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for God did so love the world, that His Son -- the only begotten -- He gave, that every one who is believing in him may not perish, but may have life age-during.
for all did sin, and are come short of the glory of God --
every Writing is God-breathed, and profitable for teaching, for conviction, for setting aright, for instruction that is in righteousness,
I call upon you, therefore, brethren, through the compassions of God, to present your bodies a sacrifice -- living, sanctified, acceptable to God -- your intelligent service;
And the fruit of the Spirit is: Love, joy, peace, long-suffering, kindness, goodness, faith,
for by grace ye are having been saved, through faith, and this not of you -- of God the gift,
And we have known that to those loving God all things do work together for good, to those who are called according to purpose;
having gone, then, disciple all the nations, (baptizing them -- to the name of the Father, and of the Son, and of the Holy Spirit,
and be not conformed to this age, but be transformed by the renewing of your mind, for your proving what is the will of God -- the good, and acceptable, and perfect.
Jesus saith to him, 'I am the way, and the truth, and the life, no one doth come unto the Father, if not through me;
but ye shall receive power at the coming of the Holy Spirit upon you, and ye shall be witnesses to me both in Jerusalem, and in all Judea, and Samaria, and unto the end of the earth.'
and Peter said unto them, 'Reform, and be baptized each of you on the name of Jesus Christ, to remission of sins, and ye shall receive the gift of the Holy Spirit,
for the wages of the sin is death, and the gift of God is life age-during in Christ Jesus our Lord.
In the beginning of God's preparing the heavens and the earth
but as many as did receive him to them he gave authority to become sons of God -- to those believing in his name,
In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God;
(not by works that are in righteousness that we did but according to His kindness,) He did save us, through a bathing of regeneration, and a renewing of the Holy Spirit,
that if thou mayest confess with thy mouth the Lord Jesus, and mayest believe in thy heart that God did raise him out of the dead, thou shalt be saved,
And the Word became flesh, and did tabernacle among us, and we beheld his glory, glory as of an only begotten of a father, full of grace and truth.
And God saith, 'Let Us make man in Our image, according to Our likeness, and let them rule over fish of the sea, and over fowl of the heavens, and over cattle, and over all the earth, and over every creeping thing that is creeping on the earth.'
Trust unto Jehovah with all thy heart, And unto thine own understanding lean not.
and God doth commend His own love to us, that, in our being still sinners, Christ did die for us;
For I have known the thoughts that I am thinking towards you -- an affirmation of Jehovah; thoughts of peace, and not of evil, to give to you posterity and hope.
and He gave some as apostles, and some as prophets, and some as proclaimers of good news, and some as shepherds and teachers,
And God prepareth the man in His image; in the image of God He prepared him, a male and a female He prepared them.
and they were continuing stedfastly in the teaching of the apostles, and the fellowship, and the breaking of the bread, and the prayers.
'Come unto me, all ye labouring and burdened ones, and I will give you rest,
if we may confess our sins, stedfast He is and righteous that He may forgive us the sins, and may cleanse us from every unrighteousness;
Jesus answered and said to him, 'Verily, verily, I say to thee, If any one may not be born from above, he is not able to see the reign of God;'
The thief doth not come, except that he may steal, and kill, and destroy; I came that they may have life, and may have it abundantly.
because of this, even as through one man the sin did enter into the world, and through the sin the death; and thus to all men the death did pass through, for that all did sin;
and he said to them, 'Having gone to all the world, proclaim the good news to all the creation;
and there is not salvation in any other, for there is no other name under the heaven that hath been given among men, in which it behoveth us to be saved.'
so that if any one is in Christ -- he is a new creature; the old things did pass away, lo, become new have the all things.
'Let not your heart be troubled, believe in God, also in me believe;
He was the true Light, which doth enlighten every man, coming to the world;
And having come near, Jesus spake to them, saying, 'Given to me was all authority in heaven and on earth;
Having been declared righteous, then, by faith, we have peace toward God through our Lord Jesus Christ,
For all things I have strength, in Christ's strengthening me;
For a Child hath been born to us, A Son hath been given to us, And the princely power is on his shoulder, And He doth call his name Wonderful, Counsellor, Mighty God, Father of Eternity, Prince of Peace.
for nothing be anxious, but in everything by prayer, and by supplication, with thanksgiving, let your requests be made known unto God;
There is, then, now no condemnation to those in Christ Jesus, who walk not according to the flesh, but according to the Spirit;
And the third day a marriage happened in Cana of Galilee, and the mother of Jesus was there,
And in the day of the Pentecost being fulfilled, they were all with one accord at the same place,
with Christ I have been crucified, and live no more do I, and Christ doth live in me; and that which I now live in the flesh -- in the faith I live of the Son of God, who did love me and did give himself for me;
for I am not ashamed of the good news of the Christ, for it is the power of God to salvation to every one who is believing, both to Jew first, and to Greek.
'A new commandment I give to you, that ye love one another; according as I did love you, that ye also love one another;
And there was a man of the Pharisees, Nicodemus his name, a ruler of the Jews,
be diligent to present thyself approved to God -- a workman irreproachable, rightly dividing the word of the truth;
but seek ye first the reign of God and His righteousness, and all these shall be added to you.
and I will ask the Father, and another Comforter He will give to you, that he may remain with you -- to the age;
Therefore, we also having so great a cloud of witnesses set around us, every weight having put off, and the closely besetting sin, through endurance may we run the contest that is set before us,
God is a Spirit, and those worshipping Him, in spirit and truth it doth behove to worship.'
