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And as many as will be marching by this standard*, peace and mercy is upon them and upon the Israel of God.


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<pb/>The grace of our Lord Jesus Christ <i>is</i> with your° spirit, brethren. Amen. <pb/><br/><n>{NOTES: You should read the 'Definitions' Section and other non-bible sections.}</n><br/><pb/><br/><n>{Luke is written 60-63 AD}</n><br/><pb/><br/><n>{Actual writing of Acts 63 AD.}</n><br/><pb/>


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<pb/>Paul, an apostle of Jesus Christ through the will of God, to the holy-ones who are in Ephesus and <i>the</i> faithful in Christ Jesus:


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<pb/>The God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ <i>is</i> gracious*, who blessed us in every spiritual blessing in the heavenly <i>places</i> in Christ,


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just-as he chose us in him before the conception of the world, <i>for</i> us to be holy and unblemished in his sight in love*.


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Having determined beforehand us to <i>the</i> sonship through Jesus Christ to himself, according to the delight of his will,


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to the praise of the glory of his favor <n>{‘favor’ and ‘grace’ are from the same Greek word in the MLV}</n> , in which he favored us in the beloved,


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in whom we have our redemption through his blood, the forgiveness of our trespasses according to the riches of his grace.


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to a stewardship of the fullness of the times, to sum up all things in the Christ, the things upon the heavens and the things upon the earth.


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In him, in whom also we were made an inheritance, having been determined beforehand according to the purpose of the one who is working all things after the plan of his will.


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in whom you° also, having heard the word of the truth, the good-news of your° salvation, in whom, having also believed, you° were sealed with the Holy Spirit of promise,


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which is a down-payment of our inheritance, to <i>the</i> redemption of the ownership <i>of God</i> to the praise of his glory.


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<pb/>Because of this, I, also, having heard of the faith in the Lord Jesus which is in you° and the love* which you° <i>have</i> toward all the holy-ones,


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in order that the God of our Lord Jesus Christ, the Father of glory, may give to you° a spirit of wisdom and revelation in the full knowledge of him,


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the eyes of your° heart having been enlightened, *that* you° may know what is the hope of his calling and what <i>are</i> the riches of the glory of his inheritance among the holy-ones,


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and what <i>is</i> the surpassing greatness of his power toward us who believe, according to the working of the dominion of his strength,


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which he worked in the Christ, having raised him <i>up</i> from the dead and seated him by his right <i>hand</i> in the heavenly <i>places</i>,


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up above all rule and authority and power and lordship and every name <i>that is</i> being named, not only in this age, but also in the future <i>age.</i>


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And he subjected all things under his feet and gave him <i>to be</i> head above all things to the congregation* <i>of believers</i>,


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in which you° previously walked according to the age of this world <n>{i.e. current things of this world}</n> , according to the ruler of the authority of the air, of the spirit which now is working in the sons of disobedience;


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among whom we also all conducted ourselves previously in the lusts of our flesh, practicing the wills of the flesh and of the mind and we were children of wrath by nature, even as the rest.


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even us being dead through <i>our</i> trespasses, he made* us alive together with the Christ; you° are saved in <i>his</i> grace.


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And <i>God</i> raised <i>us</i> up together with <i>him</i> and seated <i>us</i> together with <i>him</i> in the heavenly <i>places</i> in Christ Jesus;


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in order that in the coming ages, he might show the surpassing riches of his grace in kindness upon us in Christ Jesus.


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For* you° are saved by the grace through the faith, and this thing, the gift of God, is not from you;


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For* we are his product, having been created in Christ Jesus toward good works, in which God prepared beforehand in order that we should walk in them.


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<pb/>Hence remember°, that previously you°, (the Gentiles in the flesh), who are called* uncircumcision by what is called* circumcision, made by hands in the flesh;


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that you° were separate from Christ at the time, having been alienated from the citizenship of Israel and strangers from the covenants* of the promise, having no hope and <i>were</i> godless in the world.


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But now in Christ Jesus you° who were previously from afar became near <i>to him</i> in the blood of the Christ.


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having done-away-with the hostility in his flesh, <i>which is</i> the Law of commandments in decrees; in order that he might create in himself the two into one new man, <i>thus</i> making* peace;


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and might reconcile them both in one body to God through the cross, having killed the hostility in himself.


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And <i>after</i> he came, he proclaimed the good-news of peace to you° who were from afar and <i>peace</i> to those who were near;


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Therefore consequently*, you° are no longer strangers and foreigners, but you° are fellow citizens of the holy-ones and <i>members</i> of <i>the</i> household of God,


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having been built upon the foundation of the apostles and prophets. Jesus Christ himself being the cornerstone;


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in whom all <i>the</i> building, fitly framed together, is growing into a holy temple in <i>the</i> Lord;


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if actually you° <i>have</i> heard <i>of</i> the stewardship of the grace of God which was given to me *for you°;


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that he made known the mystery to me according to revelation, just-as I wrote before in few <i>words</i>,


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to which, you° are able, <i>by</i> reading <i>it</i>, to perceive my understanding in the mystery of the Christ;


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which was not made known to the sons of men in other generations, as it now was revealed to his holy apostles and prophets in <i>the</i> Spirit.


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<i>The mystery is that</i> the Gentiles are to be joint heirs and a joint body and joint partakers of his promise in the Christ through the good-news,


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of which I became a servant, according to the gift of that grace of God which was given me according to the working of his power.


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This grace was given to me the least of all <i>the</i> holy-ones, to proclaim the good-news of the untraceable riches of Christ among the Gentiles;


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and to enlighten all <i>with</i> what the stewardship of the mystery <i>is</i>, of which has been hidden from the ages, in God who created all things through Jesus Christ;


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in order that now the multifaceted wisdom of God might be made known to the principalities and the authorities in the heavenly <i>places</i> through the congregation* <i>of believers.</i>


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Hence I am asking you° not to be depressed at my afflictions on your° behalf, which are your° glory.


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in order that he may give to you°, according to the riches of his glory, to be powerful with <i>his</i> power, through his Spirit in the inward man;


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having been rooted and having been founded in love*, in order that you may have strength to grab, together with all the holy-ones, of what <i>is</i> the width and length and depth and height,


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and to know the love* of the Christ which surpasses knowledge, in order that you° may be filled to all the fullness of God.


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<pb/>Now to the one who is able to do, exceptionally beyond all things, what we are asking or are perceiving, according to the power which is working in us,


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<pb/>Therefore, I, the prisoner in the Lord, am encouraging you° to walk worthily of the calling in which you° were called,


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<i>There is</i> one body and one Spirit, just-as you° were also called in one hope of your° calling;


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Hence he says, ‘<i>After</i> he ascended onto high, he captured captivity and gave presents to men.’ <n>{Psa 68:18}</n>


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Now this <i>saying</i>, He ascended, (what is it <i>saying</i>?) except that he also descended into the downward parts of the earth first?


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He who descended is also the same <i>as</i> he who ascended above all the heavens, in order that he might fill all things.


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<pb/>And he gave some <i>to be</i>: the apostles, and the prophets, and the evangelists, and the shepherds and teachers,


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toward the equipping of the holy-ones, into <i>the</i> work of <i>the</i> service, into <i>the</i> building up of the body of the Christ,


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till we all might achieve into the unity of the faith and of the full knowledge of the Son of God, into a mature man, into the measure of the stature of the fullness of the Christ,


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in order that we may no longer be infants, bobbing on the waves and being carried around in every wind of teaching, in the trickery of men, in craftiness, toward the schemes of error.


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But declaring the truth in love*, <i>that</i> we may grow up in all things into him, who is the head, the Christ;


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from whom all the body, (being fitly framed and knitted together through every supplying joint, according to the working in measure of each one part) is making* the growth of the body to the building up of itself in love*.


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<pb/>Therefore I am saying and testifying this in the Lord: you° <i>are</i> to walk no longer as the rest <i>of the</i> Gentiles are also walking, in the futility of their mind,


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having been darkened in <i>their</i> mind, having been alienated from the life of God because of the ignorance which is in them, because of the hardening of their heart,


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who are apathetic, gave themselves up to unbridled-lusts, *for the working of all uncleanness in greed.


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to place away from yourselves the old man, according to <i>your°</i> former conduct, the one who is corrupted according to the lusts of deception;


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and to have clothed yourselves* with the new man, who was created according to God, in righteousness and holiness of the truth.


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<pb/>Hence, placing <i>all</i> the lying away from yourselves, speak°, each <i>one the</i> truth with his neighbor, because we are members of one another.


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Let the one who steals, steal no longer, but rather let him labor, working <i>at what is</i> the good thing with <i>his</i> hands, in order that he may have <i>something</i> to give to the one who has need.


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Do not let any rotten speech travel from your° mouth. But if something is good for the building up of a need, <i>do this</i> in order that it may give a favor to those who are hearing.


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And do° not make the Holy Spirit of God sorrowful, in whom you° were sealed to the day of redemption.


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Let all bitterness and fury and anger and outcrying and blasphemy, together with all malice, be taken away from you°;


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and become° kind to one another, affectionate, forgiving* <i>others</i> in yourselves, just-as God also forgave* us in Christ.


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and walk° in love*, just-as the Christ also loved* us and gave himself up on our behalf <i>as</i> an offering and a sacrifice to God *for an aroma of a sweet-fragrance.


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<pb/>But do not let fornication and all uncleanness or greed even be named among you°, as is suitable to holy-ones;


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and <i>do not let</i> obscenity, and foolish-talk or petty jesting, which are not proper, but rather thanksgiving.


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For* this you° know, that every fornicator, or unclean <i>person</i>, or greedy <i>person</i>, who is an idolater, has no inheritance in the kingdom of the Christ and God.


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Let no one deceive you° with empty words; for* because of these things the wrath of God is coming upon the sons of disobedience.


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For* you° were previously <i>in</i> darkness, but now <i>you</i>° <i>are</i> light in the Lord. Walk° as children of light


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And have° no fellowship together with the unfruitful works of darkness, but also rather reprove° them;


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But all things which are reproved, are manifested by the light; for* everything which is manifested is light.


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Hence he says, Arise, you who are sleeping and rise* up from the dead and the Christ will appear upon you.


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And do° not be drunken with wine, in which there is riotousness, but be° filled in <i>the</i> Spirit;


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speaking to yourselves in psalms and hymns and spiritual songs, singing and singing-praise in your° heart to the Lord;


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giving-thanks always on behalf of all things in <i>the</i> name of our Lord Jesus Christ to God and Father;


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Because <i>the</i> husband is the head of the wife as Christ <i>is</i> also the head of the congregation* <i>of believers</i>, he is <i>the</i> savior of the body.


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But just-like the congregation* is subject to the Christ, so <i>let</i> the wives also <i>be subject</i> to their own husbands in all things.


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<pb/>The husbands, love*° your° own wives, just-as the Christ also loved* the congregation* and gave himself up on her behalf;


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in order that he might make her holy, having cleansed <i>her</i> in the full-washing of the water in <i>the</i> word,


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in order that he might present her to himself, the glorious congregation*, not having stain or wrinkle or any such things, but in order that she should be holy and unblemished.


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So the husbands also ought to love* their own wives as their own bodies. He who loves* his own wife loves* himself.


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For* no one ever hated his own flesh, but is nourishing and cherishing it, just-as the Lord also <i>does</i> the congregation* <i>of believers</i>;


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Because of this, a man will be leaving his father and mother and will be joined to his wife, and the two will become one flesh. <n>{Gen 2:24}</n>


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This mystery is great, but I am speaking <i>in regard</i> to Christ and <i>in regard</i> to the congregation* <i>of believers</i>.


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However <i>to</i> you° also, let each, one to one, thus love* his own wife like himself, and <i>let</i> the wife <i>see</i> that* she should fear <n>{i.e. respect}</n> her husband.


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And the fathers, do° not rouse your° children to anger, but rear° them in the discipline and admonition of the Lord.


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<pb/>The bondservants, be° obedient* to <i>your°</i> lords according to the flesh with fear and trembling, in clarity of your° heart, as to the Christ;


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not according to eye-service, like men-pleasers, but like bondservants of the Christ, practicing the will of God from <i>your°</i> soul;


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Knowing that whatever good thing each one practices, he will be getting this from the Lord, whether bondservant or free <i>man</i>.


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And the lords, do° the same things toward them and be lax <i>with</i> the threatening; knowing that your° own Lord is also in the heavens and there is no favoritism from him.


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Clothe° yourselves with the full-armor of God, in order to be able to stand up to the schemes of the devil.


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Because the wrestling in us is not with blood and flesh, but with the principalities, with the authorities, with the world dominions of the darkness of this age, with the spiritual <i>ones</i> of wickedness in the heavenly <i>places.</i>


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Because of this, take° up the full-armor of God, in order that you° may be able to stand against <i>the devil</i> in the evil day, and to stand <i>straight</i>, having worked against all things.


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Therefore stand°, having girded your° loins in truth and having clothed yourselves with the breastplate of righteousness,


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Upon all <i>these</i> things, <i>after</i> you took up the shield of the faith, in which you° will be able to quench all the fiery darts of the evil <i>one;</i>


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also <i>able</i> to accept the helmet of salvation and the sword of the Spirit, which is the word of God,


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through all prayer and supplication praying in all seasons in <i>the</i> Spirit and watching in this same thing in all perseverance and supplication concerning all the holy-ones.


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And <i>pray</i> on my behalf, in order that <i>the</i> word may be given to me, in opening my mouth to make known the mystery of the good-news in boldness,


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on behalf of which, I am an emissary in a chain; in order that I should speak boldly in it, as it is essential <i>for</i> me to speak.


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<pb/>But in order that you° may also know the things in <i>regard to</i> me, what I am doing; I will make known to you° all things. Tychicus, the beloved brother and faithful servant in the Lord,


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whom I sent to you° *for this same thing, in order that you° might know the things concerning us, and <i>in order that</i> he might encourage your° hearts.


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<pb/>Paul and Timothy, bondservants of Jesus Christ, to all the holy-ones in Christ Jesus who are in Philippi, together with <i>the</i> overseers and deacons <n>{1Ti 3, Tit 1}</n> :


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I have confidence of this same thing, that he who began a good work in you° will be completing it till the day of Jesus Christ;


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just-as it is a righteous thing for me to be mindful of this on behalf of all of you°, because I have you° in my heart, both in my bonds and in the defense and confirmation of the good-news, all of you° being joint partners with me of the grace.


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And I am praying for this: in order that your° love* may abound still more and more in full knowledge and all comprehension;


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*that* you° may approve the things which are carrying more-value; in order that you° may be sincere and guilt-free in the day of Christ;


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having been filled with the fruits of righteousness, which <i>is</i> through Jesus Christ, to the glory and praise of God.


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<pb/>Now brethren, I am planning for you° to know, that the things against me have come rather *for the progress of the good-news;


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and that most of the brethren in the Lord, having confidence because of my bonds, are even-more daring to speak fearlessly the word <i>of God</i>.


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Some indeed are preaching the Christ even because of envy and strife, but some also through <i>their</i> delight.


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Those are indeed proclaiming the Christ out of selfish ambition, not purely, assuming to bring affliction to my bonds.


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But the <i>latter</i> ones <i>do it</i> out of love*, knowing that I am destined *for the defense of the good-news.


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For* what <i>then</i>? Other-than Christ is proclaimed in every manner: whether in pretext or in truth. And I am rejoicing in this, but also, I will be rejoicing <i>again</i>.


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For* I know that this will be transpiring *for my salvation, through your° supplication and the supply of the Spirit of Jesus Christ,


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according to my earnest expectation and hope, that I will be shamed in nothing, but as always, now Christ will also be magnified in my body in all boldness, whether through life or through death.


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But if to live in the flesh– this is <i>the</i> fruit of work to me, and what will I select for myself? I do not know.


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Now I am troubled from the two <i>ends</i>, having the desire, *that* I should vacate and be together with Christ<i>, which is</i> much better <i>even</i> more.


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And having confidence <i>of</i> this, I know that I will remain, and I will be abiding together with you° all, *for your° progress and joy in the faith;


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Only behave-as° citizens worthy of the good-news of the Christ; in order that, if I came and saw you° or am absent, I may hear <i>about</i> the things concerning you°, that you° are standing-firm in one spirit, with one soul contending together with <i>us</i> in the faith of the good-news.


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And not being terrified in anything by those who lay in opposition to <i>you</i>°; which to them indeed is an example of destruction, but to you° <i>is an example</i> of salvation and this thing <i>is</i> from God,


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because it was granted to you° on behalf of Christ, not only to believe in him, but also to suffer on his behalf;


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<pb/>Therefore, if <i>there is</i> any encouragement in Christ, if any consolation of love*, if any fellowship of <i>the</i> Spirit, if any affections and mercies,


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fulfill° my joy, in order that you° may be mindful of the same thing, having the same love*, fellowship in spirit*, being mindful of the one thing,


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(nothing according to selfish ambition or through empty conceit, but in humility): deeming one another superior to yourselves;


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each <i>one</i>, do° not note the things of yourselves, but each <i>one note</i> also the things of others.


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and having been found in fashion as a man, he humbled himself, <i>when</i> he became obedient* as far as death, and <i>even</i> death from a cross.


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in order that every knee should bow in the name of Jesus, <i>those</i> from <i>the</i> heavenly and earthly and subterranean <i>places</i>,


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<pb/>So-then my beloved, just-as you° <i>have</i> always obeyed*, not only as in my presence, but now much more in my absence, work° out your° own salvation with fear and trembling.


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in order that you° might become blameless and harmless children of God, flawless in the midst of a crooked and perverse generation, among whom you° appear as illuminations in <i>the</i> world.


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<i>Keep</i> holding onto the word of life, *for a boasting to me in the day of Christ, that I did not run in vain nor labored in vain.


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But even if I am a drink-offering upon the sacrifice and ministry* of your° faith, I am rejoicing, and <i>even</i> rejoicing together with you° all.


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<pb/>Now I am hoping in the Lord Jesus, to send Timothy to you° shortly, in order that I may also be in good* spirits* <i>after</i> I knew <i>about</i> the things concerning you°.


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For* I have no one equal in spirit*, who will be genuinely anxious <i>about</i> the things concerning you°.


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But you° know the trial of him, that as a child <i>serves</i> a father, <i>so</i> he served* together with me *for the good-news.


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Therefore, I am indeed hoping to send this one promptly, as I may look away from the things concerning me,


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<pb/>But I deemed it necessary to send to you° Epaphroditus, my brother and fellow worker and fellow soldier, and your° ambassador* and minister* to my need;


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since he was longing-for you° all, and was disheartened because you° <i>had</i> heard that he was sick.


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For* indeed he was sick– close to death. But God showed-mercy on him, now not him only, but also me, in order that I might not have sorrow upon sorrow.


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Therefore, I sent him more diligently, in order that having seen him again, you° should rejoice and <i>that*</i> I may be sorrow-free.


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because he drew near <i>almost</i> as far as death, because of the work of the Christ, having disregarded his life in order that he might fill the lack in your° ministry* toward me.


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<pb/>Furthermore, my brethren, rejoice° in the Lord. Indeed, it is not tedious for me to write the same things to you°, but a secure thing for you°.


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For* we are the circumcision<i>,</i> who are giving-divine service in the spirit of God, and boast in Christ Jesus, and have no confidence in the flesh;


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although I myself might have confidence in the flesh; if any other is thinking to have confidence in the flesh, I yet <i>even</i> more.


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An eighth day circumcision from the race of Israel, of the tribe of Benjamin, a Hebrew out of Hebrews; according to <i>the</i> law, a Pharisee;


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according to zeal, <i>I was</i> persecuting the congregation* <i>of believers</i>; according to the righteousness in <i>the</i> law, I became blameless.


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But therefore, I am also deeming all things indeed to be a forfeiture because of the superiority of the knowledge of Christ Jesus my Lord, because of whom, I forfeited all things, and am deeming <i>them</i> to be <i>but</i> trash, in order that I may gain Christ,


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and may be found in him, not having a righteousness of my own, which <i>is</i> from <i>the</i> law, but which <i>is</i> through <i>the</i> faith of Christ, the righteousness <i>which is</i> from God upon the faith,


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that I may know him, and the power of his resurrection, and the fellowship of his sufferings, being transformed to his death;


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Not that I <i>have</i> already received <i>it</i> or have already been completed <i>in this</i>, but I am pursuing <i>it</i>, if I might grab that for which I was also grabbed by Christ Jesus.


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Brethren, I myself do not reason to have grabbed <i>it</i>, but one thing <i>I</i> indeed <i>do</i>, forgetting the things <i>which are</i> behind <i>me</i> and stretching forth to the things <i>which are</i> before <i>me</i>.


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I am pursuing according to <i>the</i> goal <i>line</i> toward the prize of the upward calling of God in Christ Jesus.


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Therefore, as many as <i>are</i> mature, we should be mindful of this, and if you° are mindful of anyone differently, God will also be revealing this to you°;


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however in what we <i>have</i> attained, <i>we are</i> to march by the same standard*, to be mindful of the same things.


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<pb/>Brethren, become° joint imitators of me, and note° those who are walking so, just-as you° have us <i>as</i> an example.


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For* many are walking, (of whom I was speaking to you° often <i>about them</i>; now I am also telling <i>you</i>°, weeping), <i>who are</i> the enemies of the cross of Christ:


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whose end is destruction, whose god is the belly and <i>whose</i> glory is in their shame, who are mindful of earthly things.


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For* our citizenship exists in the heavens; out of which we are also waiting for a Savior, the Lord Jesus Christ.


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He will fashion the body of our humbleness, *that* it may become transformed to the body of his glory, according to the working of which he is able to even subject all things to himself.


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<pb/>So-then my brethren, beloved and longed-for, my joy and crown, so stand-firm° in the Lord, <i>my</i> beloved.


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<pb/>I am encouraging Euodia, and I am encouraging Syntyche, <i>both</i> to be mindful of the same thing in the Lord.


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Yes, I am also requesting you, genuine colleague, help these <i>women</i>, who contended together with me in the good-news, also with Clement, and the rest of my fellow workers, whose names are in the Book of Life.


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Be° anxious in nothing, but in everything, let your° requests be made known to God by prayer and supplication with thanksgiving.


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And the peace of God, which is superior to all perception, will be guarding your° hearts and your° minds in Christ Jesus.


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<pb/>Furthermore brethren, as many things as are true, as many as <i>are</i> honorable, as many as <i>are</i> righteous, as many as <i>are</i> pure, as many as <i>are</i> lovely, as many as <i>have</i> good-repute; if <i>there is</i> any virtue and if <i>there is</i> any praise, reason° <i>on</i> these things.


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The things which you° both learned and received and heard and saw in me, practice° these things, and the God of peace will be with you°.


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<pb/>But I rejoice in <i>the</i> Lord greatly, that now <i>as</i> previously, you° bloomed again <i>the desire</i> to be mindful of <i>things</i> on my behalf; in which, you° were even mindful of <i>me</i>, but you° had no opportunity.


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Not that I am speaking according to <i>my</i> lack <i>of things</i>; for* I <i>have</i> learned <i>in</i> what things I am to be content.


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I know <i>how</i> to be also humbled; I also know <i>how</i> to also abound. I have been initiated in everything, and in all things, both to be fully-fed and to be hungry, both to abound and to lack.


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Now you° also know, you° Philippians, that in <i>the</i> beginning of the good-news, when I went out from Macedonia, no congregation* shared with me in the word <n>{I.e. matter. Or: speech. Or: The Word}</n> of the giving and receiving, except you° only.


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Not that I am seeking after the present, but I am seeking after the fruit that increases to your° account.


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But I fully have all things, and I am abounding. I have been filled, having accepted from Epaphroditus the things <i>which came</i> from you°, an aroma of a sweet-fragrance, an acceptable sacrifice, well pleasing to God.


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<pb/>The grace of the Lord Jesus Christ <i>is</i> with all of you°. Amen. <pb/><br/><n>{NOTES: You should read the 'Definitions' Section and other non-bible sections.}</n><br/><pb/>


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to the holy and faithful brethren in Christ <i>who are</i> in Colosse: grace to you° and peace from God our Father and <i>the</i> Lord Jesus Christ.


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<pb/>We are giving-thanks to the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, always praying concerning you°,


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having heard of your° faith in Christ Jesus and of the love* which you° <i>have</i> toward all the holy-ones,


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because of the hope which is laid up for you° in the heavens, of which you° heard beforehand in the word of the truth of the good-news.


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<i>This good-news</i> which is present* *for you°; just-as <i>it</i> also <i>is</i> in all the world. And is bearing-fruit and growing, just-as <i>it</i> also <i>does</i> in you°, from the day you° heard and fully knew the grace of God in truth;


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just-as you° also learned from Epaphras our beloved fellow bondservant, who is a faithful servant of the Christ on your° behalf,


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<pb/>Because of this, we also do not cease praying and asking on your° behalf from the day we heard <i>it</i>, in order that you° may be filled with the full knowledge of his will in all spiritual wisdom and intelligence,


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<i>for</i> you° to walk worthy of the Lord toward pleasing <i>him</i> in everything, bearing-fruit in every good work and growing into the full knowledge of God;


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being empowered in all power, according to the dominion of his glory, *for all endurance and patience with joy,


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giving-thanks to the Father, who made us sufficient *for the part of the inheritance of the holy-ones in the light.


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He rescued us out of the authority of darkness and transplanted us into the kingdom of the Son of his love*;


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Because all things were created by him: the things in the heavens and the things upon the earth, the visible and invisible, whether thrones or lordships or principalities or authorities. All things have been created through him and *for him.


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And he is the head of the body, the congregation* <i>of believers</i>; who is <i>the</i> beginning, <i>the</i> firstborn from the dead, in order that he might become foremost in all things.


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and through him to reconcile all things to himself, whether things upon the earth or things upon the heavens, having made peace through the blood of his cross, through him.


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And you° were previously alienated and <i>were</i> enemies in mind, in evil works, but now he reconciled you°


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in the body of his flesh through <i>his</i> death, to present you° holy and unblemished and irreproachable in his sight;


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if you° actually are remaining in the faith, having been founded and grounded and not being moved away from the hope of the good-news which you° heard, which was preached in all creation which <i>is</i> under heaven; of which I, Paul, became a servant.


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<pb/>Now I am rejoicing in the sufferings <i>of mine</i> on your° behalf and I am filling up in my flesh, the things lacking of the afflictions of the Christ on behalf of his body, which is the congregation* <i>of believers</i>;


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of which I became a servant, according to the stewardship of God which was given to me *for you°, to fulfill the word of God,


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the mystery that has been hidden away from the ages and away from the generations, but now it was manifested to his holy-ones.


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To whom God willed to make known what <i>are</i> the riches of the glory of this mystery among the Gentiles, who is Christ in you°, the hope of glory.


