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For God so loved the world that he gave his only Son, that every one believing in him may not perish but have eternal life.
All Scripture is divinely inspired and is profitable for instruction, for conviction, for correction, for education in righteousnes,
I EXHORT you, therefore, brothers, by the mercies of God, to present your bodies a living sacrifice; holy, well pleasing to God, your reasonable service;
But the fruit of the Spirit is love, joy, peace, long suffering, kindness, goodness, faith,
For by grace are you saved through the faith; and that not of you; [it is] the gift of God;
And we know that all things work together for good to those who love God, to those who are called according to [his] purpose.
go and disciple all nations, baptizing them in the name of the Father, and of the Son, and of the Holy Spirit;
and be not conformed to this life, but be transformed by the renewing of the mind, that you may prove what is the will of God which is good and well-pleasing and perfect.
Jesus said to him, I am the way, and the truth, and the life. No one comes to the Father except by me.
but you shall receive power when the Holy Spirit has come upon you, and shall be my witnesses both in Jerusalem, and all Judea, and Samaria, and to the end of the earth.
And Peter said to them, Change your minds, and be baptized every one of you in the name of Jesus Christ for the forgiveness of sins, and you shall receive the gift of the Holy Spirit.
For the wages of sin is death; but the gift of God is eternal life by Christ Jesus our Lord.
But as many as received him, to them gave he power to become sons of God, to them that believe on his name,
not by works of righteousness which we did but according to his mercy he saved us through the washing of regeneration and the renewing of the Holy Spirit,
For if you confess with your mouth the Lord Jesus, and believe with your mind that God raised him from the dead, you shall be saved;
And the Word became flesh and tabernacled with us and we beheld his glory, a glory as of an only child with a father, full of grace and truth.
but God commends his love to us, that while we were yet sinners Christ died for us;
And he gave some apostles, and some prophets, and some evangelists, and some pastors and teachers,
and they attended constantly to the teaching and companionship of the apostles, the breaking of bread and the prayers.
If we confess our sins, he is faithful and just to forgive our sins, and to cleanse us from all wickedness.
Jesus answered and said to him, I tell you most truly, unless one has been born again he cannot see the kingdom of God.
The thief comes not, except to steal, and kill, and destroy; I came that they may have life, and have it abundantly.
Therefore, as through one man sin entered into the world and death through sin, and so came upon all men because all sinned,??13 for till the law there was sin in the world, but sin is not accounted where there is no law
And he said to them, Go into all the world, preach the good news to all the creation;
And there is salvation in no other; for there is no other name given under heaven among men, by which we can be saved.
So that if any one is in Christ he is a new creation; old things have passed away, behold, all things have become new.
And Jesus coming near spoke to them, saying, All power is given me in heaven and on the earth;
Having been justified therefore by faith, we have peace with God through our Lord Jesus Christ,
Be anxious for nothing, but with all prayer and supplication with thanksgiving let your requests be made known to God.
AND on the third day there was a wedding at Cana in Galilee, and the mother of Jesus was there;
I am crucified with Christ; and I no longer live myself, but Christ lives in me; and the present life which I live in the flesh, I live by the faith of the Son of God, who loved me and gave himself for me.
For I am not ashamed of the gospel; for it is the power of God to salvation to every one that believes, the Jew first and also the Greek.
I give you a new commandment to love another, as I have loved you that you also should love one another.
And there was a man of the Pharisees whose name was Nicodemus, a ruler of the Jews.
Be diligent to present yourself approved to God, a workman that will not be put to shame, rightly dividing the word of truth.
But seek first righteousness and his kingdom, and all these things shall be added to you.
and I will pray the Father, and he will give you another Comforter, to be with you forever,
Therefore also we, having so great a cloud of witnesses lying around us, laying aside every impediment and sin which entirely surrounds us, let us run with patience the race set before us,
Take heed to yourselves, therefore, and to all the flock in which the Holy Spirit has made you bishops, to feed the church of the Lord which he has purchased with his blood.
FOR the wrath of God is revealed from heaven against all impiety and wickedness of men who hold the truth in wickedness,
The Spirit of the Lord is upon me, because he has anointed me to preach good news to the poor; he has sent me to proclaim a release to the captives, and a recovery of sight to the blind, to send the oppressed away free,
Jesus answered, I tell you most truly, unless a man is born of water and of the Spirit, he cannot enter into the kingdom of God.
When, therefore, the Lord knew that the Pharisees heard that Jesus made and baptized more disciples than John,
But faith is a confidence in respect to things hoped for, a conviction of things not seen.
For the word of God is living, and effective, and sharper than any two-edged sword, and reaching even to the division of soul and spirit, and of joints and marrows, and distinguishes thoughts and intentions of mind;
Confess your faults one to another, and pray one for another, that you may be cured, for the prayer of the righteous operates with great power.
On the next day he saw Jesus coming to him, and said, Behold the Lamb of God, who takes away the sin of the world.
And you being dead in trespasses and sins,??2 in which you formerly walked according to the life of this world, according to the ruler of the power of the air, the spirit which now operates in the children of disobedience,
but when he, the Spirit of truth has come, he will lead you in all the truth; for he will not speak of himself, but he will speak whatever he shall hear, and tell you things to come.
Let every soul be subject to the superior powers. For there is no power except from God, and the [powers] which exist have been ordained by God.
And I tell you that you are Peter [a rock], and upon this rock will I build my assembly, and the gates of hades shall not prevail against it.
But when the Son of man comes in his glory, and all the angels with him, then shall he sit on the throne of his glory,
All things existed through him, and without him not one thing existed, which existed.
but these were more noble than those in Thessalonica, for they received the word with all readiness, examining the Scriptures daily [to see] if these things were so.
but the Comforter, the Holy Spirit, which the Father will send in my name, he shall teach you all things, and remind you of all things which I have told you.
You are of your father the devil, and the desires of your father you will to do. He was a murderer from the beginning and stood not by the truth; for truth is not in him. When he speaks a lie, he speaks from his own; for he is a liar, and the father of him [that lies].
This man came for a testimony, to testify of the light, that all might believe through him.
Think not that I have come to destroy the law or the prophets; I have not come to destroy but to complete.
And he said to him, You shall love the Lord your God with all your heart, and all your soul, and all your mind.
I am the vine, you are the branches. He that continues in me and I in him, this man bears much fruit; for separated from me, you can do nothing.
I tell you most truly, he that hears my word and believes him that sent me has eternal life, and comes not into judgment, but has passed from death to life.
Finally, brothers, whatever things are true, whatever things are honorable, whatever things are just, whatever things are pure, whatever things are lovely, whatever things are reputable, if there is any virtue, and if there is any praise, consider these things;
but without faith it is impossible to please; for he that comes to God, must believe that he is and that he is a rewarder of those that seek him.
looking for the blessed hope and appearing of the glory of the great God and of our Saviour Jesus Christ,
and making a whip of cords he drove them all out of the temple, also the sheep and cattle, and poured out the money of the brokers, and overturned the tables,
and they were all filled with the Holy Spirit, and began to speak with tongues as the Spirit gave them utterance.
he that believes and is baptized shall be saved, but he that disbelieves shall be condemned.
And they said, Believe on the Lord Jesus, and you shall be saved, and your house.
And if any one of you lacks wisdom, let him ask of God, who gives to all liberally and upbraids not, and it shall be given him.
Jesus said to her, I am the resurrection and the life; he that believes in me, even if he has died, shall live,
Then those that received his word were baptized, and there were added on that day about three thousand souls;
And having said these words, as they were looking on he was taken up, and a cloud received him from their sight.
And on the first day of the week, we being assembled to break bread, Paul preached to them, being about to depart on the next day, and continued his discourse till midnight;
and sanctify the anointed Lord in your hearts, and be always ready with a defense to every one that asks you a reason for the hope that is in you; but with meekness and fear,
And this is the eternal life; that they shall know thee, the only true God, and Jesus Christ whom thou hast sent.
Know you not that the unjust shall not inherit the kingdom of God? Be not deceived; neither fornicators, nor idolaters, nor adulterers, nor the effeminate, nor sodomites,
For his invisible [attributes] are clearly seen from the creation of the world, being perceived by the things which are made, even his eternal power and deity, so that they have no defense,
But you are an elect race, a royal priesthood, a holy nation, a peculiar people, that you should declare the virtues of him who called you out of darkness into his glorious light;
GOD, who at many times and in many ways spoke anciently to the fathers by the prophets,
There was a certain rich man, and he was clothed in purple and fine linen, and feasted sumptuously every day.
Behold, I stand at the door and knock; if any one shall hear my voice and open the door, I will enter in to him, and feast with him, and he with me.
Not every one that says to me, Lord, Lord, shall enter into the kingdom of heaven, but he that does the will of my Father in heaven.
The Spirit breathes where it wills, and you hear its voice, but you know not whence it comes, nor whither it goes; so is every one that has been born of the Spirit.
The sick man answered him, Sir, I have no man, when the water is disturbed, to put me into the pool; but while I am coming another goes down before me.
Then Jesus said to the Jews who believed on him, If you continue in my word, you are my disciples indeed;
He that believes in him is not judged; but he that believes not has been judged already; because he has not believed in the name of the only Son of God.
Let your life be without avarice, and be contented with what you have; for he said, I will never leave you, I will never forsake you;
THEN Jesus spoke to them again, saying, I am the light of the world; he that follows me shall not walk in darkness but shall have the light of life.
Lay not up for yourselves treasures on the earth, where a moth and corrosion destroy, and where thieves dig through and steal.
for our conflict is not against flesh and blood, but against principalities, against powers, against the potentates of the darkness of this world, against the spiritual [hosts] of evil in the heavenly [worlds].
that you may know the certainty of the words concerning which you have been taught.
Ask, and it shall be given you. Seek, and you shall find. Knock, and it shall be opened to you.
And in the sixth month the angel Gabriel was sent by God to a city of Galilee, by the name of Nazareth,
This man came to him by night and said to him, Rabbi, we know that you are a teacher come from God, for no one can perform these miracles which you perform unless God is with him.
Blessed be the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, who has blessed us with every spiritual blessing in the heavenly [worlds] in Christ,
But they hearing, and being convicted by their consciences, went out, one by one, beginning with the oldest, even to the last; and Jesus was left alone, and the woman standing in the midst.
The birth of Christ was thus. His mother Mary having been espoused to Joseph, before they came together, was found to be with child by the Holy Spirit.
