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1003

While He was on the way to Jerusalem, He was passing between Samaria and Galilee.

1009

“I kept looking
Until thrones were set up,
And the Ancient of Days took His seat;
His vesture was like white snow
And the hair of His head like pure wool.
His throne was ablaze with flames,
Its wheels were a burning fire.

1010

Therefore you have no excuse, everyone of you who passes judgment, for in that which you judge another, you condemn yourself; for you who judge practice the same things.

1011

I, the Preacher, have been king over Israel in Jerusalem.

1012

Therefore many other signs Jesus also performed in the presence of the disciples, which are not written in this book;

1013

For this reason the Jews were persecuting Jesus, because He was doing these things on the Sabbath.

1018

Now this I say, he who sows sparingly will also reap sparingly, and he who sows bountifully will also reap bountifully.

1020

And the wolf will dwell with the lamb,
And the leopard will lie down with the young goat,
And the calf and the young lion and the fatling together;
And a little boy will lead them.

1023

Then to Adam He said, “Because you have listened to the voice of your wife, and have eaten from the tree about which I commanded you, saying, ‘You shall not eat from it’;
Cursed is the ground because of you;
In toil you will eat of it
All the days of your life.

1029

While they were telling these things, He Himself stood in their midst and *said to them, “Peace be to you.”

1030

“So I say to you, ask, and it will be given to you; seek, and you will find; knock, and it will be opened to you.

1037

“Behold, I am going to send you Elijah the prophet before the coming of the great and terrible day of the Lord.

1040

I am the living bread that came down out of heaven; if anyone eats of this bread, he will live forever; and the bread also which I will give for the life of the world is My flesh.”

1041

Every ravine will be filled,
And every mountain and hill will be brought low;
The crooked will become straight,
And the rough roads smooth;

1043

“Teacher, which is the great commandment in the Law?”

1045

For he was counted among us and received his share in this ministry.”

1049

Then they *came to Jericho. And as He was leaving Jericho with His disciples and a large crowd, a blind beggar named Bartimaeus, the son of Timaeus, was sitting by the road.

1050

and they all, from smallest to greatest, were giving attention to him, saying, “This man is what is called the Great Power of God.”

1053

Another came, saying, ‘Master, here is your mina, which I kept put away in a handkerchief;

1055

Now then, if you will indeed obey My voice and keep My covenant, then you shall be My own possession among all the peoples, for all the earth is Mine;

1056

But the crowds were aware of this and followed Him; and welcoming them, He began speaking to them about the kingdom of God and curing those who had need of healing.

1057

For as he thinks within himself, so he is.
He says to you, “Eat and drink!”
But his heart is not with you.

1058

They passed through the Phrygian and Galatian region, having been forbidden by the Holy Spirit to speak the word in Asia;

1062

You foolish Galatians, who has bewitched you, before whose eyes Jesus Christ was publicly portrayed as crucified?

1063

But the synagogue official, indignant because Jesus had healed on the Sabbath, began saying to the crowd in response, “There are six days in which work should be done; so come during them and get healed, and not on the Sabbath day.”

1065

Let me sing now for my well-beloved
A song of my beloved concerning His vineyard.
My well-beloved had a vineyard on a fertile hill.

1066

and He said to them, Thus it is written, that the Christ would suffer and rise again from the dead the third day,

1067

John to the seven churches that are in Asia: Grace to you and peace, from Him who is and who was and who is to come, and from the seven Spirits who are before His throne,

1068

Thus says the Lord, your Redeemer, the Holy One of Israel,
“I am the Lord your God, who teaches you to profit,
Who leads you in the way you should go.

1070

And he himself will show you a large upper room furnished and ready; prepare for us there.”

1071

When they had entered the city, they went up to the upper room where they were staying; that is, Peter and John and James and Andrew, Philip and Thomas, Bartholomew and Matthew, James the son of Alphaeus, and Simon the Zealot, and Judas the son of James.

1072

A ruler questioned Him, saying, “Good Teacher, what shall I do to inherit eternal life?”

1081

And the dragon stood on the sand of the seashore.Then I saw a beast coming up out of the sea, having ten horns and seven heads, and on his horns were ten diadems, and on his heads were blasphemous names.

1082

A woman named Lydia, from the city of Thyatira, a seller of purple fabrics, a worshiper of God, was listening; and the Lord opened her heart to respond to the things spoken by Paul.

1084

Then the Lord God said, “Behold, the man has become like one of Us, knowing good and evil; and now, he might stretch out his hand, and take also from the tree of life, and eat, and live forever”—

1087

knowing that the laying aside of my earthly dwelling is imminent, as also our Lord Jesus Christ has made clear to me.

1089

He touched my mouth with it and said, “Behold, this has touched your lips; and your iniquity is taken away and your sin is forgiven.”

1091

Soon afterwards He went to a city called Nain; and His disciples were going along with Him, accompanied by a large crowd.

1092

Now we know that whatever the Law says, it speaks to those who are under the Law, so that every mouth may be closed and all the world may become accountable to God;

1093

So you are to know and discern that from the issuing of a decree to restore and rebuild Jerusalem until Messiah the Prince there will be seven weeks and sixty-two weeks; it will be built again, with plaza and moat, even in times of distress.

1094

At the ninth hour Jesus cried out with a loud voice, Eloi, Eloi, lama sabachthani?” which is translated, My God, My God, why have You forsaken Me?”

1099

When they had done this, they enclosed a great quantity of fish, and their nets began to break;

1101

But He knew what they were thinking, and He said to the man with the withered hand, “Get up and come forward!” And he got up and came forward.

1102

I call heaven and earth to witness against you today, that I have set before you life and death, the blessing and the curse. So choose life in order that you may live, you and your descendants,

1103

Six days later, Jesus *took with Him Peter and James and John, and *brought them up on a high mountain by themselves. And He was transfigured before them;

1104

But now, thus says the Lord, your Creator, O Jacob,
And He who formed you, O Israel,
“Do not fear, for I have redeemed you;
I have called you by name; you are Mine!

1105

For this reason we must pay much closer attention to what we have heard, so that we do not drift away from it.

1106

For the life of the flesh is in the blood, and I have given it to you on the altar to make atonement for your souls; for it is the blood by reason of the life that makes atonement.’

1110

Or if he asks for a fish, he will not give him a snake, will he?

1111

Peter, an apostle of Jesus Christ,To those who reside as aliens, scattered throughout Pontus, Galatia, Cappadocia, Asia, and Bithynia, who are chosen

1112

Hezekiah was the father of Manasseh, Manasseh the father of Amon, and Amon the father of Josiah.

1113

What then? Are we better than they? Not at all; for we have already charged that both Jews and Greeks are all under sin;

1116

Therefore many of the Jews read this inscription, for the place where Jesus was crucified was near the city; and it was written in Hebrew, Latin and in Greek.

1117

Then He *said to the man, “Stretch out your hand!” He stretched it out, and it was restored to normal, like the other.

1118

When the Gentiles heard this, they began rejoicing and glorifying the word of the Lord; and as many as had been appointed to eternal life believed.

1119

Zacharias said to the angel, “How will I know this for certain? For I am an old man and my wife is advanced in years.”

1120

what we have seen and heard we proclaim to you also, so that you too may have fellowship with us; and indeed our fellowship is with the Father, and with His Son Jesus Christ.

1121

Behold, the Lord’s hand is not so short
That it cannot save;
Nor is His ear so dull
That it cannot hear.

1122

But what does it say? “The word is near you, in your mouth and in your heart”—that is, the word of faith which we are preaching,

1123

“Thus says the Lord, the King of Israel and his Redeemer, the Lord of hosts:
‘I am the first and I am the last,
And there is no God besides Me.

1129

Six days later Jesus *took with Him Peter and James and John his brother, and *led them up on a high mountain by themselves.

