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\v 1 If I speak with the languages of men and of angels, but don’t have love, I have become sounding brass, or a clanging cymbal.
\v 2 If I have the gift of prophecy, and know all mysteries and all knowledge; and if I have all faith, so as to remove mountains, but don’t have love, I am nothing.
\v 3 If I give away all my goods to feed the poor, and if I give my body to be burned, but don’t have love, it profits me nothing.
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\v 4 Love is patient and is kind. Love doesn’t envy. Love doesn’t brag, is not proud,
\v 5 doesn’t behave itself inappropriately, doesn’t seek its own way, is not provoked, takes no account of evil;
\v 6 doesn’t rejoice in unrighteousness, but rejoices with the truth;
\v 7 bears all things, believes all things, hopes all things, and endures all things.
\v 8 Love never fails. But where there are prophecies, they will be done away with. Where there are various languages, they will cease. Where there is knowledge, it will be done away with.
\v 9 For we know in part and we prophesy in part;
\v 10 but when that which is complete has come, then that which is partial will be done away with.
\v 11 When I was a child, I spoke as a child, I felt as a child, I thought as a child. Now that I have become a man, I have put away childish things.
\v 12 For now we see in a mirror, dimly, but then face to face. Now I know in part, but then I will know fully, even as I was also fully known.
\v 13 But now faith, hope, and love remain—these three. The greatest of these is love.


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\v 1 Follow after love and earnestly desire spiritual gifts, but especially that you may prophesy.
\v 2 For he who speaks in another language speaks not to men, but to God; for no one understands; but in the Spirit he speaks mysteries.
\v 3 But he who prophesies speaks to men for their edification, exhortation, and consolation.
\v 4 He who speaks in another language edifies himself, but he who prophesies edifies the assembly.
\v 5 Now I desire to have you all speak with other languages, but rather that you would prophesy. For he is greater who prophesies than he who speaks with other languages, unless he interprets, that the assembly may be built up.
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\v 6 But now, brothers,\f + \fr 14:6 \ft The word for “brothers” here and where context allows may also be correctly translated “brothers and sisters” or “siblings.” \f* if I come to you speaking with other languages, what would I profit you, unless I speak to you either by way of revelation, or of knowledge, or of prophesying, or of teaching?
\v 7 Even things without life, giving a voice, whether pipe or harp, if they didn’t give a distinction in the sounds, how would it be known what is piped or harped?
\v 8 For if the trumpet gave an uncertain sound, who would prepare himself for war?
\v 9 So also you, unless you uttered by the tongue words easy to understand, how would it be known what is spoken? For you would be speaking into the air.
\v 10 There are, it may be, so many kinds of sounds in the world, and none of them is without meaning.
\v 11 If then I don’t know the meaning of the sound, I would be to him who speaks a foreigner, and he who speaks would be a foreigner to me.
\v 12 So also you, since you are zealous for spiritual gifts, seek that you may abound to the building up of the assembly.
\v 13 Therefore let him who speaks in another language pray that he may interpret.
\v 14 For if I pray in another language, my spirit prays, but my understanding is unfruitful.
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\v 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.
\v 16 Otherwise if you bless with the spirit, how will he who fills the place of the unlearned say the “Amen” at your giving of thanks, seeing he doesn’t know what you say?
\v 17 For you most certainly give thanks well, but the other person is not built up.
\v 18 I thank my God, I speak with other languages more than you all.
\v 19 However in the assembly I would rather speak five words with my understanding, that I might instruct others also, than ten thousand words in another language.
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\v 20 Brothers, don’t be children in thoughts, yet in malice be babies, but in thoughts be mature.
\v 21 In the law it is written, “By men of strange languages and by the lips of strangers I will speak to this people. They won’t even hear me that way, says the Lord.”\x + \xo 14:21 \xt Isaiah 28:11-12\x*
\v 22 Therefore other languages are for a sign, not to those who believe, but to the unbelieving; but prophesying is for a sign, not to the unbelieving, but to those who believe.
\v 23 If therefore the whole assembly is assembled together and all speak with other languages, and unlearned or unbelieving people come in, won’t they say that you are crazy?
\v 24 But if all prophesy, and someone unbelieving or unlearned comes in, he is reproved by all, and he is judged by all.
\v 25 And thus the secrets of his heart are revealed. So he will fall down on his face and worship God, declaring that God is among you indeed.
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\v 26 What is it then, brothers? When you come together, each one of you has a psalm, has a teaching, has a revelation, has another language, or has an interpretation. Let all things be done to build each other up.
\v 27 If any man speaks in another language, let it be two, or at the most three, and in turn; and let one interpret.
\v 28 But if there is no interpreter, let him keep silent in the assembly, and let him speak to himself, and to God.
\v 29 Let the prophets speak, two or three, and let the others discern.
\v 30 But if a revelation is made to another sitting by, let the first keep silent.
\v 31 For you all can prophesy one by one, that all may learn, and all may be exhorted.
\v 32 The spirits of the prophets are subject to the prophets,
\v 33 for God is not a God of confusion, but of peace, as in all the assemblies of the saints.
\v 34 Let the wives be quiet in the assemblies, for it has not been permitted for them to be talking except in submission, as the law also says,\x + \xo 14:34 \xt Deuteronomy 27:9\x*
\v 35 if they desire to learn anything. “Let them ask their own husbands at home, for it is shameful for a wife to be talking in the assembly.”
\v 36 What!? Was it from you that the word of God went out? Or did it come to you alone?
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\v 37 If any man thinks himself to be a prophet, or spiritual, let him recognize the things which I write to you, that they are the commandment of the Lord.
\v 38 But if anyone is ignorant, let him be ignorant.
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\v 39 Therefore, brothers, desire earnestly to prophesy, and don’t forbid speaking with other languages.
\v 40 Let all things be done decently and in order.


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\v 1 Now I declare to you, brothers, the Good News which I preached to you, which also you received, in which you also stand,
\v 2 by which also you are saved, if you hold firmly the word which I preached to you—unless you believed in vain.
\v 3 For I delivered to you first of all that which I also received: that Christ died for our sins according to the Scriptures,
\v 4 that he was buried, that he was raised on the third day according to the Scriptures,
\v 5 and that he appeared to Cephas, then to the twelve.
\v 6 Then he appeared to over five hundred brothers at once, most of whom remain until now, but some have also fallen asleep.
\v 7 Then he appeared to James, then to all the apostles,
\v 8 and last of all, as to the child born at the wrong time, he appeared to me also.
\v 9 For I am the least of the apostles, who is not worthy to be called an apostle, because I persecuted the assembly of God.
\v 10 But by the grace of God I am what I am. His grace which was given to me was not futile, but I worked more than all of them; yet not I, but the grace of God which was with me.
\v 11 Whether then it is I or they, so we preach, and so you believed.
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\v 12 Now if Christ is preached, that he has been raised from the dead, how do some among you say that there is no resurrection of the dead?
\v 13 But if there is no resurrection of the dead, neither has Christ been raised.
\v 14 If Christ has not been raised, then our preaching is in vain, and your faith also is in vain.
\v 15 Yes, we are also found false witnesses of God, because we testified about God that he raised up Christ, whom he didn’t raise up, if it is so that the dead are not raised.
\v 16 For if the dead aren’t raised, neither has Christ been raised.
\v 17 If Christ has not been raised, your faith is vain; you are still in your sins.
\v 18 Then they also who are fallen asleep in Christ have perished.
\v 19 If we have only hoped in Christ in this life, we are of all men most pitiable.
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\v 20 But now Christ has been raised from the dead. He became the first fruits of those who are asleep.
\v 21 For since death came by man, the resurrection of the dead also came by man.
\v 22 For as in Adam all die, so also in Christ all will be made alive.
\v 23 But each in his own order: Christ the first fruits, then those who are Christ’s, at his coming.
\v 24 Then the end comes, when he will deliver up the Kingdom to God, even the Father, when he will have abolished all rule and all authority and power.
\v 25 For he must reign until he has put all his enemies under his feet.
\v 26 The last enemy that will be abolished is death.
\v 27 For, “He put all things in subjection under his feet.”\x + \xo 15:27 \xt Psalm 8:6\x* But when he says, “All things are put in subjection”, it is evident that he is excepted who subjected all things to him.
\v 28 When all things have been subjected to him, then the Son will also himself be subjected to him who subjected all things to him, that God may be all in all.
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\v 29 Or else what will they do who are baptized for the dead? If the dead aren’t raised at all, why then are they baptized for the dead?
\v 30 Why do we also stand in jeopardy every hour?
\v 31 I affirm, by the boasting in you which I have in Christ Jesus our Lord, I die daily.
\v 32 If I fought with animals at Ephesus for human purposes, what does it profit me? If the dead are not raised, then “let’s eat and drink, for tomorrow we die.”\x + \xo 15:32 \xt Isaiah 22:13\x*
\v 33 Don’t be deceived! “Evil companionships corrupt good morals.”
\v 34 Wake up righteously, and don’t sin, for some have no knowledge of God. I say this to your shame.
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\v 35 But someone will say, “How are the dead raised?” and, “With what kind of body do they come?”
\v 36 You foolish one, that which you yourself sow is not made alive unless it dies.
\v 37 That which you sow, you don’t sow the body that will be, but a bare grain, maybe of wheat, or of some other kind.
\v 38 But God gives it a body even as it pleased him, and to each seed a body of its own.
\v 39 All flesh is not the same flesh, but there is one flesh of men, another flesh of animals, another of fish, and another of birds.
\v 40 There are also celestial bodies and terrestrial bodies; but the glory of the celestial differs from that of the terrestrial.
\v 41 There is one glory of the sun, another glory of the moon, and another glory of the stars; for one star differs from another star in glory.
\v 42 So also is the resurrection of the dead. The body is sown perishable; it is raised imperishable.
\v 43 It is sown in dishonor; it is raised in glory. It is sown in weakness; it is raised in power.
\v 44 It is sown a natural body; it is raised a spiritual body. There is a natural body and there is also a spiritual body.
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\v 45 So also it is written, “The first man, Adam, became a living soul.” \x + \xo 15:45 \xt Genesis 2:7\x* The last Adam became a life-giving spirit.
\v 46 However that which is spiritual isn’t first, but that which is natural, then that which is spiritual.
\v 47 The first man is of the earth, made of dust. The second man is the Lord from heaven.
\v 48 As is the one made of dust, such are those who are also made of dust; and as is the heavenly, such are they also that are heavenly.
\v 49 As we have borne the image of those made of dust, let’s\f + \fr 15:49 \ft NU, TR read “we will” instead of “let’s”\f* also bear the image of the heavenly.
\v 50 Now I say this, brothers,\f + \fr 15:50 \ft The word for “brothers” here and where context allows may also be correctly translated “brothers and sisters” or “siblings.”\f* that flesh and blood can’t inherit God’s Kingdom; neither does the perishable inherit imperishable.
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\v 51 Behold,\f + \fr 15:51 \ft “Behold”, from “ἰδοὺ”, means look at, take notice, observe, see, or gaze at. It is often used as an interjection.\f* I tell you a mystery. We will not all sleep, but we will all be changed,
\v 52 in a moment, in the twinkling of an eye, at the last trumpet. For the trumpet will sound and the dead will be raised incorruptible, and we will be changed.
\v 53 For this perishable body must become imperishable, and this mortal must put on immortality.
\v 54 But when this perishable body will have become imperishable, and this mortal will have put on immortality, then what is written will happen: “Death is swallowed up in victory.”\x + \xo 15:54 \xt Isaiah 25:8\x*
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\v 55 “Death, where is your sting?
\q2 Hades,\f + \fr 15:55 \ft or, Hell\f* where is your victory?”\x + \xo 15:55 \xt See Hosea 13:14\x*
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\v 56 The sting of death is sin, and the power of sin is the law.
\v 57 But thanks be to God, who gives us the victory through our Lord Jesus Christ.
\v 58 Therefore, my beloved brothers, be steadfast, immovable, always abounding in the Lord’s work, because you know that your labor is not in vain in the Lord.


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\v 1 Now concerning the collection for the saints, as I commanded the assemblies of Galatia, you do likewise.
\v 2 On the first day of every week, let each one of you save, as he may prosper, that no collections are made when I come.
\v 3 When I arrive, I will send whoever you approve with letters to carry your gracious gift to Jerusalem.
\v 4 If it is appropriate for me to go also, they will go with me.
\v 5 But I will come to you when I have passed through Macedonia, for I am passing through Macedonia.
\v 6 But with you it may be that I will stay, or even winter, that you may send me on my journey wherever I go.
\v 7 For I do not wish to see you now in passing, but I hope to stay a while with you, if the Lord permits.
\v 8 But I will stay at Ephesus until Pentecost,
\v 9 for a great and effective door has opened to me, and there are many adversaries.
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\v 10 Now if Timothy comes, see that he is with you without fear, for he does the work of the Lord, as I also do.
\v 11 Therefore let no one despise him. But set him forward on his journey in peace, that he may come to me; for I expect him with the brothers.
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\v 12 Now concerning Apollos, the brother, I strongly urged him to come to you with the brothers; and it was not at all his desire to come now; but he will come when he has an opportunity.
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\v 13 Watch! Stand firm in the faith! Be courageous! Be strong!
\v 14 Let all that you do be done in love.
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\v 15 Now I beg you, brothers—you know the house of Stephanas, that it is the first fruits of Achaia, and that they have set themselves to serve the saints—
\v 16 that you also be in subjection to such, and to everyone who helps in the work and labors.
\v 17 I rejoice at the coming of Stephanas, Fortunatus, and Achaicus; for that which was lacking on your part, they supplied.
\v 18 For they refreshed my spirit and yours. Therefore acknowledge those who are like that.
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\v 19 The assemblies of Asia greet you. Aquila and Priscilla greet you much in the Lord, together with the assembly that is in their house.
\v 20 All the brothers greet you. Greet one another with a holy kiss.
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\v 21 This greeting is by me, Paul, with my own hand.
\v 22 If any man doesn’t love the Lord Jesus Christ, let him be cursed. \f + \fr 16:22 \ft Greek: anathema.\f* Come, Lord!\f + \fr 16:22 \ft Aramaic: Maranatha!\f*
\v 23 The grace of the Lord Jesus Christ be with you.
\v 24 My love to all of you in Christ Jesus. Amen.


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\v 1 When I came to you, brothers, I didn’t come with excellence of speech or of wisdom, proclaiming to you the testimony of God.
\v 2 For I determined not to know anything among you except Jesus Christ and him crucified.
\v 3 I was with you in weakness, in fear, and in much trembling.
\v 4 My speech and my preaching were not in persuasive words of human wisdom, but in demonstration of the Spirit and of power,
\v 5 that your faith wouldn’t stand in the wisdom of men, but in the power of God.
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\v 6 We speak wisdom, however, among those who are full grown, yet a wisdom not of this world nor of the rulers of this world who are coming to nothing.
\v 7 But we speak God’s wisdom in a mystery, the wisdom that has been hidden, which God foreordained before the worlds for our glory,
\v 8 which none of the rulers of this world has known. For had they known it, they wouldn’t have crucified the Lord of glory.
\v 9 But as it is written,
\q1 “Things which an eye didn’t see, and an ear didn’t hear,
\q2 which didn’t enter into the heart of man,
\q2 these God has prepared for those who love him.”\x + \xo 2:9 \xt Isaiah 64:4\x*
\p
\v 10 But to us, God revealed them through the Spirit. For the Spirit searches all things, yes, the deep things of God.
\v 11 For who among men knows the things of a man, except the spirit of the man, which is in him? Even so, no one knows the things of God, except God’s Spirit.
\v 12 But we received not the spirit of the world, but the Spirit which is from God, that we might know the things that were freely given to us by God.
\v 13 We also speak these things, not in words which man’s wisdom teaches, but which the Holy Spirit teaches, comparing spiritual things with spiritual things.
\v 14 Now the natural man doesn’t receive the things of God’s Spirit, for they are foolishness to him, and he can’t know them, because they are spiritually discerned.
\v 15 But he who is spiritual discerns all things, and he himself is judged by no one.
\v 16 “For who has known the mind of the Lord, that he should instruct him?” \x + \xo 2:16 \xt Isaiah 40:13\x* But we have Christ’s mind.


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\v 1 Brothers, I couldn’t speak to you as to spiritual, but as to fleshly, as to babies in Christ.
\v 2 I fed you with milk, not with meat; for you weren’t yet ready. Indeed, you aren’t ready even now,
\v 3 for you are still fleshly. For insofar as there is jealousy, strife, and factions among you, aren’t you fleshly, and don’t you walk in the ways of men?
\v 4 For when one says, “I follow Paul,” and another, “I follow Apollos,” aren’t you fleshly?
\v 5 Who then is Apollos, and who is Paul, but servants through whom you believed, and each as the Lord gave to him?
\v 6 I planted. Apollos watered. But God gave the increase.
\v 7 So then neither he who plants is anything, nor he who waters, but God who gives the increase.
\v 8 Now he who plants and he who waters are the same, but each will receive his own reward according to his own labor.
\v 9 For we are God’s fellow workers. You are God’s farming, God’s building.
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\v 10 According to the grace of God which was given to me, as a wise master builder I laid a foundation, and another builds on it. But let each man be careful how he builds on it.
\v 11 For no one can lay any other foundation than that which has been laid, which is Jesus Christ.
\v 12 But if anyone builds on the foundation with gold, silver, costly stones, wood, hay, or stubble,
\v 13 each man’s work will be revealed. For the Day will declare it, because it is revealed in fire; and the fire itself will test what sort of work each man’s work is.
\v 14 If any man’s work remains which he built on it, he will receive a reward.
\v 15 If any man’s work is burned, he will suffer loss, but he himself will be saved, but as through fire.
\p
\v 16 Don’t you know that you are a temple of God, and that God’s Spirit lives in you?
\v 17 If anyone destroys God’s temple, God will destroy him; for God’s temple is holy, which you are.
\p
\v 18 Let no one deceive himself. If anyone thinks that he is wise among you in this world, let him become a fool, that he may become wise.
\v 19 For the wisdom of this world is foolishness with God. For it is written, “He has taken the wise in their craftiness.”\x + \xo 3:19 \xt Job 5:13\x*
\v 20 And again, “The Lord knows the reasoning of the wise, that it is worthless.”\x + \xo 3:20 \xt Psalm 94:11\x*
\v 21 Therefore let no one boast in men. For all things are yours,
\v 22 whether Paul, or Apollos, or Cephas, or the world, or life, or death, or things present, or things to come. All are yours,
\v 23 and you are Christ’s, and Christ is God’s.


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\v 1 So let a man think of us as Christ’s servants, and stewards of God’s mysteries.
\v 2 Here, moreover, it is required of stewards that they be found faithful.
\v 3 But with me it is a very small thing that I should be judged by you, or by man’s judgment. Yes, I don’t judge my own self.
\v 4 For I know nothing against myself. Yet I am not justified by this, but he who judges me is the Lord.
\v 5 Therefore judge nothing before the time, until the Lord comes, who will both bring to light the hidden things of darkness, and reveal the counsels of the hearts. Then each man will get his praise from God.
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\v 6 Now these things, brothers, I have in a figure transferred to myself and Apollos for your sakes, that in us you might learn not to think beyond the things which are written, that none of you be puffed up against one another.
\v 7 For who makes you different? And what do you have that you didn’t receive? But if you did receive it, why do you boast as if you had not received it?
\v 8 You are already filled. You have already become rich. You have come to reign without us. Yes, and I wish that you did reign, that we also might reign with you.
\v 9 For, I think that God has displayed us, the apostles, last of all, like men sentenced to death. For we are made a spectacle to the world, both to angels and men.
\v 10 We are fools for Christ’s sake, but you are wise in Christ. We are weak, but you are strong. You have honor, but we have dishonor.
\v 11 Even to this present hour we hunger, thirst, are naked, are beaten, and have no certain dwelling place.
\v 12 We toil, working with our own hands. When people curse us, we bless. Being persecuted, we endure.
\v 13 Being defamed, we entreat. We are made as the filth of the world, the dirt wiped off by all, even until now.
\p
\v 14 I don’t write these things to shame you, but to admonish you as my beloved children.
\v 15 For though you have ten thousand tutors in Christ, you don’t have many fathers. For in Christ Jesus, I became your father through the Good News.
\v 16 I beg you therefore, be imitators of me.
\v 17 Because of this I have sent Timothy to you, who is my beloved and faithful child in the Lord, who will remind you of my ways which are in Christ, even as I teach everywhere in every assembly.
\v 18 Now some are puffed up, as though I were not coming to you.
\v 19 But I will come to you shortly, if the Lord is willing. And I will know, not the word of those who are puffed up, but the power.
\v 20 For God’s Kingdom is not in word, but in power.
\v 21 What do you want? Shall I come to you with a rod, or in love and a spirit of gentleness?


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\v 1 It is actually reported that there is sexual immorality among you, and such sexual immorality as is not even named among the Gentiles, that one has his father’s wife.
\v 2 You are arrogant, and didn’t mourn instead, that he who had done this deed might be removed from among you.
\v 3 For I most certainly, as being absent in body but present in spirit, have already, as though I were present, judged him who has done this thing.
\v 4 In the name of our Lord Jesus Christ, you being gathered together, and my spirit, with the power of our Lord Jesus Christ,
\v 5 are to deliver such a one to Satan for the destruction of the flesh, that the spirit may be saved in the day of the Lord Jesus.
\p
\v 6 Your boasting is not good. Don’t you know that a little yeast leavens the whole lump?
\v 7 Purge out the old yeast, that you may be a new lump, even as you are unleavened. For indeed Christ, our Passover, has been sacrificed in our place.
\v 8 Therefore let’s keep the feast, not with old yeast, neither with the yeast of malice and wickedness, but with the unleavened bread of sincerity and truth.
\p
\v 9 I wrote to you in my letter to have no company with sexual sinners;
\v 10 yet not at all meaning with the sexual sinners of this world, or with the covetous and extortionists, or with idolaters; for then you would have to leave the world.
\v 11 But as it is, I wrote to you not to associate with anyone who is called a brother who is a sexual sinner, or covetous, or an idolater, or a slanderer, or a drunkard, or an extortionist. Don’t even eat with such a person.
\v 12 For what do I have to do with also judging those who are outside? Don’t you judge those who are within?
\v 13 But those who are outside, God judges. “Put away the wicked man from among yourselves.”\x + \xo 5:13 \xt Deuteronomy 17:7; 19:19; 21:21; 22:21; 24:7\x*


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\v 1 Dare any of you, having a matter against his neighbor, go to law before the unrighteous, and not before the saints?
\v 2 Don’t you know that the saints will judge the world? And if the world is judged by you, are you unworthy to judge the smallest matters?
\v 3 Don’t you know that we will judge angels? How much more, things that pertain to this life?
\v 4 If then you have to judge things pertaining to this life, do you set them to judge who are of no account in the assembly?
\v 5 I say this to move you to shame. Isn’t there even one wise man among you who would be able to decide between his brothers?
\v 6 But brother goes to law with brother, and that before unbelievers!
\v 7 Therefore it is already altogether a defect in you, that you have lawsuits one with another. Why not rather be wronged? Why not rather be defrauded?
\v 8 No, but you yourselves do wrong and defraud, and that against your brothers.
\v 9 Or don’t you know that the unrighteous will not inherit God’s Kingdom? Don’t be deceived. Neither the sexually immoral, nor idolaters, nor adulterers, nor male prostitutes, nor homosexuals,
\v 10 nor thieves, nor covetous, nor drunkards, nor slanderers, nor extortionists, will inherit God’s Kingdom.
\v 11 Some of you were such, but you were washed. But you were sanctified. But you were justified in the name of the Lord Jesus, and in the Spirit of our God.
\p
\v 12 “All things are lawful for me,” but not all things are expedient. “All things are lawful for me,” but I will not be brought under the power of anything.
\v 13 “Foods for the belly, and the belly for foods,” but God will bring to nothing both it and them. But the body is not for sexual immorality, but for the Lord; and the Lord for the body.
\v 14 Now God raised up the Lord, and will also raise us up by his power.
\v 15 Don’t you know that your bodies are members of Christ? Shall I then take the members of Christ and make them members of a prostitute? May it never be!
\v 16 Or don’t you know that he who is joined to a prostitute is one body? For, “The two”, he says, “will become one flesh.”\x + \xo 6:16 \xt Genesis 2:24\x*
\v 17 But he who is joined to the Lord is one spirit.
\v 18 Flee sexual immorality! “Every sin that a man does is outside the body,” but he who commits sexual immorality sins against his own body.
\v 19 Or don’t you know that your body is a temple of the Holy Spirit who is in you, whom you have from God? You are not your own,
\v 20 for you were bought with a price. Therefore glorify God in your body and in your spirit, which are God’s.


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\v 1 Now concerning the things about which you wrote to me: it is good for a man not to touch a woman.
\v 2 But, because of sexual immoralities, let each man have his own wife, and let each woman have her own husband.
\v 3 Let the husband give his wife the affection owed her,\f + \fr 7:3 \ft NU and TR have “what is owed her” instead of “the affection owed her”.\f* and likewise also the wife her husband.
\v 4 The wife doesn’t have authority over her own body, but the husband. Likewise also the husband doesn’t have authority over his own body, but the wife.
\v 5 Don’t deprive one another, unless it is by consent for a season, that you may give yourselves to fasting and prayer, and may be together again, that Satan doesn’t tempt you because of your lack of self-control.
\p
\v 6 But this I say by way of concession, not of commandment.
\v 7 Yet I wish that all men were like me. However each man has his own gift from God, one of this kind, and another of that kind.
\v 8 But I say to the unmarried and to widows, it is good for them if they remain even as I am.
\v 9 But if they don’t have self-control, let them marry. For it’s better to marry than to burn.
\v 10 But to the married I command—not I, but the Lord—that the wife not leave her husband
\v 11 (but if she departs, let her remain unmarried, or else be reconciled to her husband), and that the husband not leave his wife.
\p
\v 12 But to the rest I—not the Lord—say, if any brother has an unbelieving wife, and she is content to live with him, let him not leave her.
\v 13 The woman who has an unbelieving husband, and he is content to live with her, let her not leave her husband.
\v 14 For the unbelieving husband is sanctified in the wife, and the unbelieving wife is sanctified in the husband. Otherwise your children would be unclean, but now they are holy.
\v 15 Yet if the unbeliever departs, let there be separation. The brother or the sister is not under bondage in such cases, but God has called us in peace.
\v 16 For how do you know, wife, whether you will save your husband? Or how do you know, husband, whether you will save your wife?
\v 17 Only, as the Lord has distributed to each man, as God has called each, so let him walk. So I command in all the assemblies.
\p
\v 18 Was anyone called having been circumcised? Let him not become uncircumcised. Has anyone been called in uncircumcision? Let him not be circumcised.
\v 19 Circumcision is nothing, and uncircumcision is nothing, but the keeping of the commandments of God.
\v 20 Let each man stay in that calling in which he was called.
\v 21 Were you called being a bondservant? Don’t let that bother you, but if you get an opportunity to become free, use it.
\v 22 For he who was called in the Lord being a bondservant is the Lord’s free man. Likewise he who was called being free is Christ’s bondservant.
\v 23 You were bought with a price. Don’t become bondservants of men.
\v 24 Brothers, let each man, in whatever condition he was called, stay in that condition with God.
\p
\v 25 Now concerning virgins, I have no commandment from the Lord, but I give my judgment as one who has obtained mercy from the Lord to be trustworthy.
\v 26 Therefore I think that because of the distress that is on us, that it’s good for a man to remain as he is.
\v 27 Are you bound to a wife? Don’t seek to be freed. Are you free from a wife? Don’t seek a wife.
\v 28 But if you marry, you have not sinned. If a virgin marries, she has not sinned. Yet such will have oppression in the flesh, and I want to spare you.
\v 29 But I say this, brothers: the time is short, that from now on, both those who have wives may be as though they had none;
\v 30 and those who weep, as though they didn’t weep; and those who rejoice, as though they didn’t rejoice; and those who buy, as though they didn’t possess;
\v 31 and those who use the world, as not using it to the fullest. For the mode of this world passes away.
\v 32 But I desire to have you to be free from cares. He who is unmarried is concerned for the things of the Lord, how he may please the Lord;
\v 33 but he who is married is concerned about the things of the world, how he may please his wife.
\v 34 There is also a difference between a wife and a virgin. The unmarried woman cares about the things of the Lord, that she may be holy both in body and in spirit. But she who is married cares about the things of the world—how she may please her husband.
\v 35 This I say for your own profit; not that I may ensnare you, but for that which is appropriate, and that you may attend to the Lord without distraction.
\v 36 But if any man thinks that he is behaving inappropriately toward his virgin, if she is past the flower of her age, and if need so requires, let him do what he desires. He doesn’t sin. Let them marry.
\v 37 But he who stands steadfast in his heart, having no urgency, but has power over his own will, and has determined in his own heart to keep his own virgin, does well.
\v 38 So then both he who gives his own virgin in marriage does well, and he who doesn’t give her in marriage does better.
\p
\v 39 A wife is bound by law for as long as her husband lives; but if the husband is dead, she is free to be married to whomever she desires, only in the Lord.
\v 40 But she is happier if she stays as she is, in my judgment, and I think that I also have God’s Spirit.


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\v 1 Now concerning things sacrificed to idols: We know that we all have knowledge. Knowledge puffs up, but love builds up.
\v 2 But if anyone thinks that he knows anything, he doesn’t yet know as he ought to know.
\v 3 But if anyone loves God, the same is known by him.
\v 4 Therefore concerning the eating of things sacrificed to idols, we know that no idol is anything in the world, and that there is no other God but one.
\v 5 For though there are things that are called “gods”, whether in the heavens or on earth; as there are many “gods” and many “lords”;
\v 6 yet to us there is one God, the Father, of whom are all things, and we for him; and one Lord, Jesus Christ, through whom are all things, and we live through him.
\v 7 However, that knowledge isn’t in all men. But some, with consciousness of the idol until now, eat as of a thing sacrificed to an idol, and their conscience, being weak, is defiled.
\v 8 But food will not commend us to God. For neither, if we don’t eat, are we the worse; nor, if we eat, are we the better.
\v 9 But be careful that by no means does this liberty of yours become a stumbling block to the weak.
\v 10 For if a man sees you who have knowledge sitting in an idol’s temple, won’t his conscience, if he is weak, be emboldened to eat things sacrificed to idols?
\v 11 And through your knowledge, he who is weak perishes, the brother for whose sake Christ died.
\v 12 Thus, sinning against the brothers, and wounding their conscience when it is weak, you sin against Christ.
\v 13 Therefore if food causes my brother to stumble, I will eat no meat forever more, that I don’t cause my brother to stumble.


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\v 1 Am I not free? Am I not an apostle? Haven’t I seen Jesus Christ, our Lord? Aren’t you my work in the Lord?
\v 2 If to others I am not an apostle, yet at least I am to you; for you are the seal of my apostleship in the Lord.
\v 3 My defense to those who examine me is this:
\v 4 Have we no right to eat and to drink?
\v 5 Have we no right to take along a wife who is a believer, even as the rest of the apostles, and the brothers of the Lord, and Cephas?
\v 6 Or have only Barnabas and I no right to not work?
\v 7 What soldier ever serves at his own expense? Who plants a vineyard, and doesn’t eat of its fruit? Or who feeds a flock, and doesn’t drink from the flock’s milk?
\v 8 Do I speak these things according to the ways of men? Or doesn’t the law also say the same thing?
\v 9 For it is written in the law of Moses, “You shall not muzzle an ox while it treads out the grain.”\x + \xo 9:9 \xt Deuteronomy 25:4\x* Is it for the oxen that God cares,
\v 10 or does he say it assuredly for our sake? Yes, it was written for our sake, because he who plows ought to plow in hope, and he who threshes in hope should partake of his hope.
\v 11 If we sowed to you spiritual things, is it a great thing if we reap your fleshly things?
\v 12 If others partake of this right over you, don’t we yet more? Nevertheless we didn’t use this right, but we bear all things, that we may cause no hindrance to the Good News of Christ.
\v 13 Don’t you know that those who serve around sacred things eat from the things of the temple, and those who wait on the altar have their portion with the altar?
\v 14 Even so the Lord ordained that those who proclaim the Good News should live from the Good News.
\v 15 But I have used none of these things, and I don’t write these things that it may be done so in my case; for I would rather die, than that anyone should make my boasting void.
\v 16 For if I preach the Good News, I have nothing to boast about; for necessity is laid on me; but woe is to me if I don’t preach the Good News.
\v 17 For if I do this of my own will, I have a reward. But if not of my own will, I have a stewardship entrusted to me.
\v 18 What then is my reward? That when I preach the Good News, I may present the Good News of Christ without charge, so as not to abuse my authority in the Good News.
\v 19 For though I was free from all, I brought myself under bondage to all, that I might gain the more.
\v 20 To the Jews I became as a Jew, that I might gain Jews; to those who are under the law, as under the law, that I might gain those who are under the law;
\v 21 to those who are without law, as without law (not being without law toward God, but under law toward Christ), that I might win those who are without law.
\v 22 To the weak I became as weak, that I might gain the weak. I have become all things to all men, that I may by all means save some.
\v 23 Now I do this for the sake of the Good News, that I may be a joint partaker of it.
\v 24 Don’t you know that those who run in a race all run, but one receives the prize? Run like that, that you may win.
\v 25 Every man who strives in the games exercises self-control in all things. Now they do it to receive a corruptible crown, but we an incorruptible.
\v 26 I therefore run like that, not aimlessly. I fight like that, not beating the air,
\v 27 but I beat my body and bring it into submission, lest by any means, after I have preached to others, I myself should be rejected.


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\v 1 Paul, an apostle of Christ Jesus through the will of God, and Timothy our brother, to the assembly of God which is at Corinth, with all the saints who are in the whole of Achaia:
\v 2 Grace to you and peace from God our Father and the Lord Jesus Christ.
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\v 3 Blessed be the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, the Father of mercies and God of all comfort;
\v 4 who comforts us in all our affliction, that we may be able to comfort those who are in any affliction, through the comfort with which we ourselves are comforted by God.
\v 5 For as the sufferings of Christ abound to us, even so our comfort also abounds through Christ.
\v 6 But if we are afflicted, it is for your comfort and salvation. If we are comforted, it is for your comfort, which produces in you the patient enduring of the same sufferings which we also suffer.
\v 7 Our hope for you is steadfast, knowing that, since you are partakers of the sufferings, so you are also of the comfort.
\v 8 For we don’t desire to have you uninformed, brothers,\f + \fr 1:8 \ft The word for “brothers” here and where context allows may also be correctly translated “brothers and sisters” or “siblings.”\f* concerning our affliction which happened to us in Asia, that we were weighed down exceedingly, beyond our power, so much that we despaired even of life.
\v 9 Yes, we ourselves have had the sentence of death within ourselves, that we should not trust in ourselves, but in God who raises the dead,
\v 10 who delivered us out of so great a death, and does deliver; on whom we have set our hope that he will also still deliver us;
\v 11 you also helping together on our behalf by your supplication; that, for the gift given to us by means of many, thanks may be given by many persons on your behalf.
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\v 12 For our boasting is this: the testimony of our conscience, that in holiness and sincerity of God, not in fleshly wisdom but in the grace of God we behaved ourselves in the world, and more abundantly toward you.
\v 13 For we write no other things to you than what you read or even acknowledge, and I hope you will acknowledge to the end,
\v 14 as also you acknowledged us in part, that we are your boasting, even as you also are ours, in the day of our Lord Jesus.
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\v 15 In this confidence, I was determined to come first to you, that you might have a second benefit,
\v 16 and by you to pass into Macedonia, and again from Macedonia to come to you, and to be sent forward by you on my journey to Judea.
\v 17 When I therefore was thus determined, did I show fickleness? Or the things that I purpose, do I purpose according to the flesh, that with me there should be the “Yes, yes” and the “No, no?”
\v 18 But as God is faithful, our word toward you was not “Yes and no.”
\v 19 For the Son of God, Jesus Christ, who was preached among you by us, by me, Silvanus, and Timothy, was not “Yes and no,” but in him is “Yes.”
\v 20 For however many are the promises of God, in him is the “Yes.” Therefore also through him is the “Amen”, to the glory of God through us.
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\v 21 Now he who establishes us with you in Christ and anointed us is God,
\v 22 who also sealed us, and gave us the down payment of the Spirit in our hearts.
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\v 23 But I call God for a witness to my soul, that I didn’t come to Corinth to spare you.
\v 24 We don’t control your faith, but are fellow workers with you for your joy. For you stand firm in faith.


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\v 1 Now I Paul, myself, entreat you by the humility and gentleness of Christ, I who in your presence am lowly among you, but being absent am bold toward you.
\v 2 Yes, I beg you that I may not, when present, show courage with the confidence with which I intend to be bold against some, who consider us to be walking according to the flesh.
\v 3 For though we walk in the flesh, we don’t wage war according to the flesh;
\v 4 for the weapons of our warfare are not of the flesh, but mighty before God to the throwing down of strongholds,
\v 5 throwing down imaginations and every high thing that is exalted against the knowledge of God and bringing every thought into captivity to the obedience of Christ,
\v 6 and being in readiness to avenge all disobedience when your obedience is made full.
\v 7 Do you look at things only as they appear in front of your face? If anyone trusts in himself that he is Christ’s, let him consider this again with himself, that even as he is Christ’s, so we also are Christ’s.
\v 8 For even if I boast somewhat abundantly concerning our authority, which the Lord gave for building you up, and not for casting you down, I will not be ashamed,
\v 9 that I may not seem as if I desire to terrify you by my letters.
\v 10 For, “His letters”, they say, “are weighty and strong, but his bodily presence is weak, and his speech is despised.”
\v 11 Let such a person consider this, that what we are in word by letters when we are absent, such are we also in deed when we are present.
\v 12 For we are not bold to number or compare ourselves with some of those who commend themselves. But they themselves, measuring themselves by themselves, and comparing themselves with themselves, are without understanding.
\v 13 But we will not boast beyond proper limits, but within the boundaries with which God appointed to us, which reach even to you.
\v 14 For we don’t stretch ourselves too much, as though we didn’t reach to you. For we came even as far as to you with the Good News of Christ,
\v 15 not boasting beyond proper limits in other men’s labors, but having hope that as your faith grows, we will be abundantly enlarged by you in our sphere of influence,
\v 16 so as to preach the Good News even to the parts beyond you, not to boast in what someone else has already done.
\v 17 But “he who boasts, let him boast in the Lord.”\x + \xo 10:17 \xt Jeremiah 9:24 \x*
\v 18 For it isn’t he who commends himself who is approved, but whom the Lord commends.


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\v 1 I wish that you would bear with me in a little foolishness, but indeed you do bear with me.
\v 2 For I am jealous over you with a godly jealousy. For I married you to one husband, that I might present you as a pure virgin to Christ.
\v 3 But I am afraid that somehow, as the serpent deceived Eve in his craftiness, so your minds might be corrupted from the simplicity that is in Christ.
\v 4 For if he who comes preaches another Jesus, whom we didn’t preach, or if you receive a different spirit, which you didn’t receive, or a different “good news”, which you didn’t accept, you put up with that well enough.
\v 5 For I reckon that I am not at all behind the very best apostles.
\v 6 But though I am unskilled in speech, yet I am not unskilled in knowledge. No, in every way we have been revealed to you in all things.
\v 7 Or did I commit a sin in humbling myself that you might be exalted, because I preached to you God’s Good News free of charge?
\v 8 I robbed other assemblies, taking wages from them that I might serve you.
\v 9 When I was present with you and was in need, I wasn’t a burden on anyone, for the brothers, when they came from Macedonia, supplied the measure of my need. In everything I kept myself from being burdensome to you, and I will continue to do so.
\v 10 As the truth of Christ is in me, no one will stop me from this boasting in the regions of Achaia.
\v 11 Why? Because I don’t love you? God knows.
\v 12 But what I do, that I will do, that I may cut off occasion from those who desire an occasion, that in which they boast, they may be found even as we.
\v 13 For such men are false apostles, deceitful workers, masquerading as Christ’s apostles.
\v 14 And no wonder, for even Satan masquerades as an angel of light.
\v 15 It is no great thing therefore if his servants also masquerade as servants of righteousness, whose end will be according to their works.
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\v 16 I say again, let no one think me foolish. But if so, yet receive me as foolish, that I also may boast a little.
\v 17 That which I speak, I don’t speak according to the Lord, but as in foolishness, in this confidence of boasting.
\v 18 Seeing that many boast after the flesh, I will also boast.
\v 19 For you bear with the foolish gladly, being wise.
\v 20 For you bear with a man if he brings you into bondage, if he devours you, if he takes you captive, if he exalts himself, or if he strikes you on the face.
\v 21 I speak by way of disparagement, as though we had been weak. Yet in whatever way anyone is bold (I speak in foolishness), I am bold also.
\v 22 Are they Hebrews? So am I. Are they Israelites? So am I. Are they the offspring\f + \fr 11:22 \ft or, seed\f* of Abraham? So am I.
\v 23 Are they servants of Christ? (I speak as one beside himself.) I am more so: in labors more abundantly, in prisons more abundantly, in stripes above measure, and in deaths often.
\v 24 Five times I received forty stripes minus one from the Jews.
\v 25 Three times I was beaten with rods. Once I was stoned. Three times I suffered shipwreck. I have been a night and a day in the deep.
\v 26 I have been in travels often, perils of rivers, perils of robbers, perils from my countrymen, perils from the Gentiles, perils in the city, perils in the wilderness, perils in the sea, perils among false brothers;
\v 27 in labor and travail, in watchings often, in hunger and thirst, in fastings often, and in cold and nakedness.
\p
\v 28 Besides those things that are outside, there is that which presses on me daily: anxiety for all the assemblies.
\v 29 Who is weak, and I am not weak? Who is caused to stumble, and I don’t burn with indignation?
\v 30 If I must boast, I will boast of the things that concern my weakness.
\v 31 The God and Father of the Lord Jesus Christ, he who is blessed forever more, knows that I don’t lie.
\v 32 In Damascus the governor under King Aretas guarded the Damascenes’ city, desiring to arrest me.
\v 33 I was let down in a basket through a window by the wall, and escaped his hands.