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<i>The Christ</i> whom we are proclaiming, admonishing every man and teaching every man in all wisdom, in order that we should present every man complete in Christ Jesus;


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<pb/>For* I wish you° to know how-vast a struggle I have concerning you° and those in Laodicea and as many as have not seen my face in <i>the</i> flesh;


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in order that their hearts might be encouraged, having been knitted together in love* and in all <i>the</i> riches of the full assurance of understanding, to <i>the</i> full knowledge of the mystery of God and Father and of the Christ,


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<pb/>But I am saying <i>all of</i> this, in order that not anyone may delude you° in persuasive speech.


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having been rooted and being built up in him and being confirmed in the faith, just-as you° were taught, abounding in thanksgiving.


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<pb/>Beware°, <i>that</i> there will not be anyone <i>there</i> who is leading you° away as <i>his</i> prey through philosophy and vain deception, according to the tradition of men, according to the fundamental principles of the world, and not according to Christ,


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in whom you° were also circumcised with a circumcision not made* with hands, in the stripping off of the body of the sins of the flesh, in the circumcision of the Christ,


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having been buried together with him in the immersion*, in which you° were also raised <i>up</i> together with him through the faith from the working of God, who raised him up from the dead.


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And you°, being dead in your° trespasses and the uncircumcision of your° flesh, he made* you° alive together with him, having forgiven* us all our trespasses;


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having wiped-away the handwriting in the decrees <i>that were</i> against us, which were an adversary to us. He has also taken <i>these</i> out of the midst <i>of us</i>, having nailed it to the cross,


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having stripped off the principalities and the authorities, he publicly made a show of them, having triumphed over them in it.


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<pb/>Therefore do not let anyone judge you° in food, or in drink, or in this respect of a feast <i>day</i>, or a new month, or a Sabbath;


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Let no one arbitrate against you°, willing <i>it so</i> in <i>your°</i> humility and <i>in</i> a religion of the messengers; stepping <i>you</i>° <i>further</i> into the things which he has not seen, being vainly arrogant by his mind of flesh,


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and not holding-fast <i>to</i> the head, from whom all the body <i>is</i> being supplied and knitted together through the joints and ligaments, which is growing <i>with</i> the growth of God.


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<pb/>If you° died together with Christ away from the fundamental principles of the world, why, (as <i>though</i> living in the world), are you° submissive to its decrees:


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(which things in the using are all <i>leading</i> to corruption), according to the commandments and teachings of men?


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Which things indeed in a man-made religion have a reason <i>which comes</i> from <i>man’s</i> wisdom and humility and unsparing cruelty of the body<i>, but are</i> not in any value toward the indulgence of the flesh.


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<pb/>Therefore, if you° were raised <i>up</i> together with the Christ, seek° the things <i>which are</i> above, where Christ is, seated at the right <i>hand</i> of God.


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Whenever the Christ, <i>who is</i> the life of us, is manifested, then you° will also be manifested together with him in glory.


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<pb/>Therefore make° your° members dead which <i>are</i> upon the earth: fornication, uncleanness, passion, evil desire and greed, which is idolatry.


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But also now, place° all these things away from yourselves: anger, fury, malice, blasphemy, obscene speech from your° mouth.


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<pb/>Do° not lie to one another; <i>since</i> you° <i>have</i> stripped off the old man together with his practices,


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and <i>have</i> clothed yourselves with the new <i>man</i>, who is being renewed to <i>the</i> full knowledge according to the image of the one who created him;


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where there is no Greek and Jew, circumcision and uncircumcision, barbarian, Scythian, bondservant, <i>or</i> free <i>man</i>, but Christ <i>is</i> all things and in all things.


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<pb/>Therefore as chosen ones of God, holy and beloved, clothe° yourselves with a heart* of mercy, kindness, humility, meekness, patience,


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tolerating one another and forgiving* <i>others</i> in yourselves. If anyone has a complaint toward anyone; just-as the Christ forgave* you°, so you° also <i>forgive</i>* <i>others</i>.


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And let the peace of God arbitrate in your° hearts, for which you° were also called in one body, and become° thankful.


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Let the word of Christ dwell in you° richly, in all wisdom, teaching and admonishing yourselves in psalms and hymns and spiritual songs, singing in gratitude in your° heart to the Lord.


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And everything, anything, whatever you° do in word or in work, <i>do</i> all things in <i>the</i> name of the Lord Jesus, giving-thanks to the God and Father through him.


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<pb/>The children: obey*° the parents according to all things, for* this is well pleasing in <i>the</i> Lord.


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<pb/>The bondservants: be° obedient* according to all things, those <i>who are your°</i> lords according to the flesh; not in eye-services, like men-pleasers, but in clarity of heart, fearing God.


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<pb/>And everything, anything whatever you° do, work° from <i>your</i> soul, as <i>you would</i> to the Lord and not <i>as</i> to men;


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knowing that you° will be receiving from <i>the</i> Lord the payment of the inheritance; for* you° are serving* the Lord Christ.


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But he who does wrong will get back what he did wrong and there is no favoritism <i>with God</i>. <pb/>[Colossians 4]


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The lords: provide° the just and the equal thing<i>s</i> to your° bondservants; knowing that you° also have a Lord in <i>the</i> heavens.


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praying at the same time concerning us also, in order that God may open a door of the word to us, to speak the mystery of the Christ, because of which I have also been bound;


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<i>Let</i> your° speech always <i>be</i> in gratitude, having been seasoned in salt, that you° may know how it is essential <i>for</i> you° to answer each one.


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<pb/>Tychicus, the beloved brother and faithful servant, and <i>my</i> fellow bondservant in <i>the</i> Lord will make all things known to you° from me;


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whom I sent to you° *for this same thing, in order that he might know <i>about</i> the things concerning you° and <i>in order that</i> he may comfort your° hearts;


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together with Onesimus, the faithful and beloved brother, who is one from you°. They will be making all things known to you° the things <i>which are done</i> here.


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<pb/>Aristarchus my fellow captive greets you°, and Mark, the cousin to Barnabas (concerning whom you° received commandments; if he comes to you°, accept° him),


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and Jesus who is called* Justus, who is from the circumcision. These <i>are my</i> only fellow workers in the kingdom of God, those who became a comfort to me.


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Epaphras, a bondservant of Christ, the <i>one</i> from you°, greets you°. <i>He is</i> always fighting on your° behalf in <i>his</i> prayers, in order that you° might stand complete and having been fulfilled in all the will of God.


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For* I am testifying of him, that he has much zeal on your° behalf, and those in Laodicea and those in Hierapolis.


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<pb/>And whenever this letter is read before you°, do° <i>forward it</i>, in order that it should also be read in the congregation* of the Laodiceans, and in order that you° also should read the letter from Laodicea.


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And say° to Archippus, Beware <i>that</i> the service which you received in the Lord, *that you should fulfill it.


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<pb/>The greeting from me, Paul, with my own hand. Remember° my bonds. Grace <i>is</i> with you°. Amen. <pb/><br/><n>{NOTES: You should read the 'Definitions' Section and other non-bible sections.}</n><br/><pb/>


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<pb/>Paul and Silvanus and Timothy to the congregation* of the Thessalonians in God the Father and the Lord Jesus Christ: grace to you° and peace from God our Father and <i>the</i> Lord Jesus Christ.


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<pb/>We are always giving-thanks to God concerning all of you°, making* a remembrance of you° in our prayers;


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constantly remembering your° work of the faith, and labor of love*, and of the endurance of the hope in our Lord Jesus Christ, before our God and Father,


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You° <i>know</i> because our good-news did not happen to you° in word only, but also in power, and in <i>the</i> Holy Spirit, and in much full assurance; just-as you° know what <i>manner of men</i> we became among you°, because of you°.


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And you° became imitators of us and of the Lord, having accepted the word in much affliction with joy of <i>the</i> Holy Spirit;


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For* the word of the Lord has echoed forth from you°, not only in Macedonia and in Achaia, but also in every place your° faith toward God has gone forth; so-that we do not need to say anything.


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For* they themselves are reporting concerning us, what sort of entrance we had toward you°, and how you° turned from idols to God, to serve* a living and true God,


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and to await his Son Jesus from the heavens, whom he raised <i>up</i> from the dead; who rescues us from the coming wrath.


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But having suffered before, and having been abused in Philippi <n>{Acts 16:12-40}</n> , just-as you° know, we were bold in our God to speak to you° the good-news of God, <i>even</i> in <i>our</i> large struggle.


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But just-as we have been approved by God to be entrusted <i>with</i> the good-news, so we are speaking; not as pleasing men, but <i>it is</i> God who tests our hearts.


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For* just-as you° know, (God <i>being</i> witness), we neither previously came* in words of flattery, nor in a pretext of greed,


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nor seeking glory from men, neither from you° nor from others, <i>while</i> being able to be a burden <i>to</i> you° as apostles of Christ.


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So having kindly-feelings of you°, we were delighted to give to you° not only the good-news of God, but also our own souls, because you° have become beloved to us.


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<pb/>For* brethren, you° remember our labor and hardship. For* <i>while</i> working night and day, in order to not burden any of you°, we preached to you° the good-news of God.


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You° and God <i>are</i> witnesses, as we became holy and righteous and blameless toward you° who believe.


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Just-as you° know, as we <i>became with</i> each one of you°, like a father <i>with</i> his own children, encouraging you° and consoling you°


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and testifying, *that* you° should walk worthy of God, who is calling you° into his own kingdom and glory.


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<pb/>We also are constantly giving-thanks to God because of this, that <i>after</i> you° received <i>the</i> word of God from our report, you° accepted <i>it</i> not <i>as</i> the word of men, but just-as it truly is, the word of God, which is also working in you° who believe.


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For* brethren, you° became imitators of the congregations* of God, which are in Judea in Christ Jesus, because you° also suffered the same things by your° own countrymen, just-as they did also by the Jews.


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<i>The Jews</i>, who both killed the Lord Jesus and their own prophets, and banished us, and <i>were</i> not pleasing to God, and <i>are</i> adverse to all men;


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forbidding us to speak to the Gentiles in order that they might be saved; *that* they should always fill up their sins, but the wrath <i>has</i> arrived-unexpectedly upon them– to the end.


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<pb/>But brethren, having been orphaned away from you° *for <i>the</i> time of an hour, in face <n>{i.e. person}</n> <i>but</i> not in heart, we were even-more diligent to see your° face in much desire.


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Hence, we wished to come to you°, indeed, I, Paul, even once and <i>then</i> twice, and <i>yet</i> the Adversary hindered us.


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For* what <i>is</i> our hope or joy or crown of boasting, or <i>is it</i> not also you°, <i>which is</i> before our Lord Jesus Christ at his presence?


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And we sent Timothy, our brother and God’s servant and our fellow worker in the good-news of the Christ, *that* he might establish you° and to encourage you° concerning your° faith;


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<i>that</i> no one be shook up in these afflictions; for* you° yourselves know that we are destined *for this thing.


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For* even when we were with you°, we were telling you° beforehand that we are about to be afflicted; just-as it also happened and you° know.


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Because of this, no longer forbearing <i>it</i>, I also sent <i>Timothy</i>, *that* I might know your° faith, lest the tempter <i>had</i> tempted you°, and our labor might become vain.


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But now, <i>after</i> Timothy came to us from you°, and proclaimed to us good-news <i>about</i> your° faith and love*, and that you° have a good remembrance of us always, longing to see us, just-as we also <i>long to see</i> you°.


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Brethren, because of this, we were comforted on <i>the basis of</i> you° in all our affliction and calamity through your° faith,


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For* what thanksgiving are we able to repay to God concerning you°? Over all the joy in which we are rejoicing before our God <i>is</i> because of you°,


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exceptionally beseeching <i>God</i> night and day, *that* we may see your° face and may mend the things lacking of your° faith.


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And may the Lord increase <i>in</i> you° and <i>this increase</i> to abound in love* toward one another and toward all men, just-as we also <i>do</i> toward you°;


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*that* he might establish your° hearts, blameless in holiness before our God and Father, in the presence of our Lord Jesus Christ, with all his holy-ones.


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<pb/>Therefore furthermore brethren, we request and are encouraging you° in the Lord Jesus, just-as you° received from us how it is essential <i>for you°</i> to walk and to please God, in order that you° might abound <i>even</i> more.


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<i>and</i> not to go-beyond limits and take-advantage of his brother in the matter, because the Lord <i>is</i> an avenger concerning all these things, just-as we also foretold to you° and thoroughly testified.


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Therefore, the one who is rejecting <i>this</i> is not rejecting man, but God, who also gave his Holy Spirit to you°.


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<pb/>Now concerning brotherly-love, you° have no need <i>for someone</i> to write to you°; for* you° yourselves are taught by God, *that* you° should love* one another;


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for* you° are also practicing it toward all the brethren who <i>are</i> in the whole <i>of</i> Macedonia. But brethren, we encourage you°, that you° abound <i>even</i> more,


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and that you° make it your aim to be <i>living</i> quiet <i>lives</i> and to do your° own things, and to work with your° own hands (just-as we commanded you°),


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in order that you° may walk decently toward those <i>who are</i> outside, and may have need of nothing. <pb/><n>{1Th 4:13-17 & Mat 24:27, 24:29-31 & Mar 13:24-37 & Luk 21:25-28 & Acts 1:11 & 2Th 1:7-9 & 1Co 15:51-15:58 & Rev 1:7 Second Coming.}</n>


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<pb/>But brethren, we do not wish you° to be ignorant concerning those who have fallen-asleep; in order that you° may not be sorrowful like the rest who have no hope.


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For* if we believe that Jesus died and rose* up again, so those who fell-asleep through Jesus, God will also be bringing* together with him.


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For* this we are saying to you° in <i>the</i> word of <i>the</i> Lord, that we, the living, who are left at the presence of the Lord, should never attain <i>heaven before</i> those who fell-asleep.


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thereafter we, the living, who are left, will be seized at the same time together with them in <i>the</i> clouds, to <i>the</i> encounter of the Lord in the air, and so we will always be together with <i>the</i> Lord.


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<pb/>Now brethren, you° have no need <i>for anything</i> to be written to you° concerning the times and the seasons.


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For* whenever they say, Peace and security; then sudden utter-destruction stands by them, just-like the travail <i>a woman</i> has in <i>her</i> womb, and they should never flee away from <i>it</i>.


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Therefore consequently*, we should not sleep, like the rest also <i>do</i>, but let us watch and be sober.


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For* those who are sleeping, sleep in the night, and those who are drunken, are drunken in the night.


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But we, being of <i>the</i> day, should be sober; having clothed yourselves with the breastplate of faith and love*, and a helmet– <i>the</i> hope of salvation.


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who died on our behalf, in order that, whether we should watch or sleep, we should live together with him at the same time.


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<pb/>But brethren, we request of you° to know those who are laboring among you°, and are governing over you°, and admonishing you° in the Lord;


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But brethren, we encourage you°: admonish° the disorderly, console° the fainthearted, hold up the weak, have° patience toward all.


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<pb/>Now may the God of peace himself make you° entirely holy, and may your° whole spirit and soul and body be kept blameless in the presence of our Lord Jesus Christ.


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<pb/>The grace of our Lord Jesus Christ <i>is</i> with you°. Amen. <pb/><br/><n>{NOTES: You should read the 'Definitions' Section and other non-bible sections.}</n><br/><pb/>


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<pb/>Paul and Silvanus and Timothy, to the congregation* of the Thessalonians in God our Father and the Lord Jesus Christ:


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<pb/>Brethren, we always ought to give-thanks God concerning you°, just-as it is worthy, because your° faith is growing substantially, and the love* of each one of you° all toward one another is increasing;


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so-that we ourselves boast in you° in the congregations* of God, on behalf of your° endurance and faith in all your° persecutions, and in the afflictions which you° are tolerating.


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<i>This is</i> an example of the righteous judgment of God; *that* you° may be deemed worthy of the kingdom of God, on behalf of which you° are also suffering;


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if indeed* <i>it is</i> a righteous thing with God to repay affliction to those who are afflicting you°;


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and to you° who are afflicted with us, a rest at the revelation of the Lord Jesus from heaven with <i>the</i> messengers of his power,


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giving vengeance in a fire of flame <n>{i.e. in flaming fire}</n> to those who do not know God and to those who are not obeying* the good-news of our Lord Jesus Christ,


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who will be suffering-punishment, the sentence of everlasting utter-destruction away from the face of the Lord, and away from the glory of his strength,


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whenever he comes to be glorified in his holy-ones, and to be marveled <i>at</i> in that day in all those who <i>have</i> believed, (because our testimony to you° was believed). <n>{2Th 1:7-9 & Mat 24:27, 24:29-31 & Mar 13:24-37 & Luk 21:25-28 & Acts 1:11 & 1Th 4:13-17 & 1Co 15:51-15:58 & Rev 1:7 Second Coming.}</n>


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<pb/>*For which, we are also always praying concerning you°, in order that our God might deem you° worthy of your° calling, and might fulfill every delight of goodness, and <i>every</i> work of faith in power,


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*that the name of our Lord Jesus Christ might be glorified in you°, and you° in him, according to the grace of our God and the Lord Jesus Christ.


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<pb/>Now brethren, we request of you°, on behalf of the presence of our Lord Jesus Christ and our gathering-together to him,


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*that* you° might not be quickly shaken from your° mind, nor be alarmed, (either through spirit, or through word, or through letter, as <i>if it came</i> through us), as that the day of the Christ is present.


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Do not let anyone deceive you° in any manner, because <i>that day will not come,</i> if the apostasy does not come first and the man of sin, the son of destruction, should be revealed.


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The one who lays in opposition to <i>us</i> and promotes himself against everyone being called* a god or worshiped objects; so-that he sits in the temple of God as a god, showing himself– that he is a god.


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Do you° not remember that <i>while</i> still being with you°, I was speaking to you° <i>about</i> these things?


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For* the mystery of lawlessness is already working; only <i>there is</i> one who is holding <i>it</i> back now, until he should become from the midst <i>of us</i>.


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And then the lawless one will be revealed, whom the Lord Jesus will be consuming with the breath of his mouth and will be doing-away-with <i>him</i> by the appearing of his presence;


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<i>even he</i>, whose presence is according to <i>the</i> working of the Adversary in every power and in signs and in lying wonders,


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and in all deception of unrighteousness in those who are perishing, because they did not accept the love* of the truth, *that* they might be saved.


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And because of this, God will be sending them a working of error, *that* they may believe in the lie;


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in order that they all might be judged who did not believe the truth, but were delighted in unrighteousness.


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<pb/>But we ought to give-thanks to God always concerning you° brethren, beloved by <i>the</i> Lord, that God himself selected you° from <i>the</i> beginning to salvation in holiness of <i>the</i> Spirit and in faith of <i>the</i> truth;


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to which he called you° through our good-news, *for the acquisition of the glory of our Lord Jesus Christ.


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Therefore, consequently*, brethren, stand-firm° and hold-fast° the traditions which you° were taught, whether through speech or through our letter.


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<pb/>Now our Lord Jesus Christ himself and God and Father who loved* us and gave <i>us</i> everlasting encouragement and good hope in <i>his</i> grace,


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<pb/>Furthermore, brethren, pray° concerning us, in order that the word of the Lord may run <i>onward</i> and may be glorified, just-as <i>it is</i> also with you°;


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and in order that we may be rescued from the improper and evil men; for* the faith <i>is</i> not of all.


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But the Lord is faithful, who will be establishing you° and will be guarding you° from the evil <i>one.</i>


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Now we have confidence in the Lord on <i>the basis of</i> you°, that you° are both practicing and will be practicing the things which we command you°.


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<pb/>Now brethren, we are commanding you° in <i>the</i> name of our Lord Jesus Christ to withdraw yourselves from every brother who is walking disorderly and not according to the tradition which they received from us.


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For* you° yourselves know how it is essential <i>for</i> you° to imitate us. Because we did not act-disorderly among you°;


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nor did we eat bread freely from anyone, but in labor and hardship, working night and day, in order to not burden anyone of you°;


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not because we did not have the authority, but in order that we might give ourselves <i>as</i> an example to you°, *that* you° might imitate us.


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For* even when we were with you°, we were commanding you° this, If anyone is not willing to work, neither let him eat.


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For* we hear <i>there are</i> some who are walking disorderly among you°, working <i>at</i> nothing, but are busybodies.


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Now we are commanding to such and are encouraging through our Lord Jesus Christ, in order that they work with quietness and should eat their own bread.


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And if anyone is not obeying* our word through this letter, mark° that man and do° not socialize together with him, in order that he may be embarrassed.


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<pb/>Now the Lord of peace himself may give you° peace always in every manner. The Lord <i>is</i> with all of you°.


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<pb/>The greeting from me, Paul, I thus am writing with my own hand, which is the sign in every letter.


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The grace of our Lord Jesus Christ <i>is</i> with all of you°. Amen. <pb/><br/><n>{NOTES: You should read the 'Definitions' Section and other non-bible sections.}</n><br/><pb/>


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<pb/>Paul, an apostle of Jesus Christ, according to the commandment of God our Savior and Lord Jesus Christ, our hope;


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to Timothy, <i>my</i> genuine child in <i>the</i> faith: grace, mercy, peace, from God our Father and Christ Jesus our Lord.


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<pb/>As I encouraged you to remain in Ephesus, <i>while I was</i> traveling into Macedonia, in order that you might command to some, <i>they are</i> not to teach a different teaching,


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nor to take-heed to fables and unending genealogies, which provide <i>more</i> debates, rather than a stewardship of God which <i>is</i> in faith.


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But the end of the command is love* out of a clean heart and a good conscience and a non-pretended faith;


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wishing to be teachers of the law, not perceiving neither what they are saying nor <i>the things</i> concerning what they are confidently confirming.


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knowing this: that law is not laid <i>down</i> <n>{Or: destined}</n> for <i>the</i> righteous, but for the lawless and rebellious, for the ungodly and sinners, for the unholy and profane, for killers of their fathers and killers of their mothers, for murderers,


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for fornicators, for homosexuals, for kidnappers, for liars, for perjurers and if any other thing which lays in opposition to sound* teaching;


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<pb/>And I have gratitude <i>to</i> the one who empowered me, <i>namely,</i> the Christ, Jesus our Lord, because he deemed me faithful, placing me into <i>his</i> service;


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<i>even though</i> I was a former blasphemer and a persecutor and an insolent <i>man</i>, but I was shown-mercy, because being ignorant, I did <i>it</i> in unbelief;


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and the grace of our Lord overwhelmed <i>me</i> with <i>the</i> faith and love* which is in Christ Jesus.


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Faithful <i>is</i> the word and worthy of all acceptance, that Christ Jesus came into the world to save sinners, of whom I am foremost.


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But I was shown-mercy because of this, in order that Jesus Christ might show all his patience in me <i>as</i> foremost, for a pattern of those who are <i>afterward</i> about to believe on him *for everlasting life.


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Now to the King of the ages, incorruptible, invisible, <i>the</i> only wise God, <i>is</i> honor and glory forevermore. Amen.


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<pb/>I consign this command to you, <i>my</i> child Timothy, according to the prophecies preceding upon you, in order that you may be warring the good warfare by them;


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holding faith and a good conscience, which some having shoved away, are shipwrecked concerning the faith;


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of whom are Hymenaeus and Alexander; whom I gave to the Adversary, in order that they might be disciplined not to blaspheme.


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<pb/>Therefore I am encouraging first of all that supplications, prayers, petitions, thanksgivings, be made* on behalf of all men,


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on behalf of kings and all who are in superior-stations; in order that we may lead a tranquil and quiet life in all godliness* and honesty.


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to which I was appointed* a preacher and an apostle, (I am speaking <i>the</i> truth in Christ, I am not lying), <i>and</i> a teacher of the Gentiles in faith and truth.


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<pb/>Therefore I will that the men pray in every place, lifting up holy hands, without wrath and <i>evil</i> reasoning.


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<pb/>Likewise* also, the women to adorn themselves in a respectable array, with modesty and self-discipline; not in <i>hair</i> braids or gold or pearls or costly garments;


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and Adam was not deceived, but the woman was deceived; she has become <i>the one</i> in transgression. <n>{Gen 1:17, 2:7-22, 3:6,12}</n>


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But she will be saved through <i>her</i> childbearing, if they remain in faith and love* and holiness with self-discipline.


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<pb/><n>{1Ti 3:1-7 & Tit 1:5-9 Congregational leaders.}</n><br/></pb> <pb/><br/><n>{‘Unimpeachable,’ (below, G423), ‘irreproachable,’ (Tit 1, G410), are both in the qualifications of the Lord’s earthly congregation’s leadership, described in various Bible versions and locations within as: elders, bishops, overseers, pastors, shepherds, presbyters; (all terms are always plural in the Bible). These words do not translate well into English. They are simply a description of a person not under an accusation by an enemy or legal system or better, as under any kind of accusation. This person is blameless, guiltless and has an impeccable reputation. Another note: ‘children’ is plural in Greek.}</n><br/><pb/>Faithful is the word: if any <i>man</i> is aspiring to the overseership, he is desiring a good work.


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Therefore, it is essential <i>for</i> the overseer to be: unimpeachable, <i>the</i> husband of one wife, temperate, sensible, orderly, hospitable, skilled in teaching;


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the one who is governing his own house well, having <i>his</i> children in subjection with all honesty;


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(but if anyone does not know how to govern his own house, how will he be caring for the congregation* of God?;)


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not a new-convert, (in order that <i>when</i> he is puffed up, he might not fall into the condemnation of the devil).


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But it is also essential for him to have a good testimony from those who are outside <i>the congregation*</i>; in order that he may not fall into reproach and <i>the</i> snare of the devil. <pb/><br/><n>{Deacons, is a transliteration of the Greek word diakonos G1249. This word and its compounds in all other contexts are translated ‘serve,' ‘servant,' or ‘service’ (see 3:10 & 3:13). Because ‘elder’ (‘overseer’ in Php 1:1) a known office of the congregation is used, this context calls for an office or serving position in the congregation. The actual word in Greek means ‘servant’ who serves in reference to his job. The same word is used by Paul to describe a ‘policeman’ (in modern terms) in Rm. 13:4. Context could also mean ‘those who minister,’ in general. Other Greek synonyms in the MLV are translated as: ‘domestic servant,’ ‘attendant,’ ‘minister*’ and ‘bondservant.’}</n><br/><pb/>


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<pb/>Deacons likewise* <i>must be</i> honorable, not double-tongued, not taking-heed to much wine, not covetous;


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<pb/>Women likewise* <i>must be</i> honorable, not slanderers, <i>but</i> temperate, faithful in all things.


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<pb/>Let deacons be husbands of one wife, governing <i>their</i> children and their own houses well.


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For* those who served well are acquiring for themselves a good rank and much boldness in <i>the</i> faith which is in Christ Jesus.


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but if I am slow, <i>these things are</i> in order that you may know how it is essential <i>for men</i> to conduct themselves in the house of God, which is the congregation* of the living God, <i>the</i> pillar and base of the truth.


