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The birth of Jesus Christ came about this way: After his mother Mary had been engaged[fn] to Joseph, it was discovered before they came together that she was pregnant from the Holy Spirit.
After they were gone, an angel of the Lord appeared to Joseph in a dream, saying, “Get up! Take the child and his mother, flee to Egypt, and stay there until I tell you. For Herod is about to search for the child to kill him.”
“And don't presume to say to yourselves, ‘We have Abraham as our father.' For I tell you that God is able to raise up children for Abraham from these stones.
“leave your gift there in front of the altar. First go and be reconciled with your brother or sister, and then come and offer your gift.
“Reach a settlement quickly with your adversary while you're on the way with him to the court, or your adversary will hand you over to the judge, and the judge to[fn] the officer, and you will be thrown into prison.
“Again, you have heard that it was said to our ancestors, You must not break your oath, but you must keep your oaths to the Lord.
“But I tell you, don't take an oath at all: either by heaven, because it is God's throne;
“As for the one who wants to sue you and take away your shirt, let him have your coat as well.
“Give to the one who asks you, and don't turn away from the one who wants to borrow from you.
“Be careful not to practice your righteousness[fn] in front of others to be seen by them. Otherwise, you have no reward with your Father in heaven.
“But when you pray, go into your private room, shut your door, and pray to your Father who is in secret. And your Father who sees in secret will reward you.[fn]
“so that your fasting isn't obvious to others but to your Father who is in secret. And your Father who sees in secret will reward you.[fn]
“Why do you look at the splinter in your brother's eye but don't notice the beam of wood in your own eye?
“Or how can you say to your brother, ‘Let me take the splinter out of your eye,' and look, there's a beam of wood in your own eye?
“For everyone who asks receives, and the one who seeks finds, and to the one who knocks, the door will be opened.
Then Jesus told him, “See that you don't tell anyone; but go, show yourself to the priest, and offer the gift that Moses commanded, as a testimony to them.”
“For I too am a man under authority, having soldiers under my command.[fn] I say to this one, ‘Go,' and he goes; and to another, ‘Come,' and he comes; and to my servant, ‘Do this! ' and he does it.”
Hearing this, Jesus was amazed and said to those following him, “Truly I tell you, I have not found anyone in Israel with so great a faith.
Then Jesus told the centurion, “Go. As you have believed, let it be done for you.” And his servant was healed that very moment.[fn]
At that, the whole town went out to meet Jesus. When they saw him, they begged him to leave their region.
Just then some men[fn] brought to him a paralytic lying on a stretcher. Seeing their faith, Jesus told the paralytic, “Have courage, son, your sins are forgiven.”
“But so that you may know that the Son of Man has authority on earth to forgive sins” — then he told the paralytic, “Get up, take your stretcher, and go home.”
While he was reclining at the table in the house, many tax collectors and sinners came to eat with Jesus and his disciples.
As Jesus went on from there, two blind men followed him, calling out, “Have mercy on us, Son of David! ”
When the demon had been driven out, the man who had been mute spoke, and the crowds were amazed, saying, “Nothing like this has ever been seen in Israel! ”
“It is enough for a disciple to become like his teacher and a slave like his master. If they called the head of the house ‘Beelzebul,' how much more the members of his household!
At that time Jesus said, “I praise you, Father, Lord of heaven and earth, because you have hidden these things from the wise and intelligent and revealed them to infants.
At that time Jesus passed through the grainfields on the Sabbath. His disciples were hungry and began to pick and eat some heads of grain.
“Or haven't you read in the law that on Sabbath days the priests in the temple violate the Sabbath and are innocent?
Then he told the man, “Stretch out your hand.” So he stretched it out, and it was restored, as good as the other.
When the Pharisees heard this, they said, “This man drives out demons only by Beelzebul, the ruler of the demons.”
“Whoever speaks a word against the Son of Man, it will be forgiven him; but whoever speaks against the Holy Spirit, it will not be forgiven him, either in this age or in the one to come.
He replied to the one who was speaking to him, “Who is my mother and who are my brothers? ”
He presented another parable to them: “The kingdom of heaven may be compared to a man who sowed good seed in his field.
“The landowner's servants came to him and said, ‘Master, didn't you sow good seed in your field? Then where did the weeds come from? '
He presented another parable to them: “The kingdom of heaven is like a mustard seed that a man took and sowed in his field.
“The kingdom of heaven is like treasure, buried in a field, that a man found and reburied. Then in his joy he goes and sells everything he has and buys that field.
When Herod's birthday celebration came, Herodias's daughter danced before them[fn] and pleased Herod.
Then his disciples came, removed the corpse,[fn] buried it, and went and reported to Jesus.
“But you say, ‘Whoever tells his father or mother, “Whatever benefit you might have received from me is a gift committed to the temple,”
Jesus turned and told Peter, “Get behind me, Satan! You are a hindrance to me because you're not thinking about God's concerns[fn] but human concerns.”
Then Peter said to Jesus, “Lord, it's good for us to be here. If you want, I will set up[fn] three shelters here: one for you, one for Moses, and one for Elijah.”
Then the disciples approached Jesus privately and said, “Why couldn't we drive it out? ”
When they came to Capernaum, those who collected the temple tax approached Peter and said, “Doesn't your teacher pay the temple tax? ”
At that time[fn] the disciples came to Jesus and asked, “So who is greatest in the kingdom of heaven? ”
“Woe to the world because of offenses. For offenses will inevitably come, but woe to that person by whom the offense comes.
“When the other servants saw what had taken place, they were deeply distressed and went and reported to their master everything that had happened.
“When evening came, the owner of the vineyard told his foreman, ‘Call the workers and give them their pay, starting with the last and ending with the first.'
Then the crowds who went ahead of him and those who followed shouted:
Hosanna to the Son of David!
Blessed is he who comes in the name
of the Lord!
Hosanna in the highest heaven!
When the chief priests and the scribes saw the wonders that he did and the children shouting in the temple, “Hosanna to the Son of David! ” they were indignant
So they answered Jesus, “We don't know.”
And he said to them, “Neither will I tell you by what authority I do these things.
“What do you think? A man had two sons. He went to the first and said, ‘My son, go work in the vineyard today.'
“Then the man went to the other and said the same thing. ‘I will, sir,' he answered, but he didn't go.
“Caesar's,” they said to him.
Then he said to them, “Give, then, to Caesar the things that are Caesar's, and to God the things that are God's.”
“Teacher, Moses said, if a man dies, having no children, his brother is to marry his wife and raise up offspring for his brother.
“Now there were seven brothers among us. The first got married and died. Having no offspring, he left his wife to his brother.
“For in the resurrection they neither marry nor are given in marriage but are like[fn] angels in heaven.
“They tie up heavy loads that are hard to carry[fn] and put them on people's shoulders, but they themselves aren't willing to lift a finger to move them.
“Woe to you, blind guides, who say, ‘Whoever takes an oath by the temple, it means nothing. But whoever takes an oath by the gold of the temple is bound by his oath.'[fn]
“The one who takes an oath by the temple takes an oath by it and by him who dwells in it.
“And the one who takes an oath by heaven takes an oath by God's throne and by him who sits on it.
“For to everyone who has, more will be given, and he will have more than enough. But from the one who does not have, even what he has will be taken away from him.
“Then he will also say to those on the left, ‘Depart from me, you who are cursed, into the eternal fire prepared for the devil and his angels!
“Truly I tell you, wherever this gospel is proclaimed in the whole world, what she has done will also be told in memory of her.”
On the first day of Unleavened Bread the disciples came to Jesus and asked, “Where do you want us to make preparations for you to eat the Passover? ”
“The Son of Man will go just as it is written about him, but woe to that man by whom the Son of Man is betrayed! It would have been better for him if he had not been born.”
Then he came to the disciples and found them sleeping. He asked Peter, “So, couldn't you stay awake with me one hour?
After a little while those standing there approached and said to Peter, “You really are one of them, since even your accent[fn] gives you away.”
After tying him up, they led him away and handed him over to Pilate,[fn] the governor.
At the festival the governor's custom was to release to the crowd a prisoner they wanted.
While he was sitting on the judge's bench, his wife sent word to him, “Have nothing to do with that righteous man, for today I've suffered terribly in a dream because of him.”
Many women who had followed Jesus from Galilee and looked after him were there, watching from a distance.
When it was evening, a rich man from Arimathea named Joseph came, who himself had also become a disciple of Jesus.
He approached Pilate and asked for Jesus's body. Then Pilate ordered that it[fn] be released.
“So give orders that the tomb be made secure until the third day. Otherwise, his disciples may come, steal him, and tell the people, ‘He has been raised from the dead,' and the last deception will be worse than the first.”
The whole Judean countryside and all the people of Jerusalem were going out to him, and they were baptized by him in the Jordan River, confessing their sins.
telling him, “See that you say nothing to anyone; but go and show yourself to the priest, and offer what Moses commanded for your cleansing, as a testimony to them.”[fn]
“Which is easier: to say to the paralytic, ‘Your sins are forgiven,' or to say, ‘Get up, take your mat, and walk'?
“But so that you may know that the Son of Man has authority on earth to forgive sins” — he told the paralytic —
While he was reclining at the table in Levi's house, many tax collectors and sinners were eating[fn] with Jesus and his disciples, for there were many who were following him.
After looking around at them with anger, he was grieved at the hardness of their hearts and told the man, “Stretch out your hand.” So he stretched it out, and his hand was restored.
The scribes who had come down from Jerusalem said, “He is possessed by Beelzebul,” and, “He drives out demons by the ruler of the demons.”
“The soil produces a crop by itself — first the blade, then the head, and then the full grain on the head.
He got up, rebuked the wind, and said to the sea, “Silence! Be still! ” The wind ceased, and there was a great calm.
Those who had seen it described to them what had happened to the demon-possessed man and told about the pigs.
Having heard about Jesus, she came up behind him in the crowd and touched his clothing.
Immediately Jesus realized that power had gone out from him. He turned around in the crowd and said, “Who touched my clothes? ”
When Jesus overheard[fn] what was said, he told the synagogue leader, “Don't be afraid. Only believe.”
When Herodias's own daughter[fn] came in and danced, she pleased Herod and his guests. The king said to the girl, “Ask me whatever you want, and I'll give it to you.”
Then he instructed them to have all the people sit down in groups on the green grass.
“But you say, ‘If anyone tells his father or mother: Whatever benefit you might have received from me is corban' ” (that is, an offering devoted to God),
He commanded the crowd to sit down on the ground. Taking the seven loaves, he gave thanks, broke them, and gave them to his disciples to set before the people. So they served them to the crowd.
Peter said to Jesus, “Rabbi, it's good for us to be here. Let's set up three shelters: one for you, one for Moses, and one for Elijah” —
Jesus said to him, “ ‘If you can'?[fn] Everything is possible for the one who believes.”
But he was dismayed by this demand, and he went away grieving, because he had many possessions.
Looking at them, Jesus said, “With man it is impossible, but not with God, because all things are possible with God.”
“who will not receive a hundred times more, now at this time — houses, brothers and sisters, mothers and children, and fields, with persecutions — and eternal life in the age to come.
So they answered Jesus, “We don't know.”
And Jesus said to them, “Neither will I tell you by what authority I do these things.”
“At harvest time he sent a servant to the farmers to collect some of the fruit of the vineyard from them.
Jesus told them, “Give to Caesar the things that are Caesar's, and to God the things that are God's.” And they were utterly amazed at him.
“Teacher, Moses wrote for us that if a man's brother dies, leaving a wife behind but no child, that man should take the wife and raise up offspring for his brother.
“David himself says by the Holy Spirit:
The Lord declared to my Lord,
‘Sit at my right hand
until I put your enemies under your feet.'
“It is like a man on a journey, who left his house, gave authority to his servants, gave each one his work, and commanded the doorkeeper to be alert.
“Wherever he enters, tell the owner of the house, ‘The Teacher says, “Where is my guest room where I may eat the Passover with my disciples? ” '
“For the Son of Man will go just as it is written about him, but woe to that man by whom the Son of Man is betrayed! It would have been better for him if he had not been born.”
Then he came and found them sleeping. He said to Peter, “Simon, are you sleeping? Couldn't you stay awake one hour?
But again he denied it. After a little while those standing there said to Peter again, “You certainly are one of them, since you're also a Galilean.”[fn]
Wanting to satisfy the crowd, Pilate released Barabbas to them; and after having Jesus flogged, he handed him over to be crucified.
“But go, tell his disciples and Peter, ‘He is going ahead of you to Galilee; you will see him there just as he told you.' ”
Meanwhile, the people were waiting for Zechariah, amazed that he stayed so long in the sanctuary.
When he did come out, he could not speak to them. Then they realized that he had seen a vision in the sanctuary. He was making signs to them and remained speechless.
In the sixth month, the angel Gabriel was sent by God to a town in Galilee called Nazareth,
But she was deeply troubled by this statement, wondering what kind of greeting this could be.
Blessed is the Lord, the God of Israel,
because he has visited
and provided redemption for his people.
