James Cross References - Riverside

¹ JAMES, a servant of God and of the Lord Jesus Christ, to the Twelve Tribes which are scattered in foreign lands: Greeting. ² Think it all joy, my brethren, when you fall into all sorts of trials, 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. ⁵ If any one of you is lacking in wisdom, let him ask it from God, who gives to all freely without reproaching, and it will be given to him. ⁶ But he must ask in faith with never a doubt. For he who doubts is like a wave of the sea, driven by the wind and tossed. ⁷ For that man must not think that he will obtain anything from the Lord — ⁸ a two-minded man unsteady in all his ways. ⁹ Let the lowly brother glory in his high station, ¹⁰ and let the rich brother glory in his lowly station, for he will pass away like a flower of the grass. ¹¹ For the sun rises with scorching heat and dries up the grass, and the flower of it falls and the beauty of its face perishes. So shall the rich man wither in his pursuits. ¹² Blessed is the man who endures trial, for when he has been tested he will gain the crown of life which the Lord has promised to those who love him. ¹³ No one must say when tempted, "My temptation comes from God." For God cannot be tempted by evil, and he tempts no one. ¹⁴ Every one is tempted when he is drawn away by his own passions and enticed. ¹⁵ Then when passion has conceived it gives birth to sin, and sin, when it is full grown, gives birth to death. 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. ¹⁹ I wish you to know this, my beloved brethren: Every man must be quick to hear, but slow to speak, slow to anger. ²⁰ For a man's anger does not work out God's righteousness. ²¹ So lay aside all that is vile and all that remains of malice, and receive with gentleness the implanted message which can save your souls. ²² Become doers of the message and not hearers only, deceiving your own selves. ²³ For if one is a hearer of the message and not a doer, he is like a man who looks at his natural face in a mirror. ²⁴ He looks at himself and is gone, and immediately forgets what sort of man he was. ²⁵ But he who looks earnestly into the perfect law of liberty and continues to do so, and becomes not a forgetful hearer but a doer of work — that man will be blessed in what he does. ²⁶ If any one thinks himself religious while he does not bridle his tongue, but deceives his own heart, that man's religion is worthless. ²⁷ Pure and stainless religion in the sight of God the Father is to visit orphans and widows in their trouble and to keep one's self unspotted from the world.

³ "Blessed are the poor in spirit! For theirs is the kingdom of heaven.

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

⁸ "Blessed are the pure in heart! For they will see God.

¹⁰ "Blessed are those who have been persecuted for righteousness! For theirs is the kingdom of heaven. ¹¹ "Blessed are you when men revile you and persecute you and say every evil thing against you falsely for my sake! ¹² Rejoice and be exceedingly glad, for your reward is great in heaven. For so they persecuted the prophets who were before you.

²² But I say to you that every one who is angry with his brother shall answer for it to the court; and whoever says to his brother, 'Raca' [empty-head], shall answer for it to the council; and whoever says, 'You fool' shall answer for it in the Gehenna of fire.

²⁸ But I say to you that every one who looks at a woman with lustful thoughts has already committed adultery with her in his heart.

⁴⁸ You must be perfect as your heavenly Father is perfect.

²² "The lamp of the body is the eye. If your eye is clear your whole body will be lighted up,

²⁴ No one 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.

³⁰ If God so clothes the herbage of the field, to-day growing and to-morrow thrown into the oven, will he not much more clothe you, O you of so little faith?

⁷ "Ask and it will be given to you; seek and you will find; knock and the door will be opened. ⁸ For every one who asks obtains, and he who seeks finds, and to him who knocks the door is opened. ⁹ Is there any man of you who if his son asks him for bread will give him a stone? ¹⁰ Or if he asks for a fish will give him a serpent? ¹¹ If you, though evil, know how to give good gifts to your children, how much more will your heavenly Father give good things to those who ask him.

¹¹ If you, though evil, know how to give good gifts to your children, how much more will your heavenly Father give good things to those who ask him.

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. ²² Many will say to me on that day, 'Master, Master, did we not prophesy in your name, and in your name east out demons, and in your name do many miracles?' ²³ And then I will tell them plainly, 'I never knew you. Depart from me, you who work lawlessness.' ²⁴ "Every one, therefore, who hears these words of mine and does them will be like a wise man who built his house upon the rock; ²⁵ and the rain descended and the rivers rose and the winds blew, and they beat upon that house; but it fell not, for it had been founded on the rock. ²⁶ And every one who hears these words of mine and does not do them will be like a foolish man who built his house upon the sand. ²⁷ And the rain descended and the rivers rose and the winds blew, and they struck upon that house and it fell, and great was the ruin of it."

²⁷ The men were astonished and said, "What sort of a person is this, whom even the winds and the lake obey?"

³ Philip and Bartholomew, Thomas and Matthew the tax collector, James the son of Alphaeus and Thaddaeus,

²² And you will be hated by all for my name's sake. He who endures to the end, that one will be saved.

²⁰ Then he began to reproach the cities in which most of his miracles had been done, because they had not repented:

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. ²⁶ Yes, Father, I thank thee that such was thy good pleasure.

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

⁶ But when the sun rose they were scorched, and because they had no roots they withered.

¹¹ He answered, "Because to you it is granted to know the mysteries of the kingdom of heaven, but to those people it is not granted. ¹² For whoever has, to him will be given and he will have abundance. But whoever has not, from him will be taken even what he has.

⁵⁵ Is not this the carpenter's son? Is not his mother named Mary and his brothers James and Joseph and Simon and Judas?

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

¹⁸ But the things that come out of the mouth proceed from the heart, and they defile the man.

