Hebrews 2 Cross References - WPNT

¹ So then, we really must pay the utmost attention to the things we have heard, so that we not drift away. ² For if the word spoken through angels became binding, and every violation and disobedience received a deserved penalty, ³ how shall we escape if we are careless about that tremendous salvation?—it received its beginning through the Lord’s declaration and was confirmed to us by those who heard Him\up6 [S]\up0, ⁴ God adding His\up6 [F]\up0 attestation by signs, wonders, various miracles, and distributions of the Holy Spirit according to His own will. ⁵ Because it is not to angels that He has subjected the coming inhabited earth, about which we are speaking; ⁶ rather, there is a place where someone testified saying: “What is man that You are mindful of him, or son of man that you care for him? ⁷ You made him lower than the angels, for a little while; You crowned him with glory and honor, ⁸ You subjected all things under his feet.” It follows that in subjecting all things to him, He left nothing that is not so subjected. However, we do not yet see everything subjected to him, at present. ⁹ But we do see Jesus, who ‘was made lower than the angels, for a little while’ (in order to suffer death), ‘crowned with glory and honor’—this, by the grace of God, so that He\up6 [S]\up0 might taste death on behalf of everyone. ¹⁰ Because it was appropriate to Him\up6 [F]\up0, for whom are all things and through whom are all things, in bringing many sons into glory, to perfect the Author of their salvation through sufferings. ¹¹ For both He\up6 [S]\up0 who is sanctifying and those who are being sanctified are all from One, for which reason He is not ashamed to call them ‘brothers’, ¹² saying, “I will declare Your name to my brothers; in the midst of the congregation I will sing praise to You.” ¹³ And again, “I will put my trust in Him\up6 [F]\up0 ”; and again, “Here am I and the children whom God has given me.” 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— ¹⁵ and set free these [the children] who during their whole lifetime were subject to slavery through fear of death. ¹⁶ (Now surely He does not assist angels, but He does assist Abraham’s seed.) ¹⁷ That is why He was obliged to become like those ‘brothers’ in all respects, so that He could be a merciful and faithful high priest, in what concerns God, with a view to making propitiation for the sins of the people. ¹⁸ For in that in which He Himself endured suffering, having been tested, He is able to assist those who are being tested.

¹ A genealogy of Jesus Christ, son of David, son of Abraham. ² Abraham begot Isaac, then Isaac begot Jacob, then Jacob begot Judah and his brothers; ³ then Judah begot Perez and Zerah by Tamar, then Perez begot Hezron, then Hezron begot Ram; ⁴ then Ram begot Amminadab, then Amminadab begot Nahshon, then Nahshon begot Salmon; ⁵ then Salmon begot Boaz by Rahab, then Boaz begot Obed by Ruth, then Obed begot Jesse; ⁶ then Jesse begot David the king. Then King David begot Solomon by her who had been of Uriah, ⁷ then Solomon begot Rehoboam, then Rehoboam begot Abijah, then Abijah begot Asa; ⁸ then Asa begot Jehoshaphat, then Jehoshaphat begot Joram, then Joram begot Uzziah; ⁹ then Uzziah begot Jotham, then Jotham begot Ahaz, then Ahaz begot Hezekiah; ¹⁰ then Hezekiah begot Manasseh, then Manasseh begot Amon, then Amon begot Josiah; ¹¹ then Josiah begot Jeconiah and his brothers about the time of the Babylonian captivity. ¹² After the Babylonian captivity Jeconiah begot Shealtiel, then Shealtiel begot Zerubbabel; ¹³ then Zerubbabel begot Abiud, then Abiud begot Eliakim, then Eliakim begot Azor; ¹⁴ then Azor begot Zadok, then Zadok begot Achim, then Achim begot Eliud; ¹⁵ then Eliud begot Eleazar, then Eleazar begot Matthan, then Matthan begot Jacob; ¹⁶ then Jacob begot Joseph the husband of Mary, by whom was begotten Jesus, who is called Christ. ¹⁷ So all the generations from Abraham to David are fourteen generations, and from David until the Babylonian captivity are fourteen generations, and from the Babylonian captivity until the Christ are fourteen generations.

¹ Then Jesus was led up by the Spirit into the wilderness to be tested by the devil. ² And having fasted forty days and forty nights afterward He was hungry. ³ And coming to Him the tempter said, “Since you are the Son of God, command that these stones become loaves of bread”. ⁴ But in answer He said, “It is written: ‘Man shall not live on bread alone, but by every word coming out of God’s mouth’.” ⁵ Then the devil takes Him into the holy city and sets Him upon the pinnacle of the temple, ⁶ and says to Him, “Since you are the Son of God, throw yourself down; for it is written: ‘He will give orders to His angels about you, and they will lift you up on their hands, lest you strike your foot against a stone’.” ⁷ Jesus said to him, “It is also written: ‘You shall not test the LORD your God!’” ⁸ Again the devil takes Him to a very high mountain and shows Him all the kingdoms of the world and their glory. ⁹ And he says to Him, “All these things I will give to you, if You will fall down and worship me.” ¹⁰ Then Jesus says to him: “Get behind me, Satan! For it is written: ‘You shall worship the LORD your God, and Him only shall you serve’.”