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\v 1 It is doubtless not profitable for me to boast. For I will come to visions and revelations of the Lord.
\v 2 I know a man in Christ, fourteen years ago (whether in the body, I don’t know, or whether out of the body, I don’t know; God knows), such a one caught up into the third heaven.
\v 3 I know such a man (whether in the body, or outside of the body, I don’t know; God knows),
\v 4 how he was caught up into Paradise, and heard unspeakable words, which it is not lawful for a man to utter.
\v 5 On behalf of such a one I will boast, but on my own behalf I will not boast, except in my weaknesses.
\v 6 For if I would desire to boast, I will not be foolish; for I will speak the truth. But I refrain, so that no man may think more of me than that which he sees in me or hears from me.
\v 7 By reason of the exceeding greatness of the revelations, that I should not be exalted excessively, a thorn in the flesh was given to me: a messenger of Satan to torment me, that I should not be exalted excessively.
\v 8 Concerning this thing, I begged the Lord three times that it might depart from me.
\v 9 He has said to me, \wj “My grace is sufficient for you, for my power is made perfect in weakness.”\wj* Most gladly therefore I will rather glory in my weaknesses, that the power of Christ may rest on me.
\p
\v 10 Therefore I take pleasure in weaknesses, in injuries, in necessities, in persecutions, and in distresses, for Christ’s sake. For when I am weak, then am I strong.
\v 11 I have become foolish in boasting. You compelled me, for I ought to have been commended by you, for I am in no way inferior to the very best apostles, though I am nothing.
\v 12 Truly the signs of an apostle were worked among you in all perseverance, in signs and wonders and mighty works.
\v 13 For what is there in which you were made inferior to the rest of the assemblies, unless it is that I myself was not a burden to you? Forgive me this wrong.
\p
\v 14 Behold, this is the third time I am ready to come to you, and I will not be a burden to you; for I seek not your possessions, but you. For the children ought not to save up for the parents, but the parents for the children.
\v 15 I will most gladly spend and be spent for your souls. If I love you more abundantly, am I loved the less?
\v 16 Even so, I myself didn’t burden you. “But, being crafty, I caught you with deception.”
\v 17 Did I take advantage of you by anyone of those whom I have sent to you?
\v 18 I exhorted Titus, and I sent the brother with him. Did Titus take any advantage of you? Didn’t we walk in the same spirit? Didn’t we walk in the same steps?
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\v 19 Again, do you think that we are excusing ourselves to you? In the sight of God we speak in Christ. But all things, beloved, are for your edifying.
\v 20 For I am afraid that by any means, when I come, I might find you not the way I want to, and that I might be found by you as you don’t desire, that by any means there would be strife, jealousy, outbursts of anger, factions, slander, whisperings, proud thoughts, or riots,
\v 21 that again when I come my God would humble me before you, and I would mourn for many of those who have sinned before now, and not repented of the uncleanness, sexual immorality, and lustfulness which they committed.


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\v 1 This is the third time I am coming to you. “At the mouth of two or three witnesses shall every word be established.”\x + \xo 13:1 \xt Deuteronomy 19:15\x*
\v 2 I have said beforehand, and I do say beforehand, as when I was present the second time, so now, being absent, I write to those who have sinned before now, and to all the rest, that, if I come again, I will not spare;
\v 3 seeing that you seek a proof of Christ who speaks in me; who toward you is not weak, but is powerful in you.
\v 4 For he was crucified through weakness, yet he lives through the power of God. For we also are weak in him, but we will live with him through the power of God toward you.
\v 5 Examine your own selves, whether you are in the faith. Test your own selves. Or don’t you know about your own selves, that Jesus Christ is in you?—unless indeed you are disqualified.
\v 6 But I hope that you will know that we aren’t disqualified.
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\v 7 Now I pray to God that you do no evil; not that we may appear approved, but that you may do that which is honorable, though we are as reprobate.
\v 8 For we can do nothing against the truth, but for the truth.
\v 9 For we rejoice when we are weak and you are strong. We also pray for this: your becoming perfect.
\v 10 For this cause I write these things while absent, that I may not deal sharply when present, according to the authority which the Lord gave me for building up, and not for tearing down.
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\v 11 Finally, brothers, rejoice! Be perfected. Be comforted. Be of the same mind. Live in peace, and the God of love and peace will be with you.
\v 12 Greet one another with a holy kiss.
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\v 13 All the saints greet you.
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\v 14 The grace of the Lord Jesus Christ, God’s love, and the fellowship of the Holy Spirit be with you all. Amen.


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\v 1 But I determined this for myself, that I would not come to you again in sorrow.
\v 2 For if I make you grieve, then who will make me glad but he who is made to grieve by me?
\v 3 And I wrote this very thing to you, so that, when I came, I wouldn’t have sorrow from them of whom I ought to rejoice; having confidence in you all, that my joy would be shared by all of you.
\v 4 For out of much affliction and anguish of heart I wrote to you with many tears, not that you should be made to grieve, but that you might know the love that I have so abundantly for you.
\v 5 But if any has caused sorrow, he has caused sorrow, not to me, but in part (that I not press too heavily) to you all.
\v 6 This punishment which was inflicted by the many is sufficient for such a one;
\v 7 so that on the contrary you should rather forgive him and comfort him, lest by any means such a one should be swallowed up with his excessive sorrow.
\v 8 Therefore I beg you to confirm your love toward him.
\v 9 For to this end I also wrote, that I might know the proof of you, whether you are obedient in all things.
\v 10 Now I also forgive whomever you forgive anything. For if indeed I have forgiven anything, I have forgiven that one for your sakes in the presence of Christ,
\v 11 that no advantage may be gained over us by Satan, for we are not ignorant of his schemes.
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\v 12 Now when I came to Troas for the Good News of Christ, and when a door was opened to me in the Lord,
\v 13 I had no relief for my spirit, because I didn’t find Titus, my brother, but taking my leave of them, I went out into Macedonia.
\p
\v 14 Now thanks be to God, who always leads us in triumph in Christ, and reveals through us the sweet aroma of his knowledge in every place.
\v 15 For we are a sweet aroma of Christ to God, in those who are saved and in those who perish:
\v 16 to the one a stench from death to death, to the other a sweet aroma from life to life. Who is sufficient for these things?
\v 17 For we are not as so many, peddling the word of God. But as of sincerity, but as of God, in the sight of God, we speak in Christ.


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\v 1 Are we beginning again to commend ourselves? Or do we need, as do some, letters of commendation to you or from you?
\v 2 You are our letter, written in our hearts, known and read by all men,
\v 3 being revealed that you are a letter of Christ, served by us, written not with ink, but with the Spirit of the living God; not in tablets of stone, but in tablets that are hearts of flesh.
\v 4 Such confidence we have through Christ toward God,
\v 5 not that we are sufficient of ourselves, to account anything as from ourselves; but our sufficiency is from God,
\v 6 who also made us sufficient as servants of a new covenant, not of the letter, but of the Spirit. For the letter kills, but the Spirit gives life.
\v 7 But if the service of death, written engraved on stones, came with glory, so that the children of Israel could not look steadfastly on the face of Moses for the glory of his face, which was passing away,
\v 8 won’t service of the Spirit be with much more glory?
\v 9 For if the service of condemnation has glory, the service of righteousness exceeds much more in glory.
\v 10 For most certainly that which has been made glorious has not been made glorious in this respect, by reason of the glory that surpasses.
\v 11 For if that which passes away was with glory, much more that which remains is in glory.
\p
\v 12 Having therefore such a hope, we use great boldness of speech,
\v 13 and not as Moses, who put a veil on his face, that the children of Israel wouldn’t look steadfastly on the end of that which was passing away.
\v 14 But their minds were hardened, for until this very day at the reading of the old covenant the same veil remains, because in Christ it passes away.
\v 15 But to this day, when Moses is read, a veil lies on their heart.
\v 16 But whenever someone turns to the Lord, the veil is taken away.
\v 17 Now the Lord is the Spirit and where the Spirit of the Lord is, there is liberty.
\v 18 But we all, with unveiled face seeing the glory of the Lord as in a mirror, are transformed into the same image from glory to glory, even as from the Lord, the Spirit.


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\v 1 Therefore seeing we have this ministry, even as we obtained mercy, we don’t faint.
\v 2 But we have renounced the hidden things of shame, not walking in craftiness, nor handling the word of God deceitfully, but by the manifestation of the truth commending ourselves to every man’s conscience in the sight of God.
\v 3 Even if our Good News is veiled, it is veiled in those who are dying,
\v 4 in whom the god of this world has blinded the minds of the unbelieving, that the light of the Good News of the glory of Christ, who is the image of God, should not dawn on them.
\v 5 For we don’t preach ourselves, but Christ Jesus as Lord, and ourselves as your servants for Jesus’ sake,
\v 6 seeing it is God who said, “Light will shine out of darkness,”\x + \xo 4:6 \xt Genesis 1:3\x* who has shone in our hearts to give the light of the knowledge of the glory of God in the face of Jesus Christ.
\p
\v 7 But we have this treasure in clay vessels, that the exceeding greatness of the power may be of God, and not from ourselves.
\v 8 We are pressed on every side, yet not crushed; perplexed, yet not to despair;
\v 9 pursued, yet not forsaken; struck down, yet not destroyed;
\v 10 always carrying in the body the putting to death of the Lord Jesus, that the life of Jesus may also be revealed in our body.
\v 11 For we who live are always delivered to death for Jesus’ sake, that the life also of Jesus may be revealed in our mortal flesh.
\v 12 So then death works in us, but life in you.
\v 13 But having the same spirit of faith, according to that which is written, “I believed, and therefore I spoke.”\x + \xo 4:13 \xt Psalm 116:10\x* We also believe, and therefore we also speak;
\v 14 knowing that he who raised the Lord Jesus will raise us also with Jesus, and will present us with you.
\v 15 For all things are for your sakes, that the grace, being multiplied through the many, may cause the thanksgiving to abound to the glory of God.
\p
\v 16 Therefore we don’t faint, but though our outward man is decaying, yet our inward man is renewed day by day.
\v 17 For our light affliction, which is for the moment, works for us more and more exceedingly an eternal weight of glory,
\v 18 while we don’t look 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.


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\v 1 For we know that if the earthly house of our tent is dissolved, we have a building from God, a house not made with hands, eternal, in the heavens.
\v 2 For most certainly in this we groan, longing to be clothed with our habitation which is from heaven,
\v 3 if indeed being clothed, we will not be found naked.
\v 4 For indeed we who are in this tent do groan, being burdened, not that we desire to be unclothed, but that we desire to be clothed, that what is mortal may be swallowed up by life.
\v 5 Now he who made us for this very thing is God, who also gave to us the down payment of the Spirit.
\p
\v 6 Therefore we are always confident and know that while we are at home in the body, we are absent from the Lord;
\v 7 for we walk by faith, not by sight.
\v 8 We are courageous, I say, and are willing rather to be absent from the body and to be at home with the Lord.
\v 9 Therefore also we make it our aim, whether at home or absent, to be well pleasing to him.
\v 10 For we must all be revealed before the judgment seat of Christ that each one may receive the things in the body according to what he has done, whether good or bad.
\p
\v 11 Knowing therefore the fear of the Lord, we persuade men, but we are revealed to God, and I hope that we are revealed also in your consciences.
\v 12 For we are not commending ourselves to you again, but speak as giving you occasion of boasting on our behalf, that you may have something to answer those who boast in appearance, and not in heart.
\v 13 For if we are beside ourselves, it is for God. Or if we are of sober mind, it is for you.
\v 14 For the love of Christ constrains us; because we judge thus, that one died for all, therefore all died.
\v 15 He died for all, that those who live should no longer live to themselves, but to him who for their sakes died and rose again.
\v 16 Therefore we know no one after the flesh from now on. Even though we have known Christ after the flesh, yet now we know him so no more.
\v 17 Therefore if anyone is in Christ, he is a new creation. The old things have passed away. Behold,\f + \fr 5:17 \ft “Behold”, from “ἰδοὺ”, means look at, take notice, observe, see, or gaze at. It is often used as an interjection.\f* all things have become new.
\v 18 But all things are of God, who reconciled us to himself through Jesus Christ, and gave to us the ministry of reconciliation;
\v 19 namely, that God was in Christ reconciling the world to himself, not reckoning to them their trespasses, and having committed to us the word of reconciliation.
\p
\v 20 We are therefore ambassadors on behalf of Christ, as though God were entreating by us: we beg you on behalf of Christ, be reconciled to God.
\v 21 For him who knew no sin he made to be sin on our behalf; so that in him we might become the righteousness of God.


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\v 1 Working together, we entreat also that you do not receive the grace of God in vain,
\v 2 for he says,
\q1 “At an acceptable time I listened to you.
\q1 In a day of salvation I helped you.”\x + \xo 6:2 \xt Isaiah 49:8\x*
\p Behold, now is the acceptable time. Behold, now is the day of salvation.
\v 3 We give no occasion of stumbling in anything, that our service may not be blamed,
\v 4 but in everything commending ourselves, as servants of God, in great endurance, in afflictions, in hardships, in distresses,
\v 5 in beatings, in imprisonments, in riots, in labors, in watchings, in fastings;
\v 6 in pureness, in knowledge, in perseverance, in kindness, in the Holy Spirit, in sincere love,
\v 7 in the word of truth, in the power of God; by the armor of righteousness on the right hand and on the left,
\v 8 by glory and dishonor, by evil report and good report; as deceivers, and yet true;
\v 9 as unknown, and yet well known; as dying, and behold, we live; as punished, and not killed;
\v 10 as sorrowful, yet always rejoicing; as poor, yet making many rich; as having nothing, and yet possessing all things.
\p
\v 11 Our mouth is open to you, Corinthians. Our heart is enlarged.
\v 12 You are not restricted by us, but you are restricted by your own affections.
\v 13 Now in return, I speak as to my children: you also open your hearts.
\v 14 Don’t be unequally yoked with unbelievers, for what fellowship do righteousness and iniquity have? Or what fellowship does light have with darkness?
\v 15 What agreement does Christ have with Belial? Or what portion does a believer have with an unbeliever?
\v 16 What agreement does a temple of God have with idols? For you are a temple of the living God. Even as God said, “I will dwell in them and walk in them. I will be their God and they will be my people.”\x + \xo 6:16 \xt Leviticus 26:12; Jeremiah 32:38; Ezekiel 37:27\x*
\v 17 Therefore
\q1 “‘Come out from among them,
\q2 and be separate,’ says the Lord.
\q1 ‘Touch no unclean thing.
\q2 I will receive you.\x + \xo 6:17 \xt Isaiah 52:11; Ezekiel 20:34,41\x*
\q1
\v 18 I will be to you a Father.
\q2 You will be to me sons and daughters,’
\p says the Lord Almighty.”\x + \xo 6:18 \xt 2 Samuel 7:14; 7:8\x*


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\v 1 Having therefore these promises, beloved, let’s cleanse ourselves from all defilement of flesh and spirit, perfecting holiness in the fear of God.
\p
\v 2 Open your hearts to us. We wronged no one. We corrupted no one. We took advantage of no one.
\v 3 I say this not to condemn you, for I have said before that you are in our hearts to die together and live together.
\v 4 Great is my boldness of speech toward you. Great is my boasting on your behalf. I am filled with comfort. I overflow with joy in all our affliction.
\p
\v 5 For even when we had come into Macedonia, our flesh had no relief, but we were afflicted on every side. Fightings were outside. Fear was inside.
\v 6 Nevertheless, he who comforts the lowly, God, comforted us by the coming of Titus,
\v 7 and not by his coming only, but also by the comfort with which he was comforted in you while he told us of your longing, your mourning, and your zeal for me, so that I rejoiced still more.
\p
\v 8 For though I grieved you with my letter, I do not regret it, though I did regret it. For I see that my letter made you grieve, though just for a while.
\v 9 I now rejoice, not that you were grieved, but that you were grieved to repentance. For you were grieved in a godly way, that you might suffer loss by us in nothing.
\v 10 For godly sorrow produces repentance to salvation, which brings no regret. But the sorrow of the world produces death.
\v 11 For behold, this same thing, that you were grieved in a godly way, what earnest care it worked in you. Yes, what defense, indignation, fear, longing, zeal, and vengeance! In everything you demonstrated yourselves to be pure in the matter.
\v 12 So although I wrote to you, I wrote not for his cause that did the wrong, nor for his cause that suffered the wrong, but that your earnest care for us might be revealed in you in the sight of God.
\v 13 Therefore we have been comforted. In our comfort we rejoiced the more exceedingly for the joy of Titus, because his spirit has been refreshed by you all.
\v 14 For if in anything I have boasted to him on your behalf, I was not disappointed. But as we spoke all things to you in truth, so our glorying also which I made before Titus was found to be truth.
\v 15 His affection is more abundantly toward you, while he remembers all of your obedience, how with fear and trembling you received him.
\v 16 I rejoice that in everything I am confident concerning you.


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\v 1 Moreover, brothers, we make known to you the grace of God which has been given in the assemblies of Macedonia,
\v 2 how in much proof of affliction, the abundance of their joy and their deep poverty abounded to the riches of their generosity.
\v 3 For according to their power, I testify, yes and beyond their power, they gave of their own accord,
\v 4 begging us with much entreaty to receive this grace and the fellowship in the service to the saints.
\v 5 This was not as we had expected, but first they gave their own selves to the Lord, and to us through the will of God.
\v 6 So we urged Titus, that as he had made a beginning before, so he would also complete in you this grace.
\v 7 But as you abound in everything, in faith, utterance, knowledge, all earnestness, and in your love to us, see that you also abound in this grace.
\v 8 I speak not by way of commandment, but as proving through the earnestness of others the sincerity also of your love.
\v 9 For you know the grace of our Lord Jesus Christ, that though he was rich, yet for your sakes he became poor, that you through his poverty might become rich.
\v 10 I give a judgment in this: for this is expedient for you who were the first to start a year ago, not only to do, but also to be willing.
\v 11 But now complete the doing also, that as there was the readiness to be willing, so there may be the completion also out of your ability.
\v 12 For if the readiness is there, it is acceptable according to what you have, not according to what you don’t have.
\v 13 For this is not that others may be eased and you distressed,
\v 14 but for equality. Your abundance at this present time supplies their lack, that their abundance also may become a supply for your lack; that there may be equality.
\v 15 As it is written, “He who gathered much had nothing left over, and he who gathered little had no lack.”\x + \xo 8:15 \xt Exodus 16:18\x*
\p
\v 16 But thanks be to God, who puts the same earnest care for you into the heart of Titus.
\v 17 For he indeed accepted our exhortation, but being himself very earnest, he went out to you of his own accord.
\v 18 We have sent together with him the brother whose praise in the Good News is known throughout all the assemblies.
\v 19 Not only so, but he was also appointed by the assemblies to travel with us in this grace, which is served by us to the glory of the Lord himself, and to show our readiness.
\v 20 We are avoiding this, that any man should blame us concerning this abundance which is administered by us.
\v 21 Having regard for honorable things, not only in the sight of the Lord, but also in the sight of men.
\v 22 We have sent with them our brother, whom we have many times proved earnest in many things, but now much more earnest, by reason of the great confidence which he has in you.
\v 23 As for Titus, he is my partner and fellow worker for you. As for our brothers, they are the apostles of the assemblies, the glory of Christ.
\v 24 Therefore show the proof of your love to them before the assemblies, and of our boasting on your behalf.


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\v 1 It is indeed unnecessary for me to write to you concerning the service to the saints,
\v 2 for I know your readiness, of which I boast on your behalf to those of Macedonia, that Achaia has been prepared for the past year. Your zeal has stirred up very many of them.
\v 3 But I have sent the brothers that our boasting on your behalf may not be in vain in this respect, that, just as I said, you may be prepared,
\v 4 lest by any means, if anyone from Macedonia comes there with me and finds you unprepared, we (to say nothing of you) would be disappointed in this confident boasting.
\v 5 I thought it necessary therefore to entreat the brothers that they would go before to you and arrange ahead of time the generous gift that you promised before, that the same might be ready as a matter of generosity, and not of greediness.
\p
\v 6 Remember this: he who sows sparingly will also reap sparingly. He who sows bountifully will also reap bountifully.
\v 7 Let each man give according as he has determined in his heart, not grudgingly or under compulsion, for God loves a cheerful giver.
\v 8 And God is able to make all grace abound to you, that you, always having all sufficiency in everything, may abound to every good work.
\v 9 As it is written,
\q1 “He has scattered abroad. He has given to the poor.
\q2 His righteousness remains forever.”\x + \xo 9:9 \xt Psalm 112:9\x*
\p
\v 10 Now may he who supplies seed to the sower and bread for food, supply and multiply your seed for sowing, and increase the fruits of your righteousness,
\v 11 you being enriched in everything to all generosity, which produces thanksgiving to God through us.
\v 12 For this service of giving that you perform not only makes up for lack among the saints, but abounds also through much giving of thanks to God,
\v 13 seeing that through the proof given by this service, they glorify God for the obedience of your confession to the Good News of Christ and for the generosity of your contribution to them and to all,
\v 14 while they themselves also, with supplication on your behalf, yearn for you by reason of the exceeding grace of God in you.
\v 15 Now thanks be to God for his unspeakable gift!


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\v 1 Paul, an apostle—not from men, nor through man, but through Jesus Christ, and God the Father, who raised him from the dead—
\v 2 and all the brothers\f + \fr 1:2 \ft The word for “brothers” here and where context allows may also be correctly translated “brothers and sisters” or “siblings.” \f* who are with me, to the assemblies of Galatia:
\v 3 Grace to you and peace from God the Father and our Lord Jesus Christ,
\v 4 who gave himself for our sins, that he might deliver us out of this present evil age, according to the will of our God and Father—
\v 5 to whom be the glory forever and ever. Amen.
\p
\v 6 I marvel that you are so quickly deserting him who called you in the grace of Christ to a different “good news”,
\v 7 but there isn’t another “good news.” Only there are some who trouble you and want to pervert the Good News of Christ.
\v 8 But even though we, or an angel from heaven, should preach to you any “good news” other than that which we preached to you, let him be cursed.
\v 9 As we have said before, so I now say again: if any man preaches to you any “good news” other than that which you received, let him be cursed.
\v 10 For am I now seeking the favor of men, or of God? Or am I striving to please men? For if I were still pleasing men, I wouldn’t be a servant of Christ.
\p
\v 11 But I make known to you, brothers, concerning the Good News which was preached by me, that it is not according to man.
\v 12 For I didn’t receive it from man, nor was I taught it, but it came to me through revelation of Jesus Christ.
\v 13 For you have heard of my way of living in time past in the Jews’ religion, how that beyond measure I persecuted the assembly of God and ravaged it.
\v 14 I advanced in the Jews’ religion beyond many of my own age among my countrymen, being more exceedingly zealous for the traditions of my fathers.
\v 15 But when it was the good pleasure of God, who separated me from my mother’s womb and called me through his grace
\v 16 to reveal his Son in me, that I might preach him among the Gentiles, I didn’t immediately confer with flesh and blood,
\v 17 nor did I go up to Jerusalem to those who were apostles before me, but I went away into Arabia. Then I returned to Damascus.
\p
\v 18 Then after three years I went up to Jerusalem to visit Peter, and stayed with him fifteen days.
\v 19 But of the other apostles I saw no one except James, the Lord’s brother.
\v 20 Now about the things which I write to you, behold,\f + \fr 1:20 \ft “Behold”, from “ἰδοὺ”, means look at, take notice, observe, see, or gaze at. It is often used as an interjection.\f* before God, I’m not lying.
\v 21 Then I came to the regions of Syria and Cilicia.
\v 22 I was still unknown by face to the assemblies of Judea which were in Christ,
\v 23 but they only heard: “He who once persecuted us now preaches the faith that he once tried to destroy.”
\v 24 So they glorified God in me.


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\v 1 Then after a period of fourteen years I went up again to Jerusalem with Barnabas, taking Titus also with me.
\v 2 I went up by revelation, and I laid before them the Good News which I preach among the Gentiles, but privately before those who were respected, for fear that I might be running, or had run, in vain.
\v 3 But not even Titus, who was with me, being a Greek, was compelled to be circumcised.
\v 4 This was because of the false brothers secretly brought in, who stole in to spy out our liberty which we have in Christ Jesus, that they might bring us into bondage,
\v 5 to whom we gave no place in the way of subjection, not for an hour, that the truth of the Good News might continue with you.
\v 6 But from those who were reputed to be important—whatever they were, it makes no difference to me; God doesn’t show partiality to man—they, I say, who were respected imparted nothing to me,
\v 7 but to the contrary, when they saw that I had been entrusted with the Good News for the uncircumcised, even as Peter with the Good News for the circumcised—
\v 8 for he who worked through Peter in the apostleship with the circumcised also worked through me with the Gentiles—
\v 9 and when they perceived the grace that was given to me, James and Cephas and John, those who were reputed to be pillars, gave to Barnabas and me the right hand of fellowship, that we should go to the Gentiles, and they to the circumcision.
\v 10 They only asked us to remember the poor—which very thing I was also zealous to do.
\p
\v 11 But when Peter came to Antioch, I resisted him to his face, because he stood condemned.
\v 12 For before some people came from James, he ate with the Gentiles. But when they came, he drew back and separated himself, fearing those who were of the circumcision.
\v 13 And the rest of the Jews joined him in his hypocrisy, so that even Barnabas was carried away with their hypocrisy.
\v 14 But when I saw that they didn’t walk uprightly according to the truth of the Good News, I said to Peter before them all, “If you, being a Jew, live as the Gentiles do, and not as the Jews do, why do you compel the Gentiles to live as the Jews do?
\p
\v 15 “We, being Jews by nature, and not Gentile sinners,
\v 16 yet knowing that a man is not justified by the works of the law but through faith in Jesus Christ, even we believed in Christ Jesus, that we might be justified by faith in Christ, and not by the works of the law, because no flesh will be justified by the works of the law.
\v 17 But if while we sought to be justified in Christ, we ourselves also were found sinners, is Christ a servant of sin? Certainly not!
\v 18 For if I build up again those things which I destroyed, I prove myself a law-breaker.
\v 19 For I, through the law, died to the law, that I might live to God.
\v 20 I have been crucified with Christ, and it is no longer I who live, but Christ lives in me. That life which I now live in the flesh, I live by faith in the Son of God, who loved me, and gave himself up for me.
\v 21 I don’t reject the grace of God. For if righteousness is through the law, then Christ died for nothing!”


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\v 1 Foolish Galatians, who has bewitched you not to obey the truth, before whose eyes Jesus Christ was openly portrayed among you as crucified?
\v 2 I just want to learn this from you: Did you receive the Spirit by the works of the law, or by hearing of faith?
\v 3 Are you so foolish? Having begun in the Spirit, are you now completed in the flesh?
\v 4 Did you suffer so many things in vain, if it is indeed in vain?
\v 5 He therefore who supplies the Spirit to you and does miracles among you, does he do it by the works of the law, or by hearing of faith?
\v 6 Even as Abraham “believed God, and it was counted to him for righteousness.”\x + \xo 3:6 \xt Genesis 15:6\x*
\v 7 Know therefore that those who are of faith are children of Abraham.
\v 8 The Scripture, foreseeing that God would justify the Gentiles by faith, preached the Good News beforehand to Abraham, saying, “In you all the nations will be blessed.”\x + \xo 3:8 \xt Genesis 12:3; 18:18; 22:18\x*
\v 9 So then, those who are of faith are blessed with the faithful Abraham.
\v 10 For as many as are of the works of the law are under a curse. For it is written, “Cursed is everyone who doesn’t continue in all things that are written in the book of the law, to do them.”\x + \xo 3:10 \xt Deuteronomy 27:26\x*
\v 11 Now that no man is justified by the law before God is evident, for, “The righteous will live by faith.”\x + \xo 3:11 \xt Habakkuk 2:4\x*
\v 12 The law is not of faith, but, “The man who does them will live by them.”\x + \xo 3:12 \xt Leviticus 18:5\x*
\p
\v 13 Christ redeemed us from the curse of the law, having become a curse for us. For it is written, “Cursed is everyone who hangs on a tree,”\x + \xo 3:13 \xt Deuteronomy 21:23\x*
\v 14 that the blessing of Abraham might come on the Gentiles through Christ Jesus, that we might receive the promise of the Spirit through faith.
\p
\v 15 Brothers, speaking of human terms, though it is only a man’s covenant, yet when it has been confirmed, no one makes it void or adds to it.
\v 16 Now the promises were spoken to Abraham and to his offspring.\f + \fr 3:16 \ft or, seed\f* He doesn’t say, “To descendants\f + \fr 3:16 \ft or, seeds\f*”, as of many, but as of one, “To your offspring”,\x + \xo 3:16 \xt Genesis 12:7; 13:15; 24:7\x* which is Christ.
\v 17 Now I say this: A covenant confirmed beforehand by God in Christ, the law, which came four hundred thirty years after, does not annul, so as to make the promise of no effect.
\v 18 For if the inheritance is of the law, it is no more of promise; but God has granted it to Abraham by promise.
\p
\v 19 Then why is there the law? It was added because of transgressions, until the offspring should come to whom the promise has been made. It was ordained through angels by the hand of a mediator.
\v 20 Now a mediator is not between one, but God is one.
\v 21 Is the law then against the promises of God? Certainly not! For if there had been a law given which could make alive, most certainly righteousness would have been of the law.
\v 22 But the Scripture imprisoned all things under sin, that the promise by faith in Jesus Christ might be given to those who believe.
\p
\v 23 But before faith came, we were kept in custody under the law, confined for the faith which should afterwards be revealed.
\v 24 So that the law has become our tutor to bring us to Christ, that we might be justified by faith.
\v 25 But now that faith has come, we are no longer under a tutor.
\v 26 For you are all children of God, through faith in Christ Jesus.
\v 27 For as many of you as were baptized into Christ have put on Christ.
\v 28 There is neither Jew nor Greek, there is neither slave nor free man, there is neither male nor female; for you are all one in Christ Jesus.
\v 29 If you are Christ’s, then you are Abraham’s offspring and heirs according to promise.


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\v 1 But I say that so long as the heir is a child, he is no different from a bondservant, though he is lord of all,
\v 2 but is under guardians and stewards until the day appointed by the father.
\v 3 So we also, when we were children, were held in bondage under the elemental principles of the world.
\v 4 But when the fullness of the time came, God sent out his Son, born to a woman, born under the law,
\v 5 that he might redeem those who were under the law, that we might receive the adoption of children.
\v 6 And because you are children, God sent out the Spirit of his Son into your hearts, crying, “Abba,\f + \fr 4:6 \ft Abba is a Greek spelling for the Aramaic word for “Father” or “Daddy” used in a familiar, respectful, and loving way. \f* Father!”
\v 7 So you are no longer a bondservant, but a son; and if a son, then an heir of God through Christ.
\p
\v 8 However at that time, not knowing God, you were in bondage to those who by nature are not gods.
\v 9 But now that you have come to know God, or rather to be known by God, why do you turn back again to the weak and miserable elemental principles, to which you desire to be in bondage all over again?
\v 10 You observe days, months, seasons, and years.
\v 11 I am afraid for you, that I might have wasted my labor for you.
\p
\v 12 I beg you, brothers, become as I am, for I also have become as you are. You did me no wrong,
\v 13 but you know that because of weakness in the flesh I preached the Good News to you the first time.
\v 14 That which was a temptation to you in my flesh, you didn’t despise nor reject; but you received me as an angel of God, even as Christ Jesus.
\p
\v 15 What was the blessing you enjoyed? For I testify to you that, if possible, you would have plucked out your eyes and given them to me.
\v 16 So then, have I become your enemy by telling you the truth?
\v 17 They zealously seek you in no good way. No, they desire to alienate you, that you may seek them.
\v 18 But it is always good to be zealous in a good cause, and not only when I am present with you.
\p
\v 19 My little children, of whom I am again in travail until Christ is formed in you—
\v 20 but I could wish to be present with you now, and to change my tone, for I am perplexed about you.
\p
\v 21 Tell me, you that desire to be under the law, don’t you listen to the law?
\v 22 For it is written that Abraham had two sons, one by the servant, and one by the free woman.
\v 23 However, the son by the servant was born according to the flesh, but the son by the free woman was born through promise.
\v 24 These things contain an allegory, for these are two covenants. One is from Mount Sinai, bearing children to bondage, which is Hagar.
\v 25 For this Hagar is Mount Sinai in Arabia, and answers to the Jerusalem that exists now, for she is in bondage with her children.
\v 26 But the Jerusalem that is above is free, which is the mother of us all.
\v 27 For it is written,
\q1 “Rejoice, you barren who don’t bear.
\q2 Break out and shout, you who don’t travail.
\q2 For the desolate have more children than her who has a husband.” \x + \xo 4:27 \xt Isaiah 54:1\x*
\p
\v 28 Now we, brothers, as Isaac was, are children of promise.
\v 29 But as then, he who was born according to the flesh persecuted him who was born according to the Spirit, so also it is now.
\v 30 However what does the Scripture say? “Throw out the servant and her son, for the son of the servant will not inherit with the son of the free woman.”\x + \xo 4:30 \xt Genesis 21:10\x*
\v 31 So then, brothers, we are not children of a servant, but of the free woman.


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\v 1 Stand firm therefore in the liberty by which Christ has made us free, and don’t be entangled again with a yoke of bondage.
\p
\v 2 Behold, I, Paul, tell you that if you receive circumcision, Christ will profit you nothing.
\v 3 Yes, I testify again to every man who receives circumcision that he is a debtor to do the whole law.
\v 4 You are alienated from Christ, you who desire to be justified by the law. You have fallen away from grace.
\v 5 For we, through the Spirit, by faith wait for the hope of righteousness.
\v 6 For in Christ Jesus neither circumcision amounts to anything, nor uncircumcision, but faith working through love.
\v 7 You were running well! Who interfered with you that you should not obey the truth?
\v 8 This persuasion is not from him who calls you.
\v 9 A little yeast grows through the whole lump.
\v 10 I have confidence toward you in the Lord that you will think no other way. But he who troubles you will bear his judgment, whoever he is.
\p
\v 11 But I, brothers, if I still preach circumcision, why am I still persecuted? Then the stumbling block of the cross has been removed.
\v 12 I wish that those who disturb you would cut themselves off.
\p
\v 13 For you, brothers, were called for freedom. Only don’t use your freedom for gain to the flesh, but through love be servants to one another.
\v 14 For the whole law is fulfilled in one word, in this: “You shall love your neighbor as yourself.”\x + \xo 5:14 \xt Leviticus 19:18\x*
\v 15 But if you bite and devour one another, be careful that you don’t consume one another.
\p
\v 16 But I say, walk by the Spirit, and you won’t fulfill the lust of the flesh.
\v 17 For the flesh lusts against the Spirit, and the Spirit against the flesh; and these are contrary to one another, that you may not do the things that you desire.
\v 18 But if you are led by the Spirit, you are not under the law.
\v 19 Now the deeds of the flesh are obvious, which are: adultery, sexual immorality, uncleanness, lustfulness,
\v 20 idolatry, sorcery, hatred, strife, jealousies, outbursts of anger, rivalries, divisions, heresies,
\v 21 envy, murders, drunkenness, orgies, and things like these; of which I forewarn you, even as I also forewarned you, that those who practice such things will not inherit God’s Kingdom.
\p
\v 22 But the fruit of the Spirit is love, joy, peace, patience, kindness, goodness, faith,\f + \fr 5:22 \ft or, faithfulness\f*
\v 23 gentleness, and self-control. Against such things there is no law.
\v 24 Those who belong to Christ have crucified the flesh with its passions and lusts.
\p
\v 25 If we live by the Spirit, let’s also walk by the Spirit.
\v 26 Let’s not become conceited, provoking one another, and envying one another.


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\v 1 Brothers, even if a man is caught in some fault, you who are spiritual must restore such a one in a spirit of gentleness; looking to yourself so that you also aren’t tempted.
\v 2 Bear one another’s burdens, and so fulfill the law of Christ.
\v 3 For if a man thinks himself to be something when he is nothing, he deceives himself.
\v 4 But let each man examine his own work, and then he will have reason to boast in himself, and not in someone else.
\v 5 For each man will bear his own burden.
\p
\v 6 But let him who is taught in the word share all good things with him who teaches.
\v 7 Don’t be deceived. God is not mocked, for whatever a man sows, that he will also reap.
\v 8 For he who sows to his own flesh will from the flesh reap corruption. But he who sows to the Spirit will from the Spirit reap eternal life.
\v 9 Let’s not be weary in doing good, for we will reap in due season, if we don’t give up.
\v 10 So then, as we have opportunity, let’s do what is good toward all men, and especially toward those who are of the household of the faith.
\p
\v 11 See with what large letters I write to you with my own hand.
\v 12 As many as desire to make a good impression in the flesh compel you to be circumcised; just so they may not be persecuted for the cross of Christ.
\v 13 For even they who receive circumcision don’t keep the law themselves, but they desire to have you circumcised, that they may boast in your flesh.
\v 14 But far be it from me to boast, except in the cross of our Lord Jesus Christ, through which the world has been crucified to me, and I to the world.
\v 15 For in Christ Jesus neither is circumcision anything, nor uncircumcision, but a new creation.
\v 16 As many as walk by this rule, peace and mercy be on them, and on God’s Israel.
\p
\v 17 From now on, let no one cause me any trouble, for I bear the marks of the Lord Jesus branded on my body.
\p
\v 18 The grace of our Lord Jesus Christ be with your spirit, brothers. Amen.


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\v 1 Paul, an apostle of Christ Jesus through the will of God, to the saints who are at Ephesus, and the faithful in Christ Jesus:
\v 2 Grace to you and peace from God our Father and the Lord Jesus Christ.
\p
\v 3 Blessed be the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, who has blessed us with every spiritual blessing in the heavenly places in Christ,
\v 4 even as he chose us in him before the foundation of the world, that we would be holy and without defect before him in love,
\v 5 having predestined us for adoption as children through Jesus Christ to himself, according to the good pleasure of his desire,
\v 6 to the praise of the glory of his grace, by which he freely gave us favor in the Beloved,
\v 7 in whom we have our redemption through his blood, the forgiveness of our trespasses, according to the riches of his grace,
\v 8 which he made to abound toward us in all wisdom and prudence,
\v 9 making known to us the mystery of his will, according to his good pleasure which he purposed in him
\v 10 to an administration of the fullness of the times, to sum up all things in Christ, the things in the heavens and the things on the earth, in him.
\v 11 We were also assigned an inheritance in him, having been foreordained according to the purpose of him who does all things after the counsel of his will,
\v 12 to the end that we should be to the praise of his glory, we who had before hoped in Christ.
\v 13 In him you also, having heard the word of the truth, the Good News of your salvation—in whom, having also believed, you were sealed with the promised Holy Spirit,
\v 14 who is a pledge of our inheritance, to the redemption of God’s own possession, to the praise of his glory.
\p
\v 15 For this cause I also, having heard of the faith in the Lord Jesus which is among you, and the love which you have toward all the saints,
\v 16 don’t cease to give thanks for you, making mention of you in my prayers,
\v 17 that the God of our Lord Jesus Christ, the Father of glory, may give to you a spirit of wisdom and revelation in the knowledge of him,
\v 18 having the eyes of your hearts\f + \fr 1:18 \ft TR reads “understanding” instead of “hearts”\f* enlightened, that you may know what is the hope of his calling, and what are the riches of the glory of his inheritance in the saints,
\v 19 and what is the exceeding greatness of his power toward us who believe, according to that working of the strength of his might
\v 20 which he worked in Christ, when he raised him from the dead and made him to sit at his right hand in the heavenly places,
\v 21 far above all rule, authority, power, dominion, and every name that is named, not only in this age, but also in that which is to come.
\v 22 He put all things in subjection under his feet, and gave him to be head over all things for the assembly,
\v 23 which is his body, the fullness of him who fills all in all.


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\v 1 You were made alive when you were dead in transgressions and sins,
\v 2 in which you once walked according to the course of this world, according to the prince of the power of the air, the spirit who now works in the children of disobedience.
\v 3 We also all once lived among them in the lusts of our flesh, doing the desires of the flesh and of the mind, and were by nature children of wrath, even as the rest.
\v 4 But God, being rich in mercy, for his great love with which he loved us,
\v 5 even when we were dead through our trespasses, made us alive together with Christ—by grace you have been saved—
\v 6 and raised us up with him, and made us to sit with him in the heavenly places in Christ Jesus,
\v 7 that in the ages to come he might show the exceeding riches of his grace in kindness toward us in Christ Jesus;
\v 8 for by grace you have been saved through faith, and that not of yourselves; it is the gift of God,
\v 9 not of works, that no one would boast.
\v 10 For we are his workmanship, created in Christ Jesus for good works, which God prepared before that we would walk in them.
\p
\v 11 Therefore remember that once you, the Gentiles in the flesh, who are called “uncircumcision” by that which is called “circumcision” (in the flesh, made by hands),
\v 12 that you were at that time separate from Christ, alienated from the commonwealth of Israel, and strangers from the covenants of the promise, having no hope and without God in the world.
\v 13 But now in Christ Jesus you who once were far off are made near in the blood of Christ.
\v 14 For he is our peace, who made both one, and broke down the middle wall of separation,
\v 15 having abolished in his flesh the hostility, the law of commandments contained in ordinances, that he might create in himself one new man of the two, making peace,
\v 16 and might reconcile them both in one body to God through the cross, having killed the hostility through it.
\v 17 He came and preached peace to you who were far off and to those who were near.
\v 18 For through him we both have our access in one Spirit to the Father.
\v 19 So then you are no longer strangers and foreigners, but you are fellow citizens with the saints and of the household of God,
\v 20 being built on the foundation of the apostles and prophets, Christ Jesus himself being the chief cornerstone;
\v 21 in whom the whole building, fitted together, grows into a holy temple in the Lord;
\v 22 in whom you also are built together for a habitation of God in the Spirit.


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\v 1 For this cause I, Paul, am the prisoner of Christ Jesus on behalf of you Gentiles,
\v 2 if it is so that you have heard of the administration of that grace of God which was given me toward you,
\v 3 how that by revelation the mystery was made known to me, as I wrote before in few words,
\v 4 by which, when you read, you can perceive my understanding in the mystery of Christ,
\v 5 which in other generations was not made known to the children of men, as it has now been revealed to his holy apostles and prophets in the Spirit,
\v 6 that the Gentiles are fellow heirs and fellow members of the body, and fellow partakers of his promise in Christ Jesus through the Good News,
\v 7 of which I was made a servant according to the gift of that grace of God which was given me according to the working of his power.
\v 8 To me, the very least of all saints, was this grace given, to preach to the Gentiles the unsearchable riches of Christ,
\v 9 and to make all men see what is the administration\f + \fr 3:9 \ft TR reads “fellowship” instead of “administration”\f* of the mystery which for ages has been hidden in God, who created all things through Jesus Christ,
\v 10 to the intent that now through the assembly the manifold wisdom of God might be made known to the principalities and the powers in the heavenly places,
\v 11 according to the eternal purpose which he accomplished in Christ Jesus our Lord.
\v 12 In him we have boldness and access in confidence through our faith in him.
\v 13 Therefore I ask that you may not lose heart at my troubles for you, which are your glory.
\p
\v 14 For this cause, I bow my knees to the Father of our Lord Jesus Christ,
\v 15 from whom every family in heaven and on earth is named,
\v 16 that he would grant you, according to the riches of his glory, that you may be strengthened with power through his Spirit in the inner person,
\v 17 that Christ may dwell in your hearts through faith, to the end that you, being rooted and grounded in love,
\v 18 may be strengthened to comprehend with all the saints what is the width and length and height and depth,
\v 19 and to know Christ’s love which surpasses knowledge, that you may be filled with all the fullness of God.
\p
\v 20 Now to him who is able to do exceedingly abundantly above all that we ask or think, according to the power that works in us,
\v 21 to him be the glory in the assembly and in Christ Jesus to all generations forever and ever. Amen.


