Luke 4 Cross References - Williams

¹ Then Jesus, full of the Holy Spirit, returned from the Jordan, and for forty days He was led about in the desert under the Spirit's guidance, ² while He was being tempted by the devil. During that time He ate nothing, and so at the end of it He felt hungry. ³ Then the devil said to Him, "If you are God's Son, order this stone to turn to a loaf of bread." ⁴ But Jesus answered him, "The Scripture says, 'Not on bread alone does man live.'" ⁵ Then he took Him up and in a second of time he showed Him all the kingdoms of the world. ⁶ And the devil said to Him, "I will give you all this power and all their splendor, for it has been turned over to me, and I give it to anyone I please. ⁷ So if you will worship before me just once, it shall all be yours." ⁸ But Jesus answered him, "The Scripture says, 'You must worship the Lord your God, and serve Him alone.'" ⁹ Then he took Him to Jerusalem, and had Him stand on the tip-top turret of the temple, and said to Him, "If you are God's Son, throw yourself down from here, ¹⁰ for the Scripture says, 'He will give His angels directions about you, to protect you,' ¹¹ and, 'They will bear you up on their hands, so that you will never strike your foot against a stone.'" ¹² And Jesus answered him, "It has been said, 'You must not try the Lord your God.'" ¹³ After the devil had finished every sort of temptation, he left Him till another time. ¹⁴ Then Jesus in the power of the Spirit returned to Galilee, and news of Him spread all over the surrounding country. ¹⁵ Meanwhile He began to teach in their synagogues, and was continuously receiving praise from all. ¹⁶ So He came to Nazareth where He had been brought up, and as His habit was on the Sabbath, He went to the synagogue and stood up to read. ¹⁷ The roll of the prophet Isaiah was handed to Him, and He unrolled it and found the place where it was written: ¹⁸ "The Spirit of the Lord is upon me, for He has consecrated me to preach the good news to the poor; He has sent me to announce release to captives and recovery of sight to the blind; to send the downtrodden away in liberty and ¹⁹ to announce the year of favor from the Lord." ²⁰ Then He rolled up the roll and gave it back to the attendant and took His seat. Now the eyes of everyone in the synagogue were gazing at Him. ²¹ Then He began to speak to them, "Today this Scripture has been fulfilled here in your hearing." ²² So they all began to speak well of Him and to wonder at the gracious words that fell from His lips, and yet they continued to say, "Is He not Joseph's son?" ²³ He said to them, "Doubtless you will quote this proverb to me, 'Doctor, cure yourself! Do the things here in your hometown that we hear you did in Capernaum.'" ²⁴ He added, "I solemnly say to you, no prophet is welcome in his native neighborhood. ²⁵ But in truth I tell you, there were many widows in Israel in Elijah's time, when the heaven was closed for three years and a half, and there was a great famine over all the land, ²⁶ and yet Elijah was not sent to a single one of them except to a widow at Zarephath in Sidon. ²⁷ And there were many lepers in Israel in Elisha's time, and yet not one of them was cured except Naaman the Syrian." ²⁸ Then all the people in the synagogue, on hearing these things, were filled with fury, ²⁹ and they rose up and drove Him out of town and took Him to the brow of the hill on which their town was built, to hurl Him down the cliff. ³⁰ But He Himself passed through the midst of them and went on His way. ³¹ So He came down to Capernaum, a city in Galilee. And He continued to teach them on the Sabbath, ³² and they were completely astounded, because His message was spoken with authority. ³³ Now there was a man in the synagogue who was under the power of the spirit of a foul demon, and he screamed with a loud voice, ³⁴ "Ha! What do you want of us, Jesus, you Nazarene? Have you come to destroy us? I know who you are. You are God's Holy One." ³⁵ But Jesus reproved him, saying "Be quiet! Get out of him at once!" So the demon threw the man down in the midst of them and came out of him without doing him any harm. ³⁶ Amazement then seized them all and they continued to talk it over among themselves, and to say, "What does this message mean? For with authority and power He gives orders to foul spirits, and they come out." ³⁷ And so news of Him continued to spread to every place in the surrounding region. ³⁸ Then He rose to leave the synagogue, and He went to Simon's house. And Simon's mother-in-law was in the grip of a burning fever; so they asked Him about her. ³⁹ Then He took His stand by her and reproved the fever, and it left her. She got up at once and began to wait on them. ⁴⁰ As the sun was setting, all who had friends sick with various diseases brought them to Him. Then He continued to lay His hands upon them one by one and cured them. ⁴¹ Even demons came out of many people, shrieking and saying, "You are the Son of God!" But He reproved them and would not let them speak, because they knew that He was the Christ. ⁴² As day broke He left the house and went to a lonely spot, and the crowds continued to look for Him; they overtook Him, and tried to keep Him from leaving them. ⁴³ But He said to them, "To other towns also I must preach the good news of the kingdom of God, for that is what I was sent to do." ⁴⁴ So He continued to preach in the synagogues of Judea.

¹¹ and went into the house and saw the child with His mother, Mary; and they fell at His feet and worshiped Him. They opened up their treasure sacks and presented Him with gifts of gold, frankincense, and myrrh.

²³ He went to a town called Nazareth and made his home there, so that the saying of the prophet was fulfilled: "He shall be called a Nazarene."

¹⁶ And as soon as Jesus was baptized, He at once went up out of the water, and look! the heavens opened, and John saw the Spirit of God coming down like a dove upon Him,

¹ Then Jesus was guided by the Spirit into the desert, to be tempted by the devil. ² After fasting forty days and forty nights, He at last felt hungry.

² After fasting forty days and forty nights, He at last felt hungry. ³ And the tempter came up and said to Him, "If you are God's Son, order these stones to turn to bread."

³ And the tempter came up and said to Him, "If you are God's Son, order these stones to turn to bread." ⁴ But he answered, "The Scripture says, 'Not on bread alone can man live, but on every word that comes from the mouth of God.'"

⁴ But he answered, "The Scripture says, 'Not on bread alone can man live, but on every word that comes from the mouth of God.'" ⁵ Then the devil took Him into the holy city, and had Him stand on the tip-top turret of the temple,

⁵ Then the devil took Him into the holy city, and had Him stand on the tip-top turret of the temple, ⁶ and said to Him, "If you are God's Son, throw yourself down, for the Scripture says: "'He will give His angels directions about you, And they will bear you up on their hands, so you will never strike your foot against a stone.'"

⁶ and said to Him, "If you are God's Son, throw yourself down, for the Scripture says: "'He will give His angels directions about you, And they will bear you up on their hands, so you will never strike your foot against a stone.'" ⁷ Jesus said to him, "Again the Scripture says, 'You must not try the Lord your God.'"

⁷ Jesus said to him, "Again the Scripture says, 'You must not try the Lord your God.'" ⁸ Again the devil took him up on a very high mountain, and showed Him all the kingdoms of the world, and their splendor,

⁸ Again the devil took him up on a very high mountain, and showed Him all the kingdoms of the world, and their splendor, ⁹ and said to Him, "Every bit of this I will give to you, if you will fall on your knees and worship me." ¹⁰ Then Jesus said to him, "Be gone, Satan! For the Scripture says, 'You must worship the Lord your God, and serve Him alone.'"

