.

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.

¹³ For in one Spirit we were all baptized into one body, whether Jews or Greeks, whether slaves or free, and were all made to drink of one Spirit.

²² Indeed, much more those members of the body that seem to be the weaker are necessary, ²³ and those that we deem the less honorable parts of the body we surround with greater honor and our uncomely parts have additional dignity, ²⁴ while our comely parts have no need. But God has organized the body, giving greater honor to the part that lacks,

²⁶ And if one member suffers, all the members suffer with it; if a member is honored, all the members rejoice with it.

¹ SEEK love earnestly, be eager for spiritual gifts, but most to prophesy.

³⁴ let the women be silent in your assemblies. For it is not allowed to them to speak; but let them be in subjection as also the Law says.

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.

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.

¹⁵ For we are for God a sweet odor of Christ — in the saved and in the perishing. ¹⁶ To the latter an odor from death to death, to the former an odor from life to life. And who is competent for this?

² but we have renounced shameful secret things, not living in craftiness nor adulterating God's message, but by the openness of truth commending ourselves to every man's conscience in the sight of God.

¹⁶ Therefore we are not downhearted, but even if our outward man is wasting away, yet our inward man is renewed day by day.

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

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.

¹ I MYSELF, Paul, beg you by the gentleness and sweet reasonableness of Christ — I who "to your face am humble when among you, but when absent am bold toward you" —

¹⁰ Therefore I rejoice in weaknesses, in rough treatment, in necessities, in persecutions, in distresses for Christ's sake; for when I am weak, then I am strong.

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.

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

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,"

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

²² For it is written that Abraham had two sons, one born of the slave girl and one born of the free wife. ²³ But he who was born of the slave girl was born according to the flesh, while he who was born of the free wife was born by promise. ²⁴ This is an allegory. For these women are the two covenants, one from Mount Sinai, bearing children for slavery. This is Hagar. ²⁵ Hagar is Mount Sinai in Arabia. She represents the present Jerusalem, for she is in slavery along with her children. ²⁶ But the Jerusalem on high is free and she is our mother.

²² But the fruit of the Spirit is love, joy, peace, slowness to anger, kindness, benevolence, faithfulness, ²³ gentleness, self-control; against such there is no law.

¹⁰ So then as we have opportunity let us work for the good of all men, and especially of those who belong to the household of the faith.

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, ²¹ far above every archangel and authority and power and lordship and every name that is named not only in this world but also in the world to come.

¹⁶ and in order to reconcile both in one body to God through his cross, by slaying the enmity by it. ¹⁷ And he came and brought the good news of peace to you who were far and peace to those who were near. ¹⁸ For through him we, both Jews and Gentiles, have access through one Spirit to the Father.

⁶ namely, that the Gentiles are fellow heirs and fellow members of the body, fellow sharers of the promise in Christ Jesus through the good news,

² with all modesty and gentleness, being slow to anger, bearing with one another in love,

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.

³⁰ Do not grieve the Holy Spirit of God by whom you have been sealed for the day of redemption. ³¹ Let all bitterness and anger and wrath and clamor and abusive language be put away from you with every kind of malice. ³² Be kind to one another, sympathetic, forgiving one another just as God in Christ has forgiven you.

¹ BE imitators of God as beloved children

²² wives to their own husbands as in the Lord, ²³ because a man is the head of his wife as Christ is the head of the church and he is the savior of the body. ²⁴ But as the church is subject to Christ, so wives are to their husbands in everything. ²⁵ Husbands, love your wives, as Christ also loved the church and gave himself for it, ²⁶ that he might make it holy, cleansing it by the washing with water according to his word,

²⁶ that he might make it holy, cleansing it by the washing with water according to his word, ²⁷ that he might present to himself the church glorious, without spot or wrinkle or any such thing, but holy and faultless. ²⁸ Thus ought men to love their own wives as their own bodies. He who loves his own wife loves himself,

³³ But each one of you must love his own wife as himself, and the wife must reverence her husband.

⁵ Slaves, obey those who according to the flesh are your masters, with reverence and awe in singleness of your hearts as to Christ,

¹⁸ Pray at all times in the Spirit with all manner of prayer and entreaty; be awake to this with all intentness and with prayer for all the holy

²⁷ Only exercise your citizenship in a manner worthy of the good news of Christ, so that, whether I come and see you or in absence hear news of you, I may know that you are standing in one spirit, with one mind wrestling in the faith of the good news

²⁹ because it has been graciously allowed you not only to believe in Christ but also to suffer for his sake,

¹⁶ but so far as we have attained let us walk in the same path.

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.