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\v 1 I therefore, the prisoner in the Lord, beg you to walk worthily of the calling with which you were called,
\v 2 with all lowliness and humility, with patience, bearing with one another in love,
\v 3 being eager to keep the unity of the Spirit in the bond of peace.
\v 4 There is one body and one Spirit, even as you also were called in one hope of your calling,
\v 5 one Lord, one faith, one baptism,
\v 6 one God and Father of all, who is over all and through all, and in us all.
\v 7 But to each one of us, the grace was given according to the measure of the gift of Christ.
\v 8 Therefore he says,
\q1 “When he ascended on high,
\q2 he led captivity captive,
\q2 and gave gifts to people.”\x + \xo 4:8 \xt Psalm 68:18\x*
\m
\v 9 Now this, “He ascended”, what is it but that he also first descended into the lower parts of the earth?
\v 10 He who descended is the one who also ascended far above all the heavens, that he might fill all things.
\p
\v 11 He gave some to be apostles; and some, prophets; and some, evangelists; and some, shepherds\f + \fr 4:11 \ft or, pastors\f* and teachers;
\v 12 for the perfecting of the saints, to the work of serving, to the building up of the body of Christ,
\v 13 until we all attain to the unity of the faith and of the knowledge of the Son of God, to a full grown man, to the measure of the stature of the fullness of Christ,
\v 14 that we may no longer be children, tossed back and forth and carried about with every wind of doctrine, by the trickery of men, in craftiness, after the wiles of error;
\v 15 but speaking truth in love, we may grow up in all things into him who is the head, Christ,
\v 16 from whom all the body, being fitted and knit together through that which every joint supplies, according to the working in measure of each individual part, makes the body increase to the building up of itself in love.
\p
\v 17 This I say therefore, and testify in the Lord, that you no longer walk as the rest of the Gentiles also walk, in the futility of their mind,
\v 18 being darkened in their understanding, alienated from the life of God because of the ignorance that is in them, because of the hardening of their hearts.
\v 19 They, having become callous, gave themselves up to lust, to work all uncleanness with greediness.
\v 20 But you didn’t learn Christ that way,
\v 21 if indeed you heard him, and were taught in him, even as truth is in Jesus:
\v 22 that you put away, as concerning your former way of life, the old man that grows corrupt after the lusts of deceit,
\v 23 and that you be renewed in the spirit of your mind,
\v 24 and put on the new man, who in the likeness of God has been created in righteousness and holiness of truth.
\p
\v 25 Therefore putting away falsehood, speak truth each one with his neighbor. For we are members of one another.
\v 26 “Be angry, and don’t sin.”\x + \xo 4:26 \xt Psalm 4:4\x* Don’t let the sun go down on your wrath,
\v 27 and don’t give place\f + \fr 4:27 \ft or, opportunity\f* to the devil.
\v 28 Let him who stole steal no more; but rather let him labor, producing with his hands something that is good, that he may have something to give to him who has need.
\v 29 Let no corrupt speech proceed out of your mouth, but only what is good for building others up as the need may be, that it may give grace to those who hear.
\v 30 Don’t grieve the Holy Spirit of God, in whom you were sealed for the day of redemption.
\v 31 Let all bitterness, wrath, anger, outcry, and slander be put away from you, with all malice.
\v 32 And be kind to one another, tender hearted, forgiving each other, just as God also in Christ forgave you.


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\v 1 Be therefore imitators of God, as beloved children.
\v 2 Walk in love, even as Christ also loved us and gave himself up for us, an offering and a sacrifice to God for a sweet-smelling fragrance.
\p
\v 3 But sexual immorality, and all uncleanness or covetousness, let it not even be mentioned among you, as becomes saints;
\v 4 nor filthiness, nor foolish talking, nor jesting, which are not appropriate, but rather giving of thanks.
\p
\v 5 Know this for sure, that no sexually immoral person, nor unclean person, nor covetous man, who is an idolater, has any inheritance in the Kingdom of Christ and God.
\p
\v 6 Let no one deceive you with empty words. For because of these things, the wrath of God comes on the children of disobedience.
\v 7 Therefore don’t be partakers with them.
\v 8 For you were once darkness, but are now light in the Lord. Walk as children of light,
\v 9 for the fruit of the Spirit is in all goodness and righteousness and truth,
\v 10 proving what is well pleasing to the Lord.
\v 11 Have no fellowship with the unfruitful deeds of darkness, but rather even reprove them.
\v 12 For it is a shame even to speak of the things which are done by them in secret.
\v 13 But all things, when they are reproved, are revealed by the light, for everything that reveals is light.
\v 14 Therefore he says, “Awake, you who sleep, and arise from the dead, and Christ will shine on you.”
\p
\v 15 Therefore watch carefully how you walk, not as unwise, but as wise,
\v 16 redeeming the time, because the days are evil.
\v 17 Therefore don’t be foolish, but understand what the will of the Lord is.
\v 18 Don’t be drunken with wine, in which is dissipation, but be filled with the Spirit,
\v 19 speaking to one another in psalms, hymns, and spiritual songs; singing and making melody in your heart to the Lord;
\v 20 giving thanks always concerning all things in the name of our Lord Jesus Christ, to God, even the Father;
\v 21 subjecting yourselves to one another in the fear of Christ.
\p
\v 22 Wives, be subject to your own husbands, as to the Lord.
\v 23 For the husband is the head of the wife, as Christ also is the head of the assembly, being himself the savior of the body.
\v 24 But as the assembly is subject to Christ, so let the wives also be to their own husbands in everything.
\p
\v 25 Husbands, love your wives, even as Christ also loved the assembly, and gave himself up for it;
\v 26 that he might sanctify it, having cleansed it by the washing of water with the word,
\v 27 that he might present the assembly to himself gloriously, not having spot or wrinkle or any such thing; but that it should be holy and without defect.
\v 28 Even so husbands also ought to love their own wives as their own bodies. He who loves his own wife loves himself.
\v 29 For no man ever hated his own flesh; but nourishes and cherishes it, even as the Lord also does the assembly;
\v 30 because we are members of his body, of his flesh and bones.
\v 31 “For this cause a man will leave his father and mother, and will be joined to his wife. The two will become one flesh.”\x + \xo 5:31 \xt Genesis 2:24\x*
\v 32 This mystery is great, but I speak concerning Christ and of the assembly.
\v 33 Nevertheless each of you must also love his own wife even as himself; and let the wife see that she respects her husband.


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\v 1 Children, obey your parents in the Lord, for this is right.
\v 2 “Honor your father and mother,” which is the first commandment with a promise:
\v 3 “that it may be well with you, and you may live long on the earth.” \x + \xo 6:3 \xt Deuteronomy 5:16\x*
\p
\v 4 You fathers, don’t provoke your children to wrath, but nurture them in the discipline and instruction of the Lord.
\p
\v 5 Servants, be obedient to those who according to the flesh are your masters, with fear and trembling, in singleness of your heart, as to Christ,
\v 6 not in the way of service only when eyes are on you, as men pleasers, but as servants of Christ, doing the will of God from the heart,
\v 7 with good will doing service as to the Lord, and not to men,
\v 8 knowing that whatever good thing each one does, he will receive the same good again from the Lord, whether he is bound or free.
\p
\v 9 You masters, do the same things to them, and give up threatening, knowing that he who is both their Master and yours is in heaven, and there is no partiality with him.
\p
\v 10 Finally, be strong in the Lord, and in the strength of his might.
\v 11 Put on the whole armor of God, that you may be able to stand against the wiles of the devil.
\v 12 For our wrestling is not against flesh and blood, but against the principalities, against the powers, against the world’s rulers of the darkness of this age, and against the spiritual forces of wickedness in the heavenly places.
\v 13 Therefore put on the whole armor of God, that you may be able to withstand in the evil day, and having done all, to stand.
\v 14 Stand therefore, having the utility belt of truth buckled around your waist, and having put on the breastplate of righteousness,
\v 15 and having fitted your feet with the preparation of the Good News of peace,
\v 16 above all, taking up the shield of faith, with which you will be able to quench all the fiery darts of the evil one.
\v 17 And take the helmet of salvation, and the sword of the Spirit, which is the word\f + \fr 6:17 \ft from the Greek “ῥῆμα” (rhema), which means “spoken word”\f* of God;
\v 18 with all prayer and requests, praying at all times in the Spirit, and being watchful to this end in all perseverance and requests for all the saints:
\v 19 on my behalf, that utterance may be given to me in opening my mouth, to make known with boldness the mystery of the Good News,
\v 20 for which I am an ambassador in chains; that in it I may speak boldly, as I ought to speak.
\p
\v 21 But that you also may know my affairs, how I am doing, Tychicus, the beloved brother and faithful servant in the Lord, will make known to you all things.
\v 22 I have sent him to you for this very purpose, that you may know our state and that he may comfort your hearts.
\p
\v 23 Peace be to the brothers, and love with faith, from God the Father and the Lord Jesus Christ.
\v 24 Grace be with all those who love our Lord Jesus Christ with incorruptible love. Amen.


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\v 1 These are the words which Moses spoke to all Israel beyond the Jordan in the wilderness, in the Arabah opposite Suf, between Paran, Tophel, Laban, Hazeroth, and Dizahab.
\v 2 It is eleven days’ journey from Horeb by the way of Mount Seir to Kadesh Barnea.
\v 3 In the fortieth year, in the eleventh month, on the first day of the month, Moses spoke to the children of Israel according to all that Yahweh\f + \fr 1:3 \ft “Yahweh” is God’s proper Name, sometimes rendered “LORD” (all caps) in other translations.\f* had given him in commandment to them,
\v 4 after he had struck Sihon the king of the Amorites who lived in Heshbon, and Og the king of Bashan who lived in Ashtaroth, at Edrei.
\v 5 Beyond the Jordan, in the land of Moab, Moses began to declare this law, saying,
\v 6 “Yahweh our God\f + \fr 1:6 \ft The Hebrew word rendered “God” is “אֱלֹהִ֑ים” (Elohim).\f* spoke to us in Horeb, saying, ‘You have lived long enough at this mountain.
\v 7 Turn, and take your journey, and go to the hill country of the Amorites and to all the places near there: in the Arabah, in the hill country, in the lowland, in the South, by the seashore, in the land of the Canaanites, and in Lebanon as far as the great river, the river Euphrates.
\v 8 Behold,\f + \fr 1:8 \ft “Behold”, from “הִנֵּה”, means look at, take notice, observe, see, or gaze at. It is often used as an interjection.\f* I have set the land before you. Go in and possess the land which Yahweh swore to your fathers—to Abraham, to Isaac, and to Jacob—to give to them and to their offspring\f + \fr 1:8 \ft or, seed\f* after them.’”
\p
\v 9 I spoke to you at that time, saying, “I am not able to bear you myself alone.
\v 10 Yahweh your God has multiplied you, and behold, you are today as the stars of the sky for multitude.
\v 11 Yahweh, the God of your fathers, make you a thousand times as many as you are and bless you, as he has promised you!
\v 12 How can I myself alone bear your problems, your burdens, and your strife?
\v 13 Take wise men of understanding who are respected among your tribes, and I will make them heads over you.”
\p
\v 14 You answered me, and said, “The thing which you have spoken is good to do.”
\v 15 So I took the heads of your tribes, wise and respected men, and made them heads over you, captains of thousands, captains of hundreds, captains of fifties, captains of tens, and officers, according to your tribes.
\v 16 I commanded your judges at that time, saying, “Hear cases between your brothers and judge righteously between a man and his brother, and the foreigner who is living with him.
\v 17 You shall not show partiality in judgment; you shall hear the small and the great alike. You shall not be afraid of the face of man, for the judgment is God’s. The case that is too hard for you, you shall bring to me, and I will hear it.”
\v 18 I commanded you at that time all the things which you should do.
\v 19 We traveled from Horeb and went through all that great and terrible wilderness which you saw, by the way to the hill country of the Amorites, as Yahweh our God commanded us; and we came to Kadesh Barnea.
\v 20 I said to you, “You have come to the hill country of the Amorites, which Yahweh our God gives to us.
\v 21 Behold, Yahweh your God has set the land before you. Go up, take possession, as Yahweh the God of your fathers has spoken to you. Don’t be afraid, neither be dismayed.”
\p
\v 22 You came near to me, everyone of you, and said, “Let’s send men before us, that they may search the land for us, and bring back to us word of the way by which we must go up, and the cities to which we shall come.”
\p
\v 23 The thing pleased me well. I took twelve of your men, one man for every tribe.
\v 24 They turned and went up into the hill country, and came to the valley of Eshcol, and spied it out.
\v 25 They took some of the fruit of the land in their hands and brought it down to us, and brought us word again, and said, “It is a good land which Yahweh our God gives to us.”
\p
\v 26 Yet you wouldn’t go up, but rebelled against the commandment of Yahweh your God.
\v 27 You murmured in your tents, and said, “Because Yahweh hated us, he has brought us out of the land of Egypt, to deliver us into the hand of the Amorites to destroy us.
\v 28 Where are we going up? Our brothers have made our heart melt, saying, ‘The people are greater and taller than we. The cities are great and fortified up to the sky. Moreover we have seen the sons of the Anakim there!’”
\p
\v 29 Then I said to you, “Don’t be terrified. Don’t be afraid of them.
\v 30 Yahweh your God, who goes before you, he will fight for you, according to all that he did for you in Egypt before your eyes,
\v 31 and in the wilderness where you have seen how that Yahweh your God carried you, as a man carries his son, in all the way that you went, until you came to this place.”
\p
\v 32 Yet in this thing you didn’t believe Yahweh your God,
\v 33 who went before you on the way, to seek out a place for you to pitch your tents in: in fire by night, to show you by what way you should go, and in the cloud by day.
\v 34 Yahweh heard the voice of your words and was angry, and swore, saying,
\v 35 “Surely not one of these men of this evil generation shall see the good land which I swore to give to your fathers,
\v 36 except Caleb the son of Jephunneh. He shall see it. I will give the land that he has trodden on to him and to his children, because he has wholly followed Yahweh.”
\p
\v 37 Also Yahweh was angry with me for your sakes, saying, “You also shall not go in there.
\v 38 Joshua the son of Nun, who stands before you, shall go in there. Encourage him, for he shall cause Israel to inherit it.
\v 39 Moreover your little ones, whom you said would be captured or killed, your children, who today have no knowledge of good or evil, shall go in there. I will give it to them, and they shall possess it.
\v 40 But as for you, turn, and take your journey into the wilderness by the way to the Red Sea.”
\p
\v 41 Then you answered and said to me, “We have sinned against Yahweh. We will go up and fight, according to all that Yahweh our God commanded us.” Every man of you put on his weapons of war, and presumed to go up into the hill country.
\p
\v 42 Yahweh said to me, “Tell them, ‘Don’t go up and don’t fight; for I am not among you, lest you be struck before your enemies.’”
\p
\v 43 So I spoke to you, and you didn’t listen; but you rebelled against the commandment of Yahweh, and were presumptuous, and went up into the hill country.
\v 44 The Amorites, who lived in that hill country, came out against you and chased you as bees do, and beat you down in Seir, even to Hormah.
\v 45 You returned and wept before Yahweh; but Yahweh didn’t listen to your voice, nor turn his ear to you.
\v 46 So you stayed in Kadesh many days, according to the days that you remained.


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\c 10
\p
\v 1 At that time Yahweh said to me, “Cut two stone tablets like the first, and come up to me onto the mountain, and make an ark of wood.
\v 2 I will write on the tablets the words that were on the first tablets which you broke, and you shall put them in the ark.”
\v 3 So I made an ark of acacia wood, and cut two stone tablets like the first, and went up onto the mountain, having the two tablets in my hand.
\v 4 He wrote on the tablets, according to the first writing, the ten commandments, which Yahweh spoke to you on the mountain out of the middle of the fire in the day of the assembly; and Yahweh gave them to me.
\v 5 I turned and came down from the mountain, and put the tablets in the ark which I had made; and there they are as Yahweh commanded me.
\p
\v 6 (The children of Israel traveled from Beeroth Bene Jaakan to Moserah. There Aaron died, and there he was buried; and Eleazar his son ministered in the priest’s office in his place.
\v 7 From there they traveled to Gudgodah; and from Gudgodah to Jotbathah, a land of brooks of water.
\v 8 At that time Yahweh set apart the tribe of Levi to bear the ark of Yahweh’s covenant, to stand before Yahweh to minister to him, and to bless in his name, to this day.
\v 9 Therefore Levi has no portion nor inheritance with his brothers; Yahweh is his inheritance, according as Yahweh your God spoke to him.)
\p
\v 10 I stayed on the mountain, as at the first time, forty days and forty nights; and Yahweh listened to me that time also. Yahweh would not destroy you.
\v 11 Yahweh said to me, “Arise, take your journey before the people; and they shall go in and possess the land which I swore to their fathers to give to them.”
\p
\v 12 Now, Israel, what does Yahweh your God require of you, but to fear Yahweh your God, to walk in all his ways, to love him, and to serve Yahweh your God with all your heart and with all your soul,
\v 13 to keep Yahweh’s commandments and statutes, which I command you today for your good?
\v 14 Behold, to Yahweh your God belongs heaven, the heaven of heavens, and the earth, with all that is therein.
\v 15 Only Yahweh had a delight in your fathers to love them, and he chose their offspring after them, even you above all peoples, as it is today.
\v 16 Circumcise therefore the foreskin of your heart, and be no more stiff-necked.
\v 17 For Yahweh your God, he is God of gods and Lord of lords, the great God, the mighty, and the awesome, who doesn’t respect persons or take bribes.
\v 18 He executes justice for the fatherless and widow and loves the foreigner in giving him food and clothing.
\v 19 Therefore love the foreigner, for you were foreigners in the land of Egypt.
\v 20 You shall fear Yahweh your God. You shall serve him. You shall cling to him, and you shall swear by his name.
\v 21 He is your praise, and he is your God, who has done for you these great and awesome things which your eyes have seen.
\v 22 Your fathers went down into Egypt with seventy persons; and now Yahweh your God has made you as the stars of the sky for multitude.


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\v 1 Therefore you shall love Yahweh your God, and keep his instructions, his statutes, his ordinances, and his commandments, always.
\v 2 Know this day—for I don’t speak with your children who have not known, and who have not seen the chastisement of Yahweh your God, his greatness, his mighty hand, his outstretched arm,
\v 3 his signs, and his works, which he did in the middle of Egypt to Pharaoh the king of Egypt, and to all his land;
\v 4 and what he did to the army of Egypt, to their horses, and to their chariots; how he made the water of the Red Sea to overflow them as they pursued you, and how Yahweh has destroyed them to this day;
\v 5 and what he did to you in the wilderness until you came to this place;
\v 6 and what he did to Dathan and Abiram, the sons of Eliab, the son of Reuben—how the earth opened its mouth and swallowed them up, with their households, their tents, and every living thing that followed them, in the middle of all Israel;
\v 7 but your eyes have seen all of Yahweh’s great work which he did.
\p
\v 8 Therefore you shall keep the entire commandment which I command you today, that you may be strong, and go in and possess the land that you go over to possess;
\v 9 and that you may prolong your days in the land which Yahweh swore to your fathers to give to them and to their offspring, a land flowing with milk and honey.
\v 10 For the land, where you go in to possess isn’t like the land of Egypt that you came out of, where you sowed your seed and watered it with your foot, as a garden of herbs;
\v 11 but the land that you go over to possess is a land of hills and valleys which drinks water from the rain of the sky,
\v 12 a land which Yahweh your God cares for. Yahweh your God’s eyes are always on it, from the beginning of the year even to the end of the year.
\v 13 It shall happen, if you shall listen diligently to my commandments which I command you today, to love Yahweh your God, and to serve him with all your heart and with all your soul,
\v 14 that I will give the rain for your land in its season, the early rain and the latter rain, that you may gather in your grain, your new wine, and your oil.
\v 15 I will give grass in your fields for your livestock, and you shall eat and be full.
\v 16 Be careful, lest your heart be deceived, and you turn away to serve other gods and worship them;
\v 17 and Yahweh’s anger be kindled against you, and he shut up the sky so that there is no rain, and the land doesn’t yield its fruit; and you perish quickly from off the good land which Yahweh gives you.
\v 18 Therefore you shall lay up these words of mine in your heart and in your soul. You shall bind them for a sign on your hand, and they shall be for frontlets between your eyes.
\v 19 You shall teach them to your children, talking of them when you sit in your house, when you walk by the way, when you lie down, and when you rise up.
\v 20 You shall write them on the door posts of your house and on your gates;
\v 21 that your days and your children’s days may be multiplied in the land which Yahweh swore to your fathers to give them, as the days of the heavens above the earth.
\v 22 For if you shall diligently keep all these commandments which I command you—to do them, to love Yahweh your God, to walk in all his ways, and to cling to him—
\v 23 then Yahweh will drive out all these nations from before you, and you shall dispossess nations greater and mightier than yourselves.
\v 24 Every place on which the sole of your foot treads shall be yours: from the wilderness and Lebanon, from the river, the river Euphrates, even to the western sea shall be your border.
\v 25 No man will be able to stand before you. Yahweh your God will lay the fear of you and the dread of you on all the land that you tread on, as he has spoken to you.
\v 26 Behold, I set before you today a blessing and a curse:
\v 27 the blessing, if you listen to the commandments of Yahweh your God, which I command you today;
\v 28 and the curse, if you do not listen to the commandments of Yahweh your God, but turn away out of the way which I command you today, to go after other gods which you have not known.
\v 29 It shall happen, when Yahweh your God brings you into the land that you go to possess, that you shall set the blessing on Mount Gerizim, and the curse on Mount Ebal.
\v 30 Aren’t they beyond the Jordan, behind the way of the going down of the sun, in the land of the Canaanites who dwell in the Arabah near Gilgal, beside the oaks of Moreh?
\v 31 For you are to pass over the Jordan to go in to possess the land which Yahweh your God gives you, and you shall possess it and dwell in it.
\v 32 You shall observe to do all the statutes and the ordinances which I set before you today.


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\c 12
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\v 1 These are the statutes and the ordinances which you shall observe to do in the land which Yahweh, the God of your fathers, has given you to possess all the days that you live on the earth.
\v 2 You shall surely destroy all the places in which the nations that you shall dispossess served their gods: on the high mountains, and on the hills, and under every green tree.
\v 3 You shall break down their altars, dash their pillars in pieces, and burn their Asherah poles with fire. You shall cut down the engraved images of their gods. You shall destroy their name out of that place.
\v 4 You shall not do so to Yahweh your God.
\v 5 But to the place which Yahweh your God shall choose out of all your tribes, to put his name there, you shall seek his habitation, and you shall come there.
\v 6 You shall bring your burnt offerings, your sacrifices, your tithes, the wave offering of your hand, your vows, your free will offerings, and the firstborn of your herd and of your flock there.
\v 7 There you shall eat before Yahweh your God, and you shall rejoice in all that you put your hand to, you and your households, in which Yahweh your God has blessed you.
\v 8 You shall not do all the things that we do here today, every man whatever is right in his own eyes;
\v 9 for you haven’t yet come to the rest and to the inheritance which Yahweh your God gives you.
\v 10 But when you go over the Jordan and dwell in the land which Yahweh your God causes you to inherit, and he gives you rest from all your enemies around you, so that you dwell in safety,
\v 11 then it shall happen that to the place which Yahweh your God shall choose, to cause his name to dwell there, there you shall bring all that I command you: your burnt offerings, your sacrifices, your tithes, the wave offering of your hand, and all your choice vows which you vow to Yahweh.
\v 12 You shall rejoice before Yahweh your God—you, and your sons, your daughters, your male servants, your female servants, and the Levite who is within your gates, because he has no portion nor inheritance with you.
\v 13 Be careful that you don’t offer your burnt offerings in every place that you see;
\v 14 but in the place which Yahweh chooses in one of your tribes, there you shall offer your burnt offerings, and there you shall do all that I command you.
\p
\v 15 Yet you may kill and eat meat within all your gates, after all the desire of your soul, according to Yahweh your God’s blessing which he has given you. The unclean and the clean may eat of it, as of the gazelle and the deer.
\v 16 Only you shall not eat the blood. You shall pour it out on the earth like water.
\v 17 You may not eat within your gates the tithe of your grain, or of your new wine, or of your oil, or the firstborn of your herd or of your flock, nor any of your vows which you vow, nor your free will offerings, nor the wave offering of your hand;
\v 18 but you shall eat them before Yahweh your God in the place which Yahweh your God shall choose: you, your son, your daughter, your male servant, your female servant, and the Levite who is within your gates. You shall rejoice before Yahweh your God in all that you put your hand to.
\v 19 Be careful that you don’t forsake the Levite as long as you live in your land.
\p
\v 20 When Yahweh your God enlarges your border, as he has promised you, and you say, “I want to eat meat,” because your soul desires to eat meat, you may eat meat, after all the desire of your soul.
\v 21 If the place which Yahweh your God shall choose to put his name is too far from you, then you shall kill of your herd and of your flock, which Yahweh has given you, as I have commanded you; and you may eat within your gates, after all the desire of your soul.
\v 22 Even as the gazelle and as the deer is eaten, so you shall eat of it. The unclean and the clean may eat of it alike.
\v 23 Only be sure that you don’t eat the blood; for the blood is the life. You shall not eat the life with the meat.
\v 24 You shall not eat it. You shall pour it out on the earth like water.
\v 25 You shall not eat it, that it may go well with you and with your children after you, when you do that which is right in Yahweh’s eyes.
\v 26 Only your holy things which you have, and your vows, you shall take and go to the place which Yahweh shall choose.
\v 27 You shall offer your burnt offerings, the meat and the blood, on Yahweh your God’s altar. The blood of your sacrifices shall be poured out on Yahweh your God’s altar, and you shall eat the meat.
\v 28 Observe and hear all these words which I command you, that it may go well with you and with your children after you forever, when you do that which is good and right in Yahweh your God’s eyes.
\p
\v 29 When Yahweh your God cuts off the nations from before you where you go in to dispossess them, and you dispossess them and dwell in their land,
\v 30 be careful that you are not ensnared to follow them after they are destroyed from before you, and that you not inquire after their gods, saying, “How do these nations serve their gods? I will do likewise.”
\v 31 You shall not do so to Yahweh your God; for every abomination to Yahweh, which he hates, they have done to their gods; for they even burn their sons and their daughters in the fire to their gods.
\v 32 Whatever thing I command you, that you shall observe to do. You shall not add to it, nor take away from it.


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\c 13
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\v 1 If a prophet or a dreamer of dreams arises among you, and he gives you a sign or a wonder,
\v 2 and the sign or the wonder comes to pass, of which he spoke to you, saying, “Let’s go after other gods” (which you have not known) “and let’s serve them,”
\v 3 you shall not listen to the words of that prophet, or to that dreamer of dreams; for Yahweh your God is testing you, to know whether you love Yahweh your God with all your heart and with all your soul.
\v 4 You shall walk after Yahweh your God, fear him, keep his commandments, and obey his voice. You shall serve him, and cling to him.
\v 5 That prophet, or that dreamer of dreams, shall be put to death, because he has spoken rebellion against Yahweh your God, who brought you out of the land of Egypt and redeemed you out of the house of bondage, to draw you aside out of the way which Yahweh your God commanded you to walk in. So you shall remove the evil from among you.
\p
\v 6 If your brother, the son of your mother, or your son, or your daughter, or the wife of your bosom, or your friend who is as your own soul, entices you secretly, saying, “Let’s go and serve other gods”—which you have not known, you, nor your fathers;
\v 7 of the gods of the peoples who are around you, near to you, or far off from you, from the one end of the earth even to the other end of the earth—
\v 8 you shall not consent to him nor listen to him; neither shall your eye pity him, neither shall you spare, neither shall you conceal him;
\v 9 but you shall surely kill him. Your hand shall be first on him to put him to death, and afterwards the hands of all the people.
\v 10 You shall stone him to death with stones, because he has sought to draw you away from Yahweh your God, who brought you out of the land of Egypt, out of the house of bondage.
\v 11 All Israel shall hear, and fear, and shall not do any more wickedness like this among you.
\p
\v 12 If you hear about one of your cities, which Yahweh your God gives you to dwell there, that
\v 13 certain wicked fellows have gone out from among you and have drawn away the inhabitants of their city, saying, “Let’s go and serve other gods,” which you have not known,
\v 14 then you shall inquire, investigate, and ask diligently. Behold, if it is true, and the thing certain, that such abomination was done among you,
\v 15 you shall surely strike the inhabitants of that city with the edge of the sword, destroying it utterly, with all that is therein and its livestock, with the edge of the sword.
\v 16 You shall gather all its plunder into the middle of its street, and shall burn with fire the city, with all of its plunder, to Yahweh your God. It shall be a heap forever. It shall not be built again.
\v 17 Nothing of the devoted thing shall cling to your hand, that Yahweh may turn from the fierceness of his anger and show you mercy, and have compassion on you and multiply you, as he has sworn to your fathers,
\v 18 when you listen to Yahweh your God’s voice, to keep all his commandments which I command you today, to do that which is right in Yahweh your God’s eyes.


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\c 14
\p
\v 1 You are the children of Yahweh your God. You shall not cut yourselves, nor make any baldness between your eyes for the dead.
\v 2 For you are a holy people to Yahweh your God, and Yahweh has chosen you to be a people for his own possession, above all peoples who are on the face of the earth.
\p
\v 3 You shall not eat any abominable thing.
\v 4 These are the animals which you may eat: the ox, the sheep, the goat,
\v 5 the deer, the gazelle, the roebuck, the wild goat, the ibex, the antelope, and the chamois.
\v 6 Every animal that parts the hoof, and has the hoof split in two and chews the cud, among the animals, you may eat.
\v 7 Nevertheless these you shall not eat of them that chew the cud, or of those who have the hoof split: the camel, the hare, and the rabbit. Because they chew the cud but don’t part the hoof, they are unclean to you.
\v 8 The pig, because it has a split hoof but doesn’t chew the cud, is unclean to you. You shall not eat their meat. You shall not touch their carcasses.
\v 9 These you may eat of all that are in the waters: you may eat whatever has fins and scales.
\v 10 You shall not eat whatever doesn’t have fins and scales. It is unclean to you.
\v 11 Of all clean birds you may eat.
\v 12 But these are they of which you shall not eat: the eagle, the vulture, the osprey,
\v 13 the red kite, the falcon, the kite after its kind,
\v 14 every raven after its kind,
\v 15 the ostrich, the owl, the seagull, the hawk after its kind,
\v 16 the little owl, the great owl, the horned owl,
\v 17 the pelican, the vulture, the cormorant,
\v 18 the stork, the heron after its kind, the hoopoe, and the bat.
\v 19 All winged creeping things are unclean to you. They shall not be eaten.
\v 20 Of all clean birds you may eat.
\p
\v 21 You shall not eat of anything that dies of itself. You may give it to the foreigner living among you who is within your gates, that he may eat it; or you may sell it to a foreigner; for you are a holy people to Yahweh your God.
\p You shall not boil a young goat in its mother’s milk.
\p
\v 22 You shall surely tithe all the increase of your seed, that which comes out of the field year by year.
\v 23 You shall eat before Yahweh your God, in the place which he chooses to cause his name to dwell, the tithe of your grain, of your new wine, and of your oil, and the firstborn of your herd and of your flock; that you may learn to fear Yahweh your God always.
\v 24 If the way is too long for you, so that you are not able to carry it because the place which Yahweh your God shall choose to set his name there is too far from you, when Yahweh your God blesses you,
\v 25 then you shall turn it into money, bind up the money in your hand, and shall go to the place which Yahweh your God shall choose.
\v 26 You shall trade the money for whatever your soul desires: for cattle, or for sheep, or for wine, or for strong drink, or for whatever your soul asks of you. You shall eat there before Yahweh your God, and you shall rejoice, you and your household.
\v 27 You shall not forsake the Levite who is within your gates, for he has no portion nor inheritance with you.
\v 28 At the end of every three years you shall bring all the tithe of your increase in the same year, and shall store it within your gates.
\v 29 The Levite, because he has no portion nor inheritance with you, as well as the foreigner living among you, the fatherless, and the widow who are within your gates shall come, and shall eat and be satisfied; that Yahweh your God may bless you in all the work of your hand which you do.


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\c 15
\p
\v 1 At the end of every seven years, you shall cancel debts.
\v 2 This is the way it shall be done: every creditor shall release that which he has lent to his neighbor. He shall not require payment from his neighbor and his brother, because Yahweh’s release has been proclaimed.
\v 3 Of a foreigner you may require it; but whatever of yours is with your brother, your hand shall release.
\v 4 However there will be no poor with you (for Yahweh will surely bless you in the land which Yahweh your God gives you for an inheritance to possess)
\v 5 if only you diligently listen to Yahweh your God’s voice, to observe to do all this commandment which I command you today.
\v 6 For Yahweh your God will bless you, as he promised you. You will lend to many nations, but you will not borrow. You will rule over many nations, but they will not rule over you.
\v 7 If a poor man, one of your brothers, is with you within any of your gates in your land which Yahweh your God gives you, you shall not harden your heart, nor shut your hand from your poor brother;
\v 8 but you shall surely open your hand to him, and shall surely lend him sufficient for his need, which he lacks.
\v 9 Beware that there not be a wicked thought in your heart, saying, “The seventh year, the year of release, is at hand,” and your eye be evil against your poor brother and you give him nothing; and he cry to Yahweh against you, and it be sin to you.
\v 10 You shall surely give, and your heart shall not be grieved when you give to him, because it is for this thing Yahweh your God will bless you in all your work and in all that you put your hand to.
\v 11 For the poor will never cease out of the land. Therefore I command you to surely open your hand to your brother, to your needy, and to your poor, in your land.
\v 12 If your brother, a Hebrew man, or a Hebrew woman, is sold to you and serves you six years, then in the seventh year you shall let him go free from you.
\v 13 When you let him go free from you, you shall not let him go empty.
\v 14 You shall furnish him liberally out of your flock, out of your threshing floor, and out of your wine press. As Yahweh your God has blessed you, you shall give to him.
\v 15 You shall remember that you were a slave in the land of Egypt, and Yahweh your God redeemed you. Therefore I command you this thing today.
\v 16 It shall be, if he tells you, “I will not go out from you,” because he loves you and your house, because he is well with you,
\v 17 then you shall take an awl, and thrust it through his ear to the door, and he shall be your servant forever. Also to your female servant you shall do likewise.
\v 18 It shall not seem hard to you when you let him go free from you; for he has been double the value of a hired hand as he served you six years. Yahweh your God will bless you in all that you do.
\v 19 You shall dedicate all the firstborn males that are born of your herd and of your flock to Yahweh your God. You shall do no work with the firstborn of your herd, nor shear the firstborn of your flock.
\v 20 You shall eat it before Yahweh your God year by year in the place which Yahweh shall choose, you and your household.
\v 21 If it has any defect—is lame or blind, or has any defect whatever, you shall not sacrifice it to Yahweh your God.
\v 22 You shall eat it within your gates. The unclean and the clean shall eat it alike, as the gazelle and as the deer.
\v 23 Only you shall not eat its blood. You shall pour it out on the ground like water.


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\c 16
\p
\v 1 Observe the month of Abib, and keep the Passover to Yahweh your God; for in the month of Abib Yahweh your God brought you out of Egypt by night.
\v 2 You shall sacrifice the Passover to Yahweh your God, of the flock and the herd, in the place which Yahweh shall choose to cause his name to dwell there.
\v 3 You shall eat no leavened bread with it. You shall eat unleavened bread with it seven days, even the bread of affliction (for you came out of the land of Egypt in haste) that you may remember the day when you came out of the land of Egypt all the days of your life.
\v 4 No yeast shall be seen with you in all your borders seven days; neither shall any of the meat, which you sacrifice the first day at evening, remain all night until the morning.
\v 5 You may not sacrifice the Passover within any of your gates which Yahweh your God gives you;
\v 6 but at the place which Yahweh your God shall choose to cause his name to dwell in, there you shall sacrifice the Passover at evening, at the going down of the sun, at the season that you came out of Egypt.
\v 7 You shall roast and eat it in the place which Yahweh your God chooses. In the morning you shall return to your tents.
\v 8 Six days you shall eat unleavened bread. On the seventh day shall be a solemn assembly to Yahweh your God. You shall do no work.
\v 9 You shall count for yourselves seven weeks. From the time you begin to put the sickle to the standing grain you shall begin to count seven weeks.
\v 10 You shall keep the feast of weeks to Yahweh your God with a tribute of a free will offering of your hand, which you shall give according to how Yahweh your God blesses you.
\v 11 You shall rejoice before Yahweh your God: you, your son, your daughter, your male servant, your female servant, the Levite who is within your gates, the foreigner, the fatherless, and the widow who are among you, in the place which Yahweh your God shall choose to cause his name to dwell there.
\v 12 You shall remember that you were a slave in Egypt. You shall observe and do these statutes.
\v 13 You shall keep the feast of booths seven days, after you have gathered in from your threshing floor and from your wine press.
\v 14 You shall rejoice in your feast, you, your son, your daughter, your male servant, your female servant, the Levite, the foreigner, the fatherless, and the widow who are within your gates.
\v 15 You shall keep a feast to Yahweh your God seven days in the place which Yahweh chooses, because Yahweh your God will bless you in all your increase and in all the work of your hands, and you shall be altogether joyful.
\v 16 Three times in a year all of your males shall appear before Yahweh your God in the place which he chooses: in the feast of unleavened bread, in the feast of weeks, and in the feast of booths. They shall not appear before Yahweh empty.
\v 17 Every man shall give as he is able, according to Yahweh your God’s blessing which he has given you.
\v 18 You shall make judges and officers in all your gates, which Yahweh your God gives you, according to your tribes; and they shall judge the people with righteous judgment.
\v 19 You shall not pervert justice. You shall not show partiality. You shall not take a bribe, for a bribe blinds the eyes of the wise and perverts the words of the righteous.
\v 20 You shall follow that which is altogether just, that you may live and inherit the land which Yahweh your God gives you.
\v 21 You shall not plant for yourselves an Asherah of any kind of tree beside Yahweh your God’s altar, which you shall make for yourselves.
\v 22 Neither shall you set yourself up a sacred stone which Yahweh your God hates.


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\v 1 You shall not sacrifice to Yahweh your God an ox or a sheep in which is a defect or anything evil; for that is an abomination to Yahweh your God.
\p
\v 2 If there is found among you, within any of your gates which Yahweh your God gives you, a man or woman who does that which is evil in Yahweh your God’s sight in transgressing his covenant,
\v 3 and has gone and served other gods and worshiped them, or the sun, or the moon, or any of the stars of the sky, which I have not commanded,
\v 4 and you are told, and you have heard of it, then you shall inquire diligently. Behold, if it is true, and the thing certain, that such abomination is done in Israel,
\v 5 then you shall bring out that man or that woman who has done this evil thing to your gates, even that same man or woman; and you shall stone them to death with stones.
\v 6 At the mouth of two witnesses, or three witnesses, he who is to die shall be put to death. At the mouth of one witness he shall not be put to death.
\v 7 The hands of the witnesses shall be first on him to put him to death, and afterward the hands of all the people. So you shall remove the evil from among you.
\p
\v 8 If there arises a matter too hard for you in judgment, between blood and blood, between plea and plea, and between stroke and stroke, being matters of controversy within your gates, then you shall arise, and go up to the place which Yahweh your God chooses.
\v 9 You shall come to the priests who are Levites and to the judge who shall be in those days. You shall inquire, and they shall give you the verdict.
\v 10 You shall do according to the decisions of the verdict which they shall give you from that place which Yahweh chooses. You shall observe to do according to all that they shall teach you.
\v 11 According to the decisions of the law which they shall teach you, and according to the judgment which they shall tell you, you shall do. You shall not turn away from the sentence which they announce to you, to the right hand, nor to the left.
\v 12 The man who does presumptuously in not listening to the priest who stands to minister there before Yahweh your God, or to the judge, even that man shall die. You shall put away the evil from Israel.
\v 13 All the people shall hear and fear, and do no more presumptuously.
\p
\v 14 When you have come to the land which Yahweh your God gives you, and possess it and dwell in it, and say, “I will set a king over me, like all the nations that are around me,”
\v 15 you shall surely set him whom Yahweh your God chooses as king over yourselves. You shall set as king over you one from among your brothers. You may not put a foreigner over you, who is not your brother.
\v 16 Only he shall not multiply horses to himself, nor cause the people to return to Egypt, to the end that he may multiply horses; because Yahweh has said to you, “You shall not go back that way again.”
\v 17 He shall not multiply wives to himself, that his heart not turn away. He shall not greatly multiply to himself silver and gold.
\p
\v 18 It shall be, when he sits on the throne of his kingdom, that he shall write himself a copy of this law in a book, out of that which is before the Levitical priests.
\v 19 It shall be with him, and he shall read from it all the days of his life, that he may learn to fear Yahweh his God, to keep all the words of this law and these statutes, to do them;
\v 20 that his heart not be lifted up above his brothers, and that he not turn away from the commandment to the right hand, or to the left, to the end that he may prolong his days in his kingdom, he and his children, in the middle of Israel.


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\v 1 The priests and the Levites—all the tribe of Levi—shall have no portion nor inheritance with Israel. They shall eat the offerings of Yahweh made by fire and his portion.
\v 2 They shall have no inheritance among their brothers. Yahweh is their inheritance, as he has spoken to them.
\v 3 This shall be the priests’ due from the people, from those who offer a sacrifice, whether it be ox or sheep, that they shall give to the priest: the shoulder, the two cheeks, and the inner parts.
\v 4 You shall give him the first fruits of your grain, of your new wine, and of your oil, and the first of the fleece of your sheep.
\v 5 For Yahweh your God has chosen him out of all your tribes to stand to minister in Yahweh’s name, him and his sons forever.
\p
\v 6 If a Levite comes from any of your gates out of all Israel where he lives, and comes with all the desire of his soul to the place which Yahweh shall choose,
\v 7 then he shall minister in the name of Yahweh his God, as all his brothers the Levites do, who stand there before Yahweh.
\v 8 They shall have like portions to eat, in addition to that which comes from the sale of his family possessions.
\p
\v 9 When you have come into the land which Yahweh your God gives you, you shall not learn to imitate the abominations of those nations.
\v 10 There shall not be found with you anyone who makes his son or his daughter to pass through the fire, one who uses divination, one who tells fortunes, or an enchanter, or a sorcerer,
\v 11 or a charmer, or someone who consults with a familiar spirit, or a wizard, or a necromancer.
\v 12 For whoever does these things is an abomination to Yahweh. Because of these abominations, Yahweh your God drives them out from before you.
\v 13 You shall be blameless with Yahweh your God.
\v 14 For these nations that you shall dispossess listen to those who practice sorcery and to diviners; but as for you, Yahweh your God has not allowed you so to do.
\v 15 Yahweh your God will raise up to you a prophet from among you, of your brothers, like me. You shall listen to him.
\v 16 This is according to all that you desired of Yahweh your God in Horeb in the day of the assembly, saying, “Let me not hear again Yahweh my God’s voice, neither let me see this great fire any more, that I not die.”
\p
\v 17 Yahweh said to me, “They have well said that which they have spoken.
\v 18 I will raise them up a prophet from among their brothers, like you. I will put my words in his mouth, and he shall speak to them all that I shall command him.
\v 19 It shall happen, that whoever will not listen to my words which he shall speak in my name, I will require it of him.
\v 20 But the prophet who speaks a word presumptuously in my name, which I have not commanded him to speak, or who speaks in the name of other gods, that same prophet shall die.”
\p
\v 21 You may say in your heart, “How shall we know the word which Yahweh has not spoken?”
\v 22 When a prophet speaks in Yahweh’s name, if the thing doesn’t follow, nor happen, that is the thing which Yahweh has not spoken. The prophet has spoken it presumptuously. You shall not be afraid of him.


