Galatians Cross References - WPNT

¹ Paul, an apostle—not from men nor through a man, but through Jesus Christ and God the Father, who raised Him from the dead — ² and all the brothers with me, to the congregations in Galatia: ³ Grace to you and peace from God the Father and our Lord Jesus Christ, ⁴ who gave Himself for our sins, so that He might deliver us out of this present malignant age, according to the will of our God and Father, ⁵ to whom be the glory forever and ever. Amen. ⁶ I am sadly surprised that you are turning away so quickly from the one who called you by the grace of Christ, to a different gospel ⁷ —it is not a mere variation, but certain people are unsettling you and wanting to distort the Gospel of the Christ. ⁸ Now even if we, or an angel out of heaven, should preach any other gospel to you than what we have preached to you, let him be accursed! ⁹ As we have just said, I here emphatically repeat: If anyone preaches any other gospel to you than what you have received, let him be accursed!! ¹⁰ Am I just now appealing to men, or to God? Or am I trying to please men? You see, if I were still pleasing men I would not be a slave of Christ. ¹¹ Now I want you to know, brothers, that the Gospel preached by me is not according to man; ¹² because I did not receive it from any man, nor was I taught it; rather it came through a revelation from Christ. ¹³ You have heard of my former conduct while in Judaism, how I was rabid in my persecution of God’s Church and tried to annihilate it; ¹⁴ indeed I was advancing in Judaism beyond many Jews of my own age, being far more zealous for the traditions of my forefathers. ¹⁵ But when God—who set me apart from my mother’s womb and called me through His grace—resolved ¹⁶ to reveal His Son in me so that I might proclaim Him among the nations/Gentiles, I did not start by consulting with flesh and blood, ¹⁷ nor did I go up to Jerusalem to those who were apostles before I was; rather I went off into Arabia, and then returned to Damascus. ¹⁸ Subsequently, after three years, I went up to Jerusalem to compare notes with Peter, and stayed with him fifteen days. ¹⁹ (I saw none of the other apostles except James, the Lord’s brother. ²⁰ Really, before God, I am not lying in what I write to you.) ²¹ Then I went into the regions of Syria and Cilicia. ²² So I remained unknown by face to the congregations of Judea (those in Christ) ²³ —they just kept hearing that “He who once persecuted us now proclaims the faith he formerly tried to destroy.” ²⁴ And they glorified God about me.

⁹ Therefore, you pray like this: ‘Our Father who is in the heavens, let Your name be reverenced;

¹³ And do not bring us into testing, but rescue us from the evil one; because Yours is the kingdom and the power and the glory forever. Amen.’

⁸ And seeing it the crowds marveled and glorified God, the one giving such authority to the people.

³ Philip and Bartholomew, Thomas and Matthew (the tax collector), James (the son of Alphaeus) and Lebbaeus (who was surnamed Thaddeus),

²⁶ Yes, Father, because thus it was good to You.’

⁴⁶ But then, while He was still speaking to the crowds, His mother and brothers stood outside, seeking to speak with Him.

⁵⁵ Is this not the carpenter’s son? Is not his mother called Mary, and his brothers James and Joses and Simon and Jude?

² “Why do your disciples transgress the tradition of the elders? For they do not wash their hands whenever they eat bread.” ³ So in answer He said to them: “Why do you even transgress the commandment of God through your tradition?

⁶ then he must not honor his father or mother.’ Thus you have nullified the commandment of God through your tradition.

¹⁷ And in answer Jesus said to him: “Blessed are you, Simon son of Jonah, because flesh and blood did not reveal this to you, but my Father who is in the heavens.

²⁸ just like the Son of the Man—He did not come to be served but to serve, and to give His life as a ransom for many.”

¹⁶ So they send their disciples to Him, with the Herodians, saying: “Teacher, we know that you are truthful and teach the way of God in truth; and you are not impressed by anyone, for you do not look at people’s faces.

²⁴ Because false christs and false prophets will be raised up, and they will give great signs and wonders so as to deceive, if possible, even the elect.

⁴¹ “Then He will also say to those on His left: ‘Go away from me, you accursed ones, into the eternal fire that was prepared for the devil and his angels.

²⁸ for this is my blood, that of the new covenant, that which is being shed on behalf of many for forgiveness of sins.

⁴¹ Watch and pray, so that you do not enter into temptation. The spirit on its part is willing, but the flesh is weak.” ⁴² And going away a second time He prayed saying, “My Father, if this cup cannot pass from me unless I drink it, let your will be done”.

¹⁴ And should this get to the governor, we will persuade him and make you safe.”

¹⁸ And approaching Jesus asserted to them saying: “All authority in heaven and on earth has been given to me. ¹⁹ As you go make disciples in all ethnic nations: baptizing them in the name of the Father, and of the Son, and of the Holy Spirit; ²⁰ teaching them to obey everything that I commanded you; and take note, I am with you every day, until the end of the age!” Amen.

²⁰ teaching them to obey everything that I commanded you; and take note, I am with you every day, until the end of the age!” Amen.

¹⁸ Andrew, Phillip, Bartholomew, Matthew, Thomas, James son of Alphaeus, Thaddaeus, Simon the Cananite;

³ Isn’t this the carpenter, the son of Mary, and brother of James, Joses, Judas and Simon? And aren’t his sisters here with us?” So they took offense at Him.

⁶ And He marveled at their unbelief. Then He went about the villages in a circuit, teaching.

³ (Because the Pharisees, indeed all the Jews, do not eat unless they wash their hands in a special way, holding to the tradition of the elders. ⁴ When they come from the marketplace, they do not eat unless they wash. And there are many other things they have received and hold—washings of cups, pitchers, copper vessels and couches.) ⁵ Then the Pharisees and the scribes asked Him, “Why don’t your disciples walk according to the tradition of the elders, but eat their bread with unwashed hands?” ⁶ So in answer He said to them: “Well did Isaiah prophesy about you hypocrites, as it stands written: ‘This people honors me with their lips, but their heart is far from me. ⁷ But in vain do they worship me, teaching as doctrines the commandments of men.’ ⁸ Because having left the commandment of God, you hold to the tradition of men—washings of pitchers and cups, and many other similar things that you do.” ⁹ Indeed He said to them: “You are very good at nullifying the commandment of God, so that you may keep your tradition. ¹⁰ For Moses said, ‘Honor your father and your mother’ and, ‘He who speaks evil of father or mother must be put to death’. ¹¹ But you say that if a man should say to father or mother, ‘Whatever profit you might have received from me is Korban’ (that is, a gift to God), ¹² you don’t even allow him to do anything for his father or his mother any more, ¹³ making the Word of God of no effect by your tradition that you have handed down. Yes, you do many such things.”

⁴⁵ For even the Son of Man did not come to be served, but to serve, and to give His life a ransom for many.”

⁷¹ Then he began to curse and to swear, “I do not know this man of whom you are speaking!”

¹⁵ For he will be great in the sight of the Lord; he must not drink either wine or strong drink; indeed, he will be filled with Holy Spirit already from his mother’s womb. ¹⁶ And he will turn many of the children of Israel to the Lord their God;

¹⁴ “Glory to God in the highest and on earth peace, good will toward mankind!”

¹⁵ Matthew and Thomas, James (the son of Alphaeus) and Simon (the one called ‘Zealot’),

¹⁶ Fear took hold of all, and they began glorifying God, saying, “A great prophet has arisen among us!” and, “God has visited His people!”

²³ Then He said to everyone: “If anyone desires to come after me, let him deny himself and take up his cross, and follow me. ²⁴ Because whoever desires to ‘save’ his life will lose it, but whoever ‘loses’ his life for my sake, he will save it. ²⁵ Further, what is a man profited if he gains the whole world, yet wastes or forfeits his very self?

