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Now he that supplies seed to the sower and bread for eating shall supply and make abundant your sowing, and increase the fruits of your righteousness:
Verily, verily, I say unto you, Except the grain of wheat falling into the ground die, it abides alone; but if it die, it bears much fruit.
And it came to pass as he was going up to Jerusalem, that he passed through the midst of Samaria and Galilee.
And having called together the twelve, he gave them power and authority over all demons, and to heal diseases,
as indeed the Son of man did not come to be served, but to serve, and to give his life a ransom for many.
For we have brought nothing into the world: it is manifest that neither can we carry anything out.
But Jesus said, Suffer little children, and do not hinder them from coming to me; for the kingdom of the heavens is of such:
And God said, Let there be lights in the expanse of the heavens, to divide between the day and the night; and let them be for signs, and for seasons, and for days and years;
I beheld till thrones were set, and the Ancient of days did sit: his raiment was white as snow, and the hair of his head like pure wool; his throne was flames of fire, and its wheels burning fire.
Therefore thou art inexcusable, O man, every one who judgest, for in that in which thou judgest another, thou condemnest thyself; for thou that judgest doest the same things.
I, the Preacher, was king over Israel in Jerusalem.
Many other signs therefore also Jesus did before his disciples, which are not written in this book;
And for this the Jews persecuted Jesus and sought to kill him, because he had done these things on sabbath.
how much rather shall the blood of the Christ, who by the eternal Spirit offered himself spotless to God, purify your conscience from dead works to worship the living God?
knowing this, that our old man has been crucified with him, that the body of sin might be annulled, that we should no longer serve sin.
Now in those days comes John the baptist, preaching in the wilderness of Judaea,
But this is true, he that sows sparingly shall reap also sparingly; and he that sows in the spirit of blessing shall reap also in blessing:
I cannot do anything of myself; as I hear, I judge, and my judgment is righteous, because I do not seek my will, but the will of him that has sent me.
The wolf also shall dwell with the lamb, and the leopard shall lie down with the kid, and the calf and the young lion and the fatted beast together, and a little child shall lead them.
Wherefore, having put off falsehood, speak truth every one with his neighbour, because we are members one of another.
And to Adam he said, Because thou hast hearkened to the voice of thy wife, and eaten of the tree of which I commanded thee saying, Thou shalt not eat of it: cursed be the ground on thy account; with toil shalt thou eat of it all the days of thy life;
Is not this the carpenter, the son of Mary, and brother of James, and Joses, and Judas, and Simon? and are not his sisters here with us? And they were offended in him.
or despisest thou the riches of his goodness, and forbearance, and long-suffering, not knowing that the goodness of God leads thee to repentance?
And as they were saying these things, he himself stood in their midst, and says to them, Peace be unto you.
And I say to you, Ask, and it shall be given to you; seek, and ye shall find; knock, and it shall be opened to you.
And the seventh angel sounded his trumpet: and there were great voices in the heaven, saying, The kingdom of the world of our Lord and of his Christ is come, and he shall reign to the ages of ages.
I call you no longer bondmen, for the bondman does not know what his master is doing; but I have called you friends, for all things which I have heard of my Father I have made known to you.
And Jesus, having cried with a loud voice, said, Father, into thy hands I commit my spirit. And having said this, he expired.
saying, Father, if thou wilt remove this cup from me: but then, not my will, but thine be done.
namely your having put off according to the former conversation the old man which corrupts itself according to the deceitful lusts;
Behold, I send unto you Elijah the prophet, before the coming of the great and terrible day of Jehovah.
Where there is no vision the people cast off restraint; but happy is he that keepeth the law.
I am the living bread which has come down out of heaven: if any one shall have eaten of this bread he shall live for ever; but the bread withal which I shall give is my flesh, which I will give for the life of the world.
Every gorge shall be filled up, and every mountain and hill shall be brought low, and the crooked places shall become a straight path, and the rough places smooth ways,
But if the Spirit of him that has raised up Jesus from among the dead dwell in you, he that has raised up Christ from among the dead shall quicken your mortal bodies also on account of his Spirit which dwells in you.
being complete as regards the fruit of righteousness, which is by Jesus Christ, to God's glory and praise.
But to each one of us has been given grace according to the measure of the gift of the Christ.
And they come to Jericho, and as he was going out from Jericho, and his disciples and a large crowd, the son of Timaeus, Bartimaeus, the blind man, sat by the wayside begging.
To whom they had all given heed, from small to great, saying, This is the power of God which is called great.
And when it opened the fifth seal, I saw underneath the altar the souls of them that had been slain for the word of God, and for the testimony which they held;
for to-day a Saviour has been born to you in David's city, who is Christ the Lord.
And another came, saying, My Lord, lo, there is thy mina, which I have kept laid up in a towel.
{Psalm of David.} Jehovah said unto my Lord, Sit at my right hand, until I put thine enemies as footstool of thy feet.
And now, if ye will hearken to my voice indeed and keep my covenant, then shall ye be my own possession out of all the peoples for all the earth is mine --
But the crowds knowing it followed him; and he received them and spake to them of the kingdom of God, and cured those that had need of healing.
For as he thinketh in his soul, so is he. Eat and drink! will he say unto thee; but his heart is not with thee.
And having passed through Phrygia and the Galatian country, having been forbidden by the Holy Spirit to speak the word in Asia,
And it came to pass afterwards that he went through the country city by city, and village by village, preaching and announcing the glad tidings of the kingdom of God; and the twelve were with him,
but as to the Son, Thy throne, O God, is to the age of the age, and a sceptre of uprightness is the sceptre of thy kingdom.
not avenging yourselves, beloved, but give place to wrath; for it is written, Vengeance belongs to me, I will recompense, saith the Lord.
O senseless Galatians, who has bewitched you; to whom, as before your very eyes, Jesus Christ has been portrayed, crucified among you?
But the ruler of the synagogue, indignant because Jesus healed on the sabbath, answering said to the crowd, There are six days in which people ought to work; in these therefore come and be healed, and not on the sabbath day.
each according as he is purposed in his heart; not grievingly, or of necessity; for God loves a cheerful giver.
I will sing to my well-beloved a song of my beloved touching his vineyard: My well-beloved had a vineyard upon a fruitful hill.
and said to them, Thus it is written, and thus it behoved the Christ to suffer, and to rise from among the dead the third day;
John to the seven assemblies which are in Asia: Grace to you and peace from him who is, and who was, and who is to come; and from the seven Spirits which are before his throne;
Thus saith Jehovah, thy Redeemer, the Holy One of Israel; I am Jehovah thy God, who teacheth thee for thy profit, who leadeth thee in the way that thou shouldest go.
and he will shew you a large upper room furnished ready. There make ready for us.
And when they were come into the city, they went up to the upper chamber, where were staying both Peter, and John, and James, and Andrew, Philip and Thomas, Bartholomew and Matthew, James son of Alphaeus, and Simon the zealot, and Jude the brother of James.
And a certain ruler asked him saying, Good teacher, having done what, shall I inherit eternal life?
and do not have fellowship with the unfruitful works of darkness, but rather also reprove them,
Ye husbands likewise, dwell with them according to knowledge, as with a weaker, even the female, vessel, giving them honour, as also fellow-heirs of the grace of life, that your prayers be not hindered.
For we were once ourselves also without intelligence, disobedient, wandering in error, serving various lusts and pleasures, living in malice and envy, hateful, and hating one another.
For behold, I create new heavens and a new earth; and the former shall not be remembered, nor come into mind.
In like manner also that the women in decent deportment and dress adorn themselves with modesty and discretion, not with plaited hair and gold, or pearls, or costly clothing,
And I stood upon the sand of the sea; and I saw a beast rising out of the sea, having ten horns and seven heads, and upon its horns ten diadems, and upon its heads names of blasphemy.
And a certain woman, by name Lydia, a seller of purple, of the city of Thyatira, who worshipped God, heard; whose heart the Lord opened to attend to the things spoken by Paul.
Behold, I give you the power of treading upon serpents and scorpions and over all the power of the enemy, and nothing shall in anywise injure you.
And Jehovah Elohim said, Behold, Man is become as one of us, to know good and evil. And now, lest he stretch out his hand, and take also of the tree of life, and eat, and live for ever ...!
who have been born, not of blood, nor of flesh's will, nor of man's will, but of God.
And judge not, and ye shall not be judged; condemn not, and ye shall not be condemned. Remit, and it shall be remitted to you.
knowing that the putting off of my tabernacle is speedily to take place, as also our Lord Jesus Christ has manifested to me;
And he says to them, Is it lawful on the sabbath to do good or to do evil, to save life or to kill? But they were silent.
and he made it touch my mouth, and said, Behold, this hath touched thy lips; and thine iniquity is taken away, and thy sin expiated.
knowing that whatever good each shall do, this he shall receive of the Lord, whether bond or free.
And it came to pass afterwards he went into a city called Nain, and many of his disciples and a great crowd went with him.
Now we know that whatever the things the law says, it speaks to those under the law, that every mouth may be stopped, and all the world be under judgment to God.
Know therefore and understand: From the going forth of the word to restore and to build Jerusalem unto Messiah, the Prince, are seven weeks, and sixty-two weeks. The street and the moat shall be built again, even in troublous times.
and at the ninth hour, Jesus cried with a loud voice, saying, Eloi, Eloi, lama sabachthani? which is, being interpreted, My God, my God, why hast thou forsaken me?
And it came to pass in those days that he went out into the mountain to pray, and he spent the night in prayer to God.
Herein as to us has been manifested the love of God, that God has sent his only begotten Son into the world, that we might live through him.
For if God spared not the angels who had sinned, but having cast them down to the deepest pit of gloom has delivered them to chains of darkness to be kept for judgment;
And having done this, they enclosed a great multitude of fishes. And their net broke.
Again I say to you, that if two of you shall agree on the earth concerning any matter, whatsoever it may be that they shall ask, it shall come to them from my Father who is in the heavens.
But he knew their thoughts, and said to the man who had the withered hand, Get up, and stand in the midst. And having risen up he stood there.
I call heaven and earth to witness this day against you: life and death have I set before you, blessing and cursing: choose then life, that thou mayest live, thou and thy seed,
And after six days Jesus takes with him Peter and James and John, and takes them up on a high mountain by themselves apart. And he was transfigured before them:
But now thus saith Jehovah, that created thee, O Jacob, and he that formed thee, O Israel: Fear not, for I have redeemed thee, I have called thee by thy name; thou art mine.
For this reason we should give heed more abundantly to the things we have heard, lest in any way we should slip away.
for the soul of the flesh is in the blood; and I have given it to you upon the altar to make atonement for your souls, for it is the blood that maketh atonement for the soul.
But for this very reason also, using therewith all diligence, in your faith have also virtue, in virtue knowledge,
for then shall there be great tribulation, such as has not been from the beginning of the world until now, nor ever shall be;
Peter, apostle of Jesus Christ, to the sojourners of the dispersion of Pontus, Galatia, Cappadocia, Asia, and Bithynia,
and Ezekias begat Manasses, and Manasses begat Amon, and Amon begat Josias,
What then? are we better? No, in no wise: for we have before charged both Jews and Greeks with being all under sin:
Who is wise and understanding among you; let him shew out of a good conversation his works in meekness of wisdom;
to whom God would make known what are the riches of the glory of this mystery among the nations, which is Christ in you the hope of glory:
This title therefore many of the Jews read, for the place of the city where Jesus was crucified was near; and it was written in Hebrew, Greek, Latin.
Then he says to the man, Stretch out thy hand. And he stretched it out, and it was restored sound as the other.
And those of the nations, hearing it, rejoiced, and glorified the word of the Lord, and believed, as many as were ordained to eternal life.
And Zacharias said to the angel, How shall I know this, for I am an old man, and my wife advanced in years?
that which we have seen and heard we report to you, that ye also may have fellowship with us; and our fellowship is indeed with the Father, and with his Son Jesus Christ.
