1 Timothy Cross References - Sawyer

^{1 (1:1)} PAUL, an apostle of Jesus Christ by the commandment of God our Saviour and Christ Jesus our hope, ² to Timothy my true son in the faith; grace, mercy, and peace from God our Father and Christ Jesus our Lord. ^{3 (1:2)} As I requested you to remain at Ephesus, when going into Macedonia, that you might charge some not to preach another doctrine, ⁴ nor attend to myths or interminable genealogies, which occasion disputes rather than a dispensation of God by faith, [do.] ⁵ But the end of the commandment is love from a pure heart and good conscience and faith unfeigned, ⁶ which some having missed turned aside to vain words, ⁷ desiring to be teachers of the law, not understanding what they say nor about what they make confident assertions. ⁸ But we know that the law is good if one uses it lawfully; ⁹ knowing this, that a law is not made for a righteous man, but for the wicked and disorderly, the impious and sinful, the unholy and profane, murderers of fathers and murderers of mothers and murderers of their fellow-men, ¹⁰ fornicators, sodomites, men-stealers, liars, perjurers, and whatever else is contrary to sound doctrine, ¹¹ according to the glorious gospel of the blessed God, with which I have been intrusted. ¹² And I thank our Lord Jesus Christ who has empowered me [to preach,] that he accounted me faithful, putting me in the ministry, ¹³ who formerly was a blasphemer and persecutor and an injurious man; but I obtained mercy because I did those things ignorantly in unbelief; ¹⁴ and the grace of our Lord greatly abounded with the faith and love which is in Christ Jesus. ¹⁵ The word is true and worthy of all acceptation, that Christ Jesus came into the world to save sinners, of whom I am chief; ¹⁶ but on this account I obtained mercy, that Jesus Christ might exhibit in me first all long-suffering, for an example to those who should hereafter believe in him to life eternal. ¹⁷ And to the King eternal, immortal, invisible, the only God, be honor and glory forever and ever; amen. ^{18 (1:3)} This charge I commit to you, son Timothy, according to the prophecies which went before concerning you, that by them you may perform an honorable service, ¹⁹ having faith and a good conscience, which some having cast away have suffered shipwreck of the faith; ²⁰ of whom are Hymenaeus and Alexander, whom I delivered to Satan, that they may learn not to blaspheme.

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

⁸ Blessed are the pure in heart, for they shall see God.

³³ Again, you have heard that it was said by the ancients, You shall not swear falsely, but shall perform to the Lord your oaths. ³⁴ But I tell you, Swear not at all; neither by heaven, for it is God's throne; ³⁵ nor by the earth, for it is his footstool, nor by Jerusalem, for it is the city of the great King; ³⁶ nor swear by your head, for you cannot make one hair white or black. ³⁷ But let your speech be, yes, yes, and no, no; for any thing more than this is evil.

¹³ and bring us not into trial, but deliver us from evil.

²⁷ Which of you by being anxious can add one cubit to his stature?

¹³ Go and learn what this means: I wish for mercy and not a sacrifice; for I came not to call the righteous, but sinners.

²¹ And a brother shall deliver a brother to death, and a father a son; and children shall rise up against their parents and put them to death;

³⁵ The good man, out of his good treasury, casts forth good things; and the evil man, out of his evil treasury, casts forth evil things.

¹⁴ Let them go; they are blind guides of the blind. But if the blind lead the blind, they will both fall into the pit.

^{10 (16:3)} See that you despise not one of these little ones; for I tell you that their angels always behold the face of my Father in heaven.

¹⁷ and if he will not hear them, tell the assembly; and if he will not hear the assembly, let him be to you as a gentile and a publican.

²⁸ as the Son of man came not to be served, but to serve, and to give his life a ransom for many.

²⁷ And they answered Jesus, and said, We do not know. And he said to them, Neither do I tell you by what authority I do these things.

¹⁶ Woe to you blind guides, who say, Whoever swears by the temple, it is nothing; but whoever swears by the gold of the temple, he is bound. ¹⁷ Fools and blind! for which is greater, the gold, or the temple which sanctifies the gold? ¹⁸ If a man swears by the altar, it is nothing; but if be swears by the gift which is on it, he is bound. ¹⁹ Fools and blind! For which is greater, the gift, or the altar which sanctifies the gift? ²⁰ He then that swears by the altar, swears by it, and by all things on it; ²¹ and he that swears by the temple, swears by it, and by him that inhabits it; ²² and he that swears by heaven, swears by the throne of God, and by him that sits on it. ^{23 (21:3)} Woe to you scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites! For you tithe mint, and anise, and cummin, and have neglected the weightier matters of the law, justice, mercy, and faith. These you ought to do, and not neglect the others. ²⁴ Blind guides! who strain out a gnat and swallow down a camel.

^{34 (22:14)} Then shall the king say to those on his right hand, Come, blessed of my Father, inherit the kingdom prepared for you from the foundation of the world;

²⁰ teaching them to keep all things which I have commanded you; and behold, I am with you always till the consummation of the world.

¹⁷ And Jesus hearing it, said to them, The well need not a physician, but the ill; I came not to call the righteous, but sinners.

²¹ for from within, from the hearts of men, proceed evil thoughts, fornications, ²² thefts, murders, adulteries, covetousness, malice, deceit, lewdness, an evil eye, blasphemy, pride, foolishness.

^{28 (11:11)} And one of the scribes coming forward hearing them disputing, knowing that he answered them well, asked him, What commandment is first of all? ²⁹ Jesus answered, First is, Hear Israel, the Lord our God is one Lord; ³⁰ and you shall love the Lord your God with all your heart, and with all your soul, and with all your strength. ³¹ Second is this, You shall love your neighbor as yourself. There is no other commandment greater than these. ³² And the scribe said to him, Well, teacher, you have said truly; there is one [God], and no other but him; ³³ and to love him with all the heart, and all the understanding, and all the strength, and to love one's neighbor as himself, is more than all burnt offerings and sacrifices. ³⁴ And Jesus seeing him, that he answered understandingly, said to him, You are not far from the kingdom of God; and no one dared to question him more.

⁴⁷ and my spirit exults in God my Saviour;

¹⁰ And the angel said to them, Fear not; for, behold, I bring you good news of a great joy, which shall be for all people. ¹¹ For to you was born to-day in the city of David, a Saviour who is the anointed Lord.

¹¹ For to you was born to-day in the city of David, a Saviour who is the anointed Lord.

¹⁴ Glory to God in the highest [heavens], on earth peace, and among men good will!

³² I have not come to call the righteous, but sinners to a change of mind.

⁴⁷ Therefore, I tell you, her sins, which are many, are forgiven; for she has loved much; but he to whom little is forgiven, loves little.

⁴⁷ Therefore, I tell you, her sins, which are many, are forgiven; for she has loved much; but he to whom little is forgiven, loves little. ⁴⁸ And he said to her, Your sins are forgiven. ⁴⁹ And those who reclined with him said within themselves, Who is this that forgives sins also? ⁵⁰ And he said to the woman, Your faith has saved you; go in peace.

⁴⁷ And that servant who knew his lord's will and prepared not himself, nor did according to his will, shall be beaten with many stripes;

¹⁰ So, I tell you, there is joy before the angels of God over one sinner that changes his mind.

¹³ And the publican, standing afar off, would not lift up his eyes to heaven, but smote on his breast, saying, God, be propitious to me a sinner. ¹⁴ I tell you this man went down to his house justified rather than that; for every one that exalts himself shall be humbled, and he that humbles himself shall be exalted.

⁷ And seeing it, they all complained, saying, He has gone in to stop with a sinner. ^{8 (24:4)} And Zaccheus stood up and said to the Lord, Behold, half of my property, Lord, I give to the poor; and if I have defrauded any one of any thing, I restore fourfold. ⁹ And Jesus said to him, To-day has salvation come to this house, because he also is a son of Abraham; ¹⁰ for the Son of man has come to seek and save the lost.

