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mnt@Romans:1:2 @ which through his prophets he promised beforetime, in holy writings;

mnt@Romans:1:4 @ but was by his resurrection from the dead instated as Son of God, with power, in respect of his spirit of holiness.

mnt@Romans:1:5 @ It is through him, even Jesus Christ our Lord, that I received grace and apostleship to promote obedience to the faith among all the Gentiles, for his names sake;

mnt@Romans:1:7 @ To all that are in Rome, beloved of God, called to be saints. May God our Father, and the Lord Jesus Christ, bless you, and give you peace.

mnt@Romans:1:8 @ First I thank my God, through Jesus Christ, for all of you, because your faith is being proclaimed throughout all the world.

mnt@Romans:1:9 @ God is my witness, to whom I render holy service in my spirit in the gospel of his Son, how unceasingly I am ever making mention of you in my prayers,

mnt@Romans:1:10 @ always entreating him that now at length, if such be his will, the way may be made clear for me to come to you.

mnt@Romans:1:11 @ For I am longing so to see you, in order to impart to you some spiritual gift, so that you may be established;

mnt@Romans:1:12 @ that is, that I with you may be encouraged by you, each of us by the others faith, yours and mine.

mnt@Romans:1:13 @ I want you to know, brothers, that many a time I have planned to come to you - though until now I have been hindered - so as to have some harvest-fruit among you also, even as I have among the rest of the Gentiles.

mnt@Romans:1:14 @ To Greeks and to barbarians, to the cultured and to the uncultured, I have a debt to discharge.

mnt@Romans:1:15 @ So much as in me is, I am ready to preach the gospel to you also who are in Rome.

mnt@Romans:1:16 @ FOR I AM PROUD OF THE GOSPEL. IT IS GODS SAVING POWER FOR EVERY ONE WHO BELIEVES. FOR THE JEW FIRST, AND ALSO FOR THE GENTILE.

mnt@Romans:1:18 @ For Gods wrath is ever being revealed from heaven against all ungodliness and unrighteousness of men who smother the truth by their unrighteousness.

mnt@Romans:1:19 @ This is so because that which may be known of God is manifest among them; for God has made it manifest to them.

mnt@Romans:1:20 @ For ever since the creation of the world his invisible nature, even his everlasting power and divinity, has been clearly seen, being perceived through the things that are made. So they have no excuse.

mnt@Romans:1:21 @ For although they knew God, yet they did not glorify him as God, nor give him thanks; but became vain in their reasoning, and their senseless minds were darkened.

mnt@Romans:1:22 @ While they professed to be wise, they became fools,

mnt@Romans:1:23 @ and exchanged the majesty of the imperishable God for an idol, graven in the likeness of perishable man, or of birds and four-footed beasts and creeping things.

mnt@Romans:1:24 @ So God gave them up in the lusts of their hearts to impurity, to the dishonoring of their own bodies;

mnt@Romans:1:25 @ because they exchanged the truth of God for an untruth, and worshiped and served the creature, rather than the Creator who is blessed forever. Amen.

mnt@Romans:1:26 @ That is why God has given them up to passions of dishonor; for on the one hand their women actually changed the natural function of sex into that which is against nature;

mnt@Romans:1:27 @ and on the other hand their men likewise abandoned the natural use of women, and were ablaze with passion for one another; men with men practising shameless acts and receiving in their own person that recompense of their wrong-doing which necessarily followed.

mnt@Romans:1:28 @ And just as they refused to continue to retain God in their knowledge, so did God cast them out to an outcast mind, to do those things which were indecent.

mnt@Romans:1:29 @ They were overflowing with every kind of iniquity, depravity, greed, and malice. They were full of envy, murder, quarreling, deceit, and malignity.

mnt@Romans:1:30 @ They became whisperers, back-biters, hated of God, insolent, haughty, boastful. They invented sins. They were disobedient to parents.

mnt@Romans:1:31 @ They were without sense, without faith, without natural affection, without mercy.

mnt@Romans:1:32 @ Though they knew well the ordinance of God, that those who practise such vices are worthy of death, they not only continue to do the same, but were even applauding those who practise vice.

mnt@Romans:2:1 @ You are therefore inexcusable, O man, whoever you are, that sits in judgment; for in judging another you are condemning yourself. You, the judge, are habitually practising the very same things.

mnt@Romans:2:2 @ "We know that Gods judgment against those who practise such vices is in accord with the truth," you say?

mnt@Romans:2:3 @ Very well; and do you suppose, you who judge those that practise such vices, and are doing the very same, that you will elude the judgment of God?

mnt@Romans:2:4 @ Or do you despise the riches of his kindness and forbearance and long patience? Do you not know that the kindness of God is leading you to repentance?

mnt@Romans:2:5 @ In your hardness and impenitence of heart you are treasuring up for yourself wrath on the Day of Wrath, when the righteous judgment of God is revealed.

mnt@Romans:2:6 @ For He will render to every man according to his works;

mnt@Romans:2:8 @ but anger and wrath upon those who are self-willed and disobey the truth, but obey unrighteousness.

mnt@Romans:2:9 @ Anguish and calamity will be upon every soul of man who practises evil, upon the Jew first, and also upon the Gentile;

mnt@Romans:2:10 @ but glory and honor and peace to every man who does good, to the Jew first, and also to the Gentile.

mnt@Romans:2:11 @ For there is no partiality with God.

mnt@Romans:2:13 @ For it is not the hearers of law who are righteous in the eyes of God; nay, it is the doers of law who will be accounted righteous.

mnt@Romans:2:14 @ For when Gentiles, who have no law, obey by natural instinct the commands of the Law, they even though they have no law, are a law to themselves.

mnt@Romans:2:15 @ For they show that the work of the Law is written in their hearts, while their conscience bears them witness, as their reasonings accuse, or it may be defend, them,

mnt@Romans:2:16 @ in the day when God will judge the secrets of men by Jesus Christ, according to my gospel.

mnt@Romans:2:17 @ Now if you bear the name of a Jew, and rely upon law, and boast yourself in God,

mnt@Romans:2:18 @ and know his will, and can test the things that differ; if you are instructed out of the Law,

mnt@Romans:2:20 @ an instructor of the foolish, a teacher of the young, because you have in the Law the form of knowledge and of the truth - well then, you who are teaching others, do you ever teach yourself?

mnt@Romans:2:21 @ You who are preaching that a man should not steal, do you practise theft?

mnt@Romans:2:22 @ You who keep saying that a man should not commit adultery, do you commit adultery? You who hold idols in abhorrence, are you plundering their temples?

mnt@Romans:2:23 @ You who are making your boast in the Law, do you habitually dishonor God through your transgressions of the Law?

mnt@Romans:2:24 @ For the name of God is continually blasphemed among the Gentiles because of you, even as the Scripture itself says.

mnt@Romans:2:25 @ Circumcision does indeed profit, if you are obedient to the Law; but if you habitually break the Law, your circumcision is become uncircumcision.

mnt@Romans:2:26 @ So if the uncircumcised keeps the ordinance of the Law, shall not his uncircumcision be reckoned equivalent to circumcision.

mnt@Romans:2:27 @ And shall not those who are physically uncircumcised, but who keep the Law, condemn you who are a breaker of the Law, although you have a written law and circumcision?

mnt@Romans:2:28 @ For the real Jew is not the man who is one outwardly, and the real circumcision is not outward in the flesh;

mnt@Romans:2:29 @ but the real Jew is one inwardly, and real circumcision is heart- circumcision, spiritual, not literal, praised not by men, but by God.

mnt@Romans:3:1 @ What special privilege, then, has the Jew? Or what is the use of circumcision?

mnt@Romans:3:2 @ Much in every way. First of all, because to them were entrusted the oracles of God.

mnt@Romans:3:3 @ Supposing some of them have proved faithless?

mnt@Romans:3:4 @ By no means! Be sure that God is ever true, though all mankind prove false. As it is written, That thou mayest be found just in thine argument, And gain thy cause when thou contendest.

mnt@Romans:3:5 @ But if our unrighteousness thus brings out Gods righteousness, what shall we say? Is God unrighteous - I speak after the manner of men - when he inflicts his anger on us?

mnt@Romans:3:6 @ Be it far from us; for in that case how could God judge the world?

mnt@Romans:3:7 @ But if by a falsehood of mine the truthfulness of God has been made to redound to his glory, why am I still tried as a sinner?

mnt@Romans:3:9 @ What then? Are we Jews in a better position? Not at all, for I have already charged all, both Jews and Gentiles, with being under sin.

mnt@Romans:3:10 @ As it is written. There is none righteous, no, not one;

mnt@Romans:3:11 @ There is none that understands, none that seeks for God!

mnt@Romans:3:12 @ All have swerved from the right path; Every one of them has become corrupt. There is none that practises good, no, not one.

mnt@Romans:3:13 @ Their throat is an open grave; With their tongues they have used deceit. The venom of asps is under their lips.

mnt@Romans:3:14 @ Their mouth is full of cursing and bitterness.

mnt@Romans:3:15 @ Their feet are swift to shed blood.

mnt@Romans:3:16 @ Destruction and ruin are in their paths;

mnt@Romans:3:17 @ And the path of peace they have not known.

mnt@Romans:3:18 @ Reverence for God is not before their eyes.

mnt@Romans:3:19 @ Now we know that whatever the Law says, it speaks to those who are under the Law; so that every mouth may be shut, and all the world may be brought under the judgment of God.

mnt@Romans:3:20 @ For no man will be justified in Gods sight by works of the Law; for through the Law comes the consciousness of sin.

mnt@Romans:3:21 @ But now, quite apart from any law, a righteousness coming from God has been fully brought to light, continually witnessed to by the Law and the Prophets.

mnt@Romans:3:22 @ I mean a righteousness coming from God through faith in Jesus Christ, for all who believe. For there is no distinction between Jew and Gentile,

mnt@Romans:3:23 @ since all have sinned and lack the glory which comes from God;

mnt@Romans:3:24 @ but they are now being justified by his free grace through the deliverance that is in Christ Jesus.

mnt@Romans:3:25 @ For God openly set him forth for himself as an offering of atonement through faith, by means of his blood, in order to show forth his righteousness - since in his forbearance he had passed over the sins previously committed - to show forth his righteousness,

mnt@Romans:3:26 @ I say, at this present time; that he himself might be just, and yet the justifier of him who has faith in Jesus.

mnt@Romans:3:27 @ Then what becomes of boasting? It is shut out. What sort of law forbids it? A law of works? No, but a law of faith.

mnt@Romans:3:28 @ For I conclude that a man is justified by faith, altogether apart from the deeds of the Law.

mnt@Romans:3:29 @ Is God then the God of the Jews alone, and not of the Gentiles also? He is God of the Gentiles also,

mnt@Romans:3:30 @ since there is one God who will justify the circumcised through faith, and by their faith will he justify the uncircumcised.

mnt@Romans:3:31 @ Do we then render law invalid through faith? Certainly not; on the contrary we make it stand.

mnt@Romans:4:1 @ What then shall we say of Abraham, our ancestor in the flesh?

mnt@Romans:4:2 @ For if Abraham was justified by works, he has something to be proud of, but not before God.

mnt@Romans:4:5 @ but a man who does not "work," but believes in him who justifies the ungodly, has his faith imputed to him for righteousness.

mnt@Romans:4:6 @ Just as David also speaks of the blessedness of the man to whom God imputes righteousness apart from actions.

mnt@Romans:4:7 @ Blessed he says are they whose iniquities have been forgiven, And whose sins have been covered.

mnt@Romans:4:8 @ Blessed is the man to whom the Lord will not impute sin.

mnt@Romans:4:9 @ Is this blessing, then, for the circumcised alone? or for the uncircumcised also? Abrahams faith, I say, was imputed to him for righteousness.

mnt@Romans:4:10 @ How then was it imputed to him? When he was circumcised? or uncircumcised? Not in circumcision, but in uncircumcision;

mnt@Romans:4:11 @ and he received circumcision as a sign, a seal of the faith- righteousness which he had while he was in uncircumcision; in order that he might be the father of all who believe, even though they are uncircumcised; so that righteousness might be imputed to them.

mnt@Romans:4:12 @ He is the father of circumcision to those who are not merely circumcised, but who also walk in the steps of that faith of our father Abraham which he held while he was as yet uncircumcised.

mnt@Romans:4:13 @ For the promise that he should be heir of the world did not come to Abraham or to his posterity through law, but through faith- righteousness.

mnt@Romans:4:14 @ For if those who are righteous through law are heirs, faith is empty and the promise becomes void.

mnt@Romans:4:15 @ For law works wrath; but where there is no law, neither is there transgression.

mnt@Romans:4:16 @ This is why righteousness is of faith, that it may be a free gift; so that the promise stands firm to all Abrahams posterity; not to his children of his faith. For in the sight of the God in whom he believed, who gives life to the dead, and calls into being that which is not, Abraham is the father of us all both Jews and Gentiles,

mnt@Romans:4:17 @ as it is written, I have made you a father of many nations.

mnt@Romans:4:18 @ For Abraham, hoping against hope, had faith to the end that he might become a father of many nations, according to that which had been spoken, So numberless shall your descendants be.

mnt@Romans:4:19 @ Though he was about a hundred years old, his faith did not fail him when he regarded his own body, now as good as dead. and remembered Sarahs barrenness.

mnt@Romans:4:20 @ Nor did he with regard to the promise of God waver in unbelief, but he waxed strong in faith, while he gave God glory,

mnt@Romans:4:21 @ and was fully persuaded that what God had promised, he was able also to perform.

mnt@Romans:4:23 @ Now these words were not written simply for his sake, but for us as well.

mnt@Romans:4:24 @ For it will be "reckoned for righteousness." to us also, who believe on him that raised from the dead our Lord Jesus;

mnt@Romans:5:1 @ Since we stand justified as the result of faith, let us continue to enjoy the peace we have with God through our Lord Jesus Christ.

mnt@Romans:5:2 @ Through him also we have had our access into this grace in which we have taken our stand, and are exulting in hope of the glory of God.

mnt@Romans:5:5 @ a hope which never disappoints us. For through the Holy Spirit who has given to us, the "brimming river of the love of God" has overflowed in our hearts.

mnt@Romans:5:6 @ For while we were still without strength, Christ died in due time for the ungodly.

mnt@Romans:5:7 @ Why, a man will hardly give his life for another, even for a righteous man, though perchance for a good man one might even take it upon himself to die.

mnt@Romans:5:8 @ But God gives proof of his love to us by the fact that while we were still sinners, Christ died for us.

mnt@Romans:5:9 @ By how much more, then, being now justified in his blood, shall we be saved through him from the wrath of God.

mnt@Romans:5:10 @ For if, when we were Gods enemies, we were reconciled to him through the death of his Son, how much more, now that we are reconciled, shall we be saved in his life.

mnt@Romans:5:12 @ Thus, then, sin came into the world through one man, and through sin came death and so death spread to all men, because all had sinned.

mnt@Romans:5:13 @ For prior to the Law, sin actually existed in the world, but sin was not set down to mans account when there was no law.

mnt@Romans:5:14 @ Nevertheless, from Adam to Moses death reigned as king, even over those who had not sinned after the likeness of Adams transgression. Now Adam is a type of Him who was to come.

mnt@Romans:5:15 @ But the free gift is not like the transgression; for if through the transgression of that one man the rest on men died, much more did the grace of God and the gift given in his grace in the one Man, Jesus Christ, overflow unto the rest of men.

mnt@Romans:5:16 @ And it is not with the free gift as it was through the one that sinned; for the judgment came from one transgression unto condemnation; but the free gift came from many transgressions unto acquittal.

mnt@Romans:5:17 @ For if through the transgression of the one, death reigned as king through the one, much more shall those who receive the overflowing grace and gift of righteousness reign as kings in life through One, through Jesus Christ.

mnt@Romans:5:18 @ It follows then, as through the transgression of one man came condemnation unto all men, even so through the act of righteousness of One came acquittal and life to all men.

mnt@Romans:5:19 @ For just as through the disobedience of one man the rest were made sinners; even so by the obedience of One shall all the rest be made righteous.

mnt@Romans:5:20 @ Now law was brought in so that transgression might abound; but where sin abounded, grace super-abounded;

mnt@Romans:6:1 @ What then shall we say? Shall we continue to abound in sin, in order that grace may come to abound?

mnt@Romans:6:4 @ We have been buried together with him, then, through baptism into his death, in order that just as Christ was raised from the dead through the glory of the Father, so also we should live in a newness of life.

mnt@Romans:6:5 @ For if we have become united with him in the likeness of his death, so we shall also be united with him in the likeness of his resurrection.

mnt@Romans:6:6 @ For this we know, that our old self was crucified with Christ, in order that the slave of sin might be destroyed; so that we should no longer be in slavery to sin -

mnt@Romans:6:7 @ for he who is dead is set free from sin.

mnt@Romans:6:9 @ knowing that Christ, being raised from the dead, dies no more; death has no more dominion over him.

mnt@Romans:6:10 @ For the death that he died, he died unto sin once for all; but the life that he lives he is living unto God.

mnt@Romans:6:12 @ Therefore let not sin rule as king in your mortal body, compelling you to obey its lusts.

mnt@Romans:6:13 @ Do not continue to present any part of your body to sin to be used as a weapon of unrighteousness. On the contrary, be presenting yourselves to God, as alive from the dead, and the various parts of your bodies to be used as weapons of righteousness.

mnt@Romans:6:14 @ For sin shall not lord it over you; for you are not under the rule of law, but under the rule of grace.

mnt@Romans:6:15 @ What then? Shall we commit an act of sin because we are not under law, but under grace? Certainly not.

mnt@Romans:6:16 @ Do you not know that when you surrender yourselves as slaves to any one to obey him, you are his slaves whom you obey; whether it be sin, whose end is death, or obedience, whose end is righteousness?

mnt@Romans:6:17 @ But God be thanked that you who were once the slaves of sin have obeyed from your hearts that type of teaching to which you were appointed;

mnt@Romans:6:18 @ and being set free from sin, you became the slaves of righteousness -

mnt@Romans:6:19 @ I speak in these homely figures because of the weakness of your fleshly nature - just as you once surrendered your faculties into slavery to impurity and to all lawlessness, so now you must surrender your faculties into slavery to righteousness, unto deeds of holiness.

mnt@Romans:6:20 @ For when you were the slaves of sin, you were under no subjection to righteousness.

mnt@Romans:6:21 @ What harvest-fruit then had you at that time in the things of which you are now ashamed? For the end of those things is death.

mnt@Romans:6:22 @ But now that you have been set free from sin and become slaves of God, the harvest-fruit which you are reaping tends to produce holiness, and it ends is life eternal.

mnt@Romans:6:23 @ FOR THE POOR WAGES OF SIN IS DEATH, BUT THE FREE GIFT OF GOD IS ETERNAL LIFE IN CHRIST JESUS, OUR MASTER.

mnt@Romans:7:1 @ Surely, brothers, you know (for I am speaking to those who know what law means) that law governs a person only during his lifetime?

mnt@Romans:7:2 @ For a married woman who has a husband is bound by law to her husband during his lifetime; but if her husband dies, she is released from the law of her husband.

mnt@Romans:7:3 @ So then, if during her husband lifetime, she unites herself with another man, she will be counted an adulteress; but if her husband dies, she is free from the Law, so that she is no adulteress, even if she unites herself with another man.

mnt@Romans:7:4 @ So also, my brother, you were made dead to the Law through the body of Christ; that you should be joined to another, even to Him who was raised from the dead that we might bear fruit for God.

mnt@Romans:7:5 @ For while we were unspiritual, the sinful passions, aroused by the Law, were ever active in every part of our bodies, leading us to bear fruit unto death.

mnt@Romans:7:6 @ But now we have been released from the Law, because we are dead to that in which we were held; so that we are now in thraldom in new and spiritual conditions, and not under the old written code.

mnt@Romans:7:7 @ What shall we say then? Is the Law sin? Certainly not. On the contrary I should not have become acquainted with sin had it not been for the Law; for except the Law had repeatedly said, "Thou shalt not lust," I should never have known the sin of lust.

mnt@Romans:7:8 @ But when sin had gained a vantage-ground, by means of the commandment, it stirred up within me all manner of lust; for where there is no law, sin is dead.

mnt@Romans:7:9 @ Once I lived apart from the Law, myself; but when the commandment came, sin revived, and I died;

mnt@Romans:7:10 @ and the very commandment which should have meant life, this I found to mean death.

mnt@Romans:7:11 @ For sin, when it had gained a vantage-ground through the commandment, beguiled me, and through it slew me.

mnt@Romans:7:12 @ So then the Law is holy, and the commandment is holy and righteous and good.

mnt@Romans:7:13 @ Did then that which was good become for me death? Never! but sin did; that it might be manifest as sin, by that the unutterable malignity of sin might become plain through the commandment.

mnt@Romans:7:14 @ For we know that the Law is spiritual; but as for me, I am a creature of flesh, bought and sold under the dominion of sin.

mnt@Romans:7:16 @ If then I habitually do what I do not intend to do, I am consenting to the Law, that it is right.

mnt@Romans:7:17 @ And now it is longer I myself who do the deed, but it is sin which has its home in me.

mnt@Romans:7:19 @ For the good that I intend to do, I do not; but the evil which I do not; but the evil which I do not intend to do, that I am ever practising.

mnt@Romans:7:20 @ But if I do the very thing I do not intend to do, it is no more I who practise it, but sin which has its home in me.

mnt@Romans:7:21 @ I find, then, this law, that when I intend to do good, evil is ever present with me.

mnt@Romans:7:22 @ For in my inmost self I delight in the law of God;

mnt@Romans:7:23 @ but I find a different law in my bodily faculties, waging war with the law of my will, and taking me prisoner to that law of sin which is in my bodily faculties.

mnt@Romans:7:24 @ Oh, wretched man that I am! Who shall deliver me from this slave of death?

mnt@Romans:7:25 @ Oh, thank God! it is through Jesus Christ our Lord. So then I myself in my will am in thraldom to the law of God; yet in my animal nature I am in thraldom to the law of sin.

mnt@Romans:8:1 @ Thus there is now no condemnation to those who are in Christ Jesus;

mnt@Romans:8:2 @ for the law of the spirit of life in Christ Jesus has set me free from the law of sin and of death.

mnt@Romans:8:3 @ For God has done what the Law could not do, weakened as it was by flesh. By sending his own Son in the likeness of sinful flesh, and on account of sin, he condemned sin in the flesh;

mnt@Romans:8:4 @ in order that the Law might be fulfilled in us who order our lives not after the flesh, but after the spirit.

mnt@Romans:8:5 @ For they who live after the flesh, give their attention to the things of the flesh; But they who live after the spirit, give their attention to spiritual things.

mnt@Romans:8:7 @ For to be earthly minded is enmity against God; For such a mind is not subject to the Law of God, Nor can it be;

mnt@Romans:8:8 @ And they who are earthly minded cannot please God.

mnt@Romans:8:9 @ But you are not earthly, but spiritual, if indeed the Spirit of God is really dwelling in you. If any one does not have the Spirit of Christ, he is none of his.

mnt@Romans:8:11 @ But if the Spirit of Him who raised up Jesus from dead is dwelling in you, He who raised up Jesus from the dead is dwelling in you, He who raised up Christ Jesus from the dead will also make your dying bodily self live by his indwelling Spirit in your lives.

mnt@Romans:8:12 @ Therefore, brothers, we are debtors - but not to the flesh, to live according to the flesh;

mnt@Romans:8:13 @ for if you go on living according to the flesh, you are on the road to die; but if by the Spirit you keep putting to death the deeds of the body, you will live.

mnt@Romans:8:15 @ For you have not received a spirit of slavery in order that you should once more be afraid; but you have received a spirit of adoption, in which we cry out, "My Father, my dear Father!"

mnt@Romans:8:17 @ and if children, then heirs, heirs of God and joint-heirs with Christ; but to share his glory, we must now be sharing his sufferings.

mnt@Romans:8:18 @ For I count as nothing what we now suffer, in comparison with the glory which will soon be unveiled to us.

mnt@Romans:8:19 @ All nature even is waiting with eager longing for the unveiling of the vision of Gods sons.

mnt@Romans:8:20 @ For nature was subjected to imperfection, not by its own will, but by the will of Him who thus made it subject -

mnt@Romans:8:21 @ yet not without the hope that some day nature itself also will be freed from the thraldom of decay, into the freedom which belongs to the glory of the children of God.

mnt@Romans:8:22 @ For we know that all nature has been groaning and travailing together until this hour.

mnt@Romans:8:23 @ And not only that, we ourselves, although we are grasping the first- fruits of the Spirit, even we ourselves are inwardly groaning, while we are waiting for adoption, the redemption of our body.

mnt@Romans:8:25 @ Who hopes for what he clearly sees? But if we hope for something that we do not see, we then patiently wait for it.

mnt@Romans:8:26 @ In the same way the Spirit also takes hold with us in our weakness; for we know knot how to pray as we ought; but the Spirit himself intercedes for us with groanings which cannot be uttered.

mnt@Romans:8:27 @ And the Searcher of Hearts knows what the Sprits meaning is, because his intercessions for the saints are according to the will of God.

mnt@Romans:8:28 @ Now we know that all things continually work together for good to to those who love God, to those who have been the called according to his purpose.

mnt@Romans:8:29 @ For whom he foreknew, he also foreordained to be conformed to the likeness of his Son, so that he might be the eldest of a great brotherhood;

mnt@Romans:8:30 @ and whom he foreordained, those he also called; and whom he called, those he also justified; and whom he justified, those he also glorified.

mnt@Romans:8:31 @ What shall we say then, to these things? If God be for us, Who can be against us?

mnt@Romans:8:32 @ He that spared not his own Son, But freely delivered him up for us all, How shall he not with him also freely give us all things?

mnt@Romans:8:33 @ Who shall accuse Gods elect? God acquits them;

mnt@Romans:8:34 @ Who is there to condemn them? Will Christ who died? Yes, and who rose from the dead, The Christ who is also at the right hand of God, And is interceding for us?

mnt@Romans:8:35 @ What shall separate us from the love of Christ? Shall anguish, or calamity, or persecution, or famine? Shall nakedness, or peril, or sword?

mnt@Romans:8:36 @ Even as it is written. For thy sake we are killed all the day long; We are accounted as sheep for the slaughter.

mnt@Romans:8:37 @ Nay, in all these things we are more than conquerors Through Him who loved us.

mnt@Romans:8:38 @ For I am fully persuaded that neither death nor life, Neither angels nor principalities, nor powers, Neither the present world nor the world to come, Nor the powers of Nature,

mnt@Romans:8:39 @ Nor height, nor depth, Nor any other created thing, Shall be able to separate us from the love of God Which is in Christ Jesus our Lord.

mnt@Romans:9:1 @ I am speaking the truth in Christ, it is no lie. My conscience bears me witness in the Holy Spirit that I have deep sorrow

mnt@Romans:9:2 @ and incessant anguish in my heart.

mnt@Romans:9:3 @ For I was on the point of praying to be accursed from Christ on behalf of my brothers, my kinsmen according to the flesh.

mnt@Romans:9:4 @ For they are Israelites; to them belong the sonship, the Shekinah glory, the covenants, the giving of the Law; the service of the temple, and the promises;

mnt@Romans:9:5 @ theirs are the patriarchs, and of them, as concerning the flesh, is Christ, who is over all, God, blessed forever, Amen.

mnt@Romans:9:6 @ It is not, however, as though Gods word had failed! For they are not all Israel who have sprung from Israel;

mnt@Romans:9:7 @ they are not all children of Abraham because they are Abrahams descendants. The promise was, In Isaac shall thy posterity be called.

mnt@Romans:9:8 @ That is, it is not the children of the flesh who are children of God; but the children of the promise are counted as his posterity.

mnt@Romans:9:9 @ For thus is the word of promise, According to this season I will come, and Sarah shall bear a son.

mnt@Romans:9:10 @ And not only so, but when Rebecca was pregnant by our forefather Isaac, though one man was the father of both children,

mnt@Romans:9:11 @ and even though they were still unborn, and had done nothing either good or bad, in order that the purpose of God might stand according to election, not of works, but of Him who called,

mnt@Romans:9:12 @ it was said to her, The elder shall serve the younger.

mnt@Romans:9:14 @ What shall we say then? that there is injustice with God? No indeed.

mnt@Romans:9:16 @ So then it is not a question of him who wills, nor of him who runs, but of God who has mercy.

mnt@Romans:9:17 @ For the Scripture says to Pharaoh, It is for this very purpose that I have raised you up, To show in you my power, And to proclaim my name far and wide, in all the earth.

mnt@Romans:9:18 @ So then he has mercy on whom he will, and whom he will, he hardens.

mnt@Romans:9:19 @ Then you will say to me. "Why does he still go on finding fault? Who can withstand his will?"

mnt@Romans:9:20 @ "Nay, but who are you, O man, that replies to God? Shall the thing formed say unto him who formed it, "Why did you do me like this?"

mnt@Romans:9:21 @ Or has not the potter power over the clay, to make out of the same lump one vessel for noble, and another for ignoble uses?

mnt@Romans:9:23 @ And what if he thus purposed to make known the riches of his glory upon vessels of mercy, which he had before prepared for glory?

mnt@Romans:9:24 @ Now such are we whom he has called, not only from among the Jews, but also from among the Gentiles.

mnt@Romans:9:25 @ As he also said in Hosea. Those who were not my people I will call "my people," And her "beloved" who was not beloved;

mnt@Romans:9:26 @ And in that very spot where it was told them, "You are not my people," There they shall be called "Sons of the living God."

mnt@Romans:9:27 @ And in regard to Israel, Isaiah exclaims. Though the number of the sons of Israel be like the sands of the sea, it is but a remnant of those who shall be saved;

mnt@Romans:9:28 @ for the Lord will execute his word upon the earth, finishing it and cutting it short.

mnt@Romans:9:29 @ Even as in an earlier passage, Isaiah says, Except the Lord of Sabbath had us some few descendants, we should have become like Sodom, and should have fared like Gomorrah.

mnt@Romans:9:30 @ What then shall we say? That Gentiles who never pursed righteousness have overtaken it, even the righteousness of faith?

mnt@Romans:9:31 @ But that the descendants of Israel, who were in pursuit of a law of righteousness, did not arrive at that law?

mnt@Romans:9:32 @ And why? Because they sought it not by faith, but thought to gain it by works. They stumbled at the stone of stumbling;

mnt@Romans:9:33 @ even as it is written. Behold, I lay in Zion a stone of stumbling and a rock of offense; but he that believes on Him shall not be put to shame.

mnt@Romans:10:1 @ Brothers, the longing of my heart and my prayer to God is for my countrymen, that they may be saved.

mnt@Romans:10:2 @ For I bear them witness that they have a zeal for God, only it is a zeal without knowledge.

mnt@Romans:10:3 @ For because they were ignorant of Gods righteousness, and sought to establish their own righteousness, they did not submit themselves to the righteousness of God.

mnt@Romans:10:5 @ For Moses writes concerning the righteousness of the Law, saying, The man that doeth it shall live by it.

mnt@Romans:10:6 @ But the righteousness of faith speaks in this way. Say not in thine heart, "Who shall ascend to heaven?" - that is, to bring Christ down;

mnt@Romans:10:7 @ Nor,"who shall descend into the abyss?" - that is, to bring Christ up from the dead.

mnt@Romans:10:8 @ But what does it say? The word is near thee, even in thy mouth and in thy heart. That is the very word of faith which we preach;

mnt@Romans:10:9 @ Confess with your mouth "Jesus is Lord," and believe in your heart that God actually raised him from the dead, and you will be saved.

mnt@Romans:10:10 @ For with the heart man believes unto righteousness, and with the mouth confession is made unto salvation.

mnt@Romans:10:11 @ The Scriptures say, Whoever believes in Him will not be put to shame.

mnt@Romans:10:12 @ For there is no difference between Jew and Gentile, because the same Lord Jesus is all over, and is rich unto all who call upon Him;

mnt@Romans:10:13 @ for Whoever will call upon the name of the Lord will be saved.

mnt@Romans:10:14 @ How then shall thy call upon Him in whom they do not believe? And how are they to believe in One of whom they have never heard? And how shall they hear without a preacher?

mnt@Romans:10:15 @ And how can men preach unless they are sent? As it is written, How beautiful are the feet of those who bring a glad gospel.

mnt@Romans:10:16 @ And yet they did not all hearken to the good news; for Isaiah said, Lord, who hath believed our message?

mnt@Romans:10:17 @ So faith comes from a message heard, and the message comes from the teaching of Christ.

mnt@Romans:10:18 @ But I ask, Did they fail to hear? Yes, truly, Their sound has gone out unto all the earth, And their words unto the ends of the world.

mnt@Romans:10:21 @ But to Israel he says, All day long I have been spreading out my hands unto a disobedient and contrary people.

mnt@Romans:11:1 @ Then I ask, Did God cast off his people? No indeed. For I also am an Israelite, a son of Abraham, a member of the tribe of Benjamin.

mnt@Romans:11:2 @ God did not cast off his people whom he foreknew. For do you not know what is said in the Scripture about Elijah? how he pleaded with God against Israel, saying,

mnt@Romans:11:3 @ Lord, they have killed thy prophets, they have overthrown thine altars; And now I alone am left, and they seek my life.

mnt@Romans:11:4 @ But what was the answer of God to him? I have reserved for myself seven thousand who have not bowed the knee to Baal.

mnt@Romans:11:5 @ In the same way also at this time there is a remnant chosen by gift of grace.

mnt@Romans:11:7 @ What then? that which Israel has been seeking for, that he has not obtained; but the chosen have obtained it, and the rest have been hardened.

mnt@Romans:11:8 @ According as it is written, God has given them a spirit of slumber, Eyes that they should not see, Ears that they should not hear, unto this day.

mnt@Romans:11:9 @ As David says. Let their table be made a snare and a trap, And a stumbling-block and a recompense unto them;

mnt@Romans:11:10 @ Let their eyes be darkened, that they may not see, And bow thou down their backs forever.

mnt@Romans:11:11 @ I ask then, "Have they stumbled so as to fall?" No indeed; but by their lapse salvation has come unto Gentiles, "to provoke Israel to jealousy."

mnt@Romans:11:12 @ Now if their stumbling enriches the world, and their loss enriches the Gentiles, how much more must their fulness do!

mnt@Romans:11:13 @ For to you who are Gentiles I say that since I am an apostle to the Gentiles, I glorify my ministry,

mnt@Romans:11:14 @ if by any means I might "provoke to jealousy" my kinsmen, and save some among them.

mnt@Romans:11:15 @ For if their casting out is the reconciliation of the world to God, what will their restoration be but life out of death?

mnt@Romans:11:16 @ Now if the first-fruits of the dough Abraham and the Patriarchs are holy, so also is the whole mass their descendants. And if the root of a tree Abraham is holy, so also are the branches his descendants.

mnt@Romans:11:17 @ Supposing that some of the branches have been broken off, and you, although you were but a wild olive, have been grafted in among the branches and have become a partaker with them of the fatness of the olive tree, do not glory over the branches;

mnt@Romans:11:18 @ or if you are glorying, remember that it is not you who uphold the root, but the root which upholds you.

mnt@Romans:11:19 @ "Branches have been broken off," you say, "that I might be grafted in."

mnt@Romans:11:20 @ True, through their unbelief they were broken off, and by your faith you stand. Do not be puffed up, but fear;

mnt@Romans:11:21 @ for if God spared not the natural branches, neither will he spare you.

mnt@Romans:11:22 @ Fix your gaze, therefore, on the goodness and the severity of God; towards those who fell, severity, but towards you, Gods goodness, if you continue stedfast in his goodness; otherwise you, too, will be cut off.

mnt@Romans:11:23 @ And they also those Jews, if they do not continue in their unbelief, will be grafted in again; for God is able to graft them in again.

mnt@Romans:11:24 @ For if you were cut out of that which is by nature a mere wild olive tree, and have been grafted, contrary to nature, into a fruitful olive tree, how much more shall these, the natural branches, be regrafted into their own olive tree?

mnt@Romans:11:25 @ For I would not, my brothers, have you ignorant of this hidden truth, for fear that you become wise in your own conceits. that a hardening in part has befallen Israel, until the fulness of the Gentiles is come in.

mnt@Romans:11:26 @ And so all Israel will be saved, as it is written. The deliver will come from Zion, He will banish all ungodliness from Jacob;

mnt@Romans:11:27 @ This is my covenant with them, When I shall take away their sins.

mnt@Romans:11:28 @ In relation to the gospel, the Jews are Gods enemies for your sake; but in relation to the election, they are dearly loved for their forefathers sake.

mnt@Romans:11:30 @ And as in times past you were yourselves disobedient to God, but now, thanks to their disobedience, have obtained mercy;

mnt@Romans:11:31 @ even so they also have now been disobedient, that by the mercy shown to you they also may now obtain mercy.

mnt@Romans:11:32 @ For God has locked up all in the prison of disobedience, that upon all he may have mercy.

mnt@Romans:11:33 @ Oh, the depths of the riches, both of the wisdom and the knowledge of God! How unfathomable are his judgments, and how unsearchable his paths!

mnt@Romans:11:34 @ Who has known the mind of the Lord? Or who has been his counsellor?

mnt@Romans:12:1 @ I entreat you therefore, brothers, by the mercies of God, to present your bodies to Him as a living sacrifice, holy and acceptable to God. This is your reasonable service of worship.

mnt@Romans:12:2 @ And be not conformed to this world, but be transformed by the renewing of your minds, so that you may prove what is the good and acceptable and perfect will of God.

mnt@Romans:12:3 @ For, through the grace that was given to me, I tell every man among you not to think of himself more highly than he ought to think; but so to think, as to think soberly, according to the measure of faith which God has given him.

mnt@Romans:12:4 @ For even as we have many members in one body, and not all members have the same function;

mnt@Romans:12:5 @ so we, who are many, are one body in Christ, and we are severally members of one another.

mnt@Romans:12:6 @ But we have gifts differing according to the grace which was given to us. He that has the gift of prophecy, let him prophesy according to the proportion of his faith.

mnt@Romans:12:7 @ If it is the gift of administration, let us give ourselves to our service.

mnt@Romans:12:8 @ Let the teacher give himself to his teaching; and he who exhorts others to his exhortation. He who gives, let him do it in singleness of mind. He who rules, let him rule with diligence; and he who shows mercy must be cheerful.

mnt@Romans:12:10 @ As for brotherly love, be tenderly affectionate one to another, in honor preferring one another.

mnt@Romans:12:11 @ In your diligence be free from sloth. Be glowing in spirit. Slave for the master.

mnt@Romans:12:16 @ Have full sympathy with one another. Set not your minds on high affairs, but associate with lowly folk. Do not be wise in your own conceits.

mnt@Romans:12:17 @ Do not pay back evil for evil. Aim to do what is honorable in the eyes of all.

mnt@Romans:12:19 @ Never revenge yourself, beloved, but leave the field clear for Gods wrath; for it is written, "Vengeance is mine, I will repay," says the Lord.

mnt@Romans:12:20 @ On the contrary, therefore, If your enemy is hungry, feed him; if he is thirsty, give him drink; for by so doing you will be heaping burning coals on his head.

mnt@Romans:13:1 @ Every one should be in the higher authorities; for there is no authority apart from God. The authorities that now exist have been appointed by God.

mnt@Romans:13:2 @ Therefore the man who rebels against authority is opposing the divine ordinances; and those who withstand will bring judgment on themselves.

mnt@Romans:13:3 @ For rulers are no terror to good deeds, but to evil. Would you be fearless of the rulers authority? Do what is good, and you will have his praise.

mnt@Romans:13:4 @ For the ruler is Gods minister appointed for your good. But if you are a wrong-doer, be afraid; he does not carry the sword to no purpose; he is Gods servant, appointed to vengeance upon the guilty.

mnt@Romans:13:5 @ Wherefore you must needs be in subjection, not only because of fear, but also for conscience sake.

mnt@Romans:13:6 @ This too, is the reason why you pay taxes; because the authorities are ministers of Gods service, attending continually upon this very thing.

mnt@Romans:13:7 @ Render to all their dues; taxes to whom taxes, customs to whom customs, respect to whom respect, and homage to whom homage is due.

mnt@Romans:13:8 @ Never owe any one anything save the debt of brotherly love; for he who loves his neighbor has fulfilled the Law.

mnt@Romans:13:9 @ For the Law which says, Thou shalt not commit adultery, thou shalt do no murder, thou shalt not steal, thou shalt not bear false witness, thou shalt not covet, and whatever other commandment there be - is all summed up in this one saying, Thou shalt love thy neighbor as thyself.

mnt@Romans:13:10 @ Love never wrongs his neighbor; therefore love is the fulfilment of the Law.

mnt@Romans:13:11 @ Carry out these injunctions because you know the crisis that we are in, that now it is high time for you to awake out of sleep; for now is our salvation nearer than when we first believed.

mnt@Romans:13:12 @ The night is far spent; The day is at hand. Let is therefore take off the deeds of darkness, Let us put on the armor of light.

mnt@Romans:13:13 @ Let us live honestly, as in the day, Not in reveling and drunkenness, Not in lust and licentiousness, Not is strife and jealousy;

mnt@Romans:13:14 @ But clothe yourselves with the Lord Jesus Christ, And make no provisions for your earthly nature And the gratification of its lusts.

mnt@Romans:14:1 @ Welcome a man of weak faith, but not for the purpose of deciding doubtful points.

mnt@Romans:14:2 @ One man has faith to eat anything; but he whose faith is weak, eats only vegetables.

mnt@Romans:14:3 @ He who eats meat must not despise the man who abstains; and let not the man who abstains judge him who eats; for God has received him.

mnt@Romans:14:4 @ Who are you just that judges the household-servant of another? To his own lord he stands or falls. And stand he will, for his Master has power to make him stand.

