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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.
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.
but as many as did receive him to them he gave authority to become sons of God -- to those believing in his name,
(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.'
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.
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.
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 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;
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,
'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.'
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,
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;
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;
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 --
'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,
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.
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.
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 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,
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;
'Ask, and it shall be given to you; seek, and ye shall find; knock, and it shall be opened to you;
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.
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,
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,
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.'
'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 --
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,
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.
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;
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,
'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;
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;
'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,
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;
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.'
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,
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.'
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;
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.'
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.
'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;'
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;'
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.
'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.
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,
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.
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.'
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,
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;
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.'
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.
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;
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;
Then shall he say also to those on the left hand, Go ye from me, the cursed, to the fire, the age-during, that hath been prepared for the Devil and his messengers;
So then, my brethren beloved, let every man be swift to hear, slow to speak, slow to anger,
and he -- he is a propitiation for our sins, and not for ours only, but also for the whole world,
And it came to pass, in his acting as priest, in the order of his course before God,
And there were certain in Antioch, in the assembly there, prophets and teachers; both Barnabas, and Simeon who is called Niger, and Lucius the Cyrenian, Manaen also -- Herod the tetrarch's foster-brother -- and Saul;
And having taken bread, having given thanks, he brake and gave to them, saying, 'This is my body, that for you is being given, this do ye -- to remembrance of me.'
And himself is the head of the body -- the assembly -- who is a beginning, a first-born out of the dead, that he might become in all things -- himself -- first,
As all things to us His divine power (the things pertaining unto life and piety) hath given, through the acknowledgement of him who did call us through glory and worthiness,
Let no one say, being tempted -- 'From God I am tempted,' for God is not tempted of evil, and Himself doth tempt no one,
And the day is, that sons of God come in to station themselves by Jehovah, and there doth come also the Adversary in their midst.
And a messenger of the Lord spake unto Philip, saying, 'Arise, and go on toward the south, on the way that is going down from Jerusalem to Gaza,' -- this is desert.
to Timotheus, beloved child: Grace, kindness, peace, from God the Father, and Christ Jesus our Lord!
Happy the man who doth endure temptation, because, becoming approved, he shall receive the crown of the life, which the Lord did promise to those loving Him.
And Peter and the apostles answering, said, 'To obey God it behoveth, rather than men;
wherefore, also from one were begotten -- and that of one who had become dead -- as the stars of the heaven in multitude, and as sand that is by the sea-shore -- the innumerable.
For, even as the body is one, and hath many members, and all the members of the one body, being many, are one body, so also is the Christ,
for God did not give us a spirit of fear, but of power, and of love, and of a sound mind;
And he spake also unto certain who have been trusting in themselves that they were righteous, and have been despising the rest, this simile:
and wine having failed, the mother of Jesus saith unto him, 'Wine they have not;'
For -- as a man going abroad did call his own servants, and did deliver to them his substance,
And we are as unclean -- all of us, And as a garment passing away, all our righteous acts; And we fade as a leaf -- all of us. And our iniquities as wind do take us away.
and to fearful, and unstedfast, and abominable, and murderers, and whoremongers, and sorcerers, and idolaters, and all the liars, their part is in the lake that is burning with fire and brimstone, which is a second death.'
that they all may be one, as Thou Father art in me, and I in Thee; that they also in us may be one, that the world may believe that Thou didst send me.
and Ram begat Amminadab, and Amminadab begat Nahshon, and Nahshon begat Salmon,
And it came to pass, in the multitude pressing on him to hear the word of God, that he was standing beside the lake of Gennesaret,
thou -- thou dost believe that God is one; thou dost well, and the demons believe, and they shudder!
And there did come also false prophets among the people, as also among you there shall be false teachers, who shall bring in besides destructive sects, and the Master who bought them denying, bringing to themselves quick destruction,
Doth any one suffer evil among you? let him pray; is any of good cheer? let him sing psalms;
and of the multitude of those who did believe the heart and the soul was one, and not one was saying that anything of the things he had was his own, but all things were to them in common.
O the happiness of that one, who Hath not walked in the counsel of the wicked. And in the way of sinners hath not stood, And in the seat of scorners hath not sat;
for a messenger at a set time was going down in the pool, and was troubling the water, the first then having gone in after the troubling of the water, became whole of whatever sickness he was held.
whence also he is able to save to the very end, those coming through him unto God -- ever living to make intercession for them.
They, therefore, indeed, having come together, were questioning him, saying, 'Lord, dost thou at this time restore the reign to Israel?'
for even the Son of Man came not to be ministered to, but to minister, and to give his life a ransom for many.'
And God seeth all that He hath done, and lo, very good; and there is an evening, and there is a morning -- day the sixth.
assuredly, therefore, let all the house of Israel know, that both Lord and Christ did God make him -- this Jesus whom ye did crucify.'
'If any one doth come unto me, and doth not hate his own father, and mother, and wife, and children, and brothers, and sisters, and yet even his own life, he is not able to be my disciple;
Jesus saith to him, 'So long time am I with you, and thou hast not known me, Philip? he who hath seen me hath seen the Father; and how dost thou say, Shew to us the Father?
and the scribes and the Pharisees were watching him, if on the sabbath he will heal, that they might find an accusation against him.
if ye may remain in me, and my sayings in you may remain, whatever ye may wish ye shall ask, and it shall be done to you.
that which hath been born of the flesh is flesh, and that which hath been born of the Spirit is spirit.
and Jesus answered him -- 'The first of all the commands is, Hear, O Israel, the Lord is our God, the Lord is one;
All of us like sheep have wandered, Each to his own way we have turned, And Jehovah hath caused to meet on him, The punishment of us all.
For I say, through the grace that was given to me, to every one who is among you, not to think above what it behoveth to think; but to think so as to think wisely, as to each God did deal a measure of faith,
and he said to them, 'These are the words that I spake unto you, being yet with you, that it behoveth to be fulfilled all the things that are written in the Law of Moses, and the Prophets, and the Psalms, about me.'
And he, having risen in the morning of the first of the sabbaths, did appear first to Mary the Magdalene, out of whom he had cast seven demons;
And the fathers! provoke not your children, but nourish them in the instruction and admonition of the Lord.
Thou dost not take vengeance, nor watch the sons of thy people; and thou hast had love to thy neighbour as thyself; I am Jehovah.
And on the eve of the sabbaths, at the dawn, toward the first of the sabbaths, came Mary the Magdalene, and the other Mary, to see the sepulchre,
Jesus answered, 'My kingdom is not of this world; if my kingdom were of this world, my officers had struggled that I might not be delivered up to Jews; but now my kingdom is not from hence.'
nothing in rivalry or vain-glory, but in humility of mind one another counting more excellent than yourselves --
For our citizenship is in the heavens, whence also a Saviour we await -- the Lord Jesus Christ --
And the sabbath having past, Mary the Magdalene, and Mary of James, and Salome, bought spices, that having come, they may anoint him,
Many teachers become not, my brethren, having known that greater judgment we shall receive,
for in Him we live, and move, and are; as also certain of your poets have said: For of Him also we are offspring.
for five husbands thou hast had, and, now, he whom thou hast is not thy husband; this hast thou said truly.'
when, therefore, Jesus received the vinegar, he said, 'It hath been finished;' and having bowed the head, gave up the spirit.
for thus once also the holy women who did hope on God, were adorning themselves, being subject to their own husbands,
Unto the woman He said, 'Multiplying I multiply thy sorrow and thy conception, in sorrow dost thou bear children, and toward thy husband is thy desire, and he doth rule over thee.'