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\c 19
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\v 1 When Yahweh your God cuts off the nations whose land Yahweh your God gives you, and you succeed them and dwell in their cities and in their houses,
\v 2 you shall set apart three cities for yourselves in the middle of your land, which Yahweh your God gives you to possess.
\v 3 You shall prepare the way, and divide the borders of your land which Yahweh your God causes you to inherit into three parts, that every man slayer may flee there.
\v 4 This is the case of the man slayer who shall flee there and live: Whoever kills his neighbor unintentionally, and didn’t hate him in time past—
\v 5 as when a man goes into the forest with his neighbor to chop wood and his hand swings the ax to cut down the tree, and the head slips from the handle and hits his neighbor so that he dies—he shall flee to one of these cities and live.
\v 6 Otherwise, the avenger of blood might pursue the man slayer while hot anger is in his heart and overtake him, because the way is long, and strike him mortally, even though he was not worthy of death, because he didn’t hate him in time past.
\v 7 Therefore I command you to set apart three cities for yourselves.
\v 8 If Yahweh your God enlarges your border, as he has sworn to your fathers, and gives you all the land which he promised to give to your fathers;
\v 9 and if you keep all this commandment to do it, which I command you today, to love Yahweh your God, and to walk ever in his ways, then you shall add three cities more for yourselves, in addition to these three.
\v 10 This is so that innocent blood will not be shed in the middle of your land which Yahweh your God gives you for an inheritance, leaving blood guilt on you.
\v 11 But if any man hates his neighbor, lies in wait for him, rises up against him, strikes him mortally so that he dies, and he flees into one of these cities;
\v 12 then the elders of his city shall send and bring him there, and deliver him into the hand of the avenger of blood, that he may die.
\v 13 Your eye shall not pity him, but you shall purge the innocent blood from Israel that it may go well with you.
\p
\v 14 You shall not remove your neighbor’s landmark, which they of old time have set, in your inheritance which you shall inherit, in the land that Yahweh your God gives you to possess.
\p
\v 15 One witness shall not rise up against a man for any iniquity, or for any sin that he sins. At the mouth of two witnesses, or at the mouth of three witnesses, shall a matter be established.
\v 16 If an unrighteous witness rises up against any man to testify against him of wrongdoing,
\v 17 then both the men, between whom the controversy is, shall stand before Yahweh, before the priests and the judges who shall be in those days;
\v 18 and the judges shall make diligent inquisition; and behold, if the witness is a false witness, and has testified falsely against his brother,
\v 19 then you shall do to him as he had thought to do to his brother. So you shall remove the evil from among you.
\v 20 Those who remain shall hear, and fear, and will never again commit any such evil among you.
\v 21 Your eyes shall not pity: life for life, eye for eye, tooth for tooth, hand for hand, foot for foot.


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\c 2
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\v 1 Then we turned, and took our journey into the wilderness by the way to the Red Sea, as Yahweh spoke to me; and we encircled Mount Seir many days.
\p
\v 2 Yahweh spoke to me, saying,
\v 3 “You have encircled this mountain long enough. Turn northward.
\v 4 Command the people, saying, ‘You are to pass through the border of your brothers, the children of Esau, who dwell in Seir; and they will be afraid of you. Therefore be careful.
\v 5 Don’t contend with them; for I will not give you any of their land, no, not so much as for the sole of the foot to tread on, because I have given Mount Seir to Esau for a possession.
\v 6 You shall purchase food from them for money, that you may eat. You shall also buy water from them for money, that you may drink.’”
\p
\v 7 For Yahweh your God has blessed you in all the work of your hands. He has known your walking through this great wilderness. These forty years, Yahweh your God has been with you. You have lacked nothing.
\p
\v 8 So we passed by from our brothers, the children of Esau, who dwell in Seir, from the way of the Arabah from Elath and from Ezion Geber. We turned and passed by the way of the wilderness of Moab.
\p
\v 9 Yahweh said to me, “Don’t bother Moab, neither contend with them in battle; for I will not give you any of his land for a possession, because I have given Ar to the children of Lot for a possession.”
\p
\v 10 (The Emim lived there before, a great and numerous people, and tall as the Anakim.
\v 11 These also are considered to be Rephaim, as the Anakim; but the Moabites call them Emim.
\v 12 The Horites also lived in Seir in the past, but the children of Esau succeeded them. They destroyed them from before them, and lived in their place, as Israel did to the land of his possession, which Yahweh gave to them.)
\p
\v 13 “Now rise up, and cross over the brook Zered.” We went over the brook Zered.
\p
\v 14 The days in which we came from Kadesh Barnea until we had come over the brook Zered were thirty-eight years: until all the generation of the men of war were consumed from the middle of the camp, as Yahweh swore to them.
\v 15 Moreover Yahweh’s hand was against them, to destroy them from the middle of the camp, until they were consumed.
\v 16 So, when all the men of war were consumed and dead from among the people,
\v 17 Yahweh spoke to me, saying,
\v 18 “You are to pass over Ar, the border of Moab, today.
\v 19 When you come near the border of the children of Ammon, don’t bother them, nor contend with them; for I will not give you any of the land of the children of Ammon for a possession, because I have given it to the children of Lot for a possession.”
\p
\v 20 (That also is considered a land of Rephaim. Rephaim lived there in the past, but the Ammonites call them Zamzummim,
\v 21 a great people, many, and tall, as the Anakim; but Yahweh destroyed them from before Israel, and they succeeded them, and lived in their place;
\v 22 as he did for the children of Esau who dwell in Seir, when he destroyed the Horites from before them; and they succeeded them, and lived in their place even to this day.
\v 23 Then the Avvim, who lived in villages as far as Gaza: the Caphtorim, who came out of Caphtor, destroyed them and lived in their place.)
\p
\v 24 “Rise up, take your journey, and pass over the valley of the Arnon. Behold, I have given into your hand Sihon the Amorite, king of Heshbon, and his land; begin to possess it, and contend with him in battle.
\v 25 Today I will begin to put the dread of you and the fear of you on the peoples who are under the whole sky, who shall hear the report of you, and shall tremble and be in anguish because of you.”
\p
\v 26 I sent messengers out of the wilderness of Kedemoth to Sihon king of Heshbon with words of peace, saying,
\v 27 “Let me pass through your land. I will go along by the highway. I will turn neither to the right hand nor to the left.
\v 28 You shall sell me food for money, that I may eat; and give me water for money, that I may drink. Just let me pass through on my feet,
\v 29 as the children of Esau who dwell in Seir, and the Moabites who dwell in Ar, did to me; until I pass over the Jordan into the land which Yahweh our God gives us.”
\v 30 But Sihon king of Heshbon would not let us pass by him; for Yahweh your God hardened his spirit and made his heart obstinate, that he might deliver him into your hand, as it is today.
\p
\v 31 Yahweh said to me, “Behold, I have begun to deliver up Sihon and his land before you. Begin to possess, that you may inherit his land.”
\v 32 Then Sihon came out against us, he and all his people, to battle at Jahaz.
\v 33 Yahweh our God delivered him up before us; and we struck him, his sons, and all his people.
\v 34 We took all his cities at that time, and utterly destroyed every inhabited city, with the women and the little ones. We left no one remaining.
\v 35 Only the livestock we took for plunder for ourselves, with the plunder of the cities which we had taken.
\v 36 From Aroer, which is on the edge of the valley of the Arnon, and the city that is in the valley, even to Gilead, there was not a city too high for us. Yahweh our God delivered up all before us.
\v 37 Only to the land of the children of Ammon you didn’t come near: all the banks of the river Jabbok, and the cities of the hill country, and wherever Yahweh our God forbade us.


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\v 1 When you go out to battle against your enemies, and see horses, chariots, and a people more numerous than you, you shall not be afraid of them; for Yahweh your God is with you, who brought you up out of the land of Egypt.
\v 2 It shall be, when you draw near to the battle, that the priest shall approach and speak to the people,
\v 3 and shall tell them, “Hear, Israel, you draw near today to battle against your enemies. Don’t let your heart faint! Don’t be afraid, nor tremble, neither be scared of them;
\v 4 for Yahweh your God is he who goes with you, to fight for you against your enemies, to save you.”
\p
\v 5 The officers shall speak to the people, saying, “What man is there who has built a new house, and has not dedicated it? Let him go and return to his house, lest he die in the battle, and another man dedicate it.
\v 6 What man is there who has planted a vineyard, and has not used its fruit? Let him go and return to his house, lest he die in the battle, and another man use its fruit.
\v 7 What man is there who has pledged to be married to a wife, and has not taken her? Let him go and return to his house, lest he die in the battle, and another man take her.”
\v 8 The officers shall speak further to the people, and they shall say, “What man is there who is fearful and faint-hearted? Let him go and return to his house, lest his brother’s heart melt as his heart.”
\v 9 It shall be, when the officers have finished speaking to the people, that they shall appoint captains of armies at the head of the people.
\p
\v 10 When you draw near to a city to fight against it, then proclaim peace to it.
\v 11 It shall be, if it gives you answer of peace and opens to you, then it shall be that all the people who are found therein shall become forced laborers to you, and shall serve you.
\v 12 If it will make no peace with you, but will make war against you, then you shall besiege it.
\v 13 When Yahweh your God delivers it into your hand, you shall strike every male of it with the edge of the sword;
\v 14 but the women, the little ones, the livestock, and all that is in the city, even all its plunder, you shall take for plunder for yourself. You may use the plunder of your enemies, which Yahweh your God has given you.
\v 15 Thus you shall do to all the cities which are very far off from you, which are not of the cities of these nations.
\v 16 But of the cities of these peoples that Yahweh your God gives you for an inheritance, you shall save alive nothing that breathes;
\v 17 but you shall utterly destroy them: the Hittite, the Amorite, the Canaanite, the Perizzite, the Hivite, and the Jebusite, as Yahweh your God has commanded you;
\v 18 that they not teach you to follow all their abominations, which they have done for their gods; so would you sin against Yahweh your God.
\v 19 When you shall besiege a city a long time, in making war against it to take it, you shall not destroy its trees by wielding an ax against them; for you may eat of them. You shall not cut them down, for is the tree of the field man, that it should be besieged by you?
\v 20 Only the trees that you know are not trees for food, you shall destroy and cut them down. You shall build bulwarks against the city that makes war with you, until it falls.


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\c 21
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\v 1 If someone is found slain in the land which Yahweh your God gives you to possess, lying in the field, and it isn’t known who has struck him,
\v 2 then your elders and your judges shall come out, and they shall measure to the cities which are around him who is slain.
\v 3 It shall be that the elders of the city which is nearest to the slain man shall take a heifer of the herd, which hasn’t been worked with and which has not drawn in the yoke.
\v 4 The elders of that city shall bring the heifer down to a valley with running water, which is neither plowed nor sown, and shall break the heifer’s neck there in the valley.
\v 5 The priests the sons of Levi shall come near, for them Yahweh your God has chosen to minister to him, and to bless in Yahweh’s name; and according to their word shall every controversy and every assault be decided.
\v 6 All the elders of that city which is nearest to the slain man shall wash their hands over the heifer whose neck was broken in the valley.
\v 7 They shall answer and say, “Our hands have not shed this blood, neither have our eyes seen it.
\v 8 Forgive, Yahweh, your people Israel, whom you have redeemed, and don’t allow innocent blood among your people Israel.” The blood shall be forgiven them.
\v 9 So you shall put away the innocent blood from among you, when you shall do that which is right in Yahweh’s eyes.
\p
\v 10 When you go out to battle against your enemies, and Yahweh your God delivers them into your hands and you carry them away captive,
\v 11 and see among the captives a beautiful woman, and you are attracted to her, and desire to take her as your wife,
\v 12 then you shall bring her home to your house. She shall shave her head and trim her nails.
\v 13 She shall take off the clothing of her captivity, and shall remain in your house, and bewail her father and her mother a full month. After that you shall go in to her and be her husband, and she shall be your wife.
\v 14 It shall be, if you have no delight in her, then you shall let her go where she desires; but you shall not sell her at all for money. You shall not deal with her as a slave, because you have humbled her.
\p
\v 15 If a man has two wives, the one beloved and the other hated, and they have borne him children, both the beloved and the hated, and if the firstborn son is hers who was hated,
\v 16 then it shall be, in the day that he causes his sons to inherit that which he has, that he may not give the son of the beloved the rights of the firstborn before the son of the hated, who is the firstborn;
\v 17 but he shall acknowledge the firstborn, the son of the hated, by giving him a double portion of all that he has; for he is the beginning of his strength. The right of the firstborn is his.
\p
\v 18 If a man has a stubborn and rebellious son who will not obey the voice of his father or the voice of his mother, and though they chasten him, will not listen to them,
\v 19 then his father and his mother shall take hold of him and bring him out to the elders of his city and to the gate of his place.
\v 20 They shall tell the elders of his city, “This our son is stubborn and rebellious. He will not obey our voice. He is a glutton and a drunkard.”
\v 21 All the men of his city shall stone him to death with stones. So you shall remove the evil from among you. All Israel shall hear, and fear.
\p
\v 22 If a man has committed a sin worthy of death, and he is put to death, and you hang him on a tree,
\v 23 his body shall not remain all night on the tree, but you shall surely bury him the same day; for he who is hanged is accursed of God. Don’t defile your land which Yahweh your God gives you for an inheritance.


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\v 1 You shall not see your brother’s ox or his sheep go astray and hide yourself from them. You shall surely bring them again to your brother.
\v 2 If your brother isn’t near to you, or if you don’t know him, then you shall bring it home to your house, and it shall be with you until your brother comes looking for it, and you shall restore it to him.
\v 3 So you shall do with his donkey. So you shall do with his garment. So you shall do with every lost thing of your brother’s, which he has lost and you have found. You may not hide yourself.
\v 4 You shall not see your brother’s donkey or his ox fallen down by the way, and hide yourself from them. You shall surely help him to lift them up again.
\p
\v 5 A woman shall not wear men’s clothing, neither shall a man put on women’s clothing; for whoever does these things is an abomination to Yahweh your God.
\p
\v 6 If you come across a bird’s nest on the way, in any tree or on the ground, with young ones or eggs, and the hen sitting on the young, or on the eggs, you shall not take the hen with the young.
\v 7 You shall surely let the hen go, but the young you may take for yourself, that it may be well with you, and that you may prolong your days.
\p
\v 8 When you build a new house, then you shall make a railing around your roof, so that you don’t bring blood on your house if anyone falls from there.
\p
\v 9 You shall not sow your vineyard with two kinds of seed, lest all the fruit be defiled, the seed which you have sown, and the increase of the vineyard.
\v 10 You shall not plow with an ox and a donkey together.
\v 11 You shall not wear clothes of wool and linen woven together.
\p
\v 12 You shall make yourselves fringes\f + \fr 22:12 \ft or, tassels\f* on the four corners of your cloak with which you cover yourself.
\p
\v 13 If any man takes a wife, and goes in to her, hates her,
\v 14 accuses her of shameful things, gives her a bad name, and says, “I took this woman, and when I came near to her, I didn’t find in her the tokens of virginity;”
\v 15 then the young lady’s father and mother shall take and bring the tokens of the young lady’s virginity to the elders of the city in the gate.
\v 16 The young lady’s father shall tell the elders, “I gave my daughter to this man as his wife, and he hates her.
\v 17 Behold, he has accused her of shameful things, saying, ‘I didn’t find in your daughter the tokens of virginity;’ and yet these are the tokens of my daughter’s virginity.” They shall spread the cloth before the elders of the city.
\v 18 The elders of that city shall take the man and chastise him.
\v 19 They shall fine him one hundred shekels of silver,\f + \fr 22:19 \ft A shekel is about 10 grams or about 0.35 ounces, so 100 shekels is about a kilogram or 2.2 pounds.\f* and give them to the father of the young lady, because he has given a bad name to a virgin of Israel. She shall be his wife. He may not put her away all his days.
\p
\v 20 But if this thing is true, that the tokens of virginity were not found in the young lady,
\v 21 then they shall bring out the young lady to the door of her father’s house, and the men of her city shall stone her to death with stones, because she has done folly in Israel, to play the prostitute in her father’s house. So you shall remove the evil from among you.
\p
\v 22 If a man is found lying with a woman married to a husband, then they shall both die, the man who lay with the woman and the woman. So you shall remove the evil from Israel.
\v 23 If there is a young lady who is a virgin pledged to be married to a husband, and a man finds her in the city, and lies with her,
\v 24 then you shall bring them both out to the gate of that city, and you shall stone them to death with stones; the lady, because she didn’t cry, being in the city; and the man, because he has humbled his neighbor’s wife. So you shall remove the evil from among you.
\v 25 But if the man finds the lady who is pledged to be married in the field, and the man forces her and lies with her, then only the man who lay with her shall die;
\v 26 but to the lady you shall do nothing. There is in the lady no sin worthy of death; for as when a man rises against his neighbor and kills him, even so is this matter;
\v 27 for he found her in the field, the pledged to be married lady cried, and there was no one to save her.
\v 28 If a man finds a lady who is a virgin, who is not pledged to be married, grabs her and lies with her, and they are found,
\v 29 then the man who lay with her shall give to the lady’s father fifty shekels\f + \fr 22:29 \ft A shekel is about 10 grams or about 0.35 ounces.\f* of silver. She shall be his wife, because he has humbled her. He may not put her away all his days.
\v 30 A man shall not take his father’s wife, and shall not uncover his father’s skirt.


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\c 23
\p
\v 1 He who is emasculated by crushing or cutting shall not enter into Yahweh’s assembly.
\v 2 A person born of a forbidden union shall not enter into Yahweh’s assembly; even to the tenth generation shall no one of his enter into Yahweh’s assembly.
\v 3 An Ammonite or a Moabite shall not enter into Yahweh’s assembly; even to the tenth generation shall no one belonging to them enter into Yahweh’s assembly forever,
\v 4 because they didn’t meet you with bread and with water on the way when you came out of Egypt, and because they hired against you Balaam the son of Beor from Pethor of Mesopotamia, to curse you.
\v 5 Nevertheless Yahweh your God wouldn’t listen to Balaam, but Yahweh your God turned the curse into a blessing to you, because Yahweh your God loved you.
\v 6 You shall not seek their peace nor their prosperity all your days forever.
\v 7 You shall not abhor an Edomite, for he is your brother. You shall not abhor an Egyptian, because you lived as a foreigner in his land.
\v 8 The children of the third generation who are born to them may enter into Yahweh’s assembly.
\p
\v 9 When you go out and camp against your enemies, then you shall keep yourselves from every evil thing.
\v 10 If there is among you any man who is not clean by reason of that which happens to him by night, then shall he go outside of the camp. He shall not come within the camp;
\v 11 but it shall be, when evening comes, he shall bathe himself in water. When the sun is down, he shall come within the camp.
\v 12 You shall have a place also outside of the camp where you go relieve yourself.
\v 13 You shall have a trowel among your weapons. It shall be, when you relieve yourself, you shall dig with it, and shall turn back and cover your excrement;
\v 14 for Yahweh your God walks in the middle of your camp, to deliver you, and to give up your enemies before you. Therefore your camp shall be holy, that he may not see an unclean thing in you, and turn away from you.
\p
\v 15 You shall not deliver to his master a servant who has escaped from his master to you.
\v 16 He shall dwell with you, among you, in the place which he shall choose within one of your gates, where it pleases him best. You shall not oppress him.
\p
\v 17 There shall be no prostitute of the daughters of Israel, neither shall there be a sodomite of the sons of Israel.
\v 18 You shall not bring the hire of a prostitute, or the wages of a male prostitute,\f + \fr 23:18 \ft literally, dog\f* into the house of Yahweh your God for any vow; for both of these are an abomination to Yahweh your God.
\p
\v 19 You shall not lend on interest to your brother: interest of money, interest of food, interest of anything that is lent on interest.
\v 20 You may charge a foreigner interest; but you shall not your brother interest, that Yahweh your God may bless you in all that you put your hand to, in the land where you go in to possess it.
\p
\v 21 When you vow a vow to Yahweh your God, you shall not be slack to pay it, for Yahweh your God will surely require it of you; and it would be sin in you.
\v 22 But if you refrain from making a vow, it shall be no sin in you.
\v 23 You shall observe and do that which has gone out of your lips. Whatever you have vowed to Yahweh your God as a free will offering, which you have promised with your mouth, you must do.
\v 24 When you come into your neighbor’s vineyard, then you may eat your fill of grapes at your own pleasure; but you shall not put any in your container.
\v 25 When you come into your neighbor’s standing grain, then you may pluck the ears with your hand; but you shall not use a sickle on your neighbor’s standing grain.


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\p
\v 1 When a man takes a wife and marries her, then it shall be, if she finds no favor in his eyes because he has found some unseemly thing in her, that he shall write her a certificate of divorce, put it in her hand, and send her out of his house.
\v 2 When she has departed out of his house, she may go and be another man’s wife.
\v 3 If the latter husband hates her, and write her a certificate of divorce, puts it in her hand, and sends her out of his house; or if the latter husband dies, who took her to be his wife;
\v 4 her former husband, who sent her away, may not take her again to be his wife after she is defiled; for that would be an abomination to Yahweh. You shall not cause the land to sin, which Yahweh your God gives you for an inheritance.
\v 5 When a man takes a new wife, he shall not go out in the army, neither shall he be assigned any business. He shall be free at home one year, and shall cheer his wife whom he has taken.
\p
\v 6 No man shall take the mill or the upper millstone as a pledge, for he takes a life in pledge.
\v 7 If a man is found stealing any of his brothers of the children of Israel, and he deals with him as a slave, or sells him, then that thief shall die. So you shall remove the evil from among you.
\v 8 Be careful in the plague of leprosy, that you observe diligently and do according to all that the Levitical priests teach you. As I commanded them, so you shall observe to do.
\v 9 Remember what Yahweh your God did to Miriam, by the way as you came out of Egypt.
\p
\v 10 When you lend your neighbor any kind of loan, you shall not go into his house to get his pledge.
\v 11 You shall stand outside, and the man to whom you lend shall bring the pledge outside to you.
\v 12 If he is a poor man, you shall not sleep with his pledge.
\v 13 You shall surely restore to him the pledge when the sun goes down, that he may sleep in his garment and bless you. It shall be righteousness to you before Yahweh your God.
\p
\v 14 You shall not oppress a hired servant who is poor and needy, whether he is one of your brothers or one of the foreigners who are in your land within your gates.
\v 15 In his day you shall give him his wages, neither shall the sun go down on it; for he is poor and sets his heart on it; lest he cry against you to Yahweh, and it be sin to you.
\p
\v 16 The fathers shall not be put to death for the children, neither shall the children be put to death for the fathers. Every man shall be put to death for his own sin.
\p
\v 17 You shall not deprive the foreigner or the fatherless of justice, nor take a widow’s clothing in pledge;
\v 18 but you shall remember that you were a slave in Egypt, and Yahweh your God redeemed you there. Therefore I command you to do this thing.
\p
\v 19 When you reap your harvest in your field, and have forgotten a sheaf in the field, you shall not go again to get it. It shall be for the foreigner, for the fatherless, and for the widow, that Yahweh your God may bless you in all the work of your hands.
\v 20 When you beat your olive tree, you shall not go over the boughs again. It shall be for the foreigner, for the fatherless, and for the widow.
\p
\v 21 When you harvest your vineyard, you shall not glean it after yourselves. It shall be for the foreigner, for the fatherless, and for the widow.
\v 22 You shall remember that you were a slave in the land of Egypt. Therefore I command you to do this thing.


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\c 25
\p
\v 1 If there is a controversy between men, and they come to judgment and the judges judge them, then they shall justify the righteous and condemn the wicked.
\v 2 It shall be, if the wicked man is worthy to be beaten, that the judge shall cause him to lie down and to be beaten before his face, according to his wickedness, by number.
\v 3 He may sentence him to no more than forty stripes. He shall not give more, lest if he should give more and beat him more than that many stripes, then your brother will be degraded in your sight.
\p
\v 4 You shall not muzzle the ox when he treads out the grain.
\p
\v 5 If brothers dwell together, and one of them dies and has no son, the wife of the dead shall not be married outside to a stranger. Her husband’s brother shall go in to her, and take her as his wife, and perform the duty of a husband’s brother to her.
\v 6 It shall be that the firstborn whom she bears shall succeed in the name of his brother who is dead, that his name not be blotted out of Israel.
\p
\v 7 If the man doesn’t want to take his brother’s wife, then his brother’s wife shall go up to the gate to the elders, and say, “My husband’s brother refuses to raise up to his brother a name in Israel. He will not perform the duty of a husband’s brother to me.”
\v 8 Then the elders of his city shall call him, and speak to him. If he stands and says, “I don’t want to take her,”
\v 9 then his brother’s wife shall come to him in the presence of the elders, and loose his sandal from off his foot, and spit in his face. She shall answer and say, “So shall it be done to the man who does not build up his brother’s house.”
\v 10 His name shall be called in Israel, “The house of him who had his sandal removed.”
\p
\v 11 When men strive against each other, and the wife of one draws near to deliver her husband out of the hand of him who strikes him, and puts out her hand, and grabs him by his private parts,
\v 12 then you shall cut off her hand. Your eye shall have no pity.
\p
\v 13 You shall not have in your bag diverse weights, one heavy and one light.
\v 14 You shall not have in your house diverse measures, one large and one small.
\v 15 You shall have a perfect and just weight. You shall have a perfect and just measure, that your days may be long in the land which Yahweh your God gives you.
\v 16 For all who do such things, all who do unrighteously, are an abomination to Yahweh your God.
\p
\v 17 Remember what Amalek did to you by the way as you came out of Egypt;
\v 18 how he met you by the way, and struck the rearmost of you, all who were feeble behind you, when you were faint and weary; and he didn’t fear God.
\v 19 Therefore it shall be, when Yahweh your God has given you rest from all your enemies all around, in the land which Yahweh your God gives you for an inheritance to possess it, that you shall blot out the memory of Amalek from under the sky. You shall not forget.


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\c 26
\p
\v 1 It shall be, when you have come in to the land which Yahweh your God gives you for an inheritance, possess it, and dwell in it,
\v 2 that you shall take some of the first of all the fruit of the ground, which you shall bring in from your land that Yahweh your God gives you. You shall put it in a basket, and shall go to the place which Yahweh your God shall choose to cause his name to dwell there.
\v 3 You shall come to the priest who shall be in those days, and tell him, “I profess today to Yahweh your God, that I have come to the land which Yahweh swore to our fathers to give us.”
\v 4 The priest shall take the basket out of your hand, and set it down before Yahweh your God’s altar.
\v 5 You shall answer and say before Yahweh your God, “My father\f + \fr 26:5 \ft or, forefather\f* was a Syrian ready to perish. He went down into Egypt, and lived there, few in number. There he became a great, mighty, and populous nation.
\v 6 The Egyptians mistreated us, afflicted us, and imposed hard labor on us.
\v 7 Then we cried to Yahweh, the God of our fathers. Yahweh heard our voice, and saw our affliction, our toil, and our oppression.
\v 8 Yahweh brought us out of Egypt with a mighty hand, with an outstretched arm, with great terror, with signs, and with wonders;
\v 9 and he has brought us into this place, and has given us this land, a land flowing with milk and honey.
\v 10 Now, behold, I have brought the first of the fruit of the ground, which you, Yahweh, have given me.” You shall set it down before Yahweh your God, and worship before Yahweh your God.
\v 11 You shall rejoice in all the good which Yahweh your God has given to you, and to your house, you, and the Levite, and the foreigner who is among you.
\p
\v 12 When you have finished tithing all the tithe of your increase in the third year, which is the year of tithing, then you shall give it to the Levite, to the foreigner, to the fatherless, and to the widow, that they may eat within your gates and be filled.
\v 13 You shall say before Yahweh your God, “I have put away the holy things out of my house, and also have given them to the Levite, to the foreigner, to the fatherless, and to the widow, according to all your commandment which you have commanded me. I have not transgressed any of your commandments, neither have I forgotten them.
\v 14 I have not eaten of it in my mourning, neither have I removed any of it while I was unclean, nor given of it for the dead. I have listened to Yahweh my God’s voice. I have done according to all that you have commanded me.
\v 15 Look down from your holy habitation, from heaven, and bless your people Israel, and the ground which you have given us, as you swore to our fathers, a land flowing with milk and honey.”
\p
\v 16 Today Yahweh your God commands you to do these statutes and ordinances. You shall therefore keep and do them with all your heart and with all your soul.
\v 17 You have declared today that Yahweh is your God, and that you would walk in his ways, keep his statutes, his commandments, and his ordinances, and listen to his voice.
\v 18 Yahweh has declared today that you are a people for his own possession, as he has promised you, and that you should keep all his commandments.
\v 19 He will make you high above all nations that he has made, in praise, in name, and in honor; and that you may be a holy people to Yahweh your God, as he has spoken.


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\c 27
\p
\v 1 Moses and the elders of Israel commanded the people, saying, “Keep all the commandment which I command you today.
\v 2 It shall be on the day when you shall pass over the Jordan to the land which Yahweh your God gives you, that you shall set yourself up great stones, and coat them with plaster.
\v 3 You shall write on them all the words of this law, when you have passed over, that you may go in to the land which Yahweh your God gives you, a land flowing with milk and honey, as Yahweh, the God of your fathers, has promised you.
\v 4 It shall be, when you have crossed over the Jordan, that you shall set up these stones, which I command you today, on Mount Ebal, and you shall coat them with plaster.
\v 5 There you shall build an altar to Yahweh your God, an altar of stones. You shall not use any iron tool on them.
\v 6 You shall build Yahweh your God’s altar of uncut stones. You shall offer burnt offerings on it to Yahweh your God.
\v 7 You shall sacrifice peace offerings, and shall eat there. You shall rejoice before Yahweh your God.
\v 8 You shall write on the stones all the words of this law very plainly.”
\p
\v 9 Moses and the Levitical priests spoke to all Israel, saying, “Be silent and listen, Israel! Today you have become the people of Yahweh your God.
\v 10 You shall therefore obey Yahweh your God’s voice, and do his commandments and his statutes, which I command you today.”
\p
\v 11 Moses commanded the people the same day, saying,
\v 12 “These shall stand on Mount Gerizim to bless the people, when you have crossed over the Jordan: Simeon, Levi, Judah, Issachar, Joseph, and Benjamin.
\v 13 These shall stand on Mount Ebal for the curse: Reuben, Gad, Asher, Zebulun, Dan, and Naphtali.
\v 14 With a loud voice, the Levites shall say to all the men of Israel,
\v 15 ‘Cursed is the man who makes an engraved or molten image, an abomination to Yahweh, the work of the hands of the craftsman, and sets it up in secret.’
\p All the people shall answer and say, ‘Amen.’
\p
\v 16 ‘Cursed is he who dishonors his father or his mother.’
\p All the people shall say, ‘Amen.’
\p
\v 17 ‘Cursed is he who removes his neighbor’s landmark.’
\p All the people shall say, ‘Amen.’
\p
\v 18 ‘Cursed is he who leads the blind astray on the road.’
\p All the people shall say, ‘Amen.’
\p
\v 19 ‘Cursed is he who withholds justice from the foreigner, fatherless, and widow.’
\p All the people shall say, ‘Amen.’
\p
\v 20 ‘Cursed is he who lies with\f + \fr 27:20 \ft i.e., has sexual relations with\f* his father’s wife, because he dishonors his father’s bed.’
\p All the people shall say, ‘Amen.’
\p
\v 21 ‘Cursed is he who lies with any kind of animal.’
\p All the people shall say, ‘Amen.’
\p
\v 22 ‘Cursed is he who lies with his sister, his father’s daughter or his mother’s daughter.’
\p All the people shall say, ‘Amen.’
\p
\v 23 ‘Cursed is he who lies with his mother-in-law.’
\p All the people shall say, ‘Amen.’
\p
\v 24 ‘Cursed is he who secretly kills his neighbor.’
\p All the people shall say, ‘Amen.’
\p
\v 25 ‘Cursed is he who takes a bribe to kill an innocent person.’
\p All the people shall say, ‘Amen.’
\p
\v 26 ‘Cursed is he who doesn’t uphold the words of this law by doing them.’
\p All the people shall say, ‘Amen.’”


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\p
\v 1 It shall happen, if you shall listen diligently to Yahweh your God’s voice, to observe to do all his commandments which I command you today, that Yahweh your God will set you high above all the nations of the earth.
\v 2 All these blessings will come upon you, and overtake you, if you listen to Yahweh your God’s voice.
\v 3 You shall be blessed in the city, and you shall be blessed in the field.
\v 4 You shall be blessed in the fruit of your body, the fruit of your ground, the fruit of your animals, the increase of your livestock, and the young of your flock.
\v 5 Your basket and your kneading trough shall be blessed.
\v 6 You shall be blessed when you come in, and you shall be blessed when you go out.
\v 7 Yahweh will cause your enemies who rise up against you to be struck before you. They will come out against you one way, and will flee before you seven ways.
\v 8 Yahweh will command the blessing on you in your barns, and in all that you put your hand to. He will bless you in the land which Yahweh your God gives you.
\v 9 Yahweh will establish you for a holy people to himself, as he has sworn to you, if you shall keep the commandments of Yahweh your God, and walk in his ways.
\v 10 All the peoples of the earth shall see that you are called by Yahweh’s name, and they will be afraid of you.
\v 11 Yahweh will grant you abundant prosperity in the fruit of your body, in the fruit of your livestock, and in the fruit of your ground, in the land which Yahweh swore to your fathers to give you.
\v 12 Yahweh will open to you his good treasure in the sky, to give the rain of your land in its season, and to bless all the work of your hand. You will lend to many nations, and you will not borrow.
\v 13 Yahweh will make you the head, and not the tail. You will be above only, and you will not be beneath, if you listen to the commandments of Yahweh your God which I command you today, to observe and to do,
\v 14 and shall not turn away from any of the words which I command you today, to the right hand or to the left, to go after other gods to serve them.
\p
\v 15 But it shall come to pass, if you will not listen to Yahweh your God’s voice, to observe to do all his commandments and his statutes which I command you today, that all these curses will come on you and overtake you.
\v 16 You will be cursed in the city, and you will be cursed in the field.
\v 17 Your basket and your kneading trough will be cursed.
\v 18 The fruit of your body, the fruit of your ground, the increase of your livestock, and the young of your flock will be cursed.
\v 19 You will be cursed when you come in, and you will be cursed when you go out.
\v 20 Yahweh will send on you cursing, confusion, and rebuke in all that you put your hand to do, until you are destroyed and until you perish quickly, because of the evil of your doings, by which you have forsaken me.
\v 21 Yahweh will make the pestilence cling to you, until he has consumed you from off the land where you go in to possess it.
\v 22 Yahweh will strike you with consumption, with fever, with inflammation, with fiery heat, with the sword, with blight, and with mildew. They will pursue you until you perish.
\v 23 Your sky that is over your head will be bronze, and the earth that is under you will be iron.
\v 24 Yahweh will make the rain of your land powder and dust. It will come down on you from the sky, until you are destroyed.
\v 25 Yahweh will cause you to be struck before your enemies. You will go out one way against them, and will flee seven ways before them. You will be tossed back and forth among all the kingdoms of the earth.
\v 26 Your dead bodies will be food to all birds of the sky, and to the animals of the earth; and there will be no one to frighten them away.
\v 27 Yahweh will strike you with the boils of Egypt, with the tumors, with the scurvy, and with the itch, of which you can not be healed.
\v 28 Yahweh will strike you with madness, with blindness, and with astonishment of heart.
\v 29 You will grope at noonday, as the blind gropes in darkness, and you shall not prosper in your ways. You will only be oppressed and robbed always, and there will be no one to save you.
\v 30 You will betroth a wife, and another man shall lie with her. You will build a house, and you won’t dwell in it. You will plant a vineyard, and not use its fruit.
\v 31 Your ox will be slain before your eyes, and you will not eat any of it. Your donkey will be violently taken away from before your face, and will not be restored to you. Your sheep will be given to your enemies, and you will have no one to save you.
\v 32 Your sons and your daughters will be given to another people. Your eyes will look, and fail with longing for them all day long. There will be no power in your hand.
\v 33 A nation which you don’t know will eat the fruit of your ground and all of your work. You will only be oppressed and crushed always,
\v 34 so that the sights that you see with your eyes will drive you mad.
\v 35 Yahweh will strike you in the knees and in the legs with a sore boil, of which you cannot be healed, from the sole of your foot to the crown of your head.
\v 36 Yahweh will bring you, and your king whom you will set over yourselves, to a nation that you have not known, you nor your fathers. There you will serve other gods of wood and stone.
\v 37 You will become an astonishment, a proverb, and a byword among all the peoples where Yahweh will lead you away.
\v 38 You will carry much seed out into the field, and will gather little in, for the locust will consume it.
\v 39 You will plant vineyards and dress them, but you will neither drink of the wine, nor harvest, because worms will eat them.
\v 40 You will have olive trees throughout all your borders, but you won’t anoint yourself with the oil, for your olives will drop off.
\v 41 You will father sons and daughters, but they will not be yours, for they will go into captivity.
\v 42 Locusts will consume all of your trees and the fruit of your ground.
\v 43 The foreigner who is among you will mount up above you higher and higher, and you will come down lower and lower.
\v 44 He will lend to you, and you won’t lend to him. He will be the head, and you will be the tail.
\p
\v 45 All these curses will come on you, and will pursue you and overtake you, until you are destroyed, because you didn’t listen to Yahweh your God’s voice, to keep his commandments and his statutes which he commanded you.
\v 46 They will be for a sign and for a wonder to you and to your offspring forever.
\v 47 Because you didn’t serve Yahweh your God with joyfulness and with gladness of heart, by reason of the abundance of all things;
\v 48 therefore you will serve your enemies whom Yahweh sends against you, in hunger, in thirst, in nakedness, and in lack of all things. He will put an iron yoke on your neck until he has destroyed you.
\v 49 Yahweh will bring a nation against you from far, from the end of the earth, as the eagle flies: a nation whose language you will not understand,
\v 50 a nation of fierce facial expressions, that doesn’t respect the elderly, nor show favor to the young.
\v 51 They will eat the fruit of your livestock and the fruit of your ground, until you are destroyed. They also won’t leave you grain, new wine, oil, the increase of your livestock, or the young of your flock, until they have caused you to perish.
\v 52 They will besiege you in all your gates until your high and fortified walls in which you trusted come down throughout all your land. They will besiege you in all your gates throughout all your land which Yahweh your God has given you.
\v 53 You will eat the fruit of your own body, the flesh of your sons and of your daughters, whom Yahweh your God has given you, in the siege and in the distress with which your enemies will distress you.
\v 54 The man who is tender among you, and very delicate, his eye will be evil toward his brother, toward the wife whom he loves, and toward the remnant of his children whom he has remaining,
\v 55 so that he will not give to any of them of the flesh of his children whom he will eat, because he has nothing left to him, in the siege and in the distress with which your enemy will distress you in all your gates.
\v 56 The tender and delicate woman among you, who would not venture to set the sole of her foot on the ground for delicateness and tenderness, her eye will be evil toward the husband that she loves, toward her son, toward her daughter,
\v 57 toward her young one who comes out from between her feet, and toward her children whom she bears; for she will eat them secretly for lack of all things in the siege and in the distress with which your enemy will distress you in your gates.
\v 58 If you will not observe to do all the words of this law that are written in this book, that you may fear this glorious and fearful name, YAHWEH your God,
\v 59 then Yahweh will make your plagues and the plagues of your offspring fearful, even great plagues, and of long duration, and severe sicknesses, and of long duration.
\v 60 He will bring on you again all the diseases of Egypt, which you were afraid of; and they will cling to you.
\v 61 Also every sickness and every plague which is not written in the book of this law, Yahweh will bring them on you until you are destroyed.
\v 62 You will be left few in number, even though you were as the stars of the sky for multitude, because you didn’t listen to Yahweh your God’s voice.
\v 63 It will happen that as Yahweh rejoiced over you to do you good, and to multiply you, so Yahweh will rejoice over you to cause you to perish and to destroy you. You will be plucked from the land that you are going in to possess.
\v 64 Yahweh will scatter you among all peoples, from one end of the earth to the other end of the earth. There you will serve other gods which you have not known, you nor your fathers, even wood and stone.
\v 65 Among these nations you will find no ease, and there will be no rest for the sole of your foot; but Yahweh will give you there a trembling heart, failing of eyes, and pining of soul.
\v 66 Your life will hang in doubt before you. You will be afraid night and day, and will have no assurance of your life.
\v 67 In the morning you will say, “I wish it were evening!” and at evening you will say, “I wish it were morning!” for the fear of your heart which you will fear, and for the sights which your eyes will see.
\v 68 Yahweh will bring you into Egypt again with ships, by the way of which I told to you that you would never see it again. There you will offer yourselves to your enemies for male and female slaves, and nobody will buy you.


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\c 29
\p
\v 1 These are the words of the covenant which Yahweh commanded Moses to make with the children of Israel in the land of Moab, in addition to the covenant which he made with them in Horeb.
\v 2 Moses called to all Israel, and said to them:
\p Your eyes have seen all that Yahweh did in the land of Egypt to Pharaoh, and to all his servants, and to all his land;
\v 3 the great trials which your eyes saw, the signs, and those great wonders.
\v 4 But Yahweh has not given you a heart to know, eyes to see, and ears to hear, to this day.
\v 5 I have led you forty years in the wilderness. Your clothes have not grown old on you, and your sandals have not grown old on your feet.
\v 6 You have not eaten bread, neither have you drunk wine or strong drink, that you may know that I am Yahweh your God.
\v 7 When you came to this place, Sihon the king of Heshbon and Og the king of Bashan came out against us to battle, and we struck them.
\v 8 We took their land, and gave it for an inheritance to the Reubenites, and to the Gadites, and to the half-tribe of the Manassites.
\v 9 Therefore keep the words of this covenant and do them, that you may prosper in all that you do.
\v 10 All of you stand today in the presence of Yahweh your God: your heads, your tribes, your elders, and your officers, even all the men of Israel,
\v 11 your little ones, your wives, and the foreigners who are in the middle of your camps, from the one who cuts your wood to the one who draws your water,
\v 12 that you may enter into the covenant of Yahweh your God, and into his oath, which Yahweh your God makes with you today,
\v 13 that he may establish you today as his people, and that he may be your God, as he spoke to you and as he swore to your fathers, to Abraham, to Isaac, and to Jacob.
\v 14 Neither do I make this covenant and this oath with you only,
\v 15 but with those who stand here with us today before Yahweh our God, and also with those who are not here with us today
\v 16 (for you know how we lived in the land of Egypt, and how we came through the middle of the nations through which you passed;
\v 17 and you have seen their abominations and their idols of wood, stone, silver, and gold, which were among them);
\v 18 lest there should be among you man, woman, family, or tribe whose heart turns away today from Yahweh our God, to go to serve the gods of those nations; lest there should be among you a root that produces bitter poison;
\v 19 and it happen, when he hears the words of this curse, that he bless himself in his heart, saying, “I shall have peace, though I walk in the stubbornness of my heart,” to destroy the moist with the dry.
\v 20 Yahweh will not pardon him, but then Yahweh’s anger and his jealousy will smoke against that man, and all the curse that is written in this book will fall on him, and Yahweh will blot out his name from under the sky.
\v 21 Yahweh will set him apart for evil out of all the tribes of Israel, according to all the curses of the covenant written in this book of the law.
\p
\v 22 The generation to come—your children who will rise up after you, and the foreigner who will come from a far land—will say, when they see the plagues of that land, and the sicknesses with which Yahweh has made it sick,
\v 23 that all of its land is sulfur, salt, and burning, that it is not sown, doesn’t produce, nor does any grass grow in it, like the overthrow of Sodom, Gomorrah, Admah, and Zeboiim, which Yahweh overthrew in his anger, and in his wrath.
\v 24 Even all the nations will say, “Why has Yahweh done this to this land? What does the heat of this great anger mean?”
\p
\v 25 Then men will say, “Because they abandoned the covenant of Yahweh, the God of their fathers, which he made with them when he brought them out of the land of Egypt,
\v 26 and went and served other gods and worshiped them, gods that they didn’t know and that he had not given to them.
\v 27 Therefore Yahweh’s anger burned against this land, to bring on it all the curses that are written in this book.
\v 28 Yahweh rooted them out of their land in anger, in wrath, and in great indignation, and thrust them into another land, as it is today.”
\p
\v 29 The secret things belong to Yahweh our God; but the things that are revealed belong to us and to our children forever, that we may do all the words of this law.


