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Preface to the King James Version of 1611

THE BEST THINGS HAVE BEEN CULMINATED

Zeal to promote the common good, whether it be by devising anything ourselves, or revising that which hath been laboured by others, deserveth certainly much respect and esteem, but yet findeth but cold in the world. It is welcomed with suspicion instead of , and with emulation instead of thanks: and if there be any hole left for cavil to enter, (and cavil, if it do not find a hole, will make one) it is sure to be misconstrued, and in danger to be condemned. This will easily be granted by as many as know story, or have any experience. For, was there ever any-projected, that savoured any way of newness or renewing, but the same endured many a of gainsaying, or opposition? A man would think that Civility, wholesome Laws, learning and eloquence, , and -maintenance, (that we speak of no more things of this kind) should be as safe as a Sanctuary, and out of shot, as they say, that no man would lift up the heel, no, nor dog move his against the motioners of them. For by the first, we are distinguished from brute beasts lead with sensuality; By the second, we are bridled and restrained from outrageous behaviour, and from doing of injuries, whether by fraud or by violence; By the third, we are enabled to inform and reform others, by the light and feeling that we have attained unto ourselves; Briefly, by the fourth being brought together to a parley face to face, we sooner compose our differences than by which are endless; And lastly, that the Church be sufficiently provided for, is so agreeable to good reason and conscience, that those mothers are holden to be less cruel, that kill their children as soon as they are born, than those nursing fathers and mothers (wheresoever they be) that withdraw from them who hang upon their breasts (and upon whose breasts again themselves do hang to receive the Spiritual and sincere milk of ) livelihood and support fit for their estates. Thus it is apparent, that these things which we speak of, are of most necessary use, and therefore, that none, either without absurdity can speak against them, or without note of wickedness can spurn against them.

Yet for all that, the learned know that certain worthy men [Anacharsis with others] have been brought to untimely for none other fault, but for seeking to reduce their Countrymen to god order and discipline; and that in some Commonwealths [e.g. Locri] it was made a capital crime, once to motion the making of a new Law for the abrogating of an old, though the same were most pernicious; And that certain [Cato the ], which would be counted pillars of the State, and patterns of Virtue and Prudence, could not be brought for a long time to give way to good Letters and refined speech, but bare themselves as averse from them, as from rocks or boxes of poison; And fourthly, that he was no babe, but a great clerk [Gregory the Divine], that gave forth (and in to remain to posterity) in passion peradventure, but yet he gave forth, that he had not seen any profit to come by any , or meeting of the , but rather the contrary; And lastly, against Church-maintenance and allowance, in such sort, as the Ambassadors and messengers of the great should be furnished, it is not unknown what a fiction or (so it is esteemed, and for no better by the reporter himself [Nauclerus], though superstitious) was devised; Namely, that at such a time as the professors and teachers of in the Church of , then a true Church, were liberally endowed, a voice forsooth was heard from , saying: Now is poison poured down into the Church, etc. Thus not only as oft as we speak, as one saith, but also as oft as we do anything of note or consequence, we subject ourselves to everyone's censure, and happy is he that is least tossed upon ; for utterly to escape the snatch of them it is impossible. If any man conceit, that this is the and portion of the meaner sort only, and that Princes are privileged by their high estate, he is deceived. "As the sword devoureth as well one as the other," as it is in [2 11:25], nay as the great Commander charged his soldiers in a certain battle, to strike at no part of the enemy, but at the face; And as the King of commanded his chief Captains to "fight neither with small nor great, save only against the King of Israel:" [1 Kings 22:31] so it is too true, that striketh most spitefully at the fairest, and at the chiefest. was a worthy Prince, and no man to be compared to him for his first deeds, and yet for as worthy as act as Preface to 1611 Translation iv ever he did (even for bringing back the Ark of God in solemnity) he was scorned and scoffed at by his own [2 Sam 6:16]. was greater than David, though not in virtue, yet in power: and by his power and wisdom he built a Temple to the , such a one as was the of the , and the wonder of the whole world. But was that his magnificence liked of by all? We doubt it. Otherwise, why do they lay it in his son's dish, and call unto him for easing the burden, "Make", say they, "the grievous servitude of thy father, and his sore yoke, lighter?" [:4] Belike he had charged them with some levies, and troubled them with some carriages; Hereupon they raise up a tragedy, and wish in their heart the Temple had never been built. So hard a thing it is to please all, even when we please God best, and do seek to approve ourselves to every ones conscience.

If we will descend to later times, we shall find many the like examples of such kind, or rather unkind acceptance. The first Roman Emperor [C. Caesar. Plutarch] did never do a more pleasing deed to the learned, nor more profitable to posterity, for conserving the record of times in true supputation; than when he corrected the Calendar, and ordered the year according to the course of the ; and yet this was imputed to him for novelty, and arrogance, and procured to him great obloguy. So the first Christened Emperor [Constantine] (at the least-wise that openly professed the himself, and allowed others to do the like) for strengthening the Empire at his great charges, and providing for the Church, as he did, got for his labour the Pupillus, as who would say, a wasteful Prince, that had need of a Guardian or overseer [Aurel. Victor]. So the best Christened Emperor [Theodosius], for the love that he bare unto peace, thereby to enrich both himself and his subjects, and because he did not see war but find it, was judged to be no man at arms [Zosimus], (though indeed he excelled in feats of , and showed so much when he was provoked) and condemned for giving himself to his ease, and to his pleasure. To be short, the most learned Emperor of former times [Justinian], (at the least, the greatest politician) what thanks had he for cutting off the superfluities of the laws, and digesting them into some order and method? This, that he had been blotted by some to be an Epitomist, that is, one that extinguishes worthy whole volumes, to bring his abridgments into request. This is the measure that hath been rendered to excellent Princes in former times, even, Cum bene facerent, male audire, For their good deeds to be spoken of. Neither is there any likelihood, that envy and malignity died, and were buried with the ancient. No, no, the reproof of taketh hold of most ages; "You are risen up in your fathers' stead, and increase of sinful men." [Num 32:14] "What is that that hath been done? that which shall be done; and there is no new thing under the Sun," saith the wiseman: [Ecc 1:9] and S. Stephen, "As your fathers did, so do you." [:51]

HIS MAJESTY'S CONSTANCY, NOTWITHSTANDING CULMINATION, FOR THE SURVEY OF THE ENGLISH

This, and more to this purpose, His Majesty that now reigneth (and long, and long may he reign, and his offspring forever, "Himself and children, and children's always) knew full well, according to the singular wisdom given unto him by God, and the rare learning and experience that he hath attained unto; namely that whosoever attempteth anything for the public (especially if it pertain to , and to the opening and clearing of the word of God) the same setteth himself upon a stage to be gloated upon by every evil eye, yea, he casteth himself headlong upon pikes, to be gored by every sharp tongue. For he that medleth with men's Religion in any part, medleth with their custom, nay, with their freehold; and though they find no content in that which they have, yet they cannot abide to hear of altering. Notwithstanding his Royal heart was not daunted or discouraged for this that colour, but stood resolute, "as a statue immovable, and an anvil not easy to be beaten into plates," as one [Suidas] saith; he knew who had chosen him to be a Soldier, or rather a Captain, and being assured that the course which he intended made for the glory of God, and the building up of his Church, he would not suffer it to be broken off for whatsoever speeches or practices. It doth certainly belong unto Kings, yea, it doth specially belong unto them, to have care of Religion, yea, it doth specially belong unto them, to have care of Religion, yea, to know it aright, yea, to profess it zealously, yea to promote it to the uttermost of their power. This is their glory before all nations which mean well, and this will bring unto them a far most v Preface to 1611 Translation excellent weight of glory in the day of . For the Scripture saith not in vain, "Them that honor me, I will honor," [1 Sam 2:30] neither was it a vain word that delivered long ago, that piety towards God was the weapon and the only weapon, that both preserved Constantine's person, and avenged him of his enemies [Eusebius lib 10 cap 8].

THE PRAISE OF THE HOLY SCRIPTURES

But now what piety without ? what truth (what saving truth) without the word of God? What word of God (whereof we may be sure) without the Scripture? The Scriptures we are commanded to search. :39. Isa 8:20. They are commended that searched and studied them. :11 and 8:28,29. They are reproved that were unskillful in them, or slow to believe them. Matt 22:29. :25. They can make us wise unto . 2 Tim 3:15. If we be ignorant, they will instruct us; if out of the way, they will bring us home; if out of order, they will reform us; if in heaviness, comfort us; if dull, quicken us; if cold, inflame us. Tolle, lege; Tolle, lege, Take up and read, take up and read the Scriptures [S. August. confess. lib 8 cap 12], (for unto them was the direction) it was said unto S. Augustine by a voice. "Whatsoever is in the Scriptures, believe me," saith the same S. Augustine, "is high and divine; there is verily truth, and a most fit for the refreshing of men's minds, and truly so tempered, that everyone may draw from thence that which is sufficient for him, if he come to draw with a devout and pious mind, as true Religion requireth." [S. August. de utilitcredendi cap. 6] Thus S. Augustine. and S. : "Ama scripturas, et amabit te sapientia etc." [S. Jerome. ad Demetriad] Love the Scriptures, and wisdom will love thee. And S. Cyril against Julian; "Even boys that are bred up in the Scriptures, become most religious, etc. [S. Cyril. 7 contra Iulianum] But what mention we three or four uses of the Scripture, whereas whatsoever is to be believed or practiced, or hoped for, is contained in them? or three or four sentences of the Fathers, since whosoever is worthy the name of a Father, from 's time downward, hath likewise written not only of the riches, but also of the of the Scripture? "I adore the fulness of the Scripture," saith against Hermogenes. [Tertul. advers. Hermo.] And again, to an heretic of the like stamp, he saith; "I do not admit that which bringest in (or concludest) of thine own (head or store, de tuo) without Scripture." [Tertul. de carne Christi.] So Justin before him; "We must know by all means," saith he, "that it is not lawful (or possible) to learn (anything) of God or of right piety, save only out of the , who teach us by ." So Saint Basil after Tertullian, "It is a manifest falling way from the Faith, and a fault of presumption, either to reject any of those things that are written, or to bring in (upon the head of them) any of those things that are not written. We omit to cite to the same effect, S. Cyril B. of in his 4::Cataches., Saint Jerome against Helvidius, Saint Augustine in his 3::book against the letters of Petilian, and in very many other places of his works. Also we forebear to descend to later Fathers, because we will not weary the reader. The Scriptures then being acknowledged to be so full and so perfect, how can we excuse ourselves of negligence, if we do not study them, of curiosity, if we be not content with them? Men talk much of [an bow wrapped about with wood, whereupon did hang figs, and bread, in a pot, and oil], how many sweet and goodly things it had hanging on it; of the Philosopher's stone, that it turned copper into ; of Cornucopia, that it had all things necessary for food in it, of Panaces the herb, that it was good for diseases, of Catholicon the drug, that it is instead of all purges; of Vulcan's armor, that it was an armor of proof against all thrusts, and all blows, etc. Well, that which they falsely or vainly attributed to these things for bodily god, we may justly and with full measure ascribe unto the Scripture, for spiritual. It is not only an armor, but also a whole armory of weapons, both offensive and defensive; whereby we may save ourselves and put the enemy to flight. It is not an herb, but a tree, or rather a whole paradise of trees of life, which bring forth fruit every month, and the fruit thereof is for meat, and the leaves for medicine. It is not a pot of , or a cruse of oil, which were for memory only, or for a meal's meat or two, but as it were a shower of heavenly bread sufficient for a whole host, be it never so great; and as it were a whole cellar full of oil vessels; whereby all our necessities may be provided for, and our debts discharged. In a word, it is a Panary of wholesome food, against fenowed traditions; a Physician's shop (Saint Basil called it) [S. Basil in Psal. primum.] of preservatives against poisoned heresies; a Pandect of profitable laws, against rebellious spirits; a treasury of most costly jewels, against beggarly rudiments; finally a Preface to 1611 Translation vi fountain of most pure water springing up unto everlasting life. And what marvel? The original thereof being from heaven, not from earth; the author being God, not man; the inditer, the holy , not the wit of or Prophets; the Penmen such as were sanctified from the womb, and endued with a principal portion of God's spirit; the matter, verity, piety, purity, uprightness; the form, God's word, God's testimony, God's oracles, the word of truth, the word of salvation, etc.; the effects, light of understanding, stableness of persuasion, from dead works, newness of life, holiness, peace, joy in the holy ; lastly, the end and reward of the study thereof, fellowship with the , participation of the heavenly nature, fruition of an inheritance immortal, undefiled, and that never shall fade away: Happy is the man that delighted in the Scripture, and thrice happy that meditateth in it day and night.

TRANSLATION NECESSARY

But how shall men meditate in that, which they cannot understand? How shall they understand that which is kept close in an unknown tongue? as it is written, "Except I know the power of the voice, I shall be to him that speaketh, a , and he that speaketh, shall be a Barbarian to me." [1 Cor 14] The Apostle excepteth no tongue; not Hebrew the ancientest, not Greek the most copious, not the finest. Nature taught a natural man to confess, that all of us in those tongues which we do not understand, are plainly deaf; we may turn the deaf ear unto them.

The Scythian counted the Athenian, whom he did not understand, barbarous; [Clem. Alex. 1 Strom.] so the Roman did the Syrian, and the (even S. Jerome himself called the Hebrew tongue barbarous, belike because it was strange to so many) [S. Jerome. Damaso.] so the Emperor of Constantinople [, Theophili fil.] calleth the Latin tongue, barbarous, though Nicolas do storm at it: [2::Tom. Concil. ex edit. Petri Crab] so the long before Christ called all other nations, Lognazim, which is little better than barbarous. Therefore as one complaineth, that always in the Senate of Rome, there was one or other that called for an interpreter: [ 5::de finibus.] so lest the Church be driven to the like exigent, it is necessary to have translations in a readiness. Translation it is that openeth the window, to let in the light; that breaketh the shell, that we may eat the kernel; that putteth aside the curtain, that we may look into the most Holy place; that removeth the cover of the well, that we may come by the water, even as rolled away the stone from the mouth of the well, by which means the flocks of Laban were watered [Gen 29:10]. Indeed without translation into the vulgar tongue, the unlearned are but like children at Jacob's well (which is deep) [:11] without a bucket or something to draw with; or as that person mentioned by , to whom when a sealed book was delivered, with this motion, "Read this, I pray thee," he was fain to make this answer, "I cannot, for it is sealed." [Isa 29:11]

THE TRANSLATION OF THE OUT OF THE HEBREW INTO GREEK

While God would be known only in Jacob, and have his Name great in Israel, and in none other place, while the dew lay on 's fleece only, and all the earth besides was dry; then for one and the same people, which spake all of them the language of , that is, Hebrew, one and the same original in Hebrew was sufficient. [S. August. lib 12 contra Faust c32] But, when the fulness of time drew near, that the Sun of , the should come into the world, whom God ordained to be a reconciliation through faith in his blood, not of the Jew only, but also of the Greek, yea, of all them that were scattered abroad; then lo, it pleased the Lord to stir up the spirit of a Greek Prince (Greek for descent and language) even of Ptolemy Philadelph King of , to procure the translating of the Book of God out of Hebrew into Greek. This is the translation of the Seventy Interpreters, commonly so called, which prepared the way for our Saviour among the by written preaching, as Saint John Baptist did among the Jews by vocal. For the Grecians being desirous of learning, were not wont to suffer books of worth to moulding in Kings' , but had many of their servants, ready , to copy them out, and so they were dispersed and made common. Again, the Greek tongue was well vii Preface to 1611 Translation known and made familiar to most inhabitants in , by reason of the conquest that there the Grecians had made, as also by the Colonies, which thither they had sent. For the same causes also it was well understood in many places of Europe, yea, and of Africa too. Therefore the word of God being set forth in Greek, becometh hereby like a candle set upon a candlestick, which giveth light to all that are in the house, or like a proclamation sounded forth in the market place, which most men presently take knowledge of; and therefore that language was fittest to contain the Scriptures, both for the first Preachers of the to appeal unto for , and for the learners also of those times to make search and trial by. It is certain, that that Translation was not so sound and so perfect, but it needed in many places correction; and who had been so sufficient for this work as the Apostles or Apostolic men? Yet it seemed good to the holy Ghost and to them, to take that which they found, (the same being for the greatest part true and sufficient) rather than making a new, in that new world and green age of the Church, to expose themselves to many exceptions and cavillations, as though they made a Translations to serve their own turn, and therefore bearing a witness to themselves, their witness not to be regarded. This may be supposed to be some cause, why the Translation of the Seventy was allowed to pass for current. Notwithstanding, though it was commended generally, yet it did not fully content the learned, no not of the Jews. For not long after Christ, Aquila fell in hand with a new Translation, and after him , and after him Symmachus; yea, there was a fifth and a sixth edition, the Authors whereof were not known. [Epiphan. de mensur. et ponderibus.] These with the Seventy made up the Hexapla and were worthily and to great purpose compiled together by . Howbeit the Edition of the Seventy went away with the credit, and therefore not only was placed in the midst by Origen (for the worth and excellency thereof above the rest, as Epiphanius gathered) but also was used by the Greek fathers for the ground and foundation of their Commentaries. Yea, Epiphanius above named doeth attribute so much unto it, that he holdeth the Authors thereof not only for Interpreters, but also for Prophets in some respect [S. August. 2::de dectrin. Christian c. 15]; and Justinian the Emperor enjoining the Jews his subjects to use especially the Translation of the Seventy, rendreth this reason thereof, because they were as it were enlightened with prophetical . Yet for all that, as the are said of the to be men and not God, and their horses and not spirit [Isa 31:3]; so it is evident, (and Saint Jerome affirmeth as much) [S. Jerome. de optimo genere interpret.] that the Seventy were Interpreters, they were not Prophets; they did many things well, as learned men; but yet as men they stumbled and fell, one while through oversight, another while through ignorance, yea, sometimes they may be noted to add to the Original, and sometimes to take from it; which made the Apostles to leave them many times, when they left the Hebrew, and to deliver the sense thereof according to the truth of the word, as the spirit gave them utterance. This may suffice touching the Greek Translations of the Old Testament.

TRANSLATION OUT OF HEBREW AND GREEK INTO LATIN

There were also within a few hundred years after CHRIST, translations many into the Latin tongue: for this tongue also was very fit to convey the Law and by, because in those times very many Countries of the , yea of the South, East and North, spake or understood Latin, being made Provinces to the Romans. But now the Latin Translations were too many to be all good, for they were infinite (Latini Interprets nullo modo numerari possunt, saith S. Augustine.) [S. Augustin. de doctr. Christ. lib 2 cap II]. Again they were not out of the Hebrew fountain (we speak of the Latin Translations of the Old Testament) but out of the Greek stream, therefore the Greek being not altogether clear, the Latin derived from it must needs be muddy. This moved S. Jerome a most learned father, and the best linguist without controversy, of his age, or of any that went before him, to undertake the translating of the Old Testament, out of the very fountain with that evidence of great learning, judgment, industry, and faithfulness, that he had forever bound the Church unto him, in a debt of special remembrance and thankfulness.

THE TRANSLATING OF THE SCRIPTURE INTO THE VULGAR TONGUES

Now through the Church were thus furnished with Greek and Latin Translations, even before the faith of CHRIST was Preface to 1611 Translation viii generally embraced in the Empire; (for the learned know that even in S. Jerome's time, the Consul of Rome and his wife were both Ethnics, and about the same time the greatest part of the Senate also) [S. Jerome. Marcell.Zosim] yet for all that the godly-learned were not content to have the Scriptures in the Language which they themselves understood, Greek and Latin, (as the good Lepers were not content to fare well themselves, but acquainted their neighbors with the store that God had sent, that they also might provide for themselves) [2 Kings 7:9] but also for the behoof and edifying of the unlearned which hungered and thirsted after righteousness, and had to be saved as well as they, they provided Translations into the vulgar for their Countrymen, insomuch that most nations under heaven did shortly after their conversion, hear CHRIST speaking unto them in their mother tongue, not by the voice of their only, but also by the written word translated. If any doubt hereof, he may be satisfied by examples enough, if enough will serve the turn. First S. Jerome saith, Multarum gentium linguis Scriptura ante translata, docet falsa esse quae addita sunt, etc. i.e. "The Scripture being translated before in the languages of many Nations, doth show that those things that were added (by Lucian and Hesychius) are false." [S. Jerome. praef. in 4::Evangel.] So S. Jerome in that place. The same Jerome elsewhere affirmeth that he, the time was, had set forth the translation of the Seventy suae linguae hominibus, i.e., for his countrymen of [S. Jerome. Sophronio.] Which words not only doth understand to purport, that S. Jerome translated the Scripture into the Dalmatian tongue, but also Sixtus Senensis [Six. Sen. lib 4], and Alphonsus a` Castro [Alphon. lb 1 ca 23] (that we speak of no more) men not to be excepted against by them of Rome, do ingenuously confess as much. So, S. Chrysostom that lived in S. Jerome's time, giveth evidence with him: "The doctrine of S. John [saith he] did not in such sort [as the Philosophers' did] vanish away: but the Syrians, Egyptians, Indians, , Ethiopians, and infinite other nations being barbarous people translated it into their [mother] tongue, and have learned to be [true] Philosophers," he meaneth . [S. Chrysost. in Johan. cap.I. hom.I.] To this may be added , as next unto him, both for antiquity, and for learning.

His words be these, "Every Country that is under the Sun, is full of these words (of the Apostles and Prophets) and the Hebrew tongue [he meaneth the Scriptures in the Hebrew tongue] is turned not only into the Language of the Grecians, but also of the Romans, and Egyptians, and Persians, and Indians, and , and Scythians, and Sauromatians, and briefly into all the Languages that any Nation useth. [Theodor. 5. Therapeut.] So he. In like manner, is reported by Paulus Diaconus and Isidor (and before them by ) to have translated the Scriptures into the Gothic tongue: [P. Diacon. li. 12.] John of Sevil by Vasseus, to have turned them into Arabic, about the year of our Lord 717; [Vaseus in Chron. Hispan.] Bede by Cistertiensis, to have turned a great part of them into Saxon: Efnard by Trithemius, to have abridged the French , as Beded had done the Hebrew, about the year 800: King Alfred by the said Cistertiensis, to have turned the Psalter into Saxon: [Polydor. Virg. 5 histor.] Methodius by Aventinus (printed at Ingolstadt) to have turned the Scriptures into Slavonian: [Aventin. lib. 4.] Valdo, Bishop of Frising by Beatus Rhenanus, to have caused about that time, the to be translated into Dutch rhythm, yet extant in the of Corbinian: [Circa annum 900. B. Rhenan. rerum German. lib 2.] Valdus, by divers to have turned them himself into French, about the year 1160: Charles the Fifth of that name, surnamed the Wise, to have caused them to be turned into French, about 200 years after Valdus his time, of which translation there be many copies yet extant, as witnesseth Beroaldus. Much about that time, even in our King Richard the second's days, John Trevisa translated them into English, and many English Bibles in written hand are yet to be seen with divers, translated as it is very probable, in that age. So the Syrian translation of the New Testament is in most learned men's Libraries, of Widminstadius his setting forth, and the Psalter in Arabic is with many, of Augustinus Nebiensis' setting forth. So Postel affirmeth, that in his travel he saw the Gospels in the Ethiopian tongue; And Thesius allegeth the Pslater of the Indians, which he testifieth to have been set forth by Potken in Syrian characters. So that, to have the Scriptures in the mother tongue is not a quaint conceit lately taken up, either by the Lord Cromwell in , [Thuan.] or by the Lord Radevile in Polony, or by the Lord Ungnadius in the Emperor's dominion, but hath been thought upon, and put in practice of old, even from the first times of the conversion of any Nation; no doubt, because it was esteemed most profitable, to cause faith to grow in men's hearts the sooner, and to make them to be able to say with the words of the , "As we have heard, so we have seen." [Ps 48:8] ix Preface to 1611 Translation

THE UNWILLINGNESS OF OUR CHIEF ADVERSARIES, THAT THE SCRIPTURES SHOULD BE DIVULGED IN THE MOTHER TONGUE, ETC.

Now the Church of Rome would seem at the length to bear a motherly affection towards her children, and to allow them the Scriptures in their mother tongue: but indeed it is a gift, not deserving to be called a gift, an unprofitable gift: [Sophecles] they must first get a licence in writing before they may use them, and to get that, they must approve themselves to their Confessor, that is, to be such as are, if not frozen in the dregs, yet soured with the leaven of their superstition. Howbeit, it seemed too much to Clement the Eighth that there should be any Licence granted to have them in the vulgar tongue, and therefore he overruleth and frustrateth the grant of Pius the Fourth. [See the observation (set forth by Clemen. His authority) upon the 4. rule of Pius the 4. his making in the index, lib. prohib. pag. 15. ver. 5.] So much are they afraid of the light of the Scripture, (Lucifugae Scripturarum, as Tertulian speaketh) that they will not trust the people with it, no not as it is set forth by their own sworn men, no not with the Licence of their own and Inquisitors. Yea, so unwilling they are to communicate the Scriptures to the people's understanding in any sort, that they are not ashamed to confess, that we forced them to translate it into English against their wills. This seemeth to argue a bad cause, or a bad conscience, or both.

Sure we are, that it is not he that hath good gold, that is afraid to bring it to the touchstone, but he that hath the counterfeit; [Tertul. de resur. carnis.] neither is it the true man that shunneth the light, but the malefactor, lest his deeds should be reproved [:20]: neither is it the plaindealing Merchant that is unwilling to have the weights, or the meteyard brought in place, but he that useth deceit. But we will let them alone for this fault, and return to translation.

THE SPEECHES AND REASONS, BOTH OF OUR BRETHREN, AND OF OUR ADVERSARIES AGAINST THIS WORK

Many men's mouths have been open a good while (and yet are not stopped) with speeches about the Translation so long in hand, or rather perusals of Translations made before: and ask what may be the reason, what the necessity of the employment: Hath the Church been deceived, say they, all this while? Hath her sweet bread been mingled with leaven, here with dross, her wine with water, her milk with lime? (Lacte gypsum male miscetur, saith S. Ireney,) [S. Iren. 3. lib. cap. 19.] We hoped that we had been in the right way, that we had the Oracles of God delivered unto us, and that though all the world had cause to be offended and to complain, yet that we had none. Hath the nurse holden out the breast, and nothing but wind in it? Hath the bread been delivered by the fathers of the Church, and the same proved to be lapidosus, as Seneca speaketh? What is it to handle the word of God deceitfully, if this be not? Thus certain brethren. Also the adversaries of and Jerusalem, like Sanballat in Nehemiah, mock, as we hear, both the work and the workmen, saying; "What do these weak Jews, etc. will they make the stones whole again out of the heaps of dust which are burnt? although they build, yet if a fox go up, he shall even break down their stony wall." [Neh 4:3] Was their Translation good before? Why do they now mend it? Was it not good? Why then was it obtruded to the people? Yea, why did the Catholics (meaning Popish Romanists) always go in jeopardy, for refusing to go to hear it? Nay, if it must be translated into English, Catholics are fittest to do it. They have learning, and they know when a thing is well, they can manum de tabula. We will answer them both briefly: and the former, being brethren, thus, with S. Jerome, "Damnamus veteres? Mineme, sed post priorum studia in domo Domini quod possums laboramus." [S. Jerome. Apolog. advers. Ruffin.] That is, "Do we condemn the ancient? In no case: but after the endeavors of them that were before us, we take the best pains we can in the house of God." As if he said, Being provoked by the example of the learned men that lived before my time, I have thought it my duty, to assay whether my in the knowledge of the tongues, may be profitable in any measure to God's Church, lest I should seem to laboured in them in vain, and lest I should be thought to glory in men, (although ancient,) above that which was in them. Thus S. Jerome may be thought to speak. Preface to 1611 Translation x

A SATISFACTION TO OUR BRETHREN

And to the same effect say we, that we are so far off from condemning any of their labors that travailed before us in this kind, either in this land or beyond , either in King Henry's time, or King Edward's (if there were any translation, or correction of a translation in his time) or Queen Elizabeth's of ever renowned memory, that we acknowledge them to have been raised up of God, for the building and furnishing of his Church, and that they deserve to be had of us and of posterity in everlasting remembrance. The judgment of is worthy and well known: "If Timotheus had not been, we had not had much sweet ; but if Phrynis [Timotheus his master] had not been, we had not had Timotheus." Therefore blessed be they, and most honoured be their name, that break the ice, and giveth onset upon that which helpeth forward to the saving of souls. Now what can be more available thereto, than to deliver God's book unto God's people in a tongue which they understand? Since of a hidden treasure, and of a fountain that is sealed, there is no profit, as Ptolemy Philadelph wrote to the Rabbins or masters of the Jews, as witnesseth Epiphanius: [S. Epiphan. loco ante citato.] and as S. Augustine saith; "A man had rather be with his dog than with a stranger (whose tongue is strange unto him)." [S. Augustin. lib. 19. de civil. Dei. c. 7.] Yet for all that, as nothing is begun and perfected at the same time, and the later thoughts are thought to be the wiser: so, if we building upon their foundation that went before us, and being holpen by their labours, do endeavor to make that better which they left so good; no man, we are sure, hath cause to mislike us; they, we persuade ourselves, if they were alive, would thank us. The vintage of Abienzer, that strake the stroke: yet the gleaning of grapes of Ephraim was not to be despised. See Judges 8:2. Joash the king of Israel did not satisfy himself, till he had smitten the ground three times; and yet he offended the Prophet, for giving over then. [:18-19] Aquila, of whom we spake before, translated the Bible as carefully, and as skilfully as he could; and yet he thought good to go over it again, and then it got the credit with the Jews, to be called accurately done, as Saint Jerome witnesseth. [S. Jerome. in Ezech. cap. 3.] How many books of profane learning have been gone over again and again, by the same translators, by others? Of one and the same book of Aristotle's Ethics, there are extant not so few as six or seven several translations. Now if this cost may be bestowed upon the gourd, which affordeth us a little shade, and which today flourisheth, but tomorrow is cut down; what may we bestow, nay what ought we not to bestow upon the Vine, the fruit whereof maketh glad the conscience of man, and the stem whereof abideth forever? And this is the word of God, which we translate. "What is the chaff to the wheat, saith the Lord?" [Jer 23:28] Tanti vitreum, quanti verum margaritum (saith Tertullian,) [Tertul. ad Martyr.] if a toy of glass be of that reckoning with us, how ought we to value the true ? [Jerome. ad Salvin.] Therefore let no man's eye be evil, because his Majesty's is good; neither let any be grieved, that we have a Prince that seeketh the increase of the spiritual wealth of Israel (let Sanballats and Tobiahs do so, which therefore do bear their just reproof) but let us rather bless God from the ground of our heart, for working this religious care in him, to have the translations of the Bible maturely considered of and examined. For by this means it cometh to pass, that whatsoever is sound already (and all is sound for substance, in one or other of our editions, and the worst of ours far better than their authentic vulgar) the same will shine as gold more brightly, being rubbed and polished; also, if anything be halting, or superfluous, or not so agreeable to the original, the same may be corrected, and the truth set in place. And what can the King command to be done, that will bring him more true honour than this? and wherein could they that have been set a work, approve their duty to the King, yea their obedience to God, and love to his Saints more, than by yielding their service, and all that is within them, for the furnishing of the work? But besides all this, they were the principal motives of it, and therefore ought least to quarrel it: for the very Historical truth is, that upon the importunate petitions of the , at his Majesty's coming to this , the Conference at Hampton Court having been appointed for hearing their complaints: when by force of reason they were put from other grounds, they had recourse at the last, to this shift, that they could not with good conscience subscribe to the Communion book, since it maintained the Bible as it was there translated, which was as they said, a most corrupted translation. And although this was judged to be but a very poor and empty shift; yet even hereupon did his Majesty begin to bethink himself of the good that might ensue by a new translation, and presently after gave order for this Translation which is now presented unto thee. Thus much to satisfy our scrupulous Brethren. xi Preface to 1611 Translation

AN ANSWER TO THE IMPUTATIONS OF OUR ADVERSARIES

Now to the latter we answer; that we do not deny, nay we affirm and avow, that the very meanest translation of the Bible in English, set forth by men of our profession, (for we have seen none of theirs of the whole Bible as yet) containeth the word of God, nay, is the word of God. As the King's speech, which he uttereth in Parliament, being translated into French, Dutch, Italian, and Latin, is still the King's speech, though it be not interpreted by every Translator with the like grace, nor peradventure so fitly for phrase, nor so expressly for sense, everywhere. For it is confessed, that things are to take their denomination of the greater part; and a natural man could say, Verum ubi multa nitent in carmine, non ego paucis offendor maculis, etc. [Horace.] A man may be counted a virtuous man, though he have made many slips in his life, (else, there were none virtuous, for in many things we offend all) [:2] also a comely man and lovely, though he have some warts upon his hand, yea, not only freckles upon his face, but also scars. No cause therefore why the word translated should be denied to be the word, or forbidden to be current, notwithstanding that some imperfections and blemishes may be noted in the setting forth of it. For whatever was perfect under the Sun, where Apostles or Apostolic men, that is, men endued with an extraordinary measure of God's spirit, and privileged with the privilege of infallibility, had not their hand? The Romanists therefore in refusing to hear, and daring to burn the Word translated, did no less than despite the spirit of grace, from whom originally it proceeded, and whose sense and meaning, as well as man's weakness would enable, it did express. Judge by an example or two. Plutarch writeth, that after that Rome had been burnt by the Gauls, they fell soon to build it again: but doing it in haste, they did not cast the streets, nor proportion the houses in such comely fashion, as had been most slightly and convenient; [Plutarch in Camillo.] was Catiline therefore an honest man, or a good patriot, that sought to bring it to a combustion? or Nero a good Prince, that did indeed set it on fire? So, by the story of , and the of Haggai it may be gathered, that the Temple built by after the return from , was by no means to be compared to the former built by Solomon (for they that remembered the former, wept when they considered the latter) [:12] notwithstanding, might this latter either have been abhorred and forsaken by the Jews, or profaned by the ? The like we are to think of Translations. The translation of the Seventy dissenteth from the Original in many places, neither doth it come near it, for perspicuity, gravity, majesty; yet which of the Apostles did condemn it? Condemn it? Nay, they used it, (as it is apparent, and as Saint Jerome and most learned men do confess) which they would not have done, nor by their example of using it, so grace and commend it to the Church, if it had been unworthy of the appellation and name of the word of God. And whereas they urge for their second defence of their vilifying and abusing of the English Bibles, or some pieces thereof, which they meet with, for that heretics (forsooth) were the Authors of the translations, (heretics they call us by the same right that they call themselves Catholics, both being wrong) we marvel what taught them so. We are sure Tertullian was of another mind: Ex personis probamus fidem, an ex fide personas? [Tertul. de praescript. contra haereses.] Do we try men's faith by their persons? we should try their persons by their faith. Also S. Augustine was of another mind: for he lighting upon certain rules made by Tychonius a Donatist, for the better understanding of the word, was not ashamed to make use of them, yea, to insert them into his own book, with giving commendation to them so far forth as they were worthy to be commended, as is to be seen in S. Augustine's third book De doctrina Christiana. [S. August. 3. de doct. Christ. cap. 30.] To be short, Origen, and the whole Church of God for certain hundred years, were of another mind: for they were so far from treading under foot, (much more from burning) the Translation of Aquila a , that is, one that had turned Jew; of Symmachus, and Theodotion, both Ebionites, that is, most vile heretics, that they joined together with the Hebrew Original, and the Translation of the Seventy (as hath been before signified out of Epiphanius) and set them forth openly to be considered of and perused by all. But we weary the unlearned, who need not know so much, and trouble the learned, who know it already.

Yet before we end, we must answer a third cavil and objection of theirs against us, for altering and amending our Translations so oft; wherein truly they deal hardly, and strangely with us. For to whomever was it imputed for a fault (by such as were wise) to go over that which he had done, and to amend it where he saw cause? Saint Augustine was not afraid Preface to 1611 Translation xii to exhort S. Jerome to a Palinodia or recantation; [S. Aug. Epist. 9.] and doth even glory that he seeth his infirmities. [S. Aug. Epist. 8.] If we be sons of the Truth, we must consider what it speaketh, and trample upon our own credit, yea, and upon other men's too, if either be any way an hindrance to it. This to the cause: then to the persons we say, that of all men they ought to be most silent in this case. For what varieties have they, and what alterations have they made, not only of their Service books, Portesses and , but also of their Latin Translation? The Service book supposed to be made by S. Ambrose (Officium Ambrosianum) was a great while in special use and request; but Pope Hadrian calling a Council with the aid of Charles the Emperor, abolished it, yea, burnt it, and commanded the Service book of Saint Gregory universally to be used. [Durand. lib. 5. cap. 2.] Well, Officium Gregorianum gets by this means to be in credit, but doth it continue without change or altering? No, the very Roman Service was of two fashions, the New fashion, and the Old, (the one used in one Church, the other in another) as is to be seen in Pamelius a Romanist, his Preface, before Micrologus. the same Pamelius reporteth out Radulphus de Rivo, that about the year of our Lord, 1277, Pope Nicolas the Third removed out of the Churches of Rome, the more ancient books (of Service) and brought into use the of the Friers Minorites, and commanded them to be observed there; insomuch that about an hundred years after, when the above name Radulphus happened to be at Rome, he found all the books to be new, (of the new stamp). Neither were there this chopping and changing in the more ancient times only, but also of late: Pius Quintus himself confesseth, that every Bishopric almost had a peculiar kind of service, most unlike to that which others had: which moved him to abolish all other Breviaries, though never so ancient, and privileged and published by Bishops in their , and to establish and ratify that only which was of his own setting forth, in the year 1568. Now when the father of their Church, who gladly would heal the sore of the daughter of his people softly and slightly, and make the best of it, findeth so great fault with them for their odds and jarring; we hope the children have no great cause to vaunt of their uniformity. But the difference that appeareth between our Translations, and our often correcting of them, is the thing that we are specially charged with; let us see therefore whether they themselves be without fault this way, (if it be to be counted a fault, to correct) and whether they be fit men to throw stones at us: O tandem maior parcas insane minori: they that are less sound themselves, out not to object infirmities to others. [Horat.] If we should tell them that Valla, Stapulensis, Erasmus, and Vives found fault with their vulgar Translation, and consequently wished the same to be mended, or a new one to be made, they would answer peradventure, that we produced their enemies for witnesses against them; albeit, they were in no other sort enemies, than as S. Paul was to the Galatians, for telling them the truth [Gal 4:16]: and it were to be wished, that they had dared to tell it them plainlier and oftener. But what will they say to this, that Pope Leo the Tenth allowed Erasmus' Translation of the New Testament, so much different from the vulgar, by his Apostolic and Bull; that the same Leo exhorted Pagnine to translate the whole Bible, and bare whatsoever charges was necessary for the work? [Sixtus Senens.] Surely, as the Apostle reasoneth to the Hebrews, that if the former Law and Testament had been sufficient, there had been no need of the latter: [Heb 7:11 and 8:7] so we may say, that if the old vulgar had been at all points allowable, to small purpose had labour and charges been undergone, about framing of a new. If they say, it was one Pope's private opinion, and that he consulted only himself; then we are able to go further with them, and to aver, that more of their chief men of all sorts, even their own Trent champions Paiva and Vega, and their own Inquisitors, Hieronymus ab Oleastro, and their own Bishop Isidorus Clarius, and their own Cardinal a Vio Caietan, do either make new Translations themselves, or follow new ones of other men's making, or note the vulgar Interpreter for halting; none of them fear to dissent from him, nor yet to except against him. And call they this an uniform tenor of text and judgment about the text, so many of their Worthies disclaiming the now received conceit? Nay, we will yet come nearer the quick: doth not their Paris edition differ from the Lovaine, and Hentenius his from them both, and yet all of them allowed by authority? Nay, doth not Sixtus Quintus confess, that certain Catholics (he meaneth certain of his own side) were in such an humor of translating the Scriptures into Latin, that taking occasion by them, though they thought of no such matter, did strive what he could, out of so uncertain and manifold a variety of Translations, so to mingle all things, that nothing might seem to be left certain and firm in them, etc.? [Sixtus 5. praefat. fixa Bibliis.] Nay, further, did not the same Sixtus ordain by an inviolable decree, and that with the counsel and consent of his Cardinals, that the Latin edition of the old and new Testament, which the would have to be authentic, is the same without controversy which he then set forth, xiii Preface to 1611 Translation being diligently corrected and printed in the Printinghouse of Vatican? Thus Sixtus in his Preface before his Bible. And yet Clement the Eighth his immediate successor, published another edition of the Bible, containing in it infinite differences from that of Sixtus, (and many of them weighty and material) and yet this must be authentic by all means. What is to have the faith of our glorious Lord JESUS CHRIST with Yea or Nay, if this be not? Again, what is sweet harmony and consent, if this be? Therefore, as Demaratus of advised a great King, before he talked of the dissensions of the Grecians, to compose his domestic broils (for at that time his Queen and his son and heir were at deadly feud with him) so all the while that our adversaries do make so many and so various editions themselves, and do jar so much about the worth and authority of them, they can with no show of equity challenge us for changing and correcting.

THE PURPOSE OF THE TRANSLATORS, WITH THEIR NUMBER, , CARE, ETC.

But it is high time to leave them, and to show in brief what we proposed to ourselves, and what course we held in this our perusal and survey of the Bible. Truly (good Christian Reader) we never thought from the beginning, that we should need to make a new Translation, nor yet to make of a bad one a good one, (for then the imputation of Sixtus had been true in some sort, that our people had been fed with gall of instead of wine, with whey instead of milk:) but to make a good one better, or out of many good ones, one principal good one, not justly to be excepted against; that hath been our endeavor, that our mark. To that purpose there were many chosen, that were greater in other men's eyes than in their own, and that sought the truth rather than their own praise. Again, they came or were thought to come to the work, not exercendi causa (as one saith) but exercitati, that is, learned, not to learn: For the chief overseer and [NOTE: Greek letters omitted] under his Majesty, to whom not only we, but also our whole Church was much bound, knew by his wisdom, which thing also Nazianzen taught so long ago, that it is a preposterous order to teach first and to learn after, yea that [NOTE: Greek letters omitted] to learn and practice together, is neither commendable for the workman, nor safe for the work. [Idem in Apologet.] Therefore such were thought upon, as could say modestly with Saint Jerome, Et Hebreaeum Sermonem ex parte didicimus, et in Latino pene ab ipsis incunabulis etc. detriti sumus. "Both we have learned the Hebrew tongue in part, and in the Latin we have been exercised almost from our very cradle." S. Jerome maketh no mention of the Greek tongue, wherein yet he did excel, because he translated not the old Testament out of Greek, but out of Hebrew. And in what sort did these assemble? In the trust of their own knowledge, or of their sharpness of wit, or deepness of judgment, as it were in an arm of flesh? At no hand. They trusted in him that hath the key of David, opening and no man shutting; they prayed to the Lord the Father of our Lord, to the effect that S. Augustine did; "O let thy Scriptures be my pure delight, let me not be deceived in them, neither let me deceive by them." [S. Aug. lib. II. Confess. cap. 2.] In this confidence, and with this devotion did they assemble together; not too many, lest one should trouble another; and yet many, lest many things haply might escape them. If you ask what they had before them, truly it was the Hebrew text of the Old Testament, the Greek of the New. These are the two golden pipes, or rather conduits, where-through the olive branches empty themselves into the gold. Saint Augustine calleth them precedent, or original tongues; [S. August. 3. de doctr. c. 3. etc.] Saint Jerome, fountains. [S. Jerome. ad Suniam et Fretel.] The same Saint Jerome affirmeth, [S. Jerome. ad Lucinium, Dist. 9 ut veterum.] and Gratian hath not spared to put it into his Decree, That "as the credit of the old Books" (he meaneth of the Old Testament) "is to be tried by the Hebrew Volumes, so of the New by the Greek tongue," he meaneth by the original Greek. If truth be tried by these tongues, then whence should a Translation be made, but out of them? These tongues therefore, the Scriptures we say in those tongues, we set before us to translate, being the tongues wherein God was pleased to speak to his Church by the Prophets and Apostles. Neither did we run over the work with that posting haste that the did, if that be true which is reported of them, that they finished it in 72 days; [. Antiq. lib. 12.] neither were we barred or hindered from going over it again, having once done it, like S. Jerome, if that be true which himself reporteth, that he could no sooner write anything, but presently it was caught from him, and published, and he could not have leave to mend it: [S. Jerome. ad Pammac. pro libr. advers. Iovinian.] neither, to be short, were we the first that fell in hand with translating the Scripture into English, and consequently destitute of former helps, as it is written of Origen, that he was the first in a manner, that put his hand to write Commentaries Preface to 1611 Translation xiv upon the Scriptures, [Sophoc. in Elect.] and therefore no marvel, if he overshot himself many times. None of these things: the work hath not been huddled up in 72 days, but hath cost the workmen, as light as it seemeth, the pains of twice seven times two days and more: matters of such weight and consequence are to be speeded with maturity: for in a business of movement a man feareth not the blame of convenient slackness. [S. Chrysost. in II. Thess. cap. 2.] Neither did we think much to consult the Translators or Commentators, Chaldee, Hebrew, Syrian, Greek or Latin, no nor the Spanish, French, Italian, or Dutch; neither did we disdain to revise that which we had done, and to bring back to the anvil that which we had hammered: but having and using as great helps as were needful, and fearing no reproach for slowness, nor coveting praise for expedition, we have at length, through the good hand of the Lord upon us, brought the work to that pass that you see.

REASONS MOVING US TO SET DIVERSITY OF SENSES IN THE MARGIN, WHERE THERE IS GREAT PROBABILITY FOR EACH

Some peradventure would have no variety of senses to be set in the margin, lest the authority of the Scriptures for deciding of controversies by that show of uncertainty, should somewhat be shaken. But we hold their judgment not to be sound in this point. For though, "whatsoever things are necessary are manifest," as S. Chrysostom saith, [S. Chrysost. in II. Thess. cap. 2.] and as S. Augustine, "In those things that are plainly set down in the Scriptures, all such matters are found that concern Faith, Hope, and . [S. Aug. 2. de doctr. Christ. cap. 9.] Yet for all that it cannot be dissembled, that partly to exercise and whet our wits, partly to wean the curious from the loathing of them for their everywhere plainness, partly also to stir up our devotion to crave the assistance of God's spirit by , and lastly, that we might be forward to seek aid of our brethren by conference, and never scorn those that be not in all respects so complete as they should be, being to seek in many things ourselves, it hath pleased God in his divine providence, here and there to scatter words and sentences of that difficulty and doubtfulness, not in doctrinal points that concern salvation, (for in such it hath been vouched that the Scriptures are plain) but in matters of less moment, that fearfulness would better beseem us than confidence, and if we will resolve upon modesty with S. Augustine, (though not in this same case altogether, yet upon the same ground) Melius est debitare de occultis, quam litigare de incertis, [S. Aug li. S. de Genes. ad liter. cap. 5.] "it is better to make doubt of those things which are secret, than to strive about those things that are uncertain." There be many words in the Scriptures, which be never found there but once, (having neither or neighbor, as the Hebrews speak) so that we cannot be holpen by conference of places. Again, there be many rare of certain birds, beasts and precious stones, etc. concerning the Hebrews themselves are so divided among themselves for judgment, that they may seem to have defined this or that, rather because they would say something, than because they were sure of that which they said, as S. Jerome somewhere saith of the Septuagint. Now in such a case, doth not a margin do well to admonish the Reader to seek further, and not to conclude or dogmatize upon this or that peremptorily? For as it is a fault of incredulity, to doubt of those things that are evident: so to determine of such things as the Spirit of God hath left (even in the judgment of the judicious) questionable, can be no less than presumption. Therefore as S. Augustine saith, that variety of Translations is profitable for the finding out of the sense of the Scriptures: [S. Aug. 2. De doctr. Christian. cap. 14.] so diversity of signification and sense in the margin, where the text is no so clear, must needs do good, yea, is necessary, as we are persuaded. We know that Sixtus Quintus expressly forbiddeth, that any variety of of their vulgar edition, should be put in the margin, [Sixtus 5. praef. Bibliae.] (which though it be not altogether the same thing to that we have in hand, yet it looketh that way) but we think he hath not all of his own side his favorers, for this conceit. They that are wise, had rather have their judgments at liberty in differences of readings, than to be captivated to one, when it may be the other. If they were sure that their high had all laws shut up in his breast, as Paul the Second bragged, [Plat. in Paulo secundo.] and that he were as free from error by special privilege, as the Dictators of Rome were made by law inviolable, it were another matter; then his word were an Oracle, his opinion a decision. But the eyes of the xv Preface to 1611 Translation world are now open, God be thanked, and have been a great while, they find that he is subject to the same affections and infirmities that others be, that his skin is penetrable, and therefore so much as he proveth, not as much as he claimeth, they grant and embrace.

REASONS INDUCING US NOT TO STAND CURIOUSLY UPON AN IDENTITY OF PHRASING

Another things we think good to admonish thee of (gentle Reader) that we have not tied ourselves to an uniformity of phrasing, or to an identity of words, as some peradventure would wish that we had done, because they observe, that some learned men somewhere, have been as exact as they could that way. Truly, that we might not vary from the sense of that which we had translated before, if the word signified that same in both places (for there be some words that be not the same sense everywhere) we were especially careful, and made a conscience, according to our duty. But, that we should express the same notion in the same particular word; as for example, if we translate the Hebrew or Greek word once by PURPOSE, never to call it INTENT; if one where JOURNEYING, never TRAVELING; if one where THINK, never SUPPOSE; if one where PAIN, never ACHE; if one where JOY, never GLADNESS, etc. Thus to mince the matter, we thought to savour more of curiosity than wisdom, and that rather it would breed scorn in the Atheist, than bring profit to the godly Reader. For is the kingdom of God to become words or syllables? why should we be in bondage to them if we may be free, use one precisely when we may use another no less fit, as commodiously? A godly Father in the Primitive time showed himself greatly moved, that one of newfangledness called [NOTE: Greek omitted but was a dispute over the word for "a bed"] [Niceph. Calist. lib.8. cap.42.] though the difference be little or none; and another reporteth that he was much abused for turning "Cucurbita" (to which reading the people had been used) into "Hedera". [S. Jerome in 4. Ionae. See S. Aug: epist. 10.] Now if this happens in better times, and upon so small occasions, we might justly fear hard censure, if generally we should make verbal and unnecessary changings. We might also be charged (by scoffers) with some unequal dealing towards a great number of good English words. For as it is written of a certain great Philosopher, that he should say , that those logs were happy that were made images to be worshipped; for their fellows, as good as they, lay for blocks behind the fire: so if we should say, as it were, unto certain words, Stand up higher, have a place in the Bible always, and to others of like quality, Get ye hence, be banished forever, we might be taxed peradventure with S. James his words, namely, "To be partial in ourselves and judges of evil thoughts." Add hereunto, that niceness in words was always counted the next step to trifling, and so was to be curious about names too: also that we cannot follow a better pattern for elocution than God himself; therefore he using divers words, in his holy writ, and indifferently for one thing in nature: [see Euseb. li. 12. ex Platon.] we, if we will not be superstitious, may use the same liberty in our English versions out of Hebrew and Greek, for that copy or store that he hath given us. Lastly, we have on the one side avoided the scrupulosity of the Puritans, who leave the old Ecclesiastical words, and betake them to other, as when they put WASHING for , and CONGREGATION instead of CHURCH: as also on the other side we have shunned the obscurity of the Papists, in their AZIMES, TUNIKE, RATIONAL, HOLOCAUSTS, PRAEPUCE, PASCHE, and a number of such like, whereof their late Translation is full, and that of purpose to darken the sense, that since they must needs translate the Bible, yet by the language thereof, it may be kept from being understood. But we desire that the Scripture may speak like itself, as in the language of Canaan, that it may be understood even of the very vulgar.

Many other things we might give thee warning of (gentle Reader) if we had not exceeded the measure of a Preface already. It remaineth, that we commend thee to God, and to the Spirit of his grace, which is able to build further than we can ask or think. He removeth the scales from our eyes, the vail from our hearts, opening our wits that we may understand his word, enlarging our hearts, yea correcting our affections, that we may love it to the end. Ye are brought unto fountains of which ye digged not; do not cast earth into them with the , neither prefer broken pits before them with the wicked Jews. [Gen 26:15. Jer 2:13.] Others have laboured, and you may enter into their labours; O receive not so great things in vain, O despise not so great salvation! Be not like swine to tread under foot so precious things, neither yet like dogs Preface to 1611 Translation xvi to tear and abuse holy things. Say not to our Saviour with the Gergesites, Depart out of our coast [Matt 8:34]; neither yet with sell your birthright for a mess of pottage [Heb 12:16]. If light be come into the world, love not darkness more than light; if food, if be offered, go not naked, starve not yourselves. Remember the advice of Nazianzene, "It is a grievous thing" (or dangerous) "to neglect a great fair, and to seek to make markets afterwards: also the encouragement of S. Chrysostom, "It is altogether impossible, that he that is sober" (and watchful) "should at any time be neglected:" [S. Chrysost. in epist. ad Rom. cap. 14. oral. 26.] Lastly, the admonition and menacing of S. Augustine, "They that despise God's will inviting them, shall feel God's will taking vengeance of them." [S. August. ad artic. sibi falso object. Artic. 16.] It is a fearful thing to fall into the hands of the living God; [Heb 10:31] but a blessed thing it is, and will bring us to everlasting blessedness in the end, when God speaketh unto us, to hearken; when he setteth his word before us, to read it; when he stretcheth out his hand and calleth, to answer, Here am I, here we are to do thy will, O God. The Lord work a care and conscience in us to know him and serve him, that we may be acknowledged of him at the appearing of our Lord Jesus Christ, to whom with the holy Ghost, be all praise and thanksgiving.

Amen.

New Testament Page 1 Matthew The Gospel According to St. Matthew come a Governor, that shall rule my people Israel. {2:7} Then Herod, when he had privily called the wise men, enquired of them diligently what time the star appeared. {2:8} And he sent them to , and said, Go and {1:1} The book of the generation of Jesus Christ, searchthe son diligently for the young child; and when ye have of David, the son of . {1:2} Abraham begatfound ; [him,] bring me word again, that I may come and and Isaac begat Jacob; and Jacobworship begat him also.Judas {2:9} Whenand they his had heard the king, they brethren; {1:3} And Judas begatdeparted; Pharesand, lo, the star,and which Zara they sawof in the east, went Thamar; and Phares begat Esrom; and Esrom begatbefore ; them, till it came and stood over where the young {1:4} And Aram begat Aminadab; andchild Aminadab was. {2:10} begat When they saw the star, they rejoiced Naasson; and Naasson begat ; {1:5}with exceedingAnd Salmon great joy. begat Booz of Rachab; and Booz begat of Ruth; and Obed begat ; {1:6} And Jesse begat David{2:11} the Andking; when they were come into the house, they and David the king begat Solomon of her [that had been sawthe the young child with Mary his mother, and fell down, wife] of Urias; {1:7} And Solomon begatand worshippedRoboam; and him: and when they had opened their Roboam begat Abia; and Abia begat Asa; {1:8}treasures, And Asa they presented unto him gifts; gold, and begat Josaphat; and Josaphat begat Joram; and Joramfrankincense, begat and . {2:12} And being warned of God Ozias; {1:9} And Ozias begat Joatham; and Joathamin abegat that they should not return to Herod, they Achaz; and Achaz begat Ezekias; {1:10} And Ezekias begatdeparted into their own country another way. {2:13} And Manasses; and Manasses begat Amon;when and they Amon were begat departed, behold, the of the Lord Josias; {1:11} And Josias begat Jechonias and his brethren,appeareth to Joseph in a dream, saying, Arise, and take the about the time they were carried away to Babylon:young {1:12} child and his mother, and flee into Egypt, and be And after they were brought to Babylon, thouJechonias there until begat I bring thee word: for Herod will seek the Salathiel; and Salathiel begatyoung child Zorobabel; to destroy him. {2:14} {1:13} When he arose,And he took Zorobabel begat Abiud; and Abiudthe youngbegat child Eliakim; and his mother and by night, and departed into Eliakim begat Azor; {1:14} And Azor Egypt:begat {2:15} Sadoc; And andwas there until the death of Herod: that Sadoc begat Achim; and Achim begat Eliud;it might {1:15} be fulfilledAnd which was spoken of the Lord by the Eliud begat Eleazar; and Eleazarprophet, saying, begat Out ofMatthan; Egypt have I calledand my son. Matthan begat Jacob; {1:16} And Jacob begat Joseph the husband of Mary, of whom was born Jesus, who{2:16} is called Then Herod, when he saw that he was mocked of Christ. {1:17} So all the generationsthe wise from men, Abraham was exceeding to wroth, and sent forth, and David [are] fourteen generations; and from Davidslew until all the children that were in Bethlehem, and in all the carrying away into Babylon [are] fourteen generations;coasts andthereof, from two years old and under, according to from the carrying away into Babylonthe time unto which heChrist had diligently [are] enquired of the wise men. fourteen generations. {2:17} Then was fulfilled that which was spoken by Jeremy the prophet, saying, {2:18} In Rama was there a voice {1:18} Now the birth of Jesus Christ washeard, on this wise:lamentation, and weeping, and great mourning, When as his mother Mary was espoused to Joseph, before weeping [for] her children, and would not be they came together, she was found with childcomforted, of the Holy because they are not. Ghost. {1:19} Then Joseph her husband, being a just [man,] and not willing to make her a publick example, was minded{2:19} But when Herod was dead, behold, an angel of the to put her away privily. {1:20} But whileLord he thoughtappeareth on in a dream to Joseph in Egypt, {2:20} these things, behold, the angel of the LordSaying, appeared Arise, andunto take the young child and his mother, and him in a dream, saying, Joseph, thou son of David, feargo intonot the land of Israel: for they are dead which sought the to take unto thee Mary thy wife: for that which is conceivedyoung child's life. {2:21} And he arose, and took the young in her is of the Holy Ghost. {1:21} And she shall bring forthchild and his mother, and came into the land of Israel. a son, and thou shalt call his name JESUS: for he shall save{2:22} But when he heard that Archelaus did reign in his people from their . {1:22} Now all thisJudaea was in thedone, room of his father Herod, he was afraid to go that it might be fulfilled which was spoken of thethither: Lord bynotwithstanding, being warned of God in a dream, the prophet, saying, {1:23} Behold, a virginhe shall turned be with aside into the parts of : {2:23} And he child, and shall bring forth a son, and theycame shalland dweltcall inhis a called : that it might be name Emmanuel, which being interpreted is, Godfulfilled with us. which was spoken by the prophets, He shall be {1:24} Then Joseph being raised from sleep did as the angelcalled a . of the Lord had bidden him, and took unto him his wife: {1:25} And knew her not till she had {3:1}brought In thoseforth days her came , preaching in firstborn son: and he called his name JESUS.the wilderness of Judaea, {3:2} And saying, Repent ye: for the kingdom of heaven is at hand. {3:3} For this is he that {2:1} Now when Jesus was born in Bethlehem ofwas Judaea spoken of by the prophet Esaias, saying, The voice of in the days of Herod the king, behold, there came wise onemen crying in the wilderness, Prepare ye the way of the from the east to Jerusalem, {2:2} Saying, Where is he that isLord, make his paths straight. {3:4} And the same John had born King of the Jews? for we have seen his star in the east,his raiment of camel's hair, and a leathern about his and are come to him. {2:3} When Herodloins; the kingand his meat was and wild honey. {3:5} Then had heard [these things,] he was troubled, and all Jerusalemwent out to him Jerusalem, and all Judaea, and all the region with him. {2:4} And when he had gatheredround all aboutthe chief Jordan, {3:6} And were baptized of him in and scribes of the people together, he demandedJordan, confessingof their sins. them where Christ should be born. {2:5} And they said unto him, In Bethlehem of Judaea: for thus it is written{3:7} by Butthe when he saw many of the and prophet, {2:6} And thou Bethlehem, in the land of Juda, art come to his baptism, he said unto them, O not the least among the princes of Juda: for out of thee shallgeneration of vipers, who hath warned you to flee from the Matthew Page 2 wrath to come? {3:8} Bring forth therefore fruitsother meet two for brethren, James [the son] of , and John repentance: {3:9} And think not to say withinhis yourselves,brother, in a ship with Zebedee their father, mending We have Abraham to [our] father: for I say untotheir you, nets; that and he called them. {4:22} And they immediately God is able of these stones to leftraise the ship upand theirchildren father, and followedunto him. Abraham. {3:10} And now also the axe is laid unto the root of the trees: therefore every tree which bringeth{4:23} notAnd Jesusforth went about all Galilee, teaching in their good fruit is hewn down, and cast into thesynagogues, fire. {3:11} and preachingI the gospel of the kingdom, and indeed baptize you with water unto repentance: buthealing he that all manner of sickness and all manner of disease cometh after me is mightier than I, whose shoesamong I theam people. not {4:24} And his fame went throughout all worthy to bear: he shall baptize you with the Syria:Holy Ghost,and they brought unto him all sick people that were and [with] fire: {3:12} Whose fan [is] in his hand,taken and with he divers diseases and torments, and those which will throughly purge his floor, and gather his wheat intowere the possessed with , and those which were lunatick, garner; but he will burn up the chaff with unquenchable andfire. those that had the palsy; and he healed them. {4:25} And there followed him great multitudes of people from {3:13} Then cometh Jesus from GalileeGalilee, to Jordan and unto[from] , and [from] Jerusalem, and John, to be baptized of him. {3:14} But John[from] forbad Judaea, him, and [from] beyond Jordan. saying, I have need to be baptized of thee, and comest thou to me? {3:15} And Jesus answering said unto him, Suffer [it {5:1} And seeing the multitudes, he went up into a to be so] now: for thus it becomethmountain: andus whento fulfilhe was set,all his disciples came unto righteousness. Then he suffered him.him: {3:16} {5:2} AndAnd Jesus,he opened his mouth, and taught them, when he was baptized, went up straightwaysaying, {5:3} outBlessed of [are]the the poor in spirit: for theirs is water: and, lo, the were opened unto thehim, andkingdom he of heaven. {5:4} Blessed [are] they that saw the Spirit of God descending like a dove, andmourn: lighting for they shall be comforted. {5:5} Blessed [are] the upon him: {3:17} And lo a voice from heaven, saying, meek:This for they shall inherit the earth. {5:6} Blessed [are] is my beloved Son, in whom well pleased. they which do hunger and thirst after righteousness: for they shall be filled. {5:7} Blessed [are] the merciful: for they {4:1} Then was Jesus led up shallof obtainthe .Spirit {5:8} Blessedinto [are]the the pure in heart: for wilderness to be tempted of the . {4:2} Andthey when shall see he God. {5:9} Blessed [are] the peacemakers: for had fasted forty days and forty nights, he was afterwardthey shallan be called the children of God. {5:10} Blessed hungred. {4:3} And when the tempter came to him, he said,[are] they which are persecuted for righteousness sake: for If thou be the Son of God, command that thesetheirs stones is bethe kingdom of heaven. {5:11} Blessed are ye, made bread. {4:4} But he answered and said, It whenis written, [men] shall revile you, and persecute [you,] and shall Man shall not live by bread alone, but by everysay word all that manner of evil against you falsely, for my sake. proceedeth out of the mouth of God. {4:5} Then{5:12} the devil Rejoice, and be exceeding glad: for great [is] your taketh him up into the holy city, andreward setteth in heaven: forhim so persecutedon a they the prophets which pinnacle of the temple, {4:6} And saith unto him, If thou werebe before you. the Son of God, cast thyself down: for it is written, He shall give his concerning thee: and in [their] hands{5:13} Ye are the of the earth: but if the salt have lost they shall bear thee up, lest at any time thou dashhis thy savour, foot wherewith shall it be salted? it is thenceforth against a stone. {4:7} Jesus said untogood him, for nothing, It is but written to be cast out, and to be trodden under again, Thou shalt not tempt the Lord thy God. {4:8} Again,foot of men. {5:14} Ye are the . A city that the devil taketh him up into an exceeding ishigh set on mountain, an hill cannot be hid. {5:15} Neither do men light a and sheweth him all the kingdoms of thecandle, world, and put and it under the a bushel, but on a candlestick; and it glory of them; {4:9} And saith unto him, Allgiveth these lightthings unto all that are in the house. {5:16} Let your will I give thee, if thou wilt fall downlight and worshipso shine me.before men, that they may see your good {4:10} Then saith Jesus unto him, Get theeworks, hence, andSatan: glorify your Father which is in heaven. for it is written, Thou shalt worship the Lord thy God, and him only shalt thou serve. {4:11} Then the{5:17} devil Think leaveth not that I am come to destroy the law, or the him, and, behold, angels came and ministeredprophets: unto I amhim. not come to destroy, but to fulfil. {5:18} For verily I say unto you, Till heaven and earth pass, one jot or {4:12} Now when Jesus had heard that John was cast intoone shall in no wise pass from the law, till all be prison, he departed into Galilee;fulfilled. {4:13}{5:19} WhosoeverAnd leaving therefore shall break one of Nazareth, he came and dwelt in , which theseis upon least commandments, and shall teach men so, he shall the sea coast, in the of Zabulon andbe called Nephthalim: the least in the kingdom of heaven: but whosoever {4:14} That it might be fulfilled whichshall do wasand teach spoken [them,] by the same shall be called great in Esaias the prophet, saying, {4:15} The land of Zabulon, andthe kingdom of heaven. {5:20} For I say unto you, That the land of Nephthalim, [by] the way of exceptthe sea, your beyond righteousness shall exceed [the righteousness] Jordan, Galilee of the Gentiles; {4:16} Theof thepeople scribes which and Pharisees, ye shall in no case enter into sat in darkness saw great light; and to them which sat inthe the kingdom of heaven. region and shadow of death light is sprung up. {4:17} From that time Jesus began to preach, and to say, Repent: for{5:21} the Ye have heard that it was said by them of old time, kingdom of heaven is at hand. ; and whosoever shall kill shall be in danger of the judgment: {5:22} But I say unto you, That {4:18} And Jesus, walking by the , sawwhosoever two is angry with his brother without a cause shall be brethren, Simon called Peter, andin danger Andrew of the judgment:his brother, and whosoever shall say to his casting a net into the sea: for they were fishers. {4:19}brother, And Raca, shall be in danger of the council: but he saith unto them, Follow me, and I will make you whosoeverfishers shall say, Thou fool, shall be in danger of of men. {4:20} And they straightway left [their]fire. {5:23}nets, andTherefore if thou bring thy gift to the , and followed him. {4:21} And going on from therethence, rememberest he saw that thy brother hath ought against thee; Page 3 Matthew {5:24} Leave there thy gift before the altar, and go thy way;alms may be in secret: and thy Father which seeth in secret first be reconciled to thy brother, and then comehimself and offershall reward thee openly. thy gift. {5:25} Agree with thine adversary quickly, whiles thou art in the way with him; lest at any time the adversary{6:5} And when thou prayest, thou shalt not be as the deliver thee to the judge, and the judge deliverhypocrites thee to the [are:] for they love to pray standing in the officer, and thou be cast into prison. {5:26} Verily and I insay the corners of the streets, that they may unto thee, Thou shalt by no means come out thence, till thoube seen of men. Verily I say unto you, They have their hast paid the uttermost farthing. reward. {6:6} But thou, when thou prayest, enter into thy closet, and when thou hast shut thy door, pray to thy Father {5:27} Ye have heard that it was said by them of old time,which is in secret; and thy Father which seeth in secret shall Thou shalt not commit adultery: {5:28} But I say untoreward you, thee openly. {6:7} But when ye pray, use not vain That whosoever looketh on a woman to afterrepetitions, her hath as the heathen [do:] for they think that they shall committed adultery with her already inbe hisheard heart. for their {5:29}much speaking. {6:8} Be not ye therefore And if thy right eye offend thee, pluck it out, andlike cast unto [it] them: for your Father knoweth what things ye from thee: for it is profitable forhave thee need that of, beforeone ofye askthy him. {6:9} After this manner members should perish, and not [that]therefore praythy ye: Ourwhole Father whichbody art in heaven, Hallowed should be cast into hell. {5:30} And if thy right hand offendbe thy name. {6:10} Thy kingdom come. Thy will be done thee, cut if off, and cast it from thee: for it is profitablein earth, for as [it is] in heaven. {6:11} Give us this day our thee that one of thy members should perish, anddaily not bread. [that] {6:12} And forgive us our debts, as we forgive thy whole body should be cast into hell. {5:31} It hath beenour debtors. {6:13} And lead us not into temptation, but said, Whosoever shall put away his wife, let him givedeliver her a us from evil: For thine is the kingdom, and the writing of divorcement: {5:32} But I saypower, unto you,and Thatthe glory, for ever. . {6:14} For if ye whosoever shall put away his wife, saving for theforgive cause menof their trespasses, your heavenly Father will also , causeth her to commit adultery: and whosoeverforgive you: {6:15} But if ye forgive not men their shall marry her that is divorced committeth adultery.trespasses, neither will your Father forgive your trespasses.

{5:33} Again, ye have heard that it hath{6:16} been Moreover said whenby ye fast, be not, as the hypocrites, them of old time, Thou shalt not forswear thyself, butof a shaltsad countenance: for they disfigure their faces, that they perform unto the Lord thine : {5:34} Butmay Iappear say unto unto men to fast. Verily I say unto you, They you, Swear not at all; neither by heaven;have for theirit is God'sreward. {6:17} But thou, when thou fastest, : {5:35} Nor by the earth; foranoint it is thinehis footstool:head, and wash thy face; {6:18} That thou neither by Jerusalem; for it is the city ofappear the notgreat unto King.men to fast, but unto thy Father which is in {5:36} Neither shalt thou swear by thy head, becausesecret: thou and thy Father, which seeth in secret, shall reward canst not make one hair or . {5:37} But letthee your openly. communication be, Yea, yea; Nay, nay: for whatsoever is more than these cometh of evil. {6:19} Lay not up for yourselves treasures upon earth, where moth and rust doth corrupt, and where thieves break {5:38} Ye have heard that it hath been said, An eye for anthrough and steal: {6:20} But lay up for yourselves eye, and a tooth for a tooth: {5:39} But I say unto you, Thattreasures in heaven, where neither moth nor rust doth ye resist not evil: but whosoever shall corrupt,smite thee and whereon thy thieves do not break through nor steal: right cheek, turn to him the other also. {5:40}{6:21} And Forif any where your treasure is, there will your heart be man will sue thee at the law, and take away thy coat, let himalso. {6:22} The light of the body is the eye: if therefore have [thy] cloke also. {5:41} And whosoever shallthine compel eye be single, thy whole body shall be full of light. thee to go a mile, go with him twain. {5:42} {6:23}Give toBut him if thine eye be evil, thy whole body shall be full that asketh thee, and from him that would borrowof darkness. of theeIf therefore the light that is in thee be darkness, turn not thou away. how great [is] that darkness!

{5:43} Ye have heard that it hath been said,{6:24} Thou Noshalt man can serve two masters: for either he will love thy neighbour, and hate thine enemy. {5:44} Buthate I say the one, and love the other; or else he will hold to the unto you, Love your enemies, bless them that you,one, do and despise the other. Ye cannot serve God and good to them that hate you, and .pray for{6:25} themTherefore whichI say unto you, Take no thought despitefully use you, and persecute you;for your {5:45} life, what That ye shallye eat, or what ye shall drink; nor may be the children of your Father which is in heaven:yet for foryour body, what ye shall put on. Is not the life more he maketh his sun to rise on the evil and on the thangood, meat,and and the body than raiment? {6:26} Behold the sendeth rain on the just and on the unjust. {5:46} Forfowls if ofye the air: for they sow not, neither do they reap, nor love them which love you, what reward havegather ye? into do barns;not yet your heavenly Father feedeth them. even the the same? {5:47} And if ye saluteAre ye your not much better than they? {6:27} Which of you by brethren only, what do ye more [than others?] dotaking not even thought can add one unto his stature? {6:28} the publicans so? {5:48} Be ye therefore perfect,And why takeeven ye asthought for raiment? Consider the lilies of your Father which is in heaven is perfect. the field, how they grow; they toil not, neither do they spin: {6:29} And yet I say unto you, That even Solomon in all his {6:1} Take heed that ye do not your alms before glorymen, wasto not arrayed like one of these. {6:30} Wherefore, be seen of them: otherwise ye haveif noGod rewardso clothe theof grassyour of the field, which to day is, and Father which is in heaven. {6:2} Therefore when thou doestto morrow is cast into the oven, [shall he] not much more [thine] alms, do not sound a trumpet before[clothe] thee,you, O asye ofthe little faith? {6:31} Therefore take no hypocrites do in the synagogues and in the streets, thatthought, they saying, What shall we eat? or, What shall we may have glory of men. Verily I say unto you,drink? They have or, Wherewithal shall we be clothed? {6:32} (For their reward. {6:3} But when thou doest alms,after let not all thy these things do the Gentiles seek:) for your left hand know what thy right hand doeth: {6:4} Thatheavenly thine Father knoweth that ye have need of all these Matthew Page 4 things. {6:33} But seek ye first the kingdom of God, and hisand beat upon that house; and it fell: and great was the fall righteousness; and all these things shall be added untoof it.you. {7:28} And it came to pass, when Jesus had ended {6:34} Take therefore no thought for the morrow:these sayings, for the the people were astonished at his doctrine: morrow shall take thought for the things of itself. Sufficient{7:29} For he taught them as [one] having authority, and unto the day [is] the evil thereof. not as the scribes.

{7:1} Judge not, that ye be not judged. {7:2}{8:1} When For hewith was come down from the mountain, great what judgment ye judge, ye shall be judged: and withmultitudes what followed him. {8:2} And, behold, there came a measure ye mete, it shall be measured to you again.leper and{7:3} worshipped him, saying, Lord, if thou wilt, thou And why beholdest thou the mote that is incanst thy make brother's me clean. {8:3} And Jesus put forth [his] hand, eye, but considerest not the beam that is in thine ownand eye? touched him, saying, I will; be thou clean. And {7:4} Or how wilt thou say to thy brother, Let me immediatelypull out his was cleansed. {8:4} And Jesus the mote out of thine eye; and, behold, a beam [is] saithin thine unto him, See thou tell no man; but go thy way, shew own eye? {7:5} Thou hypocrite, first cast out the beamthyself out to the priest, and offer the gift that Moses of thine own eye; and then shalt thou see clearly to castcommanded, out for a testimony unto them. the mote out of thy brother's eye. {8:5} And when Jesus was entered into Capernaum, there {7:6} Give not that which is holy unto the dogs,came neither unto him a centurion, beseeching him, {8:6} And cast ye your before swine, lest saying,they trample Lord, mythem servant lieth at home sick of the palsy, under their feet, and turn again and rendgrievously you. tormented. {8:7} And Jesus saith unto him, I will come and heal him. {8:8} The centurion answered and said, {7:7} Ask, and it shall be given you; seek, Lord,and yeI amshall not worthy that thou shouldest come under my find; knock, and it shall be opened untoroof: you: but {7:8} speak For the word only, and my servant shall be every one that asketh receiveth; and he that seeketh findeth;healed. {8:9} For I am a man under authority, having and to him that knocketh it shall be opened. {7:9} Orsoldiers what under me: and I say to this [man,] Go, and he goeth; man is there of you, whom if his son ask bread, will he giveand to another, Come, and he cometh; and to my servant, him a stone? {7:10} Or if he ask a fish, will he giveDo him this, a and he doeth [it. ]{8:10} When Jesus heard [it,] he serpent? {7:11} If ye then, being evil, knowmarvelled, how toand give said to them that followed, Verily I say unto good gifts unto your children, how much moreyou, Ishall have notyour found so great faith, no, not in Israel. {8:11} Father which is in heaven give good things to them thatAnd ask I say unto you, That many shall come from the east and him? {7:12} Therefore all things whatsoever ye wouldwest, that and shall sit down with Abraham, and Isaac, and men should do to you, do ye even so to them: for this isJacob, the in the kingdom of heaven. {8:12} But the children of law and the prophets. the kingdom shall be cast out into outer darkness: there shall be weeping and gnashing of teeth. {8:13} And Jesus said {7:13} Enter ye in at the strait gate: for wide [is] the gate,unto the centurion, Go thy way; and as thou hast believed, and broad [is] the way, that leadeth to destruction, and manyso be it done unto thee. And his servant was healed in the there be which go in thereat: {7:14} Because straitselfsame [is] the hour. gate, and narrow [is] the way, which leadeth unto life, and few there be that find it. {8:14} And when Jesus was come into Peter's house, he saw his wife's mother laid, and sick of a fever. {8:15} And {7:15} Beware of false prophets, which comehe touched to you her in hand, and the fever left her: and she arose, sheep's clothing, but inwardly they areand raveningministered untowolves. them. {7:16} Ye shall know them by their fruits. Do men gather grapes of thorns, or figs of thistles? {7:17} Even{8:16} so every When the even was come, they brought unto him good tree bringeth forth good fruit;many thatbut were a possessedcorrupt with tree devils: and he cast out the bringeth forth evil fruit. {7:18} A good treespirits cannot with [his] bring word, and healed all that were sick: {8:17} forth evil fruit, neither [can] a corrupt tree bring forthThat good it might be fulfilled which was spoken by Esaias the fruit. {7:19} Every tree that bringeth not forth goodprophet, fruit is saying, Himself took our infirmities, and bare [our] hewn down, and cast into the fire. {7:20}sicknesses. Wherefore by their fruits ye shall know them. {8:18} Now when Jesus saw great multitudes about him, {7:21} Not every one that saith unto me, Lord, Lord, shallhe gave commandment to depart unto the other side. {8:19} enter into the kingdom of heaven; but he that doeth theAnd will a certain came, and said unto him, Master, I will of my Father which is in heaven. {7:22} Many willfollow say tothee whithersoever thou goest. {8:20} And Jesus me in that day, Lord, Lord, have we not prophesiedsaith untoin thy him, The foxes have holes, and of the air name? and in thy name have cast out devils?[have] nests;and butin thethy hath not where to lay [his] name done many wonderful works? {7:23} And thenhead. will I {8:21} And another of his disciples said unto him, profess unto them, I never knew you: departLord, from suffer me, yeme first to go and bury my father. {8:22} But that work iniquity. Jesus said unto him, Follow me; and let the dead bury their dead. {7:24} Therefore whosoever heareth these sayings of mine, and doeth them, I will him unto{8:23} a wise And man,when he was entered into a ship, his disciples which built his house upon a rock: {7:25}followed And thehim. rain {8:24} And, behold, there arose a great descended, and the floods came, and the windstempest blew, in the and sea, insomuch that the ship was covered with beat upon that house; and it fell not: for it was founded uponthe waves: but he was asleep. {8:25} And his disciples a rock. {7:26} And every one that heareth these sayingscame toof [him,] and awoke him, saying, Lord, save us: we mine, and doeth them not, shall be likened perish.unto a{8:26} foolish And he saith unto them, Why are ye fearful, man, which built his house upon the sand: {7:27}O Andye of the little faith? Then he arose, and rebuked the winds rain descended, and the floods came, and theand winds the sea; blew, and there was a great calm. {8:27} But the men Page 5 Matthew marvelled, saying, What manner of man is daughterthis, that is even even now dead: but come and lay thy hand upon the winds and the sea obey him! her, and she shall live. {9:19} And Jesus arose, and followed him, and [so did] his disciples. {8:28} And when he was come to the other side into the country of the Gergesenes, there met him{9:20} two And, possessed behold, a woman, which was diseased with with devils, coming out of the tombs, exceedingan fierce,issue soof blood twelve years, came behind [him,] and that no man might pass by that way. {8:29} touchedAnd, behold, the hem of his garment: {9:21} For she said within they cried out, saying, What have we to do with thee, Jesus,herself, If I may but touch his garment, I shall be whole. thou Son of God? art thou come hither to torment us before{9:22} But Jesus turned him about, and when he saw her, he the time? {8:30} And there was a good way off fromsaid, them Daughter, be of good comfort; thy faith hath made thee an herd of many swine feeding.whole. {8:31} And Sothe thewoman devils was made whole from that hour. besought him, saying, If thou cast us out, {9:23}suffer usAnd to whengo Jesus came into the ruler's house, and away into the herd of swine. {8:32} And he said unto them,saw the minstrels and the people making a noise, {9:24} He Go. And when they were come out, they went into thesaid herd unto them, Give place: for the maid is not dead, but of swine: and, behold, the whole herd of swine ran violentlysleepeth. And they laughed him to scorn. {9:25} But when down a steep place into the sea, and perished in the thewaters. people were put forth, he went in, and took her by the {8:33} And they that kept them fled, and wenthand, their and ways the maid arose. {9:26} And the fame hereof went into the city, and told every thing, and what was befallenabroad to into all that land. the possessed of the devils. {8:34} And, behold, the whole city came out to meet Jesus: and when they saw him,{9:27} they And when Jesus departed thence, two blind men besought [him] that he would depart out of their coasts.followed him, crying, and saying, [Thou] Son of David, have mercy on us. {9:28} And when he was come into the {9:1} And he entered into a ship, and passedhouse, over, the and blind men came to him: and Jesus saith unto came into his own city. {9:2} And, behold, they broughtthem, to Believe ye that I am able to do this? They said unto him a man sick of the palsy, lying on him,a bed: Yea, Lord.and {9:29}Jesus Then touched he their eyes, saying, seeing their faith said unto the sick of the palsy; Son,According be of to your faith be it unto you. {9:30} And their good cheer; thy sins be forgiven thee. {9:3}eyes And, were behold, opened; and Jesus straitly charged them, saying, certain of the scribes said within themselves,See [that] This no [man]man know [it. ]{9:31} But they, when they blasphemeth. {9:4} And Jesus knowing their thoughtswere said, departed, spread abroad his fame in all that country. Wherefore think ye evil in your hearts? {9:5} For whether is easier, to say, [Thy] sins be forgiven{9:32} thee; As orthey to went say, out, behold, they brought to him a Arise, and walk? {9:6} But that ye may know thatdumb the Son man possessed with a devil. {9:33} And when the of man hath power on earth to forgive sins, (then saith hedevil to was cast out, the dumb spake: and the multitudes the sick of the palsy,) Arise, take up thy bed, marvelled,and go unto saying, It was never so seen in Israel. {9:34} But thine house. {9:7} And he arose, and departed to his house.the Pharisees said, He casteth out devils through the prince {9:8} But when the multitudes saw [it,] they marvelled, ofand the devils. {9:35} And Jesus went about all the and glorified God, which had given such power unto men. villages, teaching in their synagogues, and preaching the gospel of the kingdom, and healing every sickness and {9:9} And as Jesus passed forth from thence,every he disease saw a among the people. man, named Matthew, sitting at the receipt of custom: and he saith unto him, Follow me. And he arose, and {9:36}followed But when he saw the multitudes, he was moved him. with on them, because they fainted, and were scattered abroad, as sheep having no . {9:37} Then {9:10} And it came to pass, as Jesus sat atsaith meat he untoin the his disciples, The harvest truly [is] plenteous, house, behold, many publicans and sinnersbut thecame labourers and sat [are] few; {9:38} Pray ye therefore the down with him and his disciples. {9:11}Lord of Andthe harvest, when that thehe will send forth labourers into his Pharisees saw [it,] they said unto his disciples, Whyharvest. eateth your Master with publicans and sinners? {9:12} But when Jesus heard [that,] he said unto them, They that{10:1} be wholeAnd when he had called unto [him] his twelve need not a physician, but they that are sick. {9:13}disciples, But go he gave them power [against] unclean spirits, to ye and learn what [that] meaneth, I will have mercy, and notcast them out, and to heal all manner of sickness and all sacrifice: for I am not come to call the righteous, but sinnersmanner of disease. {10:2} Now the names of the twelve to repentance. apostles are these; The first, Simon, who is called Peter, and Andrew his brother; James [the son] of Zebedee, and John {9:14} Then came to him the disciples ofhis John, brother; saying, {10:3} Philip, and Bartholomew; Thomas, and Why do we and the Pharisees fast oft, but thy disciplesMatthew fast the ; James [the son] of , and not? {9:15} And Jesus said unto them, Can the childrenLebbaeus, of whose surname was Thaddaeus; {10:4} Simon the bridechamber mourn, as long as the bridegroomthe is withCanaanite, and , who also betrayed him. them? but the days will come, when the bridegroom shall be{10:5} These twelve Jesus sent forth, and commanded taken from them, and then shall they fast. {9:16}them, No saying, man Go not into the way of the Gentiles, and into putteth a piece of new cloth unto an old garment,[any] forcity that of the enter ye not: {10:6} But go which is put in to fill it up taketh from the garment, andrather the to the lost sheep of the house of Israel. {10:7} And as rent is made worse. {9:17} Neither do men putye go,new preach,wine saying, The kingdom of heaven is at hand. into old bottles: else the bottles break, and the wine runneth{10:8} Heal the sick, cleanse the lepers, raise the dead, cast out, and the bottles perish: but they put new wine intoout new devils: freely ye have received, freely give. {10:9} bottles, and both are preserved. Provide neither gold, nor silver, nor brass in your purses, {10:10} Nor scrip for [your] journey, neither two coats, {9:18} While he spake these things untoneither them, , behold, nor yet staves: for the workman is worthy of there came a certain ruler, and worshipped him, saying,his My meat. {10:11} And into whatsoever city or town ye shall Matthew Page 6 enter, enquire who in it is worthy; and there abide till ye{11:1} go And it came to pass, when Jesus had made an end thence. {10:12} And when ye come into an house, saluteof it.commanding his twelve disciples, he departed thence to {10:13} And if the house be worthy, let yourteach peace and come to preach in their cities. {11:2} Now when John upon it: but if it be not worthy, let your peace return to you.had heard in the prison the works of Christ, he sent two of {10:14} And whosoever shall not receivehis disciples, you, nor{11:3} hear And said unto him, Art thou he that your words, when ye depart out of that house or city, shouldshake come, or do we look for another? {11:4} Jesus off the dust of your feet. {10:15} Verily I say untoanswered you, It and said unto them, Go and shew John again shall be more tolerable for the land of Sodom and Gomorrhathose things which ye do hear and see: {11:5} The blind in the day of judgment, than for that city. receive their sight, and the lame walk, the lepers are cleansed, and the deaf hear, the dead are raised up, and the {10:16} Behold, I send you forth as sheep in the midstpoor of have the gospel preached to them. {11:6} And blessed : be ye therefore wise as serpents, andis [he,] harmless whosoever as shall not be offended in me. doves. {10:17} But beware of men: for they will deliver you up to the councils, and they will {11:7}scourge And asyou they departed,in their Jesus began to say unto the synagogues; {10:18} And ye multitudesshall be concerning brought John,before What went ye out into the governors and kings for my sake, for a testimonywilderness toagainst see? A reed shaken with the wind? {11:8} But them and the Gentiles. {10:19} But when they deliverwhat went you ye out for to see? A man clothed in soft raiment? up, take no thought how or what ye shall speak: for behold,it shall they that wear soft [clothing] are in kings' houses. be given you in that same hour what ye shall speak. {10:20}{11:9} But what went ye out for to see? A prophet? yea, I For it is not ye that speak, but the Spiritsay untoof your you, andFather more than a prophet. {11:10} For this is which speaketh in you. {10:21} [he,]And of thewhom brother it is written, shall Behold, I send my messenger deliver up the brother to death, and the father the child:before and thy face, which shall prepare thy way before thee. the children shall rise up against [their] parents,{11:11} and Verilycause I say unto you, Among them that are born of them to be put to death. {10:22} And ye shall be hated of allwomen there hath not risen a greater than John the Baptist: [men] for my name's sake: but he that endureth tonotwithstanding the end he that is least in the kingdom of heaven is shall be saved. {10:23} But when they persecute you in greaterthis than he. {11:12} And from the days of John the city, flee ye into another: for verily I say unto you, Ye Baptistshall until now the kingdom of heaven suffereth violence, not have gone over the cities of Israel, till the Son of man beand the violent take it by force. {11:13} For all the prophets come. {10:24} The is not above [his]and master, the law nor prophesied until John. {11:14} And if ye will the servant above his lord. {10:25} Itreceive is enough [it,] this for is the Elias, which was for to come. {11:15} disciple that he be as his master, and the servant as his lord.He that hath ears to hear, let him hear. If they have called the master of the house , how much more [shall they call] them of his household? {10:26}{11:16} But whereunto shall I liken this generation? It is Fear them not therefore: for there is nothinglike covered, unto thatchildren sitting in the markets, and calling unto shall not be revealed; and hid, that shalltheir fellows, not {11:17}be known. And saying, We have piped unto you, {10:27} What I tell you in darkness, [that] speak ye in light:and ye have not danced; we have mourned unto you, and ye and what ye hear in the ear, [that] havepreach not lamented.ye upon {11:18}the For John came neither eating housetops. {10:28} And fear not them which kill thenor body, drinking, and they say, He hath a devil. {11:19} The but are not able to kill the : but rather fear him whichSon is of man came eating and drinking, and they say, Behold able to destroy both soul and body in hell. {10:29} Area man not gluttonous, and a winebibber, a friend of publicans two sparrows sold for a farthing? and one of them shalland not sinners. But wisdom is justified of her children. fall on the ground without your Father. {10:30} But the very hairs of your head are all numbered. {10:31}{11:20} Fear yeThen began he to upbraid the cities wherein most not therefore, ye are of more value thanof manyhis mighty sparrows. works were done, because they repented not: {10:32} Whosoever therefore shall confess me before{11:21} men, Woe unto thee, Chorazin! woe unto thee, him will I confess also before my Father which is in heaven.! for if the mighty works, which were done in you, {10:33} But whosoever shall deny me before men, him hadwill been done in Tyre and , they would have repented I also deny before my Father which is in heaven.long {10:34} ago in sackcloth and ashes. {11:22} But I say unto Think not that I am come to send peace on earth: I came notyou, It shall be more tolerable for Tyre and Sidon at the day to send peace, but a sword. {10:35} For I am come toof set judgment, a than for you. {11:23} And thou, Capernaum, man at variance against his father, and the daughterwhich against art exalted unto heaven, shalt be brought down to her mother, and the daughter in law against herhell: mother for if the in mighty works, which have been done in thee, law. {10:36} And a man's foes [shall be] theyhad of beenhis owndone in Sodom, it would have remained until this household. {10:37} He that loveth father day.or mother {11:24} more But I say unto you, That it shall be more than me is not worthy of me: and he thattolerable loveth for the son land ofor Sodom in the day of judgment, than daughter more than me is not worthy of me. {10:38}for thee. And he that taketh not his cross, and followeth after me, is not worthy of me. {10:39} He that findeth his life shall lose{11:25} it: At that time Jesus answered and said, I thank and he that loseth his life for my sake shall find it. thee, O Father, Lord of heaven and earth, because thou hast hid these things from the wise and prudent, and hast {10:40} He that receiveth you receiveth me,revealed and he them that unto babes. {11:26} Even so, Father: for so it receiveth me receiveth him that sent me. {10:41}seemed goodHe that in thy sight. {11:27} All things are delivered receiveth a prophet in the name of a prophet shall receiveunto me a of my Father: and no man knoweth the Son, but the prophet's reward; and he that receiveth a righteousFather; man neither in knoweth any man the Father, save the Son, the name of a righteous man shall receive a righteous man'sand [he] to whomsoever the Son will reveal [him. reward. {10:42} And whosoever shall give to drink unto one of these little ones a of cold [water]]{11:28} only Come in untothe me, all [ye] that labour and are heavy name of a disciple, verily I say unto you, he shall in no wiseladen, and I will give you rest. {11:29} Take my yoke upon lose his reward. you, and learn of me; for I am meek and lowly in heart: and Page 7 Matthew ye shall find rest unto your souls. {11:30} For my yokegathereth [is] not with me scattereth abroad. easy, and my burden is light. {12:31} Wherefore I say unto you, All manner of sin and {12:1} At that time Jesus went on the sabbath day throughblasphemy shall be forgiven unto men: but the blasphemy the corn; and his disciples were an hungred, [against]and began the to [Holy] Ghost shall not be forgiven unto men. pluck the ears of corn, and to eat. {12:2}{12:32} But And when whosoever the speaketh a word against the Son of Pharisees saw [it,] they said unto him, Behold, thy disciplesman, it shall be forgiven him: but whosoever speaketh do that which is not lawful to do upon againstthe sabbath the Holy Ghost,day. it shall not be forgiven him, neither {12:3} But he said unto them, Have ye not read what Davidin this world, neither in the [world] to come. {12:33} Either did, when he was an hungred, and they that were withmake him; the tree good, and his fruit good; or else make the tree {12:4} How he entered into the house of God, andcorrupt, did eatand his fruit corrupt: for the tree is known by [his] the shewbread, which was not lawful for him to eat, neitherfruit. {12:34} O generation of vipers, how can ye, being for them which were with him, but onlyevil, for speakthe priests? good things? for out of the abundance of the {12:5} Or have ye not read in the law, hearthow thethat mouth on thespeaketh. {12:35} A good man out of the sabbath days the priests in the temple profane thegood sabbath, treasure of the heart bringeth forth good things: and an and are blameless? {12:6} But I say unto you, Thatevil in man this out of the evil treasure bringeth forth evil things. place is [one] greater than the temple. {12:7} But if{12:36} ye had But I say unto you, That every idle word that men known what [this] meaneth, I will haveshall mercy,speak, theyand shallnot give account thereof in the day of sacrifice, ye would not have judgment.condemned {12:37} Forthe by thyguiltless. words thou shalt be justified, {12:8} For the Son of man is Lord even of the sabbath andday. by thy words thou shalt be condemned. {12:9} And when he was departed thence, he went into their : {12:38} Then certain of the scribes and of the Pharisees answered, saying, Master, we would see a sign from thee. {12:10} And, behold, there was a man which{12:39} had But [his] he answered and said unto them, An evil and hand withered. And they asked him, saying, Is itadulterous lawful generationto seeketh after a sign; and there shall no heal on the sabbath days? that theysign might be given accuse to him.it, but the sign of the prophet Jonas: {12:11} And he said unto them, What man shall{12:40} there For asbe Jonas was three days and three nights in the among you, that shall have one sheep, and if it fall into a pitwhale's belly; so shall the Son of man be three days and on the sabbath day, will he not lay hold on it,three and liftnights [it] in the heart of the earth. {12:41} The men of out? {12:12} How much then is a man better than a sheep? shall rise in judgment with this generation, and Wherefore it is lawful to do well onshall thecondemn sabbath it: because days. they repented at the preaching of {12:13} Then saith he to the man, Stretch forth thineJonas; hand. and, behold, a greater than Jonas [is] here. {12:42} And he stretched [it] forth; and it was restored Thewhole, queen like of the south shall rise up in the judgment with as the other. this generation, and shall condemn it: for she came from the uttermost parts of the earth to hear the wisdom of Solomon; {12:14} Then the Pharisees went out, and heldand, a council behold, a greater than Solomon [is] here. {12:43} against him, how they might destroyWhen him. the unclean {12:15} spirit But is gone out of a man, he walketh when Jesus knew [it,] he withdrew himself from thence: andthrough dry places, seeking rest, and findeth none. {12:44} great multitudes followed him, andThen he hehealed saith, I themwill return all; into my house from whence I {12:16} And charged them that they should notcame make himout; and when he is come, he findeth [it] empty, known: {12:17} That it might be fulfilled which was spokenswept, and garnished. {12:45} Then goeth he, and taketh by Esaias the prophet, saying, {12:18} Behold mywith servant, himself seven other spirits more wicked than himself, whom I have chosen; my beloved, in whom my soul is welland they enter in and dwell there: and the last [state] of that pleased: I will put my spirit upon him, and manhe shallis worse shew than the first. Even so shall it be also unto this judgment to the Gentiles. {12:19} He shall notwicked strive, generation. nor cry; neither shall any man hear his voice in the streets. {12:20} A bruised reed shall he not break, and smoking flax {12:46} While he yet talked to the people, behold, [his] shall he not quench, till he send forth judgment unto .mother and his brethren stood without, desiring to speak {12:21} And in his name shall the Gentiles trust. with him. {12:47} Then one said unto him, Behold, thy mother and thy brethren stand without, desiring to speak {12:22} Then was brought unto him one possessed withwith a thee. {12:48} But he answered and said unto him that devil, blind, and dumb: and he healed him, insomuchtold him, that Who is my mother? and who are my brethren? the blind and dumb both spake and saw. {12:23}{12:49} And all And he stretched forth his hand toward his the people were amazed, and said, Is notdisciples, this the sonand ofsaid, Behold my mother and my brethren! David? {12:24} But when the Pharisees{12:50} heard For [it,] whosoever they shall do the will of my Father said, This [fellow] doth notwhich cast is in heaven,out thedevils, same is my brother,but byand sister, and Beelzebub the prince of the devils. {12:25} And Jesus knewmother. their thoughts, and said unto them, Every kingdom divided against itself is brought to desolation;{13:1} and The every same daycity went or Jesus out of the house, and sat house divided against itself shall not stand: {12:26}by Andthe sea if side. {13:2} And great multitudes were gathered Satan cast out Satan, he is divided againsttogether himself;unto him, sohow that he went into a ship, and sat; and shall then his kingdom stand?the whole{12:27} multitude And stoodif bythe shore. {13:3} And he Beelzebub cast out devils, by whom do your childrenspake many cast things unto them in , saying, Behold, a [them] out? therefore they shall be your judges. {12:28} Butsower went forth to sow; {13:4} And when he sowed, some if I cast out devils by the Spirit of God, then the kingdom of[seeds] fell by the way side, and the fowls came and God is come unto you. {12:29} Or else how can onedevoured enter them up: {13:5} Some fell upon stony places, into a strong man's house, and spoil his goods,where except they hadhe not much earth: and forthwith they sprung first bind the strong man? and then he will spoil hisup, house. because they had no deepness of earth: {13:6} And {12:30} He that is not with me is against me;when and thehe sunthat was up, they were scorched; and because they Matthew Page 8 had no root, they withered away. {13:7}{13:33} And some Another fell spake he unto them; The among thorns; and the thorns sprung up, and chokedkingdom them: of heaven is like unto leaven, which a woman {13:8} But other fell into good ground, and took,brought and hidforth in three measures of meal, till the whole was fruit, some an hundredfold, some sixtyfold, some thirtyfold.leavened. {13:34} All these things spake Jesus unto the {13:9} Who hath ears to hear, let him hear. {13:10} And themultitude in parables; and without a parable spake he not disciples came, and said unto him, Why speakest thouunto unto them: {13:35} That it might be fulfilled which was them in parables? {13:11} He answered and said unto them,spoken by the prophet, saying, I will open my mouth in Because it is given unto you to know the mysteriesparables; of the I will utter things which have been kept secret kingdom of heaven, but to them it is not given. {13:12} fromFor the foundation of the world. {13:36} Then Jesus sent whosoever hath, to him shall be given, andthe he shallmultitude have away, and went into the house: and his more abundance: but whosoever hath not, from him shall disciplesbe came unto him, saying, Declare unto us the taken away even that he hath. {13:13} Therefore speakparable I to of the tares of the field. {13:37} He answered and them in parables: because they seeing see not; andsaid hearing unto them, He that soweth the good seed is the Son of they hear not, neither do they understand. {13:14}man; {13:38} And in The field is the world; the good seed are the them is fulfilled the prophecy of Esaias,children which of thesaith, kingdom; By but the tares are the children of the hearing ye shall hear, and shall not understand; wickedand seeing [one; ]{13:39} The enemy that sowed them is the ye shall see, and shall not perceive:devil; the harvest {13:15} is the end of Forthe world; this and the reapers are people's heart is waxed gross, and [their] earsthe angels. are dull {13:40} of As therefore the tares are gathered and hearing, and their eyes they have closed; lestburned at inany the time fire; so shall it be in the end of this world. they should see with [their] eyes, and hear with [their]{13:41} ears, The Son of man shall send forth his angels, and and should understand with [their] theyheart, shall and gather should out of hisbe kingdom all things that offend, converted, and I should heal them. {13:16}and them whichBut blessed do iniquity; {13:42} And shall cast them [are] your eyes, for they see: and your ears, forinto they a furnace hear. of fire: there shall be wailing and gnashing of {13:17} For verily I say unto you, That many prophetsteeth. and {13:43} Then shall the righteous shine forth as the righteous [men] have desired to see [those things] whichsun yein the kingdom of their Father. Who hath ears to hear, see, and have not seen [them;] and to hearlet [those him hear. things] which ye hear, and have not heard [them. {13:44} Again, the kingdom of heaven is like unto ]{13:18} Hear ye therefore the parabletreasure hid inof a field; the the whichsower. when a man hath found, he {13:19} When any one heareth the word of hideth,the kingdom, and for joy thereof goeth and selleth all that he hath, and understandeth [it] not, then cometh theand wicked buyeth that [one,] field. and catcheth away that which was sown in his heart. This is he which received seed by the way side. {13:20} But he that {13:45} Again, the kingdom of heaven is like unto a received the seed into stony places, merchantthe same man, is seekinghe that goodly pearls: {13:46} Who, when heareth the word, and anon with joy receivethhe had it; found {13:21} one pearl of great price, went and sold all that Yet hath he not root in himself, but dureth for a hewhile: had, andfor bought it. when tribulation or persecution ariseth because of the word, by and by he is offended. {13:22} He also{13:47} that Again,received the kingdom of heaven is like unto a net, seed among the thorns is he that heareth the word;that and thewas cast into the sea, and gathered of every kind: care of this world, and the deceitfulness of riches, choke {13:48}the Which, when it was full, they drew to shore, and word, and he becometh unfruitful.sat {13:23} down, and But gathered he thatthe good into vessels, but cast the received seed into the good ground is he thatbad away. heareth {13:49} the So shall it be at the end of the world: the word, and understandeth [it;] which also bearethangels fruit, shall and come forth, and sever the wicked from among bringeth forth, some an hundredfold,the just, some {13:50} sixty, And shallsome cast them into the furnace of thirty. fire: there shall be wailing and gnashing of teeth. {13:51} Jesus saith unto them, Have ye understood all these things? {13:24} Another parable put he forth unto them,They saying,say unto him, Yea, Lord. {13:52} Then said he unto The kingdom of heaven is likened unto a man which sowedthem, Therefore every scribe [which is] instructed unto the good seed in his field: {13:25} But whilekingdom men slept, of his heaven is like unto a man [that is] an enemy came and sowed tares among the wheat,householder, and went which bringeth forth out of his treasure his way. {13:26} But when the blade was sprung[things] up, and new and old. brought forth fruit, then appeared the tares also. {13:27} So the servants of the householder came and said unto him, Sir,{13:53} And it came to pass, [that] when Jesus had didst not thou sow good seed in thy field? from whence thenfinished these parables, he departed thence. {13:54} And hath it tares? {13:28} He said unto them, Anwhen enemy he was hath come into his own country, he taught them in done this. The servants said unto him, Wilt thoutheir then synagogue, that insomuch that they were astonished, and we go and gather them up? {13:29} But he said,said, Nay; lest Whence hath this [man] this wisdom, and [these] while ye gather up the tares, ye root up also the wheatmighty with works? {13:55} Is not this the carpenter's son? is them. {13:30} Let both grow together until the harvest:not and his mother called Mary? and his brethren, James, and in the time of harvest I will say to the reapers,, Gather and Simon, ye and Judas? {13:56} And his sisters, are together first the tares, and bind them in theybundles not all to with burn us? Whence then hath this [man] all these them: but gather the wheat into my barn. things? {13:57} And they were offended in him. But Jesus said unto them, A prophet is not without honour, save in his {13:31} Another parable put he forth unto them,own country, saying, and in his own house. {13:58} And he did not The kingdom of heaven is like to a grain of mustardmany mighty seed, works there because of their unbelief. which a man took, and sowed in his field: {13:32} Which indeed is the least of all seeds: but when it is grown, it is the {14:1} At that time Herod the tetrarch heard of the fame greatest among herbs, and becometh a tree, so that the birdsof Jesus, {14:2} And said unto his servants, This is John the of the air come and lodge in the branches thereof. Baptist; he is risen from the dead; and therefore mighty Page 9 Matthew works do shew forth themselves in him. {14:34} And when they were gone over, they came into the land of Gennesaret. {14:35} And when the men of that {14:3} For Herod had laid hold on John, and boundplace him, had knowledge of him, they sent out into all that and put [him] in prison for 'country sake, round his about, brother and brought unto him all that were Philip's wife. {14:4} For John said unto him, It is not lawfuldiseased; {14:36} And besought him that they might only for thee to have her. {14:5} And when he wouldtouch have the puthem of his garment: and as many as touched were him to death, he feared the multitude, because they countedmade perfectly whole. him as a prophet. {14:6} But when Herod's birthday was kept, the daughter of Herodias danced{15:1} before Then them, came toand Jesus scribes and Pharisees, which pleased Herod. {14:7} Whereupon hewere promised of Jerusalem, with ansaying, {15:2} Why do thy disciples to give her whatsoever she would ask. {14:8} And she,transgress the tradition of the elders? for they wash not their being before instructed of her mother, said,hands Give mewhen here they eat bread. {15:3} But he answered and John Baptist's head in a charger. {14:9} And thesaid king was unto them, Why do ye also transgress the sorry: nevertheless for the oath's sake, and themcommandment which sat of God by your tradition? {15:4} For God with him at meat, he commanded [it]commanded, to be saying,given Honour [her. thy father and mother: and, He ]{14:10} And he sent, and beheaded Johnthat cursethin the father prison. or mother, let him die the death. {15:5} {14:11} And his head was brought in a charger, andBut givenye say, Whosoever shall say to [his] father or [his] to the damsel: and she brought [it] to her mother.mother, {14:12} [It is] a gift, by whatsoever thou mightest be And his disciples came, and took up the body, and buried profitedit, by me; {15:6} And honour not his father or his and went and told Jesus. mother, [he shall be free.] Thus have ye made the commandment of God of none effect by your tradition. {14:13} When Jesus heard [of it,] he departed{15:7} thence [Ye]by hypocrites, well did Esaias prophesy of you, ship into a desert place apart: and whensaying, the {15:8} people This people had draweth nigh unto me with their heard [thereof,] they followed him on foot out of themouth, cities. and honoureth me with [their] lips; but their heart is {14:14} And Jesus went forth, and saw a greatfar multitude,from me. {15:9} But in vain they do worship me, and was moved with compassion towardteaching them, [for] doctrinesand he the commandments of men. healed their sick. {15:10} And he called the multitude, and said unto them, {14:15} And when it was evening, his disciplesHear, came and to understand: {15:11} Not that which goeth into him, saying, This is a desert place, and the time is now past;the mouth defileth a man; but that which cometh out of the send the multitude away, that they may go into the villages,mouth, this defileth a man. {15:12} Then came his and buy themselves victuals. {14:16} But disciples,Jesus said unto and said unto him, Knowest thou that the them, They need not depart; give ye them toPharisees eat. {14:17} were offended, after they heard this saying? And they say unto him, We have here but five loaves,{15:13} and But he answered and said, Every plant, which my two fishes. {14:18} He said, Bringheavenly them hither Father to me.hath not planted, shall be rooted up. {14:19} And he commanded the multitude to {15:14}sit down Let on them alone: they be blind leaders of the blind. the grass, and took the five loaves, and the two fishes,And if theand blind lead the blind, both shall fall into the ditch. looking up to heaven, he blessed, and brake, and{15:15} gave theThen answered Peter and said unto him, Declare loaves to [his] disciples, and the disciples to theunto multitude. us this parable. {15:16} And Jesus said, Are ye also {14:20} And they did all eat, and were filled: and they yettook without understanding? {15:17} Do not ye yet up of the fragments that remainedunderstand, twelve that baskets whatsoever full. entereth in at the mouth goeth {14:21} And they that had eaten were about fiveinto thousand the belly, and is cast out into the draught? {15:18} But men, beside women and children. those things which proceed out of the mouth come forth from the heart; and they defile the man. {15:19} For out of {14:22} And straightway Jesus constrainedthe his disciplesheart proceed evil thoughts, murders, adulteries, to get into a ship, and to go before him unto the otherfornications, side, thefts, false witness, blasphemies: {15:20} while he sent the multitudes away. {14:23} TheseAnd whenare [the he things] which defile a man: but to eat with had sent the multitudes away, he went up intounwashen a mountain hands defileth not a man. apart to pray: and when the evening was come, he was there alone. {14:24} But the ship was now in the midst of the sea, {15:21} Then Jesus went thence, and departed into the tossed with waves: for the wind was contrary. {14:25}coasts And of Tyre and Sidon. {15:22} And, behold, a woman of in the fourth watch of the night JesusCanaan went came unto out ofthem, the same coasts, and cried unto him, walking on the sea. {14:26} And when thesaying, disciples Have sawmercy on me, O Lord, [thou] Son of David; him walking on the sea, they were troubled, saying,my daughter It is a is grievously vexed with a devil. {15:23} But spirit; and they cried out for fear. {14:27} But hestraightway answered her not a word. And his disciples came and Jesus spake unto them, saying, Be of good cheer; it besoughtis I; be him, saying, Send her away; for she crieth after us. not afraid. {14:28} And Peter answered him and said, Lord,{15:24} But he answered and said, I am not sent but unto if it be thou, bid me come unto thee on the water.the {14:29} lost sheep of the house of Israel. {15:25} Then came she And he said, Come. And when Peter was come down outand of worshipped him, saying, Lord, help me. {15:26} But he the ship, he walked on the water, to go to answeredJesus. {14:30} and said, It is not meet to take the children's But when he saw the wind boisterous, he wasbread, afraid; and to and cast [it] to dogs. {15:27} And she said, Truth, beginning to sink, he cried, saying, Lord, save me. {14:31}Lord: yet the dogs eat of the crumbs which fall from their And immediately Jesus stretchedmasters' forth table. [his] {15:28} hand,Then Jesus and answered and said unto caught him, and said unto him, her,O thouO woman, of greatlittle [is] faith,thy faith: be it unto thee even as wherefore didst thou doubt? {14:32} And whenthou they wilt. were And her daughter was made whole from that very come into the ship, the wind ceased. {14:33} Then they thathour. {15:29} And Jesus departed from thence, and came were in the ship came and worshipped him,nigh saying, unto the Of sea a of Galilee; and went up into a mountain, truth thou art the Son of God. and sat down there. {15:30} And great multitudes came unto him, having with them [those that were] lame, blind, Matthew Page 10 dumb, maimed, and many others, and castwhatsoever them down atthou shalt bind on earth shall be bound in Jesus' feet; and he healed them: {15:31} Insomuch heaven:that the and whatsoever thou shalt loose on earth shall be multitude wondered, when they saw the dumb to speak,loosed the in heaven. {16:20} Then charged he his disciples maimed to be whole, the lame to walk, and the blind to see:that they should tell no man that he was Jesus the Christ. and they glorified the God of Israel. {16:21} From that time forth began Jesus to shew unto his {15:32} Then Jesus called his disciples [untodisciples, him,] how and that he must go unto Jerusalem, and suffer said, I have compassion on the multitude,many things becauseof the elders they and chief priests and scribes, and continue with me now three days, and have nothingbe tokilled, eat: and be raised again the third day. {16:22} Then and I will not send them away fasting, lest they faintPeter in the took him, and began to rebuke him, saying, Be it far way. {15:33} And his disciples sayfrom untothee, Lord: him, this shallWhence not be unto thee. {16:23} But he should we have so much bread in the wilderness,turned, as to and fill said unto Peter, Get thee behind me, Satan: thou so great a multitude? {15:34} And Jesus saithart an untooffence them, unto me: for thou savourest not the things that How many loaves have ye? And they said, Seven, and a fewbe of God, but those that be of men. little fishes. {15:35} And he commanded the multitude to sit down on the ground. {15:36} And he {16:24}took the Then seven said Jesus unto his disciples, If any [man] loaves and the fishes, and gave thanks, andwill brake come [them,] after me, let him deny himself, and take up his and gave to his disciples, and the disciples to the multitude.cross, and follow me. {16:25} For whosoever will save his {15:37} And they did all eat, and were filled: and they lifetook shall lose it: and whosoever will lose his life for my up of the broken [meat] that was left sevensake shall baskets find it. full.{16:26} For what is a man profited, if he {15:38} And they that did eat were fourshall gainthousand the whole men, world, and lose his own soul? or what beside women and children. {15:39} And he sent awayshall thea man give in exchange for his soul? {16:27} For the multitude, and took ship, and cameSon of intoman shall the come coasts in the ofglory of his Father with his , angels; and then he shall reward every man according to his works. {16:28} Verily I say unto you, There be some {16:1} The Pharisees also with the Sadducees standingcame, andhere, which shall not taste of death, till they see the tempting desired him that he would shew them a signSon from of man coming in his kingdom. heaven. {16:2} He answered and said unto them, When it is evening, ye say, [It will be] fair weather: for the sky is{17:1} . And after six days Jesus taketh Peter, James, and {16:3} And in the morning, [It will be] foul weather to day:John his brother, and bringeth them up into an high for the sky is red and lowring. O [ye] hypocrites,mountain apart,ye can {17:2} And was transfigured before them: discern the face of the sky; but can ye not [discern] the signsand his face did shine as the sun, and his raiment was white of the times? {16:4} A wicked and adulterousas the generationlight. {17:3} And, behold, there appeared unto them seeketh after a sign; and there shall no sign be given unto Mosesit, and Elias talking with him. {17:4} Then answered but the sign of the prophet Jonas. And hePeter, left and them, said unto and Jesus, Lord, it is good for us to be here: departed. {16:5} And when his disciples were comeif thou to wilt, the let us make here three ; one for thee, other side, they had forgotten to take bread. and one for Moses, and one for Elias. {17:5} While he yet spake, behold, a bright cloud overshadowed them: and {16:6} Then Jesus said unto them, Take heed and bewarebehold a voice out of the cloud, which said, This is my of the leaven of the Pharisees and of the Sadducees. {16:7}beloved Son, in whom I am well pleased; hear ye him. And they reasoned among themselves,{17:6} And when thesaying, disciples heard [It [it,] is]they fell on their because we have taken no bread. {16:8}face, and[Which] were whensore afraid. {17:7} And Jesus came and Jesus perceived, he said unto them, O ye of little faith,touched why them, and said, Arise, and be not afraid. {17:8} reason ye among yourselves, because ye haveAnd broughtwhen they no had lifted up their eyes, they saw no man, bread? {16:9} Do ye not yet understand, neither saveremember Jesus only. {17:9} And as they came down from the the five loaves of the five thousand, and how many basketsmountain, Jesus charged them, saying, Tell the vision to no ye took up? {16:10} Neither the seven loavesman, of untilthe four the Son of man be risen again from the dead. thousand, and how many baskets ye took up? {16:11}{17:10} How And his disciples asked him, saying, Why then say is it that ye do not understand that I spake [it]the notscribes to you that Elias must first come? {17:11} And Jesus concerning bread, that ye should beware of the leaven of theanswered and said unto them, Elias truly shall first come, Pharisees and of the Sadducees? {16:12} Thenand understood restore all things. {17:12} But I say unto you, That they how that he bade [them] not beware of theElias leaven is ofcome already, and they knew him not, but have bread, but of the doctrine of thedone Pharisees unto him whatsoeverand of thethey listed. Likewise shall also Sadducees. the Son of man suffer of them. {17:13} Then the disciples understood that he spake unto them of John the Baptist. {16:13} When Jesus came into the coasts of , he asked his disciples, saying, Whom do {17:14}men say And when they were come to the multitude, there that I the Son of man am? {16:14} And theycame said, to himSome a [certain] man, down to him, and [say that thou art] John the Baptist: some, Elias; and others,saying, {17:15} Lord, have mercy on my son: for he is Jeremias, or one of the prophets. {16:15}lunatick, Heand soresaith vexed: unto for ofttimes he falleth into the fire, them, But whom say ye that I am? {16:16}and oft And into Simon the water. {17:16} And I brought him to thy Peter answered and said, Thou art the Christ, the Son ofdisciples, the and they could not cure him. {17:17} Then Jesus living God. {16:17} And Jesus answered and said unto him,answered and said, O faithless and perverse generation, how Blessed art thou, Simon Barjona: for flesh andlong blood shall Ihath be with you? how long shall I suffer you? bring not revealed [it] unto thee, but myhim hitherFather to me. which{17:18} Andis Jesusin rebuked the devil; and heaven. {16:18} And I say also unto thee,he departed That thou out ofart him: and the child was cured from that Peter, and upon this rock I will build my church;very hour. and {17:19}the Then came the disciples to Jesus apart, gates of hell shall not prevail against it. {16:19} Andand I will said, Why could not we cast him out? {17:20} And give unto thee the keys of the kingdomJesus ofsaid heaven:unto them, andBecause of your unbelief: for verily I Page 11 Matthew say unto you, If ye have faith as a grain of mustard seed,publican. ye {18:18} Verily I say unto you, Whatsoever ye shall say unto this mountain, Removeshall hence bind to onyonder earth shall be bound in heaven: and place; and it shall remove; and nothing shall be impossiblewhatsoever ye shall loose on earth shall be loosed in unto you. {17:21} Howbeit this kind goeth notheaven. out but {18:19} by Again I say unto you, That if two of you prayer and fasting. shall agree on earth as touching any thing that they shall ask, it shall be done for them of my Father which is in {17:22} And while they abode in Galilee, Jesus saidheaven. unto {18:20} For where two or three are gathered them, The Son of man shall be betrayed into thetogether hands of in my name, there am I in the midst of them. men: {17:23} And they shall kill him, and the third day he shall be raised again. And they were exceeding sorry.{18:21} Then came Peter to him, and said, Lord, how oft shall my brother sin against me, and I forgive him? till {17:24} And when they were come to Capernaum,seven times? they {18:22} Jesus saith unto him, I say not unto that received tribute [money] came to Peter, and said,thee, Doth Until seven times: but, Until seventy times seven. not your master pay tribute? {17:25} He saith, Yes. And when he was come into the house, Jesus{18:23} prevented Therefore him, is the kingdom of heaven likened unto saying, What thinkest thou, Simon? of whom doa thecertain kings king, which would take account of his servants. of the earth take custom or tribute? of their own children,{18:24} or And when he had begun to reckon, one was of strangers? {17:26} Peter saith unto broughthim, Of untostrangers. him, which owed him ten thousand talents. Jesus saith unto him, Then are the children{18:25} free. {17:27} But forasmuch as he had not to pay, his lord Notwithstanding, lest we should offend them, go thou to commandedthe him to be sold, and his wife, and children, and sea, and cast an hook, and take up the fish that first comethall that he had, and payment to be made. {18:26} The up; and when thou hast opened his mouth, thou shalt servantfind a therefore fell down, and worshipped him, saying, piece of money: that take, and give unto themLord, for me andhave with me, and I will pay thee all. thee. {18:27} Then the lord of that servant was moved with compassion, and loosed him, and forgave him the debt. {18:1} At the same time came the disciples{18:28} unto ButJesus, the same servant went out, and found one of saying, Who is the greatest in the hiskingdom fellowservants, of heaven? which owed him an hundred pence: and {18:2} And Jesus called a little child unto him, and sethe himlaid hands on him, and took [him] by the throat, saying, in the midst of them, {18:3} And said, VerilyPay me I thatsay thouunto owest. {18:29} And his fellowservant fell you, Except ye be converted, and become as little children,down at his feet, and besought him, saying, Have patience ye shall not enter into the kingdomwith me,of and heaven. I will pay thee {18:4} all. {18:30} And he would not: Whosoever therefore shall humblebut himself went and ascast this him intolittle prison, till he should pay the child, the same is greatest in the kingdom of heaven. {18:5}debt. {18:31} So when his fellowservants saw what was And whoso shall receive one such little childdone, in my they name were very sorry, and came and told unto their receiveth me. {18:6} But whoso shall offendlord one allof thatthese was done. {18:32} Then his lord, after that he little ones which believe in me, it were better for him thathad a called him, said unto him, O thou wicked servant, I millstone were hanged about his neck, and forgave[that] he werethee all that debt, because thou desiredst me: drowned in the depth of the sea. {18:33} Shouldest not thou also have had compassion on thy fellowservant, even as I had pity on thee? {18:34} And {18:7} Woe unto the world because of hisoffences! lord was wroth, for andit delivered him to the tormentors, till must needs be that offences come; but woe to thathe man should by pay all that was due unto him. {18:35} So whom the offence cometh! {18:8} Wherefore if thy handlikewise or shall my heavenly Father do also unto you, if ye thy foot offend thee, cut them off, and fromcast your[them] hearts from forgive not every one his brother their thee: it is better for thee to enter into life halttrespasses. or maimed, rather than having two hands or two feet to be cast into everlasting fire. {18:9} And if thine eye offend thee,{19:1} pluck And it came to pass, [that] when Jesus had it out, and cast [it] from thee: it is better forfinished thee to theseenter sayings, he departed from Galilee, and came into life with one eye, rather than having two eyes to be castinto the coasts of Judaea beyond Jordan; {19:2} And great into hell fire. {18:10} Take heed that ye despise notmultitudes one of followed him; and he healed them there. these little ones; for I say unto you, That in heaven their angels do always behold the face of my Father which{19:3} is in The Pharisees also came unto him, tempting him, heaven. {18:11} For the Son of man is comeand to sayingsave thatunto him, Is it lawful for a man to put away his which was lost. {18:12} How think ye? if a wifeman havefor everyan cause? {19:4} And he answered and said hundred sheep, and one of them be gone astray, doth heunto not them, Have ye not read, that he which made [them] at leave the ninety and nine, and goeth into the mountains, andthe beginning made them male and female, {19:5} And seeketh that which is gone astray? {18:13} And if so be thatsaid, For this cause shall a man leave father and mother, and he find it, verily I say unto you, he rejoiceth shallmore cleave of that to his wife: and they twain shall be one flesh? [sheep,] than of the ninety and nine which went not{19:6} astray. Wherefore they are no more twain, but one flesh. {18:14} Even so it is not the will of your Father which isWhat in therefore God hath joined together, let not man put heaven, that one of these little ones should perish. asunder. {19:7} They say unto him, Why did Moses then command to give a writing of divorcement, and to put her {18:15} Moreover if thy brother shallaway? trespass {19:8} He against saith unto them, Moses because of the thee, go and tell him his fault between thee and himhardness alone: of your hearts suffered you to put away your if he shall hear thee, thou hast gained thy brother.: {18:16} but from the beginning it was not so. {19:9} And I But if he will not hear [thee, then] take with thee one or twosay unto you, Whosoever shall put away his wife, except [it more, that in the mouth of two or threebe] witnesses for fornication, every and shall marry another, committeth word may be established. {18:17} And if he shall neglectadultery: to and whoso marrieth her which is put away doth hear them, tell [it] unto the church: but if he neglect tocommit hear adultery. the church, let him be unto thee as an heathen man and a Matthew Page 12 {19:10} His disciples say unto him, If the case of the manunto him, Because no man hath hired us. He saith unto be so with [his] wife, it is not good to marry. {19:11}them, Go But ye also into the vineyard; and whatsoever is right, he said unto them, All [men] cannot receive[that] shall this ye saying,receive. {20:8} So when even was come, the save [they] to whom it is given. {19:12} For there are somelord of the vineyard saith unto his steward, Call the eunuchs, which were so born from [their] mother'slabourers, womb: and give them [their] hire, beginning from the and there are some eunuchs, which were made lasteunuchs unto ofthe first. {20:9} And when they came that [were men: and there be eunuchs, which have madehired] themselves about the eleventh hour, they received every man a eunuchs for the kingdom of heaven's sake. He that is able topenny. {20:10} But when the first came, they supposed that receive [it,] let him receive [it. they should have received more; and they likewise received every man a penny. {20:11} And when they had received it, ]{19:13} Then were there brought unto him little children,they murmured against the goodman of the house, {20:12} that he should put [his] hands on them, and Saying,pray: and These the last have wrought [but] one hour, and thou disciples rebuked them. {19:14} But Jesus said, Suffer hastlittle made them equal unto us, which have borne the burden children, and forbid them not, to come unto me: for ofand such heat of the day. {20:13} But he answered one of them, is the kingdom of heaven. {19:15} And he laid [his]and hands said, Friend, I do thee no wrong: didst not thou agree on them, and departed thence. with me for a penny? {20:14} Take [that] thine [is,] and go thy way: I will give unto this last, even as unto thee. {19:16} And, behold, one came and said unto him,{20:15} Good Is it not lawful for me to do what I will with mine Master, what good thing shall I do, that I may haveown? eternal Is thine eye evil, because I am good? {20:16} So the life? {19:17} And he said unto him, Why callestlast shall thou be me first, and the first last: for many be called, but good? [there is] none good but one, [that is,]few chosen.God: but if thou wilt enter into life, keep the commandments. {19:18} He saith unto him, Which? Jesus said, Thou{20:17} shalt And doJesus no going up to Jerusalem took the twelve murder, Thou shalt not commit adultery,disciples Thou apartshalt innot the way, and said unto them, {20:18} steal, Thou shalt not bear false witness, {19:19} Honour Behold,thy we go up to Jerusalem; and the Son of man shall be father and [thy] mother: and, Thou shalt love thy neighbourbetrayed unto the chief priests and unto the scribes, and they as thyself. {19:20} The young man saith unto him, All theseshall condemn him to death, {20:19} And shall deliver him things have I kept from my youth up:to whatthe Gentileslack I yet? to mock, and to scourge, and to crucify {19:21} Jesus said unto him, If thou wilt[him:] be andperfect, the third go day he shall rise again. [and] sell that thou hast, and give to the poor, and thou shalt have treasure in heaven: and {20:20}come [and]Then camefollow to me.him the mother of Zebedee's {19:22} But when the young man heardchildren that withsaying, her hesons, worshipping [him,] and desiring a went away sorrowful: for he had great possessions.certain thing of him. {20:21} And he said unto her, What wilt thou? She saith unto him, Grant that these my two sons {19:23} Then said Jesus unto his disciples,may Verily sit, the I onesay on thy right hand, and the other on the left, unto you, That a rich man shallin hardlythy kingdom. enter {20:22} into But the Jesus answered and said, Ye kingdom of heaven. {19:24} And again I say unto you, knowIt is not what ye ask. Are ye able to drink of the cup that I easier for a camel to go through the , than forshall drink of, and to be baptized with the baptism that I am a rich man to enter into the kingdom of God. {19:25} Whenbaptized with? They say unto him, We are able. {20:23} his disciples heard [it,] they wereAnd heexceedingly saith unto them, amazed, Ye shall drink indeed of my cup, saying, Who then can be saved? {19:26} But Jesusand beheldbe baptized with the baptism that I am baptized with: [them,] and said unto them, With men this is impossible; butbut to sit on my right hand, and on my left, is not mine to with God all things are possible. give, but [it shall be given to them] for whom it is prepared of my Father. {20:24} And when the ten heard [it,] they {19:27} Then answered Peter and said unto him, wereBehold, moved with indignation against the two brethren. we have forsaken all, and followed thee; what shall we have{20:25} But Jesus called them [unto him,] and said, Ye therefore? {19:28} And Jesus said unto them, Verilyknow Ithat say the princes of the Gentiles exercise dominion unto you, That ye which haveover them,followed and they thatme, are greatin theexercise authority upon when the Son of man shall sit in the thronethem. of {20:26} But it shall not be so among you: but his glory, ye also shall sit upon twelve , judgingwhosoever the will be great among you, let him be your twelve tribes of Israel. {19:29} And everyminister; one {20:27} that Andhath whosoever will be chief among you, forsaken houses, or brethren, or sisters, or father, or mother,let him be your servant: {20:28} Even as the Son of man or wife, or children, or lands, for my name'scame not tosake, be ministered shall unto, but to minister, and to give receive an hundredfold, and shall inherithis life everlasting a ransom for life. many. {20:29} And as they departed {19:30} But many [that are] first shall be last; andfrom the Jericho, last a great multitude followed him. [shall be] first. {20:30} And, behold, two blind men sitting by the way {20:1} For the kingdom of heaven is like unto a man [thatside, when they heard that Jesus passed by, cried out, is] an householder, which went out early in the morningsaying, to Have mercy on us, O Lord, [thou] Son of David. hire labourers into his vineyard. {20:2} And {20:31}when he hadAnd the multitude rebuked them, because they agreed with the labourers for a penny a day, heshould sent themhold their peace: but they cried the more, saying, into his vineyard. {20:3} And he went out aboutHave the mercy third on us, O Lord, [thou] Son of David. {20:32} hour, and saw others standing idleAnd Jesusin thestood marketplace,still, and called them, and said, What will {20:4} And said unto them; Go ye also into theye thatvineyard, I shall do unto you? {20:33} They say unto him, and whatsoever is right I will give you. And they went theirLord, that our eyes may be opened. {20:34} So Jesus had way. {20:5} Again he went out about the sixthcompassion and ninth [on them,] and touched their eyes: and hour, and did likewise. {20:6} And about the eleventhimmediately hour their eyes received sight, and they followed he went out, and found others standing idle, and saithhim. unto them, Why stand ye here all the day idle? {20:7} They say Page 13 Matthew {21:1} And when they drew nigh unto{21:28} Jerusalem, But what think and ye? A [certain] man had two sons; were come to , unto the mount andof ,he came thento the first, and said, Son, go work to day in sent Jesus two disciples, {21:2} Saying unto them,my Go vineyard. into {21:29} He answered and said, I will not: but the village over against you, and straightway afterwardye shall findhe repented, and went. {21:30} And he came to an ass tied, and a colt with her: loose the[them,] second, and and bringsaid likewise. And he answered and said, I [them] unto me. {21:3} And if any [man] say[go,] ought sir: and unto went not. {21:31} Whether of them twain did you, ye shall say, The Lord haththe will need of [his] offather? them; They say and unto him, The first. Jesus straightway he will send them. {21:4} Allsaith this untowas them,done, Verily I say unto you, That the publicans that it might be fulfilled which was spoken by theand prophet, the harlots go into the kingdom of God before you. saying, {21:5} Tell ye the daughter of Sion,{21:32} Behold, thyFor John came unto you in the way of King cometh unto thee, meek, and sitting upon an ass, andrighteousness, a and ye believed him not: but the publicans colt the foal of an ass. {21:6} And the disciplesand went, the harlotsand believed him: and ye, when ye had seen [it,] did as Jesus commanded them, {21:7} And brought therepented ass, not afterward, that ye might believe him. and the colt, and put on them their clothes, and they set [him] thereon. {21:8} And a very great {21:33}multitude spread Hear another parable: There was a certain their garments in the way; others cut down brancheshouseholder, from which planted a vineyard, and hedged it round the trees, and strawed [them] in the way. {21:9}about, andAnd digged the a winepress in it, and built a tower, and multitudes that went before, letand it thatout to followed, husbandmen, cried, and went into a far country: saying, to the Son of David: Blessed{21:34} [is] he And that when the time of the fruit drew near, he sent cometh in the name of the Lord; Hosanna hisin servantsthe highest. to the husbandmen, that they might receive the {21:10} And when he was come into Jerusalem, all thefruits city of it. {21:35} And the husbandmen took his servants, was moved, saying, Who is this? {21:11} And the multitudeand beat one, and killed another, and stoned another. said, This is Jesus the prophet of Nazareth of Galilee. {21:36} Again, he sent other servants more than the first: and they did unto them likewise. {21:37} But last of all he {21:12} And Jesus went into the temple of God, andsent cast unto them his son, saying, They will reverence my son. out all them that sold and bought{21:38} in But the when temple, the husbandmen and saw the son, they said overthrew the tables of the moneychangers, and the seatsamong of themselves, This is the heir; come, let us kill him, them that sold doves, {21:13} And saidand unto let us them,seize on Ithis inheritance.is {21:39} And they caught written, My house shall be called the house of prayer; but yehim, and cast [him] out of the vineyard, and slew [him. have made it a of thieves. {21:14} And the]{21:40} blind andWhen the lord therefore of the vineyard cometh, the lame came to him in the temple; and hewhat healed will them.he do unto those husbandmen? {21:41} They say {21:15} And when the chief priests andunto scribes him, He willsaw miserably the destroy those wicked men, and wonderful things that he did, and the children cryingwill in thelet out [his] vineyard unto other husbandmen, which temple, and saying, Hosanna to the Son of David; they wereshall render him the fruits in their seasons. {21:42} Jesus sore displeased, {21:16} And said unto him,saith Hearest unto thou them, Did ye never read in the scriptures, The what these say? And Jesus saith unto them, stoneYea; whichhave ye the builders rejected, the same is become the never read, Out of the mouth of babes and sucklingshead of thou the corner: this is the Lord's doing, and it is hast perfected praise? marvellous in our eyes? {21:43} Therefore say I unto you, The kingdom of God shall be taken from you, and given to {21:17} And he left them, and went out of athe nationcity into bringing forth the fruits thereof. {21:44} And ; and he lodged there. {21:18} Now in the morningwhosoever shall fall on this stone shall be broken: but on as he returned into the city, he hungered. {21:19} And whenwhomsoever it shall fall, it will grind him to powder. he saw a fig tree in the way, he came{21:45} to it, And andwhen thefound chief priests and Pharisees had heard nothing thereon, but leaves only, and said hisunto parables, it, Let they no perceived that he spake of them. {21:46} fruit grow on thee henceforward for ever. And presentlyBut the when they sought to lay hands on him, they feared the fig tree withered away. {21:20} And when the disciples sawmultitude, because they took him for a prophet. [it,] they marvelled, saying, How soon is the fig tree withered away! {21:21} Jesus answered and said unto them,{22:1} And Jesus answered and spake unto them again by Verily I say unto you, If ye have faith, and parables,doubt not, and ye said, {22:2} The kingdom of heaven is like shall not only do this [which is done] to the fig tree, but alsounto a certain king, which made a marriage for his son, if ye shall say unto this mountain, Be thou removed, and{22:3} be And sent forth his servants to call them that were thou cast into the sea; it shall be done.bidden {21:22} to theAnd : all and they would not come. {22:4} things, whatsoever ye shall ask in prayer, believing, ye shallAgain, he sent forth other servants, saying, Tell them which receive. are bidden, Behold, I have prepared my dinner: my oxen and [my] fatlings [are] killed, and all things [are] ready: {21:23} And when he was come into the temple, the chiefcome unto the marriage. {22:5} But they made light of [it,] priests and the elders of the people came unto him as he wasand went their ways, one to his farm, another to his teaching, and said, By what authoritymerchandise: doest {22:6} Andthou the these took his servants, and things? and who gave thee this authority?entreated {21:24} [them] Andspitefully, and slew [them. ]{22:7} But Jesus answered and said unto them, I also will ask youwhen one the king heard [thereof,] he was wroth: and he sent thing, which if ye tell me, I in like wise willforth histell armies, you andby destroyed those murderers, and burned what authority I do these things. {21:25} upThe their baptism city. of {22:8} Then saith he to his servants, The John, whence was it? from heaven, or of men?wedding And isthey ready, but they which were bidden were not reasoned with themselves, saying, If worthy.we shall {22:9} say, GoFrom ye therefore into the highways, and as heaven; he will say unto us, Why did ye notmany then as believeye shall find, bid to the marriage. {22:10} So those him? {21:26} But if we shall say, Of servantsmen; wewent fear out intothe the highways, and gathered together people; for all hold John as a prophet. {21:27}all as Andmany they as they found, both bad and good: and the answered Jesus, and said, We cannot tell. And he saidwedding unto was furnished with guests. them, Neither tell I you by what authority I do these things. Matthew Page 14 {22:11} And when the king came in to see the guests,any more he [questions. saw there a man which had not on a wedding garment: {22:12} And he saith unto him, Friend, how camest thou]{23:1} in Then spake Jesus to the multitude, and to his hither not having a weddingdisciples, garment? {23:2} Saying, And The scribeshe was and the Pharisees sit speechless. {22:13} Then said the king to the servants, Bindin Moses' seat: {23:3} All therefore whatsoever they bid him hand and foot, and take him away, and cast [him]you observe,into [that] observe and do; but do not ye after their outer darkness; there shall be weepingworks: forand they gnashingsay, and do not. of {23:4} For they bind heavy teeth. {22:14} For many are called, butburdens few and [are] grievous chosen. to be borne, and lay [them] on men's shoulders; but they [themselves] will not move them with {22:15} Then went the Pharisees, and took counselone of their how fingers. {23:5} But all their works they do for they might entangle him in [his] talk. {22:16} And they sentto be seen of men: they make broad their phylacteries, and out unto him their disciples with theenlarge , the borders saying, of their garments, {23:6} And love the Master, we know that thou art true, and teachest the wayuppermost of rooms at feasts, and the chief seats in the God in truth, neither carest thou for anysynagogues, [man:] {23:7}for thou And greetings in the markets, and to be regardest not the person of men. {22:17} Tell us calledtherefore, of men, , Rabbi. {23:8} But be not ye called What thinkest thou? Is it lawful to give tribute unto Caesar,Rabbi: for one is your Master, [even] Christ; and all ye are or not? {22:18} But Jesus perceived their wickedness,brethren. and {23:9} And call no [man] your father upon the said, Why tempt ye me, [ye] hypocrites? {22:19} Shewearth: me for one is your Father, which is in heaven. {23:10} the tribute money. And they brought Neitherunto himbe ye calleda penny. masters: for one is your Master, [even] {22:20} And he saith unto them, Whose [is] this imageChrist. and {23:11} But he that is greatest among you shall be superscription? {22:21} They say unto him, Caesar's.your Then servant. {23:12} And whosoever shall exalt himself saith he unto them, Render therefore unto Caesar the shallthings be abased; and he that shall humble himself shall be which are Caesar's; and unto God the things that are God's.exalted. {22:22} When they had heard [these words,] they marvelled, and left him, and{23:13} went Buttheir woe way. unto you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites! for ye shut up the kingdom of heaven against {22:23} The same day came to him the Sadducees, whichmen: for ye neither go in [yourselves,] neither suffer ye say that there is no , and askedthem him, that {22:24} are entering to go in. {23:14} Woe unto you, Saying, Master, Moses said, Ifscribes a man and die, Pharisees, having hypocrites! no for ye devour widows' children, his brother shall marry his wife, and raise uphouses, seed and for a pretence make long prayer: therefore ye unto his brother. {22:25} Now there wereshall with receive us the seven greater damnation. {23:15} Woe unto you, brethren: and the first, when scribeshe had and Pharisees,married hypocrites! a wife, for ye compass sea and deceased, and, having no issue,land left to make his one wife proselyte, unto and whenhis he is made, ye make brother: {22:26} Likewise the second also,him twofoldand the more third, the child of hell than yourselves. {23:16} unto the seventh. {22:27} And last of all theWoe woman unto died you, [ye] blind guides, which say, Whosoever also. {22:28} Therefore in the resurrection whose wife shallshall swear by the temple, it is nothing; but whosoever shall she be of the seven? for they all had her.swear {22:29} by the Jesusgold of the temple, he is a debtor! {23:17} answered and said unto them, Ye do err, not [Ye]knowing fools andthe blind: for whether is greater, the gold, or the scriptures, nor the power of God.temple {22:30} that sanctifieth For thein gold? the {23:18} And, Whosoever resurrection they neither marry, nor are givenshall in marriage, swear by the altar, it is nothing; but whosoever but are as the angels of God in heaven.sweareth {22:31} by Butthe giftas that is upon it, he is guilty. {23:19} touching the resurrection of the dead, have ye not read[Ye] foolsthat and blind: for whether [is] greater, the gift, or the which was spoken unto you by God, saying, {22:32}altar thatI am sanctifieth the gift? {23:20} Whoso therefore shall the God of Abraham, and the God of Isaac, and the Godswear of by the altar, sweareth by it, and by all things thereon. Jacob? God is not the God of the dead, but {23:21}of the Andliving. whoso shall swear by the temple, sweareth by {22:33} And when the multitude heardit, [this,] and by theyhim thatwere dwelleth therein. {23:22} And he that astonished at his doctrine. shall swear by heaven, sweareth by the , and by him that sitteth thereon. {23:23} Woe unto you, scribes {22:34} But when the Pharisees had heard that he had andput Pharisees, hypocrites! for ye pay tithe of mint and anise the Sadducees to silence, they andwere cummin, gathered and have together. omitted the weightier [matters] of {22:35} Then one of them, [which was] thea law,lawyer, judgment, asked mercy, and faith: these ought ye to have [him a question, ]tempting done,him, and notand to leave saying, the other undone. {22:36} {23:24} [Ye] blind Master, which [is] the great commandmentguides, whichin the strainlaw? at a gnat, and swallow a camel. {22:37} Jesus said unto him, Thou shalt love the{23:25} Lord thy Woe unto you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites! God with all thy heart, and with all thy soul, and with all thyfor ye make clean the outside of the cup and of the platter, mind. {22:38} This is the first and greatbut withincommandment. they are full of extortion and excess. {23:26} {22:39} And the second [is] like unto it, Thou shalt love thy[Thou] blind Pharisee, cleanse first that [which is] within neighbour as thyself. {22:40} On these two commandmentsthe cup and platter, that the outside of them may be clean hang all the law and the prophets. also. {23:27} Woe unto you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites! for ye are like unto whited sepulchres, which {22:41} While the Pharisees were gathered together, Jesusindeed appear beautiful outward, but are within full of dead asked them, {22:42} Saying, What[men's] think bones, ye andof of Christ? all uncleanness. {23:28} Even so ye whose son is he? They say unto him, [The Son]also of outwardlyDavid. appear righteous unto men, but within ye are {22:43} He saith unto them, How then doth David infull spirit of and iniquity. {23:29} Woe unto you, call him Lord, saying, {22:44} The LORDscribes said unto and my Pharisees, hypocrites! because ye build the Lord, Sit thou on my right hand, till I make thinetombs enemies of the prophets, and garnish the sepulchres of the thy footstool? {22:45} If David then call him Lord,righteous, how is {23:30} And say, If we had been in the days of he his son? {22:46} And no man was able to answerour him fathers, a we would not have been partakers with them in word, neither durst any [man] from that day forththe ask bloodhim of the prophets. {23:31} Wherefore ye be Page 15 Matthew witnesses unto yourselves, that ye are the childrenshall of arisethem false Christs, and false prophets, and shall shew which killed the prophets. {23:32}great Fill yesigns up thenand thewonders; insomuch that, if [it were] measure of your fathers. {23:33}possible, they [Ye] shall deceive serpents, the very elect. [ye] {24:25} Behold, generation of vipers, how can ye escape the Idamnation have told you of before. {24:26} Wherefore if they shall say hell? unto you, Behold, [he is] in the desert; go not forth: behold, he is in the secret chambers; believe [it] not. {24:27} For as {23:34} Wherefore, behold, I send unto you prophets, andthe lightning cometh out of the east, and shineth even unto wise men, and scribes: and [some] of them ye shall killthe and west; so shall also the coming of the Son of man be. crucify; and [some] of them shall{24:28} ye scourgeFor wheresoever in your the carcase is, there will the synagogues, and persecute [them] from city to city: {23:35} be gathered together. That upon you may come all the righteous blood shed upon the earth, from the blood of righteous unto {24:29}the blood Immediately after the tribulation of those days of Zacharias son of Barachias, whom ye slew betweenshall the thesun be darkened, and the moon shall not give her temple and the altar. {23:36} Verily I saylight, untoand the you,stars shall All fall from heaven, and the powers of these things shall come upon this generation.the heavens {23:37}shall be shaken: O {24:30} And then shall appear Jerusalem, Jerusalem, [thou] that killest thethe sign prophets, of the Son and of man in heaven: and then shall all the stonest them which are sent unto thee, how oftentribes ofwould the earth I mourn, and they shall see the Son of man have gathered thy children together, even as a hen gatherethcoming in the clouds of heaven with power and great glory. her chickens under [her] wings, and ye would not! {24:31}{23:38} And he shall send his angels with a great sound of Behold, your house is left unto you desolate. {23:39}a trumpet,For I and they shall gather together his elect from the say unto you, Ye shall not see me henceforth, fourtill yewinds, shall from one end of heaven to the other. {24:32} say, Blessed [is] he that cometh in the name of theNow Lord. learn a parable of the fig tree; When his branch is yet tender, and putteth forth leaves, ye know that summer is {24:1} And Jesus went out, and departed from the temple:nigh: {24:33} So likewise ye, when ye shall see all these and his disciples came to [him]things, for knowto shew that ithim is near, the [even] at the doors. {24:34} buildings of the temple. {24:2} And Jesus saidVerily unto Ithem, say unto you, This generation shall not pass, till all See ye not all these things? verily I say theseunto you,things There be fulfilled. {24:35} Heaven and earth shall shall not be left here one stone upon another, that passshall notaway, but my words shall not pass away. be thrown down. {24:36} But of that day and hour knoweth no [man,] no, {24:3} And as he sat upon the mountnot the ofangels Olives, of heaven, the but my Father only. {24:37} But disciples came unto him privately, saying,as the Tell days us,of Noe when [were,] so shall also the coming of the shall these things be? and what [shall be] Sonthe ofsign man ofbe. thy{24:38} For as in the days that were before coming, and of the end of the world? {24:4}the flood And Jesusthey were eating and drinking, marrying and answered and said unto them, Takegiving heed in marriage, that nountil manthe day that Noe entered into the deceive you. {24:5} For many shall ark,come {24:39} in my And name, knew not until the flood came, and took saying, I am Christ; and shall deceive many. {24:6} Andthem ye all away; so shall also the coming of the Son of man shall hear of wars and rumours of wars: see thatbe. ye {24:40}be not Then shall two be in the field; the one shall be troubled: for all [these things] must come totaken, pass, butand thethe other left. {24:41} Two [women shall be] end is not yet. {24:7} For nation shall rise againstgrinding nation, at the mill; the one shall be taken, and the other left. and kingdom against kingdom: and there shall be famines, and pestilences, and earthquakes, in divers{24:42} places. Watch {24:8} therefore: for ye know not what hour your All these [are] the beginning of sorrows. {24:9} ThenLord shall doth come. {24:43} But know this, that if the they deliver you up to be afflicted, and shall kill you: and yegoodman of the house had known in what watch the thief shall be hated of all nations for my name's wouldsake. {24:10}come, he would have watched, and would not have And then shall many be offended, andsuffered shall his house betray to be broken one up. {24:44} Therefore be ye another, and shall hate one another.also {24:11} ready: forAnd in suchmany an hour as ye think not the Son of false prophets shall rise, and shall deceiveman many. cometh. {24:12} {24:45} Who then is a faithful and wise And because iniquity shall abound, the love ofservant, many shallwhom his lord hath made ruler over his household, wax cold. {24:13} But he that shall endure unto the end, theto give them meat in due season? {24:46} Blessed [is] that same shall be saved. {24:14} servant,And whomthis his gospel lord when heof cometh the shall find so doing. kingdom shall be preached in all the world{24:47} for Verilya witness I say unto you, That he shall make him ruler unto all nations; and then shall the end come. {24:15} Whenover all his goods. {24:48} But and if that evil servant shall ye therefore shall see the of desolation, spokensay in his heart, My lord delayeth his coming; {24:49} And of by the prophet, stand in the holy shallplace, begin(whoso to smite [his] fellowservants, and to eat and readeth, let him understand:) {24:16} Then let themdrink which with the drunken; {24:50} The lord of that servant be in Judaea flee into the mountains:shall come {24:17} in a day when Let he lookethhim not for [him,] and in an which is on the housetop not come down to take anyhour thing that he is not aware of, {24:51} And shall cut him out of his house: {24:18} Neither let him whichasunder, is andin theappoint [him] his portion with the hypocrites: field return back to take his clothes. {24:19} And woethere unto shall be weeping and gnashing of teeth. them that are with child, and to them that give suck in those days! {24:20} But pray ye that your flight{25:1} be Thennot shallin the the kingdom of heaven be likened unto winter, neither on the sabbath day: {24:21} Forten virgins,then shall which took their lamps, and went forth to meet be great tribulation, such as was not since the beginningthe bridegroom. of {25:2} And five of them were wise, and the world to this time, no, nor ever shall be. {24:22}five [were] And foolish. {25:3} They that [were] foolish took except those days should be shortened, there should no fleshtheir lamps, and took no oil with them: {25:4} But the wise be saved: but for the elect's saketook oilthose in their days vessels shall with their be lamps. {25:5} While the shortened. {24:23} Then if any man shall say unto you,bridegroom Lo, tarried, they all slumbered and slept. {25:6} here [is] Christ, or there; believe [it] not. {24:24} ForAnd there at midnight there was a cry made, Behold, the Matthew Page 16 bridegroom cometh; go ye out to meet him. {25:7} Then{25:37} all Then shall the righteous answer him, saying, Lord, those virgins arose, and trimmed their lamps.when {25:8} saw weAnd thee an hungred, and fed [thee?] or thirsty, the foolish said unto the wise, Give us of your oil;and for gaveour [thee] drink? {25:38} When saw we thee a lamps are gone out. {25:9} But the wise answered,stranger, saying, and took [thee] in? or naked, and clothed [thee? [Not so;] lest there be not enough for us and you: but go]{25:39} ye Or when saw we thee sick, or in prison, and came rather to them that sell, and buy for yourselves.unto thee? {25:40} {25:10} And the King shall answer and say unto And while they went to buy, the bridegroom came; and theythem, Verily I say unto you, Inasmuch as ye have done [it] that were ready went in with him to the marriage:unto oneand ofthe the least of these my brethren, ye have done [it] door was shut. {25:11} Afterwardunto came me. {25:41}also Thenthe shallother he say also unto them on the virgins, saying, Lord, Lord, open to leftus. hand,{25:12} Depart But from he me, ye cursed, into everlasting fire, answered and said, Verily I say unto you, I knowprepared you not. for the devil and his angels: {25:42} For I was an {25:13} Watch therefore, for ye know neitherhungred, the day and norye gave me no meat: I was thirsty, and ye gave the hour wherein the Son of man cometh. me no drink: {25:43} I was a stranger, and ye took me not in: naked, and ye clothed me not: sick, and in prison, and ye {25:14} For [the kingdom ofvisited heaven me not. is] {25:44} as aThen man shall they also answer him, travelling into a far country, [who] called his own servants,saying, Lord, when saw we thee an hungred, or athirst, or a and delivered unto them his goods. {25:15} Andstranger, unto orone naked, or sick, or in prison, and did not minister he gave five talents, to another two, and to anotherunto one; thee?to {25:45} Then shall he answer them, saying, every man according to his several ability; and straightwayVerily I say unto you, Inasmuch as ye did [it] not to one of took his journey. {25:16} Then he that had received the fivethe least of these, ye did [it] not to me. {25:46} And these talents went and traded with the same, shalland go made away into [them] everlasting punishment: but the righteous other five talents. {25:17} Andinto lifelikewise eternal. he that [had received] two, he also gained other two. {25:18} But he that had received one went and digged in the earth, and{26:1} hid his And it came to pass, when Jesus had finished all lord's money. {25:19} After a long time the theselord of sayings, those he said unto his disciples, {26:2} Ye know servants cometh, and reckoneth with them. {25:20} thatAnd after so two days is [the feast of] the , and the Son he that had received five talents came and brought other fiveof man is betrayed to be crucified. {26:3} Then assembled talents, saying, Lord, thou deliveredst unto me fivetogether talents: the chief priests, and the scribes, and the elders of behold, I have gained beside thethem people, five unto talents the palace more. of the , who was {25:21} His lord said unto him, Well done, [thou] good andcalled , {26:4} And consulted that they might take faithful servant: thou hast been faithful over a few things,Jesus by I subtilty, and kill [him. ]{26:5} But they said, Not will make thee ruler over many things: enter thouon the into feast the [day,] lest there be an uproar among the people. joy of thy lord. {25:22} He also that had received two talents came and said, Lord, thou deliveredst unto{26:6} me Nowtwo when Jesus was in Bethany, in the house of talents: behold, I have gained two other talents beside them., {26:7} There came unto him a woman {25:23} His lord said unto him, havingWell done,an good and box of very precious ointment, and faithful servant; thou hast been faithful over a few things,poured itI on his head, as he sat [at meat. ]{26:8} But when will make thee ruler over many things: enter thouhis disciples into the saw [it,] they had indignation, saying, To what joy of thy lord. {25:24} Then he which had received the onepurpose [is] this waste? {26:9} For this ointment might talent came and said, Lord, I knew thee that thou art an hardhave been sold for much, and given to the poor. {26:10} man, reaping where thou hast notWhen sown, Jesus understoodand gathering [it,] he said unto them, Why trouble where thou hast not strawed: {25:25} And I was afraid,ye and the woman? for she hath wrought a good work upon me. went and hid thy talent in the earth: lo, {26:11}[there] Forthou ye hast have the poor always with you; but me ye [that is] thine. {25:26} His lord answeredhave notand always. said unto{26:12} For in that she hath poured this him, [Thou] wicked and slothful servant, thou knewestointment that on my body, she did [it] for my burial. {26:13} I reap where I sowed not, and gatherVerily where I I sayhave unto not you, Wheresoever this gospel shall be strawed: {25:27} Thou oughtest therefore topreached have input the mywhole world, [there] shall also this, that this money to the exchangers, and [then] at my coming I shouldwoman hath done, be told for a memorial of her. have received mine own with usury. {25:28} Take therefore the talent from him, and give [it] unto him which{26:14} hath ten Then one of the twelve, called Judas Iscariot, talents. {25:29} For unto every one that hath shall be given,went unto the chief priests, {26:15} And said [unto them,] and he shall have abundance: but from himWhat that will hathye give not me, and I will deliver him unto you? And shall be taken away even that which he hath. {25:30}they And covenanted with him for . cast ye the unprofitable servant into outer{26:16} darkness: And from there that time he sought opportunity to betray shall be weeping and gnashing of teeth. him.