And this is the message that we have heard from Him, and announce to you, that God is light, and darkness in Him is not at all;
for the sun did rise with the burning heat, and did wither the grass, and the flower of it fell, and the grace of its appearance did perish, so also the rich in his way shall fade away!
each, according as he received a gift, to one another ministering it, as good stewards of the manifold grace of God;
Cut off have been My people for lack of knowledge, Because thou knowledge hast rejected, I reject thee from being priest to Me, And thou forgettest the law of thy God, I forget thy sons, I also!
And, lo, two of them were going on during that day to a village, distant sixty furlongs from Jerusalem, the name of which is Emmaus,
I exhort, then, first of all, there be made supplications, prayers, intercessions, thanksgivings, for all men:
Bring in all the tithe unto the treasure-house, And there is food in My house; When ye have tried Me, now, with this, Said Jehovah of Hosts, Do not I open to you the windows of heaven? Yea, I have emptied on you a blessing till there is no space.
'Ye may not suppose that I came to put peace on the earth; I did not come to put peace, but a sword;
Christ did redeem us from the curse of the law, having become for us a curse, for it hath been written, 'Cursed is every one who is hanging on a tree,'
Seeing, then, the children have partaken of flesh and blood, he himself also in like manner did take part of the same, that through death he might destroy him having the power of death -- that is, the devil --
And the king answering, shall say to them, Verily I say to you, Inasmuch as ye did it to one of these my brethren -- the least -- to me ye did it.
For not My thoughts are your thoughts, Nor your ways My ways, -- an affirmation of Jehovah,
and having risen, the younger men wound him up, and having carried forth, they buried him.
and He said to me, 'Sufficient for thee is My grace, for My power in infirmity is perfected;' most gladly, therefore, will I rather boast in my infirmities, that the power of the Christ may rest on me:
according to a foreknowledge of God the Father, in sanctification of the Spirit, to obedience and sprinkling of the blood of Jesus Christ: Grace to you and peace be multiplied!
'For I testify to every one hearing the words of the prophecy of this scroll, if any one may add unto these, God shall add to him the plagues that have been written in this scroll,
And I bless those blessing thee, and him who is disesteeming thee I curse, and blessed in thee have been all families of the ground.'
And one of the scribes having come near, having heard them disputing, knowing that he answered them well, questioned him, 'Which is the first command of all?'
which is present to you, as also in all the world, and is bearing fruit, as also in you, from the day in which ye heard, and knew the grace of God in truth;
the spirit it is that is giving life; the flesh doth not profit anything; the sayings that I speak to you are spirit, and they are life;
'Honour thy father and thy mother, so that thy days are prolonged on the ground which Jehovah thy God is giving to thee.
For Thou -- Thou hast possessed my reins, Thou dost cover me in my mother's belly.
and in the knowledge the temperance, and in the temperance the endurance, and in the endurance the piety,
'Therefore, every one who doth hear of me these words, and doth do them, I will liken him to a wise man who built his house upon the rock;
in this we have known the love, because he for us his life did lay down, and we ought for the brethren the lives to lay down;
and Jesus said to him, 'Verily I say to thee, To-day with me thou shalt be in the paradise.'
And this I say, brethren, that flesh and blood the reign of God is not able to inherit, nor doth the corruption inherit the incorruption;
Hearken unto Me, ye pursuing righteousness, Seeking Jehovah, Look attentively unto the rock -- ye have been hewn, And unto the hole of the pit -- ye have been digged.
being declared righteous freely by His grace through the redemption that is in Christ Jesus,
For I -- I received from the Lord that which also I did deliver to you, that the Lord Jesus in the night in which he was delivered up, took bread,
but whoever may drink of the water that I will give him, may not thirst -- to the age; and the water that I will give him shall become in him a well of water, springing up to life age-during.'
And God saith, 'Lo, I have given to you every herb sowing seed, which is upon the face of all the earth, and every tree in which is the fruit of a tree sowing seed, to you it is for food;
I was seeing in the visions of the night, and lo, with the clouds of the heavens as a son of man was one coming, and unto the Ancient of Days he hath come, and before Him they have brought him near.
Paul, a servant of Jesus Christ, a called apostle, having been separated to the good news of God --
After these things I saw, and lo, a great multitude, which to number no one was able, out of all nations, and tribes, and peoples, and tongues, standing before the throne, and before the Lamb, arrayed in white robes, and palms in their hands,
'Verily, verily, I say to you, He who is not entering through the door to the fold of the sheep, but is going up from another side, that one is a thief and a robber;
Before it consumed hath fire, And after it burn doth a flame, As the garden of Eden is the land before it, And after it a wilderness -- a desolation! And also an escape there hath not been to it,
Have not I commanded thee? be strong and courageous; be not terrified nor affrighted, for with thee is Jehovah thy God in every place whither thou goest.'
honourable is the marriage in all, and the bed undefiled, and whoremongers and adulterers God shall judge.
Come, I pray you, and we reason, saith Jehovah, If your sins are as scarlet, as snow they shall be white, If they are red as crimson, as wool they shall be!
Stedfast is the word: If any one the oversight doth long for, a right work he desireth;
And it came to pass, in Apollos' being in Corinth, Paul having gone through the upper parts, came to Ephesus, and having found certain disciples,
And when thou mayest pray, thou shalt not be as the hypocrites, because they love in the synagogues, and in the corners of the broad places -- standing -- to pray, that they may be seen of men; verily I say to you, that they have their reward.
'Ye heard that it was said: Thou shalt love thy neighbour, and shalt hate thine enemy;
For ye -- to freedom ye were called, brethren, only not the freedom for an occasion to the flesh, but through the love serve ye one another,
and the great dragon was cast forth -- the old serpent, who is called 'Devil,' and 'the Adversary,' who is leading astray the whole world -- he was cast forth to the earth, and his messengers were cast forth with him.
the book of this law doth not depart out of thy mouth, and thou hast meditated in it by day and by night, so that thou dost observe to do according to all that is written in it, for then thou dost cause thy way to prosper, and then thou dost act wisely.
Fear of Jehovah is a beginning of knowledge, Wisdom and instruction fools have despised!
And God calleth to the expanse 'Heavens;' and there is an evening, and there is a morning -- day second.
for so, richly shall be superadded to you the entrance into the age-during reign of our Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ.
and all, whatever ye may do -- out of soul work -- as to the Lord, and not to men,
having known that, not with corruptible things -- silver or gold -- were ye redeemed from your foolish behaviour delivered by fathers,
and having brought them forth, said, 'Sirs, what must I do -- that I may be saved?'
And I saw thrones, and they sat upon them, and judgment was given to them, and the souls of those who have been beheaded because of the testimony of Jesus, and because of the word of God, and who did not bow before the beast, nor his image, and did not receive the mark upon their forehead and upon their hand, and they did live and reign with Christ the thousand years;
through all prayer and supplication praying at all times in the Spirit, and in regard to this same, watching in all perseverance and supplication for all the saints --
An ox hath known its owner, And an ass the crib of its master, Israel hath not known, My people hath not understood.
'And at that time stand up doth Michael, the great head, who is standing up for the sons of thy people, and there hath been a time of distress, such as hath not been since there hath been a nation till that time, and at that time do thy people escape, every one who is found written in the book.
And Jehovah seeth that abundant is the wickedness of man in the earth, and every imagination of the thoughts of his heart only evil all the day;
and these have been written that ye may believe that Jesus is the Christ, the Son of God, and that believing ye may have life in his name.'
