# bible

book: Luke
label: Luke
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  As he was drawing near—already on the way down the Mount of Olives—the whole multitude of his disciples began to rejoice and praise God with a loud voice for all the mighty works that they had seen,


book: Luke
label: Luke
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  saying, “Blessed is the King who comes in the name of the Lord! Peace in heaven and glory in the highest!”


book: Luke
label: Luke
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  saying, “Would that you, even you, had known on this day the things that make for peace! But now they are hidden from your eyes.


book: Luke
label: Luke
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  For the days will come upon you, when your enemies will set up a barricade around you and surround you and hem you in on every side


book: Luke
label: Luke
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  and tear you down to the ground, you and your children within you. And they will not leave one stone upon another in you, because you did not know the time of your visitation.”


book: Luke
label: Luke
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  saying to them, “It is written, ‘My house shall be a house of prayer,’ but you have made it a den of robbers.”


book: Luke
label: Luke
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  And he was teaching daily in the temple. The chief priests and the scribes and the principal men of the people were seeking to destroy him,


book: Luke
label: Luke
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  One day, as Jesus was teaching the people in the temple and preaching the gospel, the chief priests and the scribes with the elders came up


book: Luke
label: Luke
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  and said to him, “Tell us by what authority you do these things, or who it is that gave you this authority.”


book: Luke
label: Luke
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  And they discussed it with one another, saying, “If we say, ‘From heaven,’ he will say, ‘Why did you not believe him?’


book: Luke
label: Luke
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  But if we say, ‘From man,’ all the people will stone us to death, for they are convinced that John was a prophet.”


book: Luke
label: Luke
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  And he began to tell the people this parable: “A man planted a vineyard and let it out to tenants and went into another country for a long while.


book: Luke
label: Luke
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  When the time came, he sent a servant to the tenants, so that they would give him some of the fruit of the vineyard. But the tenants beat him and sent him away empty-handed.


book: Luke
label: Luke
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  And he sent another servant. But they also beat and treated him shamefully, and sent him away empty-handed.


book: Luke
label: Luke
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  Then the owner of the vineyard said, ‘What shall I do? I will send my beloved son; perhaps they will respect him.’


book: Luke
label: Luke
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  But when the tenants saw him, they said to themselves, ‘This is the heir. Let us kill him, so that the inheritance may be ours.’


book: Luke
label: Luke
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  And they threw him out of the vineyard and killed him. What then will the owner of the vineyard do to them?


book: Luke
label: Luke
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  He will come and destroy those tenants and give the vineyard to others.” When they heard this, they said, “Surely not!”


book: Luke
label: Luke
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  But he looked directly at them and said, “What then is this that is written: “‘The stone that the builders rejected has become the cornerstone’?


book: Luke
label: Luke
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  Everyone who falls on that stone will be broken to pieces, and when it falls on anyone, it will crush him.”


book: Luke
label: Luke
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  The scribes and the chief priests sought to lay hands on him at that very hour, for they perceived that he had told this parable against them, but they feared the people.


book: Luke
label: Luke
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  So they watched him and sent spies, who pretended to be sincere, that they might catch him in something he said, so as to deliver him up to the authority and jurisdiction of the governor.


book: Luke
label: Luke
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  So they asked him, “Teacher, we know that you speak and teach rightly, and show no partiality, but truly teach the way of God.


book: Luke
label: Luke
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  He said to them, “Then render to Caesar the things that are Caesar’s, and to God the things that are God’s.”


book: Luke
label: Luke
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  And they were not able in the presence of the people to catch him in what he said, but marveling at his answer they became silent.


book: Luke
label: Luke
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  and they asked him a question, saying, “Teacher, Moses wrote for us that if a man’s brother dies, having a wife but no children, the man must take the widow and raise up offspring for his brother.


book: Luke
label: Luke
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  but those who are considered worthy to attain to that age and to the resurrection from the dead neither marry nor are given in marriage,


book: Luke
label: Luke
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  for they cannot die anymore, because they are equal to angels and are sons of God, being sons of the resurrection.


book: Luke
label: Luke
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  But that the dead are raised, even Moses showed, in the passage about the bush, where he calls the Lord the God of Abraham and the God of Isaac and the God of Jacob.


book: Luke
label: Luke
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  “Beware of the scribes, who like to walk around in long robes, and love greetings in the marketplaces and the best seats in the synagogues and the places of honor at feasts,


book: Luke
label: Luke
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  who devour widows’ houses and for a pretense make long prayers. They will receive the greater condemnation.” 


book: Luke
label: Luke
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  For they all contributed out of their abundance, but she out of her poverty put in all she had to live on.”


book: Luke
label: Luke
content:
  And while some were speaking of the temple, how it was adorned with noble stones and offerings, he said,


book: Luke
label: Luke
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  “As for these things that you see, the days will come when there will not be left here one stone upon another that will not be thrown down.”


book: Luke
label: Luke
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  And they asked him, “Teacher, when will these things be, and what will be the sign when these things are about to take place?”


book: Luke
label: Luke
content:
  And he said, “See that you are not led astray. For many will come in my name, saying, ‘I am he!’ and, ‘The time is at hand!’ Do not go after them.


book: Luke
label: Luke
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  And when you hear of wars and tumults, do not be terrified, for these things must first take place, but the end will not be at once.”


book: Luke
label: Luke
content:
  There will be great earthquakes, and in various places famines and pestilences. And there will be terrors and great signs from heaven.


book: Luke
label: Luke
content:
  But before all this they will lay their hands on you and persecute you, delivering you up to the synagogues and prisons, and you will be brought before kings and governors for my name’s sake.


book: Luke
label: Luke
content:
  for I will give you a mouth and wisdom, which none of your adversaries will be able to withstand or contradict.


book: Luke
label: Luke
content:
  You will be delivered up even by parents and brothers and relatives and friends, and some of you they will put to death.


book: Luke
label: Luke
content:
  Then let those who are in Judea flee to the mountains, and let those who are inside the city depart, and let not those who are out in the country enter it,


book: Luke
label: Luke
content:
  Alas for women who are pregnant and for those who are nursing infants in those days! For there will be great distress upon the earth and wrath against this people.


book: Luke
label: Luke
content:
  They will fall by the edge of the sword and be led captive among all nations, and Jerusalem will be trampled underfoot by the Gentiles, until the times of the Gentiles are fulfilled.


book: Luke
label: Luke
content:
  “And there will be signs in sun and moon and stars, and on the earth distress of nations in perplexity because of the roaring of the sea and the waves,


book: Luke
label: Luke
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  people fainting with fear and with foreboding of what is coming on the world. For the powers of the heavens will be shaken.


book: Luke
label: Luke
content:
  Now when these things begin to take place, straighten up and raise your heads, because your redemption is drawing near.”


book: Luke
label: Luke
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  “But watch yourselves lest your hearts be weighed down with dissipation and drunkenness and cares of this life, and that day come upon you suddenly like a trap.


book: Luke
label: Luke
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  But stay awake at all times, praying that you may have strength to escape all these things that are going to take place, and to stand before the Son of Man.”


book: Luke
label: Luke
content:
  And every day he was teaching in the temple, but at night he went out and lodged on the mount called Olivet.


book: Luke
label: Luke
content:
  And the chief priests and the scribes were seeking how to put him to death, for they feared the people.


book: Luke
label: Luke
content:
  He said to them, “Behold, when you have entered the city, a man carrying a jar of water will meet you. Follow him into the house that he enters


book: Luke
label: Luke
content:
  and tell the master of the house, ‘The Teacher says to you, Where is the guest room, where I may eat the Passover with my disciples?’


book: Luke
label: Luke
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  And he took a cup, and when he had given thanks he said, “Take this, and divide it among yourselves.


book: Luke
label: Luke
content:
  For I tell you that from now on I will not drink of the fruit of the vine until the kingdom of God comes.”


book: Luke
label: Luke
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  And he took bread, and when he had given thanks, he broke it and gave it to them, saying, “This is my body, which is given for you. Do this in remembrance of me.”


book: Luke
label: Luke
content:
  And likewise the cup after they had eaten, saying, “This cup that is poured out for you is the new covenant in my blood.


book: Luke
label: Luke
content:
  And he said to them, “The kings of the Gentiles exercise lordship over them, and those in authority over them are called benefactors.


book: Luke
label: Luke
content:
  But not so with you. Rather, let the greatest among you become as the youngest, and the leader as one who serves.


book: Luke
label: Luke
content:
  For who is the greater, one who reclines at table or one who serves? Is it not the one who reclines at table? But I am among you as the one who serves.


book: Luke
label: Luke
content:
  that you may eat and drink at my table in my kingdom and sit on thrones judging the twelve tribes of Israel.


book: Luke
label: Luke
content:
  but I have prayed for you that your faith may not fail. And when you have turned again, strengthen your brothers.”


book: Luke
label: Luke
content:
  Jesus said, “I tell you, Peter, the rooster will not crow this day, until you deny three times that you know me.”


book: Luke
label: Luke
content:
  And he said to them, “When I sent you out with no moneybag or knapsack or sandals, did you lack anything?” They said, “Nothing.”


book: Luke
label: Luke
content:
  He said to them, “But now let the one who has a moneybag take it, and likewise a knapsack. And let the one who has no sword sell his cloak and buy one.


book: Luke
label: Luke
content:
  For I tell you that this Scripture must be fulfilled in me: ‘And he was numbered with the transgressors.’ For what is written about me has its fulfillment.”


book: Luke
label: Luke
content:
  And he came out and went, as was his custom, to the Mount of Olives, and the disciples followed him.


book: Luke
label: Luke
content:
  saying, “Father, if you are willing, remove this cup from me. Nevertheless, not my will, but yours, be done.”


book: Luke
label: Luke
content:
  And being in agony he prayed more earnestly; and his sweat became like great drops of blood falling down to the ground.


book: Luke
label: Luke
content:
  While he was still speaking, there came a crowd, and the man called Judas, one of the twelve, was leading them. He drew near to Jesus to kiss him,


book: Luke
label: Luke
content:
  And when those who were around him saw what would follow, they said, “Lord, shall we strike with the sword?”


book: Luke
label: Luke
content:
  Then Jesus said to the chief priests and officers of the temple and elders, who had come out against him, “Have you come out as against a robber, with swords and clubs?


book: Luke
label: Luke
content:
  When I was with you day after day in the temple, you did not lay hands on me. But this is your hour, and the power of darkness.”


book: Luke
label: Luke
content:
  Then they seized him and led him away, bringing him into the high priest’s house, and Peter was following at a distance.


book: Luke
label: Luke
content:
  And when they had kindled a fire in the middle of the courtyard and sat down together, Peter sat down among them.


book: Luke
label: Luke
content:
  Then a servant girl, seeing him as he sat in the light and looking closely at him, said, “This man also was with him.”


book: Luke
label: Luke
content:
  And a little later someone else saw him and said, “You also are one of them.” But Peter said, “Man, I am not.”


book: Luke
label: Luke
content:
  And after an interval of about an hour still another insisted, saying, “Certainly this man also was with him, for he too is a Galilean.”


book: Luke
label: Luke
content:
  But Peter said, “Man, I do not know what you are talking about.” And immediately, while he was still speaking, the rooster crowed.


book: Luke
label: Luke
content:
  And the Lord turned and looked at Peter. And Peter remembered the saying of the Lord, how he had said to him, “Before the rooster crows today, you will deny me three times.”


book: Luke
label: Luke
content:
  When day came, the assembly of the elders of the people gathered together, both chief priests and scribes. And they led him away to their council, and they said,


book: Luke
label: Luke
content:
  And they began to accuse him, saying, “We found this man misleading our nation and forbidding us to give tribute to Caesar, and saying that he himself is Christ, a king.”


book: Luke
label: Luke
content:
  But they were urgent, saying, “He stirs up the people, teaching throughout all Judea, from Galilee even to this place.”


book: Luke
label: Luke
content:
  And when he learned that he belonged to Herod’s jurisdiction, he sent him over to Herod, who was himself in Jerusalem at that time.


book: Luke
label: Luke
content:
  When Herod saw Jesus, he was very glad, for he had long desired to see him, because he had heard about him, and he was hoping to see some sign done by him.


book: Luke
label: Luke
content:
  And Herod with his soldiers treated him with contempt and mocked him. Then, arraying him in splendid clothing, he sent him back to Pilate.


book: Luke
label: Luke
content:
  And Herod and Pilate became friends with each other that very day, for before this they had been at enmity with each other.


book: Luke
label: Luke
content:
  and said to them, “You brought me this man as one who was misleading the people. And after examining him before you, behold, I did not find this man guilty of any of your charges against him.


book: Luke
label: Luke
content:
  A third time he said to them, “Why? What evil has he done? I have found in him no guilt deserving death. I will therefore punish and release him.”


book: Luke
label: Luke
content:
  But they were urgent, demanding with loud cries that he should be crucified. And their voices prevailed.


book: Luke
label: Luke
content:
  He released the man who had been thrown into prison for insurrection and murder, for whom they asked, but he delivered Jesus over to their will.


book: Luke
label: Luke
content:
  And as they led him away, they seized one Simon of Cyrene, who was coming in from the country, and laid on him the cross, to carry it behind Jesus.


book: Luke
label: Luke
content:
  And there followed him a great multitude of the people and of women who were mourning and lamenting for him.


book: Luke
label: Luke
content:
  But turning to them Jesus said, “Daughters of Jerusalem, do not weep for me, but weep for yourselves and for your children.


book: Luke
label: Luke
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  For behold, the days are coming when they will say, ‘Blessed are the barren and the wombs that never bore and the breasts that never nursed!’


book: Luke
label: Luke
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  And when they came to the place that is called The Skull, there they crucified him, and the criminals, one on his right and one on his left.


book: Luke
label: Luke
content:
  And Jesus said, “Father, forgive them, for they know not what they do.” And they cast lots to divide his garments.


book: Luke
label: Luke
content:
  And the people stood by, watching, but the rulers scoffed at him, saying, “He saved others; let him save himself, if he is the Christ of God, his Chosen One!”


book: Luke
label: Luke
content:
  One of the criminals who were hanged railed at him, saying, “Are you not the Christ? Save yourself and us!”


book: Luke
label: Luke
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  But the other rebuked him, saying, “Do you not fear God, since you are under the same sentence of condemnation?


book: Luke
label: Luke
content:
  And we indeed justly, for we are receiving the due reward of our deeds; but this man has done nothing wrong.”


book: Luke
label: Luke
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  Then Jesus, calling out with a loud voice, said, “Father, into your hands I commit my spirit!” And having said this he breathed his last.


book: Luke
label: Luke
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  Now when the centurion saw what had taken place, he praised God, saying, “Certainly this man was innocent!”


book: Luke
label: Luke
content:
  And all the crowds that had assembled for this spectacle, when they saw what had taken place, returned home beating their breasts.


book: Luke
label: Luke
content:
  And all his acquaintances and the women who had followed him from Galilee stood at a distance watching these things.


book: Luke
label: Luke
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  Now there was a man named Joseph, from the Jewish town of Arimathea. He was a member of the council, a good and righteous man,


book: Luke
label: Luke
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  Then he took it down and wrapped it in a linen shroud and laid him in a tomb cut in stone, where no one had ever yet been laid.


book: Luke
label: Luke
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  Then they returned and prepared spices and ointments. On the Sabbath they rested according to the commandment. 


book: Luke
label: Luke
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  But on the first day of the week, at early dawn, they went to the tomb, taking the spices they had prepared.


book: Luke
label: Luke
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  And as they were frightened and bowed their faces to the ground, the men said to them, “Why do you seek the living among the dead?


book: Luke
label: Luke
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  that the Son of Man must be delivered into the hands of sinful men and be crucified and on the third day rise.”


book: Luke
label: Luke
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  Now it was Mary Magdalene and Joanna and Mary the mother of James and the other women with them who told these things to the apostles,


book: Luke
label: Luke
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  But Peter rose and ran to the tomb; stooping and looking in, he saw the linen cloths by themselves; and he went home marveling at what had happened.


book: Luke
label: Luke
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  And he said to them, “What is this conversation that you are holding with each other as you walk?” And they stood still, looking sad.


book: Luke
label: Luke
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  Then one of them, named Cleopas, answered him, “Are you the only visitor to Jerusalem who does not know the things that have happened there in these days?”


book: Luke
label: Luke
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  And he said to them, “What things?” And they said to him, “Concerning Jesus of Nazareth, a man who was a prophet mighty in deed and word before God and all the people,


book: Luke
label: Luke
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  But we had hoped that he was the one to redeem Israel. Yes, and besides all this, it is now the third day since these things happened.


book: Luke
label: Luke
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  and when they did not find his body, they came back saying that they had even seen a vision of angels, who said that he was alive.


book: Luke
label: Luke
content:
  Some of those who were with us went to the tomb and found it just as the women had said, but him they did not see.”


book: Luke
label: Luke
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  And he said to them, “O foolish ones, and slow of heart to believe all that the prophets have spoken!


book: Luke
label: Luke
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  And beginning with Moses and all the Prophets, he interpreted to them in all the Scriptures the things concerning himself.


book: Luke
label: Luke
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  but they urged him strongly, saying, “Stay with us, for it is toward evening and the day is now far spent.” So he went in to stay with them.


book: Luke
label: Luke
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  They said to each other, “Did not our hearts burn within us while he talked to us on the road, while he opened to us the Scriptures?”


book: Luke
label: Luke
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  And they rose that same hour and returned to Jerusalem. And they found the eleven and those who were with them gathered together,


book: Luke
label: Luke
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  Then they told what had happened on the road, and how he was known to them in the breaking of the bread.


book: Luke
label: Luke
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  As they were talking about these things, Jesus himself stood among them, and said to them, “Peace to you!”


book: Luke
label: Luke
content:
  See my hands and my feet, that it is I myself. Touch me, and see. For a spirit does not have flesh and bones as you see that I have.”


book: Luke
label: Luke
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  And while they still disbelieved for joy and were marveling, he said to them, “Have you anything here to eat?”


book: Luke
label: Luke
content:
  Then he said to them, “These are my words that I spoke to you while I was still with you, that everything written about me in the Law of Moses and the Prophets and the Psalms must be fulfilled.”


book: Luke
label: Luke
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  and said to them, “Thus it is written, that the Christ should suffer and on the third day rise from the dead,


book: Luke
label: Luke
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  and that repentance for the forgiveness of sins should be proclaimed in his name to all nations, beginning from Jerusalem.


book: Luke
label: Luke
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  And behold, I am sending the promise of my Father upon you. But stay in the city until you are clothed with power from on high.”


book: John
label: John
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  But to all who did receive him, who believed in his name, he gave the right to become children of God,


book: John
label: John
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  And the Word became flesh and dwelt among us, and we have seen his glory, glory as of the only Son from the Father, full of grace and truth.


book: John
label: John
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  (John bore witness about him, and cried out, “This was he of whom I said, ‘He who comes after me ranks before me, because he was before me.’”)


book: John
label: John
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  And this is the testimony of John, when the Jews sent priests and Levites from Jerusalem to ask him, “Who are you?”


book: John
label: John
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  And they asked him, “What then? Are you Elijah?” He said, “I am not.” “Are you the Prophet?” And he answered, “No.”


book: John
label: John
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  So they said to him, “Who are you? We need to give an answer to those who sent us. What do you say about yourself?”


book: John
label: John
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  He said, “I am the voice of one crying out in the wilderness, ‘Make straight the way of the Lord,’ as the prophet Isaiah said.”


book: John
label: John
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  They asked him, “Then why are you baptizing, if you are neither the Christ, nor Elijah, nor the Prophet?”


book: John
label: John
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  The next day he saw Jesus coming toward him, and said, “Behold, the Lamb of God, who takes away the sin of the world!


book: John
label: John
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  I myself did not know him, but for this purpose I came baptizing with water, that he might be revealed to Israel.”


book: John
label: John
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  I myself did not know him, but he who sent me to baptize with water said to me, ‘He on whom you see the Spirit descend and remain, this is he who baptizes with the Holy Spirit.’


book: John
label: John
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  Jesus turned and saw them following and said to them, “What are you seeking?” And they said to him, “Rabbi” (which means Teacher), “where are you staying?”


book: John
label: John
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  He said to them, “Come and you will see.” So they came and saw where he was staying, and they stayed with him that day, for it was about the tenth hour.


book: John
label: John
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  He first found his own brother Simon and said to him, “We have found the Messiah” (which means Christ).


book: John
label: John
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  He brought him to Jesus. Jesus looked at him and said, “You are Simon the son of John. You shall be called Cephas” (which means Peter).


book: John
label: John
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  Philip found Nathanael and said to him, “We have found him of whom Moses in the Law and also the prophets wrote, Jesus of Nazareth, the son of Joseph.”


book: John
label: John
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  Nathanael said to him, “Can anything good come out of Nazareth?” Philip said to him, “Come and see.”


book: John
label: John
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  Jesus saw Nathanael coming toward him and said of him, “Behold, an Israelite indeed, in whom there is no deceit!”


book: John
label: John
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  Nathanael said to him, “How do you know me?” Jesus answered him, “Before Philip called you, when you were under the fig tree, I saw you.”


book: John
label: John
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  Jesus answered him, “Because I said to you, ‘I saw you under the fig tree,’ do you believe? You will see greater things than these.”


book: John
label: John
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  And he said to him, “Truly, truly, I say to you, you will see heaven opened, and the angels of God ascending and descending on the Son of Man.” 


book: John
label: John
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  Now there were six stone water jars there for the Jewish rites of purification, each holding twenty or thirty gallons.


book: John
label: John
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  When the master of the feast tasted the water now become wine, and did not know where it came from (though the servants who had drawn the water knew), the master of the feast called the bridegroom


book: John
label: John
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  and said to him, “Everyone serves the good wine first, and when people have drunk freely, then the poor wine. But you have kept the good wine until now.”


book: John
label: John
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  This, the first of his signs, Jesus did at Cana in Galilee, and manifested his glory. And his disciples believed in him.


book: John
label: John
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  After this he went down to Capernaum, with his mother and his brothers and his disciples, and they stayed there for a few days.


book: John
label: John
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  In the temple he found those who were selling oxen and sheep and pigeons, and the money-changers sitting there.


book: John
label: John
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  And making a whip of cords, he drove them all out of the temple, with the sheep and oxen. And he poured out the coins of the money-changers and overturned their tables.


book: John
label: John
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  And he told those who sold the pigeons, “Take these things away; do not make my Father’s house a house of trade.”


book: John
label: John
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  The Jews then said, “It has taken forty-six years to build this temple, and will you raise it up in three days?”


book: John
label: John
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  When therefore he was raised from the dead, his disciples remembered that he had said this, and they believed the Scripture and the word that Jesus had spoken.


book: John
label: John
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  Now when he was in Jerusalem at the Passover Feast, many believed in his name when they saw the signs that he was doing.


book: John
label: John
content:
  This man came to Jesus by night and said to him, “Rabbi, we know that you are a teacher come from God, for no one can do these signs that you do unless God is with him.”


book: John
label: John
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  Jesus answered him, “Truly, truly, I say to you, unless one is born again he cannot see the kingdom of God.”


book: John
label: John
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  Nicodemus said to him, “How can a man be born when he is old? Can he enter a second time into his mother’s womb and be born?”


book: John
label: John
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  Jesus answered, “Truly, truly, I say to you, unless one is born of water and the Spirit, he cannot enter the kingdom of God.


book: John
label: John
content:
  The wind blows where it wishes, and you hear its sound, but you do not know where it comes from or where it goes. So it is with everyone who is born of the Spirit.”


book: John
label: John
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  Truly, truly, I say to you, we speak of what we know, and bear witness to what we have seen, but you do not receive our testimony.


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label: John
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  If I have told you earthly things and you do not believe, how can you believe if I tell you heavenly things?


book: John
label: John
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  “For God so loved the world, that he gave his only Son, that whoever believes in him should not perish but have eternal life.


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label: John
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  For God did not send his Son into the world to condemn the world, but in order that the world might be saved through him.


book: John
label: John
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  Whoever believes in him is not condemned, but whoever does not believe is condemned already, because he has not believed in the name of the only Son of God.


book: John
label: John
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  And this is the judgment: the light has come into the world, and people loved the darkness rather than the light because their works were evil.


book: John
label: John
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  For everyone who does wicked things hates the light and does not come to the light, lest his works should be exposed.


book: John
label: John
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  But whoever does what is true comes to the light, so that it may be clearly seen that his works have been carried out in God.”


book: John
label: John
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  After this Jesus and his disciples went into the Judean countryside, and he remained there with them and was baptizing.


book: John
label: John
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  John also was baptizing at Aenon near Salim, because water was plentiful there, and people were coming and being baptized


book: John
label: John
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  And they came to John and said to him, “Rabbi, he who was with you across the Jordan, to whom you bore witness—look, he is baptizing, and all are going to him.”


book: John
label: John
content:
  You yourselves bear me witness, that I said, ‘I am not the Christ, but I have been sent before him.’


book: John
label: John
content:
  The one who has the bride is the bridegroom. The friend of the bridegroom, who stands and hears him, rejoices greatly at the bridegroom’s voice. Therefore this joy of mine is now complete.


book: John
label: John
content:
  He who comes from above is above all. He who is of the earth belongs to the earth and speaks in an earthly way. He who comes from heaven is above all.


book: John
label: John
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  Whoever believes in the Son has eternal life; whoever does not obey the Son shall not see life, but the wrath of God remains on him. 


book: John
label: John
content:
  Now when Jesus learned that the Pharisees had heard that Jesus was making and baptizing more disciples than John


book: John
label: John
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  So he came to a town of Samaria called Sychar, near the field that Jacob had given to his son Joseph.


book: John
label: John
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  Jacob’s well was there; so Jesus, wearied as he was from his journey, was sitting beside the well. It was about the sixth hour.


book: John
label: John
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  The Samaritan woman said to him, “How is it that you, a Jew, ask for a drink from me, a woman of Samaria?” (For Jews have no dealings with Samaritans.)


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label: John
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  Jesus answered her, “If you knew the gift of God, and who it is that is saying to you, ‘Give me a drink,’ you would have asked him, and he would have given you living water.”


book: John
label: John
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  The woman said to him, “Sir, you have nothing to draw water with, and the well is deep. Where do you get that living water?


book: John
label: John
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  Are you greater than our father Jacob? He gave us the well and drank from it himself, as did his sons and his livestock.”


book: John
label: John
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  but whoever drinks of the water that I will give him will never be thirsty again. The water that I will give him will become in him a spring of water welling up to eternal life.”


book: John
label: John
content:
  The woman said to him, “Sir, give me this water, so that I will not be thirsty or have to come here to draw water.”


book: John
label: John
content:
  The woman answered him, “I have no husband.” Jesus said to her, “You are right in saying, ‘I have no husband’;


book: John
label: John
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  for you have had five husbands, and the one you now have is not your husband. What you have said is true.”


book: John
label: John
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  Our fathers worshiped on this mountain, but you say that in Jerusalem is the place where people ought to worship.”


book: John
label: John
content:
  Jesus said to her, “Woman, believe me, the hour is coming when neither on this mountain nor in Jerusalem will you worship the Father.


book: John
label: John
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  But the hour is coming, and is now here, when the true worshipers will worship the Father in spirit and truth, for the Father is seeking such people to worship him.


book: John
label: John
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  The woman said to him, “I know that Messiah is coming (he who is called Christ). When he comes, he will tell us all things.”


book: John
label: John
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  Just then his disciples came back. They marveled that he was talking with a woman, but no one said, “What do you seek?” or, “Why are you talking with her?”


book: John
label: John
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  Do you not say, ‘There are yet four months, then comes the harvest’? Look, I tell you, lift up your eyes, and see that the fields are white for harvest.


book: John
label: John
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  Already the one who reaps is receiving wages and gathering fruit for eternal life, so that sower and reaper may rejoice together.


book: John
label: John
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  I sent you to reap that for which you did not labor. Others have labored, and you have entered into their labor.”


book: John
label: John
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  Many Samaritans from that town believed in him because of the woman’s testimony, “He told me all that I ever did.”


book: John
label: John
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  They said to the woman, “It is no longer because of what you said that we believe, for we have heard for ourselves, and we know that this is indeed the Savior of the world.”


book: John
label: John
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  So when he came to Galilee, the Galileans welcomed him, having seen all that he had done in Jerusalem at the feast. For they too had gone to the feast.


book: John
label: John
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  So he came again to Cana in Galilee, where he had made the water wine. And at Capernaum there was an official whose son was ill.


book: John
label: John
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  When this man heard that Jesus had come from Judea to Galilee, he went to him and asked him to come down and heal his son, for he was at the point of death.


book: John
label: John
content:
  Jesus said to him, “Go; your son will live.” The man believed the word that Jesus spoke to him and went on his way.


book: John
label: John
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  So he asked them the hour when he began to get better, and they said to him, “Yesterday at the seventh hour the fever left him.”


book: John
label: John
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  The father knew that was the hour when Jesus had said to him, “Your son will live.” And he himself believed, and all his household.


book: John
label: John
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  Now there is in Jerusalem by the Sheep Gate a pool, in Aramaic called Bethesda, which has five roofed colonnades.


book: John
label: John
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  When Jesus saw him lying there and knew that he had already been there a long time, he said to him, “Do you want to be healed?”


book: John
label: John
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  The sick man answered him, “Sir, I have no one to put me into the pool when the water is stirred up, and while I am going another steps down before me.”


book: John
label: John
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  So the Jews said to the man who had been healed, “It is the Sabbath, and it is not lawful for you to take up your bed.”


book: John
label: John
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  Now the man who had been healed did not know who it was, for Jesus had withdrawn, as there was a crowd in the place.


book: John
label: John
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  Afterward Jesus found him in the temple and said to him, “See, you are well! Sin no more, that nothing worse may happen to you.”


book: John
label: John
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  This was why the Jews were seeking all the more to kill him, because not only was he breaking the Sabbath, but he was even calling God his own Father, making himself equal with God.


book: John
label: John
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  So Jesus said to them, “Truly, truly, I say to you, the Son can do nothing of his own accord, but only what he sees the Father doing. For whatever the Father does, that the Son does likewise.


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label: John
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  For the Father loves the Son and shows him all that he himself is doing. And greater works than these will he show him, so that you may marvel.


book: John
label: John
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  that all may honor the Son, just as they honor the Father. Whoever does not honor the Son does not honor the Father who sent him.


book: John
label: John
content:
  Truly, truly, I say to you, whoever hears my word and believes him who sent me has eternal life. He does not come into judgment, but has passed from death to life.


book: John
label: John
content:
  “Truly, truly, I say to you, an hour is coming, and is now here, when the dead will hear the voice of the Son of God, and those who hear will live.


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label: John
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  and come out, those who have done good to the resurrection of life, and those who have done evil to the resurrection of judgment.


book: John
label: John
content:
  “I can do nothing on my own. As I hear, I judge, and my judgment is just, because I seek not my own will but the will of him who sent me.


book: John
label: John
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  There is another who bears witness about me, and I know that the testimony that he bears about me is true.


book: John
label: John
content:
  But the testimony that I have is greater than that of John. For the works that the Father has given me to accomplish, the very works that I am doing, bear witness about me that the Father has sent me.


book: John
label: John
content:
  And the Father who sent me has himself borne witness about me. His voice you have never heard, his form you have never seen,


book: John
label: John
content:
  You search the Scriptures because you think that in them you have eternal life; and it is they that bear witness about me,


book: John
label: John
content:
  I have come in my Father’s name, and you do not receive me. If another comes in his own name, you will receive him.


book: John
label: John
content:
  How can you believe, when you receive glory from one another and do not seek the glory that comes from the only God?


book: John
label: John
content:
  Do not think that I will accuse you to the Father. There is one who accuses you: Moses, on whom you have set your hope.


book: John
label: John
content:
  Lifting up his eyes, then, and seeing that a large crowd was coming toward him, Jesus said to Philip, “Where are we to buy bread, so that these people may eat?”


book: John
label: John
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  Philip answered him, “Two hundred denarii worth of bread would not be enough for each of them to get a little.”


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


book: John
label: John
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  Jesus then took the loaves, and when he had given thanks, he distributed them to those who were seated. So also the fish, as much as they wanted.


book: John
label: John
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  And when they had eaten their fill, he told his disciples, “Gather up the leftover fragments, that nothing may be lost.”


book: John
label: John
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  So they gathered them up and filled twelve baskets with fragments from the five barley loaves left by those who had eaten.


book: John
label: John
content:
  When the people saw the sign that he had done, they said, “This is indeed the Prophet who is to come into the world!”


book: John
label: John
content:
  Perceiving then that they were about to come and take him by force to make him king, Jesus withdrew again to the mountain by himself.


book: John
label: John
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  got into a boat, and started across the sea to Capernaum. It was now dark, and Jesus had not yet come to them.


book: John
label: John
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  When they had rowed about three or four miles, they saw Jesus walking on the sea and coming near the boat, and they were frightened.


book: John
label: John
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  Then they were glad to take him into the boat, and immediately the boat was at the land to which they were going.


book: John
label: John
content:
  On the next day the crowd that remained on the other side of the sea saw that there had been only one boat there, and that Jesus had not entered the boat with his disciples, but that his disciples had gone away alone.


book: John
label: John
content:
  Other boats from Tiberias came near the place where they had eaten the bread after the Lord had given thanks.


book: John
label: John
content:
  So when the crowd saw that Jesus was not there, nor his disciples, they themselves got into the boats and went to Capernaum, seeking Jesus.


book: John
label: John
content:
  When they found him on the other side of the sea, they said to him, “Rabbi, when did you come here?”


book: John
label: John
content:
  Jesus answered them, “Truly, truly, I say to you, you are seeking me, not because you saw signs, but because you ate your fill of the loaves.


book: John
label: John
content:
  Do not work for the food that perishes, but for the food that endures to eternal life, which the Son of Man will give to you. For on him God the Father has set his seal.”


book: John
label: John
content:
  So they said to him, “Then what sign do you do, that we may see and believe you? What work do you perform?


book: John
label: John
content:
  Our fathers ate the manna in the wilderness; as it is written, ‘He gave them bread from heaven to eat.’”


book: John
label: John
content:
  Jesus then said to them, “Truly, truly, I say to you, it was not Moses who gave you the bread from heaven, but my Father gives you the true bread from heaven.


book: John
label: John
content:
  Jesus said to them, “I am the bread of life; whoever comes to me shall not hunger, and whoever believes in me shall never thirst.


book: John
label: John
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  And this is the will of him who sent me, that I should lose nothing of all that he has given me, but raise it up on the last day.


book: John
label: John
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  For this is the will of my Father, that everyone who looks on the Son and believes in him should have eternal life, and I will raise him up on the last day.”


book: John
label: John
content:
  They said, “Is not this Jesus, the son of Joseph, whose father and mother we know? How does he now say, ‘I have come down from heaven’?”


book: John
label: John
content:
  No one can come to me unless the Father who sent me draws him. And I will raise him up on the last day.


book: John
label: John
content:
  It is written in the Prophets, ‘And they will all be taught by God.’ Everyone who has heard and learned from the Father comes to me—


book: John
label: John
content:
  I am the living bread that came down from heaven. If anyone eats of this bread, he will live forever. And the bread that I will give for the life of the world is my flesh.”


book: John
label: John
content:
  So Jesus said to them, “Truly, truly, I say to you, unless you eat the flesh of the Son of Man and drink his blood, you have no life in you.


book: John
label: John
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  Whoever feeds on my flesh and drinks my blood has eternal life, and I will raise him up on the last day.


book: John
label: John
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  As the living Father sent me, and I live because of the Father, so whoever feeds on me, he also will live because of me.


book: John
label: John
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  This is the bread that came down from heaven, not like the bread the fathers ate, and died. Whoever feeds on this bread will live forever.”


book: John
label: John
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  But Jesus, knowing in himself that his disciples were grumbling about this, said to them, “Do you take offense at this?


book: John
label: John
content:
  It is the Spirit who gives life; the flesh is no help at all. The words that I have spoken to you are spirit and life.


book: John
label: John
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  But there are some of you who do not believe.” (For Jesus knew from the beginning who those were who did not believe, and who it was who would betray him.)


book: John
label: John
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  And he said, “This is why I told you that no one can come to me unless it is granted him by the Father.”


book: John
label: John
content:
  After this Jesus went about in Galilee. He would not go about in Judea, because the Jews were seeking to kill him.


book: John
label: John
content:
  So his brothers said to him, “Leave here and go to Judea, that your disciples also may see the works you are doing.


book: John
label: John
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  For no one works in secret if he seeks to be known openly. If you do these things, show yourself to the world.”


book: John
label: John
content:
  And there was much muttering about him among the people. While some said, “He is a good man,” others said, “No, he is leading the people astray.”


book: John
label: John
content:
  The Jews therefore marveled, saying, “How is it that this man has learning, when he has never studied?”


book: John
label: John
content:
  If anyone’s will is to do God’s will, he will know whether the teaching is from God or whether I am speaking on my own authority.


book: John
label: John
content:
  The one who speaks on his own authority seeks his own glory; but the one who seeks the glory of him who sent him is true, and in him there is no falsehood.


book: John
label: John
content:
  Moses gave you circumcision (not that it is from Moses, but from the fathers), and you circumcise a man on the Sabbath.


book: John
label: John
content:
  If on the Sabbath a man receives circumcision, so that the law of Moses may not be broken, are you angry with me because on the Sabbath I made a man’s whole body well?


book: John
label: John
content:
  And here he is, speaking openly, and they say nothing to him! Can it be that the authorities really know that this is the Christ?


book: John
label: John
content:
  But we know where this man comes from, and when the Christ appears, no one will know where he comes from.”


book: John
label: John
content:
  So Jesus proclaimed, as he taught in the temple, “You know me, and you know where I come from. But I have not come of my own accord. He who sent me is true, and him you do not know.


book: John
label: John
content:
  So they were seeking to arrest him, but no one laid a hand on him, because his hour had not yet come.


book: John
label: John
content:
  Yet many of the people believed in him. They said, “When the Christ appears, will he do more signs than this man has done?”


book: John
label: John
content:
  The Pharisees heard the crowd muttering these things about him, and the chief priests and Pharisees sent officers to arrest him.


book: John
label: John
content:
  The Jews said to one another, “Where does this man intend to go that we will not find him? Does he intend to go to the Dispersion among the Greeks and teach the Greeks?


book: John
label: John
content:
  What does he mean by saying, ‘You will seek me and you will not find me,’ and, ‘Where I am you cannot come’?”


book: John
label: John
content:
  On the last day of the feast, the great day, Jesus stood up and cried out, “If anyone thirsts, let him come to me and drink.


book: John
label: John
content:
  Whoever believes in me, as the Scripture has said, ‘Out of his heart will flow rivers of living water.’”


book: John
label: John
content:
  Now this he said about the Spirit, whom those who believed in him were to receive, for as yet the Spirit had not been given, because Jesus was not yet glorified.


