Just at this time an edict was issued by Caesar Augustus for the registration of the whole Empire.

Then the Devil said to Him, "If you are God's Son, tell this stone to become bread."

For so greatly did God love the world that He gave His only Son, that every one who trusts in Him may not perish but may have the Life of Ages.

The result was that the Pharisees said among themselves, "Observe how idle all your efforts are! The world is gone after him!"

one of whom, named Agabus, being instructed by the Spirit, publicly predicted the speedy coming of a great famine throughout the world. (It came in the reign of Claudius.)

But as for me, God forbid that I should glory in anything except the Cross of our Lord Jesus Christ, upon which the world is crucified to me, and I am crucified to the world.

*You* are the light of the world; a town cannot be hid if built on a hill-top.

And whoever shall speak against the Son of Man may obtain forgiveness; but whoever speaks against the Holy Spirit, neither in this nor in the coming age shall he obtain forgiveness."

He who has received the seed among the thorns is the man who hears the Message, but the cares of the present age and the delusions of riches quite stifle the Message, and it becomes unfruitful.

the field is the world; the good seed--these are the sons of the Kingdom; the darnel, the sons of the Evil one. The enemy who sows the darnel is *the Devil*; the harvest is the Close of the Age; the reapers are the angels. read more. As then the darnel is collected together and burnt up with fire, so will it be at the Close of the Age.

So will it be at the Close of the Age. The angels will go forth and separate the wicked from among the righteous,

Why, what benefit will it be to a man if he gains the whole world but forfeits his life? Or what shall a man give to buy back his life?

Afterwards He was on the Mount of Olives and was seated there when the disciples came to Him, apart from the others, and said, "Tell us when this will be; and what will be the sign of your Coming and of the Close of the Age?"

for it will be a time of great suffering, such as never has been from the beginning of the world till now, and assuredly never will be again.

"Then the King will say to those at His right, "'Come, my Father's blessed ones, receive your inheritance of the Kingdom which has been divinely intended for you ever since the creation of the world.

In solemn truth I tell you that wherever in the whole world this Good News shall be proclaimed, this deed of hers shall be spoken of in memory of her."

and teach them to obey every command which I have given you. And remember, I am with you always, day by day, until the Close of the Age."

but worldly cares and the deceitfulness of wealth and the excessive pursuit of other objects come in and stifle the Message, and it becomes unfruitful.

Why, what does it benefit a man to gain the whole world and forfeit his life?

but will receive a hundred times as much now in this present life--houses, brothers, sisters, mothers, children, lands--and persecution with them--and in the coming age the Life of the Ages.

As He has spoken from all time by the lips of His holy Prophets--

Why, what benefit is it to a man to have gained the whole world, but to have lost or forfeited his own self.

"And the master praised the dishonest steward for his shrewdness; for, in relation to their own contemporaries, the men of this age are shrewder than the sons of Light.

who shall not certainly receive many times as much in this life, and in the age that is coming the Life of the Ages."

"The men of this age," replied Jesus, "marry, and the women are given in marriage. But as for those who shall have been deemed worthy to find a place in that other age and in the Resurrection from among the dead, the men do not marry and the women are not given in marriage.

The true Light was that which illumines every man by its coming into the world.

The true Light was that which illumines every man by its coming into the world. He was in the world, and the world came into existence through Him, and the world did not recognize Him.

He was in the world, and the world came into existence through Him, and the world did not recognize Him.

The next day John saw Jesus coming towards him and exclaimed, "Look, that is the Lamb of God who is to take away the sin of the world!

and Jesus also was invited and His disciples.

So He plaited a whip of rushes, and drove all--both sheep and bullocks--out of the Temple. The small coin of the brokers He upset on the ground and overturned their tables. And to the pigeon-dealers He said, "Take these things away. Do not turn my Father's house into a market." read more. This recalled to His disciples the words of Scripture, "My zeal for Thy House will consume me."