In like manner, the wives, be ye subject to your own husbands, that even if certain are disobedient to the word, through the conversation of the wives, without the word, they may be won,
And dost thou think this, O man, who art judging those who such things are practising, and art doing them, that thou shalt escape the judgment of God?
Then Peter having come near to him, said, 'Sir, how often shall my brother sin against me, and I forgive him -- till seven times?'
and having found him, he brought him to Antioch, and it came to pass that they a whole year did assemble together in the assembly, and taught a great multitude, the disciples also were divinely called first in Antioch Christians.
according to the custom of the priesthood, his lot was to make perfume, having gone into the sanctuary of the Lord,
and no one hath gone up to the heaven, except he who out of the heaven came down -- the Son of Man who is in the heaven.
(for they being not yet born, neither having done anything good or evil, that the purpose of God, according to choice, might remain; not of works, but of Him who is calling,) it was said to her --
And having been baptized, Jesus went up immediately from the water, and lo, opened to him were the heavens, and he saw the Spirit of God descending as a dove, and coming upon him,
And Jehovah God taketh the man, and causeth him to rest in the garden of Eden, to serve it, and to keep it.
A voice is crying -- in a wilderness -- Prepare ye the way of Jehovah, Make straight in a desert a highway to our God.
the Samaritan woman therefore saith to him, 'How dost thou, being a Jew, ask drink from me, being a Samaritan woman?' for Jews have no dealing with Samaritans.
And while they were eating, Jesus having taken the bread, and having blessed, did brake, and was giving to the disciples, and said, 'Take, eat, this is my body;'
And again he entered into Capernaum, after some days, and it was heard that he is in the house,
Then said Jesus to his disciples, 'If any one doth will to come after me, let him disown himself, and take up his cross, and follow me,
And Jesus, having come to the parts of Caesarea Philippi, was asking his disciples, saying, 'Who do men say me to be -- the Son of Man?'
And a certain one said to him, out of the multitude, 'Teacher, say to my brother to divide with me the inheritance.'
And I saw a messenger coming down out of the heaven, having the key of the abyss, and a great chain over his hand,
that every one who is believing in him may not perish, but may have life age-during,
And there was a certain one ailing, Lazarus, from Bethany, of the village of Mary and Martha her sister --
For I am Jehovah, I have not changed, And ye, the sons of Jacob, Ye have not been consumed.
being buried with him in the baptism, in which also ye rose with him through the faith of the working of God, who did raise him out of the dead.
in regard to which ye are able, reading it, to understand my knowledge in the secret of the Christ,
whom we proclaim, warning every man, and teaching every man, in all wisdom, that we may present every man perfect in Christ Jesus,
And not only so, but we also boast in the tribulations, knowing that the tribulation doth work endurance;
and thou hast loved Jehovah thy God with all thy heart, and with all thy soul, and with all thy might,
for whoever the whole law shall keep, and shall stumble in one point, he hath become guilty of all;
'Thou mayest not wonder that I said to thee, It behoveth you to be born from above;
upon hope of life age-during, which God, who doth not lie, did promise before times of ages,
Every one who is doing the sin, the lawlessness also he doth do, and the sin is the lawlessness,
he who is having my commands, and is keeping them, that one it is who is loving me, and he who is loving me shall be loved by my Father, and I will love him, and will manifest myself to him.'
And if thy hand may cause thee to stumble, cut it off; it is better for thee maimed to enter into the life, than having the two hands, to go away to the gehenna, to the fire -- the unquenchable --
My brethren, hold not, in respect of persons, the faith of the glory of our Lord Jesus Christ,
and the rich in his becoming low, because as a flower of grass he shall pass away;
And certain having come down from Judea, were teaching the brethren -- 'If ye be not circumcised after the custom of Moses, ye are not able to be saved;'
in whom the god of this age did blind the minds of the unbelieving, that there doth not shine forth to them the enlightening of the good news of the glory of the Christ, who is the image of God;
My people -- its exactors are sucklings, And women have ruled over it. My people -- thy eulogists are causing to err, And the way of thy paths swallowed up.
and make not sorrowful the Holy Spirit of God, in which ye were sealed to a day of redemption.
and now, why tarriest thou? having risen, baptize thyself, and wash away thy sins, calling upon the name of the Lord.
And as he is going forth into the way, one having run and having kneeled to him, was questioning him, 'Good teacher, what may I do, that life age-during I may inherit?'
Put to death, then, your members that are upon the earth -- whoredom, uncleanness, passion, evil desire, and the covetousness, which is idolatry --
in the world he was, and the world through him was made, and the world did not know him:
How then shall they call upon him in whom they did not believe? and how shall they believe on him of whom they did not hear? and how shall they hear apart from one preaching?
for to this ye were called, because Christ also did suffer for you, leaving to you an example, that ye may follow his steps,
and we all, with unvailed face, the glory of the Lord beholding in a mirror, to the same image are being transformed, from glory to glory, even as by the Spirit of the Lord.
Because of this I say to you, all whatever -- praying -- ye do ask, believe that ye receive, and it shall be to you.
always in my prayers beseeching, if by any means now at length I shall have a prosperous journey, by the will of God, to come unto you,
And having called near the multitude, with his disciples, he said to them, 'Whoever doth will to come after me -- let him disown himself, and take up his cross, and follow me;
one body and one Spirit, according as also ye were called in one hope of your calling;
Paul and Timotheus, servants of Jesus Christ, to all the saints in Christ Jesus who are in Philippi, with overseers and ministrants;
and, being true in love, we may increase to Him in all things, who is the head -- the Christ;
'Then shall the reign of the heavens be likened to ten virgins, who, having taken their lamps, went forth to meet the bridegroom;
'God, who did make the world, and all things in it, this One, of heaven and of earth being Lord, in temples made with hands doth not dwell,
Thou hast a few names even in Sardis who did not defile their garments, and they shall walk with me in white, because they are worthy.
in which He did abound toward us in all wisdom and prudence,
These things I did write to you who are believing in the name of the Son of God, that ye may know that life ye have age-during, and that ye may believe in the name of the Son of God.
And it cometh to pass after these things that God hath tried Abraham, and saith unto him, 'Abraham;' and he saith, 'Here am I.'
and become one to another kind, tender-hearted, forgiving one another, according as also God in Christ did forgive you.
And the dust that hath cleaved to us, from your city, we do wipe off against you, but this know ye, that the reign of God hath come nigh to you;
Be not afraid, for with thee I am, Look not around, for I am thy God, I have strengthened thee, Yea, I have helped thee, yea, I upheld thee, With the right hand of My righteousness.
Elders who are among you, I exhort, who am a fellow-elder, and a witness of the sufferings of the Christ, and of the glory about to be revealed a partaker,
And a rod hath come out from the stock of Jesse, And a branch from his roots is fruitful.
and this is the testimony, that life age-during did God give to us, and this -- the life -- is in His Son;
and God, being rich in kindness, because of His great love with which He loved us,
and God shall wipe away every tear from their eyes, and the death shall not be any more, nor sorrow, nor crying, nor shall there be any more pain, because the first things did go away.'
she having followed Paul and us, was crying, saying, 'These men are servants of the Most High God, who declare to us a way of salvation;'
And I saw another messenger flying in mid-heaven, having good news age-during to proclaim to those dwelling upon the earth, and to every nation, and tribe, and tongue, and people,
Ye are My witnesses, an affirmation of Jehovah, And My servant whom I have chosen, So that ye know and give credence to Me, And understand that I am He, Before Me there was no God formed, And after Me there is none.