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\p
\v 1 Then we turned, and went up the way to Bashan. Og the king of Bashan came out against us, he and all his people, to battle at Edrei.
\v 2 Yahweh said to me, “Don’t fear him; for I have delivered him, with all his people, and his land, into your hand. You shall do to him as you did to Sihon king of the Amorites, who lived at Heshbon.”
\p
\v 3 So Yahweh our God delivered into our hand Og also, the king of Bashan, and all his people. We struck him until no one was left to him remaining.
\v 4 We took all his cities at that time. There was not a city which we didn’t take from them: sixty cities, all the region of Argob, the kingdom of Og in Bashan.
\v 5 All these were cities fortified with high walls, gates, and bars, in addition to a great many villages without walls.
\v 6 We utterly destroyed them, as we did to Sihon king of Heshbon, utterly destroying every inhabited city, with the women and the little ones.
\v 7 But all the livestock, and the plunder of the cities, we took for plunder for ourselves.
\v 8 We took the land at that time out of the hand of the two kings of the Amorites who were beyond the Jordan, from the valley of the Arnon to Mount Hermon.
\v 9 (The Sidonians call Hermon Sirion, and the Amorites call it Senir.)
\v 10 We took all the cities of the plain, and all Gilead, and all Bashan, to Salecah and Edrei, cities of the kingdom of Og in Bashan.
\v 11 (For only Og king of Bashan remained of the remnant of the Rephaim. Behold, his bedstead was a bedstead of iron. Isn’t it in Rabbah of the children of Ammon? Nine cubits\f + \fr 3:11 \ft A cubit is the length from the tip of the middle finger to the elbow on a man’s arm, or about 18 inches or 46 centimeters.\f* was its length, and four cubits its width, after the cubit of a man.)
\v 12 This land we took in possession at that time: from Aroer, which is by the valley of the Arnon, and half the hill country of Gilead with its cities, I gave to the Reubenites and to the Gadites;
\v 13 and the rest of Gilead, and all Bashan, the kingdom of Og, I gave to the half-tribe of Manasseh—all the region of Argob, even all Bashan. (The same is called the land of Rephaim.
\v 14 Jair the son of Manasseh took all the region of Argob, to the border of the Geshurites and the Maacathites, and called them, even Bashan, after his own name, Havvoth Jair, to this day.)
\v 15 I gave Gilead to Machir.
\v 16 To the Reubenites and to the Gadites I gave from Gilead even to the valley of the Arnon, the middle of the valley, and its border, even to the river Jabbok, which is the border of the children of Ammon;
\v 17 the Arabah also, and the Jordan and its border, from Chinnereth even to the sea of the Arabah, the Salt Sea, under the slopes of Pisgah eastward.
\p
\v 18 I commanded you at that time, saying, “Yahweh your God has given you this land to possess it. All of you men of valor shall pass over armed before your brothers, the children of Israel.
\v 19 But your wives, and your little ones, and your livestock, (I know that you have much livestock), shall live in your cities which I have given you,
\v 20 until Yahweh gives rest to your brothers, as to you, and they also possess the land which Yahweh your God gives them beyond the Jordan. Then you shall each return to his own possession, which I have given you.”
\p
\v 21 I commanded Joshua at that time, saying, “Your eyes have seen all that Yahweh your God has done to these two kings. So shall Yahweh do to all the kingdoms where you go over.
\v 22 You shall not fear them; for Yahweh your God himself fights for you.”
\p
\v 23 I begged Yahweh at that time, saying,
\v 24 “Lord\f + \fr 3:24 \ft The word translated “Lord” is “Adonai.”\f* Yahweh, you have begun to show your servant your greatness, and your strong hand. For what god is there in heaven or in earth that can do works like yours, and mighty acts like yours?
\v 25 Please let me go over and see the good land that is beyond the Jordan, that fine mountain, and Lebanon.”
\p
\v 26 But Yahweh was angry with me because of you, and didn’t listen to me. Yahweh said to me, “That is enough! Speak no more to me of this matter.
\v 27 Go up to the top of Pisgah, and lift up your eyes westward, and northward, and southward, and eastward, and see with your eyes; for you shall not go over this Jordan.
\v 28 But commission Joshua, and encourage him, and strengthen him; for he shall go over before this people, and he shall cause them to inherit the land which you shall see.”
\v 29 So we stayed in the valley near Beth Peor.


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\p
\v 1 It shall happen, when all these things have come on you, the blessing and the curse, which I have set before you, and you shall call them to mind among all the nations where Yahweh your God has driven you,
\v 2 and return to Yahweh your God and obey his voice according to all that I command you today, you and your children, with all your heart and with all your soul,
\v 3 that then Yahweh your God will release you from captivity, have compassion on you, and will return and gather you from all the peoples where Yahweh your God has scattered you.
\v 4 If your outcasts are in the uttermost parts of the heavens, from there Yahweh your God will gather you, and from there he will bring you back.
\v 5 Yahweh your God will bring you into the land which your fathers possessed, and you will possess it. He will do you good, and increase your numbers more than your fathers.
\v 6 Yahweh your God will circumcise your heart, and the heart of your offspring, to love Yahweh your God with all your heart and with all your soul, that you may live.
\v 7 Yahweh your God will put all these curses on your enemies and on those who hate you, who persecuted you.
\v 8 You shall return and obey Yahweh’s voice, and do all his commandments which I command you today.
\v 9 Yahweh your God will make you prosperous in all the work of your hand, in the fruit of your body, in the fruit of your livestock, and in the fruit of your ground, for good; for Yahweh will again rejoice over you for good, as he rejoiced over your fathers,
\v 10 if you will obey Yahweh your God’s voice, to keep his commandments and his statutes which are written in this book of the law; if you turn to Yahweh your God with all your heart and with all your soul.
\p
\v 11 For this commandment which I command you today is not too hard for you or too distant.
\v 12 It is not in heaven, that you should say, “Who will go up for us to heaven, bring it to us, and proclaim it to us, that we may do it?”
\v 13 Neither is it beyond the sea, that you should say, “Who will go over the sea for us, bring it to us, and proclaim it to us, that we may do it?”
\v 14 But the word is very near to you, in your mouth and in your heart, that you may do it.
\v 15 Behold, I have set before you today life and prosperity, and death and evil.
\v 16 For I command you today to love Yahweh your God, to walk in his ways and to keep his commandments, his statutes, and his ordinances, that you may live and multiply, and that Yahweh your God may bless you in the land where you go in to possess it.
\v 17 But if your heart turns away, and you will not hear, but are drawn away and worship other gods, and serve them,
\v 18 I declare to you today that you will surely perish. You will not prolong your days in the land where you pass over the Jordan to go in to possess it.
\v 19 I call heaven and earth to witness against you today that I have set before you life and death, the blessing and the curse. Therefore choose life, that you may live, you and your descendants,
\v 20 to love Yahweh your God, to obey his voice, and to cling to him; for he is your life, and the length of your days, that you may dwell in the land which Yahweh swore to your fathers, to Abraham, to Isaac, and to Jacob, to give them.


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\c 31
\p
\v 1 Moses went and spoke these words to all Israel.
\v 2 He said to them, “I am one hundred twenty years old today. I can no more go out and come in. Yahweh has said to me, ‘You shall not go over this Jordan.’
\v 3 Yahweh your God himself will go over before you. He will destroy these nations from before you, and you shall dispossess them. Joshua will go over before you, as Yahweh has spoken.
\v 4 Yahweh will do to them as he did to Sihon and to Og, the kings of the Amorites, and to their land, when he destroyed them.
\v 5 Yahweh will deliver them up before you, and you shall do to them according to all the commandment which I have commanded you.
\v 6 Be strong and courageous. Don’t be afraid or scared of them; for Yahweh your God himself is who goes with you. He will not fail you nor forsake you.”
\p
\v 7 Moses called to Joshua, and said to him in the sight of all Israel, “Be strong and courageous, for you shall go with this people into the land which Yahweh has sworn to their fathers to give them; and you shall cause them to inherit it.
\v 8 Yahweh himself is who goes before you. He will be with you. He will not fail you nor forsake you. Don’t be afraid. Don’t be discouraged.”
\p
\v 9 Moses wrote this law and delivered it to the priests the sons of Levi, who bore the ark of Yahweh’s covenant, and to all the elders of Israel.
\v 10 Moses commanded them, saying, “At the end of every seven years, in the set time of the year of release, in the feast of booths,
\v 11 when all Israel has come to appear before Yahweh your God in the place which he will choose, you shall read this law before all Israel in their hearing.
\v 12 Assemble the people, the men and the women and the little ones, and the foreigners who are within your gates, that they may hear, learn, fear Yahweh your God, and observe to do all the words of this law,
\v 13 and that their children, who have not known, may hear and learn to fear Yahweh your God, as long as you live in the land where you go over the Jordan to possess it.”
\p
\v 14 Yahweh said to Moses, “Behold, your days approach that you must die. Call Joshua, and present yourselves in the Tent of Meeting, that I may commission him.”
\p Moses and Joshua went, and presented themselves in the Tent of Meeting.
\p
\v 15 Yahweh appeared in the Tent in a pillar of cloud, and the pillar of cloud stood over the Tent’s door.
\v 16 Yahweh said to Moses, “Behold, you shall sleep with your fathers. This people will rise up and play the prostitute after the strange gods of the land where they go to be among them, and will forsake me and break my covenant which I have made with them.
\v 17 Then my anger shall be kindled against them in that day, and I will forsake them, and I will hide my face from them, and they shall be devoured, and many evils and troubles shall come on them; so that they will say in that day, ‘Haven’t these evils come on us because our God is not among us?’
\v 18 I will surely hide my face in that day for all the evil which they have done, in that they have turned to other gods.
\p
\v 19 “Now therefore write this song for yourselves, and teach it to the children of Israel. Put it in their mouths, that this song may be a witness for me against the children of Israel.
\v 20 For when I have brought them into the land which I swore to their fathers, flowing with milk and honey, and they have eaten and filled themselves, and grown fat, then they will turn to other gods, and serve them, and despise me, and break my covenant.
\v 21 It will happen, when many evils and troubles have come on them, that this song will testify before them as a witness; for it will not be forgotten out of the mouths of their descendants; for I know their ways and what they are doing today, before I have brought them into the land which I promised them.”
\p
\v 22 So Moses wrote this song the same day, and taught it to the children of Israel.
\p
\v 23 He commissioned Joshua the son of Nun, and said, “Be strong and courageous; for you shall bring the children of Israel into the land which I swore to them. I will be with you.”
\p
\v 24 When Moses had finished writing the words of this law in a book, until they were finished,
\v 25 Moses commanded the Levites, who bore the ark of Yahweh’s covenant, saying,
\v 26 “Take this book of the law, and put it by the side of the ark of Yahweh your God’s covenant, that it may be there for a witness against you.
\v 27 For I know your rebellion and your stiff neck. Behold, while I am yet alive with you today, you have been rebellious against Yahweh. How much more after my death?
\v 28 Assemble to me all the elders of your tribes and your officers, that I may speak these words in their ears, and call heaven and earth to witness against them.
\v 29 For I know that after my death you will utterly corrupt yourselves, and turn away from the way which I have commanded you; and evil will happen to you in the latter days, because you will do that which is evil in Yahweh’s sight, to provoke him to anger through the work of your hands.”
\p
\v 30 Moses spoke in the ears of all the assembly of Israel the words of this song, until they were finished.


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\c 32
\q1
\v 1 Give ear, you heavens, and I will speak.
\q2 Let the earth hear the words of my mouth.
\q1
\v 2 My doctrine will drop as the rain.
\q2 My speech will condense as the dew,
\q2 as the misty rain on the tender grass,
\q2 as the showers on the herb.
\q1
\v 3 For I will proclaim Yahweh’s name.
\q2 Ascribe greatness to our God!
\q1
\v 4 The Rock: his work is perfect,
\q2 for all his ways are just.
\q2 A God of faithfulness who does no wrong,
\q2 just and right is he.
\q1
\v 5 They have dealt corruptly with him.
\q2 They are not his children, because of their defect.
\q2 They are a perverse and crooked generation.
\q1
\v 6 Is this the way you repay Yahweh,
\q2 foolish and unwise people?
\q1 Isn’t he your father who has bought you?
\q2 He has made you and established you.
\q1
\v 7 Remember the days of old.
\q2 Consider the years of many generations.
\q1 Ask your father, and he will show you;
\q2 your elders, and they will tell you.
\q1
\v 8 When the Most High gave to the nations their inheritance,
\q2 when he separated the children of men,
\q1 he set the bounds of the peoples
\q2 according to the number of the children of Israel.
\q1
\v 9 For Yahweh’s portion is his people.
\q2 Jacob is the lot of his inheritance.
\q1
\v 10 He found him in a desert land,
\q2 in the waste howling wilderness.
\q1 He surrounded him.
\q2 He cared for him.
\q2 He kept him as the apple of his eye.
\q1
\v 11 As an eagle that stirs up her nest,
\q2 that flutters over her young,
\q1 he spread abroad his wings,
\q2 he took them,
\q2 he bore them on his feathers.
\q1
\v 12 Yahweh alone led him.
\q2 There was no foreign god with him.
\q1
\v 13 He made him ride on the high places of the earth.
\q2 He ate the increase of the field.
\q1 He caused him to suck honey out of the rock,
\q2 oil out of the flinty rock;
\q1
\v 14 butter from the herd, and milk from the flock,
\q2 with fat of lambs,
\q2 rams of the breed of Bashan, and goats,
\q2 with the finest of the wheat.
\q2 From the blood of the grape, you drank wine.
\q1
\v 15 But Jeshurun grew fat, and kicked.
\q2 You have grown fat.
\q2 You have grown thick.
\q2 You have become sleek.
\q1 Then he abandoned God who made him,
\q2 and rejected the Rock of his salvation.
\q1
\v 16 They moved him to jealousy with strange gods.
\q2 They provoked him to anger with abominations.
\q1
\v 17 They sacrificed to demons, not God,
\q2 to gods that they didn’t know,
\q2 to new gods that came up recently,
\q2 which your fathers didn’t dread.
\q1
\v 18 Of the Rock who became your father, you are unmindful,
\q2 and have forgotten God who gave you birth.
\q1
\v 19 Yahweh saw and abhorred,
\q2 because of the provocation of his sons and his daughters.
\q1
\v 20 He said, “I will hide my face from them.
\q2 I will see what their end will be;
\q1 for they are a very perverse generation,
\q2 children in whom is no faithfulness.
\q1
\v 21 They have moved me to jealousy with that which is not God.
\q2 They have provoked me to anger with their vanities.
\q1 I will move them to jealousy with those who are not a people.
\q2 I will provoke them to anger with a foolish nation.
\q1
\v 22 For a fire is kindled in my anger,
\q2 that burns to the lowest Sheol,\f + \fr 32:22 \ft Sheol is the place of the dead.\f*
\q2 devours the earth with its increase,
\q2 and sets the foundations of the mountains on fire.
\b
\q1
\v 23 “I will heap evils on them.
\q2 I will spend my arrows on them.
\q1
\v 24 They shall be wasted with hunger,
\q2 and devoured with burning heat
\q2 and bitter destruction.
\q1 I will send the teeth of animals on them,
\q2 with the venom of vipers that glide in the dust.
\q1
\v 25 Outside the sword will bereave,
\q2 and in the rooms,
\q2 terror on both young man and virgin,
\q2 the nursing infant with the gray-haired man.
\q1
\v 26 I said that I would scatter them afar.
\q2 I would make their memory to cease from among men;
\q1
\v 27 were it not that I feared the provocation of the enemy,
\q2 lest their adversaries should judge wrongly,
\q2 lest they should say, ‘Our hand is exalted,
\q2 Yahweh has not done all this.’”
\b
\q1
\v 28 For they are a nation void of counsel.
\q2 There is no understanding in them.
\q1
\v 29 Oh that they were wise, that they understood this,
\q2 that they would consider their latter end!
\q1
\v 30 How could one chase a thousand,
\q2 and two put ten thousand to flight,
\q1 unless their Rock had sold them,
\q2 and Yahweh had delivered them up?
\q1
\v 31 For their rock is not as our Rock,
\q2 even our enemies themselves concede.
\q1
\v 32 For their vine is of the vine of Sodom,
\q2 of the fields of Gomorrah.
\q1 Their grapes are poison grapes.
\q2 Their clusters are bitter.
\q1
\v 33 Their wine is the poison of serpents,
\q2 the cruel venom of asps.
\b
\q1
\v 34 “Isn’t this laid up in store with me,
\q2 sealed up among my treasures?
\q1
\v 35 Vengeance is mine, and recompense,
\q2 at the time when their foot slides;
\q1 for the day of their calamity is at hand.
\q2 Their doom rushes at them.”
\b
\q1
\v 36 For Yahweh will judge his people,
\q2 and have compassion on his servants,
\q1 when he sees that their power is gone;
\q2 that there is no one remaining, shut up or left at large.
\q1
\v 37 He will say, “Where are their gods,
\q2 the rock in which they took refuge;
\q1
\v 38 which ate the fat of their sacrifices,
\q2 and drank the wine of their drink offering?
\q1 Let them rise up and help you!
\q2 Let them be your protection.
\b
\q1
\v 39 “See now that I myself am he.
\q2 There is no god with me.
\q1 I kill and I make alive.
\q2 I wound and I heal.
\q2 There is no one who can deliver out of my hand.
\q1
\v 40 For I lift up my hand to heaven and declare,
\q2 as I live forever,
\q1
\v 41 if I sharpen my glittering sword,
\q2 my hand grasps it in judgment;
\q1 I will take vengeance on my adversaries,
\q2 and will repay those who hate me.
\q1
\v 42 I will make my arrows drunk with blood.
\q2 My sword shall devour flesh with the blood of the slain and the captives,
\q2 from the head of the leaders of the enemy.”
\b
\q1
\v 43 Rejoice, you nations, with his people,
\q2 for he will avenge the blood of his servants.
\q2 He will take vengeance on his adversaries,
\q2 and will make atonement for his land and for his people.\f + \fr 32:43 \ft For this verse, LXX reads: Rejoice, you heavens, with him, and let all the angels of God worship him; rejoice you Gentiles, with his people, and let all the sons of God strengthen themselves in him; for he will avenge the blood of his sons, and he will render vengeance, and recompense justice to his enemies, and will reward them that hate him; and the Lord shall purge the land of his people.\f*
\p
\v 44 Moses came and spoke all the words of this song in the ears of the people, he and Joshua the son of Nun.
\v 45 Moses finished reciting all these words to all Israel.
\v 46 He said to them, “Set your heart to all the words which I testify to you today, which you shall command your children to observe to do, all the words of this law.
\v 47 For it is no vain thing for you, because it is your life, and through this thing you shall prolong your days in the land, where you go over the Jordan to possess it.”
\p
\v 48 Yahweh spoke to Moses that same day, saying,
\v 49 “Go up into this mountain of Abarim, to Mount Nebo, which is in the land of Moab, that is across from Jericho; and see the land of Canaan, which I give to the children of Israel for a possession.
\v 50 Die on the mountain where you go up, and be gathered to your people, as Aaron your brother died on Mount Hor, and was gathered to his people;
\v 51 because you trespassed against me among the children of Israel at the waters of Meribah of Kadesh, in the wilderness of Zin; because you didn’t uphold my holiness among the children of Israel.
\v 52 For you shall see the land from a distance; but you shall not go there into the land which I give the children of Israel.”


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\c 33
\p
\v 1 This is the blessing with which Moses the man of God blessed the children of Israel before his death.
\v 2 He said,
\q1 “Yahweh came from Sinai,
\q2 and rose from Seir to them.
\q1 He shone from Mount Paran.
\q2 He came from the ten thousands of holy ones.
\q2 At his right hand was a fiery law for them.\f + \fr 33:2 \ft another manuscript reads “He came with myriads of holy ones from the south, from his mountain slopes.”\f*
\q1
\v 3 Yes, he loves the people.
\q2 All his saints are in your hand.
\q2 They sat down at your feet.
\q2 Each receives your words.
\q1
\v 4 Moses commanded us a law,
\q2 an inheritance for the assembly of Jacob.
\q1
\v 5 He was king in Jeshurun,
\q2 when the heads of the people were gathered,
\q2 all the tribes of Israel together.
\b
\q1
\v 6 “Let Reuben live, and not die;
\q2 Nor let his men be few.”
\p
\v 7 This is for Judah. He said,
\q1 “Hear, Yahweh, the voice of Judah.
\q2 Bring him in to his people.
\q1 With his hands he contended for himself.
\q2 You shall be a help against his adversaries.”
\p
\v 8 About Levi he said,
\q1 “Your Thummim and your Urim are with your godly one,
\q2 whom you proved at Massah,
\q2 with whom you contended at the waters of Meribah.
\q1
\v 9 He said of his father, and of his mother, ‘I have not seen him.’
\q2 He didn’t acknowledge his brothers,
\q2 nor did he know his own children;
\q1 for they have observed your word,
\q2 and keep your covenant.
\q1
\v 10 They shall teach Jacob your ordinances,
\q2 and Israel your law.
\q1 They shall put incense before you,
\q2 and whole burnt offering on your altar.
\q1
\v 11 Yahweh, bless his skills.
\q2 Accept the work of his hands.
\q1 Strike through the hips of those who rise up against him,
\q2 of those who hate him, that they not rise again.”
\p
\v 12 About Benjamin he said,
\q1 “The beloved of Yahweh will dwell in safety by him.
\q2 He covers him all day long.
\q2 He dwells between his shoulders.”
\p
\v 13 About Joseph he said,
\q1 “His land is blessed by Yahweh,
\q2 for the precious things of the heavens, for the dew,
\q2 for the deep that couches beneath,
\q1
\v 14 for the precious things of the fruits of the sun,
\q2 for the precious things that the moon can yield,
\q1
\v 15 for the best things of the ancient mountains,
\q2 for the precious things of the everlasting hills,
\q1
\v 16 for the precious things of the earth and its fullness,
\q2 the good will of him who lived in the bush.\f + \fr 33:16 \ft i.e., the burning bush of Exodus 3:3-4.\f*
\q1 Let this come on the head of Joseph,
\q2 on the crown of the head of him who was separated from his brothers.
\q1
\v 17 Majesty belongs to the firstborn of his herd.
\q2 His horns are the horns of the wild ox.
\q2 With them he will push all the peoples to the ends of the earth.
\q1 They are the ten thousands of Ephraim.
\q2 They are the thousands of Manasseh.”
\p
\v 18 About Zebulun he said,
\q1 “Rejoice, Zebulun, in your going out;
\q2 and Issachar, in your tents.
\q1
\v 19 They will call the peoples to the mountain.
\q2 There they will offer sacrifices of righteousness,
\q1 for they will draw out the abundance of the seas,
\q2 the hidden treasures of the sand.”
\p
\v 20 About Gad he said,
\q1 “He who enlarges Gad is blessed.
\q2 He dwells as a lioness,
\q2 and tears the arm and the crown of the head.
\q1
\v 21 He provided the first part for himself,
\q2 for the lawgiver’s portion reserved was reserved for him.
\q1 He came with the heads of the people.
\q2 He executed the righteousness of Yahweh,
\q2 His ordinances with Israel.”
\p
\v 22 About Dan he said,
\q1 “Dan is a lion’s cub
\q2 that leaps out of Bashan.”
\p
\v 23 About Naphtali he said,
\q1 “Naphtali, satisfied with favor,
\q2 full of Yahweh’s blessing,
\q2 Possess the west and the south.”
\p
\v 24 About Asher he said,
\q1 “Asher is blessed with children.
\q2 Let him be acceptable to his brothers.
\q2 Let him dip his foot in oil.
\q1
\v 25 Your bars will be iron and bronze.
\q2 As your days, so your strength will be.
\b
\q1
\v 26 “There is no one like God, Jeshurun,
\q2 who rides on the heavens for your help,
\q2 in his excellency on the skies.
\q1
\v 27 The eternal God is your dwelling place.
\q2 Underneath are the everlasting arms.
\q1 He thrust out the enemy from before you,
\q2 and said, ‘Destroy!’
\q1
\v 28 Israel dwells in safety,
\q2 the fountain of Jacob alone,
\q1 In a land of grain and new wine.
\q2 Yes, his heavens drop down dew.
\q1
\v 29 You are happy, Israel!
\q2 Who is like you, a people saved by Yahweh,
\q2 the shield of your help,
\q2 the sword of your excellency?
\q1 Your enemies will submit themselves to you.
\q2 You will tread on their high places.”


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\c 34
\p
\v 1 Moses went up from the plains of Moab to Mount Nebo, to the top of Pisgah, that is opposite Jericho. Yahweh showed him all the land of Gilead to Dan,
\v 2 and all Naphtali, and the land of Ephraim and Manasseh, and all the land of Judah, to the Western Sea,
\v 3 and the south,\f + \fr 34:3 \ft or, Negev\f* and the Plain of the valley of Jericho the city of palm trees, to Zoar.
\v 4 Yahweh said to him, “This is the land which I swore to Abraham, to Isaac, and to Jacob, saying, ‘I will give it to your offspring.’ I have caused you to see it with your eyes, but you shall not go over there.”
\p
\v 5 So Moses the servant of Yahweh died there in the land of Moab, according to Yahweh’s word.
\v 6 He buried him in the valley in the land of Moab opposite Beth Peor, but no man knows where his tomb is to this day.
\v 7 Moses was one hundred twenty years old when he died. His eye was not dim, nor his strength gone.
\v 8 The children of Israel wept for Moses in the plains of Moab thirty days, until the days of weeping in the mourning for Moses were ended.
\v 9 Joshua the son of Nun was full of the spirit of wisdom, for Moses had laid his hands on him. The children of Israel listened to him, and did as Yahweh commanded Moses.
\v 10 Since then, there has not arisen a prophet in Israel like Moses, whom Yahweh knew face to face,
\v 11 in all the signs and the wonders which Yahweh sent him to do in the land of Egypt, to Pharaoh, and to all his servants, and to all his land,
\v 12 and in all the mighty hand, and in all the awesome deeds, which Moses did in the sight of all Israel.


file: ./bibles/Sample/5/4/100000001
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\c 4
\p
\v 1 Now, Israel, listen to the statutes and to the ordinances which I teach you, to do them; that you may live, and go in and possess the land which Yahweh, the God of your fathers, gives you.
\v 2 You shall not add to the word which I command you, neither shall you take away from it, that you may keep the commandments of Yahweh your God which I command you.
\v 3 Your eyes have seen what Yahweh did because of Baal Peor; for Yahweh your God has destroyed all the men who followed Baal Peor from among you.
\v 4 But you who were faithful to Yahweh your God are all alive today.
\v 5 Behold, I have taught you statutes and ordinances, even as Yahweh my God commanded me, that you should do so in the middle of the land where you go in to possess it.
\v 6 Keep therefore and do them; for this is your wisdom and your understanding in the sight of the peoples who shall hear all these statutes and say, “Surely this great nation is a wise and understanding people.”
\v 7 For what great nation is there that has a god so near to them as Yahweh our God is whenever we call on him?
\v 8 What great nation is there that has statutes and ordinances so righteous as all this law which I set before you today?
\p
\v 9 Only be careful, and keep your soul diligently, lest you forget the things which your eyes saw, and lest they depart from your heart all the days of your life; but make them known to your children and your children’s children—
\v 10 the day that you stood before Yahweh your God in Horeb, when Yahweh said to me, “Assemble the people to me, and I will make them hear my words, that they may learn to fear me all the days that they live on the earth, and that they may teach their children.”
\v 11 You came near and stood under the mountain. The mountain burned with fire to the heart of the sky, with darkness, cloud, and thick darkness.
\v 12 Yahweh spoke to you out of the middle of the fire: you heard the voice of words, but you saw no form; you only heard a voice.
\v 13 He declared to you his covenant, which he commanded you to perform, even the ten commandments. He wrote them on two stone tablets.
\v 14 Yahweh commanded me at that time to teach you statutes and ordinances, that you might do them in the land where you go over to possess it.
\v 15 Be very careful, for you saw no kind of form on the day that Yahweh spoke to you in Horeb out of the middle of the fire,
\v 16 lest you corrupt yourselves, and make yourself a carved image in the form of any figure, the likeness of male or female,
\v 17 the likeness of any animal that is on the earth, the likeness of any winged bird that flies in the sky,
\v 18 the likeness of anything that creeps on the ground, the likeness of any fish that is in the water under the earth;
\v 19 and lest you lift up your eyes to the sky, and when you see the sun and the moon and the stars, even all the army of the sky, you are drawn away and worship them, and serve them, which Yahweh your God has allotted to all the peoples under the whole sky.
\v 20 But Yahweh has taken you, and brought you out of the iron furnace, out of Egypt, to be to him a people of inheritance, as it is today.
\v 21 Furthermore Yahweh was angry with me for your sakes, and swore that I should not go over the Jordan, and that I should not go in to that good land which Yahweh your God gives you for an inheritance;
\v 22 but I must die in this land. I must not go over the Jordan, but you shall go over and possess that good land.
\v 23 Be careful, lest you forget the covenant of Yahweh your God, which he made with you, and make yourselves a carved image in the form of anything which Yahweh your God has forbidden you.
\v 24 For Yahweh your God is a devouring fire, a jealous God.
\v 25 When you shall father children and children’s children, and you shall have been long in the land, and shall corrupt yourselves, and make a carved image in the form of anything, and shall do that which is evil in Yahweh your God’s sight to provoke him to anger,
\v 26 I call heaven and earth to witness against you today, that you will soon utterly perish from off the land which you go over the Jordan to possess it. You will not prolong your days on it, but will utterly be destroyed.
\v 27 Yahweh will scatter you among the peoples, and you will be left few in number among the nations where Yahweh will lead you away.
\v 28 There you shall serve gods, the work of men’s hands, wood and stone, which neither see, nor hear, nor eat, nor smell.
\v 29 But from there you shall seek Yahweh your God, and you shall find him when you search after him with all your heart and with all your soul.
\v 30 When you are in oppression, and all these things have come on you, in the latter days you shall return to Yahweh your God and listen to his voice.
\v 31 For Yahweh your God is a merciful God. He will not fail you nor destroy you, nor forget the covenant of your fathers which he swore to them.
\v 32 For ask now of the days that are past, which were before you, since the day that God created man on the earth, and from the one end of the sky to the other, whether there has been anything as great as this thing is, or has been heard like it?
\v 33 Did a people ever hear the voice of God speaking out of the middle of the fire, as you have heard, and live?
\v 34 Or has God tried to go and take a nation for himself from among another nation, by trials, by signs, by wonders, by war, by a mighty hand, by an outstretched arm, and by great terrors, according to all that Yahweh your God did for you in Egypt before your eyes?
\v 35 It was shown to you so that you might know that Yahweh is God. There is no one else besides him.
\v 36 Out of heaven he made you to hear his voice, that he might instruct you. On earth he made you to see his great fire; and you heard his words out of the middle of the fire.
\v 37 Because he loved your fathers, therefore he chose their offspring after them, and brought you out with his presence, with his great power, out of Egypt;
\v 38 to drive out nations from before you greater and mightier than you, to bring you in, to give you their land for an inheritance, as it is today.
\v 39 Know therefore today, and take it to heart, that Yahweh himself is God in heaven above and on the earth beneath. There is no one else.
\v 40 You shall keep his statutes and his commandments which I command you today, that it may go well with you and with your children after you, and that you may prolong your days in the land which Yahweh your God gives you for all time.
\p
\v 41 Then Moses set apart three cities beyond the Jordan toward the sunrise,
\v 42 that the man slayer might flee there, who kills his neighbor unintentionally and didn’t hate him in time past, and that fleeing to one of these cities he might live:
\v 43 Bezer in the wilderness, in the plain country, for the Reubenites; and Ramoth in Gilead for the Gadites; and Golan in Bashan for the Manassites.
\p
\v 44 This is the law which Moses set before the children of Israel.
\v 45 These are the testimonies, and the statutes, and the ordinances which Moses spoke to the children of Israel when they came out of Egypt,
\v 46 beyond the Jordan, in the valley opposite Beth Peor, in the land of Sihon king of the Amorites, who lived at Heshbon, whom Moses and the children of Israel struck when they came out of Egypt.
\v 47 They took possession of his land and the land of Og king of Bashan, the two kings of the Amorites, who were beyond the Jordan toward the sunrise;
\v 48 from Aroer, which is on the edge of the valley of the Arnon, even to Mount Sion (also called Hermon),
\v 49 and all the Arabah beyond the Jordan eastward, even to the sea of the Arabah, under the slopes of Pisgah.


file: ./bibles/Sample/5/5/100000001
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\c 5
\p
\v 1 Moses called to all Israel, and said to them, “Hear, Israel, the statutes and the ordinances which I speak in your ears today, that you may learn them, and observe to do them.”
\v 2 Yahweh our God made a covenant with us in Horeb.
\v 3 Yahweh didn’t make this covenant with our fathers, but with us, even us, who are all of us here alive today.
\v 4 Yahweh spoke with you face to face on the mountain out of the middle of the fire,
\v 5 (I stood between Yahweh and you at that time, to show you Yahweh’s word; for you were afraid because of the fire, and didn’t go up onto the mountain) saying,
\m
\v 6 “I am Yahweh your God, who brought you out of the land of Egypt, out of the house of bondage.
\p
\v 7 “You shall have no other gods before me.
\p
\v 8 “You shall not make a carved image for yourself—any likeness of what is in heaven above, or what is in the earth beneath, or that is in the water under the earth.
\v 9 You shall not bow yourself down to them, nor serve them; for I, Yahweh your God, am a jealous God, visiting the iniquity of the fathers on the children and on the third and on the fourth generation of those who hate me;
\v 10 and showing loving kindness to thousands of those who love me and keep my commandments.
\p
\v 11 “You shall not misuse the name of Yahweh your God;\f + \fr 5:11 \ft or, You shall not take the name of Yahweh your God in vain;\f* for Yahweh will not hold him guiltless who misuses his name.
\p
\v 12 “Observe the Sabbath day, to keep it holy, as Yahweh your God commanded you.
\v 13 You shall labor six days, and do all your work;
\v 14 but the seventh day is a Sabbath to Yahweh your God, in which you shall not do any work— neither you, nor your son, nor your daughter, nor your male servant, nor your female servant, nor your ox, nor your donkey, nor any of your livestock, nor your stranger who is within your gates; that your male servant and your female servant may rest as well as you.
\v 15 You shall remember that you were a servant in the land of Egypt, and Yahweh your God brought you out of there by a mighty hand and by an outstretched arm. Therefore Yahweh your God commanded you to keep the Sabbath day.
\p
\v 16 “Honor your father and your mother, as Yahweh your God commanded you; that your days may be long, and that it may go well with you in the land which Yahweh your God gives you.
\p
\v 17 “You shall not murder.
\p
\v 18 “You shall not commit adultery.
\p
\v 19 “You shall not steal.
\p
\v 20 “You shall not give false testimony against your neighbor.
\p
\v 21 “You shall not covet your neighbor’s wife. Neither shall you desire your neighbor’s house, his field, or his male servant, or his female servant, his ox, or his donkey, or anything that is your neighbor’s.”
\p
\v 22 Yahweh spoke these words to all your assembly on the mountain out of the middle of the fire, of the cloud, and of the thick darkness, with a great voice. He added no more. He wrote them on two stone tablets, and gave them to me.
\v 23 When you heard the voice out of the middle of the darkness, while the mountain was burning with fire, you came near to me, even all the heads of your tribes, and your elders;
\v 24 and you said, “Behold, Yahweh our God has shown us his glory and his greatness, and we have heard his voice out of the middle of the fire. We have seen today that God does speak with man, and he lives.
\v 25 Now therefore, why should we die? For this great fire will consume us. If we hear Yahweh our God’s voice any more, then we shall die.
\v 26 For who is there of all flesh, that has heard the voice of the living God speaking out of the middle of the fire, as we have, and lived?
\v 27 Go near, and hear all that Yahweh our God shall say, and tell us all that Yahweh our God tells you; and we will hear it, and do it.”
\p
\v 28 Yahweh heard the voice of your words when you spoke to me; and Yahweh said to me, “I have heard the voice of the words of this people which they have spoken to you. They have well said all that they have spoken.
\v 29 Oh that there were such a heart in them that they would fear me and keep all my commandments always, that it might be well with them and with their children forever!
\p
\v 30 “Go tell them, ‘Return to your tents.’
\v 31 But as for you, stand here by me, and I will tell you all the commandments, and the statutes, and the ordinances, which you shall teach them, that they may do them in the land which I give them to possess.”
\p
\v 32 You shall observe to do therefore as Yahweh your God has commanded you. You shall not turn away to the right hand or to the left.
\v 33 You shall walk in all the way which Yahweh your God has commanded you, that you may live and that it may be well with you, and that you may prolong your days in the land which you shall possess.


file: ./bibles/Sample/5/6/100000001
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\c 6
\p
\v 1 Now these are the commandments, the statutes, and the ordinances, which Yahweh your God commanded to teach you, that you might do them in the land that you go over to possess;
\v 2 that you might fear Yahweh your God, to keep all his statutes and his commandments, which I command you—you, your son, and your son’s son, all the days of your life; and that your days may be prolonged.
\v 3 Hear therefore, Israel, and observe to do it, that it may be well with you, and that you may increase mightily, as Yahweh, the God of your fathers, has promised to you, in a land flowing with milk and honey.
\p
\v 4 Hear, Israel: Yahweh is our God. Yahweh is one.
\v 5 You shall love Yahweh your God with all your heart, with all your soul, and with all your might.
\v 6 These words, which I command you today, shall be on your heart;
\v 7 and you shall teach them diligently to your children, and shall talk of them when you sit in your house, and when you walk by the way, and when you lie down, and when you rise up.
\v 8 You shall bind them for a sign on your hand, and they shall be for frontlets between your eyes.
\v 9 You shall write them on the door posts of your house and on your gates.
\p
\v 10 It shall be, when Yahweh your God brings you into the land which he swore to your fathers, to Abraham, to Isaac, and to Jacob, to give you, great and goodly cities which you didn’t build,
\v 11 and houses full of all good things which you didn’t fill, and cisterns dug out which you didn’t dig, vineyards and olive trees which you didn’t plant, and you shall eat and be full;
\v 12 then beware lest you forget Yahweh, who brought you out of the land of Egypt, out of the house of bondage.
\v 13 You shall fear Yahweh your God; and you shall serve him, and shall swear by his name.
\v 14 You shall not go after other gods, of the gods of the peoples who are around you,
\v 15 for Yahweh your God among you is a jealous God, lest the anger of Yahweh your God be kindled against you, and he destroy you from off the face of the earth.
\v 16 You shall not tempt Yahweh your God, as you tempted him in Massah.
\v 17 You shall diligently keep the commandments of Yahweh your God, and his testimonies, and his statutes, which he has commanded you.
\v 18 You shall do that which is right and good in Yahweh’s sight, that it may be well with you and that you may go in and possess the good land which Yahweh swore to your fathers,
\v 19 to thrust out all your enemies from before you, as Yahweh has spoken.
\p
\v 20 When your son asks you in time to come, saying, “What do the testimonies, the statutes, and the ordinances, which Yahweh our God has commanded you mean?”
\v 21 then you shall tell your son, “We were Pharaoh’s slaves in Egypt. Yahweh brought us out of Egypt with a mighty hand;
\v 22 and Yahweh showed great and awesome signs and wonders on Egypt, on Pharaoh, and on all his house, before our eyes;
\v 23 and he brought us out from there, that he might bring us in, to give us the land which he swore to our fathers.
\v 24 Yahweh commanded us to do all these statutes, to fear Yahweh our God, for our good always, that he might preserve us alive, as we are today.
\v 25 It shall be righteousness to us, if we observe to do all these commandments before Yahweh our God, as he has commanded us.”


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\c 7
\p
\v 1 When Yahweh your God brings you into the land where you go to possess it, and casts out many nations before you—the Hittite, the Girgashite, the Amorite, the Canaanite, the Perizzite, the Hivite, and the Jebusite—seven nations greater and mightier than you;
\v 2 and when Yahweh your God delivers them up before you, and you strike them, then you shall utterly destroy them. You shall make no covenant with them, nor show mercy to them.
\v 3 You shall not make marriages with them. You shall not give your daughter to his son, nor shall you take his daughter for your son.
\v 4 For that would turn away your sons from following me, that they may serve other gods. So Yahweh’s anger would be kindled against you, and he would destroy you quickly.
\v 5 But you shall deal with them like this: you shall break down their altars, dash their pillars in pieces, cut down their Asherah poles, and burn their engraved images with fire.
\v 6 For you are a holy people to Yahweh your God. Yahweh your God has chosen you to be a people for his own possession, above all peoples who are on the face of the earth.
\v 7 Yahweh didn’t set his love on you nor choose you, because you were more in number than any people; for you were the fewest of all peoples;
\v 8 but because Yahweh loves you, and because he desires to keep the oath which he swore to your fathers, Yahweh has brought you out with a mighty hand and redeemed you out of the house of bondage, from the hand of Pharaoh king of Egypt.
\v 9 Know therefore that Yahweh your God himself is God, the faithful God, who keeps covenant and loving kindness with them who love him and keep his commandments to a thousand generations,
\v 10 and repays those who hate him to their face, to destroy them. He will not be slack to him who hates him. He will repay him to his face.
\v 11 You shall therefore keep the commandments, the statutes, and the ordinances which I command you today, to do them.
\v 12 It shall happen, because you listen to these ordinances and keep and do them, that Yahweh your God will keep with you the covenant and the loving kindness which he swore to your fathers.
\v 13 He will love you, bless you, and multiply you. He will also bless the fruit of your body and the fruit of your ground, your grain and your new wine and your oil, the increase of your livestock and the young of your flock, in the land which he swore to your fathers to give you.
\v 14 You will be blessed above all peoples. There won’t be male or female barren among you, or among your livestock.
\v 15 Yahweh will take away from you all sickness; and he will put none of the evil diseases of Egypt, which you know, on you, but will lay them on all those who hate you.
\v 16 You shall consume all the peoples whom Yahweh your God shall deliver to you. Your eye shall not pity them. You shall not serve their gods; for that would be a snare to you.
\v 17 If you shall say in your heart, “These nations are more than I; how can I dispossess them?”
\v 18 you shall not be afraid of them. You shall remember well what Yahweh your God did to Pharaoh and to all Egypt:
\v 19 the great trials which your eyes saw, the signs, the wonders, the mighty hand, and the outstretched arm, by which Yahweh your God brought you out. So shall Yahweh your God do to all the peoples of whom you are afraid.
\v 20 Moreover Yahweh your God will send the hornet among them, until those who are left, and hide themselves, perish from before you.
\v 21 You shall not be scared of them; for Yahweh your God is among you, a great and awesome God.
\v 22 Yahweh your God will cast out those nations before you little by little. You may not consume them at once, lest the animals of the field increase on you.
\v 23 But Yahweh your God will deliver them up before you, and will confuse them with a great confusion, until they are destroyed.
\v 24 He will deliver their kings into your hand, and you shall make their name perish from under the sky. No one will be able to stand before you until you have destroyed them.
\v 25 You shall burn the engraved images of their gods with fire. You shall not covet the silver or the gold that is on them, nor take it for yourself, lest you be snared in it; for it is an abomination to Yahweh your God.
\v 26 You shall not bring an abomination into your house and become a devoted thing like it. You shall utterly detest it. You shall utterly abhor it; for it is a devoted thing.