²⁰ These are the things that defile a man. But to eat with unwashed hands does not defile a man."

²⁰ The young man said to him, "All these I have kept. What do I lack still?"

²⁸ Jesus said to him, "I tell you truly, you who have followed me, in the rebirth, when the Son of Man sits on his glorious throne, you also will sit on twelve thrones judging the twelve tribes of Israel.

²⁸ Jesus said to him, "I tell you truly, you who have followed me, in the rebirth, when the Son of Man sits on his glorious throne, you also will sit on twelve thrones judging the twelve tribes of Israel. ²⁹ And whoever has left houses or brothers or sisters or father or mother or children or lands for my name's sake will receive manifold more and will inherit life eternal.

²¹ Jesus said to them, "I tell you truly, if you have faith and do not doubt, you will not only do what has been done to the fig tree, but if you say to this mountain, 'Be taken up and thrown into the sea,' that will happen, ²² and whatever you ask in prayer, believing, you will obtain."

²⁹ Jesus replied to them, "You are all astray because you do not understand either the Scriptures or the power of God.

³⁴ Then will the King say to those on his right hand, 'Come, you who have been blessed by my Father, inherit the kingdom prepared for you from the foundation of the world!

³⁴ Then will the King say to those on his right hand, 'Come, you who have been blessed by my Father, inherit the kingdom prepared for you from the foundation of the world! ³⁵ For I was hungry and you gave me food; I was thirsty and you gave me drink; I was a stranger and you took me in; ³⁶ naked and you clothed me. I was sick and you cared for me. I was in prison and you came to me.' ³⁷ Then will the righteous answer, 'Lord, when did we see you hungry and feed you, or thirsty and give you drink? ³⁸ When did we see you a stranger and take you in, or naked and clothe you? ³⁹ When did we see you sick or in prison and come to you?' ⁴⁰ The King will answer, 'I tell you truly, inasmuch as you did it to one of these my brothers — even the least — you did it to me.' ⁴¹ Then he will say to those on his left hand, 'Depart from me, you cursed, into the fire eternal prepared for the Devil and his angels. ⁴² For I was hungry and you gave me no food; I was thirsty and you gave me no drink; 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.' ⁴⁴ Then they too will answer, 'Lord, when did we see you hungry or thirsty or a stranger or naked or sick or in prison and did not serve you?' ⁴⁵ He will answer them, 'I tell you truly inasmuch as you did not do it to one of these least, you did not do it to me.' ⁴⁶ These will go away into punishment eternal, but the righteous into life eternal."

¹⁴ Then one of the twelve, who was called Judas Iscariot, went to the high priests

⁴⁸ The traitor had given them a sign, saying, "The one I kiss is he. Arrest him." ⁴⁹ Immediately he came up to Jesus and said, "Good evening, Rabbi," and kissed him affectionately. ⁵⁰ Jesus said to him, "Friend, do what you are here for." Then they came and laid their hands on Jesus and arrested him. ⁵¹ Suddenly one of those with Jesus stretched out his hand and drew his sword, and struck a servant of the High Priest, cutting off his ear. ⁵² Jesus said to him, "Put your sword back into its place, for all who take the sword will perish by the sword. ⁵³ Do you think that I cannot call on my Father and have him send to me now more than twelve legions of angels? ⁵⁴ But how then would the Scriptures be fulfilled that so it must be?" ⁵⁵ Jesus said to the crowd, "Have you come out to seize me as if against a robber, with swords and clubs? Every day I sat in the Temple teaching and you did not arrest me. ⁵⁶ But all this has happened that the writings of the prophets might be fulfilled." Then all the disciples left him and fled. ⁵⁷ The men who had arrested Jesus led him away to Caiaphas the High Priest, at whose house the scribes and elders had assembled. ⁵⁸ Peter followed him at a distance as far as the court of the High Priest, and went in and sat among the attendants to see the end. ⁵⁹ The high priests and the whole council sought for false testimony against Jesus, so that they might put him to death.

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."

² Many came together, so that there was no longer room even near the door, and he preached to them.

¹⁸ Andrew, Philip, Bartholomew, Matthew, Thomas, James the son of Alphaeus, Thaddeus, Simon the Zealot,

⁶ but when the sun came up it was scorched and because it had no root it withered away.

⁷ in vain they worship me, while they teach what are merely commandments of men.'

²¹ for from within, out of the hearts of men, come evil thoughts, unchastities, thefts, murders, ²² adulteries, lusts, wickednesses, deceit, sensuality, an evil eye, slander, arrogance, recklessness —

²¹ Jesus looking at him loved him and said to him, "One thing you lack. Go sell all that you have and give to the poor and you will have treasure in heaven. Then come follow me."

²² Jesus answered, "Have faith in God. ²³ I tell you truly whoever says to this mountain, 'Be taken up and be cast into the sea,' and does not doubt in his mind, but believes that what he says will be, will have it. ²⁴ For this reason I say to you, all things whatever that you pray and ask for, believe that you have obtained them and you will have them.

²⁴ Jesus said to them, "Do you not err for the reason that you do not know either the Scriptures or the power of God?

²⁷ He is not a God of dead men, but of living men. You are much mistaken."

³⁷ David himself called him 'Lord'; how is he then his son?" A great crowd listened to him with delight.

¹⁴ Later he appeared to the eleven as they were reclining at table, and reproached them for their lack of faith and dullness of mind because they had not believed those who had seen him since his resurrection.

⁶ They were both righteous before God, walking in all the commandments and regulations of the Lord blameless.

⁵² He casts down princes from their thrones and raises up the lowly.

⁶⁶ All who heard them laid them up in their minds, saying, "What then will this child be?" For the hand of the Lord was with him.

