30 DAYS WITH PAUL ========= Day <1> RO 01:01 RO 01:01 Paul, a servant of Jesus Christ, called [to be] an apostle, separated unto the gospel of God, RO 01:02 (Which he had promised afore by his prophets in the holy scriptures,) RO 01:03 Concerning his Son Jesus Christ our Lord, which was made of the seed of David according to the flesh; RO 01:04 And declared [to be] the Son of God with power, according to the spirit of holiness, by the resurrection from the dead: RO 01:05 By whom we have received grace and apostleship, for obedience to the faith among all nations, for his name: RO 01:06 Among whom are ye also the called of Jesus Christ: RO 01:07 To all that be in Rome, beloved of God, called [to be] saints: Grace to you and peace from God our Father, and the Lord Jesus Christ. RO 01:08 First, I thank my God through Jesus Christ for you all, that your faith is spoken of throughout the whole world. RO 01:09 For God is my witness, whom I serve with my spirit in the gospel of his Son, that without ceasing I make mention of you always in my prayers; RO 01:10 Making request, if by any means now at length I might have a prosperous journey by the will of God to come unto you. RO 01:11 For I long to see you, that I may impart unto you some spiritual gift, to the end ye may be established; RO 01:12 That is, that I may be comforted together with you by the mutual faith both of you and me. RO 01:13 Now I would not have you ignorant, brethren, that oftentimes I purposed to come unto you, (but was let hitherto,) that I might have some fruit among you also, even as among other Gentiles. RO 01:14 I am debtor both to the Greeks, and to the Barbarians; both to the wise, and to the unwise. RO 01:15 So, as much as in me is, I am ready to preach the gospel to you that are at Rome also. RO 01:16 For I am not ashamed of the gospel of Christ: for it is the power of God unto salvation to every one that believeth; to the Jew first, and also to the Greek. RO 01:17 For therein is the righteousness of God revealed from faith to faith: as it is written, The just shall live by faith. RO 01:18 For the wrath of God is revealed from heaven against all ungodliness and unrighteousness of men, who hold the truth in unrighteousness; RO 01:19 Because that which may be known of God is manifest in them; for God hath showed [it] unto them. RO 01:20 For the invisible things of him from the creation of the world are clearly seen, being understood by the things that are made, [even] his eternal power and Godhead; so that they are without excuse: RO 01:21 Because that, when they knew God, they glorified [him] not as God, neither were thankful; but became vain in their imaginations, and their foolish heart was darkened. RO 01:22 Professing themselves to be wise, they became fools, RO 01:23 And changed the glory of the uncorruptible God into an image made like to corruptible man, and to birds, and fourfooted beasts, and creeping things. RO 01:24 Wherefore God also gave them up to uncleanness through the lusts of their own hearts, to dishonour their own bodies between themselves: RO 01:25 Who changed the truth of God into a lie, and worshipped and served the creature more than the Creator, who is blessed for ever. Amen. RO 01:26 For this cause God gave them up unto vile affections: for even their women did change the natural use into that which is against nature: RO 01:27 And likewise also the men, leaving the natural use of the woman, burned in their lust one toward another; men with men working that which is unseemly, and receiving in themselves that recompense of their error which was meet. RO 01:28 And even as they did not like to retain God in [their] knowledge, God gave them over to a reprobate mind, to do those things which are not convenient; RO 01:29 Being filled with all unrighteousness, fornication, wickedness, covetousness, maliciousness; full of envy, murder, debate, deceit, malignity; whisperers, RO 01:30 Backbiters, haters of God, despiteful, proud, boasters, inventors of evil things, disobedient to parents, RO 01:31 Without understanding, covenantbreakers, without natural affection, implacable, unmerciful: RO 01:32 Who knowing the judgment of God, that they which commit such things are worthy of death, not only do the same, but have pleasure in them that do them. RO 02:01 Therefore thou art inexcusable, O man, whosoever thou art that judgest: for wherein thou judgest another, thou condemnest thyself; for thou that judgest doest the same things. RO 02:02 But we are sure that the judgment of God is according to truth against them which commit such things. RO 02:03 And thinkest thou this, O man, that judgest them which do such things, and doest the same, that thou shalt escape the judgment of God? RO 02:04 Or despisest thou the riches of his goodness and forbearance and longsuffering; not knowing that the goodness of God leadeth thee to repentance? RO 02:05 But after thy hardness and impenitent heart treasurest up unto thyself wrath against the day of wrath and revelation of the righteous judgment of God; RO 02:06 Who will render to every man according to his deeds: RO 02:07 To them who by patient continuance in well doing seek for glory and honour and immortality, eternal life: RO 02:08 But unto them that are contentious, and do not obey the truth, but obey unrighteousness, indignation and wrath, RO 02:09 Tribulation and anguish, upon every soul of man that doeth evil, of the Jew first, and also of the Gentile; RO 02:10 But glory, honour, and peace, to every man that worketh good, to the Jew first, and also to the Gentile: RO 02:11 For there is no respect of persons with God. RO 02:12 For as many as have sinned without law shall also perish without law: and as many as have sinned in the law shall be judged by the law; RO 02:13 (For not the hearers of the law [are] just before God, but the doers of the law shall be justified. RO 02:14 For when the Gentiles, which have not the law, do by nature the things contained in the law, these, having not the law, are a law unto themselves: RO 02:15 Which show the work of the law written in their hearts, their conscience also bearing witness, and [their] thoughts the mean while accusing or else excusing one another;) RO 02:16 In the day when God shall judge the secrets of men by Jesus Christ according to my gospel. RO 02:17 Behold, thou art called a Jew, and restest in the law, and makest thy boast of God, RO 02:18 And knowest [his] will, and approvest the things that are more excellent, being instructed out of the law; RO 02:19 And art confident that thou thyself art a guide of the blind, a light of them which are in darkness, RO 02:20 An instructor of the foolish, a teacher of babes, which hast the form of knowledge and of the truth in the law. RO 02:21 Thou therefore which teachest another, teachest thou not thyself? thou that preachest a man should not steal, dost thou steal? RO 02:22 Thou that sayest a man should not commit adultery, dost thou commit adultery? thou that abhorrest idols, dost thou commit sacrilege? RO 02:23 Thou that makest thy boast of the law, through breaking the law dishonourest thou God? RO 02:24 For the name of God is blasphemed among the Gentiles through you, as it is written. RO 02:25 For circumcision verily profiteth, if thou keep the law: but if thou be a breaker of the law, thy circumcision is made uncircumcision. RO 02:26 Therefore if the uncircumcision keep the righteousness of the law, shall not his uncircumcision be counted for circumcision? RO 02:27 And shall not uncircumcision which is by nature, if it fulfil the law, judge thee, who by the letter and circumcision dost transgress the law? RO 02:28 For he is not a Jew, which is one outwardly; neither [is that] circumcision, which is outward in the flesh: RO 02:29 But he [is] a Jew, which is one inwardly; and circumcision [is that] of the heart, in the spirit, [and] not in the letter; whose praise [is] not of men, but of God. RO 03:01 What advantage then hath the Jew? or what profit [is there] of circumcision? RO 03:02 Much every way: chiefly, because that unto them were committed the oracles of God. RO 03:03 For what if some did not believe? shall their unbelief make the faith of God without effect? RO 03:04 God forbid: yea, let God be true, but every man a liar; as it is written, That thou mightest be justified in thy sayings, and mightest overcome when thou art judged. RO 03:05 But if our unrighteousness commend the righteousness of God, what shall we say? [Is] God unrighteous who taketh vengeance? (I speak as a man) RO 03:06 God forbid: for then how shall God judge the world? RO 03:07 For if the truth of God hath more abounded through my lie unto his glory; why yet am I also judged as a sinner? RO 03:08 And not [rather], (as we be slanderously reported, and as some affirm that we say,) Let us do evil, that good may come? whose damnation is just. RO 03:09 What then? are we better [than they]? No, in no wise: for we have before proved both Jews and Gentiles, that they are all under sin; RO 03:10 As it is written, There is none righteous, no, not one: RO 03:11 There is none that understandeth, there is none that seeketh after God. RO 03:12 They are all gone out of the way, they are together become unprofitable; there is none that doeth good, no, not one. RO 03:13 Their throat [is] an open sepulchre; with their tongues they have used deceit; the poison of asps [is] under their lips: RO 03:14 Whose mouth [is] full of cursing and bitterness: RO 03:15 Their feet [are] swift to shed blood: RO 03:16 Destruction and misery [are] in their ways: RO 03:17 And the way of peace have they not known: RO 03:18 There is no fear of God before their eyes. RO 03:19 Now we know that what things soever the law saith, it saith to them who are under the law: that every mouth may be stopped, and all the world may become guilty before God. ========= Day <2> RO 03:20 RO 03:20 Therefore by the deeds of the law there shall no flesh be justified in his sight: for by the law [is] the knowledge of sin. RO 03:21 But now the righteousness of God without the law is manifested, being witnessed by the law and the prophets; RO 03:22 Even the righteousness of God [which is] by faith of Jesus Christ unto all and upon all them that believe: for there is no difference: RO 03:23 For all have sinned, and come short of the glory of God; RO 03:24 Being justified freely by his grace through the redemption that is in Christ Jesus: RO 03:25 Whom God hath set forth [to be] a propitiation through faith in his blood, to declare his righteousness for the remission of sins that are past, through the forbearance of God; RO 03:26 To declare, [I say], at this time his righteousness: that he might be just, and the justifier of him which believeth in Jesus. RO 03:27 Where [is] boasting then? It is excluded. By what law? of works? Nay: but by the law of faith. RO 03:28 Therefore we conclude that a man is justified by faith without the deeds of the law. RO 03:29 [Is he] the God of the Jews only? [is he] not also of the Gentiles? Yes, of the Gentiles also: RO 03:30 Seeing [it is] one God, which shall justify the circumcision by faith, and uncircumcision through faith. RO 03:31 Do we then make void the law through faith? God forbid: yea, we establish the law. RO 04:01 What shall we say then that Abraham our father, as pertaining to the flesh, hath found? RO 04:02 For if Abraham were justified by works, he hath [whereof] to glory; but not before God. RO 04:03 For what saith the scripture? Abraham believed God, and it was counted unto him for righteousness. RO 04:04 Now to him that worketh is the reward not reckoned of grace, but of debt. RO 04:05 But to him that worketh not, but believeth on him that justifieth the ungodly, his faith is counted for righteousness. RO 04:06 Even as David also describeth the blessedness of the man, unto whom God imputeth righteousness without works, RO 04:07 [Saying], Blessed [are] they whose iniquities are forgiven, and whose sins are covered. RO 04:08 Blessed [is] the man to whom the Lord will not impute sin. RO 04:09 [Cometh] this blessedness then upon the circumcision [only], or upon the uncircumcision also? for we say that faith was reckoned to Abraham for righteousness. RO 04:10 How was it then reckoned? when he was in circumcision, or in uncircumcision? Not in circumcision, but in uncircumcision. RO 04:11 And he received the sign of circumcision, a seal of the righteousness of the faith which [he had yet] being uncircumcised: that he might be the father of all them that believe, though they be not circumcised; that righteousness might be imputed unto them also: RO 04:12 And the father of circumcision to them who are not of the circumcision only, but who also walk in the steps of that faith of our father Abraham, which [he had] being [yet] uncircumcised. RO 04:13 For the promise, that he should be the heir of the world, [was] not to Abraham, or to his seed, through the law, but through the righteousness of faith. RO 04:14 For if they which are of the law [be] heirs, faith is made void, and the promise made of none effect: RO 04:15 Because the law worketh wrath: for where no law is, [there is] no transgression. RO 04:16 Therefore [it is] of faith, that [it might be] by grace; to the end the promise might be sure to all the seed; not to that only which is of the law, but to that also which is of the faith of Abraham; who is the father of us all, RO 04:17 (As it is written, I have made thee a father of many nations,) before him whom he believed, [even] God, who quickeneth the dead, and calleth those things which be not as though they were. RO 04:18 Who against hope believed in hope, that he might become the father of many nations, according to that which was spoken, So shall thy seed be. RO 04:19 And being not weak in faith, he considered not his own body now dead, when he was about an hundred years old, neither yet the deadness of Sarah's womb: RO 04:20 He staggered not at the promise of God through unbelief; but was strong in faith, giving glory to God; RO 04:21 And being fully persuaded that, what he had promised, he was able also to perform. RO 04:22 And therefore it was imputed to him for righteousness. RO 04:23 Now it was not written for his sake alone, that it was imputed to him; RO 04:24 But for us also, to whom it shall be imputed, if we believe on him that raised up Jesus our Lord from the dead; RO 04:25 Who was delivered for our offences, and was raised again for our justification. RO 05:01 Therefore being justified by faith, we have peace with God through our Lord Jesus Christ: RO 05:02 By whom also we have access by faith into this grace wherein we stand, and rejoice in hope of the glory of God. RO 05:03 And not only [so], but we glory in tribulations also: knowing that tribulation worketh patience; RO 05:04 And patience, experience; and experience, hope: RO 05:05 And hope maketh not ashamed; because the love of God is shed abroad in our hearts by the Holy Ghost which is given unto us. RO 05:06 For when we were yet without strength, in due time Christ died for the ungodly. RO 05:07 For scarcely for a righteous man will one die: yet peradventure for a good man some would even dare to die. RO 05:08 But God commendeth his love toward us, in that, while we were yet sinners, Christ died for us. RO 05:09 Much more then, being now justified by his blood, we shall be saved from wrath through him. RO 05:10 For if, when we were enemies, we were reconciled to God by the death of his Son, much more, being reconciled, we shall be saved by his life. RO 05:11 And not only [so], but we also joy in God through our Lord Jesus Christ, by whom we have now received the atonement. RO 05:12 Wherefore, as by one man sin entered into the world, and death by sin; and so death passed upon all men, for that all have sinned: RO 05:13 (For until the law sin was in the world: but sin is not imputed when there is no law. RO 05:14 Nevertheless death reigned from Adam to Moses, even over them that had not sinned after the similitude of Adam's transgression, who is the figure of him that was to come. RO 05:15 But not as the offence, so also [is] the free gift. For if through the offence of one many be dead, much more the grace of God, and the gift by grace, [which is] by one man, Jesus Christ, hath abounded unto many. RO 05:16 And not as [it was] by one that sinned, [so is] the gift: for the judgment [was] by one to condemnation, but the free gift [is] of many offences unto justification. RO 05:17 For if by one man's offence death reigned by one; much more they which receive abundance of grace and of the gift of righteousness shall reign in life by one, Jesus Christ.) RO 05:18 Therefore as by the offence of one [judgment came] upon all men to condemnation; even so by the righteousness of one [the free gift came] upon all men unto justification of life. RO 05:19 For as by one man's disobedience many were made sinners, so by the obedience of one shall many be made righteous. RO 05:20 Moreover the law entered, that the offence might abound. But where sin abounded, grace did much more abound: RO 05:21 That as sin hath reigned unto death, even so might grace reign through righteousness unto eternal life by Jesus Christ our Lord. RO 06:01 What shall we say then? Shall we continue in sin, that grace may abound? RO 06:02 God forbid. How shall we, that are dead to sin, live any longer therein? RO 06:03 Know ye not, that so many of us as were baptized into Jesus Christ were baptized into his death? RO 06:04 Therefore we are buried with him by baptism into death: that like as Christ was raised up from the dead by the glory of the Father, even so we also should walk in newness of life. RO 06:05 For if we have been planted together in the likeness of his death, we shall be also [in the likeness] of [his] resurrection: RO 06:06 Knowing this, that our old man is crucified with [him], that the body of sin might be destroyed, that henceforth we should not serve sin. RO 06:07 For he that is dead is freed from sin. RO 06:08 Now if we be dead with Christ, we believe that we shall also live with him: RO 06:09 Knowing that Christ being raised from the dead dieth no more; death hath no more dominion over him. RO 06:10 For in that he died, he died unto sin once: but in that he liveth, he liveth unto God. RO 06:11 Likewise reckon ye also yourselves to be dead indeed unto sin, but alive unto God through Jesus Christ our Lord. RO 06:12 Let not sin therefore reign in your mortal body, that ye should obey it in the lusts thereof. RO 06:13 Neither yield ye your members [as] instruments of unrighteousness unto sin: but yield yourselves unto God, as those that are alive from the dead, and your members [as] instruments of righteousness unto God. RO 06:14 For sin shall not have dominion over you: for ye are not under the law, but under grace. RO 06:15 What then? shall we sin, because we are not under the law, but under grace? God forbid. RO 06:16 Know ye not, that to whom ye yield yourselves servants to obey, his servants ye are to whom ye obey; whether of sin unto death, or of obedience unto righteousness? RO 06:17 But God be thanked, that ye were the servants of sin, but ye have obeyed from the heart that form of doctrine which was delivered you. RO 06:18 Being then made free from sin, ye became the servants of righteousness. RO 06:19 I speak after the manner of men because of the infirmity of your flesh: for as ye have yielded your members servants to uncleanness and to iniquity unto iniquity; even so now yield your members servants to righteousness unto holiness. RO 06:20 For when ye were the servants of sin, ye were free from righteousness. ========= Day <3> RO 06:21 RO 06:21 What fruit had ye then in those things whereof ye are now ashamed? for the end of those things [is] death. RO 06:22 But now being made free from sin, and become servants to God, ye have your fruit unto holiness, and the end everlasting life. RO 06:23 For the wages of sin [is] death; but the gift of God [is] eternal life through Jesus Christ our Lord. RO 07:01 Know ye not, brethren, (for I speak to them that know the law,) how that the law hath dominion over a man as long as he liveth? RO 07:02 For the woman which hath an husband is bound by the law to [her] husband so long as he liveth; but if the husband be dead, she is loosed from the law of [her] husband. RO 07:03 So then if, while [her] husband liveth, she be married to another man, she shall be called an adulteress: but if her husband be dead, she is free from that law; so that she is no adulteress, though she be married to another man. RO 07:04 Wherefore, my brethren, ye also are become dead to the law by the body of Christ; that ye should be married to another, [even] to him who is raised from the dead, that we should bring forth fruit unto God. RO 07:05 For when we were in the flesh, the motions of sins, which were by the law, did work in our members to bring forth fruit unto death. RO 07:06 But now we are delivered from the law, that being dead wherein we were held; that we should serve in newness of spirit, and not [in] the oldness of the letter. RO 07:07 What shall we say then? [is] the law sin? God forbid. Nay, I had not known sin, but by the law: for I had not known lust, except the law had said, Thou shalt not covet. RO 07:08 But sin, taking occasion by the commandment, wrought in me all manner of concupiscence. For without the law sin [was] dead. RO 07:09 For I was alive without the law once: but when the commandment came, sin revived, and I died. RO 07:10 And the commandment, which [was ordained] to life, I found [to be] unto death. RO 07:11 For sin, taking occasion by the commandment, deceived me, and by it slew [me]. RO 07:12 Wherefore the law [is] holy, and the commandment holy, and just, and good. RO 07:13 Was then that which is good made death unto me? God forbid. But sin, that it might appear sin, working death in me by that which is good; that sin by the commandment might become exceeding sinful. RO 07:14 For we know that the law is spiritual: but I am carnal, sold under sin. RO 07:15 For that which I do I allow not: for what I would, that do I not; but what I hate, that do I. RO 07:16 If then I do that which I would not, I consent unto the law that [it is] good. RO 07:17 Now then it is no more I that do it, but sin that dwelleth in me. RO 07:18 For I know that in me (that is, in my flesh,) dwelleth no good thing: for to will is present with me; but [how] to perform that which is good I find not. RO 07:19 For the good that I would I do not: but the evil which I would not, that I do. RO 07:20 Now if I do that I would not, it is no more I that do it, but sin that dwelleth in me. RO 07:21 I find then a law, that, when I would do good, evil is present with me. RO 07:22 For I delight in the law of God after the inward man: RO 07:23 But I see another law in my members, warring against the law of my mind, and bringing me into captivity to the law of sin which is in my members. RO 07:24 O wretched man that I am! who shall deliver me from the body of this death? RO 07:25 I thank God through Jesus Christ our Lord. So then with the mind I myself serve the law of God; but with the flesh the law of sin. RO 08:01 [There is] therefore now no condemnation to them which are in Christ Jesus, who walk not after the flesh, but after the Spirit. RO 08:02 For the law of the Spirit of life in Christ Jesus hath made me free from the law of sin and death. RO 08:03 For what the law could not do, in that it was weak through the flesh, God sending his own Son in the likeness of sinful flesh, and for sin, condemned sin in the flesh: RO 08:04 That the righteousness of the law might be fulfilled in us, who walk not after the flesh, but after the Spirit. RO 08:05 For they that are after the flesh do mind the things of the flesh; but they that are after the Spirit the things of the Spirit. RO 08:06 For to be carnally minded [is] death; but to be spiritually minded [is] life and peace. RO 08:07 Because the carnal mind [is] enmity against God: for it is not subject to the law of God, neither indeed can be. RO 08:08 So then they that are in the flesh cannot please God. RO 08:09 But ye are not in the flesh, but in the Spirit, if so be that the Spirit of God dwell in you. Now if any man have not the Spirit of Christ, he is none of his. RO 08:10 And if Christ [be] in you, the body [is] dead because of sin; but the Spirit [is] life because of righteousness. RO 08:11 But if the Spirit of him that raised up Jesus from the dead dwell in you, he that raised up Christ from the dead shall also quicken your mortal bodies by his Spirit that dwelleth in you. RO 08:12 Therefore, brethren, we are debtors, not to the flesh, to live after the flesh. RO 08:13 For if ye live after the flesh, ye shall die: but if ye through the Spirit do mortify the deeds of the body, ye shall live. RO 08:14 For as many as are led by the Spirit of God, they are the sons of God. RO 08:15 For ye have not received the spirit of bondage again to fear; but ye have received the Spirit of adoption, whereby we cry, Abba, Father. RO 08:16 The Spirit itself beareth witness with our spirit, that we are the children of God: RO 08:17 And if children, then heirs; heirs of God, and joint heirs with Christ; if so be that we suffer with [him], that we may be also glorified together. RO 08:18 For I reckon that the sufferings of this present time [are] not worthy [to be compared] with the glory which shall be revealed in us. RO 08:19 For the earnest expectation of the creature waiteth for the manifestation of the sons of God. RO 08:20 For the creature was made subject to vanity, not willingly, but by reason of him who hath subjected [the same] in hope, RO 08:21 Because the creature itself also shall be delivered from the bondage of corruption into the glorious liberty of the children of God. RO 08:22 For we know that the whole creation groaneth and travaileth in pain together until now. RO 08:23 And not only [they], but ourselves also, which have the firstfruits of the Spirit, even we ourselves groan within ourselves, waiting for the adoption, [to wit], the redemption of our body. RO 08:24 For we are saved by hope: but hope that is seen is not hope: for what a man seeth, why doth he yet hope for? RO 08:25 But if we hope for that we see not, [then] do we with patience wait for [it]. RO 08:26 Likewise the Spirit also helpeth our infirmities: for we know not what we should pray for as we ought: but the Spirit itself maketh intercession for us with groanings which cannot be uttered. RO 08:27 And he that searcheth the hearts knoweth what [is] the mind of the Spirit, because he maketh intercession for the saints according to [the will of] God. RO 08:28 And we know that all things work together for good to them that love God, to them who are the called according to [his] purpose. RO 08:29 For whom he did foreknow, he also did predestinate [to be] conformed to the image of his Son, that he might be the firstborn among many brethren. RO 08:30 Moreover whom he did predestinate, them he also called: and whom he called, them he also justified: and whom he justified, them he also glorified. RO 08:31 What shall we then say to these things? If God [be] for us, who [can be] against us? RO 08:32 He that spared not his own Son, but delivered him up for us all, how shall he not with him also freely give us all things? RO 08:33 Who shall lay any thing to the charge of God's elect? [It is] God that justifieth. RO 08:34 Who [is] he that condemneth? [It is] Christ that died, yea rather, that is risen again, who is even at the right hand of God, who also maketh intercession for us. RO 08:35 Who shall separate us from the love of Christ? [shall] tribulation, or distress, or persecution, or famine, or nakedness, or peril, or sword? RO 08:36 As it is written, For thy sake we are killed all the day long; we are accounted as sheep for the slaughter. RO 08:37 Nay, in all these things we are more than conquerors through him that loved us. RO 08:38 For I am persuaded, that neither death, nor life, nor angels, nor principalities, nor powers, nor things present, nor things to come, RO 08:39 Nor height, nor depth, nor any other creature, shall be able to separate us from the love of God, which is in Christ Jesus our Lord. RO 09:01 I say the truth in Christ, I lie not, my conscience also bearing me witness in the Holy Ghost, RO 09:02 That I have great heaviness and continual sorrow in my heart. RO 09:03 For I could wish that myself were accursed from Christ for my brethren, my kinsmen according to the flesh: RO 09:04 Who are Israelites; to whom [pertaineth] the adoption, and the glory, and the covenants, and the giving of the law, and the service [of God], and the promises; RO 09:05 Whose [are] the fathers, and of whom as concerning the flesh Christ [came], who is over all, God blessed for ever. Amen. RO 09:06 Not as though the word of God hath taken none effect. For they [are] not all Israel, which are of Israel: RO 09:07 Neither, because they are the seed of Abraham, [are they] all children: but, In Isaac shall thy seed be called. RO 09:08 That is, They which are the children of the flesh, these [are] not the children of God: but the children of the promise are counted for the seed. RO 09:09 For this [is] the word of promise, At this time will I come, and Sarah shall have a son. RO 09:10 And not only [this]; but when Rebecca also had conceived by one, [even] by our father Isaac; ========= Day <4> RO 09:11 RO 09:11 (For [the children] being not yet born, neither having done any good or evil, that the purpose of God according to election might stand, not of works, but of him that calleth;) RO 09:12 It was said unto her, The elder shall serve the younger. RO 09:13 As it is written, Jacob have I loved, but Esau have I hated. RO 09:14 What shall we say then? [Is there] unrighteousness with God? God forbid. RO 09:15 For he saith to Moses, I will have mercy on whom I will have mercy, and I will have compassion on whom I will have compassion. RO 09:16 So then [it is] not of him that willeth, nor of him that runneth, but of God that showeth mercy. RO 09:17 For the scripture saith unto Pharaoh, Even for this same purpose have I raised thee up, that I might show my power in thee, and that my name might be declared throughout all the earth. RO 09:18 Therefore hath he mercy on whom he will [have mercy], and whom he will he hardeneth. RO 09:19 Thou wilt say then unto me, Why doth he yet find fault? For who hath resisted his will? RO 09:20 Nay but, O man, who art thou that repliest against God? Shall the thing formed say to him that formed [it], Why hast thou made me thus? RO 09:21 Hath not the potter power over the clay, of the same lump to make one vessel unto honour, and another unto dishonour? RO 09:22 [What] if God, willing to show [his] wrath, and to make his power known, endured with much longsuffering the vessels of wrath fitted to destruction: RO 09:23 And that he might make known the riches of his glory on the vessels of mercy, which he had afore prepared unto glory, RO 09:24 Even us, whom he hath called, not of the Jews only, but also of the Gentiles? RO 09:25 As he saith also in Osee, I will call them my people, which were not my people; and her beloved, which was not beloved. RO 09:26 And it shall come to pass, [that] in the place where it was said unto them, Ye [are] not my people; there shall they be called the children of the living God. RO 09:27 Esaias also crieth concerning Israel, Though the number of the children of Israel be as the sand of the sea, a remnant shall be saved: RO 09:28 For he will finish the work, and cut [it] short in righteousness: because a short work will the Lord make upon the earth. RO 09:29 And as Esaias said before, Except the Lord of Sabaoth had left us a seed, we had been as Sodoma, and been made like unto Gomorrha. RO 09:30 What shall we say then? That the Gentiles, which followed not after righteousness, have attained to righteousness, even the righteousness which is of faith. RO 09:31 But Israel, which followed after the law of righteousness, hath not attained to the law of righteousness. RO 09:32 Wherefore? Because [they sought it] not by faith, but as it were by the works of the law. For they stumbled at that stumblingstone; RO 09:33 As it is written, Behold, I lay in Sion a stumblingstone and rock of offence: and whosoever believeth on him shall not be ashamed. RO 10:01 Brethren, my heart's desire and prayer to God for Israel is, that they might be saved. RO 10:02 For I bear them record that they have a zeal of God, but not according to knowledge. RO 10:03 For they being ignorant of God's righteousness, and going about to establish their own righteousness, have not submitted themselves unto the righteousness of God. RO 10:04 For Christ [is] the end of the law for righteousness to every one that believeth. RO 10:05 For Moses describeth the righteousness which is of the law, That the man which doeth those things shall live by them. RO 10:06 But the righteousness which is of faith speaketh on this wise, Say not in thine heart, Who shall ascend into heaven? (that is, to bring Christ down [from above]:) RO 10:07 Or, Who shall descend into the deep? (that is, to bring up Christ again from the dead.) RO 10:08 But what saith it? The word is nigh thee, [even] in thy mouth, and in thy heart: that is, the word of faith, which we preach; RO 10:09 That if thou shalt confess with thy mouth the Lord Jesus, and shalt believe in thine heart that God hath raised him from the dead, thou shalt be saved. RO 10:10 For with the heart man believeth unto righteousness; and with the mouth confession is made unto salvation. RO 10:11 For the scripture saith, Whosoever believeth on him shall not be ashamed. RO 10:12 For there is no difference between the Jew and the Greek: for the same Lord over all is rich unto all that call upon him. RO 10:13 For whosoever shall call upon the name of the Lord shall be saved. RO 10:14 How then shall they call on him in whom they have not believed? and how shall they believe in him of whom they have not heard? and how shall they hear without a preacher? RO 10:15 And how shall they preach, except they be sent? as it is written, How beautiful are the feet of them that preach the gospel of peace, and bring glad tidings of good things! RO 10:16 But they have not all obeyed the gospel. For Esaias saith, Lord, who hath believed our report? RO 10:17 So then faith [cometh] by hearing, and hearing by the word of God. RO 10:18 But I say, Have they not heard? Yes verily, their sound went into all the earth, and their words unto the ends of the world. RO 10:19 But I say, Did not Israel know? First Moses saith, I will provoke you to jealousy by [them that are] no people, [and] by a foolish nation I will anger you. RO 10:20 But Esaias is very bold, and saith, I was found of them that sought me not; I was made manifest unto them that asked not after me. RO 10:21 But to Israel he saith, All day long I have stretched forth my hands unto a disobedient and gainsaying people. RO 11:01 I say then, Hath God cast away his people? God forbid. For I also am an Israelite, of the seed of Abraham, [of] the tribe of Benjamin. RO 11:02 God hath not cast away his people which he foreknew. Wot ye not what the scripture saith of Elias? how he maketh intercession to God against Israel, saying, RO 11:03 Lord, they have killed thy prophets, and digged down thine altars; and I am left alone, and they seek my life. RO 11:04 But what saith the answer of God unto him? I have reserved to myself seven thousand men, who have not bowed the knee to [the image of] Baal. RO 11:05 Even so then at this present time also there is a remnant according to the election of grace. RO 11:06 And if by grace, then [is it] no more of works: otherwise grace is no more grace. But if [it be] of works, then is it no more grace: otherwise work is no more work. RO 11:07 What then? Israel hath not obtained that which he seeketh for; but the election hath obtained it, and the rest were blinded RO 11:08 (According as it is written, God hath given them the spirit of slumber, eyes that they should not see, and ears that they should not hear;) unto this day. RO 11:09 And David saith, Let their table be made a snare, and a trap, and a stumblingblock, and a recompense unto them: RO 11:10 Let their eyes be darkened that they may not see, and bow down their back alway. RO 11:11 I say then, Have they stumbled that they should fall? God forbid: but [rather] through their fall salvation [is come] unto the