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For God loved the world so dearly that he gave up his only Son, so that everyone who believes in him may have eternal life, instead of perishing.
All scripture is inspired by God and profitable for teaching, for reproof, for amendment, and for moral discipline,
Well then, my brothers, I appeal to you by all the mercy of God to dedicate your bodies as a living sacrifice, consecrated and acceptable to God; that is your cult, a spiritual rite.
But the harvest of the Spirit is love, joy, peace, good temper, kindliness, generosity, fidelity,
For it is by grace you have been saved, as you had faith; it is not your doing but God's gift,
We know also that those who love God, those who have been called in terms of his purpose, have his aid and interest in everything.
go and make disciples of all nations, baptize them in the name of the Father and the Son and the holy Spirit,
Instead of being moulded to this world, have your mind renewed, and so be transformed in nature, able to make out what the will of God is, namely, what is good and acceptable to him and perfect.
Jesus said to him, "I am the real and living way: no one comes to the Father except by means of me.
You will receive power when the holy Spirit comes upon you, and you will be my witnesses at Jerusalem, throughout all Judaea and Samaria, and to the end of the earth."
"Repent," said Peter, "let each of you be baptized in the name of Jesus Christ for the remission of your sins; then you will receive the gift of the holy Spirit.
On those who have accepted him, however, he has conferred the right of being children of God, that is, on those who believe in his Name,
THE Logos existed in the very beginning, the Logos was with God, the Logos was divine.
and he saved us, not for anything we had done but from his own pity for us, by the water that means regeneration and renewal under the holy Spirit
Confess with your mouth that 'Jesus is Lord,' believe in your heart that God raised him from the dead, and you will be saved;
So the Logos became flesh and tarried among us; we have seen his glory ??glory such as an only son enjoys from his father ??seen it to be full of grace and reality.
But God proves his love for us by this, that Christ died for us when we were still sinners.
he granted some men to be apostles, some to be prophets, some to be evangelists, some to shepherd and teach,
They devoted themselves to the instruction given by the apostles and to fellowship, breaking bread and praying together.
if we confess our sins, he is faithful and just, he forgives our sins and cleanses us from all iniquity;
Jesus replied, "Truly, truly I tell you, no one can see God's Realm unless he is born from above."
The thief only comes to steal, to slay, and to destroy: I have come that they may have life and have it to the full.
Thus, then, sin came into the world by one man, and death came in by sin; and so death spread to all men, inasmuch as all men sinned.
And he said to them, "Go to all the world and preach the gospel to every creature:
There is no salvation by anyone else, nor even a second Name under heaven appointed for us men and our salvation."
There is a new creation whenever a man comes to be in Christ; what is old is gone, the new has come.
Then Jesus came forward to them and said, "Full authority has been given to me in heaven and on earth;
As we are justified by faith, then, let us enjoy the peace we have with God through our Lord Jesus Christ.
Never be anxious, but always make your requests known to God in prayer and supplication with thanksgiving;
Two days later a wedding took place at Cana in Galilee; the mother of Jesus was present,
I have been crucified with Christ, and it is no longer I who live, Christ lives in me; the life I now live in the flesh I live by faith in the Son of God who loved me and gave himself up for me.
For I am proud of the gospel; it is God's saving power for everyone who has faith, for the Jew first and for the Greek as well.
I give you a new command, to love one another ??as I have loved you, you are to love one another.
Do your utmost to let God see that you at least are a sound workman, with no need to be ashamed of the way you handle the word of the Truth.
Therefore, with all this host of witnesses encircling us, we must strip off every handicap, strip off sin with its clinging folds, to run our appointed course steadily,
Take heed to yourselves and to all the flock of which the holy Spirit has appointed you guardians; shepherd the church of the Lord which he has purchased with his own blood.
But God's anger is revealed from heaven against all the impiety and wickedness of those who hinder the Truth by their wickedness.
The Spirit of the Lord is upon me: for he has consecrated me to preach the gospel to the poor, he has sent me to proclaim release for captives and recovery of sight for the blind, to set free the oppressed,
Jesus replied, "Truly, truly I tell you, unless one is born of water and the Spirit, he cannot enter God's Realm.
Now when the Lord learned that the Pharisees had heard of Jesus gaining and baptizing more disciples than John
Now faith means we are confident of what we hope for, convinced of what we do not see.
For the Logos of God is a living thing, active and more cutting than any sword with double edge, penetrating to the very division of soul and spirit, joints and marrow ??scrutinizing the very thoughts and conceptions of the heart.
So confess your sins to one another and pray for one another, that you may be healed; the prayers of the righteous have a powerful effect.
Next day he observed Jesus coming towards him and exclaimed, "Look, there is the lamb of God, who is to remove the sin of the world!
However, when the Spirit of truth comes, he will lead you into all the truth; for he will not speak of his own accord, he will say whatever he is told, and he will disclose to you what is to come.
Every subject must obey the government-authorities, for no authority exists apart from God; the existing authorities have been constituted by God.
Now I tell you, Peter is your name and on this rock I will build my church; the powers of Hades shall not succeed against it.
When the Son of man comes in his glory and all the angels with him, then he will sit on the throne of his glory,
through him all existence came into being, no existence came into being apart from him.
where the people were more amenable than at Thessalonica; they were perfectly ready to receive the Word and made a daily study of the scriptures to see if it was really as Paul said.
but the Helper, the holy Spirit whom the Father will send in my name, will teach you everything and recall to you everything I have said.
You belong to your father the devil, and you want to do what your father desires; he was a slayer of men from the very beginning, and he has no place in the truth because there is no truth in him: when he tells a lie, he is expressing his own nature, for he is a liar and the father of lies.
he came for the purpose of witnessing, to bear testimony to the Light, so that all men might believe by means of him.
Do not imagine I have come to destroy the Law or the prophets; I have not come to destroy but to fulfil.
He replied, "You must love the Lord your God with your whole heart, with your whole soul, and with your whole mind.
He is the likeness of the unseen God, born first before all the creation ??16 for it was by him that all things were created both in heaven and on earth, both the seen and the unseen, including Thrones, angelic Lords, celestial Powers and Rulers; all things have been created by him and for him;
I am the vine, you are the branches. He who remains in me, as I in him, bears rich fruit (because apart from me you can do nothing).
Truly, truly I tell you, he who listens to my word and believes him who sent me has eternal life; he will incur no sentence of judgment, he has already passed from death across to life.
Finally, brothers, keep in mind whatever is true, whatever is worthy, whatever is just, whatever is pure, whatever is attractive, whatever is high-toned, all excellence, all merit.
and apart from faith it is impossible to satisfy him, for the man who draws near to God must believe that he exists and that he does reward those who seek him.
awaiting the blessed hope of the appearance of the Glory of the great God and of our Saviour Christ Jesus,
(You see, faith must come from what is heard, and what is heard comes from word of Christ.)
Making a scourge of cords, he drove them all, sheep and cattle together, out of the temple, scattered the coins of the brokers and upset their tables,
and they were all filled with the holy Spirit ??they began to speak in foreign tongues, as the Spirit enabled them to express themselves.
he who believes and is baptized shall be saved, but he who will not believe shall be condemned.
"Believe in the Lord Jesus Christ," they said, "and then you will be saved, you and your household as well."
Whoever of you is defective in wisdom, let him ask God who gives to all men without question or reproach, and the gift will be his.
Jesus said to her, "I am myself resurrection and life: he who believes in me will live, even if he dies,
So those who accepted what he said were baptized; about three thousand souls were brought in, that day.
On saying this he was lifted up while they looked on, and a cloud took him out of sight.
On the first day of the week we met for the breaking of bread; Paul addressed them, as he was to leave next day, and he prolonged his address till midnight
but reverence Christ as Lord in your own hearts. Always be ready with a reply for anyone who calls you to account for the hope you cherish, but answer gently and with a sense of reverence;
And this is eternal life, that they know thee, the only real God, and him whom thou hast sent, even Jesus Christ.
What! do you not know that the wicked will not inherit the Realm of God? Make no mistake about it; neither the immoral nor idolaters nor adulterers nor catamites nor sodomites
But you are the elect race, the royal priesthood, the consecrated nation, the People who belong to Him, that you may proclaim the wondrous deeds of Him who has called you from darkness to his wonderful light ??10 you who once were no people and now are God's people, you who once were unpitied and now are pitied.
Many were the forms and fashions in which God spoke of old to our fathers by the prophets,
There was a rich man, clad in purple and fine linen, who lived sumptuously every day.
Lo, I stand at the door and knock; if anyone hears my voice and opens the door, I will come in and sup with him, and he with me.
It is not everyone who says to me 'Lord, Lord!', who will get into the Realm of heaven, but he who does the will of my Father in heaven.
The wind blows where it wills; you can hear its sound, but you never know where it has come from or where it goes: it is the same with everyone who is born of the Spirit."
The invalid replied, "Sir, I have nobody to put me into the bath, when the water is disturbed; and while I am getting down myself, someone else gets in before me."
So Jesus addressed the Jews who had believed him, saying, "If you abide by what I say, you are really disciples of mine:
He who believes in him is not sentenced; he who will not believe is sentenced already, for having refused to believe in the name of the only Son of God.
Keep your life free from the love of money; be content with what you have, for He has said, Never will I fail you, never will I forsake you.
Then Jesus again addressed them, saying, "I am the light of the world: he who follows me will not walk in darkness, he will enjoy the light of life."
Store up no treasures for yourselves on earth, where moth and rust corrode, where thieves break in and steal:
For we have to struggle, not with blood and flesh but with the angelic Rulers, the angelic Authorities, the potentates of the dark present, the spirit-forces of evil in the heavenly sphere.
Ask and the gift will be yours, seek and you will find, knock and the door will open to you;
In the sixth month the angel Gabriel was sent by God to a town in Galilee called Nazaret,
he came one night to Jesus and said, "Rabbi, we know you have come from God to teach us, for no one could perform these Signs of yours unless God were with him."
Blessed be the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ who in Christ has blessed us with every spiritual blessing in the heavenly sphere!
And on hearing what he said, they went away one by one, beginning with the older men, till Jesus was left alone with the woman standing before him.
The birth of [Jesus] Christ came about thus. His mother Mary was betrothed to Joseph, but before they came together she was discovered to be pregnant by the holy Spirit.
Do not believe every spirit, beloved, but test the spirits to see if they come from God; for many false prophets have emerged in the world.
There is no room for Jew or Greek, there is no room for slave or freeman, there is no room for male and female; you are all one in Christ Jesus.
Is anyone ill? let him summon the presbyters of the church, and let them pray over him, anointing him with oil in the name of the Lord;
Now a jurist got up to tempt him. "Teacher," he said, "what am I to do to inherit life eternal?"
We would like you, brothers, to understand about those who are asleep in death. You must not grieve for them, like the rest of men who have no hope.
all we are given is good, and all our endowments are faultless, descending from above, from the Father of the heavenly lights, who knows no change of rising and setting, who casts no shadow on the earth.
For our sakes He made him to be sin who himself knew nothing of sin, so that in him we might become the righteousness of God.