³⁴ And Jesus said, Father, forgive them, for they know not what they do. And distributing his garments they cast lots [for them].

⁴³ And he said to him, I tell you truly, to-day you shall be with me in paradise.

¹² But as many as received him, to them gave he power to become sons of God, to them that believe on his name,

¹⁸ No one has ever seen God; the only Son, who is in the bosom of the Father, he declared [him].

^{29 (2:3)} On the next day he saw Jesus coming to him, and said, Behold the Lamb of God, who takes away the sin of the world.

^{9 (4:3)} Nicodemus answered and said to him, How can these things be? ¹⁰ Jesus answered and said to him, Are you a teacher of Israel and know not these things?

¹⁵ that every one believing in him may have eternal life. ¹⁶ For God so loved the world that he gave his only Son, that every one believing in him may not perish but have eternal life.

¹⁶ For God so loved the world that he gave his only Son, that every one believing in him may not perish but have eternal life. ¹⁷ For God sent not his Son into the world to judge the world, but that the world through him might be saved.

³⁶ He that believes on the Son has eternal life; but he that disbelieves the Son shall not see life, but the wrath of God continues on him.

²³ that all should honor the Son as they honor the Father. He that honors not the Son honors not the Father that sent him. ^{24 (7:3)} I tell you most truly, he that hears my word and believes him that sent me has eternal life, and comes not into judgment, but has passed from death to life.

³⁷ Every thing which the Father gives to me shall come to me, and him that comes to me I will by no means cast out;

⁴⁰ For this is the will of my Father, that every one who sees the Son and believes in him should have eternal life; and I will raise him up at the last day.

⁵⁴ He that eats my flesh and drinks my blood has eternal life, and I will raise him up at the last day.

⁴⁴ You are of your father the devil, and the desires of your father you will to do. He was a murderer from the beginning and stood not by the truth; for truth is not in him. When he speaks a lie, he speaks from his own; for he is a liar, and the father of him [that lies].

³⁹ And Jesus said, I came into this world for judgment, that those not seeing may see, and those seeing become blind. ^{40 (12:7)} And the Pharisees who were with him heard these things and said to him, Are we also blind? ⁴¹ Jesus said to them, If you were blind you would not have had sin; but now you say, We see, your sin remains.

⁴⁷ And if any one hears my words and keeps them not, I do not judge him; for I came not to judge the world but to save the world.

³¹ but these are recorded that you may believe that Jesus is the Christ, the Son of God, and that believing you may have life in his name.

¹⁷ And now, brothers, I know that you did it without knowledge, as did also your rulers;

²⁶ God having raised up his servant has sent him to you first, to bless you by turning each [one of you] from your evil ways.

³ But Saul persecuted the church, and going from house to house, seizing men and women, committed them to prison.

^{1 (7:1)} BUT Saul, yet breathing out threatening and slaughter against the disciples of the Lord, went to the chief priest

⁵ And he said, Who are you, Lord? And he said, I am Jesus whom you persecute.

¹³ And Ananias answered, Lord, I have heard by many of this man, how much evil he has done to your saints at Jerusalem;

¹⁵ But the Lord said to him, Go, for he is a chosen vessel to me, to bear my name both before nations and kings, and the children of Israel;

²² But Saul increased in power and confounded the Jews living at Damascus, proving that this is the Christ.

^{1 (9:1)} AND the apostles and brothers who were in Judea heard that the gentiles received the word of God.

¹⁸ And hearing these things they were silent, and glorified God, saying, Then to the gentiles also has God indeed given the change of mind to life.

³⁹ and every one who believes is justified by him from all things from which you could not be justified by the law of Moses.

⁴⁵ And the Jews seeing the multitudes were filled with envy, and contradicted the things said by Paul, disputing and blaspheming.

^{1 (12:1)} AND certain persons having come down from Judea taught the brothers, If you are not circumcised according to the custom of Moses you cannot be saved.

⁹ and made no difference between us and them, purifying their hearts by the faith.

¹¹ But we believe that we shall be saved through the grace of the Lord Jesus in the same manner as they.

¹ And he went to Derbe and Lystra. And behold, there was a certain disciple there by the name of Timothy, a son of a Jewish woman, a believer, but of a Greek father, ² who was commended by the brothers in Lystra and Iconium. ³ Him Paul wished to have go with him; and he took and circumcised him on account of the Jews who were in those places; for all knew that his father was a Greek.

^{15 (14:2)} And when she was baptized, and her house, she requested saying, If you have judged me faithful to the Lord, come into my house and stay; and she constrained us.

¹⁹ And they came to Ephesus, and he left them there, and entering himself into the synagogue reasoned with the Jews.

^{1 (17:2)} And when Apollos was at Corinth, Paul, passing through the higher portions of the country, came to Ephesus, and found certain disciples; ² and he said to them, Have you received the Holy Spirit since you believed? And they said to him, We have not heard that there is a Holy Spirit. ³ And he said to them, With what then were you baptized? And they said, With John's baptism. ⁴ Paul said, John indeed baptized [administered] the baptism of a change of mind, telling the people to believe on him that was to come after him, that is, on Jesus. ⁵ And hearing this they were baptized in the name of the Lord Jesus: ⁶ and Paul putting his hands on them, the Holy Spirit came on them, and they spoke with tongues and prophesied. ⁷ And all the men were about twelve. ^{8 (17:3)} And going into the synagogue he spoke boldly, for three months, reasoning and persuading in favor of the kingdom of God. ⁹ But when some were hardened and believed not, speaking evil of the way before the multitude, he left them and separated the disciples from them, and reasoned day by day in the school of one Tyrannus. ¹⁰ And this was done for two years, so that all who lived in Asia heard the word of the Lord, both Jews and Greeks.

³³ And they advanced Alexander from the multitude, the Jews putting him forward; and Alexander motioning with his hand, wished to defend himself before the people.

^{1 (18:1)} AFTER the tumult was allayed, Paul calling the disciples and embracing them departed to go into Macedonia. ² And going through those parts, and exhorting them with many words, he went into Greece; ³ and when he had staid there three months, and a conspiracy was formed against him by the Jews as he was about to sail to Syria, he determined to return through Macedonia.

⁴ and I persecuted this way to death, binding and committing to prison both men and women,

¹ And Paul looking steadily at the Sanhedrim, said, Men and brothers, I have lived before God in all good conscience to this day.

¹⁶ And in this also I endeavor always to have a conscience without offense towards God and man.

⁹ I indeed thought with myself that I ought to do many things contrary to the name of Jesus the Nazoraean, ¹⁰ which I also did at Jerusalem, and many of the saints I shut up in prison, having received authority from the chief priests, and when they were killed I gave my vote against them. ¹¹ And punishing them often in all the synagogues, I compelled them to blaspheme, and being exceedingly mad against them, I pursued them even to cities abroad.

¹⁶ But rise and stand on your feet; for I have appeared to you for this purpose, to make you a minister and witness both of what you have seen and [of visions ] in which I will appear to you, ¹⁷ delivering you from the people, and the gentiles, to whom I send you ¹⁸ to open their eyes, to turn them from darkness to light, and from the power of Satan to God, that they may receive forgiveness of sins and an inheritance among the sanctified by faith in me.

^{1 (1:1)} PAUL, a servant of Christ Jesus, called to be an apostle, set apart to the gospel of God,—

⁷ to all who are at Rome, beloved of God, called to be saints. Grace be to you and peace from God our Father and the Lord Jesus Christ.

²⁰ For his invisible [attributes] are clearly seen from the creation of the world, being perceived by the things which are made, even his eternal power and deity, so that they have no defense,

²² Saying that they were wise they became foolish, ²³ and changed the glory of the imperishable God into the likeness of the image of perishable man, and of birds, and quadrupeds, and reptiles.

