Hebrews 13 Cross References - Riverside

¹ LET brotherly love continue. ² Do not forget hospitality: for by this some have, without knowing it, had angels as their guests. ³ Keep in mind the prisoners, as if you were their fellow prisoners, and those who are suffering hardships, since you yourselves are also in the body. ⁴ Let marriage be held in honor by all and let the bed be undefiled; for unchaste persons and adulterers God will judge. ⁵ Let your lives be free from the love of money. Be content with what you have. For he has said, "I will not fail you nor will I forsake you." ⁶ So we may say with courage, "The Lord is my helper; I will not fear. What can man do to me?" ⁷ Remember your leaders, those who have spoken to you God's message, think how they ended their lives and imitate their faith. ⁸ Jesus Christ is yesterday and to-day the same — yes, and through the ages. ⁹ Do not be carried away with all sorts of foreign teachings. It is well to have the heart strengthened by grace, not by special kinds of food. Those who live in that way are not profited. ¹⁰ We have an altar of which those who worship in the Tent have no right to eat. ¹¹ For the bodies of the animals whose blood is brought into the holy place by the High Priest are burned outside the camp. ¹² For this reason Jesus also, to make the people holy by his own blood, suffered outside the gate. ¹³ Let us go out to him outside the camp and bear the reproaches cast on him. ¹⁴ For we have here no continuing city, but we are seeking the coming one. ¹⁵ Through him then let us offer to God always the sacrifice of praise, that is, the fruit of lips that make confession in his name. ¹⁶ Do not forget kindness and generosity, for with such sacrifices God is well pleased. ¹⁷ Obey your leaders and yield to their authority; for they watch over your souls as those who must give account, that they may do it with joy and not with sighing. That would be unprofitable for you. ¹⁸ Pray for us: for we are confident that we have a good conscience, wishing to live nobly in every way. ¹⁹ I earnestly beg you to do this that I may be restored to you the sooner. ²⁰ May the God of peace, who brought up from the dead our Lord Jesus, the great Shepherd of the sheep through the blood of an eternal covenant, ²¹ equip you with every good thing for doing his will, doing in you what is well-pleasing in his sight through Jesus Christ, to whom be glory for the ages of the ages. Amen. ²² I beg you, brethren, to bear with my words of exhortation; for I have written to you briefly. 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. ²⁴ Give my greetings to all your leaders and all the holy. Those who are from Italy send their greetings to you. ²⁵ Grace be with you all.

¹¹ "Blessed are you when men revile you and persecute you and say every evil thing against you falsely for my sake!

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

²⁵ "Therefore I tell you, do not be anxious about your physical life — what you are to eat or what you are to drink; nor about your body — what you are to wear. Is not the life more than the food and the body more than the clothing?

³⁴ Do not be anxious about to-morrow, for to-morrow will take care of itself. Enough for the day is its own trouble.

²¹ "Not every one who says to me, 'Master, Master,' will enter into the kingdom of heaven, but he who does the will of my Father who is in heaven.

²⁴ The scholar is not above his teacher, nor the servant above his master. ²⁵ It is sufficient for the scholar to fare like his teacher and for the servant to fare like his master. If they have called the master of the house Beelzebul, how much more the members of his household.

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.

²⁵ At that time Jesus said, "I thank thee, Father, Lord of heaven and earth, that thou hast hidden these things from the wise and prudent and hast revealed them to babes.

⁵⁰ For whoever does the will of my Father in heaven is my brother and sister and mother."

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.

³¹ Which of the two did the will of his father?" They said, "The last." Jesus said to them, "I tell you truly the tax collectors and the bad women are going before you into the kingdom of God.

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

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

⁴⁵ Who, then, is the faithful and wise servant whom the master has placed over his household to give them food in due season?

³⁵ For I was hungry and you gave me food; I was thirsty and you gave me drink; I was a stranger and you took me in;

³⁵ For I was hungry and you gave me food; I was thirsty and you gave me drink; I was a stranger and you took me in; ³⁶ naked and you clothed me. I was sick and you cared for me. I was in prison and you came to me.'

³⁶ naked and you clothed me. I was sick and you cared for me. I was in prison and you came to me.' ³⁷ Then will the righteous answer, 'Lord, when did we see you hungry and feed you, or thirsty and give you drink? ³⁸ When did we see you a stranger and take you in, or naked and clothe you? ³⁹ When did we see you sick or in prison and come to you?' ⁴⁰ The King will answer, 'I tell you truly, inasmuch as you did it to one of these my brothers — even the least — you did it to me.'

⁴⁰ The King will answer, 'I tell you truly, inasmuch as you did it to one of these my brothers — even the least — you did it to me.'

⁴³ I was a stranger and you did not take me in; naked and you did not clothe me; sick and in prison and you did not care for me.'

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

³² As they were going out, they chanced upon a man from Cyrene by the name of Simon. This man they impressed to carry the cross of Jesus.

³⁹ The people who went by insulted him, shaking their heads ⁴⁰ and saying, "You who can pull down the Temple and in three days build it up, save yourself! If you are the Son of God, come down from the cross!" ⁴¹ In the same way the high priests, making sport of him, along with the scribes and elders, kept saying, ⁴² "He saved others; he cannot save himself. He is the King of Israel; let him come down now from the cross and we will believe in him. ⁴³ He trusted in God, let him deliver him now if he wants him, for he said, 'I am the Son of God.' " ⁴⁴ In the same way even the robbers who were crucified with him insulted him.

²⁰ teaching them to keep all the commands that I have given you. And, behold, I am with you all the days to the end of the world."

²² adulteries, lusts, wickednesses, deceit, sensuality, an evil eye, slander, arrogance, recklessness —

²⁴ He said to them, "This is my blood of the covenant which is shed for many.

²⁰ After making sport of him, they took off the purple and put his own clothes on him. Then they led him out to crucify him. ²¹ They impressed a man who was passing by, Simon, a Cyrenian, who was coming in from the country (the father of Alexander and Rufus), to carry his cross. ²² So they brought him to the place Golgotha, which means Skull Place. ²³ They gave him wine flavored with myrrh, but he did not take it. ²⁴ Then they crucified him. They divided his clothes, casting lots what part each should take.

¹⁴ Soldiers asked him, "And what shall we do?" He said to them, "Do violence to no man; bring no false accusations; be content with your rations."

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!

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. ³⁶ Become compassionate as your Father is compassionate.

¹¹ This is the illustration: The seed is the message of God.

¹⁴ That which fell among thorns means those who hear, and as they go on are choked by the cares and riches and pleasures of life and bring nothing to completion.

²¹ At that hour in exultant joy through the Holy Sprit he said, "I thank thee, Father, Lord of heaven and earth, that thou hast hidden these things from the wise and intelligent and hast revealed them to babes. Yea, Father, I thank thee that such became thy good pleasure.

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.

