mGNT Concordance for λέγει

and said to him, “If you are the Son of God, throw yourself down. For it is written:

He will give his angels orders concerning you,

and they will support you with their hands

so that you will not strike

your foot against a stone.”

Then Jesus told him, “Go away,[fn] Satan! For it is written: Worship the Lord your God, and serve only him.”

“Follow me,” he told them, “and I will make you fish for[fn] people.”

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.”

He said to him, “Am I to come and heal him? ”[fn]

Jesus told him, “Foxes have dens, and birds of the sky have nests, but the Son of Man has no place to lay his head.”

But Jesus told him, “Follow me, and let the dead bury their own dead.”

He said to them, “Why are you afraid, you of little faith? ” Then he got up and rebuked the winds and the sea, and there was a great calm.

“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.”

As Jesus went on from there, he saw a man named Matthew sitting at the tax office, and he said to him, “Follow me,” and he got up and followed him.

When he entered the house, the blind men approached him, and Jesus said to them, “Do you believe that I can do this? ”

They said to him, “Yes, Lord.”

Then he said to his disciples, “The harvest is abundant, but the workers are few.

Then he told the man, “Stretch out your hand.” So he stretched it out, and it was restored, as good as the other.

“Then it says, ‘I'll go back to my house that I came from.' Returning, it finds the house vacant, swept, and put in order.

Immediately Jesus reached out his hand, caught hold of him, and said to him, “You of little faith, why did you doubt? ”

“How many loaves do you have? ” Jesus asked them.

“Seven,” they said, “and a few small fish.”

“But you,” he asked them, “who do you say that I am? ”

“Because of your little faith,” he[fn] told them. “For truly I tell you, if you have faith the size of[fn] a mustard seed, you will tell this mountain, ‘Move from here to there,' and it will move. Nothing will be impossible for you.”[fn]

“Yes,” he said.

When he went into the house, Jesus spoke to him first,[fn] “What do you think, Simon? From whom do earthly kings collect tariffs or taxes? From their sons or from strangers? ”[fn]

“I tell you, not as many as seven,” Jesus replied, “but seventy times seven.[fn]

“Then, after he had summoned him, his master said to him, ‘You wicked servant! I forgave you all that debt because you begged me.

He told them, “Moses permitted you to divorce your wives because of the hardness of your hearts, but it was not like that from the beginning.

“Which ones? ” he asked him.

Jesus answered: Do not murder; do not commit adultery; do not steal; do not bear false witness;

“I have kept all these,”[fn] the young man told him. “What do I still lack? ”

“Then about five[fn] he went and found others standing around[fn] and said to them, ‘Why have you been standing here all day doing nothing? '

“What do you want? ” he asked her.

“Promise,”[fn] she said to him, “that these two sons of mine may sit, one on your right and the other on your left, in your kingdom.”

He told them, “You will indeed drink my cup,[fn] but to sit at my right and left is not mine to give; instead, it is for those for whom it has been prepared by my Father.”

He said to them, “It is written, my house will be called a house of prayer, but you are making it a den of thieves! ”

and said to him, “Do you hear what these children are saying? ”

Jesus replied, “Yes, have you never read:

You have prepared[fn] praise

from the mouths of infants and nursing babies? ”

Seeing a lone fig tree by the road, he went up to it and found nothing on it except leaves. And he said to it, “May no fruit ever come from you again! ” At once the fig tree withered.

“Which of the two did his father's will? ”

They said, “The first.”

Jesus said to them, “Truly I tell you, tax collectors and prostitutes are entering the kingdom of God before you.

Jesus said to them, “Have you never read in the Scriptures:

The stone that the builders rejected

has become the cornerstone.[fn]

This is what the Lord has done

and it is wonderful in our eyes?

When the chief priests and the Pharisees heard his parables, they knew he was speaking about them.

“Then he told his servants, ‘The banquet is ready, but those who were invited were not worthy.

“So he said to him, ‘Friend, how did you get in here without wedding clothes? ' The man was speechless.

“Whose image and inscription is this? ” he asked them.

He asked them, “How is it then that David, inspired by the Spirit,[fn] calls him ‘Lord':

“Go into the city to a certain man,” he said, “and tell him, ‘The Teacher says: My time is near; I am celebrating the Passover at your place[fn] with my disciples.' ”

Judas, his betrayer, replied, “Surely not I, Rabbi? ”

“You have said it,” he told him.