But the angel said to them, “Don't be afraid, for look, I proclaim to you good news of great joy that will be for all the people:[fn]
Suddenly there was a multitude of the heavenly host[fn] with the angel, praising God and saying:
And when the days of their purification according to the law of Moses were finished, they brought him up to Jerusalem to present him to the Lord
(just as it is written in the law of the Lord, Every firstborn male will be dedicated[fn] to the Lord)
and to offer a sacrifice (according to what is stated in the law of the Lord, a pair of turtledoves or two young pigeons).
Then Simeon blessed them and told his mother Mary, “Indeed, this child is destined to cause the fall and rise of many in Israel and to be a sign that will be opposed[fn] —
“Therefore produce fruit consistent with repentance. And don't start saying to yourselves, ‘We have Abraham as our father,' for I tell you that God is able to raise up children for Abraham from these stones.
He replied to them, “The one who has two shirts must share with someone who has none, and the one who has food must do the same.”
He then rolled up the scroll, gave it back to the attendant, and sat down. And the eyes of everyone in the synagogue were fixed on him.
“But I say to you, there were certainly many widows in Israel in Elijah's days, when the sky was shut up for three years and six months while a great famine came over all the land.
“And in the prophet Elisha's time, there were many in Israel who had leprosy,[fn] and yet not one of them was cleansed except Naaman the Syrian.”
So he stood over her and rebuked the fever, and it left her. She got up immediately and began to serve them.
and so were James and John, Zebedee's sons, who were Simon's partners.
“Don't be afraid,” Jesus told Simon. “From now on you will be catching people.”
Then he ordered him to tell no one: “But go and show yourself to the priest, and offer what Moses commanded for your cleansing as a testimony to them.”
“But so that you may know that the Son of Man has authority on earth to forgive sins” — he told the paralyzed man, “I tell you: Get up, take your stretcher, and go home.”
But he knew their thoughts and told the man with the shriveled hand, “Get up and stand here.”[fn] So he got up and stood there.
They, however, were filled with rage and started discussing with one another what they might do to Jesus.
“Rejoice in that day and leap for joy. Take note — your reward is great in heaven, for this is the way their ancestors used to treat the prophets.
“If anyone hits you on the cheek, offer the other also. And if anyone takes away your coat, don't hold back your shirt either.
“Why do you look at the splinter in your brother's eye, but don't notice the beam of wood in your own eye?
“Or how can you say to your brother, ‘Brother, let me take out the splinter that is in your eye,' when you yourself don't see the beam of wood in your eye? Hypocrite! First take the beam of wood out of your eye, and then you will see clearly to take out the splinter in your brother's eye.
“For I too am a man placed under authority, having soldiers under my command. I say to this one, ‘Go,' and he goes; and to another, ‘Come,' and he comes; and to my servant, ‘Do this,' and he does it.”
Jesus heard this and was amazed at him, and turning to the crowd following him, he said, “I tell you, I have not found so great a faith even in Israel.”
Afterward he was on his way to a town called Nain. His disciples and a large crowd were traveling with him.
Turning to the woman, he said to Simon, “Do you see this woman? I entered your house; you gave me no water for my feet, but she, with her tears, has washed my feet and wiped them with her hair.
Afterward he was traveling from one town and village to another, preaching and telling the good news of the kingdom of God. The Twelve were with him,
They came and woke him up, saying, “Master, Master, we're going to die! ”
Then he got up and rebuked the wind and the raging waves. So they ceased, and there was a calm.
Then he took the five loaves and the two fish, and looking up to heaven, he blessed and broke them. He kept giving them to the disciples to set before the crowd.
As the boy was still approaching, the demon knocked him down and threw him into severe convulsions. But Jesus rebuked the unclean spirit, healed the boy, and gave him back to his father.
“For everyone who asks receives, and the one who seeks finds, and to the one who knocks, the door will be opened.
But some of them said, “He drives out demons by Beelzebul, the ruler of the demons.”
“Anyone who speaks a word against the Son of Man will be forgiven, but the one who blasphemes against the Holy Spirit will not be forgiven.
Someone from the crowd said to him, “Teacher, tell my brother to divide the inheritance with me.”
“As you are going with your adversary to the ruler, make an effort to settle with him on the way. Then he won't drag you before the judge, the judge hand you over to the bailiff, and the bailiff throw you into prison.
At that time, some people came and reported to him about the Galileans whose blood Pilate had mixed with their sacrifices.
“Or those eighteen that the tower in Siloam fell on and killed — do you think they were more sinful than all the other people who live in Jerusalem?
And he told this parable: “A man had a fig tree that was planted in his vineyard. He came looking for fruit on it and found none.
But the leader of the synagogue, indignant because Jesus had healed on the Sabbath, responded by telling the crowd, “There are six days when work should be done; therefore come on those days and be healed and not on the Sabbath day.”
He also said to the one who had invited him, “When you give a lunch or a dinner, don't invite your friends, your brothers or sisters, your relatives, or your rich neighbors, because they might invite you back, and you would be repaid.
“So the servant came back and reported these things to his master. Then in anger, the master of the house told his servant, ‘Go out quickly into the streets and alleys of the city, and bring in here the poor, maimed, blind, and lame.'
“Or what king, going to war against another king, will not first sit down and decide if he is able with ten thousand to oppose the one who comes against him with twenty thousand?
“I tell you, in the same way, there will be more joy in heaven over one sinner who repents than over ninety-nine righteous people who don't need repentance.
“The younger of them said to his father, ‘Father, give me the share of the estate I have coming to me.' So he distributed the assets[fn] to them.
“But he replied to his father, ‘Look, I have been slaving many years for you, and I have never disobeyed your orders, yet you never gave me a goat so that I could celebrate with my friends.
“So he summoned each one of his master's debtors. ‘How much do you owe my master? ' he asked the first one.
“So if you have not been faithful with worldly wealth, who will trust you with what is genuine?
“And being in torment in Hades, he looked up and saw Abraham a long way off, with Lazarus at his side.
“But the tax collector, standing far off, would not even raise his eyes to heaven but kept striking his chest and saying, ‘God, have mercy on me,[fn] a sinner! '
“who will not receive many times more at this time, and eternal life in the age to come.”
Then he took the Twelve aside and told them, “See, we are going up to Jerusalem. Everything that is written through the prophets about the Son of Man will be accomplished.
Instantly he could see, and he began to follow him, glorifying God. All the people, when they saw it, gave praise to God.
When Jesus came to the place, he looked up and said to him, “Zacchaeus, hurry and come down because today it is necessary for me to stay at your house.”
“Today salvation has come to this house,” Jesus told him, “because he too is a son of Abraham.
“So he said to those standing there, ‘Take the mina away from him and give it to the one who has ten minas.'
“ ‘I tell you, that to everyone who has, more will be given; and from the one who does not have, even what he does have will be taken away.
“Well then,” he told them, “give to Caesar the things that are Caesar's, and to God the things that are God's.”
“Teacher, Moses wrote for us that if a man's brother has a wife, and dies childless, his brother should take the wife and produce offspring for his brother.
“For David himself says in the Book of Psalms:
The Lord declared to my Lord,
‘Sit at my right hand
“Woe to pregnant women and nursing mothers in those days, for there will be great distress in the land[fn] and wrath against this people.
“Tell the owner of the house, ‘The Teacher asks you, “Where is the guest room where I can eat the Passover with my disciples? ” '
“For the Son of Man will go away as it has been determined, but woe to that man by whom he is betrayed! ”
While he was still speaking, suddenly a mob came, and one of the Twelve named Judas was leading them. He came near Jesus to kiss him,
Then the Lord turned and looked at Peter. So Peter remembered the word of the Lord, how he had said to him, “Before the rooster crows today, you will deny me three times.”
Pilate then told the chief priests and the crowds, “I find no grounds for charging this man.”
Then Herod, with his soldiers, treated him with contempt, mocked him, dressed him in bright clothing, and sent him back to Pilate.
and said to them, “You have brought me this man as one who misleads the people. But in fact, after examining him in your presence, I have found no grounds to charge this man with those things you accuse him of.
He told them, “These are my words that I spoke to you while I was still with you — that everything written about me in the Law of Moses, the Prophets, and the Psalms must be fulfilled.”
He was in the world, and the world was created through him, and yet the world did not recognize him.
“I didn't know him, but I came baptizing with water so that he might be revealed to Israel.”
Philip found Nathanael and told him, “We have found the one Moses wrote about in the law (and so did the prophets): Jesus the son of Joseph, from Nazareth.”
Then he said to them, “Now draw some out and take it to the headwaiter.”[fn] And they did.
So when he was raised from the dead, his disciples remembered that he had said this, and they believed the Scripture and the statement Jesus had made.
and because he did not need anyone to testify about man; for he himself knew what was in man.
The one who believes in the Son has eternal life, but the one who rejects the Son[fn] will not see life; instead, the wrath of God remains on him.
so he came to a town of Samaria called Sychar near the property[fn] that Jacob had given his son Joseph.
Jesus told her, “Believe me, woman, an hour is coming when you will worship the Father neither on this mountain nor in Jerusalem.
“But an hour is coming, and is now here, when the true worshipers will worship the Father in Spirit and in truth.[fn] Yes, the Father wants such people to worship him.
“Go,” Jesus told him, “your son will live.” The man believed what[fn] Jesus said to him and departed.
and so the Jews said to the man who had been healed, “This is the Sabbath. The law prohibits you from picking up your mat.”
But the man who was healed did not know who it was, because Jesus had slipped away into the crowd that was there.[fn]
This is why the Jews began trying all the more to kill him: Not only was he breaking the Sabbath, but he was even calling God his own Father, making himself equal to God.
“Truly I tell you, anyone who hears my word and believes him who sent me has eternal life and will not come under judgment but has passed from death to life.
“For just as the Father has life in himself, so also he has granted to the Son to have life in himself.
Jesus said, “Have the people sit down.”
There was plenty of grass in that place; so they sat down. The men numbered about five thousand.
“For the bread of God is the one who comes down from heaven and gives life to the world.”
“For no one does anything in secret while he's seeking public recognition. If you do these things, show yourself to the world.”
They asked this to trap him, in order that they might have evidence to accuse him.
Jesus stooped down and started writing on the ground with his finger.
Then Jesus said to the Jews who had believed him, “If you continue in my word,[fn] you really are my disciples.
“I speak what I have seen in the presence of the Father;[fn] so then, you do what you have heard from your father.”
Again they asked the blind man, “What do you say about him, since he opened your eyes? ”
“He's a prophet,” he said.
So a second time they summoned the man who had been blind and told him, “Give glory to God. We know that this man is a sinner.”
“But if I am doing them and you don't believe me, believe the works. This way you will know and understand[fn] that the Father is in me and I in the Father.”
As soon as Martha heard that Jesus was coming, she went to meet him, but Mary remained seated in the house.
Jesus had not yet come into the village but was still in the place where Martha had met him.
So they came to Philip, who was from Bethsaida in Galilee, and requested of him, “Sir, we want to see Jesus.”
“The one who loves his life will lose it, and the one who hates his life in this world will keep it for eternal life.
Before the Passover Festival, Jesus knew that his hour had come to depart from this world to the Father. Having loved his own who were in the world, he loved them to the end.
“Don't you believe that I am in the Father and the Father is in me? The words I speak to you I do not speak on my own. The Father who lives in me does his works.
“Believe me that I am in the Father and the Father is in me. Otherwise, believe[fn] because of the works themselves.
“Whatever you ask in my name, I will do it so that the Father may be glorified in the Son.
Judas (not Iscariot) said to him, “Lord, how is it you're going to reveal yourself to us and not to the world? ”
“But this happened so that the statement written in their law might be fulfilled: They hated me for no reason.
“They will ban you from the synagogues. In fact, a time is coming when anyone who kills you will think he is offering service to God.
“I have told you these things so that in me you may have peace. You will have suffering in this world. Be courageous! I have conquered the world.”
“I am no longer in the world, but they are in the world, and I am coming to you. Holy Father, protect[fn] them by your name that you have given me, so that they may be one as we are one.
“Now I am coming to you, and I speak these things in the world so that they may have my joy completed in them.
Then Simon Peter, who had a sword, drew it, struck the high priest's servant, and cut off his right ear. (The servant's name was Malchus.)
At that, Jesus said to Peter, “Put your sword away! Am I not to drink the cup the Father has given me? ”
Simon Peter was following Jesus, as was another disciple. That disciple was an acquaintance of the high priest; so he went with Jesus into the high priest's courtyard.
Then the servant girl who was the doorkeeper said to Peter, “You aren't one of this man's disciples too, are you? ”
“I am not,” he said.
“I have spoken openly to the world,” Jesus answered him. “I have always taught in the synagogue and in the temple, where all the Jews gather, and I haven't spoken anything in secret.
When he had said these things, one of the officials standing by slapped Jesus, saying, “Is this the way you answer the high priest? ”
One of the high priest's servants, a relative of the man whose ear Peter had cut off, said, “Didn't I see you with him in the garden? ”
He went back into the headquarters and asked Jesus, “Where are you from? ” But Jesus did not give him an answer.