⁷ The scribes and Pharisees watched to see whether he would heal him on the Sabbath, wishing to find something to accuse him of.

¹⁵ and Matthew and Thomas, and James the son of Alphaeus, and Simon called the Zealot,

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

⁴⁶ "Why do you call me: 'Master, Master,' and yet not do what I say? ⁴⁷ Every one who comes to me and hears my words and does them, I will show you whom he is like.

⁴⁷ Every one who comes to me and hears my words and does them, I will show you whom he is like.

⁴⁷ Every one who comes to me and hears my words and does them, I will show you whom he is like. ⁴⁸ He is like a man building a house, who dug and went deep and laid a foundation on the rock. When a flood came, the river dashed against that house, and could not shake it, because it had been well built.

⁴⁸ He is like a man building a house, who dug and went deep and laid a foundation on the rock. When a flood came, the river dashed against that house, and could not shake it, because it had been well built. ⁴⁹ But he who hears and does not do is like a man building a house on the earth without foundation, against which the river dashed, and at once it fell, and the wreck of that house was great."

³⁹ When the Pharisee who had invited him saw this, he said within himself, "This man, if he were a prophet, would have known who and what this woman who is touching him is, for she is a sinner."

¹⁵ That in the good ground means those who with a noble and good heart hear the message and hold it fast and bear fruit in patience.

¹⁸ Be careful, then, how you hear; for whoever has, to him will be given, and whoever has not, even what he seems to have will be taken away from him."

⁴⁸ Then he said to them, "Whoever welcomes this child in my name welcomes me. And whoever welcomes me welcomes him who sent me. For he who is least among you all, he is great."

²⁰ However, in this rejoice not, that the spirits are subject to you, but rejoice that your names are written in heaven."

⁹ So I tell you, ask and it will be given to you; seek and you will find; knock and the door will be opened to you. ¹⁰ For every one who asks obtains, and he who seeks finds, and to him who knocks the door will be opened. ¹¹ What father is there among you who if his son asks for bread will give him a stone? Or if he asks for a fish, will he give him a serpent instead? ¹² Or if he asks for an egg, will he give him a scorpion? ¹³ If then you, evil though you are, know how to give good gifts to your children, how much more will your Heavenly Father give a holy spirit to those who ask him."

¹³ If then you, evil though you are, know how to give good gifts to your children, how much more will your Heavenly Father give a holy spirit to those who ask him."

²⁸ He said, "Blessed are they who hear the word of God and keep it!"

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."

⁴⁷ That servant who knew his master's will and is not ready, and has not done according to his will, will be beaten with many lashes. ⁴⁸ But he who did not know and yet has done things worthy of lashes will be beaten with few. From every one to whom much was given, much will be required, and from him to whom they have committed much, men will ask the more.

¹ ALL the tax collectors and sinners were drawing near to him in order to hear him.

²⁰ And he arose and came to his father. But while he was still far off, his father saw him and pitied him, and ran and fell on his neck and kissed him tenderly. ²¹ The son said to him, 'Father, I have sinned against heaven and before you. I am no longer worthy to be called your son' — ²² But the father said to his servants, 'Bring out quickly the best robe and put it on him, and put a ring on his hand, and shoes on his feet;

¹⁹ "A certain man was rich and was clothed in purple and fine linen and lived merrily every day in splendor. ²⁰ And a certain poor man by the name of Lazarus had been laid at his gate, full of sores ²¹ and longing to be fed from what fell from the rich man's table. Even the dogs came and licked his sores. ²² It happened that the poor man died and was carried by the angels to Abraham's bosom. The rich man also died and was buried. ²³ And in Hades he lifted up his eyes, being in torments, and saw Abraham far off and Lazarus in his bosom. ²⁴ He called and said, 'Father Abraham, have compassion on me and send Lazarus to dip the tip of his finger in water and cool my tongue; for I am in anguish in this flame.' ²⁵ But Abraham said, 'Child, remember that you had your good things in full in your lifetime, and Lazarus likewise had his evil things. Now he is here receiving comfort and you are in anguish.

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."

⁴⁸ But they could find no way to do it; for all the people hung upon him listening.

¹⁹ By your endurance you will win your lives.

²⁸ You are those who have stood by me in my trials ²⁹ and I will assign to you, as my Father has assigned to me, a kingdom, ³⁰ that you may eat and drink at my table in my kingdom. You shall sit on thrones judging the twelve tribes of Israel.

³⁰ that you may eat and drink at my table in my kingdom. You shall sit on thrones judging the twelve tribes of Israel.

⁹ The true Light, which enlightens every man, was coming into the world.

¹³ who were born not of blood nor of the will of flesh nor of the will of man, but of God.

³ Jesus answered, "Truly, truly, I tell you, unless a man is born from above he cannot see the kingdom of God." ⁴ Nicodemus said to him, "How can a man be born when he is old? Can he enter into his mother's womb a second time and be born?" ⁵ Jesus answered, "Truly, truly, I tell you, unless a man is born of water and the Spirit he cannot enter into the kingdom of God.

²⁷ John answered, "A man can assume nothing unless it has been given him from heaven.

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

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

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

³⁵ The Jews said to one another, "Where is this man going that we shall not find him? Will he go to the Jews who are scattered among the Greeks and teach the Greeks?

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."

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

³⁶ So if the Son frees you, you will be really free.

²⁶ If any one is serving me, let him follow me and where I am there my servant shall be. If any one is serving me, him my Father will honor.

¹⁷ If you know these things, blessed are you — if you do them.

¹³ Whatever you ask in my name that I will do, that the Father may be glorified in the Son.