mnt@Romans:14:5 @ There are some who esteem one day above another; there are others who esteem all days alike; let each other be fully persuaded in his own mind.

mnt@Romans:14:6 @ He who regards the day, regards it unto his Lord; and he who regards it not, disregards it unto his Lord. He who eats meat, eats unto his Lord, for he gives God thanks; and he who abstains, abstains unto his Lord, since he, too, gives God thanks.

mnt@Romans:14:8 @ If we live, we live unto our Lord; if we die, we die unto our Lord. So then, whether we live or die, we belong to our Lord.

mnt@Romans:14:9 @ For this purpose Christ died and became alive again, that he might be the Lord both of the dead and of the living.

mnt@Romans:14:10 @ But you the abstainer, why do you pass judgment on your brother? Or you again the non-abstainer, why do you despise yours? For we shall all stand before the judgment-seat of God.

mnt@Romans:14:11 @ For it is written, "As I live," says the Lord, "to me every knee shall bow, And to God shall every tongue confess."

mnt@Romans:14:12 @ So then each one of us shall give account of himself to God.

mnt@Romans:14:13 @ So let us no longer pass judgment on one another; rather let this be your judgment, that no one put a stumbling-block in his brothers way, nor any cause of falling.

mnt@Romans:14:14 @ I know and am persuaded in the Lord Jesus that nothing is in itself unclean; but any food is "unclean" for one who considers it "unclean."

mnt@Romans:14:15 @ If your brother is continually pained because of your food, you are not conducting yourself any longer in love. Do not, by what you eat, persist in destroying a man for whom Christ died.

mnt@Romans:14:16 @ Therefore do not let what is right, so far as you are concerned, be evil spoken of.

mnt@Romans:14:17 @ For the kingdom of God is not a matter of eating and drinking, but of righteousness and peace and joy in the Holy Spirit.

mnt@Romans:14:18 @ Those who are slaving for Christ devotedly in these ways, are well pleasing to God and highly commended by man.

mnt@Romans:14:19 @ So then let is eagerly pursue the things that make for peace and the upbuilding of each other.

mnt@Romans:14:20 @ Do not, for the sake of food, be tearing down Gods work. All food indeed is ceremonially clean, but a man is in the wrong if his food proves a stumbling-block.

mnt@Romans:14:21 @ The right course is not to eat meat, nor to drink wine, nor to do anything through which your brother is made to stumble.

mnt@Romans:14:22 @ Have you faith? Keep it to yourself as in the presence of God. He is a happy man who does not condemn himself in that which he approves.

mnt@Romans:14:23 @ But he who has misgivings, and yet eats meat, is condemned already, because his action is not based on faith; and whatever is not based on faith is sin.

mnt@Romans:15:1 @ Now we who are strong ought to bear the infirmities of the weak, and not to seek our own pleasure.

mnt@Romans:15:3 @ For even Christ pleased not himself; but as it is written, The reproaches of those who were reproaching thee fell upon me.

mnt@Romans:15:4 @ For everything that was written of old has been written for our instruction, that through patience, and through the comfort of the Scriptures, we might have hope.

mnt@Romans:15:5 @ Now the God of patience and of comfort grant you to be in full sympathy with one another, in accordance with the example of Jesus Christ;

mnt@Romans:15:6 @ so that with one heart and with one voice you may glorify the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ.

mnt@Romans:15:7 @ Wherefore always receive one another into fellowship, to the glory of God, even as Christ also received you.

mnt@Romans:15:8 @ For I say that Christ has been made a minister of the Circumcision the people of Israel, in vindication of Gods truth, so that he may confirm the promises given to our forefathers;

mnt@Romans:15:9 @ and so that the Gentiles also should praise God for his mercy, as it is written, Therefore I will offer praise to thee among the Gentiles, And sing to thy name.

mnt@Romans:15:11 @ Or again, Praise the Lord, all ye Gentiles, And let all the people extol him.

mnt@Romans:15:12 @ Or again, as Isaiah says. There shall be the root of Jesse, And he that arises to rule over the Gentiles; On him shall the Gentiles hope.

mnt@Romans:15:13 @ Now the God of all hope fill you with all joy and peace in believing, that you may be overflowing with hope in the power of the Holy Spirit.

mnt@Romans:15:14 @ And I myself also am confident regarding you, my brothers, that you yourselves are already full of goodness, filled with all knowledge, and well able to give advice to one another.

mnt@Romans:15:15 @ Still I have written unto you the more boldly, in part, by way of reminding you, because of that gift of grace which God bestowed upon me, in making me a priest of Jesus Christ unto the Gentiles.

mnt@Romans:15:16 @ I act as priest of the gospel of God; so that the Gentiles, when offered before him, may be an acceptable sacrifice, because consecrated by the Holy Spirit.

mnt@Romans:15:17 @ I have then my boast in Christ Jesus concerning the things of God.

mnt@Romans:15:18 @ For I will not dare to speak of any thing except that which Christ has done through me to bring the Gentiles to obedience by word and deed,

mnt@Romans:15:19 @ through the might of signs and wonders, in the power of the Holy Spirit. So that beginning at Jerusalem and its environs, I have proclaimed without reserve the gospel of Christ, even as far as Illyricum.

mnt@Romans:15:20 @ My ambition has been, however, to preach the gospel where Christs name was not already known, so that I might not build upon another mans foundation.

mnt@Romans:15:21 @ But, as Scripture says, He shall be seen by those to whom no news about him ever came, And those who have never heard of him shall understand.

mnt@Romans:15:23 @ But now, since I have no more any "opening" in these parts, and since I have longed for many years to come to you

mnt@Romans:15:24 @ whenever I go to Spain, I am hoping to see you on my way there, and to be set forward by you on my way there, and to be set forward by you on my journey thither, after I have enjoyed your company for a little while.

mnt@Romans:15:25 @ Just now I am going to Jerusalem to serve the saints.

mnt@Romans:15:26 @ For it has been the good pleasure of Macedonia and Achaia to make an offering for the poor among the saints at Jerusalem.

mnt@Romans:15:27 @ Yes, it has been made their good pleasure, and their debt, too. For if the Gentiles have been made partakers of their spiritual riches, they owe it to them also to minister to them the Jews in worldly goods.

mnt@Romans:15:28 @ When, therefore, I have settled this, and have secured to them the poor at Jerusalem the fruit of this collection, I shall come on by you into Spain.

mnt@Romans:15:29 @ And I know that when I come to you, I shall come in the fulness of the blessing of Christ.

mnt@Romans:15:30 @ Brothers, I beseech you, by Jesus Christ our Lord, and by the love which the Spirit gives, to help me in my struggle by your prayers to God on my behalf,

mnt@Romans:15:31 @ that I may be delivered from the disobedient in Judea; that my mission to Jerusalem may be favorably received by the saints;

mnt@Romans:15:32 @ and that I may come to you in joy, by the will of God, and find rest together with you.

mnt@Romans:15:33 @ The God of peace be with you all! Amen.

mnt@Romans:16:1 @ I commend to you our sister Phoebe, who is a minister of the church at Cenchrae.

mnt@Romans:16:2 @ I beg you to give her a Christian welcome, as the saints should; and to assist her in any matter in which she may have need of you. For she herself has been made an overseer to many people, including myself.

mnt@Romans:16:3 @ Salute Priscilla and Aquila, my fellow laborers in the cause of Jesus Christ,

mnt@Romans:16:4 @ who risked their own lives to save mine; who are thanked not only by me,

mnt@Romans:16:5 @ but by all the churches among the Gentiles. Salute likewise the church that meets in their home. Salute Epaenetus, my dearly beloved, the first man in Roman Asia to believe in Christ.

mnt@Romans:16:7 @ and Andronicus and Junia, my kinsfolk and fellow prisoners, who are notable among the apostles, and who became Christians before I did.

mnt@Romans:16:8 @ Salute Amplias, my beloved in the Lord;

mnt@Romans:16:10 @ Salute Apellas, tested and tried in Christ, and the household of Aristobulus,

mnt@Romans:16:11 @ and Herodion, my kinsman. Salute the believing members of the household of Narcissus.

mnt@Romans:16:12 @ Salute Trypheana and Tryphosa, who are ever toiling in the Lord. Salute dear Persis, who has toiled terribly in the Lords service.

mnt@Romans:16:13 @ Salute Rufus, the chosen in the Lord, and his mother and mine.

mnt@Romans:16:14 @ Salute Asyncritus, Phlegon, Hermes, Patrobas, Hermas, and the brothers who are associated with them.

mnt@Romans:16:15 @ Salute Philologus and Julia, Nereus and his sister, Olympas, and all the saints associated with them.

mnt@Romans:16:16 @ Salute one another with a holy kiss. All the churches of Christ salute you.

mnt@Romans:16:17 @ I exhort you, brothers, to keep watch of those who are causing the divisions among you, and occasions of stumbling, contrary to the teaching which you have learned.

mnt@Romans:16:18 @ Turn away from them. For men of that stamp are not the slaves of Christ, but are slaves to their own appetites. By their smooth and fair speech they beguile the hearts of the innocent.

mnt@Romans:16:19 @ I say this, for the tidings of your obedience have been told throughout the world. On your own behalf, then, I rejoice; but I want you to be wise unto the good, but innocents in evil.

mnt@Romans:16:20 @ The God of peace will soon crush Satan under your feet. The grace of our Lord Jesus Christ be with you.

mnt@Romans:16:22 @ I, Tertius, who write this letter, salute you in the Lord.

mnt@Romans:16:23 @ Gaius, my host, and the host of the church, salutes you. Erastus, the treasurer of the city, salutes you, and so does brother Quartus.

mnt@Romans:16:24 @ The grace of our Lord Jesus Christ be with you all!

mnt@Romans:16:25 @ Now I commend you to Him who is able to keep you stedfast, according to my gospel, and the proclamation of Jesus Christ, whereby is unveiled the secret truth which was kept secret through immemorial ages,

mnt@Romans:16:26 @ but now has been brought to light, and by command of the eternal God made known to the Gentiles by the scriptures of the Prophets, so that the Gentiles might hold obedience of the faith.

mnt@Romans:16:27 @ Unto Him, the only wise God, through Jesus Christ, be glory forever. Amen.

mnt@1Corinthians:1:1 @ Paul, called by the will of God to be an apostle of Jesus Christ, and Sosthenes, his brother.

mnt@1Corinthians:1:2 @ to the Church of God at Corinth, to those who are sanctified in Christ Jesus, called to be saints, together with all, wherever they are, who call upon the name of the Lord Jesus.

mnt@1Corinthians:1:3 @ Grace to you, and peace from God our Father and the Lord Jesus Christ.

mnt@1Corinthians:1:4 @ I am always thanking God on your behalf, for the grace of God bestowed on you in Christ Jesus;

mnt@1Corinthians:1:5 @ that in everything you have been enriched in him, in all speech, and in all knowledge

mnt@1Corinthians:1:7 @ so that you lack no divine gift, while you are waiting for the revelation of our Lord Jesus Christ.

mnt@1Corinthians:1:8 @ He will also keep you perfectly stedfast unto the end, so that you will be unreprovable in the Day of our Lord Jesus Christ.

mnt@1Corinthians:1:9 @ Faithful is the God by whom you were called into fellowship with his Son, Jesus Christ our Lord.

mnt@1Corinthians:1:10 @ Now I beg you, brothers, in the name of our Lord Jesus Christ, to speak in accord, all of you, and to have no divisions among you, but to be knit together in a common mind and temper.

mnt@1Corinthians:1:11 @ For it has been plainly told me concerning you, my brothers, by Chloes people, that there are dissensions among you.

mnt@1Corinthians:1:12 @ I mean by this that one of you says, "I am a follower of Paul"; another, "I of Apollos"; another, "I of Cephas"; another, "I of Christ."

mnt@1Corinthians:1:13 @ Has Christ been divided? Paul, was he crucified for you? or was it into the name of Paul that you were baptized?

mnt@1Corinthians:1:16 @ Yes, I did baptize the house of Stephanas also, but I do not think I baptized any one else.

mnt@1Corinthians:1:17 @ For Christ did not think I baptized any one else. For Christ did not send me forth to baptize, but to proclaim the gospel; and that not in philosophic words, lest the Cross of Christ should be made an empty thing.

mnt@1Corinthians:1:18 @ For the message of the Cross is indeed for those on their way to destruction, foolishness; but for us who are on our way to salvation it is the power of God.

mnt@1Corinthians:1:19 @ For thus it is written, I will destroy the wisdom of the philosophers, And the prudence of the prudent will I confound.

mnt@1Corinthians:1:20 @ Sage, rabbi, skeptic of this present age - where are they all? Has not God made foolish the philosophy of the world?

mnt@1Corinthians:1:21 @ For when, in the wisdom of God, the world by its philosophy knew not God, the world by its philosophy knew not God, it pleased God, by the foolishness of preaching, to save those who believe.

mnt@1Corinthians:1:24 @ but to those who are the called, whether Jews or Greeks, Christ, the power of God and the wisdom of God.

mnt@1Corinthians:1:25 @ For the foolishness of God is wiser than men, and the weakness of God is stronger than men.

mnt@1Corinthians:1:26 @ For consider your own calling, brothers, that not many wise in earthly wisdom, not many powerful, not many of noble birth, have been called.

mnt@1Corinthians:1:27 @ No, God has chosen the worlds folly to confound its philosophy; and the worlds weakness to confound its strength.

mnt@1Corinthians:1:28 @ The worlds base things has God chosen, and the things that are not, to bring to naught the things that are;

mnt@1Corinthians:1:31 @ so that as Scripture says, He that glories, let him glory in the Lord.

mnt@1Corinthians:2:1 @ And when I came to you, brothers, I came not to proclaim Gods great secret purpose in fine language of philosophy;

mnt@1Corinthians:2:4 @ My message and my preaching were not in the persuasive language of philosophy, but in demonstration of the Spirit and of power;

mnt@1Corinthians:2:5 @ in order that your faith should rest, not on human philosophy, but on the power of God.

mnt@1Corinthians:2:6 @ Notwithstanding, among those who are mature I do teach philosophy; though not the philosophy of the present age, nor of its rulers who are coming to nought.

mnt@1Corinthians:2:7 @ No, it is Gods wisdom that I utter, that hidden wisdom which God had decreed before the world began, unto our glory.

mnt@1Corinthians:2:8 @ None of the rulers of the present age understands it, for if they had, they would not have crucified the Lord of Glory.

mnt@1Corinthians:2:9 @ Nay, as it is written. Eye has not seen, Nor ear heard, Neither have entered into mans heart The things which God has prepared For those who love him.

mnt@1Corinthians:2:10 @ Yet God has unveiled them to us by his Spirit. For the Spirit fathoms everything, even the abysmal depths of God.

mnt@1Corinthians:2:11 @ For what man knows the depths of man except the mans own inner Spirit? Even so, also, the Spirit of God knows the deeps profound of God.

mnt@1Corinthians:2:12 @ But we have not received the spirit of the world, but the Spirit which comes forth from God, that we may realize the blessings freely given us by God.

mnt@1Corinthians:2:13 @ Of these high themes we speak in words not taught by human philosophy, but by the Spirit; interpreting spiritual things to spiritual men.

mnt@1Corinthians:2:14 @ The unspiritual man rejects the teachings of Gods Spirit; for him it is folly. He cannot understand it, for it is spiritually discerned,

mnt@1Corinthians:2:15 @ But the spiritual man discerns everything, yet is himself discerned by no one.

mnt@1Corinthians:2:16 @ For what man understands the mind of the Lord, that he should instruct Him?

mnt@1Corinthians:3:1 @ As for me, brothers, I could not talk to you as spiritual men, but as to creatures of flesh, mere babes in Christ.

mnt@1Corinthians:3:3 @ You are not able even now, for you are still unspiritual. While there is among you jealousy and strife, are you not still unspiritual, and behaving like worldlings?

mnt@1Corinthians:3:4 @ When one says, "I follow Paul," and another, "I follow Apollos," are you not mere worldlings?

mnt@1Corinthians:3:5 @ What then is Apollos? What is Paul? Just ministers through whom you have believed, and each doing the work that the Lord gave him.

mnt@1Corinthians:3:6 @ I planted, Apollos watered, but God made the seed grow.

mnt@1Corinthians:3:7 @ So neither is he who planted anything, nor he who watered, but God alone, who is making the seed grow.

mnt@1Corinthians:3:8 @ Now, though he who plants and he who waters are one, each will receive his own reward, according to his own service.

mnt@1Corinthians:3:10 @ According to the grace of God vouchsafed me, like a skillful master- builder, I have laid a foundation; but another will be building upon it. Let each take heed how he builds on it.

mnt@1Corinthians:3:11 @ The foundation is already laid - Jesus Christ - and no man can lay another.

mnt@1Corinthians:3:13 @ The Day will disclose it, for it dawns in fire, and the fire will test each mans work, of what quality it is.

mnt@1Corinthians:3:14 @ If any mans work - the building he has made - stands the test, he will be rewarded.

mnt@1Corinthians:3:15 @ If any mans work is burned up, he will suffer loss, but he himself will be saved, as it were through the flames.

mnt@1Corinthians:3:16 @ Do you not know what you are Gods sanctuary, and that the Spirit of God is dwelling within you?

mnt@1Corinthians:3:17 @ If any one tear down Gods sanctuary, God will tear him down; for the sanctuary of God is holy, and that is what you are.

mnt@1Corinthians:3:18 @ Let no one deceive himself. If any one of you supposes that he is wise in the philosophy of the present age, let him become foolish, so that he may be wise.

mnt@1Corinthians:3:19 @ For the philosophy of this world is foolishness in Gods sight. It is written, He snares the wise in their own craftiness,

mnt@1Corinthians:3:20 @ and again, The Lord knows the reasonings of the wise, how futile they are.

mnt@1Corinthians:3:22 @ Paul, Apollos, Cephas, the world, life, death, things present or things to come; all things are yours;

mnt@1Corinthians:4:1 @ Let any man look upon us as servants of Christ, and stewards of the secret truths of God.

mnt@1Corinthians:4:4 @ Indeed I do not even judge myself; for though I know nothing against myself, yet that does not vindicate me; for he who judges me is the Lord.

mnt@1Corinthians:4:5 @ So make no hasty judgment until the Lord come, who will both bring to light the hidden things of darkness, and will make plain the purpose of mens hearts. Then each mans due praise will come to him from God.

mnt@1Corinthians:4:6 @ Now these things, brothers, I have applied in a figure to myself and to Apollos for your sakes; that in us you might learn not to go beyond what is written; that none of you be puffed up for the one, against the other.

mnt@1Corinthians:4:7 @ For who makes you a differ, brother? Or what have you that you did not receive? But if you did receive it, why are you boasting as if you had not received it?

mnt@1Corinthians:4:9 @ But it seems to me that God has exhibited us apostles, last of all, like men doomed to death; for we are made a spectacle to the whole world, both to men and to angels.

mnt@1Corinthians:4:13 @ When reviled, we bless; when persecuted, we endure; when defamed, we conciliate. We have been made, as it were, scum-o-the-earth, the very refuse of the world, to this very hour!

mnt@1Corinthians:4:15 @ For though you have ten thousand tutors in Christ Jesus, you can have but one father. For in Christ Jesus I begot you through the gospel.

mnt@1Corinthians:4:16 @ I beg you then to imitate my example.

mnt@1Corinthians:4:17 @ With this in mind I have sent Timothy to you. He is my dear and faithful son in the Lord, who will remind you of my ways in Christ; the manner in which I ever teach everywhere in every church.

mnt@1Corinthians:4:19 @ But come to you I will, and that soon, if it please the Lord, and then I shall learn not the talk of these boasters, but their power.

mnt@1Corinthians:4:20 @ For the kingdom of God is not in talk, but in power.

mnt@1Corinthians:5:1 @ It is actually reported that there is immorality among you, and such immorality as is not even among the heathen - that a man has taken his fathers wife!

mnt@1Corinthians:5:2 @ Yet you are puffed up instead of mourning and removing from among you the man who has done this thing.

mnt@1Corinthians:5:3 @ For I, although absent in body, yet present in spirit, have already passed sentence, by the authority of our Lord Jesus Christ, on him who has done this thing.

mnt@1Corinthians:5:4 @ When you are gathered together, and my spirit is with you together with the power of our Lord Jesus,

mnt@1Corinthians:5:5 @ I have handed over such a man to Satan for the destruction of his flesh, that his spirit may be saved, in the day of the Lord Jesus.

mnt@1Corinthians:5:6 @ Your glorying is not good. Do you not know that even a little leaven leavens all the lump?

mnt@1Corinthians:5:7 @ Then get rid of the old leaven, so that you may be like a new lump, as you are now unleavened. For our Paschal Lamb has already been sacrificed, Christ himself.

mnt@1Corinthians:5:8 @ So let us keep the unending feast, not with any old leaven, neither with leaven of malice and vice, but with unleavened bread of sincerity and truth.

mnt@1Corinthians:5:9 @ I told you in my letter not to associate with the immoral.

mnt@1Corinthians:5:10 @ Not that in this world you were actually to have no contact with the immoral, the avaricious, the thievish, or with idolaters; for then you would have to leave the world, altogether.

mnt@1Corinthians:5:11 @ But what I wrote was that you were not to associate with any so- called brother who is immoral, or avaricious, or idolatrous, or abusive, or a drunkard, or an extortioner. No, with such persons do not even sit at table.

mnt@1Corinthians:5:12 @ What have I to do with the judging of outsiders? Must not you judge those who are within the church, while God judges outsiders?

mnt@1Corinthians:6:1 @ Dare any one of you who has a grievance against his neighbor go to law before heathen judges, instead of before the saints?

mnt@1Corinthians:6:2 @ Do you not know that the saints will judge the world? And if the world is to be tried by you, are you unfit to try such trifling cases?

mnt@1Corinthians:6:3 @ Do you not know that we are to try angels? How much more, then, the affairs of life.

mnt@1Corinthians:6:4 @ Why then, if you have cases relating to earthly affairs which need to be decided, is it men who are absolutely nothing in the church whom you make your judges?

mnt@1Corinthians:6:5 @ I say this to shame you. Is it so that there is not among you a single wise man, capable of deciding between a man and his brother?

mnt@1Corinthians:6:6 @ Must brother go to law with brother, and that, too, before unbelievers?

mnt@1Corinthians:6:7 @ Indeed, to say nothing more, the fact that you have lawsuits with one another is altogether a defect in you. Why not rather suffer injustice? Why not rather endure being cheated?

mnt@1Corinthians:6:8 @ On the contrary, you yourselves are inflicting injustice and fraud, and that upon your brothers.

mnt@1Corinthians:6:9 @ Do you not know that the wicked will not inherit the kingdom of God? Do not be deceived. None who are immoral, or idolaters, or adulterers, or catamites, or sodomites,

mnt@1Corinthians:6:10 @ or thieves, or avaricious men, or drunkards, or foul-mouthed men, or extortioners will inherit the kingdom of God.

mnt@1Corinthians:6:11 @ Such were some of you, but you have washed away your stains, you have been consecrated, you have been justified in the name of the Lord Jesus Christ, and in the Spirit of our God.

mnt@1Corinthians:6:12 @ "All things are lawful for me"? Yes, but not all things are good for me. "All things are lawful for me"? Yes, but I will not let myself be enslaved by the power of any.

mnt@1Corinthians:6:13 @ "Food is meant for the stomach, and the stomach for food"? Yes, but God will soon put an end both to the one and to the other. The body, however, exists not for immorality, but for the Lord, and the Lord for the body;

mnt@1Corinthians:6:14 @ and the God who raised up our Lord will up-raise us also by his mighty power.

mnt@1Corinthians:6:15 @ You know, do you not, that your bodies are members of Christ? Shall I then take the members of Christ, and make them members of a harlot? God forbid!

mnt@1Corinthians:6:16 @ Do you not know that he who joins himself to a harlot is one with her in body? (For God says, The two shall become one flesh.)

mnt@1Corinthians:6:17 @ While a man who is united with the Lord is one with Him in spirit?

mnt@1Corinthians:6:18 @ Flee from immorality. Every other sin that a man commits lies outside the body, but the immoral man sins against his own body.

mnt@1Corinthians:6:19 @ Do you not know that your body is a sanctuary of the Holy Spirit who is within you, the Spirit whom you have from God?

mnt@1Corinthians:6:20 @ You are not your own; for you have been bought with a price, therefore glorify God in your bodies.

mnt@1Corinthians:7:1 @ Now concerning the question in your letter. It is well for a man to have no intercourse with a woman,

mnt@1Corinthians:7:2 @ but because there is so much immorality let each man have his own wife; and let each women have her own husband.

mnt@1Corinthians:7:3 @ Let the husband give his wife her due, and likewise the wife her husband. The wife is not mistress of her own person,

mnt@1Corinthians:7:4 @ but her husband is; and in the same way the husband is not master of his own person, but his wife is.

mnt@1Corinthians:7:5 @ Do not refuse one another, unless it is only temporary and by mutual consent, so that you may devote yourselves to prayer. Then come together again, lest through your lack of self-control Satan begin to tempt you to sin.

mnt@1Corinthians:7:7 @ I would that every one lived as I do; but each man has his own special gift from God, one this, another that.

mnt@1Corinthians:7:8 @ But to the unmarried, and the widows, I say that it is well for them to remain as I am.

mnt@1Corinthians:7:9 @ If, however, they are not exercising self-control, by all means let them marry; for marriage is better than the fever of passion.

mnt@1Corinthians:7:10 @ But to those already married my commandment is - and not mine, but the Lords - that a wife is not to leave her husband;

mnt@1Corinthians:7:11 @ (or if she has already left him let her either remain as she is, or be reconciled to him), and also that a husband is not to put away his wife.

mnt@1Corinthians:7:12 @ To the rest it is I who am speaking, not the Lord. If any brother has a wife who is not a believer, if he is willing to live with her, let him not send her away.

mnt@1Corinthians:7:13 @ And a woman whose husband is not a believer, if he is willing to live with her, let her not separate from him.

mnt@1Corinthians:7:14 @ For the unbelieving husband is consecrated through union with his believing wife; and the unbelieving wife, through union with her believing husband. Otherwise your children would be unholy, but now they are consecrated to God.

mnt@1Corinthians:7:15 @ But if the unbelieving partner be determined to leave, separation let it be. In such cases the believing husband or wife is not under bondage. But it is into peace that God has called us.

mnt@1Corinthians:7:16 @ For how do you know, wife, whether you will save your husband? Or how do you know, husband, whether you will save your wife?

mnt@1Corinthians:7:17 @ Only whatever be the lot in life to which God has assigned each one - and whatever the condition in which he was living when God called him- -in that let him continue. Such is the rule I give in all the churches.

mnt@1Corinthians:7:18 @ So, was any man called, being circumcised? Let him not become uncircumcised. Was any man called when he was uncircumcised? Let him not be circumcised.

mnt@1Corinthians:7:20 @ Whatever be the condition of life in which he was called, in that let him continue.

mnt@1Corinthians:7:21 @ Were you called in slavery? Let not that trouble you; but if you can become free make use of the opportunity.

mnt@1Corinthians:7:22 @ For the slave who has been called in the Lord is the Lords freedman; and in the same way, the free man who is called is Christs slave.

mnt@1Corinthians:7:24 @ Where each man stood when he was called, there, brothers, let him stay, close to God.

mnt@1Corinthians:7:25 @ I have no command from the Lord to give you concerning unmarried women; but I give you my opinion, and it is that of a man who, through the Lords mercy, is deserving of your confidence.

mnt@1Corinthians:7:26 @ I think then, that in view of the time of suffering now imminent, it is best for a man to remain as he is.

mnt@1Corinthians:7:27 @ Are you bound to a wife? Do not seek to be free. Are you free from the marriage bond? Do not seek for a wife.

mnt@1Corinthians:7:28 @ Yet if you do not marry, you have not done wrong; and if a girl marries, she has not done wrong. Such people, however, will have trouble in worldy affairs, and I wish to spare you.

mnt@1Corinthians:7:29 @ Indeed, brothers, the time that remains to us has been shortened; so let those who have wives live as if they had none,

mnt@1Corinthians:7:30 @ let those who weep be as though they did not weep, those who rejoice as though they did not rejoice, those who buy as though they did not possess,

mnt@1Corinthians:7:31 @ and those who use the world as though using it sparingly. For the present phase of the world is passing away.

mnt@1Corinthians:7:32 @ So I want you to be free from all anxieties. An unmarried man is anxious about the Lords business, how he may please the Lord;

mnt@1Corinthians:7:33 @ but a married man is anxious about worldly affairs, how he may please his wife, and he is divided in his mind.

mnt@1Corinthians:7:34 @ Again, the woman who is widow, or the maid, is anxious about the Lords business, how she may be pure in body and in mind; but the married woman is anxious about worldly affairs, how she may please her husband.

mnt@1Corinthians:7:35 @ It is in your own interest that I say this; not that I may entangle you in a snare, but that I may help you to serve the Lord with fitting and undistracted service.

mnt@1Corinthians:7:36 @ If, however, a father feels that he is not treating his virgin daughter in a seemly manner, in leaving her unmarried beyond the flower of her age, and so the matter is urgent, let him do what she desires; he commits no sin. Let the marriage take place.

mnt@1Corinthians:7:37 @ On the other hand, he who is firm in his purpose and is under no compulsion, but is free to carry out his own wishes, and who has determined to keep his daughter unmarried, does well.

mnt@1Corinthians:7:38 @ So he that gives his daughter in marriage is doing right, and he who keeps her unmarried will be doing right, and he who keeps her unmarried will be doing better.

mnt@1Corinthians:7:39 @ A wife is bound to her husband during his lifetime; but if her husband dies, she is free to marry whomever she will, provided it be in the Lord.

mnt@1Corinthians:7:40 @ But she is happier, in my judgment, if she remains as she is; and I think that I, too, have the Spirit of God.

mnt@1Corinthians:8:2 @ If a man thinks that he already has knowledge, he does not yet truly know as he ought to know;

mnt@1Corinthians:8:3 @ but if a man loves God, he is known by him.

mnt@1Corinthians:8:4 @ Now as to eating food that has been offered to idols, we know well that an idol has no real existence in the universe, and that there is no God but One.

mnt@1Corinthians:8:5 @ For though there be so-called "gods," celestial of terrestrial, as indeed there are gods many and lords many,

mnt@1Corinthians:8:6 @ yet for there is one God, the Father, from whom are all things, and we for him; and one Lord Jesus Christ, by whom are all things, and we by him.

mnt@1Corinthians:8:7 @ But that "knowledge" is not possessed by all; but some, accustomed until now to the idol, eat food as that which has actually been offered to an idol, and so their conscience, being still weak, is defiled.

mnt@1Corinthians:8:8 @ Now food does not bring us nearness to God. Neither if we eat do we gain any advantage, nor if we eat not, do we lose any.

mnt@1Corinthians:8:9 @ But see to it lest this right of yours become a stumbling-block to the weak.

mnt@1Corinthians:8:10 @ For if any one should see you, the possessor of "knowledge," reclining at table in an idols temple, would not his conscience, if he were weak, be emboldened to eat things sacrificed to idols?

mnt@1Corinthians:8:11 @ So he is lost, this weak man, lost by your "knowledge." this brother for whom Christ died.

mnt@1Corinthians:8:12 @ In so sinning against your brothers, and in ever and again wounding their weak consciences, you are sinning against Christ.

mnt@1Corinthians:8:13 @ Therefore, if what I eat makes my brother to stumble, I will never eat meat again, lest I make my brother to stumble.

mnt@1Corinthians:9:1 @ Am I not free? Am I not an apostle? Have I not seen Jesus our Lord? Are you not my work in the Lord?

mnt@1Corinthians:9:2 @ Even if I am not an apostle to others, to you at least I am; for you are the seal of my apostleship in the Lord.

mnt@1Corinthians:9:5 @ Have I no right to take a believing wife with me on my journey, as the rest of the apostles and the Lords brothers and Peter do?

mnt@1Corinthians:9:6 @ Are we the only ones, Barnabas and I, who have no right to give up manual labor?

mnt@1Corinthians:9:7 @ What soldier ever serves at his own expense? What farmer ever plants a vineyard and his flock and does not taste the milk?

mnt@1Corinthians:9:8 @ Am I saying this on human authority only, or does not the Law also say the same?

mnt@1Corinthians:9:9 @ Yea, in the Law of Moses it is written, Thou shalt not muzzle an ox while he is treading out the grain.

mnt@1Corinthians:9:10 @ Is it the oxen that God is thinking about, or is it really said for our sakes? It was written for us; because the plowman ought to plow in hope, and the thresher in hope of getting a share of the crop.

mnt@1Corinthians:9:11 @ If I have sown for you the seeds of spiritual good, is it a great thing if I reap from you temporal goods?

mnt@1Corinthians:9:12 @ If others share this authority over you, do not I far more? Yet I have not availed myself of it, but am patiently enduring; so that I may not in any way hinder the progress of Christs gospel.

mnt@1Corinthians:9:13 @ You know, do you not, that those who minister in the temple, and those who serve at the altar, get their portion of the sacrifices?

mnt@1Corinthians:9:14 @ Even so the Lord ordained that those who proclaim the gospel should get their living by the gospel.

mnt@1Corinthians:9:15 @ But for my part, I have never availed myself of any of these rights. I do not say this to bring it about in my own case. I would rather die than let any one make void this boast of mine.

mnt@1Corinthians:9:16 @ Proclaiming the gospel gives me no ground of boasting; for necessity is laid upon me; woe is me if I preach not the gospel.

mnt@1Corinthians:9:18 @ What then is my wage? This, that I can make the gospel free where I carry it; and that I can refrain from using my rights as a preacher of the gospel.

mnt@1Corinthians:9:19 @ Though free from all men, I make myself the slave of all, that I may win the more.

mnt@1Corinthians:9:20 @ To the Jews I am become like a Jew, that I may win Jews; to those under the Law, like one under the Law, though I am not under the Law, myself;

mnt@1Corinthians:9:21 @ to those outside the Law, as one outside the Law, to win those outside the Law (though I am not outside the law of God, but inside the law of Christ).

mnt@1Corinthians:9:22 @ I am become weak to the weak, to win the weak. I am become all these things to all men that, by any and by all means, I may save some.

mnt@1Corinthians:9:23 @ And I am doing it all for the gospels sake, that I may become a copartner in it.

mnt@1Corinthians:9:24 @ Do you not know that in a foot-race, though all run, only one receives the prize? So run that you may win.

mnt@1Corinthians:9:25 @ Every man who contends in the games continually trains himself by all manner of self-restraint. Now they do it to get a fading garland, but we, one that is unfading.

mnt@1Corinthians:9:26 @ For my part, then, I run with no wavering to the goal. I box not as one beating the air,

mnt@1Corinthians:9:27 @ but I bruise my body and keep it in subjection, lest having called others to the contest, I should myself be disqualified.

mnt@1Corinthians:10:1 @ For I would not have you ignorant, brothers, how our fathers were all under the cloud, and all passed through the sea,

mnt@1Corinthians:10:2 @ and all were baptized into Moses in the cloud and in the sea.

mnt@1Corinthians:10:3 @ They all ate of the same spiritual bread,

mnt@1Corinthians:10:4 @ and all drank from the same spiritual stream, for they were drinking from a spiritual rock that followed them, and that Rock was Christ.

mnt@1Corinthians:10:5 @ But in most of them God was not well pleased, for they were laid low in the desert.

mnt@1Corinthians:10:6 @ Now this happened as a warning for us, that we might not long for evil things as they longed.

mnt@1Corinthians:10:7 @ And you must not be idolaters like some of them. as it is written, The people sat down to eat and drink, And they rose up for idol dances.

mnt@1Corinthians:10:8 @ Nor must we act licentiously, as some of them did, and fell in a single day, twenty-three thousand of them.

mnt@1Corinthians:10:9 @ Neither must we presume upon the patience of our Lord, as some of them presumed, and were destroyed by the serpents;

mnt@1Corinthians:10:10 @ nor murmur, as some of them did, and were destroyed by the Destroying Angel.

mnt@1Corinthians:10:11 @ Now these things were happening to them typically, but were written down for our admonition who stand at the meeting of the ages.

mnt@1Corinthians:10:12 @ So then let him who imagines that he is standing so securely beware lest he fall.

mnt@1Corinthians:10:13 @ No temptation has overtaken you that is beyond mans power; but God is faithful, who will not let you be tempted beyond what you can bear, but will, with every temptation, provide the way of escape also, so that you may be able to withstand.

mnt@1Corinthians:10:14 @ So then, my beloved, continually flee from idolatry.

mnt@1Corinthians:10:16 @ The cup of blessing which we bless, is it not a common participation in the blood of Christ? The bread which we break, is it not a common participation in the body of Christ?

mnt@1Corinthians:10:17 @ Because we who are many are one bread, one body, for we all do share in the one loaf.

mnt@1Corinthians:10:18 @ Look at Israel according to the flesh; are not those who eat the sacrifices in communion with the altar?

mnt@1Corinthians:10:19 @ What then shall we say? that an offering to an idol is anything? or that an idol is really anything?

mnt@1Corinthians:10:20 @ On the contrary, what the heathen sacrifice they sacrifice to demons and not to God, and I do not want you to have communion with demons.

mnt@1Corinthians:10:21 @ You cannot drink the cup of the Lord and also the cup of demons; you cannot be partakers in the Lords table and in the table of demons.

mnt@1Corinthians:10:22 @ What! would we provoke the Lord to jealousy? Are we stronger than he?

mnt@1Corinthians:10:24 @ Let not each one be always seeking his own, but rather his neighbors good.

mnt@1Corinthians:10:25 @ Eat anything that is for sale in the markets, asking no questions for conscience sake;

mnt@1Corinthians:10:26 @ for the earth and its fulness are the Lords.

mnt@1Corinthians:10:28 @ But if any one tells you, "This food has been offered in sacrifice," do not eat it, for the sake of him who told you,

mnt@1Corinthians:10:29 @ and for your conscience sake - his conscience, not your own. "But," you may object, "why should my freedom be decided upon anothers scruples of conscience?

mnt@1Corinthians:10:31 @ Because whether you are eating or whether you are drinking, you are to do it all for the glory of God.

mnt@1Corinthians:10:32 @ Do not be a cause of stumbling either to Jews of to Gentiles, or to the church of God.

mnt@1Corinthians:10:33 @ For so I also try to please all men in every way, not by seeking my own good, but the good of the many, that they may be saved.

mnt@1Corinthians:11:2 @ Indeed I praise you for remembering me in everything, and because you are holding fast to the traditions just as you received them.

mnt@1Corinthians:11:3 @ But I wish you to understand that the head of every man is Christ, and of a wife her husband is head; and that God is head of Christ.

mnt@1Corinthians:11:4 @ Every man who prays or prophesies with head veiled dishonors his Head;

mnt@1Corinthians:11:5 @ but every woman who prays or prophesies with her head unveiled dishonors her head (her husband). for it is one and the same thing as if she were shaven.

mnt@1Corinthians:11:6 @ If a woman does not wear a veil, let her also cut off her hair; now if it is a disgrace for a woman to have her hair cut off or her head shaved, let her be veiled.

mnt@1Corinthians:11:7 @ A man, indeed, ought not to have his head veiled, for he is an image and glory of God; but woman is a glory of man.

mnt@1Corinthians:11:10 @ For this reason the woman ought to have authority over her head, because of her guardian angels.

mnt@1Corinthians:11:11 @ However, in the Lord neither is woman independent of man, nor is man independent of woman;

mnt@1Corinthians:11:12 @ for just as the woman was made from the man, so also is the man born of the woman, while they both come from God.

mnt@1Corinthians:11:13 @ Judge of this for your own selves. It is fitting that a woman should pray to God with her head unveiled.

mnt@1Corinthians:11:15 @ but it is womans glory, because her hair has been given her instead of a veil.

mnt@1Corinthians:11:16 @ If, however, any one is inclined to be disputatious regarding such a custom, let him know that neither I nor the churches of God hold to such a custom.

mnt@1Corinthians:11:17 @ But in giving you the following instructions, I cannot praise you; your solemn assemblies do more harm than good.

mnt@1Corinthians:11:18 @ To begin with, I am told - and I believe there is some truth in it - that when you meet at a church there are divisions among you.

mnt@1Corinthians:11:19 @ For there must needs be also parties among you, in order that the good may be tested and made known.

mnt@1Corinthians:11:20 @ Again, when you meet together, there is no true eating of the Lords Supper;

mnt@1Corinthians:11:21 @ for each one of you begins to eat his own supper; one goes hungry, while another gets drunk.

mnt@1Corinthians:11:22 @ What! Have you no houses in which to eat or drink? or do you wish to show your contempt for the church of God, and to shame those who have no homes to eat in? What shall I say to you? Shall I praise you? In this I certainly do not praise you.

mnt@1Corinthians:11:23 @ For I passed on to you the account, which I myself received from the Lord; how the Lord Jesus, on the very night he was betrayed, took bread,

mnt@1Corinthians:11:24 @ and when he had given thanks, he broke it, saying, "This is my body, broken for you; this do in memory of me."

mnt@1Corinthians:11:25 @ In the same way also, he took the cup after supper, saying. "This cup is the new covenant in my blood; do this, whenever you drink it, in memory of me."

mnt@1Corinthians:11:26 @ For as often as you eat this bread and drink this cup, you are proclaiming your Lords death until he come.

mnt@1Corinthians:11:27 @ So he that eats the bread or drinks the cup of the Lord unworthy must answer for a sin against the body and blood of the Lord.

mnt@1Corinthians:11:28 @ Let each man scrutinize himself, and thus let him eat of the bread and drink of the cup.

mnt@1Corinthians:11:29 @ For whoever eats and drinks without discerning the body, eats and drinks condemnation to himself.

mnt@1Corinthians:11:32 @ but through our condemnation by the Lord, we are trained so that we may not be condemned;

mnt@1Corinthians:11:33 @ So, my brothers, whenever you come together for this meal, wait for one another.