^{26 (2:3)} Therefore God gave them up to infamous affections; for their females changed a natural enjoyment for that which is against nature,

³⁰ evil speakers, haters of God, injurious, proud, boasters, inventors of evil things, disobedient to parents,

⁴ or do you despise the riches of his goodness and forbearance and long suffering, not knowing that the goodness of God leads you to a change of mind? ⁵ But according to your hardness and unchanged heart you treasure up wrath for yourself in the day of wrath and of a revelation of the righteous judgment of God,

⁷ to those who by patience in good works seek for glory and honor and immortality, eternal life;

¹⁶ in the day when God shall judge the secret [doings] of men according to my gospel through Jesus Christ.

¹⁹ and believe yourself to be a guide of the blind, a light of those in darkness, ²⁰ an instructor of the foolish, a teacher of babes, having the form of knowledge and of the truth in the law; ²¹ you that teach another, do you not teach yourself? You that preach not to steal, do you steal?

²⁴ being justified freely by his grace through the redemption in Christ Jesus, ²⁵ whom God set forth [to be] a propitiator through faith in his blood, to show his righteousness because of the passing by of the errors committed previously in the forbearance of God, ²⁶ to show his righteousness at the present time, that he may be righteous and justify him that is of faith.

^{13 (3:5)} For the promise to Abraham and his posterity that he should inherit the world was not through the law but through the righteousness of faith.

⁶ For when we were yet weak, in due time Christ died for the wicked;

⁸ but God commends his love to us, that while we were yet sinners Christ died for us; ⁹ much more then being now justified by his blood, we shall be saved through him from wrath. ¹⁰ For if when enemies we were reconciled to God through the death of his Son, much more having become reconciled we shall be saved in his life.

¹⁵ but not as the fall so also is the gift; for if by the fall of one the many died, much more the grace of God and the gift by grace which is of the one man Jesus Christ, abounded to the many; ¹⁶ and not as through one that sinned is the gift; for the judgment was by one to condemnation, but the gift was from many sins to a righteous ordinance; ¹⁷ for if by one fall death reigned through the one, much more those who receive the abundance of the grace and of the gift of righteousness shall reign in life through the one, Jesus Christ;— ¹⁸ therefore, as through the fall of one [judgment came] on all men to condemnation, so also through the righteous ordinance of one [the gift comes] on all men to justification of life; ¹⁹ for as through the disobedience of the one man the many were constituted sinners, so also through the obedience of the one shall the many be constituted righteous. ²⁰ For the law supervened that the fall might abound; but where the sin abounded the grace was superabundant,

²⁰ For the law supervened that the fall might abound; but where the sin abounded the grace was superabundant,

²⁰ For the law supervened that the fall might abound; but where the sin abounded the grace was superabundant, ²¹ that as sin reigned in death, so the grace shall reign through righteousness in life eternal through Jesus Christ our Lord.

¹⁴ For sin shall not have a Lordship over you; for you are not under the law but under the grace.

²³ For the wages of sin is death; but the gift of God is eternal life by Christ Jesus our Lord.

¹² The law therefore is holy, and the commandment holy and righteous and good. ¹³ Did then that which is good become death to me? By no means, but sin; that sin might be made manifest, producing death to me through that which is good, that sin might become exceedingly sinful through the commandment.

¹⁶ But if what I wish not this I do, I consent to the law that it is good;

¹⁸ For I know that in me, that is in my flesh, there dwells no good. For to wish is present with me, but to do the good is not;

²² for I consent to the law of God as to my inward man, [my soul],

^{1 (7:1)} I SPEAK the truth in Christ, I lie not, my conscience bearing me witness with the Holy Spirit,

⁴ For Christ is the end of the law for righteousness to every one that believes.

³⁰ For as you once disobeyed God, but now have obtained mercy by their disobedience, ³¹ so also they now have disobeyed that they may obtain mercy by your mercy.

³⁶ For of him and through him, and in him are all things; to him be glory forever; amen.

² and be not conformed to this life, but be transformed by the renewing of the mind, that you may prove what is the will of God which is good and well-pleasing and perfect.

⁸ Owe no man any thing, except to love one another; for he that loves another has fully performed the law. ⁹ For this, You shall not commit adultery, You shall not kill, You shall not steal, You shall not desire inordinately, and if there is any other commandment, it is summarily comprehended in this word; You shall love your neighbor as yourself. ¹⁰ Love does no evil to a neighbor; love therefore is the sum of the law.

¹⁵ For if your brother is grieved by your food, you no longer walk in love. Destroy not with your food him for whom Christ died.

⁴ For those things which were written before were written for our instruction, that through patience and the consolation of the Scriptures we may have hope.

¹² And again, Isaiah says, There shall be a root of Jesse and he shall stand up to rule nations, in him shall nations hope. ¹³ And may the God of hope fill you with all joy and peace in believing, that you may abound in hope by the power of the Holy Spirit.

²⁰ And the God of peace shall crush Satan under your feet shortly. The grace of our Lord Jesus Christ be with you.

²⁷ to the only wise God, through Jesus Christ, to him be the glory forever; amen.

^{1 (1:1)} PAUL, called to be an apostle of Jesus Christ by the will of God, and Sosthenes the brother,

^{1 (1:9)} Let a man so regard us as servants of Christ and stewards of the mysteries of God. ² But, moreover, it is required of stewards that one should be found faithful.

^{14 (1:11)} I write these things not to shame you, but as my beloved children, I admonish you. ¹⁵ For if you have ten thousand teachers in Christ still you have not many fathers; for in Christ Jesus I have begotten you by the gospel. ¹⁶ I exhort you therefore, be followers of me. ¹⁷ For this reason I sent you Timothy, who is my beloved and faithful son in the Lord, who will remind you of my ways in Christ, as I teach everywhere, in every church.

⁴ in the name of our Lord Jesus you being assembled together and my spirit with the power of our Lord Jesus ⁵ to deliver such a one to Satan for the destruction of the flesh, that the spirit may be saved in the day of the Lord.

⁹ Know you not that the unjust shall not inherit the kingdom of God? Be not deceived; neither fornicators, nor idolaters, nor adulterers, nor the effeminate, nor sodomites, ¹⁰ nor thieves, nor covetous persons, nor drunkards, nor revilers, nor the rapacious, shall inherit the kingdom of God.

^{25 (3:5)} And concerning the virgins I have no ordinance of the Lord, but I give an opinion as one that has obtained mercy of the Lord to be faithful.

^{1 (3:8)} And concerning things offered to idols we all have knowledge. Knowledge puffs up, but love edifies. ² And if any one thinks he knows any thing, he yet knows nothing as he ought to know; ³ but if any one loves God, this [man] is known by him.

¹⁷ For if I do this willingly, I have a reward; but if unwillingly, I am intrusted with a stewardship.

¹⁹ For it is necessary that there should be heresies among you, that the approved may be manifest among you.

³² but being judged, we are chastened by the Lord, that we may not be condemned with the world.

^{1 (6:5)} If I speak with the tongues of men and of angels and have not love, I am a sounding brass and a tinkling cymbal.

^{1 (6:8)} Cherish love, and be earnestly desirous of spiritual gifts, but rather that you may prophesy.

⁹ For I am the least of the apostles, and am not worthy to be called an apostle, because I persecuted the church of God; ¹⁰ but by the grace of God I am what I am, and his grace to me was not in vain, but I labored more abundantly than they all, but not I but the grace of God with me.

^{1 (1:1)} PAUL, an apostle of Jesus Christ by the will of God, and Timothy the brother, to the church of God which is at Corinth, with all the saints who are in all Achaia.

^{12 (1:4)} For this is our rejoicing; the testimony of our conscience that in purity and godly sincerity, not with a carnal wisdom, but with a divine grace, we have conducted ourselves in the world, and most abundantly towards you.