'And be not afraid of those killing the body, and are not able to kill the soul, but fear rather Him who is able both soul and body to destroy in gehenna.
And the eleven disciples went to Galilee, to the mount where Jesus appointed them,
Because of this, we also, from the day in which we heard, do not cease praying for you, and asking that ye may be filled with the full knowledge of His will in all wisdom and spiritual understanding,
to whom also he did present himself alive after his suffering, in many certain proofs, through forty days being seen by them, and speaking the things concerning the reign of God.
Let no one, then, judge you in eating or in drinking, or in respect of a feast, or of a new moon, or of sabbaths,
For the righteousness of God in it is revealed from faith to faith, according as it hath been written, 'And the righteous one by faith shall live,'
Lo, he doth come with the clouds, and see him shall every eye, even those who did pierce him, and wail because of him shall all the tribes of the land. Yes! Amen!
praising God, and having favour with all the people, and the Lord was adding those being saved every day to the assembly.
for ye did not receive a spirit of bondage again for fear, but ye did receive a spirit of adoption in which we cry, 'Abba -- Father.'
And it came to pass in those days, Jesus came from Nazareth of Galilee, and was baptized by John at the Jordan;
in whom also we did obtain an inheritance, being foreordained according to the purpose of Him who the all things is working according to the counsel of His will,
for when one may say, 'I, indeed, am of Paul;' and another, 'I -- of Apollos;' are ye not fleshly?
and the Devil, who is leading them astray, was cast into the lake of fire and brimstone, where are the beast and the false prophet, and they shall be tormented day and night -- to the ages of the ages.
Ho, every thirsty one, come ye to the waters, And he who hath no money, Come ye, buy and eat, yea, come, buy Without money and without price, wine and milk.
and in the doing good we may not be faint-hearted, for at the proper time we shall reap -- not desponding;
And the man knew Eve his wife, and she conceiveth and beareth Cain, and saith, 'I have gotten a man by Jehovah;'
And delight thyself on Jehovah, And He giveth to thee the petitions of thy heart.
'I indeed do baptize you with water to reformation, but he who after me is coming is mightier than I, of whom I am not worthy to bear the sandals, he shall baptize you with the Holy Spirit and with fire,
being begotten again, not out of seed corruptible, but incorruptible, through a word of God -- living and remaining -- to the age;
And Jesus himself was beginning to be about thirty years of age, being, as was supposed, son of Joseph,
And he answering said, 'Thou shalt love the Lord thy God out of all thy heart, and out of all thy soul, and out of all thy strength, and out of all thy understanding, and thy neighbour as thyself.'
And this is the boldness that we have toward Him, that if anything we may ask according to his will, He doth hear us,
and that is, that I may be comforted together among you, through the faith in one another, both yours and mine.
and, confessedly, great is the secret of piety -- God was manifested in flesh, declared righteous in spirit, seen by messengers, preached among nations, believed on in the world, taken up in glory!
Who shall separate us from the love of the Christ? tribulation, or distress, or persecution, or famine, or nakedness, or peril, or sword?
The pattern hold thou of sound words, which from me thou didst hear, in faith and love that is in Christ Jesus;
wherefore, also, God did highly exalt him, and gave to him a name that is above every name,
Let no corrupt word out of your mouth go forth, but what is good unto the needful building up, that it may give grace to the hearers;
And concerning that day and the hour no one hath known -- not even the messengers of the heavens -- except my Father only;
And, lo, I do send the promise of my Father upon you, but ye -- abide ye in the city of Jerusalem till ye be clothed with power from on high.'
And it cometh to pass that mankind have begun to multiply on the face of the ground, and daughters have been born to them,
Jesus saith to her, 'Be not touching me, for I have not yet ascended unto my Father; and be going on to my brethren, and say to them, I ascend unto my Father, and your Father, and to my God, and to your God.'
These things spake Jesus, and lifted up his eyes to the heaven, and said -- 'Father, the hour hath come, glorify Thy Son, that Thy Son also may glorify Thee,
Whence are wars and fightings among you? not thence -- out of your passions, that are as soldiers in your members?
Lo, I am sending My messenger, And he hath prepared a way before Me, And suddenly come in unto his temple Doth the Lord whom ye are seeking, Even the messenger of the covenant, Whom ye are desiring, Lo, he is coming, said Jehovah of Hosts.
And there were present certain at that time, telling him about the Galileans, whose blood Pilate did mingle with their sacrifices;
and all, whatever ye may do in word or in work, do all things in the name of the Lord Jesus -- giving thanks to the God and Father, through him.
'Ye heard that it was said to the ancients: Thou shalt not kill, and whoever may kill shall be in danger of the judgment;
draw nigh to God, and He will draw nigh to you; cleanse hands, ye sinners! and purify hearts, ye two-souled!
and increase ye in grace, and in the knowledge of our Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ; to him is the glory both now, and to the day of the age! Amen.
Little youths, it is the last hour; and even as ye heard that the antichrist doth come, even now antichrists have become many -- whence we know that it is the last hour;
'Whenever, therefore, ye may see the abomination of the desolation, that was spoken of through Daniel the prophet, standing in the holy place (whoever is reading let him observe)
Hear a word of Jehovah, O house of Jacob, And all ye families of the house of Israel.
all things I did shew you, that, thus labouring, it behoveth us to partake with the ailing, to be mindful also of the words of the Lord Jesus, that he himself said, It is more blessed to give than to receive.'
'And every one who is hearing of me these words, and is not doing them, shall be likened to a foolish man who built his house upon the sand;
Blessed is God, even the Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, the Father of the mercies, and God of all comfort,
for, verily I say to you, till that the heaven and the earth may pass away, one iota or one tittle may not pass away from the law, till that all may come to pass.
and reformation and remission of sins to be proclaimed in his name to all the nations, beginning from Jerusalem:
and it will come -- the day of the Lord -- as a thief in the night, in which the heavens with a rushing noise will pass away, and the elements with burning heat be dissolved, and earth and the works in it shall be burnt up.
Wherefore, remember, that ye were once the nations in the flesh, who are called Uncircumcision by that called Circumcision in the flesh made by hands,
and we -- we have known and believed the love, that God hath in us; God is love, and he who is remaining in the love, in God he doth remain, and God in him.
as ye also learned from Epaphras, our beloved fellow-servant, who is for you a faithful ministrant of the Christ,
After these things did Jesus manifest himself again to the disciples on the sea of Tiberias, and he did manifest himself thus:
in these were lying a great multitude of the ailing, blind, lame, withered, waiting for the moving of the water,
And sweet to Jehovah hath been the present of Judah and Jerusalem, As in days of old, and as in former years.
And there is a word of Jehovah unto me, saying,
and of the tree of knowledge of good and evil, thou dost not eat of it, for in the day of thine eating of it -- dying thou dost die.'
I do fully testify, then, before God, and the Lord Jesus Christ, who is about to judge living and dead at his manifestation and his reign --
James, of God and of the Lord Jesus Christ a servant, to the Twelve Tribes who are in the dispersion: Hail!
These are births of Noah: Noah is a righteous man; perfect he hath been among his generations; with God hath Noah walked habitually.
the grace of the Lord Jesus Christ, and the love of God, and the fellowship of the Holy Spirit, is with you all! Amen.