Behold, Jehovah's hand is not shortened that it cannot save, neither his ear heavy that it cannot hear;
But what says it? The word is near thee, in thy mouth and in thy heart: that is, the word of faith, which we preach:
Thus saith Jehovah, the King of Israel, and his Redeemer, Jehovah of hosts: I am the first, and I am the last, and beside me there is no God.
For the love of money is the root of every evil; which some having aspired after, have wandered from the faith, and pierced themselves with many sorrows.
and all things are of the God who has reconciled us to himself by Jesus Christ, and given to us the ministry of that reconciliation:
He is despised and left alone of men; a man of sorrows, and acquainted with grief, and like one from whom men hide their faces; despised, and we esteemed him not.
To him all the prophets bear witness that every one that believes on him will receive through his name remission of sins.
Know ye not that they who run in the race-course run all, but one receives the prize? Thus run in order that ye may obtain.
And after six days Jesus takes with him Peter, and James, and John his brother, and brings them up into a high mountain apart.
And Jesus replying said, A certain man descended from Jerusalem to Jericho and fell into the hands of robbers, who also, having stripped him and inflicted wounds, went away leaving him in a half-dead state.
And in those days Peter, standing up in the midst of the brethren, said, (the crowd of names who were together was about a hundred and twenty,)
And I will give you a new heart, and I will put a new spirit within you; and I will take away the stony heart out of your flesh, and I will give you a heart of flesh.
And as he was sitting upon the mount of Olives the disciples came to him privately, saying, Tell us, when shall these things be, and what is the sign of thy coming and the completion of the age?
as to brotherly love, kindly affectioned towards one another: as to honour, each taking the lead in paying it to the other:
Behold, I send you as sheep in the midst of wolves; be therefore prudent as the serpents, and guileless as the doves.
For I also am a man under authority, having under me soldiers, and I say to this one, Go, and he goes; and to another, Come, and he comes; and to my bondman, Do this, and he does it.
According to his own will begat he us by the word of truth, that we should be a certain first-fruits of his creatures.
for I hungered, and ye gave me to eat; I thirsted, and ye gave me to drink; I was a stranger, and ye took me in;
Faithful is the word, and worthy of all acceptation, that Christ Jesus came into the world to save sinners, of whom I am the first.
For this is my blood, that of the new covenant, that shed for many for remission of sins.
And he shall speak words against the Most High, and shall wear out the saints of the most high places, and think to change seasons and the law; and they shall be given into his hand until a time and times and a half time.
and now glorify me, thou Father, along with thyself, with the glory which I had along with thee before the world was.
if any one be free from all charge against him, husband of one wife, having believing children not accused of excess or unruly.
For the anxious looking out of the creature expects the revelation of the sons of God:
There is a little boy here who has five barley loaves and two small fishes; but this, what is it for so many?
Now he who serves for wages flees because he serves for wages, and is not himself concerned about the sheep.
And the angel said to them, Fear not, for behold, I announce to you glad tidings of great joy, which shall be to all the people;
For I know this, that there will come in amongst you after my departure grievous wolves, not sparing the flock;
And it shall come to pass in the end of days, that the mountain of Jehovah's house shall be established on the top of the mountains, and shall be lifted up above the hills; and all the nations shall flow unto it.
Fear nothing of what thou art about to suffer. Behold, the devil is about to cast of you into prison, that ye may be tried; and ye shall have tribulation ten days. Be thou faithful unto death, and I will give to thee the crown of life.
And the king said unto them, I have dreamed a dream, and my spirit is troubled to know the dream.
And Ruth said, Do not intreat me to leave thee, to return from following after thee; for whither thou goest I will go, and where thou lodgest I will lodge: thy people shall be my people, and thy God my God;
and behold, thou shalt conceive in the womb and bear a son, and thou shalt call his name Jesus.
Jesus says to her, Woman, believe me, the hour is coming when ye shall neither in this mountain nor in Jerusalem worship the Father.
Beloved, I exhort you, as strangers and sojourners, to abstain from fleshly lusts, which war against the soul;
And his men that were with him did David bring up, every man with his household; and they dwelt in the cities of Hebron.
But concerning spiritual manifestations, brethren, I do not wish you to be ignorant.
But thou, when thou prayest, enter into thy chamber, and having shut thy door, pray to thy Father who is in secret, and thy Father who sees in secret will render it to thee.
And as they were eating, Jesus, having taken bread, when he had blessed, broke it, and gave it to them, and said, Take this: this is my body.
But surely I count also all things to be loss on account of the excellency of the knowledge of Christ Jesus my Lord, on account of whom I have suffered the loss of all, and count them to be filth, that I may gain Christ;
And he began to teach them that the Son of man must suffer many things, and be rejected of the elders and of the chief priests and of the scribes, and be killed, and after three days rise again.
After this he descended to Capernaum, he and his mother and his brethren and his disciples; and there they abode not many days.
And Mary, rising up in those days, went into the hill country with haste, to a city of Judah,
The Lord therefore, after he had spoken to them, was taken up into heaven, and sat at the right hand of God.
Thus saith Jehovah: Stand in the ways and see, and ask for the ancient paths, which is the good way, and walk therein, and ye shall find rest for your souls. But they said, We will not walk therein.
The fear of Jehovah is the beginning of wisdom; and the knowledge of the Holy is intelligence.
Behold, all the souls are mine; as the soul of the father, so also the soul of the son is mine: the soul that sinneth, it shall die.
righteousness of God by faith of Jesus Christ towards all,and upon all those who believe: for there is no difference;
And having taken hold on him they brought him to Areopagus, saying, Might we know what this new doctrine which is spoken by thee is?
And they shall fall by the edge of the sword, and be led captive into all the nations; and Jerusalem shall be trodden down of the nations until the times of the nations be fulfilled.
But Jesus, looking on them, said to them, With men this is impossible; but with God all things are possible.
He that dwelleth in the secret place of the Most High shall abide under the shadow of the Almighty.
Now the feast of the dedication was celebrating at Jerusalem, and it was winter.
And by the cross of Jesus stood his mother, and the sister of his mother, Mary the wife of Clopas, and Mary of Magdala.
Wherefore we faint not; but if indeed our outward man is consumed, yet the inward is renewed day by day.
Now the Lord is the Spirit, but where the Spirit of the Lord is, there is liberty.
But in Athens, while Paul was waiting for them, his spirit was painfully excited in him seeing the city given up to idolatry.
And then shall appear the sign of the Son of man in heaven; and then shall all the tribes of the land lament, and they shall see the Son of man coming on the clouds of heaven with power and great glory.
Bondmen, obey masters according to flesh, with fear and trembling, in simplicity of your heart as to the Christ;
And if a man shall sell his daughter as a handmaid, she shall not go out as the bondmen go out.
And he said to them, When ye pray, say, Father, thy name be hallowed; thy kingdom come;
But of him are ye in Christ Jesus, who has been made to us wisdom from God, and righteousness, and holiness, and redemption;
Whoso sheddeth Man's blood, by Man shall his blood be shed; for in the image of God he hath made Man.
And another fell on the rocky ground, where it had not much earth, and immediately it sprung up out of the ground because it had no depth of earth;
for he with whom these things are not present is blind, short-sighted, and has forgotten the purging of his former sins.
But Herod the king having heard of it, was troubled, and all Jerusalem with him;
Paul, bondman of God, and apostle of Jesus Christ according to the faith of God's elect, and knowledge of the truth which is according to piety;
Beloved, take not as strange the fire of persecution which has taken place amongst you for your trial, as if a strange thing was happening to you;
But when Peter came to Antioch, I withstood him to the face, because he was to be condemned:
For even as the Father raises the dead and quickens them, thus the Son also quickens whom he will:
Let us hold fast the confession of the hope unwavering, (for he is faithful who has promised;)
who is he that condemns? It is Christ who has died, but rather has been also raised up; who is also at the right hand of God; who also intercedes for us.
And when they heard these things they held their peace, and glorified God, saying, Then indeed God has to the nations also granted repentance to life.
And it came to pass about three hours afterwards, that his wife, not knowing what had happened, came in.
But we ought to give thanks to God always for you, brethren beloved of the Lord, that God has chosen you from the beginning to salvation in sanctification of the Spirit and belief of the truth:
And thou, Daniel, close the words, and seal the book, till the time of the end. Many shall run to and fro, and knowledge shall be increased.
I have no greater joy than these things that I hear of my children walking in the truth.
Jerusalem, Jerusalem, the city that kills the prophets and stones those that are sent unto her, how often would I have gathered thy children as a hen gathers her chickens under her wings, and ye would not!
For in six days Jehovah made the heavens and the earth, the sea, and all that is in them, and rested on the seventh day; therefore Jehovah blessed the sabbath day, and hallowed it.
For to you is the promise and to your children, and to all who are afar off, as many as the Lord our God may call.
and to rule during the day and during the night, and to divide between the light and the darkness. And God saw that it was good.
And I heard a loud voice out of the heaven, saying, Behold, the tabernacle of God is with men, and he shall tabernacle with them, and they shall be his people, and God himself shall be with them, their God.
it came also in the days of Jehoiakim the son of Josiah, king of Judah, unto the end of the eleventh year of Zedekiah the son of Josiah, king of Judah, unto the carrying away of Jerusalem captive, in the fifth month.
and he said, Naked came I out of my mother's womb, and naked shall I return thither: Jehovah gave, and Jehovah hath taken away; blessed be the name of Jehovah!
And now, children, abide in him, that if he be manifested we may have boldness, and not be put to shame from before him at his coming.
And as they were speaking to the people, the priests and captain of the temple and the Sadducees came upon them,
and behold, thou shalt be silent and not able to speak, till the day in which these things shall take place, because thou hast not believed my words, the which shall be fulfilled in their time.
And it causes all, the small and the great, and the rich and the poor, and the free and the bondmen, that they should give them a mark upon their right hand or upon their forehead;
Be in subjection therefore to every human institution for the Lord's sake; whether to the king as supreme,
But I commend to you Phoebe, our sister, who is minister of the assembly which is in Cenchrea;
and the Holy Spirit descended in a bodily form as a dove upon him; and a voice came out of heaven, Thou art my beloved Son, in thee I have found my delight.
in which were all the quadrupeds and creeping things of the earth, and the fowls of the heaven.
Dost thou not know, hast thou not heard, that the everlasting God, Jehovah, the Creator of the ends of the earth, fainteth not nor tireth? There is no searching of his understanding.
In that hour the disciples came to Jesus saying, Who then is greatest in the kingdom of the heavens?
For what the law could not do, in that it was weak through the flesh, God, having sent his own Son, in likeness of flesh of sin, and for sin, has condemned sin in the flesh,
Simon Peter, bondman and apostle of Jesus Christ, to them that have received like precious faith with us through the righteousness of our God and Saviour Jesus Christ:
From the sole of the foot even unto the head there is no soundness in him; wounds, and weals, and open sores: they have not been dressed, nor bound up, nor mollified with oil.
And when they drew near to Jerusalem and came to Bethphage, at the mount of Olives, then Jesus sent two disciples,
Only conduct yourselves worthily of the glad tidings of the Christ, in order that whether coming and seeing you, or absent, I may hear of what concerns you, that ye stand firm in one spirit, with one soul, labouring together in the same conflict with the faith of the glad tidings;
and said, Verily I say to you, Unless ye are converted and become as little children, ye will not at all enter into the kingdom of the heavens.
There shall not be found among you he that maketh his son or his daughter to pass through the fire, that useth divination, that useth auguries, or an enchanter, or a sorcerer,
And I saw the dead, great and small, standing before the throne, and books were opened; and another book was opened, which is that of life. And the dead were judged out of the things written in the books according to their works.
Having therefore been exalted by the right hand of God, and having received of the Father the promise of the Holy Spirit, he has poured out this which ye behold and hear.
And in Joppa there was a certain female disciple, by name Tabitha, which being interpreted means Dorcas. She was full of good works and alms-deeds which she did.
For from within, out of the heart of men, go forth evil thoughts, adulteries, fornications, murders,
But see lest anywise this your right to eat itself be a stumbling-block to the weak.