⁷ If you abide in me and my words abide in you, ask what you will and it will be done for you.

⁹ As the Father has loved me, so have I loved you; abide in my love. 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.

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.

¹⁴ I have given them thy word and the world has hated them, because they are not of the world, just as I am not of the world. ¹⁵ I do not pray thee to take them out of the world, but to keep them from the evil.

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.

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.

⁵ There were Jews living in Jerusalem, pious men from every nation under heaven.

⁴² These gave constant attention to the teaching of the apostles and to the fellowship and the breaking of bread and the prayers.

¹ BUT a man called Ananias, with Sapphira his wife, sold a piece of property ² and kept back a part of the price, with his wife's connivance, and brought a certain part and laid it at the apostles' feet. ³ Peter said, "Ananias, why has Satan filled your heart to lie to the Holy Spirit and keep back part of the price of the land?

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.

¹ SAUL also approved of their putting him to death. On that day arose a great persecution of the church in Jerusalem. All except the apostles were scattered through Judaea and Samaria.

³³ Immediately I sent to you and you have done well in coming. Now here we all are in God's presence to hear all that the Lord has commanded you."

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."

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

²⁶ "Brethren, sons of Abraham's race and those among you who reverence God, the message of this salvation has been sent to you.

⁴² As Paul and Barnabas were going out, the people begged that these words might be spoken to them on the next Sabbath. ⁴³ After the synagogue was dismissed, many of the Jews and of the pious converts to Judaism followed Paul and Barnabas, who talked to them and endeavored to persuade them to hold fast to the grace of God.

⁴³ After the synagogue was dismissed, many of the Jews and of the pious converts to Judaism followed Paul and Barnabas, who talked to them and endeavored to persuade them to hold fast to the grace of God. ⁴⁴ On the next Sabbath almost the whole city came together to hear the message of God.

⁴⁸ When the Gentiles heard this, they rejoiced and glorified the message of the Lord, and all who were predestined to life eternal believed.

¹³ When they ceased speaking, James said, "Brethren, listen to me.

²¹ For Moses has had for generations past in every city those who preach him, for he is read in the synagogues every Sabbath."

²³ They wrote and sent by their hands the following letter: "The Apostles and the Brethren who are elders, to the Brethren from the Gentiles in Antioch and Syria and Cilicia: Greeting.

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.

¹⁸ On the next day, Paul went in with us for an interview with James, and all the elders came.

²⁶ "Claudius Lysias to his Excellency, Governor Felix: greeting.

⁷ to which our twelve tribes devotedly serving God night and day hope to attain. For this hope I am accused by the Jews, O King.

²² But obtaining help from God I have continued until this day witnessing to small and great, saying nothing but what the prophets and Moses said would be,

¹ PAUL, a servant of Christ Jesus, called to be an apostle, set apart to bear the good news of God,

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.

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

⁷ To those who by constancy in good work seek for glory and honor and immortality he will award life eternal. ⁸ But to those of a partisan spirit who do not obey the truth, but obey wickedness, there will be wrath and hot anger.

⁸ But to those of a partisan spirit who do not obey the truth, but obey wickedness, there will be wrath and hot anger. ⁹ Distress and crushing calamity will fall upon every human soul that works evil, upon the Jew first and also upon the Greek. ¹⁰ But glory and honor and peace will come to every one who works good, to the Jew first and also to the Greek.

¹³ (for it is not the hearers of law who are righteous before God, but the doers of law are pronounced righteous;

¹⁷ (as it is written, "I have made thee a father of many nations"), in the view of the God whom he believed, who makes alive the dead and calls things that are not as if they were.

² Through him we obtained entrance into this grace in which we stand and exult in hope of the glory of God. ³ Not only so, but we also exult in trials, knowing that trial develops endurance,

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,

¹² Therefore as through one man sin entered the world, and through sin death entered, and so death spread to all men, since all sinned — ¹³ for down to the time of the Law sin was in the world, and yet sin is not charged where there is no law; ¹⁴ but death reigned from Adam to Moses even over those who had not sinned like Adam, who is the type of him who was coming. ¹⁵ But the gracious gift is not like the fall. For if by the fall of the one the many sinned, much more did the grace of God and the free gift by the grace of the one man Jesus Christ abound to the many. ¹⁶ And the free gift was not like the sentence that came through one who sinned; for the sentence came from one fall for condemnation, but the free gift was that men should be called righteous in spite of many falls. ¹⁷ For if by the fall of one man death reigned through that one, much more those who receive the abounding grace and the free gift of righteousness will reign in life through one, that is, through Jesus Christ. ¹⁸ As then through one fall sentence came upon all men and they were condemned; so through one righteous act the free gift came to all men so that they are pronounced righteous and live. ¹⁹ For as by the disobedience of the one man the many were set down as sinners, so by the obedience of the one the many will be set down as righteous. ²⁰ But law came in alongside that the fall might be greater; but where sin became greater grace became greater still, ²¹ in order that as sin reigned in death grace might reign through righteousness and issue in life eternal through Jesus Christ our Lord.

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.

²¹ What fruit did you have then? Fruit of which you are now ashamed; for the end of those things is death. ²² But now freed from sin and having become servants of God you have your fruit in holy living and its outcome, life eternal. ²³ For the wages of sin is death, but the gracious gift of God is life eternal in Christ Jesus our Lord.

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

¹¹ For sin, taking occasion through the commandment, deceived me and by it killed me. ¹² So the Law is holy and the commandment is holy and just and good. ¹³ Did then what is good become death to me? Never. But sin, that it might appear sin, worked death in me through the good, in order that it might become beyond measure sinful.