mnt@1Corinthians:11:34 @ If any one is hungry, let him eat at home, so that your meetings do not bring condemnation upon you. The other matters I will adjust when I come.

mnt@1Corinthians:12:1 @ Now concerning spiritual gifts, brothers, I do not wish you to be ignorant.

mnt@1Corinthians:12:2 @ You know that when you were heathen you went astray after dumb idols, wherever he be led.

mnt@1Corinthians:12:3 @ Wherefore I want you to understand that no one who speaks in the Spirit of God says, "Jesus is accursed," and no one can say, "Jesus is Lord," except in the Holy Spirit.

mnt@1Corinthians:12:4 @ Now there are varieties of gifts, but the same Spirit;

mnt@1Corinthians:12:5 @ there are various forms of service, and the same Lord;

mnt@1Corinthians:12:6 @ and varieties of work, and the same God, who works in all.

mnt@1Corinthians:12:7 @ Now to each man has been given his manifestation of the Spirit for the common good.

mnt@1Corinthians:12:8 @ For to one man by the Spirit has been given a word of wisdom, to another a word of insight by the same Spirit;

mnt@1Corinthians:12:9 @ to one man by the same Spirit is given faith, to another gifts of healing by the one Spirit;

mnt@1Corinthians:12:10 @ to another the powers which work miracles, to another prophecy, to another the discernment of spirits; to another varieties of tongues, to another the interpretation of tongues.

mnt@1Corinthians:12:11 @ But the one and the same Spirit gives power to all, distributing his gifts to each as he wills.

mnt@1Corinthians:12:12 @ For just as the body is one and has many members, and all the members of the body, although they be many, are one body; so also is Christ.

mnt@1Corinthians:12:13 @ And we can see this, for in one Spirit we were all baptized into one body, whether Jew or Gentile, whether slave or free, and we were all made to drink of one Spirit.

mnt@1Corinthians:12:14 @ For the body is not one member, but many.

mnt@1Corinthians:12:15 @ If the foot should say, "Because I am a hand, I am not part a part the body," would it not indeed be a part of the body?

mnt@1Corinthians:12:16 @ Or if the ear should say, "Because I am not an eye, I am not a part of the body," would it be any less a part of the body?

mnt@1Corinthians:12:17 @ If the whole body were an eye, where were hearing? If all were hearing, where were smelling?

mnt@1Corinthians:12:18 @ But now God has set the members, each one of them, in the body as it has pleased him.

mnt@1Corinthians:12:19 @ If all were one member, where would the body be?

mnt@1Corinthians:12:20 @ But now there are many members, but one body.

mnt@1Corinthians:12:21 @ And the eye cannot say to the hand, "I have no need of you". nor again of head to the feet, "I have no need for you."

mnt@1Corinthians:12:22 @ On the contrary, we need those members of the body which seem to be weaker;

mnt@1Corinthians:12:23 @ upon those parts of the body which we esteem less honorable, we bestow more abundant honor, and our uncomely parts have more abundant comeliness.

mnt@1Corinthians:12:24 @ For whereas our comely parts have no need, God has tempered the body together, giving more abundant honor to that member in which lacked;

mnt@1Corinthians:12:25 @ that there should be no disunion in the body, but that members mutual care for one another.

mnt@1Corinthians:12:26 @ When one member suffers, all the others suffer with it; and when one member is honored, all the members are glad with it.

mnt@1Corinthians:12:27 @ Now you are the body of Christ, and individually members of it.

mnt@1Corinthians:12:28 @ And God has appointed those in the church to be first of all apostles, second, prophets, third, teachers. then workers of miracles, healers, helpers, administrators, users of various kinds of "tongues."

mnt@1Corinthians:12:29 @ Are all apostles? Are all prophets? teachers? workers of miracles?

mnt@1Corinthians:12:30 @ Have all gifts of healing? Do all speak with tongues? Do all interpret?

mnt@1Corinthians:12:31 @ Desire earnestly the greater gifts. And yet I will go on to show you a still more excellent way.

mnt@1Corinthians:13:1 @ Though I speak in the tongues of men and of angels, but have no love, I am become a clanging brass, or a clashing cymbal.

mnt@1Corinthians:13:2 @ Though I have the gift of prophecy and understand all mysteries and all knowledge, and have all faith, so that I could remove mountains, but have not love, I am nothing.

mnt@1Corinthians:13:3 @ And though I sell all my goods to feed the poor, and though I give my body to be burned, but have not love, it avails me nothing.

mnt@1Corinthians:13:6 @ but rejoices when the truth rejoices.

mnt@1Corinthians:13:8 @ Love never fails; but though there are prophecies, they will fail; though there are tongues, they will cease; though there is knowledge, it will be superseded.

mnt@1Corinthians:13:9 @ For our knowing is imperfect, and our prophesying is imperfect;

mnt@1Corinthians:13:10 @ but when the perfect is come, then the perfect will be done away.

mnt@1Corinthians:13:11 @ When I was a child I spoke like a child, felt like a child, thought like a child; now that I am become a man, I have done with childish things.

mnt@1Corinthians:13:12 @ For now we see as in a mirror, and are baffled, but then face to face; now I know in fragments, but then shall I understand even as I also have been understood.

mnt@1Corinthians:13:13 @ Faith, Hope, Love endure - these three; but the greatest of these is Love.

mnt@1Corinthians:14:1 @ Hotly pursue this love, yet seek earnestly spiritual gifts, and chiefly that you may prophesy.

mnt@1Corinthians:14:2 @ For he who speaks in a "tongue" speaks not to man but to God, for no one understands him, but in the Spirit he utters secret truths.

mnt@1Corinthians:14:3 @ But he who prophesies addresses words to men that build up, encourage, and console.

mnt@1Corinthians:14:4 @ He who speaks in a tongue upbuilds himself; but he who prophesies upbuilds the church.

mnt@1Corinthians:14:5 @ Now I should like you all to speak with "tongues"; but I should rather that you prophesied, For he who prophesies is greater than he who speaks with tongues, unless he interprets, so that the church may be built up.

mnt@1Corinthians:14:6 @ Now brothers, if I should come to you speaking with tongues, what should I benefit you, unless I speak to you some revelation, or knowledge, or prophecy, or teaching?

mnt@1Corinthians:14:7 @ For if lifeless instruments such as the flute or the harp give no distinction in the sounds, how shall it be known what is fluted or harped?

mnt@1Corinthians:14:8 @ Or, for example, if the trumpet give an uncertain sound, what soldier will be prepared for battle?

mnt@1Corinthians:14:9 @ In the same way with you, if you utter unintelligible words with your tongue, how can what you say be understood? You will be speaking to the winds!

mnt@1Corinthians:14:10 @ There are, let us say, so many languages in the world, and none without its meaning.

mnt@1Corinthians:14:11 @ If then I do not know the force of expression, I shall seem a barbarian to the one who uses it, and he will seem a barbarian to me.

mnt@1Corinthians:14:12 @ So also in your case, since you are ambitious for spiritual gifts, seek to excel in them for the upbuilding of the church.

mnt@1Corinthians:14:13 @ So let him who speaks with tongues pray that he may interpret.

mnt@1Corinthians:14:15 @ What then? I will pray with my spirit, and I will pray also with my mind. I will praise God with my spirit, but I will praise him with my mind, also.

mnt@1Corinthians:14:16 @ For if you in your spirit bless God, how shall he who fills the place of the unlearned say the Amen to your thanksgiving, when he does not know what you are talking about?

mnt@1Corinthians:14:17 @ You on the one hand offer a good thanksgiving, but the other is not built up.

mnt@1Corinthians:14:19 @ but in the church I would rather speak five words with my understanding, so as to instruct others, than ten thousand in an unknown tongue.

mnt@1Corinthians:14:20 @ Brothers, do not become children in understanding; be babes in malice, but in understanding become mature men.

mnt@1Corinthians:14:21 @ In the Law it is written. With men of other tongues, and by the lips of strangers, will I speak to this people, and even then they will not listen to me, says the Lord.

mnt@1Corinthians:14:22 @ So then the gift of tongues is for a sign, not to believers, but to unbelievers; but prophecy is not for unbelievers, but for those who believe.

mnt@1Corinthians:14:23 @ Accordingly, when the whole church assemblies, and everybody is speaking "with tongues," if there enter men unlearned or unbelieving, will they not say that you are mad?

mnt@1Corinthians:14:24 @ But if all are prophesying when an unlearned or unbelieving man enters, he is convicted in conscience by your speaker, he feels himself judged by all,

mnt@1Corinthians:14:25 @ and the secret depths of his heart are laid open. So he will fall upon his face and worship God, saying, "Of a truth, God is with you."

mnt@1Corinthians:14:26 @ What follows, then, brothers? Whenever you meet together, each contributes something; a psalm, a sermon, a revelation, a tongue, an interpretation. Let all be done for edification.

mnt@1Corinthians:14:27 @ If any one speaks in an unknown tongue, let it be by two, or at the most by three, and that in turn, and let some one interpret.

mnt@1Corinthians:14:28 @ But if there is no one to interpret, let them keep silence in the church, and speak to themselves and to God.

mnt@1Corinthians:14:29 @ Let the prophets speak by two or three, and let the others exercise their judgment.

mnt@1Corinthians:14:30 @ But if to one as he sits there some revelation is made, let the first be silent.

mnt@1Corinthians:14:31 @ For you can all prophesy one by one; so that all may be learning, and all may be encouraged.

mnt@1Corinthians:14:32 @ The spirits of prophets are subject to prophets,

mnt@1Corinthians:14:33 @ for God is not a God of confusion, but of peace. This custom prevails in all the churches of the saints.

mnt@1Corinthians:14:34 @ "In your congregation" you write, "as in all the churches of the saints, let the women keep silence in the churches, for they are not permitted to speak. On the contrary let them be subordinate, as also says the law.

mnt@1Corinthians:14:35 @ And if they want to learn anything, let them ask their own husbands at home, for it is shameful for a women to speak in church."

mnt@1Corinthians:14:36 @ What, was it from you that the word of God went forth, or to you only did it come?

mnt@1Corinthians:14:37 @ If any one thinks himself a prophet or spiritual, let him recognize that what I am now writing you is a command of the Lord.

mnt@1Corinthians:14:38 @ But if any one disregard it he will be disregarded.

mnt@1Corinthians:14:39 @ So, my brothers, be ambitious for the gift of prophecy, and speak not against the gifts of tongues.

mnt@1Corinthians:15:1 @ Now I am calling to your remembrance, brothers, the gospel which I preached to you, which you also received, and on which you have taken your stand,;47 The first man is of the earth, earthly; the second Man is of heaven.

mnt@1Corinthians:15:2 @ by which also you are saved, if you are holding fast the message which I preached to you; unless indeed you have believed in vain.

mnt@1Corinthians:15:3 @ For the very first thing I taught you was that I had myself been taught, that Christ died for our sins according to the Scripture,

mnt@1Corinthians:15:4 @ that he was buried, and that he was raised the third day, according to the Scriptures,

mnt@1Corinthians:15:5 @ and was seen by Cephas, and then by the Twelve.

mnt@1Corinthians:15:6 @ Afterward he was seen at one time by more than five hundred brethren, most of whom are still alive, but some are fallen asleep.

mnt@1Corinthians:15:7 @ Then he was seen by James, then by all the apostles,

mnt@1Corinthians:15:8 @ and last of all, as by one born out of due time, he was seen by me also.

mnt@1Corinthians:15:9 @ For I am the least of the apostles, I who am not worthy to be called an apostle, because I persecuted the church of God.

mnt@1Corinthians:15:10 @ But by the grace of God I am what I am, and that grace of his, bestowed upon me, did not prove ineffectual. I labored more abundantly than all the rest, yet not I, but by the grace of God that is with me.

mnt@1Corinthians:15:11 @ But whether it is I or they, thus do I preach, and thus you came to believe.

mnt@1Corinthians:15:12 @ If then, we are preaching Christ, that he rose from the dead, how are some of you saying that there is no resurrection from the dead?

mnt@1Corinthians:15:13 @ But if there is no resurrection from the dead, then not even Christ has been raised;

mnt@1Corinthians:15:14 @ and if Christ has not been raised, then our preaching is vain, and vain also is your faith.

mnt@1Corinthians:15:15 @ More than that, we are detected in bearing false witness against God; because we testified of God that he raised Christ from the dead, whom he did not raise, if indeed the dead rise not.

mnt@1Corinthians:15:16 @ For if the dead rise not, neither has Christ arisen;

mnt@1Corinthians:15:18 @ More than that, those who are sleeping in Christ have perished.

mnt@1Corinthians:15:20 @ But now, now, Christ is risen from the dead, the first-fruit of those who have fallen asleep.

mnt@1Corinthians:15:21 @ For since by man came to death, by man came also the resurrection from the dead.

mnt@1Corinthians:15:23 @ But each in his own order; Christ the first-fruits, then those who belong to Christ at his appearing.

mnt@1Corinthians:15:24 @ And then the end, when he shall hand over his kingdom to God his Father, after he has abolished all rule and authority and power.

mnt@1Corinthians:15:25 @ For he must rule until he has put all his enemies under his feet.

mnt@1Corinthians:15:26 @ The last enemy that will be destroyed is Death.

mnt@1Corinthians:15:27 @ For He hast put all things under his feet, but in that quotation All things are put under him, it is evident that God is excepted, who put all things under Him.

mnt@1Corinthians:15:28 @ For when everything is subjected to him, then the Son himself shall subject himself to Him who made them subject, that God may be all in all.

mnt@1Corinthians:15:29 @ Else what shall they do who are baptized for the dead? If the dead are really not raised, why are they baptized for them?

mnt@1Corinthians:15:31 @ Every day I am facing death, my brothers, I affirm it by that pride in you which I have through Christ Jesus our Lord.

mnt@1Corinthians:15:32 @ If after the manner of men I have fought with wild beasts at Ephesus, what good does it do me? If the dead do not rise, Let us eat and drink, For we shall be dead tomorrow.

mnt@1Corinthians:15:35 @ But some one will ask. "How are the dead raised? and with what body are they coming?"

mnt@1Corinthians:15:36 @ Foolish man! The seed you sow does not come to life unless it dies.

mnt@1Corinthians:15:37 @ And when you sow the seed you are not sowing the body that it will become, but bare grain, of wheat perhaps, or some other grain.

mnt@1Corinthians:15:38 @ But God gives it what body he pleases, and to each kind of seed its own body.

mnt@1Corinthians:15:39 @ All flesh is not the same flesh; there is human flesh, another of fishes of animals, another of birds, another of fishes.

mnt@1Corinthians:15:40 @ There are both celestial bodies and bodies terrestrial; but the splendor of the celestial is one thing, and the splendor of the terrestrial is another.

mnt@1Corinthians:15:41 @ There is one glory of the sun, another of the moon, and another of the stars; for star differs from star in glory.

mnt@1Corinthians:15:42 @ So it is in the resurrection of the dead. It is sown in corruption, It is raised in incorruption;

mnt@1Corinthians:15:44 @ The body sown is animal The body is raised is spiritual. If there is an animal body, there is also a spiritual body.

mnt@1Corinthians:15:45 @ Thus it is written. The first man, Adam, became a living being, the last Adam, a life-giving Spirit.

mnt@1Corinthians:15:46 @ Now it is not the spiritual which is first, but the animal, and then the spiritual.

mnt@1Corinthians:15:48 @ Like him who was of earth, are the earthy; and like Him who is of heaven, are the heavenly;

mnt@1Corinthians:15:49 @ As we have borne the likeness of him who was of earth, so also let us bear the likeness of Him who is of heaven.

mnt@1Corinthians:15:50 @ I tell you this, brothers, that flesh and blood cannot inherit the kingdom of God; nor can corruption inherit incorruption.

mnt@1Corinthians:15:52 @ in a moment, in the twinkling of an eye, when the last trumpet sounds. For the trumpet will sound, and the dead will be raised, incorruptible, and we shall be changed.

mnt@1Corinthians:15:53 @ For this corruptible must be clothed with incorruption, and this mortal must be clothed with immortality.

mnt@1Corinthians:15:54 @ And when this mortal has been clothed with immortality, then will the words of Scripture come to pass, Death has been swallowed up in victory.

mnt@1Corinthians:15:55 @ Where, Death, is thy victory? Where, Death, is thy sting?

mnt@1Corinthians:15:56 @ Now the sting of death is sin, and the power of sin is the Law.

mnt@1Corinthians:15:57 @ But thanks be to God, who has given us the victory through our Lord Jesus Christ.

mnt@1Corinthians:15:58 @ So, my brothers beloved, stand firm, immovable, always abounding in work for the Lord, because you know that your toil is not fruitless in the Lord.

mnt@1Corinthians:16:1 @ Now concerning the offering for the saints, you also are to do as I directed the church of Galatia.

mnt@1Corinthians:16:2 @ On the first day of each week let each of you put aside something, keeping it in store as he may prosper, so that when I come there may be no collections going on.

mnt@1Corinthians:16:4 @ And if it is worth while for me to go too, they will accompany me.

mnt@1Corinthians:16:6 @ I shall remain some time with you; possibly spending the winter, in order that you may help me forward in whatever journey I take.

mnt@1Corinthians:16:7 @ For I do not wish at this present time to see you merely in passing; but if the Lord permits, I hope to remain some time with you.

mnt@1Corinthians:16:8 @ I am staying for the present in Ephesus, until Pentecost;

mnt@1Corinthians:16:9 @ for a door has opened to me, great and effectual, and the opponents are many.

mnt@1Corinthians:16:10 @ If Timothy come, see to it that he is among you without trepidation; for he is doing the Lords work, as I am, so let no one disparage him.

mnt@1Corinthians:16:11 @ Whenever he comes to me, send him on his way in peace, for I am expecting him with the other brothers.

mnt@1Corinthians:16:12 @ As for our Apollos, I have many times urged him to go to you with the others, but he was always unwilling to go to you at this time. He will come, however, whenever he has a good opportunity.

mnt@1Corinthians:16:13 @ Be watchful, stand firm in the faith, be manly, be strong.

mnt@1Corinthians:16:15 @ I beg you this, my brothers - you know the household of Stephanus, that they were the first-fruits of Achaia, and that they devoted themselves to the service of the saints -

mnt@1Corinthians:16:17 @ I am glad that Stephanus and Fortunatus and Achaicus have arrived, for they have made up for your absence.

mnt@1Corinthians:16:18 @ They refresh my spirit as they do yours. So cultivate the acquaintance of such men.

mnt@1Corinthians:16:19 @ The churches of Asia greet you. Aquila and Priscilla (Prisca), with the church that meets in their house, greet you heartily in the Lord.

mnt@1Corinthians:16:20 @ All the brothers send greetings. Greet one another with a holy kiss.

mnt@1Corinthians:16:21 @ The greeting of me, Paul, with my own hand.

mnt@1Corinthians:16:22 @ If any one does not love the Lord, let him be accursed. Our Lord is coming.

mnt@1Corinthians:16:23 @ The grace of our Lord Jesus be with you.

mnt@2Corinthians:1:1 @ To the Church of God which is in Corinth, and to all the saints throughout Greece. from Paul, by Gods will an apostle of Christ, and from brother Timothy.

mnt@2Corinthians:1:2 @ Grace to you and peace from God our Father in the Lord Jesus Christ.

mnt@2Corinthians:1:3 @ Thanks be to the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, the Father of tender mercies and the God of all comfort,

mnt@2Corinthians:1:4 @ who ever comforts me in all my troubles, so that I may be continually able to comfort those who are in any trouble by the comfort with which God is ever comforting me.

mnt@2Corinthians:1:5 @ For just as I have more than my share in the sufferings of the Christ, so also through the Christ I have more than my share of comfort.

mnt@2Corinthians:1:6 @ If I am afflicted, it is for your comfort and salvation; and if I am receiving comfort, it is for your comfort - a comfort produced within you by your patient fortitude, under the same sufferings which I also am enduring.

mnt@2Corinthians:1:8 @ Now, brothers, I want you to know about the troubles which befell me in Asia; how I was burdened altogether beyond my strength, so that I renounced all hope even of life itself.

mnt@2Corinthians:1:9 @ Indeed, I had in myself, and still have, the sentence of death, in order that I might not rely on myself, but on God who raises the dead to life.

mnt@2Corinthians:1:10 @ He delivered me from such a death, and will deliver me. On him I have set my hopes that he will continue to deliver me,

mnt@2Corinthians:1:11 @ while all of you also are helping me by your prayers; so that from many lips thanksgiving may rise on my behalf for the blessings vouchsafed to me through the intercessions of many.

mnt@2Corinthians:1:12 @ For this is my proud boast, the testimony of my conscience, that it was in holiness and with pure motives before God, not in worldly wisdom, but in the grace of God, that I have conducted myself in the world, and above all in my relations with you.

mnt@2Corinthians:1:13 @ For I am writing to you nothing different from what you read aloud and very well recognize, and I hope will continue to recognize to the very end,

mnt@2Corinthians:1:14 @ as some indeed did recognize in part at last, that I am your cause of boasting, just as you will be mine on the Day of Jesus our Lord.

mnt@2Corinthians:1:15 @ And in this confidence I intended to visit you, before going elsewhere, that you might have a pleasure twice over.

mnt@2Corinthians:1:17 @ In purposing this did I display "caprice"? Or what I purpose do I purpose in a worldly way,so that it may mean either "Yes, yes," or "No, no"?

mnt@2Corinthians:1:19 @ For Jesus Christ, Son of God, who was proclaimed among you by us, that is, by Silvanus and Timothy and me, was not wavering between "Yes" and "No," but in him is the everlasting "Yes."

mnt@2Corinthians:1:20 @ For however many are the promises of God, in him they are "Yes." Therefore also through him let the Amen be said by our voices to the glory of God.

mnt@2Corinthians:1:21 @ And he who has established me with you in the Anointed One, and has anointed me, is God.

mnt@2Corinthians:1:22 @ He has also set his seal upon me, and given me the pledge of his Spirit in my heart.

mnt@2Corinthians:1:24 @ (not that I am attempting to lord it over your faith, but rather to work with you for your happiness); for your faith is stedfast.

mnt@2Corinthians:2:2 @ for if I cause you grief, who is there to cause me joy except those whom I have grieved?

mnt@2Corinthians:2:3 @ And for this very reason I wrote you, that I might not come only to be grieved by those who ought to give me joy; and because I trusted in you all, that my joy is the joy of all of you.

mnt@2Corinthians:2:4 @ For I wrote to you out of much affliction and anguish of heart, through many tears; not to pain you, but to convince you of my love, my abundant love for you.

mnt@2Corinthians:2:5 @ As to him who has been, and now is, causing pain, it is not I whom he has pained, but all of you - at least some of you (not to overstate the case).

mnt@2Corinthians:2:6 @ Sufficient for the offender is the punishment imposed by the majority;

mnt@2Corinthians:2:7 @ so that now you ought rather to forgive and comfort him, lest he should be overwhelmed by the excess of his grief.

mnt@2Corinthians:2:10 @ If you forgive the man, I forgive him, too; for whatever I have forgiven has been forgiven in the presence of Christ,

mnt@2Corinthians:2:11 @ for your sakes, that I may not be overreached by Satan, for I am not ignorant of his devices.

mnt@2Corinthians:2:12 @ Now when I came to Troas to preach the gospel of Christ, although a door was opened to me in the Lord,

mnt@2Corinthians:2:13 @ I could get no peace of mind because I failed to find Titus, my brother. So I bade them good-bye and started off for Macedonia.

mnt@2Corinthians:2:14 @ But thanks be to God, who in every place is leading me in the train of Christs triumph, and is making manifest through me the knowledge of him, an odor of incense everywhere.

mnt@2Corinthians:2:16 @ to these latter an odor of death to death, to the former, of life to life. For such service as this, who is sufficient?

mnt@2Corinthians:2:17 @ I am; for I am not like most, trafficking in the word of God, but rather from a sincere heart, like a man of God, I speak in Christ, in the very presence of God.

mnt@2Corinthians:3:1 @ Am I beginning again to "recommend" myself? Or do I need, as some do, letters of commendation either to you or from you?

mnt@2Corinthians:3:2 @ You are my letter, written on my heart, known and read by all men.

mnt@2Corinthians:3:3 @ Since all can see that you are a letter of Christ transcribed by men, written not with ink, but with the Spirit of the living God, not on tablets of stone, but on human hearts as tablets.

mnt@2Corinthians:3:6 @ It is he who has also made me sufficient as a minister of a new covenant; not of a letter but of a spirit; for the letter kills, but the spirit makes alive.

mnt@2Corinthians:3:7 @ If, however, the administration of death, written with letters and engraved on stones, began in glory, so that the children of Israel could not gaze steadily on the face of Moses, because of the glory of his face - a glory even then fading -

mnt@2Corinthians:3:8 @ how much more shall the ministry of the Spirit abide in glory?

mnt@2Corinthians:3:9 @ For if the ministry of condemnation had glory, far more is the ministry of righteousness radiant in glory.

mnt@2Corinthians:3:10 @ Indeed that which once was glorious has lost its glory, because of the glory which surpasses it.

mnt@2Corinthians:3:12 @ Therefore, cherishing such a hope, I use great freedom of speech.

mnt@2Corinthians:3:13 @ I do not do as Moses did, who used to cover his face with a veil to keep the children of Israel from beholding the passing of a fading glory.

mnt@2Corinthians:3:14 @ Nay, their minds were made dull; for to this very day, at the public reading of the Old Testament, the same veil rests thereon, because it is not revealed to them that in Christ the veil is taken away.

mnt@2Corinthians:3:15 @ Yes, to this very day, whenever Moses is read, a veil lies on their hearts;

mnt@2Corinthians:3:16 @ but when their heart turns to our Lord the veil is stripped away.

mnt@2Corinthians:3:17 @ (The Lord means the Spirit, and where the Spirit of the Lord abides there is freedom.)

mnt@2Corinthians:3:18 @ And we all, with unveiled faces, reflecting like a mirror the glory of the Lord, are ourselves continually being transformed into the same likeness, from glory to glory, as by the Lord, the Spirit.

mnt@2Corinthians:4:1 @ So then, as I have this ministry because of Gods mercy to me, I do not lose heart.

mnt@2Corinthians:4:2 @ I have renounced the hidden things of shame, not spending my life in craftiness, nor adulterating the word of God; but setting forth the truth openly, I strive to commend myself to every mans conscience as in the sight of God.

mnt@2Corinthians:4:3 @ But even if my gospel, too, is "veiled," it is among those who are on the way to perish that it is "veiled."

mnt@2Corinthians:4:4 @ Among them the god of this age has blinded the understanding of the unbelieving so that the sunshine of the gospel of God, should not dawn upon them.

mnt@2Corinthians:4:6 @ For God who said, "Out of darkness light shall shine," is he who has shone in my heart, that the sunrise of the knowledge of God may shine forth in the face of Christ.

mnt@2Corinthians:4:7 @ But I hold this treasure in an earthen vessel, in order that the surpassing greatness of the power may be from God, and not from myself.

mnt@2Corinthians:4:8 @ On every side I am hard pressed, yet not hemmed in; perplexed, but not in despair;

mnt@2Corinthians:4:10 @ Wherever I go, I am always carrying about in my body the dying of Jesus, in order that the life also of Jesus may be made manifest in this body of mine.

mnt@2Corinthians:4:11 @ For, alive though I am, I am always given over to death for the sake of Jesus, that the life also of Jesus may shine forth in my dying flesh.

mnt@2Corinthians:4:13 @ But having the same spirit of faith of which it is written, I believed, and therefore have spoken, I also believe and so I speak.

mnt@2Corinthians:4:14 @ For I know that He who raised from the dead the Lord Jesus, will raise me also with Jesus, and set me at your side in his presence.

mnt@2Corinthians:4:15 @ For everything is for your sakes, so that more abundant grace, because of the thanksgiving of many voices, might overflow to the glory of God.

mnt@2Corinthians:5:1 @ For I know, if this earthly tent of mine were struck, I have a mansion built by God, a house not made with hands, eternal in the heavens.

mnt@2Corinthians:5:2 @ For in this tent I am groaning, earnestly longing to be under the cover of my heavenly habitation; if so be that being so covered,

mnt@2Corinthians:5:4 @ For in this tent of mine I am groaning in deep trouble; not that I wish to be unclothed, but to be clothed upon, that what is mortal may be swallowed up in life.

mnt@2Corinthians:5:5 @ And He who has wrought me out for this very end is God, who has given me his Spirit as pledge.

mnt@2Corinthians:5:6 @ Therefore I am always of good courage, because I well know that while I am at home in the body, I am in banishment from the Lord,

mnt@2Corinthians:5:8 @ So I have good courage, and am well pleased rather, to be in banishment from the body and to be at home with the Lord.

mnt@2Corinthians:5:9 @ And for this reason I also make it home with the Lord.

mnt@2Corinthians:5:10 @ For we must all be made manifest, in our true characters, before the Judgment-seat of Christ; so that each one may receive according to that which he has done in his body, whether good or evil.

mnt@2Corinthians:5:11 @ So, because I know the fear of God, I "persuade men." What I am is manifest to God, and I hope manifest also to your conscience.

mnt@2Corinthians:5:12 @ I am not "commending myself to you again," but I am giving you an occasion of boasting on my behalf, so that you may have an answer ready for those who boast in externals, and not in the heart.

mnt@2Corinthians:5:14 @ For the love of Christ overmasters me; because I thus judge that if One has died for all, then all have died;

mnt@2Corinthians:5:15 @ and that he died for all in order that the living may live no longer for themselves, but for Him who died and rose again for them.

mnt@2Corinthians:5:16 @ Therefore henceforth I know no one simply as a man - even if I have known Christ as a man, yet now I do so no longer.

mnt@2Corinthians:5:17 @ So there is a new creation when any man is in Christ. The old life has passed away, behold, the new is come.

mnt@2Corinthians:5:18 @ And all this is from God, who through Christ reconciled me to himself, and gave me the ministry of reconciliation;

mnt@2Corinthians:5:19 @ how that God was in Christ reconciling a world to himself, not reckoning to men their trespasses; and that to me he has entrusted the message of that reconciliation.

mnt@2Corinthians:5:20 @ On Christs behalf, then, I come as ambassador. It is as though God was entreating you, through me, on Christs behalf I beg you to be reconciled to God.

mnt@2Corinthians:5:21 @ Him who knew no sin, in our behalf he has made to be sin; so that in him we might become the righteousness of God.

mnt@2Corinthians:6:1 @ As a worker with him I beseech you not to receive the grace of God in vain.

mnt@2Corinthians:6:2 @ For he said. In an acceptable time have I heard thee, And in the day of salvation have I succored thee. Behold, now is the acceptable time! behold, now is the day of salvation!

mnt@2Corinthians:6:6 @ with purity, understanding, patience, and kindness; by the Holy Spirit, by love sincere,

mnt@2Corinthians:6:7 @ by a true teaching and an energy divine; by the weapons of righteousness, for attack or for defense,

mnt@2Corinthians:6:11 @ O Corinthians, I am unsealing my lips to you; my heart is wide open to you.

mnt@2Corinthians:6:12 @ There is no narrowness in my love; but the narrowness is in your own.

mnt@2Corinthians:6:13 @ I pray you, therefore, in fair exchange (I speak as to my children), let your hearts also be wide open to me.

mnt@2Corinthians:6:16 @ And what compact has Gods temple with idols? For we are a temple of the living God, as he has said. I will dwell among them, and walk about among them; I will be their God, and they will be my people.

mnt@2Corinthians:6:17 @ Therefore, Come out from among them and separate yourselves, saith the Lord, touch not what is unclean;

mnt@2Corinthians:6:18 @ then I will receive you and will be to you a Father, and you shall be to me sons and daughters, saith the Lord Almighty.

mnt@2Corinthians:7:1 @ As these promises are ours, beloved, let us cleanse ourselves from every defilement of body and of spirit, and perfect our holiness in the fear of God.

mnt@2Corinthians:7:2 @ Make room for me in your hearts! I have wronged no man, I have ruined no man, I have defrauded no man.

mnt@2Corinthians:7:3 @ I am not saying this to blame you, for as I have already said, I hold you in my heart to live together and to die together.

mnt@2Corinthians:7:4 @ Great is my faith in you; great is my cheerful assurance in you. I am filled with comfort; in spite of all my troubles, my heart is overflowing with joy.

mnt@2Corinthians:7:5 @ For even after I reached Macedonia, my flesh had no rest, but I was troubled on every hand. Without were fights; within were, fears.

mnt@2Corinthians:7:6 @ But the God who comforts the down-hearted comforted me by the coming of Titus,

mnt@2Corinthians:7:7 @ and not alone by his coming, but also by the comfort you had been to him. For he told me of your eager longing, of your penitence, and of your zeal on my behalf, so that I was happier still.

mnt@2Corinthians:7:8 @ Even if I caused you pain by my letter, I do not regret; though I did regret it when I saw that my letter had caused you pain, even for a time.

mnt@2Corinthians:7:10 @ For your pain came from God, and so you took no harm from me. For the pain which is from God works repentance leading to salvation, a repentance never to be regretted. But the worlds pain works death.

mnt@2Corinthians:7:11 @ Note the results of this pain which God permitted; what earnestness it has called forth in you, what explanations, what indignation, what alarm, what longing, what fervor, what punishment of wrong. In every way you have proved yourselves innocent in the matter.

mnt@2Corinthians:7:12 @ So then, even if I did write to you, it was not for the sake of the wrong-doer, or of him who had been wronged, but to make clear to yourselves in the sight of God your earnest care for me.

mnt@2Corinthians:7:13 @ This is what comforts me. In addition to this comfort of mine, I have been made still happier by the happiness of Titus; because his spirit was refreshed by you all.

mnt@2Corinthians:7:14 @ Although I have been boasting a little to him about you, I have not been put to shame. But as in every matter I have spoken the truth to you, so also my boast to Titus has been proved to be the truth.

mnt@2Corinthians:7:15 @ And his tender affection is all the greater toward you, when he calls to mind the obedience of you all, and the fear and trembling with which you received him.

mnt@2Corinthians:8:1 @ Now, brothers, I wish to tell you about the grace of God which has been manifest in the churches of Macedonia.

mnt@2Corinthians:8:2 @ For although in heavy trial of affliction, their overbrimming happiness, even in spite of their deep poverty, abounded to the opulence of their unselfishness.

mnt@2Corinthians:8:3 @ For I can testify that according to their ability, and even beyond their ability, of their own free will, too, they have given help.

mnt@2Corinthians:8:4 @ With earnest entreaty they craved of me the privilege of a share in ministering to the saints in Jerusalem.

mnt@2Corinthians:8:5 @ And this not as I had expected, but in accordance with the will of God, they first gave themselves to God and to me.

mnt@2Corinthians:8:6 @ With the result that I have been begging Titus that, as he had been the one to begin the work with you, so he should complete among you this grace also.

mnt@2Corinthians:8:7 @ Now then, as you excel in everything, in faith and utterance and knowledge and all zeal and in your love to me, see to it that you excel in this grace also.

mnt@2Corinthians:8:8 @ I do not say this by way of command, but by the zeal of others I am trying to prove the reality of your love.

mnt@2Corinthians:8:9 @ For you know the grace of our Lord Jesus Christ, how though he was rich, for your sakes he became poor, that you through his poverty might become rich.

mnt@2Corinthians:8:10 @ And I will give you my opinion in this matter; for this offering is fitting in your case, considering that you made a beginning before others, not only in the willingness to do something but also in actually doing something a year ago.

mnt@2Corinthians:8:11 @ So now complete the doing of it also, in order that just as there was the readiness to will, so there may be the accomplishment according to your means.

mnt@2Corinthians:8:12 @ For if there be first willing mind, the gift is accepted according to what a man has, and not according to what he has not.

mnt@2Corinthians:8:13 @ Nor are other people to be relieved, and you to be distressed;

mnt@2Corinthians:8:14 @ but burdens are to be equalized. Now your abundance at this present time present time is a supply for their want, in supply for your want; and so burdens be equalized,

mnt@2Corinthians:8:15 @ even as it is written, He who gathered much had nothing over, and he who gathered little did not lack.

mnt@2Corinthians:8:16 @ But thanks be to God who has inspired in the heart of Titus the same zeal on your behalf that I have.

mnt@2Corinthians:8:17 @ For he not only consented to my request, but being thoroughly in earnest, comes to you of his own accord.

mnt@2Corinthians:8:18 @ And I am sending with him that brother whose fame in the service of the gospel is spread through all the churches.

mnt@2Corinthians:8:19 @ More than that, he is the one chosen by the churches to accompany me on my journey, in administering this gift of yours for the Lords glory. And this has my full consent,

mnt@2Corinthians:8:21 @ For I aim at being above reproach, not only in the sight of the Lord, but also in the sight of men.

mnt@2Corinthians:8:22 @ With them I am sending our brother of whose zeal I have often had proof in many ways, and who is now zealous because of his great confidence in you.

mnt@2Corinthians:8:23 @ As for Titus, remember that he is a partner of mine, and is also my associate in labors for you. As for the other brothers, remember that they are delegates from the churches, men in whom Christ is glorified.

mnt@2Corinthians:8:24 @ So show to the churches an evidence of your love, and a justification to these brothers of my boasting about you.

mnt@2Corinthians:9:1 @ It is indeed unnecessary for me to write you in regard to the ministration to the saints at Jerusalem,

mnt@2Corinthians:9:2 @ for I know how ready you are, and am always boasting about you to the Macedonians, telling them that Greece has been ready for a year past; and your zeal has been a spur to the majority of them.

mnt@2Corinthians:9:3 @ Nevertheless I am sending the brothers in order that my boast about you may not prove vain in this instance; so that, as I kept saying, you may be prepared.

mnt@2Corinthians:9:5 @ So I have thought that I must ask these brothers to visit you beforehand, and get your promised contribution ready in advance. I want it to be given of your bounty, not extorted from your covetousness.

mnt@2Corinthians:9:6 @ Mark this; he who sows sparingly will also reap sparingly; and he who sows bountifully will also reap bountifully.

mnt@2Corinthians:9:7 @ But let each give according to the purpose of his heart; not grudgingly of under compulsion. It is a cheerful giver that God loves.

mnt@2Corinthians:9:9 @ As it is written. He scattered broadcast, he gave to the poor; His almsgiving continues forever.

mnt@2Corinthians:9:10 @ He who ever supplies seed to the sower, and bread for the food of man, will supply and make plentous your seed, and increase the harvest springing up from your almsgiving.

mnt@2Corinthians:9:11 @ You yourselves will be enriched with all good things, that you may give ungrudgingly; and your gifts, of which I am the agent, will make men give thanks to God.

mnt@2Corinthians:9:12 @ Because the ministry of this contribution not only supplies the needs of the saints, but also overflows in many a thanksgiving to God.

mnt@2Corinthians:9:13 @ For this ministration proves you. On account of it men glorify God for your faithfulness to your professions of the gospel of Christ, and for the liberality of your gifts to them and to all.

mnt@2Corinthians:9:14 @ Moreover, in their prayers for you they will be longing after you, because of the exceeding grace of God that is resting upon you.

mnt@2Corinthians:10:1 @ Now I Paul, myself, appeal to you by the humble-heartedness and selflessness of Christ - Paul who "in your presence is humble, but bold enough when he is absent" -

mnt@2Corinthians:10:2 @ I beseech you, and I say, do not make me show my boldness, when I come in the boldness with which I think I shall show my courage against some who think that I am walking on the low level of the flesh.

mnt@2Corinthians:10:3 @ Though I do walk on the low level of the flesh, I do not make war as the flesh does;

mnt@2Corinthians:10:4 @ for the weapons of my warfare are not weapons of the flesh, but mighty for God, in pulling down all fortresses.

mnt@2Corinthians:10:5 @ For I pull down imaginations and every crag that lifts itself against the knowledge of God. And I carry every thought away into captivity and subjection to Christ;

mnt@2Corinthians:10:6 @ and I am fully prepared to punish every act of disobedience, when once your submission has been put beyond question.

mnt@2Corinthians:10:7 @ Look these facts in the face. If any man is fully persuaded as regards himself that he belongs to Christ, let him consider again with himself, that just as he is Christs, so also am I.

mnt@2Corinthians:10:8 @ If, however, I were to boast more loudly concerning the authority which the Lord gave me (not to cast you down, but to build you up), I should have no cause for shame.

mnt@2Corinthians:10:11 @ Let such a man assure himself that my actions, when I am present, will be just like my words in my letters when I am absent.

mnt@2Corinthians:10:12 @ I have not indeed the audacity to class myself among, or compare myself with, certain of the self-commenders; yet they are not wise in measuring themselves by one another and in comparing themselves with one another.

mnt@2Corinthians:10:13 @ I, however, will not indulge in undue boasting, but will confine it within the limits of the sphere to which God has assigned me - a sphere which reaches even to you.

mnt@2Corinthians:10:14 @ For I am not overstepping the limits of my authority, as though I reached you not; since I have already come even as far as Corinth to proclaim the gospel of Christ.

mnt@2Corinthians:10:15 @ I am not "boasting beyond measure in the labors of others," but it is my hope that, as your faith goes on increasing among yourselves, by the enlargement of my appointed limits,

mnt@2Corinthians:10:16 @ I may carry the gospel to countries beyond you; and not be boasting of work made ready to my hand within another mans limit.

mnt@2Corinthians:10:17 @ Meanwhile. Let him who boasts, boast in the Lord.

mnt@2Corinthians:10:18 @ For a man is proved worthy, not by his self-commendation, but when he is commended by the Lord.

mnt@2Corinthians:11:2 @ I have a divine jealousy on your behalf; for I betrothed you to one only husband, even to Christ, that I might present you to him, a chaste virgin.