And he rose up and went away thence into the borders of Tyre and Sidon; and having entered into a house he would not have any one know it, and he could not be hid.
Likewise ye younger, be subject to the elder, and all of you bind on humility towards one another; for God sets himself against the proud, but to the humble gives grace.
Beloved, using all diligence to write to you of our common salvation, I have been obliged to write to you exhorting you to contend earnestly for the faith once delivered to the saints.
O stiffnecked and uncircumcised in heart and ears, ye do always resist the Holy Spirit; as your fathers, ye also.
They shall perish, but thou continuest still; and they all shall grow old as a garment,
Seeing therefore it remains that some enter into it, and those who first received the glad tidings did not enter in on account of not hearkening to the word,
For the Son of man is about to come in the glory of his Father with his angels, and then he will render to each according to his doings.
Arise, shine! for thy light is come, and the glory of Jehovah is risen upon thee.
Having purified your souls by obedience to the truth to unfeigned brotherly love, love one another out of a pure heart fervently;
He who, yea, has not spared his own Son, but delivered him up for us all, how shall he not also with him grant us all things?
but he who knew it not, and did things worthy of stripes, shall be beaten with few. And to every one to whom much has been given, much shall be required from him; and to whom men have committed much, they will ask from him the more.
And this is the witness of John, when the Jews sent from Jerusalem priests and Levites that they might ask him, Thou, who art thou?
And the beast was taken, and the false prophet that was with him, who wrought the signs before him by which he deceived them that received the mark of the beast, and those that worship his image. Alive were both cast into the lake of fire which burns with brimstone;
and make straight paths for your feet, that that which is lame be not turned aside; but that rather it may be healed.
For they that are according to flesh mind the things of the flesh; and they that are according to Spirit, the things of the Spirit.
But Jesus seeing it, was indignant, and said to them, Suffer the little children to come to me; forbid them not; for of such is the kingdom of God.
The grass withereth, the flower fadeth; but the word of our God abideth for ever.
I rejoiced greatly that I have found of thy children walking in truth, as we have received commandment from the Father.
For I also am a man placed under authority, having under myself soldiers, and I say to this one, Go, and he goes; and to another, Come, and he comes; and to my bondman, Do this, and he does it.
And when ye stand praying, forgive if ye have anything against any one, that your Father also who is in the heavens may forgive you your offences.
And Jesus, having sat down opposite the treasury, saw how the crowd was casting money into the treasury; and many rich cast in much.
And the people were awaiting Zacharias, and they wondered at his delaying in the temple.
Blessed be the Lord the God of Israel, because he has visited and wrought redemption for his people,
The scepter will not depart from Judah, Nor the lawgiver from between his feet, Until Shiloh come, And to him will be the obedience of peoples.
And they heard the voice of Jehovah Elohim, walking in the garden in the cool of the day. And Man and his wife hid themselves from the presence of Jehovah Elohim, in the midst of the trees of the garden.
Let such a one think this, that such as we are in word by letters when absent, such also present in deed.
to the assembly of God which is in Corinth, to those sanctified in Christ Jesus, called saints, with all that in every place call on the name of our Lord Jesus Christ, both theirs and ours:
He that rejects me and does not receive my words, has him who judges him: the word which I have spoken, that shall judge him in the last day.
Even as also in another place he says, Thou art a priest for ever according to the order of Melchisedec.
I say the truth in Christ, I lie not, my conscience bearing witness with me in the Holy Spirit,
And the apostles who were in Jerusalem, having heard that Samaria had received the word of God, sent to them Peter and John;
And he shall judge among the nations, and shall reprove many peoples; and they shall forge their swords into ploughshares, and their spears into pruning-knives: nation shall not lift up sword against nation, neither shall they learn war any more.
giving thanks to the Father, who has made us fit for sharing the portion of the saints in light,
For whosoever shall be ashamed of me and of my words in this adulterous and sinful generation, of him shall the Son of man also be ashamed when he shall come in the glory of his Father with the holy angels.
But fornication and all uncleanness or unbridled lust, let it not be even named among you, as it becomes saints;
And having called to him his twelve disciples, he gave them power over unclean spirits, so that they should cast them out, and heal every disease and every bodily weakness.
By him therefore let us offer the sacrifice of praise continually to God, that is, the fruit of the lips confessing his name.
that the God of our Lord Jesus Christ, the Father of glory, would give you the spirit of wisdom and revelation in the full knowledge of him,
But Thomas, one of the twelve, called Didymus, was not with them when Jesus came.
For this is the love of God, that we keep his commandments; and his commandments are not grievous.
And all Israel have transgressed thy law, even turning aside so as not to listen unto thy voice. And the curse hath been poured out upon us, and the oath that is written in the law of Moses the servant of God: for we have sinned against him.
Then went out to him Jerusalem, and all Judaea, and all the country round the Jordan,
Go to now, ye who say, To-day or to-morrow will we go into such a city and spend a year there, and traffic and make gain,
They said therefore to him, Who art thou? that we may give an answer to those who sent us. What sayest thou of thyself?
(But now Christ is raised from among the dead, first-fruits of those fallen asleep.
And the Spirit said to me to go with them, nothing doubting. And there went with me these six brethren also, and we entered into the house of the man,
After this, Jesus, knowing that all things were now finished, that the scripture might be fulfilled, says, I thirst.
And I heard the voice of the Lord saying, Whom shall I send, and who will go for us? And I said, Here am I; send me.
and the peace of God, which surpasses every understanding, shall guard your hearts and your thoughts by Christ Jesus.
so, as far as depends on me, am I ready to announce the glad tidings to you also who are in Rome.
And after the sixty-two weeks shall Messiah be cut off, and shall have nothing; and the people of the prince that shall come shall destroy the city and the sanctuary; and the end thereof shall be with an overflow, and unto the end, war, the desolations determined.
Before the mountains were brought forth, and thou hadst formed the earth and the world, even from eternity to eternity thou art God.
in order that we may be no longer babes, tossed and carried about by every wind of that teaching which is in the sleight of men, in unprincipled cunning with a view to systematized error;
And you, who once were alienated and enemies in mind by wicked works, yet now has it reconciled
And Jehovah passed by before his face, and proclaimed, Jehovah, Jehovah God merciful and gracious, slow to anger, and abundant in goodness and truth,
he left Judaea and went away again unto Galilee.
And God had finished on the seventh day his work which he had made; and he rested on the seventh day from all his work which he had made.
But concerning the things of which ye have written to me: It is good for a man not to touch a woman;
See, I have taught you statutes and ordinances, even as Jehovah my God commanded me, that ye may do so in the land into which ye enter to possess it.
At that time Herod the king laid his hands on some of those of the assembly to do them hurt,
And the sons of the prophets that were at Bethel came forth to Elisha, and said to him, Dost thou know that Jehovah will take away thy master from over thy head to-day? And he said, I also know it: be silent!
until we all arrive at the unity of the faith and of the knowledge of the Son of God, at the full-grown man, at the measure of the stature of the fulness of the Christ;
But seeing the boldness of Peter and John, and perceiving that they were unlettered and uninstructed men, they wondered; and they recognised them that they were with Jesus.
For with the heart is believed to righteousness; and with the mouth confession made to salvation.
thou shalt not bow down thyself to them, nor serve them; for I, Jehovah thy God, am a jealous God, visiting the iniquity of the fathers upon the sons to the third and to the fourth generation of them that hate me,
And rising in the morning long before day, he went out and went away into a desert place, and there prayed.
For the kingdom of the heavens is like a householder who went out with the early morn to hire workmen for his vineyard.
but while he pondered on these things, behold, an angel of the Lord appeared to him in a dream, saying, Joseph, son of David, fear not to take to thee Mary, thy wife, for that which is begotten in her is of the Holy Spirit.
and Ozias begat Joatham, and Joatham begat Achaz, and Achaz begat Ezekias,
And it shall be that whosoever shall call upon the name of Jehovah shall be saved: for in mount Zion and in Jerusalem shall be deliverance, as Jehovah hath said, and for the residue whom Jehovah shall call.
And this I pray, that your love may abound yet more and more in full knowledge and all intelligence,
And Jehovah appeared to him by the oaks of Mamre. And he sat at the tent-door in the heat of the day.
and to the sister Apphia and to Archippus our fellow-soldier, and to the assembly which is in thine house.
And when they draw near to Jerusalem, to Bethphage and Bethany, at the mount of Olives, he sends two of his disciples,
And the apostles are gathered together to Jesus. And they related to him all things, both what they had done and what they had taught.
Jehovah thy God will raise up unto thee a prophet from the midst of thee, of thy brethren, like unto me; unto him shall ye hearken;
So then, my beloved brethren, be firm, immovable, abounding always in the work of the Lord, knowing that your toil is not in vain in the Lord.
For the law, having a shadow of the coming good things, not the image itself of the things, can never, by the same sacrifices which they offer continually yearly, perfect those who approach.
And the daughter of Zion is left, as a booth in a vineyard, as a night-lodge in a cucumber-garden, as a besieged city.
And he longed to fill his belly with the husks which the swine were eating; and no one gave to him.
In the sweat of thy face shalt thou eat bread, until thou return to the ground: for out of it wast thou taken. For dust thou art; and unto dust shalt thou return.
For I would not have you ignorant, brethren, that all our fathers were under the cloud, and all passed through the sea;
And again he began to teach by the sea. And a great crowd was gathered together to him, so that going on board ship he sat in the sea, and all the crowd were close to the sea on the land.
whom heaven indeed must receive till the times of the restoring of all things, of which God has spoken by the mouth of his holy prophets since time began.
For we have not made known to you the power and coming of our Lord Jesus Christ, following cleverly imagined fables, but having been eyewitnesses of his majesty.
And they asked him and said to him, Why baptisest thou then, if thou art not the Christ, nor Elias, nor the prophet?
marked out Son of God in power, according to the Spirit of holiness, by resurrection of the dead) Jesus Christ our Lord;
And they go into Capernaum. And straightway on the sabbath he entered into the synagogue and taught.
Thou shalt not idly utter the name of Jehovah thy God; for Jehovah will not hold him guiltless that idly uttereth his name.
And I saw no temple in it; for the Lord God Almighty is its temple, and the Lamb.
For the love of the Christ constrains us, having judged this: that one died for all, then all have died;
And there comes to him a leper, beseeching him, and falling on his knees to him, and saying to him, If thou wilt thou canst cleanse me.
Finally, be all of one mind, sympathising, full of brotherly love, tender hearted, humble minded;
who has been delivered for our offences and has been raised for our justification, it will be reckoned.
For every one that does evil hates the light, and does not come to the light that his works may not be shewn as they are;
have ye not made a difference among yourselves, and become judges having evil thoughts?
Heal the infirm, raise the dead, cleanse lepers, cast out demons: ye have received gratuitously, give gratuitously.
But thou, why judgest thou thy brother? or again, thou, why dost thou make little of thy brother? for we shall all be placed before the judgment-seat of God.
If therefore thou shouldest offer thy gift at the altar, and there shouldest remember that thy brother has something against thee,
Is not this the fast which I have chosen: to loose the bands of wickedness, to undo the thongs of the yoke, and to send forth free the crushed, and that ye break every yoke?
Behold, my servant shall deal prudently; he shall be exalted and be lifted up, and be very high.
But I would put you in remembrance, you who once knew all things, that the Lord, having saved a people out of the land of Egypt, in the second place destroyed those who had not believed.
For ground which drinks the rain which comes often upon it, and produces useful herbs for those for whose sakes also it is tilled, partakes of blessing from God;
There came John baptising in the wilderness, and preaching the baptism of repentance for remission of sins.
So then, as we have occasion, let us do good towards all, and specially towards those of the household of faith.
But far be it from me to boast save in the cross of our Lord Jesus Christ, through whom the world is crucified to me, and I to the world.
For in Christ Jesus neither circumcision has any force, nor uncircumcision; but faith working through love.
And let the peace of Christ preside in your hearts, to which also ye have been called in one body, and be thankful.