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\c 8
\p
\v 1 You shall observe to do all the commandments which I command you today, that you may live, and multiply, and go in and possess the land which Yahweh swore to your fathers.
\v 2 You shall remember all the way which Yahweh your God has led you these forty years in the wilderness, that he might humble you, to test you, to know what was in your heart, whether you would keep his commandments or not.
\v 3 He humbled you, allowed you to be hungry, and fed you with manna, which you didn’t know, neither did your fathers know, that he might teach you that man does not live by bread only, but man lives by every word that proceeds out of Yahweh’s mouth.
\v 4 Your clothing didn’t grow old on you, neither did your foot swell, these forty years.
\v 5 You shall consider in your heart that as a man disciplines his son, so Yahweh your God disciplines you.
\v 6 You shall keep the commandments of Yahweh your God, to walk in his ways, and to fear him.
\v 7 For Yahweh your God brings you into a good land, a land of brooks of water, of springs, and underground water flowing into valleys and hills;
\v 8 a land of wheat, barley, vines, fig trees, and pomegranates; a land of olive trees and honey;
\v 9 a land in which you shall eat bread without scarcity, you shall not lack anything in it; a land whose stones are iron, and out of whose hills you may dig copper.
\v 10 You shall eat and be full, and you shall bless Yahweh your God for the good land which he has given you.
\p
\v 11 Beware lest you forget Yahweh your God, in not keeping his commandments, his ordinances, and his statutes, which I command you today;
\v 12 lest, when you have eaten and are full, and have built fine houses and lived in them;
\v 13 and when your herds and your flocks multiply, and your silver and your gold is multiplied, and all that you have is multiplied;
\v 14 then your heart might be lifted up, and you forget Yahweh your God, who brought you out of the land of Egypt, out of the house of bondage;
\v 15 who led you through the great and terrible wilderness, with venomous snakes and scorpions, and thirsty ground where there was no water; who poured water for you out of the rock of flint;
\v 16 who fed you in the wilderness with manna, which your fathers didn’t know, that he might humble you, and that he might prove you, to do you good at your latter end;
\v 17 and lest you say in your heart, “My power and the might of my hand has gotten me this wealth.”
\v 18 But you shall remember Yahweh your God, for it is he who gives you power to get wealth, that he may establish his covenant which he swore to your fathers, as it is today.
\p
\v 19 It shall be, if you shall forget Yahweh your God, and walk after other gods, and serve them and worship them, I testify against you today that you shall surely perish.
\v 20 As the nations that Yahweh makes to perish before you, so you shall perish, because you wouldn’t listen to Yahweh your God’s voice.


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\c 9
\p
\v 1 Hear, Israel! You are to pass over the Jordan today, to go in to dispossess nations greater and mightier than yourself, cities great and fortified up to the sky,
\v 2 a people great and tall, the sons of the Anakim, whom you know, and of whom you have heard say, “Who can stand before the sons of Anak?”
\v 3 Know therefore today that Yahweh your God is he who goes over before you as a devouring fire. He will destroy them and he will bring them down before you. So you shall drive them out and make them perish quickly, as Yahweh has spoken to you.
\p
\v 4 Don’t say in your heart, after Yahweh your God has thrust them out from before you, “For my righteousness Yahweh has brought me in to possess this land;” because Yahweh drives them out before you because of the wickedness of these nations.
\v 5 Not for your righteousness or for the uprightness of your heart do you go in to possess their land; but for the wickedness of these nations Yahweh your God does drive them out from before you, and that he may establish the word which Yahweh swore to your fathers, to Abraham, to Isaac, and to Jacob.
\v 6 Know therefore that Yahweh your God doesn’t give you this good land to possess for your righteousness, for you are a stiff-necked people.
\v 7 Remember, and don’t forget, how you provoked Yahweh your God to wrath in the wilderness. From the day that you left the land of Egypt until you came to this place, you have been rebellious against Yahweh.
\v 8 Also in Horeb you provoked Yahweh to wrath, and Yahweh was angry with you to destroy you.
\v 9 When I had gone up onto the mountain to receive the stone tablets, even the tablets of the covenant which Yahweh made with you, then I stayed on the mountain forty days and forty nights. I neither ate bread nor drank water.
\v 10 Yahweh delivered to me the two stone tablets written with God’s finger. On them were all the words which Yahweh spoke with you on the mountain out of the middle of the fire in the day of the assembly.
\p
\v 11 It came to pass at the end of forty days and forty nights that Yahweh gave me the two stone tablets, even the tablets of the covenant.
\v 12 Yahweh said to me, “Arise, get down quickly from here; for your people whom you have brought out of Egypt have corrupted themselves. They have quickly turned away from the way which I commanded them. They have made a molten image for themselves!”
\p
\v 13 Furthermore Yahweh spoke to me, saying, “I have seen this people, and behold, it is a stiff-necked people.
\v 14 Leave me alone, that I may destroy them, and blot out their name from under the sky; and I will make of you a nation mightier and greater than they.”
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\v 15 So I turned and came down from the mountain, and the mountain was burning with fire. The two tablets of the covenant were in my two hands.
\v 16 I looked, and behold, you had sinned against Yahweh your God. You had made yourselves a molded calf. You had quickly turned away from the way which Yahweh had commanded you.
\v 17 I took hold of the two tablets, and threw them out of my two hands, and broke them before your eyes.
\v 18 I fell down before Yahweh, as at the first, forty days and forty nights. I neither ate bread nor drank water, because of all your sin which you sinned, in doing that which was evil in Yahweh’s sight, to provoke him to anger.
\v 19 For I was afraid of the anger and hot displeasure with which Yahweh was angry against you to destroy you. But Yahweh listened to me that time also.
\v 20 Yahweh was angry enough with Aaron to destroy him. I prayed for Aaron also at the same time.
\v 21 I took your sin, the calf which you had made, and burned it with fire, and crushed it, grinding it very small, until it was as fine as dust. I threw its dust into the brook that descended out of the mountain.
\v 22 At Taberah, at Massah, and at Kibroth Hattaavah you provoked Yahweh to wrath.
\v 23 When Yahweh sent you from Kadesh Barnea, saying, “Go up and possess the land which I have given you,” you rebelled against the commandment of Yahweh your God, and you didn’t believe him or listen to his voice.
\v 24 You have been rebellious against Yahweh from the day that I knew you.
\v 25 So I fell down before Yahweh the forty days and forty nights that I fell down, because Yahweh had said he would destroy you.
\v 26 I prayed to Yahweh, and said, “Lord Yahweh, don’t destroy your people and your inheritance that you have redeemed through your greatness, that you have brought out of Egypt with a mighty hand.
\v 27 Remember your servants, Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob. Don’t look at the stubbornness of this people, nor at their wickedness, nor at their sin,
\v 28 lest the land you brought us out from say, ‘Because Yahweh was not able to bring them into the land which he promised to them, and because he hated them, he has brought them out to kill them in the wilderness.’
\v 29 Yet they are your people and your inheritance, which you brought out by your great power and by your outstretched arm.”


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\v 1 Paul and Timothy, servants of Jesus Christ;
\p To all the saints in Christ Jesus who are at Philippi, with the overseers \f + \fr 1:1 \ft or, superintendents, or bishops\f* and servants:\f + \fr 1:1 \ft Or, deacons\f*
\v 2 Grace to you, and peace from God our Father and the Lord Jesus Christ.
\v 3 I thank my God whenever I remember you,
\v 4 always in every request of mine on behalf of you all, making my requests with joy,
\v 5 for your partnership\f + \fr 1:5 \ft The word translated “partnership” (κοινωνίᾳ) also means “fellowship” and “sharing”.\f* in furtherance of the Good News from the first day until now;
\v 6 being confident of this very thing, that he who began a good work in you will complete it until the day of Jesus Christ.
\v 7 It is even right for me to think this way on behalf of all of you, because I have you in my heart, because both in my bonds and in the defense and confirmation of the Good News, you all are partakers with me of grace.
\v 8 For God is my witness, how I long after all of you in the tender mercies of Christ Jesus.
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\v 9 This I pray, that your love may abound yet more and more in knowledge and all discernment,
\v 10 so that you may approve the things that are excellent, that you may be sincere and without offense to the day of Christ,
\v 11 being filled with the fruits of righteousness, which are through Jesus Christ, to the glory and praise of God.
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\v 12 Now I desire to have you know, brothers,\f + \fr 1:12 \ft The word for “brothers” here and where context allows may also be correctly translated “brothers and sisters” or “siblings.”\f* that the things which happened to me have turned out rather to the progress of the Good News,
\v 13 so that it became evident to the whole palace\f + \fr 1:13 \ft or, praetorian \f* guard, and to all the rest, that my bonds are in Christ,
\v 14 and that most of the brothers in the Lord, being confident through my bonds, are more abundantly bold to speak the word of God without fear.
\v 15 Some indeed preach Christ even out of envy and strife, and some also out of good will.
\v 16 The former insincerely preach Christ from selfish ambition, thinking that they add affliction to my chains;
\v 17 but the latter out of love, knowing that I am appointed for the defense of the Good News.
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\v 18 What does it matter? Only that in every way, whether in pretense or in truth, Christ is proclaimed. I rejoice in this, yes, and will rejoice.
\v 19 For I know that this will turn out to my salvation, through your prayers and the supply of the Spirit of Jesus Christ,
\v 20 according to my earnest expectation and hope, that I will in no way be disappointed, but with all boldness, as always, now also Christ will be magnified in my body, whether by life or by death.
\v 21 For to me to live is Christ, and to die is gain.
\v 22 But if I live on in the flesh, this will bring fruit from my work; yet I don’t know what I will choose.
\v 23 But I am hard pressed between the two, having the desire to depart and be with Christ, which is far better.
\v 24 Yet to remain in the flesh is more needful for your sake.
\v 25 Having this confidence, I know that I will remain, yes, and remain with you all for your progress and joy in the faith,
\v 26 that your rejoicing may abound in Christ Jesus in me through my presence with you again.
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\v 27 Only let your way of life be worthy of the Good News of Christ, that whether I come and see you or am absent, I may hear of your state, that you stand firm in one spirit, with one soul striving for the faith of the Good News;
\v 28 and in nothing frightened by the adversaries, which is for them a proof of destruction, but to you of salvation, and that from God.
\v 29 Because it has been granted to you on behalf of Christ, not only to believe in him, but also to suffer on his behalf,
\v 30 having the same conflict which you saw in me and now hear is in me.


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\v 1 If therefore there is any exhortation in Christ, if any consolation of love, if any fellowship of the Spirit, if any tender mercies and compassion,
\v 2 make my joy full by being like-minded, having the same love, being of one accord, of one mind;
\v 3 doing nothing through rivalry or through conceit, but in humility, each counting others better than himself;
\v 4 each of you not just looking to his own things, but each of you also to the things of others.
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\v 5 Have this in your mind, which was also in Christ Jesus,
\v 6 who, existing in the form of God, didn’t consider equality with God a thing to be grasped,
\v 7 but emptied himself, taking the form of a servant, being made in the likeness of men.
\v 8 And being found in human form, he humbled himself, becoming obedient to the point of death, yes, the death of the cross.
\v 9 Therefore God also highly exalted him, and gave to him the name which is above every name,
\v 10 that at the name of Jesus every knee should bow, of those in heaven, those on earth, and those under the earth,
\v 11 and that every tongue should confess that Jesus Christ is Lord, to the glory of God the Father.
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\v 12 So then, my beloved, even as you have always obeyed, not only in my presence, but now much more in my absence, work out your own salvation with fear and trembling.
\v 13 For it is God who works in you both to will and to work, for his good pleasure.
\v 14 Do all things without complaining and arguing,
\v 15 that you may become blameless and harmless, children of God without defect in the middle of a crooked and perverse generation, among whom you are seen as lights in the world,
\v 16 holding up the word of life, that I may have something to boast in the day of Christ, that I didn’t run in vain nor labor in vain.
\v 17 Yes, and if I am poured out on the sacrifice and service of your faith, I rejoice, and rejoice with you all.
\v 18 In the same way, you also rejoice, and rejoice with me.
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\v 19 But I hope in the Lord Jesus to send Timothy to you soon, that I also may be cheered up when I know how you are doing.
\v 20 For I have no one else like-minded, who will truly care about you.
\v 21 For they all seek their own, not the things of Jesus Christ.
\v 22 But you know the proof of him, that as a child serves a father, so he served with me in furtherance of the Good News.
\v 23 Therefore I hope to send him at once, as soon as I see how it will go with me.
\v 24 But I trust in the Lord that I myself also will come shortly.
\v 25 But I counted it necessary to send to you Epaphroditus, my brother, fellow worker, fellow soldier, and your apostle and servant of my need,
\v 26 since he longed for you all, and was very troubled because you had heard that he was sick.
\v 27 For indeed he was sick, nearly to death, but God had mercy on him, and not on him only, but on me also, that I might not have sorrow on sorrow.
\v 28 I have sent him therefore the more diligently, that when you see him again, you may rejoice, and that I may be the less sorrowful.
\v 29 Receive him therefore in the Lord with all joy, and hold such people in honor,
\v 30 because for the work of Christ he came near to death, risking his life to supply that which was lacking in your service toward me.


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\v 1 Finally, my brothers, rejoice in the Lord! To write the same things to you, to me indeed is not tiresome, but for you it is safe.
\v 2 Beware of the dogs; beware of the evil workers; beware of the false circumcision.
\v 3 For we are the circumcision, who worship God in the Spirit, and rejoice in Christ Jesus, and have no confidence in the flesh;
\v 4 though I myself might have confidence even in the flesh. If any other man thinks that he has confidence in the flesh, I yet more:
\v 5 circumcised the eighth day, of the stock of Israel, of the tribe of Benjamin, a Hebrew of Hebrews; concerning the law, a Pharisee;
\v 6 concerning zeal, persecuting the assembly; concerning the righteousness which is in the law, found blameless.
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\v 7 However, I consider those things that were gain to me as a loss for Christ.
\v 8 Yes most certainly, and I count all things to be a loss for the excellency of the knowledge of Christ Jesus, my Lord, for whom I suffered the loss of all things, and count them nothing but refuse, that I may gain Christ
\v 9 and be found in him, not having a righteousness of my own, that which is of the law, but that which is through faith in Christ, the righteousness which is from God by faith,
\v 10 that I may know him, and the power of his resurrection, and the fellowship of his sufferings, becoming conformed to his death,
\v 11 if by any means I may attain to the resurrection from the dead.
\v 12 Not that I have already obtained, or am already made perfect; but I press on, that I may take hold of that for which also I was taken hold of by Christ Jesus.
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\v 13 Brothers, I don’t regard myself as yet having taken hold, but one thing I do: forgetting the things which are behind, and stretching forward to the things which are before,
\v 14 I press on toward the goal for the prize of the high calling of God in Christ Jesus.
\v 15 Let us therefore, as many as are perfect, think this way. If in anything you think otherwise, God will also reveal that to you.
\v 16 Nevertheless, to the extent that we have already attained, let’s walk by the same rule. Let’s be of the same mind.
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\v 17 Brothers, be imitators together of me, and note those who walk this way, even as you have us for an example.
\v 18 For many walk, of whom I told you often, and now tell you even weeping, as the enemies of the cross of Christ,
\v 19 whose end is destruction, whose god is the belly, and whose glory is in their shame, who think about earthly things.
\v 20 For our citizenship is in heaven, from where we also wait for a Savior, the Lord Jesus Christ,
\v 21 who will change the body of our humiliation to be conformed to the body of his glory, according to the working by which he is able even to subject all things to himself.


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\v 1 Therefore, my brothers, beloved and longed for, my joy and crown, stand firm in the Lord in this way, my beloved.
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\v 2 I exhort Euodia, and I exhort Syntyche, to think the same way in the Lord.
\v 3 Yes, I beg you also, true partner, help these women, for they labored with me in the Good News with Clement also, and the rest of my fellow workers, whose names are in the book of life.
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\v 4 Rejoice in the Lord always! Again I will say, “Rejoice!”
\v 5 Let your gentleness be known to all men. The Lord is at hand.
\v 6 In nothing be anxious, but in everything, by prayer and petition with thanksgiving, let your requests be made known to God.
\v 7 And the peace of God, which surpasses all understanding, will guard your hearts and your thoughts in Christ Jesus.
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\v 8 Finally, brothers, whatever things are true, whatever things are honorable, whatever things are just, whatever things are pure, whatever things are lovely, whatever things are of good report: if there is any virtue and if there is any praise, think about these things.
\v 9 The things which you learned, received, heard, and saw in me: do these things, and the God of peace will be with you.
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\v 10 But I rejoice in the Lord greatly, that now at length you have revived your thought for me; in which you did indeed take thought, but you lacked opportunity.
\v 11 Not that I speak because of lack, for I have learned in whatever state I am, to be content in it.
\v 12 I know how to be humbled, and I also know how to abound. In everything and in all things I have learned the secret both to be filled and to be hungry, both to abound and to be in need.
\v 13 I can do all things through Christ, who strengthens me.
\v 14 However you did well that you shared in my affliction.
\v 15 You yourselves also know, you Philippians, that in the beginning of the Good News, when I departed from Macedonia, no assembly shared with me in the matter of giving and receiving but you only.
\v 16 For even in Thessalonica you sent once and again to my need.
\v 17 Not that I seek for the gift, but I seek for the fruit that increases to your account.
\v 18 But I have all things and abound. I am filled, having received from Epaphroditus the things that came from you, a sweet-smelling fragrance, an acceptable and well-pleasing sacrifice to God.
\v 19 My God will supply every need of yours according to his riches in glory in Christ Jesus.
\v 20 Now to our God and Father be the glory forever and ever! Amen.
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\v 21 Greet every saint in Christ Jesus. The brothers who are with me greet you.
\v 22 All the saints greet you, especially those who are of Caesar’s household.
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\v 23 The grace of the Lord Jesus Christ be with you all. Amen.


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\v 1 Paul, an apostle of Christ Jesus through the will of God, and Timothy our brother,
\v 2 to the saints and faithful brothers\f + \fr 1:2 \ft The word for “brothers” here and where context allows may also be correctly translated “brothers and sisters” or “siblings.”\f* in Christ at Colossae: Grace to you and peace from God our Father and the Lord Jesus Christ.
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\v 3 We give thanks to God the Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, praying always for you,
\v 4 having heard of your faith in Christ Jesus and of the love which you have toward all the saints,
\v 5 because of the hope which is laid up for you in the heavens, of which you heard before in the word of the truth of the Good News
\v 6 which has come to you, even as it is in all the world and is bearing fruit and growing, as it does in you also, since the day you heard and knew the grace of God in truth,
\v 7 even as you learned of Epaphras our beloved fellow servant, who is a faithful servant of Christ on your\f + \fr 1:7 \ft NU reads \fqa our\f* behalf,
\v 8 who also declared to us your love in the Spirit.
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\v 9 For this cause, we also, since the day we heard this, don’t cease praying and making requests for you, that you may be filled with the knowledge of his will in all spiritual wisdom and understanding,
\v 10 that you may walk worthily of the Lord, to please him in all respects, bearing fruit in every good work and increasing in the knowledge of God,
\v 11 strengthened with all power, according to the might of his glory, for all endurance and perseverance with joy,
\v 12 giving thanks to the Father, who made us fit to be partakers of the inheritance of the saints in light,
\v 13 who delivered us out of the power of darkness, and translated us into the Kingdom of the Son of his love,
\v 14 in whom we have our redemption,\f + \fr 1:14 \ft TR adds “through his blood,” \f* the forgiveness of our sins.
\v 15 He is the image of the invisible God, the firstborn of all creation.
\v 16 For by him all things were created in the heavens and on the earth, visible things and invisible things, whether thrones or dominions or principalities or powers. All things have been created through him and for him.
\v 17 He is before all things, and in him all things are held together.
\v 18 He is the head of the body, the assembly, who is the beginning, the firstborn from the dead, that in all things he might have the preeminence.
\v 19 For all the fullness was pleased to dwell in him,
\v 20 and through him to reconcile all things to himself by him, whether things on the earth or things in the heavens, having made peace through the blood of his cross.
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\v 21 You, being in past times alienated and enemies in your mind in your evil deeds,
\v 22 yet now he has reconciled in the body of his flesh through death, to present you holy and without defect and blameless before him,
\v 23 if it is so that you continue in the faith, grounded and steadfast, and not moved away from the hope of the Good News which you heard, which is being proclaimed in all creation under heaven, of which I, Paul, was made a servant.
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\v 24 Now I rejoice in my sufferings for your sake, and fill up on my part that which is lacking of the afflictions of Christ in my flesh for his body’s sake, which is the assembly,
\v 25 of which I was made a servant according to the stewardship of God which was given me toward you to fulfill the word of God,
\v 26 the mystery which has been hidden for ages and generations. But now it has been revealed to his saints,
\v 27 to whom God was pleased to make known what are the riches of the glory of this mystery among the Gentiles, which is Christ in you, the hope of glory.
\v 28 We proclaim him, admonishing every man and teaching every man in all wisdom, that we may present every man perfect in Christ Jesus;
\v 29 for which I also labor, striving according to his working, which works in me mightily.


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\v 1 For I desire to have you know how greatly I struggle for you, and for those at Laodicea, and for as many as have not seen my face in the flesh;
\v 2 that their hearts may be comforted, they being knit together in love, and gaining all riches of the full assurance of understanding, that they may know the mystery of God, both of the Father and of Christ,
\v 3 in whom all the treasures of wisdom and knowledge are hidden.
\v 4 Now I say this that no one may delude you with persuasiveness of speech.
\v 5 For though I am absent in the flesh, yet I am with you in the spirit, rejoicing and seeing your order, and the steadfastness of your faith in Christ.
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\v 6 As therefore you received Christ Jesus, the Lord, walk in him,
\v 7 rooted and built up in him, and established in the faith, even as you were taught, abounding in it in thanksgiving.
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\v 8 Be careful that you don’t let anyone rob you through his philosophy and vain deceit, after the tradition of men, after the elements of the world, and not after Christ.
\v 9 For in him all the fullness of the Deity dwells bodily,
\v 10 and in him you are made full, who is the head of all principality and power.
\v 11 In him you were also circumcised with a circumcision not made with hands, in the putting off of the body of the sins of the flesh, in the circumcision of Christ,
\v 12 having been buried with him in baptism, in which you were also raised with him through faith in the working of God, who raised him from the dead.
\v 13 You were dead through your trespasses and the uncircumcision of your flesh. He made you alive together with him, having forgiven us all our trespasses,
\v 14 wiping out the handwriting in ordinances which was against us. He has taken it out of the way, nailing it to the cross.
\v 15 Having stripped the principalities and the powers, he made a show of them openly, triumphing over them in it.
\p
\v 16 Let no one therefore judge you in eating, or in drinking, or with respect to a feast day or a new moon or a Sabbath day,
\v 17 which are a shadow of the things to come; but the body is Christ’s.
\v 18 Let no one rob you of your prize by self-abasement and worshiping of the angels, dwelling in the things which he has not seen, vainly puffed up by his fleshly mind,
\v 19 and not holding firmly to the Head, from whom all the body, being supplied and knit together through the joints and ligaments, grows with God’s growth.
\p
\v 20 If you died with Christ from the elements of the world, why, as though living in the world, do you subject yourselves to ordinances,
\v 21 “Don’t handle, nor taste, nor touch”
\v 22 (all of which perish with use), according to the precepts and doctrines of men?
\v 23 These things indeed appear like wisdom in self-imposed worship, humility, and severity to the body; but aren’t of any value against the indulgence of the flesh.


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\v 1 If then you were raised together with Christ, seek the things that are above, where Christ is, seated on the right hand of God.
\v 2 Set your mind on the things that are above, not on the things that are on the earth.
\v 3 For you died, and your life is hidden with Christ in God.
\v 4 When Christ, our life, is revealed, then you will also be revealed with him in glory.
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\v 5 Put to death therefore your members which are on the earth: sexual immorality, uncleanness, depraved passion, evil desire, and covetousness, which is idolatry.
\v 6 For these things’ sake the wrath of God comes on the children of disobedience.
\v 7 You also once walked in those, when you lived in them;
\v 8 but now you also put them all away: anger, wrath, malice, slander, and shameful speaking out of your mouth.
\v 9 Don’t lie to one another, seeing that you have put off the old man with his doings,
\v 10 and have put on the new man, who is being renewed in knowledge after the image of his Creator,
\v 11 where there can’t be Greek and Jew, circumcision and uncircumcision, barbarian, Scythian, bondservant, or free person; but Christ is all, and in all.
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\v 12 Put on therefore, as God’s chosen ones, holy and beloved, a heart of compassion, kindness, lowliness, humility, and perseverance;
\v 13 bearing with one another, and forgiving each other, if any man has a complaint against any; even as Christ forgave you, so you also do.
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\v 14 Above all these things, walk in love, which is the bond of perfection.
\v 15 And let the peace of God rule in your hearts, to which also you were called in one body, and be thankful.
\v 16 Let the word of Christ dwell in you richly; in all wisdom teaching and admonishing one another with psalms, hymns, and spiritual songs, singing with grace in your heart to the Lord.
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\v 17 Whatever you do, in word or in deed, do all in the name of the Lord Jesus, giving thanks to God the Father, through him.
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\v 18 Wives, be in subjection to your husbands, as is fitting in the Lord.
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\v 19 Husbands, love your wives, and don’t be bitter against them.
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\v 20 Children, obey your parents in all things, for this pleases the Lord.
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\v 21 Fathers, don’t provoke your children, so that they won’t be discouraged.
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\v 22 Servants, obey in all things those who are your masters according to the flesh, not just when they are looking, as men pleasers, but in singleness of heart, fearing God.
\v 23 And whatever you do, work heartily, as for the Lord, and not for men,
\v 24 knowing that from the Lord you will receive the reward of the inheritance; for you serve the Lord Christ.
\v 25 But he who does wrong will receive again for the wrong that he has done, and there is no partiality.


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\v 1 Masters, give to your servants that which is just and equal, knowing that you also have a Master in heaven.
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\v 2 Continue steadfastly in prayer, watching in it with thanksgiving,
\v 3 praying together for us also, that God may open to us a door for the word, to speak the mystery of Christ, for which I am also in bonds,
\v 4 that I may reveal it as I ought to speak.
\v 5 Walk in wisdom toward those who are outside, redeeming the time.
\v 6 Let your speech always be with grace, seasoned with salt, that you may know how you ought to answer each one.
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\v 7 All my affairs will be made known to you by Tychicus, the beloved brother, faithful servant, and fellow bondservant in the Lord.
\v 8 I am sending him to you for this very purpose, that he may know your circumstances and comfort your hearts,
\v 9 together with Onesimus, the faithful and beloved brother, who is one of you. They will make known to you everything that is going on here.
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\v 10 Aristarchus, my fellow prisoner, greets you, and Mark, the cousin of Barnabas (concerning whom you received commandments, “if he comes to you, receive him”),
\v 11 and Jesus who is called Justus. These are my only fellow workers for God’s Kingdom who are of the circumcision, men who have been a comfort to me.
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\v 12 Epaphras, who is one of you, a servant of Christ, salutes you, always striving for you in his prayers, that you may stand perfect and complete in all the will of God.
\v 13 For I testify about him that he has great zeal for you, and for those in Laodicea, and for those in Hierapolis.
\v 14 Luke the beloved physician and Demas greet you.
\v 15 Greet the brothers who are in Laodicea, and Nymphas, and the assembly that is in his house.
\v 16 When this letter has been read among you, cause it to be read also in the assembly of the Laodiceans, and that you also read the letter from Laodicea.
\v 17 Tell Archippus, “Take heed to the ministry which you have received in the Lord, that you fulfill it.”
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\v 18 The salutation of me, Paul, with my own hand: remember my bonds. Grace be with you. Amen.


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\v 1 Paul, Silvanus, and Timothy, to the assembly of the Thessalonians in God the Father and the Lord Jesus Christ: Grace to you and peace from God our Father and the Lord Jesus Christ.
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\v 2 We always give thanks to God for all of you, mentioning you in our prayers,
\v 3 remembering without ceasing your work of faith and labor of love and perseverance of hope in our Lord Jesus Christ, before our God and Father.
\v 4 We know, brothers\f + \fr 1:4 \ft The word for “brothers” here and where context allows may also be correctly translated “brothers and sisters” or “siblings.” \f* loved by God, that you are chosen,
\v 5 and that our Good News came to you not in word only, but also in power, and in the Holy Spirit, and with much assurance. You know what kind of men we showed ourselves to be among you for your sake.
\v 6 You became imitators of us and of the Lord, having received the word in much affliction, with joy of the Holy Spirit,
\v 7 so that you became an example to all who believe in Macedonia and in Achaia.
\v 8 For from you the word of the Lord has been declared, not only in Macedonia and Achaia, but also in every place your faith toward God has gone out, so that we need not to say anything.
\v 9 For they themselves report concerning us what kind of a reception we had from you, and how you turned to God from idols, to serve a living and true God,
\v 10 and to wait for his Son from heaven, whom he raised from the dead: Jesus, who delivers us from the wrath to come.


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\v 1 For you yourselves know, brothers, our visit to you wasn’t in vain,
\v 2 but having suffered before and been shamefully treated, as you know, at Philippi, we grew bold in our God to tell you the Good News of God in much conflict.
\v 3 For our exhortation is not of error, nor of uncleanness, nor in deception.
\v 4 But even as we have been approved by God to be entrusted with the Good News, so we speak: not as pleasing men, but God, who tests our hearts.
\v 5 For neither were we at any time found using words of flattery, as you know, nor a cloak of covetousness (God is witness),
\v 6 nor seeking glory from men (neither from you nor from others), when we might have claimed authority as apostles of Christ.
\v 7 But we were gentle among you, like a nursing mother cherishes her own children.
\p
\v 8 Even so, affectionately longing for you, we were well pleased to impart to you, not the Good News of God only, but also our own souls, because you had become very dear to us.
\v 9 For you remember, brothers, our labor and travail; for working night and day, that we might not burden any of you, we preached to you the Good News of God.
\v 10 You are witnesses with God how holy, righteously, and blamelessly we behaved ourselves toward you who believe.
\v 11 As you know, we exhorted, comforted, and implored every one of you, as a father does his own children,
\v 12 to the end that you should walk worthily of God, who calls you into his own Kingdom and glory.
\v 13 For this cause we also thank God without ceasing, that when you received from us the word of the message of God, you accepted it not as the word of men, but as it is in truth, the word of God, which also works in you who believe.
\v 14 For you, brothers, became imitators of the assemblies of God which are in Judea in Christ Jesus; for you also suffered the same things from your own countrymen, even as they did from the Jews
\v 15 who killed both the Lord Jesus and their own prophets, and drove us out, and don’t please God, and are contrary to all men,
\v 16 forbidding us to speak to the Gentiles that they may be saved, to fill up their sins always. But wrath has come on them to the uttermost.
\p
\v 17 But we, brothers, being bereaved of you for a short season, in presence, not in heart, tried even harder to see your face with great desire,
\v 18 because we wanted to come to you—indeed, I, Paul, once and again—but Satan hindered us.
\v 19 For what is our hope, or joy, or crown of rejoicing? Isn’t it even you, before our Lord Jesus\f + \fr 2:19 \ft TR adds “Christ”\f* at his coming?
\v 20 For you are our glory and our joy.


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\v 1 Therefore when we couldn’t stand it any longer, we thought it good to be left behind at Athens alone,
\v 2 and sent Timothy, our brother and God’s servant in the Good News of Christ, to establish you, and to comfort you concerning your faith,
\v 3 that no one would be moved by these afflictions. For you know that we are appointed to this task.
\v 4 For most certainly, when we were with you, we told you beforehand that we are to suffer affliction, even as it happened, and you know.
\v 5 For this cause I also, when I couldn’t stand it any longer, sent that I might know your faith, for fear that by any means the tempter had tempted you, and our labor would have been in vain.
\v 6 But when Timothy came just now to us from you, and brought us glad news of your faith and love, and that you have good memories of us always, longing to see us, even as we also long to see you,
\v 7 for this cause, brothers, we were comforted over you in all our distress and affliction through your faith.
\v 8 For now we live, if you stand fast in the Lord.
\v 9 For what thanksgiving can we render again to God for you, for all the joy with which we rejoice for your sakes before our God,
\v 10 night and day praying exceedingly that we may see your face, and may perfect that which is lacking in your faith?
\p
\v 11 Now may our God and Father himself, and our Lord Jesus Christ, direct our way to you.
\v 12 May the Lord make you to increase and abound in love toward one another, and toward all men, even as we also do toward you,
\v 13 to the end he may establish your hearts blameless in holiness before our God and Father at the coming of our Lord Jesus with all his saints.


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\v 1 Finally then, brothers, we beg and exhort you in the Lord Jesus, that as you received from us how you ought to walk and to please God, that you abound more and more.
\v 2 For you know what instructions we gave you through the Lord Jesus.
\v 3 For this is the will of God: your sanctification, that you abstain from sexual immorality,
\v 4 that each one of you know how to control his own body\f + \fr 4:4 \ft literally, possess his own vessel\f* in sanctification and honor,
\v 5 not in the passion of lust, even as the Gentiles who don’t know God,
\v 6 that no one should take advantage of and wrong a brother or sister in this matter; because the Lord is an avenger in all these things, as also we forewarned you and testified.
\v 7 For God called us not for uncleanness, but in sanctification.
\v 8 Therefore he who rejects this doesn’t reject man, but God, who has also given his Holy Spirit to you.
\p
\v 9 But concerning brotherly love, you have no need that one write to you. For you yourselves are taught by God to love one another,
\v 10 for indeed you do it toward all the brothers who are in all Macedonia. But we exhort you, brothers, that you abound more and more;
\v 11 and that you make it your ambition to lead a quiet life, and to do your own business, and to work with your own hands, even as we instructed you;
\v 12 that you may walk properly toward those who are outside, and may have need of nothing.
\p
\v 13 But we don’t want you to be ignorant, brothers, concerning those who have fallen asleep, so that you don’t grieve like the rest, who have no hope.
\v 14 For if we believe that Jesus died and rose again, even so God will bring with him those who have fallen asleep in Jesus.
\v 15 For this we tell you by the word of the Lord, that we who are alive, who are left until the coming of the Lord, will in no way precede those who have fallen asleep.
\v 16 For the Lord himself will descend from heaven with a shout, with the voice of the archangel and with God’s trumpet. The dead in Christ will rise first,
\v 17 then we who are alive, who are left, will be caught up together with them in the clouds, to meet the Lord in the air. So we will be with the Lord forever.
\v 18 Therefore comfort one another with these words.


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\v 1 But concerning the times and the seasons, brothers, you have no need that anything be written to you.
\v 2 For you yourselves know well that the day of the Lord comes like a thief in the night.
\v 3 For when they are saying, “Peace and safety,” then sudden destruction will come on them, like birth pains on a pregnant woman. Then they will in no way escape.
\v 4 But you, brothers, aren’t in darkness, that the day should overtake you like a thief.
\v 5 You are all children of light and children of the day. We don’t belong to the night, nor to darkness,
\v 6 so then let’s not sleep, as the rest do, but let’s watch and be sober.
\v 7 For those who sleep, sleep in the night; and those who are drunk are drunk in the night.
\v 8 But since we belong to the day, let’s be sober, putting on the breastplate of faith and love, and for a helmet, the hope of salvation.
\v 9 For God didn’t appoint us to wrath, but to the obtaining of salvation through our Lord Jesus Christ,
\v 10 who died for us, that, whether we wake or sleep, we should live together with him.
\v 11 Therefore exhort one another, and build each other up, even as you also do.
\v 12 But we beg you, brothers, to know those who labor among you, and are over you in the Lord, and admonish you,
\v 13 and to respect and honor them in love for their work’s sake.
\p Be at peace among yourselves.
\v 14 We exhort you, brothers: Admonish the disorderly; encourage the faint-hearted; support the weak; be patient toward all.
\v 15 See that no one returns evil for evil to anyone, but always follow after that which is good for one another and for all.
\p
\v 16 Always rejoice.
\v 17 Pray without ceasing.
\v 18 In everything give thanks, for this is the will of God in Christ Jesus toward you.
\v 19 Don’t quench the Spirit.
\v 20 Don’t despise prophecies.
\v 21 Test all things, and hold firmly that which is good.
\v 22 Abstain from every form of evil.
\p
\v 23 May the God of peace himself sanctify you completely. May your whole spirit, soul, and body be preserved blameless at the coming of our Lord Jesus Christ.
\p
\v 24 He who calls you is faithful, who will also do it.
\v 25 Brothers, pray for us.
\v 26 Greet all the brothers with a holy kiss.
\v 27 I solemnly command you by the Lord that this letter be read to all the holy brothers.
\p
\v 28 The grace of our Lord Jesus Christ be with you. Amen.


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\v 1 Paul, Silvanus, and Timothy, to the assembly of the Thessalonians in God our Father, and the Lord Jesus Christ:
\v 2 Grace to you and peace from God our Father and the Lord Jesus Christ.
\p
\v 3 We are bound to always give thanks to God for you, brothers,\f + \fr 1:3 \ft The word for “brothers” here and where context allows may also be correctly translated “brothers and sisters” or “siblings.”\f* even as it is appropriate, because your faith grows exceedingly, and the love of each and every one of you toward one another abounds,
\v 4 so that we ourselves boast about you in the assemblies of God for your perseverance and faith in all your persecutions and in the afflictions which you endure.
\v 5 This is an obvious sign of the righteous judgment of God, to the end that you may be counted worthy of God’s Kingdom, for which you also suffer.
\v 6 Since it is a righteous thing with God to repay affliction to those who afflict you,
\v 7 and to give relief to you who are afflicted with us, when the Lord Jesus is revealed from heaven with his mighty angels in flaming fire,
\v 8 punishing those who don’t know God, and to those who don’t obey the Good News of our Lord Jesus,
\v 9 who will pay the penalty: eternal destruction from the face of the Lord and from the glory of his might,
\v 10 when he comes in that day to be glorified in his saints and to be admired among all those who have believed, because our testimony to you was believed.
\p
\v 11 To this end we also pray always for you, that our God may count you worthy of your calling, and fulfill every desire of goodness and work of faith with power,
\v 12 that the name of our Lord Jesus\f + \fr 1:12 \ft TR adds “Christ”\f* may be glorified in you, and you in him, according to the grace of our God and the Lord Jesus Christ.


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\v 1 Now, brothers, concerning the coming of our Lord Jesus Christ and our gathering together to him, we ask you
\v 2 not to be quickly shaken in your mind, and not be troubled, either by spirit, or by word, or by letter as if from us, saying that the day of Christ has already come.
\v 3 Let no one deceive you in any way. For it will not be, unless the rebellion\f + \fr 2:3 \ft or, \fqa falling away\ft , or, \fqa defection\f* comes first, and the man of sin is revealed, the son of destruction,
\v 4 he who opposes and exalts himself against all that is called God or that is worshiped, so that he sits as God in the temple of God, setting himself up as God.
\v 5 Don’t you remember that, when I was still with you, I told you these things?
\v 6 Now you know what is restraining him, to the end that he may be revealed in his own season.
\v 7 For the mystery of lawlessness already works. Only there is one who restrains now, until he is taken out of the way.
\v 8 Then the lawless one will be revealed, whom the Lord will kill with the breath of his mouth, and destroy by the manifestation of his coming;
\v 9 even he whose coming is according to the working of Satan with all power and signs and lying wonders,
\v 10 and with all deception of wickedness for those who are being lost, because they didn’t receive the love of the truth, that they might be saved.
\v 11 Because of this, God sends them a working of error, that they should believe a lie;
\v 12 that they all might be judged who didn’t believe the truth, but had pleasure in unrighteousness.
\p
\v 13 But we are bound to always give thanks to God for you, brothers loved by the Lord, because God chose you from the beginning for salvation through sanctification of the Spirit and belief in the truth,
\v 14 to which he called you through our Good News, for the obtaining of the glory of our Lord Jesus Christ.
\v 15 So then, brothers, stand firm and hold the traditions which you were taught by us, whether by word or by letter.
\p
\v 16 Now our Lord Jesus Christ himself, and God our Father, who loved us and gave us eternal comfort and good hope through grace,
\v 17 comfort your hearts and establish you in every good work and word.


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\v 1 Finally, brothers, pray for us, that the word of the Lord may spread rapidly and be glorified, even as also with you,
\v 2 and that we may be delivered from unreasonable and evil men; for not all have faith.
\v 3 But the Lord is faithful, who will establish you and guard you from the evil one.
\v 4 We have confidence in the Lord concerning you, that you both do and will do the things we command.
\v 5 May the Lord direct your hearts into God’s love, and into the perseverance of Christ.
\p
\v 6 Now we command you, brothers, in the name of our Lord Jesus Christ, that you withdraw yourselves from every brother who walks in rebellion, and not after the tradition which they received from us.
\v 7 For you know how you ought to imitate us. For we didn’t behave ourselves rebelliously among you,
\v 8 neither did we eat bread from anyone’s hand without paying for it, but in labor and travail worked night and day, that we might not burden any of you,
\v 9 not because we don’t have the right, but to make ourselves an example to you, that you should imitate us.
\v 10 For even when we were with you, we commanded you this: “If anyone is not willing to work, don’t let him eat.”
\v 11 For we hear of some who walk among you in rebellion, who don’t work at all, but are busybodies.
\v 12 Now those who are that way, we command and exhort in the Lord Jesus Christ, that they work with quietness and eat their own bread.
\p
\v 13 But you, brothers, don’t be weary in doing what is right.
\v 14 If any man doesn’t obey our word in this letter, note that man, that you have no company with him, to the end that he may be ashamed.
\v 15 Don’t count him as an enemy, but admonish him as a brother.
\p
\v 16 Now may the Lord of peace himself give you peace at all times in all ways. The Lord be with you all.
\p
\v 17 The greeting of me, Paul, with my own hand, which is the sign in every letter: this is how I write.
\v 18 The grace of our Lord Jesus Christ be with you all. Amen.