BELOVED, believe not every spirit, but prove the spirits whether they are of God; for many false prophets have gone out into the world.
There is neither Jew nor Greek, there is neither servant nor freeman, there is neither male nor female; for you are all one in Christ Jesus.
if any one is sick among you, let him send for the elders of the church, and let them pray for him, anointing him with oil in the name of the Lord.
AND behold, a certain lawyer stood up to try him, saying, Teacher, what shall I do to inherit eternal life?
And we wish you not to be ignorant, brothers, concerning those that have fallen asleep, that you may not grieve as others who have no hope.
All good giving, and every perfect gift, comes down from above, from the Father of lights, with whom there is no change or shadow of turning.
For he made him who knew no sin to be sin for us, that we might become God's righteousness in him.
These things have I told you, that in me you may have peace. In the world you shall have affliction; but be of good courage, I have overcome the world.
in whom also you, when you heard the word of truth, the gospel of your salvation, in whom also you having believed were sealed with the Holy Spirit of promise,
Husbands, love your wives as Christ also loved the church and gave himself for it,
The Lord is not slow in respect to his promise, as some men account slowness, but is long-suffering toward us, not willing that any should perish, but that all should come to a change of mind.
And the angel answered and said to her, The Holy Spirit shall come upon you, and the power of the Most High shall overshadow you; and on that account the holy child shall be called the Son of God.
Pure religion and undefiled with the God and Father is this, to visit the orphans and widows in their affliction, and to keep one's self unspotted from the world.
He that believes on the Son has eternal life; but he that disbelieves the Son shall not see life, but the wrath of God continues on him.
But if your brother sins against you, go and reprove him between you and him alone. If he hears you, you have gained your brother.
and they said, Men of Galilee, why do you stand looking at heaven? This Jesus taken up from you to heaven shall so come in the manner in which you have seen him go to heaven.
Change your minds, therefore, and turn yourselves, that your sins may be blotted out, that times of refreshing may come from the presence of the Lord,
for we are his creation, created in Christ Jesus for good works, in which God before appointed that we should walk.
What is the profit, my brothers, if a man says he has faith, but has not works? Can faith save him?
For God sent not his Son into the world to judge the world, but that the world through him might be saved.
Do you not know that as many of us as were baptized in Christ were baptized in his death?
that the aged women, in like manner, be of behavior becoming holiness, not slanderers, not enslaved to much wine, teachers of what is good,
And I saw a new heaven and new earth; for the first heaven and the first earth passed away, and the sea was no more.
But the hour comes, and now is, when the true worshippers shall worship the Father in spirit and truth; for the Father seeks such to worship him.
In those days there went out an ordinance from Caesar Augustus that a census should be taken of all the world.
Then Jesus was led up by the Spirit into the wilderness, to be tempted by the devil.
You search the Scriptures, because you think by them to have eternal life; and they testify of me;
in whom we have the redemption through his blood, the forgiveness of sins, according to the riches of his grace,
Wonder not at this; for the hour comes in which all that are in the tombs shall hear his voice
but if we walk in the light, as he is in the light, we have fellowship one with another, and the blood of Jesus his Son cleanses us from all sin.
No one has ever seen God; the only Son, who is in the bosom of the Father, he declared [him].
I THEREFORE, the prisoner of the Lord, exhort you to walk worthily of the call with which you were called,
For I delivered to you at first, what I also received, that Christ died for our sins according to the Scriptures,
No man has greater love than this, that one should give his life for his friends.
They are of the world; therefore they speak of the world and the world hears them.
But you are not in the flesh but in the spirit, if indeed the Spirit of God dwells in you. And if any man has not the spirit of Christ he is not his.
Then when it was evening, on that first day of the week, and the doors were shut where the disciples were for fear of the Jews, Jesus came and stood in the midst, and said to them, Peace be to you.
and saying, Where is the promise of his coming? for since the fathers fell asleep, all things continue as they were from the beginning of the world.
No one can come to me unless the Father who sent me shall draw him; and I will raise him up at the last day.
AFTER these things there was a feast of the Jews, and Jesus went up to Jerusalem.
for by him were all things created which are in heaven and on the earth, the visible and the invisible, whether thrones, or lordships, or principalities, or powers. All things were created through him and for him,
And as Moses lifted up the serpent in the wilderness, so must the Son of man be lifted up;
Enter in through the narrow gate, for wide is the gate; and spacious the way which leads to destruction, and many are they that enter in by it;
Overlooking therefore the times of ignorance, God now commands all men everywhere to change their minds,
Nicodemus said to him, How can a man be born when he is old? can he become an unborn infant of his mother a second time, and be born?
IF you, therefore, have been raised with Christ, seek the things above, where Christ sits on the right hand of God;
For whom he foreknew, he also predestinated to be conformed to the likeness of his Son, that he may be a first-born among many brothers;
Put on, therefore, as elect and beloved saints of God, hearts of compassion, kindness, humility, meekness, long-suffering,
not forsaking our own congregation as some are in the habit of [doing], but exhorting [others], and so much the more as you see the day approaching.
For Christ also suffered once for sins, the just for the unjust, that he might lead us to God, being put to death in the flesh but made alive in the spirit,
AND in those days the disciples being multiplied, there was a complaint of the Hellenists against the Hebrews, that their widows were neglected in the daily service.
Peace I leave with you; my peace I give you; not as the world gives give I to you. Let not your hearts be troubled, neither let them be afraid.
For every one that asks, receives; and he that seeks, finds; and to him that knocks, it shall be opened.
who himself bore our sins in his body on the cross, that we having died to sins, may live to righteousness; by whose stripes you were healed.
But I tell you the truth; it is expedient for you that I should go away; for if I do not go away, the Comforter will not come to you; but if I go I will send him to you.
For we have not a chief priest who cannot sympathise with our infirmities, but one tried in all respects as we are, without sin.
You are the salt of the earth; but if the salt has lost its strength, with what shall it be seasoned? It is good for nothing more, except being cast out to be trodden upon by men.
who being the brightness of his glory and the express image of his substance, and sustaining all things by the word of his power, having made a purification of sins, sat down on the right hand of the majesty on high,
Be sober, be watchful. Your adversary the devil goes about like a roaring lion, seeking whom he may devour;
And in like manner also the Spirit helps our weakness. For we know not what to pray for as we ought, but the Spirit makes intercession for us with groanings unutterable;
Beloved, let us love one another, for love is of God, and every one that loves has been born of God and knows God.
Every thing which the Father gives to me shall come to me, and him that comes to me I will by no means cast out;
Love not the world, nor the things in the world. If any one loves the world, the love of the Father is not in him;
But when the Comforter has come, whom I will send you from the Father, the Spirit of truth which proceeds from the Father, he shall testify of me;
See what love the Father has given us, that we should be called children of God. The world therefore knows us not, because it knew him not.
AND on the first day of the week, Mary the Magdalene came in the morning, while it was yet dark, to the tomb and saw the stone taken away from the tomb.
And Peter opening his mouth said, Of a truth I perceive that God is not a respecter of persons,
And he said to all, If any one wishes to come after me, let him deny himself, and take up his cross, and follow me.
Philip answered him, Two hundred denarii [$28] worth of bread is not sufficient for them, that each may take a little.
AND he came into the house of one of the rulers of the Pharisees to eat bread on the sabbath; and they watched him closely.
And he came to Nazareth, where he was brought up, and entered, according to his custom on the sabbath day, into the synagogue, and stood up to read.
For this cause I left you in Crete, that you might regulate things which are deficient, and appoint elders in every city, as I charged you,
Then Jesus answered and said to them, I tell you most truly, the Son can do nothing of himself, but what he sees the Father do; for whatever he does, these things also does the Son in like manner.
AND Jesus being born in Bethlehem in Judea, in the days of Herod the king, behold Magi came from the East to Jerusalem, saying,
Let the word of Christ dwell in you richly, teaching with all wisdom, and admonishing one another, with psalms, hymns, spiritual songs, singing with grace in your hearts to God,
And I ask not for these only, but for those also who shall believe on me through their word,
My little children, these things I write to you that you may not sin. But if any one has sinned, we have an advocate with the Father, Jesus Christ the righteous,
And on the last day, the great day of the feast, Jesus stood and cried, saying, If any one thirsts, let him come to me and drink.
For the works of the flesh are manifest, which are, fornication, impurity, lewdness,
Jesus answered and said to her, If you knew the gift of God, and who it is that says to you, Give me a drink, you would have asked him, and he would have given you living water.
STAND firm in the liberty with which Christ has made you free, and be not again subject to a yoke of servitude.
And the brothers immediately, by night, sent away Paul and Silas to Berea; and when they came they went into the synagogue of the Jews;
For I am persuaded that neither death nor life, nor angels nor principalities, nor things present nor things to come, nor powers,
For there are three that testify; the Spirit, and the water, and the blood; and the three are one.
Let your light so shine before men that they may see your good works, and glorify your father in heaven.
I WROTE my first account, O Theophilus, of all things which Jesus did and taught,
Afterwards Jesus found him in the temple, and said to him, Behold, you have become well; sin no more, lest a worse thing happen to you.
having this same confidence, that he who has begun a good work in you will carry it on till the day of Jesus Christ,
AND before the feast of the passover, Jesus knowing that his hour had come to depart from this world to the Father, having loved his own in the world he loved them to the end.
For prophecy was never brought by the will of man, but moved by the Holy Spirit men spoke from God,
We have been buried therefore with him through baptism in death, that as Christ was raised from the dead through the glory of the Father, so we also should walk in newness of life.
And as they were pursuing their journey he entered into a certain village. And a woman by the name of Martha received him into her house.
And so, my beloved, as you always obeyed, not in my presence only, but now much more in my absence, work out your salvation with fear and trembling;
And when he has come, he will convince the world of sin, and of righteousness, and of judgment:
and you look upon him who wears the splendid clothing, and say to him, Sit here in a good place, and say to the poor man, Stand there, or sit under my footstool,
Jesus answered and said to him, If any one loves me he will keep my word, and my Father will love him, and we will come to him, and make our mansion with him.
But beware of false prophets, who come to you in sheep's clothing, but within they are rapacious wolves.