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And confessedly great is the mystery of godliness*: God was manifested in <i>the</i> flesh, was made righteous in <i>the</i> Spirit, was seen by messengers, was preached among the nations, was believed <i>on</i> in the world, was received up in glory.


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<pb/>But the Spirit expressly says, <J>Some will be withdrawing from the faith in later times, taking-heed to misleading spirits and teachings of demons,</J>


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<J>through the hypocrisy from <i>the</i> speakers of lies, having been branded in their own conscience;</J>


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<J>forbidding to marry <i>and commanding</i> to abstain from foods, which God created *for reception with thanksgiving to the believing and those who have fully known the truth.</J>


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<J>Because every created thing of God <i>is</i> good, and casting off nothing if it is received with thanksgiving,</J>


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<pb/>If you suggest these things to the brethren, you will be a good servant of Jesus Christ, being nourished in the words of the faith and of the good teaching in which you have followed closely.


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for* bodily exercise is profitable for few <i>things</i>, but godliness* is profitable for all things, having <i>the</i> promise of life the current <i>one</i> and the future <i>one</i>.


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For* we are also laboring and are reproached toward this <i>end</i>, because we have hope upon the living God, who is the Savior of all men, especially of the believing <i>ones</i>.


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<pb/>Let no one despise your youth, but become an example of the believing <i>ones</i>: in word, in conduct, in love*, in spirit, in faith, in purity.


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Do not neglect the gift* <i>which is</i> in you, which was given to you through prophecy, with <i>the</i> laying on of the hands of the eldership.


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Meditate on these things; be <i>diligent</i> in them; in order that your progress may be apparent in all things.


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Take-heed to yourself and to the teaching. Abide in these things; for* <i>while</i> practicing this, you will be saving both yourself and those who hear you.


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But if any widow has children or grandchildren, let them learn first to be devout toward their own household and to give back reimbursement to their parents; for* this is acceptable in God’s sight.


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Now she who really is a widow and has been <i>left</i> alone <i>and</i> has hoped upon God and remains in supplications and prayers night and day.


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But if anyone is not <n>{F}</n> planning-for his own and especially his own household, he has denied the faith and is worse <i>than</i> an unbeliever.


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<pb/>Do not let a widow be enrolled <i>who is</i> less-than sixty years <i>old</i>, who had become the wife of one man,


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being testified of in good works; if she reared children, if she was hospitable to strangers, if she washed the holy-ones’ feet, if she relieved <i>those</i> being afflicted, if she followed after every good work.


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<pb/>But renounce younger widows; for* whenever they are promiscuous against the Christ, they wish to marry;


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Now at the same time, they also are learning <i>to be</i> idle, strolling the houses, and not only idle, but also gossips and busybodies, speaking things which it is not essential <i>to be speaking</i>.


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Therefore I will the younger <i>widows</i> to marry, to be childbearing, to manage the house, to not give a starting-point to those who lay in opposition to <i>them</i> because of reviling:


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<pb/>If any believing <i>man</i> or believing <i>woman</i> has <i>relatives who are</i> widows, they should relieve them and do not let the congregation* be burdened; in order that it may relieve those who really are widows.


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<pb/>The elders <i>who are</i> governing well, let them be deemed worthy of double honor, especially those who are laboring in the word and in teaching.


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For* the Scripture says, ‘You will not muzzle a threshing bull.’ <n>{Deu 25:4}</n> And, ‘The worker is worthy of his wages.’ <n>{Lev 19:13}</n>


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Do not accept an accusation against an elder, unless upon <i>the testimony of</i> two or three witnesses.


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I am thoroughly testifying in sight of God and the Lord Jesus Christ and the chosen messengers, in order that you should observe these things without prejudice, doing nothing according to bias.


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No longer be a drinker of water <i>only</i>, but use a small <i>amount of</i> wine because of your stomach and your frequent sicknesses.


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Some men’s sins are evident, leading <i>them</i> into judgment, but even for some, they are also following after <i>them later</i>.


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Likewise* also, the good works are evident, and those having <i>works</i> contrariwise are not able to be hidden. <pb/><br/><n>{Footnotes: 1Ti 5:9, or: provide; or: planning in the short term.}</n><br/><pb/>


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<pb/>As many as are bondservants under the yoke, let them deem their own masters worthy of all honor, in order that the name of God and the teaching may not be blasphemed.


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But those who have believing masters, let them not despise them, because they are brethren, but rather let them serve* them, because they are believing and beloved who are being helped <i>by your</i> good* work. Teach and encourage these things.


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<pb/>If anyone is teaching a different teaching and is not coming near to sound* words, <i>even</i> the words of our Lord Jesus Christ and to <i>the</i> teaching which is according to godliness*;


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he has been puffed up, knowing nothing, but being mentally diseased concerning debates and quarrels over words, out of which become: envy, strife, blasphemies, evil suspicions,


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incessant wranglings of men who have been corrupted in the mind and who have been deprived of the truth, supposing that godliness* <i>is</i> a method to earnings. Withdraw yourself from such.


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for* we brought nothing into the world, nor <i>is it</i> evident that we are able to carry anything out; <n>{Job 1:21}</n>


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But those who are planning to be rich are falling into a temptation and a snare and many foolish and harmful lusts, which are submerging men into utter-destruction and <i>everlasting</i> destruction.


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For* the love of money is a root of all <i>kinds</i> of evils; of which some aspiring to, were misled from the faith and they themselves are staked-through by many sorrows.


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<pb/>But you, O man of God, flee these things and pursue: righteousness, godliness*, faith, love*, endurance, meekness.


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Fight the good fight of the faith, grab the everlasting life, to which you were called and professed the good confession in the sight of many witnesses.


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I am commanding you in God’s sight, who gives-life to all things and of Christ Jesus, who in front of Pontius Pilate testified the good confession;


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that you keep the commandment, unstained, unimpeachable, till the appearing of our Lord Jesus Christ.


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Which in its own times, he will show, the Blessed* and only Sovereign, the King of those who are reigning, and a Lord of those who have lordship over <i>others</i>;


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he who alone has immortality, dwelling in unapproachable light; whom no one from mankind has seen, nor is able to see: to whom <i>is</i> honor and everlasting dominion. Amen.


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<pb/>Command the rich in this current age, not to be cavalier, nor to have hope on <i>the</i> uncertainty of riches, but <i>have hope</i> in the living God, who is richly providing to us all things toward enjoyment;


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<i>also command them</i> to work <i>what is</i> good, to be rich in good works, to be liberal in giving, generous,


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storing up for themselves a good foundation toward the future, in order that they may grab the everlasting life.


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<pb/>O Timothy, guard the deposit consigned <i>to you</i>, turning away from the profane empty-talks and oppositions of the falsely named knowledge;


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which some professing <i>have</i> deviated concerning the faith. <pb/>Grace <i>is</i> with you. Amen. <pb/><br/><n>{NOTES: You should read the 'Definitions' Section and other non-bible sections.}</n><br/><pb/>


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<pb/>Paul, an apostle of Jesus Christ, through the will of God, according to the promise of the life which is in Christ Jesus.


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To Timothy, <i>my</i> beloved child: grace, mercy, peace, from God the Father and Christ Jesus our Lord.


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<pb/>I have gratitude to God, to whom I am giving-divine service from my ancestors in a clean conscience, as I have constant remembrance concerning you in my supplications, night and day.


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<i>I am</i> longing to see you, having been reminded of your tears, in order that I may be filled from <i>your</i> joy;


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receiving a reminder of <i>the</i> non-pretended faith, which is in you, which dwelt first in your grandmother Lois and your mother Eunice, and I also have confidence <i>it is</i> in you.


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Because of which case, I am reminding you to rekindle the gift* of God, which is in you through the laying on of my hands.


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Therefore do not be ashamed of the testimony of our Lord, nor me, his prisoner, but suffer-hardship together with the good-news according to the power of God,


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who saved us and called <i>us</i> with a holy calling, not according to our works, but according to his own purpose and grace, which was given to us in Christ Jesus before times everlasting.


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But now it was manifested through the appearing of our Savior, Jesus Christ, who indeed did-away-with death and illuminated <i>both</i> life and incorruption through the good-news,


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Because of which case, I also am suffering these things <i>too</i>, but I am not ashamed; for* I know the one whom I have believed and I have confidence that he is able to guard my deposit consigned <i>to him</i> *for that day.


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Hold <i>to</i> the pattern of sound* words which you heard from me, in faith and love* in Christ Jesus.


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Guard the good deposit consigned <i>to you</i> through <i>the</i> Holy Spirit who is dwelling in us.


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<pb/>You know this, that all who are in Asia turned away from me; of whom are Phygelus and Hermogenes.


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May the Lord give mercy to the house of Onesiphorus, because he often refreshed me and is not ashamed of my chain;


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(may the Lord give to him to find mercy from the Lord in that day), and how-much he served <i>me</i> in Ephesus, you know <i>this</i> quite-well.


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And the things which you heard from me through many witnesses, consign these to faithful men, who will also be competent to teach others.


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No active soldier entangles himself in the <n>{F}</n> tradeoffs of <i>this</i> life, in order that he may please the one who enlisted him as a soldier.


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Remember Jesus Christ, who has been raised from the dead, <i>was born</i> out of <i>the</i> seed of David, according to my good-news;


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in which I am suffering evil treatment, <i>even</i> as far as bonds, like a criminal, but the word of God has not been bound.


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Because of this, I endure all things, because of the chosen, in order that they may also obtain the salvation which <i>is</i> in Christ Jesus with everlasting glory.


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Faithful is the word: for* if we died together with <i>him</i>, we will also be living together with <i>him</i>:


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if we endure, we will also be reigning together with <i>him</i>; if we are denying <i>him</i>, he will also be denying us;


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<pb/>Remind <i>them of</i> these things, thoroughly testifying in the sight of the Lord, <i>that they are</i> not to quarrel over words, <i>which is</i> useful in nothing, <i>ending</i> in catastrophe of those who hear.


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Be diligent to present yourself approved to God, an unashamed worker, <n>{F}</n> cutting-straight the word of truth.


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who deviated concerning the truth, saying that the resurrection <i>is</i> to have happened already and are perverting the faith of some.


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<pb/>Nevertheless the solid foundation of God stands, having this seal, ‘The Lord knows those who are his,’ <n>{Num 16:5}</n> and ‘Let everyone who names the name of the Lord withdraw away from unrighteousness.’ <n>{Isa 26:13}</n>


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<pb/>Now vessels are not only golden and silver in a great house, but also wooden and clay, and indeed the things to honor and the things to dishonor.


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Therefore if anyone cleanses himself from these things, he will be a vessel *for honor, having been made holy and <i>is</i> useful to the master, having been prepared *for every good work.


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But flee the youthful lusts; pursue righteousness, faith, love*, <i>and</i> peace, with those who are calling upon the Lord out of a clean heart.


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But it is essential <i>for</i> the Lord’s bondservant to not quarrel, but to be mild toward all, skilled in teaching, tolerating <i>it when</i> being mistreated,


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in meekness <n>{F}</n> educating those who are placing themselves in opposition; <i>if</i> maybe God might give them repentance <i>to come</i> to the full knowledge of the truth,


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and they might sober up out of the snare of the devil, having been caught live by him to that <i>man’s</i> will. <pb/><br/><n>{Footnotes: 2Ti 2:4, or: occupations of civilian life. 2Ti 2:15, or: handling correctly. 1Ti 2:25, an all inclusive word to describe what parents do for their children: disciplining, correcting, training.}</n><br/><pb/>


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For* men will be lovers of themselves, money-lovers, braggarts, haughty, blasphemers, disobedient to parents, unthankful, unholy,


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holding <i>to</i> a form of godliness*, but having denied its power. Now turn yourself away from these <i>people</i>.


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For* out of these <i>people</i> are those who are sneaking into houses and capturing the immature women, who have been piled up with sins <i>and</i> are led away by various lusts,


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Now in the manner <i>that</i> Jannes and Jambres stood against Moses so also, are these standing against the truth. Men having been utterly corrupted in <i>their</i> mind, unapproved concerning the faith.


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But they will be progressing no more-than <i>this</i>. For* their mindlessness will be obvious to all <i>people</i>, as that of those <i>men</i> also became.


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<pb/>But you have followed closely my teaching, <i>my</i> lead, <i>my</i> purpose, <i>my</i> faith, <i>my</i> patience, <i>my</i> love*, <i>my</i> endurance,


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<i>my</i> persecutions <i>and my</i> sufferings, such-as happened to me in Antioch, in Iconium, <i>and</i> in Lystra. I underwent <i>many</i> persecutions such-as <i>these</i>, and the Lord rescued me out of all <i>of them.</i>


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But evil men and impostors will be progressing <i>from bad</i> on <i>to</i> worse, misleading and being misled.


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But you, abide in the things which you learned and were entrusted with, knowing from whom you learned <i>them</i>.


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And you have known, that from a baby, the sacred Scriptures which are able to make you wise to salvation through faith which is in Christ Jesus.


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<pb/>All Scripture <i>is</i> God breathed and <i>is</i> profitable for teaching, for conviction, for correction, for education which <i>is</i> in righteousness,


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<pb/>Therefore, I am thoroughly testifying in the sight of God and the Lord Jesus Christ, who is about to judge the living and the dead according to his appearing and his kingdom.


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Preach the word. Stand-ready opportunely and inopportunely. Reprove, rebuke <i>and</i> encourage in all patience and teaching.


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For* the time will be coming when they will not be tolerating the sound* teaching, but having itchy ears, they will be piling up for themselves teachers according to their own lusts;


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and will indeed turn their ears away from the truth and <i>their ears</i> will be turned aside to fables.


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But you, be sober in all things, suffer evil treatment, do the work of an evangelist, fully assure your service.


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Furthermore the crown of righteousness is laid up for me, which the Lord, the righteous judge, will be giving to me in that day, and not only to me, but also to all those who have loved* his appearing.


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for* Demas forsook me and traveled to Thessalonica, having loved* this current age; Crescens to Galatia, Titus to Dalmatia.


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Only Luke is with me. Having taken Mark, bring* <i>him</i> with yourself; for* he is useful to me *for service.


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Bring the coat that I left in Troas with Carpus <i>when</i> you come, bring <i>it</i> and the books, especially the parchments.


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Alexander the coppersmith showed to<i>ward</i> me many evil things. May the Lord give to him according to his works;


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No one came* together in my first defense, but all forsook me; may it not be counted <i>against</i> them.


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But the Lord stood beside me and empowered me; in order that the preaching might be fully assured through me and <i>in order that</i> all the Gentiles might hear and I was rescued out of the mouth of the lion.


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The Lord will be rescuing me from every evil work and will save <i>me</i> *for his heavenly kingdom: in whom <i>is</i> the glory, forevermore. Amen.


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Be diligent to come before winter. Eubulus greets you and Pudens and Linus and Claudia and all the brethren.


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<pb/>The Lord Jesus Christ, <i>is</i> with your spirit. Grace <i>is</i> with you°. Amen. <pb/><br/><n>{NOTES: You should read the 'Definitions' Section and other non-bible sections.}</n><br/><pb/><br/><n>{Paul’s martyrdom at Rome. 66 AD.}</n><br/><pb/>


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<pb/>Paul, a bondservant of God and apostle of Jesus Christ, according to <i>the</i> faith of God’s chosen and the full knowledge of <i>the</i> truth which is according to godliness*,


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upon <i>the</i> hope of everlasting life, which God, <i>who is</i> incapable of lying, promised before times everlasting.


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<pb/>But in his own seasons, he manifested his word in <i>the</i> preaching in which I was entrusted, according to the commandment of God our Savior.


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<pb/>To Titus, my genuine child according to <i>our</i> common faith: grace, mercy, peace from God the Father and Lord Jesus Christ, our Savior.


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<pb/>Because of this, I left you in Crete, in order that you might amend the things which are deficient and should designate elders in every city, as I commanded you.


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If anyone is irreproachable, the husband of one wife, having believing children, <i>who is</i> not in an accusation of riotousness or rebellious.


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For* it is essential <i>for</i> the overseer to be irreproachable as God’s steward; not self-willed, not quick-tempered, not a drunkard, not a bully, not covetous;


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holding to the faithful word which is according to the teaching, in order that he may be able also to encourage in the sound* teaching and to convict those who contradict <i>it</i>.


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<pb/>For* there are many even rebellious men, empty-talkers and deceivers, especially those out of <i>the</i> circumcision,


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whom it is essential to gag; men who are perverting whole houses, teaching things which it is not essential <i>to teach</i>, because of shameful gain.


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Someone from them, a prophet of their own, said, Cretans are habitually liars, evil beasts, idle gluttons.


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This testimony is true. Because of which case, reprove them sharply, in order that they may be sound* in the faith,


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Indeed, all things are clean to the clean, but nothing is clean to those who have been defiled and <i>are</i> unbelieving, but both their mind and their conscience have been defiled.


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They profess to know God, but they are denying him by their works, being detestable and disobedient and unapproved toward every good work.


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<i>Teach</i> elderly-men to be temperate, honorable, sensible, sound* in the faith, in love*, in endurance.


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in order that they may train the young <i>women</i> to be lovers of <i>their</i> husbands, to love <i>their</i> children,


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<i>and to be</i> sensible, pure, homemakers, good, being subject to their own husbands, in order that the word of God may not be blasphemed.


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providing yourself as an example of good works concerning all things; in the teaching <i>have</i> integrity, honesty, incorruption,


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sound* speech <i>which is</i> not condemnable; in order that <i>things</i> out of the adverse <i>one</i> might be embarrassing, having no evil thing to say concerning us.


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<pb/><i>Encourage</i> bondservants to subject themselves to their own masters and <i>be</i> well pleasing <i>to them</i> in all things, not contradicting <i>them</i>;


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not pilfering <i>things</i> for themselves, but showing all good faith<i>fulness</i>; in order that they may adorn the teaching of God our Savior in all things.


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educating us in order that we should live with self-discipline and righteously and devoutly in this current age, <i>after</i> having denied ungodliness and worldly lusts;


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who gave himself on our behalf, in order that he might redeem us away from all lawlessness and might cleanse a treasured people for himself, zealous of good works.


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<pb/>Remind them to subject themselves to principalities and authorities, to be obedient, to be prepared *for every good work,


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to blaspheme no one, <i>to</i> not <i>be</i> quarrelsome, to be gentle, showing all meekness toward all men.


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For* we were also previously foolish, disobedient, being misled, serving* in various lusts and sensual-delights, leading <i>lives</i> in malice and envy, spiteful, hating one another.


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he saved us (not from <i>any</i> works <i>done</i> in righteousness, which we practiced), but according to his mercy, through the full-washing of regeneration* and renewal of <i>the</i> Holy Spirit,


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in order that we might become heirs according to the hope of everlasting life, having been made righteous in that grace.


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The faithful word <i>is</i>: and I will <i>for</i> you to confidently confirm concerning these things, in order that those who have believed God may be anxious to establish themselves first in good works. These things are good and profitable to men.


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But avoid foolish debates and genealogies and strifes and quarrels about-law; for* they are unprofitable and futile.


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<pb/>Whenever I send Artemas or Tychicus to you, be diligent to come to me in Nicopolis; for* I have decided to winter there.


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Send Zenas, the professor of the law, and Apollos onward diligently in order that nothing may be deficient for them.


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But let our <i>people</i> also learn to establish themselves in good works *for the necessary needs, in order that they may not be unfruitful.


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<pb/>All who are with me greet you°. Greet those who love us in <i>the</i> faith. <pb/>Grace <i>is</i> with all of you°. Amen. <pb/><br/><n>{NOTES: You should read the 'Definitions' Section and other non-bible sections.}</n><br/><pb/>


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<pb/>Paul, a prisoner of Christ Jesus and Timothy our brother, to Philemon our beloved and fellow worker,


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and to the beloved Apphia and to Archippus our fellow soldier and to the congregation* in your house:


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hearing of your love* and of the faith which you have toward the Lord Jesus and toward all the holy-ones;


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*that the fellowship of your faith might become effective in the full knowledge of every good thing, which is in you°, to Christ Jesus.


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For* we have much gratitude and comfort in your love*, because the hearts* of the holy-ones have been given-rest through you, brother.


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yet because of love* I <i>would</i> rather encourage <i>you</i>, being such a one as Paul <i>the</i> elderly-man and now also a prisoner of Jesus Christ.


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who was not useful to you previously, but is useful to you now and to me, whom I sent back <i>to you</i>.


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whom I was planning to hold <i>here</i> for myself, in order that he might serve me in the bonds of the good-news on your behalf.


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But I wished to do nothing without your viewpoint; in order that as your good <i>deed</i> may not be according to necessity, but according to <i>your</i> voluntary <i>deed</i>.


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For* perhaps because of this, he was separated <i>from you</i> for a short-time, in order that you may fully have him <i>in the</i> everlasting <i>world</i>;


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no longer as a bondservant, but beyond a bondservant, a beloved brother, especially to me, but how-much rather to you, both in the flesh and in the Lord.


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I, Paul, wrote <i>this</i> with my own hand. I will be compensating <i>you</i>; in order that I may not say to you, You are even owing yourself to me.


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Yes, brother, let me derive benefit from you in the Lord. Give-rest to my heart* in <i>the</i> Lord.


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<pb/>I wrote to you, having confidence in your obedience, knowing that you will be doing even beyond what I am saying.


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But also at the same time, prepare me a lodging. For* I am hoping that through your° prayers I will be granted to you°.


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<pb/>God spoke long-ago in many parts and in many manners, in the prophets to the fathers, <i>and</i> spoke to us upon the last of those days in <i>his</i> Son,


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<i>It is he</i> who, being the brightness of his glory and <i>the</i> exact representation of his essence, and <i>is</i> carrying all things by his declaration of power. Having made* a cleansing of our sins through himself, he sat down by <i>the</i> right <i>hand</i> of the Majesty in <i>the</i> high <i>place</i>;


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<i>when</i> he became so-much better <i>than</i> the messengers, inasmuch as he has inherited a more excellent name than they.


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<pb/>For* to which of the messengers has he previously said, ‘You are my Son; I have fathered you today.’? And again, ‘I will be a Father to him and he will be *for a Son to me.’?


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And again, whenever he brings* in the firstborn into the inhabited-earth, he says, ‘And let all the messengers of God worship him.’


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And he indeed says toward the messengers, ‘Who makes* his messengers<i>,</i> spirits, and his ministers*, a flame of fire.’ <n>{Psa 2:7, 89:26, 27, Psa 104:4}</n>


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<pb/>But <i>he says</i> toward the Son<i>,</i> ‘Your throne, <i>O</i> God, is forevermore; the scepter of uprightness is the scepter of your kingdom.


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You loved* righteousness and hated lawlessness. Because of this, God, your God, anointed you <i>with the</i> oil of gladness <i>more</i> than your companions.’


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they themselves will be perishing, but you are remaining and they will all become-obsolete like a garment;


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and you will coil them up like an <i>outer</i> dressing and they will be changed, but you are the same and your years will not be failing.’


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But toward which of the messengers has he previously said, ‘Sit at my right <i>hand</i>, until I should place your enemies <i>as the</i> footstool of your feet? <n>{Psa 45:6-7, 102:25-27, 110:1}</n>


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<pb/>Are they not all ministering* spirits, being sent forth into service because of those who are about to inherit salvation?


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<pb/>Because of this, it is essential to take-heed even-more to the things which were heard, lest we might drift away.


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For* if the word that was spoken through <i>the</i> messengers became steadfast and every transgression and disobedience* received a just reward;


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how will we flee, having neglected so-great a salvation, which having received <i>at the</i> beginning was spoken through the Lord, which was confirmed to us under those who heard <i>it</i>?


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God <i>was</i> testifying together with them, both by signs and by wonders and by various powers and by distributions of <i>the</i> Holy Spirit, according to his own will.


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<pb/>For* he did not subject the future inhabited-earth to messengers, concerning what we are speaking.


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But a some <i>writer</i> thoroughly testified somewhere, saying, ‘What is man, that you remember him? Or the son of man, that you visit him?


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You made him a bit <i>of</i> something inferior <i>less</i> than the messengers. You crowned him with glory and honor. <n>{T}</n> <i>And stood him over the works of your hands.</i>


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You subjected all things underneath his feet.’ <n>{Psa 8:4-6}</n> For* in that he subjected all things to him, he left nothing which is not subject to him. But we now do not yet see all things having been subjected to him.


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But we see Jesus who has been made a bit of something inferior, <i>less</i> than <i>the</i> messengers, having been crowned with glory and honor, because of the suffering of the death <i>he underwent</i>,*that in the grace from God, he should taste of death on behalf of everyone.


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For* it was suitable for him, because of whom <i>are</i> all things and through whom <i>are</i> all things, having led many sons to glory, to complete the author of their salvation through sufferings.


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saying, ‘I will be proclaiming your name to my brethren, in the midst of the congregation* I will be singing hymns to you.’


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And again, ‘I will have confidence in him.’ And again, ‘Behold, <i>here</i> I <i>am</i> and the children whom God gave me.’ <n>{Psa 22:22, Psa 18:2, 2Sam. 22. 3, Isa 8:17-18}</n>


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<pb/>Therefore since the children have shared of flesh and blood, in like-manner he partook of the same; in order that through death, he might do-away-with the one who had the dominion of death, this is the devil;


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and he might set-free these, as many as <i>were</i> in fear of death, <i>who were</i> liable to bondage throughout all <i>their</i> life.


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Hence he was obligated to be similar to his brethren according to all things, in order that he might become a merciful and faithful high-priest in the things pertaining to God, *that* he should make atonement for the sins of the people.


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<pb/>Hence, holy brethren, partakers of a heavenly calling, consider° Jesus Christ, the Apostle and High-Priest of our confession;


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who was faithful to the one who made* him <i>such</i>, as Moses also <i>was</i> in his whole house. <n>{Num 12:7}</n>


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For* he has been deemed worthy of more glory than Moses, inasmuch as the one who constructed <i>the house</i> has more honor <i>than</i> the house.


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And Moses indeed was faithful in his whole house as a bondservant *for a testimony of the things which will be spoken <i>later</i>;


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but Christ <i>was faithful</i> as a son, over his house; whose house we are, if indeed* we hold-onto our boldness and the boasting of our hope steadfast till the end.


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<J>do not harden your° hearts, as in the rebellion, according to the day of the testing in the wilderness,</J>


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<J>where your° fathers tested me, they proved me<i>,</i> and <i>then</i> saw my works forty years.</J>


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<J>Hence I was displeased with that generation and said, They themselves are habitually misled in their heart<i>s</i>, but they did not know my ways.</J>


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<J>As I swore in my wrath, they will not be entering into my rest.’</J> <n>{Num 14:22, Psa 95:7-11}</n>


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<pb/>Beware° brethren, lest there will be an evil heart of unbelief in anyone of you°, in withdrawing away from the living God.


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But encourage° yourselves each <i>and</i> every day, till what is called today; in order that not anyone of you° may be hardened by the deception of sin.