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\v 1 Paul, an apostle of Jesus Christ according to the commandment of God our Savior and the Lord Jesus Christ\f + \fr 1:1 \ft NU reads \fqa Christ Jesus and omits \fqa the Lord. \f* our hope;
\v 2 to Timothy, my true child in faith: Grace, mercy, and peace, from God our Father and Christ Jesus our Lord.
\p
\v 3 As I urged you when I was going into Macedonia, stay at Ephesus that you might command certain men not to teach a different doctrine,
\v 4 and not to pay attention to myths and endless genealogies, which cause disputes, rather than God’s stewardship, which is in faith—
\v 5 but the goal of this command is love, out of a pure heart and a good conscience and sincere faith,
\v 6 from which things some, having missed the mark, have turned away to vain talking,
\v 7 desiring to be teachers of the law, though they understand neither what they say, nor about what they strongly affirm.
\v 8 But we know that the law is good, if a person uses it lawfully,
\v 9 as knowing this, that law is not made for a righteous person, but for the lawless and insubordinate, for the ungodly and sinners, for the unholy and profane, for murderers of fathers and murderers of mothers, for manslayers,
\v 10 for the sexually immoral, for homosexuals, for slave-traders, for liars, for perjurers, and for any other thing contrary to the sound doctrine,
\v 11 according to the Good News of the glory of the blessed God, which was committed to my trust.
\p
\v 12 I thank him who enabled me, Christ Jesus our Lord, because he counted me faithful, appointing me to service;
\v 13 although I used to be a blasphemer, a persecutor, and insolent. However, I obtained mercy, because I did it ignorantly in unbelief.
\v 14 The grace of our Lord abounded exceedingly with faith and love which is in Christ Jesus.
\v 15 The saying is faithful and worthy of all acceptance, that Christ Jesus came into the world to save sinners, of whom I am chief.
\v 16 However, for this cause I obtained mercy, that in me first, Jesus Christ might display all his patience for an example of those who were going to believe in him for eternal life.
\v 17 Now to the King eternal, immortal, invisible, to God who alone is wise, be honor and glory forever and ever. Amen.
\p
\v 18 I commit this instruction to you, my child Timothy, according to the prophecies which were given to you before, that by them you may wage the good warfare,
\v 19 holding faith and a good conscience, which some having thrust away made a shipwreck concerning the faith,
\v 20 of whom are Hymenaeus and Alexander, whom I delivered to Satan, that they might be taught not to blaspheme.


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\v 1 I exhort therefore, first of all, that petitions, prayers, intercessions, and givings of thanks be made for all men:
\v 2 for kings and all who are in high places, that we may lead a tranquil and quiet life in all godliness and reverence.
\v 3 For this is good and acceptable in the sight of God our Savior,
\v 4 who desires all people to be saved and come to full knowledge of the truth.
\v 5 For there is one God, and one mediator between God and men, the man Christ Jesus,
\v 6 who gave himself as a ransom for all, the testimony in its own times,
\v 7 to which I was appointed a preacher and an apostle—I am telling the truth in Christ, not lying—a teacher of the Gentiles in faith and truth.
\p
\v 8 I desire therefore that the men in every place pray, lifting up holy hands without anger and doubting.
\v 9 In the same way, that women also adorn themselves in decent clothing, with modesty and propriety, not just\f + \fr 2:9 \ft The word “just” is inserted here in English to preserve the meaning of the whole original Greek sentence in context. The word for “not” is the negative particle “μη” which denies an expected idea, as opposed to the usual word for “not” (ου) which denies a fact. Thus “μη” in this context is denying an expected idea (that women can be properly dressed without good works).\f* with braided hair, gold, pearls, or expensive clothing,
\v 10 but with good works, which is appropriate for women professing godliness.
\v 11 Let a woman learn in quietness with full submission.
\v 12 But I don’t permit a woman to teach, nor to exercise authority over a man, but to be in quietness.
\v 13 For Adam was formed first, then Eve.
\v 14 Adam wasn’t deceived, but the woman, being deceived, has fallen into disobedience;
\v 15 but she will be saved through her childbearing, if they continue in faith, love, and sanctification with sobriety.


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\v 1 This is a faithful saying: someone who seeks to be an overseer\f + \fr 3:1 \ft or, superintendent, or bishop\f* desires a good work.
\v 2 The overseer therefore must be without reproach, the husband of one wife, temperate, sensible, modest, hospitable, good at teaching;
\v 3 not a drinker, not violent, not greedy for money, but gentle, not quarrelsome, not covetous;
\v 4 one who rules his own house well, having children in subjection with all reverence;
\v 5 (but how could someone who doesn’t know how to rule one’s own house take care of God’s assembly?)
\v 6 not a new convert, lest being puffed up he fall into the same condemnation as the devil.
\v 7 Moreover he must have good testimony from those who are outside, to avoid falling into reproach and the snare of the devil.
\p
\v 8 Servants,\f + \fr 3:8 \ft or, Deacons.\f* in the same way, must be reverent, not double-tongued, not addicted to much wine, not greedy for money,
\v 9 holding the mystery of the faith in a pure conscience.
\v 10 Let them also first be tested; then let them serve\f + \fr 3:10 \ft or, serve as deacons\f* if they are blameless.
\v 11 Their wives in the same way must be reverent, not slanderers, temperate, and faithful in all things.
\v 12 Let servants\f + \fr 3:12 \ft or, deacons\f* be husbands of one wife, ruling their children and their own houses well.
\v 13 For those who have served well\f + \fr 3:13 \ft or, served well as deacons\f* gain for themselves a good standing, and great boldness in the faith which is in Christ Jesus.
\p
\v 14 These things I write to you, hoping to come to you shortly;
\v 15 but if I wait long, that you may know how men ought to behave themselves in God’s house, which is the assembly of the living God, the pillar and ground of the truth.
\v 16 Without controversy, the mystery of godliness is great:
\q1 God\f + \fr 3:16 \ft NU replaces “God” with “who”\f* was revealed in the flesh,
\q1 justified in the spirit,
\q1 seen by angels,
\q1 preached among the nations,
\q1 believed on in the world,
\q1 and received up in glory.


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\v 1 But the Spirit says expressly that in later times some will fall away from the faith, paying attention to seducing spirits and doctrines of demons,
\v 2 through the hypocrisy of men who speak lies, branded in their own conscience as with a hot iron,
\v 3 forbidding marriage and commanding to abstain from foods which God created to be received with thanksgiving by those who believe and know the truth.
\v 4 For every creature of God is good, and nothing is to be rejected, if it is received with thanksgiving.
\v 5 For it is sanctified through the word of God and prayer.
\p
\v 6 If you instruct the brothers of these things, you will be a good servant of Christ Jesus, nourished in the words of the faith, and of the good doctrine which you have followed.
\v 7 But refuse profane and old wives’ fables. Exercise yourself toward godliness.
\v 8 For bodily exercise has some value, but godliness has value in all things, having the promise of the life which is now, and of that which is to come.
\v 9 This saying is faithful and worthy of all acceptance.
\v 10 For to this end we both labor and suffer reproach, because we have set our trust in the living God, who is the Savior of all men, especially of those who believe.
\v 11 Command and teach these things.
\p
\v 12 Let no man despise your youth; but be an example to those who believe, in word, in your way of life, in love, in spirit, in faith, and in purity.
\v 13 Until I come, pay attention to reading, to exhortation, and to teaching.
\v 14 Don’t neglect the gift that is in you, which was given to you by prophecy, with the laying on of the hands of the elders.
\v 15 Be diligent in these things. Give yourself wholly to them, that your progress may be revealed to all.
\v 16 Pay attention to yourself and to your teaching. Continue in these things, for in doing this you will save both yourself and those who hear you.


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\v 1 Don’t rebuke an older man, but exhort him as a father; the younger men as brothers;
\v 2 the elder women as mothers; the younger as sisters, in all purity.
\v 3 Honor widows who are widows indeed.
\v 4 But if any widow has children or grandchildren, let them learn first to show piety toward their own family and to repay their parents, for this is \f + \fr 5:4 \ft TR adds “good and”\f* acceptable in the sight of God.
\v 5 Now she who is a widow indeed and desolate, has her hope set on God, and continues in petitions and prayers night and day.
\v 6 But she who gives herself to pleasure is dead while she lives.
\v 7 Also command these things, that they may be without reproach.
\v 8 But if anyone doesn’t provide for his own, and especially his own household, he has denied the faith, and is worse than an unbeliever.
\v 9 Let no one be enrolled as a widow under sixty years old, having been the wife of one man,
\v 10 being approved by good works, if she has brought up children, if she has been hospitable to strangers, if she has washed the saints’ feet, if she has relieved the afflicted, and if she has diligently followed every good work.
\p
\v 11 But refuse younger widows, for when they have grown wanton against Christ, they desire to marry,
\v 12 having condemnation, because they have rejected their first pledge.
\v 13 Besides, they also learn to be idle, going about from house to house. Not only idle, but also gossips and busybodies, saying things which they ought not.
\v 14 I desire therefore that the younger widows marry, bear children, rule the household, and give no occasion to the adversary for insulting.
\v 15 For already some have turned away after Satan.
\v 16 If any man or woman who believes has widows, let them relieve them, and don’t let the assembly be burdened, that it might relieve those who are widows indeed.
\p
\v 17 Let the elders who rule well be counted worthy of double honor, especially those who labor in the word and in teaching.
\v 18 For the Scripture says, “You shall not muzzle the ox when it treads out the grain.”\x + \xo 5:18 \xt Deuteronomy 25:4\x* And, \wj “The laborer is worthy of his wages.”\wj*\x + \xo 5:18 \xt Luke 10:7; Leviticus 19:13\x*
\p
\v 19 Don’t receive an accusation against an elder, except at the word of two or three witnesses.
\v 20 Those who sin, reprove in the sight of all, that the rest also may be in fear.
\v 21 I command you in the sight of God, and the Lord Jesus Christ, and the chosen angels, that you observe these things without prejudice, doing nothing by partiality.
\v 22 Lay hands hastily on no one. Don’t be a participant in other people’s sins. Keep yourself pure.
\v 23 Be no longer a drinker of water only, but use a little wine for your stomach’s sake and your frequent infirmities.
\p
\v 24 Some men’s sins are evident, preceding them to judgment, and some also follow later.
\v 25 In the same way also there are good works that are obvious, and those that are otherwise can’t be hidden.


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\v 1 Let as many as are bondservants under the yoke count their own masters worthy of all honor, that the name of God and the doctrine not be blasphemed.
\v 2 Those who have believing masters, let them not despise them because they are brothers, but rather let them serve them, because those who partake of the benefit are believing and beloved. Teach and exhort these things.
\p
\v 3 If anyone teaches a different doctrine, and doesn’t consent to sound words, the words of our Lord Jesus Christ, and to the doctrine which is according to godliness,
\v 4 he is conceited, knowing nothing, but obsessed with arguments, disputes, and word battles, from which come envy, strife, insulting, evil suspicions,
\v 5 constant friction of people of corrupt minds and destitute of the truth, who suppose that godliness is a means of gain. Withdraw yourself from such. \f + \fr 6:5 \ft NU omits “Withdraw yourself from such.”\f*
\p
\v 6 But godliness with contentment is great gain.
\v 7 For we brought nothing into the world, and we certainly can’t carry anything out.
\v 8 But having food and clothing, we will be content with that.
\v 9 But those who are determined to be rich fall into a temptation, a snare, and many foolish and harmful lusts, such as drown men in ruin and destruction.
\v 10 For the love of money is a root of all kinds of evil. Some have been led astray from the faith in their greed, and have pierced themselves through with many sorrows.
\p
\v 11 But you, man of God, flee these things, and follow after righteousness, godliness, faith, love, perseverance, and gentleness.
\v 12 Fight the good fight of faith. Take hold of the eternal life to which you were called, and you confessed the good confession in the sight of many witnesses.
\v 13 I command you before God, who gives life to all things, and before Christ Jesus, who before Pontius Pilate testified the good confession,
\v 14 that you keep the commandment without spot, blameless, until the appearing of our Lord Jesus Christ,
\v 15 which in its own times he will show, who is the blessed and only Ruler, the King of kings, and Lord of lords.
\v 16 He alone has immortality, dwelling in unapproachable light, whom no man has seen, nor can see: to whom be honor and eternal power. Amen.
\p
\v 17 Charge those who are rich in this present world that they not be arrogant, nor have their hope set on the uncertainty of riches, but on the living God, who richly provides us with everything to enjoy;
\v 18 that they do good, that they be rich in good works, that they be ready to distribute, willing to share;
\v 19 laying up in store for themselves a good foundation against the time to come, that they may lay hold of eternal life.
\p
\v 20 Timothy, guard that which is committed to you, turning away from the empty chatter and oppositions of what is falsely called knowledge,
\v 21 which some profess, and thus have wandered from the faith.
\p Grace be with you. Amen.


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\v 1 Paul, an apostle of Jesus Christ through the will of God, according to the promise of the life which is in Christ Jesus,
\v 2 to Timothy, my beloved child: Grace, mercy, and peace, from God the Father and Christ Jesus our Lord.
\p
\v 3 I thank God, whom I serve as my forefathers did, with a pure conscience. How unceasing is my memory of you in my petitions, night and day
\v 4 longing to see you, remembering your tears, that I may be filled with joy;
\v 5 having been reminded of the sincere faith that is in you, which lived first in your grandmother Lois, and your mother Eunice, and, I am persuaded, in you also.
\p
\v 6 For this cause, I remind you that you should stir up the gift of God which is in you through the laying on of my hands.
\v 7 For God didn’t give us a spirit of fear, but of power, love, and self-control.
\v 8 Therefore don’t be ashamed of the testimony of our Lord, nor of me his prisoner; but endure hardship for the Good News according to the power of God,
\v 9 who saved us and called us with a holy calling, not according to our works, but according to his own purpose and grace, which was given to us in Christ Jesus before times eternal,
\v 10 but has now been revealed by the appearing of our Savior, Christ Jesus, who abolished death, and brought life and immortality to light through the Good News.
\v 11 For this I was appointed as a preacher, an apostle, and a teacher of the Gentiles.
\v 12 For this cause I also suffer these things.
\p Yet I am not ashamed, for I know him whom I have believed, and I am persuaded that he is able to guard that which I have committed to him against that day.
\p
\v 13 Hold the pattern of sound words which you have heard from me, in faith and love which is in Christ Jesus.
\v 14 That good thing which was committed to you, guard through the Holy Spirit who dwells in us.
\p
\v 15 This you know, that all who are in Asia turned away from me, of whom are Phygelus and Hermogenes.
\v 16 May the Lord grant mercy to the house of Onesiphorus, for he often refreshed me, and was not ashamed of my chain,
\v 17 but when he was in Rome, he sought me diligently and found me
\v 18 (the Lord grant to him to find the Lord’s mercy in that day); and in how many things he served at Ephesus, you know very well.


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\v 1 You therefore, my child, be strengthened in the grace that is in Christ Jesus.
\v 2 The things which you have heard from me among many witnesses, commit the same things to faithful men, who will be able to teach others also.
\v 3 You therefore must endure hardship as a good soldier of Christ Jesus.
\v 4 No soldier on duty entangles himself in the affairs of life, that he may please him who enrolled him as a soldier.
\v 5 Also, if anyone competes in athletics, he isn’t crowned unless he has competed by the rules.
\v 6 The farmer who labors must be the first to get a share of the crops.
\v 7 Consider what I say, and may the Lord give you understanding in all things.
\p
\v 8 Remember Jesus Christ, risen from the dead, of the offspring\f + \fr 2:8 \ft or, seed\f* of David, according to my Good News,
\v 9 in which I suffer hardship to the point of chains as a criminal. But God’s word isn’t chained.
\v 10 Therefore I endure all things for the chosen ones’ sake, that they also may obtain the salvation which is in Christ Jesus with eternal glory.
\v 11 This saying is trustworthy:
\q1 “For if we died with him,
\q2 we will also live with him.
\q1
\v 12 If we endure,
\q2 we will also reign with him.
\q1 If we deny him,
\q2 he also will deny us.
\q1
\v 13 If we are faithless,
\q2 he remains faithful;
\q2 for he can’t deny himself.”
\p
\v 14 Remind them of these things, charging them in the sight of the Lord, that they don’t argue about words, to no profit, to the subverting of those who hear.
\p
\v 15 Give diligence to present yourself approved by God, a workman who doesn’t need to be ashamed, properly handling the Word of Truth.
\v 16 But shun empty chatter, for it will go further in ungodliness,
\v 17 and those words will consume like gangrene, of whom is Hymenaeus and Philetus:
\v 18 men who have erred concerning the truth, saying that the resurrection is already past, and overthrowing the faith of some.
\v 19 However God’s firm foundation stands, having this seal, “The Lord knows those who are his,”\x + \xo 2:19 \xt Numbers 16:5\x* and, “Let every one who names the name of the Lord\f + \fr 2:19 \ft TR reads “Christ” instead of “the Lord”\f* depart from unrighteousness.”
\v 20 Now in a large house there are not only vessels of gold and of silver, but also of wood and of clay. Some are for honor, and some for dishonor.
\v 21 If anyone therefore purges himself from these, he will be a vessel for honor, sanctified, and suitable for the master’s use, prepared for every good work.
\p
\v 22 Flee from youthful lusts; but pursue righteousness, faith, love, and peace with those who call on the Lord out of a pure heart.
\v 23 But refuse foolish and ignorant questionings, knowing that they generate strife.
\v 24 The Lord’s servant must not quarrel, but be gentle toward all, able to teach, patient,
\v 25 in gentleness correcting those who oppose him: perhaps God may give them repentance leading to a full knowledge of the truth,
\v 26 and they may recover themselves out of the devil’s snare, having been taken captive by him to his will.


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\v 1 But know this: that in the last days, grievous times will come.
\v 2 For men will be lovers of self, lovers of money, boastful, arrogant, blasphemers, disobedient to parents, unthankful, unholy,
\v 3 without natural affection, unforgiving, slanderers, without self-control, fierce, not lovers of good,
\v 4 traitors, headstrong, conceited, lovers of pleasure rather than lovers of God,
\v 5 holding a form of godliness, but having denied its power. Turn away from these, also.
\v 6 For some of these are people who creep into houses and take captive gullible women loaded down with sins, led away by various lusts,
\v 7 always learning, and never able to come to the knowledge of the truth.
\v 8 Even as Jannes and Jambres opposed Moses, so these also oppose the truth, men corrupted in mind, who concerning the faith are rejected.
\v 9 But they will proceed no further. For their folly will be evident to all men, as theirs also came to be.
\v 10 But you followed my teaching, conduct, purpose, faith, patience, love, steadfastness,
\v 11 persecutions, and sufferings: those things that happened to me at Antioch, Iconium, and Lystra. I endured those persecutions. The Lord delivered me out of them all.
\v 12 Yes, and all who desire to live godly in Christ Jesus will suffer persecution.
\v 13 But evil men and impostors will grow worse and worse, deceiving and being deceived.
\v 14 But you remain in the things which you have learned and have been assured of, knowing from whom you have learned them.
\v 15 From infancy, you have known the holy Scriptures which are able to make you wise for salvation through faith, which is in Christ Jesus.
\v 16 Every Scripture is God-breathed and\f + \fr 3:16 \ft or, Every writing inspired by God is\f* profitable for teaching, for reproof, for correction, and for instruction in righteousness,
\v 17 that each person who belongs to God may be complete, thoroughly equipped for every good work.


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\v 1 I command you therefore before God and the Lord Jesus Christ, who will judge the living and the dead at his appearing and his Kingdom:
\v 2 preach the word; be urgent in season and out of season; reprove, rebuke, and exhort with all patience and teaching.
\v 3 For the time will come when they will not listen to the sound doctrine, but having itching ears, will heap up for themselves teachers after their own lusts,
\v 4 and will turn away their ears from the truth, and turn away to fables.
\v 5 But you be sober in all things, suffer hardship, do the work of an evangelist, and fulfill your ministry.
\p
\v 6 For I am already being offered, and the time of my departure has come.
\v 7 I have fought the good fight. I have finished the course. I have kept the faith.
\v 8 From now on, the crown of righteousness is stored up for me, which the Lord, the righteous judge, will give to me on that day; and not to me only, but also to all those who have loved his appearing.
\p
\v 9 Be diligent to come to me soon,
\v 10 for Demas left me, having loved this present world, and went to Thessalonica; Crescens to Galatia; and Titus to Dalmatia.
\v 11 Only Luke is with me. Take Mark, and bring him with you, for he is useful to me for service.
\v 12 But I sent Tychicus to Ephesus.
\v 13 Bring the cloak that I left at Troas with Carpus when you come, and the books, especially the parchments.
\v 14 Alexander, the coppersmith, did much evil to me. The Lord will repay him according to his deeds,
\v 15 of whom you also must beware; for he greatly opposed our words.
\p
\v 16 At my first defense, no one came to help me, but all left me. May it not be held against them.
\v 17 But the Lord stood by me and strengthened me, that through me the message might be fully proclaimed, and that all the Gentiles might hear. So I was delivered out of the mouth of the lion.
\v 18 And the Lord will deliver me from every evil work, and will preserve me for his heavenly Kingdom. To him be the glory forever and ever. Amen.
\p
\v 19 Greet Prisca and Aquila, and the house of Onesiphorus.
\v 20 Erastus remained at Corinth, but I left Trophimus at Miletus sick.
\v 21 Be diligent to come before winter. Eubulus salutes you, as do Pudens, Linus, Claudia, and all the brothers.
\p
\v 22 The Lord Jesus Christ be with your spirit. Grace be with you. Amen.


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\v 1 Paul, a servant of God, and an apostle of Jesus Christ, according to the faith of God’s chosen ones, and the knowledge of the truth which is according to godliness,
\v 2 in hope of eternal life, which God, who can’t lie, promised before time began;
\v 3 but in his own time revealed his word in the message with which I was entrusted according to the commandment of God our Savior;
\v 4 to Titus, my true child according to a common faith: Grace, mercy, and peace from God the Father and the Lord Jesus Christ our Savior.
\p
\v 5 I left you in Crete for this reason, that you would set in order the things that were lacking and appoint elders in every city, as I directed you,
\v 6 if anyone is blameless, the husband of one wife, having children who believe, who are not accused of loose or unruly behavior.
\v 7 For the overseer must be blameless, as God’s steward, not self-pleasing, not easily angered, not given to wine, not violent, not greedy for dishonest gain;
\v 8 but given to hospitality, a lover of good, sober minded, fair, holy, self-controlled,
\v 9 holding to the faithful word which is according to the teaching, that he may be able to exhort in the sound doctrine, and to convict those who contradict him.
\p
\v 10 For there are also many unruly men, vain talkers and deceivers, especially those of the circumcision,
\v 11 whose mouths must be stopped: men who overthrow whole houses, teaching things which they ought not, for dishonest gain’s sake.
\v 12 One of them, a prophet of their own, said, “Cretans are always liars, evil beasts, and idle gluttons.”
\v 13 This testimony is true. For this cause, reprove them sharply, that they may be sound in the faith,
\v 14 not paying attention to Jewish fables and commandments of men who turn away from the truth.
\v 15 To the pure, all things are pure; but to those who are defiled and unbelieving, nothing is pure; but both their mind and their conscience are defiled.
\v 16 They profess that they know God, but by their deeds they deny him, being abominable, disobedient, and unfit for any good work.


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\v 1 But say the things which fit sound doctrine,
\v 2 that older men should be temperate, sensible, sober minded, sound in faith, in love, and in perseverance:
\v 3 and that older women likewise be reverent in behavior, not slanderers nor enslaved to much wine, teachers of that which is good,
\v 4 that they may train the young wives to love their husbands, to love their children,
\v 5 to be sober minded, chaste, workers at home, kind, being in subjection to their own husbands, that God’s word may not be blasphemed.
\v 6 Likewise, exhort the younger men to be sober minded.
\v 7 In all things be showing yourself an example of good works. In your teaching, be showing integrity, seriousness, incorruptibility,
\v 8 and soundness of speech that can’t be condemned, that he who opposes you may be ashamed, having no evil thing to say about us.
\v 9 Exhort servants to be in subjection to their own masters and to be well-pleasing in all things, not contradicting,
\v 10 not stealing, but showing all good fidelity, that they may adorn the doctrine of God, our Savior, in all things.
\v 11 For the grace of God has appeared, bringing salvation to all men,
\v 12 instructing us to the intent that, denying ungodliness and worldly lusts, we would live soberly, righteously, and godly in this present age;
\v 13 looking for the blessed hope and appearing of the glory of our great God and Savior, Jesus Christ,
\v 14 who gave himself for us, that he might redeem us from all iniquity, and purify for himself a people for his own possession, zealous for good works.
\p
\v 15 Say these things and exhort and reprove with all authority. Let no one despise you.


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\v 1 Remind them to be in subjection to rulers and to authorities, to be obedient, to be ready for every good work,
\v 2 to speak evil of no one, not to be contentious, to be gentle, showing all humility toward all men.
\v 3 For we were also once foolish, disobedient, deceived, serving various lusts and pleasures, living in malice and envy, hateful, and hating one another.
\v 4 But when the kindness of God our Savior and his love toward mankind appeared,
\v 5 not by works of righteousness which we did ourselves, but according to his mercy, he saved us through the washing of regeneration and renewing by the Holy Spirit,
\v 6 whom he poured out on us richly, through Jesus Christ our Savior;
\v 7 that being justified by his grace, we might be made heirs according to the hope of eternal life.
\v 8 This saying is faithful, and concerning these things I desire that you affirm confidently, so that those who have believed God may be careful to maintain good works. These things are good and profitable to men;
\v 9 but shun foolish questionings, genealogies, strife, and disputes about the law; for they are unprofitable and vain.
\v 10 Avoid a factious man after a first and second warning,
\v 11 knowing that such a one is perverted and sins, being self-condemned.
\p
\v 12 When I send Artemas to you, or Tychicus, be diligent to come to me to Nicopolis, for I have determined to winter there.
\v 13 Send Zenas, the lawyer, and Apollos on their journey speedily, that nothing may be lacking for them.
\v 14 Let our people also learn to maintain good works for necessary uses, that they may not be unfruitful.
\p
\v 15 All who are with me greet you. Greet those who love us in faith. Grace be with you all. Amen.


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\v 1 Paul, a prisoner of Christ Jesus, and Timothy our brother, to Philemon, our beloved fellow worker,
\v 2 to the beloved Apphia, to Archippus our fellow soldier, and to the assembly in your house:
\v 3 Grace to you and peace from God our Father and the Lord Jesus Christ.
\p
\v 4 I thank my God always, making mention of you in my prayers,
\v 5 hearing of your love and of the faith which you have toward the Lord Jesus, and toward all the saints,
\v 6 that the fellowship of your faith may become effective in the knowledge of every good thing which is in us in Christ Jesus.
\v 7 For we have much joy and comfort in your love, because the hearts of the saints have been refreshed through you, brother.
\p
\v 8 Therefore though I have all boldness in Christ to command you that which is appropriate,
\v 9 yet for love’s sake I rather beg, being such a one as Paul, the aged, but also a prisoner of Jesus Christ.
\v 10 I beg you for my child, whom I have become the father of in my chains, Onesimus, \f + \fr 1:10 \ft Onesimus means “useful”.\f*
\v 11 who once was useless to you, but now is useful to you and to me.
\v 12 I am sending him back. Therefore receive him, that is, my own heart,
\v 13 whom I desired to keep with me, that on your behalf he might serve me in my chains for the Good News.
\v 14 But I was willing to do nothing without your consent, that your goodness would not be as of necessity, but of free will.
\v 15 For perhaps he was therefore separated from you for a while, that you would have him forever,
\v 16 no longer as a slave, but more than a slave, a beloved brother, especially to me, but how much rather to you, both in the flesh and in the Lord.
\p
\v 17 If then you count me a partner, receive him as you would receive me.
\v 18 But if he has wronged you at all or owes you anything, put that to my account.
\v 19 I, Paul, write this with my own hand: I will repay it (not to mention to you that you owe to me even your own self besides).
\v 20 Yes, brother, let me have joy from you in the Lord. Refresh my heart in the Lord.
\p
\v 21 Having confidence in your obedience, I write to you, knowing that you will do even beyond what I say.
\p
\v 22 Also, prepare a guest room for me, for I hope that through your prayers I will be restored to you.
\p
\v 23 Epaphras, my fellow prisoner in Christ Jesus, greets you,
\v 24 as do Mark, Aristarchus, Demas, and Luke, my fellow workers.
\p
\v 25 The grace of our Lord Jesus Christ be with your spirit. Amen.


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\v 1 God, having in the past spoken to the fathers through the prophets at many times and in various ways,
\v 2 has at the end of these days spoken to us by his Son, whom he appointed heir of all things, through whom also he made the worlds.
\v 3 His Son is the radiance of his glory, the very image of his substance, and upholding all things by the word of his power, who, when he had by himself purified us of our sins, sat down on the right hand of the Majesty on high,
\v 4 having become as much better than the angels as the more excellent name he has inherited is better than theirs.
\v 5 For to which of the angels did he say at any time,
\q1 “You are my Son.
\q2 Today I have become your father?”\x + \xo 1:5 \xt Psalm 2:7\x*
\m and again,
\q1 “I will be to him a Father,
\q2 and he will be to me a Son?”\x + \xo 1:5 \xt 2 Samuel 7:14; 1 Chronicles 17:13\x*
\p
\v 6 When he again brings in the firstborn into the world he says, “Let all the angels of God worship him.”\x + \xo 1:6 \xt Deuteronomy 32:43 LXX\x*
\v 7 Of the angels he says,
\q1 “He makes his angels winds,
\q2 and his servants a flame of fire.”\x + \xo 1:7 \xt Psalm 104:4\x*
\p
\v 8 But of the Son he says,
\q1 “Your throne, O God, is forever and ever.
\q2 The scepter of uprightness is the scepter of your Kingdom.
\q1
\v 9 You have loved righteousness and hated iniquity;
\q2 therefore God, your God, has anointed you with the oil of gladness above your fellows.”\x + \xo 1:9 \xt Psalm 45:6-7\x*
\p
\v 10 And,
\q1 “You, Lord, in the beginning, laid the foundation of the earth.
\q2 The heavens are the works of your hands.
\q1
\v 11 They will perish, but you continue.
\q2 They all will grow old like a garment does.
\q1
\v 12 You will roll them up like a mantle,
\q2 and they will be changed;
\q2 but you are the same.
\q2 Your years won’t fail.”\x + \xo 1:12 \xt Psalm 102:25-27\x*
\p
\v 13 But which of the angels has he told at any time,
\q1 “Sit at my right hand,
\q2 until I make your enemies the footstool of your feet?”\x + \xo 1:13 \xt Psalm 110:1\x*
\p
\v 14 Aren’t they all serving spirits, sent out to do service for the sake of those who will inherit salvation?


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\v 1 For the law, having a shadow of the good to come, not the very image of the things, can never with the same sacrifices year by year, which they offer continually, make perfect those who draw near.
\v 2 Or else wouldn’t they have ceased to be offered, because the worshipers, having been once cleansed, would have had no more consciousness of sins?
\v 3 But in those sacrifices there is a yearly reminder of sins.
\v 4 For it is impossible that the blood of bulls and goats should take away sins.
\v 5 Therefore when he comes into the world, he says,
\q1 “You didn’t desire sacrifice and offering,
\q2 but you prepared a body for me.
\q1
\v 6 You had no pleasure in whole burnt offerings and sacrifices for sin.
\q2
\v 7 Then I said, ‘Behold, I have come (in the scroll of the book it is written of me)
\q2 to do your will, O God.’”\x + \xo 10:7 \xt Psalm 40:6-8\x*
\p
\v 8 Previously saying, “Sacrifices and offerings and whole burnt offerings and sacrifices for sin you didn’t desire, neither had pleasure in them” (those which are offered according to the law),
\v 9 then he has said, “Behold, I have come to do your will.” He takes away the first, that he may establish the second,
\v 10 by which will we have been sanctified through the offering of the body of Jesus Christ once for all.
\v 11 Every priest indeed stands day by day serving and often offering the same sacrifices which can never take away sins,
\v 12 but he, when he had offered one sacrifice for sins forever, sat down on the right hand of God,
\v 13 from that time waiting until his enemies are made the footstool of his feet.
\v 14 For by one offering he has perfected forever those who are being sanctified.
\v 15 The Holy Spirit also testifies to us, for after saying,
\q1
\v 16 “This is the covenant that I will make with them:
\q2 ‘After those days,’ says the Lord,
\q1 ‘I will put my laws on their heart,
\q2 I will also write them on their mind;’”\x + \xo 10:16 \xt Jeremiah 31:33\x*
\p then he says,
\q1
\v 17 “I will remember their sins and their iniquities no more.”\x + \xo 10:17 \xt Jeremiah 31:34\x*
\p
\v 18 Now where remission of these is, there is no more offering for sin.
\p
\v 19 Having therefore, brothers, boldness to enter into the holy place by the blood of Jesus,
\v 20 by the way which he dedicated for us, a new and living way, through the veil, that is to say, his flesh,
\v 21 and having a great priest over God’s house,
\v 22 let’s draw near with a true heart in fullness of faith, having our hearts sprinkled from an evil conscience, and having our body washed with pure water,
\v 23 let’s hold fast the confession of our hope without wavering; for he who promised is faithful.
\p
\v 24 Let’s consider how to provoke one another to love and good works,
\v 25 not forsaking our own assembling together, as the custom of some is, but exhorting one another, and so much the more as you see the Day approaching.
\p
\v 26 For if we sin willfully after we have received the knowledge of the truth, there remains no more a sacrifice for sins,
\v 27 but a certain fearful expectation of judgment, and a fierceness of fire which will devour the adversaries.
\v 28 A man who disregards Moses’ law dies without compassion on the word of two or three witnesses.
\v 29 How much worse punishment do you think he will be judged worthy of who has trodden under foot the Son of God, and has counted the blood of the covenant with which he was sanctified an unholy thing, and has insulted the Spirit of grace?
\v 30 For we know him who said, “Vengeance belongs to me;” says the Lord, “I will repay.”\x + \xo 10:30 \xt Deuteronomy 32:35\x* Again, “The Lord will judge his people.”\x + \xo 10:30 \xt Deuteronomy 32:36; Psalm 135:14\x*
\v 31 It is a fearful thing to fall into the hands of the living God.
\p
\v 32 But remember the former days, in which, after you were enlightened, you endured a great struggle with sufferings;
\v 33 partly, being exposed to both reproaches and oppressions; and partly, becoming partakers with those who were treated so.
\v 34 For you both had compassion on me in my chains, and joyfully accepted the plundering of your possessions, knowing that you have for yourselves a better possession and an enduring one in the heavens.
\v 35 Therefore don’t throw away your boldness, which has a great reward.
\v 36 For you need endurance so that, having done the will of God, you may receive the promise.
\q1
\v 37 “In a very little while,
\q2 he who comes will come, and will not wait.
\q1
\v 38 But the righteous will live by faith.
\q2 If he shrinks back, my soul has no pleasure in him.”\x + \xo 10:38 \xt Habakkuk 2:3-4\x*
\p
\v 39 But we are not of those who shrink back to destruction, but of those who have faith to the saving of the soul.


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\v 1 Now faith is assurance of things hoped for, proof of things not seen.
\v 2 For by this, the elders obtained testimony.
\v 3 By faith, we understand that the universe has been framed by the word of God, so that what is seen has not been made out of things which are visible.
\v 4 By faith, Abel offered to God a more excellent sacrifice than Cain, through which he had testimony given to him that he was righteous, God testifying with respect to his gifts; and through it he, being dead, still speaks.
\v 5 By faith, Enoch was taken away, so that he wouldn’t see death, and he was not found, because God translated him. For he has had testimony given to him that before his translation he had been well pleasing to God.
\v 6 Without faith it is impossible to be well pleasing to him, for he who comes to God must believe that he exists, and that he is a rewarder of those who seek him.
\v 7 By faith, Noah, being warned about things not yet seen, moved with godly fear,\f + \fr 11:7 \ft or, reverence\f* prepared a ship for the saving of his house, through which he condemned the world, and became heir of the righteousness which is according to faith.
\v 8 By faith, Abraham, when he was called, obeyed to go out to the place which he was to receive for an inheritance. He went out, not knowing where he went.
\v 9 By faith, he lived as an alien in the land of promise, as in a land not his own, dwelling in tents with Isaac and Jacob, the heirs with him of the same promise.
\v 10 For he looked for the city which has the foundations, whose builder and maker is God.
\v 11 By faith, even Sarah herself received power to conceive, and she bore a child when she was past age, since she counted him faithful who had promised.
\v 12 Therefore as many as the stars of the sky in multitude, and as innumerable as the sand which is by the sea shore, were fathered by one man, and him as good as dead.
\v 13 These all died in faith, not having received the promises, but having seen\f + \fr 11:13 \ft TR adds “and being convinced of”\f* them and embraced them from afar, and having confessed that they were strangers and pilgrims on the earth.
\v 14 For those who say such things make it clear that they are seeking a country of their own.
\v 15 If indeed they had been thinking of that country from which they went out, they would have had enough time to return.
\v 16 But now they desire a better country, that is, a heavenly one. Therefore God is not ashamed of them, to be called their God, for he has prepared a city for them.
\p
\v 17 By faith, Abraham, being tested, offered up Isaac. Yes, he who had gladly received the promises was offering up his one and only son,
\v 18 to whom it was said, “Your offspring will be accounted as from Isaac,” \x + \xo 11:18 \xt Genesis 21:12\x*
\v 19 concluding that God is able to raise up even from the dead. Figuratively speaking, he also did receive him back from the dead.
\v 20 By faith, Isaac blessed Jacob and Esau, even concerning things to come.
\v 21 By faith, Jacob, when he was dying, blessed each of the sons of Joseph, and worshiped, leaning on the top of his staff.
\v 22 By faith, Joseph, when his end was near, made mention of the departure of the children of Israel, and gave instructions concerning his bones.
\v 23 By faith, Moses, when he was born, was hidden for three months by his parents, because they saw that he was a beautiful child, and they were not afraid of the king’s commandment.
\v 24 By faith, Moses, when he had grown up, refused to be called the son of Pharaoh’s daughter,
\v 25 choosing rather to share ill treatment with God’s people than to enjoy the pleasures of sin for a time,
\v 26 considering the reproach of Christ greater riches than the treasures of Egypt; for he looked to the reward.
\v 27 By faith, he left Egypt, not fearing the wrath of the king; for he endured, as seeing him who is invisible.
\v 28 By faith, he kept the Passover, and the sprinkling of the blood, that the destroyer of the firstborn should not touch them.
\v 29 By faith, they passed through the Red Sea as on dry land. When the Egyptians tried to do so, they were swallowed up.
\v 30 By faith, the walls of Jericho fell down, after they had been encircled for seven days.
\v 31 By faith, Rahab the prostitute didn’t perish with those who were disobedient, having received the spies in peace.
\v 32 What more shall I say? For the time would fail me if I told of Gideon, Barak, Samson, Jephthah, David, Samuel, and the prophets,
\v 33 who through faith subdued kingdoms, worked out righteousness, obtained promises, stopped the mouths of lions,\x + \xo 11:33 \xt Daniel 6:22-23\x*
\v 34 quenched the power of fire,\x + \xo 11:34 \xt Daniel 3:1-30\x* escaped the edge of the sword,\x + \xo 11:34 \xt 1 Kings 19:1-3; 2 Kings 6:31–7:20\x* from weakness were made strong, grew mighty in war, and caused foreign armies to flee.
\v 35 Women received their dead by resurrection.\x + \xo 11:35 \xt 1 Kings 17:17-23; 2 Kings 4:32-37\x* Others were tortured, not accepting their deliverance, that they might obtain a better resurrection.
\v 36 Others were tried by mocking and scourging, yes, moreover by bonds and imprisonment.
\v 37 They were stoned.\x + \xo 11:37 \xt 2 Chronicles 24:20-21\x* They were sawn apart. They were tempted. They were slain with the sword.\x + \xo 11:37 \xt Jeremiah 26:20-23; 1 Kings 19:10\x* They went around in sheep skins and in goat skins; being destitute, afflicted, ill-treated—
\v 38 of whom the world was not worthy—wandering in deserts, mountains, caves, and the holes of the earth.
\v 39 These all, having had testimony given to them through their faith, didn’t receive the promise,
\v 40 God having provided some better thing concerning us, so that apart from us they should not be made perfect.


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\v 1 Therefore let’s also, seeing we are surrounded by so great a cloud of witnesses, lay aside every weight and the sin which so easily entangles us, and let’s run with perseverance the race that is set before us,
\v 2 looking to Jesus, the author and perfecter of faith, who for the joy that was set before him endured the cross, despising its shame, and has sat down at the right hand of the throne of God.
\v 3 For consider him who has endured such contradiction of sinners against himself, that you don’t grow weary, fainting in your souls.
\v 4 You have not yet resisted to blood, striving against sin.
\v 5 You have forgotten the exhortation which reasons with you as with children,
\q1 “My son, don’t take lightly the chastening of the Lord,
\q2 nor faint when you are reproved by him;
\q2
\v 6 for whom the Lord loves, he disciplines,
\q2 and chastises every son whom he receives.”\x + \xo 12:6 \xt Proverbs 3:11-12\x*
\p
\v 7 It is for discipline that you endure. God deals with you as with children, for what son is there whom his father doesn’t discipline?
\v 8 But if you are without discipline, of which all have been made partakers, then you are illegitimate, and not children.
\v 9 Furthermore, we had the fathers of our flesh to chasten us, and we paid them respect. Shall we not much rather be in subjection to the Father of spirits, and live?
\v 10 For they indeed, for a few days, punished us as seemed good to them; but he for our profit, that we may be partakers of his holiness.
\v 11 All chastening seems for the present to be not joyous but grievous; yet afterward it yields the peaceful fruit of righteousness to those who have been trained by it.
\v 12 Therefore lift up the hands that hang down and the feeble knees, \x + \xo 12:12 \xt Isaiah 35:3\x*
\v 13 and make straight paths for your feet,\x + \xo 12:13 \xt Proverbs 4:26\x* so what is lame may not be dislocated, but rather be healed.
\p
\v 14 Follow after peace with all men, and the sanctification without which no man will see the Lord,
\v 15 looking carefully lest there be any man who falls short of the grace of God, lest any root of bitterness springing up trouble you, and many be defiled by it,
\v 16 lest there be any sexually immoral person, or profane person, like Esau, who sold his birthright for one meal.
\v 17 For you know that even when he afterward desired to inherit the blessing, he was rejected, for he found no place for a change of mind though he sought it diligently with tears.
\p
\v 18 For you have not come to a mountain that might be touched, and that burned with fire, and to blackness, darkness, storm,
\v 19 the sound of a trumpet, and the voice of words; which those who heard it begged that not one more word should be spoken to them,
\v 20 for they could not stand that which was commanded, “If even an animal touches the mountain, it shall be stoned”.\f + \fr 12:20 \ft TR adds “or shot with an arrow”\f*\x + \xo 12:20 \xt Exodus 19:12-13\x*
\v 21 So fearful was the appearance that Moses said, “I am terrified and trembling.”\x + \xo 12:21 \xt Deuteronomy 9:19\x*
\p
\v 22 But you have come to Mount Zion, and to the city of the living God, the heavenly Jerusalem, and to innumerable multitudes of angels,
\v 23 to the festal gathering and assembly of the firstborn who are enrolled in heaven, to God the Judge of all, to the spirits of just men made perfect,
\v 24 to Jesus, the mediator of a new covenant,\x + \xo 12:24 \xt Jeremiah 31:31\x* and to the blood of sprinkling that speaks better than that of Abel.
\p
\v 25 See that you don’t refuse him who speaks. For if they didn’t escape when they refused him who warned on the earth, how much more will we not escape who turn away from him who warns from heaven,
\v 26 whose voice shook the earth then, but now he has promised, saying, “Yet once more I will shake not only the earth, but also the heavens.”\x + \xo 12:26 \xt Haggai 2:6\x*
\v 27 This phrase, “Yet once more” signifies the removing of those things that are shaken, as of things that have been made, that those things which are not shaken may remain.
\v 28 Therefore, receiving a Kingdom that can’t be shaken, let’s have grace, through which we serve God acceptably, with reverence and awe,
\v 29 for our God is a consuming fire.\x + \xo 12:29 \xt Deuteronomy 4:24\x*


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\v 1 Let brotherly love continue.
\v 2 Don’t forget to show hospitality to strangers, for in doing so, some have entertained angels without knowing it.
\v 3 Remember those who are in bonds, as bound with them, and those who are ill-treated, since you are also in the body.
\v 4 Let marriage be held in honor among all, and let the bed be undefiled; but God will judge the sexually immoral and adulterers.
\p
\v 5 Be free from the love of money, content with such things as you have, for he has said, “I will in no way leave you, neither will I in any way forsake you.”\x + \xo 13:5 \xt Deuteronomy 31:6\x*
\v 6 So that with good courage we say,
\q1 “The Lord is my helper. I will not fear.
\q2 What can man do to me?”\x + \xo 13:6 \xt Psalm 118:6-7\x*
\p
\v 7 Remember your leaders, men who spoke to you the word of God, and considering the results of their conduct, imitate their faith.
\v 8 Jesus Christ is the same yesterday, today, and forever.
\v 9 Don’t be carried away by various and strange teachings, for it is good that the heart be established by grace, not by food, through which those who were so occupied were not benefited.
\p
\v 10 We have an altar from which those who serve the holy tabernacle have no right to eat.
\v 11 For the bodies of those animals, whose blood is brought into the holy place by the high priest as an offering for sin, are burned outside of the camp.\x + \xo 13:11 \xt Leviticus 16:27\x*
\v 12 Therefore Jesus also, that he might sanctify the people through his own blood, suffered outside of the gate.
\v 13 Let’s therefore go out to him outside of the camp, bearing his reproach.
\v 14 For we don’t have here an enduring city, but we seek that which is to come.
\v 15 Through him, then, let’s offer up a sacrifice of praise to God \x + \xo 13:15 \xt Psalm 50:23\x* continually, that is, the fruit of lips which proclaim allegiance to his name.
\v 16 But don’t forget to be doing good and sharing, for with such sacrifices God is well pleased.
\p
\v 17 Obey your leaders and submit to them, for they watch on behalf of your souls, as those who will give account, that they may do this with joy, and not with groaning, for that would be unprofitable for you.
\p
\v 18 Pray for us, for we are persuaded that we have a good conscience, desiring to live honorably in all things.
\v 19 I strongly urge you to do this, that I may be restored to you sooner.
\p
\v 20 Now may the God of peace, who brought again from the dead the great shepherd of the sheep with the blood of an eternal covenant, our Lord Jesus,
\v 21 make you complete in every good work to do his will, working in you that which is well pleasing in his sight, through Jesus Christ, to whom be the glory forever and ever. Amen.
\p
\v 22 But I exhort you, brothers, endure the word of exhortation; for I have written to you in few words.
\v 23 Know that our brother Timothy has been freed, with whom, if he comes shortly, I will see you.
\p
\v 24 Greet all of your leaders and all the saints. The Italians greet you.
\p
\v 25 Grace be with you all. Amen.


