{"book": "MAT", "chapter": 1, "verse": "1", "text": "The book of the genealogy of Jesus Christ, son of David, son of Abraham."}
{"book": "MAT", "chapter": 1, "verse": "2", "text": "Abraham begat Isaac; and Isaac begat Jacob; and and Jacob begat Judah and his brothers;"}
{"book": "MAT", "chapter": 1, "verse": "3", "text": "and Judah begat Perez and Zerah from out of Tamar; and Perez begat Hezron; and Hezron begat Ram;"}
{"book": "MAT", "chapter": 1, "verse": "4", "text": "and Ram begat Amminadab; and Amminadab begat Nahshon; and Nahshon begat Salmon;"}
{"book": "MAT", "chapter": 1, "verse": "5", "text": "and Salmon begat Boaz from out of Rahab; and Boaz begat Obed from out of Ruth; and Obed begat Jesse;"}
{"book": "MAT", "chapter": 1, "verse": "6", "text": "and Jesse begat David the king. And David begat Solomon from out of her [who had been the wife] of Uriah;"}
{"book": "MAT", "chapter": 1, "verse": "7", "text": "and Solomon begat Rehoboam; and Rehoboam begat Abijah; and Abijah begat Asa;"}
{"book": "MAT", "chapter": 1, "verse": "8", "text": "and Asa begat Jehoshaphat; and Jehoshaphat begat Joram; and Joram begat Uzziah;"}
{"book": "MAT", "chapter": 1, "verse": "9", "text": "and Uzziah begat Jotham; and Jotham begat Ahaz; and Ahaz begat Hezekiah;"}
{"book": "MAT", "chapter": 1, "verse": "10", "text": "and Hezekiah begat Manasseh; and Manasseh begat Amos; and Amos begat Josiah;"}
{"book": "MAT", "chapter": 1, "verse": "11", "text": "and Josiah begat Jechoniah and his brothers at (upon) the deportation (change of abode- after house) to Babylon."}
{"book": "MAT", "chapter": 1, "verse": "12", "text": "And after the deportation to Babylon, Jechoniah begat Shealtiel; and Shealtiel begat Zerubbabel;"}
{"book": "MAT", "chapter": 1, "verse": "13", "text": "And Zerubbabel begat Abiud; and Abiud begat Eliakim; and Eliakim begat Azor;"}
{"book": "MAT", "chapter": 1, "verse": "14", "text": "And Azor begat Zadok; and Zadok begat Achim; and Achim begat Eliud;"}
{"book": "MAT", "chapter": 1, "verse": "15", "text": "And Eliud begat Eleazar; and Eleazar begat Matthan; and Matthan begat Jacob;"}
{"book": "MAT", "chapter": 1, "verse": "16", "text": "And Jacob begat Joseph the husband of Mary from out of whom Jesus was begat (born), the One called Christ."}
{"book": "MAT", "chapter": 1, "verse": "17", "text": "Therefore all the generations from Abraham until David were fourteen generations; and from David until the deportation to Babylon, fourteen generations; and from the deportation to Babylon until the Christ, fourteen generations."}
{"book": "MAT", "chapter": 1, "verse": "18", "text": "And the birth (greek-genesis, origin) of Jesus Christ was in this manner. His mother Mary having been betrothed (promised to marriage, latin-desponsata-betrothed root is espoused) to Joseph, before their coming together, she was found holding (having, possessing) [a child] in her womb from out of the Holy Spirit."}
{"book": "MAT", "chapter": 1, "verse": "19", "text": "And Joseph, her husband, being righteous (just), and not wanting her to expose her publicly, resolved to release her (put away, send away, let go, unbind, discharge, word is used of divorce in other contexts, to loose/release/dissolve away from, latin-dimittere-release) secretly."}
{"book": "MAT", "chapter": 1, "verse": "20", "text": "And while he was in a passionate state of surmising of these things, behold, an angel of the Lord appeared to him according to a sleep-dream, saying, Joseph, son of David, Fear not to receive (take) Mary as your wife; for that having been beget (conceived) in her is from out of the Holy Spirit."}
{"book": "MAT", "chapter": 1, "verse": "21", "text": "And she will bear a Son, and you will call His name, Jesus; for He will save His people away from their sins."}
{"book": "MAT", "chapter": 1, "verse": "22", "text": "And the whole of this happened so that that might be fulfilled having been spoken by the Lord through the prophet, saying,"}
{"book": "MAT", "chapter": 1, "verse": "23", "text": "Behold, the virgin (latin-virgo-virgin, greek-parthenos) will hold in her womb, and will bear a Son, and they will call His name, Immanuel, which is translated, God with us."}
{"book": "MAT", "chapter": 1, "verse": "24", "text": "And Joseph having been awoken from his sleep, did as the angel of the Lord had commanded him, and received (took) his wife,"}
{"book": "MAT", "chapter": 1, "verse": "25", "text": "And did not know her until that she had brought forth a son; and he called His name Jesus."}
{"book": "MAT", "chapter": 2, "verse": "1", "text": "And Jesus having been born in Bethlehem of Judea in the days of Herod the king, behold, magi from the east arrived unto Jerusalem,"}
{"book": "MAT", "chapter": 2, "verse": "2", "text": "Saying, Where is the One having been born King of the Jews? For we saw His star in the east and have come to worship Him."}
{"book": "MAT", "chapter": 2, "verse": "3", "text": "And king Herod having heard, he was troubled and all Jerusalem with him."}
{"book": "MAT", "chapter": 2, "verse": "4", "text": "And all the chief priests and scribes of the people having gathered together, he inquired of them where the Christ was to be born."}
{"book": "MAT", "chapter": 2, "verse": "5", "text": "And they said to him, In Bethlehem of Judea: for thus it has been written through the prophet:"}
{"book": "MAT", "chapter": 2, "verse": "6", "text": "And you, Bethlehem, land of Judah, are by no means least among the leaders of Judah; for from out of you will go out One leading, who will shepherd My people Israel."}
{"book": "MAT", "chapter": 2, "verse": "7", "text": "Then Herod having secretly called the magi, inquired diligently of them the time of the appearing star."}
{"book": "MAT", "chapter": 2, "verse": "8", "text": "And having sent them unto Bethlehem, he said, Go, inquire exactly concerning the Child; and when you shall have found Him report back to me, so that I also having come, might worship Him."}
{"book": "MAT", "chapter": 2, "verse": "9", "text": "And the king having heard, they went away; and behold, the star, which they saw in the east went before them until having arrived, it stood over (upon above) where the Child was."}
{"book": "MAT", "chapter": 2, "verse": "10", "text": "And having seen the star, they rejoiced with exceedingly great joy."}
{"book": "MAT", "chapter": 2, "verse": "11", "text": "And having come into the house, they found the child with Mary His mother, and having fallen down, they worshipped Him: and having opened their treasures, they offered gifts to Him: gold and frankincense and myrrh."}
{"book": "MAT", "chapter": 2, "verse": "12", "text": "And having been divinely warned in a sleep-dream not to return to Herod, they withdrew through another way into their country."}
{"book": "MAT", "chapter": 2, "verse": "13", "text": "And they having withdrawn, behold, an angel of the Lord appears according to a sleep-dream to Joseph, saying, Arise, take the Child and His mother and flee into Egypt and be (exist) there until I should tell you; for Herod is about to seek the Child to destroy Him."}
{"book": "MAT", "chapter": 2, "verse": "14", "text": "And having arisen, he took the Child and His mother by night and withdrew into Egypt,"}
{"book": "MAT", "chapter": 2, "verse": "15", "text": "And was there until the death of Herod; so that that might be fulfilled having been spoken by the Lord through the prophet, saying, From out of Egypt have I called My Son."}
{"book": "MAT", "chapter": 2, "verse": "16", "text": "Then Herod having seen that he had been played by the magi was very enraged and having sent forth, he put to death all the boys that were in Bethlehem and in all its boundaries from two years old and under according to the time which he had ascertained (diligently inquired of) from the magi."}
{"book": "MAT", "chapter": 2, "verse": "17", "text": "Then that was fulfilled having been spoken through Jeremiah the prophet, saying,"}
{"book": "MAT", "chapter": 2, "verse": "18", "text": "A voice in Ramah was heard, much weeping and mourning, Rachel weeping for her children and would not be entreated, because they are not."}
{"book": "MAT", "chapter": 2, "verse": "19", "text": "And Herod having died, behold, an angel of the Lord appears according to a sleep-dream to Joseph in Egypt,"}
{"book": "MAT", "chapter": 2, "verse": "20", "text": "Saying, Arise, take the Child and His mother with you and go into the land of Israel; for those seeking the life (soul) of the Child have died."}
{"book": "MAT", "chapter": 2, "verse": "21", "text": "And having arisen, he took the Child and His mother and came into the land of Israel."}
{"book": "MAT", "chapter": 2, "verse": "22", "text": "And having heard that Archelaus reigns over Judea in place of his father Herod, he was fearful to go there; and having been divinely warned according to a sleep-dream, he withdrew into the district of Galilee:"}
{"book": "MAT", "chapter": 2, "verse": "23", "text": "And having come, he resided in the city called Nazareth; so that that should be fulfilled having been spoken through the prophets, that He will be called a Nazarene."}
{"book": "MAT", "chapter": 3, "verse": "1", "text": "And in those days, John the Baptist comes preaching in the wilderness of Judea,"}
{"book": "MAT", "chapter": 3, "verse": "2", "text": "And saying, Repent: for the kingdom of the heavens has drawn near."}
{"book": "MAT", "chapter": 3, "verse": "3", "text": "For this is the One having been spoken of through Isaiah the prophet, saying, The voice of one crying in the wilderness, Prepare the way of the Lord; Make His paths straight (direct)."}
{"book": "MAT", "chapter": 3, "verse": "4", "text": "And John himself had his apparel from hair of a camel, and a belt of leather around his waist, and his food was locusts and wild honey."}
{"book": "MAT", "chapter": 3, "verse": "5", "text": "Then went out to him Jerusalem, and all Judea, and all the region around the Jordan,"}
{"book": "MAT", "chapter": 3, "verse": "6", "text": "And were baptized in the Jordan River by him, confessing their sins."}
{"book": "MAT", "chapter": 3, "verse": "7", "text": "And having seen many of the Pharisees and Sadducees coming upon his baptism, he said to them, Offspring of vipers (poisonous snakes), who warned you to flee from the wrath about to be?"}
{"book": "MAT", "chapter": 3, "verse": "8", "text": "Produce therefore fruit worthy of repentence."}
{"book": "MAT", "chapter": 3, "verse": "9", "text": "And do not suppose (presume) to say within yourselves, We have Abraham as our father. For I say to you that God is able from out of these stones to raise up children to Abraham."}
{"book": "MAT", "chapter": 3, "verse": "10", "text": "And the ax is already applied to the root of the trees: every tree therefore not producing good fruit is cut out and thrown into the fire."}
{"book": "MAT", "chapter": 3, "verse": "11", "text": "I indeed baptize in water unto repentence; however after me is coming He that is mightier (abler, stronger) than I, of whom the sandals I am not fit to carry (bear). He will baptize in the Holy Spirit and fire."}
{"book": "MAT", "chapter": 3, "verse": "12", "text": "Of whom the winnowing pitchfork is in His hand; and He will thoroughly purge His threshing floor, and will gather together His grain into the storehouse (granary, barn, repository); however He will burn up (katakaio- burn down/against) with unquenchable fire."}
{"book": "MAT", "chapter": 3, "verse": "13", "text": "Then Jesus arrives from Galilee upon the Jordan to John to be baptized by him."}
{"book": "MAT", "chapter": 3, "verse": "14", "text": "However John forbade Him, saying, I have necessity to be baptized by You and You come to me?"}
{"book": "MAT", "chapter": 3, "verse": "15", "text": "However answering, Jesus said to him, Permit it now; for it is thus fitting to us to fulfill all righteousness. Then he permits Him."}
{"book": "MAT", "chapter": 3, "verse": "16", "text": "And having been baptized, Jesus directly went up away from the water; and behold, the heavens were opened to Him, and he saw the Spirit of God descending (coming down) like as a dove, and coming upon Him."}
{"book": "MAT", "chapter": 3, "verse": "17", "text": "And behold, a voice from out of the heavens, saying, This is My beloved Son in whom I am well-pleased."}
{"book": "MAT", "chapter": 4, "verse": "1", "text": "Then Jesus was led up into the wilderness by the Spirit to be tempted (tested) by the devil."}
{"book": "MAT", "chapter": 4, "verse": "2", "text": "And having fasted forty days and forty nights, afterward He was hungry."}
{"book": "MAT", "chapter": 4, "verse": "3", "text": "And the one tempting having approached, he said to Him, If You are the Son of God, speak, so that these stones might become loaves of bread."}
{"book": "MAT", "chapter": 4, "verse": "4", "text": "And answering, He said, It has been written, Man shall not live upon bread alone, but upon every saying (rhemati) coming out through the mouth of God."}
{"book": "MAT", "chapter": 4, "verse": "5", "text": "Then the devil takes Him unto the holy city and stands Him upon the pinnacle (edge of the wing, latin-pinnaculum-pinnacle) of the temple,"}
{"book": "MAT", "chapter": 4, "verse": "6", "text": "And says to Him, If You are the Son of God throw Yourself down below: for it has been written, He will give His angels orders (command, charge) concerning you, and they will bear you up upon their hands, lest ever you strike your foot against (to) a stone."}
{"book": "MAT", "chapter": 4, "verse": "7", "text": "Jesus said to him, Again it has been written, You shall not test (tempt) out the Lord your God."}
{"book": "MAT", "chapter": 4, "verse": "8", "text": "Again the devil takes Him unto a very high mountain and shows (points out) to Him all the kingdoms of the world and their glory,"}
{"book": "MAT", "chapter": 4, "verse": "9", "text": "And he says to Him, I will give all these things to You, if falling down, You will worship me."}
{"book": "MAT", "chapter": 4, "verse": "10", "text": "Then Jesus says to him, Go away (depart), Satan; for it has been written, You shall worship the Lord your God, and Him alone shall you serve (latreuseis-sacred service)."}
{"book": "MAT", "chapter": 4, "verse": "11", "text": "Then the devil leaves Him and behold, angels came and ministered (served, diekonoun) to Him."}
{"book": "MAT", "chapter": 4, "verse": "12", "text": "And having heard that John had been handed over, He withdrew into Galilee:"}
{"book": "MAT", "chapter": 4, "verse": "13", "text": "And having left Nazareth, having come, He resided at (into) Capernaum which is beside the sea in the borders of Zebulun and Napthali,"}
{"book": "MAT", "chapter": 4, "verse": "14", "text": "So that that might be fulfilled having been spoken through Isaiah the prophet, saying,"}
{"book": "MAT", "chapter": 4, "verse": "15", "text": "Land of Zebulun and land of Naphtali, way of the sea, beyond the Jordan, Galilee of the ethnicities."}
{"book": "MAT", "chapter": 4, "verse": "16", "text": "The people sitting in darkness have seen a great Light, and those sitting in the land and shadow of death, a Light has risen up on them."}
{"book": "MAT", "chapter": 4, "verse": "17", "text": "From that time Jesus began to preach and say, Repent, for the kingdom of the heavens has drawn near."}
{"book": "MAT", "chapter": 4, "verse": "18", "text": "And walking beside the sea of Galilee, He saw two brothers, Simon called Peter, and his brother Andrew, casting (throwing) a fishing drag-net into the sea; for they were fishermen."}
{"book": "MAT", "chapter": 4, "verse": "19", "text": "And He says to them, Come! after (behind) Me, and I will make you fishers of men."}
{"book": "MAT", "chapter": 4, "verse": "20", "text": "And directly having left their nets, they followed (accompanied) Him."}
{"book": "MAT", "chapter": 4, "verse": "21", "text": "And having gone on (gone forward) from there, He saw others, two brothers, James the [son] of Zebedee, and John his brother in the boat with Zebedee their father, adjusting their nets; and He called them."}
{"book": "MAT", "chapter": 4, "verse": "22", "text": "And directly having left the boat and their father, they followed (accompanied) Him."}
{"book": "MAT", "chapter": 4, "verse": "23", "text": "And He went around in the whole Galilee teaching in their synagogues and preaching the gospel of the kingdom and healing (therapeuon) every (all) disease (noson- chronic ailment) and every (all) disabling ailment (malakia- condition that softens, that which softens thus weakens muscles, etc.) among the people."}
{"book": "MAT", "chapter": 4, "verse": "24", "text": "And the hearing of Him went out into the whole of Syria. And they brought to Him all the badly (kakos) having various diseases and oppressing torturous pains, and being demonized, and being epileptics (possibly those being lunatics- “someone controlled by the moon”, moon-ized, moonstruck, latin-lunaticos-epileptics- in latin luna means moon, like we would say possessed by a demon= this would be possessed by the moon), and paralytics; and He healed (etherapeusen) them."}
{"book": "MAT", "chapter": 4, "verse": "25", "text": "And great crowds followed Him from Galilee and the Decapolis, and Jerusalem, and Judea, and beyond the Jordan."}
{"book": "MAT", "chapter": 5, "verse": "1", "text": "And having seen the crowds, He went up onto the mountain; and having sat down, His disciples came to Him."}
{"book": "MAT", "chapter": 5, "verse": "2", "text": "And opening His mouth, He taught them, saying,"}
{"book": "MAT", "chapter": 5, "verse": "3", "text": "Blessed (Made large/long, happy) are the poor in spirit, because theirs is the kingdom of the heavens."}
{"book": "MAT", "chapter": 5, "verse": "4", "text": "Blessed are those mourning (grieving over a death), because they will be entreated (comforted)."}
{"book": "MAT", "chapter": 5, "verse": "5", "text": "Blessed are the meek (a mild reserve with gentle strength), because they will inherit the earth."}
{"book": "MAT", "chapter": 5, "verse": "6", "text": "Blessed are those hungering and thirsting for righteousness (justice); because they will be satisfied to the full (filled, fed, fattened, sated, latin-saturabuntur-satisfied roots are sated/ gorged, like satiated or saturated)."}
{"book": "MAT", "chapter": 5, "verse": "7", "text": "Blessed are the merciful, because they will have mercy shown on them."}
{"book": "MAT", "chapter": 5, "verse": "8", "text": "Blessed are the pure (clean, without admixture, purged clean) in heart, because they will see (perceive) God."}
{"book": "MAT", "chapter": 5, "verse": "9", "text": "Blessed are the peacemakers (peacedoers), because they will be called sons of God."}
{"book": "MAT", "chapter": 5, "verse": "10", "text": "Blessed are those having been persecuted for the sake of (on account of) righteousness, because theirs is the kingdom of the heavens."}
{"book": "MAT", "chapter": 5, "verse": "11", "text": "Blessed are you when they shall reproach (insult, revile) you, and shall persecute you, and shall say all evil against you, lying on account of (for the sake of) Me."}
{"book": "MAT", "chapter": 5, "verse": "12", "text": "Rejoice and exult (jump for joy), because your reward is much in the heavens; for in this manner they persecuted the prophets before you."}
{"book": "MAT", "chapter": 5, "verse": "13", "text": "You are the salt of the earth; however if the salt becomes tasteless (dull, useless, root is moronic), with (in) what will it be salted? It is not furthermore potent (able, strong) unto anything, except having been thrown outside to be trampled underfoot by men."}
{"book": "MAT", "chapter": 5, "verse": "14", "text": "You are the light of the world. A city lying above upon a mountain is not able to be hidden."}
{"book": "MAT", "chapter": 5, "verse": "15", "text": "Nor do they light (ignite, burn) a lamp and put it under a basket (container for holding approx. 2 gallons of dry goods)- but upon a lampstand- and it shines for all those in the house."}
{"book": "MAT", "chapter": 5, "verse": "16", "text": "Thus let your light shine before men, so that they might see your good (kala) works and they should glorify your Father in the heavens."}
{"book": "MAT", "chapter": 5, "verse": "17", "text": "Do not assume (as a prevailing custom/law) that I have come to abolish (loose/release down, destroy, dissolve, tear down, latin-solvere-loose) the law or the prophets; I have not come to abolish, but to fulfill (complete) them."}
{"book": "MAT", "chapter": 5, "verse": "18", "text": "For truly I say to you, until the heaven and the earth shall pass away, not one iota (small letter of Greek alphabet) nor one apostrophe (little horn- an apostrophe on letters to distinguish them from other like-letters) shall pass away from the law until everything should happen."}
{"book": "MAT", "chapter": 5, "verse": "19", "text": "Whoever if then shall break one of these least commandments and shall teach men so, he will be called least in the kingdom of the heavens; and whoever shall do and shall teach them, this [one] will be called great in the kingdom of the heavens."}
{"book": "MAT", "chapter": 5, "verse": "20", "text": "For I say to you, That if your righteousness shall not abound (exceed) more than that of the scribes and Pharisees, you shall not enter into the kingdom of the heavens."}
{"book": "MAT", "chapter": 5, "verse": "21", "text": "You have heard that it was said to the ancients, You shall not murder; and whoever shall murder will be liable to the judgment."}
{"book": "MAT", "chapter": 5, "verse": "22", "text": "However I say to you, That everyone being fixedly angry (settled opposition) with his brother will be liable to the judgment: and whoever shall say to his brother, Raca (Empty-headed), will be liable to the council (tribunal, high court, Sanhedrin); and whoever shall say, Moron (Dull), will be liable unto the hell (gehenna) of fire."}
{"book": "MAT", "chapter": 5, "verse": "23", "text": "If therefore you shall offer your gift upon the altar and there remember that your brother has something against you,"}
{"book": "MAT", "chapter": 5, "verse": "24", "text": "Leave your gift there before the altar and go away. First be reconciled to (thoroughly change, latin-reconciliare) your brother; and then having come, offer your gift."}
{"book": "MAT", "chapter": 5, "verse": "25", "text": "Be favorable (kindly/well-disposed) to your opponent at law (adversary, prosecutor) promptly (quickly, without unnecessary delay) while you are with him on the way; lest ever the opponent at law hand you over to the judge, and the judge to the officer, and you will be cast into prison."}
{"book": "MAT", "chapter": 5, "verse": "26", "text": "Truly I say to you, You shall not come out from there until you should pay the last kodranten (smallest Roman copper coin)."}
{"book": "MAT", "chapter": 5, "verse": "27", "text": "You have heard that it was said, You shall not commit adultery:"}
{"book": "MAT", "chapter": 5, "verse": "28", "text": "However I say to you, That everyone looking at a woman to lust upon (passion upon) her has already commited adultery with her in his heart."}
{"book": "MAT", "chapter": 5, "verse": "29", "text": "And if your right eye causes you to stumble remove it and cast it away from you; for it is beneficial for you that one of your members should perish and your whole body be not cast into hell (gehenna)."}
{"book": "MAT", "chapter": 5, "verse": "30", "text": "And if your right hand causes you to stumble, cut it off and cast it away from you; for it is beneficial for you that one of your members should perish and your whole body not go away into hell."}
{"book": "MAT", "chapter": 5, "verse": "31", "text": "It was also said, Whoever shall divorce his wife, let him give a letter of divorce (forsaking, repudiation):"}
{"book": "MAT", "chapter": 5, "verse": "32", "text": "However I say to you, That everyone divorcing his wife, except for word of fornication (sexual immorality), makes her commit adultery; and whoever if shall marry her having been divorced, commits adultery."}
{"book": "MAT", "chapter": 5, "verse": "33", "text": "Again, you have heard that it was said to the ancients, You shall not swear falsely; and you shall render (return, give from) your oaths to the Lord."}
{"book": "MAT", "chapter": 5, "verse": "34", "text": "However I say to you, Do not swear at all; neither by (in) heaven, because it is the throne of God;"}
{"book": "MAT", "chapter": 5, "verse": "35", "text": "Nor by (in) the earth, because it is the footstool (underfoot) for His feet; nor unto Jerusalem, because it is the city of the Great King."}
{"book": "MAT", "chapter": 5, "verse": "36", "text": "Neither by (in) your head shall you swear, because you are not able to make one hair white or black."}
{"book": "MAT", "chapter": 5, "verse": "37", "text": "However let your word be, Yes, yes; No, no; and anything exceeding these comes from out of evil."}
{"book": "MAT", "chapter": 5, "verse": "38", "text": "You have heard that it was said, Eye for eye, and tooth for tooth;"}
{"book": "MAT", "chapter": 5, "verse": "39", "text": "However I say to you, Do not stand against (oppose, resist, withstand, latin-resistere-resist) the evil [person]; but whoever shall strike you on (unto) your right cheek turn to him also the other;"}
{"book": "MAT", "chapter": 5, "verse": "40", "text": "And to the one wanting to sue (judge) you and take your tunic (undergarment), leave (permit) to him also your outer garment;"}
{"book": "MAT", "chapter": 5, "verse": "41", "text": "And whoever shall compel you to go one mile, go with him two."}
{"book": "MAT", "chapter": 5, "verse": "42", "text": "To the one asking of you give; and the one wanting to borrow from you, you shall not turn away from."}
{"book": "MAT", "chapter": 5, "verse": "43", "text": "You have heard that it was said, You shall love your neighbor (nearby) and shall hate (detest) your enemy."}
{"book": "MAT", "chapter": 5, "verse": "44", "text": "However I say to you, Love your enemies and pray for the sake of those persecuting you; {bless those cursing you, do good to those who wrongly intimidate you and hate you};"}
{"book": "MAT", "chapter": 5, "verse": "45", "text": "So that you might be sons of your Father who is in the heavens. Because He makes His sun rise upon evil and good, and sends rain upon just (righteous) and unjust (unrighteous)."}
{"book": "MAT", "chapter": 5, "verse": "46", "text": "For if you love those loving you, what reward do you have? Do not also the tax collectors do the same?"}
{"book": "MAT", "chapter": 5, "verse": "47", "text": "And if you greet your brothers only, what greater do you do? Do not also the ethnicities do the same?"}
{"book": "MAT", "chapter": 5, "verse": "48", "text": "You shall therefore be perfect (full-grown, mature, consummated), even as your heavenly Father is perfect (latin-perfectus-perfect, reaching the end goal)."}
{"book": "MAT", "chapter": 6, "verse": "1", "text": "And take heed (have/hold towards) not to do your righteousness before men to be beheld by them; otherwise (and if lest) you have no reward from your Father who is in the heavens."}
{"book": "MAT", "chapter": 6, "verse": "2", "text": "When therefore you do charity (mercy/alms-giving), do not sound a trumpet before you just as the hypocrites do in the synagogues and in the streets, so that they might have glory by men. Truly I say to you, they have their reward."}
{"book": "MAT", "chapter": 6, "verse": "3", "text": "However when you do charity, do not let your left know what your right is doing,"}
{"book": "MAT", "chapter": 6, "verse": "4", "text": "So that you charity might be in secret; and your Father, the One seeing in secret, will give back (return) to you."}
{"book": "MAT", "chapter": 6, "verse": "5", "text": "And when you pray, you shall not be like as the hypocrites, because they love (are fond of) to pray standing in the synagogues and on the corners of the streets, so that they might be apparent to men. Truly I say to you, they have their reward."}
{"book": "MAT", "chapter": 6, "verse": "6", "text": "However when you pray, enter into your inner room (secret chamber) and having shut your door, pray to your Father, who is in secret; and your Father, the One seeing in secret, will give back (return) to you."}
{"book": "MAT", "chapter": 6, "verse": "7", "text": "And praying, do not use vain repetitions (stammer/repeat words, babble, blubber nonsensical repetitions, use empty words), like as the ethnicities (pagans, heathens, non-Jews); for they suppose that in their many words they will be heard."}
{"book": "MAT", "chapter": 6, "verse": "8", "text": "Therefore do not be like them; for your Father knows (perceives) of what things you have need before your asking Him."}
{"book": "MAT", "chapter": 6, "verse": "9", "text": "In this manner therefore you pray: Our Father, who is in the heavens, hallowed be (sanctified, kept holy-AMP, latin-sanctificetur-hallowed) Your name."}
{"book": "MAT", "chapter": 6, "verse": "10", "text": "Let come Your kingdom; Let be done Your will, like as in heaven, [so] also (and) upon earth."}
{"book": "MAT", "chapter": 6, "verse": "11", "text": "Give us today our bread for the coming day;"}
{"book": "MAT", "chapter": 6, "verse": "12", "text": "And remit us our debts (what is owed, it can refer to what is owed as a result of a moral fault or the owed penalty for one’s sin, latin-dimitte-release), as we also remit our debtors;"}
{"book": "MAT", "chapter": 6, "verse": "13", "text": "And do not lead (bring into) us into temptation (testing), but rescue (draw us to Yourself, deliver) us away from evil. {Because Yours is the kingdom and the power and the glory unto the ages. Amen}."}
{"book": "MAT", "chapter": 6, "verse": "14", "text": "For if you remit men their trespasses (falling aways after being close-beside), your heavenly Father will also remit (latin-dimittet-release) you."}
{"book": "MAT", "chapter": 6, "verse": "15", "text": "And if you do not remit men their trespasses, neither will your Father remit your trespasses."}
{"book": "MAT", "chapter": 6, "verse": "16", "text": "And whenever you fast, do not be like the hypocrites, grim-faced (gloomy looking); for they disfigure (make unseen, hide, vanish) their countenances (faces), so that they might appear to men [as] fasting. Truly I say to you, they have their reward."}
{"book": "MAT", "chapter": 6, "verse": "17", "text": "However when you fast, anoint (rub olive oil on) your head and wash your face,"}
{"book": "MAT", "chapter": 6, "verse": "18", "text": "So that you might not appear to men [as] fasting, but to your Father who is in secret; and your Father, the One seeing in secret, will give back (return) to you."}
{"book": "MAT", "chapter": 6, "verse": "19", "text": "Do not store up treasures for yourselves upon the earth where moth and rust (that which eats it) destroy (cause to disappear), and where thieves break in and steal;"}
{"book": "MAT", "chapter": 6, "verse": "20", "text": "However store up treasures in heaven for yourselves, where neither moth nor rust destroy (cause to disappear), and where thieves do not break in nor steal."}
{"book": "MAT", "chapter": 6, "verse": "21", "text": "For where your treasure is, there also will be your heart."}
{"book": "MAT", "chapter": 6, "verse": "22", "text": "The eye is the lamp of the body; if therefore your eye is clear (single, simple, sound, single like a single undivided focus here in this context thus not seeing double), your whole body will be luminous (full of light, bright, brilliant, latin-lucidum-bright)."}
{"book": "MAT", "chapter": 6, "verse": "23", "text": "However if your eye is evil (poneros, latin-nequam-worthless root is diseased), your whole body will be dark (full of darkness). If then the light that is in you is darkness, how great that darkness!"}
{"book": "MAT", "chapter": 6, "verse": "24", "text": "No one is able to serve (slave for) two lords; for either he will hate the one and he will love the other; or he will be devoted (hold firmly) to the one and he will despise (perspective/view down) the other. You are not able to serve God and mammon (riches, money, possessions, the treasures that one trusts in, latin-mamonae-mammon, one’s entrusted wealth)."}
{"book": "MAT", "chapter": 6, "verse": "25", "text": "Because of this I say to you, Do not be anxious (drawn in opposite directions, divided into parts, “go to pieces”) about your life (soul), what you should eat or what you should drink; nor what you should put on your body. Is not the life (soul) greater (of higher value, more) than the food and the body than clothing?"}
{"book": "MAT", "chapter": 6, "verse": "26", "text": "Look at (unto) the birds of the heaven, that they do not sow, nor do they reap, nor do they gather into storehouses- and your heavenly Father feeds them: Are you not more valuable (surpassing) than they?"}
{"book": "MAT", "chapter": 6, "verse": "27", "text": "And who from out of you being anxious is able to add upon his lifespan one cubit (approx.. 18 inches)?"}
{"book": "MAT", "chapter": 6, "verse": "28", "text": "And why are you anxious about clothing? Consider (latin-considerate-consider, learn down to a point) the lilies of the field, how they grow: they do not labor nor do they spin:"}
{"book": "MAT", "chapter": 6, "verse": "29", "text": "However I say to you that not even Solomon in all his glory was adorned like as one of these."}
{"book": "MAT", "chapter": 6, "verse": "30", "text": "However if the grass of the field, being here today and tomorrow being thrown into the furnace, will God not thus cloth you much more, O you of little faith?"}
{"book": "MAT", "chapter": 6, "verse": "31", "text": "Therefore do not be anxious, saying, What shall we eat? Or What shall we drink? Or What shall we wear?"}
{"book": "MAT", "chapter": 6, "verse": "32", "text": "For all these things the ethnicities seek after (seek upon); for your heavenly Father knows (perceives) that you have necessity of them all."}
{"book": "MAT", "chapter": 6, "verse": "33", "text": "However seek first the kingdom of God and His righteousness; and all these things will be added (put/set/laid towards) to you."}
{"book": "MAT", "chapter": 6, "verse": "34", "text": "Therefore do not be anxious unto things tomorrow, for tomorrow will be anxious unto itself. Sufficient to the day is its malice (kakia, bad, wrong)."}
{"book": "MAT", "chapter": 7, "verse": "1", "text": "Do not judge (be decided, come to a choice by making a judgment, to separate/distinguish), so that you should not be judged:"}
{"book": "MAT", "chapter": 7, "verse": "2", "text": "For in whatever judgment you judge, you will be judged; and in whatever measure you measure, it will be measured to you."}
{"book": "MAT", "chapter": 7, "verse": "3", "text": "And why do you look at the speck (wood/hay splinter/chip) that is in your brothers eye, and do not take notice (attentively consider/comprehend) of the beam in your own eye?"}
{"book": "MAT", "chapter": 7, "verse": "4", "text": "Or how shall you say to your brother, Permit that I might cast out the speck from out of your eye; and behold, the beam that is in your eye!"}
{"book": "MAT", "chapter": 7, "verse": "5", "text": "Hypocrite, first cast out from out of your eye the beam, and then you will thoroughly see to cast out the speck from out of your brothers eye."}
{"book": "MAT", "chapter": 7, "verse": "6", "text": "Do not give that which is holy to the dogs, nor cast your pearls (greek & latin-margaritas) before the pigs, lest ever they shall trample them down with their feet and having turned, they tear you to pieces (break apart, latin-disrumpant-tear)."}
{"book": "MAT", "chapter": 7, "verse": "7", "text": "Ask (Request) and it will be given to you; seek and you will find; knock, and it will be opened to you."}
{"book": "MAT", "chapter": 7, "verse": "8", "text": "For everyone asking receives; and the one seeking, finds; and to the one knocking, it will be opened."}
{"book": "MAT", "chapter": 7, "verse": "9", "text": "Or which man is there from out of you whom his son will ask for bread: will give him a stone?"}
{"book": "MAT", "chapter": 7, "verse": "10", "text": "Or also he will ask for a fish: will he give him a serpent?"}
{"book": "MAT", "chapter": 7, "verse": "11", "text": "If therefore you, being evil, know to give good gifts to your children, how much more will your Father, who is in the heavens, give good things to those asking Him?"}
{"book": "MAT", "chapter": 7, "verse": "12", "text": "All things therefore, as many as you might want that men should do to you, so also you do to them. For this is the law and the prophets."}
{"book": "MAT", "chapter": 7, "verse": "13", "text": "Enter through the narrow gate. Because broad (wide) is the gate and spacious (broad) is the way leading unto destruction, and many are those entering through it;"}
{"book": "MAT", "chapter": 7, "verse": "14", "text": "Because the gate is narrow and the way constricted (pressed hard) leading away unto life, and few are those finding it."}
{"book": "MAT", "chapter": 7, "verse": "15", "text": "Take heed (beware, have/hold towards, pay attention to) of (away from) the false prophets who come to you in sheep’s clothing , however inwardly they are ravenous (harpages- close to the word for rapture and meaning is close- sudden snatching/seizing) wolves."}
{"book": "MAT", "chapter": 7, "verse": "16", "text": "You will know them from their fruits. Do they gather grapes from thorns, or figs from thistles?"}
{"book": "MAT", "chapter": 7, "verse": "17", "text": "So every good tree produces good fruits; however the rotten tree produces evil fruits."}
{"book": "MAT", "chapter": 7, "verse": "18", "text": "A good (agathon) tree is not able to produce evil (ponerous) fruits; nor a rotten (sapron) tree produce good (kalous) fruits."}
{"book": "MAT", "chapter": 7, "verse": "19", "text": "Every tree not producing good (kalon) fruit is cut out and thrown into fire."}
{"book": "MAT", "chapter": 7, "verse": "20", "text": "You will recognize (know upon) them then from their fruits."}
{"book": "MAT", "chapter": 7, "verse": "21", "text": "Not everyone saying to Me, Lord, Lord, will enter into the kingdom of the heavens, but the one doing the will of My Father, who is in the heavens."}
{"book": "MAT", "chapter": 7, "verse": "22", "text": "Many will say to Me on that there day, Lord, Lord, did we not prophesy [in] Your name, and [in] Your name cast out demons, and [in] Your name do many miracles?"}
{"book": "MAT", "chapter": 7, "verse": "23", "text": "And then I will confess (to speak the same conclusion) to them, I never knew you; depart away from Me, those working lawlessness."}
{"book": "MAT", "chapter": 7, "verse": "24", "text": "Everyone therefore, whoever hears these My words and does them will be like a smart (greek- phronimo, intelligent, sensible) man who built his house upon the rock (lass mass of connected rock)."}
{"book": "MAT", "chapter": 7, "verse": "25", "text": "And the rain came down and the floods (rivers) came, and the winds blew, and beat against that there house, and it did not fall for it had been founded upon the rock."}
{"book": "MAT", "chapter": 7, "verse": "26", "text": "And everyone hearing these My words and not doing them will be likened to a moronic (dull, stupid) man who built his house upon the sand."}
{"book": "MAT", "chapter": 7, "verse": "27", "text": "And the rain came down, and the floods (rivers) came, and the winds blew, and beat against that there house, and it fell- and its fall was great."}
{"book": "MAT", "chapter": 7, "verse": "28", "text": "And it happened, when Jesus had finished these words, the crowds were astounded at (upon) His teaching,"}
{"book": "MAT", "chapter": 7, "verse": "29", "text": "For He was teaching them as having authority and not as their scribes."}
{"book": "MAT", "chapter": 8, "verse": "1", "text": "And having come down from the mountain, the great crowds followed Him."}
{"book": "MAT", "chapter": 8, "verse": "2", "text": "And behold, a leper having come, worshiped Him, saying, Lord, If you are willing, You are able to cleanse me."}
{"book": "MAT", "chapter": 8, "verse": "3", "text": "And having stretched out His hand, He touched him saying, I am willing; be you cleansed. And directly his leprosy was cleansed."}
{"book": "MAT", "chapter": 8, "verse": "4", "text": "And Jesus says to him, See that you tell no one; but go, show yourself to the priest and offer the gift that Moses commanded unto a testimony to them."}
{"book": "MAT", "chapter": 8, "verse": "5", "text": "And He having entered into Capernaum, a centurion came to Him, entreating him,"}
{"book": "MAT", "chapter": 8, "verse": "6", "text": "And saying, Lord, my servant (pais- child, boy, latin-puer-boy) is lying in the house, paralyzed, terribly tormented."}
{"book": "MAT", "chapter": 8, "verse": "7", "text": "And He says to him, I having come will heal (therapeuso) him."}
{"book": "MAT", "chapter": 8, "verse": "8", "text": "And the centurion answering said, Lord, I am not worthy (fit, sufficient, adequate) that you should come under my roof; but only speak the word, And my servant will be healed (iathesetai)."}
{"book": "MAT", "chapter": 8, "verse": "9", "text": "For I am also a man under authority; having under me soldiers that I appoint; and I say to this one, Go, and he goes; and to another, Come, and he comes; and to my bond-servant (doulo), Do this, and he does it."}
{"book": "MAT", "chapter": 8, "verse": "10", "text": "And having heard, Jesus marveled, and said to those following, Truly I say to you, I have found no one in Israel with such great faith."}
{"book": "MAT", "chapter": 8, "verse": "11", "text": "And I say to you , That many from east and west will come, and will recline with Abraham, and Isaac, and Jacob in the kingdom of the heavens;"}
{"book": "MAT", "chapter": 8, "verse": "12", "text": "However the sons of the kingdom will be cast out into the outer (outmost, external, exterior) darkness, there will be the weeping and the gnashing of the teeth."}
{"book": "MAT", "chapter": 8, "verse": "13", "text": "And Jesus said to the centurion, Go, like as you have believed, be it to you. And his servant (child) was healed (iathe) in that there hour."}
{"book": "MAT", "chapter": 8, "verse": "14", "text": "And Jesus having come into the house of Peter, He saw his mother-in-law lying sick (as cast down in sickness) and fevering;"}
{"book": "MAT", "chapter": 8, "verse": "15", "text": "And He touched her hand and the fever left (released from) her; and she arose and ministered (diekonei- served) to them."}
{"book": "MAT", "chapter": 8, "verse": "16", "text": "And evening having come, they brought many demonized to Him and He cast out the spirits by a word, and all those being badly (sick), He healed,"}
{"book": "MAT", "chapter": 8, "verse": "17", "text": "So that that having been spoken by Isaiah the prophet might be fulfilled, saying, He Himself took our infirmities and bore (carried away) our diseases."}
{"book": "MAT", "chapter": 8, "verse": "18", "text": "And Jesus having seen a great crowd around Him, He commanded to depart unto the other side."}
{"book": "MAT", "chapter": 8, "verse": "19", "text": "And one scribe having come to Him, said to Him, Teacher, I will follow you wherever you might go."}
{"book": "MAT", "chapter": 8, "verse": "20", "text": "And Jesus says to him, Foxes have holes and the birds of the heaven nests; however the Son of Man has no [place] where He might recline His head."}
{"book": "MAT", "chapter": 8, "verse": "21", "text": "And another of His disciples said to Him, Lord, permit me to first go and bury my father."}
{"book": "MAT", "chapter": 8, "verse": "22", "text": "However Jesus said to him, Follow Me, and leave the dead to bury their own dead."}
{"book": "MAT", "chapter": 8, "verse": "23", "text": "And He having entered into the boat, His disciples followed Him."}
{"book": "MAT", "chapter": 8, "verse": "24", "text": "And Behold, a great storm arose in the sea, so that the boat was being enveloped by the waves; however He was sleeping."}
{"book": "MAT", "chapter": 8, "verse": "25", "text": "And having come to Him, they awoke Him, saying, Lord, save us, we are perishing!"}
{"book": "MAT", "chapter": 8, "verse": "26", "text": "And He says to them, Why are you cowardly (timid, dreadful), O you of little faith? Then, having arisen, He censured the winds and the sea and there was a great calm."}
{"book": "MAT", "chapter": 8, "verse": "27", "text": "And the men marveled, saying, What kind of Man is this that even the winds and the sea comply under Him?"}
{"book": "MAT", "chapter": 8, "verse": "28", "text": "And He having come unto the other side unto the region of the Gadarenes, two demonized men met Him, coming from out of the tombs, extremely fierce (harsh, dangerous, hard to bear, violent) so that no one was able to pass through that there way."}
{"book": "MAT", "chapter": 8, "verse": "29", "text": "And behold, they cried out, saying, What to us and to you, Son of God? Are you come here before the fitting time to torment us?"}
{"book": "MAT", "chapter": 8, "verse": "30", "text": "And there was far off away from them a heard of many pigs feeding;"}
{"book": "MAT", "chapter": 8, "verse": "31", "text": "And the demons entreated Him, saying, If You cast us out, send us away into the herd of pigs."}
{"book": "MAT", "chapter": 8, "verse": "32", "text": "And He said to them, Go. And having gone out they went away into the pigs: and behold, all the herd rushed down the steep bank into the sea and perished in the waters."}
{"book": "MAT", "chapter": 8, "verse": "33", "text": "And those feeding them fled, and having gone away into the city, reported everything and that of those being demonized."}
{"book": "MAT", "chapter": 8, "verse": "34", "text": "And behold all the city went out to meet Jesus; and having seen Him, they entreated that He would depart away from their region."}
{"book": "MAT", "chapter": 9, "verse": "1", "text": "And having stepped into a boat, He passed through and came unto His own city."}
{"book": "MAT", "chapter": 9, "verse": "2", "text": "And behold, they brought to Him a paralytic lying (cast, thrown) upon a bed; and Jesus having seen their faith, He said to the paralytic, Take courage (Be emboldened), child; your sins have been remitted."}
{"book": "MAT", "chapter": 9, "verse": "3", "text": "And behold, some of the scribes said among themselves, This Man blasphemes! And Jesus having known the underlying passion driving their deliberations (enthymeseis- inner-passion), He said, Why are you empassioning (deliberating, enthymeisthe, the inner passion driving the thoughts) evil in your hearts?"}
{"book": "MAT", "chapter": 9, "verse": "4", "text": "For which is easier to say, Your sins have been remitted, or to say, Arise and walk?"}
{"book": "MAT", "chapter": 9, "verse": "5", "text": "However so that you might know that the Son of Man has authority upon the earth to remit sins: then He says to the paralytic, Arise, take up your bed and go unto your house."}
{"book": "MAT", "chapter": 9, "verse": "6", "text": "And having arisen, he went away unto his house."}
{"book": "MAT", "chapter": 9, "verse": "7", "text": "And the crowds having seen feared and glorified God who had given such authority to men."}
{"book": "MAT", "chapter": 9, "verse": "8", "text": "And Jesus passing from there, He saw a man sitting down at (upon) the tax booth, called Matthew, and says to him, Follow Me. And having arisen, he followed Him."}
{"book": "MAT", "chapter": 9, "verse": "9", "text": "And it happened that as He was reclining at the table in the house, and behold, many tax collectors and sinners having come were reclining at the table with Jesus and His disciples."}
{"book": "MAT", "chapter": 9, "verse": "10", "text": "And having seen it, the Pharisees said to His disciples, Why does your Teacher eat with the tax collectors and sinners?"}
{"book": "MAT", "chapter": 9, "verse": "11", "text": "And having heard, He said, Those being strong (able) have no need of a physician (iatrou), but those being badly (kakos, sick)."}
{"book": "MAT", "chapter": 9, "verse": "12", "text": "However Go, learn what is [this means], I want mercy and not sacrifice: for I did not come to call the righteous, but sinners."}
{"book": "MAT", "chapter": 9, "verse": "13", "text": "Then the disciples of John come to Him, saying, Why do we and the Pharisees fast often (much), however Your disciples do not fast?"}
{"book": "MAT", "chapter": 9, "verse": "14", "text": "And Jesus said to them, Can the sons of the bridal-chamber (this can be the chamber containing the bridal bed or the room in which the marriage ceremonies are held) mourn upon as long as the bridegroom is them?"}
{"book": "MAT", "chapter": 9, "verse": "15", "text": "However days will come when the bridegroom will have been taken away from them and then they will fast."}
{"book": "MAT", "chapter": 9, "verse": "16", "text": "And no one places (throws) a patch of unshrunk cloth upon old (worn out) clothing; for its filler (the patch filling it up) tears away (raises, removes) from the garment and a worse tear happens."}
{"book": "MAT", "chapter": 9, "verse": "17", "text": "Nor do they pour new (young, fresh) wine into old (worn out) wineskins; otherwise (if moreover lest) the wineskins burst and the wine is poured out and the wineskins are destroyed. But they throw (place) new (young, fresh) wine into new (unused) wineskins and both are together preserved (kept intact together)."}
{"book": "MAT", "chapter": 9, "verse": "18", "text": "As He was speaking these things to them, behold, a certain ruler having come, knelt down to Him, saying, My daughter has died just now; but having come, lay Your hand upon her and she will live."}
{"book": "MAT", "chapter": 9, "verse": "19", "text": "And having arisen, Jesus and His disciples followed him."}
{"book": "MAT", "chapter": 9, "verse": "20", "text": "And behold, a woman having had a flow of blood (haimorroousa- haima-blood rheo-flow, latin- sanguinis fluxum – blood issue/flux) for twelve years, having come up behind, touched the fringe of His outer garment."}
{"book": "MAT", "chapter": 9, "verse": "21", "text": "For she said within herself, If only I shall touch His outer garment, I will be saved (cured)."}
{"book": "MAT", "chapter": 9, "verse": "22", "text": "And Jesus, having turned and seen her, said, Take courage (Be emboldened), daughter; your faith has saved (cured) you. And the woman was saved (cured) from that there hour."}
{"book": "MAT", "chapter": 9, "verse": "23", "text": "And Jesus having come into the house of the ruler and having seen the flute-players and the crowd making a noisy commotion,"}
{"book": "MAT", "chapter": 9, "verse": "24", "text": "Says, Go back (Withdraw, Give place). For the young girl is not dead, but sleeps. And they ridiculed Him."}
{"book": "MAT", "chapter": 9, "verse": "25", "text": "And when the crowd had been put outside, having entered, He took hold of her hand and the young girl arose."}
{"book": "MAT", "chapter": 9, "verse": "26", "text": "And this report (fame) went out into that there whole land."}
{"book": "MAT", "chapter": 9, "verse": "27", "text": "And Jesus passing on from there, two blind men followed, crying out and saying, Son of David have mercy on us."}
{"book": "MAT", "chapter": 9, "verse": "28", "text": "And having come into the house, the blind men came to Him, and Jesus says to them, Do you believe that I am able to do this? They say to Him, Yes, Lord."}
{"book": "MAT", "chapter": 9, "verse": "29", "text": "Then He touched their eyes, saying, According to your faith be it to you."}
{"book": "MAT", "chapter": 9, "verse": "30", "text": "And their eyes were opened and Jesus sternly warned them, See that no one knows."}
{"book": "MAT", "chapter": 9, "verse": "31", "text": "However having gone out, they make Him known in that there whole land."}
{"book": "MAT", "chapter": 9, "verse": "32", "text": "And as they were going out, behold, they brought to Him a mute man being demonized."}
{"book": "MAT", "chapter": 9, "verse": "33", "text": "And the demon having been cast out, the mute man spoke. And the crowds marveled, saying, Never was thus seen in Israel."}
{"book": "MAT", "chapter": 9, "verse": "34", "text": "And the Pharisees said, He casts out demons by (in) the principal ruler (preeminent leader) of the demons."}
{"book": "MAT", "chapter": 9, "verse": "35", "text": "And Jesus went around all the cities and the villages teaching in their synagogues and preaching the gospel of the kingdom and healing every disease and every weakness (softness, disability)."}
{"book": "MAT", "chapter": 9, "verse": "36", "text": "And having seen the crowds, He was moved with compassion (visceral affections such as sympathy, etc.) concerning them, because they were vexed and cast aside, as sheep not having a shepherd."}
{"book": "MAT", "chapter": 9, "verse": "37", "text": "Then He says to His disciples, Indeed the harvest is plentiful (much, great) however the workmen are few;"}
{"book": "MAT", "chapter": 9, "verse": "38", "text": "Appeal (request) therefore to the Lord of the harvest, so that He might put out (cast) workmen into His harvest."}
{"book": "MAT", "chapter": 10, "verse": "1", "text": "And having called His twelve disciples to Him, He gave them authority over unclean spirits, so as to cast them out and to heal every disease and every sickness (softness, weakness, disability)."}
{"book": "MAT", "chapter": 10, "verse": "2", "text": "And the names of the twelve apostles are these: first Simon called Peter, and Andrew his brother; and James the [son] of Zebedee, and John his brother; Philip, and Bartholomew; Thomas, and Matthew the tax collector; James the [son] of Alphaeus, and Thaddaeus;"}
{"book": "MAT", "chapter": 10, "verse": "3", "text": "Simon the Zealot, and Judas Iscariot, who betrayed Him."}
{"book": "MAT", "chapter": 10, "verse": "4", "text": "Jesus sent these twelve away, having commanded them, saying, Do not go off unto the way of the ethnicities, and do not enter into any city of the Samaritans;"}
{"book": "MAT", "chapter": 10, "verse": "5", "text": "However go rather to those being lost sheep of the house of Israel."}
{"book": "MAT", "chapter": 10, "verse": "6", "text": "And going, preach, saying, The kingdom of the heavens has drawn hear."}
{"book": "MAT", "chapter": 10, "verse": "7", "text": "Heal those ailing (infirmed), raise the dead, cleanse the lepers, cast out demons; freely you received freely, freely give."}
{"book": "MAT", "chapter": 10, "verse": "8", "text": "Do not acquire gold nor silver nor copper in your belts,"}
{"book": "MAT", "chapter": 10, "verse": "9", "text": "Nor a traveler’s bag for (unto) the way, nor two tunics (undergarments), nor sandals, nor a staff: for worthy is the workman of his provisions. And into whatever city or village you enter, inquire (closely examine) who in it is worthy, and there remain until you go out."}
{"book": "MAT", "chapter": 10, "verse": "10", "text": "And entering into the house, greet it."}
{"book": "MAT", "chapter": 10, "verse": "11", "text": "And if indeed the house be worthy, let your peace come upon it; however if it not be worthy, let your peace return to you."}
{"book": "MAT", "chapter": 10, "verse": "12", "text": "And whoever will not welcomingly receive you nor will hear your words, going outside of that house or that there city, shake off (out) the dust of your feet."}
{"book": "MAT", "chapter": 10, "verse": "13", "text": "Truly I say to you, It will be more tolerable (endurable) for the land of Sodom and of Gomorrah on the day of judgment than for that there city."}
{"book": "MAT", "chapter": 10, "verse": "14", "text": "Behold, I send you away like as sheep in the midst of wolves: therefore be you shrewd (smart, savvy, sensible, practically wise, intelligent, prudent, latin-prudentes-prudent) as the serpents, and innocent (unmingled, unmixed, latin-simplices-simple) as the doves."}
{"book": "MAT", "chapter": 10, "verse": "15", "text": "However beware of (away from) men; for they will hand you over unto the courts and they will flog you in their synagogues:"}
{"book": "MAT", "chapter": 10, "verse": "16", "text": "And you will be brought before (upon) governors and kings also on account of Me unto a testimony to them and to the ethnicities."}
{"book": "MAT", "chapter": 10, "verse": "17", "text": "And when they hand you over, do not be anxious [for] how or what you should speak: for it will be given to you in that there hour what you should say."}
{"book": "MAT", "chapter": 10, "verse": "18", "text": "For you are not those speaking, but the Spirit of your Father speaking in you."}
{"book": "MAT", "chapter": 10, "verse": "19", "text": "And brother will hand over brother unto death; and father, child. And children will rise up against (upon) parents, and will put them to death."}
{"book": "MAT", "chapter": 10, "verse": "20", "text": "And you will be hated (detested) by all on account of My name; however the one having endured unto the end, he will be saved."}
{"book": "MAT", "chapter": 10, "verse": "21", "text": "And whenever they persecute you in this city, flee unto a different one. For truly I say to you, You will not have completed the cities of Israel until the Son of Man be come."}
{"book": "MAT", "chapter": 10, "verse": "22", "text": "The disciple is not above (over) the teacher, nor the bond-servant above (over) his lord."}
{"book": "MAT", "chapter": 10, "verse": "23", "text": "It is enough (sufficient) for the disciple that he become as his teacher, and the bond-servant as his lord. If they called the master of the house Beelzebul, how much more those house members of Him?"}
{"book": "MAT", "chapter": 10, "verse": "24", "text": "Therefore you should not fear them; for nothing is concealed which will not be revealed, and hidden which will not be known."}
{"book": "MAT", "chapter": 10, "verse": "25", "text": "What I tell you in the darkness, speak in the light; and what you hear in the ear, preach (herald, proclaim) upon the housetops."}
{"book": "MAT", "chapter": 10, "verse": "26", "text": "And you should not be fearful of those killing the body, however are not able to kill the soul; however you should fear rather the one being able to destroy both the soul and body in hell (gehenna)."}
{"book": "MAT", "chapter": 10, "verse": "27", "text": "Are not two sparrows sold for an assarion (small Roman coin of little value)? And not one from out of them will fall upon the ground without (without the cooperation or knowledge of) your Father."}
{"book": "MAT", "chapter": 10, "verse": "28", "text": "And of you even the hairs of the head are all numbered."}
{"book": "MAT", "chapter": 10, "verse": "29", "text": "Therefore you should not fear; you are worth more than (superior, surpassing) many sparrows."}
{"book": "MAT", "chapter": 10, "verse": "30", "text": "Therefore everyone who will confess in Me before men, I also will confess in him before My Father who is in the heavens."}
{"book": "MAT", "chapter": 10, "verse": "31", "text": "However, whoever shall deny Me before men, I also will deny him before My Father who is in the heavens."}
{"book": "MAT", "chapter": 10, "verse": "32", "text": "Do not suppose that I came to bring peace upon the earth; I did not came to bring peace, but a sword (slaughter dagger)."}
{"book": "MAT", "chapter": 10, "verse": "33", "text": "For I came to set as variance (separate by placing a divide) a man against his father, and a daughter against her mother, and a daughter-in-law against her mother-in-law."}
{"book": "MAT", "chapter": 10, "verse": "34", "text": "And the enemies of a man, those of his household."}
{"book": "MAT", "chapter": 10, "verse": "35", "text": "The one loving (philon, a fond affectionate loving) father or mother above (over) Me is not worthy of Me; and the one loving (philon, a fond affectionate loving) son or daughter above (over) Me is not worthy of Me."}
{"book": "MAT", "chapter": 10, "verse": "36", "text": "And he who does not take (receive) his cross and follow after (behind) Me is not worthy of Me."}
{"book": "MAT", "chapter": 10, "verse": "37", "text": "He who having found his life (soul) will lose it; and he who having lost his life (soul) for the sake of (on account of) Me will find it."}
{"book": "MAT", "chapter": 10, "verse": "38", "text": "The one welcomingly receiving you, welcomingly receives Me; and the one welcomingly receiving Me, welcomingly receives the One having sent Me."}
{"book": "MAT", "chapter": 10, "verse": "39", "text": "The one welcomingly receiving a prophet in (unto) the name of a prophet will receive the reward of a prophet; and the one welcomingly receiving a righteous (just) [man] in (unto) the name of a righteous (just) [man] will receive the reward of a righteous [man]."}
{"book": "MAT", "chapter": 10, "verse": "40", "text": "And whoever shall give to drink to one of these little ones a cup of cold [drink/water], only in (unto) the name of a disciple, truly I say to you, he shall not lose his reward. (could possibly be rendered- And whoever in the name of a disciple shall give to drink to one of these little ones only a cup of cold [drink/water], truly I say to you, he shall not lose his reward.)"}
{"book": "MAT", "chapter": 10, "verse": "41", "text": "And it happened when Jesus had finished commanding (thoroughly gave orders) His twelve disciples, He departed from there to teach and preach in their cities."}
{"book": "MAT", "chapter": 10, "verse": "42", "text": "And John having heard in prison the works of the Christ, having sent two of his disciples,"}
{"book": "MAT", "chapter": 11, "verse": "1", "text": "Said to Him, Are You the Coming (this is a verb), or are we to expect another?"}
{"book": "MAT", "chapter": 11, "verse": "2", "text": "And answering, Jesus said to them, Go, report to John what you hear and see:"}
{"book": "MAT", "chapter": 11, "verse": "3", "text": "Lepers are cleansed, and deaf hear, and dead are raised, and poor are evangelized (given good news)."}
{"book": "MAT", "chapter": 11, "verse": "4", "text": "And blessed is he who shall not stumble (take offense, be snared, fall away- fall into a trap, latin-scandalizatus-offended root is scandal) in Me."}
{"book": "MAT", "chapter": 11, "verse": "5", "text": "And as these were going away, Jesus began to speak to the crowds concerning John, What did you go out into the wilderness to behold? A reed shaken by the wind?"}
{"book": "MAT", "chapter": 11, "verse": "6", "text": "But what did you go out to see? A man having been dressed in soft (malakois- fine, effeminate, delicate, latin-mollibus-soft) [clothes]?"}
{"book": "MAT", "chapter": 11, "verse": "7", "text": "Behold, those wearing soft (malaka) [clothes] are in the houses of the kings."}
{"book": "MAT", "chapter": 11, "verse": "8", "text": "But why did you go out to see a prophet? Yes, I say to you, and more than (greater, abundant) a prophet."}
{"book": "MAT", "chapter": 11, "verse": "9", "text": "This is he concerning whom it has been written, Behold, I send My messenger (angelon) before Your face, who will prepare Your way before You."}
{"book": "MAT", "chapter": 11, "verse": "10", "text": "Truly I say to you, There has not risen among [those] born of women one greater than John the Baptist. Yet the least in the kingdom of the heavens is greater than he."}
{"book": "MAT", "chapter": 11, "verse": "11", "text": "And from the days of John the Baptist until just now, the kingdom of the heavens is taken by violence (force) and the violent (forceful) seize (harpazousin, latin-rapiunt-snatch like rapture, seize/snatch by force) it."}
{"book": "MAT", "chapter": 11, "verse": "12", "text": "For all the prophets and the law until John prophesied."}
{"book": "MAT", "chapter": 11, "verse": "13", "text": "And if you are willing to welcomingly receive it, he (John) is Elijah being about to come."}
{"book": "MAT", "chapter": 11, "verse": "14", "text": "The one having ears, let him hear."}
{"book": "MAT", "chapter": 11, "verse": "15", "text": "However to what will I liken (compare) this generation? It is like (comparable to) little children sitting in the market-places (public assembly places) and calling out to others,"}
{"book": "MAT", "chapter": 11, "verse": "16", "text": "Saying, We played on a flute (piped) for you and you did not dance; we lamented (passionately expressed sorrow/grief) and you did not mourn (feel stricken/severed like cut to the heart)."}
{"book": "MAT", "chapter": 11, "verse": "17", "text": "For John came neither eating nor drinking and they say, He has a demon!"}
{"book": "MAT", "chapter": 11, "verse": "18", "text": "The Son of Man came eating and drinking and they say, Behold, a man, a glutton and a wine-drinker (oinopotes, possibly an excessive wine drinker but does not use the “methusos” greek word directly associated with a drunkard, oinos-wine potes-drinker), a friend of tax collectors and sinners! And wisdom is justified from her works."}
{"book": "MAT", "chapter": 11, "verse": "19", "text": "Then He began to reproach (scold, revile, latin-exprobrare-upbraid root is reproach) the cities in which the most (greatest) of His miracles had happened, because they did not repent."}
{"book": "MAT", "chapter": 11, "verse": "20", "text": "Woe to you, Chorazin! Woe to you, Bethsaida! Because if the miracles that happened in you had happened in Tyre and Sidon, they would have repented long ago in sackcloth and ashes."}
{"book": "MAT", "chapter": 11, "verse": "21", "text": "Yet I say to you, It will be more tolerable for Tyre and Sidon in the day of judgment than for you."}
{"book": "MAT", "chapter": 11, "verse": "22", "text": "And you, Capernaum, Were you not exalted (raised high) as far as heaven? You will be brought down as far as Hades!"}
{"book": "MAT", "chapter": 11, "verse": "23", "text": "Because if the miracles which happened in you had happened in Sodom, it would have remained until this day."}
{"book": "MAT", "chapter": 11, "verse": "24", "text": "Yet I say to you, That it will be more tolerable for the land of Sodom in the day of judgment than for you."}
{"book": "MAT", "chapter": 11, "verse": "25", "text": "At (in) that there time, Jesus answering said, I wholly confess You, Father, Lord of the heaven and the earth, that You have hidden these things from the wise and intelligent (understand by synthesizing, comprehending, latin-prudentibus-prudent) and have revealed them to infants (little children, simple-minded/immature people, unlearned)."}
{"book": "MAT", "chapter": 11, "verse": "26", "text": "Yes, Father, because so it was well-pleasing before You."}
{"book": "MAT", "chapter": 11, "verse": "27", "text": "All thing have been handed over to Me by My Father. And no one exactly knows (know upon, recognizes) the Son, except the Father; nor does anyone exactly know (recognize) the Father, except the Son, and to whom the Son might resolve (determine, will) to reveal Him."}
{"book": "MAT", "chapter": 11, "verse": "28", "text": "Come to Me all those exhaustively labored and being overloaded (weighed down) and I will give you rest (pause, latin-reficiam-refresh, to rest up after completing the needed work)."}
{"book": "MAT", "chapter": 11, "verse": "29", "text": "Take up (lift, raise) My yoke (a yoke unites two in working one thing) upon you and learn (disciple) from Me, because I am meek and lowly (humble) in heart; and you will find rest for your souls."}
{"book": "MAT", "chapter": 11, "verse": "30", "text": "For My yoke is serviceable (useful, productive, well-fitted, usefully kind, latin-suave-savor) and My burden is light (easy to bear, of little weight, latin-leve-slight)."}
{"book": "MAT", "chapter": 12, "verse": "1", "text": "At (in) that there time, Jesus went on the Sabbath through the grainfields; and His disciples were hungry and began to pluck heads of grain and eat."}
{"book": "MAT", "chapter": 12, "verse": "2", "text": "And the Pharisees having seen, said to Him, Behold, Your disciples are doing what is not permitted to do on the Sabbath."}
{"book": "MAT", "chapter": 12, "verse": "3", "text": "And He said to them, Have you not read what David did when he was hungry and those with him?"}
{"book": "MAT", "chapter": 12, "verse": "4", "text": "How he entered into the house of God and he ate the bread of the Presence (Presentation, to purposefully set forth before, Providence, Show-bread, latin-propositionis-Presence root is proposition), which was not permitted for him to eat, nor for those with him, except for the priests only?"}
{"book": "MAT", "chapter": 12, "verse": "5", "text": "Or have you not read in the law, that on the Sabbaths the priests in the temple violate (profane, break, cross over improperly without authorization, latin-violant-violate) the Sabbath and are guiltless (not-criminal, non-causative, not acused, latin- sine crimine- without crime)?"}
{"book": "MAT", "chapter": 12, "verse": "6", "text": "However I say to you, that a greater (neuter adjective) than the temple is here."}
{"book": "MAT", "chapter": 12, "verse": "7", "text": "However if you had known what [this] is, I want (desire, will) mercy and not sacrifice, you would not have condemned the guiltless (non-criminal)."}
{"book": "MAT", "chapter": 12, "verse": "8", "text": "For the Son of Man is Lord of the Sabbath."}
{"book": "MAT", "chapter": 12, "verse": "9", "text": "And having departed from there, He went into their synagogue."}
{"book": "MAT", "chapter": 12, "verse": "10", "text": "And behold, a man having a withered hand. And they asked Him, saying, Is it permitted to heal on the Sabbath?- so that they might accuse Him."}
{"book": "MAT", "chapter": 12, "verse": "11", "text": "And He said to them, What man will there be from out of you, who will have one sheep, and if it falls into a pit on the Sabbath, will not take hold of it and raise it up?"}
{"book": "MAT", "chapter": 12, "verse": "12", "text": "How much more valuable (surpassing, latin- magis melior- much better) then is a man than a sheep! Therefore it is permitted to do good (kalos) on the Sabbath."}
{"book": "MAT", "chapter": 12, "verse": "13", "text": "Then He says to the man, Stretch out your hand. And he stretched it out and it was restored as healthy as the other."}
{"book": "MAT", "chapter": 12, "verse": "14", "text": "And having gone out, the Pharisees held a council (took/received counsel) against him on how they might destroy Him."}
{"book": "MAT", "chapter": 12, "verse": "15", "text": "And Jesus having known, withdrew from there and great crowds followed Him, and He healed them all,"}
{"book": "MAT", "chapter": 12, "verse": "16", "text": "And strictly warned (censured, warned to prevent wrong) them so that they should not make Him apparent."}
{"book": "MAT", "chapter": 12, "verse": "17", "text": "So that that might be fulfilled having been spoken through Isaiah the prophet, saying,"}
{"book": "MAT", "chapter": 12, "verse": "18", "text": "Behold My Servant (pais- often child), whom I have chosen, My Beloved, in whom My soul is well-pleased (well-seemed, well-supposed). I will place (put, lay) My Spirit upon Him and He will announce judgment (justice) to the ethnicities (nations)."}
{"book": "MAT", "chapter": 12, "verse": "19", "text": "He will not contend (confront in heated debate that results in discord/needless strife) nor will He cry out, nor will anyone hear His voice in the streets."}
{"book": "MAT", "chapter": 12, "verse": "20", "text": "A reed bruised He shall not break, and a wick smoldering He will not quench until He casts out (banishes, brings, puts out) judgment into victory (NASB- leads justice to victory)."}
{"book": "MAT", "chapter": 12, "verse": "21", "text": "And the ethnicities (nations) will hope in His name."}
{"book": "MAT", "chapter": 12, "verse": "22", "text": "Then one demonized, blind and mute, was brought to Him and He healed him, so that the mute [man] spoke and saw."}
{"book": "MAT", "chapter": 12, "verse": "23", "text": "And all the crowds were astonished and said, Is this the Son of David?"}
{"book": "MAT", "chapter": 12, "verse": "24", "text": "And the Pharisees having heard, said, This [Man] does not cast out the demons, except by (in) Beelzebul the principal ruler of the demons."}
{"book": "MAT", "chapter": 12, "verse": "25", "text": "And having known the inner-passions driving their thoughts, He said to them, Every kingdom having divided against itself is brought to desolation, and every city or house having divided against (kata) itself will not stand."}
{"book": "MAT", "chapter": 12, "verse": "26", "text": "And if Satan casts out Satan, he is divided against (upon) himself. How then will his kingdom stand?"}
{"book": "MAT", "chapter": 12, "verse": "27", "text": "And if I cast out demons by (in) Beelzebul, by (in) whom do your sons cast [them] out? On account of this, they will be judges of you."}
{"book": "MAT", "chapter": 12, "verse": "28", "text": "However if I cast out demons by (in) the Spirit of God, then the kingdom of God has come upon you."}
{"book": "MAT", "chapter": 12, "verse": "29", "text": "Or how is anyone able to enter into the house of the strong [man] and snatch (seize, greek-harpasai) his goods, except he first bind the strong [man]? And then he will thoroughly plunder (snatch up, seize) his house."}
{"book": "MAT", "chapter": 12, "verse": "30", "text": "The one not being with Me is against Me; and the one not gathering with Me scatters."}
{"book": "MAT", "chapter": 12, "verse": "31", "text": "Because of this I say to you, Every sin and blasphemy will be remitted men; however blasphemy of the Spirit will not be remitted."}
{"book": "MAT", "chapter": 12, "verse": "32", "text": "And whoever speaks a word against the Son of Man, it will be remitted him; however whoever speaks against the Holy Spirit, it will not be remitted him, neither in this age nor in the coming [one]."}
{"book": "MAT", "chapter": 12, "verse": "33", "text": "Either make the good and its fruit good, or make the tree rotten and the fruit of it rotten: for the tree is known from out of its fruit."}
{"book": "MAT", "chapter": 12, "verse": "34", "text": "Offspring of vipers! How are you able to speak good things being evil? For from out of the abundance of the heart, the mouth speaks."}
{"book": "MAT", "chapter": 12, "verse": "35", "text": "The good man brings out (casts/puts out, latin-profert-produces) good things from out of his good treasure; the evil man brings out evil things from out of his evil treasure."}
{"book": "MAT", "chapter": 12, "verse": "36", "text": "And I say to you, That every non-working (idle, careless) saying (rhema) that men will speak, they will render a word (an account) concerning it in the day of judgment."}
{"book": "MAT", "chapter": 12, "verse": "37", "text": "For from out of your words, you will be justified, and from out of your words, you will be condemned."}
{"book": "MAT", "chapter": 12, "verse": "38", "text": "Then some of the scribes and Pharisees answered, saying, Teacher, we wish to see a sign from You."}
{"book": "MAT", "chapter": 12, "verse": "39", "text": "And answering, He said to them, An evil and adulterous generation seeks after (seeks upon) a sign, and a sign will not be given to it, except the sign of Jonah the prophet."}
{"book": "MAT", "chapter": 12, "verse": "40", "text": "For just as Jonah was in the belly (koilia) of the huge fish (ketos, sea monster, latin-ceti-whale, the greek ketos were depicted in art as a serpentine fish) three days and three nights, thus the Son of Man will be in the heart of the earth three days and three nights."}
{"book": "MAT", "chapter": 12, "verse": "41", "text": "The men of Nineveh will stand up (raise up) in the judgment with this generation and will condemn it; because they repented at the preaching of Jonah; and behold, greater than Jonah is here."}
{"book": "MAT", "chapter": 12, "verse": "42", "text": "The queen of the south will rise up (awaken) in the judgment with this generation and will condemn it; because she came from out of the limits (boundaries) of the earth to hear the wisdom of Solomon; and behold, greater than Solomon is here."}
{"book": "MAT", "chapter": 12, "verse": "43", "text": "And when the unclean spirit is gone out away from the man, it passes through waterless places seeking rest and finds none."}
{"book": "MAT", "chapter": 12, "verse": "44", "text": "Then it says, I will return unto my house from where I came out. And having come, it finds it being unoccupied (at leisure) and swept, and adorned (beautified, arranged, put in order)."}
{"book": "MAT", "chapter": 12, "verse": "45", "text": "Then it goes and takes with itself seven other spirits more evil than itself, and having entered in they reside there; and the last of that man becomes worse than the first. Thus it will be also to this evil generation."}
{"book": "MAT", "chapter": 12, "verse": "46", "text": "However while He was speaking to the crowds, behold, His mother and brothers were standing outside seeking to speak to Him."}
{"book": "MAT", "chapter": 12, "verse": "47", "text": "Then someone said to Him, Behold, Your mother and Your brothers are standing outside seeking to speak to You."}
{"book": "MAT", "chapter": 12, "verse": "48", "text": "And answering, He said to the one telling Him, Who is My mother? And who are My brothers?"}
{"book": "MAT", "chapter": 12, "verse": "49", "text": "And having stretched out His hand upon His disciples, He said, Behold, My mother and My brothers."}
{"book": "MAT", "chapter": 12, "verse": "50", "text": "For whoever shall do the will of My Father who is in the heavens, he is My brother and sister and mother."}
{"book": "MAT", "chapter": 13, "verse": "1", "text": "In that there day, Jesus having gone out from the house, sat down beside the sea."}
{"book": "MAT", "chapter": 13, "verse": "2", "text": "And great crowds were gathered together to Him, so that He stepped into a boat to sit down and all the crowd stood upon the shore."}
{"book": "MAT", "chapter": 13, "verse": "3", "text": "And He spoke many things to them in parables, saying, Behold, the one sowing went out to sow."}
{"book": "MAT", "chapter": 13, "verse": "4", "text": "And in his sowing, some indeed fell beside the way and the birds having come devoured them."}
{"book": "MAT", "chapter": 13, "verse": "5", "text": "And other fell upon the rocky places where they had not much soil, and directly they sprang up out, because of not having depth of soil;"}
{"book": "MAT", "chapter": 13, "verse": "6", "text": "And the sun having risen, they were scorched, and because of not having root were dried up."}
{"book": "MAT", "chapter": 13, "verse": "7", "text": "And other fell upon the thorns and the thorns grew up and choked them."}
{"book": "MAT", "chapter": 13, "verse": "8", "text": "And other fell upon the good soil and gave fruit, some indeed a hundred, and some sixty, and some thirty."}
{"book": "MAT", "chapter": 13, "verse": "9", "text": "The one having ears, let him hear."}
{"book": "MAT", "chapter": 13, "verse": "10", "text": "And having come to Him, the disciples said to Him, Why do you speak to them in parables?"}
{"book": "MAT", "chapter": 13, "verse": "11", "text": "And answering, He said to them, Because it has been granted (given) to you to know the mysteries of the kingdom of the heavens, however it has not been granted (given) to them."}
{"book": "MAT", "chapter": 13, "verse": "12", "text": "For whoever has, to him will be given, and he will be in abundance; and whoever has not, even what he has will be taken away from him."}
{"book": "MAT", "chapter": 13, "verse": "13", "text": "Because of this, I speak to them in parables, because seeing, they do not see; and hearing, they do not hear, nor do they comprehend (put it together, understand, synthesize)."}
{"book": "MAT", "chapter": 13, "verse": "14", "text": "And in them the prophecy of Isaiah is fulfilled, the one saying, In hearing you will hear, and not comprehend; and seeing you will see and not perceive at all,"}
{"book": "MAT", "chapter": 13, "verse": "15", "text": "For the heart of this people has grown dull (thick, fattened, insensitive, unfeeling) and they have heard heavily (with difficulty, unresponsively dull) with their ears, and they have closed their eyes; lest they should see with their eyes and they should hear with their ears, and they should comprehend (put it together, synthesize) with their heart and should return (latin-convertantur-converted) and I will heal them."}
{"book": "MAT", "chapter": 13, "verse": "16", "text": "However blessed are your eyes, because they see; and your ears because they hear."}
{"book": "MAT", "chapter": 13, "verse": "17", "text": "Truly I say to you, That many prophets and righteous (just) [men] passionately longed to perceive what you see and did not perceive; and to hear what you hear and did not hear."}
{"book": "MAT", "chapter": 13, "verse": "18", "text": "You therefore hear the parable of the having sown (this is a verb):"}
{"book": "MAT", "chapter": 13, "verse": "19", "text": "Everyone hearing the word of the kingdom and not comprehending, the evil one comes and snatches away (harpazei, latin-rapit) that having been sown in his heart. This is the one having been sown beside the way."}
{"book": "MAT", "chapter": 13, "verse": "20", "text": "And that which having been sown upon the rocky places, this is the one hearing the word and directly receiving it with joy;"}
{"book": "MAT", "chapter": 13, "verse": "21", "text": "And he has no root in himself, but is temporary; however when tribulation or persecution happens because of the word, directly he falls away (stumbles)."}
{"book": "MAT", "chapter": 13, "verse": "22", "text": "And that which having been sown into the thorns, this is the one hearing the word and the anxiety of this age and the deceit of riches choke the word and it becomes unfruitful."}
{"book": "MAT", "chapter": 13, "verse": "23", "text": "And that which having been sown upon good soil, this is the one hearing the word and comprehending; and who brings forth fruit and produces (makes) some indeed a hundred, and some sixty, and some thirty."}
{"book": "MAT", "chapter": 13, "verse": "24", "text": "He put another parable before them, saying, The kingdom of the heavens has become like a man having sown good seed in his field;"}
{"book": "MAT", "chapter": 13, "verse": "25", "text": "And while the men are sleeping, his enemy came and sowed weeds resembling wheat (zizanium- a kind of darnel resembling wheat) in the midst of the wheat and went away."}
{"book": "MAT", "chapter": 13, "verse": "26", "text": "And when the plants sprouted and produced fruit, then also the weeds appeared."}
{"book": "MAT", "chapter": 13, "verse": "27", "text": "And the bond-servants of the master of the house having come and said to him, Sir (Lord), did you not sow good seed in your field? How then has it the weeds?"}
{"book": "MAT", "chapter": 13, "verse": "28", "text": "And he said to them, An enemy, a man did this. And his bond-servants said to him, Do you wish then that having gone away, we should gather them?"}
{"book": "MAT", "chapter": 13, "verse": "29", "text": "And he said, No; lest gathering the weeds, you would uproot the wheat along with them."}
{"book": "MAT", "chapter": 13, "verse": "30", "text": "Allow both to grow together until the harvest; and in the time of the harvest I will say to the harvesters, Gather first the weeds and bind them into bundles to burn them up; and gather together the wheat into my storehouse (granary, repository, barn, latin-horreum-storehouse)."}
{"book": "MAT", "chapter": 13, "verse": "31", "text": "He put before them another parable, saying, The kingdom of the heavens is like a grain of mustard, which a man having taken sowed in his field;"}
{"book": "MAT", "chapter": 13, "verse": "32", "text": "Which indeed is smallest of all the seeds; however when it is grown it is greater than the garden plants, and becomes a tree, so that the birds of the heaven come and nest in its branches."}
{"book": "MAT", "chapter": 13, "verse": "33", "text": "He spoke another parable to them: The kingdom of the heavens is like leaven, which a woman having taken hid in three measures of flour until the whole was leavened."}
{"book": "MAT", "chapter": 13, "verse": "34", "text": "Jesus spoke all these things in parables to the crowds and He did not speak to them without a parable;"}
{"book": "MAT", "chapter": 13, "verse": "35", "text": "So that that might be fulfilled having been spoken through the prophet, saying, I will open My mouth in parables; I will utter things hidden from the foundation of the world."}
{"book": "MAT", "chapter": 13, "verse": "36", "text": "Then having dismissed the crowds, He went into the house. And His disciples came to Him, saying, Explain (make thoroughly clear) to us the parable of the weeds of the field."}
{"book": "MAT", "chapter": 13, "verse": "37", "text": "And answering, He said, The One sowing the good seed is the Son of Man;"}
{"book": "MAT", "chapter": 13, "verse": "38", "text": "And the field is the world; and the good seed, these are the sons of the kingdom; and the weeds are the sons of the evil [one];"}
{"book": "MAT", "chapter": 13, "verse": "39", "text": "And the enemy, the one having sown them is the devil; and the harvest is the culmination of the age, and the harvesters are angels."}
{"book": "MAT", "chapter": 13, "verse": "40", "text": "As therefore the weeds is gathered and is burned up in fire, thus it will be in the culmination of the age."}
{"book": "MAT", "chapter": 13, "verse": "41", "text": "The Son of Man will send forth His angels and they will gather from out of His kingdom all the stumbling-blocks (causes of sin, ensnarements) and those which do lawlessness,"}
{"book": "MAT", "chapter": 13, "verse": "42", "text": "And they will cast them into the furnace of the fire; in that place there will be weeping (bitter grief coming from hopelessness) and the gnashing (grinding) of teeth."}
{"book": "MAT", "chapter": 13, "verse": "43", "text": "Then the righteous will shine forth (shine out) like as the sun in the kingdom of their Father. The one having ears, let him hear."}
{"book": "MAT", "chapter": 13, "verse": "44", "text": "The kingdom of the heavens is like a treasure having been hidden in the field which a man having found hid, and for the joy of it goes, and he sells all that he has, and buys that field."}
{"book": "MAT", "chapter": 13, "verse": "45", "text": "Again the kingdom of the heavens is like a man, a merchant, seeking fine (beautiful, good) pearls;"}
{"book": "MAT", "chapter": 13, "verse": "46", "text": "And having found one very precious (highly valued) pearl, he went away and sold all as much as he had and bought it."}
{"book": "MAT", "chapter": 13, "verse": "47", "text": "Again the kingdom of the heavens is like a drag-net having been cast into the sea and having gathered together from out of every kind;"}
{"book": "MAT", "chapter": 13, "verse": "48", "text": "Which when it was filled having drawn up upon the shore and having sat down, they collected the good into vessels and they cast outside the bad (rotten, corrupt, worthless, of poor/bad quality)."}
{"book": "MAT", "chapter": 13, "verse": "49", "text": "Thus will it be in the culmination of the age: the angels will go out and will separate (mark off by boundaries) the evil from out of the midst of the righteous,"}
{"book": "MAT", "chapter": 13, "verse": "50", "text": "And will cast them into the furnace of the fire. In that place there will be the weeping and the gnashing of the teeth."}
{"book": "MAT", "chapter": 13, "verse": "51", "text": "Have you comprehended (understand, put together, synthesized) all these things? They say to Him, Yes,"}
{"book": "MAT", "chapter": 13, "verse": "52", "text": "And He said to them, Because of this, every scribe having been discipled into the kingdom of the heavens is like a man, a master of a house, who brings forth from out of his treasure things new and old."}
{"book": "MAT", "chapter": 13, "verse": "53", "text": "And it happened when Jesus finished these parables, He withdrew from there;"}
{"book": "MAT", "chapter": 13, "verse": "54", "text": "And having come into the His own native region (fatherland), He taught them in their synagogue, so that they are astounded and saying, From where did this man get this wisdom and these [miraculous] powers?"}
{"book": "MAT", "chapter": 13, "verse": "55", "text": "Is this not the son of the carpenter (craftsman, artisan)? Is not His mother called Mary? And His brothers James and Joseph and Simon and Judas?"}
{"book": "MAT", "chapter": 13, "verse": "56", "text": "And His sisters, are they not all with us? From where then did this Man get all these things?"}
{"book": "MAT", "chapter": 13, "verse": "57", "text": "And they were offended (stumbled) at (in) Him. However Jesus said to them, A prophet is not without honor (without value, unrecognized), except in his native hometown (fatherland, native place) and in his household."}
{"book": "MAT", "chapter": 13, "verse": "58", "text": "And He did not do many miracles there because of their unbelief."}
{"book": "MAT", "chapter": 14, "verse": "1", "text": "In that there time Herod the tetrarch heard the hearing (news, fame, latin-famam-report) of Jesus,"}
{"book": "MAT", "chapter": 14, "verse": "2", "text": "And said to his servants, This is John the Baptist: He is risen from the dead and because of this, the [miraculous] powers are working (energized) in Him."}
{"book": "MAT", "chapter": 14, "verse": "3", "text": "For Herod having seized hold of John, bound him, and put him in prison on account of Herodias, the wife of Philip, his brother."}
{"book": "MAT", "chapter": 14, "verse": "4", "text": "For John had been saying to him, It is not permitted to have her."}
{"book": "MAT", "chapter": 14, "verse": "5", "text": "And wanting to kill him, he feared the crowd, because they held him as a prophet."}
{"book": "MAT", "chapter": 14, "verse": "6", "text": "And the birthday celebration of Herod having happened, the daughter of Herodias danced in the midst and pleased Herod;"}
{"book": "MAT", "chapter": 14, "verse": "7", "text": "For which reason he professed (confessed, promised) with an oath to give to her whatever she should ask."}
{"book": "MAT", "chapter": 14, "verse": "8", "text": "And having been urged on by her mother, she says, Give me here upon a platter, the head of John the Baptist."}
{"book": "MAT", "chapter": 14, "verse": "9", "text": "And the king having been grieved; but on account of the oaths and those reclining with him, he commanded it to be given."}
{"book": "MAT", "chapter": 14, "verse": "10", "text": "And he having sent, beheaded John in the prison."}
{"book": "MAT", "chapter": 14, "verse": "11", "text": "And his head was brought upon a platter and was given to the girl and she brought it to her mother."}
{"book": "MAT", "chapter": 14, "verse": "12", "text": "And his disciples having come, took the dead body (corpse) and buried it; and having come, told it to Jesus."}
{"book": "MAT", "chapter": 14, "verse": "13", "text": "And having heard, Jesus withdrew from there by (in) boat unto a solitary (desolate) place by Himself. And having heard of it, the crowds followed Him on foot from the cities."}
{"book": "MAT", "chapter": 14, "verse": "14", "text": "And having gone out, He saw a great crowd and was moved with compassion (sympathy, visceral affections) upon them and healed their sick (chronic, persisting illnesses- that not departing)."}
{"book": "MAT", "chapter": 14, "verse": "15", "text": "And evening having come, the disciples came to Him saying, This is a desolate place and the hour is already passed by. Dismiss then the crowds so that having gone into the villages, they might buy food for themselves."}
{"book": "MAT", "chapter": 14, "verse": "16", "text": "And Jesus said to them, They have no need to go away. You give to them to eat."}
{"book": "MAT", "chapter": 14, "verse": "17", "text": "And they say to Him, We have not here except five loaves and two fish."}
{"book": "MAT", "chapter": 14, "verse": "18", "text": "And He said, Bring them here to Me."}
{"book": "MAT", "chapter": 14, "verse": "19", "text": "And having commanded the crowds to sit down upon the grass, having taken the five loaves and the two fish, having looked up into heaven, He spoke a blessing; and having broken, He gave to the disciples the loaves and the disciples to the crowds."}
{"book": "MAT", "chapter": 14, "verse": "20", "text": "And all ate and were satisfied; and they took up that being over and above (abounding) of the fragments, twelve hand-baskets full."}
{"book": "MAT", "chapter": 14, "verse": "21", "text": "And those eating were about five thousand men, besides (apart from, separate from) women and children."}
{"book": "MAT", "chapter": 14, "verse": "22", "text": "And directly He compelled the disciples to enter into the boat and to go before Him unto the other side until that He would have dismissed the crowds."}
{"book": "MAT", "chapter": 14, "verse": "23", "text": "And having dismissed the crowds, He went up unto the mountain by Himself to pray. And evening having arrived, He was there alone."}
{"book": "MAT", "chapter": 14, "verse": "24", "text": "And the boat was already many stadias (one eighth of a Roman mile) from the land, being tossed by the waves for the wind was contrary."}
{"book": "MAT", "chapter": 14, "verse": "25", "text": "And in the fourth watch (between 3-6am) of the night, He went to them, walking upon the sea."}
{"book": "MAT", "chapter": 14, "verse": "26", "text": "And the disciples having seen Him walking upon the sea were troubled, saying, It is a ghost (apparition, appearance, phantom, phantasma, latin-fantasma); and in fear they cried out,"}
{"book": "MAT", "chapter": 14, "verse": "27", "text": "And directly Jesus spoke to them, saying, Take courage (be emboldened, be of good cheer/confidence), It is I, do not fear."}
{"book": "MAT", "chapter": 14, "verse": "28", "text": "And answering to Him, Peter said, Lord, if it is You, command me to come to You upon the waters."}
{"book": "MAT", "chapter": 14, "verse": "29", "text": "And He said, Come. and having come down away from the boat, Peter walked upon the water, and came to Jesus."}
{"book": "MAT", "chapter": 14, "verse": "30", "text": "And seeing the strong wind, he was fearful and having begun to sink, he cried out, saying, Lord, save me."}
{"book": "MAT", "chapter": 14, "verse": "31", "text": "And Jesus directly having stretched out His hand took hold of him, and says to him, O you of little faith, why did you doubt (waver, vacillate, double stand)?"}
{"book": "MAT", "chapter": 14, "verse": "32", "text": "And they having gone up into the boat, the wind ceased."}
{"book": "MAT", "chapter": 14, "verse": "33", "text": "And those in the boat worshipped Him saying, Truthfully, You are the Son of God!"}
{"book": "MAT", "chapter": 14, "verse": "34", "text": "And having crossed over, they came upon the land of Gennesaret."}
{"book": "MAT", "chapter": 14, "verse": "35", "text": "And the men of that there place having recognized Him, sent unto that whole surrounding region and brought to Him all those being badly (sick),"}
{"book": "MAT", "chapter": 14, "verse": "36", "text": "And entreated Him so that they might only touch the fringe of His outer garment; and as many as touched were thoroughly saved (cured)."}
{"book": "MAT", "chapter": 15, "verse": "1", "text": "Then the scribes and Pharisees from Jerusalem come to Jesus, saying,"}
{"book": "MAT", "chapter": 15, "verse": "2", "text": "Why do Your disciples break (transgress, violate, go contrary) the tradition (that handed down/over) of the elders? For they do not wash (niptontai) their hands when they eat bread."}
{"book": "MAT", "chapter": 15, "verse": "3", "text": "And answering, He said to them, Why also do you break the commandment of God on account of your tradition?"}
{"book": "MAT", "chapter": 15, "verse": "4", "text": "For God commanded, Honor (value) your father and mother; and the one speaking evil of father or mother must end in death."}
{"book": "MAT", "chapter": 15, "verse": "5", "text": "And you say, Whoever shall say to father or mother, It is a gift, whatever you might be benefited from me-"}
{"book": "MAT", "chapter": 15, "verse": "6", "text": "He will not honor (value) his own father or his own mother, and you invalidate (make of no effect, nullify) the word of God on account of your tradition."}
{"book": "MAT", "chapter": 15, "verse": "7", "text": "Hypocrites! Isaiah rightly prophesied concerning you, saying,"}
{"book": "MAT", "chapter": 15, "verse": "8", "text": "This people honor Me with the lips; however their heart is far away from Me:"}
{"book": "MAT", "chapter": 15, "verse": "9", "text": "And they reverence (worship, esteem in high respect) Me in vain (pointlessly, aimlessly), teaching as doctrines the precepts (injunctions, ordinances) of men."}
{"book": "MAT", "chapter": 15, "verse": "10", "text": "And having called the crowd to Him, He said to them, Hear and comprehend (put it together, synthesize, understand)!"}
{"book": "MAT", "chapter": 15, "verse": "11", "text": "It is not that entering into the mouth that defiles the man; but that going out from the mouth, this defiles the man."}
{"book": "MAT", "chapter": 15, "verse": "12", "text": "Then the disciples having drawn near to Him said to Him, Do you know that the Pharisees, having heard the word, were stumbled (snared, offended)?"}
{"book": "MAT", "chapter": 15, "verse": "13", "text": "And answering, He said, Every plant that My heavenly Father has not planted will be rooted out."}
{"book": "MAT", "chapter": 15, "verse": "14", "text": "Leave them alone; they are blind guides of the blind. And if the blind guide the blind, both will fall into a pit."}
{"book": "MAT", "chapter": 15, "verse": "15", "text": "And answering, Peter said to Him, Explain to us this parable."}
{"book": "MAT", "chapter": 15, "verse": "16", "text": "And He said, Are you also still not comprehending?"}
{"book": "MAT", "chapter": 15, "verse": "17", "text": "Do you not yet apprehend (perceive, realize) that everything entering into the mouth goes into the belly (koilian) and is cast out (latin-emittitur-draft –like emitted root is squirts, old English is draught like pulling/dropping a load) into the latrine (place of sitting apart)?"}
{"book": "MAT", "chapter": 15, "verse": "18", "text": "And the things going out from the mouth come out from the heart and these defile the man."}
{"book": "MAT", "chapter": 15, "verse": "19", "text": "For from out of the heart come out evil deliberations (back and forth thoughts/reasonings), murders, adulteries, fornications (sexual immoralities), thefts, false testimonies, blasphemies."}
{"book": "MAT", "chapter": 15, "verse": "20", "text": "These are the things defiling the man; however to eat with unwashed hands does not defile the man."}
{"book": "MAT", "chapter": 15, "verse": "21", "text": "And having gone out from there, Jesus withdrew unto the district of Tyre and Sidon;"}
{"book": "MAT", "chapter": 15, "verse": "22", "text": "And behold, a Canaanite woman from that there territory, having come out, cried out, saying, Have mercy on me, Lord, Son of David; my daughter is badly (miserably) demonized."}
{"book": "MAT", "chapter": 15, "verse": "23", "text": "And He did not answer her a word. And His disciples having come to Him, asked Him, saying, Send her away, because she cries out after us."}