1130

Jesus replied and said, “A man was going down from Jerusalem to Jericho, and fell among robbers, and they stripped him and beat him, and went away leaving him half dead.

1131

At this time Peter stood up in the midst of the brethren (a gathering of about one hundred and twenty persons was there together), and said,

1133

As He was sitting on the Mount of Olives, the disciples came to Him privately, saying, “Tell us, when will these things happen, and what will be the sign of Your coming, and of the end of the age?”

1136

For I also am a man under authority, with soldiers under me; and I say to this one, ‘Go!’ and he goes, and to another, ‘Come!’ and he comes, and to my slave, ‘Do this!’ and he does it.”

1141

He will speak out against the Most High and wear down the saints of the Highest One, and he will intend to make alterations in times and in law; and they will be given into his hand for a time, times, and half a time.

1142

To receive instruction in wise behavior,
Righteousness, justice and equity;

1145

For the anxious longing of the creation waits eagerly for the revealing of the sons of God.

1147

He flees because he is a hired hand and is not concerned about the sheep.

1148

But the angel said to them, “Do not be afraid; for behold, I bring you good news of great joy which will be for all the people;

1150

I know that after my departure savage wolves will come in among you, not sparing the flock;

1151

Now it will come about that
In the last days
The mountain of the house of the Lord
Will be established as the chief of the mountains,
And will be raised above the hills;
And all the nations will stream to it.

1152

The word of the Lord came to Jonah the son of Amittai saying,

1154

A time to weep and a time to laugh;
A time to mourn and a time to dance.

1155

The king said to them, “I had a dream and my spirit is anxious to understand the dream.”

1156

But Ruth said, “Do not urge me to leave you or turn back from following you; for where you go, I will go, and where you lodge, I will lodge. Your people shall be my people, and your God, my God.

1157

And behold, you will conceive in your womb and bear a son, and you shall name Him Jesus.

1158

Jesus *said to her, “Woman, believe Me, an hour is coming when neither in this mountain nor in Jerusalem will you worship the Father.

1160

And David brought up his men who were with him, each with his household; and they lived in the cities of Hebron.

1163

While they were eating, He took some bread, and after a blessing He broke it, and gave it to them, and said, “Take it; this is My body.”

1166

After this He went down to Capernaum, He and His mother and His brothers and His disciples; and they stayed there a few days.

1167

Now at this time Mary arose and went in a hurry to the hill country, to a city of Judah,

1168

So then, when the Lord Jesus had spoken to them, He was received up into heaven and sat down at the right hand of God.

1169

Thus says the Lord,
“Stand by the ways and see and ask for the ancient paths,
Where the good way is, and walk in it;
And you will find rest for your souls.
But they said, ‘We will not walk in it.’

1173

And they took him and brought him to the Areopagus, saying, “May we know what this new teaching is which you are proclaiming?

1174

and they will fall by the edge of the sword, and will be led captive into all the nations; and Jerusalem will be trampled under foot by the Gentiles until the times of the Gentiles are fulfilled.

1178

At that time the Feast of the Dedication took place at Jerusalem;

1179

Therefore the soldiers did these things.But standing by the cross of Jesus were His mother, and His mother’s sister, Mary the wife of Clopas, and Mary Magdalene.

1182

Now while Paul was waiting for them at Athens, his spirit was being provoked within him as he was observing the city full of idols.

1183

And then the sign of the Son of Man will appear in the sky, and then all the tribes of the earth will mourn, and they will see the Son of Man coming on the clouds of the sky with power and great glory.

1185

After He had said these things, He was going on ahead, going up to Jerusalem.

1186

If a man sells his daughter as a female slave, she is not to go free as the male slaves do.

1190

Other seed fell on the rocky ground where it did not have much soil; and immediately it sprang up because it had no depth of soil.

1191

And he began to give them his attention, expecting to receive something from them.

1194

For he who lacks these qualities is blind or short-sighted, having forgotten his purification from his former sins.

1195

When Herod the king heard this, he was troubled, and all Jerusalem with him.

1196

Paul, a bond-servant of God and an apostle of Jesus Christ, for the faith of those chosen of God and the knowledge of the truth which is according to godliness,

1197

Beloved, do not be surprised at the fiery ordeal among you, which comes upon you for your testing, as though some strange thing were happening to you;

1202

When they heard this, they quieted down and glorified God, saying, “Well then, God has granted to the Gentiles also the repentance that leads to life.”

1203

Now there elapsed an interval of about three hours, and his wife came in, not knowing what had happened.

1208

For just as the body without the spirit is dead, so also faith without works is dead.

1213

and to govern the day and the night, and to separate the light from the darkness; and God saw that it was good.

1214

And I heard a loud voice from the throne, saying, “Behold, the tabernacle of God is among men, and He will dwell among them, and they shall be His people, and God Himself will be among them,

1215

(although Jesus Himself was not baptizing, but His disciples were),

1216

It came also in the days of Jehoiakim the son of Josiah, king of Judah, until the end of the eleventh year of Zedekiah the son of Josiah, king of Judah, until the exile of Jerusalem in the fifth month.

1218

Now, little children, abide in Him, so that when He appears, we may have confidence and not shrink away from Him in shame at His coming.

1219

As they were speaking to the people, the priests and the captain of the temple guard and the Sadducees came up to them,

1220

And behold, you shall be silent and unable to speak until the day when these things take place, because you did not believe my words, which will be fulfilled in their proper time.”

1221

And he causes all, the small and the great, and the rich and the poor, and the free men and the slaves, to be given a mark on their right hand or on their forehead,

1223

About four thousand were there; and He sent them away.

1225

But as for you, speak the things which are fitting for sound doctrine.

1227

and there were in it all kinds of four-footed animals and crawling creatures of the earth and birds of the air.

1231

At that time the disciples came to Jesus and said, “Who then is greatest in the kingdom of heaven?”

1233

Simon Peter, a bond-servant and apostle of Jesus Christ,To those who have received a faith of the same kind as ours, by the righteousness of our God and Savior, Jesus Christ:

1234

From the sole of the foot even to the head
There is nothing sound in it,
Only bruises, welts and raw wounds,
Not pressed out or bandaged,
Nor softened with oil.

1235

When they had approached Jerusalem and had come to Bethphage, at the Mount of Olives, then Jesus sent two disciples,

1238

There shall not be found among you anyone who makes his son or his daughter pass through the fire, one who uses divination, one who practices witchcraft, or one who interprets omens, or a sorcerer,

1239

And I saw the dead, the great and the small, standing before the throne, and books were opened; and another book was opened, which is the book of life; and the dead were judged from the things which were written in the books, according to their deeds.

1241

Now in Joppa there was a disciple named Tabitha (which translated in Greek is called Dorcas); this woman was abounding with deeds of kindness and charity which she continually did.

1244

Jesus got up and went away from there to the region of Tyre. And when He had entered a house, He wanted no one to know of it; yet He could not escape notice.

1246

Beloved, while I was making every effort to write you about our common salvation, I felt the necessity to write to you appealing that you contend earnestly for the faith which was once for all handed down to the saints.

1248

They will perish, but You remain;
And they all will become old like a garment,

1250

Therefore, since it remains for some to enter it, and those who formerly had good news preached to them failed to enter because of disobedience,

1255

but the one who did not know it, and committed deeds worthy of a flogging, will receive but few. From everyone who has been given much, much will be required; and to whom they entrusted much, of him they will ask all the more.

1256

This is the testimony of John, when the Jews sent to him priests and Levites from Jerusalem to ask him, “Who are you?”

1258

and make straight paths for your feet, so that the limb which is lame may not be put out of joint, but rather be healed.

1260

But when Jesus saw this, He was indignant and said to them, “Permit the children to come to Me; do not hinder them; for the kingdom of God belongs to such as these.

1262

I was very glad to find some of your children walking in truth, just as we have received commandment to do from the Father.