Therefore the Lord Himself giveth to you a sign, Lo, the Virgin is conceiving, And is bringing forth a son, And hath called his name Immanuel,
For, let this mind be in you that is also in Christ Jesus,
'Take heed, therefore, to yourselves, and to all the flock, among which the Holy Spirit made you overseers, to feed the assembly of God that He acquired through His own blood,
for every one -- whoever shall call upon the name of the Lord, he shall be saved.'
'If ye love me, my commands keep,
for revealed is the wrath of God from heaven upon all impiety and unrighteousness of men, holding down the truth in unrighteousness.
the earth hath existed waste and void, and darkness is on the face of the deep, and the Spirit of God fluttering on the face of the waters,
The Spirit of the Lord is upon me, Because He did anoint me; To proclaim good news to the poor, Sent me to heal the broken of heart, To proclaim to captives deliverance, And to blind receiving of sight, To send away the bruised with deliverance,
Jesus answered, 'Verily, verily, I say to thee, If any one may not be born of water, and the Spirit, he is not able to enter into the reign of God;
When therefore the Lord knew that the Pharisees heard that Jesus more disciples doth make and baptize than John,
And faith is of things hoped for a confidence, of matters not seen a conviction,
Hear, O Israel, Jehovah our God is one Jehovah;
and the truth shall make you free.'
for the reckoning of God is living, and working, and sharp above every two-edged sword, and piercing unto the dividing asunder both of soul and spirit, of joints also and marrow, and a discerner of thoughts and intents of the heart;
Be confessing to one another the trespasses, and be praying for one another, that ye may be healed; very strong is a working supplication of a righteous man;
on the morrow John seeth Jesus coming unto him, and saith, 'Lo, the Lamb of God, who is taking away the sin of the world;
Also you -- being dead in the trespasses and the sins,
and when He may come -- the Spirit of truth -- He will guide you to all the truth, for He will not speak from Himself, but as many things as He will hear He will speak, and the coming things He will tell you;
Let every soul to the higher authorities be subject, for there is no authority except from God, and the authorities existing are appointed by God,
'And I also say to thee, that thou art a rock, and upon this rock I will build my assembly, and gates of Hades shall not prevail against it;
'And whenever the Son of Man may come in his glory, and all the holy messengers with him, then he shall sit upon a throne of his glory;
and enmity I put between thee and the woman, and between thy seed and her seed; he doth bruise thee -- the head, and thou dost bruise him -- the heel.'
all things through him did happen, and without him happened not even one thing that hath happened.
and these were more noble than those in Thessalonica, they received the word with all readiness of mind, every day examining the Writings whether those things were so;
and the Comforter, the Holy Spirit, whom the Father will send in my name, he will teach you all things, and remind you of all things that I said to you.
Ye are of a father -- the devil, and the desires of your father ye will to do; he was a man-slayer from the beginning, and in the truth he hath not stood, because there is no truth in him; when one may speak the falsehood, of his own he speaketh, because he is a liar -- also his father.
this one came for testimony, that he might testify about the Light, that all might believe through him;
For the saving grace of God was manifested to all men,
Do not suppose that I came to throw down the law or the prophets -- I did not come to throw down, but to fulfil;
As to the rest, my brethren, be strong in the Lord, and in the power of his might;
And Jesus said to him, 'Thou shalt love the Lord thy God with all thy heart, and with all thy soul, and with all thine understanding --
who is the image of the invisible God, first-born of all creation,
'I am the vine, ye the branches; he who is remaining in me, and I in him, this one doth bear much fruit, because apart from me ye are not able to do anything;
Verily, verily, I say to you -- He who is hearing my word, and is believing Him who sent me, hath life age-during, and to judgment he doth not come, but hath passed out of the death to the life.
And it hath come to pass afterwards, I do pour out My Spirit on all flesh, And prophesied have your sons and your daughters, Your old men do dream dreams, Your young men do see visions.
As to the rest, brethren, as many things as are true, as many as are grave, as many as are righteous, as many as are pure, as many as are lovely, as many as are of good report, if any worthiness, and if any praise, these things think upon;
and apart from faith it is impossible to please well, for it behoveth him who is coming to God to believe that He is, and to those seeking Him He becometh a rewarder.
waiting for the blessed hope and manifestation of the glory of our great God and Saviour Jesus Christ,
so then the faith is by a report, and the report through a saying of God,
He hath declared to thee, O man, what is good; Yea, what is Jehovah requiring of thee, Except -- to do judgment, and love kindness, And lowly to walk with thy God?
and having made a whip of small cords, he put all forth out of the temple, also the sheep, and the oxen; and of the money-changers he poured out the coins, and the tables he overthrew,
And the serpent hath been subtile above every beast of the field which Jehovah God hath made, and he saith unto the woman, 'Is it true that God hath said, Ye do not eat of every tree of the garden?'
Give instruction to a youth about his way, Even when he is old he turneth not from it.