Gentiles, for to provoke them to jealousy. RO 11:12 Now if the fall of them [be] the riches of the world, and the diminishing of them the riches of the Gentiles; how much more their fulness? RO 11:13 For I speak to you Gentiles, inasmuch as I am the apostle of the Gentiles, I magnify mine office: RO 11:14 If by any means I may provoke to emulation [them which are] my flesh, and might save some of them. RO 11:15 For if the casting away of them [be] the reconciling of the world, what [shall] the receiving [of them be], but life from the dead? RO 11:16 For if the firstfruit [be] holy, the lump [is] also [holy]: and if the root [be] holy, so [are] the branches. RO 11:17 And if some of the branches be broken off, and thou, being a wild olive tree, wert grafted in among them, and with them partakest of the root and fatness of the olive tree; RO 11:18 Boast not against the branches. But if thou boast, thou bearest not the root, but the root thee. RO 11:19 Thou wilt say then, The branches were broken off, that I might be grafted in. RO 11:20 Well; because of unbelief they were broken off, and thou standest by faith. Be not highminded, but fear: RO 11:21 For if God spared not the natural branches, [take heed] lest he also spare not thee. RO 11:22 Behold therefore the goodness and severity of God: on them which fell, severity; but toward thee, goodness, if thou continue in [his] goodness: otherwise thou also shalt be cut off. RO 11:23 And they also, if they abide not still in unbelief, shall be grafted in: for God is able to graft them in again. RO 11:24 For if thou wert cut out of the olive tree which is wild by nature, and wert grafted contrary to nature into a good olive tree: how much more shall these, which be the natural [branches], be grafted into their own olive tree? RO 11:25 For I would not, brethren, that ye should be ignorant of this mystery, lest ye should be wise in your own conceits; that blindness in part is happened to Israel, until the fulness of the Gentiles be come in. RO 11:26 And so all Israel shall be saved: as it is written, There shall come out of Sion the Deliverer, and shall turn away ungodliness from Jacob: RO 11:27 For this [is] my covenant unto them, when I shall take away their sins. RO 11:28 As concerning the gospel, [they are] enemies for your sakes: but as touching the election, [they are] beloved for the fathers' sakes. RO 11:29 For the gifts and calling of God [are] without repentance. RO 11:30 For as ye in times past have not believed God, yet have now obtained mercy through their unbelief: RO 11:31 Even so have these also now not believed, that through your mercy they also may obtain mercy. ========= Day <5> RO 11:32 RO 11:32 For God hath concluded them all in unbelief, that he might have mercy upon all. RO 11:33 O the depth of the riches both of the wisdom and knowledge of God! how unsearchable [are] his judgments, and his ways past finding out! RO 11:34 For who hath known the mind of the Lord? or who hath been his counsellor? RO 11:35 Or who hath first given to him, and it shall be recompensed unto him again? RO 11:36 For of him, and through him, and to him, [are] all things: to whom [be] glory for ever. Amen. RO 12:01 I beseech you therefore, brethren, by the mercies of God, that ye present your bodies a living sacrifice, holy, acceptable unto God, [which is] your reasonable service. RO 12:02 And be not conformed to this world: but be ye transformed by the renewing of your mind, that ye may prove what [is] that good, and acceptable, and perfect, will of God. RO 12:03 For I say, through the grace given unto me, to every man that is among you, not to think [of himself] more highly than he ought to think; but to think soberly, according as God hath dealt to every man the measure of faith. RO 12:04 For as we have many members in one body, and all members have not the same office: RO 12:05 So we, [being] many, are one body in Christ, and every one members one of another. RO 12:06 Having then gifts differing according to the grace that is given to us, whether prophecy, [let us prophesy] according to the proportion of faith; RO 12:07 Or ministry, [let us wait] on [our] ministering: or he that teacheth, on teaching; RO 12:08 Or he that exhorteth, on exhortation: he that giveth, [let him do it] with simplicity; he that ruleth, with diligence; he that showeth mercy, with cheerfulness. RO 12:09 [Let] love be without dissimulation. Abhor that which is evil; cleave to that which is good. RO 12:10 [Be] kindly affectioned one to another with brotherly love; in honour preferring one another; RO 12:11 Not slothful in business; fervent in spirit; serving the Lord; RO 12:12 Rejoicing in hope; patient in tribulation; continuing instant in prayer; RO 12:13 Distributing to the necessity of saints; given to hospitality. RO 12:14 Bless them which persecute you: bless, and curse not. RO 12:15 Rejoice with them that do rejoice, and weep with them that weep. RO 12:16 [Be] of the same mind one toward another. Mind not high things, but condescend to men of low estate. Be not wise in your own conceits. RO 12:17 Recompense to no man evil for evil. Provide things honest in the sight of all men. RO 12:18 If it be possible, as much as lieth in you, live peaceably with all men. RO 12:19 Dearly beloved, avenge not yourselves, but [rather] give place unto wrath: for it is written, Vengeance [is] mine; I will repay, saith the Lord. RO 12:20 Therefore if thine enemy hunger, feed him; if he thirst, give him drink: for in so doing thou shalt heap coals of fire on his head. RO 12:21 Be not overcome of evil, but overcome evil with good. RO 13:01 Let every soul be subject unto the higher powers. For there is no power but of God: the powers that be are ordained of God. RO 13:02 Whosoever therefore resisteth the power, resisteth the ordinance of God: and they that resist shall receive to themselves damnation. RO 13:03 For rulers are not a terror to good works, but to the evil. Wilt thou then not be afraid of the power? do that which is good, and thou shalt have praise of the same: RO 13:04 For he is the minister of God to thee for good. But if thou do that which is evil, be afraid; for he beareth not the sword in vain: for he is the minister of God, a revenger to [execute] wrath upon him that doeth evil. RO 13:05 Wherefore [ye] must needs be subject, not only for wrath, but also for conscience sake. RO 13:06 For for this cause pay ye tribute also: for they are God's ministers, attending continually upon this very thing. RO 13:07 Render therefore to all their dues: tribute to whom tribute [is due]; custom to whom custom; fear to whom fear; honour to whom honour. RO 13:08 Owe no man any thing, but to love one another: for he that loveth another hath fulfilled the law. RO 13:09 For this, Thou shalt not commit adultery, Thou shalt not kill, Thou shalt not steal, Thou shalt not bear false witness, Thou shalt not covet; and if [there be] any other commandment, it is briefly comprehended in this saying, namely, Thou shalt love thy neighbour as thyself. RO 13:10 Love worketh no ill to his neighbour: therefore love [is] the fulfilling of the law. RO 13:11 And that, knowing the time, that now [it is] high time to awake out of sleep: for now [is] our salvation nearer than when we believed. RO 13:12 The night is far spent, the day is at hand: let us therefore cast off the works of darkness, and let us put on the armour of light. RO 13:13 Let us walk honestly, as in the day; not in rioting and drunkenness, not in chambering and wantonness, not in strife and envying. RO 13:14 But put ye on the Lord Jesus Christ, and make not provision for the flesh, to [fulfil] the lusts [thereof]. RO 14:01 Him that is weak in the faith receive ye, [but] not to doubtful disputations. RO 14:02 For one believeth that he may eat all things: another, who is weak, eateth herbs. RO 14:03 Let not him that eateth despise him that eateth not; and let not him which eateth not judge him that eateth: for God hath received him. RO 14:04 Who art thou that judgest another man's servant? to his own master he standeth or falleth. Yea, he shall be holden up: for God is able to make him stand. RO 14:05 One man esteemeth one day above another: another esteemeth every day [alike]. Let every man be fully persuaded in his own mind. RO 14:06 He that regardeth the day, regardeth [it] unto the Lord; and he that regardeth not the day, to the Lord he doth not regard [it]. He that eateth, eateth to the Lord, for he giveth God thanks; and he that eateth not, to the Lord he eateth not, and giveth God thanks. RO 14:07 For none of us liveth to himself, and no man dieth to himself. RO 14:08 For whether we live, we live unto the Lord; and whether we die, we die unto the Lord: whether we live therefore, or die, we are the Lord's. RO 14:09 For to this end Christ both died, and rose, and revived, that he might be Lord both of the dead and living. RO 14:10 But why dost thou judge thy brother? or why dost thou set at nought thy brother? for we shall all stand before the judgment seat of Christ. RO 14:11 For it is written, [As] I live, saith the Lord, every knee shall bow to me, and every tongue shall confess to God. RO 14:12 So then every one of us shall give account of himself to God. RO 14:13 Let us not therefore judge one another any more: but judge this rather, that no man put a stumblingblock or an occasion to fall in [his] brother's way. RO 14:14 I know, and am persuaded by the Lord Jesus, that [there is] nothing unclean of itself: but to him that esteemeth any thing to be unclean, to him [it is] unclean. RO 14:15 But if thy brother be grieved with [thy] meat, now walkest thou not charitably. Destroy not him with thy meat, for whom Christ died. RO 14:16 Let not then your good be evil spoken of: RO 14:17 For the kingdom of God is not meat and drink; but righteousness, and peace, and joy in the Holy Ghost. RO 14:18 For he that in these things serveth Christ [is] acceptable to God, and approved of men. RO 14:19 Let us therefore follow after the things which make for peace, and things wherewith one may edify another. RO 14:20 For meat destroy not the work of God. All things indeed [are] pure; but [it is] evil for that man who eateth with offence. RO 14:21 [It is] good neither to eat flesh, nor to drink wine, nor [any thing] whereby thy brother stumbleth, or is offended, or is made weak. RO 14:22 Hast thou faith? have [it] to thyself before God. Happy [is] he that condemneth not himself in that thing which he alloweth. RO 14:23 And he that doubteth is damned if he eat, because [he eateth] not of faith: for whatsoever [is] not of faith is sin. RO 15:01 We then that are strong ought to bear the infirmities of the weak, and not to please ourselves. RO 15:02 Let every one of us please [his] neighbour for [his] good to edification. RO 15:03 For even Christ pleased not himself; but, as it is written, The reproaches of them that reproached thee fell on me. RO 15:04 For whatsoever things were written aforetime were written for our learning, that we through patience and comfort of the scriptures might have hope. RO 15:05 Now the God of patience and consolation grant you to be likeminded one toward another according to Christ Jesus: RO 15:06 That ye may with one mind [and] one mouth glorify God, even the Father of our Lord Jesus Christ. RO 15:07 Wherefore receive ye one another, as Christ also received us to the glory of God. RO 15:08 Now I say that Jesus Christ was a minister of the circumcision for the truth of God, to confirm the promises [made] unto the fathers: RO 15:09 And that the Gentiles might glorify God for [his] mercy; as it is written, For this cause I will confess to thee among the Gentiles, and sing unto thy name. RO 15:10 And again he saith, Rejoice, ye Gentiles, with his people. RO 15:11 And again, Praise the Lord, all ye Gentiles; and laud him, all ye people. RO 15:12 And again, Esaias saith, There shall be a root of Jesse, and he that shall rise to reign over the Gentiles; in him shall the Gentiles trust. RO 15:13 Now the God of hope fill you with all joy and peace in believing, that ye may abound in hope, through the power of the Holy Ghost. RO 15:14 And I myself also am persuaded of you, my brethren, that ye also are full of goodness, filled with all knowledge, able also to admonish one another. RO 15:15 Nevertheless, brethren, I have written the more boldly unto you in some sort, as putting you in mind, because of the grace that is given to me of God, ========= Day <6> RO 15:16 RO 15:16 That I should be the minister of Jesus Christ to the Gentiles, ministering the gospel of God, that the offering up of the Gentiles might be acceptable, being sanctified by the Holy Ghost. RO 15:17 I have therefore whereof I may glory through Jesus Christ in those things which pertain to God. RO 15:18 For I will not dare to speak of any of those things which Christ hath not wrought by me, to make the Gentiles obedient, by word and deed, RO 15:19 Through mighty signs and wonders, by the power of the Spirit of God; so that from Jerusalem, and round about unto Illyricum, I have fully preached the gospel of Christ. RO 15:20 Yea, so have I strived to preach the gospel, not where Christ was named, lest I should build upon another man's foundation: RO 15:21 But as it is written, To whom he was not spoken of, they shall see: and they that have not heard shall understand. RO 15:22 For which cause also I have been much hindered from coming to you. RO 15:23 But now having no more place in these parts, and having a great desire these many years to come unto you; RO 15:24 Whensoever I take my journey into Spain, I will come to you: for I trust to see you in my journey, and to be brought on my way thitherward by you, if first I be somewhat filled with your [company]. RO 15:25 But now I go unto Jerusalem to minister unto the saints. RO 15:26 For it hath pleased them of Macedonia and Achaia to make a certain contribution for the poor saints which are at Jerusalem. RO 15:27 It hath pleased them verily; and their debtors they are. For if the Gentiles have been made partakers of their spiritual things, their duty is also to minister unto them in carnal things. RO 15:28 When therefore I have performed this, and have sealed to them this fruit, I will come by you into Spain. RO 15:29 And I am sure that, when I come unto you, I shall come in the fulness of the blessing of the gospel of Christ. RO 15:30 Now I beseech you, brethren, for the Lord Jesus Christ's sake, and for the love of the Spirit, that ye strive together with me in [your] prayers to God for me; RO 15:31 That I may be delivered from them that do not believe in Judaea; and that my service which [I have] for Jerusalem may be accepted of the saints; RO 15:32 That I may come unto you with joy by the will of God, and may with you be refreshed. RO 15:33 Now the God of peace [be] with you all. Amen. RO 16:01 I commend unto you Phebe our sister, which is a servant of the church which is at Cenchrea: RO 16:02 That ye receive her in the Lord, as becometh saints, and that ye assist her in whatsoever business she hath need of you: for she hath been a succourer of many, and of myself also. RO 16:03 Greet Priscilla and Aquila my helpers in Christ Jesus: RO 16:04 Who have for my life laid down their own necks: unto whom not only I give thanks, but also all the churches of the Gentiles. RO 16:05 Likewise [greet] the church that is in their house. Salute my wellbeloved Epaenetus, who is the firstfruits of Achaia unto Christ. RO 16:06 Greet Mary, who bestowed much labour on us. RO 16:07 Salute Andronicus and Junia, my kinsmen, and my fellowprisoners, who are of note among the apostles, who also were in Christ before me. RO 16:08 Greet Amplias my beloved in the Lord. RO 16:09 Salute Urbane, our helper in Christ, and Stachys my beloved. RO 16:10 Salute Apelles approved in Christ. Salute them which are of Aristobulus' [household]. RO 16:11 Salute Herodion my kinsman. Greet them that be of the [household] of Narcissus, which are in the Lord. RO 16:12 Salute Tryphena and Tryphosa, who labour in the Lord. Salute the beloved Persis, which laboured much in the Lord. RO 16:13 Salute Rufus chosen in the Lord, and his mother and mine. RO 16:14 Salute Asyncritus, Phlegon, Hermas, Patrobas, Hermes, and the brethren which are with them. RO 16:15 Salute Philologus, and Julia, Nereus, and his sister, and Olympas, and all the saints which are with them. RO 16:16 Salute one another with an holy kiss. The churches of Christ salute you. RO 16:17 Now I beseech you, brethren, mark them which cause divisions and offences contrary to the doctrine which ye have learned; and avoid them. RO 16:18 For they that are such serve not our Lord Jesus Christ, but their own belly; and by good words and fair speeches deceive the hearts of the simple. RO 16:19 For your obedience is come abroad unto all [men]. I am glad therefore on your behalf: but yet I would have you wise unto that which is good, and simple concerning evil. RO 16:20 And the God of peace shall bruise Satan under your feet shortly. The grace of our Lord Jesus Christ [be] with you. Amen. RO 16:21 Timotheus my workfellow, and Lucius, and Jason, and Sosipater, my kinsmen, salute you. RO 16:22 I Tertius, who wrote [this] epistle, salute you in the Lord. RO 16:23 Gaius mine host, and of the whole church, saluteth you. Erastus the chamberlain of the city saluteth you, and Quartus a brother. RO 16:24 The grace of our Lord Jesus Christ [be] with you all. Amen. RO 16:25 Now to him that is of power to stablish you according to my gospel, and the preaching of Jesus Christ, according to the revelation of the mystery, which was kept secret since the world began, RO 16:26 But now is made manifest, and by the scriptures of the prophets, according to the commandment of the everlasting God, made known to all nations for the obedience of faith: RO 16:27 To God only wise, [be] glory through Jesus Christ for ever. Amen. 1CO 01:01 Paul, called [to be] an apostle of Jesus Christ through the will of God, and Sosthenes [our] brother, 1CO 01:02 Unto the church of God which is at Corinth, to them that are sanctified in Christ Jesus, called [to be] saints, with all that in every place call upon the name of Jesus Christ our Lord, both theirs and ours: 1CO 01:03 Grace [be] unto you, and peace, from God our Father, and [from] the Lord Jesus Christ. 1CO 01:04 I thank my God always on your behalf, for the grace of God which is given you by Jesus Christ; 1CO 01:05 That in every thing ye are enriched by him, in all utterance, and [in] all knowledge; 1CO 01:06 Even as the testimony of Christ was confirmed in you: 1CO 01:07 So that ye come behind in no gift; waiting for the coming of our Lord Jesus Christ: 1CO 01:08 Who shall also confirm you unto the end, [that ye may be] blameless in the day of our Lord Jesus Christ. 1CO 01:09 God [is] faithful, by whom ye were called unto the fellowship of his Son Jesus Christ our Lord. 1CO 01:10 Now I beseech you, brethren, by the name of our Lord Jesus Christ, that ye all speak the same thing, and [that] there be no divisions among you; but [that] ye be perfectly joined together in the same mind and in the same judgment. 1CO 01:11 For it hath been declared unto me of you, my brethren, by them [which are of the house] of Chloe, that there are contentions among you. 1CO 01:12 Now this I say, that every one of you saith, I am of Paul; and I of Apollos; and I of Cephas; and I of Christ. 1CO 01:13 Is Christ divided? was Paul crucified for you? or were ye baptized in the name of Paul? 1CO 01:14 I thank God that I baptized none of you, but Crispus and Gaius; 1CO 01:15 Lest any should say that I had baptized in mine own name. 1CO 01:16 And I baptized also the household of Stephanas: besides, I know not whether I baptized any other. 1CO 01:17 For Christ sent me not to baptize, but to preach the gospel: not with wisdom of words, lest the cross of Christ should be made of none effect. 1CO 01:18 For the preaching of the cross is to them that perish foolishness; but unto us which are saved it is the power of God. 1CO 01:19 For it is written, I will destroy the wisdom of the wise, and will bring to nothing the understanding of the prudent. 1CO 01:20 Where [is] the wise? where [is] the scribe? where [is] the disputer of this world? hath not God made foolish the wisdom of this world? 1CO 01:21 For after that in the wisdom of God the world by wisdom knew not God, it pleased God by the foolishness of preaching to save them that believe. 1CO 01:22 For the Jews require a sign, and the Greeks seek after wisdom: 1CO 01:23 But we preach Christ crucified, unto the Jews a stumblingblock, and unto the Greeks foolishness; 1CO 01:24 But unto them which are called, both Jews and Greeks, Christ the power of God, and the wisdom of God. 1CO 01:25 Because the foolishness of God is wiser than men; and the weakness of God is stronger than men. 1CO 01:26 For ye see your calling, brethren, how that not many wise men after the flesh, not many mighty, not many noble, [are called]: 1CO 01:27 But God hath chosen the foolish things of the world to confound the wise; and God hath chosen the weak things of the world to confound the things which are mighty; 1CO 01:28 And base things of the world, and things which are despised, hath God chosen, [yea], and things which are not, to bring to nought things that are: 1CO 01:29 That no flesh should glory in his presence. 1CO 01:30 But of him are ye in Christ Jesus, who of God is made unto us wisdom, and righteousness, and sanctification, and redemption: 1CO 01:31 That, according as it is written, He that glorieth, let him glory in the Lord. 1CO 02:01 And I, brethren, when I came to you, came not with excellency of speech or of wisdom, declaring unto you the testimony of God. 1CO 02:02 For I determined not to know any thing among you, save Jesus Christ, and him crucified. 1CO 02:03 And I was with you in weakness, and in fear, and in much trembling. 1CO 02:04 And my speech and my preaching [was] not with enticing words of man's wisdom, but in demonstration of the Spirit and of power: 1CO 02:05 That your faith should not stand in the wisdom of men, but in the power of God. 1CO 02:06 Howbeit we speak wisdom among them that are perfect: yet not the wisdom of this world, nor of the princes of this world, that come to nought: ========= Day <7> 1CO 02:07 1CO 02:07 But we speak the wisdom of God in a mystery, [even] the hidden [wisdom], which God ordained before the world unto our glory: 1CO 02:08 Which none of the princes of this world knew: for had they known [it], they would not have crucified the Lord of glory. 1CO 02:09 But as it is written, Eye hath not seen, nor ear heard, neither have entered into the heart of man, the things which God hath prepared for them that love him. 1CO 02:10 But God hath revealed [them] unto us by his Spirit: for the Spirit searcheth all things, yea, the deep things of God. 1CO 02:11 For what man knoweth the things of a man, save the spirit of man which is in him? even so the things of God knoweth no man, but the Spirit of God. 1CO 02:12 Now we have received, not the spirit of the world, but the spirit which is of God; that we might know the things that are freely given to us of God. 1CO 02:13 Which things also we speak, not in the words which man's wisdom teacheth, but which the Holy Ghost teacheth; comparing spiritual things with spiritual. 1CO 02:14 But the natural man receiveth not the things of the Spirit of God: for they are foolishness unto him: neither can he know [them], because they are spiritually discerned. 1CO 02:15 But he that is spiritual judgeth all things, yet he himself is judged of no man. 1CO 02:16 For who hath known the mind of the Lord, that he may instruct him? But we have the mind of Christ. 1CO 03:01 And I, brethren, could not speak unto you as unto spiritual, but as unto carnal, [even] as unto babes in Christ. 1CO 03:02 I have fed you with milk, and not with meat: for hitherto ye were not able [to bear it], neither yet now are ye able. 1CO 03:03 For ye are yet carnal: for whereas [there is] among you envying, and strife, and divisions, are ye not carnal, and walk as men? 1CO 03:04 For while one saith, I am of Paul; and another, I [am] of Apollos; are ye not carnal? 1CO 03:05 Who then is Paul, and who [is] Apollos, but ministers by whom ye believed, even as the Lord gave to every man? 1CO 03:06 I have planted, Apollos watered; but God gave the increase. 1CO 03:07 So then neither is he that planteth any thing, neither he that watereth; but God that giveth the increase. 1CO 03:08 Now he that planteth and he that watereth are one: and every man shall receive his own reward according to his own labour. 1CO 03:09 For we are labourers together with God: ye are God's husbandry, [ye are] God's building. 1CO 03:10 According to the grace of God which is given unto me, as a wise masterbuilder, I have laid the foundation, and another buildeth thereon. But let every man take heed how he buildeth thereupon. 1CO 03:11 For other foundation can no man lay than that is laid, which is Jesus Christ. 1CO 03:12 Now if any man build upon this foundation gold, silver, precious stones, wood, hay, stubble; 1CO 03:13 Every man's work shall be made manifest: for the day shall declare it, because it shall be revealed by fire; and the fire shall try every man's work of what sort it is. 1CO 03:14 If any man's work abide which he hath built thereupon, he shall receive a reward. 1CO 03:15 If any man's work shall be burned, he shall suffer loss: but he himself shall be saved; yet so as by fire. 1CO 03:16 Know ye not that ye are the temple of God, and [that] the Spirit of God dwelleth in you? 1CO 03:17 If any man defile the temple of God, him shall God destroy; for the temple of God is holy, which [temple] ye are. 1CO 03:18 Let no man deceive himself. If any man among you seemeth to be wise in this world, let him become a fool, that he may be wise. 1CO 03:19 For the wisdom of this world is foolishness with God. For it is written, He taketh the wise in their own craftiness. 1CO 03:20 And again, The Lord knoweth the thoughts of the wise, that they are vain. 1CO 03:21 Therefore let no man glory in men. For all things are yours; 1CO 03:22 Whether Paul, or Apollos, or Cephas, or the world, or life, or death, or things present, or things to come; all are yours; 1CO 03:23 And ye are Christ's; and Christ [is] God's. 1CO 04:01 Let a man so account of us, as of the ministers of Christ, and stewards of the mysteries of God. 1CO 04:02 Moreover it is required in stewards, that a man be found faithful. 1CO 04:03 But with me it is a very small thing that I should be judged of you, or of man's judgment: yea, I judge not mine own self. 1CO 04:04 For I know nothing by myself; yet am I not hereby justified: but he that judgeth me is the Lord. 1CO 04:05 Therefore judge nothing before the time, until the Lord come, who both will bring to light the hidden things of darkness, and will make manifest the counsels of the hearts: and then shall every man have praise of God. 1CO 04:06 And these things, brethren, I have in a figure transferred to myself and [to] Apollos for your sakes; that ye might learn in us not to think [of men] above that which is written, that no one of you be puffed up for one against another. 1CO 04:07 For who maketh thee to differ [from another]? and what hast thou that thou didst not receive? now if thou didst receive [it], why dost thou glory, as if thou hadst not received [it]? 1CO 04:08 Now ye are full, now ye are rich, ye have reigned as kings without us: and I would to God ye did reign, that we also might reign with you. 1CO 04:09 For I think that God hath set forth us the apostles last, as it were appointed to death: for we are made a spectacle unto the world, and to angels, and to men. 1CO 04:10 We [are] fools for Christ's sake, but ye [are] wise in Christ; we [are] weak, but ye [are] strong; ye [are] honourable, but we [are] despised. 1CO 04:11 Even unto this present hour we both hunger, and thirst, and are naked, and are buffeted, and have no certain dwellingplace; 1CO 04:12 And labour, working with our own hands: being reviled, we bless; being persecuted, we suffer it: 1CO 04:13 Being defamed, we entreat: we are made as the filth of the world, [and are] the offscouring of all things unto this day. 1CO 04:14 I write not these things to shame you, but as my beloved sons I warn [you]. 1CO 04:15 For though ye have ten thousand instructors in Christ, yet [have ye] not many fathers: for in Christ Jesus I have begotten you through the gospel. 1CO 04:16 Wherefore I beseech you, be ye followers of me. 1CO 04:17 For this cause have I sent unto you Timotheus, who is my beloved son, and faithful in the Lord, who shall bring you into remembrance of my ways which be in Christ, as I teach every where in every church. 1CO 04:18 Now some are puffed up, as though I would not come to you. 1CO 04:19 But I will come to you shortly, if the Lord will, and will know, not the speech of them which are puffed up, but the power. 1CO 04:20 For the kingdom of God [is] not in word, but in power. 1CO 04:21 What will ye? shall I come unto you with a rod, or in love, and [in] the spirit of meekness? 1CO 05:01 It is reported commonly [that there is] fornication among you, and such fornication as is not so much as named among the Gentiles, that one should have his father's wife. 1CO 05:02 And ye are puffed up, and have not rather mourned, that he that hath done this deed might be taken away from among you. 1CO 05:03 For I verily, as absent in body, but present in spirit, have judged already, as though I were present, [concerning] him that hath so done this deed, 1CO 05:04 In the name of our Lord Jesus Christ, when ye are gathered together, and my spirit, with the power of our Lord Jesus Christ, 1CO 05:05 To deliver such an one unto Satan for the destruction of the flesh, that the spirit may be saved in the day of the Lord Jesus. 1CO 05:06 Your glorying [is] not good. Know ye not that a little leaven leaveneth the whole lump? 1CO 05:07 Purge out therefore the old leaven, that ye may be a new lump, as ye are unleavened. For even Christ our passover is sacrificed for us: 1CO 05:08 Therefore let us keep the feast, not with old leaven, neither with the leaven of malice and wickedness; but with the unleavened [bread] of sincerity and truth. 1CO 05:09 I wrote unto you in an epistle not to company with fornicators: 1CO 05:10 Yet not altogether with the fornicators of this world, or with the covetous, or extortioners, or with idolaters; for then must ye needs go out of the world. 1CO 05:11 But now I have written unto you not to keep company, if any man that is called a brother be a fornicator, or covetous, or an idolater, or a railer, or a drunkard, or an extortioner; with such an one no not to eat. 1CO 05:12 For what have I to do to judge them also that are without? do not ye judge them that are within? 1CO 05:13 But them that are without God judgeth. Therefore put away from among yourselves that wicked person. 1CO 06:01 Dare any of you, having a matter against another, go to law before the unjust, and not before the saints? 1CO 06:02 Do ye not know that the saints shall judge the world? and if the world shall be judged by you, are ye unworthy to judge the smallest matters? 1CO 06:03 Know ye not that we shall judge angels? how much more things that pertain to this life? 1CO 06:04 If then ye have judgments of things pertaining to this life, set them to judge who are least esteemed in the church. 1CO 06:05 I speak to your shame. Is it so, that there is not a wise man among you? no, not one that shall be able to judge between his brethren? 1CO 06:06 But brother goeth to law with brother, and that before the unbelievers. 1CO 06:07 Now therefore there is utterly a fault among you, because ye go to law one with another. Why do ye not rather take wrong? why do ye not rather [suffer yourselves to] be defrauded? 1CO 06:08 Nay, ye do wrong, and defraud, and that [your] brethren. 1CO 06:09 Know ye not that the unrighteous shall not inherit the kingdom of God? Be not deceived: neither fornicators, nor idolaters, nor adulterers, nor effeminate, nor abusers of themselves with mankind, ========= Day <8> 1CO 06:10 1CO 06:10 Nor thieves, nor covetous, nor drunkards, nor revilers, nor extortioners, shall inherit the kingdom of God. 1CO 06:11 And such were some of you: but ye are washed, but ye are sanctified, but ye are justified in the name of the Lord Jesus, and by the Spirit of our God. 1CO 06:12 All things are lawful unto me, but all things are not expedient: all things are lawful for me, but I will not be brought under the power of any. 1CO 06:13 Meats for the belly, and the belly for meats: but God shall destroy both it and them. Now the body [is] not for fornication, but for the Lord; and the Lord for the body. 1CO 06:14 And God hath both raised up the Lord, and will also raise up us by his own power. 1CO 06:15 Know ye not that your bodies are the members of Christ? shall I then take the members of Christ, and make [them] the members of an harlot? God forbid. 1CO 06:16 What? know ye not that he which is joined to an harlot is one body? for two, saith he, shall be one flesh. 1CO 06:17 But he that is joined unto the Lord is one spirit. 1CO 06:18 Flee fornication. Every sin that a man doeth is without the body; but he that committeth fornication sinneth against his own body. 1CO 06:19 What? know ye not that your body is the temple of the Holy Ghost [which is] in you, which ye have of God, and ye are not your own? 1CO 06:20 For ye are bought with a price: therefore glorify God in your body, and in your spirit, which are God's. 1CO 07:01 Now concerning the things whereof ye wrote unto me: [It is] good for a man not to touch a woman. 1CO 07:02 Nevertheless, [to avoid] fornication, let every man have his own wife, and let every woman have her own husband. 1CO 07:03 Let the husband render unto the wife due benevolence: and likewise also the wife unto the husband. 1CO 07:04 The wife hath not power of her own body, but the husband: and likewise also the husband hath not power of his own body, but the wife. 1CO 07:05 Defraud ye not one the other, except [it be] with consent for a time, that ye may give yourselves to fasting and prayer; and come together again, that Satan tempt you not for your incontinency. 1CO 07:06 But I speak this by permission, [and] not of commandment. 1CO 07:07 For I would that all men were even as I myself. But every man hath his proper gift of God, one after this manner, and another after that. 1CO 07:08 I say therefore to the unmarried and widows, It is good for them if they abide even as I. 1CO 07:09 But if they cannot contain, let them marry: for it is better to marry than to burn. 1CO 07:10 And unto the married I command, [yet] not I, but the Lord, Let not the wife depart from [her] husband: 1CO 07:11 But and if she depart, let her remain unmarried, or be reconciled to [her] husband: and let not the husband put away [his] wife. 1CO 07:12 But to the rest speak I, not the Lord: If any brother hath a wife that believeth not, and she be pleased to dwell with him, let him not put her away. 1CO 07:13 And the woman which hath an husband that believeth not, and if he be pleased to dwell with her, let her not leave him. 1CO 07:14 For the unbelieving husband is sanctified by the wife, and the unbelieving wife is sanctified by the husband: else were your children unclean; but now are they holy. 1CO 07:15 But if the unbelieving depart, let him depart. A brother or a sister is not under bondage in such [cases]: but God hath called us to peace. 1CO 07:16 For what knowest thou, O wife, whether thou shalt save [thy] husband? or how knowest thou, O man, whether thou shalt save [thy] wife? 1CO 07:17 But as God hath distributed to every man, as the Lord hath called every one, so let him walk. And so ordain I in all churches. 1CO 07:18 Is any man called being circumcised? let him not become uncircumcised. Is any called in uncircumcision? let him not be circumcised. 1CO 07:19 Circumcision is nothing, and uncircumcision is nothing, but the keeping of the commandments of God. 1CO 07:20 Let every man abide in the same calling wherein he was called. 1CO 07:21 Art thou called [being] a servant? care not for it: but if thou mayest be made free, use [it] rather. 1CO 07:22 For he that is called in the Lord, [being] a servant, is the Lord's freeman: likewise also he that is called, [being] free, is Christ's servant. 