1 Corinthians 5 Cross References - Twentieth_Century

¹ There is a wide-spread report respecting a case of immorality among you, and that, too, of a kind that does not occur even among the Gentiles-a man, I hear, is living with his father's wife! ² Instead of grieving over it and taking steps for the expulsion of the man who has done this thing, is it possible that you are still puffed up? ³ For I myself, though absent in body, have been present with you in spirit, and in the name of our Lord Jesus I have already passed judgment, just as if I had been present, upon the man who has acted in this way. ⁴ I have decided-having been present in spirit at your meetings, when the power of the Lord Jesus was with us- ⁵ To deliver such a man as this over to Satan, that what is sensual in him may be destroyed, so that his spirit may be saved at the Day of the Lord. ⁶ Your boasting is unseemly. Do not you know that even a little leaven leavens all the dough? ⁷ Get rid entirely of the old leaven, so that you may be like new dough-free from leaven, as in truth you are. For our Passover Lamb is already sacrificed-Christ himself; ⁸ Therefore let us keep our festival, not with the leaven of former days, nor with the leaven of vice and wickedness, but with the unleavened bread of sincerity and truth. 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. ¹² What have I to do with judging those outside the Church? Is it not for you to judge those who are within the Church, ¹³ While God judges those who are outside? 'Put away the wicked man from among you.'

¹⁴ It is you who are the Light of the world. A town that stands on a hill cannot be hidden. ¹⁵ Men do not light a lamp and put it under the corn-measure, but on the lamp-stand, where it gives light to every one in the house. ¹⁶ Let your light so shine before the eyes of your fellow men, that, seeing your good actions, they may praise your Father who is in Heaven.

³³ This was another parable which Jesus related-- "The Kingdom of Heaven is like some yeast which a woman took and covered up in three pecks of flour, until the whole had risen."

⁶ Presently Jesus said to them: "Take care and be on your guard against the leaven of the Pharisees and Sadducees."

⁶ Presently Jesus said to them: "Take care and be on your guard against the leaven of the Pharisees and Sadducees." ⁷ But the disciples began talking among themselves about their having brought no bread. ⁸ On noticing this, Jesus said: "Why are you talking among yourselves about your being short of bread, O men of little faith? ⁹ Do not you yet see, nor remember the five loaves for the five thousand, and how many baskets you took away? ¹⁰ Nor yet the seven loaves for the four thousand, and how many basketfuls you took away? ¹¹ How is it that you do not see that I was not speaking about bread? Be on your guard against the leaven of the Pharisees and Sadducees." ¹² Then they understood that he had told them to be on their guard, not against the leaven of bread, but against the teaching of the Pharisees and Sadducees.

¹² Then they understood that he had told them to be on their guard, not against the leaven of bread, but against the teaching of the Pharisees and Sadducees.

¹⁹ I will give you the keys of the Kingdom of Heaven. Whatever you forbid on earth will be held in Heaven to be forbidden, and whatever you allow on earth will be held in Heaven to be allowed."

¹⁶ But, if he does not listen to you, take with you one or two others, so that 'on the evidence of two or three witnesses, every word may be put beyond dispute.' ¹⁷ If he refuses to listen to them, speak to the Church; and, if he also refuses to listen to the Church, treat him as you would a Gentile or a tax-gatherer.

¹⁷ If he refuses to listen to them, speak to the Church; and, if he also refuses to listen to the Church, treat him as you would a Gentile or a tax-gatherer. ¹⁸ I tell you, all that you forbid on earth will be held in Heaven to be forbidden, and all that you allow on earth will be held in Heaven to be allowed.

²⁰ For where two or three have come together in my Name, I am present with them."

²⁵ Alas for you, Teachers of the Law and Pharisees, hypocrites that you are! You clean the outside of the cup and the dish, but inside they are filled with the results of greed and self-indulgence.

⁴⁹ And begin to beat his fellow-servants, and eat and drink with drunkards, ⁵⁰ That servant's master will come on a day when he does not expect him, and at an hour of which he is unaware, ⁵¹ And will flog him severely, and assign him his place among the hypocrites, where there will be weeping and grinding of teeth.