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\v 1 Therefore we ought to pay greater attention to the things that were heard, lest perhaps we drift away.
\v 2 For if the word spoken through angels proved steadfast, and every transgression and disobedience received a just penalty,
\v 3 how will we escape if we neglect so great a salvation—which at the first having been spoken through the Lord, was confirmed to us by those who heard,
\v 4 God also testifying with them, both by signs and wonders, by various works of power and by gifts of the Holy Spirit, according to his own will?
\p
\v 5 For he didn’t subject the world to come, of which we speak, to angels.
\v 6 But one has somewhere testified, saying,
\q1 “What is man, that you think of him?
\q2 Or the son of man, that you care for him?
\q1
\v 7 You made him a little lower than the angels.
\q2 You crowned him with glory and honor.\f + \fr 2:7 \ft TR adds “and set him over the works of your hands”\f*
\q2
\v 8 You have put all things in subjection under his feet.”\x + \xo 2:8 \xt Psalm 8:4-6 \x*
\p For in that he subjected all things to him, he left nothing that is not subject to him. But now we don’t see all things subjected to him, yet.
\v 9 But we see him who has been made a little lower than the angels, Jesus, because of the suffering of death crowned with glory and honor, that by the grace of God he should taste of death for everyone.
\v 10 For it became him, for whom are all things, and through whom are all things, in bringing many children to glory, to make the author of their salvation perfect through sufferings.
\v 11 For both he who sanctifies and those who are sanctified are all from one, for which cause he is not ashamed to call them brothers,\f + \fr 2:11 \ft The word for “brothers” here and where context allows may also be correctly translated “brothers and sisters” or “siblings.”\f*
\v 12 saying,
\q1 “I will declare your name to my brothers.
\q2 Among the congregation I will sing your praise.”\x + \xo 2:12 \xt Psalm 22:22\x*
\p
\v 13 Again, “I will put my trust in him.” Again, “Behold, here I am with the children whom God has given me.”\x + \xo 2:13 \xt Isaiah 8:18\x*
\v 14 Since then the children have shared in flesh and blood, he also himself in the same way partook of the same, that through death he might bring to nothing him who had the power of death, that is, the devil,
\v 15 and might deliver all of them who through fear of death were all their lifetime subject to bondage.
\v 16 For most certainly, he doesn’t give help to angels, but he gives help to the offspring\f + \fr 2:16 \ft or, seed\f* of Abraham.
\v 17 Therefore he was obligated in all things to be made like his brothers, that he might become a merciful and faithful high priest in things pertaining to God, to make atonement for the sins of the people.
\v 18 For in that he himself has suffered being tempted, he is able to help those who are tempted.


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\v 1 Therefore, holy brothers, partakers of a heavenly calling, consider the Apostle and High Priest of our confession: Jesus,
\v 2 who was faithful to him who appointed him, as also Moses was in all his house.
\v 3 For he has been counted worthy of more glory than Moses, because he who built the house has more honor than the house.
\v 4 For every house is built by someone; but he who built all things is God.
\v 5 Moses indeed was faithful in all his house as a servant, for a testimony of those things which were afterward to be spoken,
\v 6 but Christ is faithful as a Son over his house. We are his house, if we hold fast our confidence and the glorying of our hope firm to the end.
\v 7 Therefore, even as the Holy Spirit says,
\q1 “Today if you will hear his voice,
\q2
\v 8 don’t harden your hearts, as in the rebellion,
\q2 like as in the day of the trial in the wilderness,
\q2
\v 9 where your fathers tested me and tried me,
\q2 and saw my deeds for forty years.
\q1
\v 10 Therefore I was displeased with that generation,
\q2 and said, ‘They always err in their heart,
\q2 but they didn’t know my ways.’
\q1
\v 11 As I swore in my wrath,
\q2 ‘They will not enter into my rest.’”\x + \xo 3:11 \xt Psalm 95:7-11\x*
\p
\v 12 Beware, brothers, lest perhaps there might be in any one of you an evil heart of unbelief, in falling away from the living God;
\v 13 but exhort one another day by day, so long as it is called “today”, lest any one of you be hardened by the deceitfulness of sin.
\v 14 For we have become partakers of Christ, if we hold the beginning of our confidence firm to the end,
\v 15 while it is said,
\q1 “Today if you will hear his voice,
\q2 don’t harden your hearts, as in the rebellion.”\x + \xo 3:15 \xt Psalm 95:7-8\x*
\p
\v 16 For who, when they heard, rebelled? Wasn’t it all those who came out of Egypt led by Moses?
\v 17 With whom was he displeased forty years? Wasn’t it with those who sinned, whose bodies fell in the wilderness?
\v 18 To whom did he swear that they wouldn’t enter into his rest, but to those who were disobedient?
\v 19 We see that they weren’t able to enter in because of unbelief.


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\v 1 Let’s fear therefore, lest perhaps anyone of you should seem to have come short of a promise of entering into his rest.
\v 2 For indeed we have had good news preached to us, even as they also did, but the word they heard didn’t profit them, because it wasn’t mixed with faith by those who heard.
\v 3 For we who have believed do enter into that rest, even as he has said, “As I swore in my wrath, they will not enter into my rest;”\x + \xo 4:3 \xt Psalm 95:11 \x* although the works were finished from the foundation of the world.
\v 4 For he has said this somewhere about the seventh day, “God rested on the seventh day from all his works;”\x + \xo 4:4 \xt Genesis 2:2\x*
\v 5 and in this place again, “They will not enter into my rest.”\x + \xo 4:5 \xt Psalm 95:11\x*
\p
\v 6 Seeing therefore it remains that some should enter into it, and they to whom the good news was preached before failed to enter in because of disobedience,
\v 7 he again defines a certain day, today, saying through David so long a time afterward (just as has been said),
\q1 “Today if you will hear his voice,
\q2 don’t harden your hearts.”\x + \xo 4:7 \xt Psalm 95:7-8\x*
\p
\v 8 For if Joshua had given them rest, he would not have spoken afterward of another day.
\v 9 There remains therefore a Sabbath rest for the people of God.
\v 10 For he who has entered into his rest has himself also rested from his works, as God did from his.
\v 11 Let’s therefore give diligence to enter into that rest, lest anyone fall after the same example of disobedience.
\v 12 For the word of God is living and active, and sharper than any two-edged sword, piercing even to the dividing of soul and spirit, of both joints and marrow, and is able to discern the thoughts and intentions of the heart.
\v 13 There is no creature that is hidden from his sight, but all things are naked and laid open before the eyes of him to whom we must give an account.
\p
\v 14 Having then a great high priest who has passed through the heavens, Jesus, the Son of God, let’s hold tightly to our confession.
\v 15 For we don’t have a high priest who can’t be touched with the feeling of our infirmities, but one who has been in all points tempted like we are, yet without sin.
\v 16 Let’s therefore draw near with boldness to the throne of grace, that we may receive mercy and may find grace for help in time of need.


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\v 1 For every high priest, being taken from among men, is appointed for men in things pertaining to God, that he may offer both gifts and sacrifices for sins.
\v 2 The high priest can deal gently with those who are ignorant and going astray, because he himself is also surrounded with weakness.
\v 3 Because of this, he must offer sacrifices for sins for the people, as well as for himself.
\v 4 Nobody takes this honor on himself, but he is called by God, just like Aaron was.
\v 5 So also Christ didn’t glorify himself to be made a high priest, but it was he who said to him,
\q1 “You are my Son.
\q2 Today I have become your father.”\x + \xo 5:5 \xt Psalm 2:7\x*
\p
\v 6 As he says also in another place,
\q1 “You are a priest forever,
\q2 after the order of Melchizedek.”\x + \xo 5:6 \xt Psalm 110:4\x*
\p
\v 7 He, in the days of his flesh, having offered up prayers and petitions with strong crying and tears to him who was able to save him from death, and having been heard for his godly fear,
\v 8 though he was a Son, yet learned obedience by the things which he suffered.
\v 9 Having been made perfect, he became to all of those who obey him the author of eternal salvation,
\v 10 named by God a high priest after the order of Melchizedek.
\p
\v 11 About him we have many words to say, and hard to interpret, seeing you have become dull of hearing.
\v 12 For although by this time you should be teachers, you again need to have someone teach you the rudiments of the first principles of the revelations of God. You have come to need milk, and not solid food.
\v 13 For everyone who lives on milk is not experienced in the word of righteousness, for he is a baby.
\v 14 But solid food is for those who are full grown, who by reason of use have their senses exercised to discern good and evil.


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\v 1 Therefore leaving the teaching of the first principles of Christ, let’s press on to perfection—not laying again a foundation of repentance from dead works, of faith toward God,
\v 2 of the teaching of baptisms, of laying on of hands, of resurrection of the dead, and of eternal judgment.
\v 3 This will we do, if God permits.
\v 4 For concerning those who were once enlightened and tasted of the heavenly gift, and were made partakers of the Holy Spirit,
\v 5 and tasted the good word of God and the powers of the age to come,
\v 6 and then fell away, it is impossible to renew them again to repentance; seeing they crucify the Son of God for themselves again, and put him to open shame.
\v 7 For the land which has drunk the rain that comes often on it and produces a crop suitable for them for whose sake it is also tilled, receives blessing from God;
\v 8 but if it bears thorns and thistles, it is rejected and near being cursed, whose end is to be burned.
\p
\v 9 But, beloved, we are persuaded of better things for you, and things that accompany salvation, even though we speak like this.
\v 10 For God is not unrighteous, so as to forget your work and the labor of love which you showed toward his name, in that you served the saints, and still do serve them.
\v 11 We desire that each one of you may show the same diligence to the fullness of hope even to the end,
\v 12 that you won’t be sluggish, but imitators of those who through faith and perseverance inherited the promises.
\v 13 For when God made a promise to Abraham, since he could swear by no one greater, he swore by himself,
\v 14 saying, “Surely blessing I will bless you, and multiplying I will multiply you.”\x + \xo 6:14 \xt Genesis 22:17\x*
\v 15 Thus, having patiently endured, he obtained the promise.
\v 16 For men indeed swear by a greater one, and in every dispute of theirs the oath is final for confirmation.
\v 17 In this way God, being determined to show more abundantly to the heirs of the promise the immutability of his counsel, interposed with an oath,
\v 18 that by two immutable things, in which it is impossible for God to lie, we may have a strong encouragement, who have fled for refuge to take hold of the hope set before us.
\v 19 This hope we have as an anchor of the soul, a hope both sure and steadfast and entering into that which is within the veil;
\v 20 where as a forerunner Jesus entered for us, having become a high priest forever after the order of Melchizedek.


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\v 1 For this Melchizedek, king of Salem, priest of God Most High, who met Abraham returning from the slaughter of the kings and blessed him,
\v 2 to whom also Abraham divided a tenth part of all (being first, by interpretation, “king of righteousness”, and then also “king of Salem”, which means “king of peace”,
\v 3 without father, without mother, without genealogy, having neither beginning of days nor end of life, but made like the Son of God), remains a priest continually.
\p
\v 4 Now consider how great this man was, to whom even Abraham, the patriarch, gave a tenth out of the best plunder.
\v 5 They indeed of the sons of Levi who receive the priest’s office have a commandment to take tithes of the people according to the law, that is, of their brothers, though these have come out of the body of Abraham,
\v 6 but he whose genealogy is not counted from them has accepted tithes from Abraham, and has blessed him who has the promises.
\v 7 But without any dispute the lesser is blessed by the greater.
\v 8 Here people who die receive tithes, but there one receives tithes of whom it is testified that he lives.
\v 9 We can say that through Abraham even Levi, who receives tithes, has paid tithes,
\v 10 for he was yet in the body of his father when Melchizedek met him.
\p
\v 11 Now if perfection was through the Levitical priesthood (for under it the people have received the law), what further need was there for another priest to arise after the order of Melchizedek, and not be called after the order of Aaron?
\v 12 For the priesthood being changed, there is of necessity a change made also in the law.
\v 13 For he of whom these things are said belongs to another tribe, from which no one has officiated at the altar.
\v 14 For it is evident that our Lord has sprung out of Judah, about which tribe Moses spoke nothing concerning priesthood.
\v 15 This is yet more abundantly evident, if after the likeness of Melchizedek there arises another priest,
\v 16 who has been made, not after the law of a fleshly commandment, but after the power of an endless life;
\v 17 for it is testified,
\q1 “You are a priest forever,
\q2 according to the order of Melchizedek.”\x + \xo 7:17 \xt Psalm 110:4\x*
\p
\v 18 For there is an annulling of a foregoing commandment because of its weakness and uselessness
\v 19 (for the law made nothing perfect), and a bringing in of a better hope, through which we draw near to God.
\v 20 Inasmuch as he was not made priest without the taking of an oath
\v 21 (for they indeed have been made priests without an oath), but he with an oath by him that says of him,
\q1 “The Lord swore and will not change his mind,
\q2 ‘You are a priest forever,
\q2 according to the order of Melchizedek.’”\x + \xo 7:21 \xt Psalm 110:4\x*
\p
\v 22 By so much, Jesus has become the collateral of a better covenant.
\v 23 Many, indeed, have been made priests, because they are hindered from continuing by death.
\v 24 But he, because he lives forever, has his priesthood unchangeable.
\v 25 Therefore he is also able to save to the uttermost those who draw near to God through him, seeing that he lives forever to make intercession for them.
\p
\v 26 For such a high priest was fitting for us: holy, guiltless, undefiled, separated from sinners, and made higher than the heavens;
\v 27 who doesn’t need, like those high priests, to offer up sacrifices daily, first for his own sins, and then for the sins of the people. For he did this once for all, when he offered up himself.
\v 28 For the law appoints men as high priests who have weakness, but the word of the oath which came after the law appoints a Son forever who has been perfected.


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\v 1 Now in the things which we are saying, the main point is this. We have such a high priest, who sat down on the right hand of the throne of the Majesty in the heavens,
\v 2 a servant of the sanctuary and of the true tabernacle, which the Lord pitched, not man.
\v 3 For every high priest is appointed to offer both gifts and sacrifices. Therefore it is necessary that this high priest also have something to offer.
\v 4 For if he were on earth, he would not be a priest at all, seeing there are priests who offer the gifts according to the law,
\v 5 who serve a copy and shadow of the heavenly things, even as Moses was warned by God when he was about to make the tabernacle, for he said, “See, you shall make everything according to the pattern that was shown to you on the mountain.”\x + \xo 8:5 \xt Exodus 25:40\x*
\v 6 But now he has obtained a more excellent ministry, by so much as he is also the mediator of a better covenant, which on better promises has been given as law.
\v 7 For if that first covenant had been faultless, then no place would have been sought for a second.
\v 8 For finding fault with them, he said,
\q1 “Behold,\f + \fr 8:8 \ft “Behold”, from “ἰδοὺ”, means look at, take notice, observe, see, or gaze at. It is often used as an interjection.\f* the days come”, says the Lord,
\q2 “that I will make a new covenant with the house of Israel and with the house of Judah;
\q1
\v 9 not according to the covenant that I made with their fathers,
\q2 in the day that I took them by the hand to lead them out of the land of Egypt;
\q1 for they didn’t continue in my covenant,
\q2 and I disregarded them,” says the Lord.
\q1
\v 10 “For this is the covenant that I will make with the house of Israel.
\q2 After those days,” says the Lord;
\q1 “I will put my laws into their mind,
\q2 I will also write them on their heart.
\q1 I will be their God,
\q2 and they will be my people.
\q1
\v 11 They will not teach every man his fellow citizen,\f + \fr 8:11 \ft TR reads “neighbor” instead of “fellow citizen”\f*
\q2 and every man his brother, saying, ‘Know the Lord,’
\q2 for all will know me,
\q2 from their least to their greatest.
\q1
\v 12 For I will be merciful to their unrighteousness.
\q2 I will remember their sins and lawless deeds no more.”\x + \xo 8:12 \xt Jeremiah 31:31-34\x*
\p
\v 13 In that he says, “A new covenant”, he has made the first old. But that which is becoming old and grows aged is near to vanishing away.


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\v 1 Now indeed even the first\f + \fr 9:1 \ft TR adds “tabernacle”\f* covenant had ordinances of divine service and an earthly sanctuary.
\v 2 For a tabernacle was prepared. In the first part were the lamp stand, the table, and the show bread; which is called the Holy Place.
\v 3 After the second veil was the tabernacle which is called the Holy of Holies,
\v 4 having a golden altar of incense, and the ark of the covenant overlaid on all sides with gold, in which was a golden pot holding the manna, Aaron’s rod that budded, and the tablets of the covenant;
\v 5 and above it cherubim of glory overshadowing the mercy seat, of which things we can’t speak now in detail.
\v 6 Now these things having been thus prepared, the priests go in continually into the first tabernacle, accomplishing the services,
\v 7 but into the second the high priest alone, once in the year, not without blood, which he offers for himself, and for the errors of the people.
\v 8 The Holy Spirit is indicating this, that the way into the Holy Place wasn’t yet revealed while the first tabernacle was still standing.
\v 9 This is a symbol of the present age, where gifts and sacrifices are offered that are incapable, concerning the conscience, of making the worshiper perfect,
\v 10 being only (with meats and drinks and various washings) fleshly ordinances, imposed until a time of reformation.
\p
\v 11 But Christ having come as a high priest of the coming good things, through the greater and more perfect tabernacle, not made with hands, that is to say, not of this creation,
\v 12 nor yet through the blood of goats and calves, but through his own blood, entered in once for all into the Holy Place, having obtained eternal redemption.
\v 13 For if the blood of goats and bulls, and the ashes of a heifer sprinkling those who have been defiled, sanctify to the cleanness of the flesh,
\v 14 how much more will the blood of Christ, who through the eternal Spirit offered himself without defect to God, cleanse your conscience from dead works to serve the living God?
\v 15 For this reason he is the mediator of a new covenant, since a death has occurred for the redemption of the transgressions that were under the first covenant, that those who have been called may receive the promise of the eternal inheritance.
\v 16 For where a last will and testament is, there must of necessity be the death of him who made it.
\v 17 For a will is in force where there has been death, for it is never in force while he who made it lives.
\v 18 Therefore even the first covenant has not been dedicated without blood.
\v 19 For when every commandment had been spoken by Moses to all the people according to the law, he took the blood of the calves and the goats, with water and scarlet wool and hyssop, and sprinkled both the book itself and all the people,
\v 20 saying, “This is the blood of the covenant which God has commanded you.”\x + \xo 9:20 \xt Exodus 24:8\x*
\p
\v 21 Moreover he sprinkled the tabernacle and all the vessels of the ministry in the same way with the blood.
\v 22 According to the law, nearly everything is cleansed with blood, and apart from shedding of blood there is no remission.
\p
\v 23 It was necessary therefore that the copies of the things in the heavens should be cleansed with these, but the heavenly things themselves with better sacrifices than these.
\v 24 For Christ hasn’t entered into holy places made with hands, which are representations of the true, but into heaven itself, now to appear in the presence of God for us;
\v 25 nor yet that he should offer himself often, as the high priest enters into the holy place year by year with blood not his own,
\v 26 or else he must have suffered often since the foundation of the world. But now once at the end of the ages, he has been revealed to put away sin by the sacrifice of himself.
\v 27 Inasmuch as it is appointed for men to die once, and after this, judgment,
\v 28 so Christ also, having been offered once to bear the sins of many, will appear a second time, without sin, to those who are eagerly waiting for him for salvation.


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\v 1 James, a servant of God and of the Lord Jesus Christ, to the twelve tribes which are in the Dispersion: Greetings.
\p
\v 2 Count it all joy, my brothers,\f + \fr 1:2 \ft The word for “brothers” here and where context allows may also be correctly translated “brothers and sisters” or “siblings.”\f* when you fall into various temptations,
\v 3 knowing that the testing of your faith produces endurance.
\v 4 Let endurance have its perfect work, that you may be perfect and complete, lacking in nothing.
\p
\v 5 But if any of you lacks wisdom, let him ask of God, who gives to all liberally and without reproach, and it will be given to him.
\v 6 But let him ask in faith, without any doubting, for he who doubts is like a wave of the sea, driven by the wind and tossed.
\v 7 For that man shouldn’t think that he will receive anything from the Lord.
\v 8 He is a double-minded man, unstable in all his ways.
\p
\v 9 But let the brother in humble circumstances glory in his high position;
\v 10 and the rich, in that he is made humble, because like the flower in the grass, he will pass away.
\v 11 For the sun arises with the scorching wind and withers the grass, and the flower in it falls, and the beauty of its appearance perishes. So the rich man will also fade away in his pursuits.
\p
\v 12 Blessed is a person who endures temptation, for when he has been approved, he will receive the crown of life, which the Lord promised to those who love him.
\p
\v 13 Let no man say when he is tempted, “I am tempted by God,” for God can’t be tempted by evil, and he himself tempts no one.
\v 14 But each one is tempted when he is drawn away by his own lust and enticed.
\v 15 Then the lust, when it has conceived, bears sin. The sin, when it is full grown, produces death.
\v 16 Don’t be deceived, my beloved brothers.
\v 17 Every good gift and every perfect gift is from above, coming down from the Father of lights, with whom can be no variation, nor turning shadow.
\v 18 Of his own will he gave birth to us by the word of truth, that we should be a kind of first fruits of his creatures.
\p
\v 19 So, then, my beloved brothers, let every man be swift to hear, slow to speak, and slow to anger;
\v 20 for the anger of man doesn’t produce the righteousness of God.
\v 21 Therefore, putting away all filthiness and overflowing of wickedness, receive with humility the implanted word, which is able to save your souls.\f + \fr 1:21 \ft or, preserve your life.\f*
\v 22 But be doers of the word, and not only hearers, deluding your own selves.
\v 23 For if anyone is a hearer of the word and not a doer, he is like a man looking at his natural face in a mirror;
\v 24 for he sees himself, and goes away, and immediately forgets what kind of man he was.
\v 25 But he who looks into the perfect law of freedom and continues, not being a hearer who forgets, but a doer of the work, this man will be blessed in what he does.
\p
\v 26 If anyone among you thinks himself to be religious while he doesn’t bridle his tongue, but deceives his heart, this man’s religion is worthless.
\v 27 Pure religion and undefiled before our God and Father is this: to visit the fatherless and widows in their affliction, and to keep oneself unstained by the world.


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\v 1 My brothers, don’t hold the faith of our Lord Jesus Christ of glory with partiality.
\v 2 For if a man with a gold ring, in fine clothing, comes into your synagogue,\f + \fr 2:2 \ft or, meeting\f* and a poor man in filthy clothing also comes in,
\v 3 and you pay special attention to him who wears the fine clothing and say, “Sit here in a good place;” and you tell the poor man, “Stand there,” or “Sit by my footstool”
\v 4 haven’t you shown partiality among yourselves, and become judges with evil thoughts?
\v 5 Listen, my beloved brothers. Didn’t God choose those who are poor in this world to be rich in faith, and heirs of the Kingdom which he promised to those who love him?
\v 6 But you have dishonored the poor man. Don’t the rich oppress you, and personally drag you before the courts?
\v 7 Don’t they blaspheme the honorable name by which you are called?
\v 8 However, if you fulfill the royal law according to the Scripture, “You shall love your neighbor as yourself,”\x + \xo 2:8 \xt Leviticus 19:18\x* you do well.
\v 9 But if you show partiality, you commit sin, being convicted by the law as transgressors.
\v 10 For whoever keeps the whole law, and yet stumbles in one point, he has become guilty of all.
\v 11 For he who said, “Do not commit adultery,”\x + \xo 2:11 \xt Exodus 20:14; Deuteronomy 5:18\x* also said, “Do not commit murder.”\x + \xo 2:11 \xt Exodus 20:13; Deuteronomy 5:17 \x* Now if you do not commit adultery, but murder, you have become a transgressor of the law.
\v 12 So speak and so do, as men who are to be judged by a law of freedom.
\v 13 For judgment is without mercy to him who has shown no mercy. Mercy triumphs over judgment.
\p
\v 14 What good is it, my brothers, if a man says he has faith, but has no works? Can faith save him?
\v 15 And if a brother or sister is naked and in lack of daily food,
\v 16 and one of you tells them, “Go in peace. Be warmed and filled;” yet you didn’t give them the things the body needs, what good is it?
\v 17 Even so faith, if it has no works, is dead in itself.
\v 18 Yes, a man will say, “You have faith, and I have works.” Show me your faith without works, and I will show you my faith by my works.
\p
\v 19 You believe that God is one. You do well. The demons also believe, and shudder.
\v 20 But do you want to know, vain man, that faith apart from works is dead?
\v 21 Wasn’t Abraham our father justified by works, in that he offered up Isaac his son on the altar?
\v 22 You see that faith worked with his works, and by works faith was perfected.
\v 23 So the Scripture was fulfilled which says, “Abraham believed God, and it was accounted to him as righteousness,”\x + \xo 2:23 \xt Genesis 15:6\x* and he was called the friend of God.
\v 24 You see then that by works, a man is justified, and not only by faith.
\v 25 In the same way, wasn’t Rahab the prostitute also justified by works, in that she received the messengers and sent them out another way?
\v 26 For as the body apart from the spirit is dead, even so faith apart from works is dead.


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\v 1 Let not many of you be teachers, my brothers, knowing that we will receive heavier judgment.
\v 2 For we all stumble in many things. Anyone who doesn’t stumble in word is a perfect person, able to bridle the whole body also.
\v 3 Indeed, we put bits into the horses’ mouths so that they may obey us, and we guide their whole body.
\v 4 Behold,\f + \fr 3:4 \ft “Behold”, from “ἰδοὺ”, means look at, take notice, observe, see, or gaze at. It is often used as an interjection.\f* the ships also, though they are so big and are driven by fierce winds, are yet guided by a very small rudder, wherever the pilot desires.
\v 5 So the tongue is also a little member, and boasts great things. See how a small fire can spread to a large forest!
\v 6 And the tongue is a fire. The world of iniquity among our members is the tongue, which defiles the whole body, and sets on fire the course of nature, and is set on fire by Gehenna.\f + \fr 3:6 \ft or, Hell\f*
\v 7 For every kind of animal, bird, creeping thing, and sea creature, is tamed, and has been tamed by mankind;
\v 8 but nobody can tame the tongue. It is a restless evil, full of deadly poison.
\v 9 With it we bless our God and Father, and with it we curse men who are made in the image of God.
\v 10 Out of the same mouth comes blessing and cursing. My brothers, these things ought not to be so.
\v 11 Does a spring send out from the same opening fresh and bitter water?
\v 12 Can a fig tree, my brothers, yield olives, or a vine figs? Thus no spring yields both salt water and fresh water.
\p
\v 13 Who is wise and understanding among you? Let him show by his good conduct that his deeds are done in gentleness of wisdom.
\v 14 But if you have bitter jealousy and selfish ambition in your heart, don’t boast and don’t lie against the truth.
\v 15 This wisdom is not that which comes down from above, but is earthly, sensual, and demonic.
\v 16 For where jealousy and selfish ambition are, there is confusion and every evil deed.
\v 17 But the wisdom that is from above is first pure, then peaceful, gentle, reasonable, full of mercy and good fruits, without partiality, and without hypocrisy.
\v 18 Now the fruit of righteousness is sown in peace by those who make peace.


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\v 1 Where do wars and fightings among you come from? Don’t they come from your pleasures that war in your members?
\v 2 You lust, and don’t have. You murder and covet, and can’t obtain. You fight and make war. You don’t have, because you don’t ask.
\v 3 You ask, and don’t receive, because you ask with wrong motives, so that you may spend it on your pleasures.
\v 4 You adulterers and adulteresses, don’t you know that friendship with the world is hostility toward God? Whoever therefore wants to be a friend of the world makes himself an enemy of God.
\v 5 Or do you think that the Scripture says in vain, “The Spirit who lives in us yearns jealously”?
\v 6 But he gives more grace. Therefore it says, “God resists the proud, but gives grace to the humble.”\x + \xo 4:6 \xt Proverbs 3:34\x*
\v 7 Be subject therefore to God. Resist the devil, and he will flee from you.
\v 8 Draw near to God, and he will draw near to you. Cleanse your hands, you sinners. Purify your hearts, you double-minded.
\v 9 Lament, mourn, and weep. Let your laughter be turned to mourning, and your joy to gloom.
\v 10 Humble yourselves in the sight of the Lord, and he will exalt you.
\p
\v 11 Don’t speak against one another, brothers. He who speaks against a brother and judges his brother, speaks against the law and judges the law. But if you judge the law, you are not a doer of the law, but a judge.
\v 12 Only one is the lawgiver, who is able to save and to destroy. But who are you to judge another?
\p
\v 13 Come now, you who say, “Today or tomorrow let’s go into this city, and spend a year there, trade, and make a profit.”
\v 14 Whereas you don’t know what your life will be like tomorrow. For what is your life? For you are a vapor that appears for a little time, and then vanishes away.
\v 15 For you ought to say, “If the Lord wills, we will both live, and do this or that.”
\v 16 But now you glory in your boasting. All such boasting is evil.
\v 17 To him therefore who knows to do good, and doesn’t do it, to him it is sin.


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\v 1 Come now, you rich, weep and howl for your miseries that are coming on you.
\v 2 Your riches are corrupted and your garments are moth-eaten.
\v 3 Your gold and your silver are corroded, and their corrosion will be for a testimony against you and will eat your flesh like fire. You have laid up your treasure in the last days.
\v 4 Behold, the wages of the laborers who mowed your fields, which you have kept back by fraud, cry out, and the cries of those who reaped have entered into the ears of the Lord of Armies.\f + \fr 5:4 \ft Greek: Sabaoth (for Hebrew: Tze’va’ot)\f*
\v 5 You have lived in luxury on the earth, and taken your pleasure. You have nourished your hearts as in a day of slaughter.
\v 6 You have condemned and you have murdered the righteous one. He doesn’t resist you.
\p
\v 7 Be patient therefore, brothers, until the coming of the Lord. Behold, the farmer waits for the precious fruit of the earth, being patient over it, until it receives the early and late rain.
\v 8 You also be patient. Establish your hearts, for the coming of the Lord is at hand.
\p
\v 9 Don’t grumble, brothers, against one another, so that you won’t be judged. Behold, the judge stands at the door.
\v 10 Take, brothers, for an example of suffering and of perseverance, the prophets who spoke in the name of the Lord.
\v 11 Behold, we call them blessed who endured. You have heard of the perseverance of Job, and have seen the Lord in the outcome, and how the Lord is full of compassion and mercy.
\p
\v 12 But above all things, my brothers, don’t swear— not by heaven, or by the earth, or by any other oath; but let your “yes” be “yes”, and your “no”, “no”, so that you don’t fall into hypocrisy.\f + \fr 5:12 \ft TR reads “under judgment” instead of “into hypocrisy”\f*
\p
\v 13 Is any among you suffering? Let him pray. Is any cheerful? Let him sing praises.
\v 14 Is any among you sick? Let him call for the elders of the assembly, and let them pray over him, anointing him with oil in the name of the Lord,
\v 15 and the prayer of faith will heal him who is sick, and the Lord will raise him up. If he has committed sins, he will be forgiven.
\v 16 Confess your offenses to one another, and pray for one another, that you may be healed. The insistent prayer of a righteous person is powerfully effective.
\v 17 Elijah was a man with a nature like ours, and he prayed earnestly that it might not rain, and it didn’t rain on the earth for three years and six months.
\v 18 He prayed again, and the sky gave rain, and the earth produced its fruit.
\p
\v 19 Brothers, if any among you wanders from the truth and someone turns him back,
\v 20 let him know that he who turns a sinner from the error of his way will save a soul from death and will cover a multitude of sins.


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\v 1 Now after the death of Moses the servant of Yahweh,\f + \fr 1:1 \ft “Yahweh” is God’s proper Name, sometimes rendered “LORD” (all caps) in other translations.\f* Yahweh spoke to Joshua the son of Nun, Moses’ servant, saying,
\v 2 “Moses my servant is dead. Now therefore arise, go across this Jordan, you and all these people, to the land which I am giving to them, even to the children of Israel.
\v 3 I have given you every place that the sole of your foot will tread on, as I told Moses.
\v 4 From the wilderness and this Lebanon even to the great river, the river Euphrates, all the land of the Hittites, and to the great sea toward the going down of the sun, shall be your border.
\v 5 No man will be able to stand before you all the days of your life. As I was with Moses, so I will be with you. I will not fail you nor forsake you.
\p
\v 6 “Be strong and courageous; for you shall cause this people to inherit the land which I swore to their fathers to give them.
\v 7 Only be strong and very courageous. Be careful to observe to do according to all the law which Moses my servant commanded you. Don’t turn from it to the right hand or to the left, that you may have good success wherever you go.
\v 8 This book of the law shall not depart from your mouth, but you shall meditate on it day and night, that you may observe to do according to all that is written in it; for then you shall make your way prosperous, and then you shall have good success.
\v 9 Haven’t I commanded you? Be strong and courageous. Don’t be afraid. Don’t be dismayed, for Yahweh your God\f + \fr 1:9 \ft The Hebrew word rendered “God” is “אֱלֹהִ֑ים” (Elohim).\f* is with you wherever you go.”
\p
\v 10 Then Joshua commanded the officers of the people, saying,
\v 11 “Pass through the middle of the camp, and command the people, saying, ‘Prepare food; for within three days you are to pass over this Jordan, to go in to possess the land which Yahweh your God gives you to possess.’”
\p
\v 12 Joshua spoke to the Reubenites, and to the Gadites, and to the half-tribe of Manasseh, saying,
\v 13 “Remember the word which Moses the servant of Yahweh commanded you, saying, ‘Yahweh your God gives you rest, and will give you this land.
\v 14 Your wives, your little ones, and your livestock shall live in the land which Moses gave you beyond the Jordan; but you shall pass over before your brothers armed, all the mighty men of valor, and shall help them
\v 15 until Yahweh has given your brothers rest, as he has given you, and they have also possessed the land which Yahweh your God gives them. Then you shall return to the land of your possession and possess it, which Moses the servant of Yahweh gave you beyond the Jordan toward the sunrise.’”
\p
\v 16 They answered Joshua, saying, “All that you have commanded us we will do, and wherever you send us we will go.
\v 17 Just as we listened to Moses in all things, so will we listen to you. Only may Yahweh your God be with you, as he was with Moses.
\v 18 Whoever rebels against your commandment, and doesn’t listen to your words in all that you command him shall himself be put to death. Only be strong and courageous.”


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\v 1 Now when Adoni-Zedek king of Jerusalem heard how Joshua had taken Ai, and had utterly destroyed it; as he had done to Jericho and her king, so he had done to Ai and her king; and how the inhabitants of Gibeon had made peace with Israel, and were among them,
\v 2 they were very afraid, because Gibeon was a great city, as one of the royal cities, and because it was greater than Ai, and all its men were mighty.
\v 3 Therefore Adoni-Zedek king of Jerusalem sent to Hoham king of Hebron, Piram king of Jarmuth, Japhia king of Lachish, and Debir king of Eglon, saying,
\v 4 “Come up to me and help me. Let’s strike Gibeon; for they have made peace with Joshua and with the children of Israel.”
\v 5 Therefore the five kings of the Amorites, the king of Jerusalem, the king of Hebron, the king of Jarmuth, the king of Lachish, and the king of Eglon, gathered themselves together and went up, they and all their armies, and encamped against Gibeon, and made war against it.
\v 6 The men of Gibeon sent to Joshua at the camp at Gilgal, saying, “Don’t abandon your servants! Come up to us quickly and save us! Help us; for all the kings of the Amorites that dwell in the hill country have gathered together against us.”
\p
\v 7 So Joshua went up from Gilgal, he, and the whole army with him, including all the mighty men of valor.
\v 8 Yahweh said to Joshua, “Don’t fear them, for I have delivered them into your hands. Not a man of them will stand before you.”
\p
\v 9 Joshua therefore came to them suddenly. He marched from Gilgal all night.
\v 10 Yahweh confused them before Israel. He killed them with a great slaughter at Gibeon, and chased them by the way of the ascent of Beth Horon, and struck them to Azekah and to Makkedah.
\v 11 As they fled from before Israel, while they were at the descent of Beth Horon, Yahweh hurled down great stones from the sky on them to Azekah, and they died. There were more who died from the hailstones than those whom the children of Israel killed with the sword.
\p
\v 12 Then Joshua spoke to Yahweh in the day when Yahweh delivered up the Amorites before the children of Israel. He said in the sight of Israel, “Sun, stand still on Gibeon! You, moon, stop in the valley of Aijalon!”
\p
\v 13 The sun stood still, and the moon stayed, until the nation had avenged themselves of their enemies. Isn’t this written in the book of Jashar? The sun stayed in the middle of the sky, and didn’t hurry to go down about a whole day.
\v 14 There was no day like that before it or after it, that Yahweh listened to the voice of a man; for Yahweh fought for Israel.
\p
\v 15 Joshua returned, and all Israel with him, to the camp to Gilgal.
\v 16 These five kings fled, and hid themselves in the cave at Makkedah.
\v 17 Joshua was told, saying, “The five kings have been found, hidden in the cave at Makkedah.”
\p
\v 18 Joshua said, “Roll large stones to cover the cave’s entrance, and set men by it to guard them;
\v 19 but don’t stay there. Pursue your enemies, and attack them from the rear. Don’t allow them to enter into their cities; for Yahweh your God has delivered them into your hand.”
\p
\v 20 When Joshua and the children of Israel had finished killing them with a very great slaughter until they were consumed, and the remnant which remained of them had entered into the fortified cities,
\v 21 all the people returned to the camp to Joshua at Makkedah in peace. None moved his tongue against any of the children of Israel.
\v 22 Then Joshua said, “Open the cave entrance, and bring those five kings out of the cave to me.”
\p
\v 23 They did so, and brought those five kings out of the cave to him: the king of Jerusalem, the king of Hebron, the king of Jarmuth, the king of Lachish, and the king of Eglon.
\v 24 When they brought those kings out to Joshua, Joshua called for all the men of Israel, and said to the chiefs of the men of war who went with him, “Come near. Put your feet on the necks of these kings.”
\p They came near, and put their feet on their necks.
\p
\v 25 Joshua said to them, “Don’t be afraid, nor be dismayed. Be strong and courageous, for Yahweh will do this to all your enemies against whom you fight.”
\p
\v 26 Afterward Joshua struck them, put them to death, and hanged them on five trees. They were hanging on the trees until the evening.
\v 27 At the time of the going down of the sun, Joshua commanded, and they took them down off the trees, and threw them into the cave in which they had hidden themselves, and laid great stones on the mouth of the cave, which remain to this very day.
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\v 28 Joshua took Makkedah on that day, and struck it with the edge of the sword, with its king. He utterly destroyed it and all the souls who were in it. He left no one remaining. He did to the king of Makkedah as he had done to the king of Jericho.
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\v 29 Joshua passed from Makkedah, and all Israel with him, to Libnah, and fought against Libnah.
\v 30 Yahweh delivered it also, with its king, into the hand of Israel. He struck it with the edge of the sword, and all the souls who were in it. He left no one remaining in it. He did to its king as he had done to the king of Jericho.
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\v 31 Joshua passed from Libnah, and all Israel with him, to Lachish, and encamped against it, and fought against it.
\v 32 Yahweh delivered Lachish into the hand of Israel. He took it on the second day, and struck it with the edge of the sword, with all the souls who were in it, according to all that he had done to Libnah.
\v 33 Then Horam king of Gezer came up to help Lachish; and Joshua struck him and his people, until he had left him no one remaining.
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\v 34 Joshua passed from Lachish, and all Israel with him, to Eglon; and they encamped against it and fought against it.
\v 35 They took it on that day, and struck it with the edge of the sword. He utterly destroyed all the souls who were in it that day, according to all that he had done to Lachish.
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\v 36 Joshua went up from Eglon, and all Israel with him, to Hebron; and they fought against it.
\v 37 They took it, and struck it with the edge of the sword, with its king and all its cities, and all the souls who were in it. He left no one remaining, according to all that he had done to Eglon; but he utterly destroyed it, and all the souls who were in it.
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\v 38 Joshua returned, and all Israel with him, to Debir, and fought against it.
\v 39 He took it, with its king and all its cities. They struck them with the edge of the sword, and utterly destroyed all the souls who were in it. He left no one remaining. As he had done to Hebron, so he did to Debir, and to its king; as he had done also to Libnah, and to its king.
\v 40 So Joshua struck all the land, the hill country, the South, the lowland, the slopes, and all their kings. He left no one remaining, but he utterly destroyed all that breathed, as Yahweh, the God of Israel, commanded.
\v 41 Joshua struck them from Kadesh Barnea even to Gaza, and all the country of Goshen, even to Gibeon.
\v 42 Joshua took all these kings and their land at one time because Yahweh, the God of Israel, fought for Israel.
\v 43 Joshua returned, and all Israel with him, to the camp to Gilgal.