⁵ not that we are sufficient of ourselves to reason out any thing as of ourselves, but our sufficiency is of God, ⁶ who also has made us able ministers of the new covenant, not of the writing but of the spirit; for the writing kills, but the spirit makes alive.

⁸ how shall not the ministry of the spirit be glorious? ⁹ For if the ministry of condemnation was a glory, much more will the ministry of righteousness abound in glory. ¹⁰ For that which was made glorious was not glorious in this respect, on account of the surpassing glory. ¹¹ For if that which has passed away was with glory, much more will that which continues be in glory.

^{1 (1:12)} Therefore, having this ministry, as we have obtained mercy we faint not,

⁴ in whom the god of this life has blinded the minds of the unbelieving, that the light of the gospel of the glory of Christ, who is the likeness of God, may not shine.

⁶ For God who commanded the light to shine out of darkness, has shone in our hearts to give us the light of the knowledge of the glory of God in the face of Jesus Christ.

¹⁸ And all things are of God, who has reconciled us to himself by Jesus Christ, and given us the ministry of the reconciliation, ¹⁹ to wit, that God was in Christ reconciling the world to himself, not imputing to them their offenses, and has given to us the word of reconciliation. ²⁰ We are embassadors therefore for Christ, as though God besought you by us; we pray you, for Christ, be reconciled to God.

⁹ now I rejoice, not that you were grieved, but that you grieved to a change of mind; for you were grieved in a godly manner, to suffer injury from us in nothing. ¹⁰ For godly sorrow produces a change of mind to salvation not to be repented of; but the sorrow of the world produces death.

⁹ for you know the grace of our Lord Jesus Christ, that for your sakes he became poor, though rich, that you by his poverty might be rich.

³ For though we walk in the flesh we do not war according to the flesh, ⁴ for the arms of our warfare are not of flesh, but mighty with God to the pulling down of strongholds,

⁶ and being ready to punish every disobedience, when your obedience is completed.

⁹ And he said to me, My grace is sufficient for you; for power is perfected in weakness. ¹⁰ Most gladly, therefore, will I glory in my infirmities, that the power of Christ may rest upon me. Wherefore I am well pleased with infirmities, with injuries, with necessities, with persecutions, with distresses for Christ; for when I am weak, then am I strong.

¹⁰ For this reason, being absent, I write these things, that I may not use sharpness when present, with the power which the Lord has given me for building up, and not for pulling down.

¹⁴ The grace of the Lord Jesus Christ, and the love of God, and the fellowship of the Holy Spirit be with you all.

^{1 (1:1)} PAUL an apostle, not from men nor by man but by Jesus Christ and God the Father who raised him from the dead,

³ Grace be to you and peace from God the Father and our Lord Jesus Christ,

^{6 (1:2)} I wonder that you have so quickly turned away from him that called you in the grace of Christ to another gospel,

^{6 (1:2)} I wonder that you have so quickly turned away from him that called you in the grace of Christ to another gospel, ⁷ which is not another; but there are some who disturb you and wish to subvert the gospel of Christ.

⁷ which is not another; but there are some who disturb you and wish to subvert the gospel of Christ. ⁸ But if we or an angel from heaven preach you another gospel contrary to what we have preached you let him be accursed.

^{11 (1:3)} For I certify you, brothers, of the gospel preached by me, that it is not according to man;

¹³ For you heard of my conduct formerly in Judaism, that I greatly persecuted the church of God and destroyed it;

⁷ but on the contrary seeing that I was intrusted with the gospel of the uncircumcision, as Peter was of the circumcision,—

² This only would I learn of you. Did you receive the Spirit by works of the law, or by a hearing of faith?

⁵ He then that imparts to you the Spirit, and exercises miraculous powers among you, does he do it by works of the law, or by the doctrine of faith?

¹⁰ For as many as are of works of the law are under a curse; for it is written, Cursed is every one that continues not in all things written in the book of the law to do them. ¹¹ And it is evident that no one is justified by the law before God, because the just shall live by faith, ¹² but the law is not of faith, but he that does these things shall live by them. ¹³ Christ redeemed us from the curse of the law, having become a curse for us, for it is written, Cursed is every one that hangs on a tree, ¹⁴ that the blessing of Abraham may come on the nations, in Christ Jesus, that we may receive the promise of the Spirit through the faith.

¹⁹ What then? The law was added on account of transgressions, till the offspring should come to which the promise was made, being appointed by angels by the hand of a mediator.

^{21 (2:4)} Is the law then against the promises of God? By no means. For if a law had been given, able to give life, righteousness would really have been by the law;

^{21 (2:8)} Tell me, you that wish to be under the law, do you not hear the law?

³ For I testify again to every man that is circumcised, that he is bound to perform the whole law. ⁴ You have departed from Christ, whoever of you are justified by the law, you have fallen from the grace.

⁴ You have departed from Christ, whoever of you are justified by the law, you have fallen from the grace.

⁶ For in Christ Jesus neither circumcision avails any thing nor uncircumcision, but faith which works by love.

¹³ For you are called to liberty, brothers, only make not your liberty an occasion for the flesh, but by love serve one another. ¹⁴ For all the law is fully contained in one precept; you shall love your neighbor as yourself.

¹⁹ For the works of the flesh are manifest, which are, fornication, impurity, lewdness, ²⁰ idolatry, magic, enmities, strife, envy, anger, contentions, dissensions, heresies, ²¹ murders, drunkenness, revellings and the like, of which I tell you before, as I have also previously told you, that those who do such things shall not inherit the kingdom of God.

²¹ murders, drunkenness, revellings and the like, of which I tell you before, as I have also previously told you, that those who do such things shall not inherit the kingdom of God. ²² But the fruit of the Spirit is love, joy, peace, long suffering, kindness, goodness, faith, ²³ meekness, temperance; against such there is no law.

⁶ to the praise of his glorious grace, which he bestowed upon us in the beloved, ⁷ in whom we have the redemption through his blood, the forgiveness of sins, according to the riches of his grace, ⁸ which he bestowed on us abundantly with all wisdom and knowledge

¹² that we should be for a praise of his glory, who first trusted in Christ;

⁷ that he might show in the ages to come the transcendent riches of his grace in goodness to us by Jesus Christ.

⁸ To me, who am the least of all saints, was this grace given, to preach to the nations the unsearchable riches of Christ,

¹⁰ that now to the principalities and powers in the heavenly [worlds] should be made known, through the church, the manifold wisdom of God,

²⁰ To him that is able to do far beyond all that we ask or think, by the power which operates in us, ²¹ to him be the glory in the church in Jesus Christ to all generations, for ever and ever; amen.

¹² for the perfecting of the saints, for the work of the ministry, for the edification of the body of Christ, ¹³ till we all come to the unity of the faith and of the knowledge of the Son of God, to a perfect man, to the measure of the stature of the fullness of Christ, ¹⁴ that we may be no longer children, driven about like waves and carried about with every wind of doctrine, by the art of men, and the craftiness of deceitful wiles,

¹⁴ that we may be no longer children, driven about like waves and carried about with every wind of doctrine, by the art of men, and the craftiness of deceitful wiles, ¹⁵ but speaking the truth with love we may grow to him in all things, who is the head, Christ; ¹⁶ by whom all the body being joined together and compacted by the supply of every joint, according to the proportionate operation of every part, makes increase of the body to the edification of itself in love.

^{3 (2:5)} Let not fornication and any impurity or covetousness be named among you, as becomes saints, ⁴ nor indecorum and foolish talking, or jesting, things not becoming, but rather giving of thanks. ⁵ For you know this, that no fornicator, or impure, or covetous person, who is an idolater, has an inheritance in the kingdom of Christ and of God. ⁶ Let no man deceive you with vain words; for on account of these comes the wrath of God on the children of disobedience.

