1 Corinthians 10 Cross References - Twentieth_Century

¹ I want you to bear in mind, Brothers, that all our ancestors were beneath the cloud, and all passed through the sea; ² That in the cloud and in the sea they all underwent baptism as followers of Moses; ³ And that they all ate the same supernatural food, ⁴ and all drank the same supernatural water, for they used to drink from a supernatural rock which followed them, and that rock was the Christ. ⁵ Yet with most of them God was displeased; for they were 'struck down in the desert.' ⁶ Now these things happened as warnings to us, to teach us not to long for evil things as our forefathers longed. ⁷ Do not become idolaters, as some of them became. Scripture says-'The people sat down to eat and drink, and stood up to dance.' ⁸ Nor let us act immorally, as some of them acted, with the result that twenty-three thousand of them fell dead in a single day. ⁹ Nor let us try the patience of the Lord too far, as some of them tried it, with the result that they 'were, one after another, destroyed by the snakes.' ¹⁰ And do not murmur, as some of them murmured, and so 'were destroyed by the Angel of Death.' ¹¹ These things happened to them by way of warning, and were recorded to serve as a caution to us, in whose days the close of the ages has come. ¹² Therefore let the man who thinks that he stands take care that he does not fall. ¹³ No temptation has come upon you that is not common to all mankind. God will not fail you, and he will not allow you to be tempted beyond your strength; but, when he sends the temptation, he will also provide the way of escape, so that you may have strength to endure. ¹⁴ Therefore, my dear friends, shun the worship of idols. ¹⁵ I speak to you as man of discernment; form your own judgment about what I am saying. ¹⁶ In the Cup of Blessing which we bless, is not there a sharing in the blood of the Christ? And in the Bread which we break, is not there a sharing in the Body of the Christ? ¹⁷ The Bread is one, and we, though many, are one body; for we all partake of that one Bread. ¹⁸ Look at the people of Israel. Do not those who eat the sacrifices share with the altar? ¹⁹ What do I mean? you ask. Than an offering made to an idol, or the idol itself, is anything? ²⁰ No; what I say is that the sacrifices offered by the Gentiles 'are offered to demons and to a Being who is no God,' and I do not want you to share with demons. ²¹ You cannot drink both the Cup of the Lord and the cup of demons. You cannot partake at the Table of the Lord and at the table of demons. ²² Or 'are we to rouse the jealousy of the Lord'? Are we stronger than he? ²³ Everything is allowable! Yes, but everything is not profitable. Everything is allowable! Yes, but everything does not build up character. ²⁴ A man must not study his own interests, but the interests of others. ²⁵ Eat anything that is sold in the market, without making inquiries to satisfy your scruples; ²⁶ For 'the earth, with all that is in it, belongs to the Lord.' ²⁷ If an unbeliever invites you to his house and you consent to go, eat anything that is put before you, without making inquiries to satisfy your scruples. ²⁸ But, if any one should say to you 'This has been offered in sacrifice to an idol,' then, for the sake of the speaker and his scruples, do not eat it. ²⁹ I do not say 'your' scruples, but 'his.' For why should the freedom that I claim be condemned by the scruples of another? ³⁰ If, for my part, I take the food thankfully, why should I be abused for eating that for which I give thanks? ³¹ Whether, then, you eat or drink or whatever you do, do everything to the honor of God. ³² Do not cause offence either to Jews or Greeks or to the Church of God; ³³ For I, also, try to please everybody in everything, not seeking my own advantage, but that of men in general, that they may be saved.

²⁴ No one can serve two masters, for either he will hate one and love the other, or else he will attach himself to one and despise the other. You cannot serve both God and Money.

³¹ Do not then ask anxiously 'What can we get to eat?' or 'What can we get to drink?' or 'What can we get to wear?' ³² All these are the things for which the nations are seeking, and your heavenly Father knows that you need them all.

³⁸ The field is the world. By the good seed is meant the People of the Kingdom. The tares are the wicked, ³⁹ And the enemy who sowed them is the Devil. The harvest-time is the close of the age, and the reapers are angels.

³⁹ And the enemy who sowed them is the Devil. The harvest-time is the close of the age, and the reapers are angels. ⁴⁰ And, just as the tares are gathered and burnt, so it will be at the close of the age. ⁴¹ The Son of Man will send his angels, and they will gather from his kingdom all that hinders and those who live in sin, ⁴² And 'will throw them into the fiery furnace,' where there will be weeping and grinding of teeth.

²¹ for that will be 'a time of great distress, the like of which has not occurred from the beginning of the world down to the present time'--no, nor ever will again. ²² And had not those days been limited, not a single soul would escape; but for the sake of 'God's People' a limit will be put to them. ²³ And, at that time, if any one should say to you 'Look! here is the Christ!' or 'Here he is!', do not believe it; ²⁴ For false Christs and false Prophets will arise, and will display great signs and marvels, so that, were it possible, even God's People would be led astray.

²⁶ While they were eating, Jesus took some bread, and, after saying the blessing, broke it and, as he gave it to his disciples, said: "Take it and eat it; this is my body." ²⁷ Then he took a cup, and, after saying the thanksgiving, gave it to them, with the words: "Drink from it, all of you; ²⁸ For this is my Covenant blood, which is poured out for many for the forgiveness of sins.

³³ "If every one else falls away from you," Peter answered, "I shall never fall away!" ³⁴ "I tell you," replied Jesus, "that this very night, before the cock crows, you will disown me three times!"

⁴⁰ Then he came to his disciples, and found them asleep. "What!" he said to Peter, "could none of you watch with me for one hour? ⁴¹ Watch and pray, that you may not fall into temptation. True, the spirit is eager, but human nature is weak."

²² While they were eating, Jesus took some bread, and, after saying the blessing, broke it, and gave it to them, and said: "Take it; this is my body." ²³ Then he took a cup, and, after saying the thanksgiving, gave it to them, and they all drank from it. ²⁴ "This is my Covenant-blood," he said, "which is poured out on behalf of many. ²⁵ I tell you that I shall never again drink of the juice of the grape, until that day when I shall drink it new in the Kingdom of God."

²⁹ And Levi gave a great entertainment at his house, in honor of Jesus; and a large number of tax-gatherers and others were at table with them. ³⁰ The Pharisees and the teachers of the Law belonging to their party complained of this to the disciples of Jesus."