From that moment Pilate kept trying[fn] to release him. But the Jews shouted, “If you release this man, you are not Caesar's friend. Anyone who makes himself a king opposes Caesar! ”
So the chief priests of the Jews said to Pilate, “Don't write, ‘The king of the Jews,' but that he said, ‘I am the king of the Jews.' ”
Standing by the cross of Jesus were his mother, his mother's sister, Mary the wife of Clopas, and Mary Magdalene.
Then he said to the disciple, “Here is your mother.” And from that hour the disciple took her into his home.
There was a garden in the place where he was crucified. A new tomb was in the garden; no one had yet been placed in it.
Then he said to Thomas, “Put your finger here and look at my hands. Reach out your hand and put it into my side. Don't be faithless, but believe.”
The disciple, the one Jesus loved, said to Peter, “It is the Lord! ”
When Simon Peter heard that it was the Lord, he tied his outer clothing around him (for he had taken it off) and plunged into the sea.
When they had eaten breakfast, Jesus asked Simon Peter, “Simon, son of John,[fn] do you love me more than these? ”
“Yes, Lord,” he said to him, “you know that I love you.”
“Feed my lambs,” he told him.
So when they had come together, they asked him, “Lord, are you restoring the kingdom to Israel at this time? ”
“I will display wonders in the heaven above
and signs on the earth below:
blood and fire and a cloud of smoke.
“For it was not David who ascended into the heavens, but he himself says:
The Lord declared to my Lord,
‘Sit at my right hand
because they were annoyed that they were teaching the people and proclaiming in Jesus the resurrection of the dead.
“let it be known to all of you and to all the people of Israel, that by the name of Jesus Christ of Nazareth, whom you crucified and whom God raised from the dead — by him this man is standing here before you healthy.
When they observed the boldness of Peter and John and realized that they were uneducated and untrained men, they were amazed and recognized that they had been with Jesus.
“Wasn't it yours while you possessed it? And after it was sold, wasn't it at your disposal? Why is it that you planned this thing in your heart? You have not lied to people but to God.”
Many signs and wonders were being done among the people through the hands of the apostles. They were all together in Solomon's Colonnade.
Believers were added to the Lord in increasing numbers — multitudes of both men and women.
“God exalted this man to his right hand as ruler and Savior, to give repentance to Israel and forgiveness of sins.
But a Pharisee named Gamaliel, a teacher of the law who was respected by all the people, stood up in the Sanhedrin and ordered the men[fn] to be taken outside for a little while.
Now Stephen, full of grace and power, was performing great wonders and signs among the people.
Opposition arose, however, from some members of the Freedmen's Synagogue, composed of both Cyrenians and Alexandrians, and some from Cilicia and Asia, and they began to argue with Stephen.
“Brothers and fathers,” he replied, “listen: The God of glory appeared to our father Abraham when he was in Mesopotamia, before he settled in Haran,
“I will judge the nation that they will serve as slaves, God said. After this, they will come out and worship me in this place.
“The second time, Joseph revealed himself to his brothers, and Joseph's family became known to Pharaoh.
“As the time was approaching to fulfill the promise that God had made to Abraham, the people flourished and multiplied in Egypt
“At this time Moses was born, and he was beautiful in God's sight. He was cared for in his father's home for three months.
“When he saw one of them being mistreated, he came to his rescue and avenged the oppressed man by striking down the Egyptian.
“When he heard this, Moses fled and became an exile in the land of Midian, where he became the father of two sons.
“They told Aaron: Make us gods who will go before us. As for this Moses who brought us out of the land of Egypt, we don't know what's happened to him.
“Our ancestors had the tabernacle of the testimony in the wilderness, just as he who spoke to Moses commanded him to make it according to the pattern he had seen.
“He found favor in God's sight and asked that he might provide a dwelling place for the God[fn] of Jacob.
But when they believed Philip, as he proclaimed the good news about the kingdom of God and the name of Jesus Christ, both men and women were baptized.
Even Simon himself believed. And after he was baptized, he followed Philip everywhere and was amazed as he observed the signs and great miracles that were being performed.
“You have no part or share in this matter, because your heart is not right before God.
The eunuch said to Philip, “I ask you, who is the prophet saying this about — himself or someone else? ”
Now Saul was still breathing threats and murder against the disciples of the Lord. He went to the high priest
but Saul learned of their plot. So they were watching the gates day and night intending to kill him,
So the church throughout all Judea, Galilee, and Samaria had peace and was strengthened. Living in the fear of the Lord and encouraged by the Holy Spirit, it increased in numbers.
He was a devout man and feared God along with his whole household. He did many charitable deeds for the Jewish people and always prayed to God.
“not by all the people, but by us whom God appointed as witnesses, who ate and drank with him after he rose from the dead.
“He commanded us to preach to the people and to testify that he is the one appointed by God to be the judge of the living and the dead.
The circumcised believers who had come with Peter were amazed because the gift of the Holy Spirit had been poured out even on the Gentiles.
“He reported to us how he had seen the angel standing in his house and saying, ‘Send to Joppa, and call for Simon, who is also named Peter.
When he arrived and saw the grace of God, he was glad and encouraged all of them to remain true to the Lord with devoted hearts,
for he was a good man, full of the Holy Spirit and of faith. And large numbers of people were added to the Lord.
After the arrest, he put him in prison and assigned four squads of four soldiers each to guard him, intending to bring him out to the people after the Passover.
At once an angel of the Lord struck him because he did not give the glory to God, and he was eaten by worms and died.
As they were worshiping[fn] the Lord and fasting, the Holy Spirit said, “Set apart for me Barnabas and Saul for the work to which I have called them.”
He was with the proconsul, Sergius Paulus, an intelligent man. This man summoned Barnabas and Saul and wanted to hear the word of God.
“From this man's descendants, as he promised, God brought to Israel the Savior, Jesus.[fn]
“Before his coming to public attention, John had previously proclaimed a baptism of repentance to all the people of Israel.
“God has fulfilled this for us, their children, by raising up Jesus, as it is written in the second Psalm:
You are my Son;
today I have become your Father.[fn]
After the synagogue had been dismissed, many of the Jews and devout converts to Judaism followed Paul and Barnabas, who were speaking with them and urging them to continue in the grace of God.
So they stayed there a long time and spoke boldly for the Lord, who testified to the message of his grace by enabling them to do signs and wonders.
After the disciples gathered around him, he got up and went into the town. The next day he left with Barnabas for Derbe.
When they had appointed elders for them in every church and prayed with fasting, they committed them to the Lord in whom they had believed.
After Paul and Barnabas had engaged them in serious argument and debate, Paul and Barnabas and some others were appointed to go up to the apostles and elders in Jerusalem about this issue.
Then the apostles and the elders, with the whole church, decided to select men who were among them and to send them to Antioch with Paul and Barnabas: Judas, called Barsabbas, and Silas, both leading men among the brothers.
During the night Paul had a vision in which a Macedonian man was standing and pleading with him, “Cross over to Macedonia and help us! ”
After she and her household were baptized, she urged us, “If you consider me a believer in the Lord, come and stay at my house.” And she persuaded us.
As she followed Paul and us she cried out, “These men, who are proclaiming to you[fn] a way of salvation, are the servants of the Most High God.”
After they had severely flogged them, they threw them in jail, ordering the jailer to guard them carefully.
The jailer called for lights, rushed in, and fell down trembling before Paul and Silas.
He brought them into his house, set a meal before them, and rejoiced because he had come to believe in God with his entire household.
As usual, Paul went into the synagogue, and on three Sabbath days reasoned with them from the Scriptures,
Some of them were persuaded and joined Paul and Silas, including a large number of God-fearing Greeks, as well as a number of the leading women.
When Silas and Timothy arrived from Macedonia, Paul devoted himself to preaching the word[fn] and testified to the Jews that Jesus is the Messiah.
Crispus, the leader of the synagogue, believed in the Lord, along with his whole household. Many of the Corinthians, when they heard, believed and were baptized.
The Lord said to Paul in a night vision, “Don't be afraid, but keep on speaking and don't be silent.
While Gallio was proconsul of Achaia, the Jews made a united attack against Paul and brought him to the tribunal.
And they all[fn] seized Sosthenes, the leader of the synagogue, and beat him in front of the tribunal, but none of these things mattered to Gallio.
Paul said, “John baptized with a baptism of repentance, telling the people that they should believe in the one who would come after him, that is, in Jesus.”
Some Jews in the crowd gave instructions to Alexander[fn] after they pushed him to the front. Motioning with his hand, Alexander wanted to make his defense to the people.
“serving the Lord with all humility, with tears, and during the trials that came to me through the plots of the Jews.
“And now I commit you to God and to the word of his grace, which is able to build you up and to give you an inheritance among all who are sanctified.
grieving most of all over his statement that they would never see his face again. And they accompanied him to the ship.
We sought out the disciples and stayed there seven days. Through the Spirit they told Paul not to go to Jerusalem.
As they were trying to kill him, word went up to the commander of the regiment that all Jerusalem was in chaos.
Some in the crowd were shouting one thing and some another. Since he was not able to get reliable information because of the uproar, he ordered him to be taken into the barracks.
As he was about to be brought into the barracks, Paul said to the commander, “Am I allowed to say something to you? ”
He replied, “You know how to speak Greek?
After he had given permission, Paul stood on the steps and motioned with his hand to the people. When there was a great hush, he addressed them in Aramaic:[fn]
When the centurion heard this, he went and reported to the commander, saying, “What are you going to do? For this man is a Roman citizen.”
Paul looked straight at the Sanhedrin and said, “Brothers, I have lived my life before God in all good conscience to this day.”
The shouting grew loud, and some of the scribes of the Pharisees' party got up and argued vehemently, “We find nothing evil in this man. What if a spirit or an angel has spoken to him? ”[fn]
“So now you, along with the Sanhedrin, make a request to the commander that he bring him down to you[fn] as if you were going to investigate his case more thoroughly. But, before he gets near, we are ready to kill him.”
But the son of Paul's sister, hearing about their ambush, came and entered the barracks and reported it to Paul.
When these men entered Caesarea and delivered the letter to the governor, they also presented Paul to him.
Five days later Ananias the high priest came down with some elders and a lawyer named Tertullus. These men presented their case against Paul to the governor.
“But I admit this to you: I worship the God of my ancestors according to the Way, which they call a sect, believing everything that is in accordance with the law and written in the prophets.
He ordered that the centurion keep Paul under guard, though he could have some freedom, and that he should not prevent any of his friends from meeting[fn] his needs.
“Therefore,” he said, “let those of you who have authority go down with me and accuse him, if he has done anything wrong.”
But Festus, wanting to do the Jews a favor, replied to Paul, “Are you willing to go up to Jerusalem to be tried before me there on these charges? ”
Since they were staying there several days, Festus presented Paul's case to the king, saying, “There's a man who was left as a prisoner by Felix.
“I have nothing definite to write to my lord about him. Therefore, I have brought him before all of you, and especially before you, King Agrippa, so that after this examination is over, I may have something to write.
“that the Messiah would suffer, and that, as the first to rise from the dead, he would proclaim light to our people and to the Gentiles.”
“I wish before God,” replied Paul, “that whether easily or with difficulty,[fn] not only you but all who listen to me today might become as I am — except for these chains.”
Agrippa said to Festus, “This man could have been released if he had not appealed to Caesar.”
The next day we put in at Sidon, and Julius treated Paul kindly and allowed him to go to his friends to receive their care.
But the centurion paid attention to the captain and the owner of the ship rather than to what Paul said.
Since the ship was caught and unable to head into the wind, we gave way to it and were driven along.
“So take courage, men, because I believe God that it will be just the way it was told to me.
When the fourteenth night came, we were drifting in the Adriatic Sea, and about midnight the sailors thought they were approaching land.
Paul said to the centurion and the soldiers, “Unless these men stay in the ship, you cannot be saved.”
After he said these things and had taken some bread, he gave thanks to God in the presence of all of them, and after he broke it, he began to eat.
Now in the area around that place was an estate belonging to the leading man of the island, named Publius, who welcomed us and entertained us hospitably for three days.
Now the brothers and sisters from there had heard the news about us and had come to meet us as far as the Forum of Appius and the Three Taverns. When Paul saw them, he thanked God and took courage.
When we entered Rome,[fn] Paul was allowed to live by himself with the soldier who guarded him.
After three days he called together the leaders of the Jews. When they had gathered he said to them, “Brothers, although I have done nothing against our people or the customs of our ancestors, I was delivered as a prisoner from Jerusalem into the hands of the Romans.
First, I thank my God through Jesus Christ for all of you because the news of your faith[fn] is being reported in all the world.
For I am not ashamed of the gospel,[fn] because it is the power of God for salvation to everyone who believes, first to the Jew, and also to the Greek.
but glory, honor, and peace for everyone who does what is good, first to the Jew, and also to the Greek.
