INSERT INTO `t_ylt` VALUES (43010026,43,10,26,'but ye do not believe, for ye are not of my sheep,'),(43010027,43,10,27,'according as I said to you: My sheep my voice do hear, and I know them, and they follow me,'),(43010028,43,10,28,'and life age-during I give to them, and they shall not perish -- to the age, and no one shall pluck them out of my hand;'),(43010029,43,10,29,'my Father, who hath given to me, is greater than all, and no one is able to pluck out of the hand of my Father;'),(43010030,43,10,30,'I and the Father are one.\''),(43010031,43,10,31,'Therefore, again, did the Jews take up stones that they may stone him;'),(43010032,43,10,32,'Jesus answered them, `Many good works did I shew you from my Father; because of which work of them do ye stone me?\''),(43010033,43,10,33,'The Jews answered him, saying, `For a good work we do not stone thee, but for evil speaking, and because thou, being a man, dost make thyself God.\''),(43010034,43,10,34,'Jesus answered them, `Is it not having been written in your law: I said, ye are gods?'),(43010035,43,10,35,'if them he did call gods unto whom the word of God came, (and the Writing is not able to be broken,)'),(43010036,43,10,36,'of him whom the Father did sanctify, and send to the world, do ye say -- Thou speakest evil, because I said, Son of God I am?'),(43010037,43,10,37,'if I do not the works of my Father, do not believe me;'),(43010038,43,10,38,'and if I do, even if me ye may not believe, the works believe, that ye may know and may believe that in me `is\' the Father, and I in Him.\''),(43010039,43,10,39,'Therefore were they seeking again to seize him, and he went forth out of their hand,'),(43010040,43,10,40,'and went away again to the other side of the Jordan, to the place where John was at first baptizing, and remained there,'),(43010041,43,10,41,'and many came unto him, and said -- `John, indeed, did no sign, and all things, as many as John said about this one were true;\''),(43010042,43,10,42,'and many did believe in him there.'),(43011001,43,11,1,'And there was a certain one ailing, Lazarus, from Bethany, of the village of Mary and Martha her sister --'),(43011002,43,11,2,'and it was Mary who did anoint the Lord with ointment, and did wipe his feet with her hair, whose brother Lazarus was ailing --'),(43011003,43,11,3,'therefore sent the sisters unto him, saying, `Sir, lo, he whom thou dost love is ailing;\''),(43011004,43,11,4,'and Jesus having heard, said, `This ailment is not unto death, but for the glory of God, that the Son of God may be glorified through it.\''),(43011005,43,11,5,'And Jesus was loving Martha, and her sister, and Lazarus,'),(43011006,43,11,6,'when, therefore, he heard that he is ailing, then indeed he remained in the place in which he was two days,'),(43011007,43,11,7,'then after this, he saith to the disciples, `We may go to Judea again;\''),(43011008,43,11,8,'the disciples say to him, `Rabbi, now were the Jews seeking to stone thee, and again thou dost go thither!\''),(43011009,43,11,9,'Jesus answered, `Are there not twelve hours in the day? if any one may walk in the day, he doth not stumble, because the light of this world he doth see;'),(43011010,43,11,10,'and if any one may walk in the night, he stumbleth, because the light is not in him.\''),(43011011,43,11,11,'These things he said, and after this he saith to them, `Lazarus our friend hath fallen asleep, but I go on that I may awake him;\''),(43011012,43,11,12,'therefore said his disciples, `Sir, if he hath fallen asleep, he will be saved;\''),(43011013,43,11,13,'but Jesus had spoken about his death, but they thought that about the repose of sleep he speaketh.'),(43011014,43,11,14,'Then, therefore, Jesus said to them freely, `Lazarus hath died;'),(43011015,43,11,15,'and I rejoice, for your sake, (that ye may believe,) that I was not there; but we may go to him;\''),(43011016,43,11,16,'therefore said Thomas, who is called Didymus, to the fellow-disciples, `We may go -- we also, that we may die with him,\''),(43011017,43,11,17,'Jesus, therefore, having come, found him having been four days already in the tomb.'),(43011018,43,11,18,'And Bethany was nigh to Jerusalem, about fifteen furlongs off,'),(43011019,43,11,19,'and many of the Jews had come unto Martha and Mary, that they might comfort them concerning their brother;'),(43011020,43,11,20,'Martha, therefore, when she heard that Jesus doth come, met him, and Mary kept sitting in the house.'),(43011021,43,11,21,'Martha, therefore, said unto Jesus, `Sir, if thou hadst been here, my brother had not died;'),(43011022,43,11,22,'but even now, I have known that whatever thou mayest ask of God, God will give to thee;\''),(43011023,43,11,23,'Jesus saith to her, `Thy brother shall rise again.\''),(43011024,43,11,24,'Martha saith to him, `I have known that he will rise again, in the rising again in the last day;\''),(43011025,43,11,25,'Jesus said to her, `I am the rising again, and the life; he who is believing in me, even if he may die, shall live;'),(43011026,43,11,26,'and every one who is living and believing in me shall not die -- to the age;'),(43011027,43,11,27,'believest thou this?\' she saith to him, `Yes, sir, I have believed that thou art the Christ, the Son of God, who is coming to the world.\''),(43011028,43,11,28,'And these things having said, she went away, and called Mary her sister privately, saying, `The Teacher is present, and doth call thee;\''),(43011029,43,11,29,'she, when she heard, riseth up quickly, and doth come to him;'),(43011030,43,11,30,'and Jesus had not yet come to the village, but was in the place where Martha met him;'),(43011031,43,11,31,'the Jews, therefore, who were with her in the house, and were comforting her, having seen Mary that she rose up quickly and went forth, followed her, saying -- `She doth go away to the tomb, that she may weep there.\''),(43011032,43,11,32,'Mary, therefore, when she came where Jesus was, having seen him, fell at his feet, saying to him, `Sir, if thou hadst been here, my brother had not died;\''),(43011033,43,11,33,'Jesus, therefore, when he saw her weeping, and the Jews who came with her weeping, did groan in the spirit, and troubled himself, and he said,'),(43011034,43,11,34,'`Where have ye laid him?\' they say to him, `Sir, come and see;\''),(43011035,43,11,35,'Jesus wept.'),(43011036,43,11,36,'The Jews, therefore, said, `Lo, how he was loving him!\''),(43011037,43,11,37,'and certain of them said, `Was not this one, who did open the eyes of the blind man, able to cause that also this one might not have died?\''),(43011038,43,11,38,'Jesus, therefore, again groaning in himself, cometh to the tomb, and it was a cave, and a stone was lying upon it,'),(43011039,43,11,39,'Jesus saith, `Take ye away the stone;\' the sister of him who hath died -- Martha -- saith to him, `Sir, already he stinketh, for he is four days dead;\''),(43011040,43,11,40,'Jesus saith to her, `Said I not to thee, that if thou mayest believe, thou shalt see the glory of God?\''),(43011041,43,11,41,'They took away, therefore, the stone where the dead was laid, and Jesus lifted his eyes upwards, and said, `Father, I thank Thee, that Thou didst hear me;'),(43011042,43,11,42,'and I knew that Thou always dost hear me, but, because of the multitude that is standing by, I said `it\', that they may believe that Thou didst send me.\''),(43011043,43,11,43,'And these things saying, with a loud voice he cried out, `Lazarus, come forth;\''),(43011044,43,11,44,'and he who died came forth, being bound feet and hands with grave-clothes, and his visage with a napkin was bound about; Jesus saith to them, `Loose him, and suffer to go.\''),(43011045,43,11,45,'Many, therefore, of the Jews who came unto Mary, and beheld what Jesus did, believed in him;'),(43011046,43,11,46,'but certain of them went away unto the Pharisees, and told them what Jesus did;'),(43011047,43,11,47,'the chief priests, therefore, and the Pharisees, gathered together a sanhedrim, and said, `What may we do? because this man doth many signs?'),(43011048,43,11,48,'if we may let him alone thus, all will believe in him; and the Romans will come, and will take away both our place and nation.\''),(43011049,43,11,49,'and a certain one of them, Caiaphas, being chief priest of that year, said to them, `Ye have not known anything,'),(43011050,43,11,50,'nor reason that it is good for us that one man may die for the people, and not the whole nation perish.\''),(43011051,43,11,51,'And this he said not of himself, but being chief priest of that year, he did prophesy that Jesus was about to die for the nation,'),(43011052,43,11,52,'and not for the nation only, but that also the children of God, who have been scattered abroad, he may gather together into one.'),(43011053,43,11,53,'From that day, therefore, they took counsel together that they may kill him;'),(43011054,43,11,54,'Jesus, therefore, was no more freely walking among the Jews, but went away thence to the region nigh the wilderness, to a city called Ephraim, and there he tarried with his disciples.'),(43011055,43,11,55,'And the passover of the Jews was nigh, and many went up to Jerusalem out of the country before the passover, that they might purify themselves;'),(43011056,43,11,56,'they were seeking, therefore, Jesus, and said one with another, standing in the temple, `What doth appear to you -- that he may not come to the feast?\''),(43011057,43,11,57,'and both the chief priests and the Pharisees had given a command, that if any one may know where he is, he may shew `it\', so that they may seize him.'),(43012001,43,12,1,'Jesus, therefore, six days before the passover, came to Bethany, where was Lazarus, who had died, whom he raised out of the dead;'),(43012002,43,12,2,'they made, therefore, to him a supper there, and Martha was ministering, and Lazarus was one of those reclining together (at meat) with him;'),(43012003,43,12,3,'Mary, therefore, having taken a pound of ointment of spikenard, of great price, anointed the feet of Jesus and did wipe with her hair his feet, and the house was filled from the fragrance of the ointment.'),(43012004,43,12,4,'Therefore saith one of his disciples -- Judas Iscariot, of Simon, who is about to deliver him up --'),(43012005,43,12,5,'`Wherefore was not this ointment sold for three hundred denaries, and given to the poor?\''),(43012006,43,12,6,'and he said this, not because he was caring for the poor, but because he was a thief, and had the bag, and what things were put in he was carrying.'),(43012007,43,12,7,'Jesus, therefore, said, `Suffer her; for the day of my embalming she hath kept it,'),(43012008,43,12,8,'for the poor ye have always with yourselves, and me ye have not always.\''),(43012009,43,12,9,'A great multitude, therefore, of the Jews knew that he is there, and they came, not because of Jesus only, but that Lazarus also they may see, whom he raised out of the dead;'),(43012010,43,12,10,'and the chief priests took counsel, that also Lazarus they may kill,'),(43012011,43,12,11,'because on account of him many of the Jews were going away, and were believing in Jesus.'),(43012012,43,12,12,'On the morrow, a great multitude that came to the feast, having heard that Jesus doth come to Jerusalem,'),(43012013,43,12,13,'took the branches of the palms, and went forth to meet him, and were crying, `Hosanna, blessed `is\' he who is coming in the name of the Lord -- the king of Israel;\''),(43012014,43,12,14,'and Jesus having found a young ass did sit upon it, according as it is written,'),(43012015,43,12,15,'`Fear not, daughter of Sion, lo, thy king doth come, sitting on an ass\' colt.\''),(43012016,43,12,16,'And these things his disciples did not know at the first, but when Jesus was glorified, then they remembered that these things were having been written about him, and these things they did to him.'),(43012017,43,12,17,'The multitude, therefore, who are with him, were testifying that he called Lazarus out of the tomb, and did raise him out of the dead;'),(43012018,43,12,18,'because of this also did the multitude meet him, because they heard of his having done this sign,'),(43012019,43,12,19,'the Pharisees, therefore, said among themselves, `Ye see that ye do not gain anything, lo, the world did go after him.\''),(43012020,43,12,20,'And there were certain Greeks out of those coming up that they may worship in the feast,'),(43012021,43,12,21,'these then came near to Philip, who `is\' from Bethsaida of Galilee, and were asking him, saying, `Sir, we wish to see Jesus;\''),(43012022,43,12,22,'Philip cometh and telleth Andrew, and again Andrew and Philip tell Jesus.'),(43012023,43,12,23,'And Jesus responded to them, saying, `The hour hath come that the Son of Man may be glorified;'),(43012024,43,12,24,'verily, verily, I say to you, if the grain of the wheat, having fallen to the earth, may not die, itself remaineth alone; and if it may die, it doth bear much fruit;'),(43012025,43,12,25,'he who is loving his life shall lose it, and he who is hating his life in this world -- to life age-during shall keep it;'),(43012026,43,12,26,'if any one may minister to me, let him follow me, and where I am, there also my ministrant shall be; and if any one may minister to me -- honour him will the Father.'),(43012027,43,12,27,'`Now hath my soul been troubled, and what? shall I say -- Father, save me from this hour? -- but because of this I came to this hour;'),(43012028,43,12,28,'Father, glorify Thy name.\' There came, therefore, a voice out of the heaven, `I both glorified, and again I will glorify `it\';\''),(43012029,43,12,29,'the multitude, therefore, having stood and heard, were saying that there hath been thunder; others said, `A messenger hath spoken to him.\''),(43012030,43,12,30,'Jesus answered and said, `Not because of me hath this voice come, but because of you;'),(43012031,43,12,31,'now is a judgment of this world, now shall the ruler of this world be cast forth;'),(43012032,43,12,32,'and I, if I may be lifted up from the earth, will draw all men unto myself.\''),(43012033,43,12,33,'And this he said signifying by what death he was about to die;'),(43012034,43,12,34,'the multitude answered him, `We heard out of the law that the Christ doth remain -- to the age; and how dost thou say, That it behoveth the Son of Man to be lifted up? who is this -- the Son of Man?\''),(43012035,43,12,35,'Jesus, therefore, said to them, `Yet a little time is the light with you; walk while ye have the light, that darkness may not overtake you; and he who is walking in the darkness hath not known where he goeth;'),(43012036,43,12,36,'while ye have the light, believe in the light, that sons of light ye may become.\' These things spake Jesus, and having gone away, he was hid from them,'),(43012037,43,12,37,'yet he having done so many signs before them, they were not believing in him,'),(43012038,43,12,38,'that the word of Isaiah the prophet might be fulfilled, which he said, `Lord, who gave credence to our report? and the arm of the Lord -- to whom was it revealed?\''),(43012039,43,12,39,'Because of this they were not able to believe, that again Isaiah said,'),(43012040,43,12,40,'`He hath blinded their eyes, and hardened their heart, that they might not see with the eyes, and understand with the heart, and turn back, and I might heal them;\''),(43012041,43,12,41,'these things said Isaiah, when he saw his glory, and spake of him.'),(43012042,43,12,42,'Still, however, also out of the rulers did many believe in him, but because of the Pharisees they were not confessing, that they might not be put out of the synagogue,'),(43012043,43,12,43,'for they loved the glory of men more than the glory of God.'),(43012044,43,12,44,'And Jesus cried and said, `He who is believing in me, doth not believe in me, but in Him who sent me;'),(43012045,43,12,45,'and he who is beholding me, doth behold Him who sent me;'),(43012046,43,12,46,'I a light to the world have come, that every one who is believing in me -- in the darkness may not remain;'),(43012047,43,12,47,'and if any one may hear my sayings, and not believe, I -- I do not judge him, for I came not that I might judge the world, but that I might save the world.'),(43012048,43,12,48,'`He who is rejecting me, and not receiving my sayings, hath one who is judging him, the word that I spake, that will judge him in the last day,'),(43012049,43,12,49,'because I spake not from myself, but the Father who sent me, He did give me a command, what I may say, and what I may speak,'),(43012050,43,12,50,'and I have known that His command is life age-during; what, therefore, I speak, according as the Father hath said to me, so I speak.\''),(43013001,43,13,1,'And before the feast of the passover, Jesus knowing that his hour hath come, that he may remove out of this world unto the Father, having loved his own who `are\' in the world -- to the end he loved them.'),(43013002,43,13,2,'And supper being come, the devil already having put `it\' into the heart of Judas of Simon, Iscariot, that he may deliver him up,'),(43013003,43,13,3,'Jesus knowing that all things the Father hath given to him -- into `his\' hands, and that from God he came forth, and unto God he goeth,'),(43013004,43,13,4,'doth rise from the supper, and doth lay down his garments, and having taken a towel, he girded himself;'),(43013005,43,13,5,'afterward he putteth water into the basin, and began to wash the feet of his disciples, and to wipe with the towel with which he was being girded.'),(43013006,43,13,6,'He cometh, therefore, unto Simon Peter, and that one saith to him, `Sir, thou -- dost thou wash my feet?\''),(43013007,43,13,7,'Jesus answered and said to him, `That which I do thou hast not known now, but thou shalt know after these things;\''),(43013008,43,13,8,'Peter saith to him, `Thou mayest not wash my feet -- to the age.\' Jesus answered him, `If I may not wash thee, thou hast no part with me;\''),(43013009,43,13,9,'Simon Peter saith to him, `Sir, not my feet only, but also the hands and the head.\''),(43013010,43,13,10,'Jesus saith to him, `He who hath been bathed hath no need save to wash his feet, but he is clean altogether; and ye are clean, but not all;\''),(43013011,43,13,11,'for he knew him who is delivering him up; because of this he said, `Ye are not all clean.\''),(43013012,43,13,12,'When, therefore, he washed their feet, and took his garments, having reclined (at meat) again, he said to them, `Do ye know what I have done to you?'),(43013013,43,13,13,'ye call me, The Teacher and The Lord, and ye say well, for I am;'),(43013014,43,13,14,'if then I did wash your feet -- the Lord and the Teacher -- ye also ought to wash one another\'s feet.'),(43013015,43,13,15,'`For an example I gave to you, that, according as I did to you, ye also may do;'),(43013016,43,13,16,'verily, verily, I say to you, a servant is not greater than his lord, nor an apostle greater than he who sent him;'),(43013017,43,13,17,'if these things ye have known, happy are ye, if ye may do them;'),(43013018,43,13,18,'not concerning you all do I speak; I have known whom I chose for myself; but that the Writing may be fulfilled: He who is eating the bread with me, did lift up against me his heel.'),(43013019,43,13,19,'`From this time I tell you, before its coming to pass, that, when it may come to pass, ye may believe that I am `he\';'),(43013020,43,13,20,'verily, verily, I say to you, he who is receiving whomsoever I may send, doth receive me; and he who is receiving me, doth receive Him who sent me.\''),(43013021,43,13,21,'These things having said, Jesus was troubled in the spirit, and did testify, and said, `Verily, verily, I say to you, that one of you will deliver me up;\''),(43013022,43,13,22,'the disciples were looking, therefore, one at another, doubting concerning whom he speaketh.'),(43013023,43,13,23,'And there was one of his disciples reclining (at meat) in the bosom of Jesus, whom Jesus was loving;'),(43013024,43,13,24,'Simon Peter, then, doth beckon to this one, to inquire who he may be concerning whom he speaketh,'),(43013025,43,13,25,'and that one having leant back on the breast of Jesus, respondeth to him, `Sir, who is it?\''),(43013026,43,13,26,'Jesus answereth, `That one it is to whom I, having dipped the morsel, shall give it;\' and having dipped the morsel, he giveth `it\' to Judas of Simon, Iscariot.'),(43013027,43,13,27,'And after the morsel, then the Adversary entered into that one, Jesus, therefore, saith to him, `What thou dost -- do quickly;\''),(43013028,43,13,28,'and none of those reclining at meat knew for what intent he said this to him,'),(43013029,43,13,29,'for certain were thinking, since Judas had the bag, that Jesus saith to him, `Buy what we have need of for the feast;\' or that he may give something to the poor;'),(43013030,43,13,30,'having received, therefore, the morsel, that one immediately went forth, and it was night.'),(43013031,43,13,31,'When, therefore, he went forth, Jesus saith, `Now was the Son of Man glorified, and God was glorified in him;'),(43013032,43,13,32,'if God was glorified in him, God also will glorify him in Himself; yea, immediately He will glorify him.'),(43013033,43,13,33,'`Little children, yet a little am I with you; ye will seek me, and, according as I said to the Jews -- Whither I go away, ye are not able to come, to you also I do say `it\' now.'),(43013034,43,13,34,'`A new commandment I give to you, that ye love one another; according as I did love you, that ye also love one another;'),(43013035,43,13,35,'in this shall all know that ye are my disciples, if ye may have love one to another.\''),(43013036,43,13,36,'Simon Peter saith to him, `Sir, whither dost thou go away?\' Jesus answered him, `Whither I go away, thou art not able now to follow me, but afterward thou shalt follow me.\''),(43013037,43,13,37,'Peter saith to him, `Sir, wherefore am I not able to follow thee now? my life for thee I will lay down;\''),(43013038,43,13,38,'Jesus answered him, `Thy life for me thou wilt lay down! verily, verily, I say to thee, a cock will not crow till thou mayest deny me thrice.\''),(43014001,43,14,1,'`Let not your heart be troubled, believe in God, also in me believe;'),(43014002,43,14,2,'in the house of my Father are many mansions; and if not, I would have told you; I go on to prepare a place for you;'),(43014003,43,14,3,'and if I go on and prepare for you a place, again do I come, and will receive you unto myself, that where I am ye also may be;'),(43014004,43,14,4,'and whither I go away ye have known, and the way ye have known.\''),(43014005,43,14,5,'Thomas saith to him, `Sir, we have not known whither thou goest away, and how are we able to know the way?\''),(43014006,43,14,6,'Jesus saith to him, `I am the way, and the truth, and the life, no one doth come unto the Father, if not through me;'),(43014007,43,14,7,'if ye had known me, my Father also ye would have known, and from this time ye have known Him, and have seen Him.\''),(43014008,43,14,8,'Philip saith to him, `Sir, shew to us the Father, and it is enough for us;\''),(43014009,43,14,9,'Jesus saith to him, `So long time am I with you, and thou hast not known me, Philip? he who hath seen me hath seen the Father; and how dost thou say, Shew to us the Father?'),(43014010,43,14,10,'Believest thou not that I `am\' in the Father, and the Father is in me? the sayings that I speak to you, from myself I speak not, and the Father who is abiding in me, Himself doth the works;'),(43014011,43,14,11,'believe me, that I `am\' in the Father, and the Father in me; and if not, because of the works themselves, believe me.'),(43014012,43,14,12,'`Verily, verily, I say to you, he who is believing in me, the works that I do -- that one also shall do, and greater than these he shall do, because I go on to my Father;'),(43014013,43,14,13,'and whatever ye may ask in my name, I will do, that the Father may be glorified in the Son;'),(43014014,43,14,14,'if ye ask anything in my name I will do `it\'.'),(43014015,43,14,15,'`If ye love me, my commands keep,'),(43014016,43,14,16,'and I will ask the Father, and another Comforter He will give to you, that he may remain with you -- to the age;'),(43014017,43,14,17,'the Spirit of truth, whom the world is not able to receive, because it doth not behold him, nor know him, and ye know him, because he doth remain with you, and shall be in you.'),(43014018,43,14,18,'`I will not leave you bereaved, I come unto you;'),(43014019,43,14,19,'yet a little, and the world doth no more behold me, and ye behold me, because I live, and ye shall live;'),(43014020,43,14,20,'in that day ye shall know that I `am\' in my Father, and ye in me, and I in you;'),(43014021,43,14,21,'he who is having my commands, and is keeping them, that one it is who is loving me, and he who is loving me shall be loved by my Father, and I will love him, and will manifest myself to him.\''),(43014022,43,14,22,'Judas saith to him, (not the Iscariot), `Sir, what hath come to pass, that to us thou are about to manifest thyself, and not to the world?\''),(43014023,43,14,23,'Jesus answered and said to him, `If any one may love me, my word he will keep, and my Father will love him, and unto him we will come, and abode with him we will make;'),(43014024,43,14,24,'he who is not loving me, my words doth not keep; and the word that ye hear is not mine, but the Father\'s who sent me.'),(43014025,43,14,25,'`These things I have spoken to you, remaining with you,'),(43014026,43,14,26,'and the Comforter, the Holy Spirit, whom the Father will send in my name, he will teach you all things, and remind you of all things that I said to you.'),(43014027,43,14,27,'`Peace I leave to you; my peace I give to you, not according as the world doth give do I give to you; let not your heart be troubled, nor let it be afraid;'),(43014028,43,14,28,'ye heard that I said to you -- I go away, and I come unto you; if ye did love me, ye would have rejoiced that I said -- I go on to the Father, because my Father is greater than I.'),(43014029,43,14,29,'`And now I have said `it\' to you before it come to pass, that when it may come to pass, ye may believe;'),(43014030,43,14,30,'I will no more talk much with you, for the ruler of this world doth come, and in me he hath nothing;'),(43014031,43,14,31,'but that the world may know that I love the Father, and according as the Father gave me command so I do; arise, we may go hence.'),(43015001,43,15,1,'`I am the true vine, and my Father is the husbandman;'),(43015002,43,15,2,'every branch in me not bearing fruit, He doth take it away, and every one bearing fruit, He doth cleanse by pruning it, that it may bear more fruit;'),(43015003,43,15,3,'already ye are clean, because of the word that I have spoken to you;'),(43015004,43,15,4,'remain in me, and I in you, as the branch is not able to bear fruit of itself, if it may not remain in the vine, so neither ye, if ye may not remain in me.'),(43015005,43,15,5,'`I am the vine, ye the branches; he who is remaining in me, and I in him, this one doth bear much fruit, because apart from me ye are not able to do anything;'),(43015006,43,15,6,'if any one may not remain in me, he was cast forth without as the branch, and was withered, and they gather them, and cast to fire, and they are burned;'),(43015007,43,15,7,'if ye may remain in me, and my sayings in you may remain, whatever ye may wish ye shall ask, and it shall be done to you.'),(43015008,43,15,8,'`In this was my Father glorified, that ye may bear much fruit, and ye shall become my disciples.'),(43015009,43,15,9,'According as the Father did love me, I also loved you, remain in my love;'),(43015010,43,15,10,'if my commandments ye may keep, ye shall remain in my love, according as I the commands of my Father have kept, and do remain in His love;'),(43015011,43,15,11,'these things I have spoken to you, that my joy in you may remain, and your joy may be full.'),(43015012,43,15,12,'`This is my command, that ye love one another, according as I did love you;'),(43015013,43,15,13,'greater love than this hath no one, that any one his life may lay down for his friends;'),(43015014,43,15,14,'ye are my friends, if ye may do whatever I command you;'),(43015015,43,15,15,'no more do I call you servants, because the servant hath not known what his lord doth, and you I have called friends, because all things that I heard from my Father, I did make known to you.'),(43015016,43,15,16,'`Ye did not choose out me, but I chose out you, and did appoint you, that ye might go away, and might bear fruit, and your fruit might remain, that whatever ye may ask of the Father in my name, He may give you.'),(43015017,43,15,17,'`These things I command you, that ye love one another;'),(43015018,43,15,18,'if the world doth hate you, ye know that it hath hated me before you;'),(43015019,43,15,19,'if of the world ye were, the world its own would have been loving, and because of the world ye are not -- but I chose out of the world -- because of this the world hateth you.'),(43015020,43,15,20,'`Remember the word that I said to you, A servant is not greater than his lord; if me they did persecute, you also they will persecute; if my word they did keep, yours also they will keep;'),(43015021,43,15,21,'but all these things will they do to you, because of my name, because they have not known Him who sent me;'),(43015022,43,15,22,'if I had not come and spoken to them, they were not having sin; but now pretext they have not for their sin.'),(43015023,43,15,23,'`He who is hating me, doth hate also my Father;'),(43015024,43,15,24,'if I did not do among them the works that no other hath done, they were not having sin, and now they have both seen and hated both me and my Father;'),(43015025,43,15,25,'but -- that the word may be fulfilled that was written in their law -- They hated me without a cause.'),(43015026,43,15,26,'`And when the Comforter may come, whom I will send to you from the Father -- the Spirit of truth, who from the Father doth come forth, he will testify of me;'),(43015027,43,15,27,'and ye also do testify, because from the beginning ye are with me.'),(43016001,43,16,1,'`These things I have spoken to you, that ye may not be stumbled,'),(43016002,43,16,2,'out of the synagogues they will put you; but an hour doth come, that every one who hath killed you, may think to offer service unto God;'),(43016003,43,16,3,'and these things they will do to you, because they did not know the Father, nor me.'),(43016004,43,16,4,'`But these things I have spoken to you, that when the hour may come, ye may remember them, that I said `them\' to you, and these things to you from the beginning I did not say, because I was with you;'),(43016005,43,16,5,'and now I go away to Him who sent me, and none of you doth ask me, Whither dost thou go?'),(43016006,43,16,6,'but because these things I have said to you, the sorrow hath filled your heart.'),(43016007,43,16,7,'`But I tell you the truth; it is better for you that I go away, for if I may not go away, the Comforter will not come unto you, and if I go on, I will send Him unto you;'),(43016008,43,16,8,'and having come, He will convict the world concerning sin, and concerning righteousness, and concerning judgment;'),(43016009,43,16,9,'concerning sin indeed, because they do not believe in me;'),(43016010,43,16,10,'and concerning righteousness, because unto my Father I go away, and no more do ye behold me;'),(43016011,43,16,11,'and concerning judgment, because the ruler of this world hath been judged.'),(43016012,43,16,12,'`I have yet many things to say to you, but ye are not able to bear `them\' now;'),(43016013,43,16,13,'and when He may come -- the Spirit of truth -- He will guide you to all the truth, for He will not speak from Himself, but as many things as He will hear He will speak, and the coming things He will tell you;'),(43016014,43,16,14,'He will glorify me, because of mine He will take, and will tell to you.'),(43016015,43,16,15,'`All things, as many as the Father hath, are mine; because of this I said, That of mine He will take, and will tell to you;'),(43016016,43,16,16,'a little while, and ye do not behold me, and again a little while, and ye shall see me, because I go away unto the Father.\''),(43016017,43,16,17,'Therefore said `some\' of his disciples one to another, `What is this that he saith to us, A little while, and ye do not behold me, and again a little while, and ye shall see me, and, Because I go away unto the Father?\''),(43016018,43,16,18,'they said then, `What is this he saith -- the little while? we have not known what he saith.\''),(43016019,43,16,19,'Jesus, therefore, knew that they were wishing to ask him, and he said to them, `Concerning this do ye seek one with another, because I said, A little while, and you do not behold me, and again a little while, and ye shall see me?'),(43016020,43,16,20,'verily, verily, I say to you, that ye shall weep and lament, and the world will rejoice; and ye shall be sorrowful, but your sorrow joy will become.'),(43016021,43,16,21,'`The woman, when she may bear, hath sorrow, because her hour did come, and when she may bear the child, no more doth she remember the anguish, because of the joy that a man was born to the world.'),(43016022,43,16,22,'`And ye, therefore, now, indeed, have sorrow; and again I will see you, and your heart shall rejoice, and your joy no one doth take from you,'),(43016023,43,16,23,'and in that day ye will question me nothing; verily, verily, I say to you, as many things as ye may ask of the Father in my name, He will give you;'),(43016024,43,16,24,'till now ye did ask nothing in my name; ask, and ye shall receive, that your joy may be full.'),(43016025,43,16,25,'`These things in similitudes I have spoken to you, but there cometh an hour when no more in similitudes will I speak to you, but freely of the Father, will tell you.'),(43016026,43,16,26,'`In that day, in my name ye will make request, and I do not say to you that I will ask the Father for you,'),(43016027,43,16,27,'for the Father himself doth love you, because me ye have loved, and ye have believed that I from God came forth;'),(43016028,43,16,28,'I came forth from the Father, and have come to the world; again I leave the world, and go on unto the Father.\''),(43016029,43,16,29,'His disciples say to him, `Lo, now freely thou dost speak, and no similitude speakest thou;'),(43016030,43,16,30,'now we have known that thou hast known all things, and hast no need that any one do question thee; in this we believe that from God thou didst come forth.\''),(43016031,43,16,31,'Jesus answered them, `Now do ye believe? lo, there doth come an hour,'),(43016032,43,16,32,'and now it hath come, that ye may be scattered, each to his own things, and me ye may leave alone, and I am not alone, because the Father is with me;'),(43016033,43,16,33,'these things I have spoken to you, that in me ye may have peace, in the world ye shall have tribulation, but take courage -- I have overcome the world.\''),(43017001,43,17,1,'These things spake Jesus, and lifted up his eyes to the heaven, and said -- `Father, the hour hath come, glorify Thy Son, that Thy Son also may glorify Thee,'),(43017002,43,17,2,'according as Thou didst give to him authority over all flesh, that -- all that Thou hast given to him -- he may give to them life age-during;'),(43017003,43,17,3,'and this is the life age-during, that they may know Thee, the only true God, and him whom Thou didst send -- Jesus Christ;'),(43017004,43,17,4,'I did glorify Thee on the earth, the work I did finish that Thou hast given me, that I may do `it\'.'),(43017005,43,17,5,'`And now, glorify me, Thou Father, with Thyself, with the glory that I had before the world was, with Thee;'),(43017006,43,17,6,'I did manifest Thy name to the men whom Thou hast given to me out of the world; Thine they were, and to me Thou hast given them, and Thy word they have kept;'),(43017007,43,17,7,'now they have known that all things, as many as Thou hast given to me, are from Thee,'),(43017008,43,17,8,'because the sayings that Thou hast given to me, I have given to them, and they themselves received, and have known truly, that from Thee I came forth, and they did believe that Thou didst send me.'),(43017009,43,17,9,'`I ask in regard to them; not in regard to the world do I ask, but in regard to those whom Thou hast given to me, because Thine they are,'),(43017010,43,17,10,'and all mine are Thine, and Thine `are\' mine, and I have been glorified in them;'),(43017011,43,17,11,'and no more am I in the world, and these are in the world, and I come unto Thee. Holy Father, keep them in Thy name, whom Thou hast given to me, that they may be one as we;'),(43017012,43,17,12,'when I was with them in the world, I was keeping them in Thy name; those whom Thou hast given to me I did guard, and none of them was destroyed, except the son of the destruction, that the Writing may be fulfilled.'),(43017013,43,17,13,'`And now unto Thee I come, and these things I speak in the world, that they may have my joy fulfilled in themselves;'),(43017014,43,17,14,'I have given to them Thy word, and the world did hate them, because they are not of the world, as I am not of the world;'),(43017015,43,17,15,'I do not ask that Thou mayest take them out of the world, but that Thou mayest keep them out of the evil.'),(43017016,43,17,16,'`Of the world they are not, as I of the world am not;'),(43017017,43,17,17,'sanctify them in Thy truth, Thy word is truth;'),(43017018,43,17,18,'as Thou didst send me to the world, I also did send them to the world;'),(43017019,43,17,19,'and for them do I sanctify myself, that they also themselves may be sanctified in truth.'),(43017020,43,17,20,'`And not in regard to these alone do I ask, but also in regard to those who shall be believing, through their word, in me;'),(43017021,43,17,21,'that they all may be one, as Thou Father `art\' in me, and I in Thee; that they also in us may be one, that the world may believe that Thou didst send me.'),(43017022,43,17,22,'`And I, the glory that thou hast given to me, have given to them, that they may be one as we are one;'),(43017023,43,17,23,'I in them, and Thou in me, that they may be perfected into one, and that the world may know that Thou didst send me, and didst love them as Thou didst love me.'),(43017024,43,17,24,'`Father, those whom Thou hast given to me, I will that where I am they also may be with me, that they may behold my glory that Thou didst give to me, because Thou didst love me before the foundation of the world.'),(43017025,43,17,25,'`Righteous Father, also the world did not know Thee, and I knew Thee, and these have known that Thou didst send me,'),(43017026,43,17,26,'and I made known to them Thy name, and will make known, that the love with which Thou lovedst me in them may be, and I in them.\''),(43018001,43,18,1,'These things having said, Jesus went forth with his disciples beyond the brook of Kedron, where was a garden, into which he entered, himself and his disciples,'),(43018002,43,18,2,'and Judas also, who delivered him up, had known the place, because many times did Jesus assemble there with his disciples.'),(43018003,43,18,3,'Judas, therefore, having taken the band and officers out of the chief priests and Pharisees, doth come thither with torches and lamps, and weapons;'),(43018004,43,18,4,'Jesus, therefore, knowing all things that are coming upon him, having gone forth, said to them, `Whom do ye seek?\''),(43018005,43,18,5,'they answered him, `Jesus the Nazarene;\' Jesus saith to them, `I am `he\';\' -- and Judas who delivered him up was standing with them; --'),(43018006,43,18,6,'when, therefore, he said to them -- `I am `he\',\' they went away backward, and fell to the ground.'),(43018007,43,18,7,'Again, therefore, he questioned them, `Whom do ye seek?\' and they said, `Jesus the Nazarene;\''),(43018008,43,18,8,'Jesus answered, `I said to you that I am `he\'; if, then, me ye seek, suffer these to go away;\''),(43018009,43,18,9,'that the word might be fulfilled that he said -- `Those whom Thou hast given to me, I did not lose of them even one.\''),(43018010,43,18,10,'Simon Peter, therefore, having a sword, drew it, and struck the chief priest\'s servant, and cut off his right ear -- and the name of the servant was Malchus --'),(43018011,43,18,11,'Jesus, therefore, said to Peter, `Put the sword into the sheath; the cup that the Father hath given to me, may I not drink it?\''),(43018012,43,18,12,'The band, therefore, and the captain, and the officers of the Jews, took hold on Jesus, and bound him,'),(43018013,43,18,13,'and they led him away to Annas first, for he was father-in-law of Caiaphas, who was chief priest of that year,'),(43018014,43,18,14,'and Caiaphas was he who gave counsel to the Jews, that it is good for one man to perish for the people.'),(43018015,43,18,15,'And following Jesus was Simon Peter, and the other disciple, and that disciple was known to the chief priest, and he entered with Jesus to the hall of the chief priest,'),(43018016,43,18,16,'and Peter was standing at the door without, therefore went forth the other disciple who was known to the chief priest, and he spake to the female keeping the door, and he brought in Peter.'),(43018017,43,18,17,'Then said the maid keeping the door to Peter, `Art thou also of the disciples of this man?\' he saith, `I am not;\''),(43018018,43,18,18,'and the servants and the officers were standing, having made a fire of coals, because it was cold, and they were warming themselves, and Peter was standing with them, and warming himself.'),(43018019,43,18,19,'The chief priests, therefore, questioned Jesus concerning his disciples, and concerning his teaching;'),(43018020,43,18,20,'Jesus answered him, `I spake freely to the world, I did always teach in a synagogue, and in the temple, where the Jews do always come together; and in secret I spake nothing;'),(43018021,43,18,21,'why me dost thou question? question those having heard what I spake to them; lo, these have known what I said.\''),(43018022,43,18,22,'And he having said these things, one of the officers standing by did give Jesus a slap, saying, `Thus dost thou answer the chief priest?\''),(43018023,43,18,23,'Jesus answered him, `If I spake ill, testify concerning the ill; and if well, why me dost thou smite?\''),(43018024,43,18,24,'Annas then sent him bound to Caiaphas the chief priest.'),(43018025,43,18,25,'And Simon Peter was standing and warming himself, they said then to him, `Art thou also of his disciples?\' he denied, and said, `I am not.\''),(43018026,43,18,26,'One of the servants of the chief priest, being kinsman of him whose ear Peter cut off, saith, `Did not I see thee in the garden with him?\''),(43018027,43,18,27,'again, therefore, Peter denied, and immediately a cock crew.'),(43018028,43,18,28,'They led, therefore, Jesus from Caiaphas to the praetorium, and it was early, and they themselves did not enter into the praetorium, that they might not be defiled, but that they might eat the passover;'),(43018029,43,18,29,'Pilate, therefore, went forth unto them, and said, `What accusation do ye bring against this man?\''),(43018030,43,18,30,'they answered and said to him, `If he were not an evil doer, we had not delivered him to thee.\''),(43018031,43,18,31,'Pilate, therefore, said to them, `Take ye him -- ye -- and according to your law judge him;\' the Jews, therefore, said to him, `It is not lawful to us to put any one to death;\''),(43018032,43,18,32,'that the word of Jesus might be fulfilled which he said, signifying by what death he was about to die.'),(43018033,43,18,33,'Pilate, therefore, entered into the praetorium again, and called Jesus, and said to him, `Thou art the King of the Jews?\''),(43018034,43,18,34,'Jesus answered him, `From thyself dost thou say this? or did others say it to thee about me?\''),(43018035,43,18,35,'Pilate answered, `Am I a Jew? thy nation, and the chief priests did deliver thee up to me; what didst thou?\''),(43018036,43,18,36,'Jesus answered, `My kingdom is not of this world; if my kingdom were of this world, my officers had struggled that I might not be delivered up to Jews; but now my kingdom is not from hence.\''),(43018037,43,18,37,'Pilate, therefore, said to him, `Art thou then a king?\' Jesus answered, `Thou dost say `it\'; because a king I am, I for this have been born, and for this I have come to the world, that I may testify to the truth; every one who is of the truth, doth hear my voice.\''),(43018038,43,18,38,'Pilate saith to him, `What is truth?\' and this having said, again he went forth unto the Jews, and saith to them, `I do find no fault in him;'),(43018039,43,18,39,'and ye have a custom that I shall release to you one in the passover; will ye, therefore, `that\' I shall release to you the king of the Jews?\''),(43018040,43,18,40,'therefore they all cried out again, saying, `Not this one -- but Barabbas;\' and Barabbas was a robber.'),(43019001,43,19,1,'Then, therefore, did Pilate take Jesus and scourge `him\','),(43019002,43,19,2,'and the soldiers having plaited a crown of thorns, did place `it\' on his head, and a purple garment they put around him,'),(43019003,43,19,3,'and said, `Hail! the king of the Jews;\' and they were giving him slaps.'),(43019004,43,19,4,'Pilate, therefore, again went forth without, and saith to them, `Lo, I do bring him to you without, that ye may know that in him I find no fault;\''),(43019005,43,19,5,'Jesus, therefore, came forth without, bearing the thorny crown and the purple garment; and he saith to them, `Lo, the man!\''),(43019006,43,19,6,'When, therefore, the chief priests and the officers did see him, they cried out, saying, `Crucify, crucify;\' Pilate saith to them, `Take ye him -- ye, and crucify; for I find no fault in him;\''),(43019007,43,19,7,'the Jews answered him, `We have a law, and according to our law he ought to die, for he made himself Son of God.\''),(43019008,43,19,8,'When, therefore, Pilate heard this word, he was the more afraid,'),(43019009,43,19,9,'and entered again to the praetorium, and saith to Jesus, `Whence art thou?\' and Jesus gave him no answer.'),(43019010,43,19,10,'Pilate, therefore, saith to him, `To me dost thou not speak? hast thou not known that I have authority to crucify thee, and I have authority to release thee?\''),(43019011,43,19,11,'Jesus answered, `Thou wouldst have no authority against me, if it were not having been given thee from above; because of this, he who is delivering me up to thee hath greater sin.\''),(43019012,43,19,12,'From this `time\' was Pilate seeking to release him, and the Jews were crying out, saying, `If this one thou mayest release, thou art not a friend of Caesar; every one making himself a king, doth speak against Caesar.\''),(43019013,43,19,13,'Pilate, therefore, having heard this word, brought Jesus without -- and he sat down upon the tribunal -- to a place called, `Pavement,\' and in Hebrew, Gabbatha;'),(43019014,43,19,14,'and it was the preparation of the passover, and as it were the sixth hour, and he saith to the Jews, `Lo, your king!\''),(43019015,43,19,15,'and they cried out, `Take away, take away, crucify him;\' Pilate saith to them, `Your king shall I crucify?\' the chief priests answered, `We have no king except Caesar.\''),(43019016,43,19,16,'Then, therefore, he delivered him up to them, that he may be crucified, and they took Jesus and led `him\' away,'),(43019017,43,19,17,'and bearing his cross, he went forth to the place called `Place\' of a Skull, which is called in Hebrew Golgotha;'),(43019018,43,19,18,'where they crucified him, and with him two others, on this side, and on that side, and Jesus in the midst.'),(43019019,43,19,19,'And Pilate also wrote a title, and put `it\' on the cross, and it was written, `Jesus the Nazarene, the king of the Jews;\''),(43019020,43,19,20,'this title, therefore, read many of the Jews, because the place was nigh to the city where Jesus was crucified, and it was having been written in Hebrew, in Greek, in Roman.'),(43019021,43,19,21,'The chief priests of the Jews said, therefore, to Pilate, `Write not -- The king of the Jews, but that one said, I am king of the Jews;\''),(43019022,43,19,22,'Pilate answered, `What I have written, I have written.\''),(43019023,43,19,23,'The soldiers, therefore, when they did crucify Jesus, took his garments, and made four parts, to each soldier a part, also the coat, and the coat was seamless, from the top woven throughout,'),(43019024,43,19,24,'they said, therefore, to one another, `We may not rend it, but cast a lot for it, whose it shall be;\' that the Writing might be fulfilled, that is saying, `They divided my garments to themselves, and upon my raiment they did cast a lot;\' the soldiers, therefore, indeed, did these things.'),(43019025,43,19,25,'And there stood by the cross of Jesus his mother, and his mother\'s sister, Mary of Cleopas, and Mary the Magdalene;'),(43019026,43,19,26,'Jesus, therefore, having seen `his\' mother, and the disciple standing by, whom he was loving, he saith to his mother, `Woman, lo, thy son;\''),(43019027,43,19,27,'afterward he saith to the disciple, `Lo, thy mother;\' and from that hour the disciple took her to his own `home\'.'),(43019028,43,19,28,'After this, Jesus knowing that all things now have been finished, that the Writing may be fulfilled, saith, `I thirst;\''),(43019029,43,19,29,'a vessel, therefore, was placed full of vinegar, and they having filled a sponge with vinegar, and having put `it\' around a hyssop stalk, did put `it\' to his mouth;'),(43019030,43,19,30,'when, therefore, Jesus received the vinegar, he said, `It hath been finished;\' and having bowed the head, gave up the spirit.'),(43019031,43,19,31,'The Jews, therefore, that the bodies might not remain on the cross on the sabbath, since it was the preparation, (for that sabbath day was a great one,) asked of Pilate that their legs may be broken, and they taken away.'),(43019032,43,19,32,'The soldiers, therefore, came, and of the first indeed they did break the legs, and of the other who was crucified with him,'),(43019033,43,19,33,'and having come to Jesus, when they saw him already having been dead, they did not break his legs;'),(43019034,43,19,34,'but one of the soldiers with a spear did pierce his side, and immediately there came forth blood and water;'),(43019035,43,19,35,'and he who hath seen hath testified, and his testimony is true, and that one hath known that true things he speaketh, that ye also may believe.'),(43019036,43,19,36,'For these things came to pass, that the Writing may be fulfilled, `A bone of him shall not be broken;\''),(43019037,43,19,37,'and again another Writing saith, `They shall look to him whom they did pierce.\''),(43019038,43,19,38,'And after these things did Joseph of Arimathea -- being a disciple of Jesus, but concealed, through the fear of the Jews -- ask of Pilate, that he may take away the body of Jesus, and Pilate gave leave; he came, therefore, and took away the body of Jesus,'),(43019039,43,19,39,'and Nicodemus also came -- who came unto Jesus by night at the first -- bearing a mixture of myrrh and aloes, as it were, a hundred pounds.'),(43019040,43,19,40,'They took, therefore, the body of Jesus, and bound it with linen clothes with the spices, according as it was the custom of the Jews to prepare for burial;'),(43019041,43,19,41,'and there was in the place where he was crucified a garden, and in the garden a new tomb, in which no one was yet laid;'),(43019042,43,19,42,'there, therefore, because of the preparation of the Jews, because the tomb was nigh, they laid Jesus.'),(43020001,43,20,1,'And on the first of the sabbaths, Mary the Magdalene doth come early (there being yet darkness) to the tomb, and she seeth the stone having been taken away out of the tomb,'),(43020002,43,20,2,'she runneth, therefore, and cometh unto Simon Peter, and unto the other disciple whom Jesus was loving, and saith to them, `They took away the Lord out of the tomb, and we have not known where they laid him.\''),(43020003,43,20,3,'Peter, therefore, went forth, and the other disciple, and they were coming to the tomb,'),(43020004,43,20,4,'and the two were running together, and the other disciple did run forward more quickly than Peter, and came first to the tomb,'),(43020005,43,20,5,'and having stooped down, seeth the linen clothes lying, yet, indeed, he entered not.'),(43020006,43,20,6,'Simon Peter, therefore, cometh, following him, and he entered into the tomb, and beholdeth the linen clothes lying,'),(43020007,43,20,7,'and the napkin that was upon his head, not lying with the linen clothes, but apart, having been folded up, in one place;'),(43020008,43,20,8,'then, therefore, entered also the other disciple who came first unto the tomb, and he saw, and did believe;'),(43020009,43,20,9,'for not yet did they know the Writing, that it behoveth him out of the dead to rise again.'),(43020010,43,20,10,'The disciples therefore went away again unto their own friends,'),(43020011,43,20,11,'and Mary was standing near the tomb, weeping without; as she was weeping, then, she stooped down to the tomb, and beholdeth two messengers in white, sitting,'),(43020012,43,20,12,'one at the head, and one at the feet, where the body of Jesus had been laid.'),(43020013,43,20,13,'And they say to her, `Woman, why dost thou weep?\' she saith to them, `Because they took away my Lord, and I have not known where they laid him;\''),(43020014,43,20,14,'and these things having said, she turned backward, and seeth Jesus standing, and she had not known that it is Jesus.'),(43020015,43,20,15,'Jesus saith to her, `Woman, why dost thou weep? whom dost thou seek;\' she, supposing that he is the gardener, saith to him, `Sir, if thou didst carry him away, tell me where thou didst lay him, and I will take him away;\''),(43020016,43,20,16,'Jesus saith to her, `Mary!\' having turned, she saith to him, `Rabbouni;\' that is to say, `Teacher.\''),(43020017,43,20,17,'Jesus saith to her, `Be not touching me, for I have not yet ascended unto my Father; and be going on to my brethren, and say to them, I ascend unto my Father, and your Father, and to my God, and to your God.\''),(43020018,43,20,18,'Mary the Magdalene cometh, telling to the disciples that she hath seen the Lord, and `that\' these things he said to her.'),(43020019,43,20,19,'It being, therefore, evening, on that day, the first of the sabbaths, and the doors having been shut where the disciples were assembled, through fear of the Jews, Jesus came and stood in the midst, and saith to them, `Peace to you;\''),(43020020,43,20,20,'and this having said, he shewed them his hands and side; the disciples, therefore, rejoiced, having seen the Lord.'),(43020021,43,20,21,'Jesus, therefore, said to them again, `Peace to you; according as the Father hath sent me, I also send you;\''),(43020022,43,20,22,'and this having said, he breathed on `them\', and saith to them, `Receive the Holy Spirit;'),(43020023,43,20,23,'if of any ye may loose the sins, they are loosed to them; if of any ye may retain, they have been retained.\''),(43020024,43,20,24,'And Thomas, one of the twelve, who is called Didymus, was not with them when Jesus came;'),(43020025,43,20,25,'the other disciples, therefore, said to him, `We have seen the Lord;\' and he said to them, `If I may not see in his hands the mark of the nails, and may put my finger to the mark of the nails, and may put my hand to his side, I will not believe.\''),(43020026,43,20,26,'And after eight days, again were his disciples within, and Thomas with them; Jesus cometh, the doors having been shut, and he stood in the midst, and said, `Peace to you!\''),(43020027,43,20,27,'then he saith to Thomas, `Bring thy finger hither, and see my hands, and bring thy hand, and put `it\' to my side, and become not unbelieving, but believing.\''),(43020028,43,20,28,'And Thomas answered and said to him, `My Lord and my God;\''),(43020029,43,20,29,'Jesus saith to him, `Because thou hast seen me, Thomas, thou hast believed; happy those not having seen, and having believed.\''),(43020030,43,20,30,'Many indeed, therefore, other signs also did Jesus before his disciples, that are not written in this book;'),(43020031,43,20,31,'and these have been written that ye may believe that Jesus is the Christ, the Son of God, and that believing ye may have life in his name.\''),(43021001,43,21,1,'After these things did Jesus manifest himself again to the disciples on the sea of Tiberias, and he did manifest himself thus:'),(43021002,43,21,2,'There were together Simon Peter, and Thomas who is called Didymus, and Nathanael from Cana of Galilee, and the `sons\' of Zebedee, and two others of his disciples.'),(43021003,43,21,3,'Simon Peter saith to them, `I go away to fish;\' they say to him, `We go -- we also -- with thee;\' they went forth and entered into the boat immediately, and on that night they caught nothing.'),(43021004,43,21,4,'And morning being now come, Jesus stood at the shore, yet indeed the disciples did not know that it is Jesus;'),(43021005,43,21,5,'Jesus, therefore, saith to them, `Lads, have ye any meat?\''),(43021006,43,21,6,'they answered him, `No;\' and he said to them, `Cast the net at the right side of the boat, and ye shall find;\' they cast, therefore, and no longer were they able to draw it, from the multitude of the fishes.'),(43021007,43,21,7,'That disciple, therefore, whom Jesus was loving saith to Peter, `The Lord it is!\' Simon Peter, therefore, having heard that it is the Lord, did gird on the outer coat, (for he was naked,) and did cast himself into the sea;'),(43021008,43,21,8,'and the other disciples came by the little boat, for they were not far from the land, but as it were about two hundred cubits off, dragging the net of the fishes;'),(43021009,43,21,9,'when, therefore, they came to the land, they behold a fire of coals lying, and a fish lying on it, and bread.'),(43021010,43,21,10,'Jesus saith to them, `Bring ye from the fishes that ye caught now;\''),(43021011,43,21,11,'Simon Peter went up, and drew the net up on the land, full of great fishes, an hundred fifty and three, and though they were so many, the net was not rent.'),(43021012,43,21,12,'Jesus saith to them, `Come ye, dine;\' and none of the disciples was venturing to inquire of him, `Who art thou?\' knowing that it is the Lord;'),(43021013,43,21,13,'Jesus, therefore, doth come and take the bread and give to them, and the fish in like manner;'),(43021014,43,21,14,'this `is\' now a third time Jesus was manifested to his disciples, having been raised from the dead.'),(43021015,43,21,15,'When, therefore, they dined, Jesus saith to Simon Peter, `Simon, `son\' of Jonas, dost thou love me more than these?\' he saith to him, `Yes, Lord; thou hast known that I dearly love thee;\' he saith to him, `Feed my lambs.\''),(43021016,43,21,16,'He saith to him again, a second time, `Simon, `son\' of Jonas, dost thou love me?\' he saith to him, `Yes, Lord; thou hast known that I dearly love thee;\' he saith to him, `Tend my sheep.\''),(43021017,43,21,17,'He saith to him the third time, `Simon, `son\' of Jonas, dost thou dearly love me?\' Peter was grieved that he said to him the third time, `Dost thou dearly love me?\' and he said to him, `Lord, thou hast known all things; thou dost know that I dearly love thee.\' Jesus saith to him, `Feed my sheep;'),(43021018,43,21,18,'verily, verily, I say to thee, When thou wast younger, thou wast girding thyself and wast walking whither thou didst will, but when thou mayest be old, thou shalt stretch forth thy hands, and another will gird thee, and shall carry `thee\' whither thou dost not will;\''),(43021019,43,21,19,'and this he said, signifying by what death he shall glorify God; and having said this, he saith to him, `Be following me.\''),(43021020,43,21,20,'And Peter having turned about doth see the disciple whom Jesus was loving following, (who also reclined in the supper on his breast, and said, `Sir, who is he who is delivering thee up?\')'),(43021021,43,21,21,'Peter having seen this one, saith to Jesus, `Lord, and what of this one?\''),(43021022,43,21,22,'Jesus saith to him, `If him I will to remain till I come, what -- to thee? be thou following me.\' This word, therefore, went forth to the brethren that that disciple doth not die,'),(43021023,43,21,23,'yet Jesus did not say to him, that he doth not die, but, `If him I will to remain till I come, what -- to thee?\''),(43021024,43,21,24,'this is the disciple who is testifying concerning these things, and he wrote these things, and we have known that his testimony is true.'),(43021025,43,21,25,'And there are also many other things -- as many as Jesus did -- which, if they may be written one by one, not even the world itself I think to have place for the books written. Amen.'),(44001001,44,1,1,'The former account, indeed, I made concerning all things, O Theophilus, that Jesus began both to do and to teach,'),(44001002,44,1,2,'till the day in which, having given command, through the Holy Spirit, to the apostles whom he did choose out, he was taken up,'),(44001003,44,1,3,'to whom also he did present himself alive after his suffering, in many certain proofs, through forty days being seen by them, and speaking the things concerning the reign of God.'),(44001004,44,1,4,'And being assembled together with them, he commanded them not to depart from Jerusalem, but to wait for the promise of the Father, which, `saith he,\' `Ye did hear of me;'),(44001005,44,1,5,'because John, indeed, baptized with water, and ye shall be baptized with the Holy Spirit -- after not many days.\''),(44001006,44,1,6,'They, therefore, indeed, having come together, were questioning him, saying, `Lord, dost thou at this time restore the reign to Israel?\''),(44001007,44,1,7,'and he said unto them, `It is not yours to know times or seasons that the Father did appoint in His own authority;'),(44001008,44,1,8,'but ye shall receive power at the coming of the Holy Spirit upon you, and ye shall be witnesses to me both in Jerusalem, and in all Judea, and Samaria, and unto the end of the earth.\''),(44001009,44,1,9,'And these things having said -- they beholding -- he was taken up, and a cloud did receive him up from their sight;'),(44001010,44,1,10,'and as they were looking stedfastly to the heaven in his going on, then, lo, two men stood by them in white apparel,'),(44001011,44,1,11,'who also said, `Men, Galileans, why do ye stand gazing into the heaven? this Jesus who was received up from you into the heaven, shall so come in what manner ye saw him going on to the heaven.\''),(44001012,44,1,12,'Then did they return to Jerusalem from the mount that is called of Olives, that is near Jerusalem, a sabbath\'s journey;'),(44001013,44,1,13,'and when they came in, they went up to the upper room, where were abiding both Peter, and James, and John, and Andrew, Philip, and Thomas, Bartholomew, and Matthew, James, of Alphaeus, and Simon the Zelotes, and Judas, of James;'),(44001014,44,1,14,'these all were continuing with one accord in prayer and supplication, with women, and Mary the mother of Jesus, and with his brethren.'),(44001015,44,1,15,'And in these days, Peter having risen up in the midst of the disciples, said, (the multitude also of the names at the same place was, as it were, an hundred and twenty,)'),(44001016,44,1,16,'`Men, brethren, it behoved this Writing that it be fulfilled that beforehand the Holy Spirit spake through the mouth of David, concerning Judas, who became guide to those who took Jesus,'),(44001017,44,1,17,'because he was numbered among us, and did receive the share in this ministration,'),(44001018,44,1,18,'this one, indeed, then, purchased a field out of the reward of unrighteousness, and falling headlong, burst asunder in the midst, and all his bowels gushed forth,'),(44001019,44,1,19,'and it became known to all those dwelling in Jerusalem, insomuch that that place is called, in their proper dialect, Aceldama, that is, field of blood,'),(44001020,44,1,20,'for it hath been written in the book of Psalms: Let his lodging-place become desolate, and let no one be dwelling in it, and his oversight let another take.'),(44001021,44,1,21,'`It behoveth, therefore, of the men who did go with us during all the time in which the Lord Jesus went in and went out among us,'),(44001022,44,1,22,'beginning from the baptism of John, unto the day in which he was received up from us, one of these to become with us a witness of his rising again.