²² I delight in the Law in my inner man, ²³ but I see another law in my members, warring with the law of my mind and leading me captive under the law of sin which is in my members.

¹⁵ For you did not receive a spirit of bondage leading again to fear, but you received a spirit of sonship, in which we cry, Abba, Father.

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.

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.

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

³⁵ Who shall separate us from Christ's love? Shall trial or distress or persecution or famine or nakedness or danger or sword? ³⁶ (As it is written, "For thy sake we are killed all the day. We are counted as sheep for slaughter.") ³⁷ On the contrary, in all these we more than conquer through him who loved us.

¹⁵ For he says to Moses, "I will have mercy on whom I have mercy and I will have compassion on whom I have compassion." ¹⁶ So then it is not a question of the man who wills or who runs, but of God who shows mercy. ¹⁷ For the Scripture says to Pharaoh, "For this very purpose I raised you up in order to show my power upon you and to have my name proclaimed in all the earth." ¹⁸ So then he has mercy on whom he chooses and he hardens whom he chooses. ¹⁹ You will say to me then, "Why does he still find fault? For who has opposed his will?" ²⁰ But who are you, O man, who are answering back to God? Does the thing that is moulded say to the moulder, "Why have you made me so?"

¹⁷ If some of the branches were broken off and you, who are a wild olive, were grafted in among them and became a sharer in the root and rich sap of the olive,

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

²⁹ God never changes his mind about his gifts and his call. ³⁰ For as you were once disobedient to God, but now have found mercy through their disobedience,

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

⁶ Having gifts differing according to the grace given to us, if it is prophecy, let us use it according to the proportion of our faith; ⁷ if it is service, let us use it in service. Let the teacher use his gift in teaching. ⁸ Let the exhorter use his gift in exhorting. Let him who gives do it in simplicity. Let him who manages do it earnestly. Let him who helps the needy do it cheerfully.

¹² The night is far spent, the day draws near. Let us put away the deeds of darkness, let us put on the weapons of light. ¹³ Let us live becomingly as in the day, not in revelry and drunkenness, not in sensuality and licentiousness, not in quarrelling and jealousy.

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.

⁶ We do speak wisdom among the mature, but a wisdom not of this world nor of the defeated rulers of this world.

⁹ But as it is written, "What eye has not seen and what ear has not heard and what has not entered human mind, God has prepared for those who love him."

¹⁸ Let no one deceive himself. If any one of you thinks himself wise in this world, let him become a fool in order to become wise.

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

¹⁵ For if you have ten thousand teachers in Christ, still you have not many fathers. For I was your father in Christ Jesus through the good news.

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,

³¹ and those who use the world as if not overusing it. For the present order of this world is passing away.

³ If any one loves God, he is known by him.

²⁵ Every one who contends in the games practices self-restraint in all things. They do it to win a fading crown, but we for an unfading one.

⁴ There are varieties of gifts, but the same Spirit. ⁵ And there are varieties of service, but the same Lord. ⁶ And there are varieties of products, but the same God who produces all things in all. 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. ¹² For as the body is one and yet has many members, and all the members of the body, though many, are one body, so also is Christ.

² through which also you are being saved, if you hold fast the message that I announced to you, unless your faith was thoughtless.

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.

³³ Do not be led astray; "bad associations corrupt good morals."

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.

¹⁶ To the latter an odor from death to death, to the former an odor from life to life. And who is competent for this?

¹⁷ The Lord is the Spirit, and where the Spirit of the Lord is there is liberty. ¹⁸ And we all, with unveiled face, reflecting the glory of the Lord, are changed into the same likeness from glory to glory as by the Spirit of the Lord.

⁶ Because it is the God who said, "Light shall shine out of darkness," who has shone in our hearts bringing the light of the glorious knowledge of God in the face of Christ.

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

¹⁰ as sorrowful yet always rejoicing, as poor yet making many rich, as having nothing yet owning all things.

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

⁹ But he has said to me, "My grace is sufficient for you; for power is made perfect in weakness." Most gladly then will I boast in my weaknesses, that the power of Christ may abide upon me. 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.

⁵ Test yourselves whether you are in the faith, put yourselves to the proof. Are you not conscious that Jesus Christ is in you? He is, unless you cannot stand the test.

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

¹⁹ But I saw no other one of the apostles, though I did see James the Lord's brother.

⁴ though it was suggested on account of false brethren who had been brought in, who had crept in to spy out our liberty which we have in Christ Jesus, in order to enslave us.

⁶ But from those who were esteemed to be something — whatever they were, it makes no difference to me; God does not regard the social standing of a man — those who were most esteemed did not impart to me anything additional.

⁹ recognizing the grace given to me, James, Cephas, and John, who were regarded as pillars, gave the right hand of fellowship to me and Barnabas, that we should go to the Gentiles and they to the circumcision.

¹² For before certain persons came from James, he was eating with the Gentiles. But when they came, he drew back and separated himself, fearing those who were of the circumcision.

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

¹ STAND firm, therefore, in the freedom with which Christ set us free, and do not wear any yoke of slavery.

⁶ For in Christ Jesus neither has circumcision any value nor uncircumcision, but faith working through love.

²⁰ idolatry, magic, hatred, strife, jealousy, anger, rivalries, dissensions, factions, 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.

³ If any one thinks that he is something when he is nothing, he deceives himself.

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

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

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

¹⁴ But let me never boast except in the cross of our Lord Jesus Christ, by which the world is crucified to me and I to the world.