⁴ And plotted together to arrest Jesus by stealth and put him to death; ⁵ But they said: "Not during the Festival, for fear of causing a riot."

¹⁸ Then Jesus came up, and spoke to them thus: "All authority in heaven and on the earth has been given to me.

²⁰ And teaching them to lay to heart all the commands that I have given you; and, remember, I myself am with you every day until the close of the age."

¹¹ And he said: "To you the hidden truth of the Kingdom of God has been imparted; but to those who are outside it all teaching takes the form of parables, that--

²¹ For it is from within, out of the hearts of men, that there come evil thoughts--unchastity, theft, murder, adultery, ²² Greed, wickedness, deceit, lewdness, envy, slander, haughtiness, folly; ²³ All these wicked things come from within, and do defile a man."

¹⁵ So Jesus gave them this warning. "Take care," he said, "beware of the leaven of the Pharisees and the leaven of Herod."

¹² On the first day of the Festival of the Unleavened bread, when it was customary to kill the Passover lambs, his disciples said to Jesus: "Where do you wish us to go and make preparations for your eating the Passover?"

¹ Meanwhile the people had gathered in thousands, so that they trod upon one another, when Jesus, addressing himself to his disciples, began by saying to them: "Be on your guard against the leaven--that is, the hypocrisy--of the Pharisees.

¹⁴ But Jesus said to him: "Man, who made me a judge or an arbiter between you?" ¹⁵ And then he added: "Take care to keep yourselves free from every form of covetousness; for even in the height of his prosperity a man's true Life does not depend on what he has." ¹⁶ Then Jesus told them this parable-- "There was once a rich man whose land was very fertile; ¹⁷ And he began to ask himself 'What shall I do, for I have nowhere to store my crops? ¹⁸ This is what I will do,' he said; 'I will pull down my barns and build larger ones, and store all my grain and my goods in them; ¹⁹ And I will say to myself, Now you have plenty of good things put by for many years; take your ease, eat, drink, and enjoy yourself.' ²⁰ But God said to the man 'Fool! This very night your life is being demanded; and as for all you have prepared--who will have it?' ²¹ So it is with those who lay by wealth for themselves and are not rich to the glory of God." ²² And Jesus said to his disciples: "That is why I say to you, Do not be anxious about the life here--what you can get to eat; nor yet about your body--what you can get to wear. ²³ For life is more than food, and the body than its clothes. ²⁴ Think of the ravens--they neither sow nor reap; they have neither storehouse nor barn; and yet God feeds them! And how much more precious are you than birds! ²⁵ But which of you, by being anxious, can prolong his life a moment? ²⁶ And, if you cannot do even the smallest thing, why be anxious about other things? ²⁷ Think of the lilies, and how they grow. They neither toil nor spin; yet, I tell you, even Solomon in all his splendor was not robed like one of these. ²⁸ If, even in the field, God so clothes the grass which is living to-day and to-morrow will be thrown into the oven, how much more will he clothe you, O men of little faith! ²⁹ And you--do not be always seeking what you can get to eat or what you can get to drink; and do not waver. ³⁰ These are the things for which all the nations of the world are seeking, and your Father knows that you need them. ³¹ No, seek his Kingdom, and these things shall be added for you.

⁴⁵ But should that servant say to himself 'My master is a long time coming,' and begin to beat the menservants and the maidservants, and to eat and drink and get drunk, ⁴⁶ That servant's master will come on a day when he does not expect him, and at an hour of which he is unaware, and will flog him severely and assign him his place among the untrustworthy.

²¹ It is like some yeast which a woman took and covered in three pecks of flour, until the whole had risen."

¹¹ The Pharisee stood forward and began praying to himself in this way--'O God, I thank thee that I am not like other men-- thieves, rogues, adulterers--or even like this tax-gatherer.

³⁴ Be on your guard lest your minds should ever be dulled by debauches or drunkenness or the anxieties of life, and lest 'That Day' should come suddenly upon you, like a snare.

²⁹ The next day John saw Jesus coming towards him, and exclaimed: "Here is the Lamb of God, who is to take away the sin of the world!