{25:31} When the Son of man shall come {26:17}in his glory, Now the first [day] of the [feast of] unleavened and all the holy angels with him, then shall he sit breadupon thethe disciples came to Jesus, saying unto him, Where throne of his glory: {25:32} Andwilt before thou thathim weshall prepare be for thee to eat the passover? gathered all nations: and he shall separate {26:18}them one And from he said, Go into the city to such a man, and another, as a shepherd divideth [his] sheep fromsay the unto : him, The Master saith, My time is at hand; I will {25:33} And he shall set the sheep on his right hand, but thekeep the passover at thy house with my disciples. {26:19} goats on the left. {25:34} Then shall the King say unto themAnd the disciples did as Jesus had appointed them; and they on his right hand, Come, ye blessed of my Father,made ready inherit the passover. {26:20} Now when the even was the kingdom prepared for you from the foundationcome, he sat ofdown the with the twelve. {26:21} And as they did world: {25:35} For I was an hungred, and ye gave me meat:eat, he said, Verily I say unto you, that one of you shall I was thirsty, and ye gave me drink: I was a stranger, and yebetray me. {26:22} And they were exceeding sorrowful, took me in: {25:36} Naked, and ye clothed me: I wasand sick, began every one of them to say unto him, Lord, is it I? and ye visited me: I was in prison, and ye came{26:23} unto me.And he answered and said, He that dippeth [his] Page 17 Matthew hand with me in the dish, the same shall betray me. {26:24}shall presently give me more than twelve legions of angels? The Son of man goeth as it is written of him: but woe{26:54} unto But how then shall the scriptures be fulfilled, that that man by whom the Son of man is betrayed! it hadthus been it must be? {26:55} In that same hour said Jesus to the good for that man if he had not been born. {26:25}multitudes, Then Are ye come out as against a thief with swords Judas, which betrayed him, answered and said, Master,and is stavesit for to take me? I sat daily with you teaching in I? He said unto him, Thou hast said. the temple, and ye laid no hold on me. {26:56} But all this was done, that the scriptures of the prophets might be {26:26} And as they were eating, Jesus tookfulfilled. bread, and Then all the disciples forsook him, and fled. blessed [it,] and brake [it,] and gave [it] to the disciples, and said, Take, eat; this is my body. {26:27} And he{26:57} took theAnd they that had laid hold on Jesus led [him] cup, and gave thanks, and gave [it] to them, saying,away toDrink Caiaphas the high priest, where the scribes and the ye all of it; {26:28} For this is myelders bloodwere assembled. of the {26:58} new But Peter followed him afar testament, which is shed for many for the remission of offsins. unto the high priest's palace, and went in, and sat with {26:29} But I say unto you, I will not drink henceforththe servants, of to see the end. {26:59} Now the chief priests, this fruit of the vine, until that day when I drink it new withand elders, and all the council, sought false witness against you in my Father's kingdom. {26:30} And whenJesus, they tohad put him to death; {26:60} But found none: yea, sung an , they went out into thethough mount many of falseOlives. witnesses came, [yet] found they none. {26:31} Then saith Jesus untoAt them, the last All came ye two shall false bewitnesses, {26:61} And said, offended because of me this night: for it is Thiswritten, [fellow] I will said, I am able to destroy the temple of God, smite the shepherd, and the sheep ofand the to buildflock it shall in three be days. {26:62} And the high priest scattered abroad. {26:32} But after I am risen again,arose, I andwill said unto him, Answerest thou nothing? what [is go before you into Galilee. {26:33} Peter answered and saidit which] these witness against thee? {26:63} But Jesus held unto him, Though all [men] shall be offendedhis peace. because And the ofhigh priest answered and said unto him, I thee, [yet] will I never be offended. {26:34} Jesus said adjureunto thee by the living God, that thou tell us whether thou him, Verily I say unto thee, That this night, before thebe cock the Christ, the Son of God. {26:64} Jesus saith unto him, crow, thou shalt deny me thrice. {26:35}Thou Peter hast said said: untonevertheless I say unto you, Hereafter shall him, Though I should die with thee, yet will I not deny thee.ye see the Son of man sitting on the right hand of power, Likewise also said all the disciples. and coming in the clouds of heaven. {26:65} Then the high priest rent his clothes, saying, He hath spoken blasphemy; {26:36} Then cometh Jesus with them unto a place calledwhat further need have we of witnesses? behold, now ye , and saith unto the disciples, Sit ye here,have while heard his blasphemy. {26:66} What think ye? They I go and pray yonder. {26:37} And he took with himanswered Peter and said, He is guilty of death. {26:67} Then did and the two sons of Zebedee, and began to be sorrowful andthey spit in his face, and buffeted him; and others smote very heavy. {26:38} Then saith he unto them,[him] My soul with is the palms of their hands, {26:68} Saying, exceeding sorrowful, even unto death: Prophesytarry ye here, unto and us, thou Christ, Who is he that smote thee? watch with me. {26:39} And he went a little farther, and fell on his face, and prayed, saying, O {26:69}my Father, Now Peter satif without it be in the palace: and a damsel possible, let this cup pass from me: neverthelesscame untonot as him, I saying, Thou also wast with Jesus of will, but as thou [wilt. ]{26:40} And he comethGalilee. unto{26:70} the But he denied before [them] all, saying, I disciples, and findeth them asleep, andknow notsaith what thouunto sayest. Peter, {26:71} And when he was gone What, could ye not watch with meout one into hour?the porch, {26:41} another [maid] saw him, and said unto Watch and pray, that ye enter not into temptation: thethem spirit that were there, This [fellow] was also with Jesus of indeed [is] willing, but the flesh [is] weak. {26:42} He wentNazareth. {26:72} And again he denied with an oath, I do away again the second time, and prayed,not know saying, the man. O {26:73}my And after a while came unto Father, if this cup may not pass away from[him] me, they except that stood I by, and said to Peter, Surely thou also drink it, thy will be done. {26:43} And he came andart found [one] of them; for thy speech bewrayeth thee. {26:74} them asleep again: for their eyes were heavy. {26:44}Then Andbegan he to curse and to swear, [saying,] I know not he left them, and went away again, and theprayed man. the And third immediately the cock crew. {26:75} And time, saying the same words. {26:45} ThenPeter cometh remembered he to the word of Jesus, which said unto him, his disciples, and saith unto them, Sleep on now,Before and takethe cock crow, thou shalt deny me thrice. And he [your] rest: behold, the hour is at hand, and the Son ofwent man out, and wept bitterly. is betrayed into the hands of sinners. {26:46} Rise, let us be going: behold, he is at hand that doth betray me. {27:1} When the morning was come, all the chief priests and elders of the people took counsel against Jesus to put {26:47} And while he yet spake, lo, Judas,him to death:one of {27:2} the And when they had bound him, they twelve, came, and with him a great multitude withled [him]swords away, and delivered him to the and staves, from the chief priests and elders of governor.the people. {26:48} Now he that betrayed him gave them a sign, saying, Whomsoever I shall , that same is he: hold{27:3} him Then Judas, which had betrayeth him, when he fast. {26:49} And forthwith he came sawto Jesus,that he wasand condemned, said, repented himself, and brought Hail, master; and kissed him. {26:50} And Jesusagain said unto the thirty pieces of silver to the chief priests and him, Friend, wherefore art thou come? Then came they, elders,and {27:4} Saying, I have sinned in that I have betrayed laid hands on Jesus, and took him. {26:51}the innocentAnd, behold, blood. And they said, What [is that] to us? see one of them which were with Jesus stretched out [his] hand,thou [to that. ]{27:5} And he cast down the pieces of silver and drew his sword, and struck ina theservant temple, andof departed,the high and went and hanged himself. priest's, and smote off his ear. {26:52} Then said Jesus unto{27:6} And the chief priests took the silver pieces, and said, him, Put up again thy sword into his place: for all theyIt is that not lawful for to put them into the treasury, because it is take the sword shall perish thewith price the of sword.blood. {27:7} {26:53} And they took counsel, and Thinkest thou that I cannot now pray to my Father,bought and he with them the potter's field, to bury strangers in. Matthew Page 18 {27:8} Wherefore that field was called, The field headof blood, his accusation written, THIS IS JESUS THE KING unto this day. {27:9} Then was fulfilledOF thatTHE which JEWS. was {27:38} Then were there two thieves spoken by Jeremy the prophet, saying, Andcrucified they took with the him, one on the right hand, and another on thirty pieces of silver, the price of himthe thatleft. was valued, whom they of the children of Israel did value; {27:10} And gave them for the potter's field, as the Lord appointed{27:39} me. And they that passed by reviled him, wagging {27:11} And Jesus stood before theirthe heads,governor: {27:40} and And thesaying, Thou that destroyest the governor asked him, saying, Art thou the King of the Jews?temple, and buildest [it] in three days, save thyself. If thou And Jesus said unto him, Thou sayest. {27:12}be And the when Son of God, come down from the cross. {27:41} he was accused of the chief priests and elders, he answeredLikewise also the chief priests mocking [him,] with the nothing. {27:13} Then said Pilate unto him,scribes Hearest and thouelders, said, {27:42} He saved others; himself not how many things they witness againsthe cannotthee? {27:14}save. If he be the King of Israel, let him now And he answered him to never a word; insomuchcome that down the from the cross, and we will believe him. governor marvelled greatly. {27:15} Now at [that] feast{27:43} the He trusted in God; let him deliver him now, if he governor was wont to release unto the peoplewill have a prisoner, him: for he said, I am the Son of God. {27:44} whom they would. {27:16} And they hadThe then thieves a notable also, which were crucified with him, cast the prisoner, called . {27:17}same Therefore in his teeth. when {27:45} they Now from the sixth hour there were gathered together, Pilate said unto them,was Whomdarkness will over all the land unto the ninth hour. {27:46} ye that I release unto you? Barabbas,And or aboutJesus thewhich ninth is hour Jesus cried with a loud voice, called Christ? {27:18} For he knew that for envysaying, they had Eli, Eli, lama sabachthani? that is to say, My God, delivered him. my God, why hast thou forsaken me? {27:47} Some of them that stood there, when they heard [that,] said, This {27:19} When he was set down on the judgment seat,[man] his calleth for Elias. {27:48} And straightway one of wife sent unto him, saying, Have thou nothingthem to ran,do with and took a spunge, and filled [it] with vinegar, that just man: for I have suffered many things this dayand input a [it] on a reed, and gave him to drink. {27:49} The dream because of him. {27:20} But the chiefrest said, priests Let be, andlet us see whether Elias will come to save elders persuaded the multitudehim. that they should ask Barabbas, and destroy Jesus. {27:21} The governor answered and said unto them, Whether of the twain will{27:50} ye Jesus, when he had cried again with a loud voice, that I release unto you? They said, Barabbas. {27:22} Pilateyielded up the ghost. {27:51} And, behold, the of the saith unto them, What shall I do then with Jesustemple which was rent is in twain from the top to the bottom; and the called Christ? [They] all say unto him, Let him be crucified.earth did quake, and the rocks rent; {27:52} And the graves {27:23} And the governor said, Why, werewhat opened;evil hath and he many bodies of the saints which slept done? But they cried out the more, arose,saying, {27:53}Let him beAnd came out of the graves after his crucified. resurrection, and went into the holy city, and appeared unto many. {27:54} Now when the centurion, and they that were {27:24} When Pilate saw that he could prevailwith him,nothing, watching Jesus, saw the earthquake, and those but [that] rather a tumult was made, hethings took that werewater, done, theyand feared greatly, saying, Truly this washed [his] hands before the multitude,was the Son of God.saying, {27:55} AndI ammany women were there innocent of the blood of this just person:beholding see yeafar [to off, it. which followed Jesus from Galilee, ]{27:25} Then answered all the people, and said, Hisministering blood unto him: {27:56} Among which was Mary [be] on us, and on our children. Magdalene, and Mary the mother of James and Joses, and the mother of Zebedee's children. {27:57} When the even {27:26} Then released he Barabbas unto them: andwas when come, there came a rich man of Arimathaea, named he had scourged Jesus, he delivered [him] toJoseph, be crucified. who also himself was Jesus' disciple: {27:58} He {27:27} Then the soldiers of the governor tookwent Jesus to Pilate, into and begged the body of Jesus. Then Pilate the common hall, and gathered unto him the whole band commanded[of the body to be delivered. {27:59} And when soldiers. ]{27:28} And they stripped him, and put onJoseph him a had taken the body, he wrapped it in a clean robe. cloth, {27:60} And laid it in his own new tomb, which he had hewn out in the rock: and he rolled a great stone to the {27:29} And when they had platted a crowndoor of ofthe thorns,sepulchre, and departed. {27:61} And there was they put [it] upon his head, and a reed in his right hand: andMary Magdalene, and the other Mary, sitting over against they bowed the knee before him, and mocked him,the saying, sepulchre. Hail, King of the Jews! {27:30} And they spit upon him, and took the reed, and smote him on the head. {27:31} And{27:62} Now the next day, that followed the day of the after that they had mocked him, they took off frompreparation, the chief priests and Pharisees came together him, and put his own raiment on him, and led him awayunto to Pilate, {27:63} Saying, Sir, we remember that that crucify [him. ]{27:32} And as they came out, theydeceiver found asaid, while he was yet alive, After three days I will man of Cyrene, Simon by name: him they compelled to bearrise again. {27:64} Command therefore that the sepulchre his cross. {27:33} And when they were come untobe amade place sure until the third day, lest his disciples come by called Golgotha, that is to say, a place of a skull, night, and steal him away, and say unto the people, He is risen from the dead: so the last error shall be worse than the {27:34} They gave him vinegar to drinkfirst. mingled{27:65} Pilatewith said unto them, Ye have a watch: go gall: and when he had tasted [thereof,] he would notyour drink. way, make [it] as sure as ye can. {27:66} So they {27:35} And they crucified him, and partedwent, his garments, and made the sepulchre sure, sealing the stone, and casting lots: that it might be fulfilled which was spokensetting by a watch. the prophet, They parted my garments among them, and upon my vesture did they cast lots. {27:36}{28:1} AndIn the sitting end of the sabbath, as it began to dawn down they watched him there; {27:37} And set up overtoward his the first [day] of the , came Page 19 Matthew and the other Mary to see the sepulchre. {28:2} And, behold, there was a great earthquake: for the descended from heaven, and came and rolled back the stone from the door, and sat upon it. {28:3} His countenance was like lightning, and his raiment white as snow: {28:4} And for fear of him the keepers did shake, and became as dead [men. ]{28:5} And the angel answered and said unto the women, Fear not ye: for I know that ye seek Jesus, which was crucified. {28:6} He is not here: for he is risen, as he said. Come, see the place where the Lord lay. {28:7} And go quickly, and tell his disciples that he is risen from the dead; and, behold, he goeth before you into Galilee; there shall ye see him: lo, I have told you. {28:8} And they departed quickly from the sepulchre with fear and great joy; and did run to bring his disciples word.

{28:9} And as they went to tell his disciples, behold, Jesus met them, saying, All hail. And they came and held him by the feet, and worshipped him. {28:10} Then said Jesus unto them, Be not afraid: go tell my brethren that they go into Galilee, and there shall they see me.

{28:11} Now when they were going, behold, some of the watch came into the city, and shewed unto the chief priests all the things that were done. {28:12} And when they were assembled with the elders, and had taken counsel, they gave large money unto the soldiers, {28:13} Saying, Say ye, His disciples came by night, and him [away] while we slept. {28:14} And if this come to the governor's ears, we will persuade him, and secure you. {28:15} So they took the money, and did as they were taught: and this saying is commonly reported among the Jews until this day.

{28:16} Then the eleven disciples went away into Galilee, into a mountain where Jesus had appointed them. {28:17} And when they saw him, they worshipped him: but some doubted. {28:18} And Jesus came and spake unto them, saying, All power is given unto me in heaven and in earth. {28:19} Go ye therefore, and teach all nations, baptizing them in the name of the Father, and of the Son, and of the Holy Ghost: {28:20} Teaching them to observe all things whatsoever I have commanded you: and, lo, I am with you alway, [even] unto the end of the world. Amen.

Page 21 Mark The Gospel According to St. Mark And all the city was gathered together at the door. {1:34} And he healed many that were sick of divers diseases, and cast out many devils; and suffered not the devils to speak, because they knew him. {1:35} And in the morning, rising {1:1} The beginning of the gospel of Jesus Christ, the Sonup a great while before day, he went out, and departed into a of God; {1:2} As it is written in the prophets,solitary Behold, place, I and there prayed. {1:36} And Simon and send my messenger before thy face, which shall preparethey thy that were with him followed after him. {1:37} And way before thee. {1:3} The voice ofwhen one they crying had found in the him, they said unto him, All [men] wilderness, Prepare ye the way of the Lord, make hisseek paths for thee. {1:38} And he said unto them, Let us go into straight. {1:4} John did baptize thein next the towns, wilderness, that I may preachand there also: for therefore preach the baptism of repentance for the remissioncame of Isins. forth. {1:39} And he preached in their synagogues {1:5} And there went out unto him all the landthroughout of Judaea, all Galilee, and cast out devils. {1:40} And there and they of Jerusalem, and were all baptized of camehim ina leperthe to him, beseeching him, and kneeling down to river of Jordan, confessing their sins. {1:6} Andhim, John and sayingwas unto him, If thou wilt, thou canst make me clothed with camel's hair, and with a girdle of a skinclean. about {1:41} And Jesus, moved with compassion, put forth his loins; and he did eat locusts and wild honey; {1:7}[his] And hand, and touched him, and saith unto him, I will; be preached, saying, There cometh one mightierthou than clean. I after {1:42} And as soon as he had spoken, me, the latchet of whose shoes I am not worthyimmediately to stoop the leprosy departed from him, and he was down and unloose. {1:8} I indeed have baptizedcleansed. you {1:43}with And he straitly charged him, and forthwith water: but he shall baptize you with the Holy Ghost.sent {1:9} him away; {1:44} And saith unto him, See thou say And it came to pass in those days, that Jesusnothing came to fromany man: but go thy way, shew thyself to the Nazareth of Galilee, and was baptized of priest,John andin offerJordan. for thy cleansing those things which Moses {1:10} And straightway coming up out of the water, he sawcommanded, for a testimony unto them. {1:45} But he went the heavens opened, and the Spirit like a doveout, descending and began to publish [it] much, and to blaze abroad the upon him: {1:11} And there came a voicematter, from insomuch heaven, that Jesus could no more openly enter into [saying,] Thou art my beloved Son, in thewhom city, butI amwas withoutwell in desert places: and they came to pleased. {1:12} And immediately the Spirit driveth him intohim from every quarter. the wilderness. {1:13} And he was there in the wilderness forty days, tempted of Satan; and was with the wild beasts;{2:1} And again he entered into Capernaum, after [some] and the angels ministered unto him. {1:14} Nowdays; after and that it was noised that he was in the house. {2:2} And John was put in prison, Jesus came into Galilee,straightway preaching many were gathered together, insomuch that the gospel of the kingdom of God, {1:15} And saying,there The was no room to receive [them,] no, not so much as time is fulfilled, and the kingdom of God is at hand:about repent the door: and he preached the word unto them. {2:3} ye, and believe the gospel. {1:16} Now as he walked by Andthe they come unto him, bringing one sick of the palsy, sea of Galilee, he saw Simon andwhich Andrew was borne his of brother four. {2:4} And when they could not casting a net into the sea: for they were fishers. {1:17}come And nigh unto him for the press, they uncovered the roof Jesus said unto them, Come ye after me, andwhere I will he make was: and when they had broken [it] up, they let you to become . {1:18} And straightway theydown the bed wherein the sick of the palsy lay. {2:5} When forsook their nets, and followed him. {1:19} AndJesus when saw he their faith, he said unto the sick of the palsy, Son, had gone a little farther thence, he saw James thythe [son]sins beof forgiven thee. {2:6} But there were certain of Zebedee, and John his brother, who also werethe scribesin the sittingship there, and reasoning in their hearts, {2:7} mending their nets. {1:20} And straightway he called them:Why doth this [man] thus speak blasphemies? who can and they left their father Zebedee in the ship with theforgive hired sins but God only? {2:8} And immediately when servants, and went after him. {1:21} AndJesus they perceived went into in his spirit that they so reasoned within Capernaum; and straightway on the sabbath day hethemselves, entered he said unto them, Why reason ye these things into the synagogue, and taught. in{1:22} your hearts? And {2:9} they Whether were is it easier to say to the sick astonished at his doctrine: for he taught themof the as palsy, one that[Thy] sins be forgiven thee; or to say, Arise, had authority, and not as the scribes. {1:23} And thereand was take up thy bed, and walk? {2:10} But that ye may in their synagogue a man with an uncleanknow spirit; that the and Son he of man hath power on earth to forgive cried out, {1:24} Saying, Let [us] alone; what have we to dosins, (he saith to the sick of the palsy,) {2:11} I say unto with thee, thou Jesus of Nazareth? art thou come to destroythee, Arise, and take up thy bed, and go thy way into thine us? I know thee who thou art, the Holy One of God. {1:25}house. {2:12} And immediately he arose, took up the bed, And Jesus rebuked him, saying, Hold thy peace, andand went come forth before them all; insomuch that they were all out of him. {1:26} And when the unclean amazed,spirit andhad glorified torn God, saying, We never saw it on this him, and cried with a loud voice, hefashion. came {2:13}out of Andhim. he went forth again by the sea side; {1:27} And they were all amazed,and allinsomuch the multitude resortedthat untothey him, and he taught them. questioned among themselves, saying, What{2:14} thing isAnd this? as he passed by, he saw the [son] of what new doctrine [is] this? for with authority commandethAlphaeus sitting at the receipt of custom, and said unto him, he even the unclean spirits, and they do obey Followhim. {1:28} me. And he arose and followed him. {2:15} And it And immediately his fame spread abroad throughout cameall the to pass, that, as Jesus sat at meat in his house, many region round about Galilee. {1:29} Andpublicans forthwith, and sinners when sat also together with Jesus and his they were come out of the synagogue, they entered intodisciples: the for there were many, and they followed him. house of Simon and Andrew, with James and John.{2:16} {1:30} And when the scribes and Pharisees saw him eat But Simon's wife's mother lay sick of a withfever, publicans and anon and sinners, they said unto his disciples, they tell him of her. {1:31} And he came and tookHow her is byit that he eateth and drinketh with publicans and the hand, and lifted her up; and immediately thesinners? fever {2:17}left When Jesus heard [it,] he saith unto them, her, and she ministered unto them. {1:32}They that And are whole at even,have no need of the physician, but they when the sun did set, they brought unto him thatall thatare sick: were I came not to call the righteous, but sinners to diseased, and them that were possessed with devils.repentance. {1:33} {2:18} And the disciples of John and of the Mark Page 22 Pharisees used to fast: and they come and[of it,]say they unto went outhim, to lay hold on him: for they said, He is Why do the disciples of John and of the Pharisees besidefast, buthimself. thy disciples fast not? {2:19} And Jesus said unto them, Can the children of the bridechamber{3:22} And the scribesfast, which while came down the from Jerusalem bridegroom is with them? assaid, long He hathas Beelzebub,they have and bythe the prince of the devils bridegroom with them, they cannot fast.casteth he{2:20} out devils. But {3:23} the And he called them [unto him,] days will come, when the bridegroom shall be andtaken said away unto them in parables, How can Satan cast out from them, and then shall they fast in those days. {2:21} NoSatan? {3:24} And if a kingdom be divided against itself, man also seweth a piece of new cloth on an thatold garment: kingdom cannot stand. {3:25} And if a house be else the new piece that filled it up taketh away from the old,divided against itself, that house cannot stand. {3:26} And and the rent is made worse. {2:22} And no man putteth newif Satan rise up against himself, and be divided, he cannot wine into old bottles: else the new stand,wine dothbut hathburst an theend. {3:27} No man can enter into a bottles, and the wine is spilled, andstrong the man's bottles house, and will spoil hisbe goods, except he will first marred: but new wine must be put into new bottles.bind {2:23} the strong man; and then he will spoil his house. And it came to pass, that he went through the corn fields{3:28} on Verily I say unto you, All sins shall be forgiven unto the sabbath day; and his disciples began, asthe they sons went, of tomen, and blasphemies wherewith soever they pluck the ears of corn. {2:24} And the Phariseesshall said blaspheme: unto {3:29} But he that shall blaspheme against him, Behold, why do they on the sabbath day that whichthe Holy is Ghost hath never , but is in danger of not lawful? {2:25} And he said unto them, Haveeternal ye never damnation: {3:30} Because they said, He hath an read what David did, when he hadunclean need, spirit. and was an hungred, he, and they that were with him? {2:26} How he went into the house of God in the days of Abiathar the high{3:31} There came then his brethren and his mother, and, priest, and did eat the shewbread, which is not lawful tostanding eat without, sent unto him, calling him. {3:32} And but for the priests, and gave also to them which thewere multitude with sat about him, and they said unto him, Behold, him? {2:27} And he said unto them, The sabbath was madethy mother and thy brethren without seek for thee. {3:33} for man, and not man for the sabbath: {2:28} ThereforeAnd the he answered them, saying, Who is my mother, or my Son of man is Lord also of the sabbath. brethren? {3:34} And he looked round about on them which sat about him, and said, Behold my mother and my {3:1} And he entered again into the synagogue; andbrethren! there {3:35} For whosoever shall do the will of God, was a man there which had a withered hand. {3:2} And theythe same is my brother, and my sister, and mother. watched him, whether he would heal him on the sabbath day; that they might accuse him. {3:3} And he{4:1} saith And unto he began again to teach by the sea side: and the man which had the withered hand, Standthere forth. was {3:4}gathered unto him a great multitude, so that he And he saith unto them, Is it lawful toentered do good into on athe ship, and sat in the sea; and the whole sabbath days, or to do evil? to save life, or to kill? Butmultitude they was by the sea on the land. {4:2} And he taught held their peace. {3:5} And when hethem had many looked things round by parables, and said unto them in his about on them with , being grieved for the hardnessdoctrine, of {4:3} Hearken; Behold, there went out a sower to their hearts, he saith unto the man, Stretch forth thinesow: hand. {4:4} And it came to pass, as he sowed, some fell by And he stretched [it] out: and his hand was restoredthe waywhole side, and the fowls of the air came and devoured it as the other. {3:6} And the Phariseesup. {4:5} Andwent some forth,fell on stony and ground, where it had not straightway took counsel with the Herodiansmuch earth;against and immediatelyhim, it sprang up, because it had no how they might destroy him. {3:7} depthBut Jesus of earth: withdrew {4:6} But when the sun was up, it was himself with his disciples to the sea: and a greatscorched; multitude and because it had no root, it withered away. from Galilee followed him, and from Judaea,{4:7} And {3:8}some fell And among thorns, and the thorns grew up, from Jerusalem, and from Idumaea,and chokedand [from] it, and it beyondyielded no fruit. {4:8} And other fell Jordan; and they about Tyre and Sidon, a greaton multitude,good ground, and did yield fruit that sprang up and when they had heard what great things he did,increased; came unto and brought forth, some thirty, and some sixty, him. {3:9} And he spake to his disciples, that a andsmall some ship an hundred. {4:9} And he said unto them, He that should wait on him because of thehath multitude, ears to hear, lest let they him hear. {4:10} And when he was should throng him. {3:10} Foralone, he they had that werehealed about many;him with the twelve asked of insomuch that they pressed upon him for to touchhim the him, parable. as {4:11} And he said unto them, Unto you it many as had plagues. {3:11} And unclean spirits, when theyis given to know the mystery of the kingdom of God: but saw him, fell down before him, and cried, saying, Thouunto artthem that are without, all these [things] are done in the Son of God. {3:12} And he straitly chargedparables: them that {4:12} That seeing they may see, and not they should not make him known. {3:13} And he goethperceive; up and hearing they may hear, and not understand; into a mountain, and calleth [unto him] whomlest at heany would: time they should be converted, and [their] sins and they came unto him. {3:14} And he ordainedshould twelve, be forgiven them. {4:13} And he said unto them, that they should be with him, and that he might sendKnow them ye not this parable? and how then will ye know all forth to preach, {3:15} Andparables? to have power to heal sicknesses, and to cast out devils: {3:16} And Simon he surnamed Peter; {3:17} And James the [son]{4:14} of Zebedee,The sower soweth the word. {4:15} And these are and John the brother of James; andthey he by surnamedthe way side, them where the word is sown; but when Boanerges, which is, The sons of theythunder: have {3:18}heard, AndSatan cometh immediately, and taketh Andrew, and Philip, and Bartholomew, andaway Matthew, the word and that was sown in their hearts. {4:16} And Thomas, and James the [son] of Alphaeus, and Thaddaeus,these are they likewise which are sown on stony ground; and Simon the Canaanite, {3:19} And Judas Iscariot, whichwho, when they have heard the word, immediately receive it also betrayed him: and they went into an house. {3:20} Andwith gladness; {4:17} And have no root in themselves, and the multitude cometh together again, so that they couldso endure not but for a time: afterward, when affliction or so much as eat bread. {3:21} And when his friendspersecution heard ariseth for the word's sake, immediately they Page 23 Mark are offended. {4:18} And these are they God,which that arethou tormentsown me not. {5:8} For he said unto him, among thorns; such as hear the word, {4:19} And theCome cares out of the man, [thou] . {5:9} And he of this world, and the deceitfulness of riches, andasked the him, What [is] thy name? And he answered, saying, of other things entering in, choke the word, and it becomethMy name [is] : for we are many. {5:10} And he unfruitful. {4:20} And these are they whichbesought are himsown much on that he would not send them away out good ground; such as hear the word, and receiveof the [it,] country. and {5:11} Now there was there nigh unto the bring forth fruit, some thirtyfold, some sixty, andmountains some a angreat herd of swine feeding. {5:12} And all the hundred. devils besought him, saying, Send us into the swine, that we may enter into them. {5:13} And forthwith Jesus gave them {4:21} And he said unto them, Is a candle broughtleave. to And be the unclean spirits went out, and entered into the put under a bushel, or under a bed? and not to beswine: set on and a the herd ran violently down a steep place into candlestick? {4:22} For there is nothing hid, which shall notthe sea, (they were about two thousand;) and were choked be manifested; neither was any thing kept secret, butin thatthe sea.it {5:14} And they that fed the swine fled, and told should come abroad. {4:23} If any man have ears[it] into thehear, city, and in the country. And they went out to see let him hear. {4:24} And he said unto them, Take heed whatwhat it was that was done. {5:15} And they come to Jesus, ye hear: with what measure ye mete, it shall be measuredand to see him that was possessed with the devil, and had the you: and unto you that hear shall more be given. {4:25} Forlegion, sitting, and clothed, and in his right mind: and they he that hath, to him shall be given: and hewere that afraid. hath {5:16} not, And they that saw [it] told them how it from him shall be taken even that which hebefell hath. to him{4:26} that was possessed with the devil, and [also] And he said, So is the kingdom of God, as if a man concerningshould the swine. {5:17} And they began to pray him to cast seed into the ground; {4:27} And should sleep, and risedepart out of their coasts. {5:18} And when he was come night and day, and the seed should spring and growinto up, thehe ship, he that had been possessed with the devil knoweth not how. {4:28} For the earth bringethprayed forth fruit him that he might be with him. {5:19} Howbeit of herself; first the blade, then the ear, after that the full cornJesus suffered him not, but saith unto him, Go home to thy in the ear. {4:29} But when the fruitfriends, is and brought tell them howforth, great things the Lord hath done immediately he putteth in the sickle, because the forharvest thee, is and hath had compassion on thee. {5:20} And he come. departed, and began to publish in Decapolis how great things Jesus had done for him: and all [men] did marvel. {4:30} And he said, Whereunto{5:21} Andshall when Jesuswe was liken passed over the again by ship unto kingdom of God? or with whatthe othercomparison side, much people shall gathered we unto him: and he was compare it? {4:31} [It is] like a grainnigh untoof mustardthe sea. {5:22} seed, And, behold, there cometh one of which, when it is sown in the earth, is less than all the seedsthe rulers of the synagogue, Jairus by name; and when he that be in the earth: {4:32} But when it is sown, it growethsaw him, he fell at his feet, {5:23} And besought him up, and becometh greater than all herbs, andgreatly, shooteth saying, Myout little daughter lieth at the point of death: great branches; so that the fowls of the air may lodge under[I pray thee,] come and lay thy hands on her, that she may the shadow of it. {4:33} And with bemany healed; such and she parables shall live. {5:24} And [Jesus] went with spake he the word unto them, as they were able to him;hear [it. and much people followed him, and thronged him. ]{4:34} But without a parable spake he not unto them:{5:25} and And a certain woman, which had an issue of blood when they were alone, he expoundedtwelve years,all {5:26} things And had to suffered his many things of many disciples. {4:35} And the same day, whenphysicians, the evenand had was spent all that she had, and was nothing come, he saith unto them, Let us pass over untobettered, the butother rather grew worse, {5:27} When she had heard side. {4:36} And when they had sent away theof Jesus, multitude, came in the press behind, and touched his garment. they took him even as he was in the ship. And {5:28}there Forwere she said, If I may touch but his clothes, I shall be also with him other little ships. {4:37} Andwhole. there {5:29}arose a And straightway the fountain of her blood great storm of wind, and the waves beat intowas the dried ship, up; and so she felt in [her] body that she was healed that it was now full. {4:38} And he was in the hinder part ofof that plague. {5:30} And Jesus, immediately knowing in the ship, asleep on a pillow: and they awake him,himself and that say virtue had gone out of him, turned him about in unto him, Master, carest thou not that wethe perish? press, and {4:39} said, Who touched my clothes? {5:31} And And he arose, and rebuked the wind, and said unto thehis sea, disciples said unto him, Thou seest the multitude Peace, be still. And the wind ceased, and there wasthronging a great thee, and sayest thou, Who touched me? {5:32} calm. {4:40} And he said unto them, Why are ye so fearful?And he looked round about to see her that had done this how is it that ye have no faith? {4:41}thing. And they {5:33}feared But the woman fearing and trembling, exceedingly, and said one to another, What mannerknowing of man what was done in her, came and fell down before is this, that even the wind and the sea obey him? him, and told him all the truth. {5:34} And he said unto her, Daughter, thy faith hath made thee whole; go in peace, and {5:1} And they came over unto the other side ofbe the whole sea, of thy plague. {5:35} While he yet spake, there into the country of the Gadarenes. {5:2} And whencame he was from the ruler of the synagogue's [house certain] come out of the ship, immediately there met him outwhich of the said, Thy daughter is dead: why troublest thou the tombs a man with an unclean spirit, {5:3} WhoMaster had any further?[his] {5:36} As soon as Jesus heard the word dwelling among the tombs; and no man could bind him,that no, was spoken, he saith unto the ruler of the synagogue, not with chains: {5:4} Because thatBe nothe afraid, had only been believe. often {5:37} And he suffered no man bound with fetters and chains, and tothe follow chains him, savehad Peter,been and James, and John the brother plucked asunder by him, and the fetters brokenof James. in {5:38}pieces: And he cometh to the house of the ruler of neither could any [man] tame him. {5:5} And always, thenight synagogue, and seeth the tumult, and them that wept and and day, he was in the mountains, and in the tombs, crying,wailed greatly. {5:39} And when he was come in, he saith and cutting himself with stones. {5:6} untoBut them,when Why he make saw ye this ado, and weep? the damsel is Jesus afar off, he ran and worshipped him, {5:7} Andnot cried dead, but sleepeth. {5:40} And they laughed him to with a loud voice, and said, What have I to scorn.do with But whenthee, he had put them all out, he taketh the father Jesus, [thou] Son of the most high God? I adjureand the motherthee byof the damsel, and them that were with him, Mark Page 24 and entereth in where the damsel was lying. {5:41} Andhead he of John the Baptist. {6:26} And the king was took the damsel by the hand, and saidexceeding unto her,sorry; [yet]Talitha for his oath's sake, and for their sakes cumi; which is, being interpreted, Damsel, I saywhich unto thee, sat with him, he would not reject her. {6:27} And arise. {5:42} And straightwayimmediately the thedamsel king sent anarose, executioner, and and commanded walked; for she was [of the age] of twelve years. Andhis headthey to be brought: and he went and beheaded him in were astonished with a great astonishment. {5:43}the prison, And he {6:28} And brought his head in a charger, and charged them straitly that no man gaveshould it to the know damsel: it;and theand damsel gave it to her mother. commanded that something should be{6:29} given And her when to his eat. disciples heard [of it,] they came and took up his corpse, and laid it in a tomb. {6:30} And the {6:1} And he went out from thence, andapostles came into gathered his themselves together unto Jesus, and told own country; and his disciples follow him. {6:2} And whenhim all things, both what they had done, and what they had the sabbath day was come, he taught.began {6:31} to Andteach he said inunto thethem, Come ye yourselves synagogue: and many hearingapart [him]into a desert were place, astonished, and rest a while: for there were saying, From whence hath this [man] these things? and whatmany coming and going, and they had no leisure so much as wisdom [is] this which is given unto him, tothat eat. even{6:32} suchAnd they departed into a desert place by ship mighty works are wrought by his hands? {6:3}privately. Is not this {6:33} And the people saw them departing, and the carpenter, the son of Mary, the brothermany of James, knew him, and and ran afoot thither out of all cities, and Joses, and of Juda, and Simon? and are not his sistersoutwent here them, and came together unto him. {6:34} And with us? And they were offended at him. {6:4}Jesus, But when Jesus he came out, saw much people, and was moved said unto them, A prophet is not without honour, butwith in hiscompassion toward them, because they were as sheep own country, and among his own kin, and in his own house.not having a shepherd: and he began to teach them many {6:5} And he could there do no mighty work, savethings. that he {6:35} And when the day was now far spent, his laid his hands upon a few sick folk,disciples and healed came unto[them. him, and said, This is a desert place, ]{6:6} And he marvelled because of their unbelief.and And now he the time [is] far passed: {6:36} Send them away, went round about the villages, teaching. that they may go into the country round about, and into the villages, and buy themselves bread: for they have nothing to {6:7} And he called [unto him] the twelve, andeat. began {6:37} to He answered and said unto them, Give ye them send them forth by two and two; and gave them power overto eat. And they say unto him, Shall we go and buy two unclean spirits; {6:8} And commandedhundred pennyworth them of bread,that and they give them to eat? {6:38} should take nothing for [their] journey, save a staff only;He no saith unto them, How many loaves have ye? go and see. scrip, no bread, no money in [their] purse: {6:9}And when But they [be] knew, they say, Five, and two fishes. {6:39} shod with sandals; and not put on two coats. {6:10} AndAnd he he commanded them to make all sit down by said unto them, In what place soever ye enter into an house,companies upon the green grass. {6:40} And they sat down there abide till ye depart from thatin ranks, place. by hundreds, {6:11} and byAnd fifties. {6:41} And when he whosoever shall not receive you, nor hearhad taken you, the fivewhen loaves ye and the two fishes, he looked up to depart thence, shake off the dust underheaven, andyour blessed, feet and for brake a the loaves, and gave [them] testimony against them. Verily I say unto you,to hisIt shall disciples be to set before them; and the two fishes more tolerable for Sodom and Gomorrhadivided he in among the them day all. {6:42}of And they did all eat, and judgment, than for that city. {6:12} And they went out,were and filled. {6:43} And they took up twelve baskets full of preached that men should repent. {6:13} And theythe cast fragments, out and of the fishes. {6:44} And they that did many devils, and anointed with oil many that were sick, andeat of the loaves were about five thousand men. {6:45} And healed [them. ]{6:14} And king Herod heard [of him;]straightway (for he constrained his disciples to get into the ship, his name was spread abroad:) and he said,and That to goJohn to the the other side before unto Bethsaida, while he Baptist was risen from the dead, and therefore mighty workssent away the people. {6:46} And when he had sent them do shew forth themselves in him. {6:15} Others said, That itaway, he departed into a mountain to pray. {6:47} And is Elias. And others said, That it is a prophet, orwhen as one even of was come, the ship was in the midst of the sea, the prophets. {6:16} But when Herod heardand he [thereof,] alone on the land. he {6:48} And he saw them toiling in said, It is John, whom I beheaded: he is risen from the dead.rowing; for the wind was contrary unto them: and about the {6:17} For Herod himself had sent forth and laid hold uponfourth watch of the night he cometh unto them, walking John, and bound him in prison forupon Herodias' the sea, and sake, would havehis passed by them. {6:49} But brother Philip's wife: for he had married whenher. they{6:18} saw himFor walking upon the sea, they supposed it John had said unto Herod, It is not lawful for theehad to beenhave a spirit, and cried out: {6:50} For they all saw thy brother's wife. {6:19} Therefore Herodias had a quarrelhim, and were troubled. And immediately he talked with against him, and would have killed him; but she couldthem, not: and saith unto them, Be of good cheer: it is I; be not {6:20} For Herod feared John, knowing that he afraid.was a {6:51}just And he went up unto them into the ship; and man and an holy, and observed him; andthe when wind heceased: heard and they were sore amazed in themselves him, he did many things, and heard him gladly. {6:21} beyondAnd measure, and wondered. {6:52} For they considered when a convenient day was come,not [the that ] Herodof the loaves: on for theirhis heart was hardened. birthday made a supper to his , high captains, and chief{6:53} And when they had passed over, they came into the [estates] of Galilee; {6:22} And when the daughterland of of Gennesaret,the and drew to the shore. {6:54} And said Herodias came in, and danced, and pleased Herodwhen and they were come out of the ship, straightway they them that sat with him, the king said unto the damsel,knew him,Ask {6:55} And ran through that whole region round of me whatsoever thou wilt, and I will give [it] thee. {6:23}about, and began to carry about in beds those that were sick, And he sware unto her, Whatsoever thou shalt ask ofwhere me, I they heard he was. {6:56} And whithersoever he will give [it] thee, unto the half of my kingdom. {6:24} Andentered, into villages, or cities, or country, they laid the sick she went forth, and said unto her mother, What shallin I ask?the streets, and besought him that they might touch if it And she said, The head of John the Baptist. {6:25} And shewere but the border of his garment: and as many as touched came in straightway with haste unto the king,him were and made asked, whole. saying, I will that thou give me by and by in a charger the Page 25 Mark {7:1} Then came together unto him theSidon, Pharisees, he came unto theand sea of Galilee, through the midst of certain of the scribes, which came from theJerusalem. coasts of{7:2} Decapolis. {7:32} And they bring unto him And when they saw some of his disciples oneeat that bread was deaf, with and had an impediment in his speech; and defiled, that is to say, with unwashen, hands,they beseech they him found to put his hand upon him. {7:33} And he fault. {7:3} For the Pharisees, and all the Jews, excepttook they him aside from the multitude, and put his fingers into wash [their] hands oft, eat not, holding the traditionhis ears, of theand he spit, and touched his tongue; {7:34} And elders. {7:4} And [when they come]looking from up the to market,heaven, he sighed, and saith unto him, except they wash, they eat not. And many other things thereEphphatha, that is, Be opened. {7:35} And straightway his be, which they have received to hold, [as] theears washing were opened, of and the string of his tongue was loosed, , and pots, brasen vessels, and of tables. {7:5} Then andthe he spake plain. {7:36} And he charged them that they Pharisees and scribes asked shouldhim, tell noWhy man: but walk the more henot charged thy them, so much disciples according to the tradition ofthe the more elders, a great butdeal eatthey published [it; ]{7:37} And were bread with unwashen hands? {7:6} He answeredbeyond and measure said astonished, saying, He hath done all things unto them, Well hath Esaias prophesied of you well:hypocrites, he maketh both the deaf to hear, and the dumb to as it is written, This people honoureth me with [their]speak. lips, but their heart is far from me. {7:7} Howbeit in vain do they worship me, teaching [for] the commandments{8:1} of In those days the multitude being very great, and men. {7:8} For laying aside the commandment ofhaving God, nothing ye to eat, Jesus called his disciples [unto him,] hold the tradition of men, [as] the washing of pots and cups:and saith unto them, {8:2} I have compassion on the and many other such like things ye do. {7:9} Andmultitude, he said because they have now been with me three days, unto them, Full well ye reject the commandmentand have of nothingGod, to eat: {8:3} And if I send them away that ye may keep your own tradition. fasting{7:10} to Fortheir Mosesown houses, they will faint by the way: for said, Honour thy father and thy mother; and, Whoso cursethdivers of them came from far. {8:4} And his disciples father or mother, let him die the death: {7:11} But ye say, Ifanswered him, From whence can a man satisfy these [men] a man shall say to his father or mother, [It is] Corban, that iswith bread here in the wilderness? {8:5} And he asked to say, a gift, by whatsoever thou mightest bethem, profited How bymany loaves have ye? And they said, Seven. me; [he shall be free. ]{7:12} And ye suffer him no more{8:6} to And he commanded the people to sit down on the do ought for his father or his mother; {7:13}ground: Making and he the took the seven loaves, and gave thanks, and word of God of none effect through your tradition, which yebrake, and gave to his disciples to set before [them;] and have delivered: and many such like things do ye. they did set [them] before the people. {8:7} And they had a few small fishes: and he blessed, and commanded to set {7:14} And when he had called all the people [unto him,]them also before [them. ]{8:8} So they did eat, and were he said unto them, Hearken unto me every one [of you,] andfilled: and they took up of the broken [meat] that was left understand: {7:15} There is nothing from sevenwithout baskets. a man, {8:9} And they that had eaten were about that entering into him can defile him: but the thingsfour which thousand: and he sent them away. {8:10} And come out of him, those are they that defile the man. straightway{7:16} he entered into a ship with his disciples, and If any man have ears to hear, let him camehear. {7:17}into Andthe parts of . {8:11} And the when he was entered into the house from Phariseesthe people, hiscame forth, and began to question with him, disciples asked him concerning the parable. {7:18}seeking And he of him a sign from heaven, tempting him. {8:12} saith unto them, Are ye so without understanding Andalso? he Do sighed deeply in his spirit, and saith, Why doth this ye not perceive, that whatsoever thing from without enterethgeneration seek after a sign? verily I say unto you, There into the man, [it] cannot defile him;shall {7:19}no sign be Because given unto itthis generation. {8:13} And he entereth not into his heart, but into the belly, and goethleft them,out and entering into the ship again departed to the into the draught, purging all meats? {7:20}other And side. he said, That which cometh out of the man, that defileth the man. {7:21} For from within, out of the heart of {8:14}men, proceed Now [the disciples] had forgotten to take bread, evil thoughts, adulteries, fornications,neither had they in the shipmurders, with them more{7:22} than one loaf. Thefts, covetousness, wickedness, deceit, lasciviousness,{8:15} anAnd he charged them, saying, Take heed, beware of evil eye, blasphemy, , foolishness:the {7:23}leaven of All the thesePharisees, and [of] the leaven of Herod. evil things come from within, and defile{8:16} the Andman. they reasoned among themselves, saying, [It is] because we have no bread. {8:17} And when Jesus knew {7:24} And from thence he arose,[it,] and he saith went unto them,into Why the reason ye, because ye have no borders of Tyre and Sidon, and entered into an bread?house, and perceive ye not yet, neither understand? have ye would have no man know [it:] but he couldyour heart not yetbe hardened?hid. {8:18} Having eyes, see ye not? {7:25} For a [certain] woman, whose young anddaughter having had ears, hear ye not? and do ye not remember? an unclean spirit, heard of him, and came and fell at his feet:{8:19} When I brake the five loaves among five thousand, {7:26} The woman was a Greek, a Syrophenician by nation;how many baskets full of fragments took ye up? They say and she besought him that he would cast forth the devilunto out him, Twelve. {8:20} And when the seven among four of her daughter. {7:27} But Jesus said thousand,unto her, how Let many the baskets full of fragments took ye up? children first be filled: for it Andis theynot said, meet Seven. to {8:21} take And thehe said unto them, How children's bread, and to cast [it] unto the dogs. {7:28}is it Andthat ye do not understand? she answered and said unto him, Yes, Lord: yet the dogs under the table eat of the children's crumbs. {7:29} And{8:22} he And he cometh to Bethsaida; and they bring a said unto her, For this saying go thy way; the devil blindis gone man unto him, and besought him to touch him. {8:23} out of thy daughter. {7:30} And when she was come Andto her he took the blind man by the hand, and led him out of house, she found the devil gone out, and her daughterthe town; laid and when he had spit on his eyes, and put his upon the bed. hands upon him, he asked him if he saw ought. {8:24} And he looked up, and said, I see men as trees, walking. {8:25} {7:31} And again, departing from the coasts of AfterTyre thatand he put [his] hands again upon his eyes, and made Mark Page 26 him look up: and he was restored, and{9:14} saw And every when man he came to [his] disciples, he saw a clearly. {8:26} And he sent him away to his house,great saying, multitude about them, and the scribes questioning with Neither go into the town, nor tell [it] to any in the town.them. {9:15} And straightway all the people, when they beheld him, were greatly amazed, and running to [him] {8:27} And Jesus went out, and his disciples,saluted intohim. the {9:16} And he asked the scribes, What towns of Caesarea Philippi: and by the wayquestion he asked ye hiswith them? {9:17} And one of the multitude disciples, saying unto them, Whom do men say answeredthat I am? and said, Master, I have brought unto thee my {8:28} And they answered, John theson, whichBaptist: hath a butdumb somespirit; {9:18} And wheresoever he [say,] Elias; and others, One of the prophets. {8:29} Andtaketh he him, he teareth him: and he foameth, and gnasheth saith unto them, But whom say ye that I witham? his And teeth, Peter and pineth away: and I spake to thy disciples answereth and saith unto him, Thou art the Christ.that they {8:30}should cast him out; and they could not. {9:19} He And he charged them that they should tell no mananswereth of him. him, and saith, O faithless generation, how long {8:31} And he began to teach them, that theshall Son I be of with man you? how long shall I suffer you? bring him must suffer many things, and be rejected of the elders,unto me. and {9:20} And they brought him unto him: and when [of] the chief priests, and scribes, and be killed,he saw andhim, after straightway the spirit tare him; and he fell on three days rise again. {8:32} And hethe spakeground, thatand wallowedsaying foaming. {9:21} And he asked openly. And Peter took him, and beganhis father, to rebuke How long him. is it ago since this came unto him? {8:33} But when he had turned about andAnd looked he said, on Ofhis a child. {9:22} And ofttimes it hath cast disciples, he rebuked Peter, saying, Gethim intothee the behind fire, and intome, the waters, to destroy him: but if Satan: for thou savourest not the things that be of God,thou butcanst do any thing, have compassion on us, and help the things that be of men. us. {9:23} Jesus said unto him, If thou canst believe, all things [are] possible to him that believeth. {9:24} And {8:34} And when he had called the peoplestraightway [unto the him] father of the child cried out, and said with with his disciples also, he said unto them, Whosoevertears, willLord, I believe; help thou mine unbelief. {9:25} come after me, let him deny himself, and take up hisWhen cross, Jesus saw that the people came running together, he and follow me. {8:35} For whosoever will save his life shallrebuked the foul spirit, saying unto him, [Thou] dumb and lose it; but whosoever shall lose his life for my sake and thedeaf spirit, I charge thee, come out of him, and enter no gospel's, the same shall save it. {8:36} moreFor whatinto him.shall {9:26} it And [the spirit] cried, and rent him profit a man, if he shall gain the whole world, andsore, lose his and came out of him: and he was as one dead; own soul? {8:37} Or what shall a man give in exchangeinsomuch for that many said, He is dead. {9:27} But Jesus took his soul? {8:38} Whosoever therefore shall be himashamed by the of hand, and lifted him up; and he arose. {9:28} me and of my words in thisAnd whenadulterous he was come into and the house, sinful his disciples asked generation; of him also shall the Son of man himbe privately,ashamed, Why could not we cast him out? {9:29} And when he cometh in the glory of his Fatherhe saidwith unto the them, holy This kind can come forth by nothing, but angels. by prayer and fasting.

{9:1} And he said unto them, Verily I say unto you, {9:30}That And they departed thence, and passed through there be some of them that stand here, which shall notGalilee; taste and he would not that any man should know [it. of death, till they have seen the kingdom of God come ]{9:31}with For he taught his disciples, and said unto them, The power. Son of man is delivered into the hands of men, and they shall kill him; and after that he is killed, he shall rise the {9:2} And after six days Jesus taketh [withthird him]day. {9:32}Peter, But they understood not that saying, and and James, and John, and leadeth themwere up afraid into to askan him. high {9:33} And he came to Capernaum: mountain apart by themselves: andand hebeing was in the transfigured house he asked them, What was it that ye before them. {9:3} And his disputedraiment among became yourselves shining, by the way? {9:34} But they exceeding white as snow; so as no fuller on earth can whiteheld their peace: for by the way they had disputed among them. {9:4} And there appearedthemselves, unto themwho [should Elias be] the greatest.with {9:35} And he sat Moses: and they were talking with Jesus. {9:5}down, And Peterand called the twelve, and saith unto them, If any answered and said to Jesus, Master, it is good forman us desireto be to be first, [the same] shall be last of all, and here: and let us make three tabernacles; oneservant for thee,of all. {9:36}and And he took a child, and set him in the one for Moses, and one for Elias. {9:6}midst For ofhe them: wist and not when he had taken him in his arms, he what to say; for they were sore afraid. {9:7} And theresaid was unto them, {9:37} Whosoever shall receive one of such a cloud that overshadowed them: and a voice childrencame out ofin my name, receiveth me: and whosoever shall the cloud, saying, This is my beloved Son: hear him.receive {9:8} me, receiveth not me, but him that sent me. And suddenly, when they had looked round about, they saw no man any more, save Jesus only with themselves.{9:38} {9:9} And John answered him, saying, Master, we saw And as they came down from the mountain,one casting he out charged devils in thy name, and he followeth not us: them that they should tell no man what things they had seen,and we forbad him, because he followeth not us. {9:39} But till the Son of man were risen from the dead. Jesus{9:10} said, And Forbid him not: for there is no man which shall they kept that saying with themselves, questioning onedo with a miracle in my name, that can lightly speak evil of me. another what the rising from the dead should mean.{9:40} {9:11} For he that is not against us is on our part. {9:41} And they asked him, saying, Why say the scribes thatFor Elias whosoever shall give you a cup of water to drink in my must first come? {9:12} And he answered andname, told because them, ye belong to Christ, verily I say unto you, he Elias verily cometh first, and restoreth all things; and howshall it not lose his reward. {9:42} And whosoever shall is written of the Son of man, that heoffend must sufferone of many[these] little ones that believe in me, it is things, and be set at nought. {9:13} But I say unto you, Thatbetter for him that a millstone were hanged about his neck, Elias is indeed come, and theyand he werehave cast intodone the sea. {9:43}unto And him if thy hand offend whatsoever they listed, as it isthee, written cut it off: it isof better him. for thee to enter into life maimed, than having two hands to go into hell, into the fire that Page 27 Mark never shall be quenched: {9:44} Where theirsaith untoworm them, dieth Children, how hard is it for them that trust not, and the fire is not quenched. {9:45} inAnd riches if thy to footenter into the kingdom of God! {10:25} It is offend thee, cut it off: it is better for thee to entereasier halt forinto a camel to go through the eye of a needle, than for life, than having two feet to be cast into hell,a intorich theman fire to enter into the kingdom of God. {10:26} And that never shall be quenched: {9:46}they Where weretheir wormastonished out of measure, saying among dieth not, and the fire is not quenched. {9:47} Andthemselves, if thine Who then can be saved? {10:27} And Jesus eye offend thee, pluck it out: it is better for thee to enter intolooking upon them saith, With men [it is] impossible, but the kingdom of God with one eye, than having two noteyes with to God: for with God all things are possible. be cast into hell fire: {9:48} Where their worm dieth not, and the fire is not quenched. {9:49} For every one shall{10:28} be Then Peter began to say unto him, Lo, we have salted with fire, and every sacrifice shall be salted withleft salt. all, and have followed thee. {10:29} And Jesus {9:50} Salt [is] good: but if the salt have lost answeredhis saltness, and said, Verily I say unto you, There is no man wherewith will ye season it? Have salt in yourselves,that hath andleft house, or brethren, or sisters, or father, or have peace one with another. mother, or wife, or children, or lands, for my sake, and the gospel's, {10:30} But he shall receive an hundredfold now {10:1} And he arose from thence, and incometh this time, into houses, the and brethren, and sisters, and mothers, coasts of Judaea by the farther sideand ofchildren, Jordan: and lands, and with the persecutions; and in the world people resort unto him again; and, as he was wont, he taughtto come eternal life. {10:31} But many [that are] first shall them again. be last; and the last first.

{10:2} And the Pharisees came to him, and asked him,{10:32} Is And they were in the way going up to Jerusalem; it lawful for a man to put away [his] wife? temptingand Jesus him.went before them: and they were amazed; and as {10:3} And he answered and said untothey them, followed, What didthey were afraid. And he took again the Moses command you? {10:4}twelve, And and they began tosaid, tell them Moses what things should happen suffered to write a bill of divorcement,unto andhim, {10:33}to put [Saying,] [her] Behold, we go up to Jerusalem; away. {10:5} And Jesus answered and said unto them,and the For Son of man shall be delivered unto the chief priests, the hardness of your heart he wrote you this precept. {10:6}and unto the scribes; and they shall condemn him to death, But from the beginning of the creation God made them maleand shall deliver him to the Gentiles: {10:34} And they and female. {10:7} For this cause shallshall a manmock him,leave and his shall scourge him, and shall spit upon father and mother, and cleave to his wife; {10:8} Andhim, they and shall kill him: and the third day he shall rise again. twain shall be one flesh: so then they are no more twain, but one flesh. {10:9} What therefore God hath joined together,{10:35} And James and John, the sons of Zebedee, come let not man put asunder. {10:10} Andunto in him, the saying, house Master, his we would that thou shouldest do disciples asked him again of the samefor [matter.us whatsoever ]{10:11} we shall desire. {10:36} And he said unto And he saith unto them, Whosoever shall put away his wife,them, What would ye that I should do for you? {10:37} and marry another, committethThey said unto adulteryhim, Grant unto usagainst that we may sit,her. one on {10:12} And if a woman shall put away her husband,thy right andhand, and the other on thy left hand, in thy glory. be married to another, she committeth adultery. {10:38} But Jesus said unto them, Ye know not what ye ask: can ye drink of the cup that I drink of? and be baptized {10:13} And they brought young children to him,with that the he baptism that I am baptized with? {10:39} And they should touch them: and [his] disciples rebukedsaid unto those him, We that can. And Jesus said unto them, Ye shall brought [them. ]{10:14} But when Jesus sawindeed [it,] drink he of wasthe cup that I drink of; and with the baptism much displeased, and said untothat them, I am baptized Suffer withal the shall yelittle be baptized: {10:40} But children to come unto me, and forbid them not: for toof sitsuch on my right hand and on my left hand is not mine to is the kingdom of God. {10:15} Verilygive; Ibut say [it shall unto be given you, to them] for whom it is prepared. Whosoever shall not receive the kingdom of God as{10:41} a little And when the ten heard [it,] they began to be much child, he shall not enter therein. {10:16} And he tookdispleased them with James and John. {10:42} But Jesus called up in his arms, put [his] hands upon them, and blessedthem them. [to him,] and saith unto them, Ye know that they which are accounted to rule over the Gentiles exercise {10:17} And when he was gone forth into the way,lordship there over them; and their great ones exercise authority came one running, and kneeled to him,upon them.and asked{10:43} him,But so shall it not be among you: but Good Master, what shall I do that I may inherit eternal whosoeverlife? will be great among you, shall be your minister: {10:18} And Jesus said unto him, Why{10:44} callest And whosoever thou meof you will be the chiefest, shall be good? [there is] none good but one, [that is,] God.servant {10:19} of all. {10:45} For even the Son of man came not to Thou knowest the commandments, Do not commit adultery,be ministered unto, but to minister, and to give his life a Do not kill, Do not steal, Do not bear false witness, Defraudransom for many. not, Honour thy father and mother. {10:20} And he answered and said unto him, Master,{10:46} Andall they these came tohave Jericho: Iand as he went out of observed from my youth. {10:21} ThenJericho Jesus with beholding his disciples and a great number of people, him loved him, and said unto him, One thing thoublind lackest: Bartimaeus, the son of Timaeus, sat by the highway go thy way, sell whatsoever thou hast, and give to the sidepoor, begging. {10:47} And when he heard that it was Jesus and thou shalt have treasure in heaven: and come,of Nazareth, take up he began to cry out, and say, Jesus, [thou] Son the cross, and follow me. {10:22} And he wasof sad David, at that have mercy on me. {10:48} And many charged saying, and went away grieved: for he had greathim possessions. that he should hold his peace: but he cried the more a great deal, [Thou] Son of David, have mercy on me. {10:23} And Jesus looked round about, and saith unto{10:49} his And Jesus stood still, and commanded him to be disciples, How hardly shall they that have riches called.enter intoAnd they call the blind man, saying unto him, Be of the kingdom of God! {10:24} Andgood comfort,the disciplesrise; he calleth thee.were {10:50} And he, casting astonished at his words. But Jesus answerethaway his garment,again, androse, and came to Jesus. {10:51} And Mark Page 28 Jesus answered and said unto him, What neitherwilt thou will that your I Father which is in heaven forgive your should do unto thee? The blind man said untotrespasses. him, Lord, that I might receive my sight. {10:52} And Jesus said unto him, Go thy way; thy faith hath made {11:27}thee Andwhole. they come And again to Jerusalem: and as he was immediately he received his sight, and followed Jesus in walkingthe in the temple, there come to him the chief priests, way. and the scribes, and the elders, {11:28} And say unto him, By what authority doest thou these things? and who gave {11:1} And when they came nighthee to thisJerusalem, authority tounto do these things? {11:29} And Jesus Bethphage and Bethany, at the , he sendethanswered and said unto them, I will also ask of you one forth two of his disciples, {11:2} And saith untoquestion, them, Go and answer me, and I will tell you by what your way into the village over against you: and authorityas soon as I do these things. {11:30} The baptism of John, ye be entered into it, ye shall find a colt tied, whereon neverwas [it] from heaven, or of men? answer me. {11:31} And man sat; loose him, and bring [him. ]{11:3} And if any manthey reasoned with themselves, saying, If we shall say, say unto you, Why do ye this? say ye that Fromthe heaven;Lord hathhe will say, Why then did ye not believe him? need of him; and straightway he {11:32}will Butsend if we shallhim say, hither. Of men; they feared the people: {11:4} And they went their way, and found the colt tiedfor byall [men] counted John, that he was a prophet indeed. the door without in a place where two ways met;{11:33} and they And they answered and said unto Jesus, We cannot loose him. {11:5} And certain of them that stood theretell. said And Jesus answering saith unto them, Neither do I tell unto them, What do ye, loosing the colt? {11:6}you And by theywhat authority I do these things. said unto them even as Jesus had commanded: and they let them go. {11:7} And they brought the colt to Jesus, and cast {12:1} And he began to speak unto them by parables. A their garments on him; and he sat upon him.[certain] {11:8} manAnd planted a vineyard, and set an hedge about many spread their garments in the way: and others cut down[it,] and digged [a place for] the winefat, and built a tower, branches off the trees, and strawedand [them]let it out into husbandmen,the way. and went into a far country. {11:9} And they that went before, and they that{12:2} followed, And at the season he sent to the husbandmen a cried, saying, Hosanna; Blessed [is] he that servant,cometh thatin the he might receive from the husbandmen of the name of the Lord: {11:10} Blessed [be] the kingdom offruit our of the vineyard. {12:3} And they caught [him,] and father David, that cometh in the name of the Lord: Hosannabeat him, and sent [him] away empty. {12:4} And again he in the highest. {11:11} And Jesus entered sentinto unto Jerusalem, them another servant; and at him they cast stones, and into the temple: and when he had looked andround woundedabout [him] in the head, and sent [him] away upon all things, and now the eventide was come,shamefully he went handled. {12:5} And again he sent another; and out unto Bethany with the twelve. him they killed, and many others; beating some, and killing some. {12:6} Having yet therefore one son, his {11:12} And on the morrow, when they were comewellbeloved, from he sent him also last unto them, saying, They Bethany, he was hungry: {11:13} And seeing a fig treewill afar reverence my son. {12:7} But those husbandmen said off having leaves, he came, if haply he might find any thingamong themselves, This is the heir; come, let us kill him, thereon: and when he came to it, heand found the inheritance nothing shall bebut ours. {12:8} And they took him, leaves; for the time of figs was not [yet. ]{11:14} And Jesusand killed [him,] and cast [him] out of the vineyard. {12:9} answered and said unto it, No man eat fruit of thee hereafterWhat shall therefore the lord of the vineyard do? he will for ever. And his disciples heard [it. come and destroy the husbandmen, and will give the vineyard unto others. {12:10} And have ye not read this ]{11:15} And they come to Jerusalem:scripture; and Jesus The wentstone which the builders rejected is become into the temple, and began to cast out themthe that head sold of theand corner: {12:11} This was the Lord's doing, bought in the temple, and overthrewand it is themarvellous tables in ourof eyes? the {12:12} And they sought moneychangers, and the seats of themto lay hold that on him, sold but feared doves; the people: for they knew that {11:16} And would not suffer that any manhe hadshould spoken carry the parable against them: and they left him, [any] vessel through the temple. {11:17}and wentAnd theirhe taught,way. saying unto them, Is it not written, My house shall be called of all nations the house of prayer? but ye have made it a den {12:13} And they send unto him certain of the Pharisees of thieves. {11:18} And the scribes and chief priestsand of heard the Herodians, to catch him in [his] words. {12:14} [it,] and sought how they might destroy him: for they fearedAnd when they were come, they say unto him, Master, we him, because all the people was astonished at hisknow doctrine. that thou art true, and carest for no man: for thou {11:19} And when even was come, he went out ofregardest the city. not the person of men, but teachest the way of God in truth: Is it lawful to give tribute to Caesar, or not? {11:20} And in the morning, as they passed by, they{12:15} saw Shall we give, or shall we not give? But he, the fig tree dried up from the roots. knowing{11:21} theirAnd Peterhypocrisy, said unto them, Why tempt ye calling to remembrance saith unto him, Master, behold,me? bring the me a penny, that I may see [it. ]{12:16} And they fig tree which thou cursedst is withered away. {11:22}brought And [it.] And he saith unto them, Whose [is] this image Jesus answering saith unto them,and superscription?Have faith in AndGod. they said unto him, Caesar's. {11:23} For verily I say unto you, That whosoever shall say{12:17} And Jesus answering said unto them, Render to unto this mountain, Be thou removed, and be thou castCaesar into the things that are Caesar's, and to God the things the sea; and shall not doubt in his heart, butthat shall are believeGod's. And they marvelled at him. that those things which he saith shall come to pass; he shall have whatsoever he saith. {11:24} Therefore I say unto you,{12:18} Then come unto him the Sadducees, which say What things soever ye desire, when ye pray, believe thatthere ye is no resurrection; and they asked him, saying, receive [them,] and ye shall have {12:19}[them. Master, ]{11:25} Moses And wrote unto us, If a man's brother when ye stand praying, forgive, if ye havedie, ought and against leave [his] wife [behind him,] and leave no any: that your Father also which is in heaven children,may forgive that his brother should take his wife, and raise up you your trespasses. {11:26} But seedif ye untodo not his forgive, brother. {12:20} Now there were seven Page 29 Mark brethren: and the first took a wife, and dying leftdown. no {13:3} seed. And as he sat upon the mount of Olives over {12:21} And the second took her, and died, neitheragainst left thehe temple, Peter and James and John and Andrew any seed: and the third likewise. {12:22} And the seven hadasked him privately, {13:4} Tell us, when shall these things her, and left no seed: last of all thebe? and woman what [shall died be] also.the sign when all these things shall {12:23} In the resurrection therefore, when theybe shall fulfilled? rise, {13:5} And Jesus answering them began to whose wife shall she be of them? for the seven say,had her Take to heed lest any [man] deceive you: {13:6} For wife. {12:24} And Jesus answering said unto them,many Do shall ye come in my name, saying, I am [Christ;] and not therefore err, because ye knowshall deceive not many. the {13:7} scriptures, And when ye shall hear of wars neither the power of God? {12:25} For when they shalland rise rumours of wars, be ye not troubled: for [such things] from the dead, they neither mustmarry, needs be;nor but theare end [shall]given not [be]in yet. {13:8} For marriage; but are as the angels which are in heaven. {12:26}nation shall rise against nation, and kingdom against And as touching the dead, that they rise: have ye not read kingdom:in and there shall be earthquakes in divers places, the , how in the bush God spakeand unto there him, shall be famines and troubles: these [are] the saying, I [am] the God of Abraham, and the Godbeginnings of Isaac, of sorrows. and the God of Jacob? {12:27} He is not the God of the dead, but the God of the living: ye therefore do{13:9} greatly But err.take heed to yourselves: for they shall deliver you up to councils; and in the synagogues ye shall be {12:28} And one of the scribes came, and beaten:having andheard ye shall be brought before rulers and kings for them reasoning together, andmy sake,perceiving for a testimony that against he them.had {13:10} And the answered them well, askedgospel him, must Whichfirst be published is the among first all nations. {13:11} commandment of all? {12:29} And JesusBut whenanswered they shall him, lead [you,] and deliver you up, take no The first of all the commandments [is,] Hear, O Israel;thought The beforehand what ye shall speak, neither do ye Lord our God is one Lord: {12:30} And thou shalt lovepremeditate: the but whatsoever shall be given you in that hour, Lord thy God with all thy heart, and with all thythat soul, speak and ye: for it is not ye that speak, but the Holy Ghost. with all thy mind, and with all thy strength: this is{13:12} the first Now the brother shall betray the brother to death, commandment. {12:31} And the second [is] like,and [namely] the father the son; and children shall rise up against this, Thou shalt love thy neighbour as thyself. There is none[their] parents, and shall cause them to be put to death. other commandment greater than these.{13:13} {12:32} And And ye shall the be hated of all [men] for my name's scribe said unto him, Well, Master, thou hast said thesake: truth: but he that shall endure unto the end, the same shall be for there is one God; and there is none other but he: {12:33}saved. And to love him with all the heart, and with all the understanding, and with all the {13:14}soul, and But with when all theye shall see the abomination of strength, and to love [his] neighbour asdesolation, himself, spoken is ofmore by Daniel the prophet, standing where than all whole burnt offerings and sacrifices. it{12:34} ought not, And (let him that readeth understand,) then let them when Jesus saw that he answered discreetly,that hebe insaid Judaea unto flee to the mountains: {13:15} And let him him, Thou art not far from the kingdom ofthat God. is on And the housetopno not go down into the house, neither man after that durst ask him [any question. enter [therein,] to take any thing out of his house: {13:16} And let him that is in the field not turn back again for to ]{12:35} And Jesus answered and said, while he taughttake in up his garment. {13:17} But woe to them that are with the temple, How say the scribes that Christchild, is the and Son to of them that give suck in those days! {13:18} David? {12:36} For David himself said by the Holy AndGhost, pray ye that your flight be not in the winter. {13:19} The Lord said to my Lord, Sit thou on my right hand,For till [in] I those days shall be affliction, such as was not from make thine enemies thy footstool. {12:37} Davidthe therefore beginning of the creation which God created unto this himself calleth him Lord; and whence is he [then] time,his son?neither shall be. {13:20} And except that the Lord had And the common people heard him gladly. shortened those days, no flesh should be saved: but for the elect's sake, whom he hath chosen, he hath shortened the {12:38} And he said unto them in his doctrine, Bewaredays. of {13:21} And then if any man shall say to you, Lo, the scribes, which love to go in long clothing,here and[is] [love] Christ; or, lo, [he is] there; believe [him] not: salutations in the marketplaces, {12:39} And the chief{13:22} seats For false Christs and false prophets shall rise, and in the synagogues, and the uppermostshall shewrooms signsat feasts: and wonders, to seduce, if [it were] {12:40} Which devour widows' houses, and for apossible, pretence even the elect. {13:23} But take ye heed: behold, I make long : these shall receive greater damnation.have foretold you all things.

