1 Thessalonians Cross References - Riverside

¹ PAUL and Silvanus and Timothy, to the Church of the Thessalonians in God the Father and the Lord Jesus Christ: Grace to you and peace. ² We thank God always for you all when we mention you in our prayers, ³ unceasingly remembering your work of faith and labor of love and patience of hope in our Lord Jesus Christ before God our Father. ⁴ We know, brethren beloved by God, that he has chosen you ⁵ and that our good news came to you not in word only but in power and in the Holy Spirit and in great assurance, just as you know we acted among you for your benefit. ⁶ You became imitators of us and of the Lord, receiving the message in great affliction with joy which the Holy Spirit gave, ⁷ so that you became a pattern for all believers in Macedonia and in Achaia. ⁸ For the message of the Lord sounded forth from you not only in Macedonia and Achaia, but in every place your faith toward God has gone abroad, so that there is no need for us to speak a word. ⁹ For the people themselves are telling about us, what a reception we had with you, and how you turned to God from idols, to serve the living and true God ¹⁰ and to wait for his Son from heaven — his Son Jesus whom he raised from the dead and who is saving us from the coming wrath.

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

⁷ When he saw many of the Pharisees and Sadducees coming for baptism, he said, "Brood of vipers, who directed you to flee from the coming wrath?

²⁴ Then Jesus said to his disciples, "If any one chooses to come after me, let him disown self and take up his cross and follow me.

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, ³⁰ who will not receive a hundred fold more now in this time, houses and brothers and sisters and mothers and children and lands, with persecutions, and in the world to come life eternal.

²⁰ They went forth and preached everywhere, the Lord working with them and confirming their message by the signs which accompanied it.

²⁵ There was in Jerusalem a man named Simeon, and this man was upright and God-fearing, looking forward to the consolation of Israel, and the Holy Spirit was upon him.

⁷ He said to the crowds that went out to be baptized by him, "Brood of vipers, who warned you to flee from the coming wrath?

²⁷ Do not work for the food that perishes, but for the food that endures to life eternal, which the Son of Man will give you. For him God the Father has sealed." 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."

¹² Again Jesus spoke to them, saying, "I am the light of the world. He who follows me will not walk in darkness, but will have the light of life."

¹³ You call me Teacher and Master and you say rightly, for so I am. ¹⁴ If then I, the Master and Teacher, have washed your feet, you too ought to wash one another's feet. ¹⁵ For I have given you an example that you may do as I have done to you.

¹⁵ "If you love me, you will keep my commands, ¹⁶ and I will ask the Father and he will give you another Counselor to be with you forever — ¹⁷ the Spirit of Truth, whom the world cannot accept because it neither sees him nor knows him. But you know him because he abides with you and will be in you. ¹⁸ I will not leave you desolate; I will come to you.

²¹ He who has my commands and keeps them — he is the one that loves me. He who loves me will be loved by my Father, and I will love him and will show myself to him." ²² Judas (not Iscariot) said to him, "Master, what has happened that you are going to show yourself to us and not to the world?" ²³ Jesus answered him, "If any one loves me, he will keep my word, and my Father will love him and we will come to him and abide with him.

¹⁰ If you keep my commands, you will abide in my love as I have kept my Father's commands and abide in his love.

⁷ I tell you the truth, it is better for you that I should go away. For unless I go away, the Counselor will not come to you; but if I go, I will send him to you. ⁸ And he, when he comes, will convince the world regarding sin and regarding righteousness and regarding judgment — ⁹ regarding sin, because they do not believe in me; ¹⁰ regarding righteousness, because I am going to the Father and you no longer see me; ¹¹ regarding judgment, because the Ruler of this world has been judged. ¹² I have still many things to tell you; but you cannot bear them now. ¹³ But when he comes — the Spirit of Truth — he will guide you into all the truth. For he will not speak his own thoughts, but all that he hears he will speak and he will announce to you the things to come. ¹⁴ He will glorify me because he will take of mine and will announce it to you. ¹⁵ All things that the Father has are mine. For that reason I say, 'He will take of mine and announce it to you.'

¹⁵ When they had breakfasted, Jesus said to Simon Peter, "Simon, son of John, do you love me more than these?" He said to him, "Yes, Master, you know that I love you." He said to him, "Feed my lambs." ¹⁶ He said to him a second time, "Simon, son of John, do you love me?" He said to him, "Yes, Master, you know that I love you." He said to him, "Shepherd my sheep." ¹⁷ He said to him the third time, "Simon, son of John, do you love me?" Peter was grieved because he said to him the third time, "Do you love me?" and he said to him, "Master, you know all things. You know that I love you." Jesus said to him, "Feed my sheep.