³⁶ He looked at Jesus as he passed and exclaimed: "There is the Lamb of God!"

⁴⁷ When Jesus saw Nathanael coming towards him, he said: "Here is a true Israelite, in whom there is no deceit!"

²³ "You," added Jesus, "are from below, I am from above; you are of this present world, I am not;

¹⁹ If you belonged to the world, the world would love its own. Because you do not belong to the world, but I have chosen you out of the world--that is why the world hates you.

⁶ I have revealed thee to those whom thou gavest me from the world; they were thy own, and thou gavest them to me; and they have laid thy Message to heart.

⁹ I intercede for them; I am not interceding for the world, but for those whom thou has given me, for they are thy own--

¹⁵ I do not ask thee to take them out of the world, but to keep them from Evil. ¹⁶ They do not belong to the world, even as I do not belong to the world.

²⁸ From Caiaphas they took Jesus to the Government House. It was early in the morning. But they did not enter the Government House themselves, lest they should become 'defiled,' and so be unable to eat the Passover. ²⁹ Therefore Pilate came outside to speak to them. "What charge do you bring against this man?" he asked. ³⁰ "If he had not been a criminal, we should not have given him up to you," they answered.

³⁶ "My kingly power," replied Jesus, "is not due to this world. If it had been so, my servants would be doing their utmost to prevent my being given up to the Jews; but my kingly power is not from the world."

¹⁴ It was the Passover Preparation Day, and about noon. Then he said to the Jews: "Here is your King!"

²³ If you remit any one's sins, they have been remitted; and, if you retain them, they have been retained."

⁶ But Peter added: "I have no gold or silver, but I give you what I have. In the Name of Jesus Christ of Nazareth I bid you walk."

⁷ They had Peter and John brought before them, and questioned them. "By what power," they asked, "Or in whose name have men like you done this thing?" ⁸ On this, Peter, filled with the Holy Spirit, spoke as follows: "Leaders of the people and Councillors, ⁹ Since we are on our trial to-day for a kind act done to a helpless man, and are asked in what way the man here before you has been cured, ¹⁰ Let me tell you all and all the people of Israel, that it is by the Name of Jesus Christ of Nazareth, whom you crucified and whom God raised from the dead--it is, I say, by his Name that this man stands here before you lame no longer. ¹¹ Jesus is 'the stone which, scorned by you the builders, has yet become the corner stone.' ¹² And Salvation is in him alone; for there is no other Name in the whole world, given to men, to which we must look for our Salvation."

³⁰ While thou stretchest out thy hand to heal, and causest signs and wonders to take place through the Name of thy holy Servant Jesus."

³² The passage of Scripture which he was reading was this--'Like a sheep, he was led away to slaughter, and as a lamb is dumb in the hands of its shearer, so he refrains from opening his lips. ³³ In his lowly condition justice was denied him. Who will tell the story of his generation? For his life is cut off from earth.' ³⁴ "Now," said the Treasurer, addressing Philip, "tell me, of whom is the Prophet speaking? Of himself, or of some one else?" ³⁵ Then Philip began, and, taking this passage as his text, told him the Good News about Jesus.

¹⁷ So Ananias went, entered the house, and, placing his hands on Saul, said: "Saul, my Brother, I have been sent by the Lord--by Jesus, who appeared to you on your way here--so that you may recover your sight and be filled with the Holy Spirit."

²⁰ But we should write to them to abstain from food that has been polluted by being sacrificed to idols, from impurity, from eating the flesh of strangled animals, and from blood.

²⁹ That you abstain from food offered to idols, from blood, from eating the flesh of strangled animals, and from impurity. If you guard yourselves against such things, it will be well with you. Farewell.'

¹⁸ She had been doing this for several days, when Paul, much vexed, turned and said to the spirit within her: "In the Name of Jesus Christ I command you to leave her." That very moment the spirit left her.

³¹ Because he has fixed a day on which he intends to 'judge the world with justice,' by a man whom he has appointed--and of this he has given all men a pledge by raising this man from the dead."