\''),(44001023,44,1,23,'And they set two, Joseph called Barsabas, who was surnamed Justus, and Matthias,'),(44001024,44,1,24,'and having prayed, they said, `Thou, Lord, who art knowing the heart of all, shew which one thou didst choose of these two'),(44001025,44,1,25,'to receive the share of this ministration and apostleship, from which Judas, by transgression, did fall, to go on to his proper place;\''),(44001026,44,1,26,'and they gave their lots, and the lot fell upon Matthias, and he was numbered with the eleven apostles.'),(44002001,44,2,1,'And in the day of the Pentecost being fulfilled, they were all with one accord at the same place,'),(44002002,44,2,2,'and there came suddenly out of the heaven a sound as of a bearing violent breath, and it filled all the house where they were sitting,'),(44002003,44,2,3,'and there appeared to them divided tongues, as it were of fire; it sat also upon each one of them,'),(44002004,44,2,4,'and they were all filled with the Holy Spirit, and began to speak with other tongues, according as the Spirit was giving them to declare.'),(44002005,44,2,5,'And there were dwelling in Jerusalem Jews, devout men from every nation of those under the heaven,'),(44002006,44,2,6,'and the rumour of this having come, the multitude came together, and was confounded, because they were each one hearing them speaking in his proper dialect,'),(44002007,44,2,7,'and they were all amazed, and did wonder, saying one unto another, `Lo, are not all these who are speaking Galileans?'),(44002008,44,2,8,'and how do we hear, each in our proper dialect, in which we were born?'),(44002009,44,2,9,'Parthians, and Medes, and Elamites, and those dwelling in Mesopotamia, in Judea also, and Cappadocia, Pontus, and Asia,'),(44002010,44,2,10,'Phrygia also, and Pamphylia, Egypt, and the parts of Libya, that `are\' along Cyrene, and the strangers of Rome, both Jews and proselytes,'),(44002011,44,2,11,'Cretes and Arabians, we did hear them speaking in our tongues the great things of God.\''),(44002012,44,2,12,'And they were all amazed, and were in doubt, saying one unto another, `What would this wish to be?\''),(44002013,44,2,13,'and others mocking said, -- `They are full of sweet wine;\''),(44002014,44,2,14,'and Peter having stood up with the eleven, lifted up his voice and declared to them, `Men, Jews! and all those dwelling in Jerusalem, let this be known to you, and harken to my sayings,'),(44002015,44,2,15,'for these are not drunken, as ye take it up, for it is the third hour of the day.'),(44002016,44,2,16,'`But this is that which hath been spoken through the prophet Joel:'),(44002017,44,2,17,'And it shall be in the last days, saith God, I will pour out of My Spirit upon all flesh, and your sons and your daughters shall prophesy, and your young men shall see visions, and your old men shall dream dreams;'),(44002018,44,2,18,'and also upon My men-servants, and upon My maid-servants, in those days, I will pour out of My Spirit, and they shall prophesy;'),(44002019,44,2,19,'and I will give wonders in the heaven above, and signs upon the earth beneath -- blood, and fire, and vapour of smoke,'),(44002020,44,2,20,'the sun shall be turned to darkness, and the moon to blood, before the coming of the day of the Lord -- the great and illustrious;'),(44002021,44,2,21,'and it shall be, every one -- whoever shall call upon the name of the Lord, he shall be saved.'),(44002022,44,2,22,'`Men, Israelites! hear these words, Jesus the Nazarene, a man approved of God among you by mighty works, and wonders, and signs, that God did through him in the midst of you, according as also ye yourselves have known;'),(44002023,44,2,23,'this one, by the determinate counsel and foreknowledge of God, being given out, having taken by lawless hands, having crucified -- ye did slay;'),(44002024,44,2,24,'whom God did raise up, having loosed the pains of the death, because it was not possible for him to be held by it,'),(44002025,44,2,25,'for David saith in regard to him: I foresaw the Lord always before me -- because He is on my right hand -- that I may not be moved;'),(44002026,44,2,26,'because of this was my heart cheered, and my tongue was glad, and yet -- my flesh also shall rest on hope,'),(44002027,44,2,27,'because Thou wilt not leave my soul to hades, nor wilt Thou give Thy Kind One to see corruption;'),(44002028,44,2,28,'Thou didst make known to me ways of life, Thou shalt fill me with joy with Thy countenance.'),(44002029,44,2,29,'`Men, brethren! it is permitted to speak with freedom unto you concerning the patriarch David, that he both died and was buried, and his tomb is among us unto this day;'),(44002030,44,2,30,'a prophet, therefore, being, and knowing that with an oath God did swear to him, out of the fruit of his loins, according to the flesh, to raise up the Christ, to sit upon his throne,'),(44002031,44,2,31,'having foreseen, he did speak concerning the rising again of the Christ, that his soul was not left to hades, nor did his flesh see corruption.'),(44002032,44,2,32,'`This Jesus did God raise up, of which we are all witnesses;'),(44002033,44,2,33,'at the right hand then of God having been exalted -- also the promise of the Holy Spirit having received from the Father -- he was shedding forth this, which now ye see and hear;'),(44002034,44,2,34,'for David did not go up to the heavens, and he saith himself: The Lord saith to my lord, Sit thou at my right hand,'),(44002035,44,2,35,'till I make thy foes thy footstool;'),(44002036,44,2,36,'assuredly, therefore, let all the house of Israel know, that both Lord and Christ did God make him -- this Jesus whom ye did crucify.\''),(44002037,44,2,37,'And having heard, they were pricked to the heart; they say also to Peter, and to the rest of the apostles, `What shall we do, men, brethren?\''),(44002038,44,2,38,'and Peter said unto them, `Reform, and be baptized each of you on the name of Jesus Christ, to remission of sins, and ye shall receive the gift of the Holy Spirit,'),(44002039,44,2,39,'for to you is the promise, and to your children, and to all those afar off, as many as the Lord our God shall call.\''),(44002040,44,2,40,'Also with many more other words he was testifying and exhorting, saying, `Be saved from this perverse generation;\''),(44002041,44,2,41,'then those, indeed, who did gladly receive his word were baptized, and there were added on that day, as it were, three thousand souls,'),(44002042,44,2,42,'and they were continuing stedfastly in the teaching of the apostles, and the fellowship, and the breaking of the bread, and the prayers.'),(44002043,44,2,43,'And fear came on every soul, many wonders also and signs were being done through the apostles,'),(44002044,44,2,44,'and all those believing were at the same place, and had all things common,'),(44002045,44,2,45,'and the possessions and the goods they were selling, and were parting them to all, according as any one had need.'),(44002046,44,2,46,'Daily also continuing with one accord in the temple, breaking also at every house bread, they were partaking of food in gladness and simplicity of heart,'),(44002047,44,2,47,'praising God, and having favour with all the people, and the Lord was adding those being saved every day to the assembly.'),(44003001,44,3,1,'And Peter and John were going up at the same time to the temple, at the hour of the prayer, the ninth `hour\','),(44003002,44,3,2,'and a certain man, being lame from the womb of his mother, was being carried, whom they were laying every day at the gate of the temple, called Beautiful, to ask a kindness from those entering into the temple,'),(44003003,44,3,3,'who, having seen Peter and John about to go into the temple, was begging to receive a kindness.'),(44003004,44,3,4,'And Peter, having looked stedfastly toward him with John, said, `Look toward us;\''),(44003005,44,3,5,'and he was giving heed to them, looking to receive something from them;'),(44003006,44,3,6,'and Peter said, `Silver and gold I have none, but what I have, that I give to thee; in the name of Jesus Christ of Nazareth, rise up and be walking.\''),(44003007,44,3,7,'And having seized him by the right hand, he raised `him\' up, and presently his feet and ankles were strengthened,'),(44003008,44,3,8,'and springing up, he stood, and was walking, and did enter with them into the temple, walking and springing, and praising God;'),(44003009,44,3,9,'and all the people saw him walking and praising God,'),(44003010,44,3,10,'they were knowing him also that this it was who for a kindness was sitting at the Beautiful gate of the temple, and they were filled with wonder and amazement at what hath happened to him.'),(44003011,44,3,11,'And at the lame man who was healed holding Peter and John, all the people ran together unto them in the porch called Solomon\'s -- greatly amazed,'),(44003012,44,3,12,'and Peter having seen, answered unto the people, `Men, Israelites! why wonder ye at this? or on us why look ye so earnestly, as if by our own power or piety we have made him to walk?'),(44003013,44,3,13,'`The God of Abraham, and of Isaac, and of Jacob, the God of our fathers, did glorify His child Jesus, whom ye delivered up, and denied him in the presence of Pilate, he having given judgment to release `him\','),(44003014,44,3,14,'and ye the Holy and Righteous One did deny, and desired a man -- a murderer -- to be granted to you,'),(44003015,44,3,15,'and the Prince of the life ye did kill, whom God did raise out of the dead, of which we are witnesses;'),(44003016,44,3,16,'and on the faith of his name, this one whom ye see and have known, his name made strong, even the faith that `is\' through him did give to him this perfect soundness before you all.'),(44003017,44,3,17,'`And now, brethren, I have known that through ignorance ye did `it\', as also your rulers;'),(44003018,44,3,18,'and God, what things before He had declared through the mouth of all His prophets, that the Christ should suffer, He did thus fulfil;'),(44003019,44,3,19,'reform ye, therefore, and turn back, for your sins being blotted out, that times of refreshing may come from the presence of the Lord,'),(44003020,44,3,20,'and He may send Jesus Christ who before hath been preached to you,'),(44003021,44,3,21,'whom it behoveth heaven, indeed, to receive till times of a restitution of all things, of which God spake through the mouth of all His holy prophets from the age.'),(44003022,44,3,22,'`For Moses, indeed, unto the fathers said -- A prophet to you shall the Lord your God raise up out of your brethren, like to me; him shall ye hear in all things, as many as he may speak unto you;'),(44003023,44,3,23,'and it shall be, every soul that may not hear that prophet shall be utterly destroyed out of the people;'),(44003024,44,3,24,'and also all the prophets from Samuel and those following in order, as many as spake, did also foretell of these days.'),(44003025,44,3,25,'`Ye are sons of the prophets, and of the covenant that God made unto our fathers, saying unto Abraham: And in thy seed shall be blessed all the families of the earth;'),(44003026,44,3,26,'to you first, God, having raised up His child Jesus, did send him, blessing you, in the turning away of each one from your evil ways.\''),(44004001,44,4,1,'And as they are speaking unto the people, there came to them the priests, and the magistrate of the temple, and the Sadducees --'),(44004002,44,4,2,'being grieved because of their teaching the people, and preaching in Jesus the rising again out of the dead --'),(44004003,44,4,3,'and they laid hands upon them, and did put them in custody unto the morrow, for it was evening already;'),(44004004,44,4,4,'and many of those hearing the word did believe, and the number of the men became, as it were, five thousand.'),(44004005,44,4,5,'And it came to pass upon the morrow, there were gathered together of them the rulers, and elders, and scribes, to Jerusalem,'),(44004006,44,4,6,'and Annas the chief priest, and Caiaphas, and John, and Alexander, and as many as were of the kindred of the chief priest,'),(44004007,44,4,7,'and having set them in the midst, they were inquiring, `In what power, or in what name did ye do this?\''),(44004008,44,4,8,'Then Peter, having been filled with the Holy Spirit, said unto them: `Rulers of the people, and elders of Israel,'),(44004009,44,4,9,'if we to-day are examined concerning the good deed to the ailing man, by whom he hath been saved,'),(44004010,44,4,10,'be it known to all of you, and to all the people of Israel, that in the name of Jesus Christ of Nazareth, whom ye did crucify, whom God did raise out of the dead, in him hath this one stood by before you whole.'),(44004011,44,4,11,'`This is the stone that was set at nought by you -- the builders, that became head of a corner;'),(44004012,44,4,12,'and there is not salvation in any other, for there is no other name under the heaven that hath been given among men, in which it behoveth us to be saved.\''),(44004013,44,4,13,'And beholding the openness of Peter and John, and having perceived that they are men unlettered and plebeian, they were wondering -- they were taking knowledge also of them that with Jesus they had been --'),(44004014,44,4,14,'and seeing the man standing with them who hath been healed, they had nothing to say against `it\','),(44004015,44,4,15,'and having commanded them to go away out of the sanhedrim, they took counsel with one another,'),(44004016,44,4,16,'saying, `What shall we do to these men? because that, indeed, a notable sign hath been done through them, to all those dwelling in Jerusalem `is\' manifest, and we are not able to deny `it\';'),(44004017,44,4,17,'but that it may spread no further toward the people, let us strictly threaten them no more to speak in this name to any man.\''),(44004018,44,4,18,'And having called them, they charged them not to speak at all, nor to teach, in the name of Jesus,'),(44004019,44,4,19,'and Peter and John answering unto them said, `Whether it is righteous before God to hearken to you rather than to God, judge ye;'),(44004020,44,4,20,'for we cannot but speak what we did see and hear.\''),(44004021,44,4,21,'And they having further threatened `them\', let them go, finding nothing how they may punish them, because of the people, because all were glorifying God for that which hath been done,'),(44004022,44,4,22,'for above forty years of age was the man upon whom had been done this sign of the healing.'),(44004023,44,4,23,'And being let go, they went unto their own friends, and declared whatever the chief priests and the elders said unto them,'),(44004024,44,4,24,'and they having heard, with one accord did lift up the voice unto God, and said, `Lord, thou `art\' God, who didst make the heaven, and the earth, and the sea, and all that `are\' in them,'),(44004025,44,4,25,'who, through the mouth of David thy servant, did say, Why did nations rage, and peoples meditate vain things?'),(44004026,44,4,26,'the kings of the earth stood up, and the rulers were gathered together against the Lord and against His Christ;'),(44004027,44,4,27,'for gathered together of a truth against Thy holy child Jesus, whom Thou didst anoint, were both Herod and Pontius Pilate, with nations and peoples of Israel,'),(44004028,44,4,28,'to do whatever Thy hand and Thy counsel did determine before to come to pass.'),(44004029,44,4,29,'`And now, Lord, look upon their threatenings, and grant to Thy servants with all freedom to speak Thy word,'),(44004030,44,4,30,'in the stretching forth of Thy hand, for healing, and signs, and wonders, to come to pass through the name of Thy holy child Jesus.\''),(44004031,44,4,31,'And they having prayed, the place was shaken in which they were gathered together, and they were all filled with the Holy Spirit, and were speaking the word of God with freedom,'),(44004032,44,4,32,'and of the multitude of those who did believe the heart and the soul was one, and not one was saying that anything of the things he had was his own, but all things were to them in common.'),(44004033,44,4,33,'And with great power were the apostles giving the testimony to the rising again of the Lord Jesus, great grace also was on them all,'),(44004034,44,4,34,'for there was not any one among them who did lack, for as many as were possessors of fields, or houses, selling `them\', were bringing the prices of the thing sold,'),(44004035,44,4,35,'and were laying them at the feet of the apostles, and distribution was being made to each according as any one had need.'),(44004036,44,4,36,'And Joses, who was surnamed by the apostles Barnabas -- which is, having been interpreted, Son of Comfort -- a Levite, of Cyprus by birth,'),(44004037,44,4,37,'a field being his, having sold `it\', brought the money and laid `it\' at the feet of the apostles.'),(44005001,44,5,1,'And a certain man, Ananias by name, with Sapphira his wife, sold a possession,'),(44005002,44,5,2,'and did keep back of the price -- his wife also knowing -- and having brought a certain part, at the feet of the apostles he laid `it\'.'),(44005003,44,5,3,'And Peter said, `Ananias, wherefore did the Adversary fill thy heart, for thee to lie to the Holy Spirit, and to keep back of the price of the place?'),(44005004,44,5,4,'while it remained, did it not remain thine? and having been sold, in thy authority was it not? why `is\' it that thou didst put in thy heart this thing? thou didst not lie to men, but to God;\''),(44005005,44,5,5,'and Ananias hearing these words, having fallen down, did expire, and great fear came upon all who heard these things,'),(44005006,44,5,6,'and having risen, the younger men wound him up, and having carried forth, they buried `him\'.'),(44005007,44,5,7,'And it came to pass, about three hours after, that his wife, not knowing what hath happened, came in,'),(44005008,44,5,8,'and Peter answered her, `Tell me if for so much ye sold the place;\' and she said, `Yes, for so much.\''),(44005009,44,5,9,'And Peter said unto her, `How was it agreed by you, to tempt the Spirit of the Lord? lo, the feet of those who did bury thy husband `are\' at the door, and they shall carry thee forth;\''),(44005010,44,5,10,'and she fell down presently at his feet, and expired, and the young men having come in, found her dead, and having carried forth, they buried `her\' by her husband;'),(44005011,44,5,11,'and great fear came upon all the assembly, and upon all who heard these things.'),(44005012,44,5,12,'And through the hands of the apostles came many signs and wonders among the people, and they were with one accord all in the porch of Solomon;'),(44005013,44,5,13,'and of the rest no one was daring to join himself to them, but the people were magnifying them,'),(44005014,44,5,14,'(and the more were believers added to the Lord, multitudes both of men and women,)'),(44005015,44,5,15,'so as into the broad places to bring forth the ailing, and to lay `them\' upon couches and mats, that at the coming of Peter, even `his\' shadow might overshadow some one of them;'),(44005016,44,5,16,'and there were coming together also the people of the cities round about to Jerusalem, bearing ailing persons, and those harassed by unclean spirits -- who were all healed.'),(44005017,44,5,17,'And having risen, the chief priest, and all those with him -- being the sect of the Sadducees -- were filled with zeal,'),(44005018,44,5,18,'and laid their hands upon the apostles, and did put them in a public prison;'),(44005019,44,5,19,'and a messenger of the Lord through the night opened the doors of the prison, having also brought them forth, he said,'),(44005020,44,5,20,'`Go on, and standing, speak in the temple to the people all the sayings of this life;\''),(44005021,44,5,21,'and having heard, they did enter at the dawn into the temple, and were teaching. And the chief priest having come, and those with him, they called together the sanhedrim and all the senate of the sons of Israel, and they sent to the prison to have them brought,'),(44005022,44,5,22,'and the officers having come, did not find them in the prison, and having turned back, they told,'),(44005023,44,5,23,'saying -- `The prison indeed we found shut in all safety, and the keepers standing without before the doors, and having opened -- within we found no one.\''),(44005024,44,5,24,'And as the priest, and the magistrate of the temple, and the chief priests, heard these words, they were doubting concerning them to what this would come;'),(44005025,44,5,25,'and coming near, a certain one told them, saying -- `Lo, the men whom ye did put in the prison are in the temple standing and teaching the people;\''),(44005026,44,5,26,'then the magistrate having gone away with officers, brought them without violence, for they were fearing the people, lest they should be stoned;'),(44005027,44,5,27,'and having brought them, they set `them\' in the sanhedrim, and the chief priest questioned them,'),(44005028,44,5,28,'saying, `Did not we strictly command you not to teach in this name? and lo, ye have filled Jerusalem with your teaching, and ye intend to bring upon us the blood of this man.\''),(44005029,44,5,29,'And Peter and the apostles answering, said, `To obey God it behoveth, rather than men;'),(44005030,44,5,30,'and the God of our fathers did raise up Jesus, whom ye slew, having hanged upon a tree;'),(44005031,44,5,31,'this one God, a Prince and a Saviour, hath exalted with His right hand, to give reformation to Israel, and forgiveness of sins;'),(44005032,44,5,32,'and we are His witnesses of these sayings, and the Holy Spirit also, whom God gave to those obeying him.\''),(44005033,44,5,33,'And they having heard, were cut `to the heart\', and were taking counsel to slay them,'),(44005034,44,5,34,'but a certain one, having risen up in the sanhedrim -- a Pharisee, by name Gamaliel, a teacher of law honoured by all the people -- commanded to put the apostles forth a little,'),(44005035,44,5,35,'and said unto them, `Men, Israelites, take heed to yourselves about these men, what ye are about to do,'),(44005036,44,5,36,'for before these days rose up Theudas, saying, that himself was some one, to whom a number of men did join themselves, as it were four hundred, who was slain, and all, as many as were obeying him, were scattered, and came to nought.'),(44005037,44,5,37,'`After this one rose up, Judas the Galilean, in the days of the enrollment, and drew away much people after him, and that one perished, and all, as many as were obeying him, were scattered;'),(44005038,44,5,38,'and now I say to you, Refrain from these men, and let them alone, because if this counsel or this work may be of men, it will be overthrown,'),(44005039,44,5,39,'and if it be of God, ye are not able to overthrow it, lest perhaps also ye be found fighting against God.\''),(44005040,44,5,40,'And to him they agreed, and having called near the apostles, having beaten `them\', they commanded `them\' not to speak in the name of Jesus, and let them go;'),(44005041,44,5,41,'they, indeed, then, departed from the presence of the sanhedrim, rejoicing that for his name they were counted worthy to suffer dishonour,'),(44005042,44,5,42,'every day also in the temple, and in every house, they were not ceasing teaching and proclaiming good news -- Jesus the Christ.'),(44006001,44,6,1,'And in these days, the disciples multiplying, there came a murmuring of the Hellenists at the Hebrews, because their widows were being overlooked in the daily ministration,'),(44006002,44,6,2,'and the twelve, having called near the multitude of the disciples, said, `It is not pleasing that we, having left the word of God, do minister at tables;'),(44006003,44,6,3,'look out, therefore, brethren, seven men of you who are well testified of, full of the Holy Spirit and wisdom, whom we may set over this necessity,'),(44006004,44,6,4,'and we to prayer, and to the ministration of the word, will give ourselves continually.\''),(44006005,44,6,5,'And the thing was pleasing before all the multitude, and they did choose Stephen, a man full of faith and the Holy Spirit, and Philip, and Prochorus, and Nicanor, and Timon, and Parmenas, and Nicolaus, a proselyte of Antioch,'),(44006006,44,6,6,'whom they did set before the apostles, and they, having prayed, laid on them `their\' hands.'),(44006007,44,6,7,'And the word of God did increase, and the number of the disciples did multiply in Jerusalem exceedingly; a great multitude also of the priests were obedient to the faith.'),(44006008,44,6,8,'And Stephen, full of faith and power, was doing great wonders and signs among the people,'),(44006009,44,6,9,'and there arose certain of those of the synagogue, called of the Libertines, and Cyrenians, and Alexandrians, and of those from Cilicia, and Asia, disputing with Stephen,'),(44006010,44,6,10,'and they were not able to resist the wisdom and the spirit with which he was speaking;'),(44006011,44,6,11,'then they suborned men, saying -- `We have heard him speaking evil sayings in regard to Moses and God.\''),(44006012,44,6,12,'They did stir up also the people, and the elders, and the scribes, and having come upon `him\', they caught him, and brought `him\' to the sanhedrim;'),(44006013,44,6,13,'they set up also false witnesses, saying, `This one doth not cease to speak evil sayings against this holy place and the law,'),(44006014,44,6,14,'for we have heard him saying, That this Jesus the Nazarean shall overthrow this place, and shall change the customs that Moses delivered to us;\''),(44006015,44,6,15,'and gazing at him, all those sitting in the sanhedrim saw his face as it were the face of a messenger.'),(44007001,44,7,1,'And the chief priest said, `Are then these things so?\''),(44007002,44,7,2,'and he said, `Men, brethren, and fathers, hearken: The God of the glory did appear to our father Abraham, being in Mesopotamia, before his dwelling in Haran,'),(44007003,44,7,3,'and He said to him, Go forth out of thy land, and out of thy kindred, and come to a land that I shall shew thee.'),(44007004,44,7,4,'`Then having come forth out of the land of the Chaldeans, he dwelt in Haran, and from thence, after the death of his father, He did remove him to this land wherein ye now dwell,'),(44007005,44,7,5,'and He gave him no inheritance in it, not even a footstep, and did promise to give it to him for a possession, and to his seed after him -- he having no child.'),(44007006,44,7,6,'`And God spake thus, That his seed shall be sojourning in a strange land, and they shall cause it to serve, and shall do it evil four hundred years,'),(44007007,44,7,7,'and the nation whom they shall serve I will judge, said God; and after these things they shall come forth and shall do Me service in this place.'),(44007008,44,7,8,'`And He gave to him a covenant of circumcision, and so he begat Isaac, and did circumcise him on the eighth day, and Isaac `begat\' Jacob, and Jacob -- the twelve patriarchs;'),(44007009,44,7,9,'and the patriarchs, having been moved with jealousy, sold Joseph to Egypt, and God was with him,'),(44007010,44,7,10,'and did deliver him out of all his tribulations, and gave him favour and wisdom before Pharaoh king of Egypt, and he did set him -- governor over Egypt and all his house.'),(44007011,44,7,11,'`And there came a dearth upon all the land of Egypt and Canaan, and great tribulation, and our fathers were not finding sustenance,'),(44007012,44,7,12,'and Jacob having heard that there was corn in Egypt, sent forth our fathers a first time;'),(44007013,44,7,13,'and at the second time was Joseph made known to his brethren, and Joseph\'s kindred became manifest to Pharaoh,'),(44007014,44,7,14,'and Joseph having sent, did call for his father Jacob, and all his kindred -- with seventy and five souls --'),(44007015,44,7,15,'and Jacob went down to Egypt, and died, himself and our fathers,'),(44007016,44,7,16,'and they were carried over into Sychem, and were laid in the tomb that Abraham bought for a price in money from the sons of Emmor, of Sychem.'),(44007017,44,7,17,'`And according as the time of the promise was drawing nigh, which God did swear to Abraham, the people increased and multiplied in Egypt,'),(44007018,44,7,18,'till another king rose, who had not known Joseph;'),(44007019,44,7,19,'this one, having dealt subtilely with our kindred, did evil to our fathers, causing to expose their babes, that they might not live;'),(44007020,44,7,20,'in which time Moses was born, and he was fair to God, and he was brought up three months in the house of his father;'),(44007021,44,7,21,'and he having been exposed, the daughter of Pharaoh took him up, and did rear him to herself for a son;'),(44007022,44,7,22,'and Moses was taught in all wisdom of the Egyptians, and he was powerful in words and in works.'),(44007023,44,7,23,'`And when forty years were fulfilled to him, it came upon his heart to look after his brethren, the sons of Israel;'),(44007024,44,7,24,'and having seen a certain one suffering injustice, he did defend, and did justice to the oppressed, having smitten the Egyptian;'),(44007025,44,7,25,'and he was supposing his brethren to understand that God through his hand doth give salvation; and they did not understand.'),(44007026,44,7,26,'`On the succeeding day, also, he shewed himself to them as they are striving, and urged them to peace, saying, Men, brethren are ye, wherefore do ye injustice to one another?'),(44007027,44,7,27,'and he who is doing injustice to the neighbour, did thrust him away, saying, Who set thee a ruler and a judge over us?'),(44007028,44,7,28,'to kill me dost thou wish, as thou didst kill yesterday the Egyptian?'),(44007029,44,7,29,'`And Moses fled at this word, and became a sojourner in the land of Midian, where he begat two sons,'),(44007030,44,7,30,'and forty years having been fulfilled, there appeared to him in the wilderness of mount Sinai a messenger of the Lord, in a flame of fire of a bush,'),(44007031,44,7,31,'and Moses having seen did wonder at the sight; and he drawing near to behold, there came a voice of the Lord unto him,'),(44007032,44,7,32,'I `am\' the God of thy fathers; the God of Abraham, and the God of Isaac, and the God of Jacob. `And Moses having become terrified, durst not behold,'),(44007033,44,7,33,'and the Lord said to him, Loose the sandal of thy feet, for the place in which thou hast stood is holy ground;'),(44007034,44,7,34,'seeing I have seen the affliction of My people that `is\' in Egypt, and their groaning I did hear, and came down to deliver them; and now come, I will send thee to Egypt.'),(44007035,44,7,35,'`This Moses, whom they did refuse, saying, Who did set thee a ruler and a judge? this one God a ruler and a redeemer did send, in the hand of a messenger who appeared to him in the bush;'),(44007036,44,7,36,'this one did bring them forth, having done wonders and signs in the land of Egypt, and in the Red Sea, and in the wilderness forty years;'),(44007037,44,7,37,'this is the Moses who did say to the sons of Israel: A prophet to you shall the Lord your God raise up out of your brethren, like to me, him shall ye hear.'),(44007038,44,7,38,'`This is he who was in the assembly in the wilderness, with the messenger who is speaking to him in the mount Sinai, and with our fathers who did receive the living oracles to give to us;'),(44007039,44,7,39,'to whom our fathers did not wish to become obedient, but did thrust away, and turned back in their hearts to Egypt,'),(44007040,44,7,40,'saying to Aaron, Make to us gods who shall go on before us, for this Moses, who brought us forth out of the land of Egypt, we have not known what hath happened to him.'),(44007041,44,7,41,'`And they made a calf in those days, and brought a sacrifice to the idol, and were rejoicing in the works of their hands,'),(44007042,44,7,42,'and God did turn, and did give them up to do service to the host of the heaven, according as it hath been written in the scroll of the prophets: Slain beasts and sacrifices did ye offer to Me forty years in the wilderness, O house of Israel?'),(44007043,44,7,43,'and ye took up the tabernacle of Moloch, and the star of your god Remphan -- the figures that ye made to bow before them, and I will remove your dwelling beyond Babylon.'),(44007044,44,7,44,'`The tabernacle of the testimony was among our fathers in the wilderness, according as He did direct, who is speaking to Moses, to make it according to the figure that he had seen;'),(44007045,44,7,45,'which also our fathers having in succession received, did bring in with Joshua, into the possession of the nations whom God did drive out from the presence of our fathers, till the days of David,'),(44007046,44,7,46,'who found favour before God, and requested to find a tabernacle for the God of Jacob;'),(44007047,44,7,47,'and Solomon built Him an house.'),(44007048,44,7,48,'`But the Most High in sanctuaries made with hands doth not dwell, according as the prophet saith:'),(44007049,44,7,49,'The heaven `is\' My throne, and the earth My footstool; what house will ye build to Me? saith the Lord, or what `is\' the place of My rest?'),(44007050,44,7,50,'hath not My hand made all these things?'),(44007051,44,7,51,'`Ye stiff-necked and uncircumcised in heart and in ears! ye do always the Holy Spirit resist; as your fathers -- also ye;'),(44007052,44,7,52,'which of the prophets did not your fathers persecute? and they killed those who declared before about the coming of the Righteous One, of whom now ye betrayers and murderers have become,'),(44007053,44,7,53,'who received the law by arrangement of messengers, and did not keep `it\'.\''),(44007054,44,7,54,'And hearing these things, they were cut to the hearts, and did gnash the teeth at him;'),(44007055,44,7,55,'and being full of the Holy Spirit, having looked stedfastly to the heaven, he saw the glory of God, and Jesus standing on the right hand of God,'),(44007056,44,7,56,'and he said, `Lo, I see the heavens having been opened, and the Son of Man standing on the right hand of God.\''),(44007057,44,7,57,'And they, having cried out with a loud voice, stopped their ears, and did rush with one accord upon him,'),(44007058,44,7,58,'and having cast him forth outside of the city, they were stoning `him\' -- and the witnesses did put down their garments at the feet of a young man called Saul --'),(44007059,44,7,59,'and they were stoning Stephen, calling and saying, `Lord Jesus, receive my spirit;\''),(44007060,44,7,60,'and having bowed the knees, he cried with a loud voice, `Lord, mayest thou not lay to them this sin;\' and this having said, he fell asleep.'),(44008001,44,8,1,'And Saul was assenting to his death, and there came in that day a great persecution upon the assembly in Jerusalem, all also were scattered abroad in the regions of Judea and Samaria, except the apostles;'),(44008002,44,8,2,'and devout men carried away Stephen, and made great lamentation over him;'),(44008003,44,8,3,'and Saul was making havoc of the assembly, into every house entering, and haling men and women, was giving them up to prison;'),(44008004,44,8,4,'they then indeed, having been scattered, went abroad proclaiming good news -- the word.'),(44008005,44,8,5,'And Philip having gone down to a city of Samaria, was preaching to them the Christ,'),(44008006,44,8,6,'the multitudes also were giving heed to the things spoken by Philip, with one accord, in their hearing and seeing the signs that he was doing,'),(44008007,44,8,7,'for unclean spirits came forth from many who were possessed, crying with a loud voice, and many who have been paralytic and lame were healed,'),(44008008,44,8,8,'and there was great joy in that city.'),(44008009,44,8,9,'And a certain man, by name Simon, was before in the city using magic, and amazing the nation of Samaria, saying himself to be a certain great one,'),(44008010,44,8,10,'to whom they were all giving heed, from small unto great, saying, `This one is the great power of God;\''),(44008011,44,8,11,'and they were giving heed to him, because of his having for a long time amazed them with deeds of magic.'),(44008012,44,8,12,'And when they believed Philip, proclaiming good news, the things concerning the reign of God and the name of Jesus Christ, they were baptized both men and women;'),(44008013,44,8,13,'and Simon also himself did believe, and, having been baptized, he was continuing with Philip, beholding also signs and mighty acts being done, he was amazed.'),(44008014,44,8,14,'And the apostles in Jerusalem having heard that Samaria hath received the word of God, did send unto them Peter and John,'),(44008015,44,8,15,'who having come down did pray concerning them, that they may receive the Holy Spirit, --'),(44008016,44,8,16,'for as yet he was fallen upon none of them, and only they have been baptized -- to the name of the Lord Jesus;'),(44008017,44,8,17,'then were they laying hands on them, and they received the Holy Spirit.'),(44008018,44,8,18,'And Simon, having beheld that through the laying on of the hands of the apostles, the Holy Spirit is given, brought before them money,'),(44008019,44,8,19,'saying, `Give also to me this authority, that on whomsoever I may lay the hands, he may receive the Holy Spirit.\''),(44008020,44,8,20,'And Peter said unto him, `Thy silver with thee -- may it be to destruction! because the gift of God thou didst think to possess through money;'),(44008021,44,8,21,'thou hast neither part nor lot in this thing, for thy heart is not right before God;'),(44008022,44,8,22,'reform, therefore, from this thy wickedness, and beseech God, if then the purpose of thy heart may be forgiven thee,'),(44008023,44,8,23,'for in the gall of bitterness, and bond of unrighteousness, I perceive thee being.\''),(44008024,44,8,24,'And Simon answering, said, `Beseech ye for me unto the Lord, that nothing may come upon me of the things ye have spoken.\''),(44008025,44,8,25,'They indeed, therefore, having testified fully, and spoken the word of the Lord, did turn back to Jerusalem; in many villages also of the Samaritans they did proclaim good news.'),(44008026,44,8,26,'And a messenger of the Lord spake unto Philip, saying, `Arise, and go on toward the south, on the way that is going down from Jerusalem to Gaza,\' -- this is desert.'),(44008027,44,8,27,'And having arisen, he went on, and lo, a man of Ethiopia, a eunuch, a man of rank, of Candace the queen of the Ethiopians, who was over all her treasure, who had come to worship to Jerusalem;'),(44008028,44,8,28,'he was also returning, and is sitting on his chariot, and he was reading the prophet Isaiah.'),(44008029,44,8,29,'And the Spirit said to Philip, `Go near, and be joined to this chariot;\''),(44008030,44,8,30,'and Philip having run near, heard him reading the prophet Isaiah, and said, `Dost thou then know what thou dost read?\''),(44008031,44,8,31,'and he said, `Why, how am I able, if some one may not guide me?\' he called Philip also, having come up, to sit with him.'),(44008032,44,8,32,'And the contents of the Writing that he was reading was this: `As a sheep unto slaughter he was led, and as a lamb before his shearer dumb, so he doth not open his mouth;'),(44008033,44,8,33,'in his humiliation his judgment was taken away, and his generation -- who shall declare? because taken from the earth is his life.\''),(44008034,44,8,34,'And the eunuch answering Philip said, `I pray thee, about whom doth the prophet say this? about himself, or about some other one?\''),(44008035,44,8,35,'and Philip having opened his mouth, and having begun from this Writing, proclaimed good news to him -- Jesus.'),(44008036,44,8,36,'And as they were going on the way, they came upon a certain water, and the eunuch said, `Lo, water; what doth hinder me to be baptized?\''),(44008037,44,8,37,'`And Philip said, `If thou dost believe out of all the heart, it is lawful;\' and he answering said, `I believe Jesus Christ to be the Son of God;\'\''),(44008038,44,8,38,'and he commanded the chariot to stand still, and they both went down to the water, both Philip and the eunuch, and he baptized him;'),(44008039,44,8,39,'and when they came up out of the water, the Spirit of the Lord caught away Philip, and the eunuch saw him no more, for he was going on his way rejoicing;'),(44008040,44,8,40,'and Philip was found at Azotus, and passing through, he was proclaiming good news to all the cities, till his coming to Cesarea.'),(44009001,44,9,1,'And Saul, yet breathing of threatening and slaughter to the disciples of the Lord, having gone to the chief priest,'),(44009002,44,9,2,'did ask from him letters to Damascus, unto the synagogues, that if he may find any being of the way, both men and women, he may bring them bound to Jerusalem.'),(44009003,44,9,3,'And in the going, he came nigh to Damascus, and suddenly there shone round about him a light from the heaven,'),(44009004,44,9,4,'and having fallen upon the earth, he heard a voice saying to him, `Saul, Saul, why me dost thou persecute?\''),(44009005,44,9,5,'And he said, `Who art thou, Lord?\' and the Lord said, `I am Jesus whom thou dost persecute; hard for thee at the pricks to kick;\''),(44009006,44,9,6,'trembling also, and astonished, he said, `Lord, what dost thou wish me to do?\' and the Lord `said\' unto him, `Arise, and enter into the city, and it shall be told thee what it behoveth thee to do.\''),(44009007,44,9,7,'And the men who are journeying with him stood speechless, hearing indeed the voice but seeing no one,'),(44009008,44,9,8,'and Saul arose from the earth, and his eyes having been opened, he beheld no one, and leading him by the hand they brought him to Damascus,'),(44009009,44,9,9,'and he was three days without seeing, and he did neither eat nor drink.'),(44009010,44,9,10,'And there was a certain disciple in Damascus, by name Ananias, and the Lord said unto him in a vision, `Ananias;\' and he said, `Behold me, Lord;\''),(44009011,44,9,11,'and the Lord `saith\' unto him, `Having risen, go on unto the street that is called Straight, and seek in the house of Judas, `one\' by name Saul of Tarsus, for, lo, he doth pray,'),(44009012,44,9,12,'and he saw in a vision a man, by name Ananias, coming in, and putting a hand on him, that he may see again.\''),(44009013,44,9,13,'And Ananias answered, `Lord, I have heard from many about this man, how many evils he did to Thy saints in Jerusalem,'),(44009014,44,9,14,'and here he hath authority from the chief priests, to bind all those calling on Thy name.\''),(44009015,44,9,15,'And the Lord said unto him, `Be going on, because a choice vessel to Me is this one, to bear My name before nations and kings -- the sons also of Israel;'),(44009016,44,9,16,'for I will shew him how many things it behoveth him for My name to suffer.\''),(44009017,44,9,17,'And Ananias went away, and did enter into the house, and having put upon him `his\' hands, said, `Saul, brother, the Lord hath sent me -- Jesus who did appear to thee in the way in which thou wast coming -- that thou mayest see again, and mayest be filled with the Holy Spirit.\''),(44009018,44,9,18,'And immediately there fell from his eyes as it were scales, he saw again also presently, and having risen, was baptized,'),(44009019,44,9,19,'and having received nourishment, was strengthened, and Saul was with the disciples in Damascus certain days,'),(44009020,44,9,20,'and immediately in the synagogues he was preaching the Christ, that he is the Son of God.'),(44009021,44,9,21,'And all those hearing were amazed, and said, `Is not this he who laid waist in Jerusalem those calling on this name, and hither to this intent had come, that he might bring them bound to the chief priests?\''),(44009022,44,9,22,'And Saul was still more strengthened, and he was confounding the Jews dwelling in Damascus, proving that this is the Christ.'),(44009023,44,9,23,'And when many days were fulfilled, the Jews took counsel together to kill him,'),(44009024,44,9,24,'and their counsel against `him\' was known to Saul; they were also watching the gates both day and night, that they may kill him,'),(44009025,44,9,25,'and the disciples having taken him, by night did let him down by the wall, letting down in a basket.'),(44009026,44,9,26,'And Saul, having come to Jerusalem, did try to join himself to the disciples, and they were all afraid of him, not believing that he is a disciple,'),(44009027,44,9,27,'and Barnabas having taken him, brought `him\' unto the apostles, and did declare to them how in the way he saw the Lord, and that he spake to him, and how in Damascus he was speaking boldly in the name of Jesus.'),(44009028,44,9,28,'And he was with them, coming in and going out in Jerusalem,'),(44009029,44,9,29,'and speaking boldly in the name of the Lord Jesus, he was both speaking and disputing with the Hellenists, and they were taking in hand to kill him,'),(44009030,44,9,30,'and the brethren having known, brought him down to Cesarea, and sent him forth to Tarsus.'),(44009031,44,9,31,'Then, indeed, the assemblies throughout all Judea, and Galilee, and Samaria, had peace, being built up, and, going on in the fear of the Lord, and in the comfort of the Holy Spirit, they were multiplied.'),(44009032,44,9,32,'And it came to pass that Peter passing throughout all `quarters\', came down also unto the saints who were dwelling at Lydda,'),(44009033,44,9,33,'and he found there a certain man, Aeneas by name -- for eight years laid upon a couch -- who was paralytic,'),(44009034,44,9,34,'and Peter said to him, `Aeneas, heal thee doth Jesus the Christ; arise and spread for thyself;\' and immediately he rose,'),(44009035,44,9,35,'and all those dwelling at Lydda, and Saron saw him, and did turn to the Lord.'),(44009036,44,9,36,'And in Joppa there was a certain female disciple, by name Tabitha, (which interpreted, is called Dorcas,) this woman was full of good works and kind acts that she was doing;'),(44009037,44,9,37,'and it came to pass in those days she, having ailed, died, and having bathed her, they laid her in an upper chamber,'),(44009038,44,9,38,'and Lydda being nigh to Joppa, the disciples having heard that Peter is in that `place\', sent two men unto him, calling on him not to delay to come through unto them.'),(44009039,44,9,39,'And Peter having risen, went with them, whom having come, they brought into the upper chamber, and all the widows stood by him weeping, and shewing coats and garments, as many as Dorcas was making while she was with them.'),(44009040,44,9,40,'And Peter having put them all forth without, having bowed the knees, did pray, and having turned unto the body said, `Tabitha, arise;\' and she opened her eyes, and having seen Peter, she sat up,'),(44009041,44,9,41,'and having given her `his\' hand, he lifted her up, and having called the saints and the widows, he presented her alive,'),(44009042,44,9,42,'and it became known throughout all Joppa, and many believed on the Lord;'),(44009043,44,9,43,'and it came to pass, that he remained many days in Joppa, with a certain one, Simon a tanner.'),(44010001,44,10,1,'And there was a certain man in Cesarea, by name Cornelius, a centurion from a band called Italian,'),(44010002,44,10,2,'pious, and fearing God with all his house, doing also many kind acts to the people, and beseeching God always,'),(44010003,44,10,3,'he saw in a vision manifestly, as it were the ninth hour of the day, a messenger of God coming in unto him, and saying to him, `Cornelius;\''),(44010004,44,10,4,'and he having looked earnestly on him, and becoming afraid, said, `What is it, Lord?\' And he said to him, `Thy prayers and thy kind acts came up for a memorial before God,'),(44010005,44,10,5,'and now send men to Joppa, and send for a certain one Simon, who is surnamed Peter,'),(44010006,44,10,6,'this one doth lodge with a certain Simon a tanner, whose house is by the sea; this one shall speak to thee what it behoveth thee to do.\''),(44010007,44,10,7,'And when the messenger who is speaking to Cornelius went away, having called two of his domestics, and a pious soldier of those waiting on him continually,'),(44010008,44,10,8,'and having declared to them all things, he sent them to Joppa.'),(44010009,44,10,9,'And on the morrow, as these are proceeding on the way, and are drawing nigh to the city, Peter went up upon the house-top to pray, about the sixth hour,'),(44010010,44,10,10,'and he became very hungry, and wished to eat; and they making ready, there fell upon him a trance,'),(44010011,44,10,11,'and he doth behold the heaven opened, and descending unto him a certain vessel, as a great sheet, bound at the four corners, and let down upon the earth,'),(44010012,44,10,12,'in which were all the four-footed beasts of the earth, and the wild beasts, and the creeping things, and the fowls of the heaven,'),(44010013,44,10,13,'and there came a voice unto him: `Having risen, Peter, slay and eat.\''),(44010014,44,10,14,'And Peter said, `Not so, Lord; because at no time did I eat anything common or unclean;\''),(44010015,44,10,15,'and `there is\' a voice again a second time unto him: `What God did cleanse, thou, declare not thou common;\''),(44010016,44,10,16,'and this was done thrice, and again was the vessel received up to the heaven.'),(44010017,44,10,17,'And as Peter was perplexed in himself what the vision that he saw might be, then, lo, the men who have been sent from Cornelius, having made inquiry for the house of Simon, stood at the gate,'),(44010018,44,10,18,'and having called, they were asking if Simon, who is surnamed Peter, doth lodge here?'),(44010019,44,10,19,'And Peter thinking about the vision, the Spirit said to him, `Lo, three men do seek thee;'),(44010020,44,10,20,'but having risen, go down and go on with them, nothing doubting, because I have sent them;\''),(44010021,44,10,21,'and Peter having come down unto the men who have been sent from Cornelius unto him, said, `Lo, I am he whom ye seek, what `is\' the cause for which ye are present?\''),(44010022,44,10,22,'And they said, `Cornelius, a centurion, a man righteous and fearing God, well testified to, also, by all the nation of the Jews, was divinely warned by a holy messenger to send for thee, to his house, and to hear sayings from thee.\''),(44010023,44,10,23,'Having called them in, therefore, he lodged them, and on the morrow Peter went forth with them, and certain of the brethren from Joppa went with him,'),(44010024,44,10,24,'and on the morrow they did enter into Cesarea; and Cornelius was waiting for them, having called together his kindred and near friends,'),(44010025,44,10,25,'and as it came that Peter entered in, Cornelius having met him, having fallen at `his\' feet, did bow before `him\';'),(44010026,44,10,26,'and Peter raised him, saying, `Stand up; I also myself am a man;\''),(44010027,44,10,27,'and talking with him he went in, and doth find many having come together.'),(44010028,44,10,28,'And he said unto them, `Ye know how it is unlawful for a man, a Jew, to keep company with, or to come unto, one of another race, but to me God did shew to call no man common or unclean;'),(44010029,44,10,29,'therefore also without gainsaying I came, having been sent for; I ask, therefore, for what matter ye did send for me?\''),(44010030,44,10,30,'And Cornelius said, `Four days ago till this hour, I was fasting, and `at\' the ninth hour praying in my house, and, lo, a man stood before me in bright clothing,'),(44010031,44,10,31,'and he said, Cornelius, thy prayer was heard, and thy kind acts were remembered before God;'),(44010032,44,10,32,'send, therefore, to Joppa, and call for Simon, who is surnamed Peter; this one doth lodge in the house of Simon a tanner, by the sea, who having come, shall speak to thee;'),(44010033,44,10,33,'at once, therefore, I sent to thee; thou also didst do well, having come; now, therefore, are we all before God present to hear all things that have been commanded thee by God.\''),(44010034,44,10,34,'And Peter having opened his mouth, said, `Of a truth, I perceive that God is no respecter of persons,'),(44010035,44,10,35,'but in every nation he who is fearing Him, and is working righteousness, is acceptable to Him;'),(44010036,44,10,36,'the word that he sent to the sons of Israel, proclaiming good news -- peace through Jesus Christ (this one is Lord of all,)'),(44010037,44,10,37,'ye -- ye have known; -- the word that came throughout all Judea, having begun from Galilee, after the baptism that John preached;'),(44010038,44,10,38,'Jesus who `is\' from Nazareth -- how God did anoint him with the Holy Spirit and power; who went through, doing good, and healing all those oppressed by the devil, because God was with him;'),(44010039,44,10,39,'and we -- we are witnesses of all things that he did, both in the country of the Jews, and in Jerusalem, -- whom they did slay, having hanged upon a tree.'),(44010040,44,10,40,'`This one God did raise up the third day, and gave him to become manifest,'),(44010041,44,10,41,'not to all the people, but to witnesses, to those having been chosen before by God -- to us who did eat with `him\', and did drink with him, after his rising out of the dead;'),(44010042,44,10,42,'and he commanded us to preach to the people, and to testify fully that it is he who hath been ordained by God judge of living and dead --'),(44010043,44,10,43,'to this one do all the prophets testify, that through his name every one that is believing in him doth receive remission of sins.\''),(44010044,44,10,44,'While Peter is yet speaking these sayings, the Holy spirit fell upon all those hearing the word,'),(44010045,44,10,45,'and those of the circumcision believing were astonished -- as many as came with Peter -- because also upon the nations the gift of the Holy Spirit hath been poured out,'),(44010046,44,10,46,'for they were hearing them speaking with tongues and magnifying God.'),(44010047,44,10,47,'Then answered Peter, `The water is any one able to forbid, that these may not be baptized, who the Holy Spirit did receive -- even as also we?\''),(44010048,44,10,48,'he commanded them also to be baptized in the name of the Lord; then they besought him to remain certain days.'),(44011001,44,11,1,'And the apostles and the brethren who are in Judea heard that also the nations did receive the word of God,'),(44011002,44,11,2,'and when Peter came up to Jerusalem, those of the circumcision were contending with him,'),(44011003,44,11,3,'saying -- `Unto men uncircumcised thou didst go in, and didst eat with them!\''),(44011004,44,11,4,'And Peter having begun, did expound to them in order saying,'),(44011005,44,11,5,'`I was in the city of Joppa praying, and I saw in a trance a vision, a certain vessel coming down, as a great sheet by four corners being let down out of the heaven, and it came unto me;'),(44011006,44,11,6,'at which having looked stedfastly, I was considering, and I saw the four-footed beasts of the earth, and the wild beasts, and the creeping things, and the fowls of heaven;'),(44011007,44,11,7,'and I heard a voice saying to me, Having risen, Peter, slay and eat;'),(44011008,44,11,8,'and I said, Not so, Lord; because anything common or unclean hath at no time entered into my mouth;'),(44011009,44,11,9,'and a voice did answer me a second time out of the heaven, What God did cleanse, thou -- declare not thou common.'),(44011010,44,11,10,'`And this happened thrice, and again was all drawn up to the heaven,'),(44011011,44,11,11,'and, lo, immediately, three men stood at the house in which I was, having been sent from Cesarea unto me,'),(44011012,44,11,12,'and the Spirit said to me to go with them, nothing doubting, and these six brethren also went with me, and we did enter into the house of the man,'),(44011013,44,11,13,'he declared also to us how he saw the messenger in his house standing, and saying to him, Send men to Joppa, and call for Simon, who is surnamed Peter,'),(44011014,44,11,14,'who shall speak sayings by which thou shalt be saved, thou and all thy house.'),(44011015,44,11,15,'`And in my beginning to speak, the Holy Spirit did fall upon them, even as also upon us in the beginning,'),(44011016,44,11,16,'and I remembered the saying of the Lord, how he said, John indeed did baptize with water, and ye shall be baptized with the Holy Spirit;'),(44011017,44,11,17,'if then the equal gift God did give to them as also to us, having believed upon the Lord Jesus Christ, I -- how was I able to withstand God?\''),(44011018,44,11,18,'And they, having heard these things, were silent, and were glorifying God, saying, `Then, indeed, also to the nations did God give the reformation to life.\''),(44011019,44,11,19,'Those, indeed, therefore, having been scattered abroad, from the tribulation that came after Stephen, went through unto Phenice, and Cyprus, and Antioch, speaking the word to none except to Jews only;'),(44011020,44,11,20,'and there were certain of them men of Cyprus and Cyrene, who having entered into Antioch, were speaking unto the Hellenists, proclaiming good news -- the Lord Jesus,'),(44011021,44,11,21,'and the hand of the Lord was with them, a great number also, having believed, did turn unto the Lord.'),(44011022,44,11,22,'And the account was heard in the ears of the assembly that `is\' in Jerusalem concerning them, and they sent forth Barnabas to go through unto Antioch,'),(44011023,44,11,23,'who, having come, and having seen the grace of God, was glad, and was exhorting all with purpose of heart to cleave to the Lord,'),(44011024,44,11,24,'because he was a good man, and full of the Holy Spirit, and of faith, and a great multitude was added to the Lord.'),(44011025,44,11,25,'And Barnabas went forth to Tarsus, to seek for Saul,'),(44011026,44,11,26,'and having found him, he brought him to Antioch, and it came to pass that they a whole year did assemble together in the assembly, and taught a great multitude, the disciples also were divinely called first in Antioch Christians.'),(44011027,44,11,27,'And in those days there came from Jerusalem prophets to Antioch,'),(44011028,44,11,28,'and one of them, by name Agabus, having stood up, did signify through the Spirit a great dearth is about to be throughout all the world -- which also came to pass in the time of Claudius Caesar --'),(44011029,44,11,29,'and the disciples, according as any one was prospering, determined each of them to send for ministration to the brethren dwelling in Judea,'),(44011030,44,11,30,'which also they did, having sent unto the elders by the hand of Barnabas and Saul.'),(44012001,44,12,1,'And about that time, Herod the king put forth his hands, to do evil to certain of those of the assembly,'),(44012002,44,12,2,'and he killed James, the brother of John, with the sword,'),(44012003,44,12,3,'and having seen that it is pleasing to the Jews, he added to lay hold of Peter also -- and they were the days of the unleavened food --'),(44012004,44,12,4,'whom also having seized, he did put in prison, having delivered `him\' to four quaternions of soldiers to guard him, intending after the passover to bring him forth to the people.'),(44012005,44,12,5,'Peter, therefore, indeed, was kept in the prison, and fervent prayer was being made by the assembly unto God for him,'),(44012006,44,12,6,'and when Herod was about to bring him forth, the same night was Peter sleeping between two soldiers, having been bound with two chains, guards also before the door were keeping the prison,'),(44012007,44,12,7,'and lo, a messenger of the Lord stood by, and a light shone in the buildings, and having smitten Peter on the side, he raised him up, saying, `Rise in haste,\' and his chains fell from off `his\' hands.'),(44012008,44,12,8,'The messenger also said to him, `Gird thyself, and bind on thy sandals;\' and he did so; and he saith to him, `Put thy garment round and be following me;\''),(44012009,44,12,9,'and having gone forth, he was following him, and he knew not that it is true that which is done through the messenger, and was thinking he saw a vision,'),(44012010,44,12,10,'and having passed through a first ward, and a second, they came unto the iron gate that is leading to the city, which of its own accord did open to them, and having gone forth, they went on through one street, and immediately the messenger departed from him.'),(44012011,44,12,11,'And Peter having come to himself, said, `Now I have known of a truth that the Lord did sent forth His messenger, and did deliver me out of the hand of Herod, and all the expectation of the people of the Jews;\''),(44012012,44,12,12,'also, having considered, he came unto the house of Mary, the mother of John, who is surnamed Mark, where there were many thronged together and praying.'),(44012013,44,12,13,'And Peter having knocked at the door of the porch, there came a damsel to hearken, by name Rhoda,'),(44012014,44,12,14,'and having known the voice of Peter, from the joy she did not open the porch, but having run in, told of the standing of Peter before the porch,'),(44012015,44,12,15,'and they said unto her, `Thou art mad;\' and she was confidently affirming `it\' to be so, and they said, `It is his messenger;\''),(44012016,44,12,16,'and Peter was continuing knocking, and having opened, they saw him, and were astonished,'),(44012017,44,12,17,'and having beckoned to them with the hand to be silent, he declared to them how the Lord brought him out of the prison, and he said, `Declare to James and to the brethren these things;\' and having gone forth, he went on to another place.'),(44012018,44,12,18,'And day having come, there was not a little stir among the soldiers what then was become of Peter,'),(44012019,44,12,19,'and Herod having sought for him, and not having found, having examined the guards, did command `them\' to be led away to punishment, and having gone down from Judea to Cesarea, he was abiding `there\'.'),(44012020,44,12,20,'And Herod was highly displeased with the Tyrians and Sidonians, and with one accord they came unto him, and having made a friend of Blastus, who `is\' over the bed-chambers of the king, they were asking peace, because of their country being nourished from the king\'s;'),(44012021,44,12,21,'and on a set day, Herod having arrayed himself in kingly apparel, and having sat down upon the tribunal, was making an oration unto them,'),(44012022,44,12,22,'and the populace were shouting, `The voice of a god, and not of a man;\''),(44012023,44,12,23,'and presently there smote him a messenger of the Lord, because he did not give the glory to God, and having been eaten of worms, he expired.'),(44012024,44,12,24,'And the word of God did grow and did multiply,'),(44012025,44,12,25,'and Barnabas and Saul did turn back out of Jerusalem, having fulfilled the ministration, having taken also with `them\' John, who was surnamed Mark.'),(44013001,44,13,1,'And there were certain in Antioch, in the assembly there, prophets and teachers; both Barnabas, and Simeon who is called Niger, and Lucius the Cyrenian, Manaen also -- Herod the tetrarch\'s foster-brother -- and Saul;'),(44013002,44,13,2,'and in their ministering to the Lord and fasting, the Holy Spirit said, `Separate ye to me both Barnabas and Saul to the work to which I have called them,\''),(44013003,44,13,3,'then having fasted, and having prayed, and having laid the hands on them, they sent `them\' away.'),(44013004,44,13,4,'These, indeed, then, having been sent forth by the Holy Spirit, went down to Seleucia, thence also they sailed to Cyprus,'),(44013005,44,13,5,'and having come unto Salamis, they declared the word of God in the synagogues of the Jews, and they had also John `as\' a ministrant;'),(44013006,44,13,6,'and having gone through the island unto Paphos, they found a certain magian, a false prophet, a Jew, whose name `is\' Bar-Jesus;'),(44013007,44,13,7,'who was with the proconsul Sergius Paulus, an intelligent man; this one having called for Barnabas and Saul, did desire to hear the word of God,'),(44013008,44,13,8,'and there withstood them Elymas the magian -- for so is his name interpreted -- seeking to pervert the proconsul from the faith.'),(44013009,44,13,9,'And Saul -- who also `is\' Paul -- having been filled with the Holy Spirit, and having looked stedfastly on him,'),(44013010,44,13,10,'said, `O full of all guile, and all profligacy, son of a devil, enemy of all righteousness, wilt thou not cease perverting the right ways of the Lord?'),(44013011,44,13,11,'and now, lo, a hand of the Lord `is\' upon thee, and thou shalt be blind, not seeing the sun for a season;\' and presently there fell upon him a mist and darkness, and he, going about, was seeking some to lead `him\' by the hand;'),(44013012,44,13,12,'then the proconsul having seen what hath come to pass, did believe, being astonished at the teaching of the Lord.'),(44013013,44,13,13,'And those about Paul having set sail from Paphos, came to Perga of Pamphylia, and John having departed from them, did turn back to Jerusalem,'),(44013014,44,13,14,'and they having gone through from Perga, came to Antioch of Pisidia, and having gone into the synagogue on the sabbath-day, they sat down,'),(44013015,44,13,15,'and after the reading of the law and of the prophets, the chief men of the synagogue sent unto them, saying, `Men, brethren, if there be a word in you of exhortation unto the people -- say on.