Rom 1: 1 Paul, a servant of Jesus Christ, called to be an apostle, set apart for Rom 1: 1 the gospel of God Rom 1: 2 which he promised beforehand through his prophets in the holy Rom 1: 2 scriptures, Rom 1: 3 the gospel concerning his Son, who was descended from David according Rom 1: 3 to the flesh Rom 1: 4 and designated Son of God in power according to the Spirit of holiness Rom 1: 4 by his resurrection from the dead, Jesus Christ our Lord, Rom 1: 5 through whom we have received grace and apostleship to bring about the Rom 1: 5 obedience of faith for the sake of his name among all the nations, Rom 1: 6 including yourselves who are called to belong to Jesus Christ; Rom 1: 7 To all God's beloved in Rome, who are called to be saints: Rom 1: 7 Grace to you and peace from God our Father and the Lord Jesus Christ. Rom 1: 8 First, I thank my God through Jesus Christ for all of you, because Rom 1: 8 your faith is proclaimed in all the world. Rom 1: 9 For God is my witness, whom I serve with my spirit in the gospel of his Rom 1: 9 Son, that without ceasing I mention you always in my prayers, Rom 1:10 asking that somehow by God's will I may now at last succeed in coming Rom 1:10 to you. Rom 1:11 For I long to see you, that I may impart to you some spiritual gift to Rom 1:11 strengthen you, Rom 1:12 that is, that we may be mutually encouraged by each other's faith, both Rom 1:12 yours and mine. Rom 1:13 I want you to know, brethren, that I have often intended to come to you Rom 1:13 (but thus far have been prevented), in order that I may reap some Rom 1:13 harvest among you as well as among the rest of the Gentiles. Rom 1:14 I am under obligation both to Greeks and to barbarians, both to the Rom 1:14 wise and to the foolish: Rom 1:15 so I am eager to preach the gospel to you also who are in Rome. Rom 1:16 For I am not ashamed of the gospel: it is the power of God for Rom 1:16 salvation to every one who has faith, to the Jew first and also to the Rom 1:16 Greek. Rom 1:17 For in it the righteousness of God is revealed through faith for faith; Rom 1:17 as it is written, "He who through faith is righteous shall live." Rom 1:18 For the wrath of God is revealed from heaven against all ungodliness Rom 1:18 and wickedness of men who by their wickedness suppress the truth. Rom 1:19 For what can be known about God is plain to them, because God has shown Rom 1:19 it to them. Rom 1:20 Ever since the creation of the world his invisible nature, namely, his Rom 1:20 eternal power and deity, has been clearly perceived in the things that Rom 1:20 have been made. So they are without excuse; Rom 1:21 for although they knew God they did not honor him as God or give thanks Rom 1:21 to him, but they became futile in their thinking and their senseless Rom 1:21 minds were darkened. Rom 1:22 Claiming to be wise, they became fools, Rom 1:23 and exchanged the glory of the immortal God for images resembling Rom 1:23 mortal man or birds or animals or reptiles. Rom 1:24 Therefore God gave them up in the lusts of their hearts to impurity, Rom 1:24 to the dishonoring of their bodies among themselves, Rom 1:25 because they exchanged the truth about God for a lie and worshiped and Rom 1:25 served the creature rather than the Creator, who is blessed for ever! Rom 1:25 Amen. Rom 1:26 For this reason God gave them up to dishonorable passions. Their Rom 1:26 women exchanged natural relations for unnatural, Rom 1:27 and the men likewise gave up natural relations with women and were Rom 1:27 consumed with passion for one another, men committing shameless acts Rom 1:27 with men and receiving in their own persons the due penalty for their Rom 1:27 error. Rom 1:28 And since they did not see fit to acknowledge God, God gave them up Rom 1:28 to a base mind and to improper conduct. Rom 1:29 They were filled with all manner of wickedness, evil, covetousness, Rom 1:29 malice. Full of envy, murder, strife, deceit, malignity, they are Rom 1:29 gossips, Rom 1:30 slanderers, haters of God, insolent, haughty, boastful, inventors of Rom 1:30 evil, disobedient to parents, Rom 1:31 foolish, faithless, heartless, ruthless. Rom 1:32 Though they know God's decree that those who do such things deserve to Rom 1:32 die, they not only do them but approve those who practice them. Rom 2: 1 Therefore you have no excuse, O man, whoever you are, when you judge Rom 2: 1 another; for in passing judgment upon him you condemn yourself, because Rom 2: 1 you, the judge, are doing the very same things. Rom 2: 2 We know that the judgment of God rightly falls upon those who do such Rom 2: 2 things. Rom 2: 3 Do you suppose, O man, that when you judge those who do such things and Rom 2: 3 yet do them yourself, you will escape the judgment of God? Rom 2: 4 Or do you presume upon the riches of his kindness and forbearance and Rom 2: 4 patience? Do you not know that God's kindness is meant to lead you to Rom 2: 4 repentance? Rom 2: 5 But by your hard and impenitent heart you are storing up wrath for Rom 2: 5 yourself on the day of wrath when God's righteous judgment will be Rom 2: 5 revealed. Rom 2: 6 For he will render to every man according to his works: Rom 2: 7 to those who by patience in well-doing seek for glory and honor and Rom 2: 7 immortality, he will give eternal life; Rom 2: 8 but for those who are factious and do not obey the truth, but obey Rom 2: 8 wickedness, there will be wrath and fury. Rom 2: 9 There will be tribulation and distress for every human being who does Rom 2: 9 evil, the Jew first and also the Greek, Rom 2:10 but glory and honor and peace for every one who does good, the Jew Rom 2:10 first and also the Greek. Rom 2:11 For God shows no partiality. Rom 2:12 All who have sinned without the law will also perish without the law, Rom 2:12 and all who have sinned under the law will be judged by the law. Rom 2:13 For it is not the hearers of the law who are righteous before God, but Rom 2:13 the doers of the law who will be justified. Rom 2:14 When Gentiles who have not the law do by nature what the law requires, Rom 2:14 they are a law to themselves, even though they do not have the law. Rom 2:15 They show that what the law requires is written on their hearts, while Rom 2:15 their conscience also bears witness and their conflicting thoughts Rom 2:15 accuse or perhaps excuse them Rom 2:16 on that day when, according to my gospel, God judges the secrets of men Rom 2:16 by Christ Jesus. Rom 2:17 But if you call yourself a Jew and rely upon the law and boast of Rom 2:17 your relation to God Rom 2:18 and know his will and approve what is excellent, because you are Rom 2:18 instructed in the law, Rom 2:19 and if you are sure that you are a guide to the blind, a light to those Rom 2:19 who are in darkness, Rom 2:20 a corrector of the foolish, a teacher of children, having in the law Rom 2:20 the embodiment of knowledge and truth -- Rom 2:21 you then who teach others, will you not teach yourself? While you Rom 2:21 preach against stealing, do you steal? Rom 2:22 You who say that one must not commit adultery, do you commit adultery? Rom 2:22 You who abhor idols, do you rob temples? Rom 2:23 You who boast in the law, do you dishonor God by breaking the law? Rom 2:24 For, as it is written, "The name of God is blasphemed among the Rom 2:24 Gentiles because of you." Rom 2:25 Circumcision indeed is of value if you obey the law; but if you break Rom 2:25 the law, your circumcision becomes uncircumcision. Rom 2:26 So, if a man who is uncircumcised keeps the precepts of the law, will Rom 2:26 not his uncircumcision be regarded as circumcision? Rom 2:27 Then those who are physically uncircumcised but keep the law will Rom 2:27 condemn you who have the written code and circumcision but break the Rom 2:27 law. Rom 2:28 For he is not a real Jew who is one outwardly, nor is true circumcision Rom 2:28 something external and physical. Rom 2:29 He is a Jew who is one inwardly, and real circumcision is a matter of Rom 2:29 the heart, spiritual and not literal. His praise is not from men but Rom 2:29 from God. Rom 3: 1 Then what advantage has the Jew? Or what is the value of circumcision? Rom 3: 2 Much in every way. To begin with, the Jews are entrusted with the Rom 3: 2 oracles of God. Rom 3: 3 What if some were unfaithful? Does their faithlessness nullify the Rom 3: 3 faithfulness of God? Rom 3: 4 By no means! Let God be true though every man be false, as it is Rom 3: 4 written, Rom 3: 4 "That thou mayest be justified in thy words, Rom 3: 4 and prevail when thou art judged." Rom 3: 5 But if our wickedness serves to show the justice of God, what shall we Rom 3: 5 say? That God is unjust to inflict wrath on us? (I speak in a human Rom 3: 5 way.) Rom 3: 6 By no means! For then how could God judge the world? Rom 3: 7 But if through my falsehood God's truthfulness abounds to his glory, Rom 3: 7 why am I still being condemned as a sinner? Rom 3: 8 And why not do evil that good may come? -- as some people slanderously Rom 3: 8 charge us with saying. Their condemnation is just. Rom 3: 9 What then? Are we Jews any better off? No, not at all; for I have Rom 3: 9 already charged that all men, both Jews and Greeks, are under the power Rom 3: 9 of sin, Rom 3:10 as it is written: Rom 3:10 "None is righteous, no, not one; Rom 3:11 no one understands, no one seeks for God. Rom 3:12 All have turned aside, together they have gone wrong; Rom 3:12 no one does good, not even one." Rom 3:13 "Their throat is an open grave, Rom 3:13 they use their tongues to deceive." Rom 3:13 "The venom of asps is under their lips." Rom 3:14 "Their mouth is full of curses and bitterness." Rom 3:15 "Their feet are swift to shed blood, Rom 3:16 in their paths are ruin and misery, Rom 3:17 and the way of peace they do not know." Rom 3:18 "There is no fear of God before their eyes." Rom 3:19 Now we know that whatever the law says it speaks to those who are Rom 3:19 under the law, so that every mouth may be stopped, and the whole world Rom 3:19 may be held accountable to God. Rom 3:20 For no human being will be justified in his sight by works of the law, Rom 3:20 since through the law comes knowledge of sin. Rom 3:21 But now the righteousness of God has been manifested apart from law, Rom 3:21 although the law and the prophets bear witness to it, Rom 3:22 the righteousness of God through faith in Jesus Christ for all who Rom 3:22 believe. For there is no distinction; Rom 3:23 since all have sinned and fall short of the glory of God, Rom 3:24 they are justified by his grace as a gift, through the redemption which Rom 3:24 is in Christ Jesus, Rom 3:25 whom God put forward as an expiation by his blood, to be received by Rom 3:25 faith. This was to show God's righteousness, because in his divine Rom 3:25 forbearance he had passed over former sins; Rom 3:26 it was to prove at the present time that he himself is righteous and Rom 3:26 that he justifies him who has faith in Jesus. Rom 3:27 Then what becomes of our boasting? It is excluded. On what principle? Rom 3:27 On the principle of works? No, but on the principle of faith. Rom 3:28 For we hold that a man is justified by faith apart from works of law. Rom 3:29 Or is God the God of Jews only? Is he not the God of Gentiles also? Rom 3:29 Yes, of Gentiles also, Rom 3:30 since God is one; and he will justify the circumcised on the ground of Rom 3:30 their faith and the uncircumcised through their faith. Rom 3:31 Do we then overthrow the law by this faith? By no means! On the Rom 3:31 contrary, we uphold the law. Rom 4: 1 What then shall we say about Abraham, our forefather according to the Rom 4: 1 flesh? Rom 4: 2 For if Abraham was justified by works, he has something to boast about, Rom 4: 2 but not before God. Rom 4: 3 For what does the scripture say? "Abraham believed God, and it was Rom 4: 3 reckoned to him as righteousness." Rom 4: 4 Now to one who works, his wages are not reckoned as a gift but as his Rom 4: 4 due. Rom 4: 5 And to one who does not work but trusts him who justifies the ungodly, Rom 4: 5 his faith is reckoned as righteousness. Rom 4: 6 So also David pronounces a blessing upon the man to whom God reckons Rom 4: 6 righteousness apart from works: Rom 4: 7 "Blessed are those whose iniquities are forgiven, and whose sins Rom 4: 7 are covered; Rom 4: 8 blessed is the man against whom the Lord will not reckon his sin." Rom 4: 9 Is this blessing pronounced only upon the circumcised, or also upon Rom 4: 9 the uncircumcised? We say that faith was reckoned to Abraham as Rom 4: 9 righteousness. Rom 4:10 How then was it reckoned to him? Was it before or after he had been Rom 4:10 circumcised? It was not after, but before he was circumcised. Rom 4:11 He received circumcision as a sign or seal of the righteousness which Rom 4:11 he had by faith while he was still uncircumcised. The purpose was to Rom 4:11 make him the father of all who believe without being circumcised and Rom 4:11 who thus have righteousness reckoned to them, Rom 4:12 and likewise the father of the circumcised who are not merely Rom 4:12 circumcised but also follow the example of the faith which our father Rom 4:12 Abraham had before he was circumcised. Rom 4:13 The promise to Abraham and his descendants, that they should inherit Rom 4:13 the world, did not come through the law but through the righteousness Rom 4:13 of faith. Rom 4:14 If it is the adherents of the law who are to be the heirs, faith is Rom 4:14 null and the promise is void. Rom 4:15 For the law brings wrath, but where there is no law there is no Rom 4:15 transgression. Rom 4:16 That is why it depends on faith, in order that the promise may rest Rom 4:16 on grace and be guaranteed to all his descendants -- not only to the Rom 4:16 adherents of the law but also to those who share the faith of Abraham, Rom 4:16 for he is the father of us all, Rom 4:17 as it is written, "I have made you the father of many nations" -- in the Rom 4:17 presence of the God in whom he believed, who gives life to the dead and Rom 4:17 calls into existence the things that do not exist. Rom 4:18 In hope he believed against hope, that he should become the father of Rom 4:18 many nations; as he had been told, "So shall your descendants be." Rom 4:19 He did not weaken in faith when he considered his own body, which was Rom 4:19 as good as dead because he was about a hundred years old, or when he Rom 4:19 considered the barrenness of Sarah's womb. Rom 4:20 No distrust made him waver concerning the promise of God, but he grew Rom 4:20 strong in his faith as he gave glory to God, Rom 4:21 fully convinced that God was able to do what he had promised. Rom 4:22 That is why his faith was "reckoned to him as righteousness." Rom 4:23 But the words, "it was reckoned to him," were written not for his sake Rom 4:23 alone, Rom 4:24 but for ours also. It will be reckoned to us who believe in him that Rom 4:24 raised from the dead Jesus our Lord, Rom 4:25 who was put to death for our trespasses and raised for our Rom 4:25 justification. Rom 5: 1 Therefore, since we are justified by faith, we have peace with God Rom 5: 1 through our Lord Jesus Christ. Rom 5: 2 Through him we have obtained access to this grace in which we stand, Rom 5: 2 and we rejoice in our hope of sharing the glory of God. Rom 5: 3 More than that, we rejoice in our sufferings, knowing that suffering Rom 5: 3 produces endurance, Rom 5: 4 and endurance produces character, and character produces hope, Rom 5: 5 and hope does not disappoint us, because God's love has been poured Rom 5: 5 into our hearts through the Holy Spirit which has been given to us. Rom 5: 6 While we were still weak, at the right time Christ died for the Rom 5: 6 ungodly. Rom 5: 7 Why, one will hardly die for a righteous man -- though perhaps for a good Rom 5: 7 man one will dare even to die. Rom 5: 8 But God shows his love for us in that while we were yet sinners Christ Rom 5: 8 died for us. Rom 5: 9 Since, therefore, we are now justified by his blood, much more shall we Rom 5: 9 be saved by him from the wrath of God. Rom 5:10 For if while we were enemies we were reconciled to God by the death of Rom 5:10 his Son, much more, now that we are reconciled, shall we be saved by Rom 5:10 his life. Rom 5:11 Not only so, but we also rejoice in God through our Lord Jesus Christ, Rom 5:11 through whom we have now received our reconciliation. Rom 5:12 Therefore as sin came into the world through one man and death Rom 5:12 through sin, and so death spread to all men because all men sinned -- Rom 5:13 sin indeed was in the world before the law was given, but sin is not Rom 5:13 counted where there is no law. Rom 5:14 Yet death reigned from Adam to Moses, even over those whose sins were Rom 5:14 not like the transgression of Adam, who was a type of the one who was Rom 5:14 to come. Rom 5:15 But the free gift is not like the trespass. For if many died through Rom 5:15 one man's trespass, much more have the grace of God and the free gift Rom 5:15 in the grace of that one man Jesus Christ abounded for many. Rom 5:16 And the free gift is not like the effect of that one man's sin. For the Rom 5:16 judgment following one trespass brought condemnation, but the free gift Rom 5:16 following many trespasses brings justification. Rom 5:17 If, because of one man's trespass, death reigned through that one man, Rom 5:17 much more will those who receive the abundance of grace and the free Rom 5:17 gift of righteousness reign in life through the one man Jesus Christ. Rom 5:18 Then as one man's trespass led to condemnation for all men, so one Rom 5:18 man's act of righteousness leads to acquittal and life for all men. Rom 5:19 For as by one man's disobedience many were made sinners, so by one Rom 5:19 man's obedience many will be made righteous. Rom 5:20 Law came in, to increase the trespass; but where sin increased, grace Rom 5:20 abounded all the more, Rom 5:21 so that, as sin reigned in death, grace also might reign through Rom 5:21 righteousness to eternal life through Jesus Christ our Lord. Rom 6: 1 What shall we say then? Are we to continue in sin that grace may Rom 6: 1 abound? Rom 6: 2 By no means! How can we who died to sin still live in it? Rom 6: 3 Do you not know that all of us who have been baptized into Christ Jesus Rom 6: 3 were baptized into his death? Rom 6: 4 We were buried therefore with him by baptism into death, so that as Rom 6: 4 Christ was raised from the dead by the glory of the Father, we too Rom 6: 4 might walk in newness of life. Rom 6: 5 For if we have been united with him in a death like his, we shall Rom 6: 5 certainly be united with him in a resurrection like his. Rom 6: 6 We know that our old self was crucified with him so that the sinful Rom 6: 6 body might be destroyed, and we might no longer be enslaved to sin. Rom 6: 7 For he who has died is freed from sin. Rom 6: 8 But if we have died with Christ, we believe that we shall also live Rom 6: 8 with him. Rom 6: 9 For we know that Christ being raised from the dead will never die Rom 6: 9 again; death no longer has dominion over him. Rom 6:10 The death he died he died to sin, once for all, but the life he lives Rom 6:10 he lives to God. Rom 6:11 So you also must consider yourselves dead to sin and alive to God in Rom 6:11 Christ Jesus. Rom 6:12 Let not sin therefore reign in your mortal bodies, to make you obey Rom 6:12 their passions. Rom 6:13 Do not yield your members to sin as instruments of wickedness, but Rom 6:13 yield yourselves to God as men who have been brought from death to Rom 6:13 life, and your members to God as instruments of righteousness. Rom 6:14 For sin will have no dominion over you, since you are not under law but Rom 6:14 under grace. Rom 6:15 What then? Are we to sin because we are not under law but under Rom 6:15 grace? By no means! Rom 6:16 Do you not know that if you yield yourselves to any one as obedient Rom 6:16 slaves, you are slaves of the one whom you obey, either of sin, which Rom 6:16 leads to death, or of obedience, which leads to righteousness? Rom 6:17 But thanks be to God, that you who were once slaves of sin have become Rom 6:17 obedient from the heart to the standard of teaching to which you were Rom 6:17 committed, Rom 6:18 and, having been set free from sin, have become slaves of righteousness. Rom 6:19 I am speaking in human terms, because of your natural limitations. For Rom 6:19 just as you once yielded your members to impurity and to greater and Rom 6:19 greater iniquity, so now yield your members to righteousness for Rom 6:19 sanctification. Rom 6:20 When you were slaves of sin, you were free in regard to righteousness. Rom 6:21 But then what return did you get from the things of which you are now Rom 6:21 ashamed? The end of those things is death. Rom 6:22 But now that you have been set free from sin and have become slaves of Rom 6:22 God, the return you get is sanctification and its end, eternal life. Rom 6:23 For the wages of sin is death, but the free gift of God is eternal life Rom 6:23 in Christ Jesus our Lord. Rom 7: 1 Do you not know, brethren -- for I am speaking to those who know the Rom 7: 1 law -- that the law is binding on a person only during his life? Rom 7: 2 Thus a married woman is bound by law to her husband as long as he Rom 7: 2 lives; but if her husband dies she is discharged from the law Rom 7: 2 concerning the husband. Rom 7: 3 Accordingly, she will be called an adulteress if she lives with another Rom 7: 3 man while her husband is alive. But if her husband dies she is free Rom 7: 3 from that law, and if she marries another man she is not an adulteress. Rom 7: 4 Likewise, my brethren, you have died to the law through the body of Rom 7: 4 Christ, so that you may belong to another, to him who has been raised Rom 7: 4 from the dead in order that we may bear fruit for God. Rom 7: 5 While we were living in the flesh, our sinful passions, aroused by the Rom 7: 5 law, were at work in our members to bear fruit for death. Rom 7: 6 But now we are discharged from the law, dead to that which held us Rom 7: 6 captive, so that we serve not under the old written code but in the new Rom 7: 6 life of the Spirit. Rom 7: 7 What then shall we say? That the law is sin? By no means! Yet, if it Rom 7: 7 had not been for the law, I should not have known sin. I should not Rom 7: 7 have known what it is to covet if the law had not said, "You shall not Rom 7: 7 covet." Rom 7: 8 But sin, finding opportunity in the commandment, wrought in me all Rom 7: 8 kinds of covetousness. Apart from the law sin lies dead. Rom 7: 9 I was once alive apart from the law, but when the commandment came, sin Rom 7: 9 revived and I died; Rom 7:10 the very commandment which promised life proved to be death to me. Rom 7:11 For sin, finding opportunity in the commandment, deceived me and by it Rom 7:11 killed me. Rom 7:12 So the law is holy, and the commandment is holy and just and good. Rom 7:13 Did that which is good, then, bring death to me? By no means! It was Rom 7:13 sin, working death in me through what is good, in order that sin might Rom 7:13 be shown to be sin, and through the commandment might become sinful Rom 7:13 beyond measure. Rom 7:14 We know that the law is spiritual; but I am carnal, sold under sin. Rom 7:15 I do not understand my own actions. For I do not do what I want, but I Rom 7:15 do the very thing I hate. Rom 7:16 Now if I do what I do not want, I agree that the law is good. Rom 7:17 So then it is no longer I that do it, but sin which dwells within me. Rom 7:18 For I know that nothing good dwells within me, that is, in my flesh. I Rom 7:18 can will what is right, but I cannot do it. Rom 7:19 For I do not do the good I want, but the evil I do not want is what I Rom 7:19 do. Rom 7:20 Now if I do what I do not want, it is no longer I that do it, but sin Rom 7:20 which dwells within me. Rom 7:21 So I find it to be a law that when I want to do right, evil lies Rom 7:21 close at hand. Rom 7:22 For I delight in the law of God, in my inmost self, Rom 7:23 but I see in my members another law at war with the law of my mind and Rom 7:23 making me captive to the law of sin which dwells in my members. Rom 7:24 Wretched man that I am! Who will deliver me from this body of death? Rom 7:25 Thanks be to God through Jesus Christ our Lord! So then, I of myself Rom 7:25 serve the law of God with my mind, but with my flesh I serve the law of Rom 7:25 sin. Rom 8: 1 There is therefore now no condemnation for those who are in Christ Rom 8: 1 Jesus. Rom 8: 2 For the law of the Spirit of life in Christ Jesus has set me free from Rom 8: 2 the law of sin and death. Rom 8: 3 For God has done what the law, weakened by the flesh, could not do: Rom 8: 3 sending his own Son in the likeness of sinful flesh and for sin, he Rom 8: 3 condemned sin in the flesh, Rom 8: 4 in order that the just requirement of the law might be fulfilled in us, Rom 8: 4 who walk not according to the flesh but according to the Spirit. Rom 8: 5 For those who live according to the flesh set their minds on the things Rom 8: 5 of the flesh, but those who live according to the Spirit set their Rom 8: 5 minds on the things of the Spirit. Rom 8: 6 To set the mind on the flesh is death, but to set the mind on the Rom 8: 6 Spirit is life and peace. Rom 8: 7 For the mind that is set on the flesh is hostile to God; it does not Rom 8: 7 submit to God's law, indeed it cannot; Rom 8: 8 and those who are in the flesh cannot please God. Rom 8: 9 But you are not in the flesh, you are in the Spirit, if in fact the Rom 8: 9 Spirit of God dwells in you. Any one who does not have the Spirit of Rom 8: 9 Christ does not belong to him. Rom 8:10 But if Christ is in you, although your bodies are dead because of sin, Rom 8:10 your spirits are alive because of righteousness. Rom 8:11 If the Spirit of him who raised Jesus from the dead dwells in you, he Rom 8:11 who raised Christ Jesus from the dead will give life to your mortal Rom 8:11 bodies also through his Spirit which dwells in you. Rom 8:12 So then, brethren, we are debtors, not to the flesh, to live Rom 8:12 according to the flesh -- Rom 8:13 for if you live according to the flesh you will die, but if by the Rom 8:13 Spirit you put to death the deeds of the body you will live. Rom 8:14 For all who are led by the Spirit of God are sons of God. Rom 8:15 For you did not receive the spirit of slavery to fall back into fear, Rom 8:15 but you have received the spirit of sonship. When we cry, "Abba! Rom 8:15 Father!" Rom 8:16 it is the Spirit himself bearing witness with our spirit that we are Rom 8:16 children of God, Rom 8:17 and if children, then heirs, heirs of God and fellow heirs with Christ, Rom 8:17 provided we suffer with him in order that we may also be glorified with Rom 8:17 him. Rom 8:18 I consider that the sufferings of this present time are not worth Rom 8:18 comparing with the glory that is to be revealed to us. Rom 8:19 For the creation waits with eager longing for the revealing of the sons Rom 8:19 of God; Rom 8:20 for the creation was subjected to futility, not of its own will but by Rom 8:20 the will of him who subjected it in hope; Rom 8:21 because the creation itself will be set free from its bondage to decay Rom 8:21 and obtain the glorious liberty of the children of God. Rom 8:22 We know that the whole creation has been groaning in travail together Rom 8:22 until now; Rom 8:23 and not only the creation, but we ourselves, who have the first fruits Rom 8:23 of the Spirit, groan inwardly as we wait for adoption as sons, the Rom 8:23 redemption of our bodies. Rom 8:24 For in this hope we were saved. Now hope that is seen is not hope. For Rom 8:24 who hopes for what he sees? Rom 8:25 But if we hope for what we do not see, we wait for it with patience. Rom 8:26 Likewise the Spirit helps us in our weakness; for we do not know how Rom 8:26 to pray as we ought, but the Spirit himself intercedes for us with Rom 8:26 sighs too deep for words. Rom 8:27 And he who searches the hearts of men knows what is the mind of the Rom 8:27 Spirit, because the Spirit intercedes for the saints according to the Rom 8:27 will of God. Rom 8:28 We know that in everything God works for good with those who love Rom 8:28 him, who are called according to his purpose. Rom 8:29 For those whom he foreknew he also predestined to be conformed to the Rom 8:29 image of his Son, in order that he might be the first-born among many Rom 8:29 brethren. Rom 8:30 And those whom he predestined he also called; and those whom he called Rom 8:30 he also justified; and those whom he justified he also glorified. Rom 8:31 What then shall we say to this? If God is for us, who is against us? Rom 8:32 He who did not spare his own Son but gave him up for us all, will he Rom 8:32 not also give us all things with him? Rom 8:33 Who shall bring any charge against God's elect? It is God who justifies; Rom 8:34 who is to condemn? Is it Christ Jesus, who died, yes, who was raised Rom 8:34 from the dead, who is at the right hand of God, who indeed intercedes Rom 8:34 for us? Rom 8:35 Who shall separate us from the love of Christ? Shall tribulation, or Rom 8:35 distress, or persecution, or famine, or nakedness, or peril, or sword? Rom 8:36 As it is written, Rom 8:36 "For thy sake we are being killed all the day long; Rom 8:36 we are regarded as sheep to be slaughtered." Rom 8:37 No, in all these things we are more than conquerors through him who Rom 8:37 loved us. Rom 8:38 For I am sure that neither death, nor life, nor angels, nor Rom 8:38 principalities, nor things present, nor things to come, nor powers, Rom 8:39 nor height, nor depth, nor anything else in all creation, will be able Rom 8:39 to separate us from the love of God in Christ Jesus our Lord. Rom 9: 1 I am speaking the truth in Christ, I am not lying; my conscience Rom 9: 1 bears me witness in the Holy Spirit, Rom 9: 2 that I have great sorrow and unceasing anguish in my heart. Rom 9: 3 For I could wish that I myself were accursed and cut off from Christ Rom 9: 3 for the sake of my brethren, my kinsmen by race. Rom 9: 4 They are Israelites, and to them belong the sonship, the glory, the Rom 9: 4 covenants, the giving of the law, the worship, and the promises; Rom 9: 5 to them belong the patriarchs, and of their race, according to the Rom 9: 5 flesh, is the Christ. God who is over all be blessed for ever. Amen. Rom 9: 6 But it is not as though the word of God had failed. For not all who Rom 9: 6 are descended from Israel belong to Israel, Rom 9: 7 and not all are children of Abraham because they are his descendants; Rom 9: 7 but "Through Isaac shall your descendants be named." Rom 9: 8 This means that it is not the children of the flesh who are the Rom 9: 8 children of God, but the children of the promise are reckoned as Rom 9: 8 descendants. Rom 9: 9 For this is what the promise said, "About this time I will return and Rom 9: 9 Sarah shall have a son." Rom 9:10 And not only so, but also when Rebecca had conceived children by one Rom 9:10 man, our forefather Isaac, Rom 9:11 though they were not yet born and had done nothing either good or bad, Rom 9:11 in order that God's purpose of election might continue, not because of Rom 9:11 works but because of his call, Rom 9:12 she was told, "The elder will serve the younger." Rom 9:13 As it is written, "Jacob I loved, but Esau I hated." Rom 9:14 What shall we say then? Is there injustice on God's part? By no means! Rom 9:15 For he says to Moses, "I will have mercy on whom I have mercy, and I Rom 9:15 will have compassion on whom I have compassion." Rom 9:16 So it depends not upon man's will or exertion, but upon God's mercy. Rom 9:17 For the scripture says to Pharaoh, "I have raised you up for the very Rom 9:17 purpose of showing my power in you, so that my name may be proclaimed Rom 9:17 in all the earth." Rom 9:18 So then he has mercy upon whomever he wills, and he hardens the heart Rom 9:18 of whomever he wills. Rom 9:19 You will say to me then, "Why does he still find fault? For who can Rom 9:19 resist his will?" Rom 9:20 But who are you, a man, to answer back to God? Will what is molded say Rom 9:20 to its molder, "Why have you made me thus?" Rom 9:21 Has the potter no right over the clay, to make out of the same lump one Rom 9:21 vessel for beauty and another for menial use? Rom 9:22 What if God, desiring to show his wrath and to make known his power, Rom 9:22 has endured with much patience the vessels of wrath made for Rom 9:22 destruction, Rom 9:23 in order to make known the riches of his glory for the vessels of Rom 9:23 mercy, which he has prepared beforehand for glory, Rom 9:24 even us whom he has called, not from the Jews only but also from the Rom 9:24 Gentiles? Rom 9:25 As indeed he says in Hose'a, Rom 9:25 "Those who were not my people Rom 9:25 I will call `my people,' Rom 9:25 and her who was not beloved Rom 9:25 I will call `my beloved.'" Rom 9:26 "And in the very place where it was said to them, `You are not