¹⁸ To open their eyes, and to turn them from darkness to light, and from the power of Satan to God; so that they may receive pardon for their sins, and a place among those who have become God's People, by faith in me.'

¹⁶ On the day when God passes judgment on men's inmost lives, as the Good News that I tell declares that he will do through Christ Jesus.

¹³ Being in the light of Day, let us live becomingly, not in revelry and drunkenness, not in lust and licentiousness, not in quarreling and jealousy.

¹⁷ I urge you, Brothers, to be on your guard against people who, by disregarding the teaching which you received, cause divisions and create difficulties; dissociate yourselves from them.

⁸ And God himself will strengthen you to the end, so that at the Day of our Lord Jesus Christ you may be found blameless.

¹¹ For I have been informed, my Brothers, by the members of Chloe's household, that party feeling exists among you.

²⁰ Where is the Philosopher? where the Teacher of the Law? where the Disputant of to-day? Has not God shown the world's philosophy to be folly?

³ While there exist among you jealousy and party feeling, is it not true that you are worldly, and are acting merely as other men do?

²¹ Therefore let no one boast about men; for all things are yours--

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!

¹⁸ Some, I hear, are puffed up with pride, thinking that I am not coming to you.

¹⁸ Some, I hear, are puffed up with pride, thinking that I am not coming to you. ¹⁹ But come to you I will, and that soon, if it please the Lord; and then I shall find out, not what words these men use who are so puffed up, but what power they possess;

¹ There is a wide-spread report respecting a case of immorality among you, and that, too, of a kind that does not occur even among the Gentiles-a man, I hear, is living with his father's wife!

¹ There is a wide-spread report respecting a case of immorality among you, and that, too, of a kind that does not occur even among the Gentiles-a man, I hear, is living with his father's wife! ² Instead of grieving over it and taking steps for the expulsion of the man who has done this thing, is it possible that you are still puffed up?

² Instead of grieving over it and taking steps for the expulsion of the man who has done this thing, is it possible that you are still puffed up? ³ For I myself, though absent in body, have been present with you in spirit, and in the name of our Lord Jesus I have already passed judgment, just as if I had been present, upon the man who has acted in this way.

³ For I myself, though absent in body, have been present with you in spirit, and in the name of our Lord Jesus I have already passed judgment, just as if I had been present, upon the man who has acted in this way. ⁴ I have decided-having been present in spirit at your meetings, when the power of the Lord Jesus was with us-

⁴ I have decided-having been present in spirit at your meetings, when the power of the Lord Jesus was with us- ⁵ To deliver such a man as this over to Satan, that what is sensual in him may be destroyed, so that his spirit may be saved at the Day of the Lord.

⁵ To deliver such a man as this over to Satan, that what is sensual in him may be destroyed, so that his spirit may be saved at the Day of the Lord.

⁵ To deliver such a man as this over to Satan, that what is sensual in him may be destroyed, so that his spirit may be saved at the Day of the Lord.

⁵ To deliver such a man as this over to Satan, that what is sensual in him may be destroyed, so that his spirit may be saved at the Day of the Lord. ⁶ Your boasting is unseemly. Do not you know that even a little leaven leavens all the dough?

⁶ Your boasting is unseemly. Do not you know that even a little leaven leavens all the dough?

⁶ Your boasting is unseemly. Do not you know that even a little leaven leavens all the dough? ⁷ Get rid entirely of the old leaven, so that you may be like new dough-free from leaven, as in truth you are. For our Passover Lamb is already sacrificed-Christ himself;

⁷ Get rid entirely of the old leaven, so that you may be like new dough-free from leaven, as in truth you are. For our Passover Lamb is already sacrificed-Christ himself;

⁷ Get rid entirely of the old leaven, so that you may be like new dough-free from leaven, as in truth you are. For our Passover Lamb is already sacrificed-Christ himself; ⁸ Therefore let us keep our festival, not with the leaven of former days, nor with the leaven of vice and wickedness, but with the unleavened bread of sincerity and truth. 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.

¹³ While God judges those who are outside? 'Put away the wicked man from among you.'

