Matthew 17 Cross References - Williams

¹ Six days after this, Jesus took Peter and James and his brother John, and led them up on a high mountain, by themselves. ² And in their presence His appearance was changed and His face shone like the sun, and His clothes turned as white as light. ³ Then Moses and Elijah appeared to them and kept talking with Him. ⁴ And Peter interrupted, and said to Jesus, "Lord, it is good for us to be here! If you consent, I will put up three tents here, one for you, one for Moses, and one for Elijah." ⁵ While he was still speaking, a bright cloud cast its shadow over them, and a voice from the cloud said, "This is my Son, my Beloved, in whom I am delighted. Keep on listening to Him!" ⁶ When the disciples heard it, they fell upon their faces, for they were terribly frightened. ⁷ Then Jesus came and touched them, and said, "Get up and do not be so afraid." ⁸ They looked up and saw no one but Jesus Himself. ⁹ And as they were going down the mountain, Jesus warned them, saying, "Never mention to anyone what you have seen until the Son of Man is raised from the dead." ¹⁰ The disciples asked Him, "Why then do the scribes say that Elijah must come first?" ¹¹ He answered, "Elijah does come and will get everything ready. ¹² But I say to you, Elijah has already come, and they did not recognize him, but treated him as they pleased. Just so the Son of Man is going to suffer at their hands." ¹³ Then the disciples understood that He spoke to them about John the Baptist. ¹⁴ When they reached the crowd, a man came up to Him, kneeling before Him and saying, ¹⁵ "Lord, do pity my son, for he has epilepsy and suffers excruciating pain, and often falls into the fire or into the water. ¹⁶ I brought him to your disciples, and they could not cure him." ¹⁷ And Jesus answered, "O you unbelieving and perverted people of the times! How long can I put up with you? Bring him here to me!" ¹⁸ And Jesus reproved the demon, and it came out of him, and the boy was cured that very moment. ¹⁹ After that the disciples came to Jesus and privately asked, "Why is it we could not drive it out?" ²⁰ He answered them, "Because you have so little faith! For I solemnly say to you, if you have the faith that is living like a grain of mustard, you can say to this mountain, 'Move over from here to yonder,' and it will move over, and nothing will be impossible for you to do." ²¹ Omitted Text. ²² While they were going about in Galilee, Jesus said to them, "The Son of Man is going to be turned over into the hands of men, ²³ and they will kill Him, but on the third day He will be raised again." And they were crushed with grief. ²⁴ When they reached Capernaum, the collectors of the temple tax came to Peter and asked, "Does your Teacher pay the temple tax?" ²⁵ He answered, "Yes." When Jesus reached home -- He got there ahead of Simon -- He asked him, "What do you think about it, Simon? From whom do civil rulers collect duties or taxes, from their own citizens or from aliens?" ²⁶ He answered, "From aliens." Jesus said to him, "So their own citizens are exempt, ²⁷ but still, that we may not influence them to do anything wrong, go down to the sea and throw over a hook. Pull in the first fish that bites, open its mouth and you will find in it a dollar. Take it and pay the tax for both of us."

³⁷ And He took Peter and Zebedee's two sons along with Him and He began to give way to His grief and distress of heart.

³⁷ He let no one go with Him but Peter, James, and James's brother John.

² Six days after this, Jesus took Peter, James, and John with Him, and led them up on a high mountain, alone by themselves. And in their presence His appearance was changed, ³ and His clothes were shining as white as white could be, yea, whiter than any earthly bleacher could bleach them. ⁴ And Elijah appeared to them, accompanied by Moses, and they were talking with Jesus. ⁵ Then Peter interrupted and said to Jesus, "Teacher, it is good for us to be here. So let us put up three tents, one for you and one for Moses and one for Elijah." ⁶ For he did not really know what to say, he was so frightened. ⁷ Then a cloud came and was circling over them, and a voice came out of the cloud, "This is my Son, my Beloved; keep on listening to Him!" ⁸ And as quick as a flash, on looking around, they saw no one with them but Jesus by Himself. ⁹ And while they were going down the mountain, He cautioned them not to tell anyone what they had seen, until the Son of Man should rise from the dead. ¹⁰ And they held that caution fast in their minds, as they continued to discuss among themselves what rising from the dead meant. ¹¹ Then they asked Him, "Why do the scribes say that Elijah has to come first?" ¹² He answered them, "Elijah does come first and gets everything ready, but how is it that the Scripture says about the Son of Man that He will suffer much and be rejected? ¹³ But I tell you, Elijah has already come, and people treated him just as they pleased, as the Scripture says about him."

⁵¹ When He reached the house, He let no one go in with Him but Peter, James, and John, and the child's father and mother.

²⁸ Now about eight days after Jesus said this, He took Peter, John, and James, and went up on the mountain to pray. ²⁹ And while He was praying, the look on His face changed, and His clothes turned dazzling white. ³⁰ And two men were talking with Him. They were Moses and Elijah, ³¹ who appeared in splendor and were speaking of His departure which He was about to accomplish at Jerusalem. ³² Now Peter and his companions had been overcome by sleep, but all at once they became wide awake and saw His splendor and the two men who were standing with Him. ³³ And just as they were starting to leave Him, Peter said to Jesus, "Master, it is good for us to be here. Let us put up three tents, one for you, one for Moses, and one for Elijah" -- although he did not know what he was saying. ³⁴ But as he was saying this, a cloud came and was circling over them, and they were frightened as the two visitors entered into the cloud. ³⁵ Then a voice came out of the cloud and said, "This is my Son, my Chosen One; continue to listen to Him!" ³⁶ When the voice had ceased, Jesus was found to be alone. And they kept silence and told no one anything that they had seen at that time.

¹ This is my third visit to you. Any charge preferred must be sustained by the evidence of two or three witnesses.

¹⁸ we heard this voice ourselves borne from heaven while we were with Him on that sacred mountain.

³ His appearance was as bright as lightning and his clothes as white as snow.