I have said all this to you that in me you may have peace; in the world you have trouble, but courage! I have conquered the world.
You also have heard the message of the truth, the gospel of your salvation, and in him you also by your faith have been stamped with the seal of the long-promised holy Spirit
Husbands, love your wives, just as Christ loved the church and gave himself up for her
The Lord is not slow with what he promises, according to certain people's idea of slowness; no, he is longsuffering for your sake, he does not wish any to perish but all to betake them to repentance.
The angel answered her, "The holy Spirit will come upon you, the power of the Most High will overshadow you; hence what is born will be called holy, Son of God.
Pure, unsoiled religion in the judgment of God the Father means this: to care for orphans and widows in their trouble, and to keep oneself from the stain of the world.
He who believes in the Son has eternal life, but he who disobeys the Son shall not see life ??God's anger broods over him."
If your brother sins [against you], go and reprove him, as between you and him alone. If he listens to you, then you have won your brother over;
who said, "Men of Galilee, why do you stand looking up to heaven? This Jesus who has been taken from you into heaven will come back, just as you have seen him depart to heaven."
Repent then, and turn to have your sins blotted out, so that a breathing-space may be vouchsafed you,
God has made us what we are, creating us in Christ Jesus for the good deeds which are prepared beforehand by God as our sphere of action.
My brothers, what is the use of anyone declaring he has faith, if he has no deeds to show? Can his faith save him?
God did not send his Son into the world to pass sentence on it, but to save the world by him.
Surely you know that all of us who have been baptized into Christ Jesus have been baptized into his death!
Tell the older women also to be reverent in their demeanour and not to be slanderers or slaves to drink;
Now what are we to infer from this? That we are to 'remain on in sin, so that there may be all the more grace'?
and do not get drunk with wine ??that means profligacy ??but be filled with the Spirit,
Then I saw the new heaven and the new earth, for the first heaven and the first earth had passed away; and the sea is no more.
But the time is coming, it has come already, when the real worshippers will worship the Father in Spirit and in reality; for these are the worshippers that the Father wants.
Now in those days an edict was issued by Caesar Augustus for a census of the whole world.
You search the scriptures, imagining you possess eternal life in their pages ??and they do testify to me ??40 but you refuse to come to me for life.
in whom we enjoy our redemption, the forgiveness of our trespasses, by the blood he shed.
Do not wonder at this; for there is a time coming when all who are in the tombs will listen to his voice
but if we live and move within the light, as he is within the light, then we have fellowship with one another, and the blood of Jesus his Son cleanses us from every sin.
Nobody has ever seen God, but God has been unfolded by the divine One, the only Son, who lies upon the Father's breast.
As the Lord's prisoner, then, I beg of you to live a life worthy of your calling,
First and foremost, I passed on to you what I had myself received, namely, that Christ died for our sins as the scriptures had said,
They belong to the world, therefore they speak as inspired by the world, and the world listens to them:
I mean, lead the life of the Spirit; then you will never satisfy the passions of the flesh.
But you are not in the flesh, you are in the Spirit, since the Spirit of God dwells within you. Anyone who does not possess the Spirit of Christ does not belong to Him.
On the evening of that same day ??the first day of the week ??though the disciples had gathered within closed doors for fear of the Jews, Jesus entered and stood among them, saying, "Peace be with you!"
asking, "Where is His promised advent? Since the day our fathers fell asleep, things remain exactly as they were from the beginning of creation."
No one is able to come to me unless he is drawn by the Father who sent me (and I will raise him up on the last day).
Indeed the Son of man must be lifted on high, just as Moses lifted up the serpent in the desert,
Enter by the narrow gate: for [the gate] is broad and the road is wide that leads to destruction, and many enter that way.
Such ages of ignorance God overlooked, but he now charges men that they are all everywhere to repent,
Nicodemus said to him, "How can a man be born when he is old? Can he enter his mother's womb over again and be born?"
Since then you have been raised with Christ, aim at what is above, where Christ is, seated at the right hand of God;
For he decreed of old that those whom he predestined should share the likeness of his Son ??that he might be the firstborn of a great brotherhood.
As God's own chosen, then, as consecrated and beloved, be clothed with compassion, kindliness, humility, gentleness, and good temper ??13 forbear and forgive each other in any case of complaint; as Christ forgave you, so must you forgive.
Christ himself died for sins, once for all, a just man for unjust men, that he might bring us near to God; in the flesh he was put to death but he came to life in the Spirit.
During these days, when the disciples were increasing in number, the Hellenists began to complain against the Hebrews, on the ground that their widows were being overlooked in the daily distribution of food.
Peace I leave to you, my peace I give to you; I give it not as the world gives its 'Peace!' Let not your hearts be disquieted or timid.
for every one who asks receives, the seeker finds, the door is opened to anyone who knocks.
he bore our sins in his own body on the gibbet, that we might break with sin and live for righteousness; and by his wounds you have been healed.
Yet ??I am telling you the truth ??my going is for your good. If I do not depart, the Helper will not come to you; whereas if I go, I will send him to you.
for ours is no high priest who is incapable of sympathizing with our weaknesses, but one who has been tempted in every respect like ourselves, yet without sinning.
You are the salt of the earth. But if salt becomes insipid, what can make it salt again? After that it is fit for nothing, fit only to be thrown outside and trodden by the feet of men.
He, reflecting God's bright glory and stamped with God's own character, sustains the universe with his word of power; when he had secured our purification from sins, he sat down at the right hand of the Majesty on high;
Keep cool, keep awake. Your enemy the devil prowls like a roaring lion, looking out for someone to devour.
So too the Spirit assists us in our weakness; for we do not know how to pray aright, but the Spirit pleads for us with sighs that are beyond words,
Beloved, let us love one another, for love belongs to God, and everyone who loves is born of God and knows God;
All those will come to me who are the Father's gift to me, and never will I reject one of them;
Love not the world, nor yet what is in the world; if anyone loves the world, love for the Father is not in him.
When the Helper comes, whom I will send to you from the Father, even the Spirit of truth which issues from the Father, he will bear witness to me;
'Born of him!' Think what a love the Father has for us, in letting us be called 'children of God!' That is what we are. The world does not recognize us? That is simply because it did not recognize him.
On the first day of the week Mary of Magdala went early to the tomb, when it was still dark; but as she saw the boulder had been removed from the tomb,
Then Peter opened his lips and said, "I see quite plainly that God has no favourites,
He said to all, "If anyone wishes to come after me, let him deny himself, take up his cross day after day, and so follow me;
Philip answered, "Seven pounds' worth of bread would not be enough for them, for everybody to get even a morsel."
Now when he entered the house of a ruler who belonged to the Pharisees to take a meal, they watched him closely.
Then he came to Nazaret, where he had been brought up, and on the sabbath he entered the synagogue as was his custom. He stood up to read the lesson
I left you behind in Crete in order to finish putting things right and to appoint presbyters in every town as I told you,
So Jesus made this answer to them: "Truly, truly I tell you, the Son can do nothing of his own accord, nothing but what he sees the Father doing; for whatever he does, the Son also does the same.
Now when Jesus was born at Bethlehem, belonging to Judaea, in the days of king Herod, magicians from the East arrived at Jerusalem,
Let the inspiration of Christ dwell in your midst with all its wealth of wisdom; teach and train one another with the music of psalms, with hymns, and songs of the spiritual life; praise God with thankful hearts.
Nor do I pray for them alone, but for all who believe in me by their spoken word;
My dear children, I am writing this to you that you may not sin; but if anyone does sin, we have an advocate with the Father in Jesus Christ the just;
Now on the last day, the great day, of the festival, Jesus stood and cried aloud, "If anyone is athirst, let him come to me and drink;
Now the deeds of the flesh are quite obvious, such as sexual vice, impurity, sensuality,
Jesus answered, "If you knew what is the free gift of God and who is asking you for a drink, you would have asked him instead, and he would have given you 'living' water."
with the freedom for which Christ set us free. Make a firm stand then, do not slip into any yoke of servitude.
Then the brothers at once sent off Paul and Silas by night to Beroea. When they arrived there, they betook themselves to the Jewish synagogue,
For I am certain neither death nor life, neither angels nor principalities, neither the present nor the future,
So your light is to shine before men, that they may see the good you do and glorify your Father in heaven.
IN my former volume, Theophilus, I treated all that Jesus began by doing and teaching
Later on Jesus met him in the temple, and said to him, "See, you are well and strong; commit no more sins, in case something worse befalls you."
of this I am confident, that he who has begun the good work in you will go on completing it until the day of Jesus Christ.
Now before the passover festival Jesus knew the time had come for him to pass from this world to the Father. He had loved his own in this world and he loved them to the end;
for prophecy never came by human impulse, it was when carried away by the holy Spirit that the holy men of God spoke.
Our baptism in his death made us share his burial, so that, as Christ was raised from the dead by the glory of the Father, we too might live and move in the new sphere of Life.
Have you had all that experience for nothing (if it has really gone for nothing)?
In the course of their journey he entered a certain village, and a woman called Martha welcomed him to her house.
Therefore, my beloved, as you have been obedient always and not simply when I was present, so, now that I am absent, work all the more strenuously at your salvation with reverence and trembling,
And when he comes, he will convict the world, convincing men of sin, of righteousness, and of judgment:
if you attend to the wearer of the handsome clothes and say to him, "Sit here, this is a good place," and tell the poor man, "You can stand," or "Sit there at my feet,"
Jesus answered, "If anyone loves me he will obey my word, and my Father will love him, and we will come to him and take up our abode with him.
If we say, 'We are not guilty,' we are deceiving ourselves and the truth is not in us;
Beware of false prophets; they come to you with the garb of sheep but at heart they are ravenous wolves.
Love is very patient, very kind. Love knows no jealousy; love makes no parade, gives itself no airs,
Blessed be the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ! By his great mercy we have been born anew to a life of hope through the resurrection of Jesus Christ from the dead,
He was praying at a certain place, and when he stopped one of his disciples said to him, "Lord, teach us to pray, as John taught his disciples."
He chose us in him ere the world was founded, to be consecrated and unblemished in his sight,
He also told them a parable about the need of always praying and never losing heart.
In my Father's house there are many abodes; were it not so, would I have told you that I was going to prepare a place for you?
but when the time had fully expired, God sent forth his Son, born of a woman, born under the Law,
and let us consider how to stir up one another to love and good deeds ??25 not ceasing to meet together, as is the habit of some, but admonishing one another, all the more so, as you see the Day coming near.
So by all the stimulus of Christ, by every incentive of love, by all your participation in the Spirit, by all your affectionate tenderness,
[Keep out of all incongruous ties with unbelievers. What have righteousness and iniquity in common, or how can light associate with darkness?
our eyes fixed upon Jesus as the pioneer and the perfection of faith ??upon Jesus who, in order to reach his own appointed joy, steadily endured the cross, thinking nothing of its shame, and is now seated at the right hand of the throne of God.
Then after breakfast Jesus said to Simon Peter, "Simon, son of John, do you love me more than the others do?" "Why, Lord," he said, "you know I love you." "Then feed my lambs," said Jesus.