¹⁵ He said to them, "See to it and be on your guard against every form of covetousness, for not even when one has a superabundance is his life from the things he owns." ¹⁶ He gave them an illustration, saying, "The ground of a certain rich man yielded abundantly. ¹⁷ He debated within himself, saying, 'What shall I do? for I have no place to store my crops.' ¹⁸ Then he said, 'I will do this: I will pull down my barns and will build larger ones, and there I will store all my wheat and my goods; ¹⁹ and I will say to my soul, Soul, you have many goods laid up for many years, take your ease, eat, drink, be merry!' ²⁰ But God said to him, 'Foolish man, this night your soul will be required of you; and the things that you have prepared — whose will they be?' ²¹ So is he who lays up treasure for himself and is not rich toward God."

⁴² The Master said, "Who then is the faithful, the wise, manager whom the master will appoint over his establishment to give out rations at the proper time?

² Calling him to him, he said, 'What is this that I hear about you? Give an account of your management; for you cannot longer be manager.'

¹³ No house servant can serve two masters. For either he will hate one and love the other or he will hold to one and despise the other. You cannot serve God and Mammon." ¹⁴ The Pharisees, who were lovers of money, were listening to all this and they were sneering at him.

²² On hearing that, Jesus said to him, "You lack still one thing. Sell all that you have and distribute to the poor and you will have treasure in heaven, and then come and follow me."

²⁰ He took the cup in the same manner after supper, saying, "This cup is the new covenant in my blood, which is shed for you.

¹⁷ Jesus answered them, "If any one wills to do his will, he will know about the teaching, whether it is from God or I am speaking out of my own mind.

⁵⁶ Abraham your father rejoiced that he was to see my day, and he saw it and was glad." ⁵⁷ The Jews said to him, "You are not yet fifty years old, and have you seen Abraham? ⁵⁸ Jesus said to them, "Truly, truly, I tell you, before Abraham came into being I am."

⁹ I am the gate: if any one enters through me he will be saved, and will go in and go out and find pasture.

¹¹ I am the good shepherd. The good shepherd lays down his life for the sheep.

¹⁴ I am the good shepherd, and I know mine and mine know me,

³⁴ A new command I give you, to love one another, as I have loved you — that so you love one another. ³⁵ By this all will know that you are my disciples, if you have love to one another."

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

¹⁷ These things I am commanding you that you may love one another.

²³ On that day you will ask me no questions. Truly, truly, I tell you, if you ask the Father for anything in my name, he will give it to you. ²⁴ So far you have asked for nothing in my name; ask and you will obtain, that your joy may be made full.

¹⁹ and for them I consecrate myself, that they may be consecrated through the truth.

²³ I in them and thou in me, that they may be perfected into one, that the world may know that thou didst send me and didst love them just as thou didst love me.

¹⁷ and laid on him his cross and went out to what is called Skull Place — in Hebrew, Golgotha — ¹⁸ where they crucified him. And with him they crucified two others, one on this side and one on that, and Jesus between them.

³⁴ But one of the soldiers with his spear pierced his side and immediately there came forth blood and water.

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

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.

³² This Jesus, God raised up, and all of us are witnesses of it.

⁴⁴ All who believed had all things together in common. ⁴⁵ They would sell their lands and goods and distribute to all as any one had need. ⁴⁶ Every day, continuing with one accord in the Temple courts and in breaking bread from house to house, they ate together in joy and simplicity of heart,

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

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.

³¹ After this prayer the place in which they were assembled was shaken, and they were all filled with the Holy Spirit and spoke the message of God with courageous freedom. 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.

³⁰ The God of our fathers raised up Jesus whom you had killed by hanging him on a cross.

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

⁵⁵ But he being full of the Holy Spirit looked up into heaven and saw the glory of God, and Jesus standing at God's right hand, ⁵⁶ and he said, "I see heaven opened and the Son of Man standing at God's right hand!" ⁵⁷ With a great shout they stopped their ears and rushed upon him with one purpose, ⁵⁸ and hurried him out of the city and stoned him. The witnesses laid down their cloaks at the feet of a young man named Saul.

⁵⁸ and hurried him out of the city and stoned him. The witnesses laid down their cloaks at the feet of a young man named Saul. ⁵⁹ They stoned Stephen as he was praying and saying, "Lord Jesus, receive my spirit." ⁶⁰ Kneeling he cried aloud, "Lord, do not lay up this sin against them!" After saying this he fell asleep.

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.

¹⁴ But Peter said, "By no means, Lord, for I have never eaten anything unclean or impure." ¹⁵ A second time the voice came to him, "What God has cleansed you must not think unclean." ¹⁶ This happened a third time, and then immediately the sheet was taken up into the heavens.

³⁸ You know of Jesus of Nazareth, how God anointed him with the Holy Spirit and with power. He went about doing good and healing all who were harassed by the Devil, for God was with him.

⁴⁰ But God raised him up on the third day and granted that he should become visible, ⁴¹ not to all the people, but to witnesses previously chosen by God, namely, to us who ate and drank with him after his resurrection from the dead.

³⁰ But God raised him from the dead

⁴⁶ Then Paul and Barnabas said with fearless plainness, "The message of God had to be spoken first to you. But since you thrust it away and do not judge yourselves worthy of life eternal — now, we turn to the Gentiles.

²³ They appointed elders for them in every church, and after prayer and fasting committed them to the Lord in whom they had believed.

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.

¹⁵ When she had been baptized along with her household, she begged us, "If you have judged me to be faithful to the Lord, come into my house and stay," and she insisted on our doing so.

²⁹ Calling for a light he sprang in and fell down trembling before Paul and Silas, ³⁰ and led them out and said, "Men, what must I do to be saved?" ³¹ They said, "Believe in the Lord Jesus and you will be saved, and your household," ³² and they told the message of God to him and to all who were in his house. 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. ³⁴ He brought them into his house and spread the table for them, and rejoiced with his whole family because he had believed in God.

³¹ since he has set a day in which he will soon judge the world in justice by the man whom he has appointed, and of whom he has given evidence to all men by raising him from the dead."

² There he found a Jew named Aquila, born in Pontus but recently come from Italy with Priscilla his wife, because Claudius had ordered all Jews to leave Rome. Paul visited these people,

²⁴ But I do not hold my life as of any account if only I may finish my race and the service which I received from the Lord Jesus, to testify to the good news of the grace of God. ²⁵ And now I know that you all, among whom I have gone about heralding the kingdom, will never see my face again. ²⁶ Therefore I testify to you to-day that I am clear of the blood of all.

²⁸ "Be watchful of yourselves and of all the flock of which the Holy Spirit has placed you as overseers. Shepherd the church of God which he bought with his own blood.

³⁰ And from among yourselves men will arise speaking perverse things to draw away the disciples after themselves.

³² "And now I commit you to the Lord and to his gracious message, which can build you up and give you the heritage among all those who have been made holy.

¹ PAUL fixed his eyes on the Council and said, "Brethren, I have conducted myself with all good conscience toward God up to this day."

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

²³ He gave orders to the Centurion to guard him, but to let him have indulgence, and not to hinder any of his friends from attending to his wants.

¹ WHEN it was decided that we should sail for Italy, they committed Paul and certain other prisoners to a centurion named Julius, of an imperial battalion.

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.

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.