my Rom 9:26 people,' Rom 9:26 they will be called `sons of the living God.'" Rom 9:27 And Isaiah cries out concerning Israel: "Though the number of the Rom 9:27 sons of Israel be as the sand of the sea, only a remnant of them will Rom 9:27 be saved; Rom 9:28 for the Lord will execute his sentence upon the earth with rigor and Rom 9:28 dispatch." Rom 9:29 And as Isaiah predicted, Rom 9:29 "If the Lord of hosts had not left us children, Rom 9:29 we would have fared like Sodom and been made like Gomor'rah." Rom 9:30 What shall we say, then? That Gentiles who did not pursue Rom 9:30 righteousness have attained it, that is, righteousness through faith; Rom 9:31 but that Israel who pursued the righteousness which is based on law did Rom 9:31 not succeed in fulfilling that law. Rom 9:32 Why? Because they did not pursue it through faith, but as if it were Rom 9:32 based on works. They have stumbled over the stumbling stone, Rom 9:33 as it is written, Rom 9:33 "Behold, I am laying in Zion a stone that will make men stumble, Rom 9:33 a rock that will make them fall; Rom 9:33 and he who believes in him will not be put to shame." Rom 10: 1 Brethren, my heart's desire and prayer to God for them is that they Rom 10: 1 may be saved. Rom 10: 2 I bear them witness that they have a zeal for God, but it is not Rom 10: 2 enlightened. Rom 10: 3 For, being ignorant of the righteousness that comes from God, and Rom 10: 3 seeking to establish their own, they did not submit to God's Rom 10: 3 righteousness. Rom 10: 4 For Christ is the end of the law, that every one who has faith may be Rom 10: 4 justified. Rom 10: 5 Moses writes that the man who practices the righteousness which is Rom 10: 5 based on the law shall live by it. Rom 10: 6 But the righteousness based on faith says, Do not say in your heart, Rom 10: 6 "Who will ascend into heaven?" (that is, to bring Christ down) Rom 10: 7 or "Who will descend into the abyss?" (that is, to bring Christ up from Rom 10: 7 the dead). Rom 10: 8 But what does it say? The word is near you, on your lips and in your Rom 10: 8 heart (that is, the word of faith which we preach); Rom 10: 9 because, if you confess with your lips that Jesus is Lord and believe Rom 10: 9 in your heart that God raised him from the dead, you will be saved. Rom 10:10 For man believes with his heart and so is justified, and he confesses Rom 10:10 with his lips and so is saved. Rom 10:11 The scripture says, "No one who believes in him will be put to shame." Rom 10:12 For there is no distinction between Jew and Greek; the same Lord is Rom 10:12 Lord of all and bestows his riches upon all who call upon him. Rom 10:13 For, "every one who calls upon the name of the Lord will be saved." Rom 10:14 But how are men to call upon him in whom they have not believed? And Rom 10:14 how are they to believe in him of whom they have never heard? And how Rom 10:14 are they to hear without a preacher? Rom 10:15 And how can men preach unless they are sent? As it is written, "How Rom 10:15 beautiful are the feet of those who preach good news!" Rom 10:16 But they have not all obeyed the gospel; for Isaiah says, "Lord, who Rom 10:16 has believed what he has heard from us?" Rom 10:17 So faith comes from what is heard, and what is heard comes by the Rom 10:17 preaching of Christ. Rom 10:18 But I ask, have they not heard? Indeed they have; for Rom 10:18 "Their voice has gone out to all the earth, Rom 10:18 and their words to the ends of the world." Rom 10:19 Again I ask, did Israel not understand? First Moses says, Rom 10:19 "I will make you jealous of those who are not a nation; Rom 10:19 with a foolish nation I will make you angry." Rom 10:20 Then Isaiah is so bold as to say, Rom 10:20 "I have been found by those who did not seek me; Rom 10:20 I have shown myself to those who did not ask for me." Rom 10:21 But of Israel he says, "All day long I have held out my hands to a Rom 10:21 disobedient and contrary people." Rom 11: 1 I ask, then, has God rejected his people? By no means! I myself am an Rom 11: 1 Israelite, a descendant of Abraham, a member of the tribe of Benjamin. Rom 11: 2 God has not rejected his people whom he foreknew. Do you not know what Rom 11: 2 the scripture says of Eli'jah, how he pleads with God against Israel? Rom 11: 3 "Lord, they have killed thy prophets, they have demolished thy altars, Rom 11: 3 and I alone am left, and they seek my life." Rom 11: 4 But what is God's reply to him? "I have kept for myself seven thousand Rom 11: 4 men who have not bowed the knee to Ba'al." Rom 11: 5 So too at the present time there is a remnant, chosen by grace. Rom 11: 6 But if it is by grace, it is no longer on the basis of works; otherwise Rom 11: 6 grace would no longer be grace. Rom 11: 7 What then? Israel failed to obtain what it sought. The elect obtained Rom 11: 7 it, but the rest were hardened, Rom 11: 8 as it is written, Rom 11: 8 "God gave them a spirit of stupor, Rom 11: 8 eyes that should not see and ears that should not hear, Rom 11: 8 down to this very day." Rom 11: 9 And David says, Rom 11: 9 "Let their table become a snare and a trap, Rom 11: 9 a pitfall and a retribution for them; Rom 11:10 let their eyes be darkened so that they cannot see, Rom 11:10 and bend their backs for ever." Rom 11:11 So I ask, have they stumbled so as to fall? By no means! But through Rom 11:11 their trespass salvation has come to the Gentiles, so as to make Israel Rom 11:11 jealous. Rom 11:12 Now if their trespass means riches for the world, and if their failure Rom 11:12 means riches for the Gentiles, how much more will their full inclusion Rom 11:12 mean! Rom 11:13 Now I am speaking to you Gentiles. Inasmuch then as I am an apostle Rom 11:13 to the Gentiles, I magnify my ministry Rom 11:14 in order to make my fellow Jews jealous, and thus save some of them. Rom 11:15 For if their rejection means the reconciliation of the world, what will Rom 11:15 their acceptance mean but life from the dead? Rom 11:16 If the dough offered as first fruits is holy, so is the whole lump; and Rom 11:16 if the root is holy, so are the branches. Rom 11:17 But if some of the branches were broken off, and you, a wild olive Rom 11:17 shoot, were grafted in their place to share the richness of the olive Rom 11:17 tree, Rom 11:18 do not boast over the branches. If you do boast, remember it is not you Rom 11:18 that support the root, but the root that supports you. Rom 11:19 You will say, "Branches were broken off so that I might be grafted in." Rom 11:20 That is true. They were broken off because of their unbelief, but you Rom 11:20 stand fast only through faith. So do not become proud, but stand in awe. Rom 11:21 For if God did not spare the natural branches, neither will he spare Rom 11:21 you. Rom 11:22 Note then the kindness and the severity of God: severity toward those Rom 11:22 who have fallen, but God's kindness to you, provided you continue in Rom 11:22 his kindness; otherwise you too will be cut off. Rom 11:23 And even the others, if they do not persist in their unbelief, will be Rom 11:23 grafted in, for God has the power to graft them in again. Rom 11:24 For if you have been cut from what is by nature a wild olive tree, and Rom 11:24 grafted, contrary to nature, into a cultivated olive tree, how much Rom 11:24 more will these natural branches be grafted back into their own olive Rom 11:24 tree. Rom 11:25 Lest you be wise in your own conceits, I want you to understand this Rom 11:25 mystery, brethren: a hardening has come upon part of Israel, until the Rom 11:25 full number of the Gentiles come in, Rom 11:26 and so all Israel will be saved; as it is written, Rom 11:26 "The Deliverer will come from Zion, Rom 11:26 he will banish ungodliness from Jacob"; Rom 11:27 "and this will be my covenant with them Rom 11:27 when I take away their sins." Rom 11:28 As regards the gospel they are enemies of God, for your sake; but as Rom 11:28 regards election they are beloved for the sake of their forefathers. Rom 11:29 For the gifts and the call of God are irrevocable. Rom 11:30 Just as you were once disobedient to God but now have received mercy Rom 11:30 because of their disobedience, Rom 11:31 so they have now been disobedient in order that by the mercy shown to Rom 11:31 you they also may receive mercy. Rom 11:32 For God has consigned all men to disobedience, that he may have mercy Rom 11:32 upon all. Rom 11:33 O the depth of the riches and wisdom and knowledge of God! How Rom 11:33 unsearchable are his judgments and how inscrutable his ways! Rom 11:34 "For who has known the mind of the Lord, Rom 11:34 or who has been his counselor?" Rom 11:35 "Or who has given a gift to him Rom 11:35 that he might be repaid?" Rom 11:36 For from him and through him and to him are all things. To him be Rom 11:36 glory for ever. Amen. Rom 12: 1 I appeal to you therefore, brethren, by the mercies of God, to Rom 12: 1 present your bodies as a living sacrifice, holy and acceptable to God, Rom 12: 1 which is your spiritual worship. Rom 12: 2 Do not be conformed to this world but be transformed by the renewal of Rom 12: 2 your mind, that you may prove what is the will of God, what is good and Rom 12: 2 acceptable and perfect. Rom 12: 3 For by the grace given to me I bid every one among you not to think Rom 12: 3 of himself more highly than he ought to think, but to think with sober Rom 12: 3 judgment, each according to the measure of faith which God has assigned Rom 12: 3 him. Rom 12: 4 For as in one body we have many members, and all the members do not Rom 12: 4 have the same function, Rom 12: 5 so we, though many, are one body in Christ, and individually members Rom 12: 5 one of another. Rom 12: 6 Having gifts that differ according to the grace given to us, let us use Rom 12: 6 them: if prophecy, in proportion to our faith; Rom 12: 7 if service, in our serving; he who teaches, in his teaching; Rom 12: 8 he who exhorts, in his exhortation; he who contributes, in liberality; Rom 12: 8 he who gives aid, with zeal; he who does acts of mercy, with Rom 12: 8 cheerfulness. Rom 12: 9 Let love be genuine; hate what is evil, hold fast to what is good; Rom 12:10 love one another with brotherly affection; outdo one another in showing Rom 12:10 honor. Rom 12:11 Never flag in zeal, be aglow with the Spirit, serve the Lord. Rom 12:12 Rejoice in your hope, be patient in tribulation, be constant in prayer. Rom 12:13 Contribute to the needs of the saints, practice hospitality. Rom 12:14 Bless those who persecute you; bless and do not curse them. Rom 12:15 Rejoice with those who rejoice, weep with those who weep. Rom 12:16 Live in harmony with one another; do not be haughty, but associate with Rom 12:16 the lowly; never be conceited. Rom 12:17 Repay no one evil for evil, but take thought for what is noble in the Rom 12:17 sight of all. Rom 12:18 If possible, so far as it depends upon you, live peaceably with all. Rom 12:19 Beloved, never avenge yourselves, but leave it to the wrath of God; for Rom 12:19 it is written, "Vengeance is mine, I will repay, says the Lord." Rom 12:20 No, "if your enemy is hungry, feed him; if he is thirsty, give him Rom 12:20 drink; for by so doing you will heap burning coals upon his head." Rom 12:21 Do not be overcome by evil, but overcome evil with good. Rom 13: 1 Let every person be subject to the governing authorities. For there Rom 13: 1 is no authority except from God, and those that exist have been Rom 13: 1 instituted by God. Rom 13: 2 Therefore he who resists the authorities resists what God has Rom 13: 2 appointed, and those who resist will incur judgment. Rom 13: 3 For rulers are not a terror to good conduct, but to bad. Would you have Rom 13: 3 no fear of him who is in authority? Then do what is good, and you will Rom 13: 3 receive his approval, Rom 13: 4 for he is God's servant for your good. But if you do wrong, be afraid, Rom 13: 4 for he does not bear the sword in vain; he is the servant of God to Rom 13: 4 execute his wrath on the wrongdoer. Rom 13: 5 Therefore one must be subject, not only to avoid God's wrath but also Rom 13: 5 for the sake of conscience. Rom 13: 6 For the same reason you also pay taxes, for the authorities are Rom 13: 6 ministers of God, attending to this very thing. Rom 13: 7 Pay all of them their dues, taxes to whom taxes are due, revenue to Rom 13: 7 whom revenue is due, respect to whom respect is due, honor to whom Rom 13: 7 honor is due. Rom 13: 8 Owe no one anything, except to love one another; for he who loves his Rom 13: 8 neighbor has fulfilled the law. Rom 13: 9 The commandments, "You shall not commit adultery, You shall not kill, Rom 13: 9 You shall not steal, You shall not covet," and any other commandment, Rom 13: 9 are summed up in this sentence, "You shall love your neighbor as Rom 13: 9 yourself." Rom 13:10 Love does no wrong to a neighbor; therefore love is the fulfilling of Rom 13:10 the law. Rom 13:11 Besides this you know what hour it is, how it is full time now for Rom 13:11 you to wake from sleep. For salvation is nearer to us now than when we Rom 13:11 first believed; Rom 13:12 the night is far gone, the day is at hand. Let us then cast off the Rom 13:12 works of darkness and put on the armor of light; Rom 13:13 let us conduct ourselves becomingly as in the day, not in reveling and Rom 13:13 drunkenness, not in debauchery and licentiousness, not in quarreling Rom 13:13 and jealousy. Rom 13:14 But put on the Lord Jesus Christ, and make no provision for the flesh, Rom 13:14 to gratify its desires. Rom 14: 1 As for the man who is weak in faith, welcome him, but not for Rom 14: 1 disputes over opinions. Rom 14: 2 One believes he may eat anything, while the weak man eats only Rom 14: 2 vegetables. Rom 14: 3 Let not him who eats despise him who abstains, and let not him who Rom 14: 3 abstains pass judgment on him who eats; for God has welcomed him. Rom 14: 4 Who are you to pass judgment on the servant of another? It is before Rom 14: 4 his own master that he stands or falls. And he will be upheld, for the Rom 14: 4 Master is able to make him stand. Rom 14: 5 One man esteems one day as better than another, while another man Rom 14: 5 esteems all days alike. Let every one be fully convinced in his own Rom 14: 5 mind. Rom 14: 6 He who observes the day, observes it in honor of the Lord. He also who Rom 14: 6 eats, eats in honor of the Lord, since he gives thanks to God; while he Rom 14: 6 who abstains, abstains in honor of the Lord and gives thanks to God. Rom 14: 7 None of us lives to himself, and none of us dies to himself. Rom 14: 8 If we live, we live to the Lord, and if we die, we die to the Lord; so Rom 14: 8 then, whether we live or whether we die, we are the Lord's. Rom 14: 9 For to this end Christ died and lived again, that he might be Lord both Rom 14: 9 of the dead and of the living. Rom 14:10 Why do you pass judgment on your brother? Or you, why do you despise Rom 14:10 your brother? For we shall all stand before the judgment seat of God; Rom 14:11 for it is written, Rom 14:11 "As I live, says the Lord, every knee shall bow to me, Rom 14:11 and every tongue shall give praise to God." Rom 14:12 So each of us shall give account of himself to God. Rom 14:13 Then let us no more pass judgment on one another, but rather decide Rom 14:13 never to put a stumbling block or hindrance in the way of a brother. Rom 14:14 I know and am persuaded in the Lord Jesus that nothing is unclean in Rom 14:14 itself; but it is unclean for any one who thinks it unclean. Rom 14:15 If your brother is being injured by what you eat, you are no longer Rom 14:15 walking in love. Do not let what you eat cause the ruin of one for whom Rom 14:15 Christ died. Rom 14:16 So do not let your good be spoken of as evil. Rom 14:17 For the kingdom of God is not food and drink but righteousness and Rom 14:17 peace and joy in the Holy Spirit; Rom 14:18 he who thus serves Christ is acceptable to God and approved by men. Rom 14:19 Let us then pursue what makes for peace and for mutual upbuilding. Rom 14:20 Do not, for the sake of food, destroy the work of God. Everything is Rom 14:20 indeed clean, but it is wrong for any one to make others fall by what Rom 14:20 he eats; Rom 14:21 it is right not to eat meat or drink wine or do anything that makes Rom 14:21 your brother stumble. Rom 14:22 The faith that you have, keep between yourself and God; happy is he who Rom 14:22 has no reason to judge himself for what he approves. Rom 14:23 But he who has doubts is condemned, if he eats, because he does not act Rom 14:23 from faith; for whatever does not proceed from faith is sin. Rom 15: 1 We who are strong ought to bear with the failings of the weak, and Rom 15: 1 not to please ourselves; Rom 15: 2 let each of us please his neighbor for his good, to edify him. Rom 15: 3 For Christ did not please himself; but, as it is written, "The Rom 15: 3 reproaches of those who reproached thee fell on me." Rom 15: 4 For whatever was written in former days was written for our Rom 15: 4 instruction, that by steadfastness and by the encouragement of the Rom 15: 4 scriptures we might have hope. Rom 15: 5 May the God of steadfastness and encouragement grant you to live in Rom 15: 5 such harmony with one another, in accord with Christ Jesus, Rom 15: 6 that together you may with one voice glorify the God and Father of our Rom 15: 6 Lord Jesus Christ. Rom 15: 7 Welcome one another, therefore, as Christ has welcomed you, for the Rom 15: 7 glory of God. Rom 15: 8 For I tell you that Christ became a servant to the circumcised to show Rom 15: 8 God's truthfulness, in order to confirm the promises given to the Rom 15: 8 patriarchs, Rom 15: 9 and in order that the Gentiles might glorify God for his mercy. As Rom 15: 9 it is written, Rom 15: 9 "Therefore I will praise thee among the Gentiles, Rom 15: 9 and sing to thy name"; Rom 15:10 and again it is said, Rom 15:10 "Rejoice, O Gentiles, with his people"; Rom 15:11 and again, Rom 15:11 "Praise the Lord, all Gentiles, Rom 15:11 and let all the peoples praise him"; Rom 15:12 and further Isaiah says, Rom 15:12 "The root of Jesse shall come, Rom 15:12 he who rises to rule the Gentiles; Rom 15:12 in him shall the Gentiles hope." Rom 15:13 May the God of hope fill you with all joy and peace in believing, so Rom 15:13 that by the power of the Holy Spirit you may abound in hope. Rom 15:14 I myself am satisfied about you, my brethren, that you yourselves are Rom 15:14 full of goodness, filled with all knowledge, and able to instruct one Rom 15:14 another. Rom 15:15 But on some points I have written to you very boldly by way of Rom 15:15 reminder, because of the grace given me by God Rom 15:16 to be a minister of Christ Jesus to the Gentiles in the priestly Rom 15:16 service of the gospel of God, so that the offering of the Gentiles may Rom 15:16 be acceptable, sanctified by the Holy Spirit. Rom 15:17 In Christ Jesus, then, I have reason to be proud of my work for God. Rom 15:18 For I will not venture to speak of anything except what Christ has Rom 15:18 wrought through me to win obedience from the Gentiles, by word and deed, Rom 15:19 by the power of signs and wonders, by the power of the Holy Spirit, so Rom 15:19 that from Jerusalem and as far round as Illyr'icum I have fully Rom 15:19 preached the gospel of Christ, Rom 15:20 thus making it my ambition to preach the gospel, not where Christ has Rom 15:20 already been named, lest I build on another man's foundation, Rom 15:21 but as it is written, Rom 15:21 "They shall see who have never been told of him, Rom 15:21 and they shall understand who have never heard of him." Rom 15:22 This is the reason why I have so often been hindered from coming to Rom 15:22 you. Rom 15:23 But now, since I no longer have any room for work in these regions, and Rom 15:23 since I have longed for many years to come to you, Rom 15:24 I hope to see you in passing as I go to Spain, and to be sped on my Rom 15:24 journey there by you, once I have enjoyed your company for a little. Rom 15:25 At present, however, I am going to Jerusalem with aid for the saints. Rom 15:26 For Macedo'nia and Acha'ia have been pleased to make some contribution Rom 15:26 for the poor among the saints at Jerusalem; Rom 15:27 they were pleased to do it, and indeed they are in debt to them, for if Rom 15:27 the Gentiles have come to share in their spiritual blessings, they Rom 15:27 ought also to be of service to them in material blessings. Rom 15:28 When therefore I have completed this, and have delivered to them what Rom 15:28 has been raised, I shall go on by way of you to Spain; Rom 15:29 and I know that when I come to you I shall come in the fulness of the Rom 15:29 blessing of Christ. Rom 15:30 I appeal to you, brethren, by our Lord Jesus Christ and by the love Rom 15:30 of the Spirit, to strive together with me in your prayers to God on my Rom 15:30 behalf, Rom 15:31 that I may be delivered from the unbelievers in Judea, and that my Rom 15:31 service for Jerusalem may be acceptable to the saints, Rom 15:32 so that by God's will I may come to you with joy and be refreshed in Rom 15:32 your company. Rom 15:33 The God of peace be with you all. Amen. Rom 16: 1 I commend to you our sister Phoebe, a deaconess of the church at Rom 16: 1 Cen'chre-ae, Rom 16: 2 that you may receive her in the Lord as befits the saints, and help her Rom 16: 2 in whatever she may require from you, for she has been a helper of many Rom 16: 2 and of myself as well. Rom 16: 3 Greet Prisca and Aq'uila, my fellow workers in Christ Jesus, Rom 16: 4 who risked their necks for my life, to whom not only I but also all the Rom 16: 4 churches of the Gentiles give thanks; Rom 16: 5 greet also the church in their house. Greet my beloved Epae'netus, who Rom 16: 5 was the first convert in Asia for Christ. Rom 16: 6 Greet Mary, who has worked hard among you. Rom 16: 7 Greet Androni'cus and Ju'nias, my kinsmen and my fellow prisoners; they Rom 16: 7 are men of note among the apostles, and they were in Christ before me. Rom 16: 8 Greet Amplia'tus, my beloved in the Lord. Rom 16: 9 Greet Urba'nus, our fellow worker in Christ, and my beloved Stachys. Rom 16:10 Greet Apel'les, who is approved in Christ. Greet those who belong to Rom 16:10 the family of Aristobu'lus. Rom 16:11 Greet my kinsman Hero'dion. Greet those in the Lord who belong to the Rom 16:11 family of Narcis'sus. Rom 16:12 Greet those workers in the Lord, Tryphae'na and Trypho'sa. Greet the Rom 16:12 beloved Persis, who has worked hard in the Lord. Rom 16:13 Greet Rufus, eminent in the Lord, also his mother and mine. Rom 16:14 Greet Asyn'critus, Phlegon, Hermes, Pat'robas, Hermas, and the brethren Rom 16:14 who are with them. Rom 16:15 Greet Philol'ogus, Julia, Nereus and his sister, and Olym'pas, and all Rom 16:15 the saints who are with them. Rom 16:16 Greet one another with a holy kiss. All the churches of Christ greet Rom 16:16 you. Rom 16:17 I appeal to you, brethren, to take note of those who create Rom 16:17 dissensions and difficulties, in opposition to the doctrine which you Rom 16:17 have been taught; avoid them. Rom 16:18 For such persons do not serve our Lord Christ, but their own appetites, Rom 16:18 and by fair and flattering words they deceive the hearts of the Rom 16:18 simple-minded. Rom 16:19 For while your obedience is known to all, so that I rejoice over you, I Rom 16:19 would have you wise as to what is good and guileless as to what is evil; Rom 16:20 then the God of peace will soon crush Satan under your feet. The grace Rom 16:20 of our Lord Jesus Christ be with you. Rom 16:21 Timothy, my fellow worker, greets you; so do Lucius and Jason and Rom 16:21 Sosip'ater, my kinsmen. Rom 16:22 I Tertius, the writer of this letter, greet you in the Lord. Rom 16:23 Ga'ius, who is host to me and to the whole church, greets you. Rom 16:23 Eras'tus, the city treasurer, and our brother Quartus, greet you. Rom 16:25 Now to him who is able to strengthen you according to my gospel and Rom 16:25 the preaching of Jesus Christ, according to the revelation of the Rom 16:25 mystery which was kept secret for long ages Rom 16:26 but is now disclosed and through the prophetic writings is made known Rom 16:26 to all nations, according to the command of the eternal God, to bring Rom 16:26 about the obedience of faith -- Rom 16:27 to the only wise God be glory for evermore through Jesus Christ! Amen. 1Cor 1: 1 Paul, called by the will of God to be an apostle of Christ Jesus, and 1Cor 1: 1 our brother Sos'thenes, 1Cor 1: 2 To the church of God which is at Corinth, to those sanctified in 1Cor 1: 2 Christ Jesus, called to be saints together with all those who in every 1Cor 1: 2 place call on the name of our Lord Jesus Christ, both their Lord and 1Cor 1: 2 ours: 1Cor 1: 3 Grace to you and peace from God our Father and the Lord Jesus Christ. 1Cor 1: 4 I give thanks to God always for you because of the grace of God which 1Cor 1: 4 was given you in Christ Jesus, 1Cor 1: 5 that in every way you were enriched in him with all speech and all 1Cor 1: 5 knowledge -- 1Cor 1: 6 even as the testimony to Christ was confirmed among you -- 1Cor 1: 7 so that you are not lacking in any spiritual gift, as you wait for the 1Cor 1: 7 revealing of our Lord Jesus Christ; 1Cor 1: 8 who will sustain you to the end, guiltless in the day of our Lord Jesus 1Cor 1: 8 Christ. 1Cor 1: 9 God is faithful, by whom you were called into the fellowship of his 1Cor 1: 9 Son, Jesus Christ our Lord. 1Cor 1:10 I appeal to you, brethren, by the name of our Lord Jesus Christ, that 1Cor 1:10 all of you agree and that there be no dissensions among you, but that 1Cor 1:10 you be united in the same mind and the same judgment. 1Cor 1:11 For it has been reported to me by Chlo'e's people that there is 1Cor 1:11 quarreling among you, my brethren. 1Cor 1:12 What I mean is that each one of you says, "I belong to Paul," or "I 1Cor 1:12 belong to Apol'los," or "I belong to Cephas," or "I belong to Christ." 1Cor 1:13 Is Christ divided? Was Paul crucified for you? Or were you baptized in 1Cor 1:13 the name of Paul? 1Cor 1:14 I am thankful that I baptized none of you except Crispus and Ga'ius; 1Cor 1:15 lest any one should say that you were baptized in my name. 1Cor 1:16 (I did baptize also the household of Steph'anas. Beyond that, I do not 1Cor 1:16 know whether I baptized any one else.) 1Cor 1:17 For Christ did not send me to baptize but to preach the gospel, and not 1Cor 1:17 with eloquent wisdom, lest the cross of Christ be emptied of its power. 1Cor 1:18 For the word of the cross is folly to those who are perishing, but to 1Cor 1:18 us who are being saved it is the power of God. 1Cor 1:19 For it is written, 1Cor 1:19 "I will destroy the wisdom of the wise, 1Cor 1:19 and the cleverness of the clever I will thwart." 1Cor 1:20 Where is the wise man? Where is the scribe? Where is the debater of 1Cor 1:20 this age? Has not God made foolish the wisdom of the world? 1Cor 1:21 For since, in the wisdom of God, the world did not know God through 1Cor 1:21 wisdom, it pleased God through the folly of what we preach to save 1Cor 1:21 those who believe. 1Cor 1:22 For Jews demand signs and Greeks seek wisdom, 1Cor 1:23 but we preach Christ crucified, a stumbling block to Jews and folly to 1Cor 1:23 Gentiles, 1Cor 1:24 but to those who are called, both Jews and Greeks, Christ the power of 1Cor 1:24 God and the wisdom of God. 1Cor 1:25 For the foolishness of God is wiser than men, and the weakness of God 1Cor 1:25 is stronger than men. 1Cor 1:26 For consider your call, brethren; not many of you were wise according 1Cor 1:26 to worldly standards, not many were powerful, not many were of noble 1Cor 1:26 birth; 1Cor 1:27 but God chose what is foolish in the world to shame the wise, God chose 1Cor 1:27 what is weak in the world to shame the strong, 1Cor 1:28 God chose what is low and despised in the world, even things that are 1Cor 1:28 not, to bring to nothing things that are, 1Cor 1:29 so that no human being might boast in the presence of God. 1Cor 1:30 He is the source of your life in Christ Jesus, whom God made our 1Cor 1:30 wisdom, our righteousness and sanctification and redemption; 1Cor 1:31 therefore, as it is written, "Let him who boasts, boast of the Lord." 1Cor 2: 1 When I came to you, brethren, I did not come proclaiming to you the 1Cor 2: 1 testimony of God in lofty words or wisdom. 1Cor 2: 2 For I decided to know nothing among you except Jesus Christ and him 1Cor 2: 2 crucified. 1Cor 2: 3 And I was with you in weakness and in much fear and trembling; 1Cor 2: 4 and my speech and my message were not in plausible words of wisdom, but 1Cor 2: 4 in demonstration of the Spirit and of power, 1Cor 2: 5 that your faith might not rest in the wisdom of men but in the power of 1Cor 2: 5 God. 1Cor 2: 6 Yet among the mature we do impart wisdom, although it is not a wisdom 1Cor 2: 6 of this age or of the rulers of this age, who are doomed to pass away. 1Cor 2: 7 But we impart a secret and hidden wisdom of God, which God decreed 1Cor 2: 7 before the ages for our glorification. 1Cor 2: 8 None of the rulers of this age understood this; for if they had, they 1Cor 2: 8 would not have crucified the Lord of glory. 1Cor 2: 9 But, as it is written, 1Cor 2: 9 "What no eye has seen, nor ear heard, 1Cor 2: 9 nor the heart of man conceived, 1Cor 2: 9 what God has prepared for those who love him," 1Cor 2:10 God has revealed to us through the Spirit. For the Spirit searches 1Cor 2:10 everything, even the depths of God. 1Cor 2:11 For what person knows a man's thoughts except the spirit of the man 1Cor 2:11 which is in him? So also no one comprehends the thoughts of God except 1Cor 2:11 the Spirit of God. 1Cor 2:12 Now we have received not the spirit of the world, but the Spirit which 1Cor 2:12 is from God, that we might understand the gifts bestowed on us by God. 1Cor 2:13 And we impart this in words not taught by human wisdom but taught by 1Cor 2:13 the Spirit, interpreting spiritual truths to those who possess the 1Cor 2:13 Spirit. 1Cor 2:14 The unspiritual man does not receive the gifts of the Spirit of God, 1Cor 2:14 for they are folly to him, and he is not able to understand them 1Cor 2:14 because they are spiritually discerned. 1Cor 2:15 The spiritual man judges all things, but is himself to be judged by no 1Cor 2:15 one. 1Cor 2:16 "For who has known the mind of the Lord so as to instruct him?" But we 1Cor 2:16 have the mind of Christ. 1Cor 3: 1 But I, brethren, could not address you as spiritual men, but as men 1Cor 3: 1 of the flesh, as babes in Christ. 1Cor 3: 2 I fed you with milk, not solid food; for you were not ready for it; and 1Cor 3: 2 even yet you are not ready, 1Cor 3: 3 for you are still of the flesh. For while there is jealousy and strife 1Cor 3: 3 among you, are you not of the flesh, and behaving like ordinary men? 1Cor 3: 4 For when one says, "I belong to Paul," and another, "I belong to 1Cor 3: 4 Apol'los," are you not merely men? 1Cor 3: 5 What then is Apol'los? What is Paul? Servants through whom you 1Cor 3: 5 believed, as the Lord assigned to each. 1Cor 3: 6 I planted, Apol'los watered, but God gave the growth. 1Cor 3: 7 So neither he who plants nor he who waters is anything, but only God 1Cor 3: 7 who gives the growth. 1Cor 3: 8 He who plants and he who waters are equal, and each shall receive his 1Cor 3: 8 wages according to his labor. 1Cor 3: 9 For we are God's fellow workers; you are God's field, God's building. 1Cor 3:10 According to the grace of God given to me, like a skilled master 1Cor 3:10 builder I laid a foundation, and another man is building upon it. Let 1Cor 3:10 each man take care how he builds upon it. 1Cor 3:11 For no other foundation can any one lay than that which is laid, which 1Cor 3:11 is Jesus Christ. 1Cor 3:12 Now if any one builds on the foundation with gold, silver, precious 1Cor 3:12 stones, wood, hay, straw -- 1Cor 3:13 each man's work will become manifest; for the Day will disclose it, 1Cor 3:13 because it will be revealed with fire, and the fire will test what sort 1Cor 3:13 of work each one has done. 1Cor 3:14 If the work which any man has built on the foundation survives, he will 1Cor 3:14 receive a reward. 1Cor 3:15 If any man's work is burned up, he will suffer loss, though he himself 1Cor 3:15 will be saved, but only as through fire. 1Cor 3:16 Do you not know that you are God's temple and that God's Spirit 1Cor 3:16 dwells in you? 1Cor 3:17 If any one destroys God's temple, God will destroy him. For God's 1Cor 3:17 temple is holy, and that temple you are. 1Cor 3:18 Let no one deceive himself. If any one among you thinks that he is 1Cor 3:18 wise in this age, let him become a fool that he may become wise. 1Cor 3:19 For the wisdom of this world is folly with God. For it is written, "He 1Cor 3:19 catches the wise in their craftiness," 1Cor 3:20 and again, "The Lord knows that the thoughts of the wise are futile." 