¹² for our conflict is not against flesh and blood, but against principalities, against powers, against the potentates of the darkness of this world, against the spiritual [hosts] of evil in the heavenly [worlds]. ¹³ Take therefore the whole armor of God, that you may be able to resist in the evil day, and having done all to stand. ¹⁴ Stand, therefore, girded about your loins with truth, and having put on the cuirass of righteousness, ¹⁵ and bound your feet with the preparation of the gospel of peace; ¹⁶ over all, taking the shield of the faith, with which you may be able to extinguish all the fiery darts of evil. ¹⁷ And take the helmet of salvation, and the sword of the Spirit, which is the word of God, ¹⁸ praying with all prayer and supplication on every occasion with the spirit, and watching in the same with all perseverance and supplication for all the saints,

¹¹ and every tongue shall confess that Jesus Christ is Lord, to the glory of God the Father.

^{19 (1:7)} But I hope in the Lord Jesus to send Timothy to you shortly, that I may be refreshed when I know your affairs. ²⁰ For I have no one like minded who really will care for your interests; ²¹ for all seek their own, not the things of Jesus Christ. ²² But you know his tried virtue, that as a son with a father he has served with me in the gospel.

²² But you know his tried virtue, that as a son with a father he has served with me in the gospel.

²⁴ and I hope in the Lord that I also myself shall come shortly.

⁶ as to zeal persecuting the church, as to righteousness by the law being blameless.

¹⁸ For many walk, of whom I told you often and now also tell you weeping, that they are enemies of the cross of Christ; ¹⁹ whose end is destruction, whose God is their stomach, and their glory in their shame; who regard earthly things.

¹³ I endure all things with him that strengthens me.

¹⁵ who is the likeness of the invisible God, the first-born of all creation,

²⁵ of which I was made a minister according to the dispensation of God given me for you, to complete the word of God,

²⁷ to whom God was pleased to make known what is the riches of the glory of this mystery among the nations, which is Christ in you, the hope of glory,

⁶ As therefore you have received Christ Jesus the Lord, walk in him, ⁷ founded and built up in him, and established in the faith as you were taught, abounding in thanksgiving. ^{8 (1:6)} See that no one leads you off as a prey through philosophy and vain deceit, according to the tradition of men, according to the rudiments of the world, and not according to Christ, ⁹ for in him dwells all the fullness of the Deity bodily ¹⁰ and you are made perfect in him, who is the head of all principality and power, ¹¹ in whom you are also circumcised with a circumcision not made with hands, with the putting off of the body of the flesh, with the circumcision of Christ,

³ remembering without ceasing your work of faith and labor of love and patience of the hope of our Lord Jesus Christ before God even our Father,

⁴ but as we were judged worthy by God to be intrusted with the gospel so we speak, not as pleasing men, but God who tries our hearts.

² and sent Timothy, our brother and God's co-laborer in the gospel of Christ, to confirm you and to exhort you in behalf of your faith,

⁸ but let us who are of day be sober, putting on a cuirass of faith and love, and for a helmet the hope of salvation,

¹⁰ when he shall come to be glorified in his saints and to be admired by all that believe in that day, for our testimony was believed by you.

⁸ and then shall the wicked one be revealed, whom the Lord will consume with the breath of his mouth and destroy with the brightness of his coming,

¹⁶ and our Lord Jesus Christ himself, and our God and Father, who has loved us and given us eternal consolation and a good hope by grace,

¹⁵ and account him not as an enemy, but admonish him as a brother.

² to Timothy my true son in the faith; grace, mercy, and peace from God our Father and Christ Jesus our Lord.

⁵ But the end of the commandment is love from a pure heart and good conscience and faith unfeigned,

¹¹ according to the glorious gospel of the blessed God, with which I have been intrusted.

¹¹ according to the glorious gospel of the blessed God, with which I have been intrusted. ¹² And I thank our Lord Jesus Christ who has empowered me [to preach,] that he accounted me faithful, putting me in the ministry,

¹² And I thank our Lord Jesus Christ who has empowered me [to preach,] that he accounted me faithful, putting me in the ministry, ¹³ who formerly was a blasphemer and persecutor and an injurious man; but I obtained mercy because I did those things ignorantly in unbelief;

¹⁶ but on this account I obtained mercy, that Jesus Christ might exhibit in me first all long-suffering, for an example to those who should hereafter believe in him to life eternal.

^{18 (1:3)} This charge I commit to you, son Timothy, according to the prophecies which went before concerning you, that by them you may perform an honorable service, ¹⁹ having faith and a good conscience, which some having cast away have suffered shipwreck of the faith;

³ For this is good and acceptable in the sight of God our Saviour,

⁷ of which I was made a herald and an apostle,—I speak the truth, I lie not,—a teacher of nations in faith and truth.

^{1 (2:1)} IT is a true saying, If any one desires an episcopate he desires a good work.

⁹ having the mystery of the faith in a pure conscience.

¹⁶ And confessedly great is the mystery of piety; [Christ,] who was manifested in the flesh, was justified in the spirit, was seen by angels, was preached to the nations, was believed on in the world, was received up into glory.

^{1 (2:4)} But the Spirit says expressly, that in the last times some shall apostatize from the faith, attending to lying spirits and doctrines of demons, ² [misled] by the hypocrisy of false teachers, whose consciences are cauterized,

⁴ For every creature of God is good, and nothing to be rejected, [but] to be received with thanksgiving;

^{6 (2:5)} Suggesting these things to the brothers, you will be a good minister of Christ Jesus, nourished with the words of the faith and the good instruction which you have followed; ⁷ but avoid profane and silly myths; exercise yourself in piety;

⁹ It is a faithful saying, and worthy of all acceptation. ¹⁰ For to this end we also labor and suffer reproach, because we hope in the living God, who is the Saviour of all men, especially of the faithful. ^{11 (2:6)} These things command and teach.

¹⁴ Neglect not the gift which is in you, which was given you by prophecy, with the imposition of hands of the eldership.

⁷ And command these things, that they be blameless.

¹⁵ for some have already turned back after Satan.

³ If any one teaches differently, and consents not to sound words, the words of our Lord Jesus Christ, and the doctrine which is according to piety,

³ If any one teaches differently, and consents not to sound words, the words of our Lord Jesus Christ, and the doctrine which is according to piety, ⁴ he is blinded and knows nothing, but has a sickly longing for debates and wars of words, from which arise envy, contention, blasphemies, evil suspicions,

⁴ he is blinded and knows nothing, but has a sickly longing for debates and wars of words, from which arise envy, contention, blasphemies, evil suspicions, ⁵ and wranglings of men of unsound judgments and destitute of the truth, supposing that piety is gain.

⁹ But those who wish to be rich fall into trial and a snare, and many foolish and injurious desires, which plunge men into destruction and perdition. ¹⁰ For the love of money is a root of all evils, which some having desired have been misled from the faith, and pierced themselves through with many sorrows. ^{11 (2:13)} But do you, O man of God, avoid these things; but pursue righteousness, piety, faith, love, patience, meekness. ¹² Fight the good fight of the faith, lay hold on eternal life, to which you were called and made the good profession before many witnesses. ¹³ I charge you before the God who gives life to all [creatures], and Christ Jesus who made the good profession before Pontius Pilate, ¹⁴ that you keep the charge without spot, without blame, till the appearing of our Lord Jesus Christ, ¹⁵ which the blessed and only Potentate will show in its times, the King of kings and Lord of Lords,

¹⁵ which the blessed and only Potentate will show in its times, the King of kings and Lord of Lords, ¹⁶ who only has immortality, dwelling in light unapproachable, whom no man has seen nor can see; to whom be honor and power eternal; amen. ^{17 (2:14)} Charge the rich in the present life not to be high-minded, nor trust in uncertain riches, but in the living God who gives us all things richly to enjoy,

^{20 (2:15)} O Timothy, keep the trust, turning away from profane and empty words, and contradictions of mis-named science,

^{20 (2:15)} O Timothy, keep the trust, turning away from profane and empty words, and contradictions of mis-named science, ²¹ which some having professed have erred from the faith. The grace be with you.

