Romans 7 Cross References - Riverside

¹ ARE you ignorant, brethren, for I am speaking to those who know law, that the Law rules over a person while he is living? ² For a married woman is by law bound to her husband while he is living. But if the husband dies, she is freed from the law of her husband. ³ Therefore while her husband is living she is called an adulteress if she becomes another man's. But if her husband dies she is free from the law, so that she is not an adulteress when she becomes another man's. ⁴ So, my brethren, you were made dead to the Law through the body of Christ, that you might become wedded to another, to him who was raised from the dead, that we might bear fruit to God. ⁵ For when we were in the flesh the sinful passions that arise through the Law were active in our members, so that we bore fruit to death. ⁶ But now the Law has been made inoperative on us, since we have died to that by which we were held, so that we serve in newness of the spirit and not in oldness of the letter. ⁷ What shall we say then? Is the Law sin? Never. But I should not have come to know sin except through the Law. I should not have known lust if the Law had not said, "Thou shalt not lust." ⁸ Sin, taking occasion through the commandment, worked in me every lust. For apart from the Law sin is dead. ⁹ I was living once, apart from law. But when the commandment came, sin began to live and I died, ¹⁰ and the commandment which meant life was found to mean death. ¹¹ For sin, taking occasion through the commandment, deceived me and by it killed me. ¹² So the Law is holy and the commandment is holy and just and good. ¹³ Did then what is good become death to me? Never. But sin, that it might appear sin, worked death in me through the good, in order that it might become beyond measure sinful. ¹⁴ For we know that the Law is spiritual; but I am fleshly, sold under sin. ¹⁵ For what I am doing I do not understand. For not what I choose is what I practice, but what I hate, this I do. ¹⁶ But if I do what I do not choose, I agree with the law that it is right. ¹⁷ And now it is no longer I that do it, but the Sin that dwells in me. ¹⁸ TEXT OMITTED ¹⁹ TEXT OMITTED ²⁰ TEXT OMITTED ²¹ I find then this rule, when I choose to do the right, that evil is present with me. ²² I delight in the Law in my inner man, 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. ²⁴ Wretched man that I am! who will deliver me from this body of death? ²⁵ Thanks be to God through Jesus Christ our Lord! So then I myself with my mind serve the Law of God, but with my flesh the law of sin.

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

⁴ "Blessed are they that mourn! For they will be comforted.

⁶ "Blessed are those who hunger and thirst for righteousness! For they will have abundance.

²¹ "You have heard that it was said to the men of old, 'Thou shalt not commit murder. Whoever commits murder shall answer for it to the court.' 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.

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. ²³ So then if you are bringing your gift to lay on the altar, and there you remember that your brother has something against you, ²⁴ leave your gift there before the altar and go, first be reconciled to your brother, and then come and offer your gift. ²⁵ Get on good terms with your adversary quickly while you are on the road with him, for fear that he may deliver you to the judge and the judge may deliver you to the officer and you may be cast into prison. ²⁶ Truly I tell you you will not come out until you pay the last penny."

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.

³² But I say to you that every one who divorces his wife, unless for the cause of unchastity, makes her commit adultery, and whoever marries a divorced woman commits adultery.

⁴ For God said, 'Honor thy father and thy mother,' and, 'If any one speaks evil of father or mother, let him surely die.' ⁵ But you say, 'Whoever says to his father or to his mother, Whatever benefit you get from me is now dedicated to God, ⁶ he shall not honor his father or his mother.' So you have nullified the command of God for the sake of your tradition.

¹⁹ For from the heart proceed wicked thoughts, murders, adulteries, unchastities, thefts, perjuries, profane words.

²³ But he, turning, said to Peter, "Get behind me, Satan; you are a snare to me, for you are not thinking God's thoughts, but men's."

²⁵ Since he could not pay, his master ordered him to be sold, as well as his wife and his children and whatever he had, and payment to be made.