Then Jesus said to them, “Tonight all of you will fall away because of me, for it is written:

I will strike the shepherd,

and the sheep of the flock will be scattered.

“Even if I have to die with you,” Peter told him, “I will never deny you,” and all the disciples said the same thing.

He said to them, “I am deeply grieved[fn] to the point of death. Remain here and stay awake with me.”

Then he came to the disciples and found them sleeping. He asked Peter, “So, couldn't you stay awake with me one hour?

Then he came to the disciples and said to them, “Are you still sleeping and resting? See, the time is near. The Son of Man is betrayed into the hands of sinners.

Then Jesus told him, “Put your sword back in its place because all who take up the sword will perish by the sword.

“You have said it,” Jesus told him. “But I tell you, in the future[fn] you will see the Son of Man seated at the right hand of Power and coming on the clouds of heaven.”

When he had gone out to the gateway, another woman saw him and told those who were there, “This man was with Jesus the Nazarene! ”

Then Pilate said to him, “Don't you hear how much they are testifying against you? ”

Pilate asked them, “What should I do then with Jesus, who is called Christ? ”

They all answered, “Crucify him! ”

Then Jesus told them, “Do not be afraid. Go and tell my brothers to leave for Galilee, and they will see me there.”

And he said to them, “Let's go on to the neighboring villages so that I may preach there too. This is why I have come.”

Moved with compassion,[fn] Jesus reached out his hand and touched him. “I am willing,” he told him. “Be made clean.”

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]

Seeing their faith, Jesus told the paralytic, “Son, your sins are forgiven.”

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?

“But so that you may know that the Son of Man has authority on earth to forgive sins” ​— ​he told the paralytic —

Then, passing by, he saw Levi the son of Alphaeus sitting at the tax office, and he said to him, “Follow me,” and he got up and followed him.

When Jesus heard this, he told them, “It is not those who are well who need a doctor, but those who are sick. I didn't come to call the righteous, but sinners.”

He said to them, “Have you never read what David and those who were with him did when he was in need and hungry ​— ​

He told the man with the shriveled hand, “Stand before us.”

He replied to them, “Who are my mother and my brothers? ”

Then he said to them, “Don't you understand this parable? How then will you understand all of the parables?

On that day, when evening had come, he told them, “Let's cross over to the other side of the sea.”

And he cried out with a loud voice, “What do you have to do with me, Jesus, Son of the Most High God? I beg you before God, don't torment me! ”

“What is your name? ” he asked him.

“My name is Legion,” he answered him, “because we are many.”

Jesus did not let him but told him, “Go home to your own people, and report to them how much the Lord has done for you and how he has had mercy on you.”

When Jesus overheard[fn] what was said, he told the synagogue leader, “Don't be afraid. Only believe.”

He went in and said to them, “Why are you making a commotion and weeping? The child is not dead but asleep.”

Then he took the child by the hand and said to her, “Talitha koum”[fn] (which is translated, “Little girl, I say to you, get up”).

He said to them, “Come away by yourselves to a remote place and rest for a while.” For many people were coming and going, and they did not even have time to eat.

He asked them, “How many loaves do you have? Go and see.”

When they found out they said, “Five, and two fish.”

because they all saw him and were terrified. Immediately he spoke with them and said, “Have courage! It is I. Don't be afraid.”

He said to them, “Are you also as lacking in understanding? Don't you realize that nothing going into a person from the outside can defile him?

But she replied to him, “Lord, even the dogs under the table eat the children's crumbs.”

Looking up to heaven, he sighed deeply and said to him, “Ephphatha! ”[fn] (that is, “Be opened! ”).

In those days there was again a large crowd, and they had nothing to eat. He called the disciples and said to them,

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.”

Aware of this, he said to them, “Why are you discussing the fact you have no bread? Don't you understand or comprehend? Do you have hardened hearts?

“But you,” he asked them, “who do you say that I am? ”

Peter answered him, “You are the Messiah.”

But turning around and looking at his disciples, he rebuked Peter and said, “Get behind me, Satan! You are not thinking about God's concerns[fn] but human concerns.”

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” ​— ​

He replied to them, “You unbelieving generation, how long will I be with you? How long must I put up with you? Bring him to me.”

Sitting down, he called the Twelve and said to them, “If anyone wants to be first, he must be last and servant of all.”