1263

For I also am a man placed under authority, with soldiers under me; and I say to this one, ‘Go!’ and he goes, and to another, ‘Come!’ and he comes, and to my slave, ‘Do this!’ and he does it.”

1265

And He sat down opposite the treasury, and began observing how the people were putting money into the treasury; and many rich people were putting in large sums.

1266

“Where were you when I laid the foundation of the earth?
Tell Me, if you have understanding,

1268

The people were waiting for Zacharias, and were wondering at his delay in the temple.

1270

Blessed be the Lord God of Israel,
For He has visited us and accomplished redemption for His people,

1271

For the body is not one member, but many.

1272

The scepter shall not depart from Judah,
Nor the ruler’s staff from between his feet,
Until Shiloh comes,
And to him shall be the obedience of the peoples.

1274

Let such a person consider this, that what we are in word by letters when absent, such persons we are also in deed when present.

1277

These words, which I am commanding you today, shall be on your heart.

1278

All you beasts of the field,
All you beasts in the forest,
Come to eat.

1279

just as He says also in another passage,
You are a priest forever
According to the order of Melchizedek.”

1280

I am telling the truth in Christ, I am not lying, my conscience testifies with me in the Holy Spirit,

1281

Now when the apostles in Jerusalem heard that Samaria had received the word of God, they sent them Peter and John,

1282

And He will judge between the nations,
And will render decisions for many peoples;
And they will hammer their swords into plowshares and their spears into pruning hooks.
Nation will not lift up sword against nation,
And never again will they learn war.

1288

Again the next day John was standing with two of his disciples,

1290

But Thomas, one of the twelve, called Didymus, was not with them when Jesus came.

1292

Indeed all Israel has transgressed Your law and turned aside, not obeying Your voice; so the curse has been poured out on us, along with the oath which is written in the law of Moses the servant of God, for we have sinned against Him.

1293

Then Jerusalem was going out to him, and all Judea and all the district around the Jordan;

1295

Then they said to him, “Who are you, so that we may give an answer to those who sent us? What do you say about yourself?”

1304

So, for my part, I am eager to preach the gospel to you also who are in Rome.

1306

Then after the sixty-two weeks the Messiah will be cut off and have nothing, and the people of the prince who is to come will destroy the city and the sanctuary. And its end will come with a flood; even to the end there will be war; desolations are determined.

1308

But it will be more tolerable for Tyre and Sidon in the judgment than for you.

1313

Then the Lord passed by in front of him and proclaimed, “The Lord, the Lord God, compassionate and gracious, slow to anger, and abounding in lovingkindness and truth;

1314

He left Judea and went away again into Galilee.

1315

After these things he left Athens and went to Corinth.

1316

Glory to God in the highest,
And on earth peace among men with whom He is pleased.”

1317

By the seventh day God completed His work which He had done, and He rested on the seventh day from all His work which He had done.

1319

“See, I have taught you statutes and judgments just as the Lord my God commanded me, that you should do thus in the land where you are entering to possess it.

1320

Now about that time Herod the king laid hands on some who belonged to the church in order to mistreat them.

1321

Then the sons of the prophets who were at Bethel came out to Elisha and said to him, “Do you know that the Lord will take away your master from over you today?” And he said, “Yes, I know; be still.”

1325

You shall not worship them or serve them; for I, the Lord your God, am a jealous God, visiting the iniquity of the fathers on the children, on the third and the fourth generations of those who hate Me,

1327

“For the kingdom of heaven is like a landowner who went out early in the morning to hire laborers for his vineyard.

1328

But when he had considered this, behold, an angel of the Lord appeared to him in a dream, saying, “Joseph, son of David, do not be afraid to take Mary as your wife; for the Child who has been conceived in her is of the Holy Spirit.

1329

Uzziah was the father of Jotham, Jotham the father of Ahaz, and Ahaz the father of Hezekiah.

1330

“And it will come about that whoever calls on the name of the Lord
Will be delivered;
For on Mount Zion and in Jerusalem
There will be those who escape,
As the Lord has said,
Even among the survivors whom the Lord calls.

1332

Now the Lord appeared to him by the oaks of Mamre, while he was sitting at the tent door in the heat of the day.

1333

and to Apphia our sister, and to Archippus our fellow soldier, and to the church in your house:

1334

As they *approached Jerusalem, at Bethphage and Bethany, near the Mount of Olives, He *sent two of His disciples,

1335

The apostles *gathered together with Jesus; and they reported to Him all that they had done and taught.

1336

The Lord your God will raise up for you a prophet like me from among you, from your countrymen, you shall listen to him.

1337

And he will turn many of the sons of Israel back to the Lord their God.

1340

The daughter of Zion is left like a shelter in a vineyard,
Like a watchman’s hut in a cucumber field, like a besieged city.

1341

And he would have gladly filled his stomach with the pods that the swine were eating, and no one was giving anything to him.

1343

For I do not want you to be unaware, brethren, that our fathers were all under the cloud and all passed through the sea;

1346

He began to teach again by the sea. And such a very large crowd gathered to Him that He got into a boat in the sea and sat down; and the whole crowd was by the sea on the land.

1349

They asked him, and said to him, “Why then are you baptizing, if you are not the Christ, nor Elijah, nor the Prophet?”

1352

They *went into Capernaum; and immediately on the Sabbath He entered the synagogue and began to teach.

1354

I saw no temple in it, for the Lord God the Almighty and the Lamb are its temple.

1356

And a leper *came to Jesus, beseeching Him and falling on his knees before Him, and saying, “If You are willing, You can make me clean.”

1360

have you not made distinctions among yourselves, and become judges with evil motives?

1361

The young man *said to Him, “All these things I have kept; what am I still lacking?”

1363

But you, why do you judge your brother? Or you again, why do you regard your brother with contempt? For we will all stand before the judgment seat of God.

1364

Therefore if you are presenting your offering at the altar, and there remember that your brother has something against you,

1365

“Is this not the fast which I choose,
To loosen the bonds of wickedness,
To undo the bands of the yoke,
And to let the oppressed go free
And break every yoke?

1366

Behold, My servant will prosper,
He will be high and lifted up and greatly exalted.

1367

Now I desire to remind you, though you know all things once for all, that the Lord, after saving a people out of the land of Egypt, subsequently destroyed those who did not believe.

1368

For ground that drinks the rain which often falls on it and brings forth vegetation useful to those for whose sake it is also tilled, receives a blessing from God;

1374

Now we request you, brethren, with regard to the coming of our Lord Jesus Christ and our gathering together to Him,

1381

This persuasion did not come from Him who calls you.

1384

Now it came about in the days when the judges governed, that there was a famine in the land. And a certain man of Bethlehem in Judah went to sojourn in the land of Moab with his wife and his two sons.

1387

And Jesus answered and said to them, See to it that no one misleads you.

1389

Therefore the Lord raises against them adversaries from Rezin
And spurs their enemies on,

1390

longing to see you, even as I recall your tears, so that I may be filled with joy.

1394

May it never be! For otherwise, how will God judge the world?

1396

So that the rest of mankind may seek the Lord,
And all the Gentiles who are called by My name,’

1397

What shall we say then? Is the Law sin? May it never be! On the contrary, I would not have come to know sin except through the Law; for I would not have known about coveting if the Law had not said, “You shall not covet.”

1399

“In that day I will raise up the fallen booth of David,
And wall up its breaches;
I will also raise up its ruins
And rebuild it as in the days of old;

1400

Everyone who divorces his wife and marries another commits adultery, and he who marries one who is divorced from a husband commits adultery.

1401

Keep the charge of the Lord your God, to walk in His ways, to keep His statutes, His commandments, His ordinances, and His testimonies, according to what is written in the Law of Moses, that you may succeed in all that you do and wherever you turn,

1402

You shall not covet your neighbor’s house; you shall not covet your neighbor’s wife or his male servant or his female servant or his ox or his donkey or anything that belongs to your neighbor.”