Love suffers long and is kind; love envies not; love is not boastful, is not puffed up,
Blessed be the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, who in his great mercy has begotten us to a living hope through the resurrection of Jesus Christ from the dead,
And as he was in a certain place praying, when he ceased one of his disciples said to him, Lord, teach us to pray, as John also taught his disciples.
as he chose us in him before the foundation of the world, that we should be holy and blameless before him,
AND he spoke also a parable to them, that men ought to pray at all times, and not to faint;
but when the fullness of time came, God sent forth his Son, born of a woman, born under the law,
Jesus answered and said to them, Destroy this temple, and in three days I will raise it.
If therefore there is any consolation in Christ, if any comfort in love, if any participation of the Spirit, if any affections and compassions,
Be not unequally yoked with unbelievers; for what participation has righteousness with wickedness? or what communion has light with darkness?
Be not deceived, God is not mocked. For what a man sows, that shall he also reap;
And great multitudes were travelling with him; and turning around he said to them,
looking to the chief guide and perfecter of the faith, Jesus, who for the joy set before him despised the shame and endured the cross, and sat down on the right hand of God.
When therefore they had breakfasted, Jesus said to Simon Peter, Simon, son of John, do you love me more than these? He said to him, Yes, Lord, you know that I am a friend to you. He said to him, Feed my lambs.
Jesus said to them, I am the bread of life; he that comes to me shall never hunger, and he that believes in me shall never thirst.
On this account I tell you, be not anxious for your soul, what you shall eat, or what you shall drink; nor for your body, what you shall put on, is not the soul more than food, and the body more than clothing?
and he made of one blood every nation of men to live on all the face of the earth, determining their appointed times and the bounds of their habitation,
and she shall bear a son, and you shall call his name Jesus, for he shall save his people from their sins.
Know you not that your bodies are a temple of the Holy Spirit in you which you have from God, and you are not your own?
and put all things in subjection under his feet, and made him head over all things to the church,
Then the Jews answered and said to him, What sign do you show us, that you do these things?
THAT which was from the beginning, that which we have heard, that which we have seen with our eyes, that which we beheld and our hands felt, concerning the Word of life,??2 and the life was made manifest, and we have seen, and testify, and declare to you the eternal life, which was with the Father, and was manifested to us,??3 that which we have seen and heard, we declare to you, that you also may have fellowship with us. And our fellowship is with the Father and with his Son Jesus Christ.
BUT Saul, yet breathing out threatening and slaughter against the disciples of the Lord, went to the chief priest
For I think that the sufferings of the present time are of no account in comparison with the glory to be revealed in us.
And the sick man knew not who it was; for Jesus had gone away, a multitude being in that place.
Therefore God gave them up to infamous affections; for their females changed a natural enjoyment for that which is against nature,
To him that is able to do far beyond all that we ask or think, by the power which operates in us,
who delivered us from the power of darkness and translated us into the kingdom of the Son of his love,
teaching them to keep all things which I have commanded you; and behold, I am with you always till the consummation of the world.
among whom are you also the called of Jesus Christ,??7 to all who are at Rome, beloved of God, called to be saints. Grace be to you and peace from God our Father and the Lord Jesus Christ.
Men of Israel, hear these words; Jesus the Nazoraean, a man approved by God to you by mighty works and prodigies and miracles, which God performed by him in the midst of you, as you yourselves know,
AND Jesus, full of the Holy Spirit, returned from the Jordan, and was led by the Spirit in the wilderness,
Then he said to them again, Peace be to you; as the Father has sent me, I also send you.
Then some of his disciples said one to another, What is this that he says to us, A little while and you shall not see me, and again a little while and you shall see me? and, Because I go to the Father?
AND one of the Pharisees asked him to eat with him; and going into the Pharisee's house he reclined.
Beloved, now are we children of God, and it does not yet appear what we shall be. We know, that if he shall appear, we shall be like him, for we shall see him as he is.
AND I saw a great white throne and him that sat on it, from whose presence the earth and heaven fled away, and no place was found for them.
saying, The time is completed, and the kingdom of God is at hand; change your minds and believe in the good news.
He answered them, He that made me well, he said to me, Take up your bed and walk.
SINCE many have undertaken to arrange a complete digest of the things fully believed among us,
And after these things the Lord designated seventy others also, and sent them out, two by two, before his face, into every city and place where he was about to come.
AND seeing the multitudes, he went on the mountain and sat down; and his disciples came to him.
And they had no son, because Elizabeth was barren, and both were advanced in years.
No one can serve two masters; for either he will hate the first, and love the other, or he will adhere to the first, and despise the other. You cannot serve God and riches.
For no trial has befallen you but what is common to man; and God is faithful, who will not permit you to be tried beyond what you are able, but with the trial will order the event, that you may be able to endure.
And Jesus said, Father, forgive them, for they know not what they do. And distributing his garments they cast lots [for them].
And on the first day of the week, early in the morning, they came to the tomb bringing the spices which they had prepared.
HAVING therefore a great chief priest who has gone through the heavens, Jesus, the Son of God, let us hold fast the profession.
and Judah begat Pharez and Zarah by Thamar; and Pharez begat Hezron, and Hezron begat Ram,
You have not chosen me, but I have chosen you, and appointed you to go and bear fruit, and that your fruit should continue, that whatever you ask the Father in my name he may give you.
But Peter said, Ananias, why has Satan filled your heart that you should lie to the Holy Spirit, and that you should keep back a part of the price of the land?
I DECLARE to you, brothers, the gospel which I preached to you, which you also received, in which also you stand,
But take heed not to perform your righteousness before men, to be seen by them; otherwise indeed, you have no reward from your Father in heaven.
and that from a child you have known the sacred Scriptures, which can make you wise to salvation through faith in Christ Jesus.
And after John was delivered up Jesus came into Galilee preaching the good news of God,
And hearing [this] they were distressed in mind, and said to Peter and the rest of the apostles, Men and brothers, what shall we do?
And God shall fully supply all your need, according to his riches in glory in Christ Jesus.
And I saw heaven opened, and behold, a white horse, and he that sat on it is called faithful and true, and in righteousness he judges and makes war.
I tell you most truly, he that believes on me, the works that I do shall he do; and greater works than these shall he do, because I go to the Father;
All things, therefore, which you wish men to do to you, do also thus to them; for this is the law and the prophets.
for where two or three are assembled together in my name, there am I in the midst of them.
And these signs shall follow those that believe; in my name they shall cast out demons, they shall speak with new tongues,
And he answered and said; It is written, man shall not live by bread alone, but by every word which proceeds from the mouth of God.
Brothers, if a man is overtaken with any fault, do you that are spiritual restore such a one with a spirit of meekness, considering yourself; lest you also be tried.
But he gives more grace; wherefore he says, God resists the proud, but gives grace to the humble.
See that no one leads you off as a prey through philosophy and vain deceit, according to the tradition of men, according to the rudiments of the world, and not according to Christ,
And this good news of the kingdom shall be preached in all the world, for a testimony to all nations; and then shall the end come.
In the last days, says God, I will pour out of my Spirit on all flesh, and your sons and your daughters shall prophesy, and your young men shall see visions, and your old men shall dream dreams;
and you shall love the Lord your God with all your heart, and with all your soul, and with all your strength.
Behold, the virgin shall be with child, and shall bear a son, and they shall call his name Emmanuel; which is interpreted, God is with us.
And this is the judgment; that the light has come into the world, and men loved darkness rather than the light, because their deeds are evil.
for the Lord himself will descend from heaven with a shout, with the voice of an archangel, and with the trumpet of God, and the dead in Christ shall rise first,
For those things which were written before were written for our instruction, that through patience and the consolation of the Scriptures we may have hope.
But the Spirit says expressly, that in the last times some shall apostatize from the faith, attending to lying spirits and doctrines of demons,
Adulteresses, know you not that the friendship of the world is enmity against God? Whoever therefore wishes to be a friend of the world, is made an enemy of God.
BUT now God's righteousness has been made manifest without the law, being testified to by the law and the prophets,
By this shall all know that you are my disciples, if you have love one for another.
give, and it shall be given to you; good measure, pressed down, shaken together, running over, shall they give into your bosom. For with what measure you measure it shall be measured back to you.
If I speak with the tongues of men and of angels and have not love, I am a sounding brass and a tinkling cymbal.
and all the multitude of the people were praying without, at the hour of incense.
Therefore you are no longer strangers and foreigners, but you are fellow-citizens of the saints and of the family of God,
And assembling them, he charged them not to depart from Jerusalem, but to wait for the promise of the Father, which [says he] you have heard from me;
For the word of the cross is to the lost foolishness, but to the saved the power of God.
and I give them eternal life, and they shall never perish nor shall any one pluck them out of my hand.
I wonder that you have so quickly turned away from him that called you in the grace of Christ to another gospel,
Jesus from Nazareth, how God anointed him with the Holy Spirit and power, who went about doing good and curing all that were subjugated by the devil, for God was with him;
Then shall he say to those on his left hand, Depart from me accursed, into the eternal fire prepared for the devil and his angels.
Understand, my beloved brothers, and let every man be swift to hear, slow to speak, slow to anger;
and he is a propitiation for our sins, and not for ours only but for all the world.
And when he was performing the priest's office in the order of his class before God, it fell to his lot,
And there were prophets and teachers in the church at Antioch; Barnabas and Simeon called Niger [the black], and Lucius the Cyrenian, and Manaen the foster brother of Herod the Tetrarch, and Saul.
And taking bread, and giving thanks, he broke and gave them, saying, This is my body given for you; this do in remembrance of me.
and he is the head of the body, the church; who is the beginning, the first-born from the dead, that he might himself be preeminent in all things,
As his divine power has given us all things which pertain to life and piety, through the knowledge of him that has called us to his own glory and virtue,
Let no tempted one say, I am tempted by God; for God is not subject to temptation by evils, and he tempts no one.
And an angel of the Lord spoke to Philip, saying, Arise and go to the south, by the way that leads from Jerusalem to Gaza; this is a wilderness.
to Timothy my beloved son. Grace, mercy, peace, from God the Father and Christ Jesus our Lord.
Blessed is the man who endures trial, for when proved he shall receive the crown of life, which the Lord promised to those who love him.
And Peter answering, and the apostles, said, It is necessary to obey God rather than man.
Wherefore also there were born of one, and those of one dead, [a posterity] like the stars of heaven for multitude, and like the sands on the sea-shore innumerable.
For as the body is one and has many members, and all the members of the body being many are one body, so also is Christ;
For God gave us not a spirit of fear, but of power, and of love, and of a sound mind.