Jesus said, "I am the bread of life; he who comes to me will never be hungry, and he who believes in me will never be thirsty again.
Therefore I tell you, do not trouble about what you are to eat or drink in life, nor about what you are to put on your body; surely life means more than food, surely the body means more than clothes!
All nations he has created from a common origin, to dwell all over the earth, fixing their allotted periods and the boundaries of their abodes,
She will bear a son, and you will call him 'Jesus,' for he will save his people from their sins."
Do you not know your body is the temple of the holy Spirit within you ??the Spirit you have received from God? You are not your own,
Then the Jews accosted him with the words, "What sign of authority have you to show us, for acting in this way?"
It is of what existed from the very beginning, of what we heard, of what we saw, of what we witnessed and touched with our own hands, it is of the Logos of Life
Meanwhile Saul still breathed threats of murder against the disciples of the Lord. He went to the high priest
Present suffering, I hold, is a mere nothing compared to the glory that we are to have revealed.
Now the man who had been healed did not know who it was, for (owing to the crowd on the spot) Jesus had slipped away.
That is why God has given them up to vile passions; their women have exchanged the natural function of sex for what is unnatural,
Now to him who by the action of his power within us can do all things, aye far more than we ever ask or imagine,
rescuing us from the power of the Darkness and transferring us to the realm of his beloved Son!
and teach them to obey all the commands I have laid on you. And I will be with you all the time, to the very end of the world."
Men of Israel, listen to my words. Jesus the Nazarene, a man accredited to you by God through miracles, wonders, and signs which God performed by him among you (as you yourselves know),
Jesus then repeated, "Peace be with you! As the Father sent me forth, I am sending you forth."
So some of his disciples said to one another, "What does he mean by telling us, 'In a little while, you will behold me no longer; then, after a little, you shall see me'? and, 'I go to the Father'?"
One of the Pharisees asked him to dinner, and entering the house of the Pharisee he reclined at table.
We are children of God now, beloved; what we are to be is not apparent yet, but we do know that when he appears, we are to be like him ??for we are to see him as he is.
Then I saw a great white throne, and One who was seated thereon; from his presence earth and sky fled, no more to be found.
he said, "The time has now come, God's reign is near: repent and believe in the gospel."
Inasmuch as a number of writers have essayed to draw up a narrative of the established facts in our religion
After that the Lord commissioned other seventy disciples, sending them in front of him two by two to every town and place that he intended to visit himself.
So when he saw the crowds, he went up the hill and sat down; his disciples came up to him
but they had no child, for Elizabeth was barren. Both of them were advanced in years.
No one can serve two masters: either he will hate one and love the other, or else he will stand by the one and despise the other ??you cannot serve both God and Mammon.
No temptation has waylaid you that is beyond man's power; trust God, he will never let you be tempted beyond what you can stand, but when temptation comes, he will provide the way out of it, so that you can bear up under it.
Jesus said, "Father, forgive them, they do not know what they are doing." Then they distributed his clothes among themselves by drawing lots.
On the sabbath they rested in obedience to God's command, but on the first day of the week at early dawn they took the spices they had prepared and went to the tomb.
As we have a great high priest, then, who has passed through the heavens, Jesus the Son of God, let us hold fast to our confession;
Judah the father of Perez and Zerah by Tamar, Perez the father of Hezron, Hezron the father of Aram,
are placed in the middle of verse 13:31] "I am the real Vine, and my Father is the vine-dresser;
You have not chosen me, it is I who have chosen you, appointing you to go and bear fruit ??fruit that lasts, so that the Father may grant you whatever you ask in my name.
"Ananias," said Peter, "why has Satan filled your heart and made you cheat the holy Spirit by appropriating some of the money paid for the land?
Now, brothers, I would have you know the gospel I once preached to you, the gospel you received, the gospel in which you have your footing,
Take care not to practise your charity before men in order to be noticed; otherwise you get no reward from your Father in heaven. No,
remember you have known from childhood the sacred writings that can impart saving wisdom by faith in Christ Jesus.
When they heard this, it went straight to their hearts; they said to Peter and the rest of the apostles, "Brothers, what are we to do?"
Then I saw heaven open wide ??and there was a white horse: his rider is faithful and true, yea, just are his judgments and his warfare.
Truly, truly I tell you, he who believes in me will do the very deeds I do, and still greater deeds than these. For I am going to the Father,
Well then, whatever you would like men to do to you, do just the same to them; that is the meaning of the Law and the prophets.
And for those who believe, these miracles will follow: they will cast out daemons in my name, they will talk in foreign tongues,
He answered, "It is written, Man is not to live on bread alone, but on every word that issues from the mouth of God."
Even if anyone is detected in some trespass, brothers, you are spiritual, you must set the offender right in a spirit of gentleness; let each of you look to himself, in case he too is tempted.
Yet he gives grace more and more: thus it is said, The haughty God opposes, but to the humble he gives grace.
Beware of anyone getting hold of you by means of a theosophy which is specious make-believe, on the lines of human tradition, corresponding to the Elemental spirits of the world and not to Christ.
This gospel of the Reign shall be preached all over the wide world as a testimony to all the Gentiles, and then the end will come.
and you must love the Lord your God with your whole heart, with your whole soul, with your whole mind, and with your whole strength.
The maiden will conceive and bear a son, and his name will be called Immanuel (which may be translated, God is with us).
And this is the sentence of condemnation, that the Light has entered the world and yet men have preferred darkness to light. It is because their actions have been evil;
Aim at peace with all ??and at that consecration without which no one will ever see the Lord;
The Lord himself will descend from heaven with a loud summons, when the archangel calls and the trumpet of God sounds; the dead in Christ will rise first;
But in later days, the Spirit distinctly declares, certain people will rebel against the faith; they will listen to spirits of error and to the doctrines that daemons teach
(Wanton creatures! do you not know that the world's friendship means enmity to God? Whoever, then, chooses to be the world's friend, turns enemy to God.
But now we have a righteousness of God disclosed apart from law altogether; it is attested by the Law and the prophets,
By this everyone will recognize that you are my disciples, if you have love one for another."
give, and you will have ample measure given you ??they will pour into your lap measure pressed down, shaken together, and running over; for the measure you deal out to others will be dealt back to yourselves."
Thus, I may speak with the tongues of men and of angels, but if I have no love, I am a noisy gong or a clanging cymbal;
Thus you are strangers and foreigners no longer, you share the membership of the saints, you belong to God's own household,
Also, as he ate with them, he charged them not to leave Jerusalem but to wait for what the Father promised ??"for what you have heard me speak of," said he;
Those who are doomed to perish find the story of the cross 'sheer folly,' but it means the power of God for those whom he saves.
and I give them eternal life; they will never perish, and no one will snatch them out of my hand.
I am astonished you are hastily shifting like this, deserting Him who called you by Christ's grace and going over to another gospel.
Then he will say to those on the left, 'Begone from me, you accursed ones, to the eternal fire which has been prepared for the devil and his angels!
Be sure of that, my beloved brothers. Let everyone be quick to listen, slow to talk, slow to be angry ??20 for human anger does not promote divine righteousness;
he is himself the propitiation for our sins, though not for ours alone but also for the whole world.
Now in the local church at Antioch there were prophets and teachers, Barnabas, Symeon (called Niger) and Lucius the Cyrenian, besides Manaen (a foster-brother of Herod the tetrarch) and Saul.
Then he took a loaf, and after thanking God he broke it and gave it to them, saying, "This means my body given up for your sake; do this in memory of me."
Also, he is the head of the Body, that is, of the church, in virtue of his primacy as the first to be born from the dead ??that gives him pre-eminence over all.
Inasmuch as his power divine has bestowed on us every requisite for life and piety by the knowledge of him who called us to his own glory and excellence ??4 bestowing on us thereby promises precious and supreme, that by means of them you may escape the corruption produced within the world by lust, and participate in the divine nature ??5 for this very reason, do you contrive to make it your whole concern to furnish your faith with resolution, resolution with intelligence,
Let no one who is tried by temptation say, 'My temptation comes from God'; God is incapable of being tempted by evil and he tempts no one.
but an angel of the Lord said to Philip, "Get up and go south, along the road from Jerusalem to Gaza" (the desert-route).
Blessed is he who endures under trial; for when he has stood the test, he will gain the crown of life which is promised to all who love Him.
Thus a single man, though he was physically impotent, had issue in number like the stars in heaven, countless as the sand on the seashore.
As the human body is one and has many members, all the members of the body forming one body for all their number, so is it with Christ.
for God has not given us a timid spirit but a spirit of power and love and discipline.
He also told the following parable to certain persons who were sure of their own goodness and looked down upon everybody else.
For when we were still in weakness, Christ died in due time for the ungodly. For the ungodly!
For the case is that of a man going abroad, who summoned his servants and handed over his property to them;
but as for the craven, the faithless, the abominable, as for murderers, the immoral, sorcerers, idolaters, and liars of all kinds ??their lot is the lake that blazes with fire and brimstone, which is the second death."
may they all be one! As thou, Father, art in me and I in thee, so may they be in us ??that the world may believe thou hast sent me.
Aram the father of Aminadab, Aminadab the father of Nahshon, Nahshon the father of Salmon,
Now as the crowd were pressing on him to listen to the word of God, he saw, as he stood beside the lake of Gennesaret,
Still, false prophets did appear among the People, as among you also there will be false teachers, men who will insinuate destructive heresies, even disowning the Lord who ransomed them; they bring rapid destruction on themselves,
Is anyone of you in trouble? let him pray. Is anyone thriving? let him sing praise.
[Relocated to before vs 34] Now there was but one heart and soul among the multitude of the believers; not one of them considered anything his personal property, they shared all they had with one another.
For an angel used to descend from time to time into the bath, and disturb the water; whereupon the first person who stepped in after the water was disturbed was restored to health, no matter what disease he had been afflicted with].
Hence for all time he is able to save those who approach God through him, as he is always living to intercede on their behalf.
Now when they met, they asked him, "Lord, is this the time you are going to restore the Realm to Israel?"
for the Son of man himself has not come to be served but to serve, and to give his life as a ransom for many."
So let all the house of Israel understand beyond a doubt that God has made him both Lord and Christ, this very Jesus whom you have crucified."
"If anyone comes to me and does not hate his father and mother and wife and children and brothers and sisters, aye and his own life, he cannot be a disciple of mine;
Jesus said to him, "Philip, have I been with you all this time, and yet you do not understand me? He who has seen me has seen the Father. What do you mean by saying, 'Let us see the Father'?
and the scribes and Pharisees watched to see if he would heal on the sabbath, so as to discover some charge against him.
If you remain in me and my words remain in you, then ask whatever you like and you shall have it.
In virtue of my office, I tell everyone of your number who is self-important, that he is not to think more of himself than he ought to think; he must take a sane view of himself, corresponding to the degree of faith which God has assigned to each.
Then he said to them, "When I was still with you, this is what I told you, that whatever is written about me in the law of Moses and the prophets and the psalms must be fulfilled."
(a) Now after he rose early on the first day of the week, he appeared first to Mary of Magdala out of whom he had cast seven daemons.