1Cor 3:21 So let no one boast of men. For all things are yours, 1Cor 3:22 whether Paul or Apol'los or Cephas or the world or life or death or the 1Cor 3:22 present or the future, all are yours; 1Cor 3:23 and you are Christ's; and Christ is God's. 1Cor 4: 1 This is how one should regard us, as servants of Christ and stewards 1Cor 4: 1 of the mysteries of God. 1Cor 4: 2 Moreover it is required of stewards that they be found trustworthy. 1Cor 4: 3 But with me it is a very small thing that I should be judged by you or 1Cor 4: 3 by any human court. I do not even judge myself. 1Cor 4: 4 I am not aware of anything against myself, but I am not thereby 1Cor 4: 4 acquitted. It is the Lord who judges me. 1Cor 4: 5 Therefore do not pronounce judgment before the time, before the Lord 1Cor 4: 5 comes, who will bring to light the things now hidden in darkness and 1Cor 4: 5 will disclose the purposes of the heart. Then every man will receive 1Cor 4: 5 his commendation from God. 1Cor 4: 6 I have applied all this to myself and Apol'los for your benefit, 1Cor 4: 6 brethren, that you may learn by us not to go beyond what is written, 1Cor 4: 6 that none of you may be puffed up in favor of one against another. 1Cor 4: 7 For who sees anything different in you? What have you that you did not 1Cor 4: 7 receive? If then you received it, why do you boast as if it were not a 1Cor 4: 7 gift? 1Cor 4: 8 Already you are filled! Already you have become rich! Without us you 1Cor 4: 8 have become kings! And would that you did reign, so that we might share 1Cor 4: 8 the rule with you! 1Cor 4: 9 For I think that God has exhibited us apostles as last of all, like men 1Cor 4: 9 sentenced to death; because we have become a spectacle to the world, to 1Cor 4: 9 angels and to men. 1Cor 4:10 We are fools for Christ's sake, but you are wise in Christ. We are 1Cor 4:10 weak, but you are strong. You are held in honor, but we in disrepute. 1Cor 4:11 To the present hour we hunger and thirst, we are ill-clad and buffeted 1Cor 4:11 and homeless, 1Cor 4:12 and we labor, working with our own hands. When reviled, we bless; when 1Cor 4:12 persecuted, we endure; 1Cor 4:13 when slandered, we try to conciliate; we have become, and are now, as 1Cor 4:13 the refuse of the world, the offscouring of all things. 1Cor 4:14 I do not write this to make you ashamed, but to admonish you as my 1Cor 4:14 beloved children. 1Cor 4:15 For though you have countless guides in Christ, you do not have many 1Cor 4:15 fathers. For I became your father in Christ Jesus through the gospel. 1Cor 4:16 I urge you, then, be imitators of me. 1Cor 4:17 Therefore I sent to you Timothy, my beloved and faithful child in the 1Cor 4:17 Lord, to remind you of my ways in Christ, as I teach them everywhere in 1Cor 4:17 every church. 1Cor 4:18 Some are arrogant, as though I were not coming to you. 1Cor 4:19 But I will come to you soon, if the Lord wills, and I will find out not 1Cor 4:19 the talk of these arrogant people but their power. 1Cor 4:20 For the kingdom of God does not consist in talk but in power. 1Cor 4:21 What do you wish? Shall I come to you with a rod, or with love in a 1Cor 4:21 spirit of gentleness? 1Cor 5: 1 It is actually reported that there is immorality among you, and of a 1Cor 5: 1 kind that is not found even among pagans; for a man is living with his 1Cor 5: 1 father's wife. 1Cor 5: 2 And you are arrogant! Ought you not rather to mourn? Let him who has 1Cor 5: 2 done this be removed from among you. 1Cor 5: 3 For though absent in body I am present in spirit, and as if present, 1Cor 5: 3 I have already pronounced judgment 1Cor 5: 4 in the name of the Lord Jesus on the man who has done such a thing. 1Cor 5: 4 When you are assembled, and my spirit is present, with the power of our 1Cor 5: 4 Lord Jesus, 1Cor 5: 5 you are to deliver this man to Satan for the destruction of the flesh, 1Cor 5: 5 that his spirit may be saved in the day of the Lord Jesus. 1Cor 5: 6 Your boasting is not good. Do you not know that a little leaven 1Cor 5: 6 leavens the whole lump? 1Cor 5: 7 Cleanse out the old leaven that you may be a new lump, as you really 1Cor 5: 7 are unleavened. For Christ, our paschal lamb, has been sacrificed. 1Cor 5: 8 Let us, therefore, celebrate the festival, not with the old leaven, the 1Cor 5: 8 leaven of malice and evil, but with the unleavened bread of sincerity 1Cor 5: 8 and truth. 1Cor 5: 9 I wrote to you in my letter not to associate with immoral men; 1Cor 5:10 not at all meaning the immoral of this world, or the greedy and 1Cor 5:10 robbers, or idolaters, since then you would need to go out of the world. 1Cor 5:11 But rather I wrote to you not to associate with any one who bears the 1Cor 5:11 name of brother if he is guilty of immorality or greed, or is an 1Cor 5:11 idolater, reviler, drunkard, or robber -- not even to eat with such a one. 1Cor 5:12 For what have I to do with judging outsiders? Is it not those inside 1Cor 5:12 the church whom you are to judge? 1Cor 5:13 God judges those outside. "Drive out the wicked person from among you." 1Cor 6: 1 When one of you has a grievance against a brother, does he dare go to 1Cor 6: 1 law before the unrighteous instead of the saints? 1Cor 6: 2 Do you not know that the saints will judge the world? And if the world 1Cor 6: 2 is to be judged by you, are you incompetent to try trivial cases? 1Cor 6: 3 Do you not know that we are to judge angels? How much more, matters 1Cor 6: 3 pertaining to this life! 1Cor 6: 4 If then you have such cases, why do you lay them before those who are 1Cor 6: 4 least esteemed by the church? 1Cor 6: 5 I say this to your shame. Can it be that there is no man among you wise 1Cor 6: 5 enough to decide between members of the brotherhood, 1Cor 6: 6 but brother goes to law against brother, and that before unbelievers? 1Cor 6: 7 To have lawsuits at all with one another is defeat for you. Why not 1Cor 6: 7 rather suffer wrong? Why not rather be defrauded? 1Cor 6: 8 But you yourselves wrong and defraud, and that even your own brethren. 1Cor 6: 9 Do you not know that the unrighteous will not inherit the kingdom of 1Cor 6: 9 God? Do not be deceived; neither the immoral, nor idolaters, nor 1Cor 6: 9 adulterers, nor sexual perverts, 1Cor 6:10 nor thieves, nor the greedy, nor drunkards, nor revilers, nor robbers 1Cor 6:10 will inherit the kingdom of God. 1Cor 6:11 And such were some of you. But you were washed, you were sanctified, 1Cor 6:11 you were justified in the name of the Lord Jesus Christ and in the 1Cor 6:11 Spirit of our God. 1Cor 6:12 "All things are lawful for me," but not all things are helpful. "All 1Cor 6:12 things are lawful for me," but I will not be enslaved by anything. 1Cor 6:13 "Food is meant for the stomach and the stomach for food" -- and God will 1Cor 6:13 destroy both one and the other. The body is not meant for immorality, 1Cor 6:13 but for the Lord, and the Lord for the body. 1Cor 6:14 And God raised the Lord and will also raise us up by his power. 1Cor 6:15 Do you not know that your bodies are members of Christ? Shall I 1Cor 6:15 therefore take the members of Christ and make them members of a 1Cor 6:15 prostitute? Never! 1Cor 6:16 Do you not know that he who joins himself to a prostitute becomes one 1Cor 6:16 body with her? For, as it is written, "The two shall become one flesh." 1Cor 6:17 But he who is united to the Lord becomes one spirit with him. 1Cor 6:18 Shun immorality. Every other sin which a man commits is outside the 1Cor 6:18 body; but the immoral man sins against his own body. 1Cor 6:19 Do you not know that your body is a temple of the Holy Spirit within 1Cor 6:19 you, which you have from God? You are not your own; 1Cor 6:20 you were bought with a price. So glorify God in your body. 1Cor 7: 1 Now concerning the matters about which you wrote. It is well for a 1Cor 7: 1 man not to touch a woman. 1Cor 7: 2 But because of the temptation to immorality, each man should have his 1Cor 7: 2 own wife and each woman her own husband. 1Cor 7: 3 The husband should give to his wife her conjugal rights, and likewise 1Cor 7: 3 the wife to her husband. 1Cor 7: 4 For the wife does not rule over her own body, but the husband does; 1Cor 7: 4 likewise the husband does not rule over his own body, but the wife does. 1Cor 7: 5 Do not refuse one another except perhaps by agreement for a season, 1Cor 7: 5 that you may devote yourselves to prayer; but then come together again, 1Cor 7: 5 lest Satan tempt you through lack of self-control. 1Cor 7: 6 I say this by way of concession, not of command. 1Cor 7: 7 I wish that all were as I myself am. But each has his own special gift 1Cor 7: 7 from God, one of one kind and one of another. 1Cor 7: 8 To the unmarried and the widows I say that it is well for them to 1Cor 7: 8 remain single as I do. 1Cor 7: 9 But if they cannot exercise self-control, they should marry. For it is 1Cor 7: 9 better to marry than to be aflame with passion. 1Cor 7:10 To the married I give charge, not I but the Lord, that the wife 1Cor 7:10 should not separate from her husband 1Cor 7:11 (but if she does, let her remain single or else be reconciled to her 1Cor 7:11 husband) -- and that the husband should not divorce his wife. 1Cor 7:12 To the rest I say, not the Lord, that if any brother has a wife who 1Cor 7:12 is an unbeliever, and she consents to live with him, he should not 1Cor 7:12 divorce her. 1Cor 7:13 If any woman has a husband who is an unbeliever, and he consents to 1Cor 7:13 live with her, she should not divorce him. 1Cor 7:14 For the unbelieving husband is consecrated through his wife, and the 1Cor 7:14 unbelieving wife is consecrated through her husband. Otherwise, your 1Cor 7:14 children would be unclean, but as it is they are holy. 1Cor 7:15 But if the unbelieving partner desires to separate, let it be so; in 1Cor 7:15 such a case the brother or sister is not bound. For God has called us 1Cor 7:15 to peace. 1Cor 7:16 Wife, how do you know whether you will save your husband? Husband, how 1Cor 7:16 do you know whether you will save your wife? 1Cor 7:17 Only, let every one lead the life which the Lord has assigned to him, 1Cor 7:17 and in which God has called him. This is my rule in all the churches. 1Cor 7:18 Was any one at the time of his call already circumcised? Let him not 1Cor 7:18 seek to remove the marks of circumcision. Was any one at the time of 1Cor 7:18 his call uncircumcised? Let him not seek circumcision. 1Cor 7:19 For neither circumcision counts for anything nor uncircumcision, but 1Cor 7:19 keeping the commandments of God. 1Cor 7:20 Every one should remain in the state in which he was called. 1Cor 7:21 Were you a slave when called? Never mind. But if you can gain your 1Cor 7:21 freedom, avail yourself of the opportunity. 1Cor 7:22 For he who was called in the Lord as a slave is a freedman of the Lord. 1Cor 7:22 Likewise he who was free when called is a slave of Christ. 1Cor 7:23 You were bought with a price; do not become slaves of men. 1Cor 7:24 So, brethren, in whatever state each was called, there let him remain 1Cor 7:24 with God. 1Cor 7:25 Now concerning the unmarried, I have no command of the Lord, but I 1Cor 7:25 give my opinion as one who by the Lord's mercy is trustworthy. 1Cor 7:26 I think that in view of the present distress it is well for a person to 1Cor 7:26 remain as he is. 1Cor 7:27 Are you bound to a wife? Do not seek to be free. Are you free from a 1Cor 7:27 wife? Do not seek marriage. 1Cor 7:28 But if you marry, you do not sin, and if a girl marries she does not 1Cor 7:28 sin. Yet those who marry will have worldly troubles, and I would spare 1Cor 7:28 you that. 1Cor 7:29 I mean, brethren, the appointed time has grown very short; from now on, 1Cor 7:29 let those who have wives live as though they had none, 1Cor 7:30 and those who mourn as though they were not mourning, and those who 1Cor 7:30 rejoice as though they were not rejoicing, and those who buy as though 1Cor 7:30 they had no goods, 1Cor 7:31 and those who deal with the world as though they had no dealings with 1Cor 7:31 it. For the form of this world is passing away. 1Cor 7:32 I want you to be free from anxieties. The unmarried man is anxious 1Cor 7:32 about the affairs of the Lord, how to please the Lord; 1Cor 7:33 but the married man is anxious about worldly affairs, how to please his 1Cor 7:33 wife, 1Cor 7:34 and his interests are divided. And the unmarried woman or girl is 1Cor 7:34 anxious about the affairs of the Lord, how to be holy in body and 1Cor 7:34 spirit; but the married woman is anxious about worldly affairs, how to 1Cor 7:34 please her husband. 1Cor 7:35 I say this for your own benefit, not to lay any restraint upon you, but 1Cor 7:35 to promote good order and to secure your undivided devotion to the Lord. 1Cor 7:36 If any one thinks that he is not behaving properly toward his 1Cor 7:36 betrothed, if his passions are strong, and it has to be, let him do as 1Cor 7:36 he wishes: let them marry -- it is no sin. 1Cor 7:37 But whoever is firmly established in his heart, being under no 1Cor 7:37 necessity but having his desire under control, and has determined this 1Cor 7:37 in his heart, to keep her as his betrothed, he will do well. 1Cor 7:38 So that he who marries his betrothed does well; and he who refrains 1Cor 7:38 from marriage will do better. 1Cor 7:39 A wife is bound to her husband as long as he lives. If the husband 1Cor 7:39 dies, she is free to be married to whom she wishes, only in the Lord. 1Cor 7:40 But in my judgment she is happier if she remains as she is. And I think 1Cor 7:40 that I have the Spirit of God. 1Cor 8: 1 Now concerning food offered to idols: we know that "all of us possess 1Cor 8: 1 knowledge." "Knowledge" puffs up, but love builds up. 1Cor 8: 2 If any one imagines that he knows something, he does not yet know as he 1Cor 8: 2 ought to know. 1Cor 8: 3 But if one loves God, one is known by him. 1Cor 8: 4 Hence, as to the eating of food offered to idols, we know that "an 1Cor 8: 4 idol has no real existence," and that "there is no God but one." 1Cor 8: 5 For although there may be so-called gods in heaven or on earth -- as 1Cor 8: 5 indeed there are many "gods" and many "lords" -- 1Cor 8: 6 yet for us there is one God, the Father, from whom are all things and 1Cor 8: 6 for whom we exist, and one Lord, Jesus Christ, through whom are all 1Cor 8: 6 things and through whom we exist. 1Cor 8: 7 However, not all possess this knowledge. But some, through being 1Cor 8: 7 hitherto accustomed to idols, eat food as really offered to an idol; 1Cor 8: 7 and their conscience, being weak, is defiled. 1Cor 8: 8 Food will not commend us to God. We are no worse off if we do not eat, 1Cor 8: 8 and no better off if we do. 1Cor 8: 9 Only take care lest this liberty of yours somehow become a stumbling 1Cor 8: 9 block to the weak. 1Cor 8:10 For if any one sees you, a man of knowledge, at table in an idol's 1Cor 8:10 temple, might he not be encouraged, if his conscience is weak, to eat 1Cor 8:10 food offered to idols? 1Cor 8:11 And so by your knowledge this weak man is destroyed, the brother for 1Cor 8:11 whom Christ died. 1Cor 8:12 Thus, sinning against your brethren and wounding their conscience when 1Cor 8:12 it is weak, you sin against Christ. 1Cor 8:13 Therefore, if food is a cause of my brother's falling, I will never eat 1Cor 8:13 meat, lest I cause my brother to fall. 1Cor 9: 1 Am I not free? Am I not an apostle? Have I not seen Jesus our Lord? 1Cor 9: 1 Are not you my workmanship in the Lord? 1Cor 9: 2 If to others I am not an apostle, at least I am to you; for you are the 1Cor 9: 2 seal of my apostleship in the Lord. 1Cor 9: 3 This is my defense to those who would examine me. 1Cor 9: 4 Do we not have the right to our food and drink? 1Cor 9: 5 Do we not have the right to be accompanied by a wife, as the other 1Cor 9: 5 apostles and the brothers of the Lord and Cephas? 1Cor 9: 6 Or is it only Barnabas and I who have no right to refrain from working 1Cor 9: 6 for a living? 1Cor 9: 7 Who serves as a soldier at his own expense? Who plants a vineyard 1Cor 9: 7 without eating any of its fruit? Who tends a flock without getting some 1Cor 9: 7 of the milk? 1Cor 9: 8 Do I say this on human authority? Does not the law say the same? 1Cor 9: 9 For it is written in the law of Moses, "You shall not muzzle an ox when 1Cor 9: 9 it is treading out the grain." Is it for oxen that God is concerned? 1Cor 9:10 Does he not speak entirely for our sake? It was written for our sake, 1Cor 9:10 because the plowman should plow in hope and the thresher thresh in hope 1Cor 9:10 of a share in the crop. 1Cor 9:11 If we have sown spiritual good among you, is it too much if we reap 1Cor 9:11 your material benefits? 1Cor 9:12 If others share this rightful claim upon you, do not we still more? 1Cor 9:12 Nevertheless, we have not made use of this right, but we endure 1Cor 9:12 anything rather than put an obstacle in the way of the gospel of Christ. 1Cor 9:13 Do you not know that those who are employed in the temple service get 1Cor 9:13 their food from the temple, and those who serve at the altar share in 1Cor 9:13 the sacrificial offerings? 1Cor 9:14 In the same way, the Lord commanded that those who proclaim the gospel 1Cor 9:14 should get their living by the gospel. 1Cor 9:15 But I have made no use of any of these rights, nor am I writing this 1Cor 9:15 to secure any such provision. For I would rather die than have any one 1Cor 9:15 deprive me of my ground for boasting. 1Cor 9:16 For if I preach the gospel, that gives me no ground for boasting. For 1Cor 9:16 necessity is laid upon me. Woe to me if I do not preach the gospel! 1Cor 9:17 For if I do this of my own will, I have a reward; but if not of my own 1Cor 9:17 will, I am entrusted with a commission. 1Cor 9:18 What then is my reward? Just this: that in my preaching I may make the 1Cor 9:18 gospel free of charge, not making full use of my right in the gospel. 1Cor 9:19 For though I am free from all men, I have made myself a slave to all, 1Cor 9:19 that I might win the more. 1Cor 9:20 To the Jews I became as a Jew, in order to win Jews; to those under the 1Cor 9:20 law I became as one under the law -- though not being myself under the 1Cor 9:20 law -- that I might win those under the law. 1Cor 9:21 To those outside the law I became as one outside the law -- not being 1Cor 9:21 without law toward God but under the law of Christ -- that I might win 1Cor 9:21 those outside the law. 1Cor 9:22 To the weak I became weak, that I might win the weak. I have become all 1Cor 9:22 things to all men, that I might by all means save some. 1Cor 9:23 I do it all for the sake of the gospel, that I may share in its 1Cor 9:23 blessings. 1Cor 9:24 Do you not know that in a race all the runners compete, but only one 1Cor 9:24 receives the prize? So run that you may obtain it. 1Cor 9:25 Every athlete exercises self-control in all things. They do it to 1Cor 9:25 receive a perishable wreath, but we an imperishable. 1Cor 9:26 Well, I do not run aimlessly, I do not box as one beating the air; 1Cor 9:27 but I pommel my body and subdue it, lest after preaching to others I 1Cor 9:27 myself should be disqualified. 1Cor 10: 1 I want you to know, brethren, that our fathers were all under the 1Cor 10: 1 cloud, and all passed through the sea, 1Cor 10: 2 and all were baptized into Moses in the cloud and in the sea, 1Cor 10: 3 and all ate the same supernatural food 1Cor 10: 4 and all drank the same supernatural drink. For they drank from the 1Cor 10: 4 supernatural Rock which followed them, and the Rock was Christ. 1Cor 10: 5 Nevertheless with most of them God was not pleased; for they were 1Cor 10: 5 overthrown in the wilderness. 1Cor 10: 6 Now these things are warnings for us, not to desire evil as they did. 1Cor 10: 7 Do not be idolaters as some of them were; as it is written, "The people 1Cor 10: 7 sat down to eat and drink and rose up to dance." 1Cor 10: 8 We must not indulge in immorality as some of them did, and twenty-three 1Cor 10: 8 thousand fell in a single day. 1Cor 10: 9 We must not put the Lord to the test, as some of them did and were 1Cor 10: 9 destroyed by serpents; 1Cor 10:10 nor grumble, as some of them did and were destroyed by the Destroyer. 1Cor 10:11 Now these things happened to them as a warning, but they were written 1Cor 10:11 down for our instruction, upon whom the end of the ages has come. 1Cor 10:12 Therefore let any one who thinks that he stands take heed lest he fall. 1Cor 10:13 No temptation has overtaken you that is not common to man. God is 1Cor 10:13 faithful, and he will not let you be tempted beyond your strength, but 1Cor 10:13 with the temptation will also provide the way of escape, that you may 1Cor 10:13 be able to endure it. 1Cor 10:14 Therefore, my beloved, shun the worship of idols. 1Cor 10:15 I speak as to sensible men; judge for yourselves what I say. 1Cor 10:16 The cup of blessing which we bless, is it not a participation in the 1Cor 10:16 blood of Christ? The bread which we break, is it not a participation in 1Cor 10:16 the body of Christ? 1Cor 10:17 Because there is one bread, we who are many are one body, for we all 1Cor 10:17 partake of the one bread. 1Cor 10:18 Consider the people of Israel; are not those who eat the sacrifices 1Cor 10:18 partners in the altar? 1Cor 10:19 What do I imply then? That food offered to idols is anything, or that 1Cor 10:19 an idol is anything? 1Cor 10:20 No, I imply that what pagans sacrifice they offer to demons and not to 1Cor 10:20 God. I do not want you to be partners with demons. 1Cor 10:21 You cannot drink the cup of the Lord and the cup of demons. You cannot 1Cor 10:21 partake of the table of the Lord and the table of demons. 1Cor 10:22 Shall we provoke the Lord to jealousy? Are we stronger than he? 1Cor 10:23 "All things are lawful," but not all things are helpful. "All things 1Cor 10:23 are lawful," but not all things build up. 1Cor 10:24 Let no one seek his own good, but the good of his neighbor. 1Cor 10:25 Eat whatever is sold in the meat market without raising any question on 1Cor 10:25 the ground of conscience. 1Cor 10:26 For "the earth is the Lord's, and everything in it." 1Cor 10:27 If one of the unbelievers invites you to dinner and you are disposed to 1Cor 10:27 go, eat whatever is set before you without raising any question on the 1Cor 10:27 ground of conscience. 1Cor 10:28 (But if some one says to you, "This has been offered in sacrifice," 1Cor 10:28 then out of consideration for the man who informed you, and for 1Cor 10:28 conscience' sake -- 1Cor 10:29 I mean his conscience, not yours -- do not eat it.) For why should my 1Cor 10:29 liberty be determined by another man's scruples? 1Cor 10:30 If I partake with thankfulness, why am I denounced because of that for 1Cor 10:30 which I give thanks? 1Cor 10:31 So, whether you eat or drink, or whatever you do, do all to the glory 1Cor 10:31 of God. 1Cor 10:32 Give no offense to Jews or to Greeks or to the church of God, 1Cor 10:33 just as I try to please all men in everything I do, not seeking my own 1Cor 10:33 advantage, but that of many, that they may be saved. 1Cor 11: 1 Be imitators of me, as I am of Christ. 1Cor 11: 2 I commend you because you remember me in everything and maintain the 1Cor 11: 2 traditions even as I have delivered them to you. 1Cor 11: 3 But I want you to understand that the head of every man is Christ, the 1Cor 11: 3 head of a woman is her husband, and the head of Christ is God. 1Cor 11: 4 Any man who prays or prophesies with his head covered dishonors his 1Cor 11: 4 head, 1Cor 11: 5 but any woman who prays or prophesies with her head unveiled dishonors 1Cor 11: 5 her head -- it is the same as if her head were shaven. 1Cor 11: 6 For if a woman will not veil herself, then she should cut off her hair; 1Cor 11: 6 but if it is disgraceful for a woman to be shorn or shaven, let her 1Cor 11: 6 wear a veil. 1Cor 11: 7 For a man ought not to cover his head, since he is the image and glory 1Cor 11: 7 of God; but woman is the glory of man. 1Cor 11: 8 (For man was not made from woman, but woman from man. 1Cor 11: 9 Neither was man created for woman, but woman for man.) 1Cor 11:10 That is why a woman ought to have a veil on her head, because of the 1Cor 11:10 angels. 1Cor 11:11 (Nevertheless, in the Lord woman is not independent of man nor man of 1Cor 11:11 woman; 1Cor 11:12 for as woman was made from man, so man is now born of woman. And all 1Cor 11:12 things are from God.) 1Cor 11:13 Judge for yourselves; is it proper for a woman to pray to God with her 1Cor 11:13 head uncovered? 1Cor 11:14 Does not nature itself teach you that for a man to wear long hair is 1Cor 11:14 degrading to him, 1Cor 11:15 but if a woman has long hair, it is her pride? For her hair is given to 1Cor 11:15 her for a covering. 1Cor 11:16 If any one is disposed to be contentious, we recognize no other 1Cor 11:16 practice, nor do the churches of God. 1Cor 11:17 But in the following instructions I do not commend you, because when 1Cor 11:17 you come together it is not for the better but for the worse. 1Cor 11:18 For, in the first place, when you assemble as a church, I hear that 1Cor 11:18 there are divisions among you; and I partly believe it, 1Cor 11:19 for there must be factions among you in order that those who are 1Cor 11:19 genuine among you may be recognized. 1Cor 11:20 When you meet together, it is not the Lord's supper that you eat. 1Cor 11:21 For in eating, each one goes ahead with his own meal, and one is hungry 1Cor 11:21 and another is drunk. 1Cor 11:22 What! Do you not have houses to eat and drink in? Or do you despise the 1Cor 11:22 church of God and humiliate those who have nothing? What shall I say to 1Cor 11:22 you? Shall I commend you in this? No, I will not. 1Cor 11:23 For I received from the Lord what I also delivered to you, that the 1Cor 11:23 Lord Jesus on the night when he was betrayed took bread, 1Cor 11:24 and when he had given thanks, he broke it, and said, "This is my body 1Cor 11:24 which is for you. Do this in remembrance of me." 1Cor 11:25 In the same way also the cup, after supper, saying, "This cup is the 1Cor 11:25 new covenant in my blood. Do this, as often as you drink it, in 1Cor 11:25 remembrance of me." 1Cor 11:26 For as often as you eat this bread and drink the cup, you proclaim the 1Cor 11:26 Lord's death until he comes. 1Cor 11:27 Whoever, therefore, eats the bread or drinks the cup of the Lord in 1Cor 11:27 an unworthy manner will be guilty of profaning the body and blood of 1Cor 11:27 the Lord. 1Cor 11:28 Let a man examine himself, and so eat of the bread and drink of the cup. 1Cor 11:29 For any one who eats and drinks without discerning the body eats and 1Cor 11:29 drinks judgment upon himself. 1Cor 11:30 That is why many of you are weak and ill, and some have died. 1Cor 11:31 But if we judged ourselves truly, we should not be judged. 1Cor 11:32 But when we are judged by the Lord, we are chastened so that we may not 1Cor 11:32 be condemned along with the world. 1Cor 11:33 So then, my brethren, when you come together to eat, wait for one 1Cor 11:33 another -- 1Cor 11:34 if any one is hungry, let him eat at home -- lest you come together to be 1Cor 11:34 condemned. About the other things I will give directions when I come. 1Cor 12: 1 Now concerning spiritual gifts, brethren, I do not want you to be 1Cor 12: 1 uninformed. 1Cor 12: 2 You know that when you were heathen, you were led astray to dumb idols, 1Cor 12: 2 however you may have been moved. 1Cor 12: 3 Therefore I want you to understand that no one speaking by the Spirit 1Cor 12: 3 of God ever says "Jesus be cursed!" and no one can say "Jesus is Lord" 1Cor 12: 3 except by the Holy Spirit. 1Cor 12: 4 Now there are varieties of gifts, but the same Spirit; 1Cor 12: 5 and there are varieties of service, but the same Lord; 1Cor 12: 6 and there are varieties of working, but it is the same God who inspires 1Cor 12: 6 them all in every one. 1Cor 12: 7 To each is given the manifestation of the Spirit for the common good. 1Cor 12: 8 To one is given through the Spirit the utterance of wisdom, and to 1Cor 12: 8 another the utterance of knowledge according to the same Spirit, 1Cor 12: 9 to another faith by the same Spirit, to another gifts of healing by the 1Cor 12: 9 one Spirit, 1Cor 12:10 to another the working of miracles, to another prophecy, to another the 1Cor 12:10 ability to distinguish between spirits, to another various kinds of 1Cor 12:10 tongues, to another the interpretation of tongues. 1Cor 12:11 All these are inspired by one and the same Spirit, who apportions to 1Cor 12:11 each one individually as he wills. 1Cor 12:12 For just as the body is one and has many members, and all the members 1Cor 12:12 of the body, though many, are one body, so it is with Christ. 1Cor 12:13 For by one Spirit we were all baptized into one body -- Jews or Greeks, 1Cor 12:13 slaves or free -- and all were made to drink of one Spirit. 1Cor 12:14 For the body does not consist of one member but of many. 1Cor 12:15 If the foot should say, "Because I am not a hand, I do not belong to 1Cor 12:15 the body," that would not make it any less a part of the body. 1Cor 12:16 And if the ear should say, "Because I am not an eye, I do not belong to 1Cor 12:16 the body," that would not make it any less a part of the body. 1Cor 12:17 If the whole body were an eye, where would be the hearing? If the whole 1Cor 12:17 body were an ear, where would be the sense of smell? 1Cor 12:18 But as it is, God arranged the organs in the body, each one of them, as 1Cor 12:18 he chose. 1Cor 12:19 If all were a single organ, where would the body be? 1Cor 12:20 As it is, there are many parts, yet one body. 1Cor 12:21 The eye cannot say to the hand, "I have no need of you," nor again the 1Cor 12:21 head to the feet, "I have no need of you." 1Cor 12:22 On the contrary, the parts of the body which seem to be weaker are 1Cor 12:22 indispensable, 1Cor 12:23 and those parts of the body which we think less honorable we invest 1Cor 12:23 with the greater honor, and our unpresentable parts are treated with 1Cor 12:23 greater modesty, 1Cor 12:24 which our more presentable parts do not require. But God has so 1Cor 12:24 composed the body, giving the greater honor to the inferior part, 1Cor 12:25 that there may be no discord in the body, but that the members may have 1Cor 12:25 the same care for one another. 1Cor 12:26 If one member suffers, all suffer together; if one member is honored, 1Cor 12:26 all rejoice together. 1Cor 12:27 Now you are the body of Christ and individually members of it. 1Cor 12:28 And God has appointed in the church first apostles, second prophets, 1Cor 12:28 third teachers, then workers of miracles, then healers, helpers, 1Cor 12:28 administrators, speakers in various kinds of tongues. 1Cor 12:29 Are all apostles? Are all prophets? Are all teachers? Do all work 1Cor 12:29 miracles? 1Cor 12:30 Do all possess gifts of healing? Do all speak with tongues? Do all 1Cor 12:30 interpret? 1Cor 12:31 But earnestly desire the higher gifts. 1Cor 12:31 And I will show you a still more excellent way. 1Cor 13: 1 If I speak in the tongues of men and of angels, but have not love, I 1Cor 13: 1 am a noisy gong or a clanging cymbal. 1Cor 13: 2 And if I have prophetic powers, and understand all mysteries and all 1Cor 13: 2 knowledge, and if I have all faith, so as to remove mountains, but have 1Cor 13: 2 not love, I am nothing. 1Cor 13: 3 If I give away all I have, and if I deliver my body to be burned, but 1Cor 13: 3 have not love, I gain nothing. 1Cor 13: 4 Love is patient and kind; love is not jealous or boastful; 1Cor 13: 5 it is not arrogant or rude. Love does not insist on its own way; it is 1Cor 13: 5 not irritable or resentful; 1Cor 13: 6 it does not rejoice at wrong, but rejoices in the right. 1Cor 13: 7 Love bears all things, believes all things, hopes all things, endures 1Cor 13: 7 all things. 1Cor 13: 8 Love never ends; as for prophecies, they will pass away; as for 1Cor 13: 8 tongues, they will cease; as for knowledge, it will pass away. 1Cor 13: 9 For our knowledge is imperfect and our prophecy is imperfect; 1Cor 13:10 but when the perfect comes, the imperfect will pass away. 1Cor 13:11 When I was a child, I spoke like a child, I thought like a child, I 1Cor 13:11 reasoned like a child; when I became a man, I gave up childish ways. 1Cor 13:12 For now we see in a mirror dimly, but then face to face. Now I know in 1Cor 13:12 part; then I shall understand fully, even as I have been fully 1Cor 13:12 understood. 1Cor 13:13 So faith, hope, love abide, these three; but the greatest of these is 1Cor 13:13 love. 1Cor 14: 1 Make love your aim, and earnestly desire the spiritual gifts, 1Cor 14: 1 especially that you may prophesy. 1Cor 14: 2 For one who speaks in a tongue speaks not to men but to God; for no one 1Cor 14: 2 understands him, but he utters mysteries in the Spirit. 1Cor 14: 3 On the other hand, he who prophesies speaks to men for their upbuilding 1Cor 14: 3 and encouragement and consolation. 