¹⁷ From then on Jesus began to preach and to say, “Repent, for the kingdom of the heavens has come near.”

²⁸ And why do you worry about clothes? Consider the lilies of the field, how they grow; they neither labor nor spin,

⁴⁸ But in answer He said to the one who told Him, “Who is my mother, and who are my brothers?” ⁴⁹ And stretching out His hand toward His disciples He said: “Here are my mother and my brothers! ⁵⁰ For whoever does the will of my Father in the heavens, he is my brother and sister and mother.”

⁹ Do you not yet perceive nor remember the five loaves of the five thousand and how many baskets you took up?

²⁸ Assuredly I say to you, there are some standing here who will not taste death until they see the Son of the Man coming in His kingdom.”

³³ “Snakes! Brood of vipers! How can you escape from the condemnation of Hell?

⁴⁰ And in answer the King will say to them, ‘Assuredly I say to you, inasmuch as you did it to one of the least of these my brothers, you did it to me.’ 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.

³⁷ And taking Peter and the two sons of Zebedee along He began to be troubled and distressed. ³⁸ Then Jesus says to them: “My soul is in anguish, to the point of death. Stay here and watch with me.” ³⁹ And going a little farther He fell on His face and prayed saying, “My Father, if it is possible, let this cup pass me by; nevertheless not as I wish, but as you do”.

⁴³ “He trusted in God; let Him rescue him now, if He wants him; for he said that he was the Son of God.”

¹⁰ Then Jesus says to them: “Do not be afraid! Go report to my brothers that they must go to Galilee, and there they will see me.”

¹⁸ And approaching Jesus asserted to them saying: “All authority in heaven and on earth has been given to me.

¹⁴ Now after John was put in prison, Jesus went into Galilee proclaiming the Gospel of the Kingdom of God,

¹⁸ Having eyes do you not see, and having ears do you not hear, and do you not remember?

³⁸ Yes, whoever is ashamed of me and my words in this adulterous and sinful generation, the Son of Man will also be ashamed of Him whenever He comes in the glory of His Father with the holy Angels.”

¹ And He said to them, “I tell you assuredly: there are some standing here who will certainly not taste death until they see the Kingdom of God present with power.”

¹⁵ Then He said to them: “Go to the whole world and proclaim the Gospel to all creation. ¹⁶ He who believes and is baptized will be saved; but he who does not believe will be condemned. ¹⁷ And these signs will accompany those who believe: in my name they will cast out demons; they will speak with new languages; ¹⁸ they will remove ‘snakes’; and if they drink anything deadly, it will not hurt them at all; they will lay hands on sick people, and they will get well.” ¹⁹ So then, after the Lord had spoken to them, He was received up into heaven and sat down at God’s right. ²⁰ And they went out and preached everywhere, the Lord working with them and confirming the message by the accompanying signs. Amen.

²⁰ And they went out and preached everywhere, the Lord working with them and confirming the message by the accompanying signs. Amen.

² just as those who became eyewitnesses, from the beginning, and ministers of the Word delivered them to us,

⁶⁸ “Blessed be the LORD, the God of Israel, because He has visited and provided redemption for His people; ⁶⁹ and has raised up a horn of deliverance for us in the house of His servant David

⁷⁴ to grant to us (having been rescued from the hand of our enemies) to serve Him without fear, ⁷⁵ in holiness and righteousness before Him all the days of our life.

⁷⁸ through the merciful compassions of our God, with which the divine Dawn has contemplated us,

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

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!”

¹⁵ But that on the good ground: these are the ones who having heard the word with a noble and good heart, hold on to it and produce fruit with perseverance.”

²⁶ Yes, whoever is ashamed of me and of my words, the Son of Man will be ashamed of Him, whenever He comes in the glory—His, and the Father’s, and of the holy angels. ²⁷ However, I tell you truly: there are some standing here who will certainly not taste death until they see the Kingdom of God!”

⁴⁴ “Let these words sink into your ears, because the Son of Man is about to be betrayed into the hands of men”.

³² He said to them: “Go tell that ‘fox’, ‘Take note, I am casting out demons and performing cures today and tomorrow, and on the third I will be perfected’.

⁵³ When I was with you daily in the temple, you did not lay a hand on me. But this is your hour; even the authority of the darkness!”

¹⁹ He said to them, “What things?” So they said to Him: “The things concerning Jesus the Natsorean, how the man was a prophet mighty in deed and word before God and all the people,

²⁶ Was it really not necessary for the Christ to suffer these things, and to enter into His glory?”