As for you fathers, do not exasperate your children, but bring them up in the discipline and on the admonitions of the Lord.
At the close of the sabbath, as the first day of the week was dawning, Mary of Magdala and the other Mary went to look at the tomb.
Jesus replied, "My realm does not belong to this world; if my realm did belong to this world, my men would have fought to prevent me being handed over to the Jews. No, my realm lies elsewhere."
never acting for private ends or from vanity, but humbly considering each other the better man,
But we are a colony of heaven, and we wait for the Saviour who comes from heaven, the Lord Jesus Christ,
And when the sabbath had passed Mary of Magdala, Mary the mother of James, and Salome bought some spices in order to go and anoint him;
My brothers, do not swell the ranks of the teachers; remember, we teachers will be judged with special strictness.
for it is in him that we live and move and exist ??as some of your own poets have said, 'We too belong to His race.'
you have had five husbands, and he whom you have now espoused is not your husband. That was a true word."
And when Jesus took the vinegar, he said, "It is finished," bowed his head, and gave up his spirit.
It was in this way long ago that the holy women who hoped in God adorned themselves. They were submissive to their husbands.
Here is the message we learned from him and announce to you: 'God is light and in him there is no darkness, none.'
You must serve one another, each with the talent he has received, as efficient stewards of God's varied grace.
That very day two of them were on their way to a village called Emmaus about seven miles from Jerusalem.
Well, my very first counsel is that supplications, prayers, petitions, and thanksgiving, are to be offered for all men ??2 for kings and all in authority, that we may lead a tranquil life in all piety and gravity;
Do not imagine I have come to bring peace on earth; I have not come to bring peace but a sword.
Christ ransomed us from the curse of the Law by becoming accursed for us (for it is written, Cursed is everyone who hangs on a gibbet),
For the appeal we make does not spring from any delusion or from impure motives ??it does not work by cunning;
Since the children then share blood and flesh, he himself participated in their nature, so that by dying he might crush him who wields the power of death (that is to say, the devil)
The King will answer them, 'I tell you truly, in so far as you did it to one of these brothers of mine, even to the least of them, you did it to me.'
but he told me, "It is enough for you to have my grace: it is in weakness that [my] power is fully felt." So I am proud to boast of all my weakness, and thus to have the power of Christ resting on my life.
whom God the Father has predestined and chosen, by the consecration of the Spirit, to obey Jesus Christ and be sprinkled with his blood: may grace and peace be multiplied to you.
[I adjure all who hear the words of the prophecy of this book: "If anyone adds to them, God will add to him the plagues described in this book;
Then a scribe came up, who had listened to the discussion. Knowing Jesus had given them an apt answer, he put this question to him, "What is the chief of all the commands?"
which has reached you as it spreads over all the world with fruit and increase. Such has been your life from the day you learned to know what God's grace really is.
What gives life is the Spirit: flesh is of no avail at all. The words I have uttered to you are spirit and life.
intelligence with self-control, self-control with stedfastness, stedfastness with piety,
Now, everyone who listens to these words of mine and acts upon them will be like a sensible man who built his house on rock.
it is this Spirit testifying along with our own spirit that we are children of God;
We know what love is by this, that He laid down his life for us; so we ought to lay down our lives for the brotherhood.
I tell you this, my brothers, flesh and blood cannot inherit the Realm of God, nor can the perishing inherit the imperishable.
but they are justified for nothing by his grace through the ransom provided in Christ Jesus,
I passed on to you what I received from the Lord himself, namely, that on the night he was betrayed the Lord Jesus took a loaf,
but anyone who drinks the water I shall give him will never thirst any more; the water I shall give him will turn into a spring of water welling up to eternal life."
PAUL, a servant of Jesus Christ, called to be an apostle, set apart for the gospel of God
After that I looked, and there was a great host whom no one could count, from every nation and tribe and people and tongue, standing before the throne and before the Lamb, clad in white robes, with palm-branches in their hands;
Truly, truly I tell you, he who does not enter the sheepfold by the gate but climbs up somewhere else, he is a thief and a robber;
Let marriage be held in honour by all, and keep the marriage-bed unstained. God will punish the vicious and adulterous.
It is a popular saying that "whoever aspires to office is set upon an excellent occupation."
It was when Apollos was in Corinth that Paul, after passing through the inland districts, came down to Ephesus. There he found some disciples,
Also, when you pray, you must not be like the hypocrites, for they like to stand and pray in the synagogues and at the street-corners, so as to be seen by men; I tell you truly, they do get their reward.
Brothers, you were called to be free; only, do not make your freedom an opening for the flesh, but serve one another in love.
So the huge dragon was thrown down ??that old serpent called the Devil and Satan, the seducer of the whole world ??thrown down to the earth, and his angels thrown down along with him.
So whether you eat or drink, or whatever you do, let it be all done for the glory of God.
you will thus be richly furnished with the right of entry into the eternal realm of our Lord and saviour Jesus Christ.
Whatever be your task, work at it heartily, as servants of the Lord and not of men;
you know it was not by perishable silver or gold that you were ransomed from the futile traditions of your past,
and brought them out (after securing the other prisoners). "Sirs," he said, "what must I do to be saved?"
And I saw thrones with people sitting on them, who were allowed to judge ??saw the souls of those who had been beheaded for the testimony of Jesus and God's word, those who would not worship the Beast or his statue, and who would not receive his mark on their forehead or hand; they came to life and reigned along with the Christ for a thousand years.
praying at all times in the Spirit with all manner of prayer and entreaty ??be alive to that, attend to it unceasingly, interceding on behalf of all the saints
Let your love be a real thing, with a loathing for evil and a bent for what is good.
but these Signs are recorded so that you may believe Jesus is the Christ, the Son of God, and believing may have life through his Name.
In the same way, you wives must be submissive to your husbands, so that even those who will not believe the Word may be won over without a word by the behaviour of their wives,
Very well; and do you imagine you will escape God's doom, O man, you who judge those who practise such vices and do the same yourself?
Then Peter came up and said to him, "Lord, how often is my brother to sin against me and be forgiven? Up to seven times?"
and on finding him he brought him to Antioch, where for a whole year they were guests of the church and taught considerable numbers. It was at Antioch too that the disciples were originally called "Christians."
it fell to him by lot, as was the custom of the priesthood, to enter the sanctuary of the Lord and burn incense,
And yet the Son of man, descended from heaven, is the only one who has ever ascended into heaven.
and though the children were still unborn and had done nothing either good or bad (to confirm the divine purpose in election which depends upon the call of God, not on anything man does),
Now when Jesus had been baptized, the moment he rose out of the water, the heavens opened and he saw the Spirit of God coming down like a dove upon him.
The Samaritan woman said, "What? You are a Jew, and you ask me for a drink ??me, a Samaritan!" (Jews do not associate with Samaritans.)
As they were eating he took a loaf and after the blessing he broke it; then he gave it to the disciples saying, "Take and eat this, it means my body."
When he entered Capharnahum again after some days it was reported that he was at home,
Then Jesus said to his disciples, "If anyone wishes to come after me, let him deny himself, take up his cross, and follow me;
Now when Jesus came to the district of Caesarea Philippi he asked his disciples, "Who do people say the Son of man is?"
A man out of the crowd said to him, "Teacher, tell my brother to give me my share of our inheritance";
Then I saw an angel descend from heaven with the key of the abyss and a huge chain in his hand;
Now there was a man ill, Lazarus of Bethany ??the village of Mary and her sister Martha.
when you were buried with him in your baptism and thereby raised with him as you believed in the power of the God who raised him from the dead.
This is the Christ we proclaim; we train everyone and teach everyone the full scope of this knowledge, in order to set everyone before God mature in Christ;
Not only so, but we triumph even in our troubles, knowing that trouble produces endurance,
For whoever obeys the whole of the Law and only makes a single slip, is guilty of everything.
serving in hope of the life eternal which God, who never lies, promised ages ago ??3 he gave effect to his word in due time by a proclamation with which I have been entrusted by command of God our Saviour: ??4 to Titus my lawful son in a faith we hold in common; grace and peace from God the Father and Christ Jesus our Saviour.
He who possesses my commands and obeys them is he who loves me, and he who loves me will be loved by my Father, and I will love him and appear to him."
If your hand is a hindrance to you, cut it off: better be maimed and get into Life, than keep your two hands and go to Gehenna, to the fire that is never quenched.
My brothers, as you believe in our Lord Jesus Christ, who is the Glory, pay no servile regard to people.
but let one who is rich exult in being lowered; for the rich will pass away like the flower of the grass ??11 up comes the sun with the scorching wind and withers the grass, its flower drops off, and the splendour of it is ruined: so shall the rich fade away amid their pursuits.
But certain individuals came down from Jerusalem and taught the brothers that "unless you get circumcised after the custom of Moses you cannot be saved."
there the god of this world has blinded the minds of unbelievers, to prevent them seeing the light thrown by the gospel of the glory of Christ, who is the likeness of God.
And do not vex God's holy Spirit, by whom you have been sealed for the day of redemption.
And now, why do you wait? Get up and be baptized and wash away your sins, invoking his name.'
As he went out on the road a man ran up and knelt down before him. "Good teacher," he asked, "what must I do to inherit life eternal?"
So put to death those members that are on earth: sexual vice, impurity, appetite, evil desire, and lust (which is idolatry),
he entered the world ??the world which existed through him ??yet the world did not recognize him;
But how are they to invoke One in whom they do not believe? And how are they to believe in One of whom they have never heard? And how are they ever to hear, without a preacher?
It is your vocation; for when Christ suffered for you, he left you an example, and you must follow his footsteps.
But we all mirror the glory of the Lord with face unveiled, and so we are being transformed into the same likeness as himself, passing from one glory to another ??for this comes of the Lord the Spirit.
So I tell you, whatever you pray for and ask, believe you have got it and you shall have it.
Then he called the crowd to him with his disciples and said to them, "If anyone wishes to follow me, let him deny himself, take up his cross, and so follow me;
For there is one Body and one Spirit ??as you were called for the one hope that belongs to your call ??5 one Lord, one faith, one baptism,
PAUL and Timotheus, servants of Christ Jesus, to all the saints in Christ Jesus who are at Philippi, as well as to the bishops and deacons:
we are to hold by the truth, and by our love to grow up wholly into Him. For He, Christ, is the head, and under him,
Then shall the Realm of heaven be compared to ten maidens who took their lamps and went out to meet the bridegroom and the bride.
The God who made the world and all things in it, he, as Lord of heaven and earth, does not dwell in shrines that are made by human hands;
Still, you have a few souls at Sardis who have not soiled their raiment; they shall walk beside me in white, for they deserve to.
So richly has God lavished his grace upon us!
I have written in this way to you who believe in the name of the Son of God, that you may be sure you have life eternal.
be kind to each other, be tender-hearted, be generous to each other as God has been generous to you in Christ.
'The very dust of your town that clings to us, we wipe off from our feet as a protest. But mark this, the Reign of God is near!'