⁷ Remain at that same house, and eat and drink whatever they offer you; for the worker is worth his wages. Do not keep changing from one house to another. ⁸ Whatever town you visit, if the people welcome you, eat what is set before you;

⁴ And forgive us our sins, for we ourselves forgive every one who wrongs us; and take us not into temptation.'"

⁴¹ Only give away what is in them in charity, and at once you have the whole clean.

²³ And bring the fattened calf and kill it, and let us eat and make merry;

²⁶ And not only that, but between you and us there lies a great chasm, so that those who wish to pass from here to you cannot, nor can they cross from there to us.'

⁷ On seeing this, every one began to complain: "He has gone to stay with a man who is an outcast."

¹⁹ Then Jesus took some bread, and, after saying the thanksgiving, broke it and gave to them, with the words: "This is my body, [which is now to be given on your behalf. Do this in memory of me." ²⁰ And in the same way with the cup, after supper, saying: "This cup is the New Covenant made by my blood which is being poured out on your behalf.]

³¹ Simon! Simon! listen. Satan demanded leave to sift you all like wheat, ³² But I prayed for you, Simon, that your faith should not fail. And you, when you have returned to me, are to strengthen your Brothers."

⁴⁶ "Why are you asleep?" he asked them. "Rise and pray, that you may not fall into temptation."

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

¹⁴ But whoever once drinks of the water that I will give him shall never thirst any more; but the water that I will give him shall become a spring welling up within him--a source of Immortal Life."

²⁰ "It was on this mountain that our ancestors worshiped; and yet you Jews say that the proper place for worship is in Jerusalem."

²² The people who remained on the further side of the Sea had seen that only one boat had been there, and that Jesus had not gone into it with his disciples, but that they had left without him. ²³ Some boats, however, had come from Tiberias, from near the spot where they had eaten the bread after the Master had said the thanksgiving. ²⁴ So, on the next day, when the people saw that Jesus was not there, or his disciples either, they themselves got into the boats, and went to Capernaum to look for him. ²⁵ And, when they found him on the other side of the Sea, they said: "When did you get here, Rabbi?" ²⁶ "In truth I tell you," answered Jesus, "it is not on account of the signs which you saw that you are looking for me, but because you had the bread to eat and were satisfied. ²⁷ Work, not for the food that perishes, but for the food that lasts for Immortal Life, which the Son of Man will give you; for upon him the Father--God himself--has set the seal of his approval." ²⁸ "How," they asked, "are we to do the work that God would have us do?" ²⁹ "The work that God would have you do," answered Jesus, "is to believe in him whom God sent as his Messenger." ³⁰ "What sign, then," they asked, "are you giving, which we may see, and so believe you? What is the work that you are doing? ³¹ Our ancestors had the manna to eat in the desert; as Scripture says--'He gave them bread from Heaven to eat.'" ³² "In truth I tell you," replied Jesus, "Moses did not give you the Bread from Heaven, but my Father does give you the true Bread from Heaven; ³³ For the Bread that God gives is that which comes down from Heaven, and gives Life to the world." ³⁴ "Master," they exclaimed, "give us that Bread always!" ³⁵ "I am the Life-giving Bread," Jesus said to them; "he that comes to me shall never be hungry, and he that believes in me shall never thirst again. ³⁶ But, as I have said already, you have seen me, and yet you do not believe in me. ³⁷ All those whom the Father gives me will come to me; and no one who comes to me will I ever turn away. ³⁸ For I have come down from Heaven, to do, not my own will, but the will of him who sent me; ³⁹ And his will is this--that I should not lose one of all those whom he has given me, but should raise them up at the Last Day. ⁴⁰ For it is the will of my Father that every one who sees the Son, and believes in him, should have Immortal Life; and I myself will raise him up at the Last Day." ⁴¹ Upon this the Jews began murmuring against Jesus for saying-- 'I am the Bread which came down from Heaven.' ⁴² "Is not this Jesus, Joseph's son," they asked, "whose father and mother we know? How is it that he now says that he has come down from Heaven?" ⁴³ "Do not murmur among yourselves," said Jesus in reply. ⁴⁴ "No one can come to me, unless the Father who sent me draws him to me; and I will raise him up at the Last Day. ⁴⁵ It is said in the Prophets--'And they shall all be taught by God.' Every one who is taught by the Father and learns from him comes to me. ⁴⁶ Not that any one has seen the Father, except him who is from God--he has seen the Father. ⁴⁷ In truth I tell you, he who believes in me has Immortal Life. ⁴⁸ I am the Life-giving Bread. ⁴⁹ Your ancestors ate the manna in the desert, and yet died. ⁵⁰ The Bread that comes down from Heaven is such that whoever eats of it will never die. ⁵¹ I am the Living Bread that has come down from Heaven. If any one eats of this Bread, he will live for ever; and the Bread that I shall give is my flesh, which I will give for the Life of the world." ⁵² Upon this the Jews began disputing with one another: "How is it possible for this man to give us his flesh to eat?" ⁵³ "In truth I tell you," answered Jesus, "unless you eat the flesh of the Son of Man, and drink his blood, you have not Life within you. ⁵⁴ He who takes my flesh for his food, and drinks my blood, has Immortal Life; and I will raise him up at the Last Day. ⁵⁵ For my flesh is true food, and my blood true drink. ⁵⁶ He who takes my flesh for his food, and drinks my blood, remains united to me, and I to him. ⁵⁷ As the Living Father sent me as his Messenger, and as I live because the Father lives, so he who takes me for his food shall live because I live. ⁵⁸ That is the Bread which has come down from Heaven--not such as your ancestors ate, and yet died; he who takes this Bread for his food shall live for ever."

³⁷ On the last and greatest day of the Festival, Jesus, who was standing by, exclaimed: "If any one thirsts, let him come to me, and drink.

²⁸ "You are his disciple," they retorted scornfully; "but we are disciples of Moses. ²⁹ We know that God spoke to Moses; but, as for this man, we do not know where he comes from."

²⁸ And I give them Immortal Life, and they shall not be lost; nor shall any one snatch them out of my hands. ²⁹ What my Father has entrusted to me is more than all else; and no one can snatch anything out of the Father's hands. ³⁰ The Father and I are one."

⁴² They devoted themselves to the teaching of the Apostles and to the Common Life of the Church, to the Breaking of the Bread and to the Prayers.

⁴⁶ Every day they devoted themselves to meeting together in the Temple Courts, and to the Breaking of Bread at their homes, while they partook of their food in simple-hearted gladness, praising God, and winning the good-will of all the people.