¹⁰ Then Jesus said to him, "Be gone, Satan! For the Scripture says, 'You must worship the Lord your God, and serve Him alone.'" ¹¹ Then the devil left Him, and angels came and continued to wait upon Him.

¹¹ Then the devil left Him, and angels came and continued to wait upon Him. ¹² Now when Jesus heard that John had been arrested, He set out for Galilee. ¹³ But He left Nazareth and made His home in Capernaum, by the sea, in the district of Zebulon and Naphtali,

¹⁶ The people that were living in darkness have seen a great light, and on those that were living in the land of the shadow of death; a light has dawned."

²³ Then He went all over Galilee, as He continued teaching in their synagogues, preaching the good news of the kingdom, and curing any disease or malady among the people.

²³ Then He went all over Galilee, as He continued teaching in their synagogues, preaching the good news of the kingdom, and curing any disease or malady among the people.

²³ Then He went all over Galilee, as He continued teaching in their synagogues, preaching the good news of the kingdom, and curing any disease or malady among the people. ²⁴ So the news about Him spread all over Syria, and people brought to Him all who were sick with various diseases, especially those who were suffering with torturing diseases; and he cured them.

²⁴ So the news about Him spread all over Syria, and people brought to Him all who were sick with various diseases, especially those who were suffering with torturing diseases; and he cured them. ²⁵ So great crowds followed Him, from Galilee and Decapolis, from Jerusalem and Judea, and from the other side of Jordan.

¹ When He saw the crowds, He went up on the mountain. After He had taken His seat, His disciples came up to Him. ² Then He opened His mouth and continued to teach them as follows: ³ "Blessed are those who feel poor in spiritual things, for the kingdom of heaven belongs to them.

²⁵ So I tell you, stop worrying about your life, as to what you will have to eat or drink, or about your body, as to what you will have to wear. Is not life worth more than food and the body worth more than clothes? ²⁶ Take a good look at the wild birds, for they do not sow or reap, or store up food in barns, and yet your heavenly Father keeps on feeding them. Are you not worth more than they?

³¹ So never worry and say, 'What are we going to have to eat? What are we going to have to drink? What are we going to have to wear?'

²⁸ When Jesus had closed this address, the result was that the crowds were dumbfounded at His teaching, ²⁹ for He was teaching them as one who had authority to teach, and not as their scribes did.

¹⁴ When He went into Peter's house, He saw his mother-in-law lying in bed sick with fever. ¹⁵ He touched her hand, the fever left her, and she got up and began to wait on Him. ¹⁶ When evening had come, they brought to Him many who were under the power of demons, and at a mere word He drove the spirits out, and cured all who were sick, ¹⁷ and so fulfilled what was spoken by Isaiah the prophet, "He took our sicknesses and bore away our diseases."

²⁶ And He said to them, "Why are you afraid, O you with little faith?" Then He got up and rebuked the winds and the sea, and there was a great calm.

²⁹ And they suddenly screamed, "What do you want of us, you Son of God? Have you come here before the appointed time to torture us?"

⁸ And the crowds saw it, and were stricken with awe, and gave praise to God for giving such power to men.

²⁶ And the news about her spread all over that country. ²⁷ As Jesus was passing along from there, two blind men followed Him, shouting, "Do pity us, O Son of David!" ²⁸ After He had gone into the house, and the blind men had gone up to Him, Jesus said to them, "Do you really believe that I can do this?" They said to Him, "Yes, Lord." ²⁹ Then He touched their eyes, and said, "In accordance with your faith it must be done for you." ³⁰ And their eyes received strength to see. Then Jesus sternly charged them, "See that nobody knows it."

³³ and after the demon had been driven out, the dumb man could talk. So the crowds were dumbfounded, saying, "Never before among the Jews was anything like this?

³⁵ Jesus kept visiting all the towns and villages, teaching in their synagogues, preaching the good news of the kingdom, and curing every sort of sickness and ailment.

²³ But whenever they persecute you in one town, flee to a different one. For I solemnly say to you, you will not cover all the towns of Israel before the Son of Man returns.

⁵ the blind are seeing and the crippled are walking, the lepers are being healed and the deaf are hearing, the dead are being raised and the poor are having the good news preached to them.

²¹ "A curse on you, Chorazin! A curse on you, Bethsaida! For if the wonder-works done in you had been done in Tyre and Sidon, long ago they would have repented in sackcloth and ashes.

²³ And you, Capernaum, are you to be exalted to heaven? No, you belong to the regions of the dead! For if the wonder-works done in you had been done in Sodom, it would have continued until today. ²⁴ But I tell you, on the day of judgment the punishment will be lighter for the land of Sodom than for you!"

⁴ How he went into the house of God, and they ate the sacred loaves, which it was against the law for him or his soldiers to eat, or for anyone except the priests?

²⁰ A broken reed He will not break off; a flickering wick He will not put out, until He brings His judgment to victory.

²² At that time some people brought to Him a man under the power of demons, who was blind and dumb, and He cured him, so that the dumb man could talk and see. ²³ And all the crowds of people were dumbfounded, and began to say, "He is by no means the Son of David, is He?"

¹ That same day Jesus went out of His house and was sitting on the seashore. ² And the crowds that gathered about Him were so great that He got into a boat and remained sitting in it, while all the crowd stood on the seashore.

¹⁴ So in them the prophecy of the prophet Isaiah is fulfilled, which says: "'You will listen and listen and not understand, and you will look and look and never see at all,

⁵⁴ He went to His own home town, and kept teaching in their synagogue in such a way that they were dumbfounded, and said, "Where did He get this wisdom and this power to do such wonder-works?

⁵⁴ He went to His own home town, and kept teaching in their synagogue in such a way that they were dumbfounded, and said, "Where did He get this wisdom and this power to do such wonder-works?

⁵⁴ He went to His own home town, and kept teaching in their synagogue in such a way that they were dumbfounded, and said, "Where did He get this wisdom and this power to do such wonder-works? ⁵⁵ Is He not the carpenter's son? Is not His mother's name Mary, are not His brothers James, Joseph, Simon and Judas?

⁵⁵ Is He not the carpenter's son? Is not His mother's name Mary, are not His brothers James, Joseph, Simon and Judas? ⁵⁶ And are not His sisters all living here with us? Where then did He get all these things?" ⁵⁷ And so they found a cause for stumbling over Him. But Jesus said to them, "A prophet never fails to be honored except in his native neighborhood and in his own home." And so

¹³ When Jesus heard it, He left there in a boat for a quiet place, to be alone. And when the crowds heard of it, they followed Him on foot from the towns.

¹³ When Jesus heard it, He left there in a boat for a quiet place, to be alone. And when the crowds heard of it, they followed Him on foot from the towns. ¹⁴ So when He got out of the boat and saw a great crowd, His heart was moved with pity for them, and He cured their sick people.

²³ But He did not answer her a word. And His disciples came up and kept begging Him, "Send her away, for she keeps on screaming after us."

²³ But He turned and said to Peter, "Get out of my way, you Satan! You are a hindrance to me, for this view of yours is not from God but from men."

¹⁸ And Jesus reproved the demon, and it came out of him, and the boy was cured that very moment.

¹⁵ Have I not the right to do what I please with my own money? Or, is your eye causing you to be covetous, because I am generous?