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

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,

³ Among these we all lived once in the passions of our flesh and of our thoughts, and we were by nature children of wrath like the rest. 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 —

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

⁸ Therefore it says, "He ascended on high; he led away captives; he gave gifts to men." ⁹ What does "he ascended" mean, except that he had descended into the lowest parts of the earth? ¹⁰ He who descended is also he who "ascended" high above all the heavens to fill all things. ¹¹ And he "gave" to some to be apostles, some prophets, some tellers of the good news, some shepherds and teachers,

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,

²² that you should put away the old man who belonged to your former way of life and was perishing in deluding passions,

²⁶ "Be angry and do not sin." Do not let the sun go down on your wrath,

²⁹ Let no vile word come out of your mouth, but, if anything, a good word for needed upbuilding of character to give grace to those who hear.

³¹ Let all bitterness and anger and wrath and clamor and abusive language be put away from you with every kind of malice.

⁴ nor should there be indecent and foolish talk or jesting, which are unbecoming, but rather thanksgiving.

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

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

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.

¹⁷ But if I am poured out as a libation on your sacrificial offering of faith, I rejoice and share the joy of you all.

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

⁸ Yes, I count all to be loss because of the surpassing worth of the knowledge of Christ Jesus my Lord, for whom I have suffered the loss of all things and count them but refuse, that I may gain Christ

¹² Not that I have already obtained it or have already been made perfect, but I press on to lay hold of that for which I was laid hold of by Christ Jesus. ¹³ Brethren, I do not consider myself yet to have laid hold of it. But one thing I do: forgetting what is behind and stretching forward to what is in front ¹⁴ I press toward the goal for the prize of the heavenly call of God in Christ Jesus.

¹⁴ I press toward the goal for the prize of the heavenly call of God in Christ Jesus. ¹⁵ Let us all who are full grown think in this way. If in anything you think differently, even that God will reveal to you,

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.

¹¹ May you be strengthened with all strength according to his glorious power, so as to have all patience and endurance.

²⁰ and to reconcile all things to himself through him, making peace through the blood of his cross — all things, I say, whether on earth or in heaven. ²¹ And you who were once alienated and enemies in your minds, living in wicked works, he has reconciled

²³ if you remain in the faith, firm and steadfast, never moving from the hope of the good news which you have heard and which has been proclaimed in all the creation under heaven, and of which I, Paul, became a servant. ²⁴ Now I rejoice in what I suffer for your sake, and in my turn am filling up in my flesh what was lacking in the afflictions of Christ for the sake of his body, that is, the church.

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

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.

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. ⁶ On account of these things comes the wrath of God. ⁷ To them you also were once habituated when you lived in them. ⁸ But now you also must put away all wrath, anger, malice, abusive language. Vile talk must not be in your mouths.

⁸ But now you also must put away all wrath, anger, malice, abusive language. Vile talk must not be in your mouths.

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

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.

⁶ Let what you say be always with grace, seasoned with salt. Know how you should answer each one.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

⁵ The Lord guide your hearts in the love of God and the patience of Christ.

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

⁸ I wish, then, that the men offer prayer in every place, lifting up holy hands without wrath or debate.

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

¹⁶ Be thoughtful about yourself and your teaching. Persevere in this; for in doing so you will save yourself and those who hear you.

⁴ If any widow has children or grandchildren, let them learn first to act piously toward their own family and to repay what they owe to their parents and grandparents. For this is pleasing in the sight of God.

¹⁷ Command those who are rich in this world not to be haughty nor to fix their hope on uncertain wealth, but on God who provides all things richly for our enjoyment.

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

²⁴ and the servant of the Lord must not quarrel, but be courteous to all, skillful in teaching, forbearing, ²⁵ instructing opponents with gentleness, for God may give them a change of heart which will lead them to knowledge of the truth,

¹³ Wicked men and impostors will go on from bad to worse, deceiving and being deceived.

¹⁵ and that from childhood you have known the sacred writings which can give you wisdom to gain salvation through faith in Christ Jesus. ¹⁶ All Scripture is divinely inspired and is useful for teaching, for proof, for correction of error, for education in righteousness, ¹⁷ that the man of God may be complete, equipped for every good work.

¹⁷ that the man of God may be complete, equipped for every good work.

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

²¹ Try to come before winter. Eubulus and Pudens and Linus and Claudia and all the brethren send their greetings to you.

¹ PAUL, a servant of God and an apostle of Jesus Christ to promote the faith of God's chosen and their knowledge of the truths of religion,

¹¹ For the grace of God has appeared bringing salvation to all men,

³ For we ourselves were once thoughtless, disobedient, astray, enslaved to passions and various pleasures, living in malice and envy, hateful and hating one another.

³ For we ourselves were once thoughtless, disobedient, astray, enslaved to passions and various pleasures, living in malice and envy, hateful and hating one another. 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

¹¹ They will perish, but thou wilt endure. They all will grow old like a garment ¹² and like a mantle thou wilt roll them up. But thou art the same and thy years will never end."

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,

¹³ but encourage one another daily while it is called "to-day," that no one may be hardened by the deceitfulness of sin.

² For we have received the good news just as they did, but the message that was heard did not benefit them, since it did not meet with faith in the hearers.

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

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

³² Remember the early days in which, after being enlightened, you endured a great struggle with sufferings,

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.

⁶ But without faith it is impossible to please him. For he who comes to God must have faith that he exists and that he becomes the rewarder of those who seek him.

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

³⁶ Still others had experience of mockings and floggings, yes, of chains and prisons. ³⁷ They were stoned, afflicted, sawn in two, murdered with the sword. They went about in sheepskins, in goatskins, destitute, distressed, maltreated. ³⁸ The world was not worthy of them. They wandered in deserts and mountains, in caves and in holes in the earth.