³ and His clothes were shining as white as white could be, yea, whiter than any earthly bleacher could bleach them.

²⁹ And while He was praying, the look on His face changed, and His clothes turned dazzling white.

¹⁴ So the Word became human and lived a little while among us, and we actually saw His glory, the glory of One who is an only Son from His Father, and He was full of spiritual blessing and truth.

²⁴ Father, I want to have those whom you have given me right where I am, in order that they may see the glory which you have given me, because you loved me before the creation of the world.

¹³ and on the road at noon, your Majesty, I saw a light from heaven, brighter than the sun, flash around me and my fellow-travelers. ¹⁴ We all fell to the ground, and I heard a voice say to me in Hebrew, 'Saul! Saul! Why do you continue to persecute me? It is hurting you to keep on kicking against the goad.' ¹⁵ 'Who are you, Sir?' said I. 'I am Jesus,' the Lord said, 'whom you are persecuting.

² Stop living in accordance with the customs of this world, but by the new ideals that mold your minds continue to transform yourselves, so as to find and follow God's will; that is, what is good, well-pleasing to Him, and perfect.

⁶ Though He was existing in the nature of God, He did not think His being on an equality with God a thing to be selfishly grasped, ⁷ but He laid it aside as He took on the nature of a slave and became like other men.

¹³ and among the lampstands One resembling the Son of Man, wearing a robe that reached to His feet, and with a belt of gold around His breast. ¹⁴ His head and hair were as white as white wool, as white as snow. His eyes were like coals of fire; ¹⁵ His feet were like bronze refined to white heat in a furnace, and His voice was like the roar of many waters. ¹⁶ In His right hand He was holding seven stars, and a sharp, double-edged sword was coming out of His mouth, and His face was shining like the sun at midday. ¹⁷ So when I saw Him, I fell at His feet like a dead man. But He laid His right hand upon me and said: "Do not be afraid any more. I am the First and the Last;

¹ Then I saw another mighty angel coming down from heaven. He was clothed in a cloud, with a rainbow over his head; his face was like the sun, his legs were like pillars of fire,

¹² His eyes were like coals of fire. On His head were many diadems, and on Him a name was written which no one knew but Himself. ¹³ He wore a garment dipped in blood, and His name was the Word of God.

¹¹ Then I saw a great white throne and Him who was seated on it, from whose presence earth and sky fled away, no more to be found.

¹³ For up to the days of John all the prophets, and even the law, prophesied about it, ¹⁴ and if you are willing to accept it, John himself is the Elijah who was to come.

¹⁰ The disciples asked Him, "Why then do the scribes say that Elijah must come first?" ¹¹ He answered, "Elijah does come and will get everything ready. ¹² But I say to you, Elijah has already come, and they did not recognize him, but treated him as they pleased. Just so the Son of Man is going to suffer at their hands." ¹³ Then the disciples understood that He spoke to them about John the Baptist.

⁴ And Elijah appeared to them, accompanied by Moses, and they were talking with Jesus.

¹⁷ He will go before Him in the spirit and the power of Elijah to turn the hearts of fathers to their children and the disobedient to the wisdom of the upright, to make ready for the Lord a people perfectly prepared."

³⁰ And two men were talking with Him. They were Moses and Elijah, ³¹ who appeared in splendor and were speaking of His departure which He was about to accomplish at Jerusalem.

³³ And just as they were starting to leave Him, Peter said to Jesus, "Master, it is good for us to be here. Let us put up three tents, one for you, one for Moses, and one for Elijah" -- although he did not know what he was saying.

¹⁶ It was the law and the prophets until John, but ever since that time the good news of the kingdom of God has been proclaimed, and everybody has been taking it by storm.

²⁷ Then He began with Moses and went through all the prophets and explained to them all the passages in the Scriptures about Himself.

⁴⁴ Then He said to them, "This is what I told you while I was still with you, that everything which is written about me in the law of Moses, in the prophets, and in the Psalms, had to be fulfilled."

¹⁷ For while the law was given through Moses, spiritual blessing and truth have come through Jesus Christ.

⁴⁵ Do not be thinking that I am going to accuse you to the Father. You have your accuser; it is Moses on whom you have set your hopes! ⁴⁶ For if you really believed Moses, you would believe me, for he wrote about me. ⁴⁷ But if you do not believe what he wrote, how will you ever believe what I say?"

⁷ Now if the old religious service which resulted in death, although its law was carved in letters of stone, was introduced with a splendor so great that the Israelites could not keep their eyes fixed on Moses' face because of the splendor that was fading from it, ⁸ why should not this spiritual service be attended with much greater splendor? ⁹ For if the service connected with condemnation had such splendor, the service resulting in right standing with God will surely far surpass it in splendor. ¹⁰ For on account of its surpassing splendor, what was once so splendid has now no splendor at all. ¹¹ For if what passed away was introduced with splendor, with how much greater splendor must what is permanent be attended?

¹ Therefore, my Christian brothers, fix your thoughts on Jesus, the Messenger and High Priest whom we profess to follow, ² to see how faithful He was to God who appointed Him, just as Moses was in all the house of God. ³ For just as the man who builds a house has greater glory than the house, by just so much is Jesus judged to be worthy of greater glory than Moses. ⁴ For every house is built by somebody, but the builder and furnisher of the universe is God. ⁵ Now Moses was faithful in all the house of God, yet only as a servant to bear witness to the message that should be spoken, ⁶ but Christ as a Son set over the house of God was faithful; and we are that house, if we keep up our courage and the joy that hope inspires to the very end.

⁵ Then Peter interrupted and said to Jesus, "Teacher, it is good for us to be here. So let us put up three tents, one for you and one for Moses and one for Elijah." ⁶ For he did not really know what to say, he was so frightened.

⁸ Philip said to Him, "Lord, let us see the Father, and that will satisfy us." ⁹ Jesus said to him, "Have I been with you disciples so long, and yet you, Philip, have not recognized me? Whoever has seen me has seen the Father. How can you say, 'Let us see the Father'?