²⁶ It is not to be so among you, but whoever wants to be great among you must be your servant, ²⁷ and whoever wants to hold first position among you must be your slave, ²⁸ just as the Son of Man has come, not to be served but to serve, and to give His life a ransom price to set many free."

¹⁸ Early next morning when He returned to the city, He felt hungry.

¹⁴ And this good news of the kingdom must be preached all over the inhabited world, for a testimony to all the heathen, and then the end will come.

⁵⁵ At that time Jesus said to the crowds: "Have you come out with swords and clubs to arrest me, as though I were a robber? Day after day I used to sit teaching in the temple, and you never laid hands on me.

⁶³ But Jesus kept silent. So the high priest said to Him, "I charge you, on your oath, in the name of the living God, tell us whether you are the Christ, the Son of God."

¹² Then the Spirit at once drove Him out into the desert. ¹³ And He stayed in the desert forty days, while He was being tempted by Satan; yea, He was with the wild beasts, but the angels continued to wait upon Him. ¹⁴ Now after John was arrested, Jesus went into Galilee, proclaiming the good news of God:

¹⁴ Now after John was arrested, Jesus went into Galilee, proclaiming the good news of God: ¹⁵ "The time is ripe and the kingdom of God is near; repent and believe in the good news."

²¹ They went into Capernaum, and as soon as the first Sabbath came, He went into the synagogue and began to teach. ²² And they were dumbfounded at His teaching, for He was teaching them like one who had authority to teach, and not like the scribes.

²² And they were dumbfounded at His teaching, for He was teaching them like one who had authority to teach, and not like the scribes. ²³ Just at that moment there was a man in their synagogue who was under the spell of a foul spirit, and so he screamed,

²³ Just at that moment there was a man in their synagogue who was under the spell of a foul spirit, and so he screamed, ²⁴ "What do you want of us, Jesus, you Nazarene? Have you come to destroy us? I know who you are, God's Holy One!"

²⁴ "What do you want of us, Jesus, you Nazarene? Have you come to destroy us? I know who you are, God's Holy One!" ²⁵ Jesus reproved him, saying, "Hush up, get out of him!"

²⁵ Jesus reproved him, saying, "Hush up, get out of him!" ²⁶ Then the foul spirit convulsed him and with a deafening shriek got out of him.

²⁶ Then the foul spirit convulsed him and with a deafening shriek got out of him. ²⁷ They were all so dumbfounded that they kept discussing it among themselves, and asking, "What does this mean? It is a new teaching. He gives orders with authority even to foul spirits, and they obey Him."

²⁷ They were all so dumbfounded that they kept discussing it among themselves, and asking, "What does this mean? It is a new teaching. He gives orders with authority even to foul spirits, and they obey Him." ²⁸ And His fame at once spread in all directions all over that part of Galilee.

²⁸ And His fame at once spread in all directions all over that part of Galilee. ²⁹ As soon as they left the synagogue, they went home with Simon and Andrew, in company with James and John. ³⁰ And Simon's mother-in-law was confined to her bed with a fever. So they at once told Him about her. ³¹ Then He went up to her, grasped her hand, and had her get up. The fever left her, and she began to wait upon them. ³² In the evening, when the sun had gone down, they kept on bringing to Him all the people who were sick or under the power of demons, ³³ and the whole town gathered at the door. ³⁴ And He cured many who were sick with various diseases, and drove out many demons, and would not let the demons speak a word, because they knew who He was.

³⁴ And He cured many who were sick with various diseases, and drove out many demons, and would not let the demons speak a word, because they knew who He was. ³⁵ Early in the morning, long before daybreak, He got up and went out to a lonely spot, and stayed praying there. ³⁶ And Simon and his companions diligently searched for Him ³⁷ and found Him, and said to Him, "Everybody is looking for you." ³⁸ And He said to them, "Let us go somewhere else, to the neighboring towns, to preach in them, too, for that is why I came out here."

³⁸ And He said to them, "Let us go somewhere else, to the neighboring towns, to preach in them, too, for that is why I came out here." ³⁹ So He went all over Galilee, preaching in their synagogues and driving out demons.

³⁹ So He went all over Galilee, preaching in their synagogues and driving out demons.

⁴⁵ But he went out and began to publish it so much and to spread the story so far, that Jesus could not any more go into any town openly, but had to stay out in thinly settled places. But the people kept coming to Him from every quarter.

¹ After some days He came back to Capernaum, and it was reported that He was at home, ² and so many people gathered there that there was no longer any room even around the door. He was telling them His message. ³ Then four men came bringing to Him a paralyzed man. ⁴ And as they could not get him near to Jesus, on account of the crowd, they dug through the roof over the spot where He was standing and let the pallet down that the paralyzed man was lying on. ⁵ When Jesus saw their faith, He said to the paralyzed man, "My son, your sins are forgiven." ⁶ Some scribes were sitting there arguing and saying to themselves, ⁷ "Why is He talking this way? He is blaspheming. Who can forgive sins but God alone?" ⁸ Now Jesus at once felt in His spirit that they were arguing about this, and said, "Why are you arguing to yourselves about this? ⁹ Which is easier, to say to the paralyzed man, 'Your sins are forgiven,' or to say to him, 'Get up, pick up your pallet and start walking!" ¹⁰ But to show you that the Son of Man has authority to forgive sins on earth," turning to the paralyzed man He said, ¹¹ "I tell you, get up, pick up your pallet, and go home." ¹² Then he got up and at once picked up his pallet, and went out before them all. The result was that they were all dumbfounded and began to praise God and say, "We have never seen anything like this before."

¹⁰ For He cured so many people that all who had ailments kept crowding up against Him to touch Him. ¹¹ And whenever the foul spirits saw Him, they fell down before Him and screamed, "You are the Son of God."

¹¹ And whenever the foul spirits saw Him, they fell down before Him and screamed, "You are the Son of God." ¹² But He charged them time after time not to tell who He was.

⁸ Some fell in rich soil, and came up and grew and yielded thirty, sixty, even a hundredfold." ⁹ And He said, "Let him who has ears listen!"

⁷ and screamed aloud, "What do you want of me, Jesus, Son of the Most High God? In God's name, I beg you, do not torture me."

²³ and kept earnestly begging Him, saying, "My dear little daughter is at the point of death. Come, lay your hands on her, so that she may get well and live."

¹ He left there and went back to His hometown, and His disciples followed Him.

¹ He left there and went back to His hometown, and His disciples followed Him. ² When the Sabbath came, He began to teach in the synagogue. And the people were dumbfounded when they heard Him, and said, "Where did He get all these things? What sort of wisdom is it that has been given Him? And such mighty deeds are done by Him! ³ Is He not the carpenter, Mary's son, and the brother of James, Joses, Judas, and Simon? And do not His sisters live here among us?" And so they found a cause for stumbling over him. ⁴ But Jesus said to them, "A prophet never fails to be honored except in his native neighborhood, among his kinsmen, and in his own home." ⁵ He could not do any mighty deeds there, except that He put His hands on a few ailing people and cured them.

⁵ He could not do any mighty deeds there, except that He put His hands on a few ailing people and cured them.

¹⁴ King Herod heard of Him, for His name was now on everybody's lips, and people were saying that John the Baptist had risen from the dead, and that this was why such mighty powers were working in Him.