⁵⁹ Then He said to another, “Follow me!” But he said, “Lord, permit me first to go and bury my father”. ⁶⁰ Jesus said to him, “Let the dead bury their own dead, but you go and proclaim the Kingdom of God”. ⁶¹ And another also said, “I will follow you, Lord, but first allow me to bid farewell to those who are at my house”. ⁶² But Jesus said to him, “No one who puts his hand to ‘the plow’ and looks back is suitable for the Kingdom of God”.

²¹ In that same hour Jesus exulted in His spirit and said: “I praise you, Father, Lord of heaven and earth, that you have hidden these things from the wise and intelligent, and have revealed them to ‘infants’. Yes, Father, because it pleased you to do so.”

¹⁰ Just so, I say to you, there is joy in the presence of the angels of God over one sinner who repents.”

³² But it was right that we celebrate and be glad, because this brother of yours was dead and came to life; he was lost and is found.’”

¹⁹ Then, after the meal, He took bread, gave thanks, broke and gave it to them, saying, “This is my body which is given for you; do this in remembrance of me”.

⁴² saying, “Father, if you would just remove this cup from me—nevertheless, not my will, but yours, be done!”

¹⁹ Then Jesus answered and said to them: “Most assuredly I say to you, the Son is not able to do anything from Himself, except something He sees the Father doing; because whatever things He does, precisely these the Son also does.

³⁰ I am not able to do anything from myself. As I hear, I judge, and my judging is just, because I do not seek my own will but the will of the Father who sent me.

³⁸ because it is not to do my own will that I have come down out of Heaven, but the will of the One who sent me.

³⁰ The man answered and said to them: “Why, this is remarkable—you don’t know where He is from; yet He opened my eyes!

¹¹ “I am the good shepherd. The good shepherd lays down his life on behalf of the sheep.

¹⁷ “Because of this the Father loves me, in that I lay down my life so that I may take it up again. ¹⁸ No one takes it from me, but I lay it down of myself. I have authority to lay it down, and I have authority to take it up again. This command I have received from my father.”

³⁰ I and the Father are one.”

³¹ Now is the judgment of this world; now the ruler of this world will be thrown out.

³⁰ “I will no longer talk much with you, because the ruler of the world is approaching; actually, he has nothing in me. ³¹ Rather, I habitually do just as the Father commanded me, so that the world may know that I love the Father. “Get up, let’s leave here.

¹⁸ “When the world hates you, you can be sure that it has hated me first. ¹⁹ If you were of the world, the world would be fond of its own. So because you are not of the world, but I chose you out of the world, that’s why the world hates you.

¹⁴ “I have given them Your word; and the world has hated them because they are not of the world, just as I am not of the world. ¹⁵ I am not asking that You take them out of the world, but that You keep them from the evil one.

²¹ So Jesus said to them again: “Peace to you! Just as the Father sent me, I also send you.”

¹³ When they had entered [the city] they went up into the upper room where they were staying; namely Peter and James, John and Andrew, Philip and Thomas, Bartholomew and Matthew, James of Alphaeus and Simon the Zealot, and Judas of James.

¹⁶ “Men, brothers: It was necessary that this Scripture be fulfilled, which the Holy Spirit spoke before by David’s mouth concerning Judas, who was guide to those who arrested Jesus; ¹⁷ in that he was numbered with us and obtained his share in this ministry.” ¹⁸ (In fact this man acquired a field with the wages of his wickedness, and falling headlong he burst open in the middle, and all his innards were spilled out. ¹⁹ And it became known to all who lived in Jerusalem, so that in their own language that field came to be called ‘Akeldama’, that is, ‘Field of Blood’.) ²⁰ “Because it stands written in Book of Psalms: ‘Let his residence become desolate, and may no one live in it’ and, ‘Let another take his office’. ²¹ So then, of the men who have accompanied us all the time that the Lord Jesus went in and out among us, ²² beginning from the baptism of John until the day when He was taken up from us, of these one must become a witness with us of His resurrection.” ²³ So they nominated two, Joseph called Barsabas, who was surnamed Justus, and Matthias. ²⁴ And praying they said: “You, Lord, Knower of all hearts, show which one of these two You have chosen ²⁵ to receive the portion of this ministry and apostleship, out of which Judas turned aside to go into his own place.” ²⁶ And they cast their lots, and the lot fell on Matthias, and he was numbered with the eleven Apostles.

²⁴ whom God raised up, ending the labor pains of death, because it was not possible that He should be held by it. ²⁵ For David says concerning Him: ‘I always saw the LORD before my face, because He is at my right side so that I not be shaken. ²⁶ Therefore my heart was glad and my tongue rejoiced. Furthermore, even my flesh will repose upon hope, ²⁷ because You will not abandon my soul in Hades, nor will You allow Your Holy One to see decay. ²⁸ You have made known to me roads of life; with Your presence You make me full of gladness.’ ²⁹ “Men, brothers, be it permitted to speak to you plainly about the patriarch David, that he both died and was buried, and his tomb is with us to this day. ³⁰ So then, he being a prophet and knowing that God had sworn to him with an oath that of the fruit, according to flesh, of his loins He would raise up the Messiah to sit on his throne, ³¹ he foreseeing this spoke about the resurrection of the Messiah, that His soul was not abandoned in Hades, nor did His flesh see decay. ³² “This Jesus God raised, to which we all are witnesses.

¹⁵ while you killed the Originator of life, whom God raised from among the dead, to which we are witnesses.

¹⁹ But in answer Peter and John said to them: “Whether it is right in the sight of God to listen to you rather than to God, judge for yourselves; ²⁰ because we cannot help but speak the things we have seen and heard.”

²⁹ So in answer Peter and the Apostles said: “One must obey God rather than men.

⁷ Well the Word of God kept spreading, and the number of disciples in Jerusalem kept multiplying at a great rate, and a large company of the priests were obeying the faith.

⁹ Then there arose some from what is called the Synagogue of the Freedmen (Cyrenians, Alexandrians, and those from Cilicia and Asia), disputing with Stephen.

¹ At that time a major persecution arose against the church that was in Jerusalem, so all, except the Apostles, were scattered throughout the regions of Judea and Samaria.

³ As for Saul, he was trying to destroy the Church; invading house after house and dragging away both men and women, he was putting them in prison.

¹ Meanwhile Saul, still exhaling murderous threats against the disciples of the Lord, went to the high priest ² and asked for letters from him to the synagogues of Damascus, so that if he should find any who were of the Way, whether men or women, he might bring them bound to Jerusalem.

⁶ but get up and go into the city, and you will be told what you must do.”

¹³ But Ananias answered: “Lord, I have heard from many about this man, how many evil things he has done to Your saints in Jerusalem.

¹³ But Ananias answered: “Lord, I have heard from many about this man, how many evil things he has done to Your saints in Jerusalem. ¹⁴ Moreover here he has authority from the chief priests to bind all who are calling on Your name.” ¹⁵ But the Lord said to him: “Get moving, because this man is a chosen vessel to me, to carry my name before nations and kings, also the children of Israel;

¹⁵ But the Lord said to him: “Get moving, because this man is a chosen vessel to me, to carry my name before nations and kings, also the children of Israel; ¹⁶ for I will show him how many things he must suffer for my name’s sake.”

²⁰ Immediately he started proclaiming Jesus in the synagogues, that He is the Son of God.

²⁰ Immediately he started proclaiming Jesus in the synagogues, that He is the Son of God. ²¹ Well, all who heard him were astounded and started saying: “Isn’t this the one who tried to destroy, in Jerusalem, those who called on this name? Even here he had come with that purpose, that he might take them bound to the high priests.”