¹⁰ asking if I may somehow at some time by the will of God find the way open to come to you. ¹¹ For I long to see you that I may impart to you some spiritual gift of grace in order that you may be strengthened, ¹² that is, that I may be encouraged with you and by you through our mutual faith, yours and mine.

²⁹ filled with all injustice, wickedness, greed, malice, full of envy, murder, strife, fraud, malignant craftiness, whisperers,

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

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

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.

³¹ What then shall we say to this? If God is for us, who is against us?

¹⁷ So then faith comes from the report and report comes through the word of Christ.

³⁶ For from him and through him and to him are all things. To him be glory through the ages! Amen.

¹ I BEG you therefore, brethren, by the mercies of God, to present your bodies as a living and holy sacrifice, pleasing to God — your rational worship.

⁹ Let your love be without pretense. Abhor what is evil; cling to the good. ¹⁰ Have brotherly love toward one another like family affection, in honor preferring one another,

¹³ contributing to the needs of the holy, devoted to hospitality.

¹⁵ Rejoice with those who rejoice, weep with those who weep.

¹⁷ Repay to no one evil for evil. Aim at what is honorable in the sight of all men.

¹³ Let us live becomingly as in the day, not in revelry and drunkenness, not in sensuality and licentiousness, not in quarrelling and jealousy.

² One man believes in eating all things. The weak man eats vegetables.

⁶ He who regards the day regards it to the Lord and he who eats eats to the Lord, for he gives thanks to God. And he who does not eat abstains for the Lord and gives thanks to God.

¹² So then each one of us shall give account for himself to God.

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

¹⁷ For the kingdom of God is not food and drink, but righteousness and peace and joy in the Holy Spirit. ¹⁸ For he who thus serves Christ is pleasing to God and esteemed by men.

²⁵ But now I am on my way to Jerusalem to render service to the holy.

²⁸ So after completing this and sealing to them this fruit, I shall come away and pass by you to Spain.

³⁰ I beg you, brethren, for the sake of our Lord Jesus and the love of the Spirit to join me in wrestling in prayer to God on my behalf, ³¹ that I may be delivered from the unbelievers in Judaea and that my service in Jerusalem may be pleasing to the holy, ³² that I may come to you with joy by the will of God and be refreshed with you. ³³ The God of peace be with all of you! Amen.

¹ I COMMEND to you our sister Phoebe, a servant of the church in Cenchreae, ² that you may receive her in the Lord in a way worthy of the holy, and help her in any matter in which she may need you. For she has been a provider for many, myself included. ³ Give my greetings to Prisca and Aquila, my fellow workers in Christ Jesus, ⁴ who for my life risked their own necks, to whom not I alone give thanks, but also all the churches of the Gentiles. ⁵ Give my greetings also to the church in their house. Give my greetings to Epaenetus my beloved, who is the first-fruit of Asia for Christ. ⁶ Give my greetings to Mary, who has worked hard for you. ⁷ Give my greetings to Andronicus and Junias, men of my race and my companions in prison, who are eminent among the apostles, who also were in Christ before me. ⁸ Give my greetings to Ampliatus my beloved in the Lord. ⁹ Give my greetings to Urbanus our fellow worker in Christ, and to Stachys my beloved. ¹⁰ Give my greetings to Apelles, that tested man in Christ. Give my greetings to the household of Aristobulus. ¹¹ Give my greetings to Herodion, who is of my race. Give my greetings to those of the household of Narcissus who are in the Lord. ¹² Give my greetings to Tryphaena and Tryphosa, those workers in the Lord. Give my greetings to Persis the beloved, who has worked hard in the Lord. ¹³ Give my greetings to Rufus the chosen in the Lord, and to his mother and mine. ¹⁴ Give my greetings to Asyncritus, Phlegon, Hermes, Petrobas, Hermas, and the brethren with them. ¹⁵ Give my greetings to Philologus, and Julia, Nereus and his sister, and Olympas, and all the holy with them. ¹⁶ Give my greetings to one another with a holy kiss. All the churches of Christ send their greetings to you. ¹⁷ I beg you, brethren, to keep your eye on those who are making divisions and occasions for sin contrary to the teaching which you have learned, and to shun them. ¹⁸ For such persons are not serving our Lord Christ, but their own stomachs, and by their smooth and pleasing talk they mislead the hearts of the innocent.

²⁰ The God of peace will crush Satan under your feet shortly. The grace of our Lord Jesus be with you! ²¹ Timothy, my fellow worker, sends his greeting, and so do Lucius and Jason and Sosipater, who are of my race. ²² I, Tertius, who penned this letter, greet you in the Lord. ²³ Gaius, my host and the host of the whole church, sends his greetings. Erastus the city treasurer sends his greetings, and so does Quartus the brother.

²³ Gaius, my host and the host of the whole church, sends his greetings. Erastus the city treasurer sends his greetings, and so does Quartus the brother.

²⁷ to God, the only wise, be glory through Jesus Christ for the ages of the ages!

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

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.

⁷ Cleanse out the old yeast that you may be new dough, free from yeast, as indeed you are. For Christ, our Passover, has been sacrificed. ⁸ So let us keep the festival, not with the old yeast nor with the yeast of evil and wickedness, but with the unleavened bread of sincerity and truth.

¹¹ But now I write to you not to associate with any one who is called a brother, if he is unchaste or covetous or idolatrous or abusive or drunken or extortionate — not even to eat with such a one.

¹³ But outsiders God will judge. Expel the wicked man from among yourselves.

⁹ Do you not know that unrighteous people will not inherit the kingdom of God? Make no mistake, neither the unchaste, nor idolaters, nor adulterers, nor those who practice unnatural vices, ¹⁰ nor thieves, nor the avaricious, nor drunkards, nor the abusive, nor extortioners will inherit the kingdom of God. ¹¹ And such some of you were. But you have washed yourselves; but you have been made holy; but you have been pronounced righteous in the name of the Lord Jesus Christ and in the Spirit of our God.

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

² But because of the prevailing unchastity, let each man have his own wife and each woman her own husband. ³ Let the husband pay his wife conjugal dues and the wife her husband. ⁴ The wife has not power over her own body, but her husband has. In the same way the husband has not power over his own body, but his wife has. ⁵ Do not deprive one another, unless by agreement for a time, that you may have freedom for prayer, and again come together. You must not let Satan tempt you through your lack of self-control. ⁶ I say this by way of indulgence, not by way of command. ⁷ I wish that every one were just as I am. But each has his own gift from God, one in one way and one in another. ⁸ I say to the unmarried and the widows, it is excellent for them to remain as I do. ⁹ But if they lack self-control, let them marry. It is better to marry than to burn. ¹⁰ To the married I command — yet not I, but the Lord — that the wife is not to leave her husband ¹¹ (if she leaves him let her remain unmarried or be reconciled to her husband) and the husband is not to put away his wife. ¹² To the rest I say — not the Lord: If any brother has a wife who is an unbeliever and she is pleased to live with him, let him not put her away. ¹³ And if any woman has a husband who is an unbeliever and he is pleased to live with her, let her not put him away. ¹⁴ For the unbelieving husband has been made holy by the wife and the unbelieving wife has been made holy by the husband. Otherwise your children would be impure, but now they are holy. ¹⁵ But if the unbelieving one actually leaves, let him leave. The brother or sister is not under bondage in such cases; but God has called you to peace. 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?