³³ But many people saw them start and knew of it and ran around the lake from all the towns and got there ahead of them. ³⁴ So when He got out of the boat, He saw a great crowd waiting, and His heart was moved with pity at the sight of them, for they were like sheep without a shepherd; and so He proceeded to teach them a number of things.

⁵⁵ and hurried all over the countryside and began to bring the sick to Him on their pallets, wherever they heard He was. ⁵⁶ And whatever villages or towns or country places He came to, they would lay the sick in the market-places and beg Him to let them touch just the tassel of His coat, and everybody that touched it was cured.

²⁶ She was a heathen who spoke Greek and had been born in Syro-Phenicia. And she kept begging Him to drive the demon out of her daughter. ²⁷ But He was saying to her, "Let the children first eat all they want, for it is not right to take the children's bread and throw it out to the house dogs." ²⁸ But she answered Him, "Yes, Lord, and yet the house dogs under the table usually eat the crumbs the children drop." ²⁹ Then He said to her, "Because you have said this, go home; the demon has gone out of your daughter."

³⁷ So the people were overwhelmingly dumbfounded, and kept saying, "How wonderfully He has done everything! He even makes deaf people hear and dumb people talk."

²⁶ Then it gave a shriek and violently convulsed the boy, and got out of him. And the boy looked like a corpse, so much so that the people said that he was dead.

¹⁷ And the following signs will attend those who believe: By using my name they will drive out demons; they will speak in foreign languages; ¹⁸ they will take snakes in their hands; even if they drink anything poisonous, it will not hurt them; they will lay their hands on the sick, and they will get well." ¹⁹ So the Lord Jesus, after He had spoken to them, was caught up into heaven and took His seat at God's right hand. ²⁰ Then they went out and preached everywhere, while the Lord kept on working with them and confirming their message by the signs that attended it.

²⁶ Now in the sixth month the angel Gabriel was sent by God to a town in Galilee called Nazareth, ²⁷ to a virgin there engaged to be married to a man named Joseph, a descendant of David; and the virgin's name was Mary.

³⁵ Then the angel answered her, "The Holy Spirit will come upon you, and the power of the Most High will overshadow you, and so your child will be called holy, the Son of God.

²⁷ So under the Spirit's guidance he went into the temple, and when the parents brought the child Jesus there to do for Him as the custom of the law required,

³⁹ Now when they had completed everything that was in accordance with the law of the Lord, they returned to Galilee, to their own town of Nazareth.

⁴² And when He was twelve years old, they went up as usual to the feast

⁴⁷ Now everyone who was listening to Him was showing astonishment at His intelligence and at His answers.

⁵¹ So He went back to Nazareth with them and continued to obey them. But His mother continued to treasure up all these sayings in her heart.

³ And he went all over the Jordan valley, preaching a baptism conditioned on repentance to obtain the forgiveness of sins,

²¹ Now when all the people had been baptized, and when Jesus had been baptized and was still praying, heaven opened ²² and the Holy Spirit came down upon Him in bodily form as a dove, and a voice came out of heaven, "You are my Son, my Beloved! In you I am delighted!"

²² and the Holy Spirit came down upon Him in bodily form as a dove, and a voice came out of heaven, "You are my Son, my Beloved! In you I am delighted!"

³ Then the devil said to Him, "If you are God's Son, order this stone to turn to a loaf of bread." ⁴ But Jesus answered him, "The Scripture says, 'Not on bread alone does man live.'"

⁸ But Jesus answered him, "The Scripture says, 'You must worship the Lord your God, and serve Him alone.'"

¹⁰ for the Scripture says, 'He will give His angels directions about you, to protect you,'

¹⁴ Then Jesus in the power of the Spirit returned to Galilee, and news of Him spread all over the surrounding country. ¹⁵ Meanwhile He began to teach in their synagogues, and was continuously receiving praise from all. ¹⁶ So He came to Nazareth where He had been brought up, and as His habit was on the Sabbath, He went to the synagogue and stood up to read. ¹⁷ The roll of the prophet Isaiah was handed to Him, and He unrolled it and found the place where it was written: ¹⁸ "The Spirit of the Lord is upon me, for He has consecrated me to preach the good news to the poor; He has sent me to announce release to captives and recovery of sight to the blind; to send the downtrodden away in liberty and

²¹ Then He began to speak to them, "Today this Scripture has been fulfilled here in your hearing."

²³ He said to them, "Doubtless you will quote this proverb to me, 'Doctor, cure yourself! Do the things here in your hometown that we hear you did in Capernaum.'"

³² and they were completely astounded, because His message was spoken with authority.

³⁴ "Ha! What do you want of us, Jesus, you Nazarene? Have you come to destroy us? I know who you are. You are God's Holy One." ³⁵ But Jesus reproved him, saying "Be quiet! Get out of him at once!" So the demon threw the man down in the midst of them and came out of him without doing him any harm.

³⁵ But Jesus reproved him, saying "Be quiet! Get out of him at once!" So the demon threw the man down in the midst of them and came out of him without doing him any harm. ³⁶ Amazement then seized them all and they continued to talk it over among themselves, and to say, "What does this message mean? For with authority and power He gives orders to foul spirits, and they come out." ³⁷ And so news of Him continued to spread to every place in the surrounding region.

³⁹ Then He took His stand by her and reproved the fever, and it left her. She got up at once and began to wait on them.

⁴¹ Even demons came out of many people, shrieking and saying, "You are the Son of God!" But He reproved them and would not let them speak, because they knew that He was the Christ.

³ So He got into one of the boats, which belonged to Simon, and asked him to push out a little from the shore. Then He sat down and continued to teach the crowds from the boat.

¹¹ But they were filled with fury and began to discuss what they could do to Jesus. ¹² Now it was in those days that He went up on the mountain to pray, and He spent the whole night in prayer to God.

²⁰ Then He fixed His eyes upon His disciples, and began to speak. "Blessed are you who are poor, for the kingdom of God is yours!

⁴² How can you say to your brother, 'Brother, let me get that tiny speck out of your eye,' when you cannot see the girder in your own eye? You hypocrite! First get the girder out of your own eye, and then you will see clearly how to get out the tiny speck in your brother's eye.

³ When the captain heard about Jesus, he sent some Jewish elders to Him, to ask Him to come and bring his slave safe through the illness. ⁴ So they went to Jesus and continued to urge Him earnestly, saying, "He deserves that you do this for him,

²¹ At that very hour He cured many people of diseases and scourges and evil spirits, and graciously granted sight to many blind persons. ²² And so He answered them, "Go and report to John what you have seen and heard: The blind are seeing and the crippled are walking, the lepers are being healed and the deaf are hearing, the dead are being raised and the poor are having the good news preached to them.

²² And so He answered them, "Go and report to John what you have seen and heard: The blind are seeing and the crippled are walking, the lepers are being healed and the deaf are hearing, the dead are being raised and the poor are having the good news preached to them. ²³ And happy is the man who finds no cause for stumbling over me."

² and some women who had been cured of evil spirits and diseases: Mary, who was called Mary of Magdala, out of whom seven demons had gone, ³ and Joanna, the wife of Chuza, Herod's household manager, and Susanna, and many other women, who continued to contribute to their needs out of their personal means.

