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For God had such love for the world that he gave his only Son, so that whoever has faith in him may not come to destruction but have eternal life.
For all have done wrong and are far from the glory of God;
Every holy Writing which comes from God is of profit for teaching, for training, for guiding, for education in righteousness:
For this reason I make request to you, brothers, by the mercies of God, that you will give your bodies as a living offering, holy, pleasing to God, which is the worship it is right for you to give him.
But the fruit of the Spirit is love, joy, peace, a quiet mind, kind acts, well-doing, faith,
Because by grace you have salvation through faith; and that not of yourselves: it is given by God:
And we are conscious that all things are working together for good to those who have love for God, and have been marked out by his purpose.
Go then, and make disciples of all the nations, giving them baptism in the name of the Father and of the Son and of the Holy Spirit:
And let not your behaviour be like that of this world, but be changed and made new in mind, so that by experience you may have knowledge of the good and pleasing and complete purpose of God.
Jesus said to him, I am the true and living way: no one comes to the Father but by me.
But you will have power, when the Holy Spirit has come on you; and you will be my witnesses in Jerusalem and all Judaea and Samaria, and to the ends of the earth.
And Peter said, Let your hearts be changed, every one of you, and have baptism in the name of Jesus Christ, for the forgiveness of your sins; and you will have the Holy Spirit given to you.
For the reward of sin is death; but what God freely gives is eternal life in Jesus Christ our Lord.
At the first God made the heaven and the earth.
To all those who did so take him, however, he gave the right of becoming children of God--that is, to those who had faith in his name:
From the first he was the Word, and the Word was in relation with God and was God.
Not by works of righteousness which we did ourselves, but in the measure of his mercy, he gave us salvation, through the washing of the new birth and the giving of new life in the Holy Spirit,
Because, if you say with your mouth that Jesus is Lord, and have faith in your heart that God has made him come back from the dead, you will have salvation:
And so the Word became flesh and took a place among us for a time; and we saw his glory--such glory as is given to an only son by his father--saw it to be true and full of grace.
And God said, Let us make man in our image, like us: and let him have rule over the fish of the sea and over the birds of the air and over the cattle and over all the earth and over every living thing which goes flat on the earth.
Put all your hope in God, not looking to your reason for support.
But God has made clear his love to us, in that, when we were still sinners, Christ gave his life for us.
For I am conscious of my thoughts about you, says the Lord, thoughts of peace and not of evil, to give you hope at the end.
And he gave some as Apostles, and some, prophets; and some, preachers of the good news; and some to give care and teaching;
And God made man in his image, in the image of God he made him: male and female he made them.
And they kept their attention fixed on the Apostles' teaching and were united together in the taking of broken bread and in prayer.
Come to me, all you who are troubled and weighted down with care, and I will give you rest.
If we say openly that we have done wrong, he is upright and true to his word, giving us forgiveness of sins and making us clean from all evil.
Jesus said to him, Truly, I say to you, Without a new birth no man is able to see the kingdom of God.
The thief comes only to take the sheep and to put them to death: he comes for their destruction: I have come so that they may have life and have it in greater measure.
For this reason, as through one man sin came into the world, and death because of sin, and so death came to all men, because all have done evil:
And he said to them, Go into all the world, and give the good news to everyone.
And in no other is there salvation: for there is no other name under heaven, given among men, through which we may have salvation.
So if any man is in Christ, he is in a new world: the old things have come to an end; they have truly become new.
Let not your heart be troubled: have faith in God and have faith in me.
The true light, which gives light to every man, was then coming into the world.
And Jesus came to them and said, All authority has been given to me in heaven and on earth.
For which reason, because we have righteousness through faith, let us be at peace with God through our Lord Jesus Christ;
I am able to do all things through him who gives me strength.
For to us a child has come, to us a son is given; and the government has been placed in his hands; and he has been named Wise Guide, Strong God, Father for ever, Prince of Peace.
Have no cares; but in everything with prayer and praise put your requests before God.
For this cause those who are in Christ Jesus will not be judged as sinners.
On the third day two people were going to be married at Cana in Galilee. The mother of Jesus was there:
And when the day of Pentecost was come, they were all together in one place.
I have been put to death on the cross with Christ; still I am living; no longer I, but Christ is living in me; and that life which I now am living in the flesh I am living by faith, the faith of the Son of God, who in love for me, gave himself up for me.
For I have no feeling of shame about the good news, because it is the power of God giving salvation to everyone who has faith, to the Jew first, and then to the Greek.
I give you a new law: Have love one for another; even as I have had love for you, so are you to have love one for another.
Now there was among the Pharisees a man named Nicodemus, who was one of the rulers of the Jews.
Let it be your care to get the approval of God, as a workman who has no cause for shame, giving the true word in the right way.
But let your first care be for his kingdom and his righteousness; and all these other things will be given to you in addition.
And I will make prayer to the Father and he will give you another Helper to be with you for ever,
For this reason, as we are circled by so great a cloud of witnesses, putting off every weight, and the sin into which we come so readily, let us keep on running in the way which is marked out for us,
God is Spirit: then let his worshippers give him worship in the true way of the spirit.
For this cause the Lord himself will give you a sign; a young woman is now with child, and she will give birth to a son, and she will give him the name Immanuel.
Let this mind be in you which was in Christ Jesus,
Give attention to yourselves, and to all the flock which the Holy Spirit has given into your care, to give food to the church of God, for which he gave his blood.
Because, Whoever will give worship to the name of the Lord will get salvation.
If you have love for me, you will keep my laws.
For there is a revelation of the wrath of God from heaven against all the wrongdoing and evil thoughts of men who keep down what is true by wrongdoing;
And the earth was waste and without form; and it was dark on the face of the deep: and the Spirit of God was moving on the face of the waters.
The Spirit of the Lord is on me, because I am marked out by him to give good news to the poor; he has sent me to make well those who are broken-hearted; to say that the prisoners will be let go, and the blind will see, and to make the wounded free from their chains,
Jesus said in answer, Truly, I say to you, If a man's birth is not from water and from the Spirit, it is not possible for him to go into the kingdom of God.
Now when it was clear to the Lord that word had come to the ears of the Pharisees that Jesus was making more disciples than John and was giving them baptism
Now faith is the substance of things hoped for, and the sign that the things not seen are true.
Give ear, O Israel: the Lord our God is one Lord:
And you will have knowledge of what is true, and that will make you free.
For the word of God is living and full of power, and is sharper than any two-edged sword, cutting through and making a division even of the soul and the spirit, the bones and the muscles, and quick to see the thoughts and purposes of the heart.
So then, make a statement of your sins to one another, and say prayers for one another so that you may be made well. The prayer of a good man is full of power in its working.
The day after, John sees Jesus coming to him and says, See, here is the Lamb of God who takes away the sin of the world!
And to you did he give life, when you were dead through your wrongdoing and sins,
However, when he, the Spirit of true knowledge, has come, he will be your guide into all true knowledge: for his words will not come from himself, but whatever has come to his hearing, that he will say: and he will make clear to you the things to come.
Let everyone put himself under the authority of the higher powers, because there is no power which is not of God, and all powers are ordered by God.
And I say to you that you are Peter, and on this rock will my church be based, and the doors of hell will not overcome it.
But when the Son of man comes in his glory, and all the angels with him, then will he be seated in his glory:
And there will be war between you and the woman and between your seed and her seed: by him will your head be crushed and by you his foot will be wounded.
Now these were more noble than the Jews of Thessalonica, for they gave serious attention to the word, searching in the holy Writings every day, to see if these things were so.
But the Helper, the Holy Spirit, whom the Father will send in my name, will be your teacher in all things and will put you in mind of everything I have said to you.
You are the children of your father the Evil One and it is your pleasure to do his desires. From the first he was a taker of life; and he did not go in the true way because there is no true thing in him. When he says what is false, it is natural to him, for he is false and the father of what is false.
He came for witness, to give witness about the light, so that all men might have faith through him.
For the grace of God has come, giving salvation to all men,
Let there be no thought that I have come to put an end to the law or the prophets. I have not come for destruction, but to make complete.
Lastly, be strong in the Lord, and in the strength of his power.
And he said to him, Have love for the Lord your God with all your heart, and with all your soul, and with all your mind.
Who is the image of the unseen God and existed before all living things;
I am the vine, you are the branches: he who is in me at all times as I am in him, gives much fruit, because without me you are able to do nothing.
Truly I say to you, The man whose ears are open to my word and who has faith in him who sent me, has eternal life; he will not be judged, but has come from death into life.
And after that, it will come about, says the Lord, that I will send my spirit on all flesh; and your sons and your daughters will be prophets, your old men will have dreams, your young men will see visions:
For the rest, my brothers, whatever things are true, whatever things have honour, whatever things are upright, whatever things are holy, whatever things are beautiful, whatever things are of value, if there is any virtue and if there is any praise, give thought to these things.
And without faith it is not possible to be well-pleasing to him, for it is necessary for anyone who comes to God to have the belief that God is, and that he is a rewarder of all those who make a serious search for him.
Looking for the glad hope, the revelation of the glory of our great God and Saviour Jesus Christ;
So faith comes by hearing, and hearing by the word of Christ.
He has made clear to you, O man, what is good; and what is desired from you by the Lord; only doing what is right, and loving mercy, and walking without pride before your God.
And he made a whip of small cords and put them all out of the Temple, with the sheep and the oxen, sending in all directions the small money of the changers and overturning their tables;
Now the snake was wiser than any beast of the field which the Lord God had made. And he said to the woman, Has God truly said that you may not take of the fruit of any tree in the garden?
If a child is trained up in the right way, even when he is old he will not be turned away from it.
Let it be all joy to you, my brothers, when you undergo tests of every sort;
And they were all full of the Holy Spirit, and were talking in different languages, as the Spirit gave them power.
He who has faith and is given baptism will get salvation; but he who has not faith will be judged.
As it is said in the holy Writings, There is not one who does righteousness;
Make them holy by the true word: your word is the true word.
And God said, Let grass come up on the earth, and plants producing seed, and fruit-trees giving fruit, in which is their seed, after their sort: and it was so.
And they said, Have faith in the Lord Jesus, and you and your family will have salvation.
But if any man among you is without wisdom, let him make his request to God, who gives freely to all without an unkind word, and it will be given to him.
Jesus said to her, I am myself that day and that life; he who has faith in me will have life even if he is dead;
Then those who gave hearing to his words had baptism: and about three thousand souls were joined to them that day.
And when he had said these things, while they were looking, he was taken up, and went from their view into a cloud.
You may not have sex relations with men, as you do with women: it is a disgusting thing.
And on the first day of the week, when we had come together for the holy meal, Paul gave them a talk, for it was his purpose to go away on the day after; and he went on talking till after the middle of the night.
But give honour to Christ in your hearts as your Lord; and be ready at any time when you are questioned about the hope which is in you, to give an answer in the fear of the Lord and without pride;
And this is eternal life: to have knowledge of you, the only true God, and of him whom you have sent, even Jesus Christ.
Have you not knowledge that evil-doers will have no part in the kingdom of God? Have no false ideas about this: no one who goes after the desires of the flesh, or gives worship to images, or is untrue when married, or is less than a man, or makes a wrong use of men,
A woman of Samaria came to get water, and Jesus said to her, Give me some water.
Jesus said to them, Truly I say to you, Before Abraham came into being, I am.
For from the first making of the world, those things of God which the eye is unable to see, that is, his eternal power and existence, are fully made clear, he having given the knowledge of them through the things which he has made, so that men have no reason for wrongdoing:
And the Lord God made man from the dust of the earth, breathing into him the breath of life: and man became a living soul.
But you are a special people, a holy nation, priests and kings, a people given up completely to God, so that you may make clear the virtues of him who took you out of the dark into the light of heaven.
In times past the word of God came to our fathers through the prophets, in different parts and in different ways;
The spirit of the Lord is on me, because I am marked out by him to give good news to the poor; he has sent me to make the broken-hearted well, to say that the prisoners will be made free, and that those in chains will see the light again;
Now there was a certain man of great wealth, who was dressed in fair clothing of purple and delicate linen, and was shining and glad every day.
See, I am waiting at the door and giving the sign; if my voice comes to any man's ears and he makes the door open, I will come in to him, and will take food with him and he with me.