mnt@2Corinthians:11:3 @ But I fear lest, just as the serpent beguiled Eve in his craftiness, so your minds should be seduced from your single-mindedness and purity toward Christ.

mnt@2Corinthians:11:4 @ If indeed some one is coming to preach another Jesus, whom I did not preach, or you are receiving a Spirit other than you once received, or another gospel which you did not accept before, you would do well to bear with me.

mnt@2Corinthians:11:7 @ Is it a sin, forsooth, that I humbled myself that you might be exalted, in preaching the gospel to you free of cost?

mnt@2Corinthians:11:8 @ Other churches I spoiled, and took their wages to do you service.

mnt@2Corinthians:11:9 @ Even when I lacked the actual necessities of life while I was with you, I was a burden to no one; for whatever I lacked, the brothers from Macedonia supplied, when they came. So I kept myself from being a burden to you in any way, and will continue to do so.

mnt@2Corinthians:11:10 @ As the truth of Christ is in me, this boasting of mine shall not be stopped within the boundaries of Greece!

mnt@2Corinthians:11:12 @ I am doing and will continue to do this in order to cut away the ground from under those who wish some cause for slander; and that the ground of their boasting may appear as does mine.

mnt@2Corinthians:11:15 @ It is no great marvel, then, if his ministers also disguise themselves as ministers of righteousness. Their end will be according to their works.

mnt@2Corinthians:11:17 @ What I am about to say I am not speaking by the Lords command, but as it were in pure folly, in this boldness of boasting.

mnt@2Corinthians:11:20 @ You put up with it, though they make slaves of you, live on you, seize your property, lord it over you, even strike you in the face, in the way of degradation!

mnt@2Corinthians:11:22 @ Are they Hebrews? So am I. Are they descendants of Israel? So am I. Are they descendants of Abraham? So am I.

mnt@2Corinthians:11:23 @ Are they ministers of Christ? (I speak as though I were beside myself), such, far, more, am I; in labors more abundant, in imprisonments also more abundant, in floggings beyond measure, in deaths often.

mnt@2Corinthians:11:24 @ Five times at the hands of the Jews, I have received one short of forty lashes.

mnt@2Corinthians:11:25 @ Three times I have been scourged by the Romans; once I have been stoned; three times have I been shipwrecked; a night and a day have I been adrift in the open sea.

mnt@2Corinthians:11:26 @ My journeys have been many; in perils of rivers, in perils of bandits; in perils from my countrymen, in perils in the city, in perils in the wilderness; in perils on the sea, in perils among false brothers;

mnt@2Corinthians:11:28 @ Not to mention other things, there is the crowding pressure of each day upon me, the care of all the churches.

mnt@2Corinthians:11:31 @ The God and Father of the Lord Jesus, he who is blessed forever, knows that I am telling the truth.

mnt@2Corinthians:11:32 @ In Damascus, the governor under Aretas the King, kept guard over the city of the Damascus, to arrest me;

mnt@2Corinthians:11:33 @ but through an opening in the wall I was let down in a basket, and so escaped and out of his hands.

mnt@2Corinthians:12:1 @ I am forced to boast, though it is unprofitable, but I will go on to visions and revelations of the Lord.;18 I urged Titus to go, and with him I sent our brother. Did Titus make gain of you? And did I not walk in the same spirit as he did? Did I not take the very same steps?

mnt@2Corinthians:12:2 @ I know a Christian man who, fourteen years ago (whether in the body I know not, or out of the body, I know not. God knows), was caught up- -this man of whom I speak - even into the third heaven.

mnt@2Corinthians:12:3 @ And I know such a man (whether in the body or apart from the body I know not, God knows),

mnt@2Corinthians:12:4 @ who was caught up into Paradise, and heard unutterable words which no human being is permitted to utter.

mnt@2Corinthians:12:6 @ If I should choose to continue boasting I should not be foolish, for I should be speaking the truth. But I refrain, lest by the stupendous grandeur of the revelation any one should estimate me beyond what he sees in me, or hears from me.

mnt@2Corinthians:12:7 @ It was for this reason, lest I should be over-elated, that there was given me a thorn in the flesh, a messenger of Satan, to buffet me, lest I should be over-elated.

mnt@2Corinthians:12:8 @ Concerning this, three times over I supplicated the Lord that it might leave me;

mnt@2Corinthians:12:9 @ but he has answered me. "My grace is sufficient for you; it is in weakness that my power is perfected."

mnt@2Corinthians:12:10 @ Most gladly therefore will I boast rather of my weakness, that over me like a tent may be pitched the power of Christ. That is why I rejoice in weakness, in ill-treatment, in troubles, in persecutions and calamities for Christs sake. For when I am weak, then am I strong.

mnt@2Corinthians:12:11 @ I am become a fool - you have forced me to; for you yourselves ought to have been my vindicators. In no respect am I inferior to these superapostolic apostles, even though I am nothing.

mnt@2Corinthians:12:12 @ In truth the signs of the true apostle were wrought among you in all patience by signs and marvels and powers.

mnt@2Corinthians:12:13 @ In what respect, then, were you inferior to the other churches, except that I myself was not a burden to you? Forgive me this wrong!

mnt@2Corinthians:12:14 @ And now for the third time I am preparing to visit you. I will not be a burden to you, for I am not seeking yours, but you. For the children ought not to lay up for the parents, but the parents for the children.

mnt@2Corinthians:12:15 @ For my part, I will most gladly spend, yea, and will myself be spent, for your souls. If I love you more abundantly, am I to be loved the less?

mnt@2Corinthians:12:19 @ Do you think that all this time I am defending myself to you? It is before the presence of God that I am speaking in Christ; and all, beloved, for your upbuilding.

mnt@2Corinthians:12:20 @ For I dread that perhaps, when I come, I may not find you to be such as I wish, and that I may be found by you such as you do not wish; I dread lest there should be quarrels, jealousy, tempers, party spirit, slandering, gossip, arrogance, tumults;

mnt@2Corinthians:12:21 @ and lest when I come again my God may humble me before you, and lest I shall mourn for many those who have sinned before, and have not repented of the impurity and immorality and wantonness which they have practised.

mnt@2Corinthians:13:1 @ This will be my third visit to you. Out of the mouth of two or three witnesses shall every word be confirmed.

mnt@2Corinthians:13:2 @ I have said formerly, and I now forewarn you as when I was present the second time, so now when I am absent the second time, so now when I am absent, saying to those who had sinned before, and to all the rest, "If I come again, I will not spare,"

mnt@2Corinthians:13:3 @ Since you want a proof of Christ who is speaking in me, he who is not feeble toward you, but powerful among you.

mnt@2Corinthians:13:4 @ For though he was crucified through weakness, yet he now lives through the power of God. I also am weak, sharing in his weakness, but I shall live with him by the power of God.

mnt@2Corinthians:13:5 @ Examine yourselves to see if you are in the faith; put your own selves to the proof. Or do you not know, your own selves, that Jesus Christ is in you, unless indeed you fail to abide the proof?

mnt@2Corinthians:13:6 @ But I hope you will find that I abide the proof.

mnt@2Corinthians:13:7 @ And my prayer to God is that you may do no evil; not in order that I may appear approved, but that you may do what is noble, though I should seem unable to abide the proof.

mnt@2Corinthians:13:8 @ For I have no power against the truth, but only in defense of the truth.

mnt@2Corinthians:13:9 @ For I am always glad whenever I am weak, but you are strong. For this also I am praying, for your perfect reformation.

mnt@2Corinthians:13:10 @ For this reason I am writing thus while absent, so that when I come, I may not have to deal sharply, according to the authority which the Lord gave me for building up, and not for pulling down.

mnt@2Corinthians:13:11 @ Finally, brothers, farewell. Aim at perfection, take courage, be of one mind, live in peace; so shall the God of love and peace be with you.

mnt@2Corinthians:13:12 @ Salute one another with a holy kiss.

mnt@2Corinthians:13:13 @ All the saints salute you.

mnt@2Corinthians:13:14 @ The grace of our Lord Jesus Christ, and the love of God, and the fellowship of the Holy Spirit be with you all.

mnt@Galatians:1:1 @ Paul, an apostle sent not from men nor by any man, but by Jesus Christ and by God the Father who raised him from the dead;

mnt@Galatians:1:2 @ with all the brothers who are with me. To the churches of Galatia greeting.

mnt@Galatians:1:3 @ Grace be to you, and peace from God our Father and our Lord Jesus Christ,

mnt@Galatians:1:4 @ who gave himself for our sins, that he might deliver us from this present evil age in accordance with the will of our God and Father,

mnt@Galatians:1:6 @ I am amazed that you are so soon shifting your ground, and deserting him who called you by the grace of Christ,

mnt@Galatians:1:7 @ for another gospel, which indeed is not another; only there are certain individuals who are troubling you, and desiring to pervert the gospel of Christ.

mnt@Galatians:1:8 @ But even though I myself or an angel from heaven were to preach any gospel other than that which I did preach to you, let him be accursed.

mnt@Galatians:1:9 @ I have said it before, and I now repeat it, if any one is preaching a gospel to you other than that which you have received, let him be accursed.

mnt@Galatians:1:11 @ For I would have you know, brothers, that the gospel I preach is not man-made;

mnt@Galatians:1:12 @ for neither did I myself receive it from man, nor by man was I taught it, but by a revelation an apocalypse of Jesus Christ.

mnt@Galatians:1:13 @ For you have heard of my former conduct in Judaism, how furiously I used to persecute the church of God, and how I kept seeking to root it out;

mnt@Galatians:1:14 @ and how in my zeal for Judaism I outstripped many of my own age and nation, in my special zeal for the traditions of my forefathers.

mnt@Galatians:1:15 @ But when God who had set me apart from my very birth,

mnt@Galatians:1:16 @ and had called me by his grace, was pleased to reveal his Son in me, so that I might preach his gospel among the Gentiles, without consulting a human being,

mnt@Galatians:1:18 @ Then three years later I went up to Jerusalem to get acquainted with Peter, and spent two weeks with him.

mnt@Galatians:1:19 @ I saw no other apostle except James, the Lords brother.

mnt@Galatians:1:20 @ (In what I am now writing, I call God to witness that I am telling the truth.)

mnt@Galatians:1:21 @ Then I went into the districts of Syria and Cilicia.

mnt@Galatians:1:22 @ But to the churches of Christ in Judea I was personally unknown;

mnt@Galatians:1:23 @ only they used to hear it said, "He who was once persecuting us is now preaching the gospel of the very faith which he once tried to ruin."

mnt@Galatians:1:24 @ And they were giving glory to God on my account.

mnt@Galatians:2:2 @ (I went up at that time in obedience to a revelation). And I laid before them the gospel which I am wont to preach among the Gentiles. I did this privately before those in authority, lest by any means I should be running, or should already have run, in vain.

mnt@Galatians:2:3 @ But although Titus, my companion, was a Greek, they did not compel even him to be circumcised.

mnt@Galatians:2:4 @ Yet there were false brethren who had crept in to spy out the freedom we enjoy in Christ Jesus, in order to enslave us again.

mnt@Galatians:2:5 @ To them we did not yield submission even for an hour, in order that the truth of the gospel might abide unshaken among you.

mnt@Galatians:2:6 @ But those in authority - what they once were makes no difference to me; God is no respecter of persons - those I say who were in authority had no additions to make my message.

mnt@Galatians:2:7 @ On the contrary, when they saw that I had been entrusted with the gospel for the uncircumcised, just as Peter has with the gospel for the circumcised

mnt@Galatians:2:8 @ (for he who has equipped Peter for the apostleship to the circumcised, equipped me also for the apostleship to the Gentiles),

mnt@Galatians:2:9 @ and when they recognized the grace which had been given to me, James and Cephas and John, then thought to be pillars, gave to Barnabas and to me the right hand of fellowship. They agreed that we should go to the Gentiles and they to the Jews.

mnt@Galatians:2:10 @ They stipulated only that we should remember the poor, which very thing indeed I was quite eager to do.

mnt@Galatians:2:11 @ But when Cephas came to Antioch I resisted him to his face, because he stood self-condemned.

mnt@Galatians:2:12 @ For until certain men came from James he used to eat with the Gentile Christians, but when they came, he began to draw back and to separate himself, because he was afraid of the circumcision party.

mnt@Galatians:2:13 @ And the rest of the Jewish Christians also dissimulated with him, so that even Barnabas was carried away by their hypocrisy.

mnt@Galatians:2:14 @ But when I saw that they were not walking a straight path, in the presence of the truth of the gospel, I said to Cephas before them all. "If you, although you are a Jew, live like the Gentiles and not like the Jews, why do you try to compel the Gentiles to become Jews?

mnt@Galatians:2:16 @ "yet because we know that no man is justified by the works of the Law, but by the faith of Jesus Christ, we ourselves also have put our faith in Jesus Christ, that we might be justified by the faith of Christ, and not by the works of the Law; for "By the works of the Law shall no flesh be justified."

mnt@Galatians:2:17 @ But if while seeking to be justified in Christ we ourselves also have been found to be sinners, is Christ then a minister of sin? Far from it!

mnt@Galatians:2:18 @ For if I am rebuilding the very things which I destroyed, I am proving myself a transgressor.

mnt@Galatians:2:20 @ I have been crucified with Christ, so it is no longer I who am living, but it is Christ who is living in me; and the life I am now living in the flesh, I am living in faith of the Son of God who loved me and gave himself up for me.

mnt@Galatians:2:21 @ I do not annul the grace of God; for if righteousness comes by way of the Law, then indeed Christ died Christ for nothing.

mnt@Galatians:3:1 @ O foolish Galatians, who has bewitched you? You, before whose very eyes Jesus Christ was placarded as crucified!

mnt@Galatians:3:2 @ Answer me this one question. "When you received the Spirit, was it from doing what the Law commands or from believing the message heard?"

mnt@Galatians:3:3 @ Are you so without sense? After beginning with the Spirit, will you now end with the flesh?

mnt@Galatians:3:5 @ Does he then who supplies you with his Spirit and works miracles among you, do it because you do what the law commands of because you believe the message heard?

mnt@Galatians:3:7 @ Notice then that the true sons of Abraham are children of faith.

mnt@Galatians:3:8 @ And the Scripture, anticipating Gods justification of the Gentiles by faith, announced the gospel to Abraham beforehand in the words, In thee shall all the Gentiles be blessed.

mnt@Galatians:3:9 @ So then they who are children of faith are blessed with Abraham the faithful;

mnt@Galatians:3:10 @ but a curse rests on those who have their root in the works of the Law; for it is written. Cursed is every one that continues not in all the things written in the Book of the Law, to do them.

mnt@Galatians:3:11 @ And it is manifest that by the Law no man is justified in the sight of God. because The just shall live by faith,

mnt@Galatians:3:12 @ and the Law has nothing to do with faith, but declares, The man that has done these things shall live therein.

mnt@Galatians:3:13 @ Christ has redeemed us from the curse of the Law by becoming a curse for us (for it is written, Cursed is every one who is hanged upon a tree),

mnt@Galatians:3:14 @ to the end that in Christ Jesus the blessing of Abraham might come upon the Gentiles, so that through faith we might receive the promised Spirit.

mnt@Galatians:3:15 @ Let me illustrate, brothers, from every-day life. When once a human testament is made, and formally ratified, no one sets it aside or adds to it.

mnt@Galatians:3:16 @ Now it was to Abraham that the promises were spoken, and to his offspring. God did not say, "offsprings" as if speaking of many, but "and to your offspring," as of one; and this is Christ.

mnt@Galatians:3:17 @ I mean to say that the testament which God has already ratified could not be annulled by the Law which came four hundred and thirty years later, so as to make the Promise void.

mnt@Galatians:3:18 @ For if the inheritance comes from law, it no longer comes from a promise; but God did give it as a free gift to Abraham by a promise.

mnt@Galatians:3:19 @ To what purpose, then, was the Law? It was imposed later for the sake of transgressions, until the "Offspring" should come to whom the promise had been made. It was arranged through angels by the hand of a mediator.

mnt@Galatians:3:21 @ Is the Law then opposed to the promises of God? Certainly not; for if a law had been given which could make alive, then righteousness would actually have come from law;

mnt@Galatians:3:22 @ but the Scripture has shut up the whole world in prison together under sin, in order that the promise due to faith in Jesus Christ might be given to those who have faith.

mnt@Galatians:3:23 @ Before the Faith came we were perpetual prisoners under the Law, in preparation for the destined faith about to be revealed.

mnt@Galatians:3:24 @ So the Law has been our tutor-slave our pedagogue to lead us to Christ, so that we may be justified by faith;

mnt@Galatians:3:25 @ but now that the Faith is come, we are no longer under a tutor-slave.

mnt@Galatians:3:27 @ For all of you who were baptized into Christ, have clothed yourselves with Christ.

mnt@Galatians:3:28 @ In him there is neither Jew nor Greek, there is neither slave nor free, there is no male and female; for you are all one in Christ Jesus.

mnt@Galatians:3:29 @ And if you belong to Christ, then you are the descendants of Abraham, heirs according to the promise.

mnt@Galatians:4:1 @ What I mean is this. As long as the heir is a child, he differs in no respect from a slave, though he be the owner of the whole inheritance;

mnt@Galatians:4:2 @ but is under the control of guardians and trustees, until the time appointed by his father.

mnt@Galatians:4:3 @ So we Jews also, when we were children, were held in bondage under the empty externalities of the world.

mnt@Galatians:4:4 @ But when the fulness of time was come God sent forth his Son, born of a woman, born under law,

mnt@Galatians:4:6 @ And because you are sons, God sent forth the spirit of his Son into your hearts, crying, "Dear, dear Father!"

mnt@Galatians:4:7 @ So each one of you is no longer a slave, but a son, and if a son, then an heir, too, through Gods grace.

mnt@Galatians:4:8 @ But once, when you Gentiles had no knowledge of God, you were slaves to gods which have no real being.

mnt@Galatians:4:9 @ Now, however, when you have come to know God, or rather to be known by God, how is it that you are beginning to turn back to those weak and beggarly externalities, eager to be in bondage to them again?

mnt@Galatians:4:12 @ Brothers, I beseech you, become as I am, because I also have become as you are. You never did me any wrong;

mnt@Galatians:4:13 @ on the contrary, you know that although it was illness which brought about my preaching the gospel to you at my first visit,

mnt@Galatians:4:15 @ Why then did you account yourselves so happy? (For I bear you witness that if you could you would have torn out your own eyes and given them to me.)

mnt@Galatians:4:16 @ Am I then become your enemy, because I am telling you the truth?

mnt@Galatians:4:17 @ These men are courting your favor to no good purpose. They want to isolate you, so that you will be courting their favor.

mnt@Galatians:4:18 @ It is always an honorable thing to have your favor sought in an honorable cause, always, and not only when I am with you.

mnt@Galatians:4:21 @ Tell me, you who wish to be subject to the Law, why do you not listen to the Law?

mnt@Galatians:4:22 @ For it is written that Abraham had two sons, one by the slave woman and one by the free woman;

mnt@Galatians:4:23 @ but while the son by the slave woman was born according to the flesh, the son by the free woman was born in fulfilment of a promise.

mnt@Galatians:4:24 @ Now all this is an allegory, for these women are the two covenants; one from Mount Sinai, which is Hagar bearing children into bondage

mnt@Galatians:4:25 @ (for the word Hagar stands for Mt. Sinai in Arabia and represents the present Jerusalem who with her children is in bondage.)

mnt@Galatians:4:26 @ But the Jerusalem that is above is free, and she is our mother.

mnt@Galatians:4:27 @ For it is written, Rejoice, O thou barren one who dost never bear, Break forth in joy, thou that dost not travail; For the children of the desolate woman are many. Yea, more than hers who has a husband.

mnt@Galatians:4:28 @ But you, brothers, are like Isaac, children of the promise;

mnt@Galatians:4:29 @ but just as in old times the son born by the flesh used to persecute the son born by the power of the Spirit, so also it is now.

mnt@Galatians:4:30 @ But what does the Scripture say? Send away the slave-woman and her son; for the slaves son shall not be heir along with the son of the free woman.

mnt@Galatians:4:31 @ So, brothers, we are the children of no slave woman, but of free woman. For freedom did not Christ set us free;

mnt@Galatians:5:1 @ stand firm then, and do not be again entangled in a yoke of bondage.

mnt@Galatians:5:2 @ Listen to me! I, Paul, declare to you that if you are to continue to follow the rite of circumcision, Christ will be no profit to you.

mnt@Galatians:5:3 @ I solemnly testify to every man who submits to circumcision that he obligates himself to keep the whole Law.

mnt@Galatians:5:5 @ But we are not, for we through the Spirit are eagerly waiting by faith for a hope of righteousness (a hope well founded);

mnt@Galatians:5:6 @ because in Christ neither circumcision has any value, nor uncircumcision, but faith which works through love.

mnt@Galatians:5:7 @ You were running your race nobly. Who hindered you from obeying the truth?

mnt@Galatians:5:8 @ The influence brought to bear does not come from him who is calling you.

mnt@Galatians:5:9 @ A little leaven is leavening the whole lump.

mnt@Galatians:5:10 @ As for me, I am fully trusting you in the Lord that you will be no otherwise minded; but he who is trying to unsettle you will have to bear his punishment, whoever he may be.

mnt@Galatians:5:11 @ But I, brothers, if I "still preach circumcision," why am I still persecuted? Then surely the stumbling-block of the Cross has ceased to be an obstacle!

mnt@Galatians:5:12 @ Would to God that those who are trying to unsettle you would even have themselves mutilated.

mnt@Galatians:5:13 @ For you, brothers, were called for freedom; only do not make your freedom an excuse for self-indulgence, but in love enslave yourselves to one another.

mnt@Galatians:5:14 @ For the whole Law has been fulfilled in this one precept, Thou shalt love thy neighbor as thyself.

mnt@Galatians:5:15 @ But if you are always biting and devouring one another, take heed lest you be utterly consumed one by another.

mnt@Galatians:5:16 @ This is my meaning. Let your steps be guided by the Spirit, and you will not gratify the desires of the flesh.

mnt@Galatians:5:17 @ For the desire of the flesh is against that of the Spirit, and the desire of the Spirit is against that of the flesh, for they two are antagonistic, so that you may not do those things that you wish.

mnt@Galatians:5:18 @ But if you are habitually led by the Spirit you are not under law.

mnt@Galatians:5:19 @ Now the works of the flesh are manifest; such, for instance, as fornication, impurity, indecency,

mnt@Galatians:5:21 @ envy, drunkenness, revelings, and things like these. I tell you beforehand, as I have already told you, that those who practise such sins shall not inherit the kingdom of God.

mnt@Galatians:5:22 @ But the harvest-fruit of the Spirit is love, joy, peace, long- suffering, kindness, goodness, fidelity, gentleness, and self-control;

mnt@Galatians:5:23 @ against such there is no law.

mnt@Galatians:5:24 @ And those who belong to Christ have crucified the flesh with its passions and appetites.

mnt@Galatians:5:25 @ If we are living by the Spirit, let us also keep step in the Spirit.

mnt@Galatians:5:26 @ Let us not become conceited, provoking one another, envying one another.

mnt@Galatians:6:1 @ Even if any one should be overtaken in a fault, brothers, you that are spiritual ought, in a gentle spirit, to restore such a one, each one of you looking to himself, lest you too be tempted.

mnt@Galatians:6:2 @ Ever be bearing one anothers burdens, and so be fulfilling the law of Christ.

mnt@Galatians:6:3 @ If a man fancies himself to be somebody when he is really nobody he is deceiving himself.

mnt@Galatians:6:4 @ Let each one test his own work, and he will then have something to be proud of by comparing himself with himself, and not with any one else;

mnt@Galatians:6:6 @ He, however, who is being taught in the message, should always share with his instructor in all the good things which he possesses.

mnt@Galatians:6:7 @ Be not deceived. God is not mocked. Whatever a man sows, that will he also reap.

mnt@Galatians:6:8 @ The man who is sowing to his flesh will of the flesh reap corruption; but he who is sowing to the Spirit will of the Spirit reap life eternal.

mnt@Galatians:6:10 @ So then, as we have opportunity, let is do good to all men, but especially to those who are of the household of faith.

mnt@Galatians:6:12 @ Those who are trying to compel you to be circumcised are such as wish to make a fair show in the flesh, only that they may not suffer persecution for the cross of Christ.

mnt@Galatians:6:13 @ Even those who are being circumcised, are not themselves keeping the Law, but they want you to be circumcised so that they may glory in your flesh.

mnt@Galatians:6:14 @ God forbid that I should glory in anything except in the cross of our Lord Jesus Christ, upon which the world has been crucified to me and I have been crucified to the world.

mnt@Galatians:6:15 @ For in Jesus Christ neither is circumcision anything, nor uncircumcision, but a new creation.

mnt@Galatians:6:16 @ On all who will govern their lives by this rule and on the Israel of God may peace and mercy rest.

mnt@Galatians:6:17 @ From this time forth let no one trouble me, for I bear branded in my body the marks of Jesus, my Master.

mnt@Galatians:6:18 @ May the grace of our Lord Jesus Christ be with your spirit, brothers. Amen.

mnt@Ephesians:1:1 @ Paul, an apostle of Jesus Christ by the will of God, to the saints who are in Ephesus and to the faithful in Christ Jesus,

mnt@Ephesians:1:2 @ grace to you and peace from God our father and the Lord Jesus Christ.

mnt@Ephesians:1:3 @ Blessed be the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, who has blessed us in every spiritual blessing in the heavenly realms in Christ.

mnt@Ephesians:1:4 @ Even as he chose us in him before the foundation of the world to be holy and without blemish in his sight.

mnt@Ephesians:1:5 @ For in his love he predestined us (such was the good pleasure of his will) to adoption for himself as sons through Jesus Christ,

mnt@Ephesians:1:6 @ and to the praise of his glorious grace which he graciously bestowed upon us in the Beloved.

mnt@Ephesians:1:7 @ It is in him we have deliverance, the forgiveness of our trespasses, through his blood;

mnt@Ephesians:1:8 @ so abundantly did he lavish upon us the riches of his grace in all wisdom and understanding,

mnt@Ephesians:1:9 @ when he made known to us, I say, that good pleasure which he purposed in himself

mnt@Ephesians:1:10 @ for the government of the fulness of the ages, that all things in heaven and earth are alike should be gathered up in Christ, as Head.

mnt@Ephesians:1:11 @ It is he in whom we Jews also have our inheritance, having been chosen beforehand according to the purpose of Him who executes all things according to the counsel of his will,

mnt@Ephesians:1:12 @ that we who first hoped in Christ should be for the praise of his glory.

mnt@Ephesians:1:13 @ And in him, because you listened to the proclamation of the truth, the evangel of your salvation, and trusted it, you Gentiles too were sealed with the promised Holy Spirit,

mnt@Ephesians:1:14 @ who for the praise of his glory is the pledge of our common heritage, unto the complete redemption of his purchased property.

mnt@Ephesians:1:15 @ For this reason I also, from the time when I heard of the faith in the Lord Jesus which prevails among you, and your love to all the saints,

mnt@Ephesians:1:16 @ do not cease to praise God for you, whenever I mention you in my prayers.

mnt@Ephesians:1:17 @ I am praying that the God of our Lord Jesus Christ, the Father most glorious, may grant you a spirit of wisdom and revelation, through an intimate knowledge of himself;

mnt@Ephesians:1:18 @ and that the eyes of your heart may be flooded with light so that you may understand what is the hope of his calling, what the wealth of the glory of his inheritance in the saints,

mnt@Ephesians:1:19 @ and what the surpassing greatness of his might in us who believe, as seen in the energy of that resistless might

mnt@Ephesians:1:20 @ which he exercised in raising Christ from the dead, and in seating him at his right hand in the heavenly heights,

mnt@Ephesians:1:21 @ far above all hierarchies and authorities and powers and dominions and every name that is named, not only in this age but in that which is to come.

mnt@Ephesians:1:22 @ God has put all things under Christs feet, and placed him as Head over all in the church,

mnt@Ephesians:1:23 @ which is his body, the fulness of Him who fills the universe.

mnt@Ephesians:2:1 @ And so God has given life to you Gentiles also, who were once dead in your trespasses and sins,

mnt@Ephesians:2:2 @ in which you passed your lives after the way of this world, under the sway of the Prince of the Powers of the Air, the spirit who is now working among the sons of disobedience.

mnt@Ephesians:2:3 @ And among them we all once passed our lives, indulging the passions of our flesh, carrying out the dictates of our senses and temperament, and were by nature the children of wrath like all the rest.

mnt@Ephesians:2:4 @ But God, who is rich in mercy, because of the great love with which he loved us,

mnt@Ephesians:2:5 @ even while we were dead in our trespasses, made us live together with Christ (it is by grace you have been saved).

mnt@Ephesians:2:6 @ together with him He raised us from the dead, and together with Christ Jesus seated us in the heavenly realm,

mnt@Ephesians:2:7 @ in order that he might show to the ages to come the amazing riches of his grace by his goodness to us in Christ Jesus.

mnt@Ephesians:2:8 @ For by grace you have been saved through faith, and that not of yourselves; it is Gods gift.

mnt@Ephesians:2:9 @ It is not of works, so that any one can boast of it;

mnt@Ephesians:2:10 @ for we are his handiwork, created in Christ Jesus for good deeds, which God predestined us to make our daily way of life.

mnt@Ephesians:2:11 @ Do not forget then, that you Gentiles in the flesh, who are called "uncircumcision" by the "circumcision" made in flesh by mans hand,

mnt@Ephesians:2:12 @ were once upon a time without Christ, aliens from the commonwealth of Israel, strangers to the covenants of the Promise, without hope and without God in the world.

mnt@Ephesians:2:13 @ But now in Christ Jesus you who once were far away have been brought near in the blood of Christ.

mnt@Ephesians:2:14 @ For he is our Peace, who has made the two of us Jew and Gentile one, and has broken down the party-wall of partition between us.

mnt@Ephesians:2:15 @ In his own body he abolished the cause of our enmity, the law of commandments contained in ordinances, in order to make the two into one new man in himself, so making peace.

mnt@Ephesians:2:16 @ Thus he reconciled us both in one body to God by his cross, on which he slew our enmity.

mnt@Ephesians:2:17 @ So he came preaching "Peace" to you Gentiles who were afar off, and "Peace" to us Jews who were near;

mnt@Ephesians:2:18 @ because it is through him that we both have access in one spirit to the Father.

mnt@Ephesians:2:19 @ Take notice then that no longer are you strangers and foreigners, but you are fellow citizens with the saints and members of Gods household.

mnt@Ephesians:2:20 @ You are built upon the foundation of the apostles and prophets, Jesus Christ himself being the chief corner-stone.

mnt@Ephesians:2:21 @ In him the whole building, fitly framed together, rises into a holy temple in the Lord;

mnt@Ephesians:2:22 @ and in him you, too, are continuously built together for a dwelling- place of God through his Spirit.

mnt@Ephesians:3:1 @ For this reason I, Paul, the prisoner of Christ Jesus on behalf of you Gentiles -

mnt@Ephesians:3:2 @ for surely you have heard of the stewardship of the grace of God entrusted to me for you?

mnt@Ephesians:3:3 @ You have heard how by direct revelation the secret truth was made known to me, as I have already briefly written you.

mnt@Ephesians:3:4 @ By reading what I have written, you can judge of my insight into that secret truth of Christ

mnt@Ephesians:3:5 @ which was not disclosed to the sons of men in former generations, as it has now been revealed by the Spirit to his holy apostles and prophets,

mnt@Ephesians:3:6 @ namely, that in Christ Jesus the Gentiles form one body with us the Jews, and are coheirs and copartners in the promise, through the gospel.

mnt@Ephesians:3:7 @ It is of this gospel I became a minister according to the gift of the power of the grace of God, bestowed on me by the energy of his power.

mnt@Ephesians:3:8 @ To me, who am less than the least of all saints, has this grace been given, that I should proclaim among the Gentiles the gospel of the unsearchable riches of Christ;

mnt@Ephesians:3:9 @ and should make all men see the new dispensation of that secret purpose, hidden from eternity in the God who founded the universe,

mnt@Ephesians:3:10 @ in order that now his manifold wisdom should, through the church, be made known to the principalities and powers in the heavenly sphere,

mnt@Ephesians:3:11 @ according to his eternal purpose which he purposed in Christ Jesus our Lord.

mnt@Ephesians:3:12 @ In him we have this fearless confidence and boldness of access through our faith in him.

mnt@Ephesians:3:13 @ So I beg you not to lose heart over my tribulations in your behalf; they are your glory.

mnt@Ephesians:3:14 @ For this cause I bend my knees before the Father,

mnt@Ephesians:3:15 @ from whom every fatherhood in heaven and earth is named,

mnt@Ephesians:3:16 @ praying him to grant you according to the riches of his glory to be strengthened with might by his Spirit in your inmost being;

mnt@Ephesians:3:17 @ that Christ may make his home in your hearts through your faith; that you may be so deeply rooted and so firmly grounded in love,

mnt@Ephesians:3:18 @ that you may be able to comprehend with all the saints what is "the breadth," "the length," "the depth," and "the height,"

mnt@Ephesians:3:19 @ and may know the love of Christ which transcends all knowing, so that you may be filled with all the "plenitude" of God.

mnt@Ephesians:3:20 @ Now unto him who, according to his might that is at work within us, is able to do infinitely more than all we ask or even think,

mnt@Ephesians:3:21 @ to him be the glory in the church and in Christ Jesus, to all generations, world without end, Amen.

mnt@Ephesians:4:1 @ I summon you then, I the prisoner in the Lord, to live lives worthy of the calling to which you were called.

mnt@Ephesians:4:2 @ With all humility and gentleness and long-suffering forbear with one another in love;

mnt@Ephesians:4:3 @ and endeavor to preserve the unity of the Spirit in the bonds of peace.

mnt@Ephesians:4:4 @ There is one body and one spirit, even as also you were called in one hope of your calling.

mnt@Ephesians:4:5 @ There is one Lord, one faith, one baptism,

mnt@Ephesians:4:6 @ one God and Father of all, who is over all, and through all, and in all.

mnt@Ephesians:4:7 @ And to each one of us was grace given according to the measure of the munificence of Christ.

mnt@Ephesians:4:8 @ Thus it is said, When he ascended on high, he led captivity captive and gave gifts to men.

mnt@Ephesians:4:9 @ Now surely this "he ascended" implies that he also descended into the lower part of the earth.

mnt@Ephesians:4:10 @ He who descended is he who ascended above the highest heaven, that he might fill the universe.

mnt@Ephesians:4:11 @ It is he who made some men apostles, some prophets, some evangelists, and some pastors and teachers,

mnt@Ephesians:4:12 @ in order to equip the saints for the work of serving, for the building up of the Body of Christ -

mnt@Ephesians:4:13 @ till we all come in the unity of the faith and of the knowledge of the Son of God, to the maturity of manhood, to the measure of the stature of the fulness of Christ.

mnt@Ephesians:4:14 @ So we shall no longer be children, tossed up and down, and blown about by every wind of teaching, tricked by the craft of men in the snares of misleading error;

mnt@Ephesians:4:15 @ but holding the truth in love we shall grow up in every part into him who is our Head, even Christ.

mnt@Ephesians:4:16 @ From him the whole body (knit together and compacted by all its joints) makes continual growth of the body so as to build itself up in love, through the energy of his bounteous provision, according to the need of each several part.

mnt@Ephesians:4:17 @ This then I tell you and implore you in the Masters name, to pass your lives no longer as the Gentiles do in the perverseness of their minds;

mnt@Ephesians:4:18 @ having their understanding darkened, alienated from the life of God through the ignorance that is in them, because of the hardening of their hearts.

mnt@Ephesians:4:19 @ These being past feeling have given themselves over to sensuality, in order to practise every form of impurity with greedy zest.

mnt@Ephesians:4:20 @ But you have not so learned Christ,

mnt@Ephesians:4:21 @ if indeed you have listened to him, and in him been taught the truth as it is in Jesus.

mnt@Ephesians:4:22 @ You have learned to lay aside, with your former manner of living, the old self who was on his way to ruin, as he followed the desires which deceive;

mnt@Ephesians:4:23 @ and to be made new in the spirit of your mind,

mnt@Ephesians:4:24 @ and to put on the new self, created after Gods likeness, in the uprightness and holiness of the truth.

mnt@Ephesians:4:25 @ So then put away falseness and speak every man the truth to his neighbor, for we are members one of another.

mnt@Ephesians:4:26 @ "Be angry and sin not"; let not the sun go down upon your anger.

mnt@Ephesians:4:27 @ Give the devil no place.

mnt@Ephesians:4:28 @ Let him who stole steal no more, but let him work, and in honest industry toil with his hands, so that he may have something to give to the needy.

mnt@Ephesians:4:29 @ From your lips let no evil words come forth, but such as occasion warrants, such as are good for upbuilding and give a blessing to the hearers.

mnt@Ephesians:4:30 @ And grieve not the Holy Spirit of God, in whom you have been sealed for the day of redemption.

mnt@Ephesians:4:31 @ Banish from among you all bitterness and passion and anger and clamor and slander, as well as all malice;

mnt@Ephesians:4:32 @ and be kind to one another, tender-hearted, forgiving one another, even as God in Christ has forgiven you.

mnt@Ephesians:5:1 @ Learn then to imitate God as his beloved children,

mnt@Ephesians:5:2 @ and to lead lives of love, just as Christ also loved you and gave himself up for you, an offering and sacrifice unto God, for you, an offering and sacrifice unto God, for "an odor of sweetness."

mnt@Ephesians:5:3 @ As for sexual vice and every kind of impurity or lust, it is unbecoming for you as Christians even to mention them;

mnt@Ephesians:5:4 @ so too with vulgarity and buffoonery and foolish jesting. Such words become you not, but rather thanksgiving.

mnt@Ephesians:5:5 @ For be well assured that no one guilty of fornication or impurity or covetousness which is idolatry, has any heritage in the kingdom of Christ and of God.

mnt@Ephesians:5:6 @ Let no man deceive you with empty arguments, for it is these vices that bring down the wrath of God upon the sons of disobedience;

mnt@Ephesians:5:7 @ therefore do not become sharers with them.

mnt@Ephesians:5:8 @ For you were once darkness, but are now in the Lord.

mnt@Ephesians:5:9 @ Lead the life of children of light, for the fruit of the light consists in every kind of goodness and uprightness and truth.

mnt@Ephesians:5:10 @ Examine carefully what is well pleasing to the Lord,

mnt@Ephesians:5:11 @ and have no fellowship with the unfruitful works of the darkness, but rather expose them.

mnt@Ephesians:5:12 @ For it is a shame even to speak of the things that are done by such men in secret;

mnt@Ephesians:5:13 @ but all these things, when exposed, are by the light made manifest, and what is made manifest is light.

mnt@Ephesians:5:14 @ For this reason it is said, "Awake, thou sleeper! Arise from the dead; And Christ shall shine upon thee!"

mnt@Ephesians:5:15 @ See to it, then, that you carry on your life carefully; not as foolish, but as wise men.

mnt@Ephesians:5:16 @ Buy up opportunity, for the times are evil.

mnt@Ephesians:5:17 @ For this reason do not be thoughtless, but learn to know what the Lords will is.

mnt@Ephesians:5:18 @ Do not be drunk with wine, in which is riotous living, but drink deep in the Spirit,

mnt@Ephesians:5:19 @ when you talk together; with psalms and hymns and spiritual songs, singing and with all your hearts making music unto the Lord;

mnt@Ephesians:5:20 @ and at all times for all things give thanks to God, the Father, in the name of our Lord Jesus Christ.

mnt@Ephesians:5:21 @ Submit yourselves one to another out of reverence for Christ.

mnt@Ephesians:5:22 @ Wives likewise to their husbands as to the Lord,

mnt@Ephesians:5:23 @ because a husband is the head of his wife even as Christ is head of the church, his body, which he saves.

mnt@Ephesians:5:24 @ But as the church submits itself to Christ, so also wives to their husbands in everything.

mnt@Ephesians:5:25 @ Husbands, love your wives, just as Christ loved the church and gave himself for her,

mnt@Ephesians:5:26 @ in order that after cleansing her in the bath of baptism, he might sanctify her by his word,

mnt@Ephesians:5:27 @ so as to present her to himself, the church glorified, without spot or wrinkle or any such blemish; but on the contrary holy and faultless.

mnt@Ephesians:5:28 @ That is how husbands ought to love their wives, as they love their own bodies. He who loves his wife loves himself.

mnt@Ephesians:5:29 @ For no man ever yet hated his own flesh, but nourishes and cherishes it as Christ does the church;

mnt@Ephesians:5:30 @ for we are members of his body.

mnt@Ephesians:5:31 @ For this cause shall a man leave his father and his mother, and shall cleave unto his wife, and they two shall be one flesh.

mnt@Ephesians:5:32 @ There is a deep mystery here - I am speaking of Christ and his church.

mnt@Ephesians:5:33 @ But as for you individually, you must each one of you love his own wife exactly as if she were yourself; and the wife, on her part, should reverence her husband.

mnt@Ephesians:6:1 @ Children, obey your parents in the Lord; for this is right.

mnt@Ephesians:6:2 @ Honor your father and mother (this is the first commandment with a promise attached),

mnt@Ephesians:6:3 @ that it may be well with you, and that you may live long on the earth.

mnt@Ephesians:6:4 @ And you fathers, do not irritate your children, but bring them up in the nature and admonition of the Lord.

mnt@Ephesians:6:5 @ Slaves, be obedient to those who are your earthly masters, with reverence and humility, in singleness of heart as if to Christ himself;

mnt@Ephesians:6:6 @ not with eye service, as men-pleasers, but as the slaves of Christ, doing the will of God;

mnt@Ephesians:6:7 @ slaving with good-will from your heart, as for the Lord and not for men;

mnt@Ephesians:6:8 @ because you know that whatever good any man does, the same shall he receive from the Lord, whether he be slave or free man.