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

³⁷ Jesus said to him, " 'Thou shalt love the Lord thy God with all thy heart and with all thy soul and with all thy mind.' ³⁸ This is the greatest and first commandment. ³⁹ The second is like it, 'Thou shalt love thy neighbor as thyself.' ⁴⁰ On these two commandments hang all the Law and the Prophets."

²⁶ While they were eating, Jesus took a loaf and blessed it and broke it and gave it to his disciples, saying, "Take this and eat it. This is my body."

⁸ Neglecting the commands of God, you hold firmly to the traditions of men." ⁹ He said further to them, "How thoroughly you set aside the command of God so that you may keep your tradition! ¹⁰ For Moses said, 'Honor thy father and thy mother,' and, 'He who speaks evil of father or mother must surely die.' ¹¹ But you say, 'If a man says to his father or his mother, Whatever benefit you enjoy from me is now Korban, that is, a gift to God,' — ¹² you no longer let him do anything for his father or his mother, ¹³ thus nullifying the word of God by your tradition which you have handed down; and many similar things you do."

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 — ²³ all these had things come out from within, and they defile the man."

⁶ But from the beginning of the creation, 'male and female made he them.' ⁷ 'Therefore shall a man leave his father and his mother ⁸ and the two shall become one flesh.' So they are no longer two, but one flesh. ⁹ What therefore God has joined together, let not man put asunder." ¹⁰ When they were in the house, his disciples asked him again about this. ¹¹ He said to them, "Whoever divorces his wife and marries another commits adultery against her. ¹² And if a wife divorces her husband and marries another she commits adultery."

¹ JESUS, full of the Holy Spirit, turned back from the Jordan and was led about in the Spirit in the wilderness

¹⁸ "The Spirit of the Lord is upon me, because he has anointed me to bring good news to the poor. He has sent me to proclaim release to captives and sight to the blind, to set at liberty the crushed,

⁸ When Simon Peter saw this, he fell down on his knees before Jesus and said, "Leave my boat and me, Sir, for I am a sinful man."

⁶ Jesus went with them. When he was not far from the house, the Centurion sent friends to say to him, "Do not trouble yourself, Sir, for I am not fit to have you come under my roof.

²⁵ Then a certain lawyer stood up to test him, and said, "Teacher, what must I do to inherit life eternal?" ²⁶ He said to him, "What is written in the Law? How do you read it?" ²⁷ He answered, " 'Thou shalt love the Lord thy God with all thy heart and with all thy soul and with all thy strength and with all thy mind, and thy neighbor as thyself.' ²⁸ Jesus said to him, "You have answered correctly; do this and you will live." ²⁹ But he, wishing to justify himself, said to Jesus, "And who is my neighbor?"

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."

⁴⁸ So you are witnesses and consent to the deeds of your fathers, for they killed them and you build their tombs.

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."

²⁹ But he answered his father, 'See, all these years I have been serving you, and I never broke a command of yours, yet you have never given me a kid to make merry with my friends.

⁹ He gave also this illustration to some who trusted in themselves as being righteous and despised others: ¹⁰ "Two men went up to the Temple courts to pray. One was a Pharisee and the other was a tax collector. ¹¹ The Pharisee stood and prayed thus with himself, 'God, I thank thee that I am not like the rest of men, extortioners, cheats, adulterers, or even like this tax collector.

¹¹ The Pharisee stood and prayed thus with himself, 'God, I thank thee that I am not like the rest of men, extortioners, cheats, adulterers, or even like this tax collector. ¹² I fast twice a week. I give tithes of all I get.'

¹² I fast twice a week. I give tithes of all I get.' ¹³ But the tax collector stood far off and would not even lift his eyes to heaven, but beat his breast, saying, 'God be merciful to me, the sinner!' ¹⁴ I tell you this man went down to his house justified rather than the other. For every one who exalts himself will be humbled, and he who humbles himself will be exalted."

²¹ He said, "All these I have kept from my boyhood up."

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

²⁹ He who has the bride is the bridegroom. But the friend of the bridegroom, who stands and hears him, rejoices greatly at the bridegroom's voice. So this joy of mine is complete.