⁴⁶ And He said to them: “Thus it is written, and thus it was necessary for the Christ to suffer and to rise from the dead the third day, ⁴⁷ and that repentance and forgiveness of sins should be proclaimed in His name to all the nations, beginning from Jerusalem. ⁴⁸ You are witnesses of these things.

¹⁴ So the Word became flesh and lived among us, and we observed His glory, glory of an Only-begotten, from the Father, full of grace and truth.

²⁹ The next day John sees Jesus coming toward him and says, “Look! The Lamb of God who takes away the sin of the world!

¹⁶ Because God loved the world so much that He gave His only begotten Son, so that everyone who believes into Him should not be wasted but should have eternal life.

¹⁶ Because God loved the world so much that He gave His only begotten Son, so that everyone who believes into Him should not be wasted but should have eternal life. ¹⁷ For God did not send His Son into the world in order to condemn the world, but so that the world might be saved through Him. ¹⁸ The one believing into Him is not condemned, but the one not believing has already been condemned, because he has not believed into the name of the only begotten Son of God.

³⁵ The Father loves the Son and has given all things into His hand.

⁴⁸ So Jesus said to him, “Unless you people see signs and wonders you won’t believe!”

⁵² So the Jews said to Him: “Now we know that you have a demon! Abraham died and so did the prophets; yet you say, ‘If anyone should keep my word he will never ever taste death’!

¹⁷ “Because of this the Father loves me, in that I lay down my life so that I may take it up again.

²⁹ My Father, who has given them to me, is greater than all; and no one is able to snatch out of my Father’s hand.

⁵² and not only on behalf of the nation, but also to gather into one all the scattered children of God.)

²⁴ Most assuredly I say to you, if a grain of wheat, having fallen into the ground, doesn’t die, it remains alone; but if it dies it bears a lot of fruit.

³¹ Now is the judgment of this world; now the ruler of this world will be thrown out. ³² While I, if I be lifted up from the earth I will draw all people to myself.”

³² While I, if I be lifted up from the earth I will draw all people to myself.” ³³ (Now He said this to indicate by what kind of death He was about to die.)

³ Jesus, knowing that the Father had given everything into His hands, and that He had come from God and was going to God,

²⁶ “Now when the Helper comes, whom I will send to you from the Father, the Spirit of the Truth who proceeds from the Father, He will testify concerning me. ²⁷ And you also will testify, because you have been with me from the beginning.

⁶ “I have revealed Your name to the men whom You have given me out of the world. They were Yours and You gave them to me, and they have kept Your word. ⁷ They now know that everything You have given to me is from You; ⁸ because I have given them the sayings which You have given to me; and they have received and known for sure that I came forth from You, and they have believed that You sent me. ⁹ I am praying for them; I am not praying for the world but for those whom You have given me, because they are yours. ¹⁰ Actually, all my things are Yours and Yours are mine, and I have been glorified in them. ¹¹ Now I am no longer in the world, yet these are in the world, and I am coming to You.” Holy Father, keep them in Your name which You have given to me, so that they may be one just as we are. ¹² While I was with them in the world I kept them in Your name. I protected those whom You gave me, and not one of them was lost except the son of perdition, so that the Scripture might be fulfilled.

¹⁹ And for their sakes I sanctify myself, so that they also may be sanctified in truth.

²¹ that they all may be one, just as You, Father, are in me and I in You; that in Us they also may be one, so that the world may believe that You sent me.

²⁰ Jesus answered him: “I have spoken openly to the world. I always taught in synagogue and temple, where the Jews always congregate, and I have spoken nothing in secret.

³⁰ Then, when He had received the sour wine, Jesus said, “Paid in full!!” And bowing His head He dismissed His spirit.

¹⁷ Jesus says to her: “Stop clinging to me, for I have not yet ascended to my Father; but go to my brothers and say to them, ‘I am ascending to my Father and your Father—my God and your God.’”

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.”

²² “Men of Israel, listen to these words: Jesus the Natsorean, a man from God attested to you by miracles and wonders and signs, which God did by Him in your midst, as you yourselves well know,

³² “This Jesus God raised, to which we all are witnesses. ³³ Therefore, having been exalted to God’s right hand, and having received from the Father the promise of the Holy Spirit, He poured out this that you now see and hear.

³³ Therefore, having been exalted to God’s right hand, and having received from the Father the promise of the Holy Spirit, He poured out this that you now see and hear.

¹³ The God of Abraham and Isaac and Jacob, the God of our fathers, glorified His Servant Jesus, whom you delivered up; and you repudiated Him to Pilate’s face, when he was intending to release Him.

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

¹⁵ while you killed the Originator of life, whom God raised from among the dead, to which we are witnesses. ¹⁶ Well His name, based on faith in His name, made this man strong, whom you see and know. Yes, the faith that is through Him has given him this wholeness in the presence of you all.

¹⁰ be it known to you all, and to all the people of Israel, that by the name of Jesus Christ the Natsorean, whom you crucified, whom God raised from the dead, by Him this man stands here before you whole.