Now I make this appeal to your presbyters (for I am a presbyter myself, I was a witness of what Christ suffered and I am to share the glory that will be revealed),
But, dead in trespasses as we were, God was so rich in mercy that for his great love to us
he will wipe every tear from their eyes, and death shall be no more ??no more wailing or crying or pain, for the first things have passed away."
She followed Paul and the rest of us, shrieking, "These men are servants of the Most High God, they proclaim to you the way of salvation!"
Then I saw another angel flying in mid-heaven with an eternal gospel for the inhabitants of the earth, for every nation and tribe and tongue and people;
Have no fear of those who kill the body but cannot kill the soul: rather fear Him who can destroy both soul and body in Gehenna.
Now the eleven disciples went to Galilee, to the hill where Jesus had arranged to meet them.
Hence, from the day we heard of it, we have never ceased to pray for you, asking God to fill you with the knowledge of his will in all spiritual wisdom and insight,
After his sufferings he had shown them that he was alive by a number of proofs, revealing himself to them for forty days and discussing the affairs of God's Realm.
So let no one take you to task on questions of eating and drinking or in connexion with the observance of festivals or new moons or sabbaths.
God's righteousness is revealed in it by faith and for faith ??as it is written, Now by faith shall the righteous live.
Lo, he is coming on the clouds, to be seen by every eye, even by those who impaled him, and all the tribes of earth will wail because of him: even so, Amen.
praising God and looked on with favour by all the people. Meantime the Lord added the saved daily to their number.
You have received no slavish spirit that would make you relapse into fear; you have received the Spirit of sonship. And when we cry, "Abba! Father!",
Now it was in those days that Jesus arrived from Nazaret in Galilee and got baptized in the Jordan by John.
When one cries, "I belong to Paul," and another, "I belong to Apollos," what are you but men of the world?
and their seducer, the devil, was flung into the lake of fire and brimstone, where the Beast and the false Prophet also lie, to be tortured day and night for ever and ever.
Never let us grow tired of doing what is right, for if we do not faint we shall reap our harvest at the opportune season.
I baptize you with water for repentance, but he who is coming after me is mightier, and I am not fit even to carry his sandals; he will baptize you with the holy Spirit and fire.
You are born anew of immortal, not of mortal seed, by the living, lasting word of God;
At the outset Jesus was about thirty years of age; he was the son, as people supposed, of Joseph, the son of Heli,
He replied, "You must love the Lord your God with your whole heart, with your whole soul, with your whole strength, and with your whole mind. Also your neighbour as yourself."
Now the confidence we have in him is this, that he listens to us whenever we ask anything in accordance with his will;
And who does not admit how profound is the divine truth of our religion? ??it is He who was "manifest in the flesh, vindicated by the Spirit, seen by the angels, preached among the nations, believed on throughout the world, taken up to glory."
What can ever part us from Christ's love? Can anguish or calamity or persecution or famine or nakedness or danger or the sword?
Model yourself on the sound instruction you have had from me in the faith and love of Christ Jesus.
Let no bad word pass your lips, but only such speech as is good for edification, as occasion may require, words that are gracious and a means of grace to those who hear them.
Now no one knows anything about that day or hour, not even the angels in heaven, but only my Father.
And I will send down on you what my Father has promised; wait in the city till you are endued with power from on high."
Jesus said, "Cease clinging to me. I have not ascended yet to the Father, but go to my brothers and tell them, 'I am ascending to my Father and yours, to my God and yours.'"
So Jesus spoke; then, lifting his eyes to heaven, he said: "Father, the time has now come; glorify thy Son that thy Son may glorify thee,
Where do conflicts, where do wrangles come from, in your midst? Is it not from these passions of yours that war among your members?
It was at this time that some people came to tell him about the Galileans whose blood Pilate had mingled with their sacrifices.
Indeed, whatever you say or do, let everything be done in dependence on the Lord Jesus, giving thanks in his name to God the Father.
You have heard how the men of old were told, 'Murder not: whoever murders must come up for sentence,
draw near to God, and he will draw near to you. Cleanse your hands, you sinners, and purify your hearts, you double-minded.
but grow in the grace and knowledge of our Lord and saviour Jesus Christ. To him be the glory now and to the day of eternity: Amen.
Children, it is the last hour. You have learned that 'Antichrist is coming.' Well, but many antichrists have appeared ??which makes us sure it is the last hour.
So when you see the appalling Horror spoken of by the prophet Daniel, standing erect in the holy place (let the reader note this),
I showed you how this was the way to work hard and succour the needy, remembering the words of the Lord Jesus, who said, 'To give is happier than to get.'"
And everyone who listens to these words of mine and does not act upon them will be like a stupid man who built his house on sand.
Blessed be the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, the Father of tender mercies and the God of all comfort,
(I tell you truly, till heaven and earth pass away not an iota, not a comma, will pass from the Law until it is all in force.
and that repentance and the remission of sins must be preached in his name to all nations, beginning from Jerusalem.
The day of the Lord will come like a thief, when the heavens will vanish with crackling roar, the stars will be set ablaze and melt, the earth and all its works will disappear.
Remember, then, that once upon a time you Gentiles in the flesh, who are called 'the Uncircumcision' by that so-called 'Circumcision' which is itself the product of human hands in the flesh ??12 remember you were in those days outside Christ, aliens to the commonwealth of Israel, and strangers to the covenants of the Promise, devoid of hope and God within the world.
well, we do know, we have believed, the love God has for us. God is love, and he who remains in love remains in God, and God remains in him.
You got that lesson from our beloved fellow-servant Epaphras, a minister of Christ who is faithful to your interests;
After that, Jesus disclosed himself once more to the disciples at the sea of Tiberias. It was in this way.
where a crowd of invalids used to lie, the blind, the lame, and folk with shrivelled limbs [waiting for the water to bubble.
In the presence of God and of Christ Jesus who will judge the living and the dead, in the light of his appearance and his reign,
James, a servant of God and the Lord Jesus Christ, to the twelve tribes in the Dispersion: greeting.
The grace of the Lord Jesus Christ and the love of God and the fellowship of the holy Spirit be with you all.
and thus we have gained fresh confirmation of the prophetic word. Pray attend to that word; it shines like a lamp within a darksome spot, till the Day dawns and the daystar rises within your hearts ??20 understanding this, at the outset, that no prophetic scripture allows a man to interpret it by himself;
put on God's armour so as to be able to stand against the stratagems of the devil.
But this only made the Jews more eager to kill him, because he not merely broke the sabbath but actually spoke of God as his own Father, thereby making himself equal to God.
Now even though it were myself or some angel from heaven, whoever preaches a gospel that contradicts the gospel I preached to you, God's curse be on him!
for the time will come when people will decline to be taught sound doctrine and will accumulate teachers to suit themselves and tickle their own fancies;
This order they obeyed, debating with themselves what 'rising from the dead' meant.
Brothers, since we have confidence to enter the holy Presence in virtue of the blood of Jesus,
even the Spirit of truth: the world cannot receive him, because it neither sees nor knows him, but you know him, because he remains with you and will be within you.
Now in the fifteenth year of the reign of Tiberius Caesar, when Pontius Pilate was governor of Judaea, Herod being tetrarch of Galilee, Philip his brother tetrarch of the country of Ituraea and Trachonitis, and Lysias tetrarch of Abilene,
There were some shepherds in the district who were out in the fields keeping guard over their flocks by night;
God is my witness, the God whom I serve with my spirit in the gospel of his Son, how unceasingly I always mention you in my prayers,
Be strictly careful then about the life you lead; act like sensible men, not like thoughtless;
for the equipment of the saints, for the business of the ministry, for the upbuilding of the Body of Christ,
For as these qualities exist and increase with you, they render you active and fruitful in the knowledge of our Lord Jesus Christ;
So let us approach the throne of grace with confidence, that we may receive mercy and find grace to help us in the hour of need.
Let no one slight you because you are a youth, but set the believers an example of speech, behaviour, love, faith, and purity.
for we have all to appear without disguise before the tribunal of Christ, each to be requited for what he has done with his body, well or ill.
But Peter stood up along with the eleven, and raising his voice he addressed them thus: "Men of Judaea and residents in Jerusalem, let everyone of you understand this ??attend to what I say:
Brothers, I beg of you to keep your eye on those who stir up dissensions and put hindrances in your way, contrary to the doctrine which you have been taught. Avoid them.
Be in debt to no man ??apart from the debt of love one to another. He who loves his fellow-man has fulfilled the law.
he must hold by the sure truths of doctrine so as to be able to give instruction in sound doctrine and refute objections raised by any.]
"for John baptized with water, but not many days after this you shall be baptized with the holy Spirit."
But even my companion Titus, Greek though he was, was not obliged to be circumcised.
Obey your leaders, submit to them; for they are alive to the interests of your souls, as men who will have to account for their trust. Let their work be a joy to them and not a grief ??which would be a loss to yourselves.
Then, raising his eyes he looked at his disciples and said: "Blessed are you poor! the Realm of God is yours.
For by one Spirit we have all been baptized into one Body, Jews or Greeks, slaves or freemen; we have all been imbued with one Spirit.
All these men resorted with one mind to prayer, together with the women, with Mary the mother of Jesus and with his brothers.
he who commits sin belongs to the devil, for the devil is a sinner from the very beginning. (This is why the Son of God appeared, to destroy the deeds of the devil.)
converse with one another in the music of psalms, in hymns, and in songs of the spiritual life, praise the Lord heartily with words and music,
but since we know a man is justified simply by faith in Jesus Christ and not by doing what the Law commands, we ourselves have believed in Christ Jesus so as to get justified by faith in Christ and not by doing what the Law commands ??for by doing what the Law commands no person shall be justified.
No, as it is written, what no eye has ever seen, what no ear has ever heard, what never entered the mind of man, God has prepared all that for those who love him.
this Jesus, betrayed in the predestined course of God's deliberate purpose, you got wicked men to nail to the cross and murder;
What a fathomless wealth lies in the wisdom and knowledge of God! How inscrutable his judgments! How mysterious his methods!
Up came a man and said to him, "Teacher, what good deed must I do to gain life eternal?"
But then, I set no value on my own life as compared with the joy of finishing my course and fulfilling the commission I received from the Lord Jesus to attest the gospel of the grace of God.
And when I go and prepare a place for you, I will come back and take you to be with me, so that you may be where I am.
and from Jesus Christ the faithful witness, the first-born from the dead, and the prince over the kings of earth; to him who loves us and has loosed us from our sins by shedding his blood ??6 he has made us a realm of priests for his God and Father, ??to him be glory and dominion for ever and ever: Amen.
Well, if their lapse has enriched the world, if their defection is the gain of the Gentiles, what will it mean when they all come in?
I adjure you to preach the word; keep at it in season and out of season, refuting, checking, and exhorting men; never lose patience with them, and never give up your teaching,
for no person will be acquitted in his sight on the score of obedience to law. What the Law imparts is the consciousness of sin.
Now it happened as we went to the place of prayer that a slave-girl met us, possessed by a spirit of ventriloquism, and a source of great profit to her owners by her power of fortune-telling.