All joy count it, my brethren, when ye may fall into temptations manifold;
and they were all filled with the Holy Spirit, and began to speak with other tongues, according as the Spirit was giving them to declare.
he who hath believed, and hath been baptized, shall be saved; and he who hath not believed, shall be condemned.
according as it hath been written -- 'There is none righteous, not even one;
sanctify them in Thy truth, Thy word is truth;
And God saith, 'Let the earth yield tender grass, herb sowing seed, fruit-tree (whose seed is in itself) making fruit after its kind, on the earth:' and it is so.
and they said, 'Believe on the Lord Jesus Christ, and thou shalt be saved -- thou and thy house;'
and if any of you do lack wisdom, let him ask from God, who is giving to all liberally, and not reproaching, and it shall be given to him;
Jesus said to her, 'I am the rising again, and the life; he who is believing in me, even if he may die, shall live;
then those, indeed, who did gladly receive his word were baptized, and there were added on that day, as it were, three thousand souls,
And these things having said -- they beholding -- he was taken up, and a cloud did receive him up from their sight;
And with a male thou dost not lie as one lieth with a woman; abomination it is.
And on the first of the week, the disciples having been gathered together to break bread, Paul was discoursing to them, about to depart on the morrow, he was also continuing the discourse till midnight,
and the Lord God sanctify in your hearts. And be ready always for defence to every one who is asking of you an account concerning the hope that is in you, with meekness and fear;
and this is the life age-during, that they may know Thee, the only true God, and him whom Thou didst send -- Jesus Christ;
have ye not known that the unrighteous the reign of God shall not inherit? be not led astray; neither whoremongers, nor idolaters, nor adulterers, nor effeminate, nor sodomites,
there cometh a woman out of Samaria to draw water. Jesus saith to her, 'Give me to drink;'
Jesus said to them, 'Verily, verily, I say to you, Before Abraham's coming -- I am;'
for the invisible things of Him from the creation of the world, by the things made being understood, are plainly seen, both His eternal power and Godhead -- to their being inexcusable;
And Jehovah God formeth the man -- dust from the ground, and breatheth into his nostrils breath of life, and the man becometh a living creature.
and ye are a choice race, a royal priesthood, a holy nation, a people acquired, that the excellences ye may shew forth of Him who out of darkness did call you to His wondrous light;
In many parts, and many ways, God of old having spoken to the fathers in the prophets,
The Spirit of the Lord Jehovah is on me, Because Jehovah did anoint me To proclaim tidings to the humble, He sent me to bind the broken of heart, To proclaim to captives liberty, And to bound ones an opening of bands.
And -- a certain man was rich, and was clothed in purple and fine linen, making merry sumptuously every day,
lo, I have stood at the door, and I knock; if any one may hear my voice, and may open the door, I will come in unto him, and will sup with him, and he with me.
And Jehovah saith unto Abram, 'Go for thyself, from thy land, and from thy kindred, and from the house of thy father, unto the land which I shew thee.
'Not every one who is saying to me Lord, lord, shall come into the reign of the heavens; but he who is doing the will of my Father who is in the heavens.
the Spirit where he willeth doth blow, and his voice thou dost hear, but thou hast not known whence he cometh, and whither he goeth; thus is every one who hath been born of the Spirit.'
But those expecting Jehovah pass to power, They raise up the pinion as eagles, They run and are not fatigued, They go on and do not faint!
The ailing man answered him, 'Sir, I have no man, that, when the water may be troubled, he may put me into the pool, and while I am coming, another doth go down before me.'
Jesus, therefore, said unto the Jews who believed in him, 'If ye may remain in my word, truly my disciples ye are, and ye shall know the truth,
he who is believing in him is not judged, but he who is not believing hath been judged already, because he hath not believed in the name of the only begotten Son of God.
Without covetousness the behaviour, being content with the things present, for He hath said, 'No, I will not leave, no, nor forsake thee,'
Again, therefore, Jesus spake to them, saying, 'I am the light of the world; he who is following me shall not walk in the darkness, but he shall have the light of the life.'
'Treasure not up to yourselves treasures on the earth, where moth and rust disfigure, and where thieves break through and steal,
I and the Father are one.'
because we have not the wrestling with blood and flesh, but with the principalities, with the authorities, with the world-rulers of the darkness of this age, with the spiritual things of the evil in the heavenly places;
that thou mayest know the certainty of the things wherein thou wast instructed.
'I am the true vine, and my Father is the husbandman;
and as it is laid up to men once to die, and after this -- judgment,
if so be ye did taste that the Lord is gracious,
'Ask, and it shall be given to you; seek, and ye shall find; knock, and it shall be opened to you;
and God saith, 'Let light be;' and light is.
And in the sixth month was the messenger Gabriel sent by God, to a city of Galilee, the name of which is Nazareth,
this one came unto him by night, and said to him, 'Rabbi, we have known that from God thou hast come -- a teacher, for no one these signs is able to do that thou dost, if God may not be with him.'
Blessed is the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, who did bless us in every spiritual blessing in the heavenly places in Christ,
and they having heard, and by the conscience being convicted, were going forth one by one, having begun from the elders -- unto the last; and Jesus was left alone, and the woman standing in the midst.
'Ye are the light of the world, a city set upon a mount is not able to be hid;
And of Jesus Christ, the birth was thus: For his mother Mary having been betrothed to Joseph, before their coming together she was found to have conceived from the Holy Spirit,
And God saith unto Moses, 'I AM THAT WHICH I AM;' He saith also, 'Thus dost thou say to the sons of Israel, I AM hath sent me unto you.'