1Cor 14: 4 He who speaks in a tongue edifies himself, but he who prophesies 1Cor 14: 4 edifies the church. 1Cor 14: 5 Now I want you all to speak in tongues, but even more to prophesy. He 1Cor 14: 5 who prophesies is greater than he who speaks in tongues, unless some 1Cor 14: 5 one interprets, so that the church may be edified. 1Cor 14: 6 Now, brethren, if I come to you speaking in tongues, how shall I 1Cor 14: 6 benefit you unless I bring you some revelation or knowledge or prophecy 1Cor 14: 6 or teaching? 1Cor 14: 7 If even lifeless instruments, such as the flute or the harp, do not 1Cor 14: 7 give distinct notes, how will any one know what is played? 1Cor 14: 8 And if the bugle gives an indistinct sound, who will get ready for 1Cor 14: 8 battle? 1Cor 14: 9 So with yourselves; if you in a tongue utter speech that is not 1Cor 14: 9 intelligible, how will any one know what is said? For you will be 1Cor 14: 9 speaking into the air. 1Cor 14:10 There are doubtless many different languages in the world, and none is 1Cor 14:10 without meaning; 1Cor 14:11 but if I do not know the meaning of the language, I shall be a 1Cor 14:11 foreigner to the speaker and the speaker a foreigner to me. 1Cor 14:12 So with yourselves; since you are eager for manifestations of the 1Cor 14:12 Spirit, strive to excel in building up the church. 1Cor 14:13 Therefore, he who speaks in a tongue should pray for the power to 1Cor 14:13 interpret. 1Cor 14:14 For if I pray in a tongue, my spirit prays but my mind is unfruitful. 1Cor 14:15 What am I to do? I will pray with the spirit and I will pray with the 1Cor 14:15 mind also; I will sing with the spirit and I will sing with the mind 1Cor 14:15 also. 1Cor 14:16 Otherwise, if you bless with the spirit, how can any one in the 1Cor 14:16 position of an outsider say the "Amen" to your thanksgiving when he 1Cor 14:16 does not know what you are saying? 1Cor 14:17 For you may give thanks well enough, but the other man is not edified. 1Cor 14:18 I thank God that I speak in tongues more than you all; 1Cor 14:19 nevertheless, in church I would rather speak five words with my mind, 1Cor 14:19 in order to instruct others, than ten thousand words in a tongue. 1Cor 14:20 Brethren, do not be children in your thinking; be babes in evil, but 1Cor 14:20 in thinking be mature. 1Cor 14:21 In the law it is written, "By men of strange tongues and by the lips of 1Cor 14:21 foreigners will I speak to this people, and even then they will not 1Cor 14:21 listen to me, says the Lord." 1Cor 14:22 Thus, tongues are a sign not for believers but for unbelievers, while 1Cor 14:22 prophecy is not for unbelievers but for believers. 1Cor 14:23 If, therefore, the whole church assembles and all speak in tongues, and 1Cor 14:23 outsiders or unbelievers enter, will they not say that you are mad? 1Cor 14:24 But if all prophesy, and an unbeliever or outsider enters, he is 1Cor 14:24 convicted by all, he is called to account by all, 1Cor 14:25 the secrets of his heart are disclosed; and so, falling on his face, he 1Cor 14:25 will worship God and declare that God is really among you. 1Cor 14:26 What then, brethren? When you come together, each one has a hymn, a 1Cor 14:26 lesson, a revelation, a tongue, or an interpretation. Let all things be 1Cor 14:26 done for edification. 1Cor 14:27 If any speak in a tongue, let there be only two or at most three, and 1Cor 14:27 each in turn; and let one interpret. 1Cor 14:28 But if there is no one to interpret, let each of them keep silence in 1Cor 14:28 church and speak to himself and to God. 1Cor 14:29 Let two or three prophets speak, and let the others weigh what is said. 1Cor 14:30 If a revelation is made to another sitting by, let the first be silent. 1Cor 14:31 For you can all prophesy one by one, so that all may learn and all be 1Cor 14:31 encouraged; 1Cor 14:32 and the spirits of prophets are subject to prophets. 1Cor 14:33 For God is not a God of confusion but of peace. 1Cor 14:33 As in all the churches of the saints, 1Cor 14:34 the women should keep silence in the churches. For they are not 1Cor 14:34 permitted to speak, but should be subordinate, as even the law says. 1Cor 14:35 If there is anything they desire to know, let them ask their husbands 1Cor 14:35 at home. For it is shameful for a woman to speak in church. 1Cor 14:36 What! Did the word of God originate with you, or are you the only ones 1Cor 14:36 it has reached? 1Cor 14:37 If any one thinks that he is a prophet, or spiritual, he should 1Cor 14:37 acknowledge that what I am writing to you is a command of the Lord. 1Cor 14:38 If any one does not recognize this, he is not recognized. 1Cor 14:39 So, my brethren, earnestly desire to prophesy, and do not forbid 1Cor 14:39 speaking in tongues; 1Cor 14:40 but all things should be done decently and in order. 1Cor 15: 1 Now I would remind you, brethren, in what terms I preached to you the 1Cor 15: 1 gospel, which you received, in which you stand, 1Cor 15: 2 by which you are saved, if you hold it fast -- unless you believed in 1Cor 15: 2 vain. 1Cor 15: 3 For I delivered to you as of first importance what I also received, 1Cor 15: 3 that Christ died for our sins in accordance with the scriptures, 1Cor 15: 4 that he was buried, that he was raised on the third day in accordance 1Cor 15: 4 with the scriptures, 1Cor 15: 5 and that he appeared to Cephas, then to the twelve. 1Cor 15: 6 Then he appeared to more than five hundred brethren at one time, most 1Cor 15: 6 of whom are still alive, though some have fallen asleep. 1Cor 15: 7 Then he appeared to James, then to all the apostles. 1Cor 15: 8 Last of all, as to one untimely born, he appeared also to me. 1Cor 15: 9 For I am the least of the apostles, unfit to be called an apostle, 1Cor 15: 9 because I persecuted the church of God. 1Cor 15:10 But by the grace of God I am what I am, and his grace toward me was not 1Cor 15:10 in vain. On the contrary, I worked harder than any of them, though it 1Cor 15:10 was not I, but the grace of God which is with me. 1Cor 15:11 Whether then it was I or they, so we preach and so you believed. 1Cor 15:12 Now if Christ is preached as raised from the dead, how can some of 1Cor 15:12 you say that there is no resurrection of the dead? 1Cor 15:13 But if there is no resurrection of the dead, then Christ has not been 1Cor 15:13 raised; 1Cor 15:14 if Christ has not been raised, then our preaching is in vain and your 1Cor 15:14 faith is in vain. 1Cor 15:15 We are even found to be misrepresenting God, because we testified of 1Cor 15:15 God that he raised Christ, whom he did not raise if it is true that the 1Cor 15:15 dead are not raised. 1Cor 15:16 For if the dead are not raised, then Christ has not been raised. 1Cor 15:17 If Christ has not been raised, your faith is futile and you are still 1Cor 15:17 in your sins. 1Cor 15:18 Then those also who have fallen asleep in Christ have perished. 1Cor 15:19 If for this life only we have hoped in Christ, we are of all men most 1Cor 15:19 to be pitied. 1Cor 15:20 But in fact Christ has been raised from the dead, the first fruits of 1Cor 15:20 those who have fallen asleep. 1Cor 15:21 For as by a man came death, by a man has come also the resurrection of 1Cor 15:21 the dead. 1Cor 15:22 For as in Adam all die, so also in Christ shall all be made alive. 1Cor 15:23 But each in his own order: Christ the first fruits, then at his coming 1Cor 15:23 those who belong to Christ. 1Cor 15:24 Then comes the end, when he delivers the kingdom to God the Father 1Cor 15:24 after destroying every rule and every authority and power. 1Cor 15:25 For he must reign until he has put all his enemies under his feet. 1Cor 15:26 The last enemy to be destroyed is death. 1Cor 15:27 "For God has put all things in subjection under his feet." But when it 1Cor 15:27 says, "All things are put in subjection under him," it is plain that he 1Cor 15:27 is excepted who put all things under him. 1Cor 15:28 When all things are subjected to him, then the Son himself will also be 1Cor 15:28 subjected to him who put all things under him, that God may be 1Cor 15:28 everything to every one. 1Cor 15:29 Otherwise, what do people mean by being baptized on behalf of the dead? 1Cor 15:29 If the dead are not raised at all, why are people baptized on their 1Cor 15:29 behalf? 1Cor 15:30 Why am I in peril every hour? 1Cor 15:31 I protest, brethren, by my pride in you which I have in Christ Jesus 1Cor 15:31 our Lord, I die every day! 1Cor 15:32 What do I gain if, humanly speaking, I fought with beasts at Ephesus? 1Cor 15:32 If the dead are not raised, "Let us eat and drink, for tomorrow we die." 1Cor 15:33 Do not be deceived: "Bad company ruins good morals." 1Cor 15:34 Come to your right mind, and sin no more. For some have no knowledge of 1Cor 15:34 God. I say this to your shame. 1Cor 15:35 But some one will ask, "How are the dead raised? With what kind of 1Cor 15:35 body do they come?" 1Cor 15:36 You foolish man! What you sow does not come to life unless it dies. 1Cor 15:37 And what you sow is not the body which is to be, but a bare kernel, 1Cor 15:37 perhaps of wheat or of some other grain. 1Cor 15:38 But God gives it a body as he has chosen, and to each kind of seed its 1Cor 15:38 own body. 1Cor 15:39 For not all flesh is alike, but there is one kind for men, another for 1Cor 15:39 animals, another for birds, and another for fish. 1Cor 15:40 There are celestial bodies and there are terrestrial bodies; but the 1Cor 15:40 glory of the celestial is one, and the glory of the terrestrial is 1Cor 15:40 another. 1Cor 15:41 There is one glory of the sun, and another glory of the moon, and 1Cor 15:41 another glory of the stars; for star differs from star in glory. 1Cor 15:42 So is it with the resurrection of the dead. What is sown is 1Cor 15:42 perishable, what is raised is imperishable. 1Cor 15:43 It is sown in dishonor, it is raised in glory. It is sown in weakness, 1Cor 15:43 it is raised in power. 1Cor 15:44 It is sown a physical body, it is raised a spiritual body. If there is 1Cor 15:44 a physical body, there is also a spiritual body. 1Cor 15:45 Thus it is written, "The first man Adam became a living being"; the 1Cor 15:45 last Adam became a life-giving spirit. 1Cor 15:46 But it is not the spiritual which is first but the physical, and then 1Cor 15:46 the spiritual. 1Cor 15:47 The first man was from the earth, a man of dust; the second man is from 1Cor 15:47 heaven. 1Cor 15:48 As was the man of dust, so are those who are of the dust; and as is the 1Cor 15:48 man of heaven, so are those who are of heaven. 1Cor 15:49 Just as we have borne the image of the man of dust, we shall also bear 1Cor 15:49 the image of the man of heaven. 1Cor 15:50 I tell you this, brethren: flesh and blood cannot inherit the kingdom 1Cor 15:50 of God, nor does the perishable inherit the imperishable. 1Cor 15:51 Lo! I tell you a mystery. We shall not all sleep, but we shall all be 1Cor 15:51 changed, 1Cor 15:52 in a moment, in the twinkling of an eye, at the last trumpet. For the 1Cor 15:52 trumpet will sound, and the dead will be raised imperishable, and we 1Cor 15:52 shall be changed. 1Cor 15:53 For this perishable nature must put on the imperishable, and this 1Cor 15:53 mortal nature must put on immortality. 1Cor 15:54 When the perishable puts on the imperishable, and the mortal puts on 1Cor 15:54 immortality, then shall come to pass the saying that is 1Cor 15:54 written: 1Cor 15:54 "Death is swallowed up in victory." 1Cor 15:55 "O death, where is thy victory? 1Cor 15:55 O death, where is thy sting?" 1Cor 15:56 The sting of death is sin, and the power of sin is the law. 1Cor 15:57 But thanks be to God, who gives us the victory through our Lord Jesus 1Cor 15:57 Christ. 1Cor 15:58 Therefore, my beloved brethren, be steadfast, immovable, always 1Cor 15:58 abounding in the work of the Lord, knowing that in the Lord your labor 1Cor 15:58 is not in vain. 1Cor 16: 1 Now concerning the contribution for the saints: as I directed the 1Cor 16: 1 churches of Galatia, so you also are to do. 1Cor 16: 2 On the first day of every week, each of you is to put something aside 1Cor 16: 2 and store it up, as he may prosper, so that contributions need not be 1Cor 16: 2 made when I come. 1Cor 16: 3 And when I arrive, I will send those whom you accredit by letter to 1Cor 16: 3 carry your gift to Jerusalem. 1Cor 16: 4 If it seems advisable that I should go also, they will accompany me. 1Cor 16: 5 I will visit you after passing through Macedo'nia, for I intend to 1Cor 16: 5 pass through Macedo'nia, 1Cor 16: 6 and perhaps I will stay with you or even spend the winter, so that you 1Cor 16: 6 may speed me on my journey, wherever I go. 1Cor 16: 7 For I do not want to see you now just in passing; I hope to spend some 1Cor 16: 7 time with you, if the Lord permits. 1Cor 16: 8 But I will stay in Ephesus until Pentecost, 1Cor 16: 9 for a wide door for effective work has opened to me, and there are many 1Cor 16: 9 adversaries. 1Cor 16:10 When Timothy comes, see that you put him at ease among you, for he is 1Cor 16:10 doing the work of the Lord, as I am. 1Cor 16:11 So let no one despise him. Speed him on his way in peace, that he may 1Cor 16:11 return to me; for I am expecting him with the brethren. 1Cor 16:12 As for our brother Apol'los, I strongly urged him to visit you with 1Cor 16:12 the other brethren, but it was not at all his will to come now. He will 1Cor 16:12 come when he has opportunity. 1Cor 16:13 Be watchful, stand firm in your faith, be courageous, be strong. 1Cor 16:14 Let all that you do be done in love. 1Cor 16:15 Now, brethren, you know that the household of Steph'anas were the 1Cor 16:15 first converts in Acha'ia, and they have devoted themselves to the 1Cor 16:15 service of the saints; 1Cor 16:16 I urge you to be subject to such men and to every fellow worker and 1Cor 16:16 laborer. 1Cor 16:17 I rejoice at the coming of Steph'anas and Fortuna'tus and Acha'icus, 1Cor 16:17 because they have made up for your absence; 1Cor 16:18 for they refreshed my spirit as well as yours. Give recognition to such 1Cor 16:18 men. 1Cor 16:19 The churches of Asia send greetings. Aq'uila and Prisca, together 1Cor 16:19 with the church in their house, send you hearty greetings in the Lord. 1Cor 16:20 All the brethren send greetings. Greet one another with a holy kiss. 1Cor 16:21 I, Paul, write this greeting with my own hand. 1Cor 16:22 If any one has no love for the Lord, let him be accursed. Our Lord, 1Cor 16:22 come! 1Cor 16:23 The grace of the Lord Jesus be with you. 1Cor 16:24 My love be with you all in Christ Jesus. Amen. 2Cor 1: 1 Paul, an apostle of Christ Jesus by the will of God, and Timothy our 2Cor 1: 1 brother. 2Cor 1: 1 To the church of God which is at Corinth, with all the saints who are 2Cor 1: 1 in the whole of Acha'ia: 2Cor 1: 2 Grace to you and peace from God our Father and the Lord Jesus Christ. 2Cor 1: 3 Blessed be the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, the Father of 2Cor 1: 3 mercies and God of all comfort, 2Cor 1: 4 who comforts us in all our affliction, so that we may be able to 2Cor 1: 4 comfort those who are in any affliction, with the comfort with which we 2Cor 1: 4 ourselves are comforted by God. 2Cor 1: 5 For as we share abundantly in Christ's sufferings, so through Christ we 2Cor 1: 5 share abundantly in comfort too. 2Cor 1: 6 If we are afflicted, it is for your comfort and salvation; and if we 2Cor 1: 6 are comforted, it is for your comfort, which you experience when you 2Cor 1: 6 patiently endure the same sufferings that we suffer. 2Cor 1: 7 Our hope for you is unshaken; for we know that as you share in our 2Cor 1: 7 sufferings, you will also share in our comfort. 2Cor 1: 8 For we do not want you to be ignorant, brethren, of the affliction we 2Cor 1: 8 experienced in Asia; for we were so utterly, unbearably crushed that we 2Cor 1: 8 despaired of life itself. 2Cor 1: 9 Why, we felt that we had received the sentence of death; but that was 2Cor 1: 9 to make us rely not on ourselves but on God who raises the dead; 2Cor 1:10 he delivered us from so deadly a peril, and he will deliver us; on him 2Cor 1:10 we have set our hope that he will deliver us again. 2Cor 1:11 You also must help us by prayer, so that many will give thanks on our 2Cor 1:11 behalf for the blessing granted us in answer to many prayers. 2Cor 1:12 For our boast is this, the testimony of our conscience that we have 2Cor 1:12 behaved in the world, and still more toward you, with holiness and 2Cor 1:12 godly sincerity, not by earthly wisdom but by the grace of God. 2Cor 1:13 For we write you nothing but what you can read and understand; I hope 2Cor 1:13 you will understand fully, 2Cor 1:14 as you have understood in part, that you can be proud of us as we can 2Cor 1:14 be of you, on the day of the Lord Jesus. 2Cor 1:15 Because I was sure of this, I wanted to come to you first, so that 2Cor 1:15 you might have a double pleasure; 2Cor 1:16 I wanted to visit you on my way to Macedo'nia, and to come back to you 2Cor 1:16 from Macedo'nia and have you send me on my way to Judea. 2Cor 1:17 Was I vacillating when I wanted to do this? Do I make my plans like a 2Cor 1:17 worldly man, ready to say Yes and No at once? 2Cor 1:18 As surely as God is faithful, our word to you has not been Yes and No. 2Cor 1:19 For the Son of God, Jesus Christ, whom we preached among you, Silva'nus 2Cor 1:19 and Timothy and I, was not Yes and No; but in him it is always Yes. 2Cor 1:20 For all the promises of God find their Yes in him. That is why we utter 2Cor 1:20 the Amen through him, to the glory of God. 2Cor 1:21 But it is God who establishes us with you in Christ, and has 2Cor 1:21 commissioned us; 2Cor 1:22 he has put his seal upon us and given us his Spirit in our hearts as a 2Cor 1:22 guarantee. 2Cor 1:23 But I call God to witness against me -- it was to spare you that I 2Cor 1:23 refrained from coming to Corinth. 2Cor 1:24 Not that we lord it over your faith; we work with you for your joy, for 2Cor 1:24 you stand firm in your faith. 2Cor 2: 1 For I made up my mind not to make you another painful visit. 2Cor 2: 2 For if I cause you pain, who is there to make me glad but the one whom 2Cor 2: 2 I have pained? 2Cor 2: 3 And I wrote as I did, so that when I came I might not suffer pain from 2Cor 2: 3 those who should have made me rejoice, for I felt sure of all of you, 2Cor 2: 3 that my joy would be the joy of you all. 2Cor 2: 4 For I wrote you out of much affliction and anguish of heart and with 2Cor 2: 4 many tears, not to cause you pain but to let you know the abundant love 2Cor 2: 4 that I have for you. 2Cor 2: 5 But if any one has caused pain, he has caused it not to me, but in 2Cor 2: 5 some measure --not to put it too severely -- to you all. 2Cor 2: 6 For such a one this punishment by the majority is enough; 2Cor 2: 7 so you should rather turn to forgive and comfort him, or he may be 2Cor 2: 7 overwhelmed by excessive sorrow. 2Cor 2: 8 So I beg you to reaffirm your love for him. 2Cor 2: 9 For this is why I wrote, that I might test you and know whether you are 2Cor 2: 9 obedient in everything. 2Cor 2:10 Any one whom you forgive, I also forgive. What I have forgiven, if I 2Cor 2:10 have forgiven anything, has been for your sake in the presence of 2Cor 2:10 Christ, 2Cor 2:11 to keep Satan from gaining the advantage over us; for we are not 2Cor 2:11 ignorant of his designs. 2Cor 2:12 When I came to Tro'as to preach the gospel of Christ, a door was 2Cor 2:12 opened for me in the Lord; 2Cor 2:13 but my mind could not rest because I did not find my brother Titus 2Cor 2:13 there. So I took leave of them and went on to Macedo'nia. 2Cor 2:14 But thanks be to God, who in Christ always leads us in triumph, and 2Cor 2:14 through us spreads the fragrance of the knowledge of him everywhere. 2Cor 2:15 For we are the aroma of Christ to God among those who are being saved 2Cor 2:15 and among those who are perishing, 2Cor 2:16 to one a fragrance from death to death, to the other a fragrance from 2Cor 2:16 life to life. Who is sufficient for these things? 2Cor 2:17 For we are not, like so many, peddlers of God's word; but as men of 2Cor 2:17 sincerity, as commissioned by God, in the sight of God we speak in 2Cor 2:17 Christ. 2Cor 3: 1 Are we beginning to commend ourselves again? Or do we need, as some 2Cor 3: 1 do, letters of recommendation to you, or from you? 2Cor 3: 2 You yourselves are our letter of recommendation, written on your 2Cor 3: 2 hearts, to be known and read by all men; 2Cor 3: 3 and you show that you are a letter from Christ delivered by us, written 2Cor 3: 3 not with ink but with the Spirit of the living God, not on tablets of 2Cor 3: 3 stone but on tablets of human hearts. 2Cor 3: 4 Such is the confidence that we have through Christ toward God. 2Cor 3: 5 Not that we are competent of ourselves to claim anything as coming from 2Cor 3: 5 us; our competence is from God, 2Cor 3: 6 who has made us competent to be ministers of a new covenant, not in a 2Cor 3: 6 written code but in the Spirit; for the written code kills, but the 2Cor 3: 6 Spirit gives life. 2Cor 3: 7 Now if the dispensation of death, carved in letters on stone, came 2Cor 3: 7 with such splendor that the Israelites could not look at Moses' face 2Cor 3: 7 because of its brightness, fading as this was, 2Cor 3: 8 will not the dispensation of the Spirit be attended with greater 2Cor 3: 8 splendor? 2Cor 3: 9 For if there was splendor in the dispensation of condemnation, the 2Cor 3: 9 dispensation of righteousness must far exceed it in splendor. 2Cor 3:10 Indeed, in this case, what once had splendor has come to have no 2Cor 3:10 splendor at all, because of the splendor that surpasses it. 2Cor 3:11 For if what faded away came with splendor, what is permanent must have 2Cor 3:11 much more splendor. 2Cor 3:12 Since we have such a hope, we are very bold, 2Cor 3:13 not like Moses, who put a veil over his face so that the Israelites 2Cor 3:13 might not see the end of the fading splendor. 2Cor 3:14 But their minds were hardened; for to this day, when they read the old 2Cor 3:14 covenant, that same veil remains unlifted, because only through Christ 2Cor 3:14 is it taken away. 2Cor 3:15 Yes, to this day whenever Moses is read a veil lies over their minds; 2Cor 3:16 but when a man turns to the Lord the veil is removed. 2Cor 3:17 Now the Lord is the Spirit, and where the Spirit of the Lord is, there 2Cor 3:17 is freedom. 2Cor 3:18 And we all, with unveiled face, beholding the glory of the Lord, are 2Cor 3:18 being changed into his likeness from one degree of glory to another; 2Cor 3:18 for this comes from the Lord who is the Spirit. 2Cor 4: 1 Therefore, having this ministry by the mercy of God, we do not lose 2Cor 4: 1 heart. 2Cor 4: 2 We have renounced disgraceful, underhanded ways; we refuse to practice 2Cor 4: 2 cunning or to tamper with God's word, but by the open statement of the 2Cor 4: 2 truth we would commend ourselves to every man's conscience in the sight 2Cor 4: 2 of God. 2Cor 4: 3 And even if our gospel is veiled, it is veiled only to those who are 2Cor 4: 3 perishing. 2Cor 4: 4 In their case the god of this world has blinded the minds of the 2Cor 4: 4 unbelievers, to keep them from seeing the light of the gospel of the 2Cor 4: 4 glory of Christ, who is the likeness of God. 2Cor 4: 5 For what we preach is not ourselves, but Jesus Christ as Lord, with 2Cor 4: 5 ourselves as your servants for Jesus' sake. 2Cor 4: 6 For it is the God who said, "Let light shine out of darkness," who has 2Cor 4: 6 shone in our hearts to give the light of the knowledge of the glory of 2Cor 4: 6 God in the face of Christ. 2Cor 4: 7 But we have this treasure in earthen vessels, to show that the 2Cor 4: 7 transcendent power belongs to God and not to us. 2Cor 4: 8 We are afflicted in every way, but not crushed; perplexed, but not 2Cor 4: 8 driven to despair; 2Cor 4: 9 persecuted, but not forsaken; struck down, but not destroyed; 2Cor 4:10 always carrying in the body the death of Jesus, so that the life of 2Cor 4:10 Jesus may also be manifested in our bodies. 2Cor 4:11 For while we live we are always being given up to death for Jesus' 2Cor 4:11 sake, so that the life of Jesus may be manifested in our mortal flesh. 2Cor 4:12 So death is at work in us, but life in you. 2Cor 4:13 Since we have the same spirit of faith as he had who wrote, "I 2Cor 4:13 believed, and so I spoke," we too believe, and so we speak, 2Cor 4:14 knowing that he who raised the Lord Jesus will raise us also with Jesus 2Cor 4:14 and bring us with you into his presence. 2Cor 4:15 For it is all for your sake, so that as grace extends to more and more 2Cor 4:15 people it may increase thanksgiving, to the glory of God. 2Cor 4:16 So we do not lose heart. Though our outer nature is wasting away, our 2Cor 4:16 inner nature is being renewed every day. 2Cor 4:17 For this slight momentary affliction is preparing for us an eternal 2Cor 4:17 weight of glory beyond all comparison, 2Cor 4:18 because we look not to the things that are seen but to the things that 2Cor 4:18 are unseen; for the things that are seen are transient, but the things 2Cor 4:18 that are unseen are eternal. 2Cor 5: 1 For we know that if the earthly tent we live in is destroyed, we have 2Cor 5: 1 a building from God, a house not made with hands, eternal in the 2Cor 5: 1 heavens. 2Cor 5: 2 Here indeed we groan, and long to put on our heavenly dwelling, 2Cor 5: 3 so that by putting it on we may not be found naked. 2Cor 5: 4 For while we are still in this tent, we sigh with anxiety; not that we 2Cor 5: 4 would be unclothed, but that we would be further clothed, so that what 2Cor 5: 4 is mortal may be swallowed up by life. 2Cor 5: 5 He who has prepared us for this very thing is God, who has given us the 2Cor 5: 5 Spirit as a guarantee. 2Cor 5: 6 So we are always of good courage; we know that while we are at home 2Cor 5: 6 in the body we are away from the Lord, 2Cor 5: 7 for we walk by faith, not by sight. 2Cor 5: 8 We are of good courage, and we would rather be away from the body and 2Cor 5: 8 at home with the Lord. 2Cor 5: 9 So whether we are at home or away, we make it our aim to please him. 2Cor 5:10 For we must all appear before the judgment seat of Christ, so that each 2Cor 5:10 one may receive good or evil, according to what he has done in the body. 2Cor 5:11 Therefore, knowing the fear of the Lord, we persuade men; but what we 2Cor 5:11 are is known to God, and I hope it is known also to your conscience. 2Cor 5:12 We are not commending ourselves to you again but giving you cause to be 2Cor 5:12 proud of us, so that you may be able to answer those who pride 2Cor 5:12 themselves on a man's position and not on his heart. 2Cor 5:13 For if we are beside ourselves, it is for God; if we are in our right 2Cor 5:13 mind, it is for you. 2Cor 5:14 For the love of Christ controls us, because we are convinced that one 2Cor 5:14 has died for all; therefore all have died. 2Cor 5:15 And he died for all, that those who live might live no longer for 2Cor 5:15 themselves but for him who for their sake died and was raised. 2Cor 5:16 From now on, therefore, we regard no one from a human point of view; 2Cor 5:16 even though we once regarded Christ from a human point of view, we 2Cor 5:16 regard him thus no longer. 2Cor 5:17 Therefore, if any one is in Christ, he is a new creation; the old has 2Cor 5:17 passed away, behold, the new has come. 2Cor 5:18 All this is from God, who through Christ reconciled us to himself and 2Cor 5:18 gave us the ministry of reconciliation; 2Cor 5:19 that is, in Christ God was reconciling the world to himself, not 2Cor 5:19 counting their trespasses against them, and entrusting to us the 2Cor 5:19 message of reconciliation. 2Cor 5:20 So we are ambassadors for Christ, God making his appeal through us. We 2Cor 5:20 beseech you on behalf of Christ, be reconciled to God. 2Cor 5:21 For our sake he made him to be sin who knew no sin, so that in him we 2Cor 5:21 might become the righteousness of God. 2Cor 6: 1 Working together with him, then, we entreat you not to accept the 2Cor 6: 1 grace of God in vain. 2Cor 6: 2 For he says, 2Cor 6: 2 "At the acceptable time I have listened to you, 2Cor 6: 2 and helped you on the day of salvation." 2Cor 6: 2 Behold, now is the acceptable time; behold, now is the day of 2Cor 6: 2 salvation. 2Cor 6: 3 We put no obstacle in any one's way, so that no fault may be found with 2Cor 6: 3 our ministry, 2Cor 6: 4 but as servants of God we commend ourselves in every way: through great 2Cor 6: 4 endurance, in afflictions, hardships, calamities, 2Cor 6: 5 beatings, imprisonments, tumults, labors, watching, hunger; 2Cor 6: 6 by purity, knowledge, forbearance, kindness, the Holy Spirit, genuine 2Cor 6: 6 love, 2Cor 6: 7 truthful speech, and the power of God; with the weapons of 2Cor 6: 7 righteousness for the right hand and for the left; 2Cor 6: 8 in honor and dishonor, in ill repute and good repute. We are treated as 2Cor 6: 8 impostors, and yet are true; 2Cor 6: 9 as unknown, and yet well known; as dying, and behold we live; as 2Cor 6: 9 punished, and yet not killed; 2Cor 6:10 as sorrowful, yet always rejoicing; as poor, yet making many rich; as 2Cor 6:10 having nothing, and yet possessing everything. 2Cor 6:11 Our mouth is open to you, Corinthians; our heart is wide. 2Cor 6:12 You are not restricted by us, but you are restricted in your own 2Cor 6:12 affections. 2Cor 6:13 In return -- I speak as to children -- widen your hearts also. 2Cor 6:14 Do not be mismated with unbelievers. For what partnership have 2Cor 6:14 righteousness and iniquity? Or what fellowship has light with darkness? 2Cor 6:15 What accord has Christ with Be'lial? Or what has a believer in common 2Cor 6:15 with an unbeliever? 2Cor 6:16 What agreement has the temple of God with idols? For we are the 2Cor 6:16 temple of the living God; as God said, 2Cor 6:16 "I will live in them and move among them, 2Cor 6:16 and I will be their God, 2Cor 6:16 and they shall be my people. 2Cor 6:17 Therefore come out from them, 2Cor 6:17 and be separate from them, says the Lord, 2Cor 6:17 and touch nothing unclean; 2Cor 6:17 then I will welcome you, 2Cor 6:18 and I will be a father to you, 2Cor 6:18 and you shall be my sons and daughters, 2Cor 6:18 says the Lord Almighty." 2Cor 7: 1 Since we have these promises, beloved, let us cleanse ourselves from 2Cor 7: 1 every defilement of body and spirit, and make holiness perfect in the 2Cor 7: 1 fear of God. 2Cor 7: 2 Open your hearts to us; we have wronged no one, we have corrupted no 2Cor 7: 2 one, we have taken advantage of no one. 2Cor 7: 3 I do not say this to condemn you, for I said before that you are in our 2Cor 7: 3 hearts, to die together and to live together. 2Cor 7: 4 I have great confidence in you; I have great pride in you; I am filled 2Cor 7: 4 with comfort. With all our affliction, I am overjoyed. 2Cor 7: 5 For even when we came into Macedo'nia, our bodies had no rest but we 2Cor 7: 5 were afflicted at every turn -- fighting without and fear within. 2Cor 7: 6 But God, who comforts the downcast, comforted us by the coming of Titus, 2Cor 7: 7 and not only by his coming but also by the comfort with which he was 2Cor 7: 7 comforted in you, as he told us of your longing, your mourning, your 2Cor 7: 7 zeal for me, so that I rejoiced still more. 2Cor 7: 8 For even if I made you sorry with my letter, I do not regret it (though 2Cor 7: 8 I did regret it), for I see that that letter grieved you, though only 2Cor 7: 8 for a while. 2Cor 7: 9 As it is, I rejoice, not because you were grieved, but because you were 2Cor 7: 9 grieved into repenting; for you felt a godly grief, so that you 2Cor 7: 9 suffered no loss through us. 2Cor 7:10 For godly grief produces a repentance that leads to salvation and 2Cor 7:10 brings no regret, but worldly grief produces death. 2Cor 7:11 For see what earnestness this godly grief has produced in you, what 2Cor 7:11 eagerness to clear yourselves, what indignation, what alarm, what 2Cor 7:11 longing, what zeal, what punishment! At every point you have proved 2Cor 7:11 yourselves guiltless in the matter. 2Cor 7:12 So although I wrote to you, it was not on account of the one who did 2Cor 7:12 the wrong, nor on account of the one who suffered the wrong, but in 2Cor 7:12 order that your zeal for us might be revealed to you in the sight of 2Cor 7:12 God. 2Cor 7:13 Therefore we are comforted. 