And he also spoke this parable to some who trusted in themselves that they were righteous, and despised others:
For, as a man going abroad called his servants, and delivered to them his estates;
But the fearful and unbelieving and abominable and murderers and fornicators and sorcerers and idolaters and all liars shall have their part in the lake which burns with fire and sulphur, which is the second death.
that all may be one, as thou, Father, art in me, and I in thee, that they also may be one in us, that the world may believe that thou hast sent me.
and Ram begat Aminadab, and Aminadab begat Nashon, and Nashon begat Salmon,
And as the multitude pressed upon him to hear the word of God, and he was standing by the lake of Gennesaret,
But there were also false prophets among the people, as there shall also be false teachers among you, who shall bring in by stealth destructive heresies, even denying the master that bought them, bringing on themselves swift destruction;
If any one among you is afflicted, let him pray; if any one is happy, let him sing psalms;
AND the multitude that believed had one heart and one soul, and none said that anything of his possessions was his; but they had all things common.
I tell you, No; but unless you change your minds you shall all in like manner be destroyed.
whence also he is able to save forever those who come to God through him, always living to intercede for them.
They therefore having come together asked him, saying, Lord, will you at this time restore the kingdom of Israel?
For the Son of man also came not to be served, but to serve and to give his life a ransom for many.
Let all the house of Israel therefore know certainly, that God has made this Jesus whom you crucified both Lord and Christ.
If any one comes to me, and hates not his father, and mother, and wife, and children, and brothers, and sisters, and still more his own life also, he cannot be my disciple.
Jesus said to him, Have I been so long a time with you and have you not known me, Philip? He that has seen me has seen the Father; and how say you, Show us the Father?
And the scribes and Pharisees watched him [to see] if he would perform a cure on the sabbath, that they might find [something of which] to accuse him.
If you continue in me, and my words continue in you, you shall ask whatever you will, and it shall be [given] you.
That which is born of the flesh is flesh; and that which is born of the Spirit is a spirit.
For I say through the grace given me, to every one among you, not to be higher-minded than he ought to be, but to think soberly, as God has distributed to each the measure of faith.
And he said to them, These are my words which I spoke to you while I was yet with you, that all things written in the law of Moses, and Prophets, and Psalms, concerning me, must be fully accomplished.
AND having arisen early on the first day of the week, he appeared first to Mary the Magdalene from whom he had cast out seven demons.
And, fathers, provoke not your children, but bring them up in the instruction and admonition of the Lord.
And after the sabbath, when it began to dawn on the first day of the week, came Mary the Magdalene, and the other Mary, to see the tomb.
Jesus answered, My kingdom is not of this world. If my kingdom had been of this world my officers would have fought for me, that I should not be given up to the Jews; but now my kingdom is not here.
Do nothing in strife or vain glory, but in humility let each esteem others better than himself,
But our kingdom is in heaven, from which also we expect the Saviour, the Lord Jesus Christ,
And when the sabbath was passed, Mary the Magdalene and Mary the mother of James, and Salome, bought spices, that they might come and anoint him.
BE not many of you teachers, my brothers, knowing that we shall receive a severer judgment.
For in him we live, and move, and are; as some also of your own poets have said, For we are his offspring.
for you have had five husbands, and he whom you now have is not your husband. In this you have spoken truly.
When therefore Jesus took the vinegar, he said, It is finished; and inclining his head gave up the spirit.
For so formerly also the holy women who hoped in God adorned themselves, being subject to their husbands,
And this is the message which we have heard from him and declare to you, That God is light, and with him there is no darkness.
For the sun rose hot, and withered the grass, and its flower fell off, and the beauty of its appearance perished; so also shall the rich man perish in his ways.
as each has received a gift, minister the same among yourselves as good stewards of the manifold grace of God.
And behold, two of them went the same day to a village about sixty stadiums [7 miles] from Jerusalem, called Emmaus;
I exhort therefore, first of all, that petitions, prayers, intercessions, thanksgivings should be offered for all men,
Think not that I have come to send peace on the earth. I have not come to send peace, but a sword.
Christ redeemed us from the curse of the law, having become a curse for us, for it is written, Cursed is every one that hangs on a tree,
Since then the children have partaken of blood and flesh, he in like manner also partook of them, that through death he might destroy him that has the power of death, that is the devil,
And the king shall answer and say to them, I tell you truly, that inasmuch as you have done it to one of the least of these my brothers, you have done it to me.
And he said to me, My grace is sufficient for you; for power is perfected in weakness.
according to the foreknowledge of God the Father, by sanctification of the Spirit, to obedience and the sprinkling of the blood of Jesus Christ. Grace and peace be multiplied to you.
I testify to every one that hears the words of the prophecy of this book. If any one adds to them, God shall add to him the plagues written in this book;
And one of the scribes coming forward hearing them disputing, knowing that he answered them well, asked him, What commandment is first of all?
which is present with you as also in all the world, and is fruitful and increases, as also with you, from the day that you heard and knew the grace of God in truth;
The Spirit is that which makes alive; the flesh profits nothing; the words which I have spoken to you are spirit and life.
Every one, therefore, that hears these words of mine and performs them, I will liken to a wise man who built his house on the rock;
By this we have known love, because he laid down his life for us; and we ought to lay down our lives for the brothers.
But I say this, brothers, that flesh and blood cannot inherit the kingdom of God, nor shall destruction inherit indestructibleness.
For I received of the Lord, what I also delivered to you; that on the night in which he was betrayed, the Lord Jesus took bread
but whoever drinks of the water which I will give him shall never thirst; but the water which I will give him shall be in him a fountain of water springing up to eternal life.
PAUL, a servant of Christ Jesus, called to be an apostle, set apart to the gospel of God,??2 which he promised by his prophets in the Holy Scriptures,??3 concerning his Son born of the posterity of David as to the flesh,
After this I saw, and behold, a great multitude, which no man could number, of every nation and of all tribes and peoples and tongues, standing before the throne and before the Lamb, clothed with white robes, and having palm branches in their hands;
I tell you most truly, he that enters not by the door into the sheepfold, but climbs in at some other place, he is a thief and robber;
Marriage is honorable in all, and married life without blame; but fornicators and adulterers God will judge.
And when Apollos was at Corinth, Paul, passing through the higher portions of the country, came to Ephesus, and found certain disciples;
And when you pray, be not like the hypocrites; for they love to pray standing in the synagogues, and at the corners of the streets, that they may be seen by men. I tell you truly, they have their reward.
You have heard that it was said, You shall love your neighbor, and hate your enemy.
For you are called to liberty, brothers, only make not your liberty an occasion for the flesh, but by love serve one another.
And the great dragon, the old serpent, who is called the devil and Satan, and who deceives all the world, was cast to the earth, and his angels were cast [to the earth] with him.
For thus shall you have an abundant entrance given you into the eternal kingdom of our Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ.
knowing that you were not redeemed from your vain mode of life received by tradition from your fathers, with destructible things, silver or gold,
And I saw thrones, and they sat on them, and judgment was given them, and the souls of those who have been beheaded for the testimony of Jesus and the word of God, and who did not worship the beast nor his image and did not receive the mark on their forehead and on their right hand; and they lived and reigned with Christ a thousand years;
praying with all prayer and supplication on every occasion with the spirit, and watching in the same with all perseverance and supplication for all the saints,
but these are recorded that you may believe that Jesus is the Christ, the Son of God, and that believing you may have life in his name.
In like manner let the women be subject to their husbands, that even if some disobey the word, they may be gained through the conduct of their wives without the word,
But do you think this, O man, who judge those doing such things and do the same, that you shall escape the judgment of God?
Then came Peter and said to him, Lord, how many times shall my brother sin against me and I forgive him? Till seven times?
and found and brought him to Antioch. And he was with them, and they met a whole year with the church and taught a great multitude; and the disciples first took the name of Christians at Antioch.
according to the custom of the priesthood, to go into the temple of the Lord to burn incense;
And no one has ascended into heaven but he that came down from heaven, the Son of man who is in heaven.
and Jesus being baptized went up immediately from the water, and behold, the heavens were opened, and he saw the Spirit of God descend like a dove and come upon him.
Then the Samaritan woman said to him, How do you, being a Jew, ask a drink of me, who am a Samaritan? for the Jews do no business with the Samaritans.
And as they were eating Jesus took the bread, and having blessed, broke and gave to the disciples, and said, Take, eat; this is my body.
AND entering again into Capernaum after some days, it was reported that he was in the house.
Then Jesus said to his disciples, If any one will come after me, let him deny himself, and take up his cross, and follow me.
And Jesus coming into the parts of Cesarea Philippi, asked his disciples, saying, Who do men say that the Son of man is?
And one of the multitude said to him, Teacher, tell my brother to divide with me the inheritance.
And I saw an angel descending from heaven, having the key of the abyss and a great chain in his hand.
A CERTAIN man was sick, Lazarus of Bethany, of the village of Mary and Martha her sister.
having been buried with him in baptism, in which you have also been raised together through the effectual faith of God who raised him from the dead;
by reading which you can understand my knowledge of the mystery of Christ,??5 which in other generations was not made known to the children of men as it has now been revealed to his holy apostles and prophets by the Spirit,
whom we preach, admonishing every man and teaching every man in all wisdom, that we may present every man perfect in Christ;
And not only [this], but we rejoice also in afflictions, knowing that affliction works out patience,
for the hope of eternal life, which God who cannot lie announced before eternal ages,
He that has my commandments and keeps them, he it is that loves me; and he that loves me shall be loved by my Father, and I will love him and manifest myself to him.
And if your hand offends you, cut it off; it is better for you to enter into life crippled, than having two hands to go away into hell, into the inextinguishable fire.
My brothers, have not the faith of our glorious Lord Jesus Christ with a respect of persons.
and the rich in his humiliation, for he shall pass away like a flower of the grass.
AND certain persons having come down from Judea taught the brothers, If you are not circumcised according to the custom of Moses you cannot be saved.
in whom the god of this life has blinded the minds of the unbelieving, that the light of the gospel of the glory of Christ, who is the likeness of God, may not shine.
And grieve not the Holy Spirit of God, by which you were sealed to the day of redemption.
And now, why do you delay? Arising, baptize and wash away your sins, calling on his name.
And as he was going on the way, one ran before and kneeled down to him, and asked him, Good teacher, what shall I do to inherit eternal life?
Put to death, therefore, your members which are on the earth, fornication, impurity, passion, evil desire, and covetousness which is idolatry,
He was in the world, and the world existed through him, and the world knew him not.