And we have more firm the prophetic word, to which we do well giving heed, as to a lamp shining in a dark place, till day may dawn, and a morning star may arise -- in your hearts;
put on the whole armour of God, for your being able to stand against the wiles of the devil,
because of this, then, were the Jews seeking the more to kill him, because not only was he breaking the sabbath, but he also called God his own Father, making himself equal to God.
Thou dost not make to thyself a graven image, or any likeness which is in the heavens above, or which is in the earth beneath, or which is in the waters under the earth.
but even if we or a messenger out of heaven may proclaim good news to you different from what we did proclaim to you -- anathema let him be!
for there shall be a season when the sound teaching they will not suffer, but according to their own desires to themselves they shall heap up teachers -- itching in the hearing,
and the thing they kept to themselves, questioning together what the rising out of the dead is.
Having, therefore, brethren, boldness for the entrance into the holy places, in the blood of Jesus,
the Spirit of truth, whom the world is not able to receive, because it doth not behold him, nor know him, and ye know him, because he doth remain with you, and shall be in you.
These are births of the heavens and of the earth in their being prepared, in the day of Jehovah God's making earth and heavens;
Call unto Me, and I do answer thee, yea, I declare to thee great and fenced things -- thou hast not known them.
And in the fifteenth year of the government of Tiberius Caesar -- Pontius Pilate being governor of Judea, and Herod tetrarch of Galilee, and Philip his brother, tetrarch of Ituraea and of the region of Trachonitis, and Lysanias tetrarch of Abilene --
And there were shepherds in the same region, lodging in the field, and keeping the night-watches over their flock,
Happy those hungering and thirsting for righteousness -- because they shall be filled.
An imagination supported Thou fortifiest peace -- peace! For in Thee it is confident.
for God is my witness, whom I serve in my spirit in the good news of His Son, how unceasingly I make mention of you,
Hear this word, ye kine of Bashan, Who are in the mountain of Samaria, Who are oppressing the poor, Who are bruising the needy, Who are saying to their lords: 'Bring in, and we do drink.'
unto the perfecting of the saints, for a work of ministration, for a building up of the body of the Christ,
for these things being to you and abounding, do make you neither inert nor unfruitful in regard to the acknowledging of our Lord Jesus Christ,
we may come near, then, with freedom, to the throne of the grace, that we may receive kindness, and find grace -- for seasonable help.
through which to us the most great and precious promises have been given, that through these ye may become partakers of a divine nature, having escaped from the corruption in the world in desires.
let no one despise thy youth, but a pattern become thou of those believing in word, in behaviour, in love, in spirit, in faith, in purity;
for all of us it behoveth to be manifested before the tribunal of the Christ, that each one may receive the things done through the body, in reference to the things that he did, whether good or evil;
'Before I form thee in the belly, I have known thee; and before thou comest forth from the womb I have separated thee, a prophet to nations I have made thee.'
and Peter having stood up with the eleven, lifted up his voice and declared to them, 'Men, Jews! and all those dwelling in Jerusalem, let this be known to you, and harken to my sayings,
And I call upon you, brethren, to mark those who the divisions and the stumbling-blocks, contrary to the teaching that ye did learn, are causing, and turn ye away from them;
To no one owe anything, except to love one another; for he who is loving the other -- law he hath fulfilled,
holding -- according to the teaching -- to the stedfast word, that he may be able also to exhort in the sound teaching, and the gainsayers to convict;
because John, indeed, baptized with water, and ye shall be baptized with the Holy Spirit -- after not many days.'
but not even Titus, who is with me, being a Greek, was compelled to be circumcised --
and it shall be, every one -- whoever shall call upon the name of the Lord, he shall be saved.
Be obedient to those leading you, and be subject, for these do watch for your souls, as about to give account, that with joy they may do this, and not sighing, for this is unprofitable to you.
And the multitude of those sleeping in the dust of the ground do awake, some to life age-during, and some to reproaches -- to abhorrence age-during.
Rejoice exceedingly, O daughter of Zion, Shout, O daughter of Jerusalem, Lo, thy King doth come to thee, Righteous -- and saved is He, Afflicted -- and riding on an ass, And on a colt -- a son of she-asses.
have ye not known that ye are a sanctuary of God, and the Spirit of God doth dwell in you?
And he, having lifted up his eyes to his disciples, said: 'Happy the poor -- because yours is the reign of God.
for also in one Spirit we all to one body were baptized, whether Jews or Greeks, whether servants or freemen, and all into one Spirit were made to drink,
these all were continuing with one accord in prayer and supplication, with women, and Mary the mother of Jesus, and with his brethren.
he who is doing the sin, of the devil he is, because from the beginning the devil doth sin; for this was the Son of God manifested, that he may break up the works of the devil;
speaking to yourselves in psalms and hymns and spiritual songs, singing and making melody in your heart to the Lord,
having known also that a man is not declared righteous by works of law, if not through the faith of Jesus Christ, also we in Christ Jesus did believe, that we might be declared righteous by the faith of Christ, and not by works of law, wherefore declared righteous by works of law shall be no flesh.'
but, according as it hath been written, 'What eye did not see, and ear did not hear, and upon the heart of man came not up, what God did prepare for those loving Him -- '
this one, by the determinate counsel and foreknowledge of God, being given out, having taken by lawless hands, having crucified -- ye did slay;
O depth of riches, and wisdom and knowledge of God! how unsearchable His judgments, and untraceable His ways!
And lo, one having come near, said to him, 'Good teacher, what good thing shall I do, that I may have life age-during?'
but I make account of none of these, neither do I count my life precious to myself, so that I finish my course with joy, and the ministration that I received from the Lord Jesus, to testify fully the good news of the grace of God.
and if I go on and prepare for you a place, again do I come, and will receive you unto myself, that where I am ye also may be;
and from Jesus Christ, the faithful witness, the first-born out of the dead, and the ruler of the kings of the earth; to him who did love us, and did bathe us from our sins in his blood,
and if the fall of them is the riches of a world, and the diminution of them the riches of nations, how much more the fulness of them?
And Jesus said to him, 'If thou art able to believe! all things are possible to the one that is believing;'
preach the word; be earnest in season, out of season, convict, rebuke, exhort, in all long-suffering and teaching,
wherefore by works of law shall no flesh be declared righteous before Him, for through law is a knowledge of sin.
Speak unto the sons of Israel, and thou hast said unto them, Any man of you when he doth bring near an offering to Jehovah, out of the cattle -- out of the herd, or out of the flock -- ye do bring near your offering.
And it came to pass in our going on to prayer, a certain maid, having a spirit of Python, did meet us, who brought much employment to her masters by soothsaying,
And from Miletus, having sent to Ephesus, he called for the elders of the assembly,
lo, I tell you a secret; we indeed shall not all sleep, and we all shall be changed;
That -- I have known my Redeemer, The Living and the Last, For the dust he doth rise.
'Every one, therefore, who shall confess in me before men, I also will confess in him before my Father who is in the heavens;
to know him, and the power of his rising again, and the fellowship of his sufferings, being conformed to his death,
While Peter is yet speaking these sayings, the Holy spirit fell upon all those hearing the word,
But your iniquities have been separating Between you and your God, And your sins have hidden The Presence from you -- from hearing.
Daily also continuing with one accord in the temple, breaking also at every house bread, they were partaking of food in gladness and simplicity of heart,
And at dawn he came again to the temple,
and the God of the peace Himself sanctify you wholly, and may your whole spirit, and soul, and body, be preserved unblameably in the presence of our Lord Jesus Christ;
Desist, and know that I am God, I am exalted among nations, I am exalted in the earth.