Beloved, every spirit believe not, but prove the spirits, if of God they are, because many false prophets have gone forth to the world;
there is not here Jew or Greek, there is not here servant nor freeman, there is not here male and female, for all ye are one in Christ Jesus;
is any infirm among you? let him call for the elders of the assembly, and let them pray over him, having anointed him with oil, in the name of the Lord,
And lo, a certain lawyer stood up, trying him, and saying, 'Teacher, what having done, life age-during shall I inherit?'
And I do not wish you to be ignorant, brethren, concerning those who have fallen asleep, that ye may not sorrow, as also the rest who have not hope,
every good giving, and every perfect gift is from above, coming down from the Father of the lights, with whom is no variation, or shadow of turning;
for him who did not know sin, in our behalf He did make sin, that we may become the righteousness of God in him.
these things I have spoken to you, that in me ye may have peace, in the world ye shall have tribulation, but take courage -- I have overcome the world.'
And God blesseth them, and God saith to them, 'Be fruitful, and multiply, and fill the earth, and subdue it, and rule over fish of the sea, and over fowl of the heavens, and over every living thing that is creeping upon the earth.'
in whom ye also, having heard the word of the truth -- the good news of your salvation -- in whom also having believed, ye were sealed with the Holy Spirit of the promise,
The husbands! love your own wives, as also the Christ did love the assembly, and did give himself for it,
and the light in the darkness did shine, and the darkness did not perceive it.
the Lord is not slow in regard to the promise, as certain count slowness, but is long-suffering to us, not counselling any to be lost but all to pass on to reformation,
that one was not the Light, but -- that he might testify about the Light.
And the messenger answering said to her, 'The Holy Spirit shall come upon thee, and the power of the Highest shall overshadow thee, therefore also the holy-begotten thing shall be called Son of God;
religion pure and undefiled with the God and Father is this, to look after orphans and widows in their tribulation -- unspotted to keep himself from the world.
he who is believing in the Son, hath life age-during; and he who is not believing the Son, shall not see life, but the wrath of God doth remain upon him.'
The wives! to your own husbands subject yourselves, as to the Lord,
'And if thy brother may sin against thee, go and show him his fault between thee and him alone, if he may hear thee, thou didst gain thy brother;
who also said, 'Men, Galileans, why do ye stand gazing into the heaven? this Jesus who was received up from you into the heaven, shall so come in what manner ye saw him going on to the heaven.'
reform ye, therefore, and turn back, for your sins being blotted out, that times of refreshing may come from the presence of the Lord,
for of Him we are workmanship, created in Christ Jesus to good works, which God did before prepare, that in them we may walk.
What is the profit, my brethren, if faith, any one may speak of having, and works he may not have? is that faith able to save him?
For God did not send His Son to the world that he may judge the world, but that the world may be saved through him;
are ye ignorant that we, as many as were baptized to Christ Jesus, to his death were baptized?
thus therefore pray ye: 'Our Father who art in the heavens! hallowed be Thy name.
aged women, in like manner, in deportment as doth become sacred persons, not false accusers, to much wine not enslaved, of good things teachers,
therefore doth a man leave his father and his mother, and hath cleaved unto his wife, and they have become one flesh.
And Jehovah God saith, 'Not good for the man to be alone, I do make to him an helper -- as his counterpart.'
What, then, shall we say? shall we continue in the sin that the grace may abound?
and be not drunk with wine, in which is dissoluteness, but be filled in the Spirit,
And I saw a new heaven and a new earth, for the first heaven and the first earth did pass away, and the sea is not any more;
And he is pierced for our transgressions, Bruised for our iniquities, The chastisement of our peace is on him, And by his bruise there is healing to us.
but, there cometh an hour, and it now is, when the true worshippers will worship the Father in spirit and truth, for the Father also doth seek such to worship him;
And it came to pass in those days, there went forth a decree from Caesar Augustus, that all the world be enrolled --
for one is God, one also is mediator of God and of men, the man Christ Jesus,
Then Jesus was led up to the wilderness by the Spirit, to be tempted by the Devil,
'Ye search the Writings, because ye think in them to have life age-during, and these are they that are testifying concerning me;
in whom we have the redemption through his blood, the remission of the trespasses, according to the riches of His grace,
'Wonder not at this, because there doth come an hour in which all those in the tombs shall hear his voice,
and if in the light we may walk, as He is in the light -- we have fellowship one with another, and the blood of Jesus Christ His Son doth cleanse us from every sin;
God no one hath ever seen; the only begotten Son, who is on the bosom of the Father -- he did declare.
Call upon you, then, do I -- the prisoner of the Lord -- to walk worthily of the calling with which ye were called,
'Judge not, that ye may not be judged,
And thou, Beth-Lehem Ephratah, Little to be among the chiefs of Judah! From thee to Me he cometh forth -- to be ruler in Israel, And his comings forth are of old, From the days of antiquity.