\''),(44013016,44,13,16,'And Paul having risen, and having beckoned with the hand, said, `Men, Israelites, and those fearing God, hearken:'),(44013017,44,13,17,'the God of this people Israel did choose our fathers, and the people He did exalt in their sojourning in the land of Egypt, and with an high arm did He bring them out of it;'),(44013018,44,13,18,'and about a period of forty years He did suffer their manners in the wilderness,'),(44013019,44,13,19,'and having destroyed seven nations in the land of Canaan, He did divide by lot to them their land.'),(44013020,44,13,20,'`And after these things, about four hundred and fifty years, He gave judges -- till Samuel the prophet;'),(44013021,44,13,21,'and thereafter they asked for a king, and God did give to them Saul, son of Kish, a man of the tribe of Benjamin, for forty years;'),(44013022,44,13,22,'and having removed him, He did raise up to them David for king, to whom also having testified, he said, I found David, the `son\' of Jesse, a man according to My heart, who shall do all My will.'),(44013023,44,13,23,'`Of this one\'s seed God, according to promise, did raise to Israel a Saviour -- Jesus,'),(44013024,44,13,24,'John having first preached, before his coming, a baptism of reformation to all the people of Israel;'),(44013025,44,13,25,'and as John was fulfilling the course, he said, Whom me do ye suppose to be? I am not `he\', but, lo, he doth come after me, of whom I am not worthy to loose the sandal of `his\' feet.'),(44013026,44,13,26,'`Men, brethren, sons of the race of Abraham, and those among you fearing God, to you was the word of this salvation sent,'),(44013027,44,13,27,'for those dwelling in Jerusalem, and their chiefs, this one not having known, also the voices of the prophets, which every sabbath are being read -- having judged `him\' -- did fulfill,'),(44013028,44,13,28,'and no cause of death having found, they did ask of Pilate that he should be slain,'),(44013029,44,13,29,'and when they did complete all the things written about him, having taken `him\' down from the tree, they laid him in a tomb;'),(44013030,44,13,30,'and God did raise him out of the dead,'),(44013031,44,13,31,'and he was seen for many days of those who did come up with him from Galilee to Jerusalem, who are his witnesses unto the people.'),(44013032,44,13,32,'`And we to you do proclaim good news -- that the promise made unto the fathers,'),(44013033,44,13,33,'God hath in full completed this to us their children, having raised up Jesus, as also in the second Psalm it hath been written, My Son thou art -- I to-day have begotten thee.'),(44013034,44,13,34,'`And that He did raise him up out of the dead, no more to return to corruption, he hath said thus -- I will give to you the faithful kindnesses of David;'),(44013035,44,13,35,'wherefore also in another `place\' he saith, Thou shalt not give Thy kind One to see corruption,'),(44013036,44,13,36,'for David, indeed, his own generation having served by the will of God, did fall asleep, and was added unto his fathers, and saw corruption,'),(44013037,44,13,37,'but he whom God did raise up, did not see corruption.'),(44013038,44,13,38,'`Let it therefore be known to you, men, brethren, that through this one to you is the forgiveness of sins declared,'),(44013039,44,13,39,'and from all things from which ye were not able in the law of Moses to be declared righteous, in this one every one who is believing is declared righteous;'),(44013040,44,13,40,'see, therefore, it may not come upon you that hath been spoken in the prophets:'),(44013041,44,13,41,'See, ye despisers, and wonder, and perish, because a work I -- I do work in your days, a work in which ye may not believe, though any one may declare `it\' to you.\''),(44013042,44,13,42,'And having gone forth out of the synagogue of the Jews, the nations were calling upon `them\' that on the next sabbath these sayings may be spoken to them,'),(44013043,44,13,43,'and the synagogue having been dismissed, many of the Jews and of the devout proselytes did follow Paul and Barnabas, who, speaking to them, were persuading them to remain in the grace of God.'),(44013044,44,13,44,'And on the coming sabbath, almost all the city was gathered together to hear the word of God,'),(44013045,44,13,45,'and the Jews having seen the multitudes, were filled with zeal, and did contradict the things spoken by Paul -- contradicting and speaking evil.'),(44013046,44,13,46,'And speaking boldly, Paul and Barnabas said, `To you it was necessary that first the word of God be spoken, and seeing ye do thrust it away, and do not judge yourselves worthy of the life age-during, lo, we do turn to the nations;'),(44013047,44,13,47,'for so hath the Lord commanded us: I have set thee for a light of nations -- for thy being for salvation unto the end of the earth.\''),(44013048,44,13,48,'And the nations hearing were glad, and were glorifying the word of the Lord, and did believe -- as many as were appointed to life age-during;'),(44013049,44,13,49,'and the word of the Lord was spread abroad through all the region.'),(44013050,44,13,50,'And the Jews stirred up the devout and honourable women, and the first men of the city, and did raise persecution against Paul and Barnabas, and did put them out from their borders;'),(44013051,44,13,51,'and they having shaken off the dust of their feet against them, came to Iconium,'),(44013052,44,13,52,'and the disciples were filled with joy and the Holy Spirit.'),(44014001,44,14,1,'And it came to pass in Iconium, that they did enter together into the synagogue of the Jews, and spake, so that there believed both of Jews and Greeks a great multitude;'),(44014002,44,14,2,'and the unbelieving Jews did stir up and made evil the souls of the nations against the brethren;'),(44014003,44,14,3,'long time, indeed, therefore, did they abide speaking boldly in the Lord, who is testifying to the word of His grace, and granting signs and wonders to come to pass through their hands.'),(44014004,44,14,4,'And the multitude of the city was divided, and some were with the Jews, and some with the apostles,'),(44014005,44,14,5,'and when there was a purpose both of the nations and of the Jews with their rulers to use `them\' despitefully, and to stone them,'),(44014006,44,14,6,'they having become aware, did flee to the cities of Lycaonia, Lystra, and Derbe, and to the region round about,'),(44014007,44,14,7,'and there they were proclaiming good news.'),(44014008,44,14,8,'And a certain man in Lystra, impotent in the feet, was sitting, being lame from the womb of his mother -- who never had walked,'),(44014009,44,14,9,'this one was hearing Paul speaking, who, having stedfastly beheld him, and having seen that he hath faith to be saved,'),(44014010,44,14,10,'said with a loud voice, `Stand up on thy feet upright;\' and he was springing and walking,'),(44014011,44,14,11,'and the multitudes having seen what Paul did, did lift up their voice, in the speech of Lycaonia, saying, `The gods, having become like men, did come down unto us;\''),(44014012,44,14,12,'they were calling also Barnabas Zeus, and Paul Hermes, since he was the leader in speaking.'),(44014013,44,14,13,'And the priest of the Zeus that is before their city, oxen and garlands unto the porches having brought, with the multitudes did wish to sacrifice,'),(44014014,44,14,14,'and having heard, the apostles Barnabas and Paul, having rent their garments, did spring into the multitude, crying'),(44014015,44,14,15,'and saying, `Men, why these things do ye? and we are men like-affected with you, proclaiming good news to you, from these vanities to turn unto the living God, who made the heaven, and the earth, and the sea, and all the things in them;'),(44014016,44,14,16,'who in the past generations did suffer all the nations to go on in their ways,'),(44014017,44,14,17,'though, indeed, without witness He did not leave himself, doing good -- from heaven giving rains to us, and fruitful seasons, filling our hearts with food and gladness;\''),(44014018,44,14,18,'and these things saying, scarcely did they restrain the multitudes from sacrificing to them.'),(44014019,44,14,19,'And there came thither, from Antioch and Iconium, Jews, and they having persuaded the multitudes, and having stoned Paul, drew him outside of the city, having supposed him to be dead;'),(44014020,44,14,20,'and the disciples having surrounded him, having risen he entered into the city, and on the morrow he went forth with Barnabas to Derbe.'),(44014021,44,14,21,'Having proclaimed good news also to that city, and having discipled many, they turned back to Lystra, and Iconium, and Antioch,'),(44014022,44,14,22,'confirming the souls of the disciples, exhorting to remain in the faith, and that through many tribulations it behoveth us to enter into the reign of God,'),(44014023,44,14,23,'and having appointed to them by vote elders in every assembly, having prayed with fastings, they commended them to the Lord in whom they had believed.'),(44014024,44,14,24,'And having passed through Pisidia, they came to Pamphylia,'),(44014025,44,14,25,'and having spoken in Perga the word, they went down to Attalia,'),(44014026,44,14,26,'and thence did sail to Antioch, whence they had been given by the grace of God for the work that they fulfilled;'),(44014027,44,14,27,'and having come and gathered together the assembly, they declared as many things as God did with them, and that He did open to the nations a door of faith;'),(44014028,44,14,28,'and they abode there not a little time with the disciples.'),(44015001,44,15,1,'And certain having come down from Judea, were teaching the brethren -- `If ye be not circumcised after the custom of Moses, ye are not able to be saved;\''),(44015002,44,15,2,'there having been, therefore, not a little dissension and disputation to Paul and Barnabas with them, they arranged for Paul and Barnabas, and certain others of them, to go up unto the apostles and elders to Jerusalem about this question,'),(44015003,44,15,3,'they indeed, then, having been sent forward by the assembly, were passing through Phenice and Samaria, declaring the conversion of the nations, and they were causing great joy to all the brethren.'),(44015004,44,15,4,'And having come to Jerusalem, they were received by the assembly, and the apostles, and the elders, they declared also as many things as God did with them;'),(44015005,44,15,5,'and there rose up certain of those of the sect of the Pharisees who believed, saying -- `It behoveth to circumcise them, to command them also to keep the law of Moses.\''),(44015006,44,15,6,'And there were gathered together the apostles and the elders, to see about this matter,'),(44015007,44,15,7,'and there having been much disputing, Peter having risen up said unto them, `Men, brethren, ye know that from former days, God among us did make choice, through my mouth, for the nations to hear the word of the good news, and to believe;'),(44015008,44,15,8,'and the heart-knowing God did bare them testimony, having given to them the Holy Spirit, even as also to us,'),(44015009,44,15,9,'and did put no difference also between us and them, by the faith having purified their hearts;'),(44015010,44,15,10,'now, therefore, why do ye tempt God, to put a yoke upon the neck of the disciples, which neither our fathers nor we were able to bear?'),(44015011,44,15,11,'but, through the grace of the Lord Jesus Christ, we believe to be saved, even as also they.\''),(44015012,44,15,12,'And all the multitude did keep silence, and were hearkening to Barnabas and Paul, declaring as many signs and wonders as God did among the nations through them;'),(44015013,44,15,13,'and after they are silent, James answered, saying, `Men, brethren, hearken to me;'),(44015014,44,15,14,'Simeon did declare how at first God did look after to take out of the nations a people for His name,'),(44015015,44,15,15,'and to this agree the words of the prophets, as it hath been written:'),(44015016,44,15,16,'After these things I will turn back, and I will build again the tabernacle of David, that is fallen down, and its ruins I will build again, and will set it upright --'),(44015017,44,15,17,'that the residue of men may seek after the Lord, and all the nations, upon whom My name hath been called, saith the Lord, who is doing all these things.'),(44015018,44,15,18,'`Known from the ages to God are all His works;'),(44015019,44,15,19,'wherefore I judge: not to trouble those who from the nations do turn back to God,'),(44015020,44,15,20,'but to write to them to abstain from the pollutions of the idols, and the whoredom, and the strangled thing; and the blood;'),(44015021,44,15,21,'for Moses from former generations in every city hath those preaching him -- in the synagogues every sabbath being read.\''),(44015022,44,15,22,'Then it seemed good to the apostles and the elders, with the whole assembly, chosen men out of themselves to send to Antioch with Paul and Barnabas -- Judas surnamed Barsabas, and Silas, leading men among the brethren --'),(44015023,44,15,23,'having written through their hand thus: `The apostles, and the elders, and the brethren, to those in Antioch, and Syria, and Cilicia, brethren, who `are\' of the nations, greeting;'),(44015024,44,15,24,'seeing we have heard that certain having gone forth from us did trouble you with words, subverting your souls, saying to be circumcised and to keep the law, to whom we did give no charge,'),(44015025,44,15,25,'it seemed good to us, having come together with one accord, chosen men to send unto you, with our beloved Barnabas and Paul --'),(44015026,44,15,26,'men who have given up their lives for the name of our Lord Jesus Christ --'),(44015027,44,15,27,'we have sent, therefore, Judas and Silas, and they by word are telling the same things.'),(44015028,44,15,28,'`For it seemed good to the Holy Spirit, and to us, no more burden to lay upon you, except these necessary things:'),(44015029,44,15,29,'to abstain from things offered to idols, and blood, and a strangled thing, and whoredom; from which keeping yourselves, ye shall do well; be strong!\''),(44015030,44,15,30,'They then, indeed, having been let go, went to Antioch, and having brought the multitude together, did deliver the epistle,'),(44015031,44,15,31,'and they having read, did rejoice for the consolation;'),(44015032,44,15,32,'Judas also and Silas, being themselves also prophets, through much discourse did exhort the brethren, and confirm,'),(44015033,44,15,33,'and having passed some time, they were let go with peace from the brethren unto the apostles;'),(44015034,44,15,34,'and it seemed good to Silas to remain there still.'),(44015035,44,15,35,'And Paul and Barnabas continued in Antioch, teaching and proclaiming good news -- with many others also -- the word of the Lord;'),(44015036,44,15,36,'and after certain days, Paul said unto Barnabas, `Having turned back again, we may look after our brethren, in every city in which we have preached the word of the Lord -- how they are.\''),(44015037,44,15,37,'And Barnabas counseled to take with `them\' John called Mark,'),(44015038,44,15,38,'and Paul was not thinking it good to take him with them who withdrew from them from Pamphylia, and did not go with them to the work;'),(44015039,44,15,39,'there came, therefore, a sharp contention, so that they were parted from one another, and Barnabas having taken Mark, did sail to Cyprus,'),(44015040,44,15,40,'and Paul having chosen Silas, went forth, having been given up to the grace of God by the brethren;'),(44015041,44,15,41,'and he went through Syria and Cilicia, confirming the assemblies.'),(44016001,44,16,1,'And he came to Derbe and Lystra, and lo, a certain disciple was there, by name Timotheus son of a certain woman, a believing Jewess, but of a father, a Greek,'),(44016002,44,16,2,'who was well testified to by the brethren in Lystra and Iconium;'),(44016003,44,16,3,'this one did Paul wish to go forth with him, and having taken `him\', he circumcised him, because of the Jews who are in those places, for they all knew his father -- that he was a Greek.'),(44016004,44,16,4,'And as they were going on through the cities, they were delivering to them the decrees to keep, that have been judged by the apostles and the elders who `are\' in Jerusalem,'),(44016005,44,16,5,'then, indeed, were the assemblies established in the faith, and were abounding in number every day;'),(44016006,44,16,6,'and having gone through Phrygia and the region of Galatia, having been forbidden by the Holy Spirit to speak the word in Asia,'),(44016007,44,16,7,'having gone toward Mysia, they were trying to go on toward Bithynia, and the Spirit did not suffer them,'),(44016008,44,16,8,'and having passed by Mysia, they came down to Troas.'),(44016009,44,16,9,'And a vision through the night appeared to Paul -- a certain man of Macedonia was standing, calling upon him, and saying, `Having passed through to Macedonia, help us;\' --'),(44016010,44,16,10,'and when he saw the vision, immediately we endeavoured to go forth to Macedonia, assuredly gathering that the Lord hath called us to preach good news to them,'),(44016011,44,16,11,'having set sail, therefore, from Troas, we came with a straight course to Samothracia, on the morrow also to Neapolis,'),(44016012,44,16,12,'thence also to Philippi, which is a principal city of the part of Macedonia -- a colony. And we were in this city abiding certain days,'),(44016013,44,16,13,'on the sabbath-day also we went forth outside of the city, by a river, where there used to be prayer, and having sat down, we were speaking to the women who came together,'),(44016014,44,16,14,'and a certain woman, by name Lydia, a seller of purple, of the city of Thyatira, worshipping God, was hearing, whose heart the Lord did open to attend to the things spoken by Paul;'),(44016015,44,16,15,'and when she was baptized, and her household, she did call upon us, saying, `If ye have judged me to be faithful to the Lord, having entered into my house, remain;\' and she constrained us.'),(44016016,44,16,16,'And it came to pass in our going on to prayer, a certain maid, having a spirit of Python, did meet us, who brought much employment to her masters by soothsaying,'),(44016017,44,16,17,'she having followed Paul and us, was crying, saying, `These men are servants of the Most High God, who declare to us a way of salvation;\''),(44016018,44,16,18,'and this she was doing for many days, but Paul having been grieved, and having turned, said to the spirit, `I command thee, in the name of Jesus Christ, to come forth from her;\' and it came forth the same hour.'),(44016019,44,16,19,'And her masters having seen that the hope of their employment was gone, having caught Paul and Silas, drew `them\' to the market-place, unto the rulers,'),(44016020,44,16,20,'and having brought them to the magistrates, they said, `These men do exceedingly trouble our city, being Jews;'),(44016021,44,16,21,'and they proclaim customs that are not lawful for us to receive nor to do, being Romans.\''),(44016022,44,16,22,'And the multitude rose up together against them, and the magistrates having torn their garments from them, were commanding to beat `them\' with rods,'),(44016023,44,16,23,'many blows also having laid upon them, they cast them to prison, having given charge to the jailor to keep them safely,'),(44016024,44,16,24,'who such a charge having received, did put them to the inner prison, and their feet made fast in the stocks.'),(44016025,44,16,25,'And at midnight Paul and Silas praying, were singing hymns to God, and the prisoners were hearing them,'),(44016026,44,16,26,'and suddenly a great earthquake came, so that the foundations of the prison were shaken, opened also presently were all the doors, and of all -- the bands were loosed;'),(44016027,44,16,27,'and the jailor having come out of sleep, and having seen the doors of the prison open, having drawn a sword, was about to kill himself, supposing the prisoners to be fled,'),(44016028,44,16,28,'and Paul cried out with a loud voice, saying, `Thou mayest not do thyself any harm, for we are all here.\''),(44016029,44,16,29,'And, having asked for a light, he sprang in, and trembling he fell down before Paul and Silas,'),(44016030,44,16,30,'and having brought them forth, said, `Sirs, what must I do -- that I may be saved?\''),(44016031,44,16,31,'and they said, `Believe on the Lord Jesus Christ, and thou shalt be saved -- thou and thy house;\''),(44016032,44,16,32,'and they spake to him the word of the Lord, and to all those in his household;'),(44016033,44,16,33,'and having taken them, in that hour of the night, he did bathe `them\' from the blows, and was baptized, himself and all his presently,'),(44016034,44,16,34,'having brought them also into his house, he set food before `them\', and was glad with all the household, he having believed in God.'),(44016035,44,16,35,'And day having come, the magistrates sent the rod-bearers, saying, `Let those men go;\''),(44016036,44,16,36,'and the jailor told these words unto Paul -- `The magistrates have sent, that ye may be let go; now, therefore, having gone forth go on in peace;\''),(44016037,44,16,37,'and Paul said to them, `Having beaten us publicly uncondemned -- men, Romans being -- they did cast `us\' to prison, and now privately do they cast us forth! why no! but having come themselves, let them bring us forth.\''),(44016038,44,16,38,'And the rod-bearers told to the magistrates these sayings, and they were afraid, having heard that they are Romans,'),(44016039,44,16,39,'and having come, they besought them, and having brought `them\' forth, they were asking `them\' to go forth from the city;'),(44016040,44,16,40,'and they, having gone forth out of the prison, entered into `the house of\' Lydia, and having seen the brethren, they comforted them, and went forth.'),(44017001,44,17,1,'And having passed through Amphipolis, and Apollonia, they came to Thessalonica, where was the synagogue of the Jews,'),(44017002,44,17,2,'and according to the custom of Paul, he went in unto them, and for three sabbaths he was reasoning with them from the Writings,'),(44017003,44,17,3,'opening and alleging, `That the Christ it behoved to suffer, and to rise again out of the dead, and that this is the Christ -- Jesus whom I proclaim to you.\''),(44017004,44,17,4,'And certain of them did believe, and attached themselves to Paul and to Silas, also of the worshipping Greeks a great multitude, of the principal women also not a few.'),(44017005,44,17,5,'And the unbelieving Jews, having been moved with envy, and having taken to them of the loungers certain evil men, and having made a crowd, were setting the city in an uproar; having assailed also the house of Jason, they were seeking them to bring `them\' to the populace,'),(44017006,44,17,6,'and not having found them, they drew Jason and certain brethren unto the city rulers, calling aloud -- `These, having put the world in commotion, are also here present,'),(44017007,44,17,7,'whom Jason hath received; and these all do contrary to the decrees of Caesar, saying another to be king -- Jesus.\''),(44017008,44,17,8,'And they troubled the multitude and the city rulers, hearing these things,'),(44017009,44,17,9,'and having taking security from Jason and the rest, they let them go.'),(44017010,44,17,10,'And the brethren immediately, through the night, sent forth both Paul and Silas to Berea, who having come, went to the synagogue of the Jews;'),(44017011,44,17,11,'and these were more noble than those in Thessalonica, they received the word with all readiness of mind, every day examining the Writings whether those things were so;'),(44017012,44,17,12,'many, indeed, therefore, of them did believe, and of the honourable Greek women and men not a few.'),(44017013,44,17,13,'And when the Jews from Thessalonica knew that also in Berea was the word of God declared by Paul, they came thither also, agitating the multitudes;'),(44017014,44,17,14,'and then immediately the brethren sent forth Paul, to go on as it were to the sea, but both Silas and Timothy were remaining there.'),(44017015,44,17,15,'And those conducting Paul, brought him unto Athens, and having received a command unto Silas and Timotheus that with all speed they may come unto him, they departed;'),(44017016,44,17,16,'and Paul waiting for them in Athens, his spirit was stirred in him, beholding the city wholly given to idolatry,'),(44017017,44,17,17,'therefore, indeed, he was reasoning in the synagogue with the Jews, and with the worshipping persons, and in the market-place every day with those who met with him.'),(44017018,44,17,18,'And certain of the Epicurean and of the Stoic philosophers, were meeting together to see him, and some were saying, `What would this seed picker wish to say?\' and others, `Of strange demons he doth seem to be an announcer;\' because Jesus and the rising again he did proclaim to them as good news,'),(44017019,44,17,19,'having also taken him, unto the Areopagus they brought `him\', saying, `Are we able to know what `is\' this new teaching that is spoken by thee,'),(44017020,44,17,20,'for certain strange things thou dost bring to our ears? we wish, then, to know what these things would wish to be;\''),(44017021,44,17,21,'and all Athenians, and the strangers sojourning, for nothing else were at leisure but to say something, and to hear some newer thing.'),(44017022,44,17,22,'And Paul, having stood in the midst of the Areopagus, said, `Men, Athenians, in all things I perceive you as over-religious;'),(44017023,44,17,23,'for passing through and contemplating your objects of worship, I found also an erection on which had been inscribed: To God -- unknown; whom, therefore -- not knowing -- ye do worship, this One I announce to you.'),(44017024,44,17,24,'`God, who did make the world, and all things in it, this One, of heaven and of earth being Lord, in temples made with hands doth not dwell,'),(44017025,44,17,25,'neither by the hands of men is He served -- needing anything, He giving to all life, and breath, and all things;'),(44017026,44,17,26,'He made also of one blood every nation of men, to dwell upon all the face of the earth -- having ordained times before appointed, and the bounds of their dwellings --'),(44017027,44,17,27,'to seek the Lord, if perhaps they did feel after Him and find, -- though, indeed, He is not far from each one of us,'),(44017028,44,17,28,'for in Him we live, and move, and are; as also certain of your poets have said: For of Him also we are offspring.'),(44017029,44,17,29,'`Being, therefore, offspring of God, we ought not to think the Godhead to be like to gold, or silver, or stone, graving of art and device of man;'),(44017030,44,17,30,'the times, indeed, therefore, of the ignorance God having overlooked, doth now command all men everywhere to reform,'),(44017031,44,17,31,'because He did set a day in which He is about to judge the world in righteousness, by a man whom He did ordain, having given assurance to all, having raised him out of the dead.\''),(44017032,44,17,32,'And having heard of a rising again of the dead, some, indeed, were mocking, but others said, `We will hear thee again concerning this;\''),(44017033,44,17,33,'and so Paul went forth from the midst of them,'),(44017034,44,17,34,'and certain men having cleaved to him, did believe, among whom `is\' also Dionysius the Areopagite, and a woman, by name Damaris, and others with them.'),(44018001,44,18,1,'And after these things, Paul having departed out of Athens, came to Corinth,'),(44018002,44,18,2,'and having found a certain Jew, by name Aquilas, of Pontus by birth, lately come from Italy, and Priscilla his wife -- because of Claudius having directed all the Jews to depart out of Rome -- he came to them,'),(44018003,44,18,3,'and because of being of the same craft, he did remain with them, and was working, for they were tent-makers as to craft;'),(44018004,44,18,4,'and he was reasoning in the synagogue every sabbath, persuading both Jews and Greeks.'),(44018005,44,18,5,'And when both Silas and Timotheus came down from Macedonia, Paul was pressed in the Spirit, testifying fully to the Jews Jesus the Christ;'),(44018006,44,18,6,'and on their resisting and speaking evil, having shaken `his\' garments, he said unto them, `Your blood `is\' upon your head -- I am clean; henceforth to the nations I will go on.\''),(44018007,44,18,7,'And having departed thence, he went to the house of a certain one, by name Justus, a worshipper of God, whose house was adjoining the synagogue,'),(44018008,44,18,8,'and Crispus, the ruler of the synagogue did believe in the Lord with all his house, and many of the Corinthians hearing were believing, and they were being baptized.'),(44018009,44,18,9,'And the Lord said through a vision in the night to Paul, `Be not afraid, but be speaking and thou mayest be not silent;'),(44018010,44,18,10,'because I am with thee, and no one shall set on thee to do thee evil; because I have much people in this city;\''),(44018011,44,18,11,'and he continued a year and six months, teaching among them the word of God.'),(44018012,44,18,12,'And Gallio being proconsul of Achaia, the Jews made a rush with one accord upon Paul, and brought him unto the tribunal,'),(44018013,44,18,13,'saying -- `Against the law this one doth persuade men to worship God;\''),(44018014,44,18,14,'and Paul being about to open `his\' mouth, Gallio said unto the Jews, `If, indeed, then, it was anything unrighteous, or an act of wicked profligacy, O Jews, according to reason I had borne with you,'),(44018015,44,18,15,'but if it is a question concerning words and names, and of your law, look ye yourselves `to it\', for a judge of these things I do not wish to be,\''),(44018016,44,18,16,'and he drave them from the tribunal;'),(44018017,44,18,17,'and all the Greeks having taken Sosthenes, the chief man of the synagogue, were beating `him\' before the tribunal, and not even for these things was Gallio caring.'),(44018018,44,18,18,'And Paul having remained yet a good many days, having taken leave of the brethren, was sailing to Syria -- and with him `are\' Priscilla and Aquilas -- having shorn `his\' head in Cenchera, for he had a vow;'),(44018019,44,18,19,'and he came down to Ephesus, and did leave them there, and he himself having entered into the synagogue did reason with the Jews:'),(44018020,44,18,20,'and they having requested `him\' to remain a longer time with them, he did not consent,'),(44018021,44,18,21,'but took leave of them, saying, `It behoveth me by all means the coming feast to keep at Jerusalem, and again I will return unto you -- God willing.\' And he sailed from Ephesus,'),(44018022,44,18,22,'and having come down to Cesarea, having gone up, and having saluted the assembly, he went down to Antioch.'),(44018023,44,18,23,'And having made some stay he went forth, going through in order the region of Galatia and Phrygia, strengthening all the disciples.'),(44018024,44,18,24,'And a certain Jew, Apollos by name, an Alexandrian by birth, a man of eloquence, being mighty in the Writings, came to Ephesus,'),(44018025,44,18,25,'this one was instructed in the way of the Lord, and being fervent in the Spirit, was speaking and teaching exactly the things about the Lord, knowing only the baptism of John;'),(44018026,44,18,26,'this one also began to speak boldly in the synagogue, and Aquilas and Priscilla having heard of him, took him to `them\', and did more exactly expound to him the way of God,'),(44018027,44,18,27,'and he being minded to go through into Achaia, the brethren wrote to the disciples, having exhorted them to receive him, who having come, did help them much who have believed through the grace,'),(44018028,44,18,28,'for powerfully the Jews he was refuting publicly, shewing through the Writings Jesus to be the Christ.'),(44019001,44,19,1,'And it came to pass, in Apollos\' being in Corinth, Paul having gone through the upper parts, came to Ephesus, and having found certain disciples,'),(44019002,44,19,2,'he said unto them, `The Holy Spirit did ye receive -- having believed?\' and they said unto him, `But we did not even hear whether there is any Holy Spirit;\''),(44019003,44,19,3,'and he said unto them, `To what, then, were ye baptized?\' and they said, `To John\'s baptism.\''),(44019004,44,19,4,'And Paul said, `John, indeed, did baptize with a baptism of reformation, saying to the people that in him who is coming after him they should believe -- that is, in the Christ -- Jesus;\''),(44019005,44,19,5,'and they, having heard, were baptized -- to the name of the Lord Jesus,'),(44019006,44,19,6,'and Paul having laid on them `his\' hands, the Holy Spirit came upon them, they were speaking also with tongues, and prophesying,'),(44019007,44,19,7,'and all the men were, as it were, twelve.'),(44019008,44,19,8,'And having gone into the synagogue, he was speaking boldly for three months, reasoning and persuading the things concerning the reign of God,'),(44019009,44,19,9,'and when certain were hardened and were disbelieving, speaking evil of the way before the multitude, having departed from them, he did separate the disciples, every day reasoning in the school of a certain Tyrannus.'),(44019010,44,19,10,'And this happened for two years so that all those dwelling in Asia did hear the word of the Lord Jesus, both Jews and Greeks,'),(44019011,44,19,11,'mighty works also -- not common -- was God working through the hands of Paul,'),(44019012,44,19,12,'so that even unto the ailing were brought from his body handkerchiefs or aprons, and the sicknesses departed from them; the evil spirits also went forth from them.'),(44019013,44,19,13,'And certain of the wandering exorcist Jews, took upon `them\' to name over those having the evil spirits the name of the Lord Jesus, saying, `We adjure you by Jesus, whom Paul doth preach;\''),(44019014,44,19,14,'and there were certain -- seven sons of Sceva, a Jew, a chief priest -- who are doing this thing;'),(44019015,44,19,15,'and the evil spirit, answering, said, `Jesus I know, and Paul I am acquainted with; and ye -- who are ye?\''),(44019016,44,19,16,'And the man, in whom was the evil spirit, leaping upon them, and having overcome them, prevailed against them, so that naked and wounded they did flee out of that house,'),(44019017,44,19,17,'and this became known to all, both Jews and Greeks, who are dwelling at Ephesus, and fear fell upon them all, and the name of the Lord Jesus was being magnified,'),(44019018,44,19,18,'many also of those who did believe were coming, confessing and declaring their acts,'),(44019019,44,19,19,'and many of those who had practised the curious arts, having brought the books together, were burning `them\' before all; and they reckoned together the prices of them, and found `it\' five myriads of silverlings;'),(44019020,44,19,20,'so powerfully was the word of God increasing and prevailing.'),(44019021,44,19,21,'And when these things were fulfilled, Paul purposed in the Spirit, having gone through Macedonia and Achaia, to go on to Jerusalem, saying -- `After my being there, it behoveth me also to see Rome;\''),(44019022,44,19,22,'and having sent to Macedonia two of those ministering to him -- Timotheus and Erastus -- he himself stayed a time in Asia.'),(44019023,44,19,23,'And there came, at that time, not a little stir about the way,'),(44019024,44,19,24,'for a certain one, Demetrius by name, a worker in silver, making silver sanctuaries of Artemis, was bringing to the artificers gain not a little,'),(44019025,44,19,25,'whom, having brought in a crowd together, and those who did work about such things, he said, `Men, ye know that by this work we have our wealth;'),(44019026,44,19,26,'and ye see and hear, that not only at Ephesus, but almost in all Asia, this Paul, having persuaded, did turn away a great multitude, saying, that they are not gods who are made by hands;'),(44019027,44,19,27,'and not only is this department in danger for us of coming into disregard, but also, that of the great goddess Artemis the temple is to be reckoned for nothing, and also her greatness is about to be brought down, whom all Asia and the world doth worship.\''),(44019028,44,19,28,'And they having heard, and having become full of wrath, were crying out, saying, `Great `is\' the Artemis of the Ephesians!\''),(44019029,44,19,29,'and the whole city was filled with confusion, they rushed also with one accord into the theatre, having caught Gaius and Aristarchus, Macedonians, Paul\'s fellow-travellers.'),(44019030,44,19,30,'And on Paul\'s purposing to enter in unto the populace, the disciples were not suffering him,'),(44019031,44,19,31,'and certain also of the chief men of Asia, being his friends, having sent unto him, were entreating him not to venture himself into the theatre.'),(44019032,44,19,32,'Some indeed, therefore, were calling out one thing, and some another, for the assembly was confused, and the greater part did not know for what they were come together;'),(44019033,44,19,33,'and out of the multitude they put forward Alexander -- the Jews thrusting him forward -- and Alexander having beckoned with the hand, wished to make defence to the populace,'),(44019034,44,19,34,'and having known that he is a Jew, one voice came out of all, for about two hours, crying, `Great `is\' the Artemis of the Ephesians!\''),(44019035,44,19,35,'And the public clerk having quieted the multitude, saith, `Men, Ephesians, why, who is the man that doth not know that the city of the Ephesians is a devotee of the great goddess Artemis, and of that which fell down from Zeus?'),(44019036,44,19,36,'these things, then, not being to be gainsaid, it is necessary for you to be quiet, and to do nothing rashly.'),(44019037,44,19,37,'`For ye brought these men, who are neither temple-robbers nor speaking evil of your goddess;'),(44019038,44,19,38,'if indeed, therefore, Demetrius and the artificers with him with any one have a matter, court `days\' are held, and there are proconsuls; let them accuse one another.'),(44019039,44,19,39,'`And if ye seek after anything concerning other matters, in the legal assembly it shall be determined;'),(44019040,44,19,40,'for we are also in peril of being accused of insurrection in regard to this day, there being no occasion by which we shall be able to give an account of this concourse;\''),(44019041,44,19,41,'and these things having said, he dismissed the assembly.'),(44020001,44,20,1,'And after the ceasing of the tumult, Paul having called near the disciples, and having embraced `them\', went forth to go on to Macedonia;'),(44020002,44,20,2,'and having gone through those parts, and having exhorted them with many words, he came to Greece;'),(44020003,44,20,3,'having made also three months\' `stay\' -- a counsel of the Jews having been against him -- being about to set forth to Syria, there came `to him\' a resolution of returning through Macedonia.'),(44020004,44,20,4,'And there were accompanying him unto Asia, Sopater of Berea, and of Thessalonians Aristarchus and Secundus, and Gaius of Derbe, and Timotheus, and of Asiatics Tychicus and Trophimus;'),(44020005,44,20,5,'these, having gone before, did remain for us in Troas,'),(44020006,44,20,6,'and we sailed, after the days of the unleavened food, from Philippi, and came unto them to Troas in five days, where we abode seven days.'),(44020007,44,20,7,'And on the first of the week, the disciples having been gathered together to break bread, Paul was discoursing to them, about to depart on the morrow, he was also continuing the discourse till midnight,'),(44020008,44,20,8,'and there were many lamps in the upper chamber where they were gathered together,'),(44020009,44,20,9,'and there was sitting a certain youth, by name Eutychus, upon the window -- being borne down by a deep sleep, Paul discoursing long -- he having sunk down from the sleep, fell down from the third story, and was lifted up dead.'),(44020010,44,20,10,'And Paul, having gone down, fell upon him, and having embraced `him\', said, `Make no tumult, for his life is in him;\''),(44020011,44,20,11,'and having come up, and having broken bread, and having tasted, for a long time also having talked -- till daylight, so he went forth,'),(44020012,44,20,12,'and they brought up the lad alive, and were comforted in no ordinary measure.'),(44020013,44,20,13,'And we having gone before unto the ship, did sail to Assos, thence intending to take in Paul, for so he had arranged, intending himself to go on foot;'),(44020014,44,20,14,'and when he met with us at Assos, having taken him up, we came to Mitylene,'),(44020015,44,20,15,'and thence having sailed, on the morrow we came over-against Chios, and the next day we arrived at Samos, and having remained in Trogyllium, on the following day we came to Miletus,'),(44020016,44,20,16,'for Paul decided to sail past Ephesus, that there may not be to him a loss of time in Asia, for he hasted, if it were possible for him, on the day of the Pentecost to be at Jerusalem.'),(44020017,44,20,17,'And from Miletus, having sent to Ephesus, he called for the elders of the assembly,'),(44020018,44,20,18,'and when they were come unto him, he said to them, `Ye -- ye know from the first day in which I came to Asia, how, with you at all times I was;'),(44020019,44,20,19,'serving the Lord with all humility, and many tears, and temptations, that befell me in the counsels of the Jews against `me\';'),(44020020,44,20,20,'how nothing I did keep back of what things are profitable, not to declare to you, and to teach you publicly, and in every house,'),(44020021,44,20,21,'testifying fully both to Jews and Greeks, toward God reformation, and faith toward our Lord Jesus Christ.'),(44020022,44,20,22,'`And now, lo, I -- bound in the Spirit -- go on to Jerusalem, the things that shall befall me in it not knowing,'),(44020023,44,20,23,'save that the Holy Spirit in every city doth testify fully, saying, that for me bonds and tribulations remain;'),(44020024,44,20,24,'but I make account of none of these, neither do I count my life precious to myself, so that I finish my course with joy, and the ministration that I received from the Lord Jesus, to testify fully the good news of the grace of God.'),(44020025,44,20,25,'`And now, lo, I have known that no more shall ye see my face, -- ye all among whom I did go preaching the reign of God;'),(44020026,44,20,26,'wherefore I take you to witness this day, that I `am\' clear from the blood of all,'),(44020027,44,20,27,'for I did not keep back from declaring to you all the counsel of God.'),(44020028,44,20,28,'`Take heed, therefore, to yourselves, and to all the flock, among which the Holy Spirit made you overseers, to feed the assembly of God that He acquired through His own blood,'),(44020029,44,20,29,'for I have known this, that there shall enter in, after my departing, grievous wolves unto you, not sparing the flock,'),(44020030,44,20,30,'and of your own selves there shall arise men, speaking perverse things, to draw away the disciples after them.'),(44020031,44,20,31,'`Therefore, watch, remembering that three years, night and day, I did not cease with tears warning each one;'),(44020032,44,20,32,'and now, I commend you, brethren, to God, and to the word of His grace, that is able to build up, and to give you an inheritance among all those sanctified.'),(44020033,44,20,33,'`The silver or gold or garments of no one did I covet;'),(44020034,44,20,34,'and ye yourselves know that to my necessities, and to those who were with me, minister did these hands;'),(44020035,44,20,35,'all things I did shew you, that, thus labouring, it behoveth `us\' to partake with the ailing, to be mindful also of the words of the Lord Jesus, that he himself said, It is more blessed to give than to receive.\''),(44020036,44,20,36,'And these things having said, having bowed his knees, with them all, he did pray,'),(44020037,44,20,37,'and there came a great weeping to all, and having fallen upon the neck of Paul, they were kissing him,'),(44020038,44,20,38,'sorrowing most of all for the word that he had said -- that they are about no more to see his face; and they were accompanying him to the ship.'),(44021001,44,21,1,'And it came to pass, at our sailing, having been parted from them, having run direct, we came to Coos, and the succeeding `day\' to Rhodes, and thence to Patara,'),(44021002,44,21,2,'and having found a ship passing over to Phenicia, having gone on board, we sailed,'),(44021003,44,21,3,'and having discovered Cyprus, and having left it on the left, we were sailing to Syria, and did land at Tyre, for there was the ship discharging the lading.'),(44021004,44,21,4,'And having found out the disciples, we tarried there seven days, and they said to Paul, through the Spirit, not to go up to Jerusalem;'),(44021005,44,21,5,'but when it came that we completed the days, having gone forth, we went on, all bringing us on the way, with women and children, unto the outside of the city, and having bowed the knees upon the shore, we prayed,'),(44021006,44,21,6,'and having embraced one another, we embarked in the ship, and they returned to their own friends.'),(44021007,44,21,7,'And we, having finished the course, from Tyre came down to Ptolemais, and having saluted the brethren, we remained one day with them;'),(44021008,44,21,8,'and on the morrow Paul and his company having gone forth, we came to Cesarea, and having entered into the house of Philip the evangelist -- who is of the seven -- we remained with him,'),(44021009,44,21,9,'and this one had four daughters, virgins, prophesying.'),(44021010,44,21,10,'And we remaining many more days, there came down a certain one from Judea, a prophet, by name Agabus,'),(44021011,44,21,11,'and he having come unto us, and having taken up the girdle of Paul, having bound also his own hands and feet, said, `Thus saith the Holy Spirit, The man whose is this girdle -- so shall the Jews in Jerusalem bind, and they shall deliver `him\' up to the hands of nations.\''),(44021012,44,21,12,'And when we heard these things, we called upon `him\' -- both we, and those of that place -- not to go up to Jerusalem,'),(44021013,44,21,13,'and Paul answered, `What do ye -- weeping, and crushing mine heart? for I, not only to be bound, but also to die at Jerusalem, am ready, for the name of the Lord Jesus;\''),(44021014,44,21,14,'and he not being persuaded, we were silent, saying, `The will of the Lord be done.\''),(44021015,44,21,15,'And after these days, having taken `our\' vessels, we were going up to Jerusalem,'),(44021016,44,21,16,'and there went also of the disciples from Cesarea with us, bringing with them him with whom we may lodge, a certain Mnason of Cyprus, an aged disciple.'),(44021017,44,21,17,'And we having come to Jerusalem, the brethren did gladly receive us,'),(44021018,44,21,18,'and on the morrow Paul was going in with us unto James, all the elders also came,'),(44021019,44,21,19,'and having saluted them, he was declaring, one by one, each of the things God did among the nations through his ministration,'),(44021020,44,21,20,'and they having heard, were glorifying the Lord. They said also to him, `Thou seest, brother, how many myriads there are of Jews who have believed, and all are zealous of the law,'),(44021021,44,21,21,'and they are instructed concerning thee, that apostacy from Moses thou dost teach to all Jews among the nations, saying -- Not to circumcise the children, nor after the customs to walk;'),(44021022,44,21,22,'what then is it? certainly the multitude it behoveth to come together, for they will hear that thou hast come.'),(44021023,44,21,23,'`This, therefore, do that we say to thee: We have four men having a vow on themselves,'),(44021024,44,21,24,'these having taken, be purified with them, and be at expence with them, that they may shave the head, and all may know that the things of which they have been instructed concerning thee are nothing, but thou dost walk -- thyself also -- the law keeping.'),(44021025,44,21,25,'`And concerning those of the nations who have believed, we have written, having given judgment, that they observe no such thing, except to keep themselves both from idol-sacrifices, and blood, and a strangled thing, and whoredom.\''),(44021026,44,21,26,'Then Paul, having taken the men, on the following day, with them having purified himself, was entering into the temple, announcing the fulfilment of the days of the purification, till the offering was offered for each one of them.'),(44021027,44,21,27,'And, as the seven days were about to be fully ended, the Jews from Asia having beheld him in the temple, were stirring up all the multitude, and they laid hands upon him,'),(44021028,44,21,28,'crying out, `Men, Israelites, help! this is the man who, against the people, and the law, and this place, all everywhere is teaching; and further, also, Greeks he brought into the temple, and hath defiled this holy place;\''),(44021029,44,21,29,'for they had seen before Trophimus, the Ephesian, in the city with him, whom they were supposing that Paul brought into the temple.'),(44021030,44,21,30,'All the city also was moved and there was a running together of the people, and having laid hold on Paul, they were drawing him out of the temple, and immediately were the doors shut,'),(44021031,44,21,31,'and they seeking to kill him, a rumour came to the chief captain of the band that all Jerusalem hath been thrown into confusion,'),(44021032,44,21,32,'who, at once, having taken soldiers and centurions, ran down upon them, and they having seen the chief captain and the soldiers, did leave off beating Paul.'),(44021033,44,21,33,'Then the chief captain, having come nigh, took him, and commanded `him\' to be bound with two chains, and was inquiring who he may be, and what it is he hath been doing,'),(44021034,44,21,34,'and some were crying out one thing, and some another, among the multitude, and not being able to know the certainty because of the tumult, he commanded him to be carried to the castle,'),(44021035,44,21,35,'and when he came upon the steps, it happened he was borne by the soldiers, because of the violence of the multitude,'),(44021036,44,21,36,'for the crowd of the people was following after, crying, `Away with him.\''),(44021037,44,21,37,'And Paul being about to be led into the castle, saith to the chief captain, `Is it permitted to me to say anything unto thee?\' and he said, `Greek dost thou know?'),(44021038,44,21,38,'art not thou, then, the Egyptian who before these days made an uprising, and did lead into the desert the four thousand men of the assassins?\''),(44021039,44,21,39,'And Paul said, `I, indeed, am a man, a Jew, of Tarsus of Cilicia, of no mean city a citizen; and I beseech thee, suffer me to speak unto the people.\''),(44021040,44,21,40,'And he having given him leave, Paul having stood upon the stairs, did beckon with the hand to the people, and there having been a great silence, he spake unto them in the Hebrew dialect, saying:'),(44022001,44,22,1,'`Men, brethren, and fathers, hear my defence now unto you;\' --'),(44022002,44,22,2,'and they having heard that in the Hebrew dialect he was speaking to them, gave the more silence, and he saith, --'),(44022003,44,22,3,'`I, indeed, am a man, a Jew, having been born in Tarsus of Cilicia, and brought up in this city at the feet of Gamaliel, having been taught according to the exactitude of a law of the fathers, being zealous of God, as all ye are to-day.'),(44022004,44,22,4,'`And this way I persecuted unto death, binding and delivering up to prisons both men and women,'),(44022005,44,22,5,'as also the chief priest doth testify to me, and all the eldership; from whom also having received letters unto the brethren, to Damascus, I was going on, to bring also those there bound to Jerusalem that they might be punished,'),(44022006,44,22,6,'and it came to pass, in my going on and coming nigh to Damascus, about noon, suddenly out of the heaven there shone a great light round about me,'),(44022007,44,22,7,'I fell also to the ground, and I heard a voice saying to me, Saul, Saul, why me dost thou persecute?'),(44022008,44,22,8,'`And I answered, Who art thou, Lord? and he said unto me, I am Jesus the Nazarene whom thou dost persecute --'),(44022009,44,22,9,'and they who are with me the light did see, and became afraid, and the voice they heard not of him who is speaking to me --'),(44022010,44,22,10,'and I said, What shall I do, Lord? and the Lord said unto me, Having risen, go on to Damascus, and there it shall be told thee concerning all things that have been appointed for thee to do.'),(44022011,44,22,11,'`And when I did not see from the glory of that light, being led by the hand by those who are with me, I came to Damascus,'),(44022012,44,22,12,'and a certain one, Ananias, a pious man according to the law, being testified to by all the Jews dwelling `there\','),(44022013,44,22,13,'having come unto me and stood by `me\', said to me, Saul, brother, look up; and I the same hour did look up to him;'),(44022014,44,22,14,'and he said, The God of our fathers did choose thee beforehand to know His will, and to see the Righteous One, and to hear a voice out of his mouth,'),(44022015,44,22,15,'because thou shalt be his witness unto all men of what thou hast seen and heard;'),(44022016,44,22,16,'and now, why tarriest thou? having risen, baptize thyself, and wash away thy sins, calling upon the name of the Lord.'),(44022017,44,22,17,'`And it came to pass when I returned to Jerusalem, and while I was praying in the temple, I came into a trance,'),(44022018,44,22,18,'and I saw him saying to me, Haste and go forth in haste out of Jerusalem, because they will not receive thy testimony concerning me;'),(44022019,44,22,19,'and I said, Lord, they -- they know that I was imprisoning and was scourging in every synagogue those believing on thee;'),(44022020,44,22,20,'and when the blood of thy witness Stephen was being poured forth, I also was standing by and assenting to his death, and keeping the garments of those putting him to death;'),(44022021,44,22,21,'and he said unto me, Go, because to nations far off I will send thee.\''),(44022022,44,22,22,'And they were hearing him unto this word, and they lifted up their voice, saying, `Away from the earth with such an one; for it is not fit for him to live.\''),(44022023,44,22,23,'And they crying out and casting up their garments, and throwing dust into the air,'),(44022024,44,22,24,'the chief captain commanded him to be brought into the castle, saying, `By scourges let him be examined;\' that he might know for what cause they were crying so against him.'),(44022025,44,22,25,'And as he was stretching him with the thongs, Paul said unto the centurion who was standing by, `A man, a Roman, uncondemned -- is it lawful to you to scourge;\''),(44022026,44,22,26,'and the centurion having heard, having gone near to the chief captain, told, saying, `Take heed what thou art about to do, for this man is a Roman;\''),(44022027,44,22,27,'and the chief captain having come near, said to him, `Tell me, art thou a Roman?\' and he said, `Yes;\''),(44022028,44,22,28,'and the chief captain answered, `I, with a great sum, did obtain this citizenship;\' but Paul said, `But I have been even born `so\'.\''),(44022029,44,22,29,'Immediately, therefore, they departed from him who are about to examine him, and the chief captain also was afraid, having learned that he is a Roman, and because he had bound him,'),(44022030,44,22,30,'and on the morrow, intending to know the certainty wherefore he is accused by the Jews, he did loose him from the bonds, and commanded the chief priests and all their sanhedrim to come, and having brought down Paul, he set `him\' before them.'),(44023001,44,23,1,'And Paul having earnestly beheld the sanhedrim, said, `Men, brethren, I in all good conscience have lived to God unto this day;\''),(44023002,44,23,2,'and the chief priest Ananias commanded those standing by him to smite him on the mouth,'),(44023003,44,23,3,'then Paul said unto him, `God is about to smite thee, thou whitewashed wall, and thou -- thou dost sit judging me according to the law, and, violating law, dost order me to be smitten!\''),(44023004,44,23,4,'And those who stood by said, `The chief priest of God dost thou revile?\''),(44023005,44,23,5,'and Paul said, `I did not know, brethren, that he is chief priest: for it hath been written, Of the ruler of thy people thou shalt not speak evil;\''),(44023006,44,23,6,'and Paul having known that the one part are Sadducees, and the other Pharisees, cried out in the sanhedrim, `Men, brethren, I am a Pharisee -- son of a Pharisee -- concerning hope and rising again of dead men I am judged.\''),(44023007,44,23,7,'And he having spoken this, there came a dissension of the Pharisees and of the Sadducees, and the crowd was divided,'),(44023008,44,23,8,'for Sadducees, indeed, say there is no rising again, nor messenger, nor spirit, but Pharisees confess both.'),(44023009,44,23,9,'And there came a great cry, and the scribes of the Pharisees\' part having arisen, were striving, saying, `No evil do we find in this man; and if a spirit spake to him, or a messenger, we may not fight against God;\''),(44023010,44,23,10,'and a great dissension having come, the chief captain having been afraid lest Paul may be pulled to pieces by them, commanded the soldiery, having gone down, to take him by force out of the midst of them, and to bring `him\' to the castle.'),(44023011,44,23,11,'And on the following night, the Lord having stood by him, said, `Take courage, Paul, for as thou didst fully testify the things concerning me at Jerusalem, so it behoveth thee also at Rome to testify.\''),(44023012,44,23,12,'And day having come, certain of the Jews having made a concourse, did anathematize themselves, saying neither to eat nor to drink till they may kill Paul;'),(44023013,44,23,13,'and they were more than forty who made this conspiracy by oath,'),(44023014,44,23,14,'who having come near to the chief priests and to the elders said, `With an anathema we did anathematize ourselves -- to taste nothing till we have killed Paul;'),(44023015,44,23,15,'now, therefore, ye, signify ye to the chief captain, with the sanhedrim, that to-morrow he may bring him down unto you, as being about to know more exactly the things concerning him; and we, before his coming nigh, are ready to put him to death.\''),(44023016,44,23,16,'And the son of Paul\'s sister having heard of the lying in wait, having gone and entered into the castle, told Paul,'),(44023017,44,23,17,'and Paul having called near one of the centurions, said, `This young man lead unto the chief captain, for he hath something to tell him.\''),(44023018,44,23,18,'He indeed, then, having taken him, brought him unto the chief captain, and saith, `The prisoner Paul, having called me near, asked `me\' this young man to bring unto thee, having something to say to thee.\''),(44023019,44,23,19,'And the chief captain having taken him by the hand, and having withdrawn by themselves, inquired, `What is that which thou hast to tell me?\''),(44023020,44,23,20,'and he said -- `The Jews agreed to request thee, that to-morrow to the sanhedrim thou mayest bring down Paul, as being about to enquire something more exactly concerning him;'),(44023021,44,23,21,'thou, therefore, mayest thou not yield to them, for there lie in wait for him of them more than forty men, who did anathematize themselves -- not to eat nor to drink till they kill him, and now they are ready, waiting for the promise from thee.\''),(44023022,44,23,22,'The chief captain, then, indeed, let the young man go, having charged `him\' to tell no one, `that these things thou didst shew unto me;\''),(44023023,44,23,23,'and having called near a certain two of the centurions, he said, `Make ready soldiers two hundred, that they may go on unto Caesarea, and horsemen seventy, and spearmen two hundred, from the third hour of the night;'),(44023024,44,23,24,'beasts also provide, that, having set Paul on, they may bring him safe unto Felix the governor;\''),(44023025,44,23,25,'he having written a letter after this description:'),(44023026,44,23,26,'`Claudius Lysias, to the most noble governor Felix, hail:'),(44023027,44,23,27,'This man having been taken by the Jews, and being about to be killed by them -- having come with the soldiery, I rescued him, having learned that he is a Roman;'),(44023028,44,23,28,'and, intending to know the cause for which they were accusing him, I brought him down to their sanhedrim,'),(44023029,44,23,29,'whom I found accused concerning questions of their law, and having no accusation worthy of death or bonds;'),(44023030,44,23,30,'and a plot having been intimated to me against this man -- about to be of the Jews -- at once I sent unto thee, having given command also to the accusers to say the things against him before thee; be strong.\''),(44023031,44,23,31,'Then, indeed, the soldiers according to that directed them, having taken up Paul, brought him through the night to Antipatris,'),(44023032,44,23,32,'and on the morrow, having suffered the horsemen to go on with him, they returned to the castle;'),(44023033,44,23,33,'those having entered into Caesarea, and delivered the letter to the governor, did present also Paul to him.'),(44023034,44,23,34,'And the governor having read `it\', and inquired of what province he is, and understood that `he is\' from Cilicia;'),(44023035,44,23,35,'`I will hear thee -- said he -- when thine accusers also may have come;\' he also commanded him to be kept in the praetorium of Herod.'),(44024001,44,24,1,'And after five days came down the chief priest Ananias, with the elders, and a certain orator -- Tertullus, and they made manifest to the governor `the things\' against Paul;'),(44024002,44,24,2,'and he having been called, Tertullus began to accuse `him\', saying, `Much peace enjoying through thee, and worthy deeds being done to this nation through thy forethought,'),(44024003,44,24,3,'always, also, and everywhere we receive it, most noble Felix, with all thankfulness;'),(44024004,44,24,4,'and that I may not be further tedious to thee, I pray thee to hear us concisely in thy gentleness;'),(44024005,44,24,5,'for having found this man a pestilence, and moving a dissension to all the Jews through the world -- a ringleader also of the sect of the Nazarenes --'),(44024006,44,24,6,'who also the temple did try to profane, whom also we took, and according to our law did wish to judge,'),(44024007,44,24,7,'and Lysias the chief captain having come near, with much violence, out of our hands did take away,'),(44024008,44,24,8,'having commanded his accusers to come to thee, from whom thou mayest be able, thyself having examined, to know concerning all these things of which we accuse him;\''),(44024009,44,24,9,'and the Jews also agreed, professing these things to be so.'),(44024010,44,24,10,'And Paul answered -- the governor having beckoned to him to speak -- `Knowing `that\' for many years thou hast been a judge to this nation, the more cheerfully the things concerning myself I do answer;'),(44024011,44,24,11,'thou being able to know that it is not more than twelve days to me since I went up to worship in Jerusalem,'),(44024012,44,24,12,'and neither in the temple did they find me reasoning with any one, or making a dissension of the multitude, nor in the synagogues, nor in the city;'),(44024013,44,24,13,'nor are they able to prove against me the things concerning which they now accuse me.'),(44024014,44,24,14,'`And I confess this to thee, that, according to the way that they call a sect, so serve I the God of the fathers, believing all things that in the law and the prophets have been written,'),(44024015,44,24,15,'having hope toward God, which they themselves also wait for, `that\' there is about to be a rising again of the dead, both of righteous and unrighteous;'),(44024016,44,24,16,'and in this I do exercise myself, to have a conscience void of offence toward God and men always.'),(44024017,44,24,17,'`And after many years I came, about to do kind acts to my nation, and offerings,'),(44024018,44,24,18,'in which certain Jews from Asia did find me purified in the temple, not with multitude, nor with tumult,'),(44024019,44,24,19,'whom it behoveth to be present before thee, and to accuse, if they had anything against me,'),(44024020,44,24,20,'or let these same say if they found any unrighteousness in me in my standing before the sanhedrim,'),(44024021,44,24,21,'except concerning this one voice, in which I cried, standing among them -- Concerning a rising again of the dead I am judged to-day by you.\''),(44024022,44,24,22,'And having heard these things, Felix delayed them -- having known more exactly of the things concerning the way -- saying, `When Lysias the chief captain may come down, I will know fully the things concerning you;\''),(44024023,44,24,23,'having given also a direction to the centurion to keep Paul, to let `him\' also have liberty, and to forbid none of his own friends to minister or to come near to him.'),(44024024,44,24,24,'And after certain days, Felix having come with Drusilla his wife, being a Jewess, he sent for Paul, and heard him concerning the faith toward Christ,'),(44024025,44,24,25,'and he reasoning concerning righteousness, and temperance, and the judgment that is about to be, Felix, having become afraid, answered, `For the present be going, and having got time, I will call for thee;\''),(44024026,44,24,26,'and at the same time also hoping that money shall be given to him by Paul, that he may release him, therefore, also sending for him the oftener, he was conversing with him;'),(44024027,44,24,27,'and two years having been fulfilled, Felix received a successor, Porcius Festus; Felix also willing to lay a favour on the Jews, left Paul bound.'),(44025001,44,25,1,'Festus, therefore, having come into the province, after three days went up to Jerusalem from Caesarea,'),(44025002,44,25,2,'and the chief priest and the principal men of the Jews made manifest to him `the things\' against Paul, and were calling on him,'),(44025003,44,25,3,'asking favour against him, that he may send for him to Jerusalem, making an ambush to put him to death in the way.'),(44025004,44,25,4,'Then, indeed, Festus answered that Paul is kept in Caesarea, and himself is about speedily to go on thither,'),(44025005,44,25,5,'`Therefore those able among you -- saith he -- having come down together, if there be anything in this man -- let them accuse him;\''),(44025006,44,25,6,'and having tarried among them more than ten days, having gone down to Caesarea, on the morrow having sat upon the tribunal, he commanded Paul to be brought;'),(44025007,44,25,7,'and he having come, there stood round about the Jews who have come down from Jerusalem -- many and weighty charges they are bringing against Paul, which they were not able to prove,'),(44025008,44,25,8,'he making defence -- `Neither in regard to the law of the Jews, nor in regard to the temple, nor in regard to Caesar -- did I commit any sin.