{"book": "MAT", "chapter": 15, "verse": "24", "text": "And answering, He said, I was not sent except unto the sheep being lost of the house of Israel."}
{"book": "MAT", "chapter": 15, "verse": "25", "text": "However having come, she worshiped Him, saying, Lord, help me!"}
{"book": "MAT", "chapter": 15, "verse": "26", "text": "And answering, He said, It is not right to take the bread of the children and cast it to the dogs."}
{"book": "MAT", "chapter": 15, "verse": "27", "text": "And she said, Yes, Lord; for even the dogs eat from the crumbs falling from the table of their lords."}
{"book": "MAT", "chapter": 15, "verse": "28", "text": "Then answering, Jesus said to her, O woman, great is your faith! Be it to you as you want. And her daughter was healed (iathe) from that there hour."}
{"book": "MAT", "chapter": 15, "verse": "29", "text": "And having departed from there, Jesus went beside the sea of Galilee; and having gone up unto the mountain, He was sitting there."}
{"book": "MAT", "chapter": 15, "verse": "30", "text": "And great crowds came to Him having with them lame, crippled, blind, mute, and many others and they placed them beside His feet and He healed them;"}
{"book": "MAT", "chapter": 15, "verse": "31", "text": "So that the crowds marveled, seeing mute speaking, crippled healthy, and lame walking, and blind seeing; and they glorified the God of Israel."}
{"book": "MAT", "chapter": 15, "verse": "32", "text": "And Jesus having called His disciples to Him, said, I am moved with compassion (sympathy, visceral affections) upon the crowd, because they have already continued three days with Me and have nothing that they might eat; and I am not willing to send them away hungry, lest they faint (become weak/ weary/ exhausted) on the way."}
{"book": "MAT", "chapter": 15, "verse": "33", "text": "And the disciples say to Him, From where do we get so many loaves in the wilderness so as to satisfy so great a crowd?"}
{"book": "MAT", "chapter": 15, "verse": "34", "text": "And Jesus says to them, How many loaves do you have? And they said, Seven, and a few small fish."}
{"book": "MAT", "chapter": 15, "verse": "35", "text": "And He having commanded the crowds to recline (fall back) upon the ground,"}
{"book": "MAT", "chapter": 15, "verse": "36", "text": "Having taken the seven loaves and the fish, and having given thanks, He broke them and gave to the disciples and the disciples to the crowd."}
{"book": "MAT", "chapter": 15, "verse": "37", "text": "And all ate and were satisfied; and they took up what was over and above (abounding) of the fragments, seven baskets full;"}
{"book": "MAT", "chapter": 15, "verse": "38", "text": "And those eating were four thousand men, besides women and children."}
{"book": "MAT", "chapter": 15, "verse": "39", "text": "And having sent away the crowds, He entered (stepped into, embarked) into the boat and came unto the region (borders) of Magadan."}
{"book": "MAT", "chapter": 16, "verse": "1", "text": "And the Pharisees and Sadducees having come to Him, tempting (testing) Him asked Him to show (show upon) them a sign from out of heaven."}
{"book": "MAT", "chapter": 16, "verse": "2", "text": "And answering, He said to them, Evening having come, you say, Fair weather: for the heaven (sky) is red."}
{"book": "MAT", "chapter": 16, "verse": "3", "text": "And at morning (early, dawn), Today a storm; for the heaven, being gloomy (overcast), is red. For you know how to discern the appearance of the heaven, however the signs of the times, you are not able!"}
{"book": "MAT", "chapter": 16, "verse": "4", "text": "An evil and adulterous generation seeks after a sign and a sign will not be given to it, except the sign of Jonah. And having left them he went away."}
{"book": "MAT", "chapter": 16, "verse": "5", "text": "And the disciples having come unto the other side, they forgot (overlooked) to take bread."}
{"book": "MAT", "chapter": 16, "verse": "6", "text": "And Jesus said to them, Watch and beware of the leaven of the Pharisees and Sadducees."}
{"book": "MAT", "chapter": 16, "verse": "7", "text": "And they dialogued among themselves, saying, Because we did not take bread."}
{"book": "MAT", "chapter": 16, "verse": "8", "text": "And having known this, Jesus said, Why do you dialogue among yourselves, O you of little faith, because you did not take bread?"}
{"book": "MAT", "chapter": 16, "verse": "9", "text": "Do you not yet apprehend (understand) nor remember the five loaves for the five thousand and how many hand-baskets you received?"}
{"book": "MAT", "chapter": 16, "verse": "10", "text": "Nor the seven loaves for the four thousand and how many baskets you received?"}
{"book": "MAT", "chapter": 16, "verse": "11", "text": "How do you not apprehend that I did not speak to you concerning bread, rather to beware of the leaven of the Pharisees and Sadducees?"}
{"book": "MAT", "chapter": 16, "verse": "12", "text": "Then they comprehended (put it together) that He did not say to beware of the leaven of bread, rather of the teaching of the Pharisees and Sadducees."}
{"book": "MAT", "chapter": 16, "verse": "13", "text": "And Jesus having come into the parts of Caesarea Philippi, He questioned His disciples, saying, Who do men say to be the Son of Man?"}
{"book": "MAT", "chapter": 16, "verse": "14", "text": "And some said, Some John the Baptist; and others Elijah; and different ones Jeremiah or one of the prophets."}
{"book": "MAT", "chapter": 16, "verse": "15", "text": "He says to them, And who do you say Me to be?"}
{"book": "MAT", "chapter": 16, "verse": "16", "text": "And answering, Simon Peter said, You are the Christ, the Son of the living God."}
{"book": "MAT", "chapter": 16, "verse": "17", "text": "And answering, Jesus said to him, Blessed are you Simon Barjona! Because flesh and blood did not reveal it to you, but My Father who is in the heavens."}
{"book": "MAT", "chapter": 16, "verse": "18", "text": "And I also say to you, That you are Peter (Petros), and I will build My church upon this rock (petra), and the gates of Hades will not prevail against (overpower, be strong/able against) it."}
{"book": "MAT", "chapter": 16, "verse": "19", "text": "I will give to you the keys of the kingdom of the heavens; and whatever you might bind upon the earth will be bound in the heavens; and whatever you might loose (release, unbind) upon the earth will be loosed in the heavens."}
{"book": "MAT", "chapter": 16, "verse": "20", "text": "Then He expressly commanded the disciples, so that they should not say to anyone that He is the Christ."}
{"book": "MAT", "chapter": 16, "verse": "21", "text": "From that time Jesus began to show to His disciples that He must go away unto Jerusalem and suffer many things from the elders and the chief priests and scribes, and be killed and on the third day be raised."}
{"book": "MAT", "chapter": 16, "verse": "22", "text": "And having taken Him aside, Peter began censure Him, saying, Far be it from You, Lord; this will never be to You."}
{"book": "MAT", "chapter": 16, "verse": "23", "text": "And having turned He said to Peter, Get behind Me, Satan! You are a stumbling block (offence) to Me, because your perspectives are not of the things of God, but the things of men."}
{"book": "MAT", "chapter": 16, "verse": "24", "text": "Then Jesus said to His disciples, If anyone wants to come after Me, let him deny himself and take up his cross and follow Me."}
{"book": "MAT", "chapter": 16, "verse": "25", "text": "For whoever might want to save his life (soul) will lose it; however whoever might lose his life (soul) for My sake, will find it."}
{"book": "MAT", "chapter": 16, "verse": "26", "text": "For what will it benefit a man if he gains the whole world and forfeits his soul (life)? Or what will a man give as an exchange for his soul (life)?"}
{"book": "MAT", "chapter": 16, "verse": "27", "text": "For the Son of Man is about to come in the glory of His Father with His angels; and then He will give back to each according to his practice (sustained activity/responsibility)."}
{"book": "MAT", "chapter": 16, "verse": "28", "text": "Truly I say to you, There are some of those standing here who shall not taste of death until they have seen the Son of Man coming in His kingdom."}
{"book": "MAT", "chapter": 17, "verse": "1", "text": "And after six days, Jesus takes Peter and James and John his brother with Him and led them up onto a high mountain by themselves privately."}
{"book": "MAT", "chapter": 17, "verse": "2", "text": "And He was transfigured (transformed, metamorphized, latin-transfiguratus) before them and His face shone like as the sun and His clothes became white like as the light."}
{"book": "MAT", "chapter": 17, "verse": "3", "text": "And behold, Moses and Elijah appeared to them talking with Him."}
{"book": "MAT", "chapter": 17, "verse": "4", "text": "And answering, Peter said to Jesus, Lord, it is good for us to be here. If you want, we will make three tabernacles here: one for You, and one for Moses, and one for Elijah."}
{"book": "MAT", "chapter": 17, "verse": "5", "text": "While he was yet speaking, behold a brightly luminous (brilliant, luminous, full of light) cloud overshadowed (to cast shade upon) them; and behold, a voice from out of the cloud, saying, This is My beloved Son in whom I am well pleased; Listen to Him!"}
{"book": "MAT", "chapter": 17, "verse": "6", "text": "And having heard it, the disciples fell upon their face and were extremely (very much, exceedingly, done to the max) terrified."}
{"book": "MAT", "chapter": 17, "verse": "7", "text": "And Jesus having come to them and having touched them, said, Rise up, and do not be fearful."}
{"book": "MAT", "chapter": 17, "verse": "8", "text": "And having lifted up their eyes, they saw no one except Jesus Himself alone."}
{"book": "MAT", "chapter": 17, "verse": "9", "text": "And as they were coming down from the mountain, Jesus commanded them, saying, Do not tell anyone the vision until the Son of Man is risen from out of the dead."}
{"book": "MAT", "chapter": 17, "verse": "10", "text": "And the disciples inquired of Him, Why then do the scribes say that Elijah must first come?"}
{"book": "MAT", "chapter": 17, "verse": "11", "text": "And answering, He said, Elijah indeed comes and will restore all things."}
{"book": "MAT", "chapter": 17, "verse": "12", "text": "However I say to you, that Elijah already is come and they do not recognize him, but did to him whatever they wanted. Thus also the Son of Man is about to suffer by (under) them."}
{"book": "MAT", "chapter": 17, "verse": "13", "text": "Then the disciples comprehended that He spoke to them concerning John the Baptist."}
{"book": "MAT", "chapter": 17, "verse": "14", "text": "And when they came to the crowd, a man came near to Him, falling on his knees before Him,"}
{"book": "MAT", "chapter": 17, "verse": "15", "text": "And saying, Lord, Have mercy on my son because he is epileptic (moon-struck, moonized, latin-lunaticus-seizures luna means moon) and suffers badly; for he often falls into the fire and often into the water."}
{"book": "MAT", "chapter": 17, "verse": "16", "text": "And I brought him to Your disciples and they were not able to heal him."}
{"book": "MAT", "chapter": 17, "verse": "17", "text": "And answering, Jesus said, O non-believing and perverted (thoroughly turned, distorted, twisted, opposite from the shape it should be, latin-perversa-perverse) generation, how long will I be with you? How long will I bear (hold up) with you? Bring him here to Me."}
{"book": "MAT", "chapter": 17, "verse": "18", "text": "And Jesus censured him and the demon went out from him and the boy was healed from that there hour."}
{"book": "MAT", "chapter": 17, "verse": "19", "text": "Then the disciples said to Jesus in private (on their own), Why were we not able to cast it out?"}
{"book": "MAT", "chapter": 17, "verse": "20", "text": "And He said to them, Because of your little faith. For truly, I say to you, If you have (hold, possess) faith like as a seed of mustard, you will say to this mountain, Move from here to there! And it will move; and nothing will be impossible (unable) for you."}
{"book": "MAT", "chapter": 17, "verse": "21", "text": "{however this kind does not go out except in prayer and fasting. – in the Vulgate and most translations, not in ESV}"}
{"book": "MAT", "chapter": 17, "verse": "22", "text": "And while they were abiding in Galilee, Jesus said to them, the Son of Man is about to be betrayed into the hands of men,"}
{"book": "MAT", "chapter": 17, "verse": "23", "text": "And they will kill Him; and on the third day He will be raised up. And they were very deeply saddened."}
{"book": "MAT", "chapter": 17, "verse": "24", "text": "And when they came into Capernaum, those collecting the didrachmas (tribute money) came and said, Does your Teacher not pay the didrachmas?"}
{"book": "MAT", "chapter": 17, "verse": "25", "text": "He says, Yes. And he having entered into the house, Jesus anticipated him, saying, What do you suppose, Simon? From whom do the kings of the earth collect duties (tolls, customs, taxes) or tribute (poll tax)? From their sons or from others?"}
{"book": "MAT", "chapter": 17, "verse": "26", "text": "And he said, From the others. Jesus said to him, Then the sons are free from obligation."}
{"book": "MAT", "chapter": 17, "verse": "27", "text": "However so that we might not cause them to stumble (offend them), having gone unto the sea, cast a hook and take the first fish having come up and having opened its mouth, you will find a stater (Jewish shekel, silver coin worth two didrachma); take that and give it to them for Me and you."}
{"book": "MAT", "chapter": 18, "verse": "1", "text": "In that there hour the disciples came to Jesus, saying, Who then is the greatest in the kingdom of the heavens?"}
{"book": "MAT", "chapter": 18, "verse": "2", "text": "And having called a little child to Him, He set the little child (it) in their midst,"}
{"book": "MAT", "chapter": 18, "verse": "3", "text": "And said, Truly I say to you, Unless you are converted (turn/convert by changing direction) and become like as the little children, you shall not enter into the kingdom of the heavens."}
{"book": "MAT", "chapter": 18, "verse": "4", "text": "Therefore whoever will humble himself like as this child, he is the greatest in the kingdom of the heavens;"}
{"book": "MAT", "chapter": 18, "verse": "5", "text": "And whoever shall welcomingly receive one such little child in My name welcomingly receives Me."}
{"book": "MAT", "chapter": 18, "verse": "6", "text": "However whoever shall cause one of these little ones believing in Me to stumble, it is better for him that a donkeys (heavy enough for a donkey to move) millstone should be hung around his neck and he be sunk (drowned) in the deep of the sea."}
{"book": "MAT", "chapter": 18, "verse": "7", "text": "Woe to the world from (because of) the stumbling-blocks! For it is necessary for stumbling-blocks to come, however woe to the man through whom the stumbling-block comes!"}
{"book": "MAT", "chapter": 18, "verse": "8", "text": "If your hand or your foot causes you to stumble, cut it off and cast it away from you; it is better for you to enter into life crippled or lame than having two hands or two feet to be cast into the eternal fire."}
{"book": "MAT", "chapter": 18, "verse": "9", "text": "And if you eye causes you to stumble, remove it and cast it away from you; it is better for you to enter into life one-eyed than having two eyes to be cast into the gehenna (hell) of fire."}
{"book": "MAT", "chapter": 18, "verse": "10", "text": "See that you do not despise (view down) one of these little ones. For I say to you that their angels in the heavens all continually look at the face of My Father, who is in the heavens."}
{"book": "MAT", "chapter": 18, "verse": "11", "text": "{For the Son of Man has come to save that which has been lost.}"}
{"book": "MAT", "chapter": 18, "verse": "12", "text": "What do you suppose? If there should be a hundred sheep to a certain man, and one from out of them has wandered off, will he not leave the ninety nine upon the mountains and go, seek the one having wandered off?"}
{"book": "MAT", "chapter": 18, "verse": "13", "text": "And if he should find it, truly I say to you, that he rejoices over (upon) it more than over (upon) the ninety nine not having wandered off."}
{"book": "MAT", "chapter": 18, "verse": "14", "text": "Thus it is not the will of (before, in front of) your Father, who is in the heavens, that one of these little ones should perish (be lost)."}
{"book": "MAT", "chapter": 18, "verse": "15", "text": "And if your brother sins against (unto) you, go reprove (convict, expose, rebuke, convince) him between you and him alone. If he will hear you, you have gained (traded up, won, avoided loss, latin-lucratus-won) your brother."}
{"book": "MAT", "chapter": 18, "verse": "16", "text": "However if he will not hear, take with you one or two in addition, so that upon the mouth of two or of three witnesses, every saying (rhema) might be made to stand."}
{"book": "MAT", "chapter": 18, "verse": "17", "text": "And if he fails to listen to them, tell it to the church. And if he also fails to listen to the church, let him be to you just as one of the ethnicities (a pagan) and a tax collector."}
{"book": "MAT", "chapter": 18, "verse": "18", "text": "Truly I say to you, how many you shall bind upon the earth will be bound in heaven; and how many you shall loose (release, unbind) upon the earth will be loosed in heaven."}
{"book": "MAT", "chapter": 18, "verse": "19", "text": "Again truly I say to you, that if two from out of you might agree (voice together with) upon the earth concerning any matter, whatever they shall ask, it will happen (come into being) for them by My Father, who is in the heavens."}
{"book": "MAT", "chapter": 18, "verse": "20", "text": "For where there are two or three gathered together unto My name, there I am in their midst."}
{"book": "MAT", "chapter": 18, "verse": "21", "text": "Then Peter having come to Him, said, Lord, how often will my brother sin against (unto) me and I remit him? Up to seven times?"}
{"book": "MAT", "chapter": 18, "verse": "22", "text": "Jesus says to him, I say to you, not up to seven times, but up to seventy times seven!"}
{"book": "MAT", "chapter": 18, "verse": "23", "text": "Because of this, the kingdom of the heavens has become like a man, a king, who wanted to settle (make a reckoning) word with his bond-servants."}
{"book": "MAT", "chapter": 18, "verse": "24", "text": "And he having begun to settle, one was brought to him, a debtor of ten thousand talents."}
{"book": "MAT", "chapter": 18, "verse": "25", "text": "And he (the debtor) having no means to pay back, his lord commanded him and his wife and his children and all as much as he had to be sold and payment to be made."}
{"book": "MAT", "chapter": 18, "verse": "26", "text": "Therefore the bond-servant having fallen down on his knees to him, saying, Have long patience (long-passion) upon me and I will repay all to you."}
{"book": "MAT", "chapter": 18, "verse": "27", "text": "And having been moved with compassion (sympathy, visceral affections), the lord of that bond-servant released him and remitted his loan."}
{"book": "MAT", "chapter": 18, "verse": "28", "text": "However having gone out that there bond-servant found one of his fellow bond-servants, who owed him a hundred denarii and having laid hold of him he strangled him, saying, Repay me if you owe anything."}
{"book": "MAT", "chapter": 18, "verse": "29", "text": "His fellow bond-servant therefore having fallen down entreated him, saying, Have long patience (long-passion, long-suffering) upon me, and I will repay you."}
{"book": "MAT", "chapter": 18, "verse": "30", "text": "And he was not willing, but having gone, he cast him into prison until when he should repay that which he was owing."}
{"book": "MAT", "chapter": 18, "verse": "31", "text": "His fellow bond-servants having therefore seen the things having happened, they were very deeply saddened (distressed, grieved) and having gone, thoroughly explained to their lord all that had happened."}
{"book": "MAT", "chapter": 18, "verse": "32", "text": "Then his lord having called to him the evil bond-servant, says to him, I remitted you all that debt, because you entreated me."}
{"book": "MAT", "chapter": 18, "verse": "33", "text": "Was it not necessary also that you have mercy on your fellow bond-servant like as I also had mercy on you?"}
{"book": "MAT", "chapter": 18, "verse": "34", "text": "And having been angry, his lord handed him over to the jailers until he should repay all that being owed to him."}
{"book": "MAT", "chapter": 18, "verse": "35", "text": "Thus also My heavenly Father will do to you, if each of you does not remit his brother from your hearts."}
{"book": "MAT", "chapter": 19, "verse": "1", "text": "And it happened, when Jesus had finished these words, he withdrew away from Galilee and came unto the boundaries of Judea beyond the Jordan."}
{"book": "MAT", "chapter": 19, "verse": "2", "text": "And many crowds followed Him and He healed them there."}
{"book": "MAT", "chapter": 19, "verse": "3", "text": "And the Pharisees came to Him, testing Him, and saying, Is it permitted for a man to divorce his wife for any reason at all?"}
{"book": "MAT", "chapter": 19, "verse": "4", "text": "And He answering, said, Have you not read that He who created them from the beginning made them male and female (female with nursing breasts),"}
{"book": "MAT", "chapter": 19, "verse": "5", "text": "And said, By reason of this a man will leave father and mother and will cleave (glue, bond, join, unite) to his wife and the two will become unto one flesh?"}
{"book": "MAT", "chapter": 19, "verse": "6", "text": "So that they are no longer two, but one flesh. What therefore God jointly paired together (yoked together), do not let man separate (divide, vacate)."}
{"book": "MAT", "chapter": 19, "verse": "7", "text": "They say to Him, Why then did Moses command to give a letter of divorce (forsaking, repudiation) and send her away (release, let go, divorce her)?"}
{"book": "MAT", "chapter": 19, "verse": "8", "text": "He says to them, Moses, in view of your hardheartedness (hard because dry), allowed you to divorce your wives; however it was not this way from the beginning."}
{"book": "MAT", "chapter": 19, "verse": "9", "text": "And I say to you, that whoever shall divorce his wife except based upon fornication (sexual immorality, promiscuity of any type, surrendering/selling off of sexual purity) and shall marry another commits adultery {; and he who marries her that is divorced commits adultery. – not in vulgate, ESV, NASB}."}
{"book": "MAT", "chapter": 19, "verse": "10", "text": "His disciples say to Him, If this is the case of the man with the wife, it is better not to marry."}
{"book": "MAT", "chapter": 19, "verse": "11", "text": "And He said to them, Not all make room for this word, but those to whom it has been given."}
{"book": "MAT", "chapter": 19, "verse": "12", "text": "For there are eunuchs who from out of the womb of their mother were born thus, and there are eunuchs who were made eunuchs by men and there are eunuchs who made eunuchs of themselves for the sake of the kingdom of the heavens. The one being able to make room for it, let him make room for it."}
{"book": "MAT", "chapter": 19, "verse": "13", "text": "Then little children were brought to Him so that he might lay His hands upon them and might pray. And the disciples censured them [who brought]."}
{"book": "MAT", "chapter": 19, "verse": "14", "text": "And Jesus said, Let (permit) the little children and do not hinder them to come to Me; for of such kind is the kingdom of the heavens."}
{"book": "MAT", "chapter": 19, "verse": "15", "text": "And having laid His hands upon them, He departed from there."}
{"book": "MAT", "chapter": 19, "verse": "16", "text": "And behold, one having come to Him, said, Teacher, what good [thing] shall I do so that I might have life eternal?"}
{"book": "MAT", "chapter": 19, "verse": "17", "text": "And He said to him, Why do you ask Me concerning what is good? One is good. And if you want to enter into life, keep the commandments."}
{"book": "MAT", "chapter": 19, "verse": "18", "text": "He says to Him, Which? And Jesus said, You will not murder; you will not commit adultery; you will not steal; you will not falsely testify;"}
{"book": "MAT", "chapter": 19, "verse": "19", "text": "Honor (value) your father and your mother; and You will love your neighbor (nearby) like as yourself."}
{"book": "MAT", "chapter": 19, "verse": "20", "text": "The young man says to Him, All these things I have kept. What yet do I lack?"}
{"book": "MAT", "chapter": 19, "verse": "21", "text": "Jesus said to him, If you want to be perfect (full-grown), go, sell that you are possessing, and give to the poor, and you will have treasure in the heavens; and come, follow Me."}
{"book": "MAT", "chapter": 19, "verse": "22", "text": "And having heard this word, the young man went away grieving; for he was one having many possessions (properties)."}
{"book": "MAT", "chapter": 19, "verse": "23", "text": "And Jesus said to His disciples, Truly I say to you, that a rich man will enter with difficulty into the kingdom of the heavens."}
{"book": "MAT", "chapter": 19, "verse": "24", "text": "And again I say to you, it is easier for a camel to pass through the eye (hole) of a needle, than a rich man to enter into the kingdom of God."}
{"book": "MAT", "chapter": 19, "verse": "25", "text": "And the disciples having heard this were very astounded (thunderstruck, panicked), saying, Who then is able to be saved?"}
{"book": "MAT", "chapter": 19, "verse": "26", "text": "And Jesus having looked at them, said to them, With men this is impossible, however with God all things are possible."}
{"book": "MAT", "chapter": 19, "verse": "27", "text": "Then Peter answering said to Him, Behold, we left all things and followed You; what then will be to us?"}
{"book": "MAT", "chapter": 19, "verse": "28", "text": "And Jesus said to them, Truly I say to you that you who having followed Me, in the regeneration (birth/beginning again), when the Son of Man shall sit down upon His throne of glory, you also will sit upon twelve thrones judging the twelve tribes of Israel."}
{"book": "MAT", "chapter": 19, "verse": "29", "text": "And everyone who has left houses, or brothers, or sisters, or father, or mother, or wife, or children, or lands for the sake of My name will receive a hundredfold and will inherit life eternal;"}
{"book": "MAT", "chapter": 19, "verse": "30", "text": "And many first will be last, and last first."}
{"book": "MAT", "chapter": 20, "verse": "1", "text": "For the kingdom of the heavens is like to a man, a master of a house, who went out in the morning to hire workmen unto his vineyard."}
{"book": "MAT", "chapter": 20, "verse": "2", "text": "And having agreed with the workmen for a denarius the day, he sent them into his vineyard."}
{"book": "MAT", "chapter": 20, "verse": "3", "text": "And having gone out about the third hour, he saw others standing in the marketplace idle;"}
{"book": "MAT", "chapter": 20, "verse": "4", "text": "And he said to them, Go also you into the vineyard, and whatever might be right (just) I will give you."}
{"book": "MAT", "chapter": 20, "verse": "5", "text": "And they went. And again having gone out about the sixth and ninth hour, he did likewise."}
{"book": "MAT", "chapter": 20, "verse": "6", "text": "And about the eleventh, having gone out, he found others standing, and says to them, Why do you stand here all day idle?"}
{"book": "MAT", "chapter": 20, "verse": "7", "text": "They say to him, Because no one has hired us. He says to them, Go also you into the vineyard, {and what ever is right you shall receive. Not is vulgate, ESV, NASB}"}
{"book": "MAT", "chapter": 20, "verse": "8", "text": "And evening having arrived, the lord of the vineyard says to his foreman (steward, administrator, one entrusted), Call the workman and pay them the wages, having begun from the last up to the first."}
{"book": "MAT", "chapter": 20, "verse": "9", "text": "And those [hired] about the eleventh hour having come, they received each a denarius."}
{"book": "MAT", "chapter": 20, "verse": "10", "text": "And the first having come, they supposed that they would receive more and they received also themselves each a denarius."}
{"book": "MAT", "chapter": 20, "verse": "11", "text": "And having received, they grumbled against the master of the house,"}
{"book": "MAT", "chapter": 20, "verse": "12", "text": "Saying, These the last have worked one hour, and you have made them equal to us, those having carried the burden (weight) of the day and the scorching heat."}
{"book": "MAT", "chapter": 20, "verse": "13", "text": "And answering to one of them, he said, Friend (Hetaire- supposed friend), I do you no wrong (injustice). Did you not agree with me for a denarius?"}
{"book": "MAT", "chapter": 20, "verse": "14", "text": "Take what is yours and go. However I wish to give to this last like as also to you."}
{"book": "MAT", "chapter": 20, "verse": "15", "text": "Or is it not permitted for me what I wish to do with that which is mine? Or is your eye evil because I am good?"}
{"book": "MAT", "chapter": 20, "verse": "16", "text": "Thus will the last be first and the first last; {for many are called ones, however few [are] chosen (elected) ones. In Vulgate but not ESV, NASB}"}
{"book": "MAT", "chapter": 20, "verse": "17", "text": "And Jesus about to go up into Jerusalem, he took the twelve disciples aside on their own on the way and said to them,"}
{"book": "MAT", "chapter": 20, "verse": "18", "text": "Behold, we go up into Jerusalem, and the Son of Man will be betrayed (handed over) to the chief priests and scribes and they will condemn Him unto death,"}
{"book": "MAT", "chapter": 20, "verse": "19", "text": "And they will betray Him to the ethnicities, to mock and to flog and to crucify; and he will rise again the third day."}
{"book": "MAT", "chapter": 20, "verse": "20", "text": "Then the mother of the sons of Zebedee with her sons came to Him kneeling down and asking something from Him."}
{"book": "MAT", "chapter": 20, "verse": "21", "text": "And He said to her, What do you wish? She says to Him, Say that these two sons of mine might sit, one from out of your right and one from out of your left in Your kingdom."}
{"book": "MAT", "chapter": 20, "verse": "22", "text": "And answering, Jesus said, You do not know what you ask for. Are you able to drink the cup which I am about to drink? {and the baptism which I am baptized to be baptized with? Not in vulgate, Darby, ESV, NASB} They say to Him, We are able."}
{"book": "MAT", "chapter": 20, "verse": "23", "text": "He says to them, You will drink indeed My cup; {and the baptism which I am baptized, you shall be baptized with- not in the same}; however to sit from out of My right and from out of the left, this is not Mine to give; but to those for whom it has been prepared by My Father."}
{"book": "MAT", "chapter": 20, "verse": "24", "text": "And having heard this, the ten were indignant concerning the two brothers."}
{"book": "MAT", "chapter": 20, "verse": "25", "text": "And Jesus having called them to Him, said, You know the rulers of the ethnicities exercise lordship over them and the great ones exercise authority over them."}
{"book": "MAT", "chapter": 20, "verse": "26", "text": "It will not be so among you; but whoever wishes to become great among you, he will be your servant (diakonos, minister, latin-minister);"}
{"book": "MAT", "chapter": 20, "verse": "27", "text": "And whoever wishes to be first among you, he will be your bond-servant (slave);"}
{"book": "MAT", "chapter": 20, "verse": "28", "text": "Just as the Son of Man came not to be served, but to serve and to give His life (soul) as a ransom on behalf of many."}
{"book": "MAT", "chapter": 20, "verse": "29", "text": "And as they were going out away from Jericho, a great crowd followed Him."}
{"book": "MAT", "chapter": 20, "verse": "30", "text": "And behold, two blind men sitting beside the way having heard that Jesus is passing by, cried out, saying, Lord, have mercy on us, Son of David."}
{"book": "MAT", "chapter": 20, "verse": "31", "text": "And the crowd censured them, so that they should be silent. And all the more they cried out, saying, Lord, have mercy on us, Son of David."}
{"book": "MAT", "chapter": 20, "verse": "32", "text": "And having stopped, Jesus called them and said, What do you wish that I should do to you?"}
{"book": "MAT", "chapter": 20, "verse": "33", "text": "They say to Him, Lord, that our eyes might be opened."}
{"book": "MAT", "chapter": 20, "verse": "34", "text": "And having been moved with compassion (sympathy, visceral affections), Jesus touched their eyes; and directly they received sight, and they followed Him."}
{"book": "MAT", "chapter": 21, "verse": "1", "text": "And when they drew near unto Jerusalem and came unto Bethphage unto the mount of Olives, then Jesus sent two disciples,"}
{"book": "MAT", "chapter": 21, "verse": "2", "text": "Saying to them, Go into the village that is in front of you, and directly you will find a donkey having been tied and a colt with her; untie them and bring them to Me."}
{"book": "MAT", "chapter": 21, "verse": "3", "text": "And if anyone says anything to you, you will say, The Lord has need of them. And directly he will send them."}
{"book": "MAT", "chapter": 21, "verse": "4", "text": "And this happened so that that might be fulfilled having been spoken through the prophet, saying,"}
{"book": "MAT", "chapter": 21, "verse": "5", "text": "Say to the daughter of Zion, Behold, your King comes to you, meek and mounted upon a donkey, even upon a colt, the foal of a beast of burden."}
{"book": "MAT", "chapter": 21, "verse": "6", "text": "And the disciples having gone and having done just as Jesus directed them,"}
{"book": "MAT", "chapter": 21, "verse": "7", "text": "They brought the donkey and the colt and put their outer garments upon them and He sat on top of them."}
{"book": "MAT", "chapter": 21, "verse": "8", "text": "And most of the crowd spread their outer garments on (in) the road; and others were cutting off branches from the trees and were spreading them on the road."}
{"book": "MAT", "chapter": 21, "verse": "9", "text": "And the crowds going before Him and those following were crying out, saying, Hosanna (transliteration of the Hebrew/Aramaic for Oh, save now! Or Please, save!) to the Son of David! Blessed is the One coming in the name of the Lord! Hosanna in the highest!"}
{"book": "MAT", "chapter": 21, "verse": "10", "text": "And He having entered into Jerusalem, all the city was stirred up, saying, Who is this?"}
{"book": "MAT", "chapter": 21, "verse": "11", "text": "And the crowds said, This is Jesus the prophet, the One from Nazareth of Galilee."}
{"book": "MAT", "chapter": 21, "verse": "12", "text": "And Jesus entered into the temple and cast out all those selling and buying in the temple and He overturned the tables of the money changers and the seats of those selling the doves."}
{"book": "MAT", "chapter": 21, "verse": "13", "text": "And He says to them, It has been written, My house will be called a house of prayer; however you have made it a den of robbers (those stealing in the open)."}
{"book": "MAT", "chapter": 21, "verse": "14", "text": "And the blind and lame came to Him in the temple, and He healed them."}
{"book": "MAT", "chapter": 21, "verse": "15", "text": "And the chief priests and scribes having seen the wonders that He did, and the children crying in the temple and saying, Hosanna to the Son of David, they were indignant,"}
{"book": "MAT", "chapter": 21, "verse": "16", "text": "And said to Him, Do You hear what these say? And Jesus says to them, Yes, have you never read, From out of the mouth of infants and nursing babies You have prepared praise?"}
{"book": "MAT", "chapter": 21, "verse": "17", "text": "And having left them, He went outside the city unto Bethany and spent the night (pass the night in the open air) there."}
{"book": "MAT", "chapter": 21, "verse": "18", "text": "And in the morning, having come back into the city, He became hungry,"}
{"book": "MAT", "chapter": 21, "verse": "19", "text": "And having seen one fig tree upon the way, He came upon it and found nothing in it, except only leaves. And He says to it, Let there never be fruit from you any more unto the age. And instantly the fig tree withered (dried up)."}
{"book": "MAT", "chapter": 21, "verse": "20", "text": "And the disciples having seen it marveled, saying, How did the fig tree wither instantly?"}
{"book": "MAT", "chapter": 21, "verse": "21", "text": "And answering, Jesus said to them, Truly, I say to you, If you have faith and do not doubt (vacillate in judging back and forth), not only will you do that [done] to the fig tree, but even if you should say to this mountain, Be you removed and thrown into the sea, it will happen."}
{"book": "MAT", "chapter": 21, "verse": "22", "text": "And all things as many as you might ask in prayer, believing, you will receive."}
{"book": "MAT", "chapter": 21, "verse": "23", "text": "And He having come into the temple, the chief priests and the elders of the people came to Him as He was teaching, saying, In what authority are You doing these things? And who gave this authority to You?"}
{"book": "MAT", "chapter": 21, "verse": "24", "text": "And answering, Jesus said to them, I also will ask you one word, which if you tell Me, I also will tell you in what authority I do these things."}
{"book": "MAT", "chapter": 21, "verse": "25", "text": "The baptism of John, from where was it? From out of heaven or from out of men? And they dialogued among themselves, saying, If we should say, From out of heaven, He will say to us, Why then did you not believe him?"}
{"book": "MAT", "chapter": 21, "verse": "26", "text": "And if we should say, From out of men, we fear the crowd; for all hold John as a prophet."}
{"book": "MAT", "chapter": 21, "verse": "27", "text": "And answering Jesus, they said, We do not know. And He said to them, Neither will I tell you in what authority I do these things."}
{"book": "MAT", "chapter": 21, "verse": "28", "text": "And what do you think? A man had two sons and having come to the first, he said, Child, go today, work in the vineyard."}
{"book": "MAT", "chapter": 21, "verse": "29", "text": "And he answering, said, I will not; however afterward, having repented (changed his mind, regretted), he went."}
{"book": "MAT", "chapter": 21, "verse": "30", "text": "And having come to the second, he said likewise. And answering he said, I will sir (lord), and he did not go."}
{"book": "MAT", "chapter": 21, "verse": "31", "text": "From out of the two which did the will of the father? They say, The first. Jesus says to them, Truly I say to you, that the tax collectors and the prostitutes go before you into the kingdom of God."}
{"book": "MAT", "chapter": 21, "verse": "32", "text": "For John came to you in the way of righteousness and you did not believe him, however the tax collectors and the prostitutes believed him, and you, having seen, did not even repent afterwards to believe him."}
{"book": "MAT", "chapter": 21, "verse": "33", "text": "Hear another parable: There was a man, a master of a house, who planted a vineyard, and placed a fence around it, and dug a winepress in it, and built a tower, and rented it out to tenants (farmers, vinedressers), and left the country."}
{"book": "MAT", "chapter": 21, "verse": "34", "text": "And when the opportune time (season) of the fruits drew near, he sent his bond-servants to the tenants to receive his fruits."}
{"book": "MAT", "chapter": 21, "verse": "35", "text": "And the tenants took his bond-servants, they beat one, and killed one, and stoned one."}
{"book": "MAT", "chapter": 21, "verse": "36", "text": "Again he sent other bond-servants, more than the first, and they did to them likewise."}
{"book": "MAT", "chapter": 21, "verse": "37", "text": "And afterward, he sent to them his son, saying, They will respect my son."}
{"book": "MAT", "chapter": 21, "verse": "38", "text": "However the tenants having seen the son, said among themselves, This is the heir; come, let us kill him, and possess his inheritance."}
{"book": "MAT", "chapter": 21, "verse": "39", "text": "And having taken him, they cast him outside the vineyard and killed him."}
{"book": "MAT", "chapter": 21, "verse": "40", "text": "When therefore the lord of the vineyard shall come, what will he do to those tenants?"}
{"book": "MAT", "chapter": 21, "verse": "41", "text": "They say to Him, Evil [men, wretches]- He will badly (sorely, miserable, evilly) destroy them, and he will rent out the vineyard to other tenants, who will give to him from the fruits in their seasons (opportune times)."}
{"book": "MAT", "chapter": 21, "verse": "42", "text": "Jesus says to them, Have you never read in the Scriptures, The stone which those building rejected, this has become the head of the corner; this came about from the Lord and it is marvelous in our eyes?"}
{"book": "MAT", "chapter": 21, "verse": "43", "text": "Because of this, I say to you, that the kingdom of God will be taken away from you and it will be given to an ethnicity (nation) producing its fruits."}
{"book": "MAT", "chapter": 21, "verse": "44", "text": "And the one having fallen upon this stone will be pulverized; and upon whomever it shall fall it will crush him to powder."}
{"book": "MAT", "chapter": 21, "verse": "45", "text": "And the chief priests and the Pharisees having heard His parables, they knew that He spoke about them."}
{"book": "MAT", "chapter": 21, "verse": "46", "text": "And seeking to lay hold of Him, they feared the crowds, because they held Him as (unto) a prophet."}
{"book": "MAT", "chapter": 22, "verse": "1", "text": "And answering Jesus again spoke in parables to them, saying,"}
{"book": "MAT", "chapter": 22, "verse": "2", "text": "The kingdom of the heavens has become like a man, a king, who made a wedding feast for his son,"}
{"book": "MAT", "chapter": 22, "verse": "3", "text": "And sent his bond-servants to call those having been invited unto the wedding feast and they were not willing to come."}
{"book": "MAT", "chapter": 22, "verse": "4", "text": "Again he sent other bond-servants, saying, Say to those having been invited, Behold, I have prepared my dinner, my bull, and the fatlings have been killed and all things are ready; come unto the wedding feast."}
{"book": "MAT", "chapter": 22, "verse": "5", "text": "And having disregarded they went away, and one unto his own field, and one to (upon) his business."}
{"book": "MAT", "chapter": 22, "verse": "6", "text": "And the rest, having laid hold of his bond-servants, spitefully mistreated (deliberately, spitefully injured) and killed them."}
{"book": "MAT", "chapter": 22, "verse": "7", "text": "And the king was angry and having sent his armies, he destroyed those murderers and he burnt their city."}
{"book": "MAT", "chapter": 22, "verse": "8", "text": "Then he says to his bond-servants, The wedding feast is ready, and those having been invited were not worthy;"}
{"book": "MAT", "chapter": 22, "verse": "9", "text": "Go therefore upon the crossing spots of the roads and invite as many as you shall find unto the wedding feast."}
{"book": "MAT", "chapter": 22, "verse": "10", "text": "And those there bond-servants having gone out into the roads, brought together all as many as they found, both the evil and good; and the wedding became full of those reclining."}
{"book": "MAT", "chapter": 22, "verse": "11", "text": "And the king having entered in to see those reclining, he saw there a man not being dressed in clothes of a wedding;"}
{"book": "MAT", "chapter": 22, "verse": "12", "text": "And he says to him, Friend (supposed friend), how did you enter here not having a wedding garment? And he was speechless."}
{"book": "MAT", "chapter": 22, "verse": "13", "text": "Then the king said to the servants (diakonois), Bind him, feet and hands, cast him out into the outer darkness; there will be the weeping and the gnashing of the teeth."}
{"book": "MAT", "chapter": 22, "verse": "14", "text": "For many are called, however few chosen (selected out of)."}
{"book": "MAT", "chapter": 22, "verse": "15", "text": "Then the Pharisees having gone, took counsel how they might trap Him in a (His) word."}
{"book": "MAT", "chapter": 22, "verse": "16", "text": "And they send to Him their disciples with the Herodians, saying, Teacher, we know that You are true and teach the way of God in truth and there is no care to You about any one, for You do not look unto the appearance (face) of men;"}
{"book": "MAT", "chapter": 22, "verse": "17", "text": "Therefore tell us, What do You think (suppose)? Is it permitted to give tribute to Caesar or not?"}
{"book": "MAT", "chapter": 22, "verse": "18", "text": "However Jesus having known their evil (latin-nequitia-sleight root is wickedness), said, Why do you test (tempt) Me, hypocrites?"}
{"book": "MAT", "chapter": 22, "verse": "19", "text": "Show Me the coin of the tribute. And they presented to Him a denarius."}
{"book": "MAT", "chapter": 22, "verse": "20", "text": "And He says to them, Whose image is this? And whose inscription?"}
{"book": "MAT", "chapter": 22, "verse": "21", "text": "They say to Him, Caesar’s. Then He says to them, Render (give from/back) then the things of Caesar to Caesar, and the things of God to God."}
{"book": "MAT", "chapter": 22, "verse": "22", "text": "And having heard they marveled; and having left Him, they went away."}
{"book": "MAT", "chapter": 22, "verse": "23", "text": "In that there day the Sadducees came to Him, who say there is no resurrection, and they questioned Him,"}
{"book": "MAT", "chapter": 22, "verse": "24", "text": "Saying, Teacher, Moses said, If anyone should die not having children, his brother will marry his wife and will raise up offspring for his brother."}
{"book": "MAT", "chapter": 22, "verse": "25", "text": "And there were with us seven brothers; and the first, having married, died, and not having offspring, left his wife to his brother."}
{"book": "MAT", "chapter": 22, "verse": "26", "text": "Likewise also the second, and the third, up to the seventh."}
{"book": "MAT", "chapter": 22, "verse": "27", "text": "And lastly the woman died."}
{"book": "MAT", "chapter": 22, "verse": "28", "text": "In the resurrection, therefore of which of the seven will she be the wife? For all had her."}
{"book": "MAT", "chapter": 22, "verse": "29", "text": "And answering, Jesus said to them, You err (wander, go off course, deviate), not knowing the Scriptures, nor the power of God."}
{"book": "MAT", "chapter": 22, "verse": "30", "text": "For in the resurrection, neither do they marry nor are given in marriage, but they are like as the angels of God in heaven."}
{"book": "MAT", "chapter": 22, "verse": "31", "text": "And concerning the resurrection of the dead, have you not read that having been spoken to you by God, saying,"}
{"book": "MAT", "chapter": 22, "verse": "32", "text": "I am the God of Abraham and the God of Isaac and the God of Jacob? He is not God of the dead, but of the living."}
{"book": "MAT", "chapter": 22, "verse": "33", "text": "And having heard, the crowds were astounded (thunderstuck) at (upon) His teaching."}
{"book": "MAT", "chapter": 22, "verse": "34", "text": "And the Pharisees having heard that He had silenced the Sadducees, were gathered together upon the same,"}
{"book": "MAT", "chapter": 22, "verse": "35", "text": "And one of them, a lawyer, inquired of Him, testing Him,"}
{"book": "MAT", "chapter": 22, "verse": "36", "text": "Teacher, which is the greatest commandment in the law?"}
{"book": "MAT", "chapter": 22, "verse": "37", "text": "And He said to him, You will love the Lord your God with (in) your whole heart and with (in) your whole soul (psyche), and with (in) your whole mind (intellect, insight, disposition, critical thinking, thorough reasoning)."}
{"book": "MAT", "chapter": 22, "verse": "38", "text": "This is the great and first commandment."}
{"book": "MAT", "chapter": 22, "verse": "39", "text": "And the second is like it: You will love your neighbor (nearby) like as yourself."}
{"book": "MAT", "chapter": 22, "verse": "40", "text": "On (In) these two commandments, the whole law and prophets hangs."}
{"book": "MAT", "chapter": 22, "verse": "41", "text": "And the Pharisees having been gathered together, Jesus inquired of them,"}
{"book": "MAT", "chapter": 22, "verse": "42", "text": "Saying, What do you suppose concerning the Christ? Whose Son is He? They say to Him, David’s."}
{"book": "MAT", "chapter": 22, "verse": "43", "text": "He says to them, How then, does David in Spirit call Him Lord, saying,"}
{"book": "MAT", "chapter": 22, "verse": "44", "text": "The Lord said to My Lord, Sit at (from out of) My right, until I place Your enemies (hostiles) underneath Your feet."}
{"book": "MAT", "chapter": 22, "verse": "45", "text": "If therefore, David calls Him Lord, how is He his son?"}
{"book": "MAT", "chapter": 22, "verse": "46", "text": "And no one was able to answer Him a word nor did anyone dare from that there day to inquire of Him any longer."}
{"book": "MAT", "chapter": 23, "verse": "1", "text": "Then Jesus spoke to the crowds and to His disciples,"}
{"book": "MAT", "chapter": 23, "verse": "2", "text": "Saying, The scribes and the Pharisees have sat upon Moses’ seat;"}
{"book": "MAT", "chapter": 23, "verse": "3", "text": "All things therefore, as much as they might tell you, do and keep. However do not do according to their works. For they speak and do not do."}
{"book": "MAT", "chapter": 23, "verse": "4", "text": "And they bind together heavy and difficult to carry (oppressive) burdens and lay them upon the shoulders of men; however they themselves are not willing to move them with their finger."}
{"book": "MAT", "chapter": 23, "verse": "5", "text": "And all their works, they do to be spectated (greek-theatenai-english root for theater) of men. For they broaden their phylacteries and enlarge (make great) their tassles."}
{"book": "MAT", "chapter": 23, "verse": "6", "text": "And they love (philousin- are fond of) the chief (first) place in the banquets (dinners, suppers) and the first (chief) seats in the synagogues,"}
{"book": "MAT", "chapter": 23, "verse": "7", "text": "And the greetings in the marketplaces, and to be called by men, Rabbi."}
{"book": "MAT", "chapter": 23, "verse": "8", "text": "However you shall not be called Rabbi; for One is your Teacher and you are all brothers."}
{"book": "MAT", "chapter": 23, "verse": "9", "text": "And do not call any one upon the earth father; for One is your Father, who is in heaven."}
{"book": "MAT", "chapter": 23, "verse": "10", "text": "Neither be called leading instructors (lead down, like to lead down the road of learning, in modern greek this refers to a professor); because One is your Leading Instructor, the Christ."}
{"book": "MAT", "chapter": 23, "verse": "11", "text": "And the greatest among you will be your servant (diakonos)."}
{"book": "MAT", "chapter": 23, "verse": "12", "text": "And he who will exalt (raise high, elevate) himself will be humbled (made low); and whoever will humble himself will be exalted."}
{"book": "MAT", "chapter": 23, "verse": "13", "text": "Woe to you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites! Because you shut up the kingdom of the heavens before men; for you neither enter nor even do you allow those who are entering to go into."}
{"book": "MAT", "chapter": 23, "verse": "14", "text": "{not in vulgate, Darby, ESV, and many other translations- Woe to you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites! Because you devour the houses of widows and are praying at great length as a pretense. Because of this, you shall receive greater (abundant, exceeding) judgment (condemnation).}"}
{"book": "MAT", "chapter": 23, "verse": "15", "text": "Woe to you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites! Because you traverse (go about/around) the sea and the dry land to make one proselyte, and when he has become so, you make him twice as much (double, twofold) a son of hell (gehenna) than yourselves."}
{"book": "MAT", "chapter": 23, "verse": "16", "text": "Woe to you, blind guides, those saying, Whoever shall swear by (in) the temple, it is nothing; however whoever shall swear by the gold of the temple is obligated."}
{"book": "MAT", "chapter": 23, "verse": "17", "text": "Moronic (dull/stupid) and blind! For which is greater, the gold, or the temple having sanctified the gold?"}
{"book": "MAT", "chapter": 23, "verse": "18", "text": "And, whoever shall swear by the altar, it is nothing; however whoever shall swear by the gift that is on top of it is obligated."}
{"book": "MAT", "chapter": 23, "verse": "19", "text": "You blind men! For which is greater, the gift or the altar sanctifying the gift?"}
{"book": "MAT", "chapter": 23, "verse": "20", "text": "He who therefore having sworn by the altar swears by it and by all things that are on top of it."}
{"book": "MAT", "chapter": 23, "verse": "21", "text": "And the one having sworn by the temple, swears by it, and by the One residing in it."}
{"book": "MAT", "chapter": 23, "verse": "22", "text": "And he who having sworn by heaven, swears by the throne of God, and by the One sitting on top of it."}
{"book": "MAT", "chapter": 23, "verse": "23", "text": "Woe to you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites! Because you pay tithes of mint and dill and cummin; and you have left alone (neglected) the weightier matters of the law: judgment (krisin, justice) and mercy and faithfulness. And these you ought to do and not have left alone (neglected) those ones."}
{"book": "MAT", "chapter": 23, "verse": "24", "text": "Blind guides! Those thoroughly straining the gnat, and swallowing the camel!"}
{"book": "MAT", "chapter": 23, "verse": "25", "text": "Woe to you, scribes and Pharisees, hyprocites! Because you cleanse the outside of the cup and the dish; however inside, they are full of rapine (greed-laden violent seizing, plundering, greek-harpages, latin-rapina-robbery) and intemperance (self-indulgent because not prevailing in controlling urges/appetites)."}
{"book": "MAT", "chapter": 23, "verse": "26", "text": "Blind Pharisee! Cleanse first the inside of the cup and the dish, so that their outside might also become clean."}
{"book": "MAT", "chapter": 23, "verse": "27", "text": "Woe to you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites! Because you resemble tombs having been whitewashed (plastered over), which outwardly appear seasonable (fruitful because fully developed, beautiful because in season). However inside they are full of dead bones and of all impurity."}
{"book": "MAT", "chapter": 23, "verse": "28", "text": "So also, you outwardly appear righteous to men, however inwardly you are full of hypocrisy and lawlessness."}
{"book": "MAT", "chapter": 23, "verse": "29", "text": "Woe to you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites! Because you build the tombs of the prophets and adorn the monuments (memorials) of the righteous,"}
{"book": "MAT", "chapter": 23, "verse": "30", "text": "And you say, If we had been in the days of our fathers we would not have been partakers with them in the blood of the prophets."}
{"book": "MAT", "chapter": 23, "verse": "31", "text": "Thus you bear witness to yourselves, that you are sons of those having murdered the prophets."}
{"book": "MAT", "chapter": 23, "verse": "32", "text": "And you, you fill up the measure of your fathers."}
{"book": "MAT", "chapter": 23, "verse": "33", "text": "Serpents, offspring of vipers (poisonous snakes), how shall you escape from the sentence (judgment) of hell (gehenna)?"}
{"book": "MAT", "chapter": 23, "verse": "34", "text": "Because of this, behold, I send to you prophets and wise men and scribes. From out of them you will kill and will crucify and from out of them you will flog in your synagogues, and will persecute from city unto city;"}
{"book": "MAT", "chapter": 23, "verse": "35", "text": "So that all the righteous blood being poured out upon the earth should come upon you from the blood of Abel the righteous up to the blood of Zechariah son of Berekiah, whom you murdered between the temple and the altar."}
{"book": "MAT", "chapter": 23, "verse": "36", "text": "Truly I say to you, all these things will come upon this generation."}
{"book": "MAT", "chapter": 23, "verse": "37", "text": "Jerusalem, Jerusalem, killing the prophets and stoning those having been sent to her! How often would I have gathered together your children, as in the manner (way, fashion) as a hen gathers together (gathers upon) her chicks under her wings, and you were not willing!"}
{"book": "MAT", "chapter": 23, "verse": "38", "text": "Behold, your house is left to you, desolate!"}
{"book": "MAT", "chapter": 23, "verse": "39", "text": "For I say to you, You shall not see Me from now until you say, Blessed is the One coming in the name of the Lord!"}
{"book": "MAT", "chapter": 24, "verse": "1", "text": "And Jesus having gone out away from the temple, went away, and His disciples came to Him to point out (show, prove, indicate) to Him the buildings of the temple."}
{"book": "MAT", "chapter": 24, "verse": "2", "text": "And He answering said to them, Do you see all these things? Truly I say to you, none not even a stone upon a stone shall be left here which will not be thrown down."}
{"book": "MAT", "chapter": 24, "verse": "3", "text": "And as He was sitting upon the mount of Olives, the disciples came to Him in private (on their own), saying, Tell us, when these things will be? And what is the sign of Your coming (arrival, this is also a technical term for the royal visit of a king, literally means “the being beside” thus personal presence-from para eimi- to exist or be close beside) and the culmination (consummation, completion, culminating of the parts into a whole, thus an end because all is come together) of the age?"}
{"book": "MAT", "chapter": 24, "verse": "4", "text": "And answering, Jesus said to them, Take heed (See) lest anyone cause you to wander (be mislead)."}
{"book": "MAT", "chapter": 24, "verse": "5", "text": "For many will come in My name, saying, I am the Christ (the Anointed One, Messiah); and they will cause many to wander (be mislead)."}
{"book": "MAT", "chapter": 24, "verse": "6", "text": "And you will be about to hear of wars and hearings (reports) of wars. See (perceive) that you do not be alarmed (unsettled, disturbed, troubled, latin-turbemini-upset); for it is necessary to happen, but the end is not yet."}
{"book": "MAT", "chapter": 24, "verse": "7", "text": "For ethnicity (nation) will arise (latin-consurget-rise root is awake) against (upon) ethnicity (nation), and kingdom against (upon) kingdom; and there will be famines and earthquakes according to places (in place after place)."}
{"book": "MAT", "chapter": 24, "verse": "8", "text": "And all these are the beginning (origin, starting point) of birthing pains."}
{"book": "MAT", "chapter": 24, "verse": "9", "text": "Then they will hand you over unto tribulation and will kill you; and you will be hated (detested) by all the ethnicities (nations) on account of My name."}
{"book": "MAT", "chapter": 24, "verse": "10", "text": "And then many will be stumbled (snared), and they will betray (hand over) one another and will hate (detest) one another;"}
{"book": "MAT", "chapter": 24, "verse": "11", "text": "And many false prophets will arise and will cause many to wander (be misled);"}
{"book": "MAT", "chapter": 24, "verse": "12", "text": "And because lawlessness is to be multiplied (increased, made full), the love of the many will grow cold;"}
{"book": "MAT", "chapter": 24, "verse": "13", "text": "However the one who having endured unto the end, he will be saved."}
{"book": "MAT", "chapter": 24, "verse": "14", "text": "And there will be preached this gospel (evangel, good news) of the kingdom in the whole earth unto a testimony to all the ethnicities (nations); and then the end will come (reach the end-destination, arrive)."}
{"book": "MAT", "chapter": 24, "verse": "15", "text": "When therefore you shall see the abomination (disgustingly abhorrent, detestable, that reeking of stench) of desolation (devastation, lay waste, make destitute, desecration that results from being cut off), which having been spoken of through Daniel the prophet, standing in the holy place- the one reading let him understand (apprehend),"}
{"book": "MAT", "chapter": 24, "verse": "16", "text": "Then those in Judea, let them flee unto the mountains;"}
{"book": "MAT", "chapter": 24, "verse": "17", "text": "The one upon the housetop, do not let him come down to take anything from out of his house;"}
{"book": "MAT", "chapter": 24, "verse": "18", "text": "And the one in the field, neither let him return back to take his outer garment."}
{"book": "MAT", "chapter": 24, "verse": "19", "text": "And woe to those having [child] in the womb and to those nursing infants in those there days."}
{"book": "MAT", "chapter": 24, "verse": "20", "text": "And pray so that your flight (escape, fleeing) might not be in winter nor on a Sabbath."}
{"book": "MAT", "chapter": 24, "verse": "21", "text": "For there will be then great tribulation such as has not been from the beginning of the world until now nor shall ever be."}
{"book": "MAT", "chapter": 24, "verse": "22", "text": "And if those there days had not been shortened (curtailed, abbreviated) there would not have been saved any (all, every) flesh, however because of the elect (chosen, selected), those there days will be shortened."}
{"book": "MAT", "chapter": 24, "verse": "23", "text": "Then if anyone says to you, Behold, here is the Christ, or here, do not believe it."}
{"book": "MAT", "chapter": 24, "verse": "24", "text": "For there will arise false-Christs and false-prophets and will give great signs and wonders so as to mislead (cause to wander) if possible even the elect."}
{"book": "MAT", "chapter": 24, "verse": "25", "text": "Behold, I have foretold it to you."}
{"book": "MAT", "chapter": 24, "verse": "26", "text": "If therefore they say to you, Behold, he is in the wilderness, do not go out. [or] Behold, [he is] in the inner rooms (secret chambers), do not believe it."}
{"book": "MAT", "chapter": 24, "verse": "27", "text": "For just as the lightning comes out away from the east and appears as far as the west, so will be the coming of the Son of Man."}
{"book": "MAT", "chapter": 24, "verse": "28", "text": "For wherever might be the carcass (corpse), there will be gathered together the birds of prey (vultures, eagles, latin-aquilae-eagles)."}
{"book": "MAT", "chapter": 24, "verse": "29", "text": "And directly after the tribulation of those there days, the sun will be darkened and the moon will not give her light (brightness, radiance, this word in neuter), and the stars will fall from the heaven, and the powers of the heavens will be shaken."}
{"book": "MAT", "chapter": 24, "verse": "30", "text": "And then will appear the sign of the Son of Man in heaven, and then all the tribes of the earth will mourn, and they will see the Son of Man coming upon the clouds of heaven with power and great glory."}
{"book": "MAT", "chapter": 24, "verse": "31", "text": "And He will send His angels with a great trumpet sound, and they will gather together (gather together upon) His elect from out of the four winds, from the extremities of the heavens, as far as their extremities."}
{"book": "MAT", "chapter": 24, "verse": "32", "text": "And learn the parable from the fig tree: When already its branch becomes tender and sprouts leaves, you know that the summer is near."}
{"book": "MAT", "chapter": 24, "verse": "33", "text": "So also you, when you see all these things, know that it is near, upon the doors."}
{"book": "MAT", "chapter": 24, "verse": "34", "text": "Truly I say to you, that this generation will not have passed away until all these things shall have happened."}
{"book": "MAT", "chapter": 24, "verse": "35", "text": "The heaven and the earth will pass away, however My words shall not pass away."}
{"book": "MAT", "chapter": 24, "verse": "36", "text": "And concerning that there day and hour, no one knows, not even the angels of the heavens, nor the Son, except only the Father."}
{"book": "MAT", "chapter": 24, "verse": "37", "text": "For just as [were] the days of Noah, so will be the coming of the Son of Man."}
{"book": "MAT", "chapter": 24, "verse": "38", "text": "For like as they were in those there days before the cataclysmic flood (deluge, inundation, flood over, kata kludon- rough water/wave/surge down against, greek-kataklysmou like cataclysm), eating and drinking, marrying and giving in marriage, until that day Noah entered into the ark."}
{"book": "MAT", "chapter": 24, "verse": "39", "text": "And they did not know until the cataclysmic flood came and took away all; and thus will be the coming of the Son of Man."}
{"book": "MAT", "chapter": 24, "verse": "40", "text": "Then two will be in the field; one is taken (aggressively taken/received from close alongside), and one is left."}
{"book": "MAT", "chapter": 24, "verse": "41", "text": "Two women grinding at the mill, one is taken, and one is left."}
{"book": "MAT", "chapter": 24, "verse": "42", "text": "Keep watch (Be vigilant), therefore, because you do not know on what day your Lord comes."}
{"book": "MAT", "chapter": 24, "verse": "43", "text": "And know this, that if the master of the house had known in what watch the thief comes, he would have kept watch, and not have allowed his house to be broken into."}
{"book": "MAT", "chapter": 24, "verse": "44", "text": "Because of this also, you be ready, because in that hour that you do not suppose the Son of Man comes."}
{"book": "MAT", "chapter": 24, "verse": "45", "text": "Who then is the faithful and smart (sensible, prudently intelligent, practically wise, savvy, shrewd) bond-servant, whom the lord has set over (upon) his household to give to them the food in fitting season (opportune time)?"}
{"book": "MAT", "chapter": 24, "verse": "46", "text": "Blessed is that there bond-servant, whom his lord having come will find doing thus."}
{"book": "MAT", "chapter": 24, "verse": "47", "text": "Truly I say to you, that he will appoint (set down, give standing to give charge down over) him over (upon) all that he already has."}
{"book": "MAT", "chapter": 24, "verse": "48", "text": "And if that there malicious (bad, rotten, foul) bond-servant should say in his heart, My lord delays,"}
{"book": "MAT", "chapter": 24, "verse": "49", "text": "And should begin to beat his fellow bond-servants and to eat and drink with those being drunkards,"}
{"book": "MAT", "chapter": 24, "verse": "50", "text": "The lord of that there bond-servant will come in a day in which he does not expect (pre-suppose), and in an hour which he is not aware of (knowing of),"}
{"book": "MAT", "chapter": 24, "verse": "51", "text": "And will cut him in two and will place his portion with the hypocrites; there in that place there will be the weeping and the gnashing of teeth."}
{"book": "MAT", "chapter": 25, "verse": "1", "text": "Then the kingdom of the heavens will be likened (compared) to ten virgins, who having taken their lamps went out to meet the bridegroom."}
{"book": "MAT", "chapter": 25, "verse": "2", "text": "And five from out of them were moronic (dull, stupid), and five smart."}
{"book": "MAT", "chapter": 25, "verse": "3", "text": "For the moronic, having taken their lamps, did not take oil with them;"}
{"book": "MAT", "chapter": 25, "verse": "4", "text": "However the smart took oil in the vessels with their lamps."}
{"book": "MAT", "chapter": 25, "verse": "5", "text": "And the bridegroom delaying, they all became drowsy and slept."}
{"book": "MAT", "chapter": 25, "verse": "6", "text": "And in the middle of the night, there was an outcry (shout), Behold, the bridegroom! Go out to meet him!"}
{"book": "MAT", "chapter": 25, "verse": "7", "text": "Then arose all those virgins and trimmed (put in order, adorned, arranged, beautified) their lamps."}
{"book": "MAT", "chapter": 25, "verse": "8", "text": "And the moronic said to the smart, Give us from out of your oil, because our lamps are going out (extinquishing, quenching)."}
{"book": "MAT", "chapter": 25, "verse": "9", "text": "And the smart answered, saying, lest it might not even suffice for us and you; go rather to those selling and buy for yourselves."}
{"book": "MAT", "chapter": 25, "verse": "10", "text": "And while going away to buy, the bridegroom came and those ready went in with him into the wedding feast; and the door was shut."}
{"book": "MAT", "chapter": 25, "verse": "11", "text": "And afterward, the remaining virgins also came, saying, Lord, lord, open to us!"}
{"book": "MAT", "chapter": 25, "verse": "12", "text": "And answering, he said, Truly I say to you, I do not know you."}
{"book": "MAT", "chapter": 25, "verse": "13", "text": "Watch therefore, because neither do you know the day nor the hour, {in which the Son of Man comes}."}
{"book": "MAT", "chapter": 25, "verse": "14", "text": "For just as a man going away (abroad) out of the country called his own bond-servants and handed over to them that which he already had. denarii), and to one two, and to one one, to each according to their own ability; and directly went away (abroad) out of the country."}
{"book": "MAT", "chapter": 25, "verse": "15", "text": "And to one he gave five talents (worth about 6000 denarii), and to one two, and to one one, to each according to their own ability; and directly went away (abroad) out of the country."}
{"book": "MAT", "chapter": 25, "verse": "16", "text": "Having gone, he who received the five talents, traded (worked) with (in) them and gained another five."}
{"book": "MAT", "chapter": 25, "verse": "17", "text": "Likewise, he with the two, gained another two."}
{"book": "MAT", "chapter": 25, "verse": "18", "text": "And he who received one, having gone away, dug in the ground and hid the money of his lord."}
{"book": "MAT", "chapter": 25, "verse": "19", "text": "And after much time, the lord of those bond-servants comes, and makes an account reckoning (settling) with them."}
{"book": "MAT", "chapter": 25, "verse": "20", "text": "And he who received the five talents having come, brought to him the other five talents, saying, Lord, you handed over five talents to me; behold, I have gained another five talents."}
{"book": "MAT", "chapter": 25, "verse": "21", "text": "His lord said to him, Well done, good and faithful bond-servant! You were faithful over (upon) a few things; I will appoint you over (upon) many things. Enter into the joy of your lord."}
{"book": "MAT", "chapter": 25, "verse": "22", "text": "And also having come, he with the two talents said, Lord, you handed over two talents to me. Behold, I have gained two other talents."}
{"book": "MAT", "chapter": 25, "verse": "23", "text": "His lord said to him, Well done, good and faithful bond-servant! You were faithful over (upon) a few things; I will appoint you over (upon) many things. Enter into the joy of your lord."}
{"book": "MAT", "chapter": 25, "verse": "24", "text": "And also having come, the one having received the one talent said, Lord, I knew you, that you are a hard (rough, stiff, harsh) man, reaping where you did not sow and gathering from where you did not scatter."}
{"book": "MAT", "chapter": 25, "verse": "25", "text": "And having been fearful, having gone away, I hid your talent in the ground. Behold, you have what is yours."}
{"book": "MAT", "chapter": 25, "verse": "26", "text": "And answering, his lord said to him, Evil and indolent (reluctant, hesitant, lazy by dragging ones feet, shrinking back because unready, latin-piger-lazy) bond-servant! You knew that I reap where I do not sow and gather from where I did not scatter."}
{"book": "MAT", "chapter": 25, "verse": "27", "text": "You ought therefore to have put my money with the bankers (money-changers) and having come, I should have received my own with interest."}
{"book": "MAT", "chapter": 25, "verse": "28", "text": "Therefore take away from him the talent and give it to the one having the ten talents."}
{"book": "MAT", "chapter": 25, "verse": "29", "text": "For to everyone having (possessing) will be given, and he will have in abundance; and the one not having, even that which he has will be taken away from him."}
{"book": "MAT", "chapter": 25, "verse": "30", "text": "And cast out the useless (non-useful) bond-servant into outer darkness; there will be the weeping and the gnashing of teeth."}
{"book": "MAT", "chapter": 25, "verse": "31", "text": "And when the Son of Man comes in His glory and all the angels with Him, then He will sit upon His throne of glory."}
{"book": "MAT", "chapter": 25, "verse": "32", "text": "And all the ethnicities (nations) will be gathered together before Him; and He will separate (mark them off by boundaries) them away from one another, just as a shepherd separates the sheep away from the goats."}
{"book": "MAT", "chapter": 25, "verse": "33", "text": "And he will set (make to stand) the sheep from out of His right and the goats from out of His left."}
{"book": "MAT", "chapter": 25, "verse": "34", "text": "Then the King will say to those from out of His right, Come, those being blessed of My Father, inherit the kingdom having been prepared for you from the foundation of the world."}
{"book": "MAT", "chapter": 25, "verse": "35", "text": "For I hungered and you gave Me to eat; I thirsted and you gave drink to Me; I was a stranger (foreigner, guest), and you took Me in;"}
{"book": "MAT", "chapter": 25, "verse": "36", "text": "naked, and you clothed Me; I was sick, and you visited (looked upon/out for) Me; I was in prison, and you came to Me."}
{"book": "MAT", "chapter": 25, "verse": "37", "text": "Then the righteous will answer Him, saying, Lord, when did we see You hungry and feed You? Or thirsty and give You drink?"}
{"book": "MAT", "chapter": 25, "verse": "38", "text": "And when did we see You a stranger and took You in? Or naked and clothed You?"}
{"book": "MAT", "chapter": 25, "verse": "39", "text": "And when did we see You sick, or in prison, and came to You?"}
{"book": "MAT", "chapter": 25, "verse": "40", "text": "And answering, the King will say to them, Truly I say to you, as much as you did it upon one of least of these My brothers, you did it to Me."}
{"book": "MAT", "chapter": 25, "verse": "41", "text": "Then He will also say to those from out of the left, Depart away from Me, those being cursed into the eternal fire having been prepared for the devil and his angels."}
{"book": "MAT", "chapter": 25, "verse": "42", "text": "For I hungered and you gave Me nothing to eat; and I thirsted, and you gave Me nothing to drink;"}
{"book": "MAT", "chapter": 25, "verse": "43", "text": "I was a stranger, and you did not take Me it; naked, and you did not clothe Me; sick, and in prison and you did not visit Me."}
{"book": "MAT", "chapter": 25, "verse": "44", "text": "Then will they also answer, saying, Lord, when did we see you hungry or thirsty or a stranger or in prison, and did not minister (diekonesamen- serve) to You?"}
{"book": "MAT", "chapter": 25, "verse": "45", "text": "Then He will answer them, saying, Truly I say to you, as much as you did not do it upon one of the least of these, you did not do it to Me."}
{"book": "MAT", "chapter": 25, "verse": "46", "text": "And these will go away into eternal punishment (to punish to curtail/restrict/impede/incapacitate, latin-supplicium-execution root is punishment); and the righteous into eternal life."}
{"book": "MAT", "chapter": 26, "verse": "1", "text": "And it happened, when Jesus had finished all these words, He said to His disciples,"}
{"book": "MAT", "chapter": 26, "verse": "2", "text": "You know that after two days the Passover happens, and the Son of Man is betrayed to be crucified."}
{"book": "MAT", "chapter": 26, "verse": "3", "text": "Then the chief priests and the elders of the people were gathered together into the court of the high priest, who is called Caiaphas,"}
{"book": "MAT", "chapter": 26, "verse": "4", "text": "And they consulted together so that they might obtain Jesus by trickery and kill Him;"}
{"book": "MAT", "chapter": 26, "verse": "5", "text": "However they said, Not during the feast, so that there may not be an uproar (riot, noisy disorderly upheaval) among the people."}
{"book": "MAT", "chapter": 26, "verse": "6", "text": "And Jesus having been in Bethany in the house of Simon the leper,"}
{"book": "MAT", "chapter": 26, "verse": "7", "text": "A woman having an alabaster vial of very costly perfumed (spiced, scented) anointing ointment (ointment made of olive oil perfumed with spices/scents) came to Him and poured it down upon His head as He reclined."}
{"book": "MAT", "chapter": 26, "verse": "8", "text": "And the disciples having seen became indignant, saying, Unto what this waste (loss, ruin)?"}
{"book": "MAT", "chapter": 26, "verse": "9", "text": "For this could have been sold for much and have been given to the poor."}
{"book": "MAT", "chapter": 26, "verse": "10", "text": "And having known this, Jesus said to them, Why do you cause trouble to the woman? For the work she did is beautiful (kalon- winsomely/attractively good) unto Me."}
{"book": "MAT", "chapter": 26, "verse": "11", "text": "For you always have the poor with you; however you do not always have Me."}
{"book": "MAT", "chapter": 26, "verse": "12", "text": "For in pouring this perfumed anointing ointment upon My body, she did it to prepare Me for burial."}
{"book": "MAT", "chapter": 26, "verse": "13", "text": "Truly I say to you, wherever this gospel shall be preached in the whole world, that which this woman did will also be spoken of unto a memorial of her."}
{"book": "MAT", "chapter": 26, "verse": "14", "text": "Then one of the twelve, who being called Judas Iscariot, having gone to the chief priests,"}
{"book": "MAT", "chapter": 26, "verse": "15", "text": "Said, What are you willing to give me and I will betray Him to you? And they weighed out (set, stood) thirty pieces of silver to him."}
{"book": "MAT", "chapter": 26, "verse": "16", "text": "And from that time, he sought a convenient opportunity so that he might betray Him."}
{"book": "MAT", "chapter": 26, "verse": "17", "text": "And on the first day of the Unleavened Bread, the disciples came to Jesus, saying, Where do You wish that we should prepare for You to eat the Passover?"}
{"book": "MAT", "chapter": 26, "verse": "18", "text": "And He said, Go into the city to a certain man (so and so) and say to him, The Teacher says, My time is near; I will keep (do, make) the Passover with you and with My disciples."}
{"book": "MAT", "chapter": 26, "verse": "19", "text": "And the disciples did as Jesus directed them and prepared the Passover."}
{"book": "MAT", "chapter": 26, "verse": "20", "text": "And evening having arrived, He reclined at the table with the twelve disciples."}
{"book": "MAT", "chapter": 26, "verse": "21", "text": "And as they were eating He said to them, Truly I say to you, that one from out of you will betray Me."}
{"book": "MAT", "chapter": 26, "verse": "22", "text": "And being extremely saddened, they began to say to Him, each one, Not I is it, Lord?"}
{"book": "MAT", "chapter": 26, "verse": "23", "text": "And answering He said, The one having dipped (embapsas) his hand with Me in the dish (deep dish, bowl), he will betray Me."}
{"book": "MAT", "chapter": 26, "verse": "24", "text": "The Son of Man goes indeed, just as it has been written concerning Him; and woe to that man through whom the Son of Man is betrayed. It would be better for him if that there man had not been born."}
{"book": "MAT", "chapter": 26, "verse": "25", "text": "And answering, Judas, who was betraying Him, said, Not I is it, Rabbi? He says to him, You have said."}
{"book": "MAT", "chapter": 26, "verse": "26", "text": "And as they were eating, Jesus having taken the bread and having blessed, broke and gave it to the disciples, and said, Take, eat; this is My body."}
{"book": "MAT", "chapter": 26, "verse": "27", "text": "And having taken a cup and having given thanks, he gave it to them, saying, Drink from out of it, all of you."}
{"book": "MAT", "chapter": 26, "verse": "28", "text": "For this is My blood of the covenant being poured out concerning many unto the remission of sins."}
{"book": "MAT", "chapter": 26, "verse": "29", "text": "And I say to you, I will not drink from out of this offspring of the vine from now until that there day when I drink it new (fresh) with you in the kingdom of My Father."}
{"book": "MAT", "chapter": 26, "verse": "30", "text": "And having sung a hymn, they went out unto the mount of Olives."}
{"book": "MAT", "chapter": 26, "verse": "31", "text": "Then Jesus says to them, All you will be stumbled at (in) Me during this night. For it has been written, I will strike the Shepherd and the sheep of the flock will be thoroughly scattered."}
{"book": "MAT", "chapter": 26, "verse": "32", "text": "And after being raised, I will go before you into Galilee."}
{"book": "MAT", "chapter": 26, "verse": "33", "text": "And answering, Peter said to Him, If all will be stumbled at (in) You, I will never be stumbled."}
{"book": "MAT", "chapter": 26, "verse": "34", "text": "Jesus said to him, Truly I say to you, that during this night, before the rooster calls out three times you will deny Me."}
{"book": "MAT", "chapter": 26, "verse": "35", "text": "Peter says to Him, Even if it were necessary for me to die with You, I will not deny You. Likewise also, all the disciples said."}
{"book": "MAT", "chapter": 26, "verse": "36", "text": "Then Jesus comes with them unto a place called Gethsemane and He says to the disciples, Sit down here until I go away over there and pray."}
{"book": "MAT", "chapter": 26, "verse": "37", "text": "And having taken with Him, Peter and the two sons of Zebedee, He began to be sorrowful (deep grief, sad) and distressed."}
{"book": "MAT", "chapter": 26, "verse": "38", "text": "Then He says to them, My soul is encompassed in sorrow as far as death; remain here and watch with Me."}
{"book": "MAT", "chapter": 26, "verse": "39", "text": "And having gone forward a little, He fell upon His face, praying, and saying, My Father, if it is possible let this cup pass away from Me. Nevertheless not as I will, but as You [will]."}
{"book": "MAT", "chapter": 26, "verse": "40", "text": "And He comes to the disciples and finds them sleeping. And He says to Peter, So you were not able to watch one hour with Me?"}
{"book": "MAT", "chapter": 26, "verse": "41", "text": "Watch and pray, so that you may not enter into temptation. For the spirit is pre-disposed (pre-passioned, passionately inclined, latin-promptus-ready), however the flesh is weak (without vigor, sick in other contexts)."}
{"book": "MAT", "chapter": 26, "verse": "42", "text": "Again for a second time having gone away, He prayed, saying, My Father, if it is not possible for this to pass, unless I drink it, Your will be done."}
{"book": "MAT", "chapter": 26, "verse": "43", "text": "And having come again, He finds them sleeping for their eyes were heavy."}
{"book": "MAT", "chapter": 26, "verse": "44", "text": "And having left them again, having gone away, He prayed for a third time having said again the same word."}
{"book": "MAT", "chapter": 26, "verse": "45", "text": "Then He comes to the disciples and says to them, Sleep on still and take your rest. Behold, the hour has drawn near, and the Son of Man is betrayed into the hands of sinners."}
{"book": "MAT", "chapter": 26, "verse": "46", "text": "Rise up, let us go! Behold, he who is betraying Me has drawn near!"}
{"book": "MAT", "chapter": 26, "verse": "47", "text": "And yet as He was speaking of him, behold, Judas, one of the twelve, and a great crowd with him came with swords (slaughter daggers) and sticks (clubs, anything made of wood, cross-bar of a cross) from the chief priests and the elders of the people."}
{"book": "MAT", "chapter": 26, "verse": "48", "text": "And the one betraying Him gave them a sign, saying, whomever I shall kiss, it is He: seize (latin-tenete-arrest) Him."}
{"book": "MAT", "chapter": 26, "verse": "49", "text": "And directly having come near to Jesus, he said, Greetings, Rabbi, and repeatedly kissed (kiss down, kiss again and again, kiss fervently/affectionately) Him."}
{"book": "MAT", "chapter": 26, "verse": "50", "text": "And Jesus said to him, Friend (supposed friend), upon what are you come? Then having come to Him, they laid hands upon Jesus and seized Him."}
{"book": "MAT", "chapter": 26, "verse": "51", "text": "And behold, one of those with Jesus, having stretched out his hand, drew his sword and struck the bond-servant of the high priest and cut off his ear."}
{"book": "MAT", "chapter": 26, "verse": "52", "text": "Then Jesus says to him, Turn away (turn back) your sword into its place; for all those having taken the sword will perish by the sword."}
{"book": "MAT", "chapter": 26, "verse": "53", "text": "Or do you suppose that I am not able to entreat My Father and He will stand close beside Me right now more than twelve legions of angels?"}
{"book": "MAT", "chapter": 26, "verse": "54", "text": "How then should the Scriptures be fulfilled that it must be so?"}
{"book": "MAT", "chapter": 26, "verse": "55", "text": "In that there hour, Jesus said to the crowds, Are you come out as against (upon) a robber with swords and sticks to apprehend Me? Day after day I sat in the temple teaching and you did not seize Me."}
{"book": "MAT", "chapter": 26, "verse": "56", "text": "However all this has happened, so that the Scriptures o the prophets might be fulfilled. Then all the disciples left Him and fled."}
{"book": "MAT", "chapter": 26, "verse": "57", "text": "And those who having seized Jesus, led Him away to Caiaphas, the high priest, where the scribes and the elders were gathered together."}
{"book": "MAT", "chapter": 26, "verse": "58", "text": "And Peter followed Him from a long distance up to the court of the high priest. And having entered within, he sat with the guards to see the outcome (end)."}
{"book": "MAT", "chapter": 26, "verse": "59", "text": "And the chief priests and the whole Council sought false witness against Jesus so that they might put Him to death,"}
{"book": "MAT", "chapter": 26, "verse": "60", "text": "However they did not find any, though having many come forward as false witnesses. And lastly, two came forward,"}
{"book": "MAT", "chapter": 26, "verse": "61", "text": "Said, This Man said, I am able to destroy the temple of God, and rebuild it throughout three days."}
{"book": "MAT", "chapter": 26, "verse": "62", "text": "And the high priest having stood up, said to Him, Do You answer nothing? What do these men witness against You?"}
{"book": "MAT", "chapter": 26, "verse": "63", "text": "And Jesus was silent. And the high priest said to Him, I adjure (put You under strict oath) You by (by way of) the living God that You tell us if You are the Christ, the Son of God."}
{"book": "MAT", "chapter": 26, "verse": "64", "text": "Jesus says to him, You have said. Yet I say to you, from now you will see the Son of Man sitting from out of the right [hand/side] of power and coming upon the clouds of heaven."}
{"book": "MAT", "chapter": 26, "verse": "65", "text": "Then the high priest tears apart his garments, saying, He has blasphemed; why any further do we have need of witnesses? Behold now, you have heard the blasphemy."}
{"book": "MAT", "chapter": 26, "verse": "66", "text": "What do you suppose? And answering, they said, He is deserving (liable) of death."}
{"book": "MAT", "chapter": 26, "verse": "67", "text": "Then they spat into His face and struck Him with their fists. And others slapped Him,"}
{"book": "MAT", "chapter": 26, "verse": "68", "text": "Saying, Prophesy to us, Christ, who is he who struck You?"}
{"book": "MAT", "chapter": 26, "verse": "69", "text": "And Peter was sitting outside in the courtyard and one servant girl came to him, saying, You also were with Jesus the Galilean."}
{"book": "MAT", "chapter": 26, "verse": "70", "text": "And he denied before all them, saying, I do not know what you say."}
{"book": "MAT", "chapter": 26, "verse": "71", "text": "And having gone out onto the porch, another saw him, and says to those there, this man was with Jesus of Nazareth."}
{"book": "MAT", "chapter": 26, "verse": "72", "text": "And again he denied with an oath, I do not know the Man."}
{"book": "MAT", "chapter": 26, "verse": "73", "text": "After a little while, also those standing by having come to him, said to Peter, Certainly also, you are from out of them, for even your speech makes you plainly evident."}
{"book": "MAT", "chapter": 26, "verse": "74", "text": "Then he began to curse and to swear, I do not know the Man! And directly a rooster called out."}
{"book": "MAT", "chapter": 26, "verse": "75", "text": "And Peter remembered the saying (rhematos) of Jesus, having said, Before the rooster calling out, you will deny Me three times. And having gone outside, he wept bitterly."}
{"book": "MAT", "chapter": 27, "verse": "1", "text": "And when the morning arrived, all the chief priests and the elders of the people took counsel against Jesus, so that they might put Him to death;"}
{"book": "MAT", "chapter": 27, "verse": "2", "text": "And having bound Him, they led Him away and handed Him over to Pilate, the governor."}
{"book": "MAT", "chapter": 27, "verse": "3", "text": "Then Judas, the one having handed Him over, having seen that He was condemned, having regretted it (repented), returned the thirty pieces of silver to the chief priests and elders,"}
{"book": "MAT", "chapter": 27, "verse": "4", "text": "Saying, I sinned, having betrayed innocent blood. And they said, What is that to us? You will see (or See to that yourself)."}
{"book": "MAT", "chapter": 27, "verse": "5", "text": "And having cast down the pieces of silver into the temple, he withdrew, and having gone away, hanged (strangled, choked) himself."}
{"book": "MAT", "chapter": 27, "verse": "6", "text": "And the chief priests, having taken the pieces of silver said, It is not permitted to put them into the sacred treasury (Corban- gift offering dedicated to God), since it is the price of blood."}
{"book": "MAT", "chapter": 27, "verse": "7", "text": "And having taken consultation, they bought from out of them the field of the potter unto a burial place for foreigners (strangers)."}
{"book": "MAT", "chapter": 27, "verse": "8", "text": "Therefore that there field was called, Field of blood, until this day."}
{"book": "MAT", "chapter": 27, "verse": "9", "text": "Then was fulfilled that having been spoken through Jeremiah the prophet, saying, And they took the thirty pieces of silver, the price of Him having been priced, whom they set a price on from the sons of Israel,"}
{"book": "MAT", "chapter": 27, "verse": "10", "text": "And they gave them unto the field of the potter, just as the Lord directed me."}
{"book": "MAT", "chapter": 27, "verse": "11", "text": "And Jesus stood before the governor; and the governor inquired of Him, saying, Are You the King of the Jews? And Jesus said, You say."}
{"book": "MAT", "chapter": 27, "verse": "12", "text": "And in His being accused by the chief priests and elders, He answered nothing."}
{"book": "MAT", "chapter": 27, "verse": "13", "text": "Then Pilate says to Him, Do You not hear how many things they testify against You?"}
{"book": "MAT", "chapter": 27, "verse": "14", "text": "And He did not answer him even one saying (rhema), so as to exceedingly marvel the governor."}
{"book": "MAT", "chapter": 27, "verse": "15", "text": "And at the feast, the governor was accustomed to release one prisoner to the crowd, whom they wished."}
{"book": "MAT", "chapter": 27, "verse": "16", "text": "And they had then a notable (conspicuous, notorious) prisoner called Barabbas."}
{"book": "MAT", "chapter": 27, "verse": "17", "text": "They therefore being gathered together, Pilate said to them, Whom do you want me to release to you? Barabbas or Jesus, who is called Christ?"}
{"book": "MAT", "chapter": 27, "verse": "18", "text": "For he knew that they handed Him over through envy, ill-will, spite, grudge, strong feeling that sours)."}
{"book": "MAT", "chapter": 27, "verse": "19", "text": "However as he was sitting upon the judgment seat, his wife sent to him, saying, [Let there be] nothing [between] you and that there Righteous Man; for I suffered many things today in a dream because of Him."}
{"book": "MAT", "chapter": 27, "verse": "20", "text": "And the chief priests and the elders persuaded the crowds, so that they should ask for Barabbas, and should destroy Jesus."}
{"book": "MAT", "chapter": 27, "verse": "21", "text": "And answering, the governor said to them, Which from the two do you want me to release to you? And they said, Barabbas."}
{"book": "MAT", "chapter": 27, "verse": "22", "text": "Pilate says to them, What then should I do with Jesus, who is called Christ? They all say, Let Him be crucified!"}
{"book": "MAT", "chapter": 27, "verse": "23", "text": "And he said, What wrong (kakon) did He commit? And they cried out vehemently (exceedingly, abundantly), saying, Let Him be crucified!"}
{"book": "MAT", "chapter": 27, "verse": "24", "text": "And Pilate having seen that it benefited (availed, helped) nothing, but rather an uproar (riot, noisy upheaval) was beginning (coming into being), having taken water, he washed his hands before (over against, in opposition to, in front of) the crowd, saying, I am guiltless (innocent) of the blood of this Man. You will see for yourselves (See to it yourselves, See you, See you to it)."}
{"book": "MAT", "chapter": 27, "verse": "25", "text": "And answering, all the people said, Let His blood be upon us and upon our children."}
{"book": "MAT", "chapter": 27, "verse": "26", "text": "Then he released Barabbas to them; and having Jesus flooged, he handed Him over so that He might be crucified."}
{"book": "MAT", "chapter": 27, "verse": "27", "text": "Then the soldiers of the governor, having taken Jesus with them unto the praetorium (governors official residence), gathered to (upon) Him the whole battalion (Roman cohort, military guard of about a tenth part of a legion);"}
{"book": "MAT", "chapter": 27, "verse": "28", "text": "And having stripped Him, they put around Him a scarlet (crimson) short cloak (a short cloak worn by Roman officers and soldiers)."}
{"book": "MAT", "chapter": 27, "verse": "29", "text": "And having twisted together a crown (victors garland) from out of thorns, they put it upon His head; and a reed (reed-staff) in His right hand; and having bowed the knees before Him, they mocked (ridiculed, made sport of) Him, saying, Hail (Rejoice), King of the Jews!"}
{"book": "MAT", "chapter": 27, "verse": "30", "text": "And having spit on Him, they took the reed (reed-staff) and struck Him on His head."}
{"book": "MAT", "chapter": 27, "verse": "31", "text": "And when they had mocked Him, they took off Him the short cloak (short Roman officer and soldier cloak) and they put His garments on Him; and led Him away to crucify Him."}
{"book": "MAT", "chapter": 27, "verse": "32", "text": "And going out, they found a man of Cyrene, named Simon. They compelled (pressed) him so that he might take up (lift up, raise) His cross."}
{"book": "MAT", "chapter": 27, "verse": "33", "text": "And having come unto a place called Golgotha, which is called the place of a skull (latin-Calvariae- Calvary root is cranium)."}
{"book": "MAT", "chapter": 27, "verse": "34", "text": "They gave Him wine (oinon) mingled (mixed) with gall (bitter herbs) to drink; and having tasted, He was not willing to drink it."}
{"book": "MAT", "chapter": 27, "verse": "35", "text": "And having crucified Him, they divided His garments, casting lots; {so that that which might be fulfilled was spoken by the prophet, They divided My garments among themselves, and upon My garment they cast a lot- not in Vulgate, Darby, ESV, NSAB}."}
{"book": "MAT", "chapter": 27, "verse": "36", "text": "And sitting down, they kept guard over Him there."}
{"book": "MAT", "chapter": 27, "verse": "37", "text": "And they placed above His head His accusation written: This is Jesus, the King of the Jews."}
{"book": "MAT", "chapter": 27, "verse": "38", "text": "Then are crucified with Him two robbers, one from out of the right, and one from out of the left."}
{"book": "MAT", "chapter": 27, "verse": "39", "text": "And those passing by blasphemed Him, shaking (moving, wagging) their heads,"}
{"book": "MAT", "chapter": 27, "verse": "40", "text": "And saying, The One destroying the temple and in three days building it, save Yourself! If You are the Son of God, also come down away from the cross!"}
{"book": "MAT", "chapter": 27, "verse": "41", "text": "Likewise also, the chief priests, mocking, with the scribes and the elders, said,"}
{"book": "MAT", "chapter": 27, "verse": "42", "text": "He saved others, He is not able to save Himself. He is King of Israel. Let Him now come down away from the cross, and we will believe upon Him."}
{"book": "MAT", "chapter": 27, "verse": "43", "text": "He trusted upon God. Let Him now rescue Him if He wants Him. For He said, I am the Son of God."}
{"book": "MAT", "chapter": 27, "verse": "44", "text": "And likewise also those robbers having been crucified with Him, reproached (insulted, reviled) Him."}
{"book": "MAT", "chapter": 27, "verse": "45", "text": "And from the sixth hour, there was darkness over (upon) all the land until the ninth hour;"}
{"book": "MAT", "chapter": 27, "verse": "46", "text": "And about the ninth hour, Jesus cried out with a great voice, saying, Eli, Eli, lama sabachthani? That is, My God, My God, why have You forsaken (in-down-to leave, abandoned, deserted, left in a condition of lack) Me?"}
{"book": "MAT", "chapter": 27, "verse": "47", "text": "And some of those who were standing there, having heard, said, This Man calls Elijah."}
{"book": "MAT", "chapter": 27, "verse": "48", "text": "And directly, one from out of them having run and having taken a sponge, and having filled it with vinegar (oxous, sour wine, common drink of Roman soldiers, latin-aceto-vinegar- vinegar is mainly acetic acid) and having put it on a reed, gave it to Him to drink."}
{"book": "MAT", "chapter": 27, "verse": "49", "text": "And the rest said, Let be; let us see whether Elijah comes to save Him."}
{"book": "MAT", "chapter": 27, "verse": "50", "text": "And Jesus again, having cried with a great voice, sent away (released, permitted to depart, left go, latin-emisit-sent) His spirit."}
{"book": "MAT", "chapter": 27, "verse": "51", "text": "And behold, the veil of the temple was torn from above (top) to below (bottom) into two; and the earth was shaken and the rocks were split,"}
{"book": "MAT", "chapter": 27, "verse": "52", "text": "And the tombs were opened and many bodies of the saints having fallen asleep arose,"}
{"book": "MAT", "chapter": 27, "verse": "53", "text": "and having gone from out of the tombs after His resurrection, they entered into the holy city and appeared to many."}
{"book": "MAT", "chapter": 27, "verse": "54", "text": "And the centurion and those keeping guard of Jesus with him, having seen the earthquake and the things having happened, feared very much, saying, Truly this was God’s Son."}