²⁴ So they came to Him and woke Him up, and said, "Master, Master, we are perishing? Then He aroused Himself and reproved the wind and the surge of the water, and they stopped at once and instantly there came a calm.

²⁸ When he saw Jesus, he screamed and flung himself down before Him, and said in a loud voice, "What do you want of me, Jesus, Son of the Most High God? I beg you not to torture me!"

³⁷ Then all the inhabitants of the country around Gerasa asked Him to go away from them, because they were terribly frightened. So He got into a boat and went back.

³⁷ Then all the inhabitants of the country around Gerasa asked Him to go away from them, because they were terribly frightened. So He got into a boat and went back. ³⁸ The man out of whom the demons had gone begged Him to let him go with Him, but Jesus sent him away and said,

³⁹ all at once a spirit seizes him, and he suddenly screams, and it convulses him until he foams at the mouth, and in a struggle it bruises him and then leaves him.

⁴² Even while the boy was coming to Him, the demon dashed him down and convulsed him, but Jesus reproved the foul spirit and cured the boy and gave back to his father.

¹⁷ Now the seventy returned and joyously reported, "Lord, even the demons are submitting to us in your name." ¹⁸ He said to them, "I was looking at Satan failing like a flash of lightning from heaven. ¹⁹ Listen! I have given you power to tread on snakes and scorpions, and to trample on all the power of the enemy, and nothing at all will ever harm you. ²⁰ However, you must stop rejoicing over the fact that the spirits are submitting to you, but continue to rejoice that your names are enrolled in heaven." ²¹ At that very moment, by the power of the Holy Spirit, He exulted and said, "I thank you, Father, Lord of heaven and earth, for concealing these matters from wise and learned men, and for revealing them to little children. Yes, Father, I thank you that your good pleasure made it so.

²³ Then He turned to His disciples when they were alone, and said, "Blessed are the eyes that see what you are seeing. ²⁴ For I tell you, many prophets and kings have wished to see what you are seeing, but they did not, and to hear what you are hearing, but they did not."

²² But when a man stronger than he attacks him and overcomes him, he strips him of all his arms on which he relied, and distributes his goods as spoils.

⁵³ After He left the house, the scribes and the Pharisees began to be violently enraged against Him and to try to draw Him out on many subjects, ⁵⁴ plotting, as if in ambush, to entrap Him in something that might fall from His lips.

¹⁰ One Sabbath He was teaching in one of the synagogues,

¹⁶ and fell on his face at Jesus' feet, and continued to thank Him. Now he was a Samaritan.

⁴² and said: "If today you yourself had only known the conditions of peace! But now they are hidden from you.

⁴⁸ but they could not find, as hard as they tried, what to do with Him, for all the people continued to hang on His words.

⁴² For David himself in the Book of Psalms says: 'The Lord has said to my Lord, "Sit at my right hand,

¹⁵ for I will give you such wisdom of speech as all your opponents combined will not be able to resist and refute.

³⁵ Then He said to them, "When I sent you out without purse or bag or shoes, you did not need anything, did you?" They answered, "Nothing at all."

²⁹ but they earnestly urged Him, and said, "Stop and stay with us, for it is getting toward evening and the day is nearly spent." So He went in to stay with them.

³² Then John gave this testimony: "I saw the Spirit coming down from heaven like a dove, and it remained on Him.

⁴¹ He first found his brother Simon and said to him, "We have found the Messiah" (which means, the Christ).

³ When the wine was all gone, Jesus' mother said to Him, "They have no wine!" ⁴ Jesus said to her, "Woman, what have you to do with me? My time to act has not yet come."

³⁴ For He whom God has sent continues to speak the words of God, for God continues to give Him the Spirit without measure.

⁶ and Jacob's spring was there. So Jesus, tired from His journey, was sitting by the spring just as He was. It was about noon.

²⁵ The woman said to Him, "I know that the Messiah is coming, the One who is called the Christ. When He comes, He will tell us everything." ²⁶ Jesus said to her, "I, the very one who is talking to you, am He!"

²⁸ The woman then left her pitcher and went back to town and said to the people,

³⁴ Jesus said to them, "My food is to do the will of Him who sent me, and to finish His work.

⁴⁰ So when the Samaritans came to Jesus, they kept on urging Him to stay with them; so He did stay there two days. ⁴¹ Then a much larger number believed in Him because of what He said Himself,

⁴³ After the two days were over, Jesus left there and went on to Galilee, ⁴⁴ for He Himself declared that a prophet had no honor in his own country.

⁴⁶ So He came back to Cana in Galilee where He had turned the water into wine. Now there was at Capernaum an officer of the king's court whose son was sick. ⁴⁷ When he heard that Jesus had come back from Judea to Galilee, he went to Him and began to beg Him to come down and cure his son, for he was at the point of death. ⁴⁸ Then Jesus said to him, "Unless you see signs and wonders, you will never believe." ⁴⁹ The king's officer pleaded with Him, "Sir, come down at once before my child is dead!" ⁵⁰ Jesus said to him, "You may go; your son is going to live." The man believed what Jesus said to him and started home. ⁵¹ While he was still coming down, his slaves met him and told him, "Your boy is going to live." ⁵² So he asked them at what hour he began to get better, and they said to him, "Yesterday at one o'clock the fever left him." ⁵³ Then the father knew that that was the very hour when Jesus had said to him, "Your son is going to live." So he and his whole household believed in Jesus.

³⁹ "You keep on searching the Scriptures, for you yourselves suppose that you will get possession of eternal life through them; and yet they are witnesses that testify to me,

²⁴ So when the crowd saw that neither Jesus nor His disciples were there, they got into boats themselves and went to Capernaum to look for Jesus.

³⁸ because I have come down from heaven, not to do my own will but the will of Him who sent me. ³⁹ Now the will of Him who sent me is this, that I should lose none of all that He has given me, but should raise them to life on the last day. ⁴⁰ For it is my Father's will that everyone who sees the Son and believes in Him shall have eternal life, and that I shall raise him to life on the last day."

⁴² And they said, "Is He not Jesus, Joseph's son, whose father and mother we know? So how can He say, 'I have come down out of heaven'?"

⁶³ The Spirit is what gives life; the flesh does not help at all. The truths that I have told you are spirit and life.

³ So His brothers said to Him, "You must leave here and go to Judea, to let your disciples also see the works that you are doing; ⁴ for no one does anything in secret when he is trying to be known to the public. If you are going to do this, show yourself publicly to the world."

⁴⁶ The officers answered, "No man ever talked as He does!"

² Early the next morning, He had come into the temple again, and all the people were gathering around Him. Having sat down, He began to teach them.

³⁷ I know that you are Abraham's descendants, and yet you are trying to kill me, because there is no room in you for my teaching.

⁴⁰ But right now you are trying to kill me, a man who has told you the truth that He has learned from God. Abraham never did that.

⁴⁴ You sprang from the devil, your real father, and you want to practice your father's wishes. He was a murderer from the very start, and he does not stand by the truth, because there is no truth in him. When he tells a lie, he speaks out of his own nature, because he is a liar and the father of lies.

⁵⁹ At this the Jews took up stones to stone Him, but Jesus made His way out of the temple unperceived.