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

³⁸ So he who marries his virgin does well, and he who does not marry her will do better.

⁸ But food does not bring us near to God, for neither do we lose by not eating nor gain by eating.

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

¹³ Do you not know that those who do the work of the Temple eat the things that come from the Temple, and those who minister at the altar share with the altar?

¹³ No trial has taken you but what belongs to human nature. God is faithful and he will not let you be tried beyond your power, but will make, with the trial, a way of escape so that you can endure it.

¹⁷ Because there is one bread we though many are one body; for we all partake of the one bread. ¹⁸ Look at Israel according to the flesh; are not those who eat of the sacrifice partakers of the altar?

²⁰ But I say that what they sacrifice they sacrifice to demons and not to God. And I would not have you become partakers with demons.

¹ IMITATE me as I imitate Christ.

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

³³ For God is not a God of confusion, but of peace. As in all the churches of the holy,

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 I beg you to show deference to such and to every fellow worker and laborer.

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:

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.

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.

²¹ It is God who makes us and you steadfast to Christ, and has anointed us

¹⁴ knowing that he who raised up Jesus will also raise us up with Jesus and place us in his presence with you.

¹⁷ For our momentary and light distress is working out for us a far surpassing and eternal weight of glory

¹⁰ For we must all appear as we truly are before the judgment seat of Christ, that each may receive the award for what he has done with his body, according to his actions, whether good or bad.

¹⁰ For we must all appear as we truly are before the judgment seat of Christ, that each may receive the award for what he has done with his body, according to his actions, whether good or bad. ¹¹ Knowing, therefore, the fear of the Lord, we are persuading men. What we are is plain to God, and I hope that it is also plain to your consciences.

²⁰ So we are ambassadors for Christ, as if God were appealing to you through us. We pray you on Christ's behalf to be reconciled to God.

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

⁸ God is able to make every blessing abound for you so that having in everything always all that you need, you may abound in every good work,

¹² For the performance of this sacred service not only supplies the needs of the holy, but also overflows to God in many thanksgivings. ¹³ By the proof afforded by this service men are led to glorify God for your fidelity to your profession of faith in the good news of Christ, and for the liberality of your contributions toward them and toward all.

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" —

¹¹ Why? Because I do not love you? God knows. ¹² But what I am doing I shall do so as to cut away all ground of attack from those who wish ground, and that in what they boast of they may be found just like us. ¹³ For such are false apostles, deceitful workers, disguising themselves as apostles of Christ. ¹⁴ And no wonder, for Satan himself disguises himself as an angel of light. ¹⁵ So it is no great thing if his servants too disguise themselves as servants of righteousness. Their end will be according to their deeds.

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.

¹¹ Now, brethren, farewell. Be fully equipped; take courage; be of one mind; live in peace; then the God of love and peace will be with you.

¹³ All the holy send greetings.

¹ PAUL an apostle — not from men or through men, but through Jesus Christ and God the Father, who raised him from the dead —

⁵ To him be glory through the ages of the ages! Amen. ⁶ I am astonished that you are so quickly changing over from him who called you by the grace of Christ to a different kind of good news, ⁷ though it is not another good news. But there are some who are perplexing you and wishing to pervert the good news of Christ. ⁸ But even if we, or an angel from heaven, should bring you any good news different from what we did bring you, let him be accursed! ⁹ As I said before, I say now again, if any one brings you good news different from what you have received, let him be accursed!

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.

¹⁹ The works of the flesh are obvious, such as unchastity, impurity, indecency,

²¹ envyings, drinking bouts, revelries, and the like. Of these I tell you beforehand, as I have already told you, that those who practice such things will not inherit the kingdom of God. ²² But the fruit of the Spirit is love, joy, peace, slowness to anger, kindness, benevolence, faithfulness,

¹ BRETHREN, if a man is surprised in some sin, you who are spiritual are to restore such a one in a spirit of gentleness, each looking out for himself to avoid being tempted.

¹ BRETHREN, if a man is surprised in some sin, you who are spiritual are to restore such a one in a spirit of gentleness, each looking out for himself to avoid being tempted. ² Bear one another's burdens and so fulfill the law of Christ.

⁶ Let him who is taught the message share with his teacher in all good things.

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. ¹¹ See with what great letters I write with my own hand.

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,

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

¹⁸ For through him we, both Jews and Gentiles, have access through one Spirit to the Father. ¹⁹ So then you are no longer strangers and resident aliens, but fellow citizens with the holy and members of the household of God,

¹² in whom we have boldness and confident access through faith in him.

¹⁶ that he may grant to you according to his glorious wealth to be strengthened with might through his Spirit in the inner man, ¹⁷ that Christ may dwell in your hearts through faith, and that you, rooted and founded in love, ¹⁸ may be able with all the holy to comprehend what is the breadth and length and height and depth — ¹⁹ yes, to know the love of Christ, which yet surpasses knowledge, and may be filled with all the fullness of God.

¹ I, THE prisoner of the Lord, beg you, then, to live worthily of the calling with which you have been called,

³ earnest in keeping the unity of the Spirit in the bond of peace.

¹⁴ Then we shall be no longer children tossed and borne about by every wind of teaching through the trickery of men and craftiness in the devices of deceit,

²⁸ He who steals must steal no longer, but rather he must labor, working with his own hands something good, so as to have something to share with any one in need.

² and live in love, as Christ loved us and gave himself for us, an offering and sacrifice to God yielding a fragrant odor. ³ Unchastity or any kind of impurity or greediness must not be mentioned among you, as befits holy people;

⁵ For you know well that no unchaste or impure person, no greedy person — who is an idolater — has any inheritance in the kingdom of Christ and God. ⁶ Let no one deceive you with empty words; for because of these things the wrath of God comes on the sons of disobedience.

¹⁹ speaking to one another in psalms and hymns and spiritual songs, singing and playing the harp heartily to the Lord, ²⁰ giving thanks always for all things in the name of our Lord Jesus Christ to God the Father. ²¹ Be subject to one another in reverence for Christ,

²⁶ that he might make it holy, cleansing it by the washing with water according to his word,

¹⁹ and in my behalf, that words may be given to me when I open my month to make known with fearlessness the mystery of the good news, ²⁰ for which I am an ambassador in chains, that I may tell it fearlessly as I ought.

²⁴ Grace be with all who love our Lord Jesus Christ with undying love!

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

⁴ always in every prayer of mine for you all making request with joy

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

¹ IF there is any encouragement in Christ, any persuasive power in love, any fellowship in the Spirit, any sympathies and compassions, ² fill up my joy by having the same love, being of the same mind, thinking the same thing, ³ doing nothing in a partisan or vainglorious way, but each modestly regarding the others as of more account than himself.

¹¹ and every tongue confess that Jesus Christ is Lord, to the glory of God the Father. ¹² So then, my beloved, as you have always obeyed, not in my presence only, but now much more in my absence, work out your own salvation with reverence and awe. ¹³ For it is God who is working in you both the willing and the doing because of his kindness.