{12:41} And Jesus sat over against{13:24} the But treasury, in those days,and after that tribulation, the sun beheld how the people cast money into theshall treasury: be darkened, and and the moon shall not give her light, many that were rich cast in much. {12:42} And there{13:25} came And the stars of heaven shall fall, and the powers a certain poor widow, and she threw in twothat mites, are in which heaven shall be shaken. {13:26} And then shall make a farthing. {12:43} And he calledthey see [unto the Sonhim] of manhis coming in the clouds with great disciples, and saith unto them, Verily I say untopower you, and That glory. {13:27} And then shall he send his angels, this poor widow hath cast more in, than all they which haveand shall gather together his elect from the four winds, from cast into the treasury: {12:44} For all [they] didthe cast uttermost in of part of the earth to the uttermost part of their abundance; but she of her want did cast in all thatheaven. she {13:28} Now learn a parable of the fig tree; When had, [even] all her living. her branch is yet tender, and putteth forth leaves, ye know that summer is near: {13:29} So ye in like manner, when ye {13:1} And as he went out of the temple,shall see onethese of things his come to pass, know that it is nigh, disciples saith unto him, Master, see what manner of [even]stones at the doors. {13:30} Verily I say unto you, that this and what buildings [are here! ]{13:2} And Jesus answeringgeneration shall not pass, till all these things be done. said unto him, Seest thou these great buildings? there{13:31} shall Heaven and earth shall pass away: but my words not be left one stone upon another, that shall not be shallthrown not pass away. Mark Page 30 {13:32} But of that day and [that] hour knoweth noblessed, man, and brake [it,] and gave to them, and said, Take, no, not the angels which are in heaven, neither the Son,eat: but this is my body. {14:23} And he took the cup, and the Father. {13:33} Take ye heed, watch andwhen pray: he hadfor givenye thanks, he gave [it] to them: and they all know not when the time is. {13:34} [For the Son of man drankis] of it. {14:24} And he said unto them, This is my as a man taking a far journey, who left his house, andblood gave of the new testament, which is shed for many. authority to his servants, and to every man{14:25} his work, Verily and I say unto you, I will drink no more of the commanded the porter to fruitwatch. of the vine,{13:35} until that Watch day that Iye drink it new in the therefore: for ye know not when the masterkingdom of the of house God. cometh, at even, or at midnight, or at the cockcrowing, or in the morning: {13:36} Lest coming suddenly{14:26} he And find when you they had sung an hymn, they went out sleeping. {13:37} And what I say unto you I sayinto unto the all, mount of Olives. {14:27} And Jesus saith unto Watch. them, All ye shall be offended because of me this night: for it is written, I will smite the shepherd, and the sheep shall be {14:1} After two days was [the feast of] the passover, andscattered. {14:28} But after that I am risen, I will go before of unleavened bread: and the chief priests youand into the Galilee. scribes {14:29} But Peter said unto him, Although sought how they might take him by craft, and putall [him] shall to be offended, yet [will] not I. {14:30} And Jesus death. {14:2} But they said, Not on thesaith feast unto him,[day,] Verily lest I say unto thee, That this day, [even] there be an uproar of the people. in this night, before the cock crow twice, thou shalt deny me thrice. {14:31} But he spake the more vehemently, If I {14:3} And being in Bethany in the house ofshould Simon thedie with thee, I will not deny thee in any wise. leper, as he sat at meat, there came a womanLikewise having also saidan they all. {14:32} And they came to a alabaster box of ointment of spikenard veryplace precious; which and was named Gethsemane: and he saith to his she brake the box, and poured [it] on his head. {14:4}disciples, And Sit ye here, while I shall pray. {14:33} And he there were some that had indignationtaketh within with himthemselves, Peter and James and John, and began to be and said, Why was this waste of the ointment made? {14:5}sore amazed, and to be very heavy; {14:34} And saith unto For it might have been sold for more thanthem, three My hundred soul is exceeding sorrowful unto death: tarry ye pence, and have been given to the poor. And they murmuredhere, and watch. {14:35} And he went forward a little, and against her. {14:6} And Jesus said, fellLet on herthe ground,alone; and why prayed that, if it were possible, the trouble ye her? she hath wrought ahour good might work pass on fromme. him. {14:36} And he said, Abba, {14:7} For ye have the poorFather, with all thingsyou [are]always, possible and unto thee; take away this whensoever ye will ye may do them good: but me cupye havefrom me: nevertheless not what I will, but what thou not always. {14:8} She hath done what shewilt. could: {14:37} she isAnd he cometh, and findeth them sleeping, come aforehand to anoint my body to the burying.and saith{14:9} unto Peter, Simon, sleepest thou? couldest not Verily I say unto you, Wheresoever thisthou gospelwatch oneshall hour? be {14:38} Watch ye and pray, lest ye preached throughout the whole world, [this]enter also into that temptation. she The spirit truly [is] ready, but the hath done shall be spoken of for a memorialflesh of her. [is] weak. {14:39} And again he went away, and prayed, and spake the same words. {14:40} And when he {14:10} And Judas Iscariot, one of the twelve, wentreturned, unto he found them asleep again, (for their eyes were the chief priests, to betray him unto heavy,)them. neither{14:11} wist theyAnd what to answer him. {14:41} And when they heard [it,] they were glad, and promisedhe to cometh give the third time, and saith unto them, Sleep on him money. And he sought how he now,might and conveniently take [your] rest: it is enough, the hour is come; betray him. behold, the Son of man is betrayed into the hands of sinners. {14:42} Rise up, let us go; lo, he that betrayeth me is at {14:12} And the first day of unleavened bread, when theyhand. killed the passover, his disciples said unto him, Where wilt thou that we go and prepare that {14:43}thou mayest And immediately, eat the while he yet spake, cometh passover? {14:13} And he sendethJudas, one offorth the twelve, two and of with his him a great multitude disciples, and saith unto them, Go ye into the city, and therewith swords and staves, from the chief priest and the scribes shall meet you a man bearing a pitcher of water: follow him.and the elders. {14:44} And he that betrayed him had given {14:14} And wheresoever he shall gothem in, a token,say saying,ye to Whomsoever the I shall kiss, that same is goodman of the house, The Master he;saith, take him,Where and leadis the[him] away safely. {14:45} And as guestchamber, where I shall eatsoon the aspassover he was come, with he my goeth straightway to him, and disciples? {14:15} And he will shewsaith, you aMaster, large master;upper and kissed him. room furnished [and] prepared: there make ready for us. {14:16} And his disciples went forth, and{14:46} came And into they the laid their hands on him, and took him. city, and found as he had said unto them: and{14:47} they And made one of them that stood by drew a sword, and ready the passover. {14:17} And in the evening hesmote cometh a servant of the high priest, and cut off his ear. with the twelve. {14:18} And as they sat and did eat,{14:48} Jesus And Jesus answered and said unto them, Are ye said, Verily I say unto you, One of you which comeeateth out, with as against a thief, with swords and [with] staves me shall betray me. {14:19}to Andtake me?they {14:49} began I was to daily be with you in the temple sorrowful, and to say unto him one by one,teaching, [Is] it I? andand ye took me not: but the scriptures must be another [said, Is] it I? {14:20} And he answeredfulfilled. and said {14:50} And they all forsook him, and fled. unto them, [It is] one of the twelve, that dippeth with {14:51}me in And there followed him a certain young man, the dish. {14:21} The Son of man indeedhaving goeth, a linen as clothit is cast about [his] naked [body;] and the written of him: but woe to that man by whomyoung the menSon laidof hold on him: {14:52} And he left the linen man is betrayed! good were it for that man if he hadcloth, never and fled from them naked. been born. {14:53} And they led Jesus away to the high priest: and {14:22} And as they did eat, withJesus him weretook assembled bread, all the and chief priests and the elders Page 31 Mark and the scribes. {14:54} And Peter followed done?him afar And off, they cried out the more exceedingly, Crucify even into the palace of the high priest: and he sathim. with the servants, and warmed himself at the fire. {14:55} And the chief priests and all the council sought for witness{15:15} against And [so] Pilate, willing to content the people, Jesus to put him to death; and found none.released {14:56} Barabbas untoFor them, and delivered Jesus, when he many bare false witness against hadhim, scourgedbut their [him,]witness to be crucified. {15:16} And the agreed not together. {14:57} And there arosesoldiers certain, led him and away into the hall, called ; and bare false witness against him, saying, {14:58}they call We together heard the whole band. {15:17} And they clothed him say, I will destroy this temple that is made with himhands, with purple, and platted a , and put it and within three days I will build anotherabout madehis [head, without ]{15:18} And began to salute him, Hail, hands. {14:59} But neither so Kingdid of thetheir Jews! {15:19}witness And they agree smote him on the head together. {14:60} And the high priest stood up in the midst,with a reed, and did spit upon him, and [their] knees and asked Jesus, saying, Answerest thou nothing? what [is itworshipped him. {15:20} And when they had mocked him, which] these witness against thee? {14:61} But hethey held took his off the purple from him, and put his own clothes peace, and answered nothing. Again the highon him,priest and asked led him out to crucify him. {15:21} And they him, and said unto him, Art thou the Christ, the Soncompel of the one Simon a Cyrenian, who passed by, coming out Blessed? {14:62} And Jesus said, I am: and ye shall seeof the the country, the father of and Rufus, to bear Son of man sitting on the right hand of power, and hiscoming cross. {15:22} And they bring him unto the place in the clouds of heaven. {14:63} Then the highGolgotha, priest rent which is, being interpreted, The place of a skull. his clothes, and saith, What need we any further witnesses?{15:23} And they gave him to drink wine mingled with {14:64} Ye have heard the blasphemy: what think ye?myrrh: And but he received [it] not. {15:24} And when they had they all condemned him to be guilty of death. {14:65}crucified And him, they parted his garments, casting lots upon some began to spit on him, and to cover histhem, face, what and every to man should take. {15:25} And it was the buffet him, and to say unto him, Prophesy: and the servantsthird hour, and they crucified him. {15:26} And the did strike him with the palms of their hands. superscription of his accusation was written over, THE KING OF THE JEWS. {15:27} And with him they crucify {14:66} And as Peter was beneath in twothe thieves;palace, the thereone on his right hand, and the other on his cometh one of the maids of the high priest:left. {14:67} {15:28} And And the scripture was fulfilled, which saith, when she saw Peter warming himself, she looked upon him,And he was numbered with the transgressors. {15:29} And and said, And thou also wast withthey thatJesus passed byof railed Nazareth. on him, wagging their heads, and {14:68} But he denied, saying,saying, Ah, thouI knowthat destroyest not, the temple, neither and buildest [it] understand I what thou sayest. And he wentin three out days,into {15:30}the Save thyself, and come down from porch; and the cock crew. {14:69} And athe maid cross. saw {15:31} him Likewise also the chief priests mocking again, and began to say to them that stood by, This issaid [one] among themselves with the scribes, He saved others; of them. {14:70} And he denied it again. And a littlehimself after, he cannot save. {15:32} Let Christ the King of they that stood by said again to Peter, Surely thou artIsrael [one] descend now from the cross, that we may see and of them: for thou art a Galilaean, and thybelieve. speech And agreeth they that were crucified with him reviled him. [thereto. ]{14:71} But he began to{15:33} curse andAnd towhen swear, the sixth hour was come, there was [saying,] I know not this man of whom ye speak.darkness {14:72} over the whole land until the ninth hour. {15:34} And the second time the cock crew. AndAnd Peter at the called ninth hour to Jesus cried with a loud voice, saying, mind the word that Jesus said unto him, BeforeEloi, Eloi, the cocklama sabachthani? which is, being interpreted, crow twice, thou shalt deny me thrice. And when he thoughtMy God, my God, why hast thou forsaken me? {15:35} thereon, he wept. And some of them that stood by, when they heard [it,] said, Behold, he calleth Elias. {15:36} And one ran and filled a {15:1} And straightway in the morning thespunge chief fullpriests of vinegar, and put [it] on a reed, and gave him held a consultation with the eldersto anddrink, scribes saying, and Let thealone; let us see whether Elias will whole council, and bound Jesus, and carriedcome [him]to take away, him down. {15:37} And Jesus cried with a and delivered [him] to Pilate. {15:2} And Pilate askedloud him, voice, and gave up the ghost. {15:38} And the veil of Art thou the King of the Jews? And he answering saidthe unto temple was rent in twain from the top to the bottom. him, Thou sayest [it. ]{15:3} And the chief priests accused him of many things: but he answered nothing. {15:4}{15:39} And And when the centurion, which stood over Pilate asked him again, saying, Answerestagainst him,thou saw nothing?that he so cried out, and gave up the ghost, behold how many things they witness against thee.he said, {15:5} Truly this man was the Son of God. {15:40} There But Jesus yet answered nothing; so that Pilatewere also marvelled. women looking on afar off: among whom was {15:6} Now at [that] feast he releasedMary Magdalene, unto andthem Mary one the mother of prisoner, whomsoever they desired. {15:7} Andand of there Joses, wasand ; {15:41} (Who also, when he was [one] named Barabbas, [which lay] bound inwith Galilee, them that followed him, and ministered unto him;) and had made insurrection with him,many otherwho women had whichcommitted came up with him unto Jerusalem. murder in the insurrection. {15:8} And the multitude crying aloud began to desire [him to do] as he had ever done{15:42} unto And now when the even was come, because it them. {15:9} But Pilate answered them, saying, Will ye thatwas the preparation, that is, the day before the sabbath, I release unto you the King of the Jews? {15:10}{15:43} ForJoseph he of Arimathaea, an honourable counsellor, knew that the chief priests had deliveredwhich also him waited for for theenvy. kingdom of God, came, and went {15:11} But the chief priests moved inthe boldly people, unto Pilate, that and he craved the body of Jesus. {15:44} should rather release Barabbas untoAnd them. Pilate {15:12}marvelled ifAnd he were already dead: and calling Pilate answered and said again unto them, What will ye then[unto him] the centurion, he asked him whether he had been that I shall do [unto him] whom ye call anythe whileKing ofdead. the {15:45} And when he knew [it] of the Jews? {15:13} And they cried outcenturion, again, Crucifyhe gave thehim. body to Joseph. {15:46} And he {15:14} Then Pilate said unto them, Why, what evil hath boughthe fine linen, and took him down, and wrapped him in Mark Page 32 the linen, and laid him in a sepulchre which was hewn out of a rock, and rolled a stone unto the door of the sepulchre. {15:47} And Mary Magdalene and Mary [the mother] of Joses beheld where he was laid.

{16:1} And when the sabbath was past, Mary Magdalene, and Mary the [mother] of James, and Salome, had bought sweet spices, that they might come and anoint him. {16:2} And very early in the morning the first [day] of the week, they came unto the sepulchre at the rising of the sun. {16:3} And they said among themselves, Who shall roll us away the stone from the door of the sepulchre? {16:4} And when they looked, they saw that the stone was rolled away: for it was very great. {16:5} And entering into the sepulchre, they saw a young man sitting on the right side, clothed in a long white garment; and they were affrighted. {16:6} And he saith unto them, Be not affrighted: Ye seek Jesus of Nazareth, which was crucified: he is risen; he is not here: behold the place where they laid him. {16:7} But go your way, tell his disciples and Peter that he goeth before you into Galilee: there shall ye see him, as he said unto you. {16:8} And they went out quickly, and fled from the sepulchre; for they trembled and were amazed: neither said they any thing to any [man;] for they were afraid.

{16:9} Now when [Jesus] was risen early the first [day] of the week, he appeared first to Mary Magdalene, out of whom he had cast seven devils. {16:10} [And] she went and told them that had been with him, as they mourned and wept. {16:11} And they, when they had heard that he was alive, and had been seen of her, believed not.

{16:12} After that he appeared in another form unto two of them, as they walked, and went into the country. {16:13} And they went and told [it] unto the residue: neither believed they them.

{16:14} Afterward he appeared unto the eleven as they sat at meat, and upbraided them with their unbelief and hardness of heart, because they believed not them which had seen him after he was risen. {16:15} And he said unto them, Go ye into all the world, and preach the gospel to every creature. {16:16} He that believeth and is baptized shall be saved; but he that believeth not shall be damned. {16:17} And these signs shall follow them that believe; In my name shall they cast out devils; they shall speak with new tongues; {16:18} They shall take up serpents; and if they drink any deadly thing, it shall not hurt them; they shall lay hands on the sick, and they shall recover.

{16:19} So then after the Lord had spoken unto them, he was received up into heaven, and sat on the . {16:20} And they went forth, and preached every where, the Lord working with [them,] and confirming the word with signs following. Amen. Page 33 Luke The Gospel According to St. Luke cast in her mind what manner of salutation this should be. {1:30} And the angel said unto her, Fear not, Mary: for thou hast found favour with God. {1:31} And, behold, thou shalt conceive in thy womb, and bring forth a son, and shalt call {1:1} Forasmuch as many have taken in hand to sethis forth name JESUS. {1:32} He shall be great, and shall be in order a declaration of those things which are most calledsurely the Son of the Highest: and the Lord God shall give believed among us, {1:2} Even as they delivered themunto unto him the throne of his father David: {1:33} And he shall us, which from the beginningreign were over theeyewitnesses, house of Jacob for ever;and and of his kingdom ministers of the word; {1:3} It seemed goodthere toshall me also,be no end. {1:34} Then said Mary unto the having had perfect understanding of all things from the veryangel, How shall this be, seeing I know not a man? {1:35} first, to write unto thee in order, most excellent ,And the angel answered and said unto her, The Holy Ghost {1:4} That thou mightest know the certainty of those things,shall come upon thee, and the power of the Highest shall wherein thou hast been instructed. overshadow thee: therefore also that holy thing which shall be born of thee shall be called the Son of God. {1:36} And, {1:5} There was in the days of Herod, the king of Judaea,behold, thy cousin Elisabeth, she hath also conceived a son a certain priest named Zacharias, of the course of Abia:in and her old age: and this is the sixth month with her, who was his wife [was] of the daughters of ,called and herbarren. name {1:37} For with God nothing shall be [was] Elisabeth. {1:6} And they were both righteous beforeimpossible. {1:38} And Mary said, Behold the handmaid of God, walking in all the commandments and ordinancesthe Lord; ofbe it unto me according to thy word. And the the Lord blameless. {1:7} And they had no child,angel because departed from her. {1:39} And Mary arose in those that Elisabeth was barren, and they both weredays, [now]and went well into the hill country with haste, into a city of stricken in years. {1:8} And it came to pass, thatJuda; while {1:40} he And entered into the house of Zacharias, and executed the priest's office before God in thesaluted order ofElisabeth. his {1:41} And it came to pass, that, when course, {1:9} According to the custom of the priest's office,Elisabeth heard the salutation of Mary, the babe leaped in his lot was to burn when he went into the templeher of womb; and Elisabeth was filled with the Holy Ghost: the Lord. {1:10} And the whole multitude{1:42} of theAnd people she spake out with a loud voice, and said, were praying without at the time of incense.Blessed {1:11} [art] thou And among women, and blessed [is] the fruit there appeared unto him an angel of the Lordof standing thy womb. on {1:43} And whence [is] this to me, that the the right side of the altar of incense.mother {1:12} of my And Lord whenshould come to me? {1:44} For, lo, as Zacharias saw [him,] he was troubled, andsoon fear as the fell voice upon of thy salutation sounded in mine ears, the him. {1:13} But the angel saidbabe leaped unto in myhim, womb Fearfor joy. not,{1:45} And blessed [is] Zacharias: for thy prayer is heard; and thyshe wife that Elisabeth believed: for there shall be a performance of those shall bear thee a son, and thou shalt callthings his which name were John. told her from the Lord. {1:46} And Mary {1:14} And thou shalt have joy and gladness;said, My souland doth many magnify the Lord, {1:47} And my spirit shall rejoice at his birth. {1:15} For he shall be greathath in the rejoiced in God my Saviour. {1:48} For he hath sight of the Lord, and shall drink neither wineregarded nor strong the low estate of his handmaiden: for, behold, drink; and he shall be filled with the Holy Ghost, even fromfrom henceforth all generations shall call me blessed. his mother's womb. {1:16} And many of {1:49}the children For he that of is mighty hath done to me great things; Israel shall he turn to the Lord their God. {1:17}and holy And [is] hishe name. {1:50} And his mercy [is] on them shall go before him in the spirit and power of Elias, thatto turn fear him from generation to generation. {1:51} He hath the hearts of the fathers to the children, and the disobedientshewed strength with his arm; he hath scattered the proud in to the wisdom of the just; to make ready a people preparedthe imagination of their hearts. {1:52} He hath put down the for the Lord. {1:18} And Zacharias saidmighty unto from the [their] angel, seats, and exalted them of low degree. Whereby shall I know this? for I am an old man,{1:53} and He myhath filled the hungry with good things; and the wife well stricken in years. {1:19} And the angel answeringrich he hath sent empty away. {1:54} He hath holpen his said unto him, I am , that stand in theservant presence Israel, inof remembrance of [his] mercy; {1:55} As he God; and am sent to speak unto thee, and to shew thee thesespake to our fathers, to Abraham, and to his seed for ever. glad tidings. {1:20} And, behold, thou shalt be{1:56} dumb, And and Mary abode with her about three months, and not able to speak, until the day that thesereturned things shall to herbe own house. {1:57} Now Elisabeth's full performed, because thou believest nottime my came words, that shewhich should be delivered; and she brought shall be fulfilled in their season. {1:21}forth And a son.the {1:58}people And her neighbours and her cousins waited for Zacharias, and marvelled that he tarriedheard so howlong the Lord had shewed great mercy upon her; and in the temple. {1:22} And when he came out, he couldthey rejoicednot with her. {1:59} And it came to pass, that on speak unto them: and they perceived thatthe eighthhe had day seenthey camea to circumcise the child; and they vision in the temple: for he beckonedcalled him unto Zacharias, them, after and the name of his father. {1:60} remained speechless. {1:23} And it came toAnd pass, his motherthat, answeredas and said, Not [so;] but he shall be soon as the days of his ministration were accomplished,called John. he {1:61} And they said unto her, There is none of departed to his own house. {1:24} And after those daysthy hiskindred that is called by this name. {1:62} And they wife Elisabeth conceived, and hidmade herselfsigns to hisfive father, months, how he would have him called. saying, {1:25} Thus hath the Lord dealt with me in the days{1:63} And he asked for a writing table, and wrote, saying, wherein he looked on [me,] to takeHis away name ismy John. reproach And they marvelled all. {1:64} And his among men. {1:26} And in the sixthmouth monthwas opened the angelimmediately, and his tongue [loosed,] Gabriel was sent from God unto a city of Galilee,and he spake, named and praised God. {1:65} And fear came on all Nazareth, {1:27} To a espousedthat to dwelt a man round whose about them: and all these sayings were name was Joseph, of the house of David; andnoised the virgin's abroad throughout all the hill country of Judaea. name [was] Mary. {1:28} And the angel came in {1:66}unto her, And all they that heard [them] laid [them] up in their and said, Hail, [thou that art] highly favoured, the Lordhearts, [is] saying, What manner of child shall this be! And the with thee: blessed [art] thou among women.hand of{1:29} the AndLord was with him. {1:67} And his father when she saw [him,] she was troubled at Zachariashis saying, was and filled with the Holy Ghost, and prophesied, Luke Page 34 saying, {1:68} Blessed [be] the Lord God of Israel;{2:23} for (As he it is written in the law of the Lord, Every male hath visited and redeemed his people,that openeth{1:69} theAnd womb hath shall be called holy to the Lord;) raised up an horn of salvation for us in {2:24}the house And ofto hisoffer a sacrifice according to that which is servant David; {1:70} As he spake by the mouth of his holysaid in the law of the Lord, A pair of turtledoves, or two prophets, which have been since the worldyoung began: pigeons. {1:71} {2:25} And, behold, there was a man in That we should be saved from our enemies, Jerusalem,and from the whose name [was] ; and the same man hand of all that hate us; {1:72} To[was] perform just and devout,the mercy waiting for the consolation of Israel: [promised] to our fathers, andand theto Holyremember Ghost washis uponholy him. {2:26} And it was ; {1:73} The oath which he swarerevealed to unto our him father by the Holy Ghost, that he should not see Abraham, {1:74} That he would grantdeath, unto before us, he hadthat seen we the Lord's Christ. {2:27} And he being delivered out of the hand of our enemies mightcame serve by the Spirit into the temple: and when the parents him without fear, {1:75} In holinessbrought inand the child righteousness Jesus, to do for him after the custom of before him, all the days of our life. {1:76} And thou,the child, law, {2:28} Then took he him up in his arms, and shalt be called the prophet of the Highest: for thou shaltblessed go God, and said, {2:29} Lord, now lettest thou thy before the face of the Lord to prepare his ways; {1:77}servant To depart in peace, according to thy word: {2:30} For give knowledge of salvationmine unto eyes have his seen thypeople salvation, {2:31}by theWhich thou hast remission of their sins, {1:78} Through the tender mercyprepared of before the face of all people; {2:32} A light to our God; whereby the dayspring from on high hathlighten visited the Gentiles, and the glory of thy people Israel. us, {1:79} To give light to them that sit in darkness and [in]{2:33} And Joseph and his mother marvelled at those things the shadow of death, to guide our feet into the way of peace.which were spoken of him. {2:34} And Simeon blessed {1:80} And the child grew, and waxed strong in spirit,them, and and said unto Mary his mother, Behold, this [child] is was in the deserts till the day of his shewing unto Israel.set for the fall and rising again of many in Israel; and for a sign which shall be spoken against; {2:35} (Yea, a sword {2:1} And it came to pass in those days, that shallthere pierce went through thy own soul also,) that the thoughts of out a decree from Caesar ,many that hearts all may the be revealed.world {2:36} And there was one should be taxed. {2:2} ([And] this taxingAnna, was a prophetess,first made the daughter of Phanuel, of the tribe of when Cyrenius was governor of Syria.) {2:3} And allAser: went she was of a great age, and had lived with an husband to be taxed, every one into his own city. {2:4} Andseven Joseph years from her virginity; {2:37} And she [was] a also went up from Galilee, out of the city of Nazareth,widow into of about fourscore and four years, which departed Judaea, unto the city of David, which is called Bethlehem;not from the temple, but served [God] with fastings and (because he was of the house and lineage of David:)prayers {2:5} night and day. {2:38} And she coming in that To be taxed with Mary his espoused wife, being greatinstant with gave thanks likewise unto the Lord, and spake of child. {2:6} And so it was, that, while they were himthere, to the all them that looked for in Jerusalem. days were accomplished that she should be delivered. {2:7}{2:39} And when they had performed all things according And she brought forth her firstborn son, and wrapped him into the law of the Lord, they returned into Galilee, to their swaddling clothes, and laid him in a manger; becauseown there city Nazareth. {2:40} And the child grew, and waxed was no room for them in the inn. {2:8} And therestrong were inin spirit, filled with wisdom: and the grace of God the same country abiding in wasthe uponfield, him. keeping {2:41} Now his parents went to Jerusalem watch over their flock by night. {2:9} And, lo, the angelevery ofyear at the feast of the passover. {2:42} And when he the Lord came upon them, and the glory of the Lordwas shone twelve years old, they went up to Jerusalem after the round about them: and they were sore afraid.custom {2:10} of the And feast. {2:43} And when they had fulfilled the the angel said unto them, Fear not: for, behold, I bringdays, you as they returned, the child Jesus tarried behind in good tidings of great joy, which shallJerusalem; be to all and people. Joseph and his mother knew not [of it. {2:11} For unto you is born this day in the city of ]{2:44}David a But they, supposing him to have been in the Saviour, which is Christ the Lord. {2:12} company,And this went [shall a day's journey; and they sought him among be] a sign unto you; Ye shall find the[their] babe kinsfolkwrapped andin acquaintance. {2:45} And when they swaddling clothes, lying in a manger. {2:13} And suddenlyfound him not, they turned back again to Jerusalem, seeking there was with the angel a multitude of the him.heavenly {2:46} host And it came to pass, that after three days they praising God, and saying, {2:14} foundGlory him into the Godtemple, in sitting the in the midst of the doctors, highest, and on earth peace, good will toward men.both {2:15} hearing them, and asking them questions. {2:47} And And it came to pass, as the angels were goneall that away heard from him were astonished at his understanding and them into heaven, the shepherds said one to another, answers.Let us {2:48} And when they saw him, they were now go even unto Bethlehem, and see this thingamazed: which and ishis mother said unto him, Son, why hast thou come to pass, which the Lord hath made knownthus dealt unto with us?us. behold, thy father and I have sought thee {2:16} And they came with haste, and sorrowing.found Mary, {2:49} Andand he said unto them, How is it that ye Joseph, and the babe lying in a manger. {2:17} soughtAnd when me? wist ye not that I must be about my Father's they had seen [it,] they made knownbusiness? abroad {2:50} the And saying they understood not the saying which which was told them concerning this child. {2:18}he Andspake all unto them. {2:51} And he went down with them, they that heard [it] wondered at those thingsand came which to Nazareth,were and was subject unto them: but his told them by the shepherds. {2:19} But Mary kept allmother these kept all these sayings in her heart. {2:52} And Jesus things, and pondered [them] in her heart. increased{2:20} And in thewisdom and stature, and in favour with God shepherds returned, glorifying and praising Godand for man. all the things that they had heard and seen, as it was told unto them. {2:21} And when eight days were accomplished{3:1} Nowfor in the fifteenth year of the reign of the circumcising of the child, his name was calledCaesar, JESUS, Pontius Pilate being governor of Judaea, and Herod which was so named of the angel before he was conceivedbeing tetrarch of Galilee, and his brother Philip tetrarch of in the womb. {2:22} And when the days of her purificationIturaea and of the region of Trachonitis, and the according to the were tetrarchaccomplished, of , they {3:2} and Caiaphas being the brought him to Jerusalem, to present high[him] priests, to the the Lord; word of God came unto John the son of Page 35 Luke Zacharias in the wilderness. {3:3} And he came into son]all the of Eliakim, {3:31} Which was [the son] of Melea, country about Jordan, preaching the baptism ofwhich repentance was [the son] of Menan, which was [the son] of for the remission of sins; {3:4} As it is written in theMattatha, book which was [the son] of , which was [the of the words of Esaias the prophet, saying, The voice of oneson] of David, {3:32} Which was [the son] of Jesse, which crying in the wilderness, Prepare ye the waywas of [the the son] Lord, of Obed, which was [the son] of Booz, which make his paths straight. {3:5} Every valley shallwas be [the filled, son] of Salmon, which was [the son] of Naasson, and every mountain and hill shall be brought low;{3:33} and Which the was [the son] of Aminadab, which was [the crooked shall be made straight, and the roughson] ways of [shallAram, which was [the son] of Esrom, which was be] made smooth; {3:6} And all flesh shall see the salvation[the son] of Phares, which was [the son] of Juda, {3:34} of God. {3:7} Then said he to the multitude that came forthWhich was [the son] of Jacob, which was [the son] of Isaac, to be baptized of him, O generation of whichvipers, was who [the hath son] of Abraham, which was [the son] of warned you to flee from the wrath to come?Thara, {3:8} which Bring was [the son] of Nachor, {3:35} Which was forth therefore fruits worthy of repentance, and begin not[the to son] of Saruch, which was [the son] of Ragau, which say within yourselves, We have Abraham to [our] father: forwas [the son] of Phalec, which was [the son] of Heber, I say unto you, That God is able of these stones to raisewhich up was [the son] of Sala, {3:36} Which was [the son] of children unto Abraham. {3:9} And now also the axeCainan, is laid which was [the son] of Arphaxad, which was [the unto the root of the trees: everyson] oftree Sem, thereforewhich was [the which son] of Noe, which was [the bringeth not forth good fruit is hewn down, and cast into theson] of , {3:37} Which was [the son] of Mathusala, fire. {3:10} And the people asked him, saying,which What was shall [the son] of , which was [the son] of , we do then? {3:11} He answereth and saith unto whichthem, Hewas [the son] of Maleleel, which was [the son] of that hath two coats, let him impart to him thatCainan, hath none;{3:38} Which was [the son] of , which was and he that hath meat, let him do likewise.[the son] {3:12} of , Then which was [the son] of , which was came also publicans to be baptized,[the and son] said of God. unto him, Master, what shall we do? {3:13} And he said unto them, Exact no more than that which is appointed{4:1} you. And {3:14} Jesus being full of the Holy Ghost returned And the soldiers likewise demanded of him,from Jordan,saying, and And was led by the Spirit into the wilderness, what shall we do? And he said unto them, Do violence to no{4:2} Being forty days tempted of the devil. And in those man, neither accuse [any] falsely; and be content withdays your he did eat nothing: and when they were ended, he wages. {3:15} And as the people were in expectation,afterward and hungered. {4:3} And the devil said unto him, If all men mused in their hearts of John, whether he thouwere be the the Son of God, command this stone that it be made Christ, or not; {3:16} John answered, sayingbread. unto{4:4} [them]And Jesus answered him, saying, It is written, all, I indeed baptize you with water; but one mightier thanThat I man shall not live by bread alone, but by every word cometh, the latchet of whose shoes Iof amGod. not {4:5} worthy And theto devil, taking him up into an high unloose: he shall baptize you with the Holy Ghost andmountain, with shewed unto him all the kingdoms of the world in fire: {3:17} Whose fan [is] ina momenthis hand, of time. and{4:6} heAnd thewill devil said unto him, All throughly purge his floor, and will gather the wheat intothis his power will I give thee, and the glory of them: for that is garner; but the chaff he will burn with fire deliveredunquenchable. unto me; and to whomsoever I will I give it. {4:7} {3:18} And many other things in his exhortationIf thou preached therefore wilt worship me, all shall be thine. {4:8} he unto the people. {3:19} But Herod theAnd tetrarch, Jesus answered being and said unto him, Get thee behind me, reproved by him for Herodias his brother Philip's wife,Satan: and for it is written, Thou shalt worship the Lord thy for all the which Herod had done, {3:20}God, Added and himyet only shalt thou serve. {4:9} And he brought this above all, that he shut up John in prison. {3:21}him to Jerusalem,Now and set him on a pinnacle of the temple, when all the people were baptized, it cameand said to unto pass, him, that If thou be the Son of God, cast thyself Jesus also being baptized, and praying,down from the hence: heaven {4:10} For was it is written, He shall give his opened, {3:22} And the Holy Ghost descended inangels a bodily charge over thee, to keep thee: {4:11} And in [their] shape like a dove upon him, and a voice came from heaven,hands they shall bear thee up, lest at any time thou dash thy which said, Thou art my beloved Son; in footthee against I am a wellstone. {4:12} And Jesus answering said unto pleased. {3:23} And Jesus himself began to be abouthim, thirty It is said, Thou shalt not tempt the Lord thy God. years of age, being (as was supposed) the{4:13} son ofAnd Joseph, when the devil had ended all the temptation, he which was [the son] of , {3:24} Which was [the son]departed of from him for a season. Matthat, which was [the son] of Levi, which was [the son] of Melchi, which was [the son] of Janna, which{4:14} was And [theJesus returned in the power of the Spirit into son] of Joseph, {3:25} Which was [the son] of Galilee:Mattathias, and there went out a fame of him through all the which was [the son] of Amos, whichregion was [the round son] ofabout. {4:15} And he taught in their Naum, which was [the son] of Esli, which was [the synagogues,son] of being glorified of all. Nagge, {3:26} Which was [the son] of Maath, which was [the son] of Mattathias, which was {4:16}[the son] And of he Semei, came to Nazareth, where he had been which was [the son] of Joseph, which was [the son] of Juda,brought up: and, as his custom was, he went into the {3:27} Which was [the son] of Joanna, which was [the synagogueson] on the sabbath day, and stood up for to read. of Rhesa, which was [the son] of Zorobabel, which was [the{4:17} And there was delivered unto him the book of the son] of Salathiel, which was [theprophet son] of Esaias. Neri, And{3:28} when he had opened the book, he Which was [the son] of Melchi, which foundwas the[the place son] where of it was written, {4:18} The Spirit of Addi, which was [the son] of Cosam, which wasthe [the Lord son] is upon me, because he hath anointed me to preach of Elmodam, which was [the son] of , {3:29} Whichthe was gospel to the poor; he hath sent me to heal the [the son] of Jose, which was [the son] of , which wasbrokenhearted, to preach deliverance to the captives, and [the son] of Jorim, which was [the son] of Matthat,recovering which of sight to the blind, to set at liberty them that was [the son] of Levi, {3:30} Whichare wasbruised, [the {4:19} son] Toof preach the acceptable year of the Simeon, which was [the son] of Juda, which wasLord. [the {4:20}son] And he closed the book, and he gave [it] again of Joseph, which was [the son] of Jonan, towhich the minister, was [the and sat down. And the eyes of all them that Luke Page 36 were in the synagogue were fastened on him. {4:21} And heanswering said unto him, Master, we have toiled all the began to say unto them, This day is this scripture fulfilled innight, and have taken nothing: nevertheless at thy word I your ears. {4:22} And all bare him witness, andwill wondered let down the net. {5:6} And when they had this done, at the gracious words which proceeded outthey of hisinclosed mouth. a great multitude of fishes: and their net And they said, Is not this Joseph's son? {4:23} And hebrake. said {5:7} And they beckoned unto [their] partners, which unto them, Ye will surely saywere unto in the other me ship, this that they , should come and help them. Physician, heal thyself: whatsoever we have heardAnd theydone came, in and filled both the ships, so that they began Capernaum, do also here in thy country.to sink.{4:24} {5:8} And When he Simon Peter saw [it,] he fell down at said, Verily I say unto you, No prophet is acceptedJesus' knees, in saying,his Depart from me; for I am a sinful man, own country. {4:25} But I tell you of a truth, many widowsO Lord. {5:9} For he was astonished, and all that were with were in Israel in the days of Elias, when him,the heaven at the was draught of the fishes which they had taken: shut up three years and six months, when great famine{5:10} was And so [was] also James, and John, the sons of throughout all the land; {4:26} But unto none of themZebedee, was which were partners with Simon. And Jesus said Elias sent, save unto Sarepta, [a city]unto Simon, of FearSidon, not; from unto henceforth a thou shalt catch men. woman [that was] a widow. {4:27} And many lepers{5:11} were And when they had brought their ships to land, they in Israel in the time of Eliseus the prophet;forsook andall, and none followed of him. them was cleansed, saving the Syrian. {4:28} And all they in the synagogue, when they heard{5:12} these And it camethings, to pass, when he was in a certain city, were filled with wrath, {4:29} And rose up, and thrustbehold him a man full of leprosy: who seeing Jesus fell on [his] out of the city, and led him unto face,the brow and besoughtof the hill him, saying, Lord, if thou wilt, thou whereon their city was built, that they might cast him canstdown make me clean. {5:13} And he put forth [his] hand, headlong. {4:30} But he passing through the midst ofand them touched him, saying, I will: be thou clean. And went his way, {4:31} And came down to Capernaum, a immediatelycity the leprosy departed from him. {5:14} And he of Galilee, and taught them on the sabbathcharged days.him to tell{4:32} no man: but go, and shew thyself to the And they were astonished at his doctrine: for his wordpriest, was and offer for thy cleansing, according as Moses with power. commanded, for a testimony unto them. {5:15} But so much the more went there a fame abroad of him: and great {4:33} And in the synagogue there was a man, which multitudeshad came together to hear, and to be healed by him a spirit of an unclean devil, and cried out with a loud voice,of their infirmities. {4:34} Saying, Let [us] alone; what have we to do with thee, [thou] Jesus of Nazareth? art thou come to destroy us?{5:16} And he withdrew himself into the wilderness, and I know thee who thou art; the Holy One of God. {4:35} And prayed. {5:17} And it came to pass on a certain day, as he Jesus rebuked him, saying, Hold thy peace, and come out wasof teaching, that there were Pharisees and doctors of the him. And when the devil had thrown him in thelaw midst, sitting he by, which were come out of every town of came out of him, and hurt him not. {4:36} AndGalilee, they were and Judaea, and Jerusalem: and the power of the all amazed, and spake among themselves, Lordsaying, was What [present] a to heal them. word [is] this! for with authority and power he commandeth the unclean spirits, and they come out. {4:37} And the fame{5:18} And, behold, men brought in a bed a man which of him went out into every place of the country round about.was taken with a palsy: and they sought [means] to bring him in, and to lay [him] before him. {5:19} And when they {4:38} And he arose out of the synagogue,could and enterednot find by what [way] they might bring him in into Simon's house. And Simon's wife's mother wasbecause taken of the multitude, they went upon the housetop, and with a great fever; and they besought him forlet her. him {4:39} down through the tiling with [his] couch into the And he stood over her, and rebuked the fever;midst andbefore it Jesus.left {5:20} And when he saw their faith, he her: and immediately she arose and ministeredsaid unto unto them. him, Man, thy sins are forgiven thee. {5:21} And the scribes and the Pharisees began to reason, saying, Who {4:40} Now when the sun was setting, all theyis this that which had speaketh blasphemies? Who can forgive sins, any sick with divers diseases brought them unto him; and hebut God alone? {5:22} But when Jesus perceived their laid his hands on every one of them,thoughts, and healedhe answering them. said unto them, What reason ye in {4:41} And devils also came out of many, cryingyour out, hearts? and {5:23} Whether is easier, to say, Thy sins be saying, Thou art Christ the Son of God. Andforgiven he rebuking thee; or to say, Rise up and walk? {5:24} But that [them] suffered them not to speak: for theyye mayknew know that that he the Son of man hath power upon earth to was Christ. {4:42} And when it was day, he departedforgive sins, and (he said unto the sick of the palsy,) I say unto went into a desert place: and the people soughtthee, Arise, him, and andtake up thy couch, and go into thine house. came unto him, and stayed him, that he should{5:25} not Anddepart immediately he rose up before them, and took from them. {4:43} And he said unto them, I must preach theup that whereon he lay, and departed to his own house, kingdom of God to other cities also: for therefore am I sent.glorifying God. {5:26} And they were all amazed, and they {4:44} And he preached in the synagogues of Galilee. glorified God, and were filled with fear, saying, We have seen strange things to day. {5:1} And it came to pass, that, as the people pressed upon him to hear the word of God, he stood by the lake{5:27} of And after these things he went forth, and saw a Gennesaret, {5:2} And saw two ships standing by thepublican, lake: named Levi, sitting at the receipt of custom: and but the fishermen were gone out of them, and were washinghe said unto him, Follow me. {5:28} And he left all, rose [their] nets. {5:3} And he entered intoup, one and of followed the ships, him. {5:29} And Levi made him a great which was Simon's, and prayed him that hefeast would in histhrust own house: and there was a great company of out a little from the land. And he sat down, and publicanstaught the and of others that sat down with them. {5:30} But people out of the ship. {5:4} theirNow scribes when and he Pharisees had murmuredleft against his disciples, speaking, he said unto Simon, Launch out into the deep, andsaying, Why do ye eat and drink with publicans and let down your nets for a draught.sinners? {5:31} {5:5} And JesusAnd answering Simon said unto them, They Page 37 Luke that are whole need not a physician; but they that{6:19} are sick. And the whole multitude sought to touch him: for {5:32} I came not to call the righteous,there went but virtue sinners out of him,to and healed [them] all. repentance. {6:20} And he lifted up his eyes on his disciples, and said, {5:33} And they said unto him, Why do the disciplesBlessed of [be ye] poor: for yours is the kingdom of God. John fast often, and make prayers,{6:21} Blessed and [arelikewise ye] that hunger[the now: for ye shall be disciples] of the Pharisees; but thine eat and drink?filled. {5:34} Blessed [are ye] that weep now: for ye shall laugh. And he said unto them, Can ye make the children{6:22} Blessed of the are ye, when men shall hate you, and when bridechamber fast, while the bridegroomthey shall is separate with them? you [from their company,] and shall {5:35} But the days will come, when the bridegroomreproach shall [you,] and cast out your name as evil, for the Son be taken away from them, and then shall they fastof in man's those sake. {6:23} Rejoice ye in that day, and leap for days. joy: for, behold, your reward [is] great in heaven: for in the like manner did their fathers unto the prophets. {6:24} But {5:36} And he spake also a parable unto them;woe No unto man you that are rich! for ye have received your putteth a piece of a new garment upon an old; if otherwise,consolation. {6:25} Woe unto you that are full! for ye shall then both the new maketh a rent, and thehunger. piece Woethat untowas you that laugh now! for ye shall mourn [taken] out of the new agreeth not with the old. {5:37} andAnd weep. {6:26} Woe unto you, when all men shall speak no man putteth new wine into old bottles; else the new winewell of you! for so did their fathers to the false prophets. will burst the bottles, and be spilled, and the bottles shall perish. {5:38} But new wine must be put into new{6:27} bottles; But I say unto you which hear, Love your enemies, and both are preserved. {5:39} No man also havingdo good drunk to them which hate you, {6:28} Bless them that old [wine] straightway desireth new: for he saith, The oldcurse is you, and pray for them which despitefully use you. better. {6:29} And unto him that smiteth thee on the [one] cheek offer also the other; and him that taketh away thy cloke {6:1} And it came to pass on the second sabbath afterforbid the not [to take thy] coat also. {6:30} Give to every man first, that he went through the corn fields; and his thatdisciples asketh of thee; and of him that taketh away thy goods plucked the ears of corn, and did eat, askrubbing [them] [them] not again.in {6:31} And as ye would that men [their] hands. {6:2} And certain of the Phariseesshould said do unto to you, do ye also to them likewise. {6:32} For if them, Why do ye that which is not lawfulye loveto do them on thewhich love you, what thank have ye? for sabbath days? {6:3} And Jesus answering them said,sinners Have also love those that love them. {6:33} And if ye do ye not read so much as this, what David did, when goodhimself to them which do good to you, what thank have ye? was an hungred, and they which were with him; {6:4} Howfor sinners also do even the same. {6:34} And if ye lend [to he went into the house of God, and did takethem] andof whom eat yethe hope to receive, what thank have ye? for shewbread, and gave also to them sinnersthat were also with lend him; to sinners, to receive as much again. which it is not lawful to eat but for the priests alone?{6:35} {6:5} But love ye your enemies, and do good, and lend, And he said unto them, That the Son of man is Lord alsohoping of for nothing again; and your reward shall be great, the sabbath. {6:6} And it came to passand yealso shall on be another the children of the Highest: for he is kind sabbath, that he entered into the synagogue and taught:unto andthe unthankful and [to] the evil. {6:36} Be ye therefore there was a man whose right hand was withered. {6:7} merciful,And as your Father also is merciful. {6:37} Judge not, the scribes and Pharisees watched him, whetherand ye shallhe wouldnot be judged: condemn not, and ye shall not be heal on the sabbath day; that they might find an accusationcondemned: forgive, and ye shall be forgiven: {6:38} Give, against him. {6:8} But he knew their thoughts, andand itsaid shall to be given unto you; good measure, pressed down, the man which had the withered hand, Rise up,and andshaken stand together, and running over, shall men give into forth in the midst. And he arose and stood forth. {6:9} Thenyour bosom. For with the same measure that ye mete withal said Jesus unto them, I will ask you one thing; Isit itshall lawful be measured to you again. {6:39} And he spake a on the sabbath days to do good, or to do evil? to save life, orparable unto them, Can the blind lead the blind? shall they to destroy [it? ]{6:10} And looking round about uponnot them both fall into the ditch? {6:40} The disciple is not above all, he said unto the man, Stretch forth thy hand. And he didhis master: but every one that is perfect shall be as his so: and his hand was restored whole as themaster. other. {6:41} {6:11} And why beholdest thou the mote that is in And they were filled with madness; andthy brother's communed eye, but perceivestone not the beam that is in thine with another what they might do to Jesus.own {6:12} eye? {6:42}And itEither how canst thou say to thy brother, came to pass in those days, that he went out into a mountainBrother, let me pull out the mote that is in thine eye, when to pray, and continued all night in prayer to God. thou thyself beholdest not the beam that is in thine own eye? Thou hypocrite, cast out first the beam out of thine {6:13} And when it was day, he calledown [unto eye, and him] then shalthis thou see clearly to pull out the mote disciples: and of them he chose twelve,that is in thywhom brother's also eye. {6:43}he For a good tree bringeth named apostles; {6:14} Simon, not(whom forth corrupt he fruit; also neither dothnamed a corrupt tree bring forth Peter,) and Andrew his brother, James and John, Philipgood and fruit. {6:44} For every tree is known by his own fruit. Bartholomew, {6:15} Matthew andFor of Thomas,thorns men do notJames gather figs,the nor of a bramble bush [son] of Alphaeus, and Simon called Zelotes,gather {6:16} they And grapes. {6:45} A good man out of the good Judas [the brother] of James, and Judas Iscariot, whichtreasure also of his heart bringeth forth that which is good; and was the traitor. an evil man out of the evil treasure of his heart bringeth forth that which is evil: for of the abundance of the heart his {6:17} And he came down with them, andmouth stood speaketh. in the plain, and the company of his disciples, and a great multitude of people out of all Judaea and {6:46}Jerusalem, And why and call ye me, Lord, Lord, and do not the from the sea coast of Tyre and Sidon, which camethings to hearwhich I say? {6:47} Whosoever cometh to me, and him, and to be healed of their diseases; {6:18}heareth And my theysayings, and doeth them, I will shew you to that were vexed with unclean spirits: and they werewhom healed. he is like: {6:48} He is like a man which built an Luke Page 38 house, and digged deep, and laid the foundation onman a rock: clothed in soft raiment? Behold, they which are and when the flood arose, the stream beat vehementlygorgeously upon apparelled, and live delicately, are in kings that house, and could not shake it: for it was founded upon acourts. {7:26} But what went ye out for to see? A prophet? rock. {6:49} But he that heareth, and doethYea, not, I say is unto like you, a and much more than a prophet. {7:27} man that without a foundation built an house upon the earth;This is [he,] of whom it is written, Behold, I send my against which the streammessenger did beat before vehemently,thy face, which shalland prepare thy way immediately it fell; and thebefore ruin thee. {7:28}of that For I sayhouse unto you, was Among great. those that are born of women there is not a greater prophet than John {7:1} Now when he had ended all thehis Baptist:sayings but in he the that is least in the kingdom of God is audience of the people, he entered into Capernaum.greater than {7:2} he. {7:29} And all the people that heard [him,] And a certain centurion's servant, who was dearand unto the him, publicans, justified God, being baptized with the was sick, and ready to die. {7:3} And whenbaptism he heard of ofJohn. {7:30} But the Pharisees and lawyers Jesus, he sent unto him the elders of the Jews,rejected beseeching the counsel of God against themselves, being not him that he would come and heal his servant.baptized {7:4} of Andhim. when they came to Jesus, they besought him instantly, saying, That he was worthy for whom he should{7:31} do And this: the Lord said, Whereunto then shall I liken {7:5} For he loveth our nation, andthe he menhath of built this usgeneration? a and to what are they like? synagogue. {7:6} Then Jesus went with them. And when{7:32} he They are like unto children sitting in the was now not far from the house, the centurion sentmarketplace, friends and calling one to another, and saying, We to him, saying unto him, Lord, trouble not thyself: forhave I am piped unto you, and ye have not danced; we have not worthy that thou shouldest enter under mymourned roof: {7:7}to you, and ye have not wept. {7:33} For John the Wherefore neither thought I myself worthyBaptist to camecome neither unto eating bread nor drinking wine; and ye thee: but say in a word, and my servant say,shall He hathbe ahealed. devil. {7:34} The Son of man is come eating {7:8} For I also am a man set under authority, having underand drinking; and ye say, Behold a gluttonous man, and a me soldiers, and I say unto one, Go, and he goeth;winebibber, and to a friend of publicans and sinners! {7:35} But another, Come, and he cometh; and to my servant, Dowisdom this, is justified of all her children. and he doeth [it. ]{7:9} When Jesus heard these things, he marvelled at him, and turned him about, and said{7:36} unto the And one of the Pharisees desired him that he people that followed him, I say unto you, I have notwould found eat with him. And he went into the Pharisee's house, so great faith, no, not in Israel. {7:10} And theyand that sat weredown to meat. {7:37} And, behold, a woman in the sent, returning to the house, found the servantcity, which whole was that a sinner, when she knew that [Jesus] sat at had been sick. meat in the Pharisee's house, brought an alabaster box of ointment, {7:38} And stood at his feet behind [him] {7:11} And it came to pass the day after, that he went intoweeping, and began to wash his feet with tears, and did a city called Nain; and many of his disciples went with him,wipe [them] with the hairs of her head, and kissed his feet, and much people. {7:12} Now when he cameand nigh anointed to the [them] with the ointment. {7:39} Now when gate of the city, behold, there was a dead man carriedthe Pharisee out, which had bidden him saw [it,] he spake within the only son of his mother, and she was a widow: and muchhimself, saying, This man, if he were a prophet, would have people of the city was with her. {7:13} And when theknown Lord who and what manner of woman [this is] that saw her, he had compassion on her, and said unto her, Weeptoucheth him: for she is a sinner. {7:40} And Jesus not. {7:14} And he came and touched the bier: and they thatanswering said unto him, Simon, I have somewhat to say bare [him] stood still. And he said, Young man, Iunto say thee.unto And he saith, Master, say on. {7:41} There was a thee, Arise. {7:15} And he that was dead sat up, and certainbegan creditor which had two debtors: the one owed five to speak. And he delivered him to his mother. {7:16}hundred And pence, and the other fifty. {7:42} And when they there came a fear on all: and they glorifiedhad nothingGod, saying,to pay, he frankly forgave them both. Tell me That a great prophet is risen up among us; and,therefore, That Godwhich of them will love him most? {7:43} Simon hath visited his people. {7:17} And this rumour of him wentanswered and said, I suppose that [he,] to whom he forgave forth throughout all Judaea, and throughoutmost. all the And region he said unto him, Thou hast rightly judged. round about. {7:18} And the disciples of John shewed{7:44} him And he turned to the woman, and said unto Simon, of all these things. Seest thou this woman? I entered into thine house, thou gavest me no water for my feet: but she hath washed my {7:19} And John calling [unto him] two of feethis withdisciples tears, and wiped [them] with the hairs of her head. sent [them] to Jesus, saying, Art thou he that should{7:45} come? Thou gavest me no kiss: but this woman since the or look we for another? {7:20} When the men timewere I comecame in hath not ceased to kiss my feet. {7:46} My unto him, they said, John Baptist hath senthead us with unto oil thee, thou didst not anoint: but this woman hath saying, Art thou he that should come?anointed or mylook feet we with for ointment. {7:47} Wherefore I say another? {7:21} And in that same hour he curedunto thee,many Herof sins, which are many, are forgiven; for she [their] infirmities and plagues, and of evil spirits;loved and untomuch: but to whom little is forgiven, [the same] many [that were] blind he gave sight. {7:22}loveth Then little. Jesus {7:48} And he said unto her, Thy sins are answering said unto them, Go your way, and tell John forgiven.what {7:49} And they that sat at meat with him began things ye have seen and heard; how that the blindto saysee, withinthe themselves, Who is this that forgiveth sins lame walk, the lepers are cleansed, the deaf hear,also? the dead{7:50} And he said to the woman, Thy faith hath are raised, to the poor the gospel is preached.saved {7:23} thee; And go in peace. blessed is [he,] whosoever shall not be offended in me. {8:1} And it came to pass afterward, that he went {7:24} And when the messengers of John were departed,throughout every city and village, preaching and shewing he began to speak unto the people concerningthe John, glad What tidings of the kingdom of God: and the twelve went ye out into the wilderness for to see? A [were]reed withshaken him, {8:2} And certain women, which had been with the wind? {7:25} But what went ye out for tohealed see? A of evil spirits and infirmities, Mary called Page 39 Luke Magdalene, out of whom went sevenabode devils, in [any] {8:3}house, but Andin the tombs. {8:28} When he saw Joanna the wife of Chuza Herod's steward,Jesus, and he , cried out, and fell down before him, and with a and many others, which ministeredloud voice unto said, Whathim have of I totheir do with thee, Jesus, [thou] substance. Son of God most high? I beseech thee, torment me not. {8:29} (For he had commanded the unclean spirit to come {8:4} And when much people were gathered together, andout of the man. For oftentimes it had caught him: and he were come to him out of every city, he spake by a parable:was kept bound with chains and in fetters; and he brake the {8:5} A sower went out to sow his seed: and as hebands, sowed, and was driven of the devil into the wilderness.) some fell by the way side; and it was trodden down, and the{8:30} And Jesus asked him, saying, What is thy name? fowls of the air devoured it. {8:6} And someAnd hefell said, upon Legion: a because many devils were entered into rock; and as soon as it was sprung up, it him.withered {8:31} away, And they besought him that he would not because it lacked moisture. {8:7} Andcommand some themfell toamong go out into the deep. {8:32} And there thorns; and the thorns sprang up withwas it, there and an chokedherd of manyit. swine feeding on the mountain: {8:8} And other fell on good ground, and sprangand they up, besought and him that he would suffer them to enter bare fruit an hundredfold. And wheninto he them. had saidAnd hethese suffered them. {8:33} Then went the things, he cried, He that hath ears to hear,devils letout himof the hear. man, and entered into the swine: and the {8:9} And his disciples asked him, saying, What mightherd this ran violently down a steep place into the lake, and parable be? {8:10} And he said, Unto youwere it choked.is given {8:34} to When they that fed [them] saw what know the mysteries of the kingdom of God: but to otherswas in done, they fled, and went and told [it] in the city and in parables; that seeing they might not see, andthe hearing country. they {8:35} Then they went out to see what was might not understand. {8:11} Now the parable isdone; this: and The came to Jesus, and found the man, out of whom seed is the word of God. {8:12} Those by the way sidethe devilsare were departed, sitting at the feet of Jesus, clothed, they that hear; then cometh the devil, and takethand away in his the right mind: and they were afraid. {8:36} They word out of their hearts, lest they shouldalso believe which sawand [it] be told them by what means he that was saved. {8:13} They on the rock [are they,]possessed which, of the when devils was healed. they hear, receive the word with joy; and these have no root, which for a while believe, and in time of {8:37}temptation Then fall the whole multitude of the country of the away. {8:14} And that which fell among thornsGadarenes are roundthey, about besought him to depart from them; which, when they have heard, go forth, and are choked withfor they were taken with great fear: and he went up into the cares and riches and pleasures of [this] life,ship, and and bring returned no back again. {8:38} Now the man out of fruit to perfection. {8:15} But that on the good whomground the are devils were departed besought him that he might they, which in an honest and good heart, havingbe heard with the him: but Jesus sent him away, saying, {8:39} word, keep [it,] and bring forth fruit with patience.Return to thine own house, and shew how great things God hath done unto thee. And he went his way, and published {8:16} No man, when he hath lighted a candle, covereth throughoutit the whole city how great things Jesus had done with a vessel, or putteth [it] under a bed; but setteth [it] onunto a him. {8:40} And it came to pass, that, when Jesus was candlestick, that they which enter inreturned, may the see people the [gladly] light. received him: for they were all {8:17} For nothing is secret,waiting that for him.shall not be made manifest; neither [any thing] hid, that shall not be known and come abroad. {8:18} Take heed therefore how ye {8:41}hear: And, behold, there came a man named Jairus, and for whosoever hath, to him shall be given; andhe whosoeverwas a ruler of the synagogue: and he fell down at Jesus' hath not, from him shall be takenfeet, even and besoughtthat whichhim that he would come into his house: seemeth to have. {8:42} For he had one only daughter, about twelve years of age, and she lay a dying. But as he went the people thronged {8:19} Then came to him [his] mother and hishim. brethren, and could not come at him for the press. {8:20} And it was told him [by certain] which said,{8:43} Thy motherAnd a woman and thyhaving an issue of blood twelve brethren stand without, desiring to see thee. {8:21}years, And he which had spent all her living upon physicians, answered and said unto them, My mother and myneither brethren could be healed of any, {8:44} Came behind [him,] are these which hear the word of God, and do it. and touched the border of his garment: and immediately her issue of blood stanched. {8:45} And Jesus said, Who {8:22} Now it came to pass on a certain day, that he wenttouched me? When all denied, Peter and they that were with into a ship with his disciples: and he said unto them, Lethim ussaid, Master, the multitude throng thee and press [thee,] go over unto the other side of the lake. And theyand launched sayest thou, Who touched me? {8:46} And Jesus said, forth. {8:23} But as they sailed he fell Somebodyasleep: and hath there touched me: for I perceive that virtue is came down a storm of wind on the lake;gone and out theyof me. were {8:47} And when the woman saw that she filled [with water,] and were in jeopardy. {8:24}was And not they hid, she came trembling, and falling down before came to him, and awoke him, saying, Master,him, master, she declared we unto him before all the people for what perish. Then he arose, and rebuked the wind and the causeraging she had touched him and how she was healed of the water: and they ceased, and there was a calm. {8:25}immediately. {8:48} And he said unto her, Daughter, be of And he said unto them, Where is your faith? And they beinggood comfort: thy faith hath made thee whole; go in peace. afraid wondered, saying one to another, What manner of man is this! for he commandeth even the winds and{8:49} water, While he yet spake, there cometh one from the and they obey him. ruler of the synagogue's [house,] saying to him, Thy daughter is dead; trouble not the Master. {8:50} But when {8:26} And they arrived at the country of the Gadarenes,Jesus heard [it,] he answered him, saying, Fear not: believe which is over against Galilee. {8:27} Andonly, when and he she went shall be made whole. {8:51} And when he forth to land, there met him out of the city a camecertain into man, the house, he suffered no man to go in, save which had devils long time, and ware noPeter, clothes, and James, neither and John, and the father and the mother of Luke Page 40 the maiden. {8:52} And all wept, and bewailed her:he gainbut hethe whole world, and lose himself, or be cast away? said, Weep not; she is not dead, but sleepeth.{9:26} {8:53} For And whosoever shall be ashamed of me and of my they laughed him to scorn, knowing words,that sheof him was shall dead. the Son of man be ashamed, when he {8:54} And he put them all out, and took her by shallthe hand,come in his own glory, and [in his] Father's, and of the and called, saying, Maid, arise. {8:55} And her spiritholy came angels. {9:27} But I tell you of a truth, there be some again, and she arose straightway: andstanding he commanded here, which shall notto taste of death, till they see the give her meat. {8:56} And her parents were astonished:kingdom but of God. he charged them that they should tell no man what was done. {9:28} And it came to pass about an eight days after these {9:1} Then he called his twelve disciplessayings, together, he took Peter and and John and James, and went up into gave them power and authority over all devils, anda mountain to cure to pray. {9:29} And as he prayed, the fashion of diseases. {9:2} And he sent them to preach the kingdomhis countenanceof was altered, and his raiment [was] white God, and to heal the sick. {9:3} And he [and]said glistering.unto them, {9:30} And, behold, there talked with him Take nothing for [your] journey, neither staves,two normen, scrip, which were Moses and Elias: {9:31} Who neither bread, neither money; neither have two coats apiece.appeared in glory, and spake of his decease which he should {9:4} And whatsoever house ye enter into, there abide,accomplish and at Jerusalem. {9:32} But Peter and they that thence depart. {9:5} And whosoever will notwere receive with himyou, were heavy with sleep: and when they were when ye go out of that city, shake off the veryawake, dust they from saw his glory, and the two men that stood with your feet for a testimony against them.him. {9:33} {9:6} And itAnd came tothey pass, as they departed from him, departed, and went through the towns, preaching the gospel,Peter said unto Jesus, Master, it is good for us to be here: and healing every where. and let us make three tabernacles; one for thee, and one for Moses, and one for Elias: not knowing what he said. {9:34} {9:7} Now Herod the tetrarch heard of all that Whilewas donehe thus spake, there came a cloud, and overshadowed by him: and he was perplexed, because that it them:was saidand they of feared as they entered into the cloud. {9:35} some, that John was risen from the dead;And there {9:8} came aAnd voice ofout of the cloud, saying, This is my some, that Elias had appeared; and of others, that one of belovedthe Son: hear him. {9:36} And when the voice was old prophets was risen again. {9:9} And Herodpast, said, Jesus John was found alone. And they kept [it] close, and have I beheaded: but who is this, of toldwhom no Iman hear in thosesuch days any of those things which they things? And he desired to see him. had seen.

{9:10} And the apostles, when they were {9:37}returned, And told it came to pass, that on the next day, when him all that they had done. And he took theythem, were and come went down from the hill, much people met him. aside privately into a desert place belonging{9:38} And, to thebehold, city a man of the company cried out, called Bethsaida. {9:11} And the people, whensaying, they Master,knew I beseech thee, look upon my son: for he is [it,] followed him: and he received them,mine and only spake child. unto {9:39} And, lo, a spirit taketh him, and he them of the kingdom of God, and healed them that had needsuddenly crieth out; and it teareth him that he foameth of healing. {9:12} And when the day began to wearagain, away, and bruising him hardly departeth from him. {9:40} then came the twelve, and said unto him, Send the multitudeAnd I besought thy disciples to cast him out; and they could away, that they may go into the towns and countrynot. {9:41} round And Jesus answering said, O faithless and about, and lodge, and get victuals: forperverse we are heregeneration, in a how long shall I be with you, and desert place. {9:13} But he said unto them, Give ye themsuffer to you? Bring thy son hither. {9:42} And as he was yet eat. And they said, We have no more but fivea coming,loaves andthe devil threw him down, and tare [him.] And two fishes; except we should go and buy meatJesus for allrebuked this the unclean spirit, and healed the child, and people. {9:14} For they were about five thousand men. Anddelivered him again to his father. he said to his disciples, Make them sit down by fifties in a company. {9:15} And they did so, and made{9:43} them And all theysit were all amazed at the mighty power of down. {9:16} Then he took the five loavesGod. But and while thethey wonderedtwo every one at all things which fishes, and looking up to heaven, heJesus blessed did, them,he said and unto his disciples, {9:44} Let these brake, and gave to the disciples to set before the multitude.sayings sink down into your ears: for the Son of man shall {9:17} And they did eat, and were all filled: and therebe wasdelivered into the hands of men. {9:45} But they taken up of fragments that remained to them twelve understoodbaskets. not this saying, and it was hid from them, that they perceived it not: and they feared to ask him of that {9:18} And it came to pass, as he was alone praying,saying. his disciples were with him: and he asked them, saying, Whom say the people that I am? {9:19} They answering said, John{9:46} Then there arose a reasoning among them, which the Baptist; but some [say,] Elias; and others [say,] thatof one them should be greatest. {9:47} And Jesus, perceiving of the old prophets is risen again. {9:20} He said unto them,the thought of their heart, took a child, and set him by him, But whom say ye that I am? Peter answering{9:48} And said, said Theunto them, Whosoever shall receive this Christ of God. {9:21} And he straitly chargedchild in mythem, name receivethand me: and whosoever shall receive commanded [them] to tell no man that thing; {9:22} Saying,me receiveth him that sent me: for he that is least among The Son of man must suffer many things, and be rejected youof all, the same shall be great. the elders and chief priests and scribes, and be slain, and be raised the third day. {9:49} And John answered and said, Master, we saw one casting out devils in thy name; and we forbad him, because {9:23} And he said to [them] all, If any [man] willhe comefolloweth not with us. {9:50} And Jesus said unto him, after me, let him deny himself, and take up his crossForbid daily, [him] not: for he that is not against us is for us. and follow me. {9:24} For whosoever will save his life shall lose it: but whosoever will lose his life for{9:51} my And sake, it came the to pass, when the time was come that same shall save it. {9:25} For what is a man advantaged,he should if be received up, he stedfastly set his face to go to Page 41 Luke Jerusalem, {9:52} And sent messengers before his face: areand written in heaven. they went, and entered into a village of the Samaritans, to make ready for him. {9:53} And they did not receive{10:21} him, In that hour Jesus rejoiced in spirit, and said, I because his face was as though he would go to thankJerusalem. thee, O Father, Lord of heaven and earth, that thou {9:54} And when his disciples James and John hastsaw hid[this,] these things from the wise and prudent, and hast they said, Lord, wilt thou that we commandrevealed fire tothem come unto babes: even so, Father; for so it seemed down from heaven, and consume them, even asgood Elias in thydid? sight. {10:22} All things are delivered to me of {9:55} But he turned, and rebuked them, and said, Ye knowmy Father: and no man knoweth who the Son is, but the not what manner of spirit ye are of. {9:56} For theFather; Son of and who the Father is, but the Son, and [he] to man is not come to destroy men's lives, but to save [them.]whom the Son will reveal [him. And they went to another village. ]{10:23} And he turned him unto [his] disciples, and said {9:57} And it came to pass, that, as they went in the way,privately, Blessed [are] the eyes which see the things that ye a certain [man] said unto him, Lord,see: I {10:24}will follow For I tellthee you, that many prophets and kings whithersoever thou goest. {9:58} And Jesus said haveunto desiredhim, to see those things which ye see, and have not Foxes have holes, and birds of the air [have] nests;seen but [them;]the and to hear those things which ye hear, and Son of man hath not where to lay [his] head. {9:59} And havehe not heard [them. said unto another, Follow me. But he said, Lord, suffer me first to go and bury my father. {9:60} Jesus said unto]{10:25} him, And, behold, a certain lawyer stood up, and Let the dead bury their dead: but go thou temptedand preach him, the saying, Master, what shall I do to inherit kingdom of God. {9:61} And another also said, Lord, I eternalwill life? {10:26} He said unto him, What is written in follow thee; but let me first go bid them farewell, whichthe are law? how readest thou? {10:27} And he answering said, at home at my house. {9:62} And Jesus said untoThou him, Noshalt love the Lord thy God with all thy heart, and man, having put his hand to the plough, and looking back, iswith all thy soul, and with all thy strength, and with all thy fit for the kingdom of God. mind; and thy neighbour as thyself. {10:28} And he said unto him, Thou hast answered right: this do, and thou shalt {10:1} After these things live.the {10:29}Lord Butappointed he, willing toother justify himself, said unto seventy also, and sent them two and two before his face intoJesus, And who is my neighbour? {10:30} And Jesus every city and place, whither heanswering himself said, A wouldcertain [man] come. went down from Jerusalem {10:2} Therefore said he unto them, The harvestto Jericho, truly and[is] fell among thieves, which stripped him of his great, but the labourers [are] few: pray ye therefore the Lordraiment, and wounded [him,] and departed, leaving [him] of the harvest, that he would send forth labourershalf intodead. his {10:31} And by chance there came down a harvest. {10:3} Go your ways: behold, I send youcertain forth priest as that way: and when he saw him, he passed by lambs among wolves. {10:4} Carry neither purse, nor scrip,on the other side. {10:32} And likewise a , when he nor shoes: and salute no man by the way. {10:5} wasAnd at into the place, came and looked [on him,] and passed by whatsoever house ye enter, first say,on thePeace other [be] side. to{10:33} this But a certain Samaritan, as he house. {10:6} And if the son of peace be there, yourjourneyed, peace came where he was: and when he saw him, he shall rest upon it: if not, it shall turn to you again.had compassion {10:7} [on him, ]{10:34} And went to [him,] and And in the same house remain, eating andbound drinking up his wounds, such pouring in oil and wine, and set him things as they give: for the labourer is worthyon ofhis hisown hire. beast, and brought him to an inn, and took care Go not from house to house. {10:8} And intoof whatsoeverhim. {10:35} And on the morrow when he departed, he city ye enter, and they receive you, eat such things as are settook out two pence, and gave [them] to the host, and said before you: {10:9} And heal the sick that areunto therein, him, andTake care of him; and whatsoever thou spendest say unto them, The kingdom of God is come nigh unto you.more, when I come again, I will repay thee. {10:36} Which {10:10} But into whatsoever city ye enter, and they receivenow of these three, thinkest thou, was neighbour unto him you not, go your ways out into the streets of the same,that andfell among the thieves? {10:37} And he said, He that say, {10:11} Even the very dustshewed of mercy your on him.city, Then whichsaid Jesus unto him, Go, and cleaveth on us, we do wipe off against you: notwithstandingdo thou likewise. be ye sure of this, that the kingdom of God is come nigh unto you. {10:12} But I say unto you, that it shall be{10:38} more Now it came to pass, as they went, that he tolerable in that day for Sodom, than for that city.entered {10:13} into a certain village: and a certain woman named Woe unto thee, Chorazin! woe unto thee, Bethsaida! forreceived if him into her house. {10:39} And she had a the mighty works had been done in Tyre and Sidon,sister which called Mary, which also sat at Jesus' feet, and heard have been done in you, they had a great while ago repented,his word. {10:40} But Martha was cumbered about much sitting in sackcloth and ashes. {10:14} But it shall serving,be more and came to him, and said, Lord, dost thou not care tolerable for Tyre and Sidon at the judgment, thanthat for myyou. sister hath left me to serve alone? bid her therefore {10:15} And thou, Capernaum, which art exalted to heaven,that she help me. {10:41} And Jesus answered and said unto shalt be thrust down to hell. {10:16} He thather, heareth Martha, you Martha, thou art careful and troubled about heareth me; and he that despiseth you despiseth me; manyand he things: {10:42} But one thing is needful: and Mary that despiseth me despiseth him that sent me. hath chosen that good part, which shall not be taken away from her. {10:17} And the seventy returned again with joy, saying, Lord, even the devils are subject unto us through thy name.{11:1} And it came to pass, that, as he was praying in a {10:18} And he said unto them, I beheld Satan as lightningcertain place, when he ceased, one of his disciples said unto fall from heaven. {10:19} Behold, I give unto you powerhim, to Lord, teach us to pray, as John also taught his tread on serpents and scorpions, and over all thedisciples. power of {11:2} And he said unto them, When ye pray, the enemy: and nothing shall bysay, any Our Fathermeans which hurtart in heaven, you. Hallowed be thy name. {10:20} Notwithstanding in this rejoice not, that Thythe spiritskingdom come. Thy will be done, as in heaven, so in are subject unto you; but rather rejoice, because your namesearth. {11:3} Give us day by day our daily bread. {11:4} Luke Page 42 And forgive us our sins; for we also forgive every inone the that judgment with this generation, and shall condemn it: is indebted to us. And lead us not forinto they temptation; repented at the but preaching of Jonas; and, behold, a deliver us from evil. {11:5} And he said unto them,greater Which than Jonas [is] here. {11:33} No man, when he hath of you shall have a friend, andlighted shall a candle, go untoputteth [it]him in a atsecret place, neither under midnight, and say unto him, Friend, lend me athree bushel, loaves; but on a candlestick, that they which come in may {11:6} For a friend of mine in his journey is comesee tothe me, light. {11:34} The light of the body is the eye: and I have nothing to set before him? {11:7} Andtherefore he from when thine eye is single, thy whole body also is within shall answer and say, Trouble me not:full of the light; door but whenis [thine eye] is evil, thy body also [is] now shut, and my children are with me in bed; I cannot fullrise of darkness. {11:35} Take heed therefore that the light and give thee. {11:8} I say unto you, Thoughwhich he iswill in thee not be not darkness. {11:36} If thy whole body rise and give him, because he is his friend, yettherefore because [be]of full of light, having no part dark, the whole his importunity he will rise and give himshall as bemany full of as light, he as when the bright shining of a candle needeth. {11:9} And I say unto you, Ask, anddoth giveit shall thee light.be given you; seek, and ye shall find; knock, and it shall be opened unto you. {11:10} For{11:37} every And asone he spake, that a certain asketh Pharisee besought him receiveth; and he that seeketh findeth;to dine withand him:to himand hethat went in, and sat down to meat. knocketh it shall be opened. {11:11} If a son shall ask bread{11:38} And when the Pharisee saw [it,] he marvelled that of any of you that is a father, will he give him a stone? orhe if had not first washed before dinner. {11:39} And the [he ask] a fish, will he for a fishLord give said him unto a him,serpent? Now do ye Pharisees make clean the {11:12} Or if he shall ask an egg, willoutside he of offer the cup him and a the platter; but your inward part is scorpion? {11:13} If ye then, being evil, know how fullto give of ravening and wickedness. {11:40} [Ye] fools, did not good gifts unto your children: how much more shallhe [your] that made that which is without make that which is heavenly Father give the to them that askwithin him? also? {11:41} But rather give alms of such things as ye have; and, behold, all things are clean unto you. {11:42} {11:14} And he was casting out a devil, and it was dumb.But woe unto you, Pharisees! for ye tithe mint and rue and And it came to pass, when the devil was gone out, the dumball manner of herbs, and pass over judgment and the love of spake; and the people wondered. {11:15} But some of themGod: these ought ye to have done, and not to leave the other said, He casteth out devils through Beelzebubundone. the chief {11:43} of Woe unto you, Pharisees! for ye love the the devils. {11:16} And others, tempting [him,]uppermost sought ofseats in the synagogues, and greetings in the him a sign from heaven. {11:17} But markets.he, knowing {11:44} their Woe unto you, scribes and Pharisees, thoughts, said unto them, Every kingdomhypocrites! divided foragainst ye are as graves which appear not, and the itself is brought to desolation; and a house [divided] againstmen that walk over [them] are not aware [of them. a house falleth. {11:18} If Satan also be divided against himself, how shall his kingdom stand? because ye say that]{11:45} I Then answered one of the lawyers, and said unto cast out devils through Beelzebub. {11:19}him, Master, And thus if saying I by thou reproachest us also. {11:46} Beelzebub cast out devils, by whomAnd do he said,your Woe sons unto castyou also, [ye] lawyers! for ye lade [them] out? therefore shall they be your judges. {11:20} Butmen with burdens grievous to be borne, and ye yourselves if I with the cast out devils,touch no not doubt the theburdens with one of your fingers. {11:47} kingdom of God is come upon you. {11:21} When a strongWoe unto you! for ye build the sepulchres of the prophets, man armed keepeth his palace, his andgoods your fathers are killedin peace:them. {11:48} Truly ye bear witness {11:22} But when a stronger than he shall come uponthat him, ye allow the deeds of your fathers: for they indeed and overcome him, he taketh fromkilled him all them,his armour and ye build their sepulchres. {11:49} wherein he trusted, and divideth his spoils. {11:23} HeTherefore that also said the wisdom of God, I will send them is not with me is against me: and he that gathereth notprophets with and apostles, and [some] of them they shall slay me scattereth. {11:24} When the unclean spirit isand gone persecute: out {11:50} That the blood of all the prophets, of a man, he walketh through dry places, seekingwhich rest; wasand shed from the foundation of the world, may be finding none, he saith, I will return unto my house whencerequired I of this generation; {11:51} From the blood of Abel came out. {11:25} And when he cometh,unto he the findeth blood [it]of Zacharias, which perished between the swept and garnished. {11:26} Then goeth he, and takethaltar [to and the temple: verily I say unto you, It shall be him] seven other spirits more wicked than himself; and theyrequired of this generation. {11:52} Woe unto you, lawyers! enter in, and dwell there: and the last [state] of thatfor man ye ishave taken away the key of knowledge: ye entered worse than the first. not in yourselves, and them that were entering in ye hindered. {11:53} And as he said these things unto them, {11:27} And it came to pass, as he spake thesethe things, scribesa and the Pharisees began to urge [him] certain woman of the company lifted up her voice, andvehemently, said and to provoke him to speak of many things: unto him, Blessed is the womb that bare thee, and the{11:54} paps Laying wait for him, and seeking to catch which thou hast sucked. {11:28} But he said,something Yea rather, out of his mouth, that they might accuse him. blessed [are] they that hear the word of God, and keep it. {12:1} In the mean time, when there were gathered {11:29} And when the peopletogether werean innumerable gathered multitude of thickpeople, insomuch that together, he began to say, This is an evil generation:they trode they one upon another, he began to say unto his seek a sign; and there shall no sign be given it, but thedisciples sign first of all, Beware ye of the leaven of the of Jonas the prophet. {11:30} For as Jonas was a signPharisees, unto which is hypocrisy. {12:2} For there is nothing the Ninevites, so shall also the Soncovered, of thatman shall notbe be to revealed; this neither hid, that shall not generation. {11:31} The queen of the south shall risebe known.up in {12:3} Therefore whatsoever ye have spoken in the judgment with the men of this generation, and condemndarkness shall be heard in the light; and that which ye have them: for she came from the utmost parts spokenof the inearth the toear in closets shall be proclaimed upon the hear the wisdom of Solomon; and, behold,housetops. a greater {12:4}than And I say unto you my friends, Be not Solomon is here. {11:32} The men of Nineve shallafraid rise of upthem that kill the body, and after that have no more Page 43 Luke that they can do. {12:5} But I will forewarn you likewhom unto ye men that wait for their lord, when he will return shall fear: Fear him, which after he hath killed fromhath thepower wedding; that when he cometh and knocketh, they to cast into hell; yea, I say unto you, Fear him. {12:6}may Are open unto him immediately. {12:37} Blessed [are] not five sparrows sold for two farthings,those and servants, not one whom of the lord when he cometh shall find them is forgotten before God? {12:7} Butwatching: even verilythe very I say unto you, that he shall gird himself, hairs of your head are all numbered. Fear not therefore:and make ye them to sit down to meat, and will come forth and are of more value than many sparrows. {12:8}serve Also them. I say {12:38} And if he shall come in the second unto you, Whosoever shall confess mewatch, before or men, come him in the third watch, and find [them] so, shall the Son of man also confess before the angels of blessedGod: are those servants. {12:39} And this know, that if {12:9} But he that denieth me before men shallthe be goodman denied of the house had known what hour the thief before the angels of God. {12:10} Andwould whosoever come, he would shall have watched, and not have suffered speak a word against the Son of man, it shallhis be houseforgiven to be broken through. {12:40} Be ye therefore him: but unto him that blasphemeth against the Holyready Ghost also: for the Son of man cometh at an hour when ye it shall not be forgiven. {12:11} And when they thinkbring not. you unto the synagogues, and [unto] magistrates, and powers, take ye no thought how or what thing ye shall{12:41} answer, Thenor Peter said unto him, Lord, speakest thou what ye shall say: {12:12} For the Holy Ghost thisshall parable teach unto us, or even to all? {12:42} And the Lord you in the same hour what ye ought to say. said, Who then is that faithful and wise steward, whom [his] lord shall make ruler over his household, to give [them {12:13} And one of the company said unto him,their] Master, portion of meat in due season? {12:43} Blessed [is] speak to my brother, that he divide the inheritance withthat me. servant, whom his lord when he cometh shall find so {12:14} And he said unto him, Man, who made me a judgedoing. {12:44} Of a truth I say unto you, that he will make or a divider over you? {12:15} And he said unto them, Takehim ruler over all that he hath. {12:45} But and if that heed, and beware of covetousness:servant say in hisfor heart, a My man's lord delayeth life his coming; and consisteth not in the abundance of shallthe begin things to beat which the menservants he and maidens, and to eat possesseth. {12:16} And he spake aand parable drink, unto and them,to be drunken; {12:46} The lord of that saying, The ground of a certain richservant man willbrought come in forth a day when he looketh not for [him,] plentifully: {12:17} And he thought within himself,and saying, at an hour when he is not aware, and will cut him in What shall I do, because I have no room wheresunder, to bestow and will appoint him his portion with the my fruits? {12:18} And he said, This will I do: unbelievers.I will pull {12:47} And that servant, which knew his down my barns, and build greater; and there willlord's I bestow will, and prepared not [himself,] neither did all my fruits and my goods. {12:19} And I will accordingsay to my to his will, shall be beaten with many [stripes. soul, Soul, thou hast much goods laid up for]{12:48} many years; But he that knew not, and did commit things take thine ease, eat, drink, [and] be merry. {12:20} But Godworthy of stripes, shall be beaten with few [stripes.] For said unto him, [Thou] fool, this nightunto thy whomsoever soul shall muchbe is given, of him shall be much required of thee: then whose shall those thingsrequired: be, and which to whom men have committed much, of him thou hast provided? {12:21} So they[is] will he ask thatthe more. layeth up treasure for himself, and is not rich toward God. {12:49} I am come to send fire on the earth; and what will {12:22} And he said unto his disciples, ThereforeI if it be alreadyI say kindled? {12:50} But I have a baptism to unto you, Take no thought for your life, what yebe shall baptized eat; with; and how am I straitened till it be neither for the body, what ye shall put on. {12:23} Theaccomplished! life {12:51} Suppose ye that I am come to give is more than meat, and the body [is more]peace than on earth? raiment. I tell you, Nay; but rather division: {12:52} {12:24} Consider the ravens: for they neither sow norFor reap; from henceforth there shall be five in one house which neither have storehouse nor barn; anddivided, God feedeththree against two, and two against three. {12:53} them: how much more are ye better than the fowls? {12:25}The father shall be divided against the son, and the son And which of you with taking thought can add to his statureagainst the father; the mother against the daughter, and the one cubit? {12:26} If ye then be not able to dodaughter that thing against the mother; the mother in law against her which is least, why take ye thought for thedaughter rest? in{12:27} law, and the daughter in law against her mother Consider the lilies how they grow: they toil not,in law. they spin not; and yet I say unto you, that Solomon in all his glory was not arrayed like one of these. {12:28} If then{12:54} God soAnd he said also to the people, When ye see a clothe the grass, which is to day in the field, and to morrowcloud rise out of the west, straightway ye say, There cometh is cast into the oven; how much more [will he clothe]a shower; you, and so it is. {12:55} And when [ye see] the south O ye of little faith? {12:29} And seek not ye what windye shall blow, ye say, There will be heat; and it cometh to eat, or what ye shall drink, neither be ye of doubtfulpass. mind. {12:56} [Ye] hypocrites, ye can discern the face of the {12:30} For all these things do the nations of the world seeksky and of the earth; but how is it that ye do not discern this after: and your Father knoweth that ye have needtime? of {12:57}these Yea, and why even of yourselves judge ye things. not what is right?

{12:31} But rather seek ye the kingdom of God;{12:58} and all When thou goest with thine adversary to the these things shall be added unto you. {12:32} Fear not, littlemagistrate, [as thou art] in the way, give diligence that thou flock; for it is your Father's good pleasure to givemayest you be the delivered from him; lest he hale thee to the judge, kingdom. {12:33} Sell that ye have, and give alms; provideand the judge deliver thee to the officer, and the officer cast yourselves bags which wax not theeold, into a prison.treasure {12:59} in I tellthe thee, thou shalt not depart heavens that faileth not, where no thief approacheth, neitherthence, till thou hast paid the very last mite. moth corrupteth. {12:34} For where your treasure is, there will your heart be also. {12:35} Let your loins{13:1} be There girded were present at that season some that told about, and [your] lights burning; {12:36} And ye yourselveshim of the Galilaeans, whose blood Pilate had mingled with Luke Page 44 their sacrifices. {13:2} And Jesus answering said unto them,west, and from the north, and [from] the south, and shall sit Suppose ye that these Galilaeans were sinners above downall the in the kingdom of God. {13:30} And, behold, there Galilaeans, because they suffered such things? {13:3}are Ilast tell which shall be first, and there are first which shall you, Nay: but, except ye repent, ye shall all likewise perish.be last. {13:4} Or those eighteen, upon whom the tower in Siloam fell, and slew them, think ye that they were sinners{13:31} above The same day there came certain of the Pharisees, all men that dwelt in Jerusalem? {13:5} I tell you, Nay: but,saying unto him, Get thee out, and depart hence: for Herod except ye repent, ye shall all likewise perish. will kill thee. {13:32} And he said unto them, Go ye, and tell that fox, Behold, I cast out devils, and I do cures to day {13:6} He spake also this parable; A certain [man]and had to a morrow, and the third [day] I shall be perfected. fig tree planted in his vineyard; and he {13:33}came and Nevertheless sought I must walk to day, and to morrow, fruit thereon, and found none. {13:7} Then said he untoand the the [day] following: for it cannot be that a prophet dresser of his vineyard, Behold, these threeperish years out I ofcome Jerusalem. {13:34} O Jerusalem, Jerusalem, seeking fruit on this fig tree, and find none:which cut killestit down; the prophets, and stonest them that are sent why cumbereth it the ground? {13:8} Andunto hethee; answering how often would I have gathered thy children said unto him, Lord, let it alone this year also, till I shall digtogether, as a hen [doth gather] her brood under [her] wings, about it, and dung [it: ]{13:9} And if it bearand fruit, ye would [well:] not! {13:35} Behold, your house is left unto and if not, [then] after that thou shalt cut it down.you {13:10} desolate: and verily I say unto you, Ye shall not see me, And he was teaching in one of theuntil synagogues [the time] come whenon theye shall say, Blessed [is] he that sabbath. cometh in the name of the Lord.

{13:11} And, behold, there was a woman{14:1} which And had it came a to pass, as he went into the house of spirit of infirmity eighteen years, and was bowedone together,of the chief Pharisees to eat bread on the sabbath day, and could in no wise lift up [herself. ]{13:12}that Andthey when watched him. {14:2} And, behold, there was a Jesus saw her, he called [her to him,] andcertain said man unto before her, him which had the dropsy. {14:3} And Woman, thou art loosed from thine infirmity. {13:13}Jesus And answering spake unto the lawyers and Pharisees, he laid [his] hands on her: and immediately shesaying, was made Is it lawful to heal on the sabbath day? {14:4} And straight, and glorified God. {13:14} Andthey the held ruler their of peace.the And he took [him,] and healed him, synagogue answered with indignation, andbecause let him thatgo; {14:5} Jesus And answered them, saying, Which had healed on the sabbath day, and said untoof you the shall people, have an ass or an ox fallen into a pit, and will There are six days in which men ought to notwork: straightway in them pull him out on the sabbath day? {14:6} therefore come and be healed, and not on the sabbathAnd they day. could not answer him again to these things. {13:15} The Lord then answered him, and said, [Thou] hypocrite, doth not each one of you on the sabbath loose his{14:7} And he put forth a parable to those which were ox or [his] ass from the stall, andbidden, lead [him]when awayhe marked to how they chose out the chief watering? {13:16} And ought not rooms;this woman,saying unto being them, {14:8}a When thou art bidden of daughter of Abraham, whom Satan hath anybound, [man] lo,to a thesewedding, sit not down in the highest room; eighteen years, be loosed from this bondlest ona morethe sabbathhonourable man than thou be bidden of him; day? {13:17} And when he had said these{14:9} things, And heall that his bade thee and him come and say to thee, adversaries were ashamed: and all the people rejoiced for allGive this man place; and thou begin with shame to take the the glorious things that were done by him. lowest room. {14:10} But when thou art bidden, go and sit down in the lowest room; that when he that bade thee {13:18} Then said he, Unto what is the kingdomcometh, of God he may say unto thee, Friend, go up higher: then like? and whereunto shall I resemble it? {13:19} It isshalt like athou have worship in the presence of them that sit at grain of mustard seed, which a man took, and castmeat into hiswith thee. {14:11} For whosoever exalteth himself garden; and it grew, and waxed a great tree; andshall the fowls be abased; and he that humbleth himself shall be of the air lodged in the branches of it. {13:20} And again heexalted. said, Whereunto shall I liken the kingdom of God? {13:21} It is like leaven, which a woman took{14:12} and hid Then in saidthree he also to him that bade him, When measures of meal, till the whole was leavened. {13:22} Andthou makest a dinner or a supper, call not thy friends, nor he went through the cities andthy villages,brethren, neither teaching,thy kinsmen, nor [thy]and rich neighbours; journeying toward Jerusalem. {13:23} Then lestsaid theyone untoalso bid thee again, and a recompence be made him, Lord, are there few that be saved? And thee.he said {14:13} unto But when thou makest a feast, call the poor, them, the maimed, the lame, the blind: {14:14} And thou shalt be blessed; for they cannot recompense thee: for thou shalt be {13:24} Strive to enter in at the strait gate: for many, I sayrecompensed at the resurrection of the just. unto you, will seek to enter in, and shall not be able. {13:25} When once the master of the house is risen up, and{14:15} And when one of them that sat at meat with him hath shut to the door, and ye begin to stand without,heard and to these things, he said unto him, Blessed [is] he that knock at the door, saying, Lord, Lord, open unto us; andshall he eat bread in the kingdom of God. {14:16} Then said shall answer and say unto you, I know you not whencehe unto yehim, A certain man made a great supper, and bade are: {13:26} Then shall ye begin to say, We have eatenmany: and {14:17} And sent his servant at supper time to say to drunk in thy presence, and thou hast taught inthem our that streets. were bidden, Come; for all things are now ready. {13:27} But he shall say, I tell you, I know you not whence{14:18} And they all with one [consent] began to make ye are; depart from me, all [ye] workers of iniquity. {13:28}excuse. The first said unto him, I have bought a piece of There shall be weeping and gnashing of teeth, when ye shallground, and I must needs go and see it: I pray thee have me see Abraham, and Isaac, and Jacob, and all the prophets,excused. in {14:19} And another said, I have bought five yoke the kingdom of God, and you [yourselves]of oxen, and I thrustgo to proveout. them: I pray thee have me {13:29} And they shall come from the east, and [from]excused. the {14:20} And another said, I have married a wife, Page 45 Luke and therefore I cannot come. {14:21} So that servantsubstance came, with riotous living. {15:14} And when he had and shewed his lord these things. Then thespent master all, thereof the arose a mighty famine in that land; and he house being angry said to his servant, Go out beganquickly intoto be in want. {15:15} And he went and joined the streets and lanes of the city, and bring in hither the poor,himself to a citizen of that country; and he sent him into his and the maimed, and the halt, and the blind. {14:22}fields to feedAnd swine. {15:16} And he would fain have filled the servant said, Lord, it is done as thou hast commanded,his belly with the husks that the swine did eat: and no man and yet there is room. {14:23} And the lord saidgave untounto thehim. {15:17} And when he came to himself, he servant, Go out into the highways and hedges, andsaid, compel How many hired servants of my father's have bread [them] to come in, that my house may be filled. {14:24} Forenough and to spare, and I perish with hunger! {15:18} I I say unto you, That none of those men which were willbidden arise and go to my father, and will say unto him, shall taste of my supper. Father, I have sinned against heaven, and before thee, {15:19} And am no more worthy to be called thy son: make {14:25} And there went great multitudes with him: and heme as one of thy hired servants. {15:20} And he arose, and turned, and said unto them, {14:26} If any [man]came come to his tofather. But when he was yet a great way off, his me, and hate not his father, and mother,father saw andhim, andwife, had compassion, and and ran, and fell on his children, and brethren, and sisters, yea,neck, and and his kissed own him. life {15:21} And the son said unto him, also, he cannot be my disciple. {14:27}Father, And I havewhosoever sinned against heaven, and in thy sight, and doth not bear his cross, and come after me, cannotam no bemore my worthy to be called thy son. {15:22} But the disciple. {14:28} For which of you, intendingfather said toto his build servants, a Bring forth the best robe, and put tower, sitteth not down first, and counteth the cost, whether[it] on him; and put a ring on his hand, and shoes on [his] he have [sufficient] to finish [it? ]{14:29} Lest haply,feet: after{15:23} And bring hither the fatted calf, and kill [it;] he hath laid the foundation, and is not able to finish and[it,] alllet us eat, and be merry: {15:24} For this my son was that behold [it] begin to mock him, {14:30}dead, Saying, and is alive This again; he was lost, and is found. And they man began to build, and was not able to finish. {14:31}began Or to be merry. {15:25} Now his elder son was in the what king, going to make war against another king,field: andsitteth as he came and drew nigh to the house, he heard not down first, and consulteth whether he be ablemusick with ten and dancing. {15:26} And he called one of the thousand to meet him that cometh against him withservants, twenty and asked what these things meant. {15:27} And thousand? {14:32} Or else, while the otherhe issaid yet unto a him,great Thy brother is come; and thy father hath way off, he sendeth an ambassage, and desirethkilled conditions the fatted calf, because he hath received him safe and of peace. {14:33} So likewise, whosoever he be of yousound. that {15:28} And he was angry, and would not go in: forsaketh not all that he hath, he cannot be my disciple.therefore came his father out, and intreated him. {15:29} And he answering said to [his] father, Lo, these many years {14:34} Salt [is] good: but if the salt have lost his savour,do I serve thee, neither transgressed I at any time thy wherewith shall it be seasoned? {14:35} It is neithercommandment: fit for and yet thou never gavest me a kid, that I the land, nor yet for the dunghill; [but] men cast itmight out. make He merry with my friends: {15:30} But as soon as that hath ears to hear, let him hear. this thy son was come, which hath devoured thy living with harlots, thou hast killed for him the fatted calf. {15:31} And {15:1} Then drew near unto him all thehe saidpublicans unto him, and Son, thou art ever with me, and all that I sinners for to hear him. {15:2} Andhave theis thine.Pharisees {15:32} and It was meet that we should make scribes murmured, saying, This man receiveth sinners,merry, andand be glad: for this thy brother was dead, and is eateth with them. alive again; and was lost, and is found.

{15:3} And he spake this parable{16:1} unto And them, he said saying, also unto his disciples, There was a {15:4} What man of you, having an hundredcertain sheep, rich if he man, which had a steward; and the same was lose one of them, doth not leave the ninety and nineaccused in the unto him that he had wasted his goods. {16:2} And wilderness, and go after that which is lost, until he calledfind it? him, and said unto him, How is it that I hear this {15:5} And when he hath found [it,] he layethof thee? [it] give on anhis account of thy stewardship; for thou mayest shoulders, rejoicing. {15:6} And when he cometh home,be nohe longer steward. {16:3} Then the steward said within calleth together [his] friends and neighbours,himself, Whatsaying shall untoI do? for my lord taketh away from me them, Rejoice with me; for I have found mythe sheep stewardship: which I cannot dig; to beg I am ashamed. {16:4} I was lost. {15:7} I say unto you, that likewise joy shall beam in resolved what to do, that, when I am put out of the heaven over one sinner that repenteth,stewardship, more they may than receive over me into their houses. {16:5} ninety and nine just persons, whichSo heneed called no every repentance. one of his lord's debtors [unto him,] and said unto the first, How much owest thou unto my lord? {15:8} Either what woman having ten pieces of {16:6}silver, ifAnd he said, An hundred measures of oil. And he she lose one piece, doth not light a candle, andsaid sweep unto him, the Take thy bill, and sit down quickly, and write house, and seek diligently till she findfifty. [it?{16:7} ]{15:9} Then said heAnd to another, And how much owest when she hath found [it,] she calleth [her] friends andthou? [her] And he said, An hundred measures of wheat. And he neighbours together, saying, Rejoice withsaid me; unto for him, I haveTake thy bill, and write fourscore. {16:8} found the piece which I had lost. {15:10} Likewise,And the I saylord commended the unjust steward, because he unto you, there is joy in the presence of the angelshad of done God wisely: for the children of this world are in their over one sinner that repenteth. generation wiser than the children of light. {16:9} And I say unto you, Make to yourselves friends of the mammon of {15:11} And he said, A certainunrighteousness; man had twothat, sons:when ye fail, they may receive you {15:12} And the younger of theminto said everlasting to [his] habitations. father, {16:10} He that is faithful in Father, give me the portion of goods that thatfalleth which [to isme.] least is faithful also in much: and he that is And he divided unto them [his] living. unjust{15:13} inAnd the not least is unjust also in much. {16:11} If many days after the younger son gathered all together,therefore and ye have not been faithful in the unrighteous took his journey into a far country, and mammon,there wasted who willhis commit to your trust the true [riches? Luke Page 46 ]{16:12} And if ye have not been faithful in thatthyself, which andis serve me, till I have eaten and drunken; and another man's, who shall give you that which is yourafterward own? thou shalt eat and drink? {17:9} Doth he thank that servant because he did the things that were commanded {16:13} No servant can serve two masters: forhim? eitherI trow not. he {17:10} So likewise ye, when ye shall have will hate the one, and love the other; or else he will holddone to all those things which are commanded you, say, We the one, and despise the other. Ye cannotare serve unprofitable God and servants: we have done that which was our mammon. {16:14} And the Phariseesduty to do. also, who were covetous, heard all these things: and they derided him. {16:15} And he said unto them, Ye are they which{17:11} justify And it came to pass, as he went to Jerusalem, that yourselves before men; but God knoweth yourhe hearts:passed for through the midst of and Galilee. that which is highly esteemed among men is abomination{17:12} in And as he entered into a certain village, there met the sight of God. {16:16} The law and the prophetshim [were] ten men that were lepers, which stood afar off: {17:13} until John: since that time the kingdom of God is preached,And they lifted up [their] voices, and said, Jesus, Master, and every man presseth into it. {16:17} And it is easierhave formercy on us. {17:14} And when he saw [them,] he heaven and earth to pass, than one tittle of the saidlaw unto to fail.them, Go shew yourselves unto the priests. And it {16:18} Whosoever putteth away his camewife, toand pass, marrieth that, as they went, they were cleansed. another, committeth adultery: and whosoever{17:15} marrieth And one her of them, when he saw that he was healed, that is put away from [her] husband committethturned adultery. back, and with a loud voice glorified God, {17:16} And fell down on [his] face at his feet, giving him thanks: {16:19} There was a certain rich man, which was clothedand he was a Samaritan. {17:17} And Jesus answering said, in purple and fine linen, and fared sumptuously Wereevery day:there not ten cleansed? but where [are] the nine? {16:20} And there was a certain beggar{17:18} named There Lazarus, are not found that returned to give glory to which was laid at his gate, full ofGod, sores, save {16:21}this stranger. And {17:19} And he said unto him, desiring to be fed with the crumbs which fell from Arise,the rich go thy way: thy faith hath made thee whole. man's table: moreover the dogs came and licked his sores. {16:22} And it came to pass, that the beggar died, and{17:20} was And when he was demanded of the Pharisees, carried by the angels into Abraham's bosom: thewhen rich the man kingdom of God should come, he answered them also died, and was buried; {16:23} And in hell he lift up andhis said, The kingdom of God cometh not with observation: eyes, being in torments, and seeth Abraham{17:21} afar off,Neither and shall they say, Lo here! or, lo there! for, Lazarus in his bosom. {16:24} Andbehold, he thecried kingdom and of Godsaid, is within you. {17:22} And he Father Abraham, have mercy on me, and send Lazarus,said that unto the disciples, The days will come, when ye shall he may dip the tip of his finger in water,desire to seeand one coolof the daysmy of the Son of man, and ye shall tongue; for I am tormented in thisnot seeflame. [it. ]{17:23} {16:25} And they shallBut say to you, See here; or, Abraham said, Son, remember that seethou there: in gothy not lifetimeafter [them,] nor follow [them. ]{17:24} receivedst thy good things, and likewise Lazarus evil things:For as the lightning, that lighteneth out of the one [part] but now he is comforted, and thou art tormented.under heaven,{16:26} shineth unto the other [part] under heaven; so And beside all this, between us and you there is a great gulfshall also the Son of man be in his day. {17:25} But first fixed: so that they which would pass frommust hence he to suffer you many things, and be rejected of this cannot; neither can they pass to us, that [would come]generation. from {17:26} And as it was in the days of Noe, so thence. {16:27} Then he said, I pray thee therefore,shall father,it be also in the days of the Son of man. {17:27} They that thou wouldest send him to my father's house:did {16:28} eat, they drank, they married wives, they were given in For I have five brethren; that he may testify unto them,marriage, lest until the day that Noe entered into the ark, and the they also come into this place of torment. {16:29} Abrahamflood came, and destroyed them all. {17:28} Likewise also saith unto him, They have Moses and the prophets; let themas it was in the days of Lot; they did eat, they drank, they hear them. {16:30} And he said, Nay, father Abraham:bought, but they sold, they planted, they builded; {17:29} But if one went unto them from the dead,the samethey day will that Lotrepent. went out of Sodom it rained fire and {16:31} And he said unto him, If they hear not Mosesbrimstone and from heaven, and destroyed [them] all. {17:30} the prophets, neither will they be persuaded,Even thus though shall itone be in the day when the Son of man is rose from the dead. revealed. {17:31} In that day, he which shall be upon the housetop, and his stuff in the house, let him not come down {17:1} Then said he unto the disciples, Itto takeis impossible it away: and he that is in the field, let him likewise but that offences will come: but woe [untonot him,] return through back. {17:32} Remember Lot's wife. {17:33} whom they come! {17:2} It were betterWhosoever for him shall that seek a to save his life shall lose it; and millstone were hanged about his neck, and he castwhosoever into the shall lose his life shall preserve it. {17:34} I tell sea, than that he should offend one of these little ones.you, in that night there shall be two [men] in one bed; the one shall be taken, and the other shall be left. {17:35} Two {17:3} Take heed to yourselves: If thy [women]brother shall trespass be grinding together; the one shall be taken, against thee, rebuke him; and if he andrepent, the other forgive left. {17:36} him. Two [men] shall be in the field; {17:4} And if he trespass against thee seven times in athe day, one shall be taken, and the other left. {17:37} And they and seven times in a day turn again to thee, saying, I repent;answered and said unto him, Where, Lord? And he said thou shalt forgive him. {17:5} And the apostlesunto them,said Wheresoeverunto the body is, thither will the eagles the Lord, Increase our faith. {17:6} And the Lord said, If beye gathered together. had faith as a grain of mustard seed, ye might say unto this tree, Be thou plucked up by the root, and be{18:1} thou And he spake a parable unto them [to this end,] planted in the sea; and it should obeythat you.men ought{17:7} always But to pray, and not to faint; {18:2} which of you, having a servant plowing or Saying,feeding There , was in a city a judge, which feared not God, will say unto him by and by, when he is neithercome from regarded the man: {18:3} And there was a widow in field, Go and sit down to meat? {17:8} And will notthat rather city; and she came unto him, saying, Avenge me of say unto him, Make ready wherewith I may sup,mine and adversary. gird {18:4} And he would not for a while: but Page 47 Luke afterward he said within himself, Though askedI fear what not it God,meant. {18:37} And they told him, that Jesus nor regard man; {18:5} Yet because this widowof Nazareth troubleth passeth by. {18:38} And he cried, saying, me, I will avenge her, lest by her continualJesus, [thou] coming Son of David, she have mercy on me. {18:39} And weary me. {18:6} And the Lord said, Hear what thethey unjust which went before rebuked him, that he should hold judge saith. {18:7} And shall not God avenge his own elect,his peace: but he cried so much the more, [Thou] Son of which cry day and night unto him, though he bear long withDavid, have mercy on me. {18:40} And Jesus stood, and them? {18:8} I tell you that he will avenge themcommanded speedily. him to be brought unto him: and when he was Nevertheless when the Son of man cometh,come shall near, he he find asked him, {18:41} Saying, What wilt thou faith on the earth? {18:9} And he spake thisthat parable I shall unto do unto thee? And he said, Lord, that I may certain which trusted inreceive themselves my sight. {18:42} And Jesusthat said untothey him, Receive were righteous, and despised others: {18:10} Two menthy went sight: up thy faith hath saved thee. {18:43} And into the temple to pray; the one a Pharisee, and theimmediately other a he received his sight, and followed him, publican. {18:11} The Pharisee stood and prayed thusglorifying with God: and all the people, when they saw [it,] gave himself, God, I thank thee, that I am not as other men [are,]praise unto God. extortioners, unjust, adulterers, or even as this publican. {18:12} I fast twice in the week, I give tithes of{19:1} all that And I [Jesus] entered and passed through Jericho. possess. {18:13} And the publican, standing afar off, would{19:2} And, behold, [there was] a man named , not lift up so much as [his] eyes unto heaven,which wasbut the smote chief among the publicans, and he was rich. upon his breast, saying, God be merciful{19:3} to me And a sinner.he sought to see Jesus who he was; and could {18:14} I tell you, this man wentnot fordown the press,to his because house he was little of stature. {19:4} justified [rather] than the other: for every one thatAnd exaltethhe ran before, and climbed up into a sycomore tree to himself shall be abased; and he that humbleth himselfsee shall him: for he was to pass that [way. ]{19:5} And when be exalted. {18:15} And they brought unto him also infants,Jesus came to the place, he looked up, and saw him, and that he would touch them: but when [his] disciples sawsaid [it,] unto him, Zacchaeus, make haste, and come down; for they rebuked them. {18:16} But Jesus tocalled day I must them abide at[unto thy house. {19:6} And he made haste, him,] and said, Suffer little children to come untoand me, came and down, and received him joyfully. {19:7} And forbid them not: for of such is the kingdom of God. {18:17}when they saw [it,] they all murmured, saying, That he was Verily I say unto you, Whosoever shallgone tonot be receiveguest with the a man that is a sinner. {19:8} And kingdom of God as a little child shallZacchaeus in no stood, wise and enter said unto the Lord; Behold, Lord, the therein. {18:18} And a certain rulerhalf askedof my goods him, I give saying, to the poor; and if I have taken any Good Master, what shall I do to inherit eternal life? {18:19}thing from any man by false accusation, I restore [him] And Jesus said unto him, Why callest thou me good?fourfold. none {19:9} And Jesus said unto him, This day is [is] good, save one, [that is,] God. {18:20} Thousalvation knowest come to this house, forsomuch as he also is a son the commandments, Do not commit adultery,of DoAbraham. not kill, {19:10} For the Son of man is come to seek Do not steal, Do not bear false witness, Honourand thy to fathersave that which was lost. {19:11} And as they heard and thy mother. {18:21} And he said, All these have theseI kept things, he added and spake a parable, because he was from my youth up. {18:22} Now when Jesusnigh heard to these Jerusalem, and because they thought that the things, he said unto him, Yet lackest thou one thing: sellkingdom all of God should immediately appear. {19:12} He that thou hast, and distribute unto the poor, andsaid thou therefore, shalt A certain nobleman went into a far country have treasure in heaven: and come, follow me. {18:23} Andto receive for himself a kingdom, and to return. {19:13} when he heard this, he was very sorrowful: for he wasAnd very he called his ten servants, and delivered them ten rich. {18:24} And when Jesus pounds,saw thatand said he unto was them, very Occupy till I come. {19:14} sorrowful, he said, How hardly shall they thatBut have his riches citizens hated him, and sent a message after him, enter into the kingdom of God! {18:25} For it is easier forsaying, a We will not have this [man] to reign over us. camel to go through a needle's eye, than for a rich{19:15} man to And it came to pass, that when he was returned, enter into the kingdom of God. {18:26} And they that heardhaving received the kingdom, then he commanded these [it] said, Who then can be saved? {18:27} And he said, servantsThe to be called unto him, to whom he had given the things which are impossible with menmoney, are possible that he with might know how much every man had God. {18:28} Then Peter said, Lo, we havegained left by all, trading. and {19:16} Then came the first, saying, followed thee. {18:29} And he said unto them, VerilyLord, I say thy pound hath gained ten pounds. {19:17} And he unto you, There is no man that hath left house, or parents, orsaid unto him, Well, thou good servant: because thou hast brethren, or wife, or children, for the beenkingdom faithful of inGod's a very little, have thou authority over ten sake, {18:30} Who shall not receive manifold morecities. in this {19:18} And the second came, saying, Lord, thy present time, and in the life everlasting.pound hath gained five pounds. {19:19} And he said likewise to him, Be thou also over five cities. {19:20} And {18:31} Then he took [unto him] the anothertwelve, came,and said saying, Lord, behold, [here is] thy pound, unto them, Behold, we go up to Jerusalem, whichand all I have things kept laid up in a napkin: {19:21} For I feared that are written by the prophets concerning the Sonthee, of man because thou art an austere man: thou takest up that shall be accomplished. {18:32} For he shallthou layedstbe delivered not down, and reapest that thou didst not sow. unto the Gentiles, and shall be {19:22}mocked, And andhe saithspitefully unto him, Out of thine own mouth entreated, and spitted on: {18:33} And theywill shall I judge scourge thee, [thou] wicked servant. Thou knewest that I [him,] and put him to death: and the third day he wasshall risean austere man, taking up that I laid not down, and again. {18:34} And they understood none ofreaping these things:that I did not sow: {19:23} Wherefore then gavest and this saying was hid from them, neither knewnot thou they my moneythe into the bank, that at my coming I might things which were spoken. have required mine own with usury? {19:24} And he said unto them that stood by, Take from him the pound, and give {18:35} And it came to pass, that as he was[it] come to himnigh that hath ten pounds. {19:25} (And they said unto Jericho, a certain blind manunto sat him, byLord, thehe hath way ten pounds.) side {19:26} For I say unto begging: {18:36} And hearing the multitudeyou, That pass unto by, every he one which hath shall be given; and Luke Page 48 from him that hath not, even that he hathcountry shall for abe long taken time. {20:10} And at the season he sent a away from him. {19:27} But those mineservant enemies, to the husbandmen,which that they should give him of the would not that I should reign over them, bringfruit hither, of the vineyard:and but the husbandmen beat him, and sent slay [them] before me. [him] away empty. {20:11} And again he sent another servant: and they beat him also, and entreated [him] {19:28} And when he had thus spoken, he shamefully,went before, and sent [him] away empty. {20:12} And again ascending up to Jerusalem. {19:29} And ithe camesent a tothird: pass, and they wounded him also, and cast [him] when he was come nigh to Bethphage and Bethany,out. {20:13} at the Then said the lord of the vineyard, What shall I mount called [the mount] of Olives, do?he sentI will two sendof his my beloved son: it may be they will disciples, {19:30} Saying, Go yereverence into [him]the whenvillage they see over him. {20:14} But when the against [you;] in the which at your entering ye shallhusbandmen find a saw him, they reasoned among themselves, colt tied, whereon yet never man sat: loose him,saying, and bring This is the heir: come, let us kill him, that the [him hither. ]{19:31} And if any man ask you, Whyinheritance do ye may be ours. {20:15} So they cast him out of loose [him?] thus shall ye say unto him, Becausethe the vineyard, Lord and killed [him.] What therefore shall the lord hath need of him. {19:32} And they that ofwere the vineyardsent went do unto them? {20:16} He shall come and their way, and found even as hedestroy had thesesaid husbandmen,unto them. and shall give the vineyard to {19:33} And as they were loosing theothers. colt, And the when owners they heard [it,] they said, God forbid. thereof said unto them, Why loose ye the colt? {19:34} And{20:17} And he beheld them, and said, What is this then they said, The Lord hath need of him. {19:35}that is And written, they The stone which the builders rejected, the brought him to Jesus: and they cast their garments uponsame the is become the head of the corner? {20:18} Whosoever colt, and they set Jesus thereon. {19:36} Andshall as he went,fall upon that stone shall be broken; but on they spread their clothes in the way. {19:37} And whomsoeverwhen he it shall fall, it will grind him to powder. was come nigh, even now at the descent of the mount of Olives, the whole multitude of the disciples began to rejoice{20:19} And the chief priests and the scribes the same and praise God with a loud voice for all the mightyhour works sought to lay hands on him; and they feared the that they had seen; {19:38} Saying, Blessed [be]people: the Kingfor they perceived that he had spoken this parable that cometh in the name of the Lord: peace in heaven,against and them. {20:20} And they watched [him,] and sent glory in the highest. {19:39} And someforth of the spies, Pharisees which should feign themselves just men, that from among the multitude said unto him, Master, rebuke thythey might take hold of his words, that so they might deliver disciples. {19:40} And he answered and said himunto unto them, the Ipower and authority of the governor. {20:21} tell you that, if these should hold theirAnd peace, they the asked stones him, saying, Master, we know that thou would immediately cry out. sayest and teachest rightly, neither acceptest thou the person [of any,] but teachest the way of God truly: {20:22} Is it {19:41} And when he was come near, he beheld thelawful city, for us to give tribute unto Caesar, or no? {20:23} But and wept over it, {19:42} Saying, If thou hadst known, evenhe perceived their craftiness, and said unto them, Why thou, at least in this thy day, the things [which belong] temptunto ye me? {20:24} Shew me a penny. Whose image and thy peace! but now they are hid from thine superscriptioneyes. {19:43} hath it? They answered and said, Caesar's. For the days shall come upon thee, that thine enemies{20:25} shall And he said unto them, Render therefore unto cast a trench about thee, and compass thee round, andCaesar keep the things which be Caesar's, and unto God the thee in on every side, {19:44} And shall lay thee eventhings with which be God's. {20:26} And they could not take the ground, and thy children within thee; and they shallhold not of his words before the people: and they marvelled at leave in thee one stone upon another; because thou knewesthis answer, and held their peace. not the time of thy visitation. {19:45} And he went into the temple, and began to cast out them that sold{20:27} therein, Then and came to [him] certain of the Sadducees, them that bought; {19:46} Saying unto them, Itwhich is written, deny that there is any resurrection; and they asked My house is the house of prayer: but ye have made it him,a den {20:28} Saying, Master, Moses wrote unto us, If any of thieves. {19:47} And he taught daily in the temple.man's But brother die, having a wife, and he die without the chief priests and the scribes and the chief of thechildren, people that his brother should take his wife, and raise up sought to destroy him, {19:48} And couldseed not unto find his whatbrother. {20:29} There were therefore seven they might do: for all the people were very attentive to brethren:hear and the first took a wife, and died without him. children. {20:30} And the second took her to wife, and he died childless. {20:31} And the third took her; and in like {20:1} And it came to pass, [that] on one of those days, asmanner the seven also: and they left no children, and died. he taught the people in the temple, and preached the gospel,{20:32} Last of all the woman died also. {20:33} Therefore the chief priests and the scribes came upon [him]in the with resurrection the whose wife of them is she? for seven had elders, {20:2} And spake unto him, saying, Tell us, by whather to wife. {20:34} And Jesus answering said unto them, authority doest thou these things? or who Theis childrenhe that of gavethis world marry, and are given in marriage: thee this authority? {20:3} And he answered and {20:35}said unto But they which shall be accounted worthy to obtain them, I will also ask you one thing; and answer me: {20:4}that world, and the resurrection from the dead, neither The baptism of John, was it from heaven, or of men? {20:5}marry, nor are given in marriage: {20:36} Neither can they And they reasoned with themselves, saying, If we shalldie say, any more: for they are equal unto the angels; and are the From heaven; he will say, Why then believed yechildren him not? of God, being the children of the resurrection. {20:6} But and if we say, Of men; all the people will{20:37} stone Now that the dead are raised, even Moses shewed us: for they be persuaded that John was a prophet.at the bush,{20:7} when he calleth the Lord the God of Abraham, And they answered, that they could not tell whence [itand was. the God of Isaac, and the God of Jacob. {20:38} For he ]{20:8} And Jesus said unto them, Neitheris not tell a God I ofyou the bydead, but of the living: for all live unto what authority I do these things. {20:9} Then him.began he to speak to the people this parable; A certain man planted a vineyard, and let it forth to husbandmen, and went into a far{20:39} Then certain of the scribes answering said, Page 49 Luke Master, thou hast well said. {20:40} Andmoon, after and that in they the stars; and upon the earth distress of durst not ask him any [question at all. ]{20:41} And he saidnations, with perplexity; the sea and the waves roaring; unto them, How say they that {21:26}Christ Men's is heartsDavid's failing themson? for fear, and for looking {20:42} And David himself saith in the afterbook thoseof Psalms, things which are coming on the earth: for the The LORD said unto my Lord, Sit thou on my rightpowers hand, of heaven shall be shaken. {21:27} And then shall {20:43} Till I make thine enemies thy footstool.they see the {20:44} Son of man coming in a cloud with power and David therefore calleth him Lord, how is hegreat then glory. his son?{21:28} And when these things begin to come to pass, then look up, and lift up your heads; for your {20:45} Then in the audience of all theredemption people he draweth said nigh. {21:29} And he spake to them a unto his disciples, {20:46} Beware of parable;the scribes, Behold the whichfig tree, and all the trees; {21:30} When desire to walk in long robes, and lovethey now greetings shoot forth, in ye thesee and know of your own selves markets, and the highest seats in the synagogues,that summer and isthe now nigh at hand. {21:31} So likewise ye, chief rooms at feasts; {20:47} whenWhich ye see devour these things widows' come to pass, know ye that the houses, and for a shew make long prayers: thekingdom same ofshall God is nigh at hand. {21:32} Verily I say unto receive greater damnation. you, This generation shall not pass away, till all be fulfilled. {21:33} Heaven and earth shall pass away: but my words {21:1} And he looked up, and saw the rich menshall castingnot pass away. their gifts into the treasury. {21:2} And he saw also a certain poor widow casting in thither two mites. {21:3} And{21:34} And take heed to yourselves, lest at any time he said, Of a truth I say unto you, that this poor widow hathyour hearts be overcharged with surfeiting, and cast in more than they all: {21:4} For all these have of theirdrunkenness, and cares of this life, and so that day come abundance cast in unto the offerings of God: but sheupon of her you unawares. {21:35} For as a snare shall it come on penury hath cast in all the living that she had. all them that dwell on the face of the whole earth. {21:36} Watch ye therefore, and pray always, that ye may be {21:5} And as some spake of the temple,accounted how worthy it towas escape all these things that shall come adorned with goodly stones and gifts, he said,to pass,{21:6} and to[As stand before the Son of man. {21:37} And in for] these things which ye behold, the days will come, in thethe day time he was teaching in the temple; and at night he which there shall not be left one stone uponwent another, out, and thatabode in the mount that is called [the mount] shall not be thrown down. {21:7} Andof Olives.they asked {21:38} him, And all the people came early in the saying, Master, but when shall these thingsmorning be? and to what him in the temple, for to hear him. sign [will there be] when these things shall come to pass? {21:8} And he said, Take heed that ye be not deceived:{22:1} for Now the feast of unleavened bread drew nigh, many shall come in my name, saying, I am [Christ;] and thewhich is called the Passover. {22:2} And the chief priests time draweth near: go ye not therefore afterand them. scribes {21:9} sought how they might kill him; for they feared But when ye shall hear of wars and commotions,the people. be not terrified: for these things must first come to pass; but the end [is] not by and by. {21:10} Then said he{22:3} unto Then them, entered Satan into Judas surnamed Iscariot, Nation shall rise against nation,being of theand number kingdom of the twelve. against{22:4} And he went his kingdom: {21:11} And great earthquakes shall be way,in divers and communed with the chief priests and captains, places, and famines, and pestilences; and fearful sightshow he and might betray him unto them. {22:5} And they were great signs shall there be from heaven. {21:12} Butglad, before and covenanted to give him money. {22:6} And he all these, they shall lay their hands on you,promised, and persecute and sought opportunity to betray him unto them [you,] delivering [you] up to thein thesynagogues, absence of the multitude.and into prisons, being brought before kings and rulers for my name's sake. {21:13} And it shall{22:7} Thenturn came to the youday of unleavenedfor a bread, when the testimony. {21:14} Settle [it] therefore in your hearts, notpassover to must be killed. {22:8} And he sent Peter and John, meditate before what ye shall answer: {21:15}saying, For Go Iand will prepare us the passover, that we may eat. give you a mouth and wisdom, which all your{22:9} adversaries And they said unto him, Where wilt thou that we shall not be able to gainsay nor resist. {21:16} And ye shallprepare? {22:10} And he said unto them, Behold, when ye be betrayed both by parents, and brethren,are entered and intokinsfolks, the city, there shall a man meet you, bearing and friends; and [some] of you shall they cause to be puta pitcherto of water; follow him into the house where he death. {21:17} And ye shall be hated of all [men]entereth for in. my {22:11} And ye shall say unto the goodman of name's sake. {21:18} But there shall not thean hair house, of your The Master saith unto thee, Where is the head perish. {21:19} In your patience possess ye your souls.guestchamber, where I shall eat the passover with my {21:20} And when ye shall see Jerusalem compasseddisciples? with {22:12} And he shall shew you a large upper armies, then know that the desolationroom furnished: thereof there make is ready. nigh. {22:13} And they went, {21:21} Then let them which are inand Judaea found asflee he had to saidthe unto them: and they made ready mountains; and let them which are in the midst of itthe depart passover. {22:14} And when the hour was come, he sat out; and let not them that are in the countries enter thereinto.down, and the twelve apostles with him. {22:15} And he {21:22} For these be the days of vengeance, that allsaid things unto them, With desire I have desired to eat this which are written may be fulfilled. {21:23} passoverBut woe untowith you before I suffer: {22:16} For I say unto them that are with child, and to them that give suck, in thoseyou, I will not any more eat thereof, until it be fulfilled in days! for there shall be great distress in the land, andthe wrath kingdom of God. {22:17} And he took the cup, and upon this people. {21:24} And they shall fall by the edgegave of thanks, and said, Take this, and divide [it] among the sword, and shall be led away captive intoyourselves: all nations: {22:18} For I say unto you, I will not drink of and Jerusalem shall be trodden down of the Gentiles,the fruit until of the vine, until the kingdom of God shall come. the times of the Gentiles be fulfilled. {22:19} And he took bread, and gave thanks, and brake {21:25} And there shall be signs in the sun,[it,] andand gavein the unto them, saying, This is my body which is Luke Page 50 given for you: this do in remembrance{22:50} of Andme. one {22:20} of them smote the servant of the high Likewise also the cup after supper, saying, This cup [is]priest, the and cut off his right ear. {22:51} And Jesus answered new testament in my blood, which is shed for you. and said, Suffer ye thus far. And he touched his ear, and healed him. {22:52} Then Jesus said unto the chief priests, {22:21} But, behold, the hand of him that andbetrayeth captains of me the temple, and the elders, which were come [is] with me on the table. {22:22} And truly the Son of manto him, Be ye come out, as against a thief, with swords and goeth, as it was determined: but woestaves? unto {22:53} that manWhen byI was daily with you in the temple, whom he is betrayed! {22:23} And they beganye stretchedto enquire forth no hands against me: but this is your hour, among themselves, which of them it was that should do andthis the power of darkness. thing. {22:54} Then took they him, and led [him,] and brought {22:24} And there was also a strife among them, which ofhim into the high priest's house. And Peter followed afar them should be accounted the greatest. {22:25} And he saidoff. {22:55} And when they had kindled a fire in the midst unto them, The kings of the Gentiles exercise lordshipof overthe hall, and were set down together, Peter sat down them; and they that exercise authority upon them areamong called them. {22:56} But a certain maid beheld him as he benefactors. {22:26} But ye [shall] not [be] so: butsat heby that the fire, and earnestly looked upon him, and said, is greatest among you, let him be as the younger;This man and was he also with him. {22:57} And he denied him, that is chief, as he that doth serve. {22:27} For whethersaying, [is] Woman, I know him not. {22:58} And after a little greater, he that sitteth at meat, or he that serveth? [is] not whilehe another saw him, and said, Thou art also of them. And that sitteth at meat? but I am among you as he that serveth.Peter said, Man, I am not. {22:59} And about the space of {22:28} Ye are they which have continued with oneme inhour my after another confidently affirmed, saying, Of a temptations. {22:29} And I appoint unto you a kingdom,truth as this [fellow] also was with him: for he is a Galilaean. my Father hath appointed unto me; {22:30} That ye may eat{22:60} And Peter said, Man, I know not what thou sayest. and drink at my table in my kingdom, and Andsit on immediately,thrones while he yet spake, the cock crew. judging the twelve tribes of Israel. {22:61} And the Lord turned, and looked upon Peter. And Peter remembered , how he had said {22:31} And the Lord said, Simon, Simon, behold,unto Satan him, Before the cock crow, thou shalt deny me thrice. hath desired [to have] you, that he may sift [you] as{22:62} wheat: And Peter went out, and wept bitterly. {22:32} But I have prayed for thee, that thy faith fail not: and when thou art converted, {22:63}strengthen And the thy men brethren.that held Jesus mocked him, and {22:33} And he said unto him, Lord, I am ready to gosmote with [him. ]{22:64} And when they had blindfolded him, thee, both into prison, and to death. {22:34} And hethey said, I struck him on the face, and asked him, saying, tell thee, Peter, the cock shall not crow this day, beforeProphesy, that who is it that smote thee? {22:65} And many thou shalt thrice deny that thou knowest me. {22:35}other things And blasphemously spake they against him. he said unto them, When I sent you without purse, and scrip, and shoes, lacked ye any thing?{22:66} AndAnd asthey soon said, as it was day, the elders of the Nothing. {22:36} Then said he unto them, But now, hepeople that and the chief priests and the scribes came together, hath a purse, let him take [it,] and likewise [his] andscrip: led and him into their council, saying, {22:67} Art thou the he that hath no sword, let him sell his garment, and buy one.Christ? tell us. And he said unto them, If I tell you, ye will {22:37} For I say unto you, that this that is written must notyet believe: {22:68} And if I also ask [you,] ye will not be accomplished in me, And he was reckonedanswer among me, nor the let [me] go. {22:69} Hereafter shall the Son transgressors: for the things concerningof meman havesit on anthe rightend. hand of the power of God. {22:70} {22:38} And they said, Lord, behold, here [are] two swords.Then said they all, Art thou then the Son of God? And he And he said unto them, It is enough. said unto them, Ye say that I am. {22:71} And they said, What need we any further witness? for we ourselves have {22:39} And he came out, and went, as he washeard wont, of to his own mouth. the mount of Olives; and his disciples also followed him. {22:40} And when he was at the place, he said unto{23:1} them, And the whole multitude of them arose, and led Pray that ye enter not into temptation. {22:41} And himhe was unto Pilate. {23:2} And they began to accuse him, withdrawn from them about a stone'ssaying, cast, We and found kneeled this [fellow] perverting the nation, and down, and prayed, {22:42} Saying,forbidding Father, to give tributeif thou to Caesar, be saying that he himself willing, remove this cup from me: nevertheless not my will,is Christ a King. {23:3} And Pilate asked him, saying, Art but thine, be done. {22:43} And there appearedthou the Kingan angelof the Jews? And he answered him and said, unto him from heaven, strengtheningThou him. sayest {22:44}[it. ]{23:4} ThenAnd said Pilate to the chief priests being in an agony he prayed more earnestly: and andhis sweat[to] the people, I find no fault in this man. {23:5} And was as it were great drops of blood fallingthey were down the more to fierce, the saying, He stirreth up the people, ground. {22:45} And when he rose up from prayer, and wasteaching throughout all Jewry, beginning from Galilee to come to his disciples, he found them sleepingthis for place. sorrow, {23:6} When Pilate heard of Galilee, he asked {22:46} And said unto them, Why sleep ye? rise andwhether pray, the man were a Galilaean. {23:7} And as soon as lest ye enter into temptation. he knew that he belonged unto Herod's jurisdiction, he sent him to Herod, who himself also was at Jerusalem at that {22:47} And while he yet spake, behold a multitude,time. and he that was called Judas, one of the twelve, went before them, and drew near unto Jesus to kiss him.{23:8} {22:48} And But when Herod saw Jesus, he was exceeding Jesus said unto him, Judas, betrayest thou theglad: Son offor man he was desirous to see him of a long [season,] with a kiss? {22:49} When they which were about himbecause saw he had heard many things of him; and he hoped to what would follow, they said unto him, Lord, shall we smitehave seen some miracle done by him. {23:9} Then he with the sword? questioned with him in many words; but he answered him nothing. {23:10} And the chief priests and scribes stood and Page 51 Luke vehemently accused him. {23:11} And Herod with hisreceive men the due reward of our deeds: but this man hath done of war set him at nought, and mocked [him,]nothing and arrayed amiss. {23:42} And he said unto Jesus, Lord, him in a gorgeous robe, and sent him again toremember Pilate. me when thou comest into thy kingdom. {23:43} And Jesus said unto him, Verily I say unto thee, To day {23:12} And the same day Pilate and Herodshalt were thou made be with me in paradise. {23:44} And it was about friends together: for before they were theat enmitysixth hour, between and there was a darkness over all the earth themselves. until the ninth hour. {23:45} And the sun was darkened, and the veil of the temple was rent in the midst. {23:13} And Pilate, when he had called together the chief priests and the rulers and the people, {23:14}{23:46} And Said when unto Jesus had cried with a loud voice, he them, Ye have brought this man untosaid, me,Father, as one into that thy hands I commend my spirit: and perverteth the people: and, behold,having saidI, havingthus, he gave examined up the ghost. {23:47} Now when [him] before you, have found no fault in this man touchingthe centurion saw what was done, he glorified God, saying, those things whereof ye accuse him: {23:15}Certainly No, nor thisyet was a righteous man. {23:48} And all the Herod: for I sent you to him; and, lo, nothingpeople that worthy came together of to that sight, beholding the things death is done unto him. {23:16} I will thereforewhich were done,chastise smote their breasts, and returned. {23:49} him, and release [him. ]{23:17} (For of necessityAnd all he his must acquaintance, and the women that followed him release one unto them at the feast.) {23:18} And theyfrom cried Galilee, stood afar off, beholding these things. out all at once, saying, Away with this [man,] and release unto us Barabbas: {23:19} (Who for a certain sedition made{23:50} And, behold, [there was] a man named Joseph, a in the city, and for murder, was cast into prison.)counsellor; {23:20} [and he was] a good man, and a just: {23:51} Pilate therefore, willing to release (TheJesus, same spake had notagain consented to to the counsel and deed of them. {23:21} But they cried, saying, Crucify [him,] crucifythem;) [he was] of Arimathaea, a city of the Jews: who also him. {23:22} And he said unto them the thirdhimself time, waited Why, for the kingdom of God. {23:52} This [man] what evil hath he done? I have found no cause ofwent death unto in Pilate, and begged the body of Jesus. {23:53} him: I will therefore chastise him, and let [him] go. {23:23}And he took it down, and wrapped it in linen, and laid it in a And they were instant with loud voices, requiringsepulchre that that was he hewn in stone, wherein never man before might be crucified. And the voices of them and of thewas chief laid. {23:54} And that day was the preparation, and the priests prevailed. {23:24} And Pilate gave sentencesabbath drew that on. it {23:55} And the women also, which came should be as they required. {23:25} And he withreleased him unto from Galilee, followed after, and beheld the them him that for sedition and murder was cast into sepulchre,prison, and how his body was laid. {23:56} And they whom they had desired; but he delivered Jesus to theirreturned, will. and prepared spices and ointments; and rested the {23:26} And as they led him away, they laid hold upon sabbathone day according to the commandment. Simon, a Cyrenian, coming out of the country, and on him they laid the cross, that he might bear [it] after Jesus.{24:1} Now upon the first [day] of the week, very early in the morning, they came unto the sepulchre, bringing the {23:27} And there followed him spicesa great which company they had ofprepared, and certain [others] with people, and of women, which also bewailed andthem. lamented{24:2} And they found the stone rolled away from the him. {23:28} But Jesus turning unto them said,sepulchre. Daughters {24:3} And they entered in, and found not the of Jerusalem, weep not for me, but weep for yourselves, andbody of the Lord Jesus. {24:4} And it came to pass, as they for your children. {23:29} For, behold, the days are coming,were much perplexed thereabout, behold, two men stood by in the which they shall say, Blessed [are] the barren, and thethem in shining garments: {24:5} And as they were afraid, wombs that never bare, and the paps which never gave suck.and bowed down [their] faces to the earth, they said unto {23:30} Then shall they begin to say to the mountains,them, Fall Why seek ye the living among the dead? {24:6} He is on us; and to the hills, Cover us. {23:31}not For here, if they but do is risen: remember how he spake unto you these things in a green tree, what shall be done inwhen the hedry? was yet in Galilee, {24:7} Saying, The Son of man {23:32} And there were also two others, mustmalefactors, be delivered led into the hands of sinful men, and be with him to be put to death. {23:33} And when crucified,they were and the third day rise again. {24:8} And they come to the place, which is calledremembered , therehis words,they {24:9} And returned from the crucified him, and the malefactors, one on thesepulchre, right hand,and told all these things unto the eleven, and to and the other on the left. all the rest. {24:10} It was Mary Magdalene, and Joanna, and Mary [the mother] of James, and other [women that {23:34} Then said Jesus, Father, forgivewere] them; with for them, they which told these things unto the apostles. know not what they do. And they parted his{24:11} raiment, And and their words seemed to them as idle tales, and cast lots. {23:35} And the people stood beholding. Andthey the believed them not. {24:12} Then arose Peter, and ran rulers also with them derided [him,]unto the sepulchre;saying, and He stooping saved down, he beheld the linen others; let him save himself, if he be Christ, theclothes chosen of laid by themselves, and departed, wondering in God. {23:36} And the soldiers also mocked him, cominghimself to at that which was come to pass. him, and him vinegar, {23:37} And saying, If thou be the king of the Jews, save thyself.{24:13} And, {23:38} behold, two ofAnd them wenta that same day to a superscription also was written over him in letters of Greek,village called , which was from Jerusalem [about] and Latin, and Hebrew, THIS IS THEthreescore KING furlongs. OF {24:14}THE And they talked together of all JEWS. these things which had happened. {24:15} And it came to pass, that, while they communed [together] and reasoned, {23:39} And one of the malefactors which Jesuswere himselfhanged drew near, and went with them. {24:16} But railed on him, saying, If thou be Christ, save thyself andtheir us. eyes were holden that they should not know him. {23:40} But the other answering rebuked him, saying,{24:17} Dost And he said unto them, What manner of not thou fear God, seeingcommunications thou [are] theseart that inye have the one to sameanother, as condemnation? {23:41} And weye indeedwalk, and are justly; sad? {24:18} for And thewe one of them, whose Luke Page 52 name was , answering said unto him, Art thou{24:50} only And he led them out as far as to Bethany, and he a stranger in Jerusalem, and hast notlifted knownup his hands, the and things blessed them. {24:51} And it came which are come to pass there in these days? {24:19} And heto pass, while he blessed them, he was parted from them, said unto them, What things? And andthey carried said up unto into heaven.him, {24:52} And they worshipped Concerning Jesus of Nazareth, which was a prophet mightyhim, and returned to Jerusalem with great joy: {24:53} And in deed and word before God and all the people:were continually{24:20} in the temple, praising and God. And how the chief priests and our rulers delivered him to beAmen. condemned to death, and have crucified him. {24:21} But we trusted that it had been he which should have redeemed Israel: and beside all this, to day is the third day since these things were done. {24:22} Yea, and certain women also of our company made us astonished, which were early at the sepulchre; {24:23} And when they found not his body, they came, saying, that they had also seen a vision of angels, which said that he was alive. {24:24} And certain of them which were with us went to the sepulchre, and found [it] even so as the women had said: but him they saw not. {24:25} Then he said unto them, O fools, and slow of heart to believe all that the prophets have spoken: {24:26} Ought not Christ to have suffered these things, and to enter into his glory? {24:27} And beginning at Moses and all the prophets, he expounded unto them in all the scriptures the things concerning himself. {24:28} And they drew nigh unto the village, whither they went: and he made as though he would have gone further. {24:29} But they constrained him, saying, Abide with us: for it is toward evening, and the day is far spent. And he went in to tarry with them. {24:30} And it came to pass, as he sat at meat with them, he took bread, and blessed [it,] and brake, and gave to them. {24:31} And their eyes were opened, and they knew him; and he vanished out of their sight. {24:32} And they said one to another, Did not our heart burn within us, while he talked with us by the way, and while he opened to us the scriptures? {24:33} And they rose up the same hour, and returned to Jerusalem, and found the eleven gathered together, and them that were with them, {24:34} Saying, The Lord is risen indeed, and hath appeared to Simon. {24:35} And they told what things [were done] in the way, and how he was known of them in breaking of bread.