book: John
label: John
content:
  Has not the Scripture said that the Christ comes from the offspring of David, and comes from Bethlehem, the village where David was?”


book: John
label: John
content:
  The officers then came to the chief priests and Pharisees, who said to them, “Why did you not bring him?”


book: John
label: John
content:
  Early in the morning he came again to the temple. All the people came to him, and he sat down and taught them.


book: John
label: John
content:
  The scribes and the Pharisees brought a woman who had been caught in adultery, and placing her in the midst


book: John
label: John
content:
  This they said to test him, that they might have some charge to bring against him. Jesus bent down and wrote with his finger on the ground.


book: John
label: John
content:
  And as they continued to ask him, he stood up and said to them, “Let him who is without sin among you be the first to throw a stone at her.”


book: John
label: John
content:
  But when they heard it, they went away one by one, beginning with the older ones, and Jesus was left alone with the woman standing before him.


book: John
label: John
content:
  She said, “No one, Lord.” And Jesus said, “Neither do I condemn you; go, and from now on sin no more.”]]


book: John
label: John
content:
  Again Jesus spoke to them, saying, “I am the light of the world. Whoever follows me will not walk in darkness, but will have the light of life.”


book: John
label: John
content:
  Jesus answered, “Even if I do bear witness about myself, my testimony is true, for I know where I came from and where I am going, but you do not know where I come from or where I am going.


book: John
label: John
content:
  Yet even if I do judge, my judgment is true, for it is not I alone who judge, but I and the Father who sent me.


book: John
label: John
content:
  They said to him therefore, “Where is your Father?” Jesus answered, “You know neither me nor my Father. If you knew me, you would know my Father also.”


book: John
label: John
content:
  These words he spoke in the treasury, as he taught in the temple; but no one arrested him, because his hour had not yet come.


book: John
label: John
content:
  So he said to them again, “I am going away, and you will seek me, and you will die in your sin. Where I am going, you cannot come.”


book: John
label: John
content:
  He said to them, “You are from below; I am from above. You are of this world; I am not of this world.


book: John
label: John
content:
  I told you that you would die in your sins, for unless you believe that I am he you will die in your sins.”


book: John
label: John
content:
  So they said to him, “Who are you?” Jesus said to them, “Just what I have been telling you from the beginning.


book: John
label: John
content:
  I have much to say about you and much to judge, but he who sent me is true, and I declare to the world what I have heard from him.”


book: John
label: John
content:
  So Jesus said to them, “When you have lifted up the Son of Man, then you will know that I am he, and that I do nothing on my own authority, but speak just as the Father taught me.


book: John
label: John
content:
  And he who sent me is with me. He has not left me alone, for I always do the things that are pleasing to him.”


book: John
label: John
content:
  So Jesus said to the Jews who had believed him, “If you abide in my word, you are truly my disciples,


book: John
label: John
content:
  They answered him, “We are offspring of Abraham and have never been enslaved to anyone. How is it that you say, ‘You will become free’?”


book: John
label: John
content:
  I know that you are offspring of Abraham; yet you seek to kill me because my word finds no place in you.


book: John
label: John
content:
  They answered him, “Abraham is our father.” Jesus said to them, “If you were Abraham’s children, you would be doing the works Abraham did,


book: John
label: John
content:
  but now you seek to kill me, a man who has told you the truth that I heard from God. This is not what Abraham did.


book: John
label: John
content:
  You are doing the works your father did.” They said to him, “We were not born of sexual immorality. We have one Father—even God.”


book: John
label: John
content:
  Jesus said to them, “If God were your Father, you would love me, for I came from God and I am here. I came not of my own accord, but he sent me.


book: John
label: John
content:
  You are of your father the devil, and your will is to do your father’s desires. He was a murderer from the beginning, and does not stand in the truth, because there is no truth in him. When he lies, he speaks out of his own character, for he is a liar and the father of lies.


book: John
label: John
content:
  Whoever is of God hears the words of God. The reason why you do not hear them is that you are not of God.”


book: John
label: John
content:
  The Jews said to him, “Now we know that you have a demon! Abraham died, as did the prophets, yet you say, ‘If anyone keeps my word, he will never taste death.’


book: John
label: John
content:
  Are you greater than our father Abraham, who died? And the prophets died! Who do you make yourself out to be?”


book: John
label: John
content:
  Jesus answered, “If I glorify myself, my glory is nothing. It is my Father who glorifies me, of whom you say, ‘He is our God.’


book: John
label: John
content:
  But you have not known him. I know him. If I were to say that I do not know him, I would be a liar like you, but I do know him and I keep his word.


book: John
label: John
content:
  Jesus answered, “It was not that this man sinned, or his parents, but that the works of God might be displayed in him.


book: John
label: John
content:
  Having said these things, he spit on the ground and made mud with the saliva. Then he anointed the man’s eyes with the mud


book: John
label: John
content:
  and said to him, “Go, wash in the pool of Siloam” (which means Sent). So he went and washed and came back seeing.


book: John
label: John
content:
  The neighbors and those who had seen him before as a beggar were saying, “Is this not the man who used to sit and beg?”


book: John
label: John
content:
  He answered, “The man called Jesus made mud and anointed my eyes and said to me, ‘Go to Siloam and wash.’ So I went and washed and received my sight.”


book: John
label: John
content:
  So the Pharisees again asked him how he had received his sight. And he said to them, “He put mud on my eyes, and I washed, and I see.”


book: John
label: John
content:
  Some of the Pharisees said, “This man is not from God, for he does not keep the Sabbath.” But others said, “How can a man who is a sinner do such signs?” And there was a division among them.


book: John
label: John
content:
  So they said again to the blind man, “What do you say about him, since he has opened your eyes?” He said, “He is a prophet.”


book: John
label: John
content:
  The Jews did not believe that he had been blind and had received his sight, until they called the parents of the man who had received his sight


book: John
label: John
content:
  But how he now sees we do not know, nor do we know who opened his eyes. Ask him; he is of age. He will speak for himself.”


book: John
label: John
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  (His parents said these things because they feared the Jews, for the Jews had already agreed that if anyone should confess Jesus to be Christ, he was to be put out of the synagogue.)


book: John
label: John
content:
  So for the second time they called the man who had been blind and said to him, “Give glory to God. We know that this man is a sinner.”


book: John
label: John
content:
  He answered, “Whether he is a sinner I do not know. One thing I do know, that though I was blind, now I see.”


book: John
label: John
content:
  He answered them, “I have told you already, and you would not listen. Why do you want to hear it again? Do you also want to become his disciples?”


book: John
label: John
content:
  The man answered, “Why, this is an amazing thing! You do not know where he comes from, and yet he opened my eyes.


book: John
label: John
content:
  We know that God does not listen to sinners, but if anyone is a worshiper of God and does his will, God listens to him.


book: John
label: John
content:
  Jesus heard that they had cast him out, and having found him he said, “Do you believe in the Son of Man?”


book: John
label: John
content:
  Jesus said, “For judgment I came into this world, that those who do not see may see, and those who see may become blind.”


book: John
label: John
content:
  Jesus said to them, “If you were blind, you would have no guilt; but now that you say, ‘We see,’ your guilt remains. 


book: John
label: John
content:
  “Truly, truly, I say to you, he who does not enter the sheepfold by the door but climbs in by another way, that man is a thief and a robber.


book: John
label: John
content:
  To him the gatekeeper opens. The sheep hear his voice, and he calls his own sheep by name and leads them out.


book: John
label: John
content:
  When he has brought out all his own, he goes before them, and the sheep follow him, for they know his voice.


book: John
label: John
content:
  A stranger they will not follow, but they will flee from him, for they do not know the voice of strangers.”


book: John
label: John
content:
  The thief comes only to steal and kill and destroy. I came that they may have life and have it abundantly.


book: John
label: John
content:
  He who is a hired hand and not a shepherd, who does not own the sheep, sees the wolf coming and leaves the sheep and flees, and the wolf snatches them and scatters them.


book: John
label: John
content:
  And I have other sheep that are not of this fold. I must bring them also, and they will listen to my voice. So there will be one flock, one shepherd.


book: John
label: John
content:
  No one takes it from me, but I lay it down of my own accord. I have authority to lay it down, and I have authority to take it up again. This charge I have received from my Father.”


book: John
label: John
content:
  Others said, “These are not the words of one who is oppressed by a demon. Can a demon open the eyes of the blind?”


book: John
label: John
content:
  So the Jews gathered around him and said to him, “How long will you keep us in suspense? If you are the Christ, tell us plainly.”


book: John
label: John
content:
  Jesus answered them, “I told you, and you do not believe. The works that I do in my Father’s name bear witness about me,


book: John
label: John
content:
  My Father, who has given them to me, is greater than all, and no one is able to snatch them out of the Father’s hand.


book: John
label: John
content:
  Jesus answered them, “I have shown you many good works from the Father; for which of them are you going to stone me?”


book: John
label: John
content:
  The Jews answered him, “It is not for a good work that we are going to stone you but for blasphemy, because you, being a man, make yourself God.”


book: John
label: John
content:
  do you say of him whom the Father consecrated and sent into the world, ‘You are blaspheming,’ because I said, ‘I am the Son of God’?


book: John
label: John
content:
  but if I do them, even though you do not believe me, believe the works, that you may know and understand that the Father is in me and I am in the Father.”


book: John
label: John
content:
  He went away again across the Jordan to the place where John had been baptizing at first, and there he remained.


book: John
label: John
content:
  And many came to him. And they said, “John did no sign, but everything that John said about this man was true.”


book: John
label: John
content:
  It was Mary who anointed the Lord with ointment and wiped his feet with her hair, whose brother Lazarus was ill.


book: John
label: John
content:
  But when Jesus heard it he said, “This illness does not lead to death. It is for the glory of God, so that the Son of God may be glorified through it.”


book: John
label: John
content:
  The disciples said to him, “Rabbi, the Jews were just now seeking to stone you, and are you going there again?”


book: John
label: John
content:
  Jesus answered, “Are there not twelve hours in the day? If anyone walks in the day, he does not stumble, because he sees the light of this world.


book: John
label: John
content:
  After saying these things, he said to them, “Our friend Lazarus has fallen asleep, but I go to awaken him.”


book: John
label: John
content:
  So Thomas, called the Twin, said to his fellow disciples, “Let us also go, that we may die with him.”


book: John
label: John
content:
  So when Martha heard that Jesus was coming, she went and met him, but Mary remained seated in the house.


book: John
label: John
content:
  Jesus said to her, “I am the resurrection and the life. Whoever believes in me, though he die, yet shall he live,


book: John
label: John
content:
  She said to him, “Yes, Lord; I believe that you are the Christ, the Son of God, who is coming into the world.”


book: John
label: John
content:
  When she had said this, she went and called her sister Mary, saying in private, “The Teacher is here and is calling for you.”


book: John
label: John
content:
  When the Jews who were with her in the house, consoling her, saw Mary rise quickly and go out, they followed her, supposing that she was going to the tomb to weep there.


book: John
label: John
content:
  Now when Mary came to where Jesus was and saw him, she fell at his feet, saying to him, “Lord, if you had been here, my brother would not have died.”


book: John
label: John
content:
  When Jesus saw her weeping, and the Jews who had come with her also weeping, he was deeply moved in his spirit and greatly troubled.


book: John
label: John
content:
  But some of them said, “Could not he who opened the eyes of the blind man also have kept this man from dying?”


book: John
label: John
content:
  Jesus said, “Take away the stone.” Martha, the sister of the dead man, said to him, “Lord, by this time there will be an odor, for he has been dead four days.”


book: John
label: John
content:
  So they took away the stone. And Jesus lifted up his eyes and said, “Father, I thank you that you have heard me.


book: John
label: John
content:
  I knew that you always hear me, but I said this on account of the people standing around, that they may believe that you sent me.”


book: John
label: John
content:
  The man who had died came out, his hands and feet bound with linen strips, and his face wrapped with a cloth. Jesus said to them, “Unbind him, and let him go.”


book: John
label: John
content:
  So the chief priests and the Pharisees gathered the council and said, “What are we to do? For this man performs many signs.


book: John
label: John
content:
  If we let him go on like this, everyone will believe in him, and the Romans will come and take away both our place and our nation.”


book: John
label: John
content:
  Nor do you understand that it is better for you that one man should die for the people, not that the whole nation should perish.”


book: John
label: John
content:
  He did not say this of his own accord, but being high priest that year he prophesied that Jesus would die for the nation,


book: John
label: John
content:
  and not for the nation only, but also to gather into one the children of God who are scattered abroad.


book: John
label: John
content:
  Jesus therefore no longer walked openly among the Jews, but went from there to the region near the wilderness, to a town called Ephraim, and there he stayed with the disciples.


book: John
label: John
content:
  Now the Passover of the Jews was at hand, and many went up from the country to Jerusalem before the Passover to purify themselves.


book: John
label: John
content:
  They were looking for Jesus and saying to one another as they stood in the temple, “What do you think? That he will not come to the feast at all?”


book: John
label: John
content:
  Now the chief priests and the Pharisees had given orders that if anyone knew where he was, he should let them know, so that they might arrest him. 


book: John
label: John
content:
  Six days before the Passover, Jesus therefore came to Bethany, where Lazarus was, whom Jesus had raised from the dead.


book: John
label: John
content:
  So they gave a dinner for him there. Martha served, and Lazarus was one of those reclining with him at table.


book: John
label: John
content:
  Mary therefore took a pound of expensive ointment made from pure nard, and anointed the feet of Jesus and wiped his feet with her hair. The house was filled with the fragrance of the perfume.


book: John
label: John
content:
  He said this, not because he cared about the poor, but because he was a thief, and having charge of the moneybag he used to help himself to what was put into it.


book: John
label: John
content:
  When the large crowd of the Jews learned that Jesus was there, they came, not only on account of him but also to see Lazarus, whom he had raised from the dead.


book: John
label: John
content:
  So they took branches of palm trees and went out to meet him, crying out, “Hosanna! Blessed is he who comes in the name of the Lord, even the King of Israel!”


book: John
label: John
content:
  His disciples did not understand these things at first, but when Jesus was glorified, then they remembered that these things had been written about him and had been done to him.


book: John
label: John
content:
  The crowd that had been with him when he called Lazarus out of the tomb and raised him from the dead continued to bear witness.


book: John
label: John
content:
  So the Pharisees said to one another, “You see that you are gaining nothing. Look, the world has gone after him.”


book: John
label: John
content:
  So these came to Philip, who was from Bethsaida in Galilee, and asked him, “Sir, we wish to see Jesus.”


book: John
label: John
content:
  Truly, truly, I say to you, unless a grain of wheat falls into the earth and dies, it remains alone; but if it dies, it bears much fruit.


book: John
label: John
content:
  Whoever loves his life loses it, and whoever hates his life in this world will keep it for eternal life.


book: John
label: John
content:
  If anyone serves me, he must follow me; and where I am, there will my servant be also. If anyone serves me, the Father will honor him.


book: John
label: John
content:
  “Now is my soul troubled. And what shall I say? ‘Father, save me from this hour’? But for this purpose I have come to this hour.


book: John
label: John
content:
  Father, glorify your name.” Then a voice came from heaven: “I have glorified it, and I will glorify it again.”


book: John
label: John
content:
  The crowd that stood there and heard it said that it had thundered. Others said, “An angel has spoken to him.”


book: John
label: John
content:
  So the crowd answered him, “We have heard from the Law that the Christ remains forever. How can you say that the Son of Man must be lifted up? Who is this Son of Man?”


book: John
label: John
content:
  So Jesus said to them, “The light is among you for a little while longer. Walk while you have the light, lest darkness overtake you. The one who walks in the darkness does not know where he is going.


book: John
label: John
content:
  While you have the light, believe in the light, that you may become sons of light.” When Jesus had said these things, he departed and hid himself from them.


book: John
label: John
content:
  so that the word spoken by the prophet Isaiah might be fulfilled: “Lord, who has believed what he heard from us, and to whom has the arm of the Lord been revealed?”


book: John
label: John
content:
  “He has blinded their eyes and hardened their heart, lest they see with their eyes, and understand with their heart, and turn, and I would heal them.”


book: John
label: John
content:
  Nevertheless, many even of the authorities believed in him, but for fear of the Pharisees they did not confess it, so that they would not be put out of the synagogue;


book: John
label: John
content:
  If anyone hears my words and does not keep them, I do not judge him; for I did not come to judge the world but to save the world.


book: John
label: John
content:
  The one who rejects me and does not receive my words has a judge; the word that I have spoken will judge him on the last day.


book: John
label: John
content:
  For I have not spoken on my own authority, but the Father who sent me has himself given me a commandment—what to say and what to speak.


book: John
label: John
content:
  And I know that his commandment is eternal life. What I say, therefore, I say as the Father has told me.” 


book: John
label: John
content:
  Now before the Feast of the Passover, when Jesus knew that his hour had come to depart out of this world to the Father, having loved his own who were in the world, he loved them to the end.


book: John
label: John
content:
  During supper, when the devil had already put it into the heart of Judas Iscariot, Simon’s son, to betray him,


book: John
label: John
content:
  Jesus, knowing that the Father had given all things into his hands, and that he had come from God and was going back to God,


book: John
label: John
content:
  Then he poured water into a basin and began to wash the disciples’ feet and to wipe them with the towel that was wrapped around him.


book: John
label: John
content:
  Peter said to him, “You shall never wash my feet.” Jesus answered him, “If I do not wash you, you have no share with me.”


book: John
label: John
content:
  Jesus said to him, “The one who has bathed does not need to wash, except for his feet, but is completely clean. And you are clean, but not every one of you.”


book: John
label: John
content:
  When he had washed their feet and put on his outer garments and resumed his place, he said to them, “Do you understand what I have done to you?


book: John
label: John
content:
  Truly, truly, I say to you, a servant is not greater than his master, nor is a messenger greater than the one who sent him.


book: John
label: John
content:
  I am not speaking of all of you; I know whom I have chosen. But the Scripture will be fulfilled, ‘He who ate my bread has lifted his heel against me.’


book: John
label: John
content:
  I am telling you this now, before it takes place, that when it does take place you may believe that I am he.


book: John
label: John
content:
  Truly, truly, I say to you, whoever receives the one I send receives me, and whoever receives me receives the one who sent me.”


book: John
label: John
content:
  After saying these things, Jesus was troubled in his spirit, and testified, “Truly, truly, I say to you, one of you will betray me.”


book: John
label: John
content:
  Jesus answered, “It is he to whom I will give this morsel of bread when I have dipped it.” So when he had dipped the morsel, he gave it to Judas, the son of Simon Iscariot.


book: John
label: John
content:
  Then after he had taken the morsel, Satan entered into him. Jesus said to him, “What you are going to do, do quickly.”


book: John
label: John
content:
  Some thought that, because Judas had the moneybag, Jesus was telling him, “Buy what we need for the feast,” or that he should give something to the poor.


book: John
label: John
content:
  Little children, yet a little while I am with you. You will seek me, and just as I said to the Jews, so now I also say to you, ‘Where I am going you cannot come.’


book: John
label: John
content:
  A new commandment I give to you, that you love one another: just as I have loved you, you also are to love one another.


book: John
label: John
content:
  Simon Peter said to him, “Lord, where are you going?” Jesus answered him, “Where I am going you cannot follow me now, but you will follow afterward.”


book: John
label: John
content:
  Jesus answered, “Will you lay down your life for me? Truly, truly, I say to you, the rooster will not crow till you have denied me three times. 


book: John
label: John
content:
  In my Father’s house are many rooms. If it were not so, would I have told you that I go to prepare a place for you?


book: John
label: John
content:
  And if I go and prepare a place for you, I will come again and will take you to myself, that where I am you may be also.


book: John
label: John
content:
  Jesus said to him, “I am the way, and the truth, and the life. No one comes to the Father except through me.


book: John
label: John
content:
  If you had known me, you would have known my Father also. From now on you do know him and have seen him.”


book: John
label: John
content:
  Jesus said to him, “Have I been with you so long, and you still do not know me, Philip? Whoever has seen me has seen the Father. How can you say, ‘Show us the Father’?


book: John
label: John
content:
  Do you not believe that I am in the Father and the Father is in me? The words that I say to you I do not speak on my own authority, but the Father who dwells in me does his works.


book: John
label: John
content:
  Believe me that I am in the Father and the Father is in me, or else believe on account of the works themselves.


book: John
label: John
content:
  “Truly, truly, I say to you, whoever believes in me will also do the works that I do; and greater works than these will he do, because I am going to the Father.


book: John
label: John
content:
  even the Spirit of truth, whom the world cannot receive, because it neither sees him nor knows him. You know him, for he dwells with you and will be in you.


book: John
label: John
content:
  Yet a little while and the world will see me no more, but you will see me. Because I live, you also will live.


book: John
label: John
content:
  Whoever has my commandments and keeps them, he it is who loves me. And he who loves me will be loved by my Father, and I will love him and manifest myself to him.”


book: John
label: John
content:
  Judas (not Iscariot) said to him, “Lord, how is it that you will manifest yourself to us, and not to the world?”


book: John
label: John
content:
  Jesus answered him, “If anyone loves me, he will keep my word, and my Father will love him, and we will come to him and make our home with him.


book: John
label: John
content:
  Whoever does not love me does not keep my words. And the word that you hear is not mine but the Father’s who sent me.


book: John
label: John
content:
  But the Helper, the Holy Spirit, whom the Father will send in my name, he will teach you all things and bring to your remembrance all that I have said to you.


book: John
label: John
content:
  Peace I leave with you; my peace I give to you. Not as the world gives do I give to you. Let not your hearts be troubled, neither let them be afraid.


book: John
label: John
content:
  You heard me say to you, ‘I am going away, and I will come to you.’ If you loved me, you would have rejoiced, because I am going to the Father, for the Father is greater than I.


book: John
label: John
content:
  but I do as the Father has commanded me, so that the world may know that I love the Father. Rise, let us go from here. 


book: John
label: John
content:
  Every branch in me that does not bear fruit he takes away, and every branch that does bear fruit he prunes, that it may bear more fruit.


book: John
label: John
content:
  Abide in me, and I in you. As the branch cannot bear fruit by itself, unless it abides in the vine, neither can you, unless you abide in me.


book: John
label: John
content:
  I am the vine; you are the branches. Whoever abides in me and I in him, he it is that bears much fruit, for apart from me you can do nothing.


book: John
label: John
content:
  If anyone does not abide in me he is thrown away like a branch and withers; and the branches are gathered, thrown into the fire, and burned.


book: John
label: John
content:
  If you keep my commandments, you will abide in my love, just as I have kept my Father’s commandments and abide in his love.


book: John
label: John
content:
  No longer do I call you servants, for the servant does not know what his master is doing; but I have called you friends, for all that I have heard from my Father I have made known to you.


book: John
label: John
content:
  You did not choose me, but I chose you and appointed you that you should go and bear fruit and that your fruit should abide, so that whatever you ask the Father in my name, he may give it to you.


book: John
label: John
content:
  If you were of the world, the world would love you as its own; but because you are not of the world, but I chose you out of the world, therefore the world hates you.


book: John
label: John
content:
  Remember the word that I said to you: ‘A servant is not greater than his master.’ If they persecuted me, they will also persecute you. If they kept my word, they will also keep yours.


book: John
label: John
content:
  But all these things they will do to you on account of my name, because they do not know him who sent me.


book: John
label: John
content:
  If I had not come and spoken to them, they would not have been guilty of sin, but now they have no excuse for their sin.


book: John
label: John
content:
  If I had not done among them the works that no one else did, they would not be guilty of sin, but now they have seen and hated both me and my Father.


book: John
label: John
content:
  “But when the Helper comes, whom I will send to you from the Father, the Spirit of truth, who proceeds from the Father, he will bear witness about me.


book: John
label: John
content:
  They will put you out of the synagogues. Indeed, the hour is coming when whoever kills you will think he is offering service to God.


book: John
label: John
content:
  But I have said these things to you, that when their hour comes you may remember that I told them to you. “I did not say these things to you from the beginning, because I was with you.


book: John
label: John
content:
  Nevertheless, I tell you the truth: it is to your advantage that I go away, for if I do not go away, the Helper will not come to you. But if I go, I will send him to you.


book: John
label: John
content:
  When the Spirit of truth comes, he will guide you into all the truth, for he will not speak on his own authority, but whatever he hears he will speak, and he will declare to you the things that are to come.


book: John
label: John
content:
  All that the Father has is mine; therefore I said that he will take what is mine and declare it to you.


book: John
label: John
content:
  So some of his disciples said to one another, “What is this that he says to us, ‘A little while, and you will not see me, and again a little while, and you will see me’; and, ‘because I am going to the Father’?”


book: John
label: John
content:
  So they were saying, “What does he mean by ‘a little while’? We do not know what he is talking about.”


book: John
label: John
content:
  Jesus knew that they wanted to ask him, so he said to them, “Is this what you are asking yourselves, what I meant by saying, ‘A little while and you will not see me, and again a little while and you will see me’?


book: John
label: John
content:
  Truly, truly, I say to you, you will weep and lament, but the world will rejoice. You will be sorrowful, but your sorrow will turn into joy.


book: John
label: John
content:
  When a woman is giving birth, she has sorrow because her hour has come, but when she has delivered the baby, she no longer remembers the anguish, for joy that a human being has been born into the world.


book: John
label: John
content:
  So also you have sorrow now, but I will see you again, and your hearts will rejoice, and no one will take your joy from you.


book: John
label: John
content:
  In that day you will ask nothing of me. Truly, truly, I say to you, whatever you ask of the Father in my name, he will give it to you.


book: John
label: John
content:
  “I have said these things to you in figures of speech. The hour is coming when I will no longer speak to you in figures of speech but will tell you plainly about the Father.


book: John
label: John
content:
  In that day you will ask in my name, and I do not say to you that I will ask the Father on your behalf;


book: John
label: John
content:
  I came from the Father and have come into the world, and now I am leaving the world and going to the Father.”


book: John
label: John
content:
  Now we know that you know all things and do not need anyone to question you; this is why we believe that you came from God.”


book: John
label: John
content:
  Behold, the hour is coming, indeed it has come, when you will be scattered, each to his own home, and will leave me alone. Yet I am not alone, for the Father is with me.


book: John
label: John
content:
  I have said these things to you, that in me you may have peace. In the world you will have tribulation. But take heart; I have overcome the world.” 


book: John
label: John
content:
  When Jesus had spoken these words, he lifted up his eyes to heaven, and said, “Father, the hour has come; glorify your Son that the Son may glorify you,


book: John
label: John
content:
  since you have given him authority over all flesh, to give eternal life to all whom you have given him.


book: John
label: John
content:
  And this is eternal life, that they know you, the only true God, and Jesus Christ whom you have sent.


book: John
label: John
content:
  And now, Father, glorify me in your own presence with the glory that I had with you before the world existed.


book: John
label: John
content:
  “I have manifested your name to the people whom you gave me out of the world. Yours they were, and you gave them to me, and they have kept your word.


book: John
label: John
content:
  For I have given them the words that you gave me, and they have received them and have come to know in truth that I came from you; and they have believed that you sent me.


book: John
label: John
content:
  I am praying for them. I am not praying for the world but for those whom you have given me, for they are yours.


book: John
label: John
content:
  And I am no longer in the world, but they are in the world, and I am coming to you. Holy Father, keep them in your name, which you have given me, that they may be one, even as we are one.


book: John
label: John
content:
  While I was with them, I kept them in your name, which you have given me. I have guarded them, and not one of them has been lost except the son of destruction, that the Scripture might be fulfilled.


book: John
label: John
content:
  But now I am coming to you, and these things I speak in the world, that they may have my joy fulfilled in themselves.


book: John
label: John
content:
  I have given them your word, and the world has hated them because they are not of the world, just as I am not of the world.


book: John
label: John
content:
  that they may all be one, just as you, Father, are in me, and I in you, that they also may be in us, so that the world may believe that you have sent me.


book: John
label: John
content:
  I in them and you in me, that they may become perfectly one, so that the world may know that you sent me and loved them even as you loved me.


book: John
label: John
content:
  Father, I desire that they also, whom you have given me, may be with me where I am, to see my glory that you have given me because you loved me before the foundation of the world.


book: John
label: John
content:
  O righteous Father, even though the world does not know you, I know you, and these know that you have sent me.


book: John
label: John
content:
  I made known to them your name, and I will continue to make it known, that the love with which you have loved me may be in them, and I in them.” 


book: John
label: John
content:
  When Jesus had spoken these words, he went out with his disciples across the brook Kidron, where there was a garden, which he and his disciples entered.


book: John
label: John
content:
  So Judas, having procured a band of soldiers and some officers from the chief priests and the Pharisees, went there with lanterns and torches and weapons.


book: John
label: John
content:
  Then Jesus, knowing all that would happen to him, came forward and said to them, “Whom do you seek?”


book: John
label: John
content:
  They answered him, “Jesus of Nazareth.” Jesus said to them, “I am he.” Judas, who betrayed him, was standing with them.


book: John
label: John
content:
  Then Simon Peter, having a sword, drew it and struck the high priest’s servant and cut off his right ear. (The servant’s name was Malchus.)


book: John
label: John
content:
  So Jesus said to Peter, “Put your sword into its sheath; shall I not drink the cup that the Father has given me?”


book: John
label: John
content:
  So the band of soldiers and their captain and the officers of the Jews arrested Jesus and bound him.


book: John
label: John
content:
  First they led him to Annas, for he was the father-in-law of Caiaphas, who was high priest that year.


book: John
label: John
content:
  It was Caiaphas who had advised the Jews that it would be expedient that one man should die for the people.


book: John
label: John
content:
  Simon Peter followed Jesus, and so did another disciple. Since that disciple was known to the high priest, he entered with Jesus into the courtyard of the high priest,


book: John
label: John
content:
  but Peter stood outside at the door. So the other disciple, who was known to the high priest, went out and spoke to the servant girl who kept watch at the door, and brought Peter in.


book: John
label: John
content:
  The servant girl at the door said to Peter, “You also are not one of this man’s disciples, are you?” He said, “I am not.”


book: John
label: John
content:
  Now the servants and officers had made a charcoal fire, because it was cold, and they were standing and warming themselves. Peter also was with them, standing and warming himself.


book: John
label: John
content:
  Jesus answered him, “I have spoken openly to the world. I have always taught in synagogues and in the temple, where all Jews come together. I have said nothing in secret.


book: John
label: John
content:
  When he had said these things, one of the officers standing by struck Jesus with his hand, saying, “Is that how you answer the high priest?”


book: John
label: John
content:
  Jesus answered him, “If what I said is wrong, bear witness about the wrong; but if what I said is right, why do you strike me?”


book: John
label: John
content:
  Now Simon Peter was standing and warming himself. So they said to him, “You also are not one of his disciples, are you?” He denied it and said, “I am not.”


book: John
label: John
content:
  One of the servants of the high priest, a relative of the man whose ear Peter had cut off, asked, “Did I not see you in the garden with him?”


book: John
label: John
content:
  Then they led Jesus from the house of Caiaphas to the governor’s headquarters. It was early morning. They themselves did not enter the governor’s headquarters, so that they would not be defiled, but could eat the Passover.


book: John
label: John
content:
  Pilate said to them, “Take him yourselves and judge him by your own law.” The Jews said to him, “It is not lawful for us to put anyone to death.”


book: John
label: John
content:
  This was to fulfill the word that Jesus had spoken to show by what kind of death he was going to die.


book: John
label: John
content:
  So Pilate entered his headquarters again and called Jesus and said to him, “Are you the King of the Jews?”


book: John
label: John
content:
  Pilate answered, “Am I a Jew? Your own nation and the chief priests have delivered you over to me. What have you done?”


book: John
label: John
content:
  Jesus answered, “My kingdom is not of this world. If my kingdom were of this world, my servants would have been fighting, that I might not be delivered over to the Jews. But my kingdom is not from the world.”


book: John
label: John
content:
  Then Pilate said to him, “So you are a king?” Jesus answered, “You say that I am a king. For this purpose I was born and for this purpose I have come into the world—to bear witness to the truth. Everyone who is of the truth listens to my voice.”


book: John
label: John
content:
  Pilate said to him, “What is truth?” After he had said this, he went back outside to the Jews and told them, “I find no guilt in him.


book: John
label: John
content:
  But you have a custom that I should release one man for you at the Passover. So do you want me to release to you the King of the Jews?”


book: John
label: John
content:
  And the soldiers twisted together a crown of thorns and put it on his head and arrayed him in a purple robe.


book: John
label: John
content:
  Pilate went out again and said to them, “See, I am bringing him out to you that you may know that I find no guilt in him.”


book: John
label: John
content:
  So Jesus came out, wearing the crown of thorns and the purple robe. Pilate said to them, “Behold the man!”


book: John
label: John
content:
  When the chief priests and the officers saw him, they cried out, “Crucify him, crucify him!” Pilate said to them, “Take him yourselves and crucify him, for I find no guilt in him.”


book: John
label: John
content:
  The Jews answered him, “We have a law, and according to that law he ought to die because he has made himself the Son of God.”


book: John
label: John
content:
  He entered his headquarters again and said to Jesus, “Where are you from?” But Jesus gave him no answer.


book: John
label: John
content:
  So Pilate said to him, “You will not speak to me? Do you not know that I have authority to release you and authority to crucify you?”


book: John
label: John
content:
  Jesus answered him, “You would have no authority over me at all unless it had been given you from above. Therefore he who delivered me over to you has the greater sin.”


book: John
label: John
content:
  From then on Pilate sought to release him, but the Jews cried out, “If you release this man, you are not Caesar’s friend. Everyone who makes himself a king opposes Caesar.”


book: John
label: John
content:
  So when Pilate heard these words, he brought Jesus out and sat down on the judgment seat at a place called The Stone Pavement, and in Aramaic Gabbatha.


book: John
label: John
content:
  Now it was the day of Preparation of the Passover. It was about the sixth hour. He said to the Jews, “Behold your King!”


book: John
label: John
content:
  They cried out, “Away with him, away with him, crucify him!” Pilate said to them, “Shall I crucify your King?” The chief priests answered, “We have no king but Caesar.”


book: John
label: John
content:
  and he went out, bearing his own cross, to the place called The Place of a Skull, which in Aramaic is called Golgotha.


book: John
label: John
content:
  Pilate also wrote an inscription and put it on the cross. It read, “Jesus of Nazareth, the King of the Jews.”


book: John
label: John
content:
  Many of the Jews read this inscription, for the place where Jesus was crucified was near the city, and it was written in Aramaic, in Latin, and in Greek.


book: John
label: John
content:
  So the chief priests of the Jews said to Pilate, “Do not write, ‘The King of the Jews,’ but rather, ‘This man said, I am King of the Jews.’”


book: John
label: John
content:
  When the soldiers had crucified Jesus, they took his garments and divided them into four parts, one part for each soldier; also his tunic. But the tunic was seamless, woven in one piece from top to bottom,


book: John
label: John
content:
  so they said to one another, “Let us not tear it, but cast lots for it to see whose it shall be.” This was to fulfill the Scripture which says, “They divided my garments among them, and for my clothing they cast lots.” So the soldiers did these things,


book: John
label: John
content:
  but standing by the cross of Jesus were his mother and his mother’s sister, Mary the wife of Clopas, and Mary Magdalene.


book: John
label: John
content:
  When Jesus saw his mother and the disciple whom he loved standing nearby, he said to his mother, “Woman, behold, your son!”


book: John
label: John
content:
  Then he said to the disciple, “Behold, your mother!” And from that hour the disciple took her to his own home.


book: John
label: John
content:
  A jar full of sour wine stood there, so they put a sponge full of the sour wine on a hyssop branch and held it to his mouth.


book: John
label: John
content:
  When Jesus had received the sour wine, he said, “It is finished,” and he bowed his head and gave up his spirit.


book: John
label: John
content:
  Since it was the day of Preparation, and so that the bodies would not remain on the cross on the Sabbath (for that Sabbath was a high day), the Jews asked Pilate that their legs might be broken and that they might be taken away.


book: John
label: John
content:
  So the soldiers came and broke the legs of the first, and of the other who had been crucified with him.


book: John
label: John
content:
  He who saw it has borne witness—his testimony is true, and he knows that he is telling the truth—that you also may believe.


book: John
label: John
content:
  For these things took place that the Scripture might be fulfilled: “Not one of his bones will be broken.”


book: John
label: John
content:
  After these things Joseph of Arimathea, who was a disciple of Jesus, but secretly for fear of the Jews, asked Pilate that he might take away the body of Jesus, and Pilate gave him permission. So he came and took away his body.


book: John
label: John
content:
  Nicodemus also, who earlier had come to Jesus by night, came bringing a mixture of myrrh and aloes, about seventy-five pounds in weight.


book: John
label: John
content:
  So they took the body of Jesus and bound it in linen cloths with the spices, as is the burial custom of the Jews.


book: John
label: John
content:
  Now in the place where he was crucified there was a garden, and in the garden a new tomb in which no one had yet been laid.


book: John
label: John
content:
  So because of the Jewish day of Preparation, since the tomb was close at hand, they laid Jesus there. 


book: John
label: John
content:
  Now on the first day of the week Mary Magdalene came to the tomb early, while it was still dark, and saw that the stone had been taken away from the tomb.


book: John
label: John
content:
  So she ran and went to Simon Peter and the other disciple, the one whom Jesus loved, and said to them, “They have taken the Lord out of the tomb, and we do not know where they have laid him.”


book: John
label: John
content:
  and the face cloth, which had been on Jesus’ head, not lying with the linen cloths but folded up in a place by itself.


book: John
label: John
content:
  And she saw two angels in white, sitting where the body of Jesus had lain, one at the head and one at the feet.


book: John
label: John
content:
  They said to her, “Woman, why are you weeping?” She said to them, “They have taken away my Lord, and I do not know where they have laid him.”


book: John
label: John
content:
  Jesus said to her, “Woman, why are you weeping? Whom are you seeking?” Supposing him to be the gardener, she said to him, “Sir, if you have carried him away, tell me where you have laid him, and I will take him away.”


book: John
label: John
content:
  Jesus said to her, “Do not cling to me, for I have not yet ascended to the Father; but go to my brothers and say to them, ‘I am ascending to my Father and your Father, to my God and your God.’”


book: John
label: John
content:
  Mary Magdalene went and announced to the disciples, “I have seen the Lord”—and that he had said these things to her.


book: John
label: John
content:
  On the evening of that day, the first day of the week, the doors being locked where the disciples were for fear of the Jews, Jesus came and stood among them and said to them, “Peace be with you.”


book: John
label: John
content:
  When he had said this, he showed them his hands and his side. Then the disciples were glad when they saw the Lord.


book: John
label: John
content:
  If you forgive the sins of any, they are forgiven them; if you withhold forgiveness from any, it is withheld.”


book: John
label: John
content:
  So the other disciples told him, “We have seen the Lord.” But he said to them, “Unless I see in his hands the mark of the nails, and place my finger into the mark of the nails, and place my hand into his side, I will never believe.”


book: John
label: John
content:
  Eight days later, his disciples were inside again, and Thomas was with them. Although the doors were locked, Jesus came and stood among them and said, “Peace be with you.”


book: John
label: John
content:
  Then he said to Thomas, “Put your finger here, and see my hands; and put out your hand, and place it in my side. Do not disbelieve, but believe.”


book: John
label: John
content:
  Jesus said to him, “Have you believed because you have seen me? Blessed are those who have not seen and yet have believed.”


book: John
label: John
content:
  Now Jesus did many other signs in the presence of the disciples, which are not written in this book;


book: John
label: John
content:
  but these are written so that you may believe that Jesus is the Christ, the Son of God, and that by believing you may have life in his name. 


book: John
label: John
content:
  After this Jesus revealed himself again to the disciples by the Sea of Tiberias, and he revealed himself in this way.


book: John
label: John
content:
  Simon Peter, Thomas (called the Twin), Nathanael of Cana in Galilee, the sons of Zebedee, and two others of his disciples were together.


book: John
label: John
content:
  Simon Peter said to them, “I am going fishing.” They said to him, “We will go with you.” They went out and got into the boat, but that night they caught nothing.


book: John
label: John
content:
  Just as day was breaking, Jesus stood on the shore; yet the disciples did not know that it was Jesus.


book: John
label: John
content:
  He said to them, “Cast the net on the right side of the boat, and you will find some.” So they cast it, and now they were not able to haul it in, because of the quantity of fish.


book: John
label: John
content:
  That disciple whom Jesus loved therefore said to Peter, “It is the Lord!” When Simon Peter heard that it was the Lord, he put on his outer garment, for he was stripped for work, and threw himself into the sea.


book: John
label: John
content:
  The other disciples came in the boat, dragging the net full of fish, for they were not far from the land, but about a hundred yards off.


book: John
label: John
content:
  So Simon Peter went aboard and hauled the net ashore, full of large fish, 153 of them. And although there were so many, the net was not torn.


book: John
label: John
content:
  Jesus said to them, “Come and have breakfast.” Now none of the disciples dared ask him, “Who are you?” They knew it was the Lord.


book: John
label: John
content:
  This was now the third time that Jesus was revealed to the disciples after he was raised from the dead.


book: John
label: John
content:
  When they had finished breakfast, Jesus said to Simon Peter, “Simon, son of John, do you love me more than these?” He said to him, “Yes, Lord; you know that I love you.” He said to him, “Feed my lambs.”


book: John
label: John
content:
  He said to him a second time, “Simon, son of John, do you love me?” He said to him, “Yes, Lord; you know that I love you.” He said to him, “Tend my sheep.”


book: John
label: John
content:
  He said to him the third time, “Simon, son of John, do you love me?” Peter was grieved because he said to him the third time, “Do you love me?” and he said to him, “Lord, you know everything; you know that I love you.” Jesus said to him, “Feed my sheep.


book: John
label: John
content:
  Truly, truly, I say to you, when you were young, you used to dress yourself and walk wherever you wanted, but when you are old, you will stretch out your hands, and another will dress you and carry you where you do not want to go.”


book: John
label: John
content:
  (This he said to show by what kind of death he was to glorify God.) And after saying this he said to him, “Follow me.”


book: John
label: John
content:
  Peter turned and saw the disciple whom Jesus loved following them, the one who also had leaned back against him during the supper and had said, “Lord, who is it that is going to betray you?”


book: John
label: John
content:
  Jesus said to him, “If it is my will that he remain until I come, what is that to you? You follow me!”


book: John
label: John
content:
  So the saying spread abroad among the brothers that this disciple was not to die; yet Jesus did not say to him that he was not to die, but, “If it is my will that he remain until I come, what is that to you?”


book: John
label: John
content:
  This is the disciple who is bearing witness about these things, and who has written these things, and we know that his testimony is true.


book: John
label: John
content:
  Now there are also many other things that Jesus did. Were every one of them to be written, I suppose that the world itself could not contain the books that would be written. 


book: Acts
label: Acts
content:
  until the day when he was taken up, after he had given commands through the Holy Spirit to the apostles whom he had chosen.


book: Acts
label: Acts
content:
  He presented himself alive to them after his suffering by many proofs, appearing to them during forty days and speaking about the kingdom of God.


book: Acts
label: Acts
content:
  And while staying with them he ordered them not to depart from Jerusalem, but to wait for the promise of the Father, which, he said, “you heard from me;


book: Acts
label: Acts
content:
  for John baptized with water, but you will be baptized with the Holy Spirit not many days from now.”


book: Acts
label: Acts
content:
  So when they had come together, they asked him, “Lord, will you at this time restore the kingdom to Israel?”


book: Acts
label: Acts
content:
  He said to them, “It is not for you to know times or seasons that the Father has fixed by his own authority.


book: Acts
label: Acts
content:
  But you will receive power when the Holy Spirit has come upon you, and you will be my witnesses in Jerusalem and in all Judea and Samaria, and to the end of the earth.”


book: Acts
label: Acts
content:
  And when he had said these things, as they were looking on, he was lifted up, and a cloud took him out of their sight.


book: Acts
label: Acts
content:
  and said, “Men of Galilee, why do you stand looking into heaven? This Jesus, who was taken up from you into heaven, will come in the same way as you saw him go into heaven.”