He said to them, “Whoever divorces his wife and marries another commits adultery against her.

Jesus looked around and said to his disciples, “How hard it is for those who have wealth to enter the kingdom of God! ”

Looking at them, Jesus said, “With man it is impossible, but not with God, because all things are possible with God.”

Jesus called them over and said to them, “You know that those who are regarded as rulers of the Gentiles lord it over them, and those in high positions act as tyrants over them.

and told them, “Go into the village ahead of you. As soon as you enter it, you will find a colt tied there, on which no one has ever sat. Untie it and bring it.

Then Peter remembered and said to him, “Rabbi, look! The fig tree that you cursed has withered.”

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.”

They brought a coin. “Whose image and inscription is this? ” he asked them.

“Caesar's,” they replied.

“David himself calls him ‘Lord.' How, then, can he be his son? ” And the large crowd was listening to him with delight.

As he was going out of the temple, one of his disciples said to him, “Teacher, look! What massive stones! What impressive buildings! ”

So he sent two of his disciples and told them, “Go into the city, and a man carrying a jar of water will meet you. Follow him.

Then Jesus said to them, “All of you will fall away,[fn] because it is written:

I will strike the shepherd,

and the sheep will be scattered.

“Truly I tell you,” Jesus said to him, “today, this very night, before the rooster crows twice, you will deny me three times.”

Then they came to a place named Gethsemane, and he told his disciples, “Sit here while I pray.”

He said to them, “I am deeply grieved[fn] to the point of death. Remain here and stay awake.”

Then he came and found them sleeping. He said to Peter, “Simon, are you sleeping? Couldn't you stay awake one hour?

Then he came a third time and said to them, “Are you still sleeping and resting? Enough! The time has come. See, the Son of Man is betrayed into the hands of sinners.

So when he came, immediately he went up to Jesus and said, “Rabbi! ” and kissed him.

But he kept silent and did not answer. Again the high priest questioned him, “Are you the Messiah, the Son of the Blessed One? ”

Then the high priest tore his robes and said, “Why do we still need witnesses?

When she saw Peter warming himself, she looked at him and said, “You also were with Jesus, the man from Nazareth.”

So Pilate asked him, “Are you the king of the Jews? ”

He answered him, “You say so.”

“Don't be alarmed,” he told them. “You are looking for Jesus of Nazareth, who was crucified. He has risen! He is not here. See the place where they put him.

“And no one, after drinking old wine, wants new, because he says, ‘The old is better.' ”[fn]

“They are like children sitting in the marketplace and calling to each other:

We played the flute for you,

but you didn't dance;

we sang a lament,

but you didn't weep!

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.

“When an unclean spirit comes out of a person, it roams through waterless places looking for rest, and not finding rest, it then[fn] says, ‘I'll go back to my house that I came from.'

One of the experts in the law answered him, “Teacher, when you say these things you insult us too.”

“But he replied to him, ‘Sir,[fn] leave it this year also, until I dig around it and fertilize it.

“Next he asked another, ‘How much do you owe? '

“ ‘A hundred measures of wheat,' he said.

“ ‘Take your invoice,' he told him, ‘and write eighty.'

“But Abraham said, ‘They have Moses and the prophets; they should listen to them.'

Then the Lord said, “Listen to what the unjust judge says.

“He told him, ‘I will condemn you by what you have said, you evil servant! If you knew I was a harsh man, collecting what I didn't deposit and reaping what I didn't sow,

“Moses even indicated in the passage about the burning bush that the dead are raised, where he calls the Lord the God of Abraham and the God of Isaac and the God of Jacob.

“For David himself says in the Book of Psalms:

The Lord declared to my Lord,

‘Sit at my right hand

“Tell the owner of the house, ‘The Teacher asks you, “Where is the guest room where I can eat the Passover with my disciples? ” '

As they were saying these things, he himself stood in their midst. He said to them, “Peace to you! ”

“What then? ” they asked him. “Are you Elijah? ”

“I am not,” he said.

“Are you the Prophet? ”

“No,” he answered.

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

When he saw Jesus passing by, he said, “Look, the Lamb of God! ”

When Jesus turned and noticed them following him, he asked them, “What are you looking for? ”

They said to him, “Rabbi” (which means “Teacher”), “where are you staying? ”

He first found his own brother Simon and told him, “We have found the Messiah”[fn] (which is translated “the Christ”),

The next day Jesus[fn] decided to leave for Galilee. He found Philip and told him, “Follow me.”