Now we beg you, brethren, by the coming of our Lord Jesus Christ and our gathering together to him,
overthrowing reasonings and every high thing that lifts itself up against the knowledge of God, and leading captive every thought into the obedience of the Christ;
For this is the will of God, even your sanctification, that ye should abstain from fornication;
Jesus answered them, Verily, verily, I say to you, Every one that practises sin is the bondman of sin.
From that time Jesus began to shew to his disciples that he must go away to Jerusalem, and suffer many things from the elders and chief priests and scribes, and be killed, and the third day be raised.
and death and hades were cast into the lake of fire. This is the second death, even the lake of fire.
For which cause also I suffer these things; but I am not ashamed; for I know whom I have believed, and am persuaded that he is able to keep for that day the deposit I have entrusted to him.
It is of Jehovah's loving-kindness we are not consumed, because his compassions fail not;
And it came to pass in the days when the judges ruled, that there was a famine in the land. And a certain man went from Bethlehem-Judah, to sojourn in the country of Moab, he, and his wife, and his two sons.
I will declare the decree: Jehovah hath said unto me, Thou art my Son; I this day have begotten thee.
Blessed is he that reads, and they that hear the words of the prophecy, and keep the things written in it; for the time is near.
And now abide faith, hope, love; these three things; and the greater of these is love.
And Jehovah will set up the adversaries of Rezin against him, and arm his enemies,
earnestly desiring to see thee, remembering thy tears, that I may be filled with joy;
For if, being enemies, we have been reconciled to God through the death of his Son, much rather, having been reconciled, we shall be saved in the power of his life.
And at midnight Paul and Silas, in praying, were praising God with singing, and the prisoners listened to them.
I am the good shepherd; and I know those that are mine, and am known of those that are mine,
so that the residue of men may seek out the Lord, and all the nations on whom my name is invoked, saith the Lord, who does these things
What shall we say then? is the law sin? Far be the thought. But I had not known sin, unless by law: for I had not had conscience also of lust unless the law had said, Thou shalt not lust;
teaching us that, having denied impiety and worldly lusts, we should live soberly, and justly, and piously in the present course of things,
In that day will I raise up the tabernacle of David which is fallen, and close up the breaches thereof; and I will raise up its ruins, and I will build it as in the days of old:
Every one who puts away his wife and marries another commits adultery; and every one that marries one put away from a husband commits adultery.
and keep the charge of Jehovah thy God, to walk in his ways, to keep his statutes, and his commandments, and his ordinances, and his testimonies, as it is written in the law of Moses, that thou mayest prosper in all that thou doest and whithersoever thou turnest thyself;
Thou shalt not desire thy neighbour's house, thou shalt not desire thy neighbour's wife, nor his bondman, nor his handmaid, nor his ox, nor his ass, nor anything that is thy neighbour's.
And I heard another voice out of the heaven saying, Come out of her, my people, that ye have not fellowship in her sins, and that ye do not receive of her plagues:
having hope towards God, which they themselves also receive, that there is to be a resurrection both of just and unjust.
Jesus, having said these things, went out with his disciples beyond the torrent Cedron, where was a garden, into which he entered, he and his disciples.
The beginning of the word of Jehovah through Hosea. And Jehovah said to Hosea, Go, take unto thee a wife of whoredoms, and children of whoredoms; for the land is entirely given up to whoredom, away from Jehovah.
Let the words of my mouth and the meditation of my heart be acceptable in thy sight, O Jehovah, my rock, and my redeemer.
Jesus seeing this man lying there, and knowing that he was in that state now a great length of time, says to him, Wouldest thou become well?
If any one desire to practise his will, he shall know concerning the doctrine, whether it is of God, or that I speak from myself.
I will praise thee, for I am fearfully, wonderfully made. Marvellous are thy works; and that my soul knoweth right well.
And ye have quite forgotten the exhortation which speaks to you as to sons: My son, despise not the chastening of the Lord, nor faint when reproved by him;
Yea, though I walk through the valley of the shadow of death, I will fear no evil: for thou art with me; thy rod and thy staff, they comfort me.
For he is our peace, who has made both one, and has broken down the middle wall of enclosure,
And going forward a little he fell upon his face, praying and saying, My Father, if it be possible let this cup pass from me; but not as I will, but as thou wilt.
And God blessed Noah and his sons, and said to them, Be fruitful and multiply, and fill the earth.
Behold, the days come, saith Jehovah, when I will raise unto David a righteous Branch, who shall reign as king, and act wisely, and shall execute judgment and righteousness in the land.
how that God was in Christ, reconciling the world to himself, not reckoning to them their offences; and putting in us the word of that reconciliation.
Here is wisdom. He that has understanding let him count the number of the beast: for it is a man's number; and its number is six hundred and sixty-six.
And for this cause we also give thanks to God unceasingly that, having received the word of the report of God by us, ye accepted, not men's word, but, even as it is truly, God's word, which also works in you who believe.
And when the days were fulfilled for their purifying according to the law of Moses, they brought him to Jerusalem to present him to the Lord
Thou wilt make known to me the path of life: thy countenance is fulness of joy; at thy right hand are pleasures for evermore.
John answered all, saying, I indeed baptise you with water, but the mightier than I is coming, the thong of whose sandals I am not fit to unloose; he shall baptise you with the Holy Spirit and fire;
and ye shall seek me and find me, for ye shall search for me with all your heart,
Blessed they who are persecuted on account of righteousness, for theirs is the kingdom of the heavens.
For to this end were the glad tidings preached to the dead also, that they might be judged, as regards men, after the flesh, but live, as regards God, after the Spirit.
And Melchisedec king of Salem brought out bread and wine. And he was priest of the Most High God.
{A Song of degrees. Of Solomon.} Unless Jehovah build the house, in vain do its builders labour in it; unless Jehovah keep the city, the keeper watcheth in vain:
But what I do, I will also do, that I may cut off the opportunity of those wishing for an opportunity, that wherein they boast they may be found even as we.
And he said to them, Verily I say unto you, There are some of those standing here that shall not taste death until they shall have seen the kingdom of God come in power.
Let us rejoice and exult, and give him glory; for the marriage of the Lamb is come, and his wife has made herself ready.
And Jesus went round the whole of Galilee, teaching in their synagogues, and preaching the glad tidings of the kingdom, and healing every disease and every bodily weakness among the people.
But Christ being come high priest of the good things to come, by the better and more perfect tabernacle not made with hand, (that is, not of this creation,)
And the tax-gatherer, standing afar off, would not lift up even his eyes to heaven, but smote upon his breast, saying, O God, have compassion on me, the sinner.
And I will give to thee the keys of the kingdom of the heavens; and whatsoever thou mayest bind upon the earth shall be bound in the heavens; and whatsoever thou mayest loose on the earth shall be loosed in the heavens.
To the law and the testimony! If they speak not according to this word, for them there is no daybreak.
And he said, If thou wilt diligently hearken to the voice of Jehovah thy God, and do what is right in his eyes, and incline thine ears to his commandments, and keep all his statutes, I will put none of the complaints upon thee that I have put upon the Egyptians; for I am Jehovah who healeth thee.
so that we ourselves make our boast in you in the assemblies of God for your endurance and faith in all your persecutions and tribulations, which ye are sustaining;
Beloved, do not imitate what is evil, but what is good. He that does good is of God. He that does evil has not seen God.
Woe unto them who call evil good, and good evil; who put darkness for light, and light for darkness; who put bitter for sweet, and sweet for bitter!
Now, they having departed, behold, an angel of the Lord appears in a dream to Joseph, saying, Arise, take to thee the little child and his mother, and flee into Egypt, and be there until I shall tell thee; for Herod will seek the little child to destroy it.
in order that he may give you according to the riches of his glory, to be strengthened with power by his Spirit in the inner man;
Jehovah hath appeared from afar unto me, saying, Yea, I have loved thee with an everlasting love; therefore with loving-kindness have I drawn thee.
which is not another one; but there are some that trouble you, and desire to pervert the glad tidings of the Christ.
If ye shall keep my commandments, ye shall abide in my love, as I have kept my Father's commandments and abide in his love.
They went out from among us, but they were not of us; for if they had been of us, they would have surely remained with us, but that they might be made manifest that none are of us.
that ye may judge of and approve the things that are more excellent, in order that ye may be pure and without offence for Christ's day,
yet to us there is one God, the Father, of whom all things, and we for him; and one Lord, Jesus Christ, by whom are all things, and we by him.
Let us hear the end of the whole matter: Fear God, and keep his commandments; for this is the whole of man.
And we know that the Son of God has come, and has given us an understanding that we should know him that is true; and we are in him that is true, in his Son Jesus Christ. He is the true God and eternal life.
And Jesus said, Make the men sit down. Now there was much grass in the place: the men therefore sat down, in number about five thousand.
It has been said too, Whosoever shall put away his wife, let him give her a letter of divorce.
Now there is in Jerusalem, at the sheepgate, a pool, which is called in Hebrew, Bethesda, having five porches.
For if also I grieved you in the letter, I do not regret it, if even I have regretted it; for I see that that letter, if even it were only for a time, grieved you.
And if men strive together, and strike a woman with child, so that she be delivered, and no mischief happen, he shall in any case be fined, according as the woman's husband shall impose on him, and shall give it as the judges estimate.
for the kingdom of God is not eating and drinking, but righteousness, and peace, and joy in the Holy Spirit.
And when he was in Jerusalem, at the passover, at the feast, many believed on his name, beholding his signs which he wrought.
The kingdom of the heavens is like a treasure hid in the field, which a man having found has hid, and for the joy of it goes and sells all whatever he has, and buys that field.
And Jehovah Elohim said to the serpent, Because thou hast done this, be thou cursed above all cattle, and above every beast of the field. On thy belly shalt thou go, and eat dust all the days of thy life.
how shall we escape if we have been negligent of so great salvation, which, having had its commencement in being spoken of by the Lord, has been confirmed to us by those who have heard;
and straightway he called them; and leaving their father Zebedee in the ship with the hired servants, they went away after him.
Who hath believed our report? and to whom hath the arm of Jehovah been revealed?
But it shall come to pass in the end of days that the mountain of Jehovah's house shall be established on the top of the mountains, and shall be lifted up above the hills; and the peoples shall flow unto it.
until that day in which, having by the Holy Spirit charged the apostles whom he had chosen, he was taken up;
In like manner also the cup, after having supped, saying, This cup is the new covenant in my blood, which is poured out for you.
knowing this first, that there shall come at the close of the days mockers with mocking, walking according to their own lusts,
having effaced the handwriting in ordinances which stood out against us, which was contrary to us, he has taken it also out of the way, having nailed it to the cross;
For we know that if our earthly tabernacle house be destroyed, we have a building from God, a house not made with hands, eternal in the heavens.
in everything give thanks, for this is the will of God in Christ Jesus towards you;
Jesus says to them, My food is that I should do the will of him that has sent me, and that I should finish his work.
And they arrived in the country of the Gadarenes, which is over against Galilee.
All these died in faith, not having received the promises, but having seen them from afar off and embraced them, and confessed that they were strangers and sojourners on the earth.
Know ye not that to whom ye yield yourselves bondmen for obedience, ye are bondmen to him whom ye obey, whether of sin unto death, or of obedience unto righteousness?
Let him kiss me with the kisses of his mouth; For thy love is better than wine.
Wherefore, holy brethren, partakers of the heavenly calling, consider the Apostle and High Priest of our confession, Jesus,
for ye were once darkness, but now light in the Lord; walk as children of light,
Wherefore, laying aside all filthiness and abounding of wickedness, accept with meekness the implanted word, which is able to save your souls.
For as many as are on the principle of works of law are under curse. For it is written, Cursed is every one who does not continue in all things which are written in the book of the law to do them;
For sin shall not have dominion over you, for ye are not under law but under grace.
And a great sign was seen in the heaven: a woman clothed with the sun, and the moon under her feet, and upon her head a crown of twelve stars;
who desires that all men should be saved and come to the knowledge of the truth.
as Sarah obeyed Abraham, calling him lord; whose children ye have become, doing good, and not fearing with any kind of consternation.