mnt@Ephesians:6:9 @ And you masters, show the same spirit to your slaves, and stop threatening them; for you know that your masters and theirs is in heaven, and that there is no respect of persons with him.

mnt@Ephesians:6:10 @ Finally, my brothers, let your hearts be strengthened in the Lord, and in the power of his might.

mnt@Ephesians:6:11 @ Put on all the panoply of God, so that you may be able to stand your ground against the stratagems of the devil.

mnt@Ephesians:6:12 @ For our wrestling is not against flesh and blood, but against the despotisms, the empires, the rulers of this present darkness, the spirit-hosts of evil in the heavenly realm.

mnt@Ephesians:6:13 @ Therefore take up the panoply of God, so that when the evil day comes you may be able to withstand them, and having overthrown them all, to stand your ground.

mnt@Ephesians:6:14 @ Stand firm then, girt about with the belt of truth, and wearing the breastplate of righteousness,

mnt@Ephesians:6:15 @ and having your feet shod with the stability of the gospel of peace.

mnt@Ephesians:6:16 @ And take up to cover you the shield of faith, with which you will be able to quench all the flaming darts of the Evil One.

mnt@Ephesians:6:17 @ Take likewise the helmet of salvation, and the sword of the Spirit, which is the word of God.

mnt@Ephesians:6:18 @ Continue to pray at all times, with all prayer and supplication in the Spirit, and watching for it with all perseverance and supplication for all saints;

mnt@Ephesians:6:19 @ and for me, that utterance may be given me to open my mouth boldly, and to make known the mystery of the gospel for which I am an ambassador,

mnt@Ephesians:6:20 @ and in chains. Pray that I may proclaim it boldly as I ought to speak.

mnt@Ephesians:6:21 @ But that you also may know my affairs and how I do, Tychicus, my beloved brother and faithful minister in the Lord, will make everything known to you.

mnt@Ephesians:6:22 @ I have sent him to you for this very purpose, that you may know about us, and that he may cheer your hearts.

mnt@Ephesians:6:23 @ Peace to the brothers and love, with faith from God our Father and the Lord Jesus Christ.

mnt@Ephesians:6:24 @ May grace be with all who love our Lord Jesus Christ with sincerity.

mnt@Philippians:1:1 @ Paul and Timothy, slaves of Christ Jesus, to all the saints in Christ Jesus who are in Philippi, and to the elders and deacons.

mnt@Philippians:1:2 @ Grace and peace to you from God our Father and the Lord Jesus Christ.

mnt@Philippians:1:4 @ in every petition of mine in your behalf I am offering my prayer with joy for your fellowship in forwarding the gospel,

mnt@Philippians:1:5 @ from the first day you heard it until now.

mnt@Philippians:1:6 @ Of this I am fully persuaded, that He who has begun a good work in you will go on completing it until the day of Jesus Christ.

mnt@Philippians:1:7 @ It is but just that I should be thus mindful of you all, because I have you in my heart, and because in these fetters of mine and in my defense and confirmation of the gospel you are all my fellow partners in the privilege.

mnt@Philippians:1:8 @ God is my witness how I yearn for you all in the tenderness of Christ Jesus.

mnt@Philippians:1:10 @ for testing things that differ, so that you may be pure and blameless until the day of Christ,

mnt@Philippians:1:11 @ being filled with the fruit of righteousness through Jesus Christ to the glory and praise of God.

mnt@Philippians:1:12 @ I want you to know, brothers, that what has happened to me has turned out rather to help than to the hindrance of the gospel.

mnt@Philippians:1:13 @ Throughout the whole Praetorian guard and among all the others it has become plain that these chains of mine are for the sake of Christ;

mnt@Philippians:1:14 @ and most of the brothers in the Lord, made confident in the Lord through my imprisonment, are much emboldened to speak Gods message with free and fearless confidence.

mnt@Philippians:1:15 @ Some indeed are preaching Christ out of envy and contentiousness, but others from good-will.

mnt@Philippians:1:16 @ but the former preach Christ out of rivalry, not sincerely, because they think they are adding bitterness to my bonds.

mnt@Philippians:1:17 @ These latter out of their love, because they know that I am set here for the defense of the gospel;

mnt@Philippians:1:18 @ What of it? In any case, whether in pretence or in honest truth, Christ is still preached, and in that I am rejoicing, yes, and will rejoice.

mnt@Philippians:1:19 @ For I know that these things will turn out to my salvation through your prayers and a rich supply of the Spirit of Jesus Christ.

mnt@Philippians:1:20 @ So it is my keen expectation and hope that I shall never feel ashamed, but that with fearless courage, now as hither to, Christ may be magnified in my body, whether by my life or by my death.

mnt@Philippians:1:22 @ But now, if life in the flesh, if this be the fruit of my toil - what to choose I do not know,

mnt@Philippians:1:23 @ but am in a quandary between the two. I am perplexed. I have a strong desire to break camp and to be with Christ, which is far better;

mnt@Philippians:1:24 @ but for your sakes it is more necessary that I should still live on in the body.

mnt@Philippians:1:25 @ And because I am convinced of this, I know that I shall live, and go on working side by side with you all for your progress and joy in the faith,

mnt@Philippians:1:27 @ Only do lead lives worthy of the gospel of Christ; so that whether I come to see you or hear reports concerning you in my absence, I may know that you are standing firm in one spirit, with one soul, enlisted in a common struggle for the faith of the gospel,

mnt@Philippians:1:28 @ and in no way terrorized by its enemies. For you fearlessness is a clear indication of coming ruin for them, but of salvation for you at the hands of God.

mnt@Philippians:1:30 @ while you wage the same conflict which you once saw in me, and now hear that I maintain.

mnt@Philippians:2:1 @ If then there is any comfort in Christ, if there is any persuasive power in love, if there is any companionship of the Spirit, if there is any tenderness or pity,

mnt@Philippians:2:2 @ I entreat you to make my joy overflow by living in harmony; possessing the same love, and with one soul united in one purpose.

mnt@Philippians:2:3 @ Do nothing out of strife, nothing out of vanity, but let each one in true humility consider the others to be of more account than himself.

mnt@Philippians:2:4 @ Let each have an eye not only for his own interests, but also for the interests of others.

mnt@Philippians:2:6 @ who, though from the beginning he had the nature of God, did not reckon equality with God something to be forcibly retained,

mnt@Philippians:2:7 @ but emptied himself of his glory by taking the form of a slave, when he was born in the likeness of men.

mnt@Philippians:2:8 @ More than this, after he had shone himself in human form, he humbled himself in his obedience even to death; yes, and to death on a cross.

mnt@Philippians:2:9 @ And for this God highly exalted him, and graciously bestowed upon him the name which is above every name;

mnt@Philippians:2:10 @ that in the name of Jesus every knee in heaven, on earth, and under the earth should bend,

mnt@Philippians:2:11 @ and every tongue confess that "Jesus Christ is Lord," to the glory of God the Father.

mnt@Philippians:2:15 @ that you may become blameless and innocent, the sons of God, without rebuke in the midst of a crooked and perverse generation, among whom you shine like stars in a dark world,

mnt@Philippians:2:16 @ holding out a message of life. Thus it will be my boast at the day of Christ that I have not run in vain, or toiled for nothing.

mnt@Philippians:2:17 @ Nay, even if my life is to be poured out as a libation upon the sacrifice and service of you faith,

mnt@Philippians:2:18 @ I will rejoice and congratulate you all; and in the same way you must rejoice and congratulate me.

mnt@Philippians:2:19 @ Now I hope in the Lord Jesus to send Timothy to you before long, so that I may be of good comfort when I learn the news concerning you.

mnt@Philippians:2:20 @ For I have no other like him with a genuine concern for your welfare,

mnt@Philippians:2:21 @ for they are all seeking their own interests, not those of Jesus Christ.

mnt@Philippians:2:22 @ And you know Timothys worth, how he has shared my servitude in furtherance of the gospel, like a son helping his father.

mnt@Philippians:2:24 @ but I trust in the Lord that I also shall come shortly.

mnt@Philippians:2:25 @ Epaphroditus, my brother and coworker and fellow soldier, who is your messenger and minister to my needs, I have thought it necessary to send to you;

mnt@Philippians:2:26 @ for he has been homesick for you all, and distressed at your having heard of his illness.

mnt@Philippians:2:27 @ And indeed he was sick nigh unto death; but God had mercy on him, and not on him only, but on me also so that I should not have sorrow upon sorrow.

mnt@Philippians:2:28 @ Therefore I have been the more eager to send him, in order that you may rejoice in seeing him again, and that I may have one sorrow less.

mnt@Philippians:2:29 @ Receive him then in the Lord with all joy, and hold in honor men like him;

mnt@Philippians:2:30 @ for it was through the work of the Lord that he came near to death; for he hazarded his very life to supply what was lacking in the help you sent me.

mnt@Philippians:3:1 @ Finally, my brothers, continue to rejoice in the Lord. To write the same thing is not indeed wearisome to me, and it is safe for you.

mnt@Philippians:3:2 @ Beware of "these dogs," these mischievous workers, beware of the concision!

mnt@Philippians:3:3 @ For we are the true circumcision, who worship God in the spirit, and make our boast in Christ Jesus, and have no confidence in outward rites,

mnt@Philippians:3:4 @ although I myself might have confidence in outward rites. If any one else claims a right to trust in them, far more may I;

mnt@Philippians:3:5 @ circumcised the eighth day, of the stock of Israel, of the tribe of Benjamin, a Hebrew sprung from the Hebrews; as to the Law, a Pharisee;

mnt@Philippians:3:6 @ as to zeal, a persecutor of the church; as to the righteousness which comes through law, blameless.

mnt@Philippians:3:8 @ In very truth I count all things but loss compared to the excellence of the knowledge of Christ Jesus my Lord. For his sake I have suffered the loss of all things, and esteem them but refuse that I may gain Christ,

mnt@Philippians:3:9 @ and be found in him; not having my own righteousness of the Law, but that alone which is through the faith of Christ, the righteousness which comes from God, founded upon faith.

mnt@Philippians:3:10 @ I long to know him in the power of his resurrection and the fellowship of his sufferings, by sharing the likeness of his death;

mnt@Philippians:3:11 @ if by any means I might attain to the resurrection from the dead!

mnt@Philippians:3:12 @ I do not say that I have already won, or am already perfect, but I am passing on to lay hold on the prize for which also Christ has laid hold of me.

mnt@Philippians:3:13 @ Brothers, I do not regard myself to have yet laid hold of it; but this one thing I do, forgetting what is behind me, but straining every nerve toward that which lies ahead,

mnt@Philippians:3:14 @ I am ever pressing on toward the goal, for the prize of Gods heavenward call in Christ Jesus.

mnt@Philippians:3:15 @ Let us all then, who are mature Christians, strive for this! God will make this clear to any of you who are striving for other goals;

mnt@Philippians:3:16 @ if only we guide our steps by the standards we have already attained.

mnt@Philippians:3:17 @ Brothers, be comrades in imitating me, and study those whose life and walk is according to the pattern I have set you.

mnt@Philippians:3:18 @ For there are many - as I used often to tell you, and am now telling you even with tears - who live and walk as the enemies of the cross of Christ.

mnt@Philippians:3:19 @ Their end is destruction, their belly is their god, their glory is in their shame, and their minds are set on earthly things.

mnt@Philippians:3:20 @ But commonwealth is in heaven; and it is from heaven also that we are anxiously awaiting a Saviour, the Lord Jesus Christ,

mnt@Philippians:3:21 @ who will change the fashion of the body of our abasement into the likeness of his glorious body by the energy with which he is able even to subject all things to himself.

mnt@Philippians:4:1 @ Stand fast then, brothers, dearly loved and longed for, my joy and my crown, so stand fast in the Lord, beloved!

mnt@Philippians:4:2 @ Euodia I entreat, and I entreat Syntyche, to be of the same mind of the Lord;

mnt@Philippians:4:3 @ yes, and I beg you also, my true yokefellow, to help them; for these women shared my toil in the furtherance of the gospel, together with Clement, and the rest of my fellow workers whose names are in the book of life.

mnt@Philippians:4:4 @ Rejoice in the Lord alway, and again will I say, rejoice!

mnt@Philippians:4:5 @ Let your reasonableness be recognized by every one. The Lord is near you.

mnt@Philippians:4:7 @ and the peace of God, which passes all understanding, will stand guard over your hearts and your thoughts in Christ Jesus.

mnt@Philippians:4:8 @ Finally, brothers, whatever is true, whatever is worthy of reverence, whatever is just, whatever is pure, whatever is lovely, whatever is of good repute, if virtue is anything, if honor is anything, be always thinking about these.

mnt@Philippians:4:9 @ Put in practise also what you have learned and received and heard and seen in me; and the God of peace shall be with you.

mnt@Philippians:4:10 @ Moreover, I greatly rejoiced in the Lord that now once more your care for me blossomed afresh; though indeed you did take thought in this matter, but you lacked the opportunity of expression.

mnt@Philippians:4:12 @ I know how to live humbly, and I also know how to bear prosperity. In every place and under all circumstances I have been initiated into the secret of fulness and of hunger, of prosperity and of want.

mnt@Philippians:4:15 @ And you very well know, Philippians, that in the beginning of the gospel, when I had left Macedonia, no church but yourselves had fellowship with me in the matter of giving and receiving.

mnt@Philippians:4:16 @ For even while I was still in Thessalonica, you sent once and again for my needs.

mnt@Philippians:4:17 @ It is not your gifts I am eager for, but I am eager for the abundant profit that accrues to your divine account.

mnt@Philippians:4:19 @ All your own needs my God will fully supply, according to his riches in glory, in Christ Jesus.

mnt@Philippians:4:20 @ Now unto our God and Father be the glory, forever and ever. Amen.

mnt@Philippians:4:21 @ Salute every saint in Christ Jesus. The brothers who are with me salute you.

mnt@Philippians:4:22 @ All the saints salute you, and especially the slaves of the Emperors household.

mnt@Philippians:4:23 @ The grace of our Lord Jesus Christ be with your spirits.

mnt@Colossians:1:1 @ Paul, an apostle of Jesus Christ, by the will of God, and Timothy our brother,

mnt@Colossians:1:2 @ to the holy and believing brothers in Christ who are in Colosse. Grace to you, and peace, from God our Father.

mnt@Colossians:1:3 @ Whenever I pray for you I am continually thanking God, the Father of our Lord Jesus Christ

mnt@Colossians:1:4 @ (since I heard of your faith in Christ Jesus and your love to all the saints)

mnt@Colossians:1:5 @ because of the hope laid up for you in heaven. Long ago you heard of this hope in the message which came to you of the truth of the gospel.

mnt@Colossians:1:6 @ And just as it is spreading through the whole world, bearing fruit and increasing, so also is it among you, from the day in which you heard it, and came truly to know the grace of God,

mnt@Colossians:1:7 @ as you learned it from Epaphras, our dearly loved fellow slave. He is a faithful minister of Jesus Christ in your behalf,

mnt@Colossians:1:8 @ and it is he who has told me of your love for me in the spirit.

mnt@Colossians:1:9 @ For this reason from the day I heard of it I have never ceased to pray for you, asking God to fill you with the knowledge of his will with every kind of wisdom and spiritual insight;

mnt@Colossians:1:10 @ that you may walk worthy of the Lord in every kind of pleasing; that you may be fruitful in every kind of good work, and may increase in the knowledge of God;

mnt@Colossians:1:11 @ that you may be strengthened in every kind of strength by the might of his glory for every kind of patience and fortitude with good cheer.

mnt@Colossians:1:12 @ I ask that you may give thanks to the Father who has made us fit to receive our share of the heritage of the saints in the light.

mnt@Colossians:1:13 @ For he has delivered us out of the dominion of the darkness, and transplanted us into the kingdom of his dear Son,

mnt@Colossians:1:14 @ in whom we have redemption, the forgiveness of our sins.

mnt@Colossians:1:15 @ He is a visible image of the invisible God, the firstborn of all creation;

mnt@Colossians:1:16 @ for in him was the universe created, things in heaven and on earth, the seen and the unseen, thrones, or dominions, or principalities, or powers; by him and for him all have been created;

mnt@Colossians:1:17 @ and HE IS before all, and in him all things subsist.

mnt@Colossians:1:18 @ He is the head of his Body, the Church. He is the beginning, the firstborn from the dead, in order that in all things he may become preeminent.

mnt@Colossians:1:19 @ For in him all the divine fulness chose to dwell;

mnt@Colossians:1:20 @ and by him it chose to reconcile all things alike on earth or in heaven to himself; making peace by him, through the blood of his cross.

mnt@Colossians:1:21 @ And you, alienated as you once were, hostile at heart in your evil deeds,

mnt@Colossians:1:22 @ he has now in his human body reconciled to God by his death, in order that he may bring you into his presence, holy and unblemished and irreproachable.

mnt@Colossians:1:23 @ And this he will do if, indeed, you continue in the faith, firmly founded and stedfast, and never moved away from the hope of the gospel which you heard, and which has been proclaimed to every creature under heaven, that gospel of which I, Paul, was made a minister.

mnt@Colossians:1:24 @ I am now rejoicing in my sufferings on your behalf; and I am filling up in my own body what is yet lacking of the sufferings of Christ in behalf of the church, his Body.

mnt@Colossians:1:25 @ It is of this I was made a minister, according to the stewardship entrusted to me by God for you, fully to declare Gods message;

mnt@Colossians:1:27 @ To them God willed to make known among the Gentiles how glorious are the riches of that secret truth, which is "Christ in you, the hope of glory."

mnt@Colossians:2:1 @ For I would have you know how great a contest I am waging for you and the brethren in Laodicea, and for all who have never seen my face.

mnt@Colossians:2:2 @ May their hearts be comforted! May they be knit together in love! May they gain in all its riches the full assurance of their understanding! May they come to a perfect knowledge of the secret truth of God, which is Christ himself.

mnt@Colossians:2:3 @ In Him are hidden all the treasures of wisdom and knowledge!

mnt@Colossians:2:5 @ For though I am absent from you in body, I am with you in spirit, happy to note your discipline and the solid front of your faith in Christ.

mnt@Colossians:2:6 @ As then you have received Jesus Christ, your Lord, in him live your lives;

mnt@Colossians:2:7 @ since you are rooted in him, and in him continually built up. Be firmly established in the faith as you were taught it, and continually abound in it with thanksgiving.

mnt@Colossians:2:8 @ Take care lest any man drag you away captive by his philosophy which is a vain deceit, following the traditions of men and the worlds crude notions, and not Christ.

mnt@Colossians:2:9 @ For it is in Christ that all the fullness of deity dwells bodily,

mnt@Colossians:2:10 @ and in him you have your fulness, and he is the Lord of all the principalities and powers.

mnt@Colossians:2:12 @ when you were buried with him in baptism. In baptism also you were raised with him, through your faith in the energy of that God who raised him from the dead.

mnt@Colossians:2:13 @ And you also, at one time dead in your trespasses and in the uncircumcision of your sensual nature, he has made alive together with himself. For he forgave us all our transgressions,

mnt@Colossians:2:14 @ blotted out the handwriting of ordinances that stood against us and was hostile to us, and took it out of our way, nailing it to his cross.

mnt@Colossians:2:15 @ Principalities and powers he disarmed, and openly displayed them as his trophies, when he triumphed over them in the cross.

mnt@Colossians:2:16 @ Therefore do not permit any one to sit in judgment on you in regard to what you may eat or drink, or in regard to feast-days or new moons or sabbaths.

mnt@Colossians:2:17 @ These were a shadow of things to come, but the substance belongs to Christ.

mnt@Colossians:2:18 @ Let no man at his will defraud you of your prize through his false humility and worship of the angels, taking his stand on the visions he has seen, and vainly puffed up by his material mind;

mnt@Colossians:2:19 @ instead of keeping connection with the Head from the whole body draws nourishment for all its needs by the joints which bind it; and is knit together, and grows with a divine growth.

mnt@Colossians:2:20 @ If you died with Christ to the worlds rudimentary notions, why, as if you still lived in the world, do you submit yourselves to dogmatisms found on teachings and doctrines of men -

mnt@Colossians:2:22 @ all things which are intended to perish in the using?

mnt@Colossians:2:23 @ For these precepts, although they have a show of wisdom with their self-imposed devotions and fastings and bodily austerities, are of no real value against the indulgence of the carnal appetites.

mnt@Colossians:3:1 @ If you then are risen with Christ, seek those things which are above, where Christ abides, seated on the right hand of God.

mnt@Colossians:3:2 @ Set your heart on things above, not on earthly things;

mnt@Colossians:3:4 @ When Christ, who is our life, appears, then will you also appear with him in glory.

mnt@Colossians:3:5 @ So slay your baser inclinations. fornication, impurity, appetite, unnatural desires, and the greed which is idolatry.

mnt@Colossians:3:6 @ These things are ever bringing down the wrath of God upon the children of disobedience,

mnt@Colossians:3:7 @ among whom you once led your daily life when you lived in them.

mnt@Colossians:3:8 @ But now you also must renounce them all. Anger, passion, and ill- will must be put away; slander, too, and foul talk, so that they may never soil your lips.

mnt@Colossians:3:9 @ Lie not one to another, but strip off the old self with its doings,

mnt@Colossians:3:10 @ and put on that new self which is continually made over according to the likeness of its Creator, into full understanding.

mnt@Colossians:3:11 @ In it that new creation there is no "Greek and Jew," "circumcised and uncircumcised," "barbarian," "Scythian," "slave," "free man," but Christ is all, and in us all.

mnt@Colossians:3:12 @ Therefore, as Gods chosen people, consecrated and beloved, clothe yourselves with tenderness of heart, kindness, humility, gentleness, good temper;

mnt@Colossians:3:13 @ bearing with one another and forgiving each other, if any one has a grievance against another. Just as Christ the Lord forgave you, so must you forgive.

mnt@Colossians:3:14 @ Over them all bind on love, which is the girdle of completeness.

mnt@Colossians:3:15 @ Let the peace of Christ, to which also you were called in one body, rule in your hearts, and show yourselves thankful.

mnt@Colossians:3:16 @ Let the word of Christ have its home in you richly, in all wisdom. Teach and admonish one another in psalms and hymns and spiritual songs, ever singing with grace in your hearts unto God.

mnt@Colossians:3:17 @ And whatever you do, whether in word of in deed, do all in the name of the Lord Jesus, giving thanks to God our Father through him.

mnt@Colossians:3:19 @ Husbands, be loving to your wives, and be not cross or surly with them.

mnt@Colossians:3:21 @ Fathers, do not harass your children, lest you make them spiritless.

mnt@Colossians:3:23 @ And whatever you do, do it heartily as for the Lord, and not for men.

mnt@Colossians:3:24 @ You know that from the Lord you will receive reward of the inheritance, for you are the Lord Christs slaves.

mnt@Colossians:3:25 @ For he who wrongs another will be paid back for his wrong-doing, and there will be no favoritism.

mnt@Colossians:4:1 @ Masters, deal justly and fairly with your slaves, knowing that you also have a Master in heaven.

mnt@Colossians:4:2 @ Be unwearied in prayer, and keep awake in it when giving thanks.

mnt@Colossians:4:3 @ Keep on praying for me, too, that God may open for me a door of utterance to speak the secret truth of Christ, for which I am a prisoner.

mnt@Colossians:4:7 @ Tychicus, my beloved brother and faithful minister and fellow slave in the Lord, will make known to you all that concerns me.

mnt@Colossians:4:8 @ I have sent him with Onesimus, the faithful and beloved brother, one of your own number, for this very purpose, to let you know how I am, and to cheer your hearts.

mnt@Colossians:4:9 @ They will inform you of all that goes on here.

mnt@Colossians:4:10 @ Aristarchus, my fellow prisoner, salutes you, and Marcus, the cousin of Barnabas (about whom you received instructions; if he comes to you, make him welcome), and Jesus surnamed Justas.

mnt@Colossians:4:11 @ These are my only fellow workers for the kingdom of God, belonging to the circumcision, who have been any comfort to me.

mnt@Colossians:4:12 @ Epaphras, one of yourselves, salutes you, a slave of Christ who is always agonizing for you in his prayers, that you may stand firm, mature, and fully assured in all the will of God.

mnt@Colossians:4:14 @ Luke, the beloved physician, salutes you, and so does Demas.

mnt@Colossians:4:15 @ Salute the brothers in Laodicea; Nympha also, and the church which meets at her house.

mnt@Colossians:4:16 @ And when this letter has been read to you, see that it is read also in the church of Laodiceans, and that you also read the letter from Laodicea.

mnt@Colossians:4:17 @ And tell Archippas to take heed to the ministry which he has received in the Lord, that he may fulfill it.

mnt@Colossians:4:18 @ I, Paul, add this farewell in my own handwriting. Do not forget these chains of mine. Grace be with you.

mnt@1Thessalonians:1:1 @ Paul and Silas and Timothy. To the church of the Thessalonians which is in God our Father and our Lord Jesus Christ. Grace be to you, and peace.

mnt@1Thessalonians:1:2 @ I am continually thanking God for all, always making mention of you in my prayers,

mnt@1Thessalonians:1:3 @ as I call to mind your work of faith, and labor of love, and patience of hope in our Lord Jesus Christ, in the presence of our God and Father.

mnt@1Thessalonians:1:4 @ For I know, O brothers, beloved of God, that he has chosen you;

mnt@1Thessalonians:1:5 @ for my gospel did not come to you in word only, but in power also, and in the Holy Spirit, and with deep conviction. For you know also the manner in which I behaved myself among you for your sakes.

mnt@1Thessalonians:1:6 @ Moreover, you began to follow the pattern I set you, and the Lords also, receiving the word with joy in the Holy Spirit, although amid severe persecution.

mnt@1Thessalonians:1:7 @ Thus you became a pattern to all the believers in Macedonia and Achaia.

mnt@1Thessalonians:1:8 @ For the word of the Lord has been sounded forth from you, and its sound has been heard not only in Macedonia and Achaia, but also in every place where the tidings of your faith toward God have been spread abroad, so that I have no need to speak of it.

mnt@1Thessalonians:1:9 @ For others, of their own accord, tell about the welcome I had from you, and how you turned to God from your idols, to be slaved of a true and living God,

mnt@1Thessalonians:1:10 @ and to await for the coming of his Son from the heavens, the Son whom he raised from the dead, even Jesus, our Deliverer from the wrath to come.

mnt@1Thessalonians:2:1 @ For you yourselves know, brothers, that my visit to you did not fail of its purpose;

mnt@1Thessalonians:2:2 @ for you remember that although I had already borne ill-treatment and insult at Philippi, I took courage in my God to tell you the gospel of God, in the face of much opposition.

mnt@1Thessalonians:2:3 @ For my preaching was not grounded on a delusion, or on impure motives, on in deceit.

mnt@1Thessalonians:2:4 @ But as my fitness to be entrusted with the gospel has been tested and approved by God, I so speak, not to please men, but to please God, who is testing my motives.

mnt@1Thessalonians:2:5 @ For as you well know, I never resorted to flattery, nor to any pretext for enriching myself. God is my witness!

mnt@1Thessalonians:2:6 @ Now was I seeking glory from men, either yourselves or others, although I might have exercised authority as Christs apostle.

mnt@1Thessalonians:2:7 @ On the contrary I showed myself among you as gentle as a mother, when she tenderly nurses her own children.

mnt@1Thessalonians:2:8 @ So in my fond affection it was my joy to give you, not only the gospel of God, but my very life also, because you had become dear to me.

mnt@1Thessalonians:2:9 @ You recall, brothers, my labor and toil; how, while working at my trade day and night, so as not to become a burden to any of you, I proclaimed to you the gospel of God.

mnt@1Thessalonians:2:10 @ You are witnesses - and so is God - how pure and just and blameless was my behavior among you believers.

mnt@1Thessalonians:2:11 @ You know how I was wont to treat each of you as a father treats his children,

mnt@1Thessalonians:2:12 @ exhorting and imploring and adjuring each one among you to lead a life worthy of the God who called you into his own kingdom and glory.

mnt@1Thessalonians:2:13 @ For this reason also I am giving continual thanks to God, because when you heard from me the spoken word of God, you received it not as the word of men, but as the word of God (which in truth it is), who himself is effectually at work in you believe.

mnt@1Thessalonians:2:14 @ For you, brothers, began to follow the example of the churches of God in Judea, which are in Christ Jesus; and you in your turn suffered at the hands of your fellow citizens persecutions like to those which they endured from the Jews -

mnt@1Thessalonians:2:15 @ The men who killed both the Lord Jesus and the prophets, and drove us out - they are displeasing to God, and are the enemies of all mankind.

mnt@1Thessalonians:2:16 @ They forbid me to speak to the Gentiles with a view to their salvation. They continue always to fill up the measure of their sins; but the wrath of God is come upon them to the full!

mnt@1Thessalonians:2:17 @ But I, my brothers, although torn from you for a short season (in presence, not in heart), made eager efforts to behold you face to face with strong longing.

mnt@1Thessalonians:2:18 @ For that reason I would fain have visited you - I, Paul, again and again - but Satan hindered me.

mnt@1Thessalonians:2:19 @ For what is my hope, or joy? What is the victors wreath in which I exult? What but your own selves in the presence of our Lord Jesus, at his coming! For you are my pride and my delight.

mnt@1Thessalonians:2:20 @ missing fehlt/missing

mnt@1Thessalonians:3:1 @ And so, when I could no longer bear it, I made up my mind to be left behind at Athens, all alone.

mnt@1Thessalonians:3:2 @ I sent Timothy, my brother and Gods fellow worker in the gospel of Christ, to strengthen you and to hearten you in your faith.

mnt@1Thessalonians:3:3 @ So that no one should be shaken by these troubles-for you know well that we are appointed to troubles.

mnt@1Thessalonians:3:4 @ For even when I was with you I used to tell you beforehand that I was to suffer affliction; and so it proved, as you know.

mnt@1Thessalonians:3:5 @ So, when I could no longer endure it, I sent to find out about your faith, fearing that the tempter had tempted you and that my labor had been in vain.

mnt@1Thessalonians:3:6 @ But now that Timothy has returned from you to me, and has brought good news of your faith and love, and that you are still holding me in affectionate remembrance, always longing to see me as I also am longing to see you.

mnt@1Thessalonians:3:7 @ I have been comforted, my brothers, in regard to you, in spite of all my distress and affliction over your faith.

mnt@1Thessalonians:3:8 @ For now I am really living, if you are standing firm in the Lord.

mnt@1Thessalonians:3:9 @ For what thanksgiving can I render again to God in your behalf, in return for all the joy which you cause me in the presence of my God?

mnt@1Thessalonians:3:10 @ Night and day I am praying earnestly that I may see you face to face, and may perfect whatever is yet lacking in your faith.

mnt@1Thessalonians:3:11 @ Now may our God and Father himself, and our Lord Jesus Christ, direct my path to you.

mnt@1Thessalonians:3:12 @ Meanwhile, may the Lord cause you to increase and abound in love toward one another and toward all men, even as I do toward you.

mnt@1Thessalonians:3:13 @ And so may he establish your hearts unblamable in holiness before our God and Father, at the coming of our Lord Jesus, with all his saints.

mnt@1Thessalonians:4:1 @ Finally then, my brothers, I continue to beseech and exhort you in the Lord Jesus, that, as you learned of me how to walk so as to please God - and you are actually doing so - that you abound in it yet more and more.

mnt@1Thessalonians:4:2 @ For you know what charges I laid upon you through the Lord Jesus.

mnt@1Thessalonians:4:3 @ For this is Gods will, even your sanctification; that you should abstain from sexual vice.

mnt@1Thessalonians:4:4 @ That each one should learn how to take a wife in purity and honor.

mnt@1Thessalonians:4:5 @ Not in the passion of lust, like the Gentiles who know not God.

mnt@1Thessalonians:4:6 @ That no man overreach or take advantage of his brother in such matters, because "the Lord takes vengeance" in all these things, as also I repeatedly forewarned you and testified to you.

mnt@1Thessalonians:4:7 @ For God has not called us for uncleanness, but in holiness.

mnt@1Thessalonians:4:8 @ So that he who rejects this is not rejecting man, but the God who gave you his Holy Spirit.

mnt@1Thessalonians:4:9 @ It is not needed that I should write to you about brotherly love; for you yourselves have been taught by God to love one another.

mnt@1Thessalonians:4:10 @ As indeed you do love all the brothers in Macedonia. But I exhort you, brothers, to abound in this yet more.

mnt@1Thessalonians:4:11 @ Also, that you endeavor to live quietly and to mind your own business, and to work with your hands (as I charged you).

mnt@1Thessalonians:4:12 @ So that your conduct may be seemly toward those that are without, and that you may not need help from any man.

mnt@1Thessalonians:4:13 @ But I would not have you ignorant, brothers, about those who are falling asleep. You must not sorrow like other men, who have no hope.

mnt@1Thessalonians:4:14 @ For if we really believe that Jesus died and rose again, so even so will God through Jesus bring with him those also who have fallen asleep.

mnt@1Thessalonians:4:15 @ For this I tell you by the word of the Lord, that we who are living, who survive unto the coming of the Lord, will in no wise precede those who have fallen asleep.

mnt@1Thessalonians:4:16 @ For the Lord himself with a shout, with the voice of an archangel, and with the trumpet of God will descend from heaven. Then the dead in Christ will rise first.

mnt@1Thessalonians:4:17 @ And afterwards we who are alive, who 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.

mnt@1Thessalonians:4:18 @ So comfort one another with these words.

mnt@1Thessalonians:5:1 @ Now as to the times and the seasons, brothers, you have no need that anything be written to you.

mnt@1Thessalonians:5:2 @ You yourselves know perfectly that the Day of the Lord will come as a thief in the night.

mnt@1Thessalonians:5:3 @ While men are saying "Peace and safety," then, like birth-pangs upon a woman with child, destruction will come upon them suddenly. In no wise will they escape.

mnt@1Thessalonians:5:4 @ But you, brothers, are not in darkness, that "the Day" should come upon you like a bandit.

mnt@1Thessalonians:5:5 @ For you are all sons of light, and sons of day. We are not of night nor of darkness.

mnt@1Thessalonians:5:6 @ So then let us not be sleeping as do the rest, but let us be watchful and self-controlled.

mnt@1Thessalonians:5:7 @ For those who are sleeping, sleep in the night, and those who are drunken, are drunken in the night.

mnt@1Thessalonians:5:8 @ But let us who are of the day be self-controlled, putting on the breastplate of faith and love; and for a helmet, the hope of salvation.

mnt@1Thessalonians:5:9 @ For God did not appoint us to wrath, but to win salvation through our Lord Jesus Christ.

mnt@1Thessalonians:5:10 @ He died for us, in order that whether we are keeping vigil in life or sleeping in death we may ever be living together with him.

mnt@1Thessalonians:5:11 @ So comfort one another, and try to build one another up, as indeed you are doing.

mnt@1Thessalonians:5:12 @ I entreat you, brothers, to acknowledge those who are toiling among you and are your leaders in the Lord, and give you counsel.

mnt@1Thessalonians:5:13 @ Esteem them very highly in love for their works sake. Live in peace among yourselves.

mnt@1Thessalonians:5:14 @ And, brothers, we urge you to admonish the disorderly, comfort the faint-hearted, sustain the weak, lose patience with none.

mnt@1Thessalonians:5:15 @ Take care that none of you ever return evil for evil, but always pursue what is kind to one another and to all.

mnt@1Thessalonians:5:16 @ Always be joyful.

mnt@1Thessalonians:5:17 @ Pray without ceasing.

mnt@1Thessalonians:5:18 @ Give thanks in every circumstance, for this is the will of God for you in Christ Jesus.

mnt@1Thessalonians:5:19 @ Quench not the Spirit.

mnt@1Thessalonians:5:20 @ Do not despise prophesyings.

mnt@1Thessalonians:5:21 @ But try all, holding fast to the good.

mnt@1Thessalonians:5:22 @ Hold aloof from every form of evil.

mnt@1Thessalonians:5:23 @ May the God of peace consecrate you wholly; and may your spirit and soul and body be kept altogether faultless until the coming of our Lord Jesus Christ.

mnt@1Thessalonians:5:24 @ He who calls you is faithful; he will fulfil my prayer.

mnt@1Thessalonians:5:25 @ Brothers, pray for me.

mnt@1Thessalonians:5:26 @ Greet all the brothers with a holy kiss.

mnt@1Thessalonians:5:27 @ I adjure you, in the name of the Lord, to have this letter read to all the brothers.

mnt@1Thessalonians:5:28 @ The grace of our Lord Jesus Christ be with you.

mnt@2Thessalonians:1:1 @ Paul and Silvanus and Timothy. To the church of the Thessalonians in God our Father and the Lord Jesus Christ.

mnt@2Thessalonians:1:2 @ Grace to you, and peace from God the Father, and the Lord Jesus Christ.

mnt@2Thessalonians:1:3 @ I ought always to thank God for you, brothers, as is fitting because of the abundant growth of your faith and of the overflowing love with which every one of you is filled toward one another.

mnt@2Thessalonians:1:4 @ So that I myself am boasting about you among the churches of God, boasting of the stedfastness and faith which you are displaying in all the troubles and afflictions which you are enduring.

mnt@2Thessalonians:1:5 @ They are an evidence of the righteous judgment of God, who will count you worthy of his kingdom, in behalf of which you are even now suffering.

mnt@2Thessalonians:1:6 @ For truly Gods justice must render back trouble to those who are troubling you,

mnt@2Thessalonians:1:7 @ and give to you, who are now troubled, rest, along with me at the unveiling "apocalypse" of the Lord Jesus from heaven, with his mighty angels,

mnt@2Thessalonians:1:8 @ in flaming fire. Then shall he take vengeance on those who know not God, even on those who do not obey the gospel of our Lord Jesus.

mnt@2Thessalonians:1:9 @ They shall suffer punishment, even an eternal destruction from the presence of the Lord, and from the brightness of his glorious majesty,

mnt@2Thessalonians:1:10 @ when he comes to be glorified in his saints, and to be wondered at in all believers, on that Day; (for you also believed our testimony).

mnt@2Thessalonians:1:11 @ To this end I am making my constant prayer for you, beseeching God to make you worthy of your calling, and to fulfil mightily every desire of goodness and effort of faith;

mnt@2Thessalonians:1:12 @ so that the name of our Lord Jesus may be glorified in him, according to the grace of our God and of our Lord Jesus Christ.

mnt@2Thessalonians:2:1 @ Now concerning the coming of our Lord Jesus Christ and our gathering together to meet him, I entreat you, brothers,

mnt@2Thessalonians:2:2 @ not to be "quickly shaken out of your wits" and not to be agitated either by a spirit or by a message, or by an epistle purporting to be from me, saying, "The Day of the Lord is at hand."

mnt@2Thessalonians:2:3 @ Let no one deceive you by any means. For it will not come until after the Great Apostasy, and the revealing of the Man of Sin, the son of perdition,

mnt@2Thessalonians:2:4 @ the adversary, who opposes and exalts himself against all that is called God, or is an object of worship; so that he takes his seat in the Temple of God, and vaunts himself as God.

mnt@2Thessalonians:2:5 @ Do you not recall that I often told you this, when I was with you?

mnt@2Thessalonians:2:6 @ And now you know what is holding him back, to the end that he may be revealed in his appointed time.

mnt@2Thessalonians:2:7 @ For the mystery of lawlessness is already at work; only there is one who is hindering and will continue to hinder till he be removed;

mnt@2Thessalonians:2:8 @ and then the lawless one will be revealed. Him the Lord will consume with the breath of his lips, and destroy with the brightness of his appearing;

mnt@2Thessalonians:2:9 @ even he whose coming is according to the energy of Satan, in every power and sign and lying wonder,

mnt@2Thessalonians:2:10 @ and with all deceit of unrighteousness for those who are perishing, because they did not receive the love of the truth for their salvation.

mnt@2Thessalonians:2:11 @ For this reason God is sending on them an energy of delusion, that they should put faith in a falsehood;

mnt@2Thessalonians:2:12 @ so that they all should be condemned, who are faithless to the truth, but take pleasure in evil.

mnt@2Thessalonians:2:13 @ But for you, brothers, whom the Lord loves, I ought to give thanks to God continually, because God has chosen you from the beginning for salvation in consecration of the Spirit and belief of the truth.

mnt@2Thessalonians:2:14 @ For this he called you through my gospel, so that you might obtain the glory of our Lord Jesus Christ.

mnt@2Thessalonians:2:15 @ So, brothers, stand fast, and hold fast the teachings which you have been taught by me, whether by word of mouth or by letter.

mnt@2Thessalonians:2:16 @ And may our Lord Jesus Christ himself, and God our Father, who has loved us and given us eternal encouragement and a good hope in grace,

mnt@2Thessalonians:2:17 @ comfort your hearts, and establish you in every good work and word.

mnt@2Thessalonians:3:1 @ Finally, brothers, pray on for me, that Gods word may run swiftly, and be glorified as in your own case,

mnt@2Thessalonians:3:2 @ and that I may be delivered from unreasonable and wicked men; for all do not hold the faith.

mnt@2Thessalonians:3:3 @ But the Lord is faithful; he will stablish you and guard you from the Evil One.

mnt@2Thessalonians:3:4 @ Now we have fully fixed our faith on you in the Lord, that you are doing and will continue to do what we enjoin.

mnt@2Thessalonians:3:5 @ May the Lord incline your hearts to the love of God and to the stedfastness of Christ.

mnt@2Thessalonians:3:6 @ I summon you, in the name of the Lord Jesus Christ, to shun any brother who leads an idle and disorderly life, which is not according to the rule you received from me.

mnt@2Thessalonians:3:7 @ For you know well how you must imitate me. For I did not lead an idle or disorderly life among you;

mnt@2Thessalonians:3:8 @ I did not eat my food as a gift from any man, but in toil and travail, night and day, I worked, so that I might not be a burden to any of you.