⁸ To conclude, brethren, whatever is true, whatever is dignified, whatever is just, whatever is pure, whatever is lovable, whatever is highly spoken of — if there is any virtue or any praise — think of that. ⁹ What you learned and accepted and heard and saw in me — practice that. And the God of peace will be with you.

⁵ because of the hope laid up for us in heaven. Of this you have already heard in the true message of the good news

²¹ And you who were once alienated and enemies in your minds, living in wicked works, he has reconciled ²² by his body of flesh through death, to present you holy and spotless and blameless before him, 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.

²⁷ to whom God willed to make known what is the glorious wealth of this mystery among the Gentiles, which is Christ in you the hope of glory.

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.

³ For you have died and your life is hidden with Christ in God.

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.

¹² Put on, then, as the chosen of God, holy and beloved, sympathies, compassions, kindness, humility, gentleness, slowness to anger,

¹⁵ Let the peace of Christ be umpire in your hearts. For this you were called into one body. And be thankful.

¹⁸ Wives, be in subjection to your husbands, as is fitting in the Lord. ¹⁹ Husbands, love your wives and do not be harsh toward them.

²² Slaves, obey in everything your masters in the flesh, not with eye-service as men-pleasers, but in sincerity of heart, because you reverence the Lord.

⁵ Behave wisely towards outsiders, buying up the opportunity. ⁶ Let what you say be always with grace, seasoned with salt. Know how you should answer each one.

⁴ to have each of you know how to take a wife for himself in holiness and honor,

¹¹ and to be ambitious to lead a quiet life and to mind each his own business and to work with your hands, as we instructed you.

¹⁵ Take care that no one repays evil with evil, but always seek eagerly what is good in dealing with one another and with every one.

⁸ With flaming fire he will inflict vengeance on those who do not know God and do not obey the good news of our Lord Jesus.

¹² Such we command and urge in the Lord Jesus Christ to work quietly and eat their own bread.

⁵ The aim of the commandment is love out of a pure heart and a good conscience and a sincere faith.

¹⁹ holding to faith and a good conscience, which some have cast aside and thus made shipwreck of their faith.

² in behalf of kings and all who are in authority, that we may lead a quiet and peaceful life in all piety and sobriety.

⁹ Also that the women adorn themselves in becoming dress modestly and discreetly, not with braided hair or gold or pearls or costly clothes, ¹⁰ but — as is becoming for women professing piety — with good deeds.

¹⁰ but — as is becoming for women professing piety — with good deeds. ¹¹ A woman is to learn in all subjection. ¹² I do not permit a woman to teach or to usurp authority over a man, but she must remain silent.

¹⁵ But they will be saved through child-bearing, if they continue in faith and love and holiness with self-control.

¹² Let no one look down on you because you are young, but be an example to believers in speech, in the life you lead, in love, in faith, in purity.

⁵ A real widow who is left alone has set her hope on God and devotes herself to prayers and supplications night and day.

¹⁰ has a reputation for good deeds, has brought up children, has entertained strangers, has washed the feet of the holy, has ministered to people in distress, has been active in every good work.

¹² Play the grand hard game of the faith. Lay hold on life eternal, to which you have been called and have made the noble confession before many witnesses.

¹⁸ They must do good work, be rich in noble deeds, be generous, ready to share,

³ I thank God whom, I serve, following in the steps of my forefathers, with a pure conscience, while I constantly mention you in my prayers night and day,

²⁵ instructing opponents with gentleness, for God may give them a change of heart which will lead them to knowledge of the truth,

²⁵ instructing opponents with gentleness, for God may give them a change of heart which will lead them to knowledge of the truth, ²⁶ and they may return to soberness and escape the snare of the Devil when captured by the Lord's servant to do the Lord's will.

² in hope of life eternal, which the God who never lies promised ages ago

³ Tell the older women, in the same way, to be reverent in behavior, not slanderers, not enslaved to much wine, teachers of what is noble,

³ Tell the older women, in the same way, to be reverent in behavior, not slanderers, not enslaved to much wine, teachers of what is noble,

³ Tell the older women, in the same way, to be reverent in behavior, not slanderers, not enslaved to much wine, teachers of what is noble, ⁴ that they may train the young women to be loving wives and loving mothers,

⁴ that they may train the young women to be loving wives and loving mothers,

⁴ that they may train the young women to be loving wives and loving mothers, ⁵ self-controlled, pure, home-workers, kind, submissive to their own husbands, that God's message may not be slandered.

⁵ self-controlled, pure, home-workers, kind, submissive to their own husbands, that God's message may not be slandered. ⁶ Urge the younger men, in the same way, to practice self-control in everything.