¹⁵ Again he was aware of a voice which said-- "What God has pronounced 'clean', do not regard as 'defiled'."

²³ Instantly an angel of the Lord struck him, because he did not give God the glory; and he was attacked with worms, and died.

⁷ On the first day of the week, when we had met for the Breaking of Bread, Paul, who was intending to leave the next day, began to address those who were present, and prolonged his address till midnight.

¹¹ Then he went upstairs; and, after breaking and partaking of the Bread, he talked with them at great length till daybreak, and then left.

²⁸ Be watchful over yourselves, and over the whole flock, of which the Holy Spirit has placed you in charge, to shepherd the Church of God, which he won for himself at the cost of his life.

¹⁶ This being so, I strive at all times to keep my conscience clear before both God and man.

⁴⁴ And that the rest should follow, some on planks, and others on different pieces of the ship. In these various ways every one managed to get safely ashore.

³ Concerning his Son, Jesus Christ, our Lord; who, as to his human nature, was descended from David,

¹ What then, it may be asked, are we to say about Abraham, the ancestor of our nation?

¹¹ Not after, but before. And it was as a sign of this that he received the rite of circumcision-to attest the righteousness due to the faith of an uncircumcised man-in order that he might be the father of all who have faith in God even when uncircumcised, that they also may be regarded by God as righteous; ¹² As well as father of the circumcised-to those who are not only circumcised, but who also follow our father Abraham in that faith which he had while still uncircumcised.

²³ Now these words-'it was regarded as righteousness'-were not written with reference to Abraham only;

¹⁴ Yet, from Adam to Moses, Death reigned even over those whose sin was not a breach of a law, as Adam's was. And Adam foreshadows the One to come.

³ Or can it be that you do not know that all of us, who were baptized into union with Christ Jesus, in our baptism shared his death?

²⁸ But we do know that God causes all things to work together for the good of those who love him-those who have received the Call in accordance with his purpose. ²⁹ For those whom God chose from the first he also destined from the first to be transformed into likeness to his Son, so that his Son might be the eldest among many Brothers. ³⁰ And those whom God destined for this he also called; and those whom he called he also pronounced righteous; and those whom he pronounced righteous he also brought to Glory. ³¹ What are we to say, then, in the light of all this? If God is on our side, who can there be against us? ³² God did not withhold his own Son, but gave him up on behalf of us all; will he not, then, with him, freely give us all things? ³³ Who will bring a charge against any of God's People? He who pronounces them righteous is God! ³⁴ Who is there to condemn them? He who died for us is Christ Jesus!-or, rather, it was he who was raised from the dead, and who is now at God's right hand and is even pleading on our behalf! ³⁵ Who is there to separate us from the love of the Christ? Will trouble, or difficulty, or persecution, or hunger, or nakedness, or danger, or the sword? ³⁶ Scripture says-'For thy sake we are being killed all the day long, We are regarded as sheep to be slaughtered.' ³⁷ Yet amidst all these things we more than conquer through him who loved us! ³⁸ For I am persuaded that neither Death, nor Life, nor Angels, nor Archangels, nor the Present, nor the Future, nor any Powers, ³⁹ Nor Height, nor Depth, nor any other created thing, will be able to separate us from the love of God revealed in Christ Jesus, our Lord!

³ I could wish that I were myself accursed and severed from the Christ, for the sake of my Brothers-my own countrymen. ⁴ For they are Israelites, and theirs are the adoption as Sons, the visible Presence, the Covenants, the revealed Law, the Temple worship, and the Promises. ⁵ They are descended from the Patriarchs; and, as far as his human nature was concerned, from them came the Christ-he who is supreme over all things, God for ever blessed. Amen. ⁶ Not that God's Word has failed. For it is not all who are descended from Israel who are true Israelites; ⁷ Nor, because they are Abraham's descendants, are they all his Children; but-'It is Isaac's children who will be called thy descendants.' ⁸ This means that it is not the children born in the course of nature who are God's Children, but it is the children born in fulfillment of the Promise who are to be regarded as Abraham's descendants.

¹⁴ Being myself an Apostle to the Gentiles, I exalt my office, in the hope that I may stir my countrymen to rivalry, and so save some of them.

²⁰ True; it was because of their want of faith that they were broken off, and it is because of your faith that you are standing. Do not think too highly of yourself, but beware. ²¹ For, if God did not spare the natural branches, neither will he spare you.

⁵ So we, by our union in Christ, many though we are, form but one body, and individually we are related one to another as its parts.

¹⁹ Never avenge yourselves, dear friends, but make way for the Wrath of God; for Scripture declares--'"It is for me to avenge, I will requite," says the Lord.'

⁵ You are bound, therefore, to obey, not only through fear of God's punishments, but also as a matter of conscience.

¹¹ This I say, because you know the crisis that we have reached, for the time has already come for you to rouse yourselves from sleep; our Salvation is nearer now than when we accepted the Faith.

⁶ He who observes a day, observes it to the Master's honor. He, again, who eats meat eats it to the Master's honor, for he gives thanks to God; while he who abstains from it abstains from it to the Master's honor, and also gives thanks to God.

¹³ Let us, then, cease to judge one another. Rather let this be your resolve--never to place a stumbling-block or an obstacle in a Brother's way. ¹⁴ Through my union with the Lord Jesus, I know and am persuaded that nothing is 'defiling in itself.' A thing is 'defiling' only to him who holds it to be so. ¹⁵ If, for the sake of what you eat, you wound your Brother's feelings, your life has ceased to be ruled by love. Do not, by what you eat, ruin a man for whom Christ died!

¹⁵ If, for the sake of what you eat, you wound your Brother's feelings, your life has ceased to be ruled by love. Do not, by what you eat, ruin a man for whom Christ died! ¹⁶ Do not let what is right for you become a matter of reproach. ¹⁷ For the Kingdom of God does not consist of eating and drinking, but of righteousness and peace and gladness through the presence of the Holy Spirit. ¹⁸ He who serves the Christ in this way pleases God, and wins the approval of his fellow men. ¹⁹ Therefore our efforts should be directed towards all that makes for peace and the mutual building up of character.

¹⁹ Therefore our efforts should be directed towards all that makes for peace and the mutual building up of character. ²⁰ Do not undo God's work for the sake of what you eat. Though everything is 'clean,' yet, if a man eats so as to put a stumbling- block in the way of others, he does wrong.