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."

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.

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.

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.

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

¹⁹ Therefore, repent and turn about, that your sins may be wiped away and the gracious face of the Lord may bring times of refreshing,

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.

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.

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.

⁴¹ but they went away from before the Council rejoicing because they were thought worthy to be put to shame for the Name.

³¹ So the church had peace throughout all Judaea and Galilee and Samaria, and was built up, and advancing in the reverence of the Lord and by the encouragement of the Holy Spirit grew continually in numbers.

³¹ and said, 'Cornelius, your prayer has been heard and your gifts of charity have been remembered before God.

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.

⁴⁴ While Peter was speaking these words, the Holy Spirit fell on all who were listening to his message. ⁴⁵ All the believers who were of the circumcision who had come along with Peter were amazed that the gift of the Holy Spirit was poured out on the Gentiles, ⁴⁶ for they heard them speaking with tongues and glorifying God. Then Peter said,

¹⁵ When I began speaking the Holy Spirit fell on them, just as on us at the beginning, ¹⁶ and I remembered the words of the Lord how he said, 'John baptized with water, but you will be baptized with the Holy Spirit.' ¹⁷ If then God gave to them the same gift that he gave to us on believing in the Lord Jesus, who was I that I could oppose God?" ¹⁸ On hearing this they ceased their criticism and gave glory to God, saying, "Then even to the Gentiles God has granted the change of heart that leads to life."

²¹ The hand of the Lord was with them, and a large number believed and turned to the Lord.

⁵² The disciples were filled with joy and with the Holy Spirit.

¹⁵ "Men, why are you doing this? We too are men with the same weaknesses that you have. We are bringing you the good news that you are to turn from these foolish things to the living God, who made the heavens and the earth and the sea and all things that are in them.

²⁷ We have sent therefore Judas and Silas, who will tell you orally the same things.

³² Both Judas and Silas, being themselves prophets, encouraged and confirmed the brethren by long addresses. ³³ After spending some time they were sent away with a message of peace from the brethren to those who had sent them.

⁴⁰ Paul selected Silas and left, after being commended to the grace of the Lord by the brethren.

¹ THEY came to Derbe and Lystra. At Lystra there was a disciple named Timothy, the son of a Jewish woman, who was a believer, and of a Greek father. ² He had a good reputation among the brethren in Lystra and Iconium. ³ Paul wished to have Timothy go with him. So he took him and circumcised him because of the Jews who were in those parts. For they all knew that his father was a Greek.

¹² From there we went to Philippi, which is the first city of that part of Macedonia and is a Roman colony. We remained in that city for a number of days.

¹⁴ One woman named Lydia, a dealer in purple, from the city of Thyatira, who reverenced God, was listening. God opened her heart to receive what was said by Paul.

¹⁹ When her masters saw that the hope of their gain was gone, they laid hold of Paul and Silas and dragged them into the public square before the authorities.

²⁵ But about midnight Paul and Silas were praying and singing hymns to God, and the other prisoners were listening.

²⁹ Calling for a light he sprang in and fell down trembling before Paul and Silas,

¹ AFTER passing through Amphipolis and Apollonia they came to Thessalonica. Here there was a synagogue of the Jews. ² According to Paul's custom he went in to meet with them, and on three Sabbath days he reasoned with them from the Scriptures, ³ explaining and showing that it was necessary that the Christ should suffer and rise from the dead, and saying, "Jesus of whom I am telling you is the Christ." ⁴ Some of them were persuaded and attached themselves to Paul and Silas — a large number of the pious Greeks and not a few of the leading women. ⁵ But the Jews became excited and, taking with them some of the base loafers from the market-place, they made a mob and threw the city into confusion. They attacked the house of Jason and tried to bring Paul and Silas out to the people.

⁵ But the Jews became excited and, taking with them some of the base loafers from the market-place, they made a mob and threw the city into confusion. They attacked the house of Jason and tried to bring Paul and Silas out to the people. ⁶ Not finding them, they dragged Jason and certain brethren before the magistrates, shouting, "These men who have upset the world have now come here.