{"book": "MAT", "chapter": 27, "verse": "55", "text": "And there were many women looking on from a long distance who followed Jesus from Galilee, ministering (diakonousai, serving) to Him,"}
{"book": "MAT", "chapter": 27, "verse": "56", "text": "Among whom was Mary Magdalene, and Mary the mother of James and Joseph; and the mother of the sons of Zebedee."}
{"book": "MAT", "chapter": 27, "verse": "57", "text": "And evening having arrived, a rich man from Arimathea came, by name Joseph, who also himself was discipled by (to) Jesus."}
{"book": "MAT", "chapter": 27, "verse": "58", "text": "He having gone to Pilate, asked for the body of Jesus. Then Pilate commanded it to be given over (given from)."}
{"book": "MAT", "chapter": 27, "verse": "59", "text": "And having taken the body, Joseph wrapped it up in a clean, fine linen cloth,"}
{"book": "MAT", "chapter": 27, "verse": "60", "text": "and placed it in his new (unused) tomb, which he had cut in the rock; and having rolled a great stone to the door of the tomb, went away."}
{"book": "MAT", "chapter": 27, "verse": "61", "text": "And there was Mary Magdalene, and the other Mary sitting opposite (over against, before) the tomb."}
{"book": "MAT", "chapter": 27, "verse": "62", "text": "And the next day, which is after the preparation, the chief priests and the Pharisees were gathered together to Pilate,"}
{"book": "MAT", "chapter": 27, "verse": "63", "text": "Saying, Lord (Sir), we have remembered how that there deceiver said while living, After three days I will arise."}
{"book": "MAT", "chapter": 27, "verse": "64", "text": "Therefore command that the tomb be secured until the third day, lest ever His disciples having come, secretly steal Him away, and say to the people, He is risen away from the dead; and the last deception will be worse than the first."}
{"book": "MAT", "chapter": 27, "verse": "65", "text": "Pilate said to them, You have a guard; Go make [it as] secure as you know [how]."}
{"book": "MAT", "chapter": 27, "verse": "66", "text": "And having gone, they made the tomb secure, having sealed the stone with the guard."}
{"book": "MAT", "chapter": 28, "verse": "1", "text": "And after (late on) the Sabbath, it being dawn (to let shine upon) unto the first day of the week, Mary Magdalene and the other Mary came to look at the tomb."}
{"book": "MAT", "chapter": 28, "verse": "2", "text": "And behold, there was a great earthquake; for an angel of the Lord having descended from out of heaven, and having come, rolled away the stone, and was sitting on top of it."}
{"book": "MAT", "chapter": 28, "verse": "3", "text": "And his appearance was like an lightning and the his apparel white like as snow."}
{"book": "MAT", "chapter": 28, "verse": "4", "text": "And from fear of him, those keeping guard shook and became like as dead men."}
{"book": "MAT", "chapter": 28, "verse": "5", "text": "And answering, the angel said to the women, Fear not you; for I know that you seek Jesus, the One having been crucified."}
{"book": "MAT", "chapter": 28, "verse": "6", "text": "He is not here, for He is risen, just as He said. Come, see the place where He was lying."}
{"book": "MAT", "chapter": 28, "verse": "7", "text": "And go quickly and say to His disciples that He is risen away from the dead; and behold, He goes before you into Galilee; there you will see Him. Behold, I have told you."}
{"book": "MAT", "chapter": 28, "verse": "8", "text": "And going away quickly from the tomb with fear and great joy, they ran to announce (report) it to His disciples,"}
{"book": "MAT", "chapter": 28, "verse": "9", "text": "And as they were going to announce it to His disciples, and behold, Jesus met them, saying, Greetings! (Hail!, Be glad!, Rejoice!) and having come to Him, they took hold of His feet and worshipped Him."}
{"book": "MAT", "chapter": 28, "verse": "10", "text": "Then Jesus says to them, Do not fear. Go, announce to My brothers so that they go away into Galilee, and there they will see Me."}
{"book": "MAT", "chapter": 28, "verse": "11", "text": "And as they were going, Behold, some of the guard, having gone into the city, reported (announced) to the chief priests all the things that had happened."}
{"book": "MAT", "chapter": 28, "verse": "12", "text": "And having been gathered together with the elders, and having taken consultation, they gave a considerable (sufficient, fitting) amount of silver pieces to the soldiers,"}
{"book": "MAT", "chapter": 28, "verse": "13", "text": "Saying, Say that His disciples having come by night, secretly stole Him, while we slept."}
{"book": "MAT", "chapter": 28, "verse": "14", "text": "And if this is heard by (upon) the governor, we will persuade him and keep you free from concern (anxiety)."}
{"book": "MAT", "chapter": 28, "verse": "15", "text": "And having taken the money, they did as they were taught. And this word is spread throughout by the Jews until the present day."}
{"book": "MAT", "chapter": 28, "verse": "16", "text": "And the eleven disciples went into Galilee unto the mountain where Jesus appointed (designated, arranged) them."}
{"book": "MAT", "chapter": 28, "verse": "17", "text": "And having seen Him, they worshipped; however some doubted (wavered, double-standing)."}
{"book": "MAT", "chapter": 28, "verse": "18", "text": "And having come to them, Jesus spoke to them, saying, All authority has been given to Me in heaven and upon the earth."}
{"book": "MAT", "chapter": 28, "verse": "19", "text": "Go therefore, disciple all the ethnicities (nations), baptizing them into the name of the Father, and of the Son, and of the Holy Spirit;"}
{"book": "MAT", "chapter": 28, "verse": "20", "text": "Teaching them to observe (watch over, guard, keep) all things whatever I commanded you. And behold, I am with you all the days until the culmination (consummate coming together of all into the whole) of the age."}
{"book": "MRK", "chapter": 1, "verse": "1", "text": "The beginning of the gospel (evangeliou-evangel, latin-evangelii-gospel, good/well report/announcing) of Jesus Christ, Son of God."}
{"book": "MRK", "chapter": 1, "verse": "2", "text": "Just as it has been written in Isaiah the prophet, Behold, I send My messenger (greek-angelon, latin-angelum) before (to) Your face, who will prepare Your way."}
{"book": "MRK", "chapter": 1, "verse": "3", "text": "The voice of one crying out in the wilderness, Prepare the way of the Lord, make straight His paths."}
{"book": "MRK", "chapter": 1, "verse": "4", "text": "John came baptizing in the wilderness and preaching a baptism of repentance for (unto) remission of sins."}
{"book": "MRK", "chapter": 1, "verse": "5", "text": "And all of the Judea region and all they of Jerusalem went out to him and were baptized by him in the Jordan river (potamo), fully confessing their sins."}
{"book": "MRK", "chapter": 1, "verse": "6", "text": "And John was clothed in hair of a camel and a leather belt around his waist; and he was eating locusts and wild honey."}
{"book": "MRK", "chapter": 1, "verse": "7", "text": "And he preached, saying, After me comes He who is mightier (stronger, abler) than I, of whom I am not fit (sufficient, adequate) to stoop down and untie the strap of His sandals."}
{"book": "MRK", "chapter": 1, "verse": "8", "text": "I baptized you [with, in] water; and He will baptize you in (with) the Holy Spirit."}
{"book": "MRK", "chapter": 1, "verse": "9", "text": "And it happened in those days that Jesus came from Nazareth of Galilee and was baptized into the Jordan by John."}
{"book": "MRK", "chapter": 1, "verse": "10", "text": "And directly going up from out of the water, he saw the heavens splitting asunder and the Spirit like as a dove descending unto Him."}
{"book": "MRK", "chapter": 1, "verse": "11", "text": "And a voice came from out of the heavens, You are My Beloved Son, in You I am well pleased."}
{"book": "MRK", "chapter": 1, "verse": "12", "text": "And directly the Spirit drives Him out into the wilderness."}
{"book": "MRK", "chapter": 1, "verse": "13", "text": "And He was in the wilderness forty days being tempted (tested) by Satan and was with the wild animals; and the angels ministered (diekonoun) to Him."}
{"book": "MRK", "chapter": 1, "verse": "14", "text": "And after the handing over of John, Jesus came into Galilee preaching the gospel of God,"}
{"book": "MRK", "chapter": 1, "verse": "15", "text": "And saying, The time has been fulfilled and the kingdom of God has drawn near; repent, and believe in the gospel."}
{"book": "MRK", "chapter": 1, "verse": "16", "text": "And passing by beside the sea of Galilee, He saw Simon and Andrew, the brother of Simon, casting a net in the sea; for they were fishermen."}
{"book": "MRK", "chapter": 1, "verse": "17", "text": "And Jesus said to them, Come after Me and I will make you to become fishers of men."}
{"book": "MRK", "chapter": 1, "verse": "18", "text": "And directly, having left the nets, they followed Him."}
{"book": "MRK", "chapter": 1, "verse": "19", "text": "And having gone on a little, He saw James the [son] of Zebedee, and John his brother, and these were in the boat mending (adjusting, fitting together, preparing) the nets."}
{"book": "MRK", "chapter": 1, "verse": "20", "text": "And directly He called them; and having left their father Zebedee in the boat with the hired servants, they went away after Him."}
{"book": "MRK", "chapter": 1, "verse": "21", "text": "And they go into Capernaum; and directly on the Sabbath He having entered into the synagogue, taught."}
{"book": "MRK", "chapter": 1, "verse": "22", "text": "And they were astounded at (upon) His teaching; for He was teaching them as having authority and not as the scribes."}
{"book": "MRK", "chapter": 1, "verse": "23", "text": "And directly there was in their synagogue a man with (in) an unclean spirit, and he cried out,"}
{"book": "MRK", "chapter": 1, "verse": "24", "text": "Saying, What to us and to You, Jesus of Nazareth? Are You come to destroy us? I know You who You are, the Holy [One] of God!"}
{"book": "MRK", "chapter": 1, "verse": "25", "text": "And Jesus censured him, saying, Be put to silence (muzzled) and come out of him!"}
{"book": "MRK", "chapter": 1, "verse": "26", "text": "And the unclean spirit having thrown him into convulsions and having called out with a great voice, came out of him."}
{"book": "MRK", "chapter": 1, "verse": "27", "text": "And all were astonished, so as to seek together among themselves, saying, What is this? A new teaching according to authority. He commands (gives order upon) even the unclean spirits and they comply under Him!"}
{"book": "MRK", "chapter": 1, "verse": "28", "text": "And a hearing (report) of Him went out directly everywhere into all the surrounding region of Galilee."}
{"book": "MRK", "chapter": 1, "verse": "29", "text": "And directly having gone out of the synagogue, they came into the house of Simon and Andrew with James and John."}
{"book": "MRK", "chapter": 1, "verse": "30", "text": "And the mother-in-law of Simon was lying down sick fevering. And directly they speak to Him about her."}
{"book": "MRK", "chapter": 1, "verse": "31", "text": "And having come to her, He raised her up, having taken of the hand. And the fever left her and she ministered to (served) them."}
{"book": "MRK", "chapter": 1, "verse": "32", "text": "And evening having come, when the sun went down, they brought to Him all those having badly (sore misery, kakos) and those demonized."}
{"book": "MRK", "chapter": 1, "verse": "33", "text": "And all the city was gathered together to the door."}
{"book": "MRK", "chapter": 1, "verse": "34", "text": "And He healed (etherapeusen) many having badly (kakos) of various diseases (chronic sicknesses), and He cast out many demons. And He did not permit the demons to speak because they knew Him {to be Christ}."}
{"book": "MRK", "chapter": 1, "verse": "35", "text": "And having risen up very early, still much in night, He went out and departed into a solitary (desolate) place and there was praying."}
{"book": "MRK", "chapter": 1, "verse": "36", "text": "And Simon and those with Him pursued after Him;"}
{"book": "MRK", "chapter": 1, "verse": "37", "text": "And having found Him, also they say to Him, Everyone seeks You!"}
{"book": "MRK", "chapter": 1, "verse": "38", "text": "And He says to them, Let us go another way into the neighboring towns (large villages), so that also there I might preach; for unto this I have come out."}
{"book": "MRK", "chapter": 1, "verse": "39", "text": "And He was going, preaching in their synagogues in the whole of Galilees and casting out demons."}
{"book": "MRK", "chapter": 1, "verse": "40", "text": "And a leper comes to Him, entreating Him and falling down on his knees to Him, and saying to Him, If You are willing, You are able to cleanse me."}
{"book": "MRK", "chapter": 1, "verse": "41", "text": "And having been moved with compassion (visceral affections like sympathy, etc.), having stretched out His hand, He touched him, and says to him, I will, be you cleansed."}
{"book": "MRK", "chapter": 1, "verse": "42", "text": "And directly the leprosy departed away from him and he was cleansed."}
{"book": "MRK", "chapter": 1, "verse": "43", "text": "And having sternly admonished him, He directly sent him out,"}
{"book": "MRK", "chapter": 1, "verse": "44", "text": "And says to him, See that you say nothing to anyone; but go, show yourself to the priest, and offer concerning your cleansing what Moses commanded unto a testimony to them."}
{"book": "MRK", "chapter": 1, "verse": "45", "text": "And having gone out, he began to proclaim much and to spread the word abroad, so that he was no longer able to openly enter into the city; but was outside upon solitary places and they came to him from all sides."}
{"book": "MRK", "chapter": 2, "verse": "1", "text": "And He having entered into Capernaum after [some] days; it was heard that He was in the house;"}
{"book": "MRK", "chapter": 2, "verse": "2", "text": "And many were gathered together, so that there was no more space, not even at the door; and He was speaking the word to them."}
{"book": "MRK", "chapter": 2, "verse": "3", "text": "And they come, carrying to Him a paralytic being lifted by four."}
{"book": "MRK", "chapter": 2, "verse": "4", "text": "And not being able to come near to Him on account of the crowd, they unroofed the roof where He was, and having dug it out, they let down the mat on which the paralytic was lying."}
{"book": "MRK", "chapter": 2, "verse": "5", "text": "And Jesus having seen their faith, says to the paralytic, Child, your sins are remitted you."}
{"book": "MRK", "chapter": 2, "verse": "6", "text": "And there were some of the scribes sitting there and dialoguing (thoroughly reckoning) in their hearts,"}
{"book": "MRK", "chapter": 2, "verse": "7", "text": "Why does this Man thus speak? He blasphemes! Who is able to remit sins, except one- God?"}
{"book": "MRK", "chapter": 2, "verse": "8", "text": "And directly, Jesus having recognized in His spirit that thus they are dialoguing within themselves, says to them, Why do you dialogue these things in your hearts?"}
{"book": "MRK", "chapter": 2, "verse": "9", "text": "Which is easier to say to the paralytic, Your sins are remitted, or to say, Arise and take up your mat and walk?"}
{"book": "MRK", "chapter": 2, "verse": "10", "text": "However so that you might know that the Son of Man has authority to remit sins upon the earth- He says to the paralytic,"}
{"book": "MRK", "chapter": 2, "verse": "11", "text": "To you I say, Arise, take up your mat, and go unto your house."}
{"book": "MRK", "chapter": 2, "verse": "12", "text": "And he arose and directly having taken up the mat, went out before all, so as to astonish all and to glorify God, saying, Never thus did we see."}
{"book": "MRK", "chapter": 2, "verse": "13", "text": "And He went out again beside the sea and all the crowd came to Him and He taught them."}
{"book": "MRK", "chapter": 2, "verse": "14", "text": "And passing by, He saw Levi the [son] of Alphaeus sitting upon the tax booth, and says to him, Follow Me. And having arisen, he followed Him."}
{"book": "MRK", "chapter": 2, "verse": "15", "text": "And it happened as He was reclining in his house that many tax collectors and sinners were reclining with Jesus and His disciples; for they having been many, and they followed Him."}
{"book": "MRK", "chapter": 2, "verse": "16", "text": "And the scribes and Pharisees having seen Him eating with the sinners and tax collectors, said to His disciples, Why is it that He eats with the tax collectors and sinners?"}
{"book": "MRK", "chapter": 2, "verse": "17", "text": "And Jesus having heard, says to them, Those being strong (able) have no need of a physician (iatrou), but rather those having badly (kakos). I did not come to call righteous [ones], but rather sinners."}
{"book": "MRK", "chapter": 2, "verse": "18", "text": "And the disciples of John and those of the Pharisees were fasting. And they come and say to Him, Why do the disciples of John and those disciples of the Pharisees fast, however You disciples do not fast?"}
{"book": "MRK", "chapter": 2, "verse": "19", "text": "And Jesus said to them, Can (Are they able) the sons of the bridechamber fast while the bridegroom is with them? As long as they have time with the bridegroom, they are not able (can not) to fast."}
{"book": "MRK", "chapter": 2, "verse": "20", "text": "And days will come when the bridegroom will have been taken away from them and then they will fast in those there days."}
{"book": "MRK", "chapter": 2, "verse": "21", "text": "No one sews a piece of new unshrunk cloth upon old worn out clothing; otherwise the new filler tears away from the old worn out and a worse tear happens."}
{"book": "MRK", "chapter": 2, "verse": "22", "text": "And no one puts (throws) new wine into old wineskins; otherwise the wine will burst the wineskins and the wine and the wineskins will be ruined (destroyed, lost). But new (neon-young, fresh) wine into new (kainos- new, unused) wineskins."}
{"book": "MRK", "chapter": 2, "verse": "23", "text": "And it happened that He was passing through the sown fields on the Sabbath and His disciples began to make their way plucking the heads of grain."}
{"book": "MRK", "chapter": 2, "verse": "24", "text": "And the Pharisees said to Him, Behold, why do they on the Sabbath do that which is not permitted?"}
{"book": "MRK", "chapter": 2, "verse": "25", "text": "And He said to them, Did you never read what David did when he had need and hungered, he and those with him?"}
{"book": "MRK", "chapter": 2, "verse": "26", "text": "How he entered into the house of God upon [the days of] Abiathar the high priest and ate the bread of the presentation (shew-bread), which it is not permitted except for the priests to eat. And he gave even to those who were with him?"}
{"book": "MRK", "chapter": 2, "verse": "27", "text": "And He said to them, The Sabbath was made for the sake of man and not man for the sake of the Sabbath."}
{"book": "MRK", "chapter": 2, "verse": "28", "text": "So then the Son of Man is Lord also of the Sabbath."}
{"book": "MRK", "chapter": 3, "verse": "1", "text": "And He entered again into the synagogue and there was a man having his hand withered,"}
{"book": "MRK", "chapter": 3, "verse": "2", "text": "And they were watching Him, whether He will heal on the Sabbath so that they might accuse Him."}
{"book": "MRK", "chapter": 3, "verse": "3", "text": "And He says to the man having the withered hand, Arise into the middle."}
{"book": "MRK", "chapter": 3, "verse": "4", "text": "And He says to them, Is it permitted to do good on the Sabbath or to do evil (kako-bad, wrong)? To save life (soul) or to kill? However they were silent."}
{"book": "MRK", "chapter": 3, "verse": "5", "text": "And having looked around on them with anger, being grieved upon the hardness of their heart, He says to the man, Stretch out your hand. And he stretched it out and his hand was restored."}
{"book": "MRK", "chapter": 3, "verse": "6", "text": "And the Pharisees having gone out directly with the Herodians took consultation against Him on how they might destroy Him."}
{"book": "MRK", "chapter": 3, "verse": "7", "text": "And Jesus withdrew with His disciples to the sea; and a great multitude from Galilee followed Him, and from Judea,"}
{"book": "MRK", "chapter": 3, "verse": "8", "text": "And from Jerusalem, and from Idumea, and beyond the Jordan, and around Tyre and Sidon. A great multitude having heard how much He was doing came to Him."}
{"book": "MRK", "chapter": 3, "verse": "9", "text": "And He spoke to His disciples, so that a boat might wait (persist) for Him on account of the crowd, so that they might not press on Him."}
{"book": "MRK", "chapter": 3, "verse": "10", "text": "For He healed many so that they press (fall) upon Him, so that they might touch Him, as many as had very painful diseases (scourges);"}
{"book": "MRK", "chapter": 3, "verse": "11", "text": "And the unclean spirits, when they beheld Him fell down before Him, and cried, saying, You are the Son of God."}
{"book": "MRK", "chapter": 3, "verse": "12", "text": "And He censured them much, so that they should not make Him apparent."}
{"book": "MRK", "chapter": 3, "verse": "13", "text": "And He goes up into the mountain, and calls to Himself those whom He wanted; and they went to Him."}
{"book": "MRK", "chapter": 3, "verse": "14", "text": "And He appointed (made) twelve {ones and He called apostles}, so that they might be with Him and so that He might send (apostelle) them to preach,"}
{"book": "MRK", "chapter": 3, "verse": "15", "text": "And to have authority {to heal diseases and-in some older translations} to cast out demons."}
{"book": "MRK", "chapter": 3, "verse": "16", "text": "And He appointed (made) the twelve; and He added the name to Simon: Peter;"}
{"book": "MRK", "chapter": 3, "verse": "17", "text": "And James the [son] of Zebedee, and John the brother of James; and He added to them the name Boanerges, which is, sons of thunder;"}
{"book": "MRK", "chapter": 3, "verse": "18", "text": "And Andrew, and Philip, and Bartholomew, and Matthew, and Thomas, and James the [son] of Alphaeus, and Thaddaeus, and Simon the Zealot (the Canaanite, Aramaic for Zealot),"}
{"book": "MRK", "chapter": 3, "verse": "19", "text": "and Judas Iscariot who betrayed Him. And He comes unto a house"}
{"book": "MRK", "chapter": 3, "verse": "20", "text": "and again a crowd comes together so that they are not able to even eat bread."}
{"book": "MRK", "chapter": 3, "verse": "21", "text": "And those close beside (belonging to) Him having heard of it went out to lay hold of Him; for they said, He is out of His mind (standing out of himself, put out of place, “beside oneself” normally used as astonished)."}
{"book": "MRK", "chapter": 3, "verse": "22", "text": "And the scribes having come down from Jerusalem, said, He has Beelzebul (latin-Beelzebub, greek-Beelzeboul, a name for Satan, a OT transliteration of BaalZebub-the lord of flies); and By the principal ruler (preeminent leader) of the demons He casts out the demons."}
{"book": "MRK", "chapter": 3, "verse": "23", "text": "And having called them to Him, He said to them in parables, How is Satan able to cast out Satan?"}
{"book": "MRK", "chapter": 3, "verse": "24", "text": "And if a kingdom is divided against (upon) itself, that kingdom is not able to stand."}
{"book": "MRK", "chapter": 3, "verse": "25", "text": "And if a house is divided against (upon) itself, that house will not be able to stand."}
{"book": "MRK", "chapter": 3, "verse": "26", "text": "And if Satan has risen up against (upon) himself and has been divided, he is not able to stand, but is coming to an end."}
{"book": "MRK", "chapter": 3, "verse": "27", "text": "But no one is able, having entered into the house of the strong man to plunder his goods unless he first binds the strong man and then he will plunder (thoroughly seize/rapture) his house."}
{"book": "MRK", "chapter": 3, "verse": "28", "text": "Truly I say to you, that all sins will be remitted the sons of men and the blasphemies, as many as they shall have blasphemed."}
{"book": "MRK", "chapter": 3, "verse": "29", "text": "However whoever anyhow shall blaspheme against (unto) the Holy Spirit, unto eternity (the age) has no remission, but is liable (held in, bound by) of eternal (age-long) sin—"}
{"book": "MRK", "chapter": 3, "verse": "30", "text": "Because they said, He has an unclean spirit."}
{"book": "MRK", "chapter": 3, "verse": "31", "text": "And His mother and His brothers arrived and standing outside, sent to Him, calling Him."}
{"book": "MRK", "chapter": 3, "verse": "32", "text": "And a crowd sat around Him. And they said to Him, Behold, Your mother and Your brothers {not in most translations-and Your sisters} are outside seeking You."}
{"book": "MRK", "chapter": 3, "verse": "33", "text": "And He answering them, says, Who are My mother and My brothers?"}
{"book": "MRK", "chapter": 3, "verse": "34", "text": "And having looked around on those who were sitting in a circle around Him, He says, Behold, My mother and My brothers!"}
{"book": "MRK", "chapter": 3, "verse": "35", "text": "For whoever shall do the will of God he is My brother, and sister, and mother."}
{"book": "MRK", "chapter": 4, "verse": "1", "text": "And again, He began to teach beside the sea. And a very great (most, greatest) crowd was gathered together to Him, so that having entered into a boat, He sat on (in) the sea, and all the crowd was upon the land toward the sea."}
{"book": "MRK", "chapter": 4, "verse": "2", "text": "And He taught them many things in parables and said to them in His teaching,"}
{"book": "MRK", "chapter": 4, "verse": "3", "text": "Listen! Behold, the one sowing went out to sow."}
{"book": "MRK", "chapter": 4, "verse": "4", "text": "And it happened as he sowed, some fell beside the way and birds came and devoured it."}
{"book": "MRK", "chapter": 4, "verse": "5", "text": "And other fell upon the rocky place, where it had not much soil, and directly it sprang up out, because of not having depth of soil."}
{"book": "MRK", "chapter": 4, "verse": "6", "text": "And when the sun rose, it was scorched, and because of having no root, it withered away (dried out)."}
{"book": "MRK", "chapter": 4, "verse": "7", "text": "And other fell among the thorns and the thorns grew up and choked it, and it gave no fruit."}
{"book": "MRK", "chapter": 4, "verse": "8", "text": "And other fell into the good soil and gave fruit, growing up and increasing and brought forth one thirty, and one sixty, and one a hundred."}
{"book": "MRK", "chapter": 4, "verse": "9", "text": "And He said, He who has ears to hear, let him hear."}
{"book": "MRK", "chapter": 4, "verse": "10", "text": "And when He was alone, those around Him with the twelve asked Him as to the parable."}
{"book": "MRK", "chapter": 4, "verse": "11", "text": "And He said to them, To you the mystery of the kingdom of God has been given. However to those who are outside, everything is done in parables,"}
{"book": "MRK", "chapter": 4, "verse": "12", "text": "So that seeing, they might see and not perceive; and hearing, they might hear and not comprehend (synthesize, put it together); lest ever they should turn (be converted, turn upon) and they should be remitted them."}
{"book": "MRK", "chapter": 4, "verse": "13", "text": "And He says to them, Do you not perceive this parable? And how will you know all the parables?"}
{"book": "MRK", "chapter": 4, "verse": "14", "text": "The one sowing sows the word."}
{"book": "MRK", "chapter": 4, "verse": "15", "text": "And these are they beside the way, where the word is sown, and when they hear, directly Satan comes and takes away that word having been sown into them."}
{"book": "MRK", "chapter": 4, "verse": "16", "text": "And these are likewise they who upon the rocky places are sown, who, when they hear the word, directly with joy receive it,"}
{"book": "MRK", "chapter": 4, "verse": "17", "text": "And have no root in themselves, but are temporary; then tribulation having arisen or persecution on account of the word, directly they stumble (are offended, fall into a trap)."}
{"book": "MRK", "chapter": 4, "verse": "18", "text": "And these are they who among the thorns are sown. These are those having heard the word,"}
{"book": "MRK", "chapter": 4, "verse": "19", "text": "And the cares (anxieties) of this age, and the deceit of riches, and the passionate longings concerning the remaining things, entering in, choke the word and it becomes unfruitful."}
{"book": "MRK", "chapter": 4, "verse": "20", "text": "And these are those having been sown upon the good soil; such as hear the word and welcomingly receive it, and bring forth fruit, one thirty, and one sixty, and one a hundred."}
{"book": "MRK", "chapter": 4, "verse": "21", "text": "And He said to them, Is a lamp brought so that it might be placed under a basket or under a bed? Is it not so that it might be placed upon a lampstand?"}
{"book": "MRK", "chapter": 4, "verse": "22", "text": "For there is nothing which is hidden except so that it should be made apparent nor has a secret thing happened, but so that it should come into visibility (apparency, clarity, latin-palam-openly)."}
{"book": "MRK", "chapter": 4, "verse": "23", "text": "If anyone has ears to hear, let him hear."}
{"book": "MRK", "chapter": 4, "verse": "24", "text": "And He said to them, Take heed what you hear: In what measure you measure it will be measured to you and more will be added (set/placed/put toward) to you."}
{"book": "MRK", "chapter": 4, "verse": "25", "text": "For whoever may have will be given to him; and he who has not, even that which he has will be taken away from him."}
{"book": "MRK", "chapter": 4, "verse": "26", "text": "And He said, Thus is the kingdom of God, like as a man should cast the seed upon the earth,"}
{"book": "MRK", "chapter": 4, "verse": "27", "text": "And should sleep and rise night and day and the seed should sprout (blasta) and grow (extend, lengthen); he does not know how."}
{"book": "MRK", "chapter": 4, "verse": "28", "text": "Of itself (greek- automate) the earth bears fruit- first a plant (grass), then a head of grain, then a full grain in the head of grain."}
{"book": "MRK", "chapter": 4, "verse": "29", "text": "And when the fruit gives over itself, directly he sends the sickle, because the harvest (reaping) has exhibited (appeared, stand close beside)."}
{"book": "MRK", "chapter": 4, "verse": "30", "text": "And He said, To what shall we liken the kingdom of God? Or in what parable shall we place it?"}
{"book": "MRK", "chapter": 4, "verse": "31", "text": "As to a grain of mustard, which, when it has been sown upon the earth, is smallest (littlest) of all the seeds which are upon the earth,"}
{"book": "MRK", "chapter": 4, "verse": "32", "text": "And when it has been sown, it grows up, and becomes greater than all the garden plants, and produces great branches, so that the birds of the heaven are able to nest (encamp, tabernacle, pitch a tent) under its shadow."}
{"book": "MRK", "chapter": 4, "verse": "33", "text": "And with many such parables, He spoke to them the word, just as they were able to hear,"}
{"book": "MRK", "chapter": 4, "verse": "34", "text": "And He did not speak to them without a parable; however He explained all things privately (personally, on one’s own) to His own disciples."}
{"book": "MRK", "chapter": 4, "verse": "35", "text": "And He says to them on that there day, having become evening, Let us pass through unto the other side."}
{"book": "MRK", "chapter": 4, "verse": "36", "text": "And having dismissed the crowd, they take Him with them as He was in the boat; also other boats were with Him."}
{"book": "MRK", "chapter": 4, "verse": "37", "text": "And a great storm of wind comes and the waves beat upon into the boat, so that the boat is already being filled up (loaded)."}
{"book": "MRK", "chapter": 4, "verse": "38", "text": "And He was in the stern upon a pillow sleeping. And they awaken Him and say to Him, Teacher, is it not your concern (care) that we perish?"}
{"book": "MRK", "chapter": 4, "verse": "39", "text": "And having been completely awoken, He censured the wind and said to the sea, Quiet, be put to silence (muzzled). And the wind ceased and there was a great calm."}
{"book": "MRK", "chapter": 4, "verse": "40", "text": "And He said to them, Why are you dreadful (timid, cowardly), have you still no faith?"}
{"book": "MRK", "chapter": 4, "verse": "41", "text": "And they feared with great fear and said to each other, Who then is this that even the wind and the sea comply under Him?"}
{"book": "MRK", "chapter": 5, "verse": "1", "text": "And they came unto the other side of the sea unto the region of the Gerasenes."}
{"book": "MRK", "chapter": 5, "verse": "2", "text": "And He having gone out of the boat, directly met him from out of the tombs a man with (in) an unclean spirit,"}
{"book": "MRK", "chapter": 5, "verse": "3", "text": "Who had his habitation in the tombs. No one was able to bind him, not even with chains,"}
{"book": "MRK", "chapter": 5, "verse": "4", "text": "Because he had often been bound with shackles and chains, and the chains had been torn apart by him, and the shackles had been broken, and no one was able (strong) to subdue (tame) him."}
{"book": "MRK", "chapter": 5, "verse": "5", "text": "And all throughout the night and day in the tombs and in the mountains he was crying (urgent screaming, shrieking) and cutting himself with stones."}
{"book": "MRK", "chapter": 5, "verse": "6", "text": "And having seen Jesus from afar, he ran and bowed down (fell on his knees, same word for worship, do reverence to) before Him."}
{"book": "MRK", "chapter": 5, "verse": "7", "text": "And having cried with a great voice, he said, What to me and to you, Jesus, Son of God the Most High? I adjure (make one swear/oath) You by God, do not torment me."}
{"book": "MRK", "chapter": 5, "verse": "8", "text": "For He was saying to him, Come out of the man, unclean spirit!"}
{"book": "MRK", "chapter": 5, "verse": "9", "text": "And He asked him, What is your name? And he saying, Legion is my name, because we are many."}
{"book": "MRK", "chapter": 5, "verse": "10", "text": "And he entreated Him many times, so that He would not send them outside of the country."}
{"book": "MRK", "chapter": 5, "verse": "11", "text": "And there was there toward the mountain a great heard of pigs feeding;"}
{"book": "MRK", "chapter": 5, "verse": "12", "text": "And they entreated Him, saying, Send us into the pigs, so that we might enter into them."}
{"book": "MRK", "chapter": 5, "verse": "13", "text": "And He permitted them. And having gone out, the unclean spirits entered into the pigs, and the herd rushed down the steep bank (precipice, greek root means suspend/hang) into the sea, about two thousand, and they were drowned in the sea."}
{"book": "MRK", "chapter": 5, "verse": "14", "text": "And those feeding them fled and reported it into the city and into the country. And they went out to see what it is that has been done."}
{"book": "MRK", "chapter": 5, "verse": "15", "text": "And they come to Jesus and beheld the man demonized sitting, clothed and sound minded, him having had (held, possessed) the legion; and they were fearful."}
{"book": "MRK", "chapter": 5, "verse": "16", "text": "And those having seen it thoroughly related to them, how it happened to him demonized, and concerning the pigs."}
{"book": "MRK", "chapter": 5, "verse": "17", "text": "And they began to entreat Him to depart away from their territory (boundary)."}
{"book": "MRK", "chapter": 5, "verse": "18", "text": "And He having entered into the boat, the one having been demonized entreated Him that he might be with Him."}
{"book": "MRK", "chapter": 5, "verse": "19", "text": "And He did not permit him, but He says to him, Go, unto your house, to your own, and announce to them how much the Lord did for you and had mercy on you."}
{"book": "MRK", "chapter": 5, "verse": "20", "text": "And he departed and began to preach in the Decapolis, how much Jesus had done for him; and all marveled."}
{"book": "MRK", "chapter": 5, "verse": "21", "text": "And Jesus having passed through in the boat again unto the other side, a great crowd was gathered to (upon) Him, and He was beside the sea."}
{"book": "MRK", "chapter": 5, "verse": "22", "text": "And one of the rulers of the synagogue, named Jarius, comes and having seen Him, falls to His feet,"}
{"book": "MRK", "chapter": 5, "verse": "23", "text": "And he entreats Him much, saying, My little daughter is holding at the end (last, extremity). That having come, You would lay hands upon her, so that she might be saved and she shall live."}
{"book": "MRK", "chapter": 5, "verse": "24", "text": "And He departed with him and a great crowd followed Him and pressed in on Him."}
{"book": "MRK", "chapter": 5, "verse": "25", "text": "And a woman, being with (in) a flowing (issue, flux, discharge, hemorrhage-NASB, latin-profluvio-issue roots are diarrhea/ flux/ blow out) of blood twelve years,"}
{"book": "MRK", "chapter": 5, "verse": "26", "text": "And having suffered much under many physicians (iatron), and having spent everything of her and in no way benefited, but rather having come worse-"}
{"book": "MRK", "chapter": 5, "verse": "27", "text": "Having heard concerning Jesus, came in the crowd behind, touched His clothing (outer garment)."}
{"book": "MRK", "chapter": 5, "verse": "28", "text": "For she said, If I shall touch even His outer garments, I will be saved (cured)."}
{"book": "MRK", "chapter": 5, "verse": "29", "text": "And directly her flow (spring) of blood was dried up, and she knew in her body that she was healed (iatai) from the painful disease (scourge)."}
{"book": "MRK", "chapter": 5, "verse": "30", "text": "And directly Jesus having recognized in Himself the power having gone out from out of Him, having turned in the crowd, said, Who touched My garments (outer garments)?"}
{"book": "MRK", "chapter": 5, "verse": "31", "text": "His disciples said to Him, You see the crowd pressing in on You, and You say, Who touched Me?"}
{"book": "MRK", "chapter": 5, "verse": "32", "text": "And He looked around to see the one having done this."}
{"book": "MRK", "chapter": 5, "verse": "33", "text": "And the woman, having been frightened and trembling, knowing what has been done to her, came and fell down before Him and told Him all the truth."}
{"book": "MRK", "chapter": 5, "verse": "34", "text": "And He said to her, Daughter, your faith has saved (cured) you; go into peace and be healthy from your painful disease (scourge)."}
{"book": "MRK", "chapter": 5, "verse": "35", "text": "While He was yet speaking, they came from the ruler of the synagogue [house], saying, Your little daughter is dead; why still trouble you the Teacher?"}
{"book": "MRK", "chapter": 5, "verse": "36", "text": "And Jesus having heard the word spoken, says to the ruler of the synagogue, Fear not; only believe."}
{"book": "MRK", "chapter": 5, "verse": "37", "text": "And He did not permit anyone to follow with Him, except Peter and James and John the brother of James."}
{"book": "MRK", "chapter": 5, "verse": "38", "text": "And He comes into the house of the ruler of the synagogue, and He beholds a commotion (noisy upheaval, uproar), and [people] weeping and wailing greatly (much)."}
{"book": "MRK", "chapter": 5, "verse": "39", "text": "And having entered He says to them, Why do you make a commotion and weep? The child is not dead but sleeps."}
{"book": "MRK", "chapter": 5, "verse": "40", "text": "And they derided (ridiculed, laugh against/down) Him. However He, having thrown them all out, takes with Him the father of the child, and the mother, and those with Him and enters into where the child was."}
{"book": "MRK", "chapter": 5, "verse": "41", "text": "And having taken the hand of the child, He says to her, Talitha, cumi (greek-koum, latin-cumi)(He says this in Aramaic); which is translated (into Greek as), Little girl, I say to you, Arise! (latin-surge)"}
{"book": "MRK", "chapter": 5, "verse": "42", "text": "And directly the little girl arose and walked, for she was twelve years old. And they were directly astonished with great ecstasy (greek-ekstasei, latin-stupore-amazement, bewilderment, to take out of regular standing into trance-like amazement)."}
{"book": "MRK", "chapter": 5, "verse": "43", "text": "And He explicitly charged them that no one should know this; and He said [that something] be given to her to eat."}
{"book": "MRK", "chapter": 6, "verse": "1", "text": "And He went out from there and came into His fatherland (one’s fathers place, one’s native place); and His disciples follow Him."}
{"book": "MRK", "chapter": 6, "verse": "2", "text": "And the Sabbath having come, He began to teach in the synagogue; and many hearing were astounded, saying, From where to this [man] these things and what is the wisdom having been given to Him, and such miracles (powers) are done through His hands?"}
{"book": "MRK", "chapter": 6, "verse": "3", "text": "Is this not the carpenter (craftsman/artisan in wood, greek-tekton, latin-faber-smith)? The son of Mary and brother of James and Joseph and Judas and Simon? And they took offense (were being stumbled) at Him."}
{"book": "MRK", "chapter": 6, "verse": "4", "text": "And Jesus said to them, A prophet is not without honor (value), except in His fatherland (native place, fathers place, hometown) and among his relatives and in his house."}
{"book": "MRK", "chapter": 6, "verse": "5", "text": "And He was not able to do there any miracle except a few persisting ill (sickness not departing), having laid hands upon He healed (etherapeusen) them."}
{"book": "MRK", "chapter": 6, "verse": "6", "text": "And He marveled because of their unbelief. And He went about the villages around teaching."}
{"book": "MRK", "chapter": 6, "verse": "7", "text": "And He calls to Him the twelve, and began to send them away two by two and gave them authority over the unclean spirits."}
{"book": "MRK", "chapter": 6, "verse": "8", "text": "And He commanded them that they should take nothing unto the journey, except only a staff; no bread, no traveler’s bag, no money in their belt;"}
{"book": "MRK", "chapter": 6, "verse": "9", "text": "But wearing sandals, and do not put on two tunics (undergarments)."}
{"book": "MRK", "chapter": 6, "verse": "10", "text": "And He said to them, Wherever you enter into a house, remain there until you go out from there."}
{"book": "MRK", "chapter": 6, "verse": "11", "text": "And if that place will not receive you, nor hear you, departing from there, shake off the dust which is under your feet unto a testimony to (against) them. {Truly, I say to you, it will be more tolerable (endurable) for Sodom or Gomorrah in the day of judgment than for that there city.- not in vulgate or newer translations- it is in KJV and YLT}."}
{"book": "MRK", "chapter": 6, "verse": "12", "text": "And having gone out, they preached so that they should repent."}
{"book": "MRK", "chapter": 6, "verse": "13", "text": "And they cast out many demons and anointed many sick (sick with persisting illnesses) with oil and healed them (etherapeuon)."}
{"book": "MRK", "chapter": 6, "verse": "14", "text": "And king Herod heard of Him; for His name became apparent (same word for manifest). And he said, John the one baptizing is risen from out of the dead and because of this the miracles (miraculous powers) are operative (energized) in Him."}
{"book": "MRK", "chapter": 6, "verse": "15", "text": "However others said, He is Elijah; and others said, A prophet, like as one of the prophets."}
{"book": "MRK", "chapter": 6, "verse": "16", "text": "However Herod having heard, said, John, whom I beheaded- he is risen!"}
{"book": "MRK", "chapter": 6, "verse": "17", "text": "For the same Herod having sent, seized John and bound him in prison on account of Herodias, the wife of Philip his brother, because he had married her."}
{"book": "MRK", "chapter": 6, "verse": "18", "text": "For John said to Herod, It is not permitted for you to have the wife of your brother."}
{"book": "MRK", "chapter": 6, "verse": "19", "text": "And Herodias held it against him and wanted to kill him and was not able:"}
{"book": "MRK", "chapter": 6, "verse": "20", "text": "For Herod feared John, knowing him to be a righteous (just) and holy man and kept him safe (kept, guarded). And having heard him was greatly perplexed and gladly heard him."}
{"book": "MRK", "chapter": 6, "verse": "21", "text": "And having come an opportune day, when Herod, on his birthday, made a banquet (supper) to his great men, and to the chief commanders (commanders of a thousand men), and to the principal men of Galilee."}
{"book": "MRK", "chapter": 6, "verse": "22", "text": "And the daughter of the same Herodias having come in, and having danced, pleased Herod and those reclining at the table with him. And the king said to the girl, Ask me whatever you want and I will give to you."}
{"book": "MRK", "chapter": 6, "verse": "23", "text": "And he swore to her, Whatever you might ask me, I will give you up to half of my kingdom."}
{"book": "MRK", "chapter": 6, "verse": "24", "text": "And she having gone out, said to her mother, What shall I ask? And she said, The head of John the one baptizing."}
{"book": "MRK", "chapter": 6, "verse": "25", "text": "And having directly entered with speedy diligence (haste, swiftness) to the king, she asked, saying, I want that at once you give to me the head of John the Baptist upon a platter."}
{"book": "MRK", "chapter": 6, "verse": "26", "text": "And the king having been made engulfed in sorrow on account of the oaths and those reclining at the table with him would not refuse (annul his word to) her."}
{"book": "MRK", "chapter": 6, "verse": "27", "text": "And the king having directly sent for an executioner, he commanded his head to be brought."}
{"book": "MRK", "chapter": 6, "verse": "28", "text": "And having gone, he beheaded him in the prison, And brought his head upon a platter and gave it to the girl and the girl gave it to her mother."}
{"book": "MRK", "chapter": 6, "verse": "29", "text": "And having heard it, his disciples came and took up his body and laid it in a tomb."}
{"book": "MRK", "chapter": 6, "verse": "30", "text": "And the apostles are gathered together to Jesus and they reported to him all things, what they had done and what they had taught."}
{"book": "MRK", "chapter": 6, "verse": "31", "text": "And He said to them, Come you by yourselves unto your own solitary place and rest a little. For those coming and those going were many and they did not even have opportunity to eat."}
{"book": "MRK", "chapter": 6, "verse": "32", "text": "And they went away by a boat into a solitary place by themselves."}
{"book": "MRK", "chapter": 6, "verse": "33", "text": "And many saw them going and recognized them and ran together there on foot from all the cities, and went before them,"}
{"book": "MRK", "chapter": 6, "verse": "34", "text": "And having gone out, He saw a great crowd and was moved with compassion (any visceral affections such as sympathy, etc.) upon them, because they were like as sheep not having a shepherd (latin-pastorem). And He began to teach them many things."}
{"book": "MRK", "chapter": 6, "verse": "35", "text": "And the hour already being late (much), His disciples having come to Him, say, The place is desolate, and the hour is already late;"}
{"book": "MRK", "chapter": 6, "verse": "36", "text": "Dismiss them (Release them away), so that having gone unto the surrounding region and villages, they might buy for themselves something to eat."}
{"book": "MRK", "chapter": 6, "verse": "37", "text": "However answering, He said to them, You give to them to eat. And they say to Him, Going, shall we buy two hundred denarii of bread and give to them to eat?"}
{"book": "MRK", "chapter": 6, "verse": "38", "text": "And He says to them, How many loaves do you have? Go, see. And having known, they say, Five and two fish."}
{"book": "MRK", "chapter": 6, "verse": "39", "text": "And He commanded them to make all recline groups by groups upon the green grass."}
{"book": "MRK", "chapter": 6, "verse": "40", "text": "And they sat down groups by groups by hundreds and by fifties."}
{"book": "MRK", "chapter": 6, "verse": "41", "text": "And having taken the five loaves and the two fish, having looked up into heaven, He blessed and broke in pieces the loaves and gave to His disciples so that they might set before them. And the two fish He divided among all."}
{"book": "MRK", "chapter": 6, "verse": "42", "text": "And all ate and were satisfied (feed, fattened)."}
{"book": "MRK", "chapter": 6, "verse": "43", "text": "And they took up twelve hand-baskets full of broken pieces and of the fishes."}
{"book": "MRK", "chapter": 6, "verse": "44", "text": "And those having eaten of the loaves were five thousand men."}
{"book": "MRK", "chapter": 6, "verse": "45", "text": "And directly He compelled His disciples to enter into the boat and to go before unto the other side to Bethsaida until He should dismiss the crowd."}
{"book": "MRK", "chapter": 6, "verse": "46", "text": "And having taken leave of them, He departed into the mountain to pray."}
{"book": "MRK", "chapter": 6, "verse": "47", "text": "And evening having come, the boat was in the middle (midst) of the sea, and He alone upon the land."}
{"book": "MRK", "chapter": 6, "verse": "48", "text": "And He having seen them straining hard (tormented) in the rowing, for the wind was contrary (opposite) to them. About the fourth watch of the night, He comes to them walking upon the sea and wanted to pass by them."}
{"book": "MRK", "chapter": 6, "verse": "49", "text": "And having seen Him walking upon the sea, they supposed that it was a ghost (greek-phantasma) and cried out loudly."}
{"book": "MRK", "chapter": 6, "verse": "50", "text": "For all saw Him and were troubled (stirred up). And directly He spoke with them, and says to them, Take courage; It is I (I am He). Fear not."}
{"book": "MRK", "chapter": 6, "verse": "51", "text": "And He went up to them into the boat and the wind ceased. And they were very astonished out of a great abundance within themselves,"}
{"book": "MRK", "chapter": 6, "verse": "52", "text": "For they did not comprehend (synthesize) upon the loaves, but had been hardened in their heart."}
{"book": "MRK", "chapter": 6, "verse": "53", "text": "And having crossed through, they came upon the land unto Gennesaret and anchored to shore."}
{"book": "MRK", "chapter": 6, "verse": "54", "text": "And on their having come out of the boat, directly having recognized Him,"}
{"book": "MRK", "chapter": 6, "verse": "55", "text": "They ran throughout that whole region, and they began to carry about those badly (sick) upon mats, where they were hearing that He is."}
{"book": "MRK", "chapter": 6, "verse": "56", "text": "And wherever He entered into villages or into cities or into fields, they laid those infirmed in the marketplaces and entreated Him that if only they might touch the fringe of His outer garment; and as many as touched Him were saved (healed)."}
{"book": "MRK", "chapter": 7, "verse": "1", "text": "And the Pharisees and some of the scribes having come from Jerusalem are gathered together to Him;"}
{"book": "MRK", "chapter": 7, "verse": "2", "text": "And having seen some of His disciples are eating bread with defiled hands, that is unwashed (aniptois),"}
{"book": "MRK", "chapter": 7, "verse": "3", "text": "For the Pharisees and all the Jews, unless they wash their hands carefully (with a fist), do not eat, holding the tradition of the elders;"}
{"book": "MRK", "chapter": 7, "verse": "4", "text": "And [on coming] away from the market, unless they wash (baptisontai) they do not eat; and there are many other things which they received to hold, the washings (baptismous) of cups and pitchers and brazen utensils and tables (mats, beds, dining recliners)."}
{"book": "MRK", "chapter": 7, "verse": "5", "text": "Then the Pharisees and the scribes asked Him, Why do Your disciples not walk according to the tradition of the elders, but eat the bread with defiled hands?"}
{"book": "MRK", "chapter": 7, "verse": "6", "text": "And He said to them, Rightly (kalos) Isaiah prophesied concerning you hypocrites, as it has been written, This people honor (value) Me with their lips, however their heart is far away from Me."}
{"book": "MRK", "chapter": 7, "verse": "7", "text": "And in vain (aimlessly) they reverence (sebontai) Me, teaching as doctrines the precepts of men."}
{"book": "MRK", "chapter": 7, "verse": "8", "text": "Having left the commandment of God, you hold to the tradition of men, {the washings (baptismous) of pitchers and cups and other like things such you do much}."}
{"book": "MRK", "chapter": 7, "verse": "9", "text": "And He said to them, Rightly do you set aside (make of no effect, bring to naught, annul, disregard, un-place) the commandment of God, so that you might keep your tradition."}
{"book": "MRK", "chapter": 7, "verse": "10", "text": "For Moses said, Honor (value) your father and your mother; and, The one speaking evil of father or mother must come to an end in death."}
{"book": "MRK", "chapter": 7, "verse": "11", "text": "And you say, If a man says to his father or his mother, Whatever you might be benefited from me, [It is] a corban (a gift dedicated to God and misused by Jews as a way to evade their rightful duty to God to care for aged parents), that is, a gift [to God] –"}
{"book": "MRK", "chapter": 7, "verse": "12", "text": "You no longer permit him to do anything for his father or his mother,"}
{"book": "MRK", "chapter": 7, "verse": "13", "text": "Invalidating (making of no authority, unratifying, not confirming) the word of God for your tradition which you have handed down. And many such like things you do."}
{"book": "MRK", "chapter": 7, "verse": "14", "text": "And having called to Him again the crowd, He said to them, Hear Me, all, and comprehend (synthesize, put it together):"}
{"book": "MRK", "chapter": 7, "verse": "15", "text": "There is nothing outside a man entering into him, which is able to defile him; but the things proceeding from out of a man are the things defiling a man."}
{"book": "MRK", "chapter": 7, "verse": "16", "text": "{If anyone has ears to hear, let him hear}."}
{"book": "MRK", "chapter": 7, "verse": "17", "text": "And when He went into the house away from the crowd, His disciples asked Him the parable."}
{"book": "MRK", "chapter": 7, "verse": "18", "text": "And He says to them, Are you also thus not comprehending? Do you not understand (perceive) that everything outside entering into a man is not able to defile him?"}
{"book": "MRK", "chapter": 7, "verse": "19", "text": "Because it does not enter into his heart, but into the belly (koilian) and goes out into the latrine (greek-aphedrona, place of sitting away from). Purifying (cleansing, removing admixture) all the food."}
{"book": "MRK", "chapter": 7, "verse": "20", "text": "And He said, That going out of a man, that there defiles a man."}
{"book": "MRK", "chapter": 7, "verse": "21", "text": "For within from out of the heart of men go out evil (kakoi, malice, foul, rotten, bad, wrong) dialogues (back and forth reasonings), fornications (sexual immoralities),"}
{"book": "MRK", "chapter": 7, "verse": "22", "text": "thefts (secretive stealing), murders, adulteries, Greedinesses (covetousnesses, to have more), wickednesses, deceit, insolent unrestraint (sensuality, a brutal spite that rejects restraint and indulges in lawless insolence, possibly abusive), an evil eye, blasphemy, self-exaltation (haughtiness, arrogance, excessive/over shining, self-absorption, latin-superbia-pride like I am too superb), foolishness (lack of perspective)."}
{"book": "MRK", "chapter": 7, "verse": "23", "text": "All these evils go out from within and defile a man."}
{"book": "MRK", "chapter": 7, "verse": "24", "text": "And having risen up from there, He went away into the territory (boundaries) of Tyre and Sidon. And having entered into a house, He wanted no one to know it, and He was not able to be hidden (escape notice)."}
{"book": "MRK", "chapter": 7, "verse": "25", "text": "But directly a woman having heard about Him, of whom her little daughter had an unclean spirit, came, and fell down before His feet,"}
{"book": "MRK", "chapter": 7, "verse": "26", "text": "And the woman was Greek, Syrophoenician by race, and asked Him so that He should cast out the demon from out of her little daughter."}
{"book": "MRK", "chapter": 7, "verse": "27", "text": "And He said to her, Permit the children to be satisfied (fed, filled) first; for it is not good (kalon) to take the bread of children and cast it to the puppies (little dogs)."}
{"book": "MRK", "chapter": 7, "verse": "28", "text": "And she answered and says to Him, Yes, Lord; even (and) the puppies (little dogs, word is diminutive form of dog) under the table eat from the crumbs of the children."}
{"book": "MRK", "chapter": 7, "verse": "29", "text": "And He said to her, Because of this word, go; the demon has gone out of your daughter."}
{"book": "MRK", "chapter": 7, "verse": "30", "text": "And having gone away unto her house, she found the child lying upon the bed and the demon having gone out."}
{"book": "MRK", "chapter": 7, "verse": "31", "text": "And again having departed from the territory (boundaries) of Tyre, He came through Sidon unto the sea of Galilee, through the midst (middle) of the territory (boundaries) of the Decapolis (group of ten cities east of the Jordan River)."}
{"book": "MRK", "chapter": 7, "verse": "32", "text": "And they bring to Him a deaf man and who spoke with difficulty and they entreated Him so that He might lay His hand upon him."}
{"book": "MRK", "chapter": 7, "verse": "33", "text": "And having taken him away from the crowd privately, He put His fingers into (unto) his ears, and having spit, He touched his tongue (glosses),"}
{"book": "MRK", "chapter": 7, "verse": "34", "text": "And having looked up into heaven He groaned (sighed deeply, feel pressure from something coming on) and says to him, Ephphatha! (Aramaic), that is, Be fully opened!"}
{"book": "MRK", "chapter": 7, "verse": "35", "text": "And his ears were opened and directly the band (bond) of his tongue was loosed (unbound, released, dissolved) and he spoke correctly (straight, right)."}
{"book": "MRK", "chapter": 7, "verse": "36", "text": "And He expressly charged them that no one should tell. And as much as He expressly charged them the more exceedingly they proclaimed it."}
{"book": "MRK", "chapter": 7, "verse": "37", "text": "And they were super-exceedingly astounded, saying, He has done all things well (kalos): and He makes the deaf to hear and the mute (unable to speak) to speak."}
{"book": "MRK", "chapter": 8, "verse": "1", "text": "In those days, there being again a great crowd and not having what they might eat, having called the disciples to Himself, He says to them,"}
{"book": "MRK", "chapter": 8, "verse": "2", "text": "I am moved with compassion (visceral affections) upon the crowd, because they continue with Me already three days and have nothing that they might eat."}
{"book": "MRK", "chapter": 8, "verse": "3", "text": "And if I shall send them away hungry (not eating, fasting) unto their house, they will faint (become weak/weary) on the way. And some of them are come from afar."}
{"book": "MRK", "chapter": 8, "verse": "4", "text": "And His disciples answered Him, From where will anyone be able to satisfy these with bread upon this desolate place?"}
{"book": "MRK", "chapter": 8, "verse": "5", "text": "And He asked them, How many loaves do you have? And they said, Seven."}
{"book": "MRK", "chapter": 8, "verse": "6", "text": "And He commanded the crowd to recline upon the ground. And having taken the seven loaves, having given thanks, He broke and gave to His disciples, so that they might set it before them. And they set it before the crowd."}
{"book": "MRK", "chapter": 8, "verse": "7", "text": "And they had a few small fish. And having blessed them, He said these also to be set before them."}
{"book": "MRK", "chapter": 8, "verse": "8", "text": "And they ate and were satisfied. And they took up over and above of pieces of the broken pieces seven baskets."}
{"book": "MRK", "chapter": 8, "verse": "9", "text": "And there were about four thousand. And He sent them away."}
{"book": "MRK", "chapter": 8, "verse": "10", "text": "And directly having entered into the boat with His disciples, He came into the parts of Dalmanutha."}
{"book": "MRK", "chapter": 8, "verse": "11", "text": "And the Pharisees went out and began to dispute with Him, seeking from Him a sign from heaven, testing Him."}
{"book": "MRK", "chapter": 8, "verse": "12", "text": "And having sighed deeply (groaned) in His spirit, He says, Why does this generation seek a sign? Truly, I say to you, There will be given no sign to this generation."}
{"book": "MRK", "chapter": 8, "verse": "13", "text": "And having left them, having embarked (by boat) again, He went away unto the other side."}
{"book": "MRK", "chapter": 8, "verse": "14", "text": "And they forgot (overlooked, neglected) to take bread, except one loaf, they had not any with them in the boat."}
{"book": "MRK", "chapter": 8, "verse": "15", "text": "And He expressly charged them, saying, See, take heed of the leaven of the Pharisees and of the leaven of Herod."}
{"book": "MRK", "chapter": 8, "verse": "16", "text": "And they dialogued with one another, because they have no bread."}
{"book": "MRK", "chapter": 8, "verse": "17", "text": "And having known it, He says to them, Why do you dialogue because you do not have loaves? Do you not yet perceive nor comprehend? Have you hardened your heart?"}
{"book": "MRK", "chapter": 8, "verse": "18", "text": "Having eyes, do you not see? And having ears, do you not hear? And do you not remember?"}
{"book": "MRK", "chapter": 8, "verse": "19", "text": "When I broke the five loaves unto the five thousand, how many hand-baskets of broken pieces full did you take up? They say to Him, Twelve."}
{"book": "MRK", "chapter": 8, "verse": "20", "text": "And when the seven unto the four thousand, How many baskets full of broken pieces did you take up? And they said, Seven."}
{"book": "MRK", "chapter": 8, "verse": "21", "text": "And He said to them, Do you not yet comprehend?"}
{"book": "MRK", "chapter": 8, "verse": "22", "text": "And He comes unto Bethsaida; and they bring to Him a blind man and entreat Him so that He might touch him."}
{"book": "MRK", "chapter": 8, "verse": "23", "text": "And having taken hold upon the hand of the blind man, He led him outside the village and having spit into his eyes, having laid His hands upon him, He asked him if he saw anything."}
{"book": "MRK", "chapter": 8, "verse": "24", "text": "And having looked up he said. I see the men, for I see them walking like as trees."}
{"book": "MRK", "chapter": 8, "verse": "25", "text": "Then again He laid His hands upon his eyes and he opened his eyes and he was restored and looked on all at a distance clearly."}
{"book": "MRK", "chapter": 8, "verse": "26", "text": "And He sent him unto his house, saying, You may not even enter into the village, {nor may you tell anyone in the village.}"}
{"book": "MRK", "chapter": 8, "verse": "27", "text": "And Jesus and His disciples went out into the villages of Caesarea Philippi. And on the way He was questioning His disciples, saying to them, Whom do men say Me to be?"}
{"book": "MRK", "chapter": 8, "verse": "28", "text": "And they told Him, saying, John the Baptist, and others, Elijah; and others, one of the prophets."}
{"book": "MRK", "chapter": 8, "verse": "29", "text": "And He questioned them, And you, whom do you say Me to be? Peter answering, says to Him, You are the Christ."}
{"book": "MRK", "chapter": 8, "verse": "30", "text": "And He warned (with censuring, censured) them that they should tell no one about Him."}
{"book": "MRK", "chapter": 8, "verse": "31", "text": "And He began to teach them that it is necessary for the Son of Man to suffer many things and to be rejected by the elders and the chief priests and the scribes and to be killed and after three days to rise again."}
{"book": "MRK", "chapter": 8, "verse": "32", "text": "And He spoke the word boldly (openly, plainly, freely). And having taken Peter to Him began to censure (warn) him."}
{"book": "MRK", "chapter": 8, "verse": "33", "text": "And having turned and seen His disciples, He censured Peter, and said, Get behind Me, Satan, because your perspectives (greek-phroneis, that which is within that regulates outer behavior) are not of the things of God, but the things of men."}
{"book": "MRK", "chapter": 8, "verse": "34", "text": "And having called to Him the crowd with His disciples, He said to them, If anyone wants to come after Me, let him deny (disregard, disown) himself and let him take up his cross and let him follow Me."}
{"book": "MRK", "chapter": 8, "verse": "35", "text": "For whoever might want to save his life (soul) will lose (destroy, cut off) it, and whoever will lose (destroy, cut off) his life (soul) for the sake of Me and of the gospel will save it."}
{"book": "MRK", "chapter": 8, "verse": "36", "text": "For what shall it benefit a man to gain the whole world and to lose (forfeit, zemiothenai used here, above it is apolesei) his life (soul)?"}
{"book": "MRK", "chapter": 8, "verse": "37", "text": "For what shall a man give as an exchange for his life (soul)?"}
{"book": "MRK", "chapter": 8, "verse": "38", "text": "For whoever might have been ashamed of Me and My words in this adulterous and sinful generation, also the Son of Man will be ashamed of him when He shall come in the glory of His Father with the holy angels."}
{"book": "MRK", "chapter": 9, "verse": "1", "text": "And He said to them, Truly, I say to you, That there are some of those standing here who shall not taste of death until they see the kingdom of God having come in (with) power."}
{"book": "MRK", "chapter": 9, "verse": "2", "text": "And after six days, Jesus takes with Him, Peter and James and John and brings them up into a high mountain by themselves alone. And He was transfigured (transformed, latin-transfiguratus) before them;"}
{"book": "MRK", "chapter": 9, "verse": "3", "text": "And His garments (outer garments) became shining (gleaming) exceedingly (very) white (bright), such as no launderer upon the earth is able to thus whiten."}
{"book": "MRK", "chapter": 9, "verse": "4", "text": "And Elijah with Moses appeared to them, and they were talking with Jesus."}
{"book": "MRK", "chapter": 9, "verse": "5", "text": "And Peter answering, says to Jesus, Rabbi, it is good for us to be here. And let us mane three tabernacles, one for You, and one for Moses, and one for Elijah."}
{"book": "MRK", "chapter": 9, "verse": "6", "text": "For he did not know what he should answer; for they were terrified."}
{"book": "MRK", "chapter": 9, "verse": "7", "text": "And there came a cloud overshadowing (shadowing upon) them and there came a voice from out of the cloud, This is My beloved Son: listen to Him."}
{"book": "MRK", "chapter": 9, "verse": "8", "text": "And suddenly, having looked around, they no longer saw anyone but Jesus alone with themselves,"}
{"book": "MRK", "chapter": 9, "verse": "9", "text": "And they were descending from the mountain, He expressly charged them that they should thoroughly relate to no one what they had seen, except when the Son of Man had risen from out of the dead."}
{"book": "MRK", "chapter": 9, "verse": "10", "text": "And they kept that word to themselves, discussing (seeking) together what to rise up from out of the dead was."}
{"book": "MRK", "chapter": 9, "verse": "11", "text": "And they asked Him, saying, The scribes say that it is necessary for Elijah to come first?"}
{"book": "MRK", "chapter": 9, "verse": "12", "text": "And He said to them, Elijah indeed, having come first, restores all things; and how it has been written upon the Son of Man, so that He should suffer many things and be treated with contempt (despised, ignored, rejected, brought to nothing)?"}
{"book": "MRK", "chapter": 9, "verse": "13", "text": "But I say to you, that Elijah also has come and they did to him whatever they wanted, just as it has been written of (upon) him."}
{"book": "MRK", "chapter": 9, "verse": "14", "text": "And having come to the disciples, they saw a great crowd around them, and the scribes disputing (examining, discussing, seeking) together with them."}
{"book": "MRK", "chapter": 9, "verse": "15", "text": "And directly all the crowd having seen Him were greatly astonished and running to Him, greeted Him."}
{"book": "MRK", "chapter": 9, "verse": "16", "text": "And He asked them, What are you disputing together with them?"}
{"book": "MRK", "chapter": 9, "verse": "17", "text": "And one from out of the crowd answered Him, Teacher, I brought my son to You, having a spirit [that makes him] mute;"}
{"book": "MRK", "chapter": 9, "verse": "18", "text": "And whenever it overtakes (seizes, lays hold of) him, it throws him down; and he foams at the mouth and gnashes his teeth and he is withering (wasting) away. and I spoke to Your disciples, so that they might cast it out and they were not able (strong)."}
{"book": "MRK", "chapter": 9, "verse": "19", "text": "And He answering them, says, O unbelieving generation! Until when will I be with you? Until when will I bear with you? Bring him to Me."}
{"book": "MRK", "chapter": 9, "verse": "20", "text": "And they brought him to Him. And the spirit having seen Him directly threw him into convulsions and having fallen upon the ground, he rolled, foaming at the mouth."}
{"book": "MRK", "chapter": 9, "verse": "21", "text": "And He asked his father, How long a time is it that this has been with him? And he said, From out of childhood."}
{"book": "MRK", "chapter": 9, "verse": "22", "text": "And it often throws him into fire and into waters, so that it might destroy him. But if you are able to do anything, have compassion (visceral affections including sympathy) upon us, help us."}
{"book": "MRK", "chapter": 9, "verse": "23", "text": "And Jesus said to him, If you are able, all things are possible (able) to the one believing."}
{"book": "MRK", "chapter": 9, "verse": "24", "text": "Directly having cried out, the father of the child said, I believe, help my unbelief!"}
{"book": "MRK", "chapter": 9, "verse": "25", "text": "And Jesus having seen that a crowd was running together upon, He censured the unclean spirit, saying to it, Mute and deaf spirit, I command you, Come out of him, and you may no longer enter into him."}
{"book": "MRK", "chapter": 9, "verse": "26", "text": "And having cried out and having thrown him into many convulsions it came out; and he became as if dead, so that many said that he was dead."}
{"book": "MRK", "chapter": 9, "verse": "27", "text": "And Jesus, having taken him by the hand, raised him up and he arose."}
{"book": "MRK", "chapter": 9, "verse": "28", "text": "And He having entered into a house, His disciples asked Him in private, Why were we not able to cast it out?"}
{"book": "MRK", "chapter": 9, "verse": "29", "text": "And He said to them, This kind is not able to go out (come out) in nothing except in prayer {and fasting}."}
{"book": "MRK", "chapter": 9, "verse": "30", "text": "Having gone out from there, they passed through Galilee; and He did not want that anyone should know,"}
{"book": "MRK", "chapter": 9, "verse": "31", "text": "For He was teaching His disciples and said to them, The Son of Man is handed over into the hands of men, and they will kill Him; and having been killed, with (after) three days, He will arise."}
{"book": "MRK", "chapter": 9, "verse": "32", "text": "However they did not know the saying (rhema) and were fearful to ask Him."}
{"book": "MRK", "chapter": 9, "verse": "33", "text": "And He came unto Capernaum; and having been in the house, He asked them, What were you reckoning (considering, discussing) on the way?"}
{"book": "MRK", "chapter": 9, "verse": "34", "text": "And they were silent with one another for they had been conversing on the way, who was greatest."}
{"book": "MRK", "chapter": 9, "verse": "35", "text": "And having sat down, He called the twelve, and He says to them, If anyone wants to be first, he will be last of all and a servant (diakonos, minister) of all."}
{"book": "MRK", "chapter": 9, "verse": "36", "text": "And having been a child, he set it in their midst; and having taken it in His arms, He said to them,"}
{"book": "MRK", "chapter": 9, "verse": "37", "text": "Whoever shall welcomingly receive one of such little children upon My name, welcomingly receives Me; and whoever shall welcomingly receive Me, does not welcomingly receive Me, but the One having sent Me."}
{"book": "MRK", "chapter": 9, "verse": "38", "text": "John said to Him, Teacher, we saw someone in Your name casting out demons, {who does not follow us} and we forbade him, because he was not following us."}
{"book": "MRK", "chapter": 9, "verse": "39", "text": "And Jesus said, Do not forbid him. For there is no one who will do a miracle (work of power) upon My name and be able to readily speak evil of Me."}
{"book": "MRK", "chapter": 9, "verse": "40", "text": "For whoever is not against us is for us."}
{"book": "MRK", "chapter": 9, "verse": "41", "text": "For whoever might give you a cup of water to drink in [My] name because you are Christ’s, truly, I say to you, that he should not lose his reward."}
{"book": "MRK", "chapter": 9, "verse": "42", "text": "And whoever might cause one of these little ones believing unto Me to stumble, it is better (kalon-good) for him rather if a donkeys (heavy) millstone is put around his neck and he has been cast into the sea."}
{"book": "MRK", "chapter": 9, "verse": "43", "text": "And if your hand should cause you to stumble, cut it off; it is better for you to enter into life crippled, than having two hands to go away into hell (greek- geennan, latin-gehennam), into unquenchable (inextinguishable) fire,"}
{"book": "MRK", "chapter": 9, "verse": "44", "text": "{where their gnawing worm does not end, and the fire is not quenched}."}
{"book": "MRK", "chapter": 9, "verse": "45", "text": "And if your foot should cause you to stumble, cut it off; it is better for you to enter into life lame, than having two feet to be cast into hell (gehenna), {into the unquenchable fire},"}
{"book": "MRK", "chapter": 9, "verse": "46", "text": "{where their gnawing worm does not end, and the fire is not quenched}."}
{"book": "MRK", "chapter": 9, "verse": "47", "text": "And if you eye should cause you to stumble, cast it out ; it is better for you to enter into the kingdom of God with one eye than having two eyes to be cast into hell (gehenna),"}
{"book": "MRK", "chapter": 9, "verse": "48", "text": "Where their gnawing worm does not end and the fire is not quenched."}
{"book": "MRK", "chapter": 9, "verse": "49", "text": "For everyone will be salted with fire, {and every sacrifice shall be salted with salt}."}
{"book": "MRK", "chapter": 9, "verse": "50", "text": "Salt is good, however if the salt becomes unsalty, with what will you season (flavor) it? Have salt in yourselves and be at peace with (in) one another."}
{"book": "MRK", "chapter": 10, "verse": "1", "text": "And having risen up from there, He comes into the territory (boundaries) of Judea beyond the Jordan. And the crowds come together again to Him and as He had been accustomed, He taught them again."}
{"book": "MRK", "chapter": 10, "verse": "2", "text": "And the Pharisees having come to Him inquired of Him, Is it permitted for a husband to divorce (let go, release away from) a wife? Testing Him."}
{"book": "MRK", "chapter": 10, "verse": "3", "text": "And He answering, said to them, What did Moses command you?"}
{"book": "MRK", "chapter": 10, "verse": "4", "text": "And they said, Moses allowed to write a paper (biblion-commonly book) of divorce and divorce her."}
{"book": "MRK", "chapter": 10, "verse": "5", "text": "And Jesus said to them, With (toward) your hardheartedness (hard because dry), he wrote this commandment for you;"}
{"book": "MRK", "chapter": 10, "verse": "6", "text": "However from the beginning of creation, He made them make and female (thely- a woman with nursing breasts)."}
{"book": "MRK", "chapter": 10, "verse": "7", "text": "On account of this, a man will leave behind his father and mother and cleave (to glue to) to his wife,"}
{"book": "MRK", "chapter": 10, "verse": "8", "text": "and the two will be unto one flesh; so that they are no longer two, but one flesh."}
{"book": "MRK", "chapter": 10, "verse": "9", "text": "Therefore what God has paired together (closely/jointly-yoked, united, joined together), let not man separate."}
{"book": "MRK", "chapter": 10, "verse": "10", "text": "And in the house the disciples asked Him again concerning the same thing."}
{"book": "MRK", "chapter": 10, "verse": "11", "text": "And He says to them, Whoever should divorce his wife and should marry another, commits adultery against (upon) her."}
{"book": "MRK", "chapter": 10, "verse": "12", "text": "And if a woman has divorced the husband herself and should marry to another, she commits adultery."}
{"book": "MRK", "chapter": 10, "verse": "13", "text": "And they brought little children to Him, so that He might touch them and the disciples censured them."}
{"book": "MRK", "chapter": 10, "verse": "14", "text": "And Jesus having seen was indignant (latin-indigne), and said to them, Permit the little children to come to Me; do not hinder them; for to such is the kingdom of God."}
{"book": "MRK", "chapter": 10, "verse": "15", "text": "Truly, I say to you, whoever shall not welcomingly receive the kingdom of God like as a little child, shall not enter into it."}
{"book": "MRK", "chapter": 10, "verse": "16", "text": "And having taken them in His arms, He blessed having laid His hands upon them."}
{"book": "MRK", "chapter": 10, "verse": "17", "text": "And He going out unto the way, one having run to and having fallen to his knees before Him, asked Him, Good Teacher, what shall I do, so that I might inherit life eternal?"}
{"book": "MRK", "chapter": 10, "verse": "18", "text": "And Jesus said to him, Why do you call Me good? No one is good, except One, God."}
{"book": "MRK", "chapter": 10, "verse": "19", "text": "You know the commandments: Do not murder (intentional unjustified homicide); do not commit adultery; do not steal (secretively steal); do not bear false witness; do not defraud (deprive away from someone); honor (value) your father and mother."}
{"book": "MRK", "chapter": 10, "verse": "20", "text": "And he said to Him, Teacher, all these I have kept from out of my youth."}
{"book": "MRK", "chapter": 10, "verse": "21", "text": "And Jesus having stared at him, loved him, and said to him, You lack one thing: Go, sell as much as you have and give to the poor and you will have treasure in heaven; and come, follow Me,"}
{"book": "MRK", "chapter": 10, "verse": "22", "text": "And having been gloomy at this word, he went away grieving; for he was one having many possessions."}
{"book": "MRK", "chapter": 10, "verse": "23", "text": "And having looked around, Jesus says to His disciples, How difficultly those having riches will enter into the kingdom of God!"}
{"book": "MRK", "chapter": 10, "verse": "24", "text": "And the disciples were astonished at (upon) His words. And Jesus answering again, says to them, Children, how difficult it is to enter into the kingdom of God, {those who trust upon riches}!"}
{"book": "MRK", "chapter": 10, "verse": "25", "text": "It is easier for a camel to pass through the eye (hole) of the needle than for a rich man to enter into the kingdom of God."}
{"book": "MRK", "chapter": 10, "verse": "26", "text": "And they were exceedingly astounded, saying to themselves, And who is able to be saved?"}
{"book": "MRK", "chapter": 10, "verse": "27", "text": "And having looked at them, Jesus says, With men it is impossible (unable), but not with God; for all things are possible (able) with God."}
{"book": "MRK", "chapter": 10, "verse": "28", "text": "Peter began to say to Him, Behold, we have left all and followed You."}
{"book": "MRK", "chapter": 10, "verse": "29", "text": "Jesus said, Truly, I say to you, There is no one who has left house, or brothers, or sisters, or mother, or father, or children, or lands (fields), for My sake and for the sake of the gospel,"}
{"book": "MRK", "chapter": 10, "verse": "30", "text": "Unless (if not?) he shall receive a hundredfold now in this time- houses, and brothers, and sisters, and mothers, and children, and lands (fields) with persecutions- and in the age which is coming, life eternal."}
{"book": "MRK", "chapter": 10, "verse": "31", "text": "And many first will be last; and the last, first."}
{"book": "MRK", "chapter": 10, "verse": "32", "text": "And they were on the way, going up unto Jerusalem and Jesus was going on before them, and they were astonished, and those following were fearful. And having taken to Him again the twelve, He began to say to them the things that were about to happen to Him:"}
{"book": "MRK", "chapter": 10, "verse": "33", "text": "Behold, we go up unto Jerusalem and the Son of Man will be betrayed to the chief priests and to the scribes and they will condemn Him to death and will betray Him to the ethnicities."}
{"book": "MRK", "chapter": 10, "verse": "34", "text": "And they will mock Him and will spit on Him, and will flog Him, and will kill Him, and after (with) the three days He will rise again."}
{"book": "MRK", "chapter": 10, "verse": "35", "text": "And James and John, the two sons of Zebedee, come to Him, saying to Him, Teacher, we want that whatever we might ask You, You would do for us."}
{"book": "MRK", "chapter": 10, "verse": "36", "text": "And He said to them, What do you want Me to do for you?"}
{"book": "MRK", "chapter": 10, "verse": "37", "text": "And he said to Him, Give to us, so that one of us might sit at (from out of) Your right and one at (from out of) your left in Your glory."}
{"book": "MRK", "chapter": 10, "verse": "38", "text": "And Jesus said to them, You do not know what you ask. Are you able to drink the cup which I drink and be baptized with the baptism which I am baptized with?"}
{"book": "MRK", "chapter": 10, "verse": "39", "text": "And they said to Him, We are able. And Jesus said to them, The cup which I drink, you will drink; and the baptism which I am baptized with, you will be baptized with;"}
{"book": "MRK", "chapter": 10, "verse": "40", "text": "However to sit at (from out of) My right or at (from out of) My left is not Mine to give, but for whom it has been prepared."}
{"book": "MRK", "chapter": 10, "verse": "41", "text": "And the ten having heard this began to be indignant about James and John."}
{"book": "MRK", "chapter": 10, "verse": "42", "text": "And Jesus having called them to Him, says to them, You know that those being esteemed (opinioned, supposed) to rule over the ethnicities exercise lordship over them; and those great ones of them exercise authority over them."}
{"book": "MRK", "chapter": 10, "verse": "43", "text": "However it shall not be thus among you; but whoever wants to become great among you will be your servant (diakonos, minister);"}
{"book": "MRK", "chapter": 10, "verse": "44", "text": "And whoever wants to become first among you will be a slave (doulos) of all."}
{"book": "MRK", "chapter": 10, "verse": "45", "text": "For even the Son of Man did not come to be served, but to serve, and to give His life (soul) as a ransom for (anti- opposite, off-setting, in place of) many."}
{"book": "MRK", "chapter": 10, "verse": "46", "text": "And they come unto Jericho; and He was going out from Jericho, and His disciples and a considerable crowd, a son of Timaeus, Bartimaeus, a blind beggar was sitting beside the way."}
{"book": "MRK", "chapter": 10, "verse": "47", "text": "And having heard that it was Jesus of Nazareth, he began to cry out and to say, Son of David, Jesus, have mercy on me."}
{"book": "MRK", "chapter": 10, "verse": "48", "text": "And many censured him so that he should be silent; however he cried out much more, Son of David have mercy on me."}
{"book": "MRK", "chapter": 10, "verse": "49", "text": "And Jesus having stood still, said for him to be called. And they call the blind man, saying to him, Take courage (Be emboldened); rise up, He calls you."}
{"book": "MRK", "chapter": 10, "verse": "50", "text": "And having cast away his outer garment, having risen up, he came to Jesus."}
{"book": "MRK", "chapter": 10, "verse": "51", "text": "And answering him, Jesus says, What do you want that I should do to you? And the blind man said to Him, Rabboni, so that I might recover sight."}
{"book": "MRK", "chapter": 10, "verse": "52", "text": "And Jesus said to him, Go, your faith has saved you. And directly he recovered sight and followed Him on the way."}
{"book": "MRK", "chapter": 11, "verse": "1", "text": "And when they drew near unto Jerusalem, unto Bethphage and Bethany, toward the mount of Olives, He sends two of His disciples,"}
{"book": "MRK", "chapter": 11, "verse": "2", "text": "And says to them, Go into the village opposite you and directly entering into it, you will find a colt having been tied, upon which no one of men has yet sat; having untied it, and lead it."}
{"book": "MRK", "chapter": 11, "verse": "3", "text": "And if anyone says to you, Why are you doing this? Say, Because the Lord has necessity of it, and directly he will send it back here."}
{"book": "MRK", "chapter": 11, "verse": "4", "text": "And they departed and found the colt having been tied to the door outside, upon the street, and they untied it."}
{"book": "MRK", "chapter": 11, "verse": "5", "text": "And some of those standing there said to them, What are you doing untying the colt?"}
{"book": "MRK", "chapter": 11, "verse": "6", "text": "And they spoke to them just as Jesus had said, and they allowed them."}
{"book": "MRK", "chapter": 11, "verse": "7", "text": "And they led the colt to Jesus, and they cast their outer garments upon it and he sat upon it;"}
{"book": "MRK", "chapter": 11, "verse": "8", "text": "And many spread their outer garments onto the way, and others branches having been cut down from the fields."}
{"book": "MRK", "chapter": 11, "verse": "9", "text": "And those going before and those following were crying out, Hosanna! Blessed is the One coming in the name of the Lord!"}
{"book": "MRK", "chapter": 11, "verse": "10", "text": "Blessed is the coming kingdom of our father, David! Hosanna in the highest!"}
{"book": "MRK", "chapter": 11, "verse": "11", "text": "And He entered into Jerusalem into the temple; and having looked around on all things the hour already being late, He went out into Bethany with the twelve."}
{"book": "MRK", "chapter": 11, "verse": "12", "text": "And on the next day, they having gone out from Bethany, He was hungry."}
{"book": "MRK", "chapter": 11, "verse": "13", "text": "And having seen a fig tree from afar having leaves, He went if perhaps He will find anything on it. And having come upon it, He found nothing, except leaves; for it was not the opportune time of figs."}
{"book": "MRK", "chapter": 11, "verse": "14", "text": "And answering, He said to it, May no one eat fruit from out of you any more unto the age. And His disciples heard."}
{"book": "MRK", "chapter": 11, "verse": "15", "text": "And they come unto Jerusalem; and having entered into the temple, He began to cast out those selling and those buying in the temple; and He overturned the tables of the money changers and the seats of those selling doves."}
{"book": "MRK", "chapter": 11, "verse": "16", "text": "And He would not permit that anyone should carry a vessel through the temple."}
{"book": "MRK", "chapter": 11, "verse": "17", "text": "And He taught and was saying to them, Has it not been written, My house will be called a house of prayer for all the ethnicities (nations)? However you have made it a den of robbers (those who steal in the open)."}
{"book": "MRK", "chapter": 11, "verse": "18", "text": "And the chief priests and the scribes heard; and they sought how they might destroy Him; for they feared Him, for all the crowd was astounded at (upon) His teaching."}
{"book": "MRK", "chapter": 11, "verse": "19", "text": "And when evening came, He went outside the city."}
{"book": "MRK", "chapter": 11, "verse": "20", "text": "And passing by in the morning, they saw the fig tree having been dried up from the roots."}
{"book": "MRK", "chapter": 11, "verse": "21", "text": "And having remembered, Peter says to him, Rabbi, look, the fig tree that You cursed is dried up."}
{"book": "MRK", "chapter": 11, "verse": "22", "text": "And answering, Jesus says to them, Have faith from God."}
{"book": "MRK", "chapter": 11, "verse": "23", "text": "Truly, I say to you, that whoever shall say to this mountain, Be removed and be cast into the sea and shall not doubt (waver, judge back and forth) in his heart, but shall believe that what he says will happen, it will be for him."}
{"book": "MRK", "chapter": 11, "verse": "24", "text": "Because of this I say to you, All things whatever praying and you ask, believe that you receive and they will be to you."}
{"book": "MRK", "chapter": 11, "verse": "25", "text": "And when you may stand praying, if you have anything against anyone remit it, so that also your Father, who is in the heavens, might remit you your trespasses (lapses, falling away after being close-beside)."}
{"book": "MRK", "chapter": 11, "verse": "26", "text": "{If however you do not remit, neither your Father, who is in the heavens, will remit your trespasses}."}
{"book": "MRK", "chapter": 11, "verse": "27", "text": "And they come again into Jerusalem. And in the temple, as He is walking, the chief priests and the scribes and the elders come to Him."}
{"book": "MRK", "chapter": 11, "verse": "28", "text": "And they say to Him, In what authority are You doing these things? Or who gave You this authority, so that you should do these things?"}
{"book": "MRK", "chapter": 11, "verse": "29", "text": "And Jesus said to them, I will ask you one word and you answer Me, and I will tell you in what authority I do these things."}
{"book": "MRK", "chapter": 11, "verse": "30", "text": "Was the baptism of John from out of heaven or from out of men? Answer Me."}
{"book": "MRK", "chapter": 11, "verse": "31", "text": "And they dialogued with themselves, saying, What should we say? If we should say, From out of heaven, He will say, Why then did you not believe him?"}
{"book": "MRK", "chapter": 11, "verse": "32", "text": "But should we say, From out of men, they feared the people; for all held that John was truly a prophet."}
{"book": "MRK", "chapter": 11, "verse": "33", "text": "And answering to Jesus, they say, We do not know. And Jesus says to them, Neither will I tell you in what authority I do these things."}
{"book": "MRK", "chapter": 12, "verse": "1", "text": "And He began to speak to them in parables, A man planted a vineyard and placed a fence around it, and dug a pit (trough) under the wine-press, and built a tower, and rented (gave it out for hire) it out to vine-dressers, and went away from the country."}
{"book": "MRK", "chapter": 12, "verse": "2", "text": "And he sent a servant (doulon) to the vinedressers at the season (opportune time), so that he might receive from the vinedressers from the fruit of the vineyard."}
{"book": "MRK", "chapter": 12, "verse": "3", "text": "And having taken him, they beat him, and sent him away empty."}
{"book": "MRK", "chapter": 12, "verse": "4", "text": "And again he sent to them another servant (doulon), and him they stuck on the head, and treated shamefully."}
{"book": "MRK", "chapter": 12, "verse": "5", "text": "And he sent another, and him they killed; also many others, beating some, and killing some."}
{"book": "MRK", "chapter": 12, "verse": "6", "text": "Having yet one beloved son, he sent him last to them, saying, They will have respect for my son."}
{"book": "MRK", "chapter": 12, "verse": "7", "text": "However those vinedressers said to themselves, This is the heir: come, let us kill him, and the inheritance will be ours."}
{"book": "MRK", "chapter": 12, "verse": "8", "text": "And having taken, they killed him and cast him outside the vineyard."}
{"book": "MRK", "chapter": 12, "verse": "9", "text": "What then will the lord of the vineyard do? He will come and destroy the vinedressers and will give the vineyard to others."}
{"book": "MRK", "chapter": 12, "verse": "10", "text": "Have you not read this Scripture? The stone which those building rejected, this has become the head of the corner;"}
{"book": "MRK", "chapter": 12, "verse": "11", "text": "This was from the Lord and it is marvelous in our eyes."}
{"book": "MRK", "chapter": 12, "verse": "12", "text": "And they sought to lay hold of Him, and they feared the crowd; for they knew that He had spoken the parable against (to) them. And having left Him, they went away."}
{"book": "MRK", "chapter": 12, "verse": "13", "text": "And they send to Him some of the Pharisees, and of the Herodians, that they might catch Him in word."}
{"book": "MRK", "chapter": 12, "verse": "14", "text": "And having come, they say to Him, Teacher, we know that You are true and there is not a concern to You about anyone; for You do not look unto the appearance (face) of men, but teach the way of God upon truth. Is it permitted to give tribute-money (poll-tax that had to be paid not in Jewish but Roman money) to Caesar or not,"}
{"book": "MRK", "chapter": 12, "verse": "15", "text": "give or not give? And knowing their hypocrisy, He said to them, Why do you test Me? Bring Me a denarius, so that I might see it."}
{"book": "MRK", "chapter": 12, "verse": "16", "text": "And they brought it. And He says to them, Whose is this image (resemblance, mirror-like representation) and the inscription? And they said to Him, Caesar’s."}
{"book": "MRK", "chapter": 12, "verse": "17", "text": "And Jesus said to them, Give from the things of Caesar to Caesar, and the things of God to God. And they marveled upon Him."}
{"book": "MRK", "chapter": 12, "verse": "18", "text": "And the Sadducees come to Him, who say there is no resurrection. And they questioned Him, saying,"}
{"book": "MRK", "chapter": 12, "verse": "19", "text": "Teacher, Moses wrote for us, that of a brother of anyone should die and leave behind a wife and not leave children, that his brother should take the wife and raise up seed for his brother."}
{"book": "MRK", "chapter": 12, "verse": "20", "text": "There were seven brothers; and the first took a wife, and dying, left no seed;"}
{"book": "MRK", "chapter": 12, "verse": "21", "text": "And the second took her, and died having not left seed; and the third likewise."}
{"book": "MRK", "chapter": 12, "verse": "22", "text": "And the seven left no seed. Last of all, the woman also died."}
{"book": "MRK", "chapter": 12, "verse": "23", "text": "In the resurrection, when they rise, which of them will she be the wife? For the seven had her as wife."}
{"book": "MRK", "chapter": 12, "verse": "24", "text": "Jesus said to them, Do you not err (go astray, wander, deviate) because of this, not knowing the Scriptures, nor the power of God?"}
{"book": "MRK", "chapter": 12, "verse": "25", "text": "For when they rise from out of the dead, neither do they marry nor are given in marriage; but are like as the angels in the heavens."}
{"book": "MRK", "chapter": 12, "verse": "26", "text": "And concerning the dead, that they rise, Have you not read in the book of Moses, in the part on (upon) the bush, how God spoke to him, saying, I [am] the God of Abraham, and the God of Isaac, and the God of Jacob?"}
{"book": "MRK", "chapter": 12, "verse": "27", "text": "He is not God of the dead, but of the living. You err greatly (much)."}
{"book": "MRK", "chapter": 12, "verse": "28", "text": "And one of the scribes having come up, having heard them discussing together, having seen that He answered them well (kalos, good), inquired of Him, Which is the first commandment of all?"}
{"book": "MRK", "chapter": 12, "verse": "29", "text": "Jesus answered, The foremost is, Hear this O Israel: the Lord our God is one Lord."}
{"book": "MRK", "chapter": 12, "verse": "30", "text": "And you will love the Lord your God from out of your whole heart, and from out of your whole soul, and from out of your whole mind (dianoias, disposition, thorough-mind, critically thought out mind), and from out of your whole strength (ischyos, ability, might, force to overcome resistance)."}
{"book": "MRK", "chapter": 12, "verse": "31", "text": "The second this: You will love your neighbor (nearby) like as yourself. There is not another commandment greater than these."}
{"book": "MRK", "chapter": 12, "verse": "32", "text": "And the scribe said to Him, Right (well, good), Teacher, You have spoken upon truth that He is one and there is not another except Him;"}
{"book": "MRK", "chapter": 12, "verse": "33", "text": "And to love Him from out of the whole heart, and from out of the whole comprehension (syneseos- synthesized understanding- note different word than above), and from out of the whole strength; and to love [one’s] neighbor (nearby) like as oneself is more exceeding than all the whole burnt offerings and sacrifices."}
{"book": "MRK", "chapter": 12, "verse": "34", "text": "And Jesus having seen him that he answered intelligently (having a mind), said to him, You are not far away from the kingdom of God. And no one dared inquire of Him any longer."}
{"book": "MRK", "chapter": 12, "verse": "35", "text": "And Jesus answering, said, teaching in the temple, How do the scribes say that the Christ is the son of David?"}
{"book": "MRK", "chapter": 12, "verse": "36", "text": "David himself said, In the Holy Spirit, The Lord said to my Lord, Sit at (from out of) My right, until I place (put, set) Your enemies (hateful hostiles) underneath Your feet."}
{"book": "MRK", "chapter": 12, "verse": "37", "text": "David himself calls Him, Lord, and how is He his Son? And the great crowd heard Him gladly."}
{"book": "MRK", "chapter": 12, "verse": "38", "text": "And in His teaching, He said, Beware of (Look away from) the scribes, wanting to walk around in long robes (robes signaling high station-elitism), and greetings in the marketplaces,"}
{"book": "MRK", "chapter": 12, "verse": "39", "text": "And the first seats in the synagogues, and first places at (in) the suppers;"}
{"book": "MRK", "chapter": 12, "verse": "40", "text": "Devouring the houses of the widows and praying at long length as a pretense (pretext, excuse, for appearance sake). These will receive exceeding judgment."}
{"book": "MRK", "chapter": 12, "verse": "41", "text": "And having sat down opposite the treasury, He saw how the crowd threw money into the treasury’ and many rich were throwing in much."}
{"book": "MRK", "chapter": 12, "verse": "42", "text": "And having come, one poor widow threw in two lepta (coin worth very little), which is a kodrantes (smallest Roman copper coin)."}
{"book": "MRK", "chapter": 12, "verse": "43", "text": "And having called His disciples to Him, He says to them, Truly, I say to you, that this poor widow has thrown in much more than all of those throwing into the treasury."}
{"book": "MRK", "chapter": 12, "verse": "44", "text": "For all threw in from out of that which was abounding to them, however her, from out of her poverty, all as much as she had, she threw in her whole livelihood."}