How then shall they call on him in whom they have not believed? and how shall they believe in him of whom they have not heard? and how shall they hear without one preaching?
For to this you were called, because Christ also suffered for us, leaving you a copy that you should follow his steps,
And we all with unvailed face beholding as in a glass the glory of the Lord, are transformed into the same likeness, from glory to glory, as by the Spirit of the Lord.
Therefore I tell you, all things whatever which you ask in prayer, believe that you shall receive them, and you shall have them.
asking if by any means I may now at some time have a prosperous journey by the will of God to come to you.
And calling the multitude, with his disciples, he said to them, Whoever wishes to follow after me, let him deny himself, and take up his cross and follow me.
There is one body, and one spirit, as you also are called in one hope of your call;
PAUL and Timothy, servants of Jesus Christ, to all the saints in Christ Jesus at Philippi, with the bishops and deacons.
but speaking the truth with love we may grow to him in all things, who is the head, Christ;
Then the kingdom of heaven shall be likened to ten virgins who took their own lamps and went out to meet the bridegroom;
The God who made the world and all things in it, this [God] being Lord of heaven and earth dwells not in temples made with hands,
But you have a few names in Sardis who have not defiled their garments, and they shall walk with me in white, for they are worthy.
which he bestowed on us abundantly with all wisdom and knowledge
These things have I written to you, that you who believe in the name of the Son of God may know that you have eternal life.
But be kind one to another, merciful, giving one to another, as God also in Christ gave to you.
Even the dust of your city which adheres to our feet we wipe off for you; but know this, that the kingdom of God is at hand.
The elders among you I exhort, who am a co-elder and witness of the sufferings of Christ, and a partaker of the glory to be revealed;
And this is the testimony, that God gave us eternal life, and this life is in his Son.
but God who is rich in mercy, on account of his great love with which he loved us,??5 even when we were dead in sins he made us alive with Christ,??y grace are you saved,
and he will wipe away every tear from their eyes, and death shall be no more, nor shall lamentation nor crying nor pain be any more, for the former things have passed away.
She following Paul and us, cried, saying, These men are servants of the Most High God, who declare to us the way of salvation;
And I saw another angel flying in mid-heaven, having the eternal gospel to preach to those who dwell on the earth and to every nation and tribe and tongue and people,
And fear not those who kill the body and are not able to kill the soul; but rather fear him who is able to destroy both soul and body in hell.
And the eleven disciples went to Galilee on the mountain where Jesus had appointed them;
Therefore we also, from the day that we heard, cease not to pray for you, and to ask that you may be filled with the knowledge of his will in all wisdom and spiritual understanding,
to whom also he presented himself living after his suffering, by many proofs, being seen by them during forty days, and speaking things relating to the kingdom of God.
Let no man therefore judge you in eating and in drinking, or in respect to a feast, or new moon, or sabbath,
For God's righteousness is revealed in it by faith in the faith [the gospel]; as it is written; The righteous shall live by faith.
Behold, he comes with the clouds, and every eye shall see him and those who pierced him, and all the tribes of the earth shall mourn because of him. Yes, amen.
praising God, and having favor with all the people. And the Lord added the saved, day by day, to the assembly [church].
For you received not the spirit of servitude again to fear, but you received the spirit of adoption, by which we cry; Abba, Father.
In those days came Jesus from Nazareth of Galilee, and was baptized in the Jordan by John;
in whom also we have been called, having been predestinated according to the purpose of him who works out all things according to the counsel of his will,
And the devil who deceived them was cast into the lake of fire and sulphur, where also the beast and the false prophet [were cast], and they shall be tormented day and night forever and ever.
Let us not be weary of well doing; for in due season we shall reap if we faint not.
I indeed baptize you with water to a change of mind; but he that comes after me is mightier than I, whose shoes I am not fit to bear; he shall baptize you with the Holy Spirit, and fire;
having been born again, not from destructible seed but from indestructible, through the word of God which lives and endures.
And Jesus was about thirty years old, being, as was supposed, the son of Joseph, the son of Eli,
And he answered and said, You shall love the Lord your God with all your heart, and with all your soul, and with all your strength, and with all your mind, and your neighbor as yourself.
And this is the confidence which we have in respect to him, that if we ask any thing according to his will he hears us.
And confessedly great is the mystery of piety; [Christ,] who was manifested in the flesh, was justified in the spirit, was seen by angels, was preached to the nations, was believed on in the world, was received up into glory.
Who shall separate us from the love of Christ? Shall affliction or distress, persecution or famine, or nakedness, or peril, or the sword?
Retain the form of sound words which you heard from me in faith and the love in Christ Jesus.
Wherefore God also highly exalted him, and gave him a name which is above every name,
Let no evil word proceed out of your mouth, but that which is good for useful edification, that it may afford benefit to those that hear.
But of that day and hour no man knows, nor the angels of heaven; but my Father only.
Behold, I send the promise of my Father upon you; but remain in the city till you are endued with power from on high.
Jesus said to her, Do not touch me; for I have not yet ascended to the Father; but go to my brothers and tell them, I ascend to my Father and your Father, and my God and your God.
JESUS spoke these words and lifted up his eyes to heaven, and said, Father, the hour has come; glorify thy Son, that the Son may glorify thee,
Whence come wars and contentions among you? Come they not thence, from your pleasures that war in your members?
AND some were present at that time, telling him of the Galileans whose blood Pilate mingled with their sacrifices.
and whatever you do in word or in work, do all in the name of the Lord Jesus, giving thanks to the God [and] Father through him.
You have heard that it was said by the ancients, You shall not kill; and whoever kills shall be subject to the judgment.
draw nigh to God and he will draw nigh to you. Cleanse your hands, sinners, purify your hearts, double-minded.
but grow in grace and in the knowledge of our Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ. To him be the glory both now and forever.
Little children, it is the last time; and as you heard that antichrist is coming, even now many have become anti-christs; whence we know that it is the last time.
When, therefore, you see the abomination of desolation, spoken of by Daniel the prophet, standing in a holy place??et him that reads understand,??16 then let those in Judea flee to the mountains.
I have showed you all things, that so laboring you ought to help the weak, and to remember the words of the Lord Jesus, that he said, It is more blessed to give than to receive.
And every one who hears these words of mine and performs them not, shall be likened to a foolish man, who built his house on the sand;
Blessed be the God and lather of our Lord Jesus Christ, the Father of mercies and God of all comfort,
For I tell you truly, that till heaven and earth pass away, one iota or one point shall by no means pass away from the law till all things are accomplished.
and that a change of mind and forgiveness of sins should be preached in his name to all nations, beginning from Jerusalem.
But the day of the Lord will come as a thief, in which the heavens shall pass away with a crash, and the elements be melted with heat, and the earth and the works in it be consumed.
Wherefore, remember that you were formerly gentiles by birth, called uncircumcision by that called circumcision made in the flesh by the hand,
And we have known and believed the love which God has for us. God is love; and he that continues in love continues in God and God in him.
as you learned from Epaphras our beloved fellow-servant, who is a faithful minister of Christ for you,
After these things he showed himself again to the disciples at the lake of Tiberias; and he showed himself thus.
I earnestly charge you before God and Christ Jesus who is about to judge the living and dead, and [by] his appearing and his kingdom,
JAMES, a servant of God and of 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 we have the more sure prophetic word, to which you will do well to attend, as to a light shining in a dark place, till the day dawns and the day-star arises in your hearts,
Put on the whole armor of God that you may be able to stand against the wiles of the devil;
Then, for this reason, the Jews sought the more to kill him, because he not only broke the sabbath but also said, that God was his Father, making himself equal with God.
But if we or an angel from heaven preach you another gospel contrary to what we have preached you let him be accursed.
for the time will come when they will not endure sound instruction, but will accumulate for themselves teachers according to their desires, pleasing their ear,
And they kept the word, inquiring with themselves what the rising from the dead meant.
HAVING therefore, brothers, confidence in respect to the entrance into the sanctuary by the blood of Jesus,
the Spirit of truth, which the world cannot receive, because it beholds it not nor knows it; but you know it, because it continues with you, and shall be in you.
AND in the fifteenth year of the reign of Tiberius Caesar, Pontius Pilate being procurator of Judea, and Herod tetrarch of Galilee, and Philip his brother tetrarch of Ituria and the country of Trachonitis, and Lysanias being tetrarch of Abilene,
And there were shepherds in that country staying in the fields and watching their flock by night.
Blessed are those that hunger and thirst for righteousness, for they shall be filled.
For God is my witness, whom I serve with my spirit in the gospel of his Son, how incessantly I make mention of you, always in my prayers
for the perfecting of the saints, for the work of the ministry, for the edification of the body of Christ,
For if these are in you and abound, they will make you not inactive nor unfruitful in the knowledge of our Lord Jesus Christ;
Let us therefore approach with boldness the throne of grace, that we may obtain mercy and find grace for timely aid.
through which have been given us very great and precious promises, that by these you might be partakers of the divine nature, having escaped from the corruption which is in the world by inordinate desire,
Let no one despise your youth, but be an example to the faithful, in word, in conduct, in love, in faith, in purity.
For we must all appear before the tribunal of Christ, that each one may receive through the body for what he has done, whether it is good or evil.
But Peter standing up with the eleven lifted up his voice and said to them, Men of Judea, and all who live at Jerusalem, be this known to you, and attend to my words.
I exhort you, brothers, to observe those that cause dissensions and offenses contrary to the teaching which you learned, and avoid them;
Owe no man any thing, except to love one another; for he that loves another has fully performed the law.
holding firmly the faithful word taught, that he may be able both to exhort with sound instruction and to convince those who contradict.
that John baptized indeed with water, but you shall be baptized with the Holy Spirit after a few days.
Obey your guides and be in subjection; for they watch for your souls as having to give an account, that they may do this with joy and not with grief; for this is unprofitable for you.
And he lifted up his eyes upon his disciples and said, Blessed are you poor, for yours is the kingdom of God.
for we have all been baptized with one Spirit in one body, whether Jews or Greeks, whether servants or freemen, and have all been made to drink one Spirit.