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


book: Acts
label: Acts
content:
  And when they had entered, they went up to the upper room, where they were staying, Peter and John and James and Andrew, Philip and Thomas, Bartholomew and Matthew, James the son of Alphaeus and Simon the Zealot and Judas the son of James.


book: Acts
label: Acts
content:
  All these with one accord were devoting themselves to prayer, together with the women and Mary the mother of Jesus, and his brothers.


book: Acts
label: Acts
content:
  In those days Peter stood up among the brothers (the company of persons was in all about 120) and said,


book: Acts
label: Acts
content:
  “Brothers, the Scripture had to be fulfilled, which the Holy Spirit spoke beforehand by the mouth of David concerning Judas, who became a guide to those who arrested Jesus.


book: Acts
label: Acts
content:
  (Now this man acquired a field with the reward of his wickedness, and falling headlong he burst open in the middle and all his bowels gushed out.


book: Acts
label: Acts
content:
  And it became known to all the inhabitants of Jerusalem, so that the field was called in their own language Akeldama, that is, Field of Blood.)


book: Acts
label: Acts
content:
  “For it is written in the Book of Psalms, “‘May his camp become desolate, and let there be no one to dwell in it’; and “‘Let another take his office.’


book: Acts
label: Acts
content:
  So one of the men who have accompanied us during all the time that the Lord Jesus went in and out among us,


book: Acts
label: Acts
content:
  beginning from the baptism of John until the day when he was taken up from us—one of these men must become with us a witness to his resurrection.”


book: Acts
label: Acts
content:
  And they prayed and said, “You, Lord, who know the hearts of all, show which one of these two you have chosen


book: Acts
label: Acts
content:
  to take the place in this ministry and apostleship from which Judas turned aside to go to his own place.”


book: Acts
label: Acts
content:
  And they cast lots for them, and the lot fell on Matthias, and he was numbered with the eleven apostles. 


book: Acts
label: Acts
content:
  And suddenly there came from heaven a sound like a mighty rushing wind, and it filled the entire house where they were sitting.


book: Acts
label: Acts
content:
  And they were all filled with the Holy Spirit and began to speak in other tongues as the Spirit gave them utterance.


book: Acts
label: Acts
content:
  And at this sound the multitude came together, and they were bewildered, because each one was hearing them speak in his own language.


book: Acts
label: Acts
content:
  Parthians and Medes and Elamites and residents of Mesopotamia, Judea and Cappadocia, Pontus and Asia,


book: Acts
label: Acts
content:
  both Jews and proselytes, Cretans and Arabians—we hear them telling in our own tongues the mighty works of God.”


book: Acts
label: Acts
content:
  But Peter, standing with the eleven, lifted up his voice and addressed them: “Men of Judea and all who dwell in Jerusalem, let this be known to you, and give ear to my words.


book: Acts
label: Acts
content:
  “‘And in the last days it shall be, God declares, that I will pour out my Spirit on all flesh, and your sons and your daughters shall prophesy, and your young men shall see visions, and your old men shall dream dreams;


book: Acts
label: Acts
content:
  even on my male servants and female servants in those days I will pour out my Spirit, and they shall prophesy.


book: Acts
label: Acts
content:
  And I will show wonders in the heavens above and signs on the earth below, blood, and fire, and vapor of smoke;


book: Acts
label: Acts
content:
  the sun shall be turned to darkness and the moon to blood, before the day of the Lord comes, the great and magnificent day.


book: Acts
label: Acts
content:
  “Men of Israel, hear these words: Jesus of Nazareth, a man attested to you by God with mighty works and wonders and signs that God did through him in your midst, as you yourselves know—


book: Acts
label: Acts
content:
  this Jesus, delivered up according to the definite plan and foreknowledge of God, you crucified and killed by the hands of lawless men.


book: Acts
label: Acts
content:
  God raised him up, loosing the pangs of death, because it was not possible for him to be held by it.


book: Acts
label: Acts
content:
  For David says concerning him, “‘I saw the Lord always before me, for he is at my right hand that I may not be shaken;


book: Acts
label: Acts
content:
  “Brothers, I may say to you with confidence about the patriarch David that he both died and was buried, and his tomb is with us to this day.


book: Acts
label: Acts
content:
  Being therefore a prophet, and knowing that God had sworn with an oath to him that he would set one of his descendants on his throne,


book: Acts
label: Acts
content:
  he foresaw and spoke about the resurrection of the Christ, that he was not abandoned to Hades, nor did his flesh see corruption.


book: Acts
label: Acts
content:
  Being therefore exalted at the right hand of God, and having received from the Father the promise of the Holy Spirit, he has poured out this that you yourselves are seeing and hearing.


book: Acts
label: Acts
content:
  For David did not ascend into the heavens, but he himself says, “‘The Lord said to my Lord, “Sit at my right hand,


book: Acts
label: Acts
content:
  Let all the house of Israel therefore know for certain that God has made him both Lord and Christ, this Jesus whom you crucified.”


book: Acts
label: Acts
content:
  Now when they heard this they were cut to the heart, and said to Peter and the rest of the apostles, “Brothers, what shall we do?”


book: Acts
label: Acts
content:
  And Peter said to them, “Repent and be baptized every one of you in the name of Jesus Christ for the forgiveness of your sins, and you will receive the gift of the Holy Spirit.


book: Acts
label: Acts
content:
  For the promise is for you and for your children and for all who are far off, everyone whom the Lord our God calls to himself.”


book: Acts
label: Acts
content:
  And with many other words he bore witness and continued to exhort them, saying, “Save yourselves from this crooked generation.”


book: Acts
label: Acts
content:
  So those who received his word were baptized, and there were added that day about three thousand souls.


book: Acts
label: Acts
content:
  And they devoted themselves to the apostles’ teaching and the fellowship, to the breaking of bread and the prayers.


book: Acts
label: Acts
content:
  And they were selling their possessions and belongings and distributing the proceeds to all, as any had need.


book: Acts
label: Acts
content:
  And day by day, attending the temple together and breaking bread in their homes, they received their food with glad and generous hearts,


book: Acts
label: Acts
content:
  praising God and having favor with all the people. And the Lord added to their number day by day those who were being saved. 


book: Acts
label: Acts
content:
  And a man lame from birth was being carried, whom they laid daily at the gate of the temple that is called the Beautiful Gate to ask alms of those entering the temple.


book: Acts
label: Acts
content:
  But Peter said, “I have no silver and gold, but what I do have I give to you. In the name of Jesus Christ of Nazareth, rise up and walk!”


book: Acts
label: Acts
content:
  And he took him by the right hand and raised him up, and immediately his feet and ankles were made strong.


book: Acts
label: Acts
content:
  And leaping up, he stood and began to walk, and entered the temple with them, walking and leaping and praising God.


book: Acts
label: Acts
content:
  and recognized him as the one who sat at the Beautiful Gate of the temple, asking for alms. And they were filled with wonder and amazement at what had happened to him.


book: Acts
label: Acts
content:
  While he clung to Peter and John, all the people, utterly astounded, ran together to them in the portico called Solomon’s.


book: Acts
label: Acts
content:
  And when Peter saw it he addressed the people: “Men of Israel, why do you wonder at this, or why do you stare at us, as though by our own power or piety we have made him walk?


book: Acts
label: Acts
content:
  The God of Abraham, the God of Isaac, and the God of Jacob, the God of our fathers, glorified his servant Jesus, whom you delivered over and denied in the presence of Pilate, when he had decided to release him.


book: Acts
label: Acts
content:
  And his name—by faith in his name—has made this man strong whom you see and know, and the faith that is through Jesus has given the man this perfect health in the presence of you all.


book: Acts
label: Acts
content:
  But what God foretold by the mouth of all the prophets, that his Christ would suffer, he thus fulfilled.


book: Acts
label: Acts
content:
  that times of refreshing may come from the presence of the Lord, and that he may send the Christ appointed for you, Jesus,


book: Acts
label: Acts
content:
  whom heaven must receive until the time for restoring all the things about which God spoke by the mouth of his holy prophets long ago.


book: Acts
label: Acts
content:
  Moses said, ‘The Lord God will raise up for you a prophet like me from your brothers. You shall listen to him in whatever he tells you.


book: Acts
label: Acts
content:
  And it shall be that every soul who does not listen to that prophet shall be destroyed from the people.’


book: Acts
label: Acts
content:
  And all the prophets who have spoken, from Samuel and those who came after him, also proclaimed these days.


book: Acts
label: Acts
content:
  You are the sons of the prophets and of the covenant that God made with your fathers, saying to Abraham, ‘And in your offspring shall all the families of the earth be blessed.’


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  God, having raised up his servant, sent him to you first, to bless you by turning every one of you from your wickedness.” 


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  And as they were speaking to the people, the priests and the captain of the temple and the Sadducees came upon them,


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  greatly annoyed because they were teaching the people and proclaiming in Jesus the resurrection from the dead.


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  But many of those who had heard the word believed, and the number of the men came to about five thousand.


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  with Annas the high priest and Caiaphas and John and Alexander, and all who were of the high-priestly family.


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  And when they had set them in the midst, they inquired, “By what power or by what name did you do this?”


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  if we are being examined today concerning a good deed done to a crippled man, by what means this man has been healed,


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  let it be known to all of you and to all the people of Israel that by the name of Jesus Christ of Nazareth, whom you crucified, whom God raised from the dead—by him this man is standing before you well.


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  And there is salvation in no one else, for there is no other name under heaven given among men by which we must be saved.”


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  Now when they saw the boldness of Peter and John, and perceived that they were uneducated, common men, they were astonished. And they recognized that they had been with Jesus.


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  saying, “What shall we do with these men? For that a notable sign has been performed through them is evident to all the inhabitants of Jerusalem, and we cannot deny it.


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  But in order that it may spread no further among the people, let us warn them to speak no more to anyone in this name.”


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  But Peter and John answered them, “Whether it is right in the sight of God to listen to you rather than to God, you must judge,


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  And when they had further threatened them, they let them go, finding no way to punish them, because of the people, for all were praising God for what had happened.


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  When they were released, they went to their friends and reported what the chief priests and the elders had said to them.


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  And when they heard it, they lifted their voices together to God and said, “Sovereign Lord, who made the heaven and the earth and the sea and everything in them,


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  who through the mouth of our father David, your servant, said by the Holy Spirit, “‘Why did the Gentiles rage, and the peoples plot in vain?


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  The kings of the earth set themselves, and the rulers were gathered together, against the Lord and against his Anointed’—


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  for truly in this city there were gathered together against your holy servant Jesus, whom you anointed, both Herod and Pontius Pilate, along with the Gentiles and the peoples of Israel,


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  And now, Lord, look upon their threats and grant to your servants to continue to speak your word with all boldness,


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  while you stretch out your hand to heal, and signs and wonders are performed through the name of your holy servant Jesus.”


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  And when they had prayed, the place in which they were gathered together was shaken, and they were all filled with the Holy Spirit and continued to speak the word of God with boldness.


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  Now the full number of those who believed were of one heart and soul, and no one said that any of the things that belonged to him was his own, but they had everything in common.


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  And with great power the apostles were giving their testimony to the resurrection of the Lord Jesus, and great grace was upon them all.


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  There was not a needy person among them, for as many as were owners of lands or houses sold them and brought the proceeds of what was sold


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  Thus Joseph, who was also called by the apostles Barnabas (which means son of encouragement), a Levite, a native of Cyprus,


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  and with his wife’s knowledge he kept back for himself some of the proceeds and brought only a part of it and laid it at the apostles’ feet.


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  But Peter said, “Ananias, why has Satan filled your heart to lie to the Holy Spirit and to keep back for yourself part of the proceeds of the land?


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  While it remained unsold, did it not remain your own? And after it was sold, was it not at your disposal? Why is it that you have contrived this deed in your heart? You have not lied to man but to God.”


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  When Ananias heard these words, he fell down and breathed his last. And great fear came upon all who heard of it.


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  And Peter said to her, “Tell me whether you sold the land for so much.” And she said, “Yes, for so much.”


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  But Peter said to her, “How is it that you have agreed together to test the Spirit of the Lord? Behold, the feet of those who have buried your husband are at the door, and they will carry you out.”


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  Immediately she fell down at his feet and breathed her last. When the young men came in they found her dead, and they carried her out and buried her beside her husband.


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  Now many signs and wonders were regularly done among the people by the hands of the apostles. And they were all together in Solomon’s Portico.


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  so that they even carried out the sick into the streets and laid them on cots and mats, that as Peter came by at least his shadow might fall on some of them.


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  The people also gathered from the towns around Jerusalem, bringing the sick and those afflicted with unclean spirits, and they were all healed.


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  But the high priest rose up, and all who were with him (that is, the party of the Sadducees), and filled with jealousy


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  And when they heard this, they entered the temple at daybreak and began to teach. Now when the high priest came, and those who were with him, they called together the council, all the senate of the people of Israel, and sent to the prison to have them brought.


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  “We found the prison securely locked and the guards standing at the doors, but when we opened them we found no one inside.”


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  Now when the captain of the temple and the chief priests heard these words, they were greatly perplexed about them, wondering what this would come to.


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  And someone came and told them, “Look! The men whom you put in prison are standing in the temple and teaching the people.”


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  Then the captain with the officers went and brought them, but not by force, for they were afraid of being stoned by the people.


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  And when they had brought them, they set them before the council. And the high priest questioned them,


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  saying, “We strictly charged you not to teach in this name, yet here you have filled Jerusalem with your teaching, and you intend to bring this man’s blood upon us.”


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  God exalted him at his right hand as Leader and Savior, to give repentance to Israel and forgiveness of sins.


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  And we are witnesses to these things, and so is the Holy Spirit, whom God has given to those who obey him.”


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  But a Pharisee in the council named Gamaliel, a teacher of the law held in honor by all the people, stood up and gave orders to put the men outside for a little while.


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  For before these days Theudas rose up, claiming to be somebody, and a number of men, about four hundred, joined him. He was killed, and all who followed him were dispersed and came to nothing.


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  After him Judas the Galilean rose up in the days of the census and drew away some of the people after him. He too perished, and all who followed him were scattered.


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  So in the present case I tell you, keep away from these men and let them alone, for if this plan or this undertaking is of man, it will fail;


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  but if it is of God, you will not be able to overthrow them. You might even be found opposing God!” So they took his advice,


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  and when they had called in the apostles, they beat them and charged them not to speak in the name of Jesus, and let them go.


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  Then they left the presence of the council, rejoicing that they were counted worthy to suffer dishonor for the name.


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  And every day, in the temple and from house to house, they did not cease teaching and preaching that the Christ is Jesus. 


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  Now in these days when the disciples were increasing in number, a complaint by the Hellenists arose against the Hebrews because their widows were being neglected in the daily distribution.


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  And the twelve summoned the full number of the disciples and said, “It is not right that we should give up preaching the word of God to serve tables.


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  Therefore, brothers, pick out from among you seven men of good repute, full of the Spirit and of wisdom, whom we will appoint to this duty.


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  And what they said pleased the whole gathering, and they chose Stephen, a man full of faith and of the Holy Spirit, and Philip, and Prochorus, and Nicanor, and Timon, and Parmenas, and Nicolaus, a proselyte of Antioch.


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  And the word of God continued to increase, and the number of the disciples multiplied greatly in Jerusalem, and a great many of the priests became obedient to the faith.


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  Then some of those who belonged to the synagogue of the Freedmen (as it was called), and of the Cyrenians, and of the Alexandrians, and of those from Cilicia and Asia, rose up and disputed with Stephen.


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  Then they secretly instigated men who said, “We have heard him speak blasphemous words against Moses and God.”


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  And they stirred up the people and the elders and the scribes, and they came upon him and seized him and brought him before the council,


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  and they set up false witnesses who said, “This man never ceases to speak words against this holy place and the law,


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  for we have heard him say that this Jesus of Nazareth will destroy this place and will change the customs that Moses delivered to us.”


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  And Stephen said: “Brothers and fathers, hear me. The God of glory appeared to our father Abraham when he was in Mesopotamia, before he lived in Haran,


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  and said to him, ‘Go out from your land and from your kindred and go into the land that I will show you.’


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  Then he went out from the land of the Chaldeans and lived in Haran. And after his father died, God removed him from there into this land in which you are now living.


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  Yet he gave him no inheritance in it, not even a foot’s length, but promised to give it to him as a possession and to his offspring after him, though he had no child.


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  And God spoke to this effect—that his offspring would be sojourners in a land belonging to others, who would enslave them and afflict them four hundred years.


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  ‘But I will judge the nation that they serve,’ said God, ‘and after that they shall come out and worship me in this place.’


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  And he gave him the covenant of circumcision. And so Abraham became the father of Isaac, and circumcised him on the eighth day, and Isaac became the father of Jacob, and Jacob of the twelve patriarchs.


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  and rescued him out of all his afflictions and gave him favor and wisdom before Pharaoh, king of Egypt, who made him ruler over Egypt and over all his household.


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  Now there came a famine throughout all Egypt and Canaan, and great affliction, and our fathers could find no food.


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  And on the second visit Joseph made himself known to his brothers, and Joseph’s family became known to Pharaoh.


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  and they were carried back to Shechem and laid in the tomb that Abraham had bought for a sum of silver from the sons of Hamor in Shechem.


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  “But as the time of the promise drew near, which God had granted to Abraham, the people increased and multiplied in Egypt


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  He dealt shrewdly with our race and forced our fathers to expose their infants, so that they would not be kept alive.


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  At this time Moses was born; and he was beautiful in God’s sight. And he was brought up for three months in his father’s house,


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  And Moses was instructed in all the wisdom of the Egyptians, and he was mighty in his words and deeds.


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  And seeing one of them being wronged, he defended the oppressed man and avenged him by striking down the Egyptian.


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  He supposed that his brothers would understand that God was giving them salvation by his hand, but they did not understand.


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  And on the following day he appeared to them as they were quarreling and tried to reconcile them, saying, ‘Men, you are brothers. Why do you wrong each other?’


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  But the man who was wronging his neighbor thrust him aside, saying, ‘Who made you a ruler and a judge over us?


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  At this retort Moses fled and became an exile in the land of Midian, where he became the father of two sons.


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  “Now when forty years had passed, an angel appeared to him in the wilderness of Mount Sinai, in a flame of fire in a bush.


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  When Moses saw it, he was amazed at the sight, and as he drew near to look, there came the voice of the Lord:


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  ‘I am the God of your fathers, the God of Abraham and of Isaac and of Jacob.’ And Moses trembled and did not dare to look.


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  Then the Lord said to him, ‘Take off the sandals from your feet, for the place where you are standing is holy ground.


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  I have surely seen the affliction of my people who are in Egypt, and have heard their groaning, and I have come down to deliver them. And now come, I will send you to Egypt.’


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  “This Moses, whom they rejected, saying, ‘Who made you a ruler and a judge?’—this man God sent as both ruler and redeemer by the hand of the angel who appeared to him in the bush.


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  This man led them out, performing wonders and signs in Egypt and at the Red Sea and in the wilderness for forty years.


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  This is the Moses who said to the Israelites, ‘God will raise up for you a prophet like me from your brothers.’


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  This is the one who was in the congregation in the wilderness with the angel who spoke to him at Mount Sinai, and with our fathers. He received living oracles to give to us.


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  saying to Aaron, ‘Make for us gods who will go before us. As for this Moses who led us out from the land of Egypt, we do not know what has become of him.’


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  And they made a calf in those days, and offered a sacrifice to the idol and were rejoicing in the works of their hands.


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  But God turned away and gave them over to worship the host of heaven, as it is written in the book of the prophets: “‘Did you bring to me slain beasts and sacrifices, during the forty years in the wilderness, O house of Israel?


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  You took up the tent of Moloch and the star of your god Rephan, the images that you made to worship; and I will send you into exile beyond Babylon.’


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  “Our fathers had the tent of witness in the wilderness, just as he who spoke to Moses directed him to make it, according to the pattern that he had seen.


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  Our fathers in turn brought it in with Joshua when they dispossessed the nations that God drove out before our fathers. So it was until the days of David,


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  “‘Heaven is my throne, and the earth is my footstool. What kind of house will you build for me, says the Lord, or what is the place of my rest?


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  “You stiff-necked people, uncircumcised in heart and ears, you always resist the Holy Spirit. As your fathers did, so do you.


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  Which of the prophets did your fathers not persecute? And they killed those who announced beforehand the coming of the Righteous One, whom you have now betrayed and murdered,


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  But he, full of the Holy Spirit, gazed into heaven and saw the glory of God, and Jesus standing at the right hand of God.


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  And he said, “Behold, I see the heavens opened, and the Son of Man standing at the right hand of God.”


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  Then they cast him out of the city and stoned him. And the witnesses laid down their garments at the feet of a young man named Saul.


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  And falling to his knees he cried out with a loud voice, “Lord, do not hold this sin against them.” And when he had said this, he fell asleep. 


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  And Saul approved of his execution. And there arose on that day a great persecution against the church in Jerusalem, and they were all scattered throughout the regions of Judea and Samaria, except the apostles.


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  But Saul was ravaging the church, and entering house after house, he dragged off men and women and committed them to prison.


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  And the crowds with one accord paid attention to what was being said by Philip, when they heard him and saw the signs that he did.


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  For unclean spirits, crying out with a loud voice, came out of many who had them, and many who were paralyzed or lame were healed.


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  But there was a man named Simon, who had previously practiced magic in the city and amazed the people of Samaria, saying that he himself was somebody great.


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  They all paid attention to him, from the least to the greatest, saying, “This man is the power of God that is called Great.”


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  But when they believed Philip as he preached good news about the kingdom of God and the name of Jesus Christ, they were baptized, both men and women.


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  Even Simon himself believed, and after being baptized he continued with Philip. And seeing signs and great miracles performed, he was amazed.


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


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  for he had not yet fallen on any of them, but they had only been baptized in the name of the Lord Jesus.


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  Now when Simon saw that the Spirit was given through the laying on of the apostles’ hands, he offered them money,


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  saying, “Give me this power also, so that anyone on whom I lay my hands may receive the Holy Spirit.”


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  But Peter said to him, “May your silver perish with you, because you thought you could obtain the gift of God with money!


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  Repent, therefore, of this wickedness of yours, and pray to the Lord that, if possible, the intent of your heart may be forgiven you.


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  Now when they had testified and spoken the word of the Lord, they returned to Jerusalem, preaching the gospel to many villages of the Samaritans.


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  Now an angel of the Lord said to Philip, “Rise and go toward the south to the road that goes down from Jerusalem to Gaza.” This is a desert place.


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  And he rose and went. And there was an Ethiopian, a eunuch, a court official of Candace, queen of the Ethiopians, who was in charge of all her treasure. He had come to Jerusalem to worship


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  So Philip ran to him and heard him reading Isaiah the prophet and asked, “Do you understand what you are reading?”


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  And he said, “How can I, unless someone guides me?” And he invited Philip to come up and sit with him.


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  Now the passage of the Scripture that he was reading was this: “Like a sheep he was led to the slaughter and like a lamb before its shearer is silent, so he opens not his mouth.


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  In his humiliation justice was denied him. Who can describe his generation? For his life is taken away from the earth.”


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  And the eunuch said to Philip, “About whom, I ask you, does the prophet say this, about himself or about someone else?”


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  Then Philip opened his mouth, and beginning with this Scripture he told him the good news about Jesus.


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  And as they were going along the road they came to some water, and the eunuch said, “See, here is water! What prevents me from being baptized?”


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  And he commanded the chariot to stop, and they both went down into the water, Philip and the eunuch, and he baptized him.


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  And when they came up out of the water, the Spirit of the Lord carried Philip away, and the eunuch saw him no more, and went on his way rejoicing.


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  But Philip found himself at Azotus, and as he passed through he preached the gospel to all the towns until he came to Caesarea. 


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  But Saul, still breathing threats and murder against the disciples of the Lord, went to the high priest


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  and asked him for letters to the synagogues at Damascus, so that if he found any belonging to the Way, men or women, he might bring them bound to Jerusalem.


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  Now as he went on his way, he approached Damascus, and suddenly a light from heaven shone around him.


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  And falling to the ground, he heard a voice saying to him, “Saul, Saul, why are you persecuting me?”


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  Saul rose from the ground, and although his eyes were opened, he saw nothing. So they led him by the hand and brought him into Damascus.


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  Now there was a disciple at Damascus named Ananias. The Lord said to him in a vision, “Ananias.” And he said, “Here I am, Lord.”


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  And the Lord said to him, “Rise and go to the street called Straight, and at the house of Judas look for a man of Tarsus named Saul, for behold, he is praying,


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  and he has seen in a vision a man named Ananias come in and lay his hands on him so that he might regain his sight.”


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  But Ananias answered, “Lord, I have heard from many about this man, how much evil he has done to your saints at Jerusalem.


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  But the Lord said to him, “Go, for he is a chosen instrument of mine to carry my name before the Gentiles and kings and the children of Israel.


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  So Ananias departed and entered the house. And laying his hands on him he said, “Brother Saul, the Lord Jesus who appeared to you on the road by which you came has sent me so that you may regain your sight and be filled with the Holy Spirit.”


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  And immediately something like scales fell from his eyes, and he regained his sight. Then he rose and was baptized;


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  And all who heard him were amazed and said, “Is not this the man who made havoc in Jerusalem of those who called upon this name? And has he not come here for this purpose, to bring them bound before the chief priests?”


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  But Saul increased all the more in strength, and confounded the Jews who lived in Damascus by proving that Jesus was the Christ.


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  but their plot became known to Saul. They were watching the gates day and night in order to kill him,


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  but his disciples took him by night and let him down through an opening in the wall, lowering him in a basket.


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  And when he had come to Jerusalem, he attempted to join the disciples. And they were all afraid of him, for they did not believe that he was a disciple.


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  But Barnabas took him and brought him to the apostles and declared to them how on the road he had seen the Lord, who spoke to him, and how at Damascus he had preached boldly in the name of Jesus.


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  So the church throughout all Judea and Galilee and Samaria had peace and was being built up. And walking in the fear of the Lord and in the comfort of the Holy Spirit, it multiplied.


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  Now as Peter went here and there among them all, he came down also to the saints who lived at Lydda.


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  And Peter said to him, “Aeneas, Jesus Christ heals you; rise and make your bed.” And immediately he rose.


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  Now there was in Joppa a disciple named Tabitha, which, translated, means Dorcas. She was full of good works and acts of charity.


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  In those days she became ill and died, and when they had washed her, they laid her in an upper room.


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  Since Lydda was near Joppa, the disciples, hearing that Peter was there, sent two men to him, urging him, “Please come to us without delay.”


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  So Peter rose and went with them. And when he arrived, they took him to the upper room. All the widows stood beside him weeping and showing tunics and other garments that Dorcas made while she was with them.


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  But Peter put them all outside, and knelt down and prayed; and turning to the body he said, “Tabitha, arise.” And she opened her eyes, and when she saw Peter she sat up.


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  And he gave her his hand and raised her up. Then, calling the saints and widows, he presented her alive.


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  a devout man who feared God with all his household, gave alms generously to the people, and prayed continually to God.


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  About the ninth hour of the day he saw clearly in a vision an angel of God come in and say to him, “Cornelius.”


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  And he stared at him in terror and said, “What is it, Lord?” And he said to him, “Your prayers and your alms have ascended as a memorial before God.


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  When the angel who spoke to him had departed, he called two of his servants and a devout soldier from among those who attended him,


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


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  And he became hungry and wanted something to eat, but while they were preparing it, he fell into a trance


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  and saw the heavens opened and something like a great sheet descending, being let down by its four corners upon the earth.


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  Now while Peter was inwardly perplexed as to what the vision that he had seen might mean, behold, the men who were sent by Cornelius, having made inquiry for Simon’s house, stood at the gate


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  And while Peter was pondering the vision, the Spirit said to him, “Behold, three men are looking for you.


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  And Peter went down to the men and said, “I am the one you are looking for. What is the reason for your coming?”


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  And they said, “Cornelius, a centurion, an upright and God-fearing man, who is well spoken of by the whole Jewish nation, was directed by a holy angel to send for you to come to his house and to hear what you have to say.”


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  So he invited them in to be his guests. The next day he rose and went away with them, and some of the brothers from Joppa accompanied him.


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  And on the following day they entered Caesarea. Cornelius was expecting them and had called together his relatives and close friends.


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  And he said to them, “You yourselves know how unlawful it is for a Jew to associate with or to visit anyone of another nation, but God has shown me that I should not call any person common or unclean.


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  And Cornelius said, “Four days ago, about this hour, I was praying in my house at the ninth hour, and behold, a man stood before me in bright clothing


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  Send therefore to Joppa and ask for Simon who is called Peter. He is lodging in the house of Simon, a tanner, by the sea.’


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  So I sent for you at once, and you have been kind enough to come. Now therefore we are all here in the presence of God to hear all that you have been commanded by the Lord.”


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  As for the word that he sent to Israel, preaching good news of peace through Jesus Christ (he is Lord of all),


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  you yourselves know what happened throughout all Judea, beginning from Galilee after the baptism that John proclaimed:


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  how God anointed Jesus of Nazareth with the Holy Spirit and with power. He went about doing good and healing all who were oppressed by the devil, for God was with him.


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  And we are witnesses of all that he did both in the country of the Jews and in Jerusalem. They put him to death by hanging him on a tree,


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  not to all the people but to us who had been chosen by God as witnesses, who ate and drank with him after he rose from the dead.


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  And he commanded us to preach to the people and to testify that he is the one appointed by God to be judge of the living and the dead.


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  To him all the prophets bear witness that everyone who believes in him receives forgiveness of sins through his name.”


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  And the believers from among the circumcised who had come with Peter were amazed, because the gift of the Holy Spirit was poured out even on the Gentiles.


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  “Can anyone withhold water for baptizing these people, who have received the Holy Spirit just as we have?”


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  And he commanded them to be baptized in the name of Jesus Christ. Then they asked him to remain for some days. 


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


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  “I was in the city of Joppa praying, and in a trance I saw a vision, something like a great sheet descending, being let down from heaven by its four corners, and it came down to me.


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  And behold, at that very moment three men arrived at the house in which we were, sent to me from Caesarea.


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  And the Spirit told me to go with them, making no distinction. These six brothers also accompanied me, and we entered the man’s house.


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  And he told us how he had seen the angel stand in his house and say, ‘Send to Joppa and bring Simon who is called Peter;


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  And I remembered the word of the Lord, how he said, ‘John baptized with water, but you will be baptized with the Holy Spirit.’


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  If then God gave the same gift to them as he gave to us when we believed in the Lord Jesus Christ, who was I that I could stand in God’s way?”


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  When they heard these things they fell silent. And they glorified God, saying, “Then to the Gentiles also God has granted repentance that leads to life.”


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  Now those who were scattered because of the persecution that arose over Stephen traveled as far as Phoenicia and Cyprus and Antioch, speaking the word to no one except Jews.


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  But there were some of them, men of Cyprus and Cyrene, who on coming to Antioch spoke to the Hellenists also, preaching the Lord Jesus.


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  When he came and saw the grace of God, he was glad, and he exhorted them all to remain faithful to the Lord with steadfast purpose,


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  for he was a good man, full of the Holy Spirit and of faith. And a great many people were added to the Lord.


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  and when he had found him, he brought him to Antioch. For a whole year they met with the church and taught a great many people. And in Antioch the disciples were first called Christians.


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  And one of them named Agabus stood up and foretold by the Spirit that there would be a great famine over all the world (this took place in the days of Claudius).


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  So the disciples determined, every one according to his ability, to send relief to the brothers living in Judea.


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  and when he saw that it pleased the Jews, he proceeded to arrest Peter also. This was during the days of Unleavened Bread.


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  And when he had seized him, he put him in prison, delivering him over to four squads of soldiers to guard him, intending after the Passover to bring him out to the people.


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  Now when Herod was about to bring him out, on that very night, Peter was sleeping between two soldiers, bound with two chains, and sentries before the door were guarding the prison.


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  And behold, an angel of the Lord stood next to him, and a light shone in the cell. He struck Peter on the side and woke him, saying, “Get up quickly.” And the chains fell off his hands.


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  And the angel said to him, “Dress yourself and put on your sandals.” And he did so. And he said to him, “Wrap your cloak around you and follow me.”


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  And he went out and followed him. He did not know that what was being done by the angel was real, but thought he was seeing a vision.


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  When they had passed the first and the second guard, they came to the iron gate leading into the city. It opened for them of its own accord, and they went out and went along one street, and immediately the angel left him.


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  When Peter came to himself, he said, “Now I am sure that the Lord has sent his angel and rescued me from the hand of Herod and from all that the Jewish people were expecting.”


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  When he realized this, he went to the house of Mary, the mother of John whose other name was Mark, where many were gathered together and were praying.


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  Recognizing Peter’s voice, in her joy she did not open the gate but ran in and reported that Peter was standing at the gate.


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  They said to her, “You are out of your mind.” But she kept insisting that it was so, and they kept saying, “It is his angel!”


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  But motioning to them with his hand to be silent, he described to them how the Lord had brought him out of the prison. And he said, “Tell these things to James and to the brothers.” Then he departed and went to another place.


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  Now when day came, there was no little disturbance among the soldiers over what had become of Peter.


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  And after Herod searched for him and did not find him, he examined the sentries and ordered that they should be put to death. Then he went down from Judea to Caesarea and spent time there.


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  Now Herod was angry with the people of Tyre and Sidon, and they came to him with one accord, and having persuaded Blastus, the king’s chamberlain, they asked for peace, because their country depended on the king’s country for food.


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  On an appointed day Herod put on his royal robes, took his seat upon the throne, and delivered an oration to them.


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  Immediately an angel of the Lord struck him down, because he did not give God the glory, and he was eaten by worms and breathed his last.


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  And Barnabas and Saul returned from Jerusalem when they had completed their service, bringing with them John, whose other name was Mark. 