2Cor 7:13 And besides our own comfort we rejoiced still more at the joy of 2Cor 7:13 Titus, because his mind has been set at rest by you all. 2Cor 7:14 For if I have expressed to him some pride in you, I was not put to 2Cor 7:14 shame; but just as everything we said to you was true, so our boasting 2Cor 7:14 before Titus has proved true. 2Cor 7:15 And his heart goes out all the more to you, as he remembers the 2Cor 7:15 obedience of you all, and the fear and trembling with which you 2Cor 7:15 received him. 2Cor 7:16 I rejoice, because I have perfect confidence in you. 2Cor 8: 1 We want you to know, brethren, about the grace of God which has been 2Cor 8: 1 shown in the churches of Macedo'nia, 2Cor 8: 2 for in a severe test of affliction, their abundance of joy and their 2Cor 8: 2 extreme poverty have overflowed in a wealth of liberality on their part. 2Cor 8: 3 For they gave according to their means, as I can testify, and beyond 2Cor 8: 3 their means, of their own free will, 2Cor 8: 4 begging us earnestly for the favor of taking part in the relief of the 2Cor 8: 4 saints -- 2Cor 8: 5 and this, not as we expected, but first they gave themselves to the 2Cor 8: 5 Lord and to us by the will of God. 2Cor 8: 6 Accordingly we have urged Titus that as he had already made a 2Cor 8: 6 beginning, he should also complete among you this gracious work. 2Cor 8: 7 Now as you excel in everything -- in faith, in utterance, in knowledge, 2Cor 8: 7 in all earnestness, and in your love for us -- see that you excel in this 2Cor 8: 7 gracious work also. 2Cor 8: 8 I say this not as a command, but to prove by the earnestness of 2Cor 8: 8 others that your love also is genuine. 2Cor 8: 9 For you know the grace of our Lord Jesus Christ, that though he was 2Cor 8: 9 rich, yet for your sake he became poor, so that by his poverty you 2Cor 8: 9 might become rich. 2Cor 8:10 And in this matter I give my advice: it is best for you now to complete 2Cor 8:10 what a year ago you began not only to do but to desire, 2Cor 8:11 so that your readiness in desiring it may be matched by your completing 2Cor 8:11 it out of what you have. 2Cor 8:12 For if the readiness is there, it is acceptable according to what a man 2Cor 8:12 has, not according to what he has not. 2Cor 8:13 I do not mean that others should be eased and you burdened, 2Cor 8:14 but that as a matter of equality your abundance at the present time 2Cor 8:14 should supply their want, so that their abundance may supply your want, 2Cor 8:14 that there may be equality. 2Cor 8:15 As it is written, "He who gathered much had nothing over, and he who 2Cor 8:15 gathered little had no lack." 2Cor 8:16 But thanks be to God who puts the same earnest care for you into the 2Cor 8:16 heart of Titus. 2Cor 8:17 For he not only accepted our appeal, but being himself very earnest he 2Cor 8:17 is going to you of his own accord. 2Cor 8:18 With him we are sending the brother who is famous among all the 2Cor 8:18 churches for his preaching of the gospel; 2Cor 8:19 and not only that, but he has been appointed by the churches to travel 2Cor 8:19 with us in this gracious work which we are carrying on, for the glory 2Cor 8:19 of the Lord and to show our good will. 2Cor 8:20 We intend that no one should blame us about this liberal gift which we 2Cor 8:20 are administering, 2Cor 8:21 for we aim at what is honorable not only in the Lord's sight but also 2Cor 8:21 in the sight of men. 2Cor 8:22 And with them we are sending our brother whom we have often tested and 2Cor 8:22 found earnest in many matters, but who is now more earnest than ever 2Cor 8:22 because of his great confidence in you. 2Cor 8:23 As for Titus, he is my partner and fellow worker in your service; and 2Cor 8:23 as for our brethren, they are messengers of the churches, the glory of 2Cor 8:23 Christ. 2Cor 8:24 So give proof, before the churches, of your love and of our boasting 2Cor 8:24 about you to these men. 2Cor 9: 1 Now it is superfluous for me to write to you about the offering for 2Cor 9: 1 the saints, 2Cor 9: 2 for I know your readiness, of which I boast about you to the people of 2Cor 9: 2 Macedo'nia, saying that Acha'ia has been ready since last year; and 2Cor 9: 2 your zeal has stirred up most of them. 2Cor 9: 3 But I am sending the brethren so that our boasting about you may not 2Cor 9: 3 prove vain in this case, so that you may be ready, as I said you would 2Cor 9: 3 be; 2Cor 9: 4 lest if some Macedo'nians come with me and find that you are not ready, 2Cor 9: 4 we be humiliated -- to say nothing of you -- for being so confident. 2Cor 9: 5 So I thought it necessary to urge the brethren to go on to you before 2Cor 9: 5 me, and arrange in advance for this gift you have promised, so that it 2Cor 9: 5 may be ready not as an exaction but as a willing gift. 2Cor 9: 6 The point is this: he who sows sparingly will also reap sparingly, 2Cor 9: 6 and he who sows bountifully will also reap bountifully. 2Cor 9: 7 Each one must do as he has made up his mind, not reluctantly or under 2Cor 9: 7 compulsion, for God loves a cheerful giver. 2Cor 9: 8 And God is able to provide you with every blessing in abundance, so 2Cor 9: 8 that you may always have enough of everything and may provide in 2Cor 9: 8 abundance for every good work. 2Cor 9: 9 As it is written, 2Cor 9: 9 "He scatters abroad, he gives to the poor; 2Cor 9: 9 his righteousness endures for ever." 2Cor 9:10 He who supplies seed to the sower and bread for food will supply and 2Cor 9:10 multiply your resources and increase the harvest of your righteousness. 2Cor 9:11 You will be enriched in every way for great generosity, which through 2Cor 9:11 us will produce thanksgiving to God; 2Cor 9:12 for the rendering of this service not only supplies the wants of the 2Cor 9:12 saints but also overflows in many thanksgivings to God. 2Cor 9:13 Under the test of this service, you will glorify God by your obedience 2Cor 9:13 in acknowledging the gospel of Christ, and by the generosity of your 2Cor 9:13 contribution for them and for all others; 2Cor 9:14 while they long for you and pray for you, because of the surpassing 2Cor 9:14 grace of God in you. 2Cor 9:15 Thanks be to God for his inexpressible gift! 2Cor 10: 1 I, Paul, myself entreat you, by the meekness and gentleness of 2Cor 10: 1 Christ -- I who am humble when face to face with you, but bold to you 2Cor 10: 1 when I am away! -- 2Cor 10: 2 I beg of you that when I am present I may not have to show boldness 2Cor 10: 2 with such confidence as I count on showing against some who suspect us 2Cor 10: 2 of acting in worldly fashion. 2Cor 10: 3 For though we live in the world we are not carrying on a worldly war, 2Cor 10: 4 for the weapons of our warfare are not worldly but have divine power to 2Cor 10: 4 destroy strongholds. 2Cor 10: 5 We destroy arguments and every proud obstacle to the knowledge of God, 2Cor 10: 5 and take every thought captive to obey Christ, 2Cor 10: 6 being ready to punish every disobedience, when your obedience is 2Cor 10: 6 complete. 2Cor 10: 7 Look at what is before your eyes. If any one is confident that he is 2Cor 10: 7 Christ's, let him remind himself that as he is Christ's, so are we. 2Cor 10: 8 For even if I boast a little too much of our authority, which the Lord 2Cor 10: 8 gave for building you up and not for destroying you, I shall not be put 2Cor 10: 8 to shame. 2Cor 10: 9 I would not seem to be frightening you with letters. 2Cor 10:10 For they say, "His letters are weighty and strong, but his bodily 2Cor 10:10 presence is weak, and his speech of no account." 2Cor 10:11 Let such people understand that what we say by letter when absent, we 2Cor 10:11 do when present. 2Cor 10:12 Not that we venture to class or compare ourselves with some of those 2Cor 10:12 who commend themselves. But when they measure themselves by one 2Cor 10:12 another, and compare themselves with one another, they are without 2Cor 10:12 understanding. 2Cor 10:13 But we will not boast beyond limit, but will keep to the limits God 2Cor 10:13 has apportioned us, to reach even to you. 2Cor 10:14 For we are not overextending ourselves, as though we did not reach you; 2Cor 10:14 we were the first to come all the way to you with the gospel of Christ. 2Cor 10:15 We do not boast beyond limit, in other men's labors; but our hope is 2Cor 10:15 that as your faith increases, our field among you may be greatly 2Cor 10:15 enlarged, 2Cor 10:16 so that we may preach the gospel in lands beyond you, without boasting 2Cor 10:16 of work already done in another's field. 2Cor 10:17 "Let him who boasts, boast of the Lord." 2Cor 10:18 For it is not the man who commends himself that is accepted, but the 2Cor 10:18 man whom the Lord commends. 2Cor 11: 1 I wish you would bear with me in a little foolishness. Do bear with 2Cor 11: 1 me! 2Cor 11: 2 I feel a divine jealousy for you, for I betrothed you to Christ to 2Cor 11: 2 present you as a pure bride to her one husband. 2Cor 11: 3 But I am afraid that as the serpent deceived Eve by his cunning, your 2Cor 11: 3 thoughts will be led astray from a sincere and pure devotion to Christ. 2Cor 11: 4 For if some one comes and preaches another Jesus than the one we 2Cor 11: 4 preached, or if you receive a different spirit from the one you 2Cor 11: 4 received, or if you accept a different gospel from the one you 2Cor 11: 4 accepted, you submit to it readily enough. 2Cor 11: 5 I think that I am not in the least inferior to these superlative 2Cor 11: 5 apostles. 2Cor 11: 6 Even if I am unskilled in speaking, I am not in knowledge; in every way 2Cor 11: 6 we have made this plain to you in all things. 2Cor 11: 7 Did I commit a sin in abasing myself so that you might be exalted, 2Cor 11: 7 because I preached God's gospel without cost to you? 2Cor 11: 8 I robbed other churches by accepting support from them in order to 2Cor 11: 8 serve you. 2Cor 11: 9 And when I was with you and was in want, I did not burden any one, for 2Cor 11: 9 my needs were supplied by the brethren who came from Macedo'nia. So I 2Cor 11: 9 refrained and will refrain from burdening you in any way. 2Cor 11:10 As the truth of Christ is in me, this boast of mine shall not be 2Cor 11:10 silenced in the regions of Acha'ia. 2Cor 11:11 And why? Because I do not love you? God knows I do! 2Cor 11:12 And what I do I will continue to do, in order to undermine the claim 2Cor 11:12 of those who would like to claim that in their boasted mission they 2Cor 11:12 work on the same terms as we do. 2Cor 11:13 For such men are false apostles, deceitful workmen, disguising 2Cor 11:13 themselves as apostles of Christ. 2Cor 11:14 And no wonder, for even Satan disguises himself as an angel of light. 2Cor 11:15 So it is not strange if his servants also disguise themselves as 2Cor 11:15 servants of righteousness. Their end will correspond to their deeds. 2Cor 11:16 I repeat, let no one think me foolish; but even if you do, accept me 2Cor 11:16 as a fool, so that I too may boast a little. 2Cor 11:17 (What I am saying I say not with the Lord's authority but as a fool, in 2Cor 11:17 this boastful confidence; 2Cor 11:18 since many boast of worldly things, I too will boast.) 2Cor 11:19 For you gladly bear with fools, being wise yourselves! 2Cor 11:20 For you bear it if a man makes slaves of you, or preys upon you, or 2Cor 11:20 takes advantage of you, or puts on airs, or strikes you in the face. 2Cor 11:21 To my shame, I must say, we were too weak for that! 2Cor 11:21 But whatever any one dares to boast of -- I am speaking as a fool -- I 2Cor 11:21 also dare to boast of that. 2Cor 11:22 Are they Hebrews? So am I. Are they Israelites? So am I. Are they 2Cor 11:22 descendants of Abraham? So am I. 2Cor 11:23 Are they servants of Christ? I am a better one -- I am talking like a 2Cor 11:23 madman -- with far greater labors, far more imprisonments, with countless 2Cor 11:23 beatings, and often near death. 2Cor 11:24 Five times I have received at the hands of the Jews the forty lashes 2Cor 11:24 less one. 2Cor 11:25 Three times I have been beaten with rods; once I was stoned. Three 2Cor 11:25 times I have been shipwrecked; a night and a day I have been adrift at 2Cor 11:25 sea; 2Cor 11:26 on frequent journeys, in danger from rivers, danger from robbers, 2Cor 11:26 danger from my own people, danger from Gentiles, danger in the city, 2Cor 11:26 danger in the wilderness, danger at sea, danger from false brethren; 2Cor 11:27 in toil and hardship, through many a sleepless night, in hunger and 2Cor 11:27 thirst, often without food, in cold and exposure. 2Cor 11:28 And, apart from other things, there is the daily pressure upon me of my 2Cor 11:28 anxiety for all the churches. 2Cor 11:29 Who is weak, and I am not weak? Who is made to fall, and I am not 2Cor 11:29 indignant? 2Cor 11:30 If I must boast, I will boast of the things that show my weakness. 2Cor 11:31 The God and Father of the Lord Jesus, he who is blessed for ever, knows 2Cor 11:31 that I do not lie. 2Cor 11:32 At Damascus, the governor under King Ar'etas guarded the city of 2Cor 11:32 Damascus in order to seize me, 2Cor 11:33 but I was let down in a basket through a window in the wall, and 2Cor 11:33 escaped his hands. 2Cor 12: 1 I must boast; there is nothing to be gained by it, but I will go on 2Cor 12: 1 to visions and revelations of the Lord. 2Cor 12: 2 I know a man in Christ who fourteen years ago was caught up to the 2Cor 12: 2 third heaven -- whether in the body or out of the body I do not know, God 2Cor 12: 2 knows. 2Cor 12: 3 And I know that this man was caught up into Paradise -- whether in the 2Cor 12: 3 body or out of the body I do not know, God knows -- 2Cor 12: 4 and he heard things that cannot be told, which man may not utter. 2Cor 12: 5 On behalf of this man I will boast, but on my own behalf I will not 2Cor 12: 5 boast, except of my weaknesses. 2Cor 12: 6 Though if I wish to boast, I shall not be a fool, for I shall be 2Cor 12: 6 speaking the truth. But I refrain from it, so that no one may think 2Cor 12: 6 more of me than he sees in me or hears from me. 2Cor 12: 7 And to keep me from being too elated by the abundance of revelations, a 2Cor 12: 7 thorn was given me in the flesh, a messenger of Satan, to harass me, to 2Cor 12: 7 keep me from being too elated. 2Cor 12: 8 Three times I besought the Lord about this, that it should leave me; 2Cor 12: 9 but he said to me, "My grace is sufficient for you, for my power is 2Cor 12: 9 made perfect in weakness." I will all the more gladly boast of my 2Cor 12: 9 weaknesses, that the power of Christ may rest upon me. 2Cor 12:10 For the sake of Christ, then, I am content with weaknesses, insults, 2Cor 12:10 hardships, persecutions, and calamities; for when I am weak, then I am 2Cor 12:10 strong. 2Cor 12:11 I have been a fool! You forced me to it, for I ought to have been 2Cor 12:11 commended by you. For I was not at all inferior to these superlative 2Cor 12:11 apostles, even though I am nothing. 2Cor 12:12 The signs of a true apostle were performed among you in all patience, 2Cor 12:12 with signs and wonders and mighty works. 2Cor 12:13 For in what were you less favored than the rest of the churches, except 2Cor 12:13 that I myself did not burden you? Forgive me this wrong! 2Cor 12:14 Here for the third time I am ready to come to you. And I will not be 2Cor 12:14 a burden, for I seek not what is yours but you; for children ought not 2Cor 12:14 to lay up for their parents, but parents for their children. 2Cor 12:15 I will most gladly spend and be spent for your souls. If I love you the 2Cor 12:15 more, am I to be loved the less? 2Cor 12:16 But granting that I myself did not burden you, I was crafty, you say, 2Cor 12:16 and got the better of you by guile. 2Cor 12:17 Did I take advantage of you through any of those whom I sent to you? 2Cor 12:18 I urged Titus to go, and sent the brother with him. Did Titus take 2Cor 12:18 advantage of you? Did we not act in the same spirit? Did we not take 2Cor 12:18 the same steps? 2Cor 12:19 Have you been thinking all along that we have been defending 2Cor 12:19 ourselves before you? It is in the sight of God that we have been 2Cor 12:19 speaking in Christ, and all for your upbuilding, beloved. 2Cor 12:20 For I fear that perhaps I may come and find you not what I wish, and 2Cor 12:20 that you may find me not what you wish; that perhaps there may be 2Cor 12:20 quarreling, jealousy, anger, selfishness, slander, gossip, conceit, and 2Cor 12:20 disorder. 2Cor 12:21 I fear that when I come again my God may humble me before you, and I 2Cor 12:21 may have to mourn over many of those who sinned before and have not 2Cor 12:21 repented of the impurity, immorality, and licentiousness which they 2Cor 12:21 have practiced. 2Cor 13: 1 This is the third time I am coming to you. Any charge must be 2Cor 13: 1 sustained by the evidence of two or three witnesses. 2Cor 13: 2 I warned those who sinned before and all the others, and I warn them 2Cor 13: 2 now while absent, as I did when present on my second visit, that if I 2Cor 13: 2 come again I will not spare them -- 2Cor 13: 3 since you desire proof that Christ is speaking in me. He is not weak in 2Cor 13: 3 dealing with you, but is powerful in you. 2Cor 13: 4 For he was crucified in weakness, but lives by the power of God. For we 2Cor 13: 4 are weak in him, but in dealing with you we shall live with him by the 2Cor 13: 4 power of God. 2Cor 13: 5 Examine yourselves, to see whether you are holding to your faith. 2Cor 13: 5 Test yourselves. Do you not realize that Jesus Christ is in 2Cor 13: 5 you? -- unless indeed you fail to meet the test! 2Cor 13: 6 I hope you will find out that we have not failed. 2Cor 13: 7 But we pray God that you may not do wrong -- not that we may appear to 2Cor 13: 7 have met the test, but that you may do what is right, though we may 2Cor 13: 7 seem to have failed. 2Cor 13: 8 For we cannot do anything against the truth, but only for the truth. 2Cor 13: 9 For we are glad when we are weak and you are strong. What we pray for 2Cor 13: 9 is your improvement. 2Cor 13:10 I write this while I am away from you, in order that when I come I may 2Cor 13:10 not have to be severe in my use of the authority which the Lord has 2Cor 13:10 given me for building up and not for tearing down. 2Cor 13:11 Finally, brethren, farewell. Mend your ways, heed my appeal, agree 2Cor 13:11 with one another, live in peace, and the God of love and peace will be 2Cor 13:11 with you. 2Cor 13:12 Greet one another with a holy kiss. 2Cor 13:13 All the saints greet you. 2Cor 13:14 The grace of the Lord Jesus Christ and the love of God and the 2Cor 13:14 fellowship of the Holy Spirit be with you all. Gal 1: 1 Paul an apostle -- not from men nor through man, but through Jesus Christ Gal 1: 1 and God the Father, who raised him from the dead -- Gal 1: 2 and all the brethren who are with me, To the churches of Galatia: Gal 1: 3 Grace to you and peace from God the Father and our Lord Jesus Christ, Gal 1: 4 who gave himself for our sins to deliver us from the present evil age, Gal 1: 4 according to the will of our God and Father; Gal 1: 5 to whom be the glory for ever and ever. Amen. Gal 1: 6 I am astonished that you are so quickly deserting him who called you Gal 1: 6 in the grace of Christ and turning to a different gospel -- Gal 1: 7 not that there is another gospel, but there are some who trouble you Gal 1: 7 and want to pervert the gospel of Christ. Gal 1: 8 But even if we, or an angel from heaven, should preach to you a gospel Gal 1: 8 contrary to that which we preached to you, let him be accursed. Gal 1: 9 As we have said before, so now I say again, If any one is preaching to Gal 1: 9 you a gospel contrary to that which you received, let him be accursed. Gal 1:10 Am I now seeking the favor of men, or of God? Or am I trying to Gal 1:10 please men? If I were still pleasing men, I should not be a servant of Gal 1:10 Christ. Gal 1:11 For I would have you know, brethren, that the gospel which was Gal 1:11 preached by me is not man's gospel. Gal 1:12 For I did not receive it from man, nor was I taught it, but it came Gal 1:12 through a revelation of Jesus Christ. Gal 1:13 For you have heard of my former life in Judaism, how I persecuted the Gal 1:13 church of God violently and tried to destroy it; Gal 1:14 and I advanced in Judaism beyond many of my own age among my people, so Gal 1:14 extremely zealous was I for the traditions of my fathers. Gal 1:15 But when he who had set me apart before I was born, and had called me Gal 1:15 through his grace, Gal 1:16 was pleased to reveal his Son to me, in order that I might preach him Gal 1:16 among the Gentiles, I did not confer with flesh and blood, Gal 1:17 nor did I go up to Jerusalem to those who were apostles before me, but Gal 1:17 I went away into Arabia; and again I returned to Damascus. Gal 1:18 Then after three years I went up to Jerusalem to visit Cephas, and Gal 1:18 remained with him fifteen days. Gal 1:19 But I saw none of the other apostles except James the Lord's brother. Gal 1:20 (In what I am writing to you, before God, I do not lie!) Gal 1:21 Then I went into the regions of Syria and Cili'cia. Gal 1:22 And I was still not known by sight to the churches of Christ in Judea; Gal 1:23 they only heard it said, "He who once persecuted us is now preaching Gal 1:23 the faith he once tried to destroy." Gal 1:24 And they glorified God because of me. Gal 2: 1 Then after fourteen years I went up again to Jerusalem with Barnabas, Gal 2: 1 taking Titus along with me. Gal 2: 2 I went up by revelation; and I laid before them (but privately before Gal 2: 2 those who were of repute) the gospel which I preach among the Gentiles, Gal 2: 2 lest somehow I should be running or had run in vain. Gal 2: 3 But even Titus, who was with me, was not compelled to be circumcised, Gal 2: 3 though he was a Greek. Gal 2: 4 But because of false brethren secretly brought in, who slipped in to Gal 2: 4 spy out our freedom which we have in Christ Jesus, that they might Gal 2: 4 bring us into bondage -- Gal 2: 5 to them we did not yield submission even for a moment, that the truth Gal 2: 5 of the gospel might be preserved for you. Gal 2: 6 And from those who were reputed to be something (what they were makes Gal 2: 6 no difference to me; God shows no partiality) -- those, I say, who were Gal 2: 6 of repute added nothing to me; Gal 2: 7 but on the contrary, when they saw that I had been entrusted with the Gal 2: 7 gospel to the uncircumcised, just as Peter had been entrusted with the Gal 2: 7 gospel to the circumcised Gal 2: 8 (for he who worked through Peter for the mission to the circumcised Gal 2: 8 worked through me also for the Gentiles), Gal 2: 9 and when they perceived the grace that was given to me, James and Gal 2: 9 Cephas and John, who were reputed to be pillars, gave to me and Gal 2: 9 Barnabas the right hand of fellowship, that we should go to the Gal 2: 9 Gentiles and they to the circumcised; Gal 2:10 only they would have us remember the poor, which very thing I was eager Gal 2:10 to do. Gal 2:11 But when Cephas came to Antioch I opposed him to his face, because he Gal 2:11 stood condemned. Gal 2:12 For before certain men came from James, he ate with the Gentiles; but Gal 2:12 when they came he drew back and separated himself, fearing the Gal 2:12 circumcision party. Gal 2:13 And with him the rest of the Jews acted insincerely, so that even Gal 2:13 Barnabas was carried away by their insincerity. Gal 2:14 But when I saw that they were not straightforward about the truth of Gal 2:14 the gospel, I said to Cephas before them all, "If you, though a Jew, Gal 2:14 live like a Gentile and not like a Jew, how can you compel the Gentiles Gal 2:14 to live like Jews?" Gal 2:15 We ourselves, who are Jews by birth and not Gentile sinners, Gal 2:16 yet who know that a man is not justified by works of the law but Gal 2:16 through faith in Jesus Christ, even we have believed in Christ Jesus, Gal 2:16 in order to be justified by faith in Christ, and not by works of the Gal 2:16 law, because by works of the law shall no one be justified. Gal 2:17 But if, in our endeavor to be justified in Christ, we ourselves were Gal 2:17 found to be sinners, is Christ then an agent of sin? Certainly not! Gal 2:18 But if I build up again those things which I tore down, then I prove Gal 2:18 myself a transgressor. Gal 2:19 For I through the law died to the law, that I might live to God. Gal 2:20 I have been crucified with Christ; it is no longer I who live, but Gal 2:20 Christ who lives in me; and the life I now live in the flesh I live by Gal 2:20 faith in the Son of God, who loved me and gave himself for me. Gal 2:21 I do not nullify the grace of God; for if justification were through Gal 2:21 the law, then Christ died to no purpose. Gal 3: 1 O foolish Galatians! Who has bewitched you, before whose eyes Jesus Gal 3: 1 Christ was publicly portrayed as crucified? Gal 3: 2 Let me ask you only this: Did you receive the Spirit by works of the Gal 3: 2 law, or by hearing with faith? Gal 3: 3 Are you so foolish? Having begun with the Spirit, are you now ending Gal 3: 3 with the flesh? Gal 3: 4 Did you experience so many things in vain? -- if it really is in vain. Gal 3: 5 Does he who supplies the Spirit to you and works miracles among you do Gal 3: 5 so by works of the law, or by hearing with faith? Gal 3: 6 Thus Abraham "believed God, and it was reckoned to him as Gal 3: 6 righteousness." Gal 3: 7 So you see that it is men of faith who are the sons of Abraham. Gal 3: 8 And the scripture, foreseeing that God would justify the Gentiles by Gal 3: 8 faith, preached the gospel beforehand to Abraham, saying, "In you shall Gal 3: 8 all the nations be blessed." Gal 3: 9 So then, those who are men of faith are blessed with Abraham who had Gal 3: 9 faith. Gal 3:10 For all who rely on works of the law are under a curse; for it is Gal 3:10 written, "Cursed be every one who does not abide by all things written Gal 3:10 in the book of the law, and do them." Gal 3:11 Now it is evident that no man is justified before God by the law; for Gal 3:11 "He who through faith is righteous shall live"; Gal 3:12 but the law does not rest on faith, for "He who does them shall live by Gal 3:12 them." Gal 3:13 Christ redeemed us from the curse of the law, having become a curse for Gal 3:13 us -- for it is written, "Cursed be every one who hangs on a tree" -- Gal 3:14 that in Christ Jesus the blessing of Abraham might come upon the Gal 3:14 Gentiles, that we might receive the promise of the Spirit through faith. Gal 3:15 To give a human example, brethren: no one annuls even a man's will, Gal 3:15 or adds to it, once it has been ratified. Gal 3:16 Now the promises were made to Abraham and to his offspring. It does not Gal 3:16 say, "And to offsprings," referring to many; but, referring to one, Gal 3:16 "And to your offspring," which is Christ. Gal 3:17 This is what I mean: the law, which came four hundred and thirty years Gal 3:17 afterward, does not annul a covenant previously ratified by God, so as Gal 3:17 to make the promise void. Gal 3:18 For if the inheritance is by the law, it is no longer by promise; but Gal 3:18 God gave it to Abraham by a promise. Gal 3:19 Why then the law? It was added because of transgressions, till the Gal 3:19 offspring should come to whom the promise had been made; and it was Gal 3:19 ordained by angels through an intermediary. Gal 3:20 Now an intermediary implies more than one; but God is one. Gal 3:21 Is the law then against the promises of God? Certainly not; for if a Gal 3:21 law had been given which could make alive, then righteousness would Gal 3:21 indeed be by the law. Gal 3:22 But the scripture consigned all things to sin, that what was promised Gal 3:22 to faith in Jesus Christ might be given to those who believe. Gal 3:23 Now before faith came, we were confined under the law, kept under Gal 3:23 restraint until faith should be revealed. Gal 3:24 So that the law was our custodian until Christ came, that we might be Gal 3:24 justified by faith. Gal 3:25 But now that faith has come, we are no longer under a custodian; Gal 3:26 for in Christ Jesus you are all sons of God, through faith. Gal 3:27 For as many of you as were baptized into Christ have put on Christ. Gal 3:28 There is neither Jew nor Greek, there is neither slave nor free, there Gal 3:28 is neither male nor female; for you are all one in Christ Jesus. Gal 3:29 And if you are Christ's, then you are Abraham's offspring, heirs Gal 3:29 according to promise. Gal 4: 1 I mean that the heir, as long as he is a child, is no better than a Gal 4: 1 slave, though he is the owner of all the estate; Gal 4: 2 but he is under guardians and trustees until the date set by the father. Gal 4: 3 So with us; when we were children, we were slaves to the elemental Gal 4: 3 spirits of the universe. Gal 4: 4 But when the time had fully come, God sent forth his Son, born of Gal 4: 4 woman, born under the law, Gal 4: 5 to redeem those who were under the law, so that we might receive Gal 4: 5 adoption as sons. Gal 4: 6 And because you are sons, God has sent the Spirit of his Son into our Gal 4: 6 hearts, crying, "Abba! Father!" Gal 4: 7 So through God you are no longer a slave but a son, and if a son then Gal 4: 7 an heir. Gal 4: 8 Formerly, when you did not know God, you were in bondage to beings Gal 4: 8 that by nature are no gods; Gal 4: 9 but now that you have come to know God, or rather to be known by God, Gal 4: 9 how can you turn back again to the weak and beggarly elemental spirits, Gal 4: 9 whose slaves you want to be once more? Gal 4:10 You observe days, and months, and seasons, and years! Gal 4:11 I am afraid I have labored over you in vain. Gal 4:12 Brethren, I beseech you, become as I am, for I also have become as Gal 4:12 you are. You did me no wrong; Gal 4:13 you know it was because of a bodily ailment that I preached the gospel Gal 4:13 to you at first; Gal 4:14 and though my condition was a trial to you, you did not scorn or Gal 4:14 despise me, but received me as an angel of God, as Christ Jesus. Gal 4:15 What has become of the satisfaction you felt? For I bear you witness Gal 4:15 that, if possible, you would have plucked out your eyes and given them Gal 4:15 to me. Gal 4:16 Have I then become your enemy by telling you the truth? Gal 4:17 They make much of you, but for no good purpose; they want to shut you Gal 4:17 out, that you may make much of them. Gal 4:18 For a good purpose it is always good to be made much of, and not only Gal 4:18 when I am present with you. Gal 4:19 My little children, with whom I am again in travail until Christ be Gal 4:19 formed in you! Gal 4:20 I could wish to be present with you now and to change my tone, for I am Gal 4:20 perplexed about you. Gal 4:21 Tell me, you who desire to be under law, do you not hear the law? Gal 4:22 For it is written that Abraham had two sons, one by a slave and one by Gal 4:22 a free woman. Gal 4:23 But the son of the slave was born according to the flesh, the son of Gal 4:23 the free woman through promise. Gal 4:24 Now this is an allegory: these women are two covenants. One is from Gal 4:24 Mount Sinai, bearing children for slavery; she is Hagar. Gal 4:25 Now Hagar is Mount Sinai in Arabia; she corresponds to the present Gal 4:25 Jerusalem, for she is in slavery with her children. Gal 4:26 But the Jerusalem above is free, and she is our mother. Gal 4:27 For it is written, Gal 4:27 "Rejoice, O barren one who does not bear; Gal 4:27 break forth and shout, you who are not in travail; Gal 4:27 for the children of the desolate one are many more Gal 4:27 than the children of her that is married." Gal 4:28 Now we, brethren, like Isaac, are children of promise. Gal 4:29 But as at that time he who was born according to the flesh persecuted Gal 4:29 him who was born according to the Spirit, so it is now. Gal 4:30 But what does the scripture say? "Cast out the slave and her son; for Gal 4:30 the son of the slave shall not inherit with the son of the free woman." Gal 4:31 So, brethren, we are not children of the slave but of the free woman. Gal 5: 1 For freedom Christ has set us free; stand fast therefore, and do not Gal 5: 1 submit again to a yoke of slavery. Gal 5: 2 Now I, Paul, say to you that if you receive circumcision, Christ will Gal 5: 2 be of no advantage to you. Gal 5: 3 I testify again to every man who receives circumcision that he is bound Gal 5: 3 to keep the whole law. Gal 5: 4 You are severed from Christ, you who would be justified by the law; you Gal 5: 4 have fallen away from grace. Gal 5: 5 For through the Spirit, by faith, we wait for the hope of righteousness. Gal 5: 6 For in Christ Jesus neither circumcision nor uncircumcision is of any Gal 5: 6 avail, but faith working through love. Gal 5: 7 You were running well; who hindered you from obeying the truth? Gal 5: 8 This persuasion is not from him who calls you. Gal 5: 9 A little leaven leavens the whole lump. Gal 5:10 I have confidence in the Lord that you will take no other view than Gal 5:10 mine; and he who is troubling you will bear his judgment, whoever he is. Gal 5:11 But if I, brethren, still preach circumcision, why am I still Gal 5:11 persecuted? In that case the stumbling block of the cross has been Gal 5:11 removed. Gal 5:12 I wish those who unsettle you would mutilate themselves! Gal 5:13 For you were called to