{24:36} And as they thus spake, Jesus himself stood in the midst of them, and saith unto them, Peace [be] unto you. {24:37} But they were terrified and affrighted, and supposed that they had seen a spirit. {24:38} And he said unto them, Why are ye troubled? and why do thoughts arise in your hearts? {24:39} Behold my hands and my feet, that it is I myself: handle me, and see; for a spirit hath not flesh and bones, as ye see me have. {24:40} And when he had thus spoken, he shewed them [his] hands and [his] feet. {24:41} And while they yet believed not for joy, and wondered, he said unto them, Have ye here any meat? {24:42} And they gave him a piece of a broiled fish, and of an honeycomb. {24:43} And he took [it,] and did eat before them. {24:44} And he said unto them, These [are] the words which I spake unto you, while I was yet with you, that all things must be fulfilled, which were written in the law of Moses, and [in] the prophets, and [in] the psalms, concerning me. {24:45} Then opened he their understanding, that they might understand the scriptures, {24:46} And said unto them, Thus it is written, and thus it behoved Christ to suffer, and to rise from the dead the third day: {24:47} And that repentance and remission of sins should be preached in his name among all nations, beginning at Jerusalem. {24:48} And ye are witnesses of these things.

{24:49} And, behold, I send the promise of my Father upon you: but tarry ye in the city of Jerusalem, until ye be endued with power from on high. Page 53 John The Gospel According to St. John And I saw, and bare record that this is the Son of God.

{1:35} Again the next day after John stood, and two of his disciples; {1:36} And looking upon Jesus as he walked, he {1:1} In the beginning was the Word, and the Wordsaith, was Behold the Lamb of God! {1:37} And the two with God, and the Word was God. {1:2} The samedisciples was in heard him speak, and they followed Jesus. {1:38} the beginning with God. {1:3} All thingsThen were Jesus madeturned, byand saw them following, and saith unto him; and without him was not any thingthem, made What thatseek ye?was They said unto him, Rabbi, (which is made. {1:4} In him was life; and the life wasto the say, light beingof interpreted, Master,) where dwellest thou? men. {1:5} And the light shineth{1:39} in darkness; He saith unto andthem, theCome and see. They came and darkness comprehended it not. saw where he dwelt, and abode with him that day: for it was about the tenth hour. {1:40} One of the two which heard {1:6} There was a man sent from God, whose name [was]John [speak,] and followed him, was Andrew, Simon John. {1:7} The same came for a witness, to bear witness Peter'sof brother. {1:41} He first findeth his own brother the Light, that all [men] through him might believe.Simon, {1:8} and saith unto him, We have found the Messias, He was not that Light, but [was sent] to bear witness of whichthat is, being interpreted, the Christ. {1:42} And he Light. {1:9} [That] was the true Light, which lighteth broughtevery him to Jesus. And when Jesus beheld him, he said, man that cometh into the world. {1:10}Thou Heart was Simon in the the son of Jona: thou shalt be called world, and the world was made by him, and the world knewCephas, which is by interpretation, A stone. him not. {1:11} He came unto his own, and his own received him not. {1:12} But as many as received{1:43} him, to The day following Jesus would go forth into them gave he power to become the ,Galilee, [even] toand findeth Philip, and saith unto him, Follow me. them that believe on his name: {1:13} Which were born, not{1:44} Now Philip was of Bethsaida, the city of Andrew of blood, nor of the will of the flesh, nor of the will of man,and Peter. {1:45} Philip findeth Nathanael, and saith unto but of God. {1:14} And the Word washim, made We flesh,have found and him, of whom Moses in the law, and dwelt among us, (and we beheld his glory, the theglory prophets, as of did write, Jesus of Nazareth, the son of Joseph. the only begotten of the Father,) full of grace and{1:46} truth. And Nathanael said unto him, Can there any good thing come out of Nazareth? Philip saith unto him, Come {1:15} John bare witness of him, and cried, saying,and see. This {1:47} Jesus saw Nathanael coming to him, and was he of whom I spake, He that saithcometh of him,after Behold me isan Israelite indeed, in whom is no preferred before me: for he was before me. {1:16}guile! And {1:48}of Nathanael saith unto him, Whence knowest his fulness have all we received, and grace for grace. {1:17}thou me? Jesus answered and said unto him, Before that For the law was given by Moses, [but] grace and truth camePhilip called thee, when thou wast under the fig tree, I saw by Jesus Christ. {1:18} No man hath seen God at any thee.time; {1:49} Nathanael answered and saith unto him, Rabbi, the only begotten Son, which is in the bosom of the Father,thou art the Son of God; thou art the King of Israel. {1:50} he hath declared [him. Jesus answered and said unto him, Because I said unto thee, I saw thee under the fig tree, believest thou? thou shalt see ]{1:19} And this is the record of John, when the Jews sentgreater things than these. {1:51} And he saith unto him, priests and from Jerusalem toVerily, ask verily,him, IWho say unto art you, Hereafter ye shall see heaven thou? {1:20} And he confessed,open, and and the angels denied of God ascending not; and butdescending upon confessed, I am not the Christ. {1:21} And they askedthe him, Son of man. What then? Art thou Elias? And he saith, I am not. Art thou that prophet? And he answered, No. {1:22} Then said{2:1} they And the third day there was a marriage in of unto him, Who art thou? that we may giveGalilee; an answer and the motherto of Jesus was there: {2:2} And both them that sent us. What sayest thou of thyself?Jesus {1:23} was He called, and his disciples, to the marriage. {2:3} said, I [am] the voice of one crying in the wilderness, MakeAnd when they wanted wine, the mother of Jesus saith unto straight the way of the Lord, as said thehim, prophet They Esaias. have no wine. {2:4} Jesus saith unto her, {1:24} And they which were sent were ofWoman, the Pharisees.what have I to do with thee? mine hour is not yet {1:25} And they asked him, andcome. said {2:5} unto His mother him, saith untoWhy the servants, Whatsoever baptizest thou then, if thou be not that heChrist, saith unto noryou, doElias, [it. ]{2:6} And there were set there six neither that prophet? {1:26} John answered them, waterpotssaying, I of stone, after the manner of the purifying of the baptize with water: but there standethJews, containingone among two you,or three firkins apiece. {2:7} Jesus whom ye know not; {1:27} He it is, who coming after me issaith unto them, Fill the waterpots with water. And they preferred before me, whose 's latchet I am notfilled worthy them up to the brim. {2:8} And he saith unto them, to unloose. {1:28} These things were Drawdone out in now, Bethabara and bear unto the governor of the feast. And beyond Jordan, where John was baptizing.they bare [it. ]{2:9} When the ruler of the feast had tasted the water that was made wine, and knew not whence it was: {1:29} The next day John seeth Jesus coming(but unto the servantshim, which drew the water knew;) the governor and saith, Behold the Lamb of God, which taketh awayof the the feast called the bridegroom, {2:10} And saith unto sin of the world. {1:30} This is he of whom I said, After mehim, Every man at the beginning doth set forth good wine; cometh a man which is preferred beforeand me: when for men he havewas well drunk, then that which is worse: before me. {1:31} And I knew him not: but that he[but] should thou hast kept the good wine until now. {2:11} This be made manifest to Israel, therefore am I comebeginning baptizing of did Jesus in Cana of Galilee, and with water. {1:32} And John bare record, saying, I sawmanifested the forth his glory; and his disciples believed on him. Spirit descending from heaven like a dove, and it abode upon him. {1:33} And I knew him not: but he that sent{2:12} me After this he went down to Capernaum, he, and his to baptize with water, the same said unto me, Uponmother, whom and his brethren, and his disciples: and they thou shalt see the Spirit descending, and remaining oncontinued him, there not many days. the same is he which baptizeth with the Holy Ghost. {1:34} John Page 54 {2:13} And the Jews' passover was at hand,{3:18} andHe that Jesus believeth on him is not condemned: but he went up to Jerusalem, {2:14} And found in the temple thosethat believeth not is condemned already, because he hath that sold oxen and sheep and doves, and notthe believed changers in theof name of the only begotten Son of God. money sitting: {2:15} And when he had made a scourge{3:19} of And this is the condemnation, that light is come into small cords, he drove them all out of the temple,the world,and the and men loved darkness rather than light, sheep, and the oxen; and poured out the changers'because money, their deeds were evil. {3:20} For every one that and overthrew the tables; {2:16} And said untodoeth them evil hateththat the light, neither cometh to the light, lest sold doves, Take these things hence; make not my hisFather's deeds should be reproved. {3:21} But he that doeth truth house an house of merchandise. {2:17} Andcometh his disciplesto the light, that his deeds may be made manifest, remembered that it was written, The zealthat ofthey thine are wrought house in God. hath eaten me up. {3:22} After these things came Jesus and his disciples {2:18} Then answered the Jews and said unto him,into What the land of Judaea; and there he tarried with them, and sign shewest thou unto us, seeing thatbaptized. thou doest these things? {2:19} Jesus answered and said unto them, Destroy this temple, and in three days I will raise it up. {2:20} Then{3:23} And John also was baptizing in Aenon near to said the Jews, Forty and six yearsSalim, was because this there templewas much waterin there: and they came, building, and wilt thou rear it up in three days? {2:21}and Butwere baptized. {3:24} For John was not yet cast into he spake of the temple of his body. {2:22} When thereforeprison. he was risen from the dead, his disciples remembered that he had said this unto them; and they believed the scripture,{3:25} Then there arose a question between [some] of and the word which Jesus had said. John's disciples and the Jews about purifying. {3:26} And they came unto John, and said unto him, Rabbi, he that was {2:23} Now when he was in Jerusalem at the passover,with in thee beyond Jordan, to whom thou barest witness, the feast [day,] many believed in his name, when behold,they saw the same baptizeth, and all [men] come to him. the miracles which he did. {2:24} But Jesus did not commit{3:27} John answered and said, A man can receive nothing, himself unto them, because he knew all [men, ]{2:25}except And it be given him from heaven. {3:28} Ye yourselves needed not that any should testify of man: for he knew whatbear me witness, that I said, I am not the Christ, but that I was in man. am sent before him. {3:29} He that hath the is the bridegroom: but the friend of the bridegroom, which {3:1} There was a man standethof the and hearethPharisees, him, rejoiceth named greatly because of the , a ruler of the Jews: {3:2} The bridegroom'ssame came to voice: this my joy therefore is fulfilled. Jesus by night, and said unto him, Rabbi, we know that thou{3:30} He must increase, but I [must] decrease. {3:31} He art a teacher come from God: for no thatman cometh can from do above these is above all: he that is of the earth is miracles that thou doest, except God beearthly, with him. and {3:3} speaketh of the earth: he that cometh from Jesus answered and said unto him, Verily, verily, I say heavenunto is above all. {3:32} And what he hath seen and thee, Except a man be ,heard, thathe he cannottestifieth; and see no man the receiveth his testimony. kingdom of God. {3:4} Nicodemus saith unto him, How can{3:33} He that hath received his testimony hath set to his a man be born when he is old? can he enter the second timeseal that God is true. {3:34} For he whom God hath sent into his mother's womb, andspeaketh bethe words born? of God: for{3:5} God giveth notJesus the Spirit by answered, Verily, verily, I say unto thee, Exceptmeasure a man [unto be him. ]{3:35} The Father loveth the Son, and born of water and [of] the Spirit, he cannot hathenter given into all thethings into his hand. {3:36} He that believeth kingdom of God. {3:6} That which is born ofon the the flesh Son is hath everlasting life: and he that believeth not flesh; and that which is born of the Spiritthe is Sonspirit. shall {3:7}not see life; but the wrath of God abideth on Marvel not that I said unto thee, Ye must him.be born again. {3:8} The wind bloweth where it listeth, and thou hearest the sound thereof, but canst not tell whence it cometh,{4:1} and When therefore the Lord knew how the Pharisees whither it goeth: so is every one that is born ofhad the heard Spirit. that Jesus made and baptized more disciples than {3:9} Nicodemus answered and said untoJohn, him, {4:2} How (Thoughcan Jesus himself baptized not, but his these things be? {3:10} Jesus answered and said disciples,)unto him, {4:3} He left Judaea, and departed again into Art thou a master of Israel, and knowest not theseGalilee. things? {4:4} And he must needs go through Samaria. {3:11} Verily, verily, I say unto thee, We speak that{4:5} we do Then cometh he to a city of Samaria, which is called know, and testify that we have seen; and ye receive notSychar, our near to the parcel of ground that Jacob gave to his witness. {3:12} If I have told you earthlyson things, Joseph. and ye{4:6} Now Jacob's well was there. Jesus believe not, how shall ye believe, if I tell you [of] heavenlytherefore, being wearied with [his] journey, sat thus on the things? {3:13} And no man hath ascended up to heaven, butwell: [and] it was about the sixth hour. {4:7} There cometh he that came down from heaven, [even] athe woman Son ofof Samariaman to draw water: Jesus saith unto her, which is in heaven. Give me to drink. {4:8} (For his disciples were gone away unto the city to buy meat.) {4:9} Then saith the woman of {3:14} And as Moses liftedSamaria up untothe him, serpent How is it thatin thou, the being a Jew, askest wilderness, even so must the Son ofdrink man of me,be whichlifted am up:a woman of Samaria? for the Jews {3:15} That whosoever believeth in him should nothave perish, no dealings with the Samaritans. {4:10} Jesus but have eternal life. answered and said unto her, If thou knewest the gift of God, and who it is that saith to thee, Give me to drink; thou {3:16} For God so loved the world, that he gave hiswouldest only have asked of him, and he would have given thee begotten Son, that whosoever believeth in himliving should water. not {4:11} The woman saith unto him, Sir, thou perish, but have everlasting life. {3:17} Forhast God nothingsent not to draw with, and the well is deep: from his Son into the world to condemn the world; whencebut that thenthe hast thou that living water? {4:12} Art thou world through him might be saved. greater than our father Jacob, which gave us the well, and Page 55 John drank thereof himself, and his children,came again intoand Cana his of cattle?Galilee, where he made the water {4:13} Jesus answered and saidwine. untoAnd there her, was Whosoever a certain nobleman, whose son was drinketh of this water shallsick thirstat Capernaum. again: {4:47} {4:14} When he heardBut that Jesus was whosoever drinketh of the water that I shall givecome him shall out of Judaea into Galilee, he went unto him, and never thirst; but the water that I shall give himbesought shall be himin that he would come down, and heal his son: him a well of water springing upfor intohe was ateverlasting the point of death. {4:48}life. Then said Jesus unto {4:15} The woman saith unto him, Sir, give me thishim, water, Except ye see signs and wonders, ye will not believe. that I thirst not, neither come hither to draw. {4:49}{4:16} JesusThe nobleman saith unto him, Sir, come down ere saith unto her, Go, call thy husband,my child and die. {4:50}come Jesus hither. saith unto him, Go thy way; thy {4:17} The woman answered and said, I have noson husband. liveth. And the man believed the word that Jesus had Jesus said unto her, Thou hast well said, I have no husband:spoken unto him, and he went his way. {4:51} And as he {4:18} For thou hast had five husbands; and he whomwas thou now going down, his servants met him, and told [him,] now hast is not thy husband: in that saidst thou truly. {4:19}saying, Thy son liveth. {4:52} Then enquired he of them the The woman saith unto him, Sir, I perceive thathour thou when art hea began to amend. And they said unto him, prophet. {4:20} Our fathers worshipped inYesterday this mountain; at the seventh hour the fever left him. {4:53} So and ye say, that in Jerusalem is the place where menthe ought father knew that [it was] at the same hour, in the which to worship. {4:21} Jesus saith unto her,Jesus Woman, said unto believe him, Thy son liveth: and himself believed, me, the hour cometh, when andye hisshall whole neither house. {4:54} in this This [is] again the second mountain, nor yet at Jerusalem, worship the Father.miracle {4:22} [that] Jesus did, when he was come out of Judaea Ye worship ye know not what: we know what we worship:into Galilee. for salvation is of the Jews. {4:23} But the hour cometh, and now is, when the true worshippers shall{5:1} worship After this the there was a feast of the Jews; and Jesus Father in spirit and in truth: for the Father seekethwent such up toto Jerusalem. {5:2} Now there is at Jerusalem by worship him. {4:24} God [is] a Spirit: and they that worshipthe sheep [market] a pool, which is called in the Hebrew him must worship [him] in spirit and in truth.tongue {4:25} Bethesda, The having five porches. {5:3} In these lay a woman saith unto him, I know that Messias cometh,great which multitude of impotent folk, of blind, halt, withered, is called Christ: when he is come, he will tell us allwaiting things. for the moving of the water. {5:4} For an angel {4:26} Jesus saith unto her, I that speak unto thee amwent [he. down at a certain season into the pool, and troubled the water: whosoever then first after the troubling of the ]{4:27} And upon this came his disciples, and watermarvelled stepped in was made whole of whatsoever disease he that he talked with the woman: yet had.no man {5:5} said, And What a certain man was there, which had an seekest thou? or, Why talkest thou with infirmityher? {4:28} thirty andThe eight years. {5:6} When Jesus saw him woman then left her waterpot, and went herlie, way and into knew the that he had been now a long time [in that city, and saith to the men, {4:29} Come, see a man,case,] which he saith unto him, Wilt thou be made whole? {5:7} told me all things that ever I did: is notThe this impotent the manChrist? answered him, Sir, I have no man, when {4:30} Then they went out of the city, andthe came water untois troubled, him. to put me into the pool: but while I am coming, another steppeth down before me. {5:8} Jesus saith {4:31} In the mean while hisunto disciples him, Rise, prayed take him,up thy bed, and walk. {5:9} And saying, Master, eat. {4:32} But he said untoimmediately them, I havethe man was made whole, and took up his bed, meat to eat that ye know not of. {4:33} Thereforeand said walked: the and on the same day was the sabbath. disciples one to another, Hath any man brought him [ought] to eat? {4:34} Jesus saith unto them, My meat is to{5:10} do the The Jews therefore said unto him that was cured, It will of him that sent me, and to finish his work. {4:35}is Say the sabbath day: it is not lawful for thee to carry [thy] not ye, There are yet four months,bed. {5:11} and He answered[then] them, cometh He that made me whole, the harvest? behold, I say unto you, Lift up your eyes, and samelook said unto me, Take up thy bed, and walk. {5:12} Then on the fields; for they are white already to harvest.asked {4:36} they him, What man is that which said unto thee, And he that reapeth receiveth wages, Takeand upgathereth thy bed, and fruit walk? {5:13} And he that was healed unto life eternal: that both he thatwist notsoweth who it was: and for Jesus he had that conveyed himself away, a reapeth may rejoice together. {4:37}multitude And herein being is thatin [that] place. {5:14} Afterward Jesus saying true, One soweth, and another reapeth. {4:38}findeth I sent him in the temple, and said unto him, Behold, thou you to reap that whereon ye bestowed no labour: otherart men made whole: sin no more, lest a worse thing come unto laboured, and ye are entered into their labours. thee. {5:15} The man departed, and told the Jews that it was Jesus, which had made him whole. {5:16} And therefore {4:39} And many of the Samaritans of that citydid believed the Jews persecute Jesus, and sought to slay him, on him for the saying of the woman, which testified, He toldbecause he had done these things on the sabbath day. me all that ever I did. {4:40} So when the Samaritans were come unto him, they besought him that he would tarry with{5:17} But Jesus answered them, My Father worketh them: and he abode there two days. {4:41} And many morehitherto, and I work. {5:18} Therefore the Jews sought the believed because of his own word; {4:42} And said unto themore to kill him, because he not only had broken the woman, Now we believe, not because of thy saying: forsabbath, we but said also that God was his Father, making have heard [him] ourselves, and know that this is indeed thehimself equal with God. {5:19} Then answered Jesus and Christ, the Saviour of the world. said unto them, Verily, verily, I say unto you, The Son can do nothing of himself, but what he seeth the Father do: for {4:43} Now after two days he departed thence, andwhat went things soever he doeth, these also doeth the Son into Galilee. {4:44} For Jesus likewise.himself {5:20} testified, For the Father loveththat the aSon, and sheweth prophet hath no honour in his own country.him {4:45} all things Then that himself doeth: and he will shew him when he was come into Galilee, the Galilaeansgreater works thanreceived these, that ye may marvel. {5:21} For as him, having seen all the things that he did at theJerusalem Father raiseth at up the dead, and quickeneth [them;] even the feast: for they also went unto the feast. {4:46} Soso Jesus the Son quickeneth whom he will. {5:22} For the Father John Page 56 judgeth no man, but hath committed all judgmentPeter's unto thebrother, saith unto him, {6:9} There is a lad here, Son: {5:23} That all [men] should honour the Son, whicheven as hath five barley loaves, and two small fishes: but they honour the Father. He that honourethwhat are notthey theamong Son so many? {6:10} And Jesus said, honoureth not the Father which Makehath the sentmen sit him. down. Now{5:24} there was much grass in the Verily, verily, I say unto you, He that heareth my word, andplace. So the men sat down, in number about five thousand. believeth on him that sent me, hath everlasting{6:11} And Jesuslife, took and the loaves; and when he had given shall not come into condemnation; but is passed from thanks,death he distributed to the disciples, and the disciples to unto life. {5:25} Verily, verily, I say unto you, Thethem hour that is were set down; and likewise of the fishes as much coming, and now is, when the dead shall hear theas voice they ofwould. {6:12} When they were filled, he said unto the Son of God: and they that hear shall live. {5:26} Forhis as disciples, Gather up the fragments that remain, that the Father hath life in himself; so hath he given tonothing the Son be lost. {6:13} Therefore they gathered [them] to have life in himself; {5:27} And hath given him authoritytogether, and filled twelve baskets with the fragments of the to execute judgment also, because he is fivethe Sonbarley of man.loaves, which remained over and above unto {5:28} Marvel not at this: for the hour isthem coming, that had eaten.in the {6:14} Then those men, when they had which all that are in the graves shall hear his voice,seen {5:29} the miracle that Jesus did, said, This is of a truth that And shall come forth; they that have done good,prophet unto that theshould come into the world. resurrection of life; and they that have done evil, unto the resurrection of damnation. {5:30} I can of mine own self do{6:15} When Jesus therefore perceived that they would nothing: as I hear, I judge: and my judgment is just; becausecome and take him by force, to make him a king, he I seek not mine own will, but the will of the Fatherdeparted which again into a mountain himself alone. {6:16} And hath sent me. {5:31} If I bear witness of myself, my witnesswhen even was [now] come, his disciples went down unto is not true. the sea, {6:17} And entered into a ship, and went over the sea toward Capernaum. And it was now dark, and Jesus was {5:32} There is another that beareth witness of me;not and come I to them. {6:18} And the sea arose by reason of a know that the witness which he witnessethgreat of mewind isthat true. blew. {6:19} So when they had rowed about {5:33} Ye sent unto John, and he barefive witness and twenty unto or thirty the furlongs, they see Jesus walking on truth. {5:34} But I receive not testimonythe fromsea, andman: drawing but nigh unto the ship: and they were these things I say, that ye might be saved. {5:35} He afraid.was a {6:20} But he saith unto them, It is I; be not afraid. burning and a shining light: and ye{6:21} were Then willing they willingly for receiveda him into the ship: and season to rejoice in his light. immediately the ship was at the land whither they went.

{5:36} But I have greater witness than [that] of John:{6:22} for The day following, when the people which stood the works which the Father hath given onme the to other finish, side theof the sea saw that there was none other same works that I do, bear witness of me, thatboat the there,Father save that one whereinto his disciples were hath sent me. {5:37} And the Father himself,entered, which and haththat Jesus went not with his disciples into the sent me, hath borne witness of me. Ye have neitherboat, but heard [that] his disciples were gone away alone; {6:23} his voice at any time, nor seen his shape. (Howbeit{5:38} And there ye came other boats from Tiberias nigh unto have not his word abiding in you: for whom hethe hath place sent, where they did eat bread, after that the Lord had him ye believe not. given thanks:) {6:24} When the people therefore saw that Jesus was not there, neither his disciples, they also took {5:39} Search the scriptures; for in them ye think ye haveshipping, and came to Capernaum, seeking for Jesus. {6:25} eternal life: and they are they which testify ofAnd me. when {5:40} they had found him on the other side of the sea, And ye will not come to me, that ye might have life. {5:41}they said unto him, Rabbi, when camest thou hither? {6:26} I receive not honour from men. {5:42} But I know you, thatJesus answered them and said, Verily, verily, I say unto ye have not the in you. {5:43} I am come in myyou, Ye seek me, not because ye saw the miracles, but Father's name, and ye receive me not: if another shall comebecause ye did eat of the loaves, and were filled. {6:27} in his own name, him ye will receive. {5:44} HowLabour can notye for the meat which perisheth, but for that meat believe, which receive honour one of another, and whichseek not endureth unto everlasting life, which the Son of man the honour that [cometh] from God only?shall {5:45} give Do unto not you: for him hath sealed. think that I will accuse you to the Father: there is [one]{6:28} that Then said they unto him, What shall we do, that we accuseth you, [even] Moses, in whom ye trust. might{5:46} work For the works of God? {6:29} Jesus answered and had ye believed Moses, ye would have believed me:said for unto he them, This is the work of God, that ye believe on wrote of me. {5:47} But if ye believe not his writings,him how whom he hath sent. {6:30} They said therefore unto shall ye believe my words? him, What sign shewest thou then, that we may see, and believe thee? what dost thou work? {6:31} Our fathers did {6:1} After these things Jesus eatwent manna inover the desert; the as it seais written, of He gave them bread Galilee, which is [the sea] of Tiberias. {6:2}from And heaven a great to eat. {6:32} Then Jesus said unto them, multitude followed him, because Verily,they sawverily, his I miraclessay unto you, Moses gave you not that which he did on them that were diseased. {6:3} Andbread Jesus from heaven; but my Father giveth you the true bread went up into a mountain, and there he sat with his disciples.from heaven. {6:33} For the bread of God is he which {6:4} And the passover, a feast of the Jews, was nigh. cometh down from heaven, and giveth life unto the world. {6:34} Then said they unto him, Lord, evermore give us {6:5} When Jesus then lifted up [his] thiseyes, bread. and {6:35} saw And a Jesus said unto them, I am the bread great company come unto him, he saith unto Philip, Whenceof life: he that cometh to me shall never hunger; and he that shall we buy bread, that these may eat? {6:6} Andbelieveth this he on me shall never thirst. {6:36} But I said unto said to prove him: for he himself knew what he you,would That do. ye also have seen me, and believe not. {6:37} All {6:7} Philip answered him, Two hundredthat pennyworththe Father giveth of me shall come to me; and him that bread is not sufficient for them, that every one of them comethmay to me I will in no wise cast out. {6:38} For I came take a little. {6:8} One of his disciples,down fromAndrew, heaven, Simonnot to do mine own will, but the will of Page 57 John him that sent me. {6:39} And this is the Father's will which{7:3} His brethren therefore said unto him, Depart hence, hath sent me, that of all which he hath given andme I goshould into Judaea, that thy disciples also may see the lose nothing, but should raise it up againworks at the that last thou day. doest. {7:4} For [there is] no man [that] {6:40} And this is the will of him that sent me, doeththat every any thing in secret, and he himself seeketh to be one which seeth the Son, and believeth on him,known may openly.have If thou do these things, shew thyself to the everlasting life: and I will raise himworld. up at {7:5}the lastFor day.neither did his brethren believe in him. {6:41} The Jews then murmured at him, because he{7:6} said, Then I Jesus said unto them, My time is not yet come: am the bread which came down from heaven. {6:42}but your And time is alway ready. {7:7} The world cannot hate they said, Is not this Jesus, the son of Joseph, whoseyou; father but me it hateth, because I testify of it, that the works and mother we know? how is it then that he saith,thereof I cameare evil. {7:8} Go ye up unto this feast: I go not up down from heaven? {6:43} Jesus thereforeyet untoanswered this feast; and for my time is not yet full come. {7:9} said unto them, Murmur not among yourselves. {6:44}When he Nohad said these words unto them, he abode [still] in man can come to me, except the Father which hath sentGalilee. me draw him: and I will raise him up at the last day. {6:45} It is written in the prophets, And they shall be all taught of God.{7:10} But when his brethren were gone up, then went he Every man therefore that hath heard, and hath learned of thealso up unto the feast, not openly, but as it were in secret. Father, cometh unto me. {6:46} Not that any man hath seen{7:11} Then the Jews sought him at the feast, and said, the Father, save he which is of God, he hath seen the Father.Where is he? {7:12} And there was much murmuring {6:47} Verily, verily, I say unto you, He that believethamong the on people concerning him: for some said, He is a me hath everlasting life. {6:48} I amgood that man: bread others of life.said, Nay; but he deceiveth the people. {6:49} Your fathers did eat manna in the wilderness,{7:13} Howbeit and no man spake openly of him for fear of the are dead. {6:50} This is the bread which cometh down fromJews. heaven, that a man may eat thereof, and not die. {6:51} I am the living bread which came down from heaven: if any man{7:14} Now about the midst of the feast Jesus went up eat of this bread, he shall live for ever: and the breadinto that the Itemple, and taught. {7:15} And the Jews marvelled, will give is my flesh, which I will give for thesaying, life of the How knoweth this man letters, having never world. {6:52} The Jews therefore strove among themselves,learned? {7:16} Jesus answered them, and said, My saying, How can this man give us [his] flesh to eat? {6:53}doctrine is not mine, but his that sent me. {7:17} If any man Then Jesus said unto them, Verily, verily, I willsay dounto his will,you, he shall know of the doctrine, whether it be Except ye eat the flesh of the Son of man,of and God, drink or his[whether] I speak of myself. {7:18} He that blood, ye have no life in you. {6:54} speakethWhoso eateth of himself my seeketh his own glory: but he that flesh, and drinketh my blood, hath eternal seekethlife; and his I willglory that sent him, the same is true, and no raise him up at the last day. {6:55} For myunrighteousness flesh is meat is in him. {7:19} Did not Moses give you indeed, and my blood is drink indeed. {6:56} He that eateththe law, and [yet] none of you keepeth the law? Why go ye my flesh, and drinketh my blood, dwelleth in me,about and Ito in kill me? {7:20} The people answered and said, him. {6:57} As the living Father hath sent me, and I liveThou by hast a devil: who goeth about to kill thee? {7:21} the Father: so he that eateth me, even he shall liveJesus by answered me. and said unto them, I have done one work, {6:58} This is that bread which came down andfrom ye heaven: all marvel. {7:22} Moses therefore gave unto you not as your fathers did eat manna, and arecircumcision; dead: he that (not because it is of Moses, but of the eateth of this bread shall live for ever. {6:59} Thesefathers;) things and ye on the sabbath day circumcise a man. said he in the synagogue, as he {7:23}taught If ain man Capernaum. on the sabbath day receive , {6:60} Many therefore of his disciples,that the law whenof Moses they should nothad be broken; are ye angry at heard [this,] said, This is an hard saying; who canme, hearbecause it? I have made a man every whit whole on the {6:61} When Jesus knew in himselfsabbath day?that {7:24} his Judge disciples not according to the appearance, murmured at it, he said unto them, Doth thisbut offend judge you? righteous judgment. {7:25} Then said some of {6:62} [What] and if ye shall see the Son of man ascendthem up of Jerusalem, Is not this he, whom they seek to kill? where he was before? {6:63} It is the spirit that quickeneth;{7:26} But, lo, he speaketh boldly, and they say nothing the flesh profiteth nothing: the words that I speak untounto you, him. Do the rulers know indeed that this is the very [they] are spirit, and [they] are life. {6:64}Christ? But {7:27}there areHowbeit we know this man whence he is: some of you that believe not. For Jesusbut whenknew Christ from cometh,the no man knoweth whence he is. beginning who they were that believed not, and who should{7:28} Then cried Jesus in the temple as he taught, saying, betray him. {6:65} And he said, Therefore said I untoYe both you, know me, and ye know whence I am: and I am not that no man can come unto me, except it werecome given of untomyself, but he that sent me is true, whom ye know him of my Father. not. {7:29} But I know him: for I am from him, and he hath sent me. {7:30} Then they sought to take him: but no man {6:66} From that [time] many of his disciples wentlaid back, hands on him, because his hour was not yet come. and walked no more with him. {6:67} Then said Jesus{7:31} unto And many of the people believed on him, and said, the twelve, Will ye also go away? {6:68} Then Simon PeterWhen Christ cometh, will he do more miracles than these answered him, Lord, to whom shall we go? whichthou hastthis [man]the hath done? words of eternal life. {6:69} And we believe and are sure that thou art that Christ, the Son of the living God.{7:32} {6:70} The Pharisees heard that the people murmured Jesus answered them, Have not I chosen yousuch twelve, things concerning and him; and the Pharisees and the chief one of you is a devil? {6:71} He spake of Judas Iscariot [thepriests sent officers to take him. {7:33} Then said Jesus son] of Simon: for he it was that should betray untohim, them,being Yet a little while am I with you, and [then] I go one of the twelve. unto him that sent me. {7:34} Ye shall seek me, and shall not find [me:] and where I am, [thither] ye cannot come. {7:1} After these things Jesus walked in Galilee:{7:35} Then for said he the Jews among themselves, Whither will would not walk in Jewry, because the Jews hesought go, tothat kill we shall not find him? will he go unto the him. {7:2} Now the Jews' feast of tabernacles was atdispersed hand. among the Gentiles, and teach the Gentiles? John Page 58 {7:36} What [manner of] saying is thisFather that hethat said, sent me.Ye {8:17} It is also written in your law, shall seek me, and shall not find [me:] thatand the where testimony I am,of two men is true. {8:18} I am one that [thither] ye cannot come? {7:37} In the last day, bearthat witnessgreat of myself, and the Father that sent me beareth [day] of the feast, Jesus stood and cried, saying, If anywitness man of me. {8:19} Then said they unto him, Where is thirst, let him come unto me, and drink.thy {7:38}Father? JesusHe that answered, Ye neither know me, nor my believeth on me, as the scripture hath said, out ofFather: his belly if ye had known me, ye should have known my shall flow rivers of living water. {7:39} (But thisFather spake also. he {8:20} These words spake Jesus in the treasury, of the Spirit, which they that believe on him should receive:as he taught in the temple: and no man laid hands on him; for the Holy Ghost was not yet [given;] because forthat his Jesus hour was not yet come. {8:21} Then said Jesus again was not yet glorified.) unto them, I go my way, and ye shall seek me, and shall die in your sins: whither I go, ye cannot come. {8:22} Then {7:40} Many of the people therefore, when they heard thissaid the Jews, Will he kill himself? because he saith, saying, said, Of a truth this is the Prophet.Whither {7:41} OthersI go, ye cannot come. {8:23} And he said unto said, This is the Christ. But some said, Shallthem, Christ Ye are come from beneath; I am from above: ye are of this out of Galilee? {7:42} Hath not the scriptureworld; I am said,not of thisThat world. {8:24} I said therefore unto Christ cometh of the seed of David, and out of the you,town that of ye shall die in your sins: for if ye believe not that I Bethlehem, where David was? {7:43}am [he,] yeSo shallthere die inwas your a sins. {8:25} Then said they division among the people because ofunto him. him, Who{7:44} art thou?And And Jesus saith unto them, Even some of them would have taken him; but no man laid hands[the same] that I said unto you from the beginning. {8:26} I on him. have many things to say and to judge of you: but he that sent me is true; and I speak to the world those things which {7:45} Then came the officers to the I chiefhave heardpriests of andhim. {8:27} They understood not that he Pharisees; and they said unto them,spake toWhy them have of the ye Father. not {8:28} Then said Jesus unto brought him? {7:46} The officers answered,them, When yeNever have lifted man up the Son of man, then shall ye spake like this man. {7:47} Thenknow that answered I am [he,] and them[that] I dothe nothing of myself; but Pharisees, Are ye also deceived? {7:48} Haveas my any Father of thehath taught me, I speak these things. {8:29} rulers or of the Pharisees believed on him? {7:49}And But hethis that sent me is with me: the Father hath not left me people who knoweth not the alone;law for areI do alwayscursed. those things {7:50} that please him. {8:30} Nicodemus saith unto them, (he that came to Jesus by night,As he spake these words, many believed on him. {8:31} being one of them,) {7:51} Doth our law judge [any]Then man, said Jesus to those Jews which believed on him, If ye before it hear him, and know what he doeth? {7:52}continue They in my word, [then] are ye my disciples indeed; answered and said unto him, Art thou{8:32} also And of ye Galilee? shall know the truth, and the truth shall Search, and look: for out of Galileemake ariseth you free.no prophet. {7:53} And every man went unto his own house. {8:33} They answered him, We be Abraham's seed, and {8:1} Jesus went unto the mount of Olives.were never{8:2} inAnd bondage to any man: how sayest thou, Ye early in the morning he came again into the temple, shalland all be made free? {8:34} Jesus answered them, Verily, the people came unto him; and he sat verily,down, andI say taught unto you, Whosoever committeth sin is the them. {8:3} And the scribes and Pharisees brought unto himservant of sin. {8:35} And the servant abideth not in the a woman taken in adultery; and when they had set her in thehouse for ever: [but] the Son abideth ever. {8:36} If the Son midst, {8:4} They say unto him, Master, thistherefore woman was shall make you free, ye shall be free indeed. taken in adultery, in the very act. {8:5} Now Moses{8:37} in theI know that ye are Abraham's seed; but ye seek to law commanded us, that such should be stoned:kill me, but because what my word hath no place in you. {8:38} I sayest thou? {8:6} This they said, tempting him,speak that that whichthey I have seen with my Father: and ye do that might have to accuse him. But Jesus stoopedwhich ye havedown, seen withand your father. {8:39} They answered with [his] finger wrote on the ground, [as thoughand he said heard unto him, Abraham is our father. Jesus saith unto them not. ]{8:7} So when they continued them,asking Ifhim, ye hewere Abraham's children, ye would do the lifted up himself, and said unto them, He that is withoutworks sin of Abraham. {8:40} But now ye seek to kill me, a among you, let him first cast a stone at her. {8:8} And againman that hath told you the truth, which I have heard of God: he stooped down, and wrote on the ground. {8:9} Andthis they did not Abraham. {8:41} Ye do the deeds of your which heard [it,] being convicted by [their own] conscience,father. Then said they to him, We be not born of went out one by one, beginning at the eldest, [even] unto thefornication; we have one Father, [even] God. {8:42} Jesus last: and Jesus was left alone, and the womansaid standing unto them, inIf God were your Father, ye would love me: the midst. {8:10} When Jesus had liftedfor up I proceeded himself, forth and and came from God; neither came I of saw none but the woman, he said unto her, Woman,myself, where but he sent me. {8:43} Why do ye not understand are those thine accusers? hath no manmy condemnedspeech? [even] becausethee? ye cannot hear my word. {8:44} {8:11} She said, No man, Lord. And Jesus saidYe are unto of your her, father the devil, and the lusts of [your] father Neither do I condemn thee: go, and sin no more.ye will do. He was a murderer from the beginning, and abode not in the truth, because there is no truth in him. {8:12} Then spake Jesus again unto them,When saying, he speaketh I am a lie, he speaketh of his own: for he is a the light of the world: he that followeth me shall not walk inliar, and the father of it. {8:45} And because I tell [you] the darkness, but shall have the lighttruth, yeof believe life. me {8:13}not. {8:46} The Which of you convinceth Pharisees therefore said unto him, Thou bearestme of sin? record And if I ofsay the truth, why do ye not believe me? thyself; thy record is not true. {8:14} Jesus{8:47} answered He that and is of God heareth God's words: ye therefore said unto them, Though I bear record of myself,hear [yet][them] my not, because ye are not of God. {8:48} Then record is true: for I know whence I came, and whitheranswered I go; the Jews, and said unto him, Say we not well that but ye cannot tell whence I come, and whither I go. thou{8:15} art a Samaritan, and hast a devil? {8:49} Jesus Ye judge after the flesh; I judge no man. {8:16} And yet if answered,I I have not a devil; but I honour my Father, and ye judge, my judgment is true: for I am not alone, but I and thedo dishonour me. {8:50} And I seek not mine own glory: Page 59 John there is one that seeketh and judgeth. {8:51} Verily,any verily, man did confess that he was Christ, he should be put I say unto you, If a man keep my saying, he shall neverout see of the synagogue. {9:23} Therefore said his parents, He death. {8:52} Then said the Jews unto him, Now weis ofknow age; ask him. {9:24} Then again called they the man that thou hast a devil. Abraham is dead, and thethat prophets;was blind, and said unto him, Give God the praise: we and thou sayest, If a man keep my saying, heknow shall that never this man is a sinner. {9:25} He answered and taste of death. {8:53} Art thou greatersaid, Whether than he be a sinnerour [orfather no,] I know not: one thing I Abraham, which is dead? and the prophets are dead:know, whom that, whereas I was blind, now I see. {9:26} Then makest thou thyself? {8:54} Jesus answered,said they toIf him I again,honour What did he to thee? how opened he myself, my honour is nothing: it is my Father that honoureththine eyes? {9:27} He answered them, I have told you me; of whom ye say, that he is your God: {8:55}already, Yet and ye ye did not hear: wherefore would ye hear [it] have not known him; but I know him: and if I should say,again? I will ye also be his disciples? {9:28} Then they know him not, I shall be a liar like unto you:reviled but I knowhim, and said, Thou art his disciple; but we are him, and keep his saying. {8:56} YourMoses' father disciples. Abraham {9:29} We know that God spake unto rejoiced to see my day: and he saw Moses:[it,] [asand for] was this [fellow,]glad. we know not from whence he {8:57} Then said the Jews unto him, Thou art notis. yet {9:30}fifty The man answered and said unto them, Why years old, and hast thou seen Abraham? {8:58}herein Jesus is asaid marvellous thing, that ye know not from whence unto them, Verily, verily, I say unto you, Beforehe Abrahamis, and [yet] he hath opened mine eyes. {9:31} Now we was, I am. {8:59} Then took they up stones to castknow at him: that God heareth not sinners: but if any man be a but Jesus hid himself, and went out of theworshipper temple, going of God, and doeth his will, him he heareth. through the midst of them, and so passed by.{9:32} Since the world began was it not heard that any man opened the eyes of one that was born blind. {9:33} If this {9:1} And as [Jesus] passed by, he saw a man whichman was were not of God, he could do nothing. {9:34} They blind from [his] birth. {9:2} And his disciplesanswered asked and him, said unto him, Thou wast altogether born in saying, Master, who did sin, this man, or his parents, that hesins, and dost thou teach us? And they cast him out. {9:35} was born blind? {9:3} Jesus answered,Jesus Neither heard hath that thisthey had cast him out; and when he had man sinned, nor his parents: but thatfound the him,works he said of untoGod him, Dost thou believe on the Son should be made manifest in him. {9:4} ofI God?must {9:36}work the He answered and said, Who is he, Lord, works of him that sent me, while it is day: the night cometh,that I might believe on him? {9:37} And Jesus said unto when no man can work. {9:5} As long as I am in the world,him, Thou hast both seen him, and it is he that talketh with I am the light of the world. {9:6} When he had thus spoken,thee. {9:38} And he said, Lord, I believe. And he he spat on the ground, and made clay of the spittle,worshipped and he him. anointed the eyes of the blind man with the clay, {9:7} And said unto him, Go, wash in the pool of Siloam, (which is by{9:39} And Jesus said, For judgment I am come into this interpretation, Sent.) He wentworld, his that waythey whichtherefore, see not mightand see; and that they washed, and came seeing. which see might be made blind. {9:40} And [some] of the Pharisees which were with him heard these words, and said {9:8} The neighbours therefore, and theyunto him,which Are beforewe blind also? {9:41} Jesus said unto them, had seen him that he was blind, said, Is not this heIf thatye were sat blind, ye should have no sin: but now ye say, We and begged? {9:9} Some said, This is he: others [said,]see; therefore He your sin remaineth. is like him: [but] he said, I am [he. ]{9:10} Therefore said they unto him, How were thine eyes opened?{10:1} {9:11} Verily, verily,He I say unto you, He that entereth not answered and said, A man that is called Jesusby themade door clay, into the sheepfold, but climbeth up some other and anointed mine eyes, and said unto me, Go to the pool ofway, the same is a thief and a robber. {10:2} But he that Siloam, and wash: and I went and washed, andentereth I received in by the door is the shepherd of the sheep. {10:3} sight. {9:12} Then said they unto him, WhereTo him the is porter he? openeth; He and the sheep hear his voice: and said, I know not. he calleth his own sheep by name, and leadeth them out. {10:4} And when he putteth forth his own sheep, he goeth {9:13} They brought to the Pharisees him thatbefore aforetime them, and the sheep follow him: for they know his was blind. {9:14} And it was the sabbath dayvoice. when {10:5} Jesus And a stranger will they not follow, but will made the clay, and opened his eyes. {9:15} Then againflee thefrom him: for they know not the voice of strangers. Pharisees also asked him how he had received his sight.{10:6} He This parable spake Jesus unto them: but they said unto them, He put clay upon mine eyes, and I washed,understood not what things they were which he spake unto and do see. {9:16} Therefore said some ofthem. the Pharisees, {10:7} Then said Jesus unto them again, Verily, This man is not of God, because he keepeth not the sabbathverily, I say unto you, I am the door of the sheep. {10:8} day. Others said, How can a man that is a sinnerAll that do suchever came before me are thieves and robbers: but miracles? And there was a division amongthe sheep them. did not {9:17} hear them. {10:9} I am the door: by me if They say unto the blind man again, Whatany sayest man enter thou in, he of shall be saved, and shall go in and out, him, that he hath opened thine eyes?and Hefind said,pasture. He {10:10} is a The thief cometh not, but for to prophet. {9:18} But the Jews did not believesteal, and toconcerning kill, and to destroy: I am come that they might him, that he had been blind, and receivedhave his life,sight, and until that they might have [it] more abundantly. they called the parents of him that had received{10:11} his I sight.am the : the good shepherd giveth {9:19} And they asked them, saying, Is this your son,his life who for the sheep. {10:12} But he that is an hireling, and ye say was born blind? how then doth he now see?not {9:20} the shepherd, whose own the sheep are not, seeth the His parents answered them and said, We know wolfthat coming, this is and leaveth the sheep, and fleeth: and the our son, and that he was born blind: {9:21}catcheth But by what them, and scattereth the sheep. {10:13} The means he now seeth, we know not; or who hath openedhireling his fleeth, because he is an hireling, and careth not for eyes, we know not: he is of age; ask him: he shall speakthe for sheep. {10:14} I am the good shepherd, and know my himself. {9:22} These [words] spake his [sheep,]parents, becauseand am known of mine. {10:15} As the Father they feared the Jews: for the Jews had agreed already, that ifknoweth me, even so know I the Father: and I lay down my John Page 60 life for the sheep. {10:16} And other sheep Iday, have, he which stumbleth not, because he seeth the light of this are not of this fold: them also I must bring, andworld. they {11:10} shall But if a man walk in the night, he stumbleth, hear my voice; and there shall bebecause one therefold, is no[and] light in one him. {11:11} These things said shepherd. {10:17} Therefore dothhe: andmy after Father that helove saith me,unto them, Our friend Lazarus because I lay down my life, that I mightsleepeth; take but it Iagain. go, that I may awake him out of sleep. {10:18} No man taketh it from me, but I {11:12}lay it downThen saidof his disciples, Lord, if he sleep, he shall myself. I have power to lay it down, and I havedo well. power {11:13} to Howbeit Jesus spake of his death: but they take it again. This commandment have thoughtI received that of myhe had spoken of taking of rest in sleep. Father. {11:14} Then said Jesus unto them plainly, Lazarus is dead. {11:15} And I am glad for your sakes that I was not there, {10:19} There was a division therefore againto among the intent the ye may believe; nevertheless let us go unto Jews for these sayings. {10:20} And many of them said, him.He {11:16} Then said Thomas, which is called Didymus, hath a devil, and is mad; why hear ye him? {10:21} untoOthers his fellowdisciples, Let us also go, that we may die said, These are not the words of him that hath a devil. Can witha him. {11:17} Then when Jesus came, he found that he devil open the eyes of the blind? had [lain] in the grave four days already. {11:18} Now Bethany was nigh unto Jerusalem, about fifteen furlongs {10:22} And it was at Jerusalemoff: {11:19} the And feastmany of ofthe Jewsthe came to Martha and dedication, and it was winter. {10:23} And Jesus walkedMary, in to comfort them concerning their brother. {11:20} the temple in Solomon's porch. {10:24}Then Martha,Then cameas soon the as she heard that Jesus was coming, Jews round about him, and said unto him, Howwent long and met dost him: but Mary sat [still] in the house. {11:21} thou make us to doubt? If thou be the Christ, tell us plainly.Then said Martha unto Jesus, Lord, if thou hadst been here, {10:25} Jesus answered them, I told you, andmy ye brotherbelieved had not died. {11:22} But I know, that even not: the works that I do in my Father'snow, name, whatsoever they bear thou wilt ask of God, God will give [it] witness of me. {10:26} But ye believe not, becausethee. ye {11:23} are Jesus saith unto her, Thy brother shall rise not of my sheep, as I said unto you. {10:27} My sheep hearagain. {11:24} Martha saith unto him, I know that he shall my voice, and I know them, and they follow me:rise again{10:28} in the resurrection at the last day. {11:25} Jesus And I give unto them eternal life; andsaid theyunto shallher, I neveram the resurrection, and the life: he that perish, neither shall any [man] pluck them out of mybelieveth hand. in me, though he were dead, yet shall he live: {10:29} My Father, which gave [them] me, is greater{11:26} than And whosoever liveth and believeth in me shall all; and no [man] is able to pluck [them] out of my Father'snever die. Believest thou this? {11:27} She saith unto him, hand. {10:30} I and [my] Father are one. {10:31} ThenYea, the Lord: I believe that thou art the Christ, the Son of God, Jews took up stones again to stonewhich him. should {10:32} come intoJesus the world. {11:28} And when she answered them, Many have I shewed youhad from so said, she went her way, and called Mary her sister my Father; for which of those workssecretly, do yesaying, stone The me?Master is come, and calleth for thee. {10:33} The Jews answered him, saying, For a good{11:29} work As soon as she heard [that,] she arose quickly, and we stone thee not; but for blasphemy; and because that thou,came unto him. {11:30} Now Jesus was not yet come into being a man, makest thyself God. {10:34} Jesusthe answered town, but was in that place where Martha met him. them, Is it not written in your law, I said,{11:31} Ye Theare Jewsgods? then which were with her in the house, {10:35} If he called them , unto whomand comfortedthe word her,of when they saw Mary, that she rose up God came, and the scripture cannot be broken; {10:36}hastily Say and went out, followed her, saying, She goeth unto ye of him, whom the Father hath sanctified, theand gravesent into to weep there. {11:32} Then when Mary was the world, Thou blasphemest; because I said, I amcome the Sonwhere Jesus was, and saw him, she fell down at his of God? {10:37} If I do not the works of my Father, believefeet, saying unto him, Lord, if thou hadst been here, my me not. {10:38} But if I do, though yebrother believe had not notdied. me,{11:33} When Jesus therefore saw her believe the works: that ye may know, and believe,weeping, that the and the Jews also weeping which came with her, Father is in me, and I in him. {10:39} Therefore they soughthe groaned in the spirit, and was troubled, {11:34} And again to take him: but he escaped out of their hand, {10:40}said, Where have ye laid him? They said unto him, Lord, And went away again beyond Jordan into the comeplace andwhere see. {11:35} . {11:36} Then said the John at first baptized; and there he abode.Jews, Behold{10:41} howAnd he loved him! {11:37} And some of many resorted unto him, and said, John did no miracle:them butsaid, Could not this man, which opened the eyes of the all things that John spake of this man wereblind, true. have {10:42} caused that even this man should not have died? And many believed on him there. {11:38} Jesus therefore again groaning in himself cometh to the grave. It was a cave, and a stone lay upon it. {11:39} {11:1} Now a certain [man] was sick, [named]Jesus said,Lazarus, Take ye away the stone. Martha, the sister of him of Bethany, the town of Mary and her sister Martha. {11:2}that was dead, saith unto him, Lord, by this time he stinketh: (It was [that] Mary which anointed the Lord with ointment,for he hath been [dead] four days. {11:40} Jesus saith unto and wiped his feet with her hair, whose brother Lazarus washer, Said I not unto thee, that, if thou wouldest believe, thou sick.) {11:3} Therefore his sisters sentshouldest unto him, see saying, the glory of God? {11:41} Then they took Lord, behold, he whom thou lovest is sick.away {11:4} the stoneWhen [from the place] where the dead was laid. Jesus heard [that,] he said, This sickness is not untoAnd Jesusdeath, lifted up [his] eyes, and said, Father, I thank thee but for the glory of God, that the Son thatof God thou might hast beheard me. {11:42} And I knew that thou glorified thereby. {11:5} Now Jesus loved Martha,hearest and her me always: but because of the people which stand sister, and Lazarus. {11:6} When he hadby Iheard said [it,] therefore that they may believe that thou hast sent me. that he was sick, he abode two days still in the same{11:43} place And when he thus had spoken, he cried with a loud where he was. {11:7} Then after thatvoice, saithLazarus, he come to forth.[his] {11:44} And he that was dead disciples, Let us go into Judaea again. {11:8} [His] disciplescame forth, bound hand and foot with graveclothes: and his say unto him, Master, the Jews of late sought to stoneface thee; was bound about with a napkin. Jesus saith unto them, and goest thou thither again? {11:9} JesusLoose answered, him, and Arelet him go. {11:45} Then many of the Jews there not twelve hours in the day? If any man whichwalk incame the to Mary, and had seen the things which Jesus Page 61 John did, believed on him. {11:46} But some of them wenthe theircalled Lazarus out of his grave, and raised him from the ways to the Pharisees, and told them what things Jesusdead, had bare record. {12:18} For this cause the people also done. met him, for that they heard that he had done this miracle. {12:19} The Pharisees therefore said among themselves, {11:47} Then gathered the chief priests and the PhariseesPerceive ye how ye prevail nothing? behold, the world is a council, and said, What do we? for this man doethgone many after him. miracles. {11:48} If we let him thus alone, all [men] will believe on him: and the Romans shall come and take{12:20} away And there were certain Greeks among them that both our place and nation. {11:49}came Andup to worshipone of at them, the feast: {12:21} The same came [named] Caiaphas, being the high priest that same year, saidtherefore to Philip, which was of Bethsaida of Galilee, and unto them, Ye know nothing at all, {11:50}desired Nor him,consider saying, Sir, we would see Jesus. {12:22} Philip that it is expedient for us, that one man shouldcometh die for andthe telleth Andrew: and again Andrew and Philip people, and that the whole nation perish not. {11:51}tell Jesus. And this spake he not of himself: but being high priest that year, he prophesied that Jesus should die for that nation; {11:52}{12:23} And Jesus answered them, saying, The hour is And not for that nation only, but that also he shouldcome, gather that the Son of man should be glorified. {12:24} together in one the children of GodVerily, that verily,were Iscattered say unto you, Except a corn of wheat fall abroad. {11:53} Then from that day forth they took counselinto the ground and die, it abideth alone: but if it die, it together for to put him to death. {11:54}bringeth Jesus forththerefore much fruit. {12:25} He that loveth his life walked no more openly among the Jews; butshall went lose thence it; and he that hateth his life in this world shall unto a country near to the wilderness,keep into it untoa city life calledeternal. {12:26} If any man serve me, let Ephraim, and there continued with his disciples.him follow me; and where I am, there shall also my servant be: if any man serve me, him will [my] Father honour. {11:55} And the Jews' passover was nigh{12:27} at hand: Now and is my soul troubled; and what shall I say? many went out of the country up to JerusalemFather, before save theme from this hour: but for this cause came I passover, to purify themselves. {11:56} Thenunto thissought hour. {12:28}they Father, glorify thy name. Then came for Jesus, and spake among themselves, as they stood inthere the a voice from heaven, [saying,] I have both glorified temple, What think ye, that he will not come to[it,] the feast? and will glorify [it] again. {12:29} The people {11:57} Now both the chief priests and the therefore,Pharisees had that stood by, and heard [it,] said that it given a commandment, that, if any manthundered: knew where others he said, An angel spake to him. {12:30} were, he should shew [it,] that they mightJesus take answered him. and said, This voice came not because of me, but for your sakes. {12:31} Now is the judgment of this {12:1} Then Jesus six days before the passoverworld: came nowto shall the prince of this world be cast out. Bethany, where Lazarus was which had been {12:32}dead, whomAnd I, if I be lifted up from the earth, will draw all he raised from the dead. {12:2} There [men]they untomade me. him{12:33} a This he said, signifying what death supper; and Martha served: but Lazarus washe shouldone of die. them {12:34} The people answered him, We have that sat at the table with him. {12:3} Thenheard tookout of Mary the law a that Christ abideth for ever: and how pound of ointment of spikenard, very costly,sayest and anointedthou, The Son of man must be lifted up? who is this the feet of Jesus, and wiped his feet with her hair:Son andof man? the {12:35} Then Jesus said unto them, Yet a little house was filled with the odour of thewhile ointment. is the light {12:4} with you. Walk while ye have the light, Then saith one of his disciples, Judaslest Iscariot,darkness Simon's come upon you: for he that walketh in [son,] which should betray him, {12:5} Whydarkness was not knoweth this not whither he goeth. {12:36} While ye ointment sold for three hundred pence,have and light, given believe to inthe the light, that ye may be the children poor? {12:6} This he said, not that he cared offor light. the poor; These things spake Jesus, and departed, and did but because he was a thief, and had the bag, and barehide what himself from them. was put therein. {12:7} Then said Jesus, Let her alone: against the day of my burying hath she kept this. {12:8} For{12:37} But though he had done so many miracles before the poor always ye have with you; butthem, me yet yethey havebelieved not not on him: {12:38} That the saying always. {12:9} Much people of the Jewsof thereforeEsaias the knewprophet might be fulfilled, which he spake, that he was there: and they came not for Jesus'Lord, sake whoonly, hath believed our report? and to whom hath the but that they might see Lazarus also, whom hearm had of raised the Lord been revealed? {12:39} Therefore they from the dead. could not believe, because that Esaias said again, {12:40} He hath blinded their eyes, and hardened their heart; that {12:10} But the chief priests consulted that they might putthey should not see with [their] eyes, nor understand with Lazarus also to death; {12:11} Because that[their] by reason heart, of and be converted, and I should heal them. him many of the Jews went away, and believed{12:41} on Jesus. These things said Esaias, when he saw his glory, and spake of him. {12:12} On the next day much people that were come to the feast, when they heard that{12:42} Jesus Nevertheless was coming among tothe chief rulers also many Jerusalem, {12:13} Took branches of trees,believed and went on him; but because of the Pharisees they did not forth to meet him, and cried, Hosanna: Blessed [is] the Kingconfess [him,] lest they should be put out of the synagogue: of Israel that cometh in the name of the Lord. {12:14}{12:43} And For they loved the praise of men more than the Jesus, when he had found a young ass, sat thereon;praise as it ofis God. written, {12:15} Fear not, daughter of Sion: behold, thy King cometh, sitting on an ass's colt. {12:16} These {12:44}things Jesus cried and said, He that believeth on me, understood not his disciples at the first: but when Jesusbelieveth was not on me, but on him that sent me. {12:45} And glorified, then remembered they hethat that seeth these me seeth things him that sentwere me. {12:46} I am come written of him, and [that] they had done thesea thingslight unto into the world, that whosoever believeth on me him. {12:17} The people therefore that was with himshould when not abide in darkness. {12:47} And if any man hear John Page 62 my words, and believe not, I judge him not: for I cameJesus not had said unto him, Buy [those things] that we have to judge the world, but to save the world. {12:48}need He of thatagainst the feast; or, that he should give something rejecteth me, and receiveth not my words,to the poor.hath {13:30}one that He then having received the sop went judgeth him: the word that I have spoken, immediatelythe same shallout: and it was night. judge him in the last day. {12:49} For I have not spoken of myself; but the Father which sent{13:31} me, Therefore,he gave mewhen a he was gone out, Jesus said, commandment, what I should say, and what I should speak.Now is the Son of man glorified, and God is glorified in {12:50} And I know that him.his {13:32}commandment If God be glorifiedis life in him, God shall also everlasting: whatsoever I speak therefore, even as the Fatherglorify him in himself, and shall straightway glorify him. said unto me, so I speak. {13:33} Little children, yet a little while I am with you. Ye shall seek me: and as I said unto the Jews, Whither I go, ye {13:1} Now before the feast of the passover, whencannot Jesus come; so now I say to you. {13:34} A new knew that his hour was come that he should departcommandment out of I give unto you, That ye love one another; as this world unto the Father, having lovedI have hisloved own you, thatwhich ye also love one another. {13:35} By were in the world, he loved them unto the end. {13:2}this And shall all [men] know that ye are my disciples, if ye have supper being ended, the devil having now put into thelove heart one to another. of Judas Iscariot, Simon's [son,] to betray him; {13:3} Jesus knowing that the Father had given all things into his hands,{13:36} Simon Peter said unto him, Lord, whither goest and that he was come from God, and went to God;thou? {13:4} Jesus answered him, Whither I go, thou canst not He riseth from supper, and laid aside his garments; and tookfollow me now; but thou shalt follow me afterwards. a towel, and girded himself. {13:5} After {13:37}that he Peter poureth said unto him, Lord, why cannot I follow thee water into a bason, and began to wash the disciples'now? I will feet, lay down my life for thy sake. {13:38} Jesus and to wipe [them] with the towel wherewith he was girded.answered him, Wilt thou lay down thy life for my sake? {13:6} Then cometh he to Simon Peter: and Peter saith untoVerily, verily, I say unto thee, The cock shall not crow, till him, Lord, dost thou wash my feet? {13:7} Jesus answeredthou hast denied me thrice. and said unto him, What I do thou knowest not now; but thou shalt know hereafter. {13:8} Peter{14:1} Letsaith not yourunto heart him, be troubled: ye believe in God, Thou shalt never wash my feet. Jesus answeredbelieve him,also inIf me.I {14:2} In my Father's house are many wash thee not, thou hast no part with me.mansions: {13:9} if [itSimon were] not so, I would have told you. I go to Peter saith unto him, Lord, not my feet only, but alsoprepare [my] a place for you. {14:3} And if I go and prepare a hands and [my] head. {13:10} Jesus saith to him, He thatplace is for you, I will come again, and receive you unto washed needeth not save to wash [his] myself;feet, thatbut where is cleanI am, [there] ye may be also. {14:4} And every whit: and ye are clean, but not all. whither{13:11} For I hego ye know, and the way ye know. {14:5} knew who should betray him; therefore said he, YeThomas are not saith unto him, Lord, we know not whither thou all clean. {13:12} So after he had washed their feet, and hadgoest; and how can we know the way? {14:6} Jesus saith taken his garments, and was set down again,unto he said him, unto I am the way, the truth, and the life: no man them, Know ye what I have done to you? {13:13}cometh Ye callunto the Father, but by me. {14:7} If ye had known me Master and Lord: and ye say well; for so I am. {13:14}me, ye should have known my Father also: and from If I then, [your] Lord and Master, have washed your feet; yehenceforth ye know him, and have seen him. {14:8} Philip also ought to wash one another's feet. {13:15}saith For unto I havehim, Lord, shew us the Father, and it sufficeth us. given you an example, that ye should do as I have{14:9} done Jesusto saith unto him, Have I been so long time with you. {13:16} Verily, verily, I say unto you, Theyou, servant and yetis hast thou not known me, Philip? he that hath not greater than his lord; neither he that is sent greaterseen than me hath seen the Father; and how sayest thou [then,] he that sent him. {13:17} If ye know these things, happy areShew us the Father? {14:10} Believest thou not that I am in ye if ye do them. the Father, and the Father in me? the words that I speak unto you I speak not of myself: but the Father that dwelleth {13:18} I speak not of you all: I knowin me, whomhe doeth I thehave works. {14:11} Believe me that I [am] chosen: but that the scripture mayin be the fulfilled,Father, and theHe Father that in me: or else believe me for eateth bread with me hath lifted up histhe heel very works'against sake. {14:12}me. Verily, verily, I say unto you, {13:19} Now I tell you before it come, that, when it is comeHe that believeth on me, the works that I do shall he do to pass, ye may believe that I am [he.also; ]{13:20} and greater Verily, [works] than these shall he do; because I verily, I say unto you, He that receiveth whomsoever I gosend unto my Father. {14:13} And whatsoever ye shall ask in receiveth me; and he that receiveth me receivethmy name, him that that will I do, that the Father may be glorified in sent me. {13:21} When Jesus had thus said, he was troubledthe Son. {14:14} If ye shall ask any thing in my name, I will in spirit, and testified, and said, Verily, verily,do [it. I say unto you, that one of you shall betray me. {13:22} Then the disciples looked one on another, doubting]{14:15} If ye oflove me,whom keep myhe commandments. {14:16} spake. {13:23} Now there was leaning on Jesus' bosom oneAnd I will pray the Father, and he shall give you another of his disciples, whom Jesus loved. {13:24}Comforter, Simon thatPeter he may abide with you for ever; {14:17} therefore beckoned to him, that he should ask who it should[Even] the Spirit of truth; whom the world cannot receive, be of whom he spake. {13:25} He thenbecause lying it seeth on himJesus' not, neither knoweth him: but ye know breast saith unto him, Lord, whohim; isfor heit? dwelleth {13:26} with you, Jesusand shall be in you. {14:18} answered, He it is, to whom I shall give a sop, when I Ihave will not leave you comfortless: I will come to you. dipped [it.] And when he had dipped the sop, he gave [it]{14:19} to Yet a little while, and the world seeth me no more; Judas Iscariot, [the son] of Simon. {13:27}but Andye see after me: because the I live, ye shall live also. {14:20} At sop Satan entered into him. Then said Jesus unto him,that That day ye shall know that I [am] in my Father, and ye in thou doest, do quickly. {13:28} Now no manme, at and the I in table you. {14:21} He that hath my commandments, knew for what intent he spake this unto him. and{13:29} keepeth For them, he it is that loveth me: and he that loveth some [of them] thought, because Judas hadme shallthe bebag, loved that of my Father, and I will love him, and Page 63 John will manifest myself to him. {14:22} Judas saith name'sunto him, sake, because they know not him that sent me. not Iscariot, Lord, how is it that thou wilt manifest{15:22} thyself If I had not come and spoken unto them, they had unto us, and not unto the world? {14:23} Jesusnot hadanswered sin: but now they have no cloke for their sin. and said unto him, If a man love me,{15:23} he will He that keep hateth memy hateth my Father also. {15:24} If words: and my Father will love him, and we will come untoI had not done among them the works which none other him, and make our abode with him. {14:24} He that manloveth did, they had not had sin: but now have they both seen me not keepeth not my sayings: and the word which ye hearand hated both me and my Father. {15:25} But [this cometh is not mine, but the Father's which sent me. {14:25}to These pass,] that the word might be fulfilled that is written in things have I spoken unto you, being [yet] present with you.their law, They hated me without a cause. {15:26} But {14:26} But the Comforter, [which whenis] the ComforterHoly Ghost, is come, whom I will send unto you whom the Father will send in my name, he shall teachfrom theyou Father, [even] the Spirit of truth, which proceedeth all things, and bring all thingsfrom theto Father, your he shall remembrance, testify of me: {15:27} And ye also whatsoever I have said unto you. {14:27} Peace I leave withshall bear witness, because ye have been with me from the you, my peace I give unto you: not as the world giveth, givebeginning. I unto you. Let not your heart be troubled, neither let it be afraid. {14:28} Ye have heard how I said unto{16:1} you, TheseI go things have I spoken unto you, that ye away, and come [again] unto you. If ye loved me, ye wouldshould not be offended. {16:2} They shall put you out of rejoice, because I said, I go unto the Father: for my Father isthe synagogues: yea, the time cometh, that whosoever greater than I. {14:29} And now I have told youkilleth before you will it think that he doeth God service. {16:3} And come to pass, that, when it is comethese to things pass, will ye they might do unto you, because they have not believe. {14:30} Hereafter I will not talk muchknown with the Father,you: nor me. {16:4} But these things have I for the prince of this world cometh, and hath nothing in toldme. you, that when the time shall come, ye may remember {14:31} But that the world may know that I love the Father;that I told you of them. And these things I said not unto you and as the Father gave me commandment,at theeven beginning, so I becausedo. I was with you. {16:5} But now I Arise, let us go hence. go my way to him that sent me; and none of you asketh me, Whither goest thou? {16:6} But because I have said these {15:1} I am the ,things and untomy Fatheryou, sorrow is the hath filled your heart. {16:7} husbandman. {15:2} Every branch in me thatNevertheless beareth I tellnot you the truth; It is expedient for you that fruit he taketh away: and every [branch] that bearethI go away: fruit, for if I go not away, the Comforter will not come he purgeth it, that it may bring forth more fruit. {15:3} Nowunto you; but if I depart, I will send him unto you. {16:8} ye are clean through the word which I haveAnd spokenwhen he isunto come, he will reprove the world of sin, and you. {15:4} Abide in me, and I in you. As the branch cannotof righteousness, and of judgment: {16:9} Of sin, because bear fruit of itself, except it abide in the vine; no theymore believe can not on me; {16:10} Of righteousness, because I ye, except ye abide in me. {15:5} I am the vine, ye [are] thego to my Father, and ye see me no more; {16:11} Of branches: He that abideth in me, and I injudgment, him, the same because the prince of this world is judged. bringeth forth much fruit: for without me ye can do nothing.{16:12} I have yet many things to say unto you, but ye {15:6} If a man abide not in me, he is cast forth as a branch,cannot bear them now. {16:13} Howbeit when he, the Spirit and is withered; and men gather them, and cast [them]of truth,into is come, he will guide you into all truth: for he the fire, and they are burned. {15:7} If ye abide in me,shall and not speak of himself; but whatsoever he shall hear, my words abide in you, ye shall ask what [that]ye will, shall and he speak:it and he will shew you things to come. shall be done unto you. {15:8}{16:14} Herein He shall is glorify my me:Father for he shall receive of mine, glorified, that ye bear much fruit;and shall so shewshall [it] ye unto be you. my {16:15} All things that the disciples. {15:9} As the Father hath lovedFather me, hathso haveare mine: I therefore said I, that he shall take of loved you: continue ye in my love. {15:10} If yemine, keep andmy shall shew [it] unto you. {16:16} A little while, commandments, ye shall abide in my love; evenand as yeI have shall not see me: and again, a little while, and ye kept my Father's commandments, and shallabide see inme, hisbecause love. I go to the Father. {16:17} Then said {15:11} These things have I spoken unto you, that[some] my ofjoy his disciples among themselves, What is this that might remain in you, and [that] yourhe joy saith mightunto us, Abe little full. while, and ye shall not see me: and {15:12} This is my commandment,again, a Thatlittle while, ye and love ye shall onesee me: and, Because I go another, as I have loved you. {15:13} Greater loveto hath the Father?no {16:18} They said therefore, What is this that man than this, that a man lay down his life for hishe friends. saith, A little while? we cannot tell what he saith. {15:14} Ye are my friends, if ye do whatsoever I command{16:19} Now Jesus knew that they were desirous to ask you. {15:15} Henceforth I call you nothim, servants; and said untofor thethem, Do ye enquire among yourselves servant knoweth not what his lord doeth: but I haveof that called I said, A little while, and ye shall not see me: and you friends; for all things that I have heard of myagain, Father a Ilittle while, and ye shall see me? {16:20} Verily, have made known unto you. {15:16} Ye haveverily, not chosenI say unto you, That ye shall weep and lament, but me, but I have chosen you, and ordained you, that ye shouldthe world shall rejoice: and ye shall be sorrowful, but your go and bring forth fruit, and [that] your fruit should remain:sorrow shall be turned into joy. {16:21} A woman when she that whatsoever ye shall ask of the Father in myis name,in travail he hath sorrow, because her hour is come: but as may give it you. {15:17} These things I command you,soon that as she is delivered of the child, she remembereth no ye love one another. {15:18} If the world hate you, ye knowmore the anguish, for joy that a man is born into the world. that [it hated] me before it hated you. {15:19} If ye were{16:22} of And ye now therefore have sorrow: but I will see the world, the world would love his own: but because ye areyou again, and your heart shall rejoice, and your joy no man not of the world, but I have chosen you out oftaketh the fromworld, you. {16:23} And in that day ye shall ask me therefore the world hateth you. nothing.{15:20} Verily, Remember verily, I say untothe you, Whatsoever ye shall word that I said unto you, The servant is not greater than hisask the Father in my name, he will give [it] you. {16:24} lord. If they have persecuted me, they willHitherto also persecute have ye asked nothing in my name: ask, and ye you; if they have kept my saying, they will keep yours also.shall receive, that your joy may be full. {16:25} These {15:21} But all these things will they do unto thingsyou for havemy I spoken unto you in : but the time John Page 64 cometh, when I shall no more speak unto you in{17:24} proverbs, Father, I will that they also, whom thou hast given but I shall shew you plainly of the Father. {16:26}me, Atbe withthat me where I am; that they may behold my glory, day ye shall ask in my name: and I say not unto you,which that I thou hast given me: for thou lovedst me before the will pray the Father for you: {16:27} For the Father himselffoundation of the world. {17:25} O righteous Father, the loveth you, because ye have loved me, and worldhave believed hath not known thee: but I have known thee, and that I came out from God. {16:28} I came forththese from have the known that thou hast sent me. {17:26} And I Father, and am come into the world:have again, declared Iunto leave them thy the name, and will declare [it:] that world, and go to the Father. {16:29} His disciples said theunto love wherewith thou hast loved me may be in them, and him, Lo, now speakest thou plainly,I in them. and speakest no proverb. {16:30} Now are we sure that thou knowest all things, and needest not that any man should ask thee: by this {18:1} When Jesus had spoken these words, he went forth we believe that thou camest forth from God. {16:31}with Jesus his disciples over the brook Cedron, where was a answered them, Do ye now believe? {16:32}garden, Behold, into the the which he entered, and his disciples. {18:2} hour cometh, yea, is now come, that ye shall beAnd scattered, Judas also, which betrayed him, knew the place: for every man to his own, and shall leave me alone:Jesus and yet ofttimes I resorted thither with his disciples. {18:3} am not alone, because the Father is with me. {16:33} TheseJudas then, having received a band [of men] and officers things I have spoken unto you, that in me fromye might the havechief priests and Pharisees, cometh thither with peace. In the world ye shall have tribulation: but be of goodlanterns and torches and weapons. {18:4} Jesus therefore, cheer; I have overcome the world. knowing all things that should come upon him, went forth, and said unto them, Whom seek ye? {18:5} They answered {17:1} These words spake Jesus, and lifted up his eyeshim, to Jesus of Nazareth. Jesus saith unto them, I am [he.] heaven, and said, Father, the hour is come; glorify thyAnd Son, Judas also, which betrayed him, stood with them. that thy Son also may glorify thee: {17:2}{18:6} As As thousoon thenhast as he had said unto them, I am [he,] given him power over all flesh, that he should givethey eternal went backward, and fell to the ground. {18:7} Then life to as many as thou hast given him. {17:3} Andasked this he isthem again, Whom seek ye? And they said, Jesus life eternal, that they might know thee the onlyof Nazareth. true God, {18:8} Jesus answered, I have told you that I and Jesus Christ, whom thou hastam sent.[he:] if{17:4} therefore I yehave seek me, let these go their way: glorified thee on the earth: I have finished the work{18:9} which That the saying might be fulfilled, which he spake, thou gavest me to do. {17:5} And now, O Father,Of them glorify which thou gavest me have I lost none. {18:10} thou me with thine own self with the glory which I had withThen Simon Peter having a sword drew it, and smote the thee before the world was. {17:6} I havehigh manifested priest's servant, thy and cut off his right ear. The servant's name unto the men which thou gavest me out of the nameworld: was . {18:11} Then said Jesus unto Peter, Put thine they were, and thou gavest them me; andup thy they sword have into the sheath: the cup which my Father hath kept thy word. {17:7} Now they have known that all thingsgiven me, shall I not drink it? {18:12} Then the band and whatsoever thou hast given me are of thee.the captain{17:8} and For officers I of the Jews took Jesus, and bound have given unto them the words which thou gavest me;him, and {18:13} And led him away to Annas first; for he was they have received [them,] and have knownfather surely in law that to ICaiaphas, which was the high priest that came out from thee, and they have believed that thousame didst year. {18:14} Now Caiaphas was he, which gave send me. {17:9} I pray for them: I pray not for counselthe world, to the Jews, that it was expedient that one man but for them which thou hast given me; for theyshould are thine. die for the people. {17:10} And all mine are thine, and thine are mine; and I am glorified in them. {17:11} And now I am no more in the{18:15} And Simon Peter followed Jesus, and [so did] world, but these are in the world, and I come to thee.another Holy disciple: that disciple was known unto the high Father, keep through thine own name those whom thou priest,hast and went in with Jesus into the palace of the high given me, that they may be one, as we [are. ]{17:12} Whilepriest. {18:16} But Peter stood at the door without. Then I was with them in the world, I kept them in thy name: thosewent out that other disciple, which was known unto the high that thou gavest me I have kept, and none of thempriest, is and lost, spake unto her that kept the door, and brought in but the ; that the scripture might be fulfilled.Peter. {18:17} Then saith the damsel that kept the door unto {17:13} And now come I to thee; and these thingsPeter, I speak Art not thou also [one] of this man's disciples? He in the world, that they might havesaith, my I am joy not. {18:18}fulfilled And the inservants and officers stood themselves. {17:14} I have given them thy there,word; andwho thehad made a fire of coals; for it was cold: and world hath hated them, because they are not ofthey the warmedworld, themselves: and Peter stood with them, and even as I am not of the world. {17:15} I pray not thatwarmed thou himself. shouldest take them out of the world, but that thou shouldest keep them from the evil. {17:16} They are not of the world,{18:19} The high priest then asked Jesus of his disciples, even as I am not of the world. {17:17}and of hisSanctify doctrine. them {18:20} Jesus answered him, I spake through thy truth: thy word is truth. {17:18} openlyAs thou to thehast world; I ever taught in the synagogue, and in sent me into the world, even so have I also sentthe them temple, into whither the Jews always resort; and in secret the world. {17:19} And for their sakes I havesanctify I said nothing.myself, {18:21} Why askest thou me? ask them that they also might be sanctified through the truth. {17:20}which heard me, what I have said unto them: behold, they Neither pray I for these alone, but for them also which shallknow what I said. {18:22} And when he had thus spoken, believe on me through their word; {17:21}one Thatof the they officers all which stood by struck Jesus with the may be one; as thou, Father, [art] in me, and I in thee,palm thatof his hand, saying, Answerest thou the high priest so? they also may be one in us: that the world may believe{18:23} that Jesus answered him, If I have spoken evil, bear thou hast sent me. {17:22} And the glory which thou gavestwitness of the evil: but if well, why smitest thou me? me I have given them; that they may be one, even as we are{18:24} Now Annas had sent him bound unto Caiaphas the one: {17:23} I in them, and thou in me, that highthey maypriest. be {18:25} And Simon Peter stood and warmed made perfect in one; and that the world may know that thouhimself. They said therefore unto him, Art not thou also hast sent me, and hast loved them, as thou hast[one] loved of me.his disciples? He denied [it,] and said, I am not. Page 65 John {18:26} One of the servants of the high priest, {19:13}being [his] When Pilate therefore heard that saying, he kinsman whose ear Peter cut off, saith, Did not I see theebrought in Jesus forth, and sat down in the judgment seat in a the garden with him? {18:27} Peter then denied again:place and that is called the Pavement, but in the Hebrew, immediately the cock crew. . {19:14} And it was the preparation of the passover, and about the sixth hour: and he saith unto the {18:28} Then led they Jesus from Caiaphas untoJews, the hallBehold your King! {19:15} But they cried out, Away of judgment: and it was early; and they themselves went notwith [him,] away with [him,] crucify him. Pilate saith unto into the judgment hall, lest they should be defiled;them, but Shall that I crucify your King? The chief priests answered, they might eat the passover. {18:29} Pilate Wethen have went no out king but Caesar. {19:16} Then delivered he unto them, and said, What accusation bring ye againsthim therefore this unto them to be crucified. And they took man? {18:30} They answered and said unto him, If he wereJesus, and led [him] away. {19:17} And he bearing his not a malefactor, we would not have delivered him upcross unto went forth into a place called [the place] of a skull, thee. {18:31} Then said Pilate unto them, Take ye him,which and is called in the Hebrew Golgotha: {19:18} Where judge him according to your law. The Jews thereforethey crucified said him, and two others with him, on either side unto him, It is not lawful for us to put any manone, andto death:Jesus in the midst. {18:32} That the saying of Jesus might be fulfilled, which he spake, signifying what death he {19:19}should And die. Pilate {18:33}wrote a title, and put [it] on the cross. Then Pilate entered into the judgment hall again, and Andcalled the writing was, JESUS OF NAZARETH THE KING Jesus, and said unto him, Art thou the KingOF of THE the Jews?JEWS. {19:20} This title then read many of the {18:34} Jesus answered him, SayestJews: thoufor the this place thingwhere Jesusof was crucified was nigh to thyself, or did others tell it thee ofthe me?city: {18:35}and it was Pilatewritten in Hebrew, [and] Greek, [and] answered, Am I a Jew? Thine own nationLatin. and {19:21} the chief Then said the chief priests of the Jews to priests have delivered thee unto me: what hastPilate, thou Writedone? not, The King of the Jews; but that he said, I {18:36} Jesus answered, My kingdom is not of thisam Kingworld: of the Jews. {19:22} Pilate answered, What I have if my kingdom were of this world, then would my servantswritten I have written. fight, that I should not be delivered to the Jews: but now is my kingdom not from hence. {18:37} Pilate therefore{19:23} said Then the soldiers, when they had crucified Jesus, unto him, Art thou a king then? Jesustook his answered, garments, and Thou made four parts, to every soldier a sayest that I am a king. To this end was I born, and forpart; this and also [his] coat: now the coat was without seam, cause came I into the world, that I should bear witness wovenunto from the top throughout. {19:24} They said the truth. Every one that is of the truth heareththerefore my amongvoice. themselves, Let us not rend it, but cast lots {18:38} Pilate saith unto him, What is truth? And forwhen it, whosehe it shall be: that the scripture might be fulfilled, had said this, he went out again unto the whichJews, saith,and saithThey parted my raiment among them, and for unto them, I find in him no fault [at all. ]{18:39}my vesture But yethey did cast lots. These things therefore the have a custom, that I should release untosoldiers you one did. at the passover: will ye therefore that I release unto you the King of the Jews? {18:40} Then cried they all again, saying,{19:25} Not Now there stood by the cross of Jesus his mother, this man, but Barabbas. Now Barabbas was a robber. and his mother's sister, Mary the [wife] of Cleophas, and Mary Magdalene. {19:26} When Jesus therefore saw his {19:1} Then Pilate therefore took mother,Jesus, and thescourged disciple standing by, whom he loved, he [him. ]{19:2} And the soldiers platted a crownsaith ofunto thorns, his mother, Woman, behold thy son! {19:27} and put [it] on his head, and they put on him a purpleThen robe, saith he to the disciple, Behold thy mother! And from {19:3} And said, Hail, King of the Jews! andthat hourthey thatsmote disciple took her unto his own [home. him with their hands. {19:4} Pilate therefore went forth again, and saith unto them, Behold, I bring him forth to you, ]{19:28} After this, Jesus knowing that all things were that ye may know that I find no fault in him. {19:5}now Thenaccomplished, that the scripture might be fulfilled, came Jesus forth, wearing the crownsaith, of thorns,I thirst. and{19:29} the Now there was set a vessel full of purple robe. And [Pilate] saith unto them, Behold thevinegar: man! and they filled a spunge with vinegar, and put [it] {19:6} When the chief priests thereforeupon and hyssop, officers and put saw [it] to his mouth. {19:30} When Jesus him, they cried out, saying, Crucify [him,]therefore crucify had [him.] received the vinegar, he said, It is finished: Pilate saith unto them, Take ye him, and crucify [him:] forand I he bowed his head, and gave up the ghost. {19:31} The find no fault in him. {19:7} The Jews answeredJews him, therefore, We because it was the preparation, that the have a law, and by our law he ought to bodiesdie, shouldbecause not remain he upon the cross on the sabbath day, made himself the Son of God. (for that sabbath day was an high day,) besought Pilate that their legs might be broken, and [that] they might be taken {19:8} When Pilate therefore heard that away.saying, {19:32} he Then was came the soldiers, and brake the legs of the more afraid; {19:9} And went again into thethe judgment first, and of the other which was crucified with him. hall, and saith unto Jesus, Whence art thou? But Jesus{19:33} gave But when they came to Jesus, and saw that he was him no answer. {19:10} Thendead saith already, Pilate they brake unto not his him, legs: {19:34} But one of Speakest thou not unto me? knowest thou notthe that soldiers I have with a spear pierced his side, and forthwith power to crucify thee, and have powercame thereto release out blood thee? and water. {19:35} And he that saw {19:11} Jesus answered, Thou couldest have no[it] powerbare record, [at and his record is true: and he knoweth that all] against me, except it were givenhe saith true,thee that fromye might above:believe. {19:36} For these things therefore he that delivered me unto thee hath the greater sin.were done, that the scripture should be fulfilled, A bone of {19:12} And from thenceforth Pilate sought to releasehim him: shall not be broken. {19:37} And again another but the Jews cried out, saying, If thou let this man go,scripture thou saith, They shall look on him whom they pierced. art not Caesar's friend: whosoever maketh himself a king speaketh against Caesar. {19:38} And after this Joseph of Arimathaea, being a disciple of Jesus, but secretly for fear of the Jews, besought John Page 66 Pilate that he might take away the body of Jesus: and Pilate{20:24} But Thomas, one of the twelve, called Didymus, gave [him] leave. He came therefore, and took thewas body not of with them when Jesus came. {20:25} The other Jesus. {19:39} And there came also Nicodemus,disciples which therefore at said unto him, We have seen the Lord. the first came to Jesus by night, and brought Buta mixture he said of unto them, Except I shall see in his hands the myrrh and aloes, about an hundred pound [weight. ]{19:40}print of the nails, and put my finger into the print of the Then took they the body of Jesus, and woundnails, itand in thrustlinen my hand into his side, I will not believe. clothes with the spices, as the manner of the Jews is to bury. {19:41} Now in the place where he was crucified there was{20:26} And after eight days again his disciples were a garden; and in the garden a new sepulchre, whereinwithin, and was Thomas with them: [then] came Jesus, the doors never man yet laid. {19:42} There laid they Jesus thereforebeing shut, and stood in the midst, and said, Peace [be] unto because of the Jews' preparation [day;] you.for the{20:27} sepulchre Then saith he to Thomas, reach hither thy was nigh at hand. finger, and behold my hands; and reach hither thy hand, and thrust [it] into my side: and be not faithless, but believing. {20:1} The first [day] of{20:28} the And Thomasweek answered cometh and said unto Mary him, My Lord Magdalene early, when it was yet dark, unto the sepulchre,and my God. {20:29} Jesus saith unto him, Thomas, and seeth the stone taken away from the sepulchre.because {20:2} thou hast seen me, thou hast believed: blessed [are] Then she runneth, and cometh to Simon Peter,they andthat haveto thenot seen, and [yet] have believed. other disciple, whom Jesus loved, and saith unto them, They have taken away the Lord out of the sepulchre,{20:30} Andand manywe other signs truly did Jesus in the know not where they have laid him. {20:3} Peter presencetherefore of his disciples, which are not written in this book: went forth, and that other disciple,{20:31} But andthese cameare written, to thethat ye might believe that sepulchre. {20:4} So they ran both together: andJesus the is other the Christ, the Son of God; and that believing ye disciple did outrun Peter, and came first tomight the havesepulchre. life through his name. {20:5} And he stooping down, [and looking in,] saw the linen clothes lying; yet went he not in. {20:6} Then cometh{21:1} After these things Jesus shewed himself again to Simon Peter following him, and went intothe disciplesthe sepulchre, at the sea of Tiberias; and on this wise shewed and seeth the linen clothes lie, {20:7} And the napkin,he [himself. that ]{21:2} There were together Simon Peter, and was about his head, not lying with the linenThomas clothes, called Didymus, but and Nathanael of Cana in Galilee, wrapped together in a place by itself. {20:8} Thenand went the in[sons] of Zebedee, and two other of his disciples. also that other disciple, which came first to {21:3}the sepulchre, Simon Peter saith unto them, I go a fishing. They and he saw, and believed. {20:9} For as yet they knewsay unto not him, We also go with thee. They went forth, and the scripture, that he must rise again from the dead. {20:10}entered into a ship immediately; and that night they caught Then the disciples went away again unto their own home. nothing. {21:4} But when the morning was now come, Jesus stood on the shore: but the disciples knew not that it {20:11} But Mary stood waswithout Jesus. {21:5} at Thenthe Jesussepulchre saith unto them, Children, weeping: and as she wept, she stooped down, [andhave looked] ye any meat? They answered him, No. {21:6} And he into the sepulchre, {20:12} And seeth two angelssaid in unto white them, Cast the net on the right side of the ship, sitting, the one at the head, and the other at the feet,and where ye shall find. They cast therefore, and now they were the body of Jesus had lain. {20:13} And they say untonot her, able to draw it for the multitude of fishes. {21:7} Woman, why weepest thou? She saith unto them,Therefore Because that disciple whom Jesus loved saith unto Peter, It they have taken away my Lord, and I know not whereis theythe Lord. Now when Simon Peter heard that it was the have laid him. {20:14} And when she hadLord, thus said,he girt she [his] fisher's coat [unto him,] (for he was turned herself back, and saw Jesus standing, andnaked,) knew notand did cast himself into the sea. {21:8} And the that it was Jesus. {20:15} Jesus saith unto her, Woman, whyother disciples came in a little ship; (for they were not far weepest thou? whom seekest thou? She, supposingfrom land, him butto as it were two hundred ,) dragging the be the gardener, saith unto him, Sir, if thou have bornenet him with fishes. {21:9} As soon then as they were come to hence, tell me where thou hast laid him, and I will take land,him they saw a fire of coals there, and fish laid thereon, away. {20:16} Jesus saith unto andher, bread. Mary. {21:10} JesusShe saithturned unto them, Bring of the fish herself, and saith unto him, Rabboni;which ye which have now is caught. to say, {21:11} Simon Peter went up, Master. {20:17} Jesus saith unto her, Touch andme not;drew for the I net to land full of great fishes, and hundred am not yet ascended to my Father: but go to myand brethren, fifty and three: and for all there were so many, yet was and say unto them, I ascend unto mynot Father,the net broken.and your {21:12} Jesus saith unto them, Come Father; and [to] my God, and your God.[and] dine. {20:18} And none ofMary the disciples durst ask him, Who art Magdalene came and told the disciples that she had seen thethou? knowing that it was the Lord. {21:13} Jesus then Lord, and [that] he had spoken these things unto her. cometh, and taketh bread, and giveth them, and fish likewise. {21:14} This is now the third time that Jesus {20:19} Then the same day at evening,shewed being himself the to hisfirst disciples, after that he was risen from [day] of the week, when the doors werethe dead.shut where the disciples were assembled for fear of the Jews, came Jesus and stood in the midst, and saith unto them, Peace [be] unto{21:15} So when they had dined, Jesus saith to Simon you. {20:20} And when he had so said, Peter,he shewed Simon, unto [son] of Jonas, lovest thou me more than them [his] hands and his side. Then were the disciples these?glad, He saith unto him, Yea, Lord; thou knowest that I when they saw the Lord. {20:21} Then said Jesuslove to thee.them He saith unto him, Feed my lambs. {21:16} He again, Peace [be] unto you: as [my] Fathersaith hath to senthim againme, the second time, Simon, [son] of Jonas, even so send I you. {20:22} And when he had said this,lovest he thou me? He saith unto him, Yea, Lord; thou knowest breathed on [them,] and saith unto them,that ReceiveI love thee. yeHe saiththe unto him, Feed my sheep. {21:17} Holy Ghost: {20:23} Whose soever sins ye remit,He they saith are unto him the third time, Simon, [son] of Jonas, remitted unto them; [and] whose soeverlovest [sins] thou me? ye Peter retain, was grieved because he said unto him they are retained. the third time, Lovest thou me? And he said unto him, Lord, Page 67 John thou knowest all things; thou knowest that I love thee. Jesus saith unto him, Feed my sheep. {21:18} Verily, verily, I say unto thee, When thou wast young, thou girdedst thyself, and walkedst whither thou wouldest: but when thou shalt be old, thou shalt stretch forth thy hands, and another shall gird thee, and carry [thee] whither thou wouldest not. {21:19} This spake he, signifying by what death he should glorify God. And when he had spoken this, he saith unto him, Follow me. {21:20} Then Peter, turning about, seeth the disciple whom Jesus loved following; which also leaned on his breast at supper, and said, Lord, which is he that betrayeth thee? {21:21} Peter seeing him saith to Jesus, Lord, and what [shall] this man [do? ]{21:22} Jesus saith unto him, If I will that he tarry till I come, what [is that] to thee? follow thou me. {21:23} Then went this saying abroad among the brethren, that that disciple should not die: yet Jesus said not unto him, He shall not die; but, If I will that he tarry till I come, what [is that] to thee? {21:24} This is the disciple which testifieth of these things, and wrote these things: and we know that his testimony is true. {21:25} And there are also many other things which Jesus did, the which, if they should be written every one, I suppose that even the world itself could not contain the books that should be written. Amen.

Page 69 Acts The {1:26} And they gave forth their lots; and the lot fell upon Matthias; and he was numbered with the eleven apostles.