For the hearers of the law are not righteous before God, but the doers of the law will be justified.[fn]
an instructor of the ignorant, a teacher of the immature, having the embodiment of knowledge and truth in the law —
God presented him to demonstrate his righteousness at the present time, so that he would be just and justify the one who has faith in Jesus.
For what does the Scripture say? Abraham believed God, and it was credited to him for righteousness.
But to the one who does not work, but believes on him who justifies the ungodly, his faith is credited for righteousness.
Is this blessing only for the circumcised, then? Or is it also for the uncircumcised? For we say, Faith was credited to Abraham for righteousness.
For the promise to Abraham or to his descendants that he would inherit the world was not through the law, but through the righteousness that comes by faith.
He did not waver in unbelief at God's promise but was strengthened in his faith and gave glory to God,
For if, while we were enemies, we were reconciled to God through the death of his Son, then how much more, having been reconciled, will we be saved by his life.
And not only that, but we also boast in God through our Lord Jesus Christ, through whom we have now received this reconciliation.
so that, just as sin reigned in death, so also grace will reign through righteousness, resulting in eternal life through Jesus Christ our Lord.
For the death he died, he died to sin once for all time; but the life he lives, he lives to God.
And do not offer any parts[fn] of it to sin as weapons for unrighteousness. But as those who are alive from the dead, offer yourselves to God, and all the parts of yourselves to God as weapons for righteousness.
But thank God that, although you used to be slaves of sin, you obeyed from the heart that pattern of teaching to which you were handed[fn] over,
But now, since you have been set free from sin and have become enslaved to God, you have your fruit, which results in sanctification — and the outcome is eternal life!
For the wages of sin is death, but the gift of God is eternal life in Christ Jesus our Lord.
For example, a married woman is legally bound to her husband while he lives. But if her husband dies, she is released from the law regarding the husband.
Therefore, my brothers and sisters, you also were put to death in relation to the law through the body of Christ so that you may belong to another. You belong to him who was raised from the dead in order that we may bear fruit for God.
For when we were in the flesh, the sinful passions aroused through the law were working in us[fn] to bear fruit for death.
but I see a different law in the parts of my body,[fn] waging war against the law of my mind and taking me prisoner to the law of sin in the parts of my body.
Thanks be to God through Jesus Christ our Lord! So then, with my mind I myself am serving the law of God, but with my flesh, the law of sin.
The mindset of the flesh is hostile to God because it does not submit to God's law. Indeed, it is unable to do so.
nor height nor depth, nor any other created thing will be able to separate us from the love of God that is in Christ Jesus our Lord.
not from works but from the one who calls — she was told, The older will serve the younger.
For he tells Moses, I will show mercy to whom I will show mercy, and I will have compassion on whom I will have compassion.
For the Scripture tells Pharaoh, I raised you up for this reason so that I may display my power in you and that my name may be proclaimed in the whole earth.
On the contrary, who are you, a human being, to talk back to God? Will what is formed say to the one who formed it, “Why did you make me like this? ”
And it will be in the place where they were told,
you are not my people,
there they will be called sons of the living God.
Why is that? Because they did not pursue it by faith, but as if it were by works.[fn] They stumbled over the stumbling stone.
God has not rejected his people whom he foreknew. Or don't you know what the Scripture says in the passage about Elijah — how he pleads with God against Israel?
I don't want you to be ignorant of this mystery, brothers and sisters, so that you will not be conceited: A partial hardening has come upon Israel until the fullness of the Gentiles has come in.
Therefore, brothers and sisters, in view of the mercies of God, I urge you to present your bodies as a living sacrifice, holy and pleasing to God; this is your true worship.[fn]
Do not be conformed to this age, but be transformed by the renewing of your mind, so that you may discern what is the good, pleasing, and perfect will of God.
For by the grace given to me, I tell everyone among you not to think of himself more highly than he should think. Instead, think sensibly, as God has distributed a measure of faith to each one.
For it is God's servant for your good. But if you do wrong, be afraid, because it does not carry the sword for no reason. For it is God's servant, an avenger that brings wrath on the one who does wrong.
Pay your obligations to everyone: taxes to those you owe taxes, tolls to those you owe tolls, respect to those you owe respect, and honor to those you owe honor.
The commandments, Do not commit adultery; do not murder; do not steal;[fn] do not covet; and any other commandment, are summed up by this commandment: Love your neighbor as yourself.
Who are you to judge another's household servant? Before his own Lord he stands or falls. And he will stand, because the Lord is able[fn] to make him stand.
One person judges one day to be more important than another day. Someone else judges every day to be the same. Let each one be fully convinced in his own mind.
Whoever observes the day, observes it for the honor of the Lord.[fn] Whoever eats, eats for the Lord, since he gives thanks to God; and whoever does not eat, it is for the Lord that he does not eat it, and he gives thanks to God.
If we live, we live for the Lord; and if we die, we die for the Lord. Therefore, whether we live or die, we belong to the Lord.
For it is written,
As I live, says the Lord,
every knee will bow to me,
and every tongue will give praise to God.
Therefore, let us no longer judge one another. Instead decide never to put a stumbling block or pitfall in the way of your brother or sister.
I know and am persuaded in the Lord Jesus that nothing is unclean in itself. Still, to someone who considers a thing to be unclean, to that one it is unclean.
Do not tear down God's work because of food. Everything is clean, but it is wrong to make someone fall by what he eats.
because such people do not serve our Lord Christ but their own appetites.[fn] They deceive the hearts of the unsuspecting with smooth talk and flattering words.
Now to him who is able to strengthen you according to my gospel and the proclamation about Jesus Christ, according to the revelation of the mystery kept silent for long ages
I always thank my God for you because of the grace of God given to you in Christ Jesus,
Now I urge you, brothers and sisters, in the name of our Lord Jesus Christ, that all of you agree in what you say, that there be no divisions among you, and that you be united with the same understanding and the same conviction.
Let no one deceive himself. If anyone among you thinks he is wise in this age, let him become a fool so that he can become wise.
For the wisdom of this world is foolishness with God, since it is written, He catches the wise in their craftiness;
For I think God has displayed us, the apostles, in last place, like men condemned to die: We have become a spectacle to the world, both to angels and to people.
hand that one over to Satan for the destruction of the flesh, so that his spirit may be saved in the day of the Lord.
But actually, I wrote[fn] you not to associate with anyone who claims to be a brother or sister and is sexually immoral or greedy, an idolater or verbally abusive, a drunkard or a swindler. Do not even eat with such a person.
“Food is for the stomach and the stomach for food,” and God will do away with both of them. However, the body is not for sexual immorality but for the Lord, and the Lord for the body.
A husband should fulfill his marital duty to his wife, and likewise a wife to her husband.
But if she does leave, she must remain unmarried or be reconciled to her husband — and a husband is not to divorce his wife.
For the unbelieving husband is made holy by the wife, and the unbelieving wife is made holy by the husband.[fn] Otherwise your children would be unclean, but as it is they are holy.
I want you to be without concerns. The unmarried man is concerned about the things of the Lord — how he may please the Lord.
and his interests are divided. The unmarried woman or virgin is concerned about the things of the Lord, so that she may be holy both in body and in spirit. But the married woman is concerned about the things of the world — how she may please her husband.
I am saying this for your own benefit, not to put a restraint on you, but to promote what is proper and so that you may be devoted to the Lord without distraction.
Food will not bring us close to God.[fn] We are not worse off if we don't eat, and we are not better if we do eat.
For it is written in the law of Moses, Do not muzzle an ox while it treads out grain. Is God really concerned about oxen?
No temptation has come upon you except what is common to humanity. But God is faithful; he will not allow you to be tempted beyond what you are able, but with the temptation he will also provide the way out so that you may be able to bear it.
Judge for yourselves: Is it proper for a woman to pray to God with her head uncovered?
but when we are judged by the Lord, we are disciplined, so that we may not be condemned with the world.
Therefore, if I do not know the meaning of the language, I will be a foreigner[fn] to the speaker, and the speaker will be a foreigner to me.
What then? I will pray with the spirit, and I will also pray with my understanding. I will sing praise with the spirit, and I will also sing praise with my understanding.
yet in the church I would rather speak five words with my understanding, in order to teach others also, than ten thousand words in a tongue.
It is written in the law,
I will speak to this people
by people of other tongues
and by the lips of foreigners,
and even then, they will not listen to me,
says the Lord.
The secrets of his heart will be revealed, and as a result he will fall facedown and worship God, proclaiming, “God is really among you.”
But if there is no interpreter, that person is to keep silent in the church and speak to himself and God.
Then comes the end, when he hands over the kingdom to God the Father, when he abolishes all rule and all authority and power.
When everything is subject to Christ, then the Son himself will also be subject to the one who subjected everything to him, so that God may be all in all.
I face death every day, as surely as I may boast about you, brothers and sisters, in Christ Jesus our Lord.
Indeed, we felt that we had received the sentence of death, so that we would not trust in ourselves but in God who raises the dead.
Indeed, this is our boast: The testimony of our conscience is that we have conducted ourselves in the world, and especially toward you, with godly sincerity and purity, not by human wisdom but by God's grace.
For every one of God's promises is “Yes” in him. Therefore, through him we also say “Amen” to the glory of God.
But thanks be to God, who always leads us in Christ's triumphal procession and through us spreads the aroma of the knowledge of him in every place.
For to God we are the fragrance of Christ among those who are being saved and among those who are perishing.
And he died for all so that those who live should no longer live for themselves, but for the one who died for them and was raised.
Therefore, we are ambassadors for Christ, since God is making his appeal through us. We plead on Christ's behalf, “Be reconciled to God.”
and not just as we had hoped. Instead, they gave themselves first to the Lord and then to us by God's will.
At the present time your surplus is available for their need, so that their abundance may in turn meet your need, in order that there may be equality.
Now the one who provides seed for the sower and bread for food will also provide and multiply your seed and increase the harvest of your righteousness.
You will be enriched in every way for all generosity, which produces thanksgiving to God through us.
For the ministry of this service is not only supplying the needs of the saints but is also overflowing in many expressions of thanks to God.
since the weapons of our warfare are not of the flesh, but are powerful through God for the demolition of strongholds. We demolish arguments
Let such a person consider this: What we are in our letters, when we are absent, we will also be in our actions when we are present.
For I am jealous for you with a godly jealousy, because I have promised you in marriage to one husband — to present a pure virgin to Christ.
Even if I am untrained in public speaking, I am certainly not untrained in knowledge. Indeed, we have in every way made that clear to you in everything.
Three times I was beaten with rods. Once I received a stoning. Three times I was shipwrecked. I have spent a night and a day in the open sea.
For you have heard about my former way of life in Judaism: I intensely persecuted God's church and tried to destroy it.
I advanced in Judaism beyond many contemporaries among my people, because I was extremely zealous for the traditions of my ancestors.
Now the Scripture saw in advance that God would justify the Gentiles by faith and proclaimed the gospel ahead of time to Abraham, saying, All the nations[fn] will be blessed through you.
Now it is clear that no one is justified before God by the law, because the righteous will live by faith.
Now the promises were spoken to Abraham and to his seed. He does not say “and to seeds,” as though referring to many, but referring to one, and to your seed, who is Christ.
For if the inheritance is based on the law, it is no longer based on the promise; but God has graciously given it to Abraham through the promise.
Those who want to make a good impression in the flesh are the ones who would compel you to be circumcised — but only to avoid being persecuted for the cross of Christ.
But as for me, I will never boast about anything except the cross of our Lord Jesus Christ. The world has been crucified to me through the cross, and I to the world.
May peace come to all those who follow this standard, and mercy even to the Israel of God![fn]
as a plan for the right time[fn] — to bring everything together in Christ, both things in heaven and things on earth in him.
This is why, since I heard about your faith in the Lord Jesus and your love for all the saints,
He exercised this power in Christ by raising him from the dead and seating him at his right hand in the heavens —
far above every ruler and authority, power and dominion, and every title given,[fn] not only in this age but also in the one to come.
made us alive with Christ even though we were dead in trespasses. You are saved by grace!
At that time you were without Christ, excluded from the citizenship of Israel, and foreigners to the covenants of promise, without hope and without God in the world.
He did this so that he might reconcile both to God in one body through the cross by which he put the hostility to death.[fn]
This grace was given to me — the least of all the saints — to proclaim to the Gentiles the incalculable riches of Christ,
and to shed light for all about the administration of the mystery hidden for ages in God who created all things.
Now to him who is able to do above and beyond all that we ask or think according to the power that works in us —
Let the thief no longer steal. Instead, he is to do honest work with his own hands, so that he has something to share with anyone in need.
and walk in love, as Christ also loved us and gave himself for us, a sacrificial and fragrant offering to God.
speaking to one another in psalms, hymns, and spiritual songs, singing and making music with your heart to the Lord,
giving thanks always for everything to God the Father in the name of our Lord Jesus Christ,
Now as the church submits to Christ, so also wives are to submit to their husbands in everything.