³⁴ Jesus said to them, "My food is to do the will of him who sent me, and to complete his work.

⁵¹ I am the living bread that comes down from heaven. If any one eats of this bread, he will live forever. And the bread that I will give is my flesh: I will give it for the life of the world."

³ The scribes and the Pharisees led in a woman taken in adultery and making her stand in the midst, ⁴ they said to him, "Teacher, this woman was taken in the very act of adultery. ⁵ In the Law Moses commanded to stone such. What do you say?"

³⁴ Jesus answered them, "Truly, truly, I tell you, every one who practices sin is the slave of sin.

⁸ By this is my Father glorified — by your bearing much fruit and becoming my disciples.

²² If I had not come and spoken to them, they would not have had sin; but now they have no excuse for their sin.

²⁴ If I had not done among them works which no other did, they would not have sin. But now they have seen and have hated both me and my Father.

³³ I have coveted no man's silver or gold or apparel.

⁹ For God, whom I serve in my spirit in the good news of his Son, is my witness how unceasingly I make mention of you, always in my prayers

¹³ I am not willing that you should be ignorant, brethren, that often I have purposed to come to you (though until now I have been hindered), in order that I might have some fruit among you as among the other Gentiles.

²⁶ Therefore God gave them over to disgraceful passions. For their females changed the natural use for one contrary to nature,

¹⁷ But if you bear the name of Jew and rely upon the Law, and make your boast in God ¹⁸ and know his will and are a judge of things that differ, because you have been taught out of the Law

²⁷ And the natural uncircumcision if it keeps the Law will judge you who with a written code and circumcision are still a law-breaker. ²⁸ For it is not he who is one outwardly that is a Jew, nor is that circumcision which is outward in the flesh. ²⁹ But he who is one secretly is a Jew, and circumcision is of the heart and in the spirit, not in the letter. His praise is not from men, but from God.

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

⁵ But if our unrighteousness shows the righteousness of God, what shall we say? Is God unrighteous when he inflicts his wrath? (I am speaking humanly.)

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

²⁰ Therefore by works of the Law no human being will be pronounced righteous before him. For through the Law comes the knowledge of sin.

³¹ Do we then by faith nullify the Law? Never. On the contrary we establish the Law.

¹ WHAT then shall we say that Abraham, our forefather according to the flesh, experienced?

⁷ "Blessed are they whose lawless acts have been forgiven, and whose sins have been covered over. ⁸ Blessed is the man whose sin the Lord will not charge up to him."

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

²⁰ But law came in alongside that the fall might be greater; but where sin became greater grace became greater still,

² Never. How shall we who died to sin still live in it? ³ Are you ignorant that all of us who have been baptized into Christ Jesus were baptized into his death? ⁴ We were buried with him by baptism into death, in order that as Christ was raised from the dead through the glory of the Father, so we too might walk in newness of life.

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

¹¹ So you must think yourselves dead to sin, but living to God in Christ Jesus. ¹² Do not let sin reign in your mortal body so that you will obey its lusts, ¹³ and do not yield your members to sin as the instruments of wickedness; but present yourselves to God as men once dead, but now living, and yield your members to God as the instruments of righteousness. ¹⁴ For sin shall not be king over you; for you are not under law, but under grace.

¹⁴ For sin shall not be king over you; for you are not under law, but under grace. ¹⁵ What then? May we sin because we are not under law, but under grace? Never.

¹⁵ What then? May we sin because we are not under law, but under grace? Never.

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.

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.

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.

¹ ARE you ignorant, brethren, for I am speaking to those who know law, that the Law rules over a person while he is living?

⁴ So, my brethren, you were made dead to the Law through the body of Christ, that you might become wedded to another, to him who was raised from the dead, that we might bear fruit to God. ⁵ For when we were in the flesh the sinful passions that arise through the Law were active in our members, so that we bore fruit to death. ⁶ But now the Law has been made inoperative on us, since we have died to that by which we were held, so that we serve in newness of the spirit and not in oldness of the letter. ⁷ What shall we say then? Is the Law sin? Never. But I should not have come to know sin except through the Law. I should not have known lust if the Law had not said, "Thou shalt not lust." ⁸ Sin, taking occasion through the commandment, worked in me every lust. For apart from the Law sin is dead.