{"book": "MRK", "chapter": 13, "verse": "1", "text": "And as He is going out from the temple, one of His disciples says to Him, Teacher, behold what stones and what buildings!"}
{"book": "MRK", "chapter": 13, "verse": "2", "text": "And Jesus said to him, Do you see these great buildings? Not a stone upon stone shall be left here, which shall not be torn down (loosed/ dissolved/ unbound down, latin-destruatur-destroyed)."}
{"book": "MRK", "chapter": 13, "verse": "3", "text": "And as He sat upon the mount of Olives, opposite (over against) the temple, Peter and James and John and Andrew inquired of Him in private,"}
{"book": "MRK", "chapter": 13, "verse": "4", "text": "Tell us when these things will be? And what [will be] the sign when these things all are about to be culminated?"}
{"book": "MRK", "chapter": 13, "verse": "5", "text": "And Jesus began to say to them, Take heed (Be observant, beware), lest anyone mislead (deviate, cause you to wander) you."}
{"book": "MRK", "chapter": 13, "verse": "6", "text": "Many will come upon My name, saying, I am He (It is I), and they will mislead many."}
{"book": "MRK", "chapter": 13, "verse": "7", "text": "And when you shall hear of wars (battles, strifes) and hearings (akoas) of wars, do not be disturbed (clamored, alarmed, startled, agitated); it must happen, but the end is not yet."}
{"book": "MRK", "chapter": 13, "verse": "8", "text": "For ethnicity (nation) will rise up against (upon) ethnicity (nation, people group of a similar custom or common culture), and kingdom against (upon) kingdom; there will be earthquakes throughout (according to) places, there will be famines. These are the beginning (origin) of birth pains."}
{"book": "MRK", "chapter": 13, "verse": "9", "text": "However take heed (beware, be observant) you to yourselves; they will betray (hand over) you into the councils (courts) and into the synagogues (assemblies); you will be beaten, and you will be made to stand before (upon) governors (officials, leaders) and kings for the sake of Me unto a testimony to them."}
{"book": "MRK", "chapter": 13, "verse": "10", "text": "And it is necessary to preach the gospel (evangel) unto all the ethnicities (nations) first."}
{"book": "MRK", "chapter": 13, "verse": "11", "text": "And when they might lead you away, handing you over, do not be anxious (concerned) beforehand as to what you should say, but whatever might be given to you in that there hour, speak that; for you are not speaking those, but the Holy Spirit."}
{"book": "MRK", "chapter": 13, "verse": "12", "text": "And brother will hand over brother unto death, and father, child; and children will rise up against (upon) parents and will put them to death."}
{"book": "MRK", "chapter": 13, "verse": "13", "text": "And you will be hated (detested) by (under) all on account of My name; and the one having endured unto the end, he will be saved."}
{"book": "MRK", "chapter": 13, "verse": "14", "text": "And when you see the abomination (abominable/ detestable/ accursed thing, disgustingly abhorrent thing, that which reeks with strench) of the desolation (devastation, make destitute/ waste/ barren), {which was spoken of by Daniel the prophet}, standing where it must not, the one reading let him understand, then those in Judea, let them flee into the mountains,"}
{"book": "MRK", "chapter": 13, "verse": "15", "text": "And the one upon the housetop, do not let him come down, nor go in to take anything out of his house;"}
{"book": "MRK", "chapter": 13, "verse": "16", "text": "And the one in the field (country), do not let him return unto the things behind, to take his clothing (outer garments)."}
{"book": "MRK", "chapter": 13, "verse": "17", "text": "And woe to those having [child] in womb and to those nursing infants in those there days!"}
{"book": "MRK", "chapter": 13, "verse": "18", "text": "And pray so that it might not be in winter,"}
{"book": "MRK", "chapter": 13, "verse": "19", "text": "For there will be in those there days such tribulation as has never been such kind from the beginning of creation which God created until now- and never shall be."}
{"book": "MRK", "chapter": 13, "verse": "20", "text": "And if the Lord had not shortened (curtailed) the days, there would have been no flesh at all saved; but on account of the elect (chosen) whom He elected (chose) He has shortened the days."}
{"book": "MRK", "chapter": 13, "verse": "21", "text": "And then if anyone says to you, Behold, here is the Christ, Behold there, you shall not believe it."}
{"book": "MRK", "chapter": 13, "verse": "22", "text": "For there will arise false-christs and false-prophets and will give signs and wonders (terata- portents from heaven to earth/terra) to lead astray (cause to wander away from) if possible (able) the elect."}
{"book": "MRK", "chapter": 13, "verse": "23", "text": "And you take heed (beware, be observant); I have foretold (proeireka, to say beforehand) all things to you."}
{"book": "MRK", "chapter": 13, "verse": "24", "text": "But in those there days, after that there tribulation, the sun will be darkened and the moon will not give its brightness (radiance);"}
{"book": "MRK", "chapter": 13, "verse": "25", "text": "And the stars will be falling from out of the heaven and the powers that are in the heavens will be shaken (agitated, excited, root salos means tossing/swelling like of the sea)."}
{"book": "MRK", "chapter": 13, "verse": "26", "text": "And then they will see the Son of Man coming in clouds with great power and glory;"}
{"book": "MRK", "chapter": 13, "verse": "27", "text": "And then He will send His angels and will gather upon together His elect from out of the four gusting winds, away from the farthest of the earth until the farthest of heaven."}
{"book": "MRK", "chapter": 13, "verse": "28", "text": "And from the fig tree, learn (disciple) the parable: when its branch has already become tender and it puts (grows, sprouts) out the leaves, you know that summer is near."}
{"book": "MRK", "chapter": 13, "verse": "29", "text": "In this way (thus, so) you also, when you see these things happen, know that it is near upon the doors."}
{"book": "MRK", "chapter": 13, "verse": "30", "text": "Truly, I say to you, that this generation will not have passed by (away) until that all these things shall have happened."}
{"book": "MRK", "chapter": 13, "verse": "31", "text": "The heaven and the earth will pass by (away) however My words will not pass by (away)."}
{"book": "MRK", "chapter": 13, "verse": "32", "text": "And concerning that there day or hour, no one knows; not even the angels in heaven, nor the Son, except the Father."}
{"book": "MRK", "chapter": 13, "verse": "33", "text": "Be observant (take heed, beware), do not be sleeping; for you do not know when the time (opportune time) is."}
{"book": "MRK", "chapter": 13, "verse": "34", "text": "It is like as a man going away from his country (common people bound to a custom and laws), having left his house and having given his servants (doulos) the authority, to each one his work, and he commanded the doorkeeper (door guard) so that he should stay awake to vigilantly watch guard."}
{"book": "MRK", "chapter": 13, "verse": "35", "text": "Stay awake to vigilantly watch guard therefore- for you do not know, when the lord of the house comes: or at evening or at midnight, or when the rooster crows (12-3am), or early morning;"}
{"book": "MRK", "chapter": 13, "verse": "36", "text": "Lest having come suddenly (unexpectedly), he should find you sleeping."}
{"book": "MRK", "chapter": 13, "verse": "37", "text": "And what I say to you, I say to all, Stay awake to vigilantly watch guard!"}
{"book": "MRK", "chapter": 14, "verse": "1", "text": "And the Passover and the feast of unleavened bread would be after two days. And the chief priests and the scribes were seeking how having taken Him in trickery (deceit, bait), they might kill Him."}
{"book": "MRK", "chapter": 14, "verse": "2", "text": "And they said, Not in (during, within) the feast, lest ever (when) there will be an uproar of the people."}
{"book": "MRK", "chapter": 14, "verse": "3", "text": "And He being in Bethany in the house of Simon the leper, having reclined at his table, a woman came having an alabaster (translucent gypsum) phial (vial-shallow vessel) of ointment of genuine nard (spikenard perfume of a plant in the Himalayas/ India) of great price; having broken the alabaster phial, she poured it down on His head."}
{"book": "MRK", "chapter": 14, "verse": "4", "text": "And some were indignant to (within) themselves, Unto what has this waste (loss) of ointment been made?"}
{"book": "MRK", "chapter": 14, "verse": "5", "text": "For it was possible for this ointment to have been sold for over three hundred denarii (a laboring man’s wage for a year) and to have been given to the poor. And they snorted in indignant displeasure at her."}
{"book": "MRK", "chapter": 14, "verse": "6", "text": "And Jesus said, Leave her alone; why do you cause her trouble (wearisome labor)? A good (beautiful, winsomely good) work she did on (in) Me."}
{"book": "MRK", "chapter": 14, "verse": "7", "text": "For you always have the poor with you and whenever you want you are always able to do good (eu-well); however you do not always have Me."}
{"book": "MRK", "chapter": 14, "verse": "8", "text": "She did what she could. She came beforehand to burial anoint (myrisai) My body unto the preparation for burial."}
{"book": "MRK", "chapter": 14, "verse": "9", "text": "And truly I say to you, Wherever the gospel shall be preached into the whole world, also what this woman has done will be spoken unto her memorial."}
{"book": "MRK", "chapter": 14, "verse": "10", "text": "And Judas Iscariot, one of the twelve, went away to the chief priests, so that he might betray Him to them."}
{"book": "MRK", "chapter": 14, "verse": "11", "text": "And having heard they rejoiced and promised to give him money. And he sought how he might opportunely (conveniently) hand Him over."}
{"book": "MRK", "chapter": 14, "verse": "12", "text": "And on the first day of unleavened bread, when they sacrified the Passover lamb, His disciples say to Him, Where do You want us to go and prepare so that You might eat the Passover?"}
{"book": "MRK", "chapter": 14, "verse": "13", "text": "And He sends away two of His disciples and says to them, Go into the city and you will meet a man carrying a pitcher (earthen vessel) of water. Follow him."}
{"book": "MRK", "chapter": 14, "verse": "14", "text": "And wherever he might enter, say to the master of the house, The Teacher says, Where is My guest room, where I might eat the Passover with My disciples?"}
{"book": "MRK", "chapter": 14, "verse": "15", "text": "And he will show you a great upper room having been furnished (spread) and ready. And there prepare for us."}
{"book": "MRK", "chapter": 14, "verse": "16", "text": "And the disciples went out and came unto the city and found just as He had said to them, and they prepared the Passover."}
{"book": "MRK", "chapter": 14, "verse": "17", "text": "And evening having arrived, He comes with the twelve."}
{"book": "MRK", "chapter": 14, "verse": "18", "text": "And as they were reclining at the table and eating, Jesus said, Truly, I say to you, that one from out of you, who is eating with Me, will betray Me."}
{"book": "MRK", "chapter": 14, "verse": "19", "text": "They began to be grieved and said to Him one by one, Is it I?"}
{"book": "MRK", "chapter": 14, "verse": "20", "text": "And He said to them, It is one of the twelve who is dipping (embaptomenos) with Me into the one bowl (deep dish)."}
{"book": "MRK", "chapter": 14, "verse": "21", "text": "Because indeed the Son of Man goes, just as it has been written concerning Him: woe however to the man that through whom the Son of Man is betrayed; better for him if that man had never been born."}
{"book": "MRK", "chapter": 14, "verse": "22", "text": "And as they were eating, having taken bread, having blessed, He broke and gave to them, and said, Take (Receive), this is My body."}
{"book": "MRK", "chapter": 14, "verse": "23", "text": "And having taken the cup, having given thanks, He gave to them and they all drank from out of it."}
{"book": "MRK", "chapter": 14, "verse": "24", "text": "And He said to them, This is My blood of the covenant being poured out for the sake of many."}
{"book": "MRK", "chapter": 14, "verse": "25", "text": "Truly, I say to you, that I will drink no more from the offspring (genematos not karpos-fruit) of the vine until that there day when I drink it new (fresh) in the kingdom of God."}
{"book": "MRK", "chapter": 14, "verse": "26", "text": "And having sung a hymn, they went out unto the mount of Olives."}
{"book": "MRK", "chapter": 14, "verse": "27", "text": "And Jesus says to them, You will all fall away (stumble) {in Me in this night}; because it has been written, I will strike the shepherd and the sheep will be scattered throughout."}
{"book": "MRK", "chapter": 14, "verse": "28", "text": "But after I having arisen, I will go before you into Galilee."}
{"book": "MRK", "chapter": 14, "verse": "29", "text": "And Peter said to Him, If even all will fall away (stumble), yet I not."}
{"book": "MRK", "chapter": 14, "verse": "30", "text": "And Jesus says to him, Truly I say to you, that you today, this night, before the rooster calls out twice, you will deny Me three times."}
{"book": "MRK", "chapter": 14, "verse": "31", "text": "And he emphatically (exceedingly out) said, If it is necessary (inevitable), I will die together with You, I will not deny You! And likewise also they all spoke."}
{"book": "MRK", "chapter": 14, "verse": "32", "text": "And they came unto parcel (a limited parcel that is part of a larger area), of which the same is Gethsemane; and He says to His disciples, Sit down here, while (until) I shall pray."}
{"book": "MRK", "chapter": 14, "verse": "33", "text": "And He takes Peter and James and John with Him; and He began to be greatly astonished (awe-struck) and distressed."}
{"book": "MRK", "chapter": 14, "verse": "34", "text": "And He says to them, Encompassingly sorrowful (engulfed in sadness) is My soul, as far as death; remain here and stay awake to vigilantly watch guard."}
{"book": "MRK", "chapter": 14, "verse": "35", "text": "And having gone forward a little, He fell upon the ground and prayed so that if it is possible the hour might pass away from Him."}
{"book": "MRK", "chapter": 14, "verse": "36", "text": "And He said, Abba, Father, all things are possible to You; take away this cup from Me, but not what I will, but what You."}
{"book": "MRK", "chapter": 14, "verse": "37", "text": "And He comes and finds them sleeping. And He says to Simon Peter, Are you asleep? Were you not able to stay awake to vigilantly watch guard one hour?"}
{"book": "MRK", "chapter": 14, "verse": "38", "text": "Stay awake to vigilantly watch guard and pray, so that you may not enter into temptation (testing). The spirit indeed is pre-disposed (pre-passioned), however the flesh weak (without vigor, no strength, weak, infirmed, latin-infirma-weak)."}
{"book": "MRK", "chapter": 14, "verse": "39", "text": "And having gone away again, He prayed, having said the same word."}
{"book": "MRK", "chapter": 14, "verse": "40", "text": "And having returned again, He found them sleeping. For their eyes were heavy (burdened down); and they did not know what they should answer Him."}
{"book": "MRK", "chapter": 14, "verse": "41", "text": "And He comes the third time and says to them, Are you finally sleeping and taking rest? It is enough; the hour has come; Behold, the Son of Man is betrayed into the hands of sinners."}
{"book": "MRK", "chapter": 14, "verse": "42", "text": "Rise, let us go; behold, he who is betraying Me has drawn near!"}
{"book": "MRK", "chapter": 14, "verse": "43", "text": "And directly while He yet is speaking, Judas, one of the twelve, arrives, and with him a crowd, with swords (slaughter daggers) and sticks, from the chief priests and the scribes and the elders."}
{"book": "MRK", "chapter": 14, "verse": "44", "text": "And he, who was betraying Him, had given them an agreed on signal, saying: Whomever I shall kiss is He; lay hold of Him and lead Him away securely (not causing to fall, not tottering, safely)."}
{"book": "MRK", "chapter": 14, "verse": "45", "text": "And having arrived, directly having come up to Him, he says, Rabbi, and kissed (kiss down, kiss repeatedly) Him."}
{"book": "MRK", "chapter": 14, "verse": "46", "text": "And they laid their hands upon Him and took hold of Him."}
{"book": "MRK", "chapter": 14, "verse": "47", "text": "And a certain one of those standing by, having drawn the sword (dagger), struck the servant (doulos-slave) of the high priest and cut off his ear."}
{"book": "MRK", "chapter": 14, "verse": "48", "text": "And answering, Jesus said to them, As against (upon) a robber are you come out with swords and sticks to apprehend Me?"}
{"book": "MRK", "chapter": 14, "verse": "49", "text": "I was with you day by day in the temple teaching and you did not lay hold of Me. But so that the Scriptures might be fulfilled."}
{"book": "MRK", "chapter": 14, "verse": "50", "text": "And having left Him, all fled."}
{"book": "MRK", "chapter": 14, "verse": "51", "text": "And a certain young man was following Him having put around upon his naked [body] a fine linen cloth; and they grasped him,"}
{"book": "MRK", "chapter": 14, "verse": "52", "text": "However, having left behind the fine linen cloth, he escaped naked."}
{"book": "MRK", "chapter": 14, "verse": "53", "text": "And they led Jesus away to the high priest and the elders and the scribes."}
{"book": "MRK", "chapter": 14, "verse": "54", "text": "And Peter followed Him from far away until inside the court of the high priest; and he was sitting together with the officers, and warming himself at the fire."}
{"book": "MRK", "chapter": 14, "verse": "55", "text": "And the chief priests and the whole council sought testimony against Jesus to put Him to death, and did not find [any]."}
{"book": "MRK", "chapter": 14, "verse": "56", "text": "For many gave false testimony against Him and their testimonies were not identical."}
{"book": "MRK", "chapter": 14, "verse": "57", "text": "And some having risen up, gave false testimony against Him, saying,"}
{"book": "MRK", "chapter": 14, "verse": "58", "text": "We heard Him saying, I will tear down (destroy) this temple made with hands and I will build another not made with hands across (through) three days."}
{"book": "MRK", "chapter": 14, "verse": "59", "text": "And neither so was their testimony identical."}
{"book": "MRK", "chapter": 14, "verse": "60", "text": "And the high priest having stood up in the midst, inquired of Jesus, saying, Do You not answer anything? What is it these testify against You?"}
{"book": "MRK", "chapter": 14, "verse": "61", "text": "However He was silent and did not answer anything. Again the high priest was inquiring of Him, and says to Him, Are You the Christ, the Son of the Blessed [One]?"}
{"book": "MRK", "chapter": 14, "verse": "62", "text": "And Jesus said, I am. And you will see the Son of Man sitting at (from out of) the right [side/hand] of power and coming with the clouds of heaven."}
{"book": "MRK", "chapter": 14, "verse": "63", "text": "And the high priest, having torn his tunic (undergarment), says, What still have we need of witnesses?"}
{"book": "MRK", "chapter": 14, "verse": "64", "text": "You heard the blasphemy. What appears to you? And all condemned Him to be liable of death."}
{"book": "MRK", "chapter": 14, "verse": "65", "text": "And some began to spit on Him and to cover up His face and strike Him and say to Him, Prophesy! And the officers received Him with slaps from the palms of their hands."}
{"book": "MRK", "chapter": 14, "verse": "66", "text": "And Peter being below in the interior courtyard, one of the servant girls of the high priest comes,"}
{"book": "MRK", "chapter": 14, "verse": "67", "text": "And having seen Peter warming himself, having looked hard (stared) at him, she says, You also were with the Nazarene- Jesus."}
{"book": "MRK", "chapter": 14, "verse": "68", "text": "However he denied it, saying, I do not know nor understand what you say. And he went outside onto the porch; and the rooster called out."}
{"book": "MRK", "chapter": 14, "verse": "69", "text": "And the servant girl having seen him began again to say to those standing by, This one is from out of them."}
{"book": "MRK", "chapter": 14, "verse": "70", "text": "How again he denied. And after a little, again those standing by said to Peter, Truthfully, you are from out of them, for you are also a Galilean, and your speech (lalia, way of speaking, dialect) resembles."}
{"book": "MRK", "chapter": 14, "verse": "71", "text": "And he began to invoke curses (anathematize, devote to destruction) and to swear (take an oath), I do not know this Man, whom you speak of!"}
{"book": "MRK", "chapter": 14, "verse": "72", "text": "And directly for a second time a rooster called out. And Peter remembered the saying (rhema) like as Jesus had said to him, Before the rooster calls out twice, you will deny Me three times; and having been stricken (cast) upon [by it], he wept."}
{"book": "MRK", "chapter": 15, "verse": "1", "text": "And directly in the early morning, the chief priests having formed a body of advisors with the elders and scribes and the whole Council, bound Jesus, led Him away, and handed Him over to Pilate."}
{"book": "MRK", "chapter": 15, "verse": "2", "text": "And Pilate inquired of Him, Are You the King of the Jews? And answering him, He says, You have said."}
{"book": "MRK", "chapter": 15, "verse": "3", "text": "And the chief priests were accusing Him of many things."}
{"book": "MRK", "chapter": 15, "verse": "4", "text": "And Pilate again inquired of Him, saying, Do You not answer anything? Behold, how they accuse You of many things!"}
{"book": "MRK", "chapter": 15, "verse": "5", "text": "However Jesus no longer answered anything so as to amaze Pilate."}
{"book": "MRK", "chapter": 15, "verse": "6", "text": "And according to the feast, he released to them one prisoner whom they requested (begged for, excused)."}
{"book": "MRK", "chapter": 15, "verse": "7", "text": "And there was one called Barabbas having been bound with the insurrectionists who had committed murder in the insurrection."}
{"book": "MRK", "chapter": 15, "verse": "8", "text": "And the crowd having sprung up began to petition [him to do] just as he did for them,"}
{"book": "MRK", "chapter": 15, "verse": "9", "text": "However Pilate answered them, saying, You want that I should release to you the King of the Jews?"}
{"book": "MRK", "chapter": 15, "verse": "10", "text": "For he recognized that the chief priests had handed Him over (betrayed) through envy (ill-will, spite, grudge, a strong feeling that sours, latin-invidiam-envy)."}
{"book": "MRK", "chapter": 15, "verse": "11", "text": "However the chief priests stirred up the crowd, so that he might instead release Barabbas to them."}
{"book": "MRK", "chapter": 15, "verse": "12", "text": "And Pilate again answering, said to them, What then do you want that I should do to Him you call the King of the Jews?"}
{"book": "MRK", "chapter": 15, "verse": "13", "text": "And they cried (screamed) back, Crucify Him!"}
{"book": "MRK", "chapter": 15, "verse": "14", "text": "And Pilate said to them, For what wrong (kakon) did He commit? However they screamed much more, Crucify Him!"}
{"book": "MRK", "chapter": 15, "verse": "15", "text": "And Pilate determining to do that which was suitable (sufficient, fit, worthy, considerable) to the crowd, released Barabbas to them, and handed Jesus over, having Him flogged, so that He might be crucified."}
{"book": "MRK", "chapter": 15, "verse": "16", "text": "And the soldiers led Him away inside the palace, that is the praetorium (official residence of a governor), and they call together the whole [Roman] military cohort (body of soldiers, tenth part of a legion, battalion, latin-cohortem-cohort root is battalion, approx.. 800 men but in later Roman times about 160 men)."}
{"book": "MRK", "chapter": 15, "verse": "17", "text": "And they clothed Him in a purple [garment] and having twisted a thorn crown together, they placed it on (around) Him,"}
{"book": "MRK", "chapter": 15, "verse": "18", "text": "And they began to greet Him, Hail (Rejoice), King of the Jews!"}
{"book": "MRK", "chapter": 15, "verse": "19", "text": "And they struck His head with a reed, and spat on Him; and bending the knees, they knelt down to [as to worship] Him."}
{"book": "MRK", "chapter": 15, "verse": "20", "text": "And when they had mocked Him, they took the purple [garment] off Him, and put on Him His own outer garments and they led Him out, so that they might crucify Him."}
{"book": "MRK", "chapter": 15, "verse": "21", "text": "And they compel one passing by, Simon of Cyrene, coming from the country, the father of Alexander and Rufus, so that he might carry His cross."}
{"book": "MRK", "chapter": 15, "verse": "22", "text": "And they bring Him upon Golgotha (a knoll outside the wall of Jerusalem), a place which is translated, place of a skull (latin-Calvariae-Skull commonly Calvary, greek-Kraniou)."}
{"book": "MRK", "chapter": 15, "verse": "23", "text": "And they offered Him, wine having been mixed with myrrh (a common pain-deadener for the dying crucified); and He did not take it."}
{"book": "MRK", "chapter": 15, "verse": "24", "text": "And having crucified Him, they also divided His outer garments, casting lots for (upon) them who should take what."}
{"book": "MRK", "chapter": 15, "verse": "25", "text": "And it was the third hour and they crucified Him."}
{"book": "MRK", "chapter": 15, "verse": "26", "text": "And there was the inscription of the charge (reason, cause) against Him having been written, The King of the Jews."}
{"book": "MRK", "chapter": 15, "verse": "27", "text": "And they crucify two robbers with Him, one at (from out of) the right, and one at (from out of) His left."}
{"book": "MRK", "chapter": 15, "verse": "28", "text": "{And the Scripture was fulfilled that says, And He was reckoned with the lawless.}"}
{"book": "MRK", "chapter": 15, "verse": "29", "text": "And those passing by blasphemed Him, shaking their heads, and saying, Aha, the One tearing down (destroying) the temple and building it in three days,"}
{"book": "MRK", "chapter": 15, "verse": "30", "text": "Save yourself, come down away from the cross!"}
{"book": "MRK", "chapter": 15, "verse": "31", "text": "And the chief priests likewise mocking among one another with the scribes, said, He saved others, He is not able to save Himself."}
{"book": "MRK", "chapter": 15, "verse": "32", "text": "The Christ, the King of Israel: let Him come down now away from the cross, so that we might see and believe! And those being crucified with Him reviled (reproached, insulted) Him."}
{"book": "MRK", "chapter": 15, "verse": "33", "text": "And the sixth hour having come, darkness came over (upon) the whole land until the ninth hour;"}
{"book": "MRK", "chapter": 15, "verse": "34", "text": "And at the ninth hour, Jesus shouted with intense feeling in a loud (great) voice, Eloi, Eloi, lama sabachthani? Which is translated, My God, My God, unto why have You forsaken (abandoned, leave behind in a down, latin-dereliquisti-forsaken root is abandoned) Me?"}
{"book": "MRK", "chapter": 15, "verse": "35", "text": "And some of those standing by, having heard, said, Behold, He calls Elijah."}
{"book": "MRK", "chapter": 15, "verse": "36", "text": "And someone having run and having filled a sponge with vinegar (low grade sour wine used as a painkiller), having put it around a reed, gave to Him to drink, saying, Let be, let us see if Elijah comes to take Him down."}
{"book": "MRK", "chapter": 15, "verse": "37", "text": "And Jesus having released a loud (great) voice (sound), breathed out His last."}
{"book": "MRK", "chapter": 15, "verse": "38", "text": "And the veil (curtain, inner veil) of the temple was torn into two from top (from above) until bottom (below)."}
{"book": "MRK", "chapter": 15, "verse": "39", "text": "And having seen, the centurion (Roman officer commanding a hundred) standing by opposite from Him, because He thus breathed out His last, said, Truthfully, this Man was the Son of God!"}
{"book": "MRK", "chapter": 15, "verse": "40", "text": "And there were also women looking on from afar, among whom also Mary Magdalene, and Mary the mother of James the younger (least, little, smaller) and of Joseph, and Salome;"}
{"book": "MRK", "chapter": 15, "verse": "41", "text": "Who, when He was in Galilee, followed Him and ministered (served) to Him; and many others, those having come up with Him into Jerusalem."}
{"book": "MRK", "chapter": 15, "verse": "42", "text": "And evening having already come, since it was the Preparation, that is the day before the Sabbath,"}
{"book": "MRK", "chapter": 15, "verse": "43", "text": "Having come Joseph from Arimathaea, prominent (winsomely influential thus respected, well-formed) council member (member of a city council/ Sanhedrin), who also himself was waiting for the kingdom of God. Having daring boldness, he went in to Pilate and asked for the body of Jesus."}
{"book": "MRK", "chapter": 15, "verse": "44", "text": "And Pilate wondered if He were already now dead. And having called to him the centurion, he inquired of him whether He had long ago died."}
{"book": "MRK", "chapter": 15, "verse": "45", "text": "And having known it from the centurion, he granted the body to Joseph."}
{"book": "MRK", "chapter": 15, "verse": "46", "text": "And having bought a fine linen cloth, having taken Him down, he wrapped (rolled) Him in the fine linen cloth, and laid Him in a tomb, which was hewn (cut) from out of a rock (mass of connected rock). And he rolled a stone upon the door of the tomb."}
{"book": "MRK", "chapter": 15, "verse": "47", "text": "And Mary Magdalene and Mary the [mother] of Joseph beheld where He was laid."}
{"book": "MRK", "chapter": 16, "verse": "1", "text": "And the Sabbath having elapsed, Mary Magdalene and Mary the [mother] of James and Salome, bought aromatic spices, so that having come, they might anoint Him."}
{"book": "MRK", "chapter": 16, "verse": "2", "text": "And very early on the first [day] of the week, they come upon the tomb, the sun having arisen."}
{"book": "MRK", "chapter": 16, "verse": "3", "text": "And they said among themselves, Who will roll away the stone for us from out of the door of the tomb?"}
{"book": "MRK", "chapter": 16, "verse": "4", "text": "And having looked up they beheld that the stone has been rolled away; for it was exceedingly great (large)."}
{"book": "MRK", "chapter": 16, "verse": "5", "text": "And having entered into the tomb, they saw a young man sitting on the right, clothed with a white (bright) long robe and they were awe-struck (greatly astonished)."}
{"book": "MRK", "chapter": 16, "verse": "6", "text": "And he says to them, Do not be awe-struck. You seek Jesus the Nazarene, the One having been crucified. He is risen! He is not here; behold the place where they laid Him."}
{"book": "MRK", "chapter": 16, "verse": "7", "text": "But Go, tell His disciples and Peter that He goes before you into Galilee; there you will see Him, just as He said to you."}
{"book": "MRK", "chapter": 16, "verse": "8", "text": "And having gone out, they fled from the tomb. For trembling and bewilderment (ecstasy, displacement of the mind) possessed (held, had) them and they spoke nothing to one; for they were fearful."}
{"book": "MRK", "chapter": 16, "verse": "9", "text": "And having risen up early the first [day] of the week, He first appeared to Mary Magdalene from whom He had cast out seven demons."}
{"book": "MRK", "chapter": 16, "verse": "10", "text": "She having gone, reported it to those having been with Him, who were mourning and weeping."}
{"book": "MRK", "chapter": 16, "verse": "11", "text": "And they having heard that He is alive and has been beheld by her, did not believe."}
{"book": "MRK", "chapter": 16, "verse": "12", "text": "And after these things, He appeared (was made apparent, manifested) in a different form to two from out of them as they were walking, going into the country;"}
{"book": "MRK", "chapter": 16, "verse": "13", "text": "And they having gone, reported it to the rest; neither did they believe them."}
{"book": "MRK", "chapter": 16, "verse": "14", "text": "And later they were reclining at the table, He appeared (manifested) to the eleven and reproached (scolded, latin-exprobravit-upbraided roots are reproached and reproved, upbraid=scold, find fault with) their non-belief and hardheartedness- because they had not believed those having seen Him risen (latin-resurrexisse-resurrected) {from out of the dead}."}
{"book": "MRK", "chapter": 16, "verse": "15", "text": "And He said to them, Go (Journey, Travel) into the whole world, preach the gospel to all creation (every creature, latin-creaturae-creature)."}
{"book": "MRK", "chapter": 16, "verse": "16", "text": "He who having believed and having been baptized will be saved, however the one having not believed will be condemned."}
{"book": "MRK", "chapter": 16, "verse": "17", "text": "And these signs will accompany close beside (para-follow) those having believed; In My name they will cast out demons; they will speak with new (fresh) tongues (glossais);"}
{"book": "MRK", "chapter": 16, "verse": "18", "text": "{And in their hands} They will take up serpents; and if they drink anything deadly it shall not hurt them; they will lay hands upon the sick (not-departing thus a persisting illness) and they will be well (kalos-good)."}
{"book": "MRK", "chapter": 16, "verse": "19", "text": "The Lord Jesus then, indeed, after speaking to them was taken up into the heaven and sat at (from out of) the right [side/hand] of God."}
{"book": "MRK", "chapter": 16, "verse": "20", "text": "And they having gone out, preached everywhere, the Lord working with them and confirming (securing, ratifying, guaranteeing) the word through the signs following upon it (epi-follow). {the following is not found in most translations- the NASB includes it in italics- And they promptly (briefly, concisely) reported all concerning Peter and with these. And after that, Jesus Himself sent out through them from east to west the sacred and imperishable preaching of eternal salvation. Amen}."}
{"book": "LUK", "chapter": 1, "verse": "1", "text": "Since many have undertaken (attempted, taken in hand-upon) to draw up (compose, arrange up in order) a narration (thorough narrative, to fully relate, latin-narrationem) concerning the matters having been accomplished among us,"}
{"book": "LUK", "chapter": 1, "verse": "2", "text": "Just as they delivered to us by those having been eyewitnesses and servants of the Word from the beginning,"}
{"book": "LUK", "chapter": 1, "verse": "3", "text": "It seemed fitting also to me, having closely followed all things from the beginning with exactness, to write to you in successive order, most excellent Theophilus,"}
{"book": "LUK", "chapter": 1, "verse": "4", "text": "So that you might know the certainty, concerning the words which you were instructed (taught by word of mouth)."}
{"book": "LUK", "chapter": 1, "verse": "5", "text": "There was in the days of Herod, the king of Judea, a certain priest, named Zechariah, from out of the priestly class of Abijah, and his wife from out of the daughters of Aaron and her name Elizabeth."}
{"book": "LUK", "chapter": 1, "verse": "6", "text": "And they were both righteous before God, walking in all the commandments and ordinances of the Lord blameless."}
{"book": "LUK", "chapter": 1, "verse": "7", "text": "And there was no child to them, because Elizabeth was barren and both were advanced in their years."}
{"book": "LUK", "chapter": 1, "verse": "8", "text": "And it happened in the fulfilling of his priestly service in the orderly array of his priestly class before God,"}
{"book": "LUK", "chapter": 1, "verse": "9", "text": "According to the custom of the priesthood, it fell to him by lot, having entered into the temple of the Lord to burn incense."}
{"book": "LUK", "chapter": 1, "verse": "10", "text": "And all the multitude of the people were praying outside at the hour of the incense."}
{"book": "LUK", "chapter": 1, "verse": "11", "text": "And an angel of the Lord appeared to him, standing at the right side of the altar of the incense."}
{"book": "LUK", "chapter": 1, "verse": "12", "text": "And Zechariah was troubled having seen [him], and fear fell upon him."}
{"book": "LUK", "chapter": 1, "verse": "13", "text": "And the angel said to him, Fear not, Zechariah, because your heart-felt petition has been heard and your wife Elizabeth will bear a son to you and you will call his name John."}
{"book": "LUK", "chapter": 1, "verse": "14", "text": "And he will be joy and gladness to you, and many will rejoice upon his birth;"}
{"book": "LUK", "chapter": 1, "verse": "15", "text": "For he will be great in the sight of the Lord; and he shall not drink wine and strong drink, and he will be filled of the Holy Spirit still from his mother’s womb."}
{"book": "LUK", "chapter": 1, "verse": "16", "text": "And he will turn many of the sons of Israel to (upon) the Lord their God."}
{"book": "LUK", "chapter": 1, "verse": "17", "text": "And he will go forth before Him in the spirit and power of Elijah, to turn (turn upon) the hearts of the fathers to (upon) the children and the disobedient (unpersuaded) ones in the wise perspective of the righteous, to make ready a people prepared for the Lord."}
{"book": "LUK", "chapter": 1, "verse": "18", "text": "And Zechariah said to the angel, By what will I know this? For I am an old man and my wife is advanced in her years."}
{"book": "LUK", "chapter": 1, "verse": "19", "text": "And the angel answering, said to him, I am Gabriel, the one standing before God and I was sent to speak to you and to bring these glad tidings to you."}
{"book": "LUK", "chapter": 1, "verse": "20", "text": "And behold, you will be silent and not able to speak until that day that these things shall happen, because you did not believe my words which will be fulfilled in their opportune time."}
{"book": "LUK", "chapter": 1, "verse": "21", "text": "And the people were expecting Zechariah, and they marveled at his delaying in the temple."}
{"book": "LUK", "chapter": 1, "verse": "22", "text": "And having come out, he was not able to speak to them and they recognized that he had seen a vision in the temple. And he was making signs to them and remained mute."}
{"book": "LUK", "chapter": 1, "verse": "23", "text": "And it happened when the days of his service were fulfilled, he departed unto his house."}
{"book": "LUK", "chapter": 1, "verse": "24", "text": "And after these days Elizabeth his wife conceived and hid herself five months, saying,"}
{"book": "LUK", "chapter": 1, "verse": "25", "text": "Thus has the Lord done to me in the days in which he looked upon [me] to take away my disgrace (reproach, defamation) among men."}
{"book": "LUK", "chapter": 1, "verse": "26", "text": "And in the sixth month, the angel Gabriel was sent from God unto a city of Galilee, whose name was Nazareth,"}
{"book": "LUK", "chapter": 1, "verse": "27", "text": "To a virgin betrothed to a man, whose name was Joseph from out of the house of David; and the name of the virgin was Mary."}
{"book": "LUK", "chapter": 1, "verse": "28", "text": "And having come to her, he said, Greetings, you favored with grace! The Lord is with you. {Blessed are you among women.}"}
{"book": "LUK", "chapter": 1, "verse": "29", "text": "And upon the word she was troubled, and was pondering what kind this greeting might be."}
{"book": "LUK", "chapter": 1, "verse": "30", "text": "And the angel said to her, Fear not, Mary; for you have found favor with God;"}
{"book": "LUK", "chapter": 1, "verse": "31", "text": "And behold, you will conceive in your womb, and will bring forth a son, and you will call His name Jesus."}
{"book": "LUK", "chapter": 1, "verse": "32", "text": "He will be great and He will be called the Son of the Most High; and the Lord God will give Him the throne of His father David;"}
{"book": "LUK", "chapter": 1, "verse": "33", "text": "And He will reign over (upon) the house of Jacob unto the ages; and of His kingdom there will not be an end."}
{"book": "LUK", "chapter": 1, "verse": "34", "text": "And Mary said to the angel, How will this be, since I do not know a man?"}
{"book": "LUK", "chapter": 1, "verse": "35", "text": "And answering, the angel, said to her, The Holy Spirit will come upon you and the power of the Most High will overshadow (cast shade upon) you; therefore also the Holy One being born will be called Son of God."}
{"book": "LUK", "chapter": 1, "verse": "36", "text": "And behold, Elizabeth, who is your relative, she also has conceived a son in her old age, and this is the sixth month to her who was called barren."}
{"book": "LUK", "chapter": 1, "verse": "37", "text": "Because every saying (rhema) will not be impossible (unable) with God."}
{"book": "LUK", "chapter": 1, "verse": "38", "text": "And Mary said, Behold, the handmaid (maid-servant/slave) of the Lord; be it to me according to your saying (rhema). And the angel departed from her."}
{"book": "LUK", "chapter": 1, "verse": "39", "text": "And Mary having risen up in those days, went into the hill country (latin-montana-mountains) with quickness unto a town of Judah,"}
{"book": "LUK", "chapter": 1, "verse": "40", "text": "And she entered into the house of Zechariah and greeted Elizabeth."}
{"book": "LUK", "chapter": 1, "verse": "41", "text": "And it happened, as Elizabeth heard the greeting of Mary, the baby leaped in her womb; and Elizabeth was filled with the Holy Spirit,"}
{"book": "LUK", "chapter": 1, "verse": "42", "text": "And she called out with a great outcry and said, Blessed are you among women and blessed is the fruit of your womb."}
{"book": "LUK", "chapter": 1, "verse": "43", "text": "And from where is this to me that the mother of my Lord should come to me?"}
{"book": "LUK", "chapter": 1, "verse": "44", "text": "For behold, as the voice of your greeting came into my ears the baby leaped in exultation (exuberant joy, exhilaration) in my womb."}
{"book": "LUK", "chapter": 1, "verse": "45", "text": "And blessed is the one having believed, for there will be a fulfillment to the things spoken to her from the Lord."}
{"book": "LUK", "chapter": 1, "verse": "46", "text": "And Mary said, My soul magnifies the Lord,"}
{"book": "LUK", "chapter": 1, "verse": "47", "text": "And my spirit rejoices upon God my Savior."}
{"book": "LUK", "chapter": 1, "verse": "48", "text": "Because He looked upon the lowliness of His handmaiden (maid-servant/slave); for behold, from now on all the generations will pronounce me blessed."}
{"book": "LUK", "chapter": 1, "verse": "49", "text": "For the Mighty One has done great things to me, and holy is His name."}
{"book": "LUK", "chapter": 1, "verse": "50", "text": "And His mercy is unto generations and generations to those fearing Him."}
{"book": "LUK", "chapter": 1, "verse": "51", "text": "He has done a powerful (dominionative, exerted power) thing with His arm, He has widely scattered the proud in the thought (thorough reasoning/critical thinking, understanding) of their heart."}
{"book": "LUK", "chapter": 1, "verse": "52", "text": "He has brought down rulers (those mighty in power) from thrones and exalted (uplifted, latin-exaltavit) the lowly."}
{"book": "LUK", "chapter": 1, "verse": "53", "text": "He has filled those hungering with good things and He has sent away those being rich empty."}
{"book": "LUK", "chapter": 1, "verse": "54", "text": "He has helped His servant (paidos) Israel, remembering mercy,"}
{"book": "LUK", "chapter": 1, "verse": "55", "text": "Just as He spoke to our fathers, to Abraham and to his descendants unto the age."}
{"book": "LUK", "chapter": 1, "verse": "56", "text": "And Mary remained with her about three months and returned unto her house."}
{"book": "LUK", "chapter": 1, "verse": "57", "text": "And to Elizabeth was fulfilled the time for her to give birth, and she bore a son."}
{"book": "LUK", "chapter": 1, "verse": "58", "text": "And the neighbors and her relatives heard that the Lord was magnifying His mercy with her and they rejoiced with her."}
{"book": "LUK", "chapter": 1, "verse": "59", "text": "And it happened on the eighth day, they came to circumcise the child and were calling it after (upon) the name of his father, Zechariah."}
{"book": "LUK", "chapter": 1, "verse": "60", "text": "And his mother answering said, No, rather he will be called John."}
{"book": "LUK", "chapter": 1, "verse": "61", "text": "And they said to her, No one from out of your relatives is called by this name."}
{"book": "LUK", "chapter": 1, "verse": "62", "text": "And they made signs to his father as to what he might want him to be called."}
{"book": "LUK", "chapter": 1, "verse": "63", "text": "And having asked for a writing tablet, he wrote, saying, John is his name. And they all marveled."}
{"book": "LUK", "chapter": 1, "verse": "64", "text": "And his mouth was opened instantly, and his tongue (glossa), and he spoke, blessing God."}
{"book": "LUK", "chapter": 1, "verse": "65", "text": "And fear came upon all those dwelling around them; and in the whole hill country of Judea all these sayings (rhema) were being talked of."}
{"book": "LUK", "chapter": 1, "verse": "66", "text": "And all having heard laid (placed, put, set) them in their heart, saying, What then will this child be? And indeed the hand of the Lord was with him."}
{"book": "LUK", "chapter": 1, "verse": "67", "text": "And Zechariah, his father, was filled with the Holy Spirit, and prophesied, saying,"}
{"book": "LUK", "chapter": 1, "verse": "68", "text": "Blessed be the Lord, the God of Israel, because He has visited and has made redemption for His people,"}
{"book": "LUK", "chapter": 1, "verse": "69", "text": "And has raised up a horn of salvation for us in the house of His servant David;"}
{"book": "LUK", "chapter": 1, "verse": "70", "text": "Just as He spoke through the mouth of His holy prophets from the age,"}
{"book": "LUK", "chapter": 1, "verse": "71", "text": "Salvation from our enemies and from the hand of all those hating us;"}
{"book": "LUK", "chapter": 1, "verse": "72", "text": "To fulfill mercy with our fathers and to remember His holy covenant,"}
{"book": "LUK", "chapter": 1, "verse": "73", "text": "The oath that He swore to Abraham, our father,"}
{"book": "LUK", "chapter": 1, "verse": "74", "text": "to give us, that having been rescued from out of the hand of our enemies, to serve Him without fear,"}
{"book": "LUK", "chapter": 1, "verse": "75", "text": "In holiness and righteousness before Him all our days."}
{"book": "LUK", "chapter": 1, "verse": "76", "text": "And you, child, will be called a prophet of the Most High; for you will go in the sight of the Lord to make ready His ways;"}
{"book": "LUK", "chapter": 1, "verse": "77", "text": "To give knowledge of salvation to His people in the remission of their sins,"}
{"book": "LUK", "chapter": 1, "verse": "78", "text": "Through the viscerals of mercy (compassion, pity) of our God, in which the Sunrise will visit upon us from out of on high,"}
{"book": "LUK", "chapter": 1, "verse": "79", "text": "To shine upon those sitting in darkness and in the shadow of death; to make straight (directly direct) our feet into the way of peace."}
{"book": "LUK", "chapter": 1, "verse": "80", "text": "And the child (paidion) grew and was strengthened in spirit; and he was in the deserts until the day of his public appearance (showing forth, the proclamation of an appointment, inaugurating) to Israel."}
{"book": "LUK", "chapter": 2, "verse": "1", "text": "And it happened in those days that a decree went out from Caesar Augustus, to register all the inhabited [Roman] world;"}
{"book": "LUK", "chapter": 2, "verse": "2", "text": "This first registration happened when Cyrenius was governing Syria."}
{"book": "LUK", "chapter": 2, "verse": "3", "text": "And all went to be registered, each unto the city of themselves:"}
{"book": "LUK", "chapter": 2, "verse": "4", "text": "And Joseph also went up from Galilee from out of the town of Nazareth unto Judea unto the city of David which is called Bethlehem, because of his being of the house and family of David-"}
{"book": "LUK", "chapter": 2, "verse": "5", "text": "To register with Mary, the one being betrothed to him, she being pregnant."}
{"book": "LUK", "chapter": 2, "verse": "6", "text": "And it happened in the time they were there, the days of her giving birth were fulfilled."}
{"book": "LUK", "chapter": 2, "verse": "7", "text": "And she brought forth her firstborn son, and wrapped Him in swaddling clothes and laid Him in a manger (feeding-trough), because there was not a place for them in the inn."}
{"book": "LUK", "chapter": 2, "verse": "8", "text": "And shepherds were in the same region, living in the fields and keeping watch (guard) by night over (upon) their flock;"}
{"book": "LUK", "chapter": 2, "verse": "9", "text": "And an angel of the Lord stood by them, and the glory of the Lord shone around them, and they feared with great fear."}
{"book": "LUK", "chapter": 2, "verse": "10", "text": "And the angel said to them, Fear not; for behold, I bring good news of great joy to you, which will be to all the people;"}
{"book": "LUK", "chapter": 2, "verse": "11", "text": "For today a Savior has been born to you in the city of David, who is Christ the Lord."}
{"book": "LUK", "chapter": 2, "verse": "12", "text": "And this is the sign to you: you will find a baby wrapped in swaddling clothes and lying in a manger."}
{"book": "LUK", "chapter": 2, "verse": "13", "text": "And suddenly there was with the angel a multitude of the heavenly host praising God and saying,"}
{"book": "LUK", "chapter": 2, "verse": "14", "text": "Glory to God in the highest and upon earth peace among men with whom He is well-pleased!"}
{"book": "LUK", "chapter": 2, "verse": "15", "text": "And it happened as the angels were departing from them into the heaven, the shepherds said to one another, Let us pass through as far as Bethlehem and let us see this saying (rhema) that has happened, which the Lord made known to us."}
{"book": "LUK", "chapter": 2, "verse": "16", "text": "And they came having hurried and found Mary and Joseph, and the baby lying in the manger."}
{"book": "LUK", "chapter": 2, "verse": "17", "text": "And having seen, they made known concerning the saying (rhematos) having been told them, concerning this child."}
{"book": "LUK", "chapter": 2, "verse": "18", "text": "And all those having heard, marveled concerning the things having been spoken by the shepherds to them."}
{"book": "LUK", "chapter": 2, "verse": "19", "text": "And Mary was keeping close (preserving with close care) all these sayings (rhemata), pondering (latin-conferens-confer, throwing together) them in her heart."}
{"book": "LUK", "chapter": 2, "verse": "20", "text": "And the shepherds returned, glorifying and praising God upon all things which they had heard and seen, just as it was said to them."}
{"book": "LUK", "chapter": 2, "verse": "21", "text": "And when eight days were fulfilled for circumcising Him, and His name was called Jesus, which He had been called by the angel before He was conceived in the womb."}
{"book": "LUK", "chapter": 2, "verse": "22", "text": "And when the days were fulfilled of their purification according to the law of Moses, they brought Him unto Jerusalem to present to the Lord,"}
{"book": "LUK", "chapter": 2, "verse": "23", "text": "Just as it has been written in the law of the Lord, That every male opening a womb will be called holy to the Lord;"}
{"book": "LUK", "chapter": 2, "verse": "24", "text": "And to offer a sacrifice according to that having been said in the law of the Lord, A pair of turtle doves or two young pigeons (doves)."}
{"book": "LUK", "chapter": 2, "verse": "25", "text": "And behold, there was a man in Jerusalem whose name was Simon; and this man was righteous and devout, waiting for the entreaty (latin-consolationem) of Israel, and the Holy Spirit was upon him."}
{"book": "LUK", "chapter": 2, "verse": "26", "text": "And it was divinely admonished to him by the Holy Spirit that he should not see death before he should see the Lord’s Christ."}
{"book": "LUK", "chapter": 2, "verse": "27", "text": "And he came in the Spirit into the temple; and in the [time when] the parents were bringing in the child Jesus that they were doing according to that having become customary by the law for Him,"}
{"book": "LUK", "chapter": 2, "verse": "28", "text": "And he received Him into his arms and blessed God, and said,"}
{"book": "LUK", "chapter": 2, "verse": "29", "text": "Now let Your servant depart, Lord, according to Your saying (rhema) in peace;"}
{"book": "LUK", "chapter": 2, "verse": "30", "text": "Because my eyes have seen Your salvation,"}
{"book": "LUK", "chapter": 2, "verse": "31", "text": "Which You have prepared before the face of all the peoples,"}
{"book": "LUK", "chapter": 2, "verse": "32", "text": "A light unto revelation of the ethnicities and the glory of Your people, Israel."}
{"book": "LUK", "chapter": 2, "verse": "33", "text": "And His father and mother were marveling upon the things having been spoken concerning Him."}
{"book": "LUK", "chapter": 2, "verse": "34", "text": "And Simon blessed them and said to Mary His mother, Behold, this [child] is appointed unto the falling and rising up of many in Israel and unto a sign spoken against;"}
{"book": "LUK", "chapter": 2, "verse": "35", "text": "And a sword will go through your soul, so that the thoughts might be revealed from out of many hearts."}
{"book": "LUK", "chapter": 2, "verse": "36", "text": "And there was Anna, a prophetess, daughter of Phanuel from out of the tribe of Asher. She being advanced in many years, having lived with a husband seven years from her virginity (latin-virginitate-virginity),"}
{"book": "LUK", "chapter": 2, "verse": "37", "text": "And she was a widow about eighty four years, who did not depart the temple, serving night and day with fastings and petitions (supplications)."}
{"book": "LUK", "chapter": 2, "verse": "38", "text": "And she having come up at that hour, gave profession to the Lord, and spoke concerning Him, to all those waiting for the redemption of Jerusalem."}
{"book": "LUK", "chapter": 2, "verse": "39", "text": "And when they had completed everything according to the law of the Lord, they returned unto Galilee, unto their town, Nazareth."}
{"book": "LUK", "chapter": 2, "verse": "40", "text": "And the child grew and became strong (confirmed, gained mastery), being filled with wisdom and the grace of God was upon Him."}
{"book": "LUK", "chapter": 2, "verse": "41", "text": "And His parents went every year unto Jerusalem at the feast of the Passover."}
{"book": "LUK", "chapter": 2, "verse": "42", "text": "And when He was twelve years old, they having gone up according to the custom of the Feast,"}
{"book": "LUK", "chapter": 2, "verse": "43", "text": "And having completed the days, in their returning, Jesus the boy remained behind in Jerusalem. And His parents did not know."}
{"book": "LUK", "chapter": 2, "verse": "44", "text": "And having supposed Him to be in their company, they went a day’s journey and sought Him among the relatives and the acquaintances:"}
{"book": "LUK", "chapter": 2, "verse": "45", "text": "And not having found Him, they returned unto Jerusalem, seeking Him."}
{"book": "LUK", "chapter": 2, "verse": "46", "text": "And it happened after three days, they found Him in the temple, sitting in the midst of the teachers, and hearing them and questioning them."}
{"book": "LUK", "chapter": 2, "verse": "47", "text": "And all those hearing Him were astonished upon His synthesized understanding and His answers."}
{"book": "LUK", "chapter": 2, "verse": "48", "text": "And having seen Him, they were astounded, and His mother said to Him, Child, why have You done thus to us? Behold, Your father and I were seeking You distressing."}
{"book": "LUK", "chapter": 2, "verse": "49", "text": "And He said to them, Why is it that you are seeking Me? Did you not know that it is necessary for Me to be in My Father’s [house/business]?"}
{"book": "LUK", "chapter": 2, "verse": "50", "text": "And they did not understand the saying (rhema) that He spoke to them."}
{"book": "LUK", "chapter": 2, "verse": "51", "text": "And He went down with them and came unto Nazareth and He was subject to them. And His mother thoroughly kept all these sayings (rhemata) in her heart."}
{"book": "LUK", "chapter": 2, "verse": "52", "text": "And Jesus advanced in wisdom and maturity (stature, age) and in favor (grace) with God and men."}
{"book": "LUK", "chapter": 3, "verse": "1", "text": "And in the fifteenth year of the reign of Tiberius Caesar, Pontius Pilate being governor of Judea, and Herod being tetrarch of Galilee, and Philip his brother being tetrarch of Ituraea and the region of Trachonitis, and Lysanias being tetrarch of Abilene,"}
{"book": "LUK", "chapter": 3, "verse": "2", "text": "Upon the high priesthood of Annas and Caiaphas, the word of God came upon John, the son of Zechariah, in the wilderness."}
{"book": "LUK", "chapter": 3, "verse": "3", "text": "And he went into all the surrounding region of the Jordan, preaching a baptism of repentance unto the remission of sins;"}
{"book": "LUK", "chapter": 3, "verse": "4", "text": "As it has been written in the book of the words of Isaiah the prophet, The voice of one crying in the wilderness, Prepare the way of the Lord; make straight His worn paths (latin-semitas-paths)."}
{"book": "LUK", "chapter": 3, "verse": "5", "text": "Every valley will be filled up and every mountain and hill will be made low; and the crooked will become into straight, and the rough into smooth ways;"}
{"book": "LUK", "chapter": 3, "verse": "6", "text": "And all flesh will see the salvation of God."}
{"book": "LUK", "chapter": 3, "verse": "7", "text": "He said therefore to the crowds coming out to be baptized by him, Offspring of vipers, who forewarned you to flee from the coming wrath?"}
{"book": "LUK", "chapter": 3, "verse": "8", "text": "Produce therefore fruits worthy of repentance; and do not begin to say in yourselves, we have Abraham as father; for I say to you, that God is able to raise up children to Abraham from out of these stones."}
{"book": "LUK", "chapter": 3, "verse": "9", "text": "And already also the axe is laid to the root of the trees; every tree therefore not producing good fruit is cut down and is thrown into the fire."}
{"book": "LUK", "chapter": 3, "verse": "10", "text": "And the crowds asked him, saying, What then shall we do?"}
{"book": "LUK", "chapter": 3, "verse": "11", "text": "And answering, he says to them, The one having two tunics let him impart (give a share of) to the one having none; and the one having food likewise let him do."}
{"book": "LUK", "chapter": 3, "verse": "12", "text": "And also the tax collectors came to be baptized and they said to him, Teacher, what shall we do?"}
{"book": "LUK", "chapter": 3, "verse": "13", "text": "And he said to them, Collect (require, practice) nothing more beyond that having been appointed to you."}
{"book": "LUK", "chapter": 3, "verse": "14", "text": "And those being soldiers also asked, saying, What shall we also do? And he said to them, Do not coerce under threat (strongly intimidate, shake violently, manhandle, extort, blackmail) or falsely accuse (defraud by using inside information) anyone and be content with your wages."}
{"book": "LUK", "chapter": 3, "verse": "15", "text": "And the people expecting and all dialoguing (wondering, considering, reckoning) in their hearts concerning John, whether he might be the Christ,"}
{"book": "LUK", "chapter": 3, "verse": "16", "text": "John answered all, saying, I indeed baptize you with water, however the One mightier (stronger) than I comes, of whom I am not fit (sufficient, adequate) to untie the strap of His sandals; He will baptize you in the Holy Spirit and in fire;"}
{"book": "LUK", "chapter": 3, "verse": "17", "text": "Of whom the winnowing fork is in His hand to thoroughly purge (cleanse) His threshing floor and to gather together the wheat into His storehouse (repository, latin-horreum-barn, place to put away) and the chaff (stalk left after kernels beaten out) He will burn up with unquenchable fire."}
{"book": "LUK", "chapter": 3, "verse": "18", "text": "Entreating then many other things, he preached good news to the people."}
{"book": "LUK", "chapter": 3, "verse": "19", "text": "And Herod the tetrarch, being reproved by him concerning Herodias the wife of his brother, and concerning all the evils that Herod had done,"}
{"book": "LUK", "chapter": 3, "verse": "20", "text": "Added yet this upon all also: he locked up (confined) John in prison."}
{"book": "LUK", "chapter": 3, "verse": "21", "text": "And it happened, all the people having been baptized, and Jesus having been baptized and having prayed, the heaven was opened,"}
{"book": "LUK", "chapter": 3, "verse": "22", "text": "And the Holy Spirit descended in bodily form like as a dove upon Him and a voice came from out of heaven, You are My beloved Son; in You I am well pleased."}
{"book": "LUK", "chapter": 3, "verse": "23", "text": "And Jesus Himself was beginning about thirty years old, being the son, as was supposed, of Joseph, [son] of Heli,"}
{"book": "LUK", "chapter": 3, "verse": "24", "text": "Of Matthat, of Levi, of Melchi, of Jannai, of Joseph,"}
{"book": "LUK", "chapter": 3, "verse": "25", "text": "Of Mattathias, of Amos, of Nahum, of Esli, of Naggai,"}
{"book": "LUK", "chapter": 3, "verse": "26", "text": "Of Maath, of Mattathias, of Semein, of Joseph, of Joda,"}
{"book": "LUK", "chapter": 3, "verse": "27", "text": "Of Joannen, of Rhesa, of Zerubbabel, of Shealtiel, of Neri,"}
{"book": "LUK", "chapter": 3, "verse": "28", "text": "Of Mechi, of Addi, of Cosam, of Elmadam, of Er,"}
{"book": "LUK", "chapter": 3, "verse": "29", "text": "Of Joshua, of Eliezer, of Jorim, of Matthat, of Levi,"}
{"book": "LUK", "chapter": 3, "verse": "30", "text": "Of Simon, of Judah, of Joseph, of Jonam, of Eliakim,"}
{"book": "LUK", "chapter": 3, "verse": "31", "text": "Of Melea, of Menna, of Mattathah, of Nathan, of David,"}
{"book": "LUK", "chapter": 3, "verse": "32", "text": "Of Jesse, of Obed, of Boaz, of Sala, of Nahshon,"}
{"book": "LUK", "chapter": 3, "verse": "33", "text": "Of Amminadab, of Admin, of Arni, of Hezron, of Perez, of Judah,"}
{"book": "LUK", "chapter": 3, "verse": "34", "text": "Of Jacob, of Isaac, of Abraham, of Terah, of Nahor,"}
{"book": "LUK", "chapter": 3, "verse": "35", "text": "Of Serug, of Reu, of Peleg, of Heber, of Shelah,"}
{"book": "LUK", "chapter": 3, "verse": "36", "text": "Of Cainan, of Arphaxad, of Shem, of Noah, of Lamech,"}
{"book": "LUK", "chapter": 3, "verse": "37", "text": "Of Methuselah, of Enoch, of Jared, of Mahalalel, of Cainan,"}
{"book": "LUK", "chapter": 3, "verse": "38", "text": "Of Enos, of Seth, of Adam, of God."}
{"book": "LUK", "chapter": 4, "verse": "1", "text": "And Jesus, full of the Holy Spirit, returned from the Jordan and was led by (in) the Spirit in the wilderness."}
{"book": "LUK", "chapter": 4, "verse": "2", "text": "Forty days being tempted by the devil; and He did not eat anything in those days, and they having ended, he was hungry."}
{"book": "LUK", "chapter": 4, "verse": "3", "text": "And the devil said to Him, If You are the Son of God, speak to this stone, so that it should become bread."}
{"book": "LUK", "chapter": 4, "verse": "4", "text": "And Jesus answered to him, It has been written, That man will not live upon bread alone, {but upon every saying (rhemati) of God.}"}
{"book": "LUK", "chapter": 4, "verse": "5", "text": "And {the devil} having led Him up {unto a high mountain}, showed Him all the kingdoms of the world in a moment of time."}
{"book": "LUK", "chapter": 4, "verse": "6", "text": "And the devil said to Him, To You I will give all this authority and the glory of it; because it has been delivered over (betrayed, handed over) to me, and I give it to whom I want."}
{"book": "LUK", "chapter": 4, "verse": "7", "text": "If therefore You will worship before me, all will be Yours."}
{"book": "LUK", "chapter": 4, "verse": "8", "text": "And Jesus answering said to him, It has been written, You will worship the Lord your God and you will serve Him only."}
{"book": "LUK", "chapter": 4, "verse": "9", "text": "And he led Him into Jerusalem, and stood upon the pinnacle of the temple and said to Him, If you are the Son of God, cast Yourself down from here;"}
{"book": "LUK", "chapter": 4, "verse": "10", "text": "For it has been written that He will give orders to His angels concerning you to thoroughly guard you;"}
{"book": "LUK", "chapter": 4, "verse": "11", "text": "And that upon their hands they will bear you, lest ever you strike your foot against a stone."}
{"book": "LUK", "chapter": 4, "verse": "12", "text": "And Jesus answering, said to him, It has been said, You will not test out (tempt) the Lord your God."}
{"book": "LUK", "chapter": 4, "verse": "13", "text": "And having finished every temptation (test), the devil departed away from Him until an opportune time."}
{"book": "LUK", "chapter": 4, "verse": "14", "text": "And Jesus returned in the power (ability to perform) of the Spirit unto Galilee; and a report went out through the whole surrounding region concerning Him."}
{"book": "LUK", "chapter": 4, "verse": "15", "text": "And He taught in their synagogues, being glorified by all."}
{"book": "LUK", "chapter": 4, "verse": "16", "text": "And He came unto Nazareth, where He had been brought up; and He entered according to His custom into the synagogue on the day of the Sabbath and stood up to read."}
{"book": "LUK", "chapter": 4, "verse": "17", "text": "And there was given to Him the scroll of the prophet Isaiah, and having unrolled the scroll, He found the place where it has written,"}
{"book": "LUK", "chapter": 4, "verse": "18", "text": "The Spirit of the Lord is upon me, because He has anointed me to preach good news to the poor (destitute, beggarly). He has sent me {to heal (iasasthai) the broken (crushed) in heart} to preach deliverance (remission, release, forgiveness, pardon) to captives, and recovery of sight to the blind, to send forth the broken (crushed, shattered in pieces) in deliverance (remission, forgiveness, pardon),"}
{"book": "LUK", "chapter": 4, "verse": "19", "text": "To preach the acceptable year of the Lord."}
{"book": "LUK", "chapter": 4, "verse": "20", "text": "And having rolled up the scroll, having delivered it to the attendant, He sat down and the eyes of all in the synagogue were completely fixated on Him."}
{"book": "LUK", "chapter": 4, "verse": "21", "text": "And He began to say to them, Today this Scripture is fulfilled in your ears."}
{"book": "LUK", "chapter": 4, "verse": "22", "text": "And all bore witness to Him and marveled upon the words of the grace that are proceeding out of His mouth; and they said, Is this not the son of Joseph?"}
{"book": "LUK", "chapter": 4, "verse": "23", "text": "And He said to them, You will surely say to Me this proverb (parable, comparison), Physician (iatre) heal (therapeuson) yourself; whatsoever we have heard has been done unto Capernaum, do also here in your own father’s place."}
{"book": "LUK", "chapter": 4, "verse": "24", "text": "And He said, Truly I say to you that no prophet is acceptable in his own father’s place."}
{"book": "LUK", "chapter": 4, "verse": "25", "text": "However upon truth I say to you, There were many widows in Israel in the days of Elijah, when the heaven was shut up upon three years and six months, when there was a great famine upon all the land;"}
{"book": "LUK", "chapter": 4, "verse": "26", "text": "And to none of them was Elijah sent, except unto [the town of] Zarephath (greek-Sarepta) of Sidon, to a widowed woman."}
{"book": "LUK", "chapter": 4, "verse": "27", "text": "And many lepers were in Israel in the time (upon) of Elisha the prophet and none of them was cleansed except Naaman the Syrian."}
{"book": "LUK", "chapter": 4, "verse": "28", "text": "And all were filled with an outburst of passion (rage, expressed anger) in the synagogue, hearing these things;"}
{"book": "LUK", "chapter": 4, "verse": "29", "text": "And having risen up, they cast Him outside of the city, and led Him unto the brow (ridge) of the hill (mountain) upon which their city had been built in order to throw Him down over;"}
{"book": "LUK", "chapter": 4, "verse": "30", "text": "However He having passed through the midst of them, went away."}
{"book": "LUK", "chapter": 4, "verse": "31", "text": "And He went down unto Capernaum, a city of Galilee, and was teaching them on the Sabbath."}
{"book": "LUK", "chapter": 4, "verse": "32", "text": "And they were astounded at (upon) His teaching because His word was in authority."}
{"book": "LUK", "chapter": 4, "verse": "33", "text": "And there was a man in the synagogue having a spirit of an unclean demon; and he cried (screamed/shouted) out loudly with a great voice,"}
{"book": "LUK", "chapter": 4, "verse": "34", "text": "Ha! (Ah!, Aha!, Ho!) What to us and to you, Jesus of Nazareth? Are You come to destroy us? I know You who You are, the Holy [One] of God."}
{"book": "LUK", "chapter": 4, "verse": "35", "text": "And Jesus censured upon him, saying, Be put to silence (muzzled), and come out away from him! And the demon, having thrown (cast, tossed) him into the midst, came out away from him, having not hurt him."}
{"book": "LUK", "chapter": 4, "verse": "36", "text": "And astonishment came upon all and they spoke to one another, saying, What word is this, that in authority and power He commands the unclean spirits and they come out?"}
{"book": "LUK", "chapter": 4, "verse": "37", "text": "And the report (sound) went out concerning Him into every place of the surrounding region."}
{"book": "LUK", "chapter": 4, "verse": "38", "text": "And having risen up away from the synagogue, He entered into the house of Simon. And the mother-in-law of Simon was afflicted with a great fever; and they asked Him concerning her."}
{"book": "LUK", "chapter": 4, "verse": "39", "text": "And having stood (stood upon) over (upon-above) her, He censured the fever, and it left her; and instantly having arisen, she served (diekonei) them."}
{"book": "LUK", "chapter": 4, "verse": "40", "text": "And at the setting of the sun, all, as many as had any ailing with various diseases (usually chronic and incurable), brought them to Him, and having laid hands upon each one of them, He healed (etherapeuen) them;"}
{"book": "LUK", "chapter": 4, "verse": "41", "text": "And demons also went out away from many, crying out and saying, You are the Son of God. And censuring them, He did not allow them to speak, because they knew Him to be the Christ."}
{"book": "LUK", "chapter": 4, "verse": "42", "text": "And daybreak having arrived, having gone out, He went unto a wilderness (solitary) place, and the crowds sought Him and came up to Him and were detaining Him that He should not go away from them."}
{"book": "LUK", "chapter": 4, "verse": "43", "text": "And He said to them, It is necessary for Me to preach the good news of the kingdom of God to other towns; because upon this I have been sent forth."}
{"book": "LUK", "chapter": 4, "verse": "44", "text": "And He was preaching in (unto) the synagogues of Galilee."}
{"book": "LUK", "chapter": 5, "verse": "1", "text": "And it happened, as the crowd was pressing upon Him to hear the word of God, and He was standing beside the lake of Gennesaret:"}
{"book": "LUK", "chapter": 5, "verse": "2", "text": "And He saw two boats lying beside the lake, however the fisherman having gone out away from them, washed the nets."}
{"book": "LUK", "chapter": 5, "verse": "3", "text": "And having entered into one of the boats which was Simon’s, He asked him to put out a little away from the land. And having sat down, He taught the crowds from out of the boat."}
{"book": "LUK", "chapter": 5, "verse": "4", "text": "And when He ceased speaking, He said to Simon, Put out into the deep and let down your nets unto a catch."}
{"book": "LUK", "chapter": 5, "verse": "5", "text": "And answering, Simon said, Master-in-charge (Epistata-standing upon, latin-praeceptor-master/ commander), having labored hard through the whole night, we have taken nothing, however upon Your saying (rhemati), I will let down the nets."}
{"book": "LUK", "chapter": 5, "verse": "6", "text": "And having done this, they enclosed a great multitude of fishes; and their nets were breaking."}
{"book": "LUK", "chapter": 5, "verse": "7", "text": "And they signaled to their partners in the other boat to come to help them; and they came and filled both boats so that they were sinking."}
{"book": "LUK", "chapter": 5, "verse": "8", "text": "And having seen, Simon Peter fell at the knees of Jesus, saying, Depart away from me, because I am a sinful man, Lord."}
{"book": "LUK", "chapter": 5, "verse": "9", "text": "For astonishment laid hold on him and on all those with him upon the catch of the fish which they had taken;"}
{"book": "LUK", "chapter": 5, "verse": "10", "text": "And likewise also James and John, sons of Zebedee, who were partakers with Simon. And Jesus said to Simon, Fear not; from now on you will be catching men."}
{"book": "LUK", "chapter": 5, "verse": "11", "text": "And having brought the boats upon the land, having left all, they followed Him."}
{"book": "LUK", "chapter": 5, "verse": "12", "text": "And it happened in His being in one of the cities, and behold, a man full of leprosy, and having seen Jesus, having fallen upon his face, he begged Him, saying, Lord, if You would be willing, You are able to cleanse me."}
{"book": "LUK", "chapter": 5, "verse": "13", "text": "And having stretched out His hand, He touched him, saying, I am willing; be you cleansed! And directly the leprosy departed away from him."}
{"book": "LUK", "chapter": 5, "verse": "14", "text": "And He charged him to tell no one; but having gone away, show yourself to the priest and offer concerning your cleansing, just as Moses commanded unto a testimony to them."}
{"book": "LUK", "chapter": 5, "verse": "15", "text": "However the word (report) concerning him was spread abroad still more; and great crowds were coming to hear and be healed (therapeusthai) from their infirmities."}
{"book": "LUK", "chapter": 5, "verse": "16", "text": "And He Himself was withdrawing in the wilderness and praying."}
{"book": "LUK", "chapter": 5, "verse": "17", "text": "And it happened in one of the days, and He was teaching, and there were Pharisees and teachers of the law sitting by, who were come from out of every village of Galilee, and of Judea, and of Jerusalem. And the power of the Lord was there to heal (iasthai) them."}
{"book": "LUK", "chapter": 5, "verse": "18", "text": "And behold, men carrying a man upon a mat who was paralyzed (enfeebled), and they sought to bring him in and place him before Him."}
{"book": "LUK", "chapter": 5, "verse": "19", "text": "And having not found what way they should bring him in on account of the crowd, having gone up upon the housetop, they let him down through the tiles with the mat into the midst before Jesus."}
{"book": "LUK", "chapter": 5, "verse": "20", "text": "And having seen their faith, He said, Man, your sins having been remitted you."}
{"book": "LUK", "chapter": 5, "verse": "21", "text": "And the scribes and Pharisees began to reason (dialogue), saying, Who is this who speaks blasphemies? Who is able to remit sins, except God alone?"}
{"book": "LUK", "chapter": 5, "verse": "22", "text": "And Jesus having known their reasonings (dialoguings), answering, said to them, Why do you reason (dialogue) in your hearts?"}
{"book": "LUK", "chapter": 5, "verse": "23", "text": "Which is easier to say, You have been remitted your sins, or to say, Arise and walk?"}
{"book": "LUK", "chapter": 5, "verse": "24", "text": "However so that you might know that the Son of man has authority upon the earth to remit sins- He said to the one having been paralyzed, I say to you, Arise, and having taken up your mat, go unto your house."}
{"book": "LUK", "chapter": 5, "verse": "25", "text": "And instantly having stood up in the sight of them, having taken up that upon which he was lying, he departed unto his house, glorifying God."}
{"book": "LUK", "chapter": 5, "verse": "26", "text": "And ecstasy (greek-ekstasis, latin-stupor-amazement, bewildered trance-like amazement) took all, and they glorified God and were filled with fear (awe), saying, We have seen remarkable things (glorious, splendorous, greek-paradoxa, latin-mirabilia-wonderful, contrary to opinion or expectation, from para-doxa with doxa meaning glory) today."}
{"book": "LUK", "chapter": 5, "verse": "27", "text": "And after these things, He went out and saw a tax collector named Levi sitting at (upon) the tax booth, and said to him, Follow Me."}
{"book": "LUK", "chapter": 5, "verse": "28", "text": "And having left all, having arisen, he followed Him."}
{"book": "LUK", "chapter": 5, "verse": "29", "text": "And Levi made a great banquet for Him in his house and there was a great multitude of tax collectors and others who were reclining at the table with them."}
{"book": "LUK", "chapter": 5, "verse": "30", "text": "And their scribes and the Pharisees grumbled at His disciples, saying, Why do you eat and drink with the tax collectors and sinners?"}
{"book": "LUK", "chapter": 5, "verse": "31", "text": "And answering, Jesus said to them, Those being healthy (latin-sani, the greek word is like the word for hygiene) have no necessity of a physician (iatrou, healer, latin-medico-doctor), but rather those being badly (kakos)."}
{"book": "LUK", "chapter": 5, "verse": "32", "text": "I have not come to call righteous [ones], but sinners unto repentance."}
{"book": "LUK", "chapter": 5, "verse": "33", "text": "And they said to Him, The disciples of John fast often and make petitions, likewise also those of the Pharisees; however those of You eat and drink?"}
{"book": "LUK", "chapter": 5, "verse": "34", "text": "And Jesus said to them, Are you able to make the sons of the bridechamber fast while the bridegroom (nymphios, latin-sponsus) is with them?"}
{"book": "LUK", "chapter": 5, "verse": "35", "text": "However the days will come when also the bridegroom shall be taken away from them, then they will fast in those days."}
{"book": "LUK", "chapter": 5, "verse": "36", "text": "And He spoke also a parable to them, No one having torn a piece of a new garment puts it upon an old garment; otherwise he will tear the new, and the piece which is from the new will not match the old."}
{"book": "LUK", "chapter": 5, "verse": "37", "text": "And no one puts new (fresh, young) wine (onion) into old wineskins; otherwise the new wine will burst the wineskins, and it will be spilled out, and the wineskins will be destroyed;"}
{"book": "LUK", "chapter": 5, "verse": "38", "text": "But rather new wine must be put into new (fresh, unused) wineskins,"}
{"book": "LUK", "chapter": 5, "verse": "39", "text": "And no one having drunk (pion) the old wants new; for he says, the old is better (well-fitted, usefully kind, good, suitable)."}
{"book": "LUK", "chapter": 6, "verse": "1", "text": "And it happened on the Sabbath, He was passing along through the grainfields; and His disciples were plucking and eating the heads of grain, rubbing them in their hands."}
{"book": "LUK", "chapter": 6, "verse": "2", "text": "However some of the Pharisees said, Why do you do that which is not permitted (lawful) on the Sabbath?"}
{"book": "LUK", "chapter": 6, "verse": "3", "text": "And Jesus answering to them, said, Have you not even read this, that which David did, when he himself was hungry, and those who were with him;"}
{"book": "LUK", "chapter": 6, "verse": "4", "text": "How he entered into the house of God, and having taken the bread of the presence, ate, and gave to those with him, which is not permitted to eat, except only the priests?"}
{"book": "LUK", "chapter": 6, "verse": "5", "text": "And He said to them, The Son of Man is Lord of the Sabbath."}
{"book": "LUK", "chapter": 6, "verse": "6", "text": "And it happened on another Sabbath, He entered into the synagogue and taught; and there was a man there, and his right hand was withered."}
{"book": "LUK", "chapter": 6, "verse": "7", "text": "And the scribes and Pharisees were closely watching Him, if He will heal (therapeuei) on the Sabbath, so that they might find [reason] to accuse Him."}
{"book": "LUK", "chapter": 6, "verse": "8", "text": "And He knew their reasonings (dialogues) and said to the man having the withered hand, Arise, and stand into the midst. And he having risen up, stood."}
{"book": "LUK", "chapter": 6, "verse": "9", "text": "And Jesus said to them, I ask you, whether it is permitted on the Sabbath to do good or to do evil? To save life (psyche-soul) or to destroy?"}
{"book": "LUK", "chapter": 6, "verse": "10", "text": "And having looked around on them all, He said to him, Stretch out your hand. And he did, and his hand was restored."}
{"book": "LUK", "chapter": 6, "verse": "11", "text": "However they were filled with irrationality (mindlessness, madness, anoia-no mind), and discussed with one another as to what they should do to Jesus."}
{"book": "LUK", "chapter": 6, "verse": "12", "text": "And it happened in those days, He went out unto the mountain to pray, and He was spending the night in prayer to God."}
{"book": "LUK", "chapter": 6, "verse": "13", "text": "And when it became day, He called His disciples to Him, and having chosen out from them twelve, whom he also named apostles;"}
{"book": "LUK", "chapter": 6, "verse": "14", "text": "Simon whom also He named Peter, and Andrew his brother; and James and John; and Philip and Bartholomew;"}
{"book": "LUK", "chapter": 6, "verse": "15", "text": "and Matthew and Thomas; and James son of Alphaeus; and Simon the one called Zealot;"}
{"book": "LUK", "chapter": 6, "verse": "16", "text": "And Judas son of James; and Judas Iscariot, who became the betrayer."}
{"book": "LUK", "chapter": 6, "verse": "17", "text": "And having come down with them, He stood upon a level place, and a large crowd of His disciples and a great multitude of the people from all of Judea and Jerusalem, and the sea coast of Tyre and Sidon, Who came to hear Him, and to be healed (iathenai) from their diseases."}
{"book": "LUK", "chapter": 6, "verse": "18", "text": "And those disturbed from unclean spirits were healed (etherapeuonto)."}
{"book": "LUK", "chapter": 6, "verse": "19", "text": "And all the crowd sought to touch Him; because power from Him was going out and healed (iato) all."}
{"book": "LUK", "chapter": 6, "verse": "20", "text": "And He, having lifted up His eyes unto His disciples, said, Blessed (Made large) are the poor (destitute, beggarly), because yours is the kingdom of God."}
{"book": "LUK", "chapter": 6, "verse": "21", "text": "Blessed are those hungering now, because you will be feed. Blessed are those weeping now, because you will laugh."}
{"book": "LUK", "chapter": 6, "verse": "22", "text": "Blessed are you when men shall hate (detest) you, and when they shall exclude you, and shall insult (revile, reproach) you, and cast out your name as evil, on account of the Son of Man;"}
{"book": "LUK", "chapter": 6, "verse": "23", "text": "Rejoice in that day, and leap for joy; for behold, your reward is great in heaven. For according to these things so did their fathers likewise do to the prophets."}
{"book": "LUK", "chapter": 6, "verse": "24", "text": "However woe to you who are rich, because you are receiving your entreaty."}
{"book": "LUK", "chapter": 6, "verse": "25", "text": "Woe to you who having been filled now, because you will hunger. Woe to those laughing now, because you will mourn and weep."}
{"book": "LUK", "chapter": 6, "verse": "26", "text": "Woe to you when all men speak well of you, for according to these things their fathers likewise did to the false prophets."}
{"book": "LUK", "chapter": 6, "verse": "27", "text": "But I say to you hearing: Love your enemies (those openly hostile), do good (kalos) to those hating (detesting) you,"}
{"book": "LUK", "chapter": 6, "verse": "28", "text": "Bless those cursing you, pray concerning those abusively reviling upon (latin-calumniantibus-slander oppress at its root, to intimidate by using threats and false accusations tailor made to the situation) you."}
{"book": "LUK", "chapter": 6, "verse": "29", "text": "To the one striking you upon the cheek (jawbone), offer (present, furnish) also the other; And from the one taking away your cloak (outer garment), also the tunic (undergarment) do not withhold."}
{"book": "LUK", "chapter": 6, "verse": "30", "text": "To everyone asking you, give; and from the one taking away what is yours, do not ask it back;"}
{"book": "LUK", "chapter": 6, "verse": "31", "text": "And just as you wish that men should do to you, do to them likewise."}
{"book": "LUK", "chapter": 6, "verse": "32", "text": "And if you love those loving you, what credit (favor, grace) is it to you? For even sinners love those loving them."}
{"book": "LUK", "chapter": 6, "verse": "33", "text": "And if you do good to those doing good to you, what credit (favor, grace) is it to you? For even sinners do the same."}
{"book": "LUK", "chapter": 6, "verse": "34", "text": "And if you lend to those from whom you except to receive, what credit (favor, grace) is it to you? Even sinners lend to sinners, so that they might receive equal amount."}
{"book": "LUK", "chapter": 6, "verse": "35", "text": "However love your enemies and do good and lend, expecting nothing in return; and your reward will be great, and you will be sons of the Most High; because He is benevolent (usefully kind) upon the ungrateful (ungraceful) and evil."}
{"book": "LUK", "chapter": 6, "verse": "36", "text": "Be you merciful, just as also your Father is merciful."}
{"book": "LUK", "chapter": 6, "verse": "37", "text": "And do not judge, and you should not be judged; and do not condemn, and you should not be condemned. Remit and you will be remitted."}
{"book": "LUK", "chapter": 6, "verse": "38", "text": "Give and it will be given to you. Good measure, pressed down, shaken, pouring over, will they given into your bosom (upper chest), for with that measure you measure, it will be measured in return (reciprocity) to you."}
{"book": "LUK", "chapter": 6, "verse": "39", "text": "And He spoke also a parable to them, Is a blind man able to guide a blind man? Will not both fall into a pit?"}
{"book": "LUK", "chapter": 6, "verse": "40", "text": "The disciple is not above the teacher; however everyone fully trained (completed, fit together, exactly adjusted) will be like as his teacher."}
{"book": "LUK", "chapter": 6, "verse": "41", "text": "And why do you look at the speck (small dry chip/splinter/stalk of wood) that is in the eye of your brother, and not notice the beam (supporting rafter) that is in your own eye?"}
{"book": "LUK", "chapter": 6, "verse": "42", "text": "How are you able to say to your brother, Brother, Let that I might cast out the speck that is in your eye, when you yourself do not see the beam in your eye? Hypocrite, first cast out the beam from your eye, and then you will see clearly to cast out the speck that is in the eye of your brother."}
{"book": "LUK", "chapter": 6, "verse": "43", "text": "For there is no good tree producing bad (rotten, worthless, corrupt) fruit; nor again a bad (rotten, corrupt) tree producing good fruit;"}
{"book": "LUK", "chapter": 6, "verse": "44", "text": "For each tree is known from its own fruit. For they do not gather figs from out of thorns, nor do they gather clusters of grapes from out of a bramble bush."}
{"book": "LUK", "chapter": 6, "verse": "45", "text": "The good man brings forth (produces) that which is good from out of the good treasure of his heart; and the evil man brings forth (produces) that which is evil. For from out of the abundance of his heart his mouth speaks."}
{"book": "LUK", "chapter": 6, "verse": "46", "text": "And why do you call Me, Lord, Lord, and do not do what I say?"}
{"book": "LUK", "chapter": 6, "verse": "47", "text": "Everyone who is coming to Me, and hearing My words, and doing them, I will show you whom he is like."}
{"book": "LUK", "chapter": 6, "verse": "48", "text": "He is like a man building a house, who dug and deepened, and laid a foundation upon rock; and a flood having come, the stream (river) broke against that house and was not strong enough to shake it, because it had been well built."}
{"book": "LUK", "chapter": 6, "verse": "49", "text": "And the one having heard and having not done is like to a man having built a house upon the ground without a foundation; on which the stream (river) broke against and it directly fell and the ruin of that house was great."}
{"book": "LUK", "chapter": 7, "verse": "1", "text": "And when He had completed all His words in the hearing of the people, He entered into Capernaum."}
{"book": "LUK", "chapter": 7, "verse": "2", "text": "And a certain servant of a centurion who was highly valued to him, being sick (kakos-bad), was about to die."}
{"book": "LUK", "chapter": 7, "verse": "3", "text": "And having heard about Jesus, he sent elders of the Jews to Him, begging Him that having come, He might thoroughly save his servant."}
{"book": "LUK", "chapter": 7, "verse": "4", "text": "And having arrived to Jesus, they entreated Him earnestly (with haste, earnestly, speedily), saying, He is worthy to whom He will provide this;"}
{"book": "LUK", "chapter": 7, "verse": "5", "text": "For he loves our ethnicity (nation), and he built the synagogue for us."}
{"book": "LUK", "chapter": 7, "verse": "6", "text": "And Jesus went with them; and already, when He being not far from the house, the centurion sent friends, saying to Him, Lord, do not trouble Yourself, for I am not worthy (fit), so that You should come under my roof;"}
{"book": "LUK", "chapter": 7, "verse": "7", "text": "Therefore neither did I count myself worthy to come to You; but say by a word and my servant shall be healed (iatheto)."}
{"book": "LUK", "chapter": 7, "verse": "8", "text": "For I also am a man appointed under authority, having soldiers under me; and I say to this one, Go and he goes; and to another one, Come, and he comes; and to my servant, Do this and he does it."}
{"book": "LUK", "chapter": 7, "verse": "9", "text": "And having heard these things, Jesus marveled at him; and having turned to the crowd following Him, He said, I say to you, Not even in Israel did I find so much faith."}
{"book": "LUK", "chapter": 7, "verse": "10", "text": "And those having been sent having returned unto the house, found the servant being in good health."}
{"book": "LUK", "chapter": 7, "verse": "11", "text": "And it happened on the next day, He went into a town called Nain, and His disciples and a great crowd went with Him."}
{"book": "LUK", "chapter": 7, "verse": "12", "text": "And as He drew near to the gate of the town, and behold, one having died was being carried out, the only begotten son of his mother; and she was a widow, and a considerable crowd of the town was with her."}
{"book": "LUK", "chapter": 7, "verse": "13", "text": "And the Lord having seen her, was moved with compassion (moved in the inner parts) upon her and said to her, Weep not."}
{"book": "LUK", "chapter": 7, "verse": "14", "text": "And having come up, He touched the coffin; and those bearing it stopped. And He said, Young man, I say to you, Arise!"}
{"book": "LUK", "chapter": 7, "verse": "15", "text": "And the dead man sat up and began to speak and He gave him to his mother."}
{"book": "LUK", "chapter": 7, "verse": "16", "text": "And fear took all and they glorified God, saying, A great prophet has risen up among us! And God has looked upon (visited upon) His people!"}
{"book": "LUK", "chapter": 7, "verse": "17", "text": "And this word (report) went out in all Judea and all the surrounding region concerning Him. And John, having called to him, two certain disciples of him, sent them to the Lord, saying, Are You the coming One? Or are we to look for another?"}
{"book": "LUK", "chapter": 7, "verse": "18", "text": "And the disciples of John brought him word concerning all these things."}
{"book": "LUK", "chapter": 7, "verse": "19", "text": "And John, having called to him, two certain disciples of him, sent them to the Lord, saying, Are You the coming One? Or are we to look for another?"}
{"book": "LUK", "chapter": 7, "verse": "20", "text": "And having come to Him, the men said, John the Baptist has sent us to You, saying, Are You the coming One? Or are we to look for another?"}
{"book": "LUK", "chapter": 7, "verse": "21", "text": "In that there hour, He healed many from diseases, and painful afflictions (like a scourge that is debilitating and highly painful), and evil spirits, and to many blind He freely gave (graced) to see."}
{"book": "LUK", "chapter": 7, "verse": "22", "text": "And answering, He said to them, Go, take word to John of what you have seen and heard: blind receive sight, lame walk, lepers are cleansed; and deaf hear, dead are raised, poor are evangelized."}
{"book": "LUK", "chapter": 7, "verse": "23", "text": "And blessed is he who shall not be offended (stumbled) in Me."}
{"book": "LUK", "chapter": 7, "verse": "24", "text": "And the messengers of John having departed, He began to speak to the crowds concerning John: What have you gone out into the wilderness to see? A reed shaken by the wind?"}
{"book": "LUK", "chapter": 7, "verse": "25", "text": "But what have you gone out to see? A man arrayed in fine (soft, delicate) clothing? Behold, those in splendid clothing and living in luxury are in the palaces."}
{"book": "LUK", "chapter": 7, "verse": "26", "text": "But what have you gone out to see? A prophet? Yes, I say to you, and one greater (more abundant) than a prophet."}
{"book": "LUK", "chapter": 7, "verse": "27", "text": "This is he concerning whom it has been written, Behold, I send My messenger before your face, who will prepare the Your way before You."}
{"book": "LUK", "chapter": 7, "verse": "28", "text": "I say to you, No one is greater among those born of women than John; yet the least in the kingdom of God is greater than he."}
{"book": "LUK", "chapter": 7, "verse": "29", "text": "And all the people and the tax collectors having heard, declared God just, having been baptized with the baptism of John;"}
{"book": "LUK", "chapter": 7, "verse": "30", "text": "However the Pharisees and the lawyers rendered null as to themselves the counsel (resolved plan) of God, not having been baptized by him."}
{"book": "LUK", "chapter": 7, "verse": "31", "text": "To what therefore will I liken the men of this generation? And to what are they like?"}
{"book": "LUK", "chapter": 7, "verse": "32", "text": "They are like little children sitting in the marketplace and calling one to another, saying, We played the flute to you, and you did not dance; we lamented and you did not weep."}
{"book": "LUK", "chapter": 7, "verse": "33", "text": "For John the Baptist has come, neither eating bread nor drinking (pinon) wine (oinon), and you say, He has a demon."}
{"book": "LUK", "chapter": 7, "verse": "34", "text": "The Son of Man has come, eating and drinking (pinon), and you say, Behold, a man, a glutton and a wine-drinker (latin-bibens vinum- drinking wine, different word is used in the NT for drunkard), a friend of tax collectors and of sinners;"}
{"book": "LUK", "chapter": 7, "verse": "35", "text": "And wisdom was justified from all her children."}
{"book": "LUK", "chapter": 7, "verse": "36", "text": "And one of the Pharisees asked Him, so that He should eat with him, and having entered in the house of the Pharisee, He reclined at the table;"}
{"book": "LUK", "chapter": 7, "verse": "37", "text": "And behold, a woman in the city who was a sinner. And she having known that He had reclined at the table in the house of the Pharisee, having taken an alabaster flask of ointment (ointment made of olive oil and other spices),"}
{"book": "LUK", "chapter": 7, "verse": "38", "text": "And having stood behind Him beside His feet weeping, she began to wet His feet with her tears, and she was wiping them with the hairs of her head, and was kissing His feet, and was anointing (rubbing/smearing) them with the ointment."}
{"book": "LUK", "chapter": 7, "verse": "39", "text": "And the Pharisee, the one having invited Him, having seen, spoke within himself, saying, If this Man were a prophet, He would have known who and what the woman is who touches Him, because she is a sinner."}
{"book": "LUK", "chapter": 7, "verse": "40", "text": "And answering, Jesus said to him, Simon, I have something to say to you. And he says, Teacher, say it."}
{"book": "LUK", "chapter": 7, "verse": "41", "text": "There were two debtors to a certain creditor; the one owed five hundred denarii; and the other, fifty."}
{"book": "LUK", "chapter": 7, "verse": "42", "text": "They having nothing to pay, he forgave (echarisato, pardoned, showed favor, freely gave, favor that cancels) both. Which of them therefore will love him most?"}
{"book": "LUK", "chapter": 7, "verse": "43", "text": "Simon answering, said, I assume that he to whom the most he forgave. And He said to him, You have judged correctly (straightly)."}
{"book": "LUK", "chapter": 7, "verse": "44", "text": "And having turned to the woman, He said to Simon, You see this woman? I entered into your house; you gave Me no water upon My feet; however she wet my feet with her tears, and wiped them with her hair."}
{"book": "LUK", "chapter": 7, "verse": "45", "text": "You gave no kiss to Me, and she herself has not ceased kissing My feet from when I came in."}
{"book": "LUK", "chapter": 7, "verse": "46", "text": "You did not anoint My head with oil; however she herself anointed My feet with ointment."}
{"book": "LUK", "chapter": 7, "verse": "47", "text": "This then I say to you, Her many sins have been remitted; because she loved much; however to whom little is remitted, he loves little."}
{"book": "LUK", "chapter": 7, "verse": "48", "text": "And He said to her, Your sins have been remitted."}
{"book": "LUK", "chapter": 7, "verse": "49", "text": "And those reclining began to say within themselves, Who is this who even remits sins?"}
{"book": "LUK", "chapter": 7, "verse": "50", "text": "And He said to the woman, Your faith has saved you; go in peace."}
{"book": "LUK", "chapter": 8, "verse": "1", "text": "And it happened afterward, and He journeyed throughout the city and village, preaching and announcing the good news of the kingdom of God. And the twelve were with Him,"}
{"book": "LUK", "chapter": 8, "verse": "2", "text": "And certain women who had been healed (tetherapeumenai) from evil spirits and infirmities, Mary who is called Magdalene, from whom seven demons had gone out;"}
{"book": "LUK", "chapter": 8, "verse": "3", "text": "And Joanna wife of Chuza, a manager (administrator, steward) of Herod; and Susanna, and many others, who were ministering (diekonoun, serving) to them from out of their own means (what they already have, latin-facultatibus-resources)."}
{"book": "LUK", "chapter": 8, "verse": "4", "text": "And a great crowd coming together, and those town after town journeying to Him, He spoke through a parable:"}