²¹ which some having professed have erred from the faith. The grace be with you.

² to Timothy my beloved son. Grace, mercy, peace, from God the Father and Christ Jesus our Lord. ^{3 (1:2)} I thank God, whom I serve from my ancestors with a pure conscience, that I mention you incessantly in my prayers night and day,

⁵ having a remembrance of the unfeigned faith in you, which dwelt first in your grandmother Lois, and your mother Eunice, and I am persuaded that [it dwells] also in you.

¹⁰ but made known now through the appearing of our Saviour Jesus Christ, who destroyed death, and brought life and immortality to light through the gospel, ¹¹ of which I was made a herald, and an apostle, and a teacher of the nations;

¹¹ of which I was made a herald, and an apostle, and a teacher of the nations;

^{13 (1:4)} Retain the form of sound words which you heard from me in faith and the love in Christ Jesus. ¹⁴ Guard the good trust, through the Holy Spirit which dwells in us.

^{1 (1:5)} Do you therefore, my son, be strong in the grace in Christ Jesus,

^{1 (1:5)} Do you therefore, my son, be strong in the grace in Christ Jesus, ² and what you heard from me through many witnesses, these things commit to faithful men, who shall be competent to teach others also.

² and what you heard from me through many witnesses, these things commit to faithful men, who shall be competent to teach others also. ³ Endure evil as a good soldier of Jesus Christ. ⁴ No one who serves as a soldier is involved in the business of life, that he may please him who has employed him as a soldier. ⁵ And if a man contends as an athlete, he is not crowned unless he contends lawfully.

⁵ And if a man contends as an athlete, he is not crowned unless he contends lawfully.

¹¹ The saying is true, For if we died together we shall live together;

^{14 (1:7)} Call to mind these things, charging [men] before the Lord not to debate about words, to no profit, to the subversion of the hearers.

¹⁶ But profane and vain words, avoid; for they greatly increase impiety, ¹⁷ and their word will eat like a gangrene; of whom are Hymenaeus and Philetus,

¹⁷ and their word will eat like a gangrene; of whom are Hymenaeus and Philetus, ¹⁸ who have erred from the truth, saying that the resurrection has passed already, and overturn the faith of some.

¹⁸ who have erred from the truth, saying that the resurrection has passed already, and overturn the faith of some.

^{22 (1:8)} But avoid youthful desires, and pursue righteousness, faith, love, peace, with those who call on the Lord from a pure heart. ²³ But foolish and trifling disputes avoid, knowing that they produce contentions; ²⁴ and the servant of the Lord must not contend, but must be gentle to all, apt to teach, patient under evil,

^{1 (2:1)} AND know this, that in the last days perilous times shall come. ² Men will be selfish, avaricious, vain, proud, blasphemers, disobedient to parents, unthankful, unholy,

² Men will be selfish, avaricious, vain, proud, blasphemers, disobedient to parents, unthankful, unholy, ³ without natural affection, covenant breakers, slanderers, intemperate, ungentle, despisers of the good, ⁴ traitors, rash, boasters, lovers of pleasure more than lovers of God, ⁵ having a form of piety but denying its power; and these avoid. ⁶ Of these are those who go into the houses and take captive foolish women loaded with sins, and led by various desires, ⁷ always learning and never able to come to a knowledge of the truth.

^{1 (2:2)} I earnestly charge you before God and Christ Jesus who is about to judge the living and dead, and [by] his appearing and his kingdom, ² preach the word, press it in season, out of season, reprove, rebuke, exhort, with all long-suffering and instruction; ³ for the time will come when they will not endure sound instruction, but will accumulate for themselves teachers according to their desires, pleasing their ear,

³ for the time will come when they will not endure sound instruction, but will accumulate for themselves teachers according to their desires, pleasing their ear, ⁴ and they will turn away their ears from the truth, and be turned to myths.

⁷ I have fought the good fight, I have finished the race, I have kept the faith;

¹⁰ for Demas forsook me having loved the present life and went to Thessalonica, Cresces to Galatia, Titus to Dalmatia;

^{14 (2:4)} Alexander the coppersmith did me much harm; may the Lord reward him according to his work. ¹⁵ And do you beware of him, for he greatly opposed our words.

¹⁷ but the Lord stood by me, and strengthened me, that the word should be fully declared by me, and all the nations should hear, and I was delivered from the mouth of the lion.

^{1 (1:1)} PAUL, a servant of God, and an apostle of Jesus Christ, according to the faith of God's elect, and the knowledge of the truth which is according to piety,

³ but manifested his word in the times which were suitable for it by the preaching with which I was intrusted, according to the command of our Saviour God, ⁴ to Titus my faithful son in the common faith; grace and peace from God the Father, and Christ Jesus our Saviour.

⁹ holding firmly the faithful word taught, that he may be able both to exhort with sound instruction and to convince those who contradict.

⁹ holding firmly the faithful word taught, that he may be able both to exhort with sound instruction and to convince those who contradict. ¹⁰ For there are many disorderly wranglers and deceivers, especially those of the circumcision,

¹⁰ For there are many disorderly wranglers and deceivers, especially those of the circumcision, ¹¹ whom it is necessary to silence, who mislead whole families, teaching for base gain what they ought not.

¹³ This testimony is true. Wherefore rebuke them sharply, that they may be sound in the faith, ¹⁴ not attending to Jewish myths, and commandments of men who subvert the truth. ¹⁵ To the pure all things are pure; but to the defiled and unbelieving, nothing is pure; but their mind and conscience are defiled. ¹⁶ They profess to know God, but by works deny him, being abominable and disobedient, and as to every good work reprobate.

^{1 (1:4)} Speak things which become sound teaching. ² That the aged men be sober, grave, of sound mind, sound in faith, in love, in patience;

¹⁰ not pilfering, but showing all good fidelity, that they may adorn the doctrine of our Saviour God in all things.

¹³ looking for the blessed hope and appearing of the glory of the great God and of our Saviour Jesus Christ,

³ For we formerly were foolish, disobedient, deceived, serving various desires and pleasures, living in malice and envy, detestable, and hating one another; ⁴ but when the goodness and philanthropy of the Saviour our God appeared,

⁶ which he poured out on us richly through Jesus Christ our Saviour;

⁸ The word is true, and I wish you to insist strongly concerning these things, that those who have believed in God may be careful to maintain good works. For these things are honorable and useful to men. ⁹ But foolish questions, and genealogies, and strifes and contentions about the law, avoid; for they are unprofitable and vain.

¹⁰ I request you for my son Onesimus, whom I obtained in my bonds,

⁸ but of the Son, Thy throne, God, is forever and ever; the sceptre of thy kingdom is a sceptre of rectitude. ⁹ Thou hast loved righteousness and hated wickedness; therefore God, thy God, anointed thee with the oil of gladness above thy companions. ¹⁰ And thou, Lord, in the beginning didst build from its foundations the earth, and the heavens are works of thy hands; ¹¹ they shall perish, but thou shalt continue; and they shall all become old like a garment, ¹² and like a mantle thou shalt fold them up, and they shall be changed, but thou art the same and thy years shall not fail. ¹³ And to which of the angels said he at any time, Sit on my right hand till I make thy enemies thy footstool?

¹⁴ for we have been made partakers of Christ, if we hold the beginning of the confidence firm to the end.

¹⁶ Let us therefore approach with boldness the throne of grace, that we may obtain mercy and find grace for timely aid.