1403

I heard another voice from heaven, saying, “Come out of her, my people, so that you will not participate in her sins and receive of her plagues;

1406

So the word of the Lord was growing mightily and prevailing.

1407

When Jesus had spoken these words, He went forth with His disciples over the ravine of the Kidron, where there was a garden, in which He entered with His disciples.

1408

But whatever things were gain to me, those things I have counted as loss for the sake of Christ.

1412

When Jesus saw him lying there, and knew that he had already been a long time in that condition, He *said to him, “Do you wish to get well?”

1414

I will give thanks to You, for I am fearfully and wonderfully made;
Wonderful are Your works,
And my soul knows it very well.

1415

and you have forgotten the exhortation which is addressed to you as sons,
My son, do not regard lightly the discipline of the Lord,
Nor faint when you are reproved by Him;

1420

“Behold, the days are coming,” declares the Lord,
“When I will raise up for David a righteous Branch;
And He will reign as king and act wisely
And do justice and righteousness in the land.

1422

namely, that God was in Christ reconciling the world to Himself, not counting their trespasses against them, and He has committed to us the word of reconciliation.

1423

Here is wisdom. Let him who has understanding calculate the number of the beast, for the number is that of a man; and his number is six hundred and sixty-six.

1424

For this reason we also constantly thank God that when you received the word of God which you heard from us, you accepted it not as the word of men, but for what it really is, the word of God, which also performs its work in you who believe.

1425

And when the days for their purification according to the law of Moses were completed, they brought Him up to Jerusalem to present Him to the Lord

1430

John answered and said to them all, “As for me, I baptize you with water; but One is coming who is mightier than I, and I am not fit to untie the thong of His sandals; He will baptize you with the Holy Spirit and fire.

1433

For the gospel has for this purpose been preached even to those who are dead, that though they are judged in the flesh as men, they may live in the spirit according to the will of God.

1435

A Song of Ascents, of Solomon.
Unless the Lord builds the house,
They labor in vain who build it;
Unless the Lord guards the city,
The watchman keeps awake in vain.

1436

But what I am doing I will continue to do, so that I may cut off opportunity from those who desire an opportunity to be regarded just as we are in the matter about which they are boasting.

1437

And Jesus was saying to them, Truly I say to you, there are some of those who are standing here who will not taste death until they see the kingdom of God after it has come with power.”

1438

That day Jesus went out of the house and was sitting by the sea.

1439

[And Philip said, “If you believe with all your heart, you may.” And he answered and said, “I believe that Jesus Christ is the Son of God.”]

1441

Jesus was going throughout all Galilee, teaching in their synagogues and proclaiming the gospel of the kingdom, and healing every kind of disease and every kind of sickness among the people.

1442

But when Christ appeared as a high priest of the good things to come, He entered through the greater and more perfect tabernacle, not made with hands, that is to say, not of this creation;

1443

Then He *said to His disciples, The harvest is plentiful, but the workers are few.

1444

But the tax collector, standing some distance away, was even unwilling to lift up his eyes to heaven, but was beating his breast, saying, ‘God, be merciful to me, the sinner!’

1445

I will give you the keys of the kingdom of heaven; and whatever you bind on earth shall have been bound in heaven, and whatever you loose on earth shall have been loosed in heaven.”

1446

To the law and to the testimony! If they do not speak according to this word, it is because they have no dawn.

1447

And He said, “If you will give earnest heed to the voice of the Lord your God, and do what is right in His sight, and give ear to His commandments, and keep all His statutes, I will put none of the diseases on you which I have put on the Egyptians; for I, the Lord, am your healer.”

1449

Beloved, do not imitate what is evil, but what is good. The one who does good is of God; the one who does evil has not seen God.

1450

Woe to those who call evil good, and good evil;
Who substitute darkness for light and light for darkness;
Who substitute bitter for sweet and sweet for bitter!

1451

Now when they had gone, behold, an angel of the Lord *appeared to Joseph in a dream and said, “Get up! Take the Child and His mother and flee to Egypt, and remain there until I tell you; for Herod is going to search for the Child to destroy Him.”

1454

But godliness actually is a means of great gain when accompanied by contentment.

1455

which is really not another; only there are some who are disturbing you and want to distort the gospel of Christ.

1457

They went out from us, but they were not really of us; for if they had been of us, they would have remained with us; but they went out, so that it would be shown that they all are not of us.

1460

The conclusion, when all has been heard, is: fear God and keep His commandments, because this applies to every person.

1462

Jesus said, “Have the people sit down.” Now there was much grass in the place. So the men sat down, in number about five thousand.

1463

“It was said, ‘Whoever sends his wife away, let him give her a certificate of divorce’;

1464

Now there is in Jerusalem by the sheep gate a pool, which is called in Hebrew Bethesda, having five porticoes.

1466

For though I caused you sorrow by my letter, I do not regret it; though I did regret it—for I see that that letter caused you sorrow, though only for a while—

1467

“If men struggle with each other and strike a woman with child so that she gives birth prematurely, yet there is no injury, he shall surely be fined as the woman’s husband may demand of him, and he shall pay as the judges decide.

1468

Paul, an apostle of Jesus Christ by the will of God, and Timothy our brother,

1470

Now when He was in Jerusalem at the Passover, during the feast, many believed in His name, observing His signs which He was doing.

1471

The kingdom of heaven is like a treasure hidden in the field, which a man found and hid again; and from joy over it he goes and sells all that he has and buys that field.

1472

The Lord God said to the serpent,
Because you have done this,
Cursed are you more than all cattle,
And more than every beast of the field;
On your belly you will go,
And dust you will eat
All the days of your life;

1473

how will we escape if we neglect so great a salvation? After it was at the first spoken through the Lord, it was confirmed to us by those who heard,

1474

Immediately He called them; and they left their father Zebedee in the boat with the hired servants, and went away to follow Him.

1476

For this reason I, Paul, the prisoner of Christ Jesus for the sake of you Gentiles—

1477

And it will come about in the last days
That the mountain of the house of the Lord
Will be established as the chief of the mountains.
It will be raised above the hills,
And the peoples will stream to it.

1478

There are six things which the Lord hates,
Yes, seven which are an abomination to Him:

1479

until the day when He was taken up to heaven, after He had by the Holy Spirit given orders to the apostles whom He had chosen.

1480

And in the same way He took the cup after they had eaten, saying, “This cup which is poured out for you is the new covenant in My blood.

1481

Know this first of all, that in the last days mockers will come with their mocking, following after their own lusts,

1483

having canceled out the certificate of debt consisting of decrees against us, which was hostile to us; and He has taken it out of the way, having nailed it to the cross.

1487

Then they sailed to the country of the Gerasenes, which is opposite Galilee.

1489

Do you not know that when you present yourselves to someone as slaves for obedience, you are slaves of the one whom you obey, either of sin resulting in death, or of obedience resulting in righteousness?

1490

May he kiss me with the kisses of his mouth!
For your love is better than wine.

1494

Therefore, putting aside all filthiness and all that remains of wickedness, in humility receive the word implanted, which is able to save your souls.

1495

For as many as are of the works of the Law are under a curse; for it is written, “Cursed is everyone who does not abide by all things written in the book of the law, to perform them.”

1499

just as Sarah obeyed Abraham, calling him lord, and you have become her children if you do what is right without being frightened by any fear.

1501

Where can I go from Your Spirit?
Or where can I flee from Your presence?

1502

Jesus was going through all the cities and villages, teaching in their synagogues and proclaiming the gospel of the kingdom, and healing every kind of disease and every kind of sickness.

1503

“Israel was holy to the Lord,
The first of His harvest.
All who ate of it became guilty;
Evil came upon them,” declares the Lord.’”

1504

And immediately after they came out of the synagogue, they came into the house of Simon and Andrew, with James and John.

1511

For six days work may be done, but on the seventh day you shall have a holy day, a sabbath of complete rest to the Lord; whoever does any work on it shall be put to death.