1CO 07:23 Ye are bought with a price; be not ye the servants of men. 1CO 07:24 Brethren, let every man, wherein he is called, therein abide with God. 1CO 07:25 Now concerning virgins I have no commandment of the Lord: yet I give my judgment, as one that hath obtained mercy of the Lord to be faithful. 1CO 07:26 I suppose therefore that this is good for the present distress, [I say], that [it is] good for a man so to be. 1CO 07:27 Art thou bound unto a wife? seek not to be loosed. Art thou loosed from a wife? seek not a wife. 1CO 07:28 But and if thou marry, thou hast not sinned; and if a virgin marry, she hath not sinned. Nevertheless such shall have trouble in the flesh: but I spare you. 1CO 07:29 But this I say, brethren, the time [is] short: it remaineth, that both they that have wives be as though they had none; 1CO 07:30 And they that weep, as though they wept not; and they that rejoice, as though they rejoiced not; and they that buy, as though they possessed not; 1CO 07:31 And they that use this world, as not abusing [it]: for the fashion of this world passeth away. 1CO 07:32 But I would have you without carefulness. He that is unmarried careth for the things that belong to the Lord, how he may please the Lord: 1CO 07:33 But he that is married careth for the things that are of the world, how he may please [his] wife. 1CO 07:34 There is difference [also] between a wife and a virgin. The unmarried woman careth for the things of the Lord, that she may be holy both in body and in spirit: but she that is married careth for the things of the world, how she may please [her] husband. 1CO 07:35 And this I speak for your own profit; not that I may cast a snare upon you, but for that which is comely, and that ye may attend upon the Lord without distraction. 1CO 07:36 But if any man think that he behaveth himself uncomely toward his virgin, if she pass the flower of [her] age, and need so require, let him do what he will, he sinneth not: let them marry. 1CO 07:37 Nevertheless he that standeth stedfast in his heart, having no necessity, but hath power over his own will, and hath so decreed in his heart that he will keep his virgin, doeth well. 1CO 07:38 So then he that giveth [her] in marriage doeth well; but he that giveth [her] not in marriage doeth better. 1CO 07:39 The wife is bound by the law as long as her husband liveth; but if her husband be dead, she is at liberty to be married to whom she will; only in the Lord. 1CO 07:40 But she is happier if she so abide, after my judgment: and I think also that I have the Spirit of God. 1CO 08:01 Now as touching things offered unto idols, we know that we all have knowledge. Knowledge puffeth up, but charity edifieth. 1CO 08:02 And if any man think that he knoweth any thing, he knoweth nothing yet as he ought to know. 1CO 08:03 But if any man love God, the same is known of him. 1CO 08:04 As concerning therefore the eating of those things that are offered in sacrifice unto idols, we know that an idol [is] nothing in the world, and that [there is] none other God but one. 1CO 08:05 For though there be that are called gods, whether in heaven or in earth, (as there be gods many, and lords many,) 1CO 08:06 But to us [there is but] one God, the Father, of whom [are] all things, and we in him; and one Lord Jesus Christ, by whom [are] all things, and we by him. 1CO 08:07 Howbeit [there is] not in every man that knowledge: for some with conscience of the idol unto this hour eat [it] as a thing offered unto an idol; and their conscience being weak is defiled. 1CO 08:08 But meat commendeth us not to God: for neither, if we eat, are we the better; neither, if we eat not, are we the worse. 1CO 08:09 But take heed lest by any means this liberty of yours become a stumblingblock to them that are weak. 1CO 08:10 For if any man see thee which hast knowledge sit at meat in the idol's temple, shall not the conscience of him which is weak be emboldened to eat those things which are offered to idols; 1CO 08:11 And through thy knowledge shall the weak brother perish, for whom Christ died? 1CO 08:12 But when ye sin so against the brethren, and wound their weak conscience, ye sin against Christ. 1CO 08:13 Wherefore, if meat make my brother to offend, I will eat no flesh while the world standeth, lest I make my brother to offend. 1CO 09:01 Am I not an apostle? am I not free? have I not seen Jesus Christ our Lord? are not ye my work in the Lord? 1CO 09:02 If I be not an apostle unto others, yet doubtless I am to you: for the seal of mine apostleship are ye in the Lord. 1CO 09:03 Mine answer to them that do examine me is this, 1CO 09:04 Have we not power to eat and to drink? 1CO 09:05 Have we not power to lead about a sister, a wife, as well as other apostles, and [as] the brethren of the Lord, and Cephas? 1CO 09:06 Or I only and Barnabas, have not we power to forbear working? 1CO 09:07 Who goeth a warfare any time at his own charges? who planteth a vineyard, and eateth not of the fruit thereof? or who feedeth a flock, and eateth not of the milk of the flock? 1CO 09:08 Say I these things as a man? or saith not the law the same also? 1CO 09:09 For it is written in the law of Moses, Thou shalt not muzzle the mouth of the ox that treadeth out the corn. Doth God take care for oxen? 1CO 09:10 Or saith he [it] altogether for our sakes? For our sakes, no doubt, [this] is written: that he that ploweth should plow in hope; and that he that thresheth in hope should be partaker of his hope. ========= Day <9> 1CO 09:11 1CO 09:11 If we have sown unto you spiritual things, [is it] a great thing if we shall reap your carnal things? 1CO 09:12 If others be partakers of [this] power over you, [are] not we rather? Nevertheless we have not used this power; but suffer all things, lest we should hinder the gospel of Christ. 1CO 09:13 Do ye not know that they which minister about holy things live [of the things] of the temple? and they which wait at the altar are partakers with the altar? 1CO 09:14 Even so hath the Lord ordained that they which preach the gospel should live of the gospel. 1CO 09:15 But I have used none of these things: neither have I written these things, that it should be so done unto me: for [it were] better for me to die, than that any man should make my glorying void. 1CO 09:16 For though I preach the gospel, I have nothing to glory of: for necessity is laid upon me; yea, woe is unto me, if I preach not the gospel! 1CO 09:17 For if I do this thing willingly, I have a reward: but if against my will, a dispensation [of the gospel] is committed unto me. 1CO 09:18 What is my reward then? [Verily] that, when I preach the gospel, I may make the gospel of Christ without charge, that I abuse not my power in the gospel. 1CO 09:19 For though I be free from all [men], yet have I made myself servant unto all, that I might gain the more. 1CO 09:20 And unto the Jews I became as a Jew, that I might gain the Jews; to them that are under the law, as under the law, that I might gain them that are under the law; 1CO 09:21 To them that are without law, as without law, (being not without law to God, but under the law to Christ,) that I might gain them that are without law. 1CO 09:22 To the weak became I as weak, that I might gain the weak: I am made all things to all [men], that I might by all means save some. 1CO 09:23 And this I do for the gospel's sake, that I might be partaker thereof with [you]. 1CO 09:24 Know ye not that they which run in a race run all, but one receiveth the prize? So run, that ye may obtain. 1CO 09:25 And every man that striveth for the mastery is temperate in all things. Now they [do it] to obtain a corruptible crown; but we an incorruptible. 1CO 09:26 I therefore so run, not as uncertainly; so fight I, not as one that beateth the air: 1CO 09:27 But I keep under my body, and bring [it] into subjection: lest that by any means, when I have preached to others, I myself should be a castaway. 1CO 10:01 Moreover, brethren, I would not that ye should be ignorant, how that all our fathers were under the cloud, and all passed through the sea; 1CO 10:02 And were all baptized unto Moses in the cloud and in the sea; 1CO 10:03 And did all eat the same spiritual meat; 1CO 10:04 And did all drink the same spiritual drink: for they drank of that spiritual Rock that followed them: and that Rock was Christ. 1CO 10:05 But with many of them God was not well pleased: for they were overthrown in the wilderness. 1CO 10:06 Now these things were our examples, to the intent we should not lust after evil things, as they also lusted. 1CO 10:07 Neither be ye idolaters, as [were] some of them; as it is written, The people sat down to eat and drink, and rose up to play. 1CO 10:08 Neither let us commit fornication, as some of them committed, and fell in one day three and twenty thousand. 1CO 10:09 Neither let us tempt Christ, as some of them also tempted, and were destroyed of serpents. 1CO 10:10 Neither murmur ye, as some of them also murmured, and were destroyed of the destroyer. 1CO 10:11 Now all these things happened unto them for ensamples: and they are written for our admonition, upon whom the ends of the world are come. 1CO 10:12 Wherefore let him that thinketh he standeth take heed lest he fall. 1CO 10:13 There hath no temptation taken you but such as is common to man: but God [is] faithful, who will not suffer you to be tempted above that ye are able; but will with the temptation also make a way to escape, that ye may be able to bear [it]. 1CO 10:14 Wherefore, my dearly beloved, flee from idolatry. 1CO 10:15 I speak as to wise men; judge ye what I say. 1CO 10:16 The cup of blessing which we bless, is it not the communion of the blood of Christ? The bread which we break, is it not the communion of the body of Christ? 1CO 10:17 For we [being] many are one bread, [and] one body: for we are all partakers of that one bread. 1CO 10:18 Behold Israel after the flesh: are not they which eat of the sacrifices partakers of the altar? 1CO 10:19 What say I then? that the idol is any thing, or that which is offered in sacrifice to idols is any thing? 1CO 10:20 But I [say], that the things which the Gentiles sacrifice, they sacrifice to devils, and not to God: and I would not that ye should have fellowship with devils. 1CO 10:21 Ye cannot drink the cup of the Lord, and the cup of devils: ye cannot be partakers of the Lord's table, and of the table of devils. 1CO 10:22 Do we provoke the Lord to jealousy? are we stronger than he? 1CO 10:23 All things are lawful for me, but all things are not expedient: all things are lawful for me, but all things edify not. 1CO 10:24 Let no man seek his own, but every man another's [wealth]. 1CO 10:25 Whatsoever is sold in the shambles, [that] eat, asking no question for conscience sake: 1CO 10:26 For the earth [is] the Lord's, and the fulness thereof. 1CO 10:27 If any of them that believe not bid you [to a feast], and ye be disposed to go; whatsoever is set before you, eat, asking no question for conscience sake. 1CO 10:28 But if any man say unto you, This is offered in sacrifice unto idols, eat not for his sake that showed it, and for conscience sake: for the earth [is] the Lord's, and the fulness thereof: 1CO 10:29 Conscience, I say, not thine own, but of the other: for why is my liberty judged of another [man's] conscience? 1CO 10:30 For if I by grace be a partaker, why am I evil spoken of for that for which I give thanks? 1CO 10:31 Whether therefore ye eat, or drink, or whatsoever ye do, do all to the glory of God. 1CO 10:32 Give none offence, neither to the Jews, nor to the Gentiles, nor to the church of God: 1CO 10:33 Even as I please all [men] in all [things], not seeking mine own profit, but the [profit] of many, that they may be saved. 1CO 11:01 Be ye followers of me, even as I also [am] of Christ. 1CO 11:02 Now I praise you, brethren, that ye remember me in all things, and keep the ordinances, as I delivered [them] to you. 1CO 11:03 But I would have you know, that the head of every man is Christ; and the head of the woman [is] the man; and the head of Christ [is] God. 1CO 11:04 Every man praying or prophesying, having [his] head covered, dishonoureth his head. 1CO 11:05 But every woman that prayeth or prophesieth with [her] head uncovered dishonoureth her head: for that is even all one as if she were shaven. 1CO 11:06 For if the woman be not covered, let her also be shorn: but if it be a shame for a woman to be shorn or shaven, let her be covered. 1CO 11:07 For a man indeed ought not to cover [his] head, forasmuch as he is the image and glory of God: but the woman is the glory of the man. 1CO 11:08 For the man is not of the woman; but the woman of the man. 1CO 11:09 Neither was the man created for the woman; but the woman for the man. 1CO 11:10 For this cause ought the woman to have power on [her] head because of the angels. 1CO 11:11 Nevertheless neither is the man without the woman, neither the woman without the man, in the Lord. 1CO 11:12 For as the woman [is] of the man, even so [is] the man also by the woman; but all things of God. 1CO 11:13 Judge in yourselves: is it comely that a woman pray unto God uncovered? 1CO 11:14 Doth not even nature itself teach you, that, if a man have long hair, it is a shame unto him? 1CO 11:15 But if a woman have long hair, it is a glory to her: for [her] hair is given her for a covering. 1CO 11:16 But if any man seem to be contentious, we have no such custom, neither the churches of God. 1CO 11:17 Now in this that I declare [unto you] I praise [you] not, that ye come together not for the better, but for the worse. 1CO 11:18 For first of all, when ye come together in the church, I hear that there be divisions among you; and I partly believe it. 1CO 11:19 For there must be also heresies among you, that they which are approved may be made manifest among you. 1CO 11:20 When ye come together therefore into one place, [this] is not to eat the Lord's supper. 1CO 11:21 For in eating every one taketh before [other] his own supper: and one is hungry, and another is drunken. 1CO 11:22 What? have ye not houses to eat and to drink in? or despise ye the church of God, and shame them that have not? What shall I say to you? shall I praise you in this? I praise [you] not. 1CO 11:23 For I have received of the Lord that which also I delivered unto you, That the Lord Jesus the [same] night in which he was betrayed took bread: 1CO 11:24 And when he had given thanks, he brake [it], and said, Take, eat: this is my body, which is broken for you: this do in remembrance of me. 1CO 11:25 After the same manner also [he took] the cup, when he had supped, saying, This cup is the new testament in my blood: this do ye, as oft as ye drink [it], in remembrance of me. 1CO 11:26 For as often as ye eat this bread, and drink this cup, ye do show the Lord's death till he come. 1CO 11:27 Wherefore whosoever shall eat this bread, and drink [this] cup of the Lord, unworthily, shall be guilty of the body and blood of the Lord. 1CO 11:28 But let a man examine himself, and so let him eat of [that] bread, and drink of [that] cup. 1CO 11:29 For he that eateth and drinketh unworthily, eateth and drinketh damnation to himself, not discerning the Lord's body. 1CO 11:30 For this cause many [are] weak and sickly among you, and many sleep. ========= Day <10> 1CO 11:31 1CO 11:31 For if we would judge ourselves, we should not be judged. 1CO 11:32 But when we are judged, we are chastened of the Lord, that we should not be condemned with the world. 1CO 11:33 Wherefore, my brethren, when ye come together to eat, tarry one for another. 1CO 11:34 And if any man hunger, let him eat at home; that ye come not together unto condemnation. And the rest will I set in order when I come. 1CO 12:01 Now concerning spiritual [gifts], brethren, I would not have you ignorant. 1CO 12:02 Ye know that ye were Gentiles, carried away unto these dumb idols, even as ye were led. 1CO 12:03 Wherefore I give you to understand, that no man speaking by the Spirit of God calleth Jesus accursed: and [that] no man can say that Jesus is the Lord, but by the Holy Ghost. 1CO 12:04 Now there are diversities of gifts, but the same Spirit. 1CO 12:05 And there are differences of administrations, but the same Lord. 1CO 12:06 And there are diversities of operations, but it is the same God which worketh all in all. 1CO 12:07 But the manifestation of the Spirit is given to every man to profit withal. 1CO 12:08 For to one is given by the Spirit the word of wisdom; to another the word of knowledge by the same Spirit; 1CO 12:09 To another faith by the same Spirit; to another the gifts of healing by the same Spirit; 1CO 12:10 To another the working of miracles; to another prophecy; to another discerning of spirits; to another [divers] kinds of tongues; to another the interpretation of tongues: 1CO 12:11 But all these worketh that one and the selfsame Spirit, dividing to every man severally as he will. 1CO 12:12 For as the body is one, and hath many members, and all the members of that one body, being many, are one body: so also [is] Christ. 1CO 12:13 For by one Spirit are we all baptized into one body, whether [we be] Jews or Gentiles, whether [we be] bond or free; and have been all made to drink into one Spirit. 1CO 12:14 For the body is not one member, but many. 1CO 12:15 If the foot shall say, Because I am not the hand, I am not of the body; is it therefore not of the body? 1CO 12:16 And if the ear shall say, Because I am not the eye, I am not of the body; is it therefore not of the body? 1CO 12:17 If the whole body [were] an eye, where [were] the hearing? If the whole [were] hearing, where [were] the smelling? 1CO 12:18 But now hath God set the members every one of them in the body, as it hath pleased him. 1CO 12:19 And if they were all one member, where [were] the body? 1CO 12:20 But now [are they] many members, yet but one body. 1CO 12:21 And the eye cannot say unto the hand, I have no need of thee: nor again the head to the feet, I have no need of you. 1CO 12:22 Nay, much more those members of the body, which seem to be more feeble, are necessary: 1CO 12:23 And those [members] of the body, which we think to be less honourable, upon these we bestow more abundant honour; and our uncomely [parts] have more abundant comeliness. 1CO 12:24 For our comely [parts] have no need: but God hath tempered the body together, having given more abundant honour to that [part] which lacked: 1CO 12:25 That there should be no schism in the body; but [that] the members should have the same care one for another. 1CO 12:26 And whether one member suffer, all the members suffer with it; or one member be honoured, all the members rejoice with it. 1CO 12:27 Now ye are the body of Christ, and members in particular. 1CO 12:28 And God hath set some in the church, first apostles, secondarily prophets, thirdly teachers, after that miracles, then gifts of healings, helps, governments, diversities of tongues. 1CO 12:29 [Are] all apostles? [are] all prophets? [are] all teachers? [are] all workers of miracles? 1CO 12:30 Have all the gifts of healing? do all speak with tongues? do all interpret? 1CO 12:31 But covet earnestly the best gifts: and yet show I unto you a more excellent way. 1CO 13:01 Though I speak with the tongues of men and of angels, and have not charity, I am become [as] sounding brass, or a tinkling cymbal. 1CO 13:02 And though I have [the gift of] prophecy, and understand all mysteries, and all knowledge; and though I have all faith, so that I could remove mountains, and have not charity, I am nothing. 1CO 13:03 And though I bestow all my goods to feed [the poor], and though I give my body to be burned, and have not charity, it profiteth me nothing. 1CO 13:04 Charity suffereth long, [and] is kind; charity envieth not; charity vaunteth not itself, is not puffed up, 1CO 13:05 Doth not behave itself unseemly, seeketh not her own, is not easily provoked, thinketh no evil; 1CO 13:06 Rejoiceth not in iniquity, but rejoiceth in the truth; 1CO 13:07 Beareth all things, believeth all things, hopeth all things, endureth all things. 1CO 13:08 Charity never faileth: but whether [there be] prophecies, they shall fail; whether [there be] tongues, they shall cease; whether [there be] knowledge, it shall vanish away. 1CO 13:09 For we know in part, and we prophesy in part. 1CO 13:10 But when that which is perfect is come, then that which is in part shall be done away. 1CO 13:11 When I was a child, I spake as a child, I understood as a child, I thought as a child: but when I became a man, I put away childish things. 1CO 13:12 For now we see through a glass, darkly; but then face to face: now I know in part; but then shall I know even as also I am known. 1CO 13:13 And now abideth faith, hope, charity, these three; but the greatest of these [is] charity. 1CO 14:01 Follow after charity, and desire spiritual [gifts], but rather that ye may prophesy. 1CO 14:02 For he that speaketh in an [unknown] tongue speaketh not unto men, but unto God: for no man understandeth [him]; howbeit in the spirit he speaketh mysteries. 1CO 14:03 But he that prophesieth speaketh unto men [to] edification, and exhortation, and comfort. 1CO 14:04 He that speaketh in an [unknown] tongue edifieth himself; but he that prophesieth edifieth the church. 1CO 14:05 I would that ye all spake with tongues, but rather that ye prophesied: for greater [is] he that prophesieth than he that speaketh with tongues, except he interpret, that the church may receive edifying. 1CO 14:06 Now, brethren, if I come unto you speaking with tongues, what shall I profit you, except I shall speak to you either by revelation, or by knowledge, or by prophesying, or by doctrine? 1CO 14:07 And even things without life giving sound, whether pipe or harp, except they give a distinction in the sounds, how shall it be known what is piped or harped? 1CO 14:08 For if the trumpet give an uncertain sound, who shall prepare himself to the battle? 1CO 14:09 So likewise ye, except ye utter by the tongue words easy to be understood, how shall it be known what is spoken? for ye shall speak into the air. 1CO 14:10 There are, it may be, so many kinds of voices in the world, and none of them [is] without signification. 1CO 14:11 Therefore if I know not the meaning of the voice, I shall be unto him that speaketh a barbarian, and he that speaketh [shall be] a barbarian unto me. 1CO 14:12 Even so ye, forasmuch as ye are zealous of spiritual [gifts], seek that ye may excel to the edifying of the church. 1CO 14:13 Wherefore let him that speaketh in an [unknown] tongue pray that he may interpret. 1CO 14:14 For if I pray in an [unknown] tongue, my spirit prayeth, but my understanding is unfruitful. 1CO 14:15 What is it then? I will pray with the spirit, and I will pray with the understanding also: I will sing with the spirit, and I will sing with the understanding also. 1CO 14:16 Else when thou shalt bless with the spirit, how shall he that occupieth the room of the unlearned say Amen at thy giving of thanks, seeing he understandeth not what thou sayest? 1CO 14:17 For thou verily givest thanks well, but the other is not edified. 1CO 14:18 I thank my God, I speak with tongues more than ye all: 1CO 14:19 Yet in the church I had rather speak five words with my understanding, that [by my voice] I might teach others also, than ten thousand words in an [unknown] tongue. 1CO 14:20 Brethren, be not children in understanding: howbeit in malice be ye children, but in understanding be men. 1CO 14:21 In the law it is written, With [men of] other tongues and other lips will I speak unto this people; and yet for all that will they not hear me, saith the Lord. 1CO 14:22 Wherefore tongues are for a sign, not to them that believe, but to them that believe not: but prophesying [serveth] not for them that believe not, but for them which believe. 1CO 14:23 If therefore the whole church be come together into one place, and all speak with tongues, and there come in [those that are] unlearned, or unbelievers, will they not say that ye are mad? 1CO 14:24 But if all prophesy, and there come in one that believeth not, or [one] unlearned, he is convinced of all, he is judged of all: 1CO 14:25 And thus are the secrets of his heart made manifest; and so falling down on [his] face he will worship God, and report that God is in you of a truth. 1CO 14:26 How is it then, brethren? when ye come together, every one of you hath a psalm, hath a doctrine, hath a tongue, hath a revelation, hath an interpretation. Let all things be done unto edifying. 1CO 14:27 If any man speak in an [unknown] tongue, [let it be] by two, or at the most [by] three, and [that] by course; and let one interpret. 1CO 14:28 But if there be no interpreter, let him keep silence in the church; and let him speak to himself, and to God. 1CO 14:29 Let the prophets speak two or three, and let the other judge. 1CO 14:30 If [any thing] be revealed to another that sitteth by, let the first hold his peace. 1CO 14:31 For ye may all prophesy one by one, that all may learn, and all may be comforted. ========= Day <11> 1CO 14:32 1CO 14:32 And the spirits of the prophets are subject to the prophets. 1CO 14:33 For God is not [the author] of confusion, but of peace, as in all churches of the saints. 1CO 14:34 Let your women keep silence in the churches: for it is not permitted unto them to speak; but [they are commanded] to be under obedience, as also saith the law. 1CO 14:35 And if they will learn any thing, let them ask their husbands at home: for it is a shame for women to speak in the church. 1CO 14:36 What? came the word of God out from you? or came it unto you only? 1CO 14:37 If any man think himself to be a prophet, or spiritual, let him acknowledge that the things that I write unto you are the commandments of the Lord. 1CO 14:38 But if any man be ignorant, let him be ignorant. 1CO 14:39 Wherefore, brethren, covet to prophesy, and forbid not to speak with tongues. 1CO 14:40 Let all things be done decently and in order. 1CO 15:01 Moreover, brethren, I declare unto you the gospel which I preached unto you, which also ye have received, and wherein ye stand; 1CO 15:02 By which also ye are saved, if ye keep in memory what I preached unto you, unless ye have believed in vain. 1CO 15:03 For I delivered unto you first of all that which I also received, how that Christ died for our sins according to the scriptures; 1CO 15:04 And that he was buried, and that he rose again the third day according to the scriptures: 1CO 15:05 And that he was seen of Cephas, then of the twelve: 1CO 15:06 After that, he was seen of above five hundred brethren at once; of whom the greater part remain unto this present, but some are fallen asleep. 1CO 15:07 After that, he was seen of James; then of all the apostles. 1CO 15:08 And last of all he was seen of me also, as of one born out of due time. 1CO 15:09 For I am the least of the apostles, that am not meet to be called an apostle, because I persecuted the church of God. 1CO 15:10 But by the grace of God I am what I am: and his grace which [was bestowed] upon me was not in vain; but I laboured more abundantly than they all: yet not I, but the grace of God which was with me. 1CO 15:11 Therefore whether [it were] I or they, so we preach, and so ye believed. 1CO 15:12 Now if Christ be preached that he rose from the dead, how say some among you that there is no resurrection of the dead? 1CO 15:13 But if there be no resurrection of the dead, then is Christ not risen: 1CO 15:14 And if Christ be not risen, then [is] our preaching vain, and your faith [is] also vain. 1CO 15:15 Yea, and we are found false witnesses of God; because we have testified of God that he raised up Christ: whom he raised not up, if so be that the dead rise not. 1CO 15:16 For if the dead rise not, then is not Christ raised: 1CO 15:17 And if Christ be not raised, your faith [is] vain; ye are yet in your sins. 1CO 15:18 Then they also which are fallen asleep in Christ are perished. 1CO 15:19 If in this life only we have hope in Christ, we are of all men most miserable. 1CO 15:20 But now is Christ risen from the dead, [and] become the firstfruits of them that slept. 1CO 15:21 For since by man [came] death, by man [came] also the resurrection of the dead. 1CO 15:22 For as in Adam all die, even so in Christ shall all be made alive. 1CO 15:23 But every man in his own order: Christ the firstfruits; afterward they that are Christ's at his coming. 1CO 15:24 Then [cometh] the end, when he shall have delivered up the kingdom to God, even the Father; when he shall have put down all rule and all authority and power. 1CO 15:25 For he must reign, till he hath put all enemies under his feet. 1CO 15:26 The last enemy [that] shall be destroyed [is] death. 1CO 15:27 For he hath put all things under his feet. But when he saith all things are put under [him, it is] manifest that he is excepted, which did put all things under him. 1CO 15:28 And when all things shall be subdued unto him, then shall the Son also himself be subject unto him that put all things under him, that God may be all in all. 1CO 15:29 Else what shall they do which are baptized for the dead, if the dead rise not at all? why are they then baptized for the dead? 1CO 15:30 And why stand we in jeopardy every hour? 1CO 15:31 I protest by your rejoicing which I have in Christ Jesus our Lord, I die daily. 1CO 15:32 If after the manner of men I have fought with beasts at Ephesus, what advantageth it me, if the dead rise not? let us eat and drink; for to morrow we die. 1CO 15:33 Be not deceived: evil communications corrupt good manners. 1CO 15:34 Awake to righteousness, and sin not; for some have not the knowledge of God: I speak [this] to your shame. 1CO 15:35 But some [man] will say, How are the dead raised up? and with what body do they come? 1CO 15:36 [Thou] fool, that which thou sowest is not quickened, except it die: 1CO 15:37 And that which thou sowest, thou sowest not that body that shall be, but bare grain, it may chance of wheat, or of some other [grain]: 1CO 15:38 But God giveth it a body as it hath pleased him, and to every seed his own body. 1CO 15:39 All flesh [is] not the same flesh: but [there is] one [kind of] flesh of men, another flesh of beasts, another of fishes, [and] another of birds. 1CO 15:40 [There are] also celestial bodies, and bodies terrestrial: but the glory of the celestial [is] one, and the [glory] of the terrestrial [is] another. 1CO 15:41 [There is] one glory of the sun, and another glory of the moon, and another glory of the stars: for [one] star differeth from [another] star in glory. 1CO 15:42 So also [is] the resurrection of the dead. It is sown in corruption; it is raised in incorruption: 1CO 15:43 It is sown in dishonour; it is raised in glory: it is sown in weakness; it is raised in power: 1CO 15:44 It is sown a natural body; it is raised a spiritual body. There is a natural body, and there is a spiritual body. 1CO 15:45 And so it is written, The first man Adam was made a living soul; the last Adam [was made] a quickening spirit. 1CO 15:46 Howbeit that [was] not first which is spiritual, but that which is natural; and afterward that which is spiritual. 1CO 15:47 The first man [is] of the earth, earthy: the second man [is] the Lord from heaven. 1CO 15:48 As [is] the earthy, such [are] they also that are earthy: and as [is] the heavenly, such [are] they also that are heavenly. 1CO 15:49 And as we have borne the image of the earthy, we shall also bear the image of the heavenly. 1CO 15:50 Now this I say, brethren, that flesh and blood cannot inherit the kingdom of God; neither doth corruption inherit incorruption. 1CO 15:51 Behold, I show you a mystery; We shall not all sleep, but we shall all be changed, 1CO 15:52 In a moment, in the twinkling of an eye, at the last trump: for the trumpet shall sound, and the dead shall be raised incorruptible, and we shall be changed. 1CO 15:53 For this corruptible must put on incorruption, and this mortal [must] put on immortality. 1CO 15:54 So when this corruptible shall have put on incorruption, and this mortal shall have put on immortality, then shall be brought to pass the saying that is written, Death is swallowed up in victory. 1CO 15:55 O death, where [is] thy sting? O grave, where [is] thy victory? 1CO 15:56 The sting of death [is] sin; and the strength of sin [is] the law. 1CO 15:57 But thanks [be] to God, which giveth us the victory through our Lord Jesus Christ. 1CO 15:58 Therefore, my beloved brethren, be ye stedfast, unmoveable, always abounding in the work of the Lord, forasmuch as ye know that your labour is not in vain in the Lord. 1CO 16:01 Now concerning the collection for the saints, as I have given order to the churches of Galatia, even so do ye. 1CO 16:02 Upon the first [day] of the week let every one of you lay by him in store, as [God] hath prospered him, that there be no gatherings when I come. 1CO 16:03 And when I come, whomsoever ye shall approve by [your] letters, them will I send to bring your liberality unto Jerusalem. 1CO 16:04 And if it be meet that I go also, they shall go with me. 1CO 16:05 Now I will come unto you, when I shall pass through Macedonia: for I do pass through Macedonia. 1CO 16:06 And it may be that I will abide, yea, and winter with you, that ye may bring me on my journey whithersoever I go. 1CO 16:07 For I will not see you now by the way; but I trust to tarry a while with you, if the Lord permit. 1CO 16:08 But I will tarry at Ephesus until Pentecost. 1CO 16:09 For a great door and effectual is opened unto me, and [there are] many adversaries. 1CO 16:10 Now if Timotheus come, see that he may be with you without fear: for he worketh the work of the Lord, as I also [do]. 1CO 16:11 Let no man therefore despise him: but conduct him forth in peace, that he may come unto me: for I look for him with the brethren. 1CO 16:12 As touching [our] brother Apollos, I greatly desired him to come unto you with the brethren: but his will was not at all to come at this time; but he will come when he shall have convenient time. 1CO 16:13 Watch ye, stand fast in the faith, quit you like men, be strong. 1CO 16:14 Let all your things be done with charity. 1CO 16:15 I beseech you, brethren, (ye know the house of Stephanas, that it is the firstfruits of Achaia, and [that] they have addicted themselves to the ministry of the saints,) 1CO 16:16 That ye submit yourselves unto such, and to every one that helpeth with [us], and laboureth. 1CO 16:17 I am glad of the coming of Stephanas and Fortunatus and Achaicus: for that which was lacking on your part they have supplied. 1CO 16:18 For they have refreshed my spirit and yours: therefore acknowledge ye them that are such. 1CO 16:19 The churches of Asia salute you. Aquila and Priscilla salute you much in the Lord, with the church that is in their house. ========= Day <12> 1CO 16:20 1CO 16:20 All the brethren greet you. Greet ye one another with an holy kiss. 1CO 16:21 The salutation of [me] Paul with mine own hand. 1CO 16:22 If any man love not the Lord Jesus Christ, let him be Anathema Maranatha. 1CO 16:23 The grace of our Lord Jesus Christ [be] with you. 1CO 16:24 My love [be] with you all in Christ Jesus. Amen. 2CO 01:01 Paul, an apostle of Jesus Christ by the will of God, and Timothy [our] brother, unto the church of God which is at Corinth, with all the saints which are in all Achaia: 2CO 01:02 Grace [be] to you and peace from God our Father, and [from] the Lord Jesus Christ. 2CO 01:03 Blessed [be] God, even the Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, the Father of mercies, and the God of all comfort; 2CO 01:04 Who comforteth us in all our tribulation, that we may be able to comfort them which are in any trouble, by the comfort wherewith we ourselves are comforted of God. 2CO 01:05 For as the sufferings of Christ abound in us, so our consolation also aboundeth by Christ. 2CO 01:06 And whether we be afflicted, [it is] for your consolation and salvation, which is effectual in the enduring of the same sufferings which we also suffer: or whether we be comforted, [it is] for your consolation and salvation. 2CO 01:07 And our hope of you [is] stedfast, knowing, that as ye are partakers of the sufferings, so [shall ye be] also of the consolation. 2CO 01:08 For we would not, brethren, have you ignorant of our trouble which came to us in Asia, that we were pressed out of measure, above strength, insomuch that we despaired even of life: 2CO 01:09 But we had the sentence of death in ourselves, that we should not trust in ourselves, but in God which raiseth the dead: 2CO 01:10 Who delivered us from so great a death, and doth deliver: in whom we trust that he will yet deliver [us]; 2CO 01:11 Ye also helping together by prayer for us, that for the gift [bestowed] upon us by the means of many persons thanks may be given by many on our behalf. 