{2:1} And when the day of was fully come, {1:1} The former treatise have I made, O Theophilus,they were of all with one accord in one place. {2:2} And all that Jesus began both to do and teach, {1:2}suddenly Until there the came a sound from heaven as of a rushing day in which he was taken up, after that he through the Holymighty wind, and it filled all the house where they were Ghost had given commandments unto the apostles whomsitting. he {2:3} And there appeared unto them cloven tongues had chosen: {1:3} To whom also he shewed himselflike as of alive fire, and it sat upon each of them. {2:4} And they after his passion by many infallible proofs,were being all filled seen with theof Holy Ghost, and began to speak with them forty days, and speaking of the things pertaining to theother tongues, as the Spirit gave them utterance. {2:5} And kingdom of God: {1:4} And, being assembled together withthere were dwelling at Jerusalem Jews, devout men, out of [them,] commanded them that they should not departevery from nation under heaven. {2:6} Now when this was Jerusalem, but wait for the promise of thenoised Father, which,abroad, the multitude came together, and were [saith he,] ye have heard of me. confounded,{1:5} For because John thattruly every man heard them speak in baptized with water; but ye shall be baptized with thehis Holy own language. {2:7} And they were all amazed and Ghost not many days hence. {1:6} Whenmarvelled, they sayingtherefore one to another, Behold, are not all these were come together, they asked of him, saying,which Lord, speak wilt Galilaeans? {2:8} And how hear we every man thou at this time restore again the kingdom to Israel?in our{1:7} own tongue, wherein we were born? {2:9} Parthians, And he said unto them, It is not for you to know theand timesMedes, and Elamites, and the dwellers in , or the seasons, which the Father hath put in his own power.and in Judaea, and , in , and Asia, {2:10} {1:8} But ye shall receive power, after that the HolyPhrygia, Ghost and Pamphylia, in Egypt, and in the parts of Libya is come upon you: and ye shall be witnesses unto me both in about Cyrene, and strangers of Rome, Jews and , Jerusalem, and in all Judaea, and in Samaria, and{2:11} unto Cretes the and Arabians, we do hear them speak in our uttermost part of the earth. {1:9} And when he hadtongues spoken the wonderful works of God. {2:12} And they were these things, while they beheld, he wasall amazed,taken andup; were and in adoubt, saying one to another, What cloud received him out of their sight. {1:10} And while theymeaneth this? {2:13} Others mocking said, These men are looked stedfastly toward heaven as he went up, behold,full two of new wine. men stood by them in white apparel; {1:11} Which also said, Ye men of Galilee, why stand{2:14} ye gazingBut Peter, up standinginto up with the eleven, lifted up heaven? this same Jesus, which is taken up fromhis voice,you into and said unto them, Ye men of Judaea, and all heaven, shall so come in like manner as ye have[ye] seen that him dwell at Jerusalem, be this known unto you, and go into heaven. {1:12} Then returned they untohearken Jerusalem to my words: {2:15} For these are not drunken, as from the mount called Olivet, which is fromye suppose,Jerusalem seeing a it is [but] the third hour of the day. sabbath day's journey. {1:13} And when they{2:16} were But come this is that which was spoken by the prophet in, they went up into an upper room, Joel;where {2:17} abode And it shallboth come to pass in the last days, saith Peter, and James, and John, andGod,I Andrew,will pour out Philip, of my Spirit and upon all flesh: and your Thomas, Bartholomew, and Matthew, Jamessons and[the yourson] daughtersof shall prophesy, and your young Alphaeus, and Simon Zelotes, and Judasmen [the shallbrother] see of visions, and your old men shall dream James. {1:14} These all continueddreams: with one {2:18} accord inAnd on my servants and on my prayer and supplication, with the women,handmaidens and I willMary pour outthe in those days of my Spirit; and mother of Jesus, and with his brethren.they shall prophesy: {2:19} And I will shew wonders in heaven above, and signs in the earth beneath; blood, and {1:15} And in those days Peter stood up in thefire, midst and ofvapour of smoke: {2:20} The sun shall be turned the disciples, and said, (the number of names togetherinto were darkness, and the moon into blood, before that great about an hundred and twenty,) {1:16} Men [and]and brethren, notable day of the Lord come: {2:21} And it shall come this scripture must needs have beento fulfilled,pass, [that] whosoever which shall the call on the name of the Lord Holy Ghost by the mouth of David spake before concerningshall be saved. {2:22} Ye men of Israel, hear these words; Judas, which was guide to them that took Jesus. {1:17}Jesus For of Nazareth, a man approved of God among you by he was numbered with us, and had obtainedmiracles part and ofwonders this and signs, which God did by him in ministry. {1:18} Now this man purchased a fieldthe midst with of the you, as ye yourselves also know: {2:23} Him, reward of iniquity; and falling headlong, he burst asunderbeing in delivered by the determinate counsel and the midst, and all his bowels gushed out. {1:19} And it foreknowledgewas of God, ye have taken, and by wicked hands known unto all the dwellers at Jerusalem; insomuchhave as thatcrucified and slain: {2:24} Whom God hath raised up, field is called in their proper tongue, Aceldama,having that isloosed to the pains of death: because it was not say, The field of blood. {1:20} For it is written in thepossible book that he should be holden of it. {2:25} For David of Psalms, Let his habitation be desolate, speakethand let concerningno man him, I foresaw the Lord always before dwell therein: and his bishoprick let anothermy face, take. for {1:21} he is on my right hand, that I should not be Wherefore of these men which have companied withmoved: us all {2:26} Therefore did my heart rejoice, and my the time that the Lord Jesus went in andtongue out was among glad; moreover us, also my flesh shall rest in hope: {1:22} Beginning from the baptism of John, unto that{2:27} same Because thou wilt not leave my soul in hell, neither day that he was taken up from us, must one be ordainedwilt thouto suffer thine Holy One to see . {2:28} be a witness with us of his resurrection. {1:23}Thou Andhast theymade known to me the ways of life; thou shalt appointed two, Joseph called Barsabas, who wasmake surnamed me full of joy with thy countenance. {2:29} Men Justus, and Matthias. {1:24} And they[and] prayed, brethren, andlet me said, freely speak unto you of the Thou, Lord, which knowest the hearts of allDavid, [men,] that he shew is both dead and buried, and his sepulchre is whether of these two thou hast chosen, {1:25} That hewith may us unto this day. {2:30} Therefore being a prophet, and take part of this ministry and apostleship, from which Judasknowing that God had sworn with an oath to him, that of the by transgression fell, that he might go fruitto his of hisown loins, place. according to the flesh, he would raise up Acts Page 70 Christ to sit on his throne; {2:31} He holinessseeing we this had madebefore this man to walk? {3:13} The God of spake of the resurrection of Christ, that his soul was notAbraham, left and of Isaac, and of Jacob, the God of our fathers, in hell, neither his flesh did see corruption.hath glorified {2:32} his This Son Jesus; whom ye delivered up, and Jesus hath God raised up, whereof we deniedall are witnesses.him in the presence of Pilate, when he was {2:33} Therefore being by the right hand ofdetermined God exalted, to let [him] go. {3:14} But ye denied the Holy and having received of the Father the promise ofOne the and Holy the Just, and desired a murderer to be granted unto Ghost, he hath shed forth this, which ye now see andyou; hear. {3:15} And killed the Prince of life, whom God hath {2:34} For David is not ascended into the heavens:raised but from he the dead; whereof we are witnesses. {3:16} And saith himself, The LORD said unto my Lord, Sit thou on myhis name through faith in his name hath made this man right hand, {2:35} Until I make thystrong, foes whom thy ye footstool. see and know: yea, the faith which is by {2:36} Therefore let all the house of Israel know assuredly,him hath given him this perfect soundness in the presence of that God hath made that sameyou Jesus, all. {3:17}whom Andye havenow, brethren, I wot that through crucified, both Lord and Christ.ignorance ye did [it,] as [did] also your rulers. {3:18} But those things, which God before had shewed by the mouth of {2:37} Now when they heard [this,] they were prickedall inhis prophets, that Christ should suffer, he hath so their heart, and said unto Peter fulfilled.and to the rest of the apostles, Men [and] brethren, what shall we do? {2:38} Then Peter said unto them, Repent, and be baptized{3:19} every Repent ye therefore, and be converted, that your one of you in the name of Jesus Christ for the remissionsins mayof be blotted out, when the times of refreshing shall sins, and ye shall receive the gift of the Holy Ghost. {2:39}come from the presence of the Lord; {3:20} And he shall For the promise is unto you, and to your children, and tosend all Jesus Christ, which before was preached unto you: that are afar off, [even] as many as the Lord our God{3:21} shall Whom the heaven must receive until the times of call. {2:40} And with many other words did he testifyrestitution and of all things, which God hath spoken by the exhort, saying, Save yourselvesmouth of all fromhis holy this prophets untoward since the world began. generation. {3:22} For Moses truly said unto the fathers, A prophet shall the Lord your God raise up unto you of your brethren, {2:41} Then they that gladly receivedlike unto hisme; himword shall wereye hear in all things whatsoever he baptized: and the same day there were addedshall [unto say untothem] you. {3:23} And it shall come to pass, [that] about three thousand souls. {2:42}every And soul,they whichcontinued will not hear that prophet, shall be stedfastly in the apostles' doctrine and fellowship,destroyed from and among in the people. {3:24} Yea, and all the breaking of bread, and in prayers. {2:43}prophets And fear from came Samuel and those that follow after, as many upon every soul: and many wonders and signs were done byas have spoken, have likewise foretold of these days. {3:25} the apostles. {2:44} And all that believed were together, andYe are the children of the prophets, and of the covenant had all things common; {2:45} And sold theirwhich possessions God made with our fathers, saying unto Abraham, and goods, and parted them to all [men,] as every manAnd had in thy seed shall all the kindreds of the earth be need. {2:46} And they, continuing daily with one accordblessed. in {3:26} Unto you first God, having raised up his the temple, and breaking bread from house to house, didSon eat Jesus, sent him to bless you, in turning away every one their meat with gladness and singlenessof you of from heart, his iniquities. {2:47} Praising God, and having favour with all the people. And the Lord added to the church daily such as should{4:1} be And saved. as they spake unto the people, the priests, and the captain of the temple, and the Sadducees, came upon {3:1} Now Peter and John went upthem, together {4:2} Being into grieved the that they taught the people, and temple at the hour of prayer, [being] the ninth [hour. ]{3:2}preached through Jesus the resurrection from the dead. And a certain man lame from his {4:3}mother's And they womb laid hands was on them, and put [them] in hold carried, whom they laid daily at theunto gate the ofnext the day: templefor it was now eventide. {4:4} Howbeit which is called Beautiful, to ask alms of them thatmany entered of them which heard the word believed; and the into the temple; {3:3} Who seeing Peter and Johnnumber about to of the men was about five thousand. go into the temple asked an alms. {3:4} And Peter, fastening his eyes upon him with John, said,{4:5} Look And on it cameus. to pass on the morrow, that their rulers, {3:5} And he gave heed unto them, expectingand elders, to receive and scribes, {4:6} And Annas the high priest, something of them. {3:6} Then Peter said, Silverand and Caiaphas, gold and John, and Alexander, and as many as have I none; but such as I have give I thee: In the werename of of the kindred of the high priest, were gathered Jesus Christ of Nazareth rise up and walk.together {3:7} at AndJerusalem. he {4:7} And when they had set them in took him by the right hand, andthe liftedmidst, they[him] asked, up: By andwhat power, or by what name, immediately his feet and ancle boneshave yereceived done this? strength. {4:8} Then Peter, filled with the Holy {3:8} And he leaping up stood, and walked,Ghost, saidand unto entered them, Ye rulers of the people, and elders of with them into the temple, walking,Israel, {4:9} and If we leaping, this day be examinedand of the good deed praising God. {3:9} And all the people sawdone himto the walkingimpotent man, by what means he is made whole; and praising God: {3:10} And they knew{4:10} that Be it itwas known he unto you all, and to all the people of which sat for alms at the Beautiful gate of the temple:Israel, thatand by the name of Jesus Christ of Nazareth, whom they were filled with wonder and amazement at thatye whichcrucified, whom God raised from the dead, [even] by had happened unto him. {3:11} And as the lame man whichhim doth this man stand here before you whole. {4:11} This was healed held Peter and John, all the people ran istogether the stone which was set at nought of you builders, which unto them in the porch that is called isSolomon's, become the greatly head of the corner. {4:12} Neither is there wondering. salvation in any other: for there is none other name under heaven given among men, whereby we must be saved. {3:12} And when Peter saw [it,] he answered unto the people, Ye men of Israel, why marvel ye at {4:13}this? or Nowwhy when they saw the boldness of Peter and look ye so earnestly on us, as though by our own powerJohn, orand perceived that they were unlearned and ignorant Page 71 Acts men, they marvelled; and they took knowledge of them, thatthou conceived this thing in thine heart? thou hast not lied they had been with Jesus. {4:14} And beholdingunto men, the butman unto God. {5:5} And Ananias hearing these which was healed standing withwords them, fell down, they and gave could up the ghost: say and great fear came nothing against it. {4:15} But when they hadon commandedall them that heard these things. {5:6} And the young them to go aside out of the council, they conferredmen arose, among wound him up, and carried [him] out, and buried themselves, {4:16} Saying, What shall we do to these men?[him. ]{5:7} And it was about the space of three hours after, for that indeed a notable miracle hath been whendone his by wife, them not knowing what was done, came in. {5:8} [is] manifest to all them that dwell in Jerusalem;And Peter answeredand we unto her, Tell me whether ye sold the cannot deny [it. ]{4:17} But that it spread no further amongland for so much? And she said, Yea, for so much. {5:9} the people, let us straitly threaten them,Then Peterthat theysaid speakunto her, How is it that ye have agreed henceforth to no man in this name. {4:18} And theytogether called to tempt the Spirit of the Lord? behold, the feet of them, and commanded them not to speak at all nor teachthem in which have buried thy husband [are] at the door, and the name of Jesus. {4:19} But Peter and John answeredshall and carry thee out. {5:10} Then fell she down straightway said unto them, Whether it be right in the sightat ofhis God feet, to and yielded up the ghost: and the hearken unto you more than unto God, judge ye. {4:20} Forcame in, and found her dead, and, carrying [her] forth, we cannot but speak the things which weburied have [her]seen byand her husband. {5:11} And great fear came heard. {4:21} So when they had further uponthreatened all the them,church, and upon as many as heard these things. they let them go, finding nothing how they might punish them, because of the people: for all [men] glorified God{5:12} for And by the hands of the apostles were many signs that which was done. {4:22} For the man was aboveand wonders forty wrought among the people; (and they were all years old, on whom this miracle of healing was shewed.with one accord in Solomon's porch. {5:13} And of the rest durst no man join himself to them: but the people magnified {4:23} And being let go, they went to their own company,them. {5:14} And believers were the more added to the and reported all that the chief priests andLord, elders had multitudes said both of men and women.) {5:15} unto them. {4:24} And when they heard that, they liftedInsomuch up that they brought forth the sick into the streets, their voice to God with one accord, and andsaid, laid Lord, [them] thou on beds and couches, that at the least the [art] God, which hast made heaven, and earth, andshadow the sea, of Peter passing by might overshadow some of and all that in them is: {4:25} Who by thethem. mouth {5:16} of There thy came also a multitude [out] of the cities servant David hast said, Why did the heathen rage,round and the about unto Jerusalem, bringing sick folks, and them people imagine vain things? {4:26} The kings ofwhich the earth were vexed with unclean spirits: and they were stood up, and the rulers were gathered together healedagainst the every one. Lord, and against his Christ. {4:27} For of a truth against thy holy child Jesus, whom thou hast anointed, both Herod,{5:17} Then the high priest rose up, and all they that were and Pontius Pilate, with the Gentiles,with and him, the (which people is theof sect of the Sadducees,) and were Israel, were gathered together, {4:28} For to do whatsoeverfilled with indignation, {5:18} And laid their hands on the thy hand and thy counsel determined beforeapostles, to and be putdone. them in the common prison. {5:19} But {4:29} And now, Lord, behold their threatenings: andthe grant angel of the Lord by night opened the prison doors, and unto thy servants, that with all boldness they may speakbrought thy them forth, and said, {5:20} Go, stand and speak in word, {4:30} By stretching forth thine hand to heal; and thatthe temple to the people all the words of this life. {5:21} signs and wonders may be done by the nameAnd of whenthy holy they heard [that,] they entered into the temple child Jesus. early in the morning, and taught. But the high priest came, and they that were with him, and called the council together, {4:31} And when they had prayed, the place wasand shaken all the senate of the children of Israel and sent to the where they were assembled together;prison and to havethey them were brought. all {5:22} But when the officers filled with the Holy Ghost, and they spake the word of came,God and found them not in the prison, they returned, and with boldness. {4:32} And the told,multitude {5:23} Saying, of The them prison trulythat found we shut with all believed were of one heart and of one soul: neither said safety,any and the keepers standing without before the doors: [of them] that ought of the things which he possessedbut when was we had opened, we found no man within. {5:24} his own; but they had all things common. {4:33} AndNow with when the high priest and the captain of the temple and great power gave the apostles witness of the resurrectionthe chiefof priests heard these things, they doubted of them the Lord Jesus: and great grace was upon them whereuntoall. {4:34} this would grow. {5:25} Then came one and told Neither was there any among them that lacked: for as manythem, saying, Behold, the men whom ye put in prison are as were possessors of lands or standinghouses soldin the them, temple, and and teaching the people. {5:26} brought the prices of the things that were sold, {4:35}Then And went the captain with the officers, and brought them laid [them] down at the apostles' feet: and distributionwithout was violence: for they feared the people, lest they made unto every man according as he had need. {4:36} Andshould have been stoned. {5:27} And when they had Joses, who by the apostles was surnamed ,brought (which them, they set [them] before the council: and the is, being interpreted, The son of consolation,)high priest asked them,a Levite, {5:28} Saying, Did not we straitly [and] of the country of , {4:37} Havingcommand land, you sold that ye should not teach in this name? and, [it,] and brought the money, and laid [it] at behold,the apostles' ye have feet. filled Jerusalem with your doctrine, and intend to bring this man's blood upon us. {5:1} But a certain man named Ananias, with Sapphira his wife, sold a possession, {5:2} And kept back{5:29} [part] Then of Peter and the [other] apostles answered and the price, his wife also being privy [to it,]said, and We brought ought ato obey God rather than men. {5:30} The certain part, and laid [it] at the apostles'God feet.of our {5:3} fathers But raised up Jesus, whom ye slew and Peter said, Ananias, why hath Satan filled thine hearthanged to lie on a tree. {5:31} Him hath God exalted with his to the Holy Ghost, and to keep back [part] of the price of the right hand [to be] a Prince and a Saviour, for to give land? {5:4} Whiles it remained, was it not thinerepentance own? and to Israel, and forgiveness of sins. {5:32} And we after it was sold, was it not in thine own power?are why his hast witnesses of these things; and [so is] also the Holy Acts Page 72 Ghost, whom God hath given to them that obey him. customs which Moses delivered us. {6:15} And all that sat in the council, looking stedfastly on him, saw his face as it {5:33} When they heard [that,] theyhad beenwere the cutface of[to an angel.the heart,] and took counsel to slay them. {5:34} Then stood there up one in the council, a Pharisee, named ,{7:1} Then a said the high priest, Are these things so? {7:2} of the law, had in reputation among allAnd the he people, said, Men, brethren, and fathers, hearken; The God and commanded to put the apostles offorth glory appeareda little unto space;our father Abraham, when he was in {5:35} And said unto them, Ye men of Israel, takeMesopotamia, heed to before he dwelt in Charran, {7:3} And said yourselves what ye intend to do as touchingunto him, Get these thee out men.of thy country, and from thy kindred, {5:36} For before these days rose upand , come into the boasting land which I shall shew thee. {7:4} Then himself to be somebody; to whom a number of men,came about he out of the land of the Chaldaeans, and dwelt in four hundred, joined themselves: who was slain; andCharran: all, as and from thence, when his father was dead, he many as obeyed him, were scattered, and brought to nought.removed him into this land, wherein ye now dwell. {7:5} {5:37} After this man rose up inAnd the he days gave him none inheritance in it, no, not [so much as] of the taxing, and drew away much people after him: he alsoto set his foot on: yet he promised that he would give it to perished; and all, [even] as many ashim obeyedfor a possession, him, were and to his seed after him, when [as dispersed. {5:38} And now I say unto you,yet] Refrain he had fromno child. {7:6} And God spake on this wise, these men, and let them alone: for if thisThat counsel his seed orshould this sojourn in a strange land; and that they work be of men, it will come to nought: {5:39} But ifshould it be bring them into bondage, and entreat [them] evil four of God, ye cannot overthrow it; lest haply ye be found evenhundred years. {7:7} And the nation to whom they shall be to fight against God. {5:40} And to him theyin agreed: bondage andwill I judge, said God: and after that shall they when they had called the apostles, and beaten [them,]come forth, they and serve me in this place. {7:8} And he gave commanded that they should not speak in the name of Jesus,him the covenant of circumcision: and so [Abraham] begat and let them go. Isaac, and circumcised him the eighth day; and Isaac [begat] Jacob; and Jacob [begat] the twelve . {7:9} And {5:41} And they departed fromthe thepatriarchs, presence moved ofwith the envy, sold Joseph into Egypt: council, rejoicing that they were counted worthybut God towas suffer with him, {7:10} And delivered him out of all shame for his name. {5:42} And daily in the temple, andhis afflictions,in and gave him favour and wisdom in the sight every house, they ceased not to teachof and preachking of Egypt;Jesus and he made him governor over Christ. Egypt and all his house. {7:11} Now there came a dearth over all the land of Egypt and Chanaan, and great affliction: {6:1} And in those days, when the number of the disciplesand our fathers found no sustenance. {7:12} But when was multiplied, there arose a murmuringJacob of theheard Grecians that there was corn in Egypt, he sent out our against the Hebrews, because their widows werefathers neglected first. {7:13} And at the second [time] Joseph was in the daily ministration. {6:2} Then the twelvemade called known the to his brethren; and Joseph's kindred was multitude of the disciples [unto them,] andmade said, known It is unto not Pharaoh. {7:14} Then sent Joseph, and reason that we should leave the word ofcalled God, and his serve father Jacob to [him,] and all his kindred, tables. {6:3} Wherefore, brethren, look ye outthreescore among you and fifteen souls. {7:15} So Jacob went down seven men of honest report, full of theinto HolyEgypt, Ghostand died, and he, and our fathers, {7:16} And were wisdom, whom we may appoint over this business.carried over{6:4} into Sychem, and laid in the sepulchre that But we will give ourselves continually to prayer, andAbraham to the bought for a sum of money of the sons of Emmor ministry of the word. [the father] of Sychem. {7:17} But when the time of the promise drew nigh, which God had sworn to Abraham, the {6:5} And the saying pleased the wholepeople multitude: grew andand multiplied in Egypt, {7:18} Till another they chose Stephen, a man full of faithking and arose, of thewhich Holy knew not Joseph. {7:19} The same dealt Ghost, and Philip, and , and Nicanor, and subtillyTimon, with our kindred, and evil entreated our fathers, so and , and Nicolas a proselyte ofthat : they cast out {6:6} their young children, to the end they might Whom they set before the apostles: notand live. when {7:20} they In had which time Moses was born, and was prayed, they laid [their] hands on them. {6:7} And the wordexceeding fair, and nourished up in his father's house three of God increased; and themonths: number {7:21} of Andthe whendisciples he was cast out, Pharaoh's multiplied in Jerusalem greatly; and a great company daughterof the took him up, and nourished him for her own son. priests were obedient to the faith. {6:8} And {7:22}Stephen, And full Moses was learned in all the wisdom of the of faith and power, did great wonders and miraclesEgyptians, among and was mighty in words and in deeds. {7:23} the people. And when he was full forty years old, it came into his heart to visit his brethren the children of Israel. {7:24} And {6:9} Then there arose certain of [the synagogue,]seeing which one [of them] suffer wrong, he defended [him,] and is called the synagogue of the Libertines,avenged and Cyrenians,him that was oppressed, and smote the : and Alexandrians, and of them of{7:25} For he supposedand of his brethrenAsia, would have understood disputing with Stephen. {6:10} And they werehow not thatable toGod by his hand would deliver them: but they resist the wisdom and the spirit by which he spake.understood {6:11} not. {7:26} And the next day he shewed himself Then they suborned men, which said, We haveunto heard them him as they strove, and would have set them at one speak blasphemous words againstagain, Moses, saying, Sirs, andye are brethren;[against] why do ye wrong one to God. {6:12} And they stirred up the people, and the another?elders, {7:27} But he that did his neighbour wrong thrust and the scribes, and came upon [him,] and caught him,him andaway, saying, Who made thee a ruler and a judge over brought [him] to the council, {6:13}us? {7:28} And Wilt set thou upkill falseme, as thou diddest witnesses, which said, This manyesterday? ceaseth {7:29} Then not fled Mosesto atspeak this saying, and was a blasphemous words against this holy place,stranger and in thethe landlaw: of Madian, where he begat two sons. {6:14} For we have heard him say,{7:30} that And whenthis fortyJesus years of were expired, there appeared Nazareth shall destroy this place,to himand in theshall wilderness change of mount Sinathe an angel of the Lord Page 73 Acts in a flame of fire in a bush. {7:31} When Moses saw [it,] heand stopped their ears, and ran upon him with one accord, wondered at the sight: and as he drew near to{7:58} behold And [it,]cast [him] out of the city, and stoned [him:] and the voice of the Lord came unto him, {7:32}the witnesses [Saying,] laid down I their clothes at a young man's feet, [am] the God of thy fathers, the God of Abraham,whose and thename was . {7:59} And they stoned Stephen, God of Isaac, and the God of Jacob. Then Moses trembled,calling upon [God,] and saying, Lord Jesus, receive my and durst not behold. {7:33} Then said the Lord to him, spirit.Put {7:60} And he kneeled down, and cried with a loud off thy shoes from thy feet: forvoice, the Lord,place lay wherenot this thousin to their charge. And when he standest is holy ground. {7:34} I have seen, I have seenhad the said this, he fell asleep. affliction of my people which is in Egypt, and I have heard their groaning, and am come down to deliver{8:1} Andthem. Saul wasAnd consenting unto his death. And at that now come, I will send thee into Egypt. {7:35} Thistime Moses there was a great persecution against the church which whom they refused, saying, Who made thee wasa ruler at and Jerusalem;a and they were all scattered abroad judge? the same did God send [to be] a ruler and a delivererthroughout the regions of Judaea and Samaria, except the by the hand of the angel which appeared to him in the bush.apostles. {8:2} And devout men carried Stephen [to his {7:36} He brought them out, afterburial,] that andhe made had great shewed lamentation over him. {8:3} As for wonders and signs in the land of Egypt, and in the RedSaul, sea, he made havock of the church, entering into every and in the wilderness forty years. house, and haling men and women committed [them] to prison. {8:4} Therefore they that were scattered abroad {7:37} This is that Moses, which said unto the childrenwent of every where preaching the word. {8:5} Then Philip Israel, A prophet shall the Lord your God raise up untowent you down to the city of Samaria, and preached Christ unto of your brethren, like unto me; him shall yethem. hear. {8:6} {7:38}And the people with one accord gave heed unto This is he, that was in the church in the wilderness withthose the things which Philip spake, hearing and seeing the angel which spake to him in the mount Sina, and [with]miracles our which he did. {8:7} For unclean spirits, crying fathers: who received the lively oracleswith to loudgive voice,unto us:came out of many that were possessed {7:39} To whom our fathers would not[with obey, them:] but thrustand many taken with palsies, and that were [him] from them, and in their hearts turned back againlame, into were healed. {8:8} And there was great joy in that Egypt, {7:40} Saying unto Aaron, Makecity. us{8:9} gods But to therego was a certain man, called Simon, before us: for [as for] this Moses, which broughtwhich us out of beforetime in the same city used sorcery, and the land of Egypt, we wot not what bewitchedis become the of peoplehim. of Samaria, giving out that himself {7:41} And they made a calf in those days,was some and great offered one: {8:10} To whom they all gave heed, sacrifice unto the idol, and rejoiced in thefrom works the least of totheir the greatest, saying, This man is the great own hands. {7:42} Then God turned, and gave thempower up of toGod. {8:11} And to him they had regard, because worship the host of heaven; as it is written inthat the bookof longof time he had bewitched them with sorceries. the prophets, O ye house of Israel, have ye {8:12}offered But to mewhen they believed Philip preaching the things slain beasts and sacrifices [by the space of] concerningforty years inthe kingdom of God, and the name of Jesus the wilderness? {7:43} Yea, ye took up theChrist, they wereof baptized, both men and women. {8:13} , and the star of your god Remphan, figuresThen which Simon himself believed also: and when he was ye made to worship them: and I will carry you away beyondbaptized, he continued with Philip, and wondered, Babylon. {7:44} Our fathers had the tabernaclebeholding of witness the miracles and signs which were done. {8:14} in the wilderness, as he had appointed,Now when the apostlesspeaking which were unto at Jerusalem heard that Moses, that he should make it according to the fashionSamaria that had received the word of God, they sent unto them he had seen. {7:45} Which also our fathers that camePeter after and John: {8:15} Who, when they were come down, brought in with Jesus into the possession prayedof the forGentiles, them, that they might receive the Holy Ghost: whom God drave out before the face of our fathers, unto the{8:16} (For as yet he was fallen upon none of them: only days of David; {7:46} Who found favour beforethey God, were and baptized in the name of the Lord Jesus.) {8:17} desired to find a tabernacle for the God ofThen Jacob. laid they {7:47} [their] hands on them, and they received the But Solomon built him an house. {7:48} Howbeit theHoly most Ghost. {8:18} And when Simon saw that through High dwelleth not in temples made with hands; as saithlaying the on of the apostles' hands the Holy Ghost was given, prophet, {7:49} Heaven [is] my throne, andhe earth offered [is] them my money, {8:19} Saying, Give me also this footstool: what house will ye build me? saith power,the Lord: that onor whomsoever I lay hands, he may receive the what [is] the place of my rest? {7:50} HathHoly not myGhost. hand {8:20} But Peter said unto him, Thy money made all these things? perish with thee, because thou hast thought that the gift of God may be purchased with money. {8:21} Thou hast {7:51} Ye stiffnecked and uncircumcisedneither part norin lotheart in this matter:and for thy heart is not right in ears, ye do always resist the Holy Ghost:the as yoursight fathers of God. {8:22} Repent therefore of this thy [did,] so [do] ye. {7:52} Which of the prophetswickedness, have and not pray God, if perhaps the thought of thine your fathers persecuted? and they have heartslain may them be forgivenwhich thee. {8:23} For I perceive that thou shewed before of the coming of the Just One; of artwhom in yethe gall of bitterness, and [in] the bond of iniquity. have been now the betrayers and murderers:{8:24} {7:53} Then answered Who Simon, and said, Pray ye to the Lord have received the law by the disposition of angels, and havefor me, that none of these things which ye have spoken not kept [it. come upon me. {8:25} And they, when they had testified and preached the word of the Lord, returned to Jerusalem, ]{7:54} When they heard these things, theyand werepreached cut the to gospel in many villages of the Samaritans. the heart, and they gnashed on him with [their] teeth. {7:55}{8:26} And the angel of the Lord spake unto Philip, saying, But he, being full of the Holy Ghost, looked upArise, stedfastly and go toward the south unto the way that goeth into heaven, and saw the glory of God, and Jesusdown standing from Jerusalem unto Gaza, which is desert. {8:27} on the right hand of God, {7:56} And said, Behold, I see theAnd he arose and went: and, behold, a man of , an heavens opened, and the Son of man standing oneunuch the right of great authority under Candace queen of the hand of God. {7:57} Then they cried out with a loud voice,Ethiopians, who had the charge of all her treasure, and had Acts Page 74 come to Jerusalem for to worship, {8:28}name's Was returning, sake. {9:17} And Ananias went his way, and and sitting in his read Esaias theentered prophet. into the{8:29} house; and putting his hands on him said, Then the Spirit said unto Philip, Go near, and join thyselfBrother to Saul, the Lord, [even] Jesus, that appeared unto thee this chariot. {8:30} And Philip ran thitherin the way to as[him,] thou camest, and hath sent me, that thou mightest heard him read the prophet Esaias, and said, Understandestreceive thy sight, and be filled with the Holy Ghost. {9:18} thou what thou readest? {8:31} And he said,And Howimmediately can I, there fell from his eyes as it had been except some man should guide me? And he desiredscales: Philip and he received sight forthwith, and arose, and was that he would come up and sit with him. {8:32} Thebaptized. place {9:19} And when he had received meat, he was of the scripture which he read was this, Hestrengthened. was led Thenas a was Saul certain days with the disciples sheep to the slaughter; and like a lambwhich dumb beforewere hisat Damascus. {9:20} And straightway he shearer, so opened he not hispreached mouth: Christ {8:33}in the synagogues, In his that he is the Son of humiliation his judgment was taken away:God. and {9:21} who But shallall that heard [him] were amazed, and said; declare his generation? for his life is taken fromIs notthe this earth. he that destroyed them which called on this name {8:34} And the answered Philip, andin Jerusalem, said, I prayand came hither for that intent, that he might thee, of whom speaketh the prophet this? of himself,bring orthem of bound unto the chief priests? {9:22} But Saul some other man? {8:35} Then Philip opened his mouth, andincreased the more in strength, and confounded the Jews began at the same scripture, and preached untowhich him Jesus.dwelt at Damascus, proving that this is very Christ. {8:36} And as they went on [their] way, they came unto a certain water: and the eunuch said, See,{9:23} [here And is]after water; that many days were fulfilled, the Jews what doth hinder me to be baptized? took{8:37} counsel And to killPhilip him: {9:24} But their laying await was said, If thou believest with all thine heart, thou mayest. Andknown of Saul. And they watched the gates day and night to he answered and said, I believe that Jesus Christ is killthe Sonhim. {9:25} Then the disciples took him by night, and of God. {8:38} And he commanded thelet chariot [him] downto stand by the wall in a basket. {9:26} And when still: and they went down both into the water,Saul both was Philipcome to Jerusalem, he assayed to join himself to and the eunuch; and he baptized him. {8:39}the disciples: And butwhen they were all afraid of him, and believed they were come up out of the water, the Spirit ofnot the that Lord he was a disciple. {9:27} But Barnabas took him, caught away Philip, that the eunuch saw him no more:and broughtand [him] to the apostles, and declared unto them he went on his way rejoicing. {8:40} But Philip washow found he had seen the Lord in the way, and that he had at Azotus: and passing through he preached in all the cities,spoken to him, and how he had preached boldly at till he came to Caesarea. Damascus in the name of Jesus. {9:28} And he was with them coming in and going out at Jerusalem. {9:29} And he {9:1} And Saul, yet breathingspake boldlyout threateningsin the name of the Lordand Jesus, and disputed slaughter against the disciples of the Lord,against went untothe theGrecians: but they went about to slay him. high priest, {9:2} And desired of him letters to Damascus {9:30}to [Which] when the brethren knew, they brought him the synagogues, that if he found any of this downway, whetherto Caesarea, and sent him forth to Tarsus. {9:31} they were men or women, he might bring them boundThen unto had the churches rest throughout all Judaea and Jerusalem. {9:3} And as he journeyed,Galilee and Samaria, he cameand were near edified; and walking in the Damascus: and suddenly there shined roundfear of aboutthe Lord, himand in a the comfort of the Holy Ghost, were light from heaven: {9:4} And he fell to the earth, and heardmultiplied. a voice saying unto him, Saul, Saul, why persecutest thou me? {9:5} And he said, Who art thou, Lord? And the{9:32} Lord And it came to pass, as Peter passed throughout all said, I am Jesus whom thou persecutest: [it is] hard for[quarters,] thee he came down also to the saints which dwelt at to kick against the pricks. {9:6} AndLydda. he {9:33}trembling And andthere he found a certain man named astonished said, Lord, what wilt thou have me ,to do? whichAnd had kept his bed eight years, and was sick of the Lord [said] unto him, Arise, and go into the city,the and palsy. it {9:34} And Peter said unto him, Aeneas, Jesus shall be told thee what thou must do. {9:7} ChristAnd themaketh men thee whole: arise, and make thy bed. And he which journeyed with him stoodarose speechless, immediately. {9:35} hearing And all thata dwelt at Lydda and voice, but seeing no man. {9:8} And Saul aroseSaron fromsaw him,the and turned to the Lord. {9:36} Now there earth; and when his eyes were opened, he saw no man:was butat Joppa a certain disciple named Tabitha, which by they led him by the hand, and brought [him] into Damascus.interpretation is called : this woman was full of good {9:9} And he was three days without sight, and neitherworks did and almsdeeds which she did. {9:37} And it came to eat nor drink. pass in those days, that she was sick, and died: whom when they had washed, they laid [her] in an upper chamber. {9:10} And there was a certain disciple{9:38} And at forasmuch Damascus, as Lydda was nigh to Joppa, and the named Ananias; and to him said thedisciples Lord had inheard a that vision, Peter was there, they sent unto him Ananias. And he said, Behold, I [am here,]two men,Lord. desiring {9:11} [him] that he would not delay to come to And the Lord [said] unto him, Arise, and go into them.the street {9:39} Then Peter arose and went with them. When which is called Straight, and enquire in the househe wasof Judas come, they brought him into the upper chamber: and for [one] called Saul, of Tarsus: for, behold,all the hewidows prayeth, stood by him weeping, and shewing the {9:12} And hath seen in a vision a mancoats named and garments Ananias which Dorcas made, while she was with coming in, and putting [his] hand on him,them. that {9:40} he might But Peter put them all forth, and kneeled receive his sight. {9:13} Then Ananias answered,down, andLord, prayed; I and turning [him] to the body said, have heard by many of this man, how muchTabitha, evil hearise. hath And she opened her eyes: and when she saw done to thy saints at Jerusalem: {9:14} AndPeter, here she he sathath up. {9:41} And he gave her [his] hand, and authority from the chief priests to bind all thatlifted call her on up, thy and when he had called the saints and widows, name. {9:15} But the Lord said unto him, Go thy presentedway: for her alive. {9:42} And it was known throughout he is a chosen vessel unto me, to bear my name beforeall Joppa; the and many believed in the Lord. {9:43} And it Gentiles, and kings, and the children of Israel: {9:16}came For Ito pass, that he tarried many days in Joppa with one will shew him how great things he Simonmust a suffertanner. for my Page 75 Acts {10:1} There was a certain manninth hourin I Caesareaprayed in my house,called and, behold, a man stood Cornelius, a centurion of the band called the Italianbefore [band, me in bright clothing, {10:31} And said, Cornelius, ]{10:2} A devout [man,] and one that feared Godthy prayerwith allis heard, and thine alms are had in remembrance his house, which gave much alms to the people, and prayedin the sight of God. {10:32} Send therefore to Joppa, and to God alway. {10:3} He saw in a vision evidently about thecall hither Simon, whose surname is Peter; he is lodged in ninth hour of the day an angel of God coming in to him, andthe house of [one] Simon a tanner by the sea side: who, saying unto him, Cornelius. {10:4} And when he lookedwhen on he cometh, shall speak unto thee. {10:33} him, he was afraid, and said, What is it, Lord? And heImmediately said therefore I sent to thee; and thou hast well unto him, Thy prayers and thine alms aredone come that up forthou a art come. Now therefore are we all here memorial before God. {10:5} And now send men to presentJoppa, before God, to hear all things that are commanded and call for [one] Simon, whose surname is theePeter: of God.{10:6} He lodgeth with one Simon a tanner, whose house is by the sea side: he shall tell thee what thou oughtest to do. {10:7}{10:34} Then Peter opened [his] mouth, and said, Of a And when the angel which spaketruth Iunto perceive Corneliusthat God is no respecter was of persons: {10:35} departed, he called two of his householdBut servants, in every and anation he that feareth him, and worketh devout soldier of them that waitedrighteousness, on him continually; is accepted with him. {10:36} The word {10:8} And when he had declared all [these]which things [God] unto sent unto the children of Israel, preaching them, he sent them to Joppa. peace by Jesus Christ: (he is Lord of all:) {10:37} That word, [I say,] ye know, which was published throughout all {10:9} On the morrow, as they went on their journey, Judaea,and and began from Galilee, after the baptism which drew nigh unto the city, Peter went up upon the housetopJohn to preached; {10:38} How God anointed Jesus of pray about the sixth hour: {10:10} AndNazareth he became with thevery Holy Ghost and with power: who went hungry, and would have eaten: but while they madeabout ready, doing good, and healing all that were oppressed of the he fell into a , {10:11} And saw heaven opened, and devil;a for God was with him. {10:39} And we are witnesses certain vessel descending unto him, as it hadof been all things a great which he did both in the land of the Jews, and sheet knit at the four corners, and let downin Jerusalem;to the earth: whom they slew and hanged on a tree: {10:12} Wherein were all manner of fourfooted{10:40} beasts Him God of raised up the third day, and shewed him the earth, and wild beasts, and creeping things, and fowlsopenly; of {10:41} Not to all the people, but unto witnesses the air. {10:13} And there came a voice to him, Rise, Peter;chosen before of God, [even] to us, who did eat and drink kill, and eat. {10:14} But Peter said, Notwith so, himLord; after for I he rose from the dead. {10:42} And he have never eaten any thing that is commandedcommon usor to unclean.preach unto the people, and to testify that {10:15} And the voice [spake] unto him againit theis hesecond which was ordained of God [to be] the Judge of time, What God hath cleansed, [that] call not thou common.quick and dead. {10:43} To him give all the prophets {10:16} This was done thrice: and the vessel waswitness, received that through his name whosoever believeth in him up again into heaven. {10:17} Now while Peter doubtedshall receive in remission of sins. himself what this vision which he had seen should mean, behold, the men which were sent from Cornelius had{10:44} made While Peter yet spake these words, the Holy enquiry for Simon's house, and Ghoststood fell onbefore all them the which gate, heard the word. {10:45} And {10:18} And called, and asked whether Simon, theywhich of thewas circumcision which believed were astonished, as surnamed Peter, were lodged there. many as came with Peter, because that on the Gentiles also was poured out the gift of the Holy Ghost. {10:46} For they {10:19} While Peter thought on the vision, the Spiritheard said them speak with tongues, and magnify God. Then unto him, Behold, three men seekanswered thee. Peter,{10:20} {10:47} Arise Can any man forbid water, that therefore, and get thee down, and go with them,these shoulddoubting not be baptized, which have received the Holy nothing: for I have sent them. {10:21}Ghost Then as wellPeter as we? went {10:48} And he commanded them to down to the men which were sent unto him from Cornelius;be baptized in the name of the Lord. Then prayed they him and said, Behold, I am he whom ye seek: what [is] the causeto tarry certain days. wherefore ye are come? {10:22} And they said, , a just man, and one that feareth God,{11:1} and of And the apostles and brethren that were in Judaea good report among all the nation of the Jews, heardwas warned that the Gentiles had also received the word of God. from God by an holy angel to send for thee into his{11:2} house, And when Peter was come up to Jerusalem, they that and to hear words of thee. {10:23} Then called he themwere in, of the circumcision contended with him, {11:3} and lodged [them.] And on the morrow PeterSaying, went Thou away wentest in to men uncircumcised, and didst with them, and certain brethren from Joppaeat with accompanied them. {11:4} But Peter rehearsed [the matter] from him. {10:24} And the morrow afterthe beginning, they entered and expoundedinto [it] by order unto them, Caesarea. And Cornelius waited for them,saying, and had {11:5} called I was in the city of Joppa praying: and in a together his kinsmen and near friends. {10:25} And as Petertrance I saw a vision, A certain vessel descend, as it had was coming in, Cornelius met him, and fell down at his feet,been a great sheet, let down from heaven by four corners; and worshipped [him. ]{10:26} Butand Peter it came eventook to me:him {11:6} up, Upon the which when I had saying, Stand up; I myself also am a man. {10:27}fastened And as mine eyes, I considered, and saw fourfooted beasts he talked with him, he went in, and found manyof that the earth,were and wild beasts, and creeping things, and fowls come together. {10:28} And he said unto them,of the Ye air.know {11:7} And I heard a voice saying unto me, how that it is an unlawful thing for a man that isArise, a Jew Peter; to slay and eat. {11:8} But I said, Not so, Lord: keep company, or come unto one of another nation; but Godfor nothing common or unclean hath at any time entered hath shewed me that I should not call any man commoninto ormy mouth. {11:9} But the voice answered me again unclean. {10:29} Therefore camefrom I heaven,[unto What you] God withouthath cleansed, [that] call not thou gainsaying, as soon as I was sent for: I askcommon. therefore {11:10} for And this was done three times: and all what intent ye have sent for me? {10:30}were And drawnCornelius up again into heaven. {11:11} And, behold, said, Four days ago I was fasting until this hour; andimmediately at the there were three men already come unto the Acts Page 76 house where I was, sent from Caesarea untoraised me. him {11:12} up, saying, Arise up quickly. And his chains fell And the spirit bade me go with them, offnothing from [his]doubting. hands. {12:8} And the angel said unto him, Moreover these six brethren accompaniedGird thyself, and me,bind onand thy sandals.we And so he did. And entered into the man's house: {11:13} And hehe saith shewed unto him,us Cast thy garment about thee, and follow how he had seen an angel in his house, which stood and saidme. {12:9} And he went out, and followed him; and wist unto him, Send men to Joppa, and call for notSimon, that whose it was true which was done by the angel; but surname is Peter; {11:14} Whothought shall he sawtell a vision. thee {12:10} words, When they were past the whereby thou and all thy house shall be saved. {11:15} Andfirst and the second ward, they came unto the iron gate that as I began to speak, the Holy Ghost fell on them, as on us atleadeth unto the city; which opened to them of his own the beginning. {11:16} Then remembered I the wordaccord: of the and they went out, and passed on through one street; Lord, how that he said, John indeed baptized with water; butand forthwith the angel departed from him. {12:11} And ye shall be baptized withwhen the Peter Holywas come toGhost. himself, he said,{11:17} Now I know of a Forasmuch then as God gave them the like gift assurety, [he did] that the Lord hath sent his angel, and hath delivered unto us, who believed on the Lord Jesus Christ; what wasme I, out of the hand of Herod, and [from] all the expectation that I could withstand God? {11:18} When they heard theseof the people of the Jews. {12:12} And when he had things, they held their peace, and glorifiedconsidered God, [the thing,]saying, he came to the house of Mary the Then hath God also to the Gentiles granted repentancemother unto of John, whose surname was Mark; where many life. were gathered together praying. {12:13} And as Peter knocked at the door of the gate, a damsel came to hearken, {11:19} Now they which were scattered abroad namedupon the . {12:14} And when she knew Peter's voice, persecution that arose about Stephenshe travelledopened not theas gatefar foras gladness, but ran in, and told Phenice, and Cyprus, and Antioch, preachinghow Peterthe stoodword before to the gate. {12:15} And they said unto none but unto the Jews only. {11:20} And her,some Thou of themart mad. But she constantly affirmed that it was were men of Cyprus and Cyrene, which, wheneven theyso. Then were said they, It is his angel. {12:16} But Peter come to Antioch, spake unto the Grecians,continued preaching knocking: the and when they had opened [the door,] Lord Jesus. {11:21} And the hand of theand Lord saw was withhim, they were astonished. {12:17} But he, them: and a great number believed, andbeckoning turned untounto thethem with the hand to hold their peace, Lord. declared unto them how the Lord had brought him out of the prison. And he said, Go shew these things unto James, {11:22} Then tidings of these things came unto the ears ofand to the brethren. And he departed, and went into another the church which was in Jerusalem: place.and they {12:18} sent Nowforth as soon as it was day, there was no Barnabas, that he should go as far smallas Antioch. stir among {11:23} the soldiers, what was become of Peter. Who, when he came, and had seen the grace of{12:19} God, was And when Herod had sought for him, and found glad, and exhorted them all, that with purpose of hearthim they not, he examined the keepers, and commanded that would cleave unto the Lord. {11:24} For[they] he was should a good be put to death. And he went down from man, and full of the Holy Ghost and of Judaeafaith: andto Caesarea,much and [there] abode. people was added unto the Lord. {11:25} Then departed Barnabas to Tarsus, for to seek Saul: {11:26} And when{12:20} he And Herod was highly displeased with them of had found him, he brought him unto Antioch. AndTyre it cameand Sidon: but they came with one accord to him, and, to pass, that a whole year they assembled themselveshaving with made the king's chamberlain their friend, the church, and taught much people. And the disciples desiredwere peace; because their country was nourished by the called Christians first in Antioch. king's [country. ]{12:21} And upon a set day Herod, arrayed in royal apparel, sat upon his throne, and made an {11:27} And in these days came prophets from Jerusalemoration unto them. {12:22} And the people gave a shout, unto Antioch. {11:28} And there stood[saying, up It oneis] the of voice them of a god, and not of a man. {12:23} named , and signified by the spirit that thereAnd should immediately the angel of the Lord smote him, because be great dearth throughout all the world: which came to passhe gave not God the glory: and he was eaten of worms, and in the days of Claudius Caesar. {11:29} Then the disciples,gave up the ghost. every man according to his ability, determined to send unto the brethren which dwelt in Judaea: {12:24}{11:30} Which But the word of God grew and multiplied. also they did, and sent it to the elders{12:25} by theAnd handsBarnabas of and Saul returned from Jerusalem, Barnabas and Saul. when they had fulfilled [their] ministry, and took with them John, whose surname was Mark. {12:1} Now about that time Herod the king stretched forth [his] hands to vex certain of the church. {12:2}{13:1} NowAnd there were in the church that was at Antioch he killed James the brother of John with the sword.certain {12:3} prophets and teachers; as Barnabas, and Simeon that And because he saw it pleased the wasJews, called Niger,he andproceeded , and Manaen, which further to take Peter also.had (Thenbeen brought were up thewith daysHerod theof tetrarch, and Saul. unleavened bread.) {12:4} And when he had{13:2} apprehended As they ministered to the Lord, and fasted, the Holy him, he put [him] in prison, and deliveredGhost [him] said, toSeparate four me Barnabas and Saul for the work quaternions of soldiers to keep him; intendingwhereunto after I have called them. {13:3} And when they had to bring him forth to the people. {12:5} Peter thereforefasted was and prayed, and laid [their] hands on them, they sent kept in prison: but prayer was made without ceasing[them] of the away. church unto God for him. {12:6} And when Herod would have brought him forth, the same night Peter was{13:4} sleeping So they, being sent forth by the Holy Ghost, between two soldiers, bound withdeparted two chains: unto ;and the and from thence they sailed to keepers before the door kept Cyprus.the prison. {13:5} {12:7} And And,when they were at Salamis, they behold, the angel of the Lord came upon [him,] andpreached a light the word of God in the synagogues of the Jews: shined in the prison: and he smote Peter onand the they side, had also and John to [their] minister. {13:6} And when Page 77 Acts they had gone through the isle unto ,is they also foundwritten a in the second psalm, Thou art my Son, this certain sorcerer, a , a Jew, whose dayname have [was] I begotten thee. {13:34} And as concerning that he Bar-jesus: {13:7} Which was raisedwith him the up fromdeputy the dead, of [now]the no more to return to country, , a prudent corruption,man; who hecalled said onfor this wise, I will give you the sure Barnabas and Saul, and desired to hear themercies word of God.of David. {13:35} Wherefore he saith also in {13:8} But the sorcerer (foranother so is[psalm,] his Thou name shalt notby suffer thine Holy One to see interpretation) withstood them, seekingcorruption. to turn {13:36} away For David,the after he had served his own deputy from the faith. {13:9} Thengeneration Saul, (who by the also will [isof God, fell on sleep, and was laid called] Paul,) filled with the Holy Ghost,unto set his his fathers, eyes and on saw corruption: {13:37} But he, whom him, {13:10} And said, O full Godof raised all again, subtilty saw no corruption. and all mischief, [thou] child of the devil, [thou] enemy of all righteousness, wilt thou not cease to pervert the right{13:38} ways Be it known unto you therefore, men [and] of the Lord? {13:11} And now, behold,brethren, the hand that of thethrough this man is preached unto you the Lord [is] upon thee, and thou shalt be blind, not seeingforgiveness the of sins: {13:39} And by him all that believe are sun for a season. And immediately there fell on himjustified a mist from all things, from which ye could not be and a darkness; and he went about seeking some to lead himjustified by the law of Moses. {13:40} Beware therefore, by the hand. {13:12} Then the deputy, when helest saw that comewhat upon you, which is spoken of in the prophets; was done, believed, being astonished at the doctrine{13:41} of Behold,the ye despisers, and wonder, and perish: for I Lord. {13:13} Now when Paul and hiswork company a work in your loosed days, a work which ye shall in no wise from Paphos, they came to in Pamphylia:believe, and Johnthough a man declare it unto you. {13:42} And departing from them returned to Jerusalem. when the Jews were gone out of the synagogue, the Gentiles besought that these words might be preached to them the {13:14} But when they departed from Perga, they came nextto sabbath. {13:43} Now when the congregation was Antioch in , and went into thebroken synagogue up, onmany the of the Jews and religious proselytes sabbath day, and sat down. {13:15} And after the reading offollowed Paul and Barnabas: who, speaking to them, the law and the prophets the rulers of the synagoguepersuaded sent them to continue in the grace of God. unto them, saying, [Ye] men [and] brethren, if ye have any word of exhortation for the people, say on. {13:16}{13:44} And Then the next sabbath day came almost the whole Paul stood up, and beckoning with [his] hand said,city Men together of to hear the word of God. {13:45} But when the Israel, and ye that fear God, give audience.Jews {13:17}saw the multitudes,The they were filled with envy, and God of this people of Israel chose our fathers, spakeand exalted against those things which were spoken by Paul, the people when they dwelt as strangerscontradicting in the land and of blaspheming. {13:46} Then Paul and Egypt, and with an high arm brought heBarnabas them out waxed of it.bold, and said, It was necessary that the {13:18} And about the time of forty years suffered heword their of God should first have been spoken to you: but manners in the wilderness. {13:19}seeing yeAnd put it fromwhen you, andhe judge had yourselves unworthy of destroyed seven nations in the land of Chanaan, heeverlasting divided life, lo, we turn to the Gentiles. {13:47} For so their land to them by lot. {13:20} And afterhath that the Lordhe gave commanded us, [saying,] I have set thee to be [unto them] judges about the space of four hundred and fiftya light of the Gentiles, that thou shouldest be for salvation years, until Samuel the prophet. {13:21}unto the endsAnd of afterwardthe earth. {13:48} And when the Gentiles they desired a king: and God gave unto them Saul the son ofheard this, they were glad, and glorified the word of the Cis, a man of the tribe of , by the spaceLord: of and forty as many as were ordained to eternal life believed. years. {13:22} And when he had removed him, he raised {13:49}up And the word of the Lord was published unto them David to be their king; to whomthroughout also he allgave the region. {13:50} But the Jews stirred up testimony, and said, I have found David the [son] of Jesse, thea devout and honourable women, and the chief men of the man after mine own heart, which shall fulfilcity, andall raisedmy will. persecution against Paul and Barnabas, and {13:23} Of this man's seed hath God expelledaccording them to out[his] of their coasts. {13:51} But they shook promise raised unto Israel a Saviour, Jesus: {13:24}off theWhen dust of their feet against them, and came unto John had first preached before his coming Iconium.the baptism {13:52} of And the disciples were filled with joy, repentance to all the people of Israel. {13:25} Andand as Johnwith the Holy Ghost. fulfilled his course, he said, Whom think ye that I am? I am not [he.] But, behold, there cometh one {14:1}after me,And whoseit came to pass in Iconium, that they went shoes of [his] feet I am not worthy to loose. {13:26}both together Men into the synagogue of the Jews, and so spake, [and] brethren, children of the thatstock a greatof Abraham,multitude bothand of the Jews and also of the whosoever among you feareth God, to you isGreeks the word believed. of {14:2} But the unbelieving Jews stirred up this salvation sent. {13:27} For they that dwell at Jerusalem,the Gentiles, and made their minds evil affected against the and their rulers, because they knew himbrethren. not, nor {14:3} yet the Long time therefore abode they speaking voices of the prophets which are read everyboldly sabbath in the Lord,day, which gave testimony unto the word of they have fulfilled [them] in condemninghis grace, [him. and granted ]{13:28} signs and wonders to be done by their And though they found no cause of deathhands. {14:4} [in Buthim,] the multitude yet of the city was divided: and desired they Pilate that he should be slain.part held {13:29} with the And Jews, and part with the apostles. {14:5} when they had fulfilled all that was writtenAnd whenof him, there they was an assault made both of the Gentiles, took [him] down from the tree,and andalso laidof the[him] Jews in with a their rulers, to use [them] sepulchre. {13:30} But God raiseddespitefully, him from and theto stone dead: them, {14:6} They were ware of {13:31} And he was seen many days of them which[it,] andcame fled unto and , cities of , and up with him from Galilee to untoJerusalem, the region whothat liethare roundhis about: {14:7} And there witnesses unto the people. {13:32} Andthey we preacheddeclare untothe gospel. you glad tidings, how that the promise which was made unto the fathers, {13:33} God hath fulfilled the{14:8} same Andunto there sat a certain man at Lystra, impotent in us their children, in that he hath raised up Jesus again;his asfeet, it being a cripple from his mother's womb, who never Acts Page 78 had walked: {14:9} The same heardconsider Paul of this speak: matter. {15:7}who And when there had been stedfastly beholding him, and perceiving that he had faithmuch to disputing, Peter rose up, and said unto them, Men be healed, {14:10} Said with a loud voice, Stand upright[and] on brethren, ye know how that a good while ago God thy feet. And he leaped and walked. {14:11} And whenmade the choice among us, that the Gentiles by my mouth people saw what Paul had done, they lifted up theirshould voices, hear the word of the gospel, and believe. {15:8} And saying in the speech of Lycaonia, The gods are comeGod, down which knoweth the hearts, bare them witness, giving to us in the likeness of men. {14:12}them the And Holy Ghost,they evencalled as [he did] unto us; {15:9} And Barnabas, Jupiter; and Paul, Mercurius, because heput was theno difference between us and them, purifying their chief speaker. {14:13} Then the priest of Jupiter, which washearts by faith. {15:10} Now therefore why tempt ye God, before their city, brought oxen and garlands unto theto putgates, a yoke upon the neck of the disciples, which neither and would have done sacrifice with theour people.fathers {14:14}nor we were able to bear? {15:11} But we [Which] when the apostles, Barnabas and Paul,believe heard [of,]that through the grace of the Lord Jesus Christ we they rent their clothes, and ran in among the people,shall crying be saved, even as they. out, {14:15} And saying, Sirs, why do ye these things? We also are men of like passions with you, and preach unto you{15:12} Then all the multitude kept silence, and gave that ye should turn from these vanities unto the livingaudience God, to Barnabas and Paul, declaring what miracles and which made heaven, and earth, and the sea, andwonders all thingsGod had wrought among the Gentiles by them. that are therein: {14:16} Who in times past suffered all nations to walk in their own ways. {14:17} Nevertheless{15:13} he And after they had held their peace, James left not himself without witness, in that heanswered, did good, saying,and Men [and] brethren, hearken unto me: gave us rain from heaven, and fruitful seasons,{15:14} filling Simeon our hath declared how God at the first did visit hearts with food and gladness. {14:18}the Gentiles, And with to take these out of them a people for his name. sayings scarce restrained they the people, that they{15:15} had not And to this agree the words of the prophets; as it is done sacrifice unto them. written, {15:16} After this I will return, and will build again the tabernacle of David, which is fallen down; and I will {14:19} And there came thitherbuild [certain]again the ruins Jews thereof, from and I will set it up: {15:17} Antioch and Iconium, who persuadedThat the residuethe ofpeople, men might and, seek after the Lord, and all having stoned Paul, drew [him] out of the city, supposing hethe Gentiles, upon whom my name is called, saith the Lord, had been dead. {14:20} Howbeit, aswho the doeth disciples all these things. stood {15:18} Known unto God are all round about him, he rose up, and came into the city: and thehis works from the beginning of the world. {15:19} next day he departed with Barnabas to Derbe. {14:21}Wherefore And my sentence is, that we trouble not them, which when they had preached the gospel to thatfrom city, among and the had Gentiles are turned to God: {15:20} But taught many, they returned againthat we write to unto them,Lystra, that they abstainand from[to] pollutions of Iconium, and Antioch, {14:22} Confirming the soulsidols, of the and [from] fornication, and [from] things strangled, disciples, [and] exhorting them to continue in the faith,and and[from] blood. {15:21} For Moses of old time hath in that we must through much tribulationevery city enter them into that the preach him, being read in the kingdom of God. {14:23} And when synagoguesthey had every ordained sabbath day. {15:22} Then pleased it the them elders in every church, and had prayedapostles with fasting, and elders, with the whole church, to send chosen they commended them to the Lord, on whom they believed.men of their own company to Antioch with Paul and {14:24} And after they had passed throughout Pisidia,Barnabas; they [namely,] Judas surnamed Barsabas, and , came to Pamphylia. {14:25} And when they hadchief preached men among the brethren: {15:23} And they wrote the word in Perga, they went down into [letters]Attalia: by {14:26}them after this manner; The apostles and elders And thence sailed to Antioch, from whence theyand had brethren been [send] greeting unto the brethren which are of recommended to the grace of God for the work whichthe they Gentiles in Antioch and Syria and Cilicia: {15:24} fulfilled. {14:27} And when theyForasmuch were come, as we haveand heard, had that certain which went out gathered the church together, they rehearsedfrom allus thathave God troubled you with words, subverting your had done with them, and how he had openedsouls, the saying,door of [Ye must] be circumcised, and keep the law: faith unto the Gentiles. {14:28} And there they abodeto whomlong we gave no [such] commandment: {15:25} It time with the disciples. seemed good unto us, being assembled with one accord, to send chosen men unto you with our beloved Barnabas and {15:1} And certain men which came down Paul,from Judaea{15:26} Men that have hazarded their lives for the taught the brethren, [and said,] Except yename be circumcisedof our Lord Jesus Christ. {15:27} We have sent after the manner of Moses, ye cannottherefore be Judassaved. and Silas,{15:2} who shall also tell [you] the same When therefore Paul and Barnabas had no small dissensionthings by mouth. {15:28} For it seemed good to the Holy and with them, they determinedGhost, that andPaul to and us, to lay upon you no greater burden than Barnabas, and certain other of thesethem, necessary should things; go{15:29} up That to ye abstain from meats Jerusalem unto the apostles and elders about thisoffered question. to idols, and from blood, and from things strangled, {15:3} And being brought on their way by the church,and they from fornication: from which if ye keep yourselves, ye passed through Pheniceshall and do well.Samaria, Fare ye well. declaring {15:30} So when the they were conversion of the Gentiles: and they caused greatdismissed, joy unto they came to Antioch: and when they had all the brethren. {15:4} And whengathered they thewere multitude come together, to they delivered the : Jerusalem, they were received of the church,{15:31} and [Which][of] the when they had read, they rejoiced for the apostles and elders, and they declared all consolation.things that God{15:32} And Judas and Silas, being prophets had done with them. {15:5} But there rose up certain ofalso the themselves, exhorted the brethren with many words, sect of the Pharisees which believed, saying,and confirmed That it was[them. ]{15:33} And after they had tarried needful to circumcise them, and to command [them] to keep[there] a space, they were let go in peace from the brethren the law of Moses. unto the apostles. {15:34} Notwithstanding it pleased Silas to abide there still. {15:35} Paul also and Barnabas {15:6} And the apostles and elders came togethercontinued for toin Antioch, teaching and preaching the word of Page 79 Acts the Lord, with many others also. [them] into the marketplace unto the rulers, {16:20} And brought them to the magistrates, saying, These men, being {15:36} And some days after Paul said unto Barnabas, LetJews, do exceedingly trouble our city, {16:21} And teach us go again and visit our brethren in every citycustoms, where which we are not lawful for us to receive, neither to have preached the word of the Lord, [and see] how theyobserve, do. being Romans. {16:22} And the multitude rose up {15:37} And Barnabas determined to take with themtogether John, against them: and the magistrates rent off their whose surname was Mark. {15:38} But Paulclothes, thought and commanded not to beat [them. ]{16:23} And when good to take him with them, who departed from themthey from had laid many stripes upon them, they cast [them] into Pamphylia, and went not with them to the prison,work. {15:39} charging the jailer to keep them safely: {16:24} And the contention was so sharp between them,Who, thathaving they received such a charge, thrust them into the departed asunder one from the other: and so Barnabasinner took prison, and made their feet fast in the stocks. Mark, and sailed unto Cyprus; {15:40} And Paul chose Silas, and departed, being recommended{16:25} by Andthe atbrethren midnight Paul and Silas prayed, and sang unto the grace of God. {15:41} And he went throughpraises Syria unto God: and the prisoners heard them. {16:26} and Cilicia, confirming the churches. And suddenly there was a great earthquake, so that the foundations of the prison were shaken: and immediately all {16:1} Then came he to Derbe and Lystra: and, behold,the doors a were opened, and every one's bands were loosed. certain disciple was there, named Timotheus,{16:27} the son Andof athe keeper of the prison awaking out of his certain woman, which was a Jewess, and believed;sleep, but and his seeing the prison doors open, he drew out his father [was] a Greek: {16:2} Which was well reported of bysword, and would have killed himself, supposing that the the brethren that were at Lystra and Iconium.prisoners {16:3} hadHim been fled. {16:28} But Paul cried with a loud would Paul have to go forth withvoice, him; saying, and Dotook thyself and no harm: for we are all here. circumcised him because of the Jews which were{16:29} in Thenthose he called for a light, and sprang in, and came quarters: for they knew all that his trembling,father was anda Greek. fell down before Paul and Silas, {16:30} {16:4} And as they went through the cities, theyAnd delivered brought them out, and said, Sirs, what must I do to be them the decrees for to keep, that weresaved? ordained {16:31} ofAnd the they said, Believe on the Lord Jesus apostles and elders which were at Jerusalem. {16:5} AndChrist, so and thou shalt be saved, and thy house. {16:32} And were the churches established in the faith, and increasedthey spake in unto him the word of the Lord, and to all that number daily. {16:6} Now when they had gone throughoutwere in his house. {16:33} And he took them the same hour and the region of , and were forbidden of theof the night, and washed [their] stripes; and was baptized, Holy Ghost to preach the word in Asia, {16:7}he After and they all his, straightway. {16:34} And when he had were come to , they assayed to go into :brought but them into his house, he set meat before them, and the Spirit suffered them not. {16:8} And rejoiced,they passing believing by in God with all his house. {16:35} And Mysia came down to Troas. {16:9} And a visionwhen appeared it was day, the magistrates sent the serjeants, saying, to Paul in the night; There stood a man of Macedonia,Let those and men go. {16:36} And the keeper of the prison told prayed him, saying, Come over into Macedonia,this saying and to help Paul, The magistrates have sent to let you go: us. {16:10} And after he had seen the vision, immediatelynow therefore depart, and go in peace. {16:37} But Paul we endeavoured to go into Macedonia, assuredlysaid gathering unto them, They have beaten us openly uncondemned, that the Lord had called us for to preach beingthe gospel Romans, unto and have cast [us] into prison; and now do them. {16:11} Therefore loosing from Troas, we camethey with thrust us out privily? nay verily; but let them come a straight course to Samothracia,themselves and andthe fetch next us out. {16:38}day to And the serjeants told Neapolis; {16:12} And from thence to Philippi, which is thethese words unto the magistrates: and they feared, when chief city of that part of Macedonia, [and] a colony: andthey we heard that they were Romans. {16:39} And they came were in that city abiding certain days. {16:13} Andand onbesought the them, and brought [them] out, and desired sabbath we went out of the city by a river side, where prayer[them] to depart out of the city. {16:40} And they went out was wont to be made; and we sat down, and spake untoof the the prison, and entered into [the house of] Lydia and women which resorted [thither. when they had seen the brethren, they comforted them, and departed. ]{16:14} And a certain woman named Lydia, a seller of purple, of the city of , which{17:1} worshipped Now when theyGod, had passed through heard [us:] whose heart the Lord opened, that sheand attended Apollonia, they came to Thessalonica, where was a unto the things which were spoken of Paul.synagogue {16:15} Andof the Jews: {17:2} And Paul, as his manner when she was baptized, and her household,was, she went besought in unto them, and three sabbath days reasoned [us,] saying, If ye have judged me to be faithful to the Lord,with them out of the scriptures, {17:3} Opening and come into my house, and abide [there.] And she constrainedalleging, that Christ must needs have suffered, and risen us. again from the dead; and that this Jesus, whom I preach unto you, is Christ. {17:4} And some of them believed, and {16:16} And it came to pass, as we wentconsorted to prayer,with Paul a and Silas; and of the devout Greeks a certain damsel possessed with a spirit of divinationgreat met multitude,us, and of the chief women not a few. which brought her masters much gain by soothsaying: {16:17} The same followed Paul and us, and cried, {17:5}saying, But the Jews which believed not, moved with These men are the servants of the most highenvy, God, took untowhich them certain lewd fellows of the baser sort, shew unto us the way of salvation. {16:18} And this did sheand gathered a company, and set all the city on an uproar, many days. But Paul, being grieved, turned and saidand toassaulted the the house of Jason, and sought to bring them spirit, I command thee in the name of Jesus Christ toout come to the people. {17:6} And when they found them not, out of her. And he came out the same hour. they drew Jason and certain brethren unto the rulers of the city, crying, These that have turned the world upside down {16:19} And when her masters saw that the hope ofare their come hither also; {17:7} Whom Jason hath received: gains was gone, they caught Pauland and these Silas, all do andcontrary drew to the decrees of Caesar, saying Acts Page 80 that there is another king, [one] Jesus.again {17:8} of Andthis they [matter. ]{17:33} So Paul departed from troubled the people and the rulers of theamong city, them. when {17:34} they Howbeit certain men clave unto him, heard these things. {17:9} Andand when believed: they had among taken the which [was] Dionysius the security of Jason, and of the other,Areopagite, they and leta woman them named go. Damaris, and others with them. {17:10} And the brethren immediately sent away Paul and Silas by night unto Berea: who coming [thither]{18:1} went Afterinto these things Paul departed from , and the synagogue of the Jews. {17:11} These were more noblecame to Corinth; {18:2} And found a certain Jew named than those in Thessalonica, in that they receivedAquila, the born word in Pontus, lately come from , with his wife with all readiness of mind, and searched the scriptures daily,Priscilla; (because that Claudius had commanded all Jews to whether those things were so. {17:12} Thereforedepart many from of Rome:) and came unto them. {18:3} And them believed; also of honourablebecause women he was of whichthe same craft,were he abode with them, and Greeks, and of men, not a few. {17:13} But when thewrought: Jews for by their occupation they were tentmakers. of Thessalonica had knowledge that the word{18:4} of God Andwas he reasoned in the synagogue every sabbath, preached of Paul at Berea, they cameand persuaded thither the also, Jews andand the Greeks. {18:5} And when stirred up the people. {17:14} And thenSilas immediately and Timotheus the were come from Macedonia, Paul was brethren sent away Paul to go as it were to the sea: but Silaspressed in the spirit, and testified to the Jews [that] Jesus and Timotheus abode there still. {17:15}[was] Christ. And they{18:6} that And when they opposed themselves, conducted Paul brought him unto Athens: andand receiving blasphemed, a he shook [his] raiment, and said unto commandment unto Silas and Timotheus for to come to himthem, Your blood [be] upon your own heads; I [am] clean: with all speed, they departed. from henceforth I will go unto the Gentiles.

{17:16} Now while Paul waited for them at {18:7}Athens, And his he departed thence, and entered into a certain spirit was stirred in him, when he saw the city wholly given[man's] house, named Justus, [one] that worshipped God, to idolatry. {17:17} Therefore disputed he in the synagoguewhose house joined hard to the synagogue. {18:8} And with the Jews, and with the devout Crispus,persons, the and chief in rulerthe of the synagogue, believed on the market daily with them that met with him.Lord {17:18} with Then all his house; and many of the Corinthians certain philosophers of the Epicureans, and ofhearing the Stoicks, believed, and were baptized. {18:9} Then spake the encountered him. And some said, What Lordwill tothis Paul babbler in the night by a vision, Be not afraid, but say? other some, He seemeth to be a setter forth ofspeak, strange and hold not thy peace: {18:10} For I am with thee, gods: because he preached untoand no manthem shall Jesus,set on thee andto hurt thethee: for I have much resurrection. {17:19} And they took him, and broughtpeople in him this city. {18:11} And he continued [there] a year unto Areopagus, saying, May we andknow six months, what teaching this the wordnew of God among them. doctrine, whereof thou speakest, [is? ]{17:20} For thou bringest certain strange things to our ears: we would{18:12} know And when Gallio was the deputy of Achaia, the therefore what these things mean.Jews {17:21} made insurrection (For all with the one accord against Paul, and Athenians and strangers which were there spentbrought their timehim to the judgment seat, {18:13} Saying, This in nothing else, but either to tell, or to hear some[fellow] new thing.) persuadeth men to worship God contrary to the law. {18:14} And when Paul was now about to open [his] {17:22} Then Paul stood in the midst of Mars'mouth, hill, Gallioand said unto the Jews, If it were a matter of said, [Ye] men of Athens, I perceive that in all things ye arewrong or wicked lewdness, O [ye] Jews, reason would that I too superstitious. {17:23} For as I passedshould by, and bear beheld with you: {18:15} But if it be a question of your devotions, I found an altar with thiswords inscription, and names, TO and [of] your law, look ye [to it;] for I THE . Whom thereforewill beye no ignorantly judge of such [matters. ]{18:16} And he drave worship, him declare I unto you. {17:24} God that made thethem from the judgment seat. {18:17} Then all the Greeks world and all things therein, seeingtook thatSosthenes, he is the Lord chief rulerof of the synagogue, and beat heaven and earth, dwelleth not in temples made with hands;[him] before the judgment seat. And Gallio cared for none {17:25} Neither is worshipped with men's hands, as thoughof those things. he needed any thing, seeing he giveth to all life, and breath, and all things; {17:26} And hath made of{18:18} one bloodAnd Paul all [after this] tarried [there] yet a good nations of men for to dwell on all the face of the earth,while, and and then took his leave of the brethren, and sailed hath determined the times before appointed, and the boundsthence into Syria, and with him ; having of their habitation; {17:27} That they should seek the shornLord, [his] head in Cenchrea: for he had a . {18:19} if haply they might feel after him, and find him, thoughAnd he hecame to , and left them there: but he himself be not far from every one of us: {17:28} For in him we live,entered into the synagogue, and reasoned with the Jews. and move, and have our being; as certain also of your{18:20} own When they desired [him] to tarry longer time with poets have said, For we are also histhem, offspring. he consented {17:29} not; {18:21} But bade them farewell, Forasmuch then as we are the offspring of God,saying, we ought I must by all means keep this feast that cometh in not to think that the Godhead is like unto gold, or silver,Jerusalem: or but I will return again unto you, if God will. And stone, graven by art and man's device.he {17:30} sailed from AndEphesus. the {18:22} And when he had landed at times of this ignoranceCaesarea, God andwinked gone up, at;and salutedbut thenow church, he went commandeth all men every wheredown to Antioch. to {18:23}repent: And after {17:31} he had spent some time Because he hath appointed a day, in the which he will judge[there,] he departed, and went over [all] the country of the world in righteousness by [that] manGalatia whom and he Phrygia hath in order, strengthening all the disciples. ordained; [whereof] he hath given assurance unto all [men,] in that he hath raised him from the dead. {18:24} And a certain Jew named , born at , an eloquent man, [and] mighty in the scriptures, {17:32} And when they heard of the resurrectioncame to of Ephesus. the {18:25} This man was instructed in the dead, some mocked: and others said, wayWe ofwill the hearLord; theeand being fervent in the spirit, he spake Page 81 Acts and taught diligently the things of the Lord, knowingno small onlygain unto the craftsmen; {19:25} Whom he called the baptism of John. {18:26} And he began to speak boldlytogether with the workmen of like occupation, and said, in the synagogue: whom when AquilaSirs, and ye know Priscilla that by this hadcraft we have our wealth. {19:26} heard, they took him unto [them,] and expounded untoMoreover him ye see and hear, that not alone at Ephesus, but the way of God more perfectly. {18:27} And whenalmost he was throughout all Asia, this Paul hath persuaded and disposed to pass into Achaia, the brethren wrote,turned exhorting away much people, saying that they be no gods, the disciples to receive him: who,which when are hemade was with come, hands: {19:27} So that not only this helped them much which had believedour craft is in throughdanger to be grace:set at nought; but also that the {18:28} For he mightily convinced templethe Jews, of the [andgreat goddessthat] should be despised, and publickly, shewing by the scriptures thather magnificence Jesus was Christ.should be destroyed, whom all Asia and the world worshippeth. {19:28} And when they heard [these {19:1} And it came to pass, that, while Apollossayings,] was they at were full of wrath, and cried out, saying, Corinth, Paul having passed through the upper coastsGreat came [is] Diana of the Ephesians. {19:29} And the whole to Ephesus: and finding certain disciples,city {19:2} was filled He with said confusion: and having caught and unto them, Have ye received the Aristarchus,Holy Ghost since men yeof Macedonia, Paul's companions in believed? And they said unto him, We have not so muchtravel, as they rushed with one accord into the theatre. {19:30} heard whether there be any Holy Ghost. {19:3} And he saidAnd when Paul would have entered in unto the people, the unto them, Unto what then were ye baptized? And they said,disciples suffered him not. {19:31} And certain of the chief Unto John's baptism. {19:4} Then said Paul,of Asia, John which verily were his friends, sent unto him, desiring baptized with the baptism of repentance,[him] saying that heunto would the not adventure himself into the theatre. people, that they should believe on him which should{19:32} come Some therefore cried one thing, and some another: after him, that is, on Christ Jesus. {19:5} When theyfor theheard assembly was confused; and the more part knew not [this,] they were baptized in the name ofwherefore the Lord they Jesus. were come together. {19:33} And they drew {19:6} And when Paul had laid [his] hands upon them,Alexander the out of the multitude, the Jews putting him Holy Ghost came on them; and they spakeforward. with tongues, And Alexander beckoned with the hand, and and prophesied. {19:7} And all the men were about twelve.would have made his defence unto the people. {19:34} But {19:8} And he went into the synagogue, and spakewhen theyboldly knew that he was a Jew, all with one voice about for the space of three months, disputing and persuadingthe thespace of two hours cried out, Great [is] Diana of the things concerning the kingdom of God. {19:9}Ephesians. But {19:35}when And when the townclerk had appeased divers were hardened, and believed not, butthe spake people, evilhe said, of [Ye] men of Ephesus, what man is there that way before the multitude, he departed fromthat them, knoweth and not how that the city of the Ephesians is a separated the disciples, disputing daily in the schoolworshipper of one of the great goddess Diana, and of the [image] Tyrannus. {19:10} And this continued by the spacewhich of two fell down from Jupiter? {19:36} Seeing then that years; so that all they which dwelt in Asia heard the word ofthese things cannot be spoken against, ye ought to be quiet, the Lord Jesus, both Jews and Greeks. {19:11}and toAnd do God nothing rashly. {19:37} For ye have brought wrought special miracles by the hands of Paul: {19:12}hither these So men, which are neither robbers of churches, nor that from his body were brought unto the sick handkerchiefsyet blasphemers of your goddess. {19:38} Wherefore if or aprons, and the diseases departed from them, and the evilDemetrius, and the craftsmen which are with him, have a spirits went out of them. matter against any man, the law is open, and there are deputies: let them implead one another. {19:39} But if ye {19:13} Then certain of the vagabondenquire Jews, anyexorcists, thing concerning other matters, it shall be took upon them to call over them which had evil spiritsdetermined the in a lawful assembly. {19:40} For we are in name of the Lord Jesus, saying, We adjuredanger you toby be Jesus called in question for this day's uproar, there whom Paul preacheth. {19:14} And there were beingseven sonsno cause whereby we may give an account of this of [one] , a Jew, [and] chief of the priests, whichconcourse. did {19:41} And when he had thus spoken, he so. {19:15} And the evil spirit answered and dismissedsaid, Jesus I the assembly. know, and Paul I know; but who are ye? {19:16} And the man in whom the evil spirit was leaped{20:1} And on after them, the uproar and was ceased, Paul called unto overcame them, and prevailed against them,[him] the so disciples, that they and embraced [them,] and departed for fled out of that house naked and wounded. {19:17} And thisto go into Macedonia. {20:2} And when he had gone over was known to all the Jews and Greeksthose also parts, dwelling and had given at them much exhortation, he came Ephesus; and fear fell on them all, and the name of the Lordinto , {20:3} And [there] abode three months. And Jesus was magnified. {19:18} Andwhen themany Jews laidthat wait forbelieved him, as he was about to sail into came, and confessed, and shewedSyria, their he deeds.purposed {19:19} to return through Macedonia. {20:4} Many of them also which used curious artsAnd brought there accompanied their him into Asia of Berea; and books together, and burned them before all [men:] andof theythe Thessalonians, Aristarchus and Secundus; and Gaius counted the price of them, and foundof Derbe, it fifty and thousand Timotheus; and of Asia, and [pieces] of silver. {19:20} So mightily grewTrophimus. the word {20:5} of These going before tarried for us at God and prevailed. Troas. {20:6} And we sailed away from Philippi after the days of unleavened bread, and came unto them to Troas in {19:21} After these things were ended, Paul purposedfive days; wherein we abode seven days. {20:7} And upon the the spirit, when he had passed throughfirst [day] ofMacedonia the week, when and the disciples came together to Achaia, to go to Jerusalem, saying, After I have beenbreak there, bread, Paul preached unto them, ready to depart on I must also see Rome. {19:22} So he sent into theMacedonia morrow; and continued his speech until midnight. two of them that ministered unto{20:8} him, And thereTimotheus were many and lights in the upper chamber, Erastus; but he himself stayed in Asia for a season. {19:23}where they were gathered together. {20:9} And there sat in And the same time there arose no small stir about thata way. window a certain young man named , being {19:24} For a certain fallen[man] into a deep sleep:named and as Paul Demetrius,was long preaching, he a silversmith, which made silver shrines forsunk Diana, down with brought sleep, and fell down from the third loft, and Acts Page 82 was taken up dead. {20:10} And Paul went down,and and fell fell on Paul's neck, and kissed him, {20:38} Sorrowing on him, and embracing [him] said, Trouble not yourselves;most of all for the words which he spake, that they should for his life is in him. {20:11} When he therefore wassee come his face no more. And they accompanied him unto the up again, and had broken bread, and eaten, and talked a longship. while, even till break of day, so he departed. {20:12} And they brought the young man alive, and {21:1}were notAnd a itlittle came to pass, that after we were gotten comforted. from them, and had launched, we came with a straight course unto Coos, and the [day] following unto , and {20:13} And we went before to ship,from and thence sailed unto : unto {21:2} And finding a ship sailing , there intending to take overin Paul:unto Phenicia, for so we hadwent aboard,he and set forth. {21:3} appointed, minding himself to go afoot. {20:14} AndNow when when we had discovered Cyprus, we left it on the left he met with us at Assos, we took himhand, in, and and sailed came into Syria, to and landed at Tyre: for there the Mitylene. {20:15} And we sailed thence, and came the shipnext was to unlade her burden. {21:4} And finding [day] over against ; and the next [day] wedisciples, arrived at we tarried there seven days: who said to Paul , and tarried at ; and thethrough next the[day] Spirit, we that he should not go up to Jerusalem. came to . {20:16} For Paul had determined to sail by{21:5} And when we had accomplished those days, we Ephesus, because he would not spend the time in departedAsia: for and went our way; and they all brought us on our he hasted, if it were possible for him, to be at Jerusalemway, the with wives and children, till [we were] out of the city: day of Pentecost. and we kneeled down on the shore, and prayed. {21:6} And when we had taken our leave one of another, we took ship; {20:17} And from Miletus he sent to Ephesus, and andcalled they returned home again. {21:7} And when we had the elders of the church. {20:18} And when they were comefinished [our] course from Tyre, we came to Ptolemais, and to him, he said unto them, Ye know, from the first day that Isaluted the brethren, and abode with them one day. {21:8} came into Asia, after what manner I have been withAnd you atthe next [day] we that were of Paul's company all seasons, {20:19} Serving the Lord with alldeparted, humility and of came unto Caesarea: and we entered into the mind, and with many tears, and temptations,house which of befell Philip the , which was [one] of the me by the lying in wait of the Jews: {20:20} [And]seven; how and I abode with him. {21:9} And the same man had kept back nothing that was profitable [unto you,]four but daughters, have virgins, which did prophesy. {21:10} And shewed you, and have taught you publickly, and from houseas we tarried [there] many days, there came down from to house, {20:21} Testifying both to the Jews,Judaea and also ato certain prophet, named Agabus. {21:11} And the Greeks, repentance toward God, and whenfaith towardhe was our come unto us, he took Paul's girdle, and Lord Jesus Christ. {20:22} And now, behold, I go boundbound in his own hands and feet, and said, Thus saith the Holy the spirit unto Jerusalem, not knowing the thingsGhost, that shall So shall the Jews at Jerusalem bind the man that befall me there: {20:23} ownethSave this thatgirdle, andthe shall deliverHoly [him] Ghostinto the hands of witnesseth in every city, saying that bondsthe and Gentiles. afflictions {21:12} And when we heard these things, both abide me. {20:24} But none of thesewe, andthings they ofmove that me,place, besought him not to go up to neither count I my life dear unto myself,Jerusalem. so that I{21:13} might Then Paul answered, What mean ye to finish my course with joy, and the ministry, weepwhich andI have to break mine heart? for I am ready not to be received of the Lord Jesus, to testify the gospel of the gracebound only, but also to die at Jerusalem for the name of the of God. {20:25} And now, behold, LordI know Jesus. that{21:14} ye And all, when he would not be persuaded, among whom I have gone preaching the kingdomwe ceased,of God, saying, The will of the Lord be done. shall see my face no more. {20:26} Wherefore I take you to record this day, that I [am] pure from the blood of all [men.{21:15} And after those days we took up our carriages, ]{20:27} For I have not shunned to declare unto you alland the went up to Jerusalem. {21:16} There went with us also counsel of God. [certain] of the disciples of Caesarea, and brought with them one of Cyprus, an old disciple, with whom we {20:28} Take heed therefore unto yourselves,should and to lodge.all {21:17} And when we were come to the flock, over the which the Holy Ghost Jerusalem,hath made the brethrenyou received us gladly. {21:18} And the overseers, to feed the church [day]of followingGod, Paul which went in withhe us untohath James; and all the purchased with his own blood. {20:29} For I know this, thatelders were present. {21:19} And when he had saluted after my departing shall grievous wolvesthem, enter he declared in among particularly what things God had wrought you, not sparing the flock. {20:30} Also of your own selvesamong the Gentiles by his ministry. {21:20} And when they shall men arise, speaking perverse things,heard [it,] to they draw glorified away the Lord, and said unto him, Thou disciples after them. {20:31}seest, brother, how manyTherefore thousands of Jews therewatch, are which and remember, that by the space of three years I ceasedbelieve; not andto they are all zealous of the law: {21:21} And warn every one night and day with tears. {20:32} And now,they are informed of thee, that thou teachest all the Jews brethren, I commend you to God, and to thewhich word are amongof his the Gentiles to forsake Moses, saying that grace, which is able to build you up, and theyto oughtgive notyou to circumcisean [their] children, neither to walk inheritance among all them which are sanctified. after{20:33} I the customs. {21:22} What is it therefore? the have coveted no man's silver, or gold, or apparel.multitude {20:34} must needs come together: for they will hear that Yea, ye yourselves know, that these hands have ministeredthou art come. {21:23} Do therefore this that we say to unto my necessities, and to themthee: that We havewere fourwith menme. which have a vow on them; {20:35} I have shewed you all things, how that so labouring{21:24} Them take, and purify thyself with them, and be at ye ought to support the weak, and to remember the words ofcharges with them, that they may shave [their] heads: and the Lord Jesus, how he said, It is more blessed to giveall thanmay know that those things, whereof they were informed to receive. concerning thee, are nothing; but [that] thou thyself also walkest orderly, and keepest the law. {21:25} As touching {20:36} And when he had thus spoken, he kneeled down,the Gentiles which believe, we have written [and] and prayed with them all. {20:37} And they all concludedwept sore, that they observe no such thing, save only that Page 83 Acts they keep themselves from [things] offeredshall I do,to Lord? idols, And andthe Lord said unto me, Arise, and go from blood, and from strangled,into andDamascus; from and therefornication. it shall be told thee of all things {21:26} Then Paul took the men, and the next day purifyingwhich are appointed for thee to do. {22:11} And when I himself with them entered into the temple,could to notsignify see for the the glory of that light, being led by the accomplishment of the days of purification,hand of until them that that anwere with me, I came into Damascus. offering should be offered for every one{22:12} of them. And one Ananias, a devout man according to the law, having a good report of all the Jews which dwelt {21:27} And when the seven days were almost ended,[there, the ]{22:13} Came unto me, and stood, and said unto Jews which were of Asia, when they saw him in the temple,me, Brother Saul, receive thy sight. And the same hour I stirred up all the people, and laid hands onlooked him, up {21:28}upon him. {22:14} And he said, The God of our Crying out, Men of Israel, help: fathersThis hathis chosenthe man,thee, that that thou shouldest know his will, teacheth all [men] every where against the people,and andsee thethat Just One, and shouldest hear the voice of his law, and this place: and further brought Greeks also into mouth.the {22:15} For thou shalt be his witness unto all men temple, and hath polluted this holy place. {21:29} (For ofthey what thou hast seen and heard. {22:16} And now why had seen before with him intarriest the thou?city arise, and be baptized,an and wash away thy Ephesian, whom they supposed that Paul had sins,brought calling into on the name of the Lord. {22:17} And it came the temple.) {21:30} And all the city was moved,to pass, and that,the when I was come again to Jerusalem, even people ran together: and they took Paul, and drewwhile him I prayed out in the temple, I was in a trance; {22:18} And of the temple: and forthwith the doors were sawshut. him {21:31} saying unto me, Make haste, and get thee quickly And as they went about to kill him, tidings cameout untoof Jerusalem:the for they will not receive thy testimony chief captain of the band, that all concerningJerusalem me. {22:19}was in And an I said, Lord, they know that I uproar. {21:32} Who immediatelyimprisoned and beat took in every synagoguesoldiers them that and believed centurions, and ran down unto them: and when they saw theon thee: {22:20} And when the blood of thy martyr Stephen chief captain and the soldiers, they leftwas shed,beating I also of was Paul. standing by, and consenting unto his {21:33} Then the chief captain came near,death, and tookand kept him, the raiment of them that slew him. {22:21} and commanded [him] to be bound with twoAnd hechains; said unto and me, Depart: for I will send thee far hence demanded who he was, and what he had done. {21:34} Andunto the Gentiles. {22:22} And they gave him audience some cried one thing, some another, among theunto multitude: this word, and [then] lifted up their voices, and said, and when he could not know the certainty for the tumult,Away he with such a [fellow] from the earth: for it is not fit commanded him to be carried into the castle. {21:35}that he And should live. {22:23} And as they cried out, and cast when he came upon the stairs, so it was, that he wasoff borne [their] clothes, and threw dust into the air, {22:24} The of the soldiers for the violence of the people. chief{21:36} captain For commanded him to be brought into the castle, the multitude of the people followed after,and bade crying, that he Away should be examined by scourging; that he with him. {21:37} And as Paul was to be led into the castle,might know wherefore they cried so against him. {22:25} he said unto the chief captain, May I speak unto thee?And Who as they bound him with thongs, Paul said unto the said, Canst thou speak Greek? {21:38} Artcenturion not thou that that stood by, Is it lawful for you to scourge a Egyptian, which before these days madestman an that uproar, is a Roman, and and uncondemned? {22:26} When the leddest out into the wilderness four thousand men thatcenturion were heard [that,] he went and told the chief captain, murderers? {21:39} But Paul said, I am a man [which am] saying,a Take heed what thou doest: for this man is a Roman. Jew of Tarsus, [a city] in Cilicia, a citizen of no mean{22:27} city: Then the chief captain came, and said unto him, and, I beseech thee, suffer me to speakTell unto me, theart thou people. a Roman? He said, Yea. {22:28} And the {21:40} And when he had given him licence, Paul stoodchief on captain answered, With a great sum obtained I this the stairs, and beckoned with the hand unto the people. Andfreedom. And Paul said, But I was [free] born. {22:29} when there was made a great silence, he spake untoThen [them] straightway they departed from him which should in the Hebrew tongue, saying, have examined him: and the chief captain also was afraid, after he knew that he was a Roman, and because he had {22:1} Men, brethren, and fathers, hearbound ye him.my {22:30} defence On the morrow, because he would have [which I make] now unto you. {22:2}known (And the certaintywhen whereforethey he was accused of the Jews, heard that he spake in the Hebrew tongue to them, they kepthe loosed him from [his] bands, and commanded the chief the more silence: and he saith,) {22:3} I am priestsverily a andman all their council to appear, and brought Paul [which am] a Jew, born in Tarsus, a citydown, in andCilicia, set him yet before them. brought up in this city at the feet of Gamaliel, [and] taught according to the perfect manner of the law of{23:1} the fathers, And Paul, earnestly beholding the council, said, and was zealous toward God, as ye all are this day.Men {22:4} [and] brethren, I have lived in all good conscience And I persecuted this way unto thebefore death, God binding until and this day. {23:2} And the high priest delivering into prisons both men and women.Ananias commanded{22:5} As them that stood by him to smite him also the high priest doth bear me witness, and all theon estate the mouth. {23:3} Then said Paul unto him, God shall of the elders: from whom also I received smiteletters thee, unto [thou] the whited wall: for sittest thou to judge me brethren, and went to Damascus, to bring them whichafter were the law, and commandest me to be smitten contrary to there bound unto Jerusalem, for to be punished. {22:6} Andthe law? {23:4} And they that stood by said, Revilest thou it came to pass, that, as I made my journey, and wasGod's come high priest? {23:5} Then said Paul, I wist not, nigh unto Damascus about noon, suddenly there shone frombrethren, that he was the high priest: for it is written, Thou heaven a great light round about me. {22:7} And I fell shaltunto not speak evil of the ruler of thy people. {23:6} But the ground, and heard a voice saying unto me,when Saul, Paul Saul, perceived that the one part were Sadducees, and why persecutest thou me? {22:8} And I answered, Whothe otherart Pharisees, he cried out in the council, Men [and] thou, Lord? And he said unto me, I am Jesus ofbrethren, Nazareth, I am a Pharisee, the son of a Pharisee: of the hope whom thou persecutest. {22:9} And they that were withand me resurrection of the dead I am called in question. {23:7} saw indeed the light, and were afraid; but they heard not theAnd when he had so said, there arose a dissension between voice of him that spake to me. {22:10} And theI said, Pharisees What and the Sadducees: and the multitude was Acts Page 84 divided. {23:8} For the Sadducees presentedsay that Paulthere alsois no before him. {23:34} And when the resurrection, neither angel, nor governorspirit: had butread [thethe letter,] Pharisees he asked of what province he confess both. {23:9} And there arose a greatwas. cry: Andand thewhen he understood that [he was] of Cilicia; scribes [that were] of the Pharisees' part arose, {23:35}and strove, I will hear thee, said he, when thine accusers are saying, We find no evil in this man: but ifalso a spiritcome. Andor an he commanded him to be kept in Herod's angel hath spoken to him, let us notjudgment fight hall.against God. {23:10} And when there arose a great dissension, the chief captain, fearing lest Paul should have been pulled in{24:1} pieces And after five days Ananias the high priest of them, commanded the soldiers to go down,descended and to take with the elders, and [with] a certain orator him by force from among them, and to bring [him] into[named] the , who informed the governor against Paul. castle. {23:11} And the night following the Lord{24:2} stood And by when he was called forth, Tertullus began to him, and said, Be of good cheer, Paul:accuse for as[him,] thou saying, hast Seeing that by thee we enjoy great testified of me in Jerusalem, so must thou bear witnessquietness, also and that very worthy deeds are done unto this at Rome. {23:12} And when it was day, certain of the nationJews by thy providence, {24:3} We accept [it] always, and banded together, and bound themselvesin all places, most under noble Felix, a withcurse, all thankfulness. {24:4} saying that they would neither eat nor drinkNotwithstanding, till they had that I be not further tedious unto thee, I killed Paul. {23:13} And they were more than fortypray theewhich that thou wouldest hear us of thy clemency a few had made this conspiracy. {23:14} And theywords. came {24:5} to the For we have found this man [a] pestilent chief priests and elders, and said, We have bound ourselves[fellow,] and a mover of sedition among all the Jews under a great curse, that we will eat nothing untilthroughout we have the world, and a ringleader of the sect of the slain Paul. {23:15} Now thereforeNazarenes: ye with {24:6} Whothe alsocouncil hath gone about to profane the signify to the chief captain that he bring him down unto youtemple: whom we took, and would have judged according to to morrow, as though ye would enquireour something law. {24:7} more But the chief captain Lysias came [upon perfectly concerning him: and we, or ever he come near, areus,] and with great violence took [him] away out of our ready to kill him. {23:16} And when Paul'shands, {24:8} sister's Commanding son his accusers to come unto thee: heard of their lying in wait, he went and enteredby examining into the of whom thyself mayest take knowledge of castle, and told Paul. {23:17} Then Paul calledall one these of thethings, whereof we accuse him. {24:9} And the centurions unto [him,] and said, Bring this young manJews unto also assented, saying that these things were so. the chief captain: for he hath a certain {24:10}thing to Thentell him.Paul, after that the governor had beckoned {23:18} So he took him, and brought [him]unto himto the to chiefspeak, answered, Forasmuch as I know that captain, and said, Paul the prisoner called thoume untohast been [him,] of many years a judge unto this nation, I do and prayed me to bring this young man unto thee, who haththe more cheerfully answer for myself: {24:11} Because something to say unto thee. {23:19} Then the chiefthat captain thou mayest understand, that there are yet but twelve took him by the hand, and went [with him] aside privately,days since I went up to Jerusalem for to worship. {24:12} and asked [him,] What is that thou hast to tell me? {23:20}And they neither found me in the temple disputing with any And he said, The Jews have agreed to desire thee thatman, thou neither raising up the people, neither in the wouldest bring down Paul to morrow into synagogues,the council, nor inas the city: {24:13} Neither can they prove though they would enquirethe thingssomewhat whereof they nowof accuse him me. {24:14}more But this I perfectly. {23:21} But do not thou yieldconfess untounto thee, them: that afterfor the way which they call heresy, there lie in wait for him of them more than forty men, whichso worship I the God of my fathers, believing all things have bound themselves with an oath, that they willwhich neither are written in the law and in the prophets: {24:15} eat nor drink till they have killed him: andAnd now have are hopethey toward God, which they themselves also ready, looking for a promise from thee.allow, {23:22}that there shallSo bethe a resurrection of the dead, both of chief captain [then] let the young man depart, andthe charged just and unjust. {24:16} And herein do I exercise [him, See thou] tell no man that thou hastmyself, shewed to have alwaysthese a conscience void of offence toward things to me. {23:23} And he God,called and [toward]unto [him]men. {24:17} two Now after many years I centurions, saying, Make ready two hundred soldierscame toto go bring alms to my nation, and offerings. {24:18} to Caesarea, and horsemenWhereupon threescore certain Jews from Asiaand found meten, purified inand the spearmen two hundred, at the thirdtemple, hour neither of the with night; multitude, nor with tumult. {24:19} {23:24} And provide [them] beasts, that they mayWho set oughtPaul to have been here before thee, and object, if they on, and bring [him] safe unto Felix the governor.had ought {23:25} against me. {24:20} Or else let these same [here] And he wrote a letter after this manner: {23:26}say, ifClaudius they have found any evil doing in me, while I stood Lysias unto the most excellent governorbefore the Felix council, [sendeth] {24:21} Except it be for this one voice, greeting. {23:27} This man was takenthat ofI cried the standing Jews, among and them, Touching the resurrection should have been killed of them: then came I with an army,of the dead I am called in question by you this day. and rescued him, having understood that he was a Roman. {23:28} And when I would {24:22}have And knownwhen Felix heardthe these cause things, having more wherefore they accused him, I brought him forthperfect into knowledgetheir of [that] way, he deferred them, and said, council: {23:29} Whom I perceivedWhen Lysiasto be theaccused chief captainof shall come down, I will questions of their law, but to have nothing laid to his chargeknow the uttermost of your matter. {24:23} And he worthy of death or of bonds. {23:30} And when it wascommanded told a centurion to keep Paul, and to let [him] have me how that the Jews laid waitliberty, for and the that heman, should I forbidsent none of his acquaintance straightway to thee, and gave commandment to his accusersto minister or come unto him. also to say before thee what [they had] against him. Farewell. {23:31} Then the soldiers, as it was commanded{24:24} And after certain days, when Felix came with his them, took Paul, and brought [him] by night towife . Drusilla, which was a Jewess, he sent for Paul, and {23:32} On the morrow they left the horsemenheard to go him with concerning the faith in Christ. {24:25} And as he him, and returned to the castle: {23:33} Who,reasoned when theyof righteousness, , and judgment to came to Caesarea, and delivered the epistle to the governor,come Felix trembled, and answered, Go thy way for this Page 85 Acts time; when I have a convenient season, I will call offor thee.the city, at Festus' commandment Paul was brought {24:26} He hoped also that money should have beenforth. given {25:24} And Festus said, King Agrippa, and all men him of Paul, that he might loose him: wherefore he sentwhich for are here present with us, ye see this man, about him the oftener, and communed with him. {24:27} But afterwhom all the multitude of the Jews have dealt with me, both two years came into Felix' room: andat Felix,Jerusalem, and [also] here, crying that he ought not to willing to shew the Jews a pleasure, left Paul bound.live any longer. {25:25} But when I found that he had committed nothing worthy of death, and that he himself {25:1} Now when Festus was come intohath appealedthe province, to Augustus, I have determined to send him. after three days he ascended from Caesarea{25:26} to Jerusalem. Of whom I have no certain thing to write unto my {25:2} Then the high priest and thelord. chiefWherefore of Ithe have Jews brought him forth before you, and informed him against Paul, and besought him, {25:3}specially And before thee, O king Agrippa, that, after desired favour against him, that he would sendexamination for him tohad, I might have somewhat to write. {25:27} Jerusalem, laying wait in the way to kill him.For {25:4}it seemeth But to me unreasonable to send a prisoner, and Festus answered, that Paul should be kept at Caesarea,not withal and to signify the crimes [laid] against him. that he himself would depart shortly [thither. ]{25:5} Let them therefore, said he, which among you are able, go down {26:1} Then Agrippa said unto Paul, Thou art permitted with [me,] and accuse this man, if there be any wickednessto speak for thyself. Then Paul stretched forth the hand, and in him. {25:6} And when he had tarried among themanswered more for himself: {26:2} I think myself happy, king than ten days, he went down unto Caesarea;Agrippa, and the because next I shall answer for myself this day before day sitting on the judgment seat commandedthee touching Paul toall bethe things whereof I am accused of the brought. {25:7} And when he was come, theJews: Jews {26:3} which Especially [because I know] thee to be expert came down from Jerusalem stood roundin allabout, customs and andlaid questions which are among the Jews: many and grievous complaints againstwherefore Paul, I beseechwhich theethey to hear me patiently. {26:4} My could not prove. {25:8} While he answeredmanner of forlife from himself, my youth, which was at the first among Neither against the law of the Jews,mine neither own nation against at Jerusalem,the know all the Jews; {26:5} temple, nor yet against Caesar, have I offended any thingWhich at knew me from the beginning, if they would testify, all. {25:9} But Festus, willing to do the Jewsthat aftera pleasure, the most straitest sect of our religion I lived a answered Paul, and said, Wilt thou go up to Jerusalem,Pharisee. and {26:6} And now I stand and am judged for the there be judged of these things before me?hope {25:10} of the Thenpromise made of God unto our fathers: {26:7} said Paul, I stand at Caesar's judgment seat, whereUnto I ought which [promise] our twelve tribes, instantly serving to be judged: to the Jews have I done no wrong,[God] day as and thou night, hope to come. For which hope's sake, very well knowest. {25:11} For if I be an offender, orking have Agrippa, I am accused of the Jews. {26:8} Why should committed any thing worthy of death, I refuse not to die: butit be thought a thing incredible with you, that God should if there be none of these things whereof these accuse me, noraise the dead? {26:9} I verily thought with myself, that I man may deliver me unto them. I oughtappeal to do unto many Caesar.things contrary to the name of Jesus of {25:12} Then Festus, when he hadNazareth. conferred {26:10} Which with thing theI also did in Jerusalem: and council, answered, Hast thou appealed untomany Caesar?of the saints unto did I shut up in prison, having received Caesar shalt thou go. authority from the chief priests; and when they were put to death, I gave my voice against [them. ]{26:11} And I {25:13} And after certain days king Agrippa and punishedBernice them oft in every synagogue, and compelled came unto Caesarea to salute Festus. {25:14}[them] toAnd blaspheme; when and being exceedingly mad against they had been there many days, Festusthem, I persecuteddeclared [them] Paul's even unto strange cities. {26:12} cause unto the king, saying, There is a certainWhereupon man left in as I went to Damascus with authority and bonds by Felix: {25:15} About whom,commission when from I thewas chief at priests, {26:13} At midday, O Jerusalem, the chief priests and theking, elders I saw ofin thethe Jewsway a light from heaven, above the informed [me,] desiring [to have] judgmentbrightness against of the him. sun, shining round about me and them {25:16} To whom I answered, It is not the mannerwhich ofjourneyed the with me. {26:14} And when we were all Romans to deliver any man to die, before that hefallen which to is the earth, I heard a voice speaking unto me, and accused have the accusers face to face, and have licencesaying to in the Hebrew tongue, Saul, Saul, why persecutest answer for himself concerning the crime laidthou against me? him.[it is] hard for thee to kick against the pricks. {25:17} Therefore, when they were come{26:15} hither, And Iwithout said, Who art thou, Lord? And he said, I am any delay on the morrow I sat on the judgmentJesus seat,whom and thou persecutest. {26:16} But rise, and stand commanded the man to be brought forth. {25:18}upon Against thy feet: for I have appeared unto thee for this whom when the accusers stood up,purpose, they to make brought thee a minister none and a witness both of these accusation of such things as I supposed: {25:19}things But which had thou hast seen, and of those things in the certain questions against him of their own superstition,which Iand will appear unto thee; {26:17} Delivering thee from of one Jesus, which was dead, whom Paul affirmedthe people, to and be [from] the Gentiles, unto whom now I send alive. {25:20} And because I doubted of thee,such {26:18} manner To ofopen their eyes, [and] to turn [them] from questions, I asked [him] whether he would go to Jerusalem,darkness to light, and [from] the power of Satan unto God, and there be judged of these matters. {25:21}that they Butmay whenreceive forgiveness of sins, and inheritance Paul had appealed to be reservedamong unto them the which hearing are sanctified of by faith that is in me. Augustus, I commanded him to be kept till I might send him{26:19} Whereupon, O king Agrippa, I was not disobedient to Caesar. {25:22} Then Agrippa said unto Festus, untoI would the heavenly vision: {26:20} But shewed first unto also hear the man myself. To morrow, said themhe, thouof Damascus, shalt and at Jerusalem, and throughout all the hear him. coasts of Judaea, and [then] to the Gentiles, that they should repent and turn to God, and do works meet for repentance. {25:23} And on the morrow, when Agrippa{26:21} was For come, these causes the Jews caught me in the temple, and Bernice, with great pomp, and wasand entered went intoabout the to kill [me. ]{26:22} Having therefore place of hearing, with the chief captains, and principalobtained men help of God, I continue unto this day, witnessing Acts Page 86 both to small and great, saying none other things than shouldthose fall into the quicksands, strake sail, and so were which the prophets and Mosesdriven. did {27:18}say should And we come:being exceedingly tossed with a {26:23} That Christ should suffer, [and] that hetempest, should bethe next [day] they lightened the ship; {27:19} the first that should rise from the dead, Andand shouldthe third shew [day] we cast out with our own hands the light unto the people, and to the Gentiles. tackling of the ship. {27:20} And when neither sun nor stars in many days appeared, and no small tempest lay on [us,] all {26:24} And as he thus spake for himself,hope that Festuswe should saidbe saved was then taken away. {27:21} with a loud voice, Paul, thou artBut beside after long thyself; abstinence much Paul stood forth in the midst of learning doth make thee mad. {26:25} But he said, I am them,not and said, Sirs, ye should have hearkened unto me, and mad, most noble Festus; but speak forth the wordsnot of havetruth loosed from , and to have gained this harm and soberness. {26:26} For the kingand loss. knoweth {27:22} of And these now I exhort you to be of good things, before whom also I speak freely: for I am persuadedcheer: for there shall be no loss of [any man's] life among that none of these things are hidden from him; for this thingyou, but of the ship. {27:23} For there stood by me this was not done in a corner. {26:27} King Agrippa,night believest the angel of God, whose I am, and whom I serve, thou the prophets? I know that thou believest. {26:28} Then{27:24} Saying, Fear not, Paul; thou must be brought before Agrippa said unto Paul, Almost thou persuadest meCaesar: to be a and, lo, God hath given thee all them that sail with Christian. {26:29} And Paul said, I would to God,thee. that not {27:25} Wherefore, sirs, be of good cheer: for I only thou, but also all that hear me thisbelieve day, God, werethat it shallboth be even as it was told me. {27:26} almost, and altogether such as I am, exceptHowbeit these we must bonds. be cast upon a certain island. {27:27} But {26:30} And when he had thus spoken, the whenking therose fourteenth up, night was come, as we were driven up and the governor, and Bernice, and they that sat withand them: down in Adria, about midnight the shipmen deemed {26:31} And when they were gonethat they aside, drew near tothey some country;talked {27:28} And sounded, between themselves, saying,and foundThis [it] mantwenty fathoms:doeth andnothing when they had gone a worthy of death or of bonds. {26:32} Thenlittle said further,Agrippa they sounded again, and found [it] fifteen unto Festus, This man might have been set at liberty,fathoms. if he {27:29} Then fearing lest we should have fallen had not appealed unto Caesar. upon rocks, they cast four anchors out of the stern, and wished for the day. {27:30} And as the shipmen were about {27:1} And when it was determined that weto shouldflee out ofsail the ship, when they had let down the boat into into Italy, they delivered Paul and certainthe other sea, prisoners under colour as though they would have cast unto [one] named Julius, a centurion ofanchors Augustus' out band. of the foreship, {27:31} Paul said to the {27:2} And entering into a shipcenturion of and Adramyttium, to the soldiers, Except thesewe abide in the ship, launched, meaning to sail by the yecoasts cannot ofbe saved.Asia; {27:32}[one] Then the soldiers cut off the Aristarchus, a Macedonian of Thessalonica, beingropes withof the us.boat, and let her fall off. {27:33} And while the {27:3} And the next [day] we touched at Sidon. And dayJulius was coming on, Paul besought [them] all to take meat, courteously entreated Paul, and gave saying,[him] Thisliberty day isto the go fourteenth day that ye have tarried unto his friends to refresh himself. {27:4}and And continuedwhen we fasting, having taken nothing. {27:34} had launched from thence, we sailed under Cyprus, becauseWherefore I pray you to take [some] meat: for this is for the winds were contrary. {27:5} And when weyour had health: sailed for there shall not an hair fall from the head of over the sea of Cilicia and Pamphylia, we came to Myra,any [a of you. {27:35} And when he had thus spoken, he took city] of Lycia. {27:6} And there the centurion foundbread, a ship and gave thanks to God in presence of them all: and of Alexandria sailing into Italy; whenand hehe hadput brokenus therein. [it,] he began to eat. {27:36} Then {27:7} And when we had sailed slowlywere many they alldays, of good and cheer, and they also took [some] meat. scarce were come over against{27:37} Cnidus, And thewe werewind innot all in the ship two hundred suffering us, we sailed under Crete, over againstthreescore Salmone; and sixteen souls. {27:38} And when they had {27:8} And, hardly passing it, came unto a placeeaten which enough, is they lightened the ship, and cast out the called The fair havens; nigh whereunto wheatwas the into city the [of] sea. {27:39} And when it was day, they Lasea. knew not the land: but they discovered a certain creek with a shore, into the which they were minded, if it were {27:9} Now when much time was spent, and when sailingpossible, to thrust in the ship. {27:40} And when they had was now dangerous, because the fast was now alreadytaken past, up the anchors, they committed [themselves] unto the Paul admonished [them, ]{27:10} And said unto them, sea,Sirs, and loosed the rudder bands, and hoised up the mainsail I perceive that this voyage will be towith the hurtwind, andand mademuch toward shore. {27:41} And falling damage, not only of the lading and ship,into but a placealso whereof our two met, they ran the ship aground; lives. {27:11} Nevertheless theand the centurion forepart stuck believedfast, and remained the unmoveable, but master and the owner of the ship, more thanthe thosehinder thingspart was broken with the violence of the waves. which were spoken by Paul. {27:12}{27:42} AndAnd the because soldiers' counsel the was to kill the prisoners, haven was not commodious to winterlest in, any theof them more should part swim out, and escape. {27:43} But advised to depart thence also, if by any meansthe they centurion, might willing to save Paul, kept them from [their] attain to Phenice, [and there] to winter; [which is] an purpose;haven and commanded that they which could swim of Crete, and lieth toward the south west andshould north cast [themselves]west. first [into the sea,] and get to land: {27:13} And when the south wind blew softly,{27:44} supposing And the rest, some on boards, and some on [broken that they had obtained [their] purpose, loosing [thence,] theypieces] of the ship. And so it came to pass, that they escaped sailed close by Crete. {27:14} But not long after there aroseall safe to land. against it a tempestuous wind, called Euroclydon. {27:15} And when the ship was caught, and could not bear{28:1} up into And when they were escaped, then they knew that the wind, we let [her] drive. {27:16} And runningthe under island a was called Melita. {28:2} And the barbarous certain island which is called Clauda, we had much workpeople to shewed us no little kindness: for they kindled a fire, come by the boat: {27:17} Which when they had takenand receivedup, us every one, because of the present rain, and they used helps, undergirding the ship; and, fearing lest theybecause of the cold. {28:3} And when Paul had gathered a Page 87 Acts bundle of sticks, and laid [them] on the fire, waxedthere came gross, a and their ears are dull of hearing, and their viper out of the heat, and fastened on his hand. {28:4}eyes And have they closed; lest they should see with [their] eyes, when the saw the [venomous] beast hangand on hear his with [their] ears, and understand with [their] heart, hand, they said among themselves, No doubt thisand man should is a be converted, and I should heal them. {28:28} murderer, whom, though he hathBe itescaped known therefore the unto sea, you, that yet the salvation of God is vengeance suffereth not to live. {28:5} Andsent he unto shook the Gentiles,off and [that] they will hear it. {28:29} into the fire, and felt no harm. And{28:6} when Howbeithe had said these words, the Jews departed, and they looked when he should have swollen, orhad fallen great down reasoning among themselves. dead suddenly: but after they had looked a great while, and saw no harm come to him, they changed their {28:30}minds, Andand Paul dwelt two whole years in his own hired said that he was a god. house, and received all that came in unto him, {28:31} Preaching the kingdom of God, and teaching those things {28:7} In the same quarters were possessions of thewhich chief concern the Lord Jesus Christ, with all confidence, man of the island, whose name was Publius; whono received man forbidding him. us, and lodged us three days courteously. {28:8} And it came to pass, that the father of Publius lay sick of a fever and of a bloody flux: to whom Paul entered in, and prayed, and laid his hands on him, and healed him. {28:9} So when this was done, others also, which had diseases in the island, came, and were healed: {28:10} Who also honoured us with many honours; and when we departed, they laded [us] with such things as were necessary.

{28:11} And after three months we departed in a ship of Alexandria, which had wintered in the isle, whose sign was Castor and Pollux. {28:12} And landing at Syracuse, we tarried [there] three days. {28:13} And from thence we fetched a compass, and came to Rhegium: and after one day the south wind blew, and we came the next day to Puteoli: {28:14} Where we found brethren, and were desired to tarry with them seven days: and so we went toward Rome. {28:15} And from thence, when the brethren heard of us, they came to meet us as far as Appii Forum, and The three taverns: whom when Paul saw, he thanked God, and took courage. {28:16} And when we came to Rome, the centurion delivered the prisoners to the captain of the guard: but Paul was suffered to dwell by himself with a soldier that kept him.