⁶ Not finding them, they dragged Jason and certain brethren before the magistrates, shouting, "These men who have upset the world have now come here. ⁷ Jason has received them. They all do contrary to the decrees of Caesar, saying that there is a different king — Jesus."

⁷ Jason has received them. They all do contrary to the decrees of Caesar, saying that there is a different king — Jesus." ⁸ Both the crowd and the magistrates were disturbed on hearing this.

⁸ Both the crowd and the magistrates were disturbed on hearing this. ⁹ So they took security from Jason and the rest and then dismissed them.

⁹ So they took security from Jason and the rest and then dismissed them. ¹⁰ The brethren immediately sent off Paul and Silas in the night to Beraea. They on arrival went into the synagogue of the Jews. ¹¹ These people were nobler than those in Thessalonica. They welcomed the message with all readiness and examined the Scriptures daily to see whether these things were so.

¹³ When the Jews of Thessalonica learned that God's message had been proclaimed by Paul also in Beraea, they came there agitating and disturbing the crowds. ¹⁴ At once then the brethren sent away Paul to go down to the sea coast. Silas and Timothy remained there. ¹⁵ Those who were conducting Paul took him as far as Athens, and, after receiving a letter to Silas and Timothy to come to him as soon as possible, they left.

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."

¹ AFTER this Paul left Athens and came to Corinth.

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.

²² He sent on into Macedonia two of his assistants, Timothy and Erastus, but he himself remained awhile in Asia.

⁴ There were in company with him Sopater of Beraea, the son of Pyrrhus, and of the Thessalonians Aristarchus and Secundus, and Gaius of Derbe and Timothy, and from Asia Tychicus and Trophimus.

¹⁸ When they came to him, he said to them, "You know how I have lived among you the whole time since the first day I set foot in Asia, ¹⁹ serving the Lord with all humility and with tears and with trials that befell me through the plots of the Jews —

³³ I have coveted no man's silver or gold or apparel. ³⁴ You yourselves know that these hands provided for my needs and the needs of my companions. ³⁵ In all things I showed you that so laboring we ought to help the weak, and to remember the words of the Lord Jesus, that he said, 'It is more blessed to give than to receive.'

¹⁷ I will deliver you from your people and from the Gentiles, to whom I am sending you, ¹⁸ to open their eyes and turn them from darkness to light and from the power of Satan to God, that they may receive forgiveness of sins and inheritance among those who are made holy by faith in me.'

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

⁷ to all who are in Rome, beloved by God, called to be holy: Grace to you and peace from God our Father and the Lord Jesus Christ. ⁸ First of all I thank my God through Jesus Christ for all of you, because your faith is spoken of through all the world.

⁸ First of all I thank my God through Jesus Christ for all of you, because your faith is spoken of through all the world. ⁹ For God, whom I serve in my spirit in the good news of his Son, is my witness how unceasingly I make mention of you, always in my prayers

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.

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.

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

³ Not only so, but we also exult in trials, knowing that trial develops endurance, ⁴ and endurance develops a tested character, and a tested character develops hope, ⁵ and hope does not disappoint, for the love of God has been poured out in our hearts through the Holy Spirit granted to us.

⁹ Much more then, now that we have been pronounced righteous through his blood, shall we be saved from wrath by him. 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.

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.

¹⁶ The Spirit itself witnesses with our spirits that we are children of God. ¹⁷ And if children, we are also heirs — heirs of God, joint heirs with Christ, since we suffer with him that we may also be glorified with him. ¹⁸ For I estimate that the sufferings of this present time amount to nothing in comparison with the glory that is to be revealed for us.

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. ²⁴ For we are saved by hope; but hope that is seen is not hope, for what any one sees, why does he hope for? ²⁵ But if we hope for what we do not see, we patiently wait for it.

²⁸ We know that all things work together for good to those who love God, to those who are called according to his purpose. 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. 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.

²⁵ As also he says in Hosea, "Those who are not my people I will call my people, and her who has not been beloved I will call beloved, ²⁶ and in the place where it was said to them, 'You are not my people,' there they shall be called sons of the living God."

¹⁴ How then shall they call on him in whom they have not believed? How shall they believe in him of whom they have not heard? How shall they hear without some one to proclaim him? ¹⁵ How shall they proclaim him unless they are sent? As it is written, "How beautiful are the feet of those who bring good news!" ¹⁶ But have not all heard the good news? For Isaiah says, "Lord, who has believed our report?" ¹⁷ So then faith comes from the report and report comes through the word of Christ. ¹⁸ But I say, it cannot be true that they have not heard, can it? On the contrary, "Their sound has gone out into all the earth and their words to the ends of the world."