⁴ We must continue to do the works of Him who sent me while it is daylight. Night is coming when no one can do any work.

³⁹ Then Jesus said, "I have come into this world to judge people, so that those who do not see may see, and those who do see may become blind." ⁴⁰ Some of the Pharisees who were with Him heard this, and asked Him, "We are not blind, are we?" ⁴¹ Jesus answered them, "If you were blind, you would not be guilty, but now you keep on claiming, 'We can see'; so your sin remains."

³⁴ Jesus answered them, "Is it not written in your law, 'I said, "You are gods"'? ³⁵ If men to whom God's message came are called gods -- and the Scriptures cannot be made null and void --

³⁹ Once more they were trying to arrest Him, but He escaped from their hands.

³ So the sisters sent this message to Jesus, "Lord, listen! the one you love so well is sick."

²² But even now I know that whatever you ask God for He will give you."

³¹ This world is now in process of judgment; the prince of this world is now to be expelled.

⁴⁶ I have come as light into the world, so that no one who continues to believe in me can remain in darkness.

³⁰ "I shall not talk much more with you, for the evil ruler of this world is coming and he has nothing in common with me,

²⁴ If I had not done things among them that no one else has ever done, they would not be guilty of sin. But now the fact is, they have seen and even hated both my Father and me. ²⁵ But this is so that the saying written in their law may be fulfilled, 'They hated me without a cause.'

¹² As long as I was with them, I kept them by your power which you gave me, and I protected them, and not one of them was lost, except the one who is now doomed to be lost, so that the Scripture might be fulfilled.

⁶ So when He said to them, "I am He," they took a lurch backward and fell to the ground. ⁷ So once more He asked them, "Who is it that you are looking for?" They said, "Jesus of Nazareth."

²⁰ Jesus answered him, "I have spoken publicly to the world; I have always taught in the synagogues and in the temple where all the Jews are in the habit of meeting, and I have not spoken anything in secret.

²¹ Jesus again said to them, "Peace be with you! Just as my Father has sent me forth, so I am now sending you."

³¹ But these have been recorded, in order that you may believe that Jesus is the Christ, the Son of God, and that through believing you may have life, as bearers of His name.

² up to the day when through the Holy Spirit He gave the apostles whom He had chosen their orders, and then was taken up to heaven.

¹⁶ But this is what was spoken by the prophet Joel: ¹⁷ 'It will occur in the last days, says God, that I will pour out my Spirit upon all mankind. Your sons and daughters will prophesy. Your young men will have visions. Your old men will have dreams. ¹⁸ Even on my slaves, both men and women, I will pour out my Spirit in those days, and they will become prophets.

²⁷ For you will not forsake my soul to Hades. Nor will you let your Holy One experience decay.

²⁹ "Brothers, I may confidently say to you about the patriarch David, that he died and was buried, and that his grave is here among us to this very day. ³⁰ So, as he was a prophet and knew that God with an oath had promised to put one of his descendants on his throne, ³¹ he foresaw the resurrection of the Christ and told of it, for He was not forsaken to Hades, and His body did not undergo decay. ³² I mean Jesus whom God raised from the dead, to which fact we are all witnesses, ³³ So He has been exalted to God's right hand and has received from His Father, as promised, and poured out upon us the Holy Spirit, as you see and hear.

¹² When Peter saw this, he said to the people, "Fellow Israelites, why are you so surprised at this? Why do you keep staring at us, as though we had by our own power or piety made this man walk?

¹⁴ Yes, you disowned the Holy and Righteous One and asked a murderer to be pardoned as a favor to you,

¹⁸ But in this way God fulfilled what He by the lips of all the prophets foretold, that the Christ should suffer.

²⁷ "For in this city they actually met against your holy Servant Jesus, whom you had consecrated -- Herod and Pontius Pilate, with the heathen and the peoples of Israel,

¹⁵ so that they kept bringing out into the streets their sick ones and putting them on little couches or pallets, that at least the shadow of Peter, as he went by, might fall on some of them.

³³ When they heard this, they were furious, and wanted to kill them.

¹⁰ but they could not cope with his good practical sense and the spiritual power with which he usually spoke.

⁴² So God turned away from them and gave them over to worship the starry host, as it is written in the Book of the Prophets: 'Did you really offer me victims and sacrifices those forty years in the desert, O house of Israel?

⁵⁴ As they continued to listen to this address, they were becoming infuriated and began to grind their teeth at him.

⁵⁷ But they raised a great shout and held their ears, and all together rushed upon him, ⁵⁸ and dragged him out of the city and continued stoning him. The witnesses, in the meantime, laid their clothes at the feet of a young man named Saul.

³⁹ When they came up out of the water, the Spirit of the Lord suddenly took Philip away; the official saw him no more, for he went on home rejoicing;

³⁷ You know the story yourselves that spread all over Judea, beginning from Galilee after the baptism that John preached, ³⁸ how God consecrated Jesus of Nazareth with the Holy Spirit and power, and then He went about doing good and curing all who were overpowered by the devil, because God was with Him.

¹⁸ When morning came, there was no little commotion among the soldiers as to what had become of Peter.

¹⁴ but they went on from Perga and arrived at Antioch in Pisidia. On the sabbath they went to the synagogue and took seats. ¹⁵ After the reading of the law and the prophets, the leaders of the synagogue worship sent to them and said, "Brothers, if you have any message of encouragement for the people, you may speak."

¹⁵ After the reading of the law and the prophets, the leaders of the synagogue worship sent to them and said, "Brothers, if you have any message of encouragement for the people, you may speak." ¹⁶ Then Paul got up and motioned with his hand and said: "Fellow Israelites, and you who reverence God, listen!

²⁷ For the people of Jerusalem and their leaders, because they were ignorant of Him, by condemning Him have actually fulfilled the utterances of the prophets which are read every Sabbath,

⁵⁰ But the Jews stirred up the devout women of high rank and the men of first rank in town, and so started a persecution against Paul and Barnabas, and drove them out of their district.

⁶ they became aware of it and fled to the Lycaonian towns of Lystra and Derbe, and the surrounding country, ⁷ and there they continued to tell the good news.

¹⁹ But some Jews came from Antioch and Iconium, and won the crowds by persuasion, and they stoned Paul, and dragged him outside the town, supposing he was dead. ²⁰ But the disciples formed a circle about him, and he got up and went back to town. The next day he went on with Barnabas to Derbe. ²¹ They told the good news in that town, and after winning many disciples there, they returned to Lystra, Iconium, and Antioch,

¹³ On the sabbath we went outside the gate, to the bank of the river, where we supposed there was a place of prayer, and we sat down and began to talk with the women who had met there.

¹⁷ This girl kept following Paul and the rest of us, shrieking, "These men are slaves of the Most High God, and they are proclaiming to you a way of salvation." ¹⁸ She kept this up for a number of days. Because Paul was so much annoyed by her, he turned and said to the spirit in her, "In the name of Jesus Christ I order you to come out of her." And that very moment it came out.

²³ After flogging them severely, they put them into jail, and gave the jailer orders to keep close watch on them. ²⁴ Because he had such strict orders, he put them into the inner cell and fastened their feet in the stocks.

³⁹ and came and pleaded with them, and took them out and begged them to leave town.