⁸ Sin, taking occasion through the commandment, worked in me every lust. For apart from the Law sin is dead.

⁸ Sin, taking occasion through the commandment, worked in me every lust. For apart from the Law sin is dead. ⁹ I was living once, apart from law. But when the commandment came, sin began to live and I died,

⁹ I was living once, apart from law. But when the commandment came, sin began to live and I died, ¹⁰ and the commandment which meant life was found to mean death.

¹⁰ and the commandment which meant life was found to mean death. ¹¹ For sin, taking occasion through the commandment, deceived me and by it killed me.

¹¹ For sin, taking occasion through the commandment, deceived me and by it killed me.

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.

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.

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. ¹⁴ For we know that the Law is spiritual; but I am fleshly, sold under sin. ¹⁵ For what I am doing I do not understand. For not what I choose is what I practice, but what I hate, this I do.

¹⁵ For what I am doing I do not understand. For not what I choose is what I practice, but what I hate, this I do. ¹⁶ But if I do what I do not choose, I agree with the law that it is right.

¹⁶ But if I do what I do not choose, I agree with the law that it is right. ¹⁷ And now it is no longer I that do it, but the Sin that dwells in me.

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²¹ I find then this rule, when I choose to do the right, that evil is present with me.

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

²² I delight in the Law in my inner man,

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.

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.

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. ²⁴ Wretched man that I am! who will deliver me from this body of death? ²⁵ Thanks be to God through Jesus Christ our Lord! So then I myself with my mind serve the Law of God, but with my flesh the law of sin.

² For the law of the Spirit of life in Christ Jesus has freed you from the Law of sin and death. ³ For, what was impossible for the Law, because it was weak through the flesh — God, sending his own Son in the form of sinful flesh and for sin, condemned the sin that is in the flesh,

³ For, what was impossible for the Law, because it was weak through the flesh — God, sending his own Son in the form of sinful flesh and for sin, condemned the sin that is in the flesh, ⁴ so that the righteousness required by the Law might be fulfilled in us who live not according to the flesh, but according to the spirit. ⁵ For those who are living according to the flesh have their minds on the things of the flesh, but those who are living according to the spirit have their minds on the things of the spirit. ⁶ Fleshly mindedness is death, but spiritual mindedness is life and peace. ⁷ Therefore fleshly mindedness is hostile to God; for it is not subject to the Law of God, nor can it be.

⁷ Therefore fleshly mindedness is hostile to God; for it is not subject to the Law of God, nor can it be. ⁸ Those who are in the flesh cannot please God.

⁸ Those who are in the flesh cannot please God. ⁹ But you are not in the flesh, but in the spirit, if the Spirit of God dwells in you. If any one has not the Spirit of Christ, that man is not his.

⁹ But you are not in the flesh, but in the spirit, if the Spirit of God dwells in you. If any one has not the Spirit of Christ, that man is not his. ¹⁰ If Christ is in you the body is dead because of sin, but the spirit is life because of righteousness. ¹¹ If the Spirit of him who raised up Jesus from the dead dwells in you, he who raised up Christ Jesus from the dead gives life even to your mortal bodies, through his indwelling Spirit in you. ¹² So then, brethren, we are debtors, not to the flesh to live according to the flesh; ¹³ for if you live according to the flesh, you will die; but if by the Spirit you put to death the practices of the body, you will live.

¹³ for if you live according to the flesh, you will die; but if by the Spirit you put to death the practices of the body, you will live.

²⁶ Thus also the Spirit helps us in our weakness. For we do not know what to pray for as we ought, but the Spirit itself intercedes for us with sighs beyond words.

³ For I could wish myself to be accursed and cast away from Christ for the sake of my brethren, my kinsmen according to the flesh,

¹ BRETHREN, the desire of my heart and my prayer to God for them is for their salvation.