For so greatly did God love the world that He gave His only Son, that every one who trusts in Him may not perish but may have the Life of Ages. For God did not send His Son into the world to judge the world, but that the world might be saved through Him.

For God did not send His Son into the world to judge the world, but that the world might be saved through Him.

And this is the test by which men are judged--the Light has come into the world, and men loved the darkness more than they loved the Light, because their deeds were wicked.

His road lay through Samaria,

but whoever drinks any of the water that I shall give him will never, never thirst. But the water that I shall give him will become a fountain within him of water springing up for the Life of the Ages."

and they said to the woman, "We no longer believe in Him simply because of your statements; for we have now heard for ourselves, and we know that this man really is the Saviour of the world."

No translation And there was one man there who had been an invalid for thirty-eight years.

"In most solemn truth I tell you," replied Jesus, "that the Son can do nothing of Himself--He can only do what He sees the Father doing; for whatever He does, that the Son does in like manner.

For God's bread is that which comes down out of Heaven and gives Life to the world."

I am the living bread come down out of Heaven. If a man eats this bread, he shall live for ever. Moreover the bread which I will give is my flesh given for the life of the world."

For no one acts in secret, desiring all the while to be himself known publicly. Since you are doing these things, show yourself openly to the world."

It is impossible for the world to hate you; but me it does hate, because I give testimony concerning it that its conduct is evil.

Once more Jesus addressed them. "I am the Light of the world," He said; "the man who follows me shall certainly not walk in the dark, but shall have the light of Life."

"You," He continued, "are from below, I am from above: you are of this present world, I am not of this present world.

When I am in the world, I am the Light of the world."

From the beginning of the world such a thing was never heard of as that any one should open the eyes of a man blind from his birth.

"I came into this world," said Jesus, "to judge men, that those who do not see may see, and that those who do see may become blind."

The result was that the Pharisees said among themselves, "Observe how idle all your efforts are! The world is gone after him!"

Now is a judgement of this world: now will the Prince of this world be driven out.

Now is a judgement of this world: now will the Prince of this world be driven out.

I have come like light into the world, in order that no one who believes in me may remain in the dark. And if any one hears my teachings and regards them not, I do not judge him; for I did not come to judge the world, but to save the world.

And if any one hears my teachings and regards them not, I do not judge him; for I did not come to judge the world, but to save the world.

Now just before the Feast of the Passover this incident took place. Jesus knew that the time had come for Him to leave this world and go to the Father; and having loved His own who were in the world, He loved them to the end.

That Spirit the world cannot receive, because it does not see Him or know Him. You know Him, because He remains by your side and is in you.

In future I shall not talk much with you, for the Prince of this world is coming. And yet in me he has nothing;

In future I shall not talk much with you, for the Prince of this world is coming. And yet in me he has nothing;

If the world hates you, remember that it has first had me as the fixed object of its hatred.

If the world hates you, remember that it has first had me as the fixed object of its hatred. If you belonged to the world, the world would love its own property. But because you do not belong to the world, and I have chosen you out of the world--for that reason the world hates you.

of judgement, because the Prince of this world is under sentence.

of judgement, because the Prince of this world is under sentence.

In most solemn truth I tell you that you will weep aloud and lament, but the world will be glad. You will mourn, but your grief will be turned into gladness.

"I have revealed Thy perfections to the men whom Thou gavest me out of the world. Thine they were, and Thou gavest them to me, and they have obeyed Thy message.

For the truths which Thou didst teach me I have taught them. And they have received them, and have known for certain that I came out from Thy presence, and have believed that Thou didst send me.

I have given them Thy Message, and the world has hated them, because they do not belong to the world, just as I do not belong to the world.

They do not belong to the world, just as I do not belong to the world.

They do not belong to the world, just as I do not belong to the world.

and yet by His beneficence He has not left His existence unattested--His beneficence, I mean, in sending you rain from Heaven and fruitful seasons, satisfying your hearts with food and joyfulness."