Now the Lord said to Abram, Go out from your country and from your family and from your father's house, into the land to which I will be your guide:
Not everyone who says to me, Lord, Lord, will go into the kingdom of heaven; but he who does the pleasure of my Father in heaven.
The wind goes where its pleasure takes it, and the sound of it comes to your ears, but you are unable to say where it comes from and where it goes: so it is with everyone whose birth is from the Spirit.
But those who are waiting for the Lord will have new strength; they will get wings like eagles: running, they will not be tired, and walking, they will have no weariness.
The ill man said in answer, Sir, I have nobody to put me into the bath when the water is moving; and while I am on the way down some other person gets in before me.
Then Jesus said to the Jews who had faith in him, If you keep my word, then you are truly my disciples;
The man who has faith in him does not come up to be judged; but he who has no faith in him has been judged even now, because he has no faith in the name of the only Son of God.
Be free from the love of money and pleased with the things which you have; for he himself has said, I will be with you at all times.
Then again Jesus said to them, I am the light of the world; he who comes with me will not be walking in the dark but will have the light of life.
Make no store of wealth for yourselves on earth, where it may be turned to dust by worms and weather, and where thieves may come in by force and take it away.
I and my Father are one.
For our fight is not against flesh and blood, but against authorities and powers, against the world-rulers of this dark night, against the spirits of evil in the heavens.
So that you might have certain knowledge of those things about which you were given teaching.
I am the true vine and my Father is the gardener.
And because by God's law death comes to men once, and after that they are judged;
If you have had a taste of the grace of the Lord:
Make a request, and it will be answered; what you are searching for you will get; give the sign, and the door will be open to you:
And God said, Let there be light: and there was light.
Now in the sixth month the angel Gabriel was sent from God to a town in Galilee, named Nazareth,
He came to Jesus by night and said to him, Rabbi, we are certain that you have come from God as a teacher, because no man would be able to do these signs which you do if God was not with him.
Praise be to the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, who has given us every blessing of the Spirit in the heavens in Christ:
And when his words came to their ears, they went out one by one, starting with the oldest even to the last, because they were conscious of what was in their hearts: and Jesus was there by himself with the woman before him.
You are the light of the world. A town put on a hill may be seen by all.
Now the birth of Jesus Christ was in this way: when his mother Mary was going to be married to Joseph, before they came together the discovery was made that she was with child by the Holy Spirit.
And God said to him, I AM WHAT I AM: and he said, Say to the children of Israel, I AM has sent me to you.
My loved ones, do not put your faith in every spirit, but put them to the test, to see if they are from God: because a great number of false prophets have gone out into the world.
There is no Jew or Greek, servant or free, male or female: because you are all one in Jesus Christ.
Is anyone among you ill? let him send for the rulers of the church; and let them say prayers over him, putting oil on him in the name of the Lord.
And a certain teacher of the law got up and put him to the test, saying, Master, what have I to do so that I may have eternal life?
But it is our desire, brothers, that you may be certain about those who are sleeping; so that you may have no need for sorrow, as others have who are without hope.
Every good and true thing is given to us from heaven, coming from the Father of lights, with whom there is no change or any shade made by turning.
For him who had no knowledge of sin God made to be sin for us; so that we might become the righteousness of God in him.
I have said all these things to you so that in me you may have peace. In the world you have trouble: but take heart! I have overcome the world.
And God gave them his blessing and said to them, Be fertile and have increase, and make the earth full and be masters of it; be rulers over the fish of the sea and over the birds of the air and over every living thing moving on the earth.
In whom you, having been given the true word, the good news of your salvation, and through your faith in him, were given the sign of the Holy Spirit of hope,
Husbands, have love for your wives, even as Christ had love for the church, and gave himself for it;
And the light goes on shining in the dark; it is not overcome by the dark.
The Lord is not slow in keeping his word, as he seems to some, but he is waiting in mercy for you, not desiring the destruction of any, but that all may be turned from their evil ways.
He himself was not the light: he was sent to give witness about the light.
And the angel in answer said to her, The Holy Spirit will come on you, and the power of the Most High will come to rest on you, and so that which will come to birth will be named holy, Son of God.
The religion which is holy and free from evil in the eyes of our God and Father is this: to take care of children who have no fathers and of widows who are in trouble, and to keep oneself untouched by the world.
He who has faith in the Son has eternal life; but he who has not faith in the Son will not see life; God's wrath is resting on him.
Wives, be under the authority of your husbands, as of the Lord.
And if your brother does wrong to you, go, make clear to him his error between you and him in private: if he gives ear to you, you have got your brother back again.
And said, O men of Galilee, why are you looking up into heaven? This Jesus, who was taken from you into heaven, will come again, in the same way as you saw him go into heaven.
So then, let your hearts be changed and be turned to God, so that your sins may be completely taken away, and times of blessing may come from the Lord;
For by his act we were given existence in Christ Jesus to do those good works which God before made ready for us so that we might do them.
What use is it, my brothers, for a man to say that he has faith, if he does nothing? will such a faith give him salvation?
God did not send his Son into the world to be judge of the world; he sent him so that the world might have salvation through him.
Or are you without the knowledge that all we who had baptism into Christ Jesus, had baptism into his death?
Let this then be your prayer: Our Father in heaven, may your name be kept holy.
That old women are to be self-respecting in behaviour, not saying evil of others, not given to taking much wine, teachers of that which is good,
For this cause will a man go away from his father and his mother and be joined to his wife; and they will be one flesh.
And the Lord God said, It is not good for the man to be by himself: I will make one like himself as a help to him
What may we say, then? are we to go on in sin so that there may be more grace?
And do not take overmuch wine by which one may be overcome, but be full of the Spirit;
And I saw a new heaven and a new earth: for the first heaven and the first earth were gone; and there was no more sea.
But it was for our sins he was wounded, and for our evil doings he was crushed: he took the punishment by which we have peace, and by his wounds we are made well.
But the time is coming, and is even now here, when the true worshippers will give worship to the Father in the true way of the spirit, for these are the worshippers desired by the Father.
Now it came about in those days that an order went out from Caesar Augustus that there was to be a numbering of all the world.
For there is one God and one peacemaker between God and men, the man Christ Jesus,
Then Jesus was sent by the Spirit into the waste land to be tested by the Evil One.
You make search in the holy Writings, in the belief that through them you get eternal life; and it is those Writings which give witness about me.
In whom we have salvation through his blood, the forgiveness of our sins, through the wealth of his grace,
Do not be surprised at this: for the time is coming when his voice will come to all who are in the place of the dead,
But if we are walking in the light, as he is in the light, we are all united with one another, and the blood of Jesus his Son makes us clean from all sin.
No man has seen God at any time; the only Son, who is on the breast of the Father, he has made clear what God is.
I then, the prisoner in the Lord, make this request from my heart, that you will see that your behaviour is a credit to the position which God's purpose has given you,
Be not judges of others, and you will not be judged.
And you, Beth-lehem Ephrathah, the least among the families of Judah, out of you one will come to me who is to be ruler in Israel; whose going out has been purposed from time past, from the eternal days.
Your word is a light for my feet, ever shining on my way.
For I gave to you first of all what was handed down to me, how Christ underwent death for our sins, as it says in the Writings;
Greater love has no man than this, that a man gives up his life for his friends.
They are of the world, so their talk is the world's talk, and the world gives ear to them.
But I say, Go on in the Spirit, and you will not come under the rule of the evil desires of the flesh.
You are not in the flesh but in the Spirit, if the Spirit of God is in you. But if any man has not the Spirit of Christ he is not one of his.
At evening on that day, the first day of the week, when, for fear of the Jews, the doors were shut where the disciples were, Jesus came among them and said to them, May peace be with you!
Saying, Where is the hope of his coming? From the death of the fathers till now everything has gone on as it was from the making of the world.
No man is able to come to me if the Father who sent me does not give him the desire to come: and I will take him up from the dead on the last day.
After these things there was a feast of the Jews, and Jesus went up to Jerusalem.
For by him all things were made, in heaven and on earth, things seen and things unseen, authorities, lords, rulers, and powers; all things were made by him and for him;
As the snake was lifted up by Moses in the waste land, even so it is necessary for the Son of man to be lifted up:
Go in by the narrow door; for wide is the door and open is the way which goes to destruction, and great numbers go in by it.
Those times when men had no knowledge were overlooked by God; but now he gives orders to all men in every place to undergo a change of heart:
Nicodemus said to him, How is it possible for a man to be given birth when he is old? Is he able to go into his mother's body a second time and come to birth again?
If then you have a new life with Christ, give your attention to the things of heaven, where Christ is seated at the right hand of God.
Because those of whom he had knowledge before they came into existence, were marked out by him to be made like his Son, so that he might be the first among a band of brothers:
But be doers of the word, and not only hearers of it, blinding yourselves with false ideas.
As saints of God, then, holy and dearly loved, let your behaviour be marked by pity and mercy, kind feeling, a low opinion of yourselves, gentle ways, and a power of undergoing all things;
Not giving up our meetings, as is the way of some, but keeping one another strong in faith; and all the more because you see the day coming near.
Because Christ once went through pain for sins, the upright one taking the place of sinners, so that through him we might come back to God; being put to death in the flesh, but given life in the Spirit;
Now in those days, when the number of the disciples was increasing, protests were made by the Greek Jews against the Hebrews, because their widows were not taken care of in the distribution of food every day.
May peace be with you; my peace I give to you: I give it not as the world gives. Let not your heart be troubled; let it be without fear.
My sheep give ear to my voice, and I have knowledge of them, and they come after me:
Because to everyone who makes a request, it will be given; and he who is searching will get his desire, and to him who gives the sign, the door will be open.
He took our sins on himself, giving his body to be nailed on the tree, so that we, being dead to sin, might have a new life in righteousness, and by his wounds we have been made well.
For this cause be ruled by God; but make war on the Evil One and he will be put to flight before you.
But what I am saying is true: my going is for your good: for if I do not go away, the Helper will not come to you; but if I go, I will send him to you.
I am the good keeper of sheep: the good keeper gives his life for the sheep.
The heart is a twisted thing, not to be searched out by man: who is able to have knowledge of it?
For we have not a high priest who is not able to be touched by the feelings of our feeble flesh; but we have one who has been tested in all points as we ourselves are tested, but without sin.
And Jesus with his disciples came as guests.
You are the salt of the earth; but if its taste goes from the salt, how will you make it salt again? it is then good for nothing but to be put out and crushed under foot by men.
Who, being the outshining of his glory, the true image of his substance, supporting all things by the word of his power, having given himself as an offering making clean from sins, took his seat at the right hand of God in heaven;
Be serious and keep watch; the Evil One, who is against you, goes about like a lion with open mouth in search of food;
And in the same way the Spirit is a help to our feeble hearts: for we are not able to make prayer to God in the right way; but the Spirit puts our desires into words which are not in our power to say;
My loved ones, let us have love for one another: because love is of God, and everyone who has love is a child of God and has knowledge of God.
Whatever the Father gives to me will come to me; and I will not send away anyone who comes to me.
Have no love for the world or for the things which are in the world. If any man has love for the world, the love of the Father is not in him.
When the Helper comes, whom I will send to you from the Father even the Spirit of true knowledge who comes from the Father--he will give witness about me;
See what great love the Father has given us in naming us the children of God; and such we are. For this reason the world does not see who we are, because it did not see who he was.
Now on the first day of the week, very early, while it was still dark, Mary Magdalene came to the place and saw that the stone had been taken away from it.
Then Peter said, Truly, I see clearly that God is no respecter of persons:
And he said to them all, If any man has a desire to come after me, let him give up all, and take up his cross every day, and come after me.
Philip made answer, Bread to the value of two hundred pence would not be enough even to give everyone a little.
And it came about that when he went into the house of one of the chief Pharisees on the Sabbath, to have a meal, they were watching him.
And he came to Nazareth, where he had been as a child, and he went, as his way was, into the Synagogue on the Sabbath, and got up to give a reading.
I did not take you with me when I went away from Crete, so that you might do what was necessary to put things in order there, placing men in authority over the churches in every town, as I said to you;
So Jesus made answer and said, Truly I say to you, The Son is not able to do anything himself; he is able to do only what he sees the Father doing; whatever the Father does the Son does it in the same way.