{"book": "LUK", "chapter": 8, "verse": "5", "text": "The one sowing went out to sow his seed; and in his sowing some fell beside the way and it was trampled down and the birds of the heaven devoured it."}
{"book": "LUK", "chapter": 8, "verse": "6", "text": "And other fell upon the rock and having sprung up it withered (dried up), through not having moisture;"}
{"book": "LUK", "chapter": 8, "verse": "7", "text": "And other fell in the midst of the thorns, and having sprung up with it, the thorns choked it;"}
{"book": "LUK", "chapter": 8, "verse": "8", "text": "And other fell into the good (agathen) soil and having sprung up it produced (made) fruit a hundredfold. He called out saying these things, The one having ears to hear, let him hear."}
{"book": "LUK", "chapter": 8, "verse": "9", "text": "And His disciples asked upon Him, What is this parable?"}
{"book": "LUK", "chapter": 8, "verse": "10", "text": "And He said, To you all it has been given to know the mysteries of the kingdom of God, however to the rest in parables; so that seeing, they might not see; and hearing, not comprehend (put it together)."}
{"book": "LUK", "chapter": 8, "verse": "11", "text": "And this is the parable: The seed is the word of God;"}
{"book": "LUK", "chapter": 8, "verse": "12", "text": "And those beside the way are those having heard; then comes the devil and takes away the word from their heart, so that lest having believed they should be saved."}
{"book": "LUK", "chapter": 8, "verse": "13", "text": "And those upon the rock, those who when they hear, receive the word with joy, and these have no root, who believe for an opportune time, and in time of testing fall away (stand away from)."}
{"book": "LUK", "chapter": 8, "verse": "14", "text": "And that having fallen into the thorns, these are they who having heard go along and are choked under cares (anxieties), and riches, and sensual pleasures of life, and do not mature (carry to consummation, bring to maturity)."}
{"book": "LUK", "chapter": 8, "verse": "15", "text": "And that in the good (kale) soil, these are they who in an optimal (kale- winsomely good, worthy, latin-optimo-best) and good (agathe- good natured) heart, having heard the word hold it fast (retain) and bring forth fruit in endurance."}
{"book": "LUK", "chapter": 8, "verse": "16", "text": "And no one having lighted a lamb, covers it with a vessel or puts it under a bed, but puts it upon a lampstand, so that those entering in might see the light."}
{"book": "LUK", "chapter": 8, "verse": "17", "text": "For nothing is hidden which will not become apparent; nor hidden away which shall not be known and come into visibility (being apparent)."}
{"book": "LUK", "chapter": 8, "verse": "18", "text": "See (look, take heed, beware) therefore how you hear: for whoever might have, to him will be given; and whoever might not have, even what he supposes to have will be taken away from him."}
{"book": "LUK", "chapter": 8, "verse": "19", "text": "And His mother and brothers came and they were not able to get to Him, because of the crowd."}
{"book": "LUK", "chapter": 8, "verse": "20", "text": "And it was told to Him, Your mother and Your brothers are standing outside, wanting to see You."}
{"book": "LUK", "chapter": 8, "verse": "21", "text": "And answering, He said to them, My mother and My brothers are those who are hearing and doing the word of God."}
{"book": "LUK", "chapter": 8, "verse": "22", "text": "And it happened on one of the days, He entered into a boat with His disciples and He said to them, Let us pass over unto the other side of the lake. And they launched out."}
{"book": "LUK", "chapter": 8, "verse": "23", "text": "And as they sailed, He fell asleep. And a storm (latin-procella) of wind (latin-venti) came down unto the lake and they were being swamped (filled with water) and were in danger."}
{"book": "LUK", "chapter": 8, "verse": "24", "text": "And having come to Him, they awoke Him, saying, Master-in-charge, Master-in-charge (One standing upon), we are perishing! And having arisen, He censured the wind and the raging (surging, latin-surgens) of the water, and they ceased, and there was a calm."}
{"book": "LUK", "chapter": 8, "verse": "25", "text": "And He said to them, Where is your faith? And having been fearful, they marveled, saying to one another, Who then is this? That He commands upon (arranges upon) the winds and the water and they comply under (under-listen to) Him?"}
{"book": "LUK", "chapter": 8, "verse": "26", "text": "And they sailed down unto the region of the Gerasenes, which is on the opposite side of Galilee."}
{"book": "LUK", "chapter": 8, "verse": "27", "text": "And He having gone out upon the land, a certain man from out of the city met Him, having demons a considerable time was not wearing clothing (outer garment) and did not abide in a house, but in the tombs."}
{"book": "LUK", "chapter": 8, "verse": "28", "text": "And having seen Jesus, having cried out, he fell down before Him and with a great voice, said, What to me and to You, Jesus, Son of God, the Most High? I implore (beg, urgently appeal) of You that You might not torment me!"}
{"book": "LUK", "chapter": 8, "verse": "29", "text": "For He was commanding the unclean spirit to come out away from the man. For many times it had seized him; and he was bound, being kept with chains and shackles, and tearing apart the bonds, he was driven by (under) the demon into the wildernesses (latin-deserta)."}
{"book": "LUK", "chapter": 8, "verse": "30", "text": "And Jesus asked upon him, What is your name? And he said, Legion (greek-Legion), because many demons were entered into him."}
{"book": "LUK", "chapter": 8, "verse": "31", "text": "And they entreated Him, so that He would not command upon them to go away into the abyss (no bottom to the deep)."}
{"book": "LUK", "chapter": 8, "verse": "32", "text": "And there was there a herd of considerable pigs feeding in the mountain and they entreated Him, so that He would permit them to enter into them; and He permitted them."}
{"book": "LUK", "chapter": 8, "verse": "33", "text": "And the demons having gone out away from the man entered into the pigs, and the herd rushed down the steep bank (precipice, crag) into the lake and were drowned."}
{"book": "LUK", "chapter": 8, "verse": "34", "text": "And those feeding them, having seen that having happened, fled and reported it unto the city and unto the country."}
{"book": "LUK", "chapter": 8, "verse": "35", "text": "And they went out to see that having happened, and come to Jesus and found the man away from whom the demons had gone out, sitting, clothed, and being of a sound mind beside the feet of Jesus. And they were fearful."}
{"book": "LUK", "chapter": 8, "verse": "36", "text": "And those having seen it announced to them how the one having been demonized (under the power of a demon) was saved (esothe, latin says became healthy- sanus like sane)."}
{"book": "LUK", "chapter": 8, "verse": "37", "text": "And the whole multitude of the surrounding region of the Gerasenes asked Him to depart away from them, because they were seized (compelled, pressed together) with great fear. And He having entered into the boat, returned."}
{"book": "LUK", "chapter": 8, "verse": "38", "text": "And the man away from whom the demons had gone out was begging Him to be with Him. However He sent him away saying,"}
{"book": "LUK", "chapter": 8, "verse": "39", "text": "Return unto your house and fully relate (describe) how much God has done for you. And he departed, preaching throughout the whole city how much Jesus had done from him."}
{"book": "LUK", "chapter": 8, "verse": "40", "text": "And when Jesus returned, the crowd gladly welcomed Him; for they were all expectedly awaiting Him."}
{"book": "LUK", "chapter": 8, "verse": "41", "text": "And behold, a man came, whose name was Jarius, and he was a ruler of the synagogue, and having fallen beside the feet of Jesus, he entreated Him to come unto his house,"}
{"book": "LUK", "chapter": 8, "verse": "42", "text": "Because he had an only daughter about twelve years old and she was dying. And as He went the crowds pressed around Him."}
{"book": "LUK", "chapter": 8, "verse": "43", "text": "And a woman being with (in) a flow (flux, issue, hemorrhage-NASB) of blood for twelve years, who, having spent her whole living on physicians (iatrois), neither was she able to be healed (therapeuthenai) from anyone,"}
{"book": "LUK", "chapter": 8, "verse": "44", "text": "Having come behind, she touched the fringe (edge, hem) of His clothing (outer garment), and instantly her flow of blood stopped."}
{"book": "LUK", "chapter": 8, "verse": "45", "text": "And Jesus said, Who is the one having touched Me? And all were denying it, Peter said, Master-in-charge, the people press together around You and press hard, and You say, Who has touched Me?"}
{"book": "LUK", "chapter": 8, "verse": "46", "text": "And Jesus said, Someone touched Me; for I know that power has gone out away from Me."}
{"book": "LUK", "chapter": 8, "verse": "47", "text": "And having seen the woman, that she was not hid, she came trembling, and having fallen down before Him, she announced in the sight of all the people for what reason she touched Him and how she was instantly healed (iathe)."}
{"book": "LUK", "chapter": 8, "verse": "48", "text": "And He said to her, Daughter, your faith has saved (sesoken) you; go in (unto) peace."}
{"book": "LUK", "chapter": 8, "verse": "49", "text": "While He was still speaking, someone from the ruler of the synagogue comes, saying, Your daughter has died; do not trouble (annoy) the Teacher any longer."}
{"book": "LUK", "chapter": 8, "verse": "50", "text": "However Jesus having heard, answered him, Fear not; only believe, and she will be saved (sothesetai, healed, restored)."}
{"book": "LUK", "chapter": 8, "verse": "51", "text": "And having entered into the house, He did not permit (remit) anyone to go in with Him, except Peter and John and James, and the father of the child, and the mother."}
{"book": "LUK", "chapter": 8, "verse": "52", "text": "And they were all weeping and mourning for her. However He said, Weep not; for she is not dead but sleeps."}
{"book": "LUK", "chapter": 8, "verse": "53", "text": "And they laughed (derided, ridiculed) at Him, knowing that she was dead."}
{"book": "LUK", "chapter": 8, "verse": "54", "text": "And He, having taken hold of her hand, called out, saying, Child, arise!"}
{"book": "LUK", "chapter": 8, "verse": "55", "text": "And her spirit returned (turned back upon) and she arose instantly; and He directed [for something] to be given to her to eat."}
{"book": "LUK", "chapter": 8, "verse": "56", "text": "And her parents were astonished; and He charged them to tell no one what had happened."}
{"book": "LUK", "chapter": 9, "verse": "1", "text": "And having called together the twelve, He gave to them power and authority over (upon) all the demons and to heal (therapeuein) diseases,"}
{"book": "LUK", "chapter": 9, "verse": "2", "text": "And sent them to preach the kingdom of God and to heal (iasthai) the sick."}
{"book": "LUK", "chapter": 9, "verse": "3", "text": "And He said to them, Take nothing unto the journey; neither staff, nor bag, nor bread, nor money, nor to have two tunics (under-garments) apiece."}
{"book": "LUK", "chapter": 9, "verse": "4", "text": "And into whatever house you might enter, remain there and from there go forth."}
{"book": "LUK", "chapter": 9, "verse": "5", "text": "And as many as might not receive you, going out away from that city, shake off the dust from your feet unto a testimony against (upon) them."}
{"book": "LUK", "chapter": 9, "verse": "6", "text": "And going out, they passed through the villages, preaching the gospel and healing (therapeuontes) everywhere."}
{"book": "LUK", "chapter": 9, "verse": "7", "text": "And Herod the tetrarch heard of all the things being done and was perplexed because it was said by some that John has been raised from out of the dead;"}
{"book": "LUK", "chapter": 9, "verse": "8", "text": "And by some, that Elijah had appeared; and by others that a prophet, one of the ancients had arisen."}
{"book": "LUK", "chapter": 9, "verse": "9", "text": "And Herod said, I beheaded John, however who is this concerning whom I hear such things? And he sought to see Him."}
{"book": "LUK", "chapter": 9, "verse": "10", "text": "The apostles having returned, fully related (described) to Him whatever they had done. And having taken them, He withdrew by Himself into a town called Bethsaida."}
{"book": "LUK", "chapter": 9, "verse": "11", "text": "And the crowds having known it, followed Him; and having received them, He spoke to them concerning the kingdom of God, and he cured (iato- healed) those having necessity of healing (therapeias)."}
{"book": "LUK", "chapter": 9, "verse": "12", "text": "And the day began to decline, and the twelve having come said to Him, Dismiss the crowd, so that having gone into the surrounding villages and countryside they might lodge and might find provisions; because we are in a desolate (wilderness, desert) place here."}
{"book": "LUK", "chapter": 9, "verse": "13", "text": "And He said to them, You give to them to eat. And they said, There are not more than five loaves and two fish to us, unless having gone, we should buy food for (unto) all this people;"}
{"book": "LUK", "chapter": 9, "verse": "14", "text": "For they were about five thousand men. And He said to His disciples, Make them sit down in groups of about fifty."}
{"book": "LUK", "chapter": 9, "verse": "15", "text": "And they did so and made all sit down."}
{"book": "LUK", "chapter": 9, "verse": "16", "text": "And having taken the five loaves and two fishes, having looked up unto the heaven, He blessed them and broke and gave to the disciples to set beside the crowd."}
{"book": "LUK", "chapter": 9, "verse": "17", "text": "And they ate and all were satisfied (fed); and there was taken up twelve hand-baskets having been a surplus of fragments to them."}
{"book": "LUK", "chapter": 9, "verse": "18", "text": "And it happened as He was praying in solitary (greek-monas possibly the root of monastery), His disciples were with Him, and He questioned them, saying, Whom do the crowds say Me to be?"}
{"book": "LUK", "chapter": 9, "verse": "19", "text": "And answering, they said, John the Baptist; others however, Elijah; and others that a prophet, one of the ancients, has arisen."}
{"book": "LUK", "chapter": 9, "verse": "20", "text": "And He said to them, you however, Who do you say Me to be? And Peter answering, said, The Christ of God."}
{"book": "LUK", "chapter": 9, "verse": "21", "text": "And having strictly warned (censured) them, He commanded them to tell this to no one,"}
{"book": "LUK", "chapter": 9, "verse": "22", "text": "Having said, It is necessary for the Son of Man to suffer many things; and to be rejected from the elders, and chief priests, and scribes, and to be killed, and be raised on the third day."}
{"book": "LUK", "chapter": 9, "verse": "23", "text": "And He said to all, If anyone wants to come after Me, let him deny (say no, repudiate, refuse) himself, and let him take up (raise, lift) his cross day by day and let him follow (accompany) Me."}
{"book": "LUK", "chapter": 9, "verse": "24", "text": "For whoever might want to save his life (soul), will lose it (fully destroy, cut off entirely); and whoever might lose (destroy) his life (soul) on account of Me, he will save it."}
{"book": "LUK", "chapter": 9, "verse": "25", "text": "For what is a man benefitted having gained the whole world, and having destroyed (lost) or having suffered the loss of (experienced loss of, forfeited) himself?"}
{"book": "LUK", "chapter": 9, "verse": "26", "text": "For whoever might have been ashamed of Me and My words, him the Son of Man will be ashamed of, when He shall come in His glory, and of the Father, and of the holy angels."}
{"book": "LUK", "chapter": 9, "verse": "27", "text": "And I say to you truthfully, there are some of those here standing who shall not taste of death, until they shall have seen the kingdom of God."}
{"book": "LUK", "chapter": 9, "verse": "28", "text": "And it happened after these words, about eight days, and having taken Peter and John and James, He went up onto the mountain to pray."}
{"book": "LUK", "chapter": 9, "verse": "29", "text": "And it happened in His praying, the appearance (sight, visible form) of His face was different, and His clothing became dazzling (gleaming, flashing forth like lightning, latin-refulgens-bright) white."}
{"book": "LUK", "chapter": 9, "verse": "30", "text": "And behold, two men talked with Him, who were Moses and Elijah,"}
{"book": "LUK", "chapter": 9, "verse": "31", "text": "Who having appeared in glory, spoke of His departure (exodus, exit), which He was about to fulfill in Jerusalem."}
{"book": "LUK", "chapter": 9, "verse": "32", "text": "And Peter and those with him were heavy with sleep; and having fully awoken they saw His glory and the two men standing with Him."}
{"book": "LUK", "chapter": 9, "verse": "33", "text": "And it happened in their departing (withdrawing, separating) away from Him, Peter said to Jesus, Master-in-charge, it is good (kalon) for us to be here; and let us make three tabernacles, one for You, and one for Moses, and one for Elijah; not knowing what he is saying."}
{"book": "LUK", "chapter": 9, "verse": "34", "text": "And as he is saying these things, a cloud came and overshadowed them; and they feared in their entering into the cloud."}
{"book": "LUK", "chapter": 9, "verse": "35", "text": "And a voice came from out of the cloud, saying, This is My Son, whom I have chosen; Listen to Him."}
{"book": "LUK", "chapter": 9, "verse": "36", "text": "And as the voice occurred, Jesus was found alone. And they were silent and they told to no one in those days anything of what they have seen."}
{"book": "LUK", "chapter": 9, "verse": "37", "text": "And it happened the next day, on having come down from the mountain, a great crowd met with Him."}
{"book": "LUK", "chapter": 9, "verse": "38", "text": "And behold, a man from the crowd cried out, saying, Teacher, I implore you to look upon my son, because he is an only child to me."}
{"book": "LUK", "chapter": 9, "verse": "39", "text": "And behold, a spirit takes him, and suddenly he cries out, and it throws him into convulsions with foaming and departs away from him with difficulty, bruising him."}
{"book": "LUK", "chapter": 9, "verse": "40", "text": "And I begged Your disciples so that they might cast it out, and they were not able."}
{"book": "LUK", "chapter": 9, "verse": "41", "text": "And answering, Jesus said, O unbelieving and distorted generation, until when will I be with you and bear with you? Bring your son here."}
{"book": "LUK", "chapter": 9, "verse": "42", "text": "And while he was coming near, the demon threw him down and threw him into convulsions. And Jesus censured the unclean spirit and healed (iasato) the boy and gave him back to his father."}
{"book": "LUK", "chapter": 9, "verse": "43", "text": "And all were astounded upon the majesty of God. And all were wondering upon all which He did; He said to His disciples,"}
{"book": "LUK", "chapter": 9, "verse": "44", "text": "Let these words be set into your ears: for the Son of Man is about to be betrayed into the hands of men."}
{"book": "LUK", "chapter": 9, "verse": "45", "text": "However they did not know (were ignorant of) this saying (rhema), and it was veiled (concealed) from them, so that they should not perceive it. And they feared to ask Him concerning this saying (rhematos)."}
{"book": "LUK", "chapter": 9, "verse": "46", "text": "And a dialogue came up among them, who might be greatest of them."}
{"book": "LUK", "chapter": 9, "verse": "47", "text": "However Jesus having known the dialoguing of their heart, having taken hold upon a child, He set it beside Him,"}
{"book": "LUK", "chapter": 9, "verse": "48", "text": "And said to them, Whoever shall receive this child upon My name, receives Me, and whoever shall receive Me, receives the One having sent Me. For the one being least among all you, he shall be great."}
{"book": "LUK", "chapter": 9, "verse": "49", "text": "And answering, John said, Master-in-charge, we saw someone casting out demons in Your name, and we forbade him, because he does not follow with us."}
{"book": "LUK", "chapter": 9, "verse": "50", "text": "And Jesus said to him, Forbid not; for who is not against us is for (by, under) us."}
{"book": "LUK", "chapter": 9, "verse": "51", "text": "And it happened in the completing of the days of His ascension, and He firmly fixed His face to go unto Jerusalem."}
{"book": "LUK", "chapter": 9, "verse": "52", "text": "And He sent messengers before His face. And having gone, they entered into a village of the Samaritans, so as to make ready for Him."}
{"book": "LUK", "chapter": 9, "verse": "53", "text": "And they did not receive Him, because His face was as going unto Jerusalem."}
{"book": "LUK", "chapter": 9, "verse": "54", "text": "And having seen it, the disciples James and John said, Lord, will You that we should call fire to come down away from heaven and consume (destroy, annihilate) them?"}
{"book": "LUK", "chapter": 9, "verse": "55", "text": "And having turned, He censured them, {and said, You do not know of what spirit you are.}"}
{"book": "LUK", "chapter": 9, "verse": "56", "text": "{For the Son of Man did not come to destroy the lives (souls) of men, but to save.} And they went unto another village."}
{"book": "LUK", "chapter": 9, "verse": "57", "text": "And they were going on (in) the way, someone said to Him, I will follow You wherever You might go."}
{"book": "LUK", "chapter": 9, "verse": "58", "text": "And Jesus said to him, The foxes have holes (burrows, dens) and the birds of the heaven nests (dwelling-places); however the Son of Man has not where He might recline (rest, latin-reclinet-recline) His head."}
{"book": "LUK", "chapter": 9, "verse": "59", "text": "And He said to another, Follow Me. However, he said, Lord, first permit me to go away and bury my father."}
{"book": "LUK", "chapter": 9, "verse": "60", "text": "And He said to him, Leave the dead their own dead; you however, go forth, announce throughout the kingdom of God."}
{"book": "LUK", "chapter": 9, "verse": "61", "text": "And another also said, I will follow You, Lord; however first permit me to make leave of (bid farewell to) those at my house."}
{"book": "LUK", "chapter": 9, "verse": "62", "text": "And Jesus said to him, No one having laid the hand upon the plow, and looking unto the things behind is fit (well-placed, suitable, ready for use) for the kingdom of God."}
{"book": "LUK", "chapter": 10, "verse": "1", "text": "And after these things, the Lord appointed also seventy two others, and sent them two by two before His face into every city and place where He Himself was about to come."}
{"book": "LUK", "chapter": 10, "verse": "2", "text": "And He said them, Indeed the harvest is plentiful (much, great); and the workmen are few. Therefore appeal (request, ask, beg, supplicate) to the Lord of the harvest, so that He might send out workmen into His harvest."}
{"book": "LUK", "chapter": 10, "verse": "3", "text": "Go; behold, I send you forth as lambs in the midst of wolves."}
{"book": "LUK", "chapter": 10, "verse": "4", "text": "Neither carry money-bag, nor traveler’s bag, nor sandals; and greet no one on the way."}
{"book": "LUK", "chapter": 10, "verse": "5", "text": "And into whatever house you may enter, first say, Peace to this house."}
{"book": "LUK", "chapter": 10, "verse": "6", "text": "And if a son of peace is there, your peace will rest upon it; however if not so, it will return upon you."}
{"book": "LUK", "chapter": 10, "verse": "7", "text": "And abide in the same house, eating and drinking the things [supplied] from them; for worthy is the workman of his wages (reward). Do not move from house unto house."}
{"book": "LUK", "chapter": 10, "verse": "8", "text": "And into whatever city you might enter, and they receive you, eat the things set beside you."}
{"book": "LUK", "chapter": 10, "verse": "9", "text": "And heal (therapeuete) the sick (infirmed) in it, and say to them, The kingdom of God has drawn near upon you."}
{"book": "LUK", "chapter": 10, "verse": "10", "text": "And into whatever city you might enter, and they do not receive you, having gone out into its streets, say,"}
{"book": "LUK", "chapter": 10, "verse": "11", "text": "Even the dust from out of your city that clings unto our feet, we wipe off against you; yet know this, that the kingdom of God has drawn near."}
{"book": "LUK", "chapter": 10, "verse": "12", "text": "I say to you, that it will be more tolerable (endurable, bearable) for Sodom in that day than for that city."}
{"book": "LUK", "chapter": 10, "verse": "13", "text": "Woe to you, Chorazin! Woe to you, Bethsaida! Because if the miracles had happened in Tyre and Sidon having happened in you, they would have repented long ago, sitting in sackcloth and ashes."}
{"book": "LUK", "chapter": 10, "verse": "14", "text": "However for Tyre and Sidon, it will be more tolerable in the judgment than for you."}
{"book": "LUK", "chapter": 10, "verse": "15", "text": "And you, Capernaum, who be exalted (lifted up) as far as heaven, you will be brought down (go down) as far as Hades."}
{"book": "LUK", "chapter": 10, "verse": "16", "text": "The one hearing you, hears Me; and the one rejecting you, rejects Me; and the one rejecting Me, rejects the One having sent Me."}
{"book": "LUK", "chapter": 10, "verse": "17", "text": "And the seventy two returned with joy, saying, Lord, even the demons are subject to us in Your name."}
{"book": "LUK", "chapter": 10, "verse": "18", "text": "And He said to them, I beheld Satan having fallen like as lightning from out of heaven."}
{"book": "LUK", "chapter": 10, "verse": "19", "text": "Behold, I give you the authority to trample upon serpents and scorpions and upon all the power of the enemy, and nothing will harm (do wrong, act unjustly toward) you."}
{"book": "LUK", "chapter": 10, "verse": "20", "text": "Yet do not rejoice in this, that the spirits are subjected to you; however rejoice that your names are written in the heavens."}
{"book": "LUK", "chapter": 10, "verse": "21", "text": "In the same hour, He rejoiced greatly in the Holy Spirit, and said, I praise You, Father, Lord of the heaven and of the earth, that You have hidden these things from the wise and comprehending (intelligent, latin-prudentibus-prudent) and have revealed them to little children; yes, Father, because thus was it well-pleasing before You."}
{"book": "LUK", "chapter": 10, "verse": "22", "text": "All things have been given over by My Father, and no one knows who the Son is, except the Father; and who the Father is, except the Son, and to whom the Son might resolve to reveal Him."}
{"book": "LUK", "chapter": 10, "verse": "23", "text": "And having turned to the disciples in private (one’s own), He said, Blessed are the eyes seeing what you see!"}
{"book": "LUK", "chapter": 10, "verse": "24", "text": "For I say to you, that many prophets and kings wanted to see (envision) what you see (behold), and did not see (envision); and to hear what you hear, and did not hear."}
{"book": "LUK", "chapter": 10, "verse": "25", "text": "And behold, a certain lawyer stood up testing Him out, saying, Teacher, having done what, will I inherit life eternal?"}
{"book": "LUK", "chapter": 10, "verse": "26", "text": "And He said to him, What has been written in the law? How do you read it?"}
{"book": "LUK", "chapter": 10, "verse": "27", "text": "And answering he said, You will love the Lord your God from out of your whole heart and in your whole soul, and in your whole strength, and in your whole mind (critical thinking, to thoroughly use the mind, disposition); and your neighbor (nearby) like as yourself."}
{"book": "LUK", "chapter": 10, "verse": "28", "text": "And He said to him, You have answered correctly (straight). Do this and you will live."}
{"book": "LUK", "chapter": 10, "verse": "29", "text": "However wanting to justify himself, he said to Jesus, And who is my neighbor?"}
{"book": "LUK", "chapter": 10, "verse": "30", "text": "And Jesus having taken it up, said, A certain man was going down from Jerusalem unto Jericho and fell among robbers who stripped him and inflicted (placed upon) wounds, went away, having left him half dead."}
{"book": "LUK", "chapter": 10, "verse": "31", "text": "And by chance a certain priest went down on that way, and having seen him he passed by on the opposite side;"}
{"book": "LUK", "chapter": 10, "verse": "32", "text": "And likewise also a Levite was at the place, came and looked, and passed by on the opposite side."}
{"book": "LUK", "chapter": 10, "verse": "33", "text": "And a certain Samaritan journeying came to him, and having seen was moved with compassion (moved in the inward parts, this can include pity, sympathy, etc.),"}
{"book": "LUK", "chapter": 10, "verse": "34", "text": "And having approached, bound up his wounds (greek-traumata) pouring upon oil and wine (oinon); and having put him upon his own beast (beast of burden, generally a horse or mule), brought him unto an inn (a public house for the reception of strangers), and took care (cared upon) of him."}
{"book": "LUK", "chapter": 10, "verse": "35", "text": "And upon the next day, having taken out two denarii, he gave them to the innkeeper, and said, Take care of him, and whatever more you might expend, I will repay you in my returning."}
{"book": "LUK", "chapter": 10, "verse": "36", "text": "Which of these three, do you suppose, to have been a neighbor of the one having fallen into the robbers?"}
{"book": "LUK", "chapter": 10, "verse": "37", "text": "And he said, The one having shown (done) mercy with (after) him. And Jesus said to him, Go and you do likewise."}
{"book": "LUK", "chapter": 10, "verse": "38", "text": "And in their journeying, He entered into a certain village; and a certain woman, named Martha, received Him into her house."}
{"book": "LUK", "chapter": 10, "verse": "39", "text": "And she had a sister called Mary, who also having sat down at the feet of the Lord, was listening to His word."}
{"book": "LUK", "chapter": 10, "verse": "40", "text": "However Martha was drawn away concerning much service; and having come up, she said, Lord, is it not concerning You that my sister has left me alone to serve? Therefore speak to her so that she might help me."}
{"book": "LUK", "chapter": 10, "verse": "41", "text": "And answering, the Lord said to her, Martha, Martha, you are anxious and troubled greatly (disturbed greatly, striken with panic) concerning many things;"}
{"book": "LUK", "chapter": 10, "verse": "42", "text": "however a small (few, little, light) thing is necessary; and Mary has chosen the one good portion, which will not be taken from her."}
{"book": "LUK", "chapter": 11, "verse": "1", "text": "And it happened in His being in a certain place praying, when He ceased, one of His disciples said to Him, Lord teach us to pray, just as John also taught his disciples."}
{"book": "LUK", "chapter": 11, "verse": "2", "text": "And He said to them, When you pray say, {Our} Father {who is in the heavens}, hallowed (sanctified, consecrated) be Your name; let Your kingdom come; {let Your will be done like as in heaven, and upon the earth.}"}
{"book": "LUK", "chapter": 11, "verse": "3", "text": "Give us day by day our sufficient bread for the next day."}
{"book": "LUK", "chapter": 11, "verse": "4", "text": "And remit us our sins, for we also remit everyone indebted (indebted with moral and ethical responsibility) to us; and lead (bring, carry) us not into testing (temptation), {but deliver (rescue, draw to oneself) us away from evil.}"}
{"book": "LUK", "chapter": 11, "verse": "5", "text": "And He said to them, Who among you will have a friend, and will go to him at midnight, and say to him, Friend, lend me three loaves;"}
{"book": "LUK", "chapter": 11, "verse": "6", "text": "Since my friend is come of (from out of) a journey to me, and I have nothing to set beside him."}
{"book": "LUK", "chapter": 11, "verse": "7", "text": "And he from within answering, will say, Do not present me this trouble (toil); the door has already been shut, and my children are with me in bed (koiten); I am not able to rise up and give to you."}
{"book": "LUK", "chapter": 11, "verse": "8", "text": "I say to you, Though he will not rise up and give to him because of being his friend, yet because of his shameless persistence, having risen he will give him as much as he needs."}
{"book": "LUK", "chapter": 11, "verse": "9", "text": "And I say to you, Ask, and it will be given to you; seek, and you will find; knock, and it will be opened to you."}
{"book": "LUK", "chapter": 11, "verse": "10", "text": "For everyone asking receives; and the one seeking finds; and to the one knocking it will be opened."}
{"book": "LUK", "chapter": 11, "verse": "11", "text": "And which from out of you who is a father, will the son ask for a fish, and instead of a fish, will he give a serpent to him?"}
{"book": "LUK", "chapter": 11, "verse": "12", "text": "Or if he will ask for an egg, will he give to him a scorpion?"}
{"book": "LUK", "chapter": 11, "verse": "13", "text": "If then you, being evil, know to give good gifts to your children, how much more the Father who is from out of heaven, will give the Holy Spirit to those asking Him?"}
{"book": "LUK", "chapter": 11, "verse": "14", "text": "And he was casting out a demon and it was mute; and it happened, the demon having gone out, the mute man spoke. And the crowds marveled."}
{"book": "LUK", "chapter": 11, "verse": "15", "text": "And some from out of them said, By (in) Beelzebul (lord of the flies- the english is transliterated from the greek and latin and it is transliterated from the OT BaalZebub, a name for Satan) the preeminent ruler (latin-principe-prince- may better be the principal authority) of demons, He casts out the demons."}
{"book": "LUK", "chapter": 11, "verse": "16", "text": "And others, testing, were seeking a sign from out of heaven from Him."}
{"book": "LUK", "chapter": 11, "verse": "17", "text": "However He knowing their thoughts (latin-cogitationes-thoughts like cognition) said to them, Every kingdom having been divided against (upon) itself is brought to desolation; and a house against (upon) a house falls."}
{"book": "LUK", "chapter": 11, "verse": "18", "text": "And if also Satan is divided against (upon) himself, how will his kingdom stand? Because you say, by (in) Beelzebul, I cast out the demons."}
{"book": "LUK", "chapter": 11, "verse": "19", "text": "And if I cast out the demons by (in) Beelzebul, your sons, by (in) whom do they cast out? On account of this, they will be your judges."}
{"book": "LUK", "chapter": 11, "verse": "20", "text": "If however by (in) the finger of God, I cast out the demons then the kingdom of God has come upon you."}
{"book": "LUK", "chapter": 11, "verse": "21", "text": "When the strong man being armed might keep (guard) his own house, his possessions are in peace;"}
{"book": "LUK", "chapter": 11, "verse": "22", "text": "However when one stronger than he, having come upon him, shall overcome him, he takes away all his armor and weapons (panoply, defensive and offensive armor/weapons) upon which he had trusted, and he divides his plunder."}
{"book": "LUK", "chapter": 11, "verse": "23", "text": "The one not being with Me is against Me; and the one not gathering together with Me scatters."}
{"book": "LUK", "chapter": 11, "verse": "24", "text": "When the unclean spirit is gone out away from the man, it goes through waterless places seeking rest; and not finding any then it says, I will return unto my house from where I came out."}
{"book": "LUK", "chapter": 11, "verse": "25", "text": "And having come, it finds it empty (at leisure, idle, unoccupied), swept, and put in order (beautified by being in the right arrangement)."}
{"book": "LUK", "chapter": 11, "verse": "26", "text": "Then it goes and takes seven other more evil spirits than itself, and having entered, they reside there; and the last(s) of that man become worse than the first(s)."}
{"book": "LUK", "chapter": 11, "verse": "27", "text": "And it happened in His saying these things, a certain woman having raised her voice from the crowd, said to Him, Blessed is the womb having borne You, and the breasts at which You nursed."}
{"book": "LUK", "chapter": 11, "verse": "28", "text": "And He said, Yes rather, blessed are those hearing the word of God and keeping it."}
{"book": "LUK", "chapter": 11, "verse": "29", "text": "And as the crowds pressed around together, He began to say, This generation is an evil generation; it seeks after a sign, and a sign will not be given to it, except the sign of Jonah."}
{"book": "LUK", "chapter": 11, "verse": "30", "text": "For just as Jonah was a sign to the Ninevites, thus the Son of Man will be to this generation."}
{"book": "LUK", "chapter": 11, "verse": "31", "text": "The queen of the south will rise up in the judgment with the men of this generation, and will condemn them; because she came from out of the limits (boundaries, ends) of the earth to hear the wisdom of Solomon, and behold, much greater than Solomon is here."}
{"book": "LUK", "chapter": 11, "verse": "32", "text": "Men of Ninevah will stand up in the judgment with this generation, and will condemn it, because they repented at (unto) the preaching of Jonah; and behold, much greater than Jonah is here."}
{"book": "LUK", "chapter": 11, "verse": "33", "text": "No one having lit a lamp sets it into a secret place, nor under a basket, but upon the lampstand, so that those entering in might see the light."}
{"book": "LUK", "chapter": 11, "verse": "34", "text": "The lamp of the body is your eye. When your eye is clear (simple, single, unfolded, sound, a single undivided focus), and your whole body is light (bright, shining, luminous); however when it be evil, also your body is dark."}
{"book": "LUK", "chapter": 11, "verse": "35", "text": "Take heed (see, scope) therefore lest the light that is in you be darkness."}
{"book": "LUK", "chapter": 11, "verse": "36", "text": "If therefore your body is wholly of light, not having any dark part, it will be wholly light (bright, luminous, brilliant, shining), like as when the lamp might enlighten you with its brightness."}
{"book": "LUK", "chapter": 11, "verse": "37", "text": "And as (in) he was speaking, a Pharisee asked Him that He would dine with him, and having entered He reclined."}
{"book": "LUK", "chapter": 11, "verse": "38", "text": "And the Pharisee, having seen it, marveled that He did not first wash (ebaptisthe, latin-baptizatus-baptized root is wash) before the dinner."}
{"book": "LUK", "chapter": 11, "verse": "39", "text": "And the Lord said to him, Presently you Pharisees cleanse the outside of the cup and of the dish, however your inside is fully occupied with seizing (plundering, rapine, violent greed) and wickedness (evil)."}
{"book": "LUK", "chapter": 11, "verse": "40", "text": "Fools! (Stupid!, Short-sighted!, Unperceptive!) Did not the one having made the outside also make the inside?"}
{"book": "LUK", "chapter": 11, "verse": "41", "text": "However of the things being within give alms, and behold, all things are clean to you."}
{"book": "LUK", "chapter": 11, "verse": "42", "text": "But woe to you Pharisees, because you pay tithes (take tenth part away from) of sweet smelling mint and rue (food flavoring) and every garden herb (garden plant, vegetable, plants from cultivated digging); and you pass by the justice and the love of God. These things you ought (it is necessary) to do, and those do not neglect."}
{"book": "LUK", "chapter": 11, "verse": "43", "text": "Woe to you Pharisees, because you love the first seat in the synagogues, and the greetings in the marketplaces."}
{"book": "LUK", "chapter": 11, "verse": "44", "text": "Woe to you, because you are like as unmarked (unseen) graves, and the men walking above do not know it."}
{"book": "LUK", "chapter": 11, "verse": "45", "text": "And answering, one of the lawyers says to Him, Teacher, saying these things, You insult (injure one’s reputation, treat with insolence) us."}
{"book": "LUK", "chapter": 11, "verse": "46", "text": "And He said, Woe to you also lawyers! Because you burden men with burdens heavy (difficult, problematic, oppressive) to bear and yourselves do not touch the burdens with one of your fingers."}
{"book": "LUK", "chapter": 11, "verse": "47", "text": "Woe to you, because you build the tombs of the prophets, however your fathers killed them."}
{"book": "LUK", "chapter": 11, "verse": "48", "text": "Therefore you are witnesses, and consent to the works of your fathers; because they indeed killed them; and you build [their tombs]."}
{"book": "LUK", "chapter": 11, "verse": "49", "text": "Because of this also the wisdom of God said, I will send unto them prophets and apostles, and from out of them they will kill and persecute,"}
{"book": "LUK", "chapter": 11, "verse": "50", "text": "So that the blood of all the prophets having been poured out from the foundation of the world might be required (sought out) from this generation,"}
{"book": "LUK", "chapter": 11, "verse": "51", "text": "From the blood of Abel until the blood of Zechariah, the one having perished between the altar and the house; yes, I say to you, it will be required from this generation."}
{"book": "LUK", "chapter": 11, "verse": "52", "text": "Woe to you the lawyers, because you have taken away the key of knowledge; you yourselves did not enter, and you hindered those who are entering."}
{"book": "LUK", "chapter": 11, "verse": "53", "text": "And as He was going out from there, the scribes and the Pharisees began to vehemently press (urge, become angry with, became begrudging toward, became ensnared/entangled with) Him and to make Him speak (catechize , draw out by questioning) concerning many things;"}
{"book": "LUK", "chapter": 11, "verse": "54", "text": "Plotting (lying in wait) to catch Him in something from out of His mouth."}
{"book": "LUK", "chapter": 12, "verse": "1", "text": "In these [times], the myriads (ten thousands) of the crowd having been gathered together, so as to trample on one another, He began to say to His disciples first, Take heed (beware, pay attention) to yourselves of (away from) the leaven of the Pharisees, which is hypocrisy;"}
{"book": "LUK", "chapter": 12, "verse": "2", "text": "And there is nothing concealed, which will not be revealed, nor hidden which will not be known;"}
{"book": "LUK", "chapter": 12, "verse": "3", "text": "Instead whatever you said in the darkness will be heard in the light; and what you have spoken to the ear in the inner rooms (secret rooms) will be proclaimed upon the housetops."}
{"book": "LUK", "chapter": 12, "verse": "4", "text": "And I say to you, those My friends, You should not fear from those killing the body and after these things are not having anything more (more abundantly) to do."}
{"book": "LUK", "chapter": 12, "verse": "5", "text": "And I will show you whom you should fear; Fear Him who after having killed has the authority to cast into gehenna (hell, greek-geennan, of Hebrew origin- gay-valley Hinnom-area southwest of Jerusalem, latin-gehennam); yes, I say to you, Fear Him."}
{"book": "LUK", "chapter": 12, "verse": "6", "text": "Are not five sparrows sold for two assarion (small brass Roman coin of little value)? And not one of them is forgotten (unnoticed-upon) in the sight of God."}
{"book": "LUK", "chapter": 12, "verse": "7", "text": "But even the hairs of your head have all been numbered. Fear not, you are more valuable than many sparrows."}
{"book": "LUK", "chapter": 12, "verse": "8", "text": "And I say to you, Everyone who will confess in Me before men, the Son of Man will confess in him before the angels of God;"}
{"book": "LUK", "chapter": 12, "verse": "9", "text": "And the one having denied Me before men will be denied in the sight of the angels of God;"}
{"book": "LUK", "chapter": 12, "verse": "10", "text": "And everyone who will say a word against (unto) the Son of Man, it will be remitted him; and the one having blasphemed (transliterated from Greek, speak evil against, slander, speak injuriously, slow/sluggish to fame, refuse to venerate the sacred) against (unto) the Holy Spirit will not be remitted."}
{"book": "LUK", "chapter": 12, "verse": "11", "text": "And when they bring you before (upon) the synagogues and the rulers and the authorities, do not be anxious how or what you shall say in defense (apologesesthe), or what you should say;"}
{"book": "LUK", "chapter": 12, "verse": "12", "text": "For the Holy Spirit will teach you in the same hour what is necessary for you to say."}
{"book": "LUK", "chapter": 12, "verse": "13", "text": "And one from out of the crowd said to Him, Teacher, speak to my brother to divide the inheritance with me."}
{"book": "LUK", "chapter": 12, "verse": "14", "text": "And He said to him, Man, who appointed Me a judge or distributor (divider) over (upon) you?"}
{"book": "LUK", "chapter": 12, "verse": "15", "text": "And He said to them, Observe and keep (guard) yourselves away from all covetousness (greedy advantage), because his life is not in the abounding to anyone from out of that which he possesses."}
{"book": "LUK", "chapter": 12, "verse": "16", "text": "And He spoke a parable to them, saying, The ground of a certain rich man brought forth well."}
{"book": "LUK", "chapter": 12, "verse": "17", "text": "And he was dialoguing within himself, saying, What shall I do, because I do not have [a place] where I will store up my fruits?"}
{"book": "LUK", "chapter": 12, "verse": "18", "text": "And he said, This I will do: I will tear down my barns and will build greater and will store up all the grain and my goods there."}
{"book": "LUK", "chapter": 12, "verse": "19", "text": "And I will say to my soul, Soul, you have many good things laid up for (unto) many years; take your rest; eat, drink, and be of a good (merry, cheerful, glad) outlook."}
{"book": "LUK", "chapter": 12, "verse": "20", "text": "And God said to him, Fool (unperceptive, senseless), this night, your soul is required from you; and to whom will it be what you prepared?"}
{"book": "LUK", "chapter": 12, "verse": "21", "text": "So is the one treasuring up for himself, and is not rich unto God."}
{"book": "LUK", "chapter": 12, "verse": "22", "text": "And He said to His disciples, Because of this, I say to you, Do not be anxious (drawn/divided/distracted in opposite directions) for your life (soul), what you should eat, nor your body, what you should put on."}
{"book": "LUK", "chapter": 12, "verse": "23", "text": "For life (soul) is more than food, and the body than the clothing."}
{"book": "LUK", "chapter": 12, "verse": "24", "text": "Consider the ravens, because they do not sow, nor reap, there is not an inner room (secret room), nor a barn to them, and God feeds them. How much more are you valuable than the birds!"}
{"book": "LUK", "chapter": 12, "verse": "25", "text": "And which from out of you, being anxious, is able to add one hour upon his lifespan?"}
{"book": "LUK", "chapter": 12, "verse": "26", "text": "If then you are not even able to do the least, why are you anxious about the rest?"}
{"book": "LUK", "chapter": 12, "verse": "27", "text": "Consider the lilies, how they grow; they do not spin nor labor; and I say to you, Not even Solomon in all his glory was arrayed like as one of these."}
{"book": "LUK", "chapter": 12, "verse": "28", "text": "And if God thus clothes the grass in the field, being here today and being thrown into a furnace tomorrow, how much rather you, O you of little faith?"}
{"book": "LUK", "chapter": 12, "verse": "29", "text": "And you, do not seek what you might eat and what you might drink, and be not in anxiety;"}
{"book": "LUK", "chapter": 12, "verse": "30", "text": "For all these things the ethnicities (nations) of the world seek after; and your Father knows that you have need of these."}
{"book": "LUK", "chapter": 12, "verse": "31", "text": "Yet you, seek His kingdom and these things will be added (set/laid/put toward) to you."}
{"book": "LUK", "chapter": 12, "verse": "32", "text": "Fear not, little flock, because your Father was well-pleased to give you the kingdom."}
{"book": "LUK", "chapter": 12, "verse": "33", "text": "Sell your possessions and give alms; make to yourselves money-bags that do not grow old, an unfailing treasure in the heavens, where thief does not draw near nor moth destroy."}
{"book": "LUK", "chapter": 12, "verse": "34", "text": "For where your treasure is there also your heart will be."}
{"book": "LUK", "chapter": 12, "verse": "35", "text": "Let your hips (loins, reproductive area) be girded around and the lamps burning;"}
{"book": "LUK", "chapter": 12, "verse": "36", "text": "And you, similar to men waiting for their own lord, whenever he shall return from the wedding, so that having come and having knocked, then might directly open to him."}
{"book": "LUK", "chapter": 12, "verse": "37", "text": "Blessed are those servants, whom the lord having come will find watching (vigilant). Truly I say to you, that he will gird himself and will make them recline, and having come up will serve them."}
{"book": "LUK", "chapter": 12, "verse": "38", "text": "And if he comes in the second or if in the third watch and finds them thus, blessed are those!"}
{"book": "LUK", "chapter": 12, "verse": "39", "text": "And know this, that if the master of the house had known in what hour the thief is coming, he would have watched, and would not have allowed his house to be broken into."}
{"book": "LUK", "chapter": 12, "verse": "40", "text": "And you, be ready; because the Son of Man comes in the hour you do not suppose."}
{"book": "LUK", "chapter": 12, "verse": "41", "text": "And Peter said, Lord, will You speak this parable to us, or also to all?"}
{"book": "LUK", "chapter": 12, "verse": "42", "text": "And the Lord said, Who then is the faithful and sensibly intelligent manager, whom the lord will put in charge over (upon) his care (therapeias), to give the measure of grain in opportune time?"}
{"book": "LUK", "chapter": 12, "verse": "43", "text": "Blessed is that servant whom his lord having come will find doing thus."}
{"book": "LUK", "chapter": 12, "verse": "44", "text": "Of a truth I say to you, that he will put him in charge over (upon) all his possessions."}
{"book": "LUK", "chapter": 12, "verse": "45", "text": "And if that servant should say in his heart, My lord delays to come and should begin to beat the men-servants and the maid-servants, and to eat and to drink (pinein) and to get drunk (methyskesthai),"}
{"book": "LUK", "chapter": 12, "verse": "46", "text": "The lord of the servant will come in a day in which he does not expect and in an hour in which he does not know and will cut him in two and will appoint his portion with the unbelievers."}
{"book": "LUK", "chapter": 12, "verse": "47", "text": "And that servant, the one having known the will of his lord, and having not prepared, nor having done according to his will will be beaten with many [blows];"}
{"book": "LUK", "chapter": 12, "verse": "48", "text": "And the one having not known and having done things worthy of stripes will be beaten with few. And everyone to whom has been given much, much will be required from him; and to whom much has been committed (set close beside), the more abundant they will ask of him."}
{"book": "LUK", "chapter": 12, "verse": "49", "text": "I came to cast fire upon the earth and how I wish it already be kindled!"}
{"book": "LUK", "chapter": 12, "verse": "50", "text": "And I have a baptism to be baptized with and how I am hard pressed until it should be completed (finished, consummated)!"}
{"book": "LUK", "chapter": 12, "verse": "51", "text": "Do you suppose that I came to give peace in the earth? No, I say to you, but rather division;"}
{"book": "LUK", "chapter": 12, "verse": "52", "text": "For from now there will be five divided in one house, three against (upon) two, and two against (upon) three."}
{"book": "LUK", "chapter": 12, "verse": "53", "text": "Father will be divided against (upon) son and the son against (upon) father, mother against (upon) daughter, and daughter against (upon) mother; mother-in-law against (upon) her daughter-in-law and daughter-in-law against (upon) mother-in-law."}
{"book": "LUK", "chapter": 12, "verse": "54", "text": "And He said also to the crowds, When you see a cloud rising up upon the west, you directly say, A rain (shower, violent rain) is coming; and it happens so."}
{"book": "LUK", "chapter": 12, "verse": "55", "text": "And when a south wind is blowing, you say, there will be heat; and it happens."}
{"book": "LUK", "chapter": 12, "verse": "56", "text": "Hypocrites! You know how to discern (examine, prove) the appearance of the earth and of the heaven (sky), however how do you not know to discern this time (opportune/fitting time)?"}
{"book": "LUK", "chapter": 12, "verse": "57", "text": "And why even from yourselves, do you not judge what is right (just)?"}
{"book": "LUK", "chapter": 12, "verse": "58", "text": "For as you are going with your adversary (opponent, proscecutor) before (upon) a ruler (preeminent leader, magistrate), along (in) the way give work (performance, business) to be set free from him, lest he should drag you down to the judge and the judge will hand you over to the officer and the officer will throw you into prison."}
{"book": "LUK", "chapter": 12, "verse": "59", "text": "I say to you, you shall not come out from there until you shall have paid the last lepton (small piece of money)."}
{"book": "LUK", "chapter": 13, "verse": "1", "text": "And some were present at the same time telling Him about the Galileans whose blood Pilate had mingled with their sacrifices."}
{"book": "LUK", "chapter": 13, "verse": "2", "text": "And answering, He said to them, Do you suppose that these Galileans were sinners beyond all the Galileans, because they have suffered such things?"}
{"book": "LUK", "chapter": 13, "verse": "3", "text": "No, I say to you; but if you do not repent, you will all likewise perish."}
{"book": "LUK", "chapter": 13, "verse": "4", "text": "Or those eighteen upon whom the tower in Siloam fell and killed them: do you suppose these were debtors beyond all the men residing in Jerusalem?"}
{"book": "LUK", "chapter": 13, "verse": "5", "text": "No, I say to you; but if you do not repent, you will all likewise perish."}
{"book": "LUK", "chapter": 13, "verse": "6", "text": "And He spoke this parable: A certain man had planted a fig tree in his vineyard; and he came seeking fruit on (in) it and did not find any."}
{"book": "LUK", "chapter": 13, "verse": "7", "text": "And he said to the vinedresser, Behold, from these three years I come seeking fruit on (in) this fig tree and do not find any. Therefore cut it down, so that- Why should it render the ground inoperative (useless, of no effect)?"}
{"book": "LUK", "chapter": 13, "verse": "8", "text": "And answering, he says to him, Lord, let it alone this year until when I shall dig around it and throw in manure,"}
{"book": "LUK", "chapter": 13, "verse": "9", "text": "And if it should make fruit unto the [time] about to be; however it not, you will cut it out."}
{"book": "LUK", "chapter": 13, "verse": "10", "text": "And He was teaching in one of the synagogues on the Sabbath."}
{"book": "LUK", "chapter": 13, "verse": "11", "text": "And behold, a woman having a spirit of infirmity (weakness, frailty, illness, sickness) eighteen years. And she was bent over and not able to lift herself up unto a whole-end (entire way)."}
{"book": "LUK", "chapter": 13, "verse": "12", "text": "And Jesus having seen her called to her and said to her, Woman, you have been freed (released, divorced) from your infirmity."}
{"book": "LUK", "chapter": 13, "verse": "13", "text": "And He laid his hands upon her, and instantly she was made straight, and glorified God."}
{"book": "LUK", "chapter": 13, "verse": "14", "text": "And the ruler of the synagogue, indignant because Jesus healed on the Sabbath, answering, said to the crowd, There are six days in which it is necessary for people to work; in these therefore coming be healed, and not on the day of the Sabbath."}
{"book": "LUK", "chapter": 13, "verse": "15", "text": "The Lord therefore answered him, and said, Hypocrites! Does not each one of you untie his ox or donkey from the stall and having led it away, give it to drink?"}
{"book": "LUK", "chapter": 13, "verse": "16", "text": "And this woman, being a daughter of Abraham, whom Satan has bound, behold, eighteen years, ought she not be loosed from this bond on the day of the Sabbath?"}
{"book": "LUK", "chapter": 13, "verse": "17", "text": "And on His saying these things, all those opposed to Him were ashamed; and all the crowd was rejoicing at (upon) all the glorious things that were being done by Him."}
{"book": "LUK", "chapter": 13, "verse": "18", "text": "And He said, To what is like the kingdom of God? And to what will I liken it?"}
{"book": "LUK", "chapter": 13, "verse": "19", "text": "It is like to a grain of mustard, which a man having taken threw into his garden; and it grew and came into a tree and the birds of the heaven roosted (nested, tented, encamped) in its branches."}
{"book": "LUK", "chapter": 13, "verse": "20", "text": "And He said again, To what will I liken the kingdom of God? English gallons) of meal (flour) until the whole was leavened."}
{"book": "LUK", "chapter": 13, "verse": "21", "text": "It is like leaven, which a woman having taken hid into three measures (nearly 3 English gallons) of meal (flour) until the whole was leavened."}
{"book": "LUK", "chapter": 13, "verse": "22", "text": "And He went through town by town and village by village, teaching, and making journey unto Jerusalem."}
{"book": "LUK", "chapter": 13, "verse": "23", "text": "And one said to Him, Lord, are those being saved few? And He said to them,"}
{"book": "LUK", "chapter": 13, "verse": "24", "text": "Contend (strive, struggle, latin-contendite) to enter in through the narrow door (latin-portam-gate like portal); because many, I say to you, will seek to enter in and will not be able (strong to)."}
{"book": "LUK", "chapter": 13, "verse": "25", "text": "From that [time that] the master of the house shall have risen up and shall have shut the door and you should begin to stand outside and knock at the door, saying, Lord, open to us; and He answering will say to you, I do not know from where you are."}
{"book": "LUK", "chapter": 13, "verse": "26", "text": "Then you will begin to say, We ate and drank in your sight and You taught in our streets."}
{"book": "LUK", "chapter": 13, "verse": "27", "text": "And He will say, I tell you, I do not know from where you are; depart away from Me, all workers of unrighteousness."}
{"book": "LUK", "chapter": 13, "verse": "28", "text": "There will be wailing (audible bitter uncontainable grievous emotional pain out of utter hopelessness) and gnashing (grinding) of teeth, when you see Abraham, and Isaac, and Jacob, and all the prophets in the kingdom of God; you however are being cast out outside."}
{"book": "LUK", "chapter": 13, "verse": "29", "text": "And they will come from east and west and from north and south and will recline in the kingdom of God."}
{"book": "LUK", "chapter": 13, "verse": "30", "text": "And behold, there are last who will be first, and there are first who will be last."}
{"book": "LUK", "chapter": 13, "verse": "31", "text": "In the same hour, certain Pharisees came to Him, saying to Him, Go out and proceed from here, because Herod wants to kill You."}
{"book": "LUK", "chapter": 13, "verse": "32", "text": "And He said to them, Go, say to the fox that, Behold, I cast out demons and I complete healings (iaseis) today and tomorrow, and the third [day] I am finished (perfected, completed, consummated);"}
{"book": "LUK", "chapter": 13, "verse": "33", "text": "However it is necessary for Me, today and tomorrow and the following [day] to proceed; because it is not possible for a prophet to perish outside of Jerusalem."}
{"book": "LUK", "chapter": 13, "verse": "34", "text": "Jerusalem, Jerusalem, killing the prophets, and stoning those having been sent to her, how often I have wanted to gather together those your children, that way a hen [gathers] her brood under her wings and you would not."}
{"book": "LUK", "chapter": 13, "verse": "35", "text": "Behold, your house is left alone to you. And I say to you, you shall not see Me until [the time] comes when you say, Blessed is the One coming in the name of the Lord."}
{"book": "LUK", "chapter": 14, "verse": "1", "text": "And it happened on His going into the house of one of the rulers of the Pharisees to eat bread on a Sabbath, and they were watching Him."}
{"book": "LUK", "chapter": 14, "verse": "2", "text": "And behold, a certain man was there with dropsy (edema, swelling of soft tissues holding excess water) before Him."}
{"book": "LUK", "chapter": 14, "verse": "3", "text": "And answering, Jesus spoke to the lawyers and to the Pharisees, saying, Is it permitted (lawful) on the Sabbath to heal (therapeusai) or not?"}
{"book": "LUK", "chapter": 14, "verse": "4", "text": "However they were silent. And having laid hold upon him, He healed (iasato) him and let him go."}
{"book": "LUK", "chapter": 14, "verse": "5", "text": "And He said to them, Which of you will a son or an ox (cow) fall into a pit and not directly pull him up on the Sabbath day?"}
{"book": "LUK", "chapter": 14, "verse": "6", "text": "And they were not able to reply to these things."}
{"book": "LUK", "chapter": 14, "verse": "7", "text": "And He spoke a parable to those having been invited, remarking how they were choosing out the first places (at a table or banquet), saying to them,"}
{"book": "LUK", "chapter": 14, "verse": "8", "text": "When you are invited by anyone unto weddings, do not recline in the first place, lest ever one more held in honor (valued, precious, honorable) than you might have been invited by him,"}
{"book": "LUK", "chapter": 14, "verse": "9", "text": "And the one having invited you and having come will say to you, Give your place to this one and then you should begin with shame to take the last place."}
{"book": "LUK", "chapter": 14, "verse": "10", "text": "But when you are invited, recline in the last place, so that when the one having invited you might come, he will say to you, Friend, come up higher. Then glory will be to you in the sight of all those reclining with you;"}
{"book": "LUK", "chapter": 14, "verse": "11", "text": "Because everyone exalting (raising high, elevating) himself will be humbled (made low), and the one humbling himself will be exalted."}
{"book": "LUK", "chapter": 14, "verse": "12", "text": "And He said also to the one having invited Him, When you make a dinner (breakfast or mid-day meal) or a supper (afternoon or evening meal), do not call your friends, nor your brothers, nor your relatives, nor rich neighbors, lest ever also they should invite you in return and be made a recompense (gift in return, reciprocate, pay-back) to you;"}
{"book": "LUK", "chapter": 14, "verse": "13", "text": "But when you make a feast, call the poor (beggarly, destitute), the crippled, the lame, the blind;"}
{"book": "LUK", "chapter": 14, "verse": "14", "text": "and you will be blessed; because they have nothing to repay (recompense) you; for it will be recompensed you in the resurrection of the righteous (just)."}
{"book": "LUK", "chapter": 14, "verse": "15", "text": "And one of those reclining at the table with Him having heard these things, said to Him, Blessed is he who will eat bread in the kingdom of God."}
{"book": "LUK", "chapter": 14, "verse": "16", "text": "And He said to him, A certain man made a great supper and invited many."}
{"book": "LUK", "chapter": 14, "verse": "17", "text": "And He sent his servant at the hour of the supper to say to those having been invited, Come, because it is already ready."}
{"book": "LUK", "chapter": 14, "verse": "18", "text": "And all with one [voice] began to excuse themselves. The first said to him, I have bought a field and I have need of going out to see it; I ask you to have me excused."}
{"book": "LUK", "chapter": 14, "verse": "19", "text": "And another said, I have bought five yoke of oxen, and I am going to examine (approve by testing) them; I ask you to have me excused."}
{"book": "LUK", "chapter": 14, "verse": "20", "text": "And another said, I have married a wife, and because of this I am not able to come."}
{"book": "LUK", "chapter": 14, "verse": "21", "text": "And having come, the servant reported these things to his lord. Then having been angry, the master of the house said to his servant, Go out quickly into the streets (wide roads) and lanes (narrow streets) of the city, and bring in here the poor, and crippled, and blind, and lame."}
{"book": "LUK", "chapter": 14, "verse": "22", "text": "And the servant said, Lord, it has been done as you did command, and there is still room (place)."}
{"book": "LUK", "chapter": 14, "verse": "23", "text": "And the lord said to the servant, Go out into the roads and fences and compel (necessitate) them to come in, so that my house might be filled;"}
{"book": "LUK", "chapter": 14, "verse": "24", "text": "For I say to you, that not one of those men having been invited will taste of my supper."}
{"book": "LUK", "chapter": 14, "verse": "25", "text": "And great crowds were going with Him; and having turned, He said to them,"}
{"book": "LUK", "chapter": 14, "verse": "26", "text": "If anyone comes to Me, and does not hate his own father, and mother, and wife, and children, and brothers, and sisters; yes and also his life (soul), he is not able to be My disciple;"}
{"book": "LUK", "chapter": 14, "verse": "27", "text": "Whoever does not carry his cross and come after Me is not able to be My disciple."}
{"book": "LUK", "chapter": 14, "verse": "28", "text": "For which of you, wanting to build a tower, does not first having sat down, counts the cost, whether he has [enough] unto its completion?"}
{"book": "LUK", "chapter": 14, "verse": "29", "text": "So that having laid its foundation and not being able to finish, all looking at it should begin to mock him,"}
{"book": "LUK", "chapter": 14, "verse": "30", "text": "Saying, This man began to build and was not able to finish."}
{"book": "LUK", "chapter": 14, "verse": "31", "text": "Or what king going to engage in war with another king does not first sit down and take counsel (determine) whether he is able with ten thousand to meet the one with twenty thousand coming against (upon) him?"}
{"book": "LUK", "chapter": 14, "verse": "32", "text": "And if not, his being still a far off, having sent an embassy (presbeian, delegation, eldership, latin-agente legationem- agent embassy root is deal ambassador), he asks for peace."}
{"book": "LUK", "chapter": 14, "verse": "33", "text": "So therefore everyone of you who does not give up all that he possesses is not able to be My disciple."}
{"book": "LUK", "chapter": 14, "verse": "34", "text": "Salt is then good, however if the salt becomes savorless (useless, without an edge), with what will it be seasoned (flavored)?"}
{"book": "LUK", "chapter": 14, "verse": "35", "text": "Neither unto soil, nor unto manure is it fit; they cast it outside. The one having ears to hear, let him hear."}
{"book": "LUK", "chapter": 15, "verse": "1", "text": "And all the tax collectors and sinners were drawing near to hear Him;"}
{"book": "LUK", "chapter": 15, "verse": "2", "text": "And the Pharisees and the scribes grumbled, saying, This Man receives sinners and eats with them."}
{"book": "LUK", "chapter": 15, "verse": "3", "text": "And He spoke this parable to them, saying,"}
{"book": "LUK", "chapter": 15, "verse": "4", "text": "What man from out of you having a hundred sheep and having lost one from out of them does not leave the ninety nine in the wilderness and goes after (upon) the one having been lost until he finds it?"}
{"book": "LUK", "chapter": 15, "verse": "5", "text": "And having found it, he lays it upon his shoulders, rejoicing."}
{"book": "LUK", "chapter": 15, "verse": "6", "text": "And having come unto the house, he calls together his friends and neighbors, saying to them, Rejoice with me, because I have found my sheep, the one having been lost!"}
{"book": "LUK", "chapter": 15, "verse": "7", "text": "I say to you that thus there will be joy in heaven upon one sinner repenting, more than upon the ninety nine righteous ones who have no necessity of repentance."}
{"book": "LUK", "chapter": 15, "verse": "8", "text": "Or what woman having ten drachmas, if she should lose one drachma, does not light a lamp and sweep the house and carefully (diligently) seek until she finds it?"}
{"book": "LUK", "chapter": 15, "verse": "9", "text": "And having found it, she calls together her friends and neighbors, saying, Rejoice with me, because I have found the drachma that I lost."}
{"book": "LUK", "chapter": 15, "verse": "10", "text": "Thus, I say to you, there is joy in the sight of angels of God upon one sinner repenting."}
{"book": "LUK", "chapter": 15, "verse": "11", "text": "And He said, A certain man had two sons."}
{"book": "LUK", "chapter": 15, "verse": "12", "text": "And the younger of them said to the father, Father, give to me the portion of the property that is falling to me. And he divided the property between them."}
{"book": "LUK", "chapter": 15, "verse": "13", "text": "And after not many days, the younger son having gathered all together went away into a distant country and there wasted his estate (property, wealth) living prodigally."}
{"book": "LUK", "chapter": 15, "verse": "14", "text": "And he having spent all, there arose a severe (strong) famine throughout that country and he began to be in lack (need)."}
{"book": "LUK", "chapter": 15, "verse": "15", "text": "And having gone, he joined himself to one of the citizens of that country and he sent him to his fields to feed pigs."}
{"book": "LUK", "chapter": 15, "verse": "16", "text": "And he was longing to fill his belly (koilian) from out of the carob husks (pods) that the pigs were eating; and no one gave to him."}
{"book": "LUK", "chapter": 15, "verse": "17", "text": "And having come unto himself, he said, How many hired servants of my father have abundance of bread, however I am here perishing with hunger?"}
{"book": "LUK", "chapter": 15, "verse": "18", "text": "Having risen up, I will go to my father and I will say to him, Father, I have sinned unto heaven and in your sight;"}
{"book": "LUK", "chapter": 15, "verse": "19", "text": "I am no longer worthy to be called your son. Make me like as one of your hired servants."}
{"book": "LUK", "chapter": 15, "verse": "20", "text": "And having risen up, he went to his father, and he still being far distant, his father saw him and was moved with compassion (sympathy), and having run, fell upon his neck and fervently kissed him."}
{"book": "LUK", "chapter": 15, "verse": "21", "text": "And the son said to him, Father, I have sinned unto heaven and in your sight; I am no longer worthy to be called your son. {Make me as one of your hired servants.}"}
{"book": "LUK", "chapter": 15, "verse": "22", "text": "And the father said to his servants, Quickly bring out the best long robe (robe worn by the upper class of the East) and clothe him and give a ring unto his hand, and sandals unto his feet;"}
{"book": "LUK", "chapter": 15, "verse": "23", "text": "And having brought the fattened calf, kill it, and having eaten, let us be merry (of a good outlook)."}
{"book": "LUK", "chapter": 15, "verse": "24", "text": "Because this son of mine was dead and is alive again; was lost and is found. And they began to be merry."}
{"book": "LUK", "chapter": 15, "verse": "25", "text": "And his elder son was in the field; and while coming, he drew near to the house, he heard music (symphonias- harmony of instruments, latin-symphoniam like symphony) and dancing (choron, latin-chorum like chorus)."}
{"book": "LUK", "chapter": 15, "verse": "26", "text": "And having called near one of the servants, he inquired what these things might be."}
{"book": "LUK", "chapter": 15, "verse": "27", "text": "And he said to him, Your brother is come and your father has killed the fattened calf, because he has received him healthy (safe and sound)."}
{"book": "LUK", "chapter": 15, "verse": "28", "text": "However he was angry and was not willing to go in. And his father having gone out, entreated him."}
{"book": "LUK", "chapter": 15, "verse": "29", "text": "And answering, he said to his father, Behold, I serve you so many years and I never disregarded (passed over, neglected) a commandment or yours, and never to me did you give a young goat, so that my friends might make merry with me."}
{"book": "LUK", "chapter": 15, "verse": "30", "text": "However when this your son, the one having devoured (eaten till it is all finished) your living with prostitutes, came, you have killed for him the fattened calf!"}
{"book": "LUK", "chapter": 15, "verse": "31", "text": "And he said to him, Son, you are always with me and all that is mine is yours."}
{"book": "LUK", "chapter": 15, "verse": "32", "text": "And it was fitting to make merry and to rejoice because this your brother was dead and is alive again; and he was lost and is found."}
{"book": "LUK", "chapter": 16, "verse": "1", "text": "And He was saying to the disciples, There was a certain rich man who had a manager and he was accused to him as wasting his possessions."}
{"book": "LUK", "chapter": 16, "verse": "2", "text": "And having called him, he said to him, What is this I hear concerning you? Give an account (word) of your management; for you are no longer able to manage."}
{"book": "LUK", "chapter": 16, "verse": "3", "text": "And the manager said within himself, What shall I do, because my lord is taking away the management from me? I am not able to dig; I am ashamed to beg."}
{"book": "LUK", "chapter": 16, "verse": "4", "text": "I know what I will do, so that when I shall have been removed from out of the management, people might receive me into their houses."}
{"book": "LUK", "chapter": 16, "verse": "5", "text": "And having called to him each one of his lord’s debtors, he said to the first, How much do you owe to my lord? gallons) of oil (thus about 800-900 gallons)."}
{"book": "LUK", "chapter": 16, "verse": "6", "text": "And he said, A hundred baths (one bath=8-9 gallons) of oil (thus about 800-900 gallons).� And he said to him, Take your bill (writing) and having sat down quickly write fifty."}
{"book": "LUK", "chapter": 16, "verse": "7", "text": "Then to another he said, And how much do you owe? And he said, A hundred cors (one cor=120 gallons) of wheat. He says to him, Take your bill and write eighty."}
{"book": "LUK", "chapter": 16, "verse": "8", "text": "And the lord praised the unrighteous manager, because he had done shrewdly (sensibly, prudently). Because the sons of this age (aionos) in this generation are more shrewd (sensible, intelligent) than the sons of light."}
{"book": "LUK", "chapter": 16, "verse": "9", "text": "And I say to you, Make for yourselves friends from out of the wealth (mamona- treasure a person trusts in) of unrighteousness, so that when it fails, they might receive you into eternal tents (tabernacles)."}
{"book": "LUK", "chapter": 16, "verse": "10", "text": "The one who is faithful with very little, also is faithful in much; and the one who is unrighteous in very little, also is unrighteous in much."}
{"book": "LUK", "chapter": 16, "verse": "11", "text": "If therefore you have not been faithful in the unrighteous wealth, who will entrust to you true [wealth]?"}
{"book": "LUK", "chapter": 16, "verse": "12", "text": "And if in that which is of another, you have not been faithful, who will give to you that which is yours?"}
{"book": "LUK", "chapter": 16, "verse": "13", "text": "No servant is able to serve two lords, for either he will hate one and will love the other; or he will be devoted (hold fast) to one, and he will despise (view down) the other. You are not able to serve God and wealth."}
{"book": "LUK", "chapter": 16, "verse": "14", "text": "And the Pharisees, being lovers of money, heard all these things and they sneered (hold up nose in derision of) Him."}
{"book": "LUK", "chapter": 16, "verse": "15", "text": "And He said to them, You are those justifying themselves in the sight of men, however God knows your hearts; because that which is exalted among (in) men is an abomination (reek of strench, abhorrent, detestable) in the sight of God."}
{"book": "LUK", "chapter": 16, "verse": "16", "text": "The law and the prophets were until John; from that time the kingdom of God is preached (evangelized), and everyone forces his way into it."}
{"book": "LUK", "chapter": 16, "verse": "17", "text": "And it is easier for the heaven and earth to pass away than one stroke of a letter of the law to fail."}
{"book": "LUK", "chapter": 16, "verse": "18", "text": "Everyone divorcing (releasing/unbinding/loosing away from) his wife and marrying another commits adultery. And he marrying the one divorced away from a husband commits adultery."}
{"book": "LUK", "chapter": 16, "verse": "19", "text": "And there was a certain rich man and he was clothed in purple and fine linen, making merry (good outlook) in splendor day by day."}
{"book": "LUK", "chapter": 16, "verse": "20", "text": "And a certain beggar (poor man) named Lazarus was laid to his gateway being full of sores,"}
{"book": "LUK", "chapter": 16, "verse": "21", "text": "And passionately desiring to be feed (satisfied, filled) from the fallings from the table of the rich man; but even the dogs coming licked his sores."}
{"book": "LUK", "chapter": 16, "verse": "22", "text": "And it happened that the poor man (beggar) died and he was carried away by the angels unto the bosom of Abraham. And the rich man died and was buried."}
{"book": "LUK", "chapter": 16, "verse": "23", "text": "And in Hades having lifted up his eyes, being in torment, he sees Abraham from afar and Lazarus in his bosom."}
{"book": "LUK", "chapter": 16, "verse": "24", "text": "And he having called out said, Father Abraham have mercy on me and send Lazarus so that he might dip (bapse) the tip of his finger in water and cool my tongue (glossan); because I am suffering painful sorrow in this flame."}
{"book": "LUK", "chapter": 16, "verse": "25", "text": "And Abraham said, Child, remember that you did fully receive your good things in your life and Lazarus likewise bad (kaka) things. However now here he is entreated (comforted); and you are suffering painful sorrow."}
{"book": "LUK", "chapter": 16, "verse": "26", "text": "And in [addition to] all these things, between us and you has been firmly fixed a great chasm (greek/latin-chasma), so that those wanting to pass through (pass across) from here to you are not able, nor from there to us can they pass through."}
{"book": "LUK", "chapter": 16, "verse": "27", "text": "And he said, I implore you then, father, that you would send him unto the house of my father,"}
{"book": "LUK", "chapter": 16, "verse": "28", "text": "For I have five brothers, so that he might thoroughly testify to them, so that they also might not come unto this place of torment."}
{"book": "LUK", "chapter": 16, "verse": "29", "text": "And Abraham says, They have Moses and the prophets: let them hear them."}
{"book": "LUK", "chapter": 16, "verse": "30", "text": "And he said, No, father Abraham, but if one should go from the dead to them, they will repent."}
{"book": "LUK", "chapter": 16, "verse": "31", "text": "And he said to him, If they do not hear Moses and the prophets, not even if one from out of the dead should rise (resurrect) will they be persuaded."}
{"book": "LUK", "chapter": 17, "verse": "1", "text": "And He said to His disciples, It is impossible for the stumbling blocks not to come, however woe to him through whom they come!"}
{"book": "LUK", "chapter": 17, "verse": "2", "text": "It is better for him if a stone of a mill is hung around his neck and he is thrown into the seas, than that he should cause these little ones to stumble."}
{"book": "LUK", "chapter": 17, "verse": "3", "text": "Take heed to yourselves: If your brother should sin, censure him; and if he should repent, remit (latin-dimitte-release) him."}
{"book": "LUK", "chapter": 17, "verse": "4", "text": "And if he should sin against (unto) you seven times in a day, and should return to you seven times, saying, I repent, you will remit him."}
{"book": "LUK", "chapter": 17, "verse": "5", "text": "And the apostles said to the Lord, Add faith to us!"}
{"book": "LUK", "chapter": 17, "verse": "6", "text": "And the Lord said, If you have faith like as a grain of mustard, you could say to this mulberry tree (greek-sykamino, latin-arbori moro-mulberry tree), Be uprooted and be plants in the sea and it would comply with you."}
{"book": "LUK", "chapter": 17, "verse": "7", "text": "However which of you having a servant plowing or shepherding having come in from out of the field will say to him directly, Having come recline?"}
{"book": "LUK", "chapter": 17, "verse": "8", "text": "But will he not say to him, Prepare what I might dine on and having girded yourself about, serve me, until I eat and drink; and after these things will you eat and drink?"}
{"book": "LUK", "chapter": 17, "verse": "9", "text": "Is he not thankful to the servant, because he did the things having been commanded?"}
{"book": "LUK", "chapter": 17, "verse": "10", "text": "Thus you also, when you might have done all the things having been commanded you, say, We are unneeded (useless) servants, we have done that which we were obligated to do."}
{"book": "LUK", "chapter": 17, "verse": "11", "text": "And it happened in the going up unto Jerusalem, He passed through the midst of Samaria and Galilee."}
{"book": "LUK", "chapter": 17, "verse": "12", "text": "And on His entering into a certain village, ten leprous men met Him, who stood afar off."}
{"book": "LUK", "chapter": 17, "verse": "13", "text": "And they lifted up their voice, saying, Jesus. Master-in-charge, have mercy on us."}
{"book": "LUK", "chapter": 17, "verse": "14", "text": "And having seen them, He said to them, Go, show yourselves to the priests. And it happened in going to them, they were cleansed."}
{"book": "LUK", "chapter": 17, "verse": "15", "text": "And one of them having seen that he was healed (iathe) turned back with a great voice; glorifying God,"}
{"book": "LUK", "chapter": 17, "verse": "16", "text": "and he fell upon his face beside His feet, giving thanks to Him; and he was a Samaritan."}
{"book": "LUK", "chapter": 17, "verse": "17", "text": "And answering, Jesus said, Were not ten cleansed? However where are the nine?"}
{"book": "LUK", "chapter": 17, "verse": "18", "text": "There was none found having returned to give glory to God, except this one of another race."}
{"book": "LUK", "chapter": 17, "verse": "19", "text": "And He said to him, Rise up, go forth; your faith has saved you!"}
{"book": "LUK", "chapter": 17, "verse": "20", "text": "And having been asked by the Pharisees, When is the kingdom of God coming? He answered them and said, The kingdom of God does not come with careful observation (watching like a guard);"}
{"book": "LUK", "chapter": 17, "verse": "21", "text": "Nor will they say, Behold here or there; for behold, the kingdom of God is inside (within, among) you (you is plural)."}
{"book": "LUK", "chapter": 17, "verse": "22", "text": "And He said to the disciples, Days will come when you will passionately long to see one of the days of the Son of Man and you will not see it."}
{"book": "LUK", "chapter": 17, "verse": "23", "text": "And they will say to you, Behold there; or Behold here. Do not go after nor pursue (aggressively chase)."}
{"book": "LUK", "chapter": 17, "verse": "24", "text": "For just as lightning flashing shines from out of the [one end] under heaven unto the [other end] under heaven, thus will be the Son of Man is His day."}
{"book": "LUK", "chapter": 17, "verse": "25", "text": "However it is first necessary for Him to suffer many things and to be rejected by (away from) this generation."}
{"book": "LUK", "chapter": 17, "verse": "26", "text": "And just as it happened in the days of Noah, thus will it also be in the days of the Son of Man."}
{"book": "LUK", "chapter": 17, "verse": "27", "text": "They were eating, they were drinking, they were marrying, they were being given in marriage, until that day Noah entered into the ark and the flood came and destroyed all."}
{"book": "LUK", "chapter": 17, "verse": "28", "text": "Similarly, just as it happened in the days of Lot; they were eating, they were drinking, they were buying, they were selling, they were planting, they were building;"}
{"book": "LUK", "chapter": 17, "verse": "29", "text": "And in that day Lot went out away from Sodom, it rained fire and sulphur (brimstone- known for its purifying power, latin-sulphur) from heaven and destroyed all."}
{"book": "LUK", "chapter": 17, "verse": "30", "text": "According to them will it be in that day when the Son of Man is revealed."}
{"book": "LUK", "chapter": 17, "verse": "31", "text": "In that there day, he who will be upon the housetop and his goods in the house, do not let him go down to take them away; and the one in the field, likewise do not let him return unto the things behind."}
{"book": "LUK", "chapter": 17, "verse": "32", "text": "Remember the wife of Lot."}
{"book": "LUK", "chapter": 17, "verse": "33", "text": "Whoever might seek to preserve (fully acquire) his life (soul) will lose (destroy) it; whoever will lose (destroy) it will preserve it alive."}
{"book": "LUK", "chapter": 17, "verse": "34", "text": "I say to you, In that night there will be two upon one bed (mat, couch); the one will be taken and the other will be left alone."}
{"book": "LUK", "chapter": 17, "verse": "35", "text": "There will be two women grinding upon the same [place]; the one will be taken, and the other will be left alone."}
{"book": "LUK", "chapter": 17, "verse": "36", "text": "{Two will be in the field; the one will we taken, and the other will be left alone.}"}
{"book": "LUK", "chapter": 17, "verse": "37", "text": "And answering, they say to Him, Where, Lord? And He said to them, Where the body is there also the vultures (birds of prey, eagles) will be gather together upon."}
{"book": "LUK", "chapter": 18, "verse": "1", "text": "And He spoke a parable to them, to the [way] it is always necessary for them to pray and not be wearied out (faint, from out of bad, latin-deficere-fail roots are deficit/ deficient/ sink),"}
{"book": "LUK", "chapter": 18, "verse": "2", "text": "Saying, There was a certain judge in a certain city, not fearing God and not respecting man."}
{"book": "LUK", "chapter": 18, "verse": "3", "text": "And there was a widow in that city and she was coming to him, saying, Avenge (dispense justice for) me of (away from) my adversary."}
{"book": "LUK", "chapter": 18, "verse": "4", "text": "And he would not upon a time; however afterward he said within himself, If even I do not fear God nor respect man,"}
{"book": "LUK", "chapter": 18, "verse": "5", "text": "yet because this widow causes me trouble, I will avenge her, so that lest in the end her coming she may wear me out."}
{"book": "LUK", "chapter": 18, "verse": "6", "text": "And the Lord said, Hear what the unjust (unrighteous) judge says."}
{"book": "LUK", "chapter": 18, "verse": "7", "text": "And shall not God execute (do) the avenging of His elect crying to Him day and night, and is long-tempered (deferring anger) upon them?"}
{"book": "LUK", "chapter": 18, "verse": "8", "text": "I say to you, that He will execute (do) their avenging in quickness. Nevertheless the Son of Man having come, will He find faith upon the earth?"}
{"book": "LUK", "chapter": 18, "verse": "9", "text": "And He spoke this parable to some trusting upon themselves that they are righteous and despising (cast out as nothing, ignore, treat with contempt) the rest [of men]:"}
{"book": "LUK", "chapter": 18, "verse": "10", "text": "Two men went up into the temple to pray; the one a Pharisee and the other a tax collector."}
{"book": "LUK", "chapter": 18, "verse": "11", "text": "The Pharisee having stood by himself was praying thus, God, I thank you that I am not just as the rest of men, seizers (extortioners, swindlers, robbers, greek-harpages its root word is the one for rapture, latin-raptores-abductors), unrighteous, adulterers, or even like as this tax collector."}
{"book": "LUK", "chapter": 18, "verse": "12", "text": "I fast twice in week (sabbatou); I tithe all things, as many as I gain."}
{"book": "LUK", "chapter": 18, "verse": "13", "text": "And the tax collector standing afar off was not willing even to lift up his eyes unto heaven, but was striking his breast, saying, God, extend propitiation (latin-propitius) to me, the sinner!"}
{"book": "LUK", "chapter": 18, "verse": "14", "text": "I say to you, This one went down unto his house justified rather than that [other]. Because everyone exalting himself will be humbled; however the one humbling himself will be exalted."}
{"book": "LUK", "chapter": 18, "verse": "15", "text": "And the brought to Him also infants (brephe, newborn babes), so that He might touch them; however the disciples having seen censured them."}
{"book": "LUK", "chapter": 18, "verse": "16", "text": "However Jesus, having called them to Him, said, Permit the little children (paidia) to come to Me and do not forbid (hinder) them; for of such is the kingdom of God."}
{"book": "LUK", "chapter": 18, "verse": "17", "text": "Truly, I say to you, whoever shall not warmly receive (welcome) the kingdom of God like as a child shall not enter into it."}
{"book": "LUK", "chapter": 18, "verse": "18", "text": "And a certain ruler asked Him, saying, Good Teacher, having done what will I inherit eternal life?"}
{"book": "LUK", "chapter": 18, "verse": "19", "text": "And Jesus said to him, Why do you call Me good? No one is good, except one, God."}
{"book": "LUK", "chapter": 18, "verse": "20", "text": "You know the commandments: You should not commit adultery; you should not murder (homicide); you should not steal; you should not bear false witness; Value (honor, give honor to, assign value to) your father and mother."}
{"book": "LUK", "chapter": 18, "verse": "21", "text": "And he said, I have kept all these from my youth."}
{"book": "LUK", "chapter": 18, "verse": "22", "text": "And Jesus having heard said to him, Yet one thing is lacking to you: Sell all, as much as you have, and distribute to the poor and you will have treasure in the heavens; and come, follow Me."}
{"book": "LUK", "chapter": 18, "verse": "23", "text": "And having heard these things, he became engulfed in sorrow; for he was exceedingly rich."}
{"book": "LUK", "chapter": 18, "verse": "24", "text": "And Jesus having seen him engulfed in sorrow, said, How difficultly those having riches shall enter into the kingdom of God."}
{"book": "LUK", "chapter": 18, "verse": "25", "text": "For it is easier for a camel to enter through an eye (hole) of a needle, than a rich man to enter into the kingdom of God."}
{"book": "LUK", "chapter": 18, "verse": "26", "text": "And those having heard said, And who is able to be saved?"}
{"book": "LUK", "chapter": 18, "verse": "27", "text": "And He said, The things that are impossible (unable) with men are possible (able) with God."}
{"book": "LUK", "chapter": 18, "verse": "28", "text": "And Peter said, Behold, we have left our own and followed You."}
{"book": "LUK", "chapter": 18, "verse": "29", "text": "And He said to them, Truly, I say to you, There is no one who has left house, or wife, or brothers, or parents, or children for the sake of the kingdom of God,"}
{"book": "LUK", "chapter": 18, "verse": "30", "text": "Who shall not receive manifold (many times) more in this time; and in the age that is coming, life eternal."}
{"book": "LUK", "chapter": 18, "verse": "31", "text": "And having taken the twelve to Him, He said to them, Behold, we go up unto Jerusalem, and all things having been written of the Son of Man through the prophets will be accomplished (fulfilled, completed)."}
{"book": "LUK", "chapter": 18, "verse": "32", "text": "For He will be betrayed to the ethnicities (Gentiles) and will be mocked and will be spitefully insulted and will be spit on."}
{"book": "LUK", "chapter": 18, "verse": "33", "text": "And having flogged Him, they will kill Him; and on the third day, He will rise again."}
{"book": "LUK", "chapter": 18, "verse": "34", "text": "And they understood none of these things; and this saying (rhema) was hidden from them; and they did not know what was being spoken."}
{"book": "LUK", "chapter": 18, "verse": "35", "text": "And it happened in His drawing near unto Jericho, a certain blind man sat beside the road, begging."}
{"book": "LUK", "chapter": 18, "verse": "36", "text": "And having heard a crowd passing by, he asked what this might be."}
{"book": "LUK", "chapter": 18, "verse": "37", "text": "And they reported to him, Jesus of Nazareth is passing by."}
{"book": "LUK", "chapter": 18, "verse": "38", "text": "And he called out saying, Jesus, Son of David, have mercy on me."}
{"book": "LUK", "chapter": 18, "verse": "39", "text": "And those going before censured him, so that he should be silent. However he cried out much more, Son of David, have mercy on me."}
{"book": "LUK", "chapter": 18, "verse": "40", "text": "And having stood still, Jesus commanded him to be brought to Him. And having drawn near, He asked pointedly of him,"}
{"book": "LUK", "chapter": 18, "verse": "41", "text": "What do you want Me to do to you? And he said, Lord, that I might see again."}
{"book": "LUK", "chapter": 18, "verse": "42", "text": "And Jesus said to him, See again; your faith has saved you."}
{"book": "LUK", "chapter": 18, "verse": "43", "text": "And instantly he saw again, and followed Him, glorifying God. And all the people having seen it gave praise to God."}
{"book": "LUK", "chapter": 19, "verse": "1", "text": "And having entered, He was passing through Jericho."}
{"book": "LUK", "chapter": 19, "verse": "2", "text": "And behold, a man by name called Zacchaeus, and he was a chief tax collector, and he was rich."}
{"book": "LUK", "chapter": 19, "verse": "3", "text": "And he was seeking to see Jesus who He was, and he was not able because of the crowd, because he was small (little) in stature."}
{"book": "LUK", "chapter": 19, "verse": "4", "text": "And having run in front of, he went up upon a sycamore tree (fig-mulberry tree), so that he might see Him, because He was about to pass that [way]."}
{"book": "LUK", "chapter": 19, "verse": "5", "text": "And as He came upon the place, having looked up, Jesus said to him, Zacchaeus, hurry, come down; for today it is necessary for Me to stay in your house."}
{"book": "LUK", "chapter": 19, "verse": "6", "text": "And having hurried, he came down and welcomed Him as a guest, rejoicing."}
{"book": "LUK", "chapter": 19, "verse": "7", "text": "And having seen it, all grumbled, saying, He has gone in to lodge with a sinful man."}
{"book": "LUK", "chapter": 19, "verse": "8", "text": "And having stood, Zacchaeus said to the Lord, Behold, Lord, I give half of my possessions to the poor and if I have defrauded anything of anyone, I restore it fourfold."}
{"book": "LUK", "chapter": 19, "verse": "9", "text": "And Jesus said to him, Today salvation has come to this house, because he is also a son of Abraham:"}
{"book": "LUK", "chapter": 19, "verse": "10", "text": "For the Son of Man came to seek and to save that having been lost."}
{"book": "LUK", "chapter": 19, "verse": "11", "text": "And they were hearing these things, having proceeded, He spoke a parable, because He was near Jerusalem and they supposed that the kingdom of God was about to instantly appear."}
{"book": "LUK", "chapter": 19, "verse": "12", "text": "He said therefore, A certain man of noble birth (well-born) went into a distant country to receive for himself a kingdom and return."}
{"book": "LUK", "chapter": 19, "verse": "13", "text": "And having called ten of his own servants, he gave to them ten minas and said to them, Do business until I come back."}
{"book": "LUK", "chapter": 19, "verse": "14", "text": "However his citizens hated him and sent a delegation after him, saying, We are not willing for this man to reign over (upon) us."}
{"book": "LUK", "chapter": 19, "verse": "15", "text": "And it happened in his returning, having received the kingdom, and he said to be called to him these servants to whom he had given the money so that he might know what each had gained by doing business."}
{"book": "LUK", "chapter": 19, "verse": "16", "text": "And the first came up, saying, Lord, your mina has produced ten more minas."}
{"book": "LUK", "chapter": 19, "verse": "17", "text": "And he said to him, Well done, good servant! Because in very little you were faithful, be you to have authority over (upon) ten cities."}
{"book": "LUK", "chapter": 19, "verse": "18", "text": "And the second came, saying, Lord, your mina has made five more minas."}
{"book": "LUK", "chapter": 19, "verse": "19", "text": "And he said also to this one, And you, are to be over (upon) five cities."}
{"book": "LUK", "chapter": 19, "verse": "20", "text": "And another came, saying, Lord, behold your mina, which I have lying away (laid in store) in a handkerchief."}
{"book": "LUK", "chapter": 19, "verse": "21", "text": "For I feared you, because you are a harsh (severe, rigid) man; you take up what you did not lay down and you reap what you did not sow."}
{"book": "LUK", "chapter": 19, "verse": "22", "text": "He says to him, Evil servant I will judge you from out of your mouth; you knew that I am a harsh man, taking up what I did not lay down and reaping what I did not sow."}
{"book": "LUK", "chapter": 19, "verse": "23", "text": "And why did you not give my money to (upon) the bank and I having come, I might have collected it with interest?"}
{"book": "LUK", "chapter": 19, "verse": "24", "text": "And to those standing by he said, Take the mina away from him and give it to the one having the ten minas."}
{"book": "LUK", "chapter": 19, "verse": "25", "text": "And they said to him, Lord, he has ten minas."}
{"book": "LUK", "chapter": 19, "verse": "26", "text": "I say to you, that to everyone having will be given; and away from the one not having, even that which he has will be taken."}
{"book": "LUK", "chapter": 19, "verse": "27", "text": "Moreover these enemies of mine, those having not been willing for me to reign over (upon) them, bring here and slay them before me."}
{"book": "LUK", "chapter": 19, "verse": "28", "text": "And having said these things, He went on ahead, going up unto Jerusalem."}
{"book": "LUK", "chapter": 19, "verse": "29", "text": "And it happened as He drew near unto Bethphage and Bethany toward the mount called Olivet, He sent two of the disciples,"}
{"book": "LUK", "chapter": 19, "verse": "30", "text": "Saying, Go into the village over against [you], in which entering you will find a colt having been tied, upon which no one ever yet of men has sat; and having untied it, bring it."}
{"book": "LUK", "chapter": 19, "verse": "31", "text": "And if anyone asks you why do you untie it? Thus you will say, Because the Lord has need of it."}