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

²⁹ Receive him in the Lord with all joy and hold such men in honor,

¹⁷ Unite in imitating me, brethren, and watch those who are living according to our example. ¹⁸ For many are living as I used often to tell you and now say even weeping that they are enemies of the cross of Christ.

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.

¹ SO, my brethren beloved and longed for, my joy and crown, stand firm thus in the Lord, beloved.

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.

¹¹ Not that I am speaking because of want; for I have learned how to be content in whatever circumstances I am. ¹² I know how to live humbly and I know how to enjoy abundance. In each and every situation I have been initiated into the secret both of being well fed and of going hungry, both of having abundance and of bearing want. ¹³ I can do all things through him who gives me strength. ¹⁴ Yet you did nobly in sharing with me in my distress.

¹⁴ Yet you did nobly in sharing with me in my distress. ¹⁵ You Philippians know that at the beginning of the good news, when I came away from Macedonia, no church shared with me in the matter of giving and receiving except you only, ¹⁶ and that in Thessalonica you sent once, yes, twice, for my need. ¹⁷ Not that I am seeking for the gift, but I am seeking for the fruit that increases to your credit. ¹⁸ I have enough of everything and more than enough. I am fully supplied since receiving from Epaphroditus the things from you, a fragrant odor, an acceptable sacrifice, pleasing to God.

¹⁸ I have enough of everything and more than enough. I am fully supplied since receiving from Epaphroditus the things from you, a fragrant odor, an acceptable sacrifice, pleasing to God. ¹⁹ My God will supply every need of yours according to his wealth in glory in Christ Jesus.

²² All the holy send greetings to you, especially those of Caesar's household.

² to the holy and faithful brethren in Christ in Colossae: Grace be to you and peace from God our Father!

⁹ For this reason we also, from the day we heard it, never cease praying for you and asking that you may have full knowledge of his will in all wisdom and spiritual insight, ¹⁰ and that you may live lives worthy of the Lord and please him in every way. May you bear fruit in every good work and grow in the knowledge of God. ¹¹ May you be strengthened with all strength according to his glorious power, so as to have all patience and endurance. ¹² May you joyfully give thanks to the Father who has made you fit to share in the inheritance of the holy in light.

¹² May you joyfully give thanks to the Father who has made you fit to share in the inheritance of the holy in light.

⁴ I say this that no one may deceive you by plausible arguments.

⁷ rooted and built up in him, growing strong in the faith as you have been taught, and overflowing with thanksgiving. ⁸ Beware that no one carries you away captive by his philosophy and empty deceit according to the tradition of men, according to the elementary teachings of the world and not according to Christ.

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

¹⁶ Let no one then judge you in the matter of food or drink or in regard to a festival or new moon or Sabbath. ¹⁷ These were a shadow of coming things, but the body is Christ's. ¹⁸ Let no one as umpire defraud you of your prize, if he delights in excessive humility and ceremonial worship of the angels, searching into his own visions, emptily puffed up by his fleshly mind ¹⁹ and not holding to the Head, from whom the whole body, supplied and held together by joints and bands, grows as God gives it growth. ²⁰ If you died with Christ to the elementary teachings of the world, why do you, as if still living in the world, have such rules as,

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

⁵ Treat the members of your earthly bodies as dead — dead to unchastity, impurity, passion, evil desire, and avarice, which is idolatry.

⁵ Treat the members of your earthly bodies as dead — dead to unchastity, impurity, passion, evil desire, and avarice, which is idolatry. ⁶ On account of these things comes the wrath of God.

¹⁶ The message of Christ must dwell in you richly, as you teach in all wisdom and admonish one another with psalms and hymns and spiritual songs and sing with grace in your hearts to God. ¹⁷ And whatever you do in word or deed, do all in the name of the Lord Jesus, giving thanks to God the Father through him.

¹⁷ And whatever you do in word or deed, do all in the name of the Lord Jesus, giving thanks to God the Father through him.

²⁰ Children, obey your parents in everything, for this is pleasing in the Lord.

³ Pray along with us and for us that God may open for us a door for the message, so that I may tell the mystery of Christ for the sake of which I am in chains —

¹² Epaphras, the servant of Christ Jesus, who is one of you, sends his greetings to you. He always wrestles in prayer on your behalf that you may stand mature and fully assured in all the will of God.

¹⁸ The greeting of Paul, by my own hand. Remember my chains. Grace be with you.

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

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.

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

¹⁹ For what is our hope or joy or crown to boast of before our Lord Jesus at his coming? Is it not you? ²⁰ You are our glory and joy.

² and sent Timothy, our brother and God's servant in the good news of Christ, to strengthen and encourage you in your faith,

⁹ For how can we be grateful enough to God for you in view of all the joy we have because of you, ¹⁰ while we pray beyond measure night and day that we may see your faces and make good whatever lacks there may be in your faith?

¹³ that your hearts may be made firm and you may be blameless in holiness before our God and Father at the coming of our Lord Jesus with all his holy ones.

³ For this is the will of God: to have you become holy and have you shun unchastity;

⁹ Regarding brotherly love you have no need for me to write to you. For you yourselves have been taught by God to love one another, ¹⁰ and you do the same to all the brethren in the whole of Macedonia. But we urge you, brethren, to excel still further

¹² Thus you will live becomingly in the sight of outsiders and will have need of nothing.

¹² We beg you, brethren, to regard those who are laboring among you and who preside over you in the Lord and give you counsel, ¹³ and to esteem them very highly in love on account of their work. Be at peace among yourselves.

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.

²³ May the God of peace himself make you completely holy, and may your spirits and souls and bodies be kept faultless and blameless for the coming of our Lord Jesus Christ.

²⁵ Brethren, pray for us.

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,

² not to be quickly unsettled in mind nor excited by either a revelation or by a message or a letter supposed to be from us, to the effect that the day of the Lord is close at hand.

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

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,

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

¹³ But you, brethren, must not become discouraged in doing well. ¹⁴ If any one does not obey our words in this letter, mark that man and do not associate with him, so that he may be ashamed.

¹⁶ The Lord of peace himself give you peace at all times in all ways. The Lord be with you all.

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

¹⁷ To the King of the ages, the immortal, invisible, only God, be honor and glory for the ages of the ages! Amen.

² A bishop, then, should be above reproach, true to one woman, temperate, self-controlled, dignified, hospitable, with a gift for teaching, ³ not given to wine or to blows, but fair-minded, averse to strife, not a lover of money, ⁴ presiding well over his own house, with children obedient and respectful. ⁵ But if any one does not know how to preside over his own house, how will he take care of the church of God?

¹² Deacons must be men true to one woman, presiding well over their children and their own houses.

¹ THE Spirit says distinctly that in later times some will desert from the faith, giving attention to deceiving spirits and teachings of demons, ² through the hypocrisy of men who teach falsely, branded in their own consciences, ³ forbidding marriage, and insisting on abstinence from certain kinds of food which God made to be partaken of with thanksgiving by those who are faithful and know the truth.