Now when the birth of Jesus took place in Beth-lehem of Judaea, in the days of Herod the king, there came wise men from the east to Jerusalem,
Because you are all sons of God through faith in Christ Jesus.
Let the word of Christ be in you in all wealth of wisdom; teaching and helping one another with songs of praise and holy words, making melody to God with grace in your hearts.
Being conscious in the first place that no man by himself may give a special sense to the words of the prophets.
My prayer is not for them only, but for all who will have faith in me through their word;
All the offspring of Jacob were seventy persons: and Joseph had come to Egypt before them.
And if it seems evil to you to be the servants of the Lord, make the decision this day whose servants you will be: of the gods whose servants your fathers were across the River, or of the gods of the Amorites in whose land you are living: but I and my house will be the servants of the Lord.
My little children, I am writing these things to you so that you may be without sin. And if any man is a sinner, we have a friend and helper with the Father, Jesus Christ, the upright one:
On the last day, the great day of the feast, Jesus got up and said in a loud voice, If any man is in need of drink let him come to me and I will give it to him.
Now the works of the flesh are clear, which are these: evil desire, unclean things, wrong use of the senses,
In answer Jesus said, If you had knowledge of what God gives freely and who it is who says to you, Give me water, you would make your prayer to him, and he would give you living water.
Christ has truly made us free: then keep your free condition and let no man put a yoke on you again.
How great is your fall from heaven, O shining one, son of the morning! How are you cut down to the earth, low among the dead bodies!
And the brothers straight away sent Paul and Silas away by night to Beroea: and they, when they came there, went to the Synagogue of the Jews.
For I am certain that not death, or life, or angels, or rulers, or things present, or things to come, or powers,
And the Spirit is the witness, because the Spirit is true.
And all those who are guided by the Spirit of God are sons of God.
Even so let your light be shining before men, so that they may see your good works and give glory to your Father in heaven.
I have given an earlier account, O Theophilus, of all the things which Jesus did, and of his teaching from the first,
After a time Jesus came across him in the Temple and said to him, See, you are well and strong; do no more sin for fear a worse thing comes to you.
Jesus Christ is the same yesterday and today and for ever.
What may we say about these things? If God is for us, who is against us?
For I am certain of this very thing, that he by whom the good work was started in you will make it complete till the day of Jesus Christ:
Now before the feast of the Passover, it was clear to Jesus that the time had come for him to go away from this world to the Father. Having once had love for those in the world who were his, his love for them went on to the end.
For these words did not ever come through the impulse of men: but the prophets had them from God, being moved by the Holy Spirit.
We have been placed with him among the dead through baptism into death: so that as Christ came again from the dead by the glory of the Father, we, in the same way, might be living in new life.
Did you undergo such a number of things to no purpose? if it is in fact to no purpose.
Now, while they were on their way, he came to a certain town; and a woman named Martha took him into her house.
So then, my loved ones, as you have at all times done what I say, not only when I am present, but now much more when I am not with you, give yourselves to working out your salvation with fear in your hearts;
And he, when he comes, will make the world conscious of sin, and of righteousness, and of being judged:
And you do honour to the man in fair clothing and say, Come here and take this good place; and you say to the poor man, Take up your position there, or be seated at my feet;
Jesus said to him in answer, If anyone has love for me, he will keep my words: and he will be dear to my Father; and we will come to him and make our living-place with him.
If we say that we have no sin, we are false to ourselves and there is nothing true in us.
Be on the watch for false prophets, who come to you in sheep's clothing, but inside they are cruel wolves.
Love is never tired of waiting; love is kind; love has no envy; love has no high opinion of itself, love has no pride;
Keep in memory the Sabbath and let it be a holy day.
Praise be to the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, who through his great mercy has given us a new birth and a living hope by the coming again of Jesus Christ from the dead,
And it came about that he was in prayer in a certain place, and when he came to an end, one of his disciples said to him, Lord, will you give us teaching about prayer, as John did to his disciples?
Even as he made selection of us in him from the first, so that we might be holy and free from all evil before him in love:
And he made a story for them, the point of which was that men were to go on making prayer and not get tired;
In my Father's house are rooms enough; if it was not so, would I have said that I am going to make ready a place for you?
But when the time had come, God sent out his Son, made of a woman, made under the law,
And Jesus said to them, Send destruction on this Temple and I will put it up again in three days.
And let us be moving one another at all times to love and good works;
If then there is any comfort in Christ, any help given by love, any uniting of hearts in the Spirit, any loving mercies and pity,
Do not keep company with those who have not faith: for what is there in common between righteousness and evil, or between light and dark?
And Solomon sent word to all Israel, to the captains of thousands and of hundreds and to the judges and to every chief in all Israel, heads of their families.
Be not tricked; God is not made sport of: for whatever seed a man puts in, that will he get back as grain.
Having our eyes fixed on Jesus, the guide and end of our faith, who went through the pains of the cross, not caring for the shame, because of the joy which was before him, and who has now taken his place at the right hand of God's seat of power.
Happy are those who have mercy: for they will be given mercy.
Then when they had taken food, Jesus said to Simon Peter, Simon, son of John, is your love for me greater than the love of these others? He said to him, Yes, Lord; you are certain of my love for you. He said to him, Then give my lambs food.
And this was the answer of Jesus: I am the bread of life. He who comes to me will never be in need of food, and he who has faith in me will never be in need of drink.
So I say to you, Take no thought for your life, about food or drink, or about clothing for your body. Is not life more than food, and the body more than its clothing?
But it was our pain he took, and our diseases were put on him: while to us he seemed as one diseased, on whom God's punishment had come.
And he has made of one blood all the nations of men living on all the face of the earth, ordering their times and the limits of their lands,
And she will give birth to a son; and you will give him the name Jesus; for he will give his people salvation from their sins.
Or are you not conscious that your body is a house for the Holy Spirit which is in you, and which has been given to you by God? and you are not the owners of yourselves;
And he has put all things under his feet, and has made him to be head over all things to the church,
Then the Jews put this question to him: What sign of authority have you to give us, seeing that you do these things?
That which was from the first, which has come to our ears, and which we have seen with our eyes, looking on it and touching it with our hands, about the Word of life
But Saul, still burning with desire to put to death the disciples of the Lord, went to the high priest,
I am of the opinion that there is no comparison between the pain of this present time and the glory which we will see in the future.
Now he who had been made well had no knowledge who it was, Jesus having gone away because of the number of people who were in that place.
For this reason God gave them up to evil passions, and their women were changing the natural use into one which is unnatural:
Now to him who is able to do in full measure more than all our desires or thoughts, through the power which is working in us,
Who has made us free from the power of evil and given us a place in the kingdom of the Son of his love;
Teaching them to keep all the rules which I have given you: and see, I am ever with you, even to the end of the world.
May mercy and peace and love be increased in you.
In the year of King Uzziah's death I saw the Lord seated in his place, high and lifted up, and the Temple was full of the wide skirts of his robe.
Among whom you in the same way have been marked out to be disciples of Jesus Christ:
Men of Israel, give ear to these words: Jesus of Nazareth, a man who had the approval of God, as was made clear to you by the great works and signs and wonders which God did by him among you, as you yourselves have knowledge,
And Jesus, full of the Holy Spirit, came back from the Jordan, and was guided by the Spirit in the waste land
Kenan, Mahalalel, Jared,
And Jesus said to them again, May peace be with you! As the Father sent me, even so I now send you.
Happy are the poor in spirit: for the kingdom of heaven is theirs.
So some of the disciples said one to another, What is this he is saying, After a little time, you will see me no longer; and then again, after a little time, you will see me? and, I am going to the Father?
And one of the Pharisees made a request that he would take a meal with him. And he went into the Pharisee's house and took his seat at the table.
My loved ones, now we are children of God, and at present it is not clear what we are to be. We are certain that at his revelation we will be like him; for we will see him as he is.
And I saw a great white seat, and him who was seated on it, before whose face the earth and the heaven went in flight; and there was no place for them.
And saying, The time has come, and the kingdom of God is near: let your hearts be turned from sin and have faith in the good news.
Letting yourselves be ruled by one another in the fear of Christ.
As a number of attempts have been made to put together in order an account of those events which took place among us,
Now after these things, the Lord made selection of seventy others and sent them before him, two together, into every town and place where he himself was about to come.
And seeing great masses of people he went up into the mountain; and when he was seated his disciples came to him.
And if a man has sex relations with a man, the two of them have done a disgusting thing: let them be put to death; their blood will be on them.
And they were without children, because Elisabeth had never given birth, and they were at that time very old.
If my people, on whom my name is named, make themselves low and come to me in prayer, searching for me and turning from their evil ways; then I will give ear from heaven, overlooking their sin, and will give life again to their land.
But be certain of this, that in the last days times of trouble will come.
No man is able to be a servant to two masters: for he will have hate for the one and love for the other, or he will keep to one and have no respect for the other. You may not be servants of God and of wealth.
You have been put to no test but such as is common to man: and God is true, who will not let any test come on you which you are not able to undergo; but he will make with the test a way out of it, so that you may be able to go through it.
For the Son of man came to make search for those who are wandering from the way, and to be their Saviour.
And Jesus said, Father, let them have forgiveness, for they have no knowledge of what they are doing. And they made division of his clothing among them by the decision of chance.
But on the first day of the week, at dawn, they came to the place where his body had been put, taking the spices which they had got ready.
Having then a great high priest, who has made his way through the heavens, even Jesus the Son of God, let us be strong in our faith.
You are to have no other gods but me.
And the sons of Judah were Perez and Zerah by Tamar; and the son of Perez was Hezron; and the son of Hezron was Ram;
You did not take me for yourselves, but I took you for myself; and I gave you the work of going about and producing fruit which will be for ever; so that whatever request you make to the Father in my name he may give it to you.
But Peter said, Ananias, why has the Evil One put it into your heart to be false to the Holy Spirit, and to keep back part of the price of the land?
Now I am going to make clear to you, my brothers, what the good news was which I gave to you, and which you took, and on which your faith is based,
The heavens are sounding the glory of God; the arch of the sky makes clear the work of his hands.
Take care not to do your good works before men, to be seen by them; or you will have no reward from your Father in heaven.
And that from the time when you were a child, you have had knowledge of the holy Writings, which are able to make you wise to salvation, through faith in Christ Jesus.
Now after John had been put in prison, Jesus came into Galilee, preaching the good news of God,
Now when these words came to their ears their hearts were troubled, and they said to Peter and the other Apostles, Brothers, what are we to do?
But I say to you, Have love for those who are against you, and make prayer for those who are cruel to you;
And my God will give you all you have need of from the wealth of his glory in Christ Jesus.
And the heaven was open; and I saw a white horse, and he who was seated on it was named Certain and True; and he is judging and making war in righteousness.
Truly I say to you, He who puts his faith in me will do the very works which I do, and he will do greater things than these, because I am going to my Father.
All those things, then, which you would have men do to you, even so do you to them: because this is the law and the prophets.
See, the days are coming, says the Lord, when I will make a new agreement with the people of Israel and with the people of Judah:
Seventy weeks have been fixed for your people and your holy town, to let wrongdoing be complete and sin come to its full limit, and for the clearing away of evil-doing and the coming in of eternal righteousness: so that the vision and the word of the prophet may be stamped as true, and to put the holy oil on a most holy place.
You have given your decision against the upright man and have put him to death. He puts up no fight against you.
And these signs will be with those who have faith: in my name they will send out evil spirits; and they will make use of new languages;
But he made answer and said, It is in the Writings, Bread is not man's only need, but every word which comes out of the mouth of God.
To whom, though himself in the form of God, it did not seem that to take for oneself was to be like God;
Brothers, if a man is taken in any wrongdoing, you who are of the Spirit will put such a one right in a spirit of love; keeping watch on yourself, for fear that you yourself may be tested.
But he gives more grace. So that the Writings say, God is against the men of pride, but he gives grace to those who make themselves low before him.
But I say to you who give ear to me, Have love for those who are against you, do good to those who have hate for you,
Take care that no one takes you away by force, through man's wisdom and deceit, going after the beliefs of men and the theories of the world, and not after Christ:
The first words of the good news of Jesus Christ, the Son of God.
And this good news of the kingdom will be given through all the world for a witness to all nations; and then the end will come.