1512

I have manifested Your name to the men whom You gave Me out of the world; they were Yours and You gave them to Me, and they have kept Your word.

1513

Azor was the father of Zadok, Zadok the father of Achim, and Achim the father of Eliud.

1518

Because of the surpassing greatness of the revelations, for this reason, to keep me from exalting myself, there was given me a thorn in the flesh, a messenger of Satan to torment me—to keep me from exalting myself!

1519

So the people stood at a distance, while Moses approached the thick cloud where God was.

1522

Now when they had traveled through Amphipolis and Apollonia, they came to Thessalonica, where there was a synagogue of the Jews.

1523

Now there were some Greeks among those who were going up to worship at the feast;

1524

Then he showed me a river of the water of life, clear as crystal, coming from the throne of God and of the Lamb,

1525

Jesus came down with them and stood on a level place; and there was a large crowd of His disciples, and a great throng of people from all Judea and Jerusalem and the coastal region of Tyre and Sidon,

1528

Then God said, “Let the waters teem with swarms of living creatures, and let birds fly above the earth in the open expanse of the heavens.”

1529

Jesus came out from the temple and was going away when His disciples came up to point out the temple buildings to Him.

1530

nor will they say, ‘Look, here it is!’ or, ‘There it is!’ For behold, the kingdom of God is in your midst.”

1531

Jesus spoke to them again in parables, saying,

1533

The word of God kept on spreading; and the number of the disciples continued to increase greatly in Jerusalem, and a great many of the priests were becoming obedient to the faith.

1534

From the wilderness and this Lebanon, even as far as the great river, the river Euphrates, all the land of the Hittites, and as far as the Great Sea toward the setting of the sun will be your territory.

1535

Now to Him who is able to establish you according to my gospel and the preaching of Jesus Christ, according to the revelation of the mystery which has been kept secret for long ages past,

1536

which He brought about in Christ, when He raised Him from the dead and seated Him at His right hand in the heavenly places,

1537

“And when you are praying, do not use meaningless repetition as the Gentiles do, for they suppose that they will be heard for their many words.

1541

Therefore Pilate said to Him, “So You are a king?” Jesus answered, You say correctly that I am a king. For this I have been born, and for this I have come into the world, to testify to the truth. Everyone who is of the truth hears My voice.”

1544

For though by this time you ought to be teachers, you have need again for someone to teach you the elementary principles of the oracles of God, and you have come to need milk and not solid food.

1546

But to the one who does not work, but believes in Him who justifies the ungodly, his faith is credited as righteousness,

1550

so that at the name of Jesus every knee will bow, of those who are in heaven and on earth and under the earth,

1551

they will pick up serpents, and if they drink any deadly poison, it will not hurt them; they will lay hands on the sick, and they will recover.”

1552

For the choir director. A Psalm of David, when Nathan the prophet came to him, after he had gone in to Bathsheba.
Be gracious to me, O God, according to Your lovingkindness;
According to the greatness of Your compassion blot out my transgressions.

1554

And coming in, he said to her, “Greetings, favored one! The Lord is with you.”

1555

Now the two angels came to Sodom in the evening as Lot was sitting in the gate of Sodom. When Lot saw them, he rose to meet them and bowed down with his face to the ground.

1558

By faith Abraham, when he was called, obeyed by going out to a place which he was to receive for an inheritance; and he went out, not knowing where he was going.

1561

But when the Pharisees heard that Jesus had silenced the Sadducees, they gathered themselves together.

1563

Then they returned to Jerusalem from the mount called Olivet, which is near Jerusalem, a Sabbath day’s journey away.

1564

John answered them saying, “I baptize in water, but among you stands One whom you do not know.

1565

Now in the first year of Cyrus king of Persia, in order to fulfill the word of the Lord by the mouth of Jeremiah, the Lord stirred up the spirit of Cyrus king of Persia, so that he sent a proclamation throughout all his kingdom, and also put it in writing, saying:

1568

When the hour had come, He reclined at the table, and the apostles with Him.

1569

Jesus went out from there and *came into His hometown; and His disciples *followed Him.

1570

Blow a trumpet in Zion,
And sound an alarm on My holy mountain!
Let all the inhabitants of the land tremble,
For the day of the Lord is coming;
Surely it is near,

1571

Therefore let us celebrate the feast, not with old leaven, nor with the leaven of malice and wickedness, but with the unleavened bread of sincerity and truth.

1572

let it be known to all of you and to all the people of Israel, that by the name of Jesus Christ the Nazarene, whom you crucified, whom God raised from the dead—by this name this man stands here before you in good health.

1573

And I will make you a great nation,
And I will bless you,
And make your name great;
And so you shall be a blessing;

1574

and Jacob’s well was there. So Jesus, being wearied from His journey, was sitting thus by the well. It was about the sixth hour.

1579

Truly I say to you, whoever says to this mountain, ‘Be taken up and cast into the sea,’ and does not doubt in his heart, but believes that what he says is going to happen, it will be granted him.

1582

Immediately they left their nets and followed Him.

1584

Then he said to me, “This is the word of the Lord to Zerubbabel saying, ‘Not by might nor by power, but by My Spirit,’ says the Lord of hosts.

1585

Jesus answered them, “Has it not been written in your Law, ‘I said, you are gods’?

1586

And just as it happened in the days of Noah, so it will be also in the days of the Son of Man:

1587

While they were listening to these things, Jesus went on to tell a parable, because He was near Jerusalem, and they supposed that the kingdom of God was going to appear immediately.

1588

And according to Paul’s custom, he went to them, and for three Sabbaths reasoned with them from the Scriptures,

1592

But when they persisted in asking Him, He straightened up, and said to them, He who is without sin among you, let him be the first to throw a stone at her.”

1593

I say then, God has not rejected His people, has He? May it never be! For I too am an Israelite, a descendant of Abraham, of the tribe of Benjamin.

1594

What then shall we say that Abraham, our forefather according to the flesh, has found?

1596

At the hands of the apostles many signs and wonders were taking place among the people; and they were all with one accord in Solomon’s portico.

1599

The hand of the Lord was upon me, and He brought me out by the Spirit of the Lord and set me down in the middle of the valley; and it was full of bones.

1603

Actually, then, it is already a defeat for you, that you have lawsuits with one another. Why not rather be wronged? Why not rather be defrauded?

1605

nor to pay attention to myths and endless genealogies, which give rise to mere speculation rather than furthering the administration of God which is by faith.

1607

So He *came to a city of Samaria called Sychar, near the parcel of ground that Jacob gave to his son Joseph;

1610

Some Pharisees came to Jesus, testing Him and asking, “Is it lawful for a man to divorce his wife for any reason at all?”

1612

The Nephilim were on the earth in those days, and also afterward, when the sons of God came in to the daughters of men, and they bore children to them. Those were the mighty men who were of old, men of renown.

1613

For when He received honor and glory from God the Father, such an utterance as this was made to Him by the Majestic Glory, “This is My beloved Son with whom I am well-pleased”—

1614

At that time Jesus went through the grainfields on the Sabbath, and His disciples became hungry and began to pick the heads of grain and eat.

1615

Was no one found who returned to give glory to God, except this foreigner?”

1616

After these things I looked, and behold, a door standing open in heaven, and the first voice which I had heard, like the sound of a trumpet speaking with me, said, “Come up here, and I will show you what must take place after these things.”

1617

Now they had been sent from the Pharisees.

1619

And not only this, but also we ourselves, having the first fruits of the Spirit, even we ourselves groan within ourselves, waiting eagerly for our adoption as sons, the redemption of our body.

1620

Now there was a man named Simon, who formerly was practicing magic in the city and astonishing the people of Samaria, claiming to be someone great;

1623

“The Lord was very angry with your fathers.

1629

Therefore if You worship before me, it shall all be Yours.”