⁶ Urge the younger men, in the same way, to practice self-control in everything. ⁷ Make yourself an example of good works, sincerity in teaching, dignified behavior ⁸ and wholesome talk that is above censure, that our opponents may be ashamed, having nothing evil to say about us.

⁸ and wholesome talk that is above censure, that our opponents may be ashamed, having nothing evil to say about us. ⁹ Tell slaves to be submissive to their own masters in all things and to try to please them, not answering back, ¹⁰ not pilfering, but showing all kindly fidelity, so as to make the teaching about God our Savior seem beautiful in all respects. ¹¹ For the grace of God has appeared bringing salvation to all men, ¹² teaching us to renounce all irreligion and worldly passions and to live soberly, justly and piously in this present world, ¹³ waiting for the blessed hope, the glorious appearing of the great God and of our Savior Christ Jesus, ¹⁴ who gave himself for us to redeem us from all sin and purify us as his own people earnest in honorable work.

¹⁴ who gave himself for us to redeem us from all sin and purify us as his own people earnest in honorable work. ¹⁵ Tell them these things, urge, convince with all authority; let no one slight you.

² to speak abusively to no one, to be peaceable, to be fair, showing all gentleness toward all men.

⁵ "not because of works that we had done in righteousness, but out of his own mercy he saved us through the bath of the new birth and the renewing of the Holy Spirit ⁶ which he poured out upon us richly through Jesus Christ our Savior, ⁷ that we might be declared righteous by his grace and become heirs with the hope of life eternal."

⁷ that we might be declared righteous by his grace and become heirs with the hope of life eternal."

³ who is the reflection of his glory and the expression of his nature and sustains all things by his word of power, and who, when he had made purification from sins, took his seat at the right hand of the Majesty on high,

¹³ To which of the angels did he ever say, "Sit at my right hand till I make thine enemies thy footstool"? ¹⁴ Are they not all ministering spirits sent forth for service in behalf of those who are to inherit salvation?

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.

⁹ and being thus made perfect he became the author of eternal salvation to all who obey him,

¹ THEREFORE let us leave elementary teaching about Christ and hasten on to what is advanced, not laying again a foundation — change of heart from dead works, faith in God,

¹⁴ saying, "Surely, I will greatly bless you and greatly multiply you."

¹⁸ that by two unchangeable things, in which it was impossible for God to be false, we might have strong encouragement, we who have fled to lay hold on the hope that lies before us. ¹⁹ We have this hope as an anchor of the soul, sure and firm, and it enters into the tent within the curtain ²⁰ where Jesus, our forerunner, has entered in our behalf, becoming forever a high priest after the order of Melchizedek.

¹ THE chief point of what I have been saying is this: we have such a High Priest who has taken his seat at the right hand of the throne of Majesty in the heavens,

¹⁴ how much more will the blood of Christ, who through an eternal Spirit offered himself an unblemished sacrifice to God, cleanse our consciences from dead works for the service of the living God.

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.

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.

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.

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

⁷ By faith Noah, after receiving a divine warning regarding things as yet unseen, reverently built an ark for the saving of his household. Thus he condemned the world and became an heir of the righteousness of faith. ⁸ By faith Abraham when called obeyed and came out into the place which he was to obtain for an inheritance. He came out not knowing where he was coming.

¹¹ By faith Sarah received power to conceive a child even when past the natural time of life, since she thought him trustworthy who had given the promise.

¹⁹ He reasoned that God was able to raise him even from the dead, and figuratively he did win him back from the dead.

² looking to Jesus the beginner and finisher of our faith, who for the joy set before him endured a cross, thinking little of the shame, and has taken his seat at the right hand of the throne of God.

¹⁴ Follow after peace with all men and holiness, without which no one will see the Lord.

¹ LET brotherly love continue.

¹⁶ Do not forget kindness and generosity, for with such sacrifices God is well pleased.

¹⁸ Pray for us: for we are confident that we have a good conscience, wishing to live nobly in every way.

¹² Blessed is the man who endures trial, for when he has been tested he will gain the crown of life which the Lord has promised to those who love him.

²¹ So lay aside all that is vile and all that remains of malice, and receive with gentleness the implanted message which can save your souls.

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.

¹³ For judgment is merciless to him who has shown no mercy. Mercy triumphs over judgment.