²⁰ Do not undo God's work for the sake of what you eat. Though everything is 'clean,' yet, if a man eats so as to put a stumbling- block in the way of others, he does wrong. ²¹ The right course is to abstain from meat or wine or, indeed, anything that is a stumbling-block to your Brother.

¹ We, the strong, ought to take on our own shoulders the weaknesses of those who are not strong, and not merely to please ourselves. ² Let each of us please his neighbor for his neighbor's good, to help in the building up of his character.

² Let each of us please his neighbor for his neighbor's good, to help in the building up of his character. ³ Even the Christ did not please himself! On the contrary, as Scripture says of him--'The reproaches of those who were reproaching thee fell upon me.' ⁴ Whatever was written in the Scriptures in days gone by was written for our instruction, so that, through patient endurance, and through the encouragement drawn from the Scriptures, we might hold fast to our hope.

⁹ God will not fail you, and it is he who called you into communion with his Son, Jesus Christ, our Lord.

¹³ You have rent the Christ in pieces! Was it Paul who was crucified for you? or were you baptized into the Faith of Paul? ¹⁴ I am thankful that I did not baptize any of you except Crispus and Gaius, ¹⁵ So that no one can say that you were baptized into my Faith. ¹⁶ I baptized also the household of Stephanas. I do not know that I baptized any one else.

²⁸ And God chose what the world counts poor and insignificant-- things that to it are unreal-to bring its 'realities' to nothing,

⁷ Therefore neither the man who plants, nor the man who waters, is of any account, but only God who causes the growth.

⁶ All this, Brothers, I have, for your sakes, applied to Apollos and myself, so that, from our example, you may learn to observe the precept-'Keep to what is written,' that none of you may speak boastfully of one teacher to the disparagement of another. ⁷ For who makes any one of you superior to others? And what have you that was not given you? But if you received it as a gift, why do you boast as if you had not? ⁸ Are you all so soon satisfied? Are you so soon rich? Have you begun to reign without us? Would indeed that you had, so that we also might reign with you!

¹⁰ We, for Christ's sake, are 'fools,' but you, by your union with Christ, are men of discernment. We are weak, but you are strong. You are honored, but we are despised.

⁹ I told you, in my letter, not to associate with immoral people- - ¹⁰ Not, of course, meaning men of the world who are in immoral, or who are covetous and grasping, or who worship idols; for then you would have to leave the world altogether. ¹¹ But, as things are, I say that you are not to associate with any one who, although a Brother in name, is immoral, or covetous, or an idolater, or abusive, or a drunkard, or grasping-no, not even to sit at table with such people.

¹¹ But, as things are, I say that you are not to associate with any one who, although a Brother in name, is immoral, or covetous, or an idolater, or abusive, or a drunkard, or grasping-no, not even to sit at table with such people.

⁵ Can it be that there is not one man among you wise enough to decide between two of his Brothers?

⁹ Do not you know that wrong-doers will have no share in God's Kingdom? Do not be deceived. No one who is immoral, or an idolater, or an adulterer, or licentious, or a sodomite,

¹² Everything is allowable for me! Yes, but everything is not profitable. Everything is allowable for me! Yes, but for my part, I will not let myself be enslaved by anything.

¹⁸ Shun all immorality. Every other sin that men commit is something outside the body; but an immoral man sins against his own body.

²⁹ What I mean, Brothers, is this-The time is short. Meanwhile, let those who have wives live as if they had none,

³⁴ And so his interests are divided. Again, the unmarried woman, whether she is old or young, is anxious about the Master's Cause, striving to be pure both in body and in spirit, while the married woman is anxious about worldly matters, desiring to please her husband.

¹ With reference to food that has been offered in sacrifice to idols-We are aware that all of us have knowledge! Knowledge breeds conceit, while love builds up character. ² If a man thinks that he knows anything, he has not yet reached that knowledge which he ought to have reached.

⁴ With reference, then, to eating food that has been offered to idols-we are aware that an idol is nothing in the world, and that there is no God but one.

⁷ Still, it is not every one that has this knowledge. Some people, because of their association with idols, continued down to the present time, eat the food as food offered to an idol; and their consciences, while still weak, are dulled.

⁹ But take care that this right of yours does not become in any way a stumbling-block to the weak.

⁹ But take care that this right of yours does not become in any way a stumbling-block to the weak. ¹⁰ For if some one should see you who possess this knowledge, feasting in an idol's temple, will not his conscience, if he is a weak man, become so hardened that he, too, will eat food offered to idols?

¹⁰ For if some one should see you who possess this knowledge, feasting in an idol's temple, will not his conscience, if he is a weak man, become so hardened that he, too, will eat food offered to idols? ¹¹ And so, through this knowledge of yours, the weak man is ruined-your Brother for whose sake Christ died! ¹² In this way, by sinning against your Brothers and injuring their consciences, while still weak, you sin against Christ. ¹³ Therefore, if what I eat makes my Brother fall, rather than make my Brother fall, I will never eat meat again.

¹³ Therefore, if what I eat makes my Brother fall, rather than make my Brother fall, I will never eat meat again.

¹⁰ Or is not is said entirely for our sakes? Surely it was written for our sakes, for the ploughman ought not to plough, nor the thrasher to thrash, without expecting a share of the grain.

¹³ Do not you know that those who do the work of the Temple live on what comes from the Temple, and that those who serve at the altar share the offerings with the altar?

¹⁹ Although I was entirely free, yet, to win as many converts as possible, I made myself everyone's slave.

¹⁹ Although I was entirely free, yet, to win as many converts as possible, I made myself everyone's slave. ²⁰ To the Jews I became like a Jew, to win Jews. To those who are subject to Law I became like a man subject to Law-though I was not myself subject to Law-to win those who are subject to Law. ²¹ To those who have no Law I became like a man who has no Law- -not that I am free from God's Law; no, for I am under Christ's Law-to win those who have no law. ²² To the weak I became weak, to win the weak. I have become all things to all men, so as at all costs to save some. ²³ And I do everything for the sake of the Good News, that with them I may share in its blessings.

³ And that they all ate the same supernatural food, ⁴ and all drank the same supernatural water, for they used to drink from a supernatural rock which followed them, and that rock was the Christ.

⁷ Do not become idolaters, as some of them became. Scripture says-'The people sat down to eat and drink, and stood up to dance.'

¹¹ These things happened to them by way of warning, and were recorded to serve as a caution to us, in whose days the close of the ages has come.