Slaves, obey your human[fn] masters with fear and trembling, in the sincerity of your heart, as you would Christ.
My goal is to know him and the power of his resurrection and the fellowship of his sufferings, being conformed to his death,
But I have received everything in full, and I have an abundance. I am fully supplied,[fn] having received from Epaphroditus what you provided — a fragrant offering, an acceptable sacrifice, pleasing to God.
because of the hope reserved for you in heaven. You have already heard about this hope in the word of truth, the gospel
that has come to you. It is bearing fruit and growing all over the world, just as it has among you since the day you heard it and came to truly appreciate God's grace.[fn]
giving thanks to the Father, who has enabled you[fn] to share in the saints' inheritance in the light.
when you were buried with him in baptism, in which you were also raised with him through faith in the working of God, who raised him from the dead.
He erased the certificate of debt, with its obligations, that was against us and opposed to us, and has taken it away by nailing it to the cross.
So if you have been raised with Christ, seek the things above, where Christ is, seated at the right hand of God.
Let the word of Christ dwell richly among you, in all wisdom teaching and admonishing one another through psalms, hymns, and spiritual songs,[fn] singing to God with gratitude in your hearts.
And whatever you do, in word or in deed, do everything in the name of the Lord Jesus, giving thanks to God the Father through him.
Whatever you do, do it from the heart, as something done for the Lord and not for people,
knowing that you will receive the reward of an inheritance from the Lord. You serve the Lord Christ.
He is coming with Onesimus, a faithful and dearly loved brother, who is one of you. They will tell you about everything here.
On the contrary, after we had previously suffered and were treated outrageously in Philippi, as you know, we were emboldened by our God to speak the gospel of God to you in spite of great opposition.
Instead, just as we have been approved by God to be entrusted with the gospel, so we speak, not to please people, but rather God, who examines our hearts.
This is why we constantly thank God, because when you received the word of God that you heard from us, you welcomed it not as a human message, but as it truly is, the word of God, which also works effectively in you who believe.
How can we thank God for you in return for all the joy we experience before our God because of you,
We ought to thank God always for you, brothers and sisters, and rightly so, since your faith is flourishing and the love each one of you has for one another is increasing.
But we ought to thank God always for you, brothers and sisters loved by the Lord, because from the beginning[fn] God has chosen you for salvation through sanctification by the Spirit and through belief in the truth.
If anyone does not obey our instruction in this letter, take note of that person; don't associate with him, so that he may be ashamed.
I give thanks to Christ Jesus our Lord who has strengthened me, because he considered me faithful, appointing me to the ministry —
Now to the King eternal, immortal, invisible, the only[fn] God, be honor and glory forever and ever. Amen.
Among them are Hymenaeus and Alexander, whom I have delivered to Satan, so that they may be taught not to blaspheme.
Therefore, I want younger women to marry, have children, manage their households, and give the adversary no opportunity to accuse us.
Instruct those who are rich in the present age not to be arrogant or to set their hope on the uncertainty of wealth, but on God,[fn] who richly provides us with all things to enjoy.
I thank God, whom I serve with a clear conscience as my ancestors did, when I constantly remember you in my prayers night and day.
May the Lord grant mercy to the household of Onesiphorus, because he often refreshed me and was not ashamed of my chains.
No one serving as a soldier gets entangled in the concerns of civilian life; he seeks to please the commanding officer.
Be diligent to present yourself to God as one approved, a worker who doesn't need to be ashamed, correctly teaching the word of truth.
instructing us to deny godlessness and worldly lusts and to live in a sensible, righteous, and godly way in the present age,
Paul, a prisoner of Christ Jesus, and Timothy our brother:
To Philemon our dear friend and coworker,
to Apphia our sister,[fn] to Archippus our fellow soldier, and to the church that meets in your home.
He was faithful to the one who appointed him, just as Moses was in all God's household.
Moses was faithful as a servant in all God's household, as a testimony to what would be said in the future.
do not harden your hearts as in the rebellion,
on the day of testing in the wilderness,
As it is said:
Today, if you hear his voice,
do not harden your hearts as in the rebellion.
Therefore, let us approach the throne of grace with boldness, so that we may receive mercy and find grace to help us in time of need.
For when God made a promise to Abraham, since he had no one greater to swear by, he swore by himself:
Without father, mother, or genealogy, having neither beginning of days nor end of life, but resembling the Son of God, he remains a priest forever.
(for the law perfected nothing), but a better hope is introduced, through which we draw near to God.
Therefore, he is able to save completely those who come to God through him, since he always lives to intercede for them.
For this is the covenant
that I will make with the house of Israel
after those days, says the Lord:
I will put my laws into their minds
and write them on their hearts.
I will be their God,
and they will be my people.
how much more will the blood of Christ, who through the eternal Spirit offered himself without blemish to God, cleanse our[fn] consciences from dead works so that we can serve the living God?
For when every command had been proclaimed by Moses to all the people according to the law, he took the blood of calves and goats,[fn] along with water, scarlet wool, and hyssop, and sprinkled the scroll itself and all the people,
By faith Abel offered to God a better sacrifice than Cain did. By faith he was approved as a righteous man, because God approved his gifts, and even though he is dead, he still speaks through his faith.
By faith Enoch was taken away, and so he did not experience death. He was not to be found because God took him away. For before he was taken away, he was approved as one who pleased God.
Now without faith it is impossible to please God, since the one who draws near to him must believe that he exists and that he rewards those who seek him.
and chose to suffer with the people of God rather than to enjoy the fleeting pleasure of sin.
Furthermore, we had human fathers discipline us, and we respected them. Shouldn't we submit even more to the Father of spirits and live?
Therefore, since we are receiving a kingdom that cannot be shaken, let us be thankful. By it, we may serve God acceptably, with reverence and awe,
Therefore, through him let us continually offer up to God a sacrifice of praise, that is, the fruit of lips that confess his name.
For the sun rises and, together with the scorching wind, dries up the grass; its flower falls off, and its beautiful appearance perishes. In the same way, the rich person will wither away while pursuing his activities.
Pure and undefiled religion before God the Father is this: to look after orphans and widows in their distress and to keep oneself unstained from the world.
if you look with favor on the one wearing the fine clothes and say, “Sit here in a good place,” and yet you say to the poor person, “Stand over there,” or “Sit here on the floor by my footstool,”
Listen, my dear brothers and sisters: Didn't God choose the poor in this world to be rich in faith and heirs of the kingdom that he has promised to those who love him?
For judgment is without mercy to the one who has not shown mercy. Mercy triumphs over judgment.
and the Scripture was fulfilled that says, Abraham believed God, and it was credited to him as righteousness, and he was called God's friend.
Draw near to God, and he will draw near to you. Cleanse your hands, sinners, and purify your hearts, you double-minded.
you yourselves, as living stones, a spiritual house, are being built to be a holy priesthood[fn] to offer spiritual sacrifices acceptable to God through Jesus Christ.
and
A stone to stumble over,
and a rock to trip over.
They stumble because they disobey the word; they were destined for this.
when he was insulted, he did not insult in return; when he suffered, he did not threaten but entrusted himself to the one who judges justly.
He himself bore our sins in his body on the tree; so that, having died to sins, we might live for righteousness. By his wounds you have been healed.
In the same way, wives, submit yourselves to your own husbands so that, even if some disobey the word, they may be won over without a word by the way their wives live
but rather what is inside the heart[fn] — the imperishable quality of a gentle and quiet spirit, which is of great worth in God's sight.
just as Sarah obeyed Abraham, calling him lord. You have become her children when you do what is good and do not fear any intimidation.
They will give an account to the one who stands ready to judge the living and the dead.
Resist him, firm in the faith, knowing that the same kind of sufferings are being experienced by your fellow believers throughout the world.
By these he has given us very great and precious promises, so that through them you may share in the divine nature, escaping the corruption that is in the world because of evil desire.
There were indeed false prophets among the people, just as there will be false teachers among you. They will bring in destructive heresies, even denying the Master who bought them, and will bring swift destruction on themselves.
They deliberately overlook this: By the word of God the heavens came into being long ago and the earth was brought about from water and through water.
By the same word, the present heavens and earth are stored up for fire, being kept for the day of judgment and destruction of the ungodly.
Do not love the world or the things in the world. If anyone loves the world, the love of the Father is not in him.
For everything in the world — the lust of the flesh, the lust of the eyes, and the pride in one's possessions — is not from the Father, but is from the world.
What you have heard from the beginning is to remain in you. If what you have heard from the beginning remains in you, then you will remain in the Son and in the Father.
We know that we have passed from death to life because we love our brothers and sisters. The one who does not love remains in death.
but every spirit that does not confess Jesus[fn] is not from God. This is the spirit of the antichrist, which you have heard is coming; even now it is already in the world.
You are from God, little children, and you have conquered them, because the one who is in you is greater than the one who is in the world.
And we have come to know and to believe the love that God has for us.
God is love, and the one who remains in love remains in God, and God remains in him.
In this, love is made complete with us so that we may have confidence in the day of judgment, because as he is, so also are we in this world.
The one who believes in the Son of God has this testimony within himself. The one who does not believe God has made him a liar, because he has not believed in the testimony God has given about his Son.
And this is the testimony: God has given us eternal life, and this life is in his Son.
And we know that the Son of God has come and has given us understanding so that we may know the true one.[fn] We are in the true one — that is, in his Son, Jesus Christ. He is the true God and eternal life.
Yet when Michael the archangel was disputing with the devil in an argument about Moses's body, he did not dare utter a slanderous condemnation against him but said, “The Lord rebuke you! ”
Now to him who is able to protect you from stumbling and to make you stand in the presence of his glory, without blemish and with great joy,
The revelation of[fn] Jesus Christ that God gave him to show his servants what must soon take place. He made it known by sending his angel to his servant John,
and from Jesus Christ, the faithful witness, the firstborn from the dead and the ruler of the kings of the earth.
To him who loves us and has set us free[fn] from our sins by his blood,
“Write to the angel[fn] of the church in Ephesus: Thus says the one who holds the seven stars in his right hand and who walks among the seven golden lampstands:
“Let anyone who has ears to hear listen to what the Spirit says to the churches. To the one who conquers, I will give the right to eat from the tree of life, which is in[fn] the paradise of God.
“Write to the angel of the church in Smyrna: Thus says the First and the Last, the one who was dead and came to life:
“Write to the angel of the church in Pergamum: Thus says the one who has the sharp, double-edged sword:
“But I have a few things against you. You have some there who hold to the teaching of Balaam, who taught Balak to place a stumbling block[fn] in front of the Israelites: to eat meat sacrificed to idols and to commit sexual immorality.
“Let anyone who has ears to hear listen to what the Spirit says to the churches. To the one who conquers, I will give some of the hidden manna.[fn] I will also give him a white stone, and on the stone a new name is inscribed that no one knows except the one who receives it.
“Write to the angel of the church in Thyatira: Thus says the Son of God, the one whose eyes are like a fiery flame and whose feet are like fine bronze:
“Write to the angel of the church in Philadelphia: Thus says the Holy One, the true one, the one who has the key of David, who opens and no one will close, and who closes and no one opens:
“The one who conquers I will make a pillar in the temple of my God, and he will never go out again. I will write on him the name of my God and the name of the city of my God — the new Jerusalem, which comes down out of heaven from my God — and my new name.
“Write to the angel of the church in Laodicea: Thus says the Amen, the faithful and true witness, the originator[fn] of God's creation:
“To the one who conquers I will give the right to sit with me on my throne, just as I also conquered and sat down with my Father on his throne.
After this I looked, and there in heaven was an open door. The first voice that I had heard speaking to me like a trumpet said, “Come up here, and I will show you what must take place after this.”
Immediately I was in the Spirit, and there was a throne in heaven and someone was seated on it.
Whenever the living creatures give glory, honor, and thanks to the one seated on the throne, the one who lives forever and ever,
the twenty-four elders fall down before the one seated on the throne and worship the one who lives forever and ever. They cast their crowns before the throne and say,
But no one in heaven or on earth or under the earth was able to open the scroll or even to look in it.
I heard every creature in heaven, on earth, under the earth, on the sea, and everything in them say,
Blessing and honor and glory and power
be to the one seated on the throne,
and to the Lamb, forever and ever!
Then another horse went out, a fiery red one, and its rider was allowed to take peace from the earth, so that people would slaughter one another. And a large sword was given to him.
And they cried out in a loud voice:
Salvation belongs to our God,
who is seated on the throne,
and to the Lamb!
All the angels stood around the throne, and along with the elders and the four living creatures they fell facedown before the throne and worshiped God,
saying,
Amen! Blessing and glory and wisdom
and thanksgiving and honor
and power and strength
be to our God forever and ever. Amen.
For this reason they are before the throne of God,
and they serve him day and night in his temple.
The one seated on the throne will shelter[fn] them:
say to the sixth angel who had the trumpet, “Release the four angels bound at the great river Euphrates.”