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. ⁷ What then? Israel has not found what it is seeking, but the chosen have found it. And the rest have been made dull,

¹² rejoicing in hope, patient in trial, constant in prayer,

⁴ All that was written of old was written for our instruction, in order that by patience and by the encouragement of the Scriptures we may have hope.

¹³ May the God of hope fill you with all joy and peace in believing, so that you may abound in hope through the power of the Holy Spirit!

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,

⁶ Give my greetings to Mary, who has worked hard for you.

¹⁹ For your obedience has come to the knowledge of all men. Therefore I rejoice over you, but I wish you to be wise regarding what is good, and simple in regard to what is evil.

²⁶ but now made manifest through the prophetic Scriptures by the command of the eternal God, to promote obedience to the faith made known to all the Gentiles —

² to the Church of God in Corinth, made holy in Christ Jesus, called to be holy, with all everywhere who call upon the name of our Lord Jesus Christ, their Lord and ours:

⁴ I am always thanking God for you because of the grace of God given to you in Christ Jesus,

⁷ and so that you are not lacking in any gift while waiting for our Lord Jesus Christ to be revealed.

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. 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 I planted, Apollos watered, but God made the seed grow.

¹⁶ Do you not know that you are God's temple and the Spirit of God dwells in you?

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.

¹⁶ So I beg you to be imitators of me.

²⁰ For the kingdom of God is not in talk, but in power.

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. ²³ I do all things for the sake of the good news that I may become a partner with it.

³³ as I also in all things accommodate myself to all men, not seeking my own interest but that of the many, in order that they may be saved.

¹ IMITATE me as I imitate Christ.

² For you know that when you were Gentiles you were led away after the dumb idols just as might happen.

⁷ To each one is given some manifestation of the Spirit for what is profitable. ⁸ To one are given, through the Spirit, words of wisdom, to another words of knowledge by the same Spirit, ⁹ to another faith by the same Spirit, to another gifts of healing by the same Spirit, ¹⁰ to another works of power, to another prophecy, to another the discernment of spirits, to another varieties of tongues, to another interpretation of tongues. ¹¹ One and the same Spirit produces all of these gifts, distributing to each one individually as he will.

⁴ Love is longsuffering, love is kind, is not jealous, love does not boast, is not conceited, ⁵ does not behave unbecomingly, does not seek her own interest, is not irritable, does not count up her wrongs, ⁶ does not rejoice in wickedness, but rejoices with the truth, ⁷ excuses all things, believes all things, hopes all things, endures all things.

¹³ But now faith, hope, love — these three — endure. And the greatest of these is love.

³⁶ Did the message of God come out from you or did it come to you alone?

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.

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.

¹ PAUL, an apostle of Christ Jesus by the will of God, and Timothy the brother, to the church of God that is in Corinth with all the holy that are in all Achaia:

¹⁹ For the Son of God, Christ Jesus, who was proclaimed among you by us — myself and Silvanus and Timothy — was not yes and no, but in him was yes.

¹⁷ For we are not, like the most, adulterating the message of God for gain, but in sincerity, as from God, in the presence of God, we speak in Christ.

⁴ We have such confidence through Christ toward God.

⁶ who has fitted us to be servants of a new covenant, not of the letter, but of the spirit. For the letter kills, but the spirit gives life.

¹ THEREFORE, having this service through God's mercy, we are not downhearted, 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. ³ If our good news is veiled, it is veiled to those who are going to ruin,

¹⁴ For the love of Christ impels us, convinced of this, that if one died for all, then all died, ¹⁵ and he died for all that the living may no longer live for themselves, but for him who died for them and was raised again.

³ We give no occasion for stumbling to any one that our service may not be blamed, ⁴ but in everything we commend ourselves as God's servants in great patience, in distresses, in necessities, in hardships, ⁵ in floggings, in prisons, in riots, in toils, in sleepless nights, in fastings, ⁶ with purity, with knowledge, with long-suffering, with kindness, with the Holy Spirit, with sincere love, ⁷ with the message of truth, with the power of God; by the weapons of righteousness in the right hand and the left, ⁸ by honor and shame, by slander and praise; as deceivers yet true, ⁹ as unknown yet well known, as dying and yet we are living, as chastised yet not put to death, ¹⁰ as sorrowful yet always rejoicing, as poor yet making many rich, as having nothing yet owning all things.