¹² Also, the salvation does not exist in anyone else, because there is no other name under heaven, given among men, by which we must be saved.”

³¹ Him God has exalted to His right hand as Prince and Savior, to give repentance to Israel, and forgiveness of sins.

⁵³ you who received the Law as ‘ordinances of angels’ and haven’t kept it!”

⁴⁰ Him God raised on the third day, and gave Him to become visible, ⁴¹ not to all the people but to witnesses who had been chosen beforehand by God, to us, who ate and drank with Him after He arose out of the dead. ⁴² And He ordered us to proclaim to the people, that is to testify that He is the One who has been ordained by God as Judge of living and dead.

³ Even so they stayed there a considerable time, speaking boldly for the Lord, who was bearing witness to the word of His grace, giving signs and wonders to take place by their hands.

²⁶ And from one blood He made every ethnic nation of men to dwell on all the surface of the earth, having determined their appointed times and the boundaries of their dwellings,

²⁸ because in Him we live and move and have our being. As also some of your own poets have said, ‘For we are also his offspring’.

¹¹ Further, God kept working unusual miracles by the hands of Paul, ¹² so that even handkerchiefs or aprons that he touched were applied to the sick, and the diseases left them and the wicked spirits went out from them.

³ So then, you who judge those who practice such things while doing the same, do you really imagine that you will escape God’s judgment?

²⁵ Now circumcision does have value if you keep the Law, but if you are a transgressor of the Law, your circumcision has become uncircumcision.

²⁵ whom God has openly made available as a propitiation through the faith in His blood, to demonstrate His righteousness because of the passing over, in God’s forbearance, of the previously committed sins; ²⁶ to demonstrate His righteousness at this present time, so as to be just, Himself, and the justifier of him who is of the Faith of Jesus.

¹⁶ For this reason it is of faith so that it may be according to grace, in order that the promise be guaranteed to all the seed—not only to those of law, but also to those of the faith of Abraham, who is the father of us all; ¹⁷ just as it is written: “I have made you a father of many ethnic nations” —in the presence of Him whom he believed: God, who gives life to the dead and calls the non-existent things as though they did exist. ¹⁸ Contrary to hope, Abraham in hope believed, so as to become a father of many ethnic nations, according to what had been spoken: “So shall your seed be.” ¹⁹ And not being weak in faith, he did not consider his own body, already dead (being about a hundred years old), or the deadness of Sarah’s womb. ²⁰ He did not waver at God’s promise in unbelief; rather, he was strengthened by the faith, giving glory to God, ²¹ being fully convinced that what He had promised He was also able to perform ²² —that is why it was credited to him as righteousness. ²³ Now it was not only for his sake that it was written that it was credited to him, 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.

⁸ but God demonstrates His own love toward us in that while we were still sinners Christ died for us!

¹⁰ Because since we were reconciled to God through the death of His Son, while we were enemies, how much more, having been reconciled, shall we be saved through His life!

¹⁸ So then, as through one offense there is condemnation for everyone, so also through one righteous act there is life-giving justification for everyone.

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,

¹⁴ Because as many as are led by God’s Spirit, these are God’s sons ¹⁵ —you did not receive a spirit of slavery to fear all over again, but you did receive the Spirit of adoption by whom we cry out, “Abba, Father!”

¹⁵ —you did not receive a spirit of slavery to fear all over again, but you did receive the Spirit of adoption by whom we cry out, “Abba, Father!” ¹⁶ The Spirit Himself bears witness with our spirit that we are God’s children ¹⁷ —if children, also heirs: heirs of God and co-heirs with Christ (if indeed we suffer with Him so that we may also be glorified with Him). ¹⁸ I consider that the sufferings of this present time are not worthy to be compared with the glory that is going to be revealed in us.

²¹ that the creation itself will also be set free from the bondage to decay into the freedom of the glory of God’s children.

²⁹ Because whom He foreknew He also predestined to be conformed to the image of His Son, so that He would be the firstborn among many brothers.

²⁹ Because whom He foreknew He also predestined to be conformed to the image of His Son, so that He would be the firstborn among many brothers. 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?

²³ just in order to make known the riches of His glory on vessels of mercy, which He prepared beforehand for glory,

²⁵ As He also says in Hosea: “I will call the ‘not my people’, ‘my people’, and the ‘not loved’ (f), ‘loved’.” ²⁶ “And it will be in the place where it was said to them, ‘You are not my people’, there they will be called sons of the living God.”

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

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

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 but we speak God’s wisdom in a mystery, the hidden wisdom that God ordained before the ages for our glory,

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.

⁶ yet for us there is one God, the Father, out of whom are all things and we into Him, and one Lord Jesus Christ, through whom are all things and we through Him.