And to the messenger of the assembly of the Laodiceans write: These things saith the Amen, the witness -- the faithful and true -- the chief of the creation of God;
And I say to the unmarried and to the widows: it is good for them if they may remain even as I am;
And I have poured on the house of David, And on the inhabitant of Jerusalem, A spirit of grace and supplications, And they have looked unto Me whom they pierced, And they have mourned over it, Like a mourning over the only one, And they have been in bitterness for it, Like a bitterness over the first-born.
and the hope doth not make ashamed, because the love of God hath been poured forth in our hearts through the Holy Spirit that hath been given to us.
because, having known God they did not glorify Him as God, nor gave thanks, but were made vain in their reasonings, and their unintelligent heart was darkened,
and John was also baptizing in Aenon, nigh to Salem, because there were many waters there, and they were coming and were being baptized --
and about the ninth hour Jesus cried out with a great voice, saying, 'Eli, Eli, lama sabachthani?' that is, 'My God, my God, why didst Thou forsake me?'
fear is not in the love, but the perfect love doth cast out the fear, because the fear hath punishment, and he who is fearing hath not been made perfect in the love;
There was in the days of Herod, the king of Judea, a certain priest, by name Zacharias, of the course of Abijah, and his wife of the daughters of Aaron, and her name Elisabeth;
and with blood almost all things are purified according to the law, and apart from blood-shedding forgiveness doth not come.
and if I delay, that thou mayest know how it behoveth thee to conduct thyself in the house of God, which is an assembly of the living God -- a pillar and foundation of the truth,
And I do not wish you to be ignorant, brethren, that many times I did purpose to come unto you -- and was hindered till the present time -- that some fruit I might have also among you, even as also among the other nations.
And as they were going on the way, they came upon a certain water, and the eunuch said, 'Lo, water; what doth hinder me to be baptized?'
Wherefore having girded up the loins of your mind, being sober, hope perfectly upon the grace that is being brought to you in the revelation of Jesus Christ,
and the natural man doth not receive the things of the Spirit of God, for to him they are foolishness, and he is not able to know them, because spiritually they are discerned;
Woe to you, Scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites! because ye give tithe of the mint, and the dill, and the cumin, and did neglect the weightier things of the Law -- the judgment, and the kindness, and the faith; these it behoved you to do, and those not to neglect.
first, indeed, I thank my God through Jesus Christ for you all, that your faith is proclaimed in the whole world;
for God it is who is working in you both to will and to work for His good pleasure.
And Jehovah saith unto Samuel, 'Look not unto his appearance, and unto the height of his stature, for I have rejected him; for it is not as man seeth -- for man looketh at the eyes, and Jehovah looketh at the heart.'
and thou didst bear, and hast endurance, and because of my name hast toiled, and hast not been weary.
whom God did set forth a mercy seat, through the faith in his blood, for the shewing forth of His righteousness, because of the passing over of the bygone sins in the forbearance of God --
And God blesseth the seventh day, and sanctifieth it, for in it He hath ceased from all His work which God had prepared for making.
for the Father doth love the Son, and doth shew to him all things that He himself doth; and greater works than these He will shew him, that ye may wonder.
and Jesus was advancing in wisdom, and in stature, and in favour with God and men.
And the Spirit and the Bride say, Come; and he who is hearing -- let him say, Come; and he who is thirsting -- let him come; and he who is willing -- let him take the water of life freely.
Jesus, therefore, six days before the passover, came to Bethany, where was Lazarus, who had died, whom he raised out of the dead;
confirming the souls of the disciples, exhorting to remain in the faith, and that through many tribulations it behoveth us to enter into the reign of God,
And there shall be signs in sun, and moon, and stars, and on the land is distress of nations with perplexity, sea and billow roaring;
and to those selling the doves he said, 'Take these things hence; make not the house of my Father a house of merchandise.'
To the Overseer. -- By sons of Korah. 'For the Virgins.' -- A song. God is to us a refuge and strength, A help in adversities found most surely.
Take ye up the sum of all the company of the sons of Israel by their families, by the house of their fathers, in the number of names -- every male by their polls;
For, if ye may forgive men their trespasses He also will forgive you -- your Father who is in the heavens;
circumcision on the eighth day! of the race of Israel! of the tribe of Benjamin! a Hebrew of Hebrews! according to law a Pharisee!
lo, also the ships, being so great, and by fierce winds being driven, are led about by a very small helm, whithersoever the impulse of the helmsman doth counsel,
to open their eyes, to turn them from darkness to light, and from the authority of the Adversary unto God, for their receiving forgiveness of sins, and a lot among those having been sanctified, by faith that is toward me.
And in the days of these kings raise up doth the God of the heavens a kingdom that is not destroyed -- to the age, and its kingdom to another people is not left: it beateth small and endeth all these kingdoms, and it standeth to the age.
And Jesus turned back in the power of the Spirit to Galilee, and a fame went forth through all the region round about concerning him,
if them he did call gods unto whom the word of God came, (and the Writing is not able to be broken,)
see my hands and my feet, that I am he; handle me and see, because a spirit hath not flesh and bones, as ye see me having.'
Wherefore, having left the word of the beginning of the Christ, unto the perfection we may advance, not again a foundation laying of reformation from dead works, and of faith on God,
For the Lord Jehovah doth nothing, Except He hath revealed His counsel unto His servants the prophets.
and whatever ye may ask in my name, I will do, that the Father may be glorified in the Son;
And Peter and John were going up at the same time to the temple, at the hour of the prayer, the ninth hour,
I am the Alpha and the Omega, beginning and end, saith the Lord, who is, and who was, and who is coming -- the Almighty.'
And he saith to them on that day, evening having come, 'We may pass over to the other side;'
who did give himself for us, that he might ransom us from all lawlessness, and might purify to himself a peculiar people, zealous of good works;
ye heard that I said to you -- I go away, and I come unto you; if ye did love me, ye would have rejoiced that I said -- I go on to the Father, because my Father is greater than I.
and the things that thou didst hear from me through many witnesses, these things be committing to stedfast men, who shall be sufficient also others to teach;
And the Lord said, 'Simon, Simon, lo, the Adversary did ask you for himself to sift as the wheat,
To the Overseer. -- A Psalm by David. Jehovah, Thou hast searched me, and knowest.
Ye -- of God ye are, little children, and ye have overcome them; because greater is He who is in you, than he who is in the world.
Lo, days are coming, An affirmation of the Lord Jehovah, And I have sent a famine into the land, Not a famine of bread, nor a thirst of water But of hearing the words of Jehovah.
And there came war in the heaven; Michael and his messengers did war against the dragon, and the dragon did war, and his messengers,
Wherefore also God did give them up, in the desires of their hearts, to uncleanness, to dishonour their bodies among themselves;
for I rejoiced exceedingly, brethren coming and testifying of the truth in thee, even as thou in truth dost walk;
and they sing a new song, saying, 'Worthy art thou to take the scroll, and to open the seals of it, because thou wast slain, and didst redeem us to God in thy blood, out of every tribe, and tongue, and people, and nation,
'Then shall the king say to those on his right hand, Come ye, the blessed of my Father, inherit the reign that hath been prepared for you from the foundation of the world;
Worthy art Thou, O Lord, to receive the glory, and the honour, and the power, because Thou -- Thou didst create the all things, and because of Thy will are they, and they were created.'
I am the door, through me if any one may come in, he shall be saved, and he shall come in, and go out, and find pasture.