{28:17} And it came to pass, that after three days Paul called the chief of the Jews together: and when they were come together, he said unto them, Men [and] brethren, though I have committed nothing against the people, or customs of our fathers, yet was I delivered prisoner from Jerusalem into the hands of the Romans. {28:18} Who, when they had examined me, would have let [me] go, because there was no cause of death in me. {28:19} But when the Jews spake against [it,] I was constrained to appeal unto Caesar; not that I had ought to accuse my nation of. {28:20} For this cause therefore have I called for you, to see [you,] and to speak with [you:] because that for the hope of Israel I am bound with this chain. {28:21} And they said unto him, We neither received letters out of Judaea concerning thee, neither any of the brethren that came shewed or spake any harm of thee. {28:22} But we desire to hear of thee what thou thinkest: for as concerning this sect, we know that every where it is spoken against. {28:23} And when they had appointed him a day, there came many to him into [his] lodging; to whom he expounded and testified the kingdom of God, persuading them concerning Jesus, both out of the law of Moses, and [out of] the prophets, from morning till evening. {28:24} And some believed the things which were spoken, and some believed not. {28:25} And when they agreed not among themselves, they departed, after that Paul had spoken one word, Well spake the Holy Ghost by Esaias the prophet unto our fathers, {28:26} Saying, Go unto this people, and say, Hearing ye shall hear, and shall not understand; and seeing ye shall see, and not perceive: {28:27} For the heart of this people is

Page 89 Romans The Epistle of to the Romans recompence of their error which was meet. {1:28} And even as they did not like to retain God in [their] knowledge, God gave them over to a reprobate mind, to do those things which are not convenient; {1:29} Being filled with all {1:1} Paul, a servant of Jesus Christ, unrighteousness,called [to be] an fornication, wickedness, covetousness, apostle, separated unto the gospel of God, {1:2} (Whichmaliciousness; he full of envy, murder, debate, deceit, had promised afore by his prophets in the holy malignity;scriptures,) whisperers, {1:30} Backbiters, haters of God, {1:3} Concerning his Son Jesus Christ our Lord, which despiteful,was proud, boasters, inventors of evil things, made of the seed of David according to the flesh; {1:4} Anddisobedient to parents, {1:31} Without understanding, declared [to be] the Son of God with power, covenantbreakers,according to without natural affection, implacable, the spirit of holiness, by the resurrectionunmerciful: from {1:32} the Who dead: knowing the judgment of God, that {1:5} By whom we have received grace and apostleship, forthey which commit such things are worthy of death, not obedience to the faith among all nations,only do thefor same,his name:but have pleasure in them that do them. {1:6} Among whom are ye also the called of Jesus Christ: {1:7} To all that be in Rome, beloved of God, called [to be]{2:1} Therefore thou art inexcusable, O man, whosoever saints: Grace to you and peace from God our Father, and thethou art that judgest: for wherein thou judgest another, thou Lord Jesus Christ. condemnest thyself; for thou that judgest doest the same things. {2:2} But we are sure that the judgment of God is {1:8} First, I thank my God through Jesus Christaccording for you to truth against them which commit such things. all, that your faith is spoken of throughout the whole world.{2:3} And thinkest thou this, O man, that judgest them {1:9} For God is my witness, whom I serve with mywhich spirit do such things, and doest the same, that thou shalt in the gospel of his Son, that withoutescape the ceasing judgment I ofmake God? {2:4} Or despisest thou the mention of you always in my prayers;riches of {1:10}his goodness Making and forbearance and longsuffering; request, if by any means now at lengthnot Iknowing might have that a the goodness of God leadeth thee to prosperous journey by the will of God to comerepentance? unto you. {2:5} But after thy hardness and impenitent {1:11} For I long to see you, that I may impartheart unto treasurest you up unto thyself wrath against the day of some , to the end ye may be established; {1:12}wrath and revelation of the righteous judgment of God; That is, that I may be comforted together with{2:6} you Whoby thewill render to every man according to his deeds: mutual faith both of you and me. {1:13} Now I would{2:7} notTo them who by patient continuance in well doing have you ignorant, brethren, that oftentimesseek I purposed for glory to and honour and immortality, eternal life: come unto you, (but was let hitherto,) {2:8}that ButI might unto themhave that are contentious, and do not obey some fruit among you also, even as among otherthe Gentiles. truth, but obey unrighteousness, indignation and wrath, {1:14} I am debtor both to {2:9}the Tribulation Greeks, and anguish, and uponto every the soul of man that Barbarians; both to the wise, and to the unwise. {1:15}doeth So, evil, of the Jew first, and also of the ; {2:10} as much as in me is, I am ready to preach the gospel toBut you glory, honour, and peace, to every man that worketh that are at Rome also. {1:16} For I am not ashamedgood, of theto the Jew first, and also to the Gentile: {2:11} For gospel of Christ: for it is the power of God unto salvation thereto is no respect of persons with God. {2:12} For as many every one that believeth; to the Jew first,as and have also sinned to the without law shall also perish without law: Greek. {1:17} For therein is theand righteousness as many as have sinned of Godin the law shall be judged by revealed from faith to faith: as it is written, theThe law;just shall{2:13} (For not the hearers of the law [are] just live by faith. before God, but the doers of the law shall be justified. {2:14} For when the Gentiles, which have not the law, do {1:18} For the wrath of God is revealedby nature from the things heaven contained in the law, these, having not against all ungodliness and unrighteousnessthe law, of are men,a law untowho themselves: {2:15} Which shew the hold the truth in unrighteousness;work of {1:19}the law written Because in their hearts, that their conscience also which may be known of God is manifest in them;bearing for God witness, and [their] thoughts the mean while hath shewed [it] unto them. {1:20} For the invisibleaccusing things or else excusing one another;) {2:16} In the day of him from the creation of the world are clearly seen, beingwhen God shall judge the secrets of men by Jesus Christ understood by the things that are made, [even]according his eternal to my gospel. power and Godhead; so that they are without excuse: {1:21} Because that, when they knew God, they glorified [him] not{2:17} Behold, thou art called a Jew, and restest in the as God, neither were thankful; but becamelaw, and vain makest in their thy boast of God, {2:18} And knowest imaginations, and their foolish heart was darkened.[his] will, {1:22} and approvest the things that are more excellent, Professing themselves to be beingwise, instructed they outbecame of the law;fools, {2:19} And art confident {1:23} And changed the glory of the uncorruptible God intothat thou thyself art a guide of the blind, a light of them an image made like to corruptible man, andwhich to arebirds, in darkness, and {2:20} An instructor of the foolish, a fourfooted beasts, and creeping things. teacher of babes, which hast the form of knowledge and of the truth in the law. {2:21} Thou therefore which teachest {1:24} Wherefore God also gave them up to uncleannessanother, teachest thou not thyself? thou that preachest a man through the lusts of their own hearts, to dishonour their ownshould not steal, dost thou steal? {2:22} Thou that sayest a bodies between themselves: {1:25} Who changedman the truth should not commit adultery, dost thou commit of God into a lie, and worshipped and servedadultery? the creature thou that abhorrest idols, dost thou commit more than the Creator, who is blessedsacrilege? for ever.{2:23} Amen.Thou that makest thy boast of the law, {1:26} For this cause God throughgave breakingthem upthe untolaw dishonourest vile thou God? {2:24} affections: for even their women did change the naturalFor use the name of God is blasphemed among the Gentiles into that which is against nature: {1:27} And likewisethrough also you, as it is written. {2:25} For circumcision verily the men, leaving the natural use of the woman,profiteth, burned if inthou keep the law: but if thou be a breaker of their lust one toward another; men with men theworking law, thatthy circumcision is made uncircumcision. {2:26} which is unseemly, and receivingTherefore if inthe uncircumcisionthemselves keep that the righteousness of Romans Page 90 the law, shall not his uncircumcisionthe law through faith? Godbe forbid: counted yea, we establish for the law. circumcision? {2:27} And shall not uncircumcision which is by nature, if it fulfil the law, judge thee, who by the letter{4:1} What shall we say then that Abraham our father, as and circumcision dost transgress the law? {2:28}pertaining For he is to the flesh, hath found? {4:2} For if Abraham not a Jew, which is one outwardly;were justified byneither works, he hath [is [whereof] that] to glory; but not circumcision, which is outward in the flesh: {2:29}before But heGod. {4:3} For what saith the scripture? Abraham [is] a Jew, which is one inwardly; and circumcision [is that]believed God, and it was counted unto him for of the heart, in the spirit, [and] not righteousness.in the letter; {4:4} Nowwhose to him that worketh is the reward praise [is] not of men, but of God. not reckoned of grace, but of debt. {4:5} But to him that worketh not, but believeth on him that justifieth the {3:1} What advantage then hath the Jew? or ungodly,what profit his faith is counted for righteousness. {4:6} Even [is there] of circumcision? {3:2} Much every way:as chiefly,David also describeth the blessedness of the man, unto because that unto them were committed the oracles ofwhom God. God imputeth righteousness without works, {4:7} {3:3} For what if some did not believe? shall their unbelief[Saying,] Blessed [are] they whose iniquities are forgiven, make the faith of God without effect? {3:4}and whose God sinsforbid: are covered. {4:8} Blessed [is] the man to yea, let God be true, but every man a liar; as itwhom is written, the Lord will not impute sin. {4:9} [Cometh] this That thou mightest be justified in thy sayings, and mightestblessedness then upon the circumcision [only,] or upon the overcome when thou art uncircumcisionjudged. also?{3:5} for we sayBut that faithif was our reckoned to unrighteousness commend the righteousnessAbraham of God, what for righteousness. {4:10} How was it then shall we say? [Is] God unrighteous who taketh vengeance?reckoned? when he was in circumcision, or in (I speak as a man) {3:6} God forbid: for then how shall Goduncircumcision? Not in circumcision, but in judge the world? {3:7} For if the truth of Goduncircumcision. hath more {4:11} And he received the sign of abounded through my lie unto his glory; why yet amcircumcision, I also a seal of the righteousness of the faith which judged as a sinner? {3:8} And not[he [rather,] had yet] (as being we uncircumcised:be that he might be the slanderously reported, and as some affirm that we say,)father Let of all them that believe, though they be not us do evil, that good may come? whose damnation is just.circumcised; that righteousness might be imputed unto them also: {4:12} And the father of circumcision to them who are {3:9} What then? are we better [than they?]not of the No, circumcision in no only, but who also walk in the steps wise: for we have before proved both Jewsof andthat Gentiles,faith of our father Abraham, which [he had] being that they are all under sin; {3:10} As it is written, [yet]There uncircumcised. is {4:13} For the promise, that he should none righteous, no, not one: {3:11}be theThere heir isof thenone world, that [was] not to Abraham, or to his understandeth, there is none that seeketh after God.seed, {3:12} through the law, but through the righteousness of They are all gone out of the way, they are together becomefaith. {4:14} For if they which are of the law [be] heirs, unprofitable; there is none that doeth faithgood, is no,made not void, one. and the promise made of none effect: {3:13} Their throat [is] an open{4:15} sepulchre;Because the law worketh with wrath: their for where no law is, tongues they have used deceit; the poison of asps [is] [thereunder is] no transgression. {4:16} Therefore [it is] of faith, their lips: {3:14} Whose mouth [is]that full [it mightof cursingbe] by grace; and to the end the promise might be bitterness: {3:15} Their feet [are]sure toswift all the seed;to notshed to that blood: only which is of the law, but {3:16} Destruction and misery [are] in theirto ways: that {3:17}also which is of the faith of Abraham; who is the And the way of peace have they not known: {3:18} There isfather of us all, {4:17} (As it is written, I have made thee a no before their eyes. father of many nations,) before him whom he believed, [even] God, who quickeneth the dead, and calleth those {3:19} Now we know that what thingsthings soever which the law be not as though they were. {4:18} Who saith, it saith to them who are under theagainst law: thathope everybelieved in hope, that he might become the mouth may be stopped, and all thefather world of many may nations; become according to that which was spoken, guilty before God. {3:20} Therefore by the deeds of the lawSo shall thy seed be. {4:19} And being not weak in faith, he there shall no flesh be justified in his sight: for consideredby the law not his own body now dead, when he was about [is] the knowledge of sin. an hundred years old, neither yet the deadness of Sarah's womb: {4:20} He staggered not at the promise of God {3:21} But now the righteousness of God without thethrough law unbelief; but was strong in faith, giving glory to is manifested, being witnessed by the law and the prophets;God; {4:21} And being fully persuaded that, what he had {3:22} Even the righteousness of God [which is] by faithpromised, of he was able also to perform. {4:22} And Jesus Christ unto all and upon all themtherefore that believe: it was forimputed to him for righteousness. {4:23} there is no difference: {3:23} For all have sinned, and comeNow it was not written for his sake alone, that it was short of the glory of God; {3:24} Being justifiedimputed freely to by him; {4:24} But for us also, to whom it shall be his grace through the redemption that imputed,is in Christif we believe Jesus: on him that raised up Jesus our Lord {3:25} Whom God hath set forth [tofrom be] the dead;a {4:25} Who was delivered for our offences, through faith in his blood, to declare his righteousnessand was raised for again for our justification. the remission of sins that are past, through the forbearance of God; {3:26} To declare, [I{5:1} say,] Therefore at this being timejustified his by faith, we have peace righteousness: that he might be just, and the justifier ofwith him God through our Lord Jesus Christ: {5:2} By whom which believeth in Jesus. {3:27} Where [is] boastingalso then?we have access by faith into this grace wherein we It is excluded. By what law? of works? Nay: but by thestand, law and rejoice in hope of the glory of God. {5:3} And of faith. {3:28} Therefore we concludenot only [so,] but that we glory a in tribulationsman is also: knowing that justified by faith without the deeds of the tribulationlaw. {3:29} [Is worketh patience; {5:4} And patience, he] the God of the Jews only? [is experience;he] not andalso experience, of the hope: {5:5} And hope maketh Gentiles? Yes, of the Gentiles also: {3:30} Seeing [it is] onenot ashamed; because the love of God is shed abroad in our God, which shall justify the circumcisionhearts by the Holyby Ghostfaith, which and is given unto us. {5:6} For uncircumcision through faith. {3:31} Do we then make voidwhen we were yet without strength, in due time Christ died Page 91 Romans for the ungodly. {5:7} For scarcely for a righteous man {6:16}will Know ye not, that to whom ye yield yourselves one die: yet peradventure for a good man some wouldservants even to obey, his servants ye are to whom ye obey; dare to die. {5:8} But God commendeth his love towardwhether us, of sin unto death, or of obedience unto in that, while we were yet sinners, Christ died for us.righteousness? {5:9} {6:17} But God be thanked, that ye were the Much more then, being now justified by his blood, we servantsshall of sin, but ye have obeyed from the heart that form be saved from wrath through him. {5:10} For if,of when doctrine we which was delivered you. {6:18} Being then were enemies, we were reconciled to God by madethe death offree from sin, ye became the servants of his Son, much more, being reconciled, we shall be savedrighteousness. by {6:19} I speak after the manner of men his life. {5:11} And not only [so,] but we also becausejoy in ofGod the infirmity of your flesh: for as ye have yielded through our Lord Jesus Christ, by yourwhom members we have servants now to uncleanness and to iniquity unto received the . iniquity; even so now yield your members servants to righteousness unto holiness. {6:20} For when ye were the {5:12} Wherefore, as by one man sinservants entered ofinto sin, the ye were free from righteousness. {6:21} world, and death by sin; and so death passed upon allWhat men, fruit had ye then in those things whereof ye are now for that all have sinned: {5:13} (For until the law sin wasashamed? in for the end of those things [is] death. {6:22} But the world: but sin is not imputed whennow there being madeis no free law.from sin, and become servants to God, {5:14} Nevertheless death reigned from yeAdam have to your Moses, fruit unto holiness, and the end everlasting even over them that had not sinned after the life.similitude {6:23} ofFor the wages of sin [is] death; but the gift of Adam's transgression, who is the figure of him thatGod was [is] to eternal life through Jesus Christ our Lord. come. {5:15} But not as the offence, so also [is] the free gift. For if through the offence of one many be dead, {7:1}much Know ye not, brethren, (for I speak to them that more the grace of God, and the gift by grace, [whichknow is] by the law,) how that the law hath dominion over a man one man, Jesus Christ, hath abounded untoas many.long as {5:16} he liveth? {7:2} For the woman which hath an And not as [it was] by one that sinned, [so is] thehusband gift: isfor bound by the law to [her] husband so long as he the judgment [was] by one to condemnation,liveth; but butthe iffree the husband be dead, she is loosed from the gift [is] of many offences unto justification. {5:17} For if bylaw of [her] husband. {7:3} So then if, while [her] husband one man's offence death reigned by one; muchliveth, more she theybe married to another man, she shall be called an which receive abundance of graceadulteress: and but if ofher husbandthe giftbe dead, ofshe is free from that righteousness shall reign in lifelaw; by so thatone, she isJesus no adulteress, Christ.) though she be married to {5:18} Therefore as by the offence of one [judgment came]another man. {7:4} Wherefore, my brethren, ye also are upon all men to condemnation; even so by the righteousnessbecome dead to the law by the ; that ye of one [the free gift came] upon all men unto justification ofshould be married to another, [even] to him who is raised life. {5:19} For as by one man's disobediencefrom many the were dead, that we should bring forth fruit unto God. made sinners, so by the obedience of one{7:5} shall For manywhen webe were in the flesh, the motions of sins, made righteous. {5:20} Moreover the law entered,which that were the by the law, did work in our members to bring offence might abound. But where sin abounded,forth gracefruit unto did death. {7:6} But now we are delivered from much more abound: {5:21} That as sin haththe reigned law, untothat being dead wherein we were held; that we death, even so might grace reign through righteousness untoshould serve in newness of spirit, and not [in] the oldness of eternal life by Jesus Christ our Lord. the letter.

{6:1} What shall we say then? Shall we continue{7:7} in sin, What shall we say then? [Is] the law sin? God that grace may abound? {6:2} God forbid. Howforbid. shall Nay, we, I had not known sin, but by the law: for I had that are dead to sin, live any longer therein? {6:3} Knownot ye known lust, except the law had said, Thou shalt not not, that so many of us as were baptized into covet.Jesus {7:8}Christ But sin, taking occasion by the commandment, were baptized into his death? {6:4} Therefore we are buriedwrought in me all manner of . For without the with him by baptism into death: that lawlike sin as [was] Christ dead. was {7:9} For I was alive without the law raised up from the dead by the glory of the Father, once:even sobut when the commandment came, sin revived, and I we also should walk in newness of life. died.{6:5} {7:10} For Andif we the commandment, which [was ordained] have been planted together in the likeness of histo death, life, we I found [to be] unto death. {7:11} For sin, taking shall be also [in the likeness of his]occasion resurrection: by the commandment, {6:6} deceived me, and by it slew Knowing this, that our old man is crucified with [him,][me. that ]{7:12} Wherefore the law [is] holy, and the the body of sin might be destroyed,commandment that henceforth holy, andwe just, and good. {7:13} Was then should not serve sin. {6:7} For he that is dead is freed thatfrom which is good made death unto me? God forbid. But sin. {6:8} Now if we be dead with Christ, we believesin, that that it might appear sin, working death in me by that we shall also live with him: {6:9} Knowingwhich is good; that that sinChrist by the commandment might become being raised from the dead dieth no more;exceeding death hath sinful.no {7:14} For we know that the law is more dominion over him. {6:10} For in that he died, he diedspiritual: but I am carnal, sold under sin. {7:15} For that unto sin once: but in that he liveth, hewhich liveth I do untoI allow God. not: for what I would, that do I not; but {6:11} Likewise reckon ye also whatyourselves I hate, that do I.to {7:16} be If thendead I do that which I would indeed unto sin, but alive unto God through Jesus Christ ournot, I consent unto the law that [it is] good. {7:17} Now Lord. {6:12} Let not sin therefore reignthen it isin no your more Imortal that do it, but sin that dwelleth in me. body, that ye should obey it in the lusts{7:18} thereof. For I know {6:13}that in me (that is, in my flesh,) dwelleth Neither yield ye your membersno good thing: for[as] to will instrumentsis present with me; but of[how] to unrighteousness unto sin: but yield yourselves unto God,perform as that which is good I find not. {7:19} For the good those that are alive from the dead, and your membersthat I would [as] I do not: but the evil which I would not, that I instruments of righteousness unto God. {6:14} For sindo. shall {7:20} Now if I do that I would not, it is no more I that not have dominion over you: for ye are not underdo theit, butlaw, sin that dwelleth in me. {7:21} I find then a law, but under grace. {6:15} What then? shall wethat, sin, when because I would do good, evil is present with me. {7:22} we are not under the law, but under grace?For I delight God in the forbid. law of God after the inward man: {7:23} Romans Page 92 But I see another law in my members, warring accordingagainst theto [the will of] God. {8:28} And we know that all law of my mind, and bringing me into captivity tothings the law work together for good to them that love God, to of sin which is in my members. {7:24} O wretched man thatthem who are the called according to [his] purpose. {8:29} I am! who shall deliver me from the bodyFor of whom this hedeath? did foreknow, he also did predestinate [to be] {7:25} I thank God through Jesus Christ our Lord. conformedSo then to the image of his Son, that he might be the with the mind I myself serve the law of God; butfirstborn with the among many brethren. {8:30} Moreover whom he flesh the law of sin. did predestinate, them he also called: and whom he called, them he also justified: and whom he justified, them he also {8:1} [There is] therefore now no condemnationglorified. to them {8:31} What shall we then say to these things? If which are in Christ Jesus, who walk not after the flesh,God but[be] for us, who [can be] against us? {8:32} He that after the Spirit. {8:2} For the law of thespared Spirit not hisof ownlife Son, in but delivered him up for us all, how Christ Jesus hath made me free from theshall law he ofnot sin with and him also freely give us all things? {8:33} death. {8:3} For what the law could not do, inWho that shall it waslay any thing to the charge of God's elect? [It is] weak through the flesh, God sending his Godown that Son justifieth. in the {8:34} Who [is] he that condemneth? [It likeness of sinful flesh, and for sin, condemnedis] Christsin in thatthe died, yea rather, that is risen again, who is flesh: {8:4} That the righteousness ofeven the at the law right handmight of God, be who also maketh intercession fulfilled in us, who walk not after the flesh,for butus. after {8:35} the Who shall separate us from the love of Spirit. {8:5} For they that are after the fleshChrist? do mind [shall] the tribulation, or distress, or persecution, or things of the flesh; but they that are famine,after the or nakedness,Spirit the or peril, or sword? {8:36} As it is things of the Spirit. {8:6} For to be carnallywritten, minded For thy sake[is] we are killed all the day long; we are death; but to be spiritually minded [is] life and peace. {8:7}accounted as sheep for the slaughter. {8:37} Nay, in all Because the carnal mind [is] enmity against God:these thingsfor it weis are more than conquerors through him that not subject to the law of God, neither indeed can be.loved {8:8} us. {8:38} For I am persuaded, that neither death, nor So then they that are in the flesh cannot please God.life, {8:9} nor angels, nor principalities, nor powers, nor things But ye are not in the flesh, but in the Spirit, if so be thatpresent, the nor things to come, {8:39} Nor height, nor depth, Spirit of God dwell in you. Now if any man havenor any not other the creature, shall be able to separate us from the Spirit of Christ, he is none of his. {8:10} And if Christlove [be] of God, which is in Christ Jesus our Lord. in you, the body [is] dead because of sin; but the Spirit [is] life because of righteousness. {8:11} But if the Spirit of him {9:1} I say the truth in Christ, I lie not, my conscience that raised up Jesus from the dead dwellalso in bearingyou, he methat witness in the Holy Ghost, {9:2} That I raised up Christ from the dead shallhave also great quicken heaviness your and continual sorrow in my heart. mortal bodies by his Spirit that dwelleth{9:3} inFor you. I could wish that myself were accursed from Christ for my brethren, my kinsmen according to the flesh: {8:12} Therefore, brethren, we are {9:4}debtors, Who are ;not to to thewhom [pertaineth] the , flesh, to live after the flesh. {8:13} For if ye liveand afterthe glory, the and the covenants, and the giving of the law, flesh, ye shall die: but if ye through the Spirit do mortify theand the service [of God,] and the promises; {9:5} Whose deeds of the body, ye shall live. {8:14} For as many[are] as are the fathers, and of whom as concerning the flesh led by the Spirit of God, they are the sons of God.Christ {8:15} [came,] who is over all, God blessed for ever. Amen. For ye have not received the spirit of bondage again to fear; but ye have received the Spirit of adoption, whereby we cry, {9:6} Not as though the word of God hath taken none Abba, Father. {8:16} The Spirit itself beareth witnesseffect. with For they [are] not all Israel, which are of Israel: our spirit, that we are the children of God: {9:7}{8:17} Neither, And if because they are the seed of Abraham, [are children, then heirs; heirs of God,they] and all children:joint-heirs but, withIn Isaac shall thy seed be called. Christ; if so be that we suffer with [him,] that{9:8} we may That be is, They which are the children of the flesh, also glorified together. these [are] not the children of God: but the children of the promise are counted for the seed. {9:9} For this [is] the {8:18} For I reckon that the sufferings of this present timeword of promise, At this time will I come, and Sarah shall [are] not worthy [to be compared] withhave the a son.glory {9:10} which And not only [this;] but when Rebecca shall be revealed in us. {8:19} For the earnestalso expectation had conceived by one, [even] by our father Isaac; of the creature waiteth for the manifestation of {9:11}the sons (For of [the children] being not yet born, neither having God. {8:20} For the creature was made subjectdone anyto goodvanity, or evil, that the purpose of God according to not willingly, but by reason of him who hath subjectedelection [the might stand, not of works, but of him that calleth;) same] in hope, {8:21} Because the creature itself also{9:12} shall It was said unto her, The elder shall serve the be delivered from the bondageyounger. of corruption {9:13} As it intois written, the Jacob have I loved, but glorious liberty of the children of God. {8:22} For we knowEsau have I hated. that the whole creation groaneth and travaileth in pain together until now. {8:23} And{9:14} Whatnot shall only we say then?[they,] [Is there] unrighteousnessbut ourselves also, which have the firstfruits of the Spirit,with evenGod? God forbid. {9:15} For he saith to Moses, I will we ourselves groan within haveourselves, mercy on whomwaiting I will havefor mercy, the and I will have adoption, [to wit,] the redemption of our body. compassion{8:24} For on whom I will have compassion. {9:16} So we are saved by hope: but hope that is seen is not hope:then for [it is] not of him that willeth, nor of him that runneth, what a man seeth, why doth he yet hope for? {8:25}but But ofif God that sheweth mercy. {9:17} For the scripture we hope for that we see not, [then] do we with patience waitsaith unto Pharaoh, Even for this same purpose have I raised for [it. ]{8:26} Likewise thethee up,Spirit that I might also shew helpethmy power in thee,our and that my infirmities: for we know not what we should pray for asname we might be declared throughout all the earth. {9:18} ought: but the Spirit itself maketh intercessionTherefore for us with hath he mercy on whom he will [have mercy,] groanings which cannot be uttered.and {8:27} whom he Andwill hehe hardeneth. that {9:19} Thou wilt say then searcheth the hearts knoweth what unto[is] me, the Why mind doth he ofyet findthe fault? For who hath resisted Spirit, because he maketh hisintercession will? {9:20} Nay but, Ofor man, whothe art thousaints that repliest Page 93 Romans against God? Shall the thing formed say to him that formedHave they not heard? Yes verily, their sound went into all [it,] Why hast thou made me thus? {9:21}the earth,Hath not and the their words unto the ends of the world. potter power over the clay, of the same lump to{10:19} make Butone I say, Did not Israel know? First Moses saith, I vessel unto honour, and another untowill dishonour? provoke you to{9:22} jealousy by [them that are] no people, [What] if God, willing to shew [his] wrath, and to make[and] his by a foolish nation I will anger you. {10:20} But power known, endured with much longsuffering the vesselsEsaias is very bold, and saith, I was found of them that of wrath fitted to destruction: {9:23} soughtAnd thatme not;he Imight was made manifest unto them that asked make known the riches of his glory on the vessels of mercy,not after me. {10:21} But to Israel he saith, All day long I which he had afore prepared unto glory, {9:24}have Evenstretched us, forth my hands unto a disobedient and whom he hath called, not of the Jews only, but alsogainsaying of the people. Gentiles? {9:25} As he saith also in Osee, I will call them my people, which were not my people; and{11:1} her Ibeloved, say then, Hath God cast away his people? God which was not beloved. {9:26} And it shall comeforbid. to pass,For I also am an Israelite, of the seed of Abraham, [that] in the place where it was said unto them, Ye [are][of] not the tribe of Benjamin. {11:2} God hath not cast away my people; there shall they be called thehis children people of thewhich he foreknew. Wot ye not what the living God. {9:27} Esaias also criethscripture concerning saith of Elias? howIsrael, he maketh intercession to God Though the number of the children of Israel be as againstthe sand Israel, saying, {11:3} Lord, they have killed thy of the sea, a remnant shall be saved: {9:28}prophets, For and he digged will down thine ; and I am left alone, finish the work, and cut [it] short in righteousness:and because they seek my life. {11:4} But what saith the answer of a short work will the Lord make upon the earth. {9:29} AndGod unto him? I have reserved to myself seven thousand as Esaias said before, Except the Lord of Sabaoth had left usmen, who have not bowed the knee to [the image of] . a seed, we had been as Sodoma, and been made{11:5} like unto Even so then at this present time also there is a Gomorrha. {9:30} What shall remnantwe accordingsay then? to the election That of grace. the {11:6} And if by Gentiles, which followed not grace,after then righteousness,[is it] no more of works: have otherwise grace is no attained to righteousness, even the righteousness which is moreof grace. But if [it be] of works, then is it no more grace: faith. {9:31} But Israel, which followedotherwise after work the is lawno more of work. righteousness, hath not attained to the law of righteousness. {9:32} Wherefore? Because [they sought it]{11:7} not Whatby faith,then? Israel hath not obtained that which he but as it were by the works of the law. For they stumbledseeketh at for; but the election hath obtained it, and the rest that stumblingstone; {9:33} As it is written, Behold, I laywere in blinded {11:8} (According as it is written, God hath Sion a stumblingstone and rock of offence: and givenwhosoever them the spirit of slumber, eyes that they should not believeth on him shall not be ashamed. see, and ears that they should not hear;) unto this day. {11:9} And David saith, Let their table be made a snare, {10:1} Brethren, my heart's desire and prayer to andGod afor trap, and a stumblingblock, and a recompence unto Israel is, that they might be saved. {10:2} For Ithem: bear {11:10} them Let their eyes be darkened, that they may not record that they have a zeal of God, but notsee, according and bow to down their back alway. {11:11} I say then, knowledge. {10:3} For they Havebeing they stumbledignorant that theyof shouldGod's fall? God forbid: but righteousness, and going about[rather] to establish through theirtheir fall own salvation [is come] unto the righteousness, have not submittedGentiles, themselvesfor to provoke them unto to jealousy. the {11:12} Now if righteousness of God. {10:4} For Christ [is] the endthe of fallthe of them [be] the riches of the world, and the law for righteousness to every one that diminishingbelieveth. of{10:5} them the riches of the Gentiles; how much For Moses describeth the righteousness which is of themore law, their fulness? That the man which doeth those things shall live by them. {10:6} But the righteousness which is of faith speaketh{11:13} onFor I speak to you Gentiles, inasmuch as I am the this wise, Say not in thine heart, Whoapostle shall of theascend Gentiles, intoI magnify mine office: {11:14} If by heaven? (that is, to bring Christ down [from above:]) {10:7}any means I may provoke to emulation [them which are] my Or, Who shall descend into the deep? (that is,flesh, to bring and up might save some of them. {11:15} For if the Christ again from the dead.) {10:8} But what saithcasting it? awayThe of them [be] the reconciling of the world, what word is nigh thee, [even] in thy mouth, and in thy heart: that[shall] the receiving [of them be,] but life from the dead? is, the word of faith, which we preach; {10:9} That{11:16} if thou For if the firstfruit [be] holy, the lump [is] also shalt confess with thy mouth the Lord[holy:] Jesus, and ifand the shalt root [be] holy, so [are] the branches. believe in thine heart that God hath raised{11:17} him Andfrom if the some of the branches be broken off, and dead, thou shalt be saved. {10:10} For with thethou, heart being man a wild olive tree, wert graffed in among them, believeth unto righteousness; and with the mouth confessionand with them partakest of the root and fatness of the olive is made unto salvation. {10:11} Fortree; the {11:18} scripture Boast saith, not against the branches. But if thou Whosoever believeth on him shall not be ashamed. {10:12}boast, thou bearest not the root, but the root thee. {11:19} For there is no difference between the Jew andThou the Greek: wilt say then, The branches were broken off, that I for the same Lord over all is rich unto all that call upon him.might be graffed in. {11:20} Well; because of unbelief they {10:13} For whosoever shall call upon the name of the Lordwere broken off, and thou standest by faith. Be not shall be saved. {10:14} How then shall they call onhighminded, him in but fear: {11:21} For if God spared not the whom they have not believed? and how shall they believe innatural branches, [take heed] lest he also spare not thee. him of whom they have not heard? and how shall they{11:22} hear Behold therefore the goodness and severity of God: without a preacher? {10:15} And how shallon them they which preach, fell, severity; but toward thee, goodness, if except they be sent? as it is written, How beautifulthou arecontinue the in [his] goodness: otherwise thou also shalt be feet of them that preach the gospel of peace, and bringcut glad off. {11:23} And they also, if they abide not still in tidings of good things! {10:16} unbelief,But theyshall be graffedhave in: notfor God all is able to graff them in obeyed the gospel. For Esaiasagain. saith, {11:24} Lord, For if thouwho wert hath cut out of the olive tree believed our report? {10:17} So thenwhich faith is wild [cometh]by nature, and bywert graffed contrary to nature hearing, and hearing by the word of God. {10:18} But I say,into a good olive tree: how much more shall these, which be Romans Page 94 the natural [branches,] be graffed into their own olive tree? [rather] give place unto wrath: for it is written, Vengeance [is] mine; I will repay, saith the Lord. {12:20} Therefore if {11:25} For I would not, brethren,thine that enemy ye hunger, should feed behim; if he thirst, give him drink: ignorant of this mystery, lest ye should be wise in your ownfor in so doing thou shalt heap coals of fire on his head. conceits; that blindness in part is happened {12:21}to Israel, Be until not overcome of evil, but overcome evil with the fulness of the Gentiles be come in. {11:26} Andgood. so all Israel shall be saved: as it is written, There shall come out of Sion the Deliverer, and shall turn away ungodliness from{13:1} Let every soul be subject unto the higher powers. Jacob: {11:27} For this [is] my covenant unto them, whenFor I there is no power but of God: the powers that be are shall take away their sins. {11:28}ordained Asof God.concerning {13:2} Whosoever the therefore resisteth the gospel, [they are] enemies for your sakes: butpower, as touching resisteth the ordinance of God: and they that resist the election, [they are] belovedshall for receive the to themselves fathers' damnation. sakes. {13:3} For rulers are {11:29} For the gifts and calling notof aGod terror [are] to good without works, but to the evil. Wilt thou then repentance. {11:30} For as ye notin betimes afraid of pastthe power? have do that not which is good, and thou believed God, yet have now obtained mercy shaltthrough have praisetheir of the same: {13:4} For he is the minister unbelief: {11:31} Even so have these also now not believed,of God to thee for good. But if thou do that which is evil, be that through your mercy they alsoafraid; mayfor he obtain beareth notmercy. the sword in vain: for he is the {11:32} For God hath concluded them all in unbelief,minister that of God, a revenger to [execute] wrath upon him he might have mercy upon all. that doeth evil. {13:5} Wherefore [ye] must needs be subject, not only for wrath, but also for conscience sake. {11:33} O the depth of the riches both of the wisdom{13:6} and For for this cause pay ye tribute also: for they are knowledge of God! how unsearchable [are] hisGod's judgments, ministers, attending continually upon this very thing. and his ways past finding out! {11:34} For who hath known{13:7} Render therefore to all their dues: tribute to whom the mind of the Lord? or who hath beentribute his [is counsellor? due;] custom to whom custom; fear to whom fear; {11:35} Or who hath first given to him,honour and to whomit shall honour. be {13:8} Owe no man any thing, but recompensed unto him again? {11:36}to love For one another:of him, for heand that loveth another hath fulfilled through him, and to him, [are] all things:the law. to {13:9}whom For[be] this, Thou shalt not commit adultery, glory for ever. Amen. Thou shalt not kill, Thou shalt not steal, Thou shalt not bear false witness, Thou shalt not covet; and if [there be] any {12:1} I beseech you therefore, brethren, byother the mercies commandment, it is briefly comprehended in this of God, that ye present your bodies a living sacrifice,saying, holy, namely, Thou shalt love thy neighbour as thyself. acceptable unto God, [which is] your {13:10}reasonable Love service. worketh no ill to his neighbour: therefore {12:2} And be not conformed to thislove world: [is] but the be yefulfilling of the law. {13:11} And that, transformed by the renewing of your mind,knowing thatthe time, ye that may now [it is] high time to awake out of prove what is that good, and acceptable, and perfect, willsleep: of for now [is] our salvation nearer than when we God. believed. {13:12} The night is far spent, the day is at hand: let us therefore cast off the works of darkness, and let us put {12:3} For I say, through the grace givenon the armourunto me,of light. to {13:13} Let us walk honestly, as in every man that is among you, not to think [of himself] morethe day; not in rioting and drunkenness, not in chambering highly than he ought to think;and wantonness, but to not inthink strife and soberly, envying. {13:14} But put according as God hath dealt to every man theye onmeasure the Lord of Jesus Christ, and make not provision for the faith. {12:4} For as we have many members inflesh, one to body, [fulfil] the lusts [thereof. and all members have not the same office: {12:5} So we, [being] many, are one body in ]{14:1}Christ, Him thatand is weakevery in the faithone receive ye, [but] not members one of another. {12:6} Having then gifts differingto doubtful . {14:2} For one believeth that he according to the grace that is given to us, whether prophecy,may eat all things: another, who is weak, eateth herbs. [let us prophesy] according to {14:3}the proportionLet not him that ofeateth faith; despise him that eateth not; {12:7} Or ministry, [let us wait] on [our] :and or helet not him which eateth not judge him that eateth: for that teacheth, on teaching; {12:8} Or he that exhorteth,God hath on received him. {14:4} Who art thou that judgest exhortation: he that giveth, [let him do it] withanother simplicity; man's servant? to his own master he standeth or he that ruleth, with diligence; he that sheweth falleth.mercy, Yea, with he shall be holden up: for God is able to make cheerfulness. him stand. {14:5} One man esteemeth one day above another: another esteemeth every day [alike.] Let every man {12:9} [Let] love be without dissimulation.be fully Abhor persuaded that in his own mind. {14:6} He that which is evil; cleave to that which is good.regardeth {12:10} the [Be] day, regardeth [it] unto the Lord; and he that kindly affectioned one to another withregardeth brotherly not the love;day, to thein Lord he doth not regard [it.] He honour preferring one another; {12:11}that eateth, eateth Not to theslothful Lord, for he givethin God thanks; and business; fervent in spirit; he servingthat eateth not, tothe the LordLord; he eateth not,{12:12} and giveth God Rejoicing in hope; patient in tribulation; continuingthanks. instant {14:7} For none of us liveth to himself, and no man in prayer; {12:13} Distributing to the necessitydieth to himself. of saints; {14:8} For whether we live, we live unto given to . {12:14} Bless themthe which Lord; persecute and whether we die, we die unto the Lord: you: bless, and curse not. {12:15} Rejoice with them that dowhether we live therefore, or die, we are the Lord's. {14:9} rejoice, and weep with them that weep. {12:16} [Be] Forof the to this end Christ both died, and rose, and revived, that same mind one toward another. Mind not highhe things,might be but Lord both of the dead and living. {14:10} But condescend to men of low estate. Be not wise in yourwhy owndost thou judge thy brother? or why dost thou set at conceits. {12:17} Recompense to nonought man evilthy forbrother? evil. for we shall all stand before the Provide things honest in the sight of all men. {12:18}judgment If it seat of Christ. {14:11} For it is written, [As] I be possible, as much as lieth in you, live peaceably withlive, all saith the Lord, every knee shall bow to me, and every men. {12:19} Dearly beloved, avenge nottongue yourselves, shall confess but to God. {14:12} So then every one of Page 95 Romans us shall give account of himself to God. {14:13} Let usfully not preached the gospel of Christ. {15:20} Yea, so have I therefore judge one another any more: but judge this rather,strived to preach the gospel, not where Christ was named, that no man put a stumblingblock or an occasionlest to Ifall should in build upon another man's foundation: {15:21} [his] brother's way. {14:14} I know, and am persuadedBut as itby is written, To whom he was not spoken of, they the Lord Jesus, that [there is] nothing unclean of shallitself: butsee: and they that have not heard shall understand. to him that esteemeth any thing to be unclean, to him {15:22}[it is] For which cause also I have been much hindered unclean. {14:15} But if thy brother be grievedfrom withcoming [thy] to you. {15:23} But now having no more meat, now walkest thou not charitably.place Destroy in these notparts, him and having a great desire these many with thy meat, for whom Christ died. {14:16} Letyears not then to come unto you; {15:24} Whensoever I take my your good be evil spoken of: {14:17} For thejourney kingdom into ofSpain, I will come to you: for I trust to see you God is not meat and drink; but righteousness,in my journey,and peace, and to be brought on my way thitherward by and joy in the Holy Ghost. {14:18} For you,he that if infirst these I be somewhat filled with your [company. things serveth Christ [is] acceptable to God, ]{15:25}and approved But now I go unto Jerusalem to minister unto the of men. {14:19} Let us therefore followsaints. after {15:26} the Forthings it hath pleased them of Macedonia and which make for peace, and things wherewith one may edifyAchaia to make a certain contribution for the poor saints another. {14:20} For meat destroy not the work of God.which All are at Jerusalem. {15:27} It hath pleased them verily; things indeed [are] pure; but [it is] evil forand that their man debtorswho they are. For if the Gentiles have been eateth with offence. {14:21} [It is] good neither to eat flesh,made partakers of their spiritual things, their duty is also to nor to drink wine, nor [any thing] ministerwhereby unto themthy in carnalbrother things. {15:28} When therefore stumbleth, or is offended, or is made weak.I have{14:22} performed Hast this, and have sealed to them this fruit, I thou faith? have [it] to thyself before God.will Happy come [is] by youhe into Spain. {15:29} And I am sure that, that condemneth not himselfwhen in I comethat unto thing you, I shallwhich come inhe the fulness of the alloweth. {14:23} And he that doubteth is damned if he blessingeat, of the gospel of Christ. because [he eateth] not of faith: for whatsoever [is] not of faith is sin. {15:30} Now I beseech you, brethren, for the Lord Jesus Christ's sake, and for the love of the Spirit, that ye strive {15:1} We then that are strongtogether withought me in [your]to prayersbear tothe God for me; {15:31} infirmities of the weak, and not to please ourselves.That {15:2} I may be delivered from them that do not believe in Let every one of us please [his] neighbour for [his] goodJudaea; to and that my service which [I have] for Jerusalem edification. {15:3} For even Christ pleased not himself; but,may be accepted of the saints; {15:32} That I may come as it is written, The reproaches of them that reproached theeunto you with joy by the will of God, and may with you be fell on me. {15:4} For whatsoeverrefreshed. things {15:33} were Now thewritten God of peace [be] with you all. aforetime were written for our learning,Amen. that we through patience and comfort of the scriptures might have hope. {15:5} Now the God of patience and consolation grant{16:1} you I commend unto you Phebe our sister, which is a to be likeminded one toward another accordingservant of theto churchChrist which is at Cenchrea: {16:2} That ye Jesus: {15:6} That ye may with one mind [and] onereceive mouth her in the Lord, as becometh saints, and that ye glorify God, even the Father of our Lord Jesus Christ.assist her in whatsoever business she hath need of you: for she hath been a succourer of many, and of myself also. {15:7} Wherefore receive ye one another, as{16:3} Christ alsoGreet Priscilla and Aquila my helpers in Christ received us to the glory of God. {15:8} Now I say that JesusJesus: {16:4} Who have for my life laid down their own Christ was a minister of the circumcision necks:for the unto truth whom of not only I give thanks, but also all the God, to confirm the promises [made]churches ofunto the Gentiles. the {16:5}fathers: Likewise [greet] the church {15:9} And that the Gentiles might glorifythat God is forin their[his] house. Salute my wellbeloved Epaenetus, mercy; as it is written, For this cause I will confesswho to theeis the firstfruits of Achaia unto Christ. {16:6} Greet among the Gentiles, and sing unto thy name. {15:10}Mary, And who bestowed much labour on us. {16:7} Salute again he saith, Rejoice, ye Gentiles,Andronicus with his people.and Junia, my kinsmen, and my {15:11} And again, Praise the Lord, all fellowprisoners,ye Gentiles; and who are of note among the apostles, who laud him, all ye people. {15:12} And again,also Esaias were insaith, Christ before me. {16:8} Greet Amplias my There shall be a root of Jesse, and he that shall rise to belovedreign in the Lord. {16:9} Salute Urbane, our helper in over the Gentiles; in him shall the GentilesChrist, trust. {15:13} and Stachys my beloved. {16:10} Salute Apelles Now the God of hope fill you with all joyapproved and peace in Christ. in Salute them which are of Aristobulus' believing, that ye may abound in hope, through the power of[household. ]{16:11} Salute Herodion my kinsman. Greet the Holy Ghost. {15:14} And I myself also am persuaded ofthem that be of the [household] of Narcissus, which are in you, my brethren, that ye also are full of goodness,the Lord. filled {16:12} Salute , who with all knowledge, able also to admonishlabour onein another.the Lord. Salute the beloved Persis, which {15:15} Nevertheless, brethren, I havelaboured written much in thethe Lord. more {16:13} Salute Rufus chosen in boldly unto you in some sort, as theputting Lord, you inand mind, his mother and mine. {16:14} Salute because of the grace that is given to me of Asyncritus,God, {15:16} Phlegon, Hermas, Patrobas, Hermes, and the That I should be the minister of Jesus Christ to the Gentiles,brethren which are with them. {16:15} Salute Philologus, ministering the gospel of God, that the offeringand Julia, up ofNereus, the and his sister, and , and all the Gentiles might be acceptable, being sanctified bysaints the which Holy are with them. {16:16} Salute one another with Ghost. {15:17} I have thereforean holy whereof kiss. The churches I mayof Christ glory salute you. through Jesus Christ in those things which pertain to God. {15:18} For I will not dare to speak of any of those{16:17} things Now I beseech you, brethren, mark them which which Christ hath not wrought by me, to make the Gentilescause divisions and offences contrary to the doctrine which obedient, by word and deed, {15:19} Through mighty yesigns have learned; and avoid them. {16:18} For they that are and wonders, by the power of the Spiritsuch of God;serve sonot thatour Lord Jesus Christ, but their own belly; from Jerusalem, and round about untoand Illyricum,by good words I andhave fair speeches deceive the hearts of Romans Page 96 the simple. {16:19} For your obedience is come abroad unto all [men.] I am glad therefore on your behalf: but yet I would have you wise unto that which is good, and simple concerning evil. {16:20} And the God of peace shall bruise Satan under your feet shortly. The grace of our Lord Jesus Christ [be] with you. Amen.

{16:21} Timotheus my workfellow, and Lucius, and Jason, and , my kinsmen, salute you. {16:22} I Tertius, who wrote [this] epistle, salute you in the Lord. {16:23} Gaius mine host, and of the whole church, saluteth you. Erastus the chamberlain of the city saluteth you, and a brother. {16:24} The grace of our Lord Jesus Christ [be] with you all. Amen.

{16:25} Now to him that is of power to stablish you according to my gospel, and the preaching of Jesus Christ, according to the revelation of the mystery, which was kept secret since the world began, {16:26} But now is made manifest, and by the scriptures of the prophets, according to the commandment of the everlasting God, made known to all nations for the obedience of faith: {16:27} To God only wise, [be] glory through Jesus Christ for ever. Amen. Page 97 1 Corinthians The First Epistle of Paul the Apostle to the Corinthians That, according as it is written, He that glorieth, let him glory in the Lord.

{2:1} And I, brethren, when I came to you, came not with {1:1} Paul, called [to be] an apostleexcellency ofof speechJesus or ofChrist wisdom, declaring unto you the through the will of God, and [our] brother,testimony {1:2} of God. {2:2} For I determined not to know any Unto the church of God which is at Corinth, to them that arething among you, save Jesus Christ, and him crucified. sanctified in Christ Jesus, called [to be] saints, with{2:3} all that And I was with you in weakness, and in fear, and in in every place call upon the name of Jesus Christ ourmuch Lord, trembling. {2:4} And my speech and my preaching both theirs and ours: {1:3} Grace [be] unto you, and [was]peace, not with enticing words of man's wisdom, but in from God our Father, and [from] the Lord Jesus Christ.demonstration of the Spirit and of power: {2:5} That your faith should not stand in the wisdom of men, but in the {1:4} I thank my God always on your behalf, for the gracepower of God. {2:6} Howbeit we speak wisdom among of God which is given you by Jesus Christ; {1:5}them thatThat are in perfect: yet not the wisdom of this world, nor every thing ye are enriched by him, in all utterance, and [in]of the princes of this world, that come to nought: {2:7} But all knowledge; {1:6} Even as the testimony ofwe Christ speak was the wisdom of God in a mystery, [even] the confirmed in you: {1:7} So that ye come behind in hiddenno gift; [wisdom,] which God ordained before the world waiting for the coming of our Lord Jesus Christ: {1:8} Whounto our glory: {2:8} Which none of the princes of this shall also confirm you unto the end,world [thatknew: forye had may they be]known [it,] they would not have blameless in the day of our Lord Jesus Christ.crucified {1:9} the God Lord of glory. {2:9} But as it is written, Eye [is] faithful, by whom ye were called unto the fellowshiphath of not seen, nor ear heard, neither have entered into the his Son Jesus Christ our Lord. heart of man, the things which God hath prepared for them that love him. {2:10} But God hath revealed [them] unto us {1:10} Now I beseech you, brethren, by the nameby ofhis our Spirit: for the Spirit searcheth all things, yea, the Lord Jesus Christ, that ye all speak thedeep same things thing, of and God. {2:11} For what man knoweth the [that] there be no divisions among you;things but [that]of a man, ye savebe the spirit of man which is in him? perfectly joined together in the same mind and in eventhe sameso the things of God knoweth no man, but the Spirit of judgment. {1:11} For it hath been declared unto me ofGod. you, {2:12} Now we have received, not the spirit of the my brethren, by them [which are of the house]world, ofbut Chloe, the spirit which is of God; that we might know that there are contentions among you. {1:12}the things Now that this are freelyI given to us of God. {2:13} Which say, that every one of you saith, I am thingsof Paul; also we and speak, I notof in the words which man's wisdom Apollos; and I of Cephas; and I of Christ. {1:13}teacheth, Is Christ but which the Holy Ghost teacheth; comparing divided? was Paul crucified for you? or were ye baptizedspiritual in things with spiritual. {2:14} But the natural man the name of Paul? {1:14} I thank God that I baptizedreceiveth none not the things of the Spirit of God: for they are of you, but Crispus and Gaius; {1:15} Lest any shouldfoolishness say unto him: neither can he know [them,] because that I had baptized in mine ownthey name. are spiritually {1:16} discerned. And {2:15} I But he that is spiritual baptized also the household of Stephanas: besides,judgeth I know all things, yet he himself is judged of no man. not whether I baptized any other. {1:17} For Christ sent{2:16} me For who hath known the mind of the Lord, that he not to baptize, but to preach the gospel: not with wisdommay of instruct him? But we have the mind of Christ. words, lest the cross of Christ should be made of none effect. {3:1} And I, brethren, could not speak unto you as unto {1:18} For the preaching of the crossspiritual, is butto asthem unto carnal,that [even] as unto babes in Christ. perish foolishness; but unto us which are{3:2} saved I have it isfed the you with milk, and not with meat: for power of God. {1:19} For it is written, I willhitherto destroy ye were the not able [to bear it,] neither yet now are ye wisdom of the wise, and willable. bring to nothing the understanding of the prudent. {1:20} Where [is] the wise? where [is] the scribe? where [is] the disputer of this world?{3:3} For ye are yet carnal: for whereas [there is] among hath not God made foolish the wisdomyou envying, of and thisstrife, andworld? divisions, are ye not carnal, and {1:21} For after that in the wisdom of Godwalk the asworld men? by{3:4} For while one saith, I am of Paul; and wisdom knew not God, it pleased God by the foolishnessanother, of I [am] of Apollos; are ye not carnal? {3:5} Who preaching to save them that believe. {1:22}then For is Paul,the Jewsand who [is] Apollos, but ministers by whom require a sign, and the Greeks seek after yewisdom: believed, {1:23} even as the Lord gave to every man? {3:6} I But we preach Christ havecrucified, planted, Apollos watered;unto butthe God gaveJews the increase. a stumblingblock, and unto the Greeks {3:7}foolishness; So then neither {1:24} is he that planteth any thing, neither But unto them which are called, bothhe Jews that andwatereth; Greeks, but God that giveth the increase. {3:8} Christ the power of God, and the wisdom of NowGod. he{1:25} that planteth and he that watereth are one: and Because the foolishness of God is wiser than men;every and theman shall receive his own reward according to his weakness of God is stronger than men. {1:26}own For labour. ye see {3:9} For we are labourers together with God: your calling, brethren, how that not many wise men after theye are God's husbandry, [ye are] God's building. {3:10} flesh, not many mighty, not manyAccording noble,to the grace of[are God which called: is given unto me, as a ]{1:27} But God hath chosen the foolish things of the worldwise masterbuilder, I have laid the foundation, and another to confound the wise; and God hath chosen the weak thingsbuildeth thereon. But let every man take heed how he of the world to confound the thingsbuildeth which thereupon. are {3:11} mighty; For other foundation can no man {1:28} And base things of the world, and things whichlay than are that is laid, which is Jesus Christ. {3:12} Now if despised, hath God chosen, [yea,] and things which areany not, man build upon this foundation gold, silver, precious to bring to nought things that are: {1:29}stones, Thatwood, nohay, fleshstubble; {3:13} Every man's work shall should glory in his presence. {1:30} But of himbe madeare ye manifest: in for the day shall declare it, because it Christ Jesus, who of God is made untoshall us bewisdom, revealed byand fire; and the fire shall try every man's righteousness, and , andwork redemption: of what sort {1:31} it is. {3:14} If any man's work abide 1 Corinthians Page 98 which he hath built thereupon, he shall receivenamed among a reward. the Gentiles, that one should have his father's {3:15} If any man's work shall be burned, hewife. shall {5:2}suffer And ye are puffed up, and have not rather loss: but he himself shall be saved; yet so as by fire. {3:16}mourned, that he that hath done this deed might be taken Know ye not that ye are the temple of God, andaway [that] fromthe among you. {5:3} For I verily, as absent in Spirit of God dwelleth in you? {3:17} If any man defilebody, the but present in spirit, have judged already, as though I temple of God, him shall God destroy; forwere the present, temple [concerning] of him that hath so done this deed, God is holy, which [temple] ye are. {5:4} In the name of our Lord Jesus Christ, when ye are gathered together, and my spirit, with the power of our Lord {3:18} Let no man deceive himself. If anyJesus man Christ, among {5:5} To deliver such an one unto Satan for you seemeth to be wise in this world, let him become a fool,the destruction of the flesh, that the spirit may be saved in that he may be wise. {3:19} For the wisdom of this world theis day of the Lord Jesus. {5:6} Your glorying [is] not foolishness with God. For it is written, He taketh the wise ingood. Know ye not that a little leaven leaveneth the whole their own craftiness. {3:20} And again, The Lordlump? knoweth {5:7} Purge out therefore the old leaven, that ye may the thoughts of the wise, thatbe a newthey lump, are as ye vain.are unleavened. {3:21} For even Christ our Therefore let no man glory in men. For all things are yours;passover is sacrificed for us: {5:8} Therefore let us keep the {3:22} Whether Paul, or Apollos, or Cephas, or feast,the world, not with old leaven, neither with the leaven of malice or life, or death, or things present, or things to come; alland are wickedness; but with the unleavened [bread] of yours; {3:23} And ye are Christ's; and Christ [is] God's.sincerity and truth. {5:9} I wrote unto you in an epistle not to company with fornicators: {5:10} Yet not altogether with {4:1} Let a man so account of us, as of the ministersthe fornicators of of this world, or with the covetous, or Christ, and stewards of the extortioners,mysteries or with idolaters; of forGod. then must {4:2} ye needs go out Moreover it is required in stewards, that ofa theman world. be {5:11}found But now I have written unto you not to faithful. {4:3} But with me it is a very smallkeep thing company, that I if any man that is called a brother be a should be judged of you, or of man's judgment: yea, I judgefornicator, or covetous, or an idolater, or a railer, or a not mine own self. {4:4} For I know nothing by myself; drunkard,yet or an extortioner; with such an one no not to eat. am I not hereby justified: but he that judgeth me is the Lord.{5:12} For what have I to do to judge them also that are {4:5} Therefore judge nothing before without?the time, do not until ye judge the them that are within? {5:13} But Lord come, who both will bring to light the hidden things ofthem that are without God judgeth. Therefore put away darkness, and will make manifest the counsels of the hearts:from among yourselves that wicked person. and then shall every man have praise of God. {4:6} And these things, brethren, I have in a{6:1} figure Dare transferredany of you, having to a matter against another, myself and [to] Apollos for your sakes; that ye mightgo tolearn law before the unjust, and not before the saints? {6:2} in us not to think [of men] above that which is written,Do that ye not know that the saints shall judge the world? and if no one of you be puffed up for one against another.the world {4:7} shall be judged by you, are ye unworthy to judge For who maketh thee to differ [from another?]the smallest and matters? what {6:3} Know ye not that we shall judge hast thou that thou didst not receive?angels? now if how thou much didst more things that pertain to this life? receive [it,] why dost thou glory,{6:4} as If ifthen thouye have hadstjudgments not of things pertaining to this received [it? ]{4:8} Now ye are full, now life,ye areset them rich, to judgeye who are least esteemed in the church. have reigned as kings without us: and I would to God ye did{6:5} I speak to your shame. Is it so, that there is not a wise reign, that we also might reign with you. {4:9} Forman I thinkamong you? no, not one that shall be able to judge that God hath set forth us the apostlesbetween last,his brethren? as it {6:6}were But brother goeth to law with appointed to death: for we are made a spectaclebrother, unto theand that before the unbelievers. {6:7} Now world, and to angels, and to men. {4:10} We [are] foolstherefore for there is utterly a fault among you, because ye go Christ's sake, but ye [are] wise in Christ; we [are] weak, butto law one with another. Why do ye not rather take wrong? ye [are] strong; ye [are] honourable, but we [are]why despised. do ye not rather [suffer yourselves to] be defrauded? {4:11} Even unto this present hour we {6:8}both hunger, Nay, andye do wrong, and defraud, and that [your] thirst, and are naked, and are buffeted, and have nobrethren. certain {6:9} Know ye not that the unrighteous shall not dwellingplace; {4:12} And labour, workinginherit with our the own kingdom of God? Be not deceived: neither hands: being reviled, we bless; being persecuted,fornicators, we suffer nor idolaters, nor adulterers, nor effeminate, nor it: {4:13} Being defamed, we intreat: we areabusers made asof the themselves with mankind, {6:10} Nor thieves, filth of the world, [and are] the offscouringnor covetous, of all thingsnor drunkards, nor revilers, nor extortioners, unto this day. {4:14} I write not these things to shameshall you, inherit the kingdom of God. {6:11} And such were but as my beloved sons I warn [you. ]{4:15} For thoughsome ye of you: but ye are washed, but ye are sanctified, but ye have ten thousand instructers in Christ, yetare justified[have inye] the namenot of the Lord Jesus, and by the Spirit many fathers: for in Christ Jesusof ourI God.have begotten you through the gospel. {4:16} Wherefore I beseech you, be ye followers of me. {4:17} For this cause have I sent unto {6:12}you All things are lawful unto me, but all things are not Timotheus, who is my beloved son, and faithful in the Lord,expedient: all things are lawful for me, but I will not be who shall bring you into remembrance of my broughtways whichunder the power of any. {6:13} Meats for the belly, be in Christ, as I teach every where in every church. {4:18}and the belly for meats: but God shall destroy both it and Now some are puffed up, as though I wouldthem. not come Now to the body [is] not for fornication, but for the you. {4:19} But I will come to you shortly, if the Lord will,Lord; and the Lord for the body. {6:14} And God hath both and will know, not the speech of them which are puffedraised up, up the Lord, and will also raise up us by his own but the power. {4:20} For the kingdom of Godpower. [is] not in{6:15} Know ye not that your bodies are the word, but in power. {4:21} What will ye? shall I come untomembers of Christ? shall I then take the members of Christ, you with a rod, or in love, and [in] the spirit of meekness?and make [them] the members of an harlot? God forbid. {6:16} What? know ye not that he which is joined to an {5:1} It is reported commonly [that there harlotis] fornication is one body? for two, saith he, shall be one flesh. among you, and such fornication as{6:17} is not But so he much that isas joined unto the Lord is one spirit. Page 99 1 Corinthians {6:18} Flee fornication. Every sinNevertheless that a suchman shall doethhave trouble is in the flesh: but I spare without the body; but he that committeth fornication sinnethyou. {7:29} But this I say, brethren, the time [is] short: it against his own body. {6:19} What? know ye not thatremaineth, your that both they that have wives be as though they body is the temple of the Holy Ghost [whichhad none; is] {7:30}in you, And they that weep, as though they wept which ye have of God, and ye are not your own? {6:20} Fornot; and they that rejoice, as though they rejoiced not; and ye are bought with a price: therefore glorifythey God that in buy,your as though they possessed not; {7:31} And body, and in your spirit, which are God's. they that use this world, as not abusing [it:] for the fashion of this world passeth away. {7:32} But I would have you {7:1} Now concerning the things whereof ye withoutwrote unto carefulness. He that is unmarried careth for the me: [It is] good for a man not to touch thingsa woman. that belong {7:2} to the Lord, how he may please the Lord: Nevertheless, [to avoid] fornication, let every man {7:33}have his But he that is married careth for the things that are own wife, and let every woman have ofher the world,own howhusband. he may please [his] wife. {7:34} There is {7:3} Let the husband differencerender unto[also] the between wife adue wife and a virgin. The benevolence: and likewise also the wife unto unmarriedthe husband. woman careth for the things of the Lord, that she {7:4} The wife hath not power of her ownmay body, be but holy the both in body and in spirit: but she that is husband: and likewise also the husband hath notmarried power carethof for the things of the world, how she may his own body, but the wife. {7:5} Defraud yeplease not one [her] the husband. {7:35} And this I speak for your own other, except [it be] with consent for a time,profit; that notye maythat I may cast a snare upon you, but for that give yourselves to fasting and prayer; andwhich come is togethercomely, and that ye may attend upon the Lord again, that Satan tempt you not for your incontinency. {7:6}without distraction. {7:36} But if any man think that he But I speak this by permission, [and] not of commandment.behaveth himself uncomely toward his virgin, if she pass {7:7} For I would that all men were even as I myself.the flower But of [her] age, and need so require, let him do what every man hath his proper gift ofhe will,God, he sinneth one not: after let them this marry. {7:37} Nevertheless manner, and another after that. he that standeth stedfast in his heart, having no necessity, but hath power over his own will, and hath so decreed in his {7:8} I say therefore to the unmarried and widows,heart that heIt willis keep his virgin, doeth well. {7:38} So then good for them if they abide even as I. {7:9}he that But givethif they [her] in marriage doeth well; but he that cannot contain, let them marry: for it is better to marry giveththan [her] not in marriage doeth better. {7:39} The wife is to burn. {7:10} And unto the married I command, [yet]bound not by the law as long as her husband liveth; but if her I, but the Lord, Let not the wife depart from [her] husband:husband be dead, she is at liberty to be married to whom she {7:11} But and if she depart, let her remain unmarried,will; only orin the Lord. {7:40} But she is happier if she so be reconciled to [her] husband: and let not the husbandabide, put after my judgment: and I think also that I have the away [his] wife. {7:12} But to the rest speak I, not the Lord:Spirit of God. If any brother hath a wife that believeth not, and she be pleased to dwell with him, let him not put her away. {7:13}{8:1} Now as touching things offered unto idols, we know And the woman which hath an husband that believeththat wenot, all have knowledge. Knowledge puffeth up, but and if he be pleased to dwell with her, let her not leave him.charity edifieth. {8:2} And if any man think that he {7:14} For the unbelieving husband knowethis sanctified any thing, by he theknoweth nothing yet as he ought to wife, and the unbelieving wife is sanctified by the husband:know. {8:3} But if any man love God, the same is known of else were your children unclean; but nowhim. are {8:4} they Asholy. concerning therefore the eating of those {7:15} But if the unbelieving depart,things let that him are offereddepart. in sacrifice A unto idols, we know that brother or a sister is not under bondage in such [cases:]an idolbut [is] nothing in the world, and that [there is] none God hath called us to peace. {7:16} For what knowest thou,other God but one. {8:5} For though there be that are called O wife, whether thou shalt save [thy]gods, husband? whether in heaven or howor in earth, (as there be gods many, knowest thou, O man, whether thou shalt saveand [thy] lords wife? many,) {8:6} But to us [there is but] one God, the {7:17} But as God hath distributed to everyFather, man, of whomas the [are] all things, and we in him; and one Lord hath called every one, so let him walk. And so ordain LordI Jesus Christ, by whom [are] all things, and we by him. in all churches. {7:18}{8:7} IsHowbeit any [there is]man not in everycalled man that knowledge:being circumcised? let him not become uncircumcised.for some with conscience Is anyof the idol unto this hour eat [it] called in uncircumcision? let ashim a thing not offered be unto circumcised. an idol; and their conscience being {7:19} Circumcision is nothing,weak isand defiled. uncircumcision {8:8} But meat commendeth is us not to God: nothing, but the keeping of the commandmentsfor neither, if ofwe God.eat, are we the better; neither, if we eat {7:20} Let every man abide in the same calling whereinnot, he are we the worse. {8:9} But take heed lest by any was called. {7:21} Art thou called [being] a meansservant? this care liberty of yours become a stumblingblock to not for it: but if thou mayest be made free, usethem [it] thatrather. are weak. {8:10} For if any man see thee which {7:22} For he that is called in the Lord, [being] a servant,hast is knowledge sit at meat in the idol's temple, shall not the the Lord's freeman: likewise also he that is called,conscience [being] of him which is weak be emboldened to eat free, is Christ's servant. {7:23} Ye are bought with athose price; things which are offered to idols; {8:11} And through be not ye the servants of men. {7:24} Brethren,thy knowledgelet every shall the weak brother perish, for whom man, wherein he is called, therein abide withChrist God. died? {8:12} But when ye sin so against the brethren, and wound their weak conscience, ye sin against Christ. {7:25} Now concerning virgins I have no commandment{8:13} Wherefore, if meat make my brother to offend, I will of the Lord: yet I give my judgment,eat asno oneflesh that while hath the world standeth, lest I make my obtained mercy of the Lord to be faithful. {7:26} I supposebrother to offend. therefore that this is good for the present distress, [I say,] that [it is] good for a man so to be. {7:27} Art thou{9:1} bound Am I not an apostle? am I not free? have I not seen unto a wife? seek not to be loosed. Art thou loosedJesus from Christa our Lord? are not ye my work in the Lord? wife? seek not a wife. {7:28} But and if thou {9:2}marry, If thouI be not an apostle unto others, yet doubtless I am hast not sinned; and if a virgin marry, she hath notto you:sinned. for the seal of mine apostleship are ye in the Lord. 1 Corinthians Page 100 {9:3} Mine answer to them that do examineto eat and me drink, is andthis, rose up to play. {10:8} Neither let us {9:4} Have we not power to eat and to drink? {9:5}commit Have fornication, as some of them committed, and fell in we not power to lead about a sister, a wife, as well asone other day three and twenty thousand. {10:9} Neither let us apostles, and [as] the brethren of the Lord,tempt andChrist, Cephas? as some of them also tempted, and were {9:6} Or I only and Barnabas, have not we power to forbeardestroyed of serpents. {10:10} Neither murmur ye, as some working? {9:7} Who goeth a warfare any timeof at histhem own also murmured, and were destroyed of the charges? who planteth a vineyard, and eateth not of the fruitdestroyer. {10:11} Now all these things happened unto thereof? or who feedeth a flock, and eateth not ofthem the milk for ensamples: and they are written for our of the flock? {9:8} Say I these things as a man? or saith admonition,not upon whom the ends of the world are come. the law the same also? {9:9} For it is written in the{10:12} law of Wherefore let him that thinketh he standeth take Moses, Thou shalt not muzzle the mouthheed oflest the he oxfall. that {10:13} There hath no temptation taken treadeth out the corn. Doth God take care for oxen?you {9:10} but such as is common to man: but God [is] faithful, Or saith he [it] altogether for our sakes? For ourwho sakes, will no not suffer you to be tempted above that ye are doubt, [this] is written: that he that ploweth shouldable; plow in but will with the temptation also make a way to hope; and that he that thresheth in hope should beescape, partaker that ye may be able to bear [it. of his hope. {9:11} If we have sown unto you spiritual things, [is it] a great thing if we shall]{10:14} reap your carnalWherefore, my dearly beloved, flee from things? {9:12} If others be partakers of [this]idolatry. power {10:15} over I speak as to wise men; judge ye what I you, [are] not we rather? Nevertheless we have not used thissay. {10:16} The cup of blessing which we bless, is it not power; but suffer all things, lest we should hinder the gospelthe communion of the blood of Christ? The bread which we of Christ. {9:13} Do ye not know that they whichbreak, minister is it not the communion of the body of Christ? about holy things live [of the things] of{10:17} the temple? For andwe [being] many are one bread, [and] one they which wait at the altar are partakersbody: with for the we altar?are all partakers of that one bread. {10:18} {9:14} Even so hath the Lord ordainedBehold that Israel they after which the flesh: are not they which eat of the preach the gospel should live of the gospel.sacrifices {9:15} partakersBut I of the altar? {10:19} What say I then? have used none of these things: neither have I writtenthat these the idol is any thing, or that which is offered in sacrifice things, that it should be so done unto me: for [it were] betterto idols is any thing? {10:20} But [I say,] that the things for me to die, than that any man should make my whichglorying the Gentiles sacrifice, they sacrifice to devils, and not void. {9:16} For though I preach the gospel, I have nothingto God: and I would not that ye should have fellowship with to glory of: for necessity is laid upon me; yea, woedevils. is unto {10:21} Ye cannot drink the cup of the Lord, and the me, if I preach not the gospel! {9:17} For if I do thiscup thing of devils: ye cannot be partakers of the Lord's table, willingly, I have a reward: butand ofif the against table of devils. my {10:22} will, Do we a provoke the Lord dispensation [of the gospel] is committed untoto me.jealousy? {9:18} are we stronger than he? {10:23} All things are What is my reward then? [Verily] that, when lawfulI preach for me, the but all things are not expedient: all things are gospel, I may make the gospel of Christ without charge, thatlawful for me, but all things edify not. {10:24} Let no man I abuse not my power in the gospel. {9:19} For thoughseek I be his own, but every man another's [wealth. ]{10:25} free from all [men,] yet have I made myself servant unto all,Whatsoever is sold in the shambles, [that] eat, asking no that I might gain the more. {9:20} Andquestion unto thefor conscienceJews I sake: {10:26} For the earth [is] the became as a Jew, that I might gain the Jews; to them that are Lord's, and the fulness thereof. {10:27} If any of them that under the law, as under the law, that I might gain thembelieve that not bid you [to a feast,] and ye be disposed to go; are under the law; {9:21} To them that are withoutwhatsoever law, as is set before you, eat, asking no question for without law, (being not without law to God, butconscience under the sake. {10:28} But if any man say unto you, This law to Christ,) that I might gain them that are withoutis offered law. in sacrifice unto idols, eat not for his sake that {9:22} To the weak became I as weak, that I might gain shewedthe it, and for conscience sake: for the earth [is] the weak: I am made all things to all [men,] that I mightLord's, by all and the fulness thereof: {10:29} Conscience, I say, means save some. {9:23} And this I donot for thine the own, gospel's but of the other: for why is my liberty judged sake, that I might be partaker thereof withof another [you. [man's] ]{9:24} conscience? {10:30} For if I by grace be Know ye not that they which run in a race run all,a partaker,but one why am I evil spoken of for that for which I give receiveth the prize? So run, that ye may obtain. {9:25}thanks? And {10:31} Whether therefore ye eat, or drink, or every man that striveth for the mastery is temperatewhatsoever in ye all do, do all to the glory of God. {10:32} Give things. Now they [do it] to obtain a corruptible nonecrown; offence, but neither to the Jews, nor to the Gentiles, nor to we an incorruptible. {9:26} I thereforethe church of God: so {10:33} run, Even not as I pleaseas all [men] in all uncertainly; so fight I, not as one that beateth the air: {9:27}[things,] not seeking mine own profit, but the [profit] of But I keep under my body, and bring [it] intomany, subjection: that they may be saved. lest that by any means, when I have preached to others, I myself should be a castaway. {11:1} Be ye followers of me, even as I also [am] of Christ. {10:1} Moreover, brethren, I would not that ye should be ignorant, how that all our fathers were under the cloud,{11:2} and Now I praise you, brethren, that ye remember me all passed through the sea; {10:2} And werein all allthings, baptized and keep the ordinances, as I delivered [them] unto Moses in the cloud and in the sea; {10:3} Andto did you. all {11:3} But I would have you know, that the head of eat the same spiritual meat; {10:4} And didevery all mandrink is the Christ; and the head of the woman [is] the same spiritual drink: for they drank of thatman; spiritual and theRock head of Christ [is] God. {11:4} Every man that followed them: and that Rock was Christ.praying {10:5} But or prophesying, having [his] head covered, with many of them God was not well pleased: for they weredishonoureth his head. {11:5} But every woman that overthrown in the wilderness. {10:6}prayeth Now these or things prophesieth with [her] head uncovered were our examples, to the intent we should not lust after evildishonoureth her head: for that is even all one as if she were things, as they also lusted. {10:7} Neither be ye idolaters, asshaven. {11:6} For if the woman be not covered, let her also [were] some of them; as it is written, The people besat shorn: down but if it be a shame for a woman to be shorn or Page 101 1 Corinthians shaven, let her be covered. {11:7} For a man indeedworketh ought all in all. {12:7} But the manifestation of the Spirit not to cover [his] head, forasmuch as he is theis givenimage to andevery man to profit withal. {12:8} For to one is glory of God: but the woman is the glory of the man. {11:8}given by the Spirit the ; to another the word For the man is not of the woman; but theof womanknowledge of by the same Spirit; {12:9} To another faith by man. {11:9} Neither was the man created forthe the same woman; Spirit; to another the by the same but the woman for the man. {11:10} For thisSpirit; cause ought {12:10} To another the working of miracles; to the woman to have power on [her] headanother because prophecy;of the to another discerning of spirits; to angels. {11:11} Nevertheless neither is the man withoutanother the [divers] kinds of tongues; to another the woman, neither the woman without the man,interpretation in the Lord. of tongues: {12:11} But all these worketh that {11:12} For as the woman [is] of the man, even soone [is] and the the selfsame Spirit, dividing to every man severally man also by the woman; but all thingsas heof will.god. {12:12} {11:13} For as the body is one, and hath many Judge in yourselves: is it comely that a womanmembers, pray unto and all the members of that one body, being God uncovered? {11:14} Doth not even nature many,itself areteach one body: so also [is] Christ. {12:13} For by one you, that, if a man have long hair, it is a shame Spiritunto him? are we all baptized into one body, whether [we be] {11:15} But if a woman have long hair, it is a glory toJews her: or Gentiles, whether [we be] bond or free; and have for [her] hair is given her for a covering. {11:16} But if anybeen all made to drink into one Spirit. {12:14} For the body man seem to be contentious, we haveis not noone member,such custom,but many. {12:15} If the foot shall say, neither the churches of God. Because I am not the hand, I am not of the body; is it therefore not of the body? {12:16} And if the ear shall say, {11:17} Now in this that I declare [untoBecause you] II ampraise not the eye, I am not of the body; is it [you] not, that ye come together not for the better,therefore but not for of the body? {12:17} If the whole body [were] the worse. {11:18} For first of all, when ye comean together eye, where [were] the hearing? If the whole [were] in the church, I hear that there be divisions among you;hearing, and where [were] the smelling? {12:18} But now hath I partly believe it. {11:19} For there must be alsoGod heresies set the members every one of them in the body, as it among you, that they which are approvedhath may pleased be made him. {12:19} And if they were all one manifest among you. {11:20} Whenmember, ye wherecome [were]together the body? {12:20} But now [are therefore into one place, [this] is they]not tomany eat members, the Lord's yet but one body. {12:21} And the supper. {11:21} For in eating everyeye cannot one say takethunto the hand,before I have no need of thee: nor [other] his own supper: and one is hungry, andagain another the head is to the feet, I have no need of you. {12:22} drunken. {11:22} What? have ye not houses toNay, eat much and more to those members of the body, which seem to drink in? or despise ye the church of God, and shamebe them more feeble, are necessary: {12:23} And those that have not? What shall I say to you? shall I praise you[members] in of the body, which we think to be less this? I praise [you] not. {11:23} For I have receivedhonourable, of the upon these we bestow more abundant honour; Lord that which also I delivered unto you,and That our the uncomely Lord [parts] have more abundant comeliness. Jesus the [same] night in which he was betrayed took bread:{12:24} For our comely [parts] have no need: but God hath {11:24} And when he had given thanks, he braketempered [it,] and the body together, having given more abundant said, Take, eat: this is my body, which is brokenhonour for you:to that [part] which lacked: {12:25} That there this do in remembrance of me. {11:25}should After be no the schism same in the body; but [that] the members manner also [he took] the cup, when he had supped, saying,should have the same care one for another. {12:26} And This cup is the new testament in my blood: this do ye, as oftwhether one member suffer, all the members suffer with it; as ye drink [it,] in remembrance of me. {11:26} For as oftenor one member be honoured, all the members rejoice with it. as ye eat this bread, and drink [this] cup, ye{12:27} do shew Now the ye are the body of Christ, and members in Lord's death till he come. {11:27} Whereforeparticular. whosoever {12:28} And God hath set some in the church, shall eat this bread, and drinkfirst this apostles, cup secondarilyof the Lord, prophets, thirdly teachers, after unworthily, shall be guilty of the body thatand miracles,blood of thethen gifts of healings, helps, governments, Lord. {11:28} But let a man examine himself,diversities and soof lettongues. {12:29} [Are] all apostles? [are] all him eat of [that] bread, and drink of [that] cup. {11:29}prophets? For [are] all teachers? [are] all workers of miracles? he that eateth and drinketh unworthily, eateth and{12:30} drinketh Have all the gifts of healing? do all speak with damnation to himself, not discerningtongues? dothe all interpret?Lord's {12:31}body. But covet earnestly the {11:30} For this cause many [are] weak and sicklybest among gifts: and yet shew I unto you a more excellent way. you, and many sleep. {11:31} For if we would judge ourselves, we should not be judged. {11:32} But {13:1}when we Though I speak with the tongues of men and of are judged, we are chastened of the Lord, that we should notangels, and have not charity, I am become [as ]sounding be condemned with the world. {11:33}brass, or a Wherefore,tinkling cymbal. my{13:2} And though I have [the brethren, when ye come togethergift to of]eat, prophecy, tarry one and for understand all mysteries, and all another. {11:34} And if any man hunger,knowledge; let him eatand atthough I have all faith, so that I could home; that ye come not together unto condemnation.remove Andmountains, and have not charity, I am nothing. the rest will I set in order when I come. {13:3} And though I bestow all my goods to feed [the poor,] and though I give my body to be burned, and have {12:1} Now concerning spiritual [gifts,] brethren, I wouldnot charity, it profiteth me nothing. {13:4} Charity suffereth not have you ignorant. {12:2} Yelong, [and]know is kind;that charity ye envieth were not; charity vaunteth not Gentiles, carried away unto these dumb idols,itself, even is as notye puffed up, {13:5} Doth not behave itself were led. {12:3} Wherefore I give you to understand,unseemly, that seeketh not her own, is not easily provoked, no man speaking by the Spiritthinketh of God no callethevil; {13:6} Jesus Rejoiceth not in iniquity, but accursed: and [that] no man can say that Jesus is rejoiceththe Lord, in the truth; {13:7} Beareth all things, believeth all but by the Holy Ghost. {12:4} Now there are diversitiesthings, ofhopeth all things, endureth all things. {13:8} Charity gifts, but the same Spirit. {12:5} And there are differencesnever faileth: but whether [there be] , they shall of administrations, but the same Lord. {12:6} And therefail; are whether [there be] tongues, they shall cease; whether diversities of operations, but it is[there the be]same knowledge, God whichit shall vanish away. {13:9} For we 1 Corinthians Page 102 know in part, and we prophesy in part. {13:10}report But that when God is in you of a truth. {14:26} How is it then, that which is perfect is come, then that which is in part shallbrethren? when ye come together, every one of you hath a be done away. {13:11} When I was a child,psalm, I spake hath aas doctrine, a hath a tongue, hath a revelation, hath child, I understood as a child, I thought as a child: but whenan interpretation. Let all things be done unto edifying. I became a man, I put away childish things.{14:27} {13:12} If any For man speak in an [unknown] tongue, [let it now we see through a glass, darkly; but then facebe] byto two,face: or at the most [by] three, and [that] by course; now I know in part; but then shall I know even as also Iand am let one interpret. {14:28} But if there be no interpreter, known. {13:13} And now abideth faith, hope, charity, theselet him keep silence in the church; and let him speak to three; but the greatest of these [is] charity. himself, and to God. {14:29} Let the prophets speak two or three, and let the other judge. {14:30} If [any thing] be {14:1} Follow after charity, and desirerevealed spiritual to [gifts,]another that sitteth by, let the first hold his but rather that ye may prophesy.peace. {14:31} {14:2} For ye mayFor all prophesyhe that one by one, that all speaketh in an [unknown] tongue speakethmay not learn,unto men, and all may be comforted. {14:32} And the but unto God: for no man understandeth [him;] spiritshowbeit of in the prophets are subject to the prophets. {14:33} the spirit he speaketh mysteries.For God is not {14:3}[the author] ofBut confusion, he but ofthat peace, as in prophesieth speaketh untoall churchesmen of[to] the saints. edification, {14:34} Let your andwomen keep exhortation, and comfort. {14:4} He silencethat speakethin the churches: in anfor it is not permitted unto them to [unknown] tongue edifieth himself; but he that prophesiethspeak; but [they are commanded] to be under obedience, as edifieth the church. {14:5} I would that ye allalso spakesaith the with law. {14:35} And if they will learn any thing, tongues, but rather that ye prophesied: forlet themgreater ask [is]their he husbands at home: for it is a shame for that prophesieth than he that speaketh with tongues,women except to speak in the church. {14:36} What? came the he interpret, that the church may receive edifying.word of {14:6}God out from you? or came it unto you only? Now, brethren, if I come unto you speaking with{14:37} tongues, If any man think himself to be a prophet, or what shall I profit you, except I shall speak to you eitherspiritual, by let him acknowledge that the things that I write revelation, or by knowledge, or untoby youprophesying, are the commandments or of theby Lord. {14:38} But if doctrine? {14:7} And even things without life giving sound,any man be ignorant, let him be ignorant. {14:39} whether pipe or harp, except they give a distinctionWherefore, in the brethren, covet to prophesy, and forbid not to sounds, how shall it be known what is speakpiped with or tongues. harped? {14:40} Let all things be done decently {14:8} For if the trumpet give an uncertain sound, who shalland in order. prepare himself to the battle? {14:9} So likewise ye, except ye utter by the tongue words easy to be understood,{15:1} Moreover, how brethren, I declare unto you the gospel shall it be known what is spoken? for ye shall speak into thewhich I preached unto you, which also ye have received, air. {14:10} There are, it may be, so many kinds andof voiceswherein ye stand; {15:2} By which also ye are saved, if in the world, and none of them [is] withoutye signification.keep in memory what I preached unto you, unless ye {14:11} Therefore if I know not the meaning of the voice,have I believed in vain. {15:3} For I delivered unto you first shall be unto him that speaketh a barbarian,of all that and which he thatI also received, how that Christ died for speaketh [shall be] a barbarian unto me. {14:12}our sins Evenaccording so to the scriptures; {15:4} And that he was ye, forasmuch as ye are zealous of spiritual [gifts,] seek thatburied, and that he rose again the third day according to the ye may excel to the edifying scriptures:of the {15:5} church. And that {14:13}he was seen of Cephas, then of Wherefore let him that speaketh in an [unknown]the twelve: tongue {15:6} After that, he was seen of above five pray that he may interpret. {14:14} hundredFor if brethrenI pray at in once; an of whom the greater part remain [unknown] tongue, my spirit prayeth, but my understandingunto this present, but some are fallen asleep. {15:7} After is unfruitful. {14:15} What is it then? I will praythat, withhe was the seen of James; then of all the apostles. {15:8} spirit, and I will pray with the understandingAnd last also:of all he I waswill seen of me also, as of one born out of sing with the spirit, and I will sing with the understandingdue time. {15:9} For I am the least of the apostles, that am also. {14:16} Else when thou shalt bless with the spirit, hownot meet to be called an apostle, because I persecuted the shall he that occupieth the room of the unlearned say Amenchurch of God. {15:10} But by the grace of God I am what at thy giving of thanks, seeing he understandethI am: and not his whatgrace [which was bestowed] upon me was not thou sayest? {14:17} For thou verily givest thanks well,in but vain; but I laboured more abundantly than they all: yet the other is not edified. {14:18} I thank mynot God, I, Ibut speak the grace of God which was with me. {15:11} with tongues more than ye all: {14:19} Yet in the Thereforechurch I whether [it were] I or they, so we preach, and so had rather speak five words with my understanding, that [byye believed. {15:12} Now if Christ be preached that he rose my voice] I might teach others also,from than the dead,ten howthousand say some among you that there is no words in an [unknown] tongue. {14:20} Brethren,resurrection be not of the dead? {15:13} But if there be no children in understanding: howbeit in malice be ye children,resurrection of the dead, then is Christ not risen: {15:14} but in understanding be men. {14:21}And if ChristIn thebe not law risen, itthen is [is] our preaching vain, and written, With [men of] other tongues and otheryour lips faith will [is] I also vain. {15:15} Yea, and we are found speak unto this people; and yet for all that will they not hearfalse witnesses of God; because we have testified of God me, saith the Lord. {14:22} Wherefore tonguesthat he raised are up Christ:for a whom he raised not up, if so be that sign, not to them that believe, but to them that believethe dead not: rise not. {15:16} For if the dead rise not, then is but prophesying [serveth] not for them that believe notnot, Christ but raised: {15:17} And if Christ be not raised, your for them which believe. {14:23} Iffaith therefore [is] vain; theye arewhole yet in your sins. {15:18} Then they church be come together into one place, and all speakalso withwhich are fallen asleep in Christ are perished. {15:19} tongues, and there come in [those that are]If in thisunlearned, life only we orhave hope in Christ, we are of all men unbelievers, will they not say that ye are mad? {14:24}most But miserable. {15:20} But now is Christ risen from the if all prophesy, and there come in one that believeth dead,not, or [and] become the firstfruits of them that slept. [one] unlearned, he is convinced of all, he is judged{15:21} of all: For since by man [came] death, by man [came] also {14:25} And thus are the secrets of his heart made manifest;the resurrection of the dead. {15:22} For as in Adam all die, and so falling down on [his] face he will worship God,even and so in Christ shall all be made alive. {15:23} But every Page 103 1 Corinthians man in his own order: Christ the firstfruits; afterwardus the they victory through our Lord Jesus Christ. {15:58} that are Christ's at his coming. {15:24} Then [cometh]Therefore, the my beloved brethren, be ye stedfast, unmovable, end, when he shall have delivered up the kingdomalways to God, abounding in the work of the Lord, forasmuch as ye even the Father; when he shall have put down allknow rule that and your labour is not in vain in the Lord. all authority and power. {15:25} For he must reign, till he hath put all enemies under his feet. {15:26} The last enemy{16:1} Now concerning the for the saints, as I [that] shall be destroyed [is] death. {15:27} For he hathhave put given order to the churches of Galatia, even so do ye. all things under his feet. But when he saith, {16:2}all things Upon theare first [day] of the week let every one of you put under [him, it is] manifest that he is excepted, which didlay by him in store, as [God] hath prospered him, that there put all things under him. {15:28} And when all thingsbe shall no gatherings when I come. {16:3} And when I come, be subdued unto him, then shall the Sonwhomsoever also himself ye shall be approve by [your] letters, them will I subject unto him that put all things under him, that God maysend to bring your liberality unto Jerusalem. {16:4} And if be all in all. {15:29} Else what shall theyit be meet do thatwhich I go also, are they shall go with me. {16:5} Now baptized for the dead, if the dead rise not atI willall? come why unto are you, when I shall pass through Macedonia: they then baptized for the dead? {15:30} And why stand wefor I do pass through Macedonia. {16:6} And it may be that in jeopardy every hour? {15:31} I protest by your rejoicingI will abide, yea, and winter with you, that ye may bring me which I have in Christ Jesus our Lord, I die daily.on {15:32} my journey whithersoever I go. {16:7} For I will not see If after the manner of men I have foughtyou nowwith by thebeasts way; but at I trust to tarry a while with you, if Ephesus, what advantageth it me, if the dead rise not? letthe us Lord permit. {16:8} But I will tarry at Ephesus until eat and drink; for to morrow wePentecost. die. {15:33} {16:9} For Be a great not door and effectual is opened deceived: evil communicationsunto me, andcorrupt [there are] manygood adversaries. manners. {16:10} Now if {15:34} Awake to righteousness, and sin not; for some haveTimotheus come, see that he may be with you without fear: not the knowledge of God: I speak [this] to your shame. for he worketh the work of the Lord, as I also [do. ]{16:11} Let no man therefore despise him: but conduct him forth in {15:35} But some [man] will say,peace, How that are he themay comedead unto me: for I look for him with raised up? and with what body do theythe brethren. come? {16:12}{15:36} As touching [our] brother Apollos, I [Thou] fool, that which thou sowestgreatly desired is himnot to comequickened, unto you with the brethren: but except it die: {15:37} And that which histhou will sowest,was not at allthou to come at this time; but he will come sowest not that body that shall be, but barewhen grain, he itshall may have convenient time. {16:13} Watch ye, chance of wheat, or of some other [grain: ]{15:38} But Godstand fast in the faith, quit you like men, be strong. {16:14} giveth it a body as it hath pleased him, and to every seed hisLet all your things be done with charity. {16:15} I beseech own body. {15:39} All flesh [is] not theyou, same brethren, flesh: (ye know but the house of Stephanas, that it is the [there is] one [kind of] flesh of men, another flesh of beasts,firstfruits of Achaia, and [that] they have addicted another of fishes, [and] another of birds.themselves {15:40} to the[There ministry of the saints,) {16:16} That ye are] also celestial bodies, and bodiessubmit terrestrial: yourselves unto but such, the and to every one that helpeth glory of the celestial [is] one,with and [us,] andthe laboureth. [glory] {16:17} I amof glad the of the coming of terrestrial [is] another. {15:41} [There is] oneStephanas glory of and the Fortunatus and Achaicus: for that which was sun, and another glory of the moon, and another glory of thelacking on your part they have supplied. {16:18} For they stars: for [one] star differeth from [another]have star refreshed in glory. my spirit and yours: therefore acknowledge {15:42} So also [is] the resurrection of the dead. It isye sown them that are such. in corruption; it is raised in incorruption: {15:43} It is sown in dishonour; it is raised in glory: it is sown in weakness;{16:19} it The churches of Asia salute you. Aquila and is raised in power: {15:44} It is sown a naturalPriscilla body; saluteit is you much in the Lord, with the church that is raised a spiritual body. There is a natural body, and therein their is house. {16:20} All the brethren greet you. Greet ye a spiritual body. {15:45} And so it is written, The firstone man another with an holy kiss. {16:21} The salutation of Adam was made a living soul; the [was made][me] Paul a with mine own hand. {16:22} If any man love not quickening spirit. {15:46} Howbeitthe Lordthat Jesus[was] Christ, not firstlet him be . which is spiritual, but that which is natural; {16:23}and afterward The grace of our Lord Jesus Christ [be] with you. that which is spiritual. {15:47} The first{16:24} man My[is] love of [be] the with you all in Christ Jesus. Amen. earth, earthy: the second man [is] the Lord from heaven. {15:48} As [is] the earthy, such [are] they also that are earthy: and as [is] the heavenly, such [are] they also that are heavenly. {15:49} And as we have borne the image of the earthy, we shall also bear the image of the heavenly. {15:50} Now this I say, brethren, that flesh and blood cannot inherit the kingdom of God; neither doth corruption inherit incorruption. {15:51} Behold, I shew you a mystery; We shall not all sleep, but we shall all be changed, {15:52} In a moment, in the twinkling of an eye, at the last trump: for the trumpet shall sound, and the dead shall be raised incorruptible, and we shall be changed. {15:53} For this corruptible must put on incorruption, and this mortal [must] put on immortality. {15:54} So when this corruptible shall have put on incorruption, and this mortal shall have put on immortality, then shall be brought to pass the saying that is written, Death is swallowed up in victory. {15:55} O death, where [is] thy sting? O grave, where [is] thy victory? {15:56} The sting of death [is] sin; and the strength of sin [is] the law. {15:57} But thanks [be] to God, which giveth

Page 105 2 Corinthians The Second Epistle of Paul the Apostle to the Corinthians them of whom I ought to rejoice; having confidence in you all, that my joy is [the joy] of you all. {2:4} For out of much affliction and anguish of heart I wrote unto you with many tears; not that ye should be grieved, but that ye might know {1:1} Paul, an apostle of Jesus Christ by the will ofthe God, love which I have more abundantly unto you. {2:5} But and Timothy [our] brother, unto the church of God whichif anyis have caused grief, he hath not grieved me, but in part: at Corinth, with all the saints which are in all Achaia: {1:2}that I may not overcharge you all. {2:6} Sufficient to such a Grace be to you and peace from God our Father, and [from]man is this punishment, which [was inflicted] of many. the Lord Jesus Christ. {1:3} Blessed [be]{2:7} God, So even that the contrariwise ye [ought] rather to forgive Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, the Father of mercies,[him,] and comfort [him,] lest perhaps such a one should be the God of all comfort; {1:4} Who comforteth us in swallowedall our up with overmuch sorrow. {2:8} Wherefore I tribulation, that we may be able to comfort them whichbeseech are you that ye would confirm [your] love toward him. in any trouble, by the comfort wherewith we ourselves{2:9} For are to this end also did I write, that I might know the comforted of God. {1:5} For as the sufferingsproof of you, of whether Christ ye be obedient in all things. {2:10} abound in us, so our consolation also aboundeth Toby Christ.whom ye forgive any thing, I [forgive] also: for if I {1:6} And whether we be afflicted,forgave any thing,[it tois] whom for I forgave your [it,] for your sakes consolation and salvation, which is effectual in the enduring[forgave I it] in the person of Christ; {2:11} Lest Satan of the same sufferings which we also suffer: or whethershould we get an advantage of us: for we are not ignorant of his be comforted, [it is] for your consolationdevices. and {2:12} salvation. Furthermore, when I came to Troas to {1:7} And our hope of you [is] stedfast, knowing, that as [preach]ye Christ's gospel, and a door was opened unto me of are partakers of the sufferings, so [shall ye be]the also Lord, of {2:13} the I had no rest in my spirit, because I found consolation. {1:8} For we would not, brethren,not Titus myhave brother: you but taking my leave of them, I went ignorant of our trouble which came to us in Asia,from thencethat we into Macedonia. {2:14} Now thanks [be] unto were pressed out of measure, above strength, insomuchGod, that which always causeth us to triumph in Christ, and we despaired even of life: {1:9} But we had the sentencemaketh of manifest the savour of his knowledge by us in every death in ourselves, that we should not trust in ourselves,place. but {2:15} For we are unto God a sweet savour of Christ, in God which raiseth the dead: {1:10} Whoin them delivered that are ussaved, and in them that perish: {2:16} To from so great a death, and doth deliver: in whomthe onewe trust[we are] the savour of death unto death; and to the that he will yet deliver [us; ]{1:11} Ye also helping togetherother the savour of life unto life. And who [is] sufficient for by prayer for us, that for the gift [bestowed] upon us bythese the things? {2:17} For we are not as many, which corrupt means of many persons thanks may be given theby wordmany ofon God: but as of sincerity, but as of God, in the our behalf. sight of God speak we in Christ.

{1:12} For our rejoicing is this, the{3:1} testimony Do we begin againof our to commend ourselves? or need conscience, that in simplicity and godly sincerity,we, notas somewith [others,] of commendation to you, or fleshly wisdom, but by the grace of God, we have[letters] had our of commendation from you? {3:2} Ye are our conversation in the world, and more epistleabundantly written to in you- our hearts, known and read of all men: ward. {1:13} For we write none other things unto you,{3:3} than [Forasmuch as ye are] manifestly declared to be the what ye read or acknowledge;epistle ofand Christ ministeredI trust by us,ye written shall not with , but acknowledge even to the end; {1:14}with theAs Spirit also of the ye living have God; not in tables of stone, but acknowledged us in part, that we are your rejoicing, evenin as fleshy tables of the heart. ye also [are] ours in Jesus. {3:4} And such trust have we through Christ to God- {1:15} And in this confidence I was minded to come untoward: {3:5} Not that we are sufficient of ourselves to think you before, that ye might have a second benefit; {1:16} Andany thing as of ourselves; but our sufficiency [is] of God; to pass by you into Macedonia, and to come {3:6}again outWho of also hath made us able ministers of the new Macedonia unto you, and of you to be brought ontestament; my way not of the letter, but of the spirit: for the letter toward Judaea. {1:17} When I therefore was thuskilleth, minded, but the spirit giveth life. {3:7} But if the did I use lightness? or the things that I purpose, do I purposeministration of death, written [and] engraven in stones, was according to the flesh, that with me there should be yea yea,glorious, so that the children of Israel could not stedfastly and nay nay? {1:18} But [as] Godbehold [is] thetrue, face ofour Moses word for the glory of his countenance; toward you was not yea and nay. {1:19} whichFor [glory]the Son was toof be done away: {3:8} How shall not the God, Jesus Christ, who was preached amongministration you of bythe spiritus, be rather glorious? {3:9} For if the [even] by me and Silvanus and Timotheus, was not yeaministration and of condemnation [be] glory, much more doth nay, but in him was yea. {1:20} For all the promises of Godthe ministration of righteousness exceed in glory. {3:10} in him [are] yea, and in him Amen, unto the gloryFor ofeven God that which was made glorious had no glory in this by us. {1:21} Now he which stablishethrespect, us withby reason you of inthe glory that excelleth. {3:11} For if Christ, and hath anointed us, [is] God; that{1:22} which Who is hath done away [was] glorious, much more that also sealed us, and given the earnest of whichthe Spirit remaineth in our [is] glorious. {3:12} Seeing then that we hearts. {1:23} Moreover I call God for a recordhave uponsuch hope,my we use great plainness of speech: {3:13} soul, that to spare you I came not asAnd yet not asunto Moses, Corinth. [which] put a vail over his face, that the {1:24} Not for that we have dominion over yourchildren faith, butof Israel could not stedfastly look to the end of that are helpers of your joy: for by faith ye stand. which is abolished: {3:14} But their minds were blinded: for until this day remaineth the same vail untaken away in {2:1} But I determined this with myself, that I wouldthe readingnot of the old testament; which [vail] is done away come again to you in heaviness. {2:2} For inif IChrist. make you{3:15} But even unto this day, when Moses is sorry, who is he then that maketh me glad,read, but the the vail sameis upon their heart. {3:16} Nevertheless when which is made sorry by me? {2:3} And I wroteit shallthis turn same to the Lord, the vail shall be taken away. {3:17} unto you, lest, when I came, I should haveNow the sorrow Lord is that from Spirit: and where the Spirit of the Lord 2 Corinthians Page 106 [is,] there [is] liberty. {3:18} But we all,{5:11} with open Knowing face therefore the terror of the Lord, we beholding as in a glass the glory of the Lord, persuadeare changed men; but we are made manifest unto God; and I into the same image from glory to glory, [even]trust as byalso the are made manifest in your consciences. {5:12} Spirit of the Lord. For we commend not ourselves again unto you, but give you occasion to glory on our behalf, that ye may have {4:1} Therefore seeing we have this ministry, as wesomewhat have to [answer] them which glory in appearance, and received mercy, we faint not; {4:2} But have renouncednot the in heart. {5:13} For whether we be beside ourselves, [it hidden things of dishonesty, not walking in craftiness,is] to God: nor or whether we be sober, [it is] for your cause. handling the word of God deceitfully; but by manifestation{5:14} For the constraineth us; because we of the truth commendingthus ourselves judge, that ifto one every died for man'sall, then were all dead: conscience in the sight of God. {4:3} But if our{5:15} gospel beAnd [that] he died for all, that they which live hid, it is hid to them that are lost: {4:4} In whom the god shouldof not henceforth live unto themselves, but unto him this world hath blinded the minds of themwhich which died believe for them, and rose again. {5:16} Wherefore not, lest the light of the glorious gospel of Christ, who is thehenceforth know we no man after the flesh: yea, though we image of God, should shine unto them. {4:5} For we preachhave known Christ after the flesh, yet now henceforth know not ourselves, but Christ Jesus the Lord; and ourselveswe your [him] no more. {5:17} Therefore if any man [be] in servants for Jesus' sake. {4:6} For God, whoChrist, commanded [he is] a new creature: old things are passed away; the light to shine out of darkness, hath shined in our behold,hearts, all things are become new. {5:18} And all things to [give] the light of the knowledge of the glory of[are] God of in God, who hath reconciled us to himself by Jesus the face of Jesus Christ. Christ, and hath given to us the ministry of reconciliation; {5:19} To wit, that God was in Christ, reconciling the world {4:7} But we have this treasure in earthen vessels, that theunto himself, not imputing their trespasses unto them; and excellency of the power may be of God,hath and committed not of unto us. us the word of reconciliation. {5:20} {4:8} [We are] troubled on every side, yet Nownot thendistressed; we are ambassadors for Christ, as though God did [we are] perplexed, but not in despair; {4:9} Persecuted, butbeseech [you] by us: we pray [you] in Christ's stead, be ye not forsaken; cast down, but not destroyed; {4:10}reconciled Always to God. {5:21} For he hath made him [to be] sin bearing about in the body the dying of the Lord Jesus,for thatus, who knew no sin; that we might be made the the life also of Jesus might be made manifest inrighteousness our body. of God in him. {4:11} For we which live are alway delivered unto death for Jesus' sake, that the life also of {6:1}Jesus We then,might [as] workersbe made together [with him,] beseech manifest in our mortal flesh. {4:12} So then death [you]worketh also that ye receive not the grace of God in vain. in us, but life in you. {4:13} We having the same{6:2} spirit (For of he saith, I have heard thee in a time accepted, faith, according as it is written, I believed,and in andthe daytherefore of salvation have I succoured thee: behold, have I spoken; we also believe, and therefore speak; {4:14}now [is] the accepted time; behold, now [is] the day of Knowing that he which raised up the Lord Jesus shallsalvation.) raise {6:3} Giving no offence in any thing, that the up us also by Jesus, and shall present [us] with you. {4:15}ministry be not blamed: {6:4} But in all [things] approving For all things [are] for your sakes, that the abundantourselves grace as the ministers of God, in much patience, in might through the thanksgiving of manyafflictions, redound in necessities, to the in distresses, {6:5} In stripes, in glory of God. {4:16} For which cause imprisonments,we faint not; but in tumults, in labours, in watchings, in though our outward man perish, yet thefastings; inward [man] is {6:6} By pureness, by knowledge, by renewed day by day. {4:17} For our light affliction,longsuffering, which by kindness, by the Holy Ghost, by love is but for a moment, worketh for us a far moreunfeigned, exceeding {6:7} By the word of truth, by the power of God, [and] eternal weight of glory; {4:18} While we lookby thenot armour at of righteousness on the right hand and on the the things which are seen, but at the things left,which {6:8}are not By honour and dishonour, by evil report and seen: for the things which are seen [are] temporal;good but thereport: as deceivers, and [yet] true; {6:9} As things which are not seen [are] eternal. unknown, and [yet] well known; as dying, and, behold, we live; as chastened, and not killed; {6:10} As sorrowful, yet {5:1} For we know that if our earthlyalway house rejoicing; of [this]as poor, yet making many rich; as having tabernacle were dissolved, we have a buildingnothing, of God, and an[yet] possessing all things. house not made with hands, eternal in the heavens. {5:2} For in this we groan, earnestly desiring to be clothed{6:11} upon O [ye] Corinthians, our mouth is open unto you, with our house which is from heaven: {5:3}our If heartso beis enlarged.that {6:12} Ye are not straitened in us, but being clothed we shall not be found naked. ye{5:4} are Forstraitened we in your own bowels. {6:13} Now for a that are in [this] tabernacle do groan, being recompenceburdened: in not the same, (I speak as unto [my] children,) be for that we would be unclothed, butye clothedalso enlarged.upon, that {6:14} Be ye not unequally yoked mortality might be swallowed up of life. {5:5} Now hetogether that with unbelievers: for what fellowship hath hath wrought us for the selfsame thing [is] God,righteousness who also with unrighteousness? and what communion hath given unto us the earnest of the Spirit. {5:6} Thereforehath light with darkness? {6:15} And what concord hath [we are] always confident, knowing that, whilstChrist we with are ? at or what part hath he that believeth with home in the body, we are absent from the Lord: {5:7}an (Forinfidel? {6:16} And what agreement hath the temple of we walk by faith, not by sight:) {5:8} We are confident,God with [I idols? for ye are the temple of the living God; as say,] and willing rather to be absent from the body,God hathand said,to I will dwell in them, and walk in [them;] and be present with the Lord. {5:9} Wherefore we labour,I will that, be their God, and they shall be my people. {6:17} whether present or absent, we may beWherefore accepted come ofout fromhim. among them, and be ye separate, {5:10} For we must all appear before the judgmentsaith seat the of Lord, and touch not the unclean [thing;] and I will Christ; that every one may receive the things [done] in receive[his] you, {6:18} And will be a Father unto you, and ye body, according to that he hath done, whether [itshall be] be good my sons and daughters, saith the Lord Almighty. or bad. {7:1} Having therefore these promises, dearly beloved, let Page 107 2 Corinthians us cleanse ourselves from all filthinessdoing [ofof it;] the that asflesh [there was]and a readiness to will, so [there spirit, perfecting holiness in the fear mayof God. be] a performance also out of that which ye have. {8:12} For if there be first a willing mind, [it is] accepted {7:2} Receive us; we have wronged noaccording man, towe that have a man hath, [and] not according to that he corrupted no man, we have defrauded no man. {7:3} I speakhath not. {8:13} For [I mean] not that other men be eased, not [this] to condemn [you:] for I have said before,and that ye yeburdened: {8:14} But by an equality, [that] now at are in our hearts to die and live with [you. ]{7:4} Greatthis [is] time your abundance [may be a supply] for their want, my boldness of speech toward you, great [is] my glorying ofthat their abundance also may be [a supply] for your want: you: I am filled with comfort, I am exceeding joyfulthat therein all may be equality: {8:15} As it is written, He that our tribulation. {7:5} For, [hadwhen gathered] we were much comehad nothing into over; and he that [had Macedonia, our flesh had no rest, but we were troubledgathered] on little had no lack. {8:16} But thanks [be] to God, every side; without [were] fightings, withinwhich put [were] the same fears. earnest care into the heart of Titus for {7:6} Nevertheless God, that comforteth those thatyou. are cast {8:17} For indeed he accepted the exhortation; but down, comforted us by the coming of Titus; {7:7} Andbeing not more forward, of his own accord he went unto you. by his coming only, but by the consolation{8:18} wherewith And he we have sent with him the brother, whose was comforted in you, when he told us your earnestpraise desire, is in the gospel throughout all the churches; {8:19} your mourning, your fervent mind towardAnd notme; so[that] that only,I but who was also chosen of the rejoiced the more. {7:8} For though I made you sorry with achurches to travel with us with this grace, which is letter, I do not repent, though I did repent: for I perceive thatadministered by us to the glory of the same Lord, and the same epistle hath made you sorry, though [it [declarationwere] but of] your ready mind: {8:20} Avoiding this, that for a season. {7:9} Now I rejoice, not that noye wereman made should blame us in this abundance which is sorry, but that ye sorrowed to repentance: for ye were madeadministered by us: {8:21} Providing for honest things, not sorry after a godly manner, that ye might receive damage byonly in the sight of the Lord, but also in the sight of men. us in nothing. {7:10} For godly sorrow worketh repentance{8:22} And we have sent with them our brother, whom we to salvation not to be repented of: but havethe sorrow oftentimes of the proved diligent in many things, but now world worketh death. {7:11} For behold this selfsame thing,much more diligent, upon the great confidence which [I that ye sorrowed after a godly sort,have] what in you. carefulness {8:23} Whether [anyit do enquire] of Titus, [he wrought in you, yea, [what] clearing is]of yourselves,my partner yea,and fellowhelper concerning you: or our [what] indignation, yea, [what] fear, yea, [what]brethren vehement [be enquired of, they are] the messengers of the desire, yea, [what] zeal, yea, [what] revenge! In all churches,[things] [and] the glory of Christ. {8:24} Wherefore shew ye have approved yourselves to be yeclear to them, in and this before matter. the churches, the proof of your love, {7:12} Wherefore, though I wrote unto you, [I did it] not forand of our boasting on your behalf. his cause that had done the wrong, nor for his cause that suffered wrong, but that our care for you in the sight of God{9:1} For as touching the ministering to the saints, it is might appear unto you. superfluous{7:13} for Therefore me to write to you:we {9:2} were For I know the comforted in your comfort: yea, and exceedinglyforwardness the more of your mind, for which I boast of you to them joyed we for the joy of Titus, ofbecause Macedonia, histhat Achaiaspirit was was ready a year ago; and your refreshed by you all. {7:14} For if I have boasted any zealthing hath provoked very many. {9:3} Yet have I sent the to him of you, I am not ashamed; but as we spake all thingsbrethren, lest our boasting of you should be in vain in this to you in truth, even so our boasting, which [I made] beforebehalf; that, as I said, ye may be ready: {9:4} Lest haply if Titus, is found a truth. {7:15} And his inwardthey affection of Macedonia is come with me, and find you unprepared, more abundant toward you, whilstwe he(that remembereth we say not, ye) theshould be ashamed in this same obedience of you all, how with confidentfear andboasting. trembling {9:5} Therefore yeI thought it necessary to received him. {7:16} I rejoiceexhort the brethren,therefore that they would that go before I untohave you, and confidence in you in all [things.make up beforehand your bounty, whereof ye had notice before, that the same might be ready, as [a matter of] ]{8:1} Moreover, brethren, we do you to wit of thebounty, grace and not as [of] covetousness. {9:6} But this [I say,] of God bestowed on the churches of Macedonia; {8:2} HowHe which soweth sparingly shall reap also sparingly; and he that in a great trial of affliction the abundance whichof their soweth joy bountifully shall reap also bountifully. {9:7} and their deep poverty abounded unto theEvery riches man ofaccording their as he purposeth in his heart, [so let liberality. {8:3} For to [their] power, I bear record, yea, himand give;] not grudgingly, or of necessity: for God loveth a beyond [their] power [they were] willingcheerful ofgiver. themselves; {9:8} And God [is] able to make all grace {8:4} Praying us with much intreaty that we wouldabound receive toward you; that ye, always having all sufficiency in the gift, and [take upon us] the fellowship of the ministeringall [things,] may abound to every good work: {9:9} (As it is to the saints. {8:5} And [this they did,] not as we hoped, butwritten, He hath dispersed abroad; he hath given to the first gave their own selves to the Lord, and untopoor: us by his the righteousness remaineth for ever. {9:10} Now he will of God. {8:6} Insomuch that we desired Titus,that that ministereth as seed to the sower both minister bread for he had begun, so he would also finish in you the same grace[your] food, and multiply your seed sown, and increase the also. {8:7} Therefore, as ye abound fruitsin every of [thing, your in]righteousness;) {9:11} Being enriched in faith, and utterance, and knowledge, and [in] allevery diligence, thing to all bountifulness, which causeth through us and [in] your love to us, [see] that ye abound in thanksgivingthis grace to God. {9:12} For the administration of this also. {8:8} I speak not by commandment, but byservice occasion not only supplieth the want of the saints, but is of the forwardness of others, and to prove theabundant sincerity ofalso by many thanksgivings unto God; {9:13} your love. {8:9} For ye know the grace of our WhilesLord Jesus by the experiment of this ministration they glorify Christ, that, though he was rich, yetGod forfor your your professed sakes subjection he into the gospel of Christ, became poor, that ye through his povertyand formight [your] be rich.liberal distribution unto them, and unto all {8:10} And herein I give [my] advice: for this is expedient[men; ]{9:14} And by their prayer for you, which long after for you, who have begun before, not only to do, but alsoyou forto the exceeding grace of God in you. {9:15} Thanks be forward a year ago. {8:11} Now therefore[be] perform unto God the for his unspeakable gift. 2 Corinthians Page 108 {10:1} Now I Paul myself beseech you by the Asmeekness the truth of Christ is in me, no man shall stop me of this and gentleness of Christ, who in presence [am] base amongboasting in the regions of Achaia. {11:11} Wherefore? you, but being absent am bold toward you:because {10:2} I love But you I not? God knoweth. {11:12} But what I beseech [you,] that I may not be bold whendo, I amthat present I will do, that I may cut off occasion from them with that confidence, wherewith I think to bewhich bold desireagainst occasion; that wherein they glory, they may be some, which think of us as if we walked accordingfound toeven the as we. {11:13} For such [are] false apostles, flesh. {10:3} For though we walk in the flesh,deceitful we doworkers, not transforming themselves into the apostles war after the flesh: {10:4} (For the weapons of our warfareof Christ. {11:14} And no marvel; for Satan himself is [are] not carnal, but mighty throughtransformed God to intothe an pulling angel of light. {11:15} Therefore [it is] down of strong holds;) {10:5} Casting down imaginations,no great thing if his ministers also be transformed as the and every high thing that ministersexalteth of righteousness; itself whose against end shall be accordingthe to knowledge of God, and bringingtheir works. into captivity every thought to the obedience of Christ; {10:6} And having in a readiness to revenge all disobedience, when your obedience{11:16} I say again, Let no man think me a fool; if is fulfilled. {10:7} Do ye look on things after otherwise,the outward yet as a fool receive me, that I may boast myself appearance? If any man trust to himself that he isa little.Christ's, {11:17} That which I speak, I speak [it] not after the let him of himself think this again, that, as he [is]Lord, Christ's, but as it were foolishly, in this confidence of boasting. even so [are] we Christ's. {10:8} For though I should {11:18}boast Seeing that many glory after the flesh, I will glory somewhat more of our authority, which the Lord hath givenalso. {11:19} For ye , seeing ye us for edification, and not for your destruction, I should[yourselves] not are wise. {11:20} For ye suffer, if a man bring be ashamed: {10:9} That I may not seemyou intoas bondage,if I would if a man devour [you,] if a man take [of terrify you by letters. {10:10} For [his]you,] letters, if a man sayexalt himself,they, if a man smite you on the face. [are] weighty and powerful; but [his] bodily{11:21} presence I speak [is] as concerning reproach, as though we had weak, and [his] speech contemptible. {10:11}been Let suchweak. an Howbeit whereinsoever any is bold, (I speak one think this, that, such as we are in word by lettersfoolishly,) when I am bold also. {11:22} Are they Hebrews? so we are absent, such [will we be] also in deed when[am] we I.are Are they Israelites? so [am] I. Are they the seed of present. {10:12} For we dare not makeAbraham? ourselves so [am] of I. the{11:23} Are they ministers of Christ? number, or compare ourselves with some(I speak asthat a fool) commend I [am] more; in labours more abundant, in themselves: but they measuring themselves bystripes themselves, above measure, in prisons more frequent, in deaths and comparing themselves among themselves, are notoft. wise. {11:24} Of the Jews five times received I forty [stripes] {10:13} But we will not boast ofsave things one. {11:25} without Thrice was [our]I beaten with rods, once was I measure, but according to the measure ofstoned, the thrice rule I sufferedwhich shipwreck, a night and a day I have God hath distributed to us, a measure to reachbeen in eventhe deep; unto {11:26} [In] journeyings often, [in] perils you. {10:14} For we stretch not ourselvesof waters, [in] beyond perils of[our robbers, [in] perils by [mine own] measure,] as though we reached not unto you:countrymen, for we [in] are perils by the heathen, [in] perils in the city, come as far as to you also in [preaching][in] perils the in thegospel wilderness, of [in] perils in the sea, [in] perils Christ: {10:15} Not boastingamong of things false without brethren; [our] {11:27} In weariness and measure, [that is,] of other men's labours; but havingpainfulness, hope, in watchings often, in hunger and thirst, in when your faith is increased, that we shall befastings enlarged often, by in cold and nakedness. {11:28} Beside those you according to our rule abundantly, {10:16}things Tothat preachare without, that which cometh upon me daily, the gospel in the [regions] beyond you, [and] not to boastthe in care of all the churches. {11:29} Who is weak, and I am another man's line of things madenot weak?ready who to isour offended, hand. and I burn not? {11:30} If I {10:17} But he that glorieth, let him mustglory needs in glory,the Lord.I will glory of the things which concern {10:18} For not he that commendeth himselfmine is approved, infirmities. {11:31} The God and Father of our Lord but whom the Lord commendeth. Jesus Christ, which is blessed for evermore, knoweth that I lie not. {11:32} In Damascus the governor under Aretas the {11:1} Would to God ye could bear with kingme a littlekept inthe city of the Damascenes with a garrison, [my] folly: and indeed bear with me.desirous {11:2} to apprehend For I me:am {11:33} And through a window jealous over you with godly jealousy: for I havein a espoused basket was I let down by the wall, and escaped his you to one husband, that I may present [youhands. as] a chaste virgin to Christ. {11:3} But I fear, lest by any means, as the serpent beguiled through his subtilty,{12:1} so Ityour is not expedientminds for me doubtless to glory. I will should be corrupted from the simplicity comethat tois visions in Christ. and of the Lord. {12:2} I knew {11:4} For if he that cometh preacheth another Jesus, whoma man in Christ above fourteen years ago, (whether in the we have not preached, or [if] ye receivebody, I cannot another tell; or whether spirit, out of the body, I cannot tell: which ye have not received, or ,God knoweth;) which such ye an one caught up to the . have not accepted, ye might well bear with {12:3}[him. And ]{11:5} I knew such a man, (whether in the body, or out For I suppose I was not a whit behind ofthe the very body, chiefest I cannot tell: God knoweth;) {12:4} How that apostles. {11:6} But though [I be] rude in speech, yet nothe in was caught up into paradise, and heard unspeakable knowledge; but we have been throughlywords, which made it is manifestnot lawful for a man to utter. {12:5} Of among you in all things. {11:7} suchHave an oneI willcommitted I glory: yet anof myself I will not glory, but offence in abasing myself that ye might be exalted, becausein mine infirmities. {12:6} For though I would desire to I have preached to you the gospel of God freely?glory, {11:8} I shall I not be a fool; for I will say the truth: but [now] robbed other churches, taking wages [of them,]I forbear, to dolest youany man should think of me above that which service. {11:9} And when I was presenthe seeth mewith [to be,]you, or [that]and he heareth of me. {12:7} And wanted, I was chargeable to no man: forlest that whichI should was be exalted above measure through the lacking to me the brethren which cameabundance from Macedoniaof the revelations, there was given to me a thorn supplied: and in all [things] I have kept myself fromin the being flesh, the messenger of Satan to buffet me, lest I burdensome unto you, and so will I keep [myself. ]{11:10}should be exalted above measure. {12:8} For this thing I Page 109 2 Corinthians besought the Lord thrice, that it might{13:13} depart All thefrom saints me. salute you. {13:14} The grace of {12:9} And he said unto me, My grace is sufficient for thee:the Lord Jesus Christ, and the love of God, and the for my strength is made perfect in weakness.communion Most gladly of the Holy Ghost, [be] with you all. Amen. therefore will I rather glory in my infirmities, that the power of Christ may rest upon me. {12:10} Therefore I take pleasure in infirmities, in reproaches, in necessities, in persecutions, in distresses for Christ's sake: for when I am weak, then am I strong.

{12:11} I am become a fool in glorying; ye have compelled me: for I ought to have been commended of you: for in nothing am I behind the very chiefest apostles, though I be nothing. {12:12} Truly the signs of an apostle were wrought among you in all patience, in signs, and wonders, and mighty deeds. {12:13} For what is it wherein ye were inferior to other churches, except [it be] that I myself was not burdensome to you? forgive me this wrong. {12:14} Behold, the third time I am ready to come to you; and I will not be burdensome to you: for I seek not yours, but you: for the children ought not to lay up for the parents, but the parents for the children. {12:15} And I will very gladly spend and be spent for you; though the more abundantly I love you, the less I be loved. {12:16} But be it so, I did not burden you: nevertheless, being crafty, I caught you with guile. {12:17} Did I make a gain of you by any of them whom I sent unto you? {12:18} I desired Titus, and with [him] I sent a brother. Did Titus make a gain of you? walked we not in the same spirit? [walked we] not in the same steps? {12:19} Again, think ye that we excuse ourselves unto you? we speak before God in Christ: but [we do] all things, dearly beloved, for your edifying. {12:20} For I fear, lest, when I come, I shall not find you such as I would, and [that] I shall be found unto you such as ye would not: lest [there be] debates, envyings, wraths, strifes, backbitings, whisperings, swellings, tumults: {12:21} [And] lest, when I come again, my God will humble me among you, and [that] I shall bewail many which have sinned already, and have not repented of the uncleanness and fornication and lasciviousness which they have committed.