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  Now there were in the church at Antioch prophets and teachers, Barnabas, Simeon who was called Niger, Lucius of Cyrene, Manaen a lifelong friend of Herod the tetrarch, and Saul.


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  While they were worshiping the Lord and fasting, the Holy Spirit said, “Set apart for me Barnabas and Saul for the work to which I have called them.”


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  So, being sent out by the Holy Spirit, they went down to Seleucia, and from there they sailed to Cyprus.


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  When they arrived at Salamis, they proclaimed the word of God in the synagogues of the Jews. And they had John to assist them.


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  When they had gone through the whole island as far as Paphos, they came upon a certain magician, a Jewish false prophet named Bar-Jesus.


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  He was with the proconsul, Sergius Paulus, a man of intelligence, who summoned Barnabas and Saul and sought to hear the word of God.


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  But Elymas the magician (for that is the meaning of his name) opposed them, seeking to turn the proconsul away from the faith.


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  and said, “You son of the devil, you enemy of all righteousness, full of all deceit and villainy, will you not stop making crooked the straight paths of the Lord?


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  And now, behold, the hand of the Lord is upon you, and you will be blind and unable to see the sun for a time.” Immediately mist and darkness fell upon him, and he went about seeking people to lead him by the hand.


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  Then the proconsul believed, when he saw what had occurred, for he was astonished at the teaching of the Lord.


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  Now Paul and his companions set sail from Paphos and came to Perga in Pamphylia. And John left them and returned to Jerusalem,


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  but they went on from Perga and came to Antioch in Pisidia. And on the Sabbath day they went into the synagogue and sat down.


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  After the reading from the Law and the Prophets, the rulers of the synagogue sent a message to them, saying, “Brothers, if you have any word of encouragement for the people, say it.”


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  The God of this people Israel chose our fathers and made the people great during their stay in the land of Egypt, and with uplifted arm he led them out of it.


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  And after destroying seven nations in the land of Canaan, he gave them their land as an inheritance.


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  Then they asked for a king, and God gave them Saul the son of Kish, a man of the tribe of Benjamin, for forty years.


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  And when he had removed him, he raised up David to be their king, of whom he testified and said, ‘I have found in David the son of Jesse a man after my heart, who will do all my will.’


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  And as John was finishing his course, he said, ‘What do you suppose that I am? I am not he. No, but behold, after me one is coming, the sandals of whose feet I am not worthy to untie.’


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  “Brothers, sons of the family of Abraham, and those among you who fear God, to us has been sent the message of this salvation.


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  For those who live in Jerusalem and their rulers, because they did not recognize him nor understand the utterances of the prophets, which are read every Sabbath, fulfilled them by condemning him.


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  And when they had carried out all that was written of him, they took him down from the tree and laid him in a tomb.


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  and for many days he appeared to those who had come up with him from Galilee to Jerusalem, who are now his witnesses to the people.


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  this he has fulfilled to us their children by raising Jesus, as also it is written in the second Psalm, “‘You are my Son, today I have begotten you.’


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  And as for the fact that he raised him from the dead, no more to return to corruption, he has spoken in this way, “‘I will give you the holy and sure blessings of David.’


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  For David, after he had served the purpose of God in his own generation, fell asleep and was laid with his fathers and saw corruption,


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  Let it be known to you therefore, brothers, that through this man forgiveness of sins is proclaimed to you,


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  and by him everyone who believes is freed from everything from which you could not be freed by the law of Moses.


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  “‘Look, you scoffers, be astounded and perish; for I am doing a work in your days, a work that you will not believe, even if one tells it to you.’”


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  And after the meeting of the synagogue broke up, many Jews and devout converts to Judaism followed Paul and Barnabas, who, as they spoke with them, urged them to continue in the grace of God.


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  But when the Jews saw the crowds, they were filled with jealousy and began to contradict what was spoken by Paul, reviling him.


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  And Paul and Barnabas spoke out boldly, saying, “It was necessary that the word of God be spoken first to you. Since you thrust it aside and judge yourselves unworthy of eternal life, behold, we are turning to the Gentiles.


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  For so the Lord has commanded us, saying, “‘I have made you a light for the Gentiles, that you may bring salvation to the ends of the earth.’”


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  And when the Gentiles heard this, they began rejoicing and glorifying the word of the Lord, and as many as were appointed to eternal life believed.


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  But the Jews incited the devout women of high standing and the leading men of the city, stirred up persecution against Paul and Barnabas, and drove them out of their district.


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  Now at Iconium they entered together into the Jewish synagogue and spoke in such a way that a great number of both Jews and Greeks believed.


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  So they remained for a long time, speaking boldly for the Lord, who bore witness to the word of his grace, granting signs and wonders to be done by their hands.


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  When an attempt was made by both Gentiles and Jews, with their rulers, to mistreat them and to stone them,


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  they learned of it and fled to Lystra and Derbe, cities of Lycaonia, and to the surrounding country,


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  Now at Lystra there was a man sitting who could not use his feet. He was crippled from birth and had never walked.


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  He listened to Paul speaking. And Paul, looking intently at him and seeing that he had faith to be made well,


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  And when the crowds saw what Paul had done, they lifted up their voices, saying in Lycaonian, “The gods have come down to us in the likeness of men!”


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  And the priest of Zeus, whose temple was at the entrance to the city, brought oxen and garlands to the gates and wanted to offer sacrifice with the crowds.


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  But when the apostles Barnabas and Paul heard of it, they tore their garments and rushed out into the crowd, crying out,


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  “Men, why are you doing these things? We also are men, of like nature with you, and we bring you good news, that you should turn from these vain things to a living God, who made the heaven and the earth and the sea and all that is in them.


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  Yet he did not leave himself without witness, for he did good by giving you rains from heaven and fruitful seasons, satisfying your hearts with food and gladness.”


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  But Jews came from Antioch and Iconium, and having persuaded the crowds, they stoned Paul and dragged him out of the city, supposing that he was dead.


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  But when the disciples gathered about him, he rose up and entered the city, and on the next day he went on with Barnabas to Derbe.


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  When they had preached the gospel to that city and had made many disciples, they returned to Lystra and to Iconium and to Antioch,


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  strengthening the souls of the disciples, encouraging them to continue in the faith, and saying that through many tribulations we must enter the kingdom of God.


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  And when they had appointed elders for them in every church, with prayer and fasting they committed them to the Lord in whom they had believed.


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  and from there they sailed to Antioch, where they had been commended to the grace of God for the work that they had fulfilled.


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  And when they arrived and gathered the church together, they declared all that God had done with them, and how he had opened a door of faith to the Gentiles.


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  But some men came down from Judea and were teaching the brothers, “Unless you are circumcised according to the custom of Moses, you cannot be saved.”


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  And after Paul and Barnabas had no small dissension and debate with them, Paul and Barnabas and some of the others were appointed to go up to Jerusalem to the apostles and the elders about this question.


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  So, being sent on their way by the church, they passed through both Phoenicia and Samaria, describing in detail the conversion of the Gentiles, and brought great joy to all the brothers.


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  When they came to Jerusalem, they were welcomed by the church and the apostles and the elders, and they declared all that God had done with them.


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  But some believers who belonged to the party of the Pharisees rose up and said, “It is necessary to circumcise them and to order them to keep the law of Moses.”


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  And after there had been much debate, Peter stood up and said to them, “Brothers, you know that in the early days God made a choice among you, that by my mouth the Gentiles should hear the word of the gospel and believe.


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  And God, who knows the heart, bore witness to them, by giving them the Holy Spirit just as he did to us,


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  Now, therefore, why are you putting God to the test by placing a yoke on the neck of the disciples that neither our fathers nor we have been able to bear?


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  And all the assembly fell silent, and they listened to Barnabas and Paul as they related what signs and wonders God had done through them among the Gentiles.


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  “‘After this I will return, and I will rebuild the tent of David that has fallen; I will rebuild its ruins, and I will restore it,


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  that the remnant of mankind may seek the Lord, and all the Gentiles who are called by my name, says the Lord, who makes these things


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  but should write to them to abstain from the things polluted by idols, and from sexual immorality, and from what has been strangled, and from blood.


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  For from ancient generations Moses has had in every city those who proclaim him, for he is read every Sabbath in the synagogues.”


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  Then it seemed good to the apostles and the elders, with the whole church, to choose men from among them and send them to Antioch with Paul and Barnabas. They sent Judas called Barsabbas, and Silas, leading men among the brothers,


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  with the following letter: “The brothers, both the apostles and the elders, to the brothers who are of the Gentiles in Antioch and Syria and Cilicia, greetings.


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  Since we have heard that some persons have gone out from us and troubled you with words, unsettling your minds, although we gave them no instructions,


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  it has seemed good to us, having come to one accord, to choose men and send them to you with our beloved Barnabas and Paul,


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  We have therefore sent Judas and Silas, who themselves will tell you the same things by word of mouth.


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  For it has seemed good to the Holy Spirit and to us to lay on you no greater burden than these requirements:


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  that you abstain from what has been sacrificed to idols, and from blood, and from what has been strangled, and from sexual immorality. If you keep yourselves from these, you will do well. Farewell.”


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  So when they were sent off, they went down to Antioch, and having gathered the congregation together, they delivered the letter.


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  And Judas and Silas, who were themselves prophets, encouraged and strengthened the brothers with many words.


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  And after they had spent some time, they were sent off in peace by the brothers to those who had sent them.


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  But Paul and Barnabas remained in Antioch, teaching and preaching the word of the Lord, with many others also.


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  And after some days Paul said to Barnabas, “Let us return and visit the brothers in every city where we proclaimed the word of the Lord, and see how they are.”


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  But Paul thought best not to take with them one who had withdrawn from them in Pamphylia and had not gone with them to the work.


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  And there arose a sharp disagreement, so that they separated from each other. Barnabas took Mark with him and sailed away to Cyprus,


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


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  Paul wanted Timothy to accompany him, and he took him and circumcised him because of the Jews who were in those places, for they all knew that his father was a Greek.


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  As they went on their way through the cities, they delivered to them for observance the decisions that had been reached by the apostles and elders who were in Jerusalem.


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  And they went through the region of Phrygia and Galatia, having been forbidden by the Holy Spirit to speak the word in Asia.


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  And when they had come up to Mysia, they attempted to go into Bithynia, but the Spirit of Jesus did not allow them.


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


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  And when Paul had seen the vision, immediately we sought to go on into Macedonia, concluding that God had called us to preach the gospel to them.


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  So, setting sail from Troas, we made a direct voyage to Samothrace, and the following day to Neapolis,


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  and from there to Philippi, which is a leading city of the district of Macedonia and a Roman colony. We remained in this city some days.


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  And on the Sabbath day we went outside the gate to the riverside, where we supposed there was a place of prayer, and we sat down and spoke to the women who had come together.


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  One who heard us was a woman named Lydia, from the city of Thyatira, a seller of purple goods, who was a worshiper of God. The Lord opened her heart to pay attention to what was said by Paul.


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  And after she was baptized, and her household as well, she urged us, saying, “If you have judged me to be faithful to the Lord, come to my house and stay.” And she prevailed upon us.


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  As we were going to the place of prayer, we were met by a slave girl who had a spirit of divination and brought her owners much gain by fortune-telling.


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  She followed Paul and us, crying out, “These men are servants of the Most High God, who proclaim to you the way of salvation.”


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  And this she kept doing for many days. Paul, having become greatly annoyed, turned and said to the spirit, “I command you in the name of Jesus Christ to come out of her.” And it came out that very hour.


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  But when her owners saw that their hope of gain was gone, they seized Paul and Silas and dragged them into the marketplace before the rulers.


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  And when they had brought them to the magistrates, they said, “These men are Jews, and they are disturbing our city.


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  The crowd joined in attacking them, and the magistrates tore the garments off them and gave orders to beat them with rods.


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  And when they had inflicted many blows upon them, they threw them into prison, ordering the jailer to keep them safely.


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  Having received this order, he put them into the inner prison and fastened their feet in the stocks.


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  About midnight Paul and Silas were praying and singing hymns to God, and the prisoners were listening to them,


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  and suddenly there was a great earthquake, so that the foundations of the prison were shaken. And immediately all the doors were opened, and everyone’s bonds were unfastened.


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  When the jailer woke and saw that the prison doors were open, he drew his sword and was about to kill himself, supposing that the prisoners had escaped.


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  And the jailer called for lights and rushed in, and trembling with fear he fell down before Paul and Silas.


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  And he took them the same hour of the night and washed their wounds; and he was baptized at once, he and all his family.


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  Then he brought them up into his house and set food before them. And he rejoiced along with his entire household that he had believed in God.


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  And the jailer reported these words to Paul, saying, “The magistrates have sent to let you go. Therefore come out now and go in peace.”


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  But Paul said to them, “They have beaten us publicly, uncondemned, men who are Roman citizens, and have thrown us into prison; and do they now throw us out secretly? No! Let them come themselves and take us out.”


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  The police reported these words to the magistrates, and they were afraid when they heard that they were Roman citizens.


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  So they went out of the prison and visited Lydia. And when they had seen the brothers, they encouraged them and departed. 


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


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  And Paul went in, as was his custom, and on three Sabbath days he reasoned with them from the Scriptures,


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  explaining and proving that it was necessary for the Christ to suffer and to rise from the dead, and saying, “This Jesus, whom I proclaim to you, is the Christ.”


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  And some of them were persuaded and joined Paul and Silas, as did a great many of the devout Greeks and not a few of the leading women.


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  But the Jews were jealous, and taking some wicked men of the rabble, they formed a mob, set the city in an uproar, and attacked the house of Jason, seeking to bring them out to the crowd.


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  And when they could not find them, they dragged Jason and some of the brothers before the city authorities, shouting, “These men who have turned the world upside down have come here also,


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  and Jason has received them, and they are all acting against the decrees of Caesar, saying that there is another king, Jesus.”


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  The brothers immediately sent Paul and Silas away by night to Berea, and when they arrived they went into the Jewish synagogue.


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  Now these Jews were more noble than those in Thessalonica; they received the word with all eagerness, examining the Scriptures daily to see if these things were so.


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  But when the Jews from Thessalonica learned that the word of God was proclaimed by Paul at Berea also, they came there too, agitating and stirring up the crowds.


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  Then the brothers immediately sent Paul off on his way to the sea, but Silas and Timothy remained there.


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  Those who conducted Paul brought him as far as Athens, and after receiving a command for Silas and Timothy to come to him as soon as possible, they departed.


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


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  So he reasoned in the synagogue with the Jews and the devout persons, and in the marketplace every day with those who happened to be there.


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  Some of the Epicurean and Stoic philosophers also conversed with him. And some said, “What does this babbler wish to say?” Others said, “He seems to be a preacher of foreign divinities”—because he was preaching Jesus and the resurrection.


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


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  Now all the Athenians and the foreigners who lived there would spend their time in nothing except telling or hearing something new.


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  So Paul, standing in the midst of the Areopagus, said: “Men of Athens, I perceive that in every way you are very religious.


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  For as I passed along and observed the objects of your worship, I found also an altar with this inscription: ‘To the unknown god.’ What therefore you worship as unknown, this I proclaim to you.


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  The God who made the world and everything in it, being Lord of heaven and earth, does not live in temples made by man,


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  nor is he served by human hands, as though he needed anything, since he himself gives to all mankind life and breath and everything.


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  And he made from one man every nation of mankind to live on all the face of the earth, having determined allotted periods and the boundaries of their dwelling place,


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  that they should seek God, and perhaps feel their way toward him and find him. Yet he is actually not far from each one of us,


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  for “‘In him we live and move and have our being’; as even some of your own poets have said, “‘For we are indeed his offspring.’


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  Being then God’s offspring, we ought not to think that the divine being is like gold or silver or stone, an image formed by the art and imagination of man.


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  because he has fixed a day on which he will judge the world in righteousness by a man whom he has appointed; and of this he has given assurance to all by raising him from the dead.”


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  Now when they heard of the resurrection of the dead, some mocked. But others said, “We will hear you again about this.”


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  But some men joined him and believed, among whom also were Dionysius the Areopagite and a woman named Damaris and others with them. 


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  And he found a Jew named Aquila, a native of Pontus, recently come from Italy with his wife Priscilla, because Claudius had commanded all the Jews to leave Rome. And he went to see them,


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  and because he was of the same trade he stayed with them and worked, for they were tentmakers by trade.


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  When Silas and Timothy arrived from Macedonia, Paul was occupied with the word, testifying to the Jews that the Christ was Jesus.


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  And when they opposed and reviled him, he shook out his garments and said to them, “Your blood be on your own heads! I am innocent. From now on I will go to the Gentiles.”


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  And he left there and went to the house of a man named Titius Justus, a worshiper of God. His house was next door to the synagogue.


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  Crispus, the ruler of the synagogue, believed in the Lord, together with his entire household. And many of the Corinthians hearing Paul believed and were baptized.


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  And the Lord said to Paul one night in a vision, “Do not be afraid, but go on speaking and do not be silent,


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  for I am with you, and no one will attack you to harm you, for I have many in this city who are my people.”


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  But when Gallio was proconsul of Achaia, the Jews made a united attack on Paul and brought him before the tribunal,


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  But when Paul was about to open his mouth, Gallio said to the Jews, “If it were a matter of wrongdoing or vicious crime, O Jews, I would have reason to accept your complaint.


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  But since it is a matter of questions about words and names and your own law, see to it yourselves. I refuse to be a judge of these things.”


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  And they all seized Sosthenes, the ruler of the synagogue, and beat him in front of the tribunal. But Gallio paid no attention to any of this.


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  After this, Paul stayed many days longer and then took leave of the brothers and set sail for Syria, and with him Priscilla and Aquila. At Cenchreae he had cut his hair, for he was under a vow.


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  And they came to Ephesus, and he left them there, but he himself went into the synagogue and reasoned with the Jews.


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  But on taking leave of them he said, “I will return to you if God wills,” and he set sail from Ephesus.


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  After spending some time there, he departed and went from one place to the next through the region of Galatia and Phrygia, strengthening all the disciples.


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  Now a Jew named Apollos, a native of Alexandria, came to Ephesus. He was an eloquent man, competent in the Scriptures.


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  He had been instructed in the way of the Lord. And being fervent in spirit, he spoke and taught accurately the things concerning Jesus, though he knew only the baptism of John.


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  He began to speak boldly in the synagogue, but when Priscilla and Aquila heard him, they took him aside and explained to him the way of God more accurately.


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  And when he wished to cross to Achaia, the brothers encouraged him and wrote to the disciples to welcome him. When he arrived, he greatly helped those who through grace had believed,


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  And it happened that while Apollos was at Corinth, Paul passed through the inland country and came to Ephesus. There he found some disciples.


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  And he said to them, “Did you receive the Holy Spirit when you believed?” And they said, “No, we have not even heard that there is a Holy Spirit.”


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  And Paul said, “John baptized with the baptism of repentance, telling the people to believe in the one who was to come after him, that is, Jesus.”


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  And when Paul had laid his hands on them, the Holy Spirit came on them, and they began speaking in tongues and prophesying.


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  And he entered the synagogue and for three months spoke boldly, reasoning and persuading them about the kingdom of God.


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  But when some became stubborn and continued in unbelief, speaking evil of the Way before the congregation, he withdrew from them and took the disciples with him, reasoning daily in the hall of Tyrannus.


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  This continued for two years, so that all the residents of Asia heard the word of the Lord, both Jews and Greeks.


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  so that even handkerchiefs or aprons that had touched his skin were carried away to the sick, and their diseases left them and the evil spirits came out of them.


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  Then some of the itinerant Jewish exorcists undertook to invoke the name of the Lord Jesus over those who had evil spirits, saying, “I adjure you by the Jesus whom Paul proclaims.”


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  And the man in whom was the evil spirit leaped on them, mastered all of them and overpowered them, so that they fled out of that house naked and wounded.


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  And this became known to all the residents of Ephesus, both Jews and Greeks. And fear fell upon them all, and the name of the Lord Jesus was extolled.


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  And a number of those who had practiced magic arts brought their books together and burned them in the sight of all. And they counted the value of them and found it came to fifty thousand pieces of silver.


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  Now after these events Paul resolved in the Spirit to pass through Macedonia and Achaia and go to Jerusalem, saying, “After I have been there, I must also see Rome.”


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  And having sent into Macedonia two of his helpers, Timothy and Erastus, he himself stayed in Asia for a while.


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  For a man named Demetrius, a silversmith, who made silver shrines of Artemis, brought no little business to the craftsmen.


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  These he gathered together, with the workmen in similar trades, and said, “Men, you know that from this business we have our wealth.


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  And you see and hear that not only in Ephesus but in almost all of Asia this Paul has persuaded and turned away a great many people, saying that gods made with hands are not gods.


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  And there is danger not only that this trade of ours may come into disrepute but also that the temple of the great goddess Artemis may be counted as nothing, and that she may even be deposed from her magnificence, she whom all Asia and the world worship.”


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  So the city was filled with the confusion, and they rushed together into the theater, dragging with them Gaius and Aristarchus, Macedonians who were Paul’s companions in travel.


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  And even some of the Asiarchs, who were friends of his, sent to him and were urging him not to venture into the theater.


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  Now some cried out one thing, some another, for the assembly was in confusion, and most of them did not know why they had come together.


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  Some of the crowd prompted Alexander, whom the Jews had put forward. And Alexander, motioning with his hand, wanted to make a defense to the crowd.


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  But when they recognized that he was a Jew, for about two hours they all cried out with one voice, “Great is Artemis of the Ephesians!”


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  And when the town clerk had quieted the crowd, he said, “Men of Ephesus, who is there who does not know that the city of the Ephesians is temple keeper of the great Artemis, and of the sacred stone that fell from the sky?


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  If therefore Demetrius and the craftsmen with him have a complaint against anyone, the courts are open, and there are proconsuls. Let them bring charges against one another.


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  For we really are in danger of being charged with rioting today, since there is no cause that we can give to justify this commotion.”


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  After the uproar ceased, Paul sent for the disciples, and after encouraging them, he said farewell and departed for Macedonia.


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  There he spent three months, and when a plot was made against him by the Jews as he was about to set sail for Syria, he decided to return through Macedonia.


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  Sopater the Berean, son of Pyrrhus, accompanied him; and of the Thessalonians, Aristarchus and Secundus; and Gaius of Derbe, and Timothy; and the Asians, Tychicus and Trophimus.


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  but we sailed away from Philippi after the days of Unleavened Bread, and in five days we came to them at Troas, where we stayed for seven days.


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  On the first day of the week, when we were gathered together to break bread, Paul talked with them, intending to depart on the next day, and he prolonged his speech until midnight.


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  And a young man named Eutychus, sitting at the window, sank into a deep sleep as Paul talked still longer. And being overcome by sleep, he fell down from the third story and was taken up dead.


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  But Paul went down and bent over him, and taking him in his arms, said, “Do not be alarmed, for his life is in him.”


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  And when Paul had gone up and had broken bread and eaten, he conversed with them a long while, until daybreak, and so departed.


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  But going ahead to the ship, we set sail for Assos, intending to take Paul aboard there, for so he had arranged, intending himself to go by land.


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  And sailing from there we came the following day opposite Chios; the next day we touched at Samos; and the day after that we went to Miletus.


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  For Paul had decided to sail past Ephesus, so that he might not have to spend time in Asia, for he was hastening to be at Jerusalem, if possible, on the day of Pentecost.


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  And when they came to him, he said to them: “You yourselves know how I lived among you the whole time from the first day that I set foot in Asia,


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  serving the Lord with all humility and with tears and with trials that happened to me through the plots of the Jews;


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  how I did not shrink from declaring to you anything that was profitable, and teaching you in public and from house to house,


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  testifying both to Jews and to Greeks of repentance toward God and of faith in our Lord Jesus Christ.


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  And now, behold, I am going to Jerusalem, constrained by the Spirit, not knowing what will happen to me there,


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  except that the Holy Spirit testifies to me in every city that imprisonment and afflictions await me.


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  But I do not account my life of any value nor as precious to myself, if only I may finish my course and the ministry that I received from the Lord Jesus, to testify to the gospel of the grace of God.


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  And now, behold, I know that none of you among whom I have gone about proclaiming the kingdom will see my face again.


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  Pay careful attention to yourselves and to all the flock, in which the Holy Spirit has made you overseers, to care for the church of God, which he obtained with his own blood.


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  and from among your own selves will arise men speaking twisted things, to draw away the disciples after them.


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  Therefore be alert, remembering that for three years I did not cease night or day to admonish every one with tears.


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  And now I commend you to God and to the word of his grace, which is able to build you up and to give you the inheritance among all those who are sanctified.


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  In all things I have shown you that by working hard in this way we must help the weak and remember the words of the Lord Jesus, how he himself said, ‘It is more blessed to give than to receive.’”


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  being sorrowful most of all because of the word he had spoken, that they would not see his face again. And they accompanied him to the ship. 


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  And when we had parted from them and set sail, we came by a straight course to Cos, and the next day to Rhodes, and from there to Patara.


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  When we had come in sight of Cyprus, leaving it on the left we sailed to Syria and landed at Tyre, for there the ship was to unload its cargo.


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  And having sought out the disciples, we stayed there for seven days. And through the Spirit they were telling Paul not to go on to Jerusalem.


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  When our days there were ended, we departed and went on our journey, and they all, with wives and children, accompanied us until we were outside the city. And kneeling down on the beach, we prayed


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  When we had finished the voyage from Tyre, we arrived at Ptolemais, and we greeted the brothers and stayed with them for one day.


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  On the next day we departed and came to Caesarea, and we entered the house of Philip the evangelist, who was one of the seven, and stayed with him.


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  And coming to us, he took Paul’s belt and bound his own feet and hands and said, “Thus says the Holy Spirit, ‘This is how the Jews at Jerusalem will bind the man who owns this belt and deliver him into the hands of the Gentiles.’”


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  Then Paul answered, “What are you doing, weeping and breaking my heart? For I am ready not only to be imprisoned but even to die in Jerusalem for the name of the Lord Jesus.”


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  And some of the disciples from Caesarea went with us, bringing us to the house of Mnason of Cyprus, an early disciple, with whom we should lodge.


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  After greeting them, he related one by one the things that God had done among the Gentiles through his ministry.


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  And when they heard it, they glorified God. And they said to him, “You see, brother, how many thousands there are among the Jews of those who have believed. They are all zealous for the law,


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  and they have been told about you that you teach all the Jews who are among the Gentiles to forsake Moses, telling them not to circumcise their children or walk according to our customs.


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  take these men and purify yourself along with them and pay their expenses, so that they may shave their heads. Thus all will know that there is nothing in what they have been told about you, but that you yourself also live in observance of the law.


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  But as for the Gentiles who have believed, we have sent a letter with our judgment that they should abstain from what has been sacrificed to idols, and from blood, and from what has been strangled, and from sexual immorality.”


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  Then Paul took the men, and the next day he purified himself along with them and went into the temple, giving notice when the days of purification would be fulfilled and the offering presented for each one of them.


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  When the seven days were almost completed, the Jews from Asia, seeing him in the temple, stirred up the whole crowd and laid hands on him,


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  crying out, “Men of Israel, help! This is the man who is teaching everyone everywhere against the people and the law and this place. Moreover, he even brought Greeks into the temple and has defiled this holy place.”


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  For they had previously seen Trophimus the Ephesian with him in the city, and they supposed that Paul had brought him into the temple.


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  Then all the city was stirred up, and the people ran together. They seized Paul and dragged him out of the temple, and at once the gates were shut.


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  And as they were seeking to kill him, word came to the tribune of the cohort that all Jerusalem was in confusion.


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  He at once took soldiers and centurions and ran down to them. And when they saw the tribune and the soldiers, they stopped beating Paul.


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  Then the tribune came up and arrested him and ordered him to be bound with two chains. He inquired who he was and what he had done.


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  Some in the crowd were shouting one thing, some another. And as he could not learn the facts because of the uproar, he ordered him to be brought into the barracks.


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  And when he came to the steps, he was actually carried by the soldiers because of the violence of the crowd,


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  As Paul was about to be brought into the barracks, he said to the tribune, “May I say something to you?” And he said, “Do you know Greek?


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  Are you not the Egyptian, then, who recently stirred up a revolt and led the four thousand men of the Assassins out into the wilderness?”


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  Paul replied, “I am a Jew, from Tarsus in Cilicia, a citizen of no obscure city. I beg you, permit me to speak to the people.”


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  And when he had given him permission, Paul, standing on the steps, motioned with his hand to the people. And when there was a great hush, he addressed them in the Hebrew language, saying: 


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  And when they heard that he was addressing them in the Hebrew language, they became even more quiet. And he said:


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  “I am a Jew, born in Tarsus in Cilicia, but brought up in this city, educated at the feet of Gamaliel according to the strict manner of the law of our fathers, being zealous for God as all of you are this day.


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  as the high priest and the whole council of elders can bear me witness. From them I received letters to the brothers, and I journeyed toward Damascus to take those also who were there and bring them in bonds to Jerusalem to be punished.


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  “As I was on my way and drew near to Damascus, about noon a great light from heaven suddenly shone around me.


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  And I answered, ‘Who are you, Lord?’ And he said to me, ‘I am Jesus of Nazareth, whom you are persecuting.’


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  Now those who were with me saw the light but did not understand the voice of the one who was speaking to me.


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  And I said, ‘What shall I do, Lord?’ And the Lord said to me, ‘Rise, and go into Damascus, and there you will be told all that is appointed for you to do.’


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  And since I could not see because of the brightness of that light, I was led by the hand by those who were with me, and came into Damascus.


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  “And one Ananias, a devout man according to the law, well spoken of by all the Jews who lived there,


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  came to me, and standing by me said to me, ‘Brother Saul, receive your sight.’ And at that very hour I received my sight and saw him.


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  And he said, ‘The God of our fathers appointed you to know his will, to see the Righteous One and to hear a voice from his mouth;


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  and saw him saying to me, ‘Make haste and get out of Jerusalem quickly, because they will not accept your testimony about me.’


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  And I said, ‘Lord, they themselves know that in one synagogue after another I imprisoned and beat those who believed in you.


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  And when the blood of Stephen your witness was being shed, I myself was standing by and approving and watching over the garments of those who killed him.’


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  Up to this word they listened to him. Then they raised their voices and said, “Away with such a fellow from the earth! For he should not be allowed to live.”


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  the tribune ordered him to be brought into the barracks, saying that he should be examined by flogging, to find out why they were shouting against him like this.


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  But when they had stretched him out for the whips, Paul said to the centurion who was standing by, “Is it lawful for you to flog a man who is a Roman citizen and uncondemned?”


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  When the centurion heard this, he went to the tribune and said to him, “What are you about to do? For this man is a Roman citizen.”


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  The tribune answered, “I bought this citizenship for a large sum.” Paul said, “But I am a citizen by birth.”


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  So those who were about to examine him withdrew from him immediately, and the tribune also was afraid, for he realized that Paul was a Roman citizen and that he had bound him.


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  But on the next day, desiring to know the real reason why he was being accused by the Jews, he unbound him and commanded the chief priests and all the council to meet, and he brought Paul down and set him before them. 


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  And looking intently at the council, Paul said, “Brothers, I have lived my life before God in all good conscience up to this day.”


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  Then Paul said to him, “God is going to strike you, you whitewashed wall! Are you sitting to judge me according to the law, and yet contrary to the law you order me to be struck?”


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  And Paul said, “I did not know, brothers, that he was the high priest, for it is written, ‘You shall not speak evil of a ruler of your people.’”


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  Now when Paul perceived that one part were Sadducees and the other Pharisees, he cried out in the council, “Brothers, I am a Pharisee, a son of Pharisees. It is with respect to the hope and the resurrection of the dead that I am on trial.”


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  And when he had said this, a dissension arose between the Pharisees and the Sadducees, and the assembly was divided.


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  For the Sadducees say that there is no resurrection, nor angel, nor spirit, but the Pharisees acknowledge them all.


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  Then a great clamor arose, and some of the scribes of the Pharisees’ party stood up and contended sharply, “We find nothing wrong in this man. What if a spirit or an angel spoke to him?”


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  And when the dissension became violent, the tribune, afraid that Paul would be torn to pieces by them, commanded the soldiers to go down and take him away from among them by force and bring him into the barracks.


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  The following night the Lord stood by him and said, “Take courage, for as you have testified to the facts about me in Jerusalem, so you must testify also in Rome.”


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  When it was day, the Jews made a plot and bound themselves by an oath neither to eat nor drink till they had killed Paul.


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label: Acts
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  They went to the chief priests and elders and said, “We have strictly bound ourselves by an oath to taste no food till we have killed Paul.


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  Now therefore you, along with the council, give notice to the tribune to bring him down to you, as though you were going to determine his case more exactly. And we are ready to kill him before he comes near.”


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  Now the son of Paul’s sister heard of their ambush, so he went and entered the barracks and told Paul.


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  Paul called one of the centurions and said, “Take this young man to the tribune, for he has something to tell him.”


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  So he took him and brought him to the tribune and said, “Paul the prisoner called me and asked me to bring this young man to you, as he has something to say to you.”


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  The tribune took him by the hand, and going aside asked him privately, “What is it that you have to tell me?”


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  And he said, “The Jews have agreed to ask you to bring Paul down to the council tomorrow, as though they were going to inquire somewhat more closely about him.


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  But do not be persuaded by them, for more than forty of their men are lying in ambush for him, who have bound themselves by an oath neither to eat nor drink till they have killed him. And now they are ready, waiting for your consent.”


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  So the tribune dismissed the young man, charging him, “Tell no one that you have informed me of these things.”


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label: Acts
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  Then he called two of the centurions and said, “Get ready two hundred soldiers, with seventy horsemen and two hundred spearmen to go as far as Caesarea at the third hour of the night.


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label: Acts
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  This man was seized by the Jews and was about to be killed by them when I came upon them with the soldiers and rescued him, having learned that he was a Roman citizen.


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  And desiring to know the charge for which they were accusing him, I brought him down to their council.


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label: Acts
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  I found that he was being accused about questions of their law, but charged with nothing deserving death or imprisonment.


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  And when it was disclosed to me that there would be a plot against the man, I sent him to you at once, ordering his accusers also to state before you what they have against him.”


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label: Acts
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  When they had come to Caesarea and delivered the letter to the governor, they presented Paul also before him.


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label: Acts
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  On reading the letter, he asked what province he was from. And when he learned that he was from Cilicia,


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  he said, “I will give you a hearing when your accusers arrive.” And he commanded him to be guarded in Herod’s praetorium. 


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label: Acts
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  And after five days the high priest Ananias came down with some elders and a spokesman, one Tertullus. They laid before the governor their case against Paul.


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label: Acts
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  And when he had been summoned, Tertullus began to accuse him, saying: “Since through you we enjoy much peace, and since by your foresight, most excellent Felix, reforms are being made for this nation,


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  For we have found this man a plague, one who stirs up riots among all the Jews throughout the world and is a ringleader of the sect of the Nazarenes.


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  By examining him yourself you will be able to find out from him about everything of which we accuse him.”


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label: Acts
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  And when the governor had nodded to him to speak, Paul replied: “Knowing that for many years you have been a judge over this nation, I cheerfully make my defense.


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  and they did not find me disputing with anyone or stirring up a crowd, either in the temple or in the synagogues or in the city.


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  But this I confess to you, that according to the Way, which they call a sect, I worship the God of our fathers, believing everything laid down by the Law and written in the Prophets,


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  having a hope in God, which these men themselves accept, that there will be a resurrection of both the just and the unjust.


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label: Acts
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  While I was doing this, they found me purified in the temple, without any crowd or tumult. But some Jews from Asia—


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  other than this one thing that I cried out while standing among them: ‘It is with respect to the resurrection of the dead that I am on trial before you this day.’”


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label: Acts
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  But Felix, having a rather accurate knowledge of the Way, put them off, saying, “When Lysias the tribune comes down, I will decide your case.”


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label: Acts
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  Then he gave orders to the centurion that he should be kept in custody but have some liberty, and that none of his friends should be prevented from attending to his needs.


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label: Acts
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  After some days Felix came with his wife Drusilla, who was Jewish, and he sent for Paul and heard him speak about faith in Christ Jesus.


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label: Acts
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  And as he reasoned about righteousness and self-control and the coming judgment, Felix was alarmed and said, “Go away for the present. When I get an opportunity I will summon you.”


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label: Acts
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  At the same time he hoped that money would be given him by Paul. So he sent for him often and conversed with him.


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label: Acts
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  When two years had elapsed, Felix was succeeded by Porcius Festus. And desiring to do the Jews a favor, Felix left Paul in prison. 


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label: Acts
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  And the chief priests and the principal men of the Jews laid out their case against Paul, and they urged him,


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  asking as a favor against Paul that he summon him to Jerusalem—because they were planning an ambush to kill him on the way.


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label: Acts
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  Festus replied that Paul was being kept at Caesarea and that he himself intended to go there shortly.


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label: Acts
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  “So,” said he, “let the men of authority among you go down with me, and if there is anything wrong about the man, let them bring charges against him.”


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label: Acts
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  After he stayed among them not more than eight or ten days, he went down to Caesarea. And the next day he took his seat on the tribunal and ordered Paul to be brought.


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  When he had arrived, the Jews who had come down from Jerusalem stood around him, bringing many and serious charges against him that they could not prove.


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label: Acts
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  Paul argued in his defense, “Neither against the law of the Jews, nor against the temple, nor against Caesar have I committed any offense.”


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label: Acts
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  But Festus, wishing to do the Jews a favor, said to Paul, “Do you wish to go up to Jerusalem and there be tried on these charges before me?”


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label: Acts
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  But Paul said, “I am standing before Caesar’s tribunal, where I ought to be tried. To the Jews I have done no wrong, as you yourself know very well.


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  If then I am a wrongdoer and have committed anything for which I deserve to die, I do not seek to escape death. But if there is nothing to their charges against me, no one can give me up to them. I appeal to Caesar.”


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label: Acts
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  Then Festus, when he had conferred with his council, answered, “To Caesar you have appealed; to Caesar you shall go.”


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label: Acts
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  And as they stayed there many days, Festus laid Paul’s case before the king, saying, “There is a man left prisoner by Felix,


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label: Acts
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  and when I was at Jerusalem, the chief priests and the elders of the Jews laid out their case against him, asking for a sentence of condemnation against him.


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label: Acts
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  I answered them that it was not the custom of the Romans to give up anyone before the accused met the accusers face to face and had opportunity to make his defense concerning the charge laid against him.


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label: Acts
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  So when they came together here, I made no delay, but on the next day took my seat on the tribunal and ordered the man to be brought.


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label: Acts
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  Rather they had certain points of dispute with him about their own religion and about a certain Jesus, who was dead, but whom Paul asserted to be alive.


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label: Acts
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  Being at a loss how to investigate these questions, I asked whether he wanted to go to Jerusalem and be tried there regarding them.