⁵ For Moses writes that he who does the righteousness of the Law shall live by it.

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.

⁹ Let your love be without pretense. Abhor what is evil; cling to the good.

⁹ For the commandments, "Thou shalt not commit adultery," "Thou shalt not commit murder," "Thou shalt not steal," "Thou shalt not covet," and any other that there may be, are summed up in this: "Thou shalt love thy neighbor as thyself."

¹⁴ But put on the Lord Jesus Christ and make no provision for gratifying physical passions.

²² The faith that you have, have to yourself before God. Blessed is the man who does not condemn himself for what he allows himself.

¹ AND I myself, brethren, could not speak to you as spiritual, but as fleshly, as babes in Christ. ² I fed you with milk, not solid food. For you were not able to take it. Nor are you yet able, for you are still fleshly. ³ For while there is jealousy and strife among you, are you not fleshly and living in man's way?

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.

³⁹ A woman is bound as long as her husband is living. But if her husband falls asleep, she is free to marry whom she will, though only in the Lord.

⁸ Am I saying these things from a man's point of view or does not the Law also say them?

¹⁶ The cup of blessing which we bless, is it not a fellowship in the blood of Christ? The bread which we break, is it not a fellowship in the body of Christ?

⁵⁶ The sting of death is sin, and the power of sin is the Law. ⁵⁷ But thanks be to God who gives us the victory through our Lord Jesus Christ!

⁸ For we do not wish you to be ignorant, brethren, regarding the distress that came on us in Asia — that we were exceedingly weighed down, beyond our strength, so that we despaired even of life. ⁹ Indeed we have the sentence of death within ourselves, that our trust may not rest on ourselves, but on God who raises the dead. ¹⁰ He delivered us from such a death and will deliver, and we have hope in him that he will go on delivering,

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

⁶ who has fitted us to be servants of a new covenant, not of the letter, but of the spirit. For the letter kills, but the spirit gives life. ⁷ If the service that brought death, engraved in letters on stones, came in glory, so that the children of Israel could not look steadily at the face of Moses because of the glory of his face — that fading glory —

⁷ If the service that brought death, engraved in letters on stones, came in glory, so that the children of Israel could not look steadily at the face of Moses because of the glory of his face — that fading glory — ⁸ how much more glorious will not the service of the Spirit be? ⁹ For if the service that brought condemnation was glory, much more will the service that brings righteousness surpass in glory.

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

¹⁷ So if any one is in Christ he is a new creature. The old things have passed away, they have become new.

¹² For if there is first the readiness, a gift is acceptable according to what a man has, not according to what he has not.

¹⁵ Thanks be to God for his unspeakable gift!

² For I am jealous over you with the jealousy of God, for I betrothed you to one husband to present you as a pure virgin to Christ.

⁷ and because of the surpassing nature of the revelations. For this reason, that I should not be puffed up, there was given to me a thorn in the flesh, an angel of Satan, to torment me, so that I should not be puffed up. ⁸ Regarding this I three times begged the Lord that it might leave me. 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.

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.

¹⁹ For I through law died to law that I might live to God.

¹⁹ For I through law died to law that I might live to God. ²⁰ I have been crucified with Christ. I am living, yet no longer I, but Christ is living in me. The life that I am now living in flesh I am living by faith in the Son of God, who loved me and gave himself for me.

¹⁰ For all who are of the works of law are under a curse, for it is written, "Cursed is every one who does not abide by all the precepts of the book of the Law and do them."

¹² But the Law is not of faith, but "He who does these things shall live by them." ¹³ Christ redeemed us from the curse of the Law by becoming a curse for our sake, for it is written, "Cursed is every one who hangs on a tree,"

²¹ Is the Law then against the promises of God? Never! For if a law had been given which could give life, then really righteousness would have come by law.

²³ Before faith came we were guarded under law, shut up waiting for the faith that was to be revealed. ²⁴ Thus the Law became our tutor leading us to Christ, that we might be declared righteous by faith. ²⁵ Now that faith has come, we are no longer under a tutor.