2CO 01:12 For our rejoicing is this, the testimony of our conscience, that in simplicity and godly sincerity, not with fleshly wisdom, but by the grace of God, we have had our conversation in the world, and more abundantly to you ward. 2CO 01:13 For we write none other things unto you, than what ye read or acknowledge; and I trust ye shall acknowledge even to the end; 2CO 01:14 As also ye have acknowledged us in part, that we are your rejoicing, even as ye also [are] ours in the day of the Lord Jesus. 2CO 01:15 And in this confidence I was minded to come unto you before, that ye might have a second benefit; 2CO 01:16 And to pass by you into Macedonia, and to come again out of Macedonia unto you, and of you to be brought on my way toward Judaea. 2CO 01:17 When I therefore was thus minded, did I use lightness? or the things that I purpose, do I purpose according to the flesh, that with me there should be yea yea, and nay nay? 2CO 01:18 But [as] God [is] true, our word toward you was not yea and nay. 2CO 01:19 For the Son of God, Jesus Christ, who was preached among you by us, [even] by me and Silvanus and Timotheus, was not yea and nay, but in him was yea. 2CO 01:20 For all the promises of God in him [are] yea, and in him Amen, unto the glory of God by us. 2CO 01:21 Now he which stablisheth us with you in Christ, and hath anointed us, [is] God; 2CO 01:22 Who hath also sealed us, and given the earnest of the Spirit in our hearts. 2CO 01:23 Moreover I call God for a record upon my soul, that to spare you I came not as yet unto Corinth. 2CO 01:24 Not for that we have dominion over your faith, but are helpers of your joy: for by faith ye stand. 2CO 02:01 But I determined this with myself, that I would not come again to you in heaviness. 2CO 02:02 For if I make you sorry, who is he then that maketh me glad, but the same which is made sorry by me? 2CO 02:03 And I wrote this same unto you, lest, when I came, I should have sorrow from them of whom I ought to rejoice; having confidence in you all, that my joy is [the joy] of you all. 2CO 02:04 For out of much affliction and anguish of heart I wrote unto you with many tears; not that ye should be grieved, but that ye might know the love which I have more abundantly unto you. 2CO 02:05 But if any have caused grief, he hath not grieved me, but in part: that I may not overcharge you all. 2CO 02:06 Sufficient to such a man [is] this punishment, which [was inflicted] of many. 2CO 02:07 So that contrariwise ye [ought] rather to forgive [him], and comfort [him], lest perhaps such a one should be swallowed up with overmuch sorrow. 2CO 02:08 Wherefore I beseech you that ye would confirm [your] love toward him. 2CO 02:09 For to this end also did I write, that I might know the proof of you, whether ye be obedient in all things. 2CO 02:10 To whom ye forgive any thing, I [forgive] also: for if I forgave any thing, to whom I forgave [it], for your sakes [forgave I it] in the person of Christ; 2CO 02:11 Lest Satan should get an advantage of us: for we are not ignorant of his devices. 2CO 02:12 Furthermore, when I came to Troas to [preach] Christ's gospel, and a door was opened unto me of the Lord, 2CO 02:13 I had no rest in my spirit, because I found not Titus my brother: but taking my leave of them, I went from thence into Macedonia. 2CO 02:14 Now thanks [be] unto God, which always causeth us to triumph in Christ, and maketh manifest the savour of his knowledge by us in every place. 2CO 02:15 For we are unto God a sweet savour of Christ, in them that are saved, and in them that perish: 2CO 02:16 To the one [we are] the savour of death unto death; and to the other the savour of life unto life. And who [is] sufficient for these things? 2CO 02:17 For we are not as many, which corrupt the word of God: but as of sincerity, but as of God, in the sight of God speak we in Christ. 2CO 03:01 Do we begin again to commend ourselves? or need we, as some [others], epistles of commendation to you, or [letters] of commendation from you? 2CO 03:02 Ye are our epistle written in our hearts, known and read of all men: 2CO 03:03 [Forasmuch as ye are] manifestly declared to be the epistle of Christ ministered by us, written not with ink, but with the Spirit of the living God; not in tables of stone, but in fleshly tables of the heart. 2CO 03:04 And such trust have we through Christ to God ward: 2CO 03:05 Not that we are sufficient of ourselves to think any thing as of ourselves; but our sufficiency [is] of God; 2CO 03:06 Who also hath made us able ministers of the new testament; not of the letter, but of the spirit: for the letter killeth, but the spirit giveth life. 2CO 03:07 But if the ministration of death, written [and] engraven in stones, was glorious, so that the children of Israel could not stedfastly behold the face of Moses for the glory of his countenance; which [glory] was to be done away: 2CO 03:08 How shall not the ministration of the spirit be rather glorious? 2CO 03:09 For if the ministration of condemnation [be] glory, much more doth the ministration of righteousness exceed in glory. 2CO 03:10 For even that which was made glorious had no glory in this respect, by reason of the glory that excelleth. 2CO 03:11 For if that which is done away [was] glorious, much more that which remaineth [is] glorious. 2CO 03:12 Seeing then that we have such hope, we use great plainness of speech: 2CO 03:13 And not as Moses, [which] put a veil over his face, that the children of Israel could not stedfastly look to the end of that which is abolished: 2CO 03:14 But their minds were blinded: for until this day remaineth the same veil untaken away in the reading of the old testament; which [veil] is done away in Christ. 2CO 03:15 But even unto this day, when Moses is read, the veil is upon their heart. 2CO 03:16 Nevertheless when it shall turn to the Lord, the veil shall be taken away. 2CO 03:17 Now the Lord is that Spirit: and where the Spirit of the Lord [is], there [is] liberty. 2CO 03:18 But we all, with open face beholding as in a glass the glory of the Lord, are changed into the same image from glory to glory, [even] as by the Spirit of the Lord. 2CO 04:01 Therefore seeing we have this ministry, as we have received mercy, we faint not; 2CO 04:02 But have renounced the hidden things of dishonesty, not walking in craftiness, nor handling the word of God deceitfully; but by manifestation of the truth commending ourselves to every man's conscience in the sight of God. 2CO 04:03 But if our gospel be hid, it is hid to them that are lost: 2CO 04:04 In whom the god of this world hath blinded the minds of them which believe not, lest the light of the glorious gospel of Christ, who is the image of God, should shine unto them. 2CO 04:05 For we preach not ourselves, but Christ Jesus the Lord; and ourselves your servants for Jesus' sake. 2CO 04:06 For God, who commanded the light to shine out of darkness, hath shined in our hearts, to [give] the light of the knowledge of the glory of God in the face of Jesus Christ. 2CO 04:07 But we have this treasure in earthen vessels, that the excellency of the power may be of God, and not of us. 2CO 04:08 [We are] troubled on every side, yet not distressed; [we are] perplexed, but not in despair; 2CO 04:09 Persecuted, but not forsaken; cast down, but not destroyed; 2CO 04:10 Always bearing about in the body the dying of the Lord Jesus, that the life also of Jesus might be made manifest in our body. 2CO 04:11 For we which live are alway delivered unto death for Jesus' sake, that the life also of Jesus might be made manifest in our mortal flesh. 2CO 04:12 So then death worketh in us, but life in you. 2CO 04:13 We having the same spirit of faith, according as it is written, I believed, and therefore have I spoken; we also believe, and therefore speak; ========= Day <13> 2CO 04:14 2CO 04:14 Knowing that he which raised up the Lord Jesus shall raise up us also by Jesus, and shall present [us] with you. 2CO 04:15 For all things [are] for your sakes, that the abundant grace might through the thanksgiving of many redound to the glory of God. 2CO 04:16 For which cause we faint not; but though our outward man perish, yet the inward [man] is renewed day by day. 2CO 04:17 For our light affliction, which is but for a moment, worketh for us a far more exceeding [and] eternal weight of glory; 2CO 04:18 While we look not at the things which are seen, but at the things which are not seen: for the things which are seen [are] temporal; but the things which are not seen [are] eternal. 2CO 05:01 For we know that if our earthly house of [this] tabernacle were dissolved, we have a building of God, an house not made with hands, eternal in the heavens. 2CO 05:02 For in this we groan, earnestly desiring to be clothed upon with our house which is from heaven: 2CO 05:03 If so be that being clothed we shall not be found naked. 2CO 05:04 For we that are in [this] tabernacle do groan, being burdened: not for that we would be unclothed, but clothed upon, that mortality might be swallowed up of life. 2CO 05:05 Now he that hath wrought us for the selfsame thing [is] God, who also hath given unto us the earnest of the Spirit. 2CO 05:06 Therefore [we are] always confident, knowing that, whilst we are at home in the body, we are absent from the Lord: 2CO 05:07 (For we walk by faith, not by sight:) 2CO 05:08 We are confident, [I say], and willing rather to be absent from the body, and to be present with the Lord. 2CO 05:09 Wherefore we labour, that, whether present or absent, we may be accepted of him. 2CO 05:10 For we must all appear before the judgment seat of Christ; that every one may receive the things [done] in [his] body, according to that he hath done, whether [it be] good or bad. 2CO 05:11 Knowing therefore the terror of the Lord, we persuade men; but we are made manifest unto God; and I trust also are made manifest in your consciences. 2CO 05:12 For we commend not ourselves again unto you, but give you occasion to glory on our behalf, that ye may have somewhat to [answer] them which glory in appearance, and not in heart. 2CO 05:13 For whether we be beside ourselves, [it is] to God: or whether we be sober, [it is] for your cause. 2CO 05:14 For the love of Christ constraineth us; because we thus judge, that if one died for all, then were all dead: 2CO 05:15 And [that] he died for all, that they which live should not henceforth live unto themselves, but unto him which died for them, and rose again. 2CO 05:16 Wherefore henceforth know we no man after the flesh: yea, though we have known Christ after the flesh, yet now henceforth know we [him] no more. 2CO 05:17 Therefore if any man [be] in Christ, [he is] a new creature: old things are passed away; behold, all things are become new. 2CO 05:18 And all things [are] of God, who hath reconciled us to himself by Jesus Christ, and hath given to us the ministry of reconciliation; 2CO 05:19 To wit, that God was in Christ, reconciling the world unto himself, not imputing their trespasses unto them; and hath committed unto us the word of reconciliation. 2CO 05:20 Now then we are ambassadors for Christ, as though God did beseech [you] by us: we pray [you] in Christ's stead, be ye reconciled to God. 2CO 05:21 For he hath made him [to be] sin for us, who knew no sin; that we might be made the righteousness of God in him. 2CO 06:01 We then, [as] workers together [with him], beseech [you] also that ye receive not the grace of God in vain. 2CO 06:02 (For he saith, I have heard thee in a time accepted, and in the day of salvation have I succoured thee: behold, now [is] the accepted time; behold, now [is] the day of salvation.) 2CO 06:03 Giving no offence in any thing, that the ministry be not blamed: 2CO 06:04 But in all [things] approving ourselves as the ministers of God, in much patience, in afflictions, in necessities, in distresses, 2CO 06:05 In stripes, in imprisonments, in tumults, in labours, in watchings, in fastings; 2CO 06:06 By pureness, by knowledge, by longsuffering, by kindness, by the Holy Ghost, by love unfeigned, 2CO 06:07 By the word of truth, by the power of God, by the armour of righteousness on the right hand and on the left, 2CO 06:08 By honour and dishonour, by evil report and good report: as deceivers, and [yet] true; 2CO 06:09 As unknown, and [yet] well known; as dying, and, behold, we live; as chastened, and not killed; 2CO 06:10 As sorrowful, yet alway rejoicing; as poor, yet making many rich; as having nothing, and [yet] possessing all things. 2CO 06:11 O [ye] Corinthians, our mouth is open unto you, our heart is enlarged. 2CO 06:12 Ye are not straitened in us, but ye are straitened in your own bowels. 2CO 06:13 Now for a recompense in the same, (I speak as unto [my] children,) be ye also enlarged. 2CO 06:14 Be ye not unequally yoked together with unbelievers: for what fellowship hath righteousness with unrighteousness? and what communion hath light with darkness? 2CO 06:15 And what concord hath Christ with Belial? or what part hath he that believeth with an infidel? 2CO 06:16 And what agreement hath the temple of God with idols? for ye are the temple of the living God; as God hath said, I will dwell in them, and walk in [them]; and I will be their God, and they shall be my people. 2CO 06:17 Wherefore come out from among them, and be ye separate, saith the Lord, and touch not the unclean [thing]; and I will receive you, 2CO 06:18 And will be a Father unto you, and ye shall be my sons and daughters, saith the Lord Almighty. 2CO 07:01 Having therefore these promises, dearly beloved, let us cleanse ourselves from all filthiness of the flesh and spirit, perfecting holiness in the fear of God. 2CO 07:02 Receive us; we have wronged no man, we have corrupted no man, we have defrauded no man. 2CO 07:03 I speak not [this] to condemn [you]: for I have said before, that ye are in our hearts to die and live with [you]. 2CO 07:04 Great [is] my boldness of speech toward you, great [is] my glorying of you: I am filled with comfort, I am exceeding joyful in all our tribulation. 2CO 07:05 For, when we were come into Macedonia, our flesh had no rest, but we were troubled on every side; without [were] fightings, within [were] fears. 2CO 07:06 Nevertheless God, that comforteth those that are cast down, comforted us by the coming of Titus; 2CO 07:07 And not by his coming only, but by the consolation wherewith he was comforted in you, when he told us your earnest desire, your mourning, your fervent mind toward me; so that I rejoiced the more. 2CO 07:08 For though I made you sorry with a letter, I do not repent, though I did repent: for I perceive that the same epistle hath made you sorry, though [it were] but for a season. 2CO 07:09 Now I rejoice, not that ye were made sorry, but that ye sorrowed to repentance: for ye were made sorry after a godly manner, that ye might receive damage by us in nothing. 2CO 07:10 For godly sorrow worketh repentance to salvation not to be repented of: but the sorrow of the world worketh death. 2CO 07:11 For behold this selfsame thing, that ye sorrowed after a godly sort, what carefulness it wrought in you, yea, [what] clearing of yourselves, yea, [what] indignation, yea, [what] fear, yea, [what] vehement desire, yea, [what] zeal, yea, [what] revenge! In all [things] ye have approved yourselves to be clear in this matter. 2CO 07:12 Wherefore, though I wrote unto you, [I did it] not for his cause that had done the wrong, nor for his cause that suffered wrong, but that our care for you in the sight of God might appear unto you. 2CO 07:13 Therefore we were comforted in your comfort: yea, and exceedingly the more joyed we for the joy of Titus, because his spirit was refreshed by you all. 2CO 07:14 For if I have boasted any thing to him of you, I am not ashamed; but as we spake all things to you in truth, even so our boasting, which [I made] before Titus, is found a truth. 2CO 07:15 And his inward affection is more abundant toward you, whilst he remembereth the obedience of you all, how with fear and trembling ye received him. 2CO 07:16 I rejoice therefore that I have confidence in you in all [things]. 2CO 08:01 Moreover, brethren, we do you to wit of the grace of God bestowed on the churches of Macedonia; 2CO 08:02 How that in a great trial of affliction the abundance of their joy and their deep poverty abounded unto the riches of their liberality. 2CO 08:03 For to [their] power, I bear record, yea, and beyond [their] power [they were] willing of themselves; 2CO 08:04 Praying us with much entreaty that we would receive the gift, and [take upon us] the fellowship of the ministering to the saints. 2CO 08:05 And [this they did], not as we hoped, but first gave their own selves to the Lord, and unto us by the will of God. 2CO 08:06 Insomuch that we desired Titus, that as he had begun, so he would also finish in you the same grace also. 2CO 08:07 Therefore, as ye abound in every [thing, in] faith, and utterance, and knowledge, and [in] all diligence, and [in] your love to us, [see] that ye abound in this grace also. 2CO 08:08 I speak not by commandment, but by occasion of the forwardness of others, and to prove the sincerity of your love. 2CO 08:09 For ye know the grace of our Lord Jesus Christ, that, though he was rich, yet for your sakes he became poor, that ye through his poverty might be rich. 2CO 08:10 And herein I give [my] advice: for this is expedient for you, who have begun before, not only to do, but also to be forward a year ago. 2CO 08:11 Now therefore perform the doing [of it]; that as [there was] a readiness to will, so [there may be] a performance also out of that which ye have. ========= Day <14> 2CO 08:12 2CO 08:12 For if there be first a willing mind, [it is] accepted according to that a man hath, [and] not according to that he hath not. 2CO 08:13 For [I mean] not that other men be eased, and ye burdened: 2CO 08:14 But by an equality, [that] now at this time your abundance [may be a supply] for their want, that their abundance also may be [a supply] for your want: that there may be equality: 2CO 08:15 As it is written, He that [had gathered] much had nothing over; and he that [had gathered] little had no lack. 2CO 08:16 But thanks [be] to God, which put the same earnest care into the heart of Titus for you. 2CO 08:17 For indeed he accepted the exhortation; but being more forward, of his own accord he went unto you. 2CO 08:18 And we have sent with him the brother, whose praise [is] in the gospel throughout all the churches; 2CO 08:19 And not [that] only, but who was also chosen of the churches to travel with us with this grace, which is administered by us to the glory of the same Lord, and [declaration of] your ready mind: 2CO 08:20 Avoiding this, that no man should blame us in this abundance which is administered by us: 2CO 08:21 Providing for honest things, not only in the sight of the Lord, but also in the sight of men. 2CO 08:22 And we have sent with them our brother, whom we have oftentimes proved diligent in many things, but now much more diligent, upon the great confidence which [I have] in you. 2CO 08:23 Whether [any do inquire] of Titus, [he is] my partner and fellowhelper concerning you: or our brethren [be inquired of, they are] the messengers of the churches, [and] the glory of Christ. 2CO 08:24 Wherefore show ye to them, and before the churches, the proof of your love, and of our boasting on your behalf. 2CO 09:01 For as touching the ministering to the saints, it is superfluous for me to write to you: 2CO 09:02 For I know the forwardness of your mind, for which I boast of you to them of Macedonia, that Achaia was ready a year ago; and your zeal hath provoked very many. 2CO 09:03 Yet have I sent the brethren, lest our boasting of you should be in vain in this behalf; that, as I said, ye may be ready: 2CO 09:04 Lest haply if they of Macedonia come with me, and find you unprepared, we (that we say not, ye) should be ashamed in this same confident boasting. 2CO 09:05 Therefore I thought it necessary to exhort the brethren, that they would go before unto you, and make up before hand your bounty, whereof ye had notice before, that the same might be ready, as [a matter of] bounty, and not as [of] covetousness. 2CO 09:06 But this [I say], He which soweth sparingly shall reap also sparingly; and he which soweth bountifully shall reap also bountifully. 2CO 09:07 Every man according as he purposeth in his heart, [so let him give]; not grudgingly, or of necessity: for God loveth a cheerful giver. 2CO 09:08 And God [is] able to make all grace abound toward you; that ye, always having all sufficiency in all [things], may abound to every good work: 2CO 09:09 (As it is written, He hath dispersed abroad; he hath given to the poor: his righteousness remaineth for ever. 2CO 09:10 Now he that ministereth seed to the sower both minister bread for [your] food, and multiply your seed sown, and increase the fruits of your righteousness;) 2CO 09:11 Being enriched in every thing to all bountifulness, which causeth through us thanksgiving to God. 2CO 09:12 For the administration of this service not only supplieth the want of the saints, but is abundant also by many thanksgivings unto God; 2CO 09:13 Whiles by the experiment of this ministration they glorify God for your professed subjection unto the gospel of Christ, and for [your] liberal distribution unto them, and unto all [men]; 2CO 09:14 And by their prayer for you, which long after you for the exceeding grace of God in you. 2CO 09:15 Thanks [be] unto God for his unspeakable gift. 2CO 10:01 Now I Paul myself beseech you by the meekness and gentleness of Christ, who in presence [am] base among you, but being absent am bold toward you: 2CO 10:02 But I beseech [you], that I may not be bold when I am present with that confidence, wherewith I think to be bold against some, which think of us as if we walked according to the flesh. 2CO 10:03 For though we walk in the flesh, we do not war after the flesh: 2CO 10:04 (For the weapons of our warfare [are] not carnal, but mighty through God to the pulling down of strong holds;) 2CO 10:05 Casting down imaginations, and every high thing that exalteth itself against the knowledge of God, and bringing into captivity every thought to the obedience of Christ; 2CO 10:06 And having in a readiness to revenge all disobedience, when your obedience is fulfilled. 2CO 10:07 Do ye look on things after the outward appearance? If any man trust to himself that he is Christ's, let him of himself think this again, that, as he [is] Christ's, even so [are] we Christ's. 2CO 10:08 For though I should boast somewhat more of our authority, which the Lord hath given us for edification, and not for your destruction, I should not be ashamed: 2CO 10:09 That I may not seem as if I would terrify you by letters. 2CO 10:10 For [his] letters, say they, [are] weighty and powerful; but [his] bodily presence [is] weak, and [his] speech contemptible. 2CO 10:11 Let such an one think this, that, such as we are in word by letters when we are absent, such [will we be] also in deed when we are present. 2CO 10:12 For we dare not make ourselves of the number, or compare ourselves with some that commend themselves: but they measuring themselves by themselves, and comparing themselves among themselves, are not wise. 2CO 10:13 But we will not boast of things without [our] measure, but according to the measure of the rule which God hath distributed to us, a measure to reach even unto you. 2CO 10:14 For we stretch not ourselves beyond [our measure], as though we reached not unto you: for we are come as far as to you also in [preaching] the gospel of Christ: 2CO 10:15 Not boasting of things without [our] measure, [that is], of other men's labours; but having hope, when your faith is increased, that we shall be enlarged by you according to our rule abundantly, 2CO 10:16 To preach the gospel in the [regions] beyond you, [and] not to boast in another man's line of things made ready to our hand. 2CO 10:17 But he that glorieth, let him glory in the Lord. 2CO 10:18 For not he that commendeth himself is approved, but whom the Lord commendeth. 2CO 11:01 Would to God ye could bear with me a little in [my] folly: and indeed bear with me. 2CO 11:02 For I am jealous over you with godly jealousy: for I have espoused you to one husband, that I may present [you as] a chaste virgin to Christ. 2CO 11:03 But I fear, lest by any means, as the serpent beguiled Eve through his subtlety, so your minds should be corrupted from the simplicity that is in Christ. 2CO 11:04 For if he that cometh preacheth another Jesus, whom we have not preached, or [if] ye receive another spirit, which ye have not received, or another gospel, which ye have not accepted, ye might well bear with [him]. 2CO 11:05 For I suppose I was not a whit behind the very chiefest apostles. 2CO 11:06 But though [I be] rude in speech, yet not in knowledge; but we have been thoroughly made manifest among you in all things. 2CO 11:07 Have I committed an offence in abasing myself that ye might be exalted, because I have preached to you the gospel of God freely? 2CO 11:08 I robbed other churches, taking wages [of them], to do you service. 2CO 11:09 And when I was present with you, and wanted, I was chargeable to no man: for that which was lacking to me the brethren which came from Macedonia supplied: and in all [things] I have kept myself from being burdensome unto you, and [so] will I keep [myself]. 2CO 11:10 As the truth of Christ is in me, no man shall stop me of this boasting in the regions of Achaia. 2CO 11:11 Wherefore? because I love you not? God knoweth. 2CO 11:12 But what I do, that I will do, that I may cut off occasion from them which desire occasion; that wherein they glory, they may be found even as we. 2CO 11:13 For such [are] false apostles, deceitful workers, transforming themselves into the apostles of Christ. 2CO 11:14 And no marvel; for Satan himself is transformed into an angel of light. 2CO 11:15 Therefore [it is] no great thing if his ministers also be transformed as the ministers of righteousness; whose end shall be according to their works. 2CO 11:16 I say again, Let no man think me a fool; if otherwise, yet as a fool receive me, that I may boast myself a little. 2CO 11:17 That which I speak, I speak [it] not after the Lord, but as it were foolishly, in this confidence of boasting. 2CO 11:18 Seeing that many glory after the flesh, I will glory also. 2CO 11:19 For ye suffer fools gladly, seeing ye [yourselves] are wise. 2CO 11:20 For ye suffer, if a man bring you into bondage, if a man devour [you], if a man take [of you], if a man exalt himself, if a man smite you on the face. 2CO 11:21 I speak as concerning reproach, as though we had been weak. Howbeit whereinsoever any is bold, (I speak foolishly,) I am bold also. 2CO 11:22 Are they Hebrews? so [am] I. Are they Israelites? so [am] I. Are they the seed of Abraham? so [am] I. 2CO 11:23 Are they ministers of Christ? (I speak as a fool) I [am] more; in labours more abundant, in stripes above measure, in prisons more frequent, in deaths oft. 2CO 11:24 Of the Jews five times received I forty [stripes] save one. 2CO 11:25 Thrice was I beaten with rods, once was I stoned, thrice I suffered shipwreck, a night and a day I have been in the deep; 2CO 11:26 [In] journeyings often, [in] perils of waters, [in] perils of robbers, [in] perils by [mine own] countrymen, [in] perils by the heathen, [in] perils in the city, [in] perils in the wilderness, [in] perils in the sea, [in] perils among false brethren; ========= Day <15> 2CO 11:27 2CO 11:27 In weariness and painfulness, in watchings often, in hunger and thirst, in fastings often, in cold and nakedness. 2CO 11:28 Beside those things that are without, that which cometh upon me daily, the care of all the churches. 2CO 11:29 Who is weak, and I am not weak? who is offended, and I burn not? 2CO 11:30 If I must needs glory, I will glory of the things which concern mine infirmities. 2CO 11:31 The God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, which is blessed for evermore, knoweth that I lie not. 2CO 11:32 In Damascus the governor under Aretas the king kept the city of the Damascenes with a garrison, desirous to apprehend me: 2CO 11:33 And through a window in a basket was I let down by the wall, and escaped his hands. 2CO 12:01 It is not expedient for me doubtless to glory. I will come to visions and revelations of the Lord. 2CO 12:02 I knew a man in Christ above fourteen years ago, (whether in the body, I cannot tell; or whether out of the body, I cannot tell: God knoweth;) such an one caught up to the third heaven. 2CO 12:03 And I knew such a man, (whether in the body, or out of the body, I cannot tell: God knoweth;) 2CO 12:04 How that he was caught up into paradise, and heard unspeakable words, which it is not lawful for a man to utter. 2CO 12:05 Of such an one will I glory: yet of myself I will not glory, but in mine infirmities. 2CO 12:06 For though I would desire to glory, I shall not be a fool; for I will say the truth: but [now] I forbear, lest any man should think of me above that which he seeth me [to be], or [that] he heareth of me. 2CO 12:07 And lest I should be exalted above measure through the abundance of the revelations, there was given to me a thorn in the flesh, the messenger of Satan to buffet me, lest I should be exalted above measure. 2CO 12:08 For this thing I besought the Lord thrice, that it might depart from me. 2CO 12:09 And he said unto me, My grace is sufficient for thee: for my strength is made perfect in weakness. Most gladly therefore will I rather glory in my infirmities, that the power of Christ may rest upon me. 2CO 12:10 Therefore I take pleasure in infirmities, in reproaches, in necessities, in persecutions, in distresses for Christ's sake: for when I am weak, then am I strong. 2CO 12:11 I am become a fool in glorying; ye have compelled me: for I ought to have been commended of you: for in nothing am I behind the very chiefest apostles, though I be nothing. 2CO 12:12 Truly the signs of an apostle were wrought among you in all patience, in signs, and wonders, and mighty deeds. 2CO 12:13 For what is it wherein ye were inferior to other churches, except [it be] that I myself was not burdensome to you? forgive me this wrong. 2CO 12:14 Behold, the third time I am ready to come to you; and I will not be burdensome to you: for I seek not yours, but you: for the children ought not to lay up for the parents, but the parents for the children. 2CO 12:15 And I will very gladly spend and be spent for you; though the more abundantly I love you, the less I be loved. 2CO 12:16 But be it so, I did not burden you: nevertheless, being crafty, I caught you with guile. 2CO 12:17 Did I make a gain of you by any of them whom I sent unto you? 2CO 12:18 I desired Titus, and with [him] I sent a brother. Did Titus make a gain of you? walked we not in the same spirit? [walked we] not in the same steps? 2CO 12:19 Again, think ye that we excuse ourselves unto you? we speak before God in Christ: but [we do] all things, dearly beloved, for your edifying. 2CO 12:20 For I fear, lest, when I come, I shall not find you such as I would, and [that] I shall be found unto you such as ye would not: lest [there be] debates, envyings, wraths, strifes, backbitings, whisperings, swellings, tumults: 2CO 12:21 [And] lest, when I come again, my God will humble me among you, and [that] I shall bewail many which have sinned already, and have not repented of the uncleanness and fornication and lasciviousness which they have committed. 2CO 13:01 This [is] the third [time] I am coming to you. In the mouth of two or three witnesses shall every word be established. 2CO 13:02 I told you before, and foretell you, as if I were present, the second time; and being absent now I write to them which heretofore have sinned, and to all other, that, if I come again, I will not spare: 2CO 13:03 Since ye seek a proof of Christ speaking in me, which to you ward is not weak, but is mighty in you. 2CO 13:04 For though he was crucified through weakness, yet he liveth by the power of God. For we also are weak in him, but we shall live with him by the power of God toward you. 2CO 13:05 Examine yourselves, whether ye be in the faith; prove your own selves. Know ye not your own selves, how that Jesus Christ is in you, except ye be reprobates? 2CO 13:06 But I trust that ye shall know that we are not reprobates. 2CO 13:07 Now I pray to God that ye do no evil; not that we should appear approved, but that ye should do that which is honest, though we be as reprobates. 2CO 13:08 For we can do nothing against the truth, but for the truth. 2CO 13:09 For we are glad, when we are weak, and ye are strong: and this also we wish, [even] your perfection. 2CO 13:10 Therefore I write these things being absent, lest being present I should use sharpness, according to the power which the Lord hath given me to edification, and not to destruction. 