And it will come about, in the last days, says God, that I will send out my Spirit on all flesh; and your sons and your daughters will be prophets, and your young men will see visions, and your old men will have dreams:
And you are to have love for the Lord your God with all your heart, and with all your soul, and with all your mind, and with all your strength.
See, the virgin will be with child, and will give birth to a son, and they will give him the name Immanuel, that is, God with us.
And this is the test by which men are judged: the light has come into the world and men have more love for the dark than for the light, because their acts are evil.
He came to the things which were his and his people did not take him to their hearts.
Let your desire be for peace with all men, and to be made holy, without which no man may see the Lord;
Because the Lord himself will come down from heaven with a word of authority, with the voice of the chief angel, with the sound of a horn: and the dead in Christ will come to life first;
Now those things which were put down in writing before our time were for our learning, so that through quiet waiting and through the comfort of the holy Writings we might have hope.
But the Spirit says clearly that in later times some will be turned away from the faith, giving their minds to spirits of deceit, and the teachings of evil spirits,
And a strong order will be sent out against the great number for one week; and so for half of the week the offering and the meal offering will come to an end; and in its place will be an unclean thing causing fear; till the destruction which has been fixed is let loose on him who has made waste.
O you who are false to God, do you not see that the friends of this world are not God's friends? Every man desiring to be a friend of this world makes himself a hater of God.
But now without the law there is a revelation of the righteousness of God, to which witness is given by the law and the prophets;
By this it will be clear to all men that you are my disciples, if you have love one for another.
Give, and it will be given to you; good measure, crushed down, full and running over, they will give to you. For in the same measure as you give, it will be given to you again.
This is the law I give you: Have love one for another, even as I have love for you.
If I make use of the tongues of men and of angels, and have not love, I am like sounding brass, or a loud-tongued bell.
And all the people were offering prayers outside, at the time of the burning of perfumes.
He who has no love has no knowledge of God, because God is love.
So then you are no longer as those who have no part or place in the kingdom of God, but you are numbered among the saints, and of the family of God,
And when they were all together, with him, he gave them orders not to go away from Jerusalem, but to keep there, waiting till the word of the Father was put into effect, of which, he said, I have given you knowledge:
Be glad in the Lord at all times: again I say, Be glad.
For everything there is a fixed time, and a time for every business under the sun.
For the word of the cross seems foolish to those who are on the way to destruction; but to us who are on the way to salvation it is the power of God.
And I give them eternal life; they will never come to destruction, and no one will ever take them out of my hand.
I am surprised that you are being so quickly turned away from him whose word came to you in the grace of Christ, to good news of a different sort;
About Jesus of Nazareth, how God gave the Holy Spirit to him, with power: and how he went about doing good and making well all who were troubled by evil spirits, for God was with him.
Then will he say to those on the left, Go from me, you cursed ones, into the eternal fire which is ready for the Evil One and his angels:
You have knowledge of this, dear brothers. But let every man be quick in hearing, slow in words, slow to get angry;
He is the offering for our sins; and not for ours only, but for all the world.
Now it came about that in his turn he was acting as priest before God,
Now there were at Antioch, in the church there, prophets and teachers, Barnabas, and Symeon who was named Niger, and Lucius of Cyrene, and Manaen, a relation of Herod the king, and Saul.
And he took bread and, having given praise, he gave it to them when it had been broken, saying, This is my body, which is given for you: do this in memory of me.
And he is the head of the body, the church: the starting point of all things, the first to come again from the dead; so that in all things he might have the chief place.
Because by his power he has given us everything necessary for life and righteousness, through the knowledge of him who has been our guide by his glory and virtue;
Let no man say when he is tested, I am tested by God; for it is not possible for God to be tested by evil, and he himself puts no man to such a test:
And there was a day when the sons of the gods came together before the Lord, and the Satan came with them.
But an angel of the Lord said to Philip, Get up, and go to the south, to the road which goes from Jerusalem to Gaza, through the waste land.
To Timothy, my well-loved child: Grace, mercy, peace, from God the Father and Christ Jesus our Lord.
There is a blessing on the man who undergoes testing; because, if he has God's approval, he will be given the crown of life, which the Lord has said he will give to those who have love for him.
But Peter and the Apostles, answering, said, We have to do the orders of God, not of man.
So that from one man, who was near to death, came children in number as the stars in heaven, or as the sand by the seaside, which may not be numbered.
For as the body is one, and has a number of parts, and all the parts make one body, so is Christ.
For God did not give us a spirit of fear, but of power and of love and of self-control.
And he made this story for some people who were certain that they were good, and had a low opinion of others:
When they had not enough wine, the mother of Jesus said to him, They have no wine.
For when we were still without strength, at the right time Christ gave his life for evil-doers.
For it is as when a man, about to take a journey, got his servants together, and gave them his property.
For we have all become like an unclean person, and all our good acts are like a dirty robe: and we have all become old like a dead leaf, and our sins, like the wind, take us away.
But those who are full of fear and without faith, the unclean and takers of life, those who do the sins of the flesh, and those who make use of evil powers or who give worship to images, and all those who are false, will have their part in the sea of ever-burning fire which is the second death.
May they all be one! Even as you, Father, are in me and I am in you, so let them be in us, so that all men may come to have faith that you sent me.
And the son of Ram was Amminadab; and the son of Amminadab was Nahshon; and the son of Nahshon was Salmon;
Now it came about that while the people came pushing to be near him, and to have knowledge of the word of God, he was by a wide stretch of water named Gennesaret;
You have the belief that God is one, and you do well: the evil spirits have the same belief, shaking with fear.
But there were false prophets among the people, as there will be false teachers among you, who will secretly put forward wrong teachings for your destruction, even turning away from the Lord who gave himself for them; whose destruction will come quickly, and they themselves will be the cause of it.
Is anyone among you in trouble? let him say prayers. Is anyone glad? let him make a song of praise.
The book of the generations of Jesus Christ, the son of David, the son of Abraham.
And all those who were of the faith were one in heart and soul: and not one of them said that any of the things which he had was his property only; but they had all things in common.
Happy is the man who does not go in the company of sinners, or take his place in the way of evil-doers, or in the seat of those who do not give honour to the Lord.
The woman said to him, Sir, I see that you are a prophet.
I say to you, It is not so: but if your hearts are not changed, you will all come to the same end.
So that he is fully able to be the saviour of all who come to God through him, because he is ever living to make prayer to God for them.
So, when they were together, they said to him, Lord, will you at this time give back the kingdom to Israel?
For truly the Son of man did not come to have servants, but to be a servant, and to give his life for the salvation of men.
And God saw everything which he had made and it was very good. And there was evening and there was morning, the sixth day.
For this reason, let all Israel be certain that this Jesus, whom you put to death on the cross, God has made Lord and Christ.
And turning round, he said to them, If any man comes to me, and has not hate for his father and mother and wife and children and brothers and sisters, and even for his life, he may not be my disciple.
Jesus said to him, Philip, have I been with you all this time, and still you have no knowledge of me? He who has seen me has seen the Father. Why do you say, Let us see the Father?
And the scribes and Pharisees were watching him to see if he would make him well on the Sabbath, so that they might be able to say something against him.
If you are in me at all times, and my words are in you, then anything for which you make a request will be done for you.
That which has birth from the flesh is flesh, and that which has birth from the Spirit is spirit.
Jesus said in answer, The first is, Give ear, O Israel: The Lord our God is one Lord;
We all went wandering like sheep; going every one of us after his desire; and the Lord put on him the punishment of us all.
But I say to every one of you, through the grace given to me, not to have an over-high opinion of himself, but to have wise thoughts, as God has given to every one a measure of faith.
And he said to them, These are the words which I said to you when I was still with you, how it was necessary for all the things which are in the writings of Moses and the prophets and in the Psalms about me, to be put into effect.
But a certain man named Ananias, with Sapphira his wife, got money for his property,
Now when he came back from the dead early on the first day of the week, he went first to Mary Magdalene, from whom he had sent out seven evil spirits.
Be then complete in righteousness, even as your Father in heaven is complete.
And, you fathers, do not make your children angry: but give them training in the teaching and fear of the Lord.
Do not make attempts to get equal with one who has done you wrong, or keep hard feelings against the children of your people, but have love for your neighbour as for yourself: I am the Lord.
Now late on the Sabbath, when the dawn of the first day of the week was near, Mary Magdalene and the other Mary came to see the place where his body was.
Children, do what is ordered by your fathers and mothers in the Lord: for this is right.
Jesus said in answer, My kingdom is not of this world: if my kingdom was of this world, my disciples would have made a good fight to keep me out of the hands of the Jews: but my kingdom is not here.
Doing nothing through envy or through pride, but with low thoughts of self let everyone take others to be better than himself;
For our country is in heaven; from where the Saviour for whom we are waiting will come, even the Lord Jesus Christ:
And when the Sabbath was past, Mary Magdalene and Mary, the mother of James, and Salome, got spices, so that they might come and put them on him.
Do not all be teachers, my brothers, because we teachers will be judged more hardly than others.
For in him we have life and motion and existence; as certain of your verse writers have said, For we are his offspring.
You have had five husbands, and the man you have now is not your husband: that was truly said.
So when Jesus had taken the wine he said, All is done. And with his head bent he gave up his spirit.
And these were the ornaments of the holy women of the past, whose hope was in God, being ruled by their husbands:
To the woman he said, Great will be your pain in childbirth; in sorrow will your children come to birth; still your desire will be for your husband, but he will be your master.
Putting all your troubles on him, for he takes care of you.
This is the word which came to us from him and which we give to you, that God is light and in him there is nothing dark.
For when the sun comes up with its burning heat, the grass gets dry and the grace of its form is gone with the falling flower; so the man of wealth comes to nothing in his ways.
Making distribution among one another of whatever has been given to you, like true servants of the unmeasured grace of God;
Destruction has overtaken my people because they have no knowledge; because you have given up knowledge, I will give you up, so that you will be no priest to me, because you have not kept in mind the law of your God, I will not keep your children in my memory.
And then, two of them, on that very day, were going to a little town named Emmaus, which was about seven miles from Jerusalem.
My desire is, first of all, that you will make requests and prayers and give praise for all men;
Let your tenths come into the store-house so that there may be food in my house, and put me to the test by doing so, says the Lord of armies, and see if I do not make the windows of heaven open and send down such a blessing on you that there is no room for it.
Do not have the thought that I have come to send peace on the earth; I came not to send peace but a sword.
Christ has made us free from the curse of the law, having become a curse for us: because it is said in the Writings, A curse on everyone who is put to death by hanging on a tree:
This Word was from the first in relation with God.
You have knowledge that it was said, You may not have connection with another man's wife:
For our witness does not come from error or from an unclean heart or from deceit:
And because the children are flesh and blood, he took a body himself and became like them; so that by his death he might put an end to him who had the power of death, that is to say, the Evil One;
And the King will make answer and say to them, Truly I say to you, Because you did it to the least of these my brothers, you did it to me.
For my thoughts are not your thoughts, or your ways my ways, says the Lord.
And the young men went and made ready his body, and took it out, and put it in the earth.
And he said to me, My grace is enough for you, for my power is made complete in what is feeble. Most gladly, then, will I take pride in my feeble body, so that the power of Christ may be on me.
Who, through the purpose of God, have been made holy by the Spirit, disciples of Jesus, made clean by his blood: May you have grace and peace in full measure.
For I say to every man to whose ears have come the words of this prophet's book, If any man makes an addition to them, God will put on him the punishments which are in this book:
About his Son who, in the flesh, came from the family of David,
To them who are good to you will I give blessing, and on him who does you wrong will I put my curse: and you will become a name of blessing to all the families of the earth.
And one of the scribes came, and hearing their argument together, and seeing that he had given them a good answer, put the question to him, Which law is the first of all?
Which has come to you; and which in all the world is giving fruit and increase, as it has done in you from the day when it came to your ears and you had true knowledge of the grace of God;
The spirit is the life giver; the flesh is of no value: the words which I have said to you are spirit and they are life.
Give honour to your father and to your mother, so that your life may be long in the land which the Lord your God is giving you.
My flesh was made by you, and my parts joined together in my mother's body.