{"book": "LUK", "chapter": 19, "verse": "32", "text": "And those having been sent having departed, found it just as He had said to them."}
{"book": "LUK", "chapter": 19, "verse": "33", "text": "And on their untying the colt, the lords of it said to them, Why do you untie the colt?"}
{"book": "LUK", "chapter": 19, "verse": "34", "text": "And they said, The Lord has need of it."}
{"book": "LUK", "chapter": 19, "verse": "35", "text": "And they led it to Jesus; and having cast their garments upon the colt, they put Jesus upon it."}
{"book": "LUK", "chapter": 19, "verse": "36", "text": "And as He went, they were spreading their garments on the road."}
{"book": "LUK", "chapter": 19, "verse": "37", "text": "And as He drew near; already at the descent of the mount of Olives, all the multitude of the disciples began, rejoicing, to praise God with a great voice concerning all the miracles which they had seen,"}
{"book": "LUK", "chapter": 19, "verse": "38", "text": "Saying, Blessed is the King coming in the name of the Lord. Peace in heaven, and glory in the highest (latin-gloria in excelsis)."}
{"book": "LUK", "chapter": 19, "verse": "39", "text": "And some of the Pharisees from the crowd said to Him, Teacher, censure Your disciples."}
{"book": "LUK", "chapter": 19, "verse": "40", "text": "And answering, He said, I say to you, If these will be silent, the stones will cry out."}
{"book": "LUK", "chapter": 19, "verse": "41", "text": "And as He drew near, having seen the city, He wept over (upon) it,"}
{"book": "LUK", "chapter": 19, "verse": "42", "text": "Saying, If you had known in this day, even you, the things which make for peace, however now they are hidden from your eyes."}
{"book": "LUK", "chapter": 19, "verse": "43", "text": "Because the days will come upon you and your enemies will cast a barricade around you; and will surround you and will hem (press and hold) you in on every side,"}
{"book": "LUK", "chapter": 19, "verse": "44", "text": "and will level you and your children to the ground within you, and will not leave a stone upon a stone within you, because you did not know the opportune time of your visitation (oversight, visitation of judgment, scoping upon, latin-visitationis-visitation)."}
{"book": "LUK", "chapter": 19, "verse": "45", "text": "And having entered into the temple, He began to cast out those selling,"}
{"book": "LUK", "chapter": 19, "verse": "46", "text": "Saying to them, It has been written and My house will be a house of prayer; however you have made it a den (cave) of robbers (thieves in the open)."}
{"book": "LUK", "chapter": 19, "verse": "47", "text": "And He was teaching day by day in the temple; however the chief priests and the scribes and the foremost (principal, first) of the people were seeking to destroy Him,"}
{"book": "LUK", "chapter": 19, "verse": "48", "text": "And they did not find what they might do; for all the people were hanging on His [words] listening."}
{"book": "LUK", "chapter": 20, "verse": "1", "text": "And it happened on one of the days as He was teaching the people in the temple and preaching good news, the chief priests and the scribes with the elders came up."}
{"book": "LUK", "chapter": 20, "verse": "2", "text": "And they spoke saying to Him, Tell us by (in) what authority You do these things, or who is the one having given this authority to You?"}
{"book": "LUK", "chapter": 20, "verse": "3", "text": "And answering, He said to them, I also will ask you a word, and you tell Me:"}
{"book": "LUK", "chapter": 20, "verse": "4", "text": "The baptism of John, was it from out of heaven or from out of men?"}
{"book": "LUK", "chapter": 20, "verse": "5", "text": "And they reckoned together among themselves, saying, If we should say, From out of heaven, He will say, Why did you not believe him?"}
{"book": "LUK", "chapter": 20, "verse": "6", "text": "However if we should say, From out of men, all the people will stone us; for they are persuaded that John was a prophet."}
{"book": "LUK", "chapter": 20, "verse": "7", "text": "And they answered, They did not know from where."}
{"book": "LUK", "chapter": 20, "verse": "8", "text": "And Jesus said to them, Neither will I tell you by (in) what authority I am doing these things."}
{"book": "LUK", "chapter": 20, "verse": "9", "text": "And He began to speak to the people this parable: A certain man planted a vineyard and gave it out for hire to vinedressers (latin-colonis-settlers) and left the country a considerable time."}
{"book": "LUK", "chapter": 20, "verse": "10", "text": "And in the opportune time (fitting season), he sent a servant to the vinedressers, so that they will give to him from the fruit of the vineyard. However the vinedressers having beaten him, sent him away empty-handed."}
{"book": "LUK", "chapter": 20, "verse": "11", "text": "And he proceeded to send another servant; however having beaten and dishonored him, they sent him away empty-handed."}
{"book": "LUK", "chapter": 20, "verse": "12", "text": "And he proceeded to send a third; however also having wounded (greek is root for English traumatized) him, they cast him out."}
{"book": "LUK", "chapter": 20, "verse": "13", "text": "And the lord of the vineyard said, What shall I do? I will send my beloved son; perhaps they will reverence (respect) him."}
{"book": "LUK", "chapter": 20, "verse": "14", "text": "The vinedressers having seen him dialogued among themselves, saying, This is the heir; let us kill him so that the inheritance might become ours."}
{"book": "LUK", "chapter": 20, "verse": "15", "text": "And having cast him outside the vineyard, they killed him. What therefore will the lord of the vineyard do to them?"}
{"book": "LUK", "chapter": 20, "verse": "16", "text": "He will come and destroy these vinedressers and will give the vineyard to others. And having heard it, they said, May it never be!"}
{"book": "LUK", "chapter": 20, "verse": "17", "text": "However having looked at them, He said, What then is this that has been written, The stone which those building rejected, this has become unto the head of the corner?"}
{"book": "LUK", "chapter": 20, "verse": "18", "text": "Everyone falling upon that stone will be pulverized (broken in pieces, crushed together), and upon whomever it might fall, it will crush him to powder."}
{"book": "LUK", "chapter": 20, "verse": "19", "text": "And the chief priests and scribes sought to throw (strike) their hands upon Him in the same hour; and they feared the people; for they knew that He was speaking this parable against (toward, to) them."}
{"book": "LUK", "chapter": 20, "verse": "20", "text": "And having watched Him closely, they sent spies pretending themselves to be righteous (just), so that they might catch a word of Him, so that they might hand Him over to the rule and authority of the governor."}
{"book": "LUK", "chapter": 20, "verse": "21", "text": "And they questioned him, saying, Teacher, we know that You speak and teach rightly (straightly, correctly), and do not receive the face (of a person), but teach the way of God upon (upon the basis of) truth."}
{"book": "LUK", "chapter": 20, "verse": "22", "text": "Is it permitted for us to give tribute (tax) to Caesar or not?"}
{"book": "LUK", "chapter": 20, "verse": "23", "text": "However having perceived their craftiness, He said to them,"}
{"book": "LUK", "chapter": 20, "verse": "24", "text": "Show me a denarius: Whose image and inscription has it? And they said, Caesar’s."}
{"book": "LUK", "chapter": 20, "verse": "25", "text": "And He said to them, Now then give from the things of Caesar to Caesar, and the things of God to God."}
{"book": "LUK", "chapter": 20, "verse": "26", "text": "And they were not able to catch Him in His saying (rhematos) before the people; and having marveled upon His answer, they became silent."}
{"book": "LUK", "chapter": 20, "verse": "27", "text": "And some of the Sadducees, denying there is a resurrection, having come to Him, they questioned Him,"}
{"book": "LUK", "chapter": 20, "verse": "28", "text": "Saying, Teacher, Moses wrote to us, If anyone’s brother having a wife should die, and he is childless, that his brother should take the wife, and should raise up seed to his brother."}
{"book": "LUK", "chapter": 20, "verse": "29", "text": "There were then seven brothers; and the first, having taken a wife, died childless;"}
{"book": "LUK", "chapter": 20, "verse": "30", "text": "And the second {as the wife, and he died childless};"}
{"book": "LUK", "chapter": 20, "verse": "31", "text": "And the third took her; and likewise also the seven, did not leave children, and died."}
{"book": "LUK", "chapter": 20, "verse": "32", "text": "Lastly the woman also died."}
{"book": "LUK", "chapter": 20, "verse": "33", "text": "The wife therefore, in the resurrection, of which of them does she become wife? For the seven had her as wife."}
{"book": "LUK", "chapter": 20, "verse": "34", "text": "And Jesus said to them, The sons of this age (aionos) marry and are given in marriage;"}
{"book": "LUK", "chapter": 20, "verse": "35", "text": "However those having been considered worthy to obtain to that there age and the resurrection from out of the dead, neither marry nor are given in marriage;"}
{"book": "LUK", "chapter": 20, "verse": "36", "text": "For they are not able to die anymore: for they are identical to the angels (isangeloi- isos means equal, identical, equivalent); and are sons of God, being sons of the resurrection."}
{"book": "LUK", "chapter": 20, "verse": "37", "text": "And because the dead are raised, even Moses made known (revealed, informed) upon the bush, when he calls the Lord the God of Abraham, and God of Isaac, and God of Jacob;"}
{"book": "LUK", "chapter": 20, "verse": "38", "text": "And He is not God of the dead, but of the living; for all live to Him."}
{"book": "LUK", "chapter": 20, "verse": "39", "text": "And answering, some of the scribes said, Teacher, you have spoken well (kalos)."}
{"book": "LUK", "chapter": 20, "verse": "40", "text": "For they no longer dared to ask Him anything."}
{"book": "LUK", "chapter": 20, "verse": "41", "text": "And He said to them, How do they say that the Christ be the son of David?"}
{"book": "LUK", "chapter": 20, "verse": "42", "text": "For David himself says in the book of Psalms, The Lord said to my lord, Sit at (from out of) My right,"}
{"book": "LUK", "chapter": 20, "verse": "43", "text": "Until I place (put, set) Your enemies as a footstool of Your feet."}
{"book": "LUK", "chapter": 20, "verse": "44", "text": "David therefore calls Him Lord and how is He his Son?"}
{"book": "LUK", "chapter": 20, "verse": "45", "text": "And all the people were listening, He said to His disciples,"}
{"book": "LUK", "chapter": 20, "verse": "46", "text": "Beware of the scribes, wanting to walk in long robes and loving greetings in the marketplaces, and the chief seats in the synagogues, and chief places in the banquets (suppers);"}
{"book": "LUK", "chapter": 20, "verse": "47", "text": "Who devour the houses of widows and as a pretense pray at great length. These will receive an excessive (greater, more abundant, exceeding) condemnation."}
{"book": "LUK", "chapter": 21, "verse": "1", "text": "And having looked up, He saw the rich casting their gifts into the treasury;"}
{"book": "LUK", "chapter": 21, "verse": "2", "text": "And He saw a certain poor (needy, one that works for their daily need) widow casting in there two lepta (small very low value copper coin)."}
{"book": "LUK", "chapter": 21, "verse": "3", "text": "And He said, Truly (Of truth) I say to you, that this poor (beggarly, destitute) widow cast in more than all;"}
{"book": "LUK", "chapter": 21, "verse": "4", "text": "For all these cast in gifts from out of that which was abounding; however she from out of her poverty cast in all the livelihood that she had."}
{"book": "LUK", "chapter": 21, "verse": "5", "text": "And as some were speaking about the temple, that it was adorned with goodly (beautiful, greek-kalios) stones and consecrated offerings, He said,"}
{"book": "LUK", "chapter": 21, "verse": "6", "text": "These things which you are beholding, Days will come in which there will not be left (same word for remit) stone upon stone {here} which will not be thrown down."}
{"book": "LUK", "chapter": 21, "verse": "7", "text": "And they asked Him, saying, Teacher, when then will these things be, and what is the sign when these things are about to happen?"}
{"book": "LUK", "chapter": 21, "verse": "8", "text": "And He said, Take heed (see) lest you be led astray; for many will come upon My name, saying, I am [he], and the time (opportune/fitting time) is drawn near. Do not go after (behind) them."}
{"book": "LUK", "chapter": 21, "verse": "9", "text": "And when you should hear of wars and instabilities (not-down-standing or not standing down, disturbances, commotions, uprisings, insurrections, latin-seditiones), do not be terrified; for it is necessary for these things to first happen, but the end is not directly (at once, immediately)."}
{"book": "LUK", "chapter": 21, "verse": "10", "text": "Then He was saying to them, Ethnicity (nation) will rise up (awaken, arouse) against (upon) ethnicity (nation), and kingdom against (upon) kingdom;"}
{"book": "LUK", "chapter": 21, "verse": "11", "text": "Great earthquakes, and in places by places (kai kata topous) famines and epidemics (pestilences, pesty things like diseases, plagues, and such, latin-pestilantiae-epidemics). There will be fearful sights (causes of terror, terrors) and there also will be great signs from (away from) heaven."}
{"book": "LUK", "chapter": 21, "verse": "12", "text": "However (and) before all these things, they will throw their hands upon you and will persecute you, handing you over unto the synagogues and prisons, taking (leading) you away before (upon) kings and governors, on account of (for the sake of) My name."}
{"book": "LUK", "chapter": 21, "verse": "13", "text": "It will result to you unto a testimony."}
{"book": "LUK", "chapter": 21, "verse": "14", "text": "Set (Place, Put, Lay) therefore in your hearts not to premeditate to make a defense;"}
{"book": "LUK", "chapter": 21, "verse": "15", "text": "For I will give you a mouth and wisdom, which none of all those opposing you will be able to resist (stand against, oppose, withstand), nor speak opposition against."}
{"book": "LUK", "chapter": 21, "verse": "16", "text": "And you will be betrayed (handed over) even by parents and brothers and relatives and friends; and they will put to death [some] from among you."}
{"book": "LUK", "chapter": 21, "verse": "17", "text": "And you will be hated (detested) by all because of My name."}
{"book": "LUK", "chapter": 21, "verse": "18", "text": "And a hair of your head should not perish."}
{"book": "LUK", "chapter": 21, "verse": "19", "text": "In your endurance you will acquire (gain, get) your lives (souls)."}
{"book": "LUK", "chapter": 21, "verse": "20", "text": "And when you see Jerusalem being encircled by (under) armies (encamped military), then know that her desolation (close to the word for wilderness/ desert/ desolate place) has drawn near."}
{"book": "LUK", "chapter": 21, "verse": "21", "text": "Then those in Judea, let them flee unto the mountains; and those in her midst (middle), let them depart out; and those in the countries (regions), do not let them enter into her;"}
{"book": "LUK", "chapter": 21, "verse": "22", "text": "Because these are days of avenging, all things having been written are to be accomplished (fulfilled)."}
{"book": "LUK", "chapter": 21, "verse": "23", "text": "But woe to those having [a child] in the womb, and to those nursing in those days; for there will be great distress (necessity, constraint, a pressing situation, latin-pressura-pressure) upon the land and wrath to this people."}
{"book": "LUK", "chapter": 21, "verse": "24", "text": "And they will fall by the mouth of the sword (slaughter-dagger) and will be led captive into all the nations (ethnicities); and Jerusalem will be tread on (trampled) by the ethnicities (nations) until the times of the ethnicities (nations) be fulfilled."}
{"book": "LUK", "chapter": 21, "verse": "25", "text": "And there will be signs in the sun, and moon, and stars; and upon the earth distress (tension from difficult circumstances) of ethnicities (nations) with perplexity (to be at a loss because of difficulties), the roaring (noise, sound) of the sea and tossing of the sea in a tempest,"}
{"book": "LUK", "chapter": 21, "verse": "26", "text": "And men are fainting (losing morale, losing soul/breathe, dismaying) from fear and expectation of that which is coming upon the inhabited world; for the powers of the heavens will be shaken (agitated, latin-movebuntur-moved)."}
{"book": "LUK", "chapter": 21, "verse": "27", "text": "And then (at that time) they will see the Son of Man coming in a cloud with power and much glory."}
{"book": "LUK", "chapter": 21, "verse": "28", "text": "And these when things begin (commence) to happen, look up and lift up your heads, because your redemption draws near."}
{"book": "LUK", "chapter": 21, "verse": "29", "text": "And He spoke a parable to them: Behold the fig tree and all the trees:"}
{"book": "LUK", "chapter": 21, "verse": "30", "text": "When they already sprout (throw before), looking at them of (away from) yourselves, you know that summer is already near."}
{"book": "LUK", "chapter": 21, "verse": "31", "text": "So also you, when you see these things happening, know that the kingdom of God is near."}
{"book": "LUK", "chapter": 21, "verse": "32", "text": "Truly I say to you, that this generation will not have passed away until all things shall have happened."}
{"book": "LUK", "chapter": 21, "verse": "33", "text": "The heaven and the earth will pass away, however My words will not pass away."}
{"book": "LUK", "chapter": 21, "verse": "34", "text": "And take heed to yourselves, lest ever your hearts be weighed down (burdened) with drunken dissipation (kraipale, drunken nausea, what seizes you from drunkenness, a headache from drunkenness, latin-crapula-carousing root is reeling) and drunkenness, and cares (anxieties) of life; and that there day would come (befall, stand, set) upon you suddenly (unexpectedly);"}
{"book": "LUK", "chapter": 21, "verse": "35", "text": "For like as a snare it will come upon all those sitting upon all the surface (face) of the earth."}
{"book": "LUK", "chapter": 21, "verse": "36", "text": "And watch in every season (opportune/fitting time), appealing that you might have strength to escape all these things that are about to happen and to stand before the Son of Man."}
{"book": "LUK", "chapter": 21, "verse": "37", "text": "And by day He was day teaching in the temple and by night, going out, he lodged on the mount called Olivet."}
{"book": "LUK", "chapter": 21, "verse": "38", "text": "And all the people came early in the morning to Him in the temple to hear Him."}
{"book": "LUK", "chapter": 22, "verse": "1", "text": "And the feast of Unleavened Bread, called Passover (pascha), drew near."}
{"book": "LUK", "chapter": 22, "verse": "2", "text": "And the chief priests and scribes were seeking how they might make an end of Him (take Him away); for they feared the people."}
{"book": "LUK", "chapter": 22, "verse": "3", "text": "And Satan entered into Judas called Iscariot, being from out of the number of the twelve."}
{"book": "LUK", "chapter": 22, "verse": "4", "text": "And having gone away, he spoke with the chief priests and captains on how he might betray (hand over) Him to them."}
{"book": "LUK", "chapter": 22, "verse": "5", "text": "And they rejoiced and agreed to give him money."}
{"book": "LUK", "chapter": 22, "verse": "6", "text": "And he fully consented (confessed fully) and sought a good opportunity (convenient time, a good opportune time) to betray Him apart from the crowd."}
{"book": "LUK", "chapter": 22, "verse": "7", "text": "And the day of Unleavened Bread came on which it was necessary for the Passover lamb to be killed."}
{"book": "LUK", "chapter": 22, "verse": "8", "text": "And He sent Peter and John, having said, Go prepare the Passover for us, so that we might eat it."}
{"book": "LUK", "chapter": 22, "verse": "9", "text": "And they said to Him, Where do You want us to prepare it?"}
{"book": "LUK", "chapter": 22, "verse": "10", "text": "And He said to them, Behold, on you having entered into the city, a man will meet you carrying a pitcher of water; follow him into the house into which he enters;"}
{"book": "LUK", "chapter": 22, "verse": "11", "text": "And you will say to the master of the house, The Teacher says to you, Where is the guest room where I might eat the Passover with My disciples?"}
{"book": "LUK", "chapter": 22, "verse": "12", "text": "And he will show you a great upper room having been furnished (spread); there prepare."}
{"book": "LUK", "chapter": 22, "verse": "13", "text": "And having gone, they found it just as He had said to them; and they prepared the Passover."}
{"book": "LUK", "chapter": 22, "verse": "14", "text": "And when the hour was come, He reclined [at the table] and the apostles with Him."}
{"book": "LUK", "chapter": 22, "verse": "15", "text": "And He said to them, Upon passionate longing I have passionately longed to eat this Passover with you before I suffer."}
{"book": "LUK", "chapter": 22, "verse": "16", "text": "For I say to you, that I will not eat of it any longer, until when it is fulfilled in the kingdom of God."}
{"book": "LUK", "chapter": 22, "verse": "17", "text": "And having received the cup, having given thanks, He said, Take this, and divide it among yourselves."}
{"book": "LUK", "chapter": 22, "verse": "18", "text": "For I say to you, that I will not drink from now from the produce (not karpos-fruit but rather genematos which means offspring or that begotten/birthed) of the vine until the kingdom of God shall come."}
{"book": "LUK", "chapter": 22, "verse": "19", "text": "And having taken the bread, having given thanks, He broke and gave to them, saying, This is My body, which is given for you; this do in My remembrance."}
{"book": "LUK", "chapter": 22, "verse": "20", "text": "And the cup likewise after which having supped (eaten at supper time), saying, This cup is the new covenant in My blood, which is being poured out from you."}
{"book": "LUK", "chapter": 22, "verse": "21", "text": "However, behold, the hand of him betraying Me is with Me upon the table;"}
{"book": "LUK", "chapter": 22, "verse": "22", "text": "Because the Son of Man indeed goes according to that having been determined, however woe to that there man through whom He is betrayed."}
{"book": "LUK", "chapter": 22, "verse": "23", "text": "And they began to examine this together among themselves, who then it might be from out of them, who is about to do this."}
{"book": "LUK", "chapter": 22, "verse": "24", "text": "And there was also a fondness of dispute (love of strife/contention) among them, as to which of them is supposed to be the greatest."}
{"book": "LUK", "chapter": 22, "verse": "25", "text": "And He said to them, The kings of the ethnicities rule over them and those exercising authority over them are called benefactors (well-workers)."}
{"book": "LUK", "chapter": 22, "verse": "26", "text": "And you shall not be thus; but the greatest among you, let him be as the younger; and the one leading as the one serving."}
{"book": "LUK", "chapter": 22, "verse": "27", "text": "For who is greater, the one reclining or the one serving? Is not the one reclining? However I am in the midst of you, as the One serving."}
{"book": "LUK", "chapter": 22, "verse": "28", "text": "And you are those having remained with Me in My trials."}
{"book": "LUK", "chapter": 22, "verse": "29", "text": "And I appoint to you, just as My Father appointed to Me, a kingdom;"}
{"book": "LUK", "chapter": 22, "verse": "30", "text": "So that you might eat and might drink at (upon) My table in My kingdom; and are to sit upon thrones, judging the twelve tribes of Israel."}
{"book": "LUK", "chapter": 22, "verse": "31", "text": "Simon, Simon, Behold, Satan has asked you out for himself, to sift as wheat;"}
{"book": "LUK", "chapter": 22, "verse": "32", "text": "however I appealed (requested an urgent appeal) concerning you, so that you faith might not fail; and you, when you have turned back (turned/changed/converted upon), firmly confirm your brothers."}
{"book": "LUK", "chapter": 22, "verse": "33", "text": "And he said to Him, Lord, I am ready to go with You unto prison and unto death."}
{"book": "LUK", "chapter": 22, "verse": "34", "text": "And He said, I tell you Peter, the rooster will not crow (call out) today until you will deny three times not knowing Me."}
{"book": "LUK", "chapter": 22, "verse": "35", "text": "And He said to them, When I sent you without a money-bag, and traveler’s bag, and sandals, did you lack anything? And they said, Nothing."}
{"book": "LUK", "chapter": 22, "verse": "36", "text": "He said therefore to them, But now the one having the money-bag let him take it likewise also a traveler’s bag; and the one not having a sword (slaughter-dagger), let him sell his outer garment and buy one;"}
{"book": "LUK", "chapter": 22, "verse": "37", "text": "For I say to you, that this that has been written must be accomplished in Me, And He was reckoned with the lawless; for also the things concerning Me have an end (a fulfillment)."}
{"book": "LUK", "chapter": 22, "verse": "38", "text": "And they said, Lord, behold, here are two swords (slaughter-daggers). And He said to them, It is enough (sufficient, fit, suitable)."}
{"book": "LUK", "chapter": 22, "verse": "39", "text": "And having gone out, He went according to custom unto the mount of Olives; and the disciples also followed Him."}
{"book": "LUK", "chapter": 22, "verse": "40", "text": "And having come upon the place, He said to them, Pray that you do not enter into temptation."}
{"book": "LUK", "chapter": 22, "verse": "41", "text": "And He withdrew away from them about a stone’s throw and having fallen on His knees, He prayed,"}
{"book": "LUK", "chapter": 22, "verse": "42", "text": "Saying, Father, if You are willing take this cup away from Me; however not My will, but of You be done."}
{"book": "LUK", "chapter": 22, "verse": "43", "text": "And an angel appeared to Him from heaven, strengthening Him."}
{"book": "LUK", "chapter": 22, "verse": "44", "text": "And having been in agony, He prayed more intently. And His sweat became as large drops of blood falling down upon the ground."}
{"book": "LUK", "chapter": 22, "verse": "45", "text": "And having risen up from prayer, having come to the disciples, He found them sleeping from grief (pain, distress, vexation),"}
{"book": "LUK", "chapter": 22, "verse": "46", "text": "and He said to them, Why are you sleeping? Rise up and pray, so that you might not enter into temptation."}
{"book": "LUK", "chapter": 22, "verse": "47", "text": "As He was still speaking, behold, a crowd, and he who is called Judas, one of the twelve, was going before them, and drew near to Jesus to kiss Him."}
{"book": "LUK", "chapter": 22, "verse": "48", "text": "And Jesus said to him, Judas, are you betraying the Son of Man with a kiss?"}
{"book": "LUK", "chapter": 22, "verse": "49", "text": "And those around Him having seen what will be, said Lord, will we strike with the sword?"}
{"book": "LUK", "chapter": 22, "verse": "50", "text": "And a certain one of them struck the servant of the high priest and cut off his right ear."}
{"book": "LUK", "chapter": 22, "verse": "51", "text": "And answering, Jesus said, Permit them as far as this! And having touched the ear, He healed (iasato) him."}
{"book": "LUK", "chapter": 22, "verse": "52", "text": "And Jesus said to those having arrived against (upon) Him, the chief priests, and captains of the temple, and elders, Have you come out as against (upon) a robber (one that steals in the open) with swords and sticks (things of wood)?"}
{"book": "LUK", "chapter": 22, "verse": "53", "text": "My being with you day by day in the temple, you did not stretch out your hands against (upon) Me; but this is your hour and the authority of darkness."}
{"book": "LUK", "chapter": 22, "verse": "54", "text": "And having apprehended Him, they led Him away and led Him into the house of the high priest. And Peter was following afar off."}
{"book": "LUK", "chapter": 22, "verse": "55", "text": "And they having kindled a fire in the midst of the courtyard, and having sat down together, Peter was sitting in the midst of them."}
{"book": "LUK", "chapter": 22, "verse": "56", "text": "And having seen him, a certain servant girl sitting by the light, and having looked fixedly (fixated) on him, said, This one also was with Him."}
{"book": "LUK", "chapter": 22, "verse": "57", "text": "However he denied it, saying, Woman, I do not know Him."}
{"book": "LUK", "chapter": 22, "verse": "58", "text": "And after a little, another having seen him, said, You are also from out of them. However Peter said, Man, I am not."}
{"book": "LUK", "chapter": 22, "verse": "59", "text": "And about one hour having elapsed, a certain other strongly asserted it, saying, Upon truth this one also was with Him; for he is a Galilean."}
{"book": "LUK", "chapter": 22, "verse": "60", "text": "And Peter said, Man, I do not know what you say. And instantly while he was yet speaking, the rooster crowed (called out)."}
{"book": "LUK", "chapter": 22, "verse": "61", "text": "And having turned, the Lord looked at Peter; and Peter remembered the word of the Lord, how He said to him, Before the rooster crows today, you will deny Me three times."}
{"book": "LUK", "chapter": 22, "verse": "62", "text": "And having gone outside, he wept bitterly."}
{"book": "LUK", "chapter": 22, "verse": "63", "text": "And the men who are holding (confining) Him mocked Him, beating Him."}
{"book": "LUK", "chapter": 22, "verse": "64", "text": "And having blindfolded (covered around) Him, {they were striking His face, and} were asking saying, Prophesy, who is the one having struck you?"}
{"book": "LUK", "chapter": 22, "verse": "65", "text": "And they said unto Him many other things blaspheming."}
{"book": "LUK", "chapter": 22, "verse": "66", "text": "And when it became day, the elderhood of the people, both the chief priests and scribes were gathered together and they led Him into their council, saying,"}
{"book": "LUK", "chapter": 22, "verse": "67", "text": "If You are the Christ, tell us. And He said to them, If I should tell you, you would not believe;"}
{"book": "LUK", "chapter": 22, "verse": "68", "text": "And if I should ask you, you would not answer."}
{"book": "LUK", "chapter": 22, "verse": "69", "text": "From now on the Son of Man will be sitting at (from out of) the right hand/side of the power of God."}
{"book": "LUK", "chapter": 22, "verse": "70", "text": "And they all said, You then are the Son of God? And to them He said, You say that I am."}
{"book": "LUK", "chapter": 22, "verse": "71", "text": "And they said, What need have we of any more witness? For we ourselves have heard it from His mouth."}
{"book": "LUK", "chapter": 23, "verse": "1", "text": "And the whole multitude of them having risen up led Him to (upon) Pilate."}
{"book": "LUK", "chapter": 23, "verse": "2", "text": "And they began to accuse Him, saying, We found this Man misleading our nation (ethnicity) and forbidding tribute (tax) to be given to Caesar, and saying He Himself to be Christ, a King."}
{"book": "LUK", "chapter": 23, "verse": "3", "text": "And Pilate questioned Him, saying, Are You the king of the Jews? And answering him, He said, You say."}
{"book": "LUK", "chapter": 23, "verse": "4", "text": "And Pilate said to the chief priests and the crowds, I find no cause (guilt, fault) in this man."}
{"book": "LUK", "chapter": 23, "verse": "5", "text": "However they were growing stronger (insisting, strong upon), saying, He stirs up the people, teaching throughout the whole of Judea, and He has begun from Galilee even to here."}
{"book": "LUK", "chapter": 23, "verse": "6", "text": "And Pilate having heard, asked whether the Man is a Galilean;"}
{"book": "LUK", "chapter": 23, "verse": "7", "text": "And having recognized that He is from the jurisdiction (authority) of Herod, he sent Him up to Herod, being himself also in Jerusalem in those days."}
{"book": "LUK", "chapter": 23, "verse": "8", "text": "And Herod, having seen Jesus was very glad; for he was for a considerable time wanting to see Him, because of hearing concerning Him; and he was hoping to see some sign done by Him."}
{"book": "LUK", "chapter": 23, "verse": "9", "text": "And he questioned Him in many words; however He answered him nothing."}
{"book": "LUK", "chapter": 23, "verse": "10", "text": "And the chief priests and the scribes had been standing by vigorously accusing Him."}
{"book": "LUK", "chapter": 23, "verse": "11", "text": "And Herod with his troops treated Him as nothing, and mocked Him, put splendid clothing on Him, he sent Him back to Pilate."}
{"book": "LUK", "chapter": 23, "verse": "12", "text": "And Pilate and Herod became friends with one another on the same day; for before they were at (in) enmity between themselves."}
{"book": "LUK", "chapter": 23, "verse": "13", "text": "And Pilate having called together the chief priests, and the rulers, and the people,"}
{"book": "LUK", "chapter": 23, "verse": "14", "text": "Said to them, You brought this Man to me as misleading the people; and behold, I having examined Him in your sight, found nothing causative in this man of that accusation you are bringing against Him."}
{"book": "LUK", "chapter": 23, "verse": "15", "text": "Nor did Herod; for he sent Him back to us. And behold, nothing worthy of death is done (regularly practiced) by Him."}
{"book": "LUK", "chapter": 23, "verse": "16", "text": "Having therefore chastised (disciplined as a child) Him, I will release Him."}
{"book": "LUK", "chapter": 23, "verse": "17", "text": "{and of necessity he had to release one at the feast.}"}
{"book": "LUK", "chapter": 23, "verse": "18", "text": "However they cried out all together, saying, Away (remove) with this Man, release Barabbas to us!"}
{"book": "LUK", "chapter": 23, "verse": "19", "text": "Who was cast into prison on account of a certain insurrection having been made in the city and murder."}
{"book": "LUK", "chapter": 23, "verse": "20", "text": "Pilate therefore called again to them wanting to release Jesus."}
{"book": "LUK", "chapter": 23, "verse": "21", "text": "However they were calling out (shouting), saying, Crucify, crucify Him."}
{"book": "LUK", "chapter": 23, "verse": "22", "text": "And a third time he said to them, For what wrong did this Man commit? I found no cause of death in Him. Having therefore chastised Him, I will release Him."}
{"book": "LUK", "chapter": 23, "verse": "23", "text": "And they were insistent (set upon) with great voices, demanding Him to be crucified. And their voices {and of the chief priests} prevailed (overpowered, strong against)."}
{"book": "LUK", "chapter": 23, "verse": "24", "text": "And Pilate sentenced their demand to be done."}
{"book": "LUK", "chapter": 23, "verse": "25", "text": "And he released the one having been cast into prison on account of insurrection and murder, whom they had asked for; and he handed over Jesus to their will."}
{"book": "LUK", "chapter": 23, "verse": "26", "text": "And as they led Him away, having laid hold upon Simon, a certain of Cyrene, coming from the country, they put the cross upon him to carry it behind Jesus."}
{"book": "LUK", "chapter": 23, "verse": "27", "text": "And a great multitude of the people and of women who were mourning and lamenting for Him were following."}
{"book": "LUK", "chapter": 23, "verse": "28", "text": "And having turned to them, Jesus said, Daughters of Jerusalem, do not weep for (upon) Me, however weep for (upon) yourselves and for (upon) your children."}
{"book": "LUK", "chapter": 23, "verse": "29", "text": "Because behold, days are coming in which they will say, Blessed are the barren and the wombs that never did bear, and breasts that never nursed."}
{"book": "LUK", "chapter": 23, "verse": "30", "text": "Then will they begin to say to the mountains, Fall upon us; and to the hills, Cover (conceal) us:"}
{"book": "LUK", "chapter": 23, "verse": "31", "text": "For if these things they do in the sap-filled tree, what might happen in the dry?"}
{"book": "LUK", "chapter": 23, "verse": "32", "text": "And also two other criminals (wrong-workers) were being led away with Him to be put to death."}
{"book": "LUK", "chapter": 23, "verse": "33", "text": "And when they came upon the place called The Skull (greek-Kranion, Latin-Calvariae, KJV-Calvary), there they crucified Him and the criminals, one on (from out of) the right, and one on (from out of) the left."}
{"book": "LUK", "chapter": 23, "verse": "34", "text": "And Jesus said, Father, remit them, for they do not know what they do. And dividing his garments (outer garments), they cast a lot."}
{"book": "LUK", "chapter": 23, "verse": "35", "text": "And the people stood beholding. And the rulers were sneering at (deriding) Him, saying, He saved others, let Him save Himself if this is the Christ, the Chosen [One] (Elect) of God."}
{"book": "LUK", "chapter": 23, "verse": "36", "text": "And the soldiers also mocked Him, coming near, offering Him sour wine vinegar,"}
{"book": "LUK", "chapter": 23, "verse": "37", "text": "And saying, If You are the King of the Jews, save Yourself!"}
{"book": "LUK", "chapter": 23, "verse": "38", "text": "And there was also an inscription over (upon) Him, This is the King of the Jews, in Greek and Latin and Hebrew letters."}
{"book": "LUK", "chapter": 23, "verse": "39", "text": "And one of the criminals having been suspended, blasphemed Him saying, Are You not the Christ? Save Yourself and us!"}
{"book": "LUK", "chapter": 23, "verse": "40", "text": "And answering, the other was censuring him, saying, Do you not fear God, because you are in the same judgment?"}
{"book": "LUK", "chapter": 23, "verse": "41", "text": "And we indeed justly, for we are receiving worthy of what we did (regularly practiced); however this Man did (practiced) nothing out of place (atopon)."}
{"book": "LUK", "chapter": 23, "verse": "42", "text": "And he said to Jesus, Remember me when You come into Your kingdom!"}
{"book": "LUK", "chapter": 23, "verse": "43", "text": "And He said to him, Truly to you, I say, you will be with Me today in Paradise."}
{"book": "LUK", "chapter": 23, "verse": "44", "text": "And it was already about the sixth hour and darkness came over (upon) the whole land until the ninth hour."}
{"book": "LUK", "chapter": 23, "verse": "45", "text": "The sun was obscured (leave off, eklipontos- root of English word for eclipsed, latin-obscuratus-darkened roots are obscured/ minimizing), and the veil of the temple was divided asunder in the middle."}
{"book": "LUK", "chapter": 23, "verse": "46", "text": "And having called out with a great voice, Jesus said, Father into Your hands I commit My spirit. And having said this, He breathed out His last."}
{"book": "LUK", "chapter": 23, "verse": "47", "text": "And the centurion having seen what happened, glorified God, saying, Certainly this Man was righteous (just)."}
{"book": "LUK", "chapter": 23, "verse": "48", "text": "And all the crowds having come together upon this spectacle, having beheld the things having happened, returned [home] beating their breasts (chests)."}
{"book": "LUK", "chapter": 23, "verse": "49", "text": "And all those who knew Him stood from afar off also the women who followed Him from Galilee, seeing these things."}
{"book": "LUK", "chapter": 23, "verse": "50", "text": "And behold, a man named Joseph, a Council member, being a good and righteous man,"}
{"book": "LUK", "chapter": 23, "verse": "51", "text": "(He had not consented to their counsel/resolved plan and action), from Arimathaea, a city of the Jews, who was waiting for the kingdom of God."}
{"book": "LUK", "chapter": 23, "verse": "52", "text": "He having gone to Pilate, asked for the body of Jesus."}
{"book": "LUK", "chapter": 23, "verse": "53", "text": "And having taken it down, he wrapped it in a fine linen cloth, and placed it in a tomb cut in a rock, in which no one had been yet laid."}
{"book": "LUK", "chapter": 23, "verse": "54", "text": "And it was the day of preparation (the day before the Sabbath-Friday), and the Sabbath was coming on."}
{"book": "LUK", "chapter": 23, "verse": "55", "text": "And the women who had come with Him from out of Galilee, having followed, beheld the tomb and how His body was placed."}
{"book": "LUK", "chapter": 23, "verse": "56", "text": "And having returned, they prepared aromatic spices and anointing ointments and rested (remained tranquil) on the Sabbath according to the commandment."}
{"book": "LUK", "chapter": 24, "verse": "1", "text": "And the first day of the week, very early morning (deep early dawn/day break), they came upon the tomb, bringing the aromatic spices that they had prepared,"}
{"book": "LUK", "chapter": 24, "verse": "2", "text": "And they found the stone having been rolled away from the tomb."}
{"book": "LUK", "chapter": 24, "verse": "3", "text": "And having entered, they did not find the body of the Lord Jesus."}
{"book": "LUK", "chapter": 24, "verse": "4", "text": "And it happened while they were perplexed about it, and behold, two men stood by (stood upon) them in dazzling (flashing, lightening, word for star at root) clothing."}
{"book": "LUK", "chapter": 24, "verse": "5", "text": "And having become full of fear (terrified) of them, and bowing their faces unto the ground, they said to them, Why do you seek the living among (with, after) the dead?"}
{"book": "LUK", "chapter": 24, "verse": "6", "text": "He is not here, but rather is risen! Remember how He spoke to you, yet being in Galilee,"}
{"book": "LUK", "chapter": 24, "verse": "7", "text": "Saying, The Son of Man must be handed over into the hands of sinful men and be crucified and arise the third day."}
{"book": "LUK", "chapter": 24, "verse": "8", "text": "And they remembered His sayings (rhematon)."}
{"book": "LUK", "chapter": 24, "verse": "9", "text": "And having returned from the tomb, they announced (reported) these things to all the eleven and to all the rest."}
{"book": "LUK", "chapter": 24, "verse": "10", "text": "And it was Mary Magdalene, and Joanna, and Mary the [mother] of James, and the rest with them who told these things to the apostles."}
{"book": "LUK", "chapter": 24, "verse": "11", "text": "And their sayings (rhemata) appeared in their sight like nonsense (idle/silly talk), and they did not believe them."}
{"book": "LUK", "chapter": 24, "verse": "12", "text": "However Peter having risen up ran to (upon) the tomb and having stooped down, he sees only the fine linen wrappings and he went away, wondering at that having happened to himself. miles) from Jerusalem, whose name is Emmaus;"}
{"book": "LUK", "chapter": 24, "verse": "13", "text": "And behold, two of them, on the same day, were going unto a village being distant, sixty stadias (stadia-one eighth of a Roman mile, about 7 miles) from Jerusalem, whose name is Emmaus;"}
{"book": "LUK", "chapter": 24, "verse": "14", "text": "And they were conversing with one another concerning all these things having occurred."}
{"book": "LUK", "chapter": 24, "verse": "15", "text": "And it happened in their conversing and inquiring together, and Jesus Himself having drawn near went with them;"}
{"book": "LUK", "chapter": 24, "verse": "16", "text": "However their eyes were held so as not to recognize Him."}
{"book": "LUK", "chapter": 24, "verse": "17", "text": "And He said to them, What are these words that you exchange (throw against each other) with one another while walking? And they stood still, looking gloomy-eyed (downcast, sad, sullen-eyed, latin-tristes-sad)."}
{"book": "LUK", "chapter": 24, "verse": "18", "text": "And answering, the one named Cleopas said to Him, Are you alone visiting Jerusalem and do not know the things having happened in it in these days?"}
{"book": "LUK", "chapter": 24, "verse": "19", "text": "And He said to them, What things? And he said to Him, the things concerning Jesus of Nazareth, who became a man, a Prophet powerful in deed and word before God and all the people;"}
{"book": "LUK", "chapter": 24, "verse": "20", "text": "That the chief priests and our rulers handed Him over unto judgment of death and crucified Him."}
{"book": "LUK", "chapter": 24, "verse": "21", "text": "And we were hoping it was He, who is about to redeem Israel. But indeed also with all these things, brings us to this third day from which these things happened."}
{"book": "LUK", "chapter": 24, "verse": "22", "text": "But also certain women from out of us astonished us. Having been early to (upon) the tomb,"}
{"book": "LUK", "chapter": 24, "verse": "23", "text": "And having not found His body, they came declaring to have seen a vision (latin-visionem) of angels who say He is alive."}
{"book": "LUK", "chapter": 24, "verse": "24", "text": "And some of those with us went to (upon) the tomb and found it so, just as the women said; and they did not see Him."}
{"book": "LUK", "chapter": 24, "verse": "25", "text": "And He said to them, O non-thinking and slow of heart to believe upon all that the prophets spoke."}
{"book": "LUK", "chapter": 24, "verse": "26", "text": "Was it not necessary for the Christ to suffer these things? And to enter into His glory?"}
{"book": "LUK", "chapter": 24, "verse": "27", "text": "And having begun from Moses and from all the prophets, He thoroughly interpreted to them in all the Scriptures the things concerning Himself."}
{"book": "LUK", "chapter": 24, "verse": "28", "text": "And they drew near unto the village where they were going and He acted as though He was going farther."}
{"book": "LUK", "chapter": 24, "verse": "29", "text": "And they compelled Him, saying, Abide with us, because it is toward evening and the day has already declined. And He entered in to abide with them."}
{"book": "LUK", "chapter": 24, "verse": "30", "text": "And it happened in His reclining with them, having taken the bread He blessed, and having broken, He gave it to them."}
{"book": "LUK", "chapter": 24, "verse": "31", "text": "And their eyes were fully opened and they recognized Him. And He became unapparent (invisible) to (away from) them."}
{"book": "LUK", "chapter": 24, "verse": "32", "text": "And they said to one another, Was not our heart burning within us as He was speaking with us on the way as He was fully opening the Scriptures to us?"}
{"book": "LUK", "chapter": 24, "verse": "33", "text": "And having risen up that same hour, they returned unto Jerusalem and they found the eleven and those with them gathered together,"}
{"book": "LUK", "chapter": 24, "verse": "34", "text": "Saying, indeed, the Lord has risen and has appeared to Simon."}
{"book": "LUK", "chapter": 24, "verse": "35", "text": "And they related the things on the way and how He was known to them in the breaking of the bread."}
{"book": "LUK", "chapter": 24, "verse": "36", "text": "And as they were saying these things to them, He Himself stood in the midst of them and says to them, Peace to you."}
{"book": "LUK", "chapter": 24, "verse": "37", "text": "However having been startled (fluttered, alarmed) and having been filled with fear, they supposed to behold a spirit."}
{"book": "LUK", "chapter": 24, "verse": "38", "text": "And He said to them, Why are you troubled (agitated, stirred up)? And why do deliberations come up in your hearts?"}
{"book": "LUK", "chapter": 24, "verse": "39", "text": "See My hands and My feet, that I am He. Touch (Feel) Me and see, because a spirit has not flesh and bones, just as you see Me having."}
{"book": "LUK", "chapter": 24, "verse": "40", "text": "And having said this, He showed to them the hands and the feet."}
{"book": "LUK", "chapter": 24, "verse": "41", "text": "And still while they were not believing for (away from) joy and were marveling, He said to them, Do you have anything edible here?"}
{"book": "LUK", "chapter": 24, "verse": "42", "text": "And they gave to Him a part of a broiled (roasted) fish {KJV, Darby, YLT add- and of honeycomb}."}
{"book": "LUK", "chapter": 24, "verse": "43", "text": "And having taken it, He ate it in their sight."}
{"book": "LUK", "chapter": 24, "verse": "44", "text": "And He said to them, These are My words, which I spoke to you still being with you, because it is necessary for all things having been written in the law of Moses, and the prophets and psalms concerning Me to be fulfilled."}
{"book": "LUK", "chapter": 24, "verse": "45", "text": "Then He opened their mind (understanding) to synthesize (understand, put together) the Scriptures,"}
{"book": "LUK", "chapter": 24, "verse": "46", "text": "And said to them, This it has been written, the Christ was to suffer, and to rise up from out of the dead the third day;"}
{"book": "LUK", "chapter": 24, "verse": "47", "text": "And repentance and remission of sins to be preached upon His name unto all ethnicities (nations) having begun from Jerusalem."}
{"book": "LUK", "chapter": 24, "verse": "48", "text": "You are witnesses of these things."}
{"book": "LUK", "chapter": 24, "verse": "49", "text": "And behold, I am sending out the promise of My Father upon you; and you remain in the city until that you should be endued (put on, clothed) with power from out of on high."}
{"book": "LUK", "chapter": 24, "verse": "50", "text": "And He led them outside as far as to Bethany and having lifted up His hands, He blessed them."}
{"book": "LUK", "chapter": 24, "verse": "51", "text": "And it happened in His blessing them, He was separated away from them and was carried up (brought up, led up) into heaven."}
{"book": "LUK", "chapter": 24, "verse": "52", "text": "And they having worshipped Him, returned unto Jerusalem with great joy."}
{"book": "LUK", "chapter": 24, "verse": "53", "text": "And all were continually in the temple, blessing God."}
{"book": "JHN", "chapter": 1, "verse": "1", "text": "In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and God was the Word."}
{"book": "JHN", "chapter": 1, "verse": "2", "text": "He was in the beginning with God."}
{"book": "JHN", "chapter": 1, "verse": "3", "text": "All things came into being through Him and without Him not even one came into being that has come into being."}
{"book": "JHN", "chapter": 1, "verse": "4", "text": "In Him was life and the life was the light of men."}
{"book": "JHN", "chapter": 1, "verse": "5", "text": "And the light shines in the darkness and the darkness did not overtake (apprehend, seize) it."}
{"book": "JHN", "chapter": 1, "verse": "6", "text": "There was a man having been sent from God, his name John."}
{"book": "JHN", "chapter": 1, "verse": "7", "text": "He came for a witness, so that he might testify concerning the Light, so that all might believe through him."}
{"book": "JHN", "chapter": 1, "verse": "8", "text": "He was not the Light, but so that he might witness concerning the Light."}
{"book": "JHN", "chapter": 1, "verse": "9", "text": "The true Light was that which enlightens every man coming into the world."}
{"book": "JHN", "chapter": 1, "verse": "10", "text": "He was in the world and the world came into being through Him and the world did not know Him."}
{"book": "JHN", "chapter": 1, "verse": "11", "text": "He came unto His own, and His own did not receive Him;"}
{"book": "JHN", "chapter": 1, "verse": "12", "text": "However as many as received Him, He gave to them authority to be children of God, to those believing unto His name,"}
{"book": "JHN", "chapter": 1, "verse": "13", "text": "Who were born not from out of bloods, nor from out of the will of flesh, nor from out of the will of man, but from out of God."}
{"book": "JHN", "chapter": 1, "verse": "14", "text": "And the Word became flesh and tabernacle among (in) us, and we beheld (we spectated) His glory, a glory as of an only-begotten from (from close beside) the Father, full of grace and truth."}
{"book": "JHN", "chapter": 1, "verse": "15", "text": "John witnesses concerning Him and cried out, saying, This was He of whom I was saying, The One coming after me has precedence of me for He was before (foremost, first) me."}
{"book": "JHN", "chapter": 1, "verse": "16", "text": "Because from out of His fullness, we have all received grace over-against (in place of, corresponding to, on top of) grace."}
{"book": "JHN", "chapter": 1, "verse": "17", "text": "Because the law was given through Moses; grace and truth came through Jesus Christ."}
{"book": "JHN", "chapter": 1, "verse": "18", "text": "No one has ever yet seen God; the only-begotten God, the One being in the bosom of the Father, He has made Him known (explained, word for exegete)."}
{"book": "JHN", "chapter": 1, "verse": "19", "text": "And this is the testimony of John, when the Jews sent priests and Levites from out of Jerusalem, so that they might ask him, Who are you?"}
{"book": "JHN", "chapter": 1, "verse": "20", "text": "And he confessed and did not deny, and confessed, I am not the Christ."}
{"book": "JHN", "chapter": 1, "verse": "21", "text": "And they asked him, What then? Are you Elijah? And he says, I am not. Are you the prophet? And he answered, No."}
{"book": "JHN", "chapter": 1, "verse": "22", "text": "They then said to him, Who are you? So that we might give an answer to those having sent us: What do you say about yourself?"}
{"book": "JHN", "chapter": 1, "verse": "23", "text": "He said, I [am] a voice crying (shouting/calling out with intense feeling, exclaiming) in the wilderness, Make straight the way of the Lord, just as Isaiah the prophet said."}
{"book": "JHN", "chapter": 1, "verse": "24", "text": "And those having been sent were from out of the Pharisees."}
{"book": "JHN", "chapter": 1, "verse": "25", "text": "And they asked him and said to him, Why then do you baptize if you are not the Christ, nor Elijah, nor the prophet?"}
{"book": "JHN", "chapter": 1, "verse": "26", "text": "John answered them saying, I baptize in (with) water; One stands in the midst of you whom you do not know,"}
{"book": "JHN", "chapter": 1, "verse": "27", "text": "The One coming after me of whom I am not worthy that I should untie (loose) the strap of his sandal."}
{"book": "JHN", "chapter": 1, "verse": "28", "text": "These things happened in Bethany across the Jordan where John was baptizing."}
{"book": "JHN", "chapter": 1, "verse": "29", "text": "On the next day he sees Jesus coming to him and says, Behold the Lamb of God taking away the sins of the world."}
{"book": "JHN", "chapter": 1, "verse": "30", "text": "It is He by (under) whom I said, After me comes a man who has precedence of me, because He was before me."}
{"book": "JHN", "chapter": 1, "verse": "31", "text": "And I did not know Him, but that He might be made apparent to Israel, because of this, I came baptizing in water."}
{"book": "JHN", "chapter": 1, "verse": "32", "text": "And John bore witness saying, I have beheld (spectated) the Spirit descending like as a dove from out of heaven and it remained upon Him."}
{"book": "JHN", "chapter": 1, "verse": "33", "text": "And I did not know him; but the One having sent me to baptize in water, He said to me, Upon whom you shall see the Spirit descending and abiding upon Him, He is the One baptizing in the Holy Spirit."}
{"book": "JHN", "chapter": 1, "verse": "34", "text": "And I have seen (perceived as in a vision) and have borne witness that this is the Son of God."}
{"book": "JHN", "chapter": 1, "verse": "35", "text": "On the next day John was standing again and two from out of his disciples."}
{"book": "JHN", "chapter": 1, "verse": "36", "text": "And having looked at Jesus walking, he says, Behold the Lamb of God!"}
{"book": "JHN", "chapter": 1, "verse": "37", "text": "And the two disciples heard him speaking and followed Jesus."}
{"book": "JHN", "chapter": 1, "verse": "38", "text": "However Jesus having turned and having beheld them following said to them, What do you seek? And they said to him, Rabbi- which being translated is to say, Teacher—where are you staying?"}
{"book": "JHN", "chapter": 1, "verse": "39", "text": "He says to them, Come and you will see. So they went and saw where He was staying; and they stayed with him that day. It was about the tenth hour."}
{"book": "JHN", "chapter": 1, "verse": "40", "text": "Andrew the brother of Simon Peter was one of the two having heard this from John and having followed him."}
{"book": "JHN", "chapter": 1, "verse": "41", "text": "He first finds his own brother Simon and says to him, We have found the Messiah (greek-Messian, latin-messiam), which is translated Christ."}
{"book": "JHN", "chapter": 1, "verse": "42", "text": "He led him to Jesus. Jesus having looked at him said, You are Simon the son of Jonah; you will be called Cephas (Aramaic for rock), which interprets as Peter (Greek for stone)."}
{"book": "JHN", "chapter": 1, "verse": "43", "text": "On the next day He wanted to go forth into Galilee and He finds Philip. And Jesus says to him, Follow (accompany) me."}
{"book": "JHN", "chapter": 1, "verse": "44", "text": "And Philip was from Bethsaida from out of the city of Andrew and Peter."}
{"book": "JHN", "chapter": 1, "verse": "45", "text": "Philip finds Nathanael and says to him, We have found Him of whom Moses wrote of in the law, and the prophets, Jesus son of Joseph who is from Nazareth."}
{"book": "JHN", "chapter": 1, "verse": "46", "text": "And Nathanael said to him, Is any good thing able to be from out of Nazareth? Philip says to him, Come and see."}
{"book": "JHN", "chapter": 1, "verse": "47", "text": "Jesus saw Nathanael coming to Him and He says concerning him, Behold truly an Israelite in whom is no deceit (deceit by guile)."}
{"book": "JHN", "chapter": 1, "verse": "48", "text": "Nathanael says to Him, From where do you know me? Jesus answered and said to him, Before Philip called you, when being under the fig tree, I saw you."}
{"book": "JHN", "chapter": 1, "verse": "49", "text": "Nathanael answered Him, Rabbi, You are the Son of God, You are King of Israel."}
{"book": "JHN", "chapter": 1, "verse": "50", "text": "Jesus answered and said to him, Because I said to you, I saw you under the fig tree, do you believe? You will see (perceive as in a vision) greater things than these."}
{"book": "JHN", "chapter": 1, "verse": "51", "text": "And He says to him, Truly (amen), truly (amen) I say to you, you will see (envision) the heaven opened and the angels of God ascending and descending upon the Son of Man."}
{"book": "JHN", "chapter": 2, "verse": "1", "text": "And on the third day a marriage happened in Cana of Galilee and the mother of Jesus was there."}
{"book": "JHN", "chapter": 2, "verse": "2", "text": "And also Jesus was invited and His disciples unto the marriage."}
{"book": "JHN", "chapter": 2, "verse": "3", "text": "And having been deficient of wine (oinou), Jesus’ mother says to Him, They do not have wine."}
{"book": "JHN", "chapter": 2, "verse": "4", "text": "And Jesus says to her, Woman, What to Me and to you? My hour is not yet come."}
{"book": "JHN", "chapter": 2, "verse": "5", "text": "His mother says to the servants (diakonois), Whatever He might say to you, do. gallons or 39.39 liters)."}
{"book": "JHN", "chapter": 2, "verse": "6", "text": "Now there were lying six waterpots of stone according to the purification of the Jews having space for two or three metretae ( a liquid measure containing 8.75 gallons or 39.39 liters)."}
{"book": "JHN", "chapter": 2, "verse": "7", "text": "Jesus says to them, Fill full (load, greek-gemisate) the waterpots with water. And they were filled them full as far as the top (brim, above, up, latin-summum-top)."}
{"book": "JHN", "chapter": 2, "verse": "8", "text": "And He says to them, Draw out now and carry to the banquet-superintendent (ruler/head of a dining room with three couches). And they carried it."}
{"book": "JHN", "chapter": 2, "verse": "9", "text": "And when the banquet-superintendent had tasted the water having become wine and did not know from where it is, however the servants having drawn the water knew, the banquet-superintendent calls the bridegroom (nymphion, latin-sponsum-spouse),"}
{"book": "JHN", "chapter": 2, "verse": "10", "text": "And says to him, Every man places first the good (kalon-winsomely good) wine and when they might have become drunk (methysthosin- common word for being intoxicated, latin-inebriati-intoxicated like inebriated), then the inferior (lesser, smaller); you have kept the good wine until just now."}
{"book": "JHN", "chapter": 2, "verse": "11", "text": "This beginning of the signs Jesus did in Cana of Galilee, and made apparent His glory; and His disciples believed in (unto) Him."}
{"book": "JHN", "chapter": 2, "verse": "12", "text": "After this He went down unto Capernaum, He and His mother and His brothers and His disciples and there they stayed not many days."}
{"book": "JHN", "chapter": 2, "verse": "13", "text": "And the Passover (pascha-the feast of Passover) of the Jews was near and Jesus went up unto Jerusalem."}
{"book": "JHN", "chapter": 2, "verse": "14", "text": "And He found in the temple those selling oxen and sheep and doves and the money-changers sitting."}
{"book": "JHN", "chapter": 2, "verse": "15", "text": "And having made a whip from out of cords, He drove out all from the temple, both sheep and oxen; and He poured out the coins of the money-changers, and overturned the tables."}
{"book": "JHN", "chapter": 2, "verse": "16", "text": "And to those selling doves, He said, Take these things from here; Do not make the house of My Father a house of trade (emporiou like an emporium, a marketplace for trading)."}
{"book": "JHN", "chapter": 2, "verse": "17", "text": "His disciples remembered that it is written, The zeal of Your house will consume Me."}
{"book": "JHN", "chapter": 2, "verse": "18", "text": "Then the Jews answered and said to Him, What sign do You show to us that You do these things?"}
{"book": "JHN", "chapter": 2, "verse": "19", "text": "Jesus answered and said to them, Destroy this temple and in three days I will raise it up."}
{"book": "JHN", "chapter": 2, "verse": "20", "text": "Then the Jews said, Forty and six years was this temple built and You will raise it up in three days?"}
{"book": "JHN", "chapter": 2, "verse": "21", "text": "However He spoke concerning the temple of His body."}
{"book": "JHN", "chapter": 2, "verse": "22", "text": "When therefore He was raised up from out of the dead, His disciples remembered that He had said this and believed the Scripture and the word that Jesus had spoken."}
{"book": "JHN", "chapter": 2, "verse": "23", "text": "And when He was in Jerusalem in the Passover, at the Feast, many believed unto His name, beholding His signs which He was doing."}
{"book": "JHN", "chapter": 2, "verse": "24", "text": "However Jesus Himself did not entrust Himself to them, because of His knowing all [men]."}
{"book": "JHN", "chapter": 2, "verse": "25", "text": "And that He had no need that any should testify concerning man, for He knew what was in man."}
{"book": "JHN", "chapter": 3, "verse": "1", "text": "And there was a man from out of the Pharisees, his name Nicodemus, a ruler of the Jews;"}
{"book": "JHN", "chapter": 3, "verse": "2", "text": "He came to Him by night and said to Him, Rabbi, we know that You have come from God, a teacher; for no one is able to do these signs that You do unless God should be with him."}
{"book": "JHN", "chapter": 3, "verse": "3", "text": "Jesus answered and said to him, Truly (Amen), truly (amen) I say to you, If anyone be not born from above, he is not able to see the kingdom of God."}
{"book": "JHN", "chapter": 3, "verse": "4", "text": "Nicodemus says to Him, How is a man able to be born, being old? Is he able to enter a second time into the womb of his mother and be born?"}
{"book": "JHN", "chapter": 3, "verse": "5", "text": "Jesus answered, Truly, truly, I say to you, If anyone be not born from out of water and Spirit, he is not able to enter into the kingdom of God."}
{"book": "JHN", "chapter": 3, "verse": "6", "text": "That having been born from out of the flesh is flesh; and that having been born from out of the Spirit is spirit."}
{"book": "JHN", "chapter": 3, "verse": "7", "text": "Do not marvel that I said to you, It is necessary for you to be born from above."}
{"book": "JHN", "chapter": 3, "verse": "8", "text": "The wind (Spirit) blows (breathes) where it (He) wants and the sound (voice) of it (Him) you hear, but know not from where it (He) comes and where it (He) goes; thus is everyone having been born from out of the Spirit."}
{"book": "JHN", "chapter": 3, "verse": "9", "text": "Nicodemus answered and said to Him, How are these things able to be?"}
{"book": "JHN", "chapter": 3, "verse": "10", "text": "Jesus answered and said to him, You are the teacher of Israel and you do not know these things?"}
{"book": "JHN", "chapter": 3, "verse": "11", "text": "Truly, truly I say to you, We speak that that which we know, and we bear witness of that which we have seen; and you do not receive our witness."}
{"book": "JHN", "chapter": 3, "verse": "12", "text": "If I have told the earthly things to you and you do not believe, how, if I tell the heavenly things to you, will you believe?"}
{"book": "JHN", "chapter": 3, "verse": "13", "text": "And no one has gone up into heaven, unless the One from out of heaven having come down, the Son of man, {who is in heaven}."}
{"book": "JHN", "chapter": 3, "verse": "14", "text": "And just as Moses lifted up the serpent in the wilderness, thus the Son of man must be lifted up,"}
{"book": "JHN", "chapter": 3, "verse": "15", "text": "So that everyone believing in Him might have life eternal."}
{"book": "JHN", "chapter": 3, "verse": "16", "text": "For God thus (in this way) loved the world that He gave His only begotten Son, so that everyone believing unto Him should not perish but might have life eternal."}
{"book": "JHN", "chapter": 3, "verse": "17", "text": "For God did not send His Son into the world so that He might judge the world, but so that the world might be saved through Him."}
{"book": "JHN", "chapter": 3, "verse": "18", "text": "The one believing unto Him is not judged; however the one not believing has already been judged because he has not believed unto the name of the only begotten Son of God."}
{"book": "JHN", "chapter": 3, "verse": "19", "text": "And this is the judgment, that light has come into the world and men loved the darkness rather than the light; for their works were evil (ponera)."}
{"book": "JHN", "chapter": 3, "verse": "20", "text": "For everyone practicing evil things (phaula, foul, worthless, bad) hates (detests) the light and does not come to the light, so that his works might be exposed (reproved, convicted, rebuked);"}
{"book": "JHN", "chapter": 3, "verse": "21", "text": "However the one doing the truth comes to the light, so that his works might be made apparent that they have been done in God."}
{"book": "JHN", "chapter": 3, "verse": "22", "text": "After these things, Jesus and His disciples came into the Judean land; and there He stayed with them, and was baptizing."}
{"book": "JHN", "chapter": 3, "verse": "23", "text": "And John was also baptizing in Aenon, near Salim, because there were many waters there; and they were coming and being baptized."}
{"book": "JHN", "chapter": 3, "verse": "24", "text": "For John had not yet been cast into prison."}
{"book": "JHN", "chapter": 3, "verse": "25", "text": "Then arose a question from out of the disciples of John with a Jew concerning purification."}
{"book": "JHN", "chapter": 3, "verse": "26", "text": "And they came to John and said to him, Rabbi, He who was with you beyond the Jordan to whom you have borne witness, behold He baptizes and all come to Him."}
{"book": "JHN", "chapter": 3, "verse": "27", "text": "John answered and said, A man is not able to receive anything unless it is given to him from out of heaven."}
{"book": "JHN", "chapter": 3, "verse": "28", "text": "You yourselves bear witness to me that I said that I am not the Christ, but that I am sent before Him."}
{"book": "JHN", "chapter": 3, "verse": "29", "text": "The one having the bride (nymphen) is the bridegroom (nymphios); however the friend of the bridegroom, the one standing and hearing him, rejoices with with because of the voice of the bridegroom, this then, the joy of mine is fulfilled."}
{"book": "JHN", "chapter": 3, "verse": "30", "text": "That One there must increase (grow, become greater), however me decrease (make less in rank or influence, make inferior)."}
{"book": "JHN", "chapter": 3, "verse": "31", "text": "The One coming from above is above all. The one being from out of the earth is from out of the earth and speaks from out of the earth. The One coming from heaven is above all."}
{"book": "JHN", "chapter": 3, "verse": "32", "text": "What He has seen and heard, this He testifies; and no one receives His testimony."}
{"book": "JHN", "chapter": 3, "verse": "33", "text": "The one having received His testimony has set his seal to this, that God is true;"}
{"book": "JHN", "chapter": 3, "verse": "34", "text": "For He whom God sent speaks the sayings (rhemata) of God; for He gives the Spirit not from out of measure [to Him]."}
{"book": "JHN", "chapter": 3, "verse": "35", "text": "The Father loves the Son and has given all things in His hand."}
{"book": "JHN", "chapter": 3, "verse": "36", "text": "The one believing unto the Son has life eternal; and the one refusing to be persuaded of the Son will not see life, but the wrath of God remains upon him."}
{"book": "JHN", "chapter": 4, "verse": "1", "text": "When therefore Jesus knew that the Pharisees heard that Jesus makes and baptizes more disciples than John,"}
{"book": "JHN", "chapter": 4, "verse": "2", "text": "Although Jesus Himself was not baptizing, rather His disciples,"}
{"book": "JHN", "chapter": 4, "verse": "3", "text": "He left Judea and went away again unto Galilee."}
{"book": "JHN", "chapter": 4, "verse": "4", "text": "And it was necessary for Him to pass through Samaria."}
{"book": "JHN", "chapter": 4, "verse": "5", "text": "He comes then unto a city of Samaria called Sychar near the plot of ground that Jacob had given to his son Joseph."}
{"book": "JHN", "chapter": 4, "verse": "6", "text": "Now Jacob’s well was there; Therefore Jesus, being wearied from the journey sat thus at (upon) the well. The hour was about the sixth."}
{"book": "JHN", "chapter": 4, "verse": "7", "text": "A woman comes from out of Samaria to draw water. Jesus says to her, Give Me to drink;"}
{"book": "JHN", "chapter": 4, "verse": "8", "text": "For His disciples had gone away into the city so that they might buy food."}
{"book": "JHN", "chapter": 4, "verse": "9", "text": "Then the Samaritan woman says to Him, How do You, being a Jew, ask to drink from me, being a Samaritan woman? For Jews have no association (dealings) with Samaritans."}
{"book": "JHN", "chapter": 4, "verse": "10", "text": "Jesus answered and said to her, If you had known the gift of God and who it is saying to you, Give Me to drink, you would have asked Him and He would have given to you living water."}
{"book": "JHN", "chapter": 4, "verse": "11", "text": "The woman says to Him, Sir (word for Lord but here Kyrie not Kyrios), You have nothing to draw with and the well is deep; from where then have You the living water?"}
{"book": "JHN", "chapter": 4, "verse": "12", "text": "Are You greater than our father Jacob who gave us the well and drank from out of it himself, and his sons and his livestock (cattle)?"}
{"book": "JHN", "chapter": 4, "verse": "13", "text": "Jesus answered and said to her, Everyone drinking from out of this water will thirst again;"}
{"book": "JHN", "chapter": 4, "verse": "14", "text": "However whoever might drink from out of the water that I will give him will never thirst unto the age. But rather the water that I will give to him will become in him a spring (fountain, well) of water springing up (leaping, bubbling, gushing) into life eternal."}
{"book": "JHN", "chapter": 4, "verse": "15", "text": "The woman says to Him, Sir, give me this water so that I might not thirst nor come here to draw."}
{"book": "JHN", "chapter": 4, "verse": "16", "text": "He says to her, Go, call your husband and come here."}
{"book": "JHN", "chapter": 4, "verse": "17", "text": "The woman answered and said to Him, I do not have a husband. Jesus says to her, You have spoken well (kalos, rightly, correctly), I do not have a husband;"}
{"book": "JHN", "chapter": 4, "verse": "18", "text": "For you have had five husbands and now he whom you have is not your husband; this you have spoken truly."}
{"book": "JHN", "chapter": 4, "verse": "19", "text": "The woman says to Him, Sir, I behold (ascertain, perceive, gaze) that You are a prophet."}
{"book": "JHN", "chapter": 4, "verse": "20", "text": "Our fathers worshipped in this mountain and you [people] say that the place where it is necessary to worship is in Jerusalem."}
{"book": "JHN", "chapter": 4, "verse": "21", "text": "Jesus says to her, Woman, believe Me, that an hour is coming when neither in this mountain nor in Jerusalem will you worship the Father."}
{"book": "JHN", "chapter": 4, "verse": "22", "text": "You worship what you do not know; we worship what we know; because salvation is from out of the Jews."}
{"book": "JHN", "chapter": 4, "verse": "23", "text": "But an hour is coming and now is when the true worshippers will worship the Father in spirit and truth; for also the Father seeks such who worship Him."}
{"book": "JHN", "chapter": 4, "verse": "24", "text": "God is Spirit and those worshipping must worship Him in spirit and truth."}
{"book": "JHN", "chapter": 4, "verse": "25", "text": "The woman says to him, I know that Messiah is coming, who is called Christ; when He comes, He will clearly tell us all things (the whole)."}
{"book": "JHN", "chapter": 4, "verse": "26", "text": "Jesus says to her, I am He who is speaking to you."}
{"book": "JHN", "chapter": 4, "verse": "27", "text": "And upon this came His disciples and marveled that He was speaking with a woman; yet no one said, What do You seek? Or Why do You speak with her?"}
{"book": "JHN", "chapter": 4, "verse": "28", "text": "Then the woman left her waterpot and went away into the city and says to the men,"}
{"book": "JHN", "chapter": 4, "verse": "29", "text": "Come, see a man who told me all things that I ever did; Can it be that this is the Christ?"}
{"book": "JHN", "chapter": 4, "verse": "30", "text": "They went out of the city and came to Him."}
{"book": "JHN", "chapter": 4, "verse": "31", "text": "In the meantime the disciples were asking Him, saying, Rabbi, eat."}
{"book": "JHN", "chapter": 4, "verse": "32", "text": "However He said to them, I have food to eat that you do not know."}
{"book": "JHN", "chapter": 4, "verse": "33", "text": "The disciples therefore said to one another, Did anyone bring Him [anything] to eat?"}
{"book": "JHN", "chapter": 4, "verse": "34", "text": "Jesus says to them, My food is that I should do the will of the One having sent Me, and should finish His work."}
{"book": "JHN", "chapter": 4, "verse": "35", "text": "Do you not say that it is yet four months and the harvest comes? Behold, I say to you, Lift up your eyes and see the fields because they are already white toward harvest."}
{"book": "JHN", "chapter": 4, "verse": "36", "text": "The one reaping receives a reward (wages) and gathers fruit unto life eternal, so that the one sowing and the one reaping might rejoice together."}
{"book": "JHN", "chapter": 4, "verse": "37", "text": "For in this the saying is true, That one is sowing and another reaping."}
{"book": "JHN", "chapter": 4, "verse": "38", "text": "I sent you to reap what you have not labored hard for; others have labored hard and you have entered into their labor."}
{"book": "JHN", "chapter": 4, "verse": "39", "text": "And many of the Samaritans of that city believed unto Him because of the word of the woman testifying, He told me all things that I ever did."}
{"book": "JHN", "chapter": 4, "verse": "40", "text": "When therefore the Samaritans came to Him, they asked Him to abide with them and He stayed there two days."}
{"book": "JHN", "chapter": 4, "verse": "41", "text": "And many more believed because of His word;"}
{"book": "JHN", "chapter": 4, "verse": "42", "text": "And they said to the woman, We no longer believe because of your speech; for we ourselves have heard and we know that this is truly the Savior of the world,"}
{"book": "JHN", "chapter": 4, "verse": "43", "text": "And after two days, He went out from there into Galilee;"}
{"book": "JHN", "chapter": 4, "verse": "44", "text": "For Jesus Himself testified that a prophet has not honor (value) in his own native place (place of one’s fathers, fatherland, latin-patria-country)."}
{"book": "JHN", "chapter": 4, "verse": "45", "text": "When therefore He came into Galilee, the Galileans received Him, having seen how great all the things He had done in Jerusalem at the feast; for they themselves also had gone unto the feast."}
{"book": "JHN", "chapter": 4, "verse": "46", "text": "He came then again unto Cana of Galilee, where He had made the water wine. And there was a certain royal official whose son was sick in Capernaum."}
{"book": "JHN", "chapter": 4, "verse": "47", "text": "He having heard that Jesus had come from out of Judea into Galilee went to Him and asked that He would come down and heal (iasetai) his son; for he was about to die."}
{"book": "JHN", "chapter": 4, "verse": "48", "text": "Jesus then said to him, Unless you see signs and wonders, you will not believe."}
{"book": "JHN", "chapter": 4, "verse": "49", "text": "The royal official said to Him, Sir, come down before my child dies."}
{"book": "JHN", "chapter": 4, "verse": "50", "text": "Jesus says to him, Go, your son lives. The man believed the word that Jesus said to him and went away."}
{"book": "JHN", "chapter": 4, "verse": "51", "text": "And as he was already going down, his servants met him, saying, His son lives."}
{"book": "JHN", "chapter": 4, "verse": "52", "text": "He inquired then the hour from them in which he got better (recovered). They said then to him, Yesterday at the seventh hour, the fever (inflamed, possibly inflammation, latin-febris-fever) left him."}
{"book": "JHN", "chapter": 4, "verse": "53", "text": "The father then knew that it was in that hour in which Jesus said to him, Your son lives. And he himself and his whole household believed."}
{"book": "JHN", "chapter": 4, "verse": "54", "text": "Now this is again the second sign Jesus did having come from out of Judea into Galilee."}
{"book": "JHN", "chapter": 5, "verse": "1", "text": "After these things there was a feast of the Jews and Jesus went up unto Jerusalem."}
{"book": "JHN", "chapter": 5, "verse": "2", "text": "And there is in Jerusalem at (upon) the Sheep Gate, a pool, called in Aramaic (Hebrew) Bethesda, having five porches."}
{"book": "JHN", "chapter": 5, "verse": "3", "text": "In these were lying a multitude of those ailing, blind, lame, withered (dried out), awaiting the moving (stirring) of the water."}
{"book": "JHN", "chapter": 5, "verse": "4", "text": "{not in Vulgate, ESV, and other translations- For an angel descended during a fitting time in the pool and stirred the water. He who therefore first entered after the stirring of the water was made healthy from whatever disease (sickness, chronic illness) at the time he was held by.}"}
{"book": "JHN", "chapter": 5, "verse": "5", "text": "And there was a certain man there being in his infirmity for thirty and eight years."}
{"book": "JHN", "chapter": 5, "verse": "6", "text": "Jesus having seen him lying and having known that he has already been a long time [in that state], says to him, Do you want to become healthy?"}
{"book": "JHN", "chapter": 5, "verse": "7", "text": "The one ailing answered Him, Sir, I do not have a man, so that when the water has been stirred, he might put me into the pool; and while I am going, another descends before me."}
{"book": "JHN", "chapter": 5, "verse": "8", "text": "Jesus says to him, Arise, take up your mat and walk."}
{"book": "JHN", "chapter": 5, "verse": "9", "text": "And directly the man became healthy and took up his mat and walked; and it was on that Sabbath day."}
{"book": "JHN", "chapter": 5, "verse": "10", "text": "The Jews therefore said to the one having been healed (tetherapeumeno), It is Sabbath and it is not permitted for you to take up your mat."}
{"book": "JHN", "chapter": 5, "verse": "11", "text": "To which he answered them, the One having made me healthy, He said to me, Take up your mat and walk."}
{"book": "JHN", "chapter": 5, "verse": "12", "text": "Then they asked him, Who is the man, the One having said to you, Take up and walk?"}
{"book": "JHN", "chapter": 5, "verse": "13", "text": "However the one having been healed (iatheis) did not know who it was, for Jesus had withdrawn, a crowd being in the place."}
{"book": "JHN", "chapter": 5, "verse": "14", "text": "After these things Jesus finds him in the temple and said to him, Behold, you have become healthy; sin no more, so that something worse does not happen to you."}
{"book": "JHN", "chapter": 5, "verse": "15", "text": "The man went away and told the Jews that it is Jesus, the One having made him healthy."}
{"book": "JHN", "chapter": 5, "verse": "16", "text": "And because of this, the Jews persecuted Jesus because He did these things on a Sabbath."}
{"book": "JHN", "chapter": 5, "verse": "17", "text": "However Jesus answered them, My Father is working until just now and I am also working."}
{"book": "JHN", "chapter": 5, "verse": "18", "text": "Because of this, then, the Jews sought the more to kill Him, because not only did He break the Sabbath, but He also called God His own Father, making Himself equal to God."}
{"book": "JHN", "chapter": 5, "verse": "19", "text": "Then Jesus answered and said to them, Truly, truly, I say to you, the Son is not able to do anything from Himself, unless [it is] something He might see the Father doing; for whatever He does, these things also the Son does likewise."}
{"book": "JHN", "chapter": 5, "verse": "20", "text": "For the Father loves (philei-affectionately loves as intimate friends) the Son and shows (exhibits, points out) to Him all things that He Himself does; and He will show greater works than these, so that you might marvel."}
{"book": "JHN", "chapter": 5, "verse": "21", "text": "For just as the Father raises up the dead and gives life, thus the Son also gives life to whom He will;"}
{"book": "JHN", "chapter": 5, "verse": "22", "text": "For not even the Father judges anyone, but has given all judgment to the Son,"}
{"book": "JHN", "chapter": 5, "verse": "23", "text": "So that all might honor the Son, just as they honor the Father. He who is not honoring the Son is not honoring the Father, the One having sent Him."}
{"book": "JHN", "chapter": 5, "verse": "24", "text": "Truly, truly, I say to you that the one hearing My word and believing the One having sent Me has life eternal and does not come into judgment, but has passed from out of death unto life."}
{"book": "JHN", "chapter": 5, "verse": "25", "text": "Truly, truly, I say to you that an hour is coming and now is when the dead will hear the voice of the Son of God and those having heard will live."}
{"book": "JHN", "chapter": 5, "verse": "26", "text": "For just as the Father has life in Himself, so He gave to the Son also to have life in Himself,"}
{"book": "JHN", "chapter": 5, "verse": "27", "text": "And He gave to Him authority to execute (make) judgment because He is the Son of man."}
{"book": "JHN", "chapter": 5, "verse": "28", "text": "Do not marvel at this, because an hour is coming in which all those in the tombs will hear the voice of Him,"}
{"book": "JHN", "chapter": 5, "verse": "29", "text": "And will come forth, those having done good (agatha, intrinsically-good) unto the resurrection of life; and those having practiced evil (phaula, foul) unto the resurrection of judgment."}
{"book": "JHN", "chapter": 5, "verse": "30", "text": "I am not able to do anything from Myself; just as I hear, I judge; and My judgment is just, because I do not seek My will, but the will of the One having sent Me."}
{"book": "JHN", "chapter": 5, "verse": "31", "text": "If I bear witness concerning Myself, My testimony is not true."}
{"book": "JHN", "chapter": 5, "verse": "32", "text": "It is another bearing witness concerning Me, and I know that the testimony which He bears witness concerning Me is true."}
{"book": "JHN", "chapter": 5, "verse": "33", "text": "You have sent to John and he has borne witness to the truth."}
{"book": "JHN", "chapter": 5, "verse": "34", "text": "However I do not receive the testimony from man, but I say these things so that you might be saved."}
{"book": "JHN", "chapter": 5, "verse": "35", "text": "He was the lamp burning and shining; and you were willing to rejoice (celebrate) for a season (hour, period of time) in His light."}
{"book": "JHN", "chapter": 5, "verse": "36", "text": "However I have the testimony greater than that of John. For the works that the Father has given Me so that I should complete them, the same works which I do, bearing witness concerning Me that the Father has sent Me."}
{"book": "JHN", "chapter": 5, "verse": "37", "text": "And the One having sent Me, the Father Himself has borne witness concerning Me. You have neither heard His voice at any time nor have you seen His visible form."}
{"book": "JHN", "chapter": 5, "verse": "38", "text": "And you do not have His word abiding in you because you do not believe Him whom He sent."}
{"book": "JHN", "chapter": 5, "verse": "39", "text": "You diligently search the Scriptures, because in them you suppose to have life eternal, and these are they bearing witness concerning Me;"}
{"book": "JHN", "chapter": 5, "verse": "40", "text": "And you are not willing to come to Me so that you might have life."}
{"book": "JHN", "chapter": 5, "verse": "41", "text": "I take (receive) no glory from men;"}
{"book": "JHN", "chapter": 5, "verse": "42", "text": "But I have known you, that you do not have the love of God in yourselves."}
{"book": "JHN", "chapter": 5, "verse": "43", "text": "I have come in the name of My Father and you do not receive Me; if another should come in his own name, you will receive him."}
{"book": "JHN", "chapter": 5, "verse": "44", "text": "How are you able to believe, receiving glory from one another, and you do not seek the glory that is from the only God?"}
{"book": "JHN", "chapter": 5, "verse": "45", "text": "Do not suppose that I will accuse you to the Father. There is one accusing you, Moses, in whom you have hoped."}
{"book": "JHN", "chapter": 5, "verse": "46", "text": "For if you believed Moses, you would have believed Me; for he wrote concerning Me."}
{"book": "JHN", "chapter": 5, "verse": "47", "text": "However if you do not believe his writings, how will you believe the sayings (rhemasin) of Me?"}
{"book": "JHN", "chapter": 6, "verse": "1", "text": "After these things Jesus went away to the other side of the sea of Galilee of Tiberias,"}
{"book": "JHN", "chapter": 6, "verse": "2", "text": "And a great crowd followed Him because they saw the signs which He did upon those being sick."}
{"book": "JHN", "chapter": 6, "verse": "3", "text": "And Jesus went up into the mountain and there sat with His disciples."}
{"book": "JHN", "chapter": 6, "verse": "4", "text": "And the Passover, the feast of the Jews, was near."}
{"book": "JHN", "chapter": 6, "verse": "5", "text": "Jesus, then, having lifted up His eyes and having seen that a great crowd is coming to Him, He says to Philip, From where shall we buy bread so that these might eat?"}
{"book": "JHN", "chapter": 6, "verse": "6", "text": "And this He said testing him; for He knew what He was about to do."}
{"book": "JHN", "chapter": 6, "verse": "7", "text": "Philip answered Him, Loaves of bread for two hundred denari are not sufficient for them so that each may take some little."}
{"book": "JHN", "chapter": 6, "verse": "8", "text": "One of His disciples, Andrew, Simon Peter’s brother, says to Him,"}
{"book": "JHN", "chapter": 6, "verse": "9", "text": "There is a little boy here who has five barley loaves and two small fish; but what are these unto so many?"}
{"book": "JHN", "chapter": 6, "verse": "10", "text": "Jesus said, Make the men recline. Now there was much grass in the place; the men then reclined, the number about five thousand."}
{"book": "JHN", "chapter": 6, "verse": "11", "text": "And Jesus took the loaves and having given thanks, distributed to the reclining; likewise also from out of the fish, as much as they wanted."}
{"book": "JHN", "chapter": 6, "verse": "12", "text": "And when they were filled, He says to His disciples, Gather together the fragments having been over and above, so that nothing might be lost."}
{"book": "JHN", "chapter": 6, "verse": "13", "text": "They gathered together therefore and loaded twelve hand-baskets of fragments from out of the five barley loaves which were over and above to those having eaten."}
{"book": "JHN", "chapter": 6, "verse": "14", "text": "Then the people having seen what sign He had done, said, This is truly the Prophet who is coming into the world."}
{"book": "JHN", "chapter": 6, "verse": "15", "text": "Jesus therefore having known that they are about to come and seize (harpazein-word for rapture) Him, so that they might make [him] king, withdrew again unto the mountain Himself alone."}
{"book": "JHN", "chapter": 6, "verse": "16", "text": "And when it became evening, His disciples went down upon the sea,"}
{"book": "JHN", "chapter": 6, "verse": "17", "text": "and having entered into a boat, they were going to the other side of the sea unto Capernaum. And it had already become dark and Jesus had not come to them."}
{"book": "JHN", "chapter": 6, "verse": "18", "text": "And the sea was agitated by a great wind blowing. or 4 miles), they see Jesus walking upon the sea and coming into being near the boat, and they were frightened."}
{"book": "JHN", "chapter": 6, "verse": "19", "text": "Then having rowed about twenty five or thirty stadia (furlongs, distance of a race-course, one eighth of a Roman mile, 3 or 4 miles), they see Jesus walking upon the sea and coming into being near the boat, and they were frightened."}
{"book": "JHN", "chapter": 6, "verse": "20", "text": "And He says to them, It is I; Do not fear."}
{"book": "JHN", "chapter": 6, "verse": "21", "text": "They were then willing to receive Him into the boat and at once (directly) the boat was upon the land unto which they were going."}
{"book": "JHN", "chapter": 6, "verse": "22", "text": "On the next day the crowd standing on the other side of the sea, having seen that there was no other boat except the one that his disciples entered together into that boat that Jesus had not, but his disciples went away alone;"}
{"book": "JHN", "chapter": 6, "verse": "23", "text": "But boats came from out of Tiberias, near the place where they ate the bread, the Lord having given thanks;"}
{"book": "JHN", "chapter": 6, "verse": "24", "text": "When then the crowd saw that Jesus was not there nor His disciples, they entered into the boats and came unto Capernaum, seeking Jesus."}
{"book": "JHN", "chapter": 6, "verse": "25", "text": "And having found Him on the other side of the sea, they said to Him, Rabbi, when have You come here?"}
{"book": "JHN", "chapter": 6, "verse": "26", "text": "Jesus answered them and said, Truly, truly I say to you, You seek Me, not because you saw signs but because you ate of the loaves and were satisfied (feed, filled, fattened)."}
{"book": "JHN", "chapter": 6, "verse": "27", "text": "Do not work for the food perishing, but for the food remaining unto life eternal, which the Son of man will give to you; for Him God the Father set a seal on."}
{"book": "JHN", "chapter": 6, "verse": "28", "text": "They said therefore to Him, What must we do so that we might be working the works of God?"}
{"book": "JHN", "chapter": 6, "verse": "29", "text": "Jesus answered and said to them, This is the work of God, that you should believe unto Him whom He sent."}
{"book": "JHN", "chapter": 6, "verse": "30", "text": "They then said to Him, What sign then do You do so that we might see and might believe You? What do You work?"}
{"book": "JHN", "chapter": 6, "verse": "31", "text": "Our fathers ate the manna in the wilderness, just as it is written, He gave them bread from out of heaven to eat."}
{"book": "JHN", "chapter": 6, "verse": "32", "text": "Jesus then said to them, Truly, truly I say to you, Moses has not given you the bread from out of heaven; but My Father gives you the true bread from out of heaven."}
{"book": "JHN", "chapter": 6, "verse": "33", "text": "For the bread of God is that coming down from out of heaven and giving life to the world."}
{"book": "JHN", "chapter": 6, "verse": "34", "text": "They then said to Him, Lord (Sir, Kyrie), always give to us this bread."}
{"book": "JHN", "chapter": 6, "verse": "35", "text": "Jesus said to them, I am the bread of life; the one coming to Me shall never hunger; and the one believing unto Me shall never thirst at any time."}
{"book": "JHN", "chapter": 6, "verse": "36", "text": "But I said to you that you have also seen Me and do not believe."}
{"book": "JHN", "chapter": 6, "verse": "37", "text": "All that the Father gives Me will come (reach the end-destination) to Me, and the one coming to Me, I shall never cast out outside."}
{"book": "JHN", "chapter": 6, "verse": "38", "text": "Because I have come down from heaven, not so that I should do My will, but the will of the One having sent Me."}
{"book": "JHN", "chapter": 6, "verse": "39", "text": "And this is the will of the One having sent Me, that all that He has given Me, I should lose nothing from out of it, but will raise it up in the last day."}
{"book": "JHN", "chapter": 6, "verse": "40", "text": "For this is the will of My Father, so that everyone beholding the Son and believing unto Him should have life eternal; and I will raise him up in the last day."}
{"book": "JHN", "chapter": 6, "verse": "41", "text": "The Jews then were grumbling about Him because He said, I am the bread having come down from out of heaven."}
{"book": "JHN", "chapter": 6, "verse": "42", "text": "And they were saying, Is this not Jesus, the son of Joseph, of whom we know the father and the mother? How now He says, I have come down from out of heaven?"}
{"book": "JHN", "chapter": 6, "verse": "43", "text": "Jesus answered and said to them, Do not grumble with one another."}
{"book": "JHN", "chapter": 6, "verse": "44", "text": "No one is able to come to Me except the Father, the One having sent Me, draws (induces, focuses on the attraction power involved with the drawing) him and I too will raise him up in the last day."}
{"book": "JHN", "chapter": 6, "verse": "45", "text": "It is written in the prophets, And they will be all taught of God. Everyone having heard from the Father and having learned (ascertained, close to word for disciple), comes to Me."}
{"book": "JHN", "chapter": 6, "verse": "46", "text": "Not that anyone has seen the Father, except the One being from (from close beside/alongside) God; He has seen the Father."}
{"book": "JHN", "chapter": 6, "verse": "47", "text": "Truly, truly I say to you, the one believing has life eternal."}
{"book": "JHN", "chapter": 6, "verse": "48", "text": "I am the bread of life."}
{"book": "JHN", "chapter": 6, "verse": "49", "text": "Your fathers ate the manna in the wilderness and diead."}
{"book": "JHN", "chapter": 6, "verse": "50", "text": "This is the bread coming down from out of heaven, so that anyone that might eat from out of it and not die."}
{"book": "JHN", "chapter": 6, "verse": "51", "text": "I am the living bread having come down from out of heaven; if anyone shall have eaten from out of this bread, he will live into the age; and the bread that I will give for the sake of the life of the world is My flesh."}
{"book": "JHN", "chapter": 6, "verse": "52", "text": "The Jews then were arguing with one another, saying, How is He able to give us His flesh to eat?"}
{"book": "JHN", "chapter": 6, "verse": "53", "text": "Jesus then said to them, Truly, truly I say to you, Unless you shall have eaten the flesh of the Son of man and shall have drunk (piete) of His blood, you do not have life in yourselves."}
{"book": "JHN", "chapter": 6, "verse": "54", "text": "The one eating My flesh and drinking My blood has life eternal, and I too will raise him up in the last day."}
{"book": "JHN", "chapter": 6, "verse": "55", "text": "For My flesh is true food and My blood is true drink."}
{"book": "JHN", "chapter": 6, "verse": "56", "text": "The one eating My flesh and drinking My blood abides in Me and I too in him."}
{"book": "JHN", "chapter": 6, "verse": "57", "text": "Just as the living Father sent Me and I too live because of the Father, also the one feeding on Me, even he will live because of Me."}
{"book": "JHN", "chapter": 6, "verse": "58", "text": "This is the bread having come down from out of heaven. Not just as the fathers ate and died. The one eating this bread will live unto the age."}
{"book": "JHN", "chapter": 6, "verse": "59", "text": "These things He said in the synagogue, teaching in Capernaum."}
{"book": "JHN", "chapter": 6, "verse": "60", "text": "Many then of his disciples having heard said, This word is difficult (hard); who is able to hear it?"}
{"book": "JHN", "chapter": 6, "verse": "61", "text": "However Jesus knowing in Himself that his disciples are grumbling about this, said to them, Does this cause you to stumble?"}
{"book": "JHN", "chapter": 6, "verse": "62", "text": "What if then you should behold the Son of man ascending where He was before?"}
{"book": "JHN", "chapter": 6, "verse": "63", "text": "It is the Spirit giving life; the flesh benefits nothing. The sayings (rhemata) that I speak to you are spirit and they are life."}
{"book": "JHN", "chapter": 6, "verse": "64", "text": "But there are some from out of you who do not believe. For Jesus knew from out of the beginning who are those not believing, and who it is who will betray Him."}
{"book": "JHN", "chapter": 6, "verse": "65", "text": "And He said, Because of this I have said to you, that no one is able to come to Me unless it shall have been given (granted, offered) to him from out of the Father."}
{"book": "JHN", "chapter": 6, "verse": "66", "text": "From out of that, many from out of His disciples departed unto the back and no longer walked with Him."}
{"book": "JHN", "chapter": 6, "verse": "67", "text": "Therefore Jesus said to the twelve, Are you also wanting to go away?"}
{"book": "JHN", "chapter": 6, "verse": "68", "text": "Simon Peter answered Him, Lord, to whom will we go?"}
{"book": "JHN", "chapter": 6, "verse": "69", "text": "You have the sayings (rhemata) of life eternal; and we have believed, and have known that You are the Holy One of God."}
{"book": "JHN", "chapter": 6, "verse": "70", "text": "Jesus answered them, Did I not choose you the twelve, and one from out of you is a devil?"}
{"book": "JHN", "chapter": 6, "verse": "71", "text": "And He spoke of Judas [the son] of Simon Iscariot; for he was about to betray Him, one from out of the twelve."}