He swore by the one who lives forever and ever, who created heaven and what is in it, the earth and what is in it, and the sea and what is in it, “There will no longer be a delay,
At that moment a violent earthquake took place, a tenth of the city fell, and seven thousand people were killed in the earthquake. The survivors were terrified and gave glory to the God of heaven.
The seventh angel blew his trumpet, and there were loud voices in heaven saying,
The kingdom of the world has become the kingdom
of our Lord and of his Christ,
and he will reign forever and ever.
The twenty-four elders, who were seated before God on their thrones, fell facedown and worshiped God,
A great sign[fn] appeared in heaven: a woman clothed with the sun, with the moon under her feet and a crown of twelve stars on her head.
Then war broke out in heaven: Michael and his angels fought against the dragon. The dragon and his angels also fought,
Then I heard a loud voice in heaven say,
The salvation and the power
and the kingdom of our God
and the authority of his Christ
have now come,
because the accuser of our brothers and sisters,
who accuses them
before our God day and night,
has been thrown down.
They worshiped the dragon because he gave authority to the beast. And they worshiped the beast, saying, “Who is like the beast? Who is able to wage war against it? ”
It began to speak[fn] blasphemies against God: to blaspheme his name and his dwelling — those who dwell in heaven.
These are the ones who have not defiled themselves with women, since they remained virgins. These are the ones who follow the Lamb wherever he goes. They were redeemed[fn] from humanity as the firstfruits for God and the Lamb.
He spoke with a loud voice: “Fear God and give him glory, because the hour of his judgment has come. Worship the one who made heaven and earth, the sea and the springs of water.”
Another angel came out of the temple, crying out in a loud voice to the one who was seated on the cloud, “Use your sickle and reap, for the time to reap has come, since the harvest of the earth is ripe.”
Yet another angel, who had authority over fire, came from the altar, and he called with a loud voice to the one who had the sharp sickle, “Use your sharp sickle and gather the clusters of grapes from the vineyard of the earth, because its grapes have ripened.”
Then I saw another great and awe-inspiring sign[fn] in heaven: seven angels with the seven last plagues; for with them God's wrath will be completed.
After this I looked, and the heavenly temple — the tabernacle of testimony — was opened.
After this I heard something like the loud voice of a vast multitude in heaven, saying,
Hallelujah!
Salvation, glory, and power belong to our God,
Then the twenty-four elders and the four living creatures fell down and worshiped God, who is seated on the throne, saying,
Amen! Hallelujah!
A voice came from the throne, saying,
Praise our God,
all his servants, and the ones who fear him,
both small and great!
Then I fell at his feet to worship him, but he said to me, “Don't do that! I am a fellow servant with you and your brothers and sisters who hold firmly to the testimony of Jesus. Worship God, because the testimony of Jesus is the spirit[fn] of prophecy.”
The armies that were in heaven followed him on white horses, wearing pure white linen.
Then I saw an angel standing in the sun, and he called out in a loud voice, saying to all the birds flying high overhead, “Come, gather together for the great supper of God,
I also saw the holy city, the new Jerusalem, coming down out of heaven from God, prepared like a bride adorned for her husband.
Then the one seated on the throne said, “Look, I am making everything new.” He also said, “Write, because these words[fn] are faithful and true.”
Then he said to me, “It is done! I am the Alpha and the Omega, the beginning and the end. I will freely give to the thirsty from the spring of the water of life.
The city is laid out in a square; its length and width are the same. He measured the city with the rod at 12,000 stadia.[fn] Its length, width, and height are equal.
But he said to me, “Don't do that! I am a fellow servant with you, your brothers the prophets, and those who keep the words of this book. Worship God! ”
Going on from there, he saw two other brothers, James the son of Zebedee, and his brother John. They were in a boat with Zebedee their father, preparing their nets, and he called them.
“But I tell you, don't resist[fn] an evildoer. On the contrary, if anyone slaps you on your right cheek, turn the other to him also.
“so that your giving may be in secret. And your Father who sees in secret will reward you.[fn]
“But when you pray, go into your private room, shut your door, and pray to your Father who is in secret. And your Father who sees in secret will reward you.[fn]
“so that your fasting isn't obvious to others but to your Father who is in secret. And your Father who sees in secret will reward you.[fn]
“Therefore I tell you: Don't worry about your life, what you will eat or what you will drink; or about your body, what you will wear. Isn't life more than food and the body more than clothing?
“On that day many will say to me, ‘Lord, Lord, didn't we prophesy in your name, drive out demons in your name, and do many miracles in your name? '
“What I tell you in the dark, speak in the light. What you hear in a whisper,[fn] proclaim on the housetops.
Now when John heard in prison what the Christ was doing, he sent a message through his disciples
“Or haven't you read in the law that on Sabbath days the priests in the temple violate the Sabbath and are innocent?
“But while people were sleeping, his enemy came, sowed weeds among the wheat, and left.
When Herod's birthday celebration came, Herodias's daughter danced before them[fn] and pleased Herod.
His head was brought on a platter and given to the girl, who carried it to her mother.
“But whoever causes one of these little ones who believe in me to fall away — it would be better for him if a heavy millstone were hung around his neck and he were drowned in the depths of the sea.
Jesus went into the temple[fn] and threw out all those buying and selling. He overturned the tables of the money changers and the chairs of those selling doves.
When the chief priests and the scribes saw the wonders that he did and the children shouting in the temple, “Hosanna to the Son of David! ” they were indignant
Jesus answered them, “Truly I tell you, if you have faith and do not doubt, you will not only do what was done to the fig tree, but even if you tell this mountain, ‘Be lifted up and thrown into the sea,' it will be done.
“What do you think? A man had two sons. He went to the first and said, ‘My son, go work in the vineyard today.'
“Also, ‘Whoever takes an oath by the altar, it means nothing; but whoever takes an oath by the gift that is on it is bound by his oath.'
“Therefore, the one who takes an oath by the altar takes an oath by it and by everything on it.
“and you say, ‘If we had lived in the days of our ancestors, we wouldn't have taken part with them in shedding the prophets' blood.'
“For many will come in my name, saying, ‘I am the Messiah,' and they will deceive many.
At that time Jesus said to the crowds, “Have you come out with swords and clubs, as if I were a criminal,[fn] to capture me? Every day I used to sit, teaching in the temple, and you didn't arrest me.
and placed it in his new tomb, which he had cut into the rock. He left after rolling a great stone against the entrance of the tomb.
“The time is fulfilled, and the kingdom of God has come near. Repent and believe the good news! ”
Going on a little farther, he saw James the son of Zebedee and his brother John in a boat putting their nets in order.
Immediately he called them, and they left their father Zebedee in the boat with the hired men and followed him.
Right away Jesus perceived in his spirit that they were thinking like this within themselves and said to them, “Why are you thinking these things in your hearts?
So they left the crowd and took him along since he was in the boat. And other boats were with him.
When Jesus had crossed over again by boat[fn] to the other side, a large crowd gathered around him while he was by the sea.
Instantly her flow of blood ceased, and she sensed in her body that she was healed of her affliction.
When Herodias's own daughter[fn] came in and danced, she pleased Herod and his guests. The king said to the girl, “Ask me whatever you want, and I'll give it to you.”
brought his head on a platter, and gave it to the girl. Then the girl gave it to her mother.
The woman was a Gentile,[fn] a Syrophoenician by birth, and she was asking him to cast the demon out of her daughter.
Sighing deeply in his spirit, he said, “Why does this generation demand a sign? Truly I tell you, no sign will be given to this generation.”
The disciples had forgotten to take bread and had only one loaf with them in the boat.
When Jesus saw that a crowd was quickly gathering, he rebuked the unclean spirit, saying to it, “You mute and deaf spirit, I command you: Come out of him and never enter him again.”
“Whoever welcomes[fn] one little child such as this in my name welcomes me. And whoever welcomes me does not welcome me, but him who sent me.”
John said to him, “Teacher, we saw someone[fn] driving out demons in your name, and we tried to stop him because he wasn't following us.”
“Don't stop him,” said Jesus, “because there is no one who will perform a miracle in my name who can soon afterward speak evil of me.
They came to Jerusalem, and he went into the temple and began to throw out those buying and selling. He overturned the tables of the money changers and the chairs of those selling doves,
“Truly I tell you, if anyone says to this mountain, ‘Be lifted up and thrown into the sea,' and does not doubt in his heart, but believes that what he says will happen, it will be done for him.
They came again to Jerusalem. As he was walking in the temple, the chief priests, the scribes, and the elders came
While Jesus was teaching in the temple, he asked, “How can the scribes say that the Messiah is the son of David?
“David himself says by the Holy Spirit:
The Lord declared to my Lord,
‘Sit at my right hand
until I put your enemies under your feet.'
“Every day I was among you, teaching in the temple, and you didn't arrest me. But the Scriptures must be fulfilled.”
“And these signs will accompany those who believe: In my name they will drive out demons; they will speak in new tongues;[fn]
Meanwhile, the people were waiting for Zechariah, amazed that he stayed so long in the sanctuary.
When they came to circumcise the child on the eighth day, they were going to name him Zechariah, after his father.
Then she gave birth to her firstborn son, and she wrapped him tightly in cloth and laid him in a manger,[fn] because there was no guest room available for them.
Guided by the Spirit, he entered the temple. When the parents brought in the child Jesus to perform for him what was customary under the law,
After those days were over, as they were returning, the boy Jesus stayed behind in Jerusalem, but his parents[fn] did not know it.
After three days, they found him in the temple sitting among the teachers, listening to them and asking them questions.
When all the people were baptized, Jesus also was baptized. As he was praying, heaven opened,
Then Jesus left the Jordan, full of the Holy Spirit, and was led by the Spirit in the wilderness
As the crowd was pressing in on Jesus to hear God's word, he was standing by Lake Gennesaret.[fn]
“Master,” Simon replied, “we've worked hard all night long and caught nothing. But if you say so, I'll let down the nets.”[fn]
So they signaled to their partners in the other boat to come and help them; they came and filled both boats so full that they began to sink.
While he was in one of the towns, a man was there who had leprosy[fn] all over him. He saw Jesus, fell facedown, and begged him, “Lord, if you are willing, you can make me clean.”
Since they could not find a way to bring him in because of the crowd, they went up on the roof and lowered him on the stretcher through the roof tiles into the middle of the crowd before Jesus.
He also told them a parable: “No one tears a patch from a new garment and puts it on an old garment. Otherwise, not only will he tear the new, but also the piece from the new garment will not match the old.
The scribes and Pharisees were watching him closely, to see if he would heal on the Sabbath, so that they could find a charge against him.
Then Jesus said to them, “I ask you: Is it lawful to do good on the Sabbath or to do evil, to save life or to destroy it? ”
and stood behind him at his feet, weeping, and began to wash his feet with her tears. She wiped his feet with her hair, kissing them and anointing them with the perfume.
“A sower went out to sow his seed. As he sowed, some seed fell along the path; it was trampled on, and the birds of the sky devoured it.
He said to them, “Where is your faith? ”
They were fearful and amazed, asking one another, “Who then is this? He commands even the winds and the waves, and they obey him! ”
For he had commanded the unclean spirit to come out of the man. Many times it had seized him, and though he was guarded, bound by chains and shackles, he would snap the restraints and be driven by the demon into deserted places.
A large herd of pigs was there, feeding on the hillside. The demons begged him to permit them to enter the pigs, and he gave them permission.
because he had an only daughter about twelve years old, and she was dying.
While he was going, the crowds were nearly crushing him.
While he was praying in private and his disciples were with him, he asked them, “Who do the crowds say that I am? ”
As he was praying, the appearance of his face changed, and his clothes became dazzling white.
As the two men were departing from him, Peter said to Jesus, “Master, it's good for us to be here. Let's set up three shelters: one for you, one for Moses, and one for Elijah” — not knowing what he was saying.
While he was saying this, a cloud appeared and overshadowed them. They became afraid as they entered the cloud.
After the voice had spoken, Jesus was found alone. They kept silent, and at that time told no one what they had seen.
As the boy was still approaching, the demon knocked him down and threw him into severe convulsions. But Jesus rebuked the unclean spirit, healed the boy, and gave him back to his father.
He told them, “Whoever welcomes[fn] this little child in my name welcomes me. And whoever welcomes me welcomes him who sent me. For whoever is least among you — this one is great.”
John responded, “Master, we saw someone driving out demons in your name, and we tried to stop him because he does not follow us.”
When the days were coming to a close for him to be taken up, he determined[fn] to journey to Jerusalem.
The seventy-two[fn] returned with joy, saying, “Lord, even the demons submit to us in your name.”
While they were traveling, he entered a village, and a woman named Martha welcomed him into her home.[fn]
He was praying in a certain place, and when he finished, one of his disciples said to him, “Lord, teach us to pray, just as John also taught his disciples.”
As he was saying these things, a woman from the crowd raised her voice and said to him, “Blessed is the womb that bore you and the one who nursed you! ”
As he was speaking, a Pharisee asked him to dine with him. So he went in and reclined at the table.
“Therefore, whatever you have said in the dark will be heard in the light, and what you have whispered in an ear in private rooms will be proclaimed on the housetops.