⁴ For those once enlightened and having tasted of the heavenly gift and been made partakers of the Holy Spirit,

⁴ For those once enlightened and having tasted of the heavenly gift and been made partakers of the Holy Spirit, ⁵ and having tasted of the good word of God and the powers of the life to come,

⁵ and having tasted of the good word of God and the powers of the life to come, ⁶ and having fallen away, it is impossible again to renew to a change of mind, they having crucified again and exposed to shame the Son of God.

⁶ and having fallen away, it is impossible again to renew to a change of mind, they having crucified again and exposed to shame the Son of God. ⁷ But the land which drinks in the rain that often falls on it, and produces plants beneficial to those by whom it is cultivated, receives a blessing from God; ⁸ but that which produces thorns and thistles is disapproved, and is nigh to a curse, the end of which is to be burned.

²⁵ whence also he is able to save forever those who come to God through him, always living to intercede for them.

¹⁴ how much more shall the blood of Christ, who with an eternal spirit offered himself without fault to God, purify your conscience from dead works to serve the living God.

²² let us approach with a true heart in a full assurance of faith, sprinkled in heart from an evil conscience, and washed in body with pure water,

^{26 (4:2)} For if we sin willingly after having received the knowledge of the truth, there is no longer a sacrifice left for sins, ²⁷ but a fearful expectation of judgment and fiery indignation, which is about to consume the adversaries. ²⁸ Any one who despised the law of Moses died without mercy by two or three witnesses; ²⁹ of how much greater punishment do you suppose he will be thought worthy, who has trodden down the Son of God, and accounted defiled the blood of the covenant with which he was purified, and treated injuriously the Spirit of grace.

⁵ By faith Enoch was translated without seeing death, and was not found because God translated him. For before the translation he was said to have pleased God; ⁶ but without faith it is impossible to please; for he that comes to God, must believe that he is and that he is a rewarder of those that seek him.

²⁷ By faith he left Egypt, not having feared the displeasure of the king; for he endured as seeing him that is invisible.

³¹ By faith Rahab the harlot escaped destruction with the disobedient, having received the spies in peace.

¹⁶ that no one may be a fornicator or unholy person like Esau, who for one meal sold his birthright.

⁴ Marriage is honorable in all, and married life without blame; but fornicators and adulterers God will judge.

⁹ Be not carried about with various and strange doctrines; for it is good that the mind should be established with grace, not with aliments, in which those walking are not profited.

^{18 (5:8)} Pray for us; for we trust we have a good conscience, in all things wishing to live well.

⁸ draw nigh to God and he will draw nigh to you. Cleanse your hands, sinners, purify your hearts, double-minded.

² according to the foreknowledge of God the Father, by sanctification of the Spirit, to obedience and the sprinkling of the blood of Jesus Christ. Grace and peace be multiplied to you. ^{3 (1:2)} Blessed be the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, who in his great mercy has begotten us to a living hope through the resurrection of Jesus Christ from the dead,

¹¹ inquiring as to what person or what time the Spirit of Christ which was in them signified, when it declared before the sufferings of Christ and after these the glories, ¹² to whom it was revealed that they ministered not to themselves but to us those things which have now been declared to you by those who preached to you the good news, with the Holy Spirit sent from heaven, into which the angels desire to look.

²¹ who through him believed in God, who raised him from the dead and gave him glory, so that your faith and hope may be in God. ^{22 (1:4)} Having purified your souls by obeying the truth to unfeigned brotherly love, love one another fervently, from the heart,

⁷ To you therefore who believe he is precious; but to the disobedient, the stone which the builders rejected has become the head of a corner

¹⁰ who formerly were not a people, but now are a people of God, who had not obtained mercy, but now have obtained mercy.

¹⁵ and sanctify the anointed Lord in your hearts, and be always ready with a defense to every one that asks you a reason for the hope that is in you; but with meekness and fear, ¹⁶ having a good conscience, that in what they speak evil of you they may be ashamed who slander your good conduct in Christ.

¹⁶ having a good conscience, that in what they speak evil of you they may be ashamed who slander your good conduct in Christ.

²⁰ who were formerly disobedient when the long suffering of God waited in the days of Noah while the ark was being prepared, in which a few, that is eight souls, were saved by water. ²¹ The archetype of which, baptism, also now saves us, not the putting away of the filth of the flesh, but the answer of a good conscience in God, through the resurrection of Jesus Christ,

⁸ above all things have fervent love one for another, for love hides a multitude of sins.

¹⁸ And if the righteous man is scarcely saved, where will the ungodly and the sinner appear?

¹¹ To him be the glory and the power for ever; amen.

^{1 (1:1)} SIMEON Peter, a servant and apostle of Jesus Christ, to those who have obtained a like precious faith with us by the righteousness of our God and Saviour Jesus Christ.

⁷ and to piety brotherly kindness, and to brotherly kindness love.

¹⁶ For we did not follow skilfully constructed myths in making known to you the power and appearing of our Lord Jesus Christ, but were eye witnesses of his majesty.

^{1 (1:4)} But there were also false prophets among the people, as there shall also be false teachers among you, who shall bring in by stealth destructive heresies, even denying the master that bought them, bringing on themselves swift destruction; ² and many shall follow their lewdness, on account of whom the way of truth shall be reviled, ³ and with covetousness they will make a gain of you with feigned words, whose judgment a long time lingers not, and their destruction slumbers not.

¹² but these, like irrational animals, brutes made to be taken and destroyed, reviling things which they do not understand, will also be destroyed in their depravity,

¹² but these, like irrational animals, brutes made to be taken and destroyed, reviling things which they do not understand, will also be destroyed in their depravity, ¹³ receiving the wages of wickedness, accounting luxury in the day-time a pleasure, spots and blemishes, revelling in their deceptions while feasting with you, ¹⁴ having eyes full of an adulteress, and unable to cease from sin, enticing unstable souls, having a heart exercised in covetousness, cursed children, ¹⁵ having left the right way they have gone astray, following in the way of Balaam the son of Beor who loved the wages of wickedness, ¹⁶ but had a rebuke of his transgression; the dumb ass, speaking with a man's voice, forbade the madness of the prophet. ^{17 (1:5)} These are fountains without water, clouds driven by a tempest, to which is reserved the blackness of darkness. ¹⁸ For speaking extravagant words of vanity, they entice with carnal desires of lewdness those scarcely escaped from them, those living in error, ¹⁹ promising them liberty, when they themselves are servants of corruption; for by whatever a man is overcome, to this is he made a servant. ²⁰ For if having escaped the defilements of the world by a knowledge of the Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ, they are again entangled and overcome by them, the last state of those persons is worse than the first. ²¹ For it is better for them not to have known the way of righteousness, than, having known, to turn from the holy commandment delivered to them. ²² But it has happened to them according to the true proverb, The dog returned to his vomit, and the swine that was washed to wallowing in filth.

⁹ The Lord is not slow in respect to his promise, as some men account slowness, but is long-suffering toward us, not willing that any should perish, but that all should come to a change of mind.

¹⁵ and consider the long-suffering of the Lord our salvation; as also our beloved brother Paul according to the wisdom given to him wrote to you,

¹⁸ but grow in grace and in the knowledge of our Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ. To him be the glory both now and forever.

¹⁹ They went out from us, but they were not of us; for if they had been of us they would have continued with us; but [they went out from us] that they might be manifest that they are not all of us.

³ And every one that has this hope in him purifies himself, as he is pure.

⁵ And we know that he was manifested to take away sins, and in him there is no sin.

⁸ he that commits sin is of the devil, for the devil sinned from the beginning. For this was the Son of God manifested, to destroy the works of the devil.

²³ And this is his commandment; that we should believe in the name of his Son Jesus Christ, and love one another as he gave commandment.