\''),(44025009,44,25,9,'And Festus willing to lay on the Jews a favour, answering Paul, said, `Art thou willing, to Jerusalem having gone up, there concerning these things to be judged before me?\''),(44025010,44,25,10,'and Paul said, `At the tribunal of Caesar I am standing, where it behoveth me to be judged; to Jews I did no unrighteousness, as thou dost also very well know;'),(44025011,44,25,11,'for if indeed I am unrighteous, and anything worthy of death have done, I deprecate not to die; and if there is none of the things of which these accuse me, no one is able to make a favour of me to them; to Caesar I appeal!\''),(44025012,44,25,12,'then Festus, having communed with the council, answered, `To Caesar thou hast appealed; to Caesar thou shalt go.\''),(44025013,44,25,13,'And certain days having passed, Agrippa the king, and Bernice, came down to Caesarea saluting Festus,'),(44025014,44,25,14,'and as they were continuing there more days, Festus submitted to the king the things concerning Paul, saying, `There is a certain man, left by Felix, a prisoner,'),(44025015,44,25,15,'about whom, in my being at Jerusalem, the chief priests and the elders of the Jews laid information, asking a decision against him,'),(44025016,44,25,16,'unto whom I answered, that it is not a custom of Romans to make a favour of any man to die, before that he who is accused may have the accusers face to face, and may receive place of defence in regard to the charge laid against `him\'.'),(44025017,44,25,17,'`They, therefore, having come together -- I, making no delay, on the succeeding `day\' having sat upon the tribunal, did command the man to be brought,'),(44025018,44,25,18,'concerning whom the accusers, having stood up, were bringing against `him\' no accusation of the things I was thinking of,'),(44025019,44,25,19,'but certain questions concerning their own religion they had against him, and concerning a certain Jesus who was dead, whom Paul affirmed to be alive;'),(44025020,44,25,20,'and I, doubting in regard to the question concerning this, said, If he would wish to go on to Jerusalem, and there to be judged concerning these things --'),(44025021,44,25,21,'but Paul having appealed to be kept to the hearing of Sebastus, I did command him to be kept till I might send him unto Caesar.\''),(44025022,44,25,22,'And Agrippa said unto Festus, `I was wishing also myself to hear the man;\' and he said, `To-morrow thou shalt hear him;\''),(44025023,44,25,23,'on the morrow, therefore -- on the coming of Agrippa and Bernice with much display, and they having entered into the audience chamber, with the chief captains also, and the principal men of the city, and Festus having ordered -- Paul was brought forth.'),(44025024,44,25,24,'And Festus said, `King Agrippa, and all men who are present with us, ye see this one, about whom all the multitude of the Jews did deal with me, both in Jerusalem and here, crying out, He ought not to live any longer;'),(44025025,44,25,25,'and I, having found him to have done nothing worthy of death, and he also himself having appealed to Sebastus, I decided to send him,'),(44025026,44,25,26,'concerning whom I have no certain thing to write to `my\' lord, wherefore I brought him forth before you, and specially before thee, king Agrippa, that the examination having been made, I may have something to write;'),(44025027,44,25,27,'for it doth seem to me irrational, sending a prisoner, not also to signify the charges against him.\''),(44026001,44,26,1,'And Agrippa said unto Paul, `It is permitted to thee to speak for thyself;\' then Paul having stretched forth the hand, was making a defence:'),(44026002,44,26,2,'`Concerning all things of which I am accused by Jews, king Agrippa, I have thought myself happy, being about to make a defence before thee to-day,'),(44026003,44,26,3,'especially knowing thee to be acquainted with all things -- both customs and questions -- among Jews; wherefore, I beseech thee, patiently to hear me.'),(44026004,44,26,4,'`The manner of my life then, indeed, from youth -- which from the beginning was among my nation, in Jerusalem -- know do all the Jews,'),(44026005,44,26,5,'knowing me before from the first, (if they may be willing to testify,) that after the most exact sect of our worship, I lived a Pharisee;'),(44026006,44,26,6,'and now for the hope of the promise made to the fathers by God, I have stood judged,'),(44026007,44,26,7,'to which our twelve tribes, intently night and day serving, do hope to come, concerning which hope I am accused, king Agrippa, by the Jews;'),(44026008,44,26,8,'why is it judged incredible with you, if God doth raise the dead?'),(44026009,44,26,9,'`I, indeed, therefore, thought with myself, that against the name of Jesus of Nazareth it behoved `me\' many things to do,'),(44026010,44,26,10,'which also I did in Jerusalem, and many of the saints I in prison did shut up, from the chief priests having received the authority; they also being put to death, I gave my vote against them,'),(44026011,44,26,11,'and in every synagogue, often punishing them, I was constraining `them\' to speak evil, being also exceedingly mad against them, I was also persecuting `them\' even unto strange cities.'),(44026012,44,26,12,'`In which things, also, going on to Damascus -- with authority and commission from the chief priests --'),(44026013,44,26,13,'at mid-day, I saw in the way, O king, out of heaven, above the brightness of the sun, shining round about me a light -- and those going on with me;'),(44026014,44,26,14,'and we all having fallen to the earth, I heard a voice speaking unto me, and saying in the Hebrew dialect, Saul, Saul, why me dost thou persecute? hard for thee against pricks to kick!'),(44026015,44,26,15,'`And I said, Who art thou, Lord? and he said, I am Jesus whom thou dost persecute;'),(44026016,44,26,16,'but rise, and stand upon thy feet, for for this I appeared to thee, to appoint thee an officer and a witness both of the things thou didst see, and of the things `in which\' I will appear to thee,'),(44026017,44,26,17,'delivering thee from the people, and the nations, to whom now I send thee,'),(44026018,44,26,18,'to open their eyes, to turn `them\' from darkness to light, and `from\' the authority of the Adversary unto God, for their receiving forgiveness of sins, and a lot among those having been sanctified, by faith that `is\' toward me.'),(44026019,44,26,19,'`Whereupon, king Agrippa, I was not disobedient to the heavenly vision,'),(44026020,44,26,20,'but to those in Damascus first, and to those in Jerusalem, to all the region also of Judea, and to the nations, I was preaching to reform, and to turn back unto God, doing works worthy of reformation;'),(44026021,44,26,21,'because of these things the Jews -- having caught me in the temple -- were endeavouring to kill `me\'.'),(44026022,44,26,22,'`Having obtained, therefore, help from God, till this day, I have stood witnessing both to small and to great, saying nothing besides the things that both the prophets and Moses spake of as about to come,'),(44026023,44,26,23,'that the Christ is to suffer, whether first by a rising from the dead, he is about to proclaim light to the people and to the nations.\''),(44026024,44,26,24,'And, he thus making a defence, Festus with a loud voice said, `Thou art mad, Paul; much learning doth turn thee mad;\''),(44026025,44,26,25,'and he saith, `I am not mad, most noble Festus, but of truth and soberness the sayings I speak forth;'),(44026026,44,26,26,'for the king doth know concerning these things, before whom also I speak boldly, for none of these things, I am persuaded, are hidden from him; for this thing hath not been done in a corner;'),(44026027,44,26,27,'thou dost believe, king Agrippa, the prophets? I have known that thou dost believe!\''),(44026028,44,26,28,'And Agrippa said unto Paul, `In a little thou dost persuade me to become a Christian!\''),(44026029,44,26,29,'and Paul said, `I would have wished to God, both in a little, and in much, not only thee, but also all those hearing me to-day, to become such as I also am -- except these bonds.\''),(44026030,44,26,30,'And, he having spoken these things, the king rose up, and the governor, Bernice also, and those sitting with them,'),(44026031,44,26,31,'and having withdrawn, they were speaking unto one another, saying -- `This man doth nothing worthy of death or of bonds;\''),(44026032,44,26,32,'and Agrippa said to Festus, `This man might have been released if he had not appealed to Caesar.\''),(44027001,44,27,1,'And when our sailing to Italy was determined, they were delivering up both Paul and certain others, prisoners, to a centurion, by name Julius, of the band of Sebastus,'),(44027002,44,27,2,'and having embarked in a ship of Adramyttium, we, being about to sail by the coasts of Asia, did set sail, there being with us Aristarchus, a Macedonian of Thessalonica,'),(44027003,44,27,3,'on the next `day\' also we touched at Sidon, and Julius, courteously treating Paul, did permit `him\', having gone on unto friends, to receive `their\' care.'),(44027004,44,27,4,'And thence, having set sail, we sailed under Cyprus, because of the winds being contrary,'),(44027005,44,27,5,'and having sailed over the sea over-against Cilicia and Pamphylia, we came to Myria of Lycia,'),(44027006,44,27,6,'and there the centurion having found a ship of Alexandria, sailing to Italy, did put us into it,'),(44027007,44,27,7,'and having sailed slowly many days, and with difficulty coming over-against Cnidus, the wind not suffering us, we sailed under Crete, over-against Salmone,'),(44027008,44,27,8,'and hardly passing it, we came to a certain place called `Fair Havens,\' nigh to which was the city `of\' Lasaea.'),(44027009,44,27,9,'And much time being spent, and the sailing being now dangerous -- because of the fast also being already past -- Paul was admonishing,'),(44027010,44,27,10,'saying to them, `Men, I perceive that with hurt, and much damage, not only of the lading and of the ship, but also of our lives -- the voyage is about to be;\''),(44027011,44,27,11,'but the centurion to the pilot and to the shipowner gave credence more than to the things spoken by Paul;'),(44027012,44,27,12,'and the haven being incommodious to winter in, the more part gave counsel to sail thence also, if by any means they might be able, having attained to Phenice, `there\' to winter, `which is\' a haven of Crete, looking to the south-west and north-west,'),(44027013,44,27,13,'and a south wind blowing softly, having thought they had obtained `their\' purpose, having lifted anchor, they sailed close by Crete,'),(44027014,44,27,14,'and not long after there arose against it a tempestuous wind, that is called Euroclydon,'),(44027015,44,27,15,'and the ship being caught, and not being able to bear up against the wind, having given `her\' up, we were borne on,'),(44027016,44,27,16,'and having run under a certain little isle, called Clauda, we were hardly able to become masters of the boat,'),(44027017,44,27,17,'which having taken up, they were using helps, undergirding the ship, and fearing lest they may fall on the quicksand, having let down the mast -- so were borne on.'),(44027018,44,27,18,'And we, being exceedingly tempest-tossed, the succeeding `day\' they were making a clearing,'),(44027019,44,27,19,'and on the third `day\' with our own hands the tackling of the ship we cast out,'),(44027020,44,27,20,'and neither sun nor stars appearing for more days, and not a little tempest lying upon us, thenceforth all hope was taken away of our being saved.'),(44027021,44,27,21,'And there having been long fasting, then Paul having stood in the midst of them, said, `It behoved `you\', indeed, O men -- having hearkened to me -- not to set sail from Crete, and to save this hurt and damage;'),(44027022,44,27,22,'and now I exhort you to be of good cheer, for there shall be no loss of life among you -- but of the ship;'),(44027023,44,27,23,'for there stood by me this night a messenger of God -- whose I am, and whom I serve --'),(44027024,44,27,24,'saying, Be not afraid Paul; before Caesar it behoveth thee to stand; and, lo, God hath granted to thee all those sailing with thee;'),(44027025,44,27,25,'wherefore be of good cheer, men! for I believe God, that so it shall be, even as it hath been spoken to me,'),(44027026,44,27,26,'and on a certain island it behoveth us to be cast.\''),(44027027,44,27,27,'And when the fourteenth night came -- we being borne up and down in the Adria -- toward the middle of the night the sailors were supposing that some country drew nigh to them;'),(44027028,44,27,28,'and having sounded they found twenty fathoms, and having gone a little farther, and again having sounded, they found fifteen fathoms,'),(44027029,44,27,29,'and fearing lest on rough places we may fall, out of the stern having cast four anchors, they were wishing day to come.'),(44027030,44,27,30,'And the sailors seeking to flee out of the ship, and having let down the boat to the sea, in pretence as `if\' out of the foreship they are about to cast anchors,'),(44027031,44,27,31,'Paul said to the centurion and to the soldiers, `If these do not remain in the ship -- ye are not able to be saved;\''),(44027032,44,27,32,'then the soldiers did cut off the ropes of the boat, and suffered it to fall off.'),(44027033,44,27,33,'And till the day was about to be, Paul was calling upon all to partake of nourishment, saying, `Fourteen days to-day, waiting, ye continue fasting, having taken nothing,'),(44027034,44,27,34,'wherefore I call upon you to take nourishment, for this is for your safety, for of not one of you shall a hair from the head fall;\''),(44027035,44,27,35,'and having said these things, and having taken bread, he gave thanks to God before all, and having broken `it\', he began to eat;'),(44027036,44,27,36,'and all having become of good cheer, themselves also took food,'),(44027037,44,27,37,'(and we were -- all the souls in the ship -- two hundred, seventy and six),'),(44027038,44,27,38,'and having eaten sufficient nourishment, they were lightening the ship, casting forth the wheat into the sea.'),(44027039,44,27,39,'And when the day came, they were not discerning the land, but a certain creek were perceiving having a beach, into which they took counsel, if possible, to thrust forward the ship,'),(44027040,44,27,40,'and the anchors having taken up, they were committing `it\' to the sea, at the same time -- having loosed the bands of the rudders, and having hoisted up the mainsail to the wind -- they were making for the shore,'),(44027041,44,27,41,'and having fallen into a place of two seas, they ran the ship aground, and the fore-part, indeed, having stuck fast, did remain immoveable, but the hinder-part was broken by the violence of the waves.'),(44027042,44,27,42,'And the soldiers\' counsel was that they should kill the prisoners, lest any one having swam out should escape,'),(44027043,44,27,43,'but the centurion, wishing to save Paul, hindered them from the counsel, and did command those able to swim, having cast themselves out first -- to get unto the land,'),(44027044,44,27,44,'and the rest, some indeed upon boards, and some upon certain things of the ship; and thus it came to pass that all came safe unto the land.'),(44028001,44,28,1,'And having been saved, then they knew that the island is called Melita,'),(44028002,44,28,2,'and the foreigners were shewing us no ordinary kindness, for having kindled a fire, they received us all, because of the pressing rain, and because of the cold;'),(44028003,44,28,3,'but Paul having gathered together a quantity of sticks, and having laid `them\' upon the fire, a viper -- out of the heat having come -- did fasten on his hand.'),(44028004,44,28,4,'And when the foreigners saw the beast hanging from his hand, they said unto one another, `Certainly this man is a murderer, whom, having been saved out of the sea, the justice did not suffer to live;\''),(44028005,44,28,5,'he then, indeed, having shaken off the beast into the fire, suffered no evil,'),(44028006,44,28,6,'and they were expecting him to be about to be inflamed, or to fall down suddenly dead, and they, expecting `it\' a long time, and seeing nothing uncommon happening to him, changing `their\' minds, said he was a god.'),(44028007,44,28,7,'And in the neighbourhood of that place were lands of the principal man of the island, by name Publius, who, having received us, three days did courteously lodge `us\';'),(44028008,44,28,8,'and it came to pass, the father of Publius with feverish heats and dysentery pressed, was laid, unto whom Paul having entered, and having prayed, having laid `his\' hands on him, healed him;'),(44028009,44,28,9,'this, therefore, being done, the others also in the island having infirmities were coming and were healed;'),(44028010,44,28,10,'who also with many honours did honour us, and we setting sail -- they were lading `us\' with the things that were necessary.'),(44028011,44,28,11,'And after three months, we set sail in a ship (that had wintered in the isle) of Alexandria, with the sign Dioscuri,'),(44028012,44,28,12,'and having landed at Syracuse, we remained three days,'),(44028013,44,28,13,'thence having gone round, we came to Rhegium, and after one day, a south wind having sprung up, the second `day\' we came to Puteoli;'),(44028014,44,28,14,'where, having found brethren, we were called upon to remain with them seven days, and thus to Rome we came;'),(44028015,44,28,15,'and thence, the brethren having heard the things concerning us, came forth to meet us, unto Appii Forum, and Three Taverns -- whom Paul having seen, having given thanks to God, took courage.'),(44028016,44,28,16,'And when we came to Rome, the centurion delivered up the prisoners to the captain of the barrack, but Paul was suffered to remain by himself, with the soldier guarding him.'),(44028017,44,28,17,'And it came to pass after three days, Paul called together those who are the principal men of the Jews, and they having come together, he said unto them: `Men, brethren, I -- having done nothing contrary to the people, or to the customs of the fathers -- a prisoner from Jerusalem, was delivered up to the hands of the Romans;'),(44028018,44,28,18,'who, having examined me, were wishing to release `me\', because of their being no cause of death in me,'),(44028019,44,28,19,'and the Jews having spoken against `it\', I was constrained to appeal unto Caesar -- not as having anything to accuse my nation of;'),(44028020,44,28,20,'for this cause, therefore, I called for you to see and to speak with `you\', for because of the hope of Israel with this chain I am bound.\''),(44028021,44,28,21,'And they said unto him, `We did neither receive letters concerning thee from Judea, nor did any one who came of the brethren declare or speak any evil concerning thee,'),(44028022,44,28,22,'and we think it good from thee to hear what thou dost think, for, indeed, concerning this sect it is known to us that everywhere it is spoken against;\''),(44028023,44,28,23,'and having appointed him a day, they came, more of them unto him, to the lodging, to whom he was expounding, testifying fully the reign of God, persuading them also of the things concerning Jesus, both from the law of Moses, and the prophets, from morning till evening,'),(44028024,44,28,24,'and, some, indeed, were believing the things spoken, and some were not believing.'),(44028025,44,28,25,'And not being agreed with one another, they were going away, Paul having spoken one word -- `Well did the Holy Spirit speak through Isaiah the prophet unto our fathers,'),(44028026,44,28,26,'saying, Go on unto this people and say, With hearing ye shall hear, and ye shall not understand, and seeing ye shall see, and ye shall not perceive,'),(44028027,44,28,27,'for made gross was the heart of this people, and with the ears they heard heavily, and their eyes they did close, lest they may see with the eyes, and with the heart may understand, and be turned back, and I may heal them.'),(44028028,44,28,28,'`Be it known, therefore, to you, that to the nations was sent the salvation of God, these also will hear it;\''),(44028029,44,28,29,'and he having said these things, the Jews went away, having much disputation among themselves;'),(44028030,44,28,30,'and Paul remained an entire two years in his own hired `house\', and was receiving all those coming in unto him,'),(44028031,44,28,31,'preaching the reign of God, and teaching the things concerning the Lord Jesus Christ with all boldness -- unforbidden.'),(45001001,45,1,1,'Paul, a servant of Jesus Christ, a called apostle, having been separated to the good news of God --'),(45001002,45,1,2,'which He announced before through His prophets in holy writings --'),(45001003,45,1,3,'concerning His Son, (who is come of the seed of David according to the flesh,'),(45001004,45,1,4,'who is marked out Son of God in power, according to the Spirit of sanctification, by the rising again from the dead,) Jesus Christ our Lord;'),(45001005,45,1,5,'through whom we did receive grace and apostleship, for obedience of faith among all the nations, in behalf of his name;'),(45001006,45,1,6,'among whom are also ye, the called of Jesus Christ;'),(45001007,45,1,7,'to all who are in Rome, beloved of God, called saints; Grace to you, and peace, from God our Father, and `from\' the Lord Jesus Christ!'),(45001008,45,1,8,'first, indeed, I thank my God through Jesus Christ for you all, that your faith is proclaimed in the whole world;'),(45001009,45,1,9,'for God is my witness, whom I serve in my spirit in the good news of His Son, how unceasingly I make mention of you,'),(45001010,45,1,10,'always in my prayers beseeching, if by any means now at length I shall have a prosperous journey, by the will of God, to come unto you,'),(45001011,45,1,11,'for I long to see you, that I may impart to you some spiritual gift, that ye may be established;'),(45001012,45,1,12,'and that is, that I may be comforted together among you, through the faith in one another, both yours and mine.'),(45001013,45,1,13,'And I do not wish you to be ignorant, brethren, that many times I did purpose to come unto you -- and was hindered till the present time -- that some fruit I might have also among you, even as also among the other nations.'),(45001014,45,1,14,'Both to Greeks and to foreigners, both to wise and to thoughtless, I am a debtor,'),(45001015,45,1,15,'so, as much as in me is, I am ready also to you who `are\' in Rome to proclaim good news,'),(45001016,45,1,16,'for I am not ashamed of the good news of the Christ, for it is the power of God to salvation to every one who is believing, both to Jew first, and to Greek.'),(45001017,45,1,17,'For the righteousness of God in it is revealed from faith to faith, according as it hath been written, `And the righteous one by faith shall live,\''),(45001018,45,1,18,'for revealed is the wrath of God from heaven upon all impiety and unrighteousness of men, holding down the truth in unrighteousness.'),(45001019,45,1,19,'Because that which is known of God is manifest among them, for God did manifest `it\' to them,'),(45001020,45,1,20,'for the invisible things of Him from the creation of the world, by the things made being understood, are plainly seen, both His eternal power and Godhead -- to their being inexcusable;'),(45001021,45,1,21,'because, having known God they did not glorify `Him\' as God, nor gave thanks, but were made vain in their reasonings, and their unintelligent heart was darkened,'),(45001022,45,1,22,'professing to be wise, they were made fools,'),(45001023,45,1,23,'and changed the glory of the incorruptible God into the likeness of an image of corruptible man, and of fowls, and of quadrupeds, and of reptiles.'),(45001024,45,1,24,'Wherefore also God did give them up, in the desires of their hearts, to uncleanness, to dishonour their bodies among themselves;'),(45001025,45,1,25,'who did change the truth of God into a falsehood, and did honour and serve the creature rather than the Creator, who is blessed to the ages. Amen.'),(45001026,45,1,26,'Because of this did God give them up to dishonourable affections, for even their females did change the natural use into that against nature;'),(45001027,45,1,27,'and in like manner also the males having left the natural use of the female, did burn in their longing toward one another; males with males working shame, and the recompense of their error that was fit, in themselves receiving.'),(45001028,45,1,28,'And, according as they did not approve of having God in knowledge, God gave them up to a disapproved mind, to do the things not seemly;'),(45001029,45,1,29,'having been filled with all unrighteousness, whoredom, wickedness, covetousness, malice; full of envy, murder, strife, deceit, evil dispositions; whisperers,'),(45001030,45,1,30,'evil-speakers, God-haters, insulting, proud, boasters, inventors of evil things, disobedient to parents,'),(45001031,45,1,31,'unintelligent, faithless, without natural affection, implacable, unmerciful;'),(45001032,45,1,32,'who the righteous judgment of God having known -- that those practising such things are worthy of death -- not only do them, but also have delight with those practising them.'),(45002001,45,2,1,'Therefore, thou art inexcusable, O man -- every one who is judging -- for in that in which thou dost judge the other, thyself thou dost condemn, for the same things thou dost practise who art judging,'),(45002002,45,2,2,'and we have known that the judgment of God is according to truth, upon those practising such things.'),(45002003,45,2,3,'And dost thou think this, O man, who art judging those who such things are practising, and art doing them, that thou shalt escape the judgment of God?'),(45002004,45,2,4,'or the riches of His goodness, and forbearance, and long-suffering, dost thou despise? -- not knowing that the goodness of God doth lead thee to reformation!'),(45002005,45,2,5,'but, according to thy hardness and impenitent heart, thou dost treasure up to thyself wrath, in a day of wrath and of the revelation of the righteous judgment of God,'),(45002006,45,2,6,'who shall render to each according to his works;'),(45002007,45,2,7,'to those, indeed, who in continuance of a good work, do seek glory, and honour, and incorruptibility -- life age-during;'),(45002008,45,2,8,'and to those contentious, and disobedient, indeed, to the truth, and obeying the unrighteousness -- indignation and wrath,'),(45002009,45,2,9,'tribulation and distress, upon every soul of man that is working the evil, both of Jew first, and of Greek;'),(45002010,45,2,10,'and glory, and honour, and peace, to every one who is working the good, both to Jew first, and to Greek.'),(45002011,45,2,11,'For there is no acceptance of faces with God,'),(45002012,45,2,12,'for as many as without law did sin, without law also shall perish, and as many as did sin in law, through law shall be judged,'),(45002013,45,2,13,'for not the hearers of the law `are\' righteous before God, but the doers of the law shall be declared righteous: --'),(45002014,45,2,14,'For, when nations that have not a law, by nature may do the things of the law, these not having a law -- to themselves are a law;'),(45002015,45,2,15,'who do shew the work of the law written in their hearts, their conscience also witnessing with them, and between one another the thoughts accusing or else defending,'),(45002016,45,2,16,'in the day when God shall judge the secrets of men, according to my good news, through Jesus Christ.'),(45002017,45,2,17,'Lo, thou art named a Jew, and dost rest upon the law, and dost boast in God,'),(45002018,45,2,18,'and dost know the will, and dost approve the distinctions, being instructed out of the law,'),(45002019,45,2,19,'and hast confidence that thou thyself art a leader of blind ones, a light of those in darkness,'),(45002020,45,2,20,'an instructor of foolish ones, a teacher of babes, having the form of the knowledge and of the truth in the law.'),(45002021,45,2,21,'Thou, then, who art teaching another, thyself dost thou not teach?'),(45002022,45,2,22,'thou who art preaching not to steal, dost thou steal? thou who art saying not to commit adultery, dost thou commit adultery? thou who art abhorring the idols, dost thou rob temples?'),(45002023,45,2,23,'thou who in the law dost boast, through the transgression of the law God dost thou dishonour?'),(45002024,45,2,24,'for the name of God because of you is evil spoken of among the nations, according as it hath been written.'),(45002025,45,2,25,'For circumcision, indeed, doth profit, if law thou mayest practise, but if a transgressor of law thou mayest be, thy circumcision hath become uncircumcision.'),(45002026,45,2,26,'If, therefore the uncircumcision the righteousness of the law may keep, shall not his uncircumcision for circumcision be reckoned?'),(45002027,45,2,27,'and the uncircumcision, by nature, fulfilling the law, shall judge thee who, through letter and circumcision, `art\' a transgressor of law.'),(45002028,45,2,28,'For he is not a Jew who is `so\' outwardly, neither `is\' circumcision that which is outward in flesh;'),(45002029,45,2,29,'but a Jew `is\' he who is `so\' inwardly, and circumcision `is\' of the heart, in spirit, not in letter, of which the praise is not of men, but of God.'),(45003001,45,3,1,'What, then, `is\' the superiority of the Jew? or what the profit of the circumcision?'),(45003002,45,3,2,'much in every way; for first, indeed, that they were intrusted with the oracles of God;'),(45003003,45,3,3,'for what, if certain were faithless? shall their faithlessness the faithfulness of god make useless?'),(45003004,45,3,4,'let it not be! and let God become true, and every man false, according as it hath been written, `That Thou mayest be declared righteous in Thy words, and mayest overcome in Thy being judged.\''),(45003005,45,3,5,'And, if our unrighteousness God\'s righteousness doth establish, what shall we say? is God unrighteous who is inflicting the wrath? (after the manner of a man I speak)'),(45003006,45,3,6,'let it not be! since how shall God judge the world?'),(45003007,45,3,7,'for if the truth of God in my falsehood did more abound to His glory, why yet am I also as a sinner judged?'),(45003008,45,3,8,'and not, as we are evil spoken of, and as certain affirm us to say -- `We may do the evil things, that the good ones may come?\' whose judgment is righteous.'),(45003009,45,3,9,'What, then? are we better? not at all! for we did before charge both Jews and Greeks with being all under sin,'),(45003010,45,3,10,'according as it hath been written -- `There is none righteous, not even one;'),(45003011,45,3,11,'There is none who is understanding, there is none who is seeking after God.'),(45003012,45,3,12,'All did go out of the way, together they became unprofitable, there is none doing good, there is not even one.'),(45003013,45,3,13,'A sepulchre opened `is\' their throat; with their tongues they used deceit; poison of asps `is\' under their lips.'),(45003014,45,3,14,'Whose mouth is full of cursing and bitterness.'),(45003015,45,3,15,'Swift `are\' their feet to shed blood.'),(45003016,45,3,16,'Ruin and misery `are\' in their ways.'),(45003017,45,3,17,'And a way of peace they did not know.'),(45003018,45,3,18,'There is no fear of God before their eyes.\''),(45003019,45,3,19,'And we have known that as many things as the law saith, to those in the law it doth speak, that every mouth may be stopped, and all the world may come under judgment to God;'),(45003020,45,3,20,'wherefore by works of law shall no flesh be declared righteous before Him, for through law is a knowledge of sin.'),(45003021,45,3,21,'And now apart from law hath the righteousness of God been manifested, testified to by the law and the prophets,'),(45003022,45,3,22,'and the righteousness of God `is\' through the faith of Jesus Christ to all, and upon all those believing, -- for there is no difference,'),(45003023,45,3,23,'for all did sin, and are come short of the glory of God --'),(45003024,45,3,24,'being declared righteous freely by His grace through the redemption that `is\' in Christ Jesus,'),(45003025,45,3,25,'whom God did set forth a mercy seat, through the faith in his blood, for the shewing forth of His righteousness, because of the passing over of the bygone sins in the forbearance of God --'),(45003026,45,3,26,'for the shewing forth of His righteousness in the present time, for His being righteous, and declaring him righteous who `is\' of the faith of Jesus.'),(45003027,45,3,27,'Where then `is\' the boasting? it was excluded; by what law? of works? no, but by a law of faith:'),(45003028,45,3,28,'therefore do we reckon a man to be declared righteous by faith, apart from works of law.'),(45003029,45,3,29,'The God of Jews only `is He\', and not also of nations?'),(45003030,45,3,30,'yes, also of nations; since one `is\' God who shall declare righteous the circumcision by faith, and the uncircumcision through the faith.'),(45003031,45,3,31,'Law then do we make useless through the faith? let it not be! yea, we do establish law.'),(45004001,45,4,1,'What, then, shall we say Abraham our father, to have found, according to flesh?'),(45004002,45,4,2,'for if Abraham by works was declared righteous, he hath to boast -- but not before god;'),(45004003,45,4,3,'for what doth the writing say? `And Abraham did believe God, and it was reckoned to him -- to righteousness;\''),(45004004,45,4,4,'and to him who is working, the reward is not reckoned of grace, but of debt;'),(45004005,45,4,5,'and to him who is not working, and is believing upon Him who is declaring righteous the impious, his faith is reckoned -- to righteousness:'),(45004006,45,4,6,'even as David also doth speak of the happiness of the man to whom God doth reckon righteousness apart from works:'),(45004007,45,4,7,'`Happy they whose lawless acts were forgiven, and whose sins were covered;'),(45004008,45,4,8,'happy the man to whom the Lord may not reckon sin.\''),(45004009,45,4,9,'`Is\' this happiness, then, upon the circumcision, or also upon the uncircumcision -- for we say that the faith was reckoned to Abraham -- to righteousness?'),(45004010,45,4,10,'how then was it reckoned? he being in circumcision, or in uncircumcision? not in circumcision, but in uncircumcision;'),(45004011,45,4,11,'and a sign he did receive of circumcision, a seal of the righteousness of the faith in the uncircumcision, for his being father of all those believing through uncircumcision, for the righteousness also being reckoned to them,'),(45004012,45,4,12,'and father of circumcision to those not of circumcision only, but who also walk in the steps of the faith, that `is\' in the uncircumcision of our father Abraham.'),(45004013,45,4,13,'For not through law `is\' the promise to Abraham, or to his seed, of his being heir of the world, but through the righteousness of faith;'),(45004014,45,4,14,'for if they who are of law `are\' heirs, the faith hath been made void, and the promise hath been made useless;'),(45004015,45,4,15,'for the law doth work wrath; for where law is not, neither `is\' transgression.'),(45004016,45,4,16,'Because of this `it is\' of faith, that `it may be\' according to grace, for the promise being sure to all the seed, not to that which `is\' of the law only, but also to that which `is\' of the faith of Abraham,'),(45004017,45,4,17,'who is father of us all (according as it hath been written -- `A father of many nations I have set thee,\') before Him whom he did believe -- God, who is quickening the dead, and is calling the things that be not as being.'),(45004018,45,4,18,'Who, against hope in hope did believe, for his becoming father of many nations according to that spoken: `So shall thy seed be;\''),(45004019,45,4,19,'and not having been weak in the faith, he did not consider his own body, already become dead, (being about a hundred years old,) and the deadness of Sarah\'s womb,'),(45004020,45,4,20,'and at the promise of God did not stagger in unbelief, but was strengthened in faith, having given glory to God,'),(45004021,45,4,21,'and having been fully persuaded that what He hath promised He is able also to do:'),(45004022,45,4,22,'wherefore also it was reckoned to him to righteousness.'),(45004023,45,4,23,'And it was not written on his account alone, that it was reckoned to him,'),(45004024,45,4,24,'but also on ours, to whom it is about to be reckoned -- to us believing on Him who did raise up Jesus our Lord out of the dead,'),(45004025,45,4,25,'who was delivered up because of our offences, and was raised up because of our being declared righteous.'),(45005001,45,5,1,'Having been declared righteous, then, by faith, we have peace toward God through our Lord Jesus Christ,'),(45005002,45,5,2,'through whom also we have the access by the faith into this grace in which we have stood, and we boast on the hope of the glory of God.'),(45005003,45,5,3,'And not only `so\', but we also boast in the tribulations, knowing that the tribulation doth work endurance;'),(45005004,45,5,4,'and the endurance, experience; and the experience, hope;'),(45005005,45,5,5,'and the hope doth not make ashamed, because the love of God hath been poured forth in our hearts through the Holy Spirit that hath been given to us.'),(45005006,45,5,6,'For in our being still ailing, Christ in due time did die for the impious;'),(45005007,45,5,7,'for scarcely for a righteous man will any one die, for for the good man perhaps some one also doth dare to die;'),(45005008,45,5,8,'and God doth commend His own love to us, that, in our being still sinners, Christ did die for us;'),(45005009,45,5,9,'much more, then, having been declared righteous now in his blood, we shall be saved through him from the wrath;'),(45005010,45,5,10,'for if, being enemies, we have been reconciled to God through the death of His Son, much more, having been reconciled, we shall be saved in his life.'),(45005011,45,5,11,'And not only `so\', but we are also boasting in God, through our Lord Jesus Christ, through whom now we did receive the reconciliation;'),(45005012,45,5,12,'because of this, even as through one man the sin did enter into the world, and through the sin the death; and thus to all men the death did pass through, for that all did sin;'),(45005013,45,5,13,'for till law sin was in the world: and sin is not reckoned when there is not law;'),(45005014,45,5,14,'but the death did reign from Adam till Moses, even upon those not having sinned in the likeness of Adam\'s transgression, who is a type of him who is coming.'),(45005015,45,5,15,'But, not as the offence so also `is\' the free gift; for if by the offence of the one the many did die, much more did the grace of God, and the free gift in grace of the one man Jesus Christ, abound to the many;'),(45005016,45,5,16,'and not as through one who did sin `is\' the free gift, for the judgment indeed `is\' of one to condemnation, but the gift `is\' of many offences to a declaration of `Righteous,\''),(45005017,45,5,17,'for if by the offence of the one the death did reign through the one, much more those, who the abundance of the grace and of the free gift of the righteousness are receiving, in life shall reign through the one -- Jesus Christ.'),(45005018,45,5,18,'So, then, as through one offence to all men `it is\' to condemnation, so also through one declaration of `Righteous\' `it is\' to all men to justification of life;'),(45005019,45,5,19,'for as through the disobedience of the one man, the many were constituted sinners: so also through the obedience of the one, shall the many be constituted righteous.'),(45005020,45,5,20,'And law came in, that the offence might abound, and where the sin did abound, the grace did overabound,'),(45005021,45,5,21,'that even as the sin did reign in the death, so also the grace may reign, through righteousness, to life age-during, through Jesus Christ our Lord.'),(45006001,45,6,1,'What, then, shall we say? shall we continue in the sin that the grace may abound?'),(45006002,45,6,2,'let it not be! we who died to the sin -- how shall we still live in it?'),(45006003,45,6,3,'are ye ignorant that we, as many as were baptized to Christ Jesus, to his death were baptized?'),(45006004,45,6,4,'we were buried together, then, with him through the baptism to the death, that even as Christ was raised up out of the dead through the glory of the Father, so also we in newness of life might walk.'),(45006005,45,6,5,'For, if we have become planted together to the likeness of his death, `so\' also we shall be of the rising again;'),(45006006,45,6,6,'this knowing, that our old man was crucified with `him\', that the body of the sin may be made useless, for our no longer serving the sin;'),(45006007,45,6,7,'for he who hath died hath been set free from the sin.'),(45006008,45,6,8,'And if we died with Christ, we believe that we also shall live with him,'),(45006009,45,6,9,'knowing that Christ, having been raised up out of the dead, doth no more die, death over him hath no more lordship;'),(45006010,45,6,10,'for in that he died, to the sin he died once, and in that he liveth, he liveth to God;'),(45006011,45,6,11,'so also ye, reckon yourselves to be dead indeed to the sin, and living to God in Jesus Christ our Lord.'),(45006012,45,6,12,'Let not then the sin reign in your mortal body, to obey it in its desires;'),(45006013,45,6,13,'neither present ye your members instruments of unrighteousness to the sin, but present yourselves to God as living out of the dead, and your members instruments of righteousness to God;'),(45006014,45,6,14,'for sin over you shall not have lordship, for ye are not under law, but under grace.'),(45006015,45,6,15,'What then? shall we sin because we are not under law but under grace? let it not be!'),(45006016,45,6,16,'have ye not known that to whom ye present yourselves servants for obedience, servants ye are to him to whom ye obey, whether of sin to death, or of obedience to righteousness?'),(45006017,45,6,17,'and thanks to God, that ye were servants of the sin, and -- were obedient from the heart to the form of teaching to which ye were delivered up;'),(45006018,45,6,18,'and having been freed from the sin, ye became servants to the righteousness.'),(45006019,45,6,19,'In the manner of men I speak, because of the weakness of your flesh, for even as ye did present your members servants to the uncleanness and to the lawlessness -- to the lawlessness, so now present your members servants to the righteousness -- to sanctification,'),(45006020,45,6,20,'for when ye were servants of the sin, ye were free from the righteousness,'),(45006021,45,6,21,'what fruit, therefore, were ye having then, in the things of which ye are now ashamed? for the end of those `is\' death.'),(45006022,45,6,22,'And now, having been freed from the sin, and having become servants to God, ye have your fruit -- to sanctification, and the end life age-during;'),(45006023,45,6,23,'for the wages of the sin `is\' death, and the gift of God `is\' life age-during in Christ Jesus our Lord.'),(45007001,45,7,1,'Are ye ignorant, brethren -- for to those knowing law I speak -- that the law hath lordship over the man as long as he liveth?'),(45007002,45,7,2,'for the married woman to the living husband hath been bound by law, and if the husband may die, she hath been free from the law of the husband;'),(45007003,45,7,3,'so, then, the husband being alive, an adulteress she shall be called if she may become another man\'s; and if the husband may die, she is free from the law, so as not to be an adulteress, having become another man\'s.'),(45007004,45,7,4,'So that, my brethren, ye also were made dead to the law through the body of the Christ, for your becoming another\'s, who out of the dead was raised up, that we might bear fruit to God;'),(45007005,45,7,5,'for when we were in the flesh, the passions of the sins, that `are\' through the law, were working in our members, to bear fruit to the death;'),(45007006,45,7,6,'and now we have ceased from the law, that being dead in which we were held, so that we may serve in newness of spirit, and not in oldness of letter.'),(45007007,45,7,7,'What, then, shall we say? the law `is\' sin? let it not be! but the sin I did not know except through law, for also the covetousness I had not known if the law had not said:'),(45007008,45,7,8,'`Thou shalt not covet;\' and the sin having received an opportunity, through the command, did work in me all covetousness -- for apart from law sin is dead.'),(45007009,45,7,9,'And I was alive apart from law once, and the command having come, the sin revived, and I died;'),(45007010,45,7,10,'and the command that `is\' for life, this was found by me for death;'),(45007011,45,7,11,'for the sin, having received an opportunity, through the command, did deceive me, and through it did slay `me\';'),(45007012,45,7,12,'so that the law, indeed, `is\' holy, and the command holy, and righteous, and good.'),(45007013,45,7,13,'That which is good then, to me hath it become death? let it not be! but the sin, that it might appear sin, through the good, working death to me, that the sin might become exceeding sinful through the command,'),(45007014,45,7,14,'for we have known that the law is spiritual, and I am fleshly, sold by the sin;'),(45007015,45,7,15,'for that which I work, I do not acknowledge; for not what I will, this I practise, but what I hate, this I do.'),(45007016,45,7,16,'And if what I do not will, this I do, I consent to the law that `it is\' good,'),(45007017,45,7,17,'and now it is no longer I that work it, but the sin dwelling in me,'),(45007018,45,7,18,'for I have known that there doth not dwell in me, that is, in my flesh, good: for to will is present with me, and to work that which is right I do not find,'),(45007019,45,7,19,'for the good that I will, I do not; but the evil that I do not will, this I practise.'),(45007020,45,7,20,'And if what I do not will, this I do, it is no longer I that work it, but the sin that is dwelling in me.'),(45007021,45,7,21,'I find, then, the law, that when I desire to do what is right, with me the evil is present,'),(45007022,45,7,22,'for I delight in the law of God according to the inward man,'),(45007023,45,7,23,'and I behold another law in my members, warring against the law of my mind, and bringing me into captivity to the law of the sin that `is\' in my members.'),(45007024,45,7,24,'A wretched man I `am\'! who shall deliver me out of the body of this death?'),(45007025,45,7,25,'I thank God -- through Jesus Christ our Lord; so then, I myself indeed with the mind do serve the law of God, and with the flesh, the law of sin.'),(45008001,45,8,1,'There is, then, now no condemnation to those in Christ Jesus, who walk not according to the flesh, but according to the Spirit;'),(45008002,45,8,2,'for the law of the Spirit of the life in Christ Jesus did set me free from the law of the sin and of the death;'),(45008003,45,8,3,'for what the law was not able to do, in that it was weak through the flesh, God, His own Son having sent in the likeness of sinful flesh, and for sin, did condemn the sin in the flesh,'),(45008004,45,8,4,'that the righteousness of the law may be fulfilled in us, who do not walk according to the flesh, but according to the Spirit.'),(45008005,45,8,5,'For those who are according to the flesh, the things of the flesh do mind; and those according to the Spirit, the things of the Spirit;'),(45008006,45,8,6,'for the mind of the flesh `is\' death, and the mind of the Spirit -- life and peace;'),(45008007,45,8,7,'because the mind of the flesh `is\' enmity to God, for to the law of God it doth not subject itself,'),(45008008,45,8,8,'for neither is it able; and those who are in the flesh are not able to please God.'),(45008009,45,8,9,'And ye are not in the flesh, but in the Spirit, if indeed the Spirit of God doth dwell in you; and if any one hath not the Spirit of Christ -- this one is not His;'),(45008010,45,8,10,'and if Christ `is\' in you, the body, indeed, `is\' dead because of sin, and the Spirit `is\' life because of righteousness,'),(45008011,45,8,11,'and if the Spirit of Him who did raise up Jesus out of the dead doth dwell in you, He who did raise up the Christ out of the dead shall quicken also your dying bodies, through His Spirit dwelling in you.'),(45008012,45,8,12,'So, then, brethren, we are debtors, not to the flesh, to live according to the flesh;'),(45008013,45,8,13,'for if according to the flesh ye do live, ye are about to die; and if, by the Spirit, the deeds of the body ye put to death, ye shall live;'),(45008014,45,8,14,'for as many as are led by the Spirit of God, these are the sons of God;'),(45008015,45,8,15,'for ye did not receive a spirit of bondage again for fear, but ye did receive a spirit of adoption in which we cry, `Abba -- Father.\''),(45008016,45,8,16,'The Spirit himself doth testify with our spirit, that we are children of God;'),(45008017,45,8,17,'and if children, also heirs, heirs, indeed, of God, and heirs together of Christ -- if, indeed, we suffer together, that we may also be glorified together.'),(45008018,45,8,18,'For I reckon that the sufferings of the present time `are\' not worthy `to be compared\' with the glory about to be revealed in us;'),(45008019,45,8,19,'for the earnest looking out of the creation doth expect the revelation of the sons of God;'),(45008020,45,8,20,'for to vanity was the creation made subject -- not of its will, but because of Him who did subject `it\' -- in hope,'),(45008021,45,8,21,'that also the creation itself shall be set free from the servitude of the corruption to the liberty of the glory of the children of God;'),(45008022,45,8,22,'for we have known that all the creation doth groan together, and doth travail in pain together till now.'),(45008023,45,8,23,'And not only `so\', but also we ourselves, having the first-fruit of the Spirit, we also ourselves in ourselves do groan, adoption expecting -- the redemption of our body;'),(45008024,45,8,24,'for in hope we were saved, and hope beheld is not hope; for what any one doth behold, why also doth he hope for `it\'?'),(45008025,45,8,25,'and if what we do not behold we hope for, through continuance we expect `it\'.'),(45008026,45,8,26,'And, in like manner also, the Spirit doth help our weaknesses; for, what we may pray for, as it behoveth `us\', we have not known, but the Spirit himself doth make intercession for us with groanings unutterable,'),(45008027,45,8,27,'and He who is searching the hearts hath known what `is\' the mind of the Spirit, because according to God he doth intercede for saints.'),(45008028,45,8,28,'And we have known that to those loving God all things do work together for good, to those who are called according to purpose;'),(45008029,45,8,29,'because whom He did foreknow, He also did fore-appoint, conformed to the image of His Son, that he might be first-born among many brethren;'),(45008030,45,8,30,'and whom He did fore-appoint, these also He did call; and whom He did call, these also He declared righteous; and whom He declared righteous, these also He did glorify.'),(45008031,45,8,31,'What, then, shall we say unto these things? if God `is\' for us, who `is\' against us?'),(45008032,45,8,32,'He who indeed His own Son did not spare, but for us all did deliver him up, how shall He not also with him the all things grant to us?'),(45008033,45,8,33,'Who shall lay a charge against the choice ones of God? God `is\' He that is declaring righteous,'),(45008034,45,8,34,'who `is\' he that is condemning? Christ `is\' He that died, yea, rather also, was raised up; who is also on the right hand of God -- who also doth intercede for us.'),(45008035,45,8,35,'Who shall separate us from the love of the Christ? tribulation, or distress, or persecution, or famine, or nakedness, or peril, or sword?'),(45008036,45,8,36,'(according as it hath been written -- `For Thy sake we are put to death all the day long, we were reckoned as sheep of slaughter,\')'),(45008037,45,8,37,'but in all these we more than conquer, through him who loved us;'),(45008038,45,8,38,'for I am persuaded that neither death, nor life, nor messengers, nor principalities, nor powers, nor things present,'),(45008039,45,8,39,'nor things about to be, nor height, nor depth, nor any other created thing, shall be able to separate us from the love of god, that `is\' in Christ Jesus our Lord.'),(45009001,45,9,1,'Truth I say in Christ, I lie not, my conscience bearing testimony with me in the Holy Spirit,'),(45009002,45,9,2,'that I have great grief and unceasing pain in my heart --'),(45009003,45,9,3,'for I was wishing, I myself, to be anathema from the Christ -- for my brethren, my kindred, according to the flesh,'),(45009004,45,9,4,'who are Israelites, whose `is\' the adoption, and the glory, and the covenants, and the lawgiving, and the service, and the promises,'),(45009005,45,9,5,'whose `are\' the fathers, and of whom `is\' the Christ, according to the flesh, who is over all, God blessed to the ages. Amen.'),(45009006,45,9,6,'And it is not possible that the word of God hath failed; for not all who `are\' of Israel are these Israel;'),(45009007,45,9,7,'nor because they are seed of Abraham `are\' all children, but -- `in Isaac shall a seed be called to thee;\''),(45009008,45,9,8,'that is, the children of the flesh -- these `are\' not children of God; but the children of the promise are reckoned for seed;'),(45009009,45,9,9,'for the word of promise `is\' this; `According to this time I will come, and there shall be to Sarah a son.\''),(45009010,45,9,10,'And not only `so\', but also Rebecca, having conceived by one -- Isaac our father --'),(45009011,45,9,11,'(for they being not yet born, neither having done anything good or evil, that the purpose of God, according to choice, might remain; not of works, but of Him who is calling,) it was said to her --'),(45009012,45,9,12,'`The greater shall serve the less;\''),(45009013,45,9,13,'according as it hath been written, `Jacob I did love, and Esau I did hate.\''),(45009014,45,9,14,'What, then, shall we say? unrighteousness `is\' with God? let it not be!'),(45009015,45,9,15,'for to Moses He saith, `I will do kindness to whom I do kindness, and I will have compassion on whom I have compassion;\''),(45009016,45,9,16,'so, then -- not of him who is willing, nor of him who is running, but of God who is doing kindness:'),(45009017,45,9,17,'for the Writing saith to Pharaoh -- `For this very thing I did raise thee up, that I might shew in thee My power, and that My name might be declared in all the land;\''),(45009018,45,9,18,'so, then, to whom He willeth, He doth kindness, and to whom He willeth, He doth harden.'),(45009019,45,9,19,'Thou wilt say, then, to me, `Why yet doth He find fault? for His counsel who hath resisted?\''),(45009020,45,9,20,'nay, but, O man, who art thou that art answering again to God? shall the thing formed say to Him who did form `it\', Why me didst thou make thus?'),(45009021,45,9,21,'hath not the potter authority over the clay, out of the same lump to make the one vessel to honour, and the one to dishonour?'),(45009022,45,9,22,'And if God, willing to shew the wrath and to make known His power, did endure, in much long suffering, vessels of wrath fitted for destruction,'),(45009023,45,9,23,'and that He might make known the riches of His glory on vessels of kindness, that He before prepared for glory, whom also He did call -- us --'),(45009024,45,9,24,'not only out of Jews, but also out of nations,'),(45009025,45,9,25,'as also in Hosea He saith, `I will call what `is\' not My people -- My people; and her not beloved -- Beloved,'),(45009026,45,9,26,'and it shall be -- in the place where it was said to them, Ye `are\' not My people; there they shall be called sons of the living God.\''),(45009027,45,9,27,'And Isaiah doth cry concerning Israel, `If the number of the sons of Israel may be as the sand of the sea, the remnant shall be saved;'),(45009028,45,9,28,'for a matter He is finishing, and is cutting short in righteousness, because a matter cut short will the Lord do upon the land.'),(45009029,45,9,29,'and according as Isaiah saith before, `Except the Lord of Sabaoth did leave to us a seed, as Sodom we had become, and as Gomorrah we had been made like.\''),(45009030,45,9,30,'What, then, shall we say? that nations who are not pursuing righteousness did attain to righteousness, and righteousness that `is\' of faith,'),(45009031,45,9,31,'and Israel, pursuing a law of righteousness, at a law of righteousness did not arrive;'),(45009032,45,9,32,'wherefore? because -- not by faith, but as by works of law; for they did stumble at the stone of stumbling,'),(45009033,45,9,33,'according as it hath been written, `Lo, I place in Sion a stone of stumbling and a rock of offence; and every one who is believing thereon shall not be ashamed.\''),(45010001,45,10,1,'Brethren, the pleasure indeed of my heart, and my supplication that `is\' to God for Israel, is -- for salvation;'),(45010002,45,10,2,'for I bear them testimony that they have a zeal of God, but not according to knowledge,'),(45010003,45,10,3,'for not knowing the righteousness of God, and their own righteousness seeking to establish, to the righteousness of God they did not submit.'),(45010004,45,10,4,'For Christ is an end of law for righteousness to every one who is believing,'),(45010005,45,10,5,'for Moses doth describe the righteousness that `is\' of the law, that, `The man who did them shall live in them,\''),(45010006,45,10,6,'and the righteousness of faith doth thus speak: `Thou mayest not say in thine heart, Who shall go up to the heaven,\' that is, Christ to bring down?'),(45010007,45,10,7,'or, `Who shall go down to the abyss,\' that is, Christ out of the dead to bring up.'),(45010008,45,10,8,'But what doth it say? `Nigh thee is the saying -- in thy mouth, and in thy heart:\' that is, the saying of the faith, that we preach;'),(45010009,45,10,9,'that if thou mayest confess with thy mouth the Lord Jesus, and mayest believe in thy heart that God did raise him out of the dead, thou shalt be saved,'),(45010010,45,10,10,'for with the heart doth `one\' believe to righteousness, and with the mouth is confession made to salvation;'),(45010011,45,10,11,'for the Writing saith, `Every one who is believing on him shall not be ashamed,\''),(45010012,45,10,12,'for there is no difference between Jew and Greek, for the same Lord of all `is\' rich to all those calling upon Him,'),(45010013,45,10,13,'for every one -- whoever shall call upon the name of the Lord, he shall be saved.\''),(45010014,45,10,14,'How then shall they call upon `him\' in whom they did not believe? and how shall they believe `on him\' of whom they did not hear? and how shall they hear apart from one preaching?'),(45010015,45,10,15,'and how shall they preach, if they may not be sent? according as it hath been written, `How beautiful the feet of those proclaiming good tidings of peace, of those proclaiming good tidings of the good things!\''),(45010016,45,10,16,'But they were not all obedient to the good tidings, for Isaiah saith, `Lord, who did give credence to our report?\''),(45010017,45,10,17,'so then the faith `is\' by a report, and the report through a saying of God,'),(45010018,45,10,18,'but I say, Did they not hear? yes, indeed -- `to all the earth their voice went forth, and to the ends of the habitable world their sayings.\''),(45010019,45,10,19,'But I say, Did not Israel know? first Moses saith, `I will provoke you to jealousy by `that which is\' not a nation; by an unintelligent nation I will anger you,\''),(45010020,45,10,20,'and Isaiah is very bold, and saith, `I was found by those not seeking Me; I became manifest to those not inquiring after Me;\''),(45010021,45,10,21,'and unto Israel He saith, `All the day I did stretch out My hands unto a people unbelieving and gainsaying.\''),(45011001,45,11,1,'I say, then, Did God cast away His people? let it not be! for I also am an Israelite, of the seed of Abraham, of the tribe of Benjamin:'),(45011002,45,11,2,'God did not cast away His people whom He knew before; have ye not known -- in Elijah -- what the Writing saith? how he doth plead with God concerning Israel, saying,'),(45011003,45,11,3,'`Lord, Thy prophets they did kill, and Thy altars they dug down, and I was left alone, and they seek my life;\''),(45011004,45,11,4,'but what saith the divine answer to him? `I left to Myself seven thousand men, who did not bow a knee to Baal.\''),(45011005,45,11,5,'So then also in the present time a remnant according to the choice of grace there hath been;'),(45011006,45,11,6,'and if by grace, no more of works, otherwise the grace becometh no more grace; and if of works, it is no more grace, otherwise the work is no more work.'),(45011007,45,11,7,'What then? What Israel doth seek after, this it did not obtain, and the chosen did obtain, and the rest were hardened,'),(45011008,45,11,8,'according as it hath been written, `God gave to them a spirit of deep sleep, eyes not to see, and ears not to hear,\' -- unto this very day,'),(45011009,45,11,9,'and David saith, `Let their table become for a snare, and for a trap, and for a stumbling-block, and for a recompense to them;'),(45011010,45,11,10,'let their eyes be darkened -- not to behold, and their back do Thou always bow down.\''),(45011011,45,11,11,'I say, then, Did they stumble that they might fall? let it not be! but by their fall the salvation `is\' to the nations, to arouse them to jealousy;'),(45011012,45,11,12,'and if the fall of them `is\' the riches of a world, and the diminution of them the riches of nations, how much more the fulness of them?'),(45011013,45,11,13,'For to you I speak -- to the nations -- inasmuch as I am indeed an apostle of nations, my ministration I do glorify;'),(45011014,45,11,14,'if by any means I shall arouse to jealousy mine own flesh, and shall save some of them,'),(45011015,45,11,15,'for if the casting away of them `is\' a reconciliation of the world, what the reception -- if not life out of the dead?'),(45011016,45,11,16,'and if the first-fruit `is\' holy, the lump also; and if the root `is\' holy, the branches also.'),(45011017,45,11,17,'And if certain of the branches were broken off, and thou, being a wild olive tree, wast graffed in among them, and a fellow-partaker of the root and of the fatness of the olive tree didst become --'),(45011018,45,11,18,'do not boast against the branches; and if thou dost boast, thou dost not bear the root, but the root thee!'),(45011019,45,11,19,'Thou wilt say, then, `The branches were broken off, that I might be graffed in;\' right!'),(45011020,45,11,20,'by unbelief they were broken off, and thou hast stood by faith; be not high-minded, but be fearing;'),(45011021,45,11,21,'for if God the natural branches did not spare -- lest perhaps He also shall not spare thee.'),(45011022,45,11,22,'Lo, then, goodness and severity of God -- upon those indeed who fell, severity; and upon thee, goodness, if thou mayest remain in the goodness, otherwise, thou also shalt be cut off.'),(45011023,45,11,23,'And those also, if they may not remain in unbelief, shall be graffed in, for God is able again to graff them in;'),(45011024,45,11,24,'for if thou, out of the olive tree, wild by nature, wast cut out, and, contrary to nature, wast graffed into a good olive tree, how much rather shall they, who `are\' according to nature, be graffed into their own olive tree?'),(45011025,45,11,25,'For I do not wish you to be ignorant, brethren, of this secret -- that ye may not be wise in your own conceits -- that hardness in part to Israel hath happened till the fulness of the nations may come in;'),(45011026,45,11,26,'and so all Israel shall be saved, according as it hath been written, `There shall come forth out of Sion he who is delivering, and he shall turn away impiety from Jacob,'),(45011027,45,11,27,'and this to them `is\' the covenant from Me, when I may take away their sins.