1630

The angel said to her, “Do not be afraid, Mary; for you have found favor with God.

1632

But put forth Your hand now and touch all that he has; he will surely curse You to Your face.”

1634

Some Pharisees came up to Jesus, testing Him, and began to question Him whether it was lawful for a man to divorce a wife.

1637

So then those who were scattered because of the persecution that occurred in connection with Stephen made their way to Phoenicia and Cyprus and Antioch, speaking the word to no one except to Jews alone.

1638

“But this is the covenant which I will make with the house of Israel after those days,” declares the Lord, “I will put My law within them and on their heart I will write it; and I will be their God, and they shall be My people.

1639

And He *said to them, Whoever divorces his wife and marries another woman commits adultery against her;

1643

Paul came also to Derbe and to Lystra. And a disciple was there, named Timothy, the son of a Jewish woman who was a believer, but his father was a Greek,

1644

On the next day the large crowd who had come to the feast, when they heard that Jesus was coming to Jerusalem,

1646

Surely no one can refuse the water for these to be baptized who have received the Holy Spirit just as we did, can he?”

1653

and rescued him from all his afflictions, and granted him favor and wisdom in the sight of Pharaoh, king of Egypt, and he made him governor over Egypt and all his household.

1654

Now the Passover and Unleavened Bread were two days away; and the chief priests and the scribes were seeking how to seize Him by stealth and kill Him;

1655

And when eight days had passed, before His circumcision, His name was then called Jesus, the name given by the angel before He was conceived in the womb.

1656

But we have this treasure in earthen vessels, so that the surpassing greatness of the power will be of God and not from ourselves;

1658

James and John, the two sons of Zebedee, *came up to Jesus, saying, “Teacher, we want You to do for us whatever we ask of You.”

1660

May it never be! Rather, let God be found true, though every man be found a liar, as it is written,
That You may be justified in Your words,
And prevail when You are judged.”

1661

In that day you will not question Me about anything. Truly, truly, I say to you, if you ask the Father for anything in My name, He will give it to you.

1666

The women are to keep silent in the churches; for they are not permitted to speak, but are to subject themselves, just as the Law also says.

1668

As it is written in Isaiah the prophet:
Behold, I send My messenger ahead of You,
Who will prepare Your way;

1669

Now as Jesus was walking by the Sea of Galilee, He saw two brothers, Simon who was called Peter, and Andrew his brother, casting a net into the sea; for they were fishermen.

1671

Now the apostles and the brethren who were throughout Judea heard that the Gentiles also had received the word of God.

1673

Then Solomon sent word to Huram the king of Tyre, saying, “As you dealt with David my father and sent him cedars to build him a house to dwell in, so do for me.

1674

Then Jesus spoke to the crowds and to His disciples,

1676

Have You not made a hedge about him and his house and all that he has, on every side? You have blessed the work of his hands, and his possessions have increased in the land.

1677

Test yourselves to see if you are in the faith; examine yourselves! Or do you not recognize this about yourselves, that Jesus Christ is in you—unless indeed you fail the test?

1678

It is He who sits above the circle of the earth,
And its inhabitants are like grasshoppers,
Who stretches out the heavens like a curtain
And spreads them out like a tent to dwell in.

1679

Now Naaman, captain of the army of the king of Aram, was a great man with his master, and highly respected, because by him the Lord had given victory to Aram. The man was also a valiant warrior, but he was a leper.

1681

And He said to them, “But now, whoever has a money belt is to take it along, likewise also a bag, and whoever has no sword is to sell his coat and buy one.

1684

Now, brethren, we wish to make known to you the grace of God which has been given in the churches of Macedonia,

1685

If we have food and covering, with these we shall be content.

1688

These twelve Jesus sent out after instructing them: “Do not go in the way of the Gentiles, and do not enter any city of the Samaritans;

1690

And when Jesus entered Capernaum, a centurion came to Him, imploring Him,

1693

Jesus said, “Are you still lacking in understanding also?

1697

Now the Lord said to Moses and Aaron in the land of Egypt,

1700

This is a plain indication of God’s righteous judgment so that you will be considered worthy of the kingdom of God, for which indeed you are suffering.

1701

And I will also be diligent that at any time after my departure you will be able to call these things to mind.

1703

who must be silenced because they are upsetting whole families, teaching things they should not teach for the sake of sordid gain.

1705

Or do you not know, brethren (for I am speaking to those who know the law), that the law has jurisdiction over a person as long as he lives?

1707

When Jesus then saw His mother, and the disciple whom He loved standing nearby, He *said to His mother, Woman, behold, your son!”

1710

God saw that the light was good; and God separated the light from the darkness.

1712

Therefore when he had gone out, Jesus *said, “Now is the Son of Man glorified, and God is glorified in Him;

1715

For you have not come to a mountain that can be touched and to a blazing fire, and to darkness and gloom and whirlwind,

1716

You will know them by their fruits. Grapes are not gathered from thorn bushes nor figs from thistles, are they?

1719

The sons of Judah were Er, Onan and Shelah; these three were born to him by Bath-shua the Canaanitess. And Er, Judah’s firstborn, was wicked in the sight of the Lord, so He put him to death.

1721

Beloved, you are acting faithfully in whatever you accomplish for the brethren, and especially when they are strangers;

1723

Now I ask you, lady, not as though I were writing to you a new commandment, but the one which we have had from the beginning, that we love one another.

1726

For God knows that in the day you eat from it your eyes will be opened, and you will be like God, knowing good and evil.

1729

And He told them a parable, saying, “The land of a rich man was very productive.

1731

When He had completed all His discourse in the hearing of the people, He went to Capernaum.

1733

While He was in Bethany at the home of Simon the leper, and reclining at the table, there came a woman with an alabaster vial of very costly perfume of pure nard; and she broke the vial and poured it over His head.

1734

There was nothing in the ark except the two tablets of stone which Moses put there at Horeb, where the Lord made a covenant with the sons of Israel, when they came out of the land of Egypt.

1735

Your land is desolate,
Your cities are burned with fire,
Your fields—strangers are devouring them in your presence;
It is desolation, as overthrown by strangers.

1739

In this case mortal men receive tithes, but in that case one receives them, of whom it is witnessed that he lives on.

1740

For we are not bold to class or compare ourselves with some of those who commend themselves; but when they measure themselves by themselves and compare themselves with themselves, they are without understanding.

1741

When they had placed them in the center, they began to inquire, “By what power, or in what name, have you done this?”

1744

just as they were handed down to us by those who from the beginning were eyewitnesses and servants of the word,

1745

When evening came, they brought to Him many who were demon-possessed; and He cast out the spirits with a word, and healed all who were ill.

1746

So then as through one transgression there resulted condemnation to all men, even so through one act of righteousness there resulted justification of life to all men.

1747

For the coming of the Son of Man will be just like the days of Noah.

1750

“To the angel of the church in Ephesus write:The One who holds the seven stars in His right hand, the One who walks among the seven golden lampstands, says this:

1751

For those who say such things make it clear that they are seeking a country of their own.

1752

“But his master answered and said to him, ‘You wicked, lazy slave, you knew that I reap where I did not sow and gather where I scattered no seed.

1754

Now a Jew named Apollos, an Alexandrian by birth, an eloquent man, came to Ephesus; and he was mighty in the Scriptures.

1755

Do you not say, ‘There are yet four months, and then comes the harvest’? Behold, I say to you, lift up your eyes and look on the fields, that they are white for harvest.

1759

For though we walk in the flesh, we do not war according to the flesh,

1760

When the Lamb broke the fourth seal, I heard the voice of the fourth living creature saying, “Come.”

1762

They *came and *said to Him, “Teacher, we know that You are truthful and defer to no one; for You are not partial to any, but teach the way of God in truth. Is it lawful to pay a poll-tax to Caesar, or not?

1765

When Jesus had crossed over again in the boat to the other side, a large crowd gathered around Him; and so He stayed by the seashore.