²¹ Well, all who heard him were astounded and started saying: “Isn’t this the one who tried to destroy, in Jerusalem, those who called on this name? Even here he had come with that purpose, that he might take them bound to the high priests.” ²² But Saul kept growing stronger and kept on confounding the Jews who lived in Damascus, proving that ‘This One is the Christ’.

²² But Saul kept growing stronger and kept on confounding the Jews who lived in Damascus, proving that ‘This One is the Christ’. ²³ Now when a good many days had passed, the Jews plotted to kill him;

²³ Now when a good many days had passed, the Jews plotted to kill him; ²⁴ but their plot became known to Saul. They started watching the gates day and night, so that they might kill him; ²⁵ so the disciples took him by night and passed him through the wall, lowering him in a hamper. ²⁶ Now upon arriving in Jerusalem Saul kept trying to join himself to the disciples; but they were all afraid of him, not believing that he was a disciple.

²⁶ Now upon arriving in Jerusalem Saul kept trying to join himself to the disciples; but they were all afraid of him, not believing that he was a disciple. ²⁷ But Barnabas took him in tow and brought him to the apostles, and described to them how he had seen the Lord on the road, and that He had spoken to him, and how in Damascus he had spoken fearlessly in the name of the Lord Jesus. ²⁸ So he was with them in Jerusalem, going in and out, and speaking fearlessly in the name of Jesus. ²⁹ He kept on speaking and debating with the Hellenists, so they started trying to kill him. ³⁰ Upon finding it out, the brothers brought him down to Caesarea and sent him off to Tarsus. ³¹ So then the congregations throughout all Judea and Galilee, and Samaria, had peace and were built up; and proceeding in the fear of the Lord and in the encouragement of the Holy Spirit they were being multiplied.

¹⁸ Upon hearing these things they acquiesced and started glorifying God, saying, “So then, God has also granted to the Gentiles repentance into life!”

²⁵ Then Barnabas departed for Tarsus to look for Saul, ²⁶ and upon finding him he brought him to Antioch. So it was that for a whole year they met with the congregation and taught a great many people. The disciples were first called Christians in Antioch.

¹⁷ Motioning to them with his hand to be silent, he related to them how the Lord had brought him out of the prison. Then he said, “Tell these things to James and the brothers”. And going out he went off to a different place.

²⁰ Now Herod was very angry with the people of Tyre and Sidon; so they came with one accord to him, and having won over Blastus, the king’s chamberlain, they asked for peace, because their country was supplied with food from the king’s.

¹ Now in the congregation that was in Antioch there were certain prophets and teachers: Barnabas, Simeon (the one called Niger), Lucius the Cyrenian, Manaen (who had been brought up with Herod the tetrarch), and Saul. ² As they were ministering to the Lord and fasting, the Holy Spirit said, “Set apart to me Barnabas and Saul for the work to which I have called them!”

² As they were ministering to the Lord and fasting, the Holy Spirit said, “Set apart to me Barnabas and Saul for the work to which I have called them!” ³ Then, having fasted and prayed and laid their hands on them, they sent them off. ⁴ So, having been sent out by the Holy Spirit, they went down to Seleucia; and from there they sailed to Cyprus.

¹⁰ said: “O full of all deceit and all trickery, son of a devil, enemy of all righteousness! Will you not stop perverting the straight ways of the Lord?

¹ Then some men came down from Judea and started teaching the brothers: “Unless you are circumcised according to the custom of Moses, you cannot be saved”. ² Well this provoked serious dissension and argument between Paul and Barnabas and them, so Paul and Barnabas were appointed, along with certain others of them, to go up to Jerusalem to the apostles and elders about this question. ³ So being sent on their way by the congregation, they passed through Phoenicia and Samaria, describing the conversion of the Gentiles; and they caused great joy to all the brothers. ⁴ Upon arriving in Jerusalem, they were received by the congregation and the apostles and the elders, and they reported all that God had done with them. ⁵ But some of the sect of the Pharisees who believed rose up, saying, “It is necessary to circumcise them, and to command them to keep the Law of Moses”.

¹¹ Rather, we believe that we are saved through the grace of the Lord Jesus, in the same manner as they.”

²³ They wrote by their hand the following: “The apostles and the elders and the brothers, to the Gentile brothers in Antioch, Syria and Cilicia: Greetings. ²⁴ Since we have heard that some who went out from among us have disturbed you with words, unsettling your souls, saying that you must be circumcised and keep the law —to whom we gave no such authorization—

⁴¹ He went through Syria and Cilicia, strengthening the congregations.

⁵ So the congregations kept on being strengthened in the faith, and were increasing in number daily. ⁶ Now when they had gone through Phrygia and the region of Galatia, having been forbidden by the Holy Spirit to speak the word in Asia,

¹⁸ Paul still remained there a good while, then took leave of the brothers and sailed for Syria, accompanied by Priscilla and Aquila (he had shaved his head in Cenchrea, because he had a vow).

²³ After spending some time there, he departed and went through the region of Galatia and Phrygia in order, strengthening all the disciples.

³⁰ Yes, men will rise up from among you yourselves, speaking distorted things, to draw away the disciples after them.

³ When we had sighted Cyprus we passed it on the left, sailed on to Syria and landed at Tyre, because it was there that the ship was to unload the cargo.

¹⁹ After greeting them he reported one by one the things that God had done among the Gentiles through his ministry. ²⁰ But after listening they ‘glorified’ the Lord by saying to him: “You see, brother, how many tens of thousands are the Jews who have believed, and they are all zealous for the law;

³⁹ But Paul said, “I am a Jew, from Tarsus in Cilicia, a citizen of a not insignificant city; but I beg you, allow me to speak to the people”.

³ “I am indeed a Jew, born in Tarsus of Cilicia, but brought up in this city at the feet of Gamaliel, educated strictly according to the law of our fathers, being zealous for God, just as you all are today.

³ “I am indeed a Jew, born in Tarsus of Cilicia, but brought up in this city at the feet of Gamaliel, educated strictly according to the law of our fathers, being zealous for God, just as you all are today. ⁴ I persecuted this Way to the death, binding and delivering into prisons both men and women, ⁵ as also the high priest and all the council of elders can bear me witness. I even obtained letters from them to the brothers in Damascus, to bring those also who were there bound to Jerusalem to be punished.

¹⁰ So I said, ‘What shall I do, Lord?’ And the Lord said to me, ‘Get up and go into Damascus, and there you will be told about all that has been appointed to you to do.’

¹⁴ Then he said: ‘The God of our fathers has chosen you to know His will, and to see the Righteous One, and to hear words from His mouth.

¹⁴ Then he said: ‘The God of our fathers has chosen you to know His will, and to see the Righteous One, and to hear words from His mouth. ¹⁵ For you shall be a witness for Him to all men of the things that you have seen and heard.

¹⁵ For you shall be a witness for Him to all men of the things that you have seen and heard. ¹⁶ And now why hesitate? Get up, be baptized and wash away your sins, invoking the name of the Lord.’ ¹⁷ “Now it happened, when I returned to Jerusalem and was praying in the temple, that I came to be in a trance

¹⁷ “Now it happened, when I returned to Jerusalem and was praying in the temple, that I came to be in a trance ¹⁸ and saw Him saying to me, ‘Hurry up and get out of Jerusalem quickly, because they will not receive your testimony concerning me’.

¹⁸ and saw Him saying to me, ‘Hurry up and get out of Jerusalem quickly, because they will not receive your testimony concerning me’. ¹⁹ So I said: ‘Lord, they know that I used to imprison and beat those believing into you, from one synagogue to another; ²⁰ and when the blood of your witness Stephen was shed, I myself was standing there and agreeing to his murder, even guarding the clothes of those who were killing him.’ ²¹ And He said to me, ‘Get going, because I will send you far away to the Gentiles’.”