²³ I am hesitating between two desires, for I long to depart and to be with Christ, for that is far, far better,

² Dearly beloved, we are now God's children, but what we are going to be has not been unveiled. We know that if it is unveiled, we shall be like Him, because we shall see Him as He is.

²³ The city does not need the sun or moon to shine in it, for the glory of God has lighted it, and the Lamb is its lamp.

³ No longer will there be anything that has a curse on it. The throne of God and of the Lamb will be in the city, and His slaves will worship Him, ⁴ They will see His face, and His name will be on their foreheads. ⁵ There will be no night any longer; so they will need no lamplight nor sunlight, for the Lord God will give them light, and they will rule forever and ever.

¹⁷ and a voice from heaven said, "This is my Son, my Beloved, in whom I am delighted!"

¹⁸ "Here is my Servant whom I have chosen, My Beloved, in whom my soul delights itself. I will endow Him with my Spirit, and He will announce a judgment to the heathen.

¹¹ And out of the heavens came a voice, "You are my Son, my Beloved! In you I am delighted!"

⁷ Then a cloud came and was circling over them, and a voice came out of the cloud, "This is my Son, my Beloved; keep on listening to Him!"

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!"

³⁴ But as he was saying this, a cloud came and was circling over them, and they were frightened as the two visitors entered into the cloud. ³⁵ Then a voice came out of the cloud and said, "This is my Son, my Chosen One; continue to listen to Him!"

¹⁶ "For God loved the world so much that He gave His Only Son, so that anyone who trusts in Him may never perish but have eternal life.

³⁵ The Father loves His Son and has put everything in His hands.

²⁰ For the Father loves the Son and shows Him everything that He Himself is doing, and He will show Him greater deeds than these, so that you will keep on wondering. ²¹ For just as the Father raises the dead and makes them live on, so the Son too makes alive any whom He chooses to. ²² For the Father passes sentence on no one, but He has committed all judgment to the Son, ²³ that all men may honor the Son as they do the Father. Whoever does not honor the Son does not honor the Father who sent Him.

³⁷ yes, the Father who has sent me has testified to me Himself. You have never heard His voice nor seen His form;

²⁸ Father, glorify your name." Then a voice came out of heaven, "I have already glorified it and I will again glorify it." ²⁹ The crowd of bystanders on hearing it said that it was thunder; others, however, said, "An angel has spoken to Him!" ³⁰ Jesus answered, "This voice did not come for my sake, but for yours.

⁹ I have loved you just as the Father has loved me. You must remain in my love. ¹⁰ If you continue to keep my commands, you will remain in my love, just as I have kept my Father's commands and remain in His love.

⁹ After saying this, He was taken up while they were looking at Him, and a cloud swept under Him and carried Him out of their sight.

²² Moses, indeed, said: 'The Lord God will raise up a prophet for you from among your brothers, as He did me. You must attentively listen to everything that He tells you. ²³ The result will be, that any person who will not listen to that prophet will be utterly destroyed from among the people.'

³⁷ It was this Moses who said to the descendants of Israel, 'God will raise up a prophet for you from among you, just as He did me.'

³ As he traveled on he finally approached Damascus, and suddenly a light from heaven flashed around him. ⁴ He dropped to the ground; then he heard a voice saying to him, "Saul, Saul, why are you persecuting me?" ⁵ He asked, "Who are you, sir?" And He said, "I am Jesus whom you are persecuting. ⁶ But get up and go into the city, and there it will be told you what you ought to do."

⁶ so that we might praise the splendid favor which He has shown us in His beloved Son.

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,

¹ It was bit by bit and in many different ways that God in olden times spoke to our forefathers through the prophets, ² but in these latter days He has spoken to us through a Son, whom He had appointed lawful owner of everything, and through whom He had made the worlds.

¹ This is why we must pay much closer attention to the message once heard, to keep from drifting to one side. ² For if the message spoken through angels proved to be valid, and every violation and infraction of it had its adequate penalty, ³ how can we escape, if we pay no attention at all to a salvation that is so great? This is so because it was first proclaimed by the Lord Himself, and then it was proved to us to be valid by the very men who heard Him themselves,

⁹ and because He was perfectly qualified for it He became the author of endless salvation for all who obey Him,

²⁵ See to it that you do not refuse to listen to Him who is speaking to you. For if they did not escape, because they refused to listen to him who warned them here on earth, how much less can we, if we reject Him who is from heaven? ²⁶ Then His voice shook the earth,

¹⁶ For it was not mere stories of fancy that we followed when we told you of the power and coming of our Lord Jesus Christ, but we had been eyewitnesses of His majesty. ¹⁷ For when He received such honor and glory from God the Father, when from the majestic glory there was borne to Him a voice like this, "This is my Son, my Beloved, in whom I take delight,"

⁷ See! He is coming on the clouds, and every eye will see Him, even the men who pierced Him, and all the tribes of the earth will lament over Him. Even so. Amen.

⁷ and I fell to the ground and heard a voice saying to me, 'Saul! Saul! Why are you persecuting me?'

¹⁴ We all fell to the ground, and I heard a voice say to me in Hebrew, 'Saul! Saul! Why do you continue to persecute me? It is hurting you to keep on kicking against the goad.'

²⁷ Then Jesus at once spoke to them, "Be men of courage! It is I; stop being afraid."

⁵ Because the women were so frightened and were turning their faces to the ground, they said to them, "Why are you looking among the dead for Him who is alive?

⁶ But get up and go into the city, and there it will be told you what you ought to do."

¹⁷ So when I saw Him, I fell at His feet like a dead man. But He laid His right hand upon me and said: "Do not be afraid any more. I am the First and the Last;

⁸ And as quick as a flash, on looking around, they saw no one with them but Jesus by Himself.

³⁶ When the voice had ceased, Jesus was found to be alone. And they kept silence and told no one anything that they had seen at that time.