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For* we have become companions of the Christ, if indeed* we hold-onto the beginning of our firmness steadfast till the end;


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while* it was said, ‘If you° hear his voice today, do not harden your° hearts, as in the rebellion.’ <n>{Num 14:29, Psa 95:7-11 }</n>


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For* some who <i>had</i> heard <i>it</i> rebelled. But was it not all those who came out of Egypt through Moses?


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And with whom was he displeased <i>for</i> forty years? Was it not with those who sinned, whose carcasses fell in the wilderness? <n>{Num 14:35}</n>


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Now to whom had he sworn <i>that</i> they will not be entering into his rest, except to those who were disobedient?


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<pb/>Therefore, since a promise was left of entering into his rest, let us fear lest anyone out of you° seem to have come-short <i>of it</i>.


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For* we also are having the good-news proclaimed to us, just-as they also <i>had</i>. But the word of hearing did not profit them, <i>because</i> it had not been mixed together with the faith in those who heard <i>it</i>.


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For* we who believed are entering into that rest; just-as he has said, ‘<J>As I swore in my wrath, they will not be entering into my rest,</J>’ although the works <i>have</i> happened from the conception of the world. <n>{Psa 95:7:11, Num 14:22}</n>


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For* he has thus said somewhere concerning the seventh <i>day</i>, ‘And God rested on the seventh day from all his works’; <n>{Gen 2:2}</n>


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he again determines a certain day <i>as</i> today, saying in David, after so-much time, (just-as it has been said <i>beforehand</i>), ‘Today if you° hear his voice, do not harden your° hearts.’ <n>{Psa 95:7, 8}</n>


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For* if Joshua had given-rest to them, he would have not been speaking concerning another day after these things.


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For* the one who entered into his rest <i>has</i> also rested from his works, just-as God did from his own.


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Therefore let us be diligent to enter into that rest, in order that no one should fall into the same example of disobedience.


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<pb/>For* the word of God is living and effective and sharper beyond <i>that of</i> every two edged sword and <i>is</i> penetrating till the division of both soul and spirit, of both joints and marrow and <i>is</i> a judge of <i>the</i> contemplations and deliberations of <i>the</i> heart.


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And there is no created thing unapparent in his sight, but all things are naked and have been laid-bare to his eyes to whom <i>is</i> our account.


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<pb/>Therefore having a great high-priest, Jesus the Son of God, who has gone through the heavens, let us hold-fast our confession.


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For* we do not have a high-priest who is unable to sympathize together with our weaknesses, but one who has been tempted according to all things according to <i>our</i> likeness, <i>yet</i> without sin.


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Therefore let us come near to the throne of grace with boldness, in order that we may receive mercy and may find grace *for opportune help.


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<pb/>For* every high-priest, being taken out of men, is designated <i>to act</i> on behalf of men in things pertaining to God, in order that he may offer both gifts and sacrifices on behalf of sins;


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he who is able to moderate his emotions with those who are ignorant and are misled, since he himself is also encompassed <i>with</i> weakness;


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and because of this <i>weakness,</i> just-as he is obligated to offer <i>sacrifices</i> on behalf of sins concerning the people so also concerning himself.


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<pb/>So the Christ also did not glorify himself to become a high-priest, but he who spoke to him, ‘You are my Son; I have fathered you° today.’ <n>{Psa 2:7}</n>


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Just-as he also says in a different <i>Scripture,</i> ‘You are a priest forever according to the order of Melchizedek.’ <n>{Psa 110:4}</n>


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Who in the days of his flesh, having offered up both prayers and supplications with a strong outcry and tears to the one who was able to save him from death and he was heard from <i>his</i> piety.


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and having been completed, he became the cause of everlasting salvation to all those who are obeying* him;


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<pb/>Concerning whom, much for us <i>to say in</i> speech (also hard to translate <n>{i.e. simplify}</n> ), since you° have become sluggish in hearing.


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For* you° also ought to be teachers <i>by now</i> because of the time, <i>but</i> you° again have need of one to teach you° what <i>are</i> the fundamental principles of the beginning oracles of God, and have become <i>ones</i> having need of milk and not of solid nourishment.


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But solid nourishment is for <i>the</i> mature <i>ones</i>, from those who, through <i>their</i> habit, <i>their</i> senses have been exercised to the discerning of both good and evil.


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<pb/>Hence, having left the word of the beginning <i>principles</i> of Christ, we should carry on<i>to our</i> maturity; not putting down again a foundation of repentance from dead works and of faith upon God,


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of the teaching of immersions* <n>{Or: O.T. ceremonial washings}</n> and of <i>the</i> laying on of hands and of <i>the</i> resurrection of the dead and of everlasting judgment.


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and <i>then</i> having fallen away, <i>it is impossible</i> to renew them again to repentance, <i>because they are</i> again crucifying for themselves the Son of God and disgracing <i>him</i>.


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For* the soil, which drank the rainfall, <i>while</i> coming upon her often, and is bearing <i>forth</i> vegetation fit for those because of whom it is also cultivated, receives blessing from God.


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<pb/>But, beloved, we have confidence <i>of</i> the better things concerning you° and <i>better things</i> holding salvation, even if we speak so.


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For* God is not unrighteous to forget your° work and the labor of the love* which you° showed toward his name, having served the holy-ones and <i>still</i> serving <i>them</i>.


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But we are desiring each of you° to show the same diligence to the full assurance of hope till <i>the</i> end;


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in order that you° should not become sluggish, but imitators of those who are inheriting the promises through faith and patience.


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saying, Absolutely <i>in</i> blessing, I will bless you and <i>in</i> multiplying, I will multiply you. <n>{Gen 22:17}</n>


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For* indeed, men swear according to the greater and the oath <i>made</i> *for confirmation <i>is</i> an ending in every dispute of theirs.


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in order that through two unchangeable matters, in which <i>it is</i> impossible <i>for</i> God to lie, we may have a strong encouragement, having fled for refuge to take-hold of the hope that lays before us.


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where a forerunner Jesus entered on our behalf, <i>when</i> he became a high-priest forever according to the order of Melchizedek.


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<pb/>For* this Melchizedek, King of Salem, priest of the Highest God, who met with Abraham returning from the butcher of the kings and blessed him,


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to whom Abraham also divided a tenth away from all things. Being first indeed, by translation, King of righteousness and thereafter also King of Salem, which is King of peace;


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<i>he had</i> no father, no mother, with no genealogy, having neither beginning of days nor end of life, but having been made similar to the Son of God, remains a continual priest. <n>{Gen 14:18}</n>


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<pb/>Now view° how-great this <i>man was</i>, to whom even Abraham, the patriarch, gave a tenth out of the spoils.


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And they indeed from the sons of Levi who receive the priest’s office have <i>the</i> commandment to take-tithes from the people according to the law, that is, of their brethren, although these have come out of the loins of Abraham.


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But he whose genealogy is not traced from them has taken-tithes of Abraham and has blessed the one who has the promises.


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<pb/>Therefore, if there indeed was completion through the Levitical priesthood (for* the people had <i>the</i> law instituted upon it), what need <i>was there</i> still <i>for</i> a different priest to rise* up according to the order of Melchizedek and not to be called* according to the order of Aaron?


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For* he belongs to a different tribe on whom these things are said, from which no one has taken-heed at the altar.


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For* it is evident that our Lord has risen up out of Judah; <i>as</i> to which tribe Moses spoke nothing concerning the priesthood.


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who has become, not according to <i>the</i> Law of a fleshly commandment, but according to the power of an indestructible life;


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for* he testifies<i>,</i> ‘You are a priest forever, according to the order of Melchizedek.’ <n>{Psa 110:4}</n>


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(for* the law completed nothing) and a bringing* in of a better hope, through which we are drawing near to God.


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but he with an oath through the one who says pertaining to him, ‘<i>The</i> Lord swore and will not regret, you are a priest forever, according to the order of Melchizedek.’ <n>{Psa 110:4}</n>


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And they have become indeed many priests <i>in number</i>, because they are prevented by death to remain <i>in office</i>;


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Hence he is also able to completely save those who come to God through him, always living, *that* he may petition on their behalf.


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<pb/>For* such a high-priest was suitable to us, holy, guiltless, undefiled, has been separated away from sinners and became exalted from the heavens;


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who has no necessity every day to offer up sacrifices just-like the high-priests, (beforehand on behalf of their own sins), and thereafter for* those of the people; for* he did this once for all, having offered up himself.


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<pb/>Now a summation upon the things which we are saying <i>is this</i>: we have such a high-priest, who sat down at <i>the</i> right <i>hand</i> of the throne of the Majesty in the heavens,


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For* every high-priest is designated, *that* he should offer both gifts and sacrifices; hence <i>it is</i> necessary <i>for</i> this one to also have something that he should offer.


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who gives-divine service to <i>what is</i> a copy and shadow of the heavenly things, just-as Moses had been divinely-warned <i>while</i> being about to complete the tabernacle; for* behold, he says, You will be making* all things according to the pattern which was shown to you in the mountain. <n>{Exo 25:40}</n>


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But now he has obtained a <i>more</i> excellent ministry*, inasmuch as he is also the intermediary of a better covenant*, which has been instituted upon better promises.


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<pb/>For* if that first <i>covenant*</i> was blameless, then no place would have been sought for a second.


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not according to the covenant* that I made* with their fathers in the day that I took <i>them</i> by my hand to lead them forth out of <i>the</i> land of Egypt, because they did not remain in my covenant* and I neglected them, says <i>the</i> Lord.


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and they should never <i>need to</i> teach, saying, Know the Lord; <i>to</i> each <i>one</i> his fellow-citizen and each <i>one</i> his brother, because all will know me, from the little insofar as their great ones.


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<pb/>In the saying, a new <i>covenant*</i>, the first has become-obsolete. But what becomes-obsolete and is aged, it is near to disappearing.


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<pb/>Therefore indeed even <i>the</i> first <i>tabernacle</i> had ordinances of divine service <i>to God</i> and its holy-place, a worldly <i>one</i>.


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holding a golden altar of incense and the ark of the covenant*, having been covered <i>all</i> around on every-side with gold, in which <i>was the</i> golden jar holding the manna and Aaron’s scepter which <i>had</i> sprouted and the tablets of the covenant*;


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and up above it <i>the</i> cherubim of glory overshadowing the mercy-seat; concerning which things it is now not <i>the time</i> to speak <i>of them</i> individually. <n>{Exo 25:1-40, 26:36, 40:3, Num 17:10}</n>


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<pb/>Now these things having thus always been prepared, the priests indeed go-into the first tabernacle, completing the divine services <i>to God</i>;


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but the high-priest <i>went</i> alone into the second, once in the year for all, not without blood, which he offers on behalf of himself and <i>on behalf of</i> the sins of ignorance of the people.


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<i>This tabernacle,</i> (which <i>is</i> a figure toward the present time); according to which both gifts and sacrifices are offered, is not able to complete he who is giving-divine service to <i>God</i> according to <i>the</i> conscience,


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<i>being</i> only ordinances of <i>the</i> flesh, (upon <i>the basis of</i> foods, drinks and assorted ceremonial washings), laid upon <i>us</i> till a time of reformation.


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<pb/>But Christ came* <i>as</i> a high-priest of the future good things, through the greater and more complete tabernacle, not made* with hands, that is, not of this creation,


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nor through the blood of male-goats and calves, but through his own blood, entered in once for all into the holy of holies, having found everlasting redemption.


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For* if the blood of male-goats and oxen and the ashes of a heifer, sprinkling those who have been desecrated, makes <i>one</i> holy toward the cleanness of the flesh;


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how-much more the blood of Christ, (who through the everlasting Spirit offered himself unblemished to God), will be cleansing your° conscience from dead works, *that* you may give-divine service to the living God.


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<pb/>And because of this, he is the intermediary of a new covenant*, that <i>his</i> death having happened *for the redemption of the transgressions that were against the first covenant*, *that those who have been called may receive the promise of the everlasting inheritance.


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For* where <i>there is</i> a covenant*, <i>it is</i> a necessity <i>for</i> the death of the one who covenanted <i>it</i> to be brought <i>about</i>.


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For* a covenant* is steadfast upon <i>the</i> dead; since it is never enforced when he who covenanted <i>it</i> is living.


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For* <i>when</i> every commandment was spoken by Moses to all the people according to <i>the</i> law, <i>and when</i> he took the blood of the calves and the male-goats, with water and scarlet wool and hyssop, he sprinkled both the book itself and all the people,


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And according to the law, I may say, almost all things are cleansed in blood and no forgiveness happens without the shedding of blood.


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<pb/>Therefore indeed, <i>it was</i> a necessity that the copies of the things in the heavens are to be cleansed with these, but the heavenly things themselves with better sacrifices than these.


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For* the Christ did not enter into <i>the</i> holy-places made* with hands, counterparts to the true <i>one</i>, but into heaven itself, now to be manifested before the face of God on our behalf.


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Nor <i>did he enter</i> in order that he should offer himself often, just-like the high-priest enters into the holy-places every year with* another’s blood;


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since often it was essential <i>for</i> him to suffer from the conception of the world, but now once for all upon the end of the ages, he has been manifested *for the nullifying of sin through the sacrifice of himself.


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so the Christ, (having been offered once for all, *that* he should carry the sins of many), will also be seen a second-time *for salvation, separate from sin, to the same <i>who are</i> waiting for him.


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<pb/>For* the law, having a shadow of the future good things, (not the same image of the matters), they are never able to complete those who come near with the same continual sacrifices which they are offering every year.


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Otherwise, <i>why</i> would they not have ceased being offered? Because those who are giving-divine service to <i>God</i>, once having been cleansed, <i>would then</i> have a conscience of sins no more.


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Hence <i>while</i> entering into the world, he says, ‘You did not wish for sacrifice and offering, but you, yourself, completed a body for me.


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Then I said, (as it has been written concerning me in the volume of the book), Behold, I am coming to do your will, O God.’ <n>{Psa 40:6-8}</n>


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<i>After</i> saying <i>this</i> above, You did not wish, nor were you delighted in sacrifice and offering and whole burnt-offerings and <i>sacrifices</i> concerning sin, (which are offered according to the law),


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then he has said, ‘Behold, I am coming to do your will, O God.’ <n>{Psa 40:6-8}</n> He assassinates <n>{Or: takes away permanently.}</n> the first <i>covenant*</i>, in order that he should establish the second <i>covenant*</i>,


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in which will, we have been made holy through the offering of the body of Jesus Christ once for all.


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And indeed every priest stands every day ministering* and often offering the same sacrifices, which are never able to take away sins. <n>{Exo 29:38}</n>


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But having offered one continual sacrifice on behalf of sins, he sat down at <i>the</i> right <i>hand</i> of God;


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‘This <i>is</i> the covenant* that I will covenant* for them after those days, says the Lord, I will be giving my laws upon their hearts and I will write them upon their minds.’


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<pb/>Therefore brethren, having boldness *for the entrance <i>into</i> the holy-places by the blood of Jesus,


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let us come near with a true heart in full assurance of faith, <i>our</i> hearts having been sprinkled away from an evil conscience and <i>our</i> body, having been fully-washed in clean <n>{Or: cleansing}</n> water.


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We should hold-onto the confession of our hope– unwavering; for* he who promised <i>is</i> faithful.


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And we should consider one another *for motivating <i>each other</i> from love* and from good works;


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not forsaking our own gathering-together, just-as <i>the</i> custom <i>is</i> with some, but encouraging <i>one another</i>, and so-much more, inasmuch as you° are seeing the day drawing near.


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<pb/>For* <i>when</i> we sin willfully after the receiving <i>of</i> the full knowledge of the truth, <i>then</i> a sacrifice is left no more <i>for us</i> concerning sins,


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but a certain fearful expectancy of judgment and a zeal of fire which is about to eat the adversaries.


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Anyone, having rejected <i>the</i> Law of Moses, dies without mercy upon <i>the word of</i> two or three witnesses. <n>{Deu 17:6}</n>


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How-much worse punishment, do you° think he will be deemed worthy of, <i>after</i> having trampled under foot the Son of God, and having deemed the blood of the covenant* in which he was made holy <i>as</i> common, and having insulted the Spirit of grace?


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For* we know the one who said, ‘Vengeance <i>is</i> for me. I will be repaying says <i>the</i> Lord.’ And again, ‘<i>The</i> Lord will judge his people.’ <n>{Deu 32:35-36, Psa 135:14}</n>


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<pb/>But remind° yourselves of the former days, <i>when</i> you° were enlightened, in which you° endured a large conflict of sufferings;


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<i>in</i> this thing indeed, makes you° a spectacle both by reproaches and afflictions, but <i>in</i> this thing, you became partners of those who conducted themselves so.


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For* you° also sympathized together with <i>me</i> in my bonds, and you° accepted the ravening of your° possessions with joy, knowing that you° have for yourselves a better possession in the heavens and an abiding <i>one</i>.


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For* you° have need of endurance, in order that, having done the will of God, you° may get the promise for yourselves.


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‘For* still a little <i>while</i>, <i>O</i> how-much? <i>O</i> how-much? He who is coming will be coming and will not delay.


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But my righteous one will be living from faith and if he retreats back, my soul does not delight in him.’ <n>{Isa 26:20, Hab. 2:3-4}</n>


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But we are not from this retreating back <i>leading</i> to destruction, but <i>we are</i> from <i>the</i> faith <i>leading</i> to the preservation of <i>the</i> soul.


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in faith, we perceive that the ages have been framed by the declaration of God, toward the things seen, and did not become from <i>things</i> which appear.


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In faith, Abel offered a more <i>excellent</i> sacrifice to God than Cain, through which he was witnessed to be righteous, God testifying on <i>the basis of</i> his gifts and through it, he still speaks, <i>although</i> having died.


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In faith, Enoch was transferred, not to see death, and he was not being found, because God transferred him; for* it had been testified <i>of him</i> to have been well pleasing to God before his transfer.


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But without faith <i>it is</i> impossible to be well pleasing <i>to God</i>; for* it is essential <i>for</i> the one who comes near to God to believe that he is and <i>that</i> he becomes a rewarder to those who are seeking him out.


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In faith, Noah, having been divinely-warned concerning things not yet seen, <i>and</i> being scared, prepared an ark *for <i>the</i> salvation of his house; through which he condemned the world and he became an heir of righteousness according to faith.


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In faith, Abraham obeyed*, being called to go out to the place which he was about to receive *for an inheritance, and he went out, not knowing where he was going.


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In faith, he sojourned in <i>the</i> land of promise, as an alien, having dwelt in tents with Isaac and Jacob, the joint heirs of the same promise.


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In faith, even Sarah herself received power *for conception of seed and bore <i>a son</i> contrary to <i>the</i> time of <i>her fertile</i> age*, since she deemed him faithful who promised <i>it</i>.


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And hence these were fathered from one <i>sexually</i> dead <i>man</i>, just-as the stars of heaven in a multitude and <i>as</i> innumerable as the sand beside the sea shore<i>.</i> <n>{Gen 4:4, 5:24, 6:8, 14, 12:1-2, 5, 27:11-12, 14, Gen 18:1-33, 22:17}</n>


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<pb/>These all died according to faith, not having received the promises. But having seen <i>them</i> and having greeted them from farther out and having confessed that they are strangers and travelers upon the earth.


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And if they were indeed remembering that <i>region</i> from which they went out, they would have had an opportunity to revisit.


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But now they are aspiring for themselves to a better <i>region</i>, this thing <i>is</i> a heavenly one. Hence God is not ashamed of them, to be called their God; for* he prepared a city for them.


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<pb/>In faith, Abraham, being tested, has offered up Isaac. And he who accepted the promises was offering up his only begotten <i>son</i>;


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He reasoned that God <i>is</i> able to raise <i>him up</i> even from the dead; from where he also got him back in a figure.


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In faith, Jacob, <i>while</i> dying, blessed each of the sons of Joseph, and worshiped, <i>resting</i> upon the tip of his staff.


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In faith, Joseph, <i>while</i> dying*, remembered <i>things</i> concerning the exodus of the sons of Israel, and commanded <i>them</i> concerning his bones. <n>{Gen 21:1, 12, 50:24}</n>


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<pb/>In faith, Moses, having been born, was hid three months by the fathers, because they saw he was a handsome child, and they were not afraid of the command of the king.


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having selected for himself to be mistreated together with the people of God rather than to have temporary enjoyment of sin,


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having deemed the reproach of the Christ greater riches <i>than</i> the treasures of Egypt; for* he was looking toward the reward.


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In faith, he left Egypt, not fearing the fury of the king; for* he persevered, as seeing the invisible <i>one</i>.


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In faith, he has made* the Passover and the splashing of the blood <i>on the door frames</i>, in order that the destroyer of the firstborn should not touch them.


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In faith, they crossed over the Red Sea as <i>if</i> through dry <i>land</i>; from which the Egyptians having taken an attempt <i>at it</i>, were swallowed up. <n>{Exo 2:2, 11, 15, 12:11, 18, 14:22}</n>


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In faith, Rahab the prostitute did not perish together with those who were disobedient, having accepted the spies with peace. <n>{Jos 6:17-23, Jos 2:1}</n>


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<pb/>And what more should I say? For* the time will fail me if I describe <i>the things</i> concerning Gideon, Barak, and both Samson and Jephthah; both David and Samuel, and the prophets:


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who through faith conquered kingdoms, worked righteousness, obtained promises, sealed the mouths of lions,


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quenched the power of fire, fled away from the edge of the sword, were empowered away from weakness, became mighty in war, the encampments of aliens bowed <i>down</i>.


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Women received <i>back their</i> dead from a resurrection. But others were tortured, having not accepted <i>their</i> redemption; in order that they might obtain a better resurrection,


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they were stoned; they were sawed in <i>two</i>; they were tempted; they died in murder from the sword; they went around in sheepskins, <i>and</i> in goat hides; <i>they were</i> lacking, being afflicted, <i>and</i> being mistreated,


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(of whom the world was not worthy), wandering in <i>the</i> wildernesses and mountains and caves and the holes of the earth.


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God having foreseen something better concerning us, in order that they should not be completed separate from us. <n>{Jud 6:4, 11, 15, 1Sa 7:1-17, 2Sa 2:1-32, 2Sa 8:1-18, Jud 14:1-20, Dan 6:1-28}</n>


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<pb/>Therefore, <i>since</i> we also have so-great a cloud of witnesses encompassing us, let us run through endurance the contest laying before us, placing away from ourselves every interference, and the <n>{F}</n> easily restricting sin.


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Looking away from <i>things, look</i> toward Jesus, the author and completer of the faith, who endured the cross having despised shame, in exchange-for the joy laying before him, and sat down at the right <i>hand</i> of the throne of God.


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For*, study° the one who has endured such dispute by sinners to himself, in order that you° might not be weary, fainting in your° souls.


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You° have not yet stood up as far as <i>sacrificing</i> blood toward <i>your</i> struggling against sin.


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And you° have forgotten the encouragement which reasons with you° as with sons, ‘My son, do not regard-lightly the disciplining of the Lord, nor be fainting <i>when</i> you are reproved by him.


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For* whom the Lord loves*, he disciplines, and scourges every son whom he is accepting.’ <n>{Prov. 3:11-12, Job 5:17}</n>


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<i>It is</i> *for disciplining <i>that</i> you° endure; God is dealing with you° as with sons; for* what is <i>the</i> son whom <i>his</i> father is not disciplining?


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But if you° are without discipline, of which all have become partakers, consequently*, you° are illegitimate and not sons.


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Thereafter, we indeed had the fathers of our flesh <i>as</i> correctors <i>of us</i>, and we were revering <i>them</i>. Will we not much rather be made subject to the Father of spirits and we will live?


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For* they indeed were disciplining <i>us</i> *for a few days according to what <i>did</i> seem <i>right</i> to them, but <i>he does it</i> upon what is advantageous for <i>us</i>, *that* we may receive of his holiness.


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Now indeed all disciplining does not seem to be <i>a thing</i> of joy for the present*, but of sorrow; now later it gives peaceful fruit of righteousness to those who have been exercised because of it.


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and make*° straightened tracks for your° feet, in order that what is lame may not be turned aside, but rather should be healed.


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exercising the oversight <i>of yourselves</i> lest <i>there is</i> anyone who comes-short, away from the grace of God; lest any root of bitterness springing upward, might trouble you°, and many may be defiled through this;


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lest <i>there is</i> any fornicator or profane <i>person</i>, like Esau, who gave <i>away</i> his birthright in exchange-for one dinner. <n>{Gen 25:31}</n>


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For* you° know thereafter that even wishing to inherit the bounty, he was rejected*; for* he found no chance for repentance although having sought it out with tears.


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<pb/>For* you° have not come to a mountain being touched and having been burned with fire and to blackness and to darkness and to whirlwind,


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and to the noise of a trumpet and to the voice of declarations; which <i>voice</i> those who heard renounced, <i>asking the</i> word not to be added to them.


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For* they were not carrying <i>out</i> what was ordered, ‘Even if a beast might touch the mountain, it will be stoned.’ <n>{Exo 19:12-13, 16, Deu 4:11}</n>


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And so fearful was the manifestation, <i>that</i> Moses said, ‘I am fearful and trembling. <n>{Deu 9:19}</n>


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But you° have come to Mount Zion and to <i>the</i> city of the living God, to the heavenly Jerusalem, and to tens of thousands of messengers,


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to the festal-gathering and to the congregation* of the firstborn <i>ones</i>, who have been registered in the heavens and to God, <i>the</i> judge of all, and to the spirits of <i>the</i> righteous who have been completed,


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and to Jesus the intermediary of a new covenant*, and to the blood of sprinkling which speaks better than <i>that of</i> Abel.


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Beware° <i>that</i> you° do not renounce the one who speaks. For* if those <i>men</i> did not flee, having renounced the one who divinely-warned <i>them</i> upon the earth, much more we <i>may not flee</i> who are turning away from him, <i>who is</i> from the heavens;


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whose voice then shook the earth. But now he has promised, saying, ‘Still once for all, I do not only shake the earth, but also the heaven.’ <n>{Hag. 2:6}</n>


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And the <i>saying</i>, ‘still once for all,’ indicates the transfer of those things which are shaken, as of things which have been made*, in order that those things which are not shaken may remain.


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Hence, receiving an unshakable kingdom, let us have gratitude, through which we give-divine service <i>in ways</i> well pleasing to God, with reverence and piety;


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for* our God is also a consuming fire. <n>{Deu 4:24}</n> <pb/><br/><n>{Footnotes: Heb 12:1, or: popular sin; what stands around us well.}</n><br/><pb/>


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Remember° those who are prisoners, as having been bound together with <i>them</i>; those who are mistreated, as <i>though</i> being <i>mistreated</i> yourselves also in the body.


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<i>Let</i> marriage <i>be</i> honored among all and <i>let</i> the marriage-bed <i>be</i> undefiled, but fornicators and adulterers God will be judging.