¹⁶ What agreement has the Temple of God with idols? For we are the Temple of the living God, as God said, "I will dwell in them and walk among them, and I will be their God and they shall be my people. ¹⁷ Therefore come out from the midst of them and be separate, says the Lord, and do not touch an unclean thing, and I will receive you

¹ I MUST tell you, brethren, of the grace of God that has been given to the churches of Macedonia, ² that in a great trial of distress their abundant joy and their deep poverty have abounded in the wealth of their liberality.

⁵ and this not as we had hoped, but first they gave themselves to the Lord and to us through the will of God.

⁷ But as you excel in every way, in faith and speech and knowledge and in all earnestness and in the love you learned from us, be sure to excel in this grace also. ⁸ I speak not by way of command, but testing the genuineness of your love by the earnestness of others. ⁹ For you know the grace of our Lord Jesus Christ, that though he was rich yet for your sake he became poor, that you by his poverty might become rich.

² For I know your readiness and I am boasting about you to the Macedonians, that Achaia was ready a year ago, and your zeal has stimulated the most of them.

⁴ for the weapons of our warfare are not weapons of the flesh, but powerful under God for the destruction of fortresses. ⁵ We overthrow reasonings and every high thing that exalts itself against the knowledge of God, and take captive every thought into obedience to Christ

⁹ and when I was with you and in need I was not a burden to any one, for the brethren who came from Macedonia supplied my need. In every way I kept myself from being a burden to you, and shall keep myself so. ¹⁰ As the truth of Christ is in me, this boast of mine shall not be stopped in the region of Achaia.

² and all the brethren with me, to the churches of Galatia:

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

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.

²² I was not known by face to the churches of Christ in Judaea.

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.

² Only this I wish to learn from you: Was it because of works of law that you received the Spirit, or because of hearing with faith? ³ Are you so thoughtless? After beginning with spirit are you now finishing with flesh? ⁴ Have you suffered such things to no purpose? — if it is to no purpose. ⁵ He who supplies to you the Spirit and works miracles among you, is he doing it because of works of law or because of hearing with faith,

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,"

⁸ At the time when you did not know God you were enslaved to what by nature are not gods. ⁹ But now that you know God, or rather have been known by God, how are you turning back to the weak and beggarly elementary lessons to which you wish to be slaves again?

⁵ For we in the Spirit because of faith are waiting for the hope of righteousness. ⁶ For in Christ Jesus neither has circumcision any value nor uncircumcision, but faith working through love.

¹³ For you were called to freedom, brethren; only do not let your freedom be an opportunity for the flesh, but in love be servants to one another.

²² But the fruit of the Spirit is love, joy, peace, slowness to anger, kindness, benevolence, faithfulness,

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.

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

² Grace and peace from God our Father and the Lord Jesus Christ!

⁴ even as he chose us in him before the foundation of the world to be holy and spotless before him in love.

¹⁵ For this reason I also, since hearing of your faith in Jesus and your love to all the saints, ¹⁶ never cease giving thanks for you when I mention you in my prayers, ¹⁷ that the God of our Lord Jesus Christ, the Father most glorious, may give to you a spirit of wisdom and revelation in the knowledge of himself, ¹⁸ enlightening the eyes of your heart, that you may know what is the hope of his calling, and what the glorious wealth of his inheritance in the holy, ¹⁹ and what the surpassing greatness of his power toward us who believe according to the inworking of his vast might, 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,

⁴ But God, who is rich in mercy, because of his great love with which he loved us, ⁵ even when we were dead in misdeeds, made us alive along with Christ — by grace we have been saved —

¹⁰ For we are his work, formed in Christ Jesus for good works in which God had prepared beforehand to have us live.

²⁰ To him who is able to do far beyond all we ask or think by the power that works in us,

¹ BE imitators of God as beloved children

¹ PAUL and Timothy, servants of Christ Jesus, to all the Holy in Christ Jesus who are in Philippi, with Bishops and Deacons:

³ I thank my God for all your remembrance of me, ⁴ always in every prayer of mine for you all making request with joy

⁶ being confident of this very thing, that he who has begun the good work in you will carry it on to completion on the day of Christ Jesus. ⁷ So it is right for me to think of you all, because you have me in your hearts, and in my chains and in my defense and in establishing the good news you are all sharers in my privilege.