¹⁰ They passed the first guard, then the second, and at last came to the iron gate which led into the city. The gate of itself opened to them, and they passed out and proceeded one block when all at once the angel left him. ¹¹ Then Peter came to himself and said, "Now I really know that the Lord has sent His angel and rescued me from the power of Herod and from all that the Jewish people were expecting to do to me."

⁴ Then Jesus said to him, "See that you tell nobody, but go, show yourself to the priest, and, to testify to the people, make the offering that Moses prescribed."

²⁰ And Jesus said to him, "Foxes have holes, even wild birds have roosts, but the Son of Man has nowhere to lay His head."

²⁰ Then He admonished the disciples not to tell anyone that He was the Christ. ²¹ It was just after that that Jesus Christ for the first time clearly taught His disciples that He had to go to Jerusalem and submit to many forms of suffering at the hands of the elders, high priests, and scribes, and be killed, but be raised to life on the third day.

¹² But I say to you, Elijah has already come, and they did not recognize him, but treated him as they pleased. Just so the Son of Man is going to suffer at their hands."

²³ and they will kill Him, but on the third day He will be raised again." And they were crushed with grief.

³⁰ But He strictly warned them not to tell this about Him to anybody.

⁵⁶ And her parents were astounded, but He ordered them not to tell anyone what had taken place.

²¹ But He particularly warned, yea, even commanded, them not to tell this to anybody, ²² as He said, "The Son of Man has to endure great suffering and be disowned by the elders, the high priests, and the scribes, and be put to death but be raised to life on the third day."

³³ and then they will flog Him and kill Him, but on the third day He will rise again." ³⁴ But they did not understand about these things, and this statement was an insoluble riddle to them; they did not even begin to grasp what He meant.

⁴⁶ and said to them, "The Scriptures said that the Christ should suffer as He has suffered, should rise from the dead on the third day, ⁴⁷ and that in His name repentance as the condition for the forgiveness of sins should be preached to all the nations. Beginning at Jerusalem

¹⁴ and if you are willing to accept it, John himself is the Elijah who was to come.

³ Then Moses and Elijah appeared to them and kept talking with Him. ⁴ And Peter interrupted, and said to Jesus, "Lord, it is good for us to be here! If you consent, I will put up three tents here, one for you, one for Moses, and one for Elijah."

⁴⁷ Some of the bystanders, when they heard it, said, "He is calling for Elijah." ⁴⁸ So one of them at once ran off and took a sponge and soaked it in vinegar, put it on a stick and held it up to Him to drink. ⁴⁹ But the others said, "Wait, let us see if Elijah does come to deliver Him."

¹¹ Then they asked Him, "Why do the scribes say that Elijah has to come first?"

²¹ So they asked him again, "What are you then? Elijah?" And he answered, "Of course, I am not." "Are you the prophet?" He answered, "No."

²⁵ so they asked him, "Why are you baptizing then, if you are not the Christ, nor Elijah, nor the prophet?"

¹⁶ And he will turn many of Israel's descendants to the Lord their God. ¹⁷ He will go before Him in the spirit and the power of Elijah to turn the hearts of fathers to their children and the disobedient to the wisdom of the upright, to make ready for the Lord a people perfectly prepared."

³ And he went all over the Jordan valley, preaching a baptism conditioned on repentance to obtain the forgiveness of sins, ⁴ as it is written in the sermon-book of the prophet Isaiah: "Here is a voice of one shouting in the desert, 'Get the road ready for the Lord, make the paths straight for Him. ⁵ Every ravine must be filled up, and every mountain and hill leveled down; the crooked places must become straight roads, and the rough roads must be made smooth, ⁶ And all mankind must see the salvation of God.'" ⁷ So he used to say to the crowds that continued to come out there to be baptized by him: "You brood of vipers! Who warned you to escape from the wrath that is coming? ⁸ Produce, then, fruit that is consistent with the repentance that you profess, and do not even begin to say within yourselves, 'We have Abraham for our forefather,' for I tell you, God can raise up descendants for Abraham even out of these stones. ⁹ Now the axe is already lying at the roots of the trees. Every tree, then, that fails to bear good fruit is to be cut down and thrown into the fire." ¹⁰ So the crowds were asking him this question, "What then ought we to do?" ¹¹ He answered them, "The man who has two shirts must share with him who has none, and the man who has food must do the same." ¹² Then even the tax-collectors came to be baptized, and said to him, "Teacher, what ought we to do?" ¹³ So he said to them, "Stop collecting any more than is prescribed for you." ¹⁴ Then some soldiers too were asking him, "What ought we too to do?" So he said to them, "Never extort money from anyone, never make a false accusation, and always be satisfied with your wages."

²¹ Yet heaven must retain Him till the time for the universal restoration of which God in the early ages spoke through the lips of His holy prophets.

² Now when John in prison heard of the doings of the Christ, he sent this message by his disciples:

⁹ If not, why did you go out there? To see a prophet? ¹⁰ This is the man of whom the Scripture says, "'Attention! I am sending my messenger on before you; He will prepare the road ahead of you.' ¹¹ "I solemnly say to you, of all men born of women no one greater than John the Baptist has ever appeared; and yet the one who is least important in the kingdom of heaven is greater than he. ¹² And from the days of John the Baptist until the present moment the kingdom of heaven has been continuously taken by storm, and those who take it by storm are seizing it as a precious prize. ¹³ For up to the days of John all the prophets, and even the law, prophesied about it, ¹⁴ and if you are willing to accept it, John himself is the Elijah who was to come. ¹⁵ Let him who has ears listen!

³ For Herod had arrested John and bound him and put him out of the way by putting him in prison, just to please Herodias, his brother Philip's wife, ⁴ for John had said to him, "It is not right for you to have her as wife." ⁵ Although he wanted to have him killed, he was afraid of the people, for they regarded him as a prophet. ⁶ But when Herod's birthday came, Herodias' daughter danced before the guests. Herod was fascinated by her, ⁷ and so passionately promised to give her anything she might ask for. ⁸ And she, prompted by her mother, said, "Give me John the Baptist's head right here on a platter." ⁹ And the king was sorry, but on account of his oath and his guests, he ordered it to be given her. ¹⁰ And he sent and had John beheaded in prison.