\''),(45011028,45,11,28,'As regards, indeed, the good tidings, `they are\' enemies on your account; and as regards the choice -- beloved on account of the fathers;'),(45011029,45,11,29,'for unrepented of `are\' the gifts and the calling of God;'),(45011030,45,11,30,'for as ye also once did not believe in God, and now did find kindness by the unbelief of these:'),(45011031,45,11,31,'so also these now did not believe, that in your kindness they also may find kindness;'),(45011032,45,11,32,'for God did shut up together the whole to unbelief, that to the whole He might do kindness.'),(45011033,45,11,33,'O depth of riches, and wisdom and knowledge of God! how unsearchable His judgments, and untraceable His ways!'),(45011034,45,11,34,'for who did know the mind of the Lord? or who did become His counsellor?'),(45011035,45,11,35,'or who did first give to Him, and it shall be given back to him again?'),(45011036,45,11,36,'because of Him, and through Him, and to Him `are\' the all things; to Him `is\' the glory -- to the ages. Amen.'),(45012001,45,12,1,'I call upon you, therefore, brethren, through the compassions of God, to present your bodies a sacrifice -- living, sanctified, acceptable to God -- your intelligent service;'),(45012002,45,12,2,'and be not conformed to this age, but be transformed by the renewing of your mind, for your proving what `is\' the will of God -- the good, and acceptable, and perfect.'),(45012003,45,12,3,'For I say, through the grace that was given to me, to every one who is among you, not to think above what it behoveth to think; but to think so as to think wisely, as to each God did deal a measure of faith,'),(45012004,45,12,4,'for as in one body we have many members, and all the members have not the same office,'),(45012005,45,12,5,'so we, the many, one body are in Christ, and members each one of one another.'),(45012006,45,12,6,'And having gifts, different according to the grace that was given to us; whether prophecy -- `According to the proportion of faith!\''),(45012007,45,12,7,'or ministration -- `In the ministration!\' or he who is teaching -- `In the teaching!\''),(45012008,45,12,8,'or he who is exhorting -- `In the exhortation!\' he who is sharing -- `In simplicity!\' he who is leading -- `In diligence?\' he who is doing kindness -- `In cheerfulness.\''),(45012009,45,12,9,'The love unfeigned: abhorring the evil; cleaving to the good;'),(45012010,45,12,10,'in the love of brethren, to one another kindly affectioned: in the honour going before one another;'),(45012011,45,12,11,'in the diligence not slothful; in the spirit fervent; the Lord serving;'),(45012012,45,12,12,'in the hope rejoicing; in the tribulation enduring; in the prayer persevering;'),(45012013,45,12,13,'to the necessities of the saints communicating; the hospitality pursuing.'),(45012014,45,12,14,'Bless those persecuting you; bless, and curse not;'),(45012015,45,12,15,'to rejoice with the rejoicing, and to weep with the weeping,'),(45012016,45,12,16,'of the same mind one toward another, not minding the high things, but with the lowly going along; become not wise in your own conceit;'),(45012017,45,12,17,'giving back to no one evil for evil; providing right things before all men.'),(45012018,45,12,18,'If possible -- so far as in you -- with all men being in peace;'),(45012019,45,12,19,'not avenging yourselves, beloved, but give place to the wrath, for it hath been written, `Vengeance `is\' Mine,'),(45012020,45,12,20,'I will recompense again, saith the Lord;\' if, then, thine enemy doth hunger, feed him; if he doth thirst, give him drink; for this doing, coals of fire thou shalt heap upon his head;'),(45012021,45,12,21,'Be not overcome by the evil, but overcome, in the good, the evil.'),(45013001,45,13,1,'Let every soul to the higher authorities be subject, for there is no authority except from God, and the authorities existing are appointed by God,'),(45013002,45,13,2,'so that he who is setting himself against the authority, against God\'s ordinance hath resisted; and those resisting, to themselves shall receive judgment.'),(45013003,45,13,3,'For those ruling are not a terror to the good works, but to the evil; and dost thou wish not to be afraid of the authority? that which is good be doing, and thou shalt have praise from it,'),(45013004,45,13,4,'for of God it is a ministrant to thee for good; and if that which is evil thou mayest do, be fearing, for not in vain doth it bear the sword; for of God it is a ministrant, an avenger for wrath to him who is doing that which is evil.'),(45013005,45,13,5,'Wherefore it is necessary to be subject, not only because of the wrath, but also because of the conscience,'),(45013006,45,13,6,'for because of this also pay ye tribute; for servants of God they are, on this very thing attending continually;'),(45013007,45,13,7,'render, therefore, to all `their\' dues; to whom tribute, the tribute; to whom custom, the custom; to whom fear, the fear; to whom honour, the honour.'),(45013008,45,13,8,'To no one owe anything, except to love one another; for he who is loving the other -- law he hath fulfilled,'),(45013009,45,13,9,'for, `Thou shalt not commit adultery, Thou shalt do no murder, Thou shalt not steal, Thou shalt not bear false testimony, Thou shalt not covet;\' and if there is any other command, in this word it is summed up, in this: `Thou shalt love thy neighbor as thyself;\''),(45013010,45,13,10,'the love to the neighbor doth work no ill; the love, therefore, `is\' the fulness of law.'),(45013011,45,13,11,'And this, knowing the time, that for us, the hour already `is\' to be aroused out of sleep, for now nearer `is\' our salvation than when we did believe;'),(45013012,45,13,12,'the night did advance, and the day came nigh; let us lay aside, therefore, the works of the darkness, and let us put on the armour of the light;'),(45013013,45,13,13,'as in day-time, let us walk becomingly; not in revellings and drunkennesses, not in chamberings and lasciviousnesses, not in strife and emulation;'),(45013014,45,13,14,'but put ye on the Lord Jesus Christ, and for the flesh take no forethought -- for desires.'),(45014001,45,14,1,'And him who is weak in the faith receive ye -- not to determinations of reasonings;'),(45014002,45,14,2,'one doth believe that he may eat all things -- and he who is weak doth eat herbs;'),(45014003,45,14,3,'let not him who is eating despise him who is not eating: and let not him who is not eating judge him who is eating, for God did receive him.'),(45014004,45,14,4,'Thou -- who art thou that art judging another\'s domestic? to his own master he doth stand or fall; and he shall be made to stand, for God is able to make him stand.'),(45014005,45,14,5,'One doth judge one day above another, and another doth judge every day `alike\'; let each in his own mind be fully assured.'),(45014006,45,14,6,'He who is regarding the day, to the Lord he doth regard `it\', and he who is not regarding the day, to the Lord he doth not regard `it\'. He who is eating, to the Lord he doth eat, for he doth give thanks to God; and he who is not eating, to the Lord he doth not eat, and doth give thanks to God.'),(45014007,45,14,7,'For none of us to himself doth live, and none to himself doth die;'),(45014008,45,14,8,'for both, if we may live, to the Lord we live; if also we may die, to the Lord we die; both then if we may live, also if we may die, we are the Lord\'s;'),(45014009,45,14,9,'for because of this Christ both died and rose again, and lived again, that both of dead and of living he may be Lord.'),(45014010,45,14,10,'And thou, why dost thou judge thy brother? or again, thou, why dost thou set at nought thy brother? for we shall all stand at the tribunal of the Christ;'),(45014011,45,14,11,'for it hath been written, `I live! saith the Lord -- to Me bow shall every knee, and every tongue shall confess to God;\''),(45014012,45,14,12,'so, then, each of us concerning himself shall give reckoning to God;'),(45014013,45,14,13,'no longer, therefore, may we judge one another, but this judge ye rather, not to put a stumbling-stone before the brother, or an offence.'),(45014014,45,14,14,'I have known, and am persuaded, in the Lord Jesus, that nothing `is\' unclean of itself, except to him who is reckoning anything to be unclean -- to that one `it is\' unclean;'),(45014015,45,14,15,'and if through victuals thy brother is grieved, no more dost thou walk according to love; do not with thy victuals destroy that one for whom Christ died.'),(45014016,45,14,16,'Let not, then, your good be evil spoken of,'),(45014017,45,14,17,'for the reign of God is not eating and drinking, but righteousness, and peace, and joy in the Holy Spirit;'),(45014018,45,14,18,'for he who in these things is serving the Christ, `is\' acceptable to God and approved of men.'),(45014019,45,14,19,'So, then, the things of peace may we pursue, and the things of building up one another;'),(45014020,45,14,20,'for the sake of victuals cast not down the work of God; all things, indeed, `are\' pure, but evil `is\' to the man who is eating through stumbling.'),(45014021,45,14,21,'Right `it is\' not to eat flesh, nor to drink wine, nor to `do anything\' in which thy brother doth stumble, or is made to fall, or is weak.'),(45014022,45,14,22,'Thou hast faith! to thyself have `it\' before God; happy is he who is not judging himself in what he doth approve,'),(45014023,45,14,23,'and he who is making a difference, if he may eat, hath been condemned, because `it is\' not of faith; and all that `is\' not of faith is sin.'),(45015001,45,15,1,'And we ought -- we who are strong -- to bear the infirmities of the weak, and not to please ourselves;'),(45015002,45,15,2,'for let each one of us please the neighbor for good, unto edification,'),(45015003,45,15,3,'for even the Christ did not please himself, but, according as it hath been written, `The reproaches of those reproaching Thee fell upon me;\''),(45015004,45,15,4,'for, as many things as were written before, for our instruction were written before, that through the endurance, and the exhortation of the Writings, we might have the hope.'),(45015005,45,15,5,'And may the God of the endurance, and of the exhortation, give to you to have the same mind toward one another, according to Christ Jesus;'),(45015006,45,15,6,'that with one accord -- with one mouth -- ye may glorify the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ;'),(45015007,45,15,7,'wherefore receive ye one another, according as also the Christ did receive us, to the glory of God.'),(45015008,45,15,8,'And I say Jesus Christ to have become a ministrant of circumcision for the truth of God, to confirm the promises to the fathers,'),(45015009,45,15,9,'and the nations for kindness to glorify God, according as it hath been written, `Because of this I will confess to Thee among nations, and to Thy name I will sing praise,\''),(45015010,45,15,10,'and again it saith, `Rejoice ye nations, with His people;\''),(45015011,45,15,11,'and again, `Praise the Lord, all ye nations; and laud Him, all ye peoples;\''),(45015012,45,15,12,'and again, Isaiah saith, `There shall be the root of Jesse, and he who is rising to rule nations -- upon him shall nations hope;\''),(45015013,45,15,13,'and the God of the hope shall fill you with all joy and peace in the believing, for your abounding in the hope in power of the Holy Spirit.'),(45015014,45,15,14,'And I am persuaded, my brethren -- I myself also -- concerning you, that ye yourselves also are full of goodness, having been filled with all knowledge, able also one another to admonish;'),(45015015,45,15,15,'and the more boldly I did write to you, brethren, in part, as putting you in mind, because of the grace that is given to me by God,'),(45015016,45,15,16,'for my being a servant of Jesus Christ to the nations, acting as priest in the good news of God, that the offering up of the nations may become acceptable, sanctified by the Holy Spirit.'),(45015017,45,15,17,'I have, then, a boasting in Christ Jesus, in the things pertaining to God,'),(45015018,45,15,18,'for I will not dare to speak anything of the things that Christ did not work through me, to obedience of nations, by word and deed,'),(45015019,45,15,19,'in power of signs and wonders, in power of the Spirit of God; so that I, from Jerusalem, and in a circle as far as Illyricum, have fully preached the good news of the Christ;'),(45015020,45,15,20,'and so counting it honour to proclaim good news, not where Christ was named -- that upon another\'s foundation I might not build --'),(45015021,45,15,21,'but according as it hath been written, `To whom it was not told concerning him, they shall see; and they who have not heard, shall understand.\''),(45015022,45,15,22,'Wherefore, also, I was hindered many times from coming unto you,'),(45015023,45,15,23,'and now, no longer having place in these parts, and having a longing to come unto you for many years,'),(45015024,45,15,24,'when I may go on to Spain I will come unto you, for I hope in going through, to see you, and by you to be set forward thither, if of you first, in part, I shall be filled.'),(45015025,45,15,25,'And, now, I go on to Jerusalem, ministering to the saints;'),(45015026,45,15,26,'for it pleased Macedonia and Achaia well to make a certain contribution for the poor of the saints who `are\' in Jerusalem;'),(45015027,45,15,27,'for it pleased well, and their debtors they are, for if in their spiritual things the nations did participate, they ought also, in the fleshly things, to minister to them.'),(45015028,45,15,28,'This, then, having finished, and having sealed to them this fruit, I will return through you, to Spain;'),(45015029,45,15,29,'and I have known that coming unto you -- in the fulness of the blessing of the good news of Christ I shall come.'),(45015030,45,15,30,'And I call upon you, brethren, through our Lord Jesus Christ, and through the love of the Spirit, to strive together with me in the prayers for me unto God,'),(45015031,45,15,31,'that I may be delivered from those not believing in Judea, and that my ministration, that `is\' for Jerusalem, may become acceptable to the saints;'),(45015032,45,15,32,'that in joy I may come unto you, through the will of God, and may be refreshed with you,'),(45015033,45,15,33,'and the God of the peace `be\' with you all. Amen.'),(45016001,45,16,1,'And I commend you to Phebe our sister -- being a ministrant of the assembly that `is\' in Cenchrea --'),(45016002,45,16,2,'that ye may receive her in the Lord, as doth become saints, and may assist her in whatever matter she may have need of you -- for she also became a leader of many, and of myself.'),(45016003,45,16,3,'Salute Priscilla and Aquilas, my fellow-workmen in Christ Jesus --'),(45016004,45,16,4,'who for my life their own neck did lay down, to whom not only I give thanks, but also all the assemblies of the nations --'),(45016005,45,16,5,'and the assembly at their house; salute Epaenetus, my beloved, who is first-fruit of Achaia to Christ.'),(45016006,45,16,6,'Salute Mary, who did labour much for us;'),(45016007,45,16,7,'salute Andronicus and Junias, my kindred, and my fellow-captives, who are of note among the apostles, who also have been in Christ before me.'),(45016008,45,16,8,'Salute Amplias, my beloved in the Lord;'),(45016009,45,16,9,'salute Arbanus, our fellow-workman in Christ, and Stachys, my beloved;'),(45016010,45,16,10,'salute Apelles, the approved in Christ; salute those of the `household\' of Aristobulus;'),(45016011,45,16,11,'salute Herodion, my kinsman; salute those of the `household\' of Narcissus, who are in the Lord;'),(45016012,45,16,12,'salute Tryphaena, and Tryphosa, who are labouring in the Lord; salute Persis, the beloved, who did labour much in the Lord.'),(45016013,45,16,13,'Salute Rufus, the choice one in the Lord, and his mother and mine,'),(45016014,45,16,14,'salute Asyncritus, Phlegon, Hermas, Patrobas, Hermes, and the brethren with them;'),(45016015,45,16,15,'salute Philologus, and Julias, Nereus, and his sister, and Olympas, and all the saints with them;'),(45016016,45,16,16,'salute one another in a holy kiss; the assemblies of Christ do salute you.'),(45016017,45,16,17,'And I call upon you, brethren, to mark those who the divisions and the stumbling-blocks, contrary to the teaching that ye did learn, are causing, and turn ye away from them;'),(45016018,45,16,18,'for such our Lord Jesus Christ do not serve, but their own belly; and through the good word and fair speech they deceive the hearts of the harmless,'),(45016019,45,16,19,'for your obedience did reach to all; I rejoice, therefore, as regards you, and I wish you to be wise, indeed, as to the good, and harmless as to the evil;'),(45016020,45,16,20,'and the God of the peace shall bruise the Adversary under your feet quickly; the grace of our Lord Jesus Christ `be\' with you. Amen!'),(45016021,45,16,21,'Salute you do Timotheus, my fellow-workman, and Lucius, and Jason, and Sosipater, my kindred;'),(45016022,45,16,22,'I Tertius salute you (who wrote the letter) in the Lord;'),(45016023,45,16,23,'salute you doth Gaius, my host, and of the whole assembly; salute you doth Erastus, the steward of the city, and Quartus the brother,'),(45016024,45,16,24,'the grace of our Lord Jesus Christ `be\' with you all. Amen.'),(45016025,45,16,25,'And to Him who is able to establish you, according to my good news, and the preaching of Jesus Christ, according to the revelation of the secret, in the times of the ages having been kept silent,'),(45016026,45,16,26,'and now having been made manifest, also, through prophetic writings, according to a command of the age-during God, having been made known to all the nations for obedience of faith --'),(45016027,45,16,27,'to the only wise God, through Jesus Christ, to him `be\' glory to the ages. Amen.'),(46001001,46,1,1,'Paul, a called apostle of Jesus Christ, through the will of God, and Sosthenes the brother,'),(46001002,46,1,2,'to the assembly of God that is in Corinth, to those sanctified in Christ Jesus, called saints, with all those calling upon the name of our Lord Jesus Christ in every place -- both theirs and ours:'),(46001003,46,1,3,'Grace to you and peace from God our Father and the Lord Jesus Christ!'),(46001004,46,1,4,'I give thanks to my God always concerning you for the grace of God that was given to you in Christ Jesus,'),(46001005,46,1,5,'that in every thing ye were enriched in him, in all discourse and all knowledge,'),(46001006,46,1,6,'according as the testimony of the Christ was confirmed in you,'),(46001007,46,1,7,'so that ye are not behind in any gift, waiting for the revelation of our Lord Jesus Christ,'),(46001008,46,1,8,'who also shall confirm you unto the end -- unblamable in the day of our Lord Jesus Christ;'),(46001009,46,1,9,'faithful `is\' God, through whom ye were called to the fellowship of His Son Jesus Christ our Lord.'),(46001010,46,1,10,'And I call upon you, brethren, through the name of our Lord Jesus Christ, that the same thing ye may all say, and there may not be divisions among you, and ye may be perfected in the same mind, and in the same judgment,'),(46001011,46,1,11,'for it was signified to me concerning you, my brethren, by those of Chloe, that contentions are among you;'),(46001012,46,1,12,'and I say this, that each one of you saith, `I, indeed, am of Paul\' -- `and I of Apollos,\' -- `and I of Cephas,\' -- `and I of Christ.\''),(46001013,46,1,13,'Hath the Christ been divided? was Paul crucified for you? or to the name of Paul were ye baptized;'),(46001014,46,1,14,'I give thanks to God that no one of you did I baptize, except Crispus and Gaius --'),(46001015,46,1,15,'that no one may say that to my own name I did baptize;'),(46001016,46,1,16,'and I did baptize also Stephanas\' household -- further, I have not known if I did baptize any other.'),(46001017,46,1,17,'For Christ did not send me to baptize, but -- to proclaim good news; not in wisdom of discourse, that the cross of the Christ may not be made of none effect;'),(46001018,46,1,18,'for the word of the cross to those indeed perishing is foolishness, and to us -- those being saved -- it is the power of God,'),(46001019,46,1,19,'for it hath been written, `I will destroy the wisdom of the wise, and the intelligence of the intelligent I will bring to nought;\''),(46001020,46,1,20,'where `is\' the wise? where the scribe? where a disputer of this age? did not God make foolish the wisdom of this world?'),(46001021,46,1,21,'for, seeing in the wisdom of God the world through the wisdom knew not God, it did please God through the foolishness of the preaching to save those believing.'),(46001022,46,1,22,'Since also Jews ask a sign, and Greeks seek wisdom,'),(46001023,46,1,23,'also we -- we preach Christ crucified, to Jews, indeed, a stumbling-block, and to Greeks foolishness,'),(46001024,46,1,24,'and to those called -- both Jews and Greeks -- Christ the power of God, and the wisdom of God,'),(46001025,46,1,25,'because the foolishness of God is wiser than men, and the weakness of God is stronger than men;'),(46001026,46,1,26,'for see your calling, brethren, that not many `are\' wise according to the flesh, not many mighty, not many noble;'),(46001027,46,1,27,'but the foolish things of the world did God choose, that the wise He may put to shame; and the weak things of the world did God choose that He may put to shame the strong;'),(46001028,46,1,28,'and the base things of the world, and the things despised did God choose, and the things that are not, that the things that are He may make useless --'),(46001029,46,1,29,'that no flesh may glory before Him;'),(46001030,46,1,30,'and of Him ye -- ye are in Christ Jesus, who became to us from God wisdom, righteousness also, and sanctification, and redemption,'),(46001031,46,1,31,'that, according as it hath been written, `He who is glorying -- in the Lord let him glory.\''),(46002001,46,2,1,'And I, having come unto you, brethren, came -- not in superiority of discourse or wisdom -- declaring to you the testimony of God,'),(46002002,46,2,2,'for I decided not to know any thing among you, except Jesus Christ, and him crucified;'),(46002003,46,2,3,'and I, in weakness, and in fear, and in much trembling, was with you;'),(46002004,46,2,4,'and my word and my preaching was not in persuasive words of human wisdom, but in demonstration of the Spirit and of power --'),(46002005,46,2,5,'that your faith may not be in the wisdom of men, but in the power of God.'),(46002006,46,2,6,'And wisdom we speak among the perfect, and wisdom not of this age, nor of the rulers of this age -- of those becoming useless,'),(46002007,46,2,7,'but we speak the hidden wisdom of God in a secret, that God foreordained before the ages to our glory,'),(46002008,46,2,8,'which no one of the rulers of this age did know, for if they had known, the Lord of the glory they would not have crucified;'),(46002009,46,2,9,'but, according as it hath been written, `What eye did not see, and ear did not hear, and upon the heart of man came not up, what God did prepare for those loving Him --\''),(46002010,46,2,10,'but to us did God reveal `them\' through His Spirit, for the Spirit all things doth search, even the depths of God,'),(46002011,46,2,11,'for who of men hath known the things of the man, except the spirit of the man that `is\' in him? so also the things of God no one hath known, except the Spirit of God.'),(46002012,46,2,12,'And we the spirit of the world did not receive, but the Spirit that `is\' of God, that we may know the things conferred by God on us,'),(46002013,46,2,13,'which things also we speak, not in words taught by human wisdom, but in those taught by the Holy Spirit, with spiritual things spiritual things comparing,'),(46002014,46,2,14,'and the natural man doth not receive the things of the Spirit of God, for to him they are foolishness, and he is not able to know `them\', because spiritually they are discerned;'),(46002015,46,2,15,'and he who is spiritual, doth discern indeed all things, and he himself is by no one discerned;'),(46002016,46,2,16,'for who did know the mind of the Lord that he shall instruct Him? and we -- we have the mind of Christ.'),(46003001,46,3,1,'And I, brethren, was not able to speak to you as to spiritual, but as to fleshly -- as to babes in Christ;'),(46003002,46,3,2,'with milk I fed you, and not with meat, for ye were not yet able, but not even yet are ye now able,'),(46003003,46,3,3,'for yet ye are fleshly, for where `there is\' among you envying, and strife, and divisions, are ye not fleshly, and in the manner of men do walk?'),(46003004,46,3,4,'for when one may say, `I, indeed, am of Paul;\' and another, `I -- of Apollos;\' are ye not fleshly?'),(46003005,46,3,5,'Who, then, is Paul, and who Apollos, but ministrants through whom ye did believe, and to each as the Lord gave?'),(46003006,46,3,6,'I planted, Apollos watered, but God was giving growth;'),(46003007,46,3,7,'so that neither is he who is planting anything, nor he who is watering, but He who is giving growth -- God;'),(46003008,46,3,8,'and he who is planting and he who is watering are one, and each his own reward shall receive, according to his own labour,'),(46003009,46,3,9,'for of God we are fellow-workmen; God\'s tillage, God\'s building ye are.'),(46003010,46,3,10,'According to the grace of God that was given to me, as a wise master-builder, a foundation I have laid, and another doth build on `it\','),(46003011,46,3,11,'for other foundation no one is able to lay except that which is laid, which is Jesus the Christ;'),(46003012,46,3,12,'and if any one doth build upon this foundation gold, silver, precious stones, wood, hay, straw --'),(46003013,46,3,13,'of each the work shall become manifest, for the day shall declare `it\', because in fire it is revealed, and the work of each, what kind it is, the fire shall prove;'),(46003014,46,3,14,'if of any one the work doth remain that he built on `it\', a wage he shall receive;'),(46003015,46,3,15,'if of any the work is burned up, he shall suffer loss; and himself shall be saved, but so as through fire.'),(46003016,46,3,16,'have ye not known that ye are a sanctuary of God, and the Spirit of God doth dwell in you?'),(46003017,46,3,17,'if any one the sanctuary of God doth waste, him shall God waste; for the sanctuary of God is holy, the which ye are.'),(46003018,46,3,18,'Let no one deceive himself; if any one doth seem to be wise among you in this age -- let him become a fool, that he may become wise,'),(46003019,46,3,19,'for the wisdom of this world is foolishness with God, for it hath been written, `Who is taking the wise in their craftiness;\''),(46003020,46,3,20,'and again, `The Lord doth know the reasonings of the wise, that they are vain.\''),(46003021,46,3,21,'So then, let no one glory in men, for all things are yours,'),(46003022,46,3,22,'whether Paul, or Apollos, or Cephas, or the world, or life, or death, or things present, or things about to be -- all are yours,'),(46003023,46,3,23,'and ye `are\' Christ\'s, and Christ `is\' God\'s.'),(46004001,46,4,1,'Let a man so reckon us as officers of Christ, and stewards of the secrets of God,'),(46004002,46,4,2,'and as to the rest, it is required in the stewards that one may be found faithful,'),(46004003,46,4,3,'and to me it is for a very little thing that by you I may be judged, or by man\'s day, but not even myself do I judge,'),(46004004,46,4,4,'for of nothing to myself have I been conscious, but not in this have I been declared right -- and he who is discerning me is the Lord:'),(46004005,46,4,5,'so, then, nothing before the time judge ye, till the Lord may come, who will both bring to light the hidden things of the darkness, and will manifest the counsels of the hearts, and then the praise shall come to each from God.'),(46004006,46,4,6,'And these things, brethren, I did transfer to myself and to Apollos because of you, that in us ye may learn not to think above that which hath been written, that ye may not be puffed up one for one against the other,'),(46004007,46,4,7,'for who doth make thee to differ? and what hast thou, that thou didst not receive? and if thou didst also receive, why dost thou glory as not having received?'),(46004008,46,4,8,'Already ye are having been filled, already ye were rich, apart from us ye did reign, and I would also ye did reign, that we also with you may reign together,'),(46004009,46,4,9,'for I think that God did set forth us the apostles last -- as appointed to death, because a spectacle we became to the world, and messengers, and men;'),(46004010,46,4,10,'we `are\' fools because of Christ, and ye wise in Christ; we `are\' ailing, and ye strong; ye glorious, and we dishonoured;'),(46004011,46,4,11,'unto the present hour we both hunger, and thirst, and are naked, and are buffeted, and wander about,'),(46004012,46,4,12,'and labour, working with `our\' own hands; being reviled, we bless; being persecuted, we suffer;'),(46004013,46,4,13,'being spoken evil of, we entreat; as filth of the world we did become -- of all things an offscouring -- till now.'),(46004014,46,4,14,'Not `as\' putting you to shame do I write these things, but as my beloved children I do admonish,'),(46004015,46,4,15,'for if a myriad of child-conductors ye may have in Christ, yet not many fathers; for in Christ Jesus, through the good news, I -- I did beget you;'),(46004016,46,4,16,'I call upon you, therefore, become ye followers of me;'),(46004017,46,4,17,'because of this I sent to you Timotheus, who is my child, beloved and faithful in the Lord, who shall remind you of my ways in Christ, according as everywhere in every assembly I teach.'),(46004018,46,4,18,'And as if I were not coming unto you certain were puffed up;'),(46004019,46,4,19,'but I will come quickly unto you, if the Lord may will, and I will know not the word of those puffed up, but the power;'),(46004020,46,4,20,'for not in word is the reign of God, but in power?'),(46004021,46,4,21,'what do ye wish? with a rod shall I come unto you, or in love, with a spirit also of meekness?'),(46005001,46,5,1,'Whoredom is actually heard of among you, and such whoredom as is not even named among the nations -- as that one hath the wife of the father! --'),(46005002,46,5,2,'and ye are having been puffed up, and did not rather mourn, that he may be removed out of the midst of you who did this work,'),(46005003,46,5,3,'for I indeed, as being absent as to the body, and present as to the spirit, have already judged, as being present, him who so wrought this thing:'),(46005004,46,5,4,'in the name of our Lord Jesus Christ -- ye being gathered together, also my spirit -- with the power of our Lord Jesus Christ,'),(46005005,46,5,5,'to deliver up such a one to the Adversary for the destruction of the flesh, that the spirit may be saved in the day of the Lord Jesus.'),(46005006,46,5,6,'Not good `is\' your glorying; have ye not known that a little leaven the whole lump doth leaven?'),(46005007,46,5,7,'cleanse out, therefore, the old leaven, that ye may be a new lump, according as ye are unleavened, for also our passover for us was sacrificed -- Christ,'),(46005008,46,5,8,'so that we may keep the feast, not with old leaven, nor with the leaven of evil and wickedness, but with unleavened food of sincerity and truth.'),(46005009,46,5,9,'I did write to you in the epistle, not to keep company with whoremongers --'),(46005010,46,5,10,'and not certainly with the whoremongers of this world, or with the covetous, or extortioners, or idolaters, seeing ye ought then to go forth out of the world --'),(46005011,46,5,11,'and now, I did write to you not to keep company with `him\', if any one, being named a brother, may be a whoremonger, or covetous, or an idolater, or a railer, or a drunkard, or an extortioner -- with such a one not even to eat together;'),(46005012,46,5,12,'for what have I also those without to judge? those within do ye not judge?'),(46005013,46,5,13,'and those without God doth judge; and put ye away the evil from among yourselves.'),(46006001,46,6,1,'Dare any one of you, having a matter with the other, go to be judged before the unrighteous, and not before the saints?'),(46006002,46,6,2,'have ye not known that the saints shall judge the world? and if by you the world is judged, are ye unworthy of the smaller judgments?'),(46006003,46,6,3,'have ye not known that we shall judge messengers? why not then the things of life?'),(46006004,46,6,4,'of the things of life, indeed, then, if ye may have judgment, those despised in the assembly -- these cause ye to sit;'),(46006005,46,6,5,'unto your shame I speak: so there is not among you one wise man, not even one, who shall be able to discern in the midst of his brethren!'),(46006006,46,6,6,'but brother with brother doth go to be judged, and this before unbelievers!'),(46006007,46,6,7,'Already, indeed, then, there is altogether a fault among you, that ye have judgments with one another; wherefore do ye not rather suffer injustice? wherefore be ye not rather defrauded?'),(46006008,46,6,8,'but ye -- ye do injustice, and ye defraud, and these -- brethren!'),(46006009,46,6,9,'have ye not known that the unrighteous the reign of God shall not inherit? be not led astray; neither whoremongers, nor idolaters, nor adulterers, nor effeminate, nor sodomites,'),(46006010,46,6,10,'nor thieves, nor covetous, nor drunkards, nor revilers, nor extortioners, the reign of God shall inherit.'),(46006011,46,6,11,'And certain of you were these! but ye were washed, but ye were sanctified, but ye were declared righteous, in the name of the Lord Jesus, and in the Spirit of our God.'),(46006012,46,6,12,'All things are lawful to me, but all things are not profitable; all things are lawful to me, but I -- I will not be under authority by any;'),(46006013,46,6,13,'the meats `are\' for the belly, and the belly for the meats. And God both this and these shall make useless; and the body `is\' not for whoredom, but for the Lord, and the Lord for the body;'),(46006014,46,6,14,'and God both the Lord did raise, and us will raise up through His power.'),(46006015,46,6,15,'Have ye not known that your bodies are members of Christ? having taken, then, the members of the Christ, shall I make `them\' members of an harlot? let it be not!'),(46006016,46,6,16,'have ye not known that he who is joined to the harlot is one body? `for they shall be -- saith He -- the two for one flesh.\''),(46006017,46,6,17,'And he who is joined to the Lord is one spirit;'),(46006018,46,6,18,'flee the whoredom; every sin -- whatever a man may commit -- is without the body, and he who is committing whoredom, against his own body doth sin.'),(46006019,46,6,19,'Have ye not known that your body is a sanctuary of the Holy Spirit in you, which ye have from God? and ye are not your own,'),(46006020,46,6,20,'for ye were bought with a price; glorify, then, God in your body and in your spirit, which are God\'s.'),(46007001,46,7,1,'And concerning the things of which ye wrote to me: good `it is\' for a man not to touch a woman,'),(46007002,46,7,2,'and because of the whoredom let each man have his own wife, and let each woman have her proper husband;'),(46007003,46,7,3,'to the wife let the husband the due benevolence render, and in like manner also the wife to the husband;'),(46007004,46,7,4,'the wife over her own body hath not authority, but the husband; and, in like manner also, the husband over his own body hath not authority, but the wife.'),(46007005,46,7,5,'Defraud not one another, except by consent for a time, that ye may be free for fasting and prayer, and again may come together, that the Adversary may not tempt you because of your incontinence;'),(46007006,46,7,6,'and this I say by way of concurrence -- not of command,'),(46007007,46,7,7,'for I wish all men to be even as I myself `am\'; but each his own gift hath of God, one indeed thus, and one thus.'),(46007008,46,7,8,'And I say to the unmarried and to the widows: it is good for them if they may remain even as I `am\';'),(46007009,46,7,9,'and if they have not continence -- let them marry, for it is better to marry than to burn;'),(46007010,46,7,10,'and to the married I announce -- not I, but the Lord -- let not a wife separate from a husband:'),(46007011,46,7,11,'but and if she may separate, let her remain unmarried, or to the husband let her be reconciled, and let not a husband send away a wife.'),(46007012,46,7,12,'And to the rest I speak -- not the Lord -- if any brother hath a wife unbelieving, and she is pleased to dwell with him, let him not send her away;'),(46007013,46,7,13,'and a woman who hath a husband unbelieving, and he is pleased to dwell with her, let her not send him away;'),(46007014,46,7,14,'for the unbelieving husband hath been sanctified in the wife, and the unbelieving wife hath been sanctified in the husband; otherwise your children are unclean, but now they are holy.'),(46007015,46,7,15,'And, if the unbelieving doth separate himself -- let him separate himself: the brother or the sister is not under servitude in such `cases\', and in peace hath God called us;'),(46007016,46,7,16,'for what, hast thou known, O wife, whether the husband thou shalt save? or what, hast thou known, O husband, whether the wife thou shalt save?'),(46007017,46,7,17,'if not, as God did distribute to each, as the Lord hath called each -- so let him walk; and thus in all the assemblies do I direct:'),(46007018,46,7,18,'being circumcised -- was any one called? let him not become uncircumcised; in uncircumcision was any one called? let him not be circumcised;'),(46007019,46,7,19,'the circumcision is nothing, and the uncircumcision is nothing -- but a keeping of the commands of God.'),(46007020,46,7,20,'Each in the calling in which he was called -- in this let him remain;'),(46007021,46,7,21,'a servant -- wast thou called? be not anxious; but if also thou art able to become free -- use `it\' rather;'),(46007022,46,7,22,'for he who `is\' in the Lord -- having been called a servant -- is the Lord\'s freedman: in like manner also he the freeman, having been called, is servant of Christ:'),(46007023,46,7,23,'with a price ye were bought, become not servants of men;'),(46007024,46,7,24,'each, in that in which he was called, brethren, in this let him remain with God.'),(46007025,46,7,25,'And concerning the virgins, a command of the Lord I have not; and I give judgment as having obtained kindness from the Lord to be faithful:'),(46007026,46,7,26,'I suppose, therefore, this to be good because of the present necessity, that `it is\' good for a man that the matter be thus: --'),(46007027,46,7,27,'Hast thou been bound to a wife? seek not to be loosed; hast thou been loosed from a wife? seek not a wife.'),(46007028,46,7,28,'But and if thou mayest marry, thou didst not sin; and if the virgin may marry, she did not sin; and such shall have tribulation in the flesh: and I spare you.'),(46007029,46,7,29,'And this I say, brethren, the time henceforth is having been shortened -- that both those having wives may be as not having;'),(46007030,46,7,30,'and those weeping, as not weeping; and those rejoicing, as not rejoicing; and those buying, as not possessing;'),(46007031,46,7,31,'and those using this world, as not using `it\' up; for passing away is the fashion of this world.'),(46007032,46,7,32,'And I wish you to be without anxiety; the unmarried is anxious for the things of the Lord, how he shall please the Lord;'),(46007033,46,7,33,'and the married is anxious for the things of the world, how he shall please the wife.'),(46007034,46,7,34,'The wife and the virgin have been distinguished: the unmarried is anxious for the things of the Lord, that she may be holy both in body and in spirit, and the married is anxious for the things of the world, how she shall please the husband.'),(46007035,46,7,35,'And this for your own profit I say: not that I may cast a noose upon you, but for the seemliness and devotedness to the Lord, undistractedly,'),(46007036,46,7,36,'and if any one doth think `it\' to be unseemly to his virgin, if she may be beyond the bloom of age, and it ought so to be, what he willeth let him do; he doth not sin -- let him marry.'),(46007037,46,7,37,'And he who hath stood stedfast in the heart -- not having necessity -- and hath authority over his own will, and this he hath determined in his heart -- to keep his own virgin -- doth well;'),(46007038,46,7,38,'so that both he who is giving in marriage doth well, and he who is not giving in marriage doth better.'),(46007039,46,7,39,'A wife hath been bound by law as long time as her husband may live, and if her husband may sleep, she is free to be married to whom she will -- only in the Lord;'),(46007040,46,7,40,'and she is happier if she may so remain -- according to my judgment; and I think I also have the Spirit of God.'),(46008001,46,8,1,'And concerning the things sacrificed to idols, we have known that we all have knowledge: knowledge puffeth up, but love buildeth up;'),(46008002,46,8,2,'and if any one doth think to know anything, he hath not yet known anything according as it behoveth `him\' to know;'),(46008003,46,8,3,'and if any one doth love God, this one hath been known by Him.'),(46008004,46,8,4,'Concerning the eating then of the things sacrificed to idols, we have known that an idol `is\' nothing in the world, and that there is no other God except one;'),(46008005,46,8,5,'for even if there are those called gods, whether in heaven, whether upon earth -- as there are gods many and lords many --'),(46008006,46,8,6,'yet to us `is\' one God, the Father, of whom `are\' the all things, and we to Him; and one Lord, Jesus Christ, through whom `are\' the all things, and we through Him;'),(46008007,46,8,7,'but not in all men `is\' the knowledge, and certain with conscience of the idol, till now, as a thing sacrificed to an idol do eat `it\', and their conscience, being weak, is defiled.'),(46008008,46,8,8,'But victuals do not commend us to God, for neither if we may eat are we in advance; nor if we may not eat, are we behind;'),(46008009,46,8,9,'but see, lest this privilege of yours may become a stumbling-block to the infirm,'),(46008010,46,8,10,'for if any one may see thee that hast knowledge in an idol\'s temple reclining at meat -- shall not his conscience -- he being infirm -- be emboldened to eat the things sacrificed to idols,'),(46008011,46,8,11,'and the brother who is infirm shall perish by thy knowledge, because of whom Christ died?'),(46008012,46,8,12,'and thus sinning in regard to the brethren, and smiting their weak conscience -- in regard to Christ ye sin;'),(46008013,46,8,13,'wherefore, if victuals cause my brother to stumble, I may eat no flesh -- to the age -- that my brother I may not cause to stumble.'),(46009001,46,9,1,'Am not I an apostle? am not I free? Jesus Christ our Lord have I not seen? my work are not ye in the Lord?'),(46009002,46,9,2,'if to others I am not an apostle -- yet doubtless to you I am; for the seal of my apostleship are ye in the Lord.'),(46009003,46,9,3,'My defence to those who examine me in this;'),(46009004,46,9,4,'have we not authority to eat and to drink?'),(46009005,46,9,5,'have we not authority a sister -- a wife -- to lead about, as also the other apostles, and the brethren of the Lord, and Cephas?'),(46009006,46,9,6,'or only I and Barnabas, have we not authority -- not to work?'),(46009007,46,9,7,'who doth serve as a soldier at his own charges at any time? who doth plant a vineyard, and of its fruit doth not eat? or who doth feed a flock, and of the milk of the flock doth not eat?'),(46009008,46,9,8,'According to man do I speak these things? or doth not also the law say these things?'),(46009009,46,9,9,'for in the law of Moses it hath been written, `thou shalt not muzzle an ox treading out corn;\' for the oxen doth God care?'),(46009010,46,9,10,'or because of us by all means doth He say `it\'? yes, because of us it was written, because in hope ought the plower to plow, and he who is treading `ought\' of his hope to partake in hope.'),(46009011,46,9,11,'If we to you the spiritual things did sow -- great `is it\' if we your fleshly things do reap?'),(46009012,46,9,12,'if others do partake of the authority over you -- not we more? but we did not use this authority, but all things we bear, that we may give no hindrance to the good news of the Christ.'),(46009013,46,9,13,'Have ye not known that those working about the things of the temple -- of the temple do eat, and those waiting at the altar -- with the altar are partakers?'),(46009014,46,9,14,'so also did the Lord direct to those proclaiming the good news: of the good news to live.'),(46009015,46,9,15,'And I have used none of these things; neither did I write these things that it may be so done in my case, for `it is\' good for me rather to die, than that any one may make my glorying void;'),(46009016,46,9,16,'for if I may proclaim good news, it is no glorying for me, for necessity is laid upon me, and wo is to me if I may not proclaim good news;'),(46009017,46,9,17,'for if willing I do this, I have a reward; and if unwillingly -- with a stewardship I have been entrusted!'),(46009018,46,9,18,'What, then, is my reward? -- that proclaiming good news, without charge I shall make the good news of the Christ, not to abuse my authority in the good news;'),(46009019,46,9,19,'for being free from all men, to all men I made myself servant, that the more I might gain;'),(46009020,46,9,20,'and I became to the Jews as a Jew, that Jews I might gain; to those under law as under law, that those under law I might gain;'),(46009021,46,9,21,'to those without law, as without law -- (not being without law to God, but within law to Christ) -- that I might gain those without law;'),(46009022,46,9,22,'I became to the infirm as infirm, that the infirm I might gain; to all men I have become all things, that by all means I may save some.'),(46009023,46,9,23,'And this I do because of the good news, that a fellow-partaker of it I may become;'),(46009024,46,9,24,'have ye not known that those running in a race -- all indeed run, but one doth receive the prize? so run ye, that ye may obtain;'),(46009025,46,9,25,'and every one who is striving, is in all things temperate; these, indeed, then, that a corruptible crown they may receive, but we an incorruptible;'),(46009026,46,9,26,'I, therefore, thus run, not as uncertainly, thus I fight, as not beating air;'),(46009027,46,9,27,'but I chastise my body, and bring `it\' into servitude, lest by any means, having preached to others -- I myself may become disapproved.'),(46010001,46,10,1,'And I do not wish you to be ignorant, brethren, that all our fathers were under the cloud, and all passed through the sea,'),(46010002,46,10,2,'and all to Moses were baptized in the cloud, and in the sea;'),(46010003,46,10,3,'and all the same spiritual food did eat,'),(46010004,46,10,4,'and all the same spiritual drink did drink, for they were drinking of a spiritual rock following them, and the rock was the Christ;'),(46010005,46,10,5,'but in the most of them God was not well pleased, for they were strewn in the wilderness,'),(46010006,46,10,6,'and those things became types of us, for our not passionately desiring evil things, as also these did desire.'),(46010007,46,10,7,'Neither become ye idolaters, as certain of them, as it hath been written, `The people sat down to eat and to drink, and stood up to play;\''),(46010008,46,10,8,'neither may we commit whoredom, as certain of them did commit whoredom, and there fell in one day twenty-three thousand;'),(46010009,46,10,9,'neither may we tempt the Christ, as also certain of them did tempt, and by the serpents did perish;'),(46010010,46,10,10,'neither murmur ye, as also some of them did murmur, and did perish by the destroyer.'),(46010011,46,10,11,'And all these things as types did happen to those persons, and they were written for our admonition, to whom the end of the ages did come,'),(46010012,46,10,12,'so that he who is thinking to stand -- let him observe, lest he fall.'),(46010013,46,10,13,'No temptation hath taken you -- except human; and God is faithful, who will not suffer you to be tempted above what ye are able, but He will make, with the temptation, also the outlet, for your being able to bear `it\'.'),(46010014,46,10,14,'Wherefore, my beloved, flee from the idolatry;'),(46010015,46,10,15,'as to wise men I speak -- judge ye what I say:'),(46010016,46,10,16,'The cup of the blessing that we bless -- is it not the fellowship of the blood of the Christ? the bread that we break -- is it not the fellowship of the body of the Christ?'),(46010017,46,10,17,'because one bread, one body, are we the many -- for we all of the one bread do partake.'),(46010018,46,10,18,'See Israel according to the flesh! are not those eating the sacrifices in the fellowship of the altar?'),(46010019,46,10,19,'what then do I say? that an idol is anything? or that a sacrifice offered to an idol is anything? --'),(46010020,46,10,20,'`no,\' but that the things that the nations sacrifice -- they sacrifice to demons and not to God; and I do not wish you to come into the fellowship of the demons.'),(46010021,46,10,21,'Ye are not able the cup of the Lord to drink, and the cup of demons; ye are not able of the table of the Lord to partake, and of the table of demons;'),(46010022,46,10,22,'do we arouse the Lord to jealousy? are we stronger than He?'),(46010023,46,10,23,'All things to me are lawful, but all things are not profitable; all things to me are lawful, but all things do not build up;'),(46010024,46,10,24,'let no one seek his own -- but each another\'s.'),(46010025,46,10,25,'Whatever in the meat-market is sold eat ye, not inquiring, because of the conscience,'),(46010026,46,10,26,'for the Lord\'s `is\' the earth, and its fulness;'),(46010027,46,10,27,'and if any one of the unbelieving do call you, and ye wish to go, all that is set before you eat, nothing inquiring, because of the conscience;'),(46010028,46,10,28,'and if any one may say to you, `This is a thing sacrificed to an idol,\' -- do not eat, because of that one who shewed `it\', and of the conscience, for the Lord\'s `is\' the earth and its fulness:'),(46010029,46,10,29,'and conscience, I say, not of thyself, but of the other, for why `is it\' that my liberty is judged by another\'s conscience?'),(46010030,46,10,30,'and if I thankfully do partake, why am I evil spoken of, for that for which I give thanks?'),(46010031,46,10,31,'Whether, then, ye eat, or drink, or do anything, do all to the glory of God;'),(46010032,46,10,32,'become offenceless, both to Jews and Greeks, and to the assembly of God;'),(46010033,46,10,33,'as I also in all things do please all, not seeking my own profit, but that of many -- that they may be saved.'),(46011001,46,11,1,'Followers of me become ye, as I also `am\' of Christ.'),(46011002,46,11,2,'And I praise you, brethren, that in all things ye remember me, and according as I did deliver to you, the deliverances ye keep,'),(46011003,46,11,3,'and I wish you to know that of every man the head is the Christ, and the head of a woman is the husband, and the head of Christ is God.'),(46011004,46,11,4,'Every man praying or prophesying, having the head covered, doth dishonour his head,'),(46011005,46,11,5,'and every woman praying or prophesying with the head uncovered, doth dishonour her own head, for it is one and the same thing with her being shaven,'),(46011006,46,11,6,'for if a woman is not covered -- then let her be shorn, and if `it is\' a shame for a woman to be shorn or shaven -- let her be covered;'),(46011007,46,11,7,'for a man, indeed, ought not to cover the head, being the image and glory of God, and a woman is the glory of a man,'),(46011008,46,11,8,'for a man is not of a woman, but a woman `is\' of a man,'),(46011009,46,11,9,'for a man also was not created because of the woman, but a woman because of the man;'),(46011010,46,11,10,'because of this the woman ought to have `a token of\' authority upon the head, because of the messengers;'),(46011011,46,11,11,'but neither `is\' a man apart from a woman, nor a woman apart from a man, in the Lord,'),(46011012,46,11,12,'for as the woman `is\' of the man, so also the man `is\' through the woman, and the all things `are\' of God.'),(46011013,46,11,13,'In your own selves judge ye; is it seemly for a woman uncovered to pray to God?'),(46011014,46,11,14,'doth not even nature itself teach you, that if a man indeed have long hair, a dishonour it is to him?'),(46011015,46,11,15,'and a woman, if she have long hair, a glory it is to her, because the hair instead of a covering hath been given to her;'),(46011016,46,11,16,'and if any one doth think to be contentious, we have no such custom, neither the assemblies of God.'),(46011017,46,11,17,'And this declaring, I give no praise, because not for the better, but for the worse ye come together;'),(46011018,46,11,18,'for first, indeed, ye coming together in an assembly, I hear of divisions being among you, and partly I believe `it\','),(46011019,46,11,19,'for it behoveth sects also to be among you, that those approved may become manifest among you;'),(46011020,46,11,20,'ye, then, coming together at the same place -- it is not to eat the Lord\'s supper;'),(46011021,46,11,21,'for each his own supper doth take before in the eating, and one is hungry, and another is drunk;'),(46011022,46,11,22,'why, have ye not houses to eat and to drink in? or the assembly of God do ye despise, and shame those not having? what may I say to you? shall I praise you in this? I do not praise!'),(46011023,46,11,23,'For I -- I received from the Lord that which also I did deliver to you, that the Lord Jesus in the night in which he was delivered up, took bread,'),(46011024,46,11,24,'and having given thanks, he brake, and said, `Take ye, eat ye, this is my body, that for you is being broken; this do ye -- to the remembrance of me.\''),(46011025,46,11,25,'In like manner also the cup after the supping, saying, `This cup is the new covenant in my blood; this do ye, as often as ye may drink `it\' -- to the remembrance of me;\''),(46011026,46,11,26,'for as often as ye may eat this bread, and this cup may drink, the death of the Lord ye do shew forth -- till he may come;'),(46011027,46,11,27,'so that whoever may eat this bread or may drink the cup of the Lord unworthily, guilty he shall be of the body and blood of the Lord:'),(46011028,46,11,28,'and let a man be proving himself, and so of the bread let him eat, and of the cup let him drink;'),(46011029,46,11,29,'for he who is eating and drinking unworthily, judgment to himself he doth eat and drink -- not discerning the body of the Lord.'),(46011030,46,11,30,'Because of this, among you many `are\' weak and sickly, and sleep do many;'),(46011031,46,11,31,'for if ourselves we were discerning, we would not be being judged,'),(46011032,46,11,32,'and being judged by the Lord, we are chastened, that with the world we may not be condemned;'),(46011033,46,11,33,'so then, my brethren, coming together to eat, for one another wait ye;'),(46011034,46,11,34,'and if any one is hungry, at home let him eat, that to judgment ye may not come together; and the rest, whenever I may come, I shall arrange.'),(46012001,46,12,1,'And concerning the spiritual things, brethren, I do not wish you to be ignorant;'),(46012002,46,12,2,'ye have known that ye were nations, unto the dumb idols -- as ye were led -- being carried away;'),(46012003,46,12,3,'wherefore, I give you to understand that no one, in the Spirit of God speaking, saith Jesus `is\' anathema, and no one is able to say Jesus `is\' Lord, except in the Holy Spirit.'),(46012004,46,12,4,'And there are diversities of gifts, and the same Spirit;'),(46012005,46,12,5,'and there are diversities of ministrations, and the same Lord;'),(46012006,46,12,6,'and there are diversities of workings, and it is the same God -- who is working the all in all.'),(46012007,46,12,7,'And to each hath been given the manifestation of the Spirit for profit;'),(46012008,46,12,8,'for to one through the Spirit hath been given a word of wisdom, and to another a word of knowledge, according to the same Spirit;'),(46012009,46,12,9,'and to another faith in the same Spirit, and to another gifts of healings in the same Spirit;'),(46012010,46,12,10,'and to another in-workings of mighty deeds; and to another prophecy; and to another discernings of spirits; and to another `divers\' kinds of tongues; and to another interpretation of tongues:'),(46012011,46,12,11,'and all these doth work the one and the same Spirit, dividing to each severally as he intendeth.'),(46012012,46,12,12,'For, even as the body is one, and hath many members, and all the members of the one body, being many, are one body, so also `is\' the Christ,'),(46012013,46,12,13,'for also in one Spirit we all to one body were baptized, whether Jews or Greeks, whether servants or freemen, and all into one Spirit were made to drink,'),(46012014,46,12,14,'for also the body is not one member, but many;'),(46012015,46,12,15,'if the foot may say, `Because I am not a hand, I am not of the body;\' it is not, because of this, not of the body;'),(46012016,46,12,16,'and if the ear may say, `Because I am not an eye, I am not of the body;\' it is not, because of this, not of the body?'),(46012017,46,12,17,'If the whole body `were\' an eye, where the hearing? if the whole hearing, where the smelling?'),(46012018,46,12,18,'and now, God did set the members each one of them in the body, according as He willed,'),(46012019,46,12,19,'and if all were one member, where the body?'),(46012020,46,12,20,'and now, indeed, `are\' many members, and one body;'),(46012021,46,12,21,'and an eye is not able to say to the hand, `I have no need of thee;\' nor again the head to the feet, `I have no need of you.\''),(46012022,46,12,22,'But much more the members of the body which seem to be more infirm are necessary,'),(46012023,46,12,23,'and those that we think to be less honourable of the body, around these we put more abundant honour, and our unseemly things have seemliness more abundant,'),(46012024,46,12,24,'and our seemly things have no need; but God did temper the body together, to the lacking part having given more abundant honour,'),(46012025,46,12,25,'that there may be no division in the body, but that the members may have the same anxiety for one another,'),(46012026,46,12,26,'and whether one member doth suffer, suffer with `it\' do all the members, or one member is glorified, rejoice with `it\' do all the members;'),(46012027,46,12,27,'and ye are the body of Christ, and members in particular.'),(46012028,46,12,28,'And some, indeed, did God set in the assembly, first apostles, secondly prophets, thirdly teachers, afterwards powers, afterwards gifts of healings, helpings, governings, divers kinds of tongues;'),(46012029,46,12,29,'`are\' all apostles? `are\' all prophets? `are\' all teachers? `are\' all powers?'),(46012030,46,12,30,'have all gifts of healings? do all speak with tongues? do all interpret?'),(46012031,46,12,31,'and desire earnestly the better gifts; and yet a far excelling way do I shew to you:'),(46013001,46,13,1,'If with the tongues of men and of messengers I speak, and have not love, I have become brass sounding, or a cymbal tinkling;'),(46013002,46,13,2,'and if I have prophecy, and know all the secrets, and all the knowledge, and if I have all the faith, so as to remove mountains, and have not love, I am nothing;'),(46013003,46,13,3,'and if I give away to feed others all my goods, and if I give up my body that I may be burned, and have not love, I am profited nothing.'),(46013004,46,13,4,'The love is long-suffering, it is kind, the love doth not envy, the love doth not vaunt itself, is not puffed up,'),(46013005,46,13,5,'doth not act unseemly, doth not seek its own things, is not provoked, doth not impute evil,'),(46013006,46,13,6,'rejoiceth not over the unrighteousness, and rejoiceth with the truth;'),(46013007,46,13,7,'all things it beareth, all it believeth, all it hopeth, all it endureth.'),(46013008,46,13,8,'The love doth never fail; and whether `there be\' prophecies, they shall become useless; whether tongues, they shall cease; whether knowledge, it shall become useless;'),(46013009,46,13,9,'for in part we know, and in part we prophecy;'),(46013010,46,13,10,'and when that which is perfect may come, then that which `is\' in part shall become useless.'),(46013011,46,13,11,'When I was a babe, as a babe I was speaking, as a babe I was thinking, as a babe I was reasoning, and when I have become a man, I have made useless the things of the babe;'),(46013012,46,13,12,'for we see now through a mirror obscurely, and then face to face; now I know in part, and then I shall fully know, as also I was known;'),(46013013,46,13,13,'and now there doth remain faith, hope, love -- these three; and the greatest of these `is\' love.'),(46014001,46,14,1,'Pursue the love, and seek earnestly the spiritual things, and rather that ye may prophecy,'),(46014002,46,14,2,'for he who is speaking in an `unknown\' tongue -- to men he doth not speak, but to God, for no one doth hearken, and in spirit he doth speak secrets;'),(46014003,46,14,3,'and he who is prophesying to men doth speak edification, and exhortation, and comfort;'),(46014004,46,14,4,'he who is speaking in an `unknown\' tongue, himself doth edify, and he who is prophesying, an assembly doth edify;'),(46014005,46,14,5,'and I wish you all to speak with tongues, and more that ye may prophecy, for greater is he who is prophesying than he who is speaking with tongues, except one may interpret, that the assembly may receive edification.'),(46014006,46,14,6,'And now, brethren, if I may come unto you speaking tongues, what shall I profit you, except I shall speak to you either in revelation, or in knowledge, or in prophesying, or in teaching?'),(46014007,46,14,7,'yet the things without life giving sound -- whether pipe or harp -- if a difference in the sounds they may not give, how shall be known that which is piped or that which is harped?'),(46014008,46,14,8,'for if also an uncertain sound a trumpet may give, who shall prepare himself for battle?'),(46014009,46,14,9,'so also ye, if through the tongue, speech easily understood ye may not give -- how shall that which is spoken be known? for ye shall be speaking to air.'),(46014010,46,14,10,'There are, it may be, so many kinds of voices in the world, and none of them is unmeaning,'),(46014011,46,14,11,'if, then, I do not know the power of the voice, I shall be to him who is speaking a foreigner, and he who is speaking, is to me a foreigner;'),(46014012,46,14,12,'so also ye, since ye are earnestly desirous of spiritual gifts, for the building up of the assembly seek that ye may abound;'),(46014013,46,14,13,'wherefore he who is speaking in an `unknown\' tongue -- let him pray that he may interpret;'),(46014014,46,14,14,'for if I pray in an `unknown\' tongue, my spirit doth pray, and my understanding is unfruitful.'),(46014015,46,14,15,'What then is it? I will pray with the spirit, and I will pray also with the understanding; I will sing psalms with the spirit, and I will sing psalms also with the understanding;'),(46014016,46,14,16,'since, if thou mayest bless with the spirit, he who is filling the place of the unlearned, how shall he say the Amen at thy giving of thanks, since what thou dost say he hath not known?'),(46014017,46,14,17,'for thou, indeed, dost give thanks well, but the other is not built up!'),(46014018,46,14,18,'I give thanks to my God -- more than you all with tongues speaking --'),(46014019,46,14,19,'but in an assembly I wish to speak five words through my understanding, that others also I may instruct, rather than myriads of words in an `unknown\' tongue.'),(46014020,46,14,20,'Brethren, become not children in the understanding, but in the evil be ye babes, and in the understanding become ye perfect;'),(46014021,46,14,21,'in the law it hath been written, that, `With other tongues and with other lips I will speak to this people, and not even so will they hear Me, saith the Lord;\''),(46014022,46,14,22,'so that the tongues are for a sign, not to the believing, but to the unbelieving; and the prophesy `is\' not for the unbelieving, but for the believing,'),(46014023,46,14,23,'If, therefore, the whole assembly may come together, to the same place, and all may speak with tongues, and there may come in unlearned or unbelievers, will they not say that ye are mad?'),(46014024,46,14,24,'and if all may prophecy, and any one may come in, an unbeliever or unlearned, he is convicted by all, he is discerned by all,'),(46014025,46,14,25,'and so the secrets of his heart become manifest, and so having fallen upon `his\' face, he will bow before God, declaring that God really is among you.'),(46014026,46,14,26,'What then is it, brethren? whenever ye may come together, each of you hath a psalm, hath a teaching, hath a tongue, hath a revelation, hath an interpretation? let all things be for building up;'),(46014027,46,14,27,'if an `unknown\' tongue any one do speak, by two, or at the most, by three, and in turn, and let one interpret;'),(46014028,46,14,28,'and if there may be no interpreter, let him be silent in an assembly, and to himself let him speak, and to God.'),(46014029,46,14,29,'And prophets -- let two or three speak, and let the others discern,'),(46014030,46,14,30,'and if to another sitting `anything\' may be revealed, let the first be silent;'),(46014031,46,14,31,'for ye are able, one by one, all to prophesy, that all may learn, and all may be exhorted,'),(46014032,46,14,32,'and the spiritual gift of prophets to prophets are subject,'),(46014033,46,14,33,'for God is not `a God\' of tumult, but of peace, as in all the assemblies of the saints.'),(46014034,46,14,34,'Your women in the assemblies let them be silent, for it hath not been permitted to them to speak, but to be subject, as also the law saith;'),(46014035,46,14,35,'and if they wish to learn anything, at home their own husbands let them question, for it is a shame to women to speak in an assembly.'),(46014036,46,14,36,'From you did the word of God come forth? or to you alone did it come?'),(46014037,46,14,37,'if any one doth think to be a prophet, or spiritual, let him acknowledge the things that I write to you -- that of the Lord they are commands;'),(46014038,46,14,38,'and if any one is ignorant -- let him be ignorant;'),(46014039,46,14,39,'so that, brethren, earnestly desire to prophesy, and to speak with tongues do not forbid;'),(46014040,46,14,40,'let all things be done decently and in order.'),(46015001,46,15,1,'And I make known to you, brethren, the good news that I proclaimed to you, which also ye did receive, in which also ye have stood,'),(46015002,46,15,2,'through which also ye are being saved, in what words I proclaimed good news to you, if ye hold fast, except ye did believe in vain,'),(46015003,46,15,3,'for I delivered to you first, what also I did receive, that Christ died for our sins, according to the Writings,'),(46015004,46,15,4,'and that he was buried, and that he hath risen on the third day, according to the Writings,'),(46015005,46,15,5,'and that he appeared to Cephas, then to the twelve,'),(46015006,46,15,6,'afterwards he appeared to above five hundred brethren at once, of whom the greater part remain till now, and certain also did fall asleep;'),(46015007,46,15,7,'afterwards he appeared to James, then to all the apostles.'),(46015008,46,15,8,'And last of all -- as to the untimely birth -- he appeared also to me,'),(46015009,46,15,9,'for I am the least of the apostles, who am not worthy to be called an apostle, because I did persecute the assembly of God,'),(46015010,46,15,10,'and by the grace of God I am what I am, and His grace that `is\' towards me came not in vain, but more abundantly than they all did I labour, yet not I, but the grace of God that `is\' with me;'),(46015011,46,15,11,'whether, then, I or they, so we preach, and so ye did believe.'),(46015012,46,15,12,'And if Christ is preached, that out of the dead he hath risen, how say certain among you, that there is no rising again of dead persons?'),(46015013,46,15,13,'and if there be no rising again of dead persons, neither hath Christ risen;'),(46015014,46,15,14,'and if Christ hath not risen, then void `is\' our preaching, and void also your faith,'),(46015015,46,15,15,'and we also are found false witnesses of God, because we did testify of God that He raised up the Christ, whom He did not raise if then dead persons do not rise;'),(46015016,46,15,16,'for if dead persons do not rise, neither hath Christ risen,'),(46015017,46,15,17,'and if Christ hath not risen, vain is your faith, ye are yet in your sins;'),(46015018,46,15,18,'then, also, those having fallen asleep in Christ did perish;'),(46015019,46,15,19,'if in this life we have hope in Christ only, of all men we are most to be pitied.'),(46015020,46,15,20,'And now, Christ hath risen out of the dead -- the first-fruits of those sleeping he became,'),(46015021,46,15,21,'for since through man `is\' the death, also through man `is\' a rising again of the dead,'),(46015022,46,15,22,'for even as in Adam all die, so also in the Christ all shall be made alive,'),(46015023,46,15,23,'and each in his proper order, a first-fruit Christ, afterwards those who are the Christ\'s, in his presence,'),(46015024,46,15,24,'then -- the end, when he may deliver up the reign to God, even the Father, when he may have made useless all rule, and all authority and power --'),(46015025,46,15,25,'for it behoveth him to reign till he may have put all the enemies under his feet --'),(46015026,46,15,26,'the last enemy is done away -- death;'),(46015027,46,15,27,'for all things He did put under his feet, and, when one may say that all things have been subjected, `it is\' evident that He is excepted who did subject the all things to him,'),(46015028,46,15,28,'and when the all things may be subjected to him, then the Son also himself shall be subject to Him, who did subject to him the all things, that God may be the all in all.'),(46015029,46,15,29,'Seeing what shall they do who are baptized for the dead, if the dead do not rise at all? why also are they baptized for the dead?'),(46015030,46,15,30,'why also do we stand in peril every hour?'),(46015031,46,15,31,'Every day do I die, by the glorying of you that I have in Christ Jesus our Lord:'),(46015032,46,15,32,'if after the manner of a man with wild beasts I fought in Ephesus, what the advantage to me if the dead do not rise? let us eat and drink, for to-morrow we die!'),(46015033,46,15,33,'Be not led astray; evil communications corrupt good manners;'),(46015034,46,15,34,'awake up, as is right, and sin not; for certain have an ignorance of God; for shame to you I say `it\'.'),(46015035,46,15,35,'But some one will say, `How do the dead rise?'),(46015036,46,15,36,'unwise! thou -- what thou dost sow is not quickened except it may die;'),(46015037,46,15,37,'and that which thou dost sow, not the body that shall be dost thou sow, but bare grain, it may be of wheat, or of some one of the others,'),(46015038,46,15,38,'and God doth give to it a body according as He willed, and to each of the seeds its proper body.'),(46015039,46,15,39,'All flesh `is\' not the same flesh, but there is one flesh of men, and another flesh of beasts, and another of fishes, and another of birds;'),(46015040,46,15,40,'and `there are\' heavenly bodies, and earthly bodies; but one `is\' the glory of the heavenly, and another that of the earthly;'),(46015041,46,15,41,'one glory of sun, and another glory of moon, and another glory of stars, for star from star doth differ in glory.'),(46015042,46,15,42,'So also `is\' the rising again of the dead: it is sown in corruption, it is raised in incorruption;'),(46015043,46,15,43,'it is sown in dishonour, it is raised in glory; it is sown in weakness, it is raised in power;'),(46015044,46,15,44,'it is sown a natural body, it is raised a spiritual body; there is a natural body, and there is a spiritual body;'),(46015045,46,15,45,'so also it hath been written, `The first man Adam became a living creature,\' the last Adam `is\' for a life-giving spirit,'),(46015046,46,15,46,'but that which is spiritual `is\' not first, but that which `was\' natural, afterwards that which `is\' spiritual.'),(46015047,46,15,47,'The first man `is\' out of the earth, earthy; the second man `is\' the Lord out of heaven;'),(46015048,46,15,48,'as `is\' the earthy, such `are\' also the earthy; and as `is\' the heavenly, such `are\' also the heavenly;'),(46015049,46,15,49,'and, according as we did bear the image of the earthy, we shall bear also the image of the heavenly.'),(46015050,46,15,50,'And this I say, brethren, that flesh and blood the reign of God is not able to inherit, nor doth the corruption inherit the incorruption;'),(46015051,46,15,51,'lo, I tell you a secret; we indeed shall not all sleep, and we all shall be changed;'),(46015052,46,15,52,'in a moment, in the twinkling of an eye, in the last trumpet, for it shall sound, and the dead shall be raised incorruptible, and we -- we shall be changed:'),(46015053,46,15,53,'for it behoveth this corruptible to put on incorruption, and this mortal to put on immortality;'),(46015054,46,15,54,'and when this corruptible may have put on incorruption, and this mortal may have put on immortality, then shall be brought to pass the word that hath been written, `The Death was swallowed up -- to victory;'),(46015055,46,15,55,'where, O Death, thy sting? where, O Hades, thy victory?