Here is a secret truth for you: not all of us are to die, but all of us are to be changed ??52 changed in a moment, in the twinkling of an eye, at the last trumpet-call. The trumpet will sound, the dead will rise imperishable, and we shall be changed.
Everyone who will acknowledge me before men, I will acknowledge him before my Father in heaven;
I would know him in the power of his resurrection and the fellowship of his sufferings, with my nature transformed to die as he died,
While Peter was still speaking, the holy Spirit fell upon all who listened to what he said.
Day after day they resorted with one accord to the temple and broke bread together in their own homes; they ate with a glad and simple heart,
but Jesus went to the Hill of Olives.
May the God of peace consecrate you through and through! Spirit, soul, and body, may you be kept without break or blame till the arrival of our Lord Jesus Christ!
Then to the angel of the church at Laodicea write thus: These are the words of the Amen, the faithful and true witness, the origin of God's creation.
To the unmarried and to widows I would say this: it is an excellent thing if like me they remain as they are.
Though they knew God, they have not glorified him as God nor given thanks to him; they have turned to futile speculations till their ignorant minds grew dark.
John was also baptizing at Aenon near Salim, as there was plenty of water there, and people came to him and were baptized
not to gratify sensual passion like the Gentiles in their ignorance of God ??6 no one is to defraud or overreach his brother in this matter, for the Lord avenges all these sins, as we told you already in our solemn protest against them.
and about three o'clock Jesus gave a loud cry, "Eli, eli, lema sabachthani" (that is, My God, my God, why hast thou forsaken me?)
Love has no dread in it; no, love in its fulness drives all dread away, for dread has to do with punishment ??anyone who has dread, has not reached the fulness of love.
In the days of Herod king of Judaea there was a priest called Zechariah, who belonged to the division of Abijah; he had a wife who belonged to the daughters of Aaron, and her name was Elizabeth.
In fact, one might almost say that by Law everything is cleansed with blood. No blood shed, no remission of sins!
in case I am detained, to let you see how people ought to behave within the household of God; it is the church of the living God, the pillar and bulwark of the Truth.
Then Jesus came on the scene from Galilee, to get baptized by John at the Jordan.
Brothers, I would like you to understand that I have often purposed to come to you (though up till now I have been prevented) so as to have some results among you as well as among the rest of the Gentiles.
As they travelled on, they came to some water, and the eunuch said, "Here is water! What is to prevent me being baptized?"
Brace up your minds, then, keep cool, and put your hope for good and all in the grace that is coming to you at the revelation of Jesus Christ.
The unspiritual man rejects these truths of the Spirit of God; to him they are 'sheer folly,' he cannot understand them. And the reason is, that they must be read with the spiritual eye.
and Josiah the father of Jechoniah and his brothers at the period of the Babylonian captivity.
Woe to you, you impious scribes and Pharisees! you tithe mint and dill and cummin, and omit the weightier matters of the law, justice and mercy and faithfulness; these latter you ought to have practised ??without omit ting the former.
First of all, I thank my God through Jesus Christ for you all, because the report of your faith is over all the world.
I know that you are enduring patiently and have borne up for my sake and have not wearied.
but they will have to answer for that to Him who is prepared to judge the living and the dead
whom God put forward as the means of propitiation by his blood, to be received by faith. This was to demonstrate the justice of God in view of the fact that sins previously committed during the time of God's forbearance had been passed over;
he frankly confessed ??he did not deny it, he frankly confessed, "I am not the Christ."
The Father loves the Son and shows him all that he is doing himself. He will show him still greater deeds than these, to make you wonder;
Since you have had the messiah, even Jesus the Lord, brought to you, lead your life in him,
(for all of you who had yourselves baptized into Christ have taken on the character of Christ).
"Come," say the Spirit and the Bride: let the hearer too say, "Come"; and let the thirsty come, let anyone who desires it, take the water of Life without price.
Six days before the festival, Jesus came to Bethany, where Lazarus stayed (whom Jesus had raised from the dead).
strengthening the souls of the disciples, encouraging them to hold by the faith, and telling them that "we have to get into the Realm of God through many a trouble."
And there will be signs in sun and moon and stars, while on earth the nations will be in dismay with bewilderment at the roar of sea and waves,
and told the pigeon-dealers, "Away with these! My Father's house is not to be turned into a shop!"
For if you forgive men their trespasses, then your heavenly Father will forgive you;
I was circumcised on the eighth day after birth; I belonged to the race of Israel, to the tribe of Benjamin; I was the Hebrew son of Hebrew parents, a Pharisee as regards the Law,
Look at ships too; for all their size and speed under stiff winds, they are turned by a tiny rudder wherever the mind of the steersman chooses.
that their eyes may be opened and that they may turn from darkness to light, from the power of Satan to God, to get remission of their sins and an inheritance among those who are consecrated by faith in me.'
Then Jesus came back in the power of the Spirit to Galilee, and the news of him spread over all the surrounding country.
If the Law said they were gods, to whom the word of God came ??and scripture cannot be broken ??36 do you mean to tell me, whom the Father consecrated and sent into the world, 'You are blaspheming,' because I said, 'I am God's Son'?
Look at my hands and feet. It is I! Feel me and see; a ghost has not flesh and bones as you see I have."
Let us pass on then to what is mature, leaving elementary Christian doctrine behind, instead of laying the foundation over again with repentance from dead works, with faith in God,
and I will do whatever you ask in my name, that the Father may be glorified in the Son;
Peter and John were on their way up to the temple for the hour of prayer at three in the afternoon,
"I am the alpha and the omega," saith the Lord God, who is and was and is coming, the almighty.
After this Jesus went off to the opposite side of the sea of Galilee (the lake of Tiberias),
That same day when evening came he said to them, "Let us cross to the other side;"
who gave himself up for us to redeem us from all iniquity and secure himself a clean people with a zest for good works.
You heard me tell you I was going away and coming back to you; if you loved me, you would rejoice that I am going to the Father ??for the Father is greater than I am.
and transmit the instructions I gave you in presence of many witnesses to trustworthy men, that they may be competent to teach others.
My dear children, you belong to God, and you have conquered all such, for He who is within you is greater than he who is in the world.
And war broke out in heaven, Michael and his angels fighting with the dragon; the dragon and his angels also fought,
So God has given them up, in their heart's lust, to sexual vice, to the dishonouring of their own bodies, ??25 since they have exchanged the truth of God for an untruth, worshipping and serving the creature rather than the Creator who is blessed for ever: Amen.
For I was overjoyed when some brothers arrived and testified to the truth of your life, as indeed you do lead the true Life;
singing a new song: "Thou deservest to take the scroll and open its seals, for thou wast slain and by shedding thy blood hast ransomed for God men from every tribe and tongue and people and nation;
Then shall the King say to those on his right, 'Come, you whom my Father has blessed, come into your inheritance in the realm prepared for you from the foundation of the world.
for what you have contributed to the gospel from the very first day down to this moment;
"Thou deservest, our Lord and God, to receive glory and honour and power, for it was thou who didst create all things: they existed and were created by thy will."
(I am the Gate; whoever enters by me will be saved, he will go in and out and find pasture.)
Nicodemus answered, "How can that be?"
I tell you, on the great Day it will be more bearable for Sodom than for that town.
Now no one knows anything about that day or hour, not even the angels in heaven, not even the Son, but only the Father.
Remind them to be submissive to their rulers and authorities; they must obey, they must be ready for any good work,
Now in Caesarea there was a man called Cornelius, a captain in the Italian regiment,
And they began to discuss among themselves which of them could possibly be going to do such a thing.
but in these days at the end he has spoken to us by a Son ??a Son whom he appointed heir of the universe, as it was by him that he created the world.
Now when all the people had been baptized and when Jesus had been baptized and was praying, heaven opened
Then he said to them, "See and keep clear of covetousness in every shape and form, for a man's life is not part of his possessions because he has ample wealth."
He will be great, he will be called the Son of the Most High, and the Lord God will give him the throne of David his father;
what we do see is Jesus who was put lower than the angels for a little while to suffer death, and who has been crowned with glory and honour that by God's grace he might taste death for everyone.
Our talents differ with the grace that is given us; if the talent is that of prophecy, let us employ it in proportion to our faith;
[vss 22-30 moved to between 2:12 and 2:13] After this Jesus and his disciples went into the country of Judaea, where he spent some time with them baptizing.
Brothers, for the sake of our Lord Jesus Christ I beg of you all to drop these party-cries. There must be no cliques among you; you must regain your common temper and attitude.
As the time for his assumption was now due, he set his face for the journey to Jerusalem.
Now in the Lord I insist and protest that you must give up living like pagans; for their purposes are futile,
Everyone who believes Jesus is the Christ, is born of God; and everyone who loves the Father, loves the sons born of him.
May the God of your hope so fill you with all joy and peace in your faith, that you may be overflowing with hope by the power of the holy Spirit!
Now people brought children for him to touch them, and the disciples checked them;
It was about eight days after he said this, when he took Peter, John, and James, and went up the hillside to pray.
Welcome a man of weak faith, but not for the purpose of passing judgment on his scruples.
Immediately after the misery of those days the sun will be darkened, and the moon will not yield her light, the stars will drop from heaven and the orbs of the heavens will be shaken.
Remain in me, as I remain in you: just as a branch cannot bear fruit by itself, without remaining on the vine, neither can you, unless you remain in me.
For in the case of people who have been once enlightened, who tasted the heavenly Gift, who participated in the holy Spirit,
Not that I have already attained this or am already perfect, but I press forward to appropriate it, because I have been appropriated myself by Christ Jesus.
They chose presbyters for them in every church, and with prayer and fasting entrusted them to the Lord in whom they had believed.
[follows 2:26] Whoever, then, knows what is right to do and does not do it, that is a sin for him.
Be patient, then, brothers, till the arrival of the Lord. See how the farmer waits for the precious crop of the land, biding his time patiently till he gets the autumn and the spring rains;
It is by faith we understand that the world was fashioned by the word of God, and thus the visible was made out of the invisible.
Then he made the disciples embark in the boat and cross before him to the other side, while he dismissed the crowds;
For whatever is to be known of God is plain to them; God himself has made it plain ??20 for ever since the world was created, his invisible nature, his everlasting power and divine being, have been quite perceptible in what he has made. So they have no excuse.
He also said to the disciples: "There was a rich man who had a factor, and this factor, he found, was accused of misapplying his property.
I have other sheep, too, which do not belong to this fold; I must bring them also, and they will listen to my voice; so it will be one flock, one shepherd.
Baptism, the counterpart of that, saves you to-day (not the mere washing of dirt from the flesh but the prayer for a clean conscience before God) by the resurrection of Jesus Christ
inasmuch as he has fixed a day on which he will judge the world justly by a man whom he has destined for this. And he has given proof of this to all by raising him from the dead."
Now six stone water-jars were standing there, for the Jewish rites of 'purification,' each holding about twenty gallons.