Nicodemus answered and said to him, 'How are these things able to happen?'
and I say to you, that for Sodom in that day it shall be more tolerable than for that city.
And concerning that day and the hour no one hath known -- not even the messengers who are in the heaven, not even the Son -- except the Father.
Remind them to be subject to principalities and authorities, to obey rule, unto every good work to be ready,
And there was a certain man in Caesarea, by name Cornelius, a centurion from a band called Italian,
And Moses hath been feeding the flock of Jethro his father-in-law, priest of Midian, and he leadeth the flock behind the wilderness, and cometh in unto the mount of God, to Horeb;
And Abram is a son of ninety and nine years, and Jehovah appeareth unto Abram, and saith unto him, 'I am God Almighty, walk habitually before Me, and be thou perfect;
And they began to reason among themselves, who then of them it may be, who is about to do this thing.
in these last days did speak to us in a Son, whom He appointed heir of all things, through whom also He did make the ages;
And it came to pass, in all the people being baptised, Jesus also being baptised, and praying, the heaven was opened,
And he said unto them, 'Observe, and beware of the covetousness, because not in the abundance of one's goods is his life.'
And these shall go away to punishment age-during, but the righteous to life age-during.'
and have not hearkened to the voice of Jehovah our God, to walk in His laws, that He hath set before us by the hand of His servants the prophets;
he shall be great, and Son of the Highest he shall be called, and the Lord God shall give him the throne of David his father,
and him who was made some little less than messengers we see -- Jesus -- because of the suffering of the death, with glory and honour having been crowned, that by the grace of God for every one he might taste of death.
And having gifts, different according to the grace that was given to us; whether prophecy -- 'According to the proportion of faith!'
After these things came Jesus and his disciples to the land of Judea, and there he did tarry with them, and was baptizing;
And I call upon you, brethren, through the name of our Lord Jesus Christ, that the same thing ye may all say, and there may not be divisions among you, and ye may be perfected in the same mind, and in the same judgment,
And it came to pass, in the completing of the days of his being taken up, that he fixed his face to go on to Jerusalem,
This, then, I say, and I testify in the Lord; ye are no more to walk, as also the other nations walk, in the vanity of their mind,
Every one who is believing that Jesus is the Christ, of God he hath been begotten, and every one who is loving Him who did beget, doth love also him who is begotten of Him:
and the God of the hope shall fill you with all joy and peace in the believing, for your abounding in the hope in power of the Holy Spirit.
And lo, I come quickly, and my reward is with me, to render to each as his work shall be;
And they were bringing to him children, that he might touch them, and the disciples were rebuking those bringing them,
And it came to pass, after these words, as it were eight days, that having taken Peter, and John, and James, he went up to the mountain to pray,
The law of Jehovah is perfect, refreshing the soul, The testimonies of Jehovah are stedfast, Making wise the simple,
And him who is weak in the faith receive ye -- not to determinations of reasonings;
As a lily among the thorns,
now is a judgment of this world, now shall the ruler of this world be cast forth;
'And immediately after the tribulation of those days, the sun shall be darkened, and the moon shall not give her light, and the stars shall fall from the heaven, and the powers of the heavens shall be shaken;
Doth man deceive God? but ye are deceiving Me, And ye have said: 'In what have we deceived Thee?' The tithe and the heave-offering!
Lo, My servant, I take hold on him, My chosen one -- My soul hath accepted, I have put My Spirit upon him, Judgment to nations he bringeth forth.
remain in me, and I in you, as the branch is not able to bear fruit of itself, if it may not remain in the vine, so neither ye, if ye may not remain in me.
for it is impossible for those once enlightened, having tasted also of the heavenly gift, and partakers having became of the Holy Spirit,
Not that I did already obtain, or have been already perfected; but I pursue, if also I may lay hold of that for which also I was laid hold of by the Christ Jesus;
and having appointed to them by vote elders in every assembly, having prayed with fastings, they commended them to the Lord in whom they had believed.
Be patient, then, brethren, till the presence of the Lord; lo, the husbandman doth expect the precious fruit of the earth, being patient for it, till he may receive rain -- early and latter;
by faith we understand the ages to have been prepared by a saying of God, in regard to the things seen not having come out of things appearing;
And immediately Jesus constrained his disciples to go into the boat, and to go before him to the other side, till he might let away the multitudes;
Because that which is known of God is manifest among them, for God did manifest it to them,
they questioned him, then, 'Who is the man who is saying to thee, Take up thy couch and be walking?'
And he said also unto his disciples, 'A certain man was rich, who had a steward, and he was accused to him as scattering his goods;
and other sheep I have that are not of this fold, these also it behoveth me to bring, and my voice they will hear, and there shall become one flock -- one shepherd.
also to which an antitype doth now save us -- baptism, (not a putting away of the filth of flesh, but the question of a good conscience in regard to God,) through the rising again of Jesus Christ,
because He did set a day in which He is about to judge the world in righteousness, by a man whom He did ordain, having given assurance to all, having raised him out of the dead.'
And there were there six water-jugs of stone, placed according to the purifying of the Jews, holding each two or three measures.
in this is the love, not that we loved God, but that He did love us, and did send His Son a propitiation for our sins.
he who is believing in me, according as the Writing said, Rivers out of his belly shall flow of living water;'
for the law through Moses was given, the grace and the truth through Jesus Christ did come;
and the helmet of the salvation receive, and the sword of the Spirit, which is the saying of God,
or because of us by all means doth He say it? yes, because of us it was written, because in hope ought the plower to plow, and he who is treading ought of his hope to partake in hope.
There is not a remembrance of former generations; and also of the latter that are, there is no remembrance of them with those that are at the last.
For I do not wish you to be ignorant, brethren, of this secret -- that ye may not be wise in your own conceits -- that hardness in part to Israel hath happened till the fulness of the nations may come in;
And afterwards have Moses and Aaron entered, and they say unto Pharaoh, 'Thus said Jehovah, God of Israel, Send My people away, and they keep a feast to Me in the wilderness;'
'Bricks have fallen, and hewn work we build, Sycamores have been cut down, and cedars we renew.'
and if any one was not found written in the scroll of the life, he was cast to the lake of the fire.
And having been questioned by the Pharisees, when the reign of God doth come, he answered them, and said, 'The reign of God doth not come with observation;
and he said unto them, 'It is not yours to know times or seasons that the Father did appoint in His own authority;
To the Overseer. -- By David. A fool hath said in his heart, 'God is not;' They have done corruptly, They have done abominable actions, There is not a doer of good.
when, then, he was raised out of the dead, his disciples remembered that he said this to them, and they believed the Writing, and the word that Jesus said.
And gathered together unto him are the Pharisees, and certain of the scribes, having come from Jerusalem,
So is My word that goeth out of My mouth, It turneth not back unto Me empty, But hath done that which I desired, And prosperously effected that for which I sent it.
Ye multiply not -- ye speak haughtily -- The old saying goeth out from your mouth, For a God of knowledge is Jehovah, And by Him actions are weighed.
And when they believed Philip, proclaiming good news, the things concerning the reign of God and the name of Jesus Christ, they were baptized both men and women;
I said, therefore, to you, that ye shall die in your sins, for if ye may not believe that I am he, ye shall die in your sins.'
And Saul was assenting to his death, and there came in that day a great persecution upon the assembly in Jerusalem, all also were scattered abroad in the regions of Judea and Samaria, except the apostles;
for neither doth the Father judge any one, but all the judgment He hath given to the Son,
for what is a man profited if he may gain the whole world, but of his life suffer loss? or what shall a man give as an exchange for his life?
and having begun from Moses, and from all the prophets, he was expounding to them in all the Writings the things about himself.