Nun. A lamp to my foot is Thy word, And a light to my path.
for I delivered to you first, what also I did receive, that Christ died for our sins, according to the Writings,
greater love than this hath no one, that any one his life may lay down for his friends;
They -- of the world they are; because of this from the world they speak, and the world doth hear them;
And I say: In the Spirit walk ye, and the desire of the flesh ye may not complete;
And ye are not in the flesh, but in the Spirit, if indeed the Spirit of God doth dwell in you; and if any one hath not the Spirit of Christ -- this one is not His;
It being, therefore, evening, on that day, the first of the sabbaths, and the doors having been shut where the disciples were assembled, through fear of the Jews, Jesus came and stood in the midst, and saith to them, 'Peace to you;'
and saying, 'Where is the promise of his presence? for since the fathers did fall asleep, all things so remain from the beginning of the creation;'
no one is able to come unto me, if the Father who sent me may not draw him, and I will raise him up in the last day;
After these things there was a feast of the Jews, and Jesus went up to Jerusalem,
because in him were the all things created, those in the heavens, and those upon the earth, those visible, and those invisible, whether thrones, whether lordships, whether principalities, whether authorities; all things through him, and for him, have been created,
'And as Moses did lift up the serpent in the wilderness, so it behoveth the Son of Man to be lifted up,
Go ye in through the strait gate, because wide is the gate, and broad the way that is leading to the destruction, and many are those going in through it;
the times, indeed, therefore, of the ignorance God having overlooked, doth now command all men everywhere to reform,
Nicodemus saith unto him, 'How is a man able to be born, being old? is he able into the womb of his mother a second time to enter, and to be born?'
If, then, ye were raised with the Christ, the things above seek ye, where the Christ is, on the right hand of God seated,
because whom He did foreknow, He also did fore-appoint, conformed to the image of His Son, that he might be first-born among many brethren;
and become ye doers of the word, and not hearers only, deceiving yourselves,
Put on, therefore, as choice ones of God, holy and beloved, bowels of mercies, kindness, humble-mindedness, meekness, long-suffering,
not forsaking the assembling of ourselves together, as a custom of certain is, but exhorting, and so much the more as ye see the day coming nigh.
because also Christ once for sin did suffer -- righteous for unrighteous -- that he might lead us to God, having been put to death indeed, in the flesh, and having been made alive in the spirit,
And in these days, the disciples multiplying, there came a murmuring of the Hellenists at the Hebrews, because their widows were being overlooked in the daily ministration,
'Peace I leave to you; my peace I give to you, not according as the world doth give do I give to you; let not your heart be troubled, nor let it be afraid;
according as I said to you: My sheep my voice do hear, and I know them, and they follow me,
for every one who is asking doth receive, and he who is seeking doth find, and to him who is knocking it shall be opened.
who our sins himself did bear in his body, upon the tree, that to the sins having died, to the righteousness we may live; by whose stripes ye were healed,
be subject, then, to God; stand up against the devil, and he will flee from you;
'But I tell you the truth; it is better for you that I go away, for if I may not go away, the Comforter will not come unto you, and if I go on, I will send Him unto you;
'I am the good shepherd; the good shepherd his life layeth down for the sheep;
Crooked is the heart above all things, And it is incurable -- who doth know it?
for we have not a chief priest unable to sympathise with our infirmities, but one tempted in all things in like manner -- apart from sin;
and also Jesus was called, and his disciples, to the marriage;
'Ye are the salt of the land, but if the salt may lose savour, in what shall it be salted? for nothing is it good henceforth, except to be cast without, and to be trodden down by men.
who being the brightness of the glory, and the impress of His subsistence, bearing up also the all things by the saying of his might -- through himself having made a cleansing of our sins, sat down at the right hand of the greatness in the highest,
Be sober, vigilant, because your opponent the devil, as a roaring lion, doth walk about, seeking whom he may swallow up,
And, in like manner also, the Spirit doth help our weaknesses; for, what we may pray for, as it behoveth us, we have not known, but the Spirit himself doth make intercession for us with groanings unutterable,
Beloved, may we love one another, because the love is of God, and every one who is loving, of God he hath been begotten, and doth know God;
all that the Father doth give to me will come unto me; and him who is coming unto me, I may in no wise cast without,
Love not ye the world, nor the things in the world; if any one doth love the world, the love of the Father is not in him,
And when the Comforter may come, whom I will send to you from the Father -- the Spirit of truth, who from the Father doth come forth, he will testify of me;
See ye what love the Father hath given to us, that children of God we may be called; because of this the world doth not know us, because it did not know Him;
And on the first of the sabbaths, Mary the Magdalene doth come early (there being yet darkness) to the tomb, and she seeth the stone having been taken away out of the tomb,
And Peter having opened his mouth, said, 'Of a truth, I perceive that God is no respecter of persons,
And he said unto all, 'If any one doth will to come after me, let him disown himself, and take up his cross daily, and follow me;
Philip answered him, 'Two hundred denaries' worth of loaves are not sufficient to them, that each of them may receive some little;'
And it came to pass, on his going into the house of a certain one of the chiefs of the Pharisees, on a sabbath, to eat bread, that they were watching him,
And he came to Nazareth, where he hath been brought up, and he went in, according to his custom, on the sabbath-day, to the synagogue, and stood up to read;
For this cause left I thee in Crete, that the things lacking thou mayest arrange, and mayest set down in every city elders, as I did appoint to thee;
Jesus therefore responded and said to them, 'Verily, verily, I say to you, The Son is not able to do anything of himself, if he may not see the Father doing anything; for whatever things He may do, these also the Son in like manner doth;
And Jesus having been born in Beth-Lehem of Judea, in the days of Herod the king, lo, mages from the east came to Jerusalem,
for ye are all sons of God through the faith in Christ Jesus,
Let the word of Christ dwell in you richly, in all wisdom, teaching and admonishing each other, in psalms, and hymns, and spiritual songs, in grace singing in your hearts to the Lord;
this first knowing, that no prophecy of the Writing doth come of private exposition,
'And not in regard to these alone do I ask, but also in regard to those who shall be believing, through their word, in me;
And all the persons coming out of the thigh of Jacob are seventy persons; as to Joseph, he was in Egypt.
and if wrong in your eyes to serve Jehovah -- choose for you to-day whom ye do serve; -- whether the gods whom your fathers served, which are beyond the River, or the gods of the Amorite in whose land ye are dwelling; and I and my house -- we serve Jehovah.'