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, “Truly I tell you, you will see heaven opened and the angels of God ascending and descending on the Son of Man.”

When the wine ran out, Jesus's mother told him, “They don't have any wine.”

“Fill the jars with water,” Jesus told them. So they filled them to the brim.

and told him, “Everyone sets out the fine wine first, then, after people are drunk, the inferior. But you have kept the fine wine until now.”

“How can anyone be born when he is old? ” Nicodemus asked him. “Can he enter his mother's womb a second time and be born? ”

A woman of Samaria came to draw water.

“Give me a drink,” Jesus said to her,

“How is it that you, a Jew, ask for a drink from me, a Samaritan woman? ” she asked him. For Jews do not associate with[fn] Samaritans.[fn]

“Sir,” said the woman, “you don't even have a bucket, and the well is deep. So where do you get this ‘living water'?

“Sir,” the woman said to him, “give me this water so that I won't get thirsty and come here to draw water.”

“Sir,” the woman replied, “I see that you are a prophet.

Jesus told her, “Believe me, woman, an hour is coming when you will worship the Father neither on this mountain nor in Jerusalem.

The woman said to him, “I know that the Messiah is coming” (who is called Christ). “When he comes, he will explain everything to us.”

Then the woman left her water jar, went into town, and told the people,

“My food is to do the will of him who sent me and to finish his work,” Jesus told them.

“Sir,” the official said to him, “come down before my boy dies.”

When Jesus saw him lying there and realized he had already been there a long time, he said to him, “Do you want to get well? ”

“Get up,” Jesus told him, “pick up your mat and walk.”

So when Jesus looked up and noticed a huge crowd coming toward him, he asked Philip, “Where will we buy bread so that these people can eat? ”

One of his disciples, Andrew, Simon Peter's brother, said to him,

When they were full, he told his disciples, “Collect the leftovers so that nothing is wasted.”

But he said to them, “It is I.[fn] Don't be afraid.”

They were saying, “Isn't this Jesus the son of Joseph, whose father and mother we know? How can he now say, ‘I have come down from heaven'? ”

Jesus told them, “My time has not yet arrived, but your time is always at hand.

Nicodemus ​— ​the one who came to him previously and who was one of them ​— ​said to them,

So the Jews said again, “He won't kill himself, will he, since he says, ‘Where I'm going, you cannot come'? ”

“Our father is Abraham,” they replied.

“If you were Abraham's children,” Jesus told them, “you would do what Abraham did.

“Where is he? ” they asked.

“I don't know,” he said.

Then after that, he said to the disciples, “Let's go to Judea again.”

He said this, and then he told them, “Our friend Lazarus has fallen asleep, but I'm on my way to wake him up.”

Jesus, however, was speaking about his death, but they thought he was speaking about natural sleep.

“Your brother will rise again,” Jesus told her.

“Yes, Lord,” she told him, “I believe you are the Messiah, the Son of God, who comes into the world.”

“Remove the stone,” Jesus said.

Martha, the dead man's sister, told him, “Lord, there is already a stench because he has been dead four days.”

The dead man came out bound hand and foot with linen strips and with his face wrapped in a cloth. Jesus said to them, “Unwrap him and let him go.”

Then one of his disciples, Judas Iscariot (who was about to betray him), said,

Philip went and told Andrew; then Andrew and Philip went and told Jesus.

He came to Simon Peter, who asked him, “Lord, are you going to wash my feet? ”

“You will never wash my feet,” Peter said.

Jesus replied, “If I don't wash you, you have no part with me.”

The disciples started looking at one another ​— ​uncertain which one he was speaking about.

Simon Peter motioned to him to find out who it was he was talking about.

After Judas ate the piece of bread, Satan entered him. So Jesus told him, “What you're doing, do quickly.”

Since Judas kept the money-bag, some thought that Jesus was telling him, “Buy what we need for the festival,” or that he should give something to the poor.

When he had left, Jesus said, “Now the Son of Man is glorified, and God is glorified in him.

“Lord,” Simon Peter said to him, “where are you going? ”

Jesus answered, “Where I am going you cannot follow me now, but you will follow later.”

“Lord,” Thomas said, “we don't know where you're going. How can we know the way? ”

“Lord,” said Philip, “show us the Father, and that's enough for us.”