freedom, brethren; only do not use your Gal 5:13 freedom as an opportunity for the flesh, but through love be servants Gal 5:13 of one another. Gal 5:14 For the whole law is fulfilled in one word, "You shall love your Gal 5:14 neighbor as yourself." Gal 5:15 But if you bite and devour one another take heed that you are not Gal 5:15 consumed by one another. Gal 5:16 But I say, walk by the Spirit, and do not gratify the desires of the Gal 5:16 flesh. Gal 5:17 For the desires of the flesh are against the Spirit, and the desires of Gal 5:17 the Spirit are against the flesh; for these are opposed to each other, Gal 5:17 to prevent you from doing what you would. Gal 5:18 But if you are led by the Spirit you are not under the law. Gal 5:19 Now the works of the flesh are plain: fornication, impurity, Gal 5:19 licentiousness, Gal 5:20 idolatry, sorcery, enmity, strife, jealousy, anger, selfishness, Gal 5:20 dissension, party spirit, Gal 5:21 envy, drunkenness, carousing, and the like. I warn you, as I warned you Gal 5:21 before, that those who do such things shall not inherit the kingdom of Gal 5:21 God. Gal 5:22 But the fruit of the Spirit is love, joy, peace, patience, kindness, Gal 5:22 goodness, faithfulness, Gal 5:23 gentleness, self-control; against such there is no law. Gal 5:24 And those who belong to Christ Jesus have crucified the flesh with its Gal 5:24 passions and desires. Gal 5:25 If we live by the Spirit, let us also walk by the Spirit. Gal 5:26 Let us have no self-conceit, no provoking of one another, no envy of Gal 5:26 one another. Gal 6: 1 Brethren, if a man is overtaken in any trespass, you who are Gal 6: 1 spiritual should restore him in a spirit of gentleness. Look to Gal 6: 1 yourself, lest you too be tempted. Gal 6: 2 Bear one another's burdens, and so fulfil the law of Christ. Gal 6: 3 For if any one thinks he is something, when he is nothing, he deceives Gal 6: 3 himself. Gal 6: 4 But let each one test his own work, and then his reason to boast will Gal 6: 4 be in himself alone and not in his neighbor. Gal 6: 5 For each man will have to bear his own load. Gal 6: 6 Let him who is taught the word share all good things with him who Gal 6: 6 teaches. Gal 6: 7 Do not be deceived; God is not mocked, for whatever a man sows, that Gal 6: 7 he will also reap. Gal 6: 8 For he who sows to his own flesh will from the flesh reap corruption; Gal 6: 8 but he who sows to the Spirit will from the Spirit reap eternal life. Gal 6: 9 And let us not grow weary in well-doing, for in due season we shall Gal 6: 9 reap, if we do not lose heart. Gal 6:10 So then, as we have opportunity, let us do good to all men, and Gal 6:10 especially to those who are of the household of faith. Gal 6:11 See with what large letters I am writing to you with my own hand. Gal 6:12 It is those who want to make a good showing in the flesh that would Gal 6:12 compel you to be circumcised, and only in order that they may not be Gal 6:12 persecuted for the cross of Christ. Gal 6:13 For even those who receive circumcision do not themselves keep the law, Gal 6:13 but they desire to have you circumcised that they may glory in your Gal 6:13 flesh. Gal 6:14 But far be it from me to glory except in the cross of our Lord Jesus Gal 6:14 Christ, by which the world has been crucified to me, and I to the world. Gal 6:15 For neither circumcision counts for anything, nor uncircumcision, but a Gal 6:15 new creation. Gal 6:16 Peace and mercy be upon all who walk by this rule, upon the Israel of Gal 6:16 God. Gal 6:17 Henceforth let no man trouble me; for I bear on my body the marks of Gal 6:17 Jesus. Gal 6:18 The grace of our Lord Jesus Christ be with your spirit, brethren. Gal 6:18 Amen. Eph 1: 1 Paul, an apostle of Christ Jesus by the will of God, Eph 1: 1 To the saints who are also faithful in Christ Jesus: Eph 1: 2 Grace to you and peace from God our Father and the Lord Jesus Christ. Eph 1: 3 Blessed be the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, who has Eph 1: 3 blessed us in Christ with every spiritual blessing in the heavenly Eph 1: 3 places, Eph 1: 4 even as he chose us in him before the foundation of the world, that we Eph 1: 4 should be holy and blameless before him. Eph 1: 5 He destined us in love to be his sons through Jesus Christ, according Eph 1: 5 to the purpose of his will, Eph 1: 6 to the praise of his glorious grace which he freely bestowed on us in Eph 1: 6 the Beloved. Eph 1: 7 In him we have redemption through his blood, the forgiveness of our Eph 1: 7 trespasses, according to the riches of his grace Eph 1: 8 which he lavished upon us. Eph 1: 9 For he has made known to us in all wisdom and insight the mystery of Eph 1: 9 his will, according to his purpose which he set forth in Christ Eph 1:10 as a plan for the fulness of time, to unite all things in him, things Eph 1:10 in heaven and things on earth. Eph 1:11 In him, according to the purpose of him who accomplishes all things Eph 1:11 according to the counsel of his will, Eph 1:12 we who first hoped in Christ have been destined and appointed to live Eph 1:12 for the praise of his glory. Eph 1:13 In him you also, who have heard the word of truth, the gospel of your Eph 1:13 salvation, and have believed in him, were sealed with the promised Holy Eph 1:13 Spirit, Eph 1:14 which is the guarantee of our inheritance until we acquire possession Eph 1:14 of it, to the praise of his glory. Eph 1:15 For this reason, because I have heard of your faith in the Lord Jesus Eph 1:15 and your love toward all the saints, Eph 1:16 I do not cease to give thanks for you, remembering you in my prayers, Eph 1:17 that the God of our Lord Jesus Christ, the Father of glory, may give Eph 1:17 you a spirit of wisdom and of revelation in the knowledge of him, Eph 1:18 having the eyes of your hearts enlightened, that you may know what is Eph 1:18 the hope to which he has called you, what are the riches of his Eph 1:18 glorious inheritance in the saints, Eph 1:19 and what is the immeasurable greatness of his power in us who believe, Eph 1:19 according to the working of his great might Eph 1:20 which he accomplished in Christ when he raised him from the dead and Eph 1:20 made him sit at his right hand in the heavenly places, Eph 1:21 far above all rule and authority and power and dominion, and above Eph 1:21 every name that is named, not only in this age but also in that which Eph 1:21 is to come; Eph 1:22 and he has put all things under his feet and has made him the head over Eph 1:22 all things for the church, Eph 1:23 which is his body, the fulness of him who fills all in all. Eph 2: 1 And you he made alive, when you were dead through the trespasses and Eph 2: 1 sins Eph 2: 2 in which you once walked, following the course of this world, following Eph 2: 2 the prince of the power of the air, the spirit that is now at work in Eph 2: 2 the sons of disobedience. Eph 2: 3 Among these we all once lived in the passions of our flesh, following Eph 2: 3 the desires of body and mind, and so we were by nature children of Eph 2: 3 wrath, like the rest of mankind. Eph 2: 4 But God, who is rich in mercy, out of the great love with which he Eph 2: 4 loved us, Eph 2: 5 even when we were dead through our trespasses, made us alive together Eph 2: 5 with Christ (by grace you have been saved), Eph 2: 6 and raised us up with him, and made us sit with him in the heavenly Eph 2: 6 places in Christ Jesus, Eph 2: 7 that in the coming ages he might show the immeasurable riches of his Eph 2: 7 grace in kindness toward us in Christ Jesus. Eph 2: 8 For by grace you have been saved through faith; and this is not your Eph 2: 8 own doing, it is the gift of God -- Eph 2: 9 not because of works, lest any man should boast. Eph 2:10 For we are his workmanship, created in Christ Jesus for good works, Eph 2:10 which God prepared beforehand, that we should walk in them. Eph 2:11 Therefore remember that at one time you Gentiles in the flesh, called Eph 2:11 the uncircumcision by what is called the circumcision, which is made in Eph 2:11 the flesh by hands -- Eph 2:12 remember that you were at that time separated from Christ, alienated Eph 2:12 from the commonwealth of Israel, and strangers to the covenants of Eph 2:12 promise, having no hope and without God in the world. Eph 2:13 But now in Christ Jesus you who once were far off have been brought Eph 2:13 near in the blood of Christ. Eph 2:14 For he is our peace, who has made us both one, and has broken down the Eph 2:14 dividing wall of hostility, Eph 2:15 by abolishing in his flesh the law of commandments and ordinances, that Eph 2:15 he might create in himself one new man in place of the two, so making Eph 2:15 peace, Eph 2:16 and might reconcile us both to God in one body through the cross, Eph 2:16 thereby bringing the hostility to an end. Eph 2:17 And he came and preached peace to you who were far off and peace to Eph 2:17 those who were near; Eph 2:18 for through him we both have access in one Spirit to the Father. Eph 2:19 So then you are no longer strangers and sojourners, but you are fellow Eph 2:19 citizens with the saints and members of the household of God, Eph 2:20 built upon the foundation of the apostles and prophets, Christ Jesus Eph 2:20 himself being the cornerstone, Eph 2:21 in whom the whole structure is joined together and grows into a holy Eph 2:21 temple in the Lord; Eph 2:22 in whom you also are built into it for a dwelling place of God in the Eph 2:22 Spirit. Eph 3: 1 For this reason I, Paul, a prisoner for Christ Jesus on behalf of you Eph 3: 1 Gentiles -- Eph 3: 2 assuming that you have heard of the stewardship of God's grace that was Eph 3: 2 given to me for you, Eph 3: 3 how the mystery was made known to me by revelation, as I have written Eph 3: 3 briefly. Eph 3: 4 When you read this you can perceive my insight into the mystery of Eph 3: 4 Christ, Eph 3: 5 which was not made known to the sons of men in other generations as it Eph 3: 5 has now been revealed to his holy apostles and prophets by the Spirit; Eph 3: 6 that is, how the Gentiles are fellow heirs, members of the same body, Eph 3: 6 and partakers of the promise in Christ Jesus through the gospel. Eph 3: 7 Of this gospel I was made a minister according to the gift of God's Eph 3: 7 grace which was given me by the working of his power. Eph 3: 8 To me, though I am the very least of all the saints, this grace was Eph 3: 8 given, to preach to the Gentiles the unsearchable riches of Christ, Eph 3: 9 and to make all men see what is the plan of the mystery hidden for ages Eph 3: 9 in God who created all things; Eph 3:10 that through the church the manifold wisdom of God might now be made Eph 3:10 known to the principalities and powers in the heavenly places. Eph 3:11 This was according to the eternal purpose which he has realized in Eph 3:11 Christ Jesus our Lord, Eph 3:12 in whom we have boldness and confidence of access through our faith in Eph 3:12 him. Eph 3:13 So I ask you not to lose heart over what I am suffering for you, which Eph 3:13 is your glory. Eph 3:14 For this reason I bow my knees before the Father, Eph 3:15 from whom every family in heaven and on earth is named, Eph 3:16 that according to the riches of his glory he may grant you to be Eph 3:16 strengthened with might through his Spirit in the inner man, Eph 3:17 and that Christ may dwell in your hearts through faith; that you, being Eph 3:17 rooted and grounded in love, Eph 3:18 may have power to comprehend with all the saints what is the breadth Eph 3:18 and length and height and depth, Eph 3:19 and to know the love of Christ which surpasses knowledge, that you may Eph 3:19 be filled with all the fulness of God. Eph 3:20 Now to him who by the power at work within us is able to do far more Eph 3:20 abundantly than all that we ask or think, Eph 3:21 to him be glory in the church and in Christ Jesus to all generations, Eph 3:21 for ever and ever. Amen. Eph 4: 1 I therefore, a prisoner for the Lord, beg you to lead a life worthy Eph 4: 1 of the calling to which you have been called, Eph 4: 2 with all lowliness and meekness, with patience, forbearing one another Eph 4: 2 in love, Eph 4: 3 eager to maintain the unity of the Spirit in the bond of peace. Eph 4: 4 There is one body and one Spirit, just as you were called to the one Eph 4: 4 hope that belongs to your call, Eph 4: 5 one Lord, one faith, one baptism, Eph 4: 6 one God and Father of us all, who is above all and through all and in Eph 4: 6 all. Eph 4: 7 But grace was given to each of us according to the measure of Christ's Eph 4: 7 gift. Eph 4: 8 Therefore it is said, Eph 4: 8 "When he ascended on high he led a host of captives, Eph 4: 8 and he gave gifts to men." Eph 4: 9 (In saying, "He ascended," what does it mean but that he had also Eph 4: 9 descended into the lower parts of the earth? Eph 4:10 He who descended is he who also ascended far above all the heavens, Eph 4:10 that he might fill all things.) Eph 4:11 And his gifts were that some should be apostles, some prophets, some Eph 4:11 evangelists, some pastors and teachers, Eph 4:12 to equip the saints for the work of ministry, for building up the body Eph 4:12 of Christ, Eph 4:13 until we all attain to the unity of the faith and of the knowledge of Eph 4:13 the Son of God, to mature manhood, to the measure of the stature of the Eph 4:13 fulness of Christ; Eph 4:14 so that we may no longer be children, tossed to and fro and carried Eph 4:14 about with every wind of doctrine, by the cunning of men, by their Eph 4:14 craftiness in deceitful wiles. Eph 4:15 Rather, speaking the truth in love, we are to grow up in every way into Eph 4:15 him who is the head, into Christ, Eph 4:16 from whom the whole body, joined and knit together by every joint with Eph 4:16 which it is supplied, when each part is working properly, makes bodily Eph 4:16 growth and upbuilds itself in love. Eph 4:17 Now this I affirm and testify in the Lord, that you must no longer Eph 4:17 live as the Gentiles do, in the futility of their minds; Eph 4:18 they are darkened in their understanding, alienated from the life of Eph 4:18 God because of the ignorance that is in them, due to their hardness of Eph 4:18 heart; Eph 4:19 they have become callous and have given themselves up to Eph 4:19 licentiousness, greedy to practice every kind of uncleanness. Eph 4:20 You did not so learn Christ! -- Eph 4:21 assuming that you have heard about him and were taught in him, as the Eph 4:21 truth is in Jesus. Eph 4:22 Put off your old nature which belongs to your former manner of life and Eph 4:22 is corrupt through deceitful lusts, Eph 4:23 and be renewed in the spirit of your minds, Eph 4:24 and put on the new nature, created after the likeness of God in true Eph 4:24 righteousness and holiness. Eph 4:25 Therefore, putting away falsehood, let every one speak the truth with Eph 4:25 his neighbor, for we are members one of another. Eph 4:26 Be angry but do not sin; do not let the sun go down on your anger, Eph 4:27 and give no opportunity to the devil. Eph 4:28 Let the thief no longer steal, but rather let him labor, doing honest Eph 4:28 work with his hands, so that he may be able to give to those in need. Eph 4:29 Let no evil talk come out of your mouths, but only such as is good for Eph 4:29 edifying, as fits the occasion, that it may impart grace to those who Eph 4:29 hear. Eph 4:30 And do not grieve the Holy Spirit of God, in whom you were sealed for Eph 4:30 the day of redemption. Eph 4:31 Let all bitterness and wrath and anger and clamor and slander be put Eph 4:31 away from you, with all malice, Eph 4:32 and be kind to one another, tenderhearted, forgiving one another, as Eph 4:32 God in Christ forgave you. Eph 5: 1 Therefore be imitators of God, as beloved children. Eph 5: 2 And walk in love, as Christ loved us and gave himself up for us, a Eph 5: 2 fragrant offering and sacrifice to God. Eph 5: 3 But fornication and all impurity or covetousness must not even be Eph 5: 3 named among you, as is fitting among saints. Eph 5: 4 Let there be no filthiness, nor silly talk, nor levity, which are not Eph 5: 4 fitting; but instead let there be thanksgiving. Eph 5: 5 Be sure of this, that no fornicator or impure man, or one who is Eph 5: 5 covetous (that is, an idolater), has any inheritance in the kingdom of Eph 5: 5 Christ and of God. Eph 5: 6 Let no one deceive you with empty words, for it is because of these Eph 5: 6 things that the wrath of God comes upon the sons of disobedience. Eph 5: 7 Therefore do not associate with them, Eph 5: 8 for once you were darkness, but now you are light in the Lord; walk as Eph 5: 8 children of light Eph 5: 9 (for the fruit of light is found in all that is good and right and Eph 5: 9 true), Eph 5:10 and try to learn what is pleasing to the Lord. Eph 5:11 Take no part in the unfruitful works of darkness, but instead expose Eph 5:11 them. Eph 5:12 For it is a shame even to speak of the things that they do in secret; Eph 5:13 but when anything is exposed by the light it becomes visible, for Eph 5:13 anything that becomes visible is light. Eph 5:14 Therefore it is said, Eph 5:14 "Awake, O sleeper, and arise from the dead, Eph 5:14 and Christ shall give you light." Eph 5:15 Look carefully then how you walk, not as unwise men but as wise, Eph 5:16 making the most of the time, because the days are evil. Eph 5:17 Therefore do not be foolish, but understand what the will of the Lord Eph 5:17 is. Eph 5:18 And do not get drunk with wine, for that is debauchery; but be filled Eph 5:18 with the Spirit, Eph 5:19 addressing one another in psalms and hymns and spiritual songs, singing Eph 5:19 and making melody to the Lord with all your heart, Eph 5:20 always and for everything giving thanks in the name of our Lord Jesus Eph 5:20 Christ to God the Father. Eph 5:21 Be subject to one another out of reverence for Christ. Eph 5:22 Wives, be subject to your husbands, as to the Lord. Eph 5:23 For the husband is the head of the wife as Christ is the head of the Eph 5:23 church, his body, and is himself its Savior. Eph 5:24 As the church is subject to Christ, so let wives also be subject in Eph 5:24 everything to their husbands. Eph 5:25 Husbands, love your wives, as Christ loved the church and gave himself Eph 5:25 up for her, Eph 5:26 that he might sanctify her, having cleansed her by the washing of water Eph 5:26 with the word, Eph 5:27 that he might present the church to himself in splendor, without spot Eph 5:27 or wrinkle or any such thing, that she might be holy and without Eph 5:27 blemish. Eph 5:28 Even so husbands should love their wives as their own bodies. He who Eph 5:28 loves his wife loves himself. Eph 5:29 For no man ever hates his own flesh, but nourishes and cherishes it, as Eph 5:29 Christ does the church, Eph 5:30 because we are members of his body. Eph 5:31 "For this reason a man shall leave his father and mother and be joined Eph 5:31 to his wife, and the two shall become one flesh." Eph 5:32 This mystery is a profound one, and I am saying that it refers to Eph 5:32 Christ and the church; Eph 5:33 however, let each one of you love his wife as himself, and let the wife Eph 5:33 see that she respects her husband. Eph 6: 1 Children, obey your parents in the Lord, for this is right. Eph 6: 2 "Honor your father and mother" (this is the first commandment with a Eph 6: 2 promise), Eph 6: 3 "that it may be well with you and that you may live long on the earth." Eph 6: 4 Fathers, do not provoke your children to anger, but bring them up in Eph 6: 4 the discipline and instruction of the Lord. Eph 6: 5 Slaves, be obedient to those who are your earthly masters, with fear Eph 6: 5 and trembling, in singleness of heart, as to Christ; Eph 6: 6 not in the way of eye-service, as men-pleasers, but as servants of Eph 6: 6 Christ, doing the will of God from the heart, Eph 6: 7 rendering service with a good will as to the Lord and not to men, Eph 6: 8 knowing that whatever good any one does, he will receive the same again Eph 6: 8 from the Lord, whether he is a slave or free. Eph 6: 9 Masters, do the same to them, and forbear threatening, knowing that he Eph 6: 9 who is both their Master and yours is in heaven, and that there is no Eph 6: 9 partiality with him. Eph 6:10 Finally, be strong in the Lord and in the strength of his might. Eph 6:11 Put on the whole armor of God, that you may be able to stand against Eph 6:11 the wiles of the devil. Eph 6:12 For we are not contending against flesh and blood, but against the Eph 6:12 principalities, against the powers, against the world rulers of this Eph 6:12 present darkness, against the spiritual hosts of wickedness in the Eph 6:12 heavenly places. Eph 6:13 Therefore take the whole armor of God, that you may be able to Eph 6:13 withstand in the evil day, and having done all, to stand. Eph 6:14 Stand therefore, having girded your loins with truth, and having put on Eph 6:14 the breastplate of righteousness, Eph 6:15 and having shod your feet with the equipment of the gospel of peace; Eph 6:16 besides all these, taking the shield of faith, with which you can Eph 6:16 quench all the flaming darts of the evil one. Eph 6:17 And take the helmet of salvation, and the sword of the Spirit, which is Eph 6:17 the word of God. Eph 6:18 Pray at all times in the Spirit, with all prayer and supplication. To Eph 6:18 that end keep alert with all perseverance, making supplication for all Eph 6:18 the saints, Eph 6:19 and also for me, that utterance may be given me in opening my mouth Eph 6:19 boldly to proclaim the mystery of the gospel, Eph 6:20 for which I am an ambassador in chains; that I may declare it boldly, Eph 6:20 as I ought to speak. Eph 6:21 Now that you also may know how I am and what I am doing, Tych'icus Eph 6:21 the beloved brother and faithful minister in the Lord will tell you Eph 6:21 everything. Eph 6:22 I have sent him to you for this very purpose, that you may know how we Eph 6:22 are, and that he may encourage your hearts. Eph 6:23 Peace be to the brethren, and love with faith, from God the Father Eph 6:23 and the Lord Jesus Christ. Eph 6:24 Grace be with all who love our Lord Jesus Christ with love undying. Phil 1: 1 Paul and Timothy, servants of Christ Jesus, Phil 1: 1 To all the saints in Christ Jesus who are at Philip'pi, with the Phil 1: 1 bishops and deacons: Phil 1: 2 Grace to you and peace from God our Father and the Lord Jesus Christ. Phil 1: 3 I thank my God in all my remembrance of you, Phil 1: 4 always in every prayer of mine for you all making my prayer with joy, Phil 1: 5 thankful for your partnership in the gospel from the first day until Phil 1: 5 now. Phil 1: 6 And I am sure that he who began a good work in you will bring it to Phil 1: 6 completion at the day of Jesus Christ. Phil 1: 7 It is right for me to feel thus about you all, because I hold you in my Phil 1: 7 heart, for you are all partakers with me of grace, both in my Phil 1: 7 imprisonment and in the defense and confirmation of the gospel. Phil 1: 8 For God is my witness, how I yearn for you all with the affection of Phil 1: 8 Christ Jesus. Phil 1: 9 And it is my prayer that your love may abound more and more, with Phil 1: 9 knowledge and all discernment, Phil 1:10 so that you may approve what is excellent, and may be pure and Phil 1:10 blameless for the day of Christ, Phil 1:11 filled with the fruits of righteousness which come through Jesus Phil 1:11 Christ, to the glory and praise of God. Phil 1:12 I want you to know, brethren, that what has happened to me has really Phil 1:12 served to advance the gospel, Phil 1:13 so that it has become known throughout the whole praetorian guard and Phil 1:13 to all the rest that my imprisonment is for Christ; Phil 1:14 and most of the brethren have been made confident in the Lord because Phil 1:14 of my imprisonment, and are much more bold to speak the word of God Phil 1:14 without fear. Phil 1:15 Some indeed preach Christ from envy and rivalry, but others from good Phil 1:15 will. Phil 1:16 The latter do it out of love, knowing that I am put here for the Phil 1:16 defense of the gospel; Phil 1:17 the former proclaim Christ out of partisanship, not sincerely but Phil 1:17 thinking to afflict me in my imprisonment. Phil 1:18 What then? Only that in every way, whether in pretense or in truth, Phil 1:18 Christ is proclaimed; and in that I rejoice. Phil 1:19 Yes, and I shall rejoice. For I know that through your prayers and Phil 1:19 the help of the Spirit of Jesus Christ this will turn out for my Phil 1:19 deliverance, Phil 1:20 as it is my eager expectation and hope that I shall not be at all Phil 1:20 ashamed, but that with full courage now as always Christ will be Phil 1:20 honored in my body, whether by life or by death. Phil 1:21 For to me to live is Christ, and to die is gain. Phil 1:22 If it is to be life in the flesh, that means fruitful labor for me. Yet Phil 1:22 which I shall choose I cannot tell. Phil 1:23 I am hard pressed between the two. My desire is to depart and be with Phil 1:23 Christ, for that is far better. Phil 1:24 But to remain in the flesh is more necessary on your account. Phil 1:25 Convinced of this, I know that I shall remain and continue with you Phil 1:25 all, for your progress and joy in the faith, Phil 1:26 so that in me you may have ample cause to glory in Christ Jesus, Phil 1:26 because of my coming to you again. Phil 1:27 Only let your manner of life be worthy of the gospel of Christ, so Phil 1:27 that whether I come and see you or am absent, I may hear of you that Phil 1:27 you stand firm in one spirit, with one mind striving side by side for Phil 1:27 the faith of the gospel, Phil 1:28 and not frightened in anything by your opponents. This is a clear omen Phil 1:28 to them of their destruction, but of your salvation, and that from God. Phil 1:29 For it has been granted to you that for the sake of Christ you should Phil 1:29 not only believe in him but also suffer for his sake, Phil 1:30 engaged in the same conflict which you saw and now hear to be mine. Phil 2: 1 So if there is any encouragement in Christ, any incentive of love, Phil 2: 1 any participation in the Spirit, any affection and sympathy, Phil 2: 2 complete my joy by being of the same mind, having the same love, being Phil 2: 2 in full accord and of one mind. Phil 2: 3 Do nothing from selfishness or conceit, but in humility count others Phil 2: 3 better than yourselves. Phil 2: 4 Let each of you look not only to his own interests, but also to the Phil 2: 4 interests of others. Phil 2: 5 Have this mind among yourselves, which is yours in Christ Jesus, Phil 2: 6 who, though he was in the form of God, did not count equality with God Phil 2: 6 a thing to be grasped, Phil 2: 7 but emptied himself, taking the form of a servant, being born in the Phil 2: 7 likeness of men. Phil 2: 8 And being found in human form he humbled himself and became obedient Phil 2: 8 unto death, even death on a cross. Phil 2: 9 Therefore God has highly exalted him and bestowed on him the name which Phil 2: 9 is above every name, Phil 2:10 that at the name of Jesus every knee should bow, in heaven and on earth Phil 2:10 and under the earth, Phil 2:11 and every tongue confess that Jesus Christ is Lord, to the glory of God Phil 2:11 the Father. Phil 2:12 Therefore, my beloved, as you have always obeyed, so now, not only as Phil 2:12 in my presence but much more in my absence, work out your own salvation Phil 2:12 with fear and trembling; Phil 2:13 for God is at work in you, both to will and to work for his good Phil 2:13 pleasure. Phil 2:14 Do all things without grumbling or questioning, Phil 2:15 that you may be blameless and innocent, children of God without blemish Phil 2:15 in the midst of a crooked and perverse generation, among whom you shine Phil 2:15 as lights in the world, Phil 2:16 holding fast the word of life, so that in the day of Christ I may be Phil 2:16 proud that I did not run in vain or labor in vain. Phil 2:17 Even if I am to be poured as a libation upon the sacrificial offering Phil 2:17 of your faith, I am glad and rejoice with you all. Phil 2:18 Likewise you also should be glad and rejoice with me. Phil 2:19 I hope in the Lord Jesus to send Timothy to you soon, so that I may Phil 2:19 be cheered by news of you. Phil 2:20 I have no one like him, who will be genuinely anxious for your welfare. Phil 2:21 They all look after their own interests, not those of Jesus Christ. Phil 2:22 But Timothy's worth you know, how as a son with a father he has served Phil 2:22 with me in the gospel. Phil 2:23 I hope therefore to send him just as soon as I see how it will go with Phil 2:23 me; Phil 2:24 and I trust in the Lord that shortly I myself shall come also. Phil 2:25 I have thought it necessary to send to you Epaphrodi'tus my brother Phil 2:25 and fellow worker and fellow soldier, and your messenger and minister Phil 2:25 to my need, Phil 2:26 for he has been longing for you all, and has been distressed because Phil 2:26 you heard that he was ill. Phil 2:27 Indeed he was ill, near to death. But God had mercy on him, and not Phil 2:27 only on him but on me also, lest I should have sorrow upon sorrow. Phil 2:28 I am the more eager to send him, therefore, that you may rejoice at Phil 2:28 seeing him again, and that I may be less anxious. Phil 2:29 So receive him in the Lord with all joy; and honor such men, Phil 2:30 for he nearly died for the work of Christ, risking his life to complete Phil 2:30 your service to me. Phil 3: 1 Finally, my brethren, rejoice in the Lord. To write the same things Phil 3: 1 to you is not irksome to me, and is safe for you. Phil 3: 2 Look out for the dogs, look out for the evil-workers, look out for Phil 3: 2 those who mutilate the flesh. Phil 3: 3 For we are the true circumcision, who worship God in spirit, and glory Phil 3: 3 in Christ Jesus, and put no confidence in the flesh. Phil 3: 4 Though I myself have reason for confidence in the flesh also. If any Phil 3: 4 other man thinks he has reason for confidence in the flesh, I have more: Phil 3: 5 circumcised on the eighth day, of the people of Israel, of the tribe of Phil 3: 5 Benjamin, a Hebrew born of Hebrews; as to the law a Pharisee, Phil 3: 6 as to zeal a persecutor of the church, as to righteousness under the Phil 3: 6 law blameless. Phil 3: 7 But whatever gain I had, I counted as loss for the sake of Christ. Phil 3: 8 Indeed I count everything as loss because of the surpassing worth of Phil 3: 8 knowing Christ Jesus my Lord. For his sake I have suffered the loss of Phil 3: 8 all things, and count them as refuse, in order that I may gain Christ Phil 3: 9 and be found in him, not having a righteousness of my own, based on Phil 3: 9 law, but that which is through faith in Christ, the righteousness from Phil 3: 9 God that depends on faith; Phil 3:10 that I may know him and the power of his resurrection, and may share Phil 3:10 his sufferings, becoming like him in his death, Phil 3:11 that if possible I may attain the resurrection from the dead. Phil 3:12 Not that I have already obtained this or am already perfect; but I Phil 3:12 press on to make it my own, because Christ Jesus has made me his own. Phil 3:13 Brethren, I do not consider that I have made it my own; but one thing I Phil 3:13 do, forgetting what lies behind and straining forward to what lies Phil 3:13 ahead, Phil 3:14 I press on toward the goal for the prize of the upward call of God in Phil 3:14 Christ Jesus. Phil 3:15 Let those of us who are mature be thus minded; and if in anything you Phil 3:15 are otherwise minded, God will reveal that also to you. Phil 3:16 Only let us hold true to what we have attained. Phil 3:17 Brethren, join in imitating me, and mark those who so live as you Phil 3:17 have an example in us. Phil 3:18 For many, of whom I have often told you and now tell you even with Phil 3:18 tears, live as enemies of the cross of Christ. Phil 3:19 Their end is destruction, their god is the belly, and they glory in Phil 3:19 their shame, with minds set on earthly things. Phil 3:20 But our commonwealth is in heaven, and from it we await a Savior, the Phil 3:20 Lord Jesus Christ, Phil 3:21 who will change our lowly body to be like his glorious body, by the Phil 3:21 power which enables him even to subject all things to himself. Phil 4: 1 Therefore, my brethren, whom I love and long for, my joy and crown, Phil 4: 1 stand firm thus in the Lord, my beloved. Phil 4: 2 I entreat Eu-o'dia and I entreat Syn'tyche to agree in the Lord. Phil 4: 3 And I ask you also, true yokefellow, help these women, for they have Phil 4: 3 labored side by side with me in the gospel together with Clement and Phil 4: 3 the rest of my fellow workers, whose names are in the book of life. Phil 4: 4 Rejoice in the Lord always; again I will say, Rejoice. Phil 4: 5 Let all men know your forbearance. The Lord is at hand. Phil 4: 6 Have no anxiety about anything, but in everything by prayer and Phil 