2CO 13:11 Finally, brethren, farewell. Be perfect, be of good comfort, be of one mind, live in peace; and the God of love and peace shall be with you. 2CO 13:12 Greet one another with an holy kiss. 2CO 13:13 All the saints salute you. 2CO 13:14 The grace of the Lord Jesus Christ, and the love of God, and the communion of the Holy Ghost, [be] with you all. Amen. GA 01:01 Paul, an apostle, (not of men, neither by man, but by Jesus Christ, and God the Father, who raised him from the dead;) GA 01:02 And all the brethren which are with me, unto the churches of Galatia: GA 01:03 Grace [be] to you and peace from God the Father, and [from] our Lord Jesus Christ, GA 01:04 Who gave himself for our sins, that he might deliver us from this present evil world, according to the will of God and our Father: GA 01:05 To whom [be] glory for ever and ever. Amen. GA 01:06 I marvel that ye are so soon removed from him that called you into the grace of Christ unto another gospel: GA 01:07 Which is not another; but there be some that trouble you, and would pervert the gospel of Christ. GA 01:08 But though we, or an angel from heaven, preach any other gospel unto you than that which we have preached unto you, let him be accursed. GA 01:09 As we said before, so say I now again, If any [man] preach any other gospel unto you than that ye have received, let him be accursed. GA 01:10 For do I now persuade men, or God? or do I seek to please men? for if I yet pleased men, I should not be the servant of Christ. GA 01:11 But I certify you, brethren, that the gospel which was preached of me is not after man. GA 01:12 For I neither received it of man, neither was I taught [it], but by the revelation of Jesus Christ. GA 01:13 For ye have heard of my conversation in time past in the Jews' religion, how that beyond measure I persecuted the church of God, and wasted it: GA 01:14 And profited in the Jews' religion above many my equals in mine own nation, being more exceedingly zealous of the traditions of my fathers. GA 01:15 But when it pleased God, who separated me from my mother's womb, and called [me] by his grace, GA 01:16 To reveal his Son in me, that I might preach him among the heathen; immediately I conferred not with flesh and blood: GA 01:17 Neither went I up to Jerusalem to them which were apostles before me; but I went into Arabia, and returned again unto Damascus. GA 01:18 Then after three years I went up to Jerusalem to see Peter, and abode with him fifteen days. GA 01:19 But other of the apostles saw I none, save James the Lord's brother. GA 01:20 Now the things which I write unto you, behold, before God, I lie not. GA 01:21 Afterwards I came into the regions of Syria and Cilicia; GA 01:22 And was unknown by face unto the churches of Judaea which were in Christ: GA 01:23 But they had heard only, That he which persecuted us in times past now preacheth the faith which once he destroyed. GA 01:24 And they glorified God in me. GA 02:01 Then fourteen years after I went up again to Jerusalem with Barnabas, and took Titus with [me] also. GA 02:02 And I went up by revelation, and communicated unto them that gospel which I preach among the Gentiles, but privately to them which were of reputation, lest by any means I should run, or had run, in vain. GA 02:03 But neither Titus, who was with me, being a Greek, was compelled to be circumcised: GA 02:04 And that because of false brethren unawares brought in, who came in privily to spy out our liberty which we have in Christ Jesus, that they might bring us into bondage: GA 02:05 To whom we gave place by subjection, no, not for an hour; that the truth of the gospel might continue with you. GA 02:06 But of these who seemed to be somewhat, (whatsoever they were, it maketh no matter to me: God accepteth no man's person:) for they who seemed [to be somewhat] in conference added nothing to me: GA 02:07 But contrariwise, when they saw that the gospel of the uncircumcision was committed unto me, as [the gospel] of the circumcision [was] unto Peter; GA 02:08 (For he that wrought effectually in Peter to the apostleship of the circumcision, the same was mighty in me toward the Gentiles:) GA 02:09 And when James, Cephas, and John, who seemed to be pillars, perceived the grace that was given unto me, they gave to me and Barnabas the right hands of fellowship; that we [should go] unto the heathen, and they unto the circumcision. ========= Day <16> GA 02:10 GA 02:10 Only [they would] that we should remember the poor; the same which I also was forward to do. GA 02:11 But when Peter was come to Antioch, I withstood him to the face, because he was to be blamed. GA 02:12 For before that certain came from James, he did eat with the Gentiles: but when they were come, he withdrew and separated himself, fearing them which were of the circumcision. GA 02:13 And the other Jews dissembled likewise with him; insomuch that Barnabas also was carried away with their dissimulation. GA 02:14 But when I saw that they walked not uprightly according to the truth of the gospel, I said unto Peter before [them] all, If thou, being a Jew, livest after the manner of Gentiles, and not as do the Jews, why compellest thou the Gentiles to live as do the Jews? GA 02:15 We [who are] Jews by nature, and not sinners of the Gentiles, GA 02:16 Knowing that a man is not justified by the works of the law, but by the faith of Jesus Christ, even we have believed in Jesus Christ, that we might be justified by the faith of Christ, and not by the works of the law: for by the works of the law shall no flesh be justified. GA 02:17 But if, while we seek to be justified by Christ, we ourselves also are found sinners, [is] therefore Christ the minister of sin? God forbid. GA 02:18 For if I build again the things which I destroyed, I make myself a transgressor. GA 02:19 For I through the law am dead to the law, that I might live unto God. GA 02:20 I am crucified with Christ: nevertheless I live; yet not I, but Christ liveth in me: and the life which I now live in the flesh I live by the faith of the Son of God, who loved me, and gave himself for me. GA 02:21 I do not frustrate the grace of God: for if righteousness [come] by the law, then Christ is dead in vain. GA 03:01 O foolish Galatians, who hath bewitched you, that ye should not obey the truth, before whose eyes Jesus Christ hath been evidently set forth, crucified among you? GA 03:02 This only would I learn of you, Received ye the Spirit by the works of the law, or by the hearing of faith? GA 03:03 Are ye so foolish? having begun in the Spirit, are ye now made perfect by the flesh? GA 03:04 Have ye suffered so many things in vain? if [it be] yet in vain. GA 03:05 He therefore that ministereth to you the Spirit, and worketh miracles among you, [doeth he it] by the works of the law, or by the hearing of faith? GA 03:06 Even as Abraham believed God, and it was accounted to him for righteousness. GA 03:07 Know ye therefore that they which are of faith, the same are the children of Abraham. GA 03:08 And the scripture, foreseeing that God would justify the heathen through faith, preached before the gospel unto Abraham, [saying], In thee shall all nations be blessed. GA 03:09 So then they which be of faith are blessed with faithful Abraham. GA 03:10 For as many as are of the works of the law are under the curse: for it is written, Cursed [is] every one that continueth not in all things which are written in the book of the law to do them. GA 03:11 But that no man is justified by the law in the sight of God, [it is] evident: for, The just shall live by faith. GA 03:12 And the law is not of faith: but, The man that doeth them shall live in them. GA 03:13 Christ hath redeemed us from the curse of the law, being made a curse for us: for it is written, Cursed [is] every one that hangeth on a tree: GA 03:14 That the blessing of Abraham might come on the Gentiles through Jesus Christ; that we might receive the promise of the Spirit through faith. GA 03:15 Brethren, I speak after the manner of men; Though [it be] but a man's covenant, yet [if it be] confirmed, no man disannulleth, or addeth thereto. GA 03:16 Now to Abraham and his seed were the promises made. He saith not, And to seeds, as of many; but as of one, And to thy seed, which is Christ. GA 03:17 And this I say, [that] the covenant, that was confirmed before of God in Christ, the law, which was four hundred and thirty years after, cannot disannul, that it should make the promise of none effect. GA 03:18 For if the inheritance [be] of the law, [it is] no more of promise: but God gave [it] to Abraham by promise. GA 03:19 Wherefore then [serveth] the law? It was added because of transgressions, till the seed should come to whom the promise was made; [and it was] ordained by angels in the hand of a mediator. GA 03:20 Now a mediator is not [a mediator] of one, but God is one. GA 03:21 [Is] the law then against the promises of God? God forbid: for if there had been a law given which could have given life, verily righteousness should have been by the law. GA 03:22 But the scripture hath concluded all under sin, that the promise by faith of Jesus Christ might be given to them that believe. GA 03:23 But before faith came, we were kept under the law, shut up unto the faith which should afterwards be revealed. GA 03:24 Wherefore the law was our schoolmaster [to bring us] unto Christ, that we might be justified by faith. GA 03:25 But after that faith is come, we are no longer under a schoolmaster. GA 03:26 For ye are all the children of God by faith in Christ Jesus. GA 03:27 For as many of you as have been baptized into Christ have put on Christ. GA 03:28 There is neither Jew nor Greek, there is neither bond nor free, there is neither male nor female: for ye are all one in Christ Jesus. GA 03:29 And if ye [be] Christ's, then are ye Abraham's seed, and heirs according to the promise. GA 04:01 Now I say, [That] the heir, as long as he is a child, differeth nothing from a servant, though he be lord of all; GA 04:02 But is under tutors and governors until the time appointed of the father. GA 04:03 Even so we, when we were children, were in bondage under the elements of the world: GA 04:04 But when the fulness of the time was come, God sent forth his Son, made of a woman, made under the law, GA 04:05 To redeem them that were under the law, that we might receive the adoption of sons. GA 04:06 And because ye are sons, God hath sent forth the Spirit of his Son into your hearts, crying, Abba, Father. GA 04:07 Wherefore thou art no more a servant, but a son; and if a son, then an heir of God through Christ. GA 04:08 Howbeit then, when ye knew not God, ye did service unto them which by nature are no gods. GA 04:09 But now, after that ye have known God, or rather are known of God, how turn ye again to the weak and beggarly elements, whereunto ye desire again to be in bondage? GA 04:10 Ye observe days, and months, and times, and years. GA 04:11 I am afraid of you, lest I have bestowed upon you labour in vain. GA 04:12 Brethren, I beseech you, be as I [am]; for I [am] as ye [are]: ye have not injured me at all. GA 04:13 Ye know how through infirmity of the flesh I preached the gospel unto you at the first. GA 04:14 And my temptation which was in my flesh ye despised not, nor rejected; but received me as an angel of God, [even] as Christ Jesus. GA 04:15 Where is then the blessedness ye spake of? for I bear you record, that, if [it had been] possible, ye would have plucked out your own eyes, and have given them to me. GA 04:16 Am I therefore become your enemy, because I tell you the truth? GA 04:17 They zealously affect you, [but] not well; yea, they would exclude you, that ye might affect them. GA 04:18 But [it is] good to be zealously affected always in [a] good [thing], and not only when I am present with you. GA 04:19 My little children, of whom I travail in birth again until Christ be formed in you, GA 04:20 I desire to be present with you now, and to change my voice; for I stand in doubt of you. GA 04:21 Tell me, ye that desire to be under the law, do ye not hear the law? GA 04:22 For it is written, that Abraham had two sons, the one by a bondmaid, the other by a freewoman. GA 04:23 But he [who was] of the bondwoman was born after the flesh; but he of the freewoman [was] by promise. GA 04:24 Which things are an allegory: for these are the two covenants; the one from the mount Sinai, which gendereth to bondage, which is Agar. GA 04:25 For this Agar is mount Sinai in Arabia, and answereth to Jerusalem which now is, and is in bondage with her children. GA 04:26 But Jerusalem which is above is free, which is the mother of us all. GA 04:27 For it is written, Rejoice, [thou] barren that bearest not; break forth and cry, thou that travailest not: for the desolate hath many more children than she which hath an husband. GA 04:28 Now we, brethren, as Isaac was, are the children of promise. GA 04:29 But as then he that was born after the flesh persecuted him [that was born] after the Spirit, even so [it is] now. GA 04:30 Nevertheless what saith the scripture? Cast out the bondwoman and her son: for the son of the bondwoman shall not be heir with the son of the freewoman. GA 04:31 So then, brethren, we are not children of the bondwoman, but of the free. GA 05:01 Stand fast therefore in the liberty wherewith Christ hath made us free, and be not entangled again with the yoke of bondage. GA 05:02 Behold, I Paul say unto you, that if ye be circumcised, Christ shall profit you nothing. GA 05:03 For I testify again to every man that is circumcised, that he is a debtor to do the whole law. GA 05:04 Christ is become of no effect unto you, whosoever of you are justified by the law; ye are fallen from grace. GA 05:05 For we through the Spirit wait for the hope of righteousness by faith. GA 05:06 For in Jesus Christ neither circumcision availeth any thing, nor uncircumcision; but faith which worketh by love. GA 05:07 Ye did run well; who did hinder you that ye should not obey the truth? GA 05:08 This persuasion [cometh] not of him that calleth you. GA 05:09 A little leaven leaveneth the whole lump. GA 05:10 I have confidence in you through the Lord, that ye will be none otherwise minded: but he that troubleth you shall bear his judgment, whosoever he be. ========= Day <17> GA 05:11 GA 05:11 And I, brethren, if I yet preach circumcision, why do I yet suffer persecution? then is the offence of the cross ceased. GA 05:12 I would they were even cut off which trouble you. GA 05:13 For, brethren, ye have been called unto liberty; only [use] not liberty for an occasion to the flesh, but by love serve one another. GA 05:14 For all the law is fulfilled in one word, [even] in this; Thou shalt love thy neighbour as thyself. GA 05:15 But if ye bite and devour one another, take heed that ye be not consumed one of another. GA 05:16 [This] I say then, Walk in the Spirit, and ye shall not fulfil the lust of the flesh. GA 05:17 For the flesh lusteth against the Spirit, and the Spirit against the flesh: and these are contrary the one to the other: so that ye cannot do the things that ye would. GA 05:18 But if ye be led of the Spirit, ye are not under the law. GA 05:19 Now the works of the flesh are manifest, which are [these]; Adultery, fornication, uncleanness, lasciviousness, GA 05:20 Idolatry, witchcraft, hatred, variance, emulations, wrath, strife, seditions, heresies, GA 05:21 Envyings, murders, drunkenness, revellings, and such like: of the which I tell you before, as I have also told [you] in time past, that they which do such things shall not inherit the kingdom of God. GA 05:22 But the fruit of the Spirit is love, joy, peace, longsuffering, gentleness, goodness, faith, GA 05:23 Meekness, temperance: against such there is no law. GA 05:24 And they that are Christ's have crucified the flesh with the affections and lusts. GA 05:25 If we live in the Spirit, let us also walk in the Spirit. GA 05:26 Let us not be desirous of vain glory, provoking one another, envying one another. GA 06:01 Brethren, if a man be overtaken in a fault, ye which are spiritual, restore such an one in the spirit of meekness; considering thyself, lest thou also be tempted. GA 06:02 Bear ye one another's burdens, and so fulfil the law of Christ. GA 06:03 For if a man think himself to be something, when he is nothing, he deceiveth himself. GA 06:04 But let every man prove his own work, and then shall he have rejoicing in himself alone, and not in another. GA 06:05 For every man shall bear his own burden. GA 06:06 Let him that is taught in the word communicate unto him that teacheth in all good things. GA 06:07 Be not deceived; God is not mocked: for whatsoever a man soweth, that shall he also reap. GA 06:08 For he that soweth to his flesh shall of the flesh reap corruption; but he that soweth to the Spirit shall of the Spirit reap life everlasting. GA 06:09 And let us not be weary in well doing: for in due season we shall reap, if we faint not. GA 06:10 As we have therefore opportunity, let us do good unto all [men], especially unto them who are of the household of faith. GA 06:11 Ye see how large a letter I have written unto you with mine own hand. GA 06:12 As many as desire to make a fair show in the flesh, they constrain you to be circumcised; only lest they should suffer persecution for the cross of Christ. GA 06:13 For neither they themselves who are circumcised keep the law; but desire to have you circumcised, that they may glory in your flesh. GA 06:14 But God forbid that I should glory, save in the cross of our Lord Jesus Christ, by whom the world is crucified unto me, and I unto the world. GA 06:15 For in Christ Jesus neither circumcision availeth any thing, nor uncircumcision, but a new creature. GA 06:16 And as many as walk according to this rule, peace [be] on them, and mercy, and upon the Israel of God. GA 06:17 From henceforth let no man trouble me: for I bear in my body the marks of the Lord Jesus. GA 06:18 Brethren, the grace of our Lord Jesus Christ [be] with your spirit. Amen. EPH 01:01 Paul, an apostle of Jesus Christ by the will of God, to the saints which are at Ephesus, and to the faithful in Christ Jesus: EPH 01:02 Grace [be] to you, and peace, from God our Father, and [from] the Lord Jesus Christ. EPH 01:03 Blessed [be] the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, who hath blessed us with all spiritual blessings in heavenly [places] in Christ: EPH 01:04 According as he hath chosen us in him before the foundation of the world, that we should be holy and without blame before him in love: EPH 01:05 Having predestinated us unto the adoption of children by Jesus Christ to himself, according to the good pleasure of his will, EPH 01:06 To the praise of the glory of his grace, wherein he hath made us accepted in the beloved. EPH 01:07 In whom we have redemption through his blood, the forgiveness of sins, according to the riches of his grace; EPH 01:08 Wherein he hath abounded toward us in all wisdom and prudence; EPH 01:09 Having made known unto us the mystery of his will, according to his good pleasure which he hath purposed in himself: EPH 01:10 That in the dispensation of the fulness of times he might gather together in one all things in Christ, both which are in heaven, and which are on earth; [even] in him: EPH 01:11 In whom also we have obtained an inheritance, being predestinated according to the purpose of him who worketh all things after the counsel of his own will: EPH 01:12 That we should be to the praise of his glory, who first trusted in Christ. EPH 01:13 In whom ye also [trusted], after that ye heard the word of truth, the gospel of your salvation: in whom also after that ye believed, ye were sealed with that holy Spirit of promise, EPH 01:14 Which is the earnest of our inheritance until the redemption of the purchased possession, unto the praise of his glory. EPH 01:15 Wherefore I also, after I heard of your faith in the Lord Jesus, and love unto all the saints, EPH 01:16 Cease not to give thanks for you, making mention of you in my prayers; EPH 01:17 That the God of our Lord Jesus Christ, the Father of glory, may give unto you the spirit of wisdom and revelation in the knowledge of him: EPH 01:18 The eyes of your understanding being enlightened; that ye may know what is the hope of his calling, and what the riches of the glory of his inheritance in the saints, EPH 01:19 And what [is] the exceeding greatness of his power to us ward who believe, according to the working of his mighty power, EPH 01:20 Which he wrought in Christ, when he raised him from the dead, and set [him] at his own right hand in the heavenly [places], EPH 01:21 Far above all principality, and power, and might, and dominion, and every name that is named, not only in this world, but also in that which is to come: EPH 01:22 And hath put all [things] under his feet, and gave him [to be] the head over all [things] to the church, EPH 01:23 Which is his body, the fulness of him that filleth all in all. EPH 02:01 And you [hath he quickened], who were dead in trespasses and sins: EPH 02:02 Wherein in time past ye walked according to the course of this world, according to the prince of the power of the air, the spirit that now worketh in the children of disobedience: EPH 02:03 Among whom also we all had our conversation in times past in the lusts of our flesh, fulfilling the desires of the flesh and of the mind; and were by nature the children of wrath, even as others. EPH 02:04 But God, who is rich in mercy, for his great love wherewith he loved us, EPH 02:05 Even when we were dead in sins, hath quickened us together with Christ, (by grace ye are saved;) EPH 02:06 And hath raised [us] up together, and made [us] sit together in heavenly [places] in Christ Jesus: EPH 02:07 That in the ages to come he might show the exceeding riches of his grace in [his] kindness toward us through Christ Jesus. EPH 02:08 For by grace are ye saved through faith; and that not of yourselves: [it is] the gift of God: EPH 02:09 Not of works, lest any man should boast. EPH 02:10 For we are his workmanship, created in Christ Jesus unto good works, which God hath before ordained that we should walk in them. EPH 02:11 Wherefore remember, that ye [being] in time past Gentiles in the flesh, who are called Uncircumcision by that which is called the Circumcision in the flesh made by hands; EPH 02:12 That at that time ye were without Christ, being aliens from the commonwealth of Israel, and strangers from the covenants of promise, having no hope, and without God in the world: EPH 02:13 But now in Christ Jesus ye who sometimes were far off are made nigh by the blood of Christ. EPH 02:14 For he is our peace, who hath made both one, and hath broken down the middle wall of partition [between us]; EPH 02:15 Having abolished in his flesh the enmity, [even] the law of commandments [contained] in ordinances; for to make in himself of twain one new man, [so] making peace; EPH 02:16 And that he might reconcile both unto God in one body by the cross, having slain the enmity thereby: EPH 02:17 And came and preached peace to you which were afar off, and to them that were nigh. EPH 02:18 For through him we both have access by one Spirit unto the Father. EPH 02:19 Now therefore ye are no more strangers and foreigners, but fellowcitizens with the saints, and of the household of God; EPH 02:20 And are built upon the foundation of the apostles and prophets, Jesus Christ himself being the chief corner [stone]; EPH 02:21 In whom all the building fitly framed together groweth unto an holy temple in the Lord: EPH 02:22 In whom ye also are builded together for an habitation of God through the Spirit. EPH 03:01 For this cause I Paul, the prisoner of Jesus Christ for you Gentiles, EPH 03:02 If ye have heard of the dispensation of the grace of God which is given me to you ward: EPH 03:03 How that by revelation he made known unto me the mystery; (as I wrote afore in few words, EPH 03:04 Whereby, when ye read, ye may understand my knowledge in the mystery of Christ) ========= Day <18> EPH 03:05 EPH 03:05 Which in other ages was not made known unto the sons of men, as it is now revealed unto his holy apostles and prophets by the Spirit; EPH 03:06 That the Gentiles should be fellowheirs, and of the same body, and partakers of his promise in Christ by the gospel: EPH 03:07 Whereof I was made a minister, according to the gift of the grace of God given unto me by the effectual working of his power. EPH 03:08 Unto me, who am less than the least of all saints, is this grace given, that I should preach among the Gentiles the unsearchable riches of Christ; EPH 03:09 And to make all [men] see what [is] the fellowship of the mystery, which from the beginning of the world hath been hid in God, who created all things by Jesus Christ: EPH 03:10 To the intent that now unto the principalities and powers in heavenly [places] might be known by the church the manifold wisdom of God, EPH 03:11 According to the eternal purpose which he purposed in Christ Jesus our Lord: EPH 03:12 In whom we have boldness and access with confidence by the faith of him. EPH 03:13 Wherefore I desire that ye faint not at my tribulations for you, which is your glory. EPH 03:14 For this cause I bow my knees unto the Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, EPH 03:15 Of whom the whole family in heaven and earth is named, EPH 03:16 That he would grant you, according to the riches of his glory, to be strengthened with might by his Spirit in the inner man; EPH 03:17 That Christ may dwell in your hearts by faith; that ye, being rooted and grounded in love, EPH 03:18 May be able to comprehend with all saints what [is] the breadth, and length, and depth, and height; EPH 03:19 And to know the love of Christ, which passeth knowledge, that ye might be filled with all the fulness of God. EPH 03:20 Now unto him that is able to do exceeding abundantly above all that we ask or think, according to the power that worketh in us, EPH 03:21 Unto him [be] glory in the church by Christ Jesus throughout all ages, world without end. Amen. EPH 04:01 I therefore, the prisoner of the Lord, beseech you that ye walk worthy of the vocation wherewith ye are called, EPH 04:02 With all lowliness and meekness, with longsuffering, forbearing one another in love; EPH 04:03 Endeavouring to keep the unity of the Spirit in the bond of peace. EPH 04:04 [There is] one body, and one Spirit, even as ye are called in one hope of your calling; EPH 04:05 One Lord, one faith, one baptism, EPH 04:06 One God and Father of all, who [is] above all, and through all, and in you all. EPH 04:07 But unto every one of us is given grace according to the measure of the gift of Christ. EPH 04:08 Wherefore he saith, When he ascended up on high, he led captivity captive, and gave gifts unto men. EPH 04:09 (Now that he ascended, what is it but that he also descended first into the lower parts of the earth? EPH 04:10 He that descended is the same also that ascended up far above all heavens, that he might fill all things.) EPH 04:11 And he gave some, apostles; and some, prophets; and some, evangelists; and some, pastors and teachers; EPH 04:12 For the perfecting of the saints, for the work of the ministry, for the edifying of the body of Christ: EPH 04:13 Till we all come in the unity of the faith, and of the knowledge of the Son of God, unto a perfect man, unto the measure of the stature of the fulness of Christ: EPH 04:14 That we [henceforth] be no more children, tossed to and fro, and carried about with every wind of doctrine, by the sleight of men, [and] cunning craftiness, whereby they lie in wait to deceive; EPH 04:15 But speaking the truth in love, may grow up into him in all things, which is the head, [even] Christ: EPH 04:16 From whom the whole body fitly joined together and compacted by that which every joint supplieth, according to the effectual working in the measure of every part, maketh increase of the body unto the edifying of itself in love. EPH 04:17 This I say therefore, and testify in the Lord, that ye henceforth walk not as other Gentiles walk, in the vanity of their mind, EPH 04:18 Having the understanding darkened, being alienated from the life of God through the ignorance that is in them, because of the blindness of their heart: EPH 04:19 Who being past feeling have given themselves over unto lasciviousness, to work all uncleanness with greediness. EPH 04:20 But ye have not so learned Christ; EPH 04:21 If so be that ye have heard him, and have been taught by him, as the truth is in Jesus: EPH 04:22 That ye put off concerning the former conversation the old man, which is corrupt according to the deceitful lusts; EPH 04:23 And be renewed in the spirit of your mind; EPH 04:24 And that ye put on the new man, which after God is created in righteousness and true holiness. EPH 04:25 Wherefore putting away lying, speak every man truth with his neighbour: for we are members one of another. EPH 04:26 Be ye angry, and sin not: let not the sun go down upon your wrath: EPH 04:27 Neither give place to the devil. EPH 04:28 Let him that stole steal no more: but rather let him labour, working with [his] hands the thing which is good, that he may have to give to him that needeth. EPH 04:29 Let no corrupt communication proceed out of your mouth, but that which is good to the use of edifying, that it may minister grace unto the hearers. EPH 04:30 And grieve not the holy Spirit of God, whereby ye are sealed unto the day of redemption. EPH 04:31 Let all bitterness, and wrath, and anger, and clamour, and evil speaking, be put away from you, with all malice: EPH 04:32 And be ye kind one to another, tenderhearted, forgiving one another, even as God for Christ's sake hath forgiven you. EPH 05:01 Be ye therefore followers of God, as dear children; EPH 05:02 And walk in love, as Christ also hath loved us, and hath given himself for us an offering and a sacrifice to God for a sweetsmelling savour. EPH 05:03 But fornication, and all uncleanness, or covetousness, let it not be once named among you, as becometh saints; EPH 05:04 Neither filthiness, nor foolish talking, nor jesting, which are not convenient: but rather giving of thanks. EPH 05:05 For this ye know, that no whoremonger, nor unclean person, nor covetous man, who is an idolater, hath any inheritance in the kingdom of Christ and of God. EPH 05:06 Let no man deceive you with vain words: for because of these things cometh the wrath of God upon the children of disobedience. EPH 05:07 Be not ye therefore partakers with them. EPH 05:08 For ye were sometimes darkness, but now [are ye] light in the Lord: walk as children of light: EPH 05:09 (For the fruit of the Spirit [is] in all goodness and righteousness and truth;) EPH 05:10 Proving what is acceptable unto the Lord. EPH 05:11 And have no fellowship with the unfruitful works of darkness, but rather reprove [them]. EPH 05:12 For it is a shame even to speak of those things which are done of them in secret. EPH 05:13 But all things that are reproved are made manifest by the light: for whatsoever doth make manifest is light. EPH 05:14 Wherefore he saith, Awake thou that sleepest, and arise from the dead, and Christ shall give thee light. EPH 05:15 See then that ye walk circumspectly, not as fools, but as wise, EPH 05:16 Redeeming the time, because the days are evil. EPH 05:17 Wherefore be ye not unwise, but understanding what the will of the Lord [is]. EPH 05:18 And be not drunk with wine, wherein is excess; but be filled with the Spirit; EPH 05:19 Speaking to yourselves in psalms and hymns and spiritual songs, singing and making melody in your heart to the Lord; EPH 05:20 Giving thanks always for all things unto God and the Father in the name of our Lord Jesus Christ; EPH 05:21 Submitting yourselves one to another in the fear of God. EPH 05:22 Wives, submit yourselves unto your own husbands, as unto the Lord. EPH 05:23 For the husband is the head of the wife, even as Christ is the head of the church: and he is the saviour of the body. EPH 05:24 Therefore as the church is subject unto Christ, so [let] the wives [be] to their own husbands in every thing. EPH 05:25 Husbands, love your wives, even as Christ also loved the church, and gave himself for it; EPH 05:26 That he might sanctify and cleanse it with the washing of water by the word, EPH 05:27 That he might present it to himself a glorious church, not having spot, or wrinkle, or any such thing; but that it should be holy and without blemish. EPH 05:28 So ought men to love their wives as their own bodies. He that loveth his wife loveth himself. EPH 05:29 For no man ever yet hated his own flesh; but nourisheth and cherisheth it, even as the Lord the church: EPH 05:30 For we are members of his body, of his flesh, and of his bones. EPH 05:31 For this cause shall a man leave his father and mother, and shall be joined unto his wife, and they two shall be one flesh. EPH 05:32 This is a great mystery: but I speak concerning Christ and the church. EPH 05:33 Nevertheless let every one of you in particular so love his wife even as himself; and the wife [see] that she reverence [her] husband. EPH 06:01 Children, obey your parents in the Lord: for this is right. EPH 06:02 Honour thy father and mother; which is the first commandment with promise; EPH 06:03 That it may be well with thee, and thou mayest live long on the earth. EPH 06:04 And, ye fathers, provoke not your children to wrath: but bring them up in the nurture and admonition of the Lord. EPH 06:05 Servants, be obedient to them that are [your] masters according to the flesh, with fear and trembling, in singleness of your heart, as unto Christ; EPH 06:06 Not with eyeservice, as menpleasers; but as the servants of Christ, doing the will of God from the heart; EPH 06:07 With good will doing service, as to the Lord, and not to men: ========= Day <19> EPH 06:08 EPH 06:08 Knowing that whatsoever good thing any man doeth, the same shall he receive of the Lord, whether [he be] bond or free. EPH 06:09 And, ye masters, do the same things unto them, forbearing threatening: knowing that your Master also is in heaven; neither is there respect of persons with him. EPH 06:10 Finally, my brethren, be strong in the Lord, and in the power of his might. EPH 06:11 Put on the whole armour of God, that ye may be able to stand against the wiles of the devil. EPH 06:12 For we wrestle not against flesh and blood, but against principalities, against powers, against the rulers of the darkness of this world, against spiritual wickedness in high [places]. EPH 06:13 Wherefore take unto you the whole armour of God, that ye may be able to withstand in the evil day, and having done all, to stand. EPH 06:14 Stand therefore, having your loins girt about with truth, and having on the breastplate of righteousness; EPH 06:15 And your feet shod with the preparation of the gospel of peace; EPH 06:16 Above all, taking the shield of faith, wherewith ye shall be able to quench all the fiery darts of the wicked. EPH 06:17 And take the helmet of salvation, and the sword of the Spirit, which is the word of God: EPH 06:18 Praying always with all prayer and supplication in the Spirit, and watching thereunto with all perseverance and supplication for all saints; EPH 06:19 And for me, that utterance may be given unto me, that I may open my mouth boldly, to make known the mystery of the gospel, EPH 06:20 For which I am an ambassador in bonds: that therein I may speak boldly, as I ought to speak. EPH 06:21 But that ye also may know my affairs, [and] how I do, Tychicus, a beloved brother and faithful minister in the Lord, shall make known to you all things: EPH 06:22 Whom I have sent unto you for the same purpose, that ye might know our affairs, and [that] he might comfort your hearts. EPH 06:23 Peace [be] to the brethren, and love with faith, from God the Father and the Lord Jesus Christ. EPH 06:24 Grace [be] with all them that love our Lord Jesus Christ in sincerity. Amen. PHP 01:01 Paul and Timotheus, the servants of Jesus Christ, to all the saints in Christ Jesus which are at Philippi, with the bishops and deacons: PHP 01:02 Grace [be] unto you, and peace, from God our Father, and [from] the Lord Jesus Christ. PHP 01:03 I thank my God upon every remembrance of you, PHP 01:04 Always in every prayer of mine for you all making request with joy, PHP 01:05 For your fellowship in the gospel from the first day until now; PHP 01:06 Being confident of this very thing, that he which hath begun a good work in you will perform [it] until the day of Jesus Christ: PHP 01:07 Even as it is meet for me to think this of you all, because I have you in my heart; inasmuch as both in my bonds, and in the defence and confirmation of the gospel, ye all are partakers of my grace. PHP 01:08 For God is my record, how greatly I long after you all in the bowels of Jesus Christ. PHP 01:09 And this I pray, that your love may abound yet more and more in knowledge and [in] all judgment; PHP 01:10 That ye may approve things that are excellent; that ye may be sincere and without offence till the day of Christ; PHP 01:11 Being filled with the fruits of righteousness, which are by Jesus Christ, unto the glory and praise of God. PHP 01:12 But I would ye should understand, brethren, that the things [which happened] unto me have fallen out rather unto the furtherance of the gospel; PHP 01:13 So that my bonds in Christ are manifest in all the palace, and in all other [places]; PHP 01:14 And many of the brethren in the Lord, waxing confident by my bonds, are much more bold to speak the word without fear. PHP 01:15 Some indeed preach Christ even of envy and strife; and some also of good will: PHP 01:16 The one preach Christ of contention, not sincerely, supposing to add affliction to my bonds: PHP 01:17 But the other of love, knowing that I am set for the defence of the gospel. PHP 01:18 What then? notwithstanding, every way, whether in pretence, or in truth, Christ is preached; and I therein do rejoice, yea, and will rejoice. PHP 01:19 For I know that this shall turn to my salvation through your prayer, and the supply of the Spirit of Jesus Christ, PHP 01:20 According to my earnest expectation and [my] hope, that in nothing I shall be ashamed, but [that] with all boldness, as always, [so] now also Christ shall be magnified in my body, whether [it be] by life, or by death. PHP 01:21 For to me to live [is] Christ, and to die [is] gain. PHP 01:22 But if I live in the flesh, this [is] the fruit of my labour: yet what I shall choose I wot not. PHP 01:23 For I am in a strait betwixt two, having a desire to depart, and to be with Christ; which is far better: PHP 01:24 Nevertheless to abide in the flesh [is] more needful for you. PHP 01:25 And having this confidence, I know that I shall abide and continue with you all for your furtherance and joy of faith; PHP 01:26 That your rejoicing may be more abundant in Jesus Christ for me by my coming to you again. PHP 01:27 Only let your conversation be as it becometh the gospel of Christ: that whether I come and see you, or else be absent, I may hear of your affairs, that ye stand fast in one spirit, with one mind striving together for the faith of the gospel; PHP 01:28 And in nothing terrified by your adversaries: which is to them an evident token of perdition, but to you of salvation, and that of God. PHP 01:29 For unto you it is given in the behalf of Christ, not only to believe on him, but also to suffer for his sake; PHP 01:30 Having the same conflict which ye saw in me, and now hear [to be] in me. PHP 02:01 If [there be] therefore any consolation in Christ, if any comfort of love, if any fellowship of the Spirit, if any bowels and mercies, PHP 02:02 Fulfil ye my joy, that ye be likeminded, having the same love, [being] of one accord, of one mind. PHP 02:03 [Let] nothing [be done] through strife or vainglory; but in lowliness of mind let each esteem other better than themselves. PHP 02:04 Look not every man