⁵ For all that, God was not pleased with most of them—their carcasses were scattered around the desert! ⁶ Now these things became examples for us, to the intent that we should not lust after evil things as they also lusted. ⁷ And do not become idolaters, just like some of them; as it is written: “The people sat down to eat and drink, and got up to amuse themselves.” ⁸ And let us not fornicate, just as some of them did—and in one day twenty-three thousand died! ⁹ Neither let us test the Christ, just as also some of them did—and were destroyed by the snakes! ¹⁰ And do not grumble, just as also some of them did—and were executed by the destroyer! ¹¹ Now all these things happened to them as examples and were written for our admonition, upon whom the ends of the ages have come. ¹² So then, let him who thinks he stands be careful that he doesn’t fall! ¹³ No testing has overtaken you except what is common to man, and God is competent, who will not allow you to be tested beyond what you can stand, but with the testing will also provide the way out, that you may be able to endure it.

⁴ Now there are allotments of spiritual gifts, but the same Spirit. ⁵ And there are allotments of ministries, and the same Lord. ⁶ And there are allotments of activities, but the same God is He who works them all, in all. ⁷ But the manifestation of the Spirit is given to each one for the common good. ⁸ So to one a word of wisdom is given, by the Spirit; to another a word of knowledge, by the same Spirit; ⁹ to a different one faith, by the same Spirit; to another presents of healings, by the same Spirit; ¹⁰ to another workings of miracles, to another prophecy, to another discernings of spirits; to a different one kinds of languages, to another interpretation of languages. ¹¹ However, the one and the same Spirit produces all of these things, distributing to each one individually just as He wills.

²⁴ then the end, when He hands over the Kingdom to the God and Father, whenever He puts an end to every ruler and all authority and power. ²⁵ Because it is necessary that He reign until He has put all the enemies under His feet.

²⁷ For “He has put all things under His feet.” But when it says that all things have been subordinated, it is obvious that He who put all things under Him is excepted.

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

⁵⁰ Now this I say, brothers, that flesh and blood cannot inherit the Kingdom of God; neither will deterioration inherit incorruptibility. ⁵¹ And now, I tell you a mystery: we will not all sleep, but we will all be changed ⁵² —in a split second, in an eye twinkle, at the last trumpet—the trumpet will blast and the dead will be raised incorruptible, and we will be changed. ⁵³ Because this corruptible must put on incorruption, and this mortal put on immortality. ⁵⁴ So whenever this corruptible puts on incorruption and this mortal puts on immortality, then this written word will happen: “Death has been swallowed down into victory.” ⁵⁵ “Where, O Death, is your sting? Where, O Hades, is your victory?” ⁵⁶ The stinger of death is sin, and the adjunct of sin is the law. ⁵⁷ Now thanks be to God who gives us the victory through our Lord Jesus Christ!

¹⁰ He did deliver us from that deadly peril, and still delivers; in whom we trust that He will keep on delivering,

¹⁸ So we all, contemplating as in a mirror the glory of the Lord with unveiled face, are being transformed into the same image from glory to glory, precisely from Lord Spirit.

¹⁷ because our light, momentary affliction is working out for us an eternal and limitless measure of glory,

¹⁵ and He died for all so that those who now live should no longer live for themselves but for the One who died for all and was raised again.

¹⁸ And that ‘all’ is from the God who has reconciled us to Himself through Jesus Christ and given us the ministry of the reconciliation,

¹⁸ And that ‘all’ is from the God who has reconciled us to Himself through Jesus Christ and given us the ministry of the reconciliation, ¹⁹ namely that in Christ God was reconciling the world to Himself, not imputing their trespasses to them, including committing to us the message of this reconciliation. ²⁰ So then, we are Christ’s ambassadors, as though God were making His appeal through us. We implore you on Christ’s behalf: Be reconciled to God! ²¹ Because He made the One who did not know sin to be sin on our behalf, so that in Him we might become God’s righteousness.

²¹ Because He made the One who did not know sin to be sin on our behalf, so that in Him we might become God’s righteousness.

¹⁸ And, “I will be a Father to you, and you will be sons and daughters to me, says the LORD Almighty.”

⁷ Because of the incredible importance of the revelations, to keep me from feeling too important, there was given me a thorn in the flesh, a messenger of Satan to beat on me—to keep me from feeling too important. ⁸ Concerning this thing I pleaded with the Lord three times that it might depart from me. ⁹ But He said to me, “My grace is sufficient for you, for my power is made perfect in weakness.” Therefore I will boast all the more cheerfully about my weaknesses, so that Christ’s power may take up residence upon me. ¹⁰ So then, I take pleasure in weaknesses, in insults, in hardships, in persecutions, in distresses, for Christ’s sake. For when I am weak, then I am strong.

¹⁶ But to Abraham were spoken the promises, and to his Seed. He doesn’t say “and to seeds”, as about many, but “and to your seed”, as about one, who is Christ.

¹⁹ Why then the law? It was added on account of the transgressions, until the Seed should come to whom the inheritance had been promised; and it was ordered through angels by the hand of a mediator.