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In the manner <i>of life,</i> not <i>being</i> a money-lover, be content with the things which are present*; for* he himself has said, I should never be lax <i>concerning</i> you, nor am I forsaking you.


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So-that we, being courageous, may say, The Lord is my helper and I will not be fearing. What will man be doing for me? <n>{Gen 18:2, Deu 31:8, Jos 1:5, Psa 56:4, 11; 118:6}</n>


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<pb/>Remember° your° leaders, men who spoke to you° the word of God, of whom <i>after</i> reviewing <i>the</i> outcome of <i>their</i> conduct, imitate° the faith <i>of such</i>!


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Do° not be carried away by various and strange teachings; for* <i>it is</i> good that the heart be confirmed in gratitude; not by foods, in which those who walked were not profited.


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We have an altar, from which those who give-divine service to the tabernacle have no authority to eat.


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For* the bodies of those creatures, whose blood is brought into the holy of holies through the high-priest <i>as an offering</i> concerning sin, are burned outside the encampment.


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Hence Jesus also suffered outside the gate, in order that he might make the people holy through his own blood.


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Therefore, let us always offer up a sacrifice of praising through him to God, that is, the fruit of <i>our</i> lips confessing <i>praise</i> in his name.


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But do° not forget the practice of good* and fellowship. For* God is well pleased with such sacrifices.


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Obey° and yield° yourselves to your° leaders; for* they are watching <i>out</i> on behalf of your° souls, as those who will be giving account; in order that they may do this thing with joy and not groaning; for* this <i>would be</i> detrimental to you°. <n>{Lev 4:12, 21, Lev 16:27, Num 19:3, Mic 2:10}</n>


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<pb/>Pray° concerning us; for* we have confidence that we have a good conscience, wishing to conduct ourselves <i>in a</i> good <i>manner</i> in all things.


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<pb/>Now the God of peace, who brought* up the great shepherd of the sheep, our Lord Jesus, from the dead in the blood of an everlasting covenant*,


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may he complete you° in every good work, *that* you° should practice his will, doing what is well pleasing in his sight in you°, through Jesus Christ in whom <i>is</i> the glory, forevermore. Amen.


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<pb/>But I am encouraging you°, brethren, tolerate° the word of encouragement, for* I have informed you° by letter through bits <i>of information</i>.


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Do you° know that <i>our</i> brother Timothy has been released? With whom, I will be seeing you° if he comes shortly.


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<pb/>Grace <i>is</i> with all of you°. Amen. <pb/><br/><n>{Please read the Preface and other non-bible sections. * is our universal footnoting for words contained in the ‘Definitions’ section. These words are NOT the same Greek word as the non-asterisk form; i.e. *FOR is different from FOR* is different from FOR.}</n><br/><pb/><br/><n>{Note: We are of the opinion Mark and Matthew were written at about the same time as James. This ties up a lot of questions why Matthew is written to the Jews and Mark was written to the Greeks.}</n><br/><pb/>


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<pb/>James, a bondservant of God and of the Lord Jesus Christ, to the twelve tribes, those <i>who are</i> in the dispersion. Hail <i>to you</i>°!


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knowing that the proving of your° faith <n>{Or: belief; and throughout the N.T.}</n> is working out endurance.


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But let endurance have <i>its</i> completed work, in order that you° may be completed and whole, deficient in nothing.


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<pb/>But if anyone of you° is deficient of wisdom, let him ask from God, who gives to all liberally and does not reproach <i>any</i>, and it will be given to him.


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But let him ask in faith, doubting nothing in himself. For* he who is doubting himself resembles a wave of the sea being blown by the wind and tossed <i>around</i>.


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but the rich <i>brother</i> in his humbleness, because like the flower of the grass, he will be passing away.


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For* the sun rose together with the burning heat, and dried up the grass, and its flower fell and the beauty of its face perished. So will the rich man also fade away in his pursuits.


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<pb/>The fortunate man who is enduring temptation, because, <i>after</i> he became approved, he will be receiving the crown of life, which the Lord promised to those who love* him.


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Let no one say <i>while</i> he is tempted, I am tempted from God, for* God is not temptable from evils, and he himself tempts no one.


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Thereafter <i>after</i> this lust <i>has</i> conceived, it bears sin, and sin, having been matured, gives-birth to death.


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<pb/>Every good <i>act of</i> giving, and every complete gift, is from above, descending from the Father of lights, with whom there is no change, nor a shadow of turning.


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<pb/>So-then my beloved brethren, let every man be quick in order to hear, <i>be</i> slow in order to speak, <i>and</i> slow to wrath.


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Hence, having placed away from yourselves all filthiness and <i>the</i> abundance of malice, accept° the implanted word in meekness, which is able to save your° souls.


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Because if anyone is a hearer of the word and not a doer, he resembles a man considering his face <i>(which was his</i> from birth) in a mirror.


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But he who <i>has</i> peered into <i>the</i> completed law, the <i>law</i> of freedom, and <i>has</i> remained <i>in it</i>, this one, having not become a forgetful hearer, but a doer of works, this one will be fortunate in his doing <n>{Or: action; practice}. {1Co 13:10}</n>


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<pb/>If anyone among you° thinks himself to be <i>outwardly</i> religious, <i>though</i> he does not bridle his tongue but deceiving his heart; this one’s religion is futile.


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<pb/>My brethren, do° not have the faith of our Lord Jesus Christ, <i>the Lord</i> of glory, in favoritism.


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<pb/>Listen°, my beloved brethren. Did God not choose the poor of the world <i>to be</i> rich in faith and heirs of the kingdom which he promised to those who love* him?


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But you° dishonored the poor. Are the rich not oppressing you°? And are they themselves <i>not</i> dragging you° into <i>the</i> courts?


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Nevertheless, if you° complete the royal law, according to the Scripture, ‘You will love* your neighbor like yourself,’ you° are doing well. <n>{Lev 19:18}</n>


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But if you° are showing-favoritism, you° are working sin, being convicted by the law as transgressors.


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<pb/>For* who<i>ever</i> will be keeping the whole law and yet will trip in one <i>point</i>, he has become liable to all <i>of it</i>.


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For* he who said, 'Do not commit adultery,' also said, 'Do not murder.' <n>{Exo 20:13-14, Deu 5:17-18}</n> But if you will not commit adultery, but <i>yet</i> you will <i>commit</i> murder, you have become a transgressor of <i>the</i> law.


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<pb/>My brethren, what is the profit, if someone says he has faith, but does not have works? Is that faith able to save him?


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and anyone out of you° may say to them, Go° away in peace. Be° warmed and be° fully-fed, but do° not give to them the body’s requirements; what is the profit?


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<pb/>But someone will say, You have faith, and I have works. Show me your faith away from your works. I will also show you my faith from my works.


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<pb/>Was not Abraham our father made righteous from works, having offered up Isaac his son upon the altar?


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Do you see that faith was working together with his works and <i>his</i> faith was completed from <i>his</i> works?


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And the Scripture was fulfilled which says, ‘And Abraham believed God and it was counted to him *for righteousness,' and he was called the friend of God. <n>{Gen 15:6}</n>


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<pb/>Now likewise, was not Rahab the prostitute also made righteous from works, <i>after</i> she accepted the messengers and had put them out a different way? <n>{Jos 2:1, 6:17, 23}</n>


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<pb/>My brethren, do° not <i>let</i> many <i>of</i> you° become teachers, knowing that we will be receiving a greater judgment.


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For* we all trip in many things. If anyone does not trip in speech, this one is a mature man, <i>is</i> also able to bridle the whole body.


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Behold we put the bridles into the mouths of the horses *that* they should be obedient to us, and we direct their whole body.


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Behold also the ships, <i>though</i> being so-great and are driven by harsh winds, yet they are directed by a little rudder, wherever the impulse of the steersman is planning.


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<pb/>So the tongue is also a little member and boasts of magnificent things. Behold, how-vast a forest it kindles with <i>such</i> a small fire!


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And the tongue is a fire, the world of unrighteousness. Thus the tongue is designated among our members <i>as</i> what stains the whole body and ignites the birth cycle <n>{i.e. the cycle of life}</n> and is ignited by hell.


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For* every nature of beasts and birds, of reptiles and sea-creatures, is tamed and has been tamed by human nature.


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But no one from mankind is able to tame the tongue; <i>it is</i> an uncontrollable evil, full of deadly poison.


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We are giving-thanks to God and <i>the</i> Father with* it and we curse men with* it, those who have become according to the likeness of God.


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A thanks and a curse comes out of the same mouth. My brethren, these things do not need to become so!


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The spring is not gushing sweet and bitter <i>water</i> from the same hole <i>in the ground, is it</i>?


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My brethren, a fig tree is not able to produce olives or a vine <i>produce</i> figs, are they? Thus no spring <i>is able</i> to produce <i>both</i> salty and sweet water.


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<pb/>Who <i>is</i> wise and knowledgeable among you°? Let him show out of his good conduct his works in meekness of wisdom.


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But if you° have bitter jealousy and selfish ambition in your° heart, do° not boast and lie° against the truth.


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But the wisdom <i>which is</i> from above is indeed first pure, thereafter <i>is</i> peaceful, gentle, compliant, full of mercy and good fruits, impartial and non-pretended.


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<pb/>From where <i>are the</i> wars and quarrels among you° <i>coming from</i>? <i>Is it</i> not from here, from your° own sensual-delights which are warring in your° members?


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You° lust and do not have; you° murder and are jealous and are not able to obtain; you° quarrel and make war; you° do not have, because you° are not asking.


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You° ask and do not receive, because you° ask evilly, in order that you° may spend <i>it</i> in your° sensual-delights.


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<pb/>Adulterers and adulteresses, do you° not know that the friendship of the world is hostility <i>toward</i> God? Therefore, whoever wills to be a friend of the world is designated <i>as</i> an enemy of God.


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Or are you° thinking that the Scripture speaks with emptiness? Does the Spirit who dwelt in us long to envy?


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But he is giving greater grace. Hence <i>the Scripture</i> says, ‘God resists the haughty, but gives grace to the humble.’ <n>{Prov 3:34}</n>


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<pb/>Therefore, be° subject to God and stand° against the devil, and he will be fleeing away from you°.


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Draw° near to God and he will be drawing near to you°. Cleanse° <i>your°</i> hands sinners and purify° <i>your°</i> hearts <i>you</i>° indecisive!


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Be miserable° and mourn° and weep°. Let your° laughter be turned to mourning and your° joy <i>be turned</i> to gloom.


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<pb/>Brethren do° not speak against one another. He who is speaking against a brother and is judging his brother, is speaking against <i>the law</i> and is judging <i>the</i> law. Now if you are judging <i>the</i> law, you are not a doer of <i>the</i> law, but a judge.


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There is the one lawgiver, who is able to save and to destroy; but who are you who judges the other?


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<pb/>Proceed <i>on</i> now, you° who are saying, Today and the next-day, we should travel into this city and should spend one year there and be a merchant and make* a gain.


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You° do not know what the next-day <i>will bring</i>, for* what <i>is</i> your° life? For* it will be a vapor, which appears for a small <i>time</i> but also thereafter disappears.


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Instead of that, you° should say, If the Lord wills, and we should also live, <i>then</i> we might do this or that.


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<pb/>Proceed <i>on</i> now <i>you</i> rich, weep°, howling in your° miseries, in those which are coming upon <i>you°</i>.


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Your° gold and silver have been tarnished, and their tarnish will be *for a testimony <i>against</i> you° and will be eating your° flesh like fire. You° <i>have</i> stored up <i>treasure</i> in <i>your°</i> last days.


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Behold, the wages of the workers who mowed your° farmlands, <i>the wages</i> which have been defrauded by you°, are crying out <i>against</i> you° and the cries of those who reaped have entered into the ears of the Lord of Hosts.


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You° caroused upon the land and were self-indulgent; you° nourished your° hearts as in a day of slaughter.


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You° sentenced <i>others</i>, you° murdered the righteous; there is no resisting <i>evil</i> in you°.


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<pb/>Therefore brethren, have° patience until the presence of the Lord. Behold, the farmer is waiting for the precious fruit of the earth, having patience over it, until it should receive <i>the</i> morning and evening rainfall.


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You° also, have° patience; establish° your° hearts, because the presence of the Lord has drawn near.


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Brethren, do° not groan against one another, in order that you° may not be judged. Behold, the judge stands before the doors.


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<pb/>My brethren, take° <i>as</i> an example of suffering evil treatment and of patience the prophets who spoke in the name of the Lord.


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Behold°, we esteem those fortunate who are enduring. You° heard of the endurance of Job and saw the end of the Lord, how that he is very affectionate and compassionate. <n>{Job 1:21-22, 42:1-17}</n>


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<pb/>My brethren, but before all things, do° not swear, neither <i>by</i> the heaven, nor <i>by</i> the earth, nor <i>by</i> any other oath, but let your° yes <i>be</i> yes and your° no <i>be</i> no; in order that you° may not fall into hypocrisy.


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<pb/>Is anyone among you° suffering evil treatment? Let him pray. Is anyone cheerful? Let him sing-praise.


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Is anyone among you° sick? Let him invite the elders of the congregation*, and let them pray over him, having anointed him with oil in the name of the Lord.


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And the vow of the faith will save the one who is weary and the Lord will lift him up, even if he has practiced sins, it will be forgiven him.


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<pb/>Therefore confess° your° trespasses to one another, and pray° on behalf of one another, *that you° may be healed. The supplication of a righteous man prevails; much <i>in its</i> working.


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Elijah was a man of like-feelings to us and he prayed with <i>much</i> prayer that it might not rain, and it did not rain upon the land <i>for</i> three years and six months.


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And he prayed again, and the heaven gave rainfall and the land sprouted her fruit. <n>{1Ki 17:1, 18:41}</n>


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<pb/>Brethren, if anyone among you° are misled from the truth and someone should return him <i>to it</i>;


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let him know, that he who <i>has</i> turned a sinner from the error of his way will be saving a soul from death and will be hiding a multitude of sins. <pb/><br/><n>{NOTES: You should read the 'Definitions' Section and other non-bible sections.}</n><br/><pb/>


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<pb/>Peter, an apostle of Jesus Christ, to <i>the</i> chosen who are travelers from <i>the</i> dispersion from Pontus, Galatia, Cappadocia, Asia and Bithyna,


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according to <i>the</i> foreknowledge of God <i>the</i> Father, in <i>the</i> holiness of <i>the</i> Spirit, to obedience and sprinkling of <i>the</i> blood of Jesus Christ: grace to you° and may peace be multiplied.


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<pb/>The God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ <i>is</i> gracious*, who according to his much mercy has born us again into a living hope through <i>the</i> resurrection of Jesus Christ from the dead,


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into an incorruptible, undefiled and unfading inheritance having been guarded in the heavens *for you°;


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who are guarded through faith in <i>the</i> power of God, into a salvation ready to be revealed in <i>the</i> last time.


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In which you° are glad now, if it is essential <i>for</i> a few <i>moments</i>, you° were made sorrowful in various tests,


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in order that the trial of your° faith, (<i>being</i> much <i>more</i> precious <i>than</i> gold, which perishes), <i>even</i> now being tested through fire, may be found *for praise and honor and to glory in <i>the</i> revelation of Jesus Christ.


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<pb/>You° love* whom you° have not seen <n>{Or: known}</n> ; now you° believe in whom you° do not see; <i>in both</i> you° are glad with unspeakable and glorified joy;


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Concerning which salvation the prophets, who prophesied concerning the favor that <i>would come</i> to you°, sought out and utterly searched out;


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searching what <i>time</i> or what <i>sort of</i> time <i>the</i> Spirit of Christ in them was indicating, <i>while</i> testifying beforehand <i>of</i> the sufferings *for Christ and the glories <i>following</i> after these things.


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To whom it was revealed, that they were serving these things not to themselves, but to you°; which things now were reported to you° through those who proclaimed the good-news to you° in the Holy Spirit, <i>after</i> he was sent forth from heaven; into which things messengers desire to peer <i>into</i>.


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<pb/>Hence <i>when</i> you° girded up the loins of your° mind, <i>while</i> being sober, hope° completely upon the grace being brought to you° at the revelation of Jesus Christ;


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like children of obedience not fashioning yourselves in your° former lusts in <i>the time of</i> your° ignorance;


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but according to he who called you°, <i>who is</i> holy, you° yourselves also become° holy in all your° conduct;


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because it has been written, ‘Become° holy, because I am holy.’ <n>{Lev 11:44-45, 19:2, 20:7,26}</n>


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And if you° call upon the Father, who impartially judges according to the work of each <i>one</i>, conduct° yourselves in fear <i>during</i> the time of your° foreign residency <i>here</i>;


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knowing that you° were redeemed from your° futile conduct handed down from <i>your°</i> forefathers not with corruptible things <i>like</i> with silver or with gold.


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But like <i>that</i> of an unblemished and unstained lamb, <i>you were redeemed</i> by <i>the</i> precious blood of Christ,


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who indeed, having been known beforehand, before the conception of the world, but was manifested in <i>the</i> last times because of you°,


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who believe through him in God. <i>The God</i> who raised him <i>up</i> from the dead and gave him glory; so-that your° faith and hope might be in God.


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Having purified your° souls in the obedience to the truth through <i>the</i> Spirit toward non-pretended brotherly-love, intensely love*° one another from a clean heart;


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having been born again, not out of corruptible seed, but from <i>the</i> incorruptible, through <i>the</i> word of God, which is living and remaining forever.


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Because, ‘All flesh <i>is</i> like grass and all <i>the</i> glory of man <i>is</i> like the flower of grass. The grass dried up and its flower fell away.


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But the declaration of the Lord is abiding forever.’ <n>{Isa 40:6-9}</n> And this is the declaration of the good-news which was proclaimed to you°.


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<pb/>Therefore having placed away from yourselves all malice and all treachery, and hypocrisies and envies, and all slanders,


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as newborn babies, long-for° the logical milk <i>which has</i> no treachery, in order that you° may grow in it;


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coming to whom <i>is</i> a living stone, having indeed been rejected* by men, but chosen <i>and</i> precious with God.


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You°, yourselves, like living stones, are also built up <i>as</i> a spiritual house, a holy priesthood, to offer up spiritual sacrifices, acceptable to God through Jesus Christ.


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Because it is contained in the Scripture, ‘Behold, I place a stone in Zion, a cornerstone, chosen <i>and</i> precious, and the one who believes on him should never be ashamed.’ <n>{Isa 28:16}</n>


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Therefore, to those who believe <i>is</i> the honor, but to <i>the</i> disobedient, ‘<i>The</i> stone which the builders rejected*, this became to <i>them the</i> head of <i>the</i> corner'; <n>{Psa 118:22}</n>


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and, ‘A stone of stumbling and a rock of offense'; <n>{Isa 8:14}</n> <i>to</i> those who are stumbling in the word, being disobedient, toward which they were also appointed*.


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But you° <i>are</i> a chosen race, a royal priesthood, a holy nation, a people *for <i>God’s</i> ownership, *that you° may proclaim the virtues of the one who called you° out of darkness into his marvelous light;


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who previously <i>were</i> not a people, but <i>now are</i> the people of God; who had not been shown-mercy, but now were shown-mercy. <n>{Hos 1:10, 2:23}</n>


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<pb/>Beloved, I am encouraging you°, as foreigners and travelers, to abstain from fleshly lusts, which are warring against the soul;


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having your° good conduct <i>seen</i> among the Gentiles; in order that, in what they are speaking against you°, as evildoers, they may glorify God in the day of visitation, having eye-witnessed <i>things</i> from <i>your°</i> good works.


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<pb/>Therefore be° subject to every human creation because of the Lord: whether to the king, as being superior to you°;


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or to governors, as they are sent through him *for vengeance <i>on</i> evildoers and praise <i>to the</i> doers of good.


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as free and <i>yet</i> not having <i>your°</i> freedom as a cover-up of malice, but as bondservants of God.


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<pb/>Domestic <i>servants</i>, be subject to <i>your°</i> masters in all fear; not only to the good and gentle, but also to the crooked.


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For* this is grace, if anyone undergoes sorrows, suffering wrongfully because of <i>his</i> consciousness of God.


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For* you° were called into this, because Christ also suffered on our behalf, leaving a model for you°, in order that you° should follow after his footprints.


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who, being reviled, was not reviling again <i>in return</i>; <i>when</i> suffering, was not threatening, (but was giving <i>himself</i> to the one who judges righteously),


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who, himself, carried our sins in his body upon the tree, in order that we might live to righteousness, having become-dead to <i>our</i> sins; by whose wound<i>s</i> you° were healed.


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For* you° were being misled like sheep, but now were returned to the Shepherd and Overseer of your° souls. <n>{Isa 53}</n>


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<pb/>Likewise, wives be subject to your° own husbands; in order that, even if some are disobedient to the word, they might be gained without a word through the conduct of their wives;


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whose adornment, do not let it be the outward <i>adornment</i> of braiding <i>the</i> hair, and of placing on of gold things or of clothing of <i>expensive</i> garments;


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but <i>let it be</i> the hidden human <i>things</i> of the heart, in the incorruptible <i>adornment</i> of a meek and quiet spirit, which is greatly-valued in God’s sight.


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as Sarah obeyed* Abraham, calling him lord; whose children you° became, doing good and not fearing any terror. <n>{Gen 18:12-15}</n>


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<pb/>Likewise the husbands, dwell together with your° <i>wives</i> according to <i>the</i> knowledge, bestowing honor to the wife, as the weaker vessel, as also being joint heirs of <i>the</i> grace of life; *that* your° prayers may not be hindered.


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<pb/>Now <i>to</i> the end, all <i>be</i> like-minded, sympathetic, loving the brethren, affectionate, friendly;


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not repaying evil in exchange-for evil or reviling in exchange-for reviling, but instead, speaking well of <i>others</i>; knowing that you° were called *for this, in order that you° should inherit a blessing.


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<pb/>And who <i>is</i> he who will be mistreating you°, if you° become imitators of the good <i>one</i>?


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But even if you° should suffer because of righteousness<i>,</i> you° <i>are</i> fortunate. But do° not fear <i>because of</i> their fear, nor should you° be disturbed;


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but make° the Lord God holy in your° hearts, and <i>be</i> ready habitually with a defense to everyone who is asking you° for a reason concerning the hope <i>which is</i> in you°, with meekness and fear;


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having a good conscience; in order that, in what they are speaking against you° as evildoers, they may be ashamed who are railing at your° good conduct in Christ.


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Because Christ also suffered once for all on behalf of <i>our</i> sins, the righteous on behalf of the unrighteous, in order that he might lead you° to God; having indeed been slain in the flesh, but was given-life in <i>the</i> spirit;


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<i>while</i> they were previously disobedient, when the patience of God was waiting in <i>the</i> days of Noah, <i>while</i> the ark <i>was</i> being prepared, in which a few, that is, eight souls, were saved through water;


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which <i>is our</i> counterpart, immersion*, saves us also now, not the removal of <i>the</i> filth of the flesh, but the demand of a good conscience toward God, through the resurrection of Jesus Christ;


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who is at <i>the</i> right <i>hand</i> of God, having traveled into heaven; <i>with</i> messengers and authorities and powers having been made subject to him. <n>{Gen 6:3, 12}</n>


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*that* you should no longer have <i>your</i> life, (the rest of your° time in the flesh), in the lusts of men, but in the will of God.


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in which they are surprised <i>by</i> you°, <i>that you</i>° <i>are</i> not running together with <i>them</i> into the same outpouring of riotousness, blaspheming;


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For* the good-news was proclaimed even to the dead toward this <i>end</i>, in order that they might be judged indeed according to men in <i>the</i> flesh, but may live according to God in <i>the</i> Spirit.


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But before all things, having the intense love* *for yourselves, because love* will hide a multitude of sins.


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just-as each received a gift*, serving it *for yourselves, as good stewards of <i>the</i> various favor<i>s</i> of God.


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<pb/>Beloved, do° not be surprised at the fiery ordeal among you°, happening to you° *for a test, as <i>though</i> a strange thing is befalling to you°.


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But accordingly you° are sharing in the sufferings of the Christ <i>with us</i>, rejoice°, in order that you° may also rejoice in the revelation of his glory, being glad.


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If you° are reproached in <i>the</i> name of Christ<i>,</i> you° <i>are</i> fortunate, because the Spirit of glory and of God rests upon you°. He is indeed blasphemed according to their <i>manner</i>, but he is glorified according to your <i>manner</i>.


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<pb/>I am encouraging <i>the</i> elders the ones among you°, (the fellow elder and witness of the sufferings of the Christ, also the partner of the glory which is about to be revealed).


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Shepherd° the flock of God among you°, exercising the oversight, not by compulsion, but willfully, nor covetously, but eagerly;


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<pb/>Likewise, <i>the</i> younger <i>ones</i>, be° subject to the elder <i>ones</i>. But all <i>of</i> you° be subject to one another, clothe° yourselves with humility, because ‘God resists <i>the</i> haughty, but is giving grace to <i>the</i> humble.’ <n>{Prov. 3:34}</n>


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Therefore humble° yourselves under the powerful hand of God, in order that he may exalt you° in time;


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Be° sober! Watch°! Your° opponent, <i>the</i> devil, like a roaring lion, is walking around seeking whom he may swallow,


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to whom, stand° against, solid in the faith, knowing that the same sufferings are to be completed in <i>the</i> world by your° brotherhood.


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<pb/>Through Silvanus, our faithful brother, as I count <i>him</i>, I wrote to you° a few <i>words</i>, encouraging and testifying this to be <i>the</i> true grace of God in which you° are standing.


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Greet° one another with a kiss of love*. <pb/>Peace to all of you° who are in Christ Jesus. Amen. <pb/><br/><n>{NOTES: You should read the 'Definitions' Section and other non-bible sections.}</n><br/><pb/>


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<pb/>Simon Peter, a bondservant and apostle of Jesus Christ, to those who were allotted an equally precious faith with us, in the righteousness of our God and Savior Jesus Christ:


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<pb/>As his divine* power has been bestowed to us as a gift, (all things <i>pertaining</i> to life and godliness*), through the full knowledge of the one who called us through glory and virtue;


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through which he has bestowed to us as a gift, the precious and greatest promises; in order that you° might become partners of the divine* nature through these things, having fled away from the corruption in the world among <i>its</i> lust.


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<pb/>Now also <i>for</i> this same thing, besides having brought in all diligence, supply° in your° faith, virtue, and in your° virtue, knowledge


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and in your° knowledge, self-control, and in your° self-control, endurance, and in your° endurance, godliness*;


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For* <i>if</i> these things are existing and increasing in you°, none <i>will</i> designate you° idle nor unfruitful toward the full knowledge of our Lord Jesus Christ.


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For* the one is blind in whom these things are not present*, being short-sighted, having taken <i>on himself the</i> forgetfulness of <n>{i.e. deliberately forgot}</n> the cleansing from his old sins.


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<pb/>Hence brethren, be° more diligent to make* your° calling and choice steadfast; for*, you° should never trip someday <i>while</i> practicing these things;


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for* so the entrance into the everlasting kingdom of our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ will be richly supplied to you°.