¹⁴ Therefore, my dear friends, shun the worship of idols.

¹⁶ In the Cup of Blessing which we bless, is not there a sharing in the blood of the Christ? And in the Bread which we break, is not there a sharing in the Body of the Christ?

²⁰ No; what I say is that the sacrifices offered by the Gentiles 'are offered to demons and to a Being who is no God,' and I do not want you to share with demons. ²¹ You cannot drink both the Cup of the Lord and the cup of demons. You cannot partake at the Table of the Lord and at the table of demons.

²¹ You cannot drink both the Cup of the Lord and the cup of demons. You cannot partake at the Table of the Lord and at the table of demons.

²⁴ A man must not study his own interests, but the interests of others. ²⁵ Eat anything that is sold in the market, without making inquiries to satisfy your scruples; ²⁶ For 'the earth, with all that is in it, belongs to the Lord.' ²⁷ If an unbeliever invites you to his house and you consent to go, eat anything that is put before you, without making inquiries to satisfy your scruples. ²⁸ But, if any one should say to you 'This has been offered in sacrifice to an idol,' then, for the sake of the speaker and his scruples, do not eat it.

²⁸ But, if any one should say to you 'This has been offered in sacrifice to an idol,' then, for the sake of the speaker and his scruples, do not eat it. ²⁹ I do not say 'your' scruples, but 'his.' For why should the freedom that I claim be condemned by the scruples of another?

³² Do not cause offence either to Jews or Greeks or to the Church of God; ³³ For I, also, try to please everybody in everything, not seeking my own advantage, but that of men in general, that they may be saved.

¹³ Judge for yourselves. Is it fitting that a woman should pray to God in public with her head uncovered?

²² Have you no houses in which you can eat and drink? Or are you trying to show your contempt for the Church of God, and to humiliate the poor? What can I say to you? Shall I praise you? In this matter I cannot praise you. ²³ For I myself received from the Lord the account which I have in turn given to you-how the Lord Jesus, on the very night of his betrayal, took some bread, ²⁴ And, after saying the thanksgiving, broke it and said "This is my own body given on your behalf. Do this in memory of me."

²⁴ And, after saying the thanksgiving, broke it and said "This is my own body given on your behalf. Do this in memory of me." ²⁵ And in the same way with the cup, after supper, saying "This cup is the new Covenant made by my blood. Do this, whenever you drink it, in memory of me."

²⁵ And in the same way with the cup, after supper, saying "This cup is the new Covenant made by my blood. Do this, whenever you drink it, in memory of me." ²⁶ For whenever you eat this bread and drink the cup, you proclaim the Lord's death-till he comes.

²⁶ For whenever you eat this bread and drink the cup, you proclaim the Lord's death-till he comes. ²⁷ Therefore, whoever eats the bread, or drinks the Lord's cup, in an irreverent spirit, will have to answer for an offence against the Lord's body and blood.

²⁷ Therefore, whoever eats the bread, or drinks the Lord's cup, in an irreverent spirit, will have to answer for an offence against the Lord's body and blood. ²⁸ Let each man look into his own heart, and only then eat of the bread and drink from the cup.

²⁸ Let each man look into his own heart, and only then eat of the bread and drink from the cup. ²⁹ For the man who eats and drinks brings a judgment upon himself by his eating and drinking, when he does not discern the body.

¹ In the next place, Brothers, I do not want you to be ignorant about spiritual gifts.

¹² For just as the human body is one whole, and yet has many parts, and all its parts, many though they are, form but one body, so it is with the Christ; ¹³ For it was by one Spirit that we were all baptized to form one Body, whether Jews or Greeks, slaves or free men, and were all imbued with one Spirit.

²⁷ Together you are the Body of Christ, and individually its parts.

² Even though I have the gift of preaching, and fathom all hidden truths and all the depths of knowledge; even though I have such faith as might move mountains, yet have not Love, I am nothing!

⁵ Love is never self-seeking, never provoked, never reckons up her wrongs;

³ But he who preaches is speaking to his fellow men words that will build up faith, and give them comfort and encouragement. ⁴ He who, when speaking, uses the gift of 'tongues' builds up his own faith, while he who preaches builds up the faith of the Church. ⁵ Now I want you all to speak in 'tongues,' but much more I wish that you should preach. A Preacher is of more account than he who speaks in 'tongues,' unless he interprets his words, so that the faith of the Church may be built up.

¹² And so with you; since your are striving for spiritual gifts, be eager to excel in such as will build up the faith of the Church.

¹⁷ Your thanksgiving may be excellent, but the other is not helped by it.

²⁰ Brothers, do not show yourselves children in understanding. In wickedness be infants, but in understanding show yourselves men.

²⁰ Brothers, do not show yourselves children in understanding. In wickedness be infants, but in understanding show yourselves men. ²¹ It is said in the Law-'In strange tongues and by the lips of strangers will I speak to this people, but even then they will not listen to me, says the Lord.' ²² Therefore the gift of the 'tongues' is intended as a sign, not for those who believe in Christ, but for those who do not, while the gift of preaching is intended as a sign, not for those who do not believe in Christ, but for those who do.

²⁶ What do I suggest, then, Brothers? Whenever you meet for worship, each of you comes, either with a hymn, or a lesson, or a revelation, or the gift of 'tongues,' or the interpretation of them; let everything be directed to the building up of faith.

³⁸ Any one who ignores it may be ignored.

¹⁰ And from so imminent a death God delivered us, and will deliver us again; for in him we have placed our hopes of future deliverance, while you, also, help us by your prayers.

¹³ We never write anything to you other than what you will acknowledge to the very end--

² No, we have renounced the secrecy prompted by shame, refusing to adopt crafty ways, or to tamper with God's Message, and commending ourselves to every man's conscience, in the sight of God, by our exhibition of the Truth.

⁴ Men whose minds have been blinded by the God of this Age, unbelievers as they are, so that the light from the Good News of the glory of the Christ, who is the very incarnation of God, should not shine for them.

¹¹ Therefore, because we know the fear inspired by the Lord, it is true that we are trying to win men, but our motives are plain to God; and I hope that in your inmost hearts they are plain to you also.

³ Never do we put an obstacle in any one's way, that no fault may be found with our ministry.