From that time began Jesus to preach and to say, Repent, for the kingdom of the heavens has drawn nigh.
And Jesus went round all the cities and the villages, teaching in their synagogues, and preaching the glad tidings of the kingdom, and healing every disease and every bodily weakness.
Israel was holiness unto Jehovah, the first-fruits of his increase: all that devour him are guilty; evil shall come upon them, saith Jehovah.
And straightway going out of the synagogue, they came with James and John into the house of Simon and Andrew.
If we say that we have fellowship with him, and walk in darkness, we lie, and do not practise the truth.
But I wish you to know that the Christ is the head of every man, but woman's head is the man, and the Christ's head God.
ye who do not know what will be on the morrow, (for what is your life? It is even a vapour, appearing for a little while, and then disappearing,)
that they may admonish the young women to be attached to their husbands, to be attached to their children,
He stretcheth out the north over empty space, he hangeth the earth upon nothing;
Six days shall work be done, but on the seventh day there shall be to you a holy day, a sabbath of rest to Jehovah: whoever does work on it shall be put to death.
I have manifested thy name to the men whom thou gavest me out of the world. They were thine, and thou gavest them me, and they have kept thy word.
and Azor begat Sadoc, and Sadoc begat Achim, and Achim begat Eliud,
Ye see that a man is justified on the principle of works, and not on the principle of faith only.
But when ye see Jerusalem encompassed with armies, then know that its desolation is drawn nigh.
who changed the truth of God into falsehood, and honoured and served the creature more than him who had created it, who is blessed for ever. Amen.
Jehovah thy God is in thy midst, a mighty one that will save: he will rejoice over thee with joy; he will rest in his love; he will exult over thee with singing.
And that I might not be exalted by the exceeding greatness of the revelations, there was given to me a thorn for the flesh, a messenger of Satan that he might buffet me, that I might not be exalted.
And the people stood afar off, and Moses drew near to the obscurity where God was.
But thou, abide in those things which thou hast learned, and of which thou hast been fully persuaded, knowing of whom thou hast learned them;
I indeed have baptised you with water, but he shall baptise you with the Holy Spirit.
And having journeyed through Amphipolis and Apollonia, they came to Thessalonica, where was the synagogue of the Jews.
And there were certain Greeks among those who came up that they might worship in the feast;
And he shewed me a river of water of life, bright as crystal, going out of the throne of God and of the Lamb.
and having descended with them, he stood on a level place, and a crowd of his disciples, and a great multitude of the people from all Judaea and Jerusalem, and the sea coast of Tyre and Sidon, who came to hear him, and to be healed of their diseases;
Let all bitterness, and heat of passion, and wrath, and clamour, and injurious language, be removed from you, with all malice;
And God said, Let the waters swarm with swarms of living souls, and let fowl fly above the earth in the expanse of the heavens.
And Jesus went forth and went away from the temple, and his disciples came to him to point out to him the buildings of the temple.
nor shall they say, Lo here, or, Lo there; for behold, the kingdom of God is in the midst of you.
I do not demand that thou shouldest take them out of the world, but that thou shouldest keep them out of evil.
And the word of God increased; and the number of the disciples in Jerusalem was very greatly multiplied, and a great crowd of the priests obeyed the faith.
From the wilderness and this Lebanon to the great river, the river Euphrates, the whole land of the Hittites, to the great sea, toward the going down of the sun, shall be your border.
Now to him that is able to establish you, according to my glad tidings and the preaching of Jesus Christ, according to the revelation of the mystery, as to which silence has been kept in the times of the ages,
in which he wrought in the Christ in raising him from among the dead, and he set him down at his right hand in the heavenlies,
But when ye pray, use not vain repetitions, as those who are of the nations: for they think they shall be heard through their much speaking.
For I delight in loving-kindness, and not sacrifice; and the knowledge of God more than burnt-offerings.
For the law of the Spirit of life in Christ Jesus has set me free from the law of sin and of death.
Brethren, the delight of my own heart and my supplication which I address to God for them is for salvation.
Pilate therefore said to him, Thou art then a king? Jesus answered, Thou sayest it, that I am a king. I have been born for this, and for this I have come into the world, that I might bear witness to the truth. Every one that is of the truth hears my voice.
BETH. Wherewithal shall a young man cleanse his path? by taking heed according to thy word.
and they have overcome him by reason of the blood of the Lamb, and by reason of the word of their testimony, and have not loved their life even unto death.
For when for the time ye ought to be teachers, ye have again need that one should teach you what are the elements of the beginning of the oracles of God, and are become such as have need of milk, and not of solid food.
The overseer then must be irreproachable, husband of one wife, sober, discreet, decorous, hospitable, apt to teach;
but to him who does not work, but believes on him who justifies the ungodly, his faith is reckoned as righteousness.
I became in the Spirit on the Lord's day, and I heard behind me a great voice as of a trumpet,
He that covereth his transgressions shall not prosper; but whoso confesseth and forsaketh them shall obtain mercy.
that at the name of Jesus every knee should bow, of heavenly and earthly and infernal beings,
they shall take up serpents; and if they should drink any deadly thing it shall not injure them; they shall lay hands upon the infirm, and they shall be well.
{To the chief Musician. A Psalm of David; when Nathan the prophet came to him, after he had gone in to Bath-sheba.} Be gracious unto me, O God, according to thy loving-kindness; according to the abundance of thy tender mercies, blot out my transgressions.
Thus saith Jehovah: Cursed is the man that confideth in man, and maketh flesh his arm, and whose heart departeth from Jehovah.
And the angel came in to her, and said, Hail, thou favoured one! the Lord is with thee: blessed art thou amongst women.
And the two angels came to Sodom at even. And Lot was sitting in the gate of Sodom. And Lot saw them, and rose up to meet them; and he bowed down, the face toward the ground,
but let him ask in faith, nothing doubting. For he that doubts is like a wave of the sea driven by the wind and tossed about;
Be not forgetful of hospitality; for by it some have unawares entertained angels.
By faith Abraham, being called, obeyed to go out into the place which he was to receive for an inheritance, and went out, not knowing where he was going.
Wherein ye exult, for a little while at present, if needed, put to grief by various trials,
But the God of peace, who brought again from among the dead our Lord Jesus, the great shepherd of the sheep, in the power of the blood of the eternal covenant,
But the Pharisees, having heard that he had put the Sadducees to silence, were gathered together.
and all that dwell on the earth shall do it homage, every one whose name had not been written from the founding of the world in the book of life of the slain Lamb.
Then they returned to Jerusalem from the mount called the mount of Olives, which is near Jerusalem, a sabbath-day's journey off.
John answered them saying, I baptise with water. In the midst of you stands, whom ye do not know,
And in the first year of Cyrus king of Persia, that the word of Jehovah by the mouth of Jeremiah might be accomplished, Jehovah stirred up the spirit of Cyrus king of Persia, and he made a proclamation throughout his kingdom, and also in writing, saying,
but ye have come to mount Zion; and to the city of the living God, heavenly Jerusalem; and to myriads of angels,
which in other generations has not been made known to the sons of men, as it has now been revealed to his holy apostles and prophets in the power of the Spirit,
And when the hour was come, he placed himself at table, and the twelve apostles with him.
And he went out thence and came to his own country, and his disciples follow him.
Blow the trumpet in Zion, and sound an alarm in my holy mountain; let all the inhabitants of the land tremble: for the day of Jehovah cometh, for it is at hand;
so that let us celebrate the feast, not with old leaven, nor with leaven of malice and wickedness, but with unleavened bread of sincerity and truth.
be it known to you all, and to all the people of Israel, that in the name of Jesus Christ the Nazaraean, whom ye have crucified, whom God has raised from among the dead, by him this man stands here before you sound in body.
And I will make of thee a great nation, and bless thee, and make thy name great; and thou shalt be a blessing.
Now a fountain of Jacob's was there; Jesus therefore, being wearied with the way he had come, sat just as he was at the fountain. It was about the sixth hour.
But, according to his promise, we wait for new heavens and a new earth, wherein dwells righteousness.
Yet even now, saith Jehovah, turn to me with all your heart, and with fasting, and with weeping, and with mourning;
having marked us out beforehand for adoption through Jesus Christ to himself, according to the good pleasure of his will,
How beautiful upon the mountains are the feet of him that announceth glad tidings, that publisheth peace; that announceth glad tidings of good, that publisheth salvation, that saith unto Zion, Thy God reigneth!
Verily I say to you, that whosoever shall say to this mountain, Be thou taken away and cast into the sea, and shall not doubt in his heart, but believe that what he says takes place, whatever he shall say shall come to pass for him.
Having therefore these promises, beloved, let us purify ourselves from every pollution of flesh and spirit, perfecting holiness in God's fear.
But being full of the Holy Spirit, having fixed his eyes on heaven, he saw the glory of God, and Jesus standing at the right hand of God,
Because thou hast kept the word of my patience, I also will keep thee out of the hour of trial, which is about to come upon the whole habitable world, to try them that dwell upon the earth.
And he answered and spoke unto me, saying, This is the word of Jehovah unto Zerubbabel, saying, Not by might, nor by power, but by my Spirit, saith Jehovah of hosts.
And as it took place in the days of Noe, thus also shall it be in the days of the Son of man:
But as they were listening to these things, he added and spake a parable, because he was near to Jerusalem and they thought that the kingdom of God was about to be immediately manifested.
And according to Paul's custom he went in among them, and on three sabbaths reasoned with them from the scriptures,
Blessed are ye when they may reproach and persecute you, and say every wicked thing against you, lying, for my sake.
forbearing one another, and forgiving one another, if any should have a complaint against any; even as the Christ has forgiven you, so also do ye.
But when they continued asking him, he lifted himself up and said to them, Let him that is without sin among you first cast the stone at her.
I say then, Has God cast away his people? Far be the thought. For I also am an Israelite, of the seed of Abraham, of the tribe of Benjamin.
And it is not wonderful, for Satan himself transforms himself into an angel of light.
And by the hands of the apostles were many signs and wonders done among the people; (and they were all with one accord in Solomon's porch,
The fear of Jehovah is the beginning of wisdom; a good understanding have all they that do his precepts: his praise abideth for ever.
When I see thy heavens, the work of thy fingers, the moon and stars, which thou hast established;
The hand of Jehovah was upon me, and Jehovah carried me out in the Spirit, and set me down in the midst of a valley; and it was full of bones.
And he said to them, O senseless and slow of heart to believe in all that the prophets have spoken!
Already indeed then it is altogether a fault in you that ye have suits between yourselves. Why do ye not rather suffer wrong? why are ye not rather defrauded?
For we see now through a dim window obscurely, but then face to face; now I know partially, but then I shall know according as I also have been known.
nor to turn their minds to fables and interminable genealogies, which bring questionings rather than further God's dispensation, which is in faith.
for if ye live according to flesh, ye are about to die; but if, by the Spirit, ye put to death the deeds of the body, ye shall live:
He comes therefore to a city of Samaria called Sychar, near to the land which Jacob gave to his son Joseph.
And according as they did not think good to have God in their knowledge, God gave them up to a reprobate mind to practise unseemly things;
Jesus answered and said to them, This is the work of God, that ye believe on him whom he has sent.
And the Pharisees came to him tempting him, and saying, Is it lawful for a man to put away his wife for every cause?
We are ambassadors therefore for Christ, God as it were beseeching by us, we entreat for Christ, Be reconciled to God.
In those days were the giants on the earth, and also afterwards, when the sons of God had come in to the daughters of men, and they had borne children to them; these were the heroes, who of old were men of renown.
For he received from God the Father honour and glory, such a voice being uttered to him by the excellent glory: This is my beloved Son, in whom I have found my delight;
At that time Jesus went on the sabbath through the cornfields; and his disciples were hungry, and began to pluck the ears and to eat.
After these things I saw, and behold, a door opened in heaven, and the first voice which I heard as of a trumpet speaking with me, saying, Come up here, and I will shew thee the things which must take place after these things.