on his own things, but every man also on the things of others. PHP 02:05 Let this mind be in you, which was also in Christ Jesus: PHP 02:06 Who, being in the form of God, thought it not robbery to be equal with God: PHP 02:07 But made himself of no reputation, and took upon him the form of a servant, and was made in the likeness of men: PHP 02:08 And being found in fashion as a man, he humbled himself, and became obedient unto death, even the death of the cross. PHP 02:09 Wherefore God also hath highly exalted him, and given him a name which is above every name: PHP 02:10 That at the name of Jesus every knee should bow, of [things] in heaven, and [things] in earth, and [things] under the earth; PHP 02:11 And [that] every tongue should confess that Jesus Christ [is] Lord, to the glory of God the Father. PHP 02:12 Wherefore, my beloved, as ye have always obeyed, not as in my presence only, but now much more in my absence, work out your own salvation with fear and trembling. PHP 02:13 For it is God which worketh in you both to will and to do of [his] good pleasure. PHP 02:14 Do all things without murmurings and disputings: PHP 02:15 That ye may be blameless and harmless, the sons of God, without rebuke, in the midst of a crooked and perverse nation, among whom ye shine as lights in the world; PHP 02:16 Holding forth the word of life; that I may rejoice in the day of Christ, that I have not run in vain, neither laboured in vain. PHP 02:17 Yea, and if I be offered upon the sacrifice and service of your faith, I joy, and rejoice with you all. PHP 02:18 For the same cause also do ye joy, and rejoice with me. PHP 02:19 But I trust in the Lord Jesus to send Timotheus shortly unto you, that I also may be of good comfort, when I know your state. PHP 02:20 For I have no man likeminded, who will naturally care for your state. PHP 02:21 For all seek their own, not the things which are Jesus Christ's. PHP 02:22 But ye know the proof of him, that, as a son with the father, he hath served with me in the gospel. PHP 02:23 Him therefore I hope to send presently, so soon as I shall see how it will go with me. PHP 02:24 But I trust in the Lord that I also myself shall come shortly. PHP 02:25 Yet I supposed it necessary to send to you Epaphroditus, my brother, and companion in labour, and fellowsoldier, but your messenger, and he that ministered to my wants. PHP 02:26 For he longed after you all, and was full of heaviness, because that ye had heard that he had been sick. PHP 02:27 For indeed he was sick nigh unto death: but God had mercy on him; and not on him only, but on me also, lest I should have sorrow upon sorrow. PHP 02:28 I sent him therefore the more carefully, that, when ye see him again, ye may rejoice, and that I may be the less sorrowful. PHP 02:29 Receive him therefore in the Lord with all gladness; and hold such in reputation: PHP 02:30 Because for the work of Christ he was nigh unto death, not regarding his life, to supply your lack of service toward me. PHP 03:01 Finally, my brethren, rejoice in the Lord. To write the same things to you, to me indeed [is] not grievous, but for you [it is] safe. PHP 03:02 Beware of dogs, beware of evil workers, beware of the concision. PHP 03:03 For we are the circumcision, which worship God in the spirit, and rejoice in Christ Jesus, and have no confidence in the flesh. PHP 03:04 Though I might also have confidence in the flesh. If any other man thinketh that he hath whereof he might trust in the flesh, I more: PHP 03:05 Circumcised the eighth day, of the stock of Israel, [of] the tribe of Benjamin, an Hebrew of the Hebrews; as touching the law, a Pharisee; ========= Day <20> PHP 03:06 PHP 03:06 Concerning zeal, persecuting the church; touching the righteousness which is in the law, blameless. PHP 03:07 But what things were gain to me, those I counted loss for Christ. PHP 03:08 Yea doubtless, and I count all things [but] loss for the excellency of the knowledge of Christ Jesus my Lord: for whom I have suffered the loss of all things, and do count them [but] dung, that I may win Christ, PHP 03:09 And be found in him, not having mine own righteousness, which is of the law, but that which is through the faith of Christ, the righteousness which is of God by faith: PHP 03:10 That I may know him, and the power of his resurrection, and the fellowship of his sufferings, being made conformable unto his death; PHP 03:11 If by any means I might attain unto the resurrection of the dead. PHP 03:12 Not as though I had already attained, either were already perfect: but I follow after, if that I may apprehend that for which also I am apprehended of Christ Jesus. PHP 03:13 Brethren, I count not myself to have apprehended: but [this] one thing [I do], forgetting those things which are behind, and reaching forth unto those things which are before, PHP 03:14 I press toward the mark for the prize of the high calling of God in Christ Jesus. PHP 03:15 Let us therefore, as many as be perfect, be thus minded: and if in any thing ye be otherwise minded, God shall reveal even this unto you. PHP 03:16 Nevertheless, whereto we have already attained, let us walk by the same rule, let us mind the same thing. PHP 03:17 Brethren, be followers together of me, and mark them which walk so as ye have us for an ensample. PHP 03:18 (For many walk, of whom I have told you often, and now tell you even weeping, [that they are] the enemies of the cross of Christ: PHP 03:19 Whose end [is] destruction, whose God [is their] belly, and [whose] glory [is] in their shame, who mind earthly things.) PHP 03:20 For our conversation is in heaven; from whence also we look for the Saviour, the Lord Jesus Christ: PHP 03:21 Who shall change our vile body, that it may be fashioned like unto his glorious body, according to the working whereby he is able even to subdue all things unto himself. PHP 04:01 Therefore, my brethren, dearly beloved and longed for, my joy and crown, so stand fast in the Lord, [my] dearly beloved. PHP 04:02 I beseech Euodias, and beseech Syntyche, that they be of the same mind in the Lord. PHP 04:03 And I entreat thee also, true yokefellow, help those women which laboured with me in the gospel, with Clement also, and [with] other my fellowlabourers, whose names [are] in the book of life. PHP 04:04 Rejoice in the Lord alway: [and] again I say, Rejoice. PHP 04:05 Let your moderation be known unto all men. The Lord [is] at hand. PHP 04:06 Be careful for nothing; but in every thing by prayer and supplication with thanksgiving let your requests be made known unto God. PHP 04:07 And the peace of God, which passeth all understanding, shall keep your hearts and minds through Christ Jesus. PHP 04:08 Finally, brethren, whatsoever things are true, whatsoever things [are] honest, whatsoever things [are] just, whatsoever things [are] pure, whatsoever things [are] lovely, whatsoever things [are] of good report; if [there be] any virtue, and if [there be] any praise, think on these things. PHP 04:09 Those things, which ye have both learned, and received, and heard, and seen in me, do: and the God of peace shall be with you. PHP 04:10 But I rejoiced in the Lord greatly, that now at the last your care of me hath flourished again; wherein ye were also careful, but ye lacked opportunity. PHP 04:11 Not that I speak in respect of want: for I have learned, in whatsoever state I am, [therewith] to be content. PHP 04:12 I know both how to be abased, and I know how to abound: every where and in all things I am instructed both to be full and to be hungry, both to abound and to suffer need. PHP 04:13 I can do all things through Christ which strengtheneth me. PHP 04:14 Notwithstanding ye have well done, that ye did communicate with my affliction. PHP 04:15 Now ye Philippians know also, that in the beginning of the gospel, when I departed from Macedonia, no church communicated with me as concerning giving and receiving, but ye only. PHP 04:16 For even in Thessalonica ye sent once and again unto my necessity. PHP 04:17 Not because I desire a gift: but I desire fruit that may abound to your account. PHP 04:18 But I have all, and abound: I am full, having received of Epaphroditus the things [which were sent] from you, an odour of a sweet smell, a sacrifice acceptable, wellpleasing to God. PHP 04:19 But my God shall supply all your need according to his riches in glory by Christ Jesus. PHP 04:20 Now unto God and our Father [be] glory for ever and ever. Amen. PHP 04:21 Salute every saint in Christ Jesus. The brethren which are with me greet you. PHP 04:22 All the saints salute you, chiefly they that are of Caesar's household. PHP 04:23 The grace of our Lord Jesus Christ [be] with you all. Amen. COL 01:01 Paul, an apostle of Jesus Christ by the will of God, and Timotheus [our] brother, COL 01:02 To the saints and faithful brethren in Christ which are at Colosse: Grace [be] unto you, and peace, from God our Father and the Lord Jesus Christ. COL 01:03 We give thanks to God and the Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, praying always for you, COL 01:04 Since we heard of your faith in Christ Jesus, and of the love [which ye have] to all the saints, COL 01:05 For the hope which is laid up for you in heaven, whereof ye heard before in the word of the truth of the gospel; COL 01:06 Which is come unto you, as [it is] in all the world; and bringeth forth fruit, as [it doth] also in you, since the day ye heard [of it], and knew the grace of God in truth: COL 01:07 As ye also learned of Epaphras our dear fellowservant, who is for you a faithful minister of Christ; COL 01:08 Who also declared unto us your love in the Spirit. COL 01:09 For this cause we also, since the day we heard [it], do not cease to pray for you, and to desire that ye might be filled with the knowledge of his will in all wisdom and spiritual understanding; COL 01:10 That ye might walk worthy of the Lord unto all pleasing, being fruitful in every good work, and increasing in the knowledge of God; COL 01:11 Strengthened with all might, according to his glorious power, unto all patience and longsuffering with joyfulness; COL 01:12 Giving thanks unto the Father, which hath made us meet to be partakers of the inheritance of the saints in light: COL 01:13 Who hath delivered us from the power of darkness, and hath translated [us] into the kingdom of his dear Son: COL 01:14 In whom we have redemption through his blood, [even] the forgiveness of sins: COL 01:15 Who is the image of the invisible God, the firstborn of every creature: COL 01:16 For by him were all things created, that are in heaven, and that are in earth, visible and invisible, whether [they be] thrones, or dominions, or principalities, or powers: all things were created by him, and for him: COL 01:17 And he is before all things, and by him all things consist. COL 01:18 And he is the head of the body, the church: who is the beginning, the firstborn from the dead; that in all [things] he might have the preeminence. COL 01:19 For it pleased [the Father] that in him should all fulness dwell; COL 01:20 And, having made peace through the blood of his cross, by him to reconcile all things unto himself; by him, [I say], whether [they be] things in earth, or things in heaven. COL 01:21 And you, that were sometime alienated and enemies in [your] mind by wicked works, yet now hath he reconciled COL 01:22 In the body of his flesh through death, to present you holy and unblameable and unreproveable in his sight: COL 01:23 If ye continue in the faith grounded and settled, and [be] not moved away from the hope of the gospel, which ye have heard, [and] which was preached to every creature which is under heaven; whereof I Paul am made a minister; COL 01:24 Who now rejoice in my sufferings for you, and fill up that which is behind of the afflictions of Christ in my flesh for his body's sake, which is the church: COL 01:25 Whereof I am made a minister, according to the dispensation of God which is given to me for you, to fulfil the word of God; COL 01:26 [Even] the mystery which hath been hid from ages and from generations, but now is made manifest to his saints: COL 01:27 To whom God would make known what [is] the riches of the glory of this mystery among the Gentiles; which is Christ in you, the hope of glory: COL 01:28 Whom we preach, warning every man, and teaching every man in all wisdom; that we may present every man perfect in Christ Jesus: COL 01:29 Whereunto I also labour, striving according to his working, which worketh in me mightily. COL 02:01 For I would that ye knew what great conflict I have for you, and [for] them at Laodicea, and [for] as many as have not seen my face in the flesh; COL 02:02 That their hearts might be comforted, being knit together in love, and unto all riches of the full assurance of understanding, to the acknowledgment of the mystery of God, and of the Father, and of Christ; COL 02:03 In whom are hid all the treasures of wisdom and knowledge. COL 02:04 And this I say, lest any man should beguile you with enticing words. COL 02:05 For though I be absent in the flesh, yet am I with you in the spirit, joying and beholding your order, and the stedfastness of your faith in Christ. COL 02:06 As ye have therefore received Christ Jesus the Lord, [so] walk ye in him: COL 02:07 Rooted and built up in him, and stablished in the faith, as ye have been taught, abounding therein with thanksgiving. COL 02:08 Beware lest any man spoil you through philosophy and vain deceit, after the tradition of men, after the rudiments of the world, and not after Christ. ========= Day <21> COL 02:09 COL 02:09 For in him dwelleth all the fulness of the Godhead bodily. COL 02:10 And ye are complete in him, which is the head of all principality and power: COL 02:11 In whom also ye are circumcised with the circumcision made without hands, in putting off the body of the sins of the flesh by the circumcision of Christ: COL 02:12 Buried with him in baptism, wherein also ye are risen with [him] through the faith of the operation of God, who hath raised him from the dead. COL 02:13 And you, being dead in your sins and the uncircumcision of your flesh, hath he quickened together with him, having forgiven you all trespasses; COL 02:14 Blotting out the handwriting of ordinances that was against us, which was contrary to us, and took it out of the way, nailing it to his cross; COL 02:15 [And] having spoiled principalities and powers, he made a show of them openly, triumphing over them in it. COL 02:16 Let no man therefore judge you in meat, or in drink, or in respect of an holyday, or of the new moon, or of the sabbath [days]: COL 02:17 Which are a shadow of things to come; but the body [is] of Christ. COL 02:18 Let no man beguile you of your reward in a voluntary humility and worshipping of angels, intruding into those things which he hath not seen, vainly puffed up by his fleshly mind, COL 02:19 And not holding the Head, from which all the body by joints and bands having nourishment ministered, and knit together, increaseth with the increase of God. COL 02:20 Wherefore if ye be dead with Christ from the rudiments of the world, why, as though living in the world, are ye subject to ordinances, COL 02:21 (Touch not; taste not; handle not; COL 02:22 Which all are to perish with the using;) after the commandments and doctrines of men? COL 02:23 Which things have indeed a show of wisdom in will worship, and humility, and neglecting of the body; not in any honour to the satisfying of the flesh. COL 03:01 If ye then be risen with Christ, seek those things which are above, where Christ sitteth on the right hand of God. COL 03:02 Set your affection on things above, not on things on the earth. COL 03:03 For ye are dead, and your life is hid with Christ in God. COL 03:04 When Christ, [who is] our life, shall appear, then shall ye also appear with him in glory. COL 03:05 Mortify therefore your members which are upon the earth; fornication, uncleanness, inordinate affection, evil concupiscence, and covetousness, which is idolatry: COL 03:06 For which things' sake the wrath of God cometh on the children of disobedience: COL 03:07 In the which ye also walked some time, when ye lived in them. COL 03:08 But now ye also put off all these; anger, wrath, malice, blasphemy, filthy communication out of your mouth. COL 03:09 Lie not one to another, seeing that ye have put off the old man with his deeds; COL 03:10 And have put on the new [man], which is renewed in knowledge after the image of him that created him: COL 03:11 Where there is neither Greek nor Jew, circumcision nor uncircumcision, Barbarian, Scythian, bond [nor] free: but Christ [is] all, and in all. COL 03:12 Put on therefore, as the elect of God, holy and beloved, bowels of mercies, kindness, humbleness of mind, meekness, longsuffering; COL 03:13 Forbearing one another, and forgiving one another, if any man have a quarrel against any: even as Christ forgave you, so also [do] ye. COL 03:14 And above all these things [put on] charity, which is the bond of perfectness. COL 03:15 And let the peace of God rule in your hearts, to the which also ye are called in one body; and be ye thankful. COL 03:16 Let the word of Christ dwell in you richly in all wisdom; teaching and admonishing one another in psalms and hymns and spiritual songs, singing with grace in your hearts to the Lord. COL 03:17 And whatsoever ye do in word or deed, [do] all in the name of the Lord Jesus, giving thanks to God and the Father by him. COL 03:18 Wives, submit yourselves unto your own husbands, as it is fit in the Lord. COL 03:19 Husbands, love [your] wives, and be not bitter against them. COL 03:20 Children, obey [your] parents in all things: for this is well pleasing unto the Lord. COL 03:21 Fathers, provoke not your children [to anger], lest they be discouraged. COL 03:22 Servants, obey in all things [your] masters according to the flesh; not with eyeservice, as menpleasers; but in singleness of heart, fearing God: COL 03:23 And whatsoever ye do, do [it] heartily, as to the Lord, and not unto men; COL 03:24 Knowing that of the Lord ye shall receive the reward of the inheritance: for ye serve the Lord Christ. COL 03:25 But he that doeth wrong shall receive for the wrong which he hath done: and there is no respect of persons. COL 04:01 Masters, give unto [your] servants that which is just and equal; knowing that ye also have a Master in heaven. COL 04:02 Continue in prayer, and watch in the same with thanksgiving; COL 04:03 Withal praying also for us, that God would open unto us a door of utterance, to speak the mystery of Christ, for which I am also in bonds: COL 04:04 That I may make it manifest, as I ought to speak. COL 04:05 Walk in wisdom toward them that are without, redeeming the time. COL 04:06 Let your speech [be] alway with grace, seasoned with salt, that ye may know how ye ought to answer every man. COL 04:07 All my state shall Tychicus declare unto you, [who is] a beloved brother, and a faithful minister and fellowservant in the Lord: COL 04:08 Whom I have sent unto you for the same purpose, that he might know your estate, and comfort your hearts; COL 04:09 With Onesimus, a faithful and beloved brother, who is [one] of you. They shall make known unto you all things which [are done] here. COL 04:10 Aristarchus my fellowprisoner saluteth you, and Marcus, sister's son to Barnabas, (touching whom ye received commandments: if he come unto you, receive him;) COL 04:11 And Jesus, which is called Justus, who are of the circumcision. These only [are my] fellowworkers unto the kingdom of God, which have been a comfort unto me. COL 04:12 Epaphras, who is [one] of you, a servant of Christ, saluteth you, always labouring fervently for you in prayers, that ye may stand perfect and complete in all the will of God. COL 04:13 For I bear him record, that he hath a great zeal for you, and them [that are] in Laodicea and them in Hierapolis. COL 04:14 Luke, the beloved physician, and Demas, greet you. COL 04:15 Salute the brethren which are in Laodicea, and Nymphas, and the church which is in his house. COL 04:16 And when this epistle is read among you, cause that it be read also in the church of the Laodiceans; and that ye likewise read the [epistle] from Laodicea. COL 04:17 And say to Archippus, Take heed to the ministry which thou hast received in the Lord, that thou fulfil it. COL 04:18 The salutation by the hand of me Paul. Remember my bonds. Grace [be] with you. Amen. 1TH 01:01 Paul, and Silvanus, and Timotheus, unto the church of the Thessalonians [which is] in God the Father and [in] the Lord Jesus Christ: Grace [be] unto you, and peace, from God our Father, and the Lord Jesus Christ. 1TH 01:02 We give thanks to God always for you all, making mention of you in our prayers; 1TH 01:03 Remembering without ceasing your work of faith, and labour of love, and patience of hope in our Lord Jesus Christ, in the sight of God and our Father; 1TH 01:04 Knowing, brethren beloved, your election of God. 1TH 01:05 For our gospel came not unto you in word only, but also in power, and in the Holy Ghost, and in much assurance; as ye know what manner of men we were among you for your sake. 1TH 01:06 And ye became followers of us, and of the Lord, having received the word in much affliction, with joy of the Holy Ghost: 1TH 01:07 So that ye were ensamples to all that believe in Macedonia and Achaia. 1TH 01:08 For from you sounded out the word of the Lord not only in Macedonia and Achaia, but also in every place your faith to God ward is spread abroad; so that we need not to speak any thing. 1TH 01:09 For they themselves show of us what manner of entering in we had unto you, and how ye turned to God from idols to serve the living and true God; 1TH 01:10 And to wait for his Son from heaven, whom he raised from the dead, [even] Jesus, which delivered us from the wrath to come. 1TH 02:01 For yourselves, brethren, know our entrance in unto you, that it was not in vain: 1TH 02:02 But even after that we had suffered before, and were shamefully entreated, as ye know, at Philippi, we were bold in our God to speak unto you the gospel of God with much contention. 1TH 02:03 For our exhortation [was] not of deceit, nor of uncleanness, nor in guile: 1TH 02:04 But as we were allowed of God to be put in trust with the gospel, even so we speak; not as pleasing men, but God, which trieth our hearts. 1TH 02:05 For neither at any time used we flattering words, as ye know, nor a cloak of covetousness; God [is] witness: 1TH 02:06 Nor of men sought we glory, neither of you, nor [yet] of others, when we might have been burdensome, as the apostles of Christ. 1TH 02:07 But we were gentle among you, even as a nurse cherisheth her children: 1TH 02:08 So being affectionately desirous of you, we were willing to have imparted unto you, not the gospel of God only, but also our own souls, because ye were dear unto us. 1TH 02:09 For ye remember, brethren, our labour and travail: for labouring night and day, because we would not be chargeable unto any of you, we preached unto you the gospel of God. 1TH 02:10 Ye [are] witnesses, and God [also], how holily and justly and unblameably we behaved ourselves among you that believe: 1TH 02:11 As ye know how we exhorted and comforted and charged every one of you, as a father [doth] his children, ========= Day <22> 1TH 02:12 1TH 02:12 That ye would walk worthy of God, who hath called you unto his kingdom and glory. 1TH 02:13 For this cause also thank we God without ceasing, because, when ye received the word of God which ye heard of us, ye received [it] not [as] the word of men, but as it is in truth, the word of God, which effectually worketh also in you that believe. 1TH 02:14 For ye, brethren, became followers of the churches of God which in Judaea are in Christ Jesus: for ye also have suffered like things of your own countrymen, even as they [have] of the Jews: 1TH 02:15 Who both killed the Lord Jesus, and their own prophets, and have persecuted us; and they please not God, and are contrary to all men: 1TH 02:16 Forbidding us to speak to the Gentiles that they might be saved, to fill up their sins alway: for the wrath is come upon them to the uttermost. 1TH 02:17 But we, brethren, being taken from you for a short time in presence, not in heart, endeavoured the more abundantly to see your face with great desire. 1TH 02:18 Wherefore we would have come unto you, even I Paul, once and again; but Satan hindered us. 1TH 02:19 For what [is] our hope, or joy, or crown of rejoicing? [Are] not even ye in the presence of our Lord Jesus Christ at his coming? 1TH 02:20 For ye are our glory and joy. 1TH 03:01 Wherefore when we could no longer forbear, we thought it good to be left at Athens alone; 1TH 03:02 And sent Timotheus, our brother, and minister of God, and our fellowlabourer in the gospel of Christ, to establish you, and to comfort you concerning your faith: 1TH 03:03 That no man should be moved by these afflictions: for yourselves know that we are appointed thereunto. 1TH 03:04 For verily, when we were with you, we told you before that we should suffer tribulation; even as it came to pass, and ye know. 1TH 03:05 For this cause, when I could no longer forbear, I sent to know your faith, lest by some means the tempter have tempted you, and our labour be in vain. 1TH 03:06 But now when Timotheus came from you unto us, and brought us good tidings of your faith and charity, and that ye have good remembrance of us always, desiring greatly to see us, as we also [to see] you: 1TH 03:07 Therefore, brethren, we were comforted over you in all our affliction and distress by your faith: 1TH 03:08 For now we live, if ye stand fast in the Lord. 1TH 03:09 For what thanks can we render to God again for you, for all the joy wherewith we joy for your sakes before our God; 1TH 03:10 Night and day praying exceedingly that we might see your face, and might perfect that which is lacking in your faith? 1TH 03:11 Now God himself and our Father, and our Lord Jesus Christ, direct our way unto you. 1TH 03:12 And the Lord make you to increase and abound in love one toward another, and toward all [men], even as we [do] toward you: 1TH 03:13 To the end he may stablish your hearts unblameable in holiness before God, even our Father, at the coming of our Lord Jesus Christ with all his saints. 1TH 04:01 Furthermore then we beseech you, brethren, and exhort [you] by the Lord Jesus, that as ye have received of us how ye ought to walk and to please God, [so] ye would abound more and more. 1TH 04:02 For ye know what commandments we gave you by the Lord Jesus. 1TH 04:03 For this is the will of God, [even] your sanctification, that ye should abstain from fornication: 1TH 04:04 That every one of you should know how to possess his vessel in sanctification and honour; 1TH 04:05 Not in the lust of concupiscence, even as the Gentiles which know not God: 1TH 04:06 That no [man] go beyond and defraud his brother in [any] matter: because that the Lord [is] the avenger of all such, as we also have forewarned you and testified. 1TH 04:07 For God hath not called us unto uncleanness, but unto holiness. 1TH 04:08 He therefore that despiseth, despiseth not man, but God, who hath also given unto us his holy Spirit. 1TH 04:09 But as touching brotherly love ye need not that I write unto you: for ye yourselves are taught of God to love one another. 1TH 04:10 And indeed ye do it toward all the brethren which are in all Macedonia: but we beseech you, brethren, that ye increase more and more; 1TH 04:11 And that ye study to be quiet, and to do your own business, and to work with your own hands, as we commanded you; 1TH 04:12 That ye may walk honestly toward them that are without, and [that] ye may have lack of nothing. 1TH 04:13 But I would not have you to be ignorant, brethren, concerning them which are asleep, that ye sorrow not, even as others which have no hope. 1TH 04:14 For if we believe that Jesus died and rose again, even so them also which sleep in Jesus will God bring with him. 1TH 04:15 For this we say unto you by the word of the Lord, that we which are alive [and] remain unto the coming of the Lord shall not prevent them which are asleep. 1TH 04:16 For the Lord himself shall descend from heaven with a shout, with the voice of the archangel, and with the trump of God: and the dead in Christ shall rise first: 1TH 04:17 Then we which are alive [and] remain shall be caught up together with them in the clouds, to meet the Lord in the air: and so shall we ever be with the Lord. 1TH 04:18 Wherefore comfort one another with these words. 1TH 05:01 But of the times and the seasons, brethren, ye have no need that I write unto you. 1TH 05:02 For yourselves know perfectly that the day of the Lord so cometh as a thief in the night. 1TH 05:03 For when they shall say, Peace and safety; then sudden destruction cometh upon them, as travail upon a woman with child; and they shall not escape. 1TH 05:04 But ye, brethren, are not in darkness, that that day should overtake you as a thief. 1TH 05:05 Ye are all the children of light, and the children of the day: we are not of the night, nor of darkness. 1TH 05:06 Therefore let us not sleep, as [do] others; but let us watch and be sober. 1TH 05:07 For they that sleep sleep in the night; and they that be drunken are drunken in the night. 1TH 05:08 But let us, who are of the day, be sober, putting on the breastplate of faith and love; and for an helmet, the hope of salvation. 1TH 05:09 For God hath not appointed us to wrath, but to obtain salvation by our Lord Jesus Christ, 1TH 05:10 Who died for us, that, whether we wake or sleep, we should live together with him. 1TH 05:11 Wherefore comfort yourselves together, and edify one another, even as also ye do. 1TH 05:12 And we beseech you, brethren, to know them which labour among you, and are over you in the Lord, and admonish you; 1TH 05:13 And to esteem them very highly in love for their work's sake. [And] be at peace among yourselves. 1TH 05:14 Now we exhort you, brethren, warn them that are unruly, comfort the feebleminded, support the weak, be patient toward all [men]. 1TH 05:15 See that none render evil for evil unto any [man]; but ever follow that which is good, both among yourselves, and to all [men]. 1TH 05:16 Rejoice evermore. 1TH 05:17 Pray without ceasing. 1TH 05:18 In every thing give thanks: for this is the will of God in Christ Jesus concerning you. 1TH 05:19 Quench not the Spirit. 1TH 05:20 Despise not prophesyings. 1TH 05:21 Prove all things; hold fast that which is good. 1TH 05:22 Abstain from all appearance of evil. 1TH 05:23 And the very God of peace sanctify you wholly; and [I pray God] your whole spirit and soul and body be preserved blameless unto the coming of our Lord Jesus Christ. 1TH 05:24 Faithful [is] he that calleth you, who also will do [it]. 1TH 05:25 Brethren, pray for us. 1TH 05:26 Greet all the brethren with an holy kiss. 1TH 05:27 I charge you by the Lord that this epistle be read unto all the holy brethren. 1TH 05:28 The grace of our Lord Jesus Christ [be] with you. Amen. 2TH 01:01 Paul, and Silvanus, and Timotheus, unto the church of the Thessalonians in God our Father and the Lord Jesus Christ: 2TH 01:02 Grace unto you, and peace, from God our Father and the Lord Jesus Christ. 2TH 01:03 We are bound to thank God always for you, brethren, as it is meet, because that your faith groweth exceedingly, and the charity of every one of you all toward each other aboundeth; 2TH 01:04 So that we ourselves glory in you in the churches of God for your patience and faith in all your persecutions and tribulations that ye endure: 2TH 01:05 [Which is] a manifest token of the righteous judgment of God, that ye may be counted worthy of the kingdom of God, for which ye also suffer: 2TH 01:06 Seeing [it is] a righteous thing with God to recompense tribulation to them that trouble you; 2TH 01:07 And to you who are troubled rest with us, when the Lord Jesus shall be revealed from heaven with his mighty angels, 2TH 01:08 In flaming fire taking vengeance on them that know not God, and that obey not the gospel of our Lord Jesus Christ: 2TH 01:09 Who shall be punished with everlasting destruction from the presence of the Lord, and from the glory of his power; 2TH 01:10 When he shall come to be glorified in his saints, and to be admired in all them that believe (because our testimony among you was believed) in that day. 2TH 01:11 Wherefore also we pray always for you, that our God would count you worthy of [this] calling, and fulfil all the good pleasure of [his] goodness, and the work of faith with power: 2TH 01:12 That the name of our Lord Jesus Christ may be glorified in you, and ye in him, according to the grace of our God and the Lord Jesus Christ. 2TH 02:01 Now we beseech you, brethren, by the coming of our Lord Jesus Christ, and [by] our gathering together unto him, 2TH 02:02 That ye be not soon shaken in mind, or be troubled, neither by spirit, nor by word, nor by letter as from us, as that the day of Christ is at hand. 2TH 02:03 Let no man deceive you by any means: for [that day shall not come], except there come a falling away first, and that man of sin be revealed, the son of perdition; ========= Day <23> 2TH 02:04 2TH 02:04 Who opposeth and exalteth himself above all that is called God, or that is worshipped; so that he as God sitteth in the temple of God, showing himself that he is God. 2TH 02:05 Remember ye not, that, when I was yet with you, I told you these things? 2TH 02:06 And now ye know what withholdeth that he might be revealed in his time. 2TH 02:07 For the mystery of iniquity doth already work: only he who now letteth [will let], until he be taken out of the way. 2TH 02:08 And then shall that Wicked be revealed, whom the Lord shall consume with the spirit of his mouth, and shall destroy with the brightness of his coming: 2TH 02:09 [Even him], whose coming is after the working of Satan with all power and signs and lying wonders, 2TH 02:10 And with all deceivableness of unrighteousness in them that perish; because they received not the love of the truth, that they might be saved. 2TH 02:11 And for this cause God shall send them strong delusion, that they should believe a lie: 2TH 02:12 That they all might be damned who believed not the truth, but had pleasure in unrighteousness. 2TH 02:13 But we are bound to give thanks alway to God for you, brethren beloved of the Lord, because God hath from the beginning chosen you to salvation through sanctification of the Spirit and belief of the truth: 2TH 02:14 Whereunto he called you by our gospel, to the obtaining of the glory of our Lord Jesus Christ. 2TH 02:15 Therefore, brethren, stand fast, and hold the traditions which ye have been taught, whether by word, or our epistle. 2TH 02:16 Now our Lord Jesus Christ himself, and God, even our Father, which hath loved us, and hath given [us] everlasting consolation and good hope through grace, 2TH 02:17 Comfort your hearts, and stablish you in every good word and work. 2TH 03:01 Finally, brethren, pray for us, that the word of the Lord may have [free] course, and be glorified, even as [it is] with you: 2TH 03:02 And that we may be delivered from unreasonable and wicked men: for all [men] have not faith. 2TH 03:03 But the Lord is faithful, who shall stablish you, and keep [you] from evil. 2TH 03:04 And we have confidence in the Lord touching you, that ye both do and will do the things which we command you. 2TH 03:05 And the Lord direct your hearts into the love of God, and into the patient waiting for Christ. 2TH 03:06 Now we command you, brethren, in the name of our Lord Jesus Christ, that ye withdraw yourselves from every brother that walketh disorderly, and not after the tradition which he received of us. 2TH 03:07 For yourselves know how ye ought to follow us: for we behaved not ourselves disorderly among you; 2TH 03:08 Neither did we eat any man's bread for nought; but wrought with labour and travail night and day, that we might not be chargeable to any of you: 2TH 03:09 Not because we have not power, but to make ourselves an ensample unto you to follow us. 2TH 03:10 For even when we were with you, this we commanded you, that if any would not work, neither should he eat. 2TH 03:11 For we hear that there are some which walk among you disorderly, working not at all, but are busybodies. 2TH 03:12 Now them that are such we command and exhort by our Lord Jesus Christ, that with quietness they work, and eat their own bread. 2TH 03:13 But ye, brethren, be not weary in well doing. 