²¹ And He said to me, ‘Get going, because I will send you far away to the Gentiles’.”

¹⁴ They came to the chief priests and the elders and said: “We have bound ourselves with a terrible curse not to taste anything until we have killed Paul.

³⁴ When the governor read it, he asked what province he was from; learning that it was Cilicia,

⁴ Really, the Jews all know my way of life from my youth, which was spent from the beginning among my own nation in Jerusalem, ⁵ since they have known me for a long time, if they were willing to testify, that according to the strictest sect of our religion I lived as a Pharisee.

⁵ since they have known me for a long time, if they were willing to testify, that according to the strictest sect of our religion I lived as a Pharisee.

⁹ “However, I myself thought that I had to perpetrate many things in opposition to the name of Jesus the Natsorean;

⁹ “However, I myself thought that I had to perpetrate many things in opposition to the name of Jesus the Natsorean; ¹⁰ I actually did this in Jerusalem, and many of the saints I shut up in prison, having received authority from the chief priests; and when they were put to death I cast my vote against them. ¹¹ Yes, I punished them often in every synagogue, trying to force them to blaspheme; I was so excessively enraged against them that I persecuted them even to foreign cities.

¹⁶ Now get up and stand on your feet; because I have appeared to you for this purpose, to appoint you as a servant and a witness both of the things you have seen and of the things I will reveal to you, ¹⁷ delivering you from ‘the people’ and the ethnic nations, to which I am sending you:

¹⁷ delivering you from ‘the people’ and the ethnic nations, to which I am sending you: ¹⁸ to open their eyes, so as to bring them back from darkness into light and from the authority of Satan to God, that they may receive forgiveness of sins and an inheritance among those who are sanctified, by faith into me.’

¹⁸ to open their eyes, so as to bring them back from darkness into light and from the authority of Satan to God, that they may receive forgiveness of sins and an inheritance among those who are sanctified, by faith into me.’ ¹⁹ Therefore, King Agrippa, I was not disobedient to the heavenly vision ²⁰ —first to those in Damascus and Jerusalem, then to all the region of Judea and to the ethnic nations, I still preach: ‘repent and turn back to God, doing works worthy of repentance’.

¹ Paul, a slave of Jesus Christ, a called apostle, having been set apart to the Gospel of God,

⁴ who was established to be God’s powerful Son (according to His spirit of holiness) by resurrection from the dead —Jesus Christ our Lord— ⁵ through whom we have received grace and apostleship to promote obedience of faith among all ethnic nations concerning His name

⁵ through whom we have received grace and apostleship to promote obedience of faith among all ethnic nations concerning His name

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

⁷ to all the called saints who are in Rome, beloved of God: Grace to you and peace from God our Father and the Lord Jesus Christ. ⁸ First, I thank my God through Jesus Christ for all of you, because your faith is being reported all over the world. ⁹ Further, the God whom I serve with my spirit in the Gospel of His Son is my witness, how without ceasing I always remember you in my prayers, ¹⁰ begging that perhaps now, at last, I may be prospered by the will of God to come to you. ¹¹ For I long to see you so that I may impart to you some spiritual gift, so that you may be established ¹² —that is, that I may be encouraged among you by our mutual faith, both yours and mine. ¹³ I do not want you to be unaware, brothers, that I often planned to come to you (but was hindered until now), in order that I might have some fruit among you also, just as among the rest of the Gentiles.

¹³ I do not want you to be unaware, brothers, that I often planned to come to you (but was hindered until now), in order that I might have some fruit among you also, just as among the rest of the Gentiles. ¹⁴ I am a debtor both to Greeks and to non-Greeks, both to wise and to foolish.

¹⁴ I am a debtor both to Greeks and to non-Greeks, both to wise and to foolish. ¹⁵ So, for my part, I am eager to preach the Gospel to you who are in Rome as well.

⁸ but to those who, due to self-seeking, are disobeying the truth (while obeying the unrighteousness)—fury and wrath,

¹⁶ in the day when God, according to my Gospel, will judge people’s secrets by Jesus Christ.

²⁹ but he is a Jew who is one inwardly, and circumcision is of the heart—in spirit, not letter—whose praise is not from men but from God.

²⁴ but for our sake also, to whom it will be credited, we who believe on Him who raised Jesus our Lord from the dead, ²⁵ who was delivered up because of our transgressions, and was raised because of our justification.

²⁵ who was delivered up because of our transgressions, and was raised because of our justification.

² through whom also we have had the access, by the Faith, into this grace in which we stand, and rejoice in hope of the glory of God.

³ Further, what the law could not do, in that it was weak due to the flesh, God has done by sending His own Son in the likeness of sinful flesh, on account of sin: He condemned the sin in the flesh,

²⁷ while He who searches the hearts knows what is on the Spirit’s mind, since He prays for the saints in accordance with God.

³⁰ Further, whom He predestined, these He also called; and whom He called, these He also justified; and whom He justified, these He also glorified.

³² He who did not spare His own Son, but delivered Him up on behalf of us all, how shall He not with Him also graciously give us all things?

¹ I am speaking the truth in Christ—I am not lying; my conscience is testifying with me in the Holy Spirit—

³ For I keep wishing that I myself could be accursed away from the Messiah for the sake of my brothers, my physical relatives,

²⁴ even us whom He called, not only from the Jews but also from the Gentiles?

³ For they, failing to understand God’s righteousness and seeking to establish their own righteousness, have not submitted to God’s righteousness.

⁹ That if you confess with your mouth, “Jesus is Lord”, and believe in your heart that God raised Him from the dead, you will be saved.

¹³ So I am speaking to you Gentiles (inasmuch as I am ‘apostle to the Gentiles’, I magnify my ministry),

³⁶ Because from Him and through Him and to Him are all things. To Him be the glory forever! Amen.

² Yes, stop conforming to the pattern of this world; rather, be transformed by the renewing of your mind so as to be able to experience the good and satisfying and perfect will of God.

⁹ For this very reason Christ both died and rose, and lived, so as to rule both dead and living.

¹ Now we who are strong ought to bear with the limitations of the weak, and not to please ourselves. ² Let each of us please the neighbor with a view to what is good for edifying.

¹⁶ that I should be a minister of Jesus Christ to the nations, serving the Gospel of God as a priest so that the Gentiles might become an acceptable offering, sanctified by the Holy Spirit. ¹⁷ So in Christ Jesus I do have a boast in things pertaining to God; ¹⁸ because I do not presume to speak of anything except those things that Christ has accomplished through me to make the Gentiles obedient —by word and deed, ¹⁹ by the power of signs and wonders, by the power of God’s Spirit, so that I have fully proclaimed the Gospel of the Christ from Jerusalem all the way around to Illyricum.

⁷ Greet Andronicus and Junias, my countrymen and my fellow prisoners, who are outstanding among the apostles, and who were in Christ before me.

¹⁷ Now I exhort you, brothers, to watch out for those who cause divisions and offenses, contrary to the doctrine you have learned, and avoid them.

¹⁷ Now I exhort you, brothers, to watch out for those who cause divisions and offenses, contrary to the doctrine you have learned, and avoid them. ¹⁸ Because such people do not serve our Lord Jesus Christ, but their own belly, and by smooth talk and flattery they deceive the hearts of the unsuspecting.

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¹ Paul, a called apostle of Jesus Christ through the will of God, and brother Sosthenes,

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

⁹ God is faithful, by whom you were called into fellowship with His Son, Jesus Christ our Lord.

²⁴ Now to those who are called, both Jews and Greeks, Christ is the power of God and the wisdom of God,

³⁰ It is from Him that you are in Christ Jesus, who was made to us wisdom from God—also righteousness and sanctification and redemption —

⁹ However, as it is written: “Things no eye has seen and no ear has heard, and no heart of man has imagined, such things has God prepared for those who love Him.”