Love lies in this, not in our love for him but in his love for us ??in the sending of his Son to be the propitiation for our sins.
he who believes in me ??out of his body, as scripture says, streams of living water will flow"
while the Law was given through Moses, grace and reality are ours through Jesus Christ.
put on salvation as your helmet, and take the Spirit as your sword (that is, the word of God),
Or is he speaking purely for our sakes? Assuredly for our sakes. This word was written for us, because the ploughman needs to plough in hope, and the thresher to thresh in the hope of getting a share in the crop.
To prevent you from being self-conceited, brothers, I would like you to understand this secret: it is only a partial insensibility that has come over Israel, until the full number of the Gentiles come in.
and whoever was not found enrolled in the book of Life was flung into the lake of fire ??which is the second death, the lake of fire.
On being asked by the Pharisees when the Reign of God was coming, he answered them, "The Reign of God is not coming as you hope to catch sight of it;
But he told them, "It is not for you to know the course and periods of time that the Father has fixed by his own authority.
and when the disciples recalled what he had said, after he had been raised from the dead, they believed the scripture and the word of Jesus.
Now the Pharisees gathered to meet him, with some scribes who had come from Jerusalem.
But when they believed Philip, who preached the gospel of the Reign of God and the name of Jesus, they had themselves baptized, both men and women;
So I told you, you would die in your sins; for unless you believe who I am, you will die in your sins."
(Saul quite approved of his murder.) That day a severe persecution broke out against the church in Jerusalem, and everyone, with the exception of the apostles, was scattered over Judaea and Samaria.
Indeed the Father passes judgment on no one; he has committed the judgment which determines life or death entirely to the Son,
What profit will it be if a man gains the whole world and forfeits his own soul? What will a man offer as an equivalent for his soul?
Then he began with Moses and all the prophets and interpreted to them the passages referring to himself throughout the scriptures.
I am to be in the world no longer, but they are to be in the world; I come to thee. Holy Father, keep them by the power of thy Name which thou hast given me, that they may be one as we are one.
so long as I am in this tent, I deem it proper to stir you up by way of reminder,
bearing my testimony, both to Jews and Greeks, of repentance before God and faith in our Lord Jesus Christ.
for the husband is the head of the wife as Christ also (though he is the saviour of the Body) is the head of the church;
Now our ancestors worshipped on this mountain, whereas you Jews declare the proper place for worship is at Jerusalem."
For if we sin deliberately, after receiving the knowledge of the Truth, there is no longer any sacrifice for sins left,
Beloved, you must not ignore this one fact, that with the Lord a single day is like a thousand years, and a thousand years are like a single day.
At that time Jesus spoke and said, "I praise thee, Father, Lord of heaven and earth, for hiding all this from the wise and learned and revealing it to the simpleminded;
"This sanctuary took forty-six years to build," the Jews retorted, "and you are going to raise it up in three days!"
you are a building that rests on the apostles and prophets as its foundation, with Christ Jesus as the cornerstone;
And now I entrust you to God and the word of his grace; he is able to upbuild you and give you your inheritance among all the consecrated.
for false Christs and false prophets will rise and bring forward great signs and wonders, so as to mislead the very elect, ??if that were possible.
For though you were dead in your trespasses, your flesh uncircumcised, He made you live with Christ, He forgave us all our trespasses,
So the very reason I wrote was that I might not come only to be pained by those who ought to give me joy; I relied on you all, I felt sure that my joy would be a joy for everyone of you.
(You know how gracious our Lord Jesus Christ was; rich though he was, he became poor for the sake of you, that by his poverty you might be rich.)
PAUL, by the will of God an apostle of Jesus Christ, to the saints who are faithful in Jesus Christ:
As they were worshipping the Lord and fasting, the holy Spirit said, "Come! set me apart Barnabas and Saul for the work to which I have called them."
Brothers, I for one do not consider myself to have appropriated this; my one thought is, by forgetting what lies behind me and straining to what lies before me,
Like newly-born children, thirst for the pure, spiritual milk to make you grow up to salvation.
A revelation by Jesus Christ, which God granted him for his servants, to show them what must come to pass very soon; he disclosed it by sending it through his angel to his servant John,
Let nobody delude you into this belief, whatever he may say. It will not come till the Rebellion takes place first of all, with the revealing of the Lawless One, the doomed One,
For the interests of the flesh are hostile to God; they do not yield to the law of God (indeed they cannot).
They said, "What is the meaning of 'In a little'? We do not understand what he is saying."
The witnesses are three, the Spirit and the water and the blood, and the three of them are in accord.
Asa the father of Jehoshaphat, Jehoshaphat the father of Joram, Joram the father of Uzziah,
Then Jesus and his disciples set off for the villages of Caesarea Philippi; and on the road he inquired of his disciples, "Who do people say I am?"
to make us redound to the praise of his glory by being the first to put our hope in Christ.
Much more then, now that we are justified by his blood, shall we be saved by him from Wrath.
So Jesus said to them, "Truly, truly I tell you, unless you eat the flesh of the Son of man and drink his blood, you have no life within you.
So Paul stood in the middle of the Areopagus and said, "Men of Athens, I observe at every turn that you are a most religious people.
come to him then ??come to that living Stone which men have rejected and God holds choice and precious,
He put another parable before them. "The Realm of heaven," he said, "is like a man who sowed good seed in his field,
In our one body we have a number of members, and the members have not all the same function;
He said to them, "Because you have so little faith. I tell you truly, if you had faith the size of a grain of mustard-seed, you could say to this hill, 'Move from here to there,' and remove it would; nothing would be impossible for you."
But I tell you, any one who even looks with lust at a woman has committed adultery with her already in his heart.
I send you this letter relying on your obedience; I know you will do even more than I tell you.
(if a man does not know how to manage his own household, how is he to look after the church of God?);
I am suffering now on your behalf, but I rejoice in that; I would make up the full sum of all that Christ has to suffer in my person on behalf of the church, his Body;
for whatever is born of God conquers the world. Our faith, that is the conquest which conquers the world.
Well, if for all your evil you know to give your children what is good, how much more will your Father give the holy Spirit from heaven to those who ask him?"
in which you moved as you followed the course of this world, under the sway of the prince of the air ??the spirit which is at present active within those sons of disobedience
It is because you are sons that God has sent forth the Spirit of his Son into your hearts crying 'Abba! Father!'
The reply of Jesus was, "As my Father has continued working to this hour, so I work too."
come and, like living stones yourselves, be built into a spiritual house, to form a consecrated priesthood for the offering of those spiritual sacrifices that are acceptable to God through Jesus Christ.
for as woman was made from man, so man is now made from woman, while both, like all things, come from God.)
He replied, "Have you never read that He who created them male and female from the beginning
whoever maligns his brother must come before the San hedrin, whoever curses his brother must go to the fire of Gehenna.' But I tell you, whoever is angry with his brother [without cause] will be sentenced by God.
and if children, heirs as well, heirs of God, heirs along with Christ ??for we share his sufferings in order to share his glory.
He who furnishes the sower with seed and with bread to eat will supply seed for you and multiply it; he will increase the crop of your charities ??11 you will be enriched on all hands, so that you can be generous on all occasions, and your generosity, of which I am the agent, will make men give thanks to God;
Truly, truly I tell you, unless a grain of wheat falls into the earth and dies, it remains a single grain; but if it dies, it bears rich fruit.
Now it happened in the course of his journey to Jerusalem that he passed between Samaria and Galilee.
Calling the twelve apostles together he gave them power and authority over all daemons as well as to heal diseases.
just as the Son of man has not come to be served but to serve, and to give his life as a ransom for many."
but Jesus said to them, "Let the children alone, do not stop them from coming to me: the Realm of heaven belongs to such as these."
Therefore you are inexcusable, whoever you are, if you pose as a judge, for in judging another you condemn yourself; you, the judge, do the very same things yourself.
Many another Sign did Jesus perform in presence of his disciples, which is not recorded in this book;
And this was why the Jews persecuted Jesus, because he did things like this on the sabbath.
how much more shall the blood of Christ, who in the spirit of the eternal offered himself as an unblemished sacrifice to God, cleanse your conscience from dead works to serve a living God?
knowing as we do that our old self has been crucified with him in order to crush the sinful body and free us from any further slavery to sin
In those days John the Baptist came on the scene, preaching in the desert of Judaea,
Mark this: he who sows sparingly will reap sparingly, and he who sows generously will reap a generous harvest.
I can do nothing of my own accord; I pass judgment on men as I am taught by God, and my judgment is just, because my aim is not my own will but the will of him who sent me.
Lay aside falsehood, then, let each tell his neighbour the truth, for we are members one of another.
Is this not the joiner, the son of Mary and the brother of James and Joses and Judas and Simon? Are not his sisters settled here among us?" So they were repelled by him.
Or are you slighting all his wealth of kindness, forbearance, and patience? Do you not know his kindness is meant to make you repent?
Just as they were speaking He stood among them [and said to them, "Peace to you!"]
So I tell you, ask and the gift will be yours, seek and you will find, knock and the door will open to you;
Then the seventh angel blew; and loud voices followed in heaven, crying, "The rule of the world has passed to our Lord and his Christ, and he shall reign for ever and ever."
I call you servants no longer, because a servant does not know what his master is doing: I call you friends, because I have imparted to you all that I have learned from my Father.
Then with a loud cry Jesus said, "Father, I trust my spirit to thy hands," and with these words he expired.
But from the beginning, when God created the world, Male and female, He created them:
saying, "Father, if it please thee, take this cup away from me. But thy will, not mine, be done."
you must lay aside the old nature which belonged to your former course of life, that nature which crumbles to ruin under the passions of moral deceit,
(God is my witness that I yearn for you all with the affection of Christ Jesus himself!)
I am the living bread which has come down from heaven; if anyone eats of this bread, he will live for ever; and more, the bread I will give is my flesh, given for the life of the world."
Every valley shall be filled up, every hill and mound laid low, the crooked made straight, the rough roads smooth;
And if the Spirit of Him who raised Jesus from the dead dwells within you, then He who raised Christ from the dead will also make your mortal bodies live by his indwelling Spirit in your lives.
your life covered with that harvest of righteousness which Jesus Christ produces to the glory and the praise of God.
But each one of us is granted his own grace, as determined by the full measure of Christ's gift.
Then they reached Jericho; and as he was leaving Jericho with his disciples and a considerable crowd, the son of Timaeus, Bartimaeus, the blind beggar who sat beside the road,
and all sorts and conditions of people attached themselves to him, declaring he was that Power of God which is known as 'the Great Power.'
And when he opened the fifth seal, I saw underneath the altar the souls of those who had been slain for adhering to God's word and to the testimony which they bore;
Then the next came and said, 'Here is your five pounds, sir; I kept it safe in a napkin,
but the crowds learned this and followed him. He welcomed them, spoke to them of the Reign of God, and cured those who needed to be healed.
They crossed Phrygia and the country of Galatia, the holy Spirit having stopped them from preaching the word in Asia;
Shortly afterwards he went travelling from one town and village to another preaching and telling the good news of the Reign of God; he was accompanied by the twelve
he says of the Son, 'God is thy throne for ever and ever, thy royal sceptre is the sceptre of equity:
Never revenge yourselves, beloved, but let the Wrath of God have its way; for it is written, Vengeance is mine, I will exact a requital ??the Lord has said it. No,
O senseless Galatians, who has bewitched you ??you who had Jesus Christ the crucified placarded before your very eyes?