mnt@2Thessalonians:3:9 @ Not that I have no right to such support; it was simply to give you an example for you to imitate.

mnt@2Thessalonians:3:10 @ For indeed when I was with you, I used to charge you, "If any man will not work, he shall not eat."

mnt@2Thessalonians:3:11 @ But I hear that there are those of your number who are leading idle and disorderly lives, who are not busy, but mere busybodies.

mnt@2Thessalonians:3:12 @ Now all such I command and entreat, by the authority of the Lord Jesus Christ, to work in quietness. and to earn their own living.

mnt@2Thessalonians:3:13 @ But you, brothers, must not grow weary in well-doing.

mnt@2Thessalonians:3:14 @ If any man does not give heed to what I have said in this letter, mark that man; do not associate with him, so as to make him feel ashamed;

mnt@2Thessalonians:3:15 @ and yet do not count him as an enemy, but admonish him as a brother.

mnt@2Thessalonians:3:16 @ And may the Lord of peace himself give you peace at all times and in every way. The Lord be with you all.

mnt@2Thessalonians:3:17 @ I, Paul, add this greeting in my own handwriting, which is my token in every letter. Thus I write -

mnt@2Thessalonians:3:18 @ The grace of our Lord Jesus Christ be with you all.

mnt@1Timothy:1:2 @ to Timothy, my true son in the faith; Grace, mercy and peace from God, our Father, and the Lord Jesus Christ.

mnt@1Timothy:1:3 @ As I begged you when I was setting out for Macedonia, stay where you are at Ephesus, and instruct certain individuals there not to be teaching heterodoxy,

mnt@1Timothy:1:4 @ nor to be paying attention to myths and interminable genealogies, which tend to promote discussions rather than a stewardship entrusted by God, a stewardship which is in faith.

mnt@1Timothy:1:5 @ Now the end of the exhortation is love, out of a pure heart and a good conscience and an undissembled faith.

mnt@1Timothy:1:6 @ Some have failed here, and have turned aside to empty argument.

mnt@1Timothy:1:7 @ Although they desire to be teachers of the law, they understand neither the words they use nor the subjects they talk about.

mnt@1Timothy:1:8 @ I know well that "the Law is good" if a man use it lawfully;

mnt@1Timothy:1:9 @ but he must remember that the Law is not enacted for a good man, but for the lawless and rebellious, for the irreligious and sinful, for the godless and profane, for parricides and murderers,

mnt@1Timothy:1:10 @ for the immoral, for sexual perverts, for slave dealers, liars, perjurers, and whatever else is contrary to sound teaching,

mnt@1Timothy:1:11 @ as laid down in the glorious gospel of the blessed God, which has been entrusted to me.

mnt@1Timothy:1:12 @ And I am thankful to Christ Jesus our Lord, who has thus enabled me, that he accounted me faithful, and appointed me to his service,

mnt@1Timothy:1:13 @ although I had formerly been a blasphemer and a persecutor and a doer of outrage. But I obtained mercy because I acted ignorantly in unbelief.

mnt@1Timothy:1:14 @ And the grace of our Lord overflowed with faith and love that is in Christ Jesus.

mnt@1Timothy:1:15 @ Faithful is the saying, and worthy of all acceptation, that "Jesus Christ came into the world to save sinners"! And there is no greater sinner than I!

mnt@1Timothy:1:16 @ Yet for this very cause I obtained mercy, so that in me, the chief of sinners, Jesus Christ might display all his boundless patience as an illustration for those who should later believe in him, and so gain life eternal.

mnt@1Timothy:1:17 @ Now unto the King eternal, immortal, invisible, the only God, be glory and honor forever and ever. Amen!

mnt@1Timothy:1:18 @ This charge then, I am laying upon you, Timothy, my son, according to the predictions formerly made concerning you. Fight the good fight in the spirit of these predictions,

mnt@1Timothy:1:19 @ keeping fast hold of faith and a good conscience; which certain individuals have cast aside, and so made shipwreck of their faith.

mnt@1Timothy:1:20 @ Among them are Hymenaeus and Alexander, whom I have given over to Satan, so that they may be taught not to blaspheme.

mnt@1Timothy:2:1 @ First of all then, I am urging that supplications, prayers, intercessions, and thanksgivings be offered regularly for all men;

mnt@1Timothy:2:3 @ For this is good and pleasing in the eyes of our Saviour God,

mnt@1Timothy:2:4 @ whose will it is that all men should be saved, and come into full knowledge of the truth.

mnt@1Timothy:2:5 @ For God is one; and one is mediator between God and man, the Man Christ Jesus,

mnt@1Timothy:2:7 @ It was for this testimony that I myself was appointed a herald and apostle (I am telling the truth, I am not lying), to be a teacher of the Gentiles in faith and truth.

mnt@1Timothy:2:8 @ My wish, then, is that in every place the men should offer prayer, lifting up holy hands, free from anger and disputation;

mnt@1Timothy:2:9 @ in like manner also the women. I desire women to clothe themselves in suitable apparel, adorning themselves with reverence and self- restraint; not with hair plaited with gold or pearls, or with expensive clothes,

mnt@1Timothy:2:10 @ but (as becomes women proclaiming godliness) with the ornament of good deeds.

mnt@1Timothy:2:12 @ I allow no woman to teach, or to exercise authority over a man; but let her keep quiet.

mnt@1Timothy:2:13 @ It was Adam who was first formed, then Eve.

mnt@1Timothy:2:14 @ And it was not Adam who was deceived; but it was the woman who was thoroughly deceived, and who became involved in transgression.

mnt@1Timothy:2:15 @ Notwithstanding she will be saved by the Child-bearing; (so will they all), if they live in faith and love and holiness, with self- restraint.

mnt@1Timothy:3:1 @ This is a faithful saying, "If any man is seeking the office of a minister he is aspiring to a noble task."

mnt@1Timothy:3:2 @ The minister should be a man of blameless character; he should be husband of but one wife; he should live a sober, self-restrained, orderly life; he should be hospitable, skilled in teaching;

mnt@1Timothy:3:4 @ he should be a man who rules his own household well, and keeps his children ever under control and thoroughly well behaved.

mnt@1Timothy:3:5 @ For if a man does not know how to rule his own household, how shall he take charge of a church of God?

mnt@1Timothy:3:6 @ He must not be a recent convert, lest he be blinded with pride, and incur the doom of the devil.

mnt@1Timothy:3:7 @ He should also have a good reputation among outsiders, lest he fall into reproach, and into a snare of the devil.

mnt@1Timothy:3:9 @ holding the mystery of the faith in a pure conscience.

mnt@1Timothy:3:10 @ They should first be tested, and after that, if they are found irreproachable, let them serve as deacons.

mnt@1Timothy:3:12 @ Let deacons be the husband of but one wife, men who rule their children and their household properly.

mnt@1Timothy:3:13 @ For those who have well discharged the duties of a deacon are gaining an honorable position for themselves, as well as much fearless confidence in the faith of Christ Jesus.

mnt@1Timothy:3:15 @ I am writing this to you in case I should be detained, to let you see how you ought to behave in the household of God - the Church of the everliving God, the pillar and mainstay of the truth.

mnt@1Timothy:3:16 @ Yes! without contradiction, great is the mystery of godliness!

mnt@1Timothy:4:1 @ Now the Spirit distinctly declares that in latter days there will be some who will fall away from the faith, by listening to spirits of error, and to teachings of demons

mnt@1Timothy:4:2 @ speaking lies in hypocrisy. These are men whose consciences have been seared as with a hot iron,

mnt@1Timothy:4:3 @ who discourage marriage, and enjoin abstinence from foods which God created to be received with thankfulness, by those who believe, and have a clear knowledge of the truth.

mnt@1Timothy:4:5 @ For it is sanctified by the Word of God and by prayer.

mnt@1Timothy:4:6 @ As you lay all these things before the brothers, you will be a noble minister of Christ Jesus, nourishing yourself in the precepts of the faith and that noble teaching which you have followed.

mnt@1Timothy:4:7 @ Ever reject these profane and old womanish myths; and continually train yourself for the contest of godliness.

mnt@1Timothy:4:8 @ For physical training is of some small service, but godliness is of service in everything; since it carries with it a promise of life, both here and hereafter.

mnt@1Timothy:4:9 @ Faithful is the saying, and worthy of all acceptation.

mnt@1Timothy:4:10 @ "We toil and agonize because our hopes are set on the ever-living God, who is the Saviour of all men. - of believers in particular.

mnt@1Timothy:4:11 @ Keep preaching and teaching these things.

mnt@1Timothy:4:12 @ Let no one despise you on account of your youth, but become an example for the faithful in word, in life, in love, in faith, in purity.

mnt@1Timothy:4:14 @ Never neglect the gift within you, which was given in fulfilment of prophecy at the time of the laying on of hands by the elders.

mnt@1Timothy:4:15 @ Let these things be your care, give yourself wholly to them, so that your progress may be manifest to all.

mnt@1Timothy:4:16 @ Give heed to yourself and to your teaching. Persevere in these things, for by doing this you will save both yourself and your hearers.

mnt@1Timothy:5:1 @ Do not reprimand an aged man, but continue pleading with him as if he were your father. Treat the young men as brothers,

mnt@1Timothy:5:2 @ the older women as mothers, the younger women as sisters in all purity.

mnt@1Timothy:5:4 @ but if any widow has children or grandchildren, let these learn to show their piety first toward their own household, and to make some return to their parents, for that is pleasing in Gods sight.

mnt@1Timothy:5:5 @ Now she who is a widow indeed, and desolate, has fixed her hope on God, and devotes herself to supplications and prayers, day and night.

mnt@1Timothy:5:6 @ But she who lives in wantonness is dead even while she still lives.

mnt@1Timothy:5:7 @ Keep admonishing them regarding these things, so that they may be irreproachable.

mnt@1Timothy:5:8 @ But if any one fails to provide for his own, and especially for his kindred, he has denied the faith and is worse than an infidel.

mnt@1Timothy:5:9 @ A widow, to be placed upon the list, must be not less than sixty years old, and one who has been the wife of but one husband.

mnt@1Timothy:5:10 @ She must be well reputed for good works, as one who has brought up a family, received strangers with hospitality, washed the feet of the saints, relieved the distressed, and diligently followed every good work.

mnt@1Timothy:5:11 @ But exclude from the list the younger widows; for where they have become wanton against Christ, they desire to marry,

mnt@1Timothy:5:12 @ and incur condemnation because they have broken their first troth.

mnt@1Timothy:5:13 @ Moreover, they learn to be idle, wandering about from house to house, and are not only idlers, but gossips also, and busybodies, repeating things they ought not.

mnt@1Timothy:5:14 @ It is my wish, then, that the younger widows marry, bear children, rule their houses, and give no occasion to our adversary for railing.

mnt@1Timothy:5:16 @ Any believing woman, who has widowed relatives, ought to relieve them and not let the church be burdened with them; so that the church may relieve the really destitute widows.

mnt@1Timothy:5:17 @ Let the elders who fill their offices well, be held worthy of twofold honor; especially those who have the task of preaching and teaching.

mnt@1Timothy:5:18 @ For the Scripture says, You must not muzzle an ox when he is treading out the grain, and The worker is worth his wages.

mnt@1Timothy:5:19 @ Do not receive an accusation against an elder, except on the testimony of two or three witnesses.

mnt@1Timothy:5:20 @ Rebuke offenders publicly, so that others also may take warning.

mnt@1Timothy:5:21 @ I charge you solemnly in the presence of God and of the Lord Jesus Christ and of the elect angels, that you observe these things without prejudice against any man, and do nothing out of partiality.

mnt@1Timothy:5:22 @ Never ordain any one hastily, nor take part in the wrong-doing of others. Keep yourself pure.

mnt@1Timothy:5:24 @ Some mens sins are notorious, and lead them straight on the way to condemnation; but others sins follow them up.

mnt@1Timothy:5:25 @ So also noble deeds are conspicuous, and even if otherwise, they cannot be kept hidden.

mnt@1Timothy:6:1 @ Let those who are under the yoke as slaves esteem their masters as worthy of all honor, so that the name of God and the teachings be not blasphemed.

mnt@1Timothy:6:2 @ Those whose masters are Christian believers must not treat them with disrespect, because they are brothers; nay, rather slave for them the better because those who get the benefit of their services are believing and beloved. Continue to teach and preach this.

mnt@1Timothy:6:3 @ If any one teaches heterodoxy, and refuses to consent to the wholesome words of the Lord Jesus Christ, and to the teachings of religion,

mnt@1Timothy:6:4 @ he is puffed up with conceit and knows nothing, but is doting about disputations and a strife of words. These give rise to envy, quarrels, railings, evil suspicions,

mnt@1Timothy:6:5 @ and wrangling between men whose minds are corrupt and destitute of the truth; who suppose that godliness is a source of gain.

mnt@1Timothy:6:7 @ for we have brought nothing into the world, and it is certain we can carry nothing out!

mnt@1Timothy:6:8 @ So if we have food and shelter, let us be content with that.

mnt@1Timothy:6:9 @ Those who desire to be rich fall into the snares of temptation and many foolish and hurtful lusts, which drown men in destruction and perdition.

mnt@1Timothy:6:10 @ For the love of money is a source of all kinds of evil; and in their eager desire to be rich some have been led astray form the faith, and have pierced themselves with many sorrows.

mnt@1Timothy:6:11 @ But you, O servant of God, flee from these things, and run after integrity, piety, faith, love, stedfastness, gentleness.

mnt@1Timothy:6:12 @ Keep contending in the noble contest of the faith; seize hold on eternal life, to which you were called when you confessed the good confession in the presence of many witnesses.

mnt@1Timothy:6:13 @ In the presence of God who gives life to all, and of Christ Jesus who bore witness to the good confession before Pontius Pilate,

mnt@1Timothy:6:14 @ I charge you, keep your commission spotless and irreproachable until the appearing of our Lord Jesus Christ.

mnt@1Timothy:6:17 @ Charge the rich of this world not to be supercilious, nor to trust in uncertain riches, but in God, who provides all things richly for our use.

mnt@1Timothy:6:18 @ Charge them to practise benevolence, to be rich in good works, to be open-handed and generous,

mnt@1Timothy:6:19 @ laying up right good treasure for themselves in the world to come, in order that they may obtain the Life which is life indeed.

mnt@1Timothy:6:20 @ O, Timothy, guard the treasure which is committed to you. Shun the profane babblings and contradictions of the falsely called "knowledge"

mnt@1Timothy:6:21 @ which some professing have erred from the faith. Grace be with you.

mnt@2Timothy:1:1 @ Paul, an apostle of Christ Jesus, by the will of God, sent forth to proclaim the promise of the life which is in Christ Jesus.

mnt@2Timothy:1:2 @ To Timothy, my beloved child; Grace mercy, and peace to you from God our Father and Christ Jesus our Lord.

mnt@2Timothy:1:3 @ I give thanks to God whom I worship with a pure conscience as my fathers did, when I remember you unceasingly in my prayers.

mnt@2Timothy:1:4 @ Night and day when I recall your tears I am longing to see you, that my happiness may be complete.

mnt@2Timothy:1:5 @ I have been reminded of that sincere faith which is in your heart; which dwelt first in your grandmother Lois and in your mother Eunice, and, I am fully persuaded, dwells in you also.

mnt@2Timothy:1:6 @ For this reason let me remind you to keep ever blazing that gift of God which is in you through the laying on of my hands.

mnt@2Timothy:1:8 @ Do not then be ashamed to bear witness for our Lord, nor for me, his prisoner. Nay, join with me in suffering for the gospel by the power of God.

mnt@2Timothy:1:9 @ He has saved us and called us with a holy calling, not dealing with us according to our works,but according to his purpose and grace which he gave us in Christ Jesus before the beginning of time.

mnt@2Timothy:1:10 @ This has now been made manifest through the appearing of our Saviour Christ Jesus, who has put an end to death, and brought life and immortality to light through the gospel.

mnt@2Timothy:1:11 @ Of the gospel I was appointed a herald, apostle, and teacher; and that is the reason I am now undergoing these sufferings.

mnt@2Timothy:1:12 @ But I am not ashamed; for I know whom I have fully believed, and I am thoroughly persuaded that he is able to keep what I have given him until the Day.

mnt@2Timothy:1:13 @ Hold fast the pattern of sound teaching you have heard from me in faith and love which is in Christ Jesus.

mnt@2Timothy:1:14 @ Guard the glorious trust which has been committed to you by the aid of the Holy Spirit who makes his home in us.

mnt@2Timothy:1:15 @ You already know that all the Christians in Roman Asia forsook me, among them Phygellus and Hermogenes.

mnt@2Timothy:1:16 @ The Lord show mercy to the house hold of Onesiphorus; for many a time he refreshed me, and was not ashamed of my chain.

mnt@2Timothy:1:17 @ But when he came to Rome he sought for me until he found me.

mnt@2Timothy:1:18 @ The Lord grant him to find mercy form the Lord in that Day! And you know better than I how many services he rendered in Ephesus.

mnt@2Timothy:2:1 @ Do you then, my son, strengthen you heart in the grace which is in Christ Jesus.

mnt@2Timothy:2:2 @ The teachings which you have heard from me, attested by many witnesses, deliver into the keeping of faithful men, who in their turn will be able to teach others also.

mnt@2Timothy:2:4 @ A soldier in active service avoids entangling himself in the every- day affairs of life, so that he may please his commander.

mnt@2Timothy:2:5 @ And again, an athlete is not crowned unless he obeys the rules of the game.

mnt@2Timothy:2:6 @ The farmer who has done the work should be the first to get a share of the crop.

mnt@2Timothy:2:7 @ Reflect on what I am telling you. The Lord will give you understanding in everything.

mnt@2Timothy:2:8 @ Always remember that Jesus Christ, a descendant of David, has been raised from the dead according to the gospel I proclaim.

mnt@2Timothy:2:10 @ But Gods message is no prisoner. That is why I endure everything for the sake of the chosen, that they also may obtain the salvation which is in Christ Jesus with eternal glory.

mnt@2Timothy:2:11 @ Faithful is the saying. "If we have died with him, we shall also live with him.

mnt@2Timothy:2:12 @ If we endure suffering, we shall also reign with him. If we disown him, he too will disown us.

mnt@2Timothy:2:13 @ If we prove faithless. he abides faithful, for he cannot be false to himself."

mnt@2Timothy:2:14 @ Always call these truths to mens mind; adjuring them in the presence of God to avoid controversy. It is a useless thing, and subverts those who listen to it.

mnt@2Timothy:2:15 @ Strive earnestly to present yourself unto God, tested and proved worthy by trial, a workman unashamed, ever cutting a straight path for the message of the truth.

mnt@2Timothy:2:16 @ but avoid profane babble; for people will go farther and farther in impiety,

mnt@2Timothy:2:17 @ and their teaching will spread like a gangrene.

mnt@2Timothy:2:18 @ Among such are Hymenaeus and Philetus, who have gone astray concerning the truth by declaring that the resurrection is already past; and they are undermining the faith of some.

mnt@2Timothy:2:19 @ Nevertheless Gods firm foundation stands unshaken, bearing this inscription, THE LORD KNOWS THOSE WHO ARE HIS, and this also, LET EVERY ONE WHO NAMES THE NAME OF THE LORD RENOUNCE WICKEDNESS.

mnt@2Timothy:2:20 @ Now in a great house there are not only vessels of gold and silver, but also of wood and clay, some for noble, some for ignoble uses.

mnt@2Timothy:2:21 @ If then a man keeps himself clear of these latter, he will be a vessel for honor, consecrated, useful to the Master, prepared for every good work.

mnt@2Timothy:2:22 @ Flee from the passions of youth, but run after righteousness, faith, love, and peace, in company with those who out of a pure heart call upon the Lord.

mnt@2Timothy:2:23 @ Ever shun foolish and puerile discussions, for you know that they lead to quarrels.

mnt@2Timothy:2:24 @ The Lords slave must not quarrel, but must be kind to all men; a skilful teacher, patient of wrong.

mnt@2Timothy:2:25 @ He must be gentle when instructing opponents; for possibly God may give them a change of mind for the recognition of the truth,

mnt@2Timothy:2:26 @ and they may come to their senses again, and escape the snare of the devil, as they are restored to life by God to do his will.

mnt@2Timothy:3:1 @ But of this be sure. In the last days grievous times will come.

mnt@2Timothy:3:2 @ For men will be selfish, mercenary, boastful, haughty, blasphemous, disobedient to parents, ungrateful, irreligious,

mnt@2Timothy:3:4 @ They will hate goodness, they will be treacherous, reckless, blinded with pride, lovers of pleasure, rather than lovers of God.

mnt@2Timothy:3:5 @ For although they keep up the outward form of religion, they deny its power.

mnt@2Timothy:3:6 @ Turn away from all such. Some of them creep into private houses and lead captive silly women who, laden with sins,

mnt@2Timothy:3:8 @ As Jannes and Jambres withstood Moses, so also do these men withstand the truth; being corrupt in mind and worthless in all that concerns the faith.

mnt@2Timothy:3:9 @ But they will not get on; for their folly will be made as openly manifest to all as was that of Jannes and Jambres.

mnt@2Timothy:3:11 @ as well as the persecutions and sufferings which befell me at Antioch, Iconium, and Lystra. You know all the persecutions I endured, and how the Lord delivered me out of them all!

mnt@2Timothy:3:13 @ But wicked men and impostors will go on from bad to worse, deceiving others, and being themselves deceived.

mnt@2Timothy:3:14 @ But do you hold fast what you have learned and have held to be true. You know those from whom you have learned it,

mnt@2Timothy:3:15 @ and how from a child you have known the Holy Scriptures, which are able to make you wise unto salvation through faith in Christ Jesus.

mnt@2Timothy:3:16 @ Every Scripture, seeing that it is God-breathed, is also profitable for teaching, for refutation, for correction, and for training in righteousness,

mnt@2Timothy:3:17 @ so that the man of God may himself be complete, and completely equipped for every good work.

mnt@2Timothy:4:1 @ I adjure you in the presence of God and of Christ Jesus who is about to judge the living and the dead - by his appearing and his kingdom, I adjure you -;11 Luke only is with me. Pick up Mark, and bring him with you, for he is useful to me in my ministry.

mnt@2Timothy:4:2 @ proclaim the message, be urgent in season and out of season; convince, rebuke, encourage, with never-failing patience and teaching.

mnt@2Timothy:4:3 @ For a time will come when they will not listen to wholesome teaching, but wanting to have their ears tickled, they will heap up for themselves teachers upon teachers to satisfy their own fancies.

mnt@2Timothy:4:4 @ They will turn away their ears from the truth, and turn aside to myths.

mnt@2Timothy:4:5 @ But as for you, be always self-controlled, face hardships, do the work of a missionary, discharge all the duties of your ministry.

mnt@2Timothy:4:6 @ I for my part am a libation already being poured in sacrifice; and the time of my unmooring is at hand.

mnt@2Timothy:4:7 @ I have fought in the glorious contest; I have run the race; I have kept the faith.

mnt@2Timothy:4:8 @ Henceforth there is laid up for me the garland of righteousness which the Lord, the righteous Judge, will award to me on that Day, and not to me only, but also to all those who have loved his appearing.

mnt@2Timothy:4:10 @ for Demas has deserted me for love of this present world, and is gone to Thessalonica; Crescens is gone to Galatia; Titus to Dalmatia.

mnt@2Timothy:4:12 @ Tychicus I have sent to Ephesus.

mnt@2Timothy:4:13 @ When you come, bring the cloak I left in Troas with Carpus; also my books, but especially my parchments.

mnt@2Timothy:4:14 @ Alexander, the coppersmith, manifested bitter hostility toward me. The Lord will requite him according to his works.

mnt@2Timothy:4:15 @ Be also on your guard against him, for he has violently opposed my arguments.

mnt@2Timothy:4:16 @ At the time of my first defense no one stood by me; on the contrary they all deserted me - may it not be laid to their charge!

mnt@2Timothy:4:17 @ Nevertheless the Lord Jesus stood by me, and strengthened my heart, that through me full proclamation of the gospel might be made, and the Gentiles might hear it; and I was rescued from the lions jaws.

mnt@2Timothy:4:18 @ And the Lord will rescue me from every evil assault, and will preserve me for his heavenly kingdom. To him be the glory forever and ever! Amen!

mnt@2Timothy:4:19 @ Give my greetings to Prisca and Aquila, and the household of Onesiphorus.

mnt@2Timothy:4:21 @ Do try to come before winter. Eubulus greets you, and so do Pudens and Linus and Claudia and all the brotherhood.

mnt@2Timothy:4:22 @ The Lord Jesus be with your spirit. Grace be with you all.

mnt@Titus:1:1 @ To Titus, my true son in a common faith, from Paul, a slave of God, and an apostle of Jesus Christ, according to the faith of Gods elect, and to the knowledge of the truth which goes with piety;

mnt@Titus:1:4 @ Grace and peace from God the Father and Christ Jesus our Saviour.

mnt@Titus:1:5 @ I left you in Crete for this reason, that you might set right the things left unfinished, and appoint presbyters in every city as I had instructed you;

mnt@Titus:1:6 @ men who are blameless, the husband of one wife, with believing children who are not accused of riot or insubordination.

mnt@Titus:1:8 @ but he must be hospitable, a lover of the good, sober-minded, just, holy, self-controlled.

mnt@Titus:1:9 @ He must hold to the faithful word according to the teaching, so that he may be able both to encourage by sound teaching, and to confute our opponents.

mnt@Titus:1:10 @ For there are many individuals who are unruly, empty talkers and deceivers, particularly those of the circumcision, whose mouths must be stopped;

mnt@Titus:1:11 @ for they upset whole households and, for filthy lucres sake, teach what they ought not to teach.

mnt@Titus:1:12 @ By one of their own number, by a prophet of their own, it has been said, "Cretans are always liars, evil beasts, idle gluttons."

mnt@Titus:1:13 @ This testimony is true. So rebuke them sharply,

mnt@Titus:1:14 @ so as to make them sound in the faith, not giving heed to Jewish myths and commandments of men who turn away from the truth.

mnt@Titus:1:15 @ All things are pure to the pure; but to the contaminated and the faithless nothing is pure, nay, their very minds and consciences are tainted.

mnt@Titus:1:16 @ They profess to know God, but by their deeds they disown him; in that they are detestable, disobedient, and reprobate for good work of any sort.

mnt@Titus:2:2 @ that the older men be self-controlled, serious and sober-minded, sound in faith, in love, in patience;

mnt@Titus:2:3 @ that older women likewise be reverent in demeanor, not slanderers or slaves to much wine, but teachers of what is right.

mnt@Titus:2:4 @ They should train the younger women to love their husbands and children,

mnt@Titus:2:5 @ to be sober-minded, chaste, workers at home, kind and submissive to their husbands, in order that Gods message be not maligned.

mnt@Titus:2:6 @ The younger men exhort to be sober-minded; in every respect showing yourself an example of good works.

mnt@Titus:2:8 @ Let the instruction that you give be sound and above reproach, so that our opponents may be ashamed because they find no evil things to say about us.

mnt@Titus:2:9 @ Exhort slaves to be obedient to their own masters, and to be well- pleasing to them in every respect;

mnt@Titus:2:10 @ not to contradict nor pilfer, but to exhibit praiseworthy trustworthiness in every thing, that they may adorn the doctrine of God our Saviour in all things.

mnt@Titus:2:13 @ While we look for the blessed hope and epiphany of the glory of our great God and Saviour, Jesus Christ.

mnt@Titus:2:14 @ He gave himself for us to redeem us from all iniquity, and to purify unto himself a people zealous of good works."

mnt@Titus:3:1 @ Remind them to be submissive to their rulers and authorities; let them be obedient, ready for every good work;

mnt@Titus:3:2 @ they must speak evil of none, they must not be quarrelsome, but gentle, showing perfect meekness toward all.

mnt@Titus:3:3 @ For we were ourselves once foolish, disobedient, deceived, slaving for various lusts and pleasures, passing our lives in malice and envy. We were hateful, and we hated one another.

mnt@Titus:3:4 @ But when the kindness of God our Saviour, And his love toward men shined forth,

mnt@Titus:3:5 @ He saved us, not because of any deeds that we had done in righteousness, But because of his own pity for us. He saved us by that washing of regeneration and renewing of the Holy Spirit

mnt@Titus:3:6 @ which he poured out upon us richly, through Jesus Christ our Saviour;

mnt@Titus:3:7 @ In order that being justified by his grace, We might be made heirs according to the hope of eternal life.

mnt@Titus:3:9 @ But avoid foolish questionings and genealogies and dissensions and wranglings about the law; for these are unprofitable and empty.

mnt@Titus:3:12 @ As soon as I send Artemas or Tychicus to you, join me in Nicopolis as quickly as you can, for I have arranged to winter there.

mnt@Titus:3:13 @ Speed Zenas the lawyer, and Apollos, on their journey diligently.

mnt@Titus:3:14 @ Let them want nothing, and "let our people learn to devote themselves to honest work to supply the necessities of their teachers," so that they be not unfruitful.

mnt@Philemon:1:2 @ to my sister Apphia, to my fellow soldier Archippus, and to the church which meets at Philemons house. From Paul, a prisoner of Jesus Christ, and brother Timothy.

mnt@Philemon:1:3 @ Grace and peace be to you from God our Father and the Lord Jesus Christ.

mnt@Philemon:1:5 @ because I am hearing of your love and of the faith which you hold, not only toward the Lord Jesus Christ, but toward all the saints.

mnt@Philemon:1:7 @ For I have great joy and comfort in your love, my brother, because the hearts of the saints have been refreshed.

mnt@Philemon:1:9 @ yet for loves sake, I rather beseech you, I, Paul, an old man, and now a prisoner for Christ Jesus!

mnt@Philemon:1:10 @ I beseech you for my son, Onesimus, whom I have begotten in these chains.

mnt@Philemon:1:11 @ Once you found him "unprofitable," but now he is "profitable" to you and to me.

mnt@Philemon:1:12 @ I am sending him back to you, he himself, that is, my very heart!

mnt@Philemon:1:13 @ I could wish to retain him at my side, so that he might minister to me in your stead, in my bonds for the gospel.

mnt@Philemon:1:16 @ no longer as a slave, but more than a slave, as a brother beloved; especially dear to me, but how much more to you, both as a man and a fellow Christian.

mnt@Philemon:1:17 @ If then you count me as a partner, receive him as you would me.

mnt@Philemon:1:18 @ And if he has wronged you at all, or is owing you anything, charge that to me.

mnt@Philemon:1:20 @ Come my brother, let me have joy in the Lord because of you! Refresh my heart in Christ!

mnt@Philemon:1:25 @ May the grace of our Lord Jesus Christ be with your spirit. Amen.

mnt@Hebrews:1:1 @ God, who in ancient days spoke to our ancestors in the prophets, at many different times and by various methods,

mnt@Hebrews:1:2 @ has at the end of these days spoken to us in a Son whom he appointed heir of all things; through whom also he made the universe.

mnt@Hebrews:1:3 @ He being an emanation of Gods glory and stamp of his substance, and upholding the universe by the utterances of his power, after by himself making purification of our sins, has taken his seat on the right hand of the Majesty on High.

mnt@Hebrews:1:4 @ He is as much superior to the angels as the name that he has inherited surpasses theirs.

mnt@Hebrews:1:5 @ For to what angel did God ever say, Thou art my son; this day have I become thy Father? and again, I will be a father to him, and he shall be to me a son?

mnt@Hebrews:1:6 @ And further, when he brought the firstborn into the habitable world, he said, Let all the angels of God worship him.

mnt@Hebrews:1:7 @ While of the angels he said, He makes his angels into winds, His ministering servants into flames of fire.

mnt@Hebrews:1:8 @ But to the Son he says. Thy throne, O God, is forever and ever, And the scepter of thy kingdom is the scepter of justice.

mnt@Hebrews:1:9 @ Thou hast loved righteousness and hated lawlessness; Therefore did God, thy God, anoint thee with the oil of gladness beyond thy comrades.

mnt@Hebrews:1:10 @ And, Thou, O Lord, in the beginning didst lay the foundations of the earth, And the heavens are the work of thy hands.

mnt@Hebrews:1:11 @ They will perish, but thou remainest; They all will grow old like a garment,

mnt@Hebrews:1:12 @ Like a mantle thou wilt fold them up, And like a garment they will be changed. But thou art the same, And thy years will never fail.

mnt@Hebrews:1:13 @ To which of the angels has he ever said, Sit at my right hand, Till I make thy foes a footstool for thy feet?

mnt@Hebrews:1:14 @ Are they not all ministering spirits, sent forth for service in behalf of those who are about to inherit salvation?

mnt@Hebrews:2:1 @ For this reason we must pay the more earnest heed to the things which we have heard, for fear we should drift away.

mnt@Hebrews:2:2 @ For if the word uttered through angels stood firm, so that every transgression and act of disobedience met with its just retribution, how shall we escape if we neglect so great a salvation?

mnt@Hebrews:2:3 @ Which having begun to be spoken by the Lord, was confirmed to us by those who heard him;

mnt@Hebrews:2:4 @ God himself corroborating their testimony by signs and wonders and a variety of miraculous powers, and by gifts of the Holy Spirit imparted in accordance with his own will.

mnt@Hebrews:2:5 @ It is not to angels that God subjected the age to be, of which we are speaking.

mnt@Hebrews:2:6 @ But some one, somewhere, testified, saying. What is Man, that thou art mindful of him? Or any man, that thou carest for him?

mnt@Hebrews:2:7 @ Thou hast made him only a little lower that the angels; With glory and honor hast thou crowned him; And hast set him to govern the works of thy hands;

mnt@Hebrews:2:8 @ Thou hast put all things under his feet. For this putting all things under man means leaving nothing not subject to him. But we do not yet see all things subject to him.

mnt@Hebrews:2:9 @ What we do see is Jesus, who was made for a time a little lower than the angels, now crowned with glory and honor, because of the suffering of death, in order that through Gods grace he might taste death for every man.

mnt@Hebrews:2:10 @ For it befitted him, for whom and through whom all things exist, in bringing many sons to glory, to make the Pioneer of their salvation perfect through sufferings.

mnt@Hebrews:2:11 @ For both he who sanctifies and those whom he is sanctifying are all from One; for which reason he is not ashamed to call them brothers, saying.

mnt@Hebrews:2:12 @ I will proclaim thy name to my brothers; In the midst of the Church I will hymn thy praises.

mnt@Hebrews:2:13 @ And again, I myself will put my trust in God. And again, Lo, I and the children God has given me.

mnt@Hebrews:2:14 @ Therefore, since the children are sharers in flesh and blood, he also similarly partook of the same, in order that through death he might render powerless him that had the power of death, that is, the devil;

mnt@Hebrews:2:15 @ And might deliver those who through fear of death had been subject to life-long bondage.

mnt@Hebrews:2:16 @ For assuredly it is not angels, nay, it is the offspring of Abraham, whom he is ever taking by the hand.

mnt@Hebrews:2:17 @ And so it was necessary that he should in all points be made like his brothers, so that he might become a compassionate and faithful high priest, in all that relates to God, to make reconciliation for the sins of the people.

mnt@Hebrews:2:18 @ For inasmuch as he himself has suffered, being tempted, he is also able instantly to succor those who are tempted, he is also able instantly to succor those who are tempted.

mnt@Hebrews:3:1 @ Therefore, holy brothers, comrades of a heavenly calling, fix your thoughts then upon Jesus, the Apostle and High Priest of our confession.

mnt@Hebrews:3:2 @ How faithful he was to the God who appointed him! For while Moses also was faithful in all Gods house,

mnt@Hebrews:3:3 @ Jesus has been counted worthy of greater glory than Moses, inasmuch as he who has built a house has higher honor than the house itself.

mnt@Hebrews:3:4 @ For every house has its builder; but he who built the universe is God.

mnt@Hebrews:3:5 @ And Moses indeed was faithful in all his house as a servant, bearing testimony to a witness about to be spoken;

mnt@Hebrews:3:6 @ but Christ as a Son in his own house; and we are that house, if we retain the cheerful courage and pride of our hope firm unto the end.

mnt@Hebrews:3:7 @ Therefore, as the Holy Spirit says. If you hear Gods voice today,

mnt@Hebrews:3:8 @ Continue not to harden your hearts as in the Provocation, On the day of temptation in the wilderness,

mnt@Hebrews:3:9 @ When your forefathers tried my forbearance And saw my deeds for forty years.

mnt@Hebrews:3:10 @ For this reason I was sore displeased with that generation, And said, "They are always wandering in their hearts; They have never learned my ways";

mnt@Hebrews:3:11 @ So I swore in my wrath, "They shall never enter into my rest."

mnt@Hebrews:3:12 @ See to it, brothers, that there shall never be in any one of you an evil and unbelieving heart, manifesting itself in apostasy from the living God.

mnt@Hebrews:3:13 @ On the contrary, encourage each other daily, so long as there is a "Today," so that no one of you is hindered by the deceitfulness of sin.

mnt@Hebrews:3:14 @ For we are become comrades of the Christ, if we hold our first title deed firm until the very end.

mnt@Hebrews:3:15 @ In the words of Scripture, Today, if you hear his voice, Do not continue to harden your hearts as at the Provocation.

mnt@Hebrews:3:16 @ For who were they that heard and yet provoked him? Was it not all who came out of Egypt under the leadership of Moses?

mnt@Hebrews:3:17 @ And with whom was he grieved for forty years? Was it not with those who had sinned, and whose dead bodies fell in the wilderness?

mnt@Hebrews:3:18 @ And to whom did he swear that they should never enter into his rest, if not to those who had proved faithless? So you see that it was through unbelief that they were not able to enter in.

mnt@Hebrews:3:19 @ missing fehlt/missing

mnt@Hebrews:4:1 @ Let us be on our guard, then, though there is a promise still standing of being admitted to his rest, lest any one of you should be found to have come short of it.

mnt@Hebrews:4:2 @ For the Good News is come to us just as it did to them. But the message they heard was of no benefit to them, because they did not share the faith of those who gave heed to it.

mnt@Hebrews:4:3 @ We are actually entering into that rest, we who have believed, as God has said, -In my wrath I swore - "They shall not enter into my Rest," although his works were finished since the foundation of the world.

mnt@Hebrews:4:4 @ For he has said, somewhere, regarding the seventh day, And God rested on the seventh day from all his work.

mnt@Hebrews:4:5 @ And again in this passage, They shall not enter into my rest.

mnt@Hebrews:4:6 @ Since, then, it remains that some should enter into it, and since those who formerly had the Good News preached to them did not enter in because of unbelief,

mnt@Hebrews:4:7 @ he again fixes a day, saying long afterward by Davids lips, in words already quoted, Today if you hear his voice, Continue not to harden your hearts.

mnt@Hebrews:4:8 @ For if Joshua had given them rest, he would not have spoken afterward of another day.

mnt@Hebrews:4:9 @ So there remains a Sabbath Rest for the people of God.

mnt@Hebrews:4:10 @ For whoever has entered into his rest has rested from his works, just as God did from his.

mnt@Hebrews:4:11 @ Let us, then, be earnest to enter into that rest, so that no one may fall into the same example of disobedience.

mnt@Hebrews:4:12 @ For living is the Word of God, and active, and sharper than any two- edged sword, piercing even to the severance of soul form spirit, of both joints and marrow, and is a discerner of the very thoughts and conceptions of the heart.

mnt@Hebrews:4:13 @ And there is not a creature hidden form him, but all things are naked and laid prostrate before the eyes of him with whom we have to do.

mnt@Hebrews:4:14 @ Inasmuch, then, as we have a great High Priest, Jesus, the Son of God, who has passed through the heavens, let us hold fast our confession of faith.

mnt@Hebrews:4:15 @ For we have not a High Priest who cannot sympathize with our weaknesses, but one who has been tempted in all points like as we are, yet without sin.

mnt@Hebrews:4:16 @ Let us, then, draw near with glad boldness to the throne of grace, that we may receive mercy, and find grace to help us in our times of need.

mnt@Hebrews:5:1 @ For every high priest chosen from time to time from among men is appointed on behalf of men, in matters relating to God, to offer both gifts and sacrifices on behalf of sins.

mnt@Hebrews:5:2 @ He is able to deal gently with the ignorant and erring, since he himself also is encompassed with moral weakness,

mnt@Hebrews:5:3 @ and because of this weakness he is bound to offer sin-offerings not only for the people, but also for himself.

mnt@Hebrews:5:4 @ Again no one takes this honorable office for himself, but he is called by God, just as Aaron was.

mnt@Hebrews:5:5 @ So even the Christ was not raised to the high glory of the priesthood by himself, but on the contrary by Him who said to him. Thou art my Son; this day have I become thy Father;

mnt@Hebrews:5:6 @ and again, Thou art a priest forever, after the order of Melchisedek.

mnt@Hebrews:5:7 @ In the days of his flesh, with better cries and weeping Jesus offered up prayers and supplications to Him who was able to save him out of death; and he was heard because of his devout submission.

mnt@Hebrews:5:8 @ Though he was a son, yet learned he obedience through the things which he suffered;

mnt@Hebrews:5:9 @ and by being thus made perfect, he became the source of enduring salvation to all who obey him,

mnt@Hebrews:5:10 @ while God himself pronounced him High Priest according to the order of Melchisedek.

mnt@Hebrews:5:11 @ Concerning him I have much to say, and much that is hard to make clear to you, because you have grown dull of hearing.

mnt@Hebrews:5:12 @ And this too, although you ought by this time to be teaching others, you are still needing some one to teach you the very rudiments of divine revelation. You need milk, not solid food.

mnt@Hebrews:5:13 @ For every one who feeds on milk is inexperienced in the word of righteousness. He is still an infant.

mnt@Hebrews:5:14 @ But solid food is for adults, that is, for those who by constant practise have their faculties trained to discriminate between good and evil.