All these continued with one accord in prayer, with the women, and with Mary the mother of Jesus, and his brothers.
he that commits sin is of the devil, for the devil sinned from the beginning. For this was the Son of God manifested, to destroy the works of the devil.
speaking to yourselves in psalms and hymns and spiritual songs, singing and making music in your hearts to the Lord,
knowing that a man is not justified by works of the law but by the faith of Jesus Christ, we also have believed in Jesus Christ, that we may be justified by faith and not by works of the law, because by works of the law shall no flesh be justified.
but as it is written, An eye has not seen, an ear has not heard, neither have entered into the heart of man the things which God has prepared for those that love him;
this man, delivered up by the determinate counsel and foreknowledge of God, you have affixed to the cross, and killed by the hand of the wicked,
O the depth of the riches both of the wisdom and knowledge of God! how inscrutable are his judgments, and his ways can not be explored!
And behold one came and said to him, Teacher, what good [work] shall I do that I may have eternal life?
But life precious to myself, I make of no account that I may finish my course and the service which I received of the Lord Jesus, to testify the gospel of the grace of God.
For I go to prepare a place for you; and if I go and shall prepare a place for you, I will come again and receive you to myself, that where I am you may also be.
and from Jesus Christ, the faithful witness, the first born from the dead, and the ruler of the kings of the earth. To him that loved us and washed us from our sins with his blood,
But if their fall is the riches of the world, and their diminution the riches of nations, how much more will their fullness be.
And Jesus said to him, If you are able? all things are possible to him that believes.
preach the word, press it in season, out of season, reprove, rebuke, exhort, with all long-suffering and instruction;
Wherefore by the works of the law there shall no flesh be justified is his sight, for by the law there is an acknowledgment of sin.
And when we went to the proseuche, a certain female servant having a spirit, a diviner, met us, who brought her masters much gain by divining.
Behold, I tell you a mystery; we shall not all sleep, but we shall all be changed,
Every one, therefore, who shall confess me before men, him will I also confess before my Father in heaven;
that I may know him, and the power of his resurrection, and the participation of his sufferings, being conformed to his death,
While Peter was yet speaking these words the Holy Spirit fell on all who heard the word.
and continuing day by day with one accord in the temple, and breaking bread from house to house, they partook of food with gladness and simplicity of mind,
and Jesus went to the Mount of Olives.
And may the God of peace himself purify you wholly, and your whole spirit, and soul, and body, be preserved blameless at the coming of our Lord Jesus Christ.
And to the angel of the church in Laodicea write, These things says the Amen, the faithful and true witness, the beginning of the creation of God,
And I say to the unmarried and to the widows, that it is good for them to continue as I am;
and the hope makes not ashamed, because the love of God has been poured out in our hearts through the Holy Spirit given us.
because having known God they glorified him not as God neither were thankful, but became vain in their reasonings and their ignorant mind was darkened.
And John also was baptizing at AEnon, near Salim, because there were many waters there; and they came and were baptized,
I have come to send a fire on the earth; and what will I if it is already kindled?
and at about the ninth hour Jesus cried with a loud voice, saying, Eli, Eli, lama sabachthani? that is, My God, my God, why hast thou forsaken me?
There is no fear in love; but perfect love casts out fear; for fear has pain; and he that is afraid is not made perfect in love.
In the days of Herod the king of Judea, there was a certain priest by the name of Zachariah, of the class of Abijah; and his wife was of the daughters of Aaron, and her name was Elizabeth.
And almost all things, according to the law, are purified with blood, and without the pouring out of blood there is no forgiveness.
but if I delay, that you may know how you ought to conduct yourself in the house of God, which is the church of the living God, the pillar and foundation of the truth.
But I wish you not to be ignorant, brothers, that I often purposed to come to you, and was hindered hitherto, that I might have some fruit also among you, as among the other gentiles.
And as they went on the way they came to a certain water, and the eunuch said, Behold water; what hinders me from being baptized?
Wherefore, girding up the loins of your minds, be sober, and hope to the end for the gift to be brought to you by the revelation of Jesus Christ.
But the natural man receives not the [things] of the Spirit of God, for they are foolishness to him, and he cannot know them, for they are spiritually discerned.
Woe to you scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites! For you tithe mint, and anise, and cummin, and have neglected the weightier matters of the law, justice, mercy, and faith. These you ought to do, and not neglect the others.
First, indeed, I thank my God through Jesus Christ for you all, that your faith is proclaimed in all the world.
whom God set forth [to be] a propitiator through faith in his blood, to show his righteousness because of the passing by of the errors committed previously in the forbearance of God,
For the Father loves the Son, and shows him all things which he does; and greater works than these will he show him, that you may wonder.
And the Spirit and the bride say, Come. And let him that hears say, Come. And let him that thirsts, come; let him that will, take the water of life freely.
THEN Jesus, six days before the passover, came to Bethany, where Lazarus was whom Jesus had raised from the dead.
confirming the souls of the disciples, and exhorting them to continue in the faith, and that through many afflictions we must enter into the kingdom of God.
And there shall be signs in the sun, and moon, and stars; and on the earth distress of nations, with perplexity [at] the roaring of the sea and waves,
and said to those that sold doves, Take these things hence; make not my Father's house a house of merchandise.
circumcised the eighth day, of the race of Israel, of the tribe of Benjamin, a Hebrew of the Hebrews, as to the law a Pharisee,
behold also the ships, though of so great size and driven by powerful winds, are directed by a very small helm wherever the will of the pilot chooses;
to open their eyes, to turn them from darkness to light, and from the power of Satan to God, that they may receive forgiveness of sins and an inheritance among the sanctified by faith in me.
And Jesus returned with the power of the Spirit to Galilee; and his fame went out into all the region around.
If he called them gods to whom the word of God came, and the Scripture cannot be broken,
See my hands and my feet, that I am he; feel of me, and see; for a spirit has not flesh and bones as you see me have.
Wherefore leaving the account of the beginning of Christ, let us go on to perfection, not laying again the foundation of a change of mind from dead works, and of faith in God,
and whatever you ask in my name I will do, that the Father may be glorified in the Son.
AND Peter and John went up together to the temple at the hour of prayer, which is the ninth hour.
I am the Alpha and the Omega, says the Lord God; the Is, and the Was, and the Is to come, the Almighty.
And on that day, when it was evening, he said to them, Let us cross over to the other side.
who gave himself for us, that he might redeem us from all wickedness, and purify for himself a peculiar people, zealous of good works.
You heard that I said to you, I will go away and come to you. If you loved me you would rejoice because I go to the Father, for the Father is greater than I.
and what you heard from me through many witnesses, these things commit to faithful men, who shall be competent to teach others also.
You are of God, little children, and have overcome them, because greater is he that is in you than he that is in the world.
And there was a war in heaven, Michael and his angels fighting with the dragon. And the dragon fought and his angels,
Wherefore God also gave them up with the desires of their hearts to impurity, to disgrace their bodies among themselves,
For I rejoiced exceedingly when the brothers came and testified of your truth, as you walk in truth.
And they sung a new song, saying, Thou art worthy to take the book and to open its seals, for thou wast killed and hast redeemed to God with thy blood [men] from every tribe and tongue and people and nation,
Then shall the king say to those on his right hand, Come, blessed of my Father, inherit the kingdom prepared for you from the foundation of the world;
Thou art worthy, our Lord and God, to receive glory and honor and power, for thou hast created all things, and on account of thy will they are and were created.
I am the door; by me if any one enters in he shall be saved, and go in and out, and find pasturage.
Nicodemus answered and said to him, How can these things be?
But of that day, and hour, knows no man, not an angel in heaven, nor the Son; but the Father.
Admonish them to be subject to principalities, to powers, to obey magistrates, to be ready for every good work,
AND a certain man at Caesarea, named Cornelius, a centurion of the cohort which was called the Italian,
And they inquired among themselves which of them it was who was about to do this.
in these last days spoke to us by his Son, whom he appointed heir of all things, through whom also he made the worlds,
And when all the people were baptized, Jesus also being baptized, and praying, heaven was opened,
And he said to them, See, and beware of all covetousness; for one's life depends not on the abundance of his property.
And these shall go away into eternal punishment, but the righteous into life eternal.
He shall be great, and shall be called the Son of the Most High. And the Lord God shall give him the throne of David his father,
But we see Jesus, made a little less than angels, on account of the suffering of death crowned with glory and honor, that by the grace of God he should taste death for every [man].
but having different gifts according to the grace given us, if prophecy [let us prophesy] according to the analogy of the faith,
AFTER these things Jesus and his disciples came into the country of Judea; and there he staid with them, and baptized.
I exhort you, brothers, by the name of our Lord Jesus Christ, that you all speak the same thing, and that there be no divisions among you, but that you be perfected in the same mind and the same will.
AND when the days were completed for his being taken up, he set his face firmly to go to Jerusalem.
This I say then and testify in the Lord, that you no longer walk as the other gentiles walk, in the vanity of their minds,
Every one who believes that Jesus is the Christ has been born of God, and every one who loves the Father loves also the Son who is born to him.
And may the God of hope fill you with all joy and peace in believing, that you may abound in hope by the power of the Holy Spirit.
Behold, I come quickly, and my reward is with me, to give every one as his work is.
And they brought him little children that he should touch them; and the disciples rebuked those who brought them.
AND about eight days after these words, taking Peter, and James, and John, he went up on the mountain to pray.
There is now a judgment of this world; the ruler of this world shall now be cast out;
And immediately after the affliction of those days the sun shall be darkened, and the moon shall not give her light, and the stars shall fall from heaven, and the powers of the heavens shall be shaken.
continue in me, and I in you. As the branch cannot bear fruit of itself unless it continues in the vine, so you cannot, unless you continue in me.
For those once enlightened and having tasted of the heavenly gift and been made partakers of the Holy Spirit,
Not that I have already obtained it, or have been already made perfect; but I follow on that I may attain that for which also I was arrested by Christ.
And having appointed them elders in every church, and having prayed with fasting, they commended them to the Lord in whom they had believed.
Wait patiently therefore, brothers, till the coming of the Lord. Behold, the husbandman waits for the precious fruit of the earth, and is of long patience, till he receives the autumnal and vernal rain.
We know by faith that the worlds were made by the word of God, that the seen was not made from the apparent.
And he immediately constrained the disciples to go into a ship and go before him to the other side, till he should dismiss the multitudes.
because what can be known of God is manifest among them; for God has manifested [himself] to them.
AND he also said to the disciples, There was a certain rich man that had a steward; and he was accused to him of wasting his property.
And other sheep I have which are not of this fold; and them I must lead, and they shall hear my voice, and there shall be one flock, one shepherd.