My little children, these things I write to you, that ye may not sin: and if any one may sin, an advocate we have with the Father, Jesus Christ, a righteous one,
And in the last, the great day of the feast, Jesus stood and cried, saying, 'If any one doth thirst, let him come unto me and drink;
And manifest also are the works of the flesh, which are: Adultery, whoredom, uncleanness, lasciviousness,
Jesus answered and said to her, 'If thou hadst known the gift of God, and who it is who is saying to thee, Give me to drink, thou wouldest have asked him, and he would have given thee living water.'
In the freedom, then, with which Christ did make you free -- stand ye, and be not held fast again by a yoke of servitude;
How hast thou fallen from the heavens, O shining one, son of the dawn! Thou hast been cut down to earth, O weakener of nations.
And the brethren immediately, through the night, sent forth both Paul and Silas to Berea, who having come, went to the synagogue of the Jews;
for I am persuaded that neither death, nor life, nor messengers, nor principalities, nor powers, nor things present,
because three are who are testifying in the heaven, the Father, the Word, and the Holy Spirit, and these -- the three -- are one;
for as many as are led by the Spirit of God, these are the sons of God;
so let your light shine before men, that they may see your good works, and may glorify your Father who is in the heavens.
The former account, indeed, I made concerning all things, O Theophilus, that Jesus began both to do and to teach,
After these things, Jesus findeth him in the temple, and said to him, 'Lo, thou hast become whole; sin no more, lest something worse may happen to thee.'
Jesus Christ yesterday and to-day the same, and to the ages;
What, then, shall we say unto these things? if God is for us, who is against us?
having been confident of this very thing, that He who did begin in you a good work, will perform it till a day of Jesus Christ,
And before the feast of the passover, Jesus knowing that his hour hath come, that he may remove out of this world unto the Father, having loved his own who are in the world -- to the end he loved them.
for not by will of man did ever prophecy come, but by the Holy Spirit borne on holy men of God spake.
we were buried together, then, with him through the baptism to the death, that even as Christ was raised up out of the dead through the glory of the Father, so also we in newness of life might walk.
And it came to pass, in their going on, that he entered into a certain village, and a certain woman, by name Martha, did receive him into her house,
So that, my beloved, as ye always obey, not as in my presence only, but now much more in my absence, with fear and trembling your own salvation work out,
and having come, He will convict the world concerning sin, and concerning righteousness, and concerning judgment;
and ye may look upon him bearing the gay raiment, and may say to him, 'Thou -- sit thou here well,' and to the poor man may say, 'Thou -- stand thou there, or, Sit thou here under my footstool,' --
Jesus answered and said to him, 'If any one may love me, my word he will keep, and my Father will love him, and unto him we will come, and abode with him we will make;
if we may say -- 'we have not sin,' ourselves we lead astray, and the truth is not in us;
'But, take heed of the false prophets, who come unto you in sheep's clothing, and inwardly are ravening wolves.
The love is long-suffering, it is kind, the love doth not envy, the love doth not vaunt itself, is not puffed up,
'Remember the Sabbath-day to sanctify it;
Blessed is the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, who, according to the abundance of His kindness did beget us again to a living hope, through the rising again of Jesus Christ out of the dead,
And it came to pass, in his being in a certain place praying, as he ceased, a certain one of his disciples said unto him, 'Sir, teach us to pray, as also John taught his disciples.'
according as He did choose us in him before the foundation of the world, for our being holy and unblemished before Him, in love,
And he spake also a simile to them, that it behoveth us always to pray, and not to faint,
in the house of my Father are many mansions; and if not, I would have told you; I go on to prepare a place for you;
and when the fulness of time did come, God sent forth His Son, come of a woman, come under law,
Jesus answered and said to them, 'Destroy this sanctuary, and in three days I will raise it up.'
and may we consider one another to provoke to love and to good works,
If, then, any exhortation is in Christ, if any comfort of love, if any fellowship of spirit, if any bowels and mercies,
Become not yoked with others -- unbelievers, for what partaking is there to righteousness and lawlessness?
And Solomon saith to all Israel, to heads of the thousands, and of the hundreds, and to judges, and to every honourable one of all Israel, heads of the fathers,
Be not led astray; God is not mocked; for what a man may sow -- that also he shall reap,
And there were going on with him great multitudes, and having turned, he said unto them,
looking to the author and perfecter of faith -- Jesus, who, over-against the joy set before him -- did endure a cross, shame having despised, on the right hand also of the throne of God did sit down;
Happy the kind -- because they shall find kindness.