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label: Acts
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  But when Paul had appealed to be kept in custody for the decision of the emperor, I ordered him to be held until I could send him to Caesar.”


book: Acts
label: Acts
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  Then Agrippa said to Festus, “I would like to hear the man myself.” “Tomorrow,” said he, “you will hear him.”


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label: Acts
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  So on the next day Agrippa and Bernice came with great pomp, and they entered the audience hall with the military tribunes and the prominent men of the city. Then, at the command of Festus, Paul was brought in.


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label: Acts
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  And Festus said, “King Agrippa and all who are present with us, you see this man about whom the whole Jewish people petitioned me, both in Jerusalem and here, shouting that he ought not to live any longer.


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  But I found that he had done nothing deserving death. And as he himself appealed to the emperor, I decided to go ahead and send him.


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  But I have nothing definite to write to my lord about him. Therefore I have brought him before you all, and especially before you, King Agrippa, so that, after we have examined him, I may have something to write.


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label: Acts
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  So Agrippa said to Paul, “You have permission to speak for yourself.” Then Paul stretched out his hand and made his defense:


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  “I consider myself fortunate that it is before you, King Agrippa, I am going to make my defense today against all the accusations of the Jews,


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  especially because you are familiar with all the customs and controversies of the Jews. Therefore I beg you to listen to me patiently.


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label: Acts
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  “My manner of life from my youth, spent from the beginning among my own nation and in Jerusalem, is known by all the Jews.


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label: Acts
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  They have known for a long time, if they are willing to testify, that according to the strictest party of our religion I have lived as a Pharisee.


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label: Acts
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  to which our twelve tribes hope to attain, as they earnestly worship night and day. And for this hope I am accused by Jews, O king!


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label: Acts
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  And I did so in Jerusalem. I not only locked up many of the saints in prison after receiving authority from the chief priests, but when they were put to death I cast my vote against them.


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label: Acts
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  And I punished them often in all the synagogues and tried to make them blaspheme, and in raging fury against them I persecuted them even to foreign cities.


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label: Acts
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  At midday, O king, I saw on the way a light from heaven, brighter than the sun, that shone around me and those who journeyed with me.


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label: Acts
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  And when we had all fallen to the ground, I heard a voice saying to me in the Hebrew language, ‘Saul, Saul, why are you persecuting me? It is hard for you to kick against the goads.’


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label: Acts
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  But rise and stand upon your feet, for I have appeared to you for this purpose, to appoint you as a servant and witness to the things in which you have seen me and to those in which I will appear to you,


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label: Acts
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  to open their eyes, so that they may turn from darkness to light and from the power of Satan to God, that they may receive forgiveness of sins and a place among those who are sanctified by faith in me.’


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label: Acts
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  but declared first to those in Damascus, then in Jerusalem and throughout all the region of Judea, and also to the Gentiles, that they should repent and turn to God, performing deeds in keeping with their repentance.


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label: Acts
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  To this day I have had the help that comes from God, and so I stand here testifying both to small and great, saying nothing but what the prophets and Moses said would come to pass:


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label: Acts
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  that the Christ must suffer and that, by being the first to rise from the dead, he would proclaim light both to our people and to the Gentiles.”


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label: Acts
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  And as he was saying these things in his defense, Festus said with a loud voice, “Paul, you are out of your mind; your great learning is driving you out of your mind.”


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label: Acts
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  But Paul said, “I am not out of my mind, most excellent Festus, but I am speaking true and rational words.


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label: Acts
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  For the king knows about these things, and to him I speak boldly. For I am persuaded that none of these things has escaped his notice, for this has not been done in a corner.


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label: Acts
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  And Paul said, “Whether short or long, I would to God that not only you but also all who hear me this day might become such as I am—except for these chains.”


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label: Acts
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  And when they had withdrawn, they said to one another, “This man is doing nothing to deserve death or imprisonment.”


book: Acts
label: Acts
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  And when it was decided that we should sail for Italy, they delivered Paul and some other prisoners to a centurion of the Augustan Cohort named Julius.


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label: Acts
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  And embarking in a ship of Adramyttium, which was about to sail to the ports along the coast of Asia, we put to sea, accompanied by Aristarchus, a Macedonian from Thessalonica.


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label: Acts
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  The next day we put in at Sidon. And Julius treated Paul kindly and gave him leave to go to his friends and be cared for.


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label: Acts
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  And putting out to sea from there we sailed under the lee of Cyprus, because the winds were against us.


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label: Acts
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  And when we had sailed across the open sea along the coast of Cilicia and Pamphylia, we came to Myra in Lycia.


book: Acts
label: Acts
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  We sailed slowly for a number of days and arrived with difficulty off Cnidus, and as the wind did not allow us to go farther, we sailed under the lee of Crete off Salmone.


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label: Acts
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  Coasting along it with difficulty, we came to a place called Fair Havens, near which was the city of Lasea.


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label: Acts
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  Since much time had passed, and the voyage was now dangerous because even the Fast was already over, Paul advised them,


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label: Acts
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  saying, “Sirs, I perceive that the voyage will be with injury and much loss, not only of the cargo and the ship, but also of our lives.”


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label: Acts
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  But the centurion paid more attention to the pilot and to the owner of the ship than to what Paul said.


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label: Acts
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  And because the harbor was not suitable to spend the winter in, the majority decided to put out to sea from there, on the chance that somehow they could reach Phoenix, a harbor of Crete, facing both southwest and northwest, and spend the winter there.


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label: Acts
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  Now when the south wind blew gently, supposing that they had obtained their purpose, they weighed anchor and sailed along Crete, close to the shore.


book: Acts
label: Acts
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  Running under the lee of a small island called Cauda, we managed with difficulty to secure the ship’s boat.


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label: Acts
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  After hoisting it up, they used supports to undergird the ship. Then, fearing that they would run aground on the Syrtis, they lowered the gear, and thus they were driven along.


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label: Acts
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  When neither sun nor stars appeared for many days, and no small tempest lay on us, all hope of our being saved was at last abandoned.


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label: Acts
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  Since they had been without food for a long time, Paul stood up among them and said, “Men, you should have listened to me and not have set sail from Crete and incurred this injury and loss.


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label: Acts
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  Yet now I urge you to take heart, for there will be no loss of life among you, but only of the ship.


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label: Acts
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  and he said, ‘Do not be afraid, Paul; you must stand before Caesar. And behold, God has granted you all those who sail with you.’


book: Acts
label: Acts
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  When the fourteenth night had come, as we were being driven across the Adriatic Sea, about midnight the sailors suspected that they were nearing land.


book: Acts
label: Acts
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  So they took a sounding and found twenty fathoms. A little farther on they took a sounding again and found fifteen fathoms.


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label: Acts
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  And fearing that we might run on the rocks, they let down four anchors from the stern and prayed for day to come.


book: Acts
label: Acts
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  And as the sailors were seeking to escape from the ship, and had lowered the ship’s boat into the sea under pretense of laying out anchors from the bow,


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label: Acts
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  Paul said to the centurion and the soldiers, “Unless these men stay in the ship, you cannot be saved.”


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label: Acts
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  As day was about to dawn, Paul urged them all to take some food, saying, “Today is the fourteenth day that you have continued in suspense and without food, having taken nothing.


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label: Acts
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  Therefore I urge you to take some food. For it will give you strength, for not a hair is to perish from the head of any of you.”


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label: Acts
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  And when he had said these things, he took bread, and giving thanks to God in the presence of all he broke it and began to eat.


book: Acts
label: Acts
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  Now when it was day, they did not recognize the land, but they noticed a bay with a beach, on which they planned if possible to run the ship ashore.


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label: Acts
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  So they cast off the anchors and left them in the sea, at the same time loosening the ropes that tied the rudders. Then hoisting the foresail to the wind they made for the beach.


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label: Acts
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  But striking a reef, they ran the vessel aground. The bow stuck and remained immovable, and the stern was being broken up by the surf.


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label: Acts
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  But the centurion, wishing to save Paul, kept them from carrying out their plan. He ordered those who could swim to jump overboard first and make for the land,


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label: Acts
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  and the rest on planks or on pieces of the ship. And so it was that all were brought safely to land. 


book: Acts
label: Acts
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  The native people showed us unusual kindness, for they kindled a fire and welcomed us all, because it had begun to rain and was cold.


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label: Acts
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  When Paul had gathered a bundle of sticks and put them on the fire, a viper came out because of the heat and fastened on his hand.


book: Acts
label: Acts
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  When the native people saw the creature hanging from his hand, they said to one another, “No doubt this man is a murderer. Though he has escaped from the sea, Justice has not allowed him to live.”


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label: Acts
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  They were waiting for him to swell up or suddenly fall down dead. But when they had waited a long time and saw no misfortune come to him, they changed their minds and said that he was a god.


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label: Acts
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  Now in the neighborhood of that place were lands belonging to the chief man of the island, named Publius, who received us and entertained us hospitably for three days.


book: Acts
label: Acts
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  It happened that the father of Publius lay sick with fever and dysentery. And Paul visited him and prayed, and putting his hands on him, healed him.


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label: Acts
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  And when this had taken place, the rest of the people on the island who had diseases also came and were cured.


book: Acts
label: Acts
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  After three months we set sail in a ship that had wintered in the island, a ship of Alexandria, with the twin gods as a figurehead.


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label: Acts
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  And from there we made a circuit and arrived at Rhegium. And after one day a south wind sprang up, and on the second day we came to Puteoli.


book: Acts
label: Acts
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  And the brothers there, when they heard about us, came as far as the Forum of Appius and Three Taverns to meet us. On seeing them, Paul thanked God and took courage.


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label: Acts
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  After three days he called together the local leaders of the Jews, and when they had gathered, he said to them, “Brothers, though I had done nothing against our people or the customs of our fathers, yet I was delivered as a prisoner from Jerusalem into the hands of the Romans.


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label: Acts
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  When they had examined me, they wished to set me at liberty, because there was no reason for the death penalty in my case.


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label: Acts
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  But because the Jews objected, I was compelled to appeal to Caesar—though I had no charge to bring against my nation.


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label: Acts
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  For this reason, therefore, I have asked to see you and speak with you, since it is because of the hope of Israel that I am wearing this chain.”


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label: Acts
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  And they said to him, “We have received no letters from Judea about you, and none of the brothers coming here has reported or spoken any evil about you.


book: Acts
label: Acts
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  But we desire to hear from you what your views are, for with regard to this sect we know that everywhere it is spoken against.”


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label: Acts
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  When they had appointed a day for him, they came to him at his lodging in greater numbers. From morning till evening he expounded to them, testifying to the kingdom of God and trying to convince them about Jesus both from the Law of Moses and from the Prophets.


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label: Acts
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  And disagreeing among themselves, they departed after Paul had made one statement: “The Holy Spirit was right in saying to your fathers through Isaiah the prophet:


book: Acts
label: Acts
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  “‘Go to this people, and say, “You will indeed hear but never understand, and you will indeed see but never perceive.”


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label: Acts
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  For this people’s heart has grown dull, and with their ears they can barely hear, and their eyes they have closed; lest they should see with their eyes and hear with their ears and understand with their heart and turn, and I would heal them.’


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label: Acts
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  Therefore let it be known to you that this salvation of God has been sent to the Gentiles; they will listen.”


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label: Acts
content:
  proclaiming the kingdom of God and teaching about the Lord Jesus Christ with all boldness and without hindrance. 


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label: Rom
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  and was declared to be the Son of God in power according to the Spirit of holiness by his resurrection from the dead, Jesus Christ our Lord,


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label: Rom
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  through whom we have received grace and apostleship to bring about the obedience of faith for the sake of his name among all the nations,


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label: Rom
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  To all those in Rome who are loved by God and called to be saints: Grace to you and peace from God our Father and the Lord Jesus Christ.


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label: Rom
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  First, I thank my God through Jesus Christ for all of you, because your faith is proclaimed in all the world.


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label: Rom
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  For God is my witness, whom I serve with my spirit in the gospel of his Son, that without ceasing I mention you


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label: Rom
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  I do not want you to be unaware, brothers, that I have often intended to come to you (but thus far have been prevented), in order that I may reap some harvest among you as well as among the rest of the Gentiles.


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label: Rom
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  For I am not ashamed of the gospel, for it is the power of God for salvation to everyone who believes, to the Jew first and also to the Greek.


book: Romans
label: Rom
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  For in it the righteousness of God is revealed from faith for faith, as it is written, “The righteous shall live by faith.”


book: Romans
label: Rom
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  For the wrath of God is revealed from heaven against all ungodliness and unrighteousness of men, who by their unrighteousness suppress the truth.


book: Romans
label: Rom
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  For his invisible attributes, namely, his eternal power and divine nature, have been clearly perceived, ever since the creation of the world, in the things that have been made. So they are without excuse.


book: Romans
label: Rom
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  For although they knew God, they did not honor him as God or give thanks to him, but they became futile in their thinking, and their foolish hearts were darkened.


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label: Rom
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  and exchanged the glory of the immortal God for images resembling mortal man and birds and animals and creeping things.


book: Romans
label: Rom
content:
  Therefore God gave them up in the lusts of their hearts to impurity, to the dishonoring of their bodies among themselves,


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label: Rom
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  because they exchanged the truth about God for a lie and worshiped and served the creature rather than the Creator, who is blessed forever! Amen.


book: Romans
label: Rom
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  For this reason God gave them up to dishonorable passions. For their women exchanged natural relations for those that are contrary to nature;


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label: Rom
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  and the men likewise gave up natural relations with women and were consumed with passion for one another, men committing shameless acts with men and receiving in themselves the due penalty for their error.


book: Romans
label: Rom
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  And since they did not see fit to acknowledge God, God gave them up to a debased mind to do what ought not to be done.


book: Romans
label: Rom
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  They were filled with all manner of unrighteousness, evil, covetousness, malice. They are full of envy, murder, strife, deceit, maliciousness. They are gossips,


book: Romans
label: Rom
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  Though they know God’s righteous decree that those who practice such things deserve to die, they not only do them but give approval to those who practice them. 


book: Romans
label: Rom
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  Therefore you have no excuse, O man, every one of you who judges. For in passing judgment on another you condemn yourself, because you, the judge, practice the very same things.


book: Romans
label: Rom
content:
  Do you suppose, O man—you who judge those who practice such things and yet do them yourself—that you will escape the judgment of God?


book: Romans
label: Rom
content:
  Or do you presume on the riches of his kindness and forbearance and patience, not knowing that God’s kindness is meant to lead you to repentance?


book: Romans
label: Rom
content:
  But because of your hard and impenitent heart you are storing up wrath for yourself on the day of wrath when God’s righteous judgment will be revealed.


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label: Rom
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  to those who by patience in well-doing seek for glory and honor and immortality, he will give eternal life;


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label: Rom
content:
  but for those who are self-seeking and do not obey the truth, but obey unrighteousness, there will be wrath and fury.


book: Romans
label: Rom
content:
  There will be tribulation and distress for every human being who does evil, the Jew first and also the Greek,


book: Romans
label: Rom
content:
  For all who have sinned without the law will also perish without the law, and all who have sinned under the law will be judged by the law.


book: Romans
label: Rom
content:
  For it is not the hearers of the law who are righteous before God, but the doers of the law who will be justified.


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label: Rom
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  For when Gentiles, who do not have the law, by nature do what the law requires, they are a law to themselves, even though they do not have the law.


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label: Rom
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  They show that the work of the law is written on their hearts, while their conscience also bears witness, and their conflicting thoughts accuse or even excuse them


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label: Rom
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  and if you are sure that you yourself are a guide to the blind, a light to those who are in darkness,


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  an instructor of the foolish, a teacher of children, having in the law the embodiment of knowledge and truth—


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label: Rom
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  you then who teach others, do you not teach yourself? While you preach against stealing, do you steal?


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label: Rom
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  You who say that one must not commit adultery, do you commit adultery? You who abhor idols, do you rob temples?


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label: Rom
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  For circumcision indeed is of value if you obey the law, but if you break the law, your circumcision becomes uncircumcision.


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label: Rom
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  So, if a man who is uncircumcised keeps the precepts of the law, will not his uncircumcision be regarded as circumcision?


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label: Rom
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  Then he who is physically uncircumcised but keeps the law will condemn you who have the written code and circumcision but break the law.


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label: Rom
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  But a Jew is one inwardly, and circumcision is a matter of the heart, by the Spirit, not by the letter. His praise is not from man but from God. 


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label: Rom
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  By no means! Let God be true though every one were a liar, as it is written, “That you may be justified in your words, and prevail when you are judged.”


book: Romans
label: Rom
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  But if our unrighteousness serves to show the righteousness of God, what shall we say? That God is unrighteous to inflict wrath on us? (I speak in a human way.)


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  And why not do evil that good may come?—as some people slanderously charge us with saying. Their condemnation is just.


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label: Rom
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  What then? Are we Jews any better off? No, not at all. For we have already charged that all, both Jews and Greeks, are under sin,


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label: Rom
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  “Their throat is an open grave; they use their tongues to deceive.” “The venom of asps is under their lips.”


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label: Rom
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  Now we know that whatever the law says it speaks to those who are under the law, so that every mouth may be stopped, and the whole world may be held accountable to God.


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  For by works of the law no human being will be justified in his sight, since through the law comes knowledge of sin.


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label: Rom
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  But now the righteousness of God has been manifested apart from the law, although the Law and the Prophets bear witness to it—


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  the righteousness of God through faith in Jesus Christ for all who believe. For there is no distinction:


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  whom God put forward as a propitiation by his blood, to be received by faith. This was to show God’s righteousness, because in his divine forbearance he had passed over former sins.


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label: Rom
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  It was to show his righteousness at the present time, so that he might be just and the justifier of the one who has faith in Jesus.


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label: Rom
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  Then what becomes of our boasting? It is excluded. By what kind of law? By a law of works? No, but by the law of faith.


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label: Rom
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  For what does the Scripture say? “Abraham believed God, and it was counted to him as righteousness.”


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  And to the one who does not work but believes in him who justifies the ungodly, his faith is counted as righteousness,


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  just as David also speaks of the blessing of the one to whom God counts righteousness apart from works:


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  Is this blessing then only for the circumcised, or also for the uncircumcised? For we say that faith was counted to Abraham as righteousness.


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  How then was it counted to him? Was it before or after he had been circumcised? It was not after, but before he was circumcised.


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  He received the sign of circumcision as a seal of the righteousness that he had by faith while he was still uncircumcised. The purpose was to make him the father of all who believe without being circumcised, so that righteousness would be counted to them as well,


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  and to make him the father of the circumcised who are not merely circumcised but who also walk in the footsteps of the faith that our father Abraham had before he was circumcised.


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label: Rom
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  For the promise to Abraham and his offspring that he would be heir of the world did not come through the law but through the righteousness of faith.


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label: Rom
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  For if it is the adherents of the law who are to be the heirs, faith is null and the promise is void.


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  That is why it depends on faith, in order that the promise may rest on grace and be guaranteed to all his offspring—not only to the adherent of the law but also to the one who shares the faith of Abraham, who is the father of us all,


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  as it is written, “I have made you the father of many nations”—in the presence of the God in whom he believed, who gives life to the dead and calls into existence the things that do not exist.


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  In hope he believed against hope, that he should become the father of many nations, as he had been told, “So shall your offspring be.”


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  He did not weaken in faith when he considered his own body, which was as good as dead (since he was about a hundred years old), or when he considered the barrenness of Sarah’s womb.


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label: Rom
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  No unbelief made him waver concerning the promise of God, but he grew strong in his faith as he gave glory to God,


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  but for ours also. It will be counted to us who believe in him who raised from the dead Jesus our Lord,


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label: Rom
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  Therefore, since we have been justified by faith, we have peace with God through our Lord Jesus Christ.


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label: Rom
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  Through him we have also obtained access by faith into this grace in which we stand, and we rejoice in hope of the glory of God.


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label: Rom
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  and hope does not put us to shame, because God’s love has been poured into our hearts through the Holy Spirit who has been given to us.


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label: Rom
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  For one will scarcely die for a righteous person—though perhaps for a good person one would dare even to die—


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label: Rom
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  Since, therefore, we have now been justified by his blood, much more shall we be saved by him from the wrath of God.


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label: Rom
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  For if while we were enemies we were reconciled to God by the death of his Son, much more, now that we are reconciled, shall we be saved by his life.


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label: Rom
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  More than that, we also rejoice in God through our Lord Jesus Christ, through whom we have now received reconciliation.


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label: Rom
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  Therefore, just as sin came into the world through one man, and death through sin, and so death spread to all men because all sinned—


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  for sin indeed was in the world before the law was given, but sin is not counted where there is no law.


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  Yet death reigned from Adam to Moses, even over those whose sinning was not like the transgression of Adam, who was a type of the one who was to come.


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  But the free gift is not like the trespass. For if many died through one man’s trespass, much more have the grace of God and the free gift by the grace of that one man Jesus Christ abounded for many.


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label: Rom
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  And the free gift is not like the result of that one man’s sin. For the judgment following one trespass brought condemnation, but the free gift following many trespasses brought justification.


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label: Rom
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  For if, because of one man’s trespass, death reigned through that one man, much more will those who receive the abundance of grace and the free gift of righteousness reign in life through the one man Jesus Christ.


book: Romans
label: Rom
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  Therefore, as one trespass led to condemnation for all men, so one act of righteousness leads to justification and life for all men.


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label: Rom
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  For as by the one man’s disobedience the many were made sinners, so by the one man’s obedience the many will be made righteous.


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label: Rom
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  so that, as sin reigned in death, grace also might reign through righteousness leading to eternal life through Jesus Christ our Lord. 


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label: Rom
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  Do you not know that all of us who have been baptized into Christ Jesus were baptized into his death?


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  We were buried therefore with him by baptism into death, in order that, just as Christ was raised from the dead by the glory of the Father, we too might walk in newness of life.


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label: Rom
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  For if we have been united with him in a death like his, we shall certainly be united with him in a resurrection like his.


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label: Rom
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  We know that our old self was crucified with him in order that the body of sin might be brought to nothing, so that we would no longer be enslaved to sin.


book: Romans
label: Rom
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  We know that Christ, being raised from the dead, will never die again; death no longer has dominion over him.


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label: Rom
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  Do not present your members to sin as instruments for unrighteousness, but present yourselves to God as those who have been brought from death to life, and your members to God as instruments for righteousness.


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label: Rom
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  Do you not know that if you present yourselves to anyone as obedient slaves, you are slaves of the one whom you obey, either of sin, which leads to death, or of obedience, which leads to righteousness?


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  But thanks be to God, that you who were once slaves of sin have become obedient from the heart to the standard of teaching to which you were committed,


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  I am speaking in human terms, because of your natural limitations. For just as you once presented your members as slaves to impurity and to lawlessness leading to more lawlessness, so now present your members as slaves to righteousness leading to sanctification.


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  But what fruit were you getting at that time from the things of which you are now ashamed? For the end of those things is death.


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label: Rom
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  But now that you have been set free from sin and have become slaves of God, the fruit you get leads to sanctification and its end, eternal life.


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label: Rom
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  Or do you not know, brothers—for I am speaking to those who know the law—that the law is binding on a person only as long as he lives?


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label: Rom
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  For a married woman is bound by law to her husband while he lives, but if her husband dies she is released from the law of marriage.


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  Accordingly, she will be called an adulteress if she lives with another man while her husband is alive. But if her husband dies, she is free from that law, and if she marries another man she is not an adulteress.


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  Likewise, my brothers, you also have died to the law through the body of Christ, so that you may belong to another, to him who has been raised from the dead, in order that we may bear fruit for God.


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label: Rom
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  For while we were living in the flesh, our sinful passions, aroused by the law, were at work in our members to bear fruit for death.


book: Romans
label: Rom
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  But now we are released from the law, having died to that which held us captive, so that we serve in the new way of the Spirit and not in the old way of the written code.


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label: Rom
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  What then shall we say? That the law is sin? By no means! Yet if it had not been for the law, I would not have known sin. For I would not have known what it is to covet if the law had not said, “You shall not covet.”


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label: Rom
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  But sin, seizing an opportunity through the commandment, produced in me all kinds of covetousness. For apart from the law, sin lies dead.


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label: Rom
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  Did that which is good, then, bring death to me? By no means! It was sin, producing death in me through what is good, in order that sin might be shown to be sin, and through the commandment might become sinful beyond measure.


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label: Rom
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  For I do not understand my own actions. For I do not do what I want, but I do the very thing I hate.


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label: Rom
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  For I know that nothing good dwells in me, that is, in my flesh. For I have the desire to do what is right, but not the ability to carry it out.


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label: Rom
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  but I see in my members another law waging war against the law of my mind and making me captive to the law of sin that dwells in my members.


book: Romans
label: Rom
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  Thanks be to God through Jesus Christ our Lord! So then, I myself serve the law of God with my mind, but with my flesh I serve the law of sin. 


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label: Rom
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  For God has done what the law, weakened by the flesh, could not do. By sending his own Son in the likeness of sinful flesh and for sin, he condemned sin in the flesh,


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label: Rom
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  in order that the righteous requirement of the law might be fulfilled in us, who walk not according to the flesh but according to the Spirit.


book: Romans
label: Rom
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  For those who live according to the flesh set their minds on the things of the flesh, but those who live according to the Spirit set their minds on the things of the Spirit.


book: Romans
label: Rom
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  For the mind that is set on the flesh is hostile to God, for it does not submit to God’s law; indeed, it cannot.


book: Romans
label: Rom
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  You, however, are not in the flesh but in the Spirit, if in fact the Spirit of God dwells in you. Anyone who does not have the Spirit of Christ does not belong to him.


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label: Rom
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  But if Christ is in you, although the body is dead because of sin, the Spirit is life because of righteousness.


book: Romans
label: Rom
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  If the Spirit of him who raised Jesus from the dead dwells in you, he who raised Christ Jesus from the dead will also give life to your mortal bodies through his Spirit who dwells in you.


book: Romans
label: Rom
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  For if you live according to the flesh you will die, but if by the Spirit you put to death the deeds of the body, you will live.


book: Romans
label: Rom
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  For you did not receive the spirit of slavery to fall back into fear, but you have received the Spirit of adoption as sons, by whom we cry, “Abba! Father!”


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label: Rom
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  and if children, then heirs—heirs of God and fellow heirs with Christ, provided we suffer with him in order that we may also be glorified with him.


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label: Rom
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  For I consider that the sufferings of this present time are not worth comparing with the glory that is to be revealed to us.


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label: Rom
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  For the creation was subjected to futility, not willingly, but because of him who subjected it, in hope


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label: Rom
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  that the creation itself will be set free from its bondage to corruption and obtain the freedom of the glory of the children of God.


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label: Rom
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  For we know that the whole creation has been groaning together in the pains of childbirth until now.


book: Romans
label: Rom
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  And not only the creation, but we ourselves, who have the firstfruits of the Spirit, groan inwardly as we wait eagerly for adoption as sons, the redemption of our bodies.


book: Romans
label: Rom
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  Likewise the Spirit helps us in our weakness. For we do not know what to pray for as we ought, but the Spirit himself intercedes for us with groanings too deep for words.


book: Romans
label: Rom
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  And he who searches hearts knows what is the mind of the Spirit, because the Spirit intercedes for the saints according to the will of God.


book: Romans
label: Rom
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  And we know that for those who love God all things work together for good, for those who are called according to his purpose.


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label: Rom
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  For those whom he foreknew he also predestined to be conformed to the image of his Son, in order that he might be the firstborn among many brothers.


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label: Rom
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  And those whom he predestined he also called, and those whom he called he also justified, and those whom he justified he also glorified.


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label: Rom
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  He who did not spare his own Son but gave him up for us all, how will he not also with him graciously give us all things?


book: Romans
label: Rom
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  Who is to condemn? Christ Jesus is the one who died—more than that, who was raised—who is at the right hand of God, who indeed is interceding for us.


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label: Rom
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  Who shall separate us from the love of Christ? Shall tribulation, or distress, or persecution, or famine, or nakedness, or danger, or sword?


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label: Rom
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  As it is written, “For your sake we are being killed all the day long; we are regarded as sheep to be slaughtered.”


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label: Rom
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  For I am sure that neither death nor life, nor angels nor rulers, nor things present nor things to come, nor powers,


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label: Rom
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  nor height nor depth, nor anything else in all creation, will be able to separate us from the love of God in Christ Jesus our Lord. 


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label: Rom
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  I am speaking the truth in Christ—I am not lying; my conscience bears me witness in the Holy Spirit—


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label: Rom
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  For I could wish that I myself were accursed and cut off from Christ for the sake of my brothers, my kinsmen according to the flesh.


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label: Rom
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  They are Israelites, and to them belong the adoption, the glory, the covenants, the giving of the law, the worship, and the promises.


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label: Rom
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  To them belong the patriarchs, and from their race, according to the flesh, is the Christ, who is God over all, blessed forever. Amen.


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label: Rom
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  But it is not as though the word of God has failed. For not all who are descended from Israel belong to Israel,


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label: Rom
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  and not all are children of Abraham because they are his offspring, but “Through Isaac shall your offspring be named.”


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label: Rom
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  This means that it is not the children of the flesh who are the children of God, but the children of the promise are counted as offspring.


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label: Rom
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  For this is what the promise said: “About this time next year I will return, and Sarah shall have a son.”


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label: Rom
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  though they were not yet born and had done nothing either good or bad—in order that God’s purpose of election might continue, not because of works but because of him who calls—


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label: Rom
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  For he says to Moses, “I will have mercy on whom I have mercy, and I will have compassion on whom I have compassion.”


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label: Rom
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  For the Scripture says to Pharaoh, “For this very purpose I have raised you up, that I might show my power in you, and that my name might be proclaimed in all the earth.”


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label: Rom
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  But who are you, O man, to answer back to God? Will what is molded say to its molder, “Why have you made me like this?”


book: Romans
label: Rom
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  Has the potter no right over the clay, to make out of the same lump one vessel for honorable use and another for dishonorable use?


book: Romans
label: Rom
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  What if God, desiring to show his wrath and to make known his power, has endured with much patience vessels of wrath prepared for destruction,


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label: Rom
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  in order to make known the riches of his glory for vessels of mercy, which he has prepared beforehand for glory—


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label: Rom
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  As indeed he says in Hosea, “Those who were not my people I will call ‘my people,’ and her who was not beloved I will call ‘beloved.’”


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label: Rom
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  “And in the very place where it was said to them, ‘You are not my people,’ there they will be called ‘sons of the living God.’”


book: Romans
label: Rom
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  And Isaiah cries out concerning Israel: “Though the number of the sons of Israel be as the sand of the sea, only a remnant of them will be saved,


book: Romans
label: Rom
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  And as Isaiah predicted, “If the Lord of hosts had not left us offspring, we would have been like Sodom and become like Gomorrah.”


book: Romans
label: Rom
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  What shall we say, then? That Gentiles who did not pursue righteousness have attained it, that is, a righteousness that is by faith;


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label: Rom
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  but that Israel who pursued a law that would lead to righteousness did not succeed in reaching that law.


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label: Rom
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  Why? Because they did not pursue it by faith, but as if it were based on works. They have stumbled over the stumbling stone,


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label: Rom
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  as it is written, “Behold, I am laying in Zion a stone of stumbling, and a rock of offense; and whoever believes in him will not be put to shame.” 


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label: Rom
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  For, being ignorant of the righteousness of God, and seeking to establish their own, they did not submit to God’s righteousness.


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label: Rom
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  For Moses writes about the righteousness that is based on the law, that the person who does the commandments shall live by them.


book: Romans
label: Rom
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  But the righteousness based on faith says, “Do not say in your heart, ‘Who will ascend into heaven?’” (that is, to bring Christ down)


book: Romans
label: Rom
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  But what does it say? “The word is near you, in your mouth and in your heart” (that is, the word of faith that we proclaim);


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  because, if you confess with your mouth that Jesus is Lord and believe in your heart that God raised him from the dead, you will be saved.


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label: Rom
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  For there is no distinction between Jew and Greek; for the same Lord is Lord of all, bestowing his riches on all who call on him.


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label: Rom
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  How then will they call on him in whom they have not believed? And how are they to believe in him of whom they have never heard? And how are they to hear without someone preaching?


book: Romans
label: Rom
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  And how are they to preach unless they are sent? As it is written, “How beautiful are the feet of those who preach the good news!”


book: Romans
label: Rom
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  But they have not all obeyed the gospel. For Isaiah says, “Lord, who has believed what he has heard from us?”


book: Romans
label: Rom
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  But I ask, have they not heard? Indeed they have, for “Their voice has gone out to all the earth, and their words to the ends of the world.”


book: Romans
label: Rom
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  But I ask, did Israel not understand? First Moses says, “I will make you jealous of those who are not a nation; with a foolish nation I will make you angry.”


book: Romans
label: Rom
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  Then Isaiah is so bold as to say, “I have been found by those who did not seek me; I have shown myself to those who did not ask for me.”


book: Romans
label: Rom
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  But of Israel he says, “All day long I have held out my hands to a disobedient and contrary people.” 


book: Romans
label: Rom
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  I ask, then, has God rejected his people? By no means! For I myself am an Israelite, a descendant of Abraham, a member of the tribe of Benjamin.


book: Romans
label: Rom
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  God has not rejected his people whom he foreknew. Do you not know what the Scripture says of Elijah, how he appeals to God against Israel?


book: Romans
label: Rom
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  “Lord, they have killed your prophets, they have demolished your altars, and I alone am left, and they seek my life.”


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label: Rom
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  But what is God’s reply to him? “I have kept for myself seven thousand men who have not bowed the knee to Baal.”


book: Romans
label: Rom
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  But if it is by grace, it is no longer on the basis of works; otherwise grace would no longer be grace.


book: Romans
label: Rom
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  What then? Israel failed to obtain what it was seeking. The elect obtained it, but the rest were hardened,


book: Romans
label: Rom
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  as it is written, “God gave them a spirit of stupor, eyes that would not see and ears that would not hear, down to this very day.”


book: Romans
label: Rom
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  And David says, “Let their table become a snare and a trap, a stumbling block and a retribution for them;


book: Romans
label: Rom
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  So I ask, did they stumble in order that they might fall? By no means! Rather, through their trespass salvation has come to the Gentiles, so as to make Israel jealous.


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label: Rom
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  Now if their trespass means riches for the world, and if their failure means riches for the Gentiles, how much more will their full inclusion mean!


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label: Rom
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  Now I am speaking to you Gentiles. Inasmuch then as I am an apostle to the Gentiles, I magnify my ministry


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label: Rom
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  For if their rejection means the reconciliation of the world, what will their acceptance mean but life from the dead?


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label: Rom
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  If the dough offered as firstfruits is holy, so is the whole lump, and if the root is holy, so are the branches.


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label: Rom
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  But if some of the branches were broken off, and you, although a wild olive shoot, were grafted in among the others and now share in the nourishing root of the olive tree,


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label: Rom
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  do not be arrogant toward the branches. If you are, remember it is not you who support the root, but the root that supports you.


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label: Rom
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  That is true. They were broken off because of their unbelief, but you stand fast through faith. So do not become proud, but fear.


book: Romans
label: Rom
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  Note then the kindness and the severity of God: severity toward those who have fallen, but God’s kindness to you, provided you continue in his kindness. Otherwise you too will be cut off.


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label: Rom
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  And even they, if they do not continue in their unbelief, will be grafted in, for God has the power to graft them in again.


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label: Rom
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  For if you were cut from what is by nature a wild olive tree, and grafted, contrary to nature, into a cultivated olive tree, how much more will these, the natural branches, be grafted back into their own olive tree.


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label: Rom
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  Lest you be wise in your own sight, I do not want you to be unaware of this mystery, brothers: a partial hardening has come upon Israel, until the fullness of the Gentiles has come in.


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label: Rom
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  And in this way all Israel will be saved, as it is written, “The Deliverer will come from Zion, he will banish ungodliness from Jacob”;


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label: Rom
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  As regards the gospel, they are enemies for your sake. But as regards election, they are beloved for the sake of their forefathers.


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label: Rom
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  For just as you were at one time disobedient to God but now have received mercy because of their disobedience,


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label: Rom
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  so they too have now been disobedient in order that by the mercy shown to you they also may now receive mercy.


book: Romans
label: Rom
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  Oh, the depth of the riches and wisdom and knowledge of God! How unsearchable are his judgments and how inscrutable his ways!


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label: Rom
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  I appeal to you therefore, brothers, by the mercies of God, to present your bodies as a living sacrifice, holy and acceptable to God, which is your spiritual worship.


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label: Rom
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  Do not be conformed to this world, but be transformed by the renewal of your mind, that by testing you may discern what is the will of God, what is good and acceptable and perfect.