I pursue, looking towards the goal, for the prize of the calling on high of God in Christ Jesus.
And not only that, but even we ourselves, who have the first-fruits of the Spirit, we also ourselves groan in ourselves, awaiting adoption, that is the redemption of our body.
But a certain man, by name Simon, had been before in the city, using magic arts, and astonishing the nation of Samaria, saying that himself was some great one.
And his disciples remembered that it is written, The zeal of thy house devours me.
He was oppressed, and he was afflicted, but he opened not his mouth; he was led as a lamb to the slaughter, and was as a sheep dumb before her shearers, and he opened not his mouth.
For this reason take to you the panoply of God, that ye may be able to withstand in the evil day, and, having accomplished all things, to stand.
and the living one: and I became dead, and behold, I am living to the ages of ages, and have the keys of death and of hades.
But whoso may have the world's substance, and see his brother having need, and shut up his bowels from him, how abides the love of God in him?
Humble yourselves therefore under the mighty hand of God, that he may exalt you in the due time;
But I say unto you, that every idle word which men shall say, they shall render an account of it in judgment-day:
But put forth thy hand now and touch all that he hath, and see if he will not curse thee to thy face!
but I do not suffer a woman to teach nor to exercise authority over man, but to be in quietness;
And Pharisees coming to him asked him, Is it lawful for a man to put away his wife? (tempting him).
And I saw when it opened the sixth seal, and there was a great earthquake; and the sun became black as hair sackcloth, and the whole moon became as blood,
He that says he abides in him ought, even as he walked, himself also so to walk.
They then who had been scattered abroad through the tribulation that took place on the occasion of Stephen, passed through the country to Phoenicia and Cyprus and Antioch, speaking the word to no one but to Jews alone.
For this is the covenant that I will make with the house of Israel, after those days, saith Jehovah: I will put my law in their inward parts, and will write it in their heart; and I will be their God, and they shall be my people.
And he says to them, Whosoever shall put away his wife and shall marry another, commits adultery against her.
And when they had prayed, the place in which they were assembled shook, and they were all filled with the Holy Spirit, and spoke the word of God with boldness.
Verily, verily, I say unto thee, We speak that which we know, and we bear witness of that which we have seen, and ye receive not our witness.
And the seventy returned with joy, saying, Lord, even the demons are subject to us through thy name.
And he came to Derbe and Lystra: and behold, a certain disciple was there, by name Timotheus, son of a Jewish believing woman, but the father a Greek,
On the morrow a great crowd who came to the feast, having heard that Jesus is coming into Jerusalem,
Can any one forbid water that these should not be baptised, who have received the Holy Spirit as we also did?
And it came to pass that the poor man died, and that he was carried away by the angels into the bosom of Abraham. And the rich man also died and was buried.
who by him do believe on God, who has raised him from among the dead and given him glory, that your faith and hope should be in God.
Take my yoke upon you, and learn from me; for I am meek and lowly in heart; and ye shall find rest to your souls;
and delivered him out of all his tribulations, and gave him favour and wisdom in the sight of Pharaoh king of Egypt, and he appointed him chief over Egypt and all his house.
Now the passover and the feast of unleavened bread was after two days. And the chief priests and the scribes were seeking how they might seize him by subtlety and kill him.
And when eight days were fulfilled for circumcising him, his name was called Jesus, which was the name given by the angel before he had been conceived in the womb.
But we have this treasure in earthen vessels, that the surpassingness of the power may be of God, and not from us:
If indeed ye keep the royal law according to the scripture, Thou shalt love thy neighbour as thyself, ye do well.
And there come to him James and John, the sons of Zebedee, saying to him, Teacher, we would that whatsoever we may ask thee, thou wouldst do it for us.
Far be the thought: but let God be true, and every man false; according as it is written, So that thou shouldest be justified in thy words, and shouldest overcome when thou art in judgment.
And in that day ye shall demand nothing of me: verily, verily, I say to you, Whatsoever ye shall ask the Father in my name, he will give you.
forming the light and creating darkness, making peace and creating evil: I, Jehovah, do all these things.
Are not two sparrows sold for a farthing? and one of them shall not fall to the ground without your Father;
Verily, verily, I say unto you, that an hour is coming, and now is, when the dead shall hear the voice of the Son of God, and they that have heard shall live.
Let your women be silent in the assemblies, for it is not permitted to them to speak; but to be in subjection, as the law also says.
But the wisdom from above first is pure, then peaceful, gentle, yielding, full of mercy and good fruits, unquestioning, unfeigned.
as it is written in Isaiah the prophet, Behold, I send my messenger before thy face, who shall prepare thy way.
And walking by the sea of Galilee, he saw two brothers, Simon called Peter, and Andrew his brother, casting a net into the sea, for they were fishers;
But take heed to yourselves lest possibly your hearts be laden with surfeiting and drinking and cares of life, and that day come upon you suddenly unawares;
And the apostles and the brethren who were in Judaea heard that the nations also had received the word of God;
And, masters, do the same things towards them, giving up threatening, knowing that both their and your Master is in heaven, and there is no acceptance of persons with him.
And Solomon sent to Huram king of Tyre, saying, As thou didst deal with David my father, and didst send him cedars to build him a house to dwell therein so do for me.
and she brought forth her first-born son, and wrapped him up in swaddling-clothes and laid him in the manger, because there was no room for them in the inn.
Hast not thou made a hedge about him, and about his house, and about all that he hath on every side? Thou hast blessed the work of his hands, and his substance is spread abroad in the land.
examine your own selves if ye be in the faith; prove your own selves: do ye not recognise yourselves, that Jesus Christ is in you, unless indeed ye be reprobates?
It is he that sitteth upon the circle of the earth, and the inhabitants thereof are as grasshoppers; that stretcheth out the heavens as a gauze curtain, and spreadeth them out as a tent to dwell in;
And Naaman, captain of the host of the king of Syria, was a great man before his master, and honourable, for by him Jehovah had given deliverance to Syria; and he was a mighty man of valour, but a leper.
Then says Jesus to him, Get thee away, Satan, for it is written, Thou shalt do homage to the Lord thy God, and him alone shalt thou serve.
He said therefore to them, But now he that has a purse let him take it, in like manner also a scrip, and he that has none let him sell his garment and buy a sword;
For of him, and through him, and for him are all things: to him be glory for ever. Amen.
As regards hope, rejoicing: as regards tribulation, enduring: as regards prayer, persevering:
But we make known to you, brethren, the grace of God bestowed in the assemblies of Macedonia;
And one called to the other and said, Holy, holy, holy is Jehovah of hosts; the whole earth is full of his glory!
But love your enemies, and do good, and lend, hoping for nothing in return, and your reward shall be great, and ye shall be sons of the Highest; for he is good to the unthankful and wicked.
These twelve Jesus sent out when he had charged them, saying, Go not off into the way of the nations, and into a city of Samaritans enter ye not;
And when he had entered into Capernaum, a centurion came to him, beseeching him,
Him has God exalted by his right hand as leader and saviour, to give repentance to Israel and remission of sins.
Whom God has raised up, having loosed the pains of death, inasmuch as it was not possible that he should be held by its power;
Wherefore I also, having heard of the faith in the Lord Jesus which is in you, and the love which ye have towards all the saints,
who has saved us, and has called us with a holy calling, not according to our works, but according to his own purpose and grace, which was given to us in Christ Jesus before the ages of time,
a manifest token of the righteous judgment of God, to the end that ye should be counted worthy of the kingdom of God, for the sake of which ye also suffer;
but I will use diligence, that after my departure ye should have also, at any time, in your power to call to mind these things.
thus the Christ also, having been once offered to bear the sins of many, shall appear to those that look for him the second time without sin for salvation.
who must have their mouths stopped, who subvert whole houses, teaching things which ought not to be taught for the sake of base gain.
But we ought, we that are strong, to bear the infirmities of the weak, and not to please ourselves.
Are ye ignorant, brethren, (for I speak to those knowing law,) that law rules over a man as long as he lives?
Jesus therefore, seeing his mother, and the disciple standing by, whom he loved, says to his mother, Woman, behold thy son.
For we know that the whole creation groans together and travails in pain together until now.
And God saw the light that it was good; and God divided between the light and the darkness.
For other foundation can no man lay besides that which is laid, which is Jesus Christ.
When therefore he was gone out Jesus says, Now is the Son of man glorified, and God is glorified in him.
And the Lord said to him, Go, for this man is an elect vessel to me, to bear my name before both nations and kings and the sons of Israel:
but God has revealed to us by his Spirit; for the Spirit searches all things, even the depths of God.
For ye have not come to the mount that might be touched and was all on fire, and to obscurity, and darkness, and tempest,
By their fruits ye shall know them. Do men gather a bunch of grapes from thorns, or from thistles figs?
But Peter and John answering said to them, If it be righteous before God to listen to you rather than to God, judge ye;
For it has seemed good to the Holy Spirit and to us to lay upon you no greater burden than these necessary things:
The sons of Judah: Er, and Onan, and Shelah: which three were born to him of the daughter of Shua the Canaanitess. And Er, Judah's firstborn, was wicked in the sight of Jehovah; and he slew him.
and so all Israel shall be saved. According as it is written, The deliverer shall come out of Zion; he shall turn away ungodliness from Jacob.
Beloved, thou doest faithfully in whatever thou mayest have wrought towards the brethren and that strangers,
thus we, being many, are one body in Christ, and each one members one of the other.
And now I beseech thee, lady, not as writing to thee a new commandment, but that which we have had from the beginning, that we should love one another.
because all that is in the world, the lust of the flesh, and the lust of the eyes, and the pride of life, is not of the Father, but is of the world.
Take heed to yourselves: if thy brother should sin, rebuke him; and if he should repent, forgive him.
but God knows that in the day ye eat of it, your eyes will be opened, and ye will be as God, knowing good and evil.
Whoever has been begotten of God does not practise sin, because his seed abides in him, and he cannot sin, because he has been begotten of God.
And he spoke a parable to them, saying, The land of a certain rich man brought forth abundantly.
And when he had completed all his words in the hearing of the people, he entered into Capernaum.
{To the chief Musician. Upon Aijeleth-Shahar. A Psalm of David.} My God, my God, why hast thou forsaken me? why art thou far from my salvation, from the words of my groaning?
And when he was in Bethany, in the house of Simon the leper, as he lay at table, there came a woman having an alabaster flask of ointment of pure nard, very costly; and having broken the alabaster flask, she poured it out upon his head.
There was nothing in the ark save the two tables of stone which Moses placed there at Horeb, when Jehovah made a covenant with the children of Israel, when they came out of the land of Egypt.
Your country is desolate; your cities are burned with fire; your land, strangers eat it up in your presence, and it is desolate, as overthrown by strangers.
And this is the will of him that has sent me, that of all that he has given me I should lose nothing, but should raise it up in the last day.
Ye indeed meant evil against me: God meant it for good, in order that he might do as it is this day, to save a great people alive.
And behold, there was a man in Jerusalem whose name was Simeon; and this man was just and pious, awaiting the consolation of Israel, and the Holy Spirit was upon him.
And here dying men receive tithes; but there one of whom the witness is that he lives;
For we dare not class ourselves or compare ourselves with some who commend themselves; but these, measuring themselves by themselves, and comparing themselves with themselves, are not intelligent.
and having placed them in the midst they inquired, In what power or in what name have ye done this?
his head and hair white like white wool, as snow; and his eyes as a flame of fire;
Remember your leaders who have spoken to you the word of God; and considering the issue of their conversation, imitate their faith.
as those who from the beginning were eye-witnesses of and attendants on the Word have delivered them to us,
And when the evening was come, they brought to him many possessed by demons, and he cast out the spirits with a word, and healed all that were ill;
so then as it was by one offence towards all men to condemnation, so by one righteousness towards all men for justification of life.
but emptied himself, taking a bondman's form, taking his place in the likeness of men;
by which will we have been sanctified through the offering of the body of Jesus Christ once for all.