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

¹⁷ Unite in imitating me, brethren, and watch those who are living according to our example.

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.

⁹ What you learned and accepted and heard and saw in me — practice that. And the God of peace will be with you.

¹ PAUL, an apostle of Christ Jesus by the will of God, and Timothy our brother,

³ We always thank God, the Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, in praying for you,

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,

² that your hearts may be encouraged and that joined together in love you may reach all the wealth of the full assurance of insight into the knowledge of the mystery of God, which is Christ.

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

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

⁵ and that our good news came to you not in word only but in power and in the Holy Spirit and in great assurance, just as you know we acted among you for your benefit. ⁶ You became imitators of us and of the Lord, receiving the message in great affliction with joy which the Holy Spirit gave, ⁷ so that you became a pattern for all believers in Macedonia and in Achaia. ⁸ For the message of the Lord sounded forth from you not only in Macedonia and Achaia, but in every place your faith toward God has gone abroad, so that there is no need for us to speak a word.

¹ YOU yourselves know, brethren, what a reception we had from you, that it was not without result,

¹ YOU yourselves know, brethren, what a reception we had from you, that it was not without result, ² but after we had suffered and been roughly treated, as you know, in Philippi, we made bold in our God to speak to you the good news of God with great wrestling. ³ For our appeal springs not from deception, nor from impure motives, nor from cunning, ⁴ but as we have been approved by God to be entrusted with the good news, so we speak, not as if we were pleasing men, but God, who tests our hearts. ⁵ Nor did we ever fall into flattering talk, as you know, nor use any pretext for self-enrichment — God is witness — ⁶ nor did we seek glory from men, either from you or others, although we could have claimed the dignity of Christ's apostles. ⁷ But we became gentle in the midst of you like a nursing mother cherishing her own children.

⁷ But we became gentle in the midst of you like a nursing mother cherishing her own children. ⁸ Yearning over you so, we would gladly have imparted to you not only God's good news but our own lives as well, because you had become dear to us. ⁹ For you remember, brethren, our toil and labor as we worked night and day so as not to burden any one of you while we proclaimed to you the good news of God. ¹⁰ You are witnesses — and God is witness — how purely and justly and blamelessly we acted toward you who believe. ¹¹ You know that just like a father toward his own children we encouraged each one of you, and warned and conjured you

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.

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. ¹⁴ For you became imitators, brethren, of the churches of God that are in Judaea in Christ Jesus, because you too suffered the same things from your fellow countrymen that they did from the Jews,

¹⁶ trying to prevent us from speaking to the Gentiles so that they may be saved. All this goes always to fill up the measure of their sins. But God's fiercest wrath has overtaken them.

² and sent Timothy, our brother and God's servant in the good news of Christ, to strengthen and encourage you in your faith, ³ that no one might be disturbed in these trials. For you yourselves know that we are destined to this. ⁴ For when we were with you we told you in advance, "We shall soon have trouble." And so it came to pass, as you know.

⁶ But now that Timothy has come to us from you and has brought us good news of your faith and love, and that you always keep us well in mind and long to see us, just as we long to see you,

¹⁰ and you do the same to all the brethren in the whole of Macedonia. But we urge you, brethren, to excel still further

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.

⁹ For God has not destined us to wrath, but to the winning of salvation through our Lord Jesus Christ,

¹ PAUL and Silvanus and Timothy to the Church of the Thessalonians in God our Father and the Lord Jesus Christ:

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, ⁴ so that we ourselves glory in you among the churches of God because of your endurance and faith in all of your persecutions and in the distresses you are bearing.

¹¹ To this end we are always praying for you that our God will make you worthy of the call, and will by his power bring to completion every one of your kind purposes and works of faith,

¹³ We ought always to thank God for you, brethren, beloved by the Lord, because God chose you from the beginning for salvation through the Spirit's making you holy and your own faith in the truth. ¹⁴ To this he called you through the good news that we brought, so that you may share the glory of our Lord Jesus Christ.

¹ IN conclusion, brethren, pray for us, that the Lord's message may run and be glorified, as among you,

⁷ For you yourselves know that you should imitate us, for we were not disorderly when among you, ⁸ nor did we eat bread with any one without paying, but with labor and toil night and day we worked in order not to burden any one of you. ⁹ Not that we have not the authority, but in order to give you ourselves as an example for you to imitate.

⁹ Not that we have not the authority, but in order to give you ourselves as an example for you to imitate.