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,

⁵ and you have forgotten the encouragement which reasons with you as with sons, "My son, do not think slightingly of the discipline of the Lord and be not faint-hearted when reproved by him:

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,

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,

¹ LET brotherly love continue.

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.

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.

² Think it all joy, my brethren, when you fall into all sorts of trials,

² Think it all joy, my brethren, when you fall into all sorts of trials, 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. ⁵ If any one of you is lacking in wisdom, let him ask it from God, who gives to all freely without reproaching, and it will be given to him.

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

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.

¹⁹ I wish you to know this, my beloved brethren: Every man must be quick to hear, but slow to speak, slow to anger.

²¹ So lay aside all that is vile and all that remains of malice, and receive with gentleness the implanted message which can save your souls. ²² Become doers of the message and not hearers only, deceiving your own selves. ²³ For if one is a hearer of the message and not a doer, he is like a man who looks at his natural face in a mirror. ²⁴ He looks at himself and is gone, and immediately forgets what sort of man he was.

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

⁵ Listen, my beloved brethren, did not God choose the poor of this world to be rich in faith and heirs of the kingdom which he has promised to those who love him?

⁵ Listen, my beloved brethren, did not God choose the poor of this world to be rich in faith and heirs of the kingdom which he has promised to those who love him? ⁶ But you have dishonored the poor man. Do not the rich oppress you and drag you before courts?

¹² So speak and so act as those who are soon to be judged by a law of liberty.

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

¹⁴ Of what use is it, my brethren, for any one to say that he has faith, if he has not works? Can faith save him? ¹⁵ If a brother or sister is naked and lacks food for the day

¹⁵ If a brother or sister is naked and lacks food for the day ¹⁶ and one of you says to them, "Go in peace, be warmed and fed," but you do not give them what the body needs, what is the good of it?

¹⁶ and one of you says to them, "Go in peace, be warmed and fed," but you do not give them what the body needs, what is the good of it? ¹⁷ Just so faith by itself, if it has no works, is dead.

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."

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.

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?

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

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.

¹ DO not, many of you, become teachers, my brethren, for you know that we will receive severer judgment. ² For in many ways we all stumble. If any one never stumbles in his talk, he is a perfect man, able to bridle also the whole body.

² For in many ways we all stumble. If any one never stumbles in his talk, he is a perfect man, able to bridle also the whole body.

² For in many ways we all stumble. If any one never stumbles in his talk, he is a perfect man, able to bridle also the whole body. ³ If we put bits into the horses' mouths to make them obey us, we turn about their whole bodies. ⁴ See the ships; great as they are and driven by violent winds, they are turned about by a very small rudder wherever the desire of the helmsman chooses. ⁵ Just so the tongue is a small member, but boasts of great things. Think how small a fire may be and yet how vast the forest that it may set ablaze. ⁶ And the tongue is a fire, a world of wickedness. The tongue stands among our members as that which spots the whole body and sets on fire the wheel of nature and is itself set on fire by Gehenna.

¹⁵ This wisdom does not come down from on high, but is earthly, animal, demoniacal.

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

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

¹ WHENCE come wars and whence come strifes among you? Is it not from your pleasures which carry on war in your members? ² You long for something and do not have it. You murder and envy and cannot obtain it. You battle and war. You do not have, because of your not asking. ³ You ask and do not receive, because you ask wickedly to waste it on your pleasures. ⁴ You adulteresses, do you not know that the friendship of the world is enmity to God? Whoever chooses to be a friend to the world stands as an enemy of God.

⁸ Draw near to God and he will draw near to you. Make your hands clean, you sinners, and purify your hearts, you double-minded.

¹⁴ though you do not know what your life will be like on the morrow. For you are a vapor that appears for a little while and then disappears.

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

¹ COME, now, you rich men, wail and lament over the miseries that are coming upon you. ² Your riches have rotted and your garments have become moth-eaten, ³ your gold and silver are rusted over and the rust on them will be an evidence against you and will eat your flesh like fire. ⁴ You have laid up treasures in the last days. See, the wages of the laborers who reaped your fields, fraudulently kept back by you, call aloud, and the cries of the harvesters have come into the ears of the Lord of armies. ⁵ You have lived luxuriously in the land and have given yourselves up to pleasure. You have fattened your hearts in a day of slaughter. ⁶ You have condemned, you have murdered, the righteous; he does not resist you. 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.

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. ⁹ Do not fret at one another, brethren, and then you will not be judged. The Judge is standing before your doors. ¹⁰ Take, brethren, the prophets who spoke in the name of the Lord as an example of patience in suffering evil. ¹¹ We call them blessed because they endured. You have heard of the patience of Job and have seen the end of the Lord's dealings with him, that the Lord is very tender and compassionate.

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

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

¹ PETER, an apostle of Jesus Christ, to the Chosen Ones of the scattered Jews in foreign lands who are living in Pontus, Galatia, Cappadocia, Asia and Bithynia —

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

⁶ In this you rejoice, though now for a little while, if necessary, you are sorrowful in trials of many kinds, ⁷ so that your tested faith, much more precious than gold that perishes though tested by fire, may be found to your praise and glory and honor when Jesus Christ is revealed,

⁷ so that your tested faith, much more precious than gold that perishes though tested by fire, may be found to your praise and glory and honor when Jesus Christ is revealed, 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 ⁹ while you receive the reward of your faith, the salvation of your souls.

²³ for you have been reborn, not from mortal seed but from immortal by the living and enduring word of God. ²⁴ For "All flesh is like grass and all its glory is like the flower of the grass; the grass withers and the flower falls,

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

⁹ But you are a chosen race, a kingly priesthood, a holy nation, God's own people, that you may proclaim the virtues of him who called you from darkness into his wonderful light.