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label: Rom
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  For by the grace given to me I say to everyone among you not to think of himself more highly than he ought to think, but to think with sober judgment, each according to the measure of faith that God has assigned.


book: Romans
label: Rom
content:
  Having gifts that differ according to the grace given to us, let us use them: if prophecy, in proportion to our faith;


book: Romans
label: Rom
content:
  the one who exhorts, in his exhortation; the one who contributes, in generosity; the one who leads, with zeal; the one who does acts of mercy, with cheerfulness.


book: Romans
label: Rom
content:
  Live in harmony with one another. Do not be haughty, but associate with the lowly. Never be wise in your own sight.


book: Romans
label: Rom
content:
  Beloved, never avenge yourselves, but leave it to the wrath of God, for it is written, “Vengeance is mine, I will repay, says the Lord.”


book: Romans
label: Rom
content:
  To the contrary, “if your enemy is hungry, feed him; if he is thirsty, give him something to drink; for by so doing you will heap burning coals on his head.”


book: Romans
label: Rom
content:
  Let every person be subject to the governing authorities. For there is no authority except from God, and those that exist have been instituted by God.


book: Romans
label: Rom
content:
  Therefore whoever resists the authorities resists what God has appointed, and those who resist will incur judgment.


book: Romans
label: Rom
content:
  For rulers are not a terror to good conduct, but to bad. Would you have no fear of the one who is in authority? Then do what is good, and you will receive his approval,


book: Romans
label: Rom
content:
  for he is God’s servant for your good. But if you do wrong, be afraid, for he does not bear the sword in vain. For he is the servant of God, an avenger who carries out God’s wrath on the wrongdoer.


book: Romans
label: Rom
content:
  Therefore one must be in subjection, not only to avoid God’s wrath but also for the sake of conscience.


book: Romans
label: Rom
content:
  For because of this you also pay taxes, for the authorities are ministers of God, attending to this very thing.


book: Romans
label: Rom
content:
  Pay to all what is owed to them: taxes to whom taxes are owed, revenue to whom revenue is owed, respect to whom respect is owed, honor to whom honor is owed.


book: Romans
label: Rom
content:
  Owe no one anything, except to love each other, for the one who loves another has fulfilled the law.


book: Romans
label: Rom
content:
  For the commandments, “You shall not commit adultery, You shall not murder, You shall not steal, You shall not covet,” and any other commandment, are summed up in this word: “You shall love your neighbor as yourself.”


book: Romans
label: Rom
content:
  Besides this you know the time, that the hour has come for you to wake from sleep. For salvation is nearer to us now than when we first believed.


book: Romans
label: Rom
content:
  The night is far gone; the day is at hand. So then let us cast off the works of darkness and put on the armor of light.


book: Romans
label: Rom
content:
  Let us walk properly as in the daytime, not in orgies and drunkenness, not in sexual immorality and sensuality, not in quarreling and jealousy.


book: Romans
label: Rom
content:
  Let not the one who eats despise the one who abstains, and let not the one who abstains pass judgment on the one who eats, for God has welcomed him.


book: Romans
label: Rom
content:
  Who are you to pass judgment on the servant of another? It is before his own master that he stands or falls. And he will be upheld, for the Lord is able to make him stand.


book: Romans
label: Rom
content:
  One person esteems one day as better than another, while another esteems all days alike. Each one should be fully convinced in his own mind.


book: Romans
label: Rom
content:
  The one who observes the day, observes it in honor of the Lord. The one who eats, eats in honor of the Lord, since he gives thanks to God, while the one who abstains, abstains in honor of the Lord and gives thanks to God.


book: Romans
label: Rom
content:
  For if we live, we live to the Lord, and if we die, we die to the Lord. So then, whether we live or whether we die, we are the Lord’s.


book: Romans
label: Rom
content:
  For to this end Christ died and lived again, that he might be Lord both of the dead and of the living.


book: Romans
label: Rom
content:
  Why do you pass judgment on your brother? Or you, why do you despise your brother? For we will all stand before the judgment seat of God;


book: Romans
label: Rom
content:
  for it is written, “As I live, says the Lord, every knee shall bow to me, and every tongue shall confess to God.”


book: Romans
label: Rom
content:
  Therefore let us not pass judgment on one another any longer, but rather decide never to put a stumbling block or hindrance in the way of a brother.


book: Romans
label: Rom
content:
  I know and am persuaded in the Lord Jesus that nothing is unclean in itself, but it is unclean for anyone who thinks it unclean.


book: Romans
label: Rom
content:
  For if your brother is grieved by what you eat, you are no longer walking in love. By what you eat, do not destroy the one for whom Christ died.


book: Romans
label: Rom
content:
  For the kingdom of God is not a matter of eating and drinking but of righteousness and peace and joy in the Holy Spirit.


book: Romans
label: Rom
content:
  Do not, for the sake of food, destroy the work of God. Everything is indeed clean, but it is wrong for anyone to make another stumble by what he eats.


book: Romans
label: Rom
content:
  The faith that you have, keep between yourself and God. Blessed is the one who has no reason to pass judgment on himself for what he approves.


book: Romans
label: Rom
content:
  But whoever has doubts is condemned if he eats, because the eating is not from faith. For whatever does not proceed from faith is sin. 


book: Romans
label: Rom
content:
  We who are strong have an obligation to bear with the failings of the weak, and not to please ourselves.


book: Romans
label: Rom
content:
  For Christ did not please himself, but as it is written, “The reproaches of those who reproached you fell on me.”


book: Romans
label: Rom
content:
  For whatever was written in former days was written for our instruction, that through endurance and through the encouragement of the Scriptures we might have hope.


book: Romans
label: Rom
content:
  May the God of endurance and encouragement grant you to live in such harmony with one another, in accord with Christ Jesus,


book: Romans
label: Rom
content:
  For I tell you that Christ became a servant to the circumcised to show God’s truthfulness, in order to confirm the promises given to the patriarchs,


book: Romans
label: Rom
content:
  and in order that the Gentiles might glorify God for his mercy. As it is written, “Therefore I will praise you among the Gentiles, and sing to your name.”


book: Romans
label: Rom
content:
  And again Isaiah says, “The root of Jesse will come, even he who arises to rule the Gentiles; in him will the Gentiles hope.”


book: Romans
label: Rom
content:
  May the God of hope fill you with all joy and peace in believing, so that by the power of the Holy Spirit you may abound in hope.


book: Romans
label: Rom
content:
  I myself am satisfied about you, my brothers, that you yourselves are full of goodness, filled with all knowledge and able to instruct one another.


book: Romans
label: Rom
content:
  But on some points I have written to you very boldly by way of reminder, because of the grace given me by God


book: Romans
label: Rom
content:
  to be a minister of Christ Jesus to the Gentiles in the priestly service of the gospel of God, so that the offering of the Gentiles may be acceptable, sanctified by the Holy Spirit.


book: Romans
label: Rom
content:
  For I will not venture to speak of anything except what Christ has accomplished through me to bring the Gentiles to obedience—by word and deed,


book: Romans
label: Rom
content:
  by the power of signs and wonders, by the power of the Spirit of God—so that from Jerusalem and all the way around to Illyricum I have fulfilled the ministry of the gospel of Christ;


book: Romans
label: Rom
content:
  and thus I make it my ambition to preach the gospel, not where Christ has already been named, lest I build on someone else’s foundation,


book: Romans
label: Rom
content:
  but as it is written, “Those who have never been told of him will see, and those who have never heard will understand.”


book: Romans
label: Rom
content:
  But now, since I no longer have any room for work in these regions, and since I have longed for many years to come to you,


book: Romans
label: Rom
content:
  I hope to see you in passing as I go to Spain, and to be helped on my journey there by you, once I have enjoyed your company for a while.


book: Romans
label: Rom
content:
  For Macedonia and Achaia have been pleased to make some contribution for the poor among the saints at Jerusalem.


book: Romans
label: Rom
content:
  For they were pleased to do it, and indeed they owe it to them. For if the Gentiles have come to share in their spiritual blessings, they ought also to be of service to them in material blessings.


book: Romans
label: Rom
content:
  When therefore I have completed this and have delivered to them what has been collected, I will leave for Spain by way of you.


book: Romans
label: Rom
content:
  I appeal to you, brothers, by our Lord Jesus Christ and by the love of the Spirit, to strive together with me in your prayers to God on my behalf,


book: Romans
label: Rom
content:
  that I may be delivered from the unbelievers in Judea, and that my service for Jerusalem may be acceptable to the saints,


book: Romans
label: Rom
content:
  that you may welcome her in the Lord in a way worthy of the saints, and help her in whatever she may need from you, for she has been a patron of many and of myself as well.


book: Romans
label: Rom
content:
  who risked their necks for my life, to whom not only I give thanks but all the churches of the Gentiles give thanks as well.


book: Romans
label: Rom
content:
  Greet also the church in their house. Greet my beloved Epaenetus, who was the first convert to Christ in Asia.


book: Romans
label: Rom
content:
  Greet Andronicus and Junia, my kinsmen and my fellow prisoners. They are well known to the apostles, and they were in Christ before me.


book: Romans
label: Rom
content:
  Greet those workers in the Lord, Tryphaena and Tryphosa. Greet the beloved Persis, who has worked hard in the Lord.


book: Romans
label: Rom
content:
  I appeal to you, brothers, to watch out for those who cause divisions and create obstacles contrary to the doctrine that you have been taught; avoid them.


book: Romans
label: Rom
content:
  For such persons do not serve our Lord Christ, but their own appetites, and by smooth talk and flattery they deceive the hearts of the naive.


book: Romans
label: Rom
content:
  For your obedience is known to all, so that I rejoice over you, but I want you to be wise as to what is good and innocent as to what is evil.


book: Romans
label: Rom
content:
  The God of peace will soon crush Satan under your feet. The grace of our Lord Jesus Christ be with you.


book: Romans
label: Rom
content:
  Gaius, who is host to me and to the whole church, greets you. Erastus, the city treasurer, and our brother Quartus, greet you.


book: Romans
label: Rom
content:
  Now to him who is able to strengthen you according to my gospel and the preaching of Jesus Christ, according to the revelation of the mystery that was kept secret for long ages


book: Romans
label: Rom
content:
  but has now been disclosed and through the prophetic writings has been made known to all nations, according to the command of the eternal God, to bring about the obedience of faith—


book: 1Corinthians
label: 1Cor
content:
  To the church of God that is in Corinth, to those sanctified in Christ Jesus, called to be saints together with all those who in every place call upon the name of our Lord Jesus Christ, both their Lord and ours:


book: 1Corinthians
label: 1Cor
content:
  I give thanks to my God always for you because of the grace of God that was given you in Christ Jesus,


book: 1Corinthians
label: 1Cor
content:
  even as the testimony about Christ was confirmed among you—so that you are not lacking in any gift, as you wait for the revealing of our Lord Jesus Christ,


book: 1Corinthians
label: 1Cor
content:
  I appeal to you, brothers, by the name of our Lord Jesus Christ, that all of you agree, and that there be no divisions among you, but that you be united in the same mind and the same judgment.


book: 1Corinthians
label: 1Cor
content:
  What I mean is that each one of you says, “I follow Paul,” or “I follow Apollos,” or “I follow Cephas,” or “I follow Christ.”


book: 1Corinthians
label: 1Cor
content:
  (I did baptize also the household of Stephanas. Beyond that, I do not know whether I baptized anyone else.)


book: 1Corinthians
label: 1Cor
content:
  For Christ did not send me to baptize but to preach the gospel, and not with words of eloquent wisdom, lest the cross of Christ be emptied of its power.


book: 1Corinthians
label: 1Cor
content:
  For the word of the cross is folly to those who are perishing, but to us who are being saved it is the power of God.


book: 1Corinthians
label: 1Cor
content:
  For it is written, “I will destroy the wisdom of the wise, and the discernment of the discerning I will thwart.”


book: 1Corinthians
label: 1Cor
content:
  Where is the one who is wise? Where is the scribe? Where is the debater of this age? Has not God made foolish the wisdom of the world?


book: 1Corinthians
label: 1Cor
content:
  For since, in the wisdom of God, the world did not know God through wisdom, it pleased God through the folly of what we preach to save those who believe.


book: 1Corinthians
label: 1Cor
content:
  For consider your calling, brothers: not many of you were wise according to worldly standards, not many were powerful, not many were of noble birth.


book: 1Corinthians
label: 1Cor
content:
  But God chose what is foolish in the world to shame the wise; God chose what is weak in the world to shame the strong;


book: 1Corinthians
label: 1Cor
content:
  God chose what is low and despised in the world, even things that are not, to bring to nothing things that are,


book: 1Corinthians
label: 1Cor
content:
  And because of him you are in Christ Jesus, who became to us wisdom from God, righteousness and sanctification and redemption,


book: 1Corinthians
label: 1Cor
content:
  And I, when I came to you, brothers, did not come proclaiming to you the testimony of God with lofty speech or wisdom.


book: 1Corinthians
label: 1Cor
content:
  and my speech and my message were not in plausible words of wisdom, but in demonstration of the Spirit and of power,


book: 1Corinthians
label: 1Cor
content:
  Yet among the mature we do impart wisdom, although it is not a wisdom of this age or of the rulers of this age, who are doomed to pass away.


book: 1Corinthians
label: 1Cor
content:
  None of the rulers of this age understood this, for if they had, they would not have crucified the Lord of glory.


book: 1Corinthians
label: 1Cor
content:
  But, as it is written, “What no eye has seen, nor ear heard, nor the heart of man imagined, what God has prepared for those who love him”—


book: 1Corinthians
label: 1Cor
content:
  these things God has revealed to us through the Spirit. For the Spirit searches everything, even the depths of God.


book: 1Corinthians
label: 1Cor
content:
  For who knows a person’s thoughts except the spirit of that person, which is in him? So also no one comprehends the thoughts of God except the Spirit of God.


book: 1Corinthians
label: 1Cor
content:
  Now we have received not the spirit of the world, but the Spirit who is from God, that we might understand the things freely given us by God.


book: 1Corinthians
label: 1Cor
content:
  And we impart this in words not taught by human wisdom but taught by the Spirit, interpreting spiritual truths to those who are spiritual.


book: 1Corinthians
label: 1Cor
content:
  The natural person does not accept the things of the Spirit of God, for they are folly to him, and he is not able to understand them because they are spiritually discerned.


book: 1Corinthians
label: 1Cor
content:
  “For who has understood the mind of the Lord so as to instruct him?” But we have the mind of Christ. 


book: 1Corinthians
label: 1Cor
content:
  But I, brothers, could not address you as spiritual people, but as people of the flesh, as infants in Christ.


book: 1Corinthians
label: 1Cor
content:
  I fed you with milk, not solid food, for you were not ready for it. And even now you are not yet ready,


book: 1Corinthians
label: 1Cor
content:
  for you are still of the flesh. For while there is jealousy and strife among you, are you not of the flesh and behaving only in a human way?


book: 1Corinthians
label: 1Cor
content:
  For when one says, “I follow Paul,” and another, “I follow Apollos,” are you not being merely human?


book: 1Corinthians
label: 1Cor
content:
  What then is Apollos? What is Paul? Servants through whom you believed, as the Lord assigned to each.


book: 1Corinthians
label: 1Cor
content:
  According to the grace of God given to me, like a skilled master builder I laid a foundation, and someone else is building upon it. Let each one take care how he builds upon it.


book: 1Corinthians
label: 1Cor
content:
  each one’s work will become manifest, for the Day will disclose it, because it will be revealed by fire, and the fire will test what sort of work each one has done.


book: 1Corinthians
label: 1Cor
content:
  If anyone’s work is burned up, he will suffer loss, though he himself will be saved, but only as through fire.


book: 1Corinthians
label: 1Cor
content:
  If anyone destroys God’s temple, God will destroy him. For God’s temple is holy, and you are that temple.


book: 1Corinthians
label: 1Cor
content:
  Let no one deceive himself. If anyone among you thinks that he is wise in this age, let him become a fool that he may become wise.


book: 1Corinthians
label: 1Cor
content:
  For the wisdom of this world is folly with God. For it is written, “He catches the wise in their craftiness,”


book: 1Corinthians
label: 1Cor
content:
  whether Paul or Apollos or Cephas or the world or life or death or the present or the future—all are yours,


book: 1Corinthians
label: 1Cor
content:
  But with me it is a very small thing that I should be judged by you or by any human court. In fact, I do not even judge myself.


book: 1Corinthians
label: 1Cor
content:
  For I am not aware of anything against myself, but I am not thereby acquitted. It is the Lord who judges me.


book: 1Corinthians
label: 1Cor
content:
  Therefore do not pronounce judgment before the time, before the Lord comes, who will bring to light the things now hidden in darkness and will disclose the purposes of the heart. Then each one will receive his commendation from God.


book: 1Corinthians
label: 1Cor
content:
  I have applied all these things to myself and Apollos for your benefit, brothers, that you may learn by us not to go beyond what is written, that none of you may be puffed up in favor of one against another.


book: 1Corinthians
label: 1Cor
content:
  For who sees anything different in you? What do you have that you did not receive? If then you received it, why do you boast as if you did not receive it?


book: 1Corinthians
label: 1Cor
content:
  Already you have all you want! Already you have become rich! Without us you have become kings! And would that you did reign, so that we might share the rule with you!


book: 1Corinthians
label: 1Cor
content:
  For I think that God has exhibited us apostles as last of all, like men sentenced to death, because we have become a spectacle to the world, to angels, and to men.


book: 1Corinthians
label: 1Cor
content:
  We are fools for Christ’s sake, but you are wise in Christ. We are weak, but you are strong. You are held in honor, but we in disrepute.


book: 1Corinthians
label: 1Cor
content:
  when slandered, we entreat. We have become, and are still, like the scum of the world, the refuse of all things.


book: 1Corinthians
label: 1Cor
content:
  For though you have countless guides in Christ, you do not have many fathers. For I became your father in Christ Jesus through the gospel.


book: 1Corinthians
label: 1Cor
content:
  That is why I sent you Timothy, my beloved and faithful child in the Lord, to remind you of my ways in Christ, as I teach them everywhere in every church.


book: 1Corinthians
label: 1Cor
content:
  But I will come to you soon, if the Lord wills, and I will find out not the talk of these arrogant people but their power.


book: 1Corinthians
label: 1Cor
content:
  It is actually reported that there is sexual immorality among you, and of a kind that is not tolerated even among pagans, for a man has his father’s wife.


book: 1Corinthians
label: 1Cor
content:
  And you are arrogant! Ought you not rather to mourn? Let him who has done this be removed from among you.


book: 1Corinthians
label: 1Cor
content:
  For though absent in body, I am present in spirit; and as if present, I have already pronounced judgment on the one who did such a thing.


book: 1Corinthians
label: 1Cor
content:
  When you are assembled in the name of the Lord Jesus and my spirit is present, with the power of our Lord Jesus,


book: 1Corinthians
label: 1Cor
content:
  you are to deliver this man to Satan for the destruction of the flesh, so that his spirit may be saved in the day of the Lord.


book: 1Corinthians
label: 1Cor
content:
  Cleanse out the old leaven that you may be a new lump, as you really are unleavened. For Christ, our Passover lamb, has been sacrificed.


book: 1Corinthians
label: 1Cor
content:
  Let us therefore celebrate the festival, not with the old leaven, the leaven of malice and evil, but with the unleavened bread of sincerity and truth.


book: 1Corinthians
label: 1Cor
content:
  not at all meaning the sexually immoral of this world, or the greedy and swindlers, or idolaters, since then you would need to go out of the world.


book: 1Corinthians
label: 1Cor
content:
  But now I am writing to you not to associate with anyone who bears the name of brother if he is guilty of sexual immorality or greed, or is an idolater, reviler, drunkard, or swindler—not even to eat with such a one.


book: 1Corinthians
label: 1Cor
content:
  For what have I to do with judging outsiders? Is it not those inside the church whom you are to judge?


book: 1Corinthians
label: 1Cor
content:
  When one of you has a grievance against another, does he dare go to law before the unrighteous instead of the saints?


book: 1Corinthians
label: 1Cor
content:
  Or do you not know that the saints will judge the world? And if the world is to be judged by you, are you incompetent to try trivial cases?


book: 1Corinthians
label: 1Cor
content:
  I say this to your shame. Can it be that there is no one among you wise enough to settle a dispute between the brothers,


book: 1Corinthians
label: 1Cor
content:
  To have lawsuits at all with one another is already a defeat for you. Why not rather suffer wrong? Why not rather be defrauded?


book: 1Corinthians
label: 1Cor
content:
  Or do you not know that the unrighteous will not inherit the kingdom of God? Do not be deceived: neither the sexually immoral, nor idolaters, nor adulterers, nor men who practice homosexuality,


book: 1Corinthians
label: 1Cor
content:
  nor thieves, nor the greedy, nor drunkards, nor revilers, nor swindlers will inherit the kingdom of God.


book: 1Corinthians
label: 1Cor
content:
  And such were some of you. But you were washed, you were sanctified, you were justified in the name of the Lord Jesus Christ and by the Spirit of our God.


book: 1Corinthians
label: 1Cor
content:
  “All things are lawful for me,” but not all things are helpful. “All things are lawful for me,” but I will not be dominated by anything.


book: 1Corinthians
label: 1Cor
content:
  “Food is meant for the stomach and the stomach for food”—and God will destroy both one and the other. The body is not meant for sexual immorality, but for the Lord, and the Lord for the body.


book: 1Corinthians
label: 1Cor
content:
  Do you not know that your bodies are members of Christ? Shall I then take the members of Christ and make them members of a prostitute? Never!


book: 1Corinthians
label: 1Cor
content:
  Or do you not know that he who is joined to a prostitute becomes one body with her? For, as it is written, “The two will become one flesh.”


book: 1Corinthians
label: 1Cor
content:
  Flee from sexual immorality. Every other sin a person commits is outside the body, but the sexually immoral person sins against his own body.


book: 1Corinthians
label: 1Cor
content:
  Or do you not know that your body is a temple of the Holy Spirit within you, whom you have from God? You are not your own,


book: 1Corinthians
label: 1Cor
content:
  Now concerning the matters about which you wrote: “It is good for a man not to have sexual relations with a woman.”


book: 1Corinthians
label: 1Cor
content:
  But because of the temptation to sexual immorality, each man should have his own wife and each woman her own husband.


book: 1Corinthians
label: 1Cor
content:
  For the wife does not have authority over her own body, but the husband does. Likewise the husband does not have authority over his own body, but the wife does.


book: 1Corinthians
label: 1Cor
content:
  Do not deprive one another, except perhaps by agreement for a limited time, that you may devote yourselves to prayer; but then come together again, so that Satan may not tempt you because of your lack of self-control.


book: 1Corinthians
label: 1Cor
content:
  I wish that all were as I myself am. But each has his own gift from God, one of one kind and one of another.


book: 1Corinthians
label: 1Cor
content:
  But if they cannot exercise self-control, they should marry. For it is better to marry than to burn with passion.


book: 1Corinthians
label: 1Cor
content:
  To the married I give this charge (not I, but the Lord): the wife should not separate from her husband


book: 1Corinthians
label: 1Cor
content:
  (but if she does, she should remain unmarried or else be reconciled to her husband), and the husband should not divorce his wife.


book: 1Corinthians
label: 1Cor
content:
  To the rest I say (I, not the Lord) that if any brother has a wife who is an unbeliever, and she consents to live with him, he should not divorce her.


book: 1Corinthians
label: 1Cor
content:
  If any woman has a husband who is an unbeliever, and he consents to live with her, she should not divorce him.


book: 1Corinthians
label: 1Cor
content:
  For the unbelieving husband is made holy because of his wife, and the unbelieving wife is made holy because of her husband. Otherwise your children would be unclean, but as it is, they are holy.


book: 1Corinthians
label: 1Cor
content:
  But if the unbelieving partner separates, let it be so. In such cases the brother or sister is not enslaved. God has called you to peace.


book: 1Corinthians
label: 1Cor
content:
  For how do you know, wife, whether you will save your husband? Or how do you know, husband, whether you will save your wife?


book: 1Corinthians
label: 1Cor
content:
  Only let each person lead the life that the Lord has assigned to him, and to which God has called him. This is my rule in all the churches.


book: 1Corinthians
label: 1Cor
content:
  Was anyone at the time of his call already circumcised? Let him not seek to remove the marks of circumcision. Was anyone at the time of his call uncircumcised? Let him not seek circumcision.


book: 1Corinthians
label: 1Cor
content:
  For neither circumcision counts for anything nor uncircumcision, but keeping the commandments of God.


book: 1Corinthians
label: 1Cor
content:
  Were you a bondservant when called? Do not be concerned about it. (But if you can gain your freedom, avail yourself of the opportunity.)


book: 1Corinthians
label: 1Cor
content:
  For he who was called in the Lord as a bondservant is a freedman of the Lord. Likewise he who was free when called is a bondservant of Christ.


book: 1Corinthians
label: 1Cor
content:
  Now concerning the betrothed, I have no command from the Lord, but I give my judgment as one who by the Lord’s mercy is trustworthy.


book: 1Corinthians
label: 1Cor
content:
  But if you do marry, you have not sinned, and if a betrothed woman marries, she has not sinned. Yet those who marry will have worldly troubles, and I would spare you that.


book: 1Corinthians
label: 1Cor
content:
  This is what I mean, brothers: the appointed time has grown very short. From now on, let those who have wives live as though they had none,


book: 1Corinthians
label: 1Cor
content:
  and those who mourn as though they were not mourning, and those who rejoice as though they were not rejoicing, and those who buy as though they had no goods,


book: 1Corinthians
label: 1Cor
content:
  and those who deal with the world as though they had no dealings with it. For the present form of this world is passing away.


book: 1Corinthians
label: 1Cor
content:
  I want you to be free from anxieties. The unmarried man is anxious about the things of the Lord, how to please the Lord.


book: 1Corinthians
label: 1Cor
content:
  and his interests are divided. And the unmarried or betrothed woman is anxious about the things of the Lord, how to be holy in body and spirit. But the married woman is anxious about worldly things, how to please her husband.


book: 1Corinthians
label: 1Cor
content:
  I say this for your own benefit, not to lay any restraint upon you, but to promote good order and to secure your undivided devotion to the Lord.


book: 1Corinthians
label: 1Cor
content:
  If anyone thinks that he is not behaving properly toward his betrothed, if his passions are strong, and it has to be, let him do as he wishes: let them marry—it is no sin.


book: 1Corinthians
label: 1Cor
content:
  But whoever is firmly established in his heart, being under no necessity but having his desire under control, and has determined this in his heart, to keep her as his betrothed, he will do well.


book: 1Corinthians
label: 1Cor
content:
  So then he who marries his betrothed does well, and he who refrains from marriage will do even better.


book: 1Corinthians
label: 1Cor
content:
  A wife is bound to her husband as long as he lives. But if her husband dies, she is free to be married to whom she wishes, only in the Lord.


book: 1Corinthians
label: 1Cor
content:
  Yet in my judgment she is happier if she remains as she is. And I think that I too have the Spirit of God. 


book: 1Corinthians
label: 1Cor
content:
  Now concerning food offered to idols: we know that “all of us possess knowledge.” This “knowledge” puffs up, but love builds up.


book: 1Corinthians
label: 1Cor
content:
  Therefore, as to the eating of food offered to idols, we know that “an idol has no real existence,” and that “there is no God but one.”


book: 1Corinthians
label: 1Cor
content:
  For although there may be so-called gods in heaven or on earth—as indeed there are many “gods” and many “lords”—


book: 1Corinthians
label: 1Cor
content:
  yet for us there is one God, the Father, from whom are all things and for whom we exist, and one Lord, Jesus Christ, through whom are all things and through whom we exist.


book: 1Corinthians
label: 1Cor
content:
  However, not all possess this knowledge. But some, through former association with idols, eat food as really offered to an idol, and their conscience, being weak, is defiled.


book: 1Corinthians
label: 1Cor
content:
  For if anyone sees you who have knowledge eating in an idol’s temple, will he not be encouraged, if his conscience is weak, to eat food offered to idols?


book: 1Corinthians
label: 1Cor
content:
  Thus, sinning against your brothers and wounding their conscience when it is weak, you sin against Christ.


book: 1Corinthians
label: 1Cor
content:
  Therefore, if food makes my brother stumble, I will never eat meat, lest I make my brother stumble. 


book: 1Corinthians
label: 1Cor
content:
  Am I not free? Am I not an apostle? Have I not seen Jesus our Lord? Are not you my workmanship in the Lord?


book: 1Corinthians
label: 1Cor
content:
  If to others I am not an apostle, at least I am to you, for you are the seal of my apostleship in the Lord.


book: 1Corinthians
label: 1Cor
content:
  Do we not have the right to take along a believing wife, as do the other apostles and the brothers of the Lord and Cephas?


book: 1Corinthians
label: 1Cor
content:
  Who serves as a soldier at his own expense? Who plants a vineyard without eating any of its fruit? Or who tends a flock without getting some of the milk?


book: 1Corinthians
label: 1Cor
content:
  For it is written in the Law of Moses, “You shall not muzzle an ox when it treads out the grain.” Is it for oxen that God is concerned?


book: 1Corinthians
label: 1Cor
content:
  Does he not certainly speak for our sake? It was written for our sake, because the plowman should plow in hope and the thresher thresh in hope of sharing in the crop.


book: 1Corinthians
label: 1Cor
content:
  If others share this rightful claim on you, do not we even more? Nevertheless, we have not made use of this right, but we endure anything rather than put an obstacle in the way of the gospel of Christ.


book: 1Corinthians
label: 1Cor
content:
  Do you not know that those who are employed in the temple service get their food from the temple, and those who serve at the altar share in the sacrificial offerings?


book: 1Corinthians
label: 1Cor
content:
  In the same way, the Lord commanded that those who proclaim the gospel should get their living by the gospel.


book: 1Corinthians
label: 1Cor
content:
  But I have made no use of any of these rights, nor am I writing these things to secure any such provision. For I would rather die than have anyone deprive me of my ground for boasting.


book: 1Corinthians
label: 1Cor
content:
  For if I preach the gospel, that gives me no ground for boasting. For necessity is laid upon me. Woe to me if I do not preach the gospel!


book: 1Corinthians
label: 1Cor
content:
  For if I do this of my own will, I have a reward, but if not of my own will, I am still entrusted with a stewardship.


book: 1Corinthians
label: 1Cor
content:
  What then is my reward? That in my preaching I may present the gospel free of charge, so as not to make full use of my right in the gospel.


book: 1Corinthians
label: 1Cor
content:
  To the Jews I became as a Jew, in order to win Jews. To those under the law I became as one under the law (though not being myself under the law) that I might win those under the law.


book: 1Corinthians
label: 1Cor
content:
  To those outside the law I became as one outside the law (not being outside the law of God but under the law of Christ) that I might win those outside the law.


book: 1Corinthians
label: 1Cor
content:
  To the weak I became weak, that I might win the weak. I have become all things to all people, that by all means I might save some.


book: 1Corinthians
label: 1Cor
content:
  Do you not know that in a race all the runners run, but only one receives the prize? So run that you may obtain it.


book: 1Corinthians
label: 1Cor
content:
  Every athlete exercises self-control in all things. They do it to receive a perishable wreath, but we an imperishable.


book: 1Corinthians
label: 1Cor
content:
  But I discipline my body and keep it under control, lest after preaching to others I myself should be disqualified. 


book: 1Corinthians
label: 1Cor
content:
  For I do not want you to be unaware, brothers, that our fathers were all under the cloud, and all passed through the sea,


book: 1Corinthians
label: 1Cor
content:
  and all drank the same spiritual drink. For they drank from the spiritual Rock that followed them, and the Rock was Christ.


book: 1Corinthians
label: 1Cor
content:
  Do not be idolaters as some of them were; as it is written, “The people sat down to eat and drink and rose up to play.”


book: 1Corinthians
label: 1Cor
content:
  We must not indulge in sexual immorality as some of them did, and twenty-three thousand fell in a single day.


book: 1Corinthians
label: 1Cor
content:
  Now these things happened to them as an example, but they were written down for our instruction, on whom the end of the ages has come.


book: 1Corinthians
label: 1Cor
content:
  No temptation has overtaken you that is not common to man. God is faithful, and he will not let you be tempted beyond your ability, but with the temptation he will also provide the way of escape, that you may be able to endure it.


book: 1Corinthians
label: 1Cor
content:
  The cup of blessing that we bless, is it not a participation in the blood of Christ? The bread that we break, is it not a participation in the body of Christ?


book: 1Corinthians
label: 1Cor
content:
  No, I imply that what pagans sacrifice they offer to demons and not to God. I do not want you to be participants with demons.


book: 1Corinthians
label: 1Cor
content:
  You cannot drink the cup of the Lord and the cup of demons. You cannot partake of the table of the Lord and the table of demons.


book: 1Corinthians
label: 1Cor
content:
  “All things are lawful,” but not all things are helpful. “All things are lawful,” but not all things build up.


book: 1Corinthians
label: 1Cor
content:
  If one of the unbelievers invites you to dinner and you are disposed to go, eat whatever is set before you without raising any question on the ground of conscience.


book: 1Corinthians
label: 1Cor
content:
  But if someone says to you, “This has been offered in sacrifice,” then do not eat it, for the sake of the one who informed you, and for the sake of conscience—


book: 1Corinthians
label: 1Cor
content:
  I do not mean your conscience, but his. For why should my liberty be determined by someone else’s conscience?


book: 1Corinthians
label: 1Cor
content:
  just as I try to please everyone in everything I do, not seeking my own advantage, but that of many, that they may be saved. 


book: 1Corinthians
label: 1Cor
content:
  Now I commend you because you remember me in everything and maintain the traditions even as I delivered them to you.


book: 1Corinthians
label: 1Cor
content:
  But I want you to understand that the head of every man is Christ, the head of a wife is her husband, and the head of Christ is God.


book: 1Corinthians
label: 1Cor
content:
  but every wife who prays or prophesies with her head uncovered dishonors her head, since it is the same as if her head were shaven.


book: 1Corinthians
label: 1Cor
content:
  For if a wife will not cover her head, then she should cut her hair short. But since it is disgraceful for a wife to cut off her hair or shave her head, let her cover her head.


book: 1Corinthians
label: 1Cor
content:
  For a man ought not to cover his head, since he is the image and glory of God, but woman is the glory of man.


book: 1Corinthians
label: 1Cor
content:
  But in the following instructions I do not commend you, because when you come together it is not for the better but for the worse.


book: 1Corinthians
label: 1Cor
content:
  For, in the first place, when you come together as a church, I hear that there are divisions among you. And I believe it in part,


book: 1Corinthians
label: 1Cor
content:
  for there must be factions among you in order that those who are genuine among you may be recognized.


book: 1Corinthians
label: 1Cor
content:
  What! Do you not have houses to eat and drink in? Or do you despise the church of God and humiliate those who have nothing? What shall I say to you? Shall I commend you in this? No, I will not.


book: 1Corinthians
label: 1Cor
content:
  For I received from the Lord what I also delivered to you, that the Lord Jesus on the night when he was betrayed took bread,


book: 1Corinthians
label: 1Cor
content:
  and when he had given thanks, he broke it, and said, “This is my body, which is for you. Do this in remembrance of me.”


book: 1Corinthians
label: 1Cor
content:
  In the same way also he took the cup, after supper, saying, “This cup is the new covenant in my blood. Do this, as often as you drink it, in remembrance of me.”


book: 1Corinthians
label: 1Cor
content:
  Whoever, therefore, eats the bread or drinks the cup of the Lord in an unworthy manner will be guilty concerning the body and blood of the Lord.


book: 1Corinthians
label: 1Cor
content:
  But when we are judged by the Lord, we are disciplined so that we may not be condemned along with the world.


book: 1Corinthians
label: 1Cor
content:
  if anyone is hungry, let him eat at home—so that when you come together it will not be for judgment. About the other things I will give directions when I come. 


book: 1Corinthians
label: 1Cor
content:
  Therefore I want you to understand that no one speaking in the Spirit of God ever says “Jesus is accursed!” and no one can say “Jesus is Lord” except in the Holy Spirit.


book: 1Corinthians
label: 1Cor
content:
  For to one is given through the Spirit the utterance of wisdom, and to another the utterance of knowledge according to the same Spirit,


book: 1Corinthians
label: 1Cor
content:
  to another the working of miracles, to another prophecy, to another the ability to distinguish between spirits, to another various kinds of tongues, to another the interpretation of tongues.


book: 1Corinthians
label: 1Cor
content:
  All these are empowered by one and the same Spirit, who apportions to each one individually as he wills.


book: 1Corinthians
label: 1Cor
content:
  For just as the body is one and has many members, and all the members of the body, though many, are one body, so it is with Christ.


book: 1Corinthians
label: 1Cor
content:
  For in one Spirit we were all baptized into one body—Jews or Greeks, slaves or free—and all were made to drink of one Spirit.


book: 1Corinthians
label: 1Cor
content:
  If the foot should say, “Because I am not a hand, I do not belong to the body,” that would not make it any less a part of the body.


book: 1Corinthians
label: 1Cor
content:
  And if the ear should say, “Because I am not an eye, I do not belong to the body,” that would not make it any less a part of the body.


book: 1Corinthians
label: 1Cor
content:
  If the whole body were an eye, where would be the sense of hearing? If the whole body were an ear, where would be the sense of smell?


book: 1Corinthians
label: 1Cor
content:
  The eye cannot say to the hand, “I have no need of you,” nor again the head to the feet, “I have no need of you.”


book: 1Corinthians
label: 1Cor
content:
  and on those parts of the body that we think less honorable we bestow the greater honor, and our unpresentable parts are treated with greater modesty,


book: 1Corinthians
label: 1Cor
content:
  which our more presentable parts do not require. But God has so composed the body, giving greater honor to the part that lacked it,


book: 1Corinthians
label: 1Cor
content:
  that there may be no division in the body, but that the members may have the same care for one another.


book: 1Corinthians
label: 1Cor
content:
  And God has appointed in the church first apostles, second prophets, third teachers, then miracles, then gifts of healing, helping, administrating, and various kinds of tongues.


book: 1Corinthians
label: 1Cor
content:
  If I speak in the tongues of men and of angels, but have not love, I am a noisy gong or a clanging cymbal.


book: 1Corinthians
label: 1Cor
content:
  And if I have prophetic powers, and understand all mysteries and all knowledge, and if I have all faith, so as to remove mountains, but have not love, I am nothing.


book: 1Corinthians
label: 1Cor
content:
  If I give away all I have, and if I deliver up my body to be burned, but have not love, I gain nothing.


book: 1Corinthians
label: 1Cor
content:
  Love never ends. As for prophecies, they will pass away; as for tongues, they will cease; as for knowledge, it will pass away.


book: 1Corinthians
label: 1Cor
content:
  When I was a child, I spoke like a child, I thought like a child, I reasoned like a child. When I became a man, I gave up childish ways.


book: 1Corinthians
label: 1Cor
content:
  For now we see in a mirror dimly, but then face to face. Now I know in part; then I shall know fully, even as I have been fully known.


book: 1Corinthians
label: 1Cor
content:
  For one who speaks in a tongue speaks not to men but to God; for no one understands him, but he utters mysteries in the Spirit.


book: 1Corinthians
label: 1Cor
content:
  On the other hand, the one who prophesies speaks to people for their upbuilding and encouragement and consolation.


book: 1Corinthians
label: 1Cor
content:
  Now I want you all to speak in tongues, but even more to prophesy. The one who prophesies is greater than the one who speaks in tongues, unless someone interprets, so that the church may be built up.


book: 1Corinthians
label: 1Cor
content:
  Now, brothers, if I come to you speaking in tongues, how will I benefit you unless I bring you some revelation or knowledge or prophecy or teaching?


book: 1Corinthians
label: 1Cor
content:
  If even lifeless instruments, such as the flute or the harp, do not give distinct notes, how will anyone know what is played?


book: 1Corinthians
label: 1Cor
content:
  So with yourselves, if with your tongue you utter speech that is not intelligible, how will anyone know what is said? For you will be speaking into the air.


book: 1Corinthians
label: 1Cor
content:
  but if I do not know the meaning of the language, I will be a foreigner to the speaker and the speaker a foreigner to me.


book: 1Corinthians
label: 1Cor
content:
  So with yourselves, since you are eager for manifestations of the Spirit, strive to excel in building up the church.


book: 1Corinthians
label: 1Cor
content:
  What am I to do? I will pray with my spirit, but I will pray with my mind also; I will sing praise with my spirit, but I will sing with my mind also.


book: 1Corinthians
label: 1Cor
content:
  Otherwise, if you give thanks with your spirit, how can anyone in the position of an outsider say “Amen” to your thanksgiving when he does not know what you are saying?


book: 1Corinthians
label: 1Cor
content:
  Nevertheless, in church I would rather speak five words with my mind in order to instruct others, than ten thousand words in a tongue.


book: 1Corinthians
label: 1Cor
content:
  In the Law it is written, “By people of strange tongues and by the lips of foreigners will I speak to this people, and even then they will not listen to me, says the Lord.”


book: 1Corinthians
label: 1Cor
content:
  Thus tongues are a sign not for believers but for unbelievers, while prophecy is a sign not for unbelievers but for believers.


book: 1Corinthians
label: 1Cor
content:
  If, therefore, the whole church comes together and all speak in tongues, and outsiders or unbelievers enter, will they not say that you are out of your minds?