He then told them, “Watch out and be on guard against all greed, because one's life is not in the abundance of his possessions.”
Then he said to his disciples, “Therefore I tell you, don't worry about your life, what you will eat; or about the body, what you will wear.
But the leader of the synagogue, indignant because Jesus had healed on the Sabbath, responded by telling the crowd, “There are six days when work should be done; therefore come on those days and be healed and not on the Sabbath day.”
But the Lord answered him and said, “Hypocrites! Doesn't each one of you untie his ox or donkey from the feeding trough on the Sabbath and lead it to water?
One Sabbath, when he went in to eat[fn] at the house of one of the leading Pharisees, they were watching him closely.
In response, Jesus asked the law experts and the Pharisees, “Is it lawful to heal on the Sabbath or not? ”
“And if you have not been faithful with what belongs to someone else, who will give you what is your own?
When he saw them, he told them, “Go and show yourselves to the priests.” And while they were going, they were cleansed.
“At his return, having received the authority to be king, he summoned those servants he had given the money to, so that he could find out how much they had made in business.
Every day he was teaching in the temple. The chief priests, the scribes, and the leaders of the people were looking for a way to kill him,
One day as he was teaching the people in the temple and proclaiming the good news, the chief priests and the scribes, with the elders, came
Then he said, “Watch out that you are not deceived. For many will come in my name, saying, ‘I am he,' and, ‘The time is near.' Don't follow them.
During the day, he was teaching in the temple, but in the evening he would go out and spend the night on what is called the Mount of Olives.
In the same way he also took the cup after supper and said, “This cup is the new covenant in my blood, which is poured out for you.[fn]
“Every day while I was with you in the temple, you never laid a hand on me. But this is your hour — and the dominion of darkness.”
and released the one they were asking for, who had been thrown into prison for rebellion and murder. But he handed Jesus over to their will.
“For if they do these things when the wood is green, what will happen when it is dry? ”
But the other answered, rebuking him: “Don't you even fear God, since you are undergoing the same punishment?
While they were perplexed about this, suddenly two men stood by them in dazzling clothes.
And while they were discussing and arguing, Jesus himself came near and began to walk along with them.
It was as he reclined at the table with them that he took the bread, blessed and broke it, and gave it to them.
“and repentance for[fn] forgiveness of sins will be proclaimed in his name to all the nations, beginning at Jerusalem.
In the temple he found people selling oxen, sheep, and doves, and he also found the money changers sitting there.
While he was in Jerusalem during the Passover Festival, many believed in his name when they saw the signs he was doing.
“Our ancestors worshiped on this mountain, but you Jews say that the place to worship is in Jerusalem.”
Jesus told her, “Believe me, woman, an hour is coming when you will worship the Father neither on this mountain nor in Jerusalem.
After this, Jesus found him in the temple and said to him, “See, you are well. Do not sin anymore, so that something worse doesn't happen to you.”
“John[fn] was a burning and shining lamp, and you were willing to rejoice for a while in his light.
“I have come in my Father's name, and yet you don't accept me. If someone else comes in his own name, you will accept him.
As he was teaching in the temple, Jesus cried out, “You know me and you know where I am from. Yet I have not come on my own, but the one who sent me is true. You don't know him;
He spoke these words by the treasury, while teaching in the temple. But no one seized him, because his hour had not yet come.
“I did tell you and you don't believe,” Jesus answered them. “The works that I do in my Father's name testify about me.
When Jesus saw her crying, and the Jews who had come with her crying, he was deeply moved[fn] in his spirit and troubled.
They were looking for Jesus and asking one another as they stood in the temple, “What do you think? He won't come to the festival, will he? ”
Next, he poured water into a basin and began to wash his disciples' feet and to dry them with the towel tied around him.
When Jesus had said this, he was troubled in his spirit and testified, “Truly I tell you, one of you will betray me.”
“Whatever you ask in my name, I will do it so that the Father may be glorified in the Son.
“But the Counselor, the Holy Spirit, whom the Father will send in my name, will teach you all things and remind you of everything I have told you.
“You did not choose me, but I chose you. I appointed you to go and produce fruit and that your fruit should remain, so that whatever you ask the Father in my name, he will give you.
“In that day you will not ask me anything. Truly I tell you, anything you ask the Father in my name, he will give you.
“Until now you have asked for nothing in my name. Ask and you will receive, so that your joy may be complete.
“On that day you will ask in my name, and I am not telling you that I will ask the Father on your behalf.
“I am no longer in the world, but they are in the world, and I am coming to you. Holy Father, protect[fn] them by your name that you have given me, so that they may be one as we are one.
“While I was with them, I was protecting them by your name that you have given me. I guarded them and not one of them is lost, except the son of destruction,[fn] so that the Scripture may be fulfilled.
“I have spoken openly to the world,” Jesus answered him. “I have always taught in the synagogue and in the temple, where all the Jews gather, and I haven't spoken anything in secret.
“You have a custom that I release one prisoner to you at the Passover. So, do you want me to release to you the king of the Jews? ”
A jar full of sour wine was sitting there; so they fixed a sponge full of sour wine on a hyssop branch and held it up to his mouth.
Since it was the preparation day, the Jews did not want the bodies to remain on the cross on the Sabbath (for that Sabbath was a special[fn] day). They requested that Pilate have the men's legs broken and that their bodies be taken away.
But Mary stood outside the tomb, crying. As she was crying, she stooped to look into the tomb.
Jesus performed many other signs in the presence of his disciples that are not written in this book.
But these are written so that you may believe that Jesus is the Messiah, the Son of God,[fn] and that by believing you may have life in his name.
Since they were not far from land (about a hundred yards[fn] away), the other disciples came in the boat, dragging the net full of fish.
So Peter turned around and saw the disciple Jesus loved following them, the one who had leaned back against Jesus at the supper and asked, “Lord, who is the one that's going to betray you? ”
Peter replied, “Repent and be baptized, each of you, in the name of Jesus Christ for the forgiveness of your sins, and you will receive the gift of the Holy Spirit.
Every day they devoted themselves to meeting together in the temple, and broke bread from house to house. They ate their food with joyful and sincere hearts,
But Peter said, “I don't have silver or gold, but what I do have, I give you: In the name of Jesus Christ of Nazareth, get up and walk! ”
and they recognized that he was the one who used to sit and beg at the Beautiful Gate of the temple. So they were filled with awe and astonishment at what had happened to him.
“You are the sons[fn] of the prophets and of the covenant that God made with your ancestors, saying to Abraham, And all the families of the earth will be blessed through your offspring.
“God raised up his servant[fn] and sent him first to you to bless you by turning each of you from your evil ways.”
After they had Peter and John stand before them, they began to question them: “By what power or in what name have you done this? ”
“let it be known to all of you and to all the people of Israel, that by the name of Jesus Christ of Nazareth, whom you crucified and whom God raised from the dead — by him this man is standing here before you healthy.
“But so that this does not spread any further among the people, let's threaten them against speaking to anyone in this name again.”
So they called for them and ordered them not to speak or teach at all in the name of Jesus.
After threatening them further, they released them. They found no way to punish them because the people were all giving glory to God over what had been done.
“while you stretch out your hand for healing, and signs and wonders are performed through the name of your holy servant Jesus.”
Joseph, a Levite from Cyprus by birth, the one the apostles called Barnabas (which is translated Son of Encouragement),
Someone came and reported to them, “Look! The men you put in jail are standing in the temple and teaching the people.”
After they brought them in, they had them stand before the Sanhedrin, and the high priest asked,
“Didn't we strictly order you not to teach in this name? Look, you have filled Jerusalem with your teaching and are determined to make us guilty of this man's blood.”
But a Pharisee named Gamaliel, a teacher of the law who was respected by all the people, stood up in the Sanhedrin and ordered the men[fn] to be taken outside for a little while.
After they called in the apostles and had them flogged, they ordered them not to speak in the name of Jesus and released them.
Every day in the temple, and in various homes, they continued teaching and proclaiming the good news that Jesus is the Messiah.
But they were unable to stand up against his wisdom and the Spirit by whom he was speaking.
And all who were sitting in the Sanhedrin looked intently at him and saw that his face was like the face of an angel.
“He didn't give him an inheritance in it — not even a foot of ground — but he promised to give it to him as a possession, and to his descendants after him, even though he was childless.
“The second time, Joseph revealed himself to his brothers, and Joseph's family became known to Pharaoh.
“were carried back to Shechem, and were placed in the tomb that Abraham had bought for a sum of silver from the sons of Hamor in Shechem.
“He is the one who was in the assembly in the wilderness, with the angel who spoke to him on Mount Sinai, and with our ancestors. He received living oracles to give to us.
“They even made a calf in those days, offered sacrifice to the idol, and were celebrating what their hands had made.
“You stiff-necked people with uncircumcised hearts and ears! You are always resisting the Holy Spirit. As your ancestors did, you do also.
The crowds were all paying attention to what Philip said, as they listened and saw the signs he was performing.
As he traveled and was nearing Damascus, a light from heaven suddenly flashed around him.
Barnabas, however, took him and brought him to the apostles and explained to them how Saul had seen the Lord on the road and that the Lord had talked to him, and how in Damascus he had spoken boldly in the name of Jesus.
Saul was coming and going with them in Jerusalem, speaking boldly in the name of the Lord.
He commanded them to be baptized in the name of Jesus Christ. Then they asked him to stay for a few days.
“As I began to speak, the Holy Spirit came down on them, just as on us at the beginning.
Suddenly an angel of the Lord appeared, and a light shone in the cell. Striking Peter on the side, he woke him up and said, “Quick, get up! ” And the chains fell off his wrists.
The following Sabbath almost the whole town assembled to hear the word of the Lord.[fn]
Some men came down from Judea and began to teach the brothers, “Unless you are circumcised according to the custom prescribed by Moses, you cannot be saved.”
“Simeon[fn] has reported how God first intervened to take from the Gentiles a people for his name.
“For it was the Holy Spirit's decision — and ours — not to place further burdens on you beyond these requirements:
She did this for many days.
Paul was greatly annoyed. Turning to the spirit, he said, “I command you in the name of Jesus Christ to come out of her! ” And it came out right away.
where he found a Jew named Aquila, a native of Pontus, who had recently come from Italy with his wife Priscilla because Claudius had ordered all the Jews to leave Rome. Paul came to them,
Now a Jew named Apollos, a native Alexandrian, an eloquent man who was competent in the use of the Scriptures, arrived in Ephesus.
He had been instructed in the way of the Lord; and being fervent in spirit,[fn] he was speaking and teaching accurately about Jesus, although he knew only John's baptism.
While Apollos was in Corinth, Paul traveled through the interior regions and came to Ephesus. He found some disciples
After these events, Paul resolved by the Spirit[fn] to pass through Macedonia and Achaia and go to Jerusalem. “After I've been there,” he said, “It is necessary for me to see Rome as well.”
“And now I am on my way to Jerusalem, compelled by the Spirit,[fn] not knowing what I will encounter there,
“Be on guard for yourselves and for all the flock of which the Holy Spirit has appointed you as overseers, to shepherd the church of God,[fn] which he purchased with his own blood.
When the seven days were nearly over, some Jews from the province of Asia saw him in the temple, stirred up the whole crowd, and seized him,
Paul looked straight at the Sanhedrin and said, “Brothers, I have lived my life before God in all good conscience to this day.”
When Paul realized that one part of them were Sadducees and the other part were Pharisees, he cried out in the Sanhedrin, “Brothers, I am a Pharisee, a son of Pharisees. I am being judged because of the hope of the resurrection of the dead! ”
“So now you, along with the Sanhedrin, make a request to the commander that he bring him down to you[fn] as if you were going to investigate his case more thoroughly. But, before he gets near, we are ready to kill him.”
When this man had been seized by the Jews and was about to be killed by them, I arrived with my troops and rescued him because I learned that he is a Roman citizen.
he said, “I will give you a hearing whenever your accusers also get here.” He ordered that he be kept under guard in Herod's palace.[fn]
When Paul was called in, Tertullus began to accuse him and said, “We enjoy great peace because of you, and reforms are taking place for the benefit of this nation because of your foresight.
When the governor motioned for him to speak, Paul replied, “Because I know you have been a judge of this nation for many years, I am glad to offer my defense in what concerns me.
“They didn't find me arguing with anyone or causing a disturbance among the crowd, either in the temple or in the synagogues or anywhere in the city.
“While I was doing this, some Jews from Asia found me ritually purified in the temple, without a crowd and without any uproar.
“All the Jews know my way of life from my youth, which was spent from the beginning among my own people and in Jerusalem.
Paul said to the centurion and the soldiers, “Unless these men stay in the ship, you cannot be saved.”
God is my witness, whom I serve with my spirit in telling the good news about his Son — that I constantly mention you,
always asking in my prayers that if it is somehow in God's will, I may now at last succeed in coming to you.
They exchanged the truth of God for a lie, and worshiped and served what has been created instead of the Creator, who is praised forever. Amen.