¹ Now they traveled on through Amphipolis and Apollonia until they reached Thessalonica. Here there was a Jewish synagogue. ² So Paul, as he usually did, went to the synagogue, and for three sabbaths discussed with them the Scriptures,

² So Paul, as he usually did, went to the synagogue, and for three sabbaths discussed with them the Scriptures, ³ explaining them and proving that the Christ had to suffer and rise from the dead, and said, "This very Jesus whom I proclaim to you is the Christ."

¹⁰ That night at once the brothers sent Paul and Silas away to Berea, and on arriving there they went to the Jewish synagogue. ¹¹ The Jews there were better disposed than those in Thessalonica, for they welcomed the message with all eagerness and carried on a daily study of the Scriptures to see if Paul's message was true.

¹⁶ While Paul was waiting for them at Athens, his spirit was stirred to its depths to see the city completely steeped in idolatry. ¹⁷ So he kept up his discussions in the synagogue with the Jews and the pagans who were worshiping there, and also day by day in the public square with any who chanced to be there.

⁴ Every sabbath it was Paul's habit to preach in the synagogue and to persuade both Jews and Greeks.

¹² as an instrument that the people carried off to the sick, towels or aprons used by him, and at their touch they were cured of their diseases, and the evil spirits went out of them.

¹² as an instrument that the people carried off to the sick, towels or aprons used by him, and at their touch they were cured of their diseases, and the evil spirits went out of them. ¹³ But some wandering Jews who claimed to be driving out the evil spirits tried to use the name of the Lord Jesus on those who had evil spirits in them, saying, "I command you by that Jesus whom Paul preaches!" ¹⁴ Sceva, a Jewish high priest, had seven sons who were doing this. ¹⁵ But on one occasion the evil spirit answered, "Jesus I know and Paul I know about, but who are you?" ¹⁶ So the man in whom the evil spirit was, leaped upon them and so violently overpowered two of them that they ran out of the house stripped of their clothes and wounded.

¹ When the uproar had ceased, Paul sent for the disciples and encouraged them. Then he bade them goodbye and started off for Macedonia. ² He passed through those districts and by continuing to talk to them encouraged the people. He then went on to Greece

²³ except that in town after town the Holy Spirit emphatically assures me that imprisonment and sufferings are awaiting me. ²⁴ But now I count as nothing the sacrifice of my life, if only I can finish my race and render the service entrusted to me by the Lord Jesus, of faithfully telling the good news of God's favor.

²⁸ as they kept shouting, "Men of Israel, help! help! This is the man who teaches everybody everywhere against our people and the law and this place; yea, more than that, he has actually brought Greeks into the temple and desecrated this sacred place." ²⁹ For they had previously seen Trophimus of Ephesus in the city with him, and so they supposed that Paul had brought him into the temple. ³⁰ The whole city was stirred with excitement, and all at once the people rushed together, and seized Paul and dragged him out of the temple, and its gates at once were shut. ³¹ Now while they were trying to kill him, news reached the colonel of the regiment that all Jerusalem was in a ferment. ³² So he at once got together some soldiers and captains and hurried down against them, but as soon as they saw the colonel and his soldiers, they stopped beating Paul.

³ "I am a Jew, born in Tarsus in Cilicia, but brought up here in this city, and carefully educated under the teaching of Gamaliel in the law of our forefathers. I was zealous for God, as all of you are today.

¹⁸ and saw Him saying to me, 'Make haste and at once get out of Jerusalem, because they will not accept your testimony about me.' ¹⁹ So I said, 'Lord, they know for themselves that from one synagogue to another I used to imprison and flog those who believed in you, ²⁰ and when the blood of your martyr Stephen was being shed, I stood by and approved it, and held the clothes of those who killed him.' ²¹ Then He said to me, 'Go, because I am to send you out and far away among the heathen.'"

²¹ Then He said to me, 'Go, because I am to send you out and far away among the heathen.'" ²² They listened to him until he said this, and then all at once they shouted, "Away with such a fellow from the earth! He is certainly not fit to live!"

²² They listened to him until he said this, and then all at once they shouted, "Away with such a fellow from the earth! He is certainly not fit to live!" ²³ While they were shouting and tossing their clothes about and flinging dust into the air,

¹⁸ to open their eyes and turn them from darkness to light and from Satan's power to God, so as to have their sins forgiven and have a possession among those that are consecrated by faith in me.'

⁴ proved to be God's Son in power by the resurrection from the dead -- I mean, Jesus Christ, our Lord,

²¹ you who teach others, do you not teach yourself too? You who preach that men should not steal, do you steal yourself? ²² You who warn men to stop committing adultery, do you practice it yourself? You who shrink in horror from idols, do you rob their temples?

¹⁵ For He says to Moses, "I will have mercy on any man that I choose to have mercy on, and take pity on any man that I choose to take pity on."

²⁰ On the contrary, friend, who are you anyway that you would answer back to God? Can the clay that is molded ask the man who molds it, "Why did you make me like this?"

³⁴ For who has ever understood the thoughts of the Lord, or has ever been His adviser? ³⁵ Or who has ever advanced God anything to have Him pay him back?

⁴ and my language and the message I preached were not adorned with pleasing words of worldly wisdom, but they were attended with proof and power given by the Spirit, ⁵ so that your faith might not be in men's wisdom, but in God's power.

³¹ and those who are enjoying the world as though they were not entirely absorbed in it. For the outward order of this world is passing away.

⁵ It cannot be that we have no right to take a Christian wife about with us, can it, as well as the rest of the apostles and the Lord's brothers, and Cephas?

⁹ Let us stop trying the Lord's patience, as some of them did, and for it were destroyed by the snakes.

²⁴ But if everybody prophesies, and some unbeliever or illiterate man comes in, he is convinced of his sins by all, he is closely questioned by all, ²⁵ the secrets of his heart are laid bare, he falls upon his face and worships God, declaring, "God is really among you."

⁵² in a moment, in the twinkling of an eye, at the sound of the last trumpet. For the trumpet will sound, and the dead will be raised with bodies not subject to decay, and we shall be changed.

² On the other hand, I have renounced all underhanded, disgraceful methods; I neither practice cunning nor do I tamper with God's message, but by clear and candid statements of truth I try to commend myself to every human conscience in God's sight.

¹⁷ For this slight and momentary sorrow continues to accumulate for me a solid and eternal glory far beyond any comparison,

¹⁴ For the love of Christ continuously constrains me, because I am convinced that as One died for all, all have died, ¹⁵ and He died for all, that those who live might live no longer for themselves, but for Him who died for them and rose again. ¹⁶ So from this moment on, I do not estimate anybody by the standard of outward appearances. Although I once did estimate Christ by this standard, I do not do so any longer.

¹ As God's fellow-worker I beg you too not to accept God's favor and throw it away.

⁴ for the weapons used in my warfare are not mere human ones, but through my God are mighty for demolishing fortresses. ⁵ For I am demolishing arguments and every barrier that is raised against the genuine knowledge of God, taking captive every thought to make it obedient to Christ,

¹⁴ And no wonder, for even Satan himself masquerades as an angel of light.