{"book": "JHN", "chapter": 7, "verse": "1", "text": "And after these things Jesus was walking in Galilee; for he did not want to walk in Judea because the Jews were seeking to kill Him."}
{"book": "JHN", "chapter": 7, "verse": "2", "text": "Now the Jewish feast of Booths (Tabernacles, held in October, setting up of tents) was near."}
{"book": "JHN", "chapter": 7, "verse": "3", "text": "His brothers therefore said to Him, Depart from here and go into Judea, so that Your disciples will see Your works that You are doing."}
{"book": "JHN", "chapter": 7, "verse": "4", "text": "For no one does anything in secret and he himself seeks to be in boldness (that leaves a witness deserving to be remembered and taken seriously). If You do these things make Yourself apparent to the world."}
{"book": "JHN", "chapter": 7, "verse": "5", "text": "For not even His brothers believed unto Him."}
{"book": "JHN", "chapter": 7, "verse": "6", "text": "Jesus then says to them, My opportune time is not yet come, however your opportune time is always ready."}
{"book": "JHN", "chapter": 7, "verse": "7", "text": "The world is not able to hate you; however it hates Me because I bear witness concerning it, that its works are evil."}
{"book": "JHN", "chapter": 7, "verse": "8", "text": "I am not yet going up unto this feast because My opportune time has not yet been fulfilled (fully come)."}
{"book": "JHN", "chapter": 7, "verse": "9", "text": "And having said these things to them, He remained in Galilee."}
{"book": "JHN", "chapter": 7, "verse": "10", "text": "And when His brothers had gone up unto the feast, then He also went up, not openly (apparently), but as in secret."}
{"book": "JHN", "chapter": 7, "verse": "11", "text": "The Jews therefore were seeking Him at (in) the feast and said, Where is He?"}
{"book": "JHN", "chapter": 7, "verse": "12", "text": "And there was much grumbling concerning Him in the crowds. Some said, His is good; however others said, No; rather He deceives the multitude."}
{"book": "JHN", "chapter": 7, "verse": "13", "text": "Yet no one spoke boldly (openly, with freedom of speech) concerning Him because of the fear of the Jews."}
{"book": "JHN", "chapter": 7, "verse": "14", "text": "And even now it being in the middle of the feast, Jesus went up into the temple and was teaching."}
{"book": "JHN", "chapter": 7, "verse": "15", "text": "The Jews then were marveling, saying, How does this One know the writings having not learned?"}
{"book": "JHN", "chapter": 7, "verse": "16", "text": "Jesus then answered them and said, My teaching is not of Myself, but of the One having sent Me."}
{"book": "JHN", "chapter": 7, "verse": "17", "text": "If anyone wants to do His will, he will know the teaching, whether it is from God or I speak from Myself."}
{"book": "JHN", "chapter": 7, "verse": "18", "text": "The one speaking from himself seeks his own glory; however the One seeking the glory of the One having sent Him, He is true and there is no unrighteousness (injustice) in Him."}
{"book": "JHN", "chapter": 7, "verse": "19", "text": "Has not Moses given the law to you and no one from out of you does the law? Why do you seek to kill Me?"}
{"book": "JHN", "chapter": 7, "verse": "20", "text": "The crowd answered, You have a demon; who seeks to kill You?"}
{"book": "JHN", "chapter": 7, "verse": "21", "text": "Jesus answered and said to them, I did one work and you all marvel."}
{"book": "JHN", "chapter": 7, "verse": "22", "text": "Because of this, Moses has given you circumcision, (not that it is of Moses, but of the fathers), and on the Sabbath you circumcise a man."}
{"book": "JHN", "chapter": 7, "verse": "23", "text": "If a man receives circumcision on a Sabbath, so that the law of Moses might not be broken, you are angry with Me because I made a man wholly healthy on the Sabbath?"}
{"book": "JHN", "chapter": 7, "verse": "24", "text": "Do not judge according to appearance but judge the righteous judgment."}
{"book": "JHN", "chapter": 7, "verse": "25", "text": "Some then of those of Jerusalem said, Is not this He whom they seek to kill?"}
{"book": "JHN", "chapter": 7, "verse": "26", "text": "And Behold, He speaks boldly (openly, freely) and they say nothing to Him. Have those who rule truly recognized that this is the Christ?"}
{"book": "JHN", "chapter": 7, "verse": "27", "text": "But this One, we know from where He is. And the Christ, whenever He might come, no one knows from where He is."}
{"book": "JHN", "chapter": 7, "verse": "28", "text": "Jesus then cried out in the temple, teaching and saying, You know Me and You know from where I am; and I have not come from Myself, but the One having sent Me is true, whom you do not know."}
{"book": "JHN", "chapter": 7, "verse": "29", "text": "I know Him because I am from (from close beside) Him and He sent Me."}
{"book": "JHN", "chapter": 7, "verse": "30", "text": "They were seeking then to take Him, and no one laid a hand upon Him, because His hour had not yet come."}
{"book": "JHN", "chapter": 7, "verse": "31", "text": "And many from out of the crowd believed unto Him, and said, The Christ, when He comes, will He not do more signs than this man has done?"}
{"book": "JHN", "chapter": 7, "verse": "32", "text": "The Pharisees heard the crowd grumbling these things concerning Him and the Pharisees and the chief priests sent officers, so that they might take Him."}
{"book": "JHN", "chapter": 7, "verse": "33", "text": "Then Jesus said, Yet a little time I am with you, and I go to the One having sent Me."}
{"book": "JHN", "chapter": 7, "verse": "34", "text": "You will seek Me and will not find Me; and where I am you are not able to come."}
{"book": "JHN", "chapter": 7, "verse": "35", "text": "Then the Jews said to themselves, Where is He about to go that we will not find Him? Is He about to go unto the Dispersion (scattering of the Jews among other countries) among the Greeks and teach the Greeks?"}
{"book": "JHN", "chapter": 7, "verse": "36", "text": "What is this word that He said, You will seek Me and will not find Me; and Where I am you are not able to come?"}
{"book": "JHN", "chapter": 7, "verse": "37", "text": "And in the last day, the great day of the feast, Jesus stood and cried out, saying, If anyone thirsts, let him come to Me and drink (pineto)."}
{"book": "JHN", "chapter": 7, "verse": "38", "text": "The one believing unto Me, just as the Scripture has said, Rivers from out of his belly will flow of living water."}
{"book": "JHN", "chapter": 7, "verse": "39", "text": "Now this He said concerning the Spirit, whom those having believed unto Him were about to receive; for the Spirit was not yet, because Jesus was not yet glorified."}
{"book": "JHN", "chapter": 7, "verse": "40", "text": "From out of the people therefore, having heard these words said, This is truly the Prophet."}
{"book": "JHN", "chapter": 7, "verse": "41", "text": "Others said, This is the Christ. However others said, Does the Christ come from out of Galilee?"}
{"book": "JHN", "chapter": 7, "verse": "42", "text": "Has not the Scripture said, that the Christ comes from out of the seed of David and from Bethlehem, the village (country town) where David was?"}
{"book": "JHN", "chapter": 7, "verse": "43", "text": "A division therefore occurred in the crowd because of Him."}
{"book": "JHN", "chapter": 7, "verse": "44", "text": "And some of them wanted to take Him, but no one laid their hands upon Him."}
{"book": "JHN", "chapter": 7, "verse": "45", "text": "Then the officers came to the chief priests and Pharisees and they said to them, Why did you not bring Him?"}
{"book": "JHN", "chapter": 7, "verse": "46", "text": "The officers answered, Never has a man spoke like this, {as this Man speaks.}"}
{"book": "JHN", "chapter": 7, "verse": "47", "text": "The Pharisees therefore answered them, Have you been also deceived?"}
{"book": "JHN", "chapter": 7, "verse": "48", "text": "Has anyone from out of the rulers believed unto Him, or from out of the Pharisees?"}
{"book": "JHN", "chapter": 7, "verse": "49", "text": "But this crowd not knowing the law are accursed."}
{"book": "JHN", "chapter": 7, "verse": "50", "text": "Nicodemus says to them, (one having come to Him, one formerly being from out of them),"}
{"book": "JHN", "chapter": 7, "verse": "51", "text": "Does our law judge a man, except first it has heard from him and it is known what he does?"}
{"book": "JHN", "chapter": 7, "verse": "52", "text": "They answered and said to him, Are you also from out of Galilee? Search and see, that no prophet arises from out of Galilee."}
{"book": "JHN", "chapter": 7, "verse": "53", "text": "And each went unto his home."}
{"book": "JHN", "chapter": 8, "verse": "1", "text": "And Jesus went unto the mount of Olives."}
{"book": "JHN", "chapter": 8, "verse": "2", "text": "And early morning, He came again into the temple and all the people came to Him; and having sat down, He was teaching them."}
{"book": "JHN", "chapter": 8, "verse": "3", "text": "And the scribes and the Pharisees bring to Him a woman having been caught upon adultery and having stood her in the midst,"}
{"book": "JHN", "chapter": 8, "verse": "4", "text": "They say to Him, Teacher, this woman was caught upon the very act, committing adultery."}
{"book": "JHN", "chapter": 8, "verse": "5", "text": "And in the law, Moses commanded us that such be stoned; What then do you say?"}
{"book": "JHN", "chapter": 8, "verse": "6", "text": "And this they said, testing Him so that they might have [something] to accuse Him. And Jesus, having stooped down, wrote with His finger into the ground."}
{"book": "JHN", "chapter": 8, "verse": "7", "text": "And as they continued asking Him, having lifted up Himself and He said to them, The one sinless among you, let him cast the first stone upon her."}
{"book": "JHN", "chapter": 8, "verse": "8", "text": "And again having stooped down, He wrote into the ground."}
{"book": "JHN", "chapter": 8, "verse": "9", "text": "And having heard {and being convicted by (under) the conscience}, they went out one by one, having begun from the elder ones until the last, and Jesus was left alone and the women being in the midst."}
{"book": "JHN", "chapter": 8, "verse": "10", "text": "And Jesus having lifted up and saw no one except the woman, said to her, Woman, where are they who accuse you? No one has condemned you?"}
{"book": "JHN", "chapter": 8, "verse": "11", "text": "And she said, No one, Lord. And Jesus said to her, Neither do I condemn you; go and {from now} sin no more."}
{"book": "JHN", "chapter": 8, "verse": "12", "text": "Then Jesus spoke to them again, saying, I am the Light of the world; the one following Me shall not walk in the darkness but will have the Light of life."}
{"book": "JHN", "chapter": 8, "verse": "13", "text": "The Pharisees then said to Him, You are bearing witness concerning Yourself; Your testimony is not true."}
{"book": "JHN", "chapter": 8, "verse": "14", "text": "Jesus answered and said to them, Even if I am bearing witness concerning Myself, My testimony is true, because I know from where I came and where I go. You however do not know from where I come or where I go."}
{"book": "JHN", "chapter": 8, "verse": "15", "text": "You judge according to the flesh; I am not judging anyone."}
{"book": "JHN", "chapter": 8, "verse": "16", "text": "And if I also judge, My judgment is true, because I am not alone but I and the Father having sent Me."}
{"book": "JHN", "chapter": 8, "verse": "17", "text": "And in your law also it has been written, The testimony of two men is true."}
{"book": "JHN", "chapter": 8, "verse": "18", "text": "I am the One bearing witness concerning Myself and the Father having sent Me bears witness concerning Me."}
{"book": "JHN", "chapter": 8, "verse": "19", "text": "They therefore said to Him, Where is Your Father? Jesus answered, You neither know Me nor My Father. If you had known Me, you would have known My Father also."}
{"book": "JHN", "chapter": 8, "verse": "20", "text": "These words He spoke in the treasury, teaching in the temple; and no one took Him, because His hour had not yet come."}
{"book": "JHN", "chapter": 8, "verse": "21", "text": "Then again He said to them, I am going away and you will seek Me and you will die in your sin; where I go, you are not able to come."}
{"book": "JHN", "chapter": 8, "verse": "22", "text": "The Jews therefore said, Will He kill Himself, that He says, Where I go, you are not able to come?"}
{"book": "JHN", "chapter": 8, "verse": "23", "text": "And He said to them, You are from out of below (lower, under, down), I am from out of above (up); You are from out of this world, I am not from out of this world."}
{"book": "JHN", "chapter": 8, "verse": "24", "text": "I said therefore to you that you will die in your sins; for if you do not believe that I am [He], you will die in your sins."}
{"book": "JHN", "chapter": 8, "verse": "25", "text": "They said therefore to Him, Who are You? Jesus said to them, What also I am saying to you from the beginning."}
{"book": "JHN", "chapter": 8, "verse": "26", "text": "I have many things to say and to judge concerning you; but the One having sent Me is true, and I, what I have heard from Him, these things I say unto the world."}
{"book": "JHN", "chapter": 8, "verse": "27", "text": "They did not recognize that He spoke to them of the Father."}
{"book": "JHN", "chapter": 8, "verse": "28", "text": "Jesus therefore said to them, When you shall have lifted up the Son of man, then you will know that I am [He], and I do nothing from Myself, but just as the Father taught Me, I speak these things."}
{"book": "JHN", "chapter": 8, "verse": "29", "text": "And the One having sent Me is with Me; He has not left Me alone because I always do the things pleasing to Him."}
{"book": "JHN", "chapter": 8, "verse": "30", "text": "In His speaking these things, many believed unto Him."}
{"book": "JHN", "chapter": 8, "verse": "31", "text": "Jesus therefore said to those Jews having believed unto Him, If you abide in My word, truly you are My disciples."}
{"book": "JHN", "chapter": 8, "verse": "32", "text": "And you will know the truth and the truth will liberate (free) you."}
{"book": "JHN", "chapter": 8, "verse": "33", "text": "They answered to Him, We are Abraham’s seed and we have never been under bondage to anyone; how do You say, You will become free ones (liberated ones)?"}
{"book": "JHN", "chapter": 8, "verse": "34", "text": "Jesus answered them, Truly, truly I say to you that everyone committing sin is a slave (servant) of sin."}
{"book": "JHN", "chapter": 8, "verse": "35", "text": "And the slave does not abide in the house unto the age; the Son abides unto the age."}
{"book": "JHN", "chapter": 8, "verse": "36", "text": "If therefore the Son shall liberate you, you will be liberated ones indeed."}
{"book": "JHN", "chapter": 8, "verse": "37", "text": "I know that you are the seed of Abraham; but you seek to kill Me, because My word does not receive a place in you."}
{"book": "JHN", "chapter": 8, "verse": "38", "text": "That which I have seen with the Father, I speak; you therefore also do what you have seen with your father."}
{"book": "JHN", "chapter": 8, "verse": "39", "text": "They answered and said to Him, Our father is Abraham. Jesus says to them, If you were children of Abraham, you would do the works of Abraham;"}
{"book": "JHN", "chapter": 8, "verse": "40", "text": "However now you seek to kill Me, a man who has spoken the truth to you, that I heard from God. This Abraham did not do."}
{"book": "JHN", "chapter": 8, "verse": "41", "text": "You are doing the works of your father. They said then to Him, We have not been born from out of fornication (sexual immorality); we have one Father, God."}
{"book": "JHN", "chapter": 8, "verse": "42", "text": "Jesus said to them, If God were your Father, you would have loved Me, for I came out from God and am here; for I have not come from Myself, but He sent Me."}
{"book": "JHN", "chapter": 8, "verse": "43", "text": "Why do you not know My speech? Because you are not able to hear My word."}
{"book": "JHN", "chapter": 8, "verse": "44", "text": "You are from out of your father the devil, and you want to do the passionate urges of your father. He was a murderer (man-slayer) from the beginning, and has not stood in the truth because there is no truth in him. Whenever he might speak falsehood, he speaks from out of his own; because he is a liar and the father of it."}
{"book": "JHN", "chapter": 8, "verse": "45", "text": "And because I speak the truth, you do not believe Me!"}
{"book": "JHN", "chapter": 8, "verse": "46", "text": "Which of you convicts (exposes, reproves, convinces) Me concerning sin? If I speak the truth, why do you not believe Me?"}
{"book": "JHN", "chapter": 8, "verse": "47", "text": "He who is from out of God, hears the sayings (rhemata) of God; because of this you do not hear, because you are not from out of God."}
{"book": "JHN", "chapter": 8, "verse": "48", "text": "The Jews answered and said to Him, Do we not rightly (kalos) say that You are a Samaritan and have a demon?"}
{"book": "JHN", "chapter": 8, "verse": "49", "text": "Jesus answered, I do not have a demon; but I honor My Father and you dishonor Me."}
{"book": "JHN", "chapter": 8, "verse": "50", "text": "And I do not seek My glory; there is One seeking it and judging."}
{"book": "JHN", "chapter": 8, "verse": "51", "text": "Truly, truly I say to you, If anyone keeps My word, he shall never see death unto the age."}
{"book": "JHN", "chapter": 8, "verse": "52", "text": "Then the Jews said to Him, Now we know that You have a demon. Abraham died, and the prophets, and You say, If anyone keeps My word, he shall never taste of death unto the age."}
{"book": "JHN", "chapter": 8, "verse": "53", "text": "Are You greater than our father Abraham who died? And the prophets died! Whom You make Yourself?"}
{"book": "JHN", "chapter": 8, "verse": "54", "text": "Jesus answered, If I glorify Myself, My glory is nothing; it is My Father glorifying Me, of whom you say, He is our God."}
{"book": "JHN", "chapter": 8, "verse": "55", "text": "And you have not known Him, however I know Him; and if I say that I do not know Him, I will be like you, a liar. But I know Him and I keep His word."}
{"book": "JHN", "chapter": 8, "verse": "56", "text": "Your father Abraham rejoiced greatly (exulted) in that he should see My day, and he saw and rejoiced."}
{"book": "JHN", "chapter": 8, "verse": "57", "text": "The Jews therefore said to Him, You are not yet fifty years old and have You seen Abraham?"}
{"book": "JHN", "chapter": 8, "verse": "58", "text": "Jesus said to them, Truly, truly I say to you, Before Abraham was (came into being), I am."}
{"book": "JHN", "chapter": 8, "verse": "59", "text": "They took up therefore stones, so that they might cast upon Him; Jesus however hid Himself and went out of the temple, {going through the midst of them and passed by thus.}"}
{"book": "JHN", "chapter": 9, "verse": "1", "text": "And passing by, He saw a man blind from birth."}
{"book": "JHN", "chapter": 9, "verse": "2", "text": "And His disciples asked Him saying, Rabbi, who sinned, this man of his parents that he should be born blind?"}
{"book": "JHN", "chapter": 9, "verse": "3", "text": "Jesus answered, Neither this man nor his parents sinned; but [it was] that the works of God should be made apparent in him."}
{"book": "JHN", "chapter": 9, "verse": "4", "text": "It is necessary for us to work the works of the One having sent Me while it is day; night is coming, when no one is able to work."}
{"book": "JHN", "chapter": 9, "verse": "5", "text": "While I might be in the world, I am the Light of the world."}
{"book": "JHN", "chapter": 9, "verse": "6", "text": "Having said these things, He spat on the ground and made clay (mud) from out of the spittle, and smeared (epechrisen, epi-chrio- chrio is word for anoint, latin-linuit-spread, anoint upon, spread) the clay upon his eyes."}
{"book": "JHN", "chapter": 9, "verse": "7", "text": "And He said to him, Go, wash (nipsai) into the pool of Siloam, which translates, Sent (sent away). He went therefore and washed and came [back] seeing."}
{"book": "JHN", "chapter": 9, "verse": "8", "text": "The neighbors therefore and those having seen him before, that he was a beggar, said, Is this not he who was sitting and begging?"}
{"book": "JHN", "chapter": 9, "verse": "9", "text": "Some said, It is he, others were saying, No, but he is like him. He kept saying, I am [he]."}
{"book": "JHN", "chapter": 9, "verse": "10", "text": "They said therefore to him, How then were your eyes opened?"}
{"book": "JHN", "chapter": 9, "verse": "11", "text": "He answered, the man called Jesus made clay and anointed upon (smeared upon) my eyes; and said to me, Go into Siloam and wash. Having gone therefore and having washed, I received sight (looked up)."}
{"book": "JHN", "chapter": 9, "verse": "12", "text": "And they said to him, Where is He? He says, I do not know."}
{"book": "JHN", "chapter": 9, "verse": "13", "text": "They bring him to the Pharisees, who was formerly blind."}
{"book": "JHN", "chapter": 9, "verse": "14", "text": "Now it was Sabbath on (in) the day which Jesus had made the clay and opened his eyes."}
{"book": "JHN", "chapter": 9, "verse": "15", "text": "The Pharisees therefore also again asked him how he had received sight. And he said to them, He placed (epetheken-placed/laid/put upon) clay upon my eyes and I washed and I see."}
{"book": "JHN", "chapter": 9, "verse": "16", "text": "Therefore some of the Pharisees said, This man is not from God because He does not keep the Sabbath. Others however said, How is a sinful man able to so such signs? And there was a division (schisma) among them."}
{"book": "JHN", "chapter": 9, "verse": "17", "text": "They say therefore to the blind [man] again, What do you say concerning Him, because He opened your eyes? And he said, He is a prophet."}
{"book": "JHN", "chapter": 9, "verse": "18", "text": "The Jews therefore did not believe concerning Him that he had been blind and had received sight until when they called the parents of him having received sight."}
{"book": "JHN", "chapter": 9, "verse": "19", "text": "And they asked them saying, This is your son of whom you say that he was born blind? How then does he presently see?"}
{"book": "JHN", "chapter": 9, "verse": "20", "text": "Then his parents answered and said, We know that this is our son and that he was born blind."}
{"book": "JHN", "chapter": 9, "verse": "21", "text": "However how he presently sees, we do not know, or who opened his eyes, we do not know; ask him; he has age (maturity, full-aged); he will speak concerning himself."}
{"book": "JHN", "chapter": 9, "verse": "22", "text": "His parents said these things because they feared the Jews; for the Jews already had agreed together that if anyone should confess Him [to be] Christ he should be expelled from the synagogue (excommunicated)."}
{"book": "JHN", "chapter": 9, "verse": "23", "text": "Because of this his parents said, He has age, ask him."}
{"book": "JHN", "chapter": 9, "verse": "24", "text": "They called out therefore the man a second time who had been blind and said to him, Give glory to God; we know that this man is a sinner."}
{"book": "JHN", "chapter": 9, "verse": "25", "text": "Then he answered, Whether He is a sinner I do not know. One [thing] I do know, that being blind, now I see."}
{"book": "JHN", "chapter": 9, "verse": "26", "text": "So they said to him, What did He do to you? How did He open your eyes?"}
{"book": "JHN", "chapter": 9, "verse": "27", "text": "He answered them, I told you already and you did not listen. Why again do you want to hear? Do you also want to become His disciples?"}
{"book": "JHN", "chapter": 9, "verse": "28", "text": "And they railed (reviled) at him and said, You are a disciple of that One; we however are disciples of Moses."}
{"book": "JHN", "chapter": 9, "verse": "29", "text": "We know that God has spoken to Moses; however this man we do not know from where He is."}
{"book": "JHN", "chapter": 9, "verse": "30", "text": "The man answered and said to them, Indeed in this is an amazing (wonderful, marvelous) thing, that you do not know from where He is and yet He opened my eyes."}
{"book": "JHN", "chapter": 9, "verse": "31", "text": "We know that God does not hear sinners; but if anyone is God-revering and does His will, He hears him."}
{"book": "JHN", "chapter": 9, "verse": "32", "text": "From out of the age, it has never been heard that anyone opened the eyes of one having been born blind."}
{"book": "JHN", "chapter": 9, "verse": "33", "text": "If this man were not from God, He could not do anything."}
{"book": "JHN", "chapter": 9, "verse": "34", "text": "They answered and said to him, You were wholly born in sins and you teach us? And they cast him outside."}
{"book": "JHN", "chapter": 9, "verse": "35", "text": "Jesus heard that they had cast him outside and having found him He said, You believe unto the Son of Man?"}
{"book": "JHN", "chapter": 9, "verse": "36", "text": "He answered and said, and Who is He, Lord, so that I might believe unto Him?"}
{"book": "JHN", "chapter": 9, "verse": "37", "text": "Jesus said to him, And you have seen (heorakas-visioned) Him and the One speaking with you is He."}
{"book": "JHN", "chapter": 9, "verse": "38", "text": "And he said, I believe, Lord; and he worshipped Him."}
{"book": "JHN", "chapter": 9, "verse": "39", "text": "And Jesus said, Unto judgment I came into this world, so that those not seeing might see; and those seeing might become blind."}
{"book": "JHN", "chapter": 9, "verse": "40", "text": "And those from out of the Pharisees who were with Him heard these things, and they said to Him, Are we blind also?"}
{"book": "JHN", "chapter": 9, "verse": "41", "text": "Jesus said to them, If you were blind, you would not have sin; however now you say, We see, your sin remains."}
{"book": "JHN", "chapter": 10, "verse": "1", "text": "Truly, truly, I say to you, The one not entering in through the door unto the fold (interior courtyard open to the air, open pen) of the sheep, but climbing up (ascending) another way, he is a thief (steals by stealth/secret) and a robber (steals in the open typically with violence)."}
{"book": "JHN", "chapter": 10, "verse": "2", "text": "However the one entering in through the door is the shepherd of the sheep."}
{"book": "JHN", "chapter": 10, "verse": "3", "text": "To him the doorkeeper opens and the sheep hear his voice and he calls his own sheep by name and leads them out."}
{"book": "JHN", "chapter": 10, "verse": "4", "text": "When he has brought out all his own, he goes before them; And the sheep follow him, because they know his voice."}
{"book": "JHN", "chapter": 10, "verse": "5", "text": "However they will in no way follow another, but will flee away from him, because they do not know the voice of others."}
{"book": "JHN", "chapter": 10, "verse": "6", "text": "This parable (allegory, from beside supposition, similitude, enigmatic illustration, fiqure of speech, latin-proverbium) Jesus spoke to them; they however did not know what it was that He was saying to them."}
{"book": "JHN", "chapter": 10, "verse": "7", "text": "Jesus therefore said to them again, Truly, truly I say to you, I am the Door of the Sheep."}
{"book": "JHN", "chapter": 10, "verse": "8", "text": "All who ever came before me are thieves and robber; but the sheep did not hear them."}
{"book": "JHN", "chapter": 10, "verse": "9", "text": "I am the Door; if anyone enter in through Me he will be saved and will go in and will go out and will find pasture."}
{"book": "JHN", "chapter": 10, "verse": "10", "text": "The thief does not come, except so that he might steal (steal in stealth/secret) and might kill (kill as a sacrifice) and might fully destroy. I came so that they might have life and might have it abundantly."}
{"book": "JHN", "chapter": 10, "verse": "11", "text": "I am the Good (kalos-attractively good) Shepherd (latin-Pastor). The Good Shepherd lays down His soul (life) for the sheep:"}
{"book": "JHN", "chapter": 10, "verse": "12", "text": "And the hired servant not being the shepherd, whose sheep are not his own, sees the wolf coming and leaves the sheep and flees; and the wolf seizes (harpazei- word for rapture, latin-rapit) them and scatters,"}
{"book": "JHN", "chapter": 10, "verse": "13", "text": "Because he is a hired servant and is not himself concerned about the sheep."}
{"book": "JHN", "chapter": 10, "verse": "14", "text": "I am the Good Shepherd; and I know those who are Mine and I am known by those who are Mine."}
{"book": "JHN", "chapter": 10, "verse": "15", "text": "Just as the Father knows Me, I also know the Father; and I lay down My soul (life) from the sheep."}
{"book": "JHN", "chapter": 10, "verse": "16", "text": "And I have other sheep, which are not from out of this fold; it is necessary for Me to bring those also and they will hear My voice; and there will be one flock with one shepherd."}
{"book": "JHN", "chapter": 10, "verse": "17", "text": "Because of this, the Father loves Me, because I lay down My soul (life), so that I might take (receive) it again."}
{"book": "JHN", "chapter": 10, "verse": "18", "text": "No one takes it away from Me, but I lay it down from Myself. I have authority to lay it down, and I have authority again to take it. This commandment I received from My Father."}
{"book": "JHN", "chapter": 10, "verse": "19", "text": "There was a division again among the Jews, on account of these words;"}
{"book": "JHN", "chapter": 10, "verse": "20", "text": "And many of them said, He has a demon and is insane (manic, raving mad, latin-insanit); why do you listen to Him?"}
{"book": "JHN", "chapter": 10, "verse": "21", "text": "Others said, These sayings (rhemata) are not those of one demonized (under the power of a demon). Is a demon able to open the eyes of the blind?"}
{"book": "JHN", "chapter": 10, "verse": "22", "text": "At that time the Feast of Dedication took place in Jerusalem. It was winter."}
{"book": "JHN", "chapter": 10, "verse": "23", "text": "And Jesus was walking in the temple in the porch of Solomon."}
{"book": "JHN", "chapter": 10, "verse": "24", "text": "The Jews therefore encircled Him and said to Him, Until when do you hold our soul (life) in suspense (lifted up, raised)? If You are the Christ, tell us openly (freely, boldly, plainly, latin-palam-openly)."}
{"book": "JHN", "chapter": 10, "verse": "25", "text": "Jesus answered them, I told you and you do not believe. The works that I do in the name of My Father, these bear witness concerning Me."}
{"book": "JHN", "chapter": 10, "verse": "26", "text": "But you do not believe because you are not from out of My sheep."}
{"book": "JHN", "chapter": 10, "verse": "27", "text": "My sheep hear My voice and I know them and they follow Me;"}
{"book": "JHN", "chapter": 10, "verse": "28", "text": "And I give them life eternal; and never shall they perish unto the age and never will anyone seize (harpasei- word for rapture) them from out of My hand."}
{"book": "JHN", "chapter": 10, "verse": "29", "text": "My Father who has given them to me is greater than all and no one is able to seize from out of the Father’s hand."}
{"book": "JHN", "chapter": 10, "verse": "30", "text": "I and the Father are one."}
{"book": "JHN", "chapter": 10, "verse": "31", "text": "The Jews therefore took up stones again so that they might stone Him."}
{"book": "JHN", "chapter": 10, "verse": "32", "text": "Jesus answered them, Many good works I have shown you from out of the Father; because of which work of these, do you stone Me?"}
{"book": "JHN", "chapter": 10, "verse": "33", "text": "The Jews answered Him, We do not stone You concerning a good work, rather concerning blasphemy and because You, being a man, make Yourself God."}
{"book": "JHN", "chapter": 10, "verse": "34", "text": "Jesus answered them, Is it not written in your law, I said, You are gods?"}
{"book": "JHN", "chapter": 10, "verse": "35", "text": "If he called them gods, to whom the word of God came, and the Scripture is not able to be broken,"}
{"book": "JHN", "chapter": 10, "verse": "36", "text": "Do you say of Him whom the Father has sanctified and sent into the world, You blaspheme, because I said, I am the Son of God?"}
{"book": "JHN", "chapter": 10, "verse": "37", "text": "If I do not do the works of My Father, do not believe Me."}
{"book": "JHN", "chapter": 10, "verse": "38", "text": "However if I do, even if you do not believe Me, believe the works, so that you might know and might continue to know that the Father is in Me and I in the Father."}
{"book": "JHN", "chapter": 10, "verse": "39", "text": "They sought therefore to apprehend him again, and He went from out of their hand,"}
{"book": "JHN", "chapter": 10, "verse": "40", "text": "And departed again beyond the Jordan unto the place where John was at first baptizing. And He stayed there."}
{"book": "JHN", "chapter": 10, "verse": "41", "text": "And many came to Him, and said, John indeed did no sign; and everything that John said concerning this man was true."}
{"book": "JHN", "chapter": 10, "verse": "42", "text": "And many believed unto Him there."}
{"book": "JHN", "chapter": 11, "verse": "1", "text": "And a certain man was ailing, Lazarus from Bethany, from out of the village of Mary and her sister Martha."}
{"book": "JHN", "chapter": 11, "verse": "2", "text": "And it was Mary, the one having anointed (aleipsasa-anoint but different from chrio for anoint) the Lord with ointment (myro-an ointment made of olive oil and other spices) and having wiped His feet with her hair, whose brother Lazarus was sick."}
{"book": "JHN", "chapter": 11, "verse": "3", "text": "The sisters therefore sent to Him, saying, Lord, Behold, He whom You love (phileis) is sick."}
{"book": "JHN", "chapter": 11, "verse": "4", "text": "And Jesus having heard, said, This sickness is not to death, but for the sake of the glory of God, so that the Son of God might be glorified through it."}
{"book": "JHN", "chapter": 11, "verse": "5", "text": "Now Jesus loved (egapa) Martha, and her sister, and Lazarus."}
{"book": "JHN", "chapter": 11, "verse": "6", "text": "When therefore He heard that he is sick, then He stayed two days in the place in which He was."}
{"book": "JHN", "chapter": 11, "verse": "7", "text": "Then after this, He says to the disciples, Let us go into Judea again."}
{"book": "JHN", "chapter": 11, "verse": "8", "text": "The disciples say to Him, Rabbi, just now the Jews were seeking to stone You and again You are going there?"}
{"book": "JHN", "chapter": 11, "verse": "9", "text": "Jesus answered, Are there not twelve hours in the day? If anyone walks in the day, he does not stumble, because he sees the light of this world;"}
{"book": "JHN", "chapter": 11, "verse": "10", "text": "However if anyone walks in the night, he stumbles, because the light is not in him."}
{"book": "JHN", "chapter": 11, "verse": "11", "text": "He said these things; and after this, He says to them, Lazarus our friend has fallen asleep; but I go so that I might awaken (awaken out of sleep, unique word used once, not the same as resurrect) him."}
{"book": "JHN", "chapter": 11, "verse": "12", "text": "Then His disciples said, Lord, if he has fallen asleep he will get well (be saved)."}
{"book": "JHN", "chapter": 11, "verse": "13", "text": "However Jesus had spoken concerning his death; however they supposed that He speaks concerning the resting of sleep."}
{"book": "JHN", "chapter": 11, "verse": "14", "text": "Then therefore Jesus said to them openly, Lazarus has died."}
{"book": "JHN", "chapter": 11, "verse": "15", "text": "And I rejoice on account of you that I was not there, so that you might believe. But let us go to him."}
{"book": "JHN", "chapter": 11, "verse": "16", "text": "Thomas therefore, called Didymus (Greek name equal to Thomas) to the fellow disciples, said, Let us also go, so that we might die with him."}
{"book": "JHN", "chapter": 11, "verse": "17", "text": "Jesus therefore having come found him, already four days having been in the tomb."}
{"book": "JHN", "chapter": 11, "verse": "18", "text": "And Bethany was near Jerusalem about fifteen stadia (two miles, stadia-one eighth of a Roman mile) away,"}
{"book": "JHN", "chapter": 11, "verse": "19", "text": "And many of the Jews had come to Martha and Mary, so that they might console (paramytheomai- soothing speaking from close beside) them concerning their brother."}
{"book": "JHN", "chapter": 11, "verse": "20", "text": "Martha therefore, when she heard that Jesus is coming, met Him; however Mary was sitting in the house."}
{"book": "JHN", "chapter": 11, "verse": "21", "text": "Martha then said to Jesus, Lord, if You had been here, my brother would not have died."}
{"book": "JHN", "chapter": 11, "verse": "22", "text": "But even now I know that whatever You might ask God, God will give You."}
{"book": "JHN", "chapter": 11, "verse": "23", "text": "Jesus says to her, Your brother will rise again (stand up/again)."}
{"book": "JHN", "chapter": 11, "verse": "24", "text": "Martha says to Him, I know that he will rise again in the resurrection in the last day."}
{"book": "JHN", "chapter": 11, "verse": "25", "text": "Jesus said to her, I am the Resurrection and the Life; the one believing unto Me, even if he should die, he will live;"}
{"book": "JHN", "chapter": 11, "verse": "26", "text": "And everyone living and believing unto Me shall never die unto the age. Do you believe this?"}
{"book": "JHN", "chapter": 11, "verse": "27", "text": "She says to Him, Yes, Lord; I have believed that You are the Christ, the Son of God, the One coming into the world."}
{"book": "JHN", "chapter": 11, "verse": "28", "text": "And having said these things, she went away and called out to Mary, her sister, secretly, having said, The Teacher is near and calls you."}
{"book": "JHN", "chapter": 11, "verse": "29", "text": "And she when she heard, rises up quickly and comes to Him."}
{"book": "JHN", "chapter": 11, "verse": "30", "text": "Now Jesus had not yet come into the village, but was still in the place where Martha had met Him."}
{"book": "JHN", "chapter": 11, "verse": "31", "text": "Then the Jews being with her in the house and consoling her, having seen Mary that she rose up quickly and went out, followed her, having supposed she is going unto the tomb, so that she might weep there."}
{"book": "JHN", "chapter": 11, "verse": "32", "text": "Therefore Mary, when she came where Jesus was, having seen Him, fell to his feet, saying to Him, Lord, if You had been here, my brother would not have died."}
{"book": "JHN", "chapter": 11, "verse": "33", "text": "Jesus therefore when He saw her weeping and the Jews having come with her weeping, He was deeply moved (groaned, snort with rage) in spirit, and Himself troubled (agitated)."}
{"book": "JHN", "chapter": 11, "verse": "34", "text": "And He said, Where have you laid him. They say to Him, Lord, come and see."}
{"book": "JHN", "chapter": 11, "verse": "35", "text": "Jesus wept."}
{"book": "JHN", "chapter": 11, "verse": "36", "text": "Then the Jews said, Behold, how He loved (ephilei) him!"}
{"book": "JHN", "chapter": 11, "verse": "37", "text": "And some of them said, Was not this man able, having opened the eyes of the blind man, to have made that also this one should not have died?"}
{"book": "JHN", "chapter": 11, "verse": "38", "text": "Jesus therefore again being deeply moved in Himself comes unto the tomb. And it was a cave and a stone was lying upon it."}
{"book": "JHN", "chapter": 11, "verse": "39", "text": "Jesus says, Take away the stone. Martha, the sister of the one having died, says to Him, Lord, he already stinks, for it is four days."}
{"book": "JHN", "chapter": 11, "verse": "40", "text": "Jesus says to her, Did I not say to you, that if you should believe, you will see the glory of God?"}
{"book": "JHN", "chapter": 11, "verse": "41", "text": "They took away therefore the stone. And Jesus lifted his eyes upwards and said, Father, I thank you that You have heard Me."}
{"book": "JHN", "chapter": 11, "verse": "42", "text": "And I knew that You always hear Me; but on account of the crowd standing around I said it, so that they might believe that You sent Me."}
{"book": "JHN", "chapter": 11, "verse": "43", "text": "And having said these things with a great voice, He cried, Lazarus, Come here outside!"}
{"book": "JHN", "chapter": 11, "verse": "44", "text": "And the one having been dead came out, being bound at the feet and the hands with linen strips and his face bound about with a handkerchief. Jesus says to them, Unbind him and remit him to go."}
{"book": "JHN", "chapter": 11, "verse": "45", "text": "Many therefore from out of the Jews having come to Mary and having seen what He did, believed unto Him;"}
{"book": "JHN", "chapter": 11, "verse": "46", "text": "However some of them went to the Pharisees and told them what Jesus had done."}
{"book": "JHN", "chapter": 11, "verse": "47", "text": "The chief priests and the Pharisees therefore gathered a council, and said, What are we to do? Because this man does many signs."}
{"book": "JHN", "chapter": 11, "verse": "48", "text": "If we let Him thus alone, all will believe unto Him, and the Romans will come and will take away our place and ethnicity (nation)."}
{"book": "JHN", "chapter": 11, "verse": "49", "text": "However a certain one from out of them, Caiaphas, being the high priest that year, said to them, You do not know anything!"}
{"book": "JHN", "chapter": 11, "verse": "50", "text": "Nor consider you that it is beneficial for us that one man should die for the people and the whole nation (ethniticity) should not perish."}
{"book": "JHN", "chapter": 11, "verse": "51", "text": "And this he said not from himself, but being the high priest that year, he prophesied that Jesus was about to die for the sake of the nation (ethnicity);"}
{"book": "JHN", "chapter": 11, "verse": "52", "text": "And not only for the sake of the nation, but so that also the children of God, those having been scattered, he might gather together into one."}
{"book": "JHN", "chapter": 11, "verse": "53", "text": "From that day therefore, they took deliberation (counsel) together so that they might kill Him."}
{"book": "JHN", "chapter": 11, "verse": "54", "text": "Then Jesus no longer openly (freely, boldly) walked among the Jews, but He went away from there into the region near the wilderness unto a city called Ephraim, and there He stayed with the disciples."}
{"book": "JHN", "chapter": 11, "verse": "55", "text": "And the Passover of the Jews was near and many went up unto Jerusalem from out of the region before the Passover, so that they might purify themselves."}
{"book": "JHN", "chapter": 11, "verse": "56", "text": "They were seeking therefore Jesus and were saying with one another standing in the temple, What does it seem to you that He will not come unto the feast?"}
{"book": "JHN", "chapter": 11, "verse": "57", "text": "Now the chief priests and the Pharisees had given a command, so that if anyone should know where He is, he should make it known, so that they might apprehend Him."}
{"book": "JHN", "chapter": 12, "verse": "1", "text": "Therefore Jesus, six days before the Passover, came unto Bethany, where Lazarus was, whom Jesus had raised from out of the dead."}
{"book": "JHN", "chapter": 12, "verse": "2", "text": "Then they made Him a supper there and Martha served (diekonei), and Lazarus was one of those reclining with Him."}
{"book": "JHN", "chapter": 12, "verse": "3", "text": "Therefore Mary having taken a litra (a Roman pound, about twelve ounces) of genuine nard (perfume ointment from a Himalayan plant) ointment of great price, anointed (latin-unxit-anointed like unction) the feet of Jesus, and wiped His feet with her hair; and the house was filled from out of the fragrance of the ointment."}
{"book": "JHN", "chapter": 12, "verse": "4", "text": "However Judas Iscariot, one of His disciples being about to betray Him, says,"}
{"book": "JHN", "chapter": 12, "verse": "5", "text": "Why was this ointment not sold for three hundred denarii (about a year’s wages for an ordinary workman, denarius was a 53 gram Roman silver coin, silver today is approx. 55cents a gram X 53 X 300= $8745) and given to the poor (beggarly, destitute)?"}
{"book": "JHN", "chapter": 12, "verse": "6", "text": "However he said this, not because he was caring for the poor (beggarly), but because he was a thief, and having the moneybag (glossokomon- root words glossa and komizo- to carry tongues), he carried (pilfered?) that being placed (thrown) into it."}
{"book": "JHN", "chapter": 12, "verse": "7", "text": "Then Jesus said, Leave her alone (Remit her): so that she might keep it unto the day of My burial:"}
{"book": "JHN", "chapter": 12, "verse": "8", "text": "for you always have the poor (beggarly, destitute) with you; however you do not always have Me."}
{"book": "JHN", "chapter": 12, "verse": "9", "text": "A great (much) crowd therefore of the Jews knew that He was there; and they came not only because of Jesus, but so that they might also see Lazarus, whom He had raised from out of the dead."}
{"book": "JHN", "chapter": 12, "verse": "10", "text": "However the chief priests took counsel (determined, deliberated), so that they might also kill Lazarus,"}
{"book": "JHN", "chapter": 12, "verse": "11", "text": "Because many of the Jews were going away on account of him and were believing unto Jesus."}
{"book": "JHN", "chapter": 12, "verse": "12", "text": "On the next day, a great crowd having come unto the feast, having heard that Jesus is coming into Jerusalem,"}
{"book": "JHN", "chapter": 12, "verse": "13", "text": "Took the branches of the palm trees and went out to meet Him and were shouting, Hosanna! (Hosanna in Greek, Latin-Osanna, Oh, save now! or Please save!, from Hebrew- yasha & na- save & please/now/pray) Blessed is the One coming in the name of the Lord, even the King (latin-Rex) of Israel!"}
{"book": "JHN", "chapter": 12, "verse": "14", "text": "And Jesus having found a young (little) donkey, sat upon it, just as it is written,"}
{"book": "JHN", "chapter": 12, "verse": "15", "text": "Fear not, daughter of Zion; behold, Your King comes, sitting upon a colt (foal) of a donkey."}
{"book": "JHN", "chapter": 12, "verse": "16", "text": "His disciples did not understand these things from the first, but when Jesus was glorified, then they remembered that these things were written of (upon) Him, and that they had done these things to Him."}
{"book": "JHN", "chapter": 12, "verse": "17", "text": "The crowd being with Him when He called Lazarus from out of the tomb and raised him from out of the dead therefore bore witness."}
{"book": "JHN", "chapter": 12, "verse": "18", "text": "On account of this also, the crowd met Him because they heard of His having done this sign."}
{"book": "JHN", "chapter": 12, "verse": "19", "text": "The Pharisees therefore said to themselves, Do you see that you gain nothing? Behold, the world has gone after Him."}
{"book": "JHN", "chapter": 12, "verse": "20", "text": "And there were Greeks from out of those coming up so that they might worship in the feast;"}
{"book": "JHN", "chapter": 12, "verse": "21", "text": "These therefore came to Philip, who was from Bethsaida of Galilee, and they asked him saying, Sir (Lord), we want to see Jesus."}
{"book": "JHN", "chapter": 12, "verse": "22", "text": "Philip comes and tells Andrew; Andrew and Philip come and tell Jesus."}
{"book": "JHN", "chapter": 12, "verse": "23", "text": "And Jesus answered them saying, The hour has come so that the Son of Man should be glorified."}
{"book": "JHN", "chapter": 12, "verse": "24", "text": "Truly, truly I say to you, Except the grain of wheat having fallen into the ground should die, it remains alone; however if it should die, it bears much fruit."}
{"book": "JHN", "chapter": 12, "verse": "25", "text": "The one loving (philon) his life (soul) loses it, and the one hating (detesting) his life (soul) in this world will keep (guard) it unto life eternal."}
{"book": "JHN", "chapter": 12, "verse": "26", "text": "If anyone serves (diakone, ministers) Me, let him follow Me; and where I am there also My servant (minister, diakonos) will be. If anyone serves (ministers) Me, the Father will honor (value) him."}
{"book": "JHN", "chapter": 12, "verse": "27", "text": "Now (presently) My soul (life) has been troubled (agitated) and what shall I say? Father, save Me from out of this hour. But on account of this I came unto this hour."}
{"book": "JHN", "chapter": 12, "verse": "28", "text": "Father, glorify Your name. Then a voice came from out of heaven, I have glorified it, and will glorify it again."}
{"book": "JHN", "chapter": 12, "verse": "29", "text": "Therefore the crowd having stood and having heard said, There has been thunder. Others said, An angel has spoken to Him."}
{"book": "JHN", "chapter": 12, "verse": "30", "text": "Jesus answered and said, Not because of Me has this voice come, but because of you."}
{"book": "JHN", "chapter": 12, "verse": "31", "text": "Now (at present) is the judgment of this world; now (at present) the ruler (archon-preeminent ruler, latin-princeps-leader like principal leader) of this world will be cast outside."}
{"book": "JHN", "chapter": 12, "verse": "32", "text": "And I, if I am lifted up (raised up) high from out of the earth, all will draw to Myself."}
{"book": "JHN", "chapter": 12, "verse": "33", "text": "And this He said, signifying by what death He was about to die."}
{"book": "JHN", "chapter": 12, "verse": "34", "text": "The crowd then answered Him, We have heard from out of the law that the Christ abides unto the age, and how do You say that it is necessary for the Son of Man to be lifted up? Who is this Son of Man?"}
{"book": "JHN", "chapter": 12, "verse": "35", "text": "Jesus therefore said to them, Yet a little while, the Light is among (in) you. Walk while you have the Light, so that darkness might not overtake (make you its own, take hold of) you. And the one walking in the darkness, does not know where he is going."}
{"book": "JHN", "chapter": 12, "verse": "36", "text": "While you have the Light, believe unto the Light, so that you might become sons of Light. Jesus spoke these things and having gone away, was hidden from them."}
{"book": "JHN", "chapter": 12, "verse": "37", "text": "However so many signs having been done of Him before them, they did not believe unto Him,"}
{"book": "JHN", "chapter": 12, "verse": "38", "text": "So that the word of Isaiah the prophet might be fulfilled that said, Lord, who has believed our report (hearing)? And to whom has the arm of the Lord been revealed?"}
{"book": "JHN", "chapter": 12, "verse": "39", "text": "Therefore they were not able to believe because Isaiah said again,"}
{"book": "JHN", "chapter": 12, "verse": "40", "text": "He has blinded their eyes and has hardened their heart, so that they should not see with the eyes and understand (perceive, latin-intellegant-understand) with the heart, and turn (change direction, convert), and I will heal (iasomai) them."}
{"book": "JHN", "chapter": 12, "verse": "41", "text": "Isaiah said these things because he saw His glory and spoke concerning Him."}
{"book": "JHN", "chapter": 12, "verse": "42", "text": "Although indeed even from out of the rulers many believed unto Him, but on account of the Pharisees they did not confess, so that they might not be put out of the synagogue;"}
{"book": "JHN", "chapter": 12, "verse": "43", "text": "For they loved the glory of men more (rather) than the glory of God."}
{"book": "JHN", "chapter": 12, "verse": "44", "text": "And Jesus cried out and said, The one believing unto Me, does not believe unto Me, but unto the One having sent Me;"}
{"book": "JHN", "chapter": 12, "verse": "45", "text": "And the one beholding Me, beholds the One having sent Me."}
{"book": "JHN", "chapter": 12, "verse": "46", "text": "I have come as a Light into the world, so that everyone believing unto Me might not abide (remain) in the darkness."}
{"book": "JHN", "chapter": 12, "verse": "47", "text": "And if anyone hears the sayings (rhematon) of Me, and does not keep [them], I do not judge him, for I did not come so that I might judge the world, but so that I might save the world."}
{"book": "JHN", "chapter": 12, "verse": "48", "text": "The one rejecting (disregarding, un-placing, annulling) Me and not receiving My sayings (rhemata) has one judging him: the word (logos) that I spoke, that there will judge him in the last day."}
{"book": "JHN", "chapter": 12, "verse": "49", "text": "Because I did not speak from Myself, but the Father Himself having sent Me gave Me a commandment- what I should say and what I should speak."}
{"book": "JHN", "chapter": 12, "verse": "50", "text": "And I know that His commandment is life eternal. What therefore I speak, just as the Father has said to Me, so I speak."}
{"book": "JHN", "chapter": 13, "verse": "1", "text": "And before the feast of the Passover, Jesus knowing that His hour had come, so that He should depart from out of this world to the Father, having loved His own who were in the world, He loved them unto the end."}
{"book": "JHN", "chapter": 13, "verse": "2", "text": "And supper happening, the devil having already put it into the heart of Judas Iscariot, son of Simon, that he should betray (deliver/hand over) Him,"}
{"book": "JHN", "chapter": 13, "verse": "3", "text": "[Jesus] Knowing that the Father has given Him all things into His hands and that He came out from God and He is going to God,"}
{"book": "JHN", "chapter": 13, "verse": "4", "text": "He rises from the supper and lays aside His outer garments and having taken a towel He girded Himself."}
{"book": "JHN", "chapter": 13, "verse": "5", "text": "Next He pours water into the basin and began to wash the feet of the disciples and to wipe them with the towel with which He was girded,"}
{"book": "JHN", "chapter": 13, "verse": "6", "text": "He comes then to Simon Peter, who says to Him, Lord, Do You wash my feet?"}
{"book": "JHN", "chapter": 13, "verse": "7", "text": "Jesus answered and said to him, What I do you do not presently know, however you will know after (with) these."}
{"book": "JHN", "chapter": 13, "verse": "8", "text": "Peter says to Him, You may never wash my feet unto the age. Jesus answered him, If I do not wash you, you have no part with Me."}
{"book": "JHN", "chapter": 13, "verse": "9", "text": "Simon Peter says to Him, Lord, not only my feet, but also the hands and the head."}
{"book": "JHN", "chapter": 13, "verse": "10", "text": "Jesus says to him, the one having been bathed (washed all over) has no need to wash except the feet, but is wholly clean (katharos); and you are clean, but not all."}
{"book": "JHN", "chapter": 13, "verse": "11", "text": "For He knew the one who was betraying Him; on account of this He said, You are not all clean."}
{"book": "JHN", "chapter": 13, "verse": "12", "text": "When therefore He had washed their feet and taken His outer garments, and having reclined again, He said to them, Do you know what I have done to you?"}
{"book": "JHN", "chapter": 13, "verse": "13", "text": "You call Me, Teacher and Lord, and you say rightly, for I am [so]."}
{"book": "JHN", "chapter": 13, "verse": "14", "text": "If therefore I, the Lord and the Teacher, have washed your feet, you also ought to wash one another’s feet."}
{"book": "JHN", "chapter": 13, "verse": "15", "text": "For I gave you an example (model, copy), so that just as I did to you, you also should do."}
{"book": "JHN", "chapter": 13, "verse": "16", "text": "Truly, truly, I say to you, a servant is not greater than his lord, nor a sent one (apostle) greater than the one having sent him."}
{"book": "JHN", "chapter": 13, "verse": "17", "text": "If you know these things, you are blessed (happy) if you do them."}
{"book": "JHN", "chapter": 13, "verse": "18", "text": "I do not speak concerning all of you. I know whom I chose, but so that the Scripture might be fulfilled, The one eating My bread lifted up his heel against (upon) Me."}
{"book": "JHN", "chapter": 13, "verse": "19", "text": "From now I am telling you before it happens, so that you should believe when it happens that I am [He]."}
{"book": "JHN", "chapter": 13, "verse": "20", "text": "Truly, truly I say to you, The one receiving anyone I shall send, receives Me; and the one who receiving Me, receives the One having sent Me."}
{"book": "JHN", "chapter": 13, "verse": "21", "text": "Having said these things, Jesus was troubled (stirred up, agitated) in spirit and testified and said, Truly, truly I say to you that one from out of you will betray Me."}
{"book": "JHN", "chapter": 13, "verse": "22", "text": "The disciples looked unto one another being at a loss (perplexed, latin-haesitantes-hesitant root is stuck) concerning whom He was speaking."}
{"book": "JHN", "chapter": 13, "verse": "23", "text": "There was one from out of His disciples reclining in (on) the bosom (upper chest) of Jesus, whom Jesus loved (egapa)."}
{"book": "JHN", "chapter": 13, "verse": "24", "text": "Simon Peter motions (makes a sign) therefore to Him to inquire who it is whom He is speaking about."}
{"book": "JHN", "chapter": 13, "verse": "25", "text": "He then having leaned back thus upon the breast of Jesus, says to Him, Lord, who is it?"}
{"book": "JHN", "chapter": 13, "verse": "26", "text": "Then Jesus answers, It is he to whom I will dip (bapso) the morsel and give it. Having dipped then the morsel, He takes it and gives it to Judas Iscariot son of Simon."}
{"book": "JHN", "chapter": 13, "verse": "27", "text": "And after the morsel, then Satan entered (went into) into him. Jesus then says to him, What you do, do quickly."}
{"book": "JHN", "chapter": 13, "verse": "28", "text": "And this no one knew, of those reclining, to what He spoke to him;"}
{"book": "JHN", "chapter": 13, "verse": "29", "text": "For some supposed, since Judas had the moneybag, that Jesus was saying to him, Buy what things we have need of unto the feast; or so that he should give something to the poor (beggarly, destitute)."}
{"book": "JHN", "chapter": 13, "verse": "30", "text": "Having therefore received the morsel, he went out directly; and it was night."}
{"book": "JHN", "chapter": 13, "verse": "31", "text": "When therefore he had gone out, Jesus says, Now the Son of man has been glorified, and God has been glorified in Him."}
{"book": "JHN", "chapter": 13, "verse": "32", "text": "If God is glorified in Him, God also will glorify Him in Himself, and directly will glorify Him."}
{"book": "JHN", "chapter": 13, "verse": "33", "text": "Little children, I am with you yet a little while. You will seek Me; and, just as I said to the Jews, where I go, you are not able to come; and so I say to you just now."}
{"book": "JHN", "chapter": 13, "verse": "34", "text": "A new commandment I give to you, so that you should love one another; just as I have loved you, so also you should love one another."}
{"book": "JHN", "chapter": 13, "verse": "35", "text": "In this all will know that you are My disciples, if you have love among (in) one another."}
{"book": "JHN", "chapter": 13, "verse": "36", "text": "Simon Peter says to Him, Lord, where do You go? Jesus answered him, Where I go, you are not able to follow Me now; however you will follow afterward."}
{"book": "JHN", "chapter": 13, "verse": "37", "text": "Peter says to Him, Lord, Why am I not able to follow presently? I will lay down my life (soul) for You."}
{"book": "JHN", "chapter": 13, "verse": "38", "text": "Jesus answered, Will you lay down your life (soul) for Me? Truly, truly I say to you, The rooster will not call out until that you will deny Me three. times."}
{"book": "JHN", "chapter": 14, "verse": "1", "text": "Let your heart not be troubled (latin-turbetur-upset root is disturbed); you believe unto God also believe unto Me."}
{"book": "JHN", "chapter": 14, "verse": "2", "text": "In the house of My Father, there are many rooms (monai, abiding-places, abodes, latin-mansiones- again a latin to kjv transliteration); and if not so, would I have said to you that I go to prepare a place for you?"}
{"book": "JHN", "chapter": 14, "verse": "3", "text": "And if I go and prepare a place for you, I am coming again and will receive you to Myself, so that where I am, you also might be."}
{"book": "JHN", "chapter": 14, "verse": "4", "text": "And where I am going, you know the way."}
{"book": "JHN", "chapter": 14, "verse": "5", "text": "Thomas says to Him, Lord, we do not know where You are going; how are we able to know the way?"}
{"book": "JHN", "chapter": 14, "verse": "6", "text": "Jesus says to him, I am the way, and the truth, and the life. No one comes to the Father, except through Me."}
{"book": "JHN", "chapter": 14, "verse": "7", "text": "If you had known Me, you would have also known My Father; from now you know Him, and have seen Him."}
{"book": "JHN", "chapter": 14, "verse": "8", "text": "Philip says to Him, Lord, show us the Father and it is sufficient for us."}
{"book": "JHN", "chapter": 14, "verse": "9", "text": "Jesus says to him, Am I so long a time with you and you have not known Me, Philip? The one having seen Me has seen the Father; how do you say, Show us the Father?"}
{"book": "JHN", "chapter": 14, "verse": "10", "text": "Do you not believe that I am in the Father and the Father is in Me? The sayings (rhemata) that I speak to you, I do not speak from Myself; however the Father abiding in Me does His works."}
{"book": "JHN", "chapter": 14, "verse": "11", "text": "Believe Me that I am in the Father and the Father in Me; however if not, believe because of the works themselves."}
{"book": "JHN", "chapter": 14, "verse": "12", "text": "Truly, truly I say to you, The one believing unto Me, the works that I do, that one also will do, and greater he will do than these, because I am going to the Father."}
{"book": "JHN", "chapter": 14, "verse": "13", "text": "And that which (whatsoever) you might ask in My name, this will I do, so that the Father might be glorified in the Son."}
{"book": "JHN", "chapter": 14, "verse": "14", "text": "If you ask Me anything in My name, I will do it."}
{"book": "JHN", "chapter": 14, "verse": "15", "text": "If you love Me, you will keep My commandments."}
{"book": "JHN", "chapter": 14, "verse": "16", "text": "And I will ask (asking from a preferred position) the Father, and He will give you another (another of the same kind) Paraclete (greek-Parakleton, One called to the aid/close side of another, Comforter, Helper, legal Advocate, Advisor, Entreater, to make a call from close-beside, latin-paracletum-counselor), so that He might be with you unto the age,"}
{"book": "JHN", "chapter": 14, "verse": "17", "text": "The Spirit of truth, whom the world is not able to receive because it does not behold nor know Him. You know Him because He abides (remains) with (para-close beside) you, and will be in you."}
{"book": "JHN", "chapter": 14, "verse": "18", "text": "I will not leave you orphans; I am coming to you."}
{"book": "JHN", "chapter": 14, "verse": "19", "text": "Yet a little while and the world sees Me no longer, however you behold Me; because I live, you also will live."}
{"book": "JHN", "chapter": 14, "verse": "20", "text": "In that there day you will know that I am in My Father and you in Me, and I in you."}
{"book": "JHN", "chapter": 14, "verse": "21", "text": "The one having (holding, possessing) My commandments and keeping them, that one is the one loving Me; and the one loving Me will be loved by My Father; and I will love him and will make Myself apparent (visible, exhibited) to him."}
{"book": "JHN", "chapter": 14, "verse": "22", "text": "Judas, not the Iscariot, says to Him, Lord, what has happened that You are about to make Yourself apparent to us and not to the world?"}
{"book": "JHN", "chapter": 14, "verse": "23", "text": "Jesus answered and said to him, If anyone loves Me, he will keep My word, and My Father will love him, and We will come to him, and will make an abode (monen, room, an abiding, latin-mansiones) with (para-close beside) him."}
{"book": "JHN", "chapter": 14, "verse": "24", "text": "The one not loving Me, does not keep My words; and the word that you hear is not Mine, but of the Father having sent Me."}
{"book": "JHN", "chapter": 14, "verse": "25", "text": "I have said these things to you, while abiding with (para-close beside) you;"}
{"book": "JHN", "chapter": 14, "verse": "26", "text": "However the Paraclete, the Holy Spirit, whom the Father will send in My name, He will teach you all things and will bring to your remembrance all things that I have said to you."}
{"book": "JHN", "chapter": 14, "verse": "27", "text": "Peace I leave with you; My peace I give to you. Do not let your heart be troubled nor let it cower (shrink, be cowardly, be timid)."}
{"book": "JHN", "chapter": 14, "verse": "28", "text": "You heard that I said to you, I am going away and I am coming to you. If you loved Me, you would have rejoiced that I am going to the Father, because the Father is greater than I."}
{"book": "JHN", "chapter": 14, "verse": "29", "text": "And now (presently) I have told you before it happens, so that when it shall happen, you might believe."}
{"book": "JHN", "chapter": 14, "verse": "30", "text": "I will no longer speak much with you; for the ruler of this world comes and he has nothing in Me; verbs}, this I do. Rise up, let us go from here."}
{"book": "JHN", "chapter": 14, "verse": "31", "text": "But so that the world might know that I love the Father, and just as the Father commands Me {possibly gives commands to Me- problem with 2 verbs}, this I do. Rise up, let us go from here."}
{"book": "JHN", "chapter": 15, "verse": "1", "text": "I am the true vine, and My Father is the vinedresser (farmer, latin-agricola-farmer like agriculturalist)."}
{"book": "JHN", "chapter": 15, "verse": "2", "text": "Every branch in Me not bearing fruit, He takes it away (removes); and everyone bearing fruit, He prunes (kathairei, purges, cleanses, purifies) it, so that it might bear more (more excellent, very great, greater) fruit."}
{"book": "JHN", "chapter": 15, "verse": "3", "text": "You already are clean (katharoi, pruned?, purged) through the word that I have spoken to you."}
{"book": "JHN", "chapter": 15, "verse": "4", "text": "Abide in Me and I in you. Just as the branch is not able to bear from from itself, unless it abide in the vine, so neither can you, unless you abide in Me."}
{"book": "JHN", "chapter": 15, "verse": "5", "text": "I am the vine; you are the branches. The one abiding in Me and I in him, he bears much fruit; because apart from Me, you are not able to do anything."}
{"book": "JHN", "chapter": 15, "verse": "6", "text": "If anyone does not abide in Me, he is thrown outside like as the branch, and is dried up, and they gather them together, and throw into the fire and it is burned."}
{"book": "JHN", "chapter": 15, "verse": "7", "text": "If you abide in Me and My sayings (rhemata) abide in you, you shall ask whatever (what possibly) you will (wish, want), and it will happen (be done, come into being) for you."}
{"book": "JHN", "chapter": 15, "verse": "8", "text": "In this My Father is glorified, so that you should bear much fruit and you shall be My disciples."}
{"book": "JHN", "chapter": 15, "verse": "9", "text": "Just as the Father has loved Me, I also have loved you. Abide in My love."}
{"book": "JHN", "chapter": 15, "verse": "10", "text": "If you keep My commandments, you will abide in My love, just as I have kept My Father’s commandments and abide in His love."}
{"book": "JHN", "chapter": 15, "verse": "11", "text": "I have spoken these things to you, so that My joy might be in you and your joy might be full."}
{"book": "JHN", "chapter": 15, "verse": "12", "text": "This is My commandment, that you love one another, just as I loved you."}
{"book": "JHN", "chapter": 15, "verse": "13", "text": "No one has greater love than this, that one should lay down his life (soul) for the sake of his friends."}
{"book": "JHN", "chapter": 15, "verse": "14", "text": "You are My friends if you do what I command you."}
{"book": "JHN", "chapter": 15, "verse": "15", "text": "I no longer call you servants, because the servant does not know what his lord is doing. However you I have called friends, because all things that I heard from My Father, I have made known to you."}
{"book": "JHN", "chapter": 15, "verse": "16", "text": "You have not chosen Me, but I chose you, and appointed you, so that you should go and you should bear fruit and your fruit should remain; so that whatever you might ask the Father in My name, He might give you."}
{"book": "JHN", "chapter": 15, "verse": "17", "text": "These things I command you, so that you love one another."}
{"book": "JHN", "chapter": 15, "verse": "18", "text": "If the world hates you, you know that it has hated Me before you."}
{"book": "JHN", "chapter": 15, "verse": "19", "text": "If you were from out of the world, the world would love (ephilei) you as its own; and because you are not from out of the world, but I chose you from out of the world, on account of this the world hates you."}
{"book": "JHN", "chapter": 15, "verse": "20", "text": "Remember the word that I said to you, A servant is not greater than his lord. If they persecuted Me, they will also persecute you; if they kept My word, they will also keep yours."}
{"book": "JHN", "chapter": 15, "verse": "21", "text": "But all these things they will do unto (against) you on account of My name, because they have not known the One having sent Me."}
{"book": "JHN", "chapter": 15, "verse": "22", "text": "If I had not come and spoken to them, they would have not had sin; however now they have no excuse (pretense, latin-excusationem-excuse roots are apology/ exoneration, pre-apparent/visible/bring to light) concerning their sin."}
{"book": "JHN", "chapter": 15, "verse": "23", "text": "The one hating Me also hates My Father."}
{"book": "JHN", "chapter": 15, "verse": "24", "text": "If I had not done the works among them that no other has done, they would not have had sin; now however they have seen and have hated Me and My Father."}
{"book": "JHN", "chapter": 15, "verse": "25", "text": "But so that the word having been written in their law might be fulfilled, They hated Me without cause (to no purpose, not done under compulsion or obligation)."}
{"book": "JHN", "chapter": 15, "verse": "26", "text": "When the Paraclete comes, whom I will send to you from the Father, the Spirit of truth, who goes out from (close beside) the Father, He will bear witness concerning Me."}
{"book": "JHN", "chapter": 15, "verse": "27", "text": "And you also bear witness, because you are with Me from the beginning."}
{"book": "JHN", "chapter": 16, "verse": "1", "text": "I have spoken these things to you so that you might not be caused to stumble (greek and latin are close- skandalisthete like scandalized, cause to become offended, fall into a trap, set a snare)."}
{"book": "JHN", "chapter": 16, "verse": "2", "text": "They will put you out of the synagogues (expelled away from the synagogues); but an hour is coming, that everyone having killed you will suppose it is a service (sacred service) to offer to God;"}
{"book": "JHN", "chapter": 16, "verse": "3", "text": "And they will do these things because they do not know the Father nor Me."}
{"book": "JHN", "chapter": 16, "verse": "4", "text": "But I have said these things so that when their hour might have come, you might remember them, because I said them to you. And I did not say these things to you from the beginning because I was with you."}
{"book": "JHN", "chapter": 16, "verse": "5", "text": "Now however I go to the One having sent Me and none of you asks Me, Where are You going?"}
{"book": "JHN", "chapter": 16, "verse": "6", "text": "But because I have said these things to you, sadness (sorrow, heavy emotional pain/distress, latin-tristitia-sadness) has filled your heart."}
{"book": "JHN", "chapter": 16, "verse": "7", "text": "But I say the truth to you, It is beneficial (advantageous, better) for you that I should go away; for if I do not go away, the Paraclete will not come to you; however if I go, I will send Him to you."}
{"book": "JHN", "chapter": 16, "verse": "8", "text": "And He having come, will convince (expose, reprove, rebuke, convict, latin-arguet-convicts root is rebuke) the world concerning sin, and concerning righteousness (justice), and concerning judgment:"}
{"book": "JHN", "chapter": 16, "verse": "9", "text": "Concerning sin indeed, because they did not believe unto Me;"}
{"book": "JHN", "chapter": 16, "verse": "10", "text": "And concerning righteousness (justice), because I go away to the Father and you will behold Me no longer;"}
{"book": "JHN", "chapter": 16, "verse": "11", "text": "And concerning judgment, because the ruler of this world has been judged."}
{"book": "JHN", "chapter": 16, "verse": "12", "text": "Yet I have many things to say to you, but you are not able to bear them now."}
{"book": "JHN", "chapter": 16, "verse": "13", "text": "However when He, the Spirit of truth, might have come, He will guide (lead the way) you in all the truth; for He will not speak from Himself, but as much He may hear, He will speak; and He will announce (declare, tell all the way up, to bring back/again/up a report) to you the things coming."}
{"book": "JHN", "chapter": 16, "verse": "14", "text": "He will glorify Me, because He will take (receive) from out of that which is Mine and will announce [it] to you."}
{"book": "JHN", "chapter": 16, "verse": "15", "text": "All things as much as the Father has are Mine; because of this, I said that He will take from out of that which is Mine and announce [it] to you."}
{"book": "JHN", "chapter": 16, "verse": "16", "text": "A little while and you do no longer behold Me; and again, a little while and you will see Me {, because I am going away to the Father}."}
{"book": "JHN", "chapter": 16, "verse": "17", "text": "Then said [some] from out of His disciples to one another, What is this that He says to us, A little while and you do not behold Me; and again, a little while and you will see Me? And because I am going to the Father?"}
{"book": "JHN", "chapter": 16, "verse": "18", "text": "They said therefore, What is this that He says, A little while? We do not know what He is saying."}
{"book": "JHN", "chapter": 16, "verse": "19", "text": "Jesus knew that they wanted to ask Him, and He said to them, Do you inquire with one another concerning this that I said, A little while and you do not behold Me; and again, a little while and you will see Me?"}
{"book": "JHN", "chapter": 16, "verse": "20", "text": "Truly, truly I say to you that you will weep and will lament, however the world will rejoice; you will be grieved, but your grief will become unto joy."}
{"book": "JHN", "chapter": 16, "verse": "21", "text": "The woman when she is giving birth has pain (lypen, heaviness, sorrow, grief, distress) because her hour has come; and when she brings forth the child, she no longer remembers the tribulation on account of the joy that a human (man) has been born into the world."}
{"book": "JHN", "chapter": 16, "verse": "22", "text": "And you therefore, now indeed have grief (lypen, pain, sorrow); however I will see you again, and your heart will rejoice and your joy no one will take away from you."}
{"book": "JHN", "chapter": 16, "verse": "23", "text": "And in that there day, you will ask nothing of Me. Truly, truly I say to you, whatsoever you might ask (request) the Father in My name, He will give you."}
{"book": "JHN", "chapter": 16, "verse": "24", "text": "Until presently you have asked nothing in My name. Ask and you will receive (take, lay hold of), so that your joy might be full."}
{"book": "JHN", "chapter": 16, "verse": "25", "text": "I have spoken these things to you in allegories (proverbs, similitudes, parables, enigmatic illustration, clever and sententious saying); an hour is coming when I will speak to you no longer in allegories, but I will announce (report) to you openly (freely, boldly, plainly) concerning the Father."}
{"book": "JHN", "chapter": 16, "verse": "26", "text": "In that there day, you will ask in My name; and I do not say to you that I will ask the Father concerning you,"}
{"book": "JHN", "chapter": 16, "verse": "27", "text": "For the Father Himself loves (philei) you, because you have loved (pephilekate) Me and have believed that I came out from (close beside) God."}
{"book": "JHN", "chapter": 16, "verse": "28", "text": "I came from out of the Father and have come into the world; again I leave the world, and go to the Father."}
{"book": "JHN", "chapter": 16, "verse": "29", "text": "His disciples say to Him, Behold, now in openness (boldness, freedom) You speak and do not speak in allegory."}
{"book": "JHN", "chapter": 16, "verse": "30", "text": "Now (presently) we know that You know all things and do not have need that anyone should ask You. In this we believe, that You came forth from God."}
{"book": "JHN", "chapter": 16, "verse": "31", "text": "Jesus answered them, Now do you believe?"}
{"book": "JHN", "chapter": 16, "verse": "32", "text": "Behold, an hour is coming and has come, so that you will be scattered, each unto his own, and you will leave Me alone; yet I am not alone because the Father is with Me."}
{"book": "JHN", "chapter": 16, "verse": "33", "text": "I have spoken these things to you so that you might have peace in Me. In the world you have tribulation. But be of good courage (cheer, Be emboldened within, latin-confidite-cheer like confident); I have overcome the world."}
{"book": "JHN", "chapter": 17, "verse": "1", "text": "Jesus spoke these things and having lifted up His eyes unto heaven, said, Father, the hour has come; glorify Your Son, so that the Son might glorify You."}
{"book": "JHN", "chapter": 17, "verse": "2", "text": "Just as You gave Him authority over all flesh, that all whom You have given Him, He should give to them life eternal."}
{"book": "JHN", "chapter": 17, "verse": "3", "text": "And this is eternal life, that they should know You, the only true God, and Jesus Christ, whom You have sent."}
{"book": "JHN", "chapter": 17, "verse": "4", "text": "I glorified You upon the earth, having completed the work that You have given Me that I should do."}
{"book": "JHN", "chapter": 17, "verse": "5", "text": "And now, You Father, glorify Me [along] with Yourself with the glory that I had [along] with You before the world existed."}
{"book": "JHN", "chapter": 17, "verse": "6", "text": "I made Your name apparent to the men whom You have given to Me from out of the world. Yours they were, and You gave them to Me, and they have kept Your word."}
{"book": "JHN", "chapter": 17, "verse": "7", "text": "Now they have known that all things that You have given Me are of You;"}
{"book": "JHN", "chapter": 17, "verse": "8", "text": "Because the sayings (rhemata) that You have given Me, I have given them and they received them, and knew truly that I came out from You; and they believed that You sent Me."}
{"book": "JHN", "chapter": 17, "verse": "9", "text": "I am asking concerning them. I do not ask concerning the world, but concerning those whom You have given Me, because they are Yours."}
{"book": "JHN", "chapter": 17, "verse": "10", "text": "And all things of Mine are Yours; and Yours, Mine; and I have been glorified in them."}
{"book": "JHN", "chapter": 17, "verse": "11", "text": "And I am no longer in the world, and yet they themselves are in the world, and I am coming to You. Holy Father, keep them in Your name which You have given Me, so that they might be one, just as We [are]."}
{"book": "JHN", "chapter": 17, "verse": "12", "text": "When I was with them, I was keeping them in Your name, which You have given Me. And I guarded [them], and no one from out of them has perished, except the son of destruction (latin-perditionis, cut off, loss, ruin), so that the Scripture might be fulfilled."}
{"book": "JHN", "chapter": 17, "verse": "13", "text": "However now I am coming to You; and I speak these things in the world, so that they might have My joy fulfilled in them."}
{"book": "JHN", "chapter": 17, "verse": "14", "text": "I have given them Your word, and the world hated them, because they are not from out of the world, just as I am not from out of the world."}
{"book": "JHN", "chapter": 17, "verse": "15", "text": "I do not ask that You should take them out of the world, but that You should keep them from out of the evil."}
{"book": "JHN", "chapter": 17, "verse": "16", "text": "They are not from out of the world, just as I am not from out of the world."}
{"book": "JHN", "chapter": 17, "verse": "17", "text": "Sanctify them in the truth; Your word is truth."}
{"book": "JHN", "chapter": 17, "verse": "18", "text": "Just as You sent Me into the world, I also sent them into the world;"}
{"book": "JHN", "chapter": 17, "verse": "19", "text": "And for their sake, I sanctify Myself, so that they also might be sanctified in truth."}
{"book": "JHN", "chapter": 17, "verse": "20", "text": "However I do not ask concerning only these, but also concerning those believing through their word unto Me-"}
{"book": "JHN", "chapter": 17, "verse": "21", "text": "So that all might be one, just as You, Father, are in Me, and I in You, that also they might be in Us, so that the world might believe that You sent Me."}
{"book": "JHN", "chapter": 17, "verse": "22", "text": "And the glory which You given Me, I have given them, so that they might be one, just as We are one:"}
{"book": "JHN", "chapter": 17, "verse": "23", "text": "I in them and You in Me, so that they might be perfected (consummated) into one, so that the world might know that You sent Me, and loved then just as You loved Me."}
{"book": "JHN", "chapter": 17, "verse": "24", "text": "Father, those whom You have given Me, I wish (will) that where I am they also might be with Me, so that they might behold My glory that You gave Me because You loved Me before the foundation of the world."}
{"book": "JHN", "chapter": 17, "verse": "25", "text": "Righteous (Just) Father, and the world has not known You, however I have known You, and these have known that You have sent Me."}
{"book": "JHN", "chapter": 17, "verse": "26", "text": "And I made known to them Your name and will make it known, so that the love with which You loved Me might be in them and I in them."}
{"book": "JHN", "chapter": 18, "verse": "1", "text": "Having said these things, Jesus went out with His disciples to the other side of the Kidron Valley (winter stream, flowing in winter, latin-torrentem-brook), where there was a garden, into which He and His disciples entered."}
{"book": "JHN", "chapter": 18, "verse": "2", "text": "And Judas, who was betraying Him, also knew the place because Jesus gathered together there often with His disciples."}
{"book": "JHN", "chapter": 18, "verse": "3", "text": "Therefore Judas having taken the cohort, and officers from the chief priests and from the Pharisees, came there with lanterns and torches and weapons."}
{"book": "JHN", "chapter": 18, "verse": "4", "text": "Jesus therefore knowing all things that were coming upon Him, having gone out and said to them, Whom do you seek?"}
{"book": "JHN", "chapter": 18, "verse": "5", "text": "They answered Him, Jesus of Nazareth. He says to them, I am [He]. And Judas also, who was delivering Him up (betrayed Him) had been standing with them."}
{"book": "JHN", "chapter": 18, "verse": "6", "text": "When therefore He said to them, I am [He], they drew back and fell to the ground."}
{"book": "JHN", "chapter": 18, "verse": "7", "text": "Again then He questioned them, Whom do you seek? And they said, Jesus of Nazareth."}
{"book": "JHN", "chapter": 18, "verse": "8", "text": "Jesus answered, I have told you that I am [He]. Therefore if you seek Me, allow these to go away;"}
{"book": "JHN", "chapter": 18, "verse": "9", "text": "So that the word might be fulfilled that He had spoken, Those whom You have given Me, I have not lost one of them."}
{"book": "JHN", "chapter": 18, "verse": "10", "text": "Then Simon Peter having a sword (short sword or dagger), drew it, and struck the servant of the high priest and cut off his right ear and the servant’s name was Malchus."}
{"book": "JHN", "chapter": 18, "verse": "11", "text": "Jesus therefore said to Peter, Put the sword into the sheath; the cup which the Father has given Me, shall I not drink it?"}
{"book": "JHN", "chapter": 18, "verse": "12", "text": "Then the cohort and the commander, and the officers of the Jews took hold of Jesus and bound Him;"}
{"book": "JHN", "chapter": 18, "verse": "13", "text": "And they led Him away to Annas first; for he was the father-in-law of Caiaphas, who was the high priest that same year."}
{"book": "JHN", "chapter": 18, "verse": "14", "text": "However Caiaphas was the one having given consultation to the Jews that is was beneficial for one man to perish for the sake of the people."}
{"book": "JHN", "chapter": 18, "verse": "15", "text": "And Simon Peter and the other disciple were following, and since that disciple was known to the high priest, he also entered with Jesus into the court of the high priest."}
{"book": "JHN", "chapter": 18, "verse": "16", "text": "However Peter stood at the door outside. Therefore the other disciple, who was known to the high priest, went out and spoke to the doorkeeper, and brought in Peter."}
{"book": "JHN", "chapter": 18, "verse": "17", "text": "Therefore the servant girl, the doorkeeper, says to Peter, Are you not also from out of the disciples of this man? He says, I am not."}
{"book": "JHN", "chapter": 18, "verse": "18", "text": "And the servants and the officers were standing, having made a fire of coals because it was cold and were warming themselves. And Peter was also with them standing and warming himself."}
{"book": "JHN", "chapter": 18, "verse": "19", "text": "Then the high priest questioned Jesus concerning His disciples and concerning His teaching."}
{"book": "JHN", "chapter": 18, "verse": "20", "text": "Jesus answered him, I have openly spoken to the world; I always taught in the synagogue and in the temple where the Jews always come together and I spoke nothing in secret."}
{"book": "JHN", "chapter": 18, "verse": "21", "text": "Why do you question Me? Question those having heard what I spoke to them; behold, they know what I said."}
{"book": "JHN", "chapter": 18, "verse": "22", "text": "And having said these things of Him, one of the officers standing by gave a blow (slap) with the palm to Jesus, having said, Answer You the high priest thus?"}
{"book": "JHN", "chapter": 18, "verse": "23", "text": "Jesus answered him, If I spoke wrong (kakos), bear witness concerning the wrong; however if rightly (kalos), why do you strike Me?"}
{"book": "JHN", "chapter": 18, "verse": "24", "text": "Annas then sent Him bound to Caiaphas the high priest."}
{"book": "JHN", "chapter": 18, "verse": "25", "text": "And Simon Peter was standing and warming himself. They then said to him, Are you not also from out of His disciples? He denied and said, I am not."}
{"book": "JHN", "chapter": 18, "verse": "26", "text": "One of the servants of the high priest, being kinsman of him of whom Peter had cut off the ear, says, Did I not see you in the garden with Him?"}
{"book": "JHN", "chapter": 18, "verse": "27", "text": "Peter then again denied and directly (at once) a rooster crowed (called out)."}
{"book": "JHN", "chapter": 18, "verse": "28", "text": "Then they lead Jesus from Caiaphas into the praetorium. And it was early in the morning. And they did not enter into the praetorium so that they should not be defiled, but might eat the Passover."}
{"book": "JHN", "chapter": 18, "verse": "29", "text": "Pilate then went outside to them and said, What accusation do you bring against this man?"}
{"book": "JHN", "chapter": 18, "verse": "30", "text": "They answered and said to him, If He were not doing wrong (kakon, latin-malefactor), we would not have delivered Him to you."}
{"book": "JHN", "chapter": 18, "verse": "31", "text": "Pilate then said to them, Take Him yourselves and judge Him according to your law. The Jews said to him, It is not permitted for us to put anyone to death;"}
{"book": "JHN", "chapter": 18, "verse": "32", "text": "So that the word of Jesus might be fulfilled that He had spoken signifying what death He was about to die."}
{"book": "JHN", "chapter": 18, "verse": "33", "text": "Pilate then entered again into the praetorium, and called Jesus and said to Him, Are You the king of the Jews?"}
{"book": "JHN", "chapter": 18, "verse": "34", "text": "Jesus answered, Do you say this from yourself or did others say it to you about Me?"}
{"book": "JHN", "chapter": 18, "verse": "35", "text": "Pilate answered, Am I a Jew? Your ethnicity (nation) and the chief priests delivered You to me. What have You done?"}
{"book": "JHN", "chapter": 18, "verse": "36", "text": "Jesus answered, My kingdom is not from out of this world; if My kingdom were from out of this world, My attendants would fight so that I might not be betrayed to the Jews. However now My kingdom is not from here."}
{"book": "JHN", "chapter": 18, "verse": "37", "text": "Pilate then said to Him, Then are You a king? Jesus answered, You say that I am a king. Unto this I have been born and unto this I have come into the world, so that I might bear witness to the truth. Everyone being of the truth hears My voice."}
{"book": "JHN", "chapter": 18, "verse": "38", "text": "Pilate says to Him, What is truth? And having said this again he went out to the Jews and says to them, I find no cause (fault, reason) in Him."}
{"book": "JHN", "chapter": 18, "verse": "39", "text": "And it is a custom with you that I should release one to you at the Passover; Therefore do you determine that I should release to you the King of the Jews?"}
{"book": "JHN", "chapter": 18, "verse": "40", "text": "They cried out then again saying, Not this one, but Barabbas! And Barabbas was a robber (thief in the open typically with violence)."}
{"book": "JHN", "chapter": 19, "verse": "1", "text": "Then Pilate therefore took Jesus and flogged (scourged) [Him]."}
{"book": "JHN", "chapter": 19, "verse": "2", "text": "And the soldiers having twisted together a garland (crown) from out of thorns, put it upon his head, and threw around Him a purple (reddish-purple) robe (outer garment),"}
{"book": "JHN", "chapter": 19, "verse": "3", "text": "And they came up to Him and said, Hail, King of the Jews! And they gave Him blows with the palm."}
{"book": "JHN", "chapter": 19, "verse": "4", "text": "And Pilate went outside again and says to them, Behold, I bring Him outside to you, so that you might know that I find no cause in Him."}
{"book": "JHN", "chapter": 19, "verse": "5", "text": "Therefore Jesus went outside wearing the thorny garland (crown) and the purple robe (outer garment); and he says to them, Behold the Man!"}
{"book": "JHN", "chapter": 19, "verse": "6", "text": "When therefore the chief priests and the officers saw Him, they cried out saying, Crucify! Crucify! Pilate says to them, Take Him yourselves and crucify [Him]; for I find no cause in Him."}
{"book": "JHN", "chapter": 19, "verse": "7", "text": "The Jews answered him, We have a law and according to the law, He ought to die, because He made Himself the Son of God."}
{"book": "JHN", "chapter": 19, "verse": "8", "text": "When Pilate therefore heard this word, he was the more afraid (fearful)."}
{"book": "JHN", "chapter": 19, "verse": "9", "text": "And he went again into the praetorium and says to Jesus, From where are You? However Jesus did not give him an answer."}
{"book": "JHN", "chapter": 19, "verse": "10", "text": "Pilate therefore says to Him, Will You not speak to me? Do you not know that I have the authority to release You and I have the authority to crucify You?"}
{"book": "JHN", "chapter": 19, "verse": "11", "text": "Jesus answered him, You would not have authority against Me if it were not given to you from above. Because of this, the one having delivered Me up to you has greater sin."}
{"book": "JHN", "chapter": 19, "verse": "12", "text": "From out of this Pilate sought to release Him, however the Jews cried out, saying, If you release this [Man], you are not a friend of Caesar. Everyone making himself a king speaks against Caesar."}
{"book": "JHN", "chapter": 19, "verse": "13", "text": "Therefore Pilate having heard these words brought Jesus outside and sat down upon the judgment seat at (unto) a place called The [Stone] Pavement; however, in Hebrew (Aramaic) Gabbatha:"}
{"book": "JHN", "chapter": 19, "verse": "14", "text": "And it was the day of preparation of the Passover; the hour was about the sixth. And he says to the Jews, Behold your King!"}
{"book": "JHN", "chapter": 19, "verse": "15", "text": "They cried out, then, Away with Him!, Away with Him! Crucify Him! Pilate says to them, Will I crucify your King? The chief priests answered, We have no king, except Caesar."}
{"book": "JHN", "chapter": 19, "verse": "16", "text": "Then therefore he delivered Him to them, so that He might be crucified. They took then Jesus."}
{"book": "JHN", "chapter": 19, "verse": "17", "text": "And bearing His own cross, He went out unto the [place] called the Place of the Skull (latin-Calvariae-Skull like Calvary) which in Hebrew (Aramaic) is called Golgotha;"}
{"book": "JHN", "chapter": 19, "verse": "18", "text": "Where they crucified Him and two others with Him, [one] on this side and [one] on that side and Jesus in the middle."}
{"book": "JHN", "chapter": 19, "verse": "19", "text": "And Pilate also wrote a title and put it upon the cross. And it was written, Jesus of Nazareth, the King of the Jews."}
{"book": "JHN", "chapter": 19, "verse": "20", "text": "This title therefore many of the Jews read, because the place where Jesus was crucified was near the city; and it was written in Hebrew (Aramaic), in Latin, in Greek."}
{"book": "JHN", "chapter": 19, "verse": "21", "text": "The chief priests of the Jews therefore said to Pilate, Do not write, The King of the Jews, but that He said, I am King of the Jews."}
{"book": "JHN", "chapter": 19, "verse": "22", "text": "Pilate answered, What I have written, I have written."}
{"book": "JHN", "chapter": 19, "verse": "23", "text": "The soldiers then, when they crucified Jesus took His outer garments and made four parts, to each soldier a part, and also the tunic (latin-tunicam-coat, under-garment worn next to the skin). However the tunic was seamless, woven through the whole from out of the top."}
{"book": "JHN", "chapter": 19, "verse": "24", "text": "They said therefore to one another, let us not tear it up, but let us cast lots for it, whose it will be; so that the Scripture might be fulfilled that said, They divided My outer garments among them, and upon My clothing they cast a lot. For the soldiers therefore did these things."}
{"book": "JHN", "chapter": 19, "verse": "25", "text": "And had been standing close beside the cross, His mother and the sister of His mother, Mary the wife of Clopas and Mary Magdalene."}
{"book": "JHN", "chapter": 19, "verse": "26", "text": "Jesus therefore having seen His mother and the disciple standing by whom He loved, says to His mother, Woman, behold, your son."}
{"book": "JHN", "chapter": 19, "verse": "27", "text": "Then He says to the disciple, Behold your mother. And from that there hour the disciple took her unto his own [home]."}
{"book": "JHN", "chapter": 19, "verse": "28", "text": "After this, Jesus knowing that all things now had been accomplished (finished, fulfilled, consummated), so that the Scripture might be fulfilled, He says, I thirst."}
{"book": "JHN", "chapter": 19, "verse": "29", "text": "A vessel had been set there full of vinegar (oxos- sour wine, latin-aceto-vinegar thus acetic acid which is the main ingredient in vinegar- acetic acid is produced by the fermentation of ethanol by acetic acid bacteria, common drink of Roman soldiers, given as a cheap painkiller to people condemned to crucifixion); a sponge then filled with sour wine (vinegar), having put on a stalk of hyssop (used by Hebrews in ritual sprinklings), they brought it to His mouth."}
{"book": "JHN", "chapter": 19, "verse": "30", "text": "When therefore Jesus took the sour wine (vinegar), He said, It has been finished; and having bowed His head, He yielded (delivered) up His spirit."}
{"book": "JHN", "chapter": 19, "verse": "31", "text": "Therefore the Jews, because it was the Preparation, so that the bodies might not remain upon the cross on the Sabbath- for that there day was a great Sabbath- asked Pilate that their legs might be broken and they might be taken away."}
{"book": "JHN", "chapter": 19, "verse": "32", "text": "The soldiers therefore came and broke the legs of the first and of the other having been crucified with Him;"}
{"book": "JHN", "chapter": 19, "verse": "33", "text": "However having come upon Jesus, when they saw He was already dead, they did not break His legs."}
{"book": "JHN", "chapter": 19, "verse": "34", "text": "But one of the soldiers pierced His side with a spear and at once (directly) blood and water came out."}
{"book": "JHN", "chapter": 19, "verse": "35", "text": "And the one having seen has borne witness, and his testimony is true, and he knows that he is speaking the truth, so that you might also believe."}
{"book": "JHN", "chapter": 19, "verse": "36", "text": "For these things happened so that the Scripture might be fulfilled, Not one bone of Him will be broken."}
{"book": "JHN", "chapter": 19, "verse": "37", "text": "And again another Scripture says, They will look unto the One they have pierced."}
{"book": "JHN", "chapter": 19, "verse": "38", "text": "And after these things, Joseph from Arimathaea- being a disciple of Jesus, however concealed through the fear of the Jews- asked Pilate that he might take away the body of Jesus: Pilate gave permission. He came then and took away His body. ounces)."}
{"book": "JHN", "chapter": 19, "verse": "39", "text": "And Nicodemus also, the one having come to Him by night at the first, came, bearing a mixture of myrrh and aloes, about a hundred litras (about 75lbs., a Roman pound/litra was about 12 ounces)."}
{"book": "JHN", "chapter": 19, "verse": "40", "text": "They took therefore the body of Jesus and bound it in linen clothes with the spices (perfumes), just as it is a custom among the Jews to prepare for burial."}
{"book": "JHN", "chapter": 19, "verse": "41", "text": "And there was in the place where He was crucified a garden and in the garden a new tomb in which no one was yet laid."}
{"book": "JHN", "chapter": 19, "verse": "42", "text": "There therefore on account of the Preparation of the Jews, because the tomb was near, they laid Jesus."}
{"book": "JHN", "chapter": 20, "verse": "1", "text": "And the first of the week (Sabbaths), Mary Magdalene comes early morning, it still being dark, unto the tomb, and she sees the stone having been removed from the tomb."}
{"book": "JHN", "chapter": 20, "verse": "2", "text": "She runs therefore and comes to Simon Peter and to the other disciple whom Jesus loved, and she says to them, They have taken away the Lord from out of the tomb and we do not know where they have laid Him."}
{"book": "JHN", "chapter": 20, "verse": "3", "text": "Peter and the other disciple therefore went forth and came unto the tomb."}
{"book": "JHN", "chapter": 20, "verse": "4", "text": "And the two ran together and the other disciple ran ahead faster than Peter, and came first unto the tomb."}