²¹ It was just after that that Jesus Christ for the first time clearly taught His disciples that He had to go to Jerusalem and submit to many forms of suffering at the hands of the elders, high priests, and scribes, and be killed, but be raised to life on the third day.

²³ And when He had come into the temple, the high priests and elders of the people came up to Him while He was teaching, and asked, "What sort of authority have you for doing these things, and who gave you this authority?" ²⁴ Jesus answered them, "Let me too ask you just one question, and if you answer it, I will tell you what sort of authority I have for doing as I do. ²⁵ Where did John's baptism come from? From heaven, or from men?" They argued it out among themselves in this way, "If we say, 'From heaven,' He will say to us, 'Then why did you not believe him?'

³² For John came to you walking in the way of uprightness, and yet you did not believe him. The tax-collectors and prostitutes did believe him, but you, even though you saw that, would not change your minds afterward and believe him.

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. ¹⁵ But others were saying that He was Elijah, and still others that He was a prophet like the prophets of old. ¹⁶ But when Herod heard of Him, he said, "John, whom I beheaded, has risen from the dead." ¹⁷ For this very Herod had sent and seized John and bound him and put him in prison, just to please Herodias, his brother Philip's wife, because Herod had married her. ¹⁸ For John kept saying to Herod, "It is not right for you to be living with your brother's wife." ¹⁹ So Herodias had it in for him and wanted to have him killed. But she could not have it done, ²⁰ for Herod stood in awe of John, because he knew that he was an upright and holy man, and so he protected him. When he heard him speak, he was very much disturbed, and yet he liked to hear him. ²¹ When a holiday came and Herod on his birthday gave a banquet to his state officials, his military officers, and other leading men of Galilee, ²² Herodias' daughter came in and danced for them, and fascinated Herod and his guests. So the king said to the girl, "Ask me for anything you want, and I will give it to you." ²³ And he promised her on oath, "I will give you anything you ask for, up to half of my kingdom." ²⁴ She left the room and asked her mother, "What shall I ask him for?" And she answered, "The head of John the Baptist." ²⁵ Then she rushed at once before the king, and made this request, "I want you this very minute to give me John the Baptist's head on a platter." ²⁶ The king, although exceedingly sorry, yet on account of his oath and his guests, did not like to refuse her, ²⁷ and so at once ordered a soldier of his guard to bring his head. The soldier went off and beheaded John in the prison ²⁸ and brought back his head on a platter, and gave it to the girl, and the girl gave it to her mother.

³⁰ Was John's baptism from heaven or from men? Answer me." ³¹ Then they argued with one another in this way, "If we say, 'It was from heaven,' He will say, 'Then why did you not believe him?' ³² On the other hand, can we say, 'It was from men'?" For they were afraid of the people, because everybody thought that John was really a prophet.

¹⁹ But Herod the governor, because he was repeatedly reproved by him for Herodias his brother's wife, and for all the wicked deeds that Herod had done, ²⁰ added this on top of it all, that he put John in prison.

³³ "For John the Baptist came eating no bread and drinking no wine, and yet you say, 'He has a demon!'

²¹ But He particularly warned, yea, even commanded, them not to tell this to anybody, ²² as He said, "The Son of Man has to endure great suffering and be disowned by the elders, the high priests, and the scribes, and be put to death but be raised to life on the third day." ²³ Then He said to them all, "If anyone chooses to be my disciple, he must say 'No' to self, put the cross on his shoulders daily, and continue to follow me. ²⁴ For whoever chooses to save his lower life will lose his higher life, but whoever gives up his lower life for my sake will save his higher life. ²⁵ For what benefit will it be to a man to gain the whole world and lose or forfeit himself?

¹¹ He came into His own world, but His own people did not welcome Him.

³² There is someone else who testifies to me, and I know that the testimony which He gives to me is of force. ³³ You yourselves sent to John, and he has testified to the truth. ³⁴ However, I do not accept mere human testimony, but I am saying this that you may be saved. ³⁵ John was the lamp that kept on burning and shining, and you decided for a time to delight yourselves in his light. ³⁶ But I have testimony that is higher than John's, for the works which my Father has committed to me to finish, the very works that I am doing, testify to me that the Father has sent me;

²³ this very Jesus, I say, after He was betrayed, in accordance with the predetermined plan and foreknowledge of God, you had wicked men kill by nailing Him to a cross;

¹⁴ Yes, you disowned the Holy and Righteous One and asked a murderer to be pardoned as a favor to you, ¹⁵ and you killed the Prince of life, but God raised Him from the dead, to which fact we are witnesses.

¹⁰ you and all the people of Israel must know that it is by the authority of Jesus Christ of Nazareth, whom you crucified but whom God raised from the dead -- yes, I repeat it, it is by His authority that this man stands here before you well.

⁵² Which of the prophets did your forefathers fail to persecute? They killed the prophets who foretold the coming of the Righteous One, and now you have betrayed and murdered Him,

²⁴ as John, before His coming, had already preached baptism as an expression of repentance, for all the people of Israel. ²⁵ As John was closing his career, he said, 'What do you take me to be? I am not the Christ; no, but He is coming after me, and I am not fit to untie the shoes on His feet.' ²⁶ Brothers, descendants of the race of Abraham, and all among you who reverence God, it is to us that the message of this salvation has been sent. 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, ²⁸ and although they could not find Him guilty of a capital offense, they begged Pilate to have Him put to death.

¹⁴ When they reached the crowd, a man came up to Him, kneeling before Him and saying, ¹⁵ "Lord, do pity my son, for he has epilepsy and suffers excruciating pain, and often falls into the fire or into the water. ¹⁶ I brought him to your disciples, and they could not cure him." ¹⁷ And Jesus answered, "O you unbelieving and perverted people of the times! How long can I put up with you? Bring him here to me!" ¹⁸ And Jesus reproved the demon, and it came out of him, and the boy was cured that very moment. ¹⁹ After that the disciples came to Jesus and privately asked, "Why is it we could not drive it out?"