book: 1Corinthians
label: 1Cor
content:
  But if all prophesy, and an unbeliever or outsider enters, he is convicted by all, he is called to account by all,


book: 1Corinthians
label: 1Cor
content:
  the secrets of his heart are disclosed, and so, falling on his face, he will worship God and declare that God is really among you.


book: 1Corinthians
label: 1Cor
content:
  What then, brothers? When you come together, each one has a hymn, a lesson, a revelation, a tongue, or an interpretation. Let all things be done for building up.


book: 1Corinthians
label: 1Cor
content:
  If any speak in a tongue, let there be only two or at most three, and each in turn, and let someone interpret.


book: 1Corinthians
label: 1Cor
content:
  But if there is no one to interpret, let each of them keep silent in church and speak to himself and to God.


book: 1Corinthians
label: 1Cor
content:
  the women should keep silent in the churches. For they are not permitted to speak, but should be in submission, as the Law also says.


book: 1Corinthians
label: 1Cor
content:
  If there is anything they desire to learn, let them ask their husbands at home. For it is shameful for a woman to speak in church.


book: 1Corinthians
label: 1Cor
content:
  If anyone thinks that he is a prophet, or spiritual, he should acknowledge that the things I am writing to you are a command of the Lord.


book: 1Corinthians
label: 1Cor
content:
  Now I would remind you, brothers, of the gospel I preached to you, which you received, in which you stand,


book: 1Corinthians
label: 1Cor
content:
  and by which you are being saved, if you hold fast to the word I preached to you—unless you believed in vain.


book: 1Corinthians
label: 1Cor
content:
  For I delivered to you as of first importance what I also received: that Christ died for our sins in accordance with the Scriptures,


book: 1Corinthians
label: 1Cor
content:
  Then he appeared to more than five hundred brothers at one time, most of whom are still alive, though some have fallen asleep.


book: 1Corinthians
label: 1Cor
content:
  For I am the least of the apostles, unworthy to be called an apostle, because I persecuted the church of God.


book: 1Corinthians
label: 1Cor
content:
  But by the grace of God I am what I am, and his grace toward me was not in vain. On the contrary, I worked harder than any of them, though it was not I, but the grace of God that is with me.


book: 1Corinthians
label: 1Cor
content:
  Now if Christ is proclaimed as raised from the dead, how can some of you say that there is no resurrection of the dead?


book: 1Corinthians
label: 1Cor
content:
  We are even found to be misrepresenting God, because we testified about God that he raised Christ, whom he did not raise if it is true that the dead are not raised.


book: 1Corinthians
label: 1Cor
content:
  Then comes the end, when he delivers the kingdom to God the Father after destroying every rule and every authority and power.


book: 1Corinthians
label: 1Cor
content:
  For “God has put all things in subjection under his feet.” But when it says, “all things are put in subjection,” it is plain that he is excepted who put all things in subjection under him.


book: 1Corinthians
label: 1Cor
content:
  When all things are subjected to him, then the Son himself will also be subjected to him who put all things in subjection under him, that God may be all in all.


book: 1Corinthians
label: 1Cor
content:
  Otherwise, what do people mean by being baptized on behalf of the dead? If the dead are not raised at all, why are people baptized on their behalf?


book: 1Corinthians
label: 1Cor
content:
  What do I gain if, humanly speaking, I fought with beasts at Ephesus? If the dead are not raised, “Let us eat and drink, for tomorrow we die.”


book: 1Corinthians
label: 1Cor
content:
  Wake up from your drunken stupor, as is right, and do not go on sinning. For some have no knowledge of God. I say this to your shame.


book: 1Corinthians
label: 1Cor
content:
  And what you sow is not the body that is to be, but a bare kernel, perhaps of wheat or of some other grain.


book: 1Corinthians
label: 1Cor
content:
  For not all flesh is the same, but there is one kind for humans, another for animals, another for birds, and another for fish.


book: 1Corinthians
label: 1Cor
content:
  There are heavenly bodies and earthly bodies, but the glory of the heavenly is of one kind, and the glory of the earthly is of another.


book: 1Corinthians
label: 1Cor
content:
  There is one glory of the sun, and another glory of the moon, and another glory of the stars; for star differs from star in glory.


book: 1Corinthians
label: 1Cor
content:
  So is it with the resurrection of the dead. What is sown is perishable; what is raised is imperishable.


book: 1Corinthians
label: 1Cor
content:
  It is sown a natural body; it is raised a spiritual body. If there is a natural body, there is also a spiritual body.


book: 1Corinthians
label: 1Cor
content:
  Thus it is written, “The first man Adam became a living being”; the last Adam became a life-giving spirit.


book: 1Corinthians
label: 1Cor
content:
  As was the man of dust, so also are those who are of the dust, and as is the man of heaven, so also are those who are of heaven.


book: 1Corinthians
label: 1Cor
content:
  Just as we have borne the image of the man of dust, we shall also bear the image of the man of heaven.


book: 1Corinthians
label: 1Cor
content:
  I tell you this, brothers: flesh and blood cannot inherit the kingdom of God, nor does the perishable inherit the imperishable.


book: 1Corinthians
label: 1Cor
content:
  in a moment, in the twinkling of an eye, at the last trumpet. For the trumpet will sound, and the dead will be raised imperishable, and we shall be changed.


book: 1Corinthians
label: 1Cor
content:
  For this perishable body must put on the imperishable, and this mortal body must put on immortality.


book: 1Corinthians
label: 1Cor
content:
  When the perishable puts on the imperishable, and the mortal puts on immortality, then shall come to pass the saying that is written: “Death is swallowed up in victory.”


book: 1Corinthians
label: 1Cor
content:
  Therefore, my beloved brothers, be steadfast, immovable, always abounding in the work of the Lord, knowing that in the Lord your labor is not in vain. 


book: 1Corinthians
label: 1Cor
content:
  Now concerning the collection for the saints: as I directed the churches of Galatia, so you also are to do.


book: 1Corinthians
label: 1Cor
content:
  On the first day of every week, each of you is to put something aside and store it up, as he may prosper, so that there will be no collecting when I come.


book: 1Corinthians
label: 1Cor
content:
  and perhaps I will stay with you or even spend the winter, so that you may help me on my journey, wherever I go.


book: 1Corinthians
label: 1Cor
content:
  For I do not want to see you now just in passing. I hope to spend some time with you, if the Lord permits.


book: 1Corinthians
label: 1Cor
content:
  When Timothy comes, see that you put him at ease among you, for he is doing the work of the Lord, as I am.


book: 1Corinthians
label: 1Cor
content:
  So let no one despise him. Help him on his way in peace, that he may return to me, for I am expecting him with the brothers.


book: 1Corinthians
label: 1Cor
content:
  Now concerning our brother Apollos, I strongly urged him to visit you with the other brothers, but it was not at all his will to come now. He will come when he has opportunity.


book: 1Corinthians
label: 1Cor
content:
  Now I urge you, brothers—you know that the household of Stephanas were the first converts in Achaia, and that they have devoted themselves to the service of the saints—


book: 1Corinthians
label: 1Cor
content:
  I rejoice at the coming of Stephanas and Fortunatus and Achaicus, because they have made up for your absence,


book: 1Corinthians
label: 1Cor
content:
  The churches of Asia send you greetings. Aquila and Prisca, together with the church in their house, send you hearty greetings in the Lord.


book: 2Corinthians
label: 2Cor
content:
  Paul, an apostle of Christ Jesus by the will of God, and Timothy our brother, To the church of God that is at Corinth, with all the saints who are in the whole of Achaia:


book: 2Corinthians
label: 2Cor
content:
  Blessed be the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, the Father of mercies and God of all comfort,


book: 2Corinthians
label: 2Cor
content:
  who comforts us in all our affliction, so that we may be able to comfort those who are in any affliction, with the comfort with which we ourselves are comforted by God.


book: 2Corinthians
label: 2Cor
content:
  For as we share abundantly in Christ’s sufferings, so through Christ we share abundantly in comfort too.


book: 2Corinthians
label: 2Cor
content:
  If we are afflicted, it is for your comfort and salvation; and if we are comforted, it is for your comfort, which you experience when you patiently endure the same sufferings that we suffer.


book: 2Corinthians
label: 2Cor
content:
  Our hope for you is unshaken, for we know that as you share in our sufferings, you will also share in our comfort.


book: 2Corinthians
label: 2Cor
content:
  For we do not want you to be unaware, brothers, of the affliction we experienced in Asia. For we were so utterly burdened beyond our strength that we despaired of life itself.


book: 2Corinthians
label: 2Cor
content:
  Indeed, we felt that we had received the sentence of death. But that was to make us rely not on ourselves but on God who raises the dead.


book: 2Corinthians
label: 2Cor
content:
  He delivered us from such a deadly peril, and he will deliver us. On him we have set our hope that he will deliver us again.


book: 2Corinthians
label: 2Cor
content:
  You also must help us by prayer, so that many will give thanks on our behalf for the blessing granted us through the prayers of many.


book: 2Corinthians
label: 2Cor
content:
  For our boast is this, the testimony of our conscience, that we behaved in the world with simplicity and godly sincerity, not by earthly wisdom but by the grace of God, and supremely so toward you.


book: 2Corinthians
label: 2Cor
content:
  For we are not writing to you anything other than what you read and understand and I hope you will fully understand—


book: 2Corinthians
label: 2Cor
content:
  just as you did partially understand us—that on the day of our Lord Jesus you will boast of us as we will boast of you.


book: 2Corinthians
label: 2Cor
content:
  Because I was sure of this, I wanted to come to you first, so that you might have a second experience of grace.


book: 2Corinthians
label: 2Cor
content:
  I wanted to visit you on my way to Macedonia, and to come back to you from Macedonia and have you send me on my way to Judea.


book: 2Corinthians
label: 2Cor
content:
  Was I vacillating when I wanted to do this? Do I make my plans according to the flesh, ready to say “Yes, yes” and “No, no” at the same time?


book: 2Corinthians
label: 2Cor
content:
  For the Son of God, Jesus Christ, whom we proclaimed among you, Silvanus and Timothy and I, was not Yes and No, but in him it is always Yes.


book: 2Corinthians
label: 2Cor
content:
  For all the promises of God find their Yes in him. That is why it is through him that we utter our Amen to God for his glory.


book: 2Corinthians
label: 2Cor
content:
  But I call God to witness against me—it was to spare you that I refrained from coming again to Corinth.


book: 2Corinthians
label: 2Cor
content:
  Not that we lord it over your faith, but we work with you for your joy, for you stand firm in your faith. 


book: 2Corinthians
label: 2Cor
content:
  And I wrote as I did, so that when I came I might not suffer pain from those who should have made me rejoice, for I felt sure of all of you, that my joy would be the joy of you all.


book: 2Corinthians
label: 2Cor
content:
  For I wrote to you out of much affliction and anguish of heart and with many tears, not to cause you pain but to let you know the abundant love that I have for you.


book: 2Corinthians
label: 2Cor
content:
  Now if anyone has caused pain, he has caused it not to me, but in some measure—not to put it too severely—to all of you.


book: 2Corinthians
label: 2Cor
content:
  Anyone whom you forgive, I also forgive. Indeed, what I have forgiven, if I have forgiven anything, has been for your sake in the presence of Christ,


book: 2Corinthians
label: 2Cor
content:
  When I came to Troas to preach the gospel of Christ, even though a door was opened for me in the Lord,


book: 2Corinthians
label: 2Cor
content:
  my spirit was not at rest because I did not find my brother Titus there. So I took leave of them and went on to Macedonia.


book: 2Corinthians
label: 2Cor
content:
  But thanks be to God, who in Christ always leads us in triumphal procession, and through us spreads the fragrance of the knowledge of him everywhere.


book: 2Corinthians
label: 2Cor
content:
  For we are the aroma of Christ to God among those who are being saved and among those who are perishing,


book: 2Corinthians
label: 2Cor
content:
  to one a fragrance from death to death, to the other a fragrance from life to life. Who is sufficient for these things?


book: 2Corinthians
label: 2Cor
content:
  For we are not, like so many, peddlers of God’s word, but as men of sincerity, as commissioned by God, in the sight of God we speak in Christ. 


book: 2Corinthians
label: 2Cor
content:
  Are we beginning to commend ourselves again? Or do we need, as some do, letters of recommendation to you, or from you?


book: 2Corinthians
label: 2Cor
content:
  You yourselves are our letter of recommendation, written on our hearts, to be known and read by all.


book: 2Corinthians
label: 2Cor
content:
  And you show that you are a letter from Christ delivered by us, written not with ink but with the Spirit of the living God, not on tablets of stone but on tablets of human hearts.


book: 2Corinthians
label: 2Cor
content:
  Not that we are sufficient in ourselves to claim anything as coming from us, but our sufficiency is from God,


book: 2Corinthians
label: 2Cor
content:
  who has made us sufficient to be ministers of a new covenant, not of the letter but of the Spirit. For the letter kills, but the Spirit gives life.


book: 2Corinthians
label: 2Cor
content:
  Now if the ministry of death, carved in letters on stone, came with such glory that the Israelites could not gaze at Moses’ face because of its glory, which was being brought to an end,


book: 2Corinthians
label: 2Cor
content:
  For if there was glory in the ministry of condemnation, the ministry of righteousness must far exceed it in glory.


book: 2Corinthians
label: 2Cor
content:
  Indeed, in this case, what once had glory has come to have no glory at all, because of the glory that surpasses it.


book: 2Corinthians
label: 2Cor
content:
  For if what was being brought to an end came with glory, much more will what is permanent have glory.


book: 2Corinthians
label: 2Cor
content:
  not like Moses, who would put a veil over his face so that the Israelites might not gaze at the outcome of what was being brought to an end.


book: 2Corinthians
label: 2Cor
content:
  But their minds were hardened. For to this day, when they read the old covenant, that same veil remains unlifted, because only through Christ is it taken away.


book: 2Corinthians
label: 2Cor
content:
  And we all, with unveiled face, beholding the glory of the Lord, are being transformed into the same image from one degree of glory to another. For this comes from the Lord who is the Spirit. 


book: 2Corinthians
label: 2Cor
content:
  But we have renounced disgraceful, underhanded ways. We refuse to practice cunning or to tamper with God’s word, but by the open statement of the truth we would commend ourselves to everyone’s conscience in the sight of God.


book: 2Corinthians
label: 2Cor
content:
  In their case the god of this world has blinded the minds of the unbelievers, to keep them from seeing the light of the gospel of the glory of Christ, who is the image of God.


book: 2Corinthians
label: 2Cor
content:
  For what we proclaim is not ourselves, but Jesus Christ as Lord, with ourselves as your servants for Jesus’ sake.


book: 2Corinthians
label: 2Cor
content:
  For God, who said, “Let light shine out of darkness,” has shone in our hearts to give the light of the knowledge of the glory of God in the face of Jesus Christ.


book: 2Corinthians
label: 2Cor
content:
  But we have this treasure in jars of clay, to show that the surpassing power belongs to God and not to us.


book: 2Corinthians
label: 2Cor
content:
  always carrying in the body the death of Jesus, so that the life of Jesus may also be manifested in our bodies.


book: 2Corinthians
label: 2Cor
content:
  For we who live are always being given over to death for Jesus’ sake, so that the life of Jesus also may be manifested in our mortal flesh.


book: 2Corinthians
label: 2Cor
content:
  Since we have the same spirit of faith according to what has been written, “I believed, and so I spoke,” we also believe, and so we also speak,


book: 2Corinthians
label: 2Cor
content:
  knowing that he who raised the Lord Jesus will raise us also with Jesus and bring us with you into his presence.


book: 2Corinthians
label: 2Cor
content:
  For it is all for your sake, so that as grace extends to more and more people it may increase thanksgiving, to the glory of God.


book: 2Corinthians
label: 2Cor
content:
  So we do not lose heart. Though our outer self is wasting away, our inner self is being renewed day by day.


book: 2Corinthians
label: 2Cor
content:
  For this light momentary affliction is preparing for us an eternal weight of glory beyond all comparison,


book: 2Corinthians
label: 2Cor
content:
  as we look not to the things that are seen but to the things that are unseen. For the things that are seen are transient, but the things that are unseen are eternal. 


book: 2Corinthians
label: 2Cor
content:
  For we know that if the tent that is our earthly home is destroyed, we have a building from God, a house not made with hands, eternal in the heavens.


book: 2Corinthians
label: 2Cor
content:
  For while we are still in this tent, we groan, being burdened—not that we would be unclothed, but that we would be further clothed, so that what is mortal may be swallowed up by life.


book: 2Corinthians
label: 2Cor
content:
  So we are always of good courage. We know that while we are at home in the body we are away from the Lord,


book: 2Corinthians
label: 2Cor
content:
  For we must all appear before the judgment seat of Christ, so that each one may receive what is due for what he has done in the body, whether good or evil.


book: 2Corinthians
label: 2Cor
content:
  Therefore, knowing the fear of the Lord, we persuade others. But what we are is known to God, and I hope it is known also to your conscience.


book: 2Corinthians
label: 2Cor
content:
  We are not commending ourselves to you again but giving you cause to boast about us, so that you may be able to answer those who boast about outward appearance and not about what is in the heart.


book: 2Corinthians
label: 2Cor
content:
  For the love of Christ controls us, because we have concluded this: that one has died for all, therefore all have died;


book: 2Corinthians
label: 2Cor
content:
  and he died for all, that those who live might no longer live for themselves but for him who for their sake died and was raised.


book: 2Corinthians
label: 2Cor
content:
  From now on, therefore, we regard no one according to the flesh. Even though we once regarded Christ according to the flesh, we regard him thus no longer.


book: 2Corinthians
label: 2Cor
content:
  Therefore, if anyone is in Christ, he is a new creation. The old has passed away; behold, the new has come.


book: 2Corinthians
label: 2Cor
content:
  All this is from God, who through Christ reconciled us to himself and gave us the ministry of reconciliation;


book: 2Corinthians
label: 2Cor
content:
  that is, in Christ God was reconciling the world to himself, not counting their trespasses against them, and entrusting to us the message of reconciliation.


book: 2Corinthians
label: 2Cor
content:
  Therefore, we are ambassadors for Christ, God making his appeal through us. We implore you on behalf of Christ, be reconciled to God.


book: 2Corinthians
label: 2Cor
content:
  For our sake he made him to be sin who knew no sin, so that in him we might become the righteousness of God. 


book: 2Corinthians
label: 2Cor
content:
  For he says, “In a favorable time I listened to you, and in a day of salvation I have helped you.” Behold, now is the favorable time; behold, now is the day of salvation.


book: 2Corinthians
label: 2Cor
content:
  but as servants of God we commend ourselves in every way: by great endurance, in afflictions, hardships, calamities,


book: 2Corinthians
label: 2Cor
content:
  by truthful speech, and the power of God; with the weapons of righteousness for the right hand and for the left;


book: 2Corinthians
label: 2Cor
content:
  through honor and dishonor, through slander and praise. We are treated as impostors, and yet are true;


book: 2Corinthians
label: 2Cor
content:
  as sorrowful, yet always rejoicing; as poor, yet making many rich; as having nothing, yet possessing everything.


book: 2Corinthians
label: 2Cor
content:
  Do not be unequally yoked with unbelievers. For what partnership has righteousness with lawlessness? Or what fellowship has light with darkness?


book: 2Corinthians
label: 2Cor
content:
  What agreement has the temple of God with idols? For we are the temple of the living God; as God said, “I will make my dwelling among them and walk among them, and I will be their God, and they shall be my people.


book: 2Corinthians
label: 2Cor
content:
  Therefore go out from their midst, and be separate from them, says the Lord, and touch no unclean thing; then I will welcome you,


book: 2Corinthians
label: 2Cor
content:
  Since we have these promises, beloved, let us cleanse ourselves from every defilement of body and spirit, bringing holiness to completion in the fear of God.


book: 2Corinthians
label: 2Cor
content:
  Make room in your hearts for us. We have wronged no one, we have corrupted no one, we have taken advantage of no one.


book: 2Corinthians
label: 2Cor
content:
  I do not say this to condemn you, for I said before that you are in our hearts, to die together and to live together.


book: 2Corinthians
label: 2Cor
content:
  I am acting with great boldness toward you; I have great pride in you; I am filled with comfort. In all our affliction, I am overflowing with joy.


book: 2Corinthians
label: 2Cor
content:
  For even when we came into Macedonia, our bodies had no rest, but we were afflicted at every turn—fighting without and fear within.


book: 2Corinthians
label: 2Cor
content:
  and not only by his coming but also by the comfort with which he was comforted by you, as he told us of your longing, your mourning, your zeal for me, so that I rejoiced still more.


book: 2Corinthians
label: 2Cor
content:
  For even if I made you grieve with my letter, I do not regret it—though I did regret it, for I see that that letter grieved you, though only for a while.


book: 2Corinthians
label: 2Cor
content:
  As it is, I rejoice, not because you were grieved, but because you were grieved into repenting. For you felt a godly grief, so that you suffered no loss through us.


book: 2Corinthians
label: 2Cor
content:
  For godly grief produces a repentance that leads to salvation without regret, whereas worldly grief produces death.


book: 2Corinthians
label: 2Cor
content:
  For see what earnestness this godly grief has produced in you, but also what eagerness to clear yourselves, what indignation, what fear, what longing, what zeal, what punishment! At every point you have proved yourselves innocent in the matter.


book: 2Corinthians
label: 2Cor
content:
  So although I wrote to you, it was not for the sake of the one who did the wrong, nor for the sake of the one who suffered the wrong, but in order that your earnestness for us might be revealed to you in the sight of God.


book: 2Corinthians
label: 2Cor
content:
  Therefore we are comforted. And besides our own comfort, we rejoiced still more at the joy of Titus, because his spirit has been refreshed by you all.


book: 2Corinthians
label: 2Cor
content:
  For whatever boasts I made to him about you, I was not put to shame. But just as everything we said to you was true, so also our boasting before Titus has proved true.


book: 2Corinthians
label: 2Cor
content:
  And his affection for you is even greater, as he remembers the obedience of you all, how you received him with fear and trembling.


book: 2Corinthians
label: 2Cor
content:
  We want you to know, brothers, about the grace of God that has been given among the churches of Macedonia,


book: 2Corinthians
label: 2Cor
content:
  for in a severe test of affliction, their abundance of joy and their extreme poverty have overflowed in a wealth of generosity on their part.


book: 2Corinthians
label: 2Cor
content:
  For they gave according to their means, as I can testify, and beyond their means, of their own accord,


book: 2Corinthians
label: 2Cor
content:
  and this, not as we expected, but they gave themselves first to the Lord and then by the will of God to us.


book: 2Corinthians
label: 2Cor
content:
  Accordingly, we urged Titus that as he had started, so he should complete among you this act of grace.


book: 2Corinthians
label: 2Cor
content:
  But as you excel in everything—in faith, in speech, in knowledge, in all earnestness, and in our love for you—see that you excel in this act of grace also.


book: 2Corinthians
label: 2Cor
content:
  I say this not as a command, but to prove by the earnestness of others that your love also is genuine.


book: 2Corinthians
label: 2Cor
content:
  For you know the grace of our Lord Jesus Christ, that though he was rich, yet for your sake he became poor, so that you by his poverty might become rich.


book: 2Corinthians
label: 2Cor
content:
  And in this matter I give my judgment: this benefits you, who a year ago started not only to do this work but also to desire to do it.


book: 2Corinthians
label: 2Cor
content:
  So now finish doing it as well, so that your readiness in desiring it may be matched by your completing it out of what you have.


book: 2Corinthians
label: 2Cor
content:
  For if the readiness is there, it is acceptable according to what a person has, not according to what he does not have.


book: 2Corinthians
label: 2Cor
content:
  your abundance at the present time should supply their need, so that their abundance may supply your need, that there may be fairness.


book: 2Corinthians
label: 2Cor
content:
  As it is written, “Whoever gathered much had nothing left over, and whoever gathered little had no lack.”


book: 2Corinthians
label: 2Cor
content:
  For he not only accepted our appeal, but being himself very earnest he is going to you of his own accord.


book: 2Corinthians
label: 2Cor
content:
  With him we are sending the brother who is famous among all the churches for his preaching of the gospel.


book: 2Corinthians
label: 2Cor
content:
  And not only that, but he has been appointed by the churches to travel with us as we carry out this act of grace that is being ministered by us, for the glory of the Lord himself and to show our good will.


book: 2Corinthians
label: 2Cor
content:
  We take this course so that no one should blame us about this generous gift that is being administered by us,


book: 2Corinthians
label: 2Cor
content:
  And with them we are sending our brother whom we have often tested and found earnest in many matters, but who is now more earnest than ever because of his great confidence in you.


book: 2Corinthians
label: 2Cor
content:
  As for Titus, he is my partner and fellow worker for your benefit. And as for our brothers, they are messengers of the churches, the glory of Christ.


book: 2Corinthians
label: 2Cor
content:
  for I know your readiness, of which I boast about you to the people of Macedonia, saying that Achaia has been ready since last year. And your zeal has stirred up most of them.


book: 2Corinthians
label: 2Cor
content:
  But I am sending the brothers so that our boasting about you may not prove empty in this matter, so that you may be ready, as I said you would be.


book: 2Corinthians
label: 2Cor
content:
  Otherwise, if some Macedonians come with me and find that you are not ready, we would be humiliated—to say nothing of you—for being so confident.


book: 2Corinthians
label: 2Cor
content:
  So I thought it necessary to urge the brothers to go on ahead to you and arrange in advance for the gift you have promised, so that it may be ready as a willing gift, not as an exaction.


book: 2Corinthians
label: 2Cor
content:
  The point is this: whoever sows sparingly will also reap sparingly, and whoever sows bountifully will also reap bountifully.


book: 2Corinthians
label: 2Cor
content:
  Each one must give as he has decided in his heart, not reluctantly or under compulsion, for God loves a cheerful giver.


book: 2Corinthians
label: 2Cor
content:
  And God is able to make all grace abound to you, so that having all sufficiency in all things at all times, you may abound in every good work.


book: 2Corinthians
label: 2Cor
content:
  As it is written, “He has distributed freely, he has given to the poor; his righteousness endures forever.”


book: 2Corinthians
label: 2Cor
content:
  He who supplies seed to the sower and bread for food will supply and multiply your seed for sowing and increase the harvest of your righteousness.


book: 2Corinthians
label: 2Cor
content:
  You will be enriched in every way to be generous in every way, which through us will produce thanksgiving to God.


book: 2Corinthians
label: 2Cor
content:
  For the ministry of this service is not only supplying the needs of the saints but is also overflowing in many thanksgivings to God.


book: 2Corinthians
label: 2Cor
content:
  By their approval of this service, they will glorify God because of your submission that comes from your confession of the gospel of Christ, and the generosity of your contribution for them and for all others,


book: 2Corinthians
label: 2Cor
content:
  I, Paul, myself entreat you, by the meekness and gentleness of Christ—I who am humble when face to face with you, but bold toward you when I am away!—


book: 2Corinthians
label: 2Cor
content:
  I beg of you that when I am present I may not have to show boldness with such confidence as I count on showing against some who suspect us of walking according to the flesh.


book: 2Corinthians
label: 2Cor
content:
  We destroy arguments and every lofty opinion raised against the knowledge of God, and take every thought captive to obey Christ,


book: 2Corinthians
label: 2Cor
content:
  Look at what is before your eyes. If anyone is confident that he is Christ’s, let him remind himself that just as he is Christ’s, so also are we.


book: 2Corinthians
label: 2Cor
content:
  For even if I boast a little too much of our authority, which the Lord gave for building you up and not for destroying you, I will not be ashamed.


book: 2Corinthians
label: 2Cor
content:
  For they say, “His letters are weighty and strong, but his bodily presence is weak, and his speech of no account.”


book: 2Corinthians
label: 2Cor
content:
  Not that we dare to classify or compare ourselves with some of those who are commending themselves. But when they measure themselves by one another and compare themselves with one another, they are without understanding.


book: 2Corinthians
label: 2Cor
content:
  But we will not boast beyond limits, but will boast only with regard to the area of influence God assigned to us, to reach even to you.


book: 2Corinthians
label: 2Cor
content:
  For we are not overextending ourselves, as though we did not reach you. For we were the first to come all the way to you with the gospel of Christ.


book: 2Corinthians
label: 2Cor
content:
  We do not boast beyond limit in the labors of others. But our hope is that as your faith increases, our area of influence among you may be greatly enlarged,


book: 2Corinthians
label: 2Cor
content:
  so that we may preach the gospel in lands beyond you, without boasting of work already done in another’s area of influence.


book: 2Corinthians
label: 2Cor
content:
  For I feel a divine jealousy for you, since I betrothed you to one husband, to present you as a pure virgin to Christ.


book: 2Corinthians
label: 2Cor
content:
  But I am afraid that as the serpent deceived Eve by his cunning, your thoughts will be led astray from a sincere and pure devotion to Christ.


book: 2Corinthians
label: 2Cor
content:
  For if someone comes and proclaims another Jesus than the one we proclaimed, or if you receive a different spirit from the one you received, or if you accept a different gospel from the one you accepted, you put up with it readily enough.


book: 2Corinthians
label: 2Cor
content:
  Even if I am unskilled in speaking, I am not so in knowledge; indeed, in every way we have made this plain to you in all things.


book: 2Corinthians
label: 2Cor
content:
  Or did I commit a sin in humbling myself so that you might be exalted, because I preached God’s gospel to you free of charge?


book: 2Corinthians
label: 2Cor
content:
  And when I was with you and was in need, I did not burden anyone, for the brothers who came from Macedonia supplied my need. So I refrained and will refrain from burdening you in any way.


book: 2Corinthians
label: 2Cor
content:
  As the truth of Christ is in me, this boasting of mine will not be silenced in the regions of Achaia.


book: 2Corinthians
label: 2Cor
content:
  And what I am doing I will continue to do, in order to undermine the claim of those who would like to claim that in their boasted mission they work on the same terms as we do.


book: 2Corinthians
label: 2Cor
content:
  So it is no surprise if his servants, also, disguise themselves as servants of righteousness. Their end will correspond to their deeds.


book: 2Corinthians
label: 2Cor
content:
  I repeat, let no one think me foolish. But even if you do, accept me as a fool, so that I too may boast a little.


book: 2Corinthians
label: 2Cor
content:
  For you bear it if someone makes slaves of you, or devours you, or takes advantage of you, or puts on airs, or strikes you in the face.


book: 2Corinthians
label: 2Cor
content:
  To my shame, I must say, we were too weak for that! But whatever anyone else dares to boast of—I am speaking as a fool—I also dare to boast of that.


book: 2Corinthians
label: 2Cor
content:
  Are they servants of Christ? I am a better one—I am talking like a madman—with far greater labors, far more imprisonments, with countless beatings, and often near death.


book: 2Corinthians
label: 2Cor
content:
  Three times I was beaten with rods. Once I was stoned. Three times I was shipwrecked; a night and a day I was adrift at sea;


book: 2Corinthians
label: 2Cor
content:
  on frequent journeys, in danger from rivers, danger from robbers, danger from my own people, danger from Gentiles, danger in the city, danger in the wilderness, danger at sea, danger from false brothers;


book: 2Corinthians
label: 2Cor
content:
  in toil and hardship, through many a sleepless night, in hunger and thirst, often without food, in cold and exposure.


book: 2Corinthians
label: 2Cor
content:
  I must go on boasting. Though there is nothing to be gained by it, I will go on to visions and revelations of the Lord.


book: 2Corinthians
label: 2Cor
content:
  I know a man in Christ who fourteen years ago was caught up to the third heaven—whether in the body or out of the body I do not know, God knows.


book: 2Corinthians
label: 2Cor
content:
  And I know that this man was caught up into paradise—whether in the body or out of the body I do not know, God knows—


book: 2Corinthians
label: 2Cor
content:
  though if I should wish to boast, I would not be a fool, for I would be speaking the truth; but I refrain from it, so that no one may think more of me than he sees in me or hears from me.


book: 2Corinthians
label: 2Cor
content:
  So to keep me from becoming conceited because of the surpassing greatness of the revelations, a thorn was given me in the flesh, a messenger of Satan to harass me, to keep me from becoming conceited.


book: 2Corinthians
label: 2Cor
content:
  But he said to me, “My grace is sufficient for you, for my power is made perfect in weakness.” Therefore I will boast all the more gladly of my weaknesses, so that the power of Christ may rest upon me.


book: 2Corinthians
label: 2Cor
content:
  For the sake of Christ, then, I am content with weaknesses, insults, hardships, persecutions, and calamities. For when I am weak, then I am strong.


book: 2Corinthians
label: 2Cor
content:
  I have been a fool! You forced me to it, for I ought to have been commended by you. For I was not at all inferior to these super-apostles, even though I am nothing.


book: 2Corinthians
label: 2Cor
content:
  The signs of a true apostle were performed among you with utmost patience, with signs and wonders and mighty works.


book: 2Corinthians
label: 2Cor
content:
  For in what were you less favored than the rest of the churches, except that I myself did not burden you? Forgive me this wrong!


book: 2Corinthians
label: 2Cor
content:
  Here for the third time I am ready to come to you. And I will not be a burden, for I seek not what is yours but you. For children are not obligated to save up for their parents, but parents for their children.


book: 2Corinthians
label: 2Cor
content:
  But granting that I myself did not burden you, I was crafty, you say, and got the better of you by deceit.


book: 2Corinthians
label: 2Cor
content:
  I urged Titus to go, and sent the brother with him. Did Titus take advantage of you? Did we not act in the same spirit? Did we not take the same steps?


book: 2Corinthians
label: 2Cor
content:
  Have you been thinking all along that we have been defending ourselves to you? It is in the sight of God that we have been speaking in Christ, and all for your upbuilding, beloved.


book: 2Corinthians
label: 2Cor
content:
  For I fear that perhaps when I come I may find you not as I wish, and that you may find me not as you wish—that perhaps there may be quarreling, jealousy, anger, hostility, slander, gossip, conceit, and disorder.


book: 2Corinthians
label: 2Cor
content:
  I fear that when I come again my God may humble me before you, and I may have to mourn over many of those who sinned earlier and have not repented of the impurity, sexual immorality, and sensuality that they have practiced. 


book: 2Corinthians
label: 2Cor
content:
  This is the third time I am coming to you. Every charge must be established by the evidence of two or three witnesses.


book: 2Corinthians
label: 2Cor
content:
  I warned those who sinned before and all the others, and I warn them now while absent, as I did when present on my second visit, that if I come again I will not spare them—


book: 2Corinthians
label: 2Cor
content:
  since you seek proof that Christ is speaking in me. He is not weak in dealing with you, but is powerful among you.


book: 2Corinthians
label: 2Cor
content:
  For he was crucified in weakness, but lives by the power of God. For we also are weak in him, but in dealing with you we will live with him by the power of God.


book: 2Corinthians
label: 2Cor
content:
  Examine yourselves, to see whether you are in the faith. Test yourselves. Or do you not realize this about yourselves, that Jesus Christ is in you?—unless indeed you fail to meet the test!


book: 2Corinthians
label: 2Cor
content:
  But we pray to God that you may not do wrong—not that we may appear to have met the test, but that you may do what is right, though we may seem to have failed.


book: 2Corinthians
label: 2Cor
content:
  For this reason I write these things while I am away from you, that when I come I may not have to be severe in my use of the authority that the Lord has given me for building up and not for tearing down.


book: 2Corinthians
label: 2Cor
content:
  Finally, brothers, rejoice. Aim for restoration, comfort one another, agree with one another, live in peace; and the God of love and peace will be with you.


book: 2Corinthians
label: 2Cor
content:
  The grace of the Lord Jesus Christ and the love of God and the fellowship of the Holy Spirit be with you all. 


book: Galatians
label: Gal
content:
  Paul, an apostle—not from men nor through man, but through Jesus Christ and God the Father, who raised him from the dead—


book: Galatians
label: Gal
content:
  who gave himself for our sins to deliver us from the present evil age, according to the will of our God and Father,


book: Galatians
label: Gal
content:
  I am astonished that you are so quickly deserting him who called you in the grace of Christ and are turning to a different gospel—


book: Galatians
label: Gal
content:
  not that there is another one, but there are some who trouble you and want to distort the gospel of Christ.


book: Galatians
label: Gal
content:
  But even if we or an angel from heaven should preach to you a gospel contrary to the one we preached to you, let him be accursed.


book: Galatians
label: Gal
content:
  As we have said before, so now I say again: If anyone is preaching to you a gospel contrary to the one you received, let him be accursed.


book: Galatians
label: Gal
content:
  For am I now seeking the approval of man, or of God? Or am I trying to please man? If I were still trying to please man, I would not be a servant of Christ.


book: Galatians
label: Gal
content:
  For I did not receive it from any man, nor was I taught it, but I received it through a revelation of Jesus Christ.


book: Galatians
label: Gal
content:
  For you have heard of my former life in Judaism, how I persecuted the church of God violently and tried to destroy it.


book: Galatians
label: Gal
content:
  And I was advancing in Judaism beyond many of my own age among my people, so extremely zealous was I for the traditions of my fathers.


book: Galatians
label: Gal
content:
  was pleased to reveal his Son to me, in order that I might preach him among the Gentiles, I did not immediately consult with anyone;


book: Galatians
label: Gal
content:
  nor did I go up to Jerusalem to those who were apostles before me, but I went away into Arabia, and returned again to Damascus.


book: Galatians
label: Gal
content:
  They only were hearing it said, “He who used to persecute us is now preaching the faith he once tried to destroy.”


book: Galatians
label: Gal
content:
  I went up because of a revelation and set before them (though privately before those who seemed influential) the gospel that I proclaim among the Gentiles, in order to make sure I was not running or had not run in vain.


book: Galatians
label: Gal
content:
  Yet because of false brothers secretly brought in—who slipped in to spy out our freedom that we have in Christ Jesus, so that they might bring us into slavery—


book: Galatians
label: Gal
content:
  to them we did not yield in submission even for a moment, so that the truth of the gospel might be preserved for you.


book: Galatians
label: Gal
content:
  And from those who seemed to be influential (what they were makes no difference to me; God shows no partiality)—those, I say, who seemed influential added nothing to me.


book: Galatians
label: Gal
content:
  On the contrary, when they saw that I had been entrusted with the gospel to the uncircumcised, just as Peter had been entrusted with the gospel to the circumcised


book: Galatians
label: Gal
content:
  (for he who worked through Peter for his apostolic ministry to the circumcised worked also through me for mine to the Gentiles),


book: Galatians
label: Gal
content:
  and when James and Cephas and John, who seemed to be pillars, perceived the grace that was given to me, they gave the right hand of fellowship to Barnabas and me, that we should go to the Gentiles and they to the circumcised.


book: Galatians
label: Gal
content:
  For before certain men came from James, he was eating with the Gentiles; but when they came he drew back and separated himself, fearing the circumcision party.


book: Galatians
label: Gal
content:
  And the rest of the Jews acted hypocritically along with him, so that even Barnabas was led astray by their hypocrisy.