³ forbidding marriage, and insisting on abstinence from certain kinds of food which God made to be partaken of with thanksgiving by those who are faithful and know the truth. ⁴ For everything made by God is excellent and nothing is to be rejected if taken with thanksgiving. ⁵ For it is made holy through God's message and through prayer.

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.

¹⁴ I would, therefore, have the younger widows marry, bear children, keep house, give no occasion to our enemies for slander.

¹⁷ The elders who preside well should be thought worthy of double salary, especially those who labor in speaking and teaching.

³ If any one teaches otherwise and does not agree to wholesome words, those of our Lord Jesus Christ, and to religious teaching, ⁴ he is conceited, knowing nothing, but morbidly fond of disputes and controversies from which come envy, strife, abusive language, wicked suspicions, ⁵ and wranglings of men of depraved minds who are destitute of the truth. They think of religion as a source of gain. ⁶ Religion with contentment is a great source of gain. ⁷ For we brought nothing into the world and we cannot carry anything out. ⁸ If we have food and clothing we will be content with these. ⁹ But those who are determined to be rich fall into temptation and a snare and many foolish and injurious passions which plunge men into destruction and ruin. ¹⁰ For the love of money is a root of all kinds of evil. Some men grasping for it have strayed from the faith and have pierced themselves with many pangs.

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.

¹⁶ who alone has immortality, who dwells in light unapproachable, whom no man has seen or can see. To him be honor and power eternal! Amen.

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

²⁰ O Timothy, guard what has been entrusted to you, turning away from profane and empty talk and contradictions of what is falsely called "knowledge."

⁸ Do not be ashamed to testify for our Lord or for me his prisoner, but join in suffering hardships for the good news as God gives power.

¹⁶ The Lord grant mercy to the family of Onesiphorus, for he often cheered me and was not ashamed of my chain; ¹⁷ but when he came to Rome he looked me up eagerly and found me. ¹⁸ The Lord grant to him to find mercy from the Lord on that day! And in how many ways he served me in Ephesus you know better still.

¹ YOU, therefore, my child, must be strong in the grace that is in Christ Jesus, ² and the things you heard from me, which came through many witnesses, you must commit to trustworthy men who will be able to teach others also.

¹⁸ The Lord will rescue me from every wicked attack and will keep me safe for his heavenly kingdom. To him be glory for the ages of the ages! Amen.

²² The Lord be with your spirit. Grace be with you all.

⁶ wherever there is a man of irreproachable character, true to one woman, with believing children who are not charged with dissolute conduct and not unruly.

⁸ but hospitable, a lover of good, self-controlled, just, holy, temperate,

¹⁴ not giving attention to Jewish myths and rules laid down by men who are turning away from the truth. ¹⁵ To the pure all things are pure; but to the polluted and unbelieving nothing is pure. Even their minds and consciences are polluted.

¹⁵ All who are with me send you their greetings. Give our greetings to those who love us in the faith. Grace be with all of you.

¹ PAUL, a prisoner of Christ Jesus, and Timothy our brother, to Philemon, our beloved fellow worker,

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.

⁸ Therefore, though I might have great boldness in Christ to command you what is fitting, ⁹ I beg you rather for love's sake, as Paul the old man and now the prisoner of Christ Jesus —

²² At the same time I want you to prepare a lodging for me, for I hope that through your prayers I shall be given back to you.

¹² and like a mantle thou wilt roll them up. But thou art the same and thy years will never end."

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

¹¹ For he who makes holy and they who are made holy are all of one. For this cause he is not ashamed to call them brothers,

¹ THEREFORE, holy brethren, sharers in a heavenly call, consider the Apostle and High Priest of our confession, Jesus,

¹² See to it, brethren, that there shall not be in any one of you a wicked, unbelieving heart ready to forsake the living God, ¹³ but encourage one another daily while it is called "to-day," that no one may be hardened by the deceitfulness of sin.

¹ LET us, then, be afraid that, though the promise of entering his rest is still left, some one of you may seem to have missed it.

⁹ Therefore there still remains a rest for the people of God.

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

¹⁶ Therefore let us come with confidence to the throne of grace and receive compassion and find grace for timely help.

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.

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, ¹² that you may not be dull, but imitators of those who through faith and patience are inheriting the promises.

¹² that you may not be dull, but imitators of those who through faith and patience are inheriting the promises.

²⁵ And so he is able to save perfectly those who come to God through him, since he is forever living to intercede for them.

⁹ That is a symbol, for the time being, in accordance with which gifts and sacrifices are offered, though they cannot make the worshiper perfect in his conscience, ¹⁰ since they consist only of foods and drinks and various baths — rules respecting the flesh, imposed until the time of reformation.

¹² and not with the blood of goats and calves, but with his own blood, into the holy place, and thereby found eternal redemption. ¹³ For if the blood of goats and bulls, and the ashes of a heifer sprinkling the defiled, makes them holy as regards purity of their flesh, 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.

¹⁶ For where there is a last will and testament the death of the testator must be put in evidence. ¹⁷ For a will is valid in the case of the dead: it never has any force while the testator is living. ¹⁸ Hence the first covenant was not introduced without blood. ¹⁹ When all the commands of the Law had been spoken by Moses to all the people, he took the blood of calves and goats, with water and scarlet wool and hyssop, and sprinkled it on the book and on all the people, ²⁰ saying, "This is the blood of the covenant which God has commanded for you."

¹⁹ Since we have, then, brethren, confidence in entering the holy place through the blood of Jesus,

¹⁹ Since we have, then, brethren, confidence in entering the holy place through the blood of Jesus, ²⁰ by the new and living way which he has made for us through the curtain, that is, his flesh, ²¹ and since we have a great Priest over the house of God, 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.

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. ²³ Let us hold fast the confession of our hope without wavering, for he is faithful who has promised, ²⁴ and let us keep watch to incite one another to love and noble deeds,

²⁴ and let us keep watch to incite one another to love and noble deeds, ²⁵ not neglecting to assemble yourselves, as some do, but encouraging one another, and so much the more, as you see the day drawing near. ²⁶ For if we go on sinning willfully after receiving the knowledge of the truth, there remains no longer any sacrifice for sins, ²⁷ but a dreadful expectation of doom and a fury of fire that will devour the opposers. ²⁸ Any one who sets aside a law of Moses dies without pity on the testimony of two or three witnesses. ²⁹ Of how much worse punishment do you think he will be judged worthy who has trampled on the Son of God, who has thought the blood of the covenant, by which it was made holy, an unholy thing, and who has insulted the Spirit of grace?

²⁹ Of how much worse punishment do you think he will be judged worthy who has trampled on the Son of God, who has thought the blood of the covenant, by which it was made holy, an unholy thing, and who has insulted the Spirit of grace? ³⁰ For we know him who said, "Vengeance is mine, I will repay," and again, "The Lord will judge his people." ³¹ It is dreadful to fall into the hands of the living God. ³² Remember the early days in which, after being enlightened, you endured a great struggle with sufferings, ³³ at one time made a public spectacle by reproaches and distresses, at another time making common cause with those who were thus treated. 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.