¹ Can it be that, when one of you has a dispute with another, he dares to have his case tried before the heathen, instead of before Christ's People? ² Do not you know that Christ's People will try the world? And if the world is to be tried by you, are you unfit to try the most trivial cases? ³ Do not you know that we are to try angels-to say nothing of the affairs of this life? ⁴ Why, then, if you have cases relating to the affairs of this life, do you set to try them men who carry no weight with the Church? To your shame I ask it. ⁵ Can it be that there is not one man among you wise enough to decide between two of his Brothers? ⁶ Must Brother go to law with Brother, and that, too, before unbelievers?

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,

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, ¹⁰ Or a thief, or covetous, or a drunkard, or abusive, or grasping, will have any share in God's Kingdom.

¹⁰ Or a thief, or covetous, or a drunkard, or abusive, or grasping, will have any share in God's Kingdom. ¹¹ Such some of you used to be; but you washed yourselves clean. You became Christ's People! you were pronounced righteous through the Name of our Lord Jesus Christ, and through the Spirit of our God!

¹³ Food exists for the stomach, and the stomach for food; but God will put an end to both the one and the other. The body, however, exists, not for immorality, but for the Lord, and the Lord for the body;

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

¹² To all others I say-I, not the Master-If a Brother is married to a woman, who is an unbeliever but willing to live with him, he should not divorce her;

¹⁵ However, if the unbeliever wishes to be separated, let him be so. Under such circumstances neither the Brother nor the Sister is bound; God has called you to live in peace.

¹¹ And so, through this knowledge of yours, the weak man is ruined-your Brother for whose sake Christ died!

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.

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

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?

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.

²¹ For, as you eat, each of you tries to secure his own supper first, with the result that one has too little to eat, and another has too much to drink!

³² Yet, in being judged by the Lord, we are undergoing discipline, so that we may not have judgment passed upon us with the rest of the world.

³ For at the very beginning of my teaching I gave you the account which I had myself received-that Christ died for our sins (as the Scriptures had foretold), ⁴ That he was buried, that on the third day he was raised (as the Scriptures had foretold),

³³ Do not be deceived. 'Good character is marred by evil company.'

¹² Indeed, our main ground for satisfaction is this--Our conscience tells us that our conduct in the world, and still more in our relations with you, was marked by a purity of motive and a sincerity that were inspired by God, and was based, not on worldly policy, but on the help of God.

⁶ The man to whom I refer has been sufficiently punished by the penalty inflicted by the majority of you; ⁷ So that now you must take the opposite course, and forgive and encourage him, or else he may be overwhelmed by the intensity of his pain.

⁹ I had this further object, also, in what I wrote--to ascertain whether you might be relied upon to be obedient in everything. ¹⁰ When you forgive a man anything, I forgive him, too. Indeed, for my part, whatever I have forgiven (if I have had to forgive anything), I have forgiven for your sakes, in the presence of Christ,

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.

¹⁴ Do not enter into inconsistent relations with those who reject the Faith. For what partnership can there be between righteousness and lawlessness? or what has light to do with darkness?

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;

⁷ And it is not only by his arrival that we are encouraged, but also by the encouragement which he received from you; for he tells us of your strong affection, your penitence, and your zeal on my behalf--so that I am happier still. ⁸ For, though I caused you sorrow by my letter, I do not regret it. Even if I were inclined to regret it--for I see that my letter did cause you sorrow though only for a time-- ⁹ I am glad now; not because of the sorrow it caused you, but because your sorrow brought you to repentance. For it was God's will that you should feel sorrow, in order that you should not suffer loss in any way at our hands. ¹⁰ For, when sorrow is in accordance with God's will, it results in a repentance leading to Salvation, and which will never be regretted. The sure result of the sorrow that the world knows is Death. ¹¹ For see what results that other sorrow--sorrow in accordance with God's will--has had in your case. What earnestness it produced! what explanations! what strong feeling! what alarm! what longing! what eagerness! what readiness to punish! You have proved yourselves altogether free from guilt in that matter. ¹² So, then, even though I did write to you, it was not for the sake of the wrong-doer, or of the man who was wronged, but to make you conscious, in the sight of God, of your own earnest care for us. And it is this that has encouraged us.