1767

Jesus went away from there, and withdrew into the district of Tyre and Sidon.

1769

Therefore, thus says the Lord, ‘Your wife will become a harlot in the city, your sons and your daughters will fall by the sword, your land will be parceled up by a measuring line and you yourself will die upon unclean soil. Moreover, Israel will certainly go from its land into exile.’”

1771

As He was going out of the temple, one of His disciples *said to Him, “Teacher, behold what wonderful stones and what wonderful buildings!”

1772

Then another angel, a third one, followed them, saying with a loud voice, “If anyone worships the beast and his image, and receives a mark on his forehead or on his hand,

1774

Many will say to Me on that day, ‘Lord, Lord, did we not prophesy in Your name, and in Your name cast out demons, and in Your name perform many miracles?’

1776

Seven sons and three daughters were born to him.

1777

And He said to them, “Rightly did Isaiah prophesy of you hypocrites, as it is written:
This people honors Me with their lips,
But their heart is far away from Me.

1778

And Stephen, full of grace and power, was performing great wonders and signs among the people.

1782

from the tribe of Zebulun twelve thousand, from the tribe of Joseph twelve thousand, from the tribe of Benjamin, twelve thousand were sealed.

1783

Now the promises were spoken to Abraham and to his seed. He does not say, “And to seeds,” as referring to many, but rather to one, “And to your seed,” that is, Christ.

1784

Moses said, ‘The Lord God will raise up for you a prophet like me from your brethren; to Him you shall give heed to everything He says to you.

1785

and they have testified to your love before the church. You will do well to send them on their way in a manner worthy of God.

1791

For the choir director. A Maskil of the sons of Korah.
As the deer pants for the water brooks,
So my soul pants for You, O God.

1796

His mother *said to the servants, “Whatever He says to you, do it.”

1799

One person regards one day above another, another regards every day alike. Each person must be fully convinced in his own mind.

1800

but this is what was spoken of through the prophet Joel:

1801

“I will lay it waste;
It will not be pruned or hoed,
But briars and thorns will come up.
I will also charge the clouds to rain no rain on it.”

1803

Immediately coming up out of the water, He saw the heavens opening, and the Spirit like a dove descending upon Him;

1804

But one of the soldiers pierced His side with a spear, and immediately blood and water came out.

1805

for just as Jonah was three days and three nights in the belly of the sea monster, so will the Son of Man be three days and three nights in the heart of the earth.

1807

The Lord God planted a garden toward the east, in Eden; and there He placed the man whom He had formed.

1808

And Peter responded to her, “Tell me whether you sold the land for such and such a price?” And she said, “Yes, that was the price.”

1810

These things took place in Bethany beyond the Jordan, where John was baptizing.

1811

They will shepherd the land of Assyria with the sword,
The land of Nimrod at its entrances;
And He will deliver us from the Assyrian
When he attacks our land
And when he tramples our territory.

1813

“I will completely remove all things
From the face of the earth,” declares the Lord.

1814

When the day came that Elkanah sacrificed, he would give portions to Peninnah his wife and to all her sons and her daughters;

1817

so that my imprisonment in the cause of Christ has become well known throughout the whole praetorian guard and to everyone else,

1821

“But when you see the abomination of desolation standing where it should not be (let the reader understand), then those who are in Judea must flee to the mountains.

1823

Mary said to the angel, “How can this be, since I am a virgin?”

1824

Do not give what is holy to dogs, and do not throw your pearls before swine, or they will trample them under their feet, and turn and tear you to pieces.

1825

Jesus *said to him, “Because you have seen Me, have you believed? Blessed are they who did not see, and yet believed.”

1826

as also in all his letters, speaking in them of these things, in which are some things hard to understand, which the untaught and unstable distort, as they do also the rest of the Scriptures, to their own destruction.

1829

So then it does not depend on the man who wills or the man who runs, but on God who has mercy.

1831

For the head of Aram is Damascus and the head of Damascus is Rezin (now within another 65 years Ephraim will be shattered, so that it is no longer a people),

1835

Jesus answered and said to him, “Are you the teacher of Israel and do not understand these things?

1837

Then I looked, and behold, the Lamb was standing on Mount Zion, and with Him one hundred and forty-four thousand, having His name and the name of His Father written on their foreheads.

1838

But going on from Perga, they arrived at Pisidian Antioch, and on the Sabbath day they went into the synagogue and sat down.

1840

For Christ did not enter a holy place made with hands, a mere copy of the true one, but into heaven itself, now to appear in the presence of God for us;

1842

as to zeal, a persecutor of the church; as to the righteousness which is in the Law, found blameless.

1843

And it happened that while He was praying alone, the disciples were with Him, and He questioned them, saying, “Who do the people say that I am?”

1844

On the first day of Unleavened Bread, when the Passover lamb was being sacrificed, His disciples *said to Him, “Where do You want us to go and prepare for You to eat the Passover?”

1846

She said, “No one, Lord.” And Jesus said, I do not condemn you, either. Go. From now on sin no more.”]

1847

Then God said, “Let there be an expanse in the midst of the waters, and let it separate the waters from the waters.”

1848

Eliud was the father of Eleazar, Eleazar the father of Matthan, and Matthan the father of Jacob.

1851

But the Lord was pleased
To crush Him, putting Him to grief;
If He would render Himself as a guilt offering,
He will see His offspring,
He will prolong His days,
And the good pleasure of the Lord will prosper in His hand.

1852

Dan and Naphtali, Gad and Asher.

1853

and to give relief to you who are afflicted and to us as well when the Lord Jesus will be revealed from heaven with His mighty angels in flaming fire,

1854

I had many things to write to you, but I am not willing to write them to you with pen and ink;

1855

You are not greater than our father Jacob, are You, who gave us the well, and drank of it himself and his sons and his cattle?”

1856

How long, O Lord, will I call for help,
And You will not hear?
I cry out to You, “Violence!”
Yet You do not save.

1859

Early in the morning the chief priests with the elders and scribes and the whole Council, immediately held a consultation; and binding Jesus, they led Him away and delivered Him to Pilate.

1861

and in Him you were also circumcised with a circumcision made without hands, in the removal of the body of the flesh by the circumcision of Christ;

1863

“Remember the former things long past,
For I am God, and there is no other;
I am God, and there is no one like Me,

1864

Who is the liar but the one who denies that Jesus is the Christ? This is the antichrist, the one who denies the Father and the Son.

1866

John said to Him, “Teacher, we saw someone casting out demons in Your name, and we tried to prevent him because he was not following us.”

1867

And when He again brings the firstborn into the world, He says,
And let all the angels of God worship Him.”

1869

Getting up, He *went from there to the region of Judea and beyond the Jordan; crowds *gathered around Him again, and, according to His custom, He once more began to teach them.

1871

And He said to His disciples, For this reason I say to you, do not worry about your life, as to what you will eat; nor for your body, as to what you will put on.

1872

“For as the rain and the snow come down from heaven,
And do not return there without watering the earth
And making it bear and sprout,
And furnishing seed to the sower and bread to the eater;

1874

As He was going along by the Sea of Galilee, He saw Simon and Andrew, the brother of Simon, casting a net in the sea; for they were fishermen.

1876

The Law and the Prophets were proclaimed until John; since that time the gospel of the kingdom of God has been preached, and everyone is forcing his way into it.

1878

In the days of His flesh, He offered up both prayers and supplications with loud crying and tears to the One able to save Him from death, and He was heard because of His piety.

1882

He humbled you and let you be hungry, and fed you with manna which you did not know, nor did your fathers know, that He might make you understand that man does not live by bread alone, but man lives by everything that proceeds out of the mouth of the Lord.

1883

They went on stoning Stephen as he called on the Lord and said, “Lord Jesus, receive my spirit!”

1884

You shall fear the Lord your God; you shall serve Him and cling to Him, and you shall swear by His name.