mnt@Hebrews:6:1 @ So let us get beyond the teaching of the elementary doctrines of Christ, and let us be borne along toward what is mature. Let us not be continually laying again a foundation of repentance from dead works,

mnt@Hebrews:6:2 @ of faith in God, of the teaching regarding ablutions and the laying on of hands, of the resurrection of the dead, and of eternal judgment.

mnt@Hebrews:6:3 @ And this we will do, if God permit.

mnt@Hebrews:6:4 @ For in the case of those who have been once for all enlightened and have tasted of the heavenly gift,

mnt@Hebrews:6:5 @ and become partakers of the Holy Spirit, and tasted the good word of God, and the powers of the Future Age,

mnt@Hebrews:6:6 @ and then fallen away, it is impossible to renew them again unto repentance. For they repeatedly crucify to themselves the Son of God afresh, and expose him to an open shame.

mnt@Hebrews:6:7 @ For land that has drunk the showers that now and again fall upon it, and produced vegetation useful for those for whom it was tilled, receives a blessing from God;

mnt@Hebrews:6:8 @ but if it produces thorns and thistles, it is considered worthless, and is in danger of being cursed, and its end will be to be burned.

mnt@Hebrews:6:9 @ But though we thus speak, we are persuaded better things of you, beloved, and things that accompany salvation.

mnt@Hebrews:6:10 @ For God is not unjust; he will not forget your work and the love you showed for his cause, in sending help to your fellow Christians, as you are still doing.

mnt@Hebrews:6:11 @ but I am longing that each of you continue to show the same diligence to realize the fulness of your hope, even to the end.

mnt@Hebrews:6:12 @ Then do not become slack, but be imitators of those who through faith and patience are inheriting the promises.

mnt@Hebrews:6:13 @ For when God make the promise to Abraham, since he could swear by none greater, he swore by himself, saying.

mnt@Hebrews:6:14 @ Surely I will bless you, and bless you; I will increase you, and increase you.

mnt@Hebrews:6:15 @ And so by patiently waiting, Abraham obtained the promise.

mnt@Hebrews:6:16 @ I am referring to the oath because men swear by what is greater than themselves, and in every dispute of theirs the oath is final for confirmation.

mnt@Hebrews:6:17 @ On which principle God, wishing to show more convincingly to the heirs of the promise the immutability of his purpose, mediated with an oath;

mnt@Hebrews:6:18 @ that by means of two immutable things - his promise and his oath - in which it is impossible for God to break faith, we refugees may have strong encouragement to grasp the hope set before us.

mnt@Hebrews:6:19 @ This hope we have as an anchor of the soul, secure and strong, and passing into the sanctuary which is beyond the veil;

mnt@Hebrews:6:20 @ whither Jesus himself is entered as a forerunner on our behalf, having become a priest forever, after the order of Melchisedek.

mnt@Hebrews:7:1 @ It was this Melchisedek, King of Salem and Priest of the Most High God, who met Abraham returning from the slaughter of the kings and blessed him;

mnt@Hebrews:7:2 @ and it was to him that Abraham apportioned a tithe of all the spoil. He was first, as his name signifies, King of righteousness, and then King of Salem, that is, King of Peace;

mnt@Hebrews:7:3 @ without father or mother, without lineage, having neither beginning of days nor end of life, but resembling the Son of God, he remains a priest in perpetuity.

mnt@Hebrews:7:4 @ But observe how great this man was, to whom even Abraham, the Patriarch, gave a tenth part of the spoils.

mnt@Hebrews:7:5 @ Now those of the sons of Levi who are appointed to the priesthood, are authorized by the Law to take tithes of the people, that is, of their brothers, and that too, although these are descended from Abraham.

mnt@Hebrews:7:6 @ But this man who had no Levitical genealogy actually took tithes of Abraham, and blessed him to whom the promises belong.

mnt@Hebrews:7:7 @ Now it is beyond all controversy that the inferior is always blessed by the superior.

mnt@Hebrews:7:8 @ Again it is mortal men who receive tithes in the one case; while in the other it is he of whom it is attested, "He lives."

mnt@Hebrews:7:9 @ And even Levi, who is the receiver of tithes, so to speak, paid tithes through Abraham;

mnt@Hebrews:7:10 @ for Levi was yet in the loins of his father, when Melchisedek met Abraham.

mnt@Hebrews:7:11 @ Now if there were perfection through the Levitical priesthood, (and it was under it that the people received the Law) why was it still necessary for another kind of priest to arise, after the order of Melchisedek, instead of being reckoned according to the order of Aaron?

mnt@Hebrews:7:12 @ For when the priesthood changes, of necessity the law also changes.

mnt@Hebrews:7:13 @ He who is thus described belonged to another tribe, not one member of which has ever served at the altar.

mnt@Hebrews:7:14 @ For it is evident that our Lord was descended from Judah, a tribe of which Moses said nothing concerning the priesthood.

mnt@Hebrews:7:15 @ And this is yet more abundantly clear if, after the likeness of Melchisedek, there arises another Priest,

mnt@Hebrews:7:16 @ who has become such, not according to the law of a transitory enactment, but according to the energy of an indissoluble life.

mnt@Hebrews:7:17 @ For the words are in evidence, Thou art a priest forever after the order of Melchisedek.

mnt@Hebrews:7:18 @ For there is a setting aside of a foregoing commandment, because of its weakness and unprofitableness

mnt@Hebrews:7:19 @ (for the Law brought nothing to perfection); and there is the bringing in of a better hope by which we draw near to God;

mnt@Hebrews:7:20 @ mightier because it was not promised apart from an oath.

mnt@Hebrews:7:21 @ For although those priests became such without an oath, He had an oath form God who said to him, The Lord hath sworn and will not change, Thou art a priest forever.

mnt@Hebrews:7:22 @ And by so much Jesus becomes the guarantor of a better covenant.

mnt@Hebrews:7:23 @ And they indeed have been made priests, many in number, because they have been prevented by death from continuing;

mnt@Hebrews:7:24 @ but he, because of his abiding forever, holds his priesthood inviolable.

mnt@Hebrews:7:25 @ Hence also he is able to continue saving to the uttermost those who are ever drawing near to God through him, seeing that he is ever living to intercede for them.

mnt@Hebrews:7:26 @ For we needed just such a high priest, holy, innocent, undefiled, separated from sinners, and exalted above the heavens;

mnt@Hebrews:7:27 @ one who has no need, like the high priests, to offer up daily sacrifices, first for his own sins, then for those of the people. For his sacrifice was made once for all, when he offered up himself.

mnt@Hebrews:7:28 @ For the Law appoints human beings to be high priests, men with all their weakness; but the word of the oath, which was later than the Law, appoints a Son, perfected forevermore.

mnt@Hebrews:8:1 @ The pith of all that we have been saying is this; we do have such a High Priest; and he has taken his seat on the right hand of the throne of Majesty in the heavens,

mnt@Hebrews:8:2 @ a minister of the sanctuary and of the true tabernacle, which the Lord pitched, not man.

mnt@Hebrews:8:3 @ For every high priest is appointed to offer both gifts and sacrifices; whence it follows that this High Priest also must have some offering to make.

mnt@Hebrews:8:4 @ Now were he on earth, he would not even be a priest, since there are here those who present the gifts according to the Law -

mnt@Hebrews:8:5 @ those priests who serve a mere outline and shadow of the heavenly reality, just as Moses was divinely instructed when he was about to build the Tabernacle. "See", he says, "that you make everything on the pattern showed you on the mountain."

mnt@Hebrews:8:6 @ But Jesus has obtained a better ministry, by so much as he is also Mediator of a better covenant, which has been enacted upon better promises.

mnt@Hebrews:8:7 @ For if the first covenant had been faultless, there would have been no need for a second.

mnt@Hebrews:8:8 @ But finding fault with them, He says. "There are days coming," says the Lord, "When I will establish with the house of Israel and with the house of Judah a new covenant;

mnt@Hebrews:8:9 @ Not according tot he covenant which I made with their forefathers, On the day when I took them by the hand to lead them forth out of the land of Egypt; For they did not continue in my covenant, And therefore I disregarded them," says the Lord.

mnt@Hebrews:8:10 @ "For this is the covenant which I will covenant with the house of Israel, After these days," says the Lord; "I will put my laws into their minds, And upon their hearts will I write them; And I will be their God, And they shall be my people;

mnt@Hebrews:8:11 @ And they shall not teach every man his fellow citizen, And every man his brother, saying, Know the Lord; For all shall know me, From the least to the greatest of them.

mnt@Hebrews:8:12 @ For I will have mercy upon their wrong-doings, And their sins I will remember no more."

mnt@Hebrews:8:13 @ By calling the covenant "new," He has made the first one obsolete; and whatever is becoming obsolete and aged, is near to vanishing.

mnt@Hebrews:9:1 @ Now even the first covenant had its ordinances of public worship, and its sanctuary, a material one.

mnt@Hebrews:9:2 @ For a tent was built, the outer one called the Holy Place, in which were the lamp and the table and the loaves of the Presence;

mnt@Hebrews:9:3 @ and behind the second veil was the tent called the Holy of Holies.

mnt@Hebrews:9:4 @ In it was the golden altar of incense, and also the Ark of the Covenant covered all over with gold, in which was a golden pot holding the manna, and Aarons rod that budded, and the tables of the covenant;

mnt@Hebrews:9:5 @ while above it, overshadowing the mercy-seat, were the cherubim of glory. But I must not speak about these in detail.

mnt@Hebrews:9:6 @ Such then were the arrangements. Into the outer tent the priests enter continually in the performance of their duties;

mnt@Hebrews:9:7 @ but into the inner tent the high priest only goes alone, once a year, and that not without blood, which he offers for himself and for the ignorances of the people.

mnt@Hebrews:9:8 @ The Holy Spirit teaching by this that the way into the Holiest has not yet been disclosed while the first tent is still standing.

mnt@Hebrews:9:9 @ This is a parable, for the present time, according to which gifts and sacrifices are offered that are not able, as far as conscience is concerned, to perfect the worshiper;

mnt@Hebrews:9:10 @ since they consist only in meats and drinks and various ablutions, carnal ordinances, imposed until the time of reformation.

mnt@Hebrews:9:11 @ But when Christ came, a High Priest of good things to come, he passed through the greater and more perfect tent not made with hands, that is to say, not of this material creation,

mnt@Hebrews:9:12 @ not taking the blood of goats and oxen, but his own blood, and entered once for all into the Holy Place, obtaining for us an eternal redemption.

mnt@Hebrews:9:13 @ For if the blood of bulls and goats and the ashes of a heifer sprinkled on those who have been defiled, sanctify to the cleansing of the flesh,

mnt@Hebrews:9:14 @ how much more shall the blood of Christ, who through his eternal spirit offered himself free from blemish to God, cleanse your conscience from dead works unto the service of an ever-living God!

mnt@Hebrews:9:15 @ And because of this he is the Mediator of a new testament, in order that, since a death has taken place to atone for offenses committed under the first testament, those who have been called may receive the promise of the eternal inheritance.

mnt@Hebrews:9:16 @ For where there is a testament, there must also be brought forward in evidence the death of the testator.

mnt@Hebrews:9:17 @ For a testament is only of force in case of the dead, being never valid so long as the testator lives.

mnt@Hebrews:9:18 @ Accordingly we find that not without blood was the first testament enacted.

mnt@Hebrews:9:19 @ For after every commandment according to the law had been spoken by Moses to the people, he took the blood of calves and goats, and scarlet wool and hyssop, and sprinkled both the book itself and all the people.

mnt@Hebrews:9:20 @ saying, This is the blood of that testament which God commanded in regard to you.

mnt@Hebrews:9:21 @ Moreover the tabernacle and all the vessels of service he sprinkled likewise, and indeed, according to the Law,

mnt@Hebrews:9:22 @ almost everything is purified by blood, and without the shedding of blood there is no remission of sins.

mnt@Hebrews:9:23 @ While, then, it was necessary that the copies of the heavenly things should be cleansed by such sacrifices, the heavenly things themselves required nobler sacrifices than these.

mnt@Hebrews:9:24 @ For it was not into a Sanctuary made by hands, a mere type of the reality, that Christ entered, but he entered into heaven itself, now to appear in the very presence of God on our behalf.

mnt@Hebrews:9:25 @ Nor did he enter to offer himself repeatedly, as the high priest entered into the sanctuary, year after year, with blood that was not his own; (for in that case he would have needed to suffer repeatedly, ever since the foundation of the world;)but now, once for all, at the end of the ages, he has appeared to abolish sin, but the offering of himself.

mnt@Hebrews:9:27 @ And since it is appointed to men once to die, and after that the judgment;

mnt@Hebrews:9:28 @ so also the Christ, after being once for all offered to bear the sins of many, will appear a second time, without sin, to those who wait for him for salvation.

mnt@Hebrews:10:1 @ For the Law, being only a shadow of the good things to come, and not their very substance, its priests cannot with the same sacrifice which year after year they offer continually, make perfect those who draw near.

mnt@Hebrews:10:2 @ Otherwise would they not have ceased to be offered? Because the worshippers having been once cleansed, would have had no more consciousness of sin.

mnt@Hebrews:10:3 @ But on the other hand, in these sacrifices sins are called to memory, year after year.

mnt@Hebrews:10:4 @ For it is impossible for the blood of bulls and goats to take away sin.

mnt@Hebrews:10:5 @ It is for this reason that the Christ, on coming into the world, declared. Sacrifice and offerings thou dost not desire, But a body didst thou prepare for me;

mnt@Hebrews:10:6 @ In whole burnt offerings and sin offerings Thou hast taken no pleasure.

mnt@Hebrews:10:7 @ Then I said, "I am come - in the roll of the book it is written of me- -To do thy will, O God."

mnt@Hebrews:10:8 @ First when it is said, Thou hast no longing for, thou takest no delight in Sacrifices and offerings, or whole burnt offerings and sin offerings,

mnt@Hebrews:10:9 @ (offerings regularly made under the law), and then it is added, Lo, I come to do thy will, he does away with the first, in order that he may establish the second.

mnt@Hebrews:10:10 @ And it is by this will that we have been sanctified by the offering of the body of Jesus Christ once for all.

mnt@Hebrews:10:11 @ For while every priest stands, day after day, at his ministrations, and many times repeats the same sacrifices, which can never take away sins,

mnt@Hebrews:10:12 @ this Priest, after offering one Sacrifice for sins, sat down forever on Gods right hand;

mnt@Hebrews:10:13 @ henceforth waiting until his enemies be put as the footstool of his feet.

mnt@Hebrews:10:14 @ For by one single offering he has perfected forever those whom he is sanctifying.

mnt@Hebrews:10:15 @ And the Holy Spirit also gives his testimony, when he said.

mnt@Hebrews:10:16 @ "This is the covenant I will make with them After those days," says the Lord. "I will set my laws upon their hearts, And I will inscribe them on their minds."

mnt@Hebrews:10:17 @ Then he adds, And their sins and their iniquities will I remember no more.

mnt@Hebrews:10:18 @ But when these have been remitted, there is no more any offering for sin.

mnt@Hebrews:10:19 @ Since, then, we have a cheerful confidence, brothers, to enter into the Holiest by the blood of Jesus,

mnt@Hebrews:10:20 @ by the way which he dedicated for us, that new and living way, through the veil (that is, his flesh);

mnt@Hebrews:10:21 @ and since we have a great High Priest over the house of God;

mnt@Hebrews:10:22 @ let us draw near with a true heart, in full assurance of faith, our hearts sprinkled from and evil conscience, and our bodies bathed in pure water.

mnt@Hebrews:10:23 @ Let us hold fast the confession of our hope, unwavering (for He is faithful who promised);

mnt@Hebrews:10:24 @ and let us consider one another, to provoke unto love and good works;

mnt@Hebrews:10:25 @ not forsaking the assembling of ourselves together, as is the custom of some, but exhorting one another; all the more as you behold the Day drawing near.

mnt@Hebrews:10:26 @ For if we sin wilfully, after we have received the knowledge of the truth, there no longer remains any other sacrifice for sins,

mnt@Hebrews:10:27 @ but a certain fearful expectation of judgment, and a fiery indignation which is about to devour the adversaries.

mnt@Hebrews:10:28 @ Any one who set at naught the law of Moses was put to death without pity, on the testimony of two or three witnesses.

mnt@Hebrews:10:29 @ How much surer, think you, will be the punishment of one who has trodden under foot the Son of God, and has profaned that covenant blood with which he was sanctified, and has done despite to the spirit of grace?

mnt@Hebrews:10:30 @ For we know Him who said, Vengeance is mine, I will repay, and again, The Lord will judge his people.

mnt@Hebrews:10:31 @ IT IS A FEARFUL THING TO FALL INTO THE HANDS OF THE LIVING GOD!

mnt@Hebrews:10:32 @ But ever call to mind the former days, in which, after having been enlightened, you endured a great conflict of sufferings;

mnt@Hebrews:10:33 @ partly by being made a public spectacle in reproaches and afflictions, and partly by sharing the fortunes of those that were so used.

mnt@Hebrews:10:34 @ For you did sympathize with the prisoners, and you did take joyfully the confiscation of your goods; conscious that you had for yourselves greater, even lasting possessions.

mnt@Hebrews:10:35 @ Now do not fling away your bold confidence, for it has a great recompense of reward.

mnt@Hebrews:10:36 @ For you need stedfastness, so that after having done the will of God, you may receive the promise,

mnt@Hebrews:10:37 @ For yet a very, very little while, and then The Coming One will have come, without delay.

mnt@Hebrews:10:38 @ But it is by faith that my Righteous One will live, And if he draws back, my soul takes no pleasure in him.

mnt@Hebrews:10:39 @ "But we are not of defections unto perdition, but of faith unto the gaining of the soul."

mnt@Hebrews:11:1 @ Now faith is the title-deed of things hoped for; the putting to the proof of things not seen.

mnt@Hebrews:11:2 @ For by it men of old times had witness borne to them.

mnt@Hebrews:11:3 @ By faith we understand that the world was fashioned by the Word of God, so that what we see was not made out of what is visible.

mnt@Hebrews:11:4 @ By faith Abel offered to God a sacrifice more acceptable than that of Cain, through which he had witness borne to him that he was righteous, God giving the testimony by accepting his gifts; and through it he, although he is dead, still speaks.

mnt@Hebrews:11:5 @ By faith Enoch was translated so that he should not see death; and he was not found, because God had translated him. Before his translation he had witness borne to him that he pleased God.

mnt@Hebrews:11:6 @ now without faith it is impossible to please him; for he who comes to God must believe that he is, and that he ever rewards those who are seeking.

mnt@Hebrews:11:7 @ By faith Noah, warned of God of things not yet seen, reverently gave heed, and built an ark for the saving of his house; by which he condemned the world, and became an heir of the righteousness which is of faith.

mnt@Hebrews:11:8 @ By faith Abraham obeyed when he was called to go out unto a place which he was to receive for an inheritance; and he went out, not knowing whither he went.

mnt@Hebrews:11:9 @ It was by faith that he sojourned in the promised land as an alien, living in tents with Isaac and Jacob, his fellow heirs of the same promise.

mnt@Hebrews:11:10 @ For he continually looked for the city which has foundations, whose builder and maker is God.

mnt@Hebrews:11:11 @ By faith even Sarah herself received power to conceive seed, although she was past the age for child-bearing, because she counted Him faithful who had promised;

mnt@Hebrews:11:12 @ and thus there sprang from one man, and him practically dead, a nation like the stars in the heavens in multitude, or grains of sand upon the seashore, innumerable.

mnt@Hebrews:11:13 @ These all died in faith, not having yet received the promises; nay, but they saw them from afar, and hailed them, and confessed that they were strangers and pilgrims on the earth.

mnt@Hebrews:11:14 @ For those who say such things make it plain that they are seeking a Fatherland.

mnt@Hebrews:11:15 @ And if they had cherished the memory of that land from which they went out, they would have found an opportunity to return;

mnt@Hebrews:11:16 @ but now they are longing for a better homeland, that is, a heavenly. Therefore God is not ashamed to be called their God; and he has prepared a city for them.

mnt@Hebrews:11:17 @ By faith Abraham, when he was put to the test, was on the point of offering up Isaac; yes, he who had received the promise was about to offer up his only son,

mnt@Hebrews:11:18 @ of whom it had been said, It is through Isaac that your posterity will be traced.

mnt@Hebrews:11:19 @ For he accounted God able even to raise from the dead, from whence, figuratively speaking, he did indeed receive him back again.

mnt@Hebrews:11:20 @ By faith Isaac blessed Jacob and Esau, even concerning things to come.

mnt@Hebrews:11:21 @ By faith Jacob, when he was dying, blessed each of Josephs sons, and worshiped, leaning on the top of his staff.

mnt@Hebrews:11:22 @ By faith Joseph, when his end was nigh, made mention of the exodus of the children of Israel, and gave instructions in regard to his bones.

mnt@Hebrews:11:23 @ By faith Moses, when he was born, was hid three months by his parents, because they saw that he was a beautiful child, and they were not afraid of the kings decree.

mnt@Hebrews:11:24 @ By faith Moses, when he was grown up, refused to be called the son of Pharaohs daughter,

mnt@Hebrews:11:25 @ choosing rather to share ill-treatment with the people of God, than to enjoy the pleasures of sin for a season.

mnt@Hebrews:11:26 @ He accounted the obloquy of Christ to be greater than the treasures of Egypt; for he fixed his eyes on the reward.

mnt@Hebrews:11:27 @ By faith he left Egypt, not because he feared the wrath of the king, but he endured as seeing Him who is invisible.

mnt@Hebrews:11:28 @ By faith he established the Passover, and the sprinkling with blood, in order that the Destroying Angel might not touch the firstborn.

mnt@Hebrews:11:29 @ By faith the people crossed over the Red Sea as on dry land; and when the Egyptians tried to do this they were swallowed up.

mnt@Hebrews:11:30 @ By faith the walls of Jericho fell down after they had been encircled seven days.

mnt@Hebrews:11:31 @ By faith Rahab, the harlot, perished not with the disobedient, because she had received the spies in peace.

mnt@Hebrews:11:32 @ And what more shall I say? for time would fail me to tell of Gideon, of Barak, of Samson, and of Jeptha; of David and Samuel and the prophets,

mnt@Hebrews:11:33 @ who through faith conquered kingdoms, wrought righteousness, obtained promises, stopped the mouths of lions,

mnt@Hebrews:11:34 @ quenched the power of fire, escaped the edge of the sword, out of weakness were made strong, proved valiant in warfare, and routed armies of aliens.

mnt@Hebrews:11:35 @ Woman received their dear ones alive from the dead; and others were broken on the wheel, not accepting the offered deliverance, in order that they might obtain a better resurrection.

mnt@Hebrews:11:36 @ Others again bore trial of mockings and scourgings, yes, even of chains and imprisonment.

mnt@Hebrews:11:37 @ They were stoned, they were sawn asunder, they were tempted, they were slain with the sword, they wandered about in sheepskins and goatskins, being destitute, persecuted, tormented -

mnt@Hebrews:11:38 @ of whom the world was not worthy - wandering in deserts and mountains and caves and holes in the ground.

mnt@Hebrews:11:39 @ Yet, though these all had witness borne to them by their faith, they received not the promise;

mnt@Hebrews:11:40 @ since it was for us that God had in store some better thing, so that apart from us they should not be perfected.

mnt@Hebrews:12:1 @ Seeing then that we are encircled with this great cloud of witnesses, let us also lay aside every weight, and the sin that clings about us. Let us run with patience the race that is set before us,

mnt@Hebrews:12:2 @ looking unto Jesus, the pioneer and perfecter of our faith, who for the joy that was set before him endured a cross, despising shame, and has now taken his seat at the right hand of the throne of God.

mnt@Hebrews:12:3 @ Compare yourselves with him who endured such hostility against himself at the hands of sinners, lest you grow weary, fainting in your souls.

mnt@Hebrews:12:4 @ Not yet have you resisted unto blood in your fight against sin;

mnt@Hebrews:12:5 @ and have you forgotten the exhortation which reasons with you as sons? My son, do not despise the training of the Lord, Nor faint when he corrects you;

mnt@Hebrews:12:6 @ For it is those whom he loves that he disciplines, And he scourges every son whom he acknowledges.

mnt@Hebrews:12:7 @ It is for discipline that you are enduring these sufferings. God is dealing with you as sons. For what son is there whom his father does not discipline?

mnt@Hebrews:12:8 @ If you are left without discipline, in which all children share, then are you bastards and not sons.

mnt@Hebrews:12:9 @ Furthermore, our earthly fathers used to discipline us, and we gave them reverence. Shall we not much rather be in subjection to the Father of spirits, and live?

mnt@Hebrews:12:10 @ For they only disciplined us for a few days, as seemed good to them; but he does it for our profit, that we may share his holiness.

mnt@Hebrews:12:11 @ Now no discipline seems for the present to be joyous, but grievous; but afterward it yields the peaceable fruits of righteousness to those who have been trained under it.

mnt@Hebrews:12:12 @ Wherefore lift up your listless hands, strengthen your feeble knees;

mnt@Hebrews:12:13 @ make straight path for your feet, so that what is lame may not be put out of joint, but rather be healed.

mnt@Hebrews:12:14 @ Run swiftly after peace with all men, and holiness, without which no man shall see the Lord.

mnt@Hebrews:12:15 @ Look carefully that there be no one who falls back from the grace of God; that no root of bitterness springs up to trouble you, and by its means many become defiled.

mnt@Hebrews:12:16 @ Take care lest there be any fornicator or scorner like Esau among you, who for one meal sold his birthright.

mnt@Hebrews:12:17 @ For you know that even when he afterward desired to inherit the blessing, he was rejected; he found no room for repentance, though he sought it earnestly, with tears.

mnt@Hebrews:12:18 @ For you are not come to a palpable and enkindled fire,

mnt@Hebrews:12:19 @ nor to gloom and darkness and tempest and the blare of a trumpet and an audible voice. Those who heard that voice entreated that no word more should be spoken to them.

mnt@Hebrews:12:20 @ For they could not endure that which was enjoined, Even if a wild beast touches the mountain it shall be stoned to death;

mnt@Hebrews:12:21 @ and so terrible was the scene that Moses said, I exceedingly fear and tremble.

mnt@Hebrews:12:22 @ On the contrary you are come to Mount Zion, the city of the living God, the heavenly Jerusalem, to innumerable hosts of angels,

mnt@Hebrews:12:23 @ to the festal assemblage and church of the firstborn, registered in heaven, to a Judge who is God of all, to the spirits of just men made perfect,

mnt@Hebrews:12:24 @ to Jesus the Mediator of the New Covenant, and to his sprinkled Blood whose message cries louder than that of Abel.

mnt@Hebrews:12:25 @ See that you do not refuse him who is speaking. For if they did not escape punishment when they refused to listen to their instructor on earth, much less shall we escape if we turn away from him who is teaching us from heaven;

mnt@Hebrews:12:26 @ whose voice then shook the earth, but now he has promised, saying, Once again, once for all, I make not only earth, but heaven also to tremble.

mnt@Hebrews:12:27 @ That phrase, "Once again," signifies the removal of the things which can be shaken, created things, in order that the things which cannot be shaken may remain.

mnt@Hebrews:12:28 @ Wherefore since we are receiving a kingdom which is unshakable, let us give thanks, and so offer acceptable worship to God, with holy awe and fear,

mnt@Hebrews:12:29 @ FOR INDEED OUR GOD IS A CONSUMING FIRE.

mnt@Hebrews:13:1 @ Let brotherly love continue.

mnt@Hebrews:13:2 @ Do not neglect to show hospitality; for by it some have even entertained angels unawares.

mnt@Hebrews:13:3 @ Remember those who are in prison, as if you were fellow prisoners; remember too, those who are being ill-treated, since you too, are in the body.

mnt@Hebrews:13:4 @ Let marriage be held in honor by all, and the marriage bed be undefiled; for fornicators and adulterers will God judge.

mnt@Hebrews:13:5 @ Let your life be untainted by love of money; be content with such things as you have; for God himself has said, I will never leave thee; I will never forsake thee.

mnt@Hebrews:13:6 @ So that we can say with confidence, The Lord is my helper; I will not be afraid. What can man do to me?

mnt@Hebrews:13:7 @ Remember your leaders, the men who spoke the message of God to you; consider the issue of their lives, and imitate their faith.

mnt@Hebrews:13:8 @ Jesus Christ is the same yesterday, today, and forever.

mnt@Hebrews:13:9 @ Do not allow yourselves to be swept away by various and strange teachings. For it is a beautiful thing to be established in heart by grace, and not by regulations regarding food, from which those that occupied themselves with them have derived no benefit.

mnt@Hebrews:13:10 @ We Christians have an altar from which those have no right to eat who minister in the Tabernacle.

mnt@Hebrews:13:11 @ For the bodies of the animals whose blood is carried by the High Priest into the Holy Place are burned outside the camp,

mnt@Hebrews:13:12 @ and so Jesus suffered outside the gate in order to sanctify the people by his own blood.

mnt@Hebrews:13:13 @ Let us then go forth to him outside the camp, bearing his reproach.

mnt@Hebrews:13:14 @ For we have not here an abiding city, but we are earnestly seeking the city that is to be.

mnt@Hebrews:13:15 @ In his name, then, let us continually offer up a sacrifice of praise to God, that is the fruit of lips that confess his name.

mnt@Hebrews:13:16 @ And forget not to be kind and liberal; for with that sort of sacrifice God is well pleased.

mnt@Hebrews:13:17 @ Obey your leaders and submit to them; for they are keeping watch over your souls, as those who must give account; that they may do thus with joy and not with lamentation, for this would be unprofitable to you.

mnt@Hebrews:13:18 @ Keep on praying for me. I am persuaded that I have a clear conscience, and I desire in every way to live nobly.

mnt@Hebrews:13:19 @ I the more earnestly ask for your prayers, that I may be the more speedily restored to you.

mnt@Hebrews:13:20 @ Now the God of peace, who brought up from the dead our Lord Jesus, that great Shepherd of the sheep, by the blood of an eternal covenant,

mnt@Hebrews:13:21 @ equip you in every good deed for the doing of his will, doing in you what is well-pleasing in his sight, through Jesus Christ. To him be the glory unto the ages of the ages! Amen!

mnt@Hebrews:13:22 @ But I entreat you, brothers, bear with my word of exhortation, for I have written to you briefly.

mnt@Hebrews:13:23 @ You know that our brother Timothy has been set free. If he comes soon, I will see him with you.

mnt@Hebrews:13:24 @ Salute all your leaders and the saints. The brothers from Italy send you greeting.

mnt@Hebrews:13:25 @ Grace be with you all, Amen.

mnt@James:1:1 @ James, a slave of God and of the Lord Jesus Christ, sends greeting to the twelve tribes that are scattered abroad.

mnt@James:1:2 @ My brothers, when you are beset by various temptations, count it all joy,

mnt@James:1:3 @ because you know that the testing of your faith is working out endurance.

mnt@James:1:5 @ If any one of you is lacking in wisdom, let him ask it from the God who gives to all men freely and without upbraiding; and it will be given to him.

mnt@James:1:6 @ But let him ask in faith, without wavering; for he who wavers is like a surge of the sea, wind-driven and tossed.

mnt@James:1:7 @ Such a man need not suppose that he will receive anything from the Lord,

mnt@James:1:8 @ double-minded as he is, unstable at every turn.

mnt@James:1:9 @ Let a brother in humble circumstances glory in his exaltation;

mnt@James:1:10 @ but a rich brother, in his humiliation; because like the flower of the grass the rich man will pass away.

mnt@James:1:11 @ For as the sun comes up with a burning heat, it withers the grass, and its flowers fall, and the grace of the fashion of it perishes; so also shall the rich man fade away amid his pursuits.

mnt@James:1:12 @ Blessed is the man who endures temptation; for when he has stood the test he will receive the crown of life which the Lord has promised to those who love him.

mnt@James:1:13 @ When he is being tempted, let no one say, "It is God who tempts me," for God cannot be tempted with evil, nor does he tempt any man.

mnt@James:1:15 @ Then lust conceives and gives birth to sin; and sin, when it is mature, brings forth death.

mnt@James:1:16 @ Do not be deceived, my brothers!

mnt@James:1:17 @ Every good gift and every perfect boon is from above, and is ever coming down to us from the Father of the heavenly lights, with whom is no variation nor shadow of eclipse.

mnt@James:1:18 @ Because he willed, he gave us birth through the word of truth, so that we should be a kind of first-fruits among his creatures.

mnt@James:1:19 @ Mark this well, my dear brothers. Let every man be swift in hearing, slow in speaking, slow in growing angry;

mnt@James:1:20 @ for a mans anger does not further the righteous purpose of God.

mnt@James:1:21 @ So strip off all filthiness and superfluity of wickedness, and in meekness receive the implanted Word, which is able to save your souls.

mnt@James:1:22 @ And become doers of the Word, and not merely hearers, deceiving yourselves.

mnt@James:1:23 @ Because if any one is a hearer of the Word and not a doer, he is like a man who looks at his natural face in a mirror;

mnt@James:1:24 @ for after he has looked carefully at himself, he goes away, and at once forgets what he is like.

mnt@James:1:25 @ But the man who looks closely into the perfect law - the law of liberty - and continues looking, this man will be blessed in his deed because he is not a hearer who forgets, but a doer who does.

mnt@James:1:27 @ and undefiled before our God and Father, to look after orphans and widows in their affliction, and ever to keep himself unspotted from the world.

mnt@James:2:1 @ My brothers, do not hold the faith of the Lord Jesus, the Lord of Glory, in a spirit of caste.

mnt@James:2:2 @ Suppose a man comes into your synagogue with a gold ring and dazzling clothes, and suppose a poor man comes in, also, in shabby clothes,

mnt@James:2:3 @ and you look up to him who wears the fine clothing, and say to him, "Sit here in this fine place!" and to the poor man you say, "Stand there!" or "Sit on the floor at my feet!"

mnt@James:2:5 @ Listen, my dear brothers, has not God chosen the poor of this world to be rich in faith, and to inherit the kingdom which he has promised to those who love him?

mnt@James:2:6 @ But you have dishonored the poor man. Do not the rich oppress you and drag you to court?

mnt@James:2:7 @ Are they not blaspheming that glorious Name by which you are called?

mnt@James:2:8 @ If you are keeping the royal law, which says, Thou shalt love thy neighbor as thou dost thyself, you are doing well.

mnt@James:2:9 @ If you have the spirit of caste you are committing sin, and are convicted by the Law as transgressors.

mnt@James:2:10 @ For if a man keeps the whole of the Law, and yet stumbles in one point, he is guilty of all.

mnt@James:2:11 @ For he who said, Do not commit adultery, said also, Do not Kill. Now if you do not commit adultery, but if you do kill, you have transgressed the Law.

mnt@James:2:12 @ So speak and act like men who are to be judged by the law of liberty.

mnt@James:2:13 @ For judgment is without mercy to the man who has showed no mercy. but mercy glories in the face of judgment.

mnt@James:2:14 @ My brothers, what good is it if any one says that he has faith, if he has no deeds? Can such faith save him?

mnt@James:2:15 @ If a brother or sister be naked and in need of daily food,

mnt@James:2:16 @ and one of you says to them, "Depart in peace, find warmth and food for yourselves," but at the same time you do not give the necessaries of the body, what good would that do them?

mnt@James:2:17 @ In just the same way faith, if it have not deeds, is by itself a lifeless thing.

mnt@James:2:18 @ Some one indeed may say, "You have faith, and I have deeds." "Then show me your faith," I answer, "apart from any deeds, and I will show you my faith by my deeds."

mnt@James:2:19 @ You believe that God is one? You do well; even the demons believe, and they shudder.

mnt@James:2:21 @ Was not Abraham our ancestor justified by deeds, in that he offered up Isaac, his son, upon the altar?

mnt@James:2:23 @ And the Scripture was fulfilled which said, And Abraham believed God, and this was imputed to him as righteousness, and he was called Gods friend.

mnt@James:2:24 @ You see, then, that it is by his deeds a man is justified, and not simply by his faith.

mnt@James:2:25 @ In like manner was not Rahab, the harlot, justified by her deeds, in the fact that she received the messengers and sent them forth by another way?

mnt@James:2:26 @ So just as the body without a spirit is dead, so faith is dead without deeds.

mnt@James:3:1 @ Do not become many teachers, my brothers, because you know well that we teachers shall be judged by a severer standard than others.

mnt@James:3:2 @ For in many respects we often stumble. If any man never stumbles in speech, the same is a perfect man, able to bridle the whole body as well.

mnt@James:3:3 @ When we put bits in the mouths of horses to make them obey us, we control their whole body also.

mnt@James:3:4 @ Look at the ships too, though they are so large, even when driven by fierce winds they are turned by a very small rudder, wherever the impulse of the helmsman wills.

mnt@James:3:5 @ So also the tongue is a small member and makes great boasts. Behold, how great a forest is set on fire by a little spark!

mnt@James:3:6 @ And the tongue is a fire; it is a very world of iniquity among our members, defiling the whole body, and setting on fire the wheel of nature, and is itself set on fire by hell.

mnt@James:3:8 @ no man can tame the tongue, restless evil that it is, full of deadly poison.

mnt@James:3:9 @ With it we continually bless our Lord and Father, and with it we are accustomed to curse men made in the image of God.

mnt@James:3:10 @ From out of the same mouth pour forth blessings and cursings! My brothers, this ought not to be so.

mnt@James:3:11 @ Does a spring pour forth from the same opening sweet water and bitter?

mnt@James:3:12 @ Can a fig tree, my brothers, bear olives; or a grape-vine, figs? No more can salt water yield fresh water.

mnt@James:3:13 @ Who among you is wise and intelligent? Let him show his deeds by his good life, in the meekness of wisdom.

mnt@James:3:14 @ But if you have bitter jealousy and faction in your heart, do not be boasting of that, and be false to the truth.

mnt@James:3:16 @ For wherever jealousy and faction exist, there is confusion and every evil deed.

mnt@James:3:17 @ But the wisdom which comes from on high is first pure, then peaceable, gentle, conciliatory, overflowing with mercy and good fruits, without partiality and without insincerity.

mnt@James:3:18 @ And the fruit of righteousness is being sown in peace by those who are working peace.

mnt@James:4:1 @ Where do the conflicts and quarrels that go on among you come from? Do they not come from your passions which are always making war among your bodily members?

mnt@James:4:4 @ You adulteresses, do you not know that the friendship of the world is enmity to God? Whoever, then, desires to be a friend of the world, makes himself and enemy of God.

mnt@James:4:5 @ Or do you suppose that it is in vain that the Scripture says, "The spirit which has its home in us yearns over us unto jealousy?"

mnt@James:4:6 @ But he gives more and more grace. therefore it is said, God ever resists the proud; but to the humble he gives grace continually.

mnt@James:4:7 @ So then ever be subject to God, Ever resist the devil and he will flee from you.

mnt@James:4:8 @ Draw near to God And he will draw near to you. Cleanse your hands, you sinners, And purify your hearts, you double-minded.

mnt@James:4:10 @ Humble yourselves before the Lord, And he will raise you up.

mnt@James:4:11 @ Do not be talking against each other, brothers. He who is talking against a brother and condemning his brothers is talking against the Law and condemning the Law. But if you are condemning the Law, you are not a doer of the Law, but a judge.

mnt@James:4:12 @ But One is your Lawgiver and Judge - he who is able to save and to destroy. But you, who are you, to be condemning your neighbor?

mnt@James:4:13 @ Go to now, you who say, "Today or tomorrow we shall journey to such a city and spend a year there, and trade and make money,"

mnt@James:4:14 @ when all the time you do not know what will happen on the morrow. For what is your life? You are but a mist, appearing for a brief time, and then vanishing.

mnt@James:4:15 @ You ought instead to say, "If the Lord wills it, we shall live and do this or that."

mnt@James:4:16 @ But now you are glorying in these insolent boastings of yours; all such glorying is evil.

mnt@James:5:1 @ Go to now, you rich men! Weep aloud, howl for the miseries which are about to come upon you!

mnt@James:5:2 @ For your riches lie rotting, and your clothing has become moth-eaten.

mnt@James:5:3 @ Your gold and silver are rusted. and their rust will be for a testimony against you, and it will eat your flesh. For you have been storing up fire in these last days!

mnt@James:5:4 @ Look! the wages of the laborers who mowed your fields, which you have been keeping back by fraud, are crying aloud! And the cries of the reapers have entered into the ears of the Lord of Sabaoth!

mnt@James:5:5 @ You have lived luxuriously on earth, you have taken your pleasure, you have fattened your hearts for a day of slaughter.

mnt@James:5:6 @ You have condemned, you have murdered the righteous man unresisting!

mnt@James:5:7 @ Be patient, then, brothers, till the coming of the Lord. Behold the farmer who waits for the precious fruit of the earth, being patient over it, until it gets the early and the latter rains.

mnt@James:5:8 @ So you also must be patient. Stablish your hearts; for the coming of the Lord is at hand!

mnt@James:5:9 @ Do not make complaints against each other, brothers, lest you yourselves be condemned. Behold the Judge is standing before the very door!

mnt@James:5:10 @ Take, my brothers, for an example the suffering and the patience of the prophets who spoke in the name of the Lord.

mnt@James:5:11 @ Remember we count those that were stedfast happy. You have heard of the stedfastness of Job, and have seen the end of the Lord with him, seen how the Lord is full of tenderness.

mnt@James:5:12 @ Again, above all things, my brothers, swear not at all, neither by the heavens, nor by the earth, nor by any other oath. Let your "yes" be "yes," and your "no," "no," so you will not fall under condemnation.

mnt@James:5:14 @ Is any in good spirits? Let him sing unto his harp. Is any one of you ill? Let him send for the elders of the church, and let them pray over him, after anointing him with oil in the name of the Lord;

mnt@James:5:15 @ and the prayer of faith will restore the sick, and the Lord will raise him up. And if he has committed sins, it will be forgiven him.