To the angel of the assembly in Ephesus write: These things says he that holds the seven stars in his right hand, who walks in the midst of the seven golden lamps:
And his lord answering said to him, Wicked and slothful bondman, thou knewest that I reap where I had not sowed, and gather from where I had not scattered;
In this is my Father glorified, that ye bear much fruit, and ye shall become disciples of mine.
But a certain Jew, Apollos by name, an Alexandrian by race, an eloquent man, who was mighty in the scriptures, arrived at Ephesus.
Do not ye say, that there are yet four months and the harvest comes? Behold, I say to you, Lift up your eyes and behold the fields, for they are already white to harvest.
And Jesus, passing on thence, saw a man sitting at the tax-office, called Matthew, and says to him, Follow me. And he rose up and followed him.
Now to the King of the ages, the incorruptible, invisible, only God, honour and glory to the ages of ages. Amen.
Look out therefore, brethren, from among yourselves seven men, well reported of, full of the Holy Spirit and wisdom, whom we will establish over this business:
And when it opened the fourth seal, I heard the voice of the fourth living creature saying, Come and see.
For this is the will of my Father, that every one who sees the Son, and believes on him, should have life eternal; and I will raise him up at the last day.
And they come and say to him, Teacher, we know that thou art true, and carest not for any one; for thou regardest not men's person, but teachest the way of God with truth: Is it lawful to give tribute to Caesar or not?
who are kept guarded by the power of God through faith for salvation ready to be revealed in the last time.
Laying aside therefore all malice and all guile and hypocrisies and envyings and all evil speakings,
And Jesus having passed over in the ship again to the other side, a great crowd gathered to him; and he was by the sea.
Are they not all ministering spirits, sent out for service on account of those who shall inherit salvation?
But youthful lusts flee, and pursue righteousness, faith, love, peace, with those that call upon the Lord out of a pure heart.
Therefore thus saith Jehovah: Thy wife shall be a harlot in the city, and thy sons and thy daughters shall fall by the sword, and thy land shall be divided with the line; and thou shalt die in a land that is unclean; and Israel shall certainly go into captivity, out of his land.
And this is love, that we should walk according to his commandments. This is the commandment, according as ye have heard from the beginning, that ye might walk in it.
And as he was going out of the temple, one of his disciples says to him, Teacher, see what stones and what buildings!
And another, a third, angel followed them, saying with a loud voice, If any one do homage to the beast and its image, and receive a mark upon his forehead or upon his hand,
Many shall say to me in that day, Lord, Lord, have we not prophesied through thy name, and through thy name cast out demons, and through thy name done many works of power?
Believest thou not that I am in the Father, and that the Father is in me? The words which I speak to you I do not speak from myself; but the Father who abides in me, he does the works.
But he answering said to them, Well did Esaias prophesy concerning you hypocrites, as it is written, This people honour me with their lips, but their heart is far away from me.
And Stephen, full of grace and power, wrought wonders and great signs among the people.
And he calls the twelve to him; and he began to send them out two and two, and gave to them power over the unclean spirits;
being enlightened in the eyes of your heart, so that ye should know what is the hope of his calling, and what the riches of the glory of his inheritance in the saints,
Jesus therefore said again to them, Verily, verily, I say to you, I am the door of the sheep.
out of the tribe of Zabulun, twelve thousand; out of the tribe of Joseph, twelve thousand; out of the tribe of Benjamin, twelve thousand sealed.
But to Abraham were the promises addressed, and to his seed: he does not say, And to seeds, as of many; but as of one, And to thy seed; which is Christ.
Moses indeed said, A prophet shall the Lord your God raise up to you out of your brethren like me: him shall ye hear in everything whatsoever he shall say to you.
(who have witnessed of thy love before the assembly,) in setting forward whom on their journey worthily of God, thou wilt do well;
He that is faithful in the least is faithful also in much; and he that is unrighteous in the least is unrighteous also in much.
The words of Jehovah are pure words, silver tried in the furnace of earth, purified seven times.
and I knew him not; but that he might be manifested to Israel, therefore have I come baptising with water.
For as the lightning goes forth from the east and shines to the west, so shall be the coming of the Son of man.
{To the chief Musician. An instruction; of the sons of Korah.} As the hart panteth after the water-brooks, so panteth my soul after thee, O God.
But if any one does not provide for his own, and specially for those of his house, he has denied the faith, and is worse than the unbeliever.
And when the thousand years have been completed, Satan shall be loosed from his prison,
Flee fornication. Every sin which a man may practise is without the body, but he that commits fornication sins against his own body.
One man esteems day more than day; another esteems every day alike. Let each be fully persuaded in his own mind.
and I will make it a waste it shall not be pruned nor cultivated, but there shall come up briars and thorns; and I will command the clouds that they rain no rain upon it.
Work not for the food which perishes, but for the food which abides unto life eternal, which the Son of man shall give to you; for him has the Father sealed, even God.
And straightway going up from the water, he saw the heavens parting asunder, and the Spirit, as a dove, descending upon him.
but one of the soldiers pierced his side with a spear, and immediately there came out blood and water.
For even as Jonas was in the belly of the great fish three days and three nights, thus shall the Son of man be in the heart of the earth three days and three nights.
Love never fails; but whether prophecies, they shall be done away; or tongues, they shall cease; or knowledge, it shall be done away.
And Jehovah Elohim planted a garden in Eden eastward, and there put Man whom he had formed.
And Peter answered her, Tell me if ye gave the estate for so much? And she said, Yes, for so much.
This beginning of signs did Jesus in Cana of Galilee, and manifested his glory; and his disciples believed on him.
These things took place in Bethany, across the Jordan, where John was baptising.
And they shall waste the land of Asshur with the sword, and the land of Nimrod in the entrances thereof; and he shall deliver us from the Assyrian, when he cometh into our land, and when he treadeth within our borders.
I will utterly take away everything from off the face of the ground, saith Jehovah:
And it came to pass on the day that Elkanah sacrificed, he gave to Peninnah his wife and to all her sons and her daughters portions;
So that the law has been our tutor up to Christ, that we might be justified on the principle of faith.
This also, knowing the time, that it is already time that we should be aroused out of sleep; for now is our salvation nearer than when we believed.
so that my bonds have become manifest as being in Christ in all the praetorium and to all others;
But I say unto you, that whosoever shall put away his wife, except for cause of fornication, makes her commit adultery, and whosoever marries one that is put away commits adultery.
For the overseer must be free from all charge against him as God's steward; not headstrong, not passionate, not disorderly through wine, not a striker, not seeking gain by base means;
But when ye shall see the abomination of desolation standing where it should not, (he that reads let him consider it,) then let those in Judaea flee to the mountains;
Give not that which is holy to the dogs, nor cast your pearls before the swine, lest they trample them with their feet, and turning round rend you.
Jesus says to him, Because thou hast seen me thou hast believed: blessed they who have not seen and have believed.
as also in all his epistles, speaking in them of these things; among which some things are hard to be understood, which the untaught and ill-established wrest, as also the other scriptures, to their own destruction.
Let the elders who take the lead among the saints well be esteemed worthy of double honour, specially those labouring in word and teaching;
For being free from all, I have made myself bondman to all, that I might gain the most possible.
So then it is not of him that wills, nor of him that runs, but of God that shews mercy.
Those then that had been scattered went through the countries announcing the glad tidings of the word.
for the head of Syria is Damascus, and the head of Damascus is Rezin; and within sixty-five years shall Ephraim be broken, so as to be no more a people;
Grace and peace be multiplied to you in the knowledge of God and of Jesus our Lord.
Enjoin on those rich in the present age not to be high-minded, nor to trust on the uncertainty of riches; but in the God who affords us all things richly for our enjoyment;
Jesus answered and said to him, Thou art the teacher of Israel and knowest not these things!
And I saw, and behold, the Lamb standing upon mount Zion, and with him a hundred and forty-four thousand, having his name and the name of his Father written upon their foreheads.
But they, passing through from Perga, came to Antioch of Pisidia; and entering into the synagogue on the sabbath day they sat down.
For the Christ is not entered into holy places made with hand, figures of the true, but into heaven itself, now to appear before the face of God for us:
For it became him, for whom are all things, and by whom are all things, in bringing many sons to glory, to make perfect the leader of their salvation through sufferings.
as to zeal, persecuting the assembly; as to righteousness which is in the law, found blameless;
And it came to pass as he was praying alone, his disciples were with him, and he asked them saying, Who do the crowds say that I am?
And the first day of unleavened bread, when they slew the passover, his disciples say to him, Where wilt thou that we go and prepare, that thou mayest eat the passover?
but before all things having fervent love among yourselves, because love covers a multitude of sins;
And she said, No one, sir. And Jesus said to her, Neither do I condemn thee: go, and sin no more.
And God said, Let there be an expanse in the midst of the waters, and let it be a division between waters and waters.
and Eliud begat Eliazar, and Eliazar begat Matthan, and Matthan begat Jacob,
for he whom God has sent speaks the words of God, for God gives not the Spirit by measure.
Watch therefore, praying at every season, that ye may be accounted worthy to escape all these things which are about to come to pass, and to stand before the Son of man.
Yet it pleased Jehovah to bruise him; he hath subjected him to suffering. When thou shalt make his soul an offering for sin, he shall see a seed, he shall prolong his days, and the pleasure of Jehovah shall prosper in his hand.
Dan and Naphtali; Gad and Asher.
and to you that are troubled repose with us, at the revelation of the Lord Jesus from heaven, with the angels of his power,
I had many things to write to thee, but I will not with ink and pen write to thee;
Art thou greater than our father Jacob, who gave us the well, and drank of it himself, and his sons, and his cattle?
Jehovah, how long shall I cry and thou wilt not hear? I cry out unto thee, Violence! and thou dost not save.
For I am come down from heaven, not that I should do my will, but the will of him that has sent me.
For if by the offence of the one death reigned by the one, much rather shall those who receive the abundance of grace, and of the free gift of righteousness, reign in life by the one Jesus Christ:)
And immediately in the morning the chief priests, having taken counsel with the elders and scribes and the whole sanhedrim, bound Jesus and carried him away, and delivered him up to Pilate.
In the same hour Jesus rejoiced in spirit and said, I praise thee, Father, Lord of the heaven and of the earth, that thou hast hid these things from wise and prudent, and hast revealed them to babes: yea, Father, for thus has it been well-pleasing in thy sight.
in whom also ye have been circumcised with circumcision not done by hand, in the putting off of the body of the flesh, in the circumcision of the Christ;
Purge out the old leaven, that ye may be a new lump, according as ye are unleavened. For also our passover, Christ, has been sacrificed;
Remember the former things of old; for I am God, and there is none else; I am God, and there is none like me;
Who is the liar but he who denies that Jesus is the Christ? He is the antichrist who denies the Father and the Son.
But encourage yourselves each day, as long as it is called To-day, that none of you be hardened by the deceitfulness of sin.
And John answered him saying, Teacher, we saw some one casting out demons in thy name, who does not follow us, and we forbad him, because he does not follow us.
and again, when he brings in the firstborn into the habitable world, he says, And let all God's angels worship him.
No servant can serve two masters, for either he will hate the one and will love the other, or he will cleave to the one and despise the other. Ye cannot serve God and mammon.
And rising up thence he comes into the coasts of Judaea, and the other side of the Jordan. And again crowds come together to him, and, as he was accustomed, again he taught them.
and having been found in figure as a man, humbled himself, becoming obedient even unto death, and that the death of the cross.
And he said to his disciples, For this cause I say unto you, Be not careful for life, what ye shall eat, nor for the body, what ye shall put on.
For as the rain cometh down, and the snow from heaven, and returneth not thither, but watereth the earth, and maketh it bring forth and bud, that it may give seed to the sower, and bread to the eater:
On this account the Father loves me, because I lay down my life that I may take it again.
And walking by the sea of Galilee, he saw Simon, and Andrew, Simon's brother, casting out a net in the sea, for they were fishers.
and made us a kingdom, priests to his God and Father: to him be the glory and the might to the ages of ages. Amen.