{13:1} This [is] the third [time] I am coming to you. In the mouth of two or shall every word be established. {13:2} I told you before, and foretell you, as if I were present, the second time; and being absent now I write to them which heretofore have sinned, and to all other, that, if I come again, I will not spare: {13:3} Since ye seek a proof of Christ speaking in me, which to you-ward is not weak, but is mighty in you. {13:4} For though he was crucified through weakness, yet he liveth by the power of God. For we also are weak in him, but we shall live with him by the power of God toward you. {13:5} Examine yourselves, whether ye be in the faith; prove your own selves. Know ye not your own selves, how that Jesus Christ is in you, except ye be reprobates? {13:6} But I trust that ye shall know that we are not reprobates. {13:7} Now I pray to God that ye do no evil; not that we should appear approved, but that ye should do that which is honest, though we be as reprobates. {13:8} For we can do nothing against the truth, but for the truth. {13:9} For we are glad, when we are weak, and ye are strong: and this also we wish, [even] your perfection. {13:10} Therefore I write these things being absent, lest being present I should use sharpness, according to the power which the Lord hath given me to edification, and not to destruction.

{13:11} Finally, brethren, farewell. Be perfect, be of good comfort, be of one mind, live in peace; and the God of love and peace shall be with you. {13:12} Greet one another with an holy kiss.

Page 111 Galatians The Epistle of Paul the Apostle to the Galatians But contrariwise, when they saw that the gospel of the uncircumcision was committed unto me, as [the gospel] of the circumcision [was] unto Peter; {2:8} (For he that wrought effectually in Peter to the apostleship of the {1:1} Paul, an apostle, (not of men, neither circumcision,by man, but the same was mighty in me toward the by Jesus Christ, and God the Father, who raisedGentiles:) him from {2:9} And when James, Cephas, and John, who the dead;) {1:2} And all the brethren whichseemed are with to me,be pillars, perceived the grace that was given unto the churches of Galatia: {1:3} Grace [be]unto to youme, andthey gave to me and Barnabas the right hands of peace from God the Father, and [from]fellowship; our thatLord we [shouldJesus go] unto the heathen, and they Christ, {1:4} Who gave himself for our sins, thatunto he might the circumcision. {2:10} Only [they would] that we deliver us from this present evil world, according to the willshould remember the poor; the same which I also was of God and our Father: {1:5} To whom [be] glory forwardfor ever to do. {2:11} But when Peter was come to Antioch, and ever. Amen. I withstood him to the face, because he was to be blamed. {2:12} For before that certain came from James, he did eat {1:6} I marvel that ye are so soon removed from him withthat the Gentiles: but when they were come, he withdrew called you into the grace of Christ untoand anotherseparated gospel: himself, fearing them which were of the {1:7} Which is not another; but there be some thatcircumcision. trouble {2:13} And the other Jews dissembled you, and would pervert the gospel oflikewise Christ. with him; {1:8} insomuch But that Barnabas also was carried though we, or an angel from heaven,away preachwith their any dissimulation. other {2:14} But when I saw that gospel unto you than that which we havethey preached walked untonot uprightly according to the truth of the you, let him be accursed. {1:9} As we said before, sogospel, say I I said unto Peter before [them] all, If thou, being a now again, If any [man] preach any other gospelJew, unto livest you after the manner of Gentiles, and not as do the than that ye have received, let him be accursed. Jews, why compellest thou the Gentiles to live as do the Jews? {2:15} We [who are] Jews by nature, and not sinners {1:10} For do I now persuade men, or God? or do ofI seekthe Gentiles, {2:16} Knowing that a man is not justified to please men? for if I yet pleased men, I should not bybe the works of the law, but by the faith of Jesus Christ, servant of Christ. {1:11} But I certify you, brethren, that theeven we have believed in Jesus Christ, that we might be gospel which was preached of me is not after man.justified {1:12} by the faith of Christ, and not by the works of the For I neither received it of man, neither was I taught [it,] butlaw: for by the works of the law shall no flesh be justified. by the revelation of Jesus Christ. {1:13} For ye have{2:17} heard But if, while we seek to be justified by Christ, we of my conversation in time past in the Jews' religion,ourselves how also are found sinners, [is] therefore Christ the that beyond measure I persecuted the churchminister of God, of sin? and God forbid. {2:18} For if I build again the wasted it: {1:14} And profited in the Jews' religionthings above which I destroyed, I make myself a transgressor. many my equals in mine {2:19}own For nation, I through thebeing law am moredead to the law, that I exceedingly zealous of the traditions of my fathers.might {1:15} live unto God. {2:20} I am crucified with Christ: But when it pleased God, who separatednevertheless I live;me yetfrom not I, butmy Christ liveth in me: and the mother's womb, and called [me] by his grace,life which {1:16} I now To live in the flesh I live by the faith of the reveal his Son in me, that I might preach himSon among of God, the who loved me, and gave himself for me. heathen; immediately I conferred not with flesh and{2:21} blood: I do not frustrate the grace of God: for if {1:17} Neither went I up to Jerusalem to them whichrighteousness were [come] by the law, then Christ is dead in vain. apostles before me; but I went into Arabia, and returned again unto Damascus. {1:18} Then after three years {3:1}I went O foolish Galatians, who hath bewitched you, that up to Jerusalem to see Peter, and abode withye should him not fifteenobey the truth, before whose eyes Jesus Christ days. {1:19} But other of the apostleshath saw been I none, evidently save set forth, crucified among you? {3:2} James the Lord's brother. {1:20} Now the thingsThis only which would I I learn of you, Received ye the Spirit by write unto you, behold, before theGod, works Iof thelie law, not. or by {1:21}the hearing of faith? {3:3} Are Afterwards I came into the regions of yeSyria so foolish? and havingCilicia; begun in the Spirit, are ye now made {1:22} And was unknown by face untoperfect the by churches the flesh? {3:4} of Have ye suffered so many things Judaea which were in Christ: {1:23} Butin they vain? had ifheard [it be] yet in vain. {3:5} He therefore that only, That he which persecuted ministerethus in timesto you thepast Spirit, now and worketh miracles among preacheth the faith which once he destroyed.you, [doeth {1:24} he it] And by the works of the law, or by the hearing they glorified God in me. of faith? {3:6} Even as Abraham believed God, and it was accounted to him for righteousness. {2:1} Then fourteen years after I went up again to Jerusalem with Barnabas, and took Titus{3:7} with Know [me] ye also.therefore that they which are of faith, the {2:2} And I went up by revelation, and communicatedsame unto are the children of Abraham. {3:8} And the scripture, them that gospel which I preach among theforeseeing Gentiles, that God but would justify the heathen through faith, privately to them which were of reputation,preached before lest the by gospel any unto Abraham, [saying,] In thee means I should run, or had run, in vain. {2:3} shallBut allneither nations be blessed. {3:9} So then they which be of Titus, who was with me, being a Greek, was compelledfaith are blessed to with faithful Abraham. {3:10} For as many be circumcised: {2:4} And that because asof arefalse of the brethren works of the law are under the curse: for it is unawares brought in, who came in privilywritten, to spy out Cursed our [is] every one that continueth not in all liberty which we have in Christ Jesus, that they might bringthings which are written in to do them. us into bondage: {2:5} To whom{3:11} But we that nogave man is justifiedplace by the by law in the sight of subjection, no, not for an hour; that the truth ofGod, the gospel[it is] evident: for, The just shall live by faith. {3:12} might continue with you. {2:6} But of these who seemedAnd to the law is not of faith: but, The man that doeth them be somewhat, (whatsoever they were, it maketh no matter toshall live in them. {3:13} Christ hath redeemed us from the me: God accepteth no man's person:) for they whocurse seemed of the law, being made a curse for us: for it is written, [to be somewhat] in conference added nothing to me: Cursed{2:7} [is] every one that hangeth on a tree: {3:14} That Galatians Page 112 the blessing of Abraham mightbecome come your on enemy, the Gentilesbecause I tell you the truth? {4:17} through Jesus Christ; that we might receive the Theypromise zealously of affect you, [but] not well; yea, they would the Spirit through faith. {3:15} Brethren, I speakexclude after you, the that ye might affect them. {4:18} But [it is] manner of men; Though [it be] but a man's covenant, yet [ifgood to be zealously affected always in [a] good [thing,] it be] confirmed, no man disannulleth, andor notaddeth only whenthereto. I am present with you. {4:19} My little {3:16} Now to Abraham and his seed werechildren, the promises of whom I travail in birth again until Christ be made. He saith not, And to seeds, as of many; but as of one,formed in you, {4:20} I desire to be present with you now, And to thy seed, which is Christ. {3:17} andAnd to changethis I my say, voice; for I stand in doubt of you. [that] the covenant, that was confirmed before of God in Christ, the law, which was four hundred and{4:21} thirty Tell me,years ye that desire to be under the law, do ye after, cannot disannul, that it should make notthe hear promise the law? {4:22}of For it is written, that Abraham had none effect. {3:18} For if the inheritance [be] of the law,two [it sons, the one by a bondmaid, the other by a freewoman. is] no more of promise: but God gave [it] to {4:23}Abraham But heby [who was] of the bondwoman was born after promise. {3:19} Wherefore then [serveth] thethe flesh;law? butIt hewas of the freewoman [was] by promise. {4:24} added because of transgressions, till the seedWhich should come things are an : for these are the two to whom the promise was made; [and it was] covenants;ordained by the one from the , which gendereth angels in the hand of a mediator. {3:20} Now a mediatorto bondage,is which is Agar. {4:25} For this Agar is mount not [a mediator] of one, but God is one. {3:21} [Is] theSinai law in Arabia, and answereth to Jerusalem which now is, then against the promises of God? God forbid: andfor isif inthere bondage with her children. {4:26} But Jerusalem had been a law given which could have givenwhich life, is above verily is free, which is the mother of us all. {4:27} righteousness should have been by the law. {3:22}For But it the is written, Rejoice, [thou] barren that bearest not; scripture hath concluded all under sin, that thebreak promise forth byand cry, thou that travailest not: for the desolate faith of Jesus Christ might be given to them thathath believe. many more children than she which hath an husband. {4:28} Now we, brethren, as Isaac was, are the children of {3:23} But before faith came, we were kept under the law,promise. {4:29} But as then he that was born after the flesh shut up unto the faith which should afterwards be revealed.persecuted him [that was born] after the Spirit, even so [it {3:24} Wherefore the law was our schoolmasteris] now. [to {4:30} bring Nevertheless what saith the scripture? Cast us] unto Christ, that we might be justified by faith.out {3:25} the bondwoman and her son: for the son of the But after that faith is come, we arebondwoman no longer shallunder not a be heir with the son of the free schoolmaster. {3:26} For ye are all the children ofwoman. God by{4:31} So then, brethren, we are not children of the faith in Christ Jesus. {3:27} For as many bondwoman,of you as buthave of the free. been baptized into Christ have put on Christ. {3:28} There is neither Jew nor Greek, there is neither{5:1} bond Stand nor fast free, therefore in the liberty wherewith Christ there is neither male nor female: for ye are all one in Christhath made us free, and be not entangled again with the yoke Jesus. {3:29} And if ye [be]of bondage. Christ's, then are ye Abraham's seed, and heirs according to the promise. {5:2} Behold, I Paul say unto you, that if ye be {4:1} Now I say, [That] the heir, as long as he is acircumcised, child, Christ shall profit you nothing. {5:3} For I differeth nothing from a servant, though he betestify lord againof all; to every man that is circumcised, that he is a {4:2} But is under tutors and governorsdebtor to dountil the wholethe law.time {5:4} Christ is become of no appointed of the father. {4:3} Even so we, wheneffect we unto were you, whosoever of you are justified by the law; children, were in bondage under the elements of theye world: are fallen from grace. {5:5} For we through the Spirit {4:4} But when the fulness of the time was come, God waitsent for the hope of righteousness by faith. {5:6} For in forth his Son, made of a woman, made under the law, {4:5}Jesus Christ neither circumcision availeth any thing, nor To redeem them that were under the law,uncircumcision; that we might but faith which worketh by love. {5:7} Ye receive the adoption of sons. {4:6} Anddid run becausewell; who did ye hinder are you that ye should not obey the sons, God hath sent forth the Spirit of histruth? Son into{5:8} your This persuasion [cometh] not of him that hearts, crying, Abba, Father. {4:7} Whereforecalleth thou you. art {5:9} no A little leaven leaveneth the whole lump. more a servant, but a son; and if a son, then an heir of{5:10} God I have confidence in you through the Lord, that ye through Christ. will be none otherwise minded: but he that troubleth you shall bear his judgment, whosoever he be. {5:11} And I, {4:8} Howbeit then, when ye knewbrethren, not ifGod, I yet yepreach did circumcision, why do I yet suffer service unto them which by nature are no gods.persecution? {4:9} But then is the offence of the cross ceased. {5:12} now, after that ye have known God, or rather are knownI would of they were even cut off which trouble you. {5:13} God, how turn ye again to the weak and beggarly elements,For, brethren, ye have been called unto liberty; only [use] whereunto ye desire again to be in bondage?not liberty {4:10} for an Ye occasion to the flesh, but by love serve observe days, and months, and times, and years.one another. {4:11} {5:14} I For all the law is fulfilled in one word, am afraid of you, lest I have bestowed upon you[even] labour inin this; Thou shalt love thy neighbour as thyself. vain. {5:15} But if ye bite and devour one another, take heed that ye be not consumed one of another. {5:16} [This] I say {4:12} Brethren, I beseech you, be as I [am;] for I [am] then,as Walk in the Spirit, and ye shall not fulfil the lust of the ye [are:] ye have not injured me at all. {4:13} Ye know howflesh. {5:17} For the flesh lusteth against the Spirit, and the through infirmity of the flesh I preached the gospel unto youSpirit against the flesh: and these are contrary the one to the at the first. {4:14} And my temptation whichother: sowas that in ye mycannot do the things that ye would. {5:18} flesh ye despised not, nor rejected; but receivedBut ifme ye as bean led of the Spirit, ye are not under the law. angel of God, [even] as Christ Jesus. {4:15} Where{5:19} is then Now the works of the flesh are manifest, which are the blessedness ye spake of? for I bear you record, that, if [it[these;] Adultery, fornication, uncleanness, lasciviousness, had been] possible, ye would have plucked{5:20} out your Idolatry, own , hatred, variance, emulations, eyes, and have given them to me. {4:16} wrath,Am I strife,therefore seditions, heresies, {5:21} Envyings, murders, Page 113 Galatians drunkenness, revellings, and such like: of the which I tell you before, as I have also told [you] in time past, that they which do such things shall not inherit the kingdom of God. {5:22} But the fruit of the Spirit is love, joy, peace, longsuffering, gentleness, goodness, faith, {5:23} Meekness, temperance: against such there is no law. {5:24} And they that are Christ's have crucified the flesh with the affections and lusts. {5:25} If we live in the Spirit, let us also walk in the Spirit. {5:26} Let us not be desirous of vain glory, provoking one another, envying one another.

{6:1} Brethren, if a man be overtaken in a fault, ye which are spiritual, restore such an one in the spirit of meekness; considering thyself, lest thou also be tempted. {6:2} Bear ye one another's burdens, and so fulfil the . {6:3} For if a man think himself to be something, when he is nothing, he deceiveth himself. {6:4} But let every man prove his own work, and then shall he have rejoicing in himself alone, and not in another. {6:5} For every man shall bear his own burden. {6:6} Let him that is taught in the word communicate unto him that teacheth in all good things. {6:7} Be not deceived; God is not mocked: for whatsoever a man soweth, that shall he also reap. {6:8} For he that soweth to his flesh shall of the flesh reap corruption; but he that soweth to the Spirit shall of the Spirit reap life everlasting. {6:9} And let us not be weary in well doing: for in due season we shall reap, if we faint not. {6:10} As we have therefore opportunity, let us do good unto all [men,] especially unto them who are of the household of faith. {6:11} Ye see how large a letter I have written unto you with mine own hand. {6:12} As many as desire to make a fair shew in the flesh, they constrain you to be circumcised; only lest they should suffer persecution for the cross of Christ. {6:13} For neither they themselves who are circumcised keep the law; but desire to have you circumcised, that they may glory in your flesh. {6:14} But God forbid that I should glory, save in the cross of our Lord Jesus Christ, by whom the world is crucified unto me, and I unto the world. {6:15} For in Christ Jesus neither circumcision availeth any thing, nor uncircumcision, but a new creature. {6:16} And as many as walk according to this rule, peace [be] on them, and mercy, and upon the Israel of God. {6:17} From henceforth let no man trouble me: for I bear in my body the marks of the Lord Jesus. {6:18} Brethren, the grace of our Lord Jesus Christ [be] with your spirit. Amen.

Page 115 Ephesians The Epistle of Paul the Apostle to the Ephesians {2:6} And hath raised [us] up together, and made [us] sit together in heavenly [places] in Christ Jesus: {2:7} That in the ages to come he might shew the exceeding riches of his grace in [his] kindness toward us through Christ Jesus. {1:1} Paul, an apostle of Jesus Christ by the will of{2:8} God, For by grace are ye saved through faith; and that not to the saints which are at Ephesus, and toof yourselves:the faithful [it in is] the gift of God: {2:9} Not of works, Christ Jesus: {1:2} Grace [be] to you, and peace, fromlest God any man should boast. {2:10} For we are his our Father, and [from] the Lord Jesus Christ. workmanship, created in Christ Jesus unto good works, which God hath before ordained that we should walk in {1:3} Blessed [be] the God and Father of our Lordthem. Jesus Christ, who hath blessed us with all spiritual in heavenly [places] in Christ: {1:4} According{2:11} Wherefore as he remember,hath that ye [being] in time past chosen us in him before the foundation of the world, that weGentiles in the flesh, who are called Uncircumcision by that should be holy and without blame before him in love: {1:5}which is called the Circumcision in the flesh made by Having predestinated us unto the adoptionhands; of children {2:12} by That at that time ye were without Christ, Jesus Christ to himself, according to the goodbeing pleasure aliens of from the commonwealth of Israel, and his will, {1:6} To the praise of thestrangers glory offrom his the grace, covenants of promise, having no hope, wherein he hath made us accepted in the beloved. and{1:7} without In God in the world: {2:13} But now in Christ whom we have redemptionJesus yethrough who sometimes werehis far offblood, are made nighthe by the forgiveness of sins, according to the richesblood of ofChrist. his {2:14} grace; For he is our peace, who hath made {1:8} Wherein he hath abounded toward us inboth all one,wisdom and hath broken down the middle wall of partition and prudence; {1:9} Having made[between known us;unto ]{2:15} us the Having abolished in his flesh the mystery of his will, according to his good pleasure which heenmity, [even] the law of commandments [contained] in hath purposed in himself: {1:10} That in the dispensation ordinances;of for to make in himself of twain one new man, the fulness of times he might gather [so]together making peace;in one {2:16} all And that he might reconcile both things in Christ, both which are in heaven, and which are onunto God in one body by the cross, having slain the enmity earth; [even] in him: {1:11} In whom also we have obtainedthereby: {2:17} And came and preached peace to you which an inheritance, being predestinated according to the purposewere afar off, and to them that were nigh. {2:18} For of him who worketh all things after the counsel of throughhis own him we both have access by one Spirit unto the will: {1:12} That we should be to the praiseFather. of his {2:19} glory, Now therefore ye are no more strangers and who first trusted in Christ. foreigners,{1:13} In but whom fellowcitizens ye also with the saints, and of the [trusted,] after that ye heard the word of truth, the gospelhousehold of of God; {2:20} And are built upon the your salvation: in whom also after that ye believed, ye werefoundation of the apostles and prophets, Jesus Christ sealed with that holy Spirit of promise, {1:14} Which ishimself the being the chief corner [stone; ]{2:21} In whom all earnest of our inheritance untilthe thebuilding redemption fitly framed of thetogether groweth unto an holy purchased possession, unto the praisetemple inof the his Lord: glory. {2:22} In whom ye also are builded together for an habitation of God through the Spirit. {1:15} Wherefore I also, after I heard of your faith in the Lord Jesus, and love unto all the saints, {1:16} Cease not to{3:1} For this cause I Paul, the prisoner of Jesus Christ for give thanks for you, making mention of you in my prayers;you Gentiles, {3:2} If ye have heard of the dispensation of {1:17} That the God of our Lord Jesus Christ, the Fatherthe of grace of God which is given me to youward: {3:3} How glory, may give unto you thethat byspirit revelation heof made wisdom known unto meand the mystery; (as revelation in the knowledge of him: {1:18}I wrote aforeThe ineyes few ofwords, {3:4} Whereby, when ye read, your understanding being enlightened; thatye may ye understand may know my knowledge in the mystery of Christ) what is the hope of his calling, and what the riches{3:5} ofWhich the in other ages was not made known unto the glory of his inheritance in the saints, {1:19} Andsons what of men,[is] as it is now revealed unto his holy apostles and the exceeding greatness of his prophetspower byto the us-ward Spirit; {3:6} who That the Gentiles should be believe, according to the working offellowheirs, his mighty and power, of the same body, and partakers of his {1:20} Which he wrought in Christ, whenpromise he raisedin Christ himby the gospel: {3:7} Whereof I was made from the dead, and set [him] at his own righta minister,hand in theaccording to the gift of the grace of God given heavenly [places, ]{1:21} Far above untoall meprincipality, by the effectual and working of his power. {3:8} Unto power, and might, and dominion, and everyme, namewho amthat less is than the least of all saints, is this grace named, not only in this world, but also in that given,which is to that I should preach among the Gentiles the come: {1:22} And hath put all [things] under hisunsearchable feet, and riches of Christ; {3:9} And to make all [men] gave him [to be] the head over all [things] seeto whatthe church,[is] the fellowship of the mystery, which from the {1:23} Which is his body, the fulness of him that fillethbeginning all of the world hath been hid in God, who created in all. all things by Jesus Christ: {3:10} To the intent that now unto the principalities and powers in heavenly [places] {2:1} And you [hath he quickened,] whomight were bedead known in by the church the manifold wisdom of trespasses and sins; {2:2} Wherein in time pastGod, ye walked {3:11} According to the eternal purpose which he according to the course of this world,purposed accordingin Christ Jesus ourto Lord: the {3:12} In whom we have prince of the power of the air, the spirit that now workethboldness in and access with confidence by the faith of him. the children of disobedience: {2:3} Among whom{3:13} also we Wherefore I desire that ye faint not at my all had our conversation in times past intribulations the lusts of for our you, which is your glory. {3:14} For this flesh, fulfilling the desires of the flesh and of the mind;cause and I bow my knees unto the Father of our Lord Jesus were by nature the children of wrath, even as others.Christ, {2:4} {3:15} Of whom the whole family in heaven and But God, who is rich in mercy, for his great love wherewithearth is named, {3:16} That he would grant you, according he loved us, {2:5} Even when we were dead into thesins, riches hath of his glory, to be strengthened with might by quickened us together with Christ, (by grace ye arehis saved;) Spirit in the inner man; {3:17} That Christ may dwell in Ephesians Page 116 your hearts by faith; that ye, being rooted and groundedLet no corruptin communication proceed out of your mouth, love, {3:18} May be able to comprehendbut thatwith which all saintsis good to the use of edifying, that it may what [is] the breadth, and length, and ministerdepth, andgrace height;unto the hearers. {4:30} And grieve not the {3:19} And to know the love of Christ,holy Spirit which of God, passeth whereby ye are sealed unto the day of knowledge, that ye might be filled with allredemption. the fulness {4:31} of Let all bitterness, and wrath, and anger, God. and clamour, and evil speaking, be put away from you, with all malice: {4:32} And be ye kind one to another, {3:20} Now unto him that is tenderhearted,able to do exceeding forgiving one another, even as God for abundantly above all that we ask or think, accordingChrist's to the sake hath forgiven you. power that worketh in us, {3:21} Unto him [be] glory in the church by Christ Jesus throughout all ages, world{5:1} Bewithout ye therefore followers of God, as dear children; end. Amen. {5:2} And walk in love, as Christ also hath loved us, and hath given himself for us an offering and a sacrifice to God {4:1} I therefore, the prisoner of the Lord,for beseech a sweetsmelling you savour. {5:3} But fornication, and all that ye walk worthy of the vocationuncleanness, wherewith or yecovetousness, are let it not be once named called, {4:2} With all lowlinessamong you, and as becomethmeekness, saints; with{5:4} Neither filthiness, longsuffering, forbearingnor one foolish another talking, nor jesting,in love; which are {4:3} not convenient: Endeavouring to keep the unity of the Spirit in the butbond rather of giving of thanks. {5:5} For this ye know, that no peace. {4:4} [There is] one body, and one Spirit, even aswhoremonger, ye nor unclean person, nor covetous man, who are called in one hope of your calling; {4:5} One Lord,is onean idolater, hath any inheritance in the kingdom of Christ faith, one baptism, {4:6} One God and Fatherand of of all,God. who{5:6} Let no man deceive you with vain words: [is] above all, and through all, and in you all. {4:7} But untofor because of these things cometh the wrath of God upon every one of us is given grace according to the measurethe children of of disobedience. {5:7} Be not ye therefore the gift of Christ. {4:8} Whereforepartakers he saith, withWhen hethem. {5:8} For ye were sometimes ascended up on high, he led captivity captive, and gave giftsdarkness, but now [are ye] light in the Lord: walk as unto men. {4:9} (Now that he ascended, what is itchildren but that of light: {5:9} (For the fruit of the Spirit is in all he also descended first into the lower partsgoodness of andthe righteousness earth? and truth;) {5:10} Proving what {4:10} He that descended is the same also that ascendedis acceptableup unto the Lord. {5:11} And have no fellowship far above all heavens, that he might fill all things.)with {4:11}the unfruitful works of darkness, but rather reprove And he gave some, apostles; and some, prophets; and some,[them. ]{5:12} For it is a shame even to speak of those evangelists; and some, and teachers; {4:12}things For the which are done of them in secret. {5:13} But all perfecting of the saints, for the work of the ministry, forthings the that are reproved are made manifest by the light: for edifying of the body of Christ: {4:13} Till we whatsoeverall come in doth make manifest is light. {5:14} Wherefore the unity of the faith, and of the knowledge ofhe thesaith, Son Awake of thou that sleepest, and arise from the dead, God, unto a perfect man, unto the measure of the statureand ofChrist shall give thee light. {5:15} See then that ye the fulness of Christ: {4:14} That we [henceforth]walk circumspectly, be no not as fools, but as wise, {5:16} more children, tossed to and fro, and Redeemingcarried about the with time, because the days are evil. {5:17} every wind of doctrine, by the sleight of men, [and] cunningWherefore be ye not unwise, but understanding what the craftiness, whereby they lie in wait to deceive; will{4:15} of theBut Lord [is. ]{5:18} And be not drunk with wine, speaking the truth in love, may grow upwherein into him is inexcess; all but be filled with the Spirit; {5:19} things, which is the head, [even] Christ: {4:16} From whomSpeaking to yourselves in psalms and and spiritual the whole body fitly joined together and compactedsongs, by that singing and making melody in your heart to the which every joint supplieth, accordingLord; {5:20} Givingto the thanks effectual always for all things unto God working in the measure of every part, makethand theincrease Father inof the name of our Lord Jesus Christ; {5:21} the body unto the edifying of itself in love. Submitting yourselves one to another in the fear of God. {5:22} Wives, submit yourselves unto your own husbands, {4:17} This I say therefore, and testify in the Lord, that yeas unto the Lord. {5:23} For the husband is the head of the henceforth walk not as other Gentiles walk, in the vanitywife, of even as Christ is the head of the church: and he is the their mind, {4:18} Having the saviourunderstanding of the body.darkened, {5:24} Therefore as the church is being alienated from the life of God through the subjectignorance unto Christ, so [let] the wives [be] to their own that is in them, because of the blindnesshusbands inof every their thing. heart: {5:25} Husbands, love your wives, {4:19} Who being past feeling have given themselveseven over as Christ also loved the church, and gave himself for unto lasciviousness, it;to {5:26} work That he allmight sanctifyuncleanness and cleanse it withwith the greediness. {4:20} But ye havewashing not ofso water learned by the word, {5:27}Christ; That he might present {4:21} If so be that ye have heard him,it to himselfand have a glorious been church, not having spot, or wrinkle, taught by him, as the truth is in Jesus: {4:22} orThat any ye suchput thing; but that it should be holy and without off concerning the former conversation the old man,blemish. which {5:28} So ought men to love their wives as their is corrupt according to the deceitful lusts;own {4:23} bodies. And He bethat loveth his wife loveth himself. {5:29} renewed in the spirit of your mind; {4:24} And thatFor ye no put man ever yet hated his own flesh; but nourisheth and on the new man, which after God is created in righteousnesscherisheth it, even as the Lord the church: {5:30} For we and true holiness. are members of his body, of his flesh, and of his bones. {5:31} For this cause shall a man leave his father and {4:25} Wherefore putting away lying, speakmother, everyand shall man be joined unto his wife, and they two shall truth with his neighbour: for webe oneare flesh. members {5:32} Thisone isof a great mystery: but I speak another. {4:26} Be ye angry, and sin not: let not the sunconcerning go Christ and the church. {5:33} Nevertheless let down upon your wrath: {4:27} Neither giveevery place one toof theyou in particular so love his wife even as devil. {4:28} Let him that stole steal no more: but ratherhimself; let and the wife [see] that she reverence [her] husband. him labour, working with [his] hands the thing which is good, that he may have to give to him that needeth. {4:29}{6:1} Children, obey your parents in the Lord: for this is Page 117 Ephesians right. {6:2} Honour thy father and mother; (which is the first commandment with promise;) {6:3} That it may be well with thee, and thou mayest live long on the earth. {6:4} And, ye fathers, provoke not your children to wrath: but bring them up in the nurture and admonition of the Lord. {6:5} Servants, be obedient to them that are [your] masters according to the flesh, with fear and trembling, in singleness of your heart, as unto Christ; {6:6} Not with eyeservice, as menpleasers; but as the servants of Christ, doing the will of God from the heart; {6:7} With good will doing service, as to the Lord, and not to men: {6:8} Knowing that whatsoever good thing any man doeth, the same shall he receive of the Lord, whether [he be] bond or free. {6:9} And, ye masters, do the same things unto them, forbearing threatening: knowing that your Master also is in heaven; neither is there respect of persons with him.

{6:10} Finally, my brethren, be strong in the Lord, and in the power of his might. {6:11} Put on the whole armour of God, that ye may be able to stand against the wiles of the devil. {6:12} For we wrestle not against flesh and blood, but against principalities, against powers, against the rulers of the darkness of this world, against spiritual wickedness in high [places. ]{6:13} Wherefore take unto you the whole armour of God, that ye may be able to withstand in the evil day, and having done all, to stand. {6:14} Stand therefore, having your loins girt about with truth, and having on the breastplate of righteousness; {6:15} And your feet shod with the preparation of the gospel of peace; {6:16} Above all, taking the shield of faith, wherewith ye shall be able to quench all the fiery darts of the wicked. {6:17} And take the helmet of salvation, and the sword of the Spirit, which is the word of God: {6:18} Praying always with all prayer and supplication in the Spirit, and watching thereunto with all perseverance and supplication for all saints; {6:19} And for me, that utterance may be given unto me, that I may open my mouth boldly, to make known the mystery of the gospel, {6:20} For which I am an ambassador in bonds: that therein I may speak boldly, as I ought to speak.

{6:21} But that ye also may know my affairs, [and] how I do, Tychicus, a beloved brother and faithful minister in the Lord, shall make known to you all things: {6:22} Whom I have sent unto you for the same purpose, that ye might know our affairs, and [that] he might comfort your hearts.

{6:23} Peace [be] to the brethren, and love with faith, from God the Father and the Lord Jesus Christ. {6:24} Grace [be] with all them that love our Lord Jesus Christ in sincerity. Amen.

Page 119 Philippians The Epistle of Paul the Apostle to the Philippians likeminded, having the same love, [being] of one accord, of one mind. {2:3} [Let] nothing [be done] through strife or vainglory; but in lowliness of mind let each esteem other better than themselves. {2:4} Look not every man on his {1:1} Paul and Timotheus, the servants of Jesus Christ,own to things, but every man also on the things of others. all the saints in Christ Jesus which are at Philippi,{2:5} with the Let this mind be in you, which was also in Christ bishops and : {1:2} Grace [be] unto you, and peace,Jesus: {2:6} Who, being in the form of God, thought it not from God our Father, and [from] the robberyLord toJesus be equal Christ.with God: {2:7} But made himself of no {1:3} I thank my God upon every remembrancereputation, of and you, took upon him the form of a servant, and {1:4} Always in every prayer of mine for youwas all made making in the likeness of men: {2:8} And being found in request with joy, {1:5} For your fellowshipfashion in theas a man,gospel he humbled himself, and became obedient from the first day until now; {1:6} Being confidentunto of death, this even the death of the cross. {2:9} Wherefore very thing, that he which hath begun a goodGod work also in youhath highly exalted him, and given him a name will perform [it] until the day of Jesus Christ: {1:7} Even whichas is above every name: {2:10} That at the name of it is meet for me to think this of you all, because I have youJesus every knee should bow, of [things] in heaven, and in my heart; inasmuch as both in my [things]bonds, inand earth, in andthe [things] under the earth; {2:11} And defence and of the gospel, ye all are partakers[that] every tongue should confess that Jesus Christ [is] of my grace. {1:8} For God is my record,Lord, how togreatly the gloryI of God the Father. long after you all in the bowels of Jesus Christ. {1:9} And this I pray, that your love may abound yet more and more in {2:12} Wherefore, my beloved, as ye have always knowledge and [in] all judgment;obeyed, {1:10} not as inThat my presence ye may only, but now much more in approve things that are excellent; that ye may be sincere andmy absence, work out your own salvation with fear and without offence till the day of Christ; {1:11}trembling. Being {2:13}filled For it is God which worketh in you both with the fruits of righteousness, which are by Jesusto will Christ, and to do of [his] good pleasure. {2:14} Do all things unto the glory and praise of God. without murmurings and disputings: {2:15} That ye may be blameless and harmless, the sons of God, without rebuke, in {1:12} But I would ye should understand, thebrethren, midst of athat crooked and perverse nation, among whom ye the things [which happened] unto me have fallen outshine rather as lights in the world; {2:16} Holding forth the word unto the furtherance of the gospel; {1:13} So that my bondsof life; that I may rejoice in the day of Christ, that I have not in Christ are manifest in all the palace,run inand vain, inneither all laboured other in vain. {2:17} Yea, and if I be [places; ]{1:14} And many of the brethrenoffered uponin thethe sacrificeLord, and service of your faith, I joy, waxing confident by my bonds, are muchand rejoice more with boldyou all. to {2:18} For the same cause also do speak the word without fear. {1:15} Someye joy,indeed and rejoicepreach with me. Christ even of envy and strife; and some also of good will: {1:16} The one preach Christ of contention, not{2:19} sincerely, But I trust in the Lord Jesus to send Timotheus supposing to add affliction to my bonds:shortly {1:17} unto you, But that Ithe also may be of good comfort, when I other of love, knowing that I am set for the defenceknow of your the state. {2:20} For I have no man likeminded, who gospel. {1:18} What then? notwithstanding,will naturally care every for your way, state. {2:21} For all seek their whether in pretence, or in truth, Christ is own,preached; not the andthings I which are Jesus Christ's. {2:22} But ye therein do rejoice, yea, and will rejoice. {1:19} Forknow I know the proof of him, that, as a son with the father, he hath that this shall turn to my salvation through your prayer,served and with me in the gospel. {2:23} Him therefore I hope the supply of the Spirit of Jesus Christ, {1:20} Accordingto to send presently, so soon as I shall see how it will go with my earnest expectation and [my] hope,me. that {2:24} in nothingBut I trust I in the Lord that I also myself shall shall be ashamed, but [that] with all boldness,come shortly. as always, {2:25} Yet I supposed it necessary to send to [so] now also Christ shall be youmagnified , in mymy brother,body, and companion in labour, whether [it be] by life, or by death. {1:21} For to me to liveand fellow soldier, but your messenger, and he that [is] Christ, and to die [is] gain. {1:22} But if ministeredI live in tothe my wants. {2:26} For he longed after you all, flesh, this [is] the fruit of my labour: yet what I shall chooseand was full of heaviness, because that ye had heard that he I wot not. {1:23} For I am in a strait betwixt two, havinghad beena sick. {2:27} For indeed he was sick nigh unto desire to depart, and to be with Christ; which isdeath: far better: but God had mercy on him; and not on him only, but {1:24} Nevertheless to abide in the flesh [is] moreon meneedful also, lest I should have sorrow upon sorrow. {2:28} I for you. {1:25} And having this confidence, I sentknow him that therefore I the more carefully, that, when ye see him shall abide and continue with you all for youragain, furtherance ye may rejoice, and that I may be the less sorrowful. and joy of faith; {1:26} That your rejoicing {2:29}may be Receive more him therefore in the Lord with all gladness; abundant in Jesus Christ for me by my coming to you again.and hold such in reputation: {2:30} Because for the work of {1:27} Only let your conversation be asChrist it becometh he was thenigh unto death, not regarding his life, to gospel of Christ: that whether I come and see you, or else besupply your lack of service toward me. absent, I may hear of your affairs, that ye stand fast in one spirit, with one mind striving together for the{3:1} faith Finally, of the my brethren, rejoice in the Lord. To write gospel; {1:28} And in nothing terrified by your adversaries:the same things to you, to me indeed [is] not grievous, but which is to them an evident token of perdition, but to you offor you [it is] safe. salvation, and that of God. {1:29} For unto you it is given in the behalf of Christ, not only to believe on him, but{3:2} also Beware of dogs, beware of evil workers, beware of to suffer for his sake; {1:30} Havingthe theconcision. same conflict{3:3} For we are the circumcision, which which ye saw in me, and now hear [toworship be] in Godme. in the spirit, and rejoice in Christ Jesus, and have no confidence in the flesh. {3:4} Though I might also {2:1} If [there be] therefore any consolation inhave Christ, confidence if in the flesh. If any other man thinketh that any comfort of love, if any fellowship of the Spirit,he hath if whereofany he might trust in the flesh, I more: {3:5} bowels and mercies, {2:2} Fulfil ye Circumcisedmy joy, that the eighthye be day, of the stock of Israel, [of] the Philippians Page 120 tribe of Benjamin, an Hebrew of the Hebrews; asand touching in all things I am instructed both to be full and to be the law, a Pharisee; {3:6} Concerning zeal, persecutinghungry, the both to abound and to suffer need. {4:13} I can do church; touching the righteousness allwhich things is throughin the Christlaw, which strengtheneth me. {4:14} blameless. {3:7} But what things were gain to Notwithstandingme, those I ye have well done, that ye did counted loss for Christ. {3:8} Yea doubtless, and I countcommunicate all with my affliction. {4:15} Now ye things [but] loss for the excellency ofPhilippians the knowledge know also, of that in the beginning of the gospel, Christ Jesus my Lord: for whom I have suffered the whenloss of I departed from Macedonia, no church communicated all things, and do count them [but] dung, withthat Ime may as winconcerning giving and receiving, but ye only. Christ, {3:9} And be found in him, not having{4:16} mine For own even in Thessalonica ye sent once and again righteousness, which is of the law, but that which is throughunto my necessity. {4:17} Not because I desire a gift: but I the faith of Christ, the righteousness whichdesire is fruitof God that mayby abound to your account. {4:18} But I faith: {3:10} That I may know him, and the havepower ofall, his and abound: I am full, having received of resurrection, and the fellowship ofEpaphroditus his sufferings, the things being [which were sent] from you, an made conformable unto his death; {3:11} If by any meansodour I of a sweet smell, a sacrifice acceptable, wellpleasing might attain unto the resurrection of the dead. {3:12} Not asto God. {4:19} But my God shall supply all your need though I had already attained, either were alreadyaccording perfect: to his riches in glory by Christ Jesus. {4:20} Now but I follow after, if that I may apprehend untothat God for and which our Father [be] glory for ever and ever. Amen. also I am apprehended of Christ Jesus. {3:13} Brethren, I count not myself to have apprehended: but [this] one{4:21} thing Salute every saint in Christ Jesus. The brethren [I do,] forgetting those thingswhich which are with areme greetbehind, you. {4:22} and All the saints salute reaching forth unto those things which are before,you, {3:14} chiefly I they that are of Caesar's household. press toward the mark for the prize of the high calling of God in Christ Jesus. {3:15} Let us therefore, as many as be perfect, be thus minded: and if in any thing ye be otherwise minded, God shall reveal even this unto you. {3:16} Nevertheless, whereto we have already attained, let us walk by the same rule, let us mind the same thing. {3:17} Brethren, be followers together of me, and mark them which walk so as ye have us for an ensample. {3:18} (For many walk, of whom I have told you often, and now tell you even weeping, [that they are] the enemies of the cross of Christ: {3:19} Whose end [is] destruction, whose God [is their] belly, and [whose] glory [is] in their shame, who mind earthly things.) {3:20} For our conversation is in heaven; from whence also we look for the Saviour, the Lord Jesus Christ: {3:21} Who shall change our vile body, that it may be fashioned like unto his glorious body, according to the working whereby he is able even to subdue all things unto himself.

{4:1} Therefore, my brethren dearly beloved and longed for, my joy and crown, so stand fast in the Lord, [my] dearly beloved. {4:2} I beseech Euodias, and beseech Syntyche, that they be of the same mind in the Lord. {4:3} And I intreat thee also, true yokefellow, help those women which laboured with me in the gospel, with Clement also, and [with] other my fellowlabourers, whose names [are] in the . {4:4} Rejoice in the Lord alway: [and] again I say, Rejoice. {4:5} Let your moderation be known unto all men. The Lord [is] at hand. {4:6} Be careful for nothing; but in every thing by prayer and supplication with thanksgiving let your requests be made known unto God. {4:7} And the peace of God, which passeth all understanding, shall keep your hearts and minds through Christ Jesus. {4:8} Finally, brethren, whatsoever things are true, whatsoever things [are] honest, whatsoever things [are] just, whatsoever things [are] pure, whatsoever things [are] lovely, whatsoever things [are] of good report; if [there be] any virtue, and if [there be] any praise, think on these things. {4:9} Those things, which ye have both learned, and received, and heard, and seen in me, do: and the God of peace shall be with you.

{4:10} But I rejoiced in the Lord greatly, that now at the last your care of me hath flourished again; wherein ye were also careful, but ye lacked opportunity. {4:11} Not that I speak in respect of want: for I have learned, in whatsoever state I am, [therewith] to be content. {4:12} I know both how to be abased, and I know how to abound: every where Page 121 Colossians The Epistle of Paul the Apostle to the Colossians {2:1} For I would that ye knew what great conflict I have for you, and [for] them at Laodicea, and [for] as many as have not seen my face in the flesh; {2:2} That their hearts might be comforted, being knit together in love, and unto all {1:1} Paul, an apostle of Jesus Christ by the will ofriches God, of the full assurance of understanding, to the and Timotheus [our] brother, {1:2}acknowledgement To the of the saintsmystery of God,and and of the Father, faithful brethren in Christ which are at Colosse: Graceand [be]of Christ; {2:3} In whom are hid all the treasures of unto you, and peace, from God our Fatherwisdom and and the knowledge. Lord {2:4} And this I say, lest any man Jesus Christ. {1:3} We give thanks to God and the Father ofshould beguile you with enticing words. {2:5} For though I our Lord Jesus Christ, praying always for you, {1:4}be absent Since in the flesh, yet am I with you in the spirit, joying we heard of your faith in Christ Jesus,and beholdingand of your the order, love and the stedfastness of your faith [which ye have] to all the saints, {1:5} For the hopein whichChrist. is laid up for you in heaven, whereof ye heard before in the word of the truth of the gospel; {1:6} Which is come{2:6} unto As ye have therefore received Christ Jesus the Lord, you, as [it is] in all the world; and bringeth forth fruit, as[so] [it walk ye in him: {2:7} Rooted and built up in him, and doth] also in you, since the day ye heard [of it,]stablished and knew in the faith, as ye have been taught, abounding the grace of God in truth: {1:7} Astherein ye also with thanksgiving.learned of {2:8} Beware lest any man spoil our dear fellowservant, who is for youyou a throughfaithful philosophy and vain deceit, after the tradition minister of Christ; {1:8} Who also declaredof untomen, us afteryour the rudiments of the world, and not after love in the Spirit. {1:9} For this cause we Christ.also, since {2:9} the For in him dwelleth all the fulness of the day we heard [it,] do not cease to pray for you, and to desireGodhead bodily. {2:10} And ye are complete in him, which that ye might be filled with the knowledge of his willis in the all head of all principality and power: {2:11} In whom wisdom and spiritual understanding; {1:10} Thatalso yeye aremight circumcised with the circumcision made without walk worthy of the Lord unto all pleasing, being fruitfulhands, inin putting off the body of the sins of the flesh by the every good work, and increasing in the knowledge circumcisionof God; of Christ: {2:12} Buried with him in baptism, {1:11} Strengthened with allwherein might, also ye are accordingrisen with [him] through to thehis faith of the glorious power, unto all patience andoperation longsuffering of God, with who hath raised him from the dead. joyfulness; {1:12} Giving thanks unto{2:13} the Father, And which you, being dead in your sins and the hath made us meet to be partakers of the inheritanceuncircumcision of the of your flesh, hath he quickened together saints in light: {1:13} Who hath deliveredwith him, us fromhaving the forgiven you all trespasses; {2:14} power of darkness, and hathBlotting translated out the handwriting [us] of ordinancesinto thethat was against kingdom of his dear Son: {1:14}us, which In waswhom contrary we to haveus, and took it out of the way, redemption through his blood, [even]nailing the forgiveness it to hisof cross; {2:15} [And] having spoiled sins: {1:15} Who is the image of the invisibleprincipalities God, and powers,the he made a shew of them openly, firstborn of every creature: {1:16} Fortriumphing by him over were them all in it. {2:16} Let no man therefore things created, that are in heaven, andjudge that you arein meat, in orearth, in drink, or in respect of an holyday, visible and invisible, whetheror of the new moon,[they or of the sabbathbe] [days: thrones, ]{2:17} Which or dominions, or principalities, or arepowers: a shadow ofall things things to come; werebut the body [is] of Christ. created by him, and for him: {1:17} And he{2:18} is before Let all no man beguile you of your reward in a things, and by him all things consist. {1:18} Andvoluntary he is the humility and worshipping of angels, intruding head of the body, the church: who is intothe thosebeginning, things whichthe he hath not seen, vainly puffed up firstborn from the dead; that in all [things] byhe hismight fleshly have mind, {2:19} And not holding the Head, from the preeminence. {1:19} For it pleased [the Father]which thatall the in body by joints and bands having nourishment him should all fulness dwell; {1:20}ministered, And, andhaving knit together, made increaseth with the increase of peace through the blood of his cross, by him to reconcileGod. all things unto himself; by him, [I say,] whether [they be] things in earth, or things in heaven. {1:21} And{2:20} you, thatWherefore if ye be dead with Christ from the were sometime alienated and enemies inrudiments [your] of mindthe world, by why, as though living in the world, wicked works, yet now hath he reconciledare ye{1:22} subject In to the ordinances, {2:21} (Touch not; taste not; body of his flesh through death, to presenthandle you not; holy {2:22} and Which all are to perish with the using;) unblameable and unreproveable in his sight:after {1:23} the Ifcommandments ye and doctrines of men? {2:23} continue in the faith grounded and settled,Which andthings [be] havenot indeed a shew of wisdom in will moved away from the hope of the gospel, whichworship, ye andhave humility, and neglecting of the body; not in heard, [and] which was preached to every creature whichany ishonour to the satisfying of the flesh. under heaven; whereof I Paul am made a minister; {1:24} Who now rejoice in my sufferings for you, and fill{3:1} up that If ye then be risen with Christ, seek those things which is behind of the afflictions of Christ in mywhich flesh are for above, where Christ sitteth on the right hand of his body's sake, which is the church: {1:25} WhereofGod. I {3:2}am Set your affection on things above, not on things made a minister, according to theon thedispensation earth. {3:3} For ye areof dead, God and your life is hid with which is given to me for you, to fulfil theChrist word in of God. God; {3:4} When Christ, [who is] our life, shall {1:26} [Even] the mystery which hath been hidappear, from ages then shall ye also appear with him in glory. and from generations, but now is made manifest to his saints: {1:27} To whom God would make known what{3:5} [is] Mortify therefore your members which are upon the the riches of the glory of this mystery among theearth; Gentiles; fornication, uncleanness, inordinate affection, evil which is Christ in you, the hope of glory: {1:28} Whomconcupiscence, we and covetousness, which is idolatry: {3:6} preach, warning every man, and teaching everyFor man which in all things' sake the wrath of God cometh on the wisdom; that we may present every man perfectchildren in of Christ disobedience: {3:7} In the which ye also walked Jesus: {1:29} Whereunto I also labour, striving accordingsome to time, when ye lived in them. {3:8} But now ye also his working, which worketh in me mightily. put off all these; anger, wrath, malice, blasphemy, filthy Colossians Page 122 communication out of your mouth. {3:9}greet Lie you. not{4:15} one Salute to the brethren which are in Laodicea, another, seeing that ye have put off the oldand man , with andhis the church which is in his house. {4:16} deeds; {3:10} And have put on the new And[man,] when which this epistleis is read among you, cause that it be renewed in knowledge after the image of himread that createdalso in the church of the Laodiceans; and that ye him: {3:11} Where there islikewise neither read the Greek[epistle] fromnor Laodicea. Jew, {4:17} And say circumcision nor uncircumcision, Barbarian, Scythian,to bond , Take heed to the ministry which thou hast [nor] free: but Christ [is] all, and inreceived all. {3:12} in the Lord,Put onthat thou fulfil it. therefore, as the elect of God, holy and beloved, bowels of mercies, kindness, humbleness{4:18} The salutation by theof hand ofmind, me Paul. Remember meekness, longsuffering; {3:13} Forbearing one another, and forgivingmy bonds. Grace [be] with you. Amen. one another, if any man have a quarrel against any: even as Christ forgave you, so also [do] ye. {3:14} And above all these things [put on] charity, which is the bond of perfectness. {3:15} And let the peace of God rule in your hearts, to the which also ye are called in one body; and be ye thankful. {3:16} Let the word of Christ dwell in you richly in all wisdom; teaching and admonishing one another in psalms and hymns and spiritual songs, singing with grace in your hearts to the Lord. {3:17} And whatsoever ye do in word or deed, [do] all in the name of the Lord Jesus, giving thanks to God and the Father by him.

{3:18} Wives, submit yourselves unto your own husbands, as it is fit in the Lord. {3:19} Husbands, love [your] wives, and be not bitter against them. {3:20} Children, obey [your] parents in all things: for this is well pleasing unto the Lord. {3:21} Fathers, provoke not your children [to anger,] lest they be discouraged. {3:22} Servants, obey in all things [your] masters according to the flesh; not with eyeservice, as menpleasers; but in singleness of heart, fearing God: {3:23} And whatsoever ye do, do [it] heartily, as to the Lord, and not unto men; {3:24} Knowing that of the Lord ye shall receive the reward of the inheritance: for ye serve the Lord Christ. {3:25} But he that doeth wrong shall receive for the wrong which he hath done: and there is no respect of persons.

{4:1} Masters, give unto [your] servants that which is just and equal; knowing that ye also have a Master in heaven.

{4:2} Continue in prayer, and watch in the same with thanksgiving; {4:3} Withal praying also for us, that God would open unto us a door of utterance, to speak the mystery of Christ, for which I am also in bonds: {4:4} That I may make it manifest, as I ought to speak. {4:5} Walk in wisdom toward them that are without, redeeming the time. {4:6} Let your speech [be] alway with grace, seasoned with salt, that ye may know how ye ought to answer every man.

{4:7} All my state shall Tychicus declare unto you, [who is] a beloved brother, and a faithful minister and fellowservant in the Lord: {4:8} Whom I have sent unto you for the same purpose, that he might know your estate, and comfort your hearts; {4:9} With , a faithful and beloved brother, who is [one] of you. They shall make known unto you all things which [are done] here.

{4:10} Aristarchus my fellowprisoner saluteth you, and Marcus, sister's son to Barnabas, (touching whom ye received commandments: if he come unto you, receive him;) {4:11} And Jesus, which is called Justus, who are of the circumcision. These only [are my] fellow workers unto the kingdom of God, which have been a comfort unto me. {4:12} Epaphras, who is [one] of you, a servant of Christ, saluteth you, always labouring fervently for you in prayers, that ye may stand perfect and complete in all the will of God. {4:13} For I bear him record, that he hath a great zeal for you, and them [that are] in Laodicea, and them in Hierapolis. {4:14} Luke, the beloved physician, and , Page 123 1 Thessalonians The First Epistle of Paul to the Thessalonians they might be saved, to fill up their sins alway: for the wrath is come upon them to the uttermost.

{2:17} But we, brethren, being taken from you for a short {1:1} Paul, and Silvanus, and Timotheus, unto the churchtime in presence, not in heart, endeavoured the more of the Thessalonians [which is] in God the Fatherabundantly and [in] to see your face with great desire. {2:18} the Lord Jesus Christ: Grace [be] unto you, and peace, fromWherefore we would have come unto you, even I Paul, once God our Father, and the Lord Jesus Christ. {1:2}and We again; give but Satan hindered us. {2:19} For what [is] our thanks to God always for you all, making mention of youhope, in or joy, or crown of rejoicing? [Are] not even ye in the our prayers; {1:3} Remembering without ceasing your workpresence of our Lord Jesus Christ at his coming? {2:20} For of faith, and labour of love, and patienceye areof ourhope glory in and our joy. Lord Jesus Christ, in the sight of God and our Father; {1:4} Knowing, brethren beloved, your election of God. {1:5} For{3:1} Wherefore when we could no longer forbear, we our gospel came not unto you in word thoughtonly, butit good also to inbe left at Athens alone; {3:2} And sent power, and in the Holy Ghost, and in much assurance; as Timotheus,ye our brother, and minister of God, and our know what manner of men we were among fellowlaboureryou for your in the gospel of Christ, to establish you, and sake. {1:6} And ye became followers of us, and of the Lord,to comfort you concerning your faith: {3:3} That no man having received the word in much affliction, with joy ofshould the be moved by these afflictions: for yourselves know Holy Ghost: {1:7} So that ye were ensamplesthat we toare allappointed that thereunto. {3:4} For verily, when we believe in Macedonia and Achaia.were {1:8} with Foryou, fromwe told you you before that we should suffer sounded out the word of the Lord not only tribulation;in Macedonia even as it came to pass, and ye know. {3:5} For and Achaia, but also in every place your faith to God-wardthis cause, when I could no longer forbear, I sent to know is spread abroad; so that we need not to speakyour any faith, thing. lest by some means the tempter have tempted {1:9} For they themselves shew ofyou, us whatand mannerour labour of be in vain. {3:6} But now when entering in we had unto you, and how yeTimotheus turned to cameGod from you unto us, and brought us good from idols to serve the living and true God; {1:10}tidings And to of your faith and charity, and that ye have good wait for his Son from heaven, whom heremembrance raised from of us thealways, desiring greatly to see us, as we dead, [even] Jesus, which delivered us fromalso the [to wrath see] to you: {3:7} Therefore, brethren, we were come. comforted over you in all our affliction and distress by your faith: {3:8} For now we live, if ye stand fast in the Lord. {2:1} For yourselves, brethren, know our entrance in {3:9}unto For what thanks can we render to God again for you, you, that it was not in vain: {2:2} But even after that we hadfor all the joy wherewith we joy for your sakes before our suffered before, and were shamefully entreated, as ye know,God; {3:10} Night and day praying exceedingly that we at Philippi, we were bold in our God to speak unto mightyou the see your face, and might perfect that which is lacking gospel of God with much contention.in your faith? {3:11} {2:3} Now God himselfFor andour our Father, and exhortation [was] not of deceit, nor of uncleanness,our Lord nor Jesus in Christ, direct our way unto you. {3:12} And guile: {2:4} But as we were allowed of Godthe to beLord put makein you to increase and abound in love one trust with the gospel, even so we speak;toward not asanother, pleasing and toward all [men,] even as we [do] men, but God, which trieth our hearts. {2:5} For towardneither you:at {3:13} To the end he may stablish your hearts any time used we flattering words, as ye know, nor unblameablea cloke in holiness before God, even our Father, at the of covetousness; God [is] witness: {2:6} Nor of men soughtcoming of our Lord Jesus Christ with all his saints. we glory, neither of you, nor [yet] of others, when we might have been burdensome, as the apostles of Christ. {2:7}{4:1} But Furthermore then we beseech you, brethren, and we were gentle among you, even as a nurse cherishethexhort [you]her by the Lord Jesus, that as ye have received of children: {2:8} So being affectionately desirous ofus you, how we ye ought to walk and to please God, [so] ye would were willing to have imparted unto you, not theabound gospel of more and more. {4:2} For ye know what God only, but also our own souls, becausecommandments ye were dear we gave you by the Lord Jesus. {4:3} For unto us. {2:9} For ye remember, brethren, ourthis labour is the and will of God, [even] your sanctification, that ye travail: for labouring night and day, because we shouldwould not abstain from fornication: {4:4} That every one of be chargeable unto any of you, we preached youunto should you knowthe how to possess his vessel in sanctification gospel of God. {2:10} Ye [are] witnesses, and andGod honour; [also,] {4:5} Not in the lust of concupiscence, even as how holily and justly andthe unblameablyGentiles which know notwe God: {4:6}behaved That no [man] go ourselves among you that believe: {2:11} As ye knowbeyond how and defraud his brother in [any] matter: because that we exhorted and comforted and charged every onethe of Lordyou, [is] the avenger of all such, as we also have as a father [doth] his children, {2:12} That ye wouldforewarned walk you and testified. {4:7} For God hath not called worthy of God, who hath called you unto his kingdomus unto and uncleanness, but unto holiness. {4:8} He therefore glory. that despiseth, despiseth not man, but God, who hath also given unto us his holy Spirit. {4:9} But as touching {2:13} For this cause also thank we God without ceasing,brotherly love ye need not that I write unto you: for ye because, when ye received the word of God which ye heardyourselves are taught of God to love one another. {4:10} of us, ye received [it] not [as] the word of men, butAnd as itindeed is ye do it toward all the brethren which are in all in truth, the word of God, which effectually worketh alsoMacedonia: in but we beseech you, brethren, that ye increase you that believe. {2:14} For ye, brethren, became followersmore and more; {4:11} And that ye study to be quiet, and to of the churches of God which in Judaea are in Christ Jesus:do your own business, and to work with your own hands, as for ye also have sufferedwe like commanded things you; of{4:12} your That ownye may walk honestly countrymen, even as they [have] of the Jews: {2:15}toward them Who that are without, and [that] ye may have lack of both killed the Lord Jesus, and their own prophets, and havenothing. persecuted us; and they please not God, and are contrary to all men: {2:16} Forbidding us to speak to the Gentiles{4:13} that But I would not have you to be ignorant, brethren, 1 Thessalonians Page 124 concerning them which are asleep, that ye sorrow not, even as others which have no hope. {4:14} For if we believe that Jesus died and rose again, even so them also which sleep in Jesus will God bring with him. {4:15} For this we say unto you by the word of the Lord, that we which are alive [and] remain unto the coming of the Lord shall not prevent them which are asleep. {4:16} For the Lord himself shall descend from heaven with a shout, with the voice of the , and with the trump of God: and the dead in Christ shall rise first: {4:17} Then we which are alive [and] remain shall be caught up together with them in the clouds, to meet the Lord in the air: and so shall we ever be with the Lord. {4:18} Wherefore comfort one another with these words.

{5:1} But of the times and the seasons, brethren, ye have no need that I write unto you. {5:2} For yourselves know perfectly that the day of the Lord so cometh as a thief in the night. {5:3} For when they shall say, Peace and safety; then sudden destruction cometh upon them, as travail upon a woman with child; and they shall not escape. {5:4} But ye, brethren, are not in darkness, that that day should overtake you as a thief. {5:5} Ye are all the children of light, and the children of the day: we are not of the night, nor of darkness. {5:6} Therefore let us not sleep, as [do] others; but let us watch and be sober. {5:7} For they that sleep sleep in the night; and they that be drunken are drunken in the night. {5:8} But let us, who are of the day, be sober, putting on the breastplate of faith and love; and for an helmet, the hope of salvation. {5:9} For God hath not appointed us to wrath, but to obtain salvation by our Lord Jesus Christ, {5:10} Who died for us, that, whether we wake or sleep, we should live together with him. {5:11} Wherefore comfort yourselves together, and edify one another, even as also ye do.

{5:12} And we beseech you, brethren, to know them which labour among you, and are over you in the Lord, and admonish you; {5:13} And to esteem them very highly in love for their work's sake. [And] be at peace among yourselves. {5:14} Now we exhort you, brethren, warn them that are unruly, comfort the feebleminded, support the weak, be patient toward all [men. ]{5:15} See that none render evil for evil unto any [man;] but ever follow that which is good, both among yourselves, and to all [men. ]{5:16} Rejoice evermore. {5:17} Pray without ceasing. {5:18} In every thing give thanks: for this is the will of God in Christ Jesus concerning you. {5:19} Quench not the Spirit. {5:20} Despise not prophesyings. {5:21} Prove all things; hold fast that which is good. {5:22} Abstain from all appearance of evil. {5:23} And the very God of peace sanctify you wholly; and [I pray God] your whole spirit and soul and body be preserved blameless unto the coming of our Lord Jesus Christ. {5:24} Faithful [is] he that calleth you, who also will do [it.

]{5:25} Brethren, pray for us.

{5:26} Greet all the brethren with an holy kiss. {5:27} I charge you by the Lord that this epistle be read unto all the holy brethren. Page 125 2 Thessalonians The Second Epistle of Paul the Apostle to the Thessalonians Lord Jesus Christ. {2:15} Therefore, brethren, stand fast, and hold the traditions which ye have been taught, whether by word, or our epistle. {2:16} Now our Lord Jesus Christ himself, and God, even our Father, which hath loved us, and {1:1} Paul, and Silvanus, and Timotheus, unto the churchhath given [us] everlasting consolation and good hope of the Thessalonians in God our Father and the Lordthrough Jesus grace, {2:17} Comfort your hearts, and stablish you Christ: {1:2} Grace unto you, and peace,in every from good word God and ourwork. Father and the Lord Jesus Christ. {3:1} Finally, brethren, pray for us, that the word of the {1:3} We are bound to thank LordGod may havealways [free] course, for and you, be glorified, even as [it is] brethren, as it is meet, because thatwith your you: faith {3:2} groweth And that we may be delivered from exceedingly, and the charity of every one of you all unreasonabletoward and wicked men: for all [men] have not faith. each other aboundeth; {1:4} So that we ourselves{3:3} glory But inthe Lord is faithful, who shall stablish you, and you in the churches of God for your patience and faith in allkeep [you] from evil. {3:4} And we have confidence in the your persecutions and tribulations Lordthat touchingye endure: you, that {1:5} ye both do and will do the things [Which is] a manifest token of the righteouswhich judgment we command of you. {3:5} And the Lord direct your God, that ye may be counted worthy ofhearts the intokingdom the love of God, and into the patient waiting for God, for which ye also suffer: Christ.{1:6} Seeing [it is] a righteous thing with God to recompense tribulation to them that trouble you; {1:7} And to you who are{3:6} troubled Now we restcommand you, brethren, in the name of our with us, when the Lord Jesus shall be revealed from heavenLord Jesus Christ, that ye withdraw yourselves from every with his mighty angels, {1:8}brother In thatflaming walketh disorderly,fire taking and not after the tradition vengeance on them that know not God, and thatwhich obey he received not of us. {3:7} For yourselves know how ye the gospel of our Lord Jesus Christ: {1:9}ought Who to follow shall us: befor we behaved not ourselves disorderly punished with everlasting destruction from theamong presence you; of {3:8} Neither did we eat any man's bread for the Lord, and from the glory of his power; {1:10} Whennought; he but wrought with labour and travail night and day, shall come to be glorified in his saints, and to be admiredthat in we might not be chargeable to any of you: {3:9} Not all them that believe (because our testimony among you wasbecause we have not power, but to make ourselves an believed) in that day. {1:11} Whereforeensample unto you also to follow we us.pray {3:10} For even when we always for you, that our God would count wereyou worthywith you, of this we commanded you, that if any would [this] calling, and fulfil all thenot goodwork, neitherpleasure should of he[his] eat. {3:11} For we hear that goodness, and the work of faith with power: {1:12} That thethere are some which walk among you disorderly, working name of our Lord Jesus Christ may be glorified in you,not and at all, but are busybodies. {3:12} Now them that are ye in him, according to the grace of our God andsuch the weLord command and exhort by our Lord Jesus Christ, that Jesus Christ. with quietness they work, and eat their own bread. {3:13} But ye, brethren, be not weary in well doing. {3:14} And if {2:1} Now we beseech you, brethren, by theany comingman obey of not our word by this epistle, note that man, our Lord Jesus Christ, and [by] our gathering togetherand untohave no company with him, that he may be ashamed. him, {2:2} That ye be not soon shaken{3:15} in Yetmind, count or be[him] not as an enemy, but admonish troubled, neither by spirit, nor by word, nor by letter as from[him] as a brother. {3:16} Now the Lord of peace himself us, as that the day of Christ is at hand. {2:3}give Let you no peace man always by all means. The Lord [be] with you deceive you by any means: for [that day shallall. not come,] except there come a falling away first, and that be revealed, the son of perdition; {2:4} Who opposeth{3:17} and The salutation of Paul with mine own hand, which exalteth himself above all that is calledis the token God, in every or epistle:that sois I write. {3:18} The grace of worshipped; so that he as God sitteth in the temple ofour God, Lord Jesus Christ [be] with you all. Amen. shewing himself that he is God. {2:5} Remember ye not, that, when I was yet with you, I told you these things? {2:6} And now ye know what withholdeth that he might be revealed in his time. {2:7} For the mystery of iniquity doth already work: only he who now letteth [will let,] until he be taken out of the way. {2:8} And then shall that Wicked be revealed, whom the Lord shall consume with the spirit of his mouth, and shall destroy with the brightness of his coming: {2:9} [Even him,] whose coming is after the working of Satan with all power and signs and lying wonders, {2:10} And with all deceivableness of unrighteousness in them that perish; because they received not the love of the truth, that they might be saved. {2:11} And for this cause God shall send them strong delusion, that they should believe a lie: {2:12} That they all might be damned who believed not the truth, but had pleasure in unrighteousness.

{2:13} But we are bound to give thanks alway to God for you, brethren beloved of the Lord, because God hath from the beginning chosen you to salvation through sanctification of the Spirit and of the truth: {2:14} Whereunto he called you by our gospel, to the obtaining of the glory of our

Page 127 1 Timothy The First Epistle of Paul the Apostle to Timothy array; {2:10} But (which becometh women professing godliness) with good works. {2:11} Let the woman learn in silence with all subjection. {2:12} But I suffer not a woman to teach, nor to usurp authority over the man, but to be in {1:1} Paul, an apostlesilence. of {2:13}Jesus For ChristAdam was byfirst theformed, then Eve. commandment of God our Saviour, and Lord Jesus{2:14} Christ, And Adam was not deceived, but the woman being [which is] our hope; {1:2} Unto Timothy, [my] owndeceived son in was in the transgression. {2:15} Notwithstanding the faith: Grace, mercy, [and] peace, from Godshe our shall Father be saved in childbearing, if they continue in faith and Jesus Christ our Lord. and charity and holiness with sobriety.

{1:3} As I besought thee to abide still at Ephesus, when{3:1} I This [is] a true saying, If a man desire the office of went into Macedonia, that thou mightest chargea bishop, some that he desireth a good work. {3:2} A bishop then they teach no other doctrine, {1:4} Neithermust be giveblameless, heed the tohusband of one wife, vigilant, sober, and endless genealogies, which ofminister good behaviour, questions, given to hospitality, apt to teach; {3:3} rather than godly edifying which is in faith: [soNot do. given ]{1:5} to wine, no striker, not greedy of filthy lucre; but Now the end of the commandment is charity out patient,of a pure not a brawler, not covetous; {3:4} One that ruleth heart, and [of] a good conscience, and [of] faith unfeigned:well his own house, having his children in subjection with {1:6} From which some having swerved have turnedall gravity;aside {3:5} (For if a man know not how to rule his unto vain jangling; {1:7} Desiring to be teachers of the law;own house, how shall he take care of the church of God?) understanding neither what they{3:6} say, Not nor a novice, whereof lest being they lifted up with pride he fall affirm. {1:8} But we know that the law [is] good, ifinto a manthe condemnation of the devil. {3:7} Moreover he must use it lawfully; {1:9} Knowing this, that the law is not madehave a good report of them which are without; lest he fall for a righteous man, but for the lawless and disobedient,into for reproach and the snare of the devil. {3:8} Likewise the ungodly and for sinners, for unholy[must] and the profane, deacons [be] for grave, not doubletongued, not given murderers of fathers and to muchmurderers wine, not greedy of of filthy mothers, lucre; {3:9} Holding for the manslayers, {1:10} For whoremongers, for them thatmystery defile of the faith in a pure conscience. {3:10} And let themselves with mankind, for menstealers,these also first for be proved;liars, thenfor let them use the office of a perjured persons, and if there be any ,other thing being that [found] is blameless. {3:11} Even so [must contrary to sound doctrine;their] {1:11} wives be Accordinggrave, not slanderers, to thesober, faithful in all glorious gospel of the blessed God, which was committed tothings. {3:12} Let the deacons be the husbands of one wife, my trust. {1:12} And I thank Christ Jesus rulingour Lord, their childrenwho and their own houses well. {3:13} For hath enabled me, for that he counted me faithful, putting methey that have used the office of a deacon well purchase to into the ministry; {1:13} Who was before a blasphemer, andthemselves a good degree, and great boldness in the faith a persecutor, and injurious: but I obtained mercy, becausewhich Iis in Christ Jesus. {3:14} These things write I unto did [it] ignorantly in unbelief. {1:14} And the gracethee, of hoping our to come unto thee shortly: {3:15} But if I tarry Lord was exceeding abundant with faith and lovelong, which that is thou mayest know how thou oughtest to behave in Christ Jesus. {1:15} This [is] thyselfa faithful in the saying, house of and God, which is the church of the worthy of all acceptation, that Christ Jesusliving came God, into the thepillar and ground of the truth. {3:16} And world to save sinners; of whom I am chief. {1:16} Howbeitwithout controversy great is the mystery of godliness: God for this cause I obtained mercy, that in me first Jesus Christwas manifest in the flesh, justified in the Spirit, seen of might shew forth all longsuffering, for angels,a pattern preached to unto them the Gentiles, believed on in the world, which should hereafter believe on him to receivedlife everlasting. up into glory. {1:17} Now unto the King eternal, immortal, invisible, the only wise God, [be] honour and glory for {4:1}ever Nowand theever. Spirit speaketh expressly, that in the latter Amen. {1:18} This charge Itimes commit some shallunto departthee, fromson the faith, giving heed to Timothy, according to the prophecies which went beforeseducing on spirits, and doctrines of devils; {4:2} Speaking thee, that thou by them mightest war a good warfare; {1:19}in hypocrisy; having their conscience seared with a hot iron; Holding faith, and a good conscience; which {4:3}some havingForbidding to marry, [and commanding] to abstain put away concerning faith have made shipwreck: {1:20}from Of meats, which God hath created to be received with whom is Hymenaeus and Alexander; whom I have deliveredthanksgiving of them which believe and know the truth. unto Satan, that they may learn not to blaspheme. {4:4} For every creature of God [is] good, and nothing to be refused, if it be received with thanksgiving: {4:5} For it is {2:1} I exhort therefore, that, first of sanctifiedall, supplications, by the word of God and prayer. {4:6} If thou put prayers, intercessions, [and] giving of thanks,the be brethren made infor remembrance of these things, thou shalt be a all men; {2:2} For kings, and [for] all that are in authority;good minister of Jesus Christ, nourished up in the words of that we may lead a quiet and peaceable life in all godlinessfaith and of good doctrine, whereunto thou hast attained. and honesty. {2:3} For this [is] good and acceptable{4:7} in But the refuse profane and old wives' fables, and exercise sight of God our Saviour; {2:4} Who will have thyselfall men to[rather] unto godliness. {4:8} For bodily exercise be saved, and to come unto the knowledgeprofiteth of thelittle: truth. but godliness is profitable unto all things, {2:5} For [there is] one God, and one mediatorhaving promise between of the life that now is, and of that which is God and men, the man Christ Jesus;to come. {2:6} {4:9} ThisWho [is] agave faithful saying and worthy of all himself a ransom for all, to be testified in dueacceptation. time. {2:7} {4:10} For therefore we both labour and suffer Whereunto I am ordained a preacher, reproach,and an apostle,because we(I trust in the living God, who is the speak the truth in Christ, [and] lie not;)Saviour a teacher of all of men, the specially of those that believe. Gentiles in faith and verity. {2:8} I will therefore that men pray every where, lifting up holy hands, without wrath{4:11} and These things command and teach. {4:12} Let no doubting. {2:9} In like manner also,man that despise women thy adorn youth; but be thou an example of the themselves in modest apparel, withbelievers, shamefacedness in word, in conversation,and in charity, in spirit, in sobriety; not with broided hair, or gold, or pearls, faith,or costly in purity. {4:13} Till I come, give attendance to 1 Timothy Page 128 reading, to exhortation, to doctrine. {4:14} Neglect{6:4} not theHe is proud, knowing nothing, but doting about gift that is in thee, which was given thee by prophecy,questions with and strifes of words, whereof cometh envy, strife, the laying on of the hands ofrailings, the evilpresbytery. surmisings, {6:5}{4:15} Perverse disputings of men Meditate upon these things; give thyselfof whollycorrupt minds,to them; and destitute of the truth, supposing that that thy profiting may appear to all. {4:16} Take heedgain unto is godliness: from such withdraw thyself. {6:6} But thyself, and unto the doctrine; continue in them: for in doinggodliness with is great gain. {6:7} For we this thou shalt both save thyself, and them that hear thee. brought nothing into [this] world, [and it is] certain we can carry nothing out. {6:8} And having food and raiment let us {5:1} Rebuke not an elder, but intreat [him]be as therewitha father; content. {6:9} But they that will be rich fall [and] the younger men as brethren; {5:2} The elder womeninto temptation and a snare, and [into] many foolish and as mothers; the younger as sisters, withhurtful all lusts,purity. which {5:3}drown men in destruction and perdition. Honour widows that are widows indeed. {5:4}{6:10} But For if theany love of money is the root of all evil: which widow have children or nephews, let whilethem somelearn covetedfirst to after, they have erred from the faith, shew piety at home, and to requite their parents: forand that pierced is themselves through with many sorrows. {6:11} good and acceptable before God. {5:5} Now Butshe thou, that O is man a of God, flee these things; and follow after widow indeed, and desolate, trusteth in God, and continuethrighteousness, godliness, faith, love, patience, meekness. in supplications and prayers night and day. {6:12}{5:6} Fight But theshe good fight of faith, lay hold on eternal life, that liveth in pleasure is dead while she liveth.whereunto {5:7} And thou art also called, and hast professed a good these things give in charge, that they professionmay be before blameless. many witnesses. {6:13} I give thee charge {5:8} But if any provide not for his own, and speciallyin the sightfor of God, who quickeneth all things, and [before] those of his own house, he hath deniedChrist the faith, Jesus, and who is before Pontius Pilate witnessed a good worse than an . {5:9} Let not a widow be takenconfession; into {6:14} That thou keep [this] commandment the number under threescore years old, having been the wifewithout spot, unrebukeable, until the appearing of our Lord of one man, {5:10} Well reported of for good works; Jesusif she Christ: {6:15} Which in his times he shall shew, [who have brought up children, if she have lodgedis] strangers,the blessed if and only Potentate, the King of kings, and she have washed the saints' feet, if she haveLord relievedof lords; {6:16}the Who only hath immortality, dwelling afflicted, if she have diligently followed everyin goodthe light work. which no man can approach unto; whom no man {5:11} But the younger widows refuse: for when theyhath have seen, nor can see: to whom [be] honour and power begun to wax wanton against Christ,everlasting. they Amen. {6:17}will Chargemarry; them that are rich in this {5:12} Having damnation, because they have castworld, off their that they be not highminded, nor trust in uncertain first faith. {5:13} And withal riches,they but inlearn the living [to God, whobe] giveth idle, us richly all things wandering about from house to house; and not only idle, butto enjoy; {6:18} That they do good, that they be rich in tattlers also and busybodies, speakinggood things works, which ready they to distribute, willing to communicate; ought not. {5:14} I will therefore that the younger{6:19} women Laying up in store for themselves a good foundation marry, bear children, guide the house, give none occasion againstto the time to come, that they may lay hold on eternal the adversary to speak reproachfully. {5:15} Forlife. {6:20}some Oare Timothy, keep that which is committed to thy already turned aside after Satan. trust,{5:16} If anyavoiding man or profane [and] vain babblings, and woman that believeth have widows, let them relieveoppositions them, of science falsely so called: {6:21} Which some and let not the church be charged; that it may relieveprofessing them have erred concerning the faith. Grace [be] with that are widows indeed. {5:17} Let the elders that rulethee. well Amen. be counted worthy of double honour, especially they who labour in the word and doctrine. {5:18} For the scripture saith, Thou shalt not muzzle the ox that treadeth out the corn. And, The labourer [is] worthy of his reward. {5:19} Against an elder receive not an accusation, but before two or three witnesses. {5:20} Them that sin rebuke before all, that others also may fear. {5:21} I charge [thee] before God, and the Lord Jesus Christ, and the elect angels, that thou observe these things without preferring one before another, doing nothing by partiality. {5:22} Lay hands suddenly on no man, neither be partaker of other men's sins: keep thyself pure. {5:23} Drink no longer water, but use a little wine for thy stomach's sake and thine often infirmities. {5:24} Some men's sins are open beforehand, going before to judgment; and some [men] they follow after. {5:25} Likewise also the good works [of some] are manifest beforehand; and they that are otherwise cannot be hid.

{6:1} Let as many servants as are under the yoke count their own masters worthy of all honour, that the name of God and [his] doctrine be not blasphemed. {6:2} And they that have believing masters, let them not despise [them,] because they are brethren; but rather do [them] service, because they are faithful and beloved, partakers of the benefit. These things teach and exhort.

{6:3} If any man teach otherwise, and consent not to wholesome words, [even] the words of our Lord Jesus Christ, and to the doctrine which is according to godliness; Page 129 2 Timothy The Second Epistle of Paul the Apostle to Timothy believe not, [yet] he abideth faithful: he cannot deny himself. {2:14} Of these things put [them] in remembrance, charging [them] before the Lord that they strive not about words to no profit, [but] to the subverting of the hearers. {1:1} Paul, an apostle of Jesus Christ by the will of{2:15} God, Study to shew thyself approved unto God, a according to the promise of life which is workmanin Christ that Jesus, needeth not to be ashamed, rightly dividing {1:2} To Timothy, [my] dearly beloved son: Grace,the mercy, word of truth. {2:16} But shun profane [and] vain [and] peace, from God the Father and Christ Jesus our Lord.babblings: for they will increase unto more ungodliness. {1:3} I thank God, whom I serve from [my] forefathers with{2:17} And their word will eat as doth a canker: of whom is pure conscience, that without ceasing I have Hymenaeusremembrance and Philetus; {2:18} Who concerning the truth of thee in my prayers night and day; {1:4} Greatly desiringhave erred, saying that the resurrection is past already; and to see thee, being mindful of thy tears, that I mayoverthrow be filled the faith of some. {2:19} Nevertheless the with joy; {1:5} When I call to remembrance the foundationunfeigned of God standeth sure, having this seal, The Lord faith that is in thee, which dwelt first in thyknoweth grandmother them that are his. And, Let every one that nameth , and thy mother ; and I am persuadedthe name that of Christin depart from iniquity. {2:20} But in a thee also. {1:6} Wherefore I put thee in remembrancegreat house that there are not only vessels of gold and of silver, thou stir up the gift of God, which is in thee by thebut putting also of wood and of earth; and some to honour, and on of my hands. {1:7} For God hath not given us thesome spirit to dishonour. {2:21} If a man therefore purge himself of fear; but of power, and of love, and offrom a sound these, hemind. shall be a vessel unto honour, sanctified, and {1:8} Be not thou therefore ashamed of the testimony of ourmeet for the master's use, [and] prepared unto every good Lord, nor of me his prisoner: but be thou work.partaker of {2:22}the Flee also youthful lusts: but follow afflictions of the gospel according to righteousness,the power of faith,God; charity, peace, with them that call on {1:9} Who hath saved us, and calledthe [us] Lord with outan holyof a . {2:23} But foolish and calling, not according to our works, butunlearned according questionsto his avoid, knowing that they do own purpose and grace, which was given us in Christstrifes. Jesus {2:24} And the servant of the Lord must not strive; before the world began, {1:10} But is now madebut bemanifest gentle unto all [men,] apt to teach, patient, {2:25} In by the appearing of our Saviour Jesusmeekness Christ, instructing who hath those that oppose themselves; if God abolished death, and hath brought life andperadventure immortality to will give them repentance to the light through the gospel: {1:11} Whereunto I am appointedacknowledging of the truth; {2:26} And [that] they may a preacher, and an apostle, and a teacher recoverof the Gentiles.themselves out of the snare of the devil, who are {1:12} For the which cause I alsotaken suffer captive these by him things:at his will. nevertheless I am not ashamed: for I know whom I have believed, and am persuaded that he is {3:1}able This to knowkeep also, that that in the last days perilous times which I have committed unto him against that day.shall {1:13} come. {3:2} For men shall be lovers of their own Hold fast the form of sound words, which thou hast heard ofselves, covetous, boasters, proud, blasphemers, disobedient me, in faith and love which is in Christ Jesus. {1:14}to Thatparents, unthankful, unholy, {3:3} Without natural good thing which was committed unto affection,thee keep trucebreakers, by the false accusers, incontinent, fierce, Holy Ghost which dwelleth despisersin us. {1:15}of those Thisthat arethou good, {3:4} Traitors, heady, knowest, that all they which are in Asiahighminded, be turned loversaway of pleasures more than lovers of God; from me; of whom are Phygellus and Hermogenes.{3:5} {1:16} Having a form of godliness, but denying the power The Lord give mercy unto the house of ; forthereof: he from such turn away. {3:6} For of this sort are they oft refreshed me, and was not ashamed of my chain: {1:17}which creep into houses, and lead captive silly women laden But, when he was in Rome, hewith sought sins, led awayme without diversvery lusts, {3:7} Ever learning, diligently, and found [me. ]{1:18} The Lord grant untoand him never able to come to the knowledge of the truth. {3:8} that he may find mercy of the Lord in that day: and inNow how as withstood Moses, so do these many things he ministered untoalso me resist at Ephesus, the truth: thou men of corrupt minds, reprobate knowest very well. concerning the faith. {3:9} But they shall proceed no further: for their folly shall be manifest unto all [men,] as {2:1} Thou therefore, my son, be strong in the gracetheirs that also was. {3:10} But thou hast fully known my is in Christ Jesus. {2:2} And the things that thou hast doctrine,heard manner of life, purpose, faith, longsuffering, of me among many witnesses, the samecharity, commit thoupatience, to {3:11} Persecutions, afflictions, which faithful men, who shall be able to teach otherscame also. {2:3}unto me at Antioch, at Iconium, at Lystra; what Thou therefore endure hardness, as a good soldierpersecutions of Jesus I endured: but out of [them] all the Lord Christ. {2:4} No man that warreth entangleth himselfdelivered with me. {3:12} Yea, and all that will live godly in the affairs of [this] life; that he may please Christhim who Jesus hath shall suffer persecution. {3:13} But evil men chosen him to be a soldier. {2:5} And if a man alsoand striveseducers shall wax worse and worse, deceiving, and for masteries, [yet] is he not crowned,being exceptdeceived. he strive{3:14} But continue thou in the things lawfully. {2:6} The husbandman that laboureth must be firstwhich thou hast learned and hast been assured of, knowing partaker of the fruits. {2:7} Consider whatof I whomsay; thouand hastthe learned [them; ]{3:15} And that from a Lord give thee understanding in all things. {2:8} Rememberchild thou hast known the holy scriptures, which are able to that Jesus Christ of the seed of David was raisedmake from thee the wise unto salvation through faith which is in dead according to my gospel: Christ{2:9} Jesus. Wherein {3:16} AllI scripturesuffer [is] given by inspiration trouble, as an evil doer, [even] unto bonds; but the wordof God, of and [is] profitable for doctrine, for reproof, for God is not bound. {2:10} Therefore I endure all correction,things for for instruction in righteousness: {3:17} That the the elect's sakes, that they may also obtainman of the God salvation may be perfect, throughly furnished unto all which is in Christ Jesus with eternal glory. {2:11}good [It works.is] a faithful saying: For if we be dead with [him,] we shall also live with [him: ]{2:12} If we suffer, we shall also reign with {4:1} I charge [thee] therefore before God, and the Lord [him:] if we deny [him,] he also will deny us: {2:13}Jesus If we Christ, who shall judge the quick and the dead at his 2 Timothy Page 130 appearing and his kingdom; {4:2} Preach the word; be instant in season, out of season; reprove, rebuke, exhort with all longsuffering and doctrine. {4:3} For the time will come when they will not endure sound doctrine; but after their own lusts shall they heap to themselves teachers, having itching ears; {4:4} And they shall turn away [their] ears from the truth, and shall be turned unto fables. {4:5} But watch thou in all things, endure afflictions, do the work of an evangelist, make full proof of thy ministry. {4:6} For I am now ready to be offered, and the time of my departure is at hand. {4:7} I have fought a good fight, I have finished [my] course, I have kept the faith: {4:8} Henceforth there is laid up for me a crown of righteousness, which the Lord, the righteous judge, shall give me at that day: and not to me only, but unto all them also that love his appearing.

{4:9} Do thy diligence to come shortly unto me: {4:10} For Demas hath forsaken me, having loved this present world, and is departed unto Thessalonica; to Galatia, Titus unto Dalmatia. {4:11} Only Luke is with me. Take Mark, and bring him with thee: for he is profitable to me for the ministry. {4:12} And Tychicus have I sent to Ephesus. {4:13} The cloke that I left at Troas with Carpus, when thou comest, bring [with thee,] and the books, [but] especially the parchments. {4:14} Alexander the coppersmith did me much evil: the Lord reward him according to his works: {4:15} Of whom be thou ware also; for he hath greatly withstood our words. {4:16} At my first answer no man stood with me, but all [men] forsook me: [I pray God] that it may not be laid to their charge. {4:17} Notwithstanding the Lord stood with me, and strengthened me; that by me the preaching might be fully known, and [that] all the Gentiles might hear: and I was delivered out of the mouth of the lion. {4:18} And the Lord shall deliver me from every evil work, and will preserve [me] unto his heavenly kingdom: to whom [be] glory for ever and ever. Amen.

{4:19} Salute Prisca and Aquila, and the household of Onesiphorus. {4:20} Erastus abode at Corinth: but Trophimus have I left at Miletum sick. {4:21} Do thy diligence to come before winter. Eubulus greeteth thee, and Pudens, and Linus, and Claudia, and all the brethren.

{4:22} The Lord Jesus Christ [be] with thy spirit. Grace [be] with you. Amen. Page 131 Titus The Epistle of Paul to Titus of good works. {2:15} These things speak, and exhort, and rebuke with all authority. Let no man despise thee.

{3:1} Put them in mind to be subject to principalities and {1:1} Paul, a , and anpowers, apostle to of obey Jesus magistrates, to be ready to every good Christ, according to the faith work,of God's {3:2} To elect, speak eviland of theno man, to be no brawlers, acknowledging of the truth which is after godliness;[but] gentle, {1:2} shewing all meekness unto all men. {3:3} For In hope of eternal life, which God, that cannot lie, promisedwe ourselves also were sometimes foolish, disobedient, before the world began; {1:3} deceived,But hathserving diversin lustsdue and pleasures,times living in malice manifested his word through preaching, which is committedand envy, hateful, [and] hating one another. {3:4} But after unto me according to the commandmentthat the kindness andof love God of God our our Saviour toward man Saviour; {1:4} To Titus, [mine] own son after the commonappeared, {3:5} Not by works of righteousness which we faith: Grace, mercy, [and] peace, from God the haveFather done, and but according to his mercy he saved us, by the the Lord Jesus Christ our Saviour. washing of regeneration, and renewing of the Holy Ghost; {3:6} Which he shed on us abundantly through Jesus Christ {1:5} For this cause left I theeour Saviour;in Crete, {3:7} thatThat beingthou justified by his grace, we shouldest set in order the things that are wanting, and ordainshould be made heirs according to the hope of eternal life. elders in every city, as I had appointed thee: {1:6} If any{3:8} be [This is] a faithful saying, and these things I will that blameless, the husband of one wife, having faithful childrenthou affirm constantly, that they which have believed in not accused of riot or unruly. {1:7} For a bishopGod might must be be careful to maintain good works. These things blameless, as the steward of God; not selfwilled,are good not soonand profitable unto men. {3:9} But avoid foolish angry, not given to wine, no striker,questions, not given and to genealogies,filthy and contentions, and strivings lucre; {1:8} But a lover of hospitality, a lover of good aboutmen, the law; for they are unprofitable and vain. {3:10} A sober, just, holy, temperate; {1:9} Holding fast manthe faithfulthat is an heretick after the first and second admonition word as he hath been taught, that he may be able byreject; sound {3:11} Knowing that he that is such is subverted, and doctrine both to exhort and to convincesinneth, being the condemned gainsayers. of himself. {1:10} For there are many unruly and vain talkers and deceivers, specially they of the circumcision: {1:11} Whose{3:12} When I shall send unto thee, or Tychicus, mouths must be stopped, whobe subvertdiligent towhole come houses,unto me to Nicopolis: for I have teaching things which they ought not, for filthy lucre's sake.determined there to winter. {3:13} Bring {1:12} One of themselves, [even] a prophetand of theirApollos own, on their journey diligently, that nothing be said, The Cretians [are] alway liars, evil beasts, slow bellies.wanting unto them. {3:14} And let ours also learn to {1:13} This witness is true. Wherefore rebuke them sharply,maintain good works for necessary uses, that they be not that they may be sound in the faith; {1:14} Not giving heedunfruitful. to Jewish fables, and commandments of men, that turn from the truth. {1:15} Unto the pure all things{3:15} [are] Allpure: that butare with me salute thee. Greet them that unto them that are defiled and unbelieving [is] nothing pure;love us in the faith. Grace [be] with you all. Amen. but even their mind and conscience is defiled. {1:16} They profess that they know God; but in works they deny [him,] being abominable, and disobedient, and unto every good work reprobate.

{2:1} But speak thou the things which become sound doctrine: {2:2} That the aged men be sober, grave, temperate, sound in faith, in charity, in patience. {2:3} The aged women likewise, that [they be] in behaviour as becometh holiness, not false accusers, not given to much wine, teachers of good things; {2:4} That they may teach the young women to be sober, to love their husbands, to love their children, {2:5} [To be] discreet, chaste, keepers at home, good, obedient to their own husbands, that the word of God be not blasphemed. {2:6} Young men likewise exhort to be sober minded. {2:7} In all things shewing thyself a pattern of good works: in doctrine [shewing] uncorruptness, gravity, sincerity, {2:8} Sound speech, that cannot be condemned; that he that is of the contrary part may be ashamed, having no evil thing to say of you. {2:9} [Exhort] servants to be obedient unto their own masters, [and] to please [them] well in all [things;] not answering again; {2:10} Not purloining, but shewing all good fidelity; that they may adorn the doctrine of God our Saviour in all things. {2:11} For the grace of God that bringeth salvation hath appeared to all men, {2:12} Teaching us that, denying ungodliness and worldly lusts, we should live soberly, righteously, and godly, in this present world; {2:13} Looking for that blessed hope, and the glorious appearing of the great God and our Saviour Jesus Christ; {2:14} Who gave himself for us, that he might redeem us from all iniquity, and purify unto himself a , zealous

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{1:1} Paul, a prisoner of Jesus Christ, and Timothy our brother, unto Philemon our dearly beloved, and fellowlabourer, {1:2} And to [our] beloved Apphia, and Archippus our fellowsoldier, and to the church in thy house: {1:3} Grace to you, and peace, from God our Father and the Lord Jesus Christ.

{1:4} I thank my God, making mention of thee always in my prayers, {1:5} Hearing of thy love and faith, which thou hast toward the Lord Jesus, and toward all saints; {1:6} That the communication of thy faith may become effectual by the acknowledging of every good thing which is in you in Christ Jesus. {1:7} For we have great joy and consolation in thy love, because the bowels of the saints are refreshed by thee, brother. {1:8} Wherefore, though I might be much bold in Christ to enjoin thee that which is convenient, {1:9} Yet for love's sake I rather beseech [thee,] being such an one as Paul the aged, and now also a prisoner of Jesus Christ. {1:10} I beseech thee for my son Onesimus, whom I have begotten in my bonds: {1:11} Which in time past was to thee unprofitable, but now profitable to thee and to me: {1:12} Whom I have sent again: thou therefore receive him, that is, mine own bowels: {1:13} Whom I would have retained with me, that in thy stead he might have ministered unto me in the bonds of the gospel: {1:14} But without thy mind would I do nothing; that thy benefit should not be as it were of necessity, but willingly. {1:15} For perhaps he therefore departed for a season, that thou shouldest receive him for ever; {1:16} Not now as a servant, but above a servant, a brother beloved, specially to me, but how much more unto thee, both in the flesh, and in the Lord? {1:17} If thou count me therefore a partner, receive him as myself. {1:18} If he hath wronged thee, or oweth [thee] ought, put that on mine account; {1:19} I Paul have written [it] with mine own hand, I will repay [it:] albeit I do not say to thee how thou owest unto me even thine own self besides. {1:20} Yea, brother, let me have joy of thee in the Lord: refresh my bowels in the Lord.

{1:21} Having confidence in thy obedience I wrote unto thee, knowing that thou wilt also do more than I say. {1:22} But withal prepare me also a lodging: for I trust that through your prayers I shall be given unto you.

{1:23} There salute thee Epaphras, my fellowprisoner in Christ Jesus; {1:24} Marcus, Aristarchus, Demas, Lucas, my fellowlabourers.

{1:25} The grace of our Lord Jesus Christ [be] with your spirit. Amen.

Page 135 Hebrews The put my trust in him. And again, Behold I and the children which God hath given me. {2:14} Forasmuch then as the children are partakers of flesh and blood, he also himself likewise took part of the same; that through death he might {1:1} God, who at sundry times and in destroydivers himmanners that had the power of death, that is, the devil; spake in time past unto the fathers by the prophets,{2:15} And {1:2} deliver them who through fear of death were all Hath in these last days spoken unto us by [his] Son,their whom lifetime subject to bondage. {2:16} For verily he took he hath appointed heir of all things, by whom also henot made on [him the nature of] angels; but he took on [him] the the worlds; {1:3} Who being the brightness of seed[his] of glory,Abraham. {2:17} Wherefore in all things it behoved and the express image of his person,him andto be upholdingmade like unto all[his] brethren, that he might be a things by the word of his power, when he hadmerciful by himself and faithful high priest in things [pertaining] to purged our sins, sat down on the right hand of theGod, Majesty to make reconciliation for the sins of the people. on high; {1:4} Being made so much better than the{2:18} angels, For in that he himself hath suffered being tempted, as he hath by inheritance obtained a more excellenthe is able nameto succour them that are tempted. than they. {1:5} For unto which of the angels said he at any time, Thou art my Son, this day have I begotten thee?{3:1} And Wherefore, holy brethren, partakers of the heavenly again, I will be to him a Father, and he shallcalling, be to me aconsider the Apostle and High Priest of our Son? {1:6} And again, when he bringeth in the firstbegottenprofession, Christ Jesus; {3:2} Who was faithful to him that into the world, he saith, And let allappointed the angelshim, as also of Moses God [was faithful] in all his house. worship him. {1:7} And of the angels he saith, Who maketh{3:3} For this [man] was counted worthy of more glory his angels spirits, and his ministers a flamethan of Moses,fire. {1:8} inasmuch as he who hath builded the house But unto the Son [he saith,] Thy throne, O God, [is] for everhath more honour than the house. {3:4} For every house is and ever: a sceptre of righteousness [is] the sceptrebuilded byof somethy [man;] but he that built all things [is] God. kingdom. {1:9} Thou hast loved righteousness,{3:5} And and Moses hated verily [was] faithful in all his house, as a iniquity; therefore God, [even] thy God, hath anointedservant, thee for a testimony of those things which were to be with the oil of gladness above thy fellows.spoken after; {1:10} {3:6} ButAnd, Christ as a son over his own house; Thou, Lord, in the beginning hast laid the foundation ofwhose the house are we, if we hold fast the confidence and the earth; and the heavens are the works of thine hands: {1:11}rejoicing of the hope firm unto the end. {3:7} Wherefore (as They shall perish; but thou remainest; and they all shall waxthe Holy Ghost saith, To day if ye will hear his voice, {3:8} old as doth a garment; {1:12} And as a vestureHarden shalt notthou your hearts, as in the provocation, in the day of fold them up, and they shall be changed: buttemptation thou art the in the wilderness: {3:9} When your fathers same, and thy years shall not fail. {1:13} Buttempted to which me,of proved me, and saw my works forty years. the angels said he at any times, Sit on my right hand, until{3:10} I Wherefore I was grieved with that generation, and make thine enemies thy footstool? {1:14} Are said,they notThey all do alway err in [their] heart; and they have not ministering spirits, sent forth to minister for them whoknown shall my ways. {3:11} So I sware in my wrath, They shall be heirs of salvation? not enter into my rest.) {3:12} Take heed, brethren, lest there be in any of you an evil heart of unbelief, in departing {2:1} Therefore we ought to give the more earnest heed tofrom the living God. {3:13} But exhort one another daily, the things which we have heard, lest at any time we whileshould it is called To day; lest any of you be hardened let [them] slip. {2:2} For if the word spoken by angelsthrough was the deceitfulness of sin. {3:14} For we are made stedfast, and every transgression and disobediencepartakers received of Christ, if we hold the beginning of our a just recompence of reward; {2:3} How shall we escape,confidence if stedfast unto the end; {3:15} While it is said, To we neglect so great salvation; which at the first beganday to beif ye will hear his voice, harden not your hearts, as in spoken by the Lord, and was confirmed untothe provocation.us by them {3:16} For some, when they had heard, did that heard [him; ]{2:4} God also bearingprovoke: [them] howbeit witness, not all that came out of Egypt by Moses. both with signs and wonders, and with divers miracles,{3:17} and But with whom was he grieved forty years? [was it] gifts of the Holy Ghost, according to his own will? not with them that had sinned, whose carcases fell in the wilderness? {3:18} And to whom sware he that they should {2:5} For unto the angels hath he not put in subjection thenot enter into his rest, but to them that believed not? {3:19} world to come, whereof we speak. So{2:6} we see thatBut they one could in not entera in because of unbelief. certain place testified, saying, What is man, that thou art mindful of him? or the son of man, that thou visitest{4:1} him? Let us therefore fear, lest, a promise being left [us] {2:7} Thou madest him a little lower than the angels;of entering thou into his rest, any of you should seem to come crownedst him with glory and honour, andshort didst of it. set{4:2} him For unto us was the gospel preached, as over the works of thy hands: {2:8} Thou hast put all wellthings as unto them: but the word preached did not profit in subjection under his feet. Forthem, in thatnot beinghe putmixed all with in faith in them that heard [it. subjection under him, he left nothing [that is] not put]{4:3} under For we which have believed do enter into rest, as he him. But now we see not yet all things put under him. {2:9}said, As I have sworn in my wrath, if they shall enter into But we see Jesus, who was made a littlemy lower rest: than althoughthe the works were finished from the angels for the suffering of death, crowned foundationwith glory andof the world. {4:4} For he spake in a certain honour; that he by the grace of God should tasteplace death of for the seventh [day] on this wise, And God did rest every man. {2:10} For it became him, for whomthe [are]seventh all day from all his works. {4:5} And in this things, and by whom [are] all things, in bringing many [place]sons again, If they shall enter into my rest. {4:6} Seeing unto glory, to make the captain of theirtherefore salvation it remaineth perfect that some must enter therein, and they through sufferings. {2:11} For both he that sanctifiethto whom and it was first preached entered not in because of they who are sanctified [are] all of one: for which causeunbelief: he {4:7} Again, he limiteth a certain day, saying in is not ashamed to call them brethren, {2:12} Saying,David, I will To day, after so long a time; as it is said, To day if declare thy name unto my brethren, inye willthe hearmidst his voice,of the harden not your hearts. {4:8} For if church will I sing praise unto thee. {2:13} And again, I Jesuswill had given them rest, then would he not afterward have Hebrews Page 136 spoken of another day. {4:9} There remainethreceiveth therefore blessing a from God: {6:8} But that which beareth rest to the . {4:10} For he that is enteredthorns into and briers [is] rejected, and [is] nigh unto cursing; his rest, he also hath ceased from his own works,whose asend God [is] to be burned. {6:9} But, beloved, we are [did] from his. {4:11} Let us labour therefore topersuaded enter into better things of you, and things that accompany that rest, lest any man fall aftersalvation, the same though example we thus ofspeak. {6:10} For God [is] not unbelief. {4:12} For the word ofunrighteous God [is]to forget quick, your work and and labour of love, which powerful, and sharper than any twoedged yesword, have shewed piercing toward his name, in that ye have ministered even to the dividing asunder of soul and spirit,to andthe ofsaints, the and do minister. {6:11} And we desire that joints and marrow, and [is] a discerner of the thoughtsevery andone of you do shew the same diligence to the full intents of the heart. {4:13} Neither is there any creature thatassurance of hope unto the end: {6:12} That ye be not is not manifest in his sight: but all things [are]slothful, naked and but followers of them who through faith and opened unto the eyes of him with whom patiencewe have inheritto do. the promises. {6:13} For when God made {4:14} Seeing then that we have a great high priest,promise that isto Abraham, because he could swear by no greater, passed into the heavens, Jesus the Son of God, helet sware us hold by himself, {6:14} Saying, Surely blessing I will fast [our] profession. {4:15} For we have not an high blesspriest thee, and multiplying I will multiply thee. {6:15} And which cannot be touched with the feeling of our infirmities;so, after he had patiently endured, he obtained the promise. but was in all points tempted like as [we are, {6:16}yet] without For men verily swear by the greater: and an oath for sin. {4:16} Let us therefore come boldly unto the throneconfirmation of [is] to them an end of all strife. {6:17} grace, that we may obtain mercy, and find grace toWherein help in God, willing more abundantly to shew unto the time of need. heirs of promise the immutability of his counsel, confirmed [it] by an oath: {6:18} That by two immutable things, in {5:1} For every high priest taken fromwhich among [it was] men impossible is for God to lie, we might have a ordained for men in things [pertaining] to God, that hestrong may consolation, who have fled for refuge to lay hold offer both gifts and sacrifices for sins: {5:2} Who canupon have the hope set before us: {6:19} Which [hope] we have compassion on the ignorant, and on them that are out ofas the an anchor of the soul, both sure and stedfast, and which way; for that he himself also is compassed withentereth infirmity. into that within the veil; {6:20} Whither the {5:3} And by reason hereof he ought, as for the people,forerunner so is for us entered, [even] Jesus, made an high also for himself, to offer for sins. {5:4} And no manpriest taketh for ever after the order of Melchisedec. this honour unto himself, but he that is called of God, as [was] Aaron. {5:5} So also Christ glorified not{7:1} himself For tothis Melchisedec, king of , priest of the be made an high priest; but he that said unto him, Thoumost art high God, who met Abraham returning from the my Son, to day have I begotten thee. {5:6} As he saithslaughter also of the kings, and blessed him; {7:2} To whom in another [place,] Thou [art] a priest for ever after the orderalso Abraham gave a tenth part of all; first being by of Melchisedec. {5:7} Who in the days of his flesh, when heinterpretation King of righteousness, and after that also had offered up prayers and supplications with strong Kingcrying of Salem, which is, King of peace; {7:3} Without and tears unto him that was able to save himfather, from death, without mother, without descent, having neither and was heard in that he feared; {5:8} Thoughbeginning he were of adays, nor end of life; but made like unto the Son, yet learned he obedience bySon the ofthings God; which abideth he a priest continually. {7:4} Now suffered; {5:9} And being made perfect,consider he howbecame great the this man [was,] unto whom even the author of eternal salvation unto all thempatriarch that Abraham obey gavehim; the tenth of the spoils. {7:5} And {5:10} Called of God an high priestverily after they the that order are ofof the sons of Levi, who receive the Melchisedec. office of the , have a commandment to take tithes of the people according to the law, that is, of their brethren, {5:11} Of whom we have many things to say, and hardthough to they come out of the loins of Abraham: {7:6} But he be uttered, seeing ye are dull of hearing. {5:12}whose For whendescent is not counted from them received tithes of for the time ye ought to be teachers, ye have need Abraham,that one and blessed him that had the promises. {7:7} And teach you again which [be] the first principles of the oracleswithout all contradiction the less is blessed of the better. of God; and are become such as have need of milk, and{7:8} not And here men that die receive tithes; but there he of strong meat. {5:13} For every one that [receivethuseth milk them,][is] of whom it is witnessed that he liveth. unskilful in the word of righteousness:{7:9} for Andhe asis I maya babe. so say, Levi also, who receiveth tithes, {5:14} But strong meat belongeth to them thatpayed are tithes of infull Abraham. {7:10} For he was yet in the loins age, [even] those who by reason of use haveof theirhis senses father, when Melchisedec met him. {7:11} If exercised to discern both . therefore perfection were by the Levitical priesthood, (for under it the people received the law,) what further need {6:1} Therefore leaving the principles of the[was doctrine there] thatof another priest should rise after the order of Christ, let us go on unto perfection; not Melchisedec,laying again andthe not be called after the order of Aaron? foundation of repentance from dead {7:12}works, For and the priesthoodof faith being changed, there is made of toward God, {6:2} Of the doctrine necessityof , a change alsoand of ofthe law. {7:13} For he of whom , and of resurrection of the dead,these and things of are spoken pertaineth to another tribe, of which eternal judgment. {6:3} And this will we do, if God permit.no man gave attendance at the altar. {7:14} For [it is] {6:4} For [it is] impossible forevident those that who our wereLord sprangonce out of Juda; of which tribe enlightened, and have tasted of the heavenly gift, Mosesand were spake nothing concerning priesthood. {7:15} And it made partakers of the Holy Ghost, {6:5} Andis haveyet tastedfar more evident: for that after the similitude of the good word of God, and the powers of the world to come, Melchisedec there ariseth another priest, {7:16} Who is {6:6} If they shall fall away, to renewmade, them not afteragain the lawunto of a carnal commandment, but after repentance; seeing they crucify to themselvesthe power theof an Son endless of life. {7:17} For he testifieth, Thou God afresh, and put [him] to an open shame. {6:7} [art]For athe priest for ever after the order of Melchisedec. {7:18} earth which drinketh in the rain that cometh oft upon it, Forand there is verily a disannulling of the commandment bringeth forth herbs meet for them by whom itgoing is dressed, before for the weakness and unprofitableness thereof. Page 137 Hebrews {7:19} For the law made nothing perfect, but the bringing inhad manna, and Aaron's rod that budded, and the tables of of a better hope [did;] by the which we draw nigh unto God.the covenant; {9:5} And over it the cherubims of glory {7:20} And inasmuch as not without an oath [he wasshadowing made the mercyseat; of which we cannot now speak priest: ]{7:21} (For those priests wereparticularly. made without {9:6}an Now when these things were thus oath; but this with an oath by him that said untoordained, him, The the priests went always into the first tabernacle, Lord sware and will not repent, Thou [art] a priest accomplishingfor ever the service [of God. ]{9:7} But into the after the order of Melchisedec:) {7:22} secondBy so much[went] was the high priest alone once every year, not Jesus made a surety of a better testament. {7:23} Andwithout they blood, which he offered for himself, and [for] the truly were many priests, because they were not errorssuffered of theto people: {9:8} The Holy Ghost this signifying, continue by reason of death: {7:24} But this [man,] becausethat the way into the holiest of all was not yet made he continueth ever, hath anmanifest, unchangeable while as the priesthood. first tabernacle was yet standing: {7:25} Wherefore he is able also{9:9} to saveWhich them [was] toa figurethe for the time then present, in uttermost that come unto God by him, seeing he ever whichliveth were offered both gifts and sacrifices, that could not to make intercession for them. {7:26}make For him such that an did high the service perfect, as pertaining to the priest became us, [who is] conscience;holy, {9:10}harmless, [Which stood] undefiled, only in meats and drinks, separate from sinners, and made higher thanand the divers heavens; washings, and carnal ordinances, imposed [on {7:27} Who needeth not daily, as those high priests, to offerthem] until the time of . {9:11} But Christ being up sacrifice, first for his own sins, and then for the people's:come an high priest of good things to come, by a greater for this he did once, when he offered up himself. {7:28} Forand more perfect tabernacle, not made with hands, that is to the law maketh men high priests which have infirmity;say, not but of this building; {9:12} Neither by the blood of the word of the oath, which was since the law, [maketh]goats the and calves, but by his own blood he entered in once Son, who is consecrated for evermore. into the holy place, having obtained eternal redemption [for us. ]{9:13} For if the blood of bulls and of goats, and the {8:1} Now of the things which we have spokenashes [this of is]an heifer sprinkling the unclean, sanctifieth to the the sum: We have such an high priest, whopurifying is set on of the the flesh: {9:14} How much more shall the right hand of the throne of the Majesty in the heavens; {8:2}blood of Christ, who through the eternal Spirit offered A minister of the sanctuary, and ofhimself the true without tabernacle, spot to God, purge your conscience from which the Lord pitched, and not man. {8:3} For everydead high works to serve the living God? {9:15} And for this priest is ordained to offer gifts and sacrifices: whereforecause he [itis the mediator of the new testament, that by means is] of necessity that this man have somewhat alsoof todeath, offer. for the redemption of the transgressions [that {8:4} For if he were on earth, he should were]not beunder a priest,the first testament, they which are called might seeing that there are priests that offer gifts accordingreceive to the the promise of eternal inheritance. {9:16} For where law: {8:5} Who serve unto the examplea testament and [is,]shadow there mustof also of necessity be the death of heavenly things, as Moses was admonished of God when thehe testator. {9:17} For a testament [is] of force after men was about to make the tabernacle: for, See, saithare he, dead: [that] otherwise it is of no strength at all while the thou make all things according to the pattern shewed to theetestator liveth. {9:18} Whereupon neither the first in the mount. {8:6} But now hath [testament]he obtained was dedicateda more without blood. {9:19} For when excellent ministry, by how much also he is the mediator of aMoses had spoken every precept to all the people according better covenant, which to wasthe law, establishedhe took the blood of calvesupon and of bettergoats, with promises. {8:7} For if that water,first and [covenant] scarlet wool, and hyssop,had andbeen sprinkled both the faultless, then should no place have beenbook, andsought all the forpeople, the {9:20} Saying, This [is] the blood second. {8:8} For finding fault with them, he saith, Behold,of the testament which God hath enjoined unto you. {9:21} the days come, saith the Lord, when I Moreoverwill make he sprinkleda new with blood both the tabernacle, and covenant with the house of Israel and withall the thevessels house of the ofministry. {9:22} And almost all things Judah: {8:9} Not according to the covenant that I made withare by the law purged with blood; and without shedding of their fathers in the day when I took them by the hand to leadblood is no remission. {9:23} [It was] therefore necessary them out of the land of Egypt; because they continued not inthat the patterns of things in the heavens should be purified my covenant, and I regarded themwith not, these; saith but thethe heavenlyLord. things themselves with better {8:10} For this [is] the covenant that I will makesacrifices with the than these. {9:24} For Christ is not entered into house of Israel after those days, saith the Lord; I will put mythe holy places made with hands, [which are] the figures of laws into their mind, and write them in their thehearts: true; and I but into heaven itself, now to appear in the will be to them a God, and they shall be to presenceme a people: of God for us: {9:25} Nor yet that he should offer {8:11} And they shall not teach every man hishimself neighbour, often, as the high priest entereth into the holy place and every man his brother, saying, Know the Lord:every for year all with blood of others; {9:26} For then must he shall know me, from the least to the greatest. {8:12}often Forhave I suffered since the foundation of the world: but will be merciful to their unrighteousness, and their sinsnow and once in the end of the world hath he appeared to put their iniquities will I remember no more. {8:13} awayIn that sin he by the sacrifice of himself. {9:27} And as it is saith, A new [covenant,] he hath made the appointedfirst old. unto Now men once to die, but after this the judgment: that which decayeth and waxeth old [is]{9:28} ready So Christ to vanishwas once offered to bear the sins of many; away. and unto them that look for him shall he appear the second time without sin unto salvation. {9:1} Then verily the first [covenant] had also ordinances of divine service, and a worldly sanctuary. {9:2} {10:1}For there For the law having a shadow of good things to was a tabernacle made; thecome, first, [and] not thewherein very image of the[was] things, can neverthe with candlestick, and the table, and thethose shewbread; sacrifices which which they offered is year by year continually called the sanctuary. {9:3} And after the makesecond the veil, comers the thereunto perfect. {10:2} For then would tabernacle which is called the Holiest of all;they {9:4} notWhich have ceased to be offered? because that the had the golden censer, and the overlaidworshippers once purged should have had no more round about with gold, wherein [was] the goldenconscience pot of sins. that {10:3} But in those [sacrifices there is] a Hebrews Page 138 remembrance again [made] of sins every year.done {10:4} the will Forof God, ye might receive the promise. {10:37} [it is] not possible that the blood ofFor bullsyet a little and while, of andgoats he that shall come will come, and should take away sins. {10:5} Wherefore whenwill he not cometh tarry. {10:38} Now the just shall live by faith: but if into the world, he saith, Sacrifice[any man] draw and back, offering my soul shall thou have no pleasure in wouldest not, but a body hast thou prepared me: him.{10:6} {10:39} In But we are not of them who draw back unto burnt offerings and [sacrifices] for sinperdition; thou buthast of themhad thatno believe to the saving of the soul. pleasure. {10:7} Then said I, Lo, I come (in the of the book it is written of me,) to do thy will, O God. {10:8}{11:1} Now faith is the substance of things hoped for, the Above when he said, Sacrifice andevidence offering of things and not burnt seen. {11:2} For by it the elders offerings and [offering] for sin thou wouldestobtained not, a goodneither report. {11:3} Through faith we understand hadst pleasure [therein;] which arethat offeredthe worlds by were the framed law; by the word of God, so that {10:9} Then said he, Lo, I come to do thy will, O God.things He which are seen were not made of things which do taketh away the first, that he may appear.establish {11:4} the second. By faith Abel offered unto God a more {10:10} By the which will we are sanctifiedexcellent through sacrifice the than , by which he obtained witness offering of the body of Jesus Christ once [for all.that ]{10:11} he was righteous, God testifying of his gifts: and by it And every priest standeth daily ministeringhe being anddead offering yet speaketh. {11:5} By faith Enoch was oftentimes the same sacrifices, which can nevertranslated take away that he should not see death; and was not found, sins: {10:12} But this man, afterbecause he God had had translatedoffered him: one for before his translation sacrifice for sins for ever, sat down on thehe righthad thishand testimony,of that he pleased God. {11:6} But God; {10:13} From henceforth expecting till his enemieswithout be faith [it is] impossible to please [him:] for he that made his footstool. {10:14} For by onecometh offering to Godhe hathmust believe that he is, and [that] he is a perfected for ever them thatrewarder areof them sanctified.that diligently seek him.{10:15} {11:7} By faith [Whereof] the Holy Ghost also is a witness to us:, for after being warned of God of things not seen as yet, that he had said before, {10:16} This [is] the covenant thatmoved I with fear, prepared an ark to the saving of his house; will make with them after those days, saith the Lord,by Ithe will which he condemned the world, and became heir of put my laws into their hearts, and in their minds will I writethe righteousness which is by faith. {11:8} By faith them; {10:17} And their sins and iniquities will I rememberAbraham, when he was called to go out into a place which no more. {10:18} Now where remission of thesehe [is,should there after receive for an inheritance, obeyed; and he is] no more offering for sin. went out, not knowing whither he went. {11:9} By faith he sojourned in the land of promise, as [in] a strange country, {10:19} Having therefore, brethren, boldness to enterdwelling into in tabernacles with Isaac and Jacob, the heirs with the holiest by the blood of Jesus, {10:20}him By of a the new same and promise: {11:10} For he looked for a city living way, which he hath consecrated for us,which through hath foundations, the whose builder and maker [is] God. veil, that is to say, his flesh; {10:21} And [having] {11:11}an high Through faith also Sara herself received strength to priest over the house of God; {10:22} Let us draw near withconceive seed, and was delivered of a child when she was a true heart in full assurance of faith,past having age, our heartsbecause she judged him faithful who had sprinkled from an evil conscience, and our bodiespromised. washed {11:12} Therefore sprang there even of one, and with pure water. {10:23} Let us hold fast the professionhim as ofgood as dead, [so many] as the stars of the sky in [our] faith without wavering;multitude, (for heand is as faithfulthe sand thatwhich is by the sea shore promised;) {10:24} And let us considerinnumerable. one another{11:13} Theseto all died in faith, not having provoke unto love and to goodreceived works: the promises, {10:25} but having Not seen them afar off, and forsaking the assembling of ourselveswere persuaded together, of as[them,] the and embraced [them,] and manner of some [is;] but exhorting [one another:]confessed that and they wereso strangers and on the earth. much the more, as ye see the day approaching. {10:26}{11:14} For For they that say such things declare plainly that if we sin wilfully after that we have received the knowledgethey seek a country. {11:15} And truly, if they had been of the truth, there remaineth no moremindful sacrifice of that [country]for sins, from whence they came out, they {10:27} But a certain fearful looking for of mightjudgment have and had opportunity to have returned. {11:16} But fiery indignation, which shallnow they devour desire athe better adversaries. [country,] that is, an heavenly: {10:28} He that despised Moses' law died whereforewithout Godmercy is not ashamed to be called their God: for he under two or three witnesses: {10:29} Of how hathmuch prepared sorer for them a city. {11:17} By faith Abraham, punishment, suppose ye, shall he be thoughtwhen worthy, he whowas tried, offered up Isaac: and he that had hath trodden under foot the Son of God, and hathreceived counted the promises offered up his only begotten [son, the blood of the covenant, wherewith he was sanctified,]{11:18} an Of whom it was said, That in Isaac shall thy seed unholy thing, and hath done despite unto the Spirit of grace?be called: {11:19} Accounting that God [was] able to raise {10:30} For we know him that[him] hath up, even said, from the dead;Vengeance from whence also he received [belongeth] unto me, I will recompense, saith the Lord. Andhim in a figure. {11:20} By faith Isaac blessed Jacob and again, The Lord shall judge his people. Esau{10:31} concerning [It is] thingsa to come. {11:21} By faith Jacob, fearful thing to fall into the handswhen heof was thea dying, living blessed God.both the sons of Joseph; and {10:32} But call to remembrance the former days, in which,worshipped, [leaning] upon the top of his staff. {11:22} By after ye were illuminated, ye enduredfaith Joseph, a whengreat he died,fight made of mention of the departing afflictions; {10:33} Partly,of the whilst children ye wereof Israel;made a and gave commandment gazingstock both by reproaches and afflictions;concerning and partly, his bones. {11:23} By faith Moses, when he was whilst ye became companions of them that born,were was so hid used. three months of his parents, because they saw {10:34} For ye had compassion of me in [hemy bonds,was] a andproper child; and they were not afraid of the took joyfully the spoiling of king'syour commandment.goods, knowing {11:24} in By faith Moses, when he yourselves that ye have in heaven a better and anwas enduring come to years, refused to be called the son of Pharaoh's substance. {10:35} Castdaughter; {11:25}not Choosingaway rather thereforeto suffer affliction with your confidence, which hath greatthe people recompence of God, than to enjoy of the pleasuresreward. of sin for a {10:36} For ye have need of patience, that,season; after ye {11:26} have Esteeming the reproach of Christ greater Page 139 Hebrews riches than the treasures in Egypt: for he had anyrespect man fail unto of the grace of God; lest any root of bitterness the recompence of the reward. {11:27} By faith he springingforsook up trouble [you,] and thereby many be defiled; Egypt, not fearing the wrath of the king: for he endured,{12:16} as Lest there [be] any fornicator, or profane person, as seeing him who is invisible. {11:28} Through faith Esau,he kept who for one morsel of meat sold his birthright. the passover, and the sprinkling{12:17} of blood, For ye knowlest howhe thatthat afterward, when he would destroyed the firstborn should touch them. {11:29} Byhave faith inherited the blessing, he was rejected: for he found no they passed through the as by dry [land:] whichplace the of repentance, though he sought it carefully with tears. Egyptians assaying to do were drowned. {11:30}{12:18} By For faith ye are not come unto the mount that might be the walls of Jericho fell down, after they weretouched, compassed and that burned with fire, nor unto blackness, and about seven days. {11:31} Bydarkness, faith and tempest,the harlot {12:19} And the sound of a trumpet, perished not with them that believed andnot, thewhen voice she hadof words; [which] voice they that heard received the spies with peace. {11:32} intreatedAnd what that shall the wordI should not be spoken to them any more say? for the time would fail me to tell of Gedeon,more: and {12:20} (For they could not endure that which was [of] Barak, and [of] , and [of] Jephthae; [of]commanded, David And if so much as a beast touch the mountain, also, and Samuel, and [of] the prophets:it shall be {11:33}stoned, or Whothrust through with a dart: {12:21} through faith subdued kingdoms, Andwrought so righteousness,terrible was the sight, [that] Moses said, I obtained promises, stopped the mouthsexceedingly of lions, fear and{11:34} quake:) {12:22} But ye are come unto Quenched the violence of fire, escapedmount the Sion, edge andof the unto the city of the living God, the sword, out of weakness were made strong, waxed valiantheavenly in Jerusalem, and to an innumerable company of fight, turned to flight the armies ofangels, the {12:23} aliens. To the{11:35} general assembly and church of the Women received their dead raised to life again: firstborn,and others which are written in heaven, and to God the Judge were tortured, not accepting deliverance;of all, that and tothey the spiritsmight of just men made perfect, {12:24} obtain a better resurrection: {11:36} And others had trialAnd of to Jesus the mediator of the , and to the [cruel] mockings and scourgings, yea, moreoverblood of sprinkling,of bonds that speaketh better things than [that of] and imprisonment: {11:37} They were stoned,Abel. {12:25} they See were that ye refuse not him that speaketh. For sawn asunder, were tempted, were slainif theywith escaped the sword: not who refused him that spake on earth, they wandered about in sheepskins andmuch goatskins;more [shall not]being we [escape,] if we turn away from destitute, afflicted, tormented; {11:38} (Of whom the himworld that [speaketh] from heaven: {12:26} Whose voice then was not worthy:) they wanderedshook the earth:in butdeserts, now he hath promised, and saying,[in] Yet once mountains, and [in] dens and caves of themore earth. I shake {11:39} not the earth only, but also heaven. {12:27} And these all, having obtained a good report throughAnd thisfaith, [word,] Yet once more, signifieth the removing of received not the promise: {11:40} Godthose thingshaving that areprovided shaken, as of things that are made, that some better thing for us, that they without us shouldthose not be things which cannot be shaken may remain. {12:28} made perfect. Wherefore we receiving a kingdom which cannot be moved, let us have grace, whereby we may serve God acceptably {12:1} Wherefore seeing we also are withcompassed reverence aboutand godly fear: {12:29} For our God [is] a with so great a cloud of witnesses, let us consuminglay aside fire.every weight, and the sin which doth so easily beset us, and let us run with patience the race that is set{13:1} before us,Let {12:2} brotherly love continue. {13:2} Be not Looking unto Jesus the author and finisherforgetful of [our] faith; to entertain strangers: for thereby some have who for the joy that was set before him endured entertainedthe cross, angels unawares. {13:3} Remember them that despising the shame, and is set down at the right hand of theare in bonds, as bound with them; [and] them which suffer throne of God. {12:3} For consider him that enduredadversity, such as being yourselves also in the body. {13:4} contradiction of sinners against himself, lest ye Marriagebe wearied [is] honourable in all, and the bed undefiled: but and faint in your minds. {12:4} Ye have whoremongersnot yet resisted and adulterers God will judge. {13:5} [Let unto blood, striving against your]sin. {12:5}conversation And ye [be] have without covetousness; [and be] forgotten the exhortation which speaketh untocontent you as with unto such things as ye have: for he hath said, I will children, My son, despise not thou the neverchastening leave thee, of thenor forsake thee. {13:6} So that we may Lord, nor faint when thou art rebuked of him:boldly {12:6} say, The For Lord [is] my helper, and I will not fear what whom the Lord loveth he chasteneth, and scourgethman shall doevery unto me. son whom he receiveth. {12:7} If ye endure chastening, God dealeth with you as with sons; for what son is he whom {13:7} Remember them which have the rule over you, the father chasteneth not? {12:8} whoBut have if spokenye be untowithout you the word of God: whose faith chastisement, whereof all follow,are consideringpartakers, the end ofthen [their] areconversation. ye {13:8} bastards, and not sons. {12:9} FurthermoreJesus Christwe have the hadsame yesterday, and to day, and for ever. fathers of our flesh which corrected{13:9} [us,] Beand notwe gavecarried about with divers and strange [them] reverence: shall we not much rather be in subjectiondoctrines. For [it is] a good thing that the heart be unto the Father of spirits, and live? {12:10} For theyestablished verily with grace; not with meats, which have not for a few days chastened [us] after their own pleasure;profited butthem that have been occupied therein. {13:10} We he for [our] profit, that [we] mighthave be an altar,partakers whereof they of have his no right to eat which serve holiness. {12:11} Now no chasteningthe tabernacle. for {13:11}the present For the bodies of those beasts, seemeth to be joyous, but grievous: neverthelesswhose afterward blood is brought into the sanctuary by the high priest it yieldeth the peaceable fruit of righteousnessfor sin, untoare burnedthem without the camp. {13:12} Wherefore which are exercised thereby. {12:12} Wherefore liftJesus up also,the that he might sanctify the people with his own hands which hang down, and the feeble knees; {12:13} Andblood, suffered without the gate. {13:13} Let us go forth make straight paths for your feet, lest that which is lametherefore be unto him without the camp, bearing his reproach. turned out of the way; but let it rather be healed.{13:14} {12:14} For here have we no continuing city, but we seek Follow peace with all [men,] and holiness, onewithout to come.which {13:15} By him therefore let us offer the no man shall see the Lord: {12:15} Looking diligentlysacrifice lest of praise to God continually, that is, the fruit of Hebrews Page 140 [our] lips giving thanks to his name. {13:16} But to do good and to communicate forget not: for with such sacrifices God is well pleased. {13:17} Obey them that have the rule over you, and submit yourselves: for they watch for your souls, as they that must give account, that they may do it with joy, and not with grief: for that [is] unprofitable for you.