2TH 03:14 And if any man obey not our word by this epistle, note that man, and have no company with him, that he may be ashamed. 2TH 03:15 Yet count [him] not as an enemy, but admonish [him] as a brother. 2TH 03:16 Now the Lord of peace himself give you peace always by all means. The Lord [be] with you all. 2TH 03:17 The salutation of Paul with mine own hand, which is the token in every epistle: so I write. 2TH 03:18 The grace of our Lord Jesus Christ [be] with you all. Amen. 1TI 01:01 Paul, an apostle of Jesus Christ by the commandment of God our Saviour, and Lord Jesus Christ, [which is] our hope; 01:02 Unto Timothy, [my] own son in the faith: Grace, mercy, [and] peace, from God our Father and Jesus Christ our Lord. 1TI 01:03 As I besought thee to abide still at Ephesus, when I went into Macedonia, that thou mightest charge some that they teach no other doctrine, 1TI 01:04 Neither give heed to fables and endless genealogies, which minister questions, rather than godly edifying which is in faith: [so do]. 1TI 01:05 Now the end of the commandment is charity out of a pure heart, and [of] a good conscience, and [of] faith unfeigned: 1TI 01:06 From which some having swerved have turned aside unto vain jangling; 1TI 01:07 Desiring to be teachers of the law; understanding neither what they say, nor whereof they affirm. 1TI 01:08 But we know that the law [is] good, if a man use it lawfully; 1TI 01:09 Knowing this, that the law is not made for a righteous man, but for the lawless and disobedient, for the ungodly and for sinners, for unholy and profane, for murderers of fathers and murderers of mothers, for manslayers, 1TI 01:10 For whoremongers, for them that defile themselves with mankind, for menstealers, for liars, for perjured persons, and if there be any other thing that is contrary to sound doctrine; 1TI 01:11 According to the glorious gospel of the blessed God, which was committed to my trust. 1TI 01:12 And I thank Christ Jesus our Lord, who hath enabled me, for that he counted me faithful, putting me into the ministry; 1TI 01:13 Who was before a blasphemer, and a persecutor, and injurious: but I obtained mercy, because I did [it] ignorantly in unbelief. 1TI 01:14 And the grace of our Lord was exceeding abundant with faith and love which is in Christ Jesus. 1TI 01:15 This [is] a faithful saying, and worthy of all acceptation, that Christ Jesus came into the world to save sinners; of whom I am chief. 1TI 01:16 Howbeit for this cause I obtained mercy, that in me first Jesus Christ might show forth all longsuffering, for a pattern to them which should hereafter believe on him to life everlasting. 1TI 01:17 Now unto the King eternal, immortal, invisible, the only wise God, [be] honour and glory for ever and ever. Amen. 1TI 01:18 This charge I commit unto thee, son Timothy, according to the prophecies which went before on thee, that thou by them mightest war a good warfare; 1TI 01:19 Holding faith, and a good conscience; which some having put away concerning faith have made shipwreck: 1TI 01:20 Of whom is Hymenaeus and Alexander; whom I have delivered unto Satan, that they may learn not to blaspheme. 1TI 02:01 I exhort therefore, that, first of all, supplications, prayers, intercessions, [and] giving of thanks, be made for all men; 1TI 02:02 For kings, and [for] all that are in authority; that we may lead a quiet and peaceable life in all godliness and honesty. 1TI 02:03 For this [is] good and acceptable in the sight of God our Saviour; 1TI 02:04 Who will have all men to be saved, and to come unto the knowledge of the truth. 1TI 02:05 For [there is] one God, and one mediator between God and men, the man Christ Jesus; 1TI 02:06 Who gave himself a ransom for all, to be testified in due time. 1TI 02:07 Whereunto I am ordained a preacher, and an apostle, (I speak the truth in Christ, [and] lie not;) a teacher of the Gentiles in faith and verity. 1TI 02:08 I will therefore that men pray every where, lifting up holy hands, without wrath and doubting. 1TI 02:09 In like manner also, that women adorn themselves in modest apparel, with shamefacedness and sobriety; not with broided hair, or gold, or pearls, or costly array; 1TI 02:10 But (which becometh women professing godliness) with good works. 1TI 02:11 Let the woman learn in silence with all subjection. 1TI 02:12 But I suffer not a woman to teach, nor to usurp authority over the man, but to be in silence. 1TI 02:13 For Adam was first formed, then Eve. 1TI 02:14 And Adam was not deceived, but the woman being deceived was in the transgression. 1TI 02:15 Notwithstanding she shall be saved in childbearing, if they continue in faith and charity and holiness with sobriety. 1TI 03:01 This [is] a true saying, If a man desire the office of a bishop, he desireth a good work. 1TI 03:02 A bishop then must be blameless, the husband of one wife, vigilant, sober, of good behaviour, given to hospitality, apt to teach; 1TI 03:03 Not given to wine, no striker, not greedy of filthy lucre; but patient, not a brawler, not covetous; 1TI 03:04 One that ruleth well his own house, having his children in subjection with all gravity; 1TI 03:05 (For if a man know not how to rule his own house, how shall he take care of the church of God?) 1TI 03:06 Not a novice, lest being lifted up with pride he fall into the condemnation of the devil. 1TI 03:07 Moreover he must have a good report of them which are without; lest he fall into reproach and the snare of the devil. 1TI 03:08 Likewise [must] the deacons [be] grave, not doubletongued, not given to much wine, not greedy of filthy lucre; 1TI 03:09 Holding the mystery of the faith in a pure conscience. 1TI 03:10 And let these also first be proved; then let them use the office of a deacon, being [found] blameless. 1TI 03:11 Even so [must their] wives [be] grave, not slanderers, sober, faithful in all things. 1TI 03:12 Let the deacons be the husbands of one wife, ruling their children and their own houses well. 1TI 03:13 For they that have used the office of a deacon well purchase to themselves a good degree, and great boldness in the faith which is in Christ Jesus. 1TI 03:14 These things write I unto thee, hoping to come unto thee shortly: 1TI 03:15 But if I tarry long, that thou mayest know how thou oughtest to behave thyself in the house of God, which is the church of the living God, the pillar and ground of the truth. 1TI 03:16 And without controversy great is the mystery of godliness: God was manifest in the flesh, justified in the Spirit, seen of angels, preached unto the Gentiles, believed on in the world, received up into glory. ========= Day <24> 1TI 04:01 1TI 04:01 Now the Spirit speaketh expressly, that in the latter times some shall depart from the faith, giving heed to seducing spirits, and doctrines of devils; 1TI 04:02 Speaking lies in hypocrisy; having their conscience seared with a hot iron; 1TI 04:03 Forbidding to marry, [and commanding] to abstain from meats, which God hath created to be received with thanksgiving of them which believe and know the truth. 1TI 04:04 For every creature of God [is] good, and nothing to be refused, if it be received with thanksgiving: 1TI 04:05 For it is sanctified by the word of God and prayer. 1TI 04:06 If thou put the brethren in remembrance of these things, thou shalt be a good minister of Jesus Christ, nourished up in the words of faith and of good doctrine, whereunto thou hast attained. 1TI 04:07 But refuse profane and old wives' fables, and exercise thyself [rather] unto godliness. 1TI 04:08 For bodily exercise profiteth little: but godliness is profitable unto all things, having promise of the life that now is, and of that which is to come. 1TI 04:09 This [is] a faithful saying and worthy of all acceptation. 1TI 04:10 For therefore we both labour and suffer reproach, because we trust in the living God, who is the Saviour of all men, specially of those that believe. 1TI 04:11 These things command and teach. 1TI 04:12 Let no man despise thy youth; but be thou an example of the believers, in word, in conversation, in charity, in spirit, in faith, in purity. 1TI 04:13 Till I come, give attendance to reading, to exhortation, to doctrine. 1TI 04:14 Neglect not the gift that is in thee, which was given thee by prophecy, with the laying on of the hands of the presbytery. 1TI 04:15 Meditate upon these things; give thyself wholly to them; that thy profiting may appear to all. 1TI 04:16 Take heed unto thyself, and unto the doctrine; continue in them: for in doing this thou shalt both save thyself, and them that hear thee. 1TI 05:01 Rebuke not an elder, but entreat [him] as a father; [and] the younger men as brethren; 1TI 05:02 The elder women as mothers; the younger as sisters, with all purity. 1TI 05:03 Honour widows that are widows indeed. 1TI 05:04 But if any widow have children or nephews, let them learn first to show piety at home, and to requite their parents: for that is good and acceptable before God. 1TI 05:05 Now she that is a widow indeed, and desolate, trusteth in God, and continueth in supplications and prayers night and day. 1TI 05:06 But she that liveth in pleasure is dead while she liveth. 1TI 05:07 And these things give in charge, that they may be blameless. 1TI 05:08 But if any provide not for his own, and specially for those of his own house, he hath denied the faith, and is worse than an infidel. 1TI 05:09 Let not a widow be taken into the number under threescore years old, having been the wife of one man, 1TI 05:10 Well reported of for good works; if she have brought up children, if she have lodged strangers, if she have washed the saints' feet, if she have relieved the afflicted, if she have diligently followed every good work. 1TI 05:11 But the younger widows refuse: for when they have begun to wax wanton against Christ, they will marry; 1TI 05:12 Having damnation, because they have cast off their first faith. 1TI 05:13 And withal they learn [to be] idle, wandering about from house to house; and not only idle, but tattlers also and busybodies, speaking things which they ought not. 1TI 05:14 I will therefore that the younger women marry, bear children, guide the house, give none occasion to the adversary to speak reproachfully. 1TI 05:15 For some are already turned aside after Satan. 1TI 05:16 If any man or woman that believeth have widows, let them relieve them, and let not the church be charged; that it may relieve them that are widows indeed. 1TI 05:17 Let the elders that rule well be counted worthy of double honour, especially they who labour in the word and doctrine. 1TI 05:18 For the scripture saith, Thou shalt not muzzle the ox that treadeth out the corn. And, The labourer [is] worthy of his reward. 1TI 05:19 Against an elder receive not an accusation, but before two or three witnesses. 1TI 05:20 Them that sin rebuke before all, that others also may fear. 1TI 05:21 I charge [thee] before God, and the Lord Jesus Christ, and the elect angels, that thou observe these things without preferring one before another, doing nothing by partiality. 1TI 05:22 Lay hands suddenly on no man, neither be partaker of other men's sins: keep thyself pure. 1TI 05:23 Drink no longer water, but use a little wine for thy stomach's sake and thine often infirmities. 1TI 05:24 Some men's sins are open beforehand, going before to judgment; and some [men] they follow after. 1TI 05:25 Likewise also the good works [of some] are manifest beforehand; and they that are otherwise cannot be hid. 1TI 06:01 Let as many servants as are under the yoke count their own masters worthy of all honour, that the name of God and [his] doctrine be not blasphemed. 1TI 06:02 And they that have believing masters, let them not despise [them], because they are brethren; but rather do [them] service, because they are faithful and beloved, partakers of the benefit. These things teach and exhort. 1TI 06:03 If any man teach otherwise, and consent not to wholesome words, [even] the words of our Lord Jesus Christ, and to the doctrine which is according to godliness; 1TI 06:04 He is proud, knowing nothing, but doting about questions and strifes of words, whereof cometh envy, strife, railings, evil surmisings, 1TI 06:05 Perverse disputings of men of corrupt minds, and destitute of the truth, supposing that gain is godliness: from such withdraw thyself. 1TI 06:06 But godliness with contentment is great gain. 1TI 06:07 For we brought nothing into [this] world, [and it is] certain we can carry nothing out. 1TI 06:08 And having food and raiment let us be therewith content. 1TI 06:09 But they that will be rich fall into temptation and a snare, and [into] many foolish and hurtful lusts, which drown men in destruction and perdition. 1TI 06:10 For the love of money is the root of all evil: which while some coveted after, they have erred from the faith, and pierced themselves through with many sorrows. 1TI 06:11 But thou, O man of God, flee these things; and follow after righteousness, godliness, faith, love, patience, meekness. 1TI 06:12 Fight the good fight of faith, lay hold on eternal life, whereunto thou art also called, and hast professed a good profession before many witnesses. 1TI 06:13 I give thee charge in the sight of God, who quickeneth all things, and [before] Christ Jesus, who before Pontius Pilate witnessed a good confession; 1TI 06:14 That thou keep [this] commandment without spot, unrebukeable, until the appearing of our Lord Jesus Christ: 1TI 06:15 Which in his times he shall show, [who is] the blessed and only Potentate, the King of kings, and Lord of lords; 1TI 06:16 Who only hath immortality, dwelling in the light which no man can approach unto; whom no man hath seen, nor can see: to whom [be] honour and power everlasting. Amen. 1TI 06:17 Charge them that are rich in this world, that they be not highminded, nor trust in uncertain riches, but in the living God, who giveth us richly all things to enjoy; 1TI 06:18 That they do good, that they be rich in good works, ready to distribute, willing to communicate; 1TI 06:19 Laying up in store for themselves a good foundation against the time to come, that they may lay hold on eternal life. 1TI 06:20 O Timothy, keep that which is committed to thy trust, avoiding profane [and] vain babblings, and oppositions of science falsely so called: 1TI 06:21 Which some professing have erred concerning the faith. Grace [be] with thee. Amen. 2TI 01:01 Paul, an apostle of Jesus Christ by the will of God, according to the promise of life which is in Christ Jesus, 2TI 01:02 To Timothy, [my] dearly beloved son: Grace, mercy, [and] peace, from God the Father and Christ Jesus our Lord. 2TI 01:03 I thank God, whom I serve from [my] forefathers with pure conscience, that without ceasing I have remembrance of thee in my prayers night and day; 2TI 01:04 Greatly desiring to see thee, being mindful of thy tears, that I may be filled with joy; 2TI 01:05 When I call to remembrance the unfeigned faith that is in thee, which dwelt first in thy grandmother Lois, and thy mother Eunice; and I am persuaded that in thee also. 2TI 01:06 Wherefore I put thee in remembrance that thou stir up the gift of God, which is in thee by the putting on of my hands. 2TI 01:07 For God hath not given us the spirit of fear; but of power, and of love, and of a sound mind. 2TI 01:08 Be not thou therefore ashamed of the testimony of our Lord, nor of me his prisoner: but be thou partaker of the afflictions of the gospel according to the power of God; 2TI 01:09 Who hath saved us, and called [us] with an holy calling, not according to our works, but according to his own purpose and grace, which was given us in Christ Jesus before the world began, 2TI 01:10 But is now made manifest by the appearing of our Saviour Jesus Christ, who hath abolished death, and hath brought life and immortality to light through the gospel: 2TI 01:11 Whereunto I am appointed a preacher, and an apostle, and a teacher of the Gentiles. 2TI 01:12 For the which cause I also suffer these things: nevertheless I am not ashamed: for I know whom I have believed, and am persuaded that he is able to keep that which I have committed unto him against that day. 2TI 01:13 Hold fast the form of sound words, which thou hast heard of me, in faith and love which is in Christ Jesus. 2TI 01:14 That good thing which was committed unto thee keep by the Holy Ghost which dwelleth in us. ========= Day <25> 2TI 01:15 2TI 01:15 This thou knowest, that all they which are in Asia be turned away from me; of whom are Phygellus and Hermogenes. 2TI 01:16 The Lord give mercy unto the house of Onesiphorus; for he oft refreshed me, and was not ashamed of my chain: 2TI 01:17 But, when he was in Rome, he sought me out very diligently, and found [me]. 2TI 01:18 The Lord grant unto him that he may find mercy of the Lord in that day: and in how many things he ministered unto me at Ephesus, thou knowest very well. 2TI 02:01 Thou therefore, my son, be strong in the grace that is in Christ Jesus. 2TI 02:02 And the things that thou hast heard of me among many witnesses, the same commit thou to faithful men, who shall be able to teach others also. 2TI 02:03 Thou therefore endure hardness, as a good soldier of Jesus Christ. 2TI 02:04 No man that warreth entangleth himself with the affairs of [this] life; that he may please him who hath chosen him to be a soldier. 2TI 02:05 And if a man also strive for masteries, [yet] is he not crowned, except he strive lawfully. 2TI 02:06 The husbandman that laboureth must be first partaker of the fruits. 2TI 02:07 Consider what I say; and the Lord give thee understanding in all things. 2TI 02:08 Remember that Jesus Christ of the seed of David was raised from the dead according to my gospel: 2TI 02:09 Wherein I suffer trouble, as an evil doer, [even] unto bonds; but the word of God is not bound. 2TI 02:10 Therefore I endure all things for the elect's sakes, that they may also obtain the salvation which is in Christ Jesus with eternal glory. 2TI 02:11 [It is] a faithful saying: For if we be dead with [him], we shall also live with [him]: 2TI 02:12 If we suffer, we shall also reign with [him]: if we deny [him], he also will deny us: 2TI 02:13 If we believe not, [yet] he abideth faithful: he cannot deny himself. 2TI 02:14 Of these things put [them] in remembrance, charging [them] before the Lord that they strive not about words to no profit, [but] to the subverting of the hearers. 2TI 02:15 Study to show thyself approved unto God, a workman that needeth not to be ashamed, rightly dividing the word of truth. 2TI 02:16 But shun profane [and] vain babblings: for they will increase unto more ungodliness. 2TI 02:17 And their word will eat as doth a canker: of whom is Hymenaeus and Philetus; 2TI 02:18 Who concerning the truth have erred, saying that the resurrection is past already; and overthrow the faith of some. 2TI 02:19 Nevertheless the foundation of God standeth sure, having this seal, The Lord knoweth them that are his. And, Let every one that nameth the name of Christ depart from iniquity. 2TI 02:20 But in a great house there are not only vessels of gold and of silver, but also of wood and of earth; and some to honour, and some to dishonour. 2TI 02:21 If a man therefore purge himself from these, he shall be a vessel unto honour, sanctified, and meet for the master's use, [and] prepared unto every good work. 2TI 02:22 Flee also youthful lusts: but follow righteousness, faith, charity, peace, with them that call on the Lord out of a pure heart. 2TI 02:23 But foolish and unlearned questions avoid, knowing that they do gender strifes. 2TI 02:24 And the servant of the Lord must not strive; but be gentle unto all [men], apt to teach, patient, 2TI 02:25 In meekness instructing those that oppose themselves; if God peradventure will give them repentance to the acknowledging of the truth; 2TI 02:26 And [that] they may recover themselves out of the snare of the devil, who are taken captive by him at his will. 2TI 03:01 This know also, that in the last days perilous times shall come. 2TI 03:02 For men shall be lovers of their own selves, covetous, boasters, proud, blasphemers, disobedient to parents, unthankful, unholy, 2TI 03:03 Without natural affection, trucebreakers, false accusers, incontinent, fierce, despisers of those that are good, 2TI 03:04 Traitors, heady, highminded, lovers of pleasures more than lovers of God; 2TI 03:05 Having a form of godliness, but denying the power thereof: from such turn away. 2TI 03:06 For of this sort are they which creep into houses, and lead captive silly women laden with sins, led away with divers lusts, 2TI 03:07 Ever learning, and never able to come to the knowledge of the truth. 2TI 03:08 Now as Jannes and Jambres withstood Moses, so do these also resist the truth: men of corrupt minds, reprobate concerning the faith. 2TI 03:09 But they shall proceed no further: for their folly shall be manifest unto all [men], as theirs also was. 2TI 03:10 But thou hast fully known my doctrine, manner of life, purpose, faith, longsuffering, charity, patience, 2TI 03:11 Persecutions, afflictions, which came unto me at Antioch, at Iconium, at Lystra; what persecutions I endured: but out of [them] all the Lord delivered me. 2TI 03:12 Yea, and all that will live godly in Christ Jesus shall suffer persecution. 2TI 03:13 But evil men and seducers shall wax worse and worse, deceiving, and being deceived. 2TI 03:14 But continue thou in the things which thou hast learned and hast been assured of, knowing of whom thou hast learned [them]; 2TI 03:15 And that from a child thou hast known the holy scriptures, which are able to make thee wise unto salvation through faith which is in Christ Jesus. 2TI 03:16 All scripture [is] given by inspiration of God, and [is] profitable for doctrine, for reproof, for correction, for instruction in righteousness: 2TI 03:17 That the man of God may be perfect, thoroughly furnished unto all good works. 2TI 04:01 I charge [thee] therefore before God, and the Lord Jesus Christ, who shall judge the quick and the dead at his appearing and his kingdom; 2TI 04:02 Preach the word; be instant in season, out of season; reprove, rebuke, exhort with all longsuffering and doctrine. 2TI 04:03 For the time will come when they will not endure sound doctrine; but after their own lusts shall they heap to themselves teachers, having itching ears; 2TI 04:04 And they shall turn away [their] ears from the truth, and shall be turned unto fables. 2TI 04:05 But watch thou in all things, endure afflictions, do the work of an evangelist, make full proof of thy ministry. 2TI 04:06 For I am now ready to be offered, and the time of my departure is at hand. 2TI 04:07 I have fought a good fight, I have finished [my] course, I have kept the faith: 2TI 04:08 Henceforth there is laid up for me a crown of righteousness, which the Lord, the righteous judge, shall give me at that day: and not to me only, but unto all them also that love his appearing. 2TI 04:09 Do thy diligence to come shortly unto me: 2TI 04:10 For Demas hath forsaken me, having loved this present world, and is departed unto Thessalonica; Crescens to Galatia, Titus unto Dalmatia. 2TI 04:11 Only Luke is with me. Take Mark, and bring him with thee: for he is profitable to me for the ministry. 2TI 04:12 And Tychicus have I sent to Ephesus. 2TI 04:13 The cloak that I left at Troas with Carpus, when thou comest, bring [with thee], and the books, [but] especially the parchments. 2TI 04:14 Alexander the coppersmith did me much evil: the Lord reward him according to his works: 2TI 04:15 Of whom be thou ware also; for he hath greatly withstood our words. 2TI 04:16 At my first answer no man stood with me, but all [men] forsook me: [I pray God] that it may not be laid to their charge. 2TI 04:17 Notwithstanding the Lord stood with me, and strengthened me; that by me the preaching might be fully known, and [that] all the Gentiles might hear: and I was delivered out of the mouth of the lion. 2TI 04:18 And the Lord shall deliver me from every evil work, and will preserve [me] unto his heavenly kingdom: to whom [be] glory for ever and ever. Amen. 2TI 04:19 Salute Prisca and Aquila, and the household of Onesiphorus. 2TI 04:20 Erastus abode at Corinth: but Trophimus have I left at Miletum sick. 2TI 04:21 Do thy diligence to come before winter. Eubulus greeteth thee, and Pudens, and Linus, and Claudia, and all the brethren. 2TI 04:22 The Lord Jesus Christ [be] with thy spirit. Grace [be] with you. Amen. TIT 01:01 Paul, a servant of God, and an apostle of Jesus Christ, according to the faith of God's elect, and the acknowledging of the truth which is after godliness; TIT 01:02 In hope of eternal life, which God, that cannot lie, promised before the world began; TIT 01:03 But hath in due times manifested his word through preaching, which is committed unto me according to the commandment of God our Saviour; TIT 01:04 To Titus, [mine] own son after the common faith: Grace, mercy, [and] peace, from God the Father and the Lord Jesus Christ our Saviour. TIT 01:05 For this cause left I thee in Crete, that thou shouldest set in order the things that are wanting, and ordain elders in every city, as I had appointed thee: TIT 01:06 If any be blameless, the husband of one wife, having faithful children not accused of riot or unruly. TIT 01:07 For a bishop must be blameless, as the steward of God; not selfwilled, not soon angry, not given to wine, no striker, not given to filthy lucre; TIT 01:08 But a lover of hospitality, a lover of good men, sober, just, holy, temperate; TIT 01:09 Holding fast the faithful word as he hath been taught, that he may be able by sound doctrine both to exhort and to convince the gainsayers. TIT 01:10 For there are many unruly and vain talkers and deceivers, specially they of the circumcision: TIT 01:11 Whose mouths must be stopped, who subvert whole houses, teaching things which they ought not, for filthy lucre's sake. TIT 01:12 One of themselves, [even] a prophet of their own, said, The Cretians [are] alway liars, evil beasts, slow bellies. TIT 01:13 This witness is true. Wherefore rebuke them sharply, that they may be sound in the faith; ========= Day <26> TIT 01:14 TIT 01:14 Not giving heed to Jewish fables, and commandments of men, that turn from the truth. TIT 01:15 Unto the pure all things [are] pure: but unto them that are defiled and unbelieving [is] nothing pure; but even their mind and conscience is defiled. TIT 01:16 They profess that they know God; but in works they deny [him], being abominable, and disobedient, and unto every good work reprobate. TIT 02:01 But speak thou the things which become sound doctrine: TIT 02:02 That the aged men be sober, grave, temperate, sound in faith, in charity, in patience. TIT 02:03 The aged women likewise, that [they be] in behaviour as becometh holiness, not false accusers, not given to much wine, teachers of good things; TIT 02:04 That they may teach the young women to be sober, to love their husbands, to love their children, TIT 02:05 [To be] discreet, chaste, keepers at home, good, obedient to their own husbands, that the word of God be not blasphemed. TIT 02:06 Young men likewise exhort to be sober minded. TIT 02:07 In all things showing thyself a pattern of good works: in doctrine [showing] uncorruptness, gravity, sincerity, TIT 02:08 Sound speech, that cannot be condemned; that he that is of the contrary part may be ashamed, having no evil thing to say of you. TIT 02:09 [Exhort] servants to be obedient unto their own masters, [and] to please [them] well in all [things]; not answering again; TIT 02:10 Not purloining, but showing all good fidelity; that they may adorn the doctrine of God our Saviour in all things. TIT 02:11 For the grace of God that bringeth salvation hath appeared to all men, TIT 02:12 Teaching us that, denying ungodliness and worldly lusts, we should live soberly, righteously, and godly, in this present world; TIT 02:13 Looking for that blessed hope, and the glorious appearing of the great God and our Saviour Jesus Christ; TIT 02:14 Who gave himself for us, that he might redeem us from all iniquity, and purify unto himself a peculiar people, zealous of good works. TIT 02:15 These things speak, and exhort, and rebuke with all authority. Let no man despise thee. TIT 03:01 Put them in mind to be subject to principalities and powers, to obey magistrates, to be ready to every good work, TIT 03:02 To speak evil of no man, to be no brawlers, [but] gentle, showing all meekness unto all men. TIT 03:03 For we ourselves also were sometimes foolish, disobedient, deceived, serving divers lusts and pleasures, living in malice and envy, hateful, [and] hating one another. TIT 03:04 But after that the kindness and love of God our Saviour toward man appeared, TIT 03:05 Not by works of righteousness which we have done, but according to his mercy he saved us, by the washing of regeneration, and renewing of the Holy Ghost; TIT 03:06 Which he shed on us abundantly through Jesus Christ our Saviour; TIT 03:07 That being justified by his grace, we should be made heirs according to the hope of eternal life. TIT 03:08 [This is] a faithful saying, and these things I will that thou affirm constantly, that they which have believed in God might be careful to maintain good works. These things are good and profitable unto men. TIT 03:09 But avoid foolish questions, and genealogies, and contentions, and strivings about the law; for they are unprofitable and vain. TIT 03:10 A man that is an heretic after the first and second admonition reject; TIT 03:11 Knowing that he that is such is subverted, and sinneth, being condemned of himself. TIT 03:12 When I shall send Artemas unto thee, or Tychicus, be diligent to come unto me to Nicopolis: for I have determined there to winter. TIT 03:13 Bring Zenas the lawyer and Apollos on their journey diligently, that nothing be wanting unto them. TIT 03:14 And let ours also learn to maintain good works for necessary uses, that they be not unfruitful. TIT 03:15 All that are with me salute thee. Greet them that love us in the faith. Grace [be] with you all. Amen. PHM 01:01 Paul, a prisoner of Jesus Christ, and Timothy [our] brother, unto Philemon our dearly beloved, and fellowlabourer, PHM 01:02 And to [our] beloved Apphia, and Archippus our fellowsoldier, and to the church in thy house: PHM 01:03 Grace to you, and peace, from God our Father and the Lord Jesus Christ. PHM 01:04 I thank my God, making mention of thee always in my prayers, PHM 01:05 Hearing of thy love and faith, which thou hast toward the Lord Jesus, and toward all saints; PHM 01:06 That the communication of thy faith may become effectual by the acknowledging of every good thing which is in you in Christ Jesus. PHM 01:07 For we have great joy and consolation in thy love, because the bowels of the saints are refreshed by thee, brother. PHM 01:08 Wherefore, though I might be much bold in Christ to enjoin thee that which is convenient, PHM 01:09 Yet for love's sake I rather beseech [thee], being such an one as Paul the aged, and now also a prisoner of Jesus Christ. PHM 01:10 I beseech thee for my son Onesimus, whom I have begotten in my bonds: PHM 01:11 Which in time past was to thee unprofitable, but now profitable to thee and to me: PHM 01:12 Whom I have sent again: thou therefore receive him, that is, mine own bowels: PHM 01:13 Whom I would have retained with me, that in thy stead he might have ministered unto me in the bonds of the gospel: PHM 01:14 But without thy mind would I do nothing; that thy benefit should not be as it were of necessity, but willingly. PHM 01:15 For perhaps he therefore departed for a season, that thou shouldest receive him for ever; PHM 01:16 Not now as a servant, but above a servant, a brother beloved, specially to me, but how much more unto thee, both in the flesh, and in the Lord? PHM 01:17 If thou count me therefore a partner, receive him as myself. PHM 01:18 If he hath wronged thee, or oweth [thee] ought, put that on mine account; PHM 01:19 I Paul have written [it] with mine own hand, I will repay [it]: albeit I do not say to thee how thou owest unto me even thine own self besides. PHM 01:20 Yea, brother, let me have joy of thee in the Lord: refresh my bowels in the Lord. PHM 01:21 Having confidence in thy obedience I wrote unto thee, knowing that thou wilt also do more than I say. PHM 01:22 But withal prepare me also a lodging: for I trust that through your prayers I shall be given unto you. PHM 01:23 There salute thee Epaphras, my fellowprisoner in Christ Jesus; PHM 01:24 Marcus, Aristarchus, Demas, Lucas, my fellowlabourers. PHM 01:25 The grace of our Lord Jesus Christ [be] with your spirit. Amen. HEB 01:01 God, who at sundry times and in divers manners spake in time past unto the fathers by the prophets, HEB 01:02 Hath in these last days spoken unto us by [his] Son, whom he hath appointed heir of all things, by whom also he made the worlds; HEB 01:03 Who being the brightness of [his] glory, and the express image of his person, and upholding all things by the word of his power, when he had by himself purged our sins, sat down on the right hand of the Majesty on high; HEB 01:04 Being made so much better than the angels, as he hath by inheritance obtained a more excellent name than they. HEB 01:05 For unto which of the angels said he at any time, Thou art my Son, this day have I begotten thee? And again, I will be to him a Father, and he shall be to me a Son? HEB 01:06 And again, when he bringeth in the firstbegotten into the world, he saith, And let all the angels of God worship him. HEB 01:07 And of the angels he saith, Who maketh his angels spirits, and his ministers a flame of fire. HEB 01:08 But unto the Son [he saith], Thy throne, O God, [is] for ever and ever: a sceptre of righteousness [is] the sceptre of thy kingdom. HEB 01:09 Thou hast loved righteousness, and hated iniquity; therefore God, [even] thy God, hath anointed thee with the oil of gladness above thy fellows. HEB 01:10 And, Thou, Lord, in the beginning hast laid the foundation of the earth; and the heavens are the works of thine hands: HEB 01:11 They shall perish; but thou remainest; and they all shall wax old as doth a garment; HEB 01:12 And as a vesture shalt thou fold them up, and they shall be changed: but thou art the same, and thy years shall not fail. HEB 01:13 But to which of the angels said he at any time, Sit on my right hand, until I make thine enemies thy footstool? HEB 01:14 Are they not all ministering spirits, sent forth to minister for them who shall be heirs of salvation? HEB 02:01 Therefore we ought to give the more earnest heed to the things which we have heard, lest at any time we should let [them] slip. HEB 02:02 For if the word spoken by angels was stedfast, and every transgression and disobedience received a just recompense of reward; HEB 02:03 How shall we escape, if we neglect so great salvation; which at the first began to be spoken by the Lord, and was confirmed unto us by them that heard [him]; HEB 02:04 God also bearing [them] witness, both with signs and wonders, and with divers miracles, and gifts of the Holy Ghost, according to his own will? HEB 02:05 For unto the angels hath he not put in subjection the world to come, whereof we speak. HEB 02:06 But one in a certain place testified, saying, What is man, that thou art mindful of him? or the son of man, that thou visitest him? HEB 02:07 Thou madest him a little lower than the angels; thou crownedst him with glory and honour, and didst set him over the works of thy hands: HEB 02:08 Thou hast put all things in subjection under his feet. For in that he put all in subjection under him, he left nothing [that is] not put under him. But now we see not yet all things put under him. HEB 02:09 But we see Jesus, who was made a little lower than the angels for the suffering of death, crowned with glory and honour; that he by the grace of God should taste death for every man. ========= Day <27> HEB 02:10 HEB 02:10 For it became him, for whom [are] all things, and by whom [are] all things, in bringing many sons unto glory, to make the captain of their salvation perfect through sufferings. HEB 02:11 For both he that sanctifieth and they who are sanctified [are] all of one: for which cause he is not ashamed to call them brethren, HEB 02:12 Saying, I will declare thy name unto my brethren, in the midst of the church will I sing praise unto thee. HEB 02:13 And again, I will put my trust in him. And again, Behold I and the children which God hath given me. HEB 02:14 Forasmuch then as the children are partakers of flesh and blood, he also himself likewise took