When, therefore, they dined, Jesus saith to Simon Peter, 'Simon, son of Jonas, dost thou love me more than these?' he saith to him, 'Yes, Lord; thou hast known that I dearly love thee;' he saith to him, 'Feed my lambs.'
And Jesus said to them, 'I am the bread of the life; he who is coming unto me may not hunger, and he who is believing in me may not thirst -- at any time;
'Because of this I say to you, be not anxious for your life, what ye may eat, and what ye may drink, nor for your body, what ye may put on. Is not the life more than the nourishment, and the body than the clothing?
Surely our sicknesses he hath borne, And our pains -- he hath carried them, And we -- we have esteemed him plagued, Smitten of God, and afflicted.
He made also of one blood every nation of men, to dwell upon all the face of the earth -- having ordained times before appointed, and the bounds of their dwellings --
and she shall bring forth a son, and thou shalt call his name Jesus, for he shall save his people from their sins.'
Have ye not known that your body is a sanctuary of the Holy Spirit in you, which ye have from God? and ye are not your own,
and all things He did put under his feet, and did give him -- head over all things to the assembly,
the Jews then answered and said to him, 'What sign dost thou shew to us -- that thou dost these things?'
That which was from the beginning, that which we have heard, that which we have seen with our eyes, that which we did behold, and our hands did handle, concerning the Word of the Life --
And Saul, yet breathing of threatening and slaughter to the disciples of the Lord, having gone to the chief priest,
For I reckon that the sufferings of the present time are not worthy to be compared with the glory about to be revealed in us;
But he that was healed had not known who he is, for Jesus did move away, a multitude being in the place.
Because of this did God give them up to dishonourable affections, for even their females did change the natural use into that against nature;
and to Him who is able above all things to do exceeding abundantly what we ask or think, according to the power that is working in us,
who did rescue us out of the authority of the darkness, and did translate us into the reign of the Son of His love,
teaching them to observe all, whatever I did command you,) and lo, I am with you all the days -- till the full end of the age.'
kindness to you, and peace, and love, be multiplied!
In the year of the death of king Uzziah -- I see the Lord, sitting on a throne, high and lifted up, and His train is filling the temple.
among whom are also ye, the called of Jesus Christ;
'Men, Israelites! hear these words, Jesus the Nazarene, a man approved of God among you by mighty works, and wonders, and signs, that God did through him in the midst of you, according as also ye yourselves have known;
And Jesus, full of the Holy Spirit, turned back from the Jordan, and was brought in the Spirit to the wilderness,
Kenan, Mahalaleel, Jered,
Jesus, therefore, said to them again, 'Peace to you; according as the Father hath sent me, I also send you;'
Happy the poor in spirit -- because theirs is the reign of the heavens.
Therefore said some of his disciples one to another, 'What is this that he saith to us, A little while, and ye do not behold me, and again a little while, and ye shall see me, and, Because I go away unto the Father?'
And a certain one of the Pharisees was asking him that he might eat with him, and having gone into the house of the Pharisee he reclined (at meat),
beloved, now, children of God are we, and it was not yet manifested what we shall be, and we have known that if he may be manifested, like him we shall be, because we shall see him as he is;
And I saw a great white throne, and Him who is sitting upon it, from whose face the earth and the heaven did flee away, and place was not found for them;
and saying -- 'Fulfilled hath been the time, and the reign of God hath come nigh, reform ye, and believe in the good news.'
He answered them, 'He who made me whole -- that one said to me, Take up thy couch, and be walking;'
subjecting yourselves to one another in the fear of God.
Seeing that many did take in hand to set in order a narration of the matters that have been fully assured among us,
And after these things, the Lord did appoint also other seventy, and sent them by twos before his face, to every city and place whither he himself was about to come,
And having seen the multitudes, he went up to the mount, and he having sat down, his disciples came to him,
And a man who lieth with a male as one lieth with a woman; abomination both of them have done; they are certainly put to death; their blood is on them.
and they had no child, because that Elisabeth was barren, and both were advanced in their days.
and My people on whom My name is called be humbled, and pray, and seek My face, and turn back from their evil ways, then I -- I hear from the heavens, and forgive their sin, and heal their land.
And this know thou, that in the last days there shall come perilous times,
'None is able to serve two lords, for either he will hate the one and love the other, or he will hold to the one, and despise the other; ye are not able to serve God and Mammon.
No temptation hath taken you -- except human; and God is faithful, who will not suffer you to be tempted above what ye are able, but He will make, with the temptation, also the outlet, for your being able to bear it.
for the Son of Man came to seek and to save the lost.'
And Jesus said, 'Father, forgive them, for they have not known what they do;' and parting his garments they cast a lot.
And on the first of the sabbaths, at early dawn, they came to the tomb, bearing the spices they made ready, and certain others with them,
Having, then, a great chief priest passed through the heavens -- Jesus the Son of God -- may we hold fast the profession,
'Thou hast no other Gods before Me.
and Judah begat Pharez and Zarah of Tamar, and Pharez begat Hezron, and Hezron begat Ram,
'Ye did not choose out me, but I chose out you, and did appoint you, that ye might go away, and might bear fruit, and your fruit might remain, that whatever ye may ask of the Father in my name, He may give you.
And Peter said, 'Ananias, wherefore did the Adversary fill thy heart, for thee to lie to the Holy Spirit, and to keep back of the price of the place?