4: 6 supplication with thanksgiving let your requests be made known to God. Phil 4: 7 And the peace of God, which passes all understanding, will keep your Phil 4: 7 hearts and your minds in Christ Jesus. Phil 4: 8 Finally, brethren, whatever is true, whatever is honorable, whatever Phil 4: 8 is just, whatever is pure, whatever is lovely, whatever is gracious, if Phil 4: 8 there is any excellence, if there is anything worthy of praise, think Phil 4: 8 about these things. Phil 4: 9 What you have learned and received and heard and seen in me, do; and Phil 4: 9 the God of peace will be with you. Phil 4:10 I rejoice in the Lord greatly that now at length you have revived Phil 4:10 your concern for me; you were indeed concerned for me, but you had no Phil 4:10 opportunity. Phil 4:11 Not that I complain of want; for I have learned, in whatever state I Phil 4:11 am, to be content. Phil 4:12 I know how to be abased, and I know how to abound; in any and all Phil 4:12 circumstances I have learned the secret of facing plenty and hunger, Phil 4:12 abundance and want. Phil 4:13 I can do all things in him who strengthens me. Phil 4:14 Yet it was kind of you to share my trouble. Phil 4:15 And you Philippians yourselves know that in the beginning of the Phil 4:15 gospel, when I left Macedo'nia, no church entered into partnership with Phil 4:15 me in giving and receiving except you only; Phil 4:16 for even in Thessaloni'ca you sent me help once and again. Phil 4:17 Not that I seek the gift; but I seek the fruit which increases to your Phil 4:17 credit. Phil 4:18 I have received full payment, and more; I am filled, having received Phil 4:18 from Epaphrodi'tus the gifts you sent, a fragrant offering, a sacrifice Phil 4:18 acceptable and pleasing to God. Phil 4:19 And my God will supply every need of yours according to his riches in Phil 4:19 glory in Christ Jesus. Phil 4:20 To our God and Father be glory for ever and ever. Amen. Phil 4:21 Greet every saint in Christ Jesus. The brethren who are with me greet Phil 4:21 you. Phil 4:22 All the saints greet you, especially those of Caesar's household. Phil 4:23 The grace of the Lord Jesus Christ be with your spirit. Col 1: 1 Paul, an apostle of Christ Jesus by the will of God, and Timothy our Col 1: 1 brother, Col 1: 2 To the saints and faithful brethren in Christ at Colos'sae: Col 1: 2 Grace to you and peace from God our Father. Col 1: 3 We always thank God, the Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, when we Col 1: 3 pray for you, Col 1: 4 because we have heard of your faith in Christ Jesus and of the love Col 1: 4 which you have for all the saints, Col 1: 5 because of the hope laid up for you in heaven. Of this you have heard Col 1: 5 before in the word of the truth, the gospel Col 1: 6 which has come to you, as indeed in the whole world it is bearing fruit Col 1: 6 and growing -- so among yourselves, from the day you heard and understood Col 1: 6 the grace of God in truth, Col 1: 7 as you learned it from Ep'aphras our beloved fellow servant. He is a Col 1: 7 faithful minister of Christ on our behalf Col 1: 8 and has made known to us your love in the Spirit. Col 1: 9 And so, from the day we heard of it, we have not ceased to pray for Col 1: 9 you, asking that you may be filled with the knowledge of his will in Col 1: 9 all spiritual wisdom and understanding, Col 1:10 to lead a life worthy of the Lord, fully pleasing to him, bearing fruit Col 1:10 in every good work and increasing in the knowledge of God. Col 1:11 May you be strengthened with all power, according to his glorious Col 1:11 might, for all endurance and patience with joy, Col 1:12 giving thanks to the Father, who has qualified us to share in the Col 1:12 inheritance of the saints in light. Col 1:13 He has delivered us from the dominion of darkness and transferred us to Col 1:13 the kingdom of his beloved Son, Col 1:14 in whom we have redemption, the forgiveness of sins. Col 1:15 He is the image of the invisible God, the first-born of all creation; Col 1:16 for in him all things were created, in heaven and on earth, visible and Col 1:16 invisible, whether thrones or dominions or principalities or Col 1:16 authorities -- all things were created through him and for him. Col 1:17 He is before all things, and in him all things hold together. Col 1:18 He is the head of the body, the church; he is the beginning, the Col 1:18 first-born from the dead, that in everything he might be pre-eminent. Col 1:19 For in him all the fulness of God was pleased to dwell, Col 1:20 and through him to reconcile to himself all things, whether on earth or Col 1:20 in heaven, making peace by the blood of his cross. Col 1:21 And you, who once were estranged and hostile in mind, doing evil Col 1:21 deeds, Col 1:22 he has now reconciled in his body of flesh by his death, in order to Col 1:22 present you holy and blameless and irreproachable before him, Col 1:23 provided that you continue in the faith, stable and steadfast, not Col 1:23 shifting from the hope of the gospel which you heard, which has been Col 1:23 preached to every creature under heaven, and of which I, Paul, became a Col 1:23 minister. Col 1:24 Now I rejoice in my sufferings for your sake, and in my flesh I Col 1:24 complete what is lacking in Christ's afflictions for the sake of his Col 1:24 body, that is, the church, Col 1:25 of which I became a minister according to the divine office which was Col 1:25 given to me for you, to make the word of God fully known, Col 1:26 the mystery hidden for ages and generations but now made manifest to Col 1:26 his saints. Col 1:27 To them God chose to make known how great among the Gentiles are the Col 1:27 riches of the glory of this mystery, which is Christ in you, the hope Col 1:27 of glory. Col 1:28 Him we proclaim, warning every man and teaching every man in all Col 1:28 wisdom, that we may present every man mature in Christ. Col 1:29 For this I toil, striving with all the energy which he mightily Col 1:29 inspires within me. Col 2: 1 For I want you to know how greatly I strive for you, and for those at Col 2: 1 La-odice'a, and for all who have not seen my face, Col 2: 2 that their hearts may be encouraged as they are knit together in love, Col 2: 2 to have all the riches of assured understanding and the knowledge of Col 2: 2 God's mystery, of Christ, Col 2: 3 in whom are hid all the treasures of wisdom and knowledge. Col 2: 4 I say this in order that no one may delude you with beguiling speech. Col 2: 5 For though I am absent in body, yet I am with you in spirit, rejoicing Col 2: 5 to see your good order and the firmness of your faith in Christ. Col 2: 6 As therefore you received Christ Jesus the Lord, so live in him, Col 2: 7 rooted and built up in him and established in the faith, just as you Col 2: 7 were taught, abounding in thanksgiving. Col 2: 8 See to it that no one makes a prey of you by philosophy and empty Col 2: 8 deceit, according to human tradition, according to the elemental Col 2: 8 spirits of the universe, and not according to Christ. Col 2: 9 For in him the whole fulness of deity dwells bodily, Col 2:10 and you have come to fulness of life in him, who is the head of all Col 2:10 rule and authority. Col 2:11 In him also you were circumcised with a circumcision made without Col 2:11 hands, by putting off the body of flesh in the circumcision of Christ; Col 2:12 and you were buried with him in baptism, in which you were also raised Col 2:12 with him through faith in the working of God, who raised him from the Col 2:12 dead. Col 2:13 And you, who were dead in trespasses and the uncircumcision of your Col 2:13 flesh, God made alive together with him, having forgiven us all our Col 2:13 trespasses, Col 2:14 having canceled the bond which stood against us with its legal demands; Col 2:14 this he set aside, nailing it to the cross. Col 2:15 He disarmed the principalities and powers and made a public example of Col 2:15 them, triumphing over them in him. Col 2:16 Therefore let no one pass judgment on you in questions of food and Col 2:16 drink or with regard to a festival or a new moon or a sabbath. Col 2:17 These are only a shadow of what is to come; but the substance belongs Col 2:17 to Christ. Col 2:18 Let no one disqualify you, insisting on self-abasement and worship of Col 2:18 angels, taking his stand on visions, puffed up without reason by his Col 2:18 sensuous mind, Col 2:19 and not holding fast to the Head, from whom the whole body, nourished Col 2:19 and knit together through its joints and ligaments, grows with a growth Col 2:19 that is from God. Col 2:20 If with Christ you died to the elemental spirits of the universe, why Col 2:20 do you live as if you still belonged to the world? Why do you submit to Col 2:20 regulations, Col 2:21 "Do not handle, Do not taste, Do not touch" Col 2:22 (referring to things which all perish as they are used), according to Col 2:22 human precepts and doctrines? Col 2:23 These have indeed an appearance of wisdom in promoting rigor of Col 2:23 devotion and self-abasement and severity to the body, but they are of Col 2:23 no value in checking the indulgence of the flesh. Col 3: 1 If then you have been raised with Christ, seek the things that are Col 3: 1 above, where Christ is, seated at the right hand of God. Col 3: 2 Set your minds on things that are above, not on things that are on Col 3: 2 earth. Col 3: 3 For you have died, and your life is hid with Christ in God. Col 3: 4 When Christ who is our life appears, then you also will appear with him Col 3: 4 in glory. Col 3: 5 Put to death therefore what is earthly in you: fornication, impurity, Col 3: 5 passion, evil desire, and covetousness, which is idolatry. Col 3: 6 On account of these the wrath of God is coming. Col 3: 7 In these you once walked, when you lived in them. Col 3: 8 But now put them all away: anger, wrath, malice, slander, and foul talk Col 3: 8 from your mouth. Col 3: 9 Do not lie to one another, seeing that you have put off the old nature Col 3: 9 with its practices Col 3:10 and have put on the new nature, which is being renewed in knowledge Col 3:10 after the image of its creator. Col 3:11 Here there cannot be Greek and Jew, circumcised and uncircumcised, Col 3:11 barbarian, Scyth'ian, slave, free man, but Christ is all, and in all. Col 3:12 Put on then, as God's chosen ones, holy and beloved, compassion, Col 3:12 kindness, lowliness, meekness, and patience, Col 3:13 forbearing one another and, if one has a complaint against another, Col 3:13 forgiving each other; as the Lord has forgiven you, so you also must Col 3:13 forgive. Col 3:14 And above all these put on love, which binds everything together in Col 3:14 perfect harmony. Col 3:15 And let the peace of Christ rule in your hearts, to which indeed you Col 3:15 were called in the one body. And be thankful. Col 3:16 Let the word of Christ dwell in you richly, teach and admonish one Col 3:16 another in all wisdom, and sing psalms and hymns and spiritual songs Col 3:16 with thankfulness in your hearts to God. Col 3:17 And whatever you do, in word or deed, do everything in the name of the Col 3:17 Lord Jesus, giving thanks to God the Father through him. Col 3:18 Wives, be subject to your husbands, as is fitting in the Lord. Col 3:19 Husbands, love your wives, and do not be harsh with them. Col 3:20 Children, obey your parents in everything, for this pleases the Lord. Col 3:21 Fathers, do not provoke your children, lest they become discouraged. Col 3:22 Slaves, obey in everything those who are your earthly masters, not with Col 3:22 eyeservice, as men-pleasers, but in singleness of heart, fearing the Col 3:22 Lord. Col 3:23 Whatever your task, work heartily, as serving the Lord and not men, Col 3:24 knowing that from the Lord you will receive the inheritance as your Col 3:24 reward; you are serving the Lord Christ. Col 3:25 For the wrongdoer will be paid back for the wrong he has done, and Col 3:25 there is no partiality. Col 4: 1 Masters, treat your slaves justly and fairly, knowing that you also Col 4: 1 have a Master in heaven. Col 4: 2 Continue steadfastly in prayer, being watchful in it with Col 4: 2 thanksgiving; Col 4: 3 and pray for us also, that God may open to us a door for the word, to Col 4: 3 declare the mystery of Christ, on account of which I am in prison, Col 4: 4 that I may make it clear, as I ought to speak. Col 4: 5 Conduct yourselves wisely toward outsiders, making the most of the Col 4: 5 time. Col 4: 6 Let your speech always be gracious, seasoned with salt, so that you may Col 4: 6 know how you ought to answer every one. Col 4: 7 Tych'icus will tell you all about my affairs; he is a beloved brother Col 4: 7 and faithful minister and fellow servant in the Lord. Col 4: 8 I have sent him to you for this very purpose, that you may know how we Col 4: 8 are and that he may encourage your hearts, Col 4: 9 and with him Ones'imus, the faithful and beloved brother, who is one of Col 4: 9 yourselves. They will tell you of everything that has taken place here. Col 4:10 Aristar'chus my fellow prisoner greets you, and Mark the cousin of Col 4:10 Barnabas (concerning whom you have received instructions -- if he comes Col 4:10 to you, receive him), Col 4:11 and Jesus who is called Justus. These are the only men of the Col 4:11 circumcision among my fellow workers for the kingdom of God, and they Col 4:11 have been a comfort to me. Col 4:12 Ep'aphras, who is one of yourselves, a servant of Christ Jesus, greets Col 4:12 you, always remembering you earnestly in his prayers, that you may Col 4:12 stand mature and fully assured in all the will of God. Col 4:13 For I bear him witness that he has worked hard for you and for those in Col 4:13 La-odice'a and in Hi-erap'olis. Col 4:14 Luke the beloved physician and Demas greet you. Col 4:15 Give my greetings to the brethren at La-odice'a, and to Nympha and the Col 4:15 church in her house. Col 4:16 And when this letter has been read among you, have it read also in the Col 4:16 church of the La-odice'ans; and see that you read also the letter from Col 4:16 La-odice'a. Col 4:17 And say to Archip'pus, "See that you fulfil the ministry which you have Col 4:17 received in the Lord." Col 4:18 I, Paul, write this greeting with my own hand. Remember my fetters. Col 4:18 Grace be with you. 1Thes 1: 1 Paul, Silva'nus, and Timothy, To the church of the Thessalo'nians in 1Thes 1: 1 God the Father and the Lord Jesus Christ: 1Thes 1: 1 Grace to you and peace. 1Thes 1: 2 We give thanks to God always for you all, constantly mentioning you 1Thes 1: 2 in our prayers, 1Thes 1: 3 remembering before our God and Father your work of faith and labor of 1Thes 1: 3 love and steadfastness of hope in our Lord Jesus Christ. 1Thes 1: 4 For we know, brethren beloved by God, that he has chosen you; 1Thes 1: 5 for our gospel came to you not only in word, but also in power and in 1Thes 1: 5 the Holy Spirit and with full conviction. You know what kind of men we 1Thes 1: 5 proved to be among you for your sake. 1Thes 1: 6 And you became imitators of us and of the Lord, for you received the 1Thes 1: 6 word in much affliction, with joy inspired by the Holy Spirit; 1Thes 1: 7 so that you became an example to all the believers in Macedo'nia and in 1Thes 1: 7 Acha'ia. 1Thes 1: 8 For not only has the word of the Lord sounded forth from you in 1Thes 1: 8 Macedo'nia and Acha'ia, but your faith in God has gone forth 1Thes 1: 8 everywhere, so that we need not say anything. 1Thes 1: 9 For they themselves report concerning us what a welcome we had among 1Thes 1: 9 you, and how you turned to God from idols, to serve a living and true 1Thes 1: 9 God, 1Thes 1:10 and to wait for his Son from heaven, whom he raised from the dead, 1Thes 1:10 Jesus who delivers us from the wrath to come. 1Thes 2: 1 For you yourselves know, brethren, that our visit to you was not in 1Thes 2: 1 vain; 1Thes 2: 2 but though we had already suffered and been shamefully treated at 1Thes 2: 2 Philip'pi, as you know, we had courage in our God to declare to you the 1Thes 2: 2 gospel of God in the face of great opposition. 1Thes 2: 3 For our appeal does not spring from error or uncleanness, nor is it 1Thes 2: 3 made with guile; 1Thes 2: 4 but just as we have been approved by God to be entrusted with the 1Thes 2: 4 gospel, so we speak, not to please men, but to please God who tests our 1Thes 2: 4 hearts. 1Thes 2: 5 For we never used either words of flattery, as you know, or a cloak for 1Thes 2: 5 greed, as God is witness; 1Thes 2: 6 nor did we seek glory from men, whether from you or from others, though 1Thes 2: 6 we might have made demands as apostles of Christ. 1Thes 2: 7 But we were gentle among you, like a nurse taking care of her children. 1Thes 2: 8 So, being affectionately desirous of you, we were ready to share with 1Thes 2: 8 you not only the gospel of God but also our own selves, because you had 1Thes 2: 8 become very dear to us. 1Thes 2: 9 For you remember our labor and toil, brethren; we worked night and 1Thes 2: 9 day, that we might not burden any of you, while we preached to you the 1Thes 2: 9 gospel of God. 1Thes 2:10 You are witnesses, and God also, how holy and righteous and blameless 1Thes 2:10 was our behavior to you believers; 1Thes 2:11 for you know how, like a father with his children, we exhorted each one 1Thes 2:11 of you and encouraged you and charged you 1Thes 2:12 to lead a life worthy of God, who calls you into his own kingdom and 1Thes 2:12 glory. 1Thes 2:13 And we also thank God constantly for this, that when you received the 1Thes 2:13 word of God which you heard from us, you accepted it not as the word of 1Thes 2:13 men but as what it really is, the word of God, which is at work in you 1Thes 2:13 believers. 1Thes 2:14 For you, brethren, became imitators of the churches of God in Christ 1Thes 2:14 Jesus which are in Judea; for you suffered the same things from your 1Thes 2:14 own countrymen as they did from the Jews, 1Thes 2:15 who killed both the Lord Jesus and the prophets, and drove us out, and 1Thes 2:15 displease God and oppose all men 1Thes 2:16 by hindering us from speaking to the Gentiles that they may be 1Thes 2:16 saved -- so as always to fill up the measure of their sins. But God's 1Thes 2:16 wrath has come upon them at last! 1Thes 2:17 But since we were bereft of you, brethren, for a short time, in 1Thes 2:17 person not in heart, we endeavored the more eagerly and with great 1Thes 2:17 desire to see you face to face; 1Thes 2:18 because we wanted to come to you -- I, Paul, again and again -- but Satan 1Thes 2:18 hindered us. 1Thes 2:19 For what is our hope or joy or crown of boasting before our Lord Jesus 1Thes 2:19 at his coming? Is it not you? 1Thes 2:20 For you are our glory and joy. 1Thes 3: 1 Therefore when we could bear it no longer, we were willing to be left 1Thes 3: 1 behind at Athens alone, 1Thes 3: 2 and we sent Timothy, our brother and God's servant in the gospel of 1Thes 3: 2 Christ, to establish you in your faith and to exhort you, 1Thes 3: 3 that no one be moved by these afflictions. You yourselves know that 1Thes 3: 3 this is to be our lot. 1Thes 3: 4 For when we were with you, we told you beforehand that we were to 1Thes 3: 4 suffer affliction; just as it has come to pass, and as you know. 1Thes 3: 5 For this reason, when I could bear it no longer, I sent that I might 1Thes 3: 5 know your faith, for fear that somehow the tempter had tempted you and 1Thes 3: 5 that our labor would be in vain. 1Thes 3: 6 But now that Timothy has come to us from you, and has brought us the 1Thes 3: 6 good news of your faith and love and reported that you always remember 1Thes 3: 6 us kindly and long to see us, as we long to see you -- 1Thes 3: 7 for this reason, brethren, in all our distress and affliction we have 1Thes 3: 7 been comforted about you through your faith; 1Thes 3: 8 for now we live, if you stand fast in the Lord. 1Thes 3: 9 For what thanksgiving can we render to God for you, for all the joy 1Thes 3: 9 which we feel for your sake before our God, 1Thes 3:10 praying earnestly night and day that we may see you face to face and 1Thes 3:10 supply what is lacking in your faith? 1Thes 3:11 Now may our God and Father himself, and our Lord Jesus, direct our 1Thes 3:11 way to you; 1Thes 3:12 and may the Lord make you increase and abound in love to one another 1Thes 3:12 and to all men, as we do to you, 1Thes 3:13 so that he may establish your hearts unblamable in holiness before our 1Thes 3:13 God and Father, at the coming of our Lord Jesus with all his saints. 1Thes 4: 1 Finally, brethren, we beseech and exhort you in the Lord Jesus, that 1Thes 4: 1 as you learned from us how you ought to live and to please God, just as 1Thes 4: 1 you are doing, you do so more and more. 1Thes 4: 2 For you know what instructions we gave you through the Lord Jesus. 1Thes 4: 3 For this is the will of God, your sanctification: that you abstain from 1Thes 4: 3 unchastity; 1Thes 4: 4 that each one of you know how to take a wife for himself in holiness 1Thes 4: 4 and honor, 1Thes 4: 5 not in the passion of lust like heathen who do not know God; 1Thes 4: 6 that no man transgress, and wrong his brother in this matter, because 1Thes 4: 6 the Lord is an avenger in all these things, as we solemnly forewarned 1Thes 4: 6 you. 1Thes 4: 7 For God has not called us for uncleanness, but in holiness. 1Thes 4: 8 Therefore whoever disregards this, disregards not man but God, who 1Thes 4: 8 gives his Holy Spirit to you. 1Thes 4: 9 But concerning love of the brethren you have no need to have any one 1Thes 4: 9 write to you, for you yourselves have been taught by God to love one 1Thes 4: 9 another; 1Thes 4:10 and indeed you do love all the brethren throughout Macedo'nia. But we 1Thes 4:10 exhort you, brethren, to do so more and more, 1Thes 4:11 to aspire to live quietly, to mind your own affairs, and to work with 1Thes 4:11 your hands, as we charged you; 1Thes 4:12 so that you may command the respect of outsiders, and be dependent on 1Thes 4:12 nobody. 1Thes 4:13 But we would not have you ignorant, brethren, concerning those who 1Thes 4:13 are asleep, that you may not grieve as others do who have no hope. 1Thes 4:14 For since we believe that Jesus died and rose again, even so, through 1Thes 4:14 Jesus, God will bring with him those who have fallen asleep. 1Thes 4:15 For this we declare to you by the word of the Lord, that we who are 1Thes 4:15 alive, who are left until the coming of the Lord, shall not precede 1Thes 4:15 those who have fallen asleep. 1Thes 4:16 For the Lord himself will descend from heaven with a cry of command, 1Thes 4:16 with the archangel's call, and with the sound of the trumpet of God. 1Thes 4:16 And the dead in Christ will rise first; 1Thes 4:17 then we who are alive, who are left, shall be caught up together with 1Thes 4:17 them in the clouds to meet the Lord in the air; and so we shall always 1Thes 4:17 be with the Lord. 1Thes 4:18 Therefore comfort one another with these words. 1Thes 5: 1 But as to the times and the seasons, brethren, you have no need to 1Thes 5: 1 have anything written to you. 1Thes 5: 2 For you yourselves know well that the day of the Lord will come like a 1Thes 5: 2 thief in the night. 1Thes 5: 3 When people say, "There is peace and security," then sudden destruction 1Thes 5: 3 will come upon them as travail comes upon a woman with child, and there 1Thes 5: 3 will be no escape. 1Thes 5: 4 But you are not in darkness, brethren, for that day to surprise you 1Thes 5: 4 like a thief. 1Thes 5: 5 For you are all sons of light and sons of the day; we are not of the 1Thes 5: 5 night or of darkness. 1Thes 5: 6 So then let us not sleep, as others do, but let us keep awake and be 1Thes 5: 6 sober. 1Thes 5: 7 For those who sleep sleep at night, and those who get drunk are drunk 1Thes 5: 7 at night. 1Thes 5: 8 But, since we belong to the day, let us be sober, and put on the 1Thes 5: 8 breastplate of faith and love, and for a helmet the hope of salvation. 1Thes 5: 9 For God has not destined us for wrath, but to obtain salvation through 1Thes 5: 9 our Lord Jesus Christ, 1Thes 5:10 who died for us so that whether we wake or sleep we might live with him. 1Thes 5:11 Therefore encourage one another and build one another up, just as you 1Thes 5:11 are doing. 1Thes 5:12 But we beseech you, brethren, to respect those who labor among you 1Thes 5:12 and are over you in the Lord and admonish you, 1Thes 5:13 and to esteem them very highly in love because of their work. Be at 1Thes 5:13 peace among yourselves. 1Thes 5:14 And we exhort you, brethren, admonish the idlers, encourage the 1Thes 5:14 fainthearted, help the weak, be patient with them all. 1Thes 5:15 See that none of you repays evil for evil, but always seek to do good 1Thes 5:15 to one another and to all. 1Thes 5:16 Rejoice always, 1Thes 5:17 pray constantly, 1Thes 5:18 give thanks in all circumstances; for this is the will of God in Christ 1Thes 5:18 Jesus for you. 1Thes 5:19 Do not quench the Spirit, 1Thes 5:20 do not despise prophesying, 1Thes 5:21 but test everything; hold fast what is good, 1Thes 5:22 abstain from every form of evil. 1Thes 5:23 May the God of peace himself sanctify you wholly; and may your spirit 1Thes 5:23 and soul and body be kept sound and blameless at the coming of our Lord 1Thes 5:23 Jesus Christ. 1Thes 5:24 He who calls you is faithful, and he will do it. 1Thes 5:25 Brethren, pray for us. 1Thes 5:26 Greet all the brethren with a holy kiss. 1Thes 5:27 I adjure you by the Lord that this letter be read to all the brethren. 1Thes 5:28 The grace of our Lord Jesus Christ be with you. 2Thes 1: 1 Paul, Silva'nus, and Timothy, To the church of the Thessalo'nians in 2Thes 1: 1 God our Father and the Lord Jesus Christ: 2Thes 1: 2 Grace to you and peace from God the Father and the Lord Jesus Christ. 2Thes 1: 3 We are bound to give thanks to God always for you, brethren, as is 2Thes 1: 3 fitting, because your faith is growing abundantly, and the love of 2Thes 1: 3 every one of you for one another is increasing. 2Thes 1: 4 Therefore we ourselves boast of you in the churches of God for your 2Thes 1: 4 steadfastness and faith in all your persecutions and in the afflictions 2Thes 1: 4 which you are enduring. 2Thes 1: 5 This is evidence of the righteous judgment of God, that you may be 2Thes 1: 5 made worthy of the kingdom of God, for which you are suffering -- 2Thes 1: 6 since indeed God deems it just to repay with affliction those who 2Thes 1: 6 afflict you, 2Thes 1: 7 and to grant rest with us to you who are afflicted, when the Lord Jesus 2Thes 1: 7 is revealed from heaven with his mighty angels in flaming fire, 2Thes 1: 8 inflicting vengeance upon those who do not know God and upon those who 2Thes 1: 8 do not obey the gospel of our Lord Jesus. 2Thes 1: 9 They shall suffer the punishment of eternal destruction and exclusion 2Thes 1: 9 from the presence of the Lord and from the glory of his might, 2Thes 1:10 when he comes on that day to be glorified in his saints, and to be 2Thes 1:10 marveled at in all who have believed, because our testimony to you was 2Thes 1:10 believed. 2Thes 1:11 To this end we always pray for you, that our God may make you worthy of 2Thes 1:11 his call, and may fulfil every good resolve and work of faith by his 2Thes 1:11 power, 2Thes 1:12 so that the name of our Lord Jesus may be glorified in you, and you in 2Thes 1:12 him, according to the grace of our God and the Lord Jesus Christ. 2Thes 2: 1 Now concerning the coming of our Lord Jesus Christ and our assembling 2Thes 2: 1 to meet him, we beg you, brethren, 2Thes 2: 2 not to be quickly shaken in mind or excited, either by spirit or by 2Thes 2: 2 word, or by letter purporting to be from us, to the effect that the day 2Thes 2: 2 of the Lord has come. 2Thes 2: 3 Let no one deceive you in any way; for that day will not come, unless 2Thes 2: 3 the rebellion comes first, and the man of lawlessness is revealed, the 2Thes 2: 3 son of perdition, 2Thes 2: 4 who opposes and exalts himself against every so-called god or object of 2Thes 2: 4 worship, so that he takes his seat in the temple of God, proclaiming 2Thes 2: 4 himself to be God. 2Thes 2: 5 Do you not remember that when I was still with you I told you this? 2Thes 2: 6 And you know what is restraining him now so that he may be revealed in 2Thes 2: 6 his time. 2Thes 2: 7 For the mystery of lawlessness is already at work; only he who now 2Thes 2: 7 restrains it will do so until he is out of the way. 2Thes 2: 8 And then the lawless one will be revealed, and the Lord Jesus will slay 2Thes 2: 8 him with the breath of his mouth and destroy him by his appearing and 2Thes 2: 8 his coming. 2Thes 2: 9 The coming of the lawless one by the activity of Satan will be with all 2Thes 2: 9 power and with pretended signs and wonders, 2Thes 2:10 and with all wicked deception for those who are to perish, because they 2Thes 2:10 refused to love the truth and so be saved. 2Thes 2:11 Therefore God sends upon them a strong delusion, to make them believe 2Thes 2:11 what is false, 2Thes 2:12 so that all may be condemned who did not believe the truth but had 2Thes 2:12 pleasure in unrighteousness. 2Thes 2:13 But we are bound to give thanks to God always for you, brethren 2Thes 2:13 beloved by the Lord, because God chose you from the beginning to be 2Thes 2:13 saved, through sanctification by the Spirit and belief in the truth. 2Thes 2:14 To this he called you through our gospel, so that you may obtain the 2Thes 2:14 glory of our Lord Jesus Christ. 2Thes 2:15 So then, brethren, stand firm and hold to the traditions which you were 2Thes 2:15 taught by us, either by word of mouth or by letter. 2Thes 2:16 Now may our Lord Jesus Christ himself, and God our Father, who loved 2Thes 2:16 us and gave us eternal comfort and good hope through grace, 2Thes 2:17 comfort your hearts and establish them in every good work and word. 2Thes 3: 1 Finally, brethren, pray for us, that the word of the Lord may speed on 2Thes 3: 1 and triumph, as it did among you, 2Thes 3: 2 and that we may be delivered from wicked and evil men; for not all have 2Thes 3: 2 faith. 2Thes 3: 3 But the Lord is faithful; he will strengthen you and guard you from 2Thes 3: 3 evil. 2Thes 3: 4 And we have confidence in the Lord about you, that you are doing and 2Thes 3: 4 will do the things which we command. 2Thes 3: 5 May the Lord direct your hearts to the love of God and to the 2Thes 3: 5 steadfastness of Christ. 2Thes 3: 6 Now we command you, brethren, in the name of our Lord Jesus Christ, 2Thes 3: 6 that you keep away from any brother who is living in idleness and not 2Thes 3: 6 in accord with the tradition that you received from us. 2Thes 3: 7 For you yourselves know how you ought to imitate us; we were not idle 2Thes 3: 7 when we were with you, 2Thes 3: 8 we did not eat any one's bread without paying, but with toil and labor 2Thes 3: 8 we worked night and day, that we might not burden any of you. 2Thes 3: 9 It was not because we have not that right, but to give you in our 2Thes 3: 9 conduct an example to imitate. 2Thes 3:10 For even when we were with you, we gave you this command: If any one 2Thes 3:10 will not work, let him not eat. 2Thes 3:11 For we hear that some of you are living in idleness, mere busybodies, 2Thes 3:11 not doing any work. 2Thes 3:12 Now such persons we command and exhort in the Lord Jesus Christ to do 2Thes 3:12 their work in quietness and to earn their own living. 2Thes 3:13 Brethren, do not be weary in well-doing. 2Thes 3:14 If any one refuses to obey what we say in this letter, note that man, 2Thes 3:14 and have nothing to do with him, that he may be ashamed. 2Thes 3:15 Do not look on him as an enemy, but warn him as a brother. 2Thes 3:16 Now may the Lord of peace himself give you peace at all times in all 2Thes 3:16 ways. The Lord be with you all. 2Thes 3:17 I, Paul, write this greeting with my own hand. This is the mark in 2Thes 3:17 every letter of mine; it is the way I write. 2Thes 3:18 The grace of our Lord Jesus Christ be with you all. 1Tim 1: 1 Paul, an apostle of Christ Jesus by command of God our Savior and of 1Tim 1: 1 Christ Jesus our hope, 1Tim 1: 2 To Timothy, my true child in the faith: 1Tim 1: 2 Grace, mercy, and peace from God the Father and Christ Jesus our Lord. 1Tim 1: 3 As I urged you when I was going to Macedonia, remain at Ephesus that 1Tim 1: 3 you may charge certain persons not to teach any different doctrine, 1Tim 1: 4 nor to occupy themselves with myths and endless genealogies which 1Tim 1: 4 promote speculations rather than the divine training that is in faith; 1Tim 1: 5 whereas the aim of our charge is love that issues from a pure heart and 1Tim 1: 5 a good conscience and sincere faith. 1Tim 1: 6 Certain persons by swerving from these have wandered away into vain 1Tim 1: 6 discussion, 1Tim 1: 7 desiring to be teachers of the law, without understanding either what 1Tim 1: 7 they are saying or the things about which they make assertions. 