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<pb/>Hence, I will habitually not be neglecting to remind you° concerning these things, although you° know them and are established in the present* truth.


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But I am deeming <i>it</i> righteous, inasmuch as I am in this tabernacle, to awaken you° with a reminder;


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knowing that the removal of my tabernacle is <i>coming</i> quickly, just-as our Lord Jesus Christ indicated to me.


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But I will also be diligent, each-time, to have you° in remembrance of these things, to practice <i>them</i> after my exodus.


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For* we did not follow wisely devised fables, <i>when</i> we made known to you° the power and presence of our Lord Jesus Christ, but <i>in that</i>, we became eyewitnesses of that majesty.


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For* having received honor and glory from God the Father, <i>when</i> such a voice was carried to him by the Majestic Glory, <J>This is my beloved Son, in whom I am delighted.</J>


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And we heard this voice, having been carried from heaven, being together with him in the holy mountain.


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And we have the steadfast prophetic word, (as to a lamp appearing in a dreary place, until the day should dawn and the <n>{F}</n> morning-star might rise), to which you° are doing well, <i>and</i> taking-heed in your° hearts.


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Knowing this first, that every prophecy of Scripture does not come* from <i>one’s</i> own interpretation.


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For* no prophecy was ever brought <i>about</i> by <i>the</i> will of man, but <i>the</i> holy men of God spoke <i>the word</i> being carried by <i>the</i> Holy Spirit. <pb/><br/><n>{Footnotes: 2Pe 1:19, or: Venus; literally: ‘light-bearer’; metaphorically Jesus.}</n><br/><pb/>


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<pb/>But false prophets happened <i>to be</i> also among the people, as false teachers will also be among you°, who will be smuggling in sects of destruction, denying even the Master who bought them, bringing* quick destruction upon themselves.


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And many will be following their unbridled-lusts, because of whom the way of the truth will be blasphemed<i>.</i>


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And they will be merchants of you° in <i>their</i> greed with fabricated words; to whom the condemnation from long-ago is not idle, and their destruction will not be slumbering.


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<pb/>For* if God did not spare messengers who sinned, but threw them into Tartarus <n>{i.e. hell}</n> and gave them to restraints of blackness, being kept *for judgment;


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and he did not spare the ancient world, but guarded Noah, <i>the</i> eighth <i>person spared</i>, a preacher of righteousness, <i>when</i> he brought* a flood upon the world of ungodly <i>people</i>; <n>{Gen 7:23, 8:1-22}</n>


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and he condemned the cities of Sodom and Gomorrah, with a catastrophe, having incinerated <i>them</i>, having placed them <i>as</i> an example <i>for</i> those who are about to be ungodly; <n>{Gen 19:1-38}</n>


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and he rescued righteous Lot, <i>who was</i> being subjugated by the conduct of the immoral in <i>their</i> unbridled-lusts


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(for* that righteous man, <i>who was</i> dwelling among them, was tormenting <i>his</i> righteous soul by seeing and in hearing <i>their</i> lawless works day by day).


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<pb/>The Lord knows how to rescue the devout out of temptation, and to keep the unrighteous to a day of judgment to be punished;


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and especially those who are conducting-themselves after the flesh in the lust of defilement and <i>while</i> despising lordship. Daring <i>and</i> self-willed, they are not trembling <i>when</i> blaspheming <i>heavenly</i> glories;


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where messengers, (<i>though</i> being greater in strength and power), do not bring a blasphemous judgment against them beside the Lord.


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But these <i>unrighteous men are</i> like natural unreasoning creatures, having been born *for apprehension and corruption, blaspheming in what they are ignorant of, and they will be utterly corrupted in their corruption.


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having eyes full of an adulteress and an unceasing sin; enticing unstable souls; having a heart which has been exercised from greed; children of <i>the</i> curse;


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having left <i>the</i> straight way. They were misled, having followed in the way of Balaam the <i>son</i> of Beor, who loved* the wages of unrighteousness; <n>{Num 22:5}</n>


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but he had <i>his</i> reproof from his own violation of the law: a voiceless donkey, having spoken in a human voice, forbade the insanity of the prophet.


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<pb/>These <i>people</i> are waterless springs and clouds driven by a gale <i>of wind</i> to whom the blackness of darkness has been kept forever.


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For* <i>while</i> speaking flattering-words of futility, they entice (with* the lusts of the flesh to unbridled-lusts) those who really <i>had</i> fled away from those who conduct themselves in error.


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<i>While</i> promising them freedom, they themselves are* bondservants of corruption. For* in what anyone has been succumbed, in this, he has also been enslaved.


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For* if, having fled away from the defilements of the world in the full knowledge of the Lord and Savior Jesus Christ, and having been again entangled, they are succumbed in these things, the last <i>state</i> has become worse to them <i>than</i> the first.


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For* it was better for them <i>to</i> have not fully known the way of righteousness, than to turn away from the holy commandment which was given to them <i>after</i> having fully known <i>it</i>.


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But it has befallen to them <i>as</i> the <i>way</i> of the true proverb, ‘<i>The</i> dog returned to its own vomit,’ and the sow that <i>had</i> fully-washed <i>to</i> a wallowing in <i>the</i> mud. <n>{Prov. 26:11}</n>


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<pb/>Beloved, this is already the second letter that I am writing among you°, and I am awakening your° sincere mind in both of them in a reminder;


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to be reminded of the declarations which have been spoken before by the holy prophets, and the commandments from your° apostles of the Lord and Savior.


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<pb/>Knowing this first, that mockers will be coming in the last of the days, conducting-themselves according to their own lusts,


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and saying, Where is the promise of his presence? For* from which <i>time</i> the fathers fell-asleep, thus all things remain as they were from <i>the</i> beginning of the creation.


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For* this is eluding them, (willing <i>it to be so</i>): that there were heavens from long-ago, and an earth established <n>{Or: standing together}</n> out of water and through water by the word of God;


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through which <i>water</i>, the world <i>that was</i> then was destroyed, having been flooded in water. <n>{Gen 7:21}</n>


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But the current heavens and the earth have been stored up for fire by the same word, being kept to <i>the</i> day of judgment and destruction of ungodly men.


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<pb/>But beloved, let this one thing not elude you°, that one day with the Lord is like a thousand years, and a thousand years like one day.


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The Lord is not slow <i>concerning</i> his promise, as some deem slowness, but has patience toward us, not planning <i>for</i> any to perish, but <i>for</i> all to make room <i>in your° hearts</i> *for repentance.


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<pb/>But the day of the Lord will be coming like a thief in the night; in which the heavens will be passing away with a crashing-sound, and the elements will be dissolved, being burnt with heat, and the earth and the works <i>which are</i> in it will be burned up.


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Therefore, <i>with</i> all these things being dissolved, <i>see</i> what sort of <i>things</i> it is essential <i>for you°</i> to possess in <i>all</i> holy conduct and godliness*,


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expecting, and diligently wanting the presence of the day of God, through which, <i>the</i> heavens will be dissolved, being on fire, and the elements <i>will</i> melt, being burnt with heat.


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<pb/>Hence, beloved, <i>while</i> expecting these things, be° diligent that you° may be found in peace, unstained and unblemished in his sight.


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And deem° the patience of our Lord <i>to be</i> salvation; just-as our beloved brother Paul also wrote to you° according to the wisdom which was given to him;


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as also in all <i>his</i> letters, speaking in them concerning these things; in which some things are hard to perceive, which the unlearned and unstable ones are twisting, as <i>they</i> also <i>twist</i> the rest of the Scriptures to their own destruction.


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Therefore beloved, knowing beforehand <i>these things</i>, guard° yourselves, in order that you° might not fall from your° own firmness, having been led away in the error of the immoral.


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But grow° in the grace and knowledge of our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ. Glory <i>is</i> to him, both now and toward the <i>final</i> day of <i>this</i> world. Amen. <pb/><br/><n>{NOTES: You should read the 'Definitions' Section and other non-bible sections.}</n><br/><pb/>


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<pb/><n>{John’s Good-news could have been written between 63-70 AD. For sure after the other three Good-news books were written.}</n><br/></pb> <pb/><br/><n>{All of John’s letters 1, 2, and 3 were written close together, 63-70 AD. We are of the opinion that God sealed up the New Testament with the writing of Revelation, and fulfilled all the New Testament and Old Testament prophecies with the destruction of Jerusalem. If any letters had been written after the destruction of Jerusalem, we see no reason for some of the wording contained in them and no mention of God’s Judgment Day on the Jewish religion.}</n><br/><pb/>What was from <i>the</i> beginning, what we have heard, what we have seen with our eyes, what we saw and our hands touched, concerning the Word of life


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and the life was manifested and we have seen and are testifying and reporting to you° the everlasting life, which was with the Father and was manifested to us.


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What we have seen and have heard, we report to you°, in order that you° may also have fellowship with us, but also our fellowship <i>is</i> with the Father and with his Son Jesus Christ;


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<pb/>And this is the message which we have heard from him and are reporting to you°, that God is light and there is no darkness in him– none <i>at all</i>.


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If we should say that we have fellowship with him and <i>then</i> should walk in the darkness, we are lying to ourselves, and we are not practicing the truth.


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But if we walk in the light, as he is in the light, we have fellowship with one another and the blood of Jesus Christ his Son is cleansing us from every sin.


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If we confess our sins, he is faithful and righteous <n>{F}</n> to forgive us our sins and to cleanse us from all unrighteousness.


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If we should say that we have not sinned, we make* him a liar and his word is not in us. <pb/><br/><n>{Footnotes: 1Jn 1:9 is the abbreviated form of: ‘in order that he might forgive us the sins in us and in order that he might cleanse us from...’}</n><br/><pb/>


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<pb/>My little-children, these things I am writing to you° in order that you° may not sin. And if anyone should sin, we have a Helper* with the Father, Jesus Christ <i>the</i> righteous.


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And he is the atonement concerning our sins, but not concerning ours only, but also concerning the whole world.


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He who says, I have known him and is not keeping his commandments, is a liar and the truth is not in this one;


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but whoever is keeping his word, truly the love* of God has been completed in this. We know in this that we are in him.


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He who says he abides in him, he also ought to walk so; just-as that <i>man</i> walked. <pb/><br/><n>{The word ‘abide’ as used throughout the Letters of John also can be translated as ‘dwell’ or ‘remain’ (as in 2:19).}</n><br/><pb/>


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<pb/>Brethren, I write no new commandment to you°, but an old commandment which you° <i>have</i> had <n>{Or: were holding onto}</n> from <i>the</i> beginning. The old commandment is the word which you° <i>have</i> heard from the beginning.


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Again, I am writing a new commandment to you°, which is true in him and in you°, because the darkness is passing away and the true light is already appearing.


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But he who hates his brother is in the darkness and is walking in the darkness and does not know where he is going, because the darkness blinded his eyes.


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<pb/>I am writing to you°, <i>my</i> little-children, because your° sins have been forgiven to you° through his name.


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I am writing to you°, fathers, because you° have known the one who <i>is</i> from <i>the</i> beginning. I am writing to you°, young-men, because you° have overcome the evil <i>one</i>. I am writing to you°, children, because you° have known the Father.


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I wrote to you°, fathers, because you° have known the one who is from <i>the</i> beginning. I wrote to you°, young-men, because you° are strong and the word of God is abiding in you° and you° overcame the evil <i>one</i>.


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<pb/>Do° not love* the world, nor the things <i>which are</i> in the world. If anyone loves* the world, the love* of the Father is not in him.


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Because everything in the world: the lust of the flesh and the lust of the eyes and the self-importance of life, are not from the Father, but are from the world.


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And the world is passing away and its lust, but he who is practicing the will of God abides forever.


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<pb/>Children, it is the last hour and just-as you° <i>have</i> heard that the antichrist is coming, even now many antichrists have become <i>known</i>; hence we know that it is <i>the</i> last hour.


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They went out away from us, but they were not from us; for* if they had been from us, they would have remained with us, but <i>they went out</i>, in order that they might be made manifest that all <i>of them</i> are not from us.


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I did not write to you° because you° do not know the truth, but because you° know <i>it</i> and because every lie is not from the truth.


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Who is the liar except he who is denying that Jesus is the Christ? This is the antichrist, he who is denying the Father and the Son.


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Therefore let what you° <i>have</i> heard from <i>the</i> beginning abide in you°. If what you° <i>have</i> heard from <i>the</i> beginning abides in you°, you° will also be abiding in the Son and in the Father.


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And <i>as for</i> you°, the anointing which you° received from him abides in you° and you° have no need that* anyone should teach you°, but as the same anointing teaches you° concerning all things and is true and is not a lie and just-as it taught you°, you° will be abiding in him.


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And now, abide° in him<i>, my</i> little-children; in order that we should have boldness whenever he is manifested, and we should not be shamed away from him in his presence.


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If you° know that he is righteous, you° also know that everyone who is practicing righteousness has been born from him.


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<pb/>Behold° what sort of love* the Father has given to us, in order that we might be called children of God. Because of this, the world does not know you°, because it did not know him.


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Beloved, we are now <i>the</i> children of God and it was not yet manifested what we will be. But we know that, if he is manifested, we will be similar to him, because we will be seeing him just-as he is.


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And you° know that, that <i>man</i> was manifested in order that he might take away our sins, and in him is no sin. <n>{Isa 53:4}</n>


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Everyone who abides in him is not sinning. Everyone who is sinning has not seen him, nor has known him.


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Let no one mislead you°, <i>my</i> little-children. He who practices righteousness is righteous, just-as that <i>man</i> is righteous.


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He who is practicing sin is from the devil, because the devil sins from <i>the</i> beginning, to this <i>end</i> the Son of God was manifested, in order that he might tear-down the works of the devil.


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Everyone who has been born from God does not practice sin, because his seed abides in him and he is not able to <i>practice</i> sin, because he has been born from God.


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The children of God and the children of the devil are apparent in this, everyone who does not practice righteousness is not from God and he who does not love* his brother.


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Because this is the message which you° <i>have</i> heard from <i>the</i> beginning, in order that we should love* one another;


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not like Cain who was from the evil <i>one</i> and slaughtered his brother. And he slaughtered him because of what? Because his works were evil but the <i>works</i> of his brother <i>were</i> righteous. <n>{Gen 4:8}</n>


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We know that we have stepped out of death into life, because we love* the brethren. He who does not love* <i>his</i> brother is abiding in death.


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Everyone who hates his brother is a murderer and you° know that no murderer has everlasting life abiding in him.


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We have known love* in this, because that <i>man</i> laid down his life on our behalf and we ought to lay <i>down</i> our lives on behalf of the brethren.


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But whoever has the world’s good life and should view his brother having need and <i>then</i> should lock his heart* from him, how does the love* of God abide in him?


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and whatever we ask, we receive from him, because we are keeping his commandments and are practicing the things which are pleasing in his sight.


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And this is his commandment, in order that we should believe in the name of his Son Jesus Christ and should love* one another, just-as he gave commandment <i>to us</i>.


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And he who is keeping his commandments abides in him and he in him. And we know in this that he abides in us, from the Spirit whom he gave us.


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<pb/>Beloved, do° not believe every spirit, but test° the spirits, <i>to see</i> if they are from God, because many false prophets have gone out into the world.


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The Spirit of God is known in this. Every spirit that confesses that Jesus Christ has come in the flesh is from God;


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and every spirit that does not confess <i>that</i> Jesus Christ came in the flesh, is not from God and this is the <i>spirit</i> of the antichrist, <i>of</i> which you° have heard, that it is coming, and now it is already in the world.


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You° are from God, <i>my</i> little-children and overcame them, because greater is he who is in you° than he who is in the world.


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They are from the world; because of this they speak <i>as</i> from the world and the world hears them.


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We are from God. He who knows God, hears us; he who is not from God does not hear us. We know from this: <n>{F}</n> the spirit of truth, and the spirit of deceit.


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<pb/>Beloved, we should love* one another, because love* is from God, and everyone who loves* has been born from God and knows God.


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In this, the love* of God was manifested in us, that God has sent his only begotten Son into the world in order that we might live through him.


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In this is love*, not that we loved* God, but that he loved* us and sent his Son <i>to be</i> the atonement on behalf of our sins.


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No one has seen God at anytime; if we love* one another, God is abiding in us and his love* is completed in us.


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And we have seen and are testifying that the Father has sent the Son <i>to be</i> the Savior of the world.


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And we have known and have believed the love* which God has in us. God is love*, and he who abides in love* abides in God and God abides in him.


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In this, love* has been completed with us, in order that we may have boldness in the day of judgment, because just-as that <i>man</i> is <i>complete</i>, we <i>are</i> also <i>complete</i> in this world.


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There is no fear in love*, but mature love* casts the fear outward, because the fear has punishment, and he who fears has not been matured in love*.


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If anyone say, I love* God and <i>then</i> should hate his brother, he is a liar; for* he who does not love* his brother, whom he has seen, how is he able to love* God, whom he has not seen?


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<pb/>Everyone who believes that Jesus is the Christ has been born from God and everyone who loves* the one who fathered <i>us</i>, also loves* the one who has been born from him.


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We know in this that we love* the children of God, whenever we love* God and <i>whenever</i> we are keeping his commandments.


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For* this is the love* of God, in order that we should keep his commandments and his commandments are not burdensome.


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Because everyone who has been born from God overcomes the world and this is the victory, our faith, that overcame the world.


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This is he who came through water and blood– Jesus Christ; not only in the water, but in the water and in the blood. And it is the Spirit who is testifying, because the Spirit is the truth.


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If we receive the testimony of men, the testimony of God is greater, because the testimony of God is this: that he has testified concerning his Son.


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He who believes in the Son of God has the testimony in himself. He who does not believe God, has made* him a liar, because he has not believed in the testimony that God has testified concerning his Son.


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<pb/>I wrote these things to you° who believe in the name of the Son of God, in order that you° may know that you° have everlasting life, and in order that you° may believe in the name of the Son of God.


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and if we know that he hears us whatever we ask, we know that we have the requests which we have asked from him.


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If anyone sees his brother sinning <n>{F}</n> a sin not to death, he will ask and <i>God</i> will be giving him life <i>for</i> those who are not sinning to death. There is <n>{F}</n> a sin to death. I do not say that* he should ask concerning that.


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<pb/>We know that everyone who has been born from God is not sinning, but he who was born from God guards himself and the evil <i>one</i> does not touch him.


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Now we know that the Son of God <i>has</i> come and has given us perception, in order that we might know the true one and we are in the true one, <i>that is,</i> in his son, Jesus Christ. He is the true God and <i>the</i> everlasting life.


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<pb/>The elder to <i>the</i> chosen <n>{F}</n> lady and her children, whom I love* in <i>the</i> truth, and not only I, but also all those who have known the truth;


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Grace, mercy, peace will be with us, from God the Father and from <i>the</i> Lord Jesus Christ, the Son of the Father, in truth and love*.


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<pb/>I rejoice exceedingly that I have found <i>some</i> out of your children walking in truth, just-as we received commandment from the Father.


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And now I ask you <n>{F}</n> lady, not as <i>though</i> I write to you a new commandment, but what we <i>have</i> had from <i>the</i> beginning, in order that we should love* one another.


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And this is love*, in order that we should walk according to his commandments. This is the commandment, just-as you° <i>have</i> heard from <i>the</i> beginning, in order that you° should walk in it.


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Because many misleaders entered into the world, those who are not confessing Jesus Christ <i>as</i> coming in the flesh. This is the misleader and the antichrist.


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Beware° <i>in</i> yourselves, in order that you° should not destroy the things which we worked <i>in</i> you°, but <i>in order that</i> we may receive a full reward.


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Everyone who transgresses and is not abiding in the teaching of the Christ, does not have God. He who abides in the teaching of Christ, this <i>one</i> has both the Father and the Son.


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If anyone is coming to you° and is not bringing this teaching, do° not receive him into your° house and do° not say hello to him;


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<pb/>Having many things to write to you°, I did not plan <i>to write them</i> through paper and ink, but I am hoping to come to you° and to speak mouth to mouth <n>{i.e., face to face}</n> , in order that our joy may be fulfilled.


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Beloved <i>Gaius</i>, I am praying <i>for</i> you to be prospered and to be sound* <n>{Or: healthy}</n> concerning all things, just-as your soul is prospering.


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For* I rejoiced exceedingly of <i>the</i> brethren coming and testifying of <i>your</i> truth, just-as you are walking in truth.


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I have no greater joy from these things, in order that I may hear my children <i>are</i> walking in the truth.


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<pb/>Beloved, you practice faithfully whatever you have worked toward the brethren and toward strangers;


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who testified to your° love* in the sight of <i>the</i> congregation*; whom you will do well, having sent onward worthily of God.


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<pb/>I wrote to the congregation*, but Diotrephes, who loves to be their foremost <i>one</i>, is not accepting us.


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Because of this, if I come, I will be reminding <i>him of</i> his works <i>in</i> which he practices: gossiping against us with evil words and not being content in these, nor does he himself accept the brethren and he forbids those who plan <i>to come</i>, and casts <i>them</i> out of the congregation*.


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<pb/>Beloved, do not imitate the evil <i>one</i>, but the good <i>one</i>. He who practices good is from God. He who practices evil has not seen God.


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<i>As</i> for Demetrius, he has been testified of by all and by the truth itself. But we also are testifying and you° know that our testimony is true.


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<pb/>I had many things to write <i>to you</i>, but I do not wish to write <i>them</i> to you through ink and reed.


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But I hope to see you immediately and we will be speaking mouth to mouth <n>{i.e., face to face}</n> . Peace to you°. The friends greet you°. Greet the friends according to name. <pb/><br/><n>{NOTES: You should read the 'Definitions' Section and other non-bible sections.}</n><br/><pb/>


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<pb/><n>{64 AD. Paul’s release from prison and visitation to various congregations.}</n><br/></pb> <pb/><br/><n>{July 64 AD. The Great Fire at Rome, Christians accused of setting it.}</n><br/><pb/>Jude, a bondservant of Jesus Christ and brother of James, to the called <i>ones</i>, those who have been made holy in God the Father and have been kept in Jesus Christ:


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<pb/>Beloved, making* all diligence to write to you° concerning our common salvation, I had a necessity to write to you° encouraging you° to fight earnestly for the faith which was given once for all to the holy-ones.


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<pb/>For* some men sneaked in <i>among you</i>°, those who have been written <i>about, from</i> long-ago *for this condemnation <i>of the</i> ungodly, those who are transferring the grace of our God into unbridled-lusts and denying <i>our</i> only Master, God <i>the Father</i>, and our Lord Jesus Christ.


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<pb/>But I plan to remind you°, <i>though</i> you° knowing this once for all, that the Lord, having saved people out of the land of Egypt, destroyed those who did not believe <i>the</i> second-time. <n>{Num 14:32}</n>


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And the messengers who did not keep <i>to</i> their own principality, but having left their own house, he has kept to the judgment of <i>the</i> great day in eternal bonds under blackness.


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As Sodom and Gomorrah and the cities around them in a similar manner with these, having indulged in fornication and having gone after different flesh, are laying before <i>us</i> as an example, being held under the sentence of everlasting fire. <n>{Gen 19:1-38}</n>


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<pb/>Nevertheless, these also dreaming likewise, indeed are defiling the flesh and rejecting lordship and blaspheming <i>the heavenly</i> glories<i>.</i>


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<pb/>But Michael the archangel, when arguing with the devil, <i>after</i> he was reasoning concerning the body of Moses, he did not dare to bring a judgment of blasphemy against him, but said, The Lord rebuke you. <n>{Deu 34: 5,6}</n>


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<pb/>But these <i>men</i>, they indeed blaspheme as many things as they do not know. But as many things as they know naturally, like the unreasoning creatures <i>that they are</i>, they corrupt themselves in those things.


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<pb/>Woe to them! Because they traveled in the way of Cain and poured themselves into the error of Balaam’s reward and perished in the dispute of Korah. <n>{Gen 4:8; Num 22:1-41; Num 16:1-50}</n>


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<pb/>These <i>people</i> are hidden-reefs in your° love-feasts, sumptuously feasting fearlessly alongside you°, shepherding themselves, <i>they are</i> waterless clouds, being carried away by <i>the</i> winds; unfruitful autumn trees, twice dead, having been uprooted,


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wild waves of the sea, foaming out their own shames, misleading stars– for whom the blackness of darkness has been kept forever.


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<pb/>Now Enoch, seventh from Adam, also prophesied <i>about</i> these <i>people</i>, saying, Behold, the Lord <n>{F}</n> came in <i>among</i> tens of thousands <i>of</i> his holy-ones,


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to make a judgment against all, and to convict all the ungodly of them, concerning all their works of ungodliness of which they did <i>in</i> ungodly <i>ways</i> and concerning all the harsh <i>things</i> which ungodly sinners spoke against him.


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<pb/>These <i>men</i> are murmurers, complainers, conducting-themselves according to their lusts and their mouth is speaking flattering-words, admiring faces because of profit.


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<pb/>But you°, beloved, remember° for yourselves the declarations which have been spoken before by the apostles of our Lord Jesus Christ;


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that they were saying to you° that in the last time there will be mockers, conducting-themselves according to their own lusts of ungodlinesses.


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But you°, beloved, <i>keep</i> building yourselves up in your° <i>most</i> holy faith, praying in <i>the</i> Holy Spirit.


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<pb/>Keep° yourselves in God’s love*, waiting for the mercy of our Lord Jesus Christ *for everlasting life.


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but save° others in fear, seizing them out of <i>the</i> fire, hating even the tunic which has been stained from the flesh.


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<pb/>Now to the one who is able to guard us from falling and to stand <i>us</i> in the sight of his glory, unblemished in gladness,


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to the only wise God our Savior, <i>is the</i> glory and majesty, dominion and authority, both now and all <i>of</i> forever. Amen. <pb/><br/><n>{Footnotes: Jude 1:14, or: with tens of thousands of his holy-ones; or: with his holy tens of thousands.}</n><br/><pb/><br/><n>{NOTES: You should read the 'Definitions' Section and other non-bible sections.}</n><br/><pb/>


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<pb/><n>{</n><br/></pb> <n>The lettering in this book may not be complete because in some places, no one can be sure who is actually speaking, sections of 4:11, 10:4, 11:1-13, 16:1,7, 18:4-20, 19:16.}</n> <pb/>The Revelation of Jesus Christ, which God gave him to show to his bondservants; the things which are essential to happen shortly and he signified <i>it</i>, having sent <i>it</i> through his messenger to his bondservant John;


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who <i>has</i> testified of the word of God and the testimony of Jesus Christ; as many things as he saw.


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The fortunate one reads and those who hear the words of the prophecy and <i>are</i> keeping the things which have been written in it; for* the time <i>is</i> near.