¹⁵ What harmony can there be between Christ and Belial? or what can those who accept the Faith have in common with those who reject it? ¹⁶ What agreement can thee be between a temple of God and idols? And we are a temple of the Living God. That is what God meant when he said--'I will dwell among them, and walk among them; and I will be their God, and they shall be my people. ¹⁷ Therefore "Come out from among the nations, and separate yourselves from them," says the Lord, "and touch nothing impure; And I will welcome you;

¹⁷ Therefore "Come out from among the nations, and separate yourselves from them," says the Lord, "and touch nothing impure; And I will welcome you;

¹ With these promises, dear friends, let us purify ourselves from everything that pollutes either body or spirit, and, in deepest reverence for God, aim at perfect holiness.

²¹ For we are trying to make arrangements which shall be right, not only in the eyes of the Lord, but also in the eyes of men.

¹¹ Why? Because I do not love you? God knows that I do!

¹⁸ As so many are boasting of earthly things, I, too, will boast. ¹⁹ For all your cleverness, you tolerate fools willingly enough! ²⁰ You tolerate a man even when he enslaves you, when he plunders you, when he gets you into his power, when he puts on airs of superiority, when he strikes you in the face! ²¹ I admit, to my shame, that we have been weak. But whatever the subject on which others are not afraid to boast--though it is foolish to say so--I am not afraid either! ²² Are they Hebrews? So am I! Are they Israelites? So am I! Are they descendants of Abraham? So am I! ²³ Are they 'Servants of Christ'? Though it is madness to talk like this, I am more so than they! I have had more of toil, more of imprisonment! I have been flogged times without number. I have been often at death's door. ²⁴ Five times I received at the hands of the Jews forty lashes, all but one. ²⁵ Three times I was beaten with rods. Once I was stoned. Three times I was shipwrecked. I have spent a whole day and night in the deep. ²⁶ My journeys have been many. I have been through dangers from rivers, dangers from robbers, dangers from my own people, dangers from the Gentiles, dangers in towns, dangers in the country, dangers on the sea, dangers among false Brothers. ²⁷ I have been through toil and hardship. I have passed many a sleepless night; I have endured hunger and thirst; I have often been without food; I have known cold and nakedness. ²⁸ And, not to speak of other things, there is my daily burden of anxiety about all the Churches.

²⁸ And, not to speak of other things, there is my daily burden of anxiety about all the Churches. ²⁹ Who is weak without my being weak? Who is led astray without my burning with indignation?

⁸ About this I three times entreated the Lord, praying that it might leave me. ⁹ But his reply has been-- 'My help is enough for you; for my strength attains its perfection in the midst of weakness.' Most gladly, then, will I boast all the more of my weaknesses, so that the strength of the Christ may overshadow me. ¹⁰ That is why I delight in weakness, ill-treatment, hardship, persecution, and difficulties, when borne for Christ. For, when I am weak, then it is that I am strong! ¹¹ I have been "playing the fool!" It is you who drove me to it. For it is you who ought to have been commending me! Although I am nobody, in no respect did I prove inferior to the most eminent Apostles.

¹⁴ Remember, this is the third time that I have made every preparation to come to see you, and I shall refuse to be a burden to you; I want, not your money, but you. It is not the duty of children to put by for their parents, but of parents to put by for their children. ¹⁵ For my part, I will most gladly spend, and be spent, for your welfare. Can it be that the more intensely I love you the less I am to be loved?

¹⁹ Have you all this time been fancying that it is to you that we are making our defense? No, it is in the sight of God, and in union with Christ, that we are speaking. And all this, dear friends, is to build up your characters;

¹⁰ Is this, I ask, trying to conciliate men, or God? Am I seeking to please men? If I were still trying to please men, I should not be a servant of Christ.

²⁶ For you are all Sons of God, through your faith in Christ Jesus. ²⁷ For all of you who were baptized into union with Christ clothed yourselves with Christ.

²⁷ For all of you who were baptized into union with Christ clothed yourselves with Christ. ²⁸ All distinctions between Jew and Greek, slave and freeman, male and female, have vanished; for in union with Christ Jesus you are all one. ²⁹ And, since you belong to Christ, it follows that you are Abraham's offspring and, under the promise, sharers in the inheritance.

²⁵ (The word Hagar meaning in Arabia Mount Sinai) and it ranks with the Jerusalem of to-day, for she and her children are in slavery.

¹⁶ May all who rule their conduct by this principle find peace and mercy--they who are the Israel of God.

²² And God placed 'all things under Christ's feet,' and gave him to the Church as its supreme Head; ²³ For the Church is Christ's Body, and is filled by him who fills all things everywhere with his presence.

¹¹ Remember, therefore, that you were once Gentiles yourselves, as your bodies showed; you were called 'The Uncircumcised' by those who were called 'The Circumcised'--circumcised only by the hand of man! ¹² Remember that you were at that time far from Christ; you were shut out from the citizenship of Israel; you were strangers to the Covenants founded on God's Promise; you were in the world without hope and without God.

¹⁵ And in his human nature put an end to the cause of enmity between them--the Law with its injunctions and ordinances--in order to create, through union with himself, from Jew and Gentile, one New Man and thus make peace. ¹⁶ And when, upon the cross, he had destroyed their mutual enmity, he sought by means of his cross to reconcile them both to God, united in one Body.

⁶ That, by union with Christ Jesus and through the Good News, the Gentiles are co-heirs with us and members of one Body, and that they share with us in God's Promise.

⁴ There is but one Body and one Spirit, just as there was but one hope set before you when you received your Call.

¹² To fit his People for the work of the ministry, for the building up of the Body of the Christ. ¹³ And this shall continue, until we all attain to that unity which is given by faith and by a fuller knowledge of the Son of God; until we reach the ideal man--the full standard of the perfection of the Christ.

¹⁶ For from him the whole Body, closely joined and knit together by the contact of every part with the source of its life, derives its power to grow, in proportion to the vigor of each individual part; and so is being built up in a spirit of love.

²⁵ Since, therefore, you have cast off what is false, 'you must every one of you speak the truth to your neighbors.' For we are united to one another like the parts of a body.

²⁹ Never let any foul word pass your lips, but only such good words as the occasion demands, that they may be a help to those who hear them.

¹² For ours is no struggle against enemies of flesh and blood, but against all the various Powers of Evil that hold sway in the Darkness around us, against the Spirits of Wickedness on high. ¹³ Therefore take up the full armor of God, that, when the evil day comes, you may be able to withstand the attack, and, having fought to the end, still to stand your ground.

¹⁰ Until you are able to appreciate all moral distinctions. And I pray, too, that you may be kept pure and blameless against the Day of Christ,

⁴ And one and all should consider, not only their own interests, but also the interests of others. ⁵ Let the spirit of Christ Jesus be yours also.