\''),(46015056,46,15,56,'and the sting of the death `is\' the sin, and the power of the sin the law;'),(46015057,46,15,57,'and to God -- thanks, to Him who is giving us the victory through our Lord Jesus Christ;'),(46015058,46,15,58,'so that, my brethren beloved, become ye stedfast, unmovable, abounding in the work of the Lord at all times, knowing that your labour is not vain in the Lord.'),(46016001,46,16,1,'And concerning the collection that `is\' for the saints, as I directed to the assemblies of Galatia, so also ye -- do ye;'),(46016002,46,16,2,'on every first `day\' of the week, let each one of you lay by him, treasuring up whatever he may have prospered, that when I may come then collections may not be made;'),(46016003,46,16,3,'and whenever I may come, whomsoever ye may approve, through letters, these I will send to carry your favour to Jerusalem;'),(46016004,46,16,4,'and if it be meet for me also to go, with me they shall go.'),(46016005,46,16,5,'And I will come unto you, when I pass through Macedonia -- for Macedonia I do pass through --'),(46016006,46,16,6,'and with you, it may be, I will abide, or even winter, that ye may send me forward whithersoever I go,'),(46016007,46,16,7,'for I do not wish to see you now in the passing, but I hope to remain a certain time with you, if the Lord may permit;'),(46016008,46,16,8,'and I will remain in Ephesus till the Pentecost,'),(46016009,46,16,9,'for a door to me hath been opened -- great and effectual -- and withstanders `are\' many.'),(46016010,46,16,10,'And if Timotheus may come, see that he may become without fear with you, for the work of the Lord he doth work, even as I,'),(46016011,46,16,11,'no one, then, may despise him; and send ye him forward in peace, that he may come to me, for I expect him with the brethren;'),(46016012,46,16,12,'and concerning Apollos our brother, much I did entreat him that he may come unto you with the brethren, and it was not at all `his\' will that he may come now, and he will come when he may find convenient.'),(46016013,46,16,13,'Watch ye, stand in the faith; be men, be strong;'),(46016014,46,16,14,'let all your things be done in love.'),(46016015,46,16,15,'And I entreat you, brethren, ye have known the household of Stephanas, that it is the first-fruit of Achaia, and to the ministration to the saints they did set themselves --'),(46016016,46,16,16,'that ye also be subject to such, and to every one who is working with `us\' and labouring;'),(46016017,46,16,17,'and I rejoice over the presence of Stephanas, and Fortunatus, and Achaicus, because the lack of you did these fill up;'),(46016018,46,16,18,'for they did refresh my spirit and yours; acknowledge ye, therefore, those who `are\' such.'),(46016019,46,16,19,'Salute you do the assemblies of Asia; salute you much in the Lord do Aquilas and Priscilla, with the assembly in their house;'),(46016020,46,16,20,'salute you do all the brethren; salute ye one another in an holy kiss.'),(46016021,46,16,21,'The salutation of `me\' Paul with my hand;'),(46016022,46,16,22,'if any one doth not love the Lord Jesus Christ -- let him be anathema! The Lord hath come!'),(46016023,46,16,23,'The grace of the Lord Jesus Christ `is\' with you;'),(46016024,46,16,24,'my love `is\' with you all in Christ Jesus. Amen.'),(47001001,47,1,1,'Paul, an apostle of Jesus Christ, through the will of God, and Timotheus the brother, to the assembly of God that is in Corinth, with all the saints who are in all Achaia:'),(47001002,47,1,2,'Grace to you and peace from God our Father, and the Lord Jesus Christ!'),(47001003,47,1,3,'Blessed `is\' God, even the Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, the Father of the mercies, and God of all comfort,'),(47001004,47,1,4,'who is comforting us in all our tribulation, for our being able to comfort those in any tribulation through the comfort with which we are comforted ourselves by God;'),(47001005,47,1,5,'because, as the sufferings of the Christ do abound to us, so through the Christ doth abound also our comfort;'),(47001006,47,1,6,'and whether we be in tribulation, `it is\' for your comfort and salvation, that is wrought in the enduring of the same sufferings that we also suffer; whether we are comforted, `it is\' for your comfort and salvation;'),(47001007,47,1,7,'and our hope `is\' stedfast for you, knowing that even as ye are partakers of the sufferings -- so also of the comfort.'),(47001008,47,1,8,'For we do not wish you to be ignorant, brethren, of our tribulation that happened to us in Asia, that we were exceedingly burdened above `our\' power, so that we despaired even of life;'),(47001009,47,1,9,'but we ourselves in ourselves the sentence of the death have had, that we may not be trusting on ourselves, but on God, who is raising the dead,'),(47001010,47,1,10,'who out of so great a death did deliver us, and doth deliver, in whom we have hoped that even yet He will deliver;'),(47001011,47,1,11,'ye working together also for us by your supplication, that the gift through many persons to us, through many may be thankfully acknowledged for us.'),(47001012,47,1,12,'For our glorying is this: the testimony of our conscience, that in simplicity and sincerity of God, not in fleshly wisdom, but in the grace of God, we did conduct ourselves in the world, and more abundantly toward you;'),(47001013,47,1,13,'for no other things do we write to you, but what ye either do read or also acknowledge, and I hope that also unto the end ye shall acknowledge,'),(47001014,47,1,14,'according as also ye did acknowledge us in part, that your glory we are, even as also ye `are\' ours, in the day of the Lord Jesus;'),(47001015,47,1,15,'and in this confidence I was purposing to come unto you before, that a second favour ye might have,'),(47001016,47,1,16,'and through you to pass to Macedonia, and again from Macedonia to come unto you, and by you to be sent forward to Judea.'),(47001017,47,1,17,'This, therefore, counselling, did I then use the lightness; or the things that I counsel, according to the flesh do I counsel, that it may be with me Yes, yes, and No, no?'),(47001018,47,1,18,'and God `is\' faithful, that our word unto you became not Yes and No,'),(47001019,47,1,19,'for the Son of God, Jesus Christ, among you through us having been preached -- through me and Silvanus and Timotheus -- did not become Yes and No, but in him it hath become Yes;'),(47001020,47,1,20,'for as many as `are\' promises of God, in him `are\' the Yes, and in him the Amen, for glory to God through us;'),(47001021,47,1,21,'and He who is confirming you with us into Christ, and did anoint us, `is\' God,'),(47001022,47,1,22,'who also sealed us, and gave the earnest of the Spirit in our hearts.'),(47001023,47,1,23,'And I for a witness on God do call upon my soul, that sparing you, I came not yet to Corinth;'),(47001024,47,1,24,'not that we are lords over your faith, but we are workers together with your joy, for by the faith ye stand.'),(47002001,47,2,1,'And I decided this to myself, not again to come in sorrow unto you,'),(47002002,47,2,2,'for if I make you sorry, then who is he who is making me glad, except he who is made sorry by me?'),(47002003,47,2,3,'and I wrote to you this same thing, that having come, I may not have sorrow from them of whom it behoved me to have joy, having confidence in you all, that my joy is of you all,'),(47002004,47,2,4,'for out of much tribulation and pressure of heart I wrote to you through many tears, not that ye might be made sorry, but that ye might know the love that I have more abundantly toward you.'),(47002005,47,2,5,'And if any one hath caused sorrow, he hath not caused sorrow to me, but in part, that I may not burden you all;'),(47002006,47,2,6,'sufficient to such a one is this punishment, that `is\' by the more part,'),(47002007,47,2,7,'so that, on the contrary, `it is\' rather for you to forgive and to comfort, lest by over abundant sorrow such a one may be swallowed up;'),(47002008,47,2,8,'wherefore, I call upon you to confirm love to him,'),(47002009,47,2,9,'for, for this also did I write, that I might know the proof of you, whether in regard to all things ye are obedient.'),(47002010,47,2,10,'And to whom ye forgive anything -- I also; for I also, if I have forgiven anything, to whom I have forgiven `it\', because of you -- in the person of Christ -- `I forgive it,\''),(47002011,47,2,11,'that we may not be over-reached by the Adversary, for of his devices we are not ignorant.'),(47002012,47,2,12,'And having come to Troas for the good news of the Christ, and a door to me having been opened in the Lord,'),(47002013,47,2,13,'I have not had rest to my spirit, on my not finding Titus my brother, but having taken leave of them, I went forth to Macedonia;'),(47002014,47,2,14,'and to God `are\' thanks, who at all times is leading us in triumph in the Christ, and the fragrance of His knowledge He is manifesting through us in every place,'),(47002015,47,2,15,'because of Christ a sweet fragrance we are to God, in those being saved, and in those being lost;'),(47002016,47,2,16,'to the one, indeed, a fragrance of death to death, and to the other, a fragrance of life to life; and for these things who is sufficient?'),(47002017,47,2,17,'for we are not as the many, adulterating the word of God, but as of sincerity -- but as of God; in the presence of God, in Christ we do speak.'),(47003001,47,3,1,'Do we begin again to recommend ourselves, except we need, as some, letters of recommendation unto you, or from you?'),(47003002,47,3,2,'our letter ye are, having been written in our hearts, known and read by all men,'),(47003003,47,3,3,'manifested that ye are a letter of Christ ministered by us, written not with ink, but with the Spirit of the living God, not in the tablets of stone, but in fleshy tablets of the heart,'),(47003004,47,3,4,'and such trust we have through the Christ toward God,'),(47003005,47,3,5,'not that we are sufficient of ourselves to think anything, as of ourselves, but our sufficiency `is\' of God,'),(47003006,47,3,6,'who also made us sufficient `to be\' ministrants of a new covenant, not of letter, but of spirit; for the letter doth kill, and the spirit doth make alive.'),(47003007,47,3,7,'and if the ministration of the death, in letters, engraved in stones, came in glory, so that the sons of Israel were not able to look stedfastly to the face of Moses, because of the glory of his face -- which was being made useless,'),(47003008,47,3,8,'how shall the ministration of the Spirit not be more in glory?'),(47003009,47,3,9,'for if the ministration of the condemnation `is\' glory, much more doth the ministration of the righteousness abound in glory;'),(47003010,47,3,10,'for also even that which hath been glorious, hath not been glorious -- in this respect, because of the superior glory;'),(47003011,47,3,11,'for if that which is being made useless `is\' through glory, much more that which is remaining `is\' in glory.'),(47003012,47,3,12,'Having, then, such hope, we use much freedom of speech,'),(47003013,47,3,13,'and `are\' not as Moses, who was putting a vail upon his own face, for the sons of Israel not stedfastly to look to the end of that which is being made useless,'),(47003014,47,3,14,'but their minds were hardened, for unto this day the same vail at the reading of the Old Covenant doth remain unwithdrawn -- which in Christ is being made useless --'),(47003015,47,3,15,'but till to-day, when Moses is read, a vail upon their heart doth lie,'),(47003016,47,3,16,'and whenever they may turn unto the Lord, the vail is taken away.'),(47003017,47,3,17,'And the Lord is the Spirit; and where the Spirit of the Lord `is\', there `is\' liberty;'),(47003018,47,3,18,'and we all, with unvailed face, the glory of the Lord beholding in a mirror, to the same image are being transformed, from glory to glory, even as by the Spirit of the Lord.'),(47004001,47,4,1,'Because of this, having this ministration, according as we did receive kindness, we do not faint,'),(47004002,47,4,2,'but did renounce for ourselves the hidden things of shame, not walking in craftiness, nor deceitfully using the word of God, but by the manifestation of the truth recommending ourselves unto every conscience of men, before God;'),(47004003,47,4,3,'and if also our good news is vailed, in those perishing it is vailed,'),(47004004,47,4,4,'in whom the god of this age did blind the minds of the unbelieving, that there doth not shine forth to them the enlightening of the good news of the glory of the Christ, who is the image of God;'),(47004005,47,4,5,'for not ourselves do we preach, but Christ Jesus -- Lord, and ourselves your servants because of Jesus;'),(47004006,47,4,6,'because `it is\' God who said, Out of darkness light `is\' to shine, who did shine in our hearts, for the enlightening of the knowledge of the glory of God in the face of Jesus Christ.'),(47004007,47,4,7,'And we have this treasure in earthen vessels, that the excellency of the power may be of God, and not of us;'),(47004008,47,4,8,'on every side being in tribulation, but not straitened; perplexed, but not in despair;'),(47004009,47,4,9,'persecuted, but not forsaken; cast down, but not destroyed;'),(47004010,47,4,10,'at all times the dying of the Lord Jesus bearing about in the body, that the life also of Jesus in our body may be manifested,'),(47004011,47,4,11,'for always are we who are living delivered up to death because of Jesus, that the life also of Jesus may be manifested in our dying flesh,'),(47004012,47,4,12,'so that, the death indeed in us doth work, and the life in you.'),(47004013,47,4,13,'And having the same spirit of the faith, according to that which hath been written, `I believed, therefore I did speak;\' we also do believe, therefore also do we speak;'),(47004014,47,4,14,'knowing that He who did raise up the Lord Jesus, us also through Jesus shall raise up, and shall present with you,'),(47004015,47,4,15,'for the all things `are\' because of you, that the grace having been multiplied, because of the thanksgiving of the more, may abound to the glory of God;'),(47004016,47,4,16,'wherefore, we faint not, but if also our outward man doth decay, yet the inward is renewed day by day;'),(47004017,47,4,17,'for the momentary light matter of our tribulation, more and more exceedingly an age-during weight of glory doth work out for us --'),(47004018,47,4,18,'we not looking to the things seen, but to the things not seen; for the things seen `are\' temporary, but the things not seen `are\' age-during.'),(47005001,47,5,1,'For we have known that if our earthly house of the tabernacle may be thrown down, a building from God we have, an house not made with hands -- age-during -- in the heavens,'),(47005002,47,5,2,'for also in this we groan, with our dwelling that is from heaven earnestly desiring to clothe ourselves,'),(47005003,47,5,3,'if so be that, having clothed ourselves, we shall not be found naked,'),(47005004,47,5,4,'for we also who are in the tabernacle do groan, being burdened, seeing we wish not to unclothe ourselves, but to clothe ourselves, that the mortal may be swallowed up of the life.'),(47005005,47,5,5,'And He who did work us to this self-same thing `is\' God, who also did give to us the earnest of the Spirit;'),(47005006,47,5,6,'having courage, then, at all times, and knowing that being at home in the body, we are away from home from the Lord, --'),(47005007,47,5,7,'for through faith we walk, not through sight --'),(47005008,47,5,8,'we have courage, and are well pleased rather to be away from the home of the body, and to be at home with the Lord.'),(47005009,47,5,9,'Wherefore also we are ambitious, whether at home or away from home, to be well pleasing to him,'),(47005010,47,5,10,'for all of us it behoveth to be manifested before the tribunal of the Christ, that each one may receive the things `done\' through the body, in reference to the things that he did, whether good or evil;'),(47005011,47,5,11,'having known, therefore, the fear of the Lord, we persuade men, and to God we are manifested, and I hope also in your consciences to have been manifested;'),(47005012,47,5,12,'for not again ourselves do we recommend to you, but we are giving occasion to you of glorifying in our behalf, that ye may have `something\' in reference to those glorifying in face and not in heart;'),(47005013,47,5,13,'for whether we were beside ourselves, `it was\' to God; whether we be of sound mind -- `it is\' to you,'),(47005014,47,5,14,'for the love of the Christ doth constrain us, having judged thus: that if one for all died, then the whole died,'),(47005015,47,5,15,'and for all he died, that those living, no more to themselves may live, but to him who died for them, and was raised again.'),(47005016,47,5,16,'So that we henceforth have known no one according to the flesh, and even if we have known Christ according to the flesh, yet now we know him no more;'),(47005017,47,5,17,'so that if any one `is\' in Christ -- `he is\' a new creature; the old things did pass away, lo, become new have the all things.'),(47005018,47,5,18,'And the all things `are\' of God, who reconciled us to Himself through Jesus Christ, and did give to us the ministration of the reconciliation,'),(47005019,47,5,19,'how that God was in Christ -- a world reconciling to Himself, not reckoning to them their trespasses; and having put in us the word of the reconciliation,'),(47005020,47,5,20,'in behalf of Christ, then, we are ambassadors, as if God were calling through us, we beseech, in behalf of Christ, `Be ye reconciled to God;\''),(47005021,47,5,21,'for him who did not know sin, in our behalf He did make sin, that we may become the righteousness of God in him.'),(47006001,47,6,1,'And working together also we call upon `you\' that ye receive not in vain the grace of God --'),(47006002,47,6,2,'for He saith, `In an acceptable time I did hear thee, and in a day of salvation I did help thee, lo, now `is\' a well-accepted time; lo, now, a day of salvation,\' --'),(47006003,47,6,3,'in nothing giving any cause of offence, that the ministration may be not blamed,'),(47006004,47,6,4,'but in everything recommending ourselves as God\'s ministrants; in much patience, in tribulations, in necessities, in distresses,'),(47006005,47,6,5,'in stripes, in imprisonments, in insurrections, in labours, in watchings, in fastings,'),(47006006,47,6,6,'in pureness, in knowledge, in long-suffering, in kindness, in the Holy Spirit, in love unfeigned,'),(47006007,47,6,7,'in the word of truth, in the power of God, through the armour of the righteousness, on the right and on the left,'),(47006008,47,6,8,'through glory and dishonour, through evil report and good report, as leading astray, and true;'),(47006009,47,6,9,'as unknown, and recognized; as dying, and lo, we live; as chastened, and not put to death;'),(47006010,47,6,10,'as sorrowful, and always rejoicing; as poor, and making many rich; as having nothing, and possessing all things.'),(47006011,47,6,11,'Our mouth hath been open unto you, O Corinthians, our heart hath been enlarged!'),(47006012,47,6,12,'ye are not straitened in us, and ye are straitened in your `own\' bowels,'),(47006013,47,6,13,'and `as\' a recompense of the same kind, (as to children I say `it\',) be ye enlarged -- also ye!'),(47006014,47,6,14,'Become not yoked with others -- unbelievers, for what partaking `is there\' to righteousness and lawlessness?'),(47006015,47,6,15,'and what fellowship to light with darkness? and what concord to Christ with Belial? or what part to a believer with an unbeliever?'),(47006016,47,6,16,'and what agreement to the sanctuary of God with idols? for ye are a sanctuary of the living God, according as God said -- `I will dwell in them, and will walk among `them\', and I will be their God, and they shall be My people,'),(47006017,47,6,17,'wherefore, come ye forth out of the midst of them, and be separated, saith the Lord, and an unclean thing do not touch, and I -- I will receive you,'),(47006018,47,6,18,'and I will be to you for a Father, and ye -- ye shall be to Me for sons and daughters, saith the Lord Almighty.\''),(47007001,47,7,1,'Having, then, these promises, beloved, may we cleanse ourselves from every pollution of flesh and spirit, perfecting sanctification in the fear of God;'),(47007002,47,7,2,'receive us; no one did we wrong; no one did we waste; no one did we defraud;'),(47007003,47,7,3,'not to condemn you do I say `it\', for I have said before that in our hearts ye are to die with and to live with;'),(47007004,47,7,4,'great `is\' my freedom of speech unto you, great my glory on your behalf; I have been filled with the comfort, I overabound with the joy on all our tribulation,'),(47007005,47,7,5,'for also we, having come to Macedonia, no relaxation hath our flesh had, but on every side we are in tribulation, without `are\' fightings, within -- fears;'),(47007006,47,7,6,'but He who is comforting the cast-down -- God -- He did comfort us in the presence of Titus;'),(47007007,47,7,7,'and not only in his presence, but also in the comfort with which he was comforted over you, declaring to us your longing desire, your lamentation, your zeal for me, so that the more I did rejoice,'),(47007008,47,7,8,'because even if I made you sorry in the letter, I do not repent -- if even I did repent -- for I perceive that the letter, even if for an hour, did make you sorry.'),(47007009,47,7,9,'I now do rejoice, not that ye were made sorry, but that ye were made sorry to reformation, for ye were made sorry toward God, that in nothing ye might receive damage from us;'),(47007010,47,7,10,'for the sorrow toward God reformation to salvation not to be repented of doth work, and the sorrow of the world doth work death,'),(47007011,47,7,11,'for, lo, this same thing -- your being made sorry toward God -- how much diligence it doth work in you! but defence, but displeasure, but fear, but longing desire, but zeal, but revenge; in every thing ye did approve yourselves to be pure in the matter.'),(47007012,47,7,12,'If, then, I also wrote to you -- not for his cause who did wrong, nor for his cause who did suffer wrong, but for our diligence in your behalf being manifested unto you before God --'),(47007013,47,7,13,'because of this we have been comforted in your comfort, and more abundantly the more did we rejoice in the joy of Titus, that his spirit hath been refreshed from you all;'),(47007014,47,7,14,'because if anything to him in your behalf I have boasted, I was not put to shame; but as all things in truth we did speak to you, so also our boasting before Titus became truth,'),(47007015,47,7,15,'and his tender affection is more abundantly toward you, remembering the obedience of you all, how with fear and trembling ye did receive him;'),(47007016,47,7,16,'I rejoice, therefore, that in everything I have courage in you.'),(47008001,47,8,1,'And we make known to you, brethren, the grace of God, that hath been given in the assemblies of Macedonia,'),(47008002,47,8,2,'because in much trial of tribulation the abundance of their joy, and their deep poverty, did abound to the riches of their liberality;'),(47008003,47,8,3,'because, according to `their\' power, I testify, and above `their\' power, they were willing of themselves,'),(47008004,47,8,4,'with much entreaty calling on us to receive the favour and the fellowship of the ministration to the saints,'),(47008005,47,8,5,'and not according as we expected, but themselves they did give first to the Lord, and to us, through the will of God,'),(47008006,47,8,6,'so that we exhorted Titus, that, according as he did begin before, so also he may finish to you also this favour,'),(47008007,47,8,7,'but even as in every thing ye do abound, in faith, and word, and knowledge, and all diligence, and in your love to us, that also in this grace ye may abound;'),(47008008,47,8,8,'not according to command do I speak, but because of the diligence of others, and of your love proving the genuineness,'),(47008009,47,8,9,'for ye know the grace of our Lord Jesus Christ, that because of you he became poor -- being rich, that ye by that poverty may become rich.'),(47008010,47,8,10,'and an opinion in this do I give: for this to you `is\' expedient, who not only to do, but also to will, did begin before -- a year ago,'),(47008011,47,8,11,'and now also finish doing `it\', that even as `there is\' the readiness of the will, so also the finishing, out of that which ye have,'),(47008012,47,8,12,'for if the willing mind is present, according to that which any one may have it is well-accepted, not according to that which he hath not;'),(47008013,47,8,13,'for not that for others release, and ye pressured, `do I speak,\''),(47008014,47,8,14,'but by equality, at the present time your abundance -- for their want, that also their abundance may be for your want, that there may be equality,'),(47008015,47,8,15,'according as it hath been written, `He who `did gather\' much, had nothing over; and he who `did gather\' little, had no lack.\''),(47008016,47,8,16,'And thanks to God, who is putting the same diligence for you in the heart of Titus,'),(47008017,47,8,17,'because indeed the exhortation he accepted, and being more diligent, of his own accord he went forth unto you,'),(47008018,47,8,18,'and we sent with him the brother, whose praise in the good news `is\' through all the assemblies,'),(47008019,47,8,19,'and not only so, but who was also appointed by vote by the assemblies, our fellow-traveller, with this favour that is ministered by us, unto the glory of the same Lord, and your willing mind;'),(47008020,47,8,20,'avoiding this, lest any one may blame us in this abundance that is ministered by us,'),(47008021,47,8,21,'providing right things, not only before the Lord, but also before men;'),(47008022,47,8,22,'and we sent with them our brother, whom we proved in many things many times being diligent, and now much more diligent, by the great confidence that is toward you,'),(47008023,47,8,23,'whether -- about Titus -- my partner and towards you fellow-worker, whether -- our brethren, apostles of assemblies -- glory of Christ;'),(47008024,47,8,24,'the shewing therefore of your love, and of our boasting on your behalf, to them shew ye, even in the face of the assemblies.'),(47009001,47,9,1,'For, indeed, concerning the ministration that `is\' for the saints, it is superfluous for me to write to you,'),(47009002,47,9,2,'for I have known your readiness of mind, which in your behalf I boast of to Macedonians, that Achaia hath been prepared a year ago, and the zeal of you did stir up the more part,'),(47009003,47,9,3,'and I sent the brethren, that our boasting on your behalf may not be made vain in this respect; that, according as I said, ye may be ready,'),(47009004,47,9,4,'lest if Macedonians may come with me, and find you unprepared, we -- we may be put to shame (that we say not -- ye) in this same confidence of boasting.'),(47009005,47,9,5,'Necessary, therefore, I thought `it\' to exhort the brethren, that they may go before to you, and may make up before your formerly announced blessing, that this be ready, as a blessing, and not as covetousness.'),(47009006,47,9,6,'And this: He who is sowing sparingly, sparingly also shall reap; and he who is sowing in blessings, in blessings also shall reap;'),(47009007,47,9,7,'each one, according as he doth purpose in heart, not out of sorrow or out of necessity, for a cheerful giver doth God love,'),(47009008,47,9,8,'and God `is\' able all grace to cause to abound to you, that in every thing always all sufficiency having, ye may abound to every good work,'),(47009009,47,9,9,'(according as it hath been written, `He dispersed abroad, he gave to the poor, his righteousness doth remain to the age,\')'),(47009010,47,9,10,'and may He who is supplying seed to the sower, and bread for food, supply and multiply your seed sown, and increase the fruits of your righteousness,'),(47009011,47,9,11,'in every thing being enriched to all liberality, which doth work through us thanksgiving to God,'),(47009012,47,9,12,'because the ministration of this service not only is supplying the wants of the saints, but is also abounding through many thanksgivings to God,'),(47009013,47,9,13,'through the proof of this ministration glorifying God for the subjection of your confession to the good news of the Christ, and `for\' the liberality of the fellowship to them and to all,'),(47009014,47,9,14,'and by their supplication in your behalf, longing after you because of the exceeding grace of God upon you;'),(47009015,47,9,15,'thanks also to God for His unspeakable gift!'),(47010001,47,10,1,'And I, Paul, myself, do call upon you -- through the meekness and gentleness of the Christ -- who in presence, indeed `am\' humble among you, and being absent, have courage toward you,'),(47010002,47,10,2,'and I beseech `you\', that, being present, I may not have courage, with the confidence with which I reckon to be bold against certain reckoning us as walking according to the flesh;'),(47010003,47,10,3,'for walking in the flesh, not according to the flesh do we war,'),(47010004,47,10,4,'for the weapons of our warfare `are\' not fleshly, but powerful to God for bringing down of strongholds,'),(47010005,47,10,5,'reasonings bringing down, and every high thing lifted up against the knowledge of God, and bringing into captivity every thought to the obedience of the Christ,'),(47010006,47,10,6,'and being in readiness to avenge every disobedience, whenever your obedience may be fulfilled.'),(47010007,47,10,7,'The things in presence do ye see? if any one hath trusted in himself to be Christ\'s, this let him reckon again from himself, that according as he is Christ\'s, so also we `are\' Christ\'s;'),(47010008,47,10,8,'for even if also anything more abundantly I shall boast concerning our authority, that the Lord gave us for building up, and not for casting you down, I shall not be ashamed;'),(47010009,47,10,9,'that I may not seem as if I would terrify you through the letters,'),(47010010,47,10,10,'`because the letters indeed -- saith one -- `are\' weighty and strong, and the bodily presence weak, and the speech despicable.\''),(47010011,47,10,11,'This one -- let him reckon thus: that such as we are in word, through letters, being absent, such also, being present, `we are\' in deed.'),(47010012,47,10,12,'For we do not make bold to rank or to compare ourselves with certain of those commending themselves, but they, among themselves measuring themselves, and comparing themselves with themselves, are not wise,'),(47010013,47,10,13,'and we in regard to the unmeasured things will not boast ourselves, but after the measure of the line that the God of measure did appoint to us -- to reach even unto you;'),(47010014,47,10,14,'for not as not reaching to you do we stretch ourselves overmuch, for even unto you did we come in the good news of the Christ,'),(47010015,47,10,15,'not boasting of the things not measured, in other men\'s labours, and having hope -- your faith increasing -- in you to be enlarged, according to our line -- into abundance,'),(47010016,47,10,16,'in the `places\' beyond you to proclaim good news, not in another\'s line in regard to the things made ready, to boast;'),(47010017,47,10,17,'and he who is boasting -- in the Lord let him boast;'),(47010018,47,10,18,'for not he who is commending himself is approved, but he whom the Lord doth commend.'),(47011001,47,11,1,'O that ye were bearing with me a little of the folly, but ye also do bear with me:'),(47011002,47,11,2,'for I am zealous for you with zeal of God, for I did betroth you to one husband, a pure virgin, to present to Christ,'),(47011003,47,11,3,'and I fear, lest, as the serpent did beguile Eve in his subtilty, so your minds may be corrupted from the simplicity that `is\' in the Christ;'),(47011004,47,11,4,'for if, indeed, he who is coming doth preach another Jesus whom we did not preach, or another Spirit ye receive which ye did not receive, or other good news which ye did not accept -- well were ye bearing `it\','),(47011005,47,11,5,'for I reckon that I have been nothing behind the very chiefest apostles,'),(47011006,47,11,6,'and even if unlearned in word -- yet not in knowledge, but in every thing we were made manifest in all things to you.'),(47011007,47,11,7,'The sin did I do -- myself humbling that ye might be exalted, because freely the good news of God I did proclaim to you?'),(47011008,47,11,8,'other assemblies I did rob, having taken wages, for your ministration;'),(47011009,47,11,9,'and being present with you, and having been in want, I was chargeable to no one, for my lack did the brethren supply -- having come from Macedonia -- and in everything burdenless to you I did keep myself, and will keep.'),(47011010,47,11,10,'The truth of Christ is in me, because this boasting shall not be stopped in regard to me in the regions of Achaia;'),(47011011,47,11,11,'wherefore? because I do not love you? God hath known!'),(47011012,47,11,12,'and what I do, I also will do, that I may cut off the occasion of those wishing an occasion, that in that which they boast they may be found according as we also;'),(47011013,47,11,13,'for those such `are\' false apostles, deceitful workers, transforming themselves into apostles of Christ,'),(47011014,47,11,14,'and no wonder -- for even the Adversary doth transform himself into a messenger of light;'),(47011015,47,11,15,'no great thing, then, if also his ministrants do transform themselves as ministrants of righteousness -- whose end shall be according to their works.'),(47011016,47,11,16,'Again I say, may no one think me to be a fool; and if otherwise, even as a fool receive me, that I also a little may boast.'),(47011017,47,11,17,'That which I speak, I speak not according to the Lord, but as in foolishness, in this the confidence of boasting;'),(47011018,47,11,18,'since many boast according to the flesh, I also will boast:'),(47011019,47,11,19,'for gladly do ye bear with the fools -- being wise,'),(47011020,47,11,20,'for ye bear, if any one is bringing you under bondage, if any one doth devour, if any one doth take away, if any one doth exalt himself, if any one on the face doth smite you;'),(47011021,47,11,21,'in reference to dishonour I speak, how that we were weak, and in whatever any one is bold -- in foolishness I say `it\' -- I also am bold.'),(47011022,47,11,22,'Hebrews are they? I also! Israelites are they? I also! seed of Abraham are they? I also!'),(47011023,47,11,23,'ministrants of Christ are they? -- as beside myself I speak -- I more; in labours more abundantly, in stripes above measure, in prisons more frequently, in deaths many times;'),(47011024,47,11,24,'from Jews five times forty `stripes\' save one I did receive;'),(47011025,47,11,25,'thrice was I beaten with rods, once was I stoned, thrice was I shipwrecked, a night and a day in the deep I have passed;'),(47011026,47,11,26,'journeyings many times, perils of rivers, perils of robbers, perils from kindred, perils from nations, perils in city, perils in wilderness, perils in sea, perils among false brethren;'),(47011027,47,11,27,'in laboriousness and painfulness, in watchings many times, in hunger and thirst, in fastings many times, in cold and nakedness;'),(47011028,47,11,28,'apart from the things without -- the crowding upon me that is daily -- the care of all the assemblies.'),(47011029,47,11,29,'Who is infirm, and I am not infirm? who is stumbled, and I am not fired;'),(47011030,47,11,30,'if to boast it behoveth `me\', of the things of my infirmity I will boast;'),(47011031,47,11,31,'the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ -- who is blessed to the ages -- hath known that I do not lie! --'),(47011032,47,11,32,'In Damascus the ethnarch of Aretas the king was watching the city of the Damascenes, wishing to seize me,'),(47011033,47,11,33,'and through a window in a rope basket I was let down, through the wall, and fled out of his hands.'),(47012001,47,12,1,'To boast, really, is not profitable for me, for I will come to visions and revelations of the Lord.'),(47012002,47,12,2,'I have known a man in Christ, fourteen years ago -- whether in the body I have not known, whether out of the body I have not known, God hath known -- such an one being caught away unto the third heaven;'),(47012003,47,12,3,'and I have known such a man -- whether in the body, whether out of the body, I have not known, God hath known, --'),(47012004,47,12,4,'that he was caught away to the paradise, and heard unutterable sayings, that it is not possible for man to speak.'),(47012005,47,12,5,'Of such an one I will boast, and of myself I will not boast, except in my infirmities,'),(47012006,47,12,6,'for if I may wish to boast, I shall not be a fool, for truth I will say; but I forebear, lest any one in regard to me may think anything above what he doth see me, or doth hear anything of me;'),(47012007,47,12,7,'and that by the exceeding greatness of the revelations I might not be exalted overmuch, there was given to me a thorn in the flesh, a messenger of the Adversary, that he might buffet me, that I might not be exalted overmuch.'),(47012008,47,12,8,'Concerning this thing thrice the Lord did I call upon, that it might depart from me,'),(47012009,47,12,9,'and He said to me, `Sufficient for thee is My grace, for My power in infirmity is perfected;\' most gladly, therefore, will I rather boast in my infirmities, that the power of the Christ may rest on me:'),(47012010,47,12,10,'wherefore I am well pleased in infirmities, in damages, in necessities, in persecutions, in distresses -- for Christ; for whenever I am infirm, then I am powerful;'),(47012011,47,12,11,'I have become a fool -- boasting; ye -- ye did compel me; for I ought by you to have been commended, for in nothing was I behind the very chiefest apostles -- even if I am nothing.'),(47012012,47,12,12,'The signs, indeed, of the apostle were wrought among you in all patience, in signs, and wonders, and mighty deeds,'),(47012013,47,12,13,'for what is there in which ye were inferior to the rest of the assemblies, except that I myself was not a burden to you? forgive me this injustice!'),(47012014,47,12,14,'Lo, a third time I am ready to come unto you, and I will not be a burden to you, for I seek not yours, but you, for the children ought not for the parents to lay up, but the parents for the children,'),(47012015,47,12,15,'and I most gladly will spend and be entirely spent for your souls, even if, more abundantly loving you, less I am loved.'),(47012016,47,12,16,'And be it `so\', I -- I did not burden you, but being crafty, with guile I did take you;'),(47012017,47,12,17,'any one of those whom I have sent unto you -- by him did I take advantage of you?'),(47012018,47,12,18,'I entreated Titus, and did send with `him\' the brother; did Titus take advantage of you? in the same spirit did we not walk? -- did we not in the same steps?'),(47012019,47,12,19,'Again, think ye that to you we are making defence? before God in Christ do we speak; and the all things, beloved, `are\' for your up-building,'),(47012020,47,12,20,'for I fear lest, having come, not such as I wish I may find you, and I -- I may be found by you such as ye do not wish, lest there be strifes, envyings, wraths, revelries, evil-speakings, whisperings, puffings up, insurrections,'),(47012021,47,12,21,'lest again having come, my God may humble me in regard to you, and I may bewail many of those having sinned before, and not having reformed concerning the uncleanness, and whoredom, and lasciviousness, that they did practise.'),(47013001,47,13,1,'This third time do I come unto you; on the mouth of two witnesses or three shall every saying be established;'),(47013002,47,13,2,'I have said before, and I say `it\' before, as being present, the second time, and being absent, now, do I write to those having sinned before, and to all the rest, that if I come again, I will not spare,'),(47013003,47,13,3,'since a proof ye seek of the Christ speaking in me, who to you is not infirm, but is powerful in you,'),(47013004,47,13,4,'for even if he was crucified from infirmity, yet he doth live from the power of God; for we also are weak in him, but we shall live with him from the power of God toward you.'),(47013005,47,13,5,'Your ownselves try ye, if ye are in the faith; your ownselves prove ye; do ye not know your ownselves, that Jesus Christ is in you, if ye be not in some respect disapproved of?'),(47013006,47,13,6,'and I hope that ye shall know that we -- we are not disapproved of;'),(47013007,47,13,7,'and I pray before God that ye do no evil, not that we may appear approved, but that ye may do that which is right, and we may be as disapproved;'),(47013008,47,13,8,'for we are not able to do anything against the truth, but for the truth;'),(47013009,47,13,9,'for we rejoice when we may be infirm, and ye may be powerful; and this also we pray for -- your perfection!'),(47013010,47,13,10,'because of this, these things -- being absent -- I write, that being present, I may not treat `any\' sharply, according to the authority that the Lord did give me for building up, and not for casting down.'),(47013011,47,13,11,'Henceforth, brethren, rejoice; be made perfect, be comforted, be of the same mind, be at peace, and the God of the love and peace shall be with you;'),(47013012,47,13,12,'salute one another in an holy kiss;'),(47013013,47,13,13,'salute you do all the saints;'),(47013014,47,13,14,'the grace of the Lord Jesus Christ, and the love of God, and the fellowship of the Holy Spirit, `is\' with you all! Amen.'),(48001001,48,1,1,'Paul, an apostle -- not from men, nor through man, but through Jesus Christ, and God the Father, who did raise him out of the dead --'),(48001002,48,1,2,'and all the brethren with me, to the assemblies of Galatia:'),(48001003,48,1,3,'Grace to you, and peace from God the Father, and our Lord Jesus Christ,'),(48001004,48,1,4,'who did give himself for our sins, that he might deliver us out of the present evil age, according to the will of God even our Father,'),(48001005,48,1,5,'to whom `is\' the glory to the ages of the ages. Amen.'),(48001006,48,1,6,'I wonder that ye are so quickly removed from Him who did call you in the grace of Christ to another good news;'),(48001007,48,1,7,'that is not another, except there be certain who are troubling you, and wishing to pervert the good news of the Christ;'),(48001008,48,1,8,'but even if we or a messenger out of heaven may proclaim good news to you different from what we did proclaim to you -- anathema let him be!'),(48001009,48,1,9,'as we have said before, and now say again, If any one to you may proclaim good news different from what ye did receive -- anathema let him be!'),(48001010,48,1,10,'for now men do I persuade, or God? or do I seek to please men? for if yet men I did please -- Christ\'s servant I should not be.'),(48001011,48,1,11,'And I make known to you, brethren, the good news that were proclaimed by me, that it is not according to man,'),(48001012,48,1,12,'for neither did I from man receive it, nor was I taught `it\', but through a revelation of Jesus Christ,'),(48001013,48,1,13,'for ye did hear of my behaviour once in Judaism, that exceedingly I was persecuting the assembly of God, and wasting it,'),(48001014,48,1,14,'and I was advancing in Judaism above many equals in age in mine own race, being more abundantly zealous of my fathers\' deliverances,'),(48001015,48,1,15,'and when God was well pleased -- having separated me from the womb of my mother, and having called `me\' through His grace --'),(48001016,48,1,16,'to reveal His Son in me, that I might proclaim him good news among the nations, immediately I conferred not with flesh and blood,'),(48001017,48,1,17,'nor did I go up to Jerusalem unto those who were apostles before me, but I went away to Arabia, and again returned to Damascus,'),(48001018,48,1,18,'then, after three years I went up to Jerusalem to enquire about Peter, and remained with him fifteen days,'),(48001019,48,1,19,'and other of the apostles I did not see, except James, the brother of the Lord.'),(48001020,48,1,20,'And the things that I write to you, lo, before God -- I lie not;'),(48001021,48,1,21,'then I came to the regions of Syria and of Cilicia,'),(48001022,48,1,22,'and was unknown by face to the assemblies of Judea, that `are\' in Christ,'),(48001023,48,1,23,'and only they were hearing, that `he who is persecuting us then, doth now proclaim good news -- the faith that then he was wasting;\''),(48001024,48,1,24,'and they were glorifying God in me.'),(48002001,48,2,1,'Then, after fourteen years again I went up to Jerusalem with Barnabas, having taken with me also Titus;'),(48002002,48,2,2,'and I went up by revelation, and did submit to them the good news that I preach among the nations, and privately to those esteemed, lest in vain I might run or did run;'),(48002003,48,2,3,'but not even Titus, who `is\' with me, being a Greek, was compelled to be circumcised --'),(48002004,48,2,4,'and `that\' because of the false brethren brought in unawares, who did come in privily to spy out our liberty that we have in Christ Jesus, that us they might bring under bondage,'),(48002005,48,2,5,'to whom not even for an hour we gave place by subjection, that the truth of the good news might remain to you.'),(48002006,48,2,6,'And from those who were esteemed to be something -- whatever they were then, it maketh no difference to me -- the face of man God accepteth not, for -- to me those esteemed did add nothing,'),(48002007,48,2,7,'but, on the contrary, having seen that I have been entrusted with the good news of the uncircumcision, as Peter with `that\' of the circumcision,'),(48002008,48,2,8,'for He who did work with Peter to the apostleship of the circumcision, did work also in me in regard to the nations,'),(48002009,48,2,9,'and having known the grace that was given to me, James, and Cephas, and John, who were esteemed to be pillars, a right hand of fellowship they did give to me, and to Barnabas, that we to the nations, and they to the circumcision `may go\','),(48002010,48,2,10,'only, of the poor that we should be mindful, which also I was diligent -- this very thing -- to do.'),(48002011,48,2,11,'And when Peter came to Antioch, to the face I stood up against him, because he was blameworthy,'),(48002012,48,2,12,'for before the coming of certain from James, with the nations he was eating, and when they came, he was withdrawing and separating himself, fearing those of the circumcision,'),(48002013,48,2,13,'and dissemble with him also did the other Jews, so that also Barnabas was carried away by their dissimulation.'),(48002014,48,2,14,'But when I saw that they are not walking uprightly to the truth of the good news, I said to Peter before all, `If thou, being a Jew, in the manner of the nations dost live, and not in the manner of the Jews, how the nations dost thou compel to Judaize?'),(48002015,48,2,15,'we by nature Jews, and not sinners of the nations,'),(48002016,48,2,16,'having known also that a man is not declared righteous by works of law, if not through the faith of Jesus Christ, also we in Christ Jesus did believe, that we might be declared righteous by the faith of Christ, and not by works of law, wherefore declared righteous by works of law shall be no flesh.\''),(48002017,48,2,17,'And if, seeking to be declared righteous in Christ, we ourselves also were found sinners, `is\' then Christ a ministrant of sin? let it not be!'),(48002018,48,2,18,'for if the things I threw down, these again I build up, a transgressor I set myself forth;'),(48002019,48,2,19,'for I through law, did die, that to God I may live;'),(48002020,48,2,20,'with Christ I have been crucified, and live no more do I, and Christ doth live in me; and that which I now live in the flesh -- in the faith I live of the Son of God, who did love me and did give himself for me;'),(48002021,48,2,21,'I do not make void the grace of God, for if righteousness `be\' through law -- then Christ died in vain.'),(48003001,48,3,1,'O thoughtless Galatians, who did bewitch you, not to obey the truth -- before whose eyes Jesus Christ was described before among you crucified?'),(48003002,48,3,2,'this only do I wish to learn from you -- by works of law the Spirit did ye receive, or by the hearing of faith?'),(48003003,48,3,3,'so thoughtless are ye! having begun in the Spirit, now in the flesh do ye end?'),(48003004,48,3,4,'so many things did ye suffer in vain! if, indeed, even in vain.'),(48003005,48,3,5,'He, therefore, who is supplying to you the Spirit, and working mighty acts among you -- by works of law or by the hearing of faith `is it\'?'),(48003006,48,3,6,'according as Abraham did believe God, and it was reckoned to him -- to righteousness;'),(48003007,48,3,7,'know ye, then, that those of faith -- these are sons of Abraham,'),(48003008,48,3,8,'and the Writing having foreseen that by faith God doth declare righteous the nations did proclaim before the good news to Abraham --'),(48003009,48,3,9,'`Blessed in thee shall be all the nations;\' so that those of faith are blessed with the faithful Abraham,'),(48003010,48,3,10,'for as many as are of works of law are under a curse, for it hath been written, `Cursed `is\' every one who is not remaining in all things that have been written in the Book of the Law -- to do them,\''),(48003011,48,3,11,'and that in law no one is declared righteous with God, is evident, because `The righteous by faith shall live;\''),(48003012,48,3,12,'and the law is not by faith, but -- `The man who did them shall live in them.\''),(48003013,48,3,13,'Christ did redeem us from the curse of the law, having become for us a curse, for it hath been written, `Cursed is every one who is hanging on a tree,\''),(48003014,48,3,14,'that to the nations the blessing of Abraham may come in Christ Jesus, that the promise of the Spirit we may receive through the faith.'),(48003015,48,3,15,'Brethren, as a man I say `it\', even of man a confirmed covenant no one doth make void or doth add to,'),(48003016,48,3,16,'and to Abraham were the promises spoken, and to his seed; He doth not say, `And to seeds,\' as of many, but as of one, `And to thy seed,\' which is Christ;'),(48003017,48,3,17,'and this I say, A covenant confirmed before by God to Christ, the law, that came four hundred and thirty years after, doth not set aside, to make void the promise,'),(48003018,48,3,18,'for if by law `be\' the inheritance, `it is\' no more by promise, but to Abraham through promise did God grant `it\'.'),(48003019,48,3,19,'Why, then, the law? on account of the transgressions it was added, till the seed might come to which the promise hath been made, having been set in order through messengers in the hand of a mediator --'),(48003020,48,3,20,'and the mediator is not of one, and God is one --'),(48003021,48,3,21,'the law, then, `is\' against the promises of God? -- let it not be! for if a law was given that was able to make alive, truly by law there would have been the righteousness,'),(48003022,48,3,22,'but the Writing did shut up the whole under sin, that the promise by faith of Jesus Christ may be given to those believing.'),(48003023,48,3,23,'And before the coming of the faith, under law we were being kept, shut up to the faith about to be revealed,'),(48003024,48,3,24,'so that the law became our child-conductor -- to Christ, that by faith we may be declared righteous,'),(48003025,48,3,25,'and the faith having come, no more under a child-conductor are we,'),(48003026,48,3,26,'for ye are all sons of God through the faith in Christ Jesus,'),(48003027,48,3,27,'for as many as to Christ were baptized did put on Christ;'),(48003028,48,3,28,'there is not here Jew or Greek, there is not here servant nor freeman, there is not here male and female, for all ye are one in Christ Jesus;'),(48003029,48,3,29,'and if ye `are\' of Christ then of Abraham ye are seed, and according to promise -- heirs.'),(48004001,48,4,1,'And I say, so long time as the heir is a babe, he differeth nothing from a servant -- being lord of all,'),(48004002,48,4,2,'but is under tutors and stewards till the time appointed of the father,'),(48004003,48,4,3,'so also we, when we were babes, under the elements of the world were in servitude,'),(48004004,48,4,4,'and when the fulness of time did come, God sent forth His Son, come of a woman, come under law,'),(48004005,48,4,5,'that those under law he may redeem, that the adoption of sons we may receive;'),(48004006,48,4,6,'and because ye are sons, God did send forth the spirit of His Son into your hearts, crying, `Abba, Father!\''),(48004007,48,4,7,'so that thou art no more a servant, but a son, and if a son, also an heir of God through Christ.'),(48004008,48,4,8,'But then, indeed, not having known God, ye were in servitude to those not by nature gods,'),(48004009,48,4,9,'and now, having known God -- and rather being known by God -- how turn ye again unto the weak and poor elements to which anew ye desire to be in servitude?'),(48004010,48,4,10,'days ye observe, and months, and times, and years!'),(48004011,48,4,11,'I am afraid of you, lest in vain I did labour toward you.'),(48004012,48,4,12,'Become as I `am\' -- because I also `am\' as ye brethren, I beseech you; to me ye did no hurt,'),(48004013,48,4,13,'and ye have known that through infirmity of the flesh I did proclaim good news to you at the first,'),(48004014,48,4,14,'and my trial that `is\' in my flesh ye did not despise nor reject, but as a messenger of God ye did receive me -- as Christ Jesus;'),(48004015,48,4,15,'what then was your happiness? for I testify to you, that if possible, your eyes having plucked out, ye would have given to me;'),(48004016,48,4,16,'so that your enemy have I become, being true to you?'),(48004017,48,4,17,'they are zealous for you -- `yet\' not well, but they wish to shut us out, that for them ye may be zealous;'),(48004018,48,4,18,'and `it is\' good to be zealously regarded, in what is good, at all times, and not only in my being present with you;'),(48004019,48,4,19,'my little children, of whom again I travail in birth, till Christ may be formed in you,'),(48004020,48,4,20,'and I was wishing to be present with you now, and to change my voice, because I am in doubt about you.'),(48004021,48,4,21,'Tell me, ye who are willing to be under law, the law do ye not hear?'),(48004022,48,4,22,'for it hath been written, that Abraham had two sons, one by the maid-servant, and one by the free-woman,'),(48004023,48,4,23,'but he who `is\' of the maid-servant, according to flesh hath been, and he who `is\' of the free-woman, through the promise;'),(48004024,48,4,24,'which things are allegorized, for these are the two covenants: one, indeed, from mount Sinai, to servitude bringing forth, which is Hagar;'),(48004025,48,4,25,'for this Hagar is mount Sinai in Arabia, and doth correspond to the Jerusalem that now `is\', and is in servitude with her children,'),(48004026,48,4,26,'and the Jerusalem above is the free-woman, which is mother of us all,'),(48004027,48,4,27,'for it hath been written, `Rejoice, O barren, who art not bearing; break forth and cry, thou who art not travailing, because many `are\' the children of the desolate -- more than of her having the husband.