And I make known to you, brethren, the good news that I proclaimed to you, which also ye did receive, in which also ye have stood,
To the Overseer. -- A Psalm of David. The heavens are recounting the honour of God, And the work of His hands The expanse is declaring.
Take heed your kindness not to do before men, to be seen by them, and if not -- reward ye have not from your Father who is in the heavens;
and because from a babe the Holy Writings thou hast known, which are able to make thee wise -- to salvation, through faith that is in Christ Jesus;
And after the delivering up of John, Jesus came to Galilee, proclaiming the good news of the reign of God,
And having heard, they were pricked to the heart; they say also to Peter, and to the rest of the apostles, 'What shall we do, men, brethren?'
but I -- I say to you, Love your enemies, bless those cursing you, do good to those hating you, and pray for those accusing you falsely, and persecuting you,
and my God shall supply all your need, according to His riches in glory in Christ Jesus;
And I saw the heaven having been opened, and lo, a white horse, and he who is sitting upon it is called Faithful and True, and in righteousness doth he judge and war,
Verily, verily, I say to you, he who is believing in me, the works that I do -- that one also shall do, and greater than these he shall do, because I go on to my Father;
'All things, therefore, whatever ye may will that men may be doing to you, so also do to them, for this is the law and the prophets.
Lo, days are coming, an affirmation of Jehovah, And I have made with the house of Israel And with the house of Judah a new covenant,
'Seventy weeks are determined for thy people, and for thy holy city, to shut up the transgression, and to seal up sins, and to cover iniquity, and to bring in righteousness age-during, and to seal up vision and prophet, and to anoint the holy of holies.
ye did condemn -- ye did murder the righteous one, he doth not resist you.
for where there are two or three gathered together -- to my name, there am I in the midst of them.'
'And signs shall accompany those believing these things; in my name demons they shall cast out; with new tongues they shall speak;
But he answering said, 'It hath been written, Not upon bread alone doth man live, but upon every word coming forth from the mouth of God.'
who, being in the form of God, thought it not robbery to be equal to God,
Brethren, if a man also may be overtaken in any trespass, ye who are spiritual restore such a one in a spirit of meekness, considering thyself -- lest thou also may be tempted;
and greater grace he doth give, wherefore he saith, 'God against proud ones doth set Himself up, and to lowly ones He doth give grace?'
'But I say to you who are hearing, Love your enemies, do good to those hating you,
See that no one shall be carrying you away as spoil through the philosophy and vain deceit, according to the deliverance of men, according to the rudiments of the world, and not according to Christ,
A beginning of the good news of Jesus Christ, Son of God.
and this good news of the reign shall be proclaimed in all the world, for a testimony to all the nations; and then shall the end arrive.
And it shall be in the last days, saith God, I will pour out of My Spirit upon 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 thou shalt love the Lord thy God out of all thy heart, and out of thy soul, and out of all thine understanding, and out of all thy strength -- this is the first command;
Lo, the virgin shall conceive, and she shall bring forth a son, and they shall call his name Emmanuel,' which is, being interpreted 'With us he is God.'
'And this is the judgment, that the light hath come to the world, and men did love the darkness rather than the light, for their works were evil;
to his own things he came, and his own people did not receive him;
peace pursue with all, and the separation, apart from which no one shall see the Lord,
because the Lord himself, in a shout, in the voice of a chief-messenger, and in the trump of God, shall come down from heaven, and the dead in Christ shall rise first,
for, as many things as were written before, for our instruction were written before, that through the endurance, and the exhortation of the Writings, we might have the hope.
And the Spirit expressly speaketh, that in latter times shall certain fall away from the faith, giving heed to seducing spirits and teachings of demons,
And he hath strengthened a covenant with many -- one week, and in the midst of the week he causeth sacrifice and present to cease, and by the wing of abominations he is making desolate, even till the consummation, and that which is determined is poured on the desolate one.'
Adulterers and adulteresses! have ye not known that friendship of the world is enmity with God? whoever, then, may counsel to be a friend of the world, an enemy of God he is set.
And now apart from law hath the righteousness of God been manifested, testified to by the law and the prophets,
in this shall all know that ye are my disciples, if ye may have love one to another.'
'Give, and it shall be given to you; good measure, pressed, and shaken, and running over, they shall give into your bosom; for with that measure with which ye measure, it shall be measured to you again.'
'This is my command, that ye love one another, according as I did love you;
If with the tongues of men and of messengers I speak, and have not love, I have become brass sounding, or a cymbal tinkling;
and all the multitude of the people were praying without, at the hour of the perfume.
he who is not loving did not know God, because God is love.
Then, therefore, ye are no more strangers and foreigners, but fellow-citizens of the saints, and of the household of God,
And being assembled together with them, he commanded them not to depart from Jerusalem, but to wait for the promise of the Father, which, saith he, 'Ye did hear of me;
Rejoice in the Lord always; again I will say, rejoice;
To everything -- a season, and a time to every delight under the heavens:
for the word of the cross to those indeed perishing is foolishness, and to us -- those being saved -- it is the power of God,
and life age-during I give to them, and they shall not perish -- to the age, and no one shall pluck them out of my hand;
I wonder that ye are so quickly removed from Him who did call you in the grace of Christ to another good news;
Jesus who is from Nazareth -- how God did anoint him with the Holy Spirit and power; who went through, doing good, and healing all those oppressed by the devil, because God was with him;