²⁶ So all of you are sons of God through the faith in Christ Jesus.

²⁹ so if you are Christ’s, then you are Abraham’s seed and heirs according to the promise.

⁴ But at just the right time God sent out His Son, born of a woman, born under law,

²¹ Tell me, you who desire to be under law, do you not heed that law?

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,

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, ⁶ to the praise of the glory of His grace, with which He graced us in the Beloved; ⁷ in whom we have the redemption through His\up6 [S]\up0 blood, the forgiveness of our trespasses, according to the riches of His\up6 [F]\up0 grace, ⁸ that He made to abound toward us in all wisdom and intelligent design, ⁹ having made known to us the ‘secret’ of His will, according to His good pleasure which He purposed in Him\up6 [S]\up0

²¹ far above every ruler and authority and power and dominion —even every name that can be named, not only in this age but also in the next. ²² In short, He\up6 [F]\up0 placed everything under His\up6 [S]\up0 feet and appointed Him to be Head over everything in the Church,

⁷ in order that in the coming ages He might display the surpassing riches of His grace, through His kindness toward us in Christ Jesus.

¹⁶ and to reconcile them both in one body to God through the cross (by which He killed the enmity).

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,

⁸ That is why He says, “When He ascended into the heights He captured the concentration camp, and distributed gifts to men.” ⁹ (What does ‘He ascended’ imply if not that He also first descended into the interior regions of the earth? ¹⁰ He who descended is the very one who also ascended far above all the heavens, that He might fill all things.) ¹¹ Yes, He Himself gave some to be apostles, some to be prophets, some to be evangelists, and some to be pastors and teachers,

⁷ but divested Himself, taking a slave’s form, coming to be in the likeness of men.

⁷ but divested Himself, taking a slave’s form, coming to be in the likeness of men. ⁸ And being found in appearance as a man, He humbled Himself, becoming obedient to the point of death —even death on a cross!

⁸ And being found in appearance as a man, He humbled Himself, becoming obedient to the point of death —even death on a cross! ⁹ Indeed, that is why God highly exalted Him and gave Him the name that is above every name,

⁹ Indeed, that is why God highly exalted Him and gave Him the name that is above every name, ¹⁰ so that at the name of Jesus every knee will bow—of those in heaven, those on earth and those under the earth— ¹¹ and every tongue will acknowledge that Jesus Christ is Lord, to the glory of God the father.

²¹ who will transform the body of our humiliation so that it will be conformed to the body of His glory, according to the working by which He is indeed able to subject all things to Himself.

¹⁶ because by Him all things were created —those in the heavens and those on the earth, things visible and things invisible, whether thrones or dominions or rulers or authorities—all things have been created through Him and for Him. ¹⁷ Yes, He is before all, and in Him all things subsist.

²¹ So now He has reconciled you as well (you who once were alienated and hostile in your mind because of your wicked works),

¹⁵ having stripped the principalities and the authorities, He made a public spectacle of them, having triumphed over them by it [the cross].

⁴ Whenever Christ, our life, is revealed then you also will be revealed with Him in glory.

³ For whenever they say, “Peace and safety!” then sudden destruction is standing near them, like labor pains to a pregnant woman, and they will not escape.

¹⁵ Here is a trustworthy word, worthy of total acceptance: Christ Jesus came into the world to save sinners—of whom I am chief;

⁶ who gave Himself as a ransom on behalf of all people (to be testified in its own seasons),

¹⁶ Yes, the mystery of our religion is confessedly great: God was manifested in flesh, was vindicated in spirit, was revealed to angels, was proclaimed among nations, was believed in the world, was received up in glory!

⁷ Because God did not give us a spirit of cowardice, but of power and of love and of self-control.

¹⁰ but has now been revealed through the appearing of our Savior Jesus Christ, who by means of the Gospel destroyed the death and brought life and immortality to light;

¹² That is why I am suffering these things, yet I am not ashamed because I know in whom I have believed and am certain that He is able to guard my deposit until that Day.

¹⁰ This is why I endure it all: for the sake of the chosen ones, that they also may obtain the salvation that is in Christ Jesus, with eternal glory. ¹¹ For the saving grace of God has appeared for all men,

¹ God, having spoken to the fathers through the prophets in many parts and in various ways, in the past,

¹ God, having spoken to the fathers through the prophets in many parts and in various ways, in the past, ² has at the end of these days spoken to us by Son, whom He appointed heir of all things, through whom also He made the ages;

² has at the end of these days spoken to us by Son, whom He appointed heir of all things, through whom also He made the ages;

¹³ On the other hand, to which of the angels did He ever say, “Sit on my right until I place your enemies as a stool under your feet”?