⁹ However, as it is written: “Things no eye has seen and no ear has heard, and no heart of man has imagined, such things has God prepared for those who love Him.” ¹⁰ But to us God has revealed them by His Spirit; because the Spirit searches all things, yes, the deep things of God.

¹⁰ But to us God has revealed them by His Spirit; because the Spirit searches all things, yes, the deep things of God.

¹⁰ But to us God has revealed them by His Spirit; because the Spirit searches all things, yes, the deep things of God. ¹¹ Now who among men knows the things of a man except the spirit of the man that is in him? So also no one knows the things of God except the Spirit of God. ¹² We have not received the spirit of the world but the Spirit who is from God, so that we might know the things that have been freely given to us by God; ¹³ which things we also expound, not in words taught by human wisdom, but in those taught by the Holy Spirit, interpreting spiritual things to spiritual people.

¹⁵ Because even if you were to have thousands of tutors in Christ, you would not have many fathers, because I am the one who begot you in Christ Jesus, through the Gospel.

⁵ Do we have no right to take along a believing wife, just as the rest of the apostles and the Lord’s brothers and Cephas?

³³ —even as I try to please everyone in every way, not seeking my own profit but that of the many, that they may be saved.

²³ For I received from the Lord that which I also transmitted to you: The Lord Jesus, during the night in which He was betrayed, took bread;

³ Therefore I inform you that no one speaking by God’s Spirit calls Jesus accursed, and no one can declare Jesus to be Lord except by the Holy Spirit.

¹ Now, brothers, I want to add information to the Gospel that I proclaimed to you, that you also received, and in which you stand; ² through which also you are saved, if you hold fast that word that I proclaimed to you—unless you believed in vain. ³ Because I transmitted to you at first that which I also received: that Christ died for our sins according to the Scriptures,

⁸ And last of all He was seen by me also, like one born out of season. ⁹ For I am the least of the apostles, who am not worthy to be called an apostle, because I persecuted the Church of God.

⁹ For I am the least of the apostles, who am not worthy to be called an apostle, because I persecuted the Church of God. ¹⁰ But by the grace of God I am what I am, and His grace toward me has not been in vain; in fact, I have worked harder than all of them—well, not I, but the grace of God that was with me.

¹⁰ But by the grace of God I am what I am, and His grace toward me has not been in vain; in fact, I have worked harder than all of them—well, not I, but the grace of God that was with me.

⁵⁰ Now this I say, brothers, that flesh and blood cannot inherit the Kingdom of God; neither will deterioration inherit incorruptibility.

¹ Now concerning the collection for the saints, you must do just as I instructed the congregations in Galatia.

²² If anyone does not love our Lord Jesus Christ, let him be accursed. The Lord is coming!

¹ Paul, apostle of Jesus Christ by the will of God, and brother Timothy, to the church of God in Corinth, together with all the saints throughout Achaia: ² Grace and peace to you from God our Father and the Lord Jesus Christ.

¹⁷ Now then, when I was deciding this, I wasn’t acting frivolously, was I? Or the things I decide, do I decide according to the flesh, so that with me there would be both “Yes, yes” and “No, no”?

¹⁷ However, we are not like the rest who retail the word of God; rather, we speak in Christ, out of sincerity, as of God in His very presence.

¹ (Are we beginning to commend ourselves again? Do we need, as some do, letters of recommendation to you, or commendation from you? ² You are our letter, inscribed on our hearts, known and read by all men; ³ you are manifestly a letter of Christ, mediated by us, written not with ink but by the Spirit of the living God, not on stone tablets but on ‘tablets’ that are hearts of flesh.)

² Rather, we have renounced the hidden things of shame, not walking in deception nor falsifying the Word of God, but by the open proclamation of the Truth commending ourselves to every man’s conscience, in the sight of God.

⁴ among whom the god of this age has blinded the minds of the unbelieving, so that the light of the Gospel of the glory of Christ, who is the image of God, should not dawn on them.

⁶ because the God who commanded light to shine out of darkness is He who shined in our hearts to give the light that comes from the knowledge of the glory of God in the face of Jesus Christ.

⁹ Yes, that is why we make it our aim (whether at home or away from it) to be well pleasing to Him. ¹⁰ Because we must all be exposed before Christ’s Judgment Seat, that each one may receive his due for the things he did while in the body, whether good or bad. ¹¹ Therefore, since we know the Lord’s intimidation, we try to convince people. We are well known to God, and I hope in your consciences as well.

¹⁶ So then, from now on we regard no one from a fleshly perspective—even if we have ‘known’ Christ in this way, we do so no longer —

¹³ —on the basis of the proof that this service gives, they are glorifying God for the obedience of your confession into the Gospel of Christ, and for the generosity of your sharing with them and everybody—

⁴ For if someone comes and preaches another ‘Jesus’ whom we did not preach, or you receive a different spirit from the one you received, or a different gospel from the one you accepted, you easily put up with it.

¹⁰ The truth of Christ is in me: this boasting will not be silenced in me in the regions of Achaia. ¹¹ Why? Because I don’t love you? God knows!

¹³ Such men are really false apostles, deceitful workers, transforming themselves into ‘apostles’ of Christ.

¹³ Such men are really false apostles, deceitful workers, transforming themselves into ‘apostles’ of Christ. ¹⁴ And no wonder, because Satan himself masquerades as an angel of light.

³¹ The God and Father of the Lord Jesus Christ, who is blessed forever, knows that I am not lying. ³² In Damascus the governor under King Aretas was guarding the city of the Damascenes, wanting to arrest me; ³³ but I was lowered in a basket through a window in the wall and escaped from his hands.

¹ It is doubtless not profitable for me to boast; still, I will go on to visions and revelations from the Lord.

¹⁹ Do you still think that we are defending ourselves to you? It is before God we speak, in Christ; but all of it, dear ones, is with a view to your edification.

¹ This is the third time I am coming to you. “At the mouth of two or three witnesses shall every word be established.” ² As I already said while with you the second time I now repeat in writing while absent, to those who sinned before and to all the rest: If I come again I will not spare,

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

¹ Paul, an apostle—not from men nor through a man, but through Jesus Christ and God the Father, who raised Him from the dead —

⁶ I am sadly surprised that you are turning away so quickly from the one who called you by the grace of Christ, to a different gospel

⁹ As we have just said, I here emphatically repeat: If anyone preaches any other gospel to you than what you have received, let him be accursed!!

¹¹ Now I want you to know, brothers, that the Gospel preached by me is not according to man; ¹² because I did not receive it from any man, nor was I taught it; rather it came through a revelation from Christ.

¹⁶ to reveal His Son in me so that I might proclaim Him among the nations/Gentiles, I did not start by consulting with flesh and blood, ¹⁷ nor did I go up to Jerusalem to those who were apostles before I was; rather I went off into Arabia, and then returned to Damascus. ¹⁸ Subsequently, after three years, I went up to Jerusalem to compare notes with Peter, and stayed with him fifteen days.

¹ Fourteen years later I went up to Jerusalem again, with Barnabas, taking Titus along as well.

⁴ This came up because of the false brothers who were smuggled in (who stole in to spy out our freedom, that we have in Christ Jesus, so as to reduce us to slavery),

⁶ Now from those who seemed to be important (whatever they were makes no difference to me; God shows favoritism to no man)—those with influence contributed nothing to me, ⁷ but on the contrary, upon seeing that I had been entrusted with the Gospel for the uncircumcised, just as was Peter for the circumcised ⁸ (for He who was at work with Peter for the apostleship to the circumcised was also at work with me for that to the uncircumcised), ⁹ and upon perceiving the grace that had been given to me, James and Cephas and John, those reputed to be pillars, gave me and Barnabas the right hand of fellowship, that we should go to the Gentiles, while they to the Jews.