part of the same; that through death he might destroy him that had the power of death, that is, the devil; HEB 02:15 And deliver them who through fear of death were all their lifetime subject to bondage. HEB 02:16 For verily he took not on [him the nature of] angels; but he took on [him] the seed of Abraham. HEB 02:17 Wherefore in all things it behoved him to be made like unto [his] brethren, that he might be a merciful and faithful high priest in things [pertaining] to God, to make reconciliation for the sins of the people. HEB 02:18 For in that he himself hath suffered being tempted, he is able to succour them that are tempted. HEB 03:01 Wherefore, holy brethren, partakers of the heavenly calling, consider the Apostle and High Priest of our profession, Christ Jesus; HEB 03:02 Who was faithful to him that appointed him, as also Moses [was faithful] in all his house. HEB 03:03 For this [man] was counted worthy of more glory than Moses, inasmuch as he who hath builded the house hath more honour than the house. HEB 03:04 For every house is builded by some [man]; but he that built all things [is] God. HEB 03:05 And Moses verily [was] faithful in all his house, as a servant, for a testimony of those things which were to be spoken after; HEB 03:06 But Christ as a son over his own house; whose house are we, if we hold fast the confidence and the rejoicing of the hope firm unto the end. HEB 03:07 Wherefore (as the Holy Ghost saith, To day if ye will hear his voice, HEB 03:08 Harden not your hearts, as in the provocation, in the day of temptation in the wilderness: HEB 03:09 When your fathers tempted me, proved me, and saw my works forty years. HEB 03:10 Wherefore I was grieved with that generation, and said, They do alway err in [their] heart; and they have not known my ways. HEB 03:11 So I sware in my wrath, They shall not enter into my rest.) HEB 03:12 Take heed, brethren, lest there be in any of you an evil heart of unbelief, in departing from the living God. HEB 03:13 But exhort one another daily, while it is called To day; lest any of you be hardened through the deceitfulness of sin. HEB 03:14 For we are made partakers of Christ, if we hold the beginning of our confidence stedfast unto the end; HEB 03:15 While it is said, To day if ye will hear his voice, harden not your hearts, as in the provocation. HEB 03:16 For some, when they had heard, did provoke: howbeit not all that came out of Egypt by Moses. HEB 03:17 But with whom was he grieved forty years? [was it] not with them that had sinned, whose carcases fell in the wilderness? HEB 03:18 And to whom sware he that they should not enter into his rest, but to them that believed not? HEB 03:19 So we see that they could not enter in because of unbelief. HEB 04:01 Let us therefore fear, lest, a promise being left [us] of entering into his rest, any of you should seem to come short of it. HEB 04:02 For unto us was the gospel preached, as well as unto them: but the word preached did not profit them, not being mixed with faith in them that heard [it]. HEB 04:03 For we which have believed do enter into rest, as he said, As I have sworn in my wrath, if they shall enter into my rest: although the works were finished from the foundation of the world. HEB 04:04 For he spake in a certain place of the seventh [day] on this wise, And God did rest the seventh day from all his works. HEB 04:05 And in this [place] again, If they shall enter into my rest. HEB 04:06 Seeing therefore it remaineth that some must enter therein, and they to whom it was first preached entered not in because of unbelief: HEB 04:07 Again, he limiteth a certain day, saying in David, To day, after so long a time; as it is said, To day if ye will hear his voice, harden not your hearts. HEB 04:08 For if Jesus had given them rest, then would he not afterward have spoken of another day. HEB 04:09 There remaineth therefore a rest to the people of God. HEB 04:10 For he that is entered into his rest, he also hath ceased from his own works, as God [did] from his. HEB 04:11 Let us labour therefore to enter into that rest, lest any man fall after the same example of unbelief. HEB 04:12 For the word of God [is] quick, and powerful, and sharper than any twoedged sword, piercing even to the dividing asunder of soul and spirit, and of the joints and marrow, and [is] a discerner of the thoughts and intents of the heart. HEB 04:13 Neither is there any creature that is not manifest in his sight: but all things [are] naked and opened unto the eyes of him with whom we have to do. HEB 04:14 Seeing then that we have a great high priest, that is passed into the heavens, Jesus the Son of God, let us hold fast [our] profession. HEB 04:15 For we have not an high priest which cannot be touched with the feeling of our infirmities; but was in all points tempted like as [we are, yet] without sin. HEB 04:16 Let us therefore come boldly unto the throne of grace, that we may obtain mercy, and find grace to help in time of need. HEB 05:01 For every high priest taken from among men is ordained for men in things [pertaining] to God, that he may offer both gifts and sacrifices for sins: HEB 05:02 Who can have compassion on the ignorant, and on them that are out of the way; for that he himself also is compassed with infirmity. HEB 05:03 And by reason hereof he ought, as for the people, so also for himself, to offer for sins. HEB 05:04 And no man taketh this honour unto himself, but he that is called of God, as [was] Aaron. HEB 05:05 So also Christ glorified not himself to be made an high priest; but he that said unto him, Thou art my Son, to day have I begotten thee. HEB 05:06 As he saith also in another [place], Thou [art] a priest for ever after the order of Melchisedec. HEB 05:07 Who in the days of his flesh, when he had offered up prayers and supplications with strong crying and tears unto him that was able to save him from death, and was heard in that he feared; HEB 05:08 Though he were a Son, yet learned he obedience by the things which he suffered; HEB 05:09 And being made perfect, he became the author of eternal salvation unto all them that obey him; HEB 05:10 Called of God an high priest after the order of Melchisedec. HEB 05:11 Of whom we have many things to say, and hard to be uttered, seeing ye are dull of hearing. HEB 05:12 For when for the time ye ought to be teachers, ye have need that one teach you again which [be] the first principles of the oracles of God; and are become such as have need of milk, and not of strong meat. HEB 05:13 For every one that useth milk [is] unskilful in the word of righteousness: for he is a babe. HEB 05:14 But strong meat belongeth to them that are of full age, [even] those who by reason of use have their senses exercised to discern both good and evil. HEB 06:01 Therefore leaving the principles of the doctrine of Christ, let us go on unto perfection; not laying again the foundation of repentance from dead works, and of faith toward God, HEB 06:02 Of the doctrine of baptisms, and of laying on of hands, and of resurrection of the dead, and of eternal judgment. HEB 06:03 And this will we do, if God permit. HEB 06:04 For [it is] impossible for those who were once enlightened, and have tasted of the heavenly gift, and were made partakers of the Holy Ghost, HEB 06:05 And have tasted the good word of God, and the powers of the world to come, HEB 06:06 If they shall fall away, to renew them again unto repentance; seeing they crucify to themselves the Son of God afresh, and put [him] to an open shame. HEB 06:07 For the earth which drinketh in the rain that cometh oft upon it, and bringeth forth herbs meet for them by whom it is dressed, receiveth blessing from God: HEB 06:08 But that which beareth thorns and briers [is] rejected, and [is] nigh unto cursing; whose end [is] to be burned. HEB 06:09 But, beloved, we are persuaded better things of you, and things that accompany salvation, though we thus speak. HEB 06:10 For God [is] not unrighteous to forget your work and labour of love, which ye have showed toward his name, in that ye have ministered to the saints, and do minister. HEB 06:11 And we desire that every one of you do show the same diligence to the full assurance of hope unto the end: HEB 06:12 That ye be not slothful, but followers of them who through faith and patience inherit the promises. HEB 06:13 For when God made promise to Abraham, because he could swear by no greater, he sware by himself, HEB 06:14 Saying, Surely blessing I will bless thee, and multiplying I will multiply thee. HEB 06:15 And so, after he had patiently endured, he obtained the promise. HEB 06:16 For men verily swear by the greater: and an oath for confirmation [is] to them an end of all strife. HEB 06:17 Wherein God, willing more abundantly to show unto the heirs of promise the immutability of his counsel, confirmed [it] by an oath: HEB 06:18 That by two immutable things, in which [it was] impossible for God to lie, we might have a strong consolation, who have fled for refuge to lay hold upon the hope set before us: HEB 06:19 Which [hope] we have as an anchor of the soul, both sure and stedfast, and which entereth into that within the veil; ========= Day <28> HEB 06:20 HEB 06:20 Whither the forerunner is for us entered, [even] Jesus, made an high priest for ever after the order of Melchisedec. HEB 07:01 For this Melchisedec, king of Salem, priest of the most high God, who met Abraham returning from the slaughter of the kings, and blessed him; HEB 07:02 To whom also Abraham gave a tenth part of all; first being by interpretation King of righteousness, and after that also King of Salem, which is, King of peace; HEB 07:03 Without father, without mother, without descent, having neither beginning of days, nor end of life; but made like unto the Son of God; abideth a priest continually. HEB 07:04 Now consider how great this man [was], unto whom even the patriarch Abraham gave the tenth of the spoils. HEB 07:05 And verily they that are of the sons of Levi, who receive the office of the priesthood, have a commandment to take tithes of the people according to the law, that is, of their brethren, though they come out of the loins of Abraham: HEB 07:06 But he whose descent is not counted from them received tithes of Abraham, and blessed him that had the promises. HEB 07:07 And without all contradiction the less is blessed of the better. HEB 07:08 And here men that die receive tithes; but there he [receiveth them], of whom it is witnessed that he liveth. HEB 07:09 And as I may so say, Levi also, who receiveth tithes, payed tithes in Abraham. HEB 07:10 For he was yet in the loins of his father, when Melchisedec met him. HEB 07:11 If therefore perfection were by the Levitical priesthood, (for under it the people received the law,) what further need [was there] that another priest should rise after the order of Melchisedec, and not be called after the order of Aaron? HEB 07:12 For the priesthood being changed, there is made of necessity a change also of the law. HEB 07:13 For he of whom these things are spoken pertaineth to another tribe, of which no man gave attendance at the altar. HEB 07:14 For [it is] evident that our Lord sprang out of Juda; of which tribe Moses spake nothing concerning priesthood. HEB 07:15 And it is yet far more evident: for that after the similitude of Melchisedec there ariseth another priest, HEB 07:16 Who is made, not after the law of a carnal commandment, but after the power of an endless life. HEB 07:17 For he testifieth, Thou [art] a priest for ever after the order of Melchisedec. HEB 07:18 For there is verily a disannulling of the commandment going before for the weakness and unprofitableness thereof. HEB 07:19 For the law made nothing perfect, but the bringing in of a better hope [did]; by the which we draw nigh unto God. HEB 07:20 And inasmuch as not without an oath [he was made priest]: HEB 07:21 (For those priests were made without an oath; but this with an oath by him that said unto him, The Lord sware and will not repent, Thou [art] a priest for ever after the order of Melchisedec:) HEB 07:22 By so much was Jesus made a surety of a better testament. HEB 07:23 And they truly were many priests, because they were not suffered to continue by reason of death: HEB 07:24 But this [man], because he continueth ever, hath an unchangeable priesthood. HEB 07:25 Wherefore he is able also to save them to the uttermost that come unto God by him, seeing he ever liveth to make intercession for them. HEB 07:26 For such an high priest became us, [who is] holy, harmless, undefiled, separate from sinners, and made higher than the heavens; HEB 07:27 Who needeth not daily, as those high priests, to offer up sacrifice, first for his own sins, and then for the people's: for this he did once, when he offered up himself. HEB 07:28 For the law maketh men high priests which have infirmity; but the word of the oath, which was since the law, [maketh] the Son, who is consecrated for evermore. HEB 08:01 Now of the things which we have spoken [this is] the sum: We have such an high priest, who is set on the right hand of the throne of the Majesty in the heavens; HEB 08:02 A minister of the sanctuary, and of the true tabernacle, which the Lord pitched, and not man. HEB 08:03 For every high priest is ordained to offer gifts and sacrifices: wherefore [it is] of necessity that this man have somewhat also to offer. HEB 08:04 For if he were on earth, he should not be a priest, seeing that there are priests that offer gifts according to the law: HEB 08:05 Who serve unto the example and shadow of heavenly things, as Moses was admonished of God when he was about to make the tabernacle: for, See, saith he, [that] thou make all things according to the pattern showed to thee in the mount. HEB 08:06 But now hath he obtained a more excellent ministry, by how much also he is the mediator of a better covenant, which was established upon better promises. HEB 08:07 For if that first [covenant] had been faultless, then should no place have been sought for the second. HEB 08:08 For finding fault with them, he saith, Behold, the days come, saith the Lord, when I will make a new covenant with the house of Israel and with the house of Judah: HEB 08:09 Not according to the covenant that I made with their fathers in the day when I took them by the hand to lead them out of the land of Egypt; because they continued not in my covenant, and I regarded them not, saith the Lord. HEB 08:10 For this [is] the covenant that I will make with the house of Israel after those days, saith the Lord; I will put my laws into their mind, and write them in their hearts: and I will be to them a God, and they shall be to me a people: HEB 08:11 And they shall not teach every man his neighbour, and every man his brother, saying, Know the Lord: for all shall know me, from the least to the greatest. HEB 08:12 For I will be merciful to their unrighteousness, and their sins and their iniquities will I remember no more. HEB 08:13 In that he saith, A new [covenant], he hath made the first old. Now that which decayeth and waxeth old [is] ready to vanish away. HEB 09:01 Then verily the first [covenant] had also ordinances of divine service, and a worldly sanctuary. HEB 09:02 For there was a tabernacle made; the first, wherein [was] the candlestick, and the table, and the showbread; which is called the sanctuary. HEB 09:03 And after the second veil, the tabernacle which is called the Holiest of all; HEB 09:04 Which had the golden censer, and the ark of the covenant overlaid round about with gold, wherein [was] the golden pot that had manna, and Aaron's rod that budded, and the tables of the covenant; HEB 09:05 And over it the cherubims of glory shadowing the mercyseat; of which we cannot now speak particularly. HEB 09:06 Now when these things were thus ordained, the priests went always into the first tabernacle, accomplishing the service [of God]. HEB 09:07 But into the second [went] the high priest alone once every year, not without blood, which he offered for himself, and [for] the errors of the people: HEB 09:08 The Holy Ghost this signifying, that the way into the holiest of all was not yet made manifest, while as the first tabernacle was yet standing: HEB 09:09 Which [was] a figure for the time then present, in which were offered both gifts and sacrifices, that could not make him that did the service perfect, as pertaining to the conscience; HEB 09:10 [Which stood] only in meats and drinks, and divers washings, and carnal ordinances, imposed [on them] until the time of reformation. HEB 09:11 But Christ being come an high priest of good things to come, by a greater and more perfect tabernacle, not made with hands, that is to say, not of this building; HEB 09:12 Neither by the blood of goats and calves, but by his own blood he entered in once into the holy place, having obtained eternal redemption [for us]. HEB 09:13 For if the blood of bulls and of goats, and the ashes of an heifer sprinkling the unclean, sanctifieth to the purifying of the flesh: HEB 09:14 How much more shall the blood of Christ, who through the eternal Spirit offered himself without spot to God, purge your conscience from dead works to serve the living God? HEB 09:15 And for this cause he is the mediator of the new testament, that by means of death, for the redemption of the transgressions [that were] under the first testament, they which are called might receive the promise of eternal inheritance. HEB 09:16 For where a testament [is], there must also of necessity be the death of the testator. HEB 09:17 For a testament [is] of force after men are dead: otherwise it is of no strength at all while the testator liveth. HEB 09:18 Whereupon neither the first [testament] was dedicated without blood. HEB 09:19 For when Moses had spoken every precept to all the people according to the law, he took the blood of calves and of goats, with water, and scarlet wool, and hyssop, and sprinkled both the book, and all the people, HEB 09:20 Saying, This [is] the blood of the testament which God hath enjoined unto you. HEB 09:21 Moreover he sprinkled with blood both the tabernacle, and all the vessels of the ministry. HEB 09:22 And almost all things are by the law purged with blood; and without shedding of blood is no remission. HEB 09:23 [It was] therefore necessary that the patterns of things in the heavens should be purified with these; but the heavenly things themselves with better sacrifices than these. HEB 09:24 For Christ is not entered into the holy places made with hands, [which are] the figures of the true; but into heaven itself, now to appear in the presence of God for us: HEB 09:25 Nor yet that he should offer himself often, as the high priest entereth into the holy place every year with blood of others; HEB 09:26 For then must he often have suffered since the foundation of the world: but now once in the end of the world hath he appeared to put away sin by the sacrifice of himself. ========= Day <29> HEB 09:27 HEB 09:27 And as it is appointed unto men once to die, but after this the judgment: HEB 09:28 So Christ was once offered to bear the sins of many; and unto them that look for him shall he appear the second time without sin unto salvation. HEB 10:01 For the law having a shadow of good things to come, [and] not the very image of the things, can never with those sacrifices which they offered year by year continually make the comers thereunto perfect. HEB 10:02 For then would they not have ceased to be offered? because that the worshippers once purged should have had no more conscience of sins. HEB 10:03 But in those [sacrifices there is] a remembrance again [made] of sins every year. HEB 10:04 For [it is] not possible that the blood of bulls and of goats should take away sins. HEB 10:05 Wherefore when he cometh into the world, he saith, Sacrifice and offering thou wouldest not, but a body hast thou prepared me: HEB 10:06 In burnt offerings and [sacrifices] for sin thou hast had no pleasure. HEB 10:07 Then said I, Lo, I come (in the volume of the book it is written of me,) to do thy will, O God. HEB 10:08 Above when he said, Sacrifice and offering and burnt offerings and [offering] for sin thou wouldest not, neither hadst pleasure [therein]; which are offered by the law; HEB 10:09 Then said he, Lo, I come to do thy will, O God. He taketh away the first, that he may establish the second. HEB 10:10 By the which will we are sanctified through the offering of the body of Jesus Christ once [for all]. HEB 10:11 And every priest standeth daily ministering and offering oftentimes the same sacrifices, which can never take away sins: HEB 10:12 But this man, after he had offered one sacrifice for sins for ever, sat down on the right hand of God; HEB 10:13 From henceforth expecting till his enemies be made his footstool. HEB 10:14 For by one offering he hath perfected for ever them that are sanctified. HEB 10:15 [Whereof] the Holy Ghost also is a witness to us: for after that he had said before, HEB 10:16 This [is] the covenant that I will make with them after those days, saith the Lord, I will put my laws into their hearts, and in their minds will I write them; HEB 10:17 And their sins and iniquities will I remember no more. HEB 10:18 Now where remission of these [is, there is] no more offering for sin. HEB 10:19 Having therefore, brethren, boldness to enter into the holiest by the blood of Jesus, HEB 10:20 By a new and living way, which he hath consecrated for us, through the veil, that is to say, his flesh; HEB 10:21 And [having] an high priest over the house of God; HEB 10:22 Let us draw near with a true heart in full assurance of faith, having our hearts sprinkled from an evil conscience, and our bodies washed with pure water. HEB 10:23 Let us hold fast the profession of [our] faith without wavering; (for he [is] faithful that promised;) HEB 10:24 And let us consider one another to provoke unto love and to good works: HEB 10:25 Not forsaking the assembling of ourselves together, as the manner of some [is]; but exhorting [one another]: and so much the more, as ye see the day approaching. HEB 10:26 For if we sin wilfully after that we have received the knowledge of the truth, there remaineth no more sacrifice for sins, HEB 10:27 But a certain fearful looking for of judgment and fiery indignation, which shall devour the adversaries. HEB 10:28 He that despised Moses' law died without mercy under two or three witnesses: HEB 10:29 Of how much sorer punishment, suppose ye, shall he be thought worthy, who hath trodden under foot the Son of God, and hath counted the blood of the covenant, wherewith he was sanctified, an unholy thing, and hath done despite unto the Spirit of grace? HEB 10:30 For we know him that hath said, Vengeance [belongeth] unto me, I will recompense, saith the Lord. And again, The Lord shall judge his people. HEB 10:31 [It is] a fearful thing to fall into the hands of the living God. HEB 10:32 But call to remembrance the former days, in which, after ye were illuminated, ye endured a great fight of afflictions; HEB 10:33 Partly, whilst ye were made a gazingstock both by reproaches and afflictions; and partly, whilst ye became companions of them that were so used. HEB 10:34 For ye had compassion of me in my bonds, and took joyfully the spoiling of your goods, knowing in yourselves that ye have in heaven a better and an enduring substance. HEB 10:35 Cast not away therefore your confidence, which hath great recompense of reward. HEB 10:36 For ye have need of patience, that, after ye have done the will of God, ye might receive the promise. HEB 10:37 For yet a little while, and he that shall come will come, and will not tarry. HEB 10:38 Now the just shall live by faith: but if [any man] draw back, my soul shall have no pleasure in him. HEB 10:39 But we are not of them who draw back unto perdition; but of them that believe to the saving of the soul. HEB 11:01 Now faith is the substance of things hoped for, the evidence of things not seen. HEB 11:02 For by it the elders obtained a good report. HEB 11:03 Through faith we understand that the worlds were framed by the word of God, so that things which are seen were not made of things which do appear. HEB 11:04 By faith Abel offered unto God a more excellent sacrifice than Cain, by which he obtained witness that he was righteous, God testifying of his gifts: and by it he being dead yet speaketh. HEB 11:05 By faith Enoch was translated that he should not see death; and was not found, because God had translated him: for before his translation he had this testimony, that he pleased God. HEB 11:06 But without faith [it is] impossible to please [him]: for he that cometh to God must believe that he is, and [that] he is a rewarder of them that diligently seek him. HEB 11:07 By faith Noah, being warned of God of things not seen as yet, moved with fear, prepared an ark to the saving of his house; by the which he condemned the world, and became heir of the righteousness which is by faith. HEB 11:08 By faith Abraham, when he was called to go out into a place which he should after receive for an inheritance, obeyed; and he went out, not knowing whither he went. HEB 11:09 By faith he sojourned in the land of promise, as [in] a strange country, dwelling in tabernacles with Isaac and Jacob, the heirs with him of the same promise: HEB 11:10 For he looked for a city which hath foundations, whose builder and maker [is] God. HEB 11:11 Through faith also Sara herself received strength to conceive seed, and was delivered of a child when she was past age, because she judged him faithful who had promised. HEB 11:12 Therefore sprang there even of one, and him as good as dead, [so many] as the stars of the sky in multitude, and as the sand which is by the sea shore innumerable. HEB 11:13 These all died in faith, not having received the promises, but having seen them afar off, and were persuaded of [them], and embraced [them], and confessed that they were strangers and pilgrims on the earth. HEB 11:14 For they that say such things declare plainly that they seek a country. HEB 11:15 And truly, if they had been mindful of that [country] from whence they came out, they might have had opportunity to have returned. HEB 11:16 But now they desire a better [country], that is, an heavenly: wherefore God is not ashamed to be called their God: for he hath prepared for them a city. HEB 11:17 By faith Abraham, when he was tried, offered up Isaac: and he that had received the promises offered up his only begotten [son]. HEB 11:18 Of whom it was said, That in Isaac shall thy seed be called: HEB 11:19 Accounting that God [was] able to raise [him] up, even from the dead; from whence also he received him in a figure. HEB 11:20 By faith Isaac blessed Jacob and Esau concerning things to come. HEB 11:21 By faith Jacob, when he was a dying, blessed both the sons of Joseph; and worshipped, [leaning] upon the top of his staff. HEB 11:22 By faith Joseph, when he died, made mention of the departing of the children of Israel; and gave commandment concerning his bones. HEB 11:23 By faith Moses, when he was born, was hid three months of his parents, because they saw [he was] a proper child; and they were not afraid of the king's commandment. HEB 11:24 By faith Moses, when he was come to years, refused to be called the son of Pharaoh's daughter; HEB 11:25 Choosing rather to suffer affliction with the people of God, than to enjoy the pleasures of sin for a season; HEB 11:26 Esteeming the reproach of Christ greater riches than the treasures in Egypt: for he had respect unto the recompense of the reward. HEB 11:27 By faith he forsook Egypt, not fearing the wrath of the king: for he endured, as seeing him who is invisible. HEB 11:28 Through faith he kept the passover, and the sprinkling of blood, lest he that destroyed the firstborn should touch them. HEB 11:29 By faith they passed through the Red sea as by dry [land]: which the Egyptians assaying to do were drowned. HEB 11:30 By faith the walls of Jericho fell down, after they were compassed about seven days. HEB 11:31 By faith the harlot Rahab perished not with them that believed not, when she had received the spies with peace. HEB 11:32 And what shall I more say? for the time would fail me to tell of Gedeon, and [of] Barak, and [of] Samson, and [of] Jephthae; [of] David also, and Samuel, and [of] the prophets: HEB 11:33 Who through faith subdued kingdoms, wrought righteousness, obtained promises, stopped the mouths of lions, HEB 11:34 Quenched the violence of fire, escaped the edge of the sword, out of weakness were made strong, waxed valiant in fight, turned to flight the armies of the aliens. HEB 11:35 Women received their dead raised to life again: and others were tortured, not accepting deliverance; that they might obtain a better resurrection: ========= Day <30> HEB 11:36 HEB 11:36 And others had trial of [cruel] mockings and scourgings, yea, moreover of bonds and imprisonment: HEB 11:37 They were stoned, they were sawn asunder, were tempted, were slain with the sword: they wandered about in sheepskins and goatskins; being destitute, afflicted, tormented; HEB 11:38 (Of whom the world was not worthy:) they wandered in deserts, and [in] mountains, and [in] dens and caves of the earth. HEB 11:39 And these all, having obtained a good report through faith, received not the promise: HEB 11:40 God having provided some better thing for us, that they without us should not be made perfect. HEB 12:01 Wherefore seeing we also are compassed about with so great a cloud of witnesses, let us lay aside every weight, and the sin which doth so easily beset [us], and let us run with patience the race that is set before us, HEB 12:02 Looking unto Jesus the author and finisher of [our] faith; who for the joy that was set before him endured the cross, despising the shame, and is set down at the right hand of the throne of God. HEB 12:03 For consider him that endured such contradiction of sinners against himself, lest ye be wearied and faint in your minds. HEB 12:04 Ye have not yet resisted unto blood, striving against sin. HEB 12:05 And ye have forgotten the exhortation which speaketh unto you as unto children, My son, despise not thou the chastening of the Lord, nor faint when thou art rebuked of him: HEB 12:06 For whom the Lord loveth he chasteneth, and scourgeth every son whom he receiveth. HEB 12:07 If ye endure chastening, God dealeth with you as with sons; for what son is he whom the father chasteneth not? HEB 12:08 But if ye be without chastisement, whereof all are partakers, then are ye bastards, and not sons. HEB 12:09 Furthermore we have had fathers of our flesh which corrected [us], and we gave [them] reverence: shall we not much rather be in subjection unto the Father of spirits, and live? HEB 12:10 For they verily for a few days chastened [us] after their own pleasure; but he for [our] profit, that [we] might be partakers of his holiness. HEB 12:11 Now no chastening for the present seemeth to be joyous, but grievous: nevertheless afterward it yieldeth the peaceable fruit of righteousness unto them which are exercised thereby. HEB 12:12 Wherefore lift up the hands which hang down, and the feeble knees; HEB 12:13 And make straight paths for your feet, lest that which is lame be turned out of the way; but let it rather be healed. HEB 12:14 Follow peace with all [men], and holiness, without which no man shall see the Lord: HEB 12:15 Looking diligently lest any man fail of the grace of God; lest any root of bitterness springing up trouble [you], and thereby many be defiled; HEB 12:16 Lest there [be] any fornicator, or profane person, as Esau, who for one morsel of meat sold his birthright. HEB 12:17 For ye know how that afterward, when he would have inherited the blessing, he was rejected: for he found no place of repentance, though he sought it carefully with tears. HEB 12:18 For ye are not come unto the mount that might be touched, and that burned with fire, nor unto blackness, and darkness, and tempest, HEB 12:19 And the sound of a trumpet, and the voice of words; which [voice] they that heard entreated that the word should not be spoken to them any more: HEB 12:20 (For they could not endure that which was commanded, And if so much as a beast touch the mountain, it shall be stoned, or thrust through with a dart: HEB 12:21 And so terrible was the sight, [that] Moses said, I exceedingly fear and quake:) HEB 12:22 But ye are come unto mount Sion, and unto the city of the living God, the heavenly Jerusalem, and to an innumerable company of angels, HEB 12:23 To the general assembly and church of the firstborn, which are written in heaven, and to God the Judge of all, and to the spirits of just men made perfect, HEB 12:24 And to Jesus the mediator of the new covenant, and to the blood of sprinkling, that speaketh better things than [that of] Abel. HEB 12:25 See that ye refuse not him that speaketh. For if they escaped not who refused him that spake on earth, much more [shall not] we [escape], if we turn away from him that [speaketh] from heaven: HEB 12:26 Whose voice then shook the earth: but now he hath promised, saying, Yet once more I shake not the earth only, but also heaven. HEB 12:27 And this [word], Yet once more, signifieth the removing of those things that are shaken, as of things that are made, that those things which cannot be shaken may remain. HEB 12:28 Wherefore we receiving a kingdom which cannot be moved, let us have grace, whereby we may serve God acceptably with reverence and godly fear: HEB 12:29 For our God [is] a consuming fire. HEB 13:01 Let brotherly love continue. HEB 13:02 Be not forgetful to entertain strangers: for thereby some have entertained angels unawares. HEB 13:03 Remember them that are in bonds, as bound with them; [and] them which suffer adversity, as being yourselves also in the body. HEB 13:04 Marriage [is] honourable in all, and the bed undefiled: but whoremongers and adulterers God will judge. HEB 13:05 [Let your] conversation [be] without covetousness; [and be] content with such things as ye have: for he hath said, I will never leave thee, nor forsake thee. HEB 13:06 So that we may boldly say, The Lord [is] my helper, and I will not fear what man shall do unto me. HEB 13:07 Remember them which have the rule over you, who have spoken unto you the word of God: whose faith follow, considering the end of [their] conversation. HEB 13:08 Jesus Christ the same yesterday, and to day, and for ever. HEB 13:09 Be not carried about with divers and strange doctrines. For [it is] a good thing that the heart be established with grace; not with meats, which have not profited them that have been occupied therein. HEB 13:10 We have an altar, whereof they have no right to eat which serve the tabernacle. HEB 13:11 For the bodies of those beasts, whose blood is brought into the sanctuary by the high priest for sin, are burned without the camp. HEB 13:12 Wherefore Jesus also, that he might sanctify the people with his own blood, suffered without the gate. HEB 13:13 Let us go forth therefore unto him without the camp, bearing his reproach. HEB 13:14 For here have we no continuing city, but we seek one to come. HEB 13:15 By him therefore let us offer the sacrifice of praise to God continually, that is, the fruit of [our] lips giving thanks to his name. HEB 13:16 But to do good and to communicate forget not: for with such sacrifices God is well pleased. HEB 13:17 Obey them that have the rule over you, and submit yourselves: for they watch for your souls, as they that must give account, that they may do it with joy, and not with grief: for that [is] unprofitable for you. HEB 13:18 Pray for us: for we trust we have a good conscience, in all things willing to live honestly. HEB 13:19 But I beseech [you] the rather to do this, that I may be restored to you the sooner. HEB 13:20 Now the God of peace, that brought again from the dead our Lord Jesus, that great shepherd of the sheep, through the blood of the everlasting covenant, HEB 13:21 Make you perfect in every good work to do his will, working in you that which is wellpleasing in his sight, through Jesus Christ; to whom [be] glory for ever and ever. Amen. HEB 13:22 And I beseech you, brethren, suffer the word of exhortation: for I have written a letter unto you in few words. HEB 13:23 Know ye that [our] brother Timothy is set at liberty; with whom, if he come shortly, I will see you. HEB 13:24 Salute all them that have the rule over you, and all the saints. They of Italy salute you. HEB 13:25 Grace [be] with you all. Amen. ~~~~~~