¹ DO not, many of you, become teachers, my brethren, for you know that we will receive severer judgment. ² For in many ways we all stumble. If any one never stumbles in his talk, he is a perfect man, able to bridle also the whole body. ³ If we put bits into the horses' mouths to make them obey us, we turn about their whole bodies. ⁴ See the ships; great as they are and driven by violent winds, they are turned about by a very small rudder wherever the desire of the helmsman chooses. ⁵ Just so the tongue is a small member, but boasts of great things. Think how small a fire may be and yet how vast the forest that it may set ablaze. ⁶ And the tongue is a fire, a world of wickedness. The tongue stands among our members as that which spots the whole body and sets on fire the wheel of nature and is itself set on fire by Gehenna. ⁷ For every kind of wild beasts and birds and reptiles and animals from the sea is tamed and has been tamed by human kind, ⁸ but the tongue no man is able to tame. It is a restless evil; it is full of deadly poison. ⁹ With it we bless the Lord our Father and with it we curse the men who are made in the image of God. ¹⁰ From the same mouth come blessing and cursing. This, my brethren, should not be so.

¹³ Who is wise and intelligent among you? Let him show out of the noble life that he lives his works in wise gentleness. ¹⁴ But if you have bitter jealousy and party-spirit in your hearts, do not boast and falsely contradict the truth. ¹⁵ This wisdom does not come down from on high, but is earthly, animal, demoniacal. ¹⁶ For where jealousy and party-spirit are, there is confusion and every base affair. ¹⁷ But the wisdom from on high is first pure, then peaceable, fair-minded, easily persuaded, full of compassion and good fruits, impartial, sincere.

¹⁷ But the wisdom from on high is first pure, then peaceable, fair-minded, easily persuaded, full of compassion and good fruits, impartial, sincere.

¹⁷ But the wisdom from on high is first pure, then peaceable, fair-minded, easily persuaded, full of compassion and good fruits, impartial, sincere. ¹⁸ The fruit of righteousness is sown in peace by those who make peace.

¹⁷ If any one, then, knows how to do good and is not doing it, he is committing sin.

⁶ You have condemned, you have murdered, the righteous; he does not resist you.

¹¹ We call them blessed because they endured. You have heard of the patience of Job and have seen the end of the Lord's dealings with him, that the Lord is very tender and compassionate.

¹⁶ Confess your sins to one another and pray for one another in order to be healed. The effective prayer of a righteous man has great power.

¹⁹ My brethren, if one of you strays from the truth and any one brings him back, ²⁰ I wish you to know that he who brings back a sinner from his wanderings will save his soul from death and will hide a host of sins.

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 —

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. ¹² It was revealed to them that they were serving not themselves but you, in these things which now have been announced to you through those who have told you the good news by the Holy Spirit sent forth from heaven — things which angels earnestly long to look into.

¹⁵ but, like the Holy One who has called you, become yourselves holy in all your way of life,

¹⁷ And if you call upon him as Father who impartially judges by each one's work, live out the time of your sojourn here in reverence,

²² Now that you have made your souls holy by obedience to the truth for sincere brotherly love, you must love one another steadily from your hearts, ²³ for you have been reborn, not from mortal seed but from immortal by the living and enduring word of God.

¹ THEN lay aside all malice and all deceit and hypocrisy and envy and every kind of slander,

¹² Keep your daily life among the Gentiles honorable, so that, although they talk against you as if you were wrongdoers, they may, from your noble deeds that they see, glorify God on the day of inspection.

¹⁵ For this is the will of God — that by doing good we shall silence the ignorance of thoughtless men.

¹⁷ Honor all men, love the brotherhood, reverence God, honor the king.

¹⁹ For this is grace if for conscience toward God any one bears pain, suffering unjustly.

¹⁹ For this is grace if for conscience toward God any one bears pain, suffering unjustly. ²⁰ For what credit is it if when you sin and are struck with the fist you are patient? But if though doing well, you suffer and are patient, that is grace in God's sight.

²⁰ For what credit is it if when you sin and are struck with the fist you are patient? But if though doing well, you suffer and are patient, that is grace in God's sight.

²⁰ For what credit is it if when you sin and are struck with the fist you are patient? But if though doing well, you suffer and are patient, that is grace in God's sight. ²¹ For to this you were called, because Christ too suffered for you, leaving you an example that you might follow in his foot-steps.

²¹ For to this you were called, because Christ too suffered for you, leaving you an example that you might follow in his foot-steps. ²² He had done no sin, nor was deceit found in his mouth.

²² He had done no sin, nor was deceit found in his mouth.

²² He had done no sin, nor was deceit found in his mouth. ²³ When he was reviled he did not revile back; he suffered, but made no threat; he committed himself to him who judges justly.

²³ When he was reviled he did not revile back; he suffered, but made no threat; he committed himself to him who judges justly. ²⁴ He bore our sins in his own body on the tree that we might die to sins and live to righteousness.