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<pb/>John to the seven congregations* which <i>are</i> in Asia: grace to you° and peace from God who is and who was and who is to come, and from the seven spirits that are in the sight of his throne;


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and from Jesus Christ, the faithful witness, the firstborn from the dead and the ruler of the kings of the earth. To the one who loves* us and fully-washed us from our sins in his blood;


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and he made* us a kingdom, priests to his God and Father; the glory and the dominion is to him, forevermore. Amen. <n>{Rev 5:10, 20:6}</n> <pb/><n>{Rev 1:7& Mat 24:27, 24:29-31 & Mar 13:24-37 & Luk 21:25-28 & Acts 1: 11 & 1Th 4:13-17 & 2Th 1:7-9 & 1Co 15:51-15:58 Second Coming.}</n>


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<pb/>Behold, he is coming with the clouds, and every eye will be seeing him and those who stabbed him, and all the tribes of the earth will be grieving over him. Yes <i>he is coming</i>, Amen.


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<pb/><J>I am the Alpha and the Omega, says the Lord God, Who is and who was and who is to come, the Almighty</J>.


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<pb/>I John, your° brother and partner in the affliction and in <i>the</i> kingdom and in <i>the</i> endurance <i>which are</i> in Christ Jesus, happened <i>to be</i> on the island called Patmos, because of the word of God and because of the testimony of Jesus Christ.


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I became in <i>the</i> spirit on the Lord’s day and I heard behind me a loud voice, like <i>that</i> of a trumpet


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saying, <J>What you see, write in a book and send <i>it</i> to the seven congregations*: to Ephesus and to Smyrna and to Pergamus and to Thyatira and to Sardis and to Philadelphia and to Laodicea.</J>


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And I turned there to see the voice which was speaking with me and having turned, I saw seven golden lamp-stands.


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And one similar to a son of man <i>was</i> in the middle of the seven lamp-stands. He has clothed himself with a long-robe and the breasts are girded around with a golden belt.


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Now his head and his hair were white like white wool, <i>like</i> snow, and his eyes were like a flame of fire;


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and his feet similar to polished brass, like what has been refined in a furnace, and his voice like the voice of many waters.


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And he has in his right hand seven stars and a sharp two edged long-sword traveled out from his mouth and his appearance was as the sun appears in its power.


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And when I saw him, I fell like one dead toward his feet. And he placed his right <i>hand</i> upon me, saying, <J>Do not fear; I am the first and the last,</J>


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<J>and the Living One, and I became dead and behold, I am living forevermore and I have the keys of death and of Hades. Amen.</J>


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<J>Therefore write the things which you saw, and the things which are, and the things which are about to happen after these things.</J>


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<J>The mystery of the seven stars which you saw in my right <i>hand</i> and the seven golden lamp-stands <i>is this</i>: the seven stars are the messengers of the seven congregations* and the seven lamp-stands are seven congregations*.</J>


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<pb/><J>Write to the messenger of the congregation* in Ephesus:</J> <pb/><J>He who is holding-fast the seven stars in his right <i>hand</i> and who is walking in the middle of the seven golden lamp-stands says these things:</J>


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<J>I know your works and your labor and endurance and that you are not able to bear evil <i>ones</i> and you tested those who are saying <i>about</i> themselves, They are apostles and are not and you found them false <i>witnesses</i>;</J>


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<J>Therefore remember from where you have fallen, and repent and practice the first works; otherwise if you do not repent, I am coming to you shortly and will move your lamp-stand out of its place.</J>


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<pb/><J>He who has an ear, let him hear what the Spirit is saying to the congregations*. To the one who overcomes, I will be giving to him to eat from the Tree of Life, which is in the Paradise of my God.</J>


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<pb/><J>And write to the messenger of the congregation* in Smyrna:</J> <pb/><J>The first and the last, who became dead and lived <i>again</i> says these things:</J>


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<J>I know your works, your affliction and your poverty (but you are rich) and the blasphemy from those who are saying <i>about</i> themselves, they are Jews and they are not, but are a synagogue of the Adversary.</J>


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<J>Let no one fear the things which you are about to suffer! Behold, the devil is about to cast <i>some</i> from you° into prison, in order that you° may be tested and you° will have affliction ten days. Become faithful to death and I will be giving you the crown of life.</J>


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<pb/><J>He who has an ear, let him hear what the Spirit is saying to the congregations*. He who overcomes should never be hurt from the second death.</J> <pb/>


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<J>And write to the messenger of the congregation* in Pergamus:</J> <pb/><J>He who has the sharp two edged long-sword says these things:</J>


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<J>I know your works and where you dwell– where the Adversary’s throne is, and you are holding-fast my name and did not deny my faith in the days, in which my witness, the faithful Antipas was killed beside you°, where the Adversary is dwelling.</J>


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<J>But I have a few things against you, because you have there <i>some</i> holding-fast the teaching <i>of</i> Balaam, who taught Balak to cast an offense in the sight the sons of Israel, even to eat idol-sacrifices and to fornicate.</J> <n>{Num 25:1-3, 31:16}</n>


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<J>Therefore repent; otherwise I am coming to you shortly and make war with them with* the long-sword of my mouth.</J>


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<pb/><J>He who has an ear, let him hear what the Spirit is saying to the congregations*. To the one who overcomes, I will be giving to him from the manna which has been hidden and I will be giving him a white voting-pebble and a new name that has been written upon the voting-pebble, which no one knows except he who receives <i>it</i>.</J> <pb/>


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<J>And write to the messenger of the congregation* in Thyatira:</J> <pb/><J>The Son of God, who has his eyes like a flame of fire and his feet are similar to polished brass says these things:</J>


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<J>I know your works and love* and faith and service and endurance and your last works <i>are</i> more-than the first <i>ones</i>.</J>


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<J>But I have <i>this</i> against you, that you are allowing your woman</J> <n>{Or: wife}</n> <J>Jezebel, she who calls herself the prophetess, and is teaching and misleading my bondservants to fornicate and to eat idol-sacrifices.</J>


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<J>And I gave <i>some</i> time to her, in order that she might repent, and she is not willing to repent from her fornication.</J>


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<J>Behold, I cast her onto a bed and those who are committing adultery with her into great affliction, if they do not repent from her works.</J>


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<J>And I will be killing her children with* death, and all the congregations* will know that I am he who is searching the kidneys</J> <n>{i.e. thoughts; see heart*}</n> <J>and hearts and I will be giving to you°, each <i>one</i> according to your° works.</J>


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<J>But I am saying to you° and to the rest, those in Thyatira, as many as are not holding <i>to</i> this teaching, who did not know the deep things of the Adversary, as they are saying, I am not putting upon you° another burden.</J>


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<pb/><J>And he who overcomes and he who is keeping my works to the end, to him I will be giving authority over the nations.</J>


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<J>And he will shepherd them with* an iron rod, as the vessels of the potter will be crushed; as I have also received from my Father;</J>


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<pb/><J>And write to the messenger of the congregation* in Sardis:</J> <pb/><J>He who has the seven spirits of God and the seven stars says these things: I know your works, that you have a name, that you are living; and you are dead.</J>


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<J>Become watchful and establish the rest of the things, which was about to be cast away; for* I have not found your works having been fulfilled in the sight of my God.</J>


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<J>Therefore remember how you have received and heard, and keep <i>it</i> and repent. Therefore if you do not watch, I will be coming upon you like a thief and you should never know what hour I will be coming upon you.</J>


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<J>But you have a few names in Sardis who did not defile their garments and they will be walking with me in white, because they are worthy.</J>


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<J>He who overcomes this, he will be dressed in white garments, and I will never wipe-away his name out of the Book of Life and I will confess his name in the sight of my Father and in the sight of his messengers.</J>


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<J>And write to the messenger of the congregation* in Philadelphia:</J> <pb/><J>He (the holy one, the true one, who has the key of David, who opens and no one will lock it, except he who opens and no one will open) says these things:</J>


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<J>I know your works (behold, I have given <i>you</i> an opened door <i>which is</i> in your sight, which no one is able to lock it), that you have little power and kept my word and did not deny my name.</J>


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<J>Behold, I give <i>those</i> from the synagogue of the Adversary, those who say they are themselves Jews and they are not, but are lying, behold, I will make* them in order that they should come and should worship in the sight of your feet and should know that I loved* you.</J>


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<J>Because you kept the word of my endurance, I also will be keeping you from the hour of testing, that <i>hour</i> which is about to come upon the whole inhabited-earth, to test those who are dwelling upon the earth.</J>


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<J>He who overcomes, I will be making* him a pillar in the temple of my God and he should never go outside anymore and I will write upon him the name of my God and the name of the city of my God, the new Jerusalem, which descends out of heaven from my God and my own new name.</J>


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<J>And write to the messenger of the congregation* in Laodicea:</J> <pb/><J>The Amen, the faithful and true witness, <i>the one in</i> the beginning</J> <n>{or originator, Joh 1:2}</n> <J>from the creation of God, says these things:</J>


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<J>Because you say, I am rich and have enriched <i>myself</i> and have need of nothing, and do not know that you are the miserable and the pitiful and <i>are</i> poor and blind and naked.</J>


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<J>I am planning together with you to buy gold from me, having been refined out of fire, in order that you may be enriched, and in order that you should dress yourself <i>with</i> white garments and <i>in order that</i> the shame of your nakedness should not be manifested <i>to all</i>, and in order that you may anoint your eyes with eye-salve, in order that you may see.</J>


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<J>Behold, I am standing at the door and knocking; if anyone hears my voice and <i>if</i> he opens the door, I will enter to him and will dine with him and he with me.</J>


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<J>He who overcomes, I will be giving to him to sit with me at my throne, as I also overcame and sat down with my Father at his throne.</J>


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<pb/>I saw after these things, and behold, a door has been opened in heaven and the first voice which I heard speaking with me, <i>a voice</i> like <i>that</i> of a trumpet, saying, Come-up here and I will be showing you what things are essential to happen after these things.


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<i>was one</i> similar in appearance <i>to</i> a jasper stone and a carnelian and <i>there was</i> a rainbow surrounding the throne, likewise in appearance to an emerald.


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And twenty-four thrones <i>were</i> surrounding the throne and twenty-four elders sitting upon the thrones, having been dressed in white garments, and golden crowns upon their heads.


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And lightnings and voices and thunders traveled out from the throne. And <i>there were</i> seven torches of fire burning in the sight of the throne, which are the seven spirits of God;


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and in the sight of his throne, like a glassy sea similar to crystal, and in the middle of the throne and in a circle of the throne, four living creatures full of eyes before and behind.


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And the first living creature <i>was</i> similar to a lion and the second living creature <i>was</i> similar to a calf and the third living creature having a face <i>similar</i> of a man and the fourth living creature <i>was</i> similar to a flying eagle.


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And the four living creatures, every one, having six wings apiece, are full of eyes inside and surrounding, and they have no rest day and night, saying, Holy, holy, holy, <i>is</i> the Lord God, the Almighty, who was and who is and who is coming.


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the twenty-four elders will fall down in his sight who is sitting upon the throne and will be worshiping the one who lives forevermore and will put their crowns in the sight of the throne, saying,


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You are worthy, the Lord and the God of us, the holy one, to receive the glory and the honor and the power because you created all things and because they were your will and they were created.


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<pb/>And I saw upon the right <i>hand</i> of the one who sits upon the throne a book having been written <i>on it</i> inside and outside, having been sealed with seven seals.


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And I saw a strong messenger preaching in a loud voice, Who is worthy to open the book and to loose its seals?


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And no one above the heaven or upon the earth or underneath the earth, was able to open the book or to look <i>in</i> it.


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And one out of the elders says to me, Do not weep; behold, the Lion, one from the tribe of Judah, the Root of David, overcame, he who opens the book and its seven seals.


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And I saw in the middle of the throne and the four living creatures and in the middle of the elders, a Lamb standing, as <i>one</i> having been slaughtered, having seven horns and seven eyes, which are the seven spirits of God, being sent into all the earth.


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And he came and has taken <i>it</i> out of the right <i>hand</i> of the one who sits upon the throne.


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And when he took the book, the four living creatures and the twenty-four elders fell <i>down</i> in the Lamb’s sight, each one having a harp and golden bowls full of incenses, which are <i>the</i> prayers of the holy-ones.


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<pb/>And you made* them kings and priests to our God, and they will be reigning over the earth. <n>{Rev 20:6}</n>


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<pb/>And I saw and I heard a voice like <i>that</i> of many messengers in a circle of the throne and the living creatures and the elders, and the number of them: tens of thousands of tens of thousands;


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saying in a loud voice, Worthy is the Lamb who has been slaughtered to receive the power and the riches, and wisdom and strength and honor and glory and thanks.


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And every created thing which is in the heaven and upon the earth and underneath the earth and upon the sea and all things in them, I heard saying, To the one who is sitting upon the throne and to the Lamb, <i>is</i> the thanks and the honor and the glory and the dominion, forevermore. Amen.


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<pb/>And the four living creatures <i>are</i> saying the amen; and the elders fell <i>down</i> and worshiped <i>him</i>.


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<pb/>And I saw that the Lamb opened one out of the seven seals and I heard one out of the four living creatures saying like a voice of thunder, Come and behold!


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And behold a white horse and he who sits upon it holding a bow, and a crown was given to him and he came forth overcoming and in order that he might overcome.


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<pb/>And when he opened the third seal, I heard the third living creature saying, Come and behold. And behold, I saw a black horse and he who sits upon it had a balance in his hand.


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<pb/>And when he opened the fourth seal, I heard the voice of the fourth living creature saying, Come and behold.


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And behold, a pale-green horse and he who sits upon him, his name was Death, and Hades was following with him. And there was given to him authority over the fourth <i>part</i> of the earth, to kill with* a long-sword and with* famine and with* death and by the beasts of the earth.


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<pb/>And when he opened the fifth seal, I saw underneath the altar the souls of those who have been slaughtered because of the word of God and because of the testimony of the lamb which they were holding <i>to</i>.


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And they cried out with a loud voice, saying, Until when, O holy and true Master, do you not judge and avenge our blood from those who dwell upon the earth?


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And a white robe was given to each, and it was said to them, in order that they should still rest themselves <i>for</i> a time, until both their fellow bondservants and their brothers and those who are about to be killed as they were also, should be fulfilled.


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<pb/>And I saw when he opened the sixth seal and a great earthquake happened, and the sun became black like hairy sackcloth and the whole moon became like blood;


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and the stars of the heaven fell to the earth, like a fig tree, having cast its unripe <i>figs while</i> being shaken by a great wind.


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And the heaven departed like a scroll being coiled up, and every mountain and <i>every</i> island were moved out of their places.


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and they say to the mountains and to the rocks, Fall° upon us and hide° us from the face of the one who is sitting upon the throne and from the wrath of the Lamb;


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<pb/>I saw after this thing, four messengers standing upon the four corners of the earth, holding-fast the four winds of the earth, in order that no wind should blow upon the earth nor upon the sea nor upon any tree.


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saying, Do° not hurt the earth, nor the sea, nor the trees, till we might seal the bondservants of our God upon their foreheads.


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<pb/>And I heard the number of those who have been sealed, a hundred and forty-four thousand, having been sealed out of every tribe of the sons of Israel:


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twelve thousand out of the tribe of Judah having been sealed; twelve thousand out of the tribe of Reuben; twelve thousand out of the tribe of Gad;


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twelve thousand out of the tribe of Asher; twelve thousand out of the tribe of Naphtali; twelve thousand out of the tribe of Manasseh;


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twelve thousand out of the tribe of Simeon; twelve thousand out of the tribe of Levi; twelve thousand out of the tribe of Issachar;


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twelve thousand out of the tribe of Zebulun; twelve thousand out of the tribe of Joseph; twelve thousand out of the tribe of Benjamin having been sealed.


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<pb/>I saw and behold after these things, a large crowd, which no one was able to number, out of every nation and tribes and peoples and languages, standing in the sight of the throne and in the sight of the Lamb, having been dressed in white robes and palm trees in their hands;


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<pb/>And all the messengers and the elders and the four living creatures stood in a circle of the throne, and they fell upon their faces in the sight of the throne and worshiped God,


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saying, Assuredly, the thanks and the glory and the wisdom and the thanksgiving and the honor and the power and the strength <i>is</i> to our God, forevermore. Amen.


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<pb/>And one out of the elders answered, saying to me, These who have been dressed in white robes, who are they and from where did they come?


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<pb/>And I said to him, My lord, you know. <pb/>And he said to me, These are those who are coming out of the great affliction and they <i>have</i> rinsed their robes and made <i>them</i> white in the blood of the Lamb.


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<pb/>And another messenger came and stood over the altar, having a golden censer, and many incenses were given to him in order that he should give <i>it</i> to the prayers of all the holy-ones upon the golden altar <i>which is</i> in the sight of the throne.


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And the smoke of the incense, with the prayers of the holy-ones, went-up in God’s sight out of the messenger’s hand.


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And the messenger has taken the censer, and he filled it from the fire of the altar and cast <i>it</i> to the earth and there became thunders and voices and lightnings and an earthquake.


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<pb/>And the seven messengers who have the seven trumpets prepared themselves in order they might sound <i>them</i>.


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<pb/>And the first <i>trumpet</i> sounded and there became hail and fire, having been mixed in blood and they were cast to the earth and the third of the earth was burnt up and the third of the trees was burnt up and all <i>the</i> pale-green grass was burnt up.


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<pb/>And the second messenger sounded and <i>something</i> like a great mountain burning was cast into the sea and the third of the sea became blood;


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and the third of the created things, (those who have life), died which were in the sea, and the third of the ships decayed.


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<pb/>And the third messenger sounded and a great star fell from heaven, burning like a torch and it fell upon the third of the rivers and upon the springs of the waters;


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and the name of the star is called* the wormwood and the third of the waters became wormwood, and many men died from the waters, because they were made bitter.


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<pb/>And the fourth messenger sounded and the third of the sun was pounded and the third of the moon and the third of the stars; in order that the third of them should be darkened and the day might not appear <i>for</i> the third of it and the night likewise.


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<pb/>And I saw and I heard one eagle, flying in mid-heaven, saying <i>with</i> a loud voice, Woe, woe, woe, to those who are dwelling upon the earth, from the rest of the voices of the trumpet of the three messengers, who are about to sound.


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<pb/>And the fifth messenger sounded and I saw a star from heaven has fallen to the earth and the key of the pit of the abyss was given to him.


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And he opened the pit of the abyss, and smoke went-up out of the pit, like the smoke of a burning furnace, and the sun and the air were darkened from the smoke of the pit.


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And locusts came forth out of the smoke upon the earth, and authority was given to them, like the scorpions of the earth have authority.


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And it was said to them in order that they should not hurt the grass of the earth, nor any pale-green thing, nor any tree, except only men who do not have the seal of God upon their foreheads.


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And it was given to them in order that they should not kill them, but in order that they should be tormented five months and their torment was like the torment of a scorpion, whenever it strikes a man.


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And men will seek death in those days and they will never be finding it, and they will desire to die and death will be fleeing from them.


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And the likenesses of the locusts <i>were</i> similar to horses, having been prepared *for war, and upon their heads like golden crowns and their faces <i>are</i> like men’s faces.


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And they had breastplates, like iron breastplates, and the voice of their wings was like the voice of chariots, of many horses running to war.


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And they have tails similar to scorpions and stings, and they have their authority in their tails to hurt the men <i>for</i> five months.


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They have the messenger of the abyss as king over them. His name in Hebrew is Abbadon but in the Greek <i>language</i> he has <i>the</i> name Apollyon.


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<pb/>And the sixth messenger sounded and I heard one voice out of the four horns of the golden altar which is in God’s sight,


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<i>someone</i> saying to the sixth messenger who has the trumpet, Loose the four messengers that have been bound upon the great river Euphrates.


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And the four messengers were loosed, who have been prepared *for the hour and the day, and month and year, in order that they should kill the third of men.


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And the number of the armies of the horse<i>men</i> was twice tens of thousands of tens of thousands <n>{i.e. an infinite number}</n> . I heard the number of them.


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And so I saw the horses in the vision and those who sits upon them, having fiery breastplates of hyacinth and of brimstone and the heads of the horses like <i>the</i> heads of lions; and fire and smoke and brimstone is traveling out of their mouths.


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From these three wounds, the third of men was killed from the fire and the smoke and the brimstone, which traveled out of their mouths.


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For* the authority of the horses is in their mouth and in their tails; for* their tails are similar of serpents and they have heads, and they hurt <i>men</i> with* them.


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And the rest of mankind, who were not killed with* these wounds, did not repent of the works of their hands, in order that they should not worship the demons and the golden and silver and the brass and the stone and the wooden idols; which are not able to see, nor hear, nor walk.


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And they did not repent of their murders, nor of their sorceries, nor of their fornication, nor of their stealing.


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<pb/>And I saw a strong messenger descending from heaven, having been dressed with a cloud, and the rainbow <i>is</i> upon his head and his face <i>is</i> like the sun and his feet like pillars of fire;


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and holding a book in his hand, which has been opened and he placed his right foot upon the sea and his left upon the earth;


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and he cried out with a loud voice, just-like a lion roars and when he cried out, the seven thunders spoke their voices.


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<pb/>And when the seven thunders spoke <i>their voices</i>, I was about to write and I heard a voice from heaven saying, Seal up the things which the seven thunders spoke and do not write them.


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And the messenger whom I saw standing upon the sea and upon the earth lifted up his right hand to the heaven,


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and had sworn by the one who lives forevermore, who created the heaven and the things in it and the earth and the things in it and the sea and the things in it– that time will be no longer <i>delay</i>.


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But in the days of the voice of the seventh messenger, whenever he is about to sound, and the mystery of God was completed, as he proclaimed the good-news to his bondservants, the prophets.


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And the voice which I heard from heaven, <i>I heard it</i> again speaking with me and saying, Go, take the book which has been opened in the hand of the messenger who is standing upon the sea and upon the earth.


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And I went to the messenger, telling him to give me the book. <pb/>And he says to me, Take it and devour it, and it will make your belly bitter, but it will be sweet like honey in your mouth.


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And I took the book out of the messenger’s hand and devoured it, and it was sweet as honey in my mouth and when I ate it, my belly was made bitter.


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<pb/>And they are saying to me, It is essential for you to prophesy again over many peoples and nations and languages and many kings.


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<pb/><n>{Rev 11:1, 3, 9, 11:11, 12:6, 12:14, 13:5; AD 70}</n><br/></pb> <pb/>And a reed similar to a rod was given to me and one says, Lift yourself up and measure the temple of God and the altar and those who are worshiping in it.


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And the courtyard outside the temple cast away outside <n>{i.e. leave it out}</n> and do not measure it, because it was given to the nations and they will be trampling on the holy city forty-two months.


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<pb/>And I will be giving to my two witnesses and they will be prophesying one thousand two hundred and sixty days, having been dressed in sackcloth. <n>{Rev 11:9, 11:11, 12:6, 12:14, 13:5}</n>


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These are <i>the</i> two olive trees and the two lamp-stands, standing in the sight of the Lord of the earth.


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And if anyone wishes to hurt them, fire travels out from their mouth and devours their enemies, and if anyone wishes to hurt them, it is essential for him to thus be killed.


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These have the authority to lock the heaven, in order that no rainfall may rain <i>on</i> the days of their prophecy and they have authority over the waters to turn them into blood and to strike the earth with every <i>kind of</i> wound, whenever they will <i>it</i>.


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<pb/>And whenever they complete their testimony, the beast which is ascending out of the abyss, will make* war with them and overcome them and kill them.


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And the corpse<i>s</i> of them <i>lay</i> in the street of the great city, which spiritually is called Sodom and Egypt, where also their Lord was crucified.


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And <i>some</i> from among the peoples and tribes and languages and nations look upon their corpses three and a half days and they will not allow their corpses to be laid in a tomb.


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And those who are dwelling upon the earth rejoice over them and will be joyous, and they will be giving gifts to one another, because these two prophets tormented those who dwell upon the earth.


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And after the three and a half days <i>the</i> spirit of life from God entered into them and they stood upon their feet, and great fear fell upon those who view them.


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And they heard a loud voice out of heaven saying to them, Come-up° here. And they went-up into heaven in the cloud, and their enemies viewed them.


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And there became a great earthquake in that day and the tenth <i>part</i> of the city fell, and the names of seven thousand men were killed in the earthquake and the rest became fearful and gave glory to the God of heaven.


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<pb/>And the seventh messenger sounded, and there became loud voices in heaven saying, The kingdom of the world became <i>the kingdom</i> of our Lord and of his Christ and he will be reigning forevermore.


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<pb/>And the twenty-four elders, <i>who are</i> sitting upon their thrones in the sight of the throne of God, fell upon their faces and worshiped God,


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saying, We give-thanks to you, O Lord God, the Almighty, who are and who was, because you have taken your great power and reigned.


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And the nations were angry and your wrath has come and the time of the dead to be judged and <i>the time</i> to give the reward to your bondservants, the prophets, and to the holy-ones, and to those who fear your name, to the little and to the great, and to <i>have</i> decay <i>for</i> those who are corrupting the earth.


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<pb/>And the temple of God <i>which is</i> in heaven was opened, and the ark of the covenant* of the Lord was seen in his temple, and there became lightnings and voices and thunders and an earthquake and great hail.


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<pb/>And a great sign was seen in heaven, a woman having been dressed with the sun and the moon underneath her feet and upon her head a crown of twelve stars;


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and she <i>was</i> holding <i>a child</i> in <i>their</i> womb <n>{i.e. pregnant}</n> , <i>and</i> was crying, travailing and in torment to bear <i>forth</i>.


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And another sign was seen in heaven and behold, a great dragon of fire, having seven heads and ten horns and seven diadems upon his heads.


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And his tail drags the third of the stars of heaven and he cast them to the earth and the dragon is standing in the sight of the woman who is about to bear, in order that whenever she bears <i>it</i>, he may devour her child.


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And she bore a son, a male <i>child</i>, who is about to shepherd all the nations with* an iron rod and her child was seized <i>up</i> to God and to his throne.


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And the woman fled into the wilderness, where she has a place prepared by God, in order that they may nourish her there <i>one</i> thousand two hundred and sixty days. <pb/><br/><n>{Rev 11:1, 3, 9, 11:11, 12:6, 12:14, 13:5; AD 70}</n><br/><pb/>


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<pb/>And there became a war in heaven. Michael and his messengers made war with the dragon, and the dragon and his messengers made war.


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And the great dragon was cast down, the ancient serpent, who is called the devil and the Adversary, the one who is misleading the whole inhabited-earth; he was cast down to the earth and his messengers were cast down with him.


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And I heard a loud voice in heaven, saying, Now the salvation and the power and the kingdom of our God and the authority of his Christ came*, because the accuser of our brethren was cast <i>down</i>, who accuses them in the sight of our God day and night.


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And they overcame him because of the blood of the Lamb and because of the word of their testimony, and they did not love* their life <i>even</i> to death.


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Because of this, O heavens and you° who are residing in them be° joyous! Woe to the earth and to the sea, because the devil went-down to you°, having great fury, knowing that he has a small time.