⁴ but, when the fullness of time came, God sent forth his Son born of a woman, born under the Law, ⁵ that he might redeem those who were under Law, that we might receive the recognition as sons.

²¹ Tell me, you who wish to be under law, do you not hear the Law?

¹⁶ I say, walk in the Spirit and you will not carry out the passions of the flesh. ¹⁷ For the flesh has passions contrary to the Spirit and the Spirit contrary to the flesh, for these are opposed to each other, so that you may not do whatever you wish.

¹⁷ For the flesh has passions contrary to the Spirit and the Spirit contrary to the flesh, for these are opposed to each other, so that you may not do whatever you wish.

¹⁷ For the flesh has passions contrary to the Spirit and the Spirit contrary to the flesh, for these are opposed to each other, so that you may not do whatever you wish. ¹⁸ But if you are led by the Spirit you are not under law.

¹⁸ But if you are led by the Spirit you are not under law. ¹⁹ The works of the flesh are obvious, such as unchastity, impurity, indecency,

¹⁹ The works of the flesh are obvious, such as unchastity, impurity, indecency, ²⁰ idolatry, magic, hatred, strife, jealousy, anger, rivalries, dissensions, factions,

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.

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,

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

²³ gentleness, self-control; against such there is no law. ²⁴ Those who belong to Christ Jesus have crucified the flesh with its emotions and passions.

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

¹⁵ For neither is circumcision anything nor uncircumcision, but a new creation.

¹ YOU also God raised to life when you were dead in misdeeds and sins ² in which you once walked, following the ways of this age of the world, led by the Ruler of the power of the air, the spirit who now works in the sons of disobedience. 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.

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 —

¹¹ Therefore remember that once you were Gentiles in the flesh and were called uncircumcision by the so-called circumcision in the flesh, made by hands,

¹⁵ In his own flesh he has ended the force of the law of commandments in ordinances in order to make the two, in himself, into one new man, thus making peace,

⁸ To me, the least of all the holy, has this grace been given, to proclaim to the Gentiles the good news of the unsearchable riches of Christ

¹⁶ that he may grant to you according to his glorious wealth to be strengthened with might through his Spirit in the inner man,

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

³ Unchastity or any kind of impurity or greediness must not be mentioned among you, as befits holy people;

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

²³ because a man is the head of his wife as Christ is the head of the church and he is the savior of the body. ²⁴ But as the church is subject to Christ, so wives are to their husbands in everything. ²⁵ Husbands, love your wives, as Christ also loved the church and gave himself for it, ²⁶ that he might make it holy, cleansing it by the washing with water according to his word, ²⁷ that he might present to himself the church glorious, without spot or wrinkle or any such thing, but holy and faultless.

¹¹ Put on the complete armor of God so that you may be able to stand against the cunning arts of the Devil. ¹² For our wrestling is not against flesh and blood, but against the arch-angels, against the authorities, against the world-rulers of this darkness, against spiritual forces of wickedness in the heavenly heights. ¹³ Therefore take the complete armor of God, that you may be able to withstand in the evil day and, after going through everything, to stand.

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

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

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,

⁵ circumcised the eighth day, of the race of Israel, of the tribe of Benjamin, a Hebrew of Hebrews, as to the Law a Pharisee, ⁶ as to zeal persecuting the church, as to the righteousness of the Law blameless.

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 ⁹ and be found in him, not having my own righteousness that was from the Law, but that which is through faith in Christ, the righteousness which comes from God and rests on faith,

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.

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.

⁶ Do not worry, but in everything by prayer and entreaty with thanksgiving let your requests be made known to God.

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

⁶ which has come to you. Just as in all the world it is bearing fruit and growing, so also it is among you since the day that you heard and learned of the grace of God in truth.

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.

²² by his body of flesh through death, to present you holy and spotless and blameless before him,

¹¹ In him you were circumcised with a circumcision not done by hands, by laying aside your fleshly body in the circumcision of Christ.