²⁰ I have been crucified with Christ, so it is no longer I who live but Christ lives in me; what I now live in this body I live by faith in the Son of God, who loved me and gave Himself in my place.

¹ O foolish Galatians! Who has bewitched you that you not be persuaded by the Truth —Jesus Christ was clearly portrayed among you as having been crucified, before your very eyes! ² Just tell me one thing: Did you receive the Spirit by the works of the law, or by the hearing of faith? ³ Can you be so foolish? Having begun in the Spirit, do you finish in the flesh? ⁴ Have you suffered so much for nothing—if it really was for nothing? ⁵ Furthermore, He who supplies the Spirit to you and works miracles among you, is He activated by the works of the law, or by the hearing of faith? —

¹⁰ Now as many as are ‘by the works of the law’ are under a curse; because it stands written, “Cursed is everyone who does not continue in all the things written in the Book of the Law, to do them”.

¹³ Christ redeemed us from the curse of the law, having become a curse in our place—because it stands written, “Cursed is everyone who is hung on a tree” —

⁹ But now that you know God—better, are known by God—how can you turn back to those weak, yes decidedly inferior, basic principles, to which you wish to be enslaved all over again? ¹⁰ You are observing days and months and seasons and years. ¹¹ I fear for you, lest somehow I have labored over you in vain. ¹² Brothers, I plead with you, become as I am, for I became like you. You did me no wrong. ¹³ Rather, you know that I preached the Gospel to you the first time in spite of a physical infirmity. ¹⁴ Also, you did not despise or recoil at my physical trial, but you received me as an angel of God, even as Christ Jesus. ¹⁵ So what about your blessedness? Because I can testify that if it were possible you would have plucked out your own eyes and given them to me.

¹⁷ They zealously court you —not for good but intending to isolate you, so that you may seek them.

⁴ You who are ‘being justified’ by law have been alienated from the Christ; you have fallen away from the grace.

⁷ You were running well; who hindered you from obeying the truth? ⁸ This persuasion is not from Him who calls you.

¹⁰ I have confidence toward you in the Lord that you will not think differently; but he who troubles you will bear the penalty, whoever he may be.

¹² I do wish that those who are upsetting you would just remove themselves!

¹² Those who want to make a good showing in the flesh are pressuring you to be circumcised, but only so as not to be persecuted for the cross of Christ. ¹³ For not even those who are circumcised keep the law themselves, yet they want you to be circumcised that they may boast in your flesh. ¹⁴ But as for me, may I never boast except in the cross of our Lord Jesus Christ, through which the world has been crucified to me, and I to the world.

¹⁷ Finally, let no one cause me trouble, for I bear on my body the brand marks of the Lord Jesus.

² Grace to you and peace from God our Father and the Lord Jesus Christ.

² Grace to you and peace from God our Father and the Lord Jesus Christ. ³ Blessed be the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, who has blessed us with every spiritual blessing in the heavenly realms in Christ;

⁵ having predestined us into an adoption as sons through Jesus Christ, into Him\up6 [S]\up0, according to the good pleasure of His\up6 [F]\up0 will,

⁹ having made known to us the ‘secret’ of His will, according to His good pleasure which He purposed in Him\up6 [S]\up0

¹¹ in whom we were also assigned an inheritance, having been predestined according to the purpose of Him\up6 [F]\up0 who works all things according to the decision of His will, ¹² so that we should be to the praise of His glory, we who first trusted in the Christ;

¹⁷ that the God of our Lord Jesus Christ, the Father of glory, may give you the spirit of wisdom and revelation in the real knowledge of Himself, ¹⁸ the eyes of your heart having been enlightened, that you may know \up6 1)\up0 what is the hope of His\up6 [F]\up0 calling, and \up6 2)\up0 what the riches of the glory of His inheritance in the saints, ¹⁹ and \up6 3)\up0 what the exceeding greatness of His power into us who are believing, according to the demonstration of the extent of His might ²⁰ which He exercised in the Christ when He raised Him\up6 [S]\up0 from among the dead and seated Him at His\up6 [F]\up0 right, in the heavenly realms,

² in which you once walked, according to the Aeon of this world, the ruler of the domain of the air, the spirit who is now at work in the sons of the disobedience;

¹ For this reason I, Paul, the prisoner of Christ Jesus on behalf of you Gentiles—

³ how that by revelation He made known to me the ‘secret’ (as I have written briefly already, ⁴ with reference to which, when you read, you can understand my insight into Christ’s secret), ⁵ which in different generations was not made known to the sons of men, as it has now been revealed by the Spirit to His holy apostles and prophets:

⁵ which in different generations was not made known to the sons of men, as it has now been revealed by the Spirit to His holy apostles and prophets: ⁶ that the Gentiles are joint-heirs, of the same body, and fellow partakers of His promise in the Christ through the Gospel,

⁶ that the Gentiles are joint-heirs, of the same body, and fellow partakers of His promise in the Christ through the Gospel, ⁷ of which I became a servant according to the gift of God’s grace, the gift given to me according to the outworking of His power.

⁷ of which I became a servant according to the gift of God’s grace, the gift given to me according to the outworking of His power. ⁸ To me, the very least of all saints, was this grace given, to preach among the Gentiles the unsearchable riches of Christ,

⁸ To me, the very least of all saints, was this grace given, to preach among the Gentiles the unsearchable riches of Christ,

⁸ To me, the very least of all saints, was this grace given, to preach among the Gentiles the unsearchable riches of Christ, ⁹ and to enlighten all as to the program of the secret that from the beginning of the ages has been hidden by the God who created all things through Jesus Christ; ¹⁰ to the intent that now, through the Church, the manifold wisdom of God might be made known to the rulers and the authorities in the heavenly realms, ¹¹ according to the eternal purpose that He accomplished by Christ Jesus our Lord,

² and walk in love, just as Christ loved us and gave Himself up for us, an offering and a sacrifice to God for a fragrant aroma.

⁶ not only when being watched, to please men, but as slaves of the Christ, doing the will of God from the heart;

¹² Because, our wrestling match is not against flesh and blood, but against the principalities, against the authorities, against the world-rulers of the darkness of this age, against the malignant spirits in the heavenly realms.

¹ Paul and Timothy, slaves of Jesus Christ, to all the saints in Christ Jesus who are at Philippi, together with the overseers and deacons: ² Grace to you and peace from God our Father and the Lord Jesus Christ.

²² But you know the proof of him, that as a son with his father he slaved with me for the Gospel.

¹ Finally, my brothers, rejoice in the Lord. For me to write the same things to you is not troublesome and for you it is the safe thing.

⁴ (though I myself actually have basis for such confidence). If anyone else thinks he has basis for confidence in flesh, I even more: ⁵ circumcised the eighth day, of the nation of Israel, of the tribe of Benjamin, a Hebrew of the Hebrews; with respect to the Law, a Pharisee; ⁶ with respect to zeal, persecuting the Church; with respect to the righteousness that is in the law, blameless.

⁶ with respect to zeal, persecuting the Church; with respect to the righteousness that is in the law, blameless.

⁴ Rejoice in the Lord always; again I say, rejoice!

²⁰ Now to our God and Father be the glory for ever and ever. Amen. ²¹ Greet every saint in Christ Jesus. The brothers who are with me greet you.