And self-control to knowledge, and a quiet mind to self-control, and fear of God to a quiet mind,
Everyone, then, to whom my words come and who does them, will be like a wise man who made his house on a rock;
The Spirit is witness with our spirit that we are children of God:
Do not put anyone to death without cause.
In this we see what love is, because he gave his life for us; and it is right for us to give our lives for the brothers.
And when he went on his way, he saw a man blind from birth.
And he said to him, Truly I say to you, Today you will be with me in Paradise.
Now I say this, my brothers, that it is not possible for flesh and blood to have a part in the kingdom of God; and death may not have a part in life.
Give ear to me, you who are searching for righteousness, who are looking for the Lord: see the rock from which you were cut out, and the hole out of which you were taken.
And they may have righteousness put to their credit, freely, by his grace, through the salvation which is in Christ Jesus:
For it was handed down to me from the Lord, as I gave it to you, that the Lord Jesus, on the night when Judas was false to him, took bread,
But whoever takes the water I give him will never be in need of drink again; for the water I give him will become in him a fountain of eternal life.
And God said, See, I have given you every plant producing seed, on the face of all the earth, and every tree which has fruit producing seed: they will be for your food:
I saw in visions of the night, and there was coming with the clouds of heaven one like a man, and he came to the one who was very old, and they took him near before him.
Paul, a servant of Jesus Christ, an Apostle by the selection of God, given authority as a preacher of the good news,
After these things I saw a great army of people more than might be numbered, out of every nation and of all tribes and peoples and languages, taking their places before the high seat and before the Lamb, dressed in white robes, and with branches in their hands,
Truly I say to you, He who does not go through the door into the place where the sheep are kept, but gets in by some other way, is a thief and an outlaw.
Before them fire sends destruction, and after them flame is burning: the land is like the garden of Eden before them, and after them an unpeopled waste; truly, nothing has been kept safe from them.
Have I not given you your orders? Take heart and be strong; have no fear and do not be troubled; for the Lord your God is with you wherever you go,
Let married life be honoured among all of you and not made unclean; for men untrue in married life will be judged by God.
Come now, and let us have an argument together, says the Lord: how may your sins which are red like blood be white as snow? how may their dark purple seem like wool?
This is a true saying, A man desiring the position of a Bishop has a desire for a good work.
Happy are the peacemakers: for they will be named sons of God.
And it came about that while Apollos was at Corinth, Paul, having gone through the higher country, came to Ephesus, where there were certain disciples:
And when you make your prayers, be not like the false-hearted men, who take pleasure in getting up and saying their prayers in the Synagogues and at the street turnings so that they may be seen by men. Truly I say to you, They have their reward.
You have knowledge that it was said, Have love for your neighbour, and hate for him who is against you:
Because you, brothers, were marked out to be free; only do not make use of your free condition to give the flesh its chance, but through love be servants one to another.
And the great dragon was forced down, the old snake, who is named the Evil One and Satan, by whom all the earth is turned from the right way; he was forced down to the earth, and his angels were forced down with him.
Let this book of the law be ever on your lips and in your thoughts day and night, so that you may keep with care everything in it; then a blessing will be on all your way, and you will do well.
The fear of the Lord is the start of knowledge: but the foolish have no use for wisdom and teaching.
And God gave the arch the name of Heaven. And there was evening and there was morning, the second day.
So then, if it is a question of food or drink, or any other thing, whatever you do, do all to the glory of God.
For so the way will be open to you into the eternal kingdom of our Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ.
Whatever you do, do it readily, as to the Lord and not to men;
For this cause I go down on my knees before the Father,
Being conscious that you have been made free from that foolish way of life which was your heritage from your fathers, not through a payment of things like silver or gold which come to destruction,
Let it then be your desire to be like God, as well-loved children;
And took them out and said, Sirs, what have I to do to get salvation?
And I saw high seats, and they were seated on them, and the right of judging was given to them: and I saw the souls of those who were put to death for the witness of Jesus, and for the word of God, and those who did not give worship to the beast, or to his image, and had not his mark on their brows or on their hands; and they were living and ruling with Christ a thousand years.
With prayers and deep desires, making requests at all times in the Spirit, and keeping watch, with strong purpose, in prayer for all the saints,
Even the ox has knowledge of its owner, and the ass of the place where its master puts its food: but Israel has no knowledge, my people give no thought to me.
And at that time Michael will take up his place, the great angel, who is the supporter of the children of your people: and there will be a time of trouble, such as there never was from the time there was a nation even till that same time: and at that time your people will be kept safe, everyone who is recorded in the book.
And the Lord saw that the sin of man was great on the earth, and that all the thoughts of his heart were evil.
Let love be without deceit. Be haters of what is evil; keep your minds fixed on what is good.
Who may make discovery of a woman of virtue? For her price is much higher than jewels.
But these are recorded, so that you may have faith that Jesus is the Christ, the Son of God, and so that, having this faith you may have life in his name.
Wives, be ruled by your husbands; so that even if some of them give no attention to the word, their hearts may be changed by the behaviour of their wives,
But you who are judging another for doing what you do yourself, are you hoping that God's decision will not take effect against you?
Then Peter came and said to him, Lord, what number of times may my brother do wrong against me, and I give him forgiveness? till seven times?
And when he had come across him, he took him to Antioch. And they were with the church there for a year, teaching the people; and the disciples were first given the name of Christians in Antioch.
And as was the way of the priests, he had to go into the Temple to see to the burning of perfumes.
And no one has ever gone up to heaven but he who came down from heaven, the Son of man.
Before the children had come into existence, or had done anything good or bad, in order that God's purpose and his selection might be effected, not by works, but by him whose purpose it is,
And Jesus, having been given baptism, straight away went up from the water; and, the heavens opening, he saw the Spirit of God coming down on him as a dove;
And the Lord God took the man and put him in the garden of Eden to do work in it and take care of it.
A voice of one crying, Make ready in the waste land the way of the Lord, make level in the lowland a highway for our God.
The woman of Samaria said to him, Why do you, a Jew, make a request for water to me, a woman of Samaria? She said this because Jews have nothing to do with the people of Samaria.
And when they were taking food, Jesus took bread and, after blessing it, he gave the broken bread to the disciples and said, Take it; this is my body.
And when he came into Capernaum again after some days, the news went about that he was in the house.
Then Jesus said to his disciples, If any man would come after me, let him give up all, and take up his cross, and come after me.
Now when Jesus had come into the parts of Caesarea Philippi, he said, questioning his disciples, Who do men say that the Son of man is?
And one of the people said to him, Master, give an order to my brother to make division of the heritage with me.
And I saw an angel coming down out of heaven, having the key of the great deep and a great chain in his hand.
So that whoever has faith may have in him eternal life.
Now a certain man named Lazarus was ill; he was of Bethany, the town of Mary and her sister Martha.
For I am the Lord, I am unchanged; and so you, O sons of Jacob, have not been cut off.
Having been put to death with him in baptism, by which you came to life again with him, through faith in the working of God, who made him come back from the dead.
There is a way which seems straight before a man, but its end is the ways of death.
By the reading of which you will be clear about my knowledge of the secret of Christ;
Whom we are preaching; guiding and teaching every man in all wisdom, so that every man may be complete in Christ;
And not only so, but let us have joy in our troubles: in the knowledge that trouble gives us the power of waiting;
And the Lord your God is to be loved with all your heart and with all your soul and with all your strength.
For anyone who keeps all the law, but makes a slip in one point, is judged to have gone against it all.
Do not be surprised that I say to you, It is necessary for you to have a second birth.
In the hope of eternal life, which was made certain before eternal time, by the word of God who is ever true;
Everyone who is a sinner goes against the law, for sin is going against the law.
He who has my laws and keeps them, he it is who has love for me: and he who has love for me will be loved by my Father, and I will have love for him and will let myself be seen clearly by him.
And if your hand is a cause of trouble to you, let it be cut off; it is better for you to go into life with one hand than to have two hands and go into hell, into the eternal fire.
My brothers, if you have the faith of our Lord Jesus Christ of glory, do not take a man's position into account.
But the man of wealth, that he is made low; because like the flower of the grass he will come to his end.
Now certain men came down from Judaea, teaching the brothers and saying that without circumcision, after the rule of Moses, there is no salvation.
Because the god of this world has made blind the minds of those who have not faith, so that the light of the good news of the glory of Christ, who is the image of God, might not be shining on them.
As for my people, their ruler is acting like a child, and those who have authority over them are women. O my people, your guides are the cause of your wandering, turning your footsteps out of the right way.
And do not give grief to the Holy Spirit of God, by whom you were marked for the day of salvation.
And now, why are you waiting? get up, and have baptism, for the washing away of your sins, giving worship to his name.
Have no fear, little flock, for it is your Father's good pleasure to give you the kingdom.
And while he was going out into the way, a man came running to him, and went down on his knees, saying, Good Master, what have I to do so that I may have eternal life?
Then put to death your bodies which are of the earth; wrong use of the flesh, unclean things, passion, evil desires and envy, which is the worship of strange gods;
He was in the world, the world which came into being through him, but the world had no knowledge of him.
But how will they give worship to him in whom they have no faith? and how will they have faith in him of whom they have not had news? and how will they have news without a preacher?
For to me life is Christ and death is profit.
Now all the tax-farmers and sinners came near to give ear to him.
This is God's purpose for you: because Jesus himself underwent punishment for you, giving you an example, so that you might go in his footsteps:
But we all, with unveiled face giving back as in a glass the glory of the Lord, are changed into the same image from glory to glory, even as from the Lord who is the Spirit.
For this reason I say to you, Whatever you make a request for in prayer, have faith that it has been given to you, and you will have it.
And that I am ever making prayers that God will give me a good journey to you.
And turning to the mass of people with his disciples, he said to them, If any man has the desire to come after me, let him give up all other desires, and take up his cross and come after me.
There is one body and one Spirit, even as you have been marked out by God in the one hope of his purpose for you;
Paul and Timothy, servants of Jesus Christ, to all the saints in Christ Jesus at Philippi, with the Bishops and Deacons of the church:
But saying true words in love, may come to full growth in him, who is the head, even Christ;
Then the kingdom of heaven will be like ten virgins, the friends of the bride, who took their lights, and went out with the purpose of meeting the husband.
The God who made the earth and everything in it, he, being Lord of heaven and earth, is not housed in buildings made with hands;
But you have some names in Sardis who have kept clean their robes; and as a reward they will go in white with me.
Which he gave us in full measure in all wisdom and care;
I have put these things in writing for you who have faith in the name of the Son of God, so that you may be certain that you have eternal life.
Now after these things, God put Abraham to the test, and said to him, Abraham; and he said, Here am I.
And be kind to one another, full of pity, having forgiveness for one another, even as God in Christ had forgiveness for you.
Even the dust of your town, which is on our feet, we put off as a witness against you; but be certain of this, that the kingdom of God is near.
Have no fear, for I am with you; do not be looking about in trouble, for I am your God; I will give you strength, yes, I will be your helper; yes, my true right hand will be your support.
I who am myself one of the rulers of the church, and a witness of the death of Christ, having my part in the coming glory, send this serious request to the chief men among you:
And there will come a rod out of the broken tree of Jesse, and a branch out of his roots will give fruit.
And his witness is this, that God has given us eternal life, and this life is in his Son.
But God, being full of mercy, through the great love which he had for us,
And he will put an end to all their weeping; and there will be no more death, or sorrow, or crying, or pain; for the first things have come to an end.
And all the earth had one language and one tongue.
She came after Paul and us, crying out and saying, These men are the servants of the Most High God, who are giving you news of the way of salvation.
And I saw another angel in flight between heaven and earth, having eternal good news to give to those who are on the earth, and to every nation and tribe and language and people,
You are my witnesses, says the Lord, and my servant whom I have taken for myself: so that you may see and have faith in me, and that it may be clear to you that I am he; before me there was no God formed, and there will not be after me.
And have no fear of those who put to death the body, but are not able to put to death the soul. But have fear of him who has power to give soul and body to destruction in hell.
But the eleven disciples went into Galilee, to the mountain where Jesus had given them orders to go.