⁸ I am not laying a command upon you, but I am making use of the earnestness shown by others to test the genuineness of your affection.

¹ Now, I, Paul, make a personal appeal to you by the meekness and gentleness of the Christ--I who, "in your presence, am humble in my bearing towards you, but, when absent, am bold in my language to you"--

⁶ And are fully prepared to punish every act of rebellion, when once your submission is complete.

¹¹ Let such a man be assured of this--that our words in our letters show us to be, when absent, just what our deeds will show us to be, when present.

²⁰ For I am afraid that perhaps, when I come, I may find that you are not what I want you to be, and, on the other hand, that you may find that I am what you do not want me to be. I am afraid that I may find quarreling, jealousy, ill-feeling, rivalry, slandering, back-biting, self-assertion, and disorder. ²¹ I am afraid lest, on my next visit, my God may humble me in regard to you, and that I may have to mourn over many who have long been sinning, and have not repented of the impurity, immorality, and sensuality, in which they have indulged.

²¹ I am afraid lest, on my next visit, my God may humble me in regard to you, and that I may have to mourn over many who have long been sinning, and have not repented of the impurity, immorality, and sensuality, in which they have indulged.

² I have said it, and I say it again before I come, just as if I were with you on my second visit, though for the moment absent, I say to those who have been long sinning, as well as to all others--that if I come again, I shall spare no one. ³ And that will be the proof, which you are looking for, that the Christ speaks through me. There is no weakness in his dealings with you. No, he shows his power among you.

¹⁰ This is my reason for writing as I am now doing, while I am away from you, so that, when I am with you, I may not act harshly in the exercise of the authority which the Lord gave me--and gave me for building up and not for pulling down.

¹² Before certain persons came from James, he had been in the habit of eating with the Gentile converts; but, when they came, he began to withdraw and hold aloof, for fear of offending those who still held to circumcision.

⁹ A little leaven leavens all the dough.

¹⁹ The sins of our earthly nature are unmistakable. They are sins like these--unchastity, impurity, indecency,

¹⁹ The sins of our earthly nature are unmistakable. They are sins like these--unchastity, impurity, indecency, ²⁰ Idolatry, sorcery, quarrels, strife, jealousy, outbursts of passion, rivalries, dissensions, divisions, ²¹ Feelings of envy, drunkenness, revelry, and the like. And I warn you, as I warned you before, that those who indulge in such things will have no place in the Kingdom of God.

¹ Brothers, even if a man should be caught committing a sin, you who are spiritually minded should, in a gentle spirit, help him to recover himself, taking care lest any one of you also should be tempted. ² Bear one another's burdens, and so carry out the Law of the Christ.

² For at one time you lived in sin, following the ways of the world, in subjection to the Ruler of the Powers of the air--the Spirit who is still at work among the disobedient.

¹⁷ This, then, as one in union with the Lord, I say to you and urge upon you: Do not continue to live such purposeless lives as the Gentiles live, ¹⁸ With their powers of discernment darkened, cut off from the Life of God, owing to the ignorance that prevails among them and to the hardness of their hearts. ¹⁹ Lost to all sense of shame, they have abandoned themselves to licentiousness, in order to practice every kind of impurity without restraint. ²⁰ But far different is the lesson you learned from the Christ-- if, that is, you really listened to him, ²¹ And through union with him were taught the Truth, as it is to be found in Jesus. ²² For you learned with regard to your former way of living that you must cast off your old nature, which, yielding to deluding passions, grows corrupt;

²² For you learned with regard to your former way of living that you must cast off your old nature, which, yielding to deluding passions, grows corrupt;

³ As for unchastity and every kind of impurity, or greed, do not let them even be mentioned among you, as befits Christ's People,

⁵ For of this you may be sure--that no one who is unchaste or impure or greedy of gain (for to be greedy of gain is idolatry) has any place awaiting him in the kingdom of the Christ and God.

¹¹ Take no part in deeds of Darkness, from which no good can come; on the contrary, expose them.