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<pb/>And when the dragon saw that he was cast down to the earth, he persecuted the woman who bore the male <i>child.</i>


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And the two wings of the great eagle were given to the woman, in order that she may fly into the wilderness to her place, *that she may be nourished there <i>for</i> a time and times and half a time, from the face of the serpent. <n>{Rev 11:3, 11:9, 11:11, 12:6, 13:5}</n>


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And the serpent cast water like a river out of his mouth after the woman, in order that he might make* the river whisk her away.


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And the earth helped the woman and the earth opened her mouth and swallowed up the river which the dragon cast out of his mouth.


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And the dragon was angry against the woman and went away to make* war with the rest of her seed, who are keeping the commandments of God and holding the testimony of Jesus.


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<pb/>And I stood upon the sand of the sea, and I saw a beast ascending out of the sea, having ten horns and seven heads and upon his horns ten diadems and names of blasphemy upon his heads.


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And the beast which I saw was similar to a leopard and his feet were like <i>the feet</i> of a bear and his mouth like the mouth of a lion and the dragon gave him his power and his throne and great authority.


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And <i>I saw</i> one of his heads, like what has been slaughtered to death, and his deadly wound was healed and the whole earth marveled after the beast;


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and they worshiped the dragon who gave his authority to the beast, and they worshiped the beast, saying, Who <i>is</i> similar to the beast? And who <i>is</i> mighty to make war with him? <pb/><br/><n>{Rev 11:1, 3, 9, 11:11, 12:6, 12:14, 13:5; AD 70}</n><br/><pb/>


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<pb/>And a mouth speaking great things and blasphemies was given to him, and authority to make* war forty-two months was given to him. <n>{Rev 11:3, 11:9, 11:11, 12:6, 12:14}</n>


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And he opened his mouth to blaspheme toward God, to blaspheme his name and his tabernacle, <i>and blaspheme</i> those who are residing in the heaven.


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And it was given to him to make* a war with the holy-ones and to overcome them and <i>to have</i> authority over every tribe and people and language and nation was given to him.


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And all who are dwelling upon the earth will be worshiping to him, <i>everyone</i> whose name has not been written in the Book of Life of the lamb, who has been slaughtered from the conception of the world.


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If anyone holds <i>those in</i> captivity, he is going <i>into captivity</i>; if anyone will be killing with* <i>the</i> sword, it is essential <i>for</i> him to be killed with* <i>the</i> sword. Here is the endurance and the faith of the holy-ones.


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<pb/>And I saw another beast ascending out of the earth, and it was holding two horns similar to a lamb and it was speaking like a dragon.


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And it practiced all the authority of the first beast in his sight and was making* the earth and those who are dwelling in it in order that they should worship the first beast, whose wound of death was healed.


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And it does great signs and fire in order that it might come-down from heaven upon the earth in the sight of men.


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And it is misleading those of mine who are dwelling upon the earth because of the signs which was given to it to do in the sight of the beast, saying to those who dwell upon the earth to make* an image to the beast, who was holding the wound <i>of death</i> from the sword and lived.


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And it was given to it to give breath to the image of the beast, in order that the image of the beast should speak and it should make* as many as would not worship the image of the beast– they should be killed.


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And it makes* all, the little and the great, and the rich and the poor, and the free and the bond, in order that there may be marks given to them upon their right hand or upon their foreheads;


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and in order that no one is able to buy or to sell, except he who has the mark, <i>which is</i> the name of the beast or the number of its name.


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Here is wisdom: he who has perception, let him calculate the number of the beast; for* it is the number of man and his number is six hundred <i>and</i> sixty-six. <n>{i.e. Nero; reigned 54-68 AD}</n>


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<pb/>And I saw and behold, the Lamb standing upon the Mount Zion and a number <i>of one</i> hundred and forty-four thousand with him, having his name and the name of his Father written upon their foreheads.


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And I heard a voice from heaven, like the voice of many waters and like the voice of great thunder. And the voice which I heard <i>was</i> like <i>that</i> of harpists harping with* their harps.


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And they are singing a new song in the sight of the throne and in the sight the four living creatures and the elders and no one was able to learn the song except the hundred and forty-four thousand, who have been bought from the earth.


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These are those who were not defiled with women; for* they are virgins. These are those who are following the Lamb wherever he goes. These were bought by Jesus from mankind, <i>as</i> the first-fruit to God and to the Lamb,


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<pb/>And I saw a messenger flying in mid-heaven, having <i>the</i> everlasting good-news to proclaim to those who sit upon the earth and to every nation and tribe and language and people;


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and he says in a loud voice, Fear° the Lord and give° glory to him, because the hour of his judgment has come. And worship° him, the one who made* the heaven and the earth and sea and springs of waters.


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<pb/>And another, a second messenger, followed, saying, Babylon the great has fallen, who has given all the nations to drink out of the wine of the fury of her fornication.


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<pb/>And another, a third messenger followed them, saying in a loud voice, If anyone is worshiping the beast and his image and receives a mark upon his forehead or upon his hand,


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he will also be drinking out of the wine of the fury of God of which has been mingled undiluted in the cup of his wrath, and he will be tormented in fire and brimstone in the sight of the holy messengers and in the sight of the Lamb;


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and the smoke of their torment is going-up forevermore, and they have no rest day and night, those who are worshiping the beast and his image and if anyone receives the mark of his name.


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Here is the endurance of the holy-ones, those who are keeping the commandments of God and the faith of Jesus.


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<pb/>And I heard the voice from heaven saying, Write, the dead ones who die in the Lord are fortunate from now <i>on</i>. Yes, says the Spirit, in order that they should rest themselves from their labors, and their works follow after them.


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<pb/>And I saw and behold, a white cloud, and upon the cloud <i>I saw</i> one sitting similar to a son of man, having upon his head a golden crown and a sharp sickle in his hand.


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And another messenger came out from the temple, crying in a loud voice to the one who sits upon the cloud, Send forth your sickle and reap, because the hour to reap has come, because the harvest of the earth is ripe.


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And another messenger came out from the altar, having authority over the fire, and he shouted to the one who had the sharp sickle with a loud outcry, saying, Send forth your sharp sickle and pick the clusters of the vine from the earth, because her grape-clusters were prime.


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And the messenger cast his sickle into the earth and picked <i>the clusters</i> of the vine of the earth and cast it into the winepress, the great <i>winepress</i> of the fury of God.


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And the winepress was trampled on outside the city and there came out blood from the winepress, even to the bridles of the horses, up to <i>one</i> thousand six hundred furlongs.


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<pb/>And I saw another great and marvelous sign in heaven, seven messengers having seven wounds, <i>which are</i> the last, because the fury of God was completed in them.


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<pb/>And I saw like a sea of glass having been mixed with fire, and those who are overcoming from the beast and from his image and from the number of his name, standing upon the glassy sea, having harps of God.


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And they are singing the song of Moses the bondservant of God and the song of the Lamb, saying, Great and marvelous are your works, O Lord God, the Almighty; your ways are righteous and true, the King of the nations.


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Who should never fear you, Lord, and should glorify your name? Because only you are holy, because all the nations will be coming and will be worshiping in your sight, because your righteousnesses were manifested.


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<pb/>And after I saw these things and <i>behold,</i> the temple of the tabernacle of the testimony was opened in heaven;


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and there came out from the temple the seven messengers who had the seven wounds, they were clothing themselves with clean bright flax-linen and golden belts had been girded around their chests.


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And one out of the four living creatures gave to the seven messengers seven golden bowls full of the fury of God, who lives forevermore.


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And the temple was filled <i>with</i> smoke from the glory of God and from his power and no one was able to enter into the temple, till the seven wounds of the seven messengers should be completed.


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<pb/>And I heard a loud voice out of the temple, saying to the seven messengers, Go° and pour° out the seven bowls of the fury of God into the earth.


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<pb/>And the first went and poured out his bowl into the earth, and it became an evil sore and wicked upon the men who had the mark of the beast and who are worshiping his image.


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<pb/>And the second messenger poured out his bowl into the sea, and it became blood like <i>that</i> of <i>the</i> dead, and every living soul died in the sea.


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<pb/>And the third messenger poured out his bowl into the rivers and the springs of the waters, and it became blood.


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And I heard the messenger of the waters saying, You are righteous, who is and who was, the Holy One, because you judged these things;


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because they poured out <i>the</i> blood of holy-ones and prophets and you gave blood to them to drink <i>because</i> they are worthy.


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And I heard from the altar saying, Yes, <i>O</i> Lord God, the Almighty, your judgments are true and righteous.


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<pb/>And the fourth messenger poured out his bowl upon the sun, and it was given to it to burn men in fire.


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And men were burnt <i>with</i> great heat and the men blasphemed the name of God who has the authority over these wounds, and they did not repent to give him glory.


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<pb/>And the fifth messenger poured out his bowl upon the throne of the beast, and his kingdom became darkened, and they were gnawing their tongues out of pain,


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and they blasphemed the God of heaven out of their pains and out of their sores, and they did not repent from their works.


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<pb/>And the sixth poured out his bowl upon the great river Euphrates, and its water was dried up, in order that the way of the kings who <i>come</i> from the rising of the sun might be prepared.


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for* they are spirits of demons, doing signs; which travel out to the kings of the whole inhabited-earth, to gather them together to the war of that great day of God the Almighty.


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(Behold, I am coming like a thief. The fortunate one is watching and keeping his garments, in order that he may not walk naked and <i>in order that</i> they may see his indecency.)


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<pb/>And the seventh poured out his bowl upon the air, and there came forth a loud voice from the temple of heaven, from the throne, saying, It has happened.


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And there became lightnings and thunders and voices, and there became a great earthquake, such-as did not happen from which <i>time</i> men were born upon the earth, so-great an earthquake– so great!


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And the great city became <i>divided</i> into three parts and the cities of the nations fell and Babylon the great was remembered in God’s sight, to give to her the cup of the wine of the fury of his wrath.


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<pb/>And one out of the seven messengers who had the seven bowls came and spoke with me, saying, Come-here. I will be showing you the judgment of the great prostitute who is sitting upon many waters;


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with whom the kings of the earth fornicated and those who are dwelling in the earth were made drunken from the wine of her fornication.


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And he carried me away in <i>the</i> Spirit into a wilderness and I saw a woman sitting upon a scarlet beast, being full of names of blasphemy, having seven heads and ten horns.


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And the woman having been dressed in purple and scarlet arrayed with gold and precious stone and pearls, having in her hand a golden cup being full of abominations and the unclean things of her fornication of <i>the</i> earth,


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and a name has been written upon her forehead, Mystery, Babylon the Great, the Mother of the Prostitutes and of the Abominations of the Earth.


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And I saw the woman drunken from the blood of the holy-ones <i>and</i> from the blood of the witnesses of Jesus. And I marveled <i>when</i> I saw her– <i>with</i> great marvel!


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And the messenger said to me, Why did you marvel? I will be telling you the mystery of the woman and of the beast bearing her, which has the seven heads and the ten horns. The beast which you saw was and is not, and is about to ascend out of the abyss and to go into destruction.


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The beast which you saw, was and is not and is about to come out of the abyss <i>is</i> to go away into destruction. And those dwelling upon the earth of whose names have not been written in the Book of Life from the conception of the world will be marveling, <i>while</i> seeing that the beast was and is not and will be present*.


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and they are seven kings; the five fell, the one is, the other did not yet come, and whenever he comes, it is essential for him to remain a few.


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And the beast which was and is not, is himself also an eighth and is out of the seven, and he is going into destruction.


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And the ten horns that you saw are ten kings, who did not yet receive a kingdom, but they receive authority like kings, with the beast, <i>for</i> one hour.


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These will make war <i>with</i> the Lamb and the Lamb will overcome them because he is Lord of lords and King of kings, and those called and chosen and faithful with him.


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And he says to me, The waters which you saw, where the prostitute is sitting, are peoples and crowds and nations and languages.


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And the ten horns which you saw and the beast, these will hate the prostitute and will make* her desolate and will make* her naked and will eat her flesh and will be burning her up in fire.


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<pb/>I saw after these things, another messenger descending from heaven, having great authority, and the earth was illuminated from his glory.


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And he cried out in a mighty voice, saying, Babylon the great has fallen and it became a residence of demons and a prison of every unclean spirit and a prison of every unclean and having been hated bird.


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Because out of the wine of the fury of her fornication all the nations have fallen, and the kings of the earth fornicated with her and the merchants of the earth were enriched from the power of her promiscuity.


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<i>In</i> how-much she glorified herself and was promiscuous, give° to her so-much <i>more</i> torment and mourning, because she says in her heart, I am sitting <i>as</i> a queen and I am no widow and should never see mourning.


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Because of this, in one day her wounds will come– death and mourning and famine. And she will be utterly burned in fire, because strong is the Lord God who judged her.


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And the kings of the earth, who fornicated and were promiscuous with her, will weep and will grieve over her, whenever they look upon the smoke of her fire,


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standing from afar because of <i>their</i> fear of her torment, saying, Woe, woe, the great city, Babylon, the strong city! Because in one hour your judgment has come.


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And the merchants of the earth will weep and will mourn over her, because no one is buying their cargo anymore;


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cargo of <n>{F}</n> gold, silver, precious stone, pearl, fine-linen, purple, silk, scarlet, every citron wood <i>thing</i>, every vessel of ivory, every vessel made out of <i>the</i> most precious wood and from brass, iron and marble;


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and cinnamon, incenses, perfume, frankincense, wine, oil, fine-flour, grain, sheep, <i>other</i> animals, and of horses and of chariots and of bodies and souls of men.


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And the autumn-fruits of lust of your soul went away from you and all things which were luxurious and bright <i>have</i> perished from you and you should never find them anymore.


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The merchants of these things, who were enriched from her, will be standing from afar because of the fear of her torment, <i>while</i> weeping and mourning.


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And <i>they are</i> saying, Woe, woe, the great city, she who has been dressed in fine-linen, and purple and scarlet and has been arrayed in gold, precious stone and pearls!


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Because in one hour so-many riches was made desolate. And every helmsman and everyone sailing upon the place and sailors and as many as are working from the sea, stood from afar,


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and were crying out, seeing the smoke of her fire, saying, What <i>city</i> is similar to the great city?


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And they cast dirt upon their heads and were crying, weeping and mourning and saying, Woe, woe, the great city, in which all who had their ships in the sea were enriched out of her costliness! Because in one hour she was made desolate.


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Be joyous over her: heaven and the holy-ones and the apostles and the prophets, because God judged your° condemnation out of her <n>{i.e. maybe: on her}</n> .


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<pb/>And one strong messenger lifted up a stone like a great millstone and cast it into the sea, saying, So Babylon, the great city, will be cast down, with a violent-impulse, and should never be found anymore.


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And the voice of harpists and musicians and flute-players and trumpeters should never be heard in you anymore, and every craftsman of every craft should never be found in you anymore, and the voice of a millstone should never be heard in you anymore;


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and the light of a lamp should never appear in you anymore, and the voice of the bridegroom and of the bride should never be heard in you anymore. Your merchants were the great-men of the earth, because all the nations were misled in your sorcery.


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And the bloods of prophets and of holy-ones and of all who have been slaughtered upon the earth was found in her. <n>{Mat 23:30-31}</n> <pb/><br/><n>{Footnotes: Rev 18:12,13, in the list of merchandise ‘and’ was removed between many of the words and replaced with a comma.}</n><br/><pb/>


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<pb/>I heard after these things, like a loud voice of a crowd in heaven, saying, Hallelujah! Salvation and power and glory, <i>is</i> from our God:


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because true and righteous <i>are</i> his judgments, because he judged the great prostitute, she who was corrupting the earth in her fornication and he avenged the blood of his bondservants from her hand.


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<pb/>And the twenty-four elders and the four living creatures fell <i>down</i> and worshiped God who is sitting upon the throne, saying, Amen. Hallelujah.


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<pb/>And a voice came forth from the throne, saying, Praise° our God, all his bondservants, and those who fear him, the little and the great.


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<pb/>And I heard as <i>it was</i> the voice of a large crowd and like the voice of many waters and like the voice of mighty thunders, saying, Hallelujah, because the Lord our God, the Almighty <i>has</i> reigned.


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We should rejoice and should be glad and should give the glory to him, because the marriage of the Lamb has come and his wife <i>has</i> prepared herself.


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And it was given to her in order that she might dress herself in fine-linen, bright and clean; for* the fine-linen is the righteousnesses of the holy-ones.


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<pb/>And he says to me, Write, the fortunate ones have been invited to the marriage supper of the Lamb. And he says to me, These are true words of God.


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And I fell before his feet to worship him. And he says to me, See that <i>you do</i> not <i>do that</i>. I am a fellow bondservant of you and of your brethren who are holding the testimony of Jesus. Worship God; for* the testimony of Jesus is the spirit of prophecy.


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<pb/>And I saw the heaven has been opened, and behold, a white horse and he who sits upon it being called Faithful and True, and he is judging in righteousness and is making war.


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Now his eyes <i>are</i> a flame of fire and upon his head <i>are</i> many diadems, having names which have been written <i>on it</i> and a name which has been written which no one knows except himself.


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And he has been dressed in a garment, having been dipped in blood and his name is called The Word of God.


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And the armies, the ones in heaven were following him upon white horses, having clothed themselves in white clean fine-linen.


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And a sharp two edged long-sword travels out from his mouth, in order that he might strike the nations with* it and he will shepherd them with* an iron rod and he tramples on the winepress of wine of the fury of the wrath of God, the Almighty.


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And he has a name which has been written <i>as</i>, King of Kings and Lord of Lords, <i>both</i> upon his garment and upon his thigh.


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<pb/>And I saw a messenger standing in the sun, and he cried out with a loud voice, saying to all the birds that fly in mid-heaven, Come-here°. Be° gathered together to the great supper of God;


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in order that you° may eat the flesh of kings and the flesh of commanders and the flesh of mighty men and the flesh of horses and of those who sit upon them and the flesh of all men, both free <i>men</i> and bondservants and both <i>the</i> little and <i>the</i> great.


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<pb/>And I saw the beast and the kings of the earth and their armies, have been gathered together to make* a war with the one who sits upon the horse and with his army.


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And the beast was clutched and with him the false prophet who made* the signs in his sight, in which he misled those who <i>had</i> received the mark of the beast and those who are worshiping his image. The two were cast <i>while</i> living into the lake of fire which is burning in brimstone.


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And the rest were killed with* the long-sword of the one who sits upon the horse, which came forth out of his mouth and all the birds were fully-fed from their flesh.


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<pb/>And I saw a messenger descending from heaven, having the key of the abyss and a great chain in his hand.


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And he took-hold of the dragon, the ancient serpent, who is <i>the</i> devil and the Adversary, the one who is misleading the whole inhabited-earth and bound him a thousand years,


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and cast him into the abyss and locked <i>it</i> and sealed <i>it</i> above him, in order that he may not mislead the nations anymore, till the thousand years might be completed. And it is essential <i>for</i> him to be loosed <i>for</i> a little time after these things.


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<pb/>And I saw thrones and they sat upon them and judgment was given to them and <i>I saw</i> the souls of those who have been decapitated because of the testimony of Jesus and because of the word of God and those who did not worship the beast, nor his image and did not receive the mark upon their forehead and upon their hand, and they lived and reigned with Christ the thousand years.


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And the rest of the dead did not live till the thousand years might be completed. This is the first resurrection.


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The fortunate and holy one is the one who has part in the first resurrection; the second death has no authority over these, but they will be priests of God and of the Christ and will be reigning with him a thousand years. <n>{Rev 1:6, 5:10}</n>


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and will be going out to mislead the nations which <i>are</i> in the four corners of the earth, Gog and Magog, to gather them together into war. The number <i>of them is</i> like the sand of the sea.


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And they went-up over the width of the earth and surrounded the encampment of the holy-ones and the beloved city and fire out of heaven descended from God and devoured them.


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And the devil who is misleading them was cast into the lake of fire and brimstone, where the beast and the false prophet are also, and they will be tormented day and night forevermore.


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<pb/>And I saw a great white throne and the one who sits upon it, from whose face the earth and the heaven fled away, and no place was found for them.


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And I saw the dead, the greatest and the least, standing in the sight of the throne, and books were opened and another book was opened, which is <i>the</i> Book of Life and the dead were judged out of the things which have been written in the books, according to their works.


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And the sea gave up the dead those <i>who were</i> in it, and death and Hades gave up the dead those <i>who were</i> in them and they were judged each one according to their works.


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And death and Hades were cast into the lake of fire. This is the second death, <i>which is</i> the lake of fire.


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And if anyone was not found, having been written in the Book of Life, he was cast into the lake of fire.


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<pb/>And I saw a new heaven and a new earth; for* the first heaven and the first earth went, and there is no sea anymore.


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And I saw the holy city, new Jerusalem, descending out of heaven from God, having been prepared as a bride adorned for* her husband.


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And I heard a loud voice from heaven saying, Behold, the tabernacle of God is with men and he will be residing with them and they will be his people and God will be with them.


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And he will be wiping-away every tear from their eyes, and there will be no death anymore. There will be no mourning, no outcrying, no pain anymore because the first things went away.


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<pb/>And he who sits upon the throne said, <J>Behold, I am making* all things new.</J> And he says to me, <J>Write, because these are the true and faithful words.</J>


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And he said to me, <J>I have become the Alpha and the Omega, I <i>am</i> the beginning and the end. I will be giving freely to the one who is thirsty out of the spring of the water of life.</J>


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<J>He who overcomes will be inheriting these things, and I will be his God and he will be a son to me.</J>


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<pb/><J>But <i>to</i> the cowardly and unbelieving and sinners and detestable and murderers and fornicators and sorcerers and idolaters and to all the false <i>witnesses</i>, their part will be in the lake which is burning with fire and brimstone; which is the second death.</J>


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<pb/>And one out of the seven messengers who had the seven bowls being full of the last seven wounds came and spoke with me, saying, Come-here. I will be showing you the bride, the wife of the Lamb.


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And he carried me away in <i>the</i> spirit to a mountain great and high and showed me the great holy city Jerusalem, descending out of heaven from God,


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having the glory of God. Its illumination was similar to a precious stone, like a crystal-like jasper stone,


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having a great and high wall, having twelve gates and twelve messengers upon the gates, and names have been written <i>on them</i>, which are the names of the twelve tribes of the sons of Israel.


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Three gates were from <i>the</i> rising <n>{i.e. east}</n> and three gates were from <i>the</i> north, and three gates were from <i>the</i> south, and three gates were from <i>the</i> west.


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And the wall of the city had twelve foundations and on them twelve names of the twelve apostles of the Lamb.


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And he, speaking with me, was holding a measure, a golden reed, in order that he might measure the city and its gates and its wall.


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And the four cornered city is laid, and the length <i>is</i> as the width and he measured the city with the reed in furlongs, <n>{F}</n> twelve thousand <i>and</i> twelve <i>furlongs</i>, the length and the width and its height are equal.


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And he measured its wall, a hundred and forty-four cubits, <i>according to</i> the measure of a man, which is, of a messenger.


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The foundations of the wall of the city have been adorned with every precious stone. The first foundation was jasper; the second, sapphire; the third, chalcedony; the fourth, emerald;


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the fifth, sardonyx; the sixth, carnelian; the seventh, chrysolite; the eighth, beryl; the ninth, topaz; the tenth, chrysoprase; the eleventh, hyacinth; the twelfth, amethyst.


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And the twelve gates were twelve pearls apiece; each one of the gates was from one pearl, respectively and the street of the city <i>was</i> purest gold like transparent glass.


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And the city has no need of the sun, neither of the moon, in order that they should appear in it; for* the glory of God illuminated it and its lamp <i>is</i> the Lamb.


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And the nations will be walking in its light and the kings of the earth bring glory to him and <i>the</i> honor of the nations into it.


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And any desecrated thing or <i>anyone</i> practicing an abomination and a lie should never enter into it; except those who have been written in the Lamb’s Book of Life <i>may enter into it</i>. <pb/><br/><n>{Footnotes: Rev 21:16, a 1380 mile cube, approximately 1/5 the size of the earth by volume if literal.}</n><br/><pb/>


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<pb/>And he showed me a river of <i>the</i> clean water of life, bright like crystal, traveling out from the throne of God and of the Lamb,


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in the middle of its street. And the Tree of Life <i>was</i> from here and from there <n>{i.e. on this side and on that side}</n> of the river, producing twelve fruits, giving its fruit each month and the foliage of the tree <i>were</i> *for the healing of the nations.


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And every curse will be not be <i>there</i> anymore and the throne of God and of the Lamb will be in it. And his bondservants will be giving-divine service to him;


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And there will be no night there, and they do not have need of a lamp or light of <i>the</i> sun, because the Lord God will be illuminating them and they will be reigning forevermore.


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<pb/>And he says to me, These are the faithful and true words and the Lord, the God of the spirits of the prophets, sent his messenger to show to his bondservants what things are essential to happen shortly.


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<pb/><J>And behold, I am coming shortly. The fortunate one is keeping the words of the prophecy of this book.</J>


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<pb/>And I, John, <i>am</i> the one who is hearing and seeing these things. And when I heard and saw, I fell to worship before the feet of the messenger who shows these things to me.


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And he says to me, See that <i>you do</i> not <i>do that</i>. I am your fellow bondservant and of your brethren the prophets, and of those who are keeping the words of this book. Worship God.


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<pb/>And he says to me, Do not seal up the words of the prophecy of this book, for* the time is near.


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He who is doing wrong, let him still do wrong and the filthy, let him still be filthy and the righteous, let him still practice righteousness and the holy one, let him still be holy.


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<pb/><J>Behold, I am coming shortly, and my reward <i>is</i> with me, to give to each <i>one</i> as his work will be.</J>


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<pb/>The fortunate ones are practicing his commandments, in order that their authority will be in the Tree of Life and they may enter in by the gates into the city.


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<pb/>The dogs and the sorcerers and the fornicators and the murderers and the idolaters and everyone loving and practicing a lie <i>are</i> outside.


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<pb/><J>I, Jesus, sent my messenger to testify to you° these things in the congregations*. I am the root and the offspring of David, the bright morning star.</J>


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<pb/>And the Spirit and the bride are saying, <J>Come. And he who hears, let him say, Come. And he who is thirsty, let him come. He who wills, let him take the water of life freely.</J>


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<pb/>I testify to everyone who hears the words of the prophecy of this book, if anyone should add onto them, God might add onto him the wounds which have been written in this book.


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And if anyone takes away from the words of the book of this prophecy, God takes away his part from the Tree of Life and out of the holy city, which have been written in this book.


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<pb/>He who is testifying of these things says, <J>Yes, I am coming shortly. Amen</J>. <pb/>Yes come, Lord Jesus.


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The grace of the Lord Jesus Christ <i>is</i> with all the holy-ones. Amen. <i>End of the Holy New Covenant: Modern Literal Version. The glory is God’s. Amen</i>