{13:18} Pray for us: for we trust we have a good conscience, in all things willing to live honestly. {13:19} But I beseech [you] the rather to do this, that I may be restored to you the sooner. {13:20} Now the God of peace, that brought again from the dead our Lord Jesus, that great shepherd of the sheep, through the blood of the everlasting covenant, {13:21} Make you perfect in every good work to do his will, working in you that which is wellpleasing in his sight, through Jesus Christ; to whom [be] glory for ever and ever. Amen. {13:22} And I beseech you, brethren, suffer the word of exhortation: for I have written a letter unto you in few words. {13:23} Know ye that [our] brother Timothy is set at liberty; with whom, if he come shortly, I will see you.

{13:24} Salute all them that have the rule over you, and all the saints. They of Italy salute you. Page 141 James The General here under my footstool: {2:4} Are ye not then partial in yourselves, and are become judges of evil thoughts? {2:5} Hearken, my beloved brethren, Hath not God chosen the poor of this world rich in faith, and heirs of the kingdom {1:1} James, a servant of God and whichof thehe hath Lord promised Jesus to them that love him? {2:6} But ye Christ, to the twelve tribes whichhave are despised scattered the poor. abroad, Do not rich men oppress you, and greeting. draw you before the judgment seats? {2:7} Do not they blaspheme that worthy name by the which ye are called? {1:2} My brethren, count it all joy when ye fall into divers{2:8} If ye fulfil the royal law according to the scripture, temptations; {1:3} Knowing [this,] that the Thoutrying shalt of love your thy neighbour as thyself, ye do well: {2:9} faith worketh patience. {1:4} But let patienceBut if ye havehave respect[her] to persons, ye commit sin, and are perfect work, that ye may be perfect andconvinced entire, wanting of the law as transgressors. {2:10} For nothing. {1:5} If any of you lack wisdom, letwhosoever him ask shall of keep the whole law, and yet offend in one God, that giveth to all [men] liberally, and upbraideth[point,] henot; is guilty of all. {2:11} For he that said, Do not and it shall be given him. {1:6} But let himcommit ask adultery,in faith, said also, Do not kill. Now if thou commit nothing wavering. For he that wavereth is like a wave of theno adultery, yet if thou kill, thou art become a transgressor sea driven with the wind and tossed. {1:7} For letof thenot law. that {2:12} So speak ye, and so do, as they that shall man think that he shall receive any thing of the Lord. be{1:8} judged by the law of liberty. {2:13} For he shall have A double minded man [is] unstable in all hisjudgment ways. {1:9} without mercy, that hath shewed no mercy; and Let the brother of low degree rejoice in that hemercy is exalted: rejoiceth against judgment. {2:14} What [doth it] {1:10} But the rich, in that he is made low: becauseprofit, as the my brethren, though a man say he hath faith, and flower of the grass he shall pass away. {1:11} For the sun haveis not works? can faith save him? {2:15} If a brother or no sooner risen with a burning heat, butsister it bewithereth naked, and thedestitute of daily food, {2:16} And one grass, and the flower thereof falleth, and theof you grace say ofunto the them, Depart in peace, be ye warmed and fashion of it perisheth: so also shall the rich man fade filled;away notwithstanding ye give them not those things which in his ways. {1:12} Blessed [is] theare needfulman thatto the endurethbody; what [doth it] profit? {2:17} Even temptation: for when he is tried, he shall receive theso crownfaith, if it hath not works, is dead, being alone. {2:18} of life, which the Lord hath promised to them that love him.Yea, a man may say, Thou hast faith, and I have works: {1:13} Let no man say when he is tempted, I am tempted ofshew me thy faith without thy works, and I will shew thee God: for God cannot be tempted with evil, neither temptethmy faith by my works. {2:19} Thou believest that there is he any man: {1:14} But every man is tempted, whenone heGod; is thou doest well: the devils also believe, and drawn away of his own lust, and enticed. {1:15} Then whentremble. {2:20} But wilt thou know, O vain man, that faith lust hath conceived, it bringeth forth sin: and sin, whenwithout it is works is dead? {2:21} Was not Abraham our father finished, bringeth forth death.justified {1:16} by works, Do when not he haderr, offered my Isaac his son upon beloved brethren. {1:17} Every good gift and everythe perfect altar? {2:22} Seest thou how faith wrought with his gift is from above, and cometh down fromworks, the andFather by worksof was faith made perfect? {2:23} And lights, with whom is no variableness,the neither scripture shadow was fulfilledof which saith, Abraham believed turning. {1:18} Of his own will begat he us withGod, the andword it was imputed unto him for righteousness: and he of truth, that we should be a kindwas ofcalled firstfruits the Friend of God.of his{2:24} Ye see then how that creatures. by works a man is justified, and not by faith only. {2:25} Likewise also was not Rahab the harlot justified by works, {1:19} Wherefore, my beloved brethren, let every manwhen be she had received the messengers, and had sent [them] swift to hear, slow to speak, slow to wrath: {1:20}out For another the way? {2:26} For as the body without the spirit wrath of man worketh not the righteousness of God. {1:21}is dead, so faith without works is dead also. Wherefore lay apart all filthiness and superfluity of naughtiness, and receive with meekness the engrafted word,{3:1} My brethren, be not many masters, knowing that we which is able to save your souls. {1:22} But be ye doersshall of receive the greater condemnation. {3:2} For in many the word, and not hearers only, deceiving your ownthings selves. we offend all. If any man offend not in word, the {1:23} For if any be a hearer of the word, and not a doer, hesame [is] a perfect man, [and] able also to bridle the whole is like unto a man beholding his naturalbody. face {3:3} in Behold,a glass: we put bits in the horses' mouths, that {1:24} For he beholdeth himself, and goeththey his mayway, obey and us; and we turn about their whole body. straightway forgetteth what manner of man he was.{3:4} {1:25} Behold also the ships, which though [they be] so But whoso looketh into the perfectgreat, law and of [are] liberty, driven of andfierce winds, yet are they turned continueth [therein,] he being not a forgetfulabout hearer, with but a avery small helm, whithersoever the governor doer of the work, this man shall be blessedlisteth. in {3:5}his deed. Even so the tongue is a little member, and {1:26} If any man among you seem to beboasteth religious, great things. and Behold, how great a matter a little fire bridleth not his tongue, but deceiveth hiskindleth! own heart, {3:6} this And the tongue [is] a fire, a world of man's religion [is] vain. {1:27} Pure religion and undefilediniquity: so is the tongue among our members, that it before God and the Father is this, To visit the fatherless defilethand the whole body, and setteth on fire the course of widows in their affliction, [and] to keep himselfnature; unspotted and it is set on fire of hell. {3:7} For every kind of from the world. beasts, and of birds, and of serpents, and of things in the sea, is tamed, and hath been tamed of mankind: {3:8} But {2:1} My brethren, have not the faith of ourthe Lord tongue Jesus can no man tame; [it is] an unruly evil, full of Christ, [the Lord] of glory, with respect of deadlypersons. poison.{2:2} {3:9} Therewith bless we God, even the For if there come unto your assembly a manFather; with anda gold therewith curse we men, which are made after ring, in goodly apparel, and there come in also a poorthe mansimilitude of God. {3:10} Out of the same mouth in vile raiment; {2:3} And ye have proceedethrespect toblessing him andthat cursing. My brethren, these things weareth the gay clothing, and say unto him, Sit thou hereought in not so to be. {3:11} Doth a fountain send forth at the a good place; and say to the poor, Stand thou samethere, placeor sit sweet [water] and bitter? {3:12} Can the fig James Page 142 tree, my brethren, bear olive berries? either a vine,fruit figs? soof the earth, and hath long patience for it, until he [can] no fountain both yield salt water receiveand fresh. the early{3:13} and latter rain. {5:8} Be ye also patient; Who [is] a wise man and endued with knowledgestablish among your hearts: for the coming of the Lord draweth you? let him shew out of a good conversationnigh. {5:9}his works Grudge not one against another, brethren, lest with meekness of wisdom. {3:14} Butye ifbe ye condemned: have bitter behold, the judge standeth before the envying and strife in your hearts, glorydoor. not, {5:10} and lieTake, not my brethren, the prophets, who have against the truth. {3:15} This wisdom descendethspoken not from in the name of the Lord, for an example of suffering above, but [is] earthly, sensual, devilish. {3:16}affliction, For where and of patience. {5:11} Behold, we count them envying and strife [is,] there [is] confusion happyand every which evil endure. Ye have heard of the patience of , work. {3:17} But the wisdom that is fromand abovehave seen is firstthe end of the Lord; that the Lord is very pure, then peaceable, gentle, [and] easy to be intreated,pitiful, full and of tender mercy. {5:12} But above all things, of mercy and good fruits, without partiality,my brethren, and withoutswear not, neither by heaven, neither by the hypocrisy. {3:18} And the fruit of righteousness is sownearth, neitherin by any other oath: but let your yea be yea; and peace of them that make peace. [your] nay, nay; lest ye fall into condemnation. {5:13} Is any among you afflicted? let him pray. Is any merry? let {4:1} From whence [come] wars andhim fightingssing psalms. {5:14} among Is any sick among you? let him call you? [come they] not hence, [even] of your lusts that warfor in the elders of the church; and let them pray over him, your members? {4:2} Ye lust, and have not: ye kill,him with and oil in the name of the Lord: {5:15} And desire to have, and cannot obtain: ye fight and war,the prayeryet ye of faith shall save the sick, and the Lord shall have not, because ye ask not. {4:3} Ye ask, and receive not,raise him up; and if he have committed sins, they shall be because ye ask amiss, that ye may consume [it] forgivenupon your him. {5:16} Confess [your] faults one to another, lusts. {4:4} Ye adulterers and adulteresses, know ye not thatand pray one for another, that ye may be healed. The the friendship of the world is enmity with God? whosoevereffectual fervent prayer of a righteous man availeth much. therefore will be a friend of the world is the enemy of {5:17}God. Elias was a man subject to like passions as we are, {4:5} Do ye think that the scripture saith in vain, Theand spirit he prayed earnestly that it might not rain: and it rained that dwelleth in us lusteth to envy? {4:6}not on Butthe earth he bygiveth the space of three years and six months. more grace. Wherefore he saith, God resisteth the proud, but{5:18} And he prayed again, and the heaven gave rain, and giveth grace unto the humble. {4:7}the earth Submit brought yourselvesforth her fruit. {5:19} Brethren, if any of therefore to God. Resist the devil, and he will flee from you.you do err from the truth, and one convert him; {5:20} Let {4:8} Draw nigh to God, and he will drawhim nighknow, to thatyou. he which converteth the sinner from the Cleanse [your] hands, [ye] sinners; and purify [your] hearts,error of his way shall save a soul from death, and shall hide [ye] double minded. {4:9} Be afflicted,a multitude and ofmourn, sins. and weep: let your laughter be turned to mourning, and [your] joy to heaviness. {4:10} Humble yourselves in the sight of the Lord, and he shall lift you up. {4:11} Speak not evil one of another, brethren. He that speaketh evil of [his] brother, and judgeth his brother, speaketh evil of the law, and judgeth the law: but if thou judge the law, thou art not a doer of the law, but a judge. {4:12} There is one lawgiver, who is able to save and to destroy: who art thou that judgest another?

{4:13} Go to now, ye that say, To day or to morrow we will go into such a city, and continue there a year, and buy and sell, and get gain: {4:14} Whereas ye know not what [shall be] on the morrow. For what [is] your life? It is even a vapour, that appeareth for a little time, and then vanisheth away. {4:15} For that ye [ought] to say, If the Lord will, we shall live, and do this, or that. {4:16} But now ye rejoice in your boastings: all such rejoicing is evil. {4:17} Therefore to him that knoweth to do good, and doeth [it] not, to him it is sin.

{5:1} Go to now, [ye] rich men, weep and for your miseries that shall come upon [you. ]{5:2} Your riches are corrupted, and your garments are motheaten. {5:3} Your gold and silver is cankered; and the rust of them shall be a witness against you, and shall eat your flesh as it were fire. Ye have heaped treasure together for the last days. {5:4} Behold, the hire of the labourers who have reaped down your fields, which is of you kept back by fraud, crieth: and the cries of them which have reaped are entered into the ears of the Lord of sabaoth. {5:5} Ye have lived in pleasure on the earth, and been wanton; ye have nourished your hearts, as in a day of slaughter. {5:6} Ye have condemned [and] killed the just; [and] he doth not resist you.

{5:7} Be patient therefore, brethren, unto the coming of the Lord. Behold, the husbandman waiteth for the precious Page 143 1 Peter The First Epistle General of Peter , and envies, and all evil speakings, {2:2} As newborn babes, desire the sincere milk of the word, that ye may grow thereby: {2:3} If so be ye have tasted that the Lord [is] gracious. {2:4} To whom coming, [as unto] a {1:1} Peter, an apostle of Jesus Christ,living to the stone, strangers disallowed indeed of men, but chosen of God, scattered throughout Pontus, Galatia, Cappadocia, Asia,[and] and precious, {2:5} Ye also, as lively stones, are built up a Bithynia, {1:2} Elect according to thespiritual foreknowledge house, anof holy priesthood, to offer up spiritual God the Father, through sanctification sacrifices,of the Spirit, unto acceptable to God by Jesus Christ. {2:6} obedience and sprinkling of the blood of Jesus Christ: GraceWherefore also it is contained in the scripture, Behold, I lay unto you, and peace, be multiplied. in Sion a chief corner stone, elect, precious: and he that believeth on him shall not be confounded. {2:7} Unto you {1:3} Blessed [be] the God and Father of our Lordtherefore Jesus which believe [he is] precious: but unto them Christ, which according towhich his abundantbe disobedient, mercy hath the stone which the builders begotten us again unto a lively hope by the resurrectiondisallowed, of the same is made the head of the corner, {2:8} Jesus Christ from the dead, And{1:4} a stone Toof stumbling, an inheritance and a rock of offence, [even to incorruptible, and undefiled, andthem] that whichfadeth stumblenot away, at the word, being disobedient: reserved in heaven for you, {1:5} Whowhereunto are kept also by they the were appointed. {2:9} But ye [are] a power of God through faith unto salvationchosen generation, ready to abe royal priesthood, an holy nation, a revealed in the last time. {1:6} Wherein ye greatlypeculiar rejoice, people; that ye should shew forth the praises of him though now for a season, if need be, ye arewho in hath heaviness called you out of darkness into his marvellous through manifold temptations: {1:7} That the light:trial of{2:10} your Which in time past [were] not a people, but faith, being much more precious than of gold that perisheth,[are] now the people of God: which had not obtained mercy, though it be tried with fire, might be found unto praisebut now and have obtained mercy. honour and glory at the appearing of Jesus Christ: {1:8} Whom having not seen, ye love; in whom, though{2:11} now ye Dearly beloved, I beseech [you] as strangers and see [him] not, yet believing, ye rejoice with joy unspeakablepilgrims, abstain from fleshly lusts, which war against the and full of glory: {1:9} Receiving the endsoul; of {2:12}your faith, Having your conversation honest among the [even] the salvation of [your] Gentiles:souls. that, {1:10} whereas theyOf speakwhich against you as evildoers, salvation the prophetsthey have may by [your]enquired good works, whichand theysearched shall behold, diligently, who prophesied of the grace [that shouldglorify come] God in the day of visitation. unto you: {1:11} Searching what, or what manner of time the Spirit of Christ which was in them did signify, {2:13}when it Submit yourselves to every ordinance of man for testified beforehand the sufferings of Christ, theand theLord's glory sake: whether it be to the king, as supreme; that should follow. {1:12} Unto whom it was revealed,{2:14} that Or unto governors, as unto them that are sent by him not unto themselves, but unto us forthey the punishmentdid minister of evildoers, the and for the praise of them things, which are now reported unto you by them thatthat have do well. {2:15} For so is the will of God, that with well preached the gospel unto you with thedoing Holy ye mayGhost put tosent silence the ignorance of foolish men: down from heaven; which things the angels desire{2:16} to Aslook free, and not using [your] liberty for a cloke of into. {1:13} Wherefore gird up the loins of yourmaliciousness, mind, be but as the servants of God. {2:17} Honour sober, and hope to the end for the grace that is to be broughtall [men.] Love the brotherhood. Fear God. Honour the unto you at the revelation of Jesusking. {2:18} Christ; Servants, {1:14} [be] subjectAs to [your] masters with obedient children, not fashioning yourselvesall fear; according not only toto the good and gentle, but also to the the former lusts in your ignorance: {1:15} But as hefroward. which {2:19} For this [is] thankworthy, if a man for hath called you is holy, so be ye holyconscience in all manner toward Godof endure grief, suffering wrongfully. conversation; {1:16} Because it is written, Be ye holy; {2:20}for I For what glory [is it,] if, when ye be buffeted for am holy. {1:17} And if ye call on the Father, whoyour without faults, ye shall take it patiently? but if, when ye do respect of persons judgeth according to every man'swell, work, and suffer [for it,] ye take it patiently, this [is] pass the time of your sojourning [here]acceptable in fear:with {1:18}God. {2:21} For even hereunto were ye Forasmuch as ye know that ye were notcalled: redeemed because withChrist also suffered for us, leaving us an corruptible things, [as] silver andexample, gold, thatfrom ye shouldyour followvain his steps: {2:22} Who did conversation [received] by traditionno sin, neither from was guileyour found fathers; in his mouth: {2:23} Who, {1:19} But with the precious blood of Christ, as whenof a lamb he was reviled, reviled not again; when he suffered, without blemish and without spot: {1:20} Whohe verily threatened was not; but committed [himself] to him that foreordained before the foundation of thejudgeth world, righteously: but was {2:24} Who his own self bare our sins manifest in these last times for you, {1:21} Who by himin dohis own body on the tree, that we, being dead to sins, believe in God, that raised him up from the dead, andshould gave live unto righteousness: by whose stripes ye were him glory; that your faith and hope might be in God. {1:22}healed. {2:25} For ye were as sheep going astray; but are Seeing ye have purified your souls innow obeying returned untothe thetruth Shepherd and Bishop of your souls. through the Spirit unto unfeigned love of the brethren, [see that ye] love one another with a pure heart fervently: {1:23}{3:1} Likewise, ye wives, [be] in subjection to your own Being born again, not ofhusbands; corruptible that, if any obeyseed, not the butword, ofthey also may incorruptible, by the word of God, which liveth and abidethwithout the word be won by the conversation of the wives; for ever. {1:24} For all flesh [is] as grass, and all the{3:2} glory While they behold your chaste conversation [coupled] of man as the flower of grass. The grass withereth,with and thefear. {3:3} Whose adorning let it not be that outward flower thereof falleth away: {1:25} But[adorning] the wordof plaiting of thethe hair, and of wearing of gold, or of Lord endureth for ever. And this is the word whichputting by theon of apparel; {3:4} But [let it be] the hidden man gospel is preached unto you. of the heart, in that which is not corruptible, [even the ornament] of a meek and quiet spirit, which is in the sight of {2:1} Wherefore laying aside all malice, and all guile, andGod of great price. {3:5} For after this manner in the old 1 Peter Page 144 time the holy women also, who trustedas in good God, stewards adorned of the manifold grace of God. {4:11} If themselves, being in subjection unto theirany manown speak, husbands: [let him speak] as the oracles of God; if any {3:6} Even as Sarah obeyed Abraham, mancalling minister, him [letlord: him do it] as of the ability which God whose daughters ye are, as long as ye do well, andgiveth: are notthat God in all things may be glorified through Jesus afraid with any amazement. {3:7} Likewise,Christ, ye husbands, to whom be praise and dominion for ever and ever. dwell with [them] according to knowledge,Amen. giving honour unto the wife, as unto the weaker vessel, and as being heirs together of the grace of life; that{4:12} your Beloved, prayers think beit not not strange concerning the fiery hindered. {3:8} Finally, [be ye] all oftrial one whichmind, havingis to try you, as though some strange thing compassion one of another, love as brethren,happened [be] unto pitiful, you: {4:13} But rejoice, inasmuch as ye are [be] courteous: {3:9} Not rendering evil for evil,partakers or railing of Christ's sufferings; that, when his glory shall be for railing: but contrariwise blessing; knowingrevealed, that ye yemay are be glad also with exceeding joy. {4:14} If thereunto called, that ye should inherit a yeblessing. be reproached {3:10} for the name of Christ, happy [are ye;] for For he that will love life, and see good days, let him refrainthe spirit of glory and of God resteth upon you: on their part his tongue from evil, and his lips that they speakhe no is evilguile: spoken of, but on your part he is glorified. {4:15} {3:11} Let him eschew evil, and do good;But let letnone himof you seek suffer as a murderer, or [as] a thief, or peace, and ensue it. {3:12} For the eyes of the[as] Lord an evildoer,[are] or as a busybody in other men's matters. over the righteous, and his ears{4:16} [are Yet if [anyopen] man suffer] unto as a Christian,their let him not be prayers: but the face of the Lord [is] against ashamed;them that but dolet him glorify God on this behalf. {4:17} For evil. the time [is come] that judgment must begin at the house of God: and if [it] first [begin] at us, what shall the end [be] of {3:13} And who [is] he that will harmthem thatyou, obey if notye thebe gospel of God? {4:18} And if the followers of that which is good? {3:14} But and if ye sufferrighteous scarcely be saved, where shall the ungodly and the for righteousness' sake, happy [are ye:] and be not afraidsinner of appear? {4:19} Wherefore let them that suffer their terror, neither be troubled; {3:15}according But tosanctify the will theof God commit the keeping of their Lord God in your hearts: and [be] ready always to [give]souls an [to him] in well doing, as unto a faithful Creator. answer to every man that asketh you a reason of the hope that is in you with meekness and fear: {5:1}{3:16} The Havingelders which a are among you I exhort, who am good conscience; that, whereas they speak evil of you, asalso of an elder, and a witness of the sufferings of Christ, and evildoers, they may be ashamed that falselyalso a partakeraccuse your of the glory that shall be revealed: {5:2} good conversation in Christ. {3:17} For [it is] better,Feed if thethe flock of God which is among you, taking the will of God be so, that ye suffer for well doing, than for eviloversight [thereof,] not by constraint, but willingly; not for doing. {3:18} For Christ also hath once sufferedfilthy lucre,for sins, but of a ready mind; {5:3} Neither as being the just for the unjust, that he might bring us to God,lords being over [God's] heritage, but being ensamples to the put to death in the flesh, but quickened by the Spirit: {3:19}flock. {5:4} And when the chief Shepherd shall appear, ye By which also he went and preached untoshall receivethe spirits a crown in of glory that fadeth not away. {5:5} prison; {3:20} Which sometime wereLikewise, disobedient, ye younger, when submit yourselves unto the elder. once the longsuffering of God waited in the daysYea, of Noah, all [of you] be subject one to another, and be clothed while the ark was a preparing, wherein few,with that humility: is, eight for God resisteth the proud, and giveth grace souls were saved by water.to the humble.{3:21} The like figure whereunto [even] baptism doth also now save us (not the putting away of the filth of the flesh, but the{5:6} answer Humble of yourselvesa therefore under the mighty hand good conscience toward God,) by the resurrectionof God, of Jesusthat he may exalt you in due time: {5:7} Casting all Christ: {3:22} Who is gone into heaven, and is on theyour right care upon him; for he careth for you. {5:8} Be sober, hand of God; angels and authorities and powers being madebe vigilant; because your adversary the devil, as a roaring subject unto him. lion, walketh about, seeking whom he may devour: {5:9} Whom resist stedfast in the faith, knowing that the same {4:1} Forasmuch then as Christ hath suffered for us in afflictionsthe are accomplished in your brethren that are in the flesh, arm yourselves likewise with the same world.mind: {5:10}for he But the God of all grace, who hath called us that hath suffered in the flesh hath ceased fromunto sin; his {4:2} eternal glory by Christ Jesus, after that ye have That he no longer should live the rest of [his]suffered time in thea while, make you perfect, stablish, strengthen, flesh to the lusts of men, but to the will of God. {4:3}settle For [you. ]{5:11} To him [be] glory and dominion for the time past of [our] life may suffice us to haveever wroughtand ever. Amen. the will of the Gentiles, when we walked in lasciviousness, lusts, excess of wine,{5:12} revellings, By Silvanus, a banquetings,faithful brother unto and you, as I abominable idolatries: {4:4} Wherein they thinksuppose, it strange I have written briefly, exhorting, and testifying that ye run not with [them] to the samethat this excess is the trueof graceriot, of God wherein ye stand. {5:13} speaking evil of [you: ]{4:5} Who shall give account to himThe [church that is] at Babylon, elected together with [you,] that is ready to judge the quick and the dead. {4:6} salutethFor for you; and [so doth] Marcus my son. {5:14} Greet ye this cause was the gospel preached also oneto anotherthem that with are a kiss of charity. Peace [be] with you all dead, that they might be judged accordingthat to are men in Christ in the Jesus. Amen. flesh, but live according to God in the spirit.

{4:7} But the end of all things is at hand: be ye therefore sober, and watch unto prayer. {4:8} And above all things have fervent charity among yourselves: for charity shall cover the multitude of sins. {4:9} Use hospitality one to another without grudging. {4:10} As every man hath received the gift, [even so] minister the same one to another, Page 145 2 Peter The Second Epistle General of Peter [person,] a preacher of righteousness, bringing in the flood upon the world of the ungodly; {2:6} And turning the cities of into ashes condemned [them] with an overthrow, making [them] an ensample unto those that {1:1} Simon Peter, a servant and afteran apostle should oflive Jesus ungodly; {2:7} And delivered just Lot, Christ, to them that have obtained like precious faith with usvexed with the filthy conversation of the wicked: {2:8} (For through the righteousness of God andthat our righteousSaviour Jesus man dwelling among them, in seeing and Christ: {1:2} Grace and peace behearing, multiplied vexed [his] unto righteous you soul from day to day with through the knowledge of God, and of Jesus our Lord, {1:3}[their] unlawful deeds;) {2:9} The Lord knoweth how to According as his divine power hath given unto us all thingsdeliver the godly out of temptations, and to reserve the that [pertain] unto lifeunjust untoand the daygodliness, of judgment to be punished: through {2:10} But the knowledge of him that hath called us to glorychiefly and virtue: them that walk after the flesh in the lust of {1:4} Whereby are given unto usuncleanness, exceeding andgreat despise and government. Presumptuous [are precious promises: that by these ye might they,]be partakers selfwilled, of they are not afraid to speak evil of the divine nature, having escaped the corruptiondignities. that is in {2:11} Whereas angels, which are greater in the world through lust. {1:5} And besidepower this, and givingmight, bringall not railing accusation against them diligence, add to your faith virtue; and to virtue knowledge;before the Lord. {2:12} But these, as natural brute beasts, {1:6} And to knowledge temperance; madeand toto be takentemperance and destroyed, speak evil of the things that patience; and to patience godliness; {1:7} And to godlinessthey understand not; and shall utterly perish in their own brotherly kindness; and to brotherly kindness charity.corruption; {1:8} {2:13} And shall receive the reward of For if these things be in you, and abound, they unrighteousness,make [you [as] they that count it pleasure to riot in the that ye shall] neither [be] barrendaytime. nor unfruitful Spots in the [they are] and blemishes, sporting knowledge of our Lord Jesus Christ.themselves {1:9} withBut their he own that deceivings while they feast with lacketh these things is blind, and cannot seeyou; afar {2:14} off, andHaving eyes full of adultery, and that cannot hath forgotten that he was purged from his old sins.cease {1:10} from sin; beguiling unstable souls: an heart they have Wherefore the rather, brethren, give diligence to makeexercised your with covetous practices; cursed children: {2:15} calling and election sure: for if ye do these things,Which ye shall have forsaken the right way, and are gone astray, never fall: {1:11} For so an entrance shallfollowing be ministeredthe way of [the son] of Bosor, who loved unto you abundantly into the everlastingthe kingdom wages of ofunrighteousness; our {2:16} But was rebuked for Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ. his iniquity: the dumb ass speaking with man's voice forbad the madness of the prophet. {2:17} These are wells without {1:12} Wherefore I will not be water,negligent clouds thatto areput carried you with a tempest; to whom the always in remembrance of these things,mist though of darkness ye isknow reserved for ever. {2:18} For when they [them,] and be established in the present truth. {1:13} Yea, Ispeak great swelling [words] of vanity, they allure through think it meet, as long as I am in this tabernacle, tothe stir lusts you of the flesh, [through much] wantonness, those that up by putting [you] in remembrance; {1:14} Knowingwere thatclean escaped from them who live in error. {2:19} shortly I must put off [this] my tabernacle, even as our LordWhile they promise them liberty, they themselves are the Jesus Christ hath shewed me. {1:15}servants of Moreovercorruption: for Iof willwhom a man is overcome, of endeavour that ye may be able after my thedecease same is to he havebrought in bondage. {2:20} For if after they these things always in remembrance. {1:16}have For weescaped have the pollutions of the world through the not followed cunningly devised knowledgefables, ofwhen the Lordwe andmade Saviour Jesus Christ, they are known unto you the power and coming of ouragain Lord Jesusentangled therein, and overcome, the latter end is Christ, but were eyewitnesses of his majesty. {1:17} Forworse he with them than the beginning. {2:21} For it had been received from God the Father honour and glory, when betterthere for them not to have known the way of righteousness, came such a voice to him from the excellent glory,than, This isafter they have known [it,] to turn from the holy my beloved Son, in whom I am well pleased. commandment{1:18} And delivered unto them. {2:22} But it is this voice which came from heaven wehappened heard, unto when them weaccording to the true proverb, The dog were with him in the holy mount. {1:19} We[is] have turned also ato his own vomit again; and the sow that was more sure word of prophecy; whereunto ye do wellwashed that ye to her wallowing in the mire. take heed, as unto a light that shineth in a dark place, until the day dawn, and the day star arise in your hearts:{3:1} {1:20} This second epistle, beloved, I now write unto you; Knowing this first, that no prophecy of the inscripture [both] is ofwhich I stir up your pure minds by way of any private interpretation. {1:21} For theremembrance: prophecy {3:2} came That ye may be mindful of the words not in old time by the will of man: but holywhich men wereof God spoken before by the holy prophets, and of the spake [as they were] moved by the Holy Ghost.commandment of us the apostles of the Lord and Saviour: {3:3} Knowing this first, that there shall come in the last {2:1} But there were false prophetsdays scoffers, also amongwalking the after their own lusts, {3:4} And people, even as there shall be false teacherssaying, Whereamong is you, the promise of his coming? for since the who privily shall bring in damnable heresies, evenfathers denying fell asleep, all things continue as [they were] from the Lord that bought them, and bring upon themselves swiftthe beginning of the creation. {3:5} For this they willingly destruction. {2:2} And many shall follow aretheir ignorant pernicious of, that by the word of God the heavens were of ways; by reason of whom the way of truthold, andshall the earth be standingevil out of the water and in the water: spoken of. {2:3} And through covetousness shall they{3:6} with Whereby the world that then was, being overflowed feigned words make merchandise of you: whosewith judgment water, perished: {3:7} But the heavens and the earth, now of a long time lingereth not,which and are now,their by thedamnation same word are kept in store, reserved slumbereth not. {2:4} For if God spared not the angelsunto that fire against the day of judgment and perdition of sinned, but cast [them] down to hell, and deliveredungodly [them] men. {3:8} But, beloved, be not ignorant of this into chains of darkness, to be reserved unto judgment; {2:5}one thing, that one day [is] with the Lord as a thousand And spared not the old world, but saved Noahyears, the and eighth a thousand years as one day. {3:9} The Lord is 2 Peter Page 146 not slack concerning his promise, as some men count slackness; but is longsuffering to us-ward, not willing that any should perish, but that all should come to repentance. {3:10} But the day of the Lord will come as a thief in the night; in the which the heavens shall pass away with a great noise, and the elements shall melt with fervent heat, the earth also and the works that are therein shall be burned up. {3:11} [Seeing] then [that] all these things shall be dissolved, what manner [of persons] ought ye to be in [all] holy conversation and godliness, {3:12} Looking for and hasting unto the coming of the day of God, wherein the heavens being on fire shall be dissolved, and the elements shall melt with fervent heat? {3:13} Nevertheless we, according to his promise, look for new heavens and a , wherein dwelleth righteousness. {3:14} Wherefore, beloved, seeing that ye look for such things, be diligent that ye may be found of him in peace, without spot, and blameless. {3:15} And account [that] the longsuffering of our Lord [is] salvation; even as our beloved brother Paul also according to the wisdom given unto him hath written unto you; {3:16} As also in all [his] epistles, speaking in them of these things; in which are some things hard to be understood, which they that are unlearned and unstable wrest, as [they do] also the other scriptures, unto their own destruction. {3:17} Ye therefore, beloved, seeing ye know [these things] before, beware lest ye also, being led away with the error of the wicked, fall from your own stedfastness. {3:18} But grow in grace, and [in] the knowledge of our Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ. To him [be] glory both now and for ever. Amen. Page 147 1 John The First Epistle General of John thereof: but he that doeth the will of God abideth for ever.

{2:18} Little children, it is the last time: and as ye have heard that shall come, even now are there many {1:1} That which was from the beginning, which we haveantichrists; whereby we know that it is the last time. {2:19} heard, which we have seen with our eyes, whichThey wewent have out from us, but they were not of us; for if they looked upon, and our hands have handled, of thehad Wordbeen ofof us, they would [no doubt] have continued with life; {1:2} (For the life was manifested, and weus: have but seen[they went out,] that they might be made manifest [it,] and bear witness, and shew unto you thatthat eternal they werelife, not all of us. {2:20} But ye have an unction which was with the Father, and was manifestedfrom the unto Holy us;) One, and ye know all things. {2:21} I have {1:3} That which we have seen and heard declarenot we untowritten unto you because ye know not the truth, but you, that ye also may have fellowship with us: and truly ourbecause ye know it, and that no lie is of the truth. {2:22} fellowship [is] with the Father, andWho with is a liar his but heSon that deniethJesus that Jesus is the Christ? He Christ. {1:4} And these things write we unto you, thatis your antichrist, that denieth the Father and the Son. {2:23} joy may be full. Whosoever denieth the Son, the same hath not the Father: [(but) he that acknowledgeth the Son hath the Father also. {1:5} This then is which we have]{2:24} heard Let that of therefore abide in you, which ye have heard him, and declare unto you, that God is light, andfrom in him the is beginning. If that which ye have heard from the no darkness at all. {1:6} If we say that we have fellowshipbeginning shall remain in you, ye also shall continue in the with him, and walk in darkness, we lie, and do not the truth:Son, and in the Father. {2:25} And this is the promise that {1:7} But if we walk in the light, as he is in thehe light, hath we promised us, [even] eternal life. {2:26} These have fellowship one with another, and the[things] blood of Jesushave I written unto you concerning them that Christ his Son cleanseth us from all sin. {1:8} If we say thatseduce you. {2:27} But the anointing which ye have we have no sin, we deceive ourselves, and the truth is not receivedin of him abideth in you, and ye need not that any us. {1:9} If we confess our sins, he is faithfulman andteach justyou: butto as the same anointing teacheth you of all forgive us [our] sins, andthings, andto is truth,cleanse and is no lie, andus even from as it hath taughtall unrighteousness. {1:10} If we say that we have notyou, sinned, ye shall abide in him. {2:28} And now, little children, we make him a liar, and his word is not in us. abide in him; that, when he shall appear, we may have confidence, and not be ashamed before him at his coming. {2:1} My little children, these things write I unto you, that{2:29} If ye know that he is righteous, ye know that every ye sin not. And if any man sin, we have an advocateone that with doeth righteousness is born of him. the Father, Jesus Christ the righteous: {2:2} And he is the propitiation for our sins: and not for ours only, but also{3:1} for Behold, what manner of love the Father hath [the sins of] the whole world. {2:3} bestowedAnd hereby upon us, thatwe wedo should be called the sons of God: know that we know him, if we keep his commandments.therefore the world knoweth us not, because it knew him {2:4} He that saith, I know him,not. and {3:2} Beloved,keepeth now arenot we thehis sons of God, and it doth commandments, is a liar, and the truth is not in him.not yet{2:5} appear what we shall be: but we know that, when he But whoso keepeth his word, in him verily shallis theappear, love we shallof be like him; for we shall see him as he God perfected: hereby know we that we are inis. him. {3:3} {2:6} And every man that hath this hope in him purifieth He that saith he abideth in him ought himselfhimself, also even so as to he is pure. {3:4} Whosoever committeth walk, even as he walked. sin transgresseth also the law: for sin is the transgression of the law. {3:5} And ye know that he was manifested to take {2:7} Brethren, I write no new commandmentaway unto you,our sins; and in him is no sin. {3:6} Whosoever but an old commandment which ye had from the beginning.abideth in him sinneth not: whosoever sinneth hath not seen The old commandment is the word whichhim, ye neitherhave heard known him. {3:7} Little children, let no man from the beginning. {2:8} Again, a new deceivecommandment you: he thatI doeth righteousness is righteous, even write unto you, which thing is true asin hehim is righteous.and in you: {3:8} He that committeth sin is of the because the darkness is past, and the true light now shineth.devil; for the devil sinneth from the beginning. For this {2:9} He that saith he is in the light, and hateth his brother,purpose the Son of God was manifested, that he might is in darkness even until now. {2:10} Hedestroy that the loveth works ofhis the devil. {3:9} Whosoever is born of brother abideth in the light, and there is noneGod occasiondoth not commit of sin; for his seed remaineth in him: and stumbling in him. {2:11} But he that hateth his brother ishe in cannot sin, because he is born of God. {3:10} In this the darkness, and walketh in darkness, and knoweth not whitherchildren of God are manifest, and the children of the devil: he goeth, because that darkness whosoeverhath blindeddoeth not righteousness his eyes. is not of God, neither he {2:12} I write unto you, little children, becausethat loveth your notsins his brother. {3:11} For this is the message are forgiven you for his name's sake. {2:13}that I writeye heard unto from the beginning, that we should love one you, fathers, because ye have known him [that is] fromanother. the {3:12} Not as Cain, [who] was of that wicked one, beginning. I write unto you, young men, becauseand slew ye his have brother. And wherefore slew he him? Because overcome the wicked one. I write unto you, littlehis children,own works were evil, and his brother's righteous. because ye have known the Father. {2:14} I have written unto you, fathers, because ye have known him [that is] from{3:13} Marvel not, my brethren, if the world hate you. the beginning. I have written unto you, young men, because{3:14} We know that we have passed from death unto life, ye are strong, and the word of God abideth in you,because and ye we love the brethren. He that loveth not [his] have overcome the wicked one. {2:15} Love not the world,brother abideth in death. {3:15} Whosoever hateth his neither the things [that are] in the world. If any man love thebrother is a murderer: and ye know that no murderer hath world, the love of the Father is not in him. {2:16}eternal For life all abiding in him. {3:16} Hereby perceive we the that [is] in the world, the lust of the flesh, and the lust of thelove [of God,] because he laid down his life for us: and we eyes, and the pride of life, is not of the Father, but is oughtof the to lay down [our] lives for the brethren. {3:17} But world. {2:17} And the world passeth away,whoso andhath thethis lust world's good, and seeth his brother have 1 John Page 148 need, and shutteth up his bowels [of compassion] from him,grievous. {5:4} For whatsoever is born of God overcometh how dwelleth the love of God in him?the {3:18} world: and My this littleis the victory that overcometh the world, children, let us not love in word, neither in tongue;[even] but our in faith. {5:5} Who is he that overcometh the deed and in truth. {3:19} And hereby we know thatworld, we are but he that believeth that Jesus is the Son of God? of the truth, and shall assure our hearts before him.{5:6} {3:20} This is he that came by water and blood, [even] Jesus For if our heart condemn us, God is greater than ourChrist; heart, not by water only, but by water and blood. And it is and knoweth all things. {3:21}the SpiritBeloved, that beareth if ourwitness, heart because the Spirit is truth. condemn us not, [then] have we confidence{5:7} toward For there God. are three that bear record in heaven, the {3:22} And whatsoever we ask, we receive of him, becauseFather, the Word, and the Holy Ghost: and these three are we keep his commandments, and do those thingsone. {5:8} that And arethere are three that bear witness in earth, the pleasing in his sight. {3:23} And this is his commandment,spirit, and the water, and the blood: and these three agree in That we should believe on the name of his Son Jesus Christ,one. {5:9} If we receive the witness of men, the witness of and love one another, as he gave us commandment.God {3:24} is greater: for this is the witness of God which he hath And he that keepeth his commandments dwellethtestified ofin his him, Son. {5:10} He that believeth on the Son of and he in him. And hereby we know that he abidethGod in hath us, the witness in himself: he that believeth not God by the Spirit which he hath given us. hath made him a liar; because he believeth not the record that God gave of his Son. {5:11} And this is the record, that {4:1} Beloved, believe not every spirit, but try theGod spirits hath given to us eternal life, and this life is in his Son. whether they are of God: because many false prophets{5:12} He arethat hath the Son hath life; [and] he that hath not gone out into the world. {4:2} Hereby know ye the Spiritthe of Son of God hath not life. {5:13} These things have I God: Every spirit that confesseth that Jesus Christwritten is come unto you that believe on the name of the Son of in the flesh is of God: {4:3} And every spirit that confessethGod; that ye may know that ye have eternal life, and that ye not that Jesus Christ is come in the flesh is not of God:may and believe on the name of the Son of God. {5:14} And this is that [spirit] of antichrist, whereof ye have heardthis is that the confidence that we have in him, that, if we ask it should come; and even now already is anyit thingin the according world. to his will, he heareth us: {5:15} And if {4:4} Ye are of God, little children, andwe knowhave that overcome he hear us, whatsoever we ask, we know that them: because greater is he that is in you, than he thatwe ishave in the petitions that we desired of him. {5:16} If any the world. {4:5} They are of the world: therefore speak theyman see his brother sin a sin [which is] not unto death, he of the world, and the world heareth them. {4:6} Weshall are ask, of and he shall give him life for them that sin not God: he that knoweth God heareth us; he that is not ofunto God death. There is a sin unto death: I do not say that he heareth not us. Hereby know we the spirit of truth,shall and pray the for it. {5:17} All unrighteousness is sin: and there spirit of error. is a sin not unto death. {5:18} We know that whosoever is born of God sinneth not; but he that is begotten of God {4:7} Beloved, let us love one another: for love is of God;keepeth himself, and that wicked one toucheth him not. and every one that loveth is born of God, and knoweth God.{5:19} And we know that we are of God, and the whole {4:8} He that loveth not knoweth not God; for God isworld love. lieth in wickedness. {5:20} [And] we know that the {4:9} In this was manifested the love of SonGod of toward God is us,come, and hath given us an understanding, because that God sent his only begotten Son into the world,that we may know him that is true, and we are in him that is that we might live through him. {4:10} Herein istrue, love, [even] not in his Son Jesus Christ. This is the true God, that we loved God, but that he loved us, and sent his Son [toand eternal life. {5:21} Little children, keep yourselves be] the propitiation for our sins. {4:11} Beloved, iffrom God so idols. Amen. loved us, we ought also to love one another. {4:12} No man hath seen God at any time. If we love one another, God dwelleth in us, and his love is perfected in us. {4:13} Hereby know we that we dwell in him, and he in us, because he hath given us of his Spirit. {4:14} And we have seen and do testify that the Father sent the Son [to be] the Saviour of the world. {4:15} Whosoever shall confess that Jesus is the Son of God, God dwelleth in him, and he in God. {4:16} And we have known and believed the love that God hath to us. God is love; and he that dwelleth in love dwelleth in God, and God in him. {4:17} Herein is our love made perfect, that we may have boldness in the day of judgment: because as he is, so are we in this world. {4:18} There is no fear in love; but perfect love casteth out fear: because fear hath torment. He that feareth is not made perfect in love. {4:19} We love him, because he first loved us. {4:20} If a man say, I love God, and hateth his brother, he is a liar: for he that loveth not his brother whom he hath seen, how can he love God whom he hath not seen? {4:21} And this commandment have we from him, That he who loveth God love his brother also.

{5:1} Whosoever believeth that Jesus is the Christ is born of God: and every one that loveth him that begat loveth him also that is begotten of him. {5:2} By this we know that we love the children of God, when we love God, and keep his commandments. {5:3} For this is the love of God, that we keep his commandments: and his commandments are not Page 149 2 John The

{1:1} The elder unto the elect lady and her children, whom I love in the truth; and not I only, but also all they that have known the truth; {1:2} For the truth's sake, which dwelleth in us, and shall be with us for ever. {1:3} Grace be with you, mercy, [and] peace, from God the Father, and from the Lord Jesus Christ, the Son of the Father, in truth and love.

{1:4} I rejoiced greatly that I found of thy children walking in truth, as we have received a commandment from the Father. {1:5} And now I beseech thee, lady, not as though I wrote a unto thee, but that which we had from the beginning, that we love one another. {1:6} And this is love, that we walk after his commandments. This is the commandment, That, as ye have heard from the beginning, ye should walk in it. {1:7} For many deceivers are entered into the world, who confess not that Jesus Christ is come in the flesh. This is a deceiver and an antichrist. {1:8} Look to yourselves, that we lose not those things which we have wrought, but that we receive a full reward. {1:9} Whosoever transgresseth, and abideth not in the doctrine of Christ, hath not God. He that abideth in the doctrine of Christ, he hath both the Father and the Son. {1:10} If there come any unto you, and bring not this doctrine, receive him not into [your] house, neither bid him God speed: {1:11} For he that biddeth him God speed is partaker of his evil deeds.

{1:12} Having many things to write unto you, I would not [write] with and ink: but I trust to come unto you, and speak face to face, that our joy may be full. {1:13} The children of thy elect sister greet thee. Amen.

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{1:1} The elder unto the wellbeloved Gaius, whom I love in the truth.

{1:2} Beloved, I wish above all things that thou mayest prosper and be in health, even as thy soul prospereth. {1:3} For I rejoiced greatly, when the brethren came and testified of the truth that is in thee, even as thou walkest in the truth. {1:4} I have no greater joy than to hear that my children walk in truth. {1:5} Beloved, thou doest faithfully whatsoever thou doest to the brethren, and to strangers; {1:6} Which have borne witness of thy charity before the church: whom if thou bring forward on their journey after a godly sort, thou shalt do well: {1:7} Because that for his name's sake they went forth, taking nothing of the Gentiles. {1:8} We therefore ought to receive such, that we might be fellowhelpers to the truth.

{1:9} I wrote unto the church: but , who loveth to have the preeminence among them, receiveth us not. {1:10} Wherefore, if I come, I will remember his deeds which he doeth, prating against us with malicious words: and not content therewith, neither doth he himself receive the brethren, and forbiddeth them that would, and casteth [them] out of the church.

{1:11} Beloved, follow not that which is evil, but that which is good. He that doeth good is of God: but he that doeth evil hath not seen God. {1:12} Demetrius hath good report of all [men,] and of the truth itself: yea, and we [also] bear record; and ye know that our record is true.

{1:13} I had many things to write, but I will not with ink and pen write unto thee: {1:14} But I trust I shall shortly see thee, and we shall speak face to face. Peace [be] to thee. [Our] friends salute thee. Greet the friends by name.

Page 153 Jude The General falling, and to present [you] faultless before the presence of his glory with exceeding joy, {1:25} To the only wise God our Saviour, [be] glory and majesty, dominion and power, both now and ever. Amen. {1:1} Jude, the servant of Jesus Christ, and brother of James, to them that are sanctified by God the Father, and preserved in Jesus Christ, [and] called: {1:2} Mercy unto you, and peace, and love, be multiplied.

{1:3} Beloved, when I gave all diligence to write unto you of the common salvation, it was needful for me to write unto you, and exhort [you] that ye should earnestly contend for the faith which was once delivered unto the saints. {1:4} For there are certain men crept in unawares, who were before of old ordained to this condemnation, ungodly men, turning the grace of our God into lasciviousness, and denying the only Lord God, and our Lord Jesus Christ. {1:5} I will therefore put you in remembrance, though ye once knew this, how that the Lord, having saved the people out of the land of Egypt, afterward destroyed them that believed not. {1:6} And the angels which kept not their first estate, but left their own habitation, he hath reserved in everlasting chains under darkness unto the judgment of the great day. {1:7} Even as Sodom and Gomorrha, and the cities about them in like manner, giving themselves over to fornication, and going after strange flesh, are set forth for an example, suffering the vengeance of eternal fire. {1:8} Likewise also these [filthy] dreamers defile the flesh, despise dominion, and speak evil of dignities. {1:9} Yet Michael the archangel, when contending with the devil he disputed about the body of Moses, durst not bring against him a railing accusation, but said, The Lord rebuke thee. {1:10} But these speak evil of those things which they know not: but what they know naturally, as brute beasts, in those things they corrupt themselves. {1:11} Woe unto them! for they have gone in the way of Cain, and ran greedily after the error of Balaam for reward, and perished in the gainsaying of Core. {1:12} These are spots in your feasts of charity, when they feast with you, feeding themselves without fear: clouds [they are] without water, carried about of winds; trees whose fruit withereth, without fruit, twice dead, plucked up by the roots; {1:13} Raging waves of the sea, foaming out their own shame; wandering stars, to whom is reserved the blackness of darkness for ever. {1:14} And Enoch also, the seventh from Adam, prophesied of these, saying, Behold, the Lord cometh with ten thousands of his saints, {1:15} To execute judgment upon all, and to convince all that are ungodly among them of all their ungodly deeds which they have ungodly committed, and of all their hard [speeches] which ungodly sinners have spoken against him. {1:16} These are murmurers, complainers, walking after their own lusts; and their mouth speaketh great swelling [words,] having men's persons in admiration because of advantage.

{1:17} But, beloved, remember ye the words which were spoken before of the apostles of our Lord Jesus Christ; {1:18} How that they told you there should be mockers in the last time, who should walk after their own ungodly lusts. {1:19} These be they who separate themselves, sensual, having not the Spirit. {1:20} But ye, beloved, building up yourselves on your most holy faith, praying in the Holy Ghost, {1:21} Keep yourselves in the love of God, looking for the mercy of our Lord Jesus Christ unto eternal life. {1:22} And of some have compassion, making a difference: {1:23} And others save with fear, pulling [them] out of the fire; hating even the garment spotted by the flesh.

{1:24} Now unto him that is able to keep you from

Page 155 Revelation The Revelation of St. John the Divine evil: and thou hast tried them which say they are apostles, and are not, and hast found them liars: {2:3} And hast borne, and hast patience, and for my name's sake hast laboured, and hast not fainted. {2:4} Nevertheless I have {1:1} The Revelation of Jesus Christ, [somewhat]which God gaveagainst thee, because thou hast left thy first unto him, to shew unto his servantslove. things {2:5} which Remember must therefore from whence thou art shortly come to pass; and he sent and signifiedfallen, [it] and by repent, his and do the first works; or else I will come angel unto his servant John: {1:2} Who bare recordunto ofthee the quickly, and will remove thy candlestick out of word of God, and of the testimony of Jesus Christ, and of allhis place, except thou repent. {2:6} But this thou hast, that things that he saw. {1:3} Blessed [is] he thatthou readeth, hatest andthe deeds of the Nicolaitanes, which I also hate. they that hear the words of this prophecy, and{2:7} keep He thatthose hath an ear, let him hear what the Spirit saith things which are written therein: for the timeunto [is] the at churches; hand. To him that overcometh will I give to eat {1:4} John to the seven churches which are in Asia:of theGrace tree of life, which is in the midst of the paradise of [be] unto you, and peace, from him whichGod. is, and which was, and which is to come; and from the seven Spirits which are before his throne; {1:5} And from Jesus{2:8} Christ, And unto the angel of the church in write; [who is] the faithful witness, [and] the first begottenThese of things the saith the first and the last, which was dead, and dead, and the prince of the kings of the earth. Unto him thatis alive; {2:9} I know thy works, and tribulation, and loved us, and washed us from our sins in hispoverty, own (butblood, thou art rich) and [I know] the blasphemy of {1:6} And hath made us kings and priests unto God andthem his which say they are Jews, and are not, but [are] the Father; to him [be] glory and dominion for eversynagogue and ever. of Satan. {2:10} Fear none of those things which Amen. {1:7} Behold, he cometh with clouds; and everythou eye shalt suffer: behold, the devil shall cast [some] of you shall see him, and they [also] which piercedinto him: prison, and all that ye may be tried; and ye shall have kindreds of the earth shall wail because oftribulation him. Even ten so, days: be thou faithful unto death, and I will Amen. {1:8} I am , the beginning and givethe thee a crown of life. {2:11} He that hath an ear, let him ending, saith the Lord, which is, and which was, and hearwhich what the Spirit saith unto the churches; He that is to come, the Almighty. overcometh shall not be hurt of the .

{1:9} I John, who also am your brother, and companion in {2:12} And to the angel of the church in Pergamos write; tribulation, and in the kingdom and patience of Jesus Christ,These things saith he which hath the sharp sword with two was in the isle that is called , for the wordedges; of God,{2:13} I know thy works, and where thou dwellest, and for the testimony of Jesus Christ. {1:10} [even]I was inwhere the Satan's seat [is:] and thou holdest fast my Spirit on the Lord's day, and heard behind me a great voice,name, and hast not denied my faith, even in those days as of a trumpet, {1:11} Saying, I am Alpha and Omega,wherein the Antipas [was] my faithful martyr, who was slain first and the last: and, What thou seest, write in a book,among and you, where Satan dwelleth. {2:14} But I have a few send [it] unto the seven churches which arethings in Asia; against unto thee, because thou hast there them that hold Ephesus, and unto Smyrna, and unto Pergamos,the doctrineand unto of Balaam, who taught Balac to cast a Thyatira, and unto , and unto Philadelphia,stumblingblock and unto before the children of Israel, to eat things Laodicea. {1:12} And I turned to see the voicesacrificed that spake unto idols, and to commit fornication. {2:15} So with me. And being turned,hast thou I sawalso seventhem thatgolden hold the doctrine of the candlesticks; {1:13} And inNicolaitanes, the midst which thingof Ithe hate. {2:16}seven Repent; or else I candlesticks [one] like unto the Son of man, clothedwill with come a unto thee quickly, and will fight against them garment down to the foot, and girt about thewith papsthe sword with of amy mouth. {2:17} He that hath an ear, let golden girdle. {1:14} His head and [his] hairs [were]him white hear what the Spirit saith unto the churches; To him like wool, as white as snow; and his eyes [were] as a thatflame overcometh will I give to eat of the hidden manna, and of fire; {1:15} And his feet like unto fine brass,will as giveif they him a white stone, and in the stone a new name burned in a furnace; and his voice as the written,sound ofwhich many no man knoweth saving he that receiveth [it. waters. {1:16} And he had in his right hand seven stars: and out of his mouth went a sharp twoedged]{2:18} sword: andAnd hisunto the angel of the church in Thyatira countenance [was] as the sun shineth in his strength. {1:17}write; These things saith the Son of God, who hath his eyes And when I saw him, I fell at his feet as dead. And likehe laid unto a flame of fire, and his feet [are] like fine brass; his right hand upon me, saying unto me, Fear not; I {2:19}am the I know thy works, and charity, and service, and first and the last: {1:18} I [am] he that liveth, and was dead;faith, and thy patience, and thy works; and the last [to be] and, behold, I am alive for evermore, Amen; andmore have than the the first. {2:20} Notwithstanding I have a few keys of hell and of death. things against thee, because thou sufferest that woman , which calleth herself a prophetess, to teach and to {1:19} Write the things which thou hastseduce seen, my servants and tothe commit fornication, and to eat things things which are, and the things which shallsacrificed be hereafter; unto idols. {2:21} And I gave her space to repent {1:20} The mystery of the seven stars which thou sawestof inher fornication; and she repented not. {2:22} Behold, I my right hand, and the seven goldenwill cast candlesticks. her into a bed, and them The that commit adultery with seven stars are the angels of the seven churches:her into great and tribulation, the except they repent of their deeds. seven candlesticks which {2:23}thou And sawest I will kill herare children the with seven death; and all the churches. churches shall know that I am he which searcheth the reins and hearts: and I will give unto every one of you according {2:1} Unto the angel of the churchto ofyour Ephesus works. {2:24} write; But unto you I say, and unto the rest These things saith he that holdeth the seven stars in his rightin Thyatira, as many as have not this doctrine, and which hand, who walketh in the midsthave ofnot knownthe seventhe depths golden of Satan, as they speak; I will candlesticks; {2:2} I know thy works, and thyput labour, upon youand none other burden. {2:25} But that which ye thy patience, and how thou canst not bear themhave which [already] are hold fast till I come. {2:26} And he that Revelation Page 156 overcometh, and keepeth my works unto {3:22}the end, He that to hath him an ear, let him hear what the Spirit saith will I give power over the nations: {2:27} And he shall untorule the churches. them with a rod of iron; as the vessels of a potter shall they be broken to shivers: even as I received{4:1} ofAfter my Father.this I looked, and, behold, a door [was] {2:28} And I will give him the morning star. {2:29} He thatopened in heaven: and the first voice which I heard [was] as hath an ear, let him hear what the Spiritit were ofsaith a trumpet unto talking the with me; which said, Come up churches. hither, and I will shew thee things which must be hereafter. {4:2} And immediately I was in the spirit: and, behold, a {3:1} And unto the angel of the church in throneSardis was write; set in heaven, and [one] sat on the throne. {4:3} These things saith he that hath the , andAnd he that sat was to look upon like a jasper and a sardine the seven stars; I know thy works, that thou hast a name thatstone: and [there was] a rainbow round about the throne, in thou livest, and art dead. {3:2} Be watchful, and strengthensight like unto an emerald. {4:4} And round about the the things which remain, that are ready to die: for I have notthrone [were] four and twenty seats: and upon the seats I found thy works perfect before sawGod. four and {3:3} twenty elders Remember sitting, clothed in white raiment; therefore how thou hast received and heard, andand hold they fast,had on their heads of gold. {4:5} And out and repent. If therefore thou shalt not watch, I will comeof on the throne proceeded lightnings and thunderings and thee as a thief, and thou shalt not know whatvoices: hour and I [therewill were] seven lamps of fire burning before come upon thee. {3:4} Thou hast a fewthe throne,names which even are in the seven Spirits of God. {4:6} And Sardis which have not defiled their garments; and they shallbefore the throne [there was] a sea of glass like unto crystal: walk with me in white: for they are worthy. {3:5}and Hein thethat midst of the throne, and round about the throne, overcometh, the same shall be clothed in white raiment; and[were] four beasts full of eyes before and behind. {4:7} And I will not blot out his name out of the book of life, but I willthe first beast [was] like a lion, and the second beast like a confess his name before my Father, and beforecalf, his andangels. the third beast had a face as a man, and the fourth {3:6} He that hath an ear, let him hear what the Spiritbeast saith [was] like a flying . {4:8} And the four beasts unto the churches. had each of them six wings about [him;] and [they were] full of eyes within: and they rest not day and night, saying, {3:7} And to the angel of the churchHoly, holy,in Philadelphia holy, Lord God Almighty, which was, and is, write; These things saith he that is holy, he that andis true,is to come. he {4:9} And when those beasts give glory and that hath the key of David, he that openeth,honour and and nothanks man to him that sat on the throne, who liveth shutteth; and shutteth, and no man openeth; for{3:8} ever I knowand ever, {4:10} The four and twenty elders fall thy works: behold, I have set before thee an open door,down and before him that sat on the throne, and worship him no man can shut it: for thou hast a little strength,that and liveth hast for ever and ever, and cast their crowns before kept my word, and hast not denied my name. {3:9} Behold,the throne, saying, {4:11} Thou art worthy, O Lord, to I will make them of the synagogue of Satan, which say theyreceive glory and honour and power: for thou hast created are Jews, and are not, but do lie; behold, I will make them to all things, and for thy pleasure they are and were created. come and worship before thy feet, and to know that I have loved thee. {3:10} Because thou hast kept the word{5:1} of Andmy I saw in the right hand of him that sat on the patience, I also will keep thee from the hour of temptation,throne a book written within and on the backside, sealed which shall come upon all the world, to try them that withdwell . {5:2} And I saw a strong angel upon the earth. {3:11} Behold, I come quickly:proclaiming hold with that a loud voice, Who is worthy to open the fast which thou hast, that no man take thy book,crown. and {3:12} to loose the seals thereof? {5:3} And no man in Him that overcometh will I make a pillar in theheaven, temple norof in earth, neither under the earth, was able to my God, and he shall go no more out: and I will write uponopen the book, neither to look thereon. {5:4} And I wept him the name of my God, and the name of the citymuch, of becausemy no man was found worthy to open and to God, [which is] , which cometh downread out the of book, neither to look thereon. {5:5} And one of the heaven from my God: and [I will write upon him] eldersmy new saith unto me, Weep not: behold, the Lion of the tribe name. {3:13} He that hath an ear, let himof Juda,hear the what Root ofthe David, hath prevailed to open the book, Spirit saith unto the churches. and to loose the seven seals thereof. {5:6} And I beheld, and, lo, in the midst of the throne and of the four beasts, and {3:14} And unto the angelin the midstof ofthe the elders, church stood a Lamb ofas it hadthe been slain, Laodiceans write; These things saith the Amen, thehaving faithful seven horns and seven eyes, which are the seven and true witness, the beginning of theSpirits creation of God ofsent God; forth into all the earth. {5:7} And he {3:15} I know thy works, that thou art neither cold norcame hot: and took the book out of the right hand of him that sat I would thou wert cold or hot. {3:16} So then becauseupon thou the throne. {5:8} And when he had taken the book, the art lukewarm, and neither cold nor hot, I will spue theefour out beasts and four [and] twenty elders fell down before of my mouth. {3:17} Because thou sayest, Ithe am Lamb, rich, having and every one of them harps, and golden vials increased with goods, and havefull needof odours, of whichnothing; are the prayersand of saints. {5:9} And knowest not that thou art wretched, and miserable, and poor,they sung a new song, saying, Thou art worthy to take the and blind, and naked: {3:18} I counsel thee tobook, buy and of to meopen the seals thereof: for thou wast slain, and gold tried in the fire, that thou mayest be rich;hast redeemed and white us to God by thy blood out of every kindred, raiment, that thou mayest be clothed, and [that]and the tongue, shame and people, and nation; {5:10} And hast made of thy nakedness do not appear; and anoint thine eyesus unto with our God kings and priests: and we shall reign on the eyesalve, that thou mayest see. {3:19} As many as I love,earth. I {5:11} And I beheld, and I heard the voice of many rebuke and chasten: be zealous therefore, and repent. {3:20}angels round about the throne and the beasts and the elders: Behold, I stand at the door, and knock: if any man hearand my the number of them was ten thousand times ten voice, and open the door, I will come in to him, and will supthousand, and thousands of thousands; {5:12} Saying with a with him, and he with me. {3:21} To him that overcomethloud voice, Worthy is the Lamb that was slain to receive will I grant to sit with me in my throne,power, even and as riches, I also and wisdom, and strength, and honour, overcame, and am set down with my Father inand his glory, throne. and blessing. {5:13} And every creature which is Page 157 Revelation in heaven, and on the earth, and under the earth, and such asJuda [were] sealed twelve thousand. Of the tribe of are in the sea, and all that are in them,[were] heard sealed I twelvesaying, thousand. Of the tribe of [were] Blessing, and honour, and glory, and power, [be]sealed unto him twelve thousand. {7:6} Of the tribe of Aser [were] that sitteth upon the throne, and unto the Lamb for eversealed and twelve thousand. Of the tribe of Nepthalim [were] ever. {5:14} And the four beasts said, Amen. Andsealed the four twelve thousand. Of the tribe of Manasses [were] [and] twenty elders fell down and sealedworshipped twelve thousand. him {7:7} that Of the tribe of Simeon [were] liveth for ever and ever. sealed twelve thousand. Of the tribe of Levi [were] sealed twelve thousand. Of the tribe of [were] sealed {6:1} And I saw when the Lamb opened one of the seals,twelve thousand. {7:8} Of the tribe of Zabulon [were] and I heard, as it were the noise of thunder, one of thesealed four twelve thousand. Of the tribe of Joseph [were] sealed beasts saying, Come and see. {6:2} And I saw, and behold atwelve thousand. Of the tribe of Benjamin [were] sealed white horse: and he that sat on him had a bow; and a crowntwelve thousand. {7:9} After this I beheld, and, lo, a great was given unto him: and he went forth conquering,multitude, and to which no man could number, of all nations, and conquer. {6:3} And when he had opened the secondkindreds, seal, I and people, and tongues, stood before the throne, heard the second beast say, Come and see. {6:4} Andand there before the Lamb, clothed with white robes, and palms went out another horse [that was] red:in theirand hands;[power] {7:10} was And cried with a loud voice, saying, given to him that sat thereon to take peace fromSalvation the earth, to our God which sitteth upon the throne, and and that they should kill one another: and thereunto was the given Lamb. {7:11} And all the angels stood round about unto him a great sword. {6:5} And when he had openedthe the throne, and [about] the elders and the four beasts, and third seal, I heard the third beast say, Come and see.fell And before I the throne on their faces, and worshipped God, beheld, and lo a black horse; and he that sat on {7:12}him had aSaying, Amen: Blessing, and glory, and wisdom, pair of balances in his hand. {6:6} And I heardand a voicethanksgiving, in and honour, and power, and might, [be] the midst of the four beasts say, A measure of wheatunto ourfor Goda for ever and ever. Amen. {7:13} And one of penny, and three measures of barley for a penny; theand elders[see] answered, saying unto me, What are these which thou hurt not the oil and the wine. {6:7} And whenare he arrayedhad in white robes? and whence came they? {7:14} opened the fourth seal, I heard the voice of the fourthAnd beast I said unto him, Sir, thou knowest. And he said to me, say, Come and see. {6:8} And I looked, and beholdThese a pale are they which came out of great tribulation, and horse: and his name that sat on him was Death,have washed and Helltheir robes, and made them white in the blood followed with him. And power was given untoof thethem Lamb. over {7:15} Therefore are they before the throne of the fourth part of the earth, to kill withGod, sword, and serve and him with day and night in his temple: and he that hunger, and with death, and with the beastssitteth of on the the earth. throne shall dwell among them. {7:16} They {6:9} And when he had opened the fifth seal, I shallsaw underhunger no more, neither thirst any more; neither shall the altar the souls of them that were slain forthe the sun word light of on them, nor any heat. {7:17} For the Lamb God, and for the testimony which they held:which {6:10}is in the midst And of the throne shall feed them, and shall they cried with a loud voice, saying, Howlead long, them O untoLord, living fountains of waters: and God shall holy and true, dost thou not judge and avenge our bloodwipe on away all tears from their eyes. them that dwell on the earth? {6:11} And white robes were given unto every one of them; and it was said{8:1} unto them,And when he had opened the seventh seal, there that they should rest yet for a littlewas silence season, in heaven aboutuntil the spacetheir of half an hour. {8:2} fellowservants also and their brethren, that should Andbe killed I saw the seven angels which stood before God; and to as they [were,] should be fulfilled. {6:12}them were And given I beheld . {8:3} And another angel when he had opened the sixth seal, and, lo, there was a greatcame and stood at the altar, having a golden censer; and earthquake; and the sun became black as sackcloththere of washair, given unto him much incense, that he should offer and the moon became as blood; {6:13} And[it] with the the prayersstars ofof all saints upon the golden altar which heaven fell unto the earth, even as a figwas tree before casteth the throne. her {8:4} And the smoke of the incense, untimely figs, when she is shaken of a mighty wind. {6:14}[which came] with the prayers of the saints, ascended up And the heaven departed as a scrollbefore whenGod out it ofis the rolled angel's hand. {8:5} And the angel together; and every mountain and island were moved outtook of the censer, and filled it with fire of the altar, and cast their places. {6:15} And the kings of the earth, and the great[it] into the earth: and there were voices, and thunderings, men, and the rich men, and the chiefand captains, lightnings, and and the an earthquake. {8:6} And the seven mighty men, and every bondman, and every freeangels man, which hid had the seven trumpets prepared themselves to themselves in the dens and in the rocks of thesound. mountains; {6:16} And said to the mountains and rocks, Fall on us, and hide us from the face of him that sitteth on the throne,{8:7} and The first angel sounded, and there followed hail and from the wrath of the Lamb: {6:17} For the great day of firehis mingled with blood, and they were cast upon the earth: wrath is come; and who shall be able to stand? and the third part of trees was burnt up, and all green grass was burnt up. {8:8} And the second angel sounded, and as it {7:1} And after these things I saw four angels standing wereon a great mountain burning with fire was cast into the the four corners of the earth, holding the four windssea: ofand the the third part of the sea became blood; {8:9} And earth, that the wind should not blow on the earth, nor on the third part of the creatures which were in the sea, and had sea, nor on any tree. {7:2} Andlife, I died;saw andanother the third angel part of the ships were destroyed. ascending from the east, having the seal of the living{8:10} God: And the third angel sounded, and there fell a great and he cried with a loud voice to the four angels, to whom itstar from heaven, burning as it were a lamp, and it fell upon was given to hurt the earth and the sea, {7:3} Saying,the thirdHurt part of the rivers, and upon the fountains of waters; not the earth, neither the sea, nor the {8:11}trees, Andtill the we name have of the star is called : and sealed the servants of our God in their foreheads. {7:4} Andthe third part of the waters became wormwood; and many I heard the number of them which were sealed:men [and diedthere of the waters, because they were made bitter. were] sealed an hundred [and] forty [and] four thousand{8:12} ofAnd the fourth angel sounded, and the third part of all the tribes of the children of Israel. {7:5} Of thethe tribe sun wasof smitten, and the third part of the moon, and the Revelation Page 158 third part of the stars; so as the thirdheaven, part clothed of them with a wascloud: and a rainbow [was] upon his darkened, and the day shone not for a third parthead, of andit, andhis face [was] as it were the sun, and his feet as the night likewise. pillars of fire: {10:2} And he had in his hand a little book open: and he set his right foot upon the sea, and [his] left {8:13} And I beheld, and heard an angel flying[foot] throughon the earth, {10:3} And cried with a loud voice, as the midst of heaven, saying with a loud voice,[when] Woe, woe, a lion roareth: and when he had cried, seven woe, to the inhabiters of the earth by reasonthunders of the uttered other their voices. {10:4} And when the seven voices of the trumpet of the three angels, whichthunders are yet had to uttered their voices, I was about to write: and I sound! heard a voice from heaven saying unto me, Seal up those things which the seven thunders uttered, and write them not. {9:1} And the fifth angel sounded, and I saw{10:5} a star And fall the angel which I saw stand upon the sea and from heaven unto the earth: and to him was given the key ofupon the earth lifted up his hand to heaven, {10:6} And the bottomless pit. {9:2} And he opened the bottomlesssware pit; by him that liveth for ever and ever, who created and there arose a smoke out of the pit, as theheaven, smoke andof athe things that therein are, and the earth, and great furnace; and the sun and the air thewere things darkened that therein by are, and the sea, and the things which reason of the smoke of the pit. {9:3} And there came outare of therein, that there should be time no longer: {10:7} But the smoke locusts upon the earth: and unto them wasin given the days of the voice of the seventh angel, when he shall power, as the scorpions of the earth have power. {9:4}begin And to sound, the mystery of God should be finished, as it was commanded them that they should not hurt thehe grasshath declared to his servants the prophets. {10:8} And of the earth, neither any green thing, neitherthe any voice tree; which but I heard from heaven spake unto me again, only those men which have not the sealand of said, God Go in [and] their take the little book which is open in the foreheads. {9:5} And to them it was given that theyhand should of the angel which standeth upon the sea and upon the not kill them, but that they shouldearth. {10:9} be And tormented I went unto the angel,five and said unto him, months: and their torment [was]Give meas the littlethe book. torment And he said untoof me,a Take [it,] and scorpion, when he striketh a man. {9:6} And in thoseeat it daysup; and it shall make thy belly bitter, but it shall be in shall men seek death, and shall not find it; and shallthy desire mouth sweet as honey. {10:10} And I took the little to die, and death shall flee from them. {9:7} And the shapesbook out of the angel's hand, and ate it up; and it was in my of the locusts [were] like unto horses prepared mouthunto battle; sweet as honey: and as soon as I had eaten it, my and on their heads [were] as it were crowns likebelly gold, was and bitter. {10:11} And he said unto me, Thou must their faces [were] as the faces of men. {9:8} And prophesythey had again before many peoples, and nations, and hair as the hair of women, and their teeth were as [the teeth]tongues, and kings. of lions. {9:9} And they had breastplates, as it were breastplates of iron; and the sound of their wings{11:1} [was] And as there was given me a reed like unto a rod: and the sound of of many horsesthe runningangel stood, to battle. saying, Rise, and measure the temple of {9:10} And they had tails like unto scorpions,God, and andthe altar,there and them that worship therein. {11:2} were stings in their tails: and their power [was] to hurtBut men the court which is without the temple leave out, and five months. {9:11} And they had a king over them, [whichmeasure it not; for it is given unto the Gentiles: and the holy is] the angel of the bottomless pit,city whose shall namethey treadin the under foot forty [and] two months. Hebrew tongue [is] , but in the Greek tongue{11:3} hath And I will give [power] unto my , and [his] name Apollyon. {9:12} Onethey woe shall is past; prophesy [and,] a thousand two hundred [and] behold, there come two woes morethreescore hereafter. days, clothed in sackcloth. {11:4} These are the two olive trees, and the two candlesticks standing before the {9:13} And the sixth angel sounded, and I heardGod a ofvoice the earth. {11:5} And if any man will hurt them, fire from the four horns of the golden altar which is before God,proceedeth out of their mouth, and devoureth their enemies: {9:14} Saying to the sixth angel whichand had if theany trumpet,man will hurt them, he must in this manner be Loose the four angels which are bound inkilled. the great{11:6} riverThese have power to shut heaven, that it rain . {9:15} And the four angels were loosed,not inwhich the days of their prophecy: and have power over were prepared for an hour, and a day, and a month,waters toand turn a them to blood, and to smite the earth with all year, for to slay the third part of men.plagues, {9:16} as often And as theythe will. {11:7} And when they shall number of the army of the horsemen [were]have two finished hundred their testimony, the beast that ascendeth out of thousand thousand: and I heard the number of them. {9:17}the bottomless pit shall make war against them, and shall And thus I saw the horses in the vision, and them that sat onovercome them, and kill them. {11:8} And their dead them, having breastplates of bodiesfire, [shalland of lie] jacinth, in the streetand of the great city, which brimstone: and the heads of the horses [were] asspiritually the heads is called Sodom and Egypt, where also our Lord of lions; and out of their mouths issued fire and smokewas andcrucified. {11:9} And they of the people and kindreds brimstone. {9:18} By these three was the third partand of mentongues and nations shall see their dead bodies three killed, by the fire, and by the smoke, and by the brimstone,days and an half, and shall not suffer their dead bodies to be which issued out of their mouths. {9:19} For their powerput inis graves. {11:10} And they that dwell upon the earth in their mouth, and in their tails: for their tailsshall [were] rejoice like over them, and make merry, and shall send unto serpents, and had heads, and with them theygifts doone hurt. to another; because these two prophets tormented {9:20} And the rest of the men which were themnot killedthat dwelt by on the earth. {11:11} And after three days these plagues yet repented not of the works of theirand hands,an half the Spirit of life from God entered into them, that they should not worship devils, and idols ofand gold, they stoodand upon their feet; and great fear fell upon them silver, and brass, and stone, and of wood: which neitherwhich can saw them. {11:12} And they heard a great voice from see, nor hear, nor walk: {9:21} Neitherheaven repented sayingthey of unto them, Come up hither. And they their murders, nor of their sorceries, nor of their fornication,ascended up to heaven in a cloud; and their enemies beheld nor of their thefts. them. {11:13} And the same hour was there a great earthquake, and the tenth part of the city fell, and in the {10:1} And I saw another mighty angel come downearthquake from were slain of men seven thousand: and the Page 159 Revelation remnant were affrighted, and gave glory{13:1} toAnd theI stood God upon of the sand of the sea, and saw a heaven. {11:14} The second woe is past; [and,] behold,beast the rise up out of the sea, having seven heads and ten third woe cometh quickly. {11:15} And the seventhhorns, and angel upon his horns ten crowns, and upon his heads sounded; and there were great voices in heaven, saying, Thethe name of blasphemy. {13:2} And the beast which I saw kingdoms of this world are become [the kingdoms]was like of untoour a leopard, and his feet were as [the feet] of a Lord, and of his Christ; and he shall reign for ever and ever.bear, and his mouth as the mouth of a lion: and the {11:16} And the four and twenty elders, whichgave sat beforehim his power, and his seat, and great authority. God on their seats, fell upon their faces,{13:3} and worshippedAnd I saw one of his heads as it were wounded to God, {11:17} Saying, We give thee thanks,death; O andLord his Goddeadly wound was healed: and all the world Almighty, which art, and wast, and art towondered come; afterbecause the beast. {13:4} And they worshipped the thou hast taken to thee thy great power, anddragon hast reigned. which gave power unto the beast: and they {11:18} And the nations were angry, and thy wrath is come,worshipped the beast, saying, Who [is] like unto the beast? and the time of the dead, that they should bewho judged, is able and to make war with him? {13:5} And there was that thou shouldest give rewardgiven unto untothy servantshim a themouth speaking great things and prophets, and to the saints, and them thatblasphemies; fear thy name, and power was given unto him to continue small and great; and shouldest destroy them whichforty destroy [and] two months. {13:6} And he opened his mouth in the earth. {11:19} And the temple of God wasblasphemy opened inagainst God, to blaspheme his name, and his heaven, and there was seen in his templetabernacle, the ark and of themhis that dwell in heaven. {13:7} And it testament: and there were lightnings,was given unto and him tovoices, make war and with the saints, and to thunderings, and an earthquake,overcome and them: great and power hail. was given him over all kindreds, and tongues, and nations. {13:8} And all that dwell upon {12:1} And there appeared a great wonderthe in earth heaven; shall worshipa him, whose names are not written in woman clothed with the sun, and the moon underthe her book feet, of life of the Lamb slain from the foundation of the and upon her head a crown of twelve stars: {12:2} Andworld. she {13:9} If any man have an ear, let him hear. {13:10} being with child cried, travailing in birth, and painedHe that to leadeth be into captivity shall go into captivity: he that delivered. {12:3} And there appearedkilleth another with the wondersword must bein killed with the sword. Here is heaven; and behold a great red dragon, having seventhe heads patience and the faith of the saints. {13:11} And I and ten horns, and seven crowns upon hisbeheld heads. another {12:4}beast coming up out of the earth; and he had And his tail drew the third part of the stars of heaven,two horns and like a lamb, and he spake as a dragon. {13:12} did cast them to the earth: and the dragon stood beforeAnd he the exerciseth all the power of the first beast before woman which was ready to be delivered, for to devourhim, and her causeth the earth and them which dwell therein to child as soon as it was born. {12:5} And she brought forth worshipa the first beast, whose deadly wound was healed. man child, who was to rule all nations with a {13:13}rod of Andiron: he doeth great wonders, so that he maketh fire and her child was caught up unto God, and [to] hiscome throne. down from heaven on the earth in the sight of men, {12:6} And the woman fled into the wilderness, where{13:14} she And deceiveth them that dwell on the earth by [the hath a place prepared of God, that they should feed her theremeans of] those miracles which he had power to do in the a thousand two hundred [and] threescore days. {12:7}sight And of the beast; saying to them that dwell on the earth, there was war in heaven: Michael and thathis they angels should foughtmake an image to the beast, which had the against the dragon; and the dragon fought andwound his by aangels, sword, and did live. {13:15} And he had power {12:8} And prevailed not; neither was their place found anyto give life unto the image of the beast, that the image of the more in heaven. {12:9} And the great dragon was castbeast out, should both speak, and cause that as many as would that old serpent, called thenot worshipDevil, the image and of the beastSatan, should be killed.which {13:16} deceiveth the whole world: he was cast out intoAnd thehe causeth earth, all, both small and great, rich and poor, free and his angels were cast out with him. {12:10} And I heardand bond, to receive a mark in their right hand, or in their a loud voice saying in heaven, Now is come salvation,foreheads: and {13:17} And that no man might buy or sell, save strength, and the kingdom of our God, and the power ofhe his that had the mark, or the name of the beast, or the Christ: for the accuser of our brethren is cast down,number which of his name. {13:18} Here is wisdom. Let him that accused them before our God day and night. {12:11}hath understanding And count the : for it is they overcame him by the blood of the Lamb,the and number by the of a man; and his number [is] Six hundred word of their testimony; and they loved not their livesthreescore unto [and] six. the death. {12:12} Therefore rejoice, [ye] heavens, and ye that dwell in them. Woe to the inhabiters of the earth and of{14:1} And I looked, and, lo, a Lamb stood on the mount the sea! for the devil is come down unto you, havingSion, great and with him an hundred forty [and] four thousand, wrath, because he knoweth that he hath buthaving a short his Father's time. name written in their foreheads. {14:2} {12:13} And when the dragon saw that he was cast unto theAnd I heard a voice from heaven, as the voice of many earth, he persecuted the woman whichwaters, brought and asforth the voice the of a great thunder: and I heard the man [child. ]{12:14} And to the woman voicewere of given harpers two harping with their harps: {14:3} And they wings of a great eagle, thatsung sheas it were might a new song beforefly theinto throne, andthe before the wilderness, into her place, where shefour is beasts, nourished and the elders: for and ano man could learn that song time, and times, and half a time, butfrom the hundredthe [and]face forty of [and] the four thousand, which were serpent. {12:15} And the serpent castredeemed out fromof thehis earth. mouth {14:4} These are they which were water as a flood after the woman, that he might cause hernot to defiled with women; for they are virgins. These are they be carried away of the flood. {12:16} And the earthwhich helped follow the Lamb whithersoever he goeth. These were the woman, and the earth opened her mouth, and swallowedredeemed from among men, [being] the firstfruits unto God up the flood which the dragon castand toout the Lamb.of his{14:5} mouth. And in their mouth was found no {12:17} And the dragon was wroth with theguile: woman, for they and are without fault before the throne of God. went to make war with the remnant of her seed, which keep the commandments of God, and have the testimony of Jesus{14:6} And I saw another angel fly in the midst of Christ. heaven, having the everlasting gospel to preach unto them Revelation Page 160 that dwell on the earth, and to every nation,plagues and of thekindred, seven angels were fulfilled. and tongue, and people, {14:7} Saying with a loud voice, Fear God, and give glory to him; {16:1}for Andthe I heardhour a great of voicehis out of the temple saying judgment is come: and worship him that made heaven,to the and seven angels, Go your ways, and pour out the vials of earth, and the sea, and the fountains of waters. {14:8}the wrath And of God upon the earth. {16:2} And the first went, there followed another angel, saying, Babylonand is pouredfallen, isout his vial upon the earth; and there fell a fallen, that great city, because she made all nations drinknoisome of and grievous sore upon the men which had the the wine of the wrath of her fornication. mark{14:9} of theAnd beast, the and [upon] them which worshipped his third angel followed them, saying with a loud voice,image. If any {16:3} And the second angel poured out his vial man worship the beast and his image,upon and the receivesea; and it[his] became as the blood of a dead [man:] mark in his forehead, or in his hand, {14:10} The same shalland every living soul died in the sea. {16:4} And the third drink of the wine of the wrath of God, which is pouredangel out poured out his vial upon the rivers and fountains of without mixture into the cup of his indignation; and he shallwaters; and they became blood. {16:5} And I heard the be tormented with in the presenceangel of the of the waters say, Thou art righteous, O Lord, which holy angels, and in the presence of the Lamb: {14:11}art, And and wast, and shalt be, because thou hast judged thus. the smoke of their torment ascendeth up for ever {16:6}and ever: For they have shed the blood of saints and prophets, and they have no rest day nor night, who worship theand beast thou hast given them blood to drink; for they are and his image, and whosoever receivethworthy. the mark {16:7} of hisAnd I heard another out of the altar say, name. {14:12} Here is the patience of the saints: hereEven [are] so, Lord God Almighty, true and righteous [are] thy they that keep the commandments of God, and thejudgments. faith of {16:8} And the fourth angel poured out his vial Jesus. {14:13} And I heard a voice from heaven saying untoupon the sun; and power was given unto him to scorch men me, Write, Blessed [are] the dead whichwith die fire.in the{16:9} Lord And men were scorched with great heat, from henceforth: Yea, saith the Spirit, thatand theyblasphemed may rest the name of God, which hath power over from their labours; and their works do followthese them. plagues: and they repented not to give him glory. {16:10} And the fifth angel poured out his vial upon the {14:14} And I looked, and behold aseat white of the beast;cloud, and hisand kingdom was full of darkness; and upon the cloud [one] sat like unto the Son of man,they having gnawed their tongues for pain, {16:11} And on his head a golden crown, and in his hand a sharp blasphemedsickle. the God of heaven because of their pains and {14:15} And another angel came out of the temple,their sores,crying and repented not of their deeds. {16:12} And the with a loud voice to him that sat on the cloud, Thrust insixth thy angel poured out his vial upon the great river sickle, and reap: for the time is come for theeEuphrates; to reap; forand the water thereof was dried up, that the way the harvest of the earth is ripe. {14:16} And he thatof thesat kingson of the east might be prepared. {16:13} And I the cloud thrust in his sickle on the earth; and the earthsaw was three unclean spirits like frogs [come] out of the mouth reaped. {14:17} And another angel came out of theof thetemple dragon, and out of the mouth of the beast, and out of which is in heaven, he also having a sharp sickle.the {14:18}mouth of the false prophet. {16:14} For they are the And another angel came out from thespirits ofaltar, devils, workingwhich miracles, had [which] go forth unto the power over fire; and cried with a loud cry to himkings that of thehad earth and of the whole world, to gather them to the sharp sickle, saying, Thrust in thythe sharpbattle sickle, of that and great day of God Almighty. {16:15} gather the clusters of the vine of the earth; for her grapes areBehold, I come as a thief. Blessed [is] he that watcheth, and fully ripe. {14:19} And the angel thrust in his sickle into thekeepeth his garments, lest he walk naked, and they see his earth, and gathered the vine of the earth, and shame.cast [it] {16:16} into And he gathered them together into a place the great winepress of the wrath of God. {14:20}called And in thethe Hebrew tongue . {16:17} And the winepress was trodden without the city, and blood came seventhout angel poured out his vial into the air; and there of the winepress, even unto the horse bridles, bycame the spacea great voice out of the temple of heaven, from the of a thousand [and] six hundred furlongs. throne, saying, It is done. {16:18} And there were voices, and thunders, and lightnings; and there was a great {15:1} And I saw another sign inearthquake, heaven, such asgreat was not sinceand men were upon the earth, marvellous, seven angels having the seven last plagues;so mighty for an earthquake, [and] so great. {16:19} And the in them is filled up the wrath of God. {15:2} And I saw as itgreat city was divided into three parts, and the cities of the were a sea of glass mingled with fire: andnations them fell: that and hadgreat Babylon came in remembrance before gotten the victory over the beast, and over hisGod, image, to give and unto her the cup of the wine of the fierceness over his mark, [and] over the number of his name, standof onhis wrath. {16:20} And every island fled away, and the the sea of glass, having the harps of God. {15:3} Andmountains they were not found. {16:21} And there fell upon sing the song of Moses the servant of God, and the songmen of a great hail out of heaven, [every stone] about the the Lamb, saying, Great and marvellousweight [are] of thya talent: works, and men blasphemed God because of the Lord God Almighty; just and true [are] thy ways, thou Kingplague of the hail; for the plague thereof was exceeding of saints. {15:4} Who shall not feargreat. thee, O Lord, and glorify thy name? for [thou] only [art] holy: for all nations shall come and worship before thee; for thy judgments{17:1} Andare there came one of the seven angels which had made manifest. {15:5} And after that I looked, and, behold,the seven vials, and talked with me, saying unto me, Come the temple of the tabernacle of the testimony in heavenhither; was I will shew unto thee the judgment of the great opened: {15:6} And the seven angelswhore camethat sitteth out ofupon the : {17:2} With whom temple, having the seven plagues, clothed in pure and whitethe kings of the earth have committed fornication, and the linen, and having their breasts girded with inhabitantsgolden . of the earth have been made drunk with the wine {15:7} And one of the four beasts gaveof her unto fornication. the seven {17:3} So he carried me away in the angels seven golden vials full of the wrathspirit of into God, the who wilderness: and I saw a woman sit upon a liveth for ever and ever. {15:8} And the templescarlet was filled coloured beast, full of names of blasphemy, having with smoke from the glory of God, and from his power; andseven heads and ten horns. {17:4} And the woman was no man was able to enter into the temple,arrayed till in thepurple seven and scarlet colour, and decked with gold Page 161 Revelation and precious stones and pearls, having a golden cupthat in mighty her city! for in one hour is thy judgment come. hand full of abominations and filthiness of her {18:11}fornication: And the merchants of the earth shall weep and {17:5} And upon her forehead mourn[was] over a her; name for no written, man buyeth their merchandise any MYSTERY, BABYLON THE GREAT,more: THE {18:12}MOTHER The merchandise of gold, and silver, and OF HARLOTS AND ABOMINATIONS OF THE EARTH.precious stones, and of pearls, and fine linen, and purple, {17:6} And I saw the woman drunken with the blood of andthe , and scarlet, and all thyine wood, and all manner saints, and with the blood of the of Jesus: and whenvessels of ivory, and all manner vessels of most precious I saw her, I wondered with great admiration.wood, {17:7} and And of brass, and iron, and marble, {18:13} And the angel said unto me, Wherefore didst thou marvel? Icinnamon, will and odours, and ointments, and , tell thee the mystery of the woman, and ofand the wine, beast and oil,that and fine flour, and wheat, and beasts, and carrieth her, which hath the seven headssheep, andand tenhorses, horns. and chariots, and slaves, and souls of {17:8} The beast that thou sawest was, and is not; and shallmen. {18:14} And the fruits that thy soul lusted after are ascend out of the bottomless pit, and go into perdition:departed and from thee, and all things which were dainty and they that dwell on the earth shall wonder,goodly arewhose departed names from thee, and thou shalt find them no were not written in the book of life from the foundationmore at of all. {18:15} The merchants of these things, which the world, when they behold the beast that was, andwere is madenot, rich by her, shall stand afar off for the fear of her and yet is. {17:9} And here [is] torment,the mind weeping which and hathwailing, {18:16} And saying, Alas, wisdom. The seven heads are seven mountains,alas, onthat which great city, that was clothed in fine linen, and the woman sitteth. {17:10} And there are seven kings:purple, five and scarlet, and decked with gold, and precious are fallen, and one is, [and] the other is not yetstones, come; andand pearls! {18:17} For in one hour so great riches when he cometh, he must continue a short space.is come {17:11} to nought. And every shipmaster, and all the And the beast that was, and is not, even he is the eighth, andcompany in ships, and sailors, and as many as trade by sea, is of the seven, and goeth into perdition. {17:12}stood Andafar off,the {18:18} And cried when they saw the smoke ten horns which thou sawest are tenof kings,her burning, which saying, have What [city is] like unto this great received no kingdom as yet; but receive power as kingscity! one {18:19} And they cast dust on their heads, and cried, hour with the beast. {17:13} These haveweeping one mind,and wailing, and saying, Alas, alas, that great city, shall give their power and strength unto the beast.wherein {17:14} were made rich all that had ships in the sea by These shall make war with the Lamb, and thereason Lamb shall of her costliness! for in one hour is she made overcome them: for he is Lord of lords, and King ofdesolate. kings: {18:20} Rejoice over her, [thou] heaven, and [ye] and they that are with him [are] called,holy and apostles chosen, and and prophets; for God hath avenged you on faithful. {17:15} And he saith unto me, The watersher. {18:21} which And a mighty angel took up a stone like a great thou sawest, where the whore sitteth,millstone, are andpeoples, cast [it]and into the sea, saying, Thus with multitudes, and nations, and tongues. {17:16}violence And the shall ten that great city Babylon be thrown down, and horns which thou sawest upon the beast, these shall hate shallthe be found no more at all. {18:22} And the voice of whore, and shall make her desolate and naked, and shallharpers, eat and musicians, and of pipers, and trumpeters, shall her flesh, and burn her with fire. {17:17} For God hathbe putheard no more at all in thee; and no craftsman, of in their hearts to fulfil his will, and to agree, and givewhatsoever their craft [he be,] shall be found any more in thee; kingdom unto the beast, until the words andof the God sound shall of a millstone be shall be heard no more at all in fulfilled. {17:18} And the woman which thou sawest isthee; that {18:23} And the light of a candle shall shine no more great city, which reigneth over the kings of the earth. at all in thee; and the voice of the bridegroom and of the bride shall be heard no more at all in thee: for thy merchants {18:1} And after these things I saw anotherwere angel the great come men of the earth; for by thy sorceries were all down from heaven, having great power; and thenations earth deceived.was {18:24} And in her was found the blood lightened with his glory. {18:2} And he cried mightilyof with prophets, and of saints, and of all that were slain upon the a strong voice, saying, Babylon the great is fallen, is earth.fallen, and is become the habitation of devils, and the hold of every foul spirit, and a cage of every unclean and{19:1} hateful And bird. after these things I heard a great voice of {18:3} For all nations have drunk of the wine of themuch wrath people in heaven, saying, Alleluia; Salvation, and of her fornication, and theglory, kings and ofhonour, the andearth power, have unto the Lord our God: committed fornication with her, and the merchants{19:2} For of true the and righteous [are] his judgments: for he earth are waxed rich throughhath judgedthe theabundance great whore, whichof her did corrupt the earth delicacies. {18:4} And I heard another voice fromwith heaven, her fornication, and hath avenged the blood of his saying, Come out of her, my people, that ye be not partakersservants at her hand. {19:3} And again they said, Alleluia. of her sins, and that ye receive not of her plagues.And her {18:5} smoke rose up for ever and ever. {19:4} And the For her sins have reached unto heaven,four and twentyand Godelders hath and the four beasts fell down and remembered her iniquities. {18:6} Reward her evenworshipped as she God that sat on the throne, saying, Amen; rewarded you, and double unto her double accordingAlleluia. to her {19:5} And a voice came out of the throne, saying, works: in the cup which she hath filled fill toPraise her double.our God, all ye his servants, and ye that fear him, {18:7} How much she hath glorifiedboth herself, small and and great. lived {19:6} And I heard as it were the deliciously, so much torment and sorrow givevoice her: offor a greatshe multitude, and as the voice of many waters, saith in her heart, I sit a queen, and am no widow, and shalland as the voice of mighty thunderings, saying, Alleluia: for see no sorrow. {18:8} Therefore shall her plaguesthe come Lord in God omnipotent reigneth. {19:7} Let us be glad one day, death, and mourning, and famine; and she shalland berejoice, and give honour to him: for the marriage of the utterly burned with fire: for strong [is] the LordLamb Godis come, who and his wife hath made herself ready. {19:8} judgeth her. {18:9} And the kings of the earth,And whoto her have was granted that she should be arrayed in fine committed fornication and lived deliciously withlinen, her, clean shall and white: for the fine linen is the righteousness bewail her, and lament for her, when ofthey saints. shall{19:9} Andsee he the saith unto me, Write, Blessed [are] smoke of her burning, {18:10} Standing afar off for the fearthey which are called unto the marriage supper of the Lamb. of her torment, saying, Alas, alas, that great Andcity heBabylon, saith unto me, These are the true sayings of God. Revelation Page 162 {19:10} And I fell at his feet to worship him. Andshall he be saidtormented day and night for ever and ever. unto me, See [thou do it] not: I am thy fellowservant, and of thy brethren that have the testimony of Jesus: worship God:{20:11} And I saw a great white throne, and him that sat for the testimony of Jesus is the spirit of prophecy. {19:11}on it, from whose face the earth and the heaven fled away; And I saw heaven opened, and behold a white horse; and andhe there was found no place for them. {20:12} And I saw that sat upon him [was] called Faithful theand dead, True, small and and in great, stand before God; and the books righteousness he doth judge and makewere war. opened: {19:12} and anotherHis book was opened, which is [the eyes [were] as a flame of fire, and on his head [were] manybook] of life: and the dead were judged out of those things crowns; and he had a name written, that no man knew,which but were written in the books, according to their works. he himself. {19:13} And he [was] clothed{20:13} with Anda vesture the sea gave up the dead which were in it; and dipped in blood: and his name is called The Worddeath of God. and hell delivered up the dead which were in them: {19:14} And the armies [which were] in heavenand they followed were judged every man according to their works. him upon white horses, clothed in fine{20:14} linen, And whitedeath and and hell were cast into the lake of fire. clean. {19:15} And out of his mouth goeth a sharpThis sword,is the second death. {20:15} And whosoever was not that with it he should smite the nations: andfound he shallwritten rule in the book of life was cast into the lake of them with a rod of iron: and he treadeth the winepress of thefire. fierceness and wrath of Almighty God. {19:16} And he hath on [his] vesture and on his thigh a name written, KING{21:1} And I saw a new heaven and a new earth: for the OF KINGS, AND LORD OF LORDS. first heaven and the first earth were passed away; and there was no more sea. {21:2} And I John saw the holy city, new {19:17} And I saw an angel standing in the sun;Jerusalem, and hecoming down from God out of heaven, prepared cried with a loud voice, saying to all the fowls that fly in theas a bride adorned for her husband. {21:3} And I heard a midst of heaven, Come and gather yourselves togethergreat unto voice out of heaven saying, Behold, the tabernacle of the supper of the great God; {19:18} That ye Godmay [is]eat withthe men, and he will dwell with them, and they flesh of kings, and the flesh of captains, shalland the be fleshhis people, of and God himself shall be with them, mighty men, and the flesh of horses, and of them that sit[and on be] their God. {21:4} And God shall wipe away all them, and the flesh of all [men, both] free andtears bond, from both their eyes; and there shall be no more death, small and great. {19:19} And I saw the beast, and the kingsneither sorrow, nor crying, neither shall there be any more of the earth, and their armies, gathered together to make warpain: for the former things are passed away. {21:5} And he against him that sat on the horse, andthat against sat upon thehis throne army. said, Behold, I make all things new. {19:20} And the beast was taken, and withAnd him he the said false unto me, Write: for these words are true and prophet that wrought miracles before him,faithful. with {21:6}which And he he said unto me, It is done. I am Alpha deceived them that had received the mark of the beast,and Omega, and the beginning and the end. I will give unto him them that worshipped his image. These both were cast thatalive is athirst of the fountain of the water of life freely. into a lake of fire burning with brimstone. {19:21} And{21:7} the He that overcometh shall inherit all things; and I will remnant were slain with the sword of him that sat uponbe his the God, and he shall be my son. {21:8} But the fearful, horse, which [sword] proceeded out of his mouth:and unbelieving, and all and the abominable, and murderers, and the fowls were filled with their flesh. whoremongers, and sorcerers, and idolaters, and all liars, shall have their part in the lake which burneth with fire and {20:1} And I saw an angel come downbrimstone: from which heaven, is the second death. having the key of the bottomless pit and a great chain in his hand. {20:2} And he laid hold on the{21:9} dragon, And there that came old unto me one of the seven angels serpent, which is the Devil, and Satan, andwhich bound had the sevenhim vialsa full of the seven last plagues, and thousand years, {20:3} And cast him into the bottomless pit,talked with me, saying, Come hither, I will shew thee the and shut him up, and set a seal upon him, thatbride, hethe shouldLamb's wife. {21:10} And he carried me away in deceive the nations no more, till the thousand yearsthe spiritshould to a great and high mountain, and shewed me that be fulfilled: and after that he must be loosed a little greatseason. city, the holy Jerusalem, descending out of heaven {20:4} And I saw thrones, and they satfrom upon God, them, {21:11} and Having the glory of God: and her light judgment was given unto them: and [I saw][was] the like souls unto of a stone most precious, even like a jasper them that were beheaded for the witness of Jesus,stone, and clear for as crystal; {21:12} And had a wall great and the word of God, and which had not worshipped thehigh, beast, [and] had twelve gates, and at the gates twelve angels, neither his image, neither had received [his] mark upon theirand names written thereon, which are [the names] of the foreheads, or in their hands; and they lived and reigned withtwelve tribes of the children of Israel: {21:13} On the east Christ a thousand years. {20:5} But thethree rest gates;of the ondead the north three gates; on the south three lived not again until the thousand years were finished.gates; This and on the west three gates. {21:14} And the wall of [is] the first resurrection. {20:6} Blessed theand cityholy had [is] twelve he foundations, and in them the names of that hath part in the first resurrection: on suchthe twelve the apostlessecond of the Lamb. {21:15} And he that talked death hath no power, but they shall be priests of God andwith of me had a golden reed to measure the city, and the gates Christ, and shall reign with him a thousandthereof, years. {20:7}and the wall thereof. {21:16} And the city lieth And when the thousand years are expired,foursquare, Satan shall and the be length is as large as the breadth: and he loosed out of his prison, {20:8} And shall go out to deceivemeasured the city with the reed, twelve thousand furlongs. the nations which are in the four quarters of the earth,The Goglength and the breadth and the height of it are equal. and , to gather them together to battle: the number{21:17} of And he measured the wall thereof, an hundred whom [is] as the sand of the sea. {20:9} And they went[and] upforty [and] four cubits, [according to] the measure of a on the breadth of the earth, and compassed the campman, of the that is, of the angel. {21:18} And the building of the saints about, and the beloved city: and fire came down fromwall of it was [of] jasper: and the city [was] pure gold, like God out of heaven, and devoured them. {20:10}unto clear And glass. the {21:19} And the foundations of the wall of devil that deceived them was cast into the lake theof cityfire [were] and garnished with all manner of precious stones. brimstone, where the beast and the false prophet The[are,] first and foundation [was] jasper; the second, sapphire; the Page 163 Revelation third, a chalcedony; the fourth, an emerald;{22:18} {21:20} For TheI testify unto every man that heareth the fifth, sardonyx; the sixth, sardius; the seventh,words of chrysolite;the prophecy of this book, If any man shall add the eighth, beryl; the ninth,unto these things,a topaz; God shall addthe unto himtenth, the plagues a that chrysoprasus; the eleventh,are awritten jacinth; in this book: the{22:19} twelfth,And if any man shallan take amethyst. {21:21} And the twelveaway gates from the[were] words twelveof the book of this prophecy, God pearls; every several gate was of one pearl: and the streetshall of take away his part out of the book of life, and out of the city [was] pure gold, as it thewere holy city, transparent and [from] the things glass. which are written in this {21:22} And I saw no temple therein: forbook. the Lord God Almighty and the Lamb are the temple of it. {21:23} And the city had no need of the sun, neither of{22:20} the moon, He which to testifieth these things saith, Surely I shine in it: for the glory of God did lighten it, and the Lambcome quickly. Amen. Even so, come, Lord Jesus. [is] the light thereof. {21:24} And the nations of them which are saved shall walk in the light of it: and the kings of the earth do bring their glory and honour into it. {21:25} And the gates of it shall not be shut at all by day: for there shall be no night there. {21:26} And they shall bring the glory and honour of the nations into it. {21:27} And there shall in no wise enter into it any thing that defileth, neither [whatsoever] worketh abomination, or [maketh] a lie: but they which are written in the Lamb's book of life.

{22:1} And he shewed me a pure river of water of life, clear as crystal, proceeding out of the throne of God and of the Lamb. {22:2} In the midst of the street of it, and on either side of the river, [was there] the tree of life, which bare twelve [manner] of fruits, [and] yielded her fruit every month: and the leaves of the tree [were] for the healing of the nations. {22:3} And there shall be no more curse: but the throne of God and of the Lamb shall be in it; and his servants shall serve him: {22:4} And they shall see his face; and his name [shall be] in their foreheads. {22:5} And there shall be no night there; and they need no candle, neither light of the sun; for the Lord God giveth them light: and they shall reign for ever and ever.

{22:6} And he said unto me, These sayings [are] faithful and true: and the Lord God of the holy prophets sent his angel to shew unto his servants the things which must shortly be done. {22:7} Behold, I come quickly: blessed is he that keepeth the sayings of the prophecy of this book. {22:8} And I John saw these things, and heard [them.] And when I had heard and seen, I fell down to worship before the feet of the angel which shewed me these things. {22:9} Then saith he unto me, See [thou do it] not: for I am thy fellowservant, and of thy brethren the prophets, and of them which keep the sayings of this book: worship God. {22:10} And he saith unto me, Seal not the sayings of the prophecy of this book: for the time is at hand. {22:11} He that is unjust, let him be unjust still: and he which is filthy, let him be filthy still: and he that is righteous, let him be righteous still: and he that is holy, let him be holy still. {22:12} And, behold, I come quickly; and my reward [is] with me, to give every man according as his work shall be. {22:13} I am Alpha and Omega, the beginning and the end, the first and the last. {22:14} Blessed [are] they that do his commandments, that they may have right to the tree of life, and may enter in through the gates into the city. {22:15} For without [are] dogs, and sorcerers, and whoremongers, and murderers, and idolaters, and whosoever loveth and maketh a lie.

{22:16} I Jesus have sent mine angel to testify unto you these things in the churches. I am the root and the offspring of David, [and] the bright and morning star.

{22:17} And the Spirit and the bride say, Come. And let him that heareth say, Come. And let him that is athirst come. And whosoever will, let him take the water of life freely.