¹⁴ In all that you do, avoid murmuring and dissension,

²¹ They are all pursuing their own aims and not those of Christ Jesus.

³ For it is we who are the circumcised--we whose worship is prompted by the Spirit of God, who exult in Christ Jesus, and who do not rely upon external privileges; ⁴ Though I, if any man, have cause to rely even upon them. If any one thinks he can rely upon external privileges, far more can I! ⁵ I was circumcised when eight days old; I am an Israelite by race, and of the tribe of Benjamin; I am a Hebrew, and the child of Hebrews. As to the Law, I was a Pharisee;

¹ So then, my dear Brothers, whom I am longing to see--you who are my joy and my crown, stand fast in union with the Lord, dear friends.

⁵ Let your forbearing spirit be plain to every one. The Lord is near.

¹⁷ These things are only the shadow of what is to come; the substance is in the Christ.

¹⁹ He fails to maintain union with the Head, to whom it is due that the whole body, nourished and knit together by the contact and Keynesian of every part, grows with a divine growth.

¹¹ In that new life there is no distinction between Greek and Jew, circumcised and uncircumcised, barbarian, Scythian, slave, freeman; but Christ is all!--and in all!

¹⁵ Let the Peace that the Christ gives decide all doubts within your hearts; for you also were called to the enjoyment of peace as members of one Body. And show yourselves thankful.

¹⁷ And, whatever you say or do, do everything in the Name of the Lord Jesus; and through him offer thanksgiving to God the father.

²³ Whatever you do, do it with all your heart, as if working for the Master and not for men,

¹¹ Therefore encourage one another, and try to build up one another's characters, as indeed you are doing.

²¹ Bring everything to the test; cling to what is good; ²² Shun every form of evil.

²⁴ He who calls you will not fail you; he will complete his work.

⁷ And to give relief to you who are suffering, as well as to us, at the Appearing of the Lord Jesus from Heaven with his mighty angels, 'in flaming fire.' ⁸ Then he will 'inflict punishment upon those who refuse to know God, and upon those who turn a deaf ear' to the Good News of Jesus, our Lord.

³ But the Lord will not fail you; he will give you strength, and guard you from Evil.

⁴ nor to devote their attention to legends and interminable genealogies, which tend to give rise to argument rather than to further that divine plan which is revealed in the Faith.

⁵ If a man does not know how to rule his own household, how can he take charge of the Church of God?

¹⁵ but in case I should be delayed, I want you to know what your conduct ought to be in the Household of God, which is the Church of the Living God--the pillar and stay of the Truth.

³ and they discourage marriage and enjoin abstinence from certain kinds of food; though God created these foods to be enjoyed thankfully by those who hold the Faith and have attained a full knowledge of the Truth. ⁴ Everything created by God is good, and there in nothing that need be rejected--provided only that it is received thankfully;

⁴ Everything created by God is good, and there in nothing that need be rejected--provided only that it is received thankfully;

¹⁷ Urge upon those who are wealthy in this life not to pride themselves, or fix their hopes, on so uncertain a thing as wealth, but on God, who gives us a wealth of enjoyment on every side.

¹¹ How true this saying is-- 'If we have shared his death, we shall also share his life. ¹² If we continue to endure, we shall also share his throne. If we should ever disown him, he, too, will disown us. ¹³ If we lose our trust, he is still to be trusted, for he cannot be false to himself!'

¹⁸ The Lord will rescue me from all evil, and bring me safe into his Heavenly Kingdom. All glory to him for ever and ever! Amen.

¹⁵ Everything is pure to the pure-minded, but to those whose minds are polluted and who are unbelievers nothing is pure. Their minds and consciences are alike polluted.

¹ From Paul, now a prisoner for Christ Jesus, and from Timothy, a Brother.

² See how faithful he was to the God who appointed him, as Moses was in the whole House of God. ³ He has been deemed worthy of far higher honour than Moses, just as the founder of the House is held in greater regard than the House itself.

⁸ Harden not your hearts, as when Israel provoked me on the day when they tried my patience in the desert, ⁹ Where your ancestors tried my forbearance, And saw my mighty deeds for forty years. ¹⁰ Therefore I was sorely vexed with that generation, And I said-- "Their hearts are always straying; They have never learned my ways"; ¹¹ While in my wrath I swore-- "They shall never enter upon my Rest."'

¹⁴ For we now all share in the Christ, if indeed we retain, unshaken to the end, the confidence that we had at the first.

¹⁷ And with whom was it that God was sorely vexed for forty years? Was not it with those who had sinned, and who fell dead in the desert?

¹¹ Let us, therefore, make every effort to enter upon that Rest, so that none of us fall through such disbelief as that of which we have had an example.

¹⁸ For he intended us to find great encouragement in these two unchangeable things, which make it impossible for God to prove false--we, I mean, who fled for safety where we might lay hold on the hope set before us.

²⁴ For it was not into a Sanctuary made by human hands, which merely foreshadowed the true one, that Christ entered, but into Heaven itself, that he might now appear in the presence of God on our behalf.

¹ The Law, though able to foreshadow the Better System which was coming, never had its actual substance. Its priests, with those sacrifices which they offer continuously year after year, can never make those who come to worship perfect.

²³ Let us maintain the confession of our hope unshaken, for he who has given us his promise will not fail us.

²⁵ And let us not, as some do, cease to meet together; but, on the contrary, let us encourage one another, and all the more, now that you see the Day drawing near.

²⁸ When a man disregarded the Law of Moses, he was, on the evidence of two or three witnesses, put to death without pity. ²⁹ How much worse then, think you, will be the punishment deserved by those who have trampled underfoot the Son of God, who have treated the blood that rendered the Covenant valid--the very blood by which they were purified--as of no account, and who have outraged the Spirit of Love? ³⁰ We know who it was that said-- 'It is for me to avenge, I will requite'; and again-- 'The Lord will judge his people.' ³¹ It is a fearful thing to fall into the hands of the Living God.

³⁷ 'For there is indeed but a very little while ere He who is coming will have come, without delay;

¹¹ Again, it was faith that enabled Sarah to conceive (though she was past the age for child-bearing), because she felt sure that he who had given her the promise would not fail her.