1Tim 1: 8 Now we know that the law is good, if any one uses it lawfully, 1Tim 1: 9 understanding this, that the law is not laid down for the just but for 1Tim 1: 9 the lawless and disobedient, for the ungodly and sinners, for the 1Tim 1: 9 unholy and profane, for murderers of fathers and murderers of mothers, 1Tim 1: 9 for manslayers, 1Tim 1:10 immoral persons, sodomites, kidnapers, liars, perjurers, and whatever 1Tim 1:10 else is contrary to sound doctrine, 1Tim 1:11 in accordance with the glorious gospel of the blessed God with which I 1Tim 1:11 have been entrusted. 1Tim 1:12 I thank him who has given me strength for this, Christ Jesus our 1Tim 1:12 Lord, because he judged me faithful by appointing me to his service, 1Tim 1:13 though I formerly blasphemed and persecuted and insulted him; but I 1Tim 1:13 received mercy because I had acted ignorantly in unbelief, 1Tim 1:14 and the grace of our Lord overflowed for me with the faith and love 1Tim 1:14 that are in Christ Jesus. 1Tim 1:15 The saying is sure and worthy of full acceptance, that Christ Jesus 1Tim 1:15 came into the world to save sinners. And I am the foremost of sinners; 1Tim 1:16 but I received mercy for this reason, that in me, as the foremost, 1Tim 1:16 Jesus Christ might display his perfect patience for an example to those 1Tim 1:16 who were to believe in him for eternal life. 1Tim 1:17 To the King of ages, immortal, invisible, the only God, be honor and 1Tim 1:17 glory for ever and ever. Amen. 1Tim 1:18 This charge I commit to you, Timothy, my son, in accordance with the 1Tim 1:18 prophetic utterances which pointed to you, that inspired by them you 1Tim 1:18 may wage the good warfare, 1Tim 1:19 holding faith and a good conscience. By rejecting conscience, certain 1Tim 1:19 persons have made shipwreck of their faith, 1Tim 1:20 among them Hymenae'us and Alexander, whom I have delivered to Satan 1Tim 1:20 that they may learn not to blaspheme. 1Tim 2: 1 First of all, then, I urge that supplications, prayers, 1Tim 2: 1 intercessions, and thanksgivings be made for all men, 1Tim 2: 2 for kings and all who are in high positions, that we may lead a quiet 1Tim 2: 2 and peaceable life, godly and respectful in every way. 1Tim 2: 3 This is good, and it is acceptable in the sight of God our Savior, 1Tim 2: 4 who desires all men to be saved and to come to the knowledge of the 1Tim 2: 4 truth. 1Tim 2: 5 For there is one God, and there is one mediator between God and men, 1Tim 2: 5 the man Christ Jesus, 1Tim 2: 6 who gave himself as a ransom for all, the testimony to which was borne 1Tim 2: 6 at the proper time. 1Tim 2: 7 For this I was appointed a preacher and apostle (I am telling the 1Tim 2: 7 truth, I am not lying), a teacher of the Gentiles in faith and truth. 1Tim 2: 8 I desire then that in every place the men should pray, lifting holy 1Tim 2: 8 hands without anger or quarreling; 1Tim 2: 9 also that women should adorn themselves modestly and sensibly in seemly 1Tim 2: 9 apparel, not with braided hair or gold or pearls or costly attire 1Tim 2:10 but by good deeds, as befits women who profess religion. 1Tim 2:11 Let a woman learn in silence with all submissiveness. 1Tim 2:12 I permit no woman to teach or to have authority over men; she is to 1Tim 2:12 keep silent. 1Tim 2:13 For Adam was formed first, then Eve; 1Tim 2:14 and Adam was not deceived, but the woman was deceived and became a 1Tim 2:14 transgressor. 1Tim 2:15 Yet woman will be saved through bearing children, if she continues in 1Tim 2:15 faith and love and holiness, with modesty. 1Tim 3: 1 The saying is sure: If any one aspires to the office of bishop, he 1Tim 3: 1 desires a noble task. 1Tim 3: 2 Now a bishop must be above reproach, the husband of one wife, 1Tim 3: 2 temperate, sensible, dignified, hospitable, an apt teacher, 1Tim 3: 3 no drunkard, not violent but gentle, not quarrelsome, and no lover of 1Tim 3: 3 money. 1Tim 3: 4 He must manage his own household well, keeping his children submissive 1Tim 3: 4 and respectful in every way; 1Tim 3: 5 for if a man does not know how to manage his own household, how can he 1Tim 3: 5 care for God's church? 1Tim 3: 6 He must not be a recent convert, or he may be puffed up with conceit 1Tim 3: 6 and fall into the condemnation of the devil; 1Tim 3: 7 moreover he must be well thought of by outsiders, or he may fall into 1Tim 3: 7 reproach and the snare of the devil. 1Tim 3: 8 Deacons likewise must be serious, not double-tongued, not addicted to 1Tim 3: 8 much wine, not greedy for gain; 1Tim 3: 9 they must hold the mystery of the faith with a clear conscience. 1Tim 3:10 And let them also be tested first; then if they prove themselves 1Tim 3:10 blameless let them serve as deacons. 1Tim 3:11 The women likewise must be serious, no slanderers, but temperate, 1Tim 3:11 faithful in all things. 1Tim 3:12 Let deacons be the husband of one wife, and let them manage their 1Tim 3:12 children and their households well; 1Tim 3:13 for those who serve well as deacons gain a good standing for themselves 1Tim 3:13 and also great confidence in the faith which is in Christ Jesus. 1Tim 3:14 I hope to come to you soon, but I am writing these instructions to 1Tim 3:14 you so that, 1Tim 3:15 if I am delayed, you may know how one ought to behave in the household 1Tim 3:15 of God, which is the church of the living God, the pillar and bulwark 1Tim 3:15 of the truth. 1Tim 3:16 Great indeed, we confess, is the mystery of our religion: 1Tim 3:16 He was manifested in the flesh, 1Tim 3:16 vindicated in the Spirit, 1Tim 3:16 seen by angels, 1Tim 3:16 preached among the nations, 1Tim 3:16 believed on in the world, 1Tim 3:16 taken up in glory. 1Tim 4: 1 Now the Spirit expressly says that in later times some will depart 1Tim 4: 1 from the faith by giving heed to deceitful spirits and doctrines of 1Tim 4: 1 demons, 1Tim 4: 2 through the pretensions of liars whose consciences are seared, 1Tim 4: 3 who forbid marriage and enjoin abstinence from foods which God created 1Tim 4: 3 to be received with thanksgiving by those who believe and know the 1Tim 4: 3 truth. 1Tim 4: 4 For everything created by God is good, and nothing is to be rejected if 1Tim 4: 4 it is received with thanksgiving; 1Tim 4: 5 for then it is consecrated by the word of God and prayer. 1Tim 4: 6 If you put these instructions before the brethren, you will be a good 1Tim 4: 6 minister of Christ Jesus, nourished on the words of the faith and of 1Tim 4: 6 the good doctrine which you have followed. 1Tim 4: 7 Have nothing to do with godless and silly myths. Train yourself in 1Tim 4: 7 godliness; 1Tim 4: 8 for while bodily training is of some value, godliness is of value in 1Tim 4: 8 every way, as it holds promise for the present life and also for the 1Tim 4: 8 life to come. 1Tim 4: 9 The saying is sure and worthy of full acceptance. 1Tim 4:10 For to this end we toil and strive, because we have our hope set on the 1Tim 4:10 living God, who is the Savior of all men, especially of those who 1Tim 4:10 believe. 1Tim 4:11 Command and teach these things. 1Tim 4:12 Let no one despise your youth, but set the believers an example in 1Tim 4:12 speech and conduct, in love, in faith, in purity. 1Tim 4:13 Till I come, attend to the public reading of scripture, to preaching, 1Tim 4:13 to teaching. 1Tim 4:14 Do not neglect the gift you have, which was given you by prophetic 1Tim 4:14 utterance when the council of elders laid their hands upon you. 1Tim 4:15 Practice these duties, devote yourself to them, so that all may see 1Tim 4:15 your progress. 1Tim 4:16 Take heed to yourself and to your teaching; hold to that, for by so 1Tim 4:16 doing you will save both yourself and your hearers. 1Tim 5: 1 Do not rebuke an older man but exhort him as you would a father; 1Tim 5: 1 treat younger men like brothers, 1Tim 5: 2 older women like mothers, younger women like sisters, in all purity. 1Tim 5: 3 Honor widows who are real widows. 1Tim 5: 4 If a widow has children or grandchildren, let them first learn their 1Tim 5: 4 religious duty to their own family and make some return to their 1Tim 5: 4 parents; for this is acceptable in the sight of God. 1Tim 5: 5 She who is a real widow, and is left all alone, has set her hope on God 1Tim 5: 5 and continues in supplications and prayers night and day; 1Tim 5: 6 whereas she who is self-indulgent is dead even while she lives. 1Tim 5: 7 Command this, so that they may be without reproach. 1Tim 5: 8 If any one does not provide for his relatives, and especially for his 1Tim 5: 8 own family, he has disowned the faith and is worse than an unbeliever. 1Tim 5: 9 Let a widow be enrolled if she is not less than sixty years of age, 1Tim 5: 9 having been the wife of one husband; 1Tim 5:10 and she must be well attested for her good deeds, as one who has 1Tim 5:10 brought up children, shown hospitality, washed the feet of the saints, 1Tim 5:10 relieved the afflicted, and devoted herself to doing good in every way. 1Tim 5:11 But refuse to enrol younger widows; for when they grow wanton against 1Tim 5:11 Christ they desire to marry, 1Tim 5:12 and so they incur condemnation for having violated their first pledge. 1Tim 5:13 Besides that, they learn to be idlers, gadding about from house to 1Tim 5:13 house, and not only idlers but gossips and busybodies, saying what they 1Tim 5:13 should not. 1Tim 5:14 So I would have younger widows marry, bear children, rule their 1Tim 5:14 households, and give the enemy no occasion to revile us. 1Tim 5:15 For some have already strayed after Satan. 1Tim 5:16 If any believing woman has relatives who are widows, let her assist 1Tim 5:16 them; let the church not be burdened, so that it may assist those who 1Tim 5:16 are real widows. 1Tim 5:17 Let the elders who rule well be considered worthy of double honor, 1Tim 5:17 especially those who labor in preaching and teaching; 1Tim 5:18 for the scripture says, "You shall not muzzle an ox when it is treading 1Tim 5:18 out the grain," and, "The laborer deserves his wages." 1Tim 5:19 Never admit any charge against an elder except on the evidence of two 1Tim 5:19 or three witnesses. 1Tim 5:20 As for those who persist in sin, rebuke them in the presence of all, so 1Tim 5:20 that the rest may stand in fear. 1Tim 5:21 In the presence of God and of Christ Jesus and of the elect angels I 1Tim 5:21 charge you to keep these rules without favor, doing nothing from 1Tim 5:21 partiality. 1Tim 5:22 Do not be hasty in the laying on of hands, nor participate in another 1Tim 5:22 man's sins; keep yourself pure. 1Tim 5:23 No longer drink only water, but use a little wine for the sake of 1Tim 5:23 your stomach and your frequent ailments. 1Tim 5:24 The sins of some men are conspicuous, pointing to judgment, but the 1Tim 5:24 sins of others appear later. 1Tim 5:25 So also good deeds are conspicuous; and even when they are not, they 1Tim 5:25 cannot remain hidden. 1Tim 6: 1 Let all who are under the yoke of slavery regard their masters as 1Tim 6: 1 worthy of all honor, so that the name of God and the teaching may not 1Tim 6: 1 be defamed. 1Tim 6: 2 Those who have believing masters must not be disrespectful on the 1Tim 6: 2 ground that they are brethren; rather they must serve all the better 1Tim 6: 2 since those who benefit by their service are believers and beloved. 1Tim 6: 2 Teach and urge these duties. 1Tim 6: 3 If any one teaches otherwise and does not agree with the sound words of 1Tim 6: 3 our Lord Jesus Christ and the teaching which accords with godliness, 1Tim 6: 4 he is puffed up with conceit, he knows nothing; he has a morbid craving 1Tim 6: 4 for controversy and for disputes about words, which produce envy, 1Tim 6: 4 dissension, slander, base suspicions, 1Tim 6: 5 and wrangling among men who are depraved in mind and bereft of the 1Tim 6: 5 truth, imagining that godliness is a means of gain. 1Tim 6: 6 There is great gain in godliness with contentment; 1Tim 6: 7 for we brought nothing into the world, and we cannot take anything out 1Tim 6: 7 of the world; 1Tim 6: 8 but if we have food and clothing, with these we shall be content. 1Tim 6: 9 But those who desire to be rich fall into temptation, into a snare, 1Tim 6: 9 into many senseless and hurtful desires that plunge men into ruin and 1Tim 6: 9 destruction. 1Tim 6:10 For the love of money is the root of all evils; it is through this 1Tim 6:10 craving that some have wandered away from the faith and pierced their 1Tim 6:10 hearts with many pangs. 1Tim 6:11 But as for you, man of God, shun all this; aim at righteousness, 1Tim 6:11 godliness, faith, love, steadfastness, gentleness. 1Tim 6:12 Fight the good fight of the faith; take hold of the eternal life to 1Tim 6:12 which you were called when you made the good confession in the presence 1Tim 6:12 of many witnesses. 1Tim 6:13 In the presence of God who gives life to all things, and of Christ 1Tim 6:13 Jesus who in his testimony before Pontius Pilate made the good 1Tim 6:13 confession, 1Tim 6:14 I charge you to keep the commandment unstained and free from reproach 1Tim 6:14 until the appearing of our Lord Jesus Christ; 1Tim 6:15 and this will be made manifest at the proper time by the blessed and 1Tim 6:15 only Sovereign, the King of kings and Lord of lords, 1Tim 6:16 who alone has immortality and dwells in unapproachable light, whom no 1Tim 6:16 man has ever seen or can see. To him be honor and eternal dominion. 1Tim 6:16 Amen. 1Tim 6:17 As for the rich in this world, charge them not to be haughty, nor to 1Tim 6:17 set their hopes on uncertain riches but on God who richly furnishes us 1Tim 6:17 with everything to enjoy. 1Tim 6:18 They are to do good, to be rich in good deeds, liberal and generous, 1Tim 6:19 thus laying up for themselves a good foundation for the future, so that 1Tim 6:19 they may take hold of the life which is life indeed. 1Tim 6:20 O Timothy, guard what has been entrusted to you. Avoid the godless 1Tim 6:20 chatter and contradictions of what is falsely called knowledge, 1Tim 6:21 for by professing it some have missed the mark as regards the faith. 1Tim 6:21 Grace be with you. 2Tim 1: 1 Paul, an apostle of Christ Jesus by the will of God according to the 2Tim 1: 1 promise of the life which is in Christ Jesus, 2Tim 1: 2 To Timothy, my beloved child: 2Tim 1: 2 Grace, mercy, and peace from God the Father and Christ Jesus our Lord. 2Tim 1: 3 I thank God whom I serve with a clear conscience, as did my fathers, 2Tim 1: 3 when I remember you constantly in my prayers. 2Tim 1: 4 As I remember your tears, I long night and day to see you, that I may 2Tim 1: 4 be filled with joy. 2Tim 1: 5 I am reminded of your sincere faith, a faith that dwelt first in your 2Tim 1: 5 grandmother Lo'is and your mother Eunice and now, I am sure, dwells in 2Tim 1: 5 you. 2Tim 1: 6 Hence I remind you to rekindle the gift of God that is within you 2Tim 1: 6 through the laying on of my hands; 2Tim 1: 7 for God did not give us a spirit of timidity but a spirit of power and 2Tim 1: 7 love and self-control. 2Tim 1: 8 Do not be ashamed then of testifying to our Lord, nor of me his 2Tim 1: 8 prisoner, but share in suffering for the gospel in the power of God, 2Tim 1: 9 who saved us and called us with a holy calling, not in virtue of our 2Tim 1: 9 works but in virtue of his own purpose and the grace which he gave us 2Tim 1: 9 in Christ Jesus ages ago, 2Tim 1:10 and now has manifested through the appearing of our Savior Christ 2Tim 1:10 Jesus, who abolished death and brought life and immortality to light 2Tim 1:10 through the gospel. 2Tim 1:11 For this gospel I was appointed a preacher and apostle and teacher, 2Tim 1:12 and therefore I suffer as I do. But I am not ashamed, for I know whom I 2Tim 1:12 have believed, and I am sure that he is able to guard until that Day 2Tim 1:12 what has been entrusted to me. 2Tim 1:13 Follow the pattern of the sound words which you have heard from me, in 2Tim 1:13 the faith and love which are in Christ Jesus; 2Tim 1:14 guard the truth that has been entrusted to you by the Holy Spirit who 2Tim 1:14 dwells within us. 2Tim 1:15 You are aware that all who are in Asia turned away from me, and among 2Tim 1:15 them Phy'gelus and Hermog'enes. 2Tim 1:16 May the Lord grant mercy to the household of Onesiph'orus, for he often 2Tim 1:16 refreshed me; he was not ashamed of my chains, 2Tim 1:17 but when he arrived in Rome he searched for me eagerly and found me -- 2Tim 1:18 may the Lord grant him to find mercy from the Lord on that Day -- and you 2Tim 1:18 well know all the service he rendered at Ephesus. 2Tim 2: 1 You then, my son, be strong in the grace that is in Christ Jesus, 2Tim 2: 2 and what you have heard from me before many witnesses entrust to 2Tim 2: 2 faithful men who will be able to teach others also. 2Tim 2: 3 Share in suffering as a good soldier of Christ Jesus. 2Tim 2: 4 No soldier on service gets entangled in civilian pursuits, since his 2Tim 2: 4 aim is to satisfy the one who enlisted him. 2Tim 2: 5 An athlete is not crowned unless he competes according to the rules. 2Tim 2: 6 It is the hard-working farmer who ought to have the first share of the 2Tim 2: 6 crops. 2Tim 2: 7 Think over what I say, for the Lord will grant you understanding in 2Tim 2: 7 everything. 2Tim 2: 8 Remember Jesus Christ, risen from the dead, descended from David, as 2Tim 2: 8 preached in my gospel, 2Tim 2: 9 the gospel for which I am suffering and wearing fetters like a 2Tim 2: 9 criminal. But the word of God is not fettered. 2Tim 2:10 Therefore I endure everything for the sake of the elect, that they also 2Tim 2:10 may obtain salvation in Christ Jesus with its eternal glory. 2Tim 2:11 The saying is sure: 2Tim 2:11 If we have died with him, we shall also live with him; 2Tim 2:12 if we endure, we shall also reign with him; 2Tim 2:12 if we deny him, he also will deny us; 2Tim 2:13 if we are faithless, he remains faithful -- 2Tim 2:13 for he cannot deny himself. 2Tim 2:14 Remind them of this, and charge them before the Lord to avoid 2Tim 2:14 disputing about words, which does no good, but only ruins the hearers. 2Tim 2:15 Do your best to present yourself to God as one approved, a workman who 2Tim 2:15 has no need to be ashamed, rightly handling the word of truth. 2Tim 2:16 Avoid such godless chatter, for it will lead people into more and more 2Tim 2:16 ungodliness, 2Tim 2:17 and their talk will eat its way like gangrene. Among them are 2Tim 2:17 Hymenae'us and Phile'tus, 2Tim 2:18 who have swerved from the truth by holding that the resurrection is 2Tim 2:18 past already. They are upsetting the faith of some. 2Tim 2:19 But God's firm foundation stands, bearing this seal: "The Lord knows 2Tim 2:19 those who are his," and, "Let every one who names the name of the Lord 2Tim 2:19 depart from iniquity." 2Tim 2:20 In a great house there are not only vessels of gold and silver but 2Tim 2:20 also of wood and earthenware, and some for noble use, some for ignoble. 2Tim 2:21 If any one purifies himself from what is ignoble, then he will be a 2Tim 2:21 vessel for noble use, consecrated and useful to the master of the 2Tim 2:21 house, ready for any good work. 2Tim 2:22 So shun youthful passions and aim at righteousness, faith, love, and 2Tim 2:22 peace, along with those who call upon the Lord from a pure heart. 2Tim 2:23 Have nothing to do with stupid, senseless controversies; you know that 2Tim 2:23 they breed quarrels. 2Tim 2:24 And the Lord's servant must not be quarrelsome but kindly to every one, 2Tim 2:24 an apt teacher, forbearing, 2Tim 2:25 correcting his opponents with gentleness. God may perhaps grant that 2Tim 2:25 they will repent and come to know the truth, 2Tim 2:26 and they may escape from the snare of the devil, after being captured 2Tim 2:26 by him to do his will. 2Tim 3: 1 But understand this, that in the last days there will come times of 2Tim 3: 1 stress. 2Tim 3: 2 For men will be lovers of self, lovers of money, proud, arrogant, 2Tim 3: 2 abusive, disobedient to their parents, ungrateful, unholy, 2Tim 3: 3 inhuman, implacable, slanderers, profligates, fierce, haters of good, 2Tim 3: 4 treacherous, reckless, swollen with conceit, lovers of pleasure rather 2Tim 3: 4 than lovers of God, 2Tim 3: 5 holding the form of religion but denying the power of it. Avoid such 2Tim 3: 5 people. 2Tim 3: 6 For among them are those who make their way into households and capture 2Tim 3: 6 weak women, burdened with sins and swayed by various impulses, 2Tim 3: 7 who will listen to anybody and can never arrive at a knowledge of the 2Tim 3: 7 truth. 2Tim 3: 8 As Jannes and Jambres opposed Moses, so these men also oppose the 2Tim 3: 8 truth, men of corrupt mind and counterfeit faith; 2Tim 3: 9 but they will not get very far, for their folly will be plain to all, 2Tim 3: 9 as was that of those two men. 2Tim 3:10 Now you have observed my teaching, my conduct, my aim in life, my 2Tim 3:10 faith, my patience, my love, my steadfastness, 2Tim 3:11 my persecutions, my sufferings, what befell me at Antioch, at Ico'nium, 2Tim 3:11 and at Lystra, what persecutions I endured; yet from them all the Lord 2Tim 3:11 rescued me. 2Tim 3:12 Indeed all who desire to live a godly life in Christ Jesus will be 2Tim 3:12 persecuted, 2Tim 3:13 while evil men and impostors will go on from bad to worse, deceivers 2Tim 3:13 and deceived. 2Tim 3:14 But as for you, continue in what you have learned and have firmly 2Tim 3:14 believed, knowing from whom you learned it 2Tim 3:15 and how from childhood you have been acquainted with the sacred 2Tim 3:15 writings which are able to instruct you for salvation through faith in 2Tim 3:15 Christ Jesus. 2Tim 3:16 All scripture is inspired by God and profitable for teaching, for 2Tim 3:16 reproof, for correction, and for training in righteousness, 2Tim 3:17 that the man of God may be complete, equipped for every good work. 2Tim 4: 1 I charge you in the presence of God and of Christ Jesus who is to 2Tim 4: 1 judge the living and the dead, and by his appearing and his kingdom: 2Tim 4: 2 preach the word, be urgent in season and out of season, convince, 2Tim 4: 2 rebuke, and exhort, be unfailing in patience and in teaching. 2Tim 4: 3 For the time is coming when people will not endure sound teaching, but 2Tim 4: 3 having itching ears they will accumulate for themselves teachers to 2Tim 4: 3 suit their own likings, 2Tim 4: 4 and will turn away from listening to the truth and wander into myths. 2Tim 4: 5 As for you, always be steady, endure suffering, do the work of an 2Tim 4: 5 evangelist, fulfil your ministry. 2Tim 4: 6 For I am already on the point of being sacrificed; the time of my 2Tim 4: 6 departure has come. 2Tim 4: 7 I have fought the good fight, I have finished the race, I have kept the 2Tim 4: 7 faith. 2Tim 4: 8 Henceforth there is laid up for me the crown of righteousness, which 2Tim 4: 8 the Lord, the righteous judge, will award to me on that Day, and not 2Tim 4: 8 only to me but also to all who have loved his appearing. 2Tim 4: 9 Do your best to come to me soon. 2Tim 4:10 For Demas, in love with this present world, has deserted me and gone to 2Tim 4:10 Thessaloni'ca; Crescens has gone to Galatia, Titus to Dalmatia. 2Tim 4:11 Luke alone is with me. Get Mark and bring him with you; for he is very 2Tim 4:11 useful in serving me. 2Tim 4:12 Tych'icus I have sent to Ephesus. 2Tim 4:13 When you come, bring the cloak that I left with Carpus at Tro'as, also 2Tim 4:13 the books, and above all the parchments. 2Tim 4:14 Alexander the coppersmith did me great harm; the Lord will requite him 2Tim 4:14 for his deeds. 2Tim 4:15 Beware of him yourself, for he strongly opposed our message. 2Tim 4:16 At my first defense no one took my part; all deserted me. May it not be 2Tim 4:16 charged against them! 2Tim 4:17 But the Lord stood by me and gave me strength to proclaim the message 2Tim 4:17 fully, that all the Gentiles might hear it. So I was rescued from the 2Tim 4:17 lion's mouth. 2Tim 4:18 The Lord will rescue me from every evil and save me for his heavenly 2Tim 4:18 kingdom. To him be the glory for ever and ever. Amen. 2Tim 4:19 Greet Prisca and Aq'uila, and the household of Onesiph'orus. 2Tim 4:20 Eras'tus remained at Corinth; Troph'imus I left ill at Mile'tus. 2Tim 4:21 Do your best to come before winter. Eubu'lus sends greetings to you, as 2Tim 4:21 do Pudens and Linus and Claudia and all the brethren. 2Tim 4:22 The Lord be with your spirit. Grace be with you. Tit 1: 1 Paul, a servant of God and an apostle of Jesus Christ, to further the Tit 1: 1 faith of God's elect and their knowledge of the truth which accords Tit 1: 1 with godliness, Tit 1: 2 in hope of eternal life which God, who never lies, promised ages ago Tit 1: 3 and at the proper time manifested in his word through the preaching Tit 1: 3 with which I have been entrusted by command of God our Savior; Tit 1: 4 To Titus, my true child in a common faith: Tit 1: 4 Grace and peace from God the Father and Christ Jesus our Savior. Tit 1: 5 This is why I left you in Crete, that you might amend what was Tit 1: 5 defective, and appoint elders in every town as I directed you, Tit 1: 6 if any man is blameless, the husband of one wife, and his children are Tit 1: 6 believers and not open to the charge of being profligate or Tit 1: 6 insubordinate. Tit 1: 7 For a bishop, as God's steward, must be blameless; he must not be Tit 1: 7 arrogant or quick-tempered or a drunkard or violent or greedy for gain, Tit 1: 8 but hospitable, a lover of goodness, master of himself, upright, holy, Tit 1: 8 and self-controlled; Tit 1: 9 he must hold firm to the sure word as taught, so that he may be able to Tit 1: 9 give instruction in sound doctrine and also to confute those who Tit 1: 9 contradict it. Tit 1:10 For there are many insubordinate men, empty talkers and deceivers, Tit 1:10 especially the circumcision party; Tit 1:11 they must be silenced, since they are upsetting whole families by Tit 1:11 teaching for base gain what they have no right to teach. Tit 1:12 One of themselves, a prophet of their own, said, "Cretans are always Tit 1:12 liars, evil beasts, lazy gluttons." Tit 1:13 This testimony is true. Therefore rebuke them sharply, that they may be Tit 1:13 sound in the faith, Tit 1:14 instead of giving heed to Jewish myths or to commands of men who reject Tit 1:14 the truth. Tit 1:15 To the pure all things are pure, but to the corrupt and unbelieving Tit 1:15 nothing is pure; their very minds and consciences are corrupted. Tit 1:16 They profess to know God, but they deny him by their deeds; they are Tit 1:16 detestable, disobedient, unfit for any good deed. Tit 2: 1 But as for you, teach what befits sound doctrine. Tit 2: 2 Bid the older men be temperate, serious, sensible, sound in faith, in Tit 2: 2 love, and in steadfastness. Tit 2: 3 Bid the older women likewise to be reverent in behavior, not to be Tit 2: 3 slanderers or slaves to drink; they are to teach what is good, Tit 2: 4 and so train the young women to love their husbands and children, Tit 2: 5 to be sensible, chaste, domestic, kind, and submissive to their Tit 2: 5 husbands, that the word of God may not be discredited. Tit 2: 6 Likewise urge the younger men to control themselves. Tit 2: 7 Show yourself in all respects a model of good deeds, and in your Tit 2: 7 teaching show integrity, gravity, Tit 2: 8 and sound speech that cannot be censured, so that an opponent may be Tit 2: 8 put to shame, having nothing evil to say of us. Tit 2: 9 Bid slaves to be submissive to their masters and to give satisfaction Tit 2: 9 in every respect; they are not to be refractory, Tit 2:10 nor to pilfer, but to show entire and true fidelity, so that in Tit 2:10 everything they may adorn the doctrine of God our Savior. Tit 2:11 For the grace of God has appeared for the salvation of all men, Tit 2:12 training us to renounce irreligion and worldly passions, and to live Tit 2:12 sober, upright, and godly lives in this world, Tit 2:13 awaiting our blessed hope, the appearing of the glory of our great God Tit 2:13 and Savior Jesus Christ, Tit 2:14 who gave himself for us to redeem us from all iniquity and to purify Tit 2:14 for himself a people of his own who are zealous for good deeds. Tit 2:15 Declare these things; exhort and reprove with all authority. Let no Tit 2:15 one disregard you. Tit 3: 1 Remind them to be submissive to rulers and authorities, to be Tit 3: 1 obedient, to be ready for any honest work, Tit 3: 2 to speak evil of no one, to avoid quarreling, to be gentle, and to show Tit 3: 2 perfect courtesy toward all men. Tit 3: 3 For we ourselves were once foolish, disobedient, led astray, slaves to Tit 3: 3 various passions and pleasures, passing our days in malice and envy, Tit 3: 3 hated by men and hating one another; Tit 3: 4 but when the goodness and loving kindness of God our Savior appeared, Tit 3: 5 he saved us, not because of deeds done by us in righteousness, but in Tit 3: 5 virtue of his own mercy, by the washing of regeneration and renewal in Tit 3: 5 the Holy Spirit, Tit 3: 6 which he poured out upon us richly through Jesus Christ our Savior, Tit 3: 7 so that we might be justified by his grace and become heirs in hope of Tit 3: 7 eternal life. Tit 3: 8 The saying is sure. Tit 3: 8 I desire you to insist on these things, so that those who have Tit 3: 8 believed in God may be careful to apply themselves to good deeds; these Tit 3: 8 are excellent and profitable to men. Tit 3: 9 But avoid stupid controversies, genealogies, dissensions, and quarrels Tit 3: 9 over the law, for they are unprofitable and futile. Tit 3:10 As for a man who is factious, after admonishing him once or twice, have Tit 3:10 nothing more to do with him, Tit 3:11 knowing that such a person is perverted and sinful; he is Tit 3:11 self-condemned. Tit 3:12 When I send Artemas or Tych'icus to you, do your best to come to me Tit 3:12 at Nicop'olis, for I have decided to spend the winter there. Tit 3:13 Do your best to speed Zenas the lawyer and Apol'los on their way; see Tit 3:13 that they lack nothing. Tit 3:14 And let our people learn to apply themselves to good deeds, so as to Tit 3:14 help cases of urgent need, and not to be unfruitful. Tit 3:15 All who are with me send greetings to you. Greet those who love us in Tit 3:15 the faith. Tit 3:15 Grace be with you all. Phlm 1 Paul, a prisoner for Christ Jesus, and Timothy our brother, Phlm 1 To Phile'mon our beloved fellow worker Phlm 2 and Ap'phia our sister and Archip'pus our fellow soldier, and the Phlm 2 church in your house: Phlm 3 Grace to you and peace from God our Father and the Lord Jesus Christ. Phlm 4 I thank my God always when I remember you in my prayers, Phlm 5 because I hear of your love and of the faith which you have toward the Phlm 5 Lord Jesus and all the saints, Phlm 6 and I pray that the sharing of your faith may promote the knowledge of Phlm 6 all the good that is ours in Christ. Phlm 7 For I have derived much joy and comfort from your love, my brother, Phlm 7 because the hearts of the saints have been refreshed through you. Phlm 8 Accordingly, though I am bold enough in Christ to command you to do Phlm 8 what is required, Phlm 9 yet for love's sake I prefer to appeal to you -- I, Paul, an ambassador Phlm 9 and now a prisoner also for Christ Jesus -- Phlm 10 I appeal to you for my child, Ones'imus, whose father I have become in Phlm 10 my imprisonment. Phlm 11 (Formerly he was useless to you, but now he is indeed useful to you and Phlm 11 to me.) Phlm 12 I am sending him back to you, sending my very heart. Phlm 13 I would have been glad to keep him with me, in order that he might Phlm 13 serve me on your behalf during my imprisonment for the gospel; Phlm 14 but I preferred to do nothing without your consent in order that your Phlm 14 goodness might not be by compulsion but of your own free will. Phlm 15 Perhaps this is why he was parted from you for a while, that you Phlm 15 might have him back for ever, Phlm 16 no longer as a slave but more than a slave, as a beloved brother, Phlm 16 especially to me but how much more to you, both in the flesh and in the Phlm 16 Lord. Phlm 17 So if you consider me your partner, receive him as you would receive me. Phlm 18 If he has wronged you at all, or owes you anything, charge that to my Phlm 18 account. Phlm 19 I, Paul, write this with my own hand, I will repay it -- to say nothing Phlm 19 of your owing me even your own self. Phlm 20 Yes, brother, I want some benefit from you in the Lord. Refresh my Phlm 20 heart in Christ. Phlm 21 Confident of your obedience, I write to you, knowing that you will do Phlm 21 even more than I say. Phlm 22 At the same time, prepare a guest room for me, for I am hoping through Phlm 22 your prayers to be granted to you. Phlm 23 Ep'aphras, my fellow prisoner in Christ Jesus, sends greetings to you, Phlm 24 and so do Mark, Aristar'chus, Demas, and Luke, my fellow workers. Phlm 25 The grace of the Lord Jesus Christ be with your spirit.