For this reason, we, from the day when we had word of it, keep on in prayer for you, that you may be full of the knowledge of his purpose, with all wisdom and experience of the Spirit,
And to whom he gave clear and certain signs that he was living, after his death; for he was seen by them for forty days, and gave them teaching about the kingdom of God:
For this reason let no man be your judge in any question of food or drink or feast days or new moons or Sabbaths:
For in it there is the revelation of the righteousness of God from faith to faith: as it is said in the holy Writings, The man who does righteousness will be living by his faith.
See, he comes with the clouds, and every eye will see him, and those by whom he was wounded; and all the tribes of the earth will be sorrowing because of him. Yes, so be it.
Giving praise to God, and having the approval of all the people; and every day the number of those who had salvation was increased by the Lord.
For you did not get the spirit of servants again to put you in fear, but the spirit of sons was given to you, by which we say, Abba, Father.
And it came about in those days, that Jesus came from Nazareth of Galilee, and was given baptism by John in the Jordan.
In whom we have a heritage, being marked out from the first in his purpose who does all things in agreement with his designs;
For when one says, I am of Paul; and another says, I am of Apollos; are you not talking like natural men?
And the Evil One who put them in error was sent down into the sea of ever-burning fire, where the beast and the false prophet are, and their punishment will go on day and night for ever and ever.
Ho! everyone in need, come to the waters, and he who has no strength, let him get food: come, get bread without money; wine and milk without price.
And let us not get tired of well-doing; for at the right time we will get in the grain, if we do not give way to weariness.
And the man had connection with Eve his wife, and she became with child and gave birth to Cain, and said, I have got a man from the Lord.
I have still much to say to you, but you are not strong enough for it now.
So will your delight be in the Lord, and he will give you your heart's desires.
Truly, I give baptism with water to those of you whose hearts are changed; but he who comes after me is greater than I, whose shoes I am not good enough to take up: he will give you baptism with the Holy Spirit and with fire:
Because you have had a new birth, not from the seed of man, but from eternal seed, through the word of a living and unchanging God.
And Jesus at this time was about thirty years old, being the son (as it seemed) of Joseph, the son of Heli,
And he, answering, said, Have love for the Lord your God with all your heart and with all your soul and with all your strength and with all your mind; and for your neighbour as for yourself.
And Mary said: My soul gives glory to God;
And we are certain that if we make any request to him which is right in his eyes, he will give ear to us:
And who, himself, made clear to us your love in the Spirit.
That is to say, that all of us may be comforted together by the faith which is in you and in me.
And without argument, great is the secret of religion: He who was seen in the flesh, who was given God's approval in the spirit, was seen by the angels, of whom the good news was given among the nations, in whom the world had faith, who was taken up in glory.
Who will come between us and the love of Christ? Will trouble, or pain, or cruel acts, or the need of food or of clothing, or danger, or the sword?
And love of the brothers to fear of God, and to love of the brothers, love itself.
And Thomas said in answer, My Lord and my God!
Keep the form of those true words which you had from me, in faith and love which is in Christ Jesus.
For this reason God has put him in the highest place and has given to him the name which is greater than every name;
Let no evil talk come out of your mouth, but only what is good for giving necessary teaching, and for grace to those who give ear.
But of that day and hour no one has knowledge, not even the angels in heaven, or the Son, but the Father only.
And now I will send to you what my father has undertaken to give you, but do not go from the town, till the power from heaven comes to you.
Jesus said to her, Do not put your hand on me, for I have not gone up to the Father: but go to my brothers and say to them, I go up to my Father and your Father, to my God and your God.
Jesus said these things; then, lifting his eyes to heaven, he said, Father, the time has now come; give glory to your Son, so that the Son may give glory to you:
What is the cause of wars and fighting among you? is it not in your desires which are at war in your bodies?
See, I am sending my servant, and he will make ready the way before me; and the Lord, whom you are looking for, will suddenly come to his Temple; and the angel of the agreement, in whom you have delight, see, he is coming, says the Lord of armies.
Now some people who were there at that time, gave him an account of how the blood of some Galilaeans had been mixed by Pilate with their offerings.
And whatever you do, in word or in act, do all in the name of the Lord Jesus, giving praise to God the Father through him.
You have knowledge that it was said in old times, You may not put to death; and, Whoever puts to death will be in danger of being judged:
You have knowledge that it was said, An eye for an eye, and a tooth for a tooth:
And all those who were of the faith kept together, and had all things in common;
And you will be glad and have great delight; and numbers of people will have joy at his birth.
Come near to God and he will come near to you. Make your hands clean, you evil-doers; put away deceit from your hearts, you false in mind.
But be increased in grace and in the knowledge of our Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ. May he have glory now and for ever. So be it.
Little children, it is the last hour; and as you were given word that the Antichrist would come, so now a number of Antichrists have come to you; and by this we are certain that it is the last hour.
When, then, you see in the holy place the unclean thing which makes destruction, of which word was given by Daniel the prophet (let this be clear to the reader),
Give ear to the words of the Lord, O sons of Jacob and all the families of Israel:
In all things I was an example to you of how, in your lives, you are to give help to the feeble, and keep in memory the words of the Lord Jesus, how he himself said, There is a greater blessing in giving than in getting.
And everyone to whom my words come and who does them not, will be like a foolish man who made his house on sand;
Praise be to the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, the Father of mercies and the God of all comfort;
Truly I say to you, Till heaven and earth come to an end, not the smallest letter or part of a letter will in any way be taken from the law, till all things are done.
And that teaching about a change of heart and forgiveness of sins is to be given to Jerusalem first and to all nations in his name.
But the day of the Lord will come like a thief; and in that day the heavens will be rolled up with a great noise, and the substance of the earth will be changed by violent heat, and the world and everything in it will be burned up.
For this reason keep it in mind that in the past you, the Gentiles in the flesh, who are looked on as being outside the circumcision by those who have circumcision, in the flesh, made by hands;
And we have seen and had faith in the love which God has for us. God is love, and everyone who has love is in God, and God is in him.
As it was given to you by Epaphras, our well-loved helper, who is a true servant of Christ for us,
After these things Jesus let himself be seen again by the disciples at the sea of Tiberias; and it came about in this way.
In these doorways there were a great number of people with different diseases: some unable to see, some without the power of walking, some with wasted bodies.
Then the offering of Judah and Jerusalem will be pleasing to the Lord, as in days gone by, and as in past years.
Now the word of the Lord came to me, saying,
But of the fruit of the tree of the knowledge of good and evil you may not take; for on the day when you take of it, death will certainly come to you.
I give you orders, before God and Christ Jesus, who will be the judge of the living and the dead, and by his revelation and his kingdom;
James, a servant of God and of the Lord Jesus Christ, sends words of love to the twelve tribes of the Jews living in all parts of the earth.
These are the generations of Noah. Noah was an upright man and without sin in his generation: he went in the ways of God.
The grace of our Lord Jesus Christ, and the love of God, and the harmony of the Holy Spirit, be with you all.
So then, let us not take our rest as the others do, but let us be self-controlled and awake.
And so the words of the prophets are made more certain; and it is well for you to give attention to them as to a light shining in a dark place, till the dawn comes and the morning star is seen in your hearts;
Take up God's instruments of war, so that you may be able to keep your position against all the deceits of the Evil One.
For this cause the Jews had an even greater desire to put Jesus to death, because not only did he not keep the Sabbath but he said God was his Father, so making himself equal with God.
You are not to make an image or picture of anything in heaven or on the earth or in the waters under the earth:
But even if we, or an angel from heaven, were to be a preacher to you of good news other than that which we have given you, let there be a curse on him.
For the time will come when they will not take the true teaching; but, moved by their desires, they will get for themselves a great number of teachers for the pleasure of hearing them;
And they kept the saying, questioning among themselves what the coming back from the dead might be.
So then, my brothers, being able to go into the holy place without fear, because of the blood of Jesus,
Even the Spirit of true knowledge. That Spirit the world is not able to take to its heart because it sees him not and has no knowledge of him: but you have knowledge of him, because he is ever with you and will be in you.
Let your cry come to me, and I will give you an answer, and let you see great things and secret things of which you had no knowledge.
Now in the fifteenth year of the rule of Tiberius Caesar, Pontius Pilate being ruler of Judaea, and Herod being king of Galilee, his brother Philip king of the country of Ituraea and Trachonitis, and Lysanias king of Abilene,
And in the same country there were keepers of sheep in the fields, watching over their flock by night.
Happy are those whose heart's desire is for righteousness: for they will have their desire.
The man whose heart is unmoved you will keep in peace, because his hope is in you.
For God is my witness, whose servant I am in spirit in the good news of his Son, that you are at all times in my memory and in my prayers,
Give ear to this word, you cows of Bashan, who are in the hill of Samaria, by whom the poor are kept down, and those in need are crushed; who say to their lords, Get out the wine and give us drink.
Take care then how you are living, not as unwise, but as wise;
For the training of the saints as servants in the church, for the building up of the body of Christ:
And I was with you without strength, in fear and in doubt.
For if you have these things in good measure, they will make you fertile and full of fruit in the knowledge of our Lord Jesus Christ.
Then let us come near to the seat of grace without fear, so that mercy may be given to us, and we may get grace for our help in time of need.
And through this he has given us the hope of great rewards highly to be valued; so that by them we might have our part in God's being, and be made free from the destruction which is in the world through the desires of the flesh.
Let no one make little of you because you are young, but be an example to the church in word, in behaviour, in love, in faith, in holy living.
For we all have to come before Christ to be judged; so that every one of us may get his reward for the things done in the body, good or bad.
Before you were formed in the body of your mother I had knowledge of you, and before your birth I made you holy; I have given you the work of being a prophet to the nations.
But Peter, getting up, with the eleven, said in a loud voice, O men of Judaea, and all you who are living in Jerusalem, take note of this and give ear to my words.
Now, it is my desire, brothers, that you will take note of those who are causing division and trouble among you, quite against the teaching which was given to you: and keep away from them.
Be in debt for nothing, but to have love for one another: for he who has love for his neighbour has kept all the law.
Keeping to the true word of the teaching, so that he may be able to give comfort by right teaching and overcome the arguments of the doubters.
For the baptism of John was with water, but you will have baptism with the Holy Spirit, after a little time.
And this is the certain faith which we have in God through Christ:
If then the son makes you free, you will be truly free.
But not even Titus who was with me, being a Greek, was made to undergo circumcision:
And whoever makes his prayer to the Lord will have salvation.
Take on yourselves one another's troubles, and so keep the law of Christ.
Give ear to those who are rulers over you, and do as they say: for they keep watch over your souls, ready to give an account of them; let them be able to do this with joy and not with grief, because that would be of no profit to you.
Give praise to the Lord, O my soul; let everything in me give praise to his holy name.
And a number of those who are sleeping in the dust of the earth will come out of their sleep, some to eternal life and some to eternal shame.
Be full of joy, O daughter of Zion; give a glad cry, O daughter of Jerusalem: see, your king comes to you: he is upright and has overcome; gentle and seated on an ass, on a young ass.
Do you not see that you are God's holy house, and that the Spirit of God has his place in you?
And turning his eyes to his disciples he said, Happy are you who are poor: for the kingdom of God is yours.
For through the baptism of the one Spirit we were all formed into one body, Jews or Greeks, servants or free men, and were all made full of the same Spirit.
And they all with one mind gave themselves up to prayer, with the women, and Mary the mother of Jesus, and his brothers.
The sinner is a child of the Evil One; for the Evil One has been a sinner from the first. And the Son of God was seen on earth so that he might put an end to the works of the Evil One.
Joining with one another in holy songs of praise and of the Spirit, using your voice in songs and making melody in your heart to the Lord;
Being conscious that a man does not get righteousness by the works of the law, but through faith in Jesus Christ, we had faith in Christ Jesus, so that we might get righteousness by faith in Christ, and not by the works of the law: because by the works of the law will no flesh get righteousness.
But as it says in the holy Writings, Things which the eye saw not, and which had not come to the ears or into the heart of man, such things as God has made ready for those who have love for him.
Him, when he was given up, by the decision and knowledge of God, you put to death on the cross, by the hands of evil men:
Do not take the property of another.
O how deep is the wealth of the wisdom and knowledge of God! no one is able to make discovery of his decisions, and his ways may not be searched out.
And one came to him and said, Master, what good thing have I to do, so that I may have eternal life?
But I put no value on my life, if only at the end of it I may see the work complete which was given to me by the Lord Jesus, to be a witness of the good news of the grace of God.