¹ IN the same way you wives are to be submissive to your own husbands, so that if any disbelieve the message they may be won over by the lives of their wives without argument, ² when they look at your pure, reverential behavior.

² when they look at your pure, reverential behavior.

² when they look at your pure, reverential behavior. ³ Your adornment must not be of the external kind — braiding the hair and putting on gold and wearing fine dresses; ⁴ but the hidden personality of the heart must wear the imperishable beauty of a gentle and quiet spirit, which is in God's sight most precious.

⁴ but the hidden personality of the heart must wear the imperishable beauty of a gentle and quiet spirit, which is in God's sight most precious. ⁵ For so of old the holy women who hoped in God adorned themselves. They were submissive to their own husbands, ⁶ as Sarah obeyed Abraham and called him Master. You have become her children when you do well and feel no terror.

⁶ as Sarah obeyed Abraham and called him Master. You have become her children when you do well and feel no terror. ⁷ In the same way, you husbands must live with your wives wisely, since woman's sex is weaker, but you must give them honor as fellow heirs of the grace of life, so that your prayers may not be hindered.

¹⁴ But if you should suffer for being righteous, you are blessed. Have no fear of them and do not be disturbed;

¹⁴ But if you should suffer for being righteous, you are blessed. Have no fear of them and do not be disturbed; ¹⁵ but exalt Christ as Lord in your hearts and be always ready to defend yourselves to every one who asks you to give account of the hope that is in you, yet with gentleness and reverence.

¹⁵ but exalt Christ as Lord in your hearts and be always ready to defend yourselves to every one who asks you to give account of the hope that is in you, yet with gentleness and reverence.

¹⁵ but exalt Christ as Lord in your hearts and be always ready to defend yourselves to every one who asks you to give account of the hope that is in you, yet with gentleness and reverence. ¹⁶ Keep a good conscience that, although you are slandered, those who misrepresent your good life in Christ may be put to shame.

²¹ This is a type of baptism, which now saves us — not the putting off of soil from the flesh, but the endeavor for a good conscience toward God through the resurrection of Jesus Christ.

¹ SINCE, then, Christ suffered in the flesh, you also must arm yourselves with the same mind. For he who has suffered in the flesh has ceased from sin,

⁶ And for this purpose the good news was told even to the dead, that they might be judged like men in the flesh, but live as God does in the spirit.

¹³ But rejoice since to this extent you are sharing the sufferings of Christ, that when his glory is revealed you may rejoice and exult. ¹⁴ If you are reproached for the name of Christ you are blessed, for the spirit of glory and of God rests upon you. ¹⁵ No one of you must suffer as a murderer or as a thief or as a wrongdoer or as a meddler in other men's affairs.

¹⁵ No one of you must suffer as a murderer or as a thief or as a wrongdoer or as a meddler in other men's affairs. ¹⁶ But if he suffers as a Christian he should not be ashamed, but should glorify God by that name. ¹⁷ For the time has come for judgment to begin at the house of God. And if it begins first with us, what will be the end of those who disobey the good news of God?

¹⁹ So then let those who are suffering according to the will of God commit their souls in well-doing to a faithful Creator.

⁵ In the same way you younger men must be subject to your elders. You all must put on the apron of humble service for one another. For God opposes the proud, but gives grace to the humble.

¹⁰ The God of all grace, who called you to his eternal glory in Christ, after you have suffered a little will equip, establish and strengthen you.

⁷ and to your reverence brotherliness, and to your brotherliness love.

⁵ and did not spare the ancient world, but guarded Noah, a herald of righteousness, and seven others, when he brought the flood on the world of the ungodly;

¹¹ Since all of these things are to be dissolved, what sort of persons ought you to be in holy lives and piety,

¹⁵ and regard the long-suffering of our Lord as salvation, as also our beloved brother Paul has written to you, according to the wisdom given to him.

⁹ If we confess our sins, he is faithful and just to forgive us our sins and cleanse us from all unrighteousness:

¹⁴ We know that we have passed from death into life because we love the brethren. Whoever does not love remains in death.

¹⁸ Let us not love in word or in tongue, but in deed and in truth. ¹⁹ By this we shall know that we are of the truth and shall give confidence to our hearts in his presence,

¹¹ Beloved, do not imitate evil, but good. He who does good is of God. He who does evil has not seen God.

⁵ No lie was found in their mouths. They are stainless.

¹⁰ Then I fell down at his feet and worshiped him. But he said to me, "No, no. I am a fellow servant of yours and of your brethren who hold the testimony to Jesus. Worship God. For testimony to Jesus is the spirit of prophecy."

⁷ When the thousand years are ended, Satan will be loosed from his prison