mnt@James:5:16 @ So confess your sins one to another, and pray for one another, that you may be healed. For the fervent prayer of a righteous man is mighty in its working.

mnt@James:5:17 @ Elijah was a man of like passions with us, and he prayed again, and the sky gave rain, and the earth brought forth her fruit.

mnt@James:5:18 @ Then he prayed again, and the sky gave rain, and the earth brought forth her fruit.

mnt@James:5:19 @ My brothers, if any one of you strays from the truth, and some one brings him back,

mnt@James:5:20 @ let him know that he who brings a sinner back from the error of his ways, saves his soul from death, and hides a multitude of sins.

mnt@1Peter:1:1 @ Peter, an apostle of Jesus Christ, to the elect who are sojourners of the dispersion in Pontus, Galatia, Cappadocia, Roman Asia, and Bithynia,

mnt@1Peter:1:2 @ according to the foreknowledge of God the Father, in the sanctification of the spirit, unto obedience and sprinkling of the blood of Jesus Christ; Grace and peace be multiplied to you.

mnt@1Peter:1:3 @ Blessed be the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, by whose great mercy we have been born anew into a living hope, through the resurrection of Jesus Christ from the dead;

mnt@1Peter:1:4 @ and into an inheritance imperishable and undefiled and fadeless, which has been kept in heaven for you

mnt@1Peter:1:5 @ who, through faith, are continuously guarded by the power of God for a salvation, ready to be revealed in the last days.

mnt@1Peter:1:7 @ These are in order that the test of your faith, more precious than gold that is perishable and yet is tested by fire, may redound to praise and glory and honor, at the revelation of Jesus Christ.

mnt@1Peter:1:9 @ as you continually receive the reward of your faith, even the salvation of your souls.

mnt@1Peter:1:10 @ Concerning this salvation the Prophets who prophesied regarding the grace intended for you, diligently sought and searched.

mnt@1Peter:1:11 @ They were searching to know to what time, or to what manner of time the Spirit of Christ which was in them kept pointing, when he ever testified beforehand concerning the sufferings of Christ and the glories that would follow.

mnt@1Peter:1:12 @ It was revealed to them that it was not for themselves, but for you, that they were ministering the truths which have now been announced to you, by those who preached the gospel to you, through the help of the Holy Spirit sent forth from heaven - truths into which angels long to look.

mnt@1Peter:1:13 @ So then brace up your minds, be steady in spirit, and fix your hope firmly in the grace that is coming to you, at the revelation of Jesus Christ.

mnt@1Peter:1:14 @ Like obedient children, do not fashion yourselves according to the former passions of your days of ignorance,

mnt@1Peter:1:15 @ but become yourselves holy in your whole manner of living, as He who has called you is holy,

mnt@1Peter:1:16 @ as the Scripture says, You shall be holy, because I am holy.

mnt@1Peter:1:17 @ And since you call upon him as Father, who impartially judges each one according to his deeds, pass the time of your sojourning here in reverence.

mnt@1Peter:1:18 @ For you well know that not with perishable things, with silver or gold, were you redeemed from the emptiness of your manner of life, received by tradition from your ancestors;

mnt@1Peter:1:19 @ but with precious blood, like that of a lamb without spot or blemish, even the blood of Christ.

mnt@1Peter:1:20 @ He was indeed foreknown before the foundation of the world, but was manifested at the end of the times for your sake.

mnt@1Peter:1:21 @ Through him you believe in God who raised him from the dead and gave him glory; so that your faith and hope are now in God.

mnt@1Peter:1:22 @ Now that by obedience to the truth you have purified your lives for a brotherly love without hypocrisy, you must love one another from your hearts, fervently.

mnt@1Peter:1:23 @ For you have been born anew, not of perishable, but of imperishable seed, by the living, lasting word of God.

mnt@1Peter:1:24 @ For, All flesh is grass And all its glory like the flower of the grass. The grass fades, The flower falls,

mnt@1Peter:1:25 @ But the word of the Lord abides forever. And this is the word of the gospel which has been told to you.

mnt@1Peter:2:1 @ Therefore put away all malice, all deceit, insincerity, jealousy, and slander of every sort.

mnt@1Peter:2:2 @ Like new-born babes long for the pure spiritual milk to make you grow up into salvation;

mnt@1Peter:2:3 @ since you have tasted that the Lord is gracious.

mnt@1Peter:2:4 @ Come to him then, that living Stone, rejected indeed by men, but chosen by God, and precious.

mnt@1Peter:2:6 @ For, as Scripture says. Behold, I lay in Zion a chief corner-stone, elect, precious, And he who believes on Him shall never be put to shame.

mnt@1Peter:2:7 @ For you, then, that believe, is the preciousness; but for those who do not believe, A stone which the builders rejected, The same has become the head stone of the corner,

mnt@1Peter:2:8 @ and, A stone of stumbling, and a rock of offense. They stumble over it because they are disobeying Gods word, and to this they were also appointed.

mnt@1Peter:2:9 @ But you are an elect race, a royal priesthood, a holy nation, a purchased people, that you may show forth the virtues of Him who has called you out of darkness into his marvelous light -

mnt@1Peter:2:10 @ you who once were not a people, but now are the people of God; who were once without mercy, but now you have found mercy.

mnt@1Peter:2:11 @ I beseech you, beloved, as pilgrims and exiles, to abstain from passions of the flesh that war upon your souls.

mnt@1Peter:2:12 @ Let your manner of life before the Gentiles be honest; so that, although they are now slandering you as evil-doers, they may, by beholding your noble conduct, come to glorify God, in the day of visitation.

mnt@1Peter:2:13 @ Submit yourselves, for the Lords sake, to every human authority; whether it be to the Emperor as supreme ruler,

mnt@1Peter:2:14 @ or to governors as sent by him for the punishment of evil-doers and for the encouragement of well-doers.

mnt@1Peter:2:15 @ For it is the will of God that by well-doing you should silence the ignorant talk of foolish men.

mnt@1Peter:2:16 @ Live like free men; and yet do not make your freedom a cloak for misconduct, but be the slaves of God.

mnt@1Peter:2:17 @ Honor all men. Love the brotherhood. Reverence God. Honor the Emperor.

mnt@1Peter:2:18 @ Household slaves, submit yourselves to your masters in all reverence; not only to the kind and gentle, but also to the unreasonable.

mnt@1Peter:2:20 @ For what credit is it if, when you are struck for a fault, you take it patiently? But if when you are doing well and suffer for it, you always take it patiently, this is acceptable with God.

mnt@1Peter:2:22 @ He committed no sin, Neither was guile found in his mouth.

mnt@1Peter:2:23 @ He was reviled, and reviled not back. When he suffered he never threatened but always committed his cause to the One who judges rightly.

mnt@1Peter:2:24 @ He bore our sins in his own body upon the tree, in order that we might become dead to sins, and be alive unto righteousness. By his wounds you have been healed.

mnt@1Peter:2:25 @ For you were straying like lost sheep, but you are now returned to the Shepherd and Guardian of your souls.

mnt@1Peter:3:1 @ In the same way you wives must be submissive to your own husbands; so that if some of them will not believe the message, they may apart from the message be won over by the behavior of their wives,

mnt@1Peter:3:2 @ when they see how pure and reverent you are.

mnt@1Peter:3:3 @ Your adornment ought not to be the outward adornment of plaited hair and golden jewels and the wearing of beautiful dresses;

mnt@1Peter:3:4 @ but rather that hidden personality of the heart, the imperishable ornament of a quiet and gentle spirit, which in the sight of God is indeed precious.

mnt@1Peter:3:5 @ For in this way in the olden time the holy women also, who put their trust in God, used to adorn themselves. They were ever in submission to their own husbands;

mnt@1Peter:3:7 @ In the same way you husbands live with your wives, according to knowledge, honoring your wife as of the weaker sex, yet as an heir with yourself of the grace of life; so that your prayers may not be hindered.

mnt@1Peter:3:8 @ Finally, you should all be harmonious, sympathetic, loving as brothers, tender-hearted, humble-minded;

mnt@1Peter:3:9 @ not paying back evil for evil or abuse for abuse, but on the contrary giving a blessing. Because for this you have been called - to inherit a blessing.

mnt@1Peter:3:10 @ He who would love life and enjoy happy days, Let him keep his tongue from evil, And his lips from speaking guile;

mnt@1Peter:3:12 @ For the eyes of the Lord are upon the righteous, And his ears are open to their cry; But the face of the Lord is set against evil-doers.

mnt@1Peter:3:13 @ Yet who will harm you if you become zealous for the good?

mnt@1Peter:3:14 @ But even if you should suffer in behalf of righteousness, you are happy. Do not be afraid of their terror, neither be troubled.

mnt@1Peter:3:15 @ But consecrate Christ in your hearts, as Lord. Be always in readiness to make and answer to any one who asks you a reason for the hope that is within you, yet with gentleness and reverence.

mnt@1Peter:3:16 @ See that you have a clear conscience, so that, although they speak of you as evil-doers, these libelers of your good Christian lives may be ashamed.

mnt@1Peter:3:18 @ because Christ also once for all suffered for sins, the just for the unjust, that he might bring us to God. He was put to death in the flesh, but make alive in spirit.

mnt@1Peter:3:19 @ (It was in spirit that he went and preached the Word to the spirits who were in prison,

mnt@1Peter:3:20 @ who in old times had been disobedient, when Gods longsuffering was waiting in the days of Noah, while an ark was building, in which a few persons - eight in number - were saved by water.)

mnt@1Peter:3:21 @ Baptism, the counterpart of that, now saves you (not the washing off of the filth of the flesh, but the prayer for a good conscience toward God), through the resurrection of Jesus Christ.

mnt@1Peter:3:22 @ He is gone into heaven, and is on the right hand of God; to Him angels and authorities and powers have been made subject.

mnt@1Peter:4:1 @ Since, then, Christ suffered in the flesh, do you also ever arm yourselves with the same mind (because he who has suffered in the flesh has done with sin),

mnt@1Peter:4:2 @ so that in future you may not spend your life in the flesh according to mens desires, but in the will of God.

mnt@1Peter:4:3 @ For the time past of life may suffice us to have worked the will of the Gentiles, when we spent our life in lasciviousness, lusts, hard drinking, revelry, banqueting, and abominable idol worship.

mnt@1Peter:4:4 @ They are astonished at this, that you do not run into the same excesses of profligacy as they do; and they speak evil of you.

mnt@1Peter:4:5 @ But they must render account to Him who stands ready to judge the living and the dead.

mnt@1Peter:4:6 @ The gospel was preached for this cause to those who were dead also, that they might be judged according to men in flesh, but live according to God in spirit.

mnt@1Peter:4:7 @ But the end of all things is close at hand; so be sober, watch and pray.

mnt@1Peter:4:8 @ Above everything have fervent love to one another; for love veils a multitude of sins.

mnt@1Peter:4:9 @ Be hospitable to one another, without grudging.

mnt@1Peter:4:10 @ Whatever the gifts which each has received, use them for one another, as good stewards of the manifold grace of God.

mnt@1Peter:4:11 @ If any one preaches, let him always preach as one who utters Gods truth; if any one serves another, let it be with the strength which God supplies; so that in every way God may be glorified through Jesus Christ, to whom be glory and dominion for ever and ever, Amen.

mnt@1Peter:4:13 @ But be glad in the degree in which you share in the sufferings of Christ; so that when his glory shall be revealed, you too may be glad with triumphant gladness.

mnt@1Peter:4:14 @ If you are being reproached for the name of Christ, you are blessed, for the spirit of glory and of God is resting upon you.

mnt@1Peter:4:15 @ But let none of you suffer as a murderer, or as a thief, or as an evil-doer, or as a spy upon other peoples business.

mnt@1Peter:4:17 @ It is time for judgment to begin with the household of God; and if it first begin with us, what shall be the end of those who are disobedient to the gospel?

mnt@1Peter:4:18 @ If the righteous man is scarcely saved, where shall the ungodly and the sinner appear?

mnt@1Peter:4:19 @ So let those who are suffering according to the will of God commit the keeping of their souls to him in well-doing, as unto a faithful Creator.

mnt@1Peter:5:1 @ Now to you who are presbyters I make this appeal; for I am myself a presbyter, and was a witness of the sufferings of Christ, and also a partaker of the glory about to be revealed.

mnt@1Peter:5:2 @ Be shepherds to your flock of God; take charge of them willingly, and not through compulsion; not for filthy lucre, but with a willing mind;

mnt@1Peter:5:3 @ not by way of lording it over your heritage, but by becoming examples to the flock.

mnt@1Peter:5:4 @ Then, when the Chief Shepherd shall appear, you too will receive the fadeless wreath of glory.

mnt@1Peter:5:5 @ You younger men must submit to the presbyters; and all of you must put on the garment of humility and serve one another, for God resists the haughty, But gives grace to the humble.

mnt@1Peter:5:6 @ So humble yourselves under Gods mighty hand, so that he may exalt you in due time.

mnt@1Peter:5:7 @ Cast all your care upon him, for he ever cares for you.

mnt@1Peter:5:8 @ Be temperate, be vigilant; because your enemy, the devil, is prowling about like a roaring lion, seeking whom he may devour.

mnt@1Peter:5:9 @ Resist him, standing firm in the faith, knowing well that the same afflictions are being accomplished in your brothers that are in the world.

mnt@1Peter:5:10 @ But the God of all grace, who has called us by Christ Jesus to share his eternal glory, will, after you have suffered a while, make you perfect, stablish, strengthen, settle you.

mnt@1Peter:5:11 @ His is the dominion forever and ever; Amen.

mnt@1Peter:5:12 @ By Sylvanus, a faithful brother of yours, as I suppose, I have written you briefly, to comfort you, and to testify that this is the true grace of God. In this stand fast.

mnt@1Peter:5:14 @ Salute one another with a kiss of love. Peace be to you all who are in Christ Jesus.

mnt@2Peter:1:1 @ Simon Peter, a slave and apostle of Jesus Christ, to those who have obtained an equally precious faith with us in the righteousness of our God and Saviour Jesus Christ.

mnt@2Peter:1:2 @ Grace and peace be multiplied to you by the God and Father of Jesus our Lord.

mnt@2Peter:1:3 @ For his power divine has granted to us everything needful for life and godliness, through the knowledge of him who called us by his own glory and virtue.

mnt@2Peter:1:4 @ By these he has granted his promises to us, precious and splendid; so that through them you may become partners of the divine nature, now that you have escaped the corruption that is in the world through lust.

mnt@2Peter:1:7 @ and to piety brotherly love, and to brotherly love, love itself.

mnt@2Peter:1:8 @ For if these virtues are yours in abounding measure, they render you not idle nor unfruitful, until you come into the full knowledge of our Lord Jesus Christ.

mnt@2Peter:1:9 @ For the man who lacks these virtues is blind, short-sighted, forgetful of his cleansing from his old sins.

mnt@2Peter:1:10 @ So, brothers, take diligent care to make your calling and election sure; for if you do this, you will never stumble.

mnt@2Peter:1:11 @ For so the entrance into the eternal kingdom of our Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ will be richly supplied to you.

mnt@2Peter:1:12 @ I shall therefore be always ready to remind you of all this, even though you know it, and are firmly founded in the truth which is with you.

mnt@2Peter:1:14 @ since I know that the time for me to strike tent comes swiftly on, even as our Lord Jesus Christ pointed out to me.

mnt@2Peter:1:15 @ So I will do my best to enable you, even after my departure, continually to call these things to mind.

mnt@2Peter:1:16 @ For we were not following cunningly devised fables, when we told you of the power and presence of our Lord Jesus Christ, but we had been eye-witnesses of his Majesty.

mnt@2Peter:1:17 @ For he did receive honor and glory from God the Father, when there was borne such a voice to him from the Majestic Glory, This is my Son, my Beloved, in whom I delight;

mnt@2Peter:1:18 @ and this voice we ourselves heard, borne to us out of heaven, when we were with him on the holy hill.

mnt@2Peter:1:19 @ And so we possess the word of prophecy made yet more sure. Unto this you do well to give heed as to a lamp shining in a dark place, till the day dawns and the morning star rises in your hearts.

mnt@2Peter:1:20 @ But first be assured of this - that no prophecy of Scripture is of private interpretation.

mnt@2Peter:1:21 @ For no prophecy was ever brought by the will of man; but moved by the Holy Spirit, men spoke for God.

mnt@2Peter:2:1 @ But there were false prophets, too, among the people, just as among you also there will be false teachers. These will secretly bring in destructive sects, denying even the Master who bought them, and bringing swift ruin upon themselves.

mnt@2Peter:2:2 @ Then there will be many who will follow their immorality, because of whom the Way of the Truth will be maligned.

mnt@2Peter:2:3 @ In their covetousness, with cunning words, they will make merchandise of you; those whose doom has not been idle from of old, and whose destruction has not been slumbering.

mnt@2Peter:2:4 @ For if God did not spare angels when they sinned, but cast them down to Tartarus, and committed them to chains of darkness, and reserved them for judgment;

mnt@2Peter:2:5 @ if he did not spare the ancient world, but preserved Noah, a herald of righteousness, with seven others, when he brought a flood upon an ungodly world;

mnt@2Peter:2:6 @ if he condemned the cities of Sodom and Gomorrah and reduced them to ashes, thus holding them up as a warning to all who would live ungodly;

mnt@2Peter:2:7 @ and he delivered righteous Lot who was worn out by the lascivious life of the wicked

mnt@2Peter:2:8 @ (for that righteous man, living among them, tormented his righteous soul in seeing and hearing, day after day, their lawless deeds),

mnt@2Peter:2:9 @ then be sure that the Lord knows how to deliver the godly out of temptation, and to keep the wicked (who are even now enduring punishment) for the "Day of Judgment";

mnt@2Peter:2:10 @ especially those who spend their lives following the flesh in the lust of defilement, and in despising all authority. Audacious and wilful, they feel no awe in railing against dignities;

mnt@2Peter:2:11 @ even where angels, though surpassing them in strength and might, do not bring a railing judgment against them before the Lord.

mnt@2Peter:2:12 @ But these men, like irrational creatures, mere animals, born to be taken and destroyed, continually rail about matters of which they know nothing. In their corruption they will surely be destroyed,

mnt@2Peter:2:13 @ suffering wrong as the wage of wrong which they have done. These are men who count it pleasure to carouse in open daylight; they are spots and blemishes reveling in their deceit, even while they are feasting with you.

mnt@2Peter:2:14 @ They have eyes full of harlots, eyes that cannot stop sinning. They entice unsteady souls. Their heart is trained in greed. They are an accursed generation.

mnt@2Peter:2:15 @ They have forsaken the right way; they have lost their way, and followed the road of Balaam, the son of Beor, who loved the wages of wrong-doing.

mnt@2Peter:2:16 @ He was, however, rebuked for his own transgression; a dumb ass spoke with a mans voice, and stopped the madness of the prophet.

mnt@2Peter:2:17 @ Such men are like waterless springs, or mists storm-driven; for them the blackness of darkness has been reserved.

mnt@2Peter:2:18 @ For speaking great swelling words of vanity, they entangle, by their lasciviousness, in the lusts of the flesh, those who are just about to escape from the men that live in misconduct.

mnt@2Peter:2:19 @ They promise them liberty, while they themselves are slaves of rottenness! (For indeed a man is the slave of anything which masters him.)

mnt@2Peter:2:20 @ For if, after having escaped the pollutions of the world, through the knowledge of our Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ, men are again entangled in them and overpowered, their last state is become worse than their first.

mnt@2Peter:2:21 @ Indeed it would have been better for them not to have known the Way of Righteousness, than, after knowing it, to turn back from the holy command delivered to them.

mnt@2Peter:2:22 @ In their case it has happened according to the true proverb, The dog returns again to his own vomit, and The sow, after washing, to her wallowing in the mire.

mnt@2Peter:3:1 @ This is now my second letter to you, beloved. In both of them I am stirring up your pure minds by putting you in remembrance.

mnt@2Peter:3:2 @ I want you to recollect the words that were foretold by the holy prophets, and the command of your Lord and Saviour, given you through your apostles.

mnt@2Peter:3:3 @ Know this first, that mockers will come in the last days, in their mockery, men who walk the way of their own lusts

mnt@2Peter:3:4 @ and say, "Where is the promise of His coming? For since the day that our fathers fell asleep everything continues as it was from the beginning of the creation."

mnt@2Peter:3:5 @ For they willingly ignore the fact that there were heaven, from of old, and an earth formed out of water and through water, by the word of God;

mnt@2Peter:3:6 @ and that by the same means the world which then existed was destroyed by a deluge of water.

mnt@2Peter:3:7 @ But the heavens and earth that now are, by the same word of God, have been reserved for fire, and are being kept for the Day of Judgment, and for the destruction of ungodly men.

mnt@2Peter:3:8 @ Do not forget this one thing, beloved, that one day is with the Lord as a thousand years, and a thousand years as one day.

mnt@2Peter:3:9 @ The Lord does not loiter over his promise, as some men esteem loitering; but he is longsuffering toward you, not purposing that any should perish, but that all should pass on to repentance.

mnt@2Peter:3:10 @ But the Day of the Lord will come like a thief; and on that Day the heavens will vanish with a crash, the heavenly bodies will melt with fervent heat, and the earth and all its works will be burned up.

mnt@2Peter:3:11 @ Now since all things are in the process of dissolution, what kind of men ought you to be, in all holy living and piety;

mnt@2Peter:3:12 @ while you look for and hasten the coming of the Day of God. At its coming the heavens, being on fire, will be dissolved, and the heavenly bodies will melt with fervent heat.

mnt@2Peter:3:13 @ But according to his promise, we are looking for new heavens and a new earth, in which righteousness makes her dwelling.

mnt@2Peter:3:14 @ And so, beloved, since you are looking for these things, continually give diligence that you may be found in peace, unspotted and blameless in his sight.

mnt@2Peter:3:15 @ Regard our Lords longsuffering as salvation; even as our dear brother Paul also wrote to you, according to the wisdom given to him.

mnt@2Peter:3:16 @ It is the same in all his letters when he speaks of these things. There are indeed some things in his letters hard to understand, which the ignorant and the shifty wrest, as also they do the other Scriptures, to their own destruction.

mnt@2Peter:3:17 @ Do you therefore, beloved, because you know these things beforehand, be on your guard lest you be led astray by the error of the wicked, and so fall from your own stedfastness.

mnt@2Peter:3:18 @ But grow continually in the grace and knowledge of our Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ. To Him be the glory both now and unto the Day of Eternity, Amen.

mnt@1John:1:1 @ It is of what has existed from the beginning, of what we have listened to, of what we have seen with our own eyes, of what we have witnessed and touched with our own heads, it is concerning the Logos of Life that we are now writing.

mnt@1John:1:2 @ And the Life was made visible, and we have seen it and are bearing witness, and are bringing you word of that Eternal Life which was face to face with the Father and was made visible to us.

mnt@1John:1:3 @ It is what we have seen and heard that we are announcing to you, in order that you also may have partnership with us; and our partnership is with the Father and with his Son, Jesus Christ.

mnt@1John:1:5 @ This, then, is the message that we have heard from him, and are announcing to you, that God is light, and no darkness what ever is in him.

mnt@1John:1:6 @ If we say, "We have partnership with Him," when we are passing our life in the darkness, we are lying and are not doing the truth.

mnt@1John:1:7 @ But is we are passing our life in the light, as he is in the light, we ever have partnership with one another, and the blood of Jesus Christ is cleansing us from every sin.

mnt@1John:1:8 @ If we say, "We have no sin," we are deceiving ourselves and the truth is not in us.

mnt@1John:1:9 @ But if we confess our sins, faithful is he and just to forgive us our sins, and to cleanse us from all wrong-doing.

mnt@1John:2:1 @ My children, I am writing this to you that you may not continue to sin; but if any one sin, we ever have a Comforter before the Father, Jesus Christ the Righteous.

mnt@1John:2:2 @ And he is the propitiation for our sins, and not for ours only, but also for those of the whole world.

mnt@1John:2:4 @ He who says, "I know Him," but does no continue obeying his commandments, is a liar,

mnt@1John:2:5 @ and the truth is not in him; bit if any man obey his word, in him truly is the love of God made perfect. By this we come to know that we are in him.

mnt@1John:2:6 @ By who says he "remains in him" ought to spend his life as he spent his.

mnt@1John:2:7 @ Beloved, I am not writing a new commandment to you, nay, and old commandment, which you have had from the beginning. That old commandment is the message to which you have listened.

mnt@1John:2:8 @ Yet again it is a new commandment which I am writing to you, which is true in him and is you; because the darkness is passing away, and the true light is already shining.

mnt@1John:2:9 @ He who says he is in the light, and hates his brother, is in darkness even until now.

mnt@1John:2:10 @ But he who loves his brother is abiding in the light, and in it there is no cause of stumbling.

mnt@1John:2:11 @ But he who hates his brother is in the darkness, and is spending his life in the darkness, and does not know where he is going, because the darkness has blinded his eyes.

mnt@1John:2:13 @ I am writing to you, fathers, because you have come to know him who is from the beginning. I am writing to you, young men, because you have fully overcome the Evil One. I have written to you, little children, because you have learned to know the father.

mnt@1John:2:14 @ I have written to you, fathers, because you have learned to know him who is from the beginning. I have written to you, young men, because you are strong, and the word of God is abiding in you, and you have fully overcome the Evil One.

mnt@1John:2:15 @ Love not the world, neither the things that are in the world. If any man love the world, the love of the Father is not in him.

mnt@1John:2:16 @ For all that is in the world, the lust of the flesh, and the lust of the eyes, and the proud glory of life, is not from the Father, but from the world;

mnt@1John:2:17 @ and the world and its lusts are passing away, but he who ever does the will of God abides forever.

mnt@1John:2:18 @ My children, this is the last hour, and as you have heard that an antichrist was coming, and now many antichrists are already risen, whence we may know that it is the last hour.

mnt@1John:2:19 @ They came forth from us, but they did not belong to us. If they had belonged to us they would certainly have remained with us, but they went out that they might be manifest that they all are not of us.

mnt@1John:2:20 @ Now you have an anointing from the Holy One, and you know all things.

mnt@1John:2:21 @ I am not writing to you because you do not know the truth, but because you do know it, and know that no lie is of the truth.

mnt@1John:2:22 @ Who is the liar if not the man who denies that Jesus is the Christ? This is the Antichrist, even he who disowns the Father and the Son.

mnt@1John:2:23 @ Whoever denies the Son, the same has not the Father; but he who confesses the Son has the Father also. As for you, let what you have heard from the beginning abide in you.

mnt@1John:2:24 @ If what you have heard from the beginning is abiding in you, you also will ever abide in the Son and in the Father.

mnt@1John:2:25 @ And this is the promise which he has promised to us even life eternal.

mnt@1John:2:27 @ As to you, the unction you received from him remains ever in you, and you need no teaching from any one. But since his unction teaches you concerning all things and is true, and is no lie, abide continually in him, as it has taught you to do.

mnt@1John:2:28 @ And now continue to abide in him, my children, so that when he shall appear we may have cheerful confidence and not be ashamed before him at his coming.

mnt@1John:2:29 @ If you know that he is righteous you know also that every one who habitually practises righteousness has been born of him.

mnt@1John:3:1 @ Behold what manner of love the Father has given us in allowing us to be called "Children of God!" And that is what we are. For this reason the world does not recognize us, because it did not know him.

mnt@1John:3:2 @ We are Gods children now, beloved; what we shall be has never yet been made manifest. But we know that when he is manifested we shall be like him; for we shall see him even as he is.

mnt@1John:3:3 @ And every one who is holding this hope in him is purifying himself, even as he is pure.

mnt@1John:3:5 @ And you know that he was manifested to take away sins; and in him is no sin.

mnt@1John:3:7 @ My children, let no one deceive you; he who is working righteousness is righteous, just as he is righteous.

mnt@1John:3:8 @ He who is committing sin is of the devil, because from the beginning of the devil is sinning. It was for this cause that the Son of God was manifested, that he might destroy the works of the devil.

mnt@1John:3:9 @ Whoever is a child of God cannot go on sinning, because his seed is abiding in him; and he cannot go on sinning because he is a child of God.

mnt@1John:3:10 @ In this the children of God are manifest, and the children of the devil; for every one who does not work righteousness is not a child of God, nor is he who does not love his brother.

mnt@1John:3:11 @ For this is the message that you have listened to from the beginning, "WE ARE TO LOVE ONE ANOTHER."

mnt@1John:3:12 @ We are not to be like Cain, who belonged to the Evil One, and murdered his brother. And why did he murder him? It was because his own deeds were evil, and his brothers, righteous.

mnt@1John:3:13 @ Do not wonder, brothers, if the world continues to hate you.

mnt@1John:3:14 @ We know that we have migrated, out of death into life, because we love our brothers. He who has no love is abiding in death.

mnt@1John:3:15 @ Every one who is hating his brother is a murderer, and you know that no murderer has eternal life abiding in him.

mnt@1John:3:16 @ By this we learn to know love, because he laid down his life for us; so we ought to lay down our lives for our brothers.

mnt@1John:3:17 @ But whoever has this worlds goods, and beholds his brother in need, and shuts up his heart against him, how can the love of God continue to abide in him?

mnt@1John:3:19 @ By this we shall come to know that we are really of the truth,

mnt@1John:3:20 @ and shall persuade our heart in his presence whenever our heart condemns us, because God is greater than our heart and knows all things.

mnt@1John:3:21 @ Beloved, if our heart condemn us not, we have confidence toward God,

mnt@1John:3:23 @ His commandment is this, that we should believe in the name of his Son, Jesus Christ, and love one another as he has commanded us to do.

mnt@1John:3:24 @ He who keeps his commandments is abiding in Him, and Christ in him. By this we know that Christ is abiding in us, by the Spirit which he has given us.

mnt@1John:4:1 @ Do not believe every spirit, beloved, but test the spirits to see whether they are of God; for many false prophets are gone out into the world.

mnt@1John:4:2 @ By this you know the Spirit of God; every spirit that confesses that Jesus Christ is come in the flesh is from God;

mnt@1John:4:3 @ and every spirit which confesses him not, is not from God. And this is that spirit of Antichrist of which you have heard that it is coming, and that now it is already in the world.

mnt@1John:4:4 @ My little children, you are of God and have conquered them; because he that is within you is greater than he that is in the world.

mnt@1John:4:5 @ They are of the world, and for this reason they speak as of the world, and the world listens to them.

mnt@1John:4:6 @ But you are of God. He who is beginning to know God listens to us; he who is not of God does not listen to us. By this we may distinguish the spirit of truth from the spirit of error.

mnt@1John:4:7 @ Beloved, let us love one another; for love is of God; and every one that loves us a child of God.

mnt@1John:4:8 @ He who does not love, does not know God; for God is love.

mnt@1John:4:9 @ In this was the love of God clearly shown toward us, by his sending his only Son into the world, so that we might live through him.

mnt@1John:4:10 @ In this is love, not that we loved God, but that he loved us, and sent his Son to be a propitiation for our sins.

mnt@1John:4:11 @ If God so loved us, beloved, we also ought to love one another.

mnt@1John:4:12 @ No man has ever gazed on God; but if we love one another, God ever abides in us, and his love is perfected in us.

mnt@1John:4:13 @ By this we come to know that we are abiding in him, and he in us, because he has given us of his Spirit;

mnt@1John:4:14 @ and we have beheld and do testify that the Father has sent the Son to be the Saviour of the world.

mnt@1John:4:15 @ If any man confesses that "Jesus is the Son of God." God is abiding in that man, and he in God.

mnt@1John:4:16 @ And we do know and have believed the love which God has for us. God is love; and he who is abiding in love is abiding in God, and God is abiding in him.

mnt@1John:4:17 @ In this is love made perfect with us, so that we may have cheerful confidence in the Day of Judgment, because we are living in this world as He lives.

mnt@1John:4:18 @ Fear does not exist in love; but love, when it is perfect, drives out fear. For fear has always torment, and he who has fear is not yet perfected in love.

mnt@1John:4:19 @ We love because He loved us first.

mnt@1John:4:20 @ If any one says, "I love God," and yet hates his brother, he is a liar; for he who does not love his brother whom he has seen, cannot possibly love God, whom he has not seen.

mnt@1John:4:21 @ And we have this command from God. HE WHO LOVES GOD IS TO LOVE HIS BROTHER ALSO.

mnt@1John:5:1 @ Every one who believes that Jesus is the Christ is a child of God; and every one who loves the Father, loves him also who is the Fathers Child.

mnt@1John:5:2 @ By this we know that we love the children of God, when we love God and obey his commandments.

mnt@1John:5:4 @ For whoever is a child of God is overcoming the world; and our faith is the victory that has overcome the world.

mnt@1John:5:5 @ And who it the one that is overcoming the world if not the man who believes that Jesus is the Son of God?

mnt@1John:5:6 @ Jesus Christ is he who came by water and blood, not by the water only, but by the water and by the blood. The spirit is he who bears testimony, because the Spirit is the truth.

mnt@1John:5:7 @ For there are three who bear testimony, the Spirit, and the water,

mnt@1John:5:8 @ and the blood; and the three are one.

mnt@1John:5:9 @ If we accept mens testimony, the testimony of God is greater; for this is the testimony of God, that he has borne testimony concerning his Son.

mnt@1John:5:10 @ He who believes on the Son of God has the testimony in himself. He who does not believe God, has made him a liar, because he has not believed in the testimony that God has borne concerning his Son.

mnt@1John:5:11 @ And the testimony is this, "God has given us eternal life, and this life is in his Son."

mnt@1John:5:12 @ He who has the Son has the life; he who has not the Son of God has not the life.

mnt@1John:5:13 @ I have written these words to you so that you may know that you have eternal life, you who believe in the name of the Son of God.

mnt@1John:5:14 @ Now the confidence which we have in him is this, that he listens to us whenever we ask anything that is in accordance with his will.

mnt@1John:5:15 @ And if we know that he is listening to us in what ever we are asking, we know that we obtain the petitions which we have made to him.

mnt@1John:5:16 @ If any one sees his brother committing a sin that is not deadly, he shall ask, and God will give him life, for any one who is not committing a deadly sin. There is a deadly sin; concerning that I do not say that he should pray.

mnt@1John:5:17 @ All unrighteousness is sin; and there is sin that is not deadly.

mnt@1John:5:18 @ We know that whoever is a child of God is not habitually committing sin; but he who is Gods child guards himself, and the Evil One never touches him.

mnt@1John:5:19 @ We know that we are of God, and the whole world is lying in the Evil One.

mnt@1John:5:20 @ And we know that the Son of God is come, and has granted us and understanding, so that we may come to know him who is true. And we are in him who is true, even in his Son Jesus Christ. This is the true God, and life eternal.

mnt@2John:1:1 @ The Elder to the Elect Lady and her children, whom I love in truth, and not only I, but also all those who have come to know the truth.

mnt@2John:1:2 @ I love you for the sake of the truth which is abiding in us and will be with us forever.

mnt@2John:1:3 @ Grace, mercy, and peace will be with us from God the Father, and from Jesus Christ the Fathers Son, in truth and love.

mnt@2John:1:4 @ I am greatly rejoiced to find some of your children leading their lives in truth, even as we received commandment from the Father.

mnt@2John:1:5 @ And now I am entreating you, Lady, not as though I were writing some new commandment to you, but one which we have had from the beginning, let us love one another.

mnt@2John:1:6 @ And this is love, that we should lead our lives according to his commandments. This is the commandment, even as you heard from the beginning, that you should pass your life in love.

mnt@2John:1:7 @ I say this because many deceivers are gone forth into the world, those who deny the coming of Jesus Christ in the flesh. This is the deceiver and the Antichrist.

mnt@2John:1:9 @ Whoever is going ahead, and is not abiding in the teachings of Christ, does not possess God; but he who is abiding in the teaching possesses both the Father and the Son.

mnt@2John:1:11 @ For the man who greets him shares in his wicked work.

mnt@2John:1:12 @ I have many things to write to you, but I would not write them with paper and ink. I hope to come to you and to talk with you face to face, so that your joy may be full.

mnt@2John:1:13 @ The children of your elect sister send you greeting.

mnt@3John:1:1 @ The Elder to the beloved Gaius, whom I love in the truth.

mnt@3John:1:2 @ I pray that you may prosper, beloved, in every way, and be in good health, even as your soul is prospering.

mnt@3John:1:3 @ For I was glad when brothers came and bore testimony to your truth, as indeed you are passing your life in truth.

mnt@3John:1:4 @ I have no greater joy than this, to hear that my children are passing their lives in the truth.

mnt@3John:1:5 @ You are acting faithfully, beloved, in whatever you are doing for the brothers and the strangers.

mnt@3John:1:6 @ They have borne testimony to your love before the church. You will do well to speed them on their way worthily of God;

mnt@3John:1:7 @ since for the sake of the Name they have started out, taking nothing from the Gentiles.

mnt@3John:1:8 @ Hence we ought to support such, so that we may become fellow workers for the truth.

mnt@3John:1:9 @ I have written somewhat to the church; but Diotrephes, who love to take the lead among them, does not receive me.

mnt@3John:1:10 @ Do them when I come I will recall to mind the deeds which he is doing, prating against me with wicked words. Not satisfied with that, he refuses to receive the brothers, forbids those that would receive them, and excommunicates them from the church.

mnt@3John:1:11 @ Do not imitate what is evil, beloved, but that which is good. He who does good is of God; he who does evil has never gazed on God.

mnt@3John:1:12 @ All men bear testimony to Demetrius, and so does the truth itself. I also bear testimony to him; and you know that my testimony is true.

mnt@3John:1:14 @ I am hoping soon to see you, and then we shall talk face to face. Peace be to you! The friends send their salutation. Salute the friends by name.

mnt@Jude:1:1 @ Jude, a slave of Jesus Christ, and a brother of James. To those who are in God, the Father beloved, kept for Jesus Christ, and called.

mnt@Jude:1:3 @ Beloved, although I was making all haste to write to you in regard to our common salvation, I am compelled to write you an appeal to defend the faith once for all committed to the saints.

mnt@Jude:1:4 @ For certain men have crept in stealthily - men predestined in ancient prophecies for this condemnation - impious ones! They pervert the grace of our God into licentiousness, and deny Jesus Christ, our sole Master and Lord.

mnt@Jude:1:5 @ I wish to remind you of what you already know right well, that although the Lord once saved a people out of the land of Egypt, he afterward destroyed those who did not believe;

mnt@Jude:1:6 @ while the angels who did not keep their first domain but left their proper abode, are held by him in blank darkness, in everlasting chains, in preparation for the judgment of the Great Day.

mnt@Jude:1:7 @ So also Sodom and Gomorrah and the near-by cities which in like manner glutted themselves in sensuality and unnatural vice, are exhibited as a warning of the eternal fire, in the punishment they undergo.

mnt@Jude:1:8 @ Yet in just the same way these dreamers also defile the flesh, while they set at naught dominion and scoff at dignities.

mnt@Jude:1:9 @ But Michael, the Archangel, when in contending with the devil, he was disputing about the body of Moses, did not dare to pronounce sentence for blasphemy, but said, "The Lord rebuke you."

mnt@Jude:1:10 @ Yet these men blaspheme about matters of which they know nothing, while they use such things as they do understand by instinct (like the animals who have no reason) for their own destruction.

mnt@Jude:1:11 @ Alas for them! They have walked in the path of Cain; for the sake of gain they have rushed headlong into Balaams error, and have perished in Korahs rebellion.

mnt@Jude:1:12 @ These are they who are stains upon your love-feasts; when they feast sumptuously without scruple, looking after none but themselves. They are clouds without water, driven along by the winds; trees of autumn, fruitless, doubly dead, torn up by the roots,

mnt@Jude:1:13 @ wild waves of the sea, foaming out their own shame; wandering stars, for whom is reserved the blackness of darkness forever.

mnt@Jude:1:14 @ It was to these, too, that Enoch, the "seventh in descent from Adam," prophesied, saying, "Lo! the Lord is come with myriads of his saints,

mnt@Jude:1:15 @ to execute judgment upon all, and to convict all the ungodly of all the ungodly deeds which in their ungodliness they have committed; and of all the hard things which they have spoken against Him, ungodly sinners that they are!"

mnt@Jude:1:16 @ For these are murmurers, always complaining. They always go where their passions lead, and their mouth speaks great swelling words, while they pay court to men for the sake of the advantage they can get.

mnt@Jude:1:17 @ But as for you, dearly beloved, remember the words spoken before by the apostles of our Lord Jesus Christ,

mnt@Jude:1:18 @ how they used to say to you, "In the last times there will be scoffers who will be led only by their godless passions."

mnt@Jude:1:19 @ These are the men, sensual and unspiritual, who cause divisions.

mnt@Jude:1:20 @ But you, beloved, continually building yourselves up on your most holy faith, and ever praying in the Holy Spirit,

mnt@Jude:1:21 @ must keep yourselves in the love of God, while waiting for the mercy of our Lord Jesus Christ, which ends in life eternal.

mnt@Jude:1:22 @ Pity some who are wavering, and save by dragging them out of the fire;

mnt@Jude:1:23 @ others pity, but with caution, hating even the garment spotted by the flesh.

mnt@Jude:1:24 @ Now unto Him who has power to guard you from stumbling, and to make you stand in the presence of his glory, faultless and exultant,

mnt@Jude:1:25 @ to the only God, our Saviour, through Jesus Christ our Lord, be ascribed glory, majesty, might, and authority, as it was before time began, is now, and ever shall be to all the ages. Amen.

mnt@Revelation:1:1 @ \ul1 THE UNVEILING APOCALYPSE OF JESUS CHRIST\ul0 which God gave him to show to his slaves the things which must soon come to pass; and he sent and made it known by his angel to his slave John.

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