⁴⁰ There came to Him a leper, begging Him on his knees, saying to Him, "If you want to, you can cure me."

¹⁴ When they came to the disciples, they saw a great crowd around them and some scribes arguing with them. ¹⁵ And all the people were utterly amazed when they saw Him, and ran up to Him and greeted Him. ¹⁶ Then He asked them, "Why are you arguing with them?" ¹⁷ A man from the crowd answered Him, "Teacher, I brought my son to you, for he has a dumb spirit. ¹⁸ Wherever it seizes him, it convulses him, and he foams at the mouth and grinds his teeth; and he is wasting away. So I asked your disciples to drive it out, but they could not do it." ¹⁹ He answered them, "Oh, you unbelieving people of the times! How long must I be with you! How long must I put up with you! Bring him to me." ²⁰ And they brought the boy to Him. As soon as the spirit saw Him, it convulsed the boy, and he fell on the ground and kept rolling over and foaming at the mouth. ²¹ Then He asked his father, "How long has he been like this?" He answered, "From his childhood; ²² and many a time it has thrown him into the fire or into the water, to destroy him. But if there is anything you can do for him, do pity us and help us!" ²³ Jesus said to him, "If there is anything I can do! Everything is possible for him who has faith!" ²⁴ The boy's father at once cried out and said, "I do have faith; help my lack of faith!" ²⁵ Then Jesus, because He saw that a crowd was rushing up to Him, reproved the foul spirit and said to it, "You deaf and dumb spirit, get out of him, I charge you, and never get into him again." 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. ²⁷ But Jesus grasped his hand and raised him, and he got up. ²⁸ When Jesus got home and was by Himself, His disciples were asking Him, "Why could not we drive it out?" ²⁹ He answered them, "This sort of thing can be driven out only by prayer."

¹⁷ As He was again starting on a journey, a man ran up to Him, and knelt to Him, and was asking Him, "Good Teacher, what must I do to get eternal life?"

³⁷ The next day, when they had come down from the mountain, a great crowd met Him. ³⁸ Then a man in the crowd at once shouted, "Teacher, I beg you to look at my son, because he is my only child; 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. ⁴⁰ I begged your disciples to drive it out, but they could not." ⁴¹ Then Jesus answered, "O you unbelieving, stubborn people of the times! How long must I be with you and put up with you? Bring him here to me." 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. ⁴³ So they all continued to be utterly astounded at the greatness of God. Now while everybody was wondering at all that He was doing, He said to His disciples,

²⁵ When Peter went into the house, Cornelius met him and fell at his feet and did homage to him. ²⁶ But Peter lifted him to his feet, saying, "Get up, I too am just a man myself."

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.

³¹ And the demons kept begging Him and saying, "If you are going to drive us out, send us into the drove of hogs." ³² And He said to them, "Be gone!" And they went out of the men and got into the hogs, and suddenly the whole drove, in a stampede, rushed over the cliff into the sea, and died in the water.

²² And a Canaanite woman of that district came out and pleaded, saying, "Do pity me, Lord, Son of David; my daughter is suffering horrors from a demon."

⁴ for he had often been fastened with fetters and chains but had snapped the chains and broken the fetters, and no one was strong enough to overpower him. ⁵ All night and all day he kept screaming among the tombs and on the hills, and kept gashing himself with stones.

²² And a man named Jairus, a leader of a synagogue, came up, and when he saw Jesus he flung himself at His feet 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."

¹⁷ A man from the crowd answered Him, "Teacher, I brought my son to you, for he has a dumb spirit. ¹⁸ Wherever it seizes him, it convulses him, and he foams at the mouth and grinds his teeth; and he is wasting away. So I asked your disciples to drive it out, but they could not do it."

²⁰ And they brought the boy to Him. As soon as the spirit saw Him, it convulsed the boy, and he fell on the ground and kept rolling over and foaming at the mouth. ²¹ Then He asked his father, "How long has he been like this?" He answered, "From his childhood; ²² and many a time it has thrown him into the fire or into the water, to destroy him. But if there is anything you can do for him, do pity us and help us!"

³⁸ Then a man in the crowd at once shouted, "Teacher, I beg you to look at my son, because he is my only child; 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. ⁴⁰ I begged your disciples to drive it out, but they could not." ⁴¹ Then Jesus answered, "O you unbelieving, stubborn people of the times! How long must I be with you and put up with you? Bring him here to me." 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.

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.

¹⁹ After that the disciples came to Jesus and privately asked, "Why is it we could not drive it out?" ²⁰ He answered them, "Because you have so little faith! For I solemnly say to you, if you have the faith that is living like a grain of mustard, you can say to this mountain, 'Move over from here to yonder,' and it will move over, and nothing will be impossible for you to do."

⁴⁰ I begged your disciples to drive it out, but they could not."

¹⁶ It is His name, that is, on condition of faith in His name, that has made strong again this man whom you see and recognize -- yes, faith inspired by Him has given this man the perfect health you all see.

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.

³⁰ Now if God so gorgeously dresses the wild grass which today is green but tomorrow is tossed into the furnace, will He not much more surely clothe you, O you with little faith?

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.

⁵⁸ He did not do many wonder-works there, because of their lack of faith.

⁸ Jesus knew it and said, "Why are you discussing among yourselves the fact that you have no bread? Have you so little faith?

¹⁹ He answered them, "Oh, you unbelieving people of the times! How long must I be with you! How long must I put up with you! Bring him to me."

¹⁴ Later on He appeared to the Eleven themselves while they were at table, and reproved them for their lack of faith and their stubbornness, because they had not believed those who had seen Him after He had been raised from the dead.

⁴¹ Then Jesus answered, "O you unbelieving, stubborn people of the times! How long must I be with you and put up with you? Bring him here to me."

²⁵ Then He said to them, "O men sluggish in mind and slow in heart to believe all that the prophets have said!