The law and the prophets were until John: from that time the glad tidings of the kingdom of God are announced, and every one forces his way into it.
and by him to reconcile all things to itself, having made peace by the blood of his cross by him, whether the things on the earth or the things in the heavens.
Who in the days of his flesh, having offered up both supplications and entreaties to him who was able to save him out of death, with strong crying and tears; (and having been heard because of his piety;)
But when he saw the crowds he was moved with compassion for them, because they were harassed, and cast away as sheep not having a shepherd.
Be not careful therefore for the morrow, for the morrow shall be careful about itself. Sufficient to the day is its own evil.
And he humbled thee, and suffered thee to hunger, and fed thee with the manna, which thou hadst not known, and which thy fathers knew not; that he might make thee know that man doth not live by bread alone, but by everything that goeth out of the mouth of Jehovah doth man live.
Thou shalt fear Jehovah thy God; him thou shalt serve, and unto him shalt thou cleave, and swear by his name.
He that spareth his rod hateth his son; but he that loveth him chasteneth him betimes.
And Jehovah Elohim caused a deep sleep to fall upon Man; and he slept. And he took one of his ribs and closed up flesh in its stead.
Issachar, Zebulun, and Benjamin;
But we trust in the Lord as to you, that the things which we enjoin, ye both do and will do.
But he that fixes his view on the perfect law, that of liberty, and abides in it, being not a forgetful hearer but a doer of the work, he shall be blessed in his doing.
And it came to pass that he went on the sabbath through the cornfields; and his disciples began to walk on, plucking the ears.
and yourselves, the unction which ye have received from him abides in you, and ye have not need that any one should teach you; but as the same unction teaches you as to all things, and is true and is not a lie, and even as it has taught you, ye shall abide in him.
And Jehovah said, My Spirit shall not always plead with Man; for he indeed is flesh; but his days shall be a hundred and twenty years.
And his disciples went away and came into the city, and found as he had said to them; and they made ready the passover.
I have combated the good combat, I have finished the race, I have kept the faith.
And if ye invoke as Father him who, without regard of persons, judges according to the work of each, pass your time of sojourn in fear,
I hate, I despise your feasts, and I will not smell a sweet odour in your solemn assemblies.
And I saw another beast rising out of the earth; and it had two horns like to a lamb, and spake as a dragon;
But Mary stood at the tomb weeping without. As therefore she wept, she stooped down into the tomb,
The cup of blessing which we bless, is it not the communion of the blood of the Christ? The bread which we break, is it not the communion of the body of the Christ?
For I know that in me, that is, in my flesh, good does not dwell: for to will is there with me, but to do right I find not.
And the child grew and waxed strong in spirit, filled with wisdom, and God's grace was upon him.
Then Jesus comes with them to a place called Gethsemane, and says to the disciples, Sit here until I go away and pray yonder.
Ye lust and have not: ye kill and are full of envy, and cannot obtain; ye fight and war; ye have not because ye ask not.
This is the book of Adam's generations. In the day that God created man, in the likeness of God made he him.
Because this is the covenant that I will covenant to the house of Israel after those days, saith the Lord: Giving my laws into their mind, I will write them also upon their hearts; and I will be to them for God, and they shall be to me for people.
He answered and said, A man called Jesus made mud and anointed mine eyes, and said to me, Go to Siloam and wash: and having gone and washed, I saw.
Ye shall not add to the word which I command you, neither shall ye take from it, that ye may keep the commandments of Jehovah your God which I command you.
And God said, Let the earth bring forth living souls after their kind, cattle, and creeping thing, and beast of the earth, after their kind. And it was so.
but now in Christ Jesus ye who once were afar off are become nigh by the blood of the Christ.
And the Lord saith, Forasmuch as this people draw near with their mouth, and honour me with their lips, but their heart is removed far from me, and their fear of me is a commandment taught of men;
The appearance of them is as the appearance of horses; and as horsemen, so they run.
Unless Jehovah of hosts had left us a very small residue, we should have been as Sodom, we should have been like unto Gomorrah.
And I, brethren, have not been able to speak to you as to spiritual, but as to fleshly; as to babes in Christ.
If we have sown to you spiritual things, is it a great thing if we shall reap your carnal things?
But I fear lest by any means, as the serpent deceived Eve by his craft, so your thoughts should be corrupted from simplicity as to the Christ.
for also, when we were with you, we told you beforehand we are about to be in tribulation, even as also it came to pass, and ye know.)
For he is not a Jew who is one outwardly, neither that circumcision which is outward in flesh;
Ye worship ye know not what; we worship what we know, for salvation is of the Jews.
And as to every tithe of the land, of the seed of the land, and of the fruit of the tree, it is Jehovah's: it is holy to Jehovah.
And after these things he went forth and saw a tax-gatherer, Levi by name, sitting at the receipt of taxes, and said to him, Follow me.
Wherefore it behoved him in all things to be made like to his brethren, that he might be a merciful and faithful high priest in things relating to God, to make propitiation for the sins of the people;
And he said, Thus is the kingdom of God, as if a man should cast the seed upon the earth,
Because it is the God who spoke that out of darkness light should shine who has shone in our hearts for the shining forth of the knowledge of the glory of God in the face of Jesus Christ.
But if they have not control over themselves, let them marry; for it is better to marry than to burn.
And he said to his disciples, It cannot be but that offences come, but woe to him by whom they come!
On account of which things the wrath of God comes upon the sons of disobedience.
Watch and pray, that ye enter not into temptation: the spirit indeed is ready, but the flesh weak.
And a vision appeared to Paul in the night: There was a certain Macedonian man, standing and beseeching him, and saying, Pass over into Macedonia and help us.
And after this I saw four angels standing upon the four corners of the earth, holding fast the four winds of the earth, that no wind might blow upon the earth, nor upon the sea, nor upon any tree.
For of these are they who are getting into houses, and leading captive silly women, laden with sins, led by various lusts,
They say to him, Caesar's. Then he says to them, Pay then what is Caesar's to Caesar, and what is God's to God.
I say unto you, that thus there shall be joy in heaven for one repenting sinner, more than for ninety and nine righteous who have no need of repentance.
All things are lawful to me, but all things do not profit; all things are lawful to me, but I will not be brought under the power of any.
Then he says to Thomas, Bring thy finger here and see my hands; and bring thy hand and put it into my side; and be not unbelieving, but believing.
And a man that committeth adultery with a man's wife, who committeth adultery with his neighbour's wife, the adulterer and the adulteress shall certainly be put to death.
For that which I do, I do not own: for not what I will, this I do; but what I hate, this I practise.
Father, as to those whom thou hast given me, I desire that where I am they also may be with me, that they may behold my glory which thou hast given me, for thou lovedst me before the foundation of the world.
For when those of the nations, which have no law, practise by nature the things of the law, these, having no law, are a law to themselves;
And after these things Jesus walked in Galilee, for he would not walk in Judaea, because the Jews sought to kill him.
And there are also many other things which Jesus did, the which if they were written one by one, I suppose that not even the world itself would contain the books written.
I will bow down toward the temple of thy holiness, and celebrate thy name for thy loving-kindness and for thy truth; for thou hast magnified thy word above all thy name.
not according to the covenant which I made to their fathers in the day of my taking their hand to lead them out of the land of Egypt; because they did not continue in my covenant, and I did not regard them, saith the Lord.
Brethren, let it be allowed to speak with freedom to you concerning the patriarch David, that he has both died and been buried, and his monument is amongst us unto this day.
And they asked him saying, Why do the scribes say that Elias must first have come?
And they come to Jerusalem, and entering into the temple, he began to cast out those who sold and who bought in the temple, and he overthrew the tables of the moneychangers and the seats of the dove-sellers,
If any one think himself to be religious, not bridling his tongue, but deceiving his heart, this man's religion is vain.
And I heard a great voice out of the heaven saying to them, Come up here; and they went up to the heaven in the cloud, and their enemies beheld them.
And it was known to all the inhabitants of Jerusalem, so that that field was called in their own dialect Aceldama; that is, field of blood.)
but whosoever shall speak injuriously against the Holy Spirit, to eternity has no forgiveness; but lies under the guilt of an everlasting sin;
and behold, a voice out of the heavens saying, This is my beloved Son, in whom I have found my delight.
among whom we also all once had our conversation in the lusts of our flesh, doing what the flesh and the thoughts willed to do, and were children, by nature, of wrath, even as the rest:
On the morrow he would go forth into Galilee, and Jesus finds Philip, and says to him, Follow me.
And there was also a strife among them which of them should be held to be the greatest.
And he said to them, The harvest indeed is great, but the workmen few; supplicate therefore the Lord of the harvest that he may send out workmen into his harvest.
He hath made everything beautiful in its time; also he hath set the world in their heart, so that man findeth not out from the beginning to the end the work that God doeth.
As the apple-tree among the trees of the wood, So is my beloved among the sons: In his shadow have I rapture and sit down; And his fruit is sweet to my taste.
And Jesus looking upon him loved him, and said to him, One thing lackest thou: go, sell whatever thou hast and give to the poor, and thou shalt have treasure in heaven; and come, follow me, taking up the cross.
Honour Jehovah with thy substance, and with the first-fruits of all thine increase;
See to yourselves, that we may not lose what we have wrought, but may receive full wages.
Jesus therefore said to them, I will ask you if it is lawful on the sabbath to do good, or to do evil? to save life, or to destroy it?
And God said, Let the waters under the heavens be gathered together to one place, and let the dry land appear. And it was so.
and as a covering shalt thou roll them up, and they shall be changed; but thou art the Same, and thy years shall not fail.
And he entered again into the synagogue; and there was there a man having his hand dried up.
Thou knowest the commandments: Do not commit adultery, Do not kill, Do not steal, Do not bear false witness, Honour thy father and thy mother.
in the word of truth, in the power of God; through the arms of righteousness on the right hand and left,
Verily I say to you, Whatsoever ye shall bind on the earth shall be bound in heaven, and whatsoever ye shall loose on the earth shall be loosed in heaven.
Be it known unto you, therefore, brethren, that through this man remission of sins is preached to you,
And on the morrow, as these were journeying and drawing near to the city, Peter went up on the house to pray, about the sixth hour.
So then, brethren, we are debtors, not to the flesh, to live according to flesh;
And he began to say to them in parables, A man planted a vineyard, and made a fence round it and dug a wine-vat, and built a tower, and let it out to husbandmen, and left the country.
For neither did I receive them from man, neither was I taught them, but by revelation of Jesus Christ.
For thou bringest certain strange things to our ears. We wish therefore to know what these things may mean.
Now all this came to pass that that might be fulfilled which was spoken by the Lord, through the prophet, saying,
by whom we have received grace and apostleship in behalf of his name, for obedience of faith among all the nations,
But I say unto you, that whosoever shall put away his wife, not for fornication, and shall marry another, commits adultery; and he who marries one put away commits adultery.
For I know him that he will command his children and his household after him, and they shall keep the way of Jehovah, to do righteousness and justice, in order that Jehovah may bring upon Abraham what he hath spoken of him.
And it came to pass on one of the days, that he entered into a ship, himself and his disciples; and he said to them, Let us pass over to the other side of the lake; and they set off from shore.
And in hades lifting up his eyes, being in torments, he sees Abraham afar off, and Lazarus in his bosom.
When thou passest through the waters, I will be with thee; and through the rivers, they shall not overflow thee; when thou walkest through the fire, thou shalt not be burned, neither shall the flame kindle upon thee.
And I saw the holy city, new Jerusalem, coming down out of the heaven from God, prepared as a bride adorned for her husband.
not overstepping the rights of and wronging his brother in the matter, because the Lord is the avenger of all these things, even as we also told you before, and have fully testified.
And as they led him away, they laid hold on a certain Simon, a Cyrenian, coming from the field, and put the cross upon him to bear it behind Jesus.
And when they came to the place which is called Skull, there they crucified him, and the malefactors, one on the right hand, the other on the left.
with all lowliness and meekness, with long-suffering, bearing with one another in love;