book: Galatians
label: Gal
content:
  But when I saw that their conduct was not in step with the truth of the gospel, I said to Cephas before them all, “If you, though a Jew, live like a Gentile and not like a Jew, how can you force the Gentiles to live like Jews?”


book: Galatians
label: Gal
content:
  yet we know that a person is not justified by works of the law but through faith in Jesus Christ, so we also have believed in Christ Jesus, in order to be justified by faith in Christ and not by works of the law, because by works of the law no one will be justified.


book: Galatians
label: Gal
content:
  But if, in our endeavor to be justified in Christ, we too were found to be sinners, is Christ then a servant of sin? Certainly not!


book: Galatians
label: Gal
content:
  I have been crucified with Christ. It is no longer I who live, but Christ who lives in me. And the life I now live in the flesh I live by faith in the Son of God, who loved me and gave himself for me.


book: Galatians
label: Gal
content:
  I do not nullify the grace of God, for if righteousness were through the law, then Christ died for no purpose. 


book: Galatians
label: Gal
content:
  O foolish Galatians! Who has bewitched you? It was before your eyes that Jesus Christ was publicly portrayed as crucified.


book: Galatians
label: Gal
content:
  Does he who supplies the Spirit to you and works miracles among you do so by works of the law, or by hearing with faith—


book: Galatians
label: Gal
content:
  And the Scripture, foreseeing that God would justify the Gentiles by faith, preached the gospel beforehand to Abraham, saying, “In you shall all the nations be blessed.”


book: Galatians
label: Gal
content:
  For all who rely on works of the law are under a curse; for it is written, “Cursed be everyone who does not abide by all things written in the Book of the Law, and do them.”


book: Galatians
label: Gal
content:
  Now it is evident that no one is justified before God by the law, for “The righteous shall live by faith.”


book: Galatians
label: Gal
content:
  Christ redeemed us from the curse of the law by becoming a curse for us—for it is written, “Cursed is everyone who is hanged on a tree”—


book: Galatians
label: Gal
content:
  so that in Christ Jesus the blessing of Abraham might come to the Gentiles, so that we might receive the promised Spirit through faith.


book: Galatians
label: Gal
content:
  To give a human example, brothers: even with a man-made covenant, no one annuls it or adds to it once it has been ratified.


book: Galatians
label: Gal
content:
  Now the promises were made to Abraham and to his offspring. It does not say, “And to offsprings,” referring to many, but referring to one, “And to your offspring,” who is Christ.


book: Galatians
label: Gal
content:
  This is what I mean: the law, which came 430 years afterward, does not annul a covenant previously ratified by God, so as to make the promise void.


book: Galatians
label: Gal
content:
  For if the inheritance comes by the law, it no longer comes by promise; but God gave it to Abraham by a promise.


book: Galatians
label: Gal
content:
  Why then the law? It was added because of transgressions, until the offspring should come to whom the promise had been made, and it was put in place through angels by an intermediary.


book: Galatians
label: Gal
content:
  Is the law then contrary to the promises of God? Certainly not! For if a law had been given that could give life, then righteousness would indeed be by the law.


book: Galatians
label: Gal
content:
  But the Scripture imprisoned everything under sin, so that the promise by faith in Jesus Christ might be given to those who believe.


book: Galatians
label: Gal
content:
  Now before faith came, we were held captive under the law, imprisoned until the coming faith would be revealed.


book: Galatians
label: Gal
content:
  There is neither Jew nor Greek, there is neither slave nor free, there is no male and female, for you are all one in Christ Jesus.


book: Galatians
label: Gal
content:
  I mean that the heir, as long as he is a child, is no different from a slave, though he is the owner of everything,


book: Galatians
label: Gal
content:
  In the same way we also, when we were children, were enslaved to the elementary principles of the world.


book: Galatians
label: Gal
content:
  And because you are sons, God has sent the Spirit of his Son into our hearts, crying, “Abba! Father!”


book: Galatians
label: Gal
content:
  But now that you have come to know God, or rather to be known by God, how can you turn back again to the weak and worthless elementary principles of the world, whose slaves you want to be once more?


book: Galatians
label: Gal
content:
  and though my condition was a trial to you, you did not scorn or despise me, but received me as an angel of God, as Christ Jesus.


book: Galatians
label: Gal
content:
  What then has become of your blessedness? For I testify to you that, if possible, you would have gouged out your eyes and given them to me.


book: Galatians
label: Gal
content:
  They make much of you, but for no good purpose. They want to shut you out, that you may make much of them.


book: Galatians
label: Gal
content:
  But the son of the slave was born according to the flesh, while the son of the free woman was born through promise.


book: Galatians
label: Gal
content:
  Now this may be interpreted allegorically: these women are two covenants. One is from Mount Sinai, bearing children for slavery; she is Hagar.


book: Galatians
label: Gal
content:
  Now Hagar is Mount Sinai in Arabia; she corresponds to the present Jerusalem, for she is in slavery with her children.


book: Galatians
label: Gal
content:
  For it is written, “Rejoice, O barren one who does not bear; break forth and cry aloud, you who are not in labor! For the children of the desolate one will be more than those of the one who has a husband.”


book: Galatians
label: Gal
content:
  But just as at that time he who was born according to the flesh persecuted him who was born according to the Spirit, so also it is now.


book: Galatians
label: Gal
content:
  But what does the Scripture say? “Cast out the slave woman and her son, for the son of the slave woman shall not inherit with the son of the free woman.”


book: Galatians
label: Gal
content:
  For freedom Christ has set us free; stand firm therefore, and do not submit again to a yoke of slavery.


book: Galatians
label: Gal
content:
  You are severed from Christ, you who would be justified by the law; you have fallen away from grace.


book: Galatians
label: Gal
content:
  For in Christ Jesus neither circumcision nor uncircumcision counts for anything, but only faith working through love.


book: Galatians
label: Gal
content:
  I have confidence in the Lord that you will take no other view, and the one who is troubling you will bear the penalty, whoever he is.


book: Galatians
label: Gal
content:
  But if I, brothers, still preach circumcision, why am I still being persecuted? In that case the offense of the cross has been removed.


book: Galatians
label: Gal
content:
  For you were called to freedom, brothers. Only do not use your freedom as an opportunity for the flesh, but through love serve one another.


book: Galatians
label: Gal
content:
  For the desires of the flesh are against the Spirit, and the desires of the Spirit are against the flesh, for these are opposed to each other, to keep you from doing the things you want to do.


book: Galatians
label: Gal
content:
  envy, drunkenness, orgies, and things like these. I warn you, as I warned you before, that those who do such things will not inherit the kingdom of God.


book: Galatians
label: Gal
content:
  Brothers, if anyone is caught in any transgression, you who are spiritual should restore him in a spirit of gentleness. Keep watch on yourself, lest you too be tempted.


book: Galatians
label: Gal
content:
  But let each one test his own work, and then his reason to boast will be in himself alone and not in his neighbor.


book: Galatians
label: Gal
content:
  For the one who sows to his own flesh will from the flesh reap corruption, but the one who sows to the Spirit will from the Spirit reap eternal life.


book: Galatians
label: Gal
content:
  So then, as we have opportunity, let us do good to everyone, and especially to those who are of the household of faith.


book: Galatians
label: Gal
content:
  It is those who want to make a good showing in the flesh who would force you to be circumcised, and only in order that they may not be persecuted for the cross of Christ.


book: Galatians
label: Gal
content:
  For even those who are circumcised do not themselves keep the law, but they desire to have you circumcised that they may boast in your flesh.


book: Galatians
label: Gal
content:
  But far be it from me to boast except in the cross of our Lord Jesus Christ, by which the world has been crucified to me, and I to the world.


book: Ephesians
label: Eph
content:
  Paul, an apostle of Christ Jesus by the will of God, To the saints who are in Ephesus, and are faithful in Christ Jesus:


book: Ephesians
label: Eph
content:
  Blessed be the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, who has blessed us in Christ with every spiritual blessing in the heavenly places,


book: Ephesians
label: Eph
content:
  even as he chose us in him before the foundation of the world, that we should be holy and blameless before him. In love


book: Ephesians
label: Eph
content:
  he predestined us for adoption to himself as sons through Jesus Christ, according to the purpose of his will,


book: Ephesians
label: Eph
content:
  In him we have redemption through his blood, the forgiveness of our trespasses, according to the riches of his grace,


book: Ephesians
label: Eph
content:
  as a plan for the fullness of time, to unite all things in him, things in heaven and things on earth.


book: Ephesians
label: Eph
content:
  In him we have obtained an inheritance, having been predestined according to the purpose of him who works all things according to the counsel of his will,


book: Ephesians
label: Eph
content:
  In him you also, when you heard the word of truth, the gospel of your salvation, and believed in him, were sealed with the promised Holy Spirit,


book: Ephesians
label: Eph
content:
  who is the guarantee of our inheritance until we acquire possession of it, to the praise of his glory.


book: Ephesians
label: Eph
content:
  For this reason, because I have heard of your faith in the Lord Jesus and your love toward all the saints,


book: Ephesians
label: Eph
content:
  that the God of our Lord Jesus Christ, the Father of glory, may give you the Spirit of wisdom and of revelation in the knowledge of him,


book: Ephesians
label: Eph
content:
  having the eyes of your hearts enlightened, that you may know what is the hope to which he has called you, what are the riches of his glorious inheritance in the saints,


book: Ephesians
label: Eph
content:
  and what is the immeasurable greatness of his power toward us who believe, according to the working of his great might


book: Ephesians
label: Eph
content:
  that he worked in Christ when he raised him from the dead and seated him at his right hand in the heavenly places,


book: Ephesians
label: Eph
content:
  far above all rule and authority and power and dominion, and above every name that is named, not only in this age but also in the one to come.


book: Ephesians
label: Eph
content:
  in which you once walked, following the course of this world, following the prince of the power of the air, the spirit that is now at work in the sons of disobedience—


book: Ephesians
label: Eph
content:
  among whom we all once lived in the passions of our flesh, carrying out the desires of the body and the mind, and were by nature children of wrath, like the rest of mankind.


book: Ephesians
label: Eph
content:
  even when we were dead in our trespasses, made us alive together with Christ—by grace you have been saved—


book: Ephesians
label: Eph
content:
  so that in the coming ages he might show the immeasurable riches of his grace in kindness toward us in Christ Jesus.


book: Ephesians
label: Eph
content:
  For by grace you have been saved through faith. And this is not your own doing; it is the gift of God,


book: Ephesians
label: Eph
content:
  For we are his workmanship, created in Christ Jesus for good works, which God prepared beforehand, that we should walk in them.


book: Ephesians
label: Eph
content:
  Therefore remember that at one time you Gentiles in the flesh, called “the uncircumcision” by what is called the circumcision, which is made in the flesh by hands—


book: Ephesians
label: Eph
content:
  remember that you were at that time separated from Christ, alienated from the commonwealth of Israel and strangers to the covenants of promise, having no hope and without God in the world.


book: Ephesians
label: Eph
content:
  For he himself is our peace, who has made us both one and has broken down in his flesh the dividing wall of hostility


book: Ephesians
label: Eph
content:
  by abolishing the law of commandments expressed in ordinances, that he might create in himself one new man in place of the two, so making peace,


book: Ephesians
label: Eph
content:
  So then you are no longer strangers and aliens, but you are fellow citizens with the saints and members of the household of God,


book: Ephesians
label: Eph
content:
  which was not made known to the sons of men in other generations as it has now been revealed to his holy apostles and prophets by the Spirit.


book: Ephesians
label: Eph
content:
  This mystery is that the Gentiles are fellow heirs, members of the same body, and partakers of the promise in Christ Jesus through the gospel.


book: Ephesians
label: Eph
content:
  Of this gospel I was made a minister according to the gift of God’s grace, which was given me by the working of his power.


book: Ephesians
label: Eph
content:
  To me, though I am the very least of all the saints, this grace was given, to preach to the Gentiles the unsearchable riches of Christ,


book: Ephesians
label: Eph
content:
  and to bring to light for everyone what is the plan of the mystery hidden for ages in God, who created all things,


book: Ephesians
label: Eph
content:
  so that through the church the manifold wisdom of God might now be made known to the rulers and authorities in the heavenly places.


book: Ephesians
label: Eph
content:
  that according to the riches of his glory he may grant you to be strengthened with power through his Spirit in your inner being,


book: Ephesians
label: Eph
content:
  may have strength to comprehend with all the saints what is the breadth and length and height and depth,


book: Ephesians
label: Eph
content:
  and to know the love of Christ that surpasses knowledge, that you may be filled with all the fullness of God.


book: Ephesians
label: Eph
content:
  Now to him who is able to do far more abundantly than all that we ask or think, according to the power at work within us,


book: Ephesians
label: Eph
content:
  to him be glory in the church and in Christ Jesus throughout all generations, forever and ever. Amen. 


book: Ephesians
label: Eph
content:
  I therefore, a prisoner for the Lord, urge you to walk in a manner worthy of the calling to which you have been called,


book: Ephesians
label: Eph
content:
  (In saying, “He ascended,” what does it mean but that he had also descended into the lower regions, the earth?


book: Ephesians
label: Eph
content:
  He who descended is the one who also ascended far above all the heavens, that he might fill all things.)


book: Ephesians
label: Eph
content:
  until we all attain to the unity of the faith and of the knowledge of the Son of God, to mature manhood, to the measure of the stature of the fullness of Christ,


book: Ephesians
label: Eph
content:
  so that we may no longer be children, tossed to and fro by the waves and carried about by every wind of doctrine, by human cunning, by craftiness in deceitful schemes.


book: Ephesians
label: Eph
content:
  Rather, speaking the truth in love, we are to grow up in every way into him who is the head, into Christ,


book: Ephesians
label: Eph
content:
  from whom the whole body, joined and held together by every joint with which it is equipped, when each part is working properly, makes the body grow so that it builds itself up in love.


book: Ephesians
label: Eph
content:
  Now this I say and testify in the Lord, that you must no longer walk as the Gentiles do, in the futility of their minds.


book: Ephesians
label: Eph
content:
  They are darkened in their understanding, alienated from the life of God because of the ignorance that is in them, due to their hardness of heart.


book: Ephesians
label: Eph
content:
  They have become callous and have given themselves up to sensuality, greedy to practice every kind of impurity.


book: Ephesians
label: Eph
content:
  to put off your old self, which belongs to your former manner of life and is corrupt through deceitful desires,


book: Ephesians
label: Eph
content:
  Therefore, having put away falsehood, let each one of you speak the truth with his neighbor, for we are members one of another.


book: Ephesians
label: Eph
content:
  Let the thief no longer steal, but rather let him labor, doing honest work with his own hands, so that he may have something to share with anyone in need.


book: Ephesians
label: Eph
content:
  Let no corrupting talk come out of your mouths, but only such as is good for building up, as fits the occasion, that it may give grace to those who hear.


book: Ephesians
label: Eph
content:
  Let all bitterness and wrath and anger and clamor and slander be put away from you, along with all malice.


book: Ephesians
label: Eph
content:
  And walk in love, as Christ loved us and gave himself up for us, a fragrant offering and sacrifice to God.


book: Ephesians
label: Eph
content:
  But sexual immorality and all impurity or covetousness must not even be named among you, as is proper among saints.


book: Ephesians
label: Eph
content:
  Let there be no filthiness nor foolish talk nor crude joking, which are out of place, but instead let there be thanksgiving.


book: Ephesians
label: Eph
content:
  For you may be sure of this, that everyone who is sexually immoral or impure, or who is covetous (that is, an idolater), has no inheritance in the kingdom of Christ and God.


book: Ephesians
label: Eph
content:
  Let no one deceive you with empty words, for because of these things the wrath of God comes upon the sons of disobedience.


book: Ephesians
label: Eph
content:
  for anything that becomes visible is light. Therefore it says, “Awake, O sleeper, and arise from the dead, and Christ will shine on you.”


book: Ephesians
label: Eph
content:
  addressing one another in psalms and hymns and spiritual songs, singing and making melody to the Lord with your heart,


book: Ephesians
label: Eph
content:
  For the husband is the head of the wife even as Christ is the head of the church, his body, and is himself its Savior.


book: Ephesians
label: Eph
content:
  so that he might present the church to himself in splendor, without spot or wrinkle or any such thing, that she might be holy and without blemish.


book: Ephesians
label: Eph
content:
  In the same way husbands should love their wives as their own bodies. He who loves his wife loves himself.


book: Ephesians
label: Eph
content:
  For no one ever hated his own flesh, but nourishes and cherishes it, just as Christ does the church,


book: Ephesians
label: Eph
content:
  “Therefore a man shall leave his father and mother and hold fast to his wife, and the two shall become one flesh.”


book: Ephesians
label: Eph
content:
  However, let each one of you love his wife as himself, and let the wife see that she respects her husband. 


book: Ephesians
label: Eph
content:
  Fathers, do not provoke your children to anger, but bring them up in the discipline and instruction of the Lord.


book: Ephesians
label: Eph
content:
  Bondservants, obey your earthly masters with fear and trembling, with a sincere heart, as you would Christ,


book: Ephesians
label: Eph
content:
  not by the way of eye-service, as people-pleasers, but as bondservants of Christ, doing the will of God from the heart,


book: Ephesians
label: Eph
content:
  knowing that whatever good anyone does, this he will receive back from the Lord, whether he is a bondservant or is free.


book: Ephesians
label: Eph
content:
  Masters, do the same to them, and stop your threatening, knowing that he who is both their Master and yours is in heaven, and that there is no partiality with him.


book: Ephesians
label: Eph
content:
  For we do not wrestle against flesh and blood, but against the rulers, against the authorities, against the cosmic powers over this present darkness, against the spiritual forces of evil in the heavenly places.


book: Ephesians
label: Eph
content:
  Therefore take up the whole armor of God, that you may be able to withstand in the evil day, and having done all, to stand firm.


book: Ephesians
label: Eph
content:
  Stand therefore, having fastened on the belt of truth, and having put on the breastplate of righteousness,


book: Ephesians
label: Eph
content:
  In all circumstances take up the shield of faith, with which you can extinguish all the flaming darts of the evil one;


book: Ephesians
label: Eph
content:
  praying at all times in the Spirit, with all prayer and supplication. To that end, keep alert with all perseverance, making supplication for all the saints,


book: Ephesians
label: Eph
content:
  and also for me, that words may be given to me in opening my mouth boldly to proclaim the mystery of the gospel,


book: Ephesians
label: Eph
content:
  So that you also may know how I am and what I am doing, Tychicus the beloved brother and faithful minister in the Lord will tell you everything.


book: Ephesians
label: Eph
content:
  I have sent him to you for this very purpose, that you may know how we are, and that he may encourage your hearts.


book: Philippians
label: Phil
content:
  Paul and Timothy, servants of Christ Jesus, To all the saints in Christ Jesus who are at Philippi, with the overseers and deacons:


book: Philippians
label: Phil
content:
  And I am sure of this, that he who began a good work in you will bring it to completion at the day of Jesus Christ.


book: Philippians
label: Phil
content:
  It is right for me to feel this way about you all, because I hold you in my heart, for you are all partakers with me of grace, both in my imprisonment and in the defense and confirmation of the gospel.


book: Philippians
label: Phil
content:
  filled with the fruit of righteousness that comes through Jesus Christ, to the glory and praise of God.


book: Philippians
label: Phil
content:
  so that it has become known throughout the whole imperial guard and to all the rest that my imprisonment is for Christ.


book: Philippians
label: Phil
content:
  And most of the brothers, having become confident in the Lord by my imprisonment, are much more bold to speak the word without fear.


book: Philippians
label: Phil
content:
  The former proclaim Christ out of selfish ambition, not sincerely but thinking to afflict me in my imprisonment.


book: Philippians
label: Phil
content:
  What then? Only that in every way, whether in pretense or in truth, Christ is proclaimed, and in that I rejoice. Yes, and I will rejoice,


book: Philippians
label: Phil
content:
  for I know that through your prayers and the help of the Spirit of Jesus Christ this will turn out for my deliverance,


book: Philippians
label: Phil
content:
  as it is my eager expectation and hope that I will not be at all ashamed, but that with full courage now as always Christ will be honored in my body, whether by life or by death.


book: Philippians
label: Phil
content:
  If I am to live in the flesh, that means fruitful labor for me. Yet which I shall choose I cannot tell.


book: Philippians
label: Phil
content:
  I am hard pressed between the two. My desire is to depart and be with Christ, for that is far better.


book: Philippians
label: Phil
content:
  Convinced of this, I know that I will remain and continue with you all, for your progress and joy in the faith,


book: Philippians
label: Phil
content:
  Only let your manner of life be worthy of the gospel of Christ, so that whether I come and see you or am absent, I may hear of you that you are standing firm in one spirit, with one mind striving side by side for the faith of the gospel,


book: Philippians
label: Phil
content:
  and not frightened in anything by your opponents. This is a clear sign to them of their destruction, but of your salvation, and that from God.


book: Philippians
label: Phil
content:
  For it has been granted to you that for the sake of Christ you should not only believe in him but also suffer for his sake,


book: Philippians
label: Phil
content:
  So if there is any encouragement in Christ, any comfort from love, any participation in the Spirit, any affection and sympathy,


book: Philippians
label: Phil
content:
  complete my joy by being of the same mind, having the same love, being in full accord and of one mind.


book: Philippians
label: Phil
content:
  Do nothing from selfish ambition or conceit, but in humility count others more significant than yourselves.


book: Philippians
label: Phil
content:
  And being found in human form, he humbled himself by becoming obedient to the point of death, even death on a cross.


book: Philippians
label: Phil
content:
  Therefore, my beloved, as you have always obeyed, so now, not only as in my presence but much more in my absence, work out your own salvation with fear and trembling,


book: Philippians
label: Phil
content:
  that you may be blameless and innocent, children of God without blemish in the midst of a crooked and twisted generation, among whom you shine as lights in the world,


book: Philippians
label: Phil
content:
  holding fast to the word of life, so that in the day of Christ I may be proud that I did not run in vain or labor in vain.


book: Philippians
label: Phil
content:
  Even if I am to be poured out as a drink offering upon the sacrificial offering of your faith, I am glad and rejoice with you all.


book: Philippians
label: Phil
content:
  But you know Timothy’s proven worth, how as a son with a father he has served with me in the gospel.


book: Philippians
label: Phil
content:
  I have thought it necessary to send to you Epaphroditus my brother and fellow worker and fellow soldier, and your messenger and minister to my need,


book: Philippians
label: Phil
content:
  Indeed he was ill, near to death. But God had mercy on him, and not only on him but on me also, lest I should have sorrow upon sorrow.


book: Philippians
label: Phil
content:
  I am the more eager to send him, therefore, that you may rejoice at seeing him again, and that I may be less anxious.


book: Philippians
label: Phil
content:
  for he nearly died for the work of Christ, risking his life to complete what was lacking in your service to me. 


book: Philippians
label: Phil
content:
  Finally, my brothers, rejoice in the Lord. To write the same things to you is no trouble to me and is safe for you.


book: Philippians
label: Phil
content:
  For we are the circumcision, who worship by the Spirit of God and glory in Christ Jesus and put no confidence in the flesh—


book: Philippians
label: Phil
content:
  though I myself have reason for confidence in the flesh also. If anyone else thinks he has reason for confidence in the flesh, I have more:


book: Philippians
label: Phil
content:
  circumcised on the eighth day, of the people of Israel, of the tribe of Benjamin, a Hebrew of Hebrews; as to the law, a Pharisee;


book: Philippians
label: Phil
content:
  Indeed, I count everything as loss because of the surpassing worth of knowing Christ Jesus my Lord. For his sake I have suffered the loss of all things and count them as rubbish, in order that I may gain Christ


book: Philippians
label: Phil
content:
  and be found in him, not having a righteousness of my own that comes from the law, but that which comes through faith in Christ, the righteousness from God that depends on faith—


book: Philippians
label: Phil
content:
  that I may know him and the power of his resurrection, and may share his sufferings, becoming like him in his death,


book: Philippians
label: Phil
content:
  Not that I have already obtained this or am already perfect, but I press on to make it my own, because Christ Jesus has made me his own.


book: Philippians
label: Phil
content:
  Brothers, I do not consider that I have made it my own. But one thing I do: forgetting what lies behind and straining forward to what lies ahead,


book: Philippians
label: Phil
content:
  Let those of us who are mature think this way, and if in anything you think otherwise, God will reveal that also to you.


book: Philippians
label: Phil
content:
  Brothers, join in imitating me, and keep your eyes on those who walk according to the example you have in us.


book: Philippians
label: Phil
content:
  For many, of whom I have often told you and now tell you even with tears, walk as enemies of the cross of Christ.


book: Philippians
label: Phil
content:
  Their end is destruction, their god is their belly, and they glory in their shame, with minds set on earthly things.


book: Philippians
label: Phil
content:
  who will transform our lowly body to be like his glorious body, by the power that enables him even to subject all things to himself. 


book: Philippians
label: Phil
content:
  Therefore, my brothers, whom I love and long for, my joy and crown, stand firm thus in the Lord, my beloved.


book: Philippians
label: Phil
content:
  Yes, I ask you also, true companion, help these women, who have labored side by side with me in the gospel together with Clement and the rest of my fellow workers, whose names are in the book of life.


book: Philippians
label: Phil
content:
  do not be anxious about anything, but in everything by prayer and supplication with thanksgiving let your requests be made known to God.


book: Philippians
label: Phil
content:
  And the peace of God, which surpasses all understanding, will guard your hearts and your minds in Christ Jesus.


book: Philippians
label: Phil
content:
  Finally, brothers, whatever is true, whatever is honorable, whatever is just, whatever is pure, whatever is lovely, whatever is commendable, if there is any excellence, if there is anything worthy of praise, think about these things.


book: Philippians
label: Phil
content:
  What you have learned and received and heard and seen in me—practice these things, and the God of peace will be with you.


book: Philippians
label: Phil
content:
  I rejoiced in the Lord greatly that now at length you have revived your concern for me. You were indeed concerned for me, but you had no opportunity.


book: Philippians
label: Phil
content:
  Not that I am speaking of being in need, for I have learned in whatever situation I am to be content.


book: Philippians
label: Phil
content:
  I know how to be brought low, and I know how to abound. In any and every circumstance, I have learned the secret of facing plenty and hunger, abundance and need.


book: Philippians
label: Phil
content:
  And you Philippians yourselves know that in the beginning of the gospel, when I left Macedonia, no church entered into partnership with me in giving and receiving, except you only.


book: Philippians
label: Phil
content:
  I have received full payment, and more. I am well supplied, having received from Epaphroditus the gifts you sent, a fragrant offering, a sacrifice acceptable and pleasing to God.


book: Colossians
label: Col
content:
  To the saints and faithful brothers in Christ at Colossae: Grace to you and peace from God our Father.


book: Colossians
label: Col
content:
  because of the hope laid up for you in heaven. Of this you have heard before in the word of the truth, the gospel,


book: Colossians
label: Col
content:
  which has come to you, as indeed in the whole world it is bearing fruit and increasing—as it also does among you, since the day you heard it and understood the grace of God in truth,


book: Colossians
label: Col
content:
  just as you learned it from Epaphras our beloved fellow servant. He is a faithful minister of Christ on your behalf


book: Colossians
label: Col
content:
  And so, from the day we heard, we have not ceased to pray for you, asking that you may be filled with the knowledge of his will in all spiritual wisdom and understanding,


book: Colossians
label: Col
content:
  so as to walk in a manner worthy of the Lord, fully pleasing to him: bearing fruit in every good work and increasing in the knowledge of God;


book: Colossians
label: Col
content:
  being strengthened with all power, according to his glorious might, for all endurance and patience with joy;


book: Colossians
label: Col
content:
  giving thanks to the Father, who has qualified you to share in the inheritance of the saints in light.


book: Colossians
label: Col
content:
  He has delivered us from the domain of darkness and transferred us to the kingdom of his beloved Son,


book: Colossians
label: Col
content:
  For by him all things were created, in heaven and on earth, visible and invisible, whether thrones or dominions or rulers or authorities—all things were created through him and for him.


book: Colossians
label: Col
content:
  And he is the head of the body, the church. He is the beginning, the firstborn from the dead, that in everything he might be preeminent.


book: Colossians
label: Col
content:
  and through him to reconcile to himself all things, whether on earth or in heaven, making peace by the blood of his cross.


book: Colossians
label: Col
content:
  he has now reconciled in his body of flesh by his death, in order to present you holy and blameless and above reproach before him,


book: Colossians
label: Col
content:
  if indeed you continue in the faith, stable and steadfast, not shifting from the hope of the gospel that you heard, which has been proclaimed in all creation under heaven, and of which I, Paul, became a minister.


book: Colossians
label: Col
content:
  Now I rejoice in my sufferings for your sake, and in my flesh I am filling up what is lacking in Christ’s afflictions for the sake of his body, that is, the church,


book: Colossians
label: Col
content:
  of which I became a minister according to the stewardship from God that was given to me for you, to make the word of God fully known,


book: Colossians
label: Col
content:
  To them God chose to make known how great among the Gentiles are the riches of the glory of this mystery, which is Christ in you, the hope of glory.


book: Colossians
label: Col
content:
  Him we proclaim, warning everyone and teaching everyone with all wisdom, that we may present everyone mature in Christ.


book: Colossians
label: Col
content:
  For I want you to know how great a struggle I have for you and for those at Laodicea and for all who have not seen me face to face,


book: Colossians
label: Col
content:
  that their hearts may be encouraged, being knit together in love, to reach all the riches of full assurance of understanding and the knowledge of God’s mystery, which is Christ,


book: Colossians
label: Col
content:
  For though I am absent in body, yet I am with you in spirit, rejoicing to see your good order and the firmness of your faith in Christ.


book: Colossians
label: Col
content:
  rooted and built up in him and established in the faith, just as you were taught, abounding in thanksgiving.


book: Colossians
label: Col
content:
  See to it that no one takes you captive by philosophy and empty deceit, according to human tradition, according to the elemental spirits of the world, and not according to Christ.


book: Colossians
label: Col
content:
  In him also you were circumcised with a circumcision made without hands, by putting off the body of the flesh, by the circumcision of Christ,


book: Colossians
label: Col
content:
  having been buried with him in baptism, in which you were also raised with him through faith in the powerful working of God, who raised him from the dead.


book: Colossians
label: Col
content:
  And you, who were dead in your trespasses and the uncircumcision of your flesh, God made alive together with him, having forgiven us all our trespasses,


book: Colossians
label: Col
content:
  by canceling the record of debt that stood against us with its legal demands. This he set aside, nailing it to the cross.


book: Colossians
label: Col
content:
  Therefore let no one pass judgment on you in questions of food and drink, or with regard to a festival or a new moon or a Sabbath.


book: Colossians
label: Col
content:
  Let no one disqualify you, insisting on asceticism and worship of angels, going on in detail about visions, puffed up without reason by his sensuous mind,


book: Colossians
label: Col
content:
  and not holding fast to the Head, from whom the whole body, nourished and knit together through its joints and ligaments, grows with a growth that is from God.


book: Colossians
label: Col
content:
  If with Christ you died to the elemental spirits of the world, why, as if you were still alive in the world, do you submit to regulations—


book: Colossians
label: Col
content:
  These have indeed an appearance of wisdom in promoting self-made religion and asceticism and severity to the body, but they are of no value in stopping the indulgence of the flesh. 


book: Colossians
label: Col
content:
  If then you have been raised with Christ, seek the things that are above, where Christ is, seated at the right hand of God.


book: Colossians
label: Col
content:
  Put to death therefore what is earthly in you: sexual immorality, impurity, passion, evil desire, and covetousness, which is idolatry.


book: Colossians
label: Col
content:
  But now you must put them all away: anger, wrath, malice, slander, and obscene talk from your mouth.


book: Colossians
label: Col
content:
  Here there is not Greek and Jew, circumcised and uncircumcised, barbarian, Scythian, slave, free; but Christ is all, and in all.


book: Colossians
label: Col
content:
  Put on then, as God’s chosen ones, holy and beloved, compassionate hearts, kindness, humility, meekness, and patience,


book: Colossians
label: Col
content:
  bearing with one another and, if one has a complaint against another, forgiving each other; as the Lord has forgiven you, so you also must forgive.


book: Colossians
label: Col
content:
  And let the peace of Christ rule in your hearts, to which indeed you were called in one body. And be thankful.


book: Colossians
label: Col
content:
  Let the word of Christ dwell in you richly, teaching and admonishing one another in all wisdom, singing psalms and hymns and spiritual songs, with thankfulness in your hearts to God.


book: Colossians
label: Col
content:
  And whatever you do, in word or deed, do everything in the name of the Lord Jesus, giving thanks to God the Father through him.


book: Colossians
label: Col
content:
  Bondservants, obey in everything those who are your earthly masters, not by way of eye-service, as people-pleasers, but with sincerity of heart, fearing the Lord.


book: Colossians
label: Col
content:
  knowing that from the Lord you will receive the inheritance as your reward. You are serving the Lord Christ.


book: Colossians
label: Col
content:
  At the same time, pray also for us, that God may open to us a door for the word, to declare the mystery of Christ, on account of which I am in prison—


book: Colossians
label: Col
content:
  Let your speech always be gracious, seasoned with salt, so that you may know how you ought to answer each person.


book: Colossians
label: Col
content:
  Tychicus will tell you all about my activities. He is a beloved brother and faithful minister and fellow servant in the Lord.


book: Colossians
label: Col
content:
  I have sent him to you for this very purpose, that you may know how we are and that he may encourage your hearts,


book: Colossians
label: Col
content:
  and with him Onesimus, our faithful and beloved brother, who is one of you. They will tell you of everything that has taken place here.


book: Colossians
label: Col
content:
  Aristarchus my fellow prisoner greets you, and Mark the cousin of Barnabas (concerning whom you have received instructions—if he comes to you, welcome him),


book: Colossians
label: Col
content:
  and Jesus who is called Justus. These are the only men of the circumcision among my fellow workers for the kingdom of God, and they have been a comfort to me.


book: Colossians
label: Col
content:
  Epaphras, who is one of you, a servant of Christ Jesus, greets you, always struggling on your behalf in his prayers, that you may stand mature and fully assured in all the will of God.


book: Colossians
label: Col
content:
  And when this letter has been read among you, have it also read in the church of the Laodiceans; and see that you also read the letter from Laodicea.


book: 1Thessalonians
label: 1Thes
content:
  Paul, Silvanus, and Timothy, To the church of the Thessalonians in God the Father and the Lord Jesus Christ: Grace to you and peace.


book: 1Thessalonians
label: 1Thes
content:
  remembering before our God and Father your work of faith and labor of love and steadfastness of hope in our Lord Jesus Christ.


book: 1Thessalonians
label: 1Thes
content:
  because our gospel came to you not only in word, but also in power and in the Holy Spirit and with full conviction. You know what kind of men we proved to be among you for your sake.


book: 1Thessalonians
label: 1Thes
content:
  And you became imitators of us and of the Lord, for you received the word in much affliction, with the joy of the Holy Spirit,


book: 1Thessalonians
label: 1Thes
content:
  For not only has the word of the Lord sounded forth from you in Macedonia and Achaia, but your faith in God has gone forth everywhere, so that we need not say anything.


book: 1Thessalonians
label: 1Thes
content:
  For they themselves report concerning us the kind of reception we had among you, and how you turned to God from idols to serve the living and true God,


book: 1Thessalonians
label: 1Thes
content:
  and to wait for his Son from heaven, whom he raised from the dead, Jesus who delivers us from the wrath to come. 


book: 1Thessalonians
label: 1Thes
content:
  But though we had already suffered and been shamefully treated at Philippi, as you know, we had boldness in our God to declare to you the gospel of God in the midst of much conflict.


book: 1Thessalonians
label: 1Thes
content:
  but just as we have been approved by God to be entrusted with the gospel, so we speak, not to please man, but to please God who tests our hearts.


book: 1Thessalonians
label: 1Thes
content:
  Nor did we seek glory from people, whether from you or from others, though we could have made demands as apostles of Christ.


book: 1Thessalonians
label: 1Thes
content:
  So, being affectionately desirous of you, we were ready to share with you not only the gospel of God but also our own selves, because you had become very dear to us.


book: 1Thessalonians
label: 1Thes
content:
  For you remember, brothers, our labor and toil: we worked night and day, that we might not be a burden to any of you, while we proclaimed to you the gospel of God.


book: 1Thessalonians
label: 1Thes
content:
  You are witnesses, and God also, how holy and righteous and blameless was our conduct toward you believers.


book: 1Thessalonians
label: 1Thes
content:
  we exhorted each one of you and encouraged you and charged you to walk in a manner worthy of God, who calls you into his own kingdom and glory.


book: 1Thessalonians
label: 1Thes
content:
  And we also thank God constantly for this, that when you received the word of God, which you heard from us, you accepted it not as the word of men but as what it really is, the word of God, which is at work in you believers.


book: 1Thessalonians
label: 1Thes
content:
  For you, brothers, became imitators of the churches of God in Christ Jesus that are in Judea. For you suffered the same things from your own countrymen as they did from the Jews,


book: 1Thessalonians
label: 1Thes
content:
  who killed both the Lord Jesus and the prophets, and drove us out, and displease God and oppose all mankind


book: 1Thessalonians
label: 1Thes
content:
  by hindering us from speaking to the Gentiles that they might be saved—so as always to fill up the measure of their sins. But wrath has come upon them at last!


book: 1Thessalonians
label: 1Thes
content:
  But since we were torn away from you, brothers, for a short time, in person not in heart, we endeavored the more eagerly and with great desire to see you face to face,


book: 1Thessalonians
label: 1Thes
content:
  For what is our hope or joy or crown of boasting before our Lord Jesus at his coming? Is it not you?


book: 1Thessalonians
label: 1Thes
content:
  and we sent Timothy, our brother and God’s coworker in the gospel of Christ, to establish and exhort you in your faith,


book: 1Thessalonians
label: 1Thes
content:
  For when we were with you, we kept telling you beforehand that we were to suffer affliction, just as it has come to pass, and just as you know.


book: 1Thessalonians
label: 1Thes
content:
  For this reason, when I could bear it no longer, I sent to learn about your faith, for fear that somehow the tempter had tempted you and our labor would be in vain.


book: 1Thessalonians
label: 1Thes
content:
  But now that Timothy has come to us from you, and has brought us the good news of your faith and love and reported that you always remember us kindly and long to see us, as we long to see you—


book: 1Thessalonians
label: 1Thes
content:
  for this reason, brothers, in all our distress and affliction we have been comforted about you through your faith.


book: 1Thessalonians
label: 1Thes
content:
  For what thanksgiving can we return to God for you, for all the joy that we feel for your sake before our God,


book: 1Thessalonians
label: 1Thes
content:
  as we pray most earnestly night and day that we may see you face to face and supply what is lacking in your faith?


book: 1Thessalonians
label: 1Thes
content:
  and may the Lord make you increase and abound in love for one another and for all, as we do for you,