² to the holy and faithful brothers in Christ at Colosse: Grace to you and peace from God our Father and the Lord Jesus Christ. ³ We always give thanks to the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ when we pray for you ⁴ (having heard of your faith in Christ Jesus and your love toward all the saints),

²⁵ of which I became a servant according to the stewardship from God that was given to me towards you, to complete the Word of God, ²⁶ the mystery that has been hidden from past ages and generations, but now has been revealed to His saints; ²⁷ to whom God resolved to make known who is the wealth of the glory of this mystery among the nations, namely Christ in you, the hope of glory;

⁸ Be careful that no one captures you through philosophy and empty deceit, according to human tradition, according to the basic principles of the world and not according to Christ.

²² Slaves, obey your masters (according to the flesh) in all things, not just when they are looking, as men-pleasers, but in sincerity of heart, fearing God.

¹ Paul, Silvanus and Timothy, to the congregation of Thessalonians in God the Father and the Lord Jesus Christ: Grace and peace to you from God our Father and the Lord Jesus Christ.

⁴ but we speak precisely as those who have been approved by God to be entrusted with the Gospel, not so as to please men, but to please the God who evaluates our hearts.

¹⁴ For you, brothers, became imitators of God’s congregations in Christ Jesus, the ones in Judea, in that you also suffered the same things from your own countrymen that they did from the Jews

¹⁶ trying to prevent us from speaking to the Gentiles so that they may be saved—so as to fill up the measure of their sins. They have received the full impact of the Wrath).

¹¹ Now may our God and Father Himself and our Lord Jesus Christ direct our way to you.

¹³ so as to establish your hearts blameless in holiness before our God and Father at the coming of our Lord Jesus Christ with all His holy ones.

¹ Paul, Silvanus and Timothy, to the congregation of the Thessalonians in God our Father and the Lord Jesus Christ: ² Grace and peace to you from God our Father and the Lord Jesus Christ.

¹⁰ whenever He comes to be glorified by His saints, yes to be marveled at by all who have believed (because our testimony to you was believed); in that Day.

¹² so that the name of our Lord Jesus Christ may be glorified in you, and you in Him, according to the grace of our God and Lord, Jesus Christ.

¹³ Now we are obligated to always give thanks to God about you, brothers loved by the Lord, because from the beginning God chose you into salvation, through sanctification of spirit and belief in truth, ¹⁴ to which He called you through our gospel, so as to obtain the glory of our Lord Jesus Christ.

¹⁴ to which He called you through our gospel, so as to obtain the glory of our Lord Jesus Christ.

¹⁶ Now may our Lord Jesus Christ Himself, and our God and Father, who loved us and gave us eternal comfort and good hope, by grace,

³ You recall that I urged you to remain in Ephesus, when I went into Macedonia, in order that you should command certain persons to stop teaching a different doctrine

¹¹ as defined by the Gospel of the glory of the blessed God, with which I was entrusted. ¹² I thank Christ Jesus our Lord who enables me, because He considered me faithful, putting me into a ministry; ¹³ I, who was formerly a blasphemer and a persecutor and arrogant; but I was shown mercy, because being ignorant I did it in unbelief;

¹³ I, who was formerly a blasphemer and a persecutor and arrogant; but I was shown mercy, because being ignorant I did it in unbelief;

¹³ I, who was formerly a blasphemer and a persecutor and arrogant; but I was shown mercy, because being ignorant I did it in unbelief; ¹⁴ the grace of our Lord overflowed, along with the faith and love that are in Christ Jesus.

¹⁴ the grace of our Lord overflowed, along with the faith and love that are in Christ Jesus.

¹⁴ the grace of our Lord overflowed, along with the faith and love that are in Christ Jesus. ¹⁵ Here is a trustworthy word, worthy of total acceptance: Christ Jesus came into the world to save sinners—of whom I am chief; ¹⁶ precisely for this reason I was shown mercy, that in me, the ‘chief’, Jesus Christ might display all his forbearance, as an example for those who are going to rely on Him into eternal life. ¹⁷ Now to the King eternal, immortal, invisible, to God who alone is wise, be honor and glory forever and ever. Amen.

¹⁹ holding on to faith and a good conscience (which some having rejected have suffered shipwreck concerning the faith; ²⁰ of whom are Hymenaeus and Alexander—whom I have handed over to Satan that they may be taught not to blaspheme).

⁶ who gave Himself as a ransom on behalf of all people (to be testified in its own seasons), ⁷ to which ransom I was appointed a herald and an apostle—I am telling the truth in Christ, I am not lying—a teacher of nations in faith and truth.

¹ Now the Spirit says explicitly that in later times some will fall away from the faith, paying attention to deceiving spirits and to things taught by demons ² —through hypocritical liars whose own consciences have been cauterized, ³ who forbid to marry and to eat foods that God created to be received with thanksgiving by those who believe and really know the truth.

¹ Paul, an apostle of Jesus Christ by the will of God, according to the promise of life that is in Christ Jesus,

⁹ —the One who saved us and called us with a holy calling, not because of our works but because of His own purpose and grace, which was given to us in Christ Jesus before time began,

¹¹ to this Gospel I was appointed as a proclaimer, an apostle and a teacher of nations.

¹ So you, my son, be strengthened by the grace that is in Christ Jesus.

¹⁸ who have wandered away from the Truth, saying that the resurrection has already occurred; and they overturn the faith of some.

⁸ Just as Jannes and Jambres opposed Moses, so also these oppose the truth—men of depraved mind, disqualified as regards the faith— ⁹ but they will not advance any further because, as in the case of the former, their folly will become evident to all.

³ Because the time will come when they will not tolerate the sound doctrine; rather, they will accumulate for themselves a great many teachers who will tickle their ears according to their lusts ⁴ —yes, they will turn their ears away from the Truth and be turned aside to fables.

¹⁸ and the Lord will deliver me from every evil work and save me into His heavenly Kingdom; to whom be the glory for ever and ever. Amen.

³ but has manifested by a proclamation of His Word at chosen times, which word was entrusted to me by the command of our Savior God;

¹⁰ Because there really are lots of rebels, loudmouths and deceivers, especially those of the circumcision group, ¹¹ who must be silenced—they are ruining whole households, teaching things that they ought not, and for dishonest gain!

¹⁴ who gave Himself for us, so that He might redeem us from all lawlessness and purify for Himself a special people, zealous for good works.

¹⁰ Excommunicate a divisive man after a first and second admonition,

⁵ Because it is not to angels that He has subjected the coming inhabited earth, about which we are speaking;

¹⁴ Since, then, the children have flesh and blood as their share, He\up6 [S]\up0 Himself likewise partook of the same, in order that through His death He might abolish the one who had the power of death—that is, the devil—

⁵ who have experienced God’s good event and capabilities of the coming age,

¹⁴ how much more will the blood of Christ, who through the Holy Spirit offered Himself unblemished to God, cleanse your conscience from dead works to serve the living God?

⁴ because it is impossible for the blood of bulls and goats to take away sins. ⁵ Therefore, upon coming into the world He says: “Sacrifice and offering You did not desire, but You prepared a body for me; ⁶ with burnt offerings and sin offerings You were not pleased. ⁷ Then I said, ‘Yes indeed, I have come to do Your will, O God—thus it is written about me in the scroll of the book.’” ⁸ First He says, “Sacrifices and offerings, burnt offerings and sin offerings You did not desire, nor were You pleased with them” (which are offered according to the Law), ⁹ then He says, “Yes indeed, I have come to do Your will, O God.” He removes the first in order to establish the second. ¹⁰ By that will we have been sanctified through the offering of the body of Jesus Christ once for all.

²⁰ Now may the God of peace—who through the blood of the eternal covenant brought back from the dead our Lord Jesus, that great Shepherd of the sheep— ²¹ equip you for every good work to do His will, working in you what is well pleasing in His sight, through Jesus Christ, to whom be the glory forever and ever. Amen.