1886

So the Lord God caused a deep sleep to fall upon the man, and he slept; then He took one of his ribs and closed up the flesh at that place.

1887

Issachar, Zebulun and Benjamin;

1888

Philip *said to Him, “Lord, show us the Father, and it is enough for us.”

1889

We have confidence in the Lord concerning you, that you are doing and will continue to do what we command.

1890

But one who looks intently at the perfect law, the law of liberty, and abides by it, not having become a forgetful hearer but an effectual doer, this man will be blessed in what he does.

1891

And it happened that He was passing through the grainfields on the Sabbath, and His disciples began to make their way along while picking the heads of grain.

1892

As for you, the anointing which you received from Him abides in you, and you have no need for anyone to teach you; but as His anointing teaches you about all things, and is true and is not a lie, and just as it has taught you, you abide in Him.

1894

The disciples went out and came to the city, and found it just as He had told them; and they prepared the Passover.

1898

Then I saw another beast coming up out of the earth; and he had two horns like a lamb and he spoke as a dragon.

1899

But Mary was standing outside the tomb weeping; and so, as she wept, she stooped and looked into the tomb;

1903

Then Jesus *came with them to a place called Gethsemane, and *said to His disciples, “Sit here while I go over there and pray.”

1904

You lust and do not have; so you commit murder. You are envious and cannot obtain; so you fight and quarrel. You do not have because you do not ask.

1906

For this is the covenant that I will make with the house of Israel
After those days, says the Lord:
I will put My laws into their minds,
And I will write them on their hearts.
And I will be their God,
And they shall be My people.

1907

He answered, “The man who is called Jesus made clay, and anointed my eyes, and said to me, ‘Go to Siloam and wash’; so I went away and washed, and I received sight.”

1908

You shall not add to the word which I am commanding you, nor take away from it, that you may keep the commandments of the Lord your God which I command you.

1909

Then God said, “Let the earth bring forth living creatures after their kind: cattle and creeping things and beasts of the earth after their kind”; and it was so.

1912

Their appearance is like the appearance of horses;
And like war horses, so they run.

1913

Unless the Lord of hosts
Had left us a few survivors,
We would be like Sodom,
We would be like Gomorrah.

1917

For indeed when we were with you, we kept telling you in advance that we were going to suffer affliction; and so it came to pass, as you know.

1918

For he is not a Jew who is one outwardly, nor is circumcision that which is outward in the flesh.

1920

‘Thus all the tithe of the land, of the seed of the land or of the fruit of the tree, is the Lord’s; it is holy to the Lord.

1921

After that He went out and noticed a tax collector named Levi sitting in the tax booth, and He said to him, “Follow Me.”

1922

Then some Pharisees and scribes *came to Jesus from Jerusalem and said,

1924

And He was saying, “The kingdom of God is like a man who casts seed upon the soil;

1928

He said to His disciples, It is inevitable that stumbling blocks come, but woe to him through whom they come!

1929

For it is because of these things that the wrath of God will come upon the sons of disobedience,

1931

A vision appeared to Paul in the night: a man of Macedonia was standing and appealing to him, and saying, “Come over to Macedonia and help us.”

1932

After this I saw four angels standing at the four corners of the earth, holding back the four winds of the earth, so that no wind would blow on the earth or on the sea or on any tree.

1933

For among them are those who enter into households and captivate weak women weighed down with sins, led on by various impulses,

1936

All things are lawful for me, but not all things are profitable. All things are lawful for me, but I will not be mastered by anything.

1937

Then He *said to Thomas, Reach here with your finger, and see My hands; and reach here your hand and put it into My side; and do not be unbelieving, but believing.”

1940

For what I am doing, I do not understand; for I am not practicing what I would like to do, but I am doing the very thing I hate.

1942

For when Gentiles who do not have the Law do instinctively the things of the Law, these, not having the Law, are a law to themselves,

1943

After these things Jesus was walking in Galilee, for He was unwilling to walk in Judea because the Jews were seeking to kill Him.

1944

And there are also many other things which Jesus did, which if they *were written in detail, I suppose that even the world itself *would not contain the books that *would be written.

1945

And He said to him, “Stand up and go; your faith has made you well.”

1946

I will bow down toward Your holy temple
And give thanks to Your name for Your lovingkindness and Your truth;
For You have magnified Your word according to all Your name.

1947

Not like the covenant which I made with their fathers
On the day when I took them by the hand
To lead them out of the land of Egypt;
For they did not continue in My covenant,
And I did not care for them, says the Lord.

1948

Brethren, I may confidently say to you regarding the patriarch David that he both died and was buried, and his tomb is with us to this day.

1949

They asked Him, saying, “Why is it that the scribes say that Elijah must come first?”

1950

Then they *came to Jerusalem. And He entered the temple and began to drive out those who were buying and selling in the temple, and overturned the tables of the money changers and the seats of those who were selling doves;

1952

And they heard a loud voice from heaven saying to them, “Come up here.” Then they went up into heaven in the cloud, and their enemies watched them.

1953

whom He poured out upon us richly through Jesus Christ our Savior,

1954

And it became known to all who were living in Jerusalem; so that in their own language that field was called Hakeldama, that is, Field of Blood.)

1955

but whoever blasphemes against the Holy Spirit never has forgiveness, but is guilty of an eternal sin”

1958

The next day He purposed to go into Galilee, and He *found Philip. And Jesus *said to him, Follow Me.”

1959

And there arose also a dispute among them as to which one of them was regarded to be greatest.

1961

[Everyone went to his home.

1963

And He was saying to them, The harvest is plentiful, but the laborers are few; therefore beseech the Lord of the harvest to send out laborers into His harvest.

1964

He has made everything appropriate in its time. He has also set eternity in their heart, yet so that man will not find out the work which God has done from the beginning even to the end.

1965

Like an apple tree among the trees of the forest,
So is my beloved among the young men.
In his shade I took great delight and sat down,
And his fruit was sweet to my taste.

1967

I say this so that no one will delude you with persuasive argument.

1969

Greet one another with a holy kiss. All the churches of Christ greet you.

1971

And Jesus said to them, “I ask you, is it lawful to do good or to do harm on the Sabbath, to save a life or to destroy it?”

1972

Then God said, “Let the waters below the heavens be gathered into one place, and let the dry land appear”; and it was so.

1973

And like a mantle You will roll them up;
Like a garment they will also be changed.
But You are the same,
And Your years will not come to an end.”

1974

He entered again into a synagogue; and a man was there whose hand was withered.

1977

Truly I say to you, whatever you bind on earth shall have been bound in heaven; and whatever you loose on earth shall have been loosed in heaven.

1979

On the next day, as they were on their way and approaching the city, Peter went up on the housetop about the sixth hour to pray.

1980

So then, brethren, we are under obligation, not to the flesh, to live according to the flesh—

1981

And He began to speak to them in parables: A man planted a vineyard and put a wall around it, and dug a vat under the wine press and built a tower, and rented it out to vine-growers and went on a journey.

1983

What advantage does man have in all his work
Which he does under the sun?

1984

For I neither received it from man, nor was I taught it, but I received it through a revelation of Jesus Christ.

1985

For you are bringing some strange things to our ears; so we want to know what these things mean.”

1991

For they went out for the sake of the Name, accepting nothing from the Gentiles.

1993

Now on one of those days Jesus and His disciples got into a boat, and He said to them, “Let us go over to the other side of the lake.” So they launched out.

1994

In Hades he lifted up his eyes, being in torment, and *saw Abraham far away and Lazarus in his bosom.

1997

and that no man transgress and defraud his brother in the matter because the Lord is the avenger in all these things, just as we also told you before and solemnly warned you.

1998

When they led Him away, they seized a man, Simon of Cyrene, coming in from the country, and placed on him the cross to carry behind Jesus.

1999

When they came to the place called The Skull, there they crucified Him and the criminals, one on the right and the other on the left.