\''),(48004028,48,4,28,'And we, brethren, as Isaac, are children of promise,'),(48004029,48,4,29,'but as then he who was born according to the flesh did persecute him according to the spirit, so also now;'),(48004030,48,4,30,'but what saith the Writing? `Cast forth the maid-servant and her son, for the son of the maid-servant may not be heir with the son of the free-woman;\''),(48004031,48,4,31,'then, brethren, we are not a maid-servant\'s children, but the free-woman\'s.'),(48005001,48,5,1,'In the freedom, then, with which Christ did make you free -- stand ye, and be not held fast again by a yoke of servitude;'),(48005002,48,5,2,'lo, I Paul do say to you, that if ye be circumcised, Christ shall profit you nothing;'),(48005003,48,5,3,'and I testify again to every man circumcised, that he is a debtor to do the whole law;'),(48005004,48,5,4,'ye were freed from the Christ, ye who in law are declared righteous; from the grace ye fell away;'),(48005005,48,5,5,'for we by the Spirit, by faith, a hope of righteousness do wait for,'),(48005006,48,5,6,'for in Christ Jesus neither circumcision availeth anything, nor uncircumcision, but faith through love working.'),(48005007,48,5,7,'Ye were running well; who did hinder you -- not to obey the truth?'),(48005008,48,5,8,'the obedience `is\' not of him who is calling you!'),(48005009,48,5,9,'a little leaven the whole lump doth leaven;'),(48005010,48,5,10,'I have confidence in regard to you in the Lord, that ye will be none otherwise minded; and he who is troubling you shall bear the judgment, whoever he may be.'),(48005011,48,5,11,'And I, brethren, if uncircumcision I yet preach, why yet am I persecuted? then hath the stumbling-block of the cross been done away;'),(48005012,48,5,12,'O that even they would cut themselves off who are unsettling you!'),(48005013,48,5,13,'For ye -- to freedom ye were called, brethren, only not the freedom for an occasion to the flesh, but through the love serve ye one another,'),(48005014,48,5,14,'for all the law in one word is fulfilled -- in this: `Thou shalt love thy neighbor as thyself;\''),(48005015,48,5,15,'and if one another ye do bite and devour, see -- that ye may not by one another be consumed.'),(48005016,48,5,16,'And I say: In the Spirit walk ye, and the desire of the flesh ye may not complete;'),(48005017,48,5,17,'for the flesh doth desire contrary to the Spirit, and the Spirit contrary to the flesh, and these are opposed one to another, that the things that ye may will -- these ye may not do;'),(48005018,48,5,18,'and if by the Spirit ye are led, ye are not under law.'),(48005019,48,5,19,'And manifest also are the works of the flesh, which are: Adultery, whoredom, uncleanness, lasciviousness,'),(48005020,48,5,20,'idolatry, witchcraft, hatred, strifes, emulations, wraths, rivalries, dissensions, sects,'),(48005021,48,5,21,'envyings, murders, drunkennesses, revellings, and such like, of which I tell you before, as I also said before, that those doing such things the reign of God shall not inherit.'),(48005022,48,5,22,'And the fruit of the Spirit is: Love, joy, peace, long-suffering, kindness, goodness, faith,'),(48005023,48,5,23,'meekness, temperance: against such there is no law;'),(48005024,48,5,24,'and those who are Christ\'s, the flesh did crucify with the affections, and the desires;'),(48005025,48,5,25,'if we may live in the Spirit, in the Spirit also we may walk;'),(48005026,48,5,26,'let us not become vain-glorious -- one another provoking, one another envying!'),(48006001,48,6,1,'Brethren, if a man also may be overtaken in any trespass, ye who `are\' spiritual restore such a one in a spirit of meekness, considering thyself -- lest thou also may be tempted;'),(48006002,48,6,2,'of one another the burdens bear ye, and so fill up the law of the Christ,'),(48006003,48,6,3,'for if any one doth think `himself\' to be something -- being nothing -- himself he doth deceive;'),(48006004,48,6,4,'and his own work let each one prove, and then in regard to himself alone the glorying he shall have, and not in regard to the other,'),(48006005,48,6,5,'for each one his own burden shall bear.'),(48006006,48,6,6,'And let him who is instructed in the word share with him who is instructing -- in all good things.'),(48006007,48,6,7,'Be not led astray; God is not mocked; for what a man may sow -- that also he shall reap,'),(48006008,48,6,8,'because he who is sowing to his own flesh, of the flesh shall reap corruption; and he who is sowing to the Spirit, of the Spirit shall reap life age-during;'),(48006009,48,6,9,'and in the doing good we may not be faint-hearted, for at the proper time we shall reap -- not desponding;'),(48006010,48,6,10,'therefore, then, as we have opportunity, may we work the good to all, and especially unto those of the household of the faith.'),(48006011,48,6,11,'Ye see in how large letters I have written to you with my own hand;'),(48006012,48,6,12,'as many as are willing to make a good appearance in the flesh, these constrain you to be circumcised -- only that for the cross of the Christ they may not be persecuted,'),(48006013,48,6,13,'for neither do those circumcised themselves keep the law, but they wish you to be circumcised, that in your flesh they may glory.'),(48006014,48,6,14,'And for me, let it not be -- to glory, except in the cross of our Lord Jesus Christ, through which to me the world hath been crucified, and I to the world;'),(48006015,48,6,15,'for in Christ Jesus neither circumcision availeth anything, nor uncircumcision, but a new creation;'),(48006016,48,6,16,'and as many as by this rule do walk -- peace upon them, and kindness, and on the Israel of God!'),(48006017,48,6,17,'Henceforth, let no one give me trouble, for I the scars of the Lord Jesus in my body do bear.'),(48006018,48,6,18,'The grace of our Lord Jesus Christ `is\' with your spirit, brethren! Amen.'),(49001001,49,1,1,'Paul, an apostle of Jesus Christ through the will of God, to the saints who are in Ephesus, and to the faithful in Christ Jesus:'),(49001002,49,1,2,'Grace to you, and peace from God our Father, and the Lord Jesus Christ!'),(49001003,49,1,3,'Blessed `is\' the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, who did bless us in every spiritual blessing in the heavenly places in Christ,'),(49001004,49,1,4,'according as He did choose us in him before the foundation of the world, for our being holy and unblemished before Him, in love,'),(49001005,49,1,5,'having foreordained us to the adoption of sons through Jesus Christ to Himself, according to the good pleasure of His will,'),(49001006,49,1,6,'to the praise of the glory of His grace, in which He did make us accepted in the beloved,'),(49001007,49,1,7,'in whom we have the redemption through his blood, the remission of the trespasses, according to the riches of His grace,'),(49001008,49,1,8,'in which He did abound toward us in all wisdom and prudence,'),(49001009,49,1,9,'having made known to us the secret of His will, according to His good pleasure, that He purposed in Himself,'),(49001010,49,1,10,'in regard to the dispensation of the fulness of the times, to bring into one the whole in the Christ, both the things in the heavens, and the things upon the earth -- in him;'),(49001011,49,1,11,'in whom also we did obtain an inheritance, being foreordained according to the purpose of Him who the all things is working according to the counsel of His will,'),(49001012,49,1,12,'for our being to the praise of His glory, `even\' those who did first hope in the Christ,'),(49001013,49,1,13,'in whom ye also, having heard the word of the truth -- the good news of your salvation -- in whom also having believed, ye were sealed with the Holy Spirit of the promise,'),(49001014,49,1,14,'which is an earnest of our inheritance, to the redemption of the acquired possession, to the praise of His glory.'),(49001015,49,1,15,'Because of this I also, having heard of your faith in the Lord Jesus, and the love to all the saints,'),(49001016,49,1,16,'do not cease giving thanks for you, making mention of you in my prayers,'),(49001017,49,1,17,'that the God of our Lord Jesus Christ, the Father of the glory, may give to you a spirit of wisdom and revelation in the recognition of him,'),(49001018,49,1,18,'the eyes of your understanding being enlightened, for your knowing what is the hope of His calling, and what the riches of the glory of His inheritance in the saints,'),(49001019,49,1,19,'and what the exceeding greatness of His power to us who are believing, according to the working of the power of His might,'),(49001020,49,1,20,'which He wrought in the Christ, having raised him out of the dead, and did set `him\' at His right hand in the heavenly `places\','),(49001021,49,1,21,'far above all principality, and authority, and might, and lordship, and every name named, not only in this age, but also in the coming one;'),(49001022,49,1,22,'and all things He did put under his feet, and did give him -- head over all things to the assembly,'),(49001023,49,1,23,'which is his body, the fulness of Him who is filling the all in all,'),(49002001,49,2,1,'Also you -- being dead in the trespasses and the sins,'),(49002002,49,2,2,'in which once ye did walk according to the age of this world, according to the ruler of the authority of the air, of the spirit that is now working in the sons of disobedience,'),(49002003,49,2,3,'among whom also we all did walk once in the desires of our flesh, doing the wishes of the flesh and of the thoughts, and were by nature children of wrath -- as also the others,'),(49002004,49,2,4,'and God, being rich in kindness, because of His great love with which He loved us,'),(49002005,49,2,5,'even being dead in the trespasses, did make us to live together with the Christ, (by grace ye are having been saved,)'),(49002006,49,2,6,'and did raise `us\' up together, and did seat `us\' together in the heavenly `places\' in Christ Jesus,'),(49002007,49,2,7,'that He might show, in the ages that are coming, the exceeding riches of His grace in kindness toward us in Christ Jesus,'),(49002008,49,2,8,'for by grace ye are having been saved, through faith, and this not of you -- of God the gift,'),(49002009,49,2,9,'not of works, that no one may boast;'),(49002010,49,2,10,'for of Him we are workmanship, created in Christ Jesus to good works, which God did before prepare, that in them we may walk.'),(49002011,49,2,11,'Wherefore, remember, that ye `were\' once the nations in the flesh, who are called Uncircumcision by that called Circumcision in the flesh made by hands,'),(49002012,49,2,12,'that ye were at that time apart from Christ, having been alienated from the commonwealth of Israel, and strangers to the covenants of the promise, having no hope, and without God, in the world;'),(49002013,49,2,13,'and now, in Christ Jesus, ye being once afar off became nigh in the blood of the Christ,'),(49002014,49,2,14,'for he is our peace, who did make both one, and the middle wall of the enclosure did break down,'),(49002015,49,2,15,'the enmity in his flesh, the law of the commands in ordinances having done away, that the two he might create in himself into one new man, making peace,'),(49002016,49,2,16,'and might reconcile both in one body to God through the cross, having slain the enmity in it,'),(49002017,49,2,17,'and having come, he did proclaim good news -- peace to you -- the far-off and the nigh,'),(49002018,49,2,18,'because through him we have the access -- we both -- in one Spirit unto the Father.'),(49002019,49,2,19,'Then, therefore, ye are no more strangers and foreigners, but fellow-citizens of the saints, and of the household of God,'),(49002020,49,2,20,'being built upon the foundation of the apostles and prophets, Jesus Christ himself being chief corner-`stone\','),(49002021,49,2,21,'in whom all the building fitly framed together doth increase to an holy sanctuary in the Lord,'),(49002022,49,2,22,'in whom also ye are builded together, for a habitation of God in the Spirit.'),(49003001,49,3,1,'For this cause, I Paul, the prisoner of Christ Jesus for you the nations,'),(49003002,49,3,2,'if, indeed, ye did hear of the dispensation of the grace of God that was given to me in regard to you,'),(49003003,49,3,3,'that by revelation He made known to me the secret, according as I wrote before in few `words\' --'),(49003004,49,3,4,'in regard to which ye are able, reading `it\', to understand my knowledge in the secret of the Christ,'),(49003005,49,3,5,'which in other generations was not made known to the sons of men, as it was now revealed to His holy apostles and prophets in the Spirit --'),(49003006,49,3,6,'that the nations be fellow-heirs, and of the same body, and partakers of His promise in the Christ, through the good news,'),(49003007,49,3,7,'of which I became a ministrant, according to the gift of the grace of God that was given to me, according to the working of His power;'),(49003008,49,3,8,'to me -- the less than the least of all the saints -- was given this grace, among the nations to proclaim good news -- the untraceable riches of the Christ,'),(49003009,49,3,9,'and to cause all to see what `is\' the fellowship of the secret that hath been hid from the ages in God, who the all things did create by Jesus Christ,'),(49003010,49,3,10,'that there might be made known now to the principalities and the authorities in the heavenly `places\', through the assembly, the manifold wisdom of God,'),(49003011,49,3,11,'according to a purpose of the ages, which He made in Christ Jesus our Lord,'),(49003012,49,3,12,'in whom we have the freedom and the access in confidence through the faith of him,'),(49003013,49,3,13,'wherefore, I ask `you\' not to faint in my tribulations for you, which is your glory.'),(49003014,49,3,14,'For this cause I bow my knees unto the Father of our Lord Jesus Christ,'),(49003015,49,3,15,'of whom the whole family in the heavens and on earth is named,'),(49003016,49,3,16,'that He may give to you, according to the riches of His glory, with might to be strengthened through His Spirit, in regard to the inner man,'),(49003017,49,3,17,'that the Christ may dwell through the faith in your hearts, in love having been rooted and founded,'),(49003018,49,3,18,'that ye may be in strength to comprehend, with all the saints, what `is\' the breadth, and length, and depth, and height,'),(49003019,49,3,19,'to know also the love of the Christ that is exceeding the knowledge, that ye may be filled -- to all the fulness of God;'),(49003020,49,3,20,'and to Him who is able above all things to do exceeding abundantly what we ask or think, according to the power that is working in us,'),(49003021,49,3,21,'to Him `is\' the glory in the assembly in Christ Jesus, to all the generations of the age of the ages. Amen.'),(49004001,49,4,1,'Call upon you, then, do I -- the prisoner of the Lord -- to walk worthily of the calling with which ye were called,'),(49004002,49,4,2,'with all lowliness and meekness, with long-suffering, forbearing one another in love,'),(49004003,49,4,3,'being diligent to keep the unity of the Spirit in the bond of the peace;'),(49004004,49,4,4,'one body and one Spirit, according as also ye were called in one hope of your calling;'),(49004005,49,4,5,'one Lord, one faith, one baptism,'),(49004006,49,4,6,'one God and Father of all, who `is\' over all, and through all, and in you all,'),(49004007,49,4,7,'and to each one of you was given the grace, according to the measure of the gift of Christ,'),(49004008,49,4,8,'wherefore, he saith, `Having gone up on high he led captive captivity, and gave gifts to men,\' --'),(49004009,49,4,9,'and that, he went up, what is it except that he also went down first to the lower parts of the earth?'),(49004010,49,4,10,'he who went down is the same also who went up far above all the heavens, that He may fill all things --'),(49004011,49,4,11,'and He gave some `as\' apostles, and some `as\' prophets, and some `as\' proclaimers of good news, and some `as\' shepherds and teachers,'),(49004012,49,4,12,'unto the perfecting of the saints, for a work of ministration, for a building up of the body of the Christ,'),(49004013,49,4,13,'till we may all come to the unity of the faith and of the recognition of the Son of God, to a perfect man, to a measure of stature of the fulness of the Christ,'),(49004014,49,4,14,'that we may no more be babes, tossed and borne about by every wind of the teaching, in the sleight of men, in craftiness, unto the artifice of leading astray,'),(49004015,49,4,15,'and, being true in love, we may increase to Him `in\' all things, who is the head -- the Christ;'),(49004016,49,4,16,'from whom the whole body, being fitly joined together and united, through the supply of every joint, according to the working in the measure of each single part, the increase of the body doth make for the building up of itself in love.'),(49004017,49,4,17,'This, then, I say, and I testify in the Lord; ye are no more to walk, as also the other nations walk, in the vanity of their mind,'),(49004018,49,4,18,'being darkened in the understanding, being alienated from the life of God, because of the ignorance that is in them, because of the hardness of their heart,'),(49004019,49,4,19,'who, having ceased to feel, themselves did give up to the lasciviousness, for the working of all uncleanness in greediness;'),(49004020,49,4,20,'and ye did not so learn the Christ,'),(49004021,49,4,21,'if so be ye did hear him, and in him were taught, as truth is in Jesus;'),(49004022,49,4,22,'ye are to put off concerning the former behaviour the old man, that is corrupt according to the desires of the deceit,'),(49004023,49,4,23,'and to be renewed in the spirit of your mind,'),(49004024,49,4,24,'and to put on the new man, which, according to God, was created in righteousness and kindness of the truth.'),(49004025,49,4,25,'Wherefore, putting away the lying, speak truth each with his neighbour, because we are members one of another;'),(49004026,49,4,26,'be angry and do not sin; let not the sun go down upon your wrath,'),(49004027,49,4,27,'neither give place to the devil;'),(49004028,49,4,28,'whoso is stealing let him no more steal, but rather let him labour, working the thing that is good with the hands, that he may have to impart to him having need.'),(49004029,49,4,29,'Let no corrupt word out of your mouth go forth, but what is good unto the needful building up, that it may give grace to the hearers;'),(49004030,49,4,30,'and make not sorrowful the Holy Spirit of God, in which ye were sealed to a day of redemption.'),(49004031,49,4,31,'Let all bitterness, and wrath, and anger, and clamour, and evil-speaking, be put away from you, with all malice,'),(49004032,49,4,32,'and become one to another kind, tender-hearted, forgiving one another, according as also God in Christ did forgive you.'),(49005001,49,5,1,'Become, then, followers of God, as children beloved,'),(49005002,49,5,2,'and walk in love, as also the Christ did love us, and did give himself for us, an offering and a sacrifice to God for an odour of a sweet smell,'),(49005003,49,5,3,'and whoredom, and all uncleanness, or covetousness, let it not even be named among you, as becometh saints;'),(49005004,49,5,4,'also filthiness, and foolish talking, or jesting, -- the things not fit -- but rather thanksgiving;'),(49005005,49,5,5,'for this ye know, that every whoremonger, or unclean, or covetous person, who is an idolater, hath no inheritance in the reign of the Christ and God.'),(49005006,49,5,6,'Let no one deceive you with vain words, for because of these things cometh the anger of God upon the sons of the disobedience,'),(49005007,49,5,7,'become not, then, partakers with them,'),(49005008,49,5,8,'for ye were once darkness, and now light in the Lord; as children of light walk ye,'),(49005009,49,5,9,'for the fruit of the Spirit `is\' in all goodness, and righteousness, and truth,'),(49005010,49,5,10,'proving what is well-pleasing to the Lord,'),(49005011,49,5,11,'and have no fellowship with the unfruitful works of the darkness and rather even convict,'),(49005012,49,5,12,'for the things in secret done by them it is a shame even to speak of,'),(49005013,49,5,13,'and all the things reproved by the light are manifested, for everything that is manifested is light;'),(49005014,49,5,14,'wherefore he saith, `Arouse thyself, thou who art sleeping, and arise out of the dead, and the Christ shall shine upon thee.\''),(49005015,49,5,15,'See, then, how exactly ye walk, not as unwise, but as wise,'),(49005016,49,5,16,'redeeming the time, because the days are evil;'),(49005017,49,5,17,'because of this become not fools, but -- understanding what `is\' the will of the Lord,'),(49005018,49,5,18,'and be not drunk with wine, in which is dissoluteness, but be filled in the Spirit,'),(49005019,49,5,19,'speaking to yourselves in psalms and hymns and spiritual songs, singing and making melody in your heart to the Lord,'),(49005020,49,5,20,'giving thanks always for all things, in the name of our Lord Jesus Christ, to the God and Father;'),(49005021,49,5,21,'subjecting yourselves to one another in the fear of God.'),(49005022,49,5,22,'The wives! to your own husbands subject yourselves, as to the Lord,'),(49005023,49,5,23,'because the husband is head of the wife, as also the Christ `is\' head of the assembly, and he is saviour of the body,'),(49005024,49,5,24,'but even as the assembly is subject to Christ, so also `are\' the wives to their own husbands in everything.'),(49005025,49,5,25,'The husbands! love your own wives, as also the Christ did love the assembly, and did give himself for it,'),(49005026,49,5,26,'that he might sanctify it, having cleansed `it\' with the bathing of the water in the saying,'),(49005027,49,5,27,'that he might present it to himself the assembly in glory, not having spot or wrinkle, or any of such things, but that it may be holy and unblemished;'),(49005028,49,5,28,'so ought the husbands to love their own wives as their own bodies: he who is loving his own wife -- himself he doth love;'),(49005029,49,5,29,'for no one ever his own flesh did hate, but doth nourish and cherish it, as also the Lord -- the assembly,'),(49005030,49,5,30,'because members we are of his body, of his flesh, and of his bones;'),(49005031,49,5,31,'`for this cause shall a man leave his father and mother, and shall be joined to his wife, and they shall be -- the two -- for one flesh;\''),(49005032,49,5,32,'this secret is great, and I speak in regard to Christ and to the assembly;'),(49005033,49,5,33,'but ye also, every one in particular -- let each his own wife so love as himself, and the wife -- that she may reverence the husband.'),(49006001,49,6,1,'The children! obey your parents in the Lord, for this is righteous;'),(49006002,49,6,2,'honour thy father and mother,'),(49006003,49,6,3,'which is the first command with a promise, `That it may be well with thee, and thou mayest live a long time upon the land.\''),(49006004,49,6,4,'And the fathers! provoke not your children, but nourish them in the instruction and admonition of the Lord.'),(49006005,49,6,5,'The servants! obey the masters according to the flesh with fear and trembling, in the simplicity of your heart, as to the Christ;'),(49006006,49,6,6,'not with eye-service as men-pleasers, but as servants of the Christ, doing the will of God out of soul,'),(49006007,49,6,7,'with good-will serving, as to the Lord, and not to men,'),(49006008,49,6,8,'having known that whatever good thing each one may do, this he shall receive from the Lord, whether servant or freeman.'),(49006009,49,6,9,'And the masters! the same things do ye unto them, letting threatening alone, having known that also your Master is in the heavens, and acceptance of persons is not with him.'),(49006010,49,6,10,'As to the rest, my brethren, be strong in the Lord, and in the power of his might;'),(49006011,49,6,11,'put on the whole armour of God, for your being able to stand against the wiles of the devil,'),(49006012,49,6,12,'because we have not the wrestling with blood and flesh, but with the principalities, with the authorities, with the world-rulers of the darkness of this age, with the spiritual things of the evil in the heavenly places;'),(49006013,49,6,13,'because of this take ye up the whole armour of God, that ye may be able to resist in the day of the evil, and all things having done -- to stand.'),(49006014,49,6,14,'Stand, therefore, having your loins girt about in truth, and having put on the breastplate of the righteousness,'),(49006015,49,6,15,'and having the feet shod in the preparation of the good-news of the peace;'),(49006016,49,6,16,'above all, having taken up the shield of the faith, in which ye shall be able all the fiery darts of the evil one to quench,'),(49006017,49,6,17,'and the helmet of the salvation receive, and the sword of the Spirit, which is the saying of God,'),(49006018,49,6,18,'through all prayer and supplication praying at all times in the Spirit, and in regard to this same, watching in all perseverance and supplication for all the saints --'),(49006019,49,6,19,'and in behalf of me, that to me may be given a word in the opening of my mouth, in freedom, to make known the secret of the good news,'),(49006020,49,6,20,'for which I am an ambassador in a chain, that in it I may speak freely -- as it behoveth me to speak.'),(49006021,49,6,21,'And that ye may know -- ye also -- the things concerning me -- what I do, all things make known to you shall Tychicus, the beloved brother and faithful ministrant in the Lord,'),(49006022,49,6,22,'whom I did send unto you for this very thing, that ye might know the things concerning us, and that he might comfort your hearts.'),(49006023,49,6,23,'Peace to the brethren, and love, with faith, from God the Father, and the Lord Jesus Christ!'),(49006024,49,6,24,'The grace with all those loving our Lord Jesus Christ -- undecayingly! Amen.'),(50001001,50,1,1,'Paul and Timotheus, servants of Jesus Christ, to all the saints in Christ Jesus who are in Philippi, with overseers and ministrants;'),(50001002,50,1,2,'Grace to you, and peace from God our Father, and the Lord Jesus Christ.'),(50001003,50,1,3,'I give thanks to my God upon all the remembrance of you,'),(50001004,50,1,4,'always, in every supplication of mine for you all, with joy making the supplication,'),(50001005,50,1,5,'for your contribution to the good news from the first day till now,'),(50001006,50,1,6,'having been confident of this very thing, that He who did begin in you a good work, will perform `it\' till a day of Jesus Christ,'),(50001007,50,1,7,'according as it is righteous for me to think this in behalf of you all, because of my having you in the heart, both in my bonds, and `in\' the defence and confirmation of the good news, all of you being fellow-partakers with me of grace.'),(50001008,50,1,8,'For God is my witness, how I long for you all in the bowels of Jesus Christ,'),(50001009,50,1,9,'and this I pray, that your love yet more and more may abound in full knowledge, and all judgment,'),(50001010,50,1,10,'for your proving the things that differ, that ye may be pure and offenceless -- to a day of Christ,'),(50001011,50,1,11,'being filled with the fruit of righteousness, that `is\' through Jesus Christ, to the glory and praise of God.'),(50001012,50,1,12,'And I wish you to know, brethren, that the things concerning me, rather to an advancement of the good news have come,'),(50001013,50,1,13,'so that my bonds have become manifest in Christ in the whole praetorium, and to the other places -- all,'),(50001014,50,1,14,'and the greater part of the brethren in the Lord, having confidence by my bonds, are more abundantly bold -- fearlessly to speak the word.'),(50001015,50,1,15,'Certain, indeed, even through envy and contention, and certain also through good-will, do preach the Christ;'),(50001016,50,1,16,'the one, indeed, of rivalry the Christ do proclaim, not purely, supposing to add affliction to my bonds,'),(50001017,50,1,17,'and the other out of love, having known that for defence of the good news I am set:'),(50001018,50,1,18,'what then? in every way, whether in pretence or in truth, Christ is proclaimed -- and in this I rejoice, yea, and shall rejoice.'),(50001019,50,1,19,'For I have known that this shall fall out to me for salvation, through your supplication, and the supply of the Spirit of Christ Jesus,'),(50001020,50,1,20,'according to my earnest expectation and hope, that in nothing I shall be ashamed, and in all freedom, as always, also now Christ shall be magnified in my body, whether through life or through death,'),(50001021,50,1,21,'for to me to live `is\' Christ, and to die gain.'),(50001022,50,1,22,'And if to live in the flesh `is\' to me a fruit of work, then what shall I choose? I know not;'),(50001023,50,1,23,'for I am pressed by the two, having the desire to depart, and to be with Christ, for it is far better,'),(50001024,50,1,24,'and to remain in the flesh is more necessary on your account,'),(50001025,50,1,25,'and of this being persuaded, I have known that I shall remain and continue with you all, to your advancement and joy of the faith,'),(50001026,50,1,26,'that your boasting may abound in Christ Jesus in me through my presence again to you.'),(50001027,50,1,27,'Only worthily of the good news of the Christ conduct ye yourselves, that, whether having come and seen you, whether being absent I may hear of the things concerning you, that ye stand fast in one spirit, with one soul, striving together for the faith of the good news,'),(50001028,50,1,28,'and not terrified in anything by those opposing, which to them indeed is a token of destruction, and to you of salvation, and that from God;'),(50001029,50,1,29,'because to you it was granted, on behalf of Christ, not only to believe in him, but also on behalf of him to suffer;'),(50001030,50,1,30,'the same conflict having, such as ye saw in me, and now hear of in me.'),(50002001,50,2,1,'If, then, any exhortation `is\' in Christ, if any comfort of love, if any fellowship of spirit, if any bowels and mercies,'),(50002002,50,2,2,'fulfil ye my joy, that ye may mind the same thing -- having the same love -- of one soul -- minding the one thing,'),(50002003,50,2,3,'nothing in rivalry or vain-glory, but in humility of mind one another counting more excellent than yourselves --'),(50002004,50,2,4,'each not to your own look ye, but each also to the things of others.'),(50002005,50,2,5,'For, let this mind be in you that `is\' also in Christ Jesus,'),(50002006,50,2,6,'who, being in the form of God, thought `it\' not robbery to be equal to God,'),(50002007,50,2,7,'but did empty himself, the form of a servant having taken, in the likeness of men having been made,'),(50002008,50,2,8,'and in fashion having been found as a man, he humbled himself, having become obedient unto death -- death even of a cross,'),(50002009,50,2,9,'wherefore, also, God did highly exalt him, and gave to him a name that `is\' above every name,'),(50002010,50,2,10,'that in the name of Jesus every knee may bow -- of heavenlies, and earthlies, and what are under the earth --'),(50002011,50,2,11,'and every tongue may confess that Jesus Christ `is\' Lord, to the glory of God the Father.'),(50002012,50,2,12,'So that, my beloved, as ye always obey, not as in my presence only, but now much more in my absence, with fear and trembling your own salvation work out,'),(50002013,50,2,13,'for God it is who is working in you both to will and to work for His good pleasure.'),(50002014,50,2,14,'All things do without murmurings and reasonings,'),(50002015,50,2,15,'that ye may become blameless and harmless, children of God, unblemished in the midst of a generation crooked and perverse, among whom ye do appear as luminaries in the world,'),(50002016,50,2,16,'the word of life holding forth, for rejoicing to me in regard to a day of Christ, that not in vain did I run, nor in vain did I labour;'),(50002017,50,2,17,'but if also I am poured forth upon the sacrifice and service of your faith, I rejoice and joy with you all,'),(50002018,50,2,18,'because of this do ye also rejoice and joy with me.'),(50002019,50,2,19,'And I hope, in the Lord Jesus, Timotheus to send quickly to you, that I also may be of good spirit, having known the things concerning you,'),(50002020,50,2,20,'for I have no one like-minded, who sincerely for the things concerning you will care,'),(50002021,50,2,21,'for the whole seek their own things, not the things of the Christ Jesus,'),(50002022,50,2,22,'and the proof of him ye know, that as a child `serveth\' a father, with me he did serve in regard to the good news;'),(50002023,50,2,23,'him, indeed, therefore, I hope to send, when I may see through the things concerning me -- immediately;'),(50002024,50,2,24,'and I trust in the Lord that I myself also shall quickly come.'),(50002025,50,2,25,'And I thought `it\' necessary Epaphroditus -- my brother, and fellow-workman, and fellow-soldier, and your apostle and servant to my need -- to send unto you,'),(50002026,50,2,26,'seeing he was longing after you all, and in heaviness, because ye heard that he ailed,'),(50002027,50,2,27,'for he also ailed nigh to death, but God did deal kindly with him, and not with him only, but also with me, that sorrow upon sorrow I might not have.'),(50002028,50,2,28,'The more eagerly, therefore, I did send him, that having seen him again ye may rejoice, and I may be the less sorrowful;'),(50002029,50,2,29,'receive him, therefore, in the Lord, with all joy, and hold such in honour,'),(50002030,50,2,30,'because on account of the work of the Christ he drew near to death, having hazarded the life that he might fill up your deficiency of service unto me.'),(50003001,50,3,1,'As to the rest, my brethren, rejoice in the Lord; the same things to write to you to me indeed is not tiresome, and for you `is\' sure;'),(50003002,50,3,2,'look to the dogs, look to the evil-workers, look to the concision;'),(50003003,50,3,3,'for we are the circumcision, who by the Spirit are serving God, and glorying in Christ Jesus, and in flesh having no trust,'),(50003004,50,3,4,'though I also have `cause of\' trust in flesh. If any other one doth think to have trust in flesh, I more;'),(50003005,50,3,5,'circumcision on the eighth day! of the race of Israel! of the tribe of Benjamin! a Hebrew of Hebrews! according to law a Pharisee!'),(50003006,50,3,6,'according to zeal persecuting the assembly! according to righteousness that is in law becoming blameless!'),(50003007,50,3,7,'But what things were to me gains, these I have counted, because of the Christ, loss;'),(50003008,50,3,8,'yes, indeed, and I count all things to be loss, because of the excellency of the knowledge of Christ Jesus my Lord, because of whom of the all things I suffered loss, and do count them to be refuse, that Christ I may gain, and be found in him,'),(50003009,50,3,9,'not having my righteousness, which `is\' of law, but that which `is\' through faith of Christ -- the righteousness that is of God by the faith,'),(50003010,50,3,10,'to know him, and the power of his rising again, and the fellowship of his sufferings, being conformed to his death,'),(50003011,50,3,11,'if anyhow I may attain to the rising again of the dead.'),(50003012,50,3,12,'Not that I did already obtain, or have been already perfected; but I pursue, if also I may lay hold of that for which also I was laid hold of by the Christ Jesus;'),(50003013,50,3,13,'brethren, I do not reckon myself to have laid hold; and one thing -- the things behind indeed forgetting, and to the things before stretching forth --'),(50003014,50,3,14,'to the mark I pursue for the prize of the high calling of God in Christ Jesus.'),(50003015,50,3,15,'As many, therefore, as `are\' perfect -- let us think this, and if `in\' anything ye think otherwise, this also shall God reveal to you,'),(50003016,50,3,16,'but to what we have come -- by the same rule walk, the same thing think;'),(50003017,50,3,17,'become followers together of me, brethren, and observe those thus walking, according as ye have us -- a pattern;'),(50003018,50,3,18,'for many walk of whom many times I told you -- and now also weeping tell -- the enemies of the cross of the Christ!'),(50003019,50,3,19,'whose end `is\' destruction, whose god `is\' the belly, and whose glory `is\' in their shame, who the things on earth are minding.'),(50003020,50,3,20,'For our citizenship is in the heavens, whence also a Saviour we await -- the Lord Jesus Christ --'),(50003021,50,3,21,'who shall transform the body of our humiliation to its becoming conformed to the body of his glory, according to the working of his power, even to subject to himself the all things.'),(50004001,50,4,1,'So then, my brethren, beloved and longed for, my joy and crown, so stand ye in the Lord, beloved.'),(50004002,50,4,2,'Euodia I exhort, and Syntyche I exhort, to be of the same mind in the Lord;'),(50004003,50,4,3,'and I ask also thee, genuine yoke-fellow, be assisting those women who in the good news did strive along with me, with Clement also, and the others, my fellow-workers, whose names `are\' in the book of life.'),(50004004,50,4,4,'Rejoice in the Lord always; again I will say, rejoice;'),(50004005,50,4,5,'let your forbearance be known to all men; the Lord `is\' near;'),(50004006,50,4,6,'for nothing be anxious, but in everything by prayer, and by supplication, with thanksgiving, let your requests be made known unto God;'),(50004007,50,4,7,'and the peace of God, that is surpassing all understanding, shall guard your hearts and your thoughts in Christ Jesus.'),(50004008,50,4,8,'As to the rest, brethren, as many things as are true, as many as `are\' grave, as many as `are\' righteous, as many as `are\' pure, as many as `are\' lovely, as many as `are\' of good report, if any worthiness, and if any praise, these things think upon;'),(50004009,50,4,9,'the things that also ye did learn, and receive, and hear, and saw in me, those do, and the God of the peace shall be with you.'),(50004010,50,4,10,'And I rejoiced in the Lord greatly, that now at length ye flourished again in caring for me, for which also ye were caring, and lacked opportunity;'),(50004011,50,4,11,'not that in respect of want I say `it\', for I did learn in the things in which I am -- to be content;'),(50004012,50,4,12,'I have known both to be abased, and I have known to abound; in everything and in all things I have been initiated, both to be full and to be hungry, both to abound and to be in want.'),(50004013,50,4,13,'For all things I have strength, in Christ\'s strengthening me;'),(50004014,50,4,14,'but ye did well, having communicated with my tribulation;'),(50004015,50,4,15,'and ye have known, even ye Philippians, that in the beginning of the good news when I went forth from Macedonia, no assembly did communicate with me in regard to giving and receiving except ye only;'),(50004016,50,4,16,'because also in Thessalonica, both once and again to my need ye sent;'),(50004017,50,4,17,'not that I seek after the gift, but I seek after the fruit that is overflowing to your account;'),(50004018,50,4,18,'and I have all things, and abound; I am filled, having received from Epaphroditus the things from you -- an odour of a sweet smell -- a sacrifice acceptable, well-pleasing to God:'),(50004019,50,4,19,'and my God shall supply all your need, according to His riches in glory in Christ Jesus;'),(50004020,50,4,20,'and to God, even our Father, `is\' the glory -- to the ages of the ages. Amen.'),(50004021,50,4,21,'Salute ye every saint in Christ Jesus; there salute you the brethren with me;'),(50004022,50,4,22,'there salute you all the saints, and specially those of Caesar\'s house;'),(50004023,50,4,23,'the grace of our Lord Jesus Christ `is\' with you all. Amen.'),(51001001,51,1,1,'Paul, an apostle of Jesus Christ through the will of God, and Timotheus the brother,'),(51001002,51,1,2,'to the saints in Colossae, and to the faithful brethren in Christ: Grace to you, and peace from God our Father, and the Lord Jesus Christ!'),(51001003,51,1,3,'We give thanks to the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, always praying for you,'),(51001004,51,1,4,'having heard of your faith in Christ Jesus, and of the love that `is\' to all the saints,'),(51001005,51,1,5,'because of the hope that is laid up for you in the heavens, which ye heard of before in the word of the truth of the good news,'),(51001006,51,1,6,'which is present to you, as also in all the world, and is bearing fruit, as also in you, from the day in which ye heard, and knew the grace of God in truth;'),(51001007,51,1,7,'as ye also learned from Epaphras, our beloved fellow-servant, who is for you a faithful ministrant of the Christ,'),(51001008,51,1,8,'who also did declare to us your love in the Spirit.'),(51001009,51,1,9,'Because of this, we also, from the day in which we heard, do not cease praying for you, and asking that ye may be filled with the full knowledge of His will in all wisdom and spiritual understanding,'),(51001010,51,1,10,'to your walking worthily of the Lord to all pleasing, in every good work being fruitful, and increasing to the knowledge of God,'),(51001011,51,1,11,'in all might being made mighty according to the power of His glory, to all endurance and long-suffering with joy.'),(51001012,51,1,12,'Giving thanks to the Father who did make us meet for the participation of the inheritance of the saints in the light,'),(51001013,51,1,13,'who did rescue us out of the authority of the darkness, and did translate `us\' into the reign of the Son of His love,'),(51001014,51,1,14,'in whom we have the redemption through his blood, the forgiveness of the sins,'),(51001015,51,1,15,'who is the image of the invisible God, first-born of all creation,'),(51001016,51,1,16,'because in him were the all things created, those in the heavens, and those upon the earth, those visible, and those invisible, whether thrones, whether lordships, whether principalities, whether authorities; all things through him, and for him, have been created,'),(51001017,51,1,17,'and himself is before all, and the all things in him have consisted.'),(51001018,51,1,18,'And himself is the head of the body -- the assembly -- who is a beginning, a first-born out of the dead, that he might become in all `things\' -- himself -- first,'),(51001019,51,1,19,'because in him it did please all the fulness to tabernacle,'),(51001020,51,1,20,'and through him to reconcile the all things to himself -- having made peace through the blood of his cross -- through him, whether the things upon the earth, whether the things in the heavens.'),(51001021,51,1,21,'And you -- once being alienated, and enemies in the mind, in the evil works, yet now did he reconcile,'),(51001022,51,1,22,'in the body of his flesh through the death, to present you holy, and unblemished, and unblameable before himself,'),(51001023,51,1,23,'if also ye remain in the faith, being founded and settled, and not moved away from the hope of the good news, which ye heard, which was preached in all the creation that `is\' under the heaven, of which I became -- I Paul -- a ministrant.'),(51001024,51,1,24,'I now rejoice in my sufferings for you, and do fill up the things lacking of the tribulations of the Christ in my flesh for his body, which is the assembly,'),(51001025,51,1,25,'of which I -- I did become a ministrant according to the dispensation of God, that was given to me for you, to fulfil the word of God,'),(51001026,51,1,26,'the secret that hath been hid from the ages and from the generations, but now was manifested to his saints,'),(51001027,51,1,27,'to whom God did will to make known what `is\' the riches of the glory of this secret among the nations -- which is Christ in you, the hope of the glory,'),(51001028,51,1,28,'whom we proclaim, warning every man, and teaching every man, in all wisdom, that we may present every man perfect in Christ Jesus,'),(51001029,51,1,29,'for which also I labour, striving according to his working that is working in me in power.'),(51002001,51,2,1,'For I wish you to know how great a conflict I have for you and those in Laodicea, and as many as have not seen my face in the flesh,'),(51002002,51,2,2,'that their hearts may be comforted, being united in love, and to all riches of the full assurance of the understanding, to the full knowledge of the secret of the God and Father, and of the Christ,'),(51002003,51,2,3,'in whom are all the treasures of the wisdom and the knowledge hid,'),(51002004,51,2,4,'and this I say, that no one may beguile you in enticing words,'),(51002005,51,2,5,'for if even in the flesh I am absent -- yet in the spirit I am with you, joying and beholding your order, and the stedfastness of your faith in regard to Christ;'),(51002006,51,2,6,'as, then, ye did receive Christ Jesus the Lord, in him walk ye,'),(51002007,51,2,7,'being rooted and built up in him, and confirmed in the faith, as ye were taught -- abounding in it in thanksgiving.'),(51002008,51,2,8,'See that no one shall be carrying you away as spoil through the philosophy and vain deceit, according to the deliverance of men, according to the rudiments of the world, and not according to Christ,'),(51002009,51,2,9,'because in him doth tabernacle all the fulness of the Godhead bodily,'),(51002010,51,2,10,'and ye are in him made full, who is the head of all principality and authority,'),(51002011,51,2,11,'in whom also ye were circumcised with a circumcision not made with hands, in the putting off of the body of the sins of the flesh in the circumcision of the Christ,'),(51002012,51,2,12,'being buried with him in the baptism, in which also ye rose with `him\' through the faith of the working of God, who did raise him out of the dead.'),(51002013,51,2,13,'And you -- being dead in the trespasses and the uncircumcision of your flesh -- He made alive together with him, having forgiven you all the trespasses,'),(51002014,51,2,14,'having blotted out the handwriting in the ordinances that is against us, that was contrary to us, and he hath taken it out of the way, having nailed it to the cross;'),(51002015,51,2,15,'having stripped the principalities and the authorities, he made a shew of them openly -- having triumphed over them in it.'),(51002016,51,2,16,'Let no one, then, judge you in eating or in drinking, or in respect of a feast, or of a new moon, or of sabbaths,'),(51002017,51,2,17,'which are a shadow of the coming things, and the body `is\' of the Christ;'),(51002018,51,2,18,'let no one beguile you of your prize, delighting in humble-mindedness and `in\' worship of the messengers, intruding into the things he hath not seen, being vainly puffed up by the mind of his flesh,'),(51002019,51,2,19,'and not holding the head, from which all the body -- through the joints and bands gathering supply, and being knit together -- may increase with the increase of God.'),(51002020,51,2,20,'If, then, ye did die with the Christ from the rudiments of the world, why, as living in the world, are ye subject to ordinances?'),(51002021,51,2,21,'-- thou mayest not touch, nor taste, nor handle --'),(51002022,51,2,22,'which are all for destruction with the using, after the commands and teachings of men,'),(51002023,51,2,23,'which are, indeed, having a matter of wisdom in will-worship, and humble-mindedness, and neglecting of body -- not in any honour, unto a satisfying of the flesh.'),(51003001,51,3,1,'If, then, ye were raised with the Christ, the things above seek ye, where the Christ is, on the right hand of God seated,'),(51003002,51,3,2,'the things above mind ye, not the things upon the earth,'),(51003003,51,3,3,'for ye did die, and your life hath been hid with the Christ in God;'),(51003004,51,3,4,'when the Christ -- our life -- may be manifested, then also we with him shall be manifested in glory.'),(51003005,51,3,5,'Put to death, then, your members that `are\' upon the earth -- whoredom, uncleanness, passion, evil desire, and the covetousness, which is idolatry --'),(51003006,51,3,6,'because of which things cometh the anger of God upon the sons of the disobedience,'),(51003007,51,3,7,'in which also ye -- ye did walk once, when ye lived in them;'),(51003008,51,3,8,'but now put off, even ye, the whole -- anger, wrath, malice, evil-speaking, filthy talking -- out of your mouth.'),(51003009,51,3,9,'Lie not one to another, having put off the old man with his practices,'),(51003010,51,3,10,'and having put on the new, which is renewed in regard to knowledge, after the image of Him who did create him;'),(51003011,51,3,11,'where there is not Greek and Jew, circumcision and uncircumcision, foreigner, Scythian, servant, freeman -- but the all and in all -- Christ.'),(51003012,51,3,12,'Put on, therefore, as choice ones of God, holy and beloved, bowels of mercies, kindness, humble-mindedness, meekness, long-suffering,'),(51003013,51,3,13,'forbearing one another, and forgiving each other, if any one with any one may have a quarrel, as also the Christ did forgive you -- so also ye;'),(51003014,51,3,14,'and above all these things, `have\' love, which is a bond of the perfection,'),(51003015,51,3,15,'and let the peace of God rule in your hearts, to which also ye were called in one body, and become thankful.'),(51003016,51,3,16,'Let the word of Christ dwell in you richly, in all wisdom, teaching and admonishing each other, in psalms, and hymns, and spiritual songs, in grace singing in your hearts to the Lord;'),(51003017,51,3,17,'and all, whatever ye may do in word or in work, `do\' all things in the name of the Lord Jesus -- giving thanks to the God and Father, through him.'),(51003018,51,3,18,'The wives! be subject to your own husbands, as is fit in the Lord;'),(51003019,51,3,19,'the husbands! love your wives, and be not bitter with them;'),(51003020,51,3,20,'the children! obey the parents in all things, for this is well-pleasing to the Lord;'),(51003021,51,3,21,'the fathers! vex not your children, lest they be discouraged.'),(51003022,51,3,22,'The servants! obey in all things those who are masters according to the flesh, not in eye-service as men-pleasers, but in simplicity of heart, fearing God;'),(51003023,51,3,23,'and all, whatever ye may do -- out of soul work -- as to the Lord, and not to men,'),(51003024,51,3,24,'having known that from the Lord ye shall receive the recompense of the inheritance -- for the Lord Christ ye serve;'),(51003025,51,3,25,'and he who is doing unrighteously shall receive what he did unrighteously, and there is no acceptance of persons.'),(51004001,51,4,1,'The masters! that which is righteous and equal to the servants give ye, having known that ye also have a Master in the heavens.'),(51004002,51,4,2,'In the prayer continue ye, watching in it in thanksgiving;'),(51004003,51,4,3,'praying at the same time also for us, that God may open to us a door for the word, to speak the secret of the Christ, because of which also I have been bound,'),(51004004,51,4,4,'that I may manifest it, as it behoveth me to speak;'),(51004005,51,4,5,'in wisdom walk ye toward those without, the time forestalling;'),(51004006,51,4,6,'your word always in grace -- with salt being seasoned -- to know how it behoveth you to answer each one.'),(51004007,51,4,7,'All the things concerning me make known to you shall Tychicus -- the beloved brother, and faithful ministrant, and fellow-servant in the Lord --'),(51004008,51,4,8,'whom I did send unto you for this very thing, that he might know the things concerning you, and might comfort your hearts,'),(51004009,51,4,9,'with Onesimus the faithful and beloved brother, who is of you; all things to you shall they make known that `are\' here.'),(51004010,51,4,10,'Salute you doth Aristarchus, my fellow-captive, and Marcus, the nephew of Barnabas, (concerning whom ye did receive commands -- if he may come unto you receive him,)'),(51004011,51,4,11,'and Jesus who is called Justus, who are of the circumcision: these only `are\' fellow-workers for the reign of God who did become a comfort to me.'),(51004012,51,4,12,'Salute you doth Epaphras, who `is\' of you, a servant of Christ, always striving for you in the prayers, that ye may stand perfect and made full in all the will of God,'),(51004013,51,4,13,'for I do testify to him, that he hath much zeal for you, and those in Laodicea, and those in Hierapolis.'),(51004014,51,4,14,'Salute you doth Lukas, the beloved physician, and Demas;'),(51004015,51,4,15,'salute ye those in Laodicea -- brethren, and Nymphas, and the assembly in his house;'),(51004016,51,4,16,'and when the epistle may be read with you, cause that also in the assembly of the Laodiceans it may be read, and the `epistle\' from Laodicea that ye also may read;'),(51004017,51,4,17,'and say to Archippus, `See to the ministration that thou didst receive in the Lord, that thou mayest fulfil it.\''),(51004018,51,4,18,'The salutation by the hand of me, Paul; remember my bonds; the grace `is\' with you. Amen.'),(52001001,52,1,1,'Paul, and Silvanus, and Timotheus, to the assembly of Thessalonians in God the Father, and the Lord Jesus Christ: Grace to you, and peace, from God our Father, and the Lord Jesus Christ!'),(52001002,52,1,2,'We give thanks to God always for you all, making mention of you in our prayers,'),(52001003,52,1,3,'unceasingly remembering of you the work of the faith, and the labour of the love, and the endurance of the hope, of our Lord Jesus Christ, in the presence of our God and Father,'),(52001004,52,1,4,'having known, brethren beloved, by God, your election,'),(52001005,52,1,5,'because our good news did not come to you in word only, but also in power, and in the Holy Spirit, and in much assurance, even as ye have known of what sort we became among you because of you,'),(52001006,52,1,6,'and ye -- ye did become imitators of us, and of the Lord, having received the word in much tribulation, with joy of the Holy Spirit,'),(52001007,52,1,7,'so that ye became patterns to all those believing in Macedonia and Achaia,'),(52001008,52,1,8,'for from you hath sounded forth the word of the Lord, not only in Macedonia and Achaia, but also in every place your faith toward God did go forth, so that we have no need to say anything,'),(52001009,52,1,9,'for they themselves concerning us do declare what entrance we had unto you, and how ye did turn unto God from the idols, to serve a living and true God,'),(52001010,52,1,10,'and to wait for His Son from the heavens, whom He did raise out of the dead -- Jesus, who is rescuing us from the anger that is coming.'),(52002001,52,2,1,'For yourselves have known, brethren, our entrance in unto you, that it did not become vain,'),(52002002,52,2,2,'but having both suffered before, and having been injuriously treated (as ye have known) in Philippi, we were bold in our God to speak unto you the good news of God in much conflict,'),(52002003,52,2,3,'for our exhortation `is\' not out of deceit, nor out of uncleanness, nor in guile,'),(52002004,52,2,4,'but as we have been approved by God to be entrusted with the good news, so we speak, not as pleasing men, but God, who is proving our hearts,'),(52002005,52,2,5,'for at no time did we come with speech of flattery, (as ye have known,) nor in a pretext for covetousness, (God `is\' witness!)'),(52002006,52,2,6,'nor seeking of men glory, neither from you nor from others, being able to be burdensome, as Christ\'s apostles.'),(52002007,52,2,7,'But we became gentle in your midst, as a nurse may cherish her own children,'),(52002008,52,2,8,'so being desirous of you, we are well-pleased to impart to you not only the good news of God, but also our own souls, because beloved ye have become to us,'),(52002009,52,2,9,'for ye remember, brethren, our labour and travail, for, night and day working not to be a burden upon any of you, we did preach to you the good news of God;'),(52002010,52,2,10,'ye `are\' witnesses -- God also -- how kindly and righteously, and blamelessly to you who believe we became,'),(52002011,52,2,11,'even as ye have known, how each one of you, as a father his own children, we are exhorting you, and comforting, and testifying,'),(52002012,52,2,12,'for your walking worthily of God, who is calling you to His own reign and glory.'),(52002013,52,2,13,'Because of this also, we -- we do give thanks to God continually, that, having received the word of hearing from us of God, ye accepted, not the word of man, but as it is truly, the word of God, who also doth work in you who believe;'),(52002014,52,2,14,'for ye became imitators, brethren, of the assemblies of God that are in Judea in Christ Jesus, because such things ye suffered, even ye, from your own countrymen, as also they from the Jews,'),(52002015,52,2,15,'who did both put to death the Lord Jesus and their own prophets, and did persecute us, and God they are not pleasing, and to all men `are\' contrary,'),(52002016,52,2,16,'forbidding us to speak to the nations that they might be saved, to fill up their sins always, but the anger did come upon them -- to the end!'),(52002017,52,2,17,'And we, brethren, having been taken from you for the space of an hour -- in presence, not in heart -- did hasten the more abundantly to see your face in much desire,'),(52002018,52,2,18,'wherefore we wished to come unto you, (I indeed Paul,) both once and again, and the Adversary did hinder us;'),(52002019,52,2,19,'for what `is\' our hope, or joy, or crown of rejoicing? are not even ye before our Lord Jesus Christ in his presence?'),(52002020,52,2,20,'for ye are our glory and joy.'),(52003001,52,3,1,'Wherefore no longer forbearing, we thought good to be left in Athens alone,'),(52003002,52,3,2,'and did send Timotheus -- our brother, and a ministrant of God, and our fellow-workman in the good news of the Christ -- to establish you, and to comfort you concerning your faith,'),(52003003,52,3,3,'that no one be moved in these tribulations, for yourselves have known that for this we are set,'),(52003004,52,3,4,'for even when we were with you, we said to you beforehand, that we are about to suffer tribulation, as also it did come to pass, and ye have known `it\';'),(52003005,52,3,5,'because of this also, I, no longer forbearing, did send to know your faith, lest he who is tempting did tempt you, and in vain might be our labour.'),(52003006,52,3,6,'And now Timotheus having come unto us from you, and having declared good news to us of your faith and love, and that ye have a good remembrance of us always, desiring much to see us, as we also `to see\' you,'),(52003007,52,3,7,'because of this we were comforted, brethren, over you, in all our tribulation and necessity, through your faith,'),(52003008,52,3,8,'because now we live, if ye may stand fast in the Lord;'),(52003009,52,3,9,'for what thanks are we able to recompense to God for you, for all the joy with which we do joy because of you in the presence of our God?'),(52003010,52,3,10,'night and day exceedingly beseeching, that we might see your face, and perfect the things lacking in your faith.'),(52003011,52,3,11,'And our God and Father Himself, and our Lord Jesus Christ, direct our way unto you,'),(52003012,52,3,12,'and you the Lord cause to increase and to abound in the love to one another, and to all, even as we also to you,'),(52003013,52,3,13,'to the establishing your hearts blameless in sanctification before our God and Father, in the presence of our Lord Jesus Christ with all His saints.'),(52004001,52,4,1,'As to the rest, then, brethren, we request you, and call upon you in the Lord Jesus, as ye did receive from us how it behoveth you to walk and to please God, that ye may abound the more,'),(52004002,52,4,2,'for ye have known what commands we gave you through the Lord Jesus,'),(52004003,52,4,3,'for this is the will of God -- your sanctification; that ye abstain from the whoredom,'),(52004004,52,4,4,'that each of you know his own vessel to possess in sanctification and honour,'),(52004005,52,4,5,'not in the affection of desire, as also the nations that were not knowing God,'),(52004006,52,4,6,'that no one go beyond and defraud in the matter his brother, because an avenger `is\' the Lord of all these, as also we spake before to you and testified,'),(52004007,52,4,7,'for God did not call us on uncleanness, but in sanctification;'),(52004008,52,4,8,'he, therefore, who is despising -- doth not despise man, but God, who also did give His Holy Spirit to us.'),(52004009,52,4,9,'And concerning the brotherly love, ye have no need of `my\' writing to you, for ye yourselves are God-taught to love one another,'),(52004010,52,4,10,'for ye do it also to all the brethren who `are\' in all Macedonia; and we call upon you, brethren, to abound still more,'),(52004011,52,4,11,'and to study to be quiet, and to do your own business, and to work with your own hands, as we did command you,'),(52004012,52,4,12,'that ye may walk becomingly unto those without, and may have lack of nothing.'),(52004013,52,4,13,'And I do not wish you to be ignorant, brethren, concerning those who have fallen asleep, that ye may not sorrow, as also the rest who have not hope,'),(52004014,52,4,14,'for if we believe that Jesus died and rose again, so also God those asleep through Jesus he will bring with him,'),(52004015,52,4,15,'for this to you we say in the word of the Lord, that we who are living -- who do remain over to the presence of the Lord -- may not precede those asleep,'),(52004016,52,4,16,'because the Lord himself, in a shout, in the voice of a chief-messenger, and in the trump of God, shall come down from heaven, and the dead in Christ shall rise first,'),(52004017,52,4,17,'then we who are living, who are remaining over, together with them shall be caught away in clouds to meet the Lord in air, and so always with the Lord we shall be;'),(52004018,52,4,18,'so, then, comfort ye one another in these words.'),(52005001,52,5,1,'And concerning the times and the seasons, brethren, ye have no need of my writing to you,'),(52005002,52,5,2,'for yourselves have known thoroughly that the day of the Lord as a thief in the night doth so come,'),(52005003,52,5,3,'for when they may say, Peace and surety, then sudden destruction doth stand by them, as the travail `doth\' her who is with child, and they shall not escape;'),(52005004,52,5,4,'and ye, brethren, are not in darkness, that the day may catch you as a thief;'),(52005005,52,5,5,'all ye are sons of light, and sons of day; we are not of night, nor of darkness,'),(52005006,52,5,6,'so, then, we may not sleep as also the others, but watch and be sober,'),(52005007,52,5,7,'for those sleeping, by night do sleep, and those making themselves drunk, by night are drunken,'),(52005008,52,5,8,'and we, being of the day -- let us be sober, putting on a breastplate of faith and love, and an helmet -- a hope of salvation,'),(52005009,52,5,9,'because God did not appoint us to anger, but to the acquiring of salvation through our Lord Jesus Christ,'),(52005010,52,5,10,'who did die for us, that whether we wake -- whether we sleep -- together with him we may live;'),(52005011,52,5,11,'wherefore, comfort ye one another, and build ye up, one the one, as also ye do.'),(52005012,52,5,12,'And we ask you, brethren, to know those labouring among you, and leading you in the Lord, and admonishing you,'),(52005013,52,5,13,'and to esteem them very abundantly in love, because of their work; be at peace among yourselves;'),(52005014,52,5,14,'and we exhort you, brethren, admonish the disorderly, comfort the feeble-minded, support the infirm, be patient unto all;'),(52005015,52,5,15,'see no one evil for evil may render to any one, but always that which is good pursue ye, both to one another and to all;'),(52005016,52,5,16,'always rejoice ye;'),(52005017,52,5,17,'continually pray ye;'),(52005018,52,5,18,'in every thing give thanks, for this `is\' the will of God in Christ Jesus in regard to you.'),(52005019,52,5,19,'The Spirit quench not;'),(52005020,52,5,20,'prophesyings despise not;'),(52005021,52,5,21,'all things prove; that which is good hold fast;'),(52005022,52,5,22,'from all appearance of evil abstain ye;'),(52005023,52,5,23,'and the God of the peace Himself sanctify you wholly, and may your whole spirit, and soul, and body, be preserved unblameably in the presence of our Lord Jesus Christ;'),(52005024,52,5,24,'stedfast is He who is calling you, who also will do `it\'.'),(52005025,52,5,25,'Brethren, pray for us;'),(52005026,52,5,26,'salute all the brethren in an holy kiss;'),(52005027,52,5,27,'I charge you `by\' the Lord, that the letter be read to all the holy brethren;'),(52005028,52,5,28,'the grace of our Lord Jesus Christ `is\' with you! Amen.'),(53001001,53,1,1,'Paul, and Silvanus, and Timotheus, to the assembly of Thessalonians in God our Father, and the Lord Jesus Christ:'),(53001002,53,1,2,'Grace to you, and peace, from God our Father, and the Lord Jesus Christ!'),(53001003,53,1,3,'We ought to give thanks to God always for you, brethren, as it is meet, because increase greatly doth your faith, and abound doth the love of each one of you all, to one another;'),(53001004,53,1,4,'so that we ourselves do glory in you in the assemblies of God, for your endurance and faith in all your persecutions and tribulations that ye bear;'),(53001005,53,1,5,'a token of the righteous judgment of God, for your being counted worthy of the reign of God, for which also ye suffer,'),(53001006,53,1,6,'since `it is\' a righteous thing with God to give back to those troubling you -- trouble,'),(53001007,53,1,7,'and to you who are troubled -- rest with us in the revelation of the Lord Jesus from heaven, with messengers of his power,'),(53001008,53,1,8,'in flaming fire, giving vengeance to those not knowing God, and to those not obeying the good news of our Lord Jesus Christ;'),(53001009,53,1,9,'who shall suffer justice -- destruction age-during -- from the face of the Lord, and from the glory of his strength,'),(53001010,53,1,10,'when He may come to be glorified in his saints, and to be wondered at in all those believing -- because our testimony was believed among you -- in that day;'),(53001011,53,1,11,'for which also we do pray always for you, that our God may count you worthy of the calling, and may fulfil all the good pleasure of goodness, and the work of the faith in power,'),(53001012,53,1,12,'that the name of our Lord Jesus Christ may be glorified in you, and ye in him, according to the grace of our God and Lord Jesus Christ.'),(53002001,53,2,1,'And we ask you, brethren, in regard to the presence of our Lord Jesus Christ, and of our gathering together unto him,'),(53002002,53,2,2,'that ye be not quickly shaken in mind, nor be troubled, neither through spirit, neither through word, neither through letters as through us, as that the day of Christ hath arrived;'),(53002003,53,2,3,'let not any one deceive you in any manner, because -- if the falling away may not come first, and the man of sin be revealed -- the son of the destruction,'),(53002004,53,2,4,'who is opposing and is raising himself up above all called God or worshipped, so that he in the sanctuary of God as God hath sat down, shewing himself off that he is God -- `the day doth not come\'.'),(53002005,53,2,5,'Do ye not remember that, being yet with you, these things I said to you?'),(53002006,53,2,6,'and now, what is keeping down ye have known, for his being revealed in his own time,'),(53002007,53,2,7,'for the secret of the lawlessness doth already work, only he who is keeping down now `will hinder\' -- till he may be out of the way,'),(53002008,53,2,8,'and then shall be revealed the Lawless One, whom the Lord shall consume with the spirit of his mouth, and shall destroy with the manifestation of his presence,'),(53002009,53,2,9,'`him,\' whose presence is according to the working of the Adversary, in all power, and signs, and lying wonders,'),(53002010,53,2,10,'and in all deceitfulness of the unrighteousness in those perishing, because the love of the truth they did not receive for their being saved,'),(53002011,53,2,11,'and because of this shall God send to them a working of delusion, for their believing the lie,'),(53002012,53,2,12,'that