¹¹ Beloved, I beg you, as foreigners and resident aliens, to shun the passions of the flesh which war against the soul.

¹⁶ Live as free men, yet not using freedom as a cloak for wickedness, but as God's slaves.

¹⁰ For "He who would love life and see good days must keep his tongue from evil and his lips from speaking deceit.

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

¹³ But rejoice since to this extent you are sharing the sufferings of Christ, that when his glory is revealed you may rejoice and exult.

¹³ But rejoice since to this extent you are sharing the sufferings of Christ, that when his glory is revealed you may rejoice and exult. ¹⁴ If you are reproached for the name of Christ you are blessed, for the spirit of glory and of God rests upon you. ¹⁵ No one of you must suffer as a murderer or as a thief or as a wrongdoer or as a meddler in other men's affairs. ¹⁶ But if he suffers as a Christian he should not be ashamed, but should glorify God by that name.

⁴ Then when the chief Shepherd appears you will be repaid with the never-fading crown of glory.

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.

¹ SIMON PETER, a servant and apostle of Jesus Christ, to those who by the righteousness of our God and Savior Jesus Christ have been allotted a faith as precious as ours:

⁶ and to your knowledge self-control, and to your self-control endurance, and to your endurance reverence,

⁹ But he who lacks these is blind, dim-sighted, and has forgotten that he was cleansed from his former sins.

⁹ the Lord knows how to rescue the pious from trial and how to keep the wicked under punishment for the day of judgment,

¹³ and will suffer unrighteously as the reward of their own unrighteousness. They think it pleasure to revel in the daytime. They are spots and blots as they revel in their deceptions while they feast sumptuously with you. 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.

¹⁷ These men are springs without water, storm-driven mists for whom the blackness of darkness is reserved.

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

¹⁶ So he writes in all his letters when speaking in them of these things. In those letters are some things hard to understand, and these the unlearned and unsteady twist, as they do the rest of the Scriptures, to their own ruin.

⁵ This is the message which we have heard from him and tell to you, God is light and in him is no darkness at all.

⁸ If we say, "We have no sin," we deceive ourselves and the truth is not in us.

³ By this we know that we have come to know him, if we keep his commands.

¹⁵ Do not love the world nor the things that are in the world. If any one loves the world, the love of the Father is not in him; ¹⁶ for all that is in the world, the passions of the flesh and the lust of the eyes and the show and pride of life, is not from the Father, but from the world. ¹⁷ And the world is passing away with its passions. But he who does the will of God endures forever.

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

²¹ I am not writing to you because you do not know the truth, but because you know it and know that no lie is from the truth.

²⁴ Let what you have heard from the beginning remain in you. If what you have heard from the beginning remains in you, you also will remain in the Son and in the Father.

¹ SEE what love the Father has bestowed on us that we should be called children of God. And so we are. The reason why tho world does not know us is that it did not know him. ² Beloved, we are now children of God and it is not yet plain what we shall be. But we know that if he appears we shall be like him, for we shall see him as he is. ³ And every one who has this hope set upon Christ purifies himself just as Christ is pure.

⁷ Little children, let no one deceive you. He who is doing righteousness is righteous as Christ is righteous.

⁹ No one who has been born of God commits sin, for God's life-giving germ remains in him and he cannot continue sinning, because he has been born of God.

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. ¹⁹ By this we shall know that we are of the truth and shall give confidence to our hearts in his presence,

²² and whatever we ask we receive from him, because we keep his commands and do what is pleasing in his sight.

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.

¹⁷ Thus love has been made perfect with us so that we may have confidence on the day of judgment, because as God is we also are in this world. ¹⁸ There is no fear in love, but perfect love casts out fear, because fear has pain. He who fears has not been made perfect in love. ¹⁹ We love because he first loved us.

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

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

¹⁴ This is the confidence that we have toward him: that if we ask anything according to his will he hears us. ¹⁵ And if we know that he hears us when we ask anything, we know that we obtain the things that we have asked of him.

¹⁸ We know that every one who has been born of God lives without sinning, but he who was born of God keeps him, and the Evil One does not lay hold of him.

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

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:

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, ¹³ wild waves of the sea foaming out their own shame, wandering stars for which the blackness of darkness is reserved forever.

⁹ I know your distress and poverty, but you are rich, and I know the profane words from those who say that they are Jews though they are not, but are a synagogue of Satan. ¹⁰ Do not fear what you are soon to suffer. The Devil will soon cast some of you into prison so that you may be tested, and you will have distress ten days. Be faithful to death and I will give you the crown of life.

¹⁹ All that I love I rebuke and discipline. Be earnest, then, and repent.

²¹ He who conquers — to him I will grant to sit with me on my throne, as I also conquered and sat down with my Father on his throne.

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."

⁴ I heard the number of those who were sealed, a hundred and forty-four thousand, sealed from every tribe of the sons of Israel:

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!"

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

⁴ These are they who were not defiled with women; for they are virgins. They follow the Lamb wherever he goes. They were ransomed from among men as first-fruits for God and the Lamb.

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

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

²³ And the city has no need of the sun or of the moon to shine in it; for the glory of God illumines it and the Lamb is its light.

⁵ There will not be night any more and they will have no need of lamplight or of sunlight; for the Lord God will shine upon them and they will be kings for the ages of the ages.

⁷ I am coming soon. Blessed is he who is keeping the words of the prophecy of this book."

¹⁴ Blessed will those be who wash their robes so that they may have the right to the tree of life and may enter by the gates into the city.