⁹ He has made known to us the secret of His will, which is in accordance with His purpose which He planned in Christ,

¹¹ in union with whom we were made God's portion, since we had been foreordained in accordance with the purpose of Him who in everything carries out the plan of His will,

² in which you once lived in accordance with the spirit of this present world, and the mighty prince of the air, who is always at work in the disobedient, among whom all of us, we Jews as well as you heathen,

⁸ For at one time you were darkness itself, but now in union with the Lord you are light itself. You must live like children of light, ⁹ for the product of light consists in practicing everything that is good and right and true; ¹⁰ you must approve what is pleasing to the Lord. ¹¹ Stop having anything to do with the profitless doings of darkness; instead you must continue to expose them. ¹² For it is disgraceful even to mention the vices practiced in secret by them; ¹³ and yet anything that is exposed by the light is made clear to them, for anything that is made clear is light. ¹⁴ So it is said: "Wake up, sleeper; get up from the dead, and Christ will make day dawn on you."

¹² For our contest is not with human foes alone, but with the rulers, authorities, and cosmic powers of this dark world; that is, with the spirit-forces of evil challenging us in the heavenly contest.

¹⁷ take the helmet salvation provides, and take the sword the Spirit wields, which is the word of God.

¹³ It is God who has delivered us out of the dominion of darkness and has transferred us into the kingdom of His dearly loved Son,

⁵ for our preaching of the good news came to you not entirely in words but with power and with the Holy Spirit and with absolute certainty (for you know the kind of men we were among you for your own sakes).

¹⁵ who killed the Lord Jesus and persecuted the prophets and us; and who continue to displease God and show themselves in opposition to all mankind, ¹⁶ by trying to keep us from speaking to the heathen, so that they may be saved, so as always to fill to the brim the cup of their sins. But at last God's wrath has come upon them.

⁵ for you are all sons of the light and sons of the day. We do not belong to the night or the darkness. ⁶ So let us stop sleeping as others do, but let us stay awake and keep sober.

² preach the message, stay at it in season and out of season; convince, reprove, exhort people with perfect patience as a teacher.

⁸ let your message be wholesome and unobjectionable, so that our opponent may be put to shame at having nothing evil to say about us.

¹⁵ You must continue teaching this, and continue exhorting and reproving people, with full authority. Let no one belittle you.

¹⁴ Are not the angels all attending spirits sent forth to serve for the sake of those who are going to be unceasing possessors of salvation?

¹⁴ Since then the children mentioned share our mortal nature, He too took on Himself a full share of the same, in order that He by His death might put a stop to the power of him who has the power of death, that is, the devil,

¹⁸ For inasmuch as He has suffered Himself by being tempted, He is able to give immediate help to any that are tempted.

⁸ You must not harden your hearts as they did in provoking me, as on the day in the desert they tested me, ⁹ Where your forefathers found I stood their test, because they saw my works for forty years,

¹² For God's message is alive and full of power in action, sharper than any double-edged sword, piercing even to the depths of soul and spirit, to the dividing of joints and marrow, and passing judgment on the thoughts and purposes of the heart. ¹³ No creature of His can escape God's sight, but everything is bare and exposed to the eyes of Him to whom we have to give account.

¹⁵ For we do not have a High Priest who is incapable of sympathizing with us in our weaknesses, but we have One who was tempted in every respect as we are, and yet without committing any sin.

¹² So Jesus, too, in order to purify the people by His own blood, suffered outside the gate.

⁵ Listen, my dearly loved brothers. Has not God chosen the poor of the world to be rich in faith and to possess the kingdom which He promised to those who love Him?

¹⁹ Do you believe in one God? Very well; the demons, too, believe that, and shudder.

⁷ So then, submit to God. Resist the devil and he will fly from you.

¹⁴ Is anyone sick among you? He should call in the elders of the church, and they should pray over him, and anoint him with oil in the name of the Lord, ¹⁵ and the prayer that is offered in faith will save the sick man; the Lord will raise him to health, and if he has committed sins, he will be forgiven.

¹⁷ Elijah was a man with feelings just like ours, and yet he earnestly prayed for it not to rain, and it did not rain on the land for three years and six months.

²⁴ For "All human life is just like grass, and all its glory like the flower of grass. The grass dries up; the flowers drop off.

⁹ But you are the chosen race, the royal priesthood, the consecrated nation, the people to be His very own, to proclaim the perfections of Him who called you out of darkness into His wonderful light.

²² who has gone to heaven and is now at God's right hand, with angels, heavenly authorities and powers made subject to Him.

⁹ Resist him and be strong in faith, because you know that your brotherhood all over the world is experiencing the same sort of sufferings.

⁸ Yet it is a new command that I am writing you; it is true in Him and in you, because the darkness is passing away and the true light is already shining. ⁹ Whoever claims to be in the light, and yet continues to hate his brother is still in darkness. ¹⁰ Whoever continues to love his brother is always in the light, and he is no hindrance to others.

¹⁵ Stop loving the world, or the things that are in the world. If anyone persists in loving the world, there is no love for the Father in his heart, ¹⁶ because everything that is in the world, the things that our lower nature and eyes are longing for, and the proud pretensions of life, do not come from the Father, but from the world;

⁸ Whoever practices sin belongs to the devil, because the devil has practiced sin from the beginning. This is why the Son of God appeared, to undo the devil's works.

¹⁹ We know that we are children of God, and that the whole world is under the power of the evil one.

⁷ "To the messenger of the church in Philadelphia write: 'The Holy and True One, who carries the keys of David, who opens and no one can shut, who shuts and no one can open, speaks as follows:

¹⁰ the twenty-four elders fall down before Him who is seated on the throne, and worship Him who lives forever and ever, and they throw their crowns in front of the throne, and say:

⁸ When He took it, the four living creatures and the twenty-four elders fell down before the Lamb, each with a harp, and golden bowls that were full of incense, which represent the prayers of God's people.

⁹ So the huge dragon, the ancient serpent, called the devil and Satan, who deceives the whole world, was hurled down to the earth, and his angels were hurled down with him.

¹² So celebrate your triumph, you heavens and you who live in them! Alas for the earth and the sea, because the devil has come down to you in a great rage, since he knows that his time is short!"

² The wild beast which I saw was like a leopard, but his feet were like a bear's, and his mouth was like a lion's mouth. To him the dragon gave his own power and throne with great authority.

⁷ Permission was given to him to make war on God's people and to conquer them; authority was given to him over every tribe, people, language, and nation.

¹⁰ Then I fell before his feet to worship him, but he said to me, "You must take care not to do that. I am only a fellow-slave of yours and of your brothers who hold to the testimony borne by Jesus. Worship God. For the testimony borne by Jesus is the inspiring spirit of prophecy."

² He seized the dragon, the ancient serpent, who is the devil and Satan, and bound him for a thousand years.

² He seized the dragon, the ancient serpent, who is the devil and Satan, and bound him for a thousand years. ³ Then he hurled him into the abyss, closed it, and sealed it over him, to keep him from leading the nations astray anymore, until the thousand years are at an end; after that he must be let loose a little while.

⁸ It is I, John, who heard and saw these things. When I heard and saw them, I fell at the feet of the angel who was showing them to me, to worship him. ⁹ But he said to me: "You must be careful not to do that; I am only a fellow-slave of yours, of your brothers the prophets, and of the people who practice the truths contained in this book. Worship God."