And if I go and make ready a place for you, I will come back again and will take you to be with me, so that you may be where I am.
And from Jesus Christ, the true witness, the first to come back from the dead, and the ruler of the kings of the earth. To him who had love for us and has made us clean from our sins by his blood;
Now, if their fall is the wealth of the world, and their loss the wealth of the Gentiles, how much greater will be the glory when they are made full?
And Jesus said to him, If you are able! All things are possible to him who has faith.
Be preaching the word at all times, in every place; make protests, say sharp words, give comfort, with long waiting and teaching;
Because by the works of the law no man is able to have righteousness in his eyes, for through the law comes the knowledge of sin.
Give these orders to the children of Israel: When anyone of you makes an offering to the Lord, you are to take it from the cattle, from the herd or from the flock.
And when we were going to the place of prayer, we came across a girl with a spirit which gave knowledge of the future, whose masters made great profit from her power.
And from Miletus he sent to Ephesus for the rulers of the church.
See, I am giving you the revelation of a secret: we will not all come to the sleep of death, but we will all be changed.
But I am certain that he who will take up my cause is living, and that in time to come he will take his place on the dust;
To everyone, then, who gives witness to me before men, I will give witness before my Father in heaven.
That I may have knowledge of him, and of the power of his coming back from the dead, and a part with him in his pains, becoming like him in his death;
While Peter was saying these words, the Holy Spirit came on all those who were hearing the word.
But your sins have come between you and your God, and by your evil doings his face has been veiled from you, so that he will give you no answer.
And day by day, going in agreement together regularly to the Temple and, taking broken bread together in their houses, they took their food with joy and with true hearts,
But Jesus went to the Mountain of Olives.
And may the God of peace himself make you holy in every way; and may your spirit and soul and body be free from all sin at the coming of our Lord Jesus Christ.
Be at peace in the knowledge that I am God: I will be lifted up among the nations, I will be honoured through all the earth.
And to the angel of the church in Laodicea say: These things says the true and certain witness, the head of God's new order:
But I say to the unmarried and to the widows, It is good for them to be even as I am.
And I will send down on the family of David and on the people of Jerusalem the spirit of grace and of prayer; and their eyes will be turned to the one who was wounded by their hands: and they will be weeping for him as for an only son, and their grief for him will be bitter, like the grief of one sorrowing for his oldest son.
And hope does not put to shame; because our hearts are full of the love of God through the Holy Spirit which is given to us.
Because, having the knowledge of God, they did not give glory to God as God, and did not give praise, but their minds were full of foolish things, and their hearts, being without sense, were made dark.
Now John was then giving baptism at Aenon near Salim, because there was much water there; and people came and were given baptism.
If you are hated by the world, keep in mind that I was hated by the world before you.
Not in the passion of evil desires, like the Gentiles, who have no knowledge of God;
And about the ninth hour Jesus gave a loud cry, saying, Eli, Eli, lama sabachthani? that is, My God, my God, why are you turned away from me?
There is no fear in love: true love has no room for fear, because where fear is, there is pain; and he who is not free from fear is not complete in love.
And he said to them, The Sabbath was made for man, and not man for the Sabbath;
In the days of Herod, king of Judaea, there was a certain priest, by name Zacharias, of the order of Abijah; and he had a wife of the family of Aaron, and her name was Elisabeth.
And by the law almost all things are made clean with blood, and without blood there is no forgiveness.
But if I am long in coming, this will make clear to you what behaviour is right for men in the house of God, which is the church of the living God, the pillar and base of what is true.
Now there are different qualities given to men, but the same Spirit.
You may be certain, my brothers, that it has frequently been in my mind to come to you (but till now I was kept from it), so that I might have some fruit from you in the same way as I have had it from the other nations.
And I, if I am lifted up from the earth, will make all men come to me.
And while they were going on their way, they came to some water, and the Ethiopian said, See, here is water; why may I not have baptism?
So make your minds ready, and keep on the watch, hoping with all your power for the grace which is to come to you at the revelation of Jesus Christ;
And the heaven and the earth and all things in them were complete.
For the natural man is not able to take in the things of the Spirit of God: for they seem foolish to him, and he is not able to have knowledge of them, because such knowledge comes only through the Spirit.
And the sons of Josiah were Jechoniah and his brothers, at the time of the taking away to Babylon.
A curse is on you, scribes and Pharisees, false ones! for you make men give a tenth of all sorts of sweet-smelling plants, but you give no thought to the more important things of the law, righteousness, and mercy, and faith; but it is right for you to do these, and not to let the others be undone.
First of all, I give praise to my God through Jesus Christ for you all, because news of your faith has gone into all the world.
For it is God who is the cause of your desires and of your acts, for his good pleasure.
But the Lord said to Samuel, Do not take note of his face or how tall he is, because I will not have him: for the Lord's view is not man's; man takes note of the outer form, but the Lord sees the heart.
And you have the power of waiting, and have undergone trouble because of my name, without weariness.
But they will have to give an account of themselves to him who is ready to be the judge of the living and the dead.
Whom God has put forward as the sign of his mercy, through faith, by his blood, to make clear his righteousness when, in his pity, God let the sins of earlier times go without punishment;
And God gave his blessing to the seventh day and made it holy: because on that day he took his rest from all the work which he had made and done.
But when the mercy of God our Saviour, and his love to man was seen,
For the Father has love for the Son and lets him see everything which he does: and he will let him see greater works than these so that you may be full of wonder.
As, then, you took Christ Jesus the Lord, so go on in him,
Take part in the joy of those who are glad, and in the grief of those who are sorrowing.
For all those of you who were given baptism into Christ did put on Christ.
And Jesus was increasing in wisdom and in years, and in grace before God and men.
And the Spirit and the bride say, Come. And let him who gives ear, say, Come. And let him who is in need come; and let everyone desiring it take of the water of life freely.
Go on loving your brothers in the faith.
Then, six days before the Passover, Jesus came to Bethany where Lazarus was, whom Jesus had made to come back from the dead.
Making strong the souls of the disciples, saying to them that they were to keep the faith, and that we have to go through troubles of all sorts to come into the kingdom of God.
And there will be signs in the sun and moon and stars; and on the earth, fear among the nations and doubt because of the loud noise of the sea and the waves;
And there was evening and there was morning, the third day.
And to those who were trading in doves he said, Take these things away; do not make my Father's house a market.
God is our harbour and our strength, a very present help in trouble.
Take the full number of the children of Israel, by their families, and by their fathers' houses, every male by name;
For if you let men have forgiveness for their sins, you will have forgiveness from your Father in heaven.
Being given circumcision on the eighth day, of the nation of Israel, of the tribe of Benjamin, a Hebrew of Hebrews; in relation to the law, a Pharisee:
And again ships, though they are so great and are moved by violent winds, are turned by a very small guiding-blade, at the impulse of the man who is using it.
To make their eyes open, turning them from the dark to the light, and from the power of Satan to God, so that they may have forgiveness of sins and a heritage among those who are made holy by faith in me.
And in the days of those kings, the God of heaven will put up a kingdom which will never come to destruction, and its power will never be given into the hands of another people, and all these kingdoms will be broken and overcome by it, but it will keep its place for ever.
And Jesus came back to Galilee in the power of the Spirit, and the news of him went through all the country round about.
If he said they were gods, to whom the word of God came (and the Writings may not be broken),
See; my hands and my feet: it is I myself; put your hands on me and make certain; for a spirit has not flesh and bones as you see that I have.
For this reason let us go on from the first things about Christ to full growth; not building again that on which it is based, that is, the turning of the heart from dead works, and faith in God,
Certainly the Lord will do nothing without making clear his secret to his servants, the prophets.
And whatever request you make in my name, that I will do, so that the Father may have glory in the Son.
Now Peter and John were going up to the Temple at the ninth hour, the hour of prayer;
I am the First and the Last, says the Lord God who is and was and is to come, the Ruler of all.
After these things Jesus went away to the other side of the sea of Galilee--that is, the sea of Tiberias.
And on that day, when the evening had come, he said to them, Let us go over to the other side.
Who gave himself for us, so that he might make us free from all wrongdoing, and make for himself a people clean in heart and on fire with good works.
Keep in mind how I said to you, I go away and come to you again. If you had love for me you would be glad, because I am going to the Father: for the Father is greater than I.
And the things which I have said to you before a number of witnesses, give to those of the faith, so that they may be teachers of others.
Simon, Simon, Satan has made a request to have you, so that he may put you to the test as grain is tested:
You are of God, my little children, and you have overcome them because he who is in you is greater than he who is in the world.
See, the days are coming, says the Lord God, when I will send times of great need on the land, not need of food or desire for water, but for hearing the words of the Lord.
And there was war in heaven: Michael and his angels going out to the fight with the dragon; and the dragon and his angels made war,
For this reason God gave them up to the evil desires of their hearts, working shame in their bodies with one another:
For it gave me great joy when some of the brothers came and gave witness that you had the true faith and were walking in the true way.
And their voices are sounding in a new song, saying, It is right for you to take the book and to make it open: for you were put to death and have made an offering to God of your blood for men of every tribe, and language, and people, and nation,
Then will the King say to those on his right, Come, you who have the blessing of my Father, into the kingdom made ready for you before the world was:
And by this we may be certain that we have knowledge of him, if we keep his laws.
Because of your help in giving the good news from the first day till now;
It is right, our Lord and our God, for you to have glory and honour and power: because by you were all things made, and by your desire they came into being.
I am the door: if any man goes in through me he will have salvation, and will go in and go out, and will get food.
And Nicodemus said to him, How is it possible for these things to be?
I say to you, It will be better in that day for Sodom than for that town.
But of that day or that hour no one has knowledge, not even the angels in heaven, or the Son, but the Father.
Make clear to them that they are to put themselves under rulers and authorities, to do what they are ordered, to be ready for every good work,
Now there was a certain man in Caesarea, named Cornelius, the captain of the Italian band of the army;
Now Moses was looking after the flock of Jethro, his father-in-law, the priest of Midian: and he took the flock to the back of the waste land and came to Horeb, the mountain of God.
When Abram was ninety-nine years old, the Lord came to him, and said, I am God, Ruler of all; go in my ways and be upright in all things,
And they were wondering among themselves which of them it was who would do this thing.
Even so faith without works is dead.
But now, at the end of these days, it has come to us through his Son, to whom he has given all things for a heritage, and through whom he made the order of the generations;
Now it came about that when all the people had been given baptism, Jesus, having had baptism with them, was in prayer, when, the heaven being open,
And he said to them, Take care to keep yourselves free from the desire for property; for a man's life is not made up of the number of things which he has.
And these will go away into eternal punishment; but the upright into eternal life.
And have not given ear to the voice of the Lord our God to go in the way of his laws which he put before us by the mouth of his servants the prophets.
He will be great, and will be named the Son of the Most High: and the Lord God will give him the kingdom of David, his father:
But we see him who was made a little lower than the angels, even Jesus, crowned with glory and honour, because he let himself be put to death so that by the grace of God he might undergo death for all men.
The Lord takes care of me as his sheep; I will not be without any good thing.
And having different qualities by reason of the grace given to us, such as the quality of a prophet, let it be made use of in relation to the measure of our faith;
After these things Jesus and his disciples went into the land of Judaea, and there he was with them for some time, giving baptism.
Now I make request to you, my brothers, in the name of our Lord Jesus Christ, that you will all say the same thing, and that there may be no divisions among you, so that you may be in complete agreement, in the same mind and in the same opinion.
And it came about that when the days were near for him to be taken up, his face was turned to go to Jerusalem,
This I say, then, and give witness in the Lord, that you are to go no longer in the way of the Gentiles whose minds are turned to that which has no profit,
Everyone who has faith that Jesus is the Christ is a child of God: and everyone who has love for the Father has love for his child.
Now may the God of hope make you full of joy and peace through faith, so that all hope may be yours in the power of the Holy Spirit.
See, I come quickly; and my reward is with me, to give to every man the outcome of his works.
And they took to him little children, so that he might put his hands on them: and the disciples said sharp words to them.
And about eight days after he had said these things, he took Peter and John and James with him and went up into the mountain for prayer.
The law of the Lord is good, giving new life to the soul: the witness of the Lord is certain, giving wisdom to the foolish.