²⁸ Faith led him to institute the Passover and the Sprinkling of the Blood, so that the Destroyer might not touch the eldest children of the Israelites. ²⁹ Faith enabled the people to cross the Red Sea, as if it had been dry land, while the Egyptians, when they attempted to do so, were drowned.

³⁵ Women received back their dead raised to life. Some were tortured on the wheel, and refused release in order that they might rise to a better life. ³⁶ Others had to face taunts and blows, and even chains and imprisonment. ³⁷ They were stoned to death, they were tortured, they were swan asunder, they were put to the sword; they wandered about clothed in the skins of sheep or goats, destitute, persecuted, ill-used-- ³⁸ men of whom the world was not worthy--roaming in lonely places, and on the mountains, and in caves and holes in the ground.

⁴ You have not yet, in your struggle with sin, resisted to the death;

¹⁰ Brothers, as an example of the patient endurance of suffering, take the Prophets who spoke in the name of the Lord. ¹¹ We count those who displayed such endurance blessed! You have heard, too, of Job's endurance, and have seen what the Lord's purpose was, for 'the Lord is full of pity and compassion.'

⁵ for you who, through faith, are being guarded by the power of God, awaiting a Salvation that is ready to be revealed in the last days. ⁶ At the thought of this you are full of exultation, though (if it has been necessary) you have suffered for the moment somewhat from various trials; ⁷ that the genuineness of your faith--a thing far more precious than gold, which is perishable, yet has to be tested by fire--may win praise and glory and honour at the Appearing of Jesus Christ.

¹¹ Dear friends, I urge you, as pilgrims and strangers upon earth, to refrain from indulging the cravings of your earthly nature, for they make war upon the soul.

²¹ And baptism, which this foreshadowed, now saves you--not the mere cleansing of the body, but the search of a clear conscience after God--through the resurrection of Jesus Christ,

¹¹ When any one speaks, let him speak as one who is delivering the oracles of God. When any one is endeavoring to serve others, let him do so in reliance on the strength which God supplies; so that in everything God may be honour ed through Jesus Christ--to whom be ascribed all honour and might for ever and ever. Amen.

¹⁹ Therefore, I say, let those who suffer, because God wills it so, commit their lives into the hands of a faithful Creator, and persevere in doing right.

⁸ Exercise self-control, be watchful. Your adversary, the Devil, like a roaring lion, is prowling about, eager to devour you. ⁹ Stand firm against him, strong in your faith; knowing, as you do, that the very sufferings which you are undergoing are being endured to the full by your Brotherhood throughout the world.

⁶ He condemned the cities of Sodom and Gomorrah and reduced them to ashes, holding them up as a warning to the godless of what was in store for them;

⁹ The Lord, therefore, knows how to deliver the pious from temptation, and to keep the wicked, who are even now suffering punishment, in readiness for 'the Day of Judgment'--

¹⁷ Do you, therefore, dear friends, now that you know this beforehand, be on your guard against being led away by the errors of reckless people, and so lapsing from your present steadfastness;

³ It is of what we have seen and heard that we now tell you, so that you may have communion with us. And our communion is with the Father and with his Son, Jesus Christ.

⁷ But, if our lives are lived in the Light, as God himself is in the Light, we have communion with one another, and the Blood of Jesus, his Son, purifies us from all sin.

⁹ If we confess our sins, God may be trusted, in his righteousness, to forgive us our sins and purify us from all wickedness.

¹⁸ My Children, these are the last days. You were told that an Anti-Christ was coming; and many Anti-Christ's have already arisen. By that we know that these are the last days.

²¹ My Children, guard yourselves against false ideas of God.

⁵ Now I want to remind you--but you already know it all--that, though the Lord delivered the People from Egypt, yet he afterwards destroyed those who refused to believe in him;

⁷ Like Sodom and Gomorrah and the towns near them, which gave themselves up to fornication, and fell into unnatural vice, these angels now stand out as a warning, undergoing, as they are, the punishment of aeonian fire.

¹⁶ These men are always murmuring, and complaining of their lot; they follow where their passions lead them; they have arrogant words upon their lips; and they flatter men for the sake of what they can get from them.

¹⁰ Do not be afraid of what you are about to suffer. The Devil is about to throw some of you into prison, that you may be tempted, and may undergo persecution for ten days. Be faithful even to death, and I will give you the Crown of Life.

¹⁴ Yet I have a few things against you--You have among you those who hold to the Teaching of Balaam, who taught Balak to put temptations in the way of the Israelites, so that they should eat idol-offerings and commit licentious acts.

¹⁰ Because you kept in mind the story of my endurance, I will keep you in the hour of trial that is about to come upon the whole world, the hour that will test all who are living upon earth.

¹⁷ You say 'I am rich and have grown rich, and I want for nothing,' and you do not know that you are wretched, miserable, poor, blind, naked! ¹⁸ Therefore I counsel you to buy from me gold which has been refined by fire, that you may grow rich; and white robes, that you may be clothed and your shameful nakedness be hidden; and ointment to anoint your eyes, that you may see.

²⁰ But those who were left of mankind, who had not perished through these Curses, did not repent and turn away from what their own hands had made; they would not abandon the worship of 'demons, and of idols made of gold or silver or brass or stone or wood, which can neither see, nor hear, nor walk';

⁸ All who are living on earth will worship it--all whose names have not been written in the Lamb's Book of Life, the Lamb that has been sacrificed from the foundation of the world.

² Then I saw what appeared to be a sea of glass mixed with fire; and, standing by this sea of glass, holding the harps of God, I saw those who had come victorious out of the conflict with the Beast and its image and the number that formed its name. ³ They are singing the song of Moses, the Servant of God, and the song of the Lamb-- 'Great and marvelous are thy deeds, O Lord, our God, the Almighty. Righteous and true are thy ways, Eternal King.

¹ Then I heard a loud voice, which came from the Temple, saying to the seven angels-- 'Go and empty the seven bowls of the Wrath of God upon the earth.'

¹¹ Then I saw that Heaven lay open. There appears a white horse; its rider is called 'Faithful' and 'True'; righteously does he judge and make war.

⁸ But as for cowards, unbelievers, the degraded, murderers, the impure, sorcerers, idolaters, and all liars--their place will be in the burning lake of fire and sulphur. That is the Second Death.'

¹⁵ Outside will be the filthy, the sorcerers, the impure, the murderers, the idolaters, and all who love the false and live it.'

¹⁷ 'Come,' say the Spirit and the Bride; and let him who hears say 'Come.' Let him who thirsts come; let him who will take the Water of Life freely.