Says the Lord, who has been making these things known from ages long past.'

GOD who made the universe and everything in it--He, being Lord of Heaven and earth, does not dwell in sanctuaries built by men.

First of all, I thank my God through Jesus Christ for what He has done for all of you; for the report of your faith is spreading through the whole world.

For, from the very creation of the world, His invisible perfections--namely His eternal power and divine nature--have been rendered intelligible and clearly visible by His works, so that these men are without excuse.

What follows? This comparison. Through one man sin entered into the world, and through sin death, and so death passed to all mankind in turn, in that all sinned.

And do not follow the customs of the present age, but be transformed by the entire renewal of your minds, so that you may learn by experience what God's will is--that will which is good and beautiful and perfect.

Where is your wise man? Where your expounder of the Law? Where your investigator of the questions of this present age? Has not God shown the world's wisdom to be utter foolishness?

Where is your wise man? Where your expounder of the Law? Where your investigator of the questions of this present age? Has not God shown the world's wisdom to be utter foolishness? For after the world by its wisdom--as God in His wisdom had ordained--had failed to gain the knowledge of God, God was pleased, by the apparent foolishness of the Message which we preach, to save those who accepted it.

But God has chosen the things which the world regards as foolish, in order to put its wise men to shame; and God has chosen the things which the world regards as destitute of influence, in order to put its powerful things to shame; and the things which the world regards as base, and those which it sets utterly at nought--things that have no existence--God has chosen in order to reduce to nothing things that do exist;

Yet when we are among mature believers we do speak words of wisdom; a wisdom not belonging, however, to the present age nor to the leaders of the present age who are soon to pass away.

a wisdom which not one of the leaders of the present age possesses, for if they had possessed it, they would never have crucified the Lord of glory.

But we have not received the spirit of the world, but the Spirit which comes forth from God, that we may know the blessings that have been so freely given to us by God.

Let no one deceive himself. If any man imagines that he is wise, compared with the rest of you, with the wisdom of the present age, let him become "foolish" so that he may be wise. This world's wisdom is "foolishness" in God's sight; for it is written, "He snares the wise with their own cunning."

For what business of mine is it to judge outsiders? Is it not for you to judge those who are within the Church while you leave to God's judgement those who are outside? Remove the wicked man from among you.

Do you not know that God's people will sit in judgement upon the world? And if you are the court before which the world is to be judged, are you unfit to deal with these petty matters?

and those who use the world as not using it to the full. For the world as it now exists is passing away.

but a married man concerns himself with the business of the world--how he shall please his wife. There is a difference too between a married and an unmarried woman. She who is unmarried concerns herself with the Lord's business--that she may be holy both in body and spirit; but the married woman concerns herself with the business of the world--how she shall please her husband.

All this kept happening to them with a figurative meaning; but it was put on record by way of admonition to us upon whom the ends of the Ages have come.

For just as woman originates from man, so also man comes into existence through woman, but everything springs originally from God.

But if any one is inclined to be contentious on the point, we have no such custom, nor have the Churches of God.

But when we are judged by the Lord, chastisement follows, to save us from being condemned along with the world.

But when we are judged by the Lord, chastisement follows, to save us from being condemned along with the world.

in whom the god of this present age has blinded their unbelieving minds so as to shut out the sunshine of the Good News of the glory of the Christ, who is the image of God.

We are to tell how God was in Christ reconciling the world to Himself, not charging men's transgressions to their account, and that He has entrusted to us the Message of this reconciliation.

who gave Himself to suffer for our sins in order to rescue us from the present wicked age in accordance with the will of our God and Father.

for He who had been at work within Peter with a view to his Apostleship to the Jews had also been at work within me with a view to my Apostleship to the Gentiles--

I have been crucified with Christ, and it is no longer I that live, but Christ that lives in me; and the life which I now live in the body I live through faith in the Son of God who loved me and gave Himself up to death on my behalf.