they may be judged -- all who did not believe the truth, but were well pleased in the unrighteousness.'),(53002013,53,2,13,'And we -- we ought to give thanks to God always for you, brethren, beloved by the Lord, that God did choose you from the beginning to salvation, in sanctification of the Spirit, and belief of the truth,'),(53002014,53,2,14,'to which He did call you through our good news, to the acquiring of the glory of our Lord Jesus Christ;'),(53002015,53,2,15,'so, then, brethren, stand ye fast, and hold the deliverances that ye were taught, whether through word, whether through our letter;'),(53002016,53,2,16,'and may our Lord Jesus Christ himself, and our God and Father, who did love us, and did give comfort age-during, and good hope in grace,'),(53002017,53,2,17,'comfort your hearts, and establish you in every good word and work.'),(53003001,53,3,1,'As to the rest, pray ye, brethren, concerning us, that the word of the Lord may run and may be glorified, as also with you,'),(53003002,53,3,2,'and that we may be delivered from the unreasonable and evil men, for the faith `is\' not of all;'),(53003003,53,3,3,'and stedfast is the Lord, who shall establish you, and shall guard `you\' from the evil;'),(53003004,53,3,4,'and we have confidence in the Lord touching you, that the things that we command you ye both do and will do;'),(53003005,53,3,5,'and the Lord direct your hearts to the love of God, and to the endurance of the Christ.'),(53003006,53,3,6,'And we command you, brethren, in the name of our Lord Jesus Christ, to withdraw yourselves from every brother disorderly walking, and not after the deliverance that ye received from us,'),(53003007,53,3,7,'for yourselves have known how it behoveth `you\' to imitate us, because we did not act disorderly among you;'),(53003008,53,3,8,'nor for nought did we eat bread of any one, but in labour and in travail, night and day working, not to be chargeable to any of you;'),(53003009,53,3,9,'not because we have not authority, but that ourselves a pattern we might give to you, to imitate us;'),(53003010,53,3,10,'for even when we were with you, this we did command you, that if any one is not willing to work, neither let him eat,'),(53003011,53,3,11,'for we hear of certain walking among you disorderly, nothing working, but over working,'),(53003012,53,3,12,'and such we command and exhort through our Lord Jesus Christ, that with quietness working, their own bread they may eat;'),(53003013,53,3,13,'and ye, brethren, may ye not be weary doing well,'),(53003014,53,3,14,'and if any one do not obey our word through the letter, this one note ye, and have no company with him, that he may be ashamed,'),(53003015,53,3,15,'and as an enemy count `him\' not, but admonish ye `him\' as a brother;'),(53003016,53,3,16,'and may the Lord of the peace Himself give to you the peace always in every way; the Lord `is\' with you all!'),(53003017,53,3,17,'The salutation by the hand of me, Paul, which is a sign in every letter; thus I write;'),(53003018,53,3,18,'the grace of our Lord Jesus Christ `is\' with you all! Amen.'),(54001001,54,1,1,'Paul, an apostle of Jesus Christ, according to a command of God our Saviour, and of the Lord Jesus Christ our hope,'),(54001002,54,1,2,'to Timotheus -- genuine child in faith: Grace, kindness, peace, from God our Father, and Christ Jesus our Lord,'),(54001003,54,1,3,'according as I did exhort thee to remain in Ephesus -- I going on to Macedonia -- that thou mightest charge certain not to teach any other thing,'),(54001004,54,1,4,'nor to give heed to fables and endless genealogies, that cause questions rather than the building up of God that is in faith: --'),(54001005,54,1,5,'And the end of the charge is love out of a pure heart, and of a good conscience, and of faith unfeigned,'),(54001006,54,1,6,'from which certain, having swerved, did turn aside to vain discourse,'),(54001007,54,1,7,'willing to be teachers of law, not understanding either the things they say, nor concerning what they asseverate,'),(54001008,54,1,8,'and we have known that the law `is\' good, if any one may use it lawfully;'),(54001009,54,1,9,'having known this, that for a righteous man law is not set, but for lawless and insubordinate persons, ungodly and sinners, impious and profane, parricides and matricides, men-slayers,'),(54001010,54,1,10,'whoremongers, sodomites, men-stealers, liars, perjured persons, and if there be any other thing that to sound doctrine is adverse,'),(54001011,54,1,11,'according to the good news of the glory of the blessed God, with which I was entrusted.'),(54001012,54,1,12,'And I give thanks to him who enabled me -- Christ Jesus our Lord -- that he did reckon me stedfast, having put `me\' to the ministration,'),(54001013,54,1,13,'who before was speaking evil, and persecuting, and insulting, but I found kindness, because, being ignorant, I did `it\' in unbelief,'),(54001014,54,1,14,'and exceedingly abound did the grace of our Lord, with faith and love that `is\' in Christ Jesus:'),(54001015,54,1,15,'stedfast `is\' the word, and of all acceptation worthy, that Christ Jesus came to the world to save sinners -- first of whom I am;'),(54001016,54,1,16,'but because of this I found kindness, that in me first Jesus Christ might shew forth all long-suffering, for a pattern of those about to believe on him to life age-during:'),(54001017,54,1,17,'and to the King of the ages, the incorruptible, invisible, only wise God, `is\' honour and glory -- to the ages of the ages! Amen.'),(54001018,54,1,18,'This charge I commit to thee, child Timotheus, according to the prophesies that went before upon thee, that thou mayest war in them the good warfare,'),(54001019,54,1,19,'having faith and a good conscience, which certain having thrust away, concerning the faith did make shipwreck,'),(54001020,54,1,20,'of whom are Hymenaeus and Alexander, whom I did deliver to the Adversary, that they might be instructed not to speak evil.'),(54002001,54,2,1,'I exhort, then, first of all, there be made supplications, prayers, intercessions, thanksgivings, for all men:'),(54002002,54,2,2,'for kings, and all who are in authority, that a quiet and peaceable life we may lead in all piety and gravity,'),(54002003,54,2,3,'for this `is\' right and acceptable before God our Saviour,'),(54002004,54,2,4,'who doth will all men to be saved, and to come to the full knowledge of the truth;'),(54002005,54,2,5,'for one `is\' God, one also `is\' mediator of God and of men, the man Christ Jesus,'),(54002006,54,2,6,'who did give himself a ransom for all -- the testimony in its own times --'),(54002007,54,2,7,'in regard to which I was set a preacher and apostle -- truth I say in Christ, I do not lie -- a teacher of nations, in faith and truth.'),(54002008,54,2,8,'I wish, therefore, that men pray in every place, lifting up kind hands, apart from anger and reasoning;'),(54002009,54,2,9,'in like manner also the women, in becoming apparel, with modesty and sobriety to adorn themselves, not in braided hair, or gold, or pearls, or garments of great price,'),(54002010,54,2,10,'but -- which becometh women professing godly piety -- through good works.'),(54002011,54,2,11,'Let a woman in quietness learn in all subjection,'),(54002012,54,2,12,'and a woman I do not suffer to teach, nor to rule a husband, but to be in quietness,'),(54002013,54,2,13,'for Adam was first formed, then Eve,'),(54002014,54,2,14,'and Adam was not deceived, but the woman, having been deceived, into transgression came,'),(54002015,54,2,15,'and she shall be saved through the child-bearing, if they remain in faith, and love, and sanctification, with sobriety.'),(54003001,54,3,1,'Stedfast `is\' the word: If any one the oversight doth long for, a right work he desireth;'),(54003002,54,3,2,'it behoveth, therefore, the overseer to be blameless, of one wife a husband, vigilant, sober, decent, a friend of strangers, apt to teach,'),(54003003,54,3,3,'not given to wine, not a striker, not given to filthy lucre, but gentle, not contentious, not a lover of money,'),(54003004,54,3,4,'his own house leading well, having children in subjection with all gravity,'),(54003005,54,3,5,'(and if any one his own house `how\' to lead hath not known, how an assembly of God shall he take care of?)'),(54003006,54,3,6,'not a new convert, lest having been puffed up he may fall to a judgment of the devil;'),(54003007,54,3,7,'and it behoveth him also to have a good testimony from those without, that he may not fall into reproach and a snare of the devil.'),(54003008,54,3,8,'Ministrants -- in like manner grave, not double-tongued, not given to much wine, not given to filthy lucre,'),(54003009,54,3,9,'having the secret of the faith in a pure conscience,'),(54003010,54,3,10,'and let these also first be proved, then let them minister, being unblameable.'),(54003011,54,3,11,'Women -- in like manner grave, not false accusers, vigilant, faithful in all things.'),(54003012,54,3,12,'Ministrants -- let them be of one wife husbands; the children leading well, and their own houses,'),(54003013,54,3,13,'for those who did minister well a good step to themselves do acquire, and much boldness in faith that `is\' in Christ Jesus.'),(54003014,54,3,14,'These things I write to thee, hoping to come unto thee soon,'),(54003015,54,3,15,'and if I delay, that thou mayest know how it behoveth `thee\' to conduct thyself in the house of God, which is an assembly of the living God -- a pillar and foundation of the truth,'),(54003016,54,3,16,'and, confessedly, great is the secret of piety -- God was manifested in flesh, declared righteous in spirit, seen by messengers, preached among nations, believed on in the world, taken up in glory!'),(54004001,54,4,1,'And the Spirit expressly speaketh, that in latter times shall certain fall away from the faith, giving heed to seducing spirits and teachings of demons,'),(54004002,54,4,2,'in hypocrisy speaking lies, being seared in their own conscience,'),(54004003,54,4,3,'forbidding to marry -- to abstain from meats that God created to be received with thanksgiving by those believing and acknowledging the truth,'),(54004004,54,4,4,'because every creature of God `is\' good, and nothing `is\' to be rejected, with thanksgiving being received,'),(54004005,54,4,5,'for it is sanctified through the word of God and intercession.'),(54004006,54,4,6,'These things placing before the brethren, thou shalt be a good ministrant of Jesus Christ, being nourished by the words of the faith, and of the good teaching, which thou didst follow after,'),(54004007,54,4,7,'and the profane and old women\'s fables reject thou, and exercise thyself unto piety,'),(54004008,54,4,8,'for the bodily exercise is unto little profit, and the piety is to all things profitable, a promise having of the life that now is, and of that which is coming;'),(54004009,54,4,9,'stedfast `is\' the word, and of all acceptation worthy;'),(54004010,54,4,10,'for for this we both labour and are reproached, because we hope on the living God, who is Saviour of all men -- especially of those believing.'),(54004011,54,4,11,'Charge these things, and teach;'),(54004012,54,4,12,'let no one despise thy youth, but a pattern become thou of those believing in word, in behaviour, in love, in spirit, in faith, in purity;'),(54004013,54,4,13,'till I come, give heed to the reading, to the exhortation, to the teaching;'),(54004014,54,4,14,'be not careless of the gift in thee, that was given thee through prophecy, with laying on of the hands of the eldership;'),(54004015,54,4,15,'of these things be careful; in these things be, that thy advancement may be manifest in all things;'),(54004016,54,4,16,'take heed to thyself, and to the teaching; remain in them, for this thing doing, both thyself thou shalt save, and those hearing thee.'),(54005001,54,5,1,'An aged person thou mayest not rebuke, but be entreating as a father; younger persons as brethren;'),(54005002,54,5,2,'aged women as mothers, younger ones as sisters -- in all purity;'),(54005003,54,5,3,'honour widows who are really widows;'),(54005004,54,5,4,'and if any widow have children or grandchildren, let them learn first to their own house to show piety, and to give back a recompense to the parents, for this is right and acceptable before God.'),(54005005,54,5,5,'And she who is really a widow and desolate, hath hoped upon God, and doth remain in the supplications and in the prayers night and day,'),(54005006,54,5,6,'and she who is given to luxury, living -- hath died;'),(54005007,54,5,7,'and these things charge, that they may be blameless;'),(54005008,54,5,8,'and if any one for his own -- and especially for those of the household -- doth not provide, the faith he hath denied, and than an unbeliever he is worse.'),(54005009,54,5,9,'A widow -- let her not be enrolled under sixty years of age, having been a wife of one husband,'),(54005010,54,5,10,'in good works being testified to: if she brought up children, if she entertained strangers, if saints\' feet she washed, if those in tribulation she relieved, if every good work she followed after;'),(54005011,54,5,11,'and younger widows be refusing, for when they may revel against the Christ, they wish to marry,'),(54005012,54,5,12,'having judgment, because the first faith they did cast away,'),(54005013,54,5,13,'and at the same time also, they learn `to be\' idle, going about the houses; and not only idle, but also tattlers and busybodies, speaking the things they ought not;'),(54005014,54,5,14,'I wish, therefore, younger ones to marry, to bear children, to be mistress of the house, to give no occasion to the opposer to reviling;'),(54005015,54,5,15,'for already certain did turn aside after the Adversary.'),(54005016,54,5,16,'If any believing man or believing woman have widows, let them relieve them, and let not the assembly be burdened, that those really widows it may relieve.'),(54005017,54,5,17,'The well-leading elders of double honour let them be counted worthy, especially those labouring in word and teaching,'),(54005018,54,5,18,'for the Writing saith, `An ox treading out thou shalt not muzzle,\' and `Worthy `is\' the workman of his reward.\''),(54005019,54,5,19,'Against an elder an accusation receive not, except upon two or three witnesses.'),(54005020,54,5,20,'Those sinning, reprove before all, that the others also may have fear;'),(54005021,54,5,21,'I testify fully, before God and the Lord Jesus Christ, and the choice messengers, that these things thou mayest keep, without forejudging, doing nothing by partiality.'),(54005022,54,5,22,'Be laying hands quickly on no one, nor be having fellowship with sins of others; be keeping thyself pure;'),(54005023,54,5,23,'no longer be drinking water, but a little wine be using, because of thy stomach and of thine often infirmities;'),(54005024,54,5,24,'of certain men the sins are manifest beforehand, leading before to judgment, and certain also they follow after;'),(54005025,54,5,25,'in like manner also the right works are manifest beforehand, and those that are otherwise are not able to be hid.'),(54006001,54,6,1,'As many as are servants under a yoke, their own masters worthy of all honour let them reckon, that the name of God and the teaching may not be evil spoken of;'),(54006002,54,6,2,'and those having believing masters, let them not slight `them\', because they are brethren, but rather let them serve, because they are stedfast and beloved, who of the benefit are partaking. These things be teaching and exhorting;'),(54006003,54,6,3,'if any one be teaching otherwise, and do not consent to sound words -- those of our Lord Jesus Christ -- and to the teaching according to piety,'),(54006004,54,6,4,'he is proud, knowing nothing, but doting about questions and word-striving, out of which doth come envy, strife, evil-speakings, evil-surmisings,'),(54006005,54,6,5,'wranglings of men wholly corrupted in mind, and destitute of the truth, supposing the piety to be gain; depart from such;'),(54006006,54,6,6,'but it is great gain -- the piety with contentment;'),(54006007,54,6,7,'for nothing did we bring into the world -- `it is\' manifest that we are able to carry nothing out;'),(54006008,54,6,8,'but having food and raiment -- with these we shall suffice ourselves;'),(54006009,54,6,9,'and those wishing to be rich, do fall into temptation and a snare, and many desires, foolish and hurtful, that sink men into ruin and destruction,'),(54006010,54,6,10,'for a root of all the evils is the love of money, which certain longing for did go astray from the faith, and themselves did pierce through with many sorrows;'),(54006011,54,6,11,'and thou, O man of God, these things flee, and pursue righteousness, piety, faith, love, endurance, meekness;'),(54006012,54,6,12,'be striving the good strife of the faith, be laying hold on the life age-during, to which also thou wast called, and didst profess the right profession before many witnesses.'),(54006013,54,6,13,'I charge thee, before God, who is making all things alive, and of Christ Jesus, who did testify before Pontius Pilate the right profession,'),(54006014,54,6,14,'that thou keep the command unspotted, unblameable, till the manifestation of our Lord Jesus Christ,'),(54006015,54,6,15,'which in His own times He shall shew -- the blessed and only potentate, the King of the kings and Lord of the lords,'),(54006016,54,6,16,'who only is having immortality, dwelling in light unapproachable, whom no one of men did see, nor is able to see, to whom `is\' honour and might age-during! Amen.'),(54006017,54,6,17,'Those rich in the present age charge thou not to be high-minded, nor to hope in the uncertainty of riches, but in the living God, who is giving to us all things richly for enjoyment; --'),(54006018,54,6,18,'to do good, to be rich in good works, to be ready to impart, willing to communicate,'),(54006019,54,6,19,'treasuring up to themselves a right foundation for the time to come, that they may lay hold on the life age-during.'),(54006020,54,6,20,'O Timotheus, the thing entrusted guard thou, avoiding the profane vain-words and opposition of the falsely-named knowledge,'),(54006021,54,6,21,'which certain professing -- concerning the faith did swerve; the grace `is\' with you. Amen.'),(55001001,55,1,1,'Paul, an apostle of Jesus Christ, through the will of God, according to a promise of life that `is\' in Christ Jesus,'),(55001002,55,1,2,'to Timotheus, beloved child: Grace, kindness, peace, from God the Father, and Christ Jesus our Lord!'),(55001003,55,1,3,'I am thankful to God, whom I serve from progenitors in a pure conscience, that unceasingly I have remembrance concerning thee in my supplications night and day,'),(55001004,55,1,4,'desiring greatly to see thee, being mindful of thy tears, that with joy I may be filled,'),(55001005,55,1,5,'taking remembrance of the unfeigned faith that is in thee, that dwelt first in thy grandmother Lois, and thy mother Eunice, and I am persuaded that also in thee.'),(55001006,55,1,6,'For which cause I remind thee to stir up the gift of God that is in thee through the putting on of my hands,'),(55001007,55,1,7,'for God did not give us a spirit of fear, but of power, and of love, and of a sound mind;'),(55001008,55,1,8,'therefore thou mayest not be ashamed of the testimony of our Lord, nor of me his prisoner, but do thou suffer evil along with the good news according to the power of God,'),(55001009,55,1,9,'who did save us, and did call with an holy calling, not according to our works, but according to His own purpose and grace, that was given to us in Christ Jesus, before the times of the ages,'),(55001010,55,1,10,'and was made manifest now through the manifestation of our Saviour Jesus Christ, who indeed did abolish death, and did enlighten life and immortality through the good news,'),(55001011,55,1,11,'to which I was placed a preacher and an apostle, and a teacher of nations,'),(55001012,55,1,12,'for which cause also these things I suffer, but I am not ashamed, for I have known in whom I have believed, and have been persuaded that he is able that which I have committed to him to guard -- to that day.'),(55001013,55,1,13,'The pattern hold thou of sound words, which from me thou didst hear, in faith and love that `is\' in Christ Jesus;'),(55001014,55,1,14,'the good thing committed guard thou through the Holy Spirit that is dwelling in us;'),(55001015,55,1,15,'thou hast known this, that they did turn from me -- all those in Asia, of whom are Phygellus and Hermogenes;'),(55001016,55,1,16,'may the Lord give kindness to the house of Onesiphorus, because many times he did refresh me, and of my chain was not ashamed,'),(55001017,55,1,17,'but being in Rome, very diligently he sought me, and found;'),(55001018,55,1,18,'may the Lord give to him to find kindness from the Lord in that day; and how many things in Ephesus he did minister thou dost very well know.'),(55002001,55,2,1,'Thou, therefore, my child, be strong in the grace that `is\' in Christ Jesus,'),(55002002,55,2,2,'and the things that thou didst hear from me through many witnesses, these things be committing to stedfast men, who shall be sufficient also others to teach;'),(55002003,55,2,3,'thou, therefore, suffer evil as a good soldier of Jesus Christ;'),(55002004,55,2,4,'no one serving as a soldier did entangle himself with the affairs of life, that him who did enlist him he may please;'),(55002005,55,2,5,'and if also any one may strive, he is not crowned, except he may strive lawfully;'),(55002006,55,2,6,'the labouring husbandman it behoveth first of the fruits to partake;'),(55002007,55,2,7,'be considering what things I say, for the Lord give to thee understanding in all things.'),(55002008,55,2,8,'Remember Jesus Christ, raised out of the dead, of the seed of David, according to my good news,'),(55002009,55,2,9,'in which I suffer evil -- unto bonds, as an evil-doer, but the word of God hath not been bound;'),(55002010,55,2,10,'because of this all things do I endure, because of the choice ones, that they also salvation may obtain that `is\' in Christ Jesus, with glory age-during.'),(55002011,55,2,11,'Stedfast `is\' the word: For if we died together -- we also shall live together;'),(55002012,55,2,12,'if we do endure together -- we shall also reign together; if we deny `him\', he also shall deny us;'),(55002013,55,2,13,'if we are not stedfast, he remaineth stedfast; to deny himself he is not able.'),(55002014,55,2,14,'These things remind `them\' of, testifying fully before the Lord -- not to strive about words to nothing profitable, but to the subversion of those hearing;'),(55002015,55,2,15,'be diligent to present thyself approved to God -- a workman irreproachable, rightly dividing the word of the truth;'),(55002016,55,2,16,'and the profane vain talkings stand aloof from, for to more impiety they will advance,'),(55002017,55,2,17,'and their word as a gangrene will have pasture, of whom is Hymenaeus and Philetus,'),(55002018,55,2,18,'who concerning the truth did swerve, saying the rising again to have already been, and do overthrow the faith of some;'),(55002019,55,2,19,'sure, nevertheless, hath the foundation of God stood, having this seal, `The Lord hath known those who are His,\' and `Let him depart from unrighteousness -- every one who is naming the name of Christ.\''),(55002020,55,2,20,'And in a great house there are not only vessels of gold and of silver, but also of wood and of earth, and some to honour, and some to dishonour:'),(55002021,55,2,21,'if, then, any one may cleanse himself from these, he shall be a vessel to honour, sanctified and profitable to the master -- to every good work having been prepared,'),(55002022,55,2,22,'and the youthful lusts flee thou, and pursue righteousness, faith, love, peace, with those calling upon the Lord out of a pure heart;'),(55002023,55,2,23,'and the foolish and uninstructed questions be avoiding, having known that they beget strife,'),(55002024,55,2,24,'and a servant of the Lord it behoveth not to strive, but to be gentle unto all, apt to teach, patient under evil,'),(55002025,55,2,25,'in meekness instructing those opposing -- if perhaps God may give to them repentance to an acknowledging of the truth,'),(55002026,55,2,26,'and they may awake out of the devil\'s snare, having been caught by him at his will.'),(55003001,55,3,1,'And this know thou, that in the last days there shall come perilous times,'),(55003002,55,3,2,'for men shall be lovers of themselves, lovers of money, boasters, proud, evil-speakers, to parents disobedient, unthankful, unkind,'),(55003003,55,3,3,'without natural affection, implacable, false accusers, incontinent, fierce, not lovers of those who are good,'),(55003004,55,3,4,'traitors, heady, lofty, lovers of pleasure more than lovers of God,'),(55003005,55,3,5,'having a form of piety, and its power having denied; and from these be turning away,'),(55003006,55,3,6,'for of these there are those coming into the houses and leading captive the silly women, laden with sins, led away with desires manifold,'),(55003007,55,3,7,'always learning, and never to a knowledge of truth able to come,'),(55003008,55,3,8,'and, even as Jannes and Jambres stood against Moses, so also these do stand against the truth, men corrupted in mind, disapproved concerning the faith;'),(55003009,55,3,9,'but they shall not advance any further, for their folly shall be manifest to all, as theirs also did become.'),(55003010,55,3,10,'And thou -- thou hast followed after my teaching, manner of life, purpose, faith, long-suffering, love, endurance,'),(55003011,55,3,11,'the persecutions, the afflictions, that befel me in Antioch, in Iconium, in Lystra; what persecutions I endured, and out of all the Lord did deliver me,'),(55003012,55,3,12,'and all also who will to live piously in Christ Jesus shall be persecuted,'),(55003013,55,3,13,'and evil men and impostors shall advance to the worse, leading astray and being led astray.'),(55003014,55,3,14,'And thou -- be remaining in the things which thou didst learn and wast entrusted with, having known from whom thou didst learn,'),(55003015,55,3,15,'and because from a babe the Holy Writings thou hast known, which are able to make thee wise -- to salvation, through faith that `is\' in Christ Jesus;'),(55003016,55,3,16,'every Writing `is\' God-breathed, and profitable for teaching, for conviction, for setting aright, for instruction that `is\' in righteousness,'),(55003017,55,3,17,'that the man of God may be fitted -- for every good work having been completed.'),(55004001,55,4,1,'I do fully testify, then, before God, and the Lord Jesus Christ, who is about to judge living and dead at his manifestation and his reign --'),(55004002,55,4,2,'preach the word; be earnest in season, out of season, convict, rebuke, exhort, in all long-suffering and teaching,'),(55004003,55,4,3,'for there shall be a season when the sound teaching they will not suffer, but according to their own desires to themselves they shall heap up teachers -- itching in the hearing,'),(55004004,55,4,4,'and indeed, from the truth the hearing they shall turn away, and to the fables they shall be turned aside.'),(55004005,55,4,5,'And thou -- watch in all things; suffer evil; do the work of one proclaiming good news; of thy ministration make full assurance,'),(55004006,55,4,6,'for I am already being poured out, and the time of my release hath arrived;'),(55004007,55,4,7,'the good strife I have striven, the course I have finished, the faith I have kept,'),(55004008,55,4,8,'henceforth there is laid up for me the crown of the righteousness that the Lord -- the Righteous Judge -- shall give to me in that day, and not only to me, but also to all those loving his manifestation.'),(55004009,55,4,9,'Be diligent to come unto me quickly,'),(55004010,55,4,10,'for Demas forsook me, having loved the present age, and went on to Thessalonica, Crescens to Galatia, Titus to Dalmatia,'),(55004011,55,4,11,'Lukas only is with me; Markus having taken, bring with thyself, for he is profitable to me for ministration;'),(55004012,55,4,12,'and Tychicus I sent to Ephesus;'),(55004013,55,4,13,'the cloak that I left in Troas with Carpus, coming, bring thou and the books -- especially the parchments.'),(55004014,55,4,14,'Alexander the coppersmith did me much evil; may the Lord repay to him according to his works,'),(55004015,55,4,15,'of whom also do thou beware, for greatly hath he stood against our words;'),(55004016,55,4,16,'in my first defence no one stood with me, but all forsook me, (may it not be reckoned to them!)'),(55004017,55,4,17,'and the Lord stood by me, and did strengthen me, that through me the preaching might be fully assured, and all the nations might hear, and I was freed out of the mouth of a lion,'),(55004018,55,4,18,'and the Lord shall free me from every evil work, and shall save `me\' -- to his heavenly kingdom; to whom `is\' the glory to the ages of the ages! Amen.'),(55004019,55,4,19,'Salute Prisca and Aquilas, and Onesiphorus\' household;'),(55004020,55,4,20,'Erastus did remain in Corinth, and Trophimus I left in Miletus infirm;'),(55004021,55,4,21,'be diligent to come before winter. Salute thee doth Eubulus, and Pudens, and Linus, and Claudia, and all the brethren.'),(55004022,55,4,22,'The Lord Jesus Christ `is\' with thy spirit; the grace `is\' with you! Amen.'),(56001001,56,1,1,'Paul, a servant of God, and an apostle of Jesus Christ, according to the faith of the choice ones of God, and an acknowledging of truth that `is\' according to piety,'),(56001002,56,1,2,'upon hope of life age-during, which God, who doth not lie, did promise before times of ages,'),(56001003,56,1,3,'(and He manifested in proper times His word,) in preaching, which I was entrusted with, according to a charge of God our Saviour,'),(56001004,56,1,4,'to Titus -- true child according to a common faith: Grace, kindness, peace, from God the Father, and the Lord Jesus Christ our Saviour!'),(56001005,56,1,5,'For this cause left I thee in Crete, that the things lacking thou mayest arrange, and mayest set down in every city elders, as I did appoint to thee;'),(56001006,56,1,6,'if any one is blameless, of one wife a husband, having children stedfast, not under accusation of riotous living or insubordinate --'),(56001007,56,1,7,'for it behoveth the overseer to be blameless, as God\'s steward, not self-pleased, nor irascible, not given to wine, not a striker, not given to filthy lucre;'),(56001008,56,1,8,'but a lover of strangers, a lover of good men, sober-minded, righteous, kind, self-controlled,'),(56001009,56,1,9,'holding -- according to the teaching -- to the stedfast word, that he may be able also to exhort in the sound teaching, and the gainsayers to convict;'),(56001010,56,1,10,'for there are many both insubordinate, vain-talkers, and mind-deceivers -- especially they of the circumcision --'),(56001011,56,1,11,'whose mouth it behoveth to stop, who whole households do overturn, teaching what things it behoveth not, for filthy lucre\'s sake.'),(56001012,56,1,12,'A certain one of them, a prophet of their own, said -- `Cretans! always liars, evil beasts, lazy bellies!\''),(56001013,56,1,13,'this testimony is true; for which cause convict them sharply, that they may be sound in the faith,'),(56001014,56,1,14,'not giving heed to Jewish fables and commands of men, turning themselves away from the truth;'),(56001015,56,1,15,'all things, indeed, `are\' pure to the pure, and to the defiled and unstedfast `is\' nothing pure, but of them defiled `are\' even the mind and the conscience;'),(56001016,56,1,16,'God they profess to know, and in the works they deny `Him\', being abominable, and disobedient, and unto every good work disapproved.'),(56002001,56,2,1,'And thou -- be speaking what doth become the sound teaching;'),(56002002,56,2,2,'aged men to be temperate, grave, sober, sound in the faith, in the love, in the endurance;'),(56002003,56,2,3,'aged women, in like manner, in deportment as doth become sacred persons, not false accusers, to much wine not enslaved, of good things teachers,'),(56002004,56,2,4,'that they may make the young women sober-minded, to be lovers of `their\' husbands, lovers of `their\' children,'),(56002005,56,2,5,'sober, pure, keepers of `their own\' houses, good, subject to their own husbands, that the word of God may not be evil spoken of.'),(56002006,56,2,6,'The younger men, in like manner, be exhorting to be sober-minded;'),(56002007,56,2,7,'concerning all things thyself showing a pattern of good works; in the teaching uncorruptedness, gravity, incorruptibility,'),(56002008,56,2,8,'discourse sound, irreprehensible, that he who is of the contrary part may be ashamed, having nothing evil to say concerning you.'),(56002009,56,2,9,'Servants -- to their own masters `are\' to be subject, in all things to be well-pleasing, not gainsaying,'),(56002010,56,2,10,'not purloining, but showing all good stedfastness, that the teaching of God our Saviour they may adorn in all things.'),(56002011,56,2,11,'For the saving grace of God was manifested to all men,'),(56002012,56,2,12,'teaching us, that denying the impiety and the worldly desires, soberly and righteously and piously we may live in the present age,'),(56002013,56,2,13,'waiting for the blessed hope and manifestation of the glory of our great God and Saviour Jesus Christ,'),(56002014,56,2,14,'who did give himself for us, that he might ransom us from all lawlessness, and might purify to himself a peculiar people, zealous of good works;'),(56002015,56,2,15,'these things be speaking, and exhorting, and convicting, with all charge; let no one despise thee!'),(56003001,56,3,1,'Remind them to be subject to principalities and authorities, to obey rule, unto every good work to be ready,'),(56003002,56,3,2,'of no one to speak evil, not to be quarrelsome -- gentle, showing all meekness to all men,'),(56003003,56,3,3,'for we were once -- also we -- thoughtless, disobedient, led astray, serving desires and pleasures manifold, in malice and envy living, odious -- hating one another;'),(56003004,56,3,4,'and when the kindness and the love to men of God our Saviour did appear'),(56003005,56,3,5,'(not by works that `are\' in righteousness that we did but according to His kindness,) He did save us, through a bathing of regeneration, and a renewing of the Holy Spirit,'),(56003006,56,3,6,'which He poured upon us richly, through Jesus Christ our Saviour,'),(56003007,56,3,7,'that having been declared righteous by His grace, heirs we may become according to the hope of life age-during.'),(56003008,56,3,8,'Stedfast `is\' the word; and concerning these things I counsel thee to affirm fully, that they may be thoughtful, to be leading in good works -- who have believed God; these are the good and profitable things to men,'),(56003009,56,3,9,'and foolish questions, and genealogies, and contentions, and strivings about law, stand away from -- for they are unprofitable and vain.'),(56003010,56,3,10,'A sectarian man, after a first and second admonition be rejecting,'),(56003011,56,3,11,'having known that he hath been subverted who `is\' such, and doth sin, being self-condemned.'),(56003012,56,3,12,'When I shall send Artemas unto thee, or Tychicus, be diligent to come unto me to Nicopolis, for there to winter I have determined.'),(56003013,56,3,13,'Zenas the lawyer and Apollos bring diligently on their way, that nothing to them may be lacking,'),(56003014,56,3,14,'and let them learn -- ours also -- to be leading in good works to the necessary uses, that they may not be unfruitful.'),(56003015,56,3,15,'Salute thee do all those with me; salute those loving us in faith; the grace `is\' with you all!'),(57001001,57,1,1,'Paul, a prisoner of Christ Jesus, and Timotheus the brother, to Philemon our beloved and fellow-worker,'),(57001002,57,1,2,'and Apphia the beloved, and Archippus our fellow-soldier, and the assembly in thy house:'),(57001003,57,1,3,'Grace to you, and peace, from God our Father, and the Lord Jesus Christ!'),(57001004,57,1,4,'I give thanks to my God, always making mention of thee in my prayers,'),(57001005,57,1,5,'hearing of thy love and faith that thou hast unto the Lord Jesus and toward all the saints,'),(57001006,57,1,6,'that the fellowship of thy faith may become working in the full knowledge of every good thing that `is\' in you toward Christ Jesus;'),(57001007,57,1,7,'for we have much joy and comfort in thy love, because the bowels of the saints have been refreshed through thee, brother.'),(57001008,57,1,8,'Wherefore, having in Christ much boldness to command thee that which is fit --'),(57001009,57,1,9,'because of the love I rather entreat, being such an one as Paul the aged, and now also a prisoner of Jesus Christ;'),(57001010,57,1,10,'I entreat thee concerning my child -- whom I did beget in my bonds -- Onesimus,'),(57001011,57,1,11,'who once was to thee unprofitable, and now is profitable to me and to thee,'),(57001012,57,1,12,'whom I did send again, and thou him (that is, my own bowels) receive,'),(57001013,57,1,13,'whom I did wish to retain to myself, that in thy behalf he might minister to me in the bonds of the good news,'),(57001014,57,1,14,'and apart from thy mind I willed to do nothing, that as of necessity thy good deed may not be, but of willingness,'),(57001015,57,1,15,'for perhaps because of this he did depart for an hour, that age-duringly thou mayest have him,'),(57001016,57,1,16,'no more as a servant, but above a servant -- a brother beloved, especially to me, and how much more to thee, both in the flesh and in the Lord!'),(57001017,57,1,17,'If, then, with me thou hast fellowship, receive him as me,'),(57001018,57,1,18,'and if he did hurt to thee, or doth owe anything, this to me be reckoning;'),(57001019,57,1,19,'I, Paul did write with my hand, I -- I will repay; that I may not say that also thyself, besides, to me thou dost owe.'),(57001020,57,1,20,'Yes, brother, may I have profit of thee in the Lord; refresh my bowels in the Lord;'),(57001021,57,1,21,'having been confident in thy obedience I did write to thee, having known that also above what I may say thou wilt do;'),(57001022,57,1,22,'and at the same time also prepare for me a lodging, for I hope that through your prayers I shall be granted to you.'),(57001023,57,1,23,'Salute thee doth Epaphras, (my fellow-captive in Christ Jesus,)'),(57001024,57,1,24,'Markus, Aristarchus, Demas, Lukas, my fellow-workmen!'),(57001025,57,1,25,'The grace of our Lord Jesus Christ `is\' with your spirit! Amen.'),(58001001,58,1,1,'In many parts, and many ways, God of old having spoken to the fathers in the prophets,'),(58001002,58,1,2,'in these last days did speak to us in a Son, whom He appointed heir of all things, through whom also He did make the ages;'),(58001003,58,1,3,'who being the brightness of the glory, and the impress of His subsistence, bearing up also the all things by the saying of his might -- through himself having made a cleansing of our sins, sat down at the right hand of the greatness in the highest,'),(58001004,58,1,4,'having become so much better than the messengers, as he did inherit a more excellent name than they.'),(58001005,58,1,5,'For to which of the messengers said He ever, `My Son thou art -- I to-day have begotten thee?\' and again, `I will be to him for a father, and he shall be to Me for a son?\''),(58001006,58,1,6,'and when again He may bring in the first-born to the world, He saith, `And let them bow before him -- all messengers of God;\''),(58001007,58,1,7,'and unto the messengers, indeed, He saith, `Who is making His messengers spirits, and His ministers a flame of fire;\''),(58001008,58,1,8,'and unto the Son: `Thy throne, O God, `is\' to the age of the age; a scepter of righteousness `is\' the scepter of thy reign;'),(58001009,58,1,9,'thou didst love righteousness, and didst hate lawlessness; because of this did He anoint thee -- God, thy God -- with oil of gladness above thy partners;\''),(58001010,58,1,10,'and, `Thou, at the beginning, Lord, the earth didst found, and a work of thy hands are the heavens;'),(58001011,58,1,11,'these shall perish, and Thou dost remain, and all, as a garment, shall become old,'),(58001012,58,1,12,'and as a mantle Thou shall roll them together, and they shall be changed, and Thou art the same, and Thy years shall not fail.\''),(58001013,58,1,13,'And unto which of the messengers said He ever, `Sit at My right hand, till I may make thine enemies thy footstool?\''),(58001014,58,1,14,'are they not all spirits of service -- for ministration being sent forth because of those about to inherit salvation?'),(58002001,58,2,1,'Because of this it behoveth `us\' more abundantly to take heed to the things heard, lest we may glide aside,'),(58002002,58,2,2,'for if the word being spoken through messengers did become stedfast, and every transgression and disobedience did receive a just recompense,'),(58002003,58,2,3,'how shall we escape, having neglected so great salvation? which a beginning receiving -- to be spoken through the Lord -- by those having heard was confirmed to us,'),(58002004,58,2,4,'God also bearing joint-witness both with signs and wonders, and manifold powers, and distributions of the Holy Spirit, according to His will.'),(58002005,58,2,5,'For not to messengers did He subject the coming world, concerning which we speak,'),(58002006,58,2,6,'and one in a certain place did testify fully, saying, `What is man, that Thou art mindful of him, or a son of man, that Thou dost look after him?'),(58002007,58,2,7,'Thou didst make him some little less than messengers, with glory and honour Thou didst crown him, and didst set him over the works of Thy hands,'),(58002008,58,2,8,'all things Thou didst put in subjection under his feet,\' for in the subjecting to him the all things, nothing did He leave to him unsubjected, and now not yet do we see the all things subjected to him,'),(58002009,58,2,9,'and him who was made some little less than messengers we see -- Jesus -- because of the suffering of the death, with glory and honour having been crowned, that by the grace of God for every one he might taste of death.'),(58002010,58,2,10,'For it was becoming to Him, because of whom `are\' the all things, and through whom `are\' the all things, many sons to glory bringing, the author of their salvation through sufferings to make perfect,'),(58002011,58,2,11,'for both he who is sanctifying and those sanctified `are\' all of one, for which cause he is not ashamed to call them brethren,'),(58002012,58,2,12,'saying, `I will declare Thy name to my brethren, in the midst of an assembly I will sing praise to Thee;\' and again, `I will be trusting on Him;\''),(58002013,58,2,13,'and again, `Behold I and the children that God did give to me.\''),(58002014,58,2,14,'Seeing, then, the children have partaken of flesh and blood, he himself also in like manner did take part of the same, that through death he might destroy him having the power of death -- that is, the devil --'),(58002015,58,2,15,'and might deliver those, whoever, with fear of death, throughout all their life, were subjects of bondage,'),(58002016,58,2,16,'for, doubtless, of messengers it doth not lay hold, but of seed of Abraham it layeth hold,'),(58002017,58,2,17,'wherefore it did behove him in all things to be made like to the brethren, that he might become a kind and stedfast chief-priest in the things with God, to make propitiation for the sins of the people,'),(58002018,58,2,18,'for in that he suffered, himself being tempted, he is able to help those who are tempted.'),(58003001,58,3,1,'Wherefore, holy brethren, partakers of a heavenly calling, consider the apostle and chief priest of our profession, Christ Jesus,'),(58003002,58,3,2,'being stedfast to Him who did appoint him, as also Moses in all his house,'),(58003003,58,3,3,'for of more glory than Moses hath this one been counted worthy, inasmuch as more honour than the house hath he who doth build it,'),(58003004,58,3,4,'for every house is builded by some one, and He who the all things did build `is\' God,'),(58003005,58,3,5,'and Moses indeed `was\' stedfast in all his house, as an attendant, for a testimony of those things that were to be spoken,'),(58003006,58,3,6,'and Christ, as a Son over his house, whose house are we, if the boldness and the rejoicing of the hope unto the end we hold fast.'),(58003007,58,3,7,'Wherefore, (as the Holy Spirit saith, `To-day, if His voice ye may hear --'),(58003008,58,3,8,'ye may not harden your hearts, as in the provocation, in the day of the temptation in the wilderness,'),(58003009,58,3,9,'in which tempt Me did your fathers, they did prove Me, and saw My works forty years;'),(58003010,58,3,10,'wherefore I was grieved with that generation, and said, Always do they go astray in heart, and these have not known My ways;'),(58003011,58,3,11,'so I sware in My anger, If they shall enter into My rest -- !\')'),(58003012,58,3,12,'See, brethren, lest there shall be in any of you an evil heart of unbelief in the falling away from the living God,'),(58003013,58,3,13,'but exhort ye one another every day, while the To-day is called, that none of you may be hardened by the deceitfulness of the sin,'),(58003014,58,3,14,'for partakers we have become of the Christ, if the beginning of the confidence unto the end we may hold fast,'),(58003015,58,3,15,'in its being said, `To-day, if His voice ye may hear, ye may not harden your hearts, as in the provocation,\''),(58003016,58,3,16,'for certain having heard did provoke, but not all who did come out of Egypt through Moses;'),(58003017,58,3,17,'but with whom was He grieved forty years? was it not with those who did sin, whose carcasses fell in the wilderness?'),(58003018,58,3,18,'and to whom did He swear that they shall not enter into His rest, except to those who did not believe? --'),(58003019,58,3,19,'and we see that they were not able to enter in because of unbelief.'),(58004001,58,4,1,'We may fear, then, lest a promise being left of entering into His rest, any one of you may seem to have come short,'),(58004002,58,4,2,'for we also are having good news proclaimed, even as they, but the word heard did not profit them, not being mixed with faith in those who heard,'),(58004003,58,4,3,'for we do enter into the rest -- we who did believe, as He said, `So I sware in My anger, If they shall enter into My rest -- ;\' and yet the works were done from the foundation of the world,'),(58004004,58,4,4,'for He spake in a certain place concerning the seventh `day\' thus: `And God did rest in the seventh day from all His works;\''),(58004005,58,4,5,'and in this `place\' again, `If they shall enter into My rest -- ;\''),(58004006,58,4,6,'since then, it remaineth for certain to enter into it, and those who did first hear good news entered not in because of unbelief --'),(58004007,58,4,7,'again He doth limit a certain day, `To-day,\' (in David saying, after so long a time,) as it hath been said, `To-day, if His voice ye may hear, ye may not harden your hearts,\''),(58004008,58,4,8,'for if Joshua had given them rest, He would not concerning another day have spoken after these things;'),(58004009,58,4,9,'there doth remain, then, a sabbatic rest to the people of God,'),(58004010,58,4,10,'for he who did enter into his rest, he also rested from his works, as God from His own.'),(58004011,58,4,11,'May we be diligent, then, to enter into that rest, that no one in the same example of the unbelief may fall,'),(58004012,58,4,12,'for the reckoning of God is living, and working, and sharp above every two-edged sword, and piercing unto the dividing asunder both of soul and spirit, of joints also and marrow, and a discerner of thoughts and intents of the heart;'),(58004013,58,4,13,'and there is not a created thing not manifest before Him, but all things `are\' naked and open to His eyes -- with whom is our reckoning.'),(58004014,58,4,14,'Having, then, a great chief priest passed through the heavens -- Jesus the Son of God -- may we hold fast the profession,'),(58004015,58,4,15,'for we have not a chief priest unable to sympathise with our infirmities, but `one\' tempted in all things in like manner -- apart from sin;'),(58004016,58,4,16,'we may come near, then, with freedom, to the throne of the grace, that we may receive kindness, and find grace -- for seasonable help.'),(58005001,58,5,1,'For every chief priest -- out of men taken -- in behalf of men is set in things `pertaining\' to God, that he may offer both gifts and sacrifices for sins,'),(58005002,58,5,2,'able to be gentle to those ignorant and going astray, since himself also is compassed with infirmity;'),(58005003,58,5,3,'and because of this infirmity he ought, as for the people, so also for himself to offer for sins;'),(58005004,58,5,4,'and no one to himself doth take the honour, but he who is called by God, as also Aaron:'),(58005005,58,5,5,'so also the Christ did not glorify himself to become chief priest, but He who spake unto him: `My Son thou art, I to-day have begotten thee;\''),(58005006,58,5,6,'as also in another `place\' He saith, `Thou `art\' a priest -- to the age, according to the order of Melchisedek;\''),(58005007,58,5,7,'who in the days of his flesh both prayers and supplications unto Him who was able to save him from death -- with strong crying and tears -- having offered up, and having been heard in respect to that which he feared,'),(58005008,58,5,8,'through being a Son, did learn by the things which he suffered -- the obedience,'),(58005009,58,5,9,'and having been made perfect, he did become to all those obeying him a cause of salvation age-during,'),(58005010,58,5,10,'having been addressed by God a chief priest, according to the order of Melchisedek,'),(58005011,58,5,11,'concerning whom we have much discourse and of hard explanation to say, since ye have become dull of hearing,'),(58005012,58,5,12,'for even owing to be teachers, because of the time, again ye have need that one teach you what `are\' the elements of the beginning of the oracles of God, and ye have become having need of milk, and not of strong food,'),(58005013,58,5,13,'for every one who is partaking of milk `is\' unskilled in the word of righteousness -- for he is an infant,'),(58005014,58,5,14,'and of perfect men is the strong food, who because of the use are having the senses exercised, unto the discernment both of good and of evil.'),(58006001,58,6,1,'Wherefore, having left the word of the beginning of the Christ, unto the perfection we may advance, not again a foundation laying of reformation from dead works, and of faith on God,'),(58006002,58,6,2,'of the teaching of baptisms, of laying on also of hands, of rising again also of the dead, and of judgment age-during,'),(58006003,58,6,3,'and this we will do, if God may permit,'),(58006004,58,6,4,'for `it is\' impossible for those once enlightened, having tasted also of the heavenly gift, and partakers having became of the Holy Spirit,'),(58006005,58,6,5,'and did taste the good saying of God, the powers also of the coming age,'),(58006006,58,6,6,'and having fallen away, again to renew `them\' to reformation, having crucified again to themselves the Son of God, and exposed to public shame.'),(58006007,58,6,7,'For earth, that is drinking in the rain many times coming upon it, and is bringing forth herbs fit for those because of whom also it is dressed, doth partake of blessing from God,'),(58006008,58,6,8,'and that which is bearing thorns and briers `is\' disapproved of, and nigh to cursing, whose end `is\' for burning;'),(58006009,58,6,9,'and we are persuaded, concerning you, beloved, the things that are better, and accompanying salvation, though even thus we speak,'),(58006010,58,6,10,'for God is not unrighteous to forget your work, and the labour of the love, that ye shewed to His name, having ministered to the saints and ministering;'),(58006011,58,6,11,'and we desire each one of you the same diligence to shew, unto the full assurance of the hope unto the end,'),(58006012,58,6,12,'that ye may not become slothful, but followers of those who through faith and patient endurance are inheriting the promises.'),(58006013,58,6,13,'For to Abraham God, having made promise, seeing He was able to swear by no greater, did swear by Himself,'),(58006014,58,6,14,'saying, `Blessing indeed I will bless thee, and multiplying I will multiply thee;\''),(58006015,58,6,15,'and so, having patiently endured, he did obtain the promise;'),(58006016,58,6,16,'for men indeed do swear by the greater, and an end of all controversy to them for confirmation `is\' the oath,'),(58006017,58,6,17,'in which God, more abundantly willing to shew to the heirs of the promise the immutability of his counsel, did interpose by an oath,'),(58006018,58,6,18,'that through two immutable things, in which `it is\' impossible for God to lie, a strong comfort we may have who did flee for refuge to lay hold on the hope set before `us\','),(58006019,58,6,19,'which we have, as an anchor of the soul, both sure and stedfast, and entering into that within the vail,'),(58006020,58,6,20,'whither a forerunner for us did enter -- Jesus, after the order of Melchisedek chief priest having become -- to the age.'),(58007001,58,7,1,'For this Melchisedek, king of Salem, priest of God Most High, who did meet Abraham turning back from the smiting of the kings, and did bless him,'),(58007002,58,7,2,'to whom also a tenth of all did Abraham divide, (first, indeed, being interpreted, `King of righteousness,\' and then also, King of Salem, which is, King of Peace,)'),(58007003,58,7,3,'without father, without mother, without genealogy, having neither beginning of days nor end of life, and being made like to the Son of God, doth remain a priest continually.'),(58007004,58,7,4,'And see how great this one `is\', to whom also a tenth Abraham the patriarch did give out of the best of the spoils,'),(58007005,58,7,5,'and those, indeed, out of the sons of Levi receiving the priesthood, a command have to take tithes from the people according to the law, that is, their brethren, even though they came forth out of the loins of Abraham;'),(58007006,58,7,6,'and he who was not reckoned by genealogy of them, received tithes from Abraham, and him having the promises he hath blessed,'),(58007007,58,7,7,'and apart from all controversy, the less by the better is blessed --'),(58007008,58,7,8,'and here, indeed, men who die do receive tithes, and there `he\', who is testified to that he was living,'),(58007009,58,7,9,'and so to speak, through Abraham even Levi who is receiving tithes, hath paid tithes,'),(58007010,58,7,10,'for he was yet in the loins of the father when Melchisedek met him.'),(58007011,58,7,11,'If indeed, then, perfection were through the Levitical priesthood -- for the people under it had received law -- what further need, according to the order of Melchisedek, for another priest to arise, and not to be called according to the order of Aaron?'),(58007012,58,7,12,'for the priesthood being changed, of necessity also, of the law a change doth come,'),(58007013,58,7,13,'for he of whom these things are said in another tribe hath had part, of whom no one gave attendance at the altar,'),(58007014,58,7,14,'for `it is\' evident that out of Judah hath arisen our Lord, in regard to which tribe Moses spake nothing concerning priesthood.'),(58007015,58,7,15,'And it is yet more abundantly most evident, if according to the similitude of Melchisedek there doth arise another priest,'),(58007016,58,7,16,'who came not according to the law of a fleshly command, but according to the power of an endless life,'),(58007017,58,7,17,'for He doth testify -- `Thou `art\' a priest -- to the age, according to the order of Melchisedek;\''),(58007018,58,7,18,'for a disannulling indeed doth come of the command going before because of its weakness, and unprofitableness,'),(58007019,58,7,19,'(for nothing did the law perfect) and the bringing in of a better hope, through which we draw nigh to God.'),(58007020,58,7,20,'And inasmuch as `it is\' not apart from oath, (for those indeed apart from oath are become priests,'),(58007021,58,7,21,'and he with an oath through Him who is saying unto him, `The Lord sware, and will not repent, Thou `art\' a priest -- to the age, according to the order of Melchisedek;\')'),(58007022,58,7,22,'by so much of a better covenant hath Jesus become surety,'),(58007023,58,7,23,'and those indeed are many who have become priests, because by death they are hindered from remaining;'),(58007024,58,7,24,'and he, because of his remaining -- to the age, hath the priesthood not transient,'),(58007025,58,7,25,'whence also he is able to save to the very end, those coming through him unto God -- ever living to make intercession for them.'),(58007026,58,7,26,'For such a chief priest did become us -- kind, harmless, undefiled, separate from the sinners, and become higher than the heavens,'),(58007027,58,7,27,'who hath no necessity daily, as the chief priests, first for his own sins to offer up sacrifice, then for those of the people; for this he did once, having offered up himself;'),(58007028,58,7,28,'for the law doth appoint men chief priests, having infirmity, but the word of the oath that `is\' after the law `appointeth\' the Son -- to the age having been perfected.'),(58008001,58,8,1,'And the sum concerning the things spoken of `is\': we have such a chief priest, who did sit down at the right hand of the throne of the greatness in the heavens,'),(58008002,58,8,2,'of the holy places a servant, and of the true tabernacle, which the Lord did set up, and not man,'),(58008003,58,8,3,'for every chief priest to offer both gifts and sacrifices is appointed, whence `it is\' necessary for this one to have also something that he may offer;'),(58008004,58,8,4,'for if, indeed, he were upon earth, he would not be a priest -- (there being the priests who are offering according to the law, the gifts,'),(58008005,58,8,5,'who unto an example and shadow do serve of the heavenly things, as Moses hath been divinely warned, being about to construct the tabernacle, for `See (saith He) thou mayest make all things according to the pattern that was shewn to thee in the mount;\') --'),(58008006,58,8,6,'and now he hath obtained a more excellent service, how much also of a better covenant is he mediator, which on better promises hath been sanctioned,'),(58008007,58,8,7,'for if that first were faultless, a place would not have been sought for a second.'),(58008008,58,8,8,'For finding fault, He saith to them, `Lo, days come, saith the Lord, and I will complete with the house of Israel, and with the house of Judah, a new covenant,'),(58008009,58,8,9,'not according to the covenant that I made with their fathers, in the day of My taking `them\' by their hand, to bring them out of the land of Egypt -- because they did not remain in My covenant, and I did not regard them, saith the Lord, --'),(58008010,58,8,10,'because this `is\' the covenant that I will make with the house of Israel, after those days, saith the Lord, giving My laws into their mind, and upon their hearts I will write them, and I will be to them for a God, and they shall be to Me for a people;'),(58008011,58,8,11,'and they shall not teach each his neighbour, and each his brother, saying, Know thou the Lord, because they shall all know Me from the small one of them unto the great one of them,'),(58008012,58,8,12,'because I will be merciful to their unrighteousness, and their sins and their lawlessnesses I will remember no more;\' --'),(58008013,58,8,13,'in the saying `new,\' He hath made the first old, and what doth become obsolete and is old `is\' nigh disappearing.'),(58009001,58,9,1,'It had, indeed, then (even the first tabernacle) ordinances of service, also a worldly sanctuary,'),(58009002,58,9,2,'for a tabernacle was prepared, the first, in which was both the lamp-stand, and the table, and the bread of the presence -- which is called `Holy;\''),(58009003,58,9,3,'and after the second vail a tabernacle that is called `Holy of holies,\''),(58009004,58,9,4,'having a golden censer, and the ark of the covenant overlaid all round about with gold, in which `is\' the golden pot having the manna, and the rod of Aaron that budded, and the tables of the covenant,'),(58009005,58,9,5,'and over it cherubim of the glory, overshadowing the mercy-seat, concerning which we are not now to speak particularly.'),(58009006,58,9,6,'And these things having been thus prepared, into the first tabernacle, indeed, at all times the priests do go in, performing the services,'),(58009007,58,9,7,'and into the second, once in the year, only the chief priest, not apart from blood, which he doth offer for himself and the errors of the people,'),(58009008,58,9,8,'the Holy Spirit this evidencing that not yet hath been manifested the way of the holy `places\', the first tabernacle having yet a standing;'),(58009009,58,9,9,'which `is\' a simile in regard to the present time, in which both gifts and sacrifices are offered, which are not able, in regard to conscience, to make perfect him who is serving,'),(58009010,58,9,10,'only in victuals, and drinks, and different baptisms, and fleshly ordinances -- till the time of reformation imposed upon `them\'.'),(58009011,58,9,11,'And Christ being come, chief priest of the coming good things, through the greater and more perfect tabernacle not made with hands -- that is, not of this creation --'),(58009012,58,9,12,'neither through blood of goats and calves, but through his own blood, did enter in once into the holy places, age-during redemption having obtained;'),(58009013,58,9,13,'for if the blood of bulls, and goats, and ashes of an heifer, sprinkling those defiled, doth sanctify to the purifying of the flesh,'),(58009014,58,9,14,'how much more shall the blood of the Christ (who through the age-during Spirit did offer himself unblemished to God) purify your conscience from dead works to serve the living God?'),(58009015,58,9,15,'And because of this, of a new covenant he is mediator, that, death having come, for redemption of the transgressions under the first covenant, those called may receive the promise of the age-during inheritance,'),(58009016,58,9,16,'for where a covenant `is\', the death of the covenant-victim to come in is necessary,'),(58009017,58,9,17,'for a covenant over dead victims `is\' stedfast, since it is no force at all when the covenant-victim liveth,'),(58009018,58,9,18,'whence not even the first apart from blood hath been initiated,'),(58009019,58,9,19,'for every command having been spoken, according to law, by Moses, to all the people, having taken the blood of the calves and goats, with water, and scarlet wool, and hyssop, he both the book itself and all the people did sprinkle,'),(58009020,58,9,20,'saying, `This `is\' the blood of the covenant that God enjoined unto you,\''),(58009021,58,9,21,'and both the tabernacle and all the vessels of the service with blood in like manner he did sprinkle,'),(58009022,58,9,22,'and with blood almost all things are purified according to the law, and apart from blood-shedding forgiveness doth not come.'),(58009023,58,9,23,'`It is\' necessary, therefore, the pattern indeed of the things in the heavens to be purified with these, and the heavenly things themselves with better sacrifices than these;'),(58009024,58,9,24,'for not into holy places made with hands did the Christ enter -- figures of the true -- but into the heaven itself, now to be manifested in the presence of God for us;'),(58009025,58,9,25,'nor that he may many times offer himself, even as the chief priest doth enter into the holy places every year with blood of others;'),(58009026,58,9,26,'since it had behoved him many times to suffer from the foundation of the world, but now once, at the full end of the ages, for putting away of sin through his sacrifice, he hath been manifested;'),(58009027,58,9,27,'and as it is laid up to men once to die, and after this -- judgment,'),(58009028,58,9,28,'so also the Christ, once having been offered to bear the sins of many, a second time, apart from a sin-offering, shall appear, to those waiting for him -- to salvation!'),(58010001,58,10,1,'For the law having a shadow of the coming good things -- not the very image of the matters, every year, by the same sacrifices that they offer continually, is never able to make perfect those coming near,'),(58010002,58,10,2,'since, would they not have ceased to be offered, because of those serving having no more conscience of sins, having once been purified?'),(58010003,58,10,3,'but in those `sacrifices\' is a remembrance of sins every year,'),(58010004,58,10,4,'for it is impossible for blood of bulls and goats to take away sins.'),(58010005,58,10,5,'Wherefore, coming into the world, he saith, `Sacrifice and offering Thou didst not will, and a body Thou didst prepare for me,'),(58010006,58,10,6,'in burnt-offerings, and concerning sin-offerings, Thou didst not delight,'),(58010007,58,10,7,'then I said, Lo, I come, (in a volume of the book it hath been written concerning me,) to do, O God, Thy will;\''),(58010008,58,10,8,'saying above -- `Sacrifice, and offering, and burnt-offerings, and concerning sin-offering Thou didst not will, nor delight in,\' -- which according to the law are offered --'),(58010009,58,10,9,'then he said, `Lo, I come to do, O God, Thy will;\' he doth take away the first that the second he may establish;'),