And the woman seeth that the tree is good for food, and that it is pleasant to the eyes, and the tree is desirable to make one wise, and she taketh of its fruit and eateth, and giveth also to her husband with her, and he doth eat;
and no more am I in the world, and these are in the world, and I come unto Thee. Holy Father, keep them in Thy name, whom Thou hast given to me, that they may be one as we;
and I think right, so long as I am in this tabernacle, to stir you up in reminding you,
And Jehovah God layeth a charge on the man, saying, 'Of every tree of the garden eating thou dost eat;
testifying fully both to Jews and Greeks, toward God reformation, and faith toward our Lord Jesus Christ.
because the husband is head of the wife, as also the Christ is head of the assembly, and he is saviour of the body,
our fathers in this mountain did worship, and ye -- ye say that in Jerusalem is the place where it behoveth to worship.'
For we -- wilfully sinning after the receiving the full knowledge of the truth -- no more for sins doth there remain a sacrifice,
Because Israel is a youth, and I love him, Out of Egypt I have called for My Son.
And this one thing let not be unobserved by you, beloved, that one day with the Lord is as a thousand years, and a thousand years as one day;
By David. Jehovah is my light and my salvation, Whom do I fear? Jehovah is the strength of my life, Of whom am I afraid?
At that time Jesus answering said, 'I do confess to Thee, Father, Lord of the heavens and of the earth, that thou didst hide these things from wise and understanding ones, and didst reveal them to babes.
The Jews, therefore, said, 'Forty and six years was this sanctuary building, and wilt thou in three days raise it up?'
After these things hath the word of Jehovah been unto Abram in a vision, saying, 'Fear not, Abram, I am a shield to thee, thy reward is exceeding great.'
Jesus saith to her, 'What -- to me and to thee, woman? not yet is mine hour come.'
for there is no difference between Jew and Greek, for the same Lord of all is rich to all those calling upon Him,
being built upon the foundation of the apostles and prophets, Jesus Christ himself being chief corner -stone,
A Psalm of David. To Jehovah is the earth and its fulness, The world and the inhabitants in it.
and now, I commend you, brethren, to God, and to the word of His grace, that is able to build up, and to give you an inheritance among all those sanctified.
for what shall it profit a man, if he may gain the whole world, and forfeit his life?
for there shall arise false Christs, and false prophets, and they shall give great signs and wonders, so as to lead astray, if possible, also the chosen.
And you -- being dead in the trespasses and the uncircumcision of your flesh -- He made alive together with him, having forgiven you all the trespasses,
and I wrote to you this same thing, that having come, I may not have sorrow from them of whom it behoved me to have joy, having confidence in you all, that my joy is of you all,
Lo, in iniquity I have been brought forth, And in sin doth my mother conceive me.
A man there hath been in the land of Uz -- Job his name -- and that man hath been perfect and upright -- both fearing God, and turning aside from evil.
God is not a man -- and lieth, And a son of man -- and repenteth! Hath He said -- and doth He not do it? And spoken -- and doth He not confirm it?
for ye know the grace of our Lord Jesus Christ, that because of you he became poor -- being rich, that ye by that poverty may become rich.
Paul, an apostle of Jesus Christ through the will of God, to the saints who are in Ephesus, and to the faithful in Christ Jesus:
and in their ministering to the Lord and fasting, the Holy Spirit said, 'Separate ye to me both Barnabas and Saul to the work to which I have called them,'
brethren, I do not reckon myself to have laid hold; and one thing -- the things behind indeed forgetting, and to the things before stretching forth --
not that in respect of want I say it, for I did learn in the things in which I am -- to be content;
I am Jehovah thy God, who hath brought thee out of the land of Egypt, out of a house of servants.
A revelation of Jesus Christ, that God gave to him, to shew to his servants what things it behoveth to come to pass quickly; and he did signify it, having sent through his messenger to his servant John,
let not any one deceive you in any manner, because -- if the falling away may not come first, and the man of sin be revealed -- the son of the destruction,
because the mind of the flesh is enmity to God, for to the law of God it doth not subject itself,
they said then, 'What is this he saith -- the little while? we have not known what he saith.'
and three are who are testifying in the earth, the Spirit, and the water, and the blood, and the three are into the one.
'And now, fear ye Jehovah, and serve Him, in perfection and in truth, and turn aside the gods which your fathers served beyond the River, and in Egypt, and serve ye Jehovah;
and Asa begat Jehoshaphat, and Jehoshaphat begat Joram, and Joram begat Uzziah,
And Jesus went forth, and his disciples, to the villages of Caesarea Philippi, and in the way he was questioning his disciples, saying to them, 'Who do men say me to be?'
for our being to the praise of His glory, even those who did first hope in the Christ,
much more, then, having been declared righteous now in his blood, we shall be saved through him from the wrath;
Jesus, therefore, said to them, 'Verily, verily, I say to you, If ye may not eat the flesh of the Son of Man, and may not drink his blood, ye have no life in yourselves;
And Paul, having stood in the midst of the Areopagus, said, 'Men, Athenians, in all things I perceive you as over-religious;
to whom coming -- a living stone -- by men, indeed, having been disapproved of, but with God choice, precious,
Another simile he set before them, saying: 'The reign of the heavens was likened to a man sowing good seed in his field,
and if a woman may put away her husband, and is married to another, she committeth adultery.'
for as in one body we have many members, and all the members have not the same office,
And Jesus said to them, 'Through your want of faith; for verily I say to you, if ye may have faith as a grain of mustard, ye shall say to this mount, Remove hence to yonder place, and it shall remove, and nothing shall be impossible to you,
but I -- I say to you, that every one who is looking on a woman to desire her, did already commit adultery with her in his heart.
having been confident in thy obedience I did write to thee, having known that also above what I may say thou wilt do;
(and if any one his own house how to lead hath not known, how an assembly of God shall he take care of?)
I now rejoice in my sufferings for you, and do fill up the things lacking of the tribulations of the Christ in my flesh for his body, which is the assembly,
because every one who is begotten of God doth overcome the world, and this is the victory that did overcome the world -- our faith;
If, then, ye, being evil, have known good gifts to be giving to your children, how much more shall the Father who is from heaven give the Holy Spirit to those asking Him!'
in which once ye did walk according to the age of this world, according to the ruler of the authority of the air, of the spirit that is now working in the sons of disobedience,
and because ye are sons, God did send forth the spirit of His Son into your hearts, crying, 'Abba, Father!'
and this having said, he breathed on them, and saith to them, 'Receive the Holy Spirit;
Jesus answered and said to her, 'Every one who is drinking of this water shall thirst again;
and ye yourselves, as living stones, are built up, a spiritual house, a holy priesthood, to offer up spiritual sacrifices acceptable to God through Jesus Christ.
for as the woman is of the man, so also the man is through the woman, and the all things are of God.
And he answering said to them, 'Did ye not read, that He who made them, from the beginning a male and a female made them,
but I -- I say to you, that every one who is angry at his brother without cause, shall be in danger of the judgment, and whoever may say to his brother, Empty fellow! shall be in danger of the sanhedrim, and whoever may say, Rebel! shall be in danger of the gehenna of the fire.
and if children, also heirs, heirs, indeed, of God, and heirs together of Christ -- if, indeed, we suffer together, that we may also be glorified together.