Do not put on one side him who is feeble in faith, and do not put him in doubt by your reasonings.
I am a rose of Sharon, a flower of the valleys.
Now is this world to be judged: now will the ruler of this world be sent out.
But straight away, after the trouble of those days, the sun will be made dark and the moon will not give her light and the stars will come down from heaven and the powers of heaven will be moved:
Will a man keep back from God what is right? But you have kept back what is mine. But you say, What have we kept back from you? Tenths and offerings.
See my servant, whom I am supporting, my loved one, in whom I take delight: I have put my spirit on him; he will give the knowledge of the true God to the nations.
Be in me at all times as I am in you. As the branch is not able to give fruit of itself, if it is not still on the vine, so you are not able to do so if you are not in me.
As for those who at one time saw the light, tasting the good things from heaven, and having their part in the Holy Spirit,
Not as if I had even now got the reward or been made complete: but I go on in the hope that I may come to the knowledge of that for which I was made the servant of Christ Jesus.
And when they had made selection of some to be rulers in every church, and had given themselves to prayer and kept themselves from food, they put them into the care of the Lord in whom they had faith.
The man who has knowledge of how to do good and does not do it, to him it is sin.
Go on waiting calmly, my brothers, till the coming of the Lord, like the farmer waiting for the good fruit of the earth till the early and late rains have come.
By faith it is clear to us that the order of events was fixed by the word of God, so that what is seen has not been made from things which only seem to be.
And straight away he made the disciples get into the boat and go before him to the other side, till he had sent the people away.
Because the knowledge of God may be seen in them, God having made it clear to them.
Then they put to him the question: Who is the man who said to you, Take it up and go?
And another time he said to the disciples, There was a certain man of great wealth who had a servant; and it was said to him that this servant was wasting his goods.
For so you have the true end of your faith, even the salvation of your souls.
And I have other sheep which are not of this field: I will be their guide in the same way, and they will give ear to my voice, so there will be one flock and one keeper.
And baptism, of which this is an image, now gives you salvation, not by washing clean the flesh, but by making you free from the sense of sin before God, through the coming again of Jesus Christ from the dead;
Because a day has been fixed in which all the world will be judged in righteousness by the man who has been marked out by him for this work; of which he has given a sign to all men by giving him back from the dead.
Now six pots of stone, every one taking two or three firkins of water, were placed there for the purpose of washing, as is the way of the Jews.
Heaven and earth will come to an end, but my words will not come to an end.
And this is love, not that we had love for God, but that he had love for us, and sent his Son to be an offering for our sins.
Even as the Father has given me his love, so I have given my love to you: be ever in my love.
He who has faith in me, out of his body, as the Writings have said, will come rivers of living water.
For the law was given through Moses; grace and the true way of life are ours through Jesus Christ.
And take salvation for your head-dress and the sword of the Spirit, which is the word of God:
Or has he us in mind? Yes, it was said for us; because it is right for the ploughman to do his ploughing in hope, and for him who is crushing the grain to do his work hoping for a part in the fruits of it.
There is no memory of those who have gone before, and of those who come after there will be no memory for those who are still to come after them.
For it is my desire, brothers, that this secret may be clear to you, so that you may not have pride in your knowledge, that Israel has been made hard in part, till all the Gentiles have come in;
And after that, Moses and Aaron came to Pharaoh, and said, The Lord, the God of Israel, says, Let my people go so that they may keep a feast to me in the waste land.
The bricks have come down, but we will put up buildings of cut stone in their place: the sycamores are cut down, but they will be changed to cedars.
Every word of God is tested: he is a breastplate to those who put their faith in him.
And if anyone's name was not in the book of life, he went down into the sea of fire.
And when the Pharisees put questions to him about when the kingdom of God would come, he gave them an answer and said, The kingdom of God will not come through observation:
And he said to them, It is not for you to have knowledge of the time and the order of events which the Father has kept in his control.
The foolish man has said in his heart, God will not do anything. They are unclean, they have done evil works; there is not one who does good.
So when he had come back again from the dead, the memory of these words came back to the disciples, and they had faith in the holy Writings and in the word which Jesus had said.
And there came together to him the Pharisees and certain of the scribes who had come from Jerusalem,
So will my word be which goes out of my mouth: it will not come back to me with nothing done, but it will give effect to my purpose, and do that for which I have sent it.
Say no more words of pride; let not uncontrolled sayings come out of your mouths: for the Lord is a God of knowledge, by him acts are judged.
But when they had faith in the good news given by Philip about the kingdom of God and the name of Jesus Christ, a number of men and women had baptism.
For this reason I said to you that death will overtake you in your sins: for if you have not faith that I am he, death will come to you while you are in your sins.
And Saul gave approval to his death. Now at that time a violent attack was started against the church in Jerusalem; and all but the Apostles went away into all parts of Judaea and Samaria.
Happy are the clean in heart: for they will see God.
The Father is not the judge of men, but he has given all decisions into the hands of the Son;
For what profit has a man, if he gets all the world with the loss of his life? or what will a man give in exchange for his life?
And he made clear to them all the things in the Writings, from Moses and from all the prophets, which had to do with himself.
And when the woman saw that the tree was good for food, and a delight to the eyes, and to be desired to make one wise, she took of its fruit, and gave it to her husband.
And now I will be no longer in the world, but they are in the world and I come to you. Holy Father, keep them in your name which you have given to me, so that they may be one even as we are one.
And it seems right to me, as long as I am in this tent of flesh, to keep your minds awake by working on your memory;
And the Lord God gave the man orders, saying, You may freely take of the fruit of every tree of the garden:
Preaching to Jews and to Greeks the need for a turning of the heart to God, and faith in the Lord Jesus Christ.
For the husband is the head of the wife, as Christ is the head of the church, being himself the saviour of the body.
Our fathers gave worship on this mountain, but you Jews say that the right place for worship is in Jerusalem.
For if we do evil on purpose after we have had the knowledge of what is true, there is no more offering for sins,
When Israel was a child he was dear to me; and I took my son out of Egypt.
But, my loved ones, keep in mind this one thing, that with the Lord one day is the same as a thousand years, and a thousand years are no more than one day.
We have the power of loving, because he first had love for us.
The Lord is my light and my salvation; who is then a cause of fear to me? the Lord is the strength of my life; who is a danger to me?
Iron makes iron sharp; so a man makes sharp his friend.
At that time Jesus made answer and said, I give praise to you, O Father, Lord of heaven and earth, because you have kept these things secret from the wise and the men of learning, and have made them clear to little children.
The Jews said, The building of this Temple took forty-six years; and you will put it up in three days!
After these things, the word of the Lord came to Abram in a vision, saying, Have no fear, Abram: I will keep you safe, and great will be your reward.
Jesus said to her, Woman, this is not your business; my time is still to come.
Do to others as you would have them do to you.
And the Jew is not different from the Greek: for there is the same Lord of all, who is good to all who have hope in his name:
Resting on the base of the Apostles and prophets, Christ Jesus himself being the chief keystone,
The earth is the Lord's, with all its wealth; the world and all the people living in it.
And now, I give you into the care of God and the word of his grace, which is able to make you strong and to give you your heritage among all the saints.
What profit has a man if he gets all the world with the loss of his life?
For there will come up false Christs, and false prophets, who will do great signs and wonders; so that if possible even the saints might be tricked.
And you, being dead through your sins and the evil condition of your flesh, to you, I say, he gave life together with him, and forgiveness of all our sins;
And I said this very thing in my letter, for fear that when I came I might have sorrow from those from whom it was right for me to have joy; being certain of this, that my joy is the joy of you all.
Truly, I was formed in evil, and in sin did my mother give me birth.
There was a man in the land of Uz whose name was Job. He was without sin and upright, fearing God and keeping himself far from evil.
God is not a man, to say what is false; or the son of man, that his purpose may be changed: what he has said, will he not do? and will he not give effect to the words of his mouth
For you see the grace of our Lord Jesus Christ, how though he had wealth, he became poor on your account, so that through his need you might have wealth.
Paul, an Apostle of Christ Jesus by the purpose of God, to the saints who are at Ephesus, and those who have faith in Christ Jesus:
And while they were doing the Lord's work, and going without food, the Holy Spirit said, Let Barnabas and Saul be given to me for the special work for which they have been marked out by me.
Brothers, it is clear to me that I have not come to that knowledge; but one thing I do, letting go those things which are past, and stretching out to the things which are before,
Be full of desire for the true milk of the word, as babies at their mothers' breasts, so that you may go on to salvation;
But I will not say anything about my needs, for I am able, wherever I am, to be dependent on myself.
I am the Lord your God who took you out of the land of Egypt, out of the prison-house.
The Revelation of Jesus Christ which God gave him so that his servants might have knowledge of the things which will quickly take place: and he sent and made it clear by his angel to his servant John;
Give no belief to false words: because there will first be a falling away from the faith, and the revelation of the man of sin, the son of destruction,
Because the mind of the flesh is opposite to God; it is not under the law of God, and is not able to be:
So they said again and again, What is this he is saying, A little time? His words are not clear to us.
There are three witnesses, the Spirit, the water, and the blood: and all three are in agreement.
So now, go in fear of the Lord, and be his servants with true hearts: put away the gods worshipped by your fathers across the River and in Egypt, and be servants of the Lord.
And the son of Asa was Jehoshaphat; and the son of Jehoshaphat was Joram; and the son of Joram was Uzziah;
And Jesus went out, with his disciples, into the little towns round Caesarea Philippi; and on the way he put a question to his disciples, saying, Who do men say that I am?
So that his glory might have praise through us who first had hope in Christ:
But we are able to overcome all these things and more through his love.
Much more, if we now have righteousness by his blood, will salvation from the wrath of God come to us through him.
Then Jesus said to them, Truly I say to you, If you do not take the flesh of the Son of man for food, and if you do not take his blood for drink, you have no life in you.
And Paul got to his feet on Mars' Hill and said, O men of Athens, I see that you are overmuch given to fear of the gods.
To whom you come, as to a living stone, not honoured by men, but of great and special value to God;
And he gave them another story, saying, The kingdom of heaven is like a man who put good seed in his field:
And if she herself puts away her husband and takes another, she is false to her husband.
And every year his father and mother went to Jerusalem at the feast of the Passover.
For, as we have a number of parts in one body, but all the parts have not the same use,
And he says to them, Because of your little faith: for truly I say to you, If you have faith as a grain of mustard seed, you will say to this mountain, Be moved from this place to that; and it will be moved; and nothing will be impossible to you.
But I say to you that everyone whose eyes are turned on a woman with desire has had connection with her in his heart.
Being certain that you will do my desire, I am writing to you, in the knowledge that you will do even more than I say.
(For if a man has not the art of ruling his house, how will he take care of the church of God?)
Now I have joy in my pain because of you, and in my flesh I undergo whatever is still needed to make the sorrows of Christ complete, for the salvation of his body, the church;
Anything which comes from God is able to overcome the world: and the power by which we have overcome the world is our faith.
If, then, you who are evil are able to give good things to your children, how much more will your Father in heaven give the Holy Spirit to those who make request to him?
In which you were living in the past, after the ways of this present world, doing the pleasure of the lord of the power of the air, the spirit who is now working in those who go against the purpose of God;
Do not be false to the married relation.
And because you are sons, God has sent out the Spirit of his Son into our hearts, saying, Abba, Father.
And when he had said this, breathing on them, he said to them, Let the Holy Spirit come on you:
But his answer was: My Father is still working even now, and so I am working.
You, as living stones, are being made into a house of the spirit, a holy order of priests, making those offerings of the spirit which are pleasing to God through Jesus Christ.
For as the woman is from the man, so the man is through the woman; but all things are from God.
Keep on with your prayers.
And he said in answer, Have you not seen in the Writings, that he who made them at the first made them male and female, and said,
But I say to you that everyone who is angry with his brother will be in danger of being judged; and he who says to his brother, Raca, will be in danger from the Sanhedrin; and whoever says, You foolish one, will be in danger of the hell of fire.
And if we are children, we have a right to a part in the heritage; a part in the things of God, together with Christ; so that if we have a part in his pain, we will in the same way have a part in his glory.
And he who gives seed for putting into the field and bread for food, will take care of the growth of your seed, at the same time increasing the fruits of your righteousness;