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. ³⁵ Do not, then, cast away your confidence, for it will have a great reward. ³⁶ You have need of patience so that after doing the will of God you may gain the promised blessing.

³⁶ You have need of patience so that after doing the will of God you may gain the promised blessing. ³⁷ For yet "a little, very little, while, and he who is coming will come and will not delay. ³⁸ My righteous man will live by faith; but if he shrinks back, my soul has no delight in him." ³⁹ But we are not of those who shrink back and perish, but of those who have faith and will win their souls.

⁹ By faith he made his home in the promised land as in a foreign country, living in tents with Isaac and Jacob, the heirs with him of the same promise. ¹⁰ For he was looking for the city that has the foundations, whose architect and builder is God.

¹² And so from just one man, already dead in that respect, there sprang descendants "as the stars of heaven in multitude and as the sand on the seashore innumerable." ¹³ These all died in faith, not having obtained the promised blessings, but they saw them and greeted them afar and confessed that they were strangers and foreigners in the land. ¹⁴ For those who say such things make it plain that they are seeking a fatherland. ¹⁵ And if they had been thinking of that land from which they came they would have had opportunity to return. ¹⁶ But now they desire a better land, that is, a heavenly one. Therefore God is not ashamed of them — of being called their God; for he has prepared for them a city.

²⁶ and he thought the reproach of Christ greater riches than the treasures of Egypt. For he was looking to the final reward.

¹ THEREFORE, surrounded as we are by so great a cloud of witnesses, let us lay aside every weight and the sin that so easily besets us, and let us run with patience the race that lies before us, 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. ³ Think of him who endured such hostile speaking of sinners against him, that you may not grow weary and despondent in heart.

¹² So raise the relaxed hands and straighten the unstrung knees ¹³ and make straight paths for your feet, so that the lame limb may not be put out of joint but rather cured. ¹⁴ Follow after peace with all men and holiness, without which no one will see the Lord. ¹⁵ Be on your guard that no one shall fail of the grace of God, that no bitter root shall sprout up and trouble you and through it many be stained, ¹⁶ that there shall be none unchaste, or profane like Esau, who for one meal sold his birthright.

¹⁶ that there shall be none unchaste, or profane like Esau, who for one meal sold his birthright.

²² But you have come to Mount Zion and the city of the living God, heavenly Jerusalem, to tens of thousands of angels, ²³ to the festal assembly and congregation of first-born who are enrolled in heaven, and to God the Judge of all, and to the spirits of righteous men made perfect,

²⁵ Beware of rejecting him who is speaking. For if those did not escape who rejected him who taught the divine will on earth, much less shall we if we reject him who speaks from heaven. ²⁶ His voice then shook the earth, but now he has announced, "Yet once for all I shall shake not only the earth but also heaven." ²⁷ And this expression "yet once for all" shows the removal of the things shaken, as of things that have been made, that the unshaken things may remain. ²⁸ So then, since we are receiving an unshaken kingdom, let us have grace by which we may worship God acceptably with reverence and awe.

¹ LET brotherly love continue.

¹ LET brotherly love continue. ² Do not forget hospitality: for by this some have, without knowing it, had angels as their guests.

² Do not forget hospitality: for by this some have, without knowing it, had angels as their guests. ³ Keep in mind the prisoners, as if you were their fellow prisoners, and those who are suffering hardships, since you yourselves are also in the body.

⁷ Remember your leaders, those who have spoken to you God's message, think how they ended their lives and imitate their faith.

¹² For this reason Jesus also, to make the people holy by his own blood, suffered outside the gate. ¹³ Let us go out to him outside the camp and bear the reproaches cast on him. ¹⁴ For we have here no continuing city, but we are seeking the coming one. ¹⁵ Through him then let us offer to God always the sacrifice of praise, that is, the fruit of lips that make confession in his name. ¹⁶ Do not forget kindness and generosity, for with such sacrifices God is well pleased.

¹⁶ Do not forget kindness and generosity, for with such sacrifices God is well pleased. ¹⁷ Obey your leaders and yield to their authority; for they watch over your souls as those who must give account, that they may do it with joy and not with sighing. That would be unprofitable for you.

²⁴ Give my greetings to all your leaders and all the holy. Those who are from Italy send their greetings to you.

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.

⁷ Submit yourselves, then, to God. Resist the Devil and he will flee from you.

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. 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,

⁵ you also as living stones are built up, a spiritual house, and become a holy priesthood to offer spiritual sacrifices acceptable to God through Jesus Christ.

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.

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

²⁵ For you were going astray like sheep, but have now returned to the shepherd and guardian of your souls.

⁸ Finally, all must be like-minded, sympathetic, full of brotherly love, compassionate, humble-minded,

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.

² so that he does not go on living what remains of his time in the flesh according to human passions, but according to God's will.

⁴ In these they think it strange that you are not running with them to the same excess of profligacy, and they slander you.

⁷ The end of all things is near. Therefore be serious and sober and give yourselves to prayer. ⁸ Above all things have earnest love to one another, for love hides a host of sins. ⁹ Be hospitable to one another without grumbling.

¹¹ If any one speaks, let it be as uttering the oracles of God. If any one serves, let it be from the strength that God supplies. Thus in all things let God be glorified through Jesus Christ. To him be glory and strength for the ages of the ages! Amen.

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. ¹⁶ But if he suffers as a Christian he should not be ashamed, but should glorify God by that name.

² I beg you to shepherd the flock of God that is among you, not because you must, but willingly, not for base gain, but eagerly, ³ not lording it over your charges, but becoming examples to the flock. ⁴ Then when the chief Shepherd appears you will be repaid with the never-fading crown of glory. 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. ¹¹ To him be power for the ages of the ages! Amen. 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.

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

³ In covetousness they will make gain out of you by their cunning words. But their condemnation from of old has not been inactive, and their destruction has not been sleeping.

¹⁴ They have eyes engrossed with some adulteress, eyes which never cease from sin. They seduce unsteady souls. They have hearts practiced in covetousness. They are children of a curse.

¹³ But according to his promise we are expecting new heavens and a new earth in which righteousness will dwell. ¹⁴ Therefore, beloved, since you expect this, endeavor earnestly to be found by him in peace, spotless and faultless,

¹⁸ but grow in grace and in knowledge of our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ. To him be glory now and to the day of eternity!

⁹ He who says that he is in the light and hates his brother is in darkness still. ¹⁰ He who loves his brother remains in the light and there is no stumbling block in him.

¹⁷ And the world is passing away with its passions. But he who does the will of God endures forever.

¹⁰ By this the children of God are plain to see, also the children of the Devil. Every one who is not doing righteousness is not of God, nor is he who does not love his brother. ¹¹ For this is the message which you have heard from the beginning, that we must love one another. ¹² Not like Cain, who was of the Wicked One and killed his brother. And for what reason did he kill him? Because his own deeds were wicked and his brother's righteous. ¹³ Do not be surprised, brethren, if the world hates you. ¹⁴ We know that we have passed from death into life because we love the brethren. Whoever does not love remains in death. ¹⁵ Every one who hates his brother is a murderer, and you know that no murderer has life eternal remaining in him. ¹⁶ By this we have come to know love — that Christ laid down his life for us, and we ought to lay down our lives for the brethren. ¹⁷ But if any one has this world's goods and sees his brother in need and shuts away his sympathies from him, how can the love of God remain in him? ¹⁸ Let us not love in word or in tongue, but in deed and in truth.