So we also, when spiritually we were children, were subject to the world's rudimentary notions, and were enslaved.

Now, however, having come to know God--or rather to be known by Him--how is it you are again turning back to weak and worthless rudimentary notions to which you are once more willing to be enslaved?

But as for me, God forbid that I should glory in anything except the Cross of our Lord Jesus Christ, upon which the world is crucified to me, and I am crucified to the world.

high above all other government and authority and power and dominion, and every title of sovereignty used either in this Age or in the Age to come.

which were once habitual to you while you walked in the ways of this world and obeyed the Prince of the powers of the air, the spirits that are now at work in the hearts of the sons of disobedience--to you God has given Life.

in order that, by His goodness to us in Christ Jesus, He might display in the Ages to come the transcendent riches of His grace.

holding out to them a Message of Life. It will then be my glory on the day of Christ that I did not run my race in vain nor toil in vain.

and moreover he has informed us of your love, which is inspired by the Spirit.

and give thanks to the Father who has made us fit to receive our share of the inheritance of God's people in Light.

Slaves, be obedient in everything to your earthly masters; not in acts of eye service, as aiming only to please men, but with simplicity of purpose, because you fear the Lord.

And with him I send our dear and trusty brother Onesimus, who is one of yourselves. They will inform you of everything here.

Now to the immortal and invisible King of the Ages, who alone is God, be honour and glory to the Ages of the Ages! Amen.

To the pure everything is pure; but to the polluted and unbelieving nothing is pure, but on the contrary their very minds and consciences are polluted.

training us to renounce ungodliness and all the pleasures of this world, and to live sober, upright, and pious lives at the present time,

has at the end of these days spoken to us through a Son, who is the pre-destined Lord of the universe, and through whom He made the Ages.

Since, then, it is still true that some will be admitted to that rest, and that because of disobedience those who formerly had Good News proclaimed to them were not admitted,

and have realized how good the word of God is and how mighty are the powers of the coming Age, and then fell away--

In that case Christ would have needed to suffer many times, from the creation of the world onwards; but as a matter of fact He has appeared once for all, at the Close of the Ages, in order to do away with sin by the sacrifice of Himself.

That is why, when He comes into the world, He says, "Sacrifice and offering Thou has not desired, but a body Thou hast prepared for Me.

Through faith we understand that the worlds came into being, and still exist, at the command of God, so that what is seen does not owe its existence to that which is visible.

And although by their faith all these people won God's approval, none of them received the fulfilment of His great promise; for God had provided for them and us something better, so that apart from us they were not to attain to full blessedness.

Listen, my dearly-loved brethren. Has not God chosen those whom the world regards as poor to be rich in faith and heirs of the Kingdom which He has promised to those that love Him?

Nay, some one will say, "You have faith, I have actions: prove to me your faith apart from corresponding actions and I will prove mine to you by my actions.

You notice that his faith was co-operating with his actions, and that by his actions his faith was perfected;

Do not be eager, my brethren, for many among you to become teachers; for you know that we teachers shall undergo severer judgement.

And the tongue is a fire. That world of iniquity, the tongue, is placed within us spotting and soiling our whole nature, and setting the whole round of our lives on fire, being itself set on fire by Gehenna.

Which of you is a wise and well-instructed man? Let him prove it by a right life with conduct guided by a wisely teachable spirit.

or you pray and yet do not receive, because you pray wrongly, your object being to waste what you get on some pleasure or another. You unfaithful women, do you not know that friendship with the world means enmity to God? Therefore whoever is bent on being friendly with the world makes himself an enemy to God.

The seventh angel blew his trumpet; and there followed loud voices in Heaven which said, "The sovereignty of the world now belongs to our Lord and His Christ; and He will be King until the Ages of the Ages."

And they were singing the song of Moses, God's servant, and the song of the Lamb. Their words were, "Great and wonderful are Thy works, O Lord God, the Ruler of all. Righteous and true are Thy ways, O King of the nations.