^{7 (2:3)} Beloved, let us love one another, for love is of God, and every one that loves has been born of God and knows God. ⁸ He that loves not has not known God; for God is love. ⁹ The love of God was manifested to us in this; that God has sent his only Son into the world that we may live through him.

⁹ The love of God was manifested to us in this; that God has sent his only Son into the world that we may live through him. ¹⁰ In this is love; not that we loved God, but that he loved us, and sent his Son a propitiation for our sins.

¹⁰ In this is love; not that we loved God, but that he loved us, and sent his Son a propitiation for our sins.

¹⁰ In this is love; not that we loved God, but that he loved us, and sent his Son a propitiation for our sins. ^{11 (2:4)} Beloved, if God so loved us, we ought also to love one another. ¹² No one has ever seen God. If we love one another, God continues in us and his love is perfected in us.

¹² No one has ever seen God. If we love one another, God continues in us and his love is perfected in us. ¹³ By this we know that we continue in him and he in us, that he has given us of his Spirit. ¹⁴ And we have seen and testify that the Father has sent the Son, the Saviour of the world.

¹⁴ And we have seen and testify that the Father has sent the Son, the Saviour of the world.

¹¹ And this is the testimony, that God gave us eternal life, and this life is in his Son.

¹¹ And this is the testimony, that God gave us eternal life, and this life is in his Son. ¹² He that has the Son has the life; he that has not the Son has not the life.

⁷ For many deceivers have gone out into the world, who do not confess Jesus Christ coming in the flesh; this is the deceiver, and the antichrist.

⁹ Every one who goes beyond, and continues not in the doctrine of Christ, is without God. He that continues in the doctrine has both the Son and the Father. ¹⁰ If any one comes to you and brings not this doctrine, receive him not into your houses, and salute him not;

⁷ as Sodom and Gomorrah and the cities about them, committing fornication in the same manner as these and going after unnatural lewdness, are made an example, enduring the punishment of eternal fire.

¹⁰ But these blaspheme what they do not understand, and what they know naturally, as brute beasts, in these things they corrupt themselves. ¹¹ Woe to them; for they have gone in the way of Cain, and rushed into the error of Balaam for a reward, and perished in the contradiction of Korah. ¹² These are breakers at your love-feasts, feasting with you without fear, feeding themselves, clouds without water driven about by winds, autumnal trees without fruit, twice dead, plucked up by the roots, ¹³ wild waves of the sea foaming with their own shame, wandering stars to which is reserved the blackness of darkness for ever.

²⁵ to God our only Saviour, through Jesus Christ our Lord, be glory, majesty, power and authority before all worlds, both now and for ever more; amen.

^{1 (2:1)} To the angel of the church in Ephesus write, These things says he that holds the seven stars in his right hand, who walks in the midst of the seven golden candlesticks, ² I know your works and your labor and your patience, and that you cannot bear the wicked, and you tried those who say they are apostles and are not, and found them false;

¹⁴ But I have a few things against you; you have there those who hold the doctrine of Balaam, who taught Balak to put an occasion of sin before the children of Israel, both to eat things offered to idols and to commit fornication.

²⁰ But I have against you that you allow your wife Jezebel, who says she is a prophetess and teaches and deceives my servants to commit fornication and eat things offered to idols.

³ Remember therefore how you have received and heard, and watch, and change your minds. If therefore you do not watch, I will come as a thief, and you shall not know at what hour I will come upon you.

⁸ I know your works; behold, I have placed before you an opened door, which no man can shut; because you have a little power, and kept my word, and did not deny my name.

¹⁰ Because you have kept the word of my patience, I also will keep you from the hour of trial which is to come on all the world, to try those who dwell on the earth.

¹⁹ As many as I love, I rebuke and chasten; be zealous therefore and change your minds.

^{8 (3:3)} And the four cherubs had each six wings apiece. And they were full of eyes around and within, and they had no rest day nor night, saying, Holy, holy, holy is the Lord God Almighty the Was and the Is and the Is to come. ⁹ And when the cherubs gave glory and honor and thanks to him that sat on the throne who lives forever and ever, ¹⁰ the twenty-four elders fell down on their faces before him that sat on the throne, and worshipped him that lives forever and ever, and cast their crowns before his throne, saying, ¹¹ Thou art worthy, our Lord and God, to receive glory and honor and power, for thou hast created all things, and on account of thy will they are and were created.

⁹ And they sung a new song, saying, Thou art worthy to take the book and to open its seals, for thou wast killed and hast redeemed to God with thy blood [men] from every tribe and tongue and people and nation,

⁹ And they sung a new song, saying, Thou art worthy to take the book and to open its seals, for thou wast killed and hast redeemed to God with thy blood [men] from every tribe and tongue and people and nation, ¹⁰ and hast made them a kingdom and priests, and they shall reign on the earth. ¹¹ And I saw, and heard a voice of many angels about the throne, and of the cherubs, and of the elders,—and the number of them was ten thousands of ten thousands and thousands of thousands,— ¹² saying with a loud voice, Worthy is the Lamb that was killed to receive power, and riches, and wisdom, and strength, and honor, and glory, and blessing. ¹³ And every creature which is in heaven, and on the earth, and under the earth, and those which are on the sea, and all things in them, all heard I saying, To him that sits on the throne and to the Lamb be blessing and honor and glory and power forever and ever. ¹⁴ And the four cherubs said, Amen. And the elders fell down and worshipped:

¹⁰ and they cried with a loud voice, saying, Salvation be to our God who sits on the throne and to the Lamb. ¹¹ And all the angels stood around the throne and the elders and the four cherubs, and fell down before the throne on their faces, and worshipped God, ¹² saying, Amen, blessing and glory and wisdom and thanksgiving and honor and power and strength be to our God forever and ever.

¹² saying, Amen, blessing and glory and wisdom and thanksgiving and honor and power and strength be to our God forever and ever.

^{1 (7:6)} And I stood on the sand of the sea. And I saw a beast come up out of the sea, having ten horns and seven heads, and upon his horns ten diadems, and upon his heads names of blasphemy.

⁵ And there was given him a mouth speaking great things and blasphemy, and power was given him to continue forty-two months [three years and a half]. ⁶ And he opened his mouth in blasphemies against God, to blaspheme his name and his tabernacle and those that dwell in heaven.

³ And they sing the song of Moses the servant of God and the song of the Lamb, saying, Great and wonderful are thy works, Lord God Almighty; just and true are thy ways, king of the nations;

¹⁴ They shall make war with the Lamb, and the Lamb shall conquer them,—for he is Lord of lords and King of kings, and those with him are called and chosen and faithful.

¹³ cinnamon and amomum and incense and ointment and frankincense, and wine and oil and fine flour and wheat and cattle and sheep, and of horses and chariots and servants, and souls of men.

^{1 (11:1)} AFTER this I heard a loud voice as of a great multitude in heaven, saying, Halleluia, the salvation and glory and power of our God,

⁶ And I heard them as the voice of a great multitude, and as the sound of many waters and as the sound of mighty thunders, saying, Halleluia, for the Lord our God the Almighty reigns.

¹⁶ And he has on the mantle and on the thigh his name written, King of kings and Lord of lords.

^{5 (12:3)} And he that sits on the throne said, Behold, I make all things new. And he said, Write that these words are faithful and true.

⁸ But the fearful and unbelieving and abominable and murderers and fornicators and sorcerers and idolaters and all liars shall have their part in the lake which burns with fire and sulphur, which is the second death.

²⁷ And there shall not enter into it any thing that is defiled, nor any one that commits an abomination and falsehood, but those enrolled in the Lamb's book of life.

^{6 (12:8)} And he said to me, These words are faithful and true, and the Lord God of the spirits of the prophets sent his angel to show his servants what must shortly occur.

¹⁵ Without are dogs and sorcerers, and fornicators, and murderers and idolaters and whoever loves and practises falsehood.

²¹ The grace of the Lord Jesus be with all.