² For if the word spoken through angels became binding, and every violation and disobedience received a deserved penalty, ³ how shall we escape if we are careless about that tremendous salvation?—it received its beginning through the Lord’s declaration and was confirmed to us by those who heard Him\up6 [S]\up0, ⁴ God adding His\up6 [F]\up0 attestation by signs, wonders, various miracles, and distributions of the Holy Spirit according to His own will. ⁵ Because it is not to angels that He has subjected the coming inhabited earth, about which we are speaking;

⁷ You made him lower than the angels, for a little while; You crowned him with glory and honor,

¹¹ For both He\up6 [S]\up0 who is sanctifying and those who are being sanctified are all from One, for which reason He is not ashamed to call them ‘brothers’,

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—

¹⁸ For in that in which He Himself endured suffering, having been tested, He is able to assist those who are being tested.

² who was faithful to the One who appointed Him, as also was Moses in all His\up6 [F]\up0 house.

⁵ also, Moses was indeed faithful as a servant in all His house, providing evidence of those things that would later be spoken,

¹ Therefore we should fear, since a promise of entering His rest still stands, lest any one of you should expect to have come short of it.

⁴ because somewhere He has spoken about the seventh day like this, “And on the seventh day God rested from all His works,”

¹¹ Therefore, let us take pains to enter into that rest so that no one may fall through the same pattern of disobedience.

¹⁴ Therefore, since we have a Great High Priest who has passed through the heavens, Jesus the Son of God, let us hold fast the Confession. ¹⁵ For we do not have a High Priest who is unable to sympathize with our weaknesses, but He was tested in all points, in similar ways, without sin.

¹⁵ For we do not have a High Priest who is unable to sympathize with our weaknesses, but He was tested in all points, in similar ways, without sin. ¹⁶ So let us approach the throne of grace with confidence, that we may receive mercy and find grace, for timely help.

² being able to deal gently with those who sin in ignorance and go astray, since he himself is also subject to weakness.

⁶ Just as He\up6 [F]\up0 also says in another place, “You are a priest forever according to the order of Melchizedek.” ⁷ He\up6 [S]\up0, in the days of His flesh, having offered up both prayers and supplications, with a loud cry and tears, to the One who was able to save Him from death, and having been answered because of His godly fear, ⁸ although being SON, He learned obedience by the things which He suffered. ⁹ And having been completed He became the Source of eternal salvation for all those obeying Him,

⁹ And having been completed He became the Source of eternal salvation for all those obeying Him,

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

¹⁶ Because since men swear by the greater, and for them the confirming oath puts an end to every dispute,

²⁰ where Forerunner Jesus has entered on our behalf, having become High Priest forever according to the order of Melchizedek.

²⁵ Therefore He is able to save absolutely those who come to God through Him, since He always lives and can intercede on their behalf.

²⁵ Therefore He is able to save absolutely those who come to God through Him, since He always lives and can intercede on their behalf. ²⁶ Now such a High Priest was fitting for us—holy, innocent, undefiled, having been set apart from sinners, and having become higher than the heavens—

²⁶ Now such a High Priest was fitting for us—holy, innocent, undefiled, having been set apart from sinners, and having become higher than the heavens—

²⁸ The Law appoints as high priest men who have weakness, but the word of the oath, that came after the Law, appointed Son, forever perfect.

³ Every high priest is appointed to offer both gifts and sacrifices (it follows that it is necessary for this One also to have something He might offer)

¹⁵ For this reason He is mediator of a new covenant, so that those who have been called may receive the promised eternal inheritance—since a death has occurred for the redemption of the transgressions under the first covenant.

⁵ Therefore, upon coming into the world He says: “Sacrifice and offering You did not desire, but You prepared a body for me;

¹⁰ By that will we have been sanctified through the offering of the body of Jesus Christ once for all.

¹⁴ because by one offering He has perfected forever those who are being sanctified.

²⁸ Anyone who rejected Moses’ law died without mercy on the testimony of two or three witnesses.

²⁸ Anyone who rejected Moses’ law died without mercy on the testimony of two or three witnesses. ²⁹ Of how much worse punishment, do you suppose, will he be deemed worthy who has trampled the Son of God under foot, who has regarded as unholy the blood of the covenant by which he was sanctified, and who has insulted the Spirit of grace?

³⁵ So do not throw away your confidence, which has a great recompense.

⁶ Now without faith it is impossible to please Him, because the one approaching God must believe that He exists and that He becomes a rewarder of those who earnestly seek Him.

¹⁶ Instead they are aspiring to a better home—a heavenly one. Therefore God is not ashamed to be called their God; in fact He has prepared a city for them.

²⁶ considering the reproach of Christ to be greater riches than the treasures of Egypt; because he was looking ahead to the reward.

² looking unto Jesus, the Founder and Perfecter of the Faith, who for the joy that was set before Him endured a cross, scorning its ignominy, and took His seat at the right hand of the throne of God.

⁵ And you have forgotten the exhortation that instructs you as sons: “My son, do not make light of the LORD’s discipline, nor lose heart when you are reproved by Him;

¹⁰ Now they indeed disciplined us during a short period as seemed best to them, but He for our profit, so that we may partake of His holiness.