The archetype of which, baptism, also now saves us, not the putting away of the filth of the flesh, but the answer of a good conscience in God, through the resurrection of Jesus Christ,
because he has appointed a day in which he is about to judge the world in righteousness, by the man whom he has appointed, giving assurance to all by raising him from the dead.
And there were six stone water jars there, placed for the purification of the Jews, containing two or three metretes [16.75 or 25.125 gallons] each.
In this is love; not that we loved God, but that he loved us, and sent his Son a propitiation for our sins.
He that believes in me, as the Scripture has said, out of him shall flow rivers of living water.
And take the helmet of salvation, and the sword of the Spirit, which is the word of God,
or does he speak entirely for our sakes? For our sakes, doubtless, it was written, that he who plows should plow in hope, and that he who threshes in hope should partake of it.
For I wish you not to be ignorant, brothers, of this mystery; that you may not be wise in your own conceit. For hardness in part has come upon Israel, till the fullness of the gentiles shall come in,
And whoever was not found enrolled in the book of life was cast into the lake of fire.
And being asked by the Pharisees when the kingdom of God comes, he answered them and said, The kingdom of God comes not with observation;
And he said to them, It is not your [province] to know the times or seasons which the Father has appointed by his own authority;
When, therefore, he was raised from the dead, his disciples remembered that he said this, and they believed the Scripture and the word which Jesus spoke.
AND the Pharisees and some of the scribes having come from Jerusalem came together to him,
But because they believed Philip preaching the good news of the kingdom of God and the name of Jesus Christ, they were baptized both men and women.
Therefore I said to you, You shall die in your sins; for if you believe not that I am [the Christ], you shall die in your sins.
And Saul consented to his death. And at that time there was a great persecution of the church at Jerusalem; and they were all scattered abroad through the regions of Judea and Samaria, except the apostles.
For what is a man profited, if he shall gain the whole world and lose his life? Or what will a man give as an exchange for his life?
And from Moses, and from all the prophets, he interpreted to them in all the Scriptures the things concerning himself.
And I am no longer in the world, and these are in the world, and I come to thee. Holy Father, keep in thy name those whom thou hast given me, that they may be one as we also are.
I think it right as long as I am in this tabernacle, to excite you by remembrance,
testifying both to Jews and Greeks the change of mind to God, and the faith in our Lord Jesus.
for the husband is the head of the wife, as also Christ is the head of the church; he is the savior of the body.
Our fathers worshipped in this mountain, and you say that Jerusalem is the place where men ought to worship.
For if we sin willingly after having received the knowledge of the truth, there is no longer a sacrifice left for sins,
But let not this one thing escape you, beloved, that one day with the Lord is as a thousand years, and a thousand years as one day.
At that time Jesus answering said, I thank thee, Father, Lord of heaven and earth, that thou hast hid these things from the wise and intelligent, and hast revealed them to babes.
Then the Jews said to him, Forty-six years was this temple being built, and will you raise it in three days?
For there is no difference between Jew and Greek; for the same Lord of all is rich to all that call upon him.
being built on the foundation of the apostles and prophets, Jesus Christ himself being the chief corner-stone,
And now I commend you to God, and the word of his grace, who is able to build you up and to give you an inheritance with all the sanctified.
For false Christs and false prophets shall be raised up, and shall show great signs and wonders, so as to deceive, if possible, even the elect.
and you being dead in sins and in the uncircumcision of your flesh, he has made you alive with him, having forgiven us all sins,
And I wrote the same to you that coming I might not have sorrow for those in whom I ought to have joy, having trusted in you all that my joy is the joy of you all.
for you know the grace of our Lord Jesus Christ, that for your sakes he became poor, though rich, that you by his poverty might be rich.
PAUL, an apostle of Christ Jesus by the will of God, to the saints in [Ephesus] and the faithful in Christ Jesus.
And while they served the Lord and fasted, the Holy Spirit said, Separate me Barnabas and Saul for the work to which I have called them.
I consider not myself, brothers, to have attained it; but this one thing I do; forgetting the things behind, and reaching forward to those before,
as new born babes desire earnestly the pure milk of the word, that you may grow by it to salvation,
Not that I speak of want; for I have learned in whatever circumstances I am to be contented.
A REVELATION of Jesus Christ, which God gave him, to show his servants [things] which must shortly occur, and he sent and made them known by his angel to his servant John,
Let no one deceive you in any way, for [he shall not come] unless the apostacy comes first, and the man of sin is revealed, the son of destruction,
Because the minding of the flesh is enmity against God; for it is not subject to the law of God; for it can not be.
They said therefore, What is this that he says, The little while? We do not know what he says.
and Asa begat Jehoshaphat, and Jehoshaphat begat Jehoram, and Jehoram begat Uzziah,
And Jesus went away, and his disciples, to the villages of Caesarea Philippi; and on the way he asked his disciples, saying to them, Who do men say that I am?
much more then being now justified by his blood, we shall be saved through him from wrath.
Then Jesus said to them, I tell you most truly, unless you eat the flesh of the Son of man and drink his blood, you have no life in you.
And Paul standing in the midst of the Areopagus said, Men of Athens, I perceive that in all things you are extremely devoted to the worship of demons.
To whom coming, a living stone, rejected indeed by men but approved by God, elect, precious,
And he delivered them another parable, saying; The kingdom of heaven is like a man sowing good seed in his field;
For as we have many members in one body, and all the members have not the same office,
And Jesus said to them, On account of your unbelief. For I tell you truly, if you have a faith like a mustard seed, you shall say to this mountain, Be removed thence to that place, and it shall be removed; and nothing shall be impossible to you.
but I tell you, that every one who looks on a woman to desire her inordinately, has already committed adultery with her in his heart.
I have written to you, having confidence in your obedience, knowing that you will do even more than I say.
Now I rejoice in sufferings for you, and supply the deficiencies of the afflictions of Christ in my flesh for his body, which is the church,
for every child that has been born of God overcomes the world; and this is the victory which overcomes the world, our faith.
If you then, being evil, know how to give good gifts to your children, how much more shall the Father from heaven give the Holy Spirit to them that ask him.
And because you are sons, God has sent forth the Spirit of his Son into your hearts, crying, Abba, Father.
And having said this he breathed on them, and said to them, Receive the Holy Spirit.
Jesus answered and said to her, Every one that drinks of this water will thirst again;
do you also yourselves be built up living stones, a spiritual house, a holy priesthood, to offer spiritual sacrifices well pleasing to God through Jesus Christ,
for as the woman is of the man, so also the man is through the woman, but all things are from God.
And he answered and said, Have you not read that the Creator at the beginning made them male and female?
But I tell you, that every one who is angry with his brother shall be subject to the judgment; and whoever says to his brother, Worthless fellow, shall be subject to the Sanhedrim; and whoever says, You fool, shall be subject to the hell of fire.
And if children, [we are] also heirs, heirs indeed of God and co-heirs with Christ, if we suffer with him that we may also be glorified with him.
And may he that supplies seed to the sower and bread for eating multiply your grain, and increase the products of your righteousness;
I tell you most truly, that unless the kernel of wheat falls into the earth and dies, it continues alone; but if it dies, it bears much fruit.
And he was going to Jerusalem, and he passed through the midst of Samaria and Galilee.
AND calling together the twelve, he gave them power and authority over all demons, and to cure diseases,
as the Son of man came not to be served, but to serve, and to give his life a ransom for many.
For we brought nothing into the world; it is clear that we can carry nothing out of it;
But Jesus said, Suffer the little children to come to me, and forbid them not, for of such is the kingdom of heaven.
Wherefore you are inexcusable, O man, whoever you are that judge, for in that in which you judge another you condemn yourself; for you who judge do the same things.
Jesus performed also many other miracles in the presence of his disciples which are not recorded in this book;
and on this account the Jews persecuted Jesus, because he had done these things on the sabbath.
how much more shall the blood of Christ, who with an eternal spirit offered himself without fault to God, purify your conscience from dead works to serve the living God.
knowing this that our old man was crucified with him, that the body of sin might be destroyed, that we should no longer serve sin;
AND in those days came John the Baptist preaching in the wilderness of Judea, saying,
And [consider] this, He that sows sparingly shall reap also sparingly, and he that sows liberally shall reap also liberally.
I can do nothing of myself; as I hear, I judge, and my judgment is just, for I seek not my will, but the will of him that sent me.
Wherefore, laying aside lying let every one speak the truth to his neighbor, for we are members one of another.
Is not this the carpenter? the son of Mary? and a brother of James, and Joset, and Judas, and Simon? And are not his sisters here with us? And they were offended with him.
or do you despise the riches of his goodness and forbearance and long suffering, not knowing that the goodness of God leads you to a change of mind?
And I tell you, Ask, and it shall be given you; seek, and you shall find; knock, and it shall be opened to you;
AND the seventh angel sounded; and there were loud voices in heaven, saying, the kingdom of the world has become our Lord's and his Christ's, and he shall reign forever and ever.
I no longer call you servants, for the servant knows not what his Lord does; but I have called you friends: for all things which I have heard from my Father I have made known to you.
And Jesus crying with a loud voice, said, Father, into thy hands I commit my spirit; and having said this, he expired.
saying, Father, if thou wilt, take this cup away from me; but not my will, but thine be done.
that you should lay aside your former mode of life the old man destroyed by deceitful desires,
For God is my witness, how much I desire you all with the tender affections of Christ Jesus.
I am the living bread which came down from heaven; if any one eats of this bread, he shall live forever; and the bread which I will give for the life of the world is my flesh.
Every ravine shall be filled up, and every mountain and hill shall be made low; and the crooked shall be made straight, and the rough ways smooth;
And if the Spirit of him that raised Jesus from the dead dwells in you, he that raised Christ from the dead shall make alive your mortal bodies through his Spirit that dwells in you.
And Simon Peter answered and said, You are the Christ, the Son of the living God.
filled with the fruit of righteousness, through Jesus Christ, to the glory and praise of God.
And to each one of us is given grace according to the measure of the gift of Christ.
And they came to Jericho. And as he went from Jericho, and his disciples and a great multitude, the son of Timeus, Bartimeus, a blind beggar, sat by the way.
to whom all from the least to the greatest attended, saying, This is the power of God which is called great.
And when he opened the fifth seal, I saw under the altar the souls of those killed for the word of God and for the testimony which they had.
For to you was born to-day in the city of David, a Saviour who is the anointed Lord.