²² and whatever we ask we receive from him, because we keep his commands and do what is pleasing in his sight. ²³ And this is his command — to believe in the name of his Son Jesus Christ and love one another as he has given us command.

¹ BELOVED, do not trust every spirit, but test the spirits whether they are from God. For many false prophets have come out into the world.

⁷ Beloved, let us love one another, for love is from God, and every one who loves has been born of God and knows God. ⁸ He who does not love does not know God; for God is love. ⁹ By this the love of God to us was made plain: that God sent his only Son into the world so that we may have life through him. ¹⁰ In this is love — not that we loved God, but that he loved us and sent his Son to be an atoning sacrifice for our sins. ¹¹ Beloved, if God has so loved us, we ought also to love one another.

²⁰ If any one says, "I love God," and hates his brother, he is a liar. For he who does not love his brother whom he has seen cannot love God whom he has not seen.

⁶ This is he who came through water and blood, Jesus Christ. Not with the water only, but with the water and the blood. And the Spirit is the witness, because the Spirit is the truth. ⁷ TEXT OMITTED ⁸ For there are three that bear witness, the Spirit and the water and the blood, and the three are in accord.

⁵ And now I pray you, Lady, not as if writing a new command for you, but one that we have had from the beginning, let us love one another. ⁶ This is love: to live by his commands. This is the command, as you heard from the beginning that you must live by it.

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

³ Beloved, although I have been making every effort to write to you regarding our common salvation, I now find it necessary to write and urge you to contend vigorously for the faith that was once for all delivered to the holy.

¹¹ Alas for them! for they have traveled in the path of Cain, and for hire have rushed headlong into the error of Balaam, and have perished in the rebellious talk of Korah. ¹² These are the hidden reefs in your love-feasts while they feast freely with you without fear, shepherds who care only for themselves, waterless clouds driven by winds, trees in autumn fruitless, twice dead, uprooted,

²⁵ to the only God our Savior, be, through Jesus Christ our Lord, glory, majesty, might, and authority, before all time and now and for all the ages! Amen.

⁴ John to the seven Churches in Asia: Grace be to you and peace from him who is and who was and who is to come, and from the seven Spirits that are before his throne,

⁸ "I am the Alpha and the Omega," says the Lord God, "who is and who was and who shall be, the Almighty." ⁹ I, John, your brother and fellow sharer in the distresses and the kingdom and the endurance in Jesus, came to the island called Patmos, for the sake of the message of God and the testimony of Jesus.

¹¹ saying, "What you see write in a book, and send it to the seven churches, to Ephesus and to Smyrna and to Pergamum and to Thyatira and to Sardis and to Philadelphia and to Laodicea."

¹⁷ When I saw him I fell at his feet as if dead. But he laid his right hand on me and said: "Do not fear. I am the first and the last 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.

⁴ But I have this against you, that you have lost your first love.

⁶ Before the throne there was as it were a glassy sea, like crystal. Near the throne and around the throne there were four living creatures full of eyes before and behind.

⁸ The four living creatures have each six wings, and around and within they are full of eyes. They cease not saying day and night, "Holy, holy, holy is the Lord God Almighty, who was and is and is to come." ⁹ And when the living creatures give glory and honor and thanks to him who sits on the throne, who lives for the ages of the ages, ¹⁰ the twenty-four elders fall down before him who sits on the throne and worship him who lives for the ages of the ages, and they cast their crowns before the throne saying, ¹¹ "Worthy art thou, our Lord and God, to receive glory and honor and power, for thou didst create all things and because of thy will they existed and were created."

⁹ Then they sang a new song, saying, "Worthy art thou to take the book and to open its seals, for thou wast slain and didst ransom for God by thy blood men from every tribe and tongue and people and nation,

⁹ Then they sang a new song, saying, "Worthy art thou to take the book and to open its seals, for thou wast slain and didst ransom for God by thy blood men from every tribe and tongue and people and nation, ¹⁰ and hast made them a kingdom of priests to our God, and they shall be kings on the earth." ¹¹ Then I looked and I heard the voices of many angels encircling the throne and the voices of the four living creatures and of the elders — the number of them was myriads of myriads and thousands of thousands — ¹² crying aloud, "Worthy is the Lamb who was slain to receive power and riches and wisdom and strength and honor and glory and blessing." ¹³ And every creature that is in heaven and on the earth and under the earth and on the sea, and all creatures in them, I heard saying, "To him who sits on the throne and to the Lamb be blessing and honor and glory and power for the ages of the ages."

¹³ And every creature that is in heaven and on the earth and under the earth and on the sea, and all creatures in them, I heard saying, "To him who sits on the throne and to the Lamb be blessing and honor and glory and power for the ages of the ages." ¹⁴ The four living creatures said, "Amen," and the elders fell down and worshiped.

⁹ When he opened the fifth seal, I saw under the altar the souls of those who had been slain for the sake of God's message and because of the testimony which they had borne.

⁹ After this I looked and there was a great multitude which no one could count, out of all nations and tribes and peoples and tongues, standing before the throne and before the Lamb clothed in white robes and with palms in their hands, ¹⁰ and they shouted with a loud voice saying, "Salvation to our God who sits upon the throne and to the Lamb!" ¹¹ And all the angels stood around the throne and the elders and the four living creatures, and they fell on their faces before the throne and worshiped God ¹² saying, "Amen. Blessing and glory and wisdom and thanksgiving and honor and power and strength be to our God for the ages of the ages! Amen."

¹⁴ I said to him, "My Lord, you know." He said to me, "These have come out of the great distress and have washed their robes and made them white in the blood of the Lamb.

¹ AFTER this I heard what seemed the loud voices of a great multitude in heaven saying, "Hallelujah! Salvation and glory and power belong to our God, ² for true and just are his judgments. He has judged the great prostitute who was corrupting the earth with her lewdness and he has avenged on her the blood of his servants." ³ Again they shouted, "Hallelujah! Her smoke will ascend for the ages of the ages." ⁴ Then the twenty-four elders fell down and the four living creatures worshiped God who sits on the throne, saying, "Amen! Hallelujah!" ⁵ A voice came from the throne saying, "Praise our God, all of you his servants who reverence him, both small and great." ⁶ Then I heard what seemed like the voices of a great multitude, like the sound of many waters, like the sound of mighty thunders, saying, "Hallelujah! For the Lord our God the Almighty is king.

⁴ Then I saw thrones, and men took their seats on them and the power to judge was granted to them. I saw the souls of those who had been beheaded for their testimony to Jesus and for God's message, and who had not worshiped the Beast nor his image and had not received his mark on their foreheads or on their hands. They lived and reigned as kings with Christ a thousand years,

¹⁵ Outside are the dogs and the sorcerers and the unchaste and the murderers and the idolaters and every one who loves and makes a lie.

²¹ The grace of the Lord Jesus be with all!