²⁵ See to it that you not refuse Him who speaks. Because if they did not escape who refused Him who gave divine warning on earth, how much less will we, if we turn away from Him who warns from Heaven!

²⁵ See to it that you not refuse Him who speaks. Because if they did not escape who refused Him who gave divine warning on earth, how much less will we, if we turn away from Him who warns from Heaven! ²⁶ Then His voice shook the earth, but now He has promised, saying, “Yet once more I shake not only the earth but also the heaven.”

¹² therefore Jesus also, so that He might sanctify the people by His own blood, suffered outside the city gate.

¹¹ investigating into whom, or what sort of time, the Spirit of Christ who was in them was indicating as He testified beforehand the sufferings that would be inflicted on Christ and the glories that would follow them. ¹² It was revealed to them that they were not ministering these things to themselves, but to you; which things have now been announced to you by those who proclaimed the gospel to you, with the Holy Spirit sent from heaven—things that angels really desire to look into.

²⁰ who was foreknown indeed before the foundation of the world, but was revealed in these last times for your sake, 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.

²² who is at the right hand of God, having gone into heaven, angels and authorities and powers having been made subject to Him.

¹⁷ Because the time has come for judgment to begin at God’s house; now if it starts with us, what will be the end of those who keep disobeying the Gospel of God? ¹⁸ Also, ‘If the righteous one is saved with difficulty, where will the godless and sinful person appear?’

¹ The elders who are among you I exhort, I, the fellow elder and witness of Christ’s sufferings; also the partaker of the glory that is to be revealed:

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.

¹² So then, I will not neglect to keep reminding you about these things, though you know and are established in the present truth. ¹³ Yes, I think it right to stir you up by a reminder, as long as I am in this ‘tent’,

¹⁵ Moreover I will take pains to provide a reminder of these things for you to have, as needed, after my exit.

⁹ —then the Lord knows how to deliver the godly out of temptations and to reserve the unjust under punishment for the day of judgment,

¹ Dear ones, this is now a second letter I am writing to you (in both of which I stir up your sincere mind by way of reminder),

¹³ Nevertheless, we look for new heavens and a new earth in which dwells righteousness, according to His promise.

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

¹ Consider how great a love the Father has bestowed on us that we should be called children of God! The world does not acknowledge us for this reason: it did not acknowledge Him. ² Dear ones, right now we are children of God and it has not yet been revealed what we shall be, but we know that when He is revealed we will be like Him, because we will see Him just as He is

⁸ He who keeps doing sin is of the devil, because the devil has been sinning from the beginning. The Son of God was manifested for this purpose: to undo the devil’s works. 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. ¹⁰ In this the children of God and the children of the devil are distinguished: whoever isn’t doing righteousness is not of God, also whoever isn’t loving his brother.

⁹ God’s love was made real within us by this: God sent His only begotten Son into the world in order that we might live through Him. ¹⁰ In this is the love, not that we loved God but that He loved us—He even sent His Son as the propitiation for our sins.

⁵ So I want to remind you, though you already know this, that the Lord delivered a people out of the land of Egypt yet later destroyed those who did not believe.

²⁴ Now to Him who is able to keep them from stumbling and to present them before His glorious presence without fault and with exultation—

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!

¹⁰ Do not fear any of the things that you are about to suffer: Take note, the devil is really about to throw some of you into prison, so that you may be tested, and you will have an affliction of ten days. Stay faithful until death and I will give you the crown of life.

¹⁰ Because you have kept my command to endure, I also will keep you from the hour of the testing that is about to come upon the whole inhabited earth, to test those who dwell on the earth.

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;

¹¹ And I looked, and I heard as it were the voice of many angels, around the throne and the living beings and the elders. And their number was ten thousand times ten thousand and a thousand thousands, 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!” ¹³ And every creature which is in the heaven and upon the earth and under the earth, and those upon the sea, and everything in them—I heard them all saying: “To Him who sits upon the throne and to the Lamb: the blessing and the honor and the glory and the power for ever and ever! Amen!!”

¹⁶ And they said to the mountains and the rocks, “Fall on us and hide us from the face of Him who sits on the throne and from the wrath of the Lamb! ¹⁷ Because the great day of His wrath has come, and who is able to stand?”

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. ¹⁰ And they shouted with a loud voice saying, “Saved by our God who sits on the throne, and by the Lamb!”

¹⁵ So the seventh angel trumpeted, and there were loud voices in heaven saying, “The kingdom of the world has become the kingdom of our Lord and of His Christ, and He shall reign forever and ever.”

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.

¹² Now His eyes were a flame of fire and on His head were many diadems, having names written, besides a written name that no one knows except Himself;

² And he seized the dragon, the ancient serpent, who is a slanderer, even Satan, who deceives the whole inhabited earth, and bound him for a thousand years;