² to Timothy my true child in faith: Grace, mercy and peace from God the Father and Christ Jesus our Lord.

³ This is excellent and pleasing in the sight of God, our Savior,

¹⁰ For to this end we are laboring and wrestling, because we have set our hope on the living God, who is the Savior of all men, especially of believers.

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.

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. ¹³ Until I come give attention to reading, to exhortation, to teaching. ¹⁴ Do not neglect the gift that is in you, which was given to you through prophecy with the laying on of the hands of the eldership. ¹⁵ Be careful about these things, be fully occupied with them, that your progress may be plain to all. ¹⁶ Be thoughtful about yourself and your teaching. Persevere in this; for in doing so you will save yourself and those who hear you.

² to Timothy my beloved child: Grace, mercy, and peace from God the Father and from Christ Jesus our Lord. 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, ⁴ remembering your tears and longing to see you, that I may be filled with joy. ⁵ I remember the sincere faith that is in you, which lived first in your grandmother Lois and then in your mother Eunice, and I am confident that it lives in you also.

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.

⁸ Remember Jesus Christ, raised from the dead, a descendant of David, as my good news teaches.

¹⁰ For this reason I am enduring all for the sake of the chosen, that they may gain the salvation that is in Christ Jesus with eternal glory.

¹ I CHARGE you before God and Christ Jesus, who will soon judge the living and the dead, and by his appearing and his kingdom:

⁷ Make yourself an example of good works, sincerity in teaching, dignified behavior

¹³ waiting for the blessed hope, the glorious appearing of the great God and of our Savior Christ Jesus,

⁴ But when the kindness of our Savior, God, and his love to men appeared, 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

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,

⁴ I always thank my God when I mention you in my prayers, ⁵ for I hear of the love and the loyalty that you have to the Lord Jesus Christ and to all the holy. ⁶ I pray that your fellowship in the faith may become effective in the knowledge of all the good there is in us in our relation to Christ. ⁷ For I have had great joy and encouragement in your love, because the hearts of the holy have been refreshed by you, brother.

³ how shall we escape if we neglect so great a salvation, which at the beginning was spoken by the Lord and was confirmed to us by those who heard him, ⁴ while God added his testimony by signs and wonders and many kinds of miracles and impartation of the Holy Spirit according to his will?

¹¹ Let us endeavor then to enter into that rest so that no one shall fall, after that example of lack of faith.

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. ¹¹ But we desire to have each one of you show to the end the same earnestness for the fulfillment of our hope,

¹¹ But we desire to have each one of you show to the end the same earnestness for the fulfillment of our hope,

¹⁵ And so after patient waiting Abraham obtained what was promised.

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

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.

²² let us come with true hearts in full assurance of faith, having our hearts sprinkled from an evil conscience and our bodies bathed in pure water.

²⁷ but a dreadful expectation of doom and a fury of fire that will devour the opposers.

³⁴ For you even suffered with the prisoners and accepted the plundering of your property with joy, knowing that you had a better and enduring possession.

³⁶ You have need of patience so that after doing the will of God you may gain the promised blessing.

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.

¹⁷ By faith Abraham when he was tested offered up Isaac, and he who had received the promises began offering his only son

²⁴ By faith Moses when he had grown up refused to be called a son of Pharaoh's daughter. ²⁵ He chose rather to suffer hard-ship with the people of God than to enjoy the brief pleasure of sin, ²⁶ and he thought the reproach of Christ greater riches than the treasures of Egypt. For he was looking to the final reward. ²⁷ By faith he left Egypt, not fearing the king's anger; for he endured as if seeing him who is unseen. ²⁸ By faith he kept the Passover and the sprinkling of the blood, so that the destroyer might not touch their first-born. ²⁹ By faith they crossed the Red Sea as on dry land; but the Egyptians when they tried to do so were drowned. ³⁰ By faith the walls of Jericho fell down after they had been encircled seven days. ³¹ By faith Rahab, the prostitute, did not perish with those who had refused to believe; because she had welcomed the spies with peace. ³² And what shall I say further? Time would fail me to tell of Gideon, Barak, Samson, Jephthah, and of David and Samuel and the prophets; ³³ who through faith struggled against kingdoms and subdued them, did deeds of righteousness, obtained promised blessings, shut the mouths of lions, ³⁴ quenched the power of fire, escaped the edge of the sword, out of weakness grew strong, became mighty in war, turned back armies of foreigners.