¹⁸ Do not drink wine to excess, for that leads to profligacy; but seek to be filled with the Spirit of God, and speak to one another in psalms and hymns and sacred songs.

²⁰ Always give thanks for everything to our God and Father, in the Name of our Lord Jesus Christ;

²⁴ May God's blessing be with all who love our Lord Jesus Christ with an undying love.

⁶ For of this I am confident, that he who began a good work in you will complete it in readiness for the Day of Jesus Christ.

¹⁵ So as to prove yourselves blameless and innocent-- 'faultless children of God, in the midst of an evil-disposed and perverse generation,' in which you are seen shining like stars in a dark world,

⁵ It is true that I am not with you in person, but I am with you in spirit, and am glad to see the good order and the unbroken front resulting from your faith in Christ.

⁵ Therefore destroy all that is earthly in you--immorality, uncleanness, passions, evil desires, and that greed which is idolatry.

⁵ Therefore destroy all that is earthly in you--immorality, uncleanness, passions, evil desires, and that greed which is idolatry. ⁶ These are the things on account of which the Wrath of God comes, ⁷ And to which you, like others, once devoted your lives, when you lived for them. ⁸ You, however, must now lay aside all such things--anger, passion, malice, slander, abuse. ⁹ Never lie to one another. Get rid of your old self and its habits,

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.

⁵ Show tact in your behavior to the outside world, making the most of every opportunity.

¹⁷ As for ourselves, Brothers, our having been bereaved of you even for a short time--though in body only, and not in spirit--made us all the more eager to see your faces again; and the longing to do so was strong upon us.

³ For this is God's purpose--that you should be pure; abstaining from all immorality; ⁴ Each of you recognizing the duty of taking one woman for his wife, purely and honorably, ⁵ And not for the mere gratification of his passions, like the Gentiles who know nothing of God; ⁶ None of you over-reaching or taking advantage of his Brother in such matters. 'The Lord takes vengeance' upon all who do such things, as we have already warned you and solemnly declared. ⁷ For God's Call to us does not permit of an impure life, but demands purity.

⁷ For God's Call to us does not permit of an impure life, but demands purity. ⁸ Therefore he who disregards this warning disregards, not man, but God who gives you his Holy Spirit.

¹² So that your conduct may win respect from those outside the Church, and that you may not want for anything.

⁷ It is at night that men sleep, and at night that drunkards get drunk. ⁸ But let us, who belong to the Day, control ourselves, and put on faith and love as a breast plate, and the hope of Salvation as a helmet.

⁶ We urge you, Brothers, in the name of the Lord Jesus Christ, to avoid any Brother who is living an ill-ordered life, which is not in agreement with the teaching that you received from us.

¹⁴ If any one disregards what we have said in this letter, mark that man and avoid his company, that he may feel ashamed.

¹⁴ If any one disregards what we have said in this letter, mark that man and avoid his company, that he may feel ashamed. ¹⁵ Yet do not think of him as an enemy, but caution him as you would a Brother.

²⁰ Hymenaeus and Alexander are instances--the men whom I delivered over to Satan, that they might be taught not to blaspheme.

³ not addicted to drink or brawling, but of a forbearing and peaceable disposition, and not a lover of money;

⁷ He should also be well spoken of by outsiders, that he may not incur censure and so fall into the snares of the Devil.

⁵ and incessant wrangling on the part of these corrupt-minded people who have lost all hold on the Truth, and who think of religion only as a source of gain.

⁹ Those who want to be rich fall into the snares of temptation, and become the prey of many foolish and harmful ambitions, which plunge people into Destruction and Ruin. ¹⁰ Love of money is a source of all kinds of evil; and in their eagerness to be rich some have wandered away from the Faith, and have been pierced to the heart by many a regret.

¹⁸ The Lord grant that he may find mercy at the hands of the Lord on 'That Day.' The many services that he rendered at Ephesus you have the best means of knowing.

¹⁷ and their teaching will spread like a cancer. Hymenaeus and Philetus are instances of this.

⁴ Let marriage be honoured by all and the married life be pure; for God will judge those who are immoral and those who commit adultery.