But the president of the synagogue was annoyed at Jesus healing on the sabbath, and he said to the crowd, "There are six days for work to be done; come during them to get healed, instead of on the sabbath."
Everyone is to give what he has made up his mind to give; there is to be no grudging or compulsion about it, for God loves the giver who gives cheerfully.
"Thus," he said, "it is written that the Christ has to suffer and rise from the dead on the third day,
John to the seven churches in Asia: grace be to you and peace from HE WHO IS AND WAS AND IS COMING, and from the seven Spirits before his throne,
He will show you a large room upstairs, with couches spread, all ready; prepare the passover for us there."
On entering the city they went to the upper room where they were in the habit of meeting; there were Peter, John, James, Andrew, Philip and Thomas, Bartholomew and Matthew, James (the son of Alphaeus) and Simon who had been a Zealot, with Judas the son of James.
Then a ruler asked him, "Good teacher, what am I to do to inherit life eternal?"
Have nothing to do with the fruitless enterprises of the darkness; rather expose them.
In the same way you husbands must be considerate in living with your wives, since they are the weaker sex; you must honour them as heirs equally with yourselves of the grace of Life, so that your prayers may not be hindered.
For we ourselves were once senseless, disobedient, astray, enslaved to all manner of passions and pleasures; we spent our days in malice and envy, we were hateful, and we hated one another.
The Law is spiritual; we know that. But then I am a creature of the flesh, in the thraldom of sin.
Women in turn are to dress modestly and quietly in seemly garb; they are not to adorn themselves with plaits of hair, with gold or pearls or expensive finery,
Then I stood on the sand of the sea, and I saw a Beast rising out of the sea with ten horns and seven heads, ten diadems on his horns, and blasphemous titles on his heads.
Among the listeners there was a woman called Lydia, a dealer in purple who belonged to the town of Thyatira. She reverenced God, and the Lord opened her heart to attend to what Paul said.
I have indeed given you the power of treading on serpents and scorpions and of trampling down all the power of the Enemy; nothing shall injure you.
who owe this birth of theirs to God, not to human blood, nor to any impulse of the flesh or of man.
Also, judge not, and you will not be judged yourselves: condemn not, and you will not be condemned: pardon, and you will be pardoned yourselves:
since I know my tent must be folded up very soon ??as indeed our Lord Jesus Christ has shown me.
then he asked them, "Is it right to help or to hurt on the sabbath, to save life or to kill?" They were silent.
Be sure that everyone, slave or free, will be paid back by the Lord and Master for the good he has done.
It was shortly afterwards that he made his way to a town called Nain, accompanied by his disciples and a large crowd.
Whatever the Law says, we know, it says to those who are inside the Law, that every mouth may be shut and all the world made answerable to God;
and at three o'clock Jesus gave a loud cry, "El?i, El?i, lema sabachthanei" (which means, My God, my God, why hast thou forsaken me?)
It was in these days that he went off to the hillside to pray. He spent the whole night in prayer to God,
You were doing splendidly. Who was it that prevented you from obeying the Truth?
This is how the love of God has appeared for us, by God sending his only Son into the world, so that by him we might live.
For if God did not spare angels who had sinned, but committing them to pits of the nether gloom in Tartarus, reserved them under punishment for doom:
And when they did so, they enclosed a huge shoal of fish, so that their nets began to break.
I tell you another thing: if two of you agree on earth about anything you pray for, it will be done for you by my Father in heaven.
He knew what was in their minds; so he told the man with the withered hand, "Rise and stand forward." He rose and stood before them.
Six days afterwards Jesus took Peter, James and John, and led them up a high hill by themselves alone; in their presence he was transfigured,
We must therefore pay closer attention to what we have heard, in case we drift away.
for there will be sore misery then, such as never has been from the beginning of the world till now ??no and never shall be.
Peter an apostle of Jesus Christ, to the exiles of the Dispersion in Pontus, Galatia, Cappadocia, Asia, and Bithynia,
Hezekiah the father of Manasseh, Manasseh the father of Amon, Amon the father of Josiah,
Well now, are we Jews in a better position? Not at all. I have already charged all, Jews as well as Greeks, with being under sin ??10 as it is written, None is righteous, no, not one;
Who among you is wise and learned? Let him show by his good conduct, with the modesty of wisdom, what his deeds are.
It is His will that they should understand the glorious wealth which this secret holds for the Gentiles, in the fact of Christ's presence among you as your hope of glory.
Now many of the Jews read this inscription, for the place where Jesus had been crucified was close to the city; besides, the inscription was in Hebrew, Latin, and Greek.
Then he said to the man, "Stretch out your hand." He stretched it out, and it was quite restored, as sound as the other.
When the Gentiles heard this they rejoiced and glorified the word of the Lord and believed, that is, all who had been ordained to eternal life;
Zechariah said to the angel, "But how am I to be sure of this? I am an old man myself, and my wife is advanced in years."
No, what it does say is this: ??The word is close to you, in your very mouth and in your heart (that is, the word of faith which we preach).
For love of money is the root of all mischief; it is by aspiring to be rich that certain individuals have gone astray from the faith and found themselves pierced with many a pang of remorse.
It is all the doing of the God who has reconciled me to himself through Christ and has permitted me to be a minister of his reconciliation.
All the prophets testify that everyone who believes in him is to receive remission of sins through his Name."
Do you not know that in a race, though all run, only one man gains the prize? Run so as to win the prize.
Six days afterwards Jesus took Peter, James and his brother John, and led them up a high hill by themselves;
Jesus rejoined, "A man going down from Jerusalem to Jericho fell among robbers who stripped and belaboured him and then went off leaving him half-dead.
Now during these days Peter stood up among the brothers (there was a crowd of about a hundred and twenty persons all together).
So as he sat on the Hill of Olives the disciples came up to him in private and said, "Tell us, when will this happen? What will be the sign of your arrival and of the end of the world?"
Put affection into your love for the brotherhood; be forward to honour one another;
I am sending you out like sheep among wolves; so be wise like serpents and guileless like doves.
For though I am a man under authority myself, I have soldiers under me; I tell one man to go, and he goes, I tell another to come, and he comes, I tell my servant, 'Do this,' and he does it."
It was his own will that we should be born by the Word of the truth, to be a kind of firstfruits among his creatures.
For I was hungry and you fed me, I was thirsty and you gave me drink, I was a stranger and you entertained me,
It is a sure word, it deserves all praise, that "Christ Jesus came into the world to save sinners"; and though I am the foremost of sinners,
this means my blood, the new covenant-blood, shed for many, to win the remission of their sins.
now, Father, glorify me in thy presence with the glory which I enjoyed in thy presence before the world began.
men who are above reproach, only once married, with children who believe and who are not liable to the charge of being profligate or insubordinate.
"There is a servant here, with five barley-cakes and a couple of fish; but what is that among so many?"
but the angel said to them, "Have no fear. This is good news I am bringing you, news of a great joy that is meant for all the People.
I know that when I am gone, fierce wolves will get in among you, and they will not spare the flock; yes.
Have no fear of what you are to suffer. The devil indeed is going to put some of you in prison, that you may be tested; you will have a distressful ten days. Be faithful, though you have to die for it, and I will give you the crown of Life.
"Woman," said Jesus, "believe me, the time is coming when you will be worshipping the Father neither on this mountain nor at Jerusalem.
Beloved, as sojourners and exiles I appeal to you to abstain from the passions of the flesh that wage war upon the soul.
When you pray, go into your room and shut the door, pray to your Father who is in secret, and your Father who sees what is secret will reward you.
And as they were eating he took a loaf, and after the blessing he broke and gave it to them, saying, "Take this, it means my body."
indeed I count anything a loss, compared to the supreme value of knowing Christ Jesus my Lord. For his sake I have lost everything (I count it all the veriest refuse) in order to gain Christ
And he proceeded to teach them that the Son of man had to endure great suffering, to be rejected by the elders and the high priests and the scribes, to be killed and after three days to rise again;
After this he travelled down to Capharnahum, with his mother and brothers and his disciples; they stayed there for a few days.
In those days Mary started with haste for the hill-country, for a town of Judah;
Then after speaking to them the Lord Jesus was taken up to heaven and sat down at the right hand of God,
but it is a righteousness of God which comes by believing in Jesus Christ. And it is meant for all who have faith. No distinctions are drawn.
Then taking him to the Areopagus they asked, "May we know what is this novel teaching of yours?
they will fall by the edge of the sword, they will be carried prisoners to all nations, and Jerusalem will be under the heel of the Gentiles till the period of the Gentiles expires.
Jesus looked at them and said, "This is impossible for men, but anything is possible for God."
[vss 22-29 moved to follow 9:41] Then came the festival of Dedication at Jerusalem; it was winter,
Now beside the cross of Jesus stood his mother and his mother's sister, Mary the wife of Clopas, and Mary of Magdala.
Hence I never lose heart; though my outward man decays, my inner man is renewed day after day.
(The Lord means the Spirit, and wherever the Spirit of the Lord is, there is open freedom.)
While Paul was waiting for them at Athens, his soul was irritated at the sight of the idols that filled the city.
Then the Sign of the Son of man will appear in heaven; then all tribes on earth will wail, they will see the Son of man coming on the clouds of heaven with great power and glory.
Servants, be obedient to those who are your masters here below with reverence and trembling, with singleness of heart as to Christ himself;
He said to them, "When you pray, say, Father, thy name be revered, thy Reign begin;
This is the God to whom you owe your being in Christ Jesus, whom God has made our 'Wisdom,' that is, our righteousness and consecration and redemption;
some other seed fell on stony soil where it had not much earth, and it shot up at once because it had no depth of earth,
whereas he who has not these by him is blind, shortsighted, oblivious that he has been cleansed from his erstwhile sins.
Paul a servant of God and an apostle of Jesus Christ for the faith of God's elect and for their knowledge of the Truth that goes with a religious life,
Beloved, do not be surprised at the ordeal that has come to test you, as though some foreign experience befell you.
But when Cephas came to Antioch, I opposed him to his face. The man stood self-condemned.
for as the Father raises the dead and makes them live, so the Son makes anyone live whom he chooses.
let us hold the hope we avow without wavering (for we can rely on him who gave us the Promise);
who shall condemn? Will Christ? ??the Christ who died, yes and rose from the dead! the Christ who is at God's right hand, who actually pleads for us!
On hearing this they desisted and glorified God, saying, "So God has actually allowed the Gentiles to repent and live!"
After an interval of about three hours his wife happened to come in, quite unconscious of what had occurred.
Now we are bound always to thank God for you, brothers beloved by the Lord, because God has chosen you as the first to be reaped for salvation, by the consecration of your spirit and by faith in the Truth;
O Jerusalem, Jerusalem! slaying the prophets and stoning those who have been sent to you! How often I would fain have gathered your children as a fowl gathers her brood under her wings! But you would not have it!
For as the body without the breath of life is dead, so faith is dead without deeds.