²⁷ Then He said to Thomas, "Put your finger here and look at my hands, and take your hand and put it in my side, and stop being an unbeliever, but be a believer!"

¹⁸ Then after He had fed them forty years in the desert,

¹⁶ For who was it that heard and yet provoked Him? Was it not all who came out of Egypt led by Moses? ¹⁷ With whom was He disgusted forty years? Was it not with those who had sinned, whose carcasses fell in the desert? ¹⁸ To whom did He take oath that they should not be admitted to His rest, if it was not to those who disobeyed Him? ¹⁹ So we see that it was because of their unbelief that they could not be admitted to it.

²² And Jesus, on turning and seeing her, said, "Cheer up, my daughter! Your faith has cured you." And from that moment the woman was well.

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.

²⁸ Then Jesus answered her, "O woman, wonderful is your faith! You must have what you want." And her daughter was cured at that very moment.

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.

⁸ For Jesus was saying to him, "You foul spirit, come out of him."

²⁵ Then Jesus, because He saw that a crowd was rushing up to Him, reproved the foul spirit and said to it, "You deaf and dumb spirit, get out of him, I charge you, and never get into him again." 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. ²⁷ But Jesus grasped his hand and raised him, and he got up.

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."

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.

²⁹ For He was commanding the foul spirit to get out of the man. For on many occasions it had seized him, and repeatedly he had been fastened with chains and fetters under constant guard, and yet he would snap his bonds, and the demon would drive him into desert places.

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.

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.

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.

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?"

¹⁰ When He was by Himself, those who stayed about Him with the Twelve began to ask Him about the stories.

²⁸ When Jesus got home and was by Himself, His disciples were asking Him, "Why could not we drive it out?"

³¹ He told them this story, as follows: "The kingdom of heaven may be compared to a mustard seed which a man took and sowed in his field.

³⁰ But when he felt the wind, he was frightened, and as he began to go down, he cried out, "Lord, save me!" ³¹ Jesus at once put out His hand and caught hold of him, and said to him, "O you of little faith! Why did you waver so?"

⁹ And as they were going down the mountain, Jesus warned them, saying, "Never mention to anyone what you have seen until the Son of Man is raised from the dead."

¹⁷ And Jesus answered, "O you unbelieving and perverted people of the times! How long can I put up with you? Bring him here to me!"

²¹ And Jesus answered them, "I solemnly say to you, if you have faith and do not doubt at all, you will not only do the sort of wonder done to the fig tree, but even if you say to this mountain, 'Get up and throw yourself into the sea,' it will be done.

³¹ It is like a mustard seed, which, when it is sown in the ground, is the smallest of all seeds,

²³ Jesus said to him, "If there is anything I can do! Everything is possible for him who has faith!"

²³ I solemnly say to you, whoever says to this mountain, 'Get up and throw yourself into the sea,' and does not doubt at all in his heart, but has faith that what he says will take place, shall have it.

³⁷ For nothing is ever impossible for God."

⁶ Then the Lord said to them, "If you had faith that grows like a mustard seed, you might have been saying to this mulberry tree, 'Pull yourself up by the roots and plant yourself in the sea,' and it would have obeyed you!

²⁷ So He said, "The things impossible for men are possible for God."

⁴⁰ Jesus said to her, "Did I not promise you that if you would believe in me, you should see the glory of God?"

⁹ to another, through union with the same Spirit, faith; to another, by one and the same Spirit, power to cure the sick;

² If I should have the gift of prophecy, And know all secret truths, and knowledge in its every form, and have such perfect faith that I could move mountains, but have no love, I am nothing.

¹⁹ So we see that it was because of their unbelief that they could not be admitted to it.

⁴⁵ "Then it goes and gets seven other spirits more wicked than itself, and they go in and make their home there, and so the end of that man is worse than the beginning. This is the way it will be with the wicked leaders of this age."

²⁹ He answered them, "This sort of thing can be driven out only by prayer."

² While they were worshiping the Lord and fasting, the Holy Spirit said, "Set apart for me Barnabas and Saul, for the work to which I have called them." ³ So after fasting and praying, they laid their hands upon them and let them go.

²³ They helped them select elders in each church, and after praying and fasting they committed them to the Lord in whom they had believed.

⁵ You husbands and wives must stop refusing each other what is due, unless you agree to do so just for awhile, so as to have plenty of time for prayer, and then to be together again, so as to keep Satan from tempting you because of your lack of self-control.

²⁷ through toil and hardship, through many a sleepless night, through hunger and thirst, through many a fasting season, poorly clad and exposed to cold.

¹⁸ Keep on praying in the Spirit, with every kind of prayer and entreaty, at every opportunity, be ever on the alert with perfect devotion and entreaty for all God's people,

²⁸ I solemnly say to you, some of the people standing here will certainly live to see the Son of Man coming in His kingdom."

¹⁷ And as Jesus was about to go up to Jerusalem, He took the twelve disciples aside, and said to them while on the road, ¹⁸ "Listen! We are going up to Jerusalem, and the Son of Man will be turned over to the high priests and the scribes, and they will sentence Him to death,

¹⁰ Then many will fall by the way, and will betray one another and hate one another.

¹⁶ So from that time he kept looking for a good opportunity to turn Him over to them.

⁴⁶ Get up and let us be going. Look! Here comes my betrayer!"

³¹ Then He instructed them for the first time that the Son of Man had to endure great suffering and be disowned by the elders and the high priests and the scribes, and be killed but rise again after three days.

³⁰ Then they left there and were making a trip through Galilee, and He did not want anybody to know it; ³¹ for He was now teaching His disciples, and saying to them, "The Son of Man is to be turned over into men's hands, and they will kill Him, but three days after that He will rise again." ³² But they did not understand what this statement meant, and they were afraid to ask Him.

³³ "Listen! We are going up to Jerusalem, and the Son of Man will be turned over to the high priests and scribes, and they will sentence Him to death, and will turn Him over to the heathen, ³⁴ and they will make sport of Him, and spit on Him, and flog Him, and kill Him, but three days after He will rise again."