Judas (not Iscariot) said to him, “Lord, how is it you're going to reveal yourself to us and not to the world? ”

Then some of his disciples said to one another, “What is this he's telling us: ‘In a little while, you will not see me; again in a little while, you will see me,' and, ‘Because I am going to the Father'? ”

Then Jesus, knowing everything that was about to happen to him, went out and said to them, “Who is it that you're seeking? ”

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.

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? ”

“What is truth? ” said Pilate.

After he had said this, he went out to the Jews again and told them, “I find no grounds for charging him.

Pilate went outside again and said to them, “Look, I'm bringing him out to you to let you know I find no grounds for charging him.”

He went back into the headquarters and asked Jesus, “Where are you from? ” But Jesus did not give him an answer.

It was the preparation day for the Passover, and it was about noon.[fn] Then he told the Jews, “Here is your king! ”

When Jesus saw his mother and the disciple he loved standing there, he said to his mother, “Woman, here is your son.”

He who saw this has testified so that you also may believe. His testimony is true, and he knows he is telling the truth.

Also, another Scripture says: They will look at the one they pierced.

So she went running to Simon Peter and to the other disciple, the one Jesus loved, and said to them, “They've taken the Lord out of the tomb, and we don't know where they've put him! ”

They said to her, “Woman, why are you crying? ”

“Because they've taken away my Lord,” she told them, “and I don't know where they've put him.”

“Woman,” Jesus said to her, “why are you crying? Who is it that you're seeking? ”

Supposing he was the gardener, she replied, “Sir, if you've carried him away, tell me where you've put him, and I will take him away.”

When it was evening on that first day of the week, the disciples were gathered together with the doors locked because they feared the Jews. Jesus came, stood among them, and said to them, “Peace be with you.”

After saying this, he breathed on them and said,[fn] “Receive the Holy Spirit.

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.”

Jesus said, “Because you have seen me, you have believed.[fn] Blessed are those who have not seen and yet believe.”

“I'm going fishing,” Simon Peter said to them.

“We're coming with you,” they told him. They went out and got into the boat, but that night they caught nothing.

“Friends,”[fn] Jesus called to them, “you don't have any fish, do you? ”

“No,” they answered.

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.

“Bring some of the fish you've just caught,” Jesus told them.

“Come and have breakfast,” Jesus told them. None of the disciples dared ask him, “Who are you? ” because they knew it was the Lord.

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.

He said this to indicate by what kind of death Peter would glorify God. After saying this, he told him, “Follow me.”

When Peter saw him, he said to Jesus, “Lord, what about him? ”

“And it will be in the last days, says God,

that I will pour out my Spirit on all people;

then your sons and your daughters will prophesy,

your young men will see visions,

and your old men will dream dreams.

“For David says of him:

I saw the Lord ever before me;

because he is at my right hand,

I will not be shaken.

“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

“but the Most High does not dwell in sanctuaries made with hands, as the prophet says:

The eunuch said to Philip, “I ask you, who is the prophet saying this about ​— ​himself or someone else? ”

“Get dressed,” the angel told him, “and put on your sandals.” And he did. “Wrap your cloak around you,” he told him, “and follow me.”

“Therefore he also says in another passage, You will not let your Holy One see decay.

“known from long ago.[fn]

He came to us, took Paul's belt, tied his own feet and hands, and said, “This is what the Holy Spirit says: ‘In this way the Jews in Jerusalem will bind the man who owns this belt and deliver him over to the Gentiles.' ”

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?

Now we know that whatever the law says, it speaks to those who are subject to the law,[fn] so that every mouth may be shut and the whole world may become subject to God's judgment.[fn]

For what does the Scripture say? Abraham believed God, and it was credited to him for righteousness.

Likewise, David also speaks of the blessing of the person to whom God credits righteousness apart from works:

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.

As it[fn] also says in Hosea,

I will call Not My People, My People,

and she who is Unloved, Beloved.

But the righteousness that comes from faith speaks like this: Do not say in your heart, “Who will go up to heaven? ” that is, to bring Christ down

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:

For the Scripture says, Everyone who believes on him will not be put to shame,

But not all obeyed the gospel. For Isaiah says, Lord, who has believed our message?

But I ask, “Did Israel not understand? ” First, Moses said,

I will make you jealous

of those who are not a nation;

I will make you angry by a nation

that lacks understanding.