¹⁴ He erased the writing that was against us in the rules, the writing that was opposed to us. He has taken it out of the way by nailing it to his cross.

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,

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

⁹ Do not lie to one another. You have stripped off the old self with his practices ¹⁰ and have clothed yourselves with the new self, which is being renewed into knowledge in the image of its Creator.

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.

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

⁸ We know that the Law is excellent, if any one uses it lawfully.

¹¹ But younger widows refuse, for when wanton desires lead them away from Christ they wish to marry ¹² and thus they incur condemnation for breaking their first promise. ¹³ At the same time they learn to be idle, going around from house to house, and not only idle, but gossips, and busybodies, saying what they should not. ¹⁴ I would, therefore, have the younger widows marry, bear children, keep house, give no occasion to our enemies for slander.

¹¹ But you, O man of God, must shun this. Pursue righteousness, piety, faith, love, endurance, gentleness. 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.

¹⁹ However, God's solid foundation stands, with this inscription, "The Lord knows his own," and, "Let every one who names the Lord's name turn from wickedness."

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

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.

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

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.

⁹ Thou lovest righteousness and hatest lawlessness, therefore God, thy God, has anointed thee with the oil of gladness beyond thy companions."

¹⁵ and set free all those who through fear of death were all their lives doomed to slavery.

¹⁷ And for that reason he had to be made like his brethren in everything, so as to be a compassionate and faithful high priest in things relating to God, to make propitiation for the sins of the people.

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

¹² For the word of God is living and effective and sharper than any two-edged sword, and it pierces until it divides soul and spirit, joints and marrow, and it judges the thoughts and purposes of the heart.

¹⁵ For we have not a high priest who cannot sympathize with our weaknesses, for he has been tempted in every way just as we are, yet without sin.

¹⁰ This is the covenant that I will make with the house of Israel after those days, says the Lord; I will put my laws into their minds and will write them upon their hearts and I will be their God and they will be my people.

¹⁰ By this "will" we are made holy through the offering of the body of Jesus Christ once for all.

⁴ You have not yet resisted to blood in the contest against sin,

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.

¹⁵ Then when passion has conceived it gives birth to sin, and sin, when it is full grown, gives birth to death.

²² Become doers of the message and not hearers only, deceiving your own selves.

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.

⁹ But if you have partiality, you commit sin and are convicted by the law as law-breakers. ¹⁰ For he who keeps the whole law, but stumbles in one point, has become guilty of all.

¹⁰ For he who keeps the whole law, but stumbles in one point, has become guilty of all. ¹¹ For he who said, "Thou shalt not commit adultery," said also, "Thou shalt not commit murder." If you do not commit adultery, but do commit murder, you have become a law-breaker.

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.

¹ WHENCE come wars and whence come strifes among you? Is it not from your pleasures which carry on war in your members?

⁵ Do you think that the Scripture speaks to no purpose? Does the Spirit which he made dwell in us long enviously? ⁶ But he gives greater grace. Therefore it says, "God opposes the proud, but gives grace to the humble."

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.

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.

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

⁴ but the hidden personality of the heart must wear the imperishable beauty of a gentle and quiet spirit, which is in God's sight most precious.

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.

¹⁹ While they promise them liberty they themselves are the slaves of corruption; for by whatever any one is overcome to that he is enslaved.

⁷ If we live in the light, as he is in the light, we have fellowship with one another and the blood of Jesus his Son cleanses us from all sin. ⁸ If we say, "We have no sin," we deceive ourselves and the truth is not in us.

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.

⁴ Every one who commits sin commits also lawlessness; for sin is lawlessness.

²³ pull them out of the fire and save them. Others pity with fear, hating even the tunic spotted by the flesh.

⁷ Let us rejoice and be glad and give glory to him; for the marriage of the Lamb has come and his bride has prepared herself

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

⁹ Then one of the angels that had the seven bowls filled with the seven last plagues came and spoke with me. "Come here," he said, "and I will show you the Bride, the Lamb's wife."