²² But you have come to Mount Zion and the city of the living God, heavenly Jerusalem, to tens of thousands of angels,

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.

²³ I wish you to know that our brother Timothy has been set at liberty. With him, if he comes soon, I will see you.

³ since you know that the testing of your faith brings out endurance. ⁴ Let endurance do its complete work, that you may be complete and perfect, lacking in nothing.

¹⁶ Make no mistake, my beloved brethren, ¹⁷ every good gift and every perfect boon is from above; it descends from the Father of lights, with whom there is no change or shadow caused by turning. ¹⁸ Of his own will he made us his children through the message of truth, so that we might be a sort of first fruits of his creatures.

¹⁷ Just so faith by itself, if it has no works, is dead. ¹⁸ But some one will say, "You have faith and I have works. Show me your faith without your works and I will show you my faith by my works." ¹⁹ You have faith that there is one God. You do well. Even the demons have that faith, and they shudder. ²⁰ Are you willing to learn, O vacant-minded man, that faith without works is useless? ²¹ Was not Abraham, our father, pronounced righteous because of works when he laid Isaac his son on the altar? ²² You see that faith worked with his works, and by works faith was made perfect ²³ and the Scripture was fulfilled which says, "Abraham had faith in God and it was credited to him for righteousness" and he was called "God's friend." ²⁴ You see that a man is pronounced righteous because of works and not because of faith alone. ²⁵ In the same way was not Rahab, the prostitute, pronounced righteous because of works when she had received the messengers and sent them out by a different road? ²⁶ For as the body without the spirit is dead, so faith without works is dead.

⁷ Therefore be patient, brethren, until the coming of the Lord. See how the farmer waits for the precious fruit of the ground and is patient over it until he receives the early and the late rains. ⁸ You too must be patient. Keep your hearts steadfast, for the coming of the Lord is near.

² chosen according to the foreknowledge of God the Father and made holy by the Spirit to obey Jesus Christ and be sprinkled with his blood: Grace be to you and peace be multiplied. 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 —

⁶ In this you rejoice, though now for a little while, if necessary, you are sorrowful in trials of many kinds,

⁸ whom you love though you have not seen him; in whom you have faith though now you do not see him, and you rejoice with unspeakable and glorious joy

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.

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.

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.

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.

¹³ And who is it that will harm you if you become earnest for the good?

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,

³ not lording it over your charges, but becoming examples to the flock.

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.

¹⁰ Therefore endeavor more earnestly, brethren, to make sure that you have been called and chosen. For while doing these things you will never stumble.

¹⁹ Thus have we the words of the prophets confirmed, and you will do well to give attention to them as to a lamp shining in a dark place, until the day dawns and the morning star rises in your hearts;

¹² you who are looking for and hastening toward the coming of the day of God, when the blazing heavens will be dissolved and the burning elements melted?

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

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.

³ And every one who has this hope set upon Christ purifies himself just as Christ is pure.

¹⁸ Let us not love in word or in tongue, but in deed and in truth.

²¹ Beloved, if our hearts do not condemn us we have confidence toward God,

³ For this is the love of God, our keeping his commands. And his commands are not burden-some,

¹¹ Beloved, do not imitate evil, but good. He who does good is of God. He who does evil has not seen God. ¹² Testimony has been borne to Demetrius by all and by the truth itself. We too bear testimony, and you know that our testimony is true.

¹ JUDE, a servant of Jesus Christ and a brother of James, to those who are in God the Father, beloved, kept for Jesus Christ and called:

⁷ He is coming with clouds and every eye will see him, even of those who pierced him, and all the tribes of the earth will beat their breasts because of him. Yes, Amen.

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 I know your works and your labor and your endurance, and that you cannot bear wicked people, and you have tried those who say that they are apostles though they are not, and you have found them liars. ³ You have endurance and you have borne for the sake of my name and you have not been discouraged. ⁴ But I have this against you, that you have lost your first love.

¹⁹ I know your works and your love and your faith and your service and your endurance, and that your last works are more than your first.

¹⁰ Because you have kept my command of patient endurance, I also will keep you from the hour of trial which is about to come on all the world, to try the inhabitants of the earth.

⁶ Then I saw another angel flying in mid-heaven having eternal good news to proclaim to those who dwell on the earth, to every nation and tribe and tongue and people.

² and with whom the kings of the earth have committed lewdness, while the inhabitants of the earth have become drunk with the wine of her lewdness."

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.