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?

But what was God's answer to him? I have left seven thousand for myself who have not bowed down to Baal.

And David says,

Let their table become a snare and a trap,

a pitfall and a retribution to them.

Friends, do not avenge yourselves; instead, leave room for God's wrath, because it is written, Vengeance belongs to me; I will repay, says 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.

Again it says, Rejoice, you Gentiles, with his people!

And again, Isaiah says,

The root of Jesse will appear,

the one who rises to rule the Gentiles;

the Gentiles will hope in him.

What I am saying is this: One of you says, “I belong to Paul,” or “I belong to Apollos,” or “I belong to Cephas,” or “I belong to Christ.”

Am I saying this from a human perspective? Doesn't the law also say the same thing?

Isn't he really saying it for our sake? Yes, this is written for our sake, because he who plows ought to plow in hope, and he who threshes should thresh in hope of sharing the crop.

Therefore I want you to know that no one speaking by the Spirit of God says, “Jesus is cursed,” and no one can say, “Jesus is Lord,” except by the Holy Spirit.

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 women[fn] should be silent in the churches, for they are not permitted to speak, but are to submit themselves, as the law also says.

For he says:

At an acceptable time I listened to you,

and in the day of salvation I helped you.

See, now is the acceptable time; now is the day of salvation!

Therefore, come out from among them

and be separate, says the Lord;

do not touch any unclean thing,

and I will welcome you.

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 what does the Scripture say? “Drive out the slave and her son, for the son of the slave will never be a coheir with the son of the free woman.”

For it says:

When he ascended on high,

he took the captives captive;

he gave gifts to people.

for what makes everything visible is light. Therefore it is said:

Get up, sleeper, and rise up from the dead,

and Christ will shine on you.

Now the Spirit explicitly says that in later times some will depart from the faith, paying attention to deceitful spirits and the teachings of demons,

For the Scripture says: Do not muzzle an ox while it is treading out the grain, and, “The worker is worthy of his wages.”

Again, when he[fn] brings his firstborn into the world, he says,

And let all God's angels worship him.

Therefore, as the Holy Spirit says:

Today, if you hear his voice,

also says in another place,

You are a priest forever

according to the order of Melchizedek.

But finding fault with his people,[fn] he says:[fn]

See, the days are coming, says the Lord,

when I will make a new covenant

with the house of Israel

and with the house of Judah —

Therefore, as he was coming into the world, he said:

You did not desire sacrifice and offering,

but you prepared a body for me.

This is the covenant I will make with them

after those days,

the Lord says,

I will put my laws on their hearts

and write them on their minds,

Or do you think it's without reason that the Scripture says: The spirit he made to dwell in us envies intensely?[fn]

“I am the Alpha and the Omega,” says the Lord God, “the one who is, who was, and who is to come, the Almighty.”

“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.

“Let anyone who has ears to hear listen to what the Spirit says to the churches. The one who conquers will never be harmed by the second death.

“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.

“Let anyone who has ears to hear listen to what the Spirit says to the churches.

“Write to the angel[fn] of the church in Sardis: Thus says the one who has the seven spirits of God and the seven stars: I know your works; you have a reputation[fn] for being alive, but you are dead.

“Let anyone who has ears to hear listen to what the Spirit says to the churches.

“Let anyone who has ears to hear listen to what the Spirit says to the churches.

“Let anyone who has ears to hear listen to what the Spirit says to the churches.”

Then one of the elders said to me, “Do not weep. Look, the Lion from the tribe of Judah, the Root of David, has conquered so that he is able to open the scroll and[fn] its seven seals.”

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 heard a voice from heaven saying, “Write: Blessed are the dead who die in the Lord from now on.”

“Yes,” says the Spirit, “so they will rest from their labors, since their works follow them.”

He also said to me, “The waters you saw, where the prostitute was seated, are peoples, multitudes, nations, and languages.

As much as she glorified herself and indulged her sensual and excessive ways,

give her that much torment and grief.

For she says in her heart,

“I sit as a queen;

I am not a widow,

and I will never see grief.”

Then he[fn] said to me, “Write: Blessed are those invited to the marriage feast of the Lamb! ” He also said to me, “These words of God are true.”

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.”

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! ”

He who testifies about these things says, “Yes, I am coming soon.”

Amen! Come, Lord Jesus!