And the other came, saying, Lord, behold your mina, which I had laid up in a napkin;
And the multitudes knowing it followed him. And having received them, he spoke to them of the kingdom of God, and cured those having need of cure.
And passing through Phrygia and the country of Galatia, being forbidden by the Holy Spirit to speak the word in Asia,
And he travelled in order through the cities and villages, proclaiming and preaching the good news of the kingdom of God; and the twelve were with him,
but of the Son, Thy throne, God, is forever and ever; the sceptre of thy kingdom is a sceptre of rectitude.
not vindicating yourselves, beloved, but give place to wrath; for it is written, Judgment is mine, I will repay, says the Lord.
O FOOLISH Galatians, who has fascinated you, before whose eyes Jesus Christ has been set forth among you crucified?
And the synagogue ruler answered, being angry because Jesus had performed a cure on the sabbath, and said to the multitude, There are six days in which you ought to work; in them, therefore, come and be cured, and not on the sabbath.
Let each one contribute as he chooses in his heart, not with regret or from necessity; for God loves a cheerful giver.
and said to them, Thus it is written, that the Christ should suffer, and rise from the dead on the third day,
John, to the seven churches in Asia. Grace and peace be to you, from the Is and the Was and the Is to come, and from the seven spirits which are before his throne,
And he will show you a large upper room, furnished, ready; and there prepare for us.
And when they came, they went up into the upper room where staid Peter and John, and James and Andrew, Philip and Thomas, Bartholomew and Matthew, James the son of Alpheus and Simon the Zealot, and Judas the [brother] of James.
And a certain ruler asked him, saying, Good teacher, what shall I do to inherit eternal life?
and be not partakers of the unfruitful works of darkness, but rather reprove them.
In like manner let the husbands [do], living together in knowledge with the wife as with a vessel of less strength, deeming them precious, co-heirs of the grace of life, that your prayers may not be hindered.
For we formerly were foolish, disobedient, deceived, serving various desires and pleasures, living in malice and envy, detestable, and hating one another;
and in like manner also, that women in becoming apparel with modesty and sobriety adorn themselves, not with plaited hair, or gold, or pearls, or costly clothing,
And I stood on the sand of the sea. And I saw a beast come up out of the sea, having ten horns and seven heads, and upon his horns ten diadems, and upon his heads names of blasphemy.
And a certain woman by the name of Lydia, a dealer in purple, of the city of Thyatira, who worshipped God, heard, whose heart the Lord opened to attend to the [words] spoken by Paul.
Behold, I give you power to tread on serpents and scorpions, and on all the power of the enemy; and nothing shall by any means injure you;
who are born not of superior blood, nor of a will of the flesh, nor of a will of man, but of God.
and judge not, and you shall not be judged; and condemn not, and you shall not be condemned; release, and you shall be released;
knowing that the putting off of my tabernacle is at hand, as our Lord Jesus Christ showed me.
And he said to them, Is it lawful to do good on the sabbath, or to do evil? to save life, or to kill? And they were silent.
knowing that whatever good each one does, for this he shall receive from the Lord, whether a servant or a freeman.
And on the next day he went to a city called Nain, and a considerable number of his disciples and a great multitude went with him.
But we know that whatever the law says, it says to those having the law, that every mouth may be stopped and all the world become guilty before God.
And at the ninth hour Jesus cried with a loud voice, saying, Eloi! Eloi! lama sabachthani? which is interpreted, my God! my God! why hast thou forsaken me?
AND in those days he went out on the mountain to pray, and spent the whole night in prayer to God.
The love of God was manifested to us in this; that God has sent his only Son into the world that we may live through him.
For if God spared not the angels that sinned, but plunging them into Tartarus delivered them up in chains to be kept in darkness till the judgment,
Again, I tell you, that if two of you shall agree on the earth concerning any thing for which they shall ask, they shall have it from my Father in heaven;
But he knew their thoughts, and said to the man having the withered hand, Arise, and stand in the midst. And he arose and stood.
AND after six days Jesus took Peter, and James, and John, and brought them up on a high mountain by themselves alone, and was transfigured before them;
We ought therefore to attend the more to the things which we heard, lest at any time we should glide away [from them].
and for the same purpose also, giving all diligence add to your faith virtue, and to virtue knowledge,
for at that time there shall be great affliction, such as has not been from the beginning of the world even till now, nor ever shall be.
PETER, an apostle of Jesus Christ, to the elect strangers of the dispersion of Pontus, Galatia, Cappadocia, Asia and Bithynia,
and Hezekiah begat Manassah, and Manassah begat Amon, and Amon begat Josiah,
What defense then have we? None at all; for we before asserted that both Jews and Greeks are all under sin,
What wise and intelligent man is there among you? Let him show his works by good conduct, in the meekness of wisdom.
to whom God was pleased to make known what is the riches of the glory of this mystery among the nations, which is Christ in you, the hope of glory,
Many of the Jews therefore read this inscription, because the place where Jesus was crucified was nigh the city; and it was written in Hebrew, Latin, and Greek.
Then he said to the man, Stretch out your hand; and he stretched it out, and it was restored as sound as the other;
And the gentiles hearing this rejoiced and glorified the word of the Lord, and as many as were appointed to eternal life believed;
And Zachariah said to the angel, By what shall I know this? for I am an old man, and my wife advanced in years.
But what does it say? The word is nigh you, in your mouth and in your mind; that is, the word of the faith which we preach.
For the love of money is a root of all evils, which some having desired have been misled from the faith, and pierced themselves through with many sorrows.
And all things are of God, who has reconciled us to himself by Jesus Christ, and given us the ministry of the reconciliation,
To him all the prophets bear witness, that every one who believes in him has forgiveness of sins through his name.
Know you not that those who run in the race all indeed run, but one takes the prize. So run that you may obtain.
AND after six days Jesus took Peter, and James, and John, his brother, and led them up on a high mountain by themselves.
And Jesus replied and said, A certain man went down from Jerusalem to Jericho, and fell among robbers, who both stripped him and inflicted blows upon him, and went away leaving him half dead.
And in those days Peter standing up in the midst of the brothers, said??he multitude together was about a hundred and twenty??16 Men and brothers, it was necessary that the Scripture should be fulfilled which the Holy Spirit spoke before by the mouth of David, concerning Judas who became a guide to them that apprehended Jesus;
And as he sat on the Mount of Olives the disciples came to him privately, saying, Tell us when these things shall be; and what shall be the sign of your coming, and of the consummation of the world?
be kindly disposed one to another with brotherly love, in honor prefer one another,
Behold, I send you forth as sheep in the midst of wolves; be therefore wise as serpents and harmless as doves.
For I also am a man under authority, having soldiers under me; and I say to this man, Go, and he goes; and to another, Come, and he comes; and to my servant, Do this, and he does it.
Of his own will begat he us by the word of truth, that we should be a kind of first fruit of his creatures.
for I was hungry and you gave me food; I was thirsty and you gave me drink; I was a stranger and you took me in;
The word is true and worthy of all acceptation, that Christ Jesus came into the world to save sinners, of whom I am chief;
this is my blood of the new covenant, which is poured out for many for the forgiveness of sins.
And now glorify thou me, Father, with thyself, with the glory which I had with thee before the world was.
if any one is blameless, a husband of one wife, having faithful children, not accused of intemperance or of insubordination.
For the earnest expectation of the creation waits for the revelation of the sons of God.
There is a boy here who has five barley loaves and two fishes; but what are these for so many?
And the angel said to them, Fear not; for, behold, I bring you good news of a great joy, which shall be for all people.
For I know that after my departure grievous wolves will come among you, not sparing the flock,
Fear not what you are about to suffer. Behold, the devil is about to cast some of you into prison, that you may be tried, and you shall have affliction ten days. Be faithful till death, and I will give you the crown of life.
And behold you shall be with child, and bear a son, and shall call his name Jesus.
Jesus said to her, Believe me, woman, the hour comes, when neither in this mountain, nor in Jerusalem, you shall worship the Father.
BELOVED, I exhort you as strangers and foreigners, abstain from carnal desires, which war against the soul,
But when you pray enter into your private room, and having shut your door pray to your Father who is in secret; and your Father who sees in secret shall reward you.
And as they eat he took the bread, and having blessed, broke and, gave to them, and said, Take, this is my body.
But for the same reason also I consider all things to be a loss on account of the excellency of the knowledge of Christ Jesus my Lord, for whose sake I have suffered the loss of all things, and consider them worthless that I may gain Christ
And he began to teach them that the Son of man must suffer many things, and be rejected by the elders, and the chief priests, and the scribes; and be killed, and after three days be raised again.
After this he went down to Capernaum, he and his mother, and his brothers, and his disciples, and remained there a few days.
AND Mary arose in those days and went in haste to the mountainous country, to the city of Juda.
Then the Lord, after speaking with them, was taken up to heaven, and sat on the right hand of God.
but God's righteousness is through the faith of Jesus Christ, in all and upon all that believe. For there is no difference;
And laying hold of him they brought him to the Areopagus, saying, May we know what this new teaching is which is taught by you?
And they shall fall by the edge of the sword, and be carried away captive to all nations, and Jerusalem shall be trodden down by gentiles, till the times of gentiles are fully accomplished.
But Jesus looking on them, said, With men this is impossible; but with God all things are possible.
And there stood by the cross of Jesus, his mother, and the sister of his mother, Mary the wife of Cleopas, and Mary the Magdalene.
Wherefore we faint not, but if our outward man is destroyed our inward man is renewed day by day.
And the Lord is the Spirit; and where the Spirit of the Lord is there is liberty.
And while Paul waited for them at Athens, his spirit was moved within him as he saw the city wholly devoted to idolatry.
And then shall appear the sign of the Son of man in heaven; and then shall all the tribes of the earth mourn; and they shall see the Son of man coming on the clouds of heaven, with power and great glory.
Servants, be subject to masters according to the flesh, with fear and trembling, in the sincerity of your hearts as to Christ,
And he said to them, When you pray, say, Father, hallowed be thy name; thy kingdom come;
But you are of him in Christ Jesus, who has become to us wisdom from God, and righteousness, and sanctification and redemption,
And some fell on a rocky place, where it had not much earth, and it came up immediately, because it had no depth of earth;
for a man that is without these is blind, not seeing to a distance, and has forgotten the purification from his former errors.
PAUL, a servant of God, and an apostle of Jesus Christ, according to the faith of God's elect, and the knowledge of the truth which is according to piety,