¹ James, a slave of God and of Sovereign Jesus Christ, to the twelve tribes that are in the Dispersion: Greetings.

⁴ Adulterers and adulteresses! Don’t you know that friendship with the world is enmity with God? So whoever may want to be a friend of the world makes himself an enemy of God.

⁸ —whom not having understood you love, into whom believing (not yet seeing) you exult with joy inexpressible, already glorified,

¹⁵ but just as He who called you is holy, you also be holy in all your way of life,

²¹ who through Him are believing into God, who raised Him out from the dead and gave Him glory, so that your faith and hope are into God.

²⁴ who Himself bore our sins in His own body on the tree, so that we, having died to those sins, might live for the righteousness; by whose wound you were healed.

¹⁸ Because Christ also suffered on account of sins, once for all, the righteous on behalf of the unrighteous, that He might bring us to God; having been put to death, to be sure, in flesh but having been made alive in spirit;

¹⁰ Now may the God of all grace, who called you into His eternal glory by Christ Jesus, Himself perfect, establish, strengthen and ground you—after you have suffered a while. ¹¹ To Him be the glory and the dominion forever and ever. Amen.

³ in that His divine power has granted to us all things pertaining to life and godliness, through the real knowledge of the One who called us by glory and excellence,

¹ However, there were also false prophets among the people, just as, indeed, there will be false teachers among you, who will introduce destructive heresies, even denying the Owner who bought them (bringing on themselves swift destruction). ² And many will follow their licentious ways, because of which the way of the Truth will be defamed. ³ And in covetousness they will exploit you with deceptive words; since way back the judgment for such people is not slack, and their destruction will not sleep.

¹⁴ having eyes full of adultery and that cannot cease from sin, enticing unstable souls; having a heart trained in greediness they are children of a curse;

¹⁸ Rather, may you grow in grace and knowledge of our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ. To Him be the glory both now and into the eternal day. Amen.

² also, He Himself is the propitiation for our sins; not concerning ours only but also concerning those of the whole world.

¹⁵ Do not love the world, neither the things in the world; if anyone loves the world, the Father’s love isn’t in him. ¹⁶ Because everything in the world—the craving of the flesh and the craving of the eyes and the pretension of life—is not from the Father but is from the world. ¹⁷ The world, with its craving, is passing away, but he who does God’s will remains forever. ¹⁸ Children, it is the last hour, and just as you have heard that the Antichrist is coming, even now many antichrists have appeared, by which we know that it is the last hour. ¹⁹ They went out from us but were not of us, for if they had been of us, they would have continued with us—they left so that they might be exposed, that none of them were of us.

²⁶ I have written these things to you concerning those who are trying to deceive you;

⁹ Whoever has been begotten by God does not commit sin, because His seed remains in him; actually, he is not able to sin, because he has been begotten by God.

¹⁶ We know the Love by this: He laid down His life in our behalf; we also are obligated to lay down our lives in behalf of our brothers.

¹ Dear ones, don’t believe every spirit, but test the spirits, whether they are from God, because many false prophets have gone out into the world.

⁴ in that whatever has been begotten by God overcomes the world; this is the victory that has overcome the world: our faith. ⁵ Who is he who overcomes the world if not he who believes that Jesus is the Son of God?

¹⁹ We know that we are of God, and the whole world lies in the power of the evil one. ²⁰ We know that the Son of God has come and has given us understanding, so that we may know Him who is true; and we are in Him who is true, in His Son Jesus Christ. He is the genuine God, and the Life eternal.

³ Grace, mercy and peace from God the Father and from the Lord Jesus Christ, the Son of the Father, will be with you in truth and love.

⁷ Now many deceivers have come into the world, who do not acknowledge Jesus Christ as coming in flesh —this is the deceiver, even the Antichrist!

¹⁰ If anyone comes to you and does not bring this teaching, do not receive him into your house; do not even tell him, “I wish you well,”

¹ Jude, slave of Jesus Christ, and brother of James, to the called, those who have been sanctified by God the Father and preserved through Jesus Christ:

⁴ Because certain men, who were marked out for this condemnation long ago, have sneaked in; they are godless, perverting the grace of our God into licentiousness and denying the only Sovereign God, even our Lord Jesus Christ.

²⁵ to God our Savior, who alone is wise, be glory and majesty, power and authority, both now and throughout all the ages! Amen.

⁵ and from Jesus Christ the faithful witness, the firstborn from among the dead, and the ruler of the kings of the earth. To Him who loved us and washed us from our sins with His own blood

¹⁸ even the Living One—I became dead, to be sure, and now I am living for ever and ever! Oh yes!! And I have the keys of Death and of Hades!

² ‘I know your works, yes the labor, and your endurance, and that you cannot stand those who are evil. And you have tested those who claim to be apostles and are not, and found them to be liars;

⁶ But you do have this, that you hate the works of the Nicolaitans, which I also hate.

⁸ “And to the messenger of the church in Smyrna write: These things says the First and the Last, who became dead and came to life:

¹⁴ ‘Nevertheless I have a few things against you, because you have there adepts of the doctrine of Balaam, who taught Balak to throw a stumbling block before the sons of Israel, to eat things offered to idols and to fornicate. ¹⁵ Thus you also have adepts of the doctrine of the Nicolaitans as well.

²⁰ ‘Nevertheless I have against you that you tolerate your wife Jezebel, who calls herself a prophetess and teaches and deceives my slaves to fornicate and to eat things offered to idols.

⁹ And whenever the living beings ascribe glory and honor and thanksgiving to Him who sits on the throne, to Him who lives forever and ever, ¹⁰ the twenty-four elders fall down before Him who sits on the throne and worship Him who lives forever and ever, and they cast their crowns before the throne saying: ¹¹ “You are worthy, our Lord and God, the Holy One, to receive the glory and the honor and the power, because You created all things, and by Your will they exist and were created!”

⁹ And they sing a new song saying: “You are worthy to take the scroll and to open its seals; because You were slaughtered, and have redeemed us to God by your blood out of every tribe and language and people and ethnic nation;

¹² saying with a great voice: “Worthy is the Lamb who was slaughtered to receive the power and wealth and wisdom and strength and honor and glory and blessing!”

⁹ After these things I looked, and wow, a great multitude that no one could number, from all ethnic nations and tribes and peoples and languages, standing before the Throne and before the Lamb, clothed with white robes and palm branches in their hands.

¹² saying: “Amen! The blessing and the glory and the wisdom and the thanksgiving and the honor and the power and the strength to our God for ever and ever! Amen.”

⁹ So the great dragon was expelled, that ancient serpent, who is called Slanderer and Satan, who deceives the whole inhabited world; he was thrown into the earth, and his angels were expelled with him.

¹⁴ And he deceives my own people, those dwelling on the earth, by the signs that it was given to him to perform before the Beast, telling those who dwell on the earth to make an image to the Beast who had the sword wound and lived.

⁷ saying with a loud voice, “Fear God and give Him glory, because the hour of His judging has come, and do obeisance to Him who made heaven and earth, the ocean and springs of water.”

²⁰ So the Beast was captured, and with him the False prophet, the one who performed signs in his presence (by which he had deceived those who had received the mark of the Beast and those who worshipped his image). The two were thrown alive into the Lake of Fire that burns with brimstone.

³ he threw him into the Abyss and locked and sealed it over him so that he should not deceive the nations any more until the thousand years were finished. And after these years he must be loosed for a short time.

¹⁸ “I testify to everyone who hears the words of the prophecy of this book: If any one adds to them, may God add to him the seven plagues written in this book! ¹⁹ And if anyone takes away from the words of the book of this prophecy, may God remove his share from the tree of life and out of the Holy City, that stand written in this book!”

²¹ The grace of the Lord Jesus Christ be with all the saints. Amen.