¹⁶ But, as it is, you are constantly boasting presumptuously! All such boasting is wicked.

¹⁹ My Brothers, should one of you be led astray from the Truth, and some one bring him back again, ²⁰ Be sure that he who brings a sinner back from his mistaken ways will save that man's soul from Death, and throw a veil over countless sins.

¹⁹ but by precious blood, as it were of a lamb, unblemished and spotless, the Blood of Christ. ²⁰ Destined for this before the beginning of the world, he has been revealed in these last days for your sakes,

¹ Now that you have done with all malice, all deceitfulness, insincerity, jealous feelings, and all back-biting, ² like newly born infants, crave pure spiritual milk, so that you may be enabled by it to grow till you attain Salvation--

² and so will live the rest of his earthly life guided, not by human passions, but by the will of God.

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'--

¹⁴ They have eyes only for adulteresses, eyes never tired of sin; they entice weak souls; their minds are trained to covet; they live under a curse. ¹⁵ Leaving the straight road, they have gone astray and followed in the steps of Balaam, the son of Beor, who set his heart on the reward for wrong-doing,

¹² while you await and hasten the coming of the Day of God. At its coming the heavens will be dissolved in fire, and the elements melted by heat,

¹⁸ My children, do not let our love be mere words, or end in talk; let it be true and show itself in acts. ¹⁹ By that we shall know that we are on the side of the Truth; and we shall satisfy ourselves in God's sight, ²⁰ that if our conscience condemns us, yet God is greater than our conscience and knows everything. ²¹ Dear friends, if our conscience does not condemn us, then we approach God with confidence,

⁵ Those men belong to the world; and therefore they speak as the world speaks, and the world listens to them.

⁷ Dear friends, let us love one another, because Love comes from God; and every one who loves has received the new Life from God and knows God.

¹⁶ If any one sees his Brother committing some sin that is not a deadly sin, he will ask, and so be the means of giving Life to him--to any whose sin is not deadly. There is such a thing as deadly sin; about that I do not say that a man should pray.

¹⁹ We realize that we come from God, while all the world is under the influence of the Evil One.

¹⁰ If any one comes to you and does not bring this Teaching, do not receive him into your house or welcome him;

²² To some show pity, because they are in doubt. 'Drag them out of the fire,' and save them. ²³ To others show pity, but with caution, hating the very clothing polluted by their touch.

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.

²⁰ Yet I have this against you--You tolerate the woman Jezebel, who declares that she is a Prophetess, and misleads my servants by her teaching, till they commit licentious acts and eat idol-offerings.

²⁰ Yet I have this against you--You tolerate the woman Jezebel, who declares that she is a Prophetess, and misleads my servants by her teaching, till they commit licentious acts and eat idol-offerings. ²¹ I gave her time to repent, but she is determined not to turn from her licentiousness.

²¹ I gave her time to repent, but she is determined not to turn from her licentiousness. ²² Therefore I am laying her upon a bed of sickness, and bringing great suffering upon those who are unfaithful with her, unless they repent and turn from a life like hers.

⁶ Then, within the space between the throne and the four Creatures, and in the midst of the Councillors, I saw, standing, a Lamb, which seemed to have been sacrificed. It had seven horns and seven eyes. (These eyes are the seven Spirits of God, and they are sent into all the world.) ⁷ The Lamb came forward; and he has taken the book from the right hand of him who was seated on the throne. ⁸ And, when he had taken the book, the four Creatures and the twenty-four Councillors prostrated themselves before the Lamb, each of them holding a harp and golden bowls full of incense. (These are the prayers of Christ's People.) ⁹ And they are singing a new song--'Thou art worthy to take the book and break its seals, for thou wast sacrificed, and with thy blood thou didst buy for God men of every tribe, and language, and people, and nation,

¹² and they cried in a loud voice--'Worthy is the Lamb that was sacrificed to receive all power, and wealth, and wisdom, and might, and honour, and praise, and blessing.'

⁹ Then the great Dragon, the primeval Serpent, known as the 'Devil' and 'Satan,' who deceives all the world, was hurled down to the earth, and his angels were hurled down with him.

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.'