²² as He said, "The Son of Man has to endure great suffering and be disowned by the elders, the high priests, and the scribes, and be put to death but be raised to life on the third day."

⁴⁴ "You must store away in your memories these words, for the Son of Man is going to be turned over to the hands of men!" ⁴⁵ But they remained ignorant of what this meant; indeed, it had been hidden from them, so that they did not grasp it, and they were afraid to ask Him about this statement.

³¹ Now He took the Twelve aside and said to them, "Listen! We are going up to Jerusalem, and everything written by the prophets about the Son of Man will be fulfilled. ³² For He will be turned over to the heathen and sport made of Him, He will be insulted and spit upon,

⁶ [He is not here but has risen.] Remember what He told you while He was still in Galilee, when ⁷ He said that the Son of Man had to be turned over to wicked men and crucified, but was to rise again on the third day."

²⁶ Did not the Christ have to suffer these things and thus to enter into His glory?"

⁴⁶ and said to them, "The Scriptures said that the Christ should suffer as He has suffered, should rise from the dead on the third day,

²³ For the account that I passed on to you I myself received from the Lord Himself, that the Lord Jesus on the night He was betrayed took a loaf of bread

¹⁹ Jesus answered them, "Destroy this sanctuary, and I will raise it in three days."

⁶ but sorrow has taken complete possession of your hearts, because I have told you these things.

²⁰ I most solemnly say to you, you will weep and wail, but the world will be glad; you will grieve but your grief will be turned into gladness. ²¹ When a woman is in labor, she is in pain, for her time has come, but when the baby is born, she forgets her pain because of her joy that a human being has been born into the world. ²² So you too are now in sorrow, but I am going to see you again, and then your hearts will be happy, and no one can rob you of your happiness.

²³ this very Jesus, I say, after He was betrayed, in accordance with the predetermined plan and foreknowledge of God, you had wicked men kill by nailing Him to a cross; ²⁴ but God raised Him up by loosing Him from the pangs of death, since it was impossible for Him to be held by the power of death. ²⁵ For David says of Him: 'I always kept my eyes upon the Lord, for He is at my right hand, so that I may not be removed. ²⁶ So my heart is glad and my tongue exults, and my body still lives in hope. ²⁷ For you will not forsake my soul to Hades. Nor will you let your Holy One experience decay. ²⁸ You have made known to me the ways of life, and you will fill me with delight in your presence.' 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.

³ For I passed on to you, among the primary principles of the good news, what I had received, that Christ died for our sins, in accordance with the Scriptures, ⁴ that He was buried, that on the third day He was raised from the dead, in accordance with the Scriptures,

³³ Then they reached Capernaum. When He got home, He asked them, "What were you discussing on the way home?"

¹⁵ But Jesus answered him, "Let it be so now, for this is the fitting way for both of us to do our full duty to God." Then he yielded to Him.

¹⁷ So give us your opinion on the question: Is it right to pay Caesar the poll-tax, or not?"

¹⁹ Show me a poll-tax coin."

²¹ They answered, "Caesar's." Then He said to them, "Pay Caesar, therefore, what belongs to Caesar, and pay God what belongs to God."

⁶ for this is the reason why you pay your taxes, for the civil authorities are God's official servants faithfully devoting themselves to this very end. ⁷ Pay all of them what is due them -- tribute to the officer to receive it, taxes to the officer to receive them, respect to the man entitled to it, and honor to the man entitled to it.

¹² Then His disciples came up to Him and asked, "Do you know that the Pharisees were knocked breathless to hear what you have just said?" ¹³ He answered, "Every plant that my heavenly Father did not plant must be rooted up. ¹⁴ Let them alone. They are blind teachers! And if one blind man guides another, they will both fall into the ditch."

⁶¹ But as Jesus naturally knew that His disciples were grumbling about this, He said to them, "Is this shocking to you?

²¹ The right thing to do is not to eat meat, or drink wine, or do anything else, that makes your brother stumble.

¹ It is the duty of us who are strong to bear with the weaknesses of those who are not strong, and not merely to please ourselves. ² Each one of us must practice pleasing his neighbor, to help in his immediate upbuilding for his eternal good. ³ Christ certainly did not please Himself; instead, as the Scripture says, "The reproaches of those who reproach you have fallen upon me."

⁹ But you must see to it that this right of yours does not become a stumbling block to overscrupulous people.

¹³ So then, if food can make my brother fall, I will never, no, never, eat meat again, in order to keep my brother from falling.

¹⁹ Yes, indeed, though I am free from any human power, I have made myself a slave to everybody, to win as many as possible. ²⁰ To the Jews I have become like a Jew for the winning of Jews; to men under the law, like one under the law, though I am not under the law myself, to win the men under the law; ²¹ to men who have no written law, like one without any law, though I am not without God's law but specially under Christ's law, to win the men who have no written law. ²² To the overscrupulous I have become overscrupulous, to win the overscrupulous; yes, I have become everything to everybody, in order by all means to save some of them.

³² Stop being stumbling blocks to Jews or Greeks or to the church of God, ³³ just as I myself am in the habit of pleasing everybody in everything, not aiming at my own welfare but at that of as many people as possible, in order that they may be saved.

³ To keep my ministry from being found fault with, I am trying not to put a single hindrance in anybody's way.

⁹ For by experience you know the unmerited favor shown by our Lord Jesus Christ; that although He was rich, yet for your sakes He became poor, in order that by His poverty you might become rich.

²² Continue to abstain from every sort of evil.

⁷ In everything you yourself continue to set them a worthy example of doing good; be sincere and serious in your teaching, 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.

⁷ You made Him inferior to angels for a little while, yet you have crowned Him with glory and honor, you have set Him over the works of your hands, ⁸ You have put all things under His feet!" Now when He gave Him authority over everything, He did not leave a single thing that was not put under His authority. But as yet we do not see everything actually under His authority,

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?