For a person is not a Jew who is one outwardly, and true circumcision is not something visible in the flesh.
On the contrary, a person is a Jew who is one inwardly, and circumcision is of the heart — by the Spirit, not the letter.[fn] That person's praise is not from people but from God.
Absolutely not! Let God be true, even though everyone is a liar, as it is written:
That you may be justified in your words
and triumph when you judge.
But if by my lie God's truth abounds to his glory, why am I also still being judged as a sinner?
God presented him as the mercy seat[fn] by his blood, through faith, to demonstrate his righteousness, because in his restraint God passed over the sins previously committed.
For the promise to Abraham or to his descendants that he would inherit the world was not through the law, but through the righteousness that comes by faith.
This is why the promise is by faith, so that it may be according to grace, to guarantee it to all the descendants — not only to the one who is of the law[fn] but also to the one who is of Abraham's faith. He is the father of us all.
How much more then, since we have now been justified by his blood, will we be saved through him from wrath.
Nevertheless, death reigned from Adam to Moses, even over those who did not sin in the likeness of Adam's transgression. He is a type of the Coming One.
But the gift is not like the trespass. For if by the one man's trespass the many died, how much more have the grace of God and the gift which comes through the grace of the one man Jesus Christ overflowed to the many.
If by the one man's trespass, death reigned through that one man, how much more will those who receive the overflow of grace and the gift of righteousness reign in life through the one man, Jesus Christ.
For if we have been united with him in the likeness of his death, we will certainly also be[fn] in the likeness of his resurrection.
Therefore do not let sin reign in your mortal body, so that you obey[fn] its desires.
You will say to me, therefore, “Why then does he still find fault? For who resists his will? ”
On the contrary, what does it say? The message is near you, in your mouth and in your heart. This is the message of faith that we proclaim:
If you confess with your mouth, “Jesus is Lord,” and believe in your heart that God raised him from the dead, you will be saved.
I ask, then, have they stumbled so as to fall? Absolutely not! On the contrary, by their transgression, salvation has come to the Gentiles to make Israel jealous.
so they too have now disobeyed, resulting in mercy to you, so that they also may now[fn] receive mercy.
For rulers are not a terror to good conduct, but to bad. Do you want to be unafraid of the one in authority? Do what is good, and you will have its approval.
But you, why do you judge your brother or sister? Or you, why do you despise your brother or sister? For we will all stand before the judgment seat of God.[fn]
For if your brother or sister is hurt by what you eat, you are no longer walking according to love. Do not destroy, by what you eat, someone for whom Christ died.
and so that Gentiles may glorify God for his mercy. As it is written,
Therefore I will praise you among the Gentiles,
and I will sing praise to your name.
Now may the God of hope fill you with all joy and peace as you believe so that you may overflow with hope by the power of the Holy Spirit.
Even though I am absent in the body, I am present in spirit. As one who is present with you in this way, I have already pronounced judgment on the one who has been doing such a thing.
When you are assembled in the name of our Lord Jesus, and I am with you in spirit, with the power of our Lord Jesus,
And some of you used to be like this. But you were washed, you were sanctified, you were justified in the name of the Lord Jesus Christ and by the Spirit of our God.
“Food is for the stomach and the stomach for food,” and God will do away with both of them. However, the body is not for sexual immorality but for the Lord, and the Lord for the body.
and his interests are divided. The unmarried woman or virgin is concerned about the things of the Lord, so that she may be holy both in body and in spirit. But the married woman is concerned about the things of the world — how she may please her husband.
If others have this right to receive benefits from you, don't we even more? Nevertheless, we have not made use of this right; instead, we endure everything so that we will not hinder the gospel of Christ.
Don't you know that those who perform the temple services eat the food from the temple, and those who serve at the altar share in the offerings of the altar?
What then is my reward? To preach the gospel and offer it free of charge and not make full use of my rights in the gospel.
For at the meal, each one eats his own supper.[fn] So one person is hungry while another gets drunk!
In the same way also he took the cup, after supper, and said, “This cup is the new covenant in my blood. Do this, as often as you drink it, in remembrance of me.”
to another, faith by the same Spirit, to another, gifts of healing by the one Spirit,
which our respectable parts do not need.
Instead, God has put the body together, giving greater honor to the less honorable,
so that there would be no division in the body, but that the members would have the same concern for each other.
What then? I will pray with the spirit, and I will also pray with my understanding. I will sing praise with the spirit, and I will also sing praise with my understanding.
But each in his own order: Christ, the firstfruits; afterward, at his coming, those who belong to Christ.
Therefore, my dear brothers and sisters, be steadfast, immovable, always excelling in the Lord's work, because you know that your labor in the Lord is not in vain.
I had no rest in my spirit because I did not find my brother Titus. Instead, I said good-bye to them and left for Macedonia.
In fact, what had been glorious is not glorious now by comparison because of the glory that surpasses it.
We always carry the death of Jesus in our body, so that the life of Jesus may also be displayed in our body.
Indeed, we groan while we are in this tent, burdened as we are, because we do not want to be unclothed but clothed, so that mortality may be swallowed up by life.
So we are always confident and know that while we are at home in the body we are away from the Lord.
For consider how much diligence this very thing — this grieving as God wills — has produced in you: what a desire to clear yourselves, what indignation, what fear, what deep longing, what zeal, what justice! In every way you showed yourselves to be pure in this matter.
We have sent with him the brother who is praised among all the churches for his gospel ministry.[fn]
But I am sending the brothers so that our boasting about you in this matter would not prove empty, and so that you would be ready just as I said.
Let such a person consider this: What we are in our letters, when we are absent, we will also be in our actions when we are present.
For we are not overextending ourselves, as if we had not reached you, since we have come to you with the gospel of Christ.
I urged Titus to go, and I sent the brother with him. Titus didn't take advantage of you, did he? Didn't we walk in the same spirit and in the same footsteps?
I advanced in Judaism beyond many contemporaries among my people, because I was extremely zealous for the traditions of my ancestors.
For all who rely on the works of the law are under a curse, because it is written, Everyone who does not do everything written in the book of the law is cursed.
Now the promises were spoken to Abraham and to his seed. He does not say “and to seeds,” as though referring to many, but referring to one, and to your seed, who is Christ.
But it is always good to be pursued[fn] in a good manner — and not just when I am with you.
From now on, let no one cause me trouble, because I bear on my body the marks of Jesus.
In him you also were sealed with the promised Holy Spirit when you heard the word of truth, the gospel of your salvation, and when you believed.
But now in Christ Jesus, you who were far away have been brought near by the blood of Christ.
built on the foundation of the apostles and prophets, with Christ Jesus himself as the cornerstone.
so that it has become known throughout the whole imperial guard, and to everyone else, that my imprisonment is because I am in Christ.
My eager expectation and hope is that I will not be ashamed about anything, but that now as always, with all courage, Christ will be highly honored in my body, whether by life or by death.
so that at the name of Jesus
every knee will bow —
in heaven and on earth
and under the earth —
He will transform the body of our humble condition into the likeness of his glorious body, by the power that enables him to subject everything to himself.
Yes, I also ask you, true partner,[fn] to help these women who have contended for the gospel at my side, along with Clement and the rest of my coworkers whose names are in the book of life.
giving thanks to the Father, who has enabled you[fn] to share in the saints' inheritance in the light.
But now he has reconciled you by his physical body through his death, to present you holy, faultless, and blameless before him —
For I may be absent in body, but I am with you in spirit, rejoicing to see how well ordered you are and the strength of your faith in Christ.
And we sent Timothy, our brother and God's coworker[fn] in the gospel of Christ, to strengthen and encourage you concerning your faith,
This means one must not transgress against and take advantage of a brother or sister in this manner, because the Lord is an avenger of all these offenses, as we also previously told and warned you.
when he takes vengeance with flaming fire on those who don't know God and on those who don't obey the gospel of our Lord Jesus.
and then the lawless one will be revealed. The Lord Jesus will destroy him with the breath of his mouth and will bring him to nothing at the appearance of his coming.
So don't be ashamed of the testimony about our Lord, or of me his prisoner. Instead, share in suffering for the gospel, relying on the power of God.
and subjected everything under his feet.
For in subjecting everything to him, he left nothing that is not subject to him. As it is, we do not yet see everything subjected to him.
Watch out, brothers and sisters, so that there won't be in any of you an evil, unbelieving heart that turns away from the living God.
As it is said:
Today, if you hear his voice,
do not harden your hearts as in the rebellion.
Let us, then, make every effort to enter that rest, so that no one will fall into the same pattern of disobedience.
For the one these things are spoken about belonged to a different tribe. No one from it has served at the altar.
These serve as a copy and shadow of the heavenly things, as Moses was warned when he was about to complete the tabernacle. For God said, Be careful that you make everything according to the pattern that was shown to you on the mountain.
By saying a new covenant, he has declared that the first is obsolete. And what is obsolete and growing old is about to pass away.
In the same way, he sprinkled the tabernacle and all the articles of worship with blood.
For Christ did not enter a sanctuary made with hands (only a model[fn] of the true one) but into heaven itself, so that he might now appear in the presence of God for us.
Therefore, brothers and sisters, since we have boldness to enter the sanctuary through the blood of Jesus —
Therefore, from one man — in fact, from one as good as dead — came offspring as numerous as the stars of the sky and as innumerable as the grains of sand along the seashore.
Therefore, through him let us continually offer up to God a sacrifice of praise, that is, the fruit of lips that confess his name.
Brothers and sisters, take the prophets who spoke in the Lord's name as an example of suffering and patience.
Is anyone among you sick? He should call for the elders of the church, and they are to pray over him, anointing him with oil in the name of the Lord.
He himself bore our sins in his body on the tree; so that, having died to sins, we might live for righteousness. By his wounds you have been healed.
Husbands, in the same way, live with your wives in an understanding way, as with a weaker partner, showing them honor as coheirs of the grace of life, so that your prayers will not be hindered.
But if anyone suffers as a Christian, let him not be ashamed but let him glorify God in having that name.[fn]
For the time has come for judgment to begin with God's household, and if it begins with us, what will the outcome be for those who disobey the gospel of God?
I think it is right, as long as I am in this bodily tent, to wake you up with a reminder,
We ourselves heard this voice when it came from heaven while we were with him on the holy mountain.
If we say, “We have fellowship with him,” and yet we walk in darkness, we are lying and are not practicing the truth.
If we walk in the light as he himself is in the light, we have fellowship with one another, and the blood of Jesus his Son cleanses us from all sin.
The one who says he is in the light but hates his brother or sister is in the darkness until now.
The one who loves his brother or sister remains in the light, and there is no cause for stumbling in him.[fn]
Now this is his command: that we believe in the name of his Son, Jesus Christ, and love one another as he commanded us.
Jesus Christ — he is the one who came by water and blood, not by water only, but by water and by blood. And the Spirit is the one who testifies, because the Spirit is the truth.
and from Jesus Christ, the faithful witness, the firstborn from the dead and the ruler of the kings of the earth.
To him who loves us and has set us free[fn] from our sins by his blood,
I heard every creature in heaven, on earth, under the earth, on the sea, and everything in them say,
Blessing and honor and glory and power
be to the one seated on the throne,
and to the Lamb, forever and ever!
And they cried out in a loud voice:
Salvation belongs to our God,
who is seated on the throne,
and to the Lamb!
I said to him, “Sir,[fn] you know.”
Then he told me: These are the ones coming out of the great tribulation. They washed their robes and made them white in the blood of the Lamb.
For the power of the horses is in their mouths and in their tails, because their tails, which resemble snakes, have heads that inflict injury.
So I went to the angel and asked him to give me the little scroll. He said to me, “Take and eat it; it will be bitter in your stomach, but it will be as sweet as honey in your mouth.”
Then I took the little scroll from the angel's hand and ate it. It was as sweet as honey in my mouth, but when I ate it, my stomach became bitter.
They worshiped the dragon because he gave authority to the beast. And they worshiped the beast, saying, “Who is like the beast? Who is able to wage war against it? ”
It deceives those who live on the earth because of the signs that it is permitted to perform in the presence of the beast, telling those who live on the earth to make an image[fn] of the beast who was wounded by the sword and yet lived.
These are the ones who have not defiled themselves with women, since they remained virgins. These are the ones who follow the Lamb wherever he goes. They were redeemed[fn] from humanity as the firstfruits for God and the Lamb.
“he will also drink the wine of God's wrath, which is poured full strength into the cup of his anger. He will be tormented with fire and sulfur in the sight of the holy angels and in the sight of the Lamb,
“For God has put it into their hearts to carry out his plan by having one purpose and to give their kingdom[fn] to the beast until the words of God are fulfilled.
Pay her back the way she also paid,
and double it according to her works.
In the cup in which she mixed,
mix a double portion for her.
Nothing unclean will ever enter it, nor anyone who does what is detestable or false, but only those written in the Lamb's book of life.
I testify to everyone who hears the words of the prophecy of this book: If anyone adds to them, God will add to him the plagues that are written in this book.
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