{"book": "JHN", "chapter": 20, "verse": "5", "text": "And having stooped down, he sees lying there the linen clothes; however he did not enter."}
{"book": "JHN", "chapter": 20, "verse": "6", "text": "Then also Simon Peter comes following him and he entered into the tomb and sees the linen clothes lying there,"}
{"book": "JHN", "chapter": 20, "verse": "7", "text": "And face cloth (handkerchief, head cloth for the dead) which was upon His head, not lying with the linen clothes, but having been folded up into one place by itself."}
{"book": "JHN", "chapter": 20, "verse": "8", "text": "Then therefore also the other disciple, having come first unto the tomb, entered and he saw and believed;"}
{"book": "JHN", "chapter": 20, "verse": "9", "text": "For they did not yet understand the Scripture, that it was necessary for Him to rise from out of the dead."}
{"book": "JHN", "chapter": 20, "verse": "10", "text": "Therefore the disciples went away again to their own [homes]."}
{"book": "JHN", "chapter": 20, "verse": "11", "text": "However Mary stood at the tomb weeping outside. As she wept, she stooped down into the tomb,"}
{"book": "JHN", "chapter": 20, "verse": "12", "text": "And she sees two angels in white sitting, one at the head, and one at the feet, where the body of Jesus had laid."}
{"book": "JHN", "chapter": 20, "verse": "13", "text": "And they say to her, Woman, why do you weep? She says to them, Because they have taken away my Lord, and I do not know where they have laid Him."}
{"book": "JHN", "chapter": 20, "verse": "14", "text": "Having said these things, she turned around behind, and she beholds Jesus standing there, and had not known that it is Jesus."}
{"book": "JHN", "chapter": 20, "verse": "15", "text": "Jesus says to her, Woman, why do you weep? Whom do you seek? She supposing that it is the gardener, says to him, Sir (Lord), if you have carried Him off, tell me where you have laid Him, and I will take Him away."}
{"book": "JHN", "chapter": 20, "verse": "16", "text": "Jesus says to her, Mary!. Having turned around, she says to Him in Hebrew (Aramaic), Rabboni!, that is to say, Teacher."}
{"book": "JHN", "chapter": 20, "verse": "17", "text": "Jesus says to her, Do not touch Me, for I have not yet ascended to the Father; and go to My brothers and say to them, I am ascending to My Father, and your Father, and to My God, and your God."}
{"book": "JHN", "chapter": 20, "verse": "18", "text": "Mary Magdalene comes reporting (announcing) to the disciples, I have seen the Lord and that He had said these things to her."}
{"book": "JHN", "chapter": 20, "verse": "19", "text": "Then it being evening the same day, the first of the week (Sabbaths), and the doors having been shut where the disciples were on account of the fear of the Jews, Jesus came and stood into the midst (middle), and He says to them, Peace to you."}
{"book": "JHN", "chapter": 20, "verse": "20", "text": "And having said this, He showed His hands and His side to them. Then the disciples rejoiced, having seen the Lord."}
{"book": "JHN", "chapter": 20, "verse": "21", "text": "Jesus therefore said to them again, Peace to you; just as the Father has sent Me forth, I also send you."}
{"book": "JHN", "chapter": 20, "verse": "22", "text": "And having said this, He breathed into them and He says to them, Receive (Take) the Holy Spirit."}
{"book": "JHN", "chapter": 20, "verse": "23", "text": "If of any you might remit sins, they are remitted them; if any you might retain (place under own’s grasp/control, latin-retinueritis- retain), they are retained (latin-detenta-detained)."}
{"book": "JHN", "chapter": 20, "verse": "24", "text": "However Thomas, one of the twelve, the one called Didymus, was not with them when Jesus came."}
{"book": "JHN", "chapter": 20, "verse": "25", "text": "The other disciples therefore said to him, We have seen the Lord, and He said to them, If I do not see His hands the mark of the nails, and put my finger into the mark of the nails and put my hands into His side, I will not believe."}
{"book": "JHN", "chapter": 20, "verse": "26", "text": "And after eight days, His disciples were again inside and Thomas with them. Jesus comes, the doors having been shut, and He stood in the midst (middle), and said, Peace to you."}
{"book": "JHN", "chapter": 20, "verse": "27", "text": "Then He says to Thomas, Bring your finger here and see My hands; and bring your hand and put it into My side; and do not be unbelieving, but believing."}
{"book": "JHN", "chapter": 20, "verse": "28", "text": "Thomas answered and said to Him, My Lord and My God!"}
{"book": "JHN", "chapter": 20, "verse": "29", "text": "Jesus says to him, Because you have seen Me, you have believed; blessed are those not having seen and having believed."}
{"book": "JHN", "chapter": 20, "verse": "30", "text": "Jesus did many other signs in the sight of His disciples, which are not written in this book;"}
{"book": "JHN", "chapter": 20, "verse": "31", "text": "However these have been written so that you might believe that Jesus is the Christ, the Son of God, and that believing, you might have life in His name."}
{"book": "JHN", "chapter": 21, "verse": "1", "text": "After these things, Jesus made Himself apparent again to the disciples at (upon) the sea of Tiberias. And He made Himself apparent in this way:"}
{"book": "JHN", "chapter": 21, "verse": "2", "text": "They were together; Simon Peter; and Thomas called Didymus; and Nathanael from Cana of Galilee; and the sons of Zebedee; and two others of His disciples."}
{"book": "JHN", "chapter": 21, "verse": "3", "text": "Simon Peter says to them, I am going to fish. They say to him, We also come with you. They went out and went up into the boat, and in that there night they caught nothing."}
{"book": "JHN", "chapter": 21, "verse": "4", "text": "And early morning already having come, Jesus stood on the shore; the disciples however did not know that it was Jesus."}
{"book": "JHN", "chapter": 21, "verse": "5", "text": "Jesus says to them, Children, do you have any food? They answered Him, No."}
{"book": "JHN", "chapter": 21, "verse": "6", "text": "And He said to them, Cast the net unto the right side of the boat and you will find [some]. They cast therefore and they were not able to haul it in from the multitude of fish."}
{"book": "JHN", "chapter": 21, "verse": "7", "text": "The disciple therefore whom Jesus loved says to Peter, It is the Lord. Therefore Simon Peter having heard that it is the Lord, put on his outer garment, for he was naked (poorly clothed, possibly only wearing his underwear), and he cast himself into the sea."}
{"book": "JHN", "chapter": 21, "verse": "8", "text": "And the other disciples came in the boat, for they were not far from the land, but about two hundred cubits away (about a 100yds), dragging the net with the fishes (ichthyon, latin-piscium)."}
{"book": "JHN", "chapter": 21, "verse": "9", "text": "When therefore they got out onto the land, they see a fire of coals lying, and little fish (opsarion) lying upon it, and bread."}
{"book": "JHN", "chapter": 21, "verse": "10", "text": "Jesus says to them, Bring [some] from out of the fish that you have caught now."}
{"book": "JHN", "chapter": 21, "verse": "11", "text": "Therefore Simon Peter went up and dragged the net onto the land, full of great fish, a hundred fifty three; and though there were so many, the net was not torn."}
{"book": "JHN", "chapter": 21, "verse": "12", "text": "Jesus says to them, Come have breakfast (any meal before supper). However none dared of the disciples to ask Him, Who are You? knowing that it was the Lord."}
{"book": "JHN", "chapter": 21, "verse": "13", "text": "Jesus comes and takes the bread and gives it to them, and the little fish likewise."}
{"book": "JHN", "chapter": 21, "verse": "14", "text": "This is already (now) the third time Jesus made Himself apparent to the disciples, having been raised from out of the dead."}
{"book": "JHN", "chapter": 21, "verse": "15", "text": "When therefore they had eaten breakfast, Jesus says to Simon Peter, Simon son of Jonah, Do you love (agapas) Me more than these? He says to Him, Yes, Lord; You know that I have affection (love, philo) for You. He says to him, Feed (bosko not poimen for shepherd) My lambs."}
{"book": "JHN", "chapter": 21, "verse": "16", "text": "He says to him again a second time, Simon son of Jonah, Do you love (agapas) Me? He says to Him, Yes, Lord; You know that I have affection (love, philo) for You. He says to him, Shepherd (Poimaine) My sheep."}
{"book": "JHN", "chapter": 21, "verse": "17", "text": "He says to him the third time, Simon son of Jonah, Do you have affection (love, phileis) for Me? Peter was grieved because He said to him the third time, Do you have affection for Me? And he said to him, Lord, You know all things; You know that I have affection (love, philo) for You. Jesus says to him, Feed My sheep."}
{"book": "JHN", "chapter": 21, "verse": "18", "text": "Truly, truly I say to you, When you were younger, you dressed yourself, and walked where you wanted; however when you shall be old, you will stretch out your hands, and another will dress you, and will bring you where you do not want."}
{"book": "JHN", "chapter": 21, "verse": "19", "text": "And this He said signifying by what death he will glorify God. And having said this, He says to him, Follow Me."}
{"book": "JHN", "chapter": 21, "verse": "20", "text": "Peter having turned, sees the disciple whom Jesus loved following, who also had reclined at (in) the supper upon His bosom (chest), and said, Lord, who is it who is betraying You?"}
{"book": "JHN", "chapter": 21, "verse": "21", "text": "Peter, then having seen him, says to Jesus, Lord, and what about this man?"}
{"book": "JHN", "chapter": 21, "verse": "22", "text": "Jesus says to him, If I want him to remain until I come, what is it to you? You follow Me!"}
{"book": "JHN", "chapter": 21, "verse": "23", "text": "This word therefore went out unto the brothers, That the disciple does not die. However Jesus did not say to him, That he does not die; but, If I want him to remain until I come, what is it to you?"}
{"book": "JHN", "chapter": 21, "verse": "24", "text": "This is the disciple bearing witness concerning these things and the one having written these things: and we know that his testimony is true."}
{"book": "JHN", "chapter": 21, "verse": "25", "text": "And there are also many other things that Jesus did which if they should be written one by one, I suppose that not even the world itself to have space for the books to be written."}
{"book": "ACT", "chapter": 1, "verse": "1", "text": "I made the first account (word) concerning all the things, O Theophilus, which Jesus began to do and to teach,"}
{"book": "ACT", "chapter": 1, "verse": "2", "text": "Until the day He was taken up, after having given instructions through the Holy Spirit to the apostles whom He had chosen."}
{"book": "ACT", "chapter": 1, "verse": "3", "text": "To whom He also presented Himself alive after His suffering with many indisputable proofs, being seen by them for forty days and speaking the things concerning the kingdom of God:"}
{"book": "ACT", "chapter": 1, "verse": "4", "text": "And being assembled together, He instructed them not to depart from Jerusalem, but rather to await the promise of the Father, which [said he] you heard of me."}
{"book": "ACT", "chapter": 1, "verse": "5", "text": "For John indeed baptized with water; however you will be baptized in the Holy Spirit, after not many days."}
{"book": "ACT", "chapter": 1, "verse": "6", "text": "For those then having come together, asked Him, saying, Lord, are you restoring the kingdom of Israel at (in) this time?"}
{"book": "ACT", "chapter": 1, "verse": "7", "text": "And He said to them, It is not yours to know times (times in sequence/ duration) or seasons (opportune times, fitting season, time as opportunity), which the Father set in His own authority."}
{"book": "ACT", "chapter": 1, "verse": "8", "text": "But rather you will receive power, the Holy Spirit having come (overtake, come upon) upon you and you will be My witnesses, in Jerusalem, and in all Judea, and Samaria, and unto the end of the earth."}
{"book": "ACT", "chapter": 1, "verse": "9", "text": "And having said these things, they beholding, He was lifted up (lift/raise upon) and a cloud received (took, bore) Him from (away from) their eyes."}
{"book": "ACT", "chapter": 1, "verse": "10", "text": "And as they were looking fixated into the heaven, as He was going, behold, two men stood by then in white apparel,"}
{"book": "ACT", "chapter": 1, "verse": "11", "text": "Who said, Men, Galileans, why do you stand looking into heaven? This Jesus having been taken up from you into heaven, will thus come in like manner as you beheld Him going into heaven."}
{"book": "ACT", "chapter": 1, "verse": "12", "text": "Then they returned unto Jerusalem from the mount called Olivet, which is near Jerusalem, having a Sabbath day’s journey."}
{"book": "ACT", "chapter": 1, "verse": "13", "text": "And when they had entered, they went up into the upper room where Peter and John, and James and Andrew, Philip and Thomas, Bartholomew and Matthew, James son of Alphaeus, and Simon the Zealot, and Judas son of James were staying."}
{"book": "ACT", "chapter": 1, "verse": "14", "text": "All these were steadfastly continuing with the same passion in prayer with the women and Mary the mother of Jesus and with His brothers."}
{"book": "ACT", "chapter": 1, "verse": "15", "text": "And in these days, Peter stood up in the midst of the brothers and said -- the crowd of names at (upon) the same [place] was about a hundred twenty (120)--,"}
{"book": "ACT", "chapter": 1, "verse": "16", "text": "Men, brothers, it was necessary for the Scripture to have been fulfilled, which the Holy Spirit spoke beforehand through the mouth of David, concerning Judas, the one having become a guide to those having arrested Jesus;"}
{"book": "ACT", "chapter": 1, "verse": "17", "text": "Because he was numbered with (in) us and was allotted a share (lot, assigned portion) of this ministry (diakonias)."}
{"book": "ACT", "chapter": 1, "verse": "18", "text": "This man then acquired a field from out of the reward of unrighteousness, and having fallen headlong, he burst open in the middle and all his visceral organs (internal parts) gushed out."}
{"book": "ACT", "chapter": 1, "verse": "19", "text": "And it became known to all those residing in Jerusalem, so that that field was called in their own language (Aramaic), Akeldama, that is, Field of Blood."}
{"book": "ACT", "chapter": 1, "verse": "20", "text": "For it has been written in the book of Psalms, Let his residence (estate, habitation, homestead) become desolate and let there not be one person residing in it; and let another take his overseership (episkopen)."}
{"book": "ACT", "chapter": 1, "verse": "21", "text": "It is necessary therefore that men having accompanied us in all the time that the Lord Jesus came in and went out among (upon) us,"}
{"book": "ACT", "chapter": 1, "verse": "22", "text": "Having begun from the baptism of John until the day in which He was taken up away from us, a witness of His resurrection with us, to become one of these."}
{"book": "ACT", "chapter": 1, "verse": "23", "text": "And they put forward (made to stand) two, Joseph called Barsabbas, who was called by the additional name Justus, and Matthias."}
{"book": "ACT", "chapter": 1, "verse": "24", "text": "And having prayed, they said, You Lord, Heart-Knower of all, show us the one which You have chosen (elected) from out of these two,"}
{"book": "ACT", "chapter": 1, "verse": "25", "text": "To take the place of this ministry (diakonias) and apostleship away from which Judas turned aside to go unto his own place."}
{"book": "ACT", "chapter": 1, "verse": "26", "text": "And they gave lots for them and the lot fell upon Matthias and he was classed (numbered, reckoned with, counted with, latin-adnumeratus) with the eleven apostles."}
{"book": "ACT", "chapter": 2, "verse": "1", "text": "And in the fulfilling (latin-conplerentur-finished) of the day of Pentecost, they were all together at (upon) the same place."}
{"book": "ACT", "chapter": 2, "verse": "2", "text": "And there came suddenly a sound (noise, greek-echos, latin-sonus) from out of heaven, like as of a rushing violent (forcible) wind, and it filled the whole house where they were sitting."}
{"book": "ACT", "chapter": 2, "verse": "3", "text": "And there appeared to them dividing (distributing, latin-disperitae like disperse) tongues (glossai) like as of fire, and it sat down upon each one of them."}
{"book": "ACT", "chapter": 2, "verse": "4", "text": "And they were all filled (filled to capacity, supplied, furnished, latin-repleti-filled like replete) with the Holy Spirit, and began (commenced) to speak with other tongues (glossais), just as the Spirit was giving to them to utter out (to utter/speak away from-apo)."}
{"book": "ACT", "chapter": 2, "verse": "5", "text": "Now there were Jews residing in (into) Jerusalem, devout (godly, pious) men from every ethnicity of those under heaven."}
{"book": "ACT", "chapter": 2, "verse": "6", "text": "And this sound (voice) having come about, the multitude (great number) came together and was confounded (latin-confusa-confused) because each one heard them speaking in his own language (dialekto)."}
{"book": "ACT", "chapter": 2, "verse": "7", "text": "And they were astonished (flabbergasted, stupefied, latin-stupebant-amazed) and marveled, saying, Behold, are not all these who are speaking, Galileans?"}
{"book": "ACT", "chapter": 2, "verse": "8", "text": "And how do we each hear our own language (dialekto) in which we were born?"}
{"book": "ACT", "chapter": 2, "verse": "9", "text": "Parthians (country between Caspian Sea and the Persian Gulf), and Medes (region of Asia), and Elamites (those living north of Persian Gulf in the southern part of Persia); and those residing in Mesopotamia (area between Tigris and Euphrates Rivers), Judea, and also Cappadocia (Roman province in the central eastern part of Asia Minor), Pontius (Roman province north of Asia Minor bordering the Black Sea) and Asia (Roman province that is roughly the western third of Asia Minor);"}
{"book": "ACT", "chapter": 2, "verse": "10", "text": "Phrygia (area in Asia Minor between Asia and Galatia) and Pamphylia (Roman province on south coast of Asia Minor), Egypt (land of the Nile) and the parts of Libya (west bank of the Nile) that are around Cyrene (Mediterranean coastal district/city west of Egypt), and those visiting (sojourning) from Rome; Jews and proselytes (proselytoi, a non-Jew who has been circumcised and has adopted the Judaism),"}
{"book": "ACT", "chapter": 2, "verse": "11", "text": "Cretans (inhabitant of the island of Crete) and Arabians (Arabs), we hear them speaking in our own tongues (glossais), the great things of God?"}
{"book": "ACT", "chapter": 2, "verse": "12", "text": "And all were astonished and were totally perplexed, saying other to the other, What wishes (wants, wills) this to be?"}
{"book": "ACT", "chapter": 2, "verse": "13", "text": "And others mocking said, They are full of sweet new wine (gleukous- root greek word glukus means fresh/ sweet, latin-musto- Latin vinum mustum was young wine that is freshly pressed fruit juice and the must was the solid portion or pomace, the must was used to make red wine)."}
{"book": "ACT", "chapter": 2, "verse": "14", "text": "However, Peter having stood up with the eleven, lifted up his voice and spoke forth to them, Judean men and all those residing in Jerusalem, let this be known to you, and listen (take into your ear) to my sayings (rhemata):"}
{"book": "ACT", "chapter": 2, "verse": "15", "text": "For these are not drunkards (methyousin, latin-ebrii) as you suppose (assume), for it is the third hour of the day;"}
{"book": "ACT", "chapter": 2, "verse": "16", "text": "But rather this is that having been spoken through the prophet Joel,"}
{"book": "ACT", "chapter": 2, "verse": "17", "text": "And it will be in the last days, says God, I will pour out from (away from) My Spirit upon all flesh; and your sons and your daughters will prophesy, and your young men (latin-iuvenes like juveniles) will see visions (latin-visiones) and your elders (presbyteroi) will dream dreams (en-hypnos);"}
{"book": "ACT", "chapter": 2, "verse": "18", "text": "And even upon My male servants (doulous, bond-slaves), and upon My female servants (doulas, female bond-slaves), in those days, I will pour out My Spirit, and they will prophesy;"}
{"book": "ACT", "chapter": 2, "verse": "19", "text": "And I will give wonders in heaven above, and signs upon the earth below, blood and fire and vapor (steam, latin-vaporem-vapor root is steam) of smoke."}
{"book": "ACT", "chapter": 2, "verse": "20", "text": "The sun will be turned (changed) into darkness, and the moon into blood, before the coming of the great and epiphanious (visibly/gloriously apparent, illustrious, greek-epiphane, latin-manifestus) day of the Lord."}
{"book": "ACT", "chapter": 2, "verse": "21", "text": "And it will be that everyone who shall call upon (latin-invocaverit-calls root is invoke) the name of the Lord will be saved."}
{"book": "ACT", "chapter": 2, "verse": "22", "text": "Men, Israelites, hear these words: Jesus of Nazareth, a man having been exhibited (showed from, demonstrated) from God unto you by miracles (powers) and wonders and signs, which God did through Him in the midst of you, just as you yourselves know."}
{"book": "ACT", "chapter": 2, "verse": "23", "text": "Him, by the determinate plan (resolved plan) and foreknowledge of God, [was] given over (delivered up, given up, surrendered) through lawless hands, you put [Him] to death having crucified (fastened) [Him to a cross]."}
{"book": "ACT", "chapter": 2, "verse": "24", "text": "Whom God raised up, having loosed (released, dissolved) the agony (birth pangs, pains) of death, because it was not possible for Him to be held by (under) it."}
{"book": "ACT", "chapter": 2, "verse": "25", "text": "For David says unto Him, I foresaw the Lord continually in my sight, because He is from out of my right hand/side, so that I should not be shaken."}
{"book": "ACT", "chapter": 2, "verse": "26", "text": "Because of this my heart was glad (cheered) and my tongue rejoiced greatly (exulted, celebrated), and yet my flesh also will dwell (encamp, tabernacle) upon hope,"}
{"book": "ACT", "chapter": 2, "verse": "27", "text": "Because You will not abandon my soul unto Hades, nor will You give (offer) Your Holy One to see decay."}
{"book": "ACT", "chapter": 2, "verse": "28", "text": "You have made known to me the ways of life; You will fill me with joy with Your face (countenance, presence, latin-facie-face)."}
{"book": "ACT", "chapter": 2, "verse": "29", "text": "Men, brothers, it is permitted (lawful, possible) to speak with boldness (confidence, freedom) to you, concerning the patriarch David, that he died and was buried and his tomb is among (in) us until this day."}
{"book": "ACT", "chapter": 2, "verse": "30", "text": "Therefore being a prophet and knowing that God swore to him with an oath, that from out of the fruit of his lions (reproductive area, latin-lumbi-loins), to sit down upon his throne."}
{"book": "ACT", "chapter": 2, "verse": "31", "text": "Having foreseen, he spoke concerning the resurrection of the Christ, that neither was He abandoned unto Hades, nor did His flesh see decay."}
{"book": "ACT", "chapter": 2, "verse": "32", "text": "This Jesus God has raised up, in which we are all witnesses."}
{"book": "ACT", "chapter": 2, "verse": "33", "text": "Therefore having been exalted to the right hand/side of God, and having received from the Father the promise of the Holy Spirit, He has poured out this which you are seeing and hearing."}
{"book": "ACT", "chapter": 2, "verse": "34", "text": "For David has not ascended into the heavens, however he himself says, The Lord said to my Lord, Sit at (from out of) My right hand/side."}
{"book": "ACT", "chapter": 2, "verse": "35", "text": "Until I place (put, set) Your enemies, a footstool of Your feet."}
{"book": "ACT", "chapter": 2, "verse": "36", "text": "Assuredly, therefore let all the house of Israel know that God has made Him both Lord and Christ, this Jesus whom you crucified."}
{"book": "ACT", "chapter": 2, "verse": "37", "text": "Now having heard this, they were pierced to the heart, and said to Peter and the rest of the apostles, Men, brothers, what shall we do?"}
{"book": "ACT", "chapter": 2, "verse": "38", "text": "And Peter says (produces an epiphany) to them, Repent (think/understand differently after) and be baptized, everyone of you upon the name of Jesus Christ unto the remission (pardon, send away, releasing of obligation) of your sins and you will receive the gift of the Holy Spirit."}
{"book": "ACT", "chapter": 2, "verse": "39", "text": "For the promise is to you and to your children and to all those at (unto) a distance, as many as the Lord our God shall call to."}
{"book": "ACT", "chapter": 2, "verse": "40", "text": "And with many other words, he thoroughly testified and entreated them, saying, Be saved away from this crooked (warped, twisted, bent, dried out, perverse) generation."}
{"book": "ACT", "chapter": 2, "verse": "41", "text": "Then those having welcomingly received (gladly accepted, welcomed) his word were baptized; and about three thousand souls were added on that day."}
{"book": "ACT", "chapter": 2, "verse": "42", "text": "And they were steadfastly continuing in the teaching of the apostles, and in fellowship, the breaking of the bread, and the prayers."}
{"book": "ACT", "chapter": 2, "verse": "43", "text": "And there came fear (awe) on every soul, and many wonders and signs happened through the apostles."}
{"book": "ACT", "chapter": 2, "verse": "44", "text": "And all having believed were upon the same [place] and having all things in common (koina, shared);"}
{"book": "ACT", "chapter": 2, "verse": "45", "text": "And they were selling properties (latin-possessiones-possessions) and possessions (latin-substantias-substances) and were dividing them to all, according as anyone had necessity."}
{"book": "ACT", "chapter": 2, "verse": "46", "text": "Steadfastly continuing with the same passion day by day in the temple, breaking bread from house to house, they partook of food with exuberant joy and simplicity (not of stony ground, unencumbered, smoothness, latin-simplicitate-simplicity) of heart,"}
{"book": "ACT", "chapter": 2, "verse": "47", "text": "Praising God and having favor (grace) with all the people. And the Lord added upon their number day by day those who were being saved."}
{"book": "ACT", "chapter": 3, "verse": "1", "text": "Now Peter and John were going up into the temple at (upon) the ninth hour of prayer."}
{"book": "ACT", "chapter": 3, "verse": "2", "text": "And a certain man, being lame from out of his mother’s womb was being carried, whom they placed day by day at the gate of the temple, called Beautiful, to ask alms from those who were going into the temple;"}
{"book": "ACT", "chapter": 3, "verse": "3", "text": "Who having seen Peter and John being about to enter into the temple, asked to receive alms."}
{"book": "ACT", "chapter": 3, "verse": "4", "text": "And Peter with John having looked fixedly unto him, said, Look unto (into) us."}
{"book": "ACT", "chapter": 3, "verse": "5", "text": "And he gave heed to them, expecting to receive something from them."}
{"book": "ACT", "chapter": 3, "verse": "6", "text": "Peter said, Silver and gold, I have none, however what I have, this I give to you: In the name of Jesus Christ of Nazareth rise up and walk!"}
{"book": "ACT", "chapter": 3, "verse": "7", "text": "And having taken him by the right hand, he raised him up; and instantly his feet and ankles were made solid (made firm, stable, strengthened, latin-consolidatae-consolidated)."}
{"book": "ACT", "chapter": 3, "verse": "8", "text": "And leaping up, he stood and walked, and entered with them into the temple, walking and leaping and praising God."}
{"book": "ACT", "chapter": 3, "verse": "9", "text": "And all the people saw him walking and praising God."}
{"book": "ACT", "chapter": 3, "verse": "10", "text": "They recognized him, that he was the one sitting for alms at (upon) the Beautiful Gate of the temple; and they were filled with astonishment (latin-stupore-amazement root is astonishment) and bewilderment (latin-exstasi-ecstasy) at (upon) that having happened to him."}
{"book": "ACT", "chapter": 3, "verse": "11", "text": "And he held Peter and John, all the people ran together to them upon the porch called Solomon’s, utterly astonished (full of amazement)."}
{"book": "ACT", "chapter": 3, "verse": "12", "text": "And Peter having seen it answered to the people, Men, Israelites, why do you marvel upon this? Or why do you look fixedly on us as if we have made him to walk by our own power or godliness (piety, reverence)?"}
{"book": "ACT", "chapter": 3, "verse": "13", "text": "The God of Abraham, and the God of Isaac, and the God of Jacob, the God of our fathers has glorified His servant (paida-usually used of a child), Jesus, whom you actually betrayed (delivered over) and disowned (denied) in the presence (face) of Pilate, when he had adjudged to release Him."}
{"book": "ACT", "chapter": 3, "verse": "14", "text": "However you denied the Holy and Righteous One and requested a man, a murderer, to be given freely to you;"}
{"book": "ACT", "chapter": 3, "verse": "15", "text": "You killed the Originator (author, founder) of life, whom God has raised up from out of the dead, of which we are witnesses."}
{"book": "ACT", "chapter": 3, "verse": "16", "text": "And upon faith in His name, this man whom you behold (gaze) and know has been made firm (solid, stable, strengthened); His name, and the faith which is through Him, has given to him this wholeness (perfect soundness, completeness, latin-integram sanitatem- integral health) in the presence of you all."}
{"book": "ACT", "chapter": 3, "verse": "17", "text": "And now, brothers, I know that in ignorance (unknowing) you acted, just as also your rulers;"}
{"book": "ACT", "chapter": 3, "verse": "18", "text": "And God has thus fulfilled what He foretold through the mouth of all the prophets, that His Christ should suffer."}
{"book": "ACT", "chapter": 3, "verse": "19", "text": "Repent therefore and return (latin-convertimini-return root is converted, turn/change/convert upon) to the blotting out (erasing, wiping out, obliterating, removing) of your sins, so that times of refreshing (reviving) might come from the presence (face) of the Lord"}
{"book": "ACT", "chapter": 3, "verse": "20", "text": "and that He might send the One having been appointed beforehand to you, Christ Jesus."}
{"book": "ACT", "chapter": 3, "verse": "21", "text": "Whom heaven must receive until the times of restoration (latin-restitutionis-restoration like restitution) of all things, of which God spoke through the mouth of His holy prophets from the age (ESV-from long ago, NASB-from ancient time)."}
{"book": "ACT", "chapter": 3, "verse": "22", "text": "For Moses said, The Lord your God will raise up a prophet to you from out of your brothers like as me: You will listen to Him in all things, as many as He might say to you."}
{"book": "ACT", "chapter": 3, "verse": "23", "text": "And it will be that every soul who might not heed (listen) that prophet will be destroyed from out of the people."}
{"book": "ACT", "chapter": 3, "verse": "24", "text": "And all the prophets from Samuel and those successively (just after), as many as have spoken, also have proclaimed these days."}
{"book": "ACT", "chapter": 3, "verse": "25", "text": "You are the sons of the prophets and of the covenant that God made with your fathers, saying to Abraham, And in your seed will be blessed all the families of the earth."}
{"book": "ACT", "chapter": 3, "verse": "26", "text": "To you first, God having raised up His servant (paida), sent Him, blessing you by (in) turning away each one from your wickednesses (evils)."}
{"book": "ACT", "chapter": 4, "verse": "1", "text": "And they were speaking to the people, and the priests, and the captain of the temple, and the Sadducees came upon them,"}
{"book": "ACT", "chapter": 4, "verse": "2", "text": "Being thoroughly annoyed (troubled, disturbed, distressed, grieved) because of their teaching the people and preaching in Jesus the resurrection which is from out of the dead;"}
{"book": "ACT", "chapter": 4, "verse": "3", "text": "And they laid hands on them and put them into custody unto the next day; for it was already evening."}
{"book": "ACT", "chapter": 4, "verse": "4", "text": "Now many having heard the word, believed, and the number of the men became about five thousand."}
{"book": "ACT", "chapter": 4, "verse": "5", "text": "And it came to pass upon the next day that their rulers, and elders, and scribes were gathered together in Jerusalem,"}
{"book": "ACT", "chapter": 4, "verse": "6", "text": "And Annas the high priest, and Caiaphas, and John, and Alexander, and as many as were from out of high priestly descent."}
{"book": "ACT", "chapter": 4, "verse": "7", "text": "And having placed them in the midst, they inquired, In what power or in what name did you do this?"}
{"book": "ACT", "chapter": 4, "verse": "8", "text": "Then (at that time) Peter, having been filed with the Holy Spirit, said to them, Rulers of the people and elders,"}
{"book": "ACT", "chapter": 4, "verse": "9", "text": "If we this day are being examined upon a good work to the feeble man, by what means he has been saved (sesostai- root is sozo for salvation, healed),"}
{"book": "ACT", "chapter": 4, "verse": "10", "text": "Let it be known to you all and to all the people of Israel, that in the name of Jesus Christ of Nazareth, whom you crucified, whom God raised from out of the dead, in (by) Him this man stands in your sight healthy (sound, whole)."}
{"book": "ACT", "chapter": 4, "verse": "11", "text": "This is the stone having been rejected by (under) you, the builders, which has become unto the head of the corner."}
{"book": "ACT", "chapter": 4, "verse": "12", "text": "And there is not salvation in no other one, for there is not another name under heaven having been given among (in) men, in (by) which it is necessary for us to be saved."}
{"book": "ACT", "chapter": 4, "verse": "13", "text": "Now seeing the boldness (confidence, freedom of speech) of Peter and of John, and having apprehended that they are uneducated and ordinary (amateur, unskilled, laymen, lacking education/status) men, they marveled. And they recognized them, that they had been with Jesus."}
{"book": "ACT", "chapter": 4, "verse": "14", "text": "And beholding the man having been healed (tetherapeumenon) standing with them, they had nothing to contradict."}
{"book": "ACT", "chapter": 4, "verse": "15", "text": "And having commanded them to go outside the council, they conferred with (to) one another,"}
{"book": "ACT", "chapter": 4, "verse": "16", "text": "Saying, What shall we do to these men? For truly that known sign has come to pass through them, it is apparent to all those residing in Jerusalem, and we are not able to deny it."}
{"book": "ACT", "chapter": 4, "verse": "17", "text": "But rather so that it might not spread on (upon) further among (in) the people, let us forbid by threatening them to no longer speak to no man upon this name."}
{"book": "ACT", "chapter": 4, "verse": "18", "text": "And having called them, they commanded them to not speak at all nor to teach upon the name of Jesus."}
{"book": "ACT", "chapter": 4, "verse": "19", "text": "However Peter and John answering, said to them, Whether it is right (just) in the sight of God to listen to you rather than to God, you must judge;"}
{"book": "ACT", "chapter": 4, "verse": "20", "text": "For we are not able not to speak of what we have seen and heard."}
{"book": "ACT", "chapter": 4, "verse": "21", "text": "And having further threatened them they let them go, finding nothing as to how they might punish (chastise) them, on account of the people, because all were glorifying God upon that having happened;"}
{"book": "ACT", "chapter": 4, "verse": "22", "text": "For the man was more than forty years old upon whom this sign of healing (iaseos) had happened."}
{"book": "ACT", "chapter": 4, "verse": "23", "text": "And having been let go they came to their own [company, friends, ?], and reported how much the chief priests and the elders had said to them."}
{"book": "ACT", "chapter": 4, "verse": "24", "text": "And which having heard, they lifted up their voice with the same passion to God and said, Master (Despota not Kyrios), You who made the heaven, and the earth, and the sea, and all that is in them,"}
{"book": "ACT", "chapter": 4, "verse": "25", "text": "Who through the Holy Spirit by the mouth of our father David, Your servant (paidos), having spoken, Why did the ethnicities rage (act like an uncontrolled horse), and did the peoples devise vain things?"}
{"book": "ACT", "chapter": 4, "verse": "26", "text": "The kings of the earth took their stand, and the rulers were gathered upon themselves against the Lord and against His Christ."}
{"book": "ACT", "chapter": 4, "verse": "27", "text": "For upon truth upon Jesus, Your holy servant (paida), whom You anointed, Herod and Pontius Pilate with the ethnicities and the peoples of Israel were gathered together in this city,"}
{"book": "ACT", "chapter": 4, "verse": "28", "text": "To do whatever Your hand and Your resolved plan had predetermined to happen."}
{"book": "ACT", "chapter": 4, "verse": "29", "text": "And now, Lord, look upon their threats and give to Your servants (bond-slaves) to speak Your word with all boldness (confidence, freedom of speech),"}
{"book": "ACT", "chapter": 4, "verse": "30", "text": "While You stretch out Your hand unto healing (iasin) and signs and wonders to happen through the name of You holy servant (paidos), Jesus."}
{"book": "ACT", "chapter": 4, "verse": "31", "text": "And they having prayed, the place in which they were assembled was shaken and they were all filled with the Holy Spirit and spoke the word of God with boldness (confidence, freedom of speech)."}
{"book": "ACT", "chapter": 4, "verse": "32", "text": "And the multitude having believed were in one heart and soul (psyche), and not one claimed anything of that which he possessed to be his own, but rather they had all things in common (shared)."}
{"book": "ACT", "chapter": 4, "verse": "33", "text": "And with great power, the apostles were giving testimony of the resurrection of the Lord Jesus; and great grace was upon them all."}
{"book": "ACT", "chapter": 4, "verse": "34", "text": "For neither was there anyone among them in necessity; for as many as were owners of lands or houses were selling them and brought the values of what is sold,"}
{"book": "ACT", "chapter": 4, "verse": "35", "text": "And laid them at (close beside) the feet of the apostles; and distribution was made to each according as how anyone had necessity."}
{"book": "ACT", "chapter": 4, "verse": "36", "text": "And Joseph having also been called Barnabas from the apostles, which is translated (interpreted), son of entreaty (encouragement, comfort, called to one’s aid/side, latin-consolationis-consolation), a Levite, a Cypriot by birth (offspring, race, nationality),"}
{"book": "ACT", "chapter": 4, "verse": "37", "text": "having a field, sold it, and brought the money and laid it at (to, toward, with) the feet of the apostles."}
{"book": "ACT", "chapter": 5, "verse": "1", "text": "And a certain man, named Ananias with his wife Sapphira, sold a property,"}
{"book": "ACT", "chapter": 5, "verse": "2", "text": "And embezzled (kept back, rob, pilfer) from the value (price), Also the wife being aware of it, and having brought a certain (some) portion, he laid it at (close beside) the feet of the apostles."}
{"book": "ACT", "chapter": 5, "verse": "3", "text": "However Peter said, Ananias, because of why has Satan filled your heart for you to lie to the Holy Spirit and embezzle (latin-fraudare-defraud) away from the value of the property?"}
{"book": "ACT", "chapter": 5, "verse": "4", "text": "While remaining [unsold] did it not remain to you? And having been sold, was it not under your authority (control)? Why is it that you have set this deed (habit, matter, pragma- accomplishing by regular practice) in your heart? You have not lied to men but rather to God."}
{"book": "ACT", "chapter": 5, "verse": "5", "text": "And Ananias hearing these words, having fallen down, breathed his last. And great fear came upon all those hearing."}
{"book": "ACT", "chapter": 5, "verse": "6", "text": "And the younger men arose, covered him, and carried him out, buried him."}
{"book": "ACT", "chapter": 5, "verse": "7", "text": "And it came to pass about three hours afterward, his wife also came in not knowing what had come to pass."}
{"book": "ACT", "chapter": 5, "verse": "8", "text": "And Peter replied to her, Tell me if you sold the property for so much? And she said, Yes, for so much."}
{"book": "ACT", "chapter": 5, "verse": "9", "text": "And Peter said to her, Why is it that you have agreed together to test the Spirit of the Lord? Behold, the feet of those having buried your husband are at (upon) the door and they will carry you out."}
{"book": "ACT", "chapter": 5, "verse": "10", "text": "And she fell down instantly at (close beside) his feet and breathed her last. And the young men having come in found her dead; and having carried her out, they buried her with her husband."}
{"book": "ACT", "chapter": 5, "verse": "11", "text": "And great fear came upon all the church and upon all those hearing these things."}
{"book": "ACT", "chapter": 5, "verse": "12", "text": "And through the hands of the apostles many signs and wonders came to pass among the people; and they were all with the same passion in the Colonnade (Portico) of Solomon,"}
{"book": "ACT", "chapter": 5, "verse": "13", "text": "And of the rest no one dared to join them but rather the people magnified (declared great) them;"}
{"book": "ACT", "chapter": 5, "verse": "14", "text": "And more of those believing were added to the Lord, multitudes of both men and women;"}
{"book": "ACT", "chapter": 5, "verse": "15", "text": "So that they brought out the sick in the streets and laid them upon small beds and mats (latin-cots and mats), so that at least the shadow of Peter coming by might overshadow (envelop) some of them."}
{"book": "ACT", "chapter": 5, "verse": "16", "text": "And the multitude came together from the surrounding cities of Jerusalem, bringing the sick and those being vexed (forced along, mobbed, latin-vexatos-vexed) under (by) unclean spirits, who were all healed (etherapeuonto, latin-curabantur-cured)."}
{"book": "ACT", "chapter": 5, "verse": "17", "text": "And the high priest having risen up and all those being with him, which is the sect of the Sadducees, were filled with jealously,"}
{"book": "ACT", "chapter": 5, "verse": "18", "text": "And they laid hands upon the apostles and put them in the public jail."}
{"book": "ACT", "chapter": 5, "verse": "19", "text": "However an angel of the Lord during (through) the night opened the doors of the jail, and having brought them out, said,"}
{"book": "ACT", "chapter": 5, "verse": "20", "text": "Go you, and stand, speak in the temple to the people all the sayings (words, rhemata) of this Life."}
{"book": "ACT", "chapter": 5, "verse": "21", "text": "And having heard, they entered under (at) the dawn into the temple and were teaching. And the high priest and those with him having come, they called together the Council (of the Sanhedrin) and all the council of elders of the sons of Israel, and sent away unto the jail to bring them."}
{"book": "ACT", "chapter": 5, "verse": "22", "text": "And having come, the attendants did not find them in the prison; and having returned they reported,"}
{"book": "ACT", "chapter": 5, "verse": "23", "text": "Saying, We found the prison shut with all security (firmness, safety, reliability) and the guards standing upon the doors; however having opened them we found no one inside."}
{"book": "ACT", "chapter": 5, "verse": "24", "text": "Now when the chief priests and the captain of the temple heard these words they were perplexed concerning them and what this might be."}
{"book": "ACT", "chapter": 5, "verse": "25", "text": "And a certain one having come reported to them, Behold the men whom you put in the prison are standing in the temple and teaching the people!"}
{"book": "ACT", "chapter": 5, "verse": "26", "text": "Then the captain with the attendants having gone and brought them not with force, for they feared the people lest they might stone them."}
{"book": "ACT", "chapter": 5, "verse": "27", "text": "And having brought them and set them in the Council. The high priest asked them,"}
{"book": "ACT", "chapter": 5, "verse": "28", "text": "Saying, Did we not command you by a charge not to teach in this Name? And Behold, you have filled Jerusalem with your teaching and you intend to bring the blood of this Man upon us."}
{"book": "ACT", "chapter": 5, "verse": "29", "text": "And Peter and the apostles answering said, It is necessary to obey (be persuaded of what must come first, to obey authority) God rather than men."}
{"book": "ACT", "chapter": 5, "verse": "30", "text": "The God of our fathers raised up Jesus, whom you killed (laid hands on to slay), having hanged (suspended) Him upon a tree."}
{"book": "ACT", "chapter": 5, "verse": "31", "text": "This One, God exalted to His right hand/side as Originator (Founding Leader, Author, Founder) and Savior, to give repentance to Israel and remission of sins."}
{"book": "ACT", "chapter": 5, "verse": "32", "text": "And we are witnesses of these things and the Holy Spirit whom God has given to those obeying (peitharchousin- persuaded of what comes first) Him."}
{"book": "ACT", "chapter": 5, "verse": "33", "text": "And having heard, they were cut [to the heart] and wished to put them to death (make an end of them, abolish, take up/away)."}
{"book": "ACT", "chapter": 5, "verse": "34", "text": "However a certain man rose up in the Council, a Pharisee, named Gamaliel, a scholarly teacher of the law (Scripture-lawyer), valued (honored) by all the people, commanded them to put the apostles outside for a short while."}
{"book": "ACT", "chapter": 5, "verse": "35", "text": "And he said to them, Men, Israelites, take heed (pay attention, be cautious) to yourselves upon these men and what you are about to do;"}
{"book": "ACT", "chapter": 5, "verse": "36", "text": "For before these days Theudas rose up, speaking to be somebody himself, to whom were joined about a number of four hundred men; who was put to death and all, as many as were persuaded by him, were dispersed and it came unto nothing."}
{"book": "ACT", "chapter": 5, "verse": "37", "text": "After this man, Judas the Galilean rose up in the days of the registration (census-taking) and drew away people after him; and he perished and all, as many as were persuaded by him were scattered."}
{"book": "ACT", "chapter": 5, "verse": "38", "text": "And now I say to you, Withdraw (apostete- depart/lead/stand away from) away from these men and leave them alone (release, send away), because if this plan or this work be from out of men it will break up (be destroyed, be overthrown, loose down, latin-dissoletur-come to naught like dissolve root is loose);"}
{"book": "ACT", "chapter": 5, "verse": "39", "text": "However if it is from out of God, you will not be able to break it up, lest you would be found fighting against God."}
{"book": "ACT", "chapter": 5, "verse": "40", "text": "And they were persuaded by him; and having called in the apostles, having beaten them, they commanded them not to speak upon the name of Jesus and released them."}
{"book": "ACT", "chapter": 5, "verse": "41", "text": "They then indeed departed away from the presence of the Council, rejoicing, because they had been counted worthy to suffer dishonor for the sake of the Name."}
{"book": "ACT", "chapter": 5, "verse": "42", "text": "And every day in the temple and from house to house, they did not cease teaching and preaching the good news that Jesus is the Christ."}
{"book": "ACT", "chapter": 6, "verse": "1", "text": "And in these days, the disciples multiplying, there arose a grumbling of the Hellenists (Grecian Jew, Greek speaking Jew) against the Hebrews, because their widows were being overlooked (neglected) in the day by day ministry (diakonia)."}
{"book": "ACT", "chapter": 6, "verse": "2", "text": "And the twelve called to the multitude of the disciples, said, It is not agreeable (pleasing, acceptable) for us to abandon (leave) the word of God to serve (minister) tables."}
{"book": "ACT", "chapter": 6, "verse": "3", "text": "Select therefore, brothers, seven men from out of yourselves being well attested (testified of), full of the Spirit and wisdom, whom we will appoint over (upon) this necessity (business)."}
{"book": "ACT", "chapter": 6, "verse": "4", "text": "And we will steadfastly continue (persist) in the prayer and the ministry of the word."}
{"book": "ACT", "chapter": 6, "verse": "5", "text": "And the word (statement) was pleasing in the sight of all the multitude; and they chose Stephen, a man full of faith and of the Holy Spirit, and Philip, and Prochorus, and Nicanor, and Timon, and Parmenas, and Nicolas a proselyte of Antioch,"}
{"book": "ACT", "chapter": 6, "verse": "6", "text": "Whom they set in the sight of the apostles; and having prayed, they laid hands upon them."}
{"book": "ACT", "chapter": 6, "verse": "7", "text": "And the word of God increased and the number of the disciples was multiplied in Jerusalem exceedingly; and a great multitude of the priests were becoming compliant (hearkened, under hearing) to the faith."}
{"book": "ACT", "chapter": 6, "verse": "8", "text": "And Stephen, full of grace and power, did great wonders and signs among (in) the people."}
{"book": "ACT", "chapter": 6, "verse": "9", "text": "However some of those from out of the synagogue arose called the Freedmen, and the Cyrenians, and the Alexandrians, and of those from Cilicia, and Asia, disputing with Stephen."}
{"book": "ACT", "chapter": 6, "verse": "10", "text": "And they were not able to withstand (stand against) the wisdom and the Spirit by whom he was speaking."}
{"book": "ACT", "chapter": 6, "verse": "11", "text": "Then they secretly instigated men, saying, We have heard him speaking blasphemous words against (unto) Moses and God."}
{"book": "ACT", "chapter": 6, "verse": "12", "text": "And they stirred up the people and the elders, and the scribes, and having come upon him, they seized (together raptured) him, and brought him unto the Council,"}
{"book": "ACT", "chapter": 6, "verse": "13", "text": "They set false witnesses, saying, This man does not cease speaking sayings (words, rhemata) against this holy place and the law;"}
{"book": "ACT", "chapter": 6, "verse": "14", "text": "For we have heard him saying, That this Jesus of Nazareth will destroy this place and will change the customs that Moses delivered to us."}
{"book": "ACT", "chapter": 6, "verse": "15", "text": "And all sitting in the Council having looked fixedly unto him saw his face as it were the face of an angel."}
{"book": "ACT", "chapter": 7, "verse": "1", "text": "And the high priest said, Are these things so?"}
{"book": "ACT", "chapter": 7, "verse": "2", "text": "And he said, Men, brothers, and fathers, listen! The God of glory appeared to our father Abraham, being in Mesopotamia, before his residing in Haran,"}
{"book": "ACT", "chapter": 7, "verse": "3", "text": "And said to him, Go out from your country (land) and from your kindred (relatives, family), and come into the land which I will show to you."}
{"book": "ACT", "chapter": 7, "verse": "4", "text": "Then having gone out from the land of the Chaldeans, he resided in Haran, and from there, after his father died, he removed him into this land unto which you now reside."}
{"book": "ACT", "chapter": 7, "verse": "5", "text": "And He did not give to him an inheritance in it, not even the length of a foot; and He promised to give it to him unto a possession and to his descendants (seed) after him when there was not yet a child to him."}
{"book": "ACT", "chapter": 7, "verse": "6", "text": "And God spoke thus: That his seed will be a sojourner in a foreign (belonging to another) land and they will enslave them, and will mistreat them four hundred years;"}
{"book": "ACT", "chapter": 7, "verse": "7", "text": "And the ethnicity to which they will be enslaved, I will judge, said God; and after these things they will come forth and will serve Me in this place."}
{"book": "ACT", "chapter": 7, "verse": "8", "text": "And He gave to him the covenant of circumcision; and thus he beget Isaac, and circumcised him in the eighth day; and Isaac Jacob, and Jacob the twelve patriarchs."}
{"book": "ACT", "chapter": 7, "verse": "9", "text": "And the patriarchs having envied Joseph, sold him into Egypt. And God was with him,"}
{"book": "ACT", "chapter": 7, "verse": "10", "text": "And rescued him from out of all his tribulations; and gave him favor (grace) and wisdom before Pharoah, king of Egypt; and he appointed him the leading official upon Egypt and upon all his house."}
{"book": "ACT", "chapter": 7, "verse": "11", "text": "And there came a famine upon all of Egypt and Canaan, and great tribulation, and our fathers did not find sustenance (food, provision)."}
{"book": "ACT", "chapter": 7, "verse": "12", "text": "And Jacob having heard that there is grain in Egypt sent out our fathers first;"}
{"book": "ACT", "chapter": 7, "verse": "13", "text": "And on the second time, Joseph was made known to his brothers and the family of Joseph became apparent to Pharaoh."}
{"book": "ACT", "chapter": 7, "verse": "14", "text": "And Joseph sent and called for Jacob, his father, and all the kindred (relatives), in all seventy five souls."}
{"book": "ACT", "chapter": 7, "verse": "15", "text": "And Jacob went down into Egypt and died, he, and our fathers,"}
{"book": "ACT", "chapter": 7, "verse": "16", "text": "And were carried over unto Shechem and were placed in the tomb, which Abraham had bought for a sum (price, value) of money (silver) from the sons of Hamor in Shechem."}
{"book": "ACT", "chapter": 7, "verse": "17", "text": "And just as the time of the promise draw near that God had sworn to Abraham, the people increased and multiplied in Egypt"}
{"book": "ACT", "chapter": 7, "verse": "18", "text": "until another king upon Egypt arose who did not know Joseph."}
{"book": "ACT", "chapter": 7, "verse": "19", "text": "He dealt treacherously with our race, mistreated our fathers, making them abandon (cast out, expose) their infants that they would not live."}
{"book": "ACT", "chapter": 7, "verse": "20", "text": "In that time Moses was born and he was beautiful to God; who was reared (brought up) three months in the house of the father."}
{"book": "ACT", "chapter": 7, "verse": "21", "text": "And he having been set outside, the Pharaohs’ daughter took him up and reared him for herself unto a son."}
{"book": "ACT", "chapter": 7, "verse": "22", "text": "And Moses was instructed in all the wisdom of the Egyptians; and he was powerful in words and his deeds."}
{"book": "ACT", "chapter": 7, "verse": "23", "text": "And when a time of forty years was fulfilled to him, it came (sprung up, ascended, go up) upon his heart to visit his brothers, the sons of Israel;"}
{"book": "ACT", "chapter": 7, "verse": "24", "text": "And having seen someone being treated unjustly, he defended him and did vengeance for the one being oppressed, having struck down the Egyptian."}
{"book": "ACT", "chapter": 7, "verse": "25", "text": "Now he supposed his brothers to understand (put it together) that God through his hand is giving them salvation however they did not understand (put it together)."}
{"book": "ACT", "chapter": 7, "verse": "26", "text": "And on the following day, he appeared to those who were quarreling and urged them unto peace having said, Men, you are brothers. Why do you wrong (act unjustly) one another? Who appointed you, ruler and judge over (upon) us? Do you wish to kill me that way you killed the Egyptian yesterday?"}
{"book": "ACT", "chapter": 7, "verse": "27", "text": "However the one mistreating the neighbor pushed him away having said, Who appointed you, ruler and judge over (upon) us?"}
{"book": "ACT", "chapter": 7, "verse": "28", "text": "Do you wish to kill me that way you killed the Egyptian yesterday?"}
{"book": "ACT", "chapter": 7, "verse": "29", "text": "And Moses fled at (in) this word (remark), and became a foreigner in the land of Midian, where he beget two sons."}
{"book": "ACT", "chapter": 7, "verse": "30", "text": "And when forty years had passed, an angel in the flame of fire of a bush (thorn bush) appeared to him in the wilderness of Mount Sinai."}
{"book": "ACT", "chapter": 7, "verse": "31", "text": "And Moses having seen it, marveled at the vision; and he coming near to consider it, there was the voice of the Lord:"}
{"book": "ACT", "chapter": 7, "verse": "32", "text": "I am the God of your fathers, the God of Abraham, and of Isaac, and of Jacob. And Moses began trembling and he dared not to consider."}
{"book": "ACT", "chapter": 7, "verse": "33", "text": "And the Lord said to him, Take off (loose) the sandal of your feet for the place upon which you stand is holy ground."}
{"book": "ACT", "chapter": 7, "verse": "34", "text": "Having seen, I saw the oppression (evil-treatment) of My people in Egypt and I have heard their groans, and I have come down to deliver (remove, take out) them. And now come, I will send you unto Egypt."}
{"book": "ACT", "chapter": 7, "verse": "35", "text": "This Moses, whom they refused (disowned, denied, repudiated) having said, Who appointed you ruler and judge? Him whom God sent as ruler and redeemer with the hand of the angel having appeared to him in the bush."}
{"book": "ACT", "chapter": 7, "verse": "36", "text": "This one led them out having done wonders and signs in the land of Egypt, and in the Red Sea, and in the wilderness forty years."}
{"book": "ACT", "chapter": 7, "verse": "37", "text": "This is the Moses having said to the sons of Israel, A prophet to you God will raise up from out of your brothers, like me,"}
{"book": "ACT", "chapter": 7, "verse": "38", "text": "This is the one having been in the congregation (church, called out ones) in the wilderness with the angel speaking to him in the mount Sinai, and of our fathers. He who received living oracles (words, sayings) to give to us,"}
{"book": "ACT", "chapter": 7, "verse": "39", "text": "To whom our fathers were not willing to be compliant (listen to), but rather thrust him away and turned back in their hearts unto Egypt,"}
{"book": "ACT", "chapter": 7, "verse": "40", "text": "Having said to Aaron, Make us gods who will go before us. As for this Moses, who brought us out from out of the land of Egypt, we do not know what has happened to him."}
{"book": "ACT", "chapter": 7, "verse": "41", "text": "And they made a model (image) of a calf in those days, and offered a sacrifice to the idol, and rejoiced in the works of their hands."}
{"book": "ACT", "chapter": 7, "verse": "42", "text": "However God turned (changed) and delivered (handed over) them to worship (serve) the host of heaven, just as it has been written in the book of the prophets: O house of Israel, did you offer to me slain beasts and sacrifices forty years in the wilderness?"}
{"book": "ACT", "chapter": 7, "verse": "43", "text": "And you took up the tabernacle of Moloch (god of the Ammonites) and the star of your god Rephan (Saturn), the figures (types) that you made to worship them; and I will cause you to migrate beyond Babylon."}
{"book": "ACT", "chapter": 7, "verse": "44", "text": "The tabernacle (tent) of the testimony was with our fathers in the wilderness, just as the One speaking to Moses had commanded, to make it according to the type (figure, model) that he had seen,"}
{"book": "ACT", "chapter": 7, "verse": "45", "text": "Which also our fathers having received by succession brought in with Joshua in the possession of the ethnicities, whom God drove out away from the face of our fathers until the days of David,"}
{"book": "ACT", "chapter": 7, "verse": "46", "text": "Who found favor (grace) in the sight of God and asked to find a tabernacle (dwelling-place) for the God of Jacob."}
{"book": "ACT", "chapter": 7, "verse": "47", "text": "However Solomon built Him the house."}
{"book": "ACT", "chapter": 7, "verse": "48", "text": "Yet the Most High does not reside in hand-made [places] (latin-manufactis-hands like manufactured); just as the prophet says,"}
{"book": "ACT", "chapter": 7, "verse": "49", "text": "Heaven is to Me a throne (My throne), and the earth a footstool of My feet. What house will you build Me? Says the Lord, or, What is the place of My rest?"}
{"book": "ACT", "chapter": 7, "verse": "50", "text": "Has not My hand made all these things?"}
{"book": "ACT", "chapter": 7, "verse": "51", "text": "Stiff-necked (stubborn, obstinate, hard because dried out-neck) and uncircumcised in heart and ears, you always resist (fall/strive against) the Holy Spirit; like as your fathers, also you."}
{"book": "ACT", "chapter": 7, "verse": "52", "text": "Which of the prophets did not your fathers persecute? And they killed those having foretold concerning the coming of the Righteous One, of whom now you have become betrayers and murderers!"}
{"book": "ACT", "chapter": 7, "verse": "53", "text": "Who received the law by the ordination of angels and have not kept it."}
{"book": "ACT", "chapter": 7, "verse": "54", "text": "And hearing these things they were cut in their hearts and gnashed the teeth at (upon) him."}
{"book": "ACT", "chapter": 7, "verse": "55", "text": "However he being full of the Holy Spirit, looked fixedly into heaven, saw the glory of God, and Jesus standing from out of the right hand/side of God,"}
{"book": "ACT", "chapter": 7, "verse": "56", "text": "And he said, Behold, I see the heavens having been opened, and the Son of Man standing from out of the right hand/side of God."}
{"book": "ACT", "chapter": 7, "verse": "57", "text": "And having cried out with a great voice they held (pressed) their ears and rushed upon him with the same passion."}
{"book": "ACT", "chapter": 7, "verse": "58", "text": "And having cast him outside of the city, they stoned him. And the witnessed laid aside their garments beside the feet of the young man named Saul."}
{"book": "ACT", "chapter": 7, "verse": "59", "text": "And as they were stoning Stephen, he was calling upon and saying, Lord Jesus, receive my spirit."}
{"book": "ACT", "chapter": 7, "verse": "60", "text": "And having fallen on his knees, he cried with a great voice, Lord, do not hold (stand) this sin to them. And having said this, he fell asleep (died)."}
{"book": "ACT", "chapter": 8, "verse": "1", "text": "And Saul was there consenting to his killing. And in that day arose a great persecution against (upon) the church which was in Jerusalem. And all were scattered (dispersed) throughout the regions of Judea and Samaria, except the apostles."}
{"book": "ACT", "chapter": 8, "verse": "2", "text": "And devout men buried Stephen and made great lamentation (beating of the head and chest, latin-planctum-mourning) over (upon) him."}
{"book": "ACT", "chapter": 8, "verse": "3", "text": "However Saul was devastating (latin-devastabat-waste like devastate) the church by entering the houses and dragging off men and women, he handed then over unto prison."}
{"book": "ACT", "chapter": 8, "verse": "4", "text": "Therefore those having been scattered (dispersed) went about preaching the word."}
{"book": "ACT", "chapter": 8, "verse": "5", "text": "And Philip having gone down unto a city of Samaria preached Christ to them."}
{"book": "ACT", "chapter": 8, "verse": "6", "text": "And the crowds with the same passion gave heed to the things being spoken by Philip, when they heard and saw the signs that he was doing."}
{"book": "ACT", "chapter": 8, "verse": "7", "text": "For many of those having unclean (impure) spirits, calling out intensely with a great voice, as they were coming out of them; and many having been paralyzed and lame were healed (etherapeuthesan)."}
{"book": "ACT", "chapter": 8, "verse": "8", "text": "And there was much joy in that city."}
{"book": "ACT", "chapter": 8, "verse": "9", "text": "And a certain man named Simon had been formerly in the city practicing magical arts (mageuon) and astonishing the ethnicity of Samaria, declaring himself to be some great one."}
{"book": "ACT", "chapter": 8, "verse": "10", "text": "To whom all were giving heed from small as far as great, saying, This one is the power of God that is called Great."}
{"book": "ACT", "chapter": 8, "verse": "11", "text": "And they were giving heed to him because of the sufficient time that he had astonished them with the magic arts."}
{"book": "ACT", "chapter": 8, "verse": "12", "text": "And when they believed Philip preaching the gospel concerning the kingdom of God and the name of Jesus Christ, they were baptized both men and women."}
{"book": "ACT", "chapter": 8, "verse": "13", "text": "And Simon himself also believed and having been baptized was steadfastly continuing with Philip. And beholding signs and great miracles (miraculous powers) happening, he was astonished (amazed, flabbergasted)."}
{"book": "ACT", "chapter": 8, "verse": "14", "text": "Now when the apostles in Jerusalem heard that Samaria had received the word of God, they sent to them Peter and John,"}
{"book": "ACT", "chapter": 8, "verse": "15", "text": "who having come down, prayed concerning them so that they might receive the Holy Spirit."}
{"book": "ACT", "chapter": 8, "verse": "16", "text": "For He was not yet fallen upon any of them, however they had only been baptized into the name of the Lord Jesus."}
{"book": "ACT", "chapter": 8, "verse": "17", "text": "Then they laid hands upon them and they received the Holy Spirit."}
{"book": "ACT", "chapter": 8, "verse": "18", "text": "And Simon having seen that through the laying upon of the apostles hands that the Spirit was given, he offered money to them,"}
{"book": "ACT", "chapter": 8, "verse": "19", "text": "Saying, Give also to me this authority so that upon whom I might lay upon hands, he might receive the Holy Spirit."}
{"book": "ACT", "chapter": 8, "verse": "20", "text": "And Peter said to him, Your silver with you, may it be unto destruction, because you thought (supposed, assumed) that the gift of God to be acquired through money."}
{"book": "ACT", "chapter": 8, "verse": "21", "text": "There is to you no part nor lot in this word; for your heart is not straight before God."}
{"book": "ACT", "chapter": 8, "verse": "22", "text": "Repent therefore away from this your malice (kakias, evil), and beg the Lord if whether the intent (design, purpose, thought) of your heart will be remitted (sent away from, discharged, released, latin roots are remit and release) you;"}
{"book": "ACT", "chapter": 8, "verse": "23", "text": "For I see (horo, perceive, discern) you being unto the gall of bitterness (harshness) and the bond of unrighteousness (injustice)."}
{"book": "ACT", "chapter": 8, "verse": "24", "text": "And Simon answering said, You beg to the Lord on behalf of me, so that nothing might come upon me of which you have spoken."}
{"book": "ACT", "chapter": 8, "verse": "25", "text": "They indeed therefore having thoroughly testified and having spoken the word of the Lord, returned unto Jerusalem and they preached the gospel to many villages of the Samaritans."}
{"book": "ACT", "chapter": 8, "verse": "26", "text": "Now an angel of the Lord spoke to Philip, saying, Rise up and go south upon the road going down away from Jerusalem unto Gaza; this is desert."}
{"book": "ACT", "chapter": 8, "verse": "27", "text": "And having risen up, he went. And behold, an Ethiopian man, a eunuch, a potentate (ruler, greek-dynastes like dynasty) of Candace, queen of the Ethiopians, who was over (upon) all her treasure, who had come unto Jerusalem to worship,"}
{"book": "ACT", "chapter": 8, "verse": "28", "text": "He was returning and sitting upon his chariot, and he was reading the prophet Isaiah."}
{"book": "ACT", "chapter": 8, "verse": "29", "text": "And the Spirit said to Philip, Go near and join yourself to this chariot."}
{"book": "ACT", "chapter": 8, "verse": "30", "text": "And Philip having run up heard him reading the prophet Isaiah, and said, Do you know what you are reading?"}
{"book": "ACT", "chapter": 8, "verse": "31", "text": "And he said, How could I be able except someone will guide me? And he entreated Philip having come up to sit with him."}
{"book": "ACT", "chapter": 8, "verse": "32", "text": "And the passage (a portion circumscribed) of the Scripture which he was reading was this, He was led as a sheep upon slaughter, and as a lamb is silent (voiceless, soundless) before the one shearing him, so He does not open His mouth."}
{"book": "ACT", "chapter": 8, "verse": "33", "text": "In His humiliation, His justice was taken away. Who will describe (thoroughly narrate) His generation? Because His life is removed away from the earth."}
{"book": "ACT", "chapter": 8, "verse": "34", "text": "And the eunuch answering to Philip, said, I request you concerning whom the prophet says this? Concerning himself or concerning some other man?"}
{"book": "ACT", "chapter": 8, "verse": "35", "text": "And Philip having opened his mouth and having begun from this Scripture, preached the gospel of Jesus to him."}
{"book": "ACT", "chapter": 8, "verse": "36", "text": "And as they were going down the road, they came upon some water, and the eunuch says, Behold water; what prevents (hinders) me being baptized?"}
{"book": "ACT", "chapter": 8, "verse": "37", "text": "{following not is Latin Vulgate and other translations it is in KJV and NASB- And Philip said, If you believe from out of the whole heart, it is possible (permitted). He answered and said, I believe Jesus Christ to be the Son of God.}"}
{"book": "ACT", "chapter": 8, "verse": "38", "text": "And he commanded the chariot to stop. And they both went down into the water, both Philip and the eunuch, and he baptized him."}
{"book": "ACT", "chapter": 8, "verse": "39", "text": "And when they came up from out of the water, the Spirit of the Lord snatched up (herpasen, latin-rapuit-rapture, raptured, seized) and the eunuch no longer saw him; indeed he went his way, rejoicing."}
{"book": "ACT", "chapter": 8, "verse": "40", "text": "And Philip was found at (unto) Azotus, and passing through, he preached the gospel to all the towns until his coming unto Ceasarea."}
{"book": "ACT", "chapter": 9, "verse": "1", "text": "However Saul is still breathing out threats and murder unto the disciples of the Lord. Having come to the high priest,"}
{"book": "ACT", "chapter": 9, "verse": "2", "text": "He asked from him letters unto Damascus, to the synagogues, so that if he found any of the Way, being both men and women, he might bring them bound into Jerusalem."}
{"book": "ACT", "chapter": 9, "verse": "3", "text": "And in traveling, it came to pass as he drew near to Damascus, suddenly (unexpectedly) a light from out of heaven flashed around (shined/lighted around) him."}
{"book": "ACT", "chapter": 9, "verse": "4", "text": "And having fallen upon the ground, he heard a voice saying to him, Saul, Saul, why do you persecute Me?"}
{"book": "ACT", "chapter": 9, "verse": "5", "text": "And he said, Who are you, Lord? I am Jesus, whom you are persecuting. {not in Latin Vulgate and other translations- It is hard for you to kick against the goads (pricks, stings, a sharp point)} {not in NASB/ESV/Vulgate but in KJV and YLT- Trembling and being astonished he said, Lord what do You want me to do?}"}
{"book": "ACT", "chapter": 9, "verse": "6", "text": "But rather, Rise up and enter into the city, And it will be told to you what you must do."}
{"book": "ACT", "chapter": 9, "verse": "7", "text": "And the men who were traveling with him stood speechless, hearing the voice indeed, however no one seeing."}
{"book": "ACT", "chapter": 9, "verse": "8", "text": "And Saul rose up from the ground and his eyes having been opened, he saw nothing. Leading him by the hand, they brought him unto Damascus."}
{"book": "ACT", "chapter": 9, "verse": "9", "text": "And for three days he was not seeing and neither did he eat nor drink."}
{"book": "ACT", "chapter": 9, "verse": "10", "text": "And there was a certain disciple in Damascus named Ananias. And the Lord said to him in a vision (horamati, latin-visu-sight), Ananias. And he said, Behold, [it is] I, Lord."}
{"book": "ACT", "chapter": 9, "verse": "11", "text": "And the Lord to him, Having risen up, Go upon the street called Straight, and seek in the house of Judas [for one] named, Saul of Tarsus. For Behold he is praying,"}
{"book": "ACT", "chapter": 9, "verse": "12", "text": "And he saw in a vision a man named Ananias having come and having laid hands upon him, so that he might receive sight."}
{"book": "ACT", "chapter": 9, "verse": "13", "text": "Then Ananias answered, Lord, I have heard many concerning this man, of how many evils he did to Your saints in Jerusalem;"}
{"book": "ACT", "chapter": 9, "verse": "14", "text": "And here he has authority from the chief priests to bind all calling upon Your name."}
{"book": "ACT", "chapter": 9, "verse": "15", "text": "And the Lord said to him, Go, because this man is an elect (choice) vessel to Me, to carry My name before (in the sight of) the ethnicities and also kings, the sons of Israel:"}
{"book": "ACT", "chapter": 9, "verse": "16", "text": "For I will show to him how much he must suffer for My name’s sake."}
{"book": "ACT", "chapter": 9, "verse": "17", "text": "And Ananias went away and entered into the house; and having laid hands upon him he said, Brother Saul, the Lord has sent me, Jesus, the One having appeared to you on the road in which you came, so that you might receive sight and be filled of the Holy Spirit."}
{"book": "ACT", "chapter": 9, "verse": "18", "text": "And instantly something like as scales fell away from his eyes and he regained his sight. And having risen up, he was baptized;"}
{"book": "ACT", "chapter": 9, "verse": "19", "text": "And having taken food, he was strengthened. And he was with the disciples in Damascus some days."}
{"book": "ACT", "chapter": 9, "verse": "20", "text": "And directly (immediately, soon, at once) in the synagogues, he was preaching Jesus, that He is the Son of God."}
{"book": "ACT", "chapter": 9, "verse": "21", "text": "And all hearing were astonished and said, Is this not the one having ravaged (made havoc, laid waste) those calling upon this Name in Jerusalem? And he had come here unto this, so that having bound them he might bring them upon the chief priests."}
{"book": "ACT", "chapter": 9, "verse": "22", "text": "Saul however was all the more empowered and confounded the Jews residing in Damascus, proving that this is the Christ."}
{"book": "ACT", "chapter": 9, "verse": "23", "text": "And when many days had passed, the Jews plotted together to kill him,"}
{"book": "ACT", "chapter": 9, "verse": "24", "text": "However their plot (plan) became known to Saul. And they were closely watching the gates day and night, so that they might kill him;"}
{"book": "ACT", "chapter": 9, "verse": "25", "text": "Then his disciples having taken him by night through the wall let him down, having lowered him in a basket (latin-sporta-basket)."}
{"book": "ACT", "chapter": 9, "verse": "26", "text": "And having arrived into Jerusalem, he attempted to join the disciples. And all were fearful of him, not believing that he is a disciple."}
{"book": "ACT", "chapter": 9, "verse": "27", "text": "Barnabas however having taken him, brought him to the apostles; and thoroughly related to them how on the road he had seen the Lord; and that He had spoken to him; and how in Damascus he had spoken boldly in the name of Jesus."}
{"book": "ACT", "chapter": 9, "verse": "28", "text": "And he was with them, coming in and going out in Jerusalem,"}
{"book": "ACT", "chapter": 9, "verse": "29", "text": "speaking boldly in the name of the Lord. And he also spoke and examined together with the Hellenists; and they were seeking to kill him."}
{"book": "ACT", "chapter": 9, "verse": "30", "text": "And the brothers having known it brought him down unto Ceasarea and sent him away unto Tarsus."}
{"book": "ACT", "chapter": 9, "verse": "31", "text": "Then the churches throughout all of Judea, and Galilee, and Samaria, had peace; being upbuilt and going on in the fear of the Lord and in the entreaty of the Holy Spirit they were multiplied."}
{"book": "ACT", "chapter": 9, "verse": "32", "text": "And it came to pass that Peter, passing through all [those regions], went down also to the saints residing in Lydda,"}
{"book": "ACT", "chapter": 9, "verse": "33", "text": "He found there a certain man named Aeneas, lying upon a bed for eight years, who was paralyzed."}
{"book": "ACT", "chapter": 9, "verse": "34", "text": "And Peter said to him, Aeneas, Jesus Christ heals (iatai) you; Rise up, and make the bed for yourself. And directly he rose up."}
{"book": "ACT", "chapter": 9, "verse": "35", "text": "And all those residing in Lydda and Sharon saw him and converted to (upon) the Lord."}
{"book": "ACT", "chapter": 9, "verse": "36", "text": "Now in Joppa there was a disciple named Tabitha, which translated is called Dorcas. She was full of good works and of alms that she continually did."}
{"book": "ACT", "chapter": 9, "verse": "37", "text": "And it came to pass in those days that she became sick and died. And having washed her, they laid her in the upper room."}
{"book": "ACT", "chapter": 9, "verse": "38", "text": "And Lydda being near to Joppa, the disciples having heard that Peter is in it, sent two men to him, entreating him to not delay coming to us."}
{"book": "ACT", "chapter": 9, "verse": "39", "text": "And Peter having risen up went with them, when having arrived, they brought him into the upper room and stood by him all the widows weeping and showing the tunics and garments that Dorcas had made being with them."}
{"book": "ACT", "chapter": 9, "verse": "40", "text": "And Peter having put all outside, and placed his knees, prayed. And having turned to the body, he said, Tabitha, Arise! And she opened her eyes and having seen Peter, she sat up."}
{"book": "ACT", "chapter": 9, "verse": "41", "text": "And having given her his hand, he raised her up. And having called the saints and the widows, he presented her living."}
{"book": "ACT", "chapter": 9, "verse": "42", "text": "And it became known throughout the whole of Joppa, and many believed upon the Lord."}
{"book": "ACT", "chapter": 9, "verse": "43", "text": "And it came to pass that he stayed in Joppa sufficient (many, considerable) days with a certain Simon, a tanner."}
{"book": "ACT", "chapter": 10, "verse": "1", "text": "Now there was a certain man in Ceasarea named Cornelius, a centurion, from out of Cohort that is called Italian,"}
{"book": "ACT", "chapter": 10, "verse": "2", "text": "Devout and fearing God with all his house, doing many alms to the people and requesting (beseeching) to God through all."}
{"book": "ACT", "chapter": 10, "verse": "3", "text": "He saw in a vision clearly (apparently, visibly) about around the ninth hour of the day, an angel of God having come to him and having said to him, Cornelius!"}
{"book": "ACT", "chapter": 10, "verse": "4", "text": "And having looked fixedly on him and having become fearful he said, What is it Lord? And he said to him, your prayers and your alms have ascended unto a memorial before God."}
{"book": "ACT", "chapter": 10, "verse": "5", "text": "And now send men unto Joppa and summon Simon one who is called Peter."}
{"book": "ACT", "chapter": 10, "verse": "6", "text": "He lodges with the one, Simon a tanner, whose house is beside the sea; {he will tell you what you must do.}"}
{"book": "ACT", "chapter": 10, "verse": "7", "text": "And when the angel having spoken to him had departed, he called two of the house servants, and a devout soldier of those who are attending him,"}
{"book": "ACT", "chapter": 10, "verse": "8", "text": "And having thoroughly related all things to them, he sent them unto Joppa."}
{"book": "ACT", "chapter": 10, "verse": "9", "text": "And on the next day as they are journeying and the city approaching, Peter went up upon the housetop about the sixth hour to pray."}
{"book": "ACT", "chapter": 10, "verse": "10", "text": "And he became hungry and wanted to eat, however as they were preparing, a trance (ecstasy, greek-ekstasis) happened (became) upon him,"}
{"book": "ACT", "chapter": 10, "verse": "11", "text": "And he gazes (beholds) heaven opening and a certain implement (vessel) descending like as a great sheet (fine linen cloth) being let down upon the earth by four corners,"}
{"book": "ACT", "chapter": 10, "verse": "12", "text": "In which were all the quadrupeds (four-footed) and creeping things (crawling reptiles, etc., latin-serpentia-serpents) of the earth, and birds of heaven."}
{"book": "ACT", "chapter": 10, "verse": "13", "text": "And a voice came to him, Having risen up, Peter, kill and eat!"}
{"book": "ACT", "chapter": 10, "verse": "14", "text": "And Peter said, In no way, Lord; because I have never eaten anything common or unclean."}
{"book": "ACT", "chapter": 10, "verse": "15", "text": "And a voice again for the second time to him, What God has cleansed, do not call common."}
{"book": "ACT", "chapter": 10, "verse": "16", "text": "And this happened upon three times and directly the implement (vessel) was taken up into heaven."}
{"book": "ACT", "chapter": 10, "verse": "17", "text": "Now while Peter was perplexed in himself what this vision might be that he had seen, behold the men having been sent by Cornelius stand at the gate and have inquired for the house of Simon."}
{"book": "ACT", "chapter": 10, "verse": "18", "text": "And having called out, they asked if Simon who is called Peter is lodged here."}
{"book": "ACT", "chapter": 10, "verse": "19", "text": "And Peter was passionately reflecting (in a state of passionate response, meditating, deliberating, latin-cognitante-thinking) concerning the vision and the Spirit said to him, Behold, three men are seeking you;"}
{"book": "ACT", "chapter": 10, "verse": "20", "text": "But rather having risen go down and go with them, doubting (vacillating, hesitating, distinguishing/judging back and forth) nothing, because I have sent them."}
{"book": "ACT", "chapter": 10, "verse": "21", "text": "And Peter having gone down to the men who were sent from Cornelius to him, said, Behold, I am whom you seek; What is the reason (cause) for which you are come?"}
{"book": "ACT", "chapter": 10, "verse": "22", "text": "And they said, Cornelius a centurion, a righteous (just) man and fearing God, and being well testified of by all the ethnicity of the Jews, was directed by a holy angel to send for you unto his house and to hear a message (rhemata) from (close beside) you."}
{"book": "ACT", "chapter": 10, "verse": "23", "text": "Having therefore called them in, he lodged them. And on the next day having risen up, he went out with them and some of the brothers from Joppa accompanied him."}
{"book": "ACT", "chapter": 10, "verse": "24", "text": "And on the next day, they entered into Ceasarea. And Cornelius was expecting them having called together his relatives and close (necessary, essential, intimate) friends."}
{"book": "ACT", "chapter": 10, "verse": "25", "text": "And as Peter was entering, Cornelius met him having fallen at (upon) his feet, worshipped him."}
{"book": "ACT", "chapter": 10, "verse": "26", "text": "However Peter lifted him up, saying, Rise up, I myself am also a man."}
{"book": "ACT", "chapter": 10, "verse": "27", "text": "And talking with him, he entered and finds many having gathered together."}
{"book": "ACT", "chapter": 10, "verse": "28", "text": "And he said to them, You know (know after long standing upon) how uncustomary (illegal, criminal) it is for a Jewish man to unite himself or come near to one of another (foreign) race. However God has shown to me, not to call man, common or unclean."}
{"book": "ACT", "chapter": 10, "verse": "29", "text": "Therefore I also came without hesitation having been summoned. I inquire, then, for what word did you summon me?"}
{"book": "ACT", "chapter": 10, "verse": "30", "text": "And Cornelius said, Four days ago until this hour, the ninth hour, I was praying in my house and behold, a man stood before me in bright apparel,"}
{"book": "ACT", "chapter": 10, "verse": "31", "text": "And said, Cornelius, you prayer has been heard your alms have been remembered before God."}
{"book": "ACT", "chapter": 10, "verse": "32", "text": "Send then unto Joppa and call for Simon who is called Peter; he lodges in the house of Simon a tanner beside the sea;"}
{"book": "ACT", "chapter": 10, "verse": "33", "text": "At once then I sent to you; and you did good (well) having come. Now then we all are present before (in the sight of) God to hear all things that have been commanded you by the Lord."}
{"book": "ACT", "chapter": 10, "verse": "34", "text": "And Peter having opened his mouth said, Upon truth I comprehend (take hold of) that God is not One who shows partiality (accepter of a face),"}
{"book": "ACT", "chapter": 10, "verse": "35", "text": "but rather in every ethnicity, the one fearing Him and working righteousness (justice) is acceptable to him."}
{"book": "ACT", "chapter": 10, "verse": "36", "text": "The word that He sent to the sons of Israel, preaching peace through Jesus Christ: He is Lord of all,"}
{"book": "ACT", "chapter": 10, "verse": "37", "text": "You yourselves know the saying (rhema) having come throughout the whole of Judea, having begun from Galilee after the baptism that John preached:"}
{"book": "ACT", "chapter": 10, "verse": "38", "text": "How God anointed Jesus from Nazareth with the Holy Spirit and with power; who went about doing good and healing (iomenos) all that were being overpowered (tyrannized, dominated, to exercise rulership down on) under (by) the devil, because God was with Him."}
{"book": "ACT", "chapter": 10, "verse": "39", "text": "And we are witnesses of all things that He did in the region of the Jews and in Jerusalem; whom also they put to death having hanged him upon a tree."}
{"book": "ACT", "chapter": 10, "verse": "40", "text": "This One God raised up in the third day and gave Him to become apparent,"}
{"book": "ACT", "chapter": 10, "verse": "41", "text": "Not to all the people but rather to witnesses having been designated beforehand (latin-praeordinatis-preordained) by God to us who did eat and drink with Him after His rising from out of the dead."}
{"book": "ACT", "chapter": 10, "verse": "42", "text": "And He instructed us to preach to the people and to thoroughly testify that it is He having been appointed by God as Judge of the living and the dead."}
{"book": "ACT", "chapter": 10, "verse": "43", "text": "To Him all the prophets testify, that through His name everyone believing unto Him receives the remission of sins."}
{"book": "ACT", "chapter": 10, "verse": "44", "text": "While Peter was still speaking these words, the Holy Spirit fell upon all those hearing the word."}
{"book": "ACT", "chapter": 10, "verse": "45", "text": "And all the believers from out of the circumcision as many as had come with Peter were astonished that the gift of the Holy Spirit has been poured out even upon the ethnicities."}
{"book": "ACT", "chapter": 10, "verse": "46", "text": "For they heard them speaking with tongues (glossais) and magnifying God. Then Peter answered,"}
{"book": "ACT", "chapter": 10, "verse": "47", "text": "Surely there is not anyone able to withhold (prevent) the water to baptize these, who have received the Holy Spirit just as we also have?"}
{"book": "ACT", "chapter": 10, "verse": "48", "text": "And he commanded them to be baptized in the name of Jesus Christ. [could this be rendered?- And he commanded them in the name of Jesus Christ to be baptized. This is the greek structure but no translations translate as such] Then they asked him to remain some days."}
{"book": "ACT", "chapter": 11, "verse": "1", "text": "Now the apostles and the brothers being throughout Judea heard that the ethnicities had also received the word of God."}
{"book": "ACT", "chapter": 11, "verse": "2", "text": "And when Peter went up unto Jerusalem, those from out of the circumcision were taking issue (judged thoroughly back and forth) with him,"}
{"book": "ACT", "chapter": 11, "verse": "3", "text": "Saying, he went to men having uncircumcision and ate with them."}
{"book": "ACT", "chapter": 11, "verse": "4", "text": "And Peter having begun, he set it out (explained it, latin-exponebat-explained like expounded root is recount) to them in order (successively) saying,"}
{"book": "ACT", "chapter": 11, "verse": "5", "text": "I was in the city of Joppa praying, and I saw in a trance (ecstasy) a vision (horama), a certain implement (vessel) like as a great sheet descending by its four corners, being let down from out of heaven and it came down as far as me."}
{"book": "ACT", "chapter": 11, "verse": "6", "text": "Having looked fixedly unto it I considered and I saw the quadrupeds of the earth and the wild beasts and the creeping things and the birds of the air. And I said, In no way, Lord, because nothing ever common or unclean has entered into my mouth."}
{"book": "ACT", "chapter": 11, "verse": "7", "text": "And I heard also a voice saying to me, Having risen up, Peter, kill and eat. 8"}
{"book": "ACT", "chapter": 11, "verse": "8", "text": "And I said, In no way, Lord, because nothing ever common or unclean has entered into my mouth."}
{"book": "ACT", "chapter": 11, "verse": "9", "text": "And the voice answered from out of a second [time] from out of heaven, What God has cleansed, do not you call common."}
{"book": "ACT", "chapter": 11, "verse": "10", "text": "And this happened upon three times and the whole was drawn up again into heaven."}
{"book": "ACT", "chapter": 11, "verse": "11", "text": "And Behold, instantly three men stood at (upon) the house in which I was, they having been sent from Caesarea to me."}
{"book": "ACT", "chapter": 11, "verse": "12", "text": "And the Spirit told me to go with them nothing hesitating (misgiving, doubting, discriminating, judging back and forth). And these six brothers also went with me and we entered into the house of the man,"}
{"book": "ACT", "chapter": 11, "verse": "13", "text": "And he reported to us how he had seen the angel in his house, having sttod and having said, send forth unto Joppa and send for Simon who is also called Peter,"}
{"book": "ACT", "chapter": 11, "verse": "14", "text": "Who will speak sayings (rhemata) to you in which you and all your house will be saved."}
{"book": "ACT", "chapter": 11, "verse": "15", "text": "And in my beginning to speak, the Holy Spirit fell upon them, just as also upon us in the beginning."}
{"book": "ACT", "chapter": 11, "verse": "16", "text": "And I remembered the word of the Lord, how He had said, John indeed baptized with water, you however will be baptized in (with) the Holy Spirit."}
{"book": "ACT", "chapter": 11, "verse": "17", "text": "If then God has given to them the identical (equal) gift like as also to us having believed upon the Lord Jesus Christ, Who was I to be able to prevent (latin-prohibere-stop like prohibit roots are stop/withhold) God?"}
{"book": "ACT", "chapter": 11, "verse": "18", "text": "And having heard these things they were silent (quieted, stilled) and glorified God, saying, Then indeed also to the ethnicities God has given repentance unto life."}
{"book": "ACT", "chapter": 11, "verse": "19", "text": "Now those then having been scattered from the tribulation having taken place over (upon) Stephen that passed through (spread a report) to Phoenicia and Cyprus and Antioch, speaking the word to no one except only to Jews."}
{"book": "ACT", "chapter": 11, "verse": "20", "text": "However there were some men from out of them of Cyprus and of Cyrene, who had come into Antioch that spoke to the Hellenists (Greek-speaking Jews), preaching the gospel of the Lord Jesus."}
{"book": "ACT", "chapter": 11, "verse": "21", "text": "And the hand of the Lord was with them; and a great (many) having believed, turned (latin-conversus-turning like converted) to (upon) the Lord."}
{"book": "ACT", "chapter": 11, "verse": "22", "text": "And the report (word) was heard unto the ears of the church being in Jerusalem concerning them; and they sent out Barnabas to go as far as Antioch,"}
{"book": "ACT", "chapter": 11, "verse": "23", "text": "Who having come and seen the grace of God, rejoiced and entreated all with resolute purpose of heart to abide in the Lord."}
{"book": "ACT", "chapter": 11, "verse": "24", "text": "Because he was a good man and full of the Holy Spirit and of faith. And a considerable (sufficient, worthy) multitude was added to the Lord."}
{"book": "ACT", "chapter": 11, "verse": "25", "text": "And he went out unto Tarsus to seek Saul,"}
{"book": "ACT", "chapter": 11, "verse": "26", "text": "And having found him, he brought him unto Antioch. And it happened that they gathered together in the church a whole year and taught a considerable multitude. And the disciples were first publically called Christians in Antioch."}
{"book": "ACT", "chapter": 11, "verse": "27", "text": "And in these days, prophets came down from Jerusalem unto Antioch."}
{"book": "ACT", "chapter": 11, "verse": "28", "text": "And one having risen up from out of them named Agabus, signified through the Spirit that a great famine is about to be upon the whole inhabited world- which happened upon Claudius."}
{"book": "ACT", "chapter": 11, "verse": "29", "text": "And the disciples, just as anyone was prospered, each of them determined (set boundaries/limits, designated) unto a ministry (diakonian), to send to the brothers residing in Judea,"}
{"book": "ACT", "chapter": 11, "verse": "30", "text": "Which also they did having sent it to the elders (presbyterous) through the hand of Barnabas and Saul."}
{"book": "ACT", "chapter": 12, "verse": "1", "text": "Now at that time, Herod the king put forth his hands to evil-treat some of those from the church."}
{"book": "ACT", "chapter": 12, "verse": "2", "text": "And he put to death James the brother of John with the sword."}
{"book": "ACT", "chapter": 12, "verse": "3", "text": "And having seen that it is pleasing to the Jews, he proceeded to apprehend Peter also. And these were the days of the Unleavened (the paschal feast during the Passover week)-"}
{"book": "ACT", "chapter": 12, "verse": "4", "text": "And having arrested, he put in prison, and handed him over to four sets of four soldiers to guard him, intending to bring him out to the people after the Passover."}
{"book": "ACT", "chapter": 12, "verse": "5", "text": "Therefore Peter was kept (guarded) in the prison; however prayer was strenuously being made by the church to God concerning him."}
{"book": "ACT", "chapter": 12, "verse": "6", "text": "And when Herod was about to bring him forth, that night Peter was sleeping between two soldiers having been bound with two chains, and the guards before the door were watching (keeping, guarding) the prison."}
{"book": "ACT", "chapter": 12, "verse": "7", "text": "And behold, an angel of the Lord stood by and a light shone in the cell. And having struck the side of Peter, he woke him up, saying, Rise up in haste (speed, quickness). And the chains fell off of his hands."}
{"book": "ACT", "chapter": 12, "verse": "8", "text": "And the angel said to him, Gird yourself about (Pull your belt tight) and put on your sandals. And so he did. And he says to him, Wrap around you your cloak and follow me."}
{"book": "ACT", "chapter": 12, "verse": "9", "text": "And going out, he followed and did not know that what was happening through the angel was real (true); however he supposed he saw a vision."}
{"book": "ACT", "chapter": 12, "verse": "10", "text": "And having passed through the first and second guard, they came upon the iron gate leading into the city, which opened of itself to them; and having gone out they went on through one street and the angel instantly departed from him."}
{"book": "ACT", "chapter": 12, "verse": "11", "text": "And Peter having come about to (in) himself, said, Now I truly know that the Lord has sent forth His angel and removed me from out of the hand of Herod and all the expectation of the people of the Jews."}
{"book": "ACT", "chapter": 12, "verse": "12", "text": "And having considered it, he came upon the house of Mary the mother of John, who is also called Mark, where many were gathered together and praying."}
{"book": "ACT", "chapter": 12, "verse": "13", "text": "And having knocked at the door of the gate, a girl named Rhoda came to answer it (hypakousai-hearken, listen, complied to what was heard)."}
{"book": "ACT", "chapter": 12, "verse": "14", "text": "And having recognized the voice of Peter, she did not open the gate from joy, however she ran it and reported that Peter was standing before the gate."}
{"book": "ACT", "chapter": 12, "verse": "15", "text": "And they said to her, You are raving mad (latin-insanis-crazy like insane). However she kept emphatically insisting it to be so and they kept saying, It is his angel."}
{"book": "ACT", "chapter": 12, "verse": "16", "text": "However Peter continued knocking; and having opened it they saw him and were astonished."}
{"book": "ACT", "chapter": 12, "verse": "17", "text": "And having waved (made a sign, shaken the hand up and down) to them with the hand to be silent, he thoroughly related to them how the Lord had brought him from out of the prison. And he said, Report to James and to the brothers these things. And having gone out, he went unto another (different) place."}
{"book": "ACT", "chapter": 12, "verse": "18", "text": "Now having come day, there was no small disturbance among the soldiers of what had become of Peter."}
{"book": "ACT", "chapter": 12, "verse": "19", "text": "And Herod sought after him and did not find him, then having examined the guards, he commanded them to be led away [to death]. And having gone down away from Judea unto Caesarea, he stayed [there]."}
{"book": "ACT", "chapter": 12, "verse": "20", "text": "Now he [Herod] had been furiously angry (passionately fighting) with the Tyrians and the Sidonians; however they came with the same passion to him, and having persuaded Blastus- who was over the bedchamber of the king- requested peace, because of their region being feed (enlarged, reared, provided for) from the king’s."}
{"book": "ACT", "chapter": 12, "verse": "21", "text": "And Herod on the appointed day having put on royal apparel and having sat upon the throne, made a public address to them."}
{"book": "ACT", "chapter": 12, "verse": "22", "text": "And the assembled people were calling out (shouting, voicing upon), This is the voice of a god and not of a man!"}
{"book": "ACT", "chapter": 12, "verse": "23", "text": "And an angel of the Lord instantly struck him, because he did not give in return the glory to God and having been eaten by worms, he breathed his last."}
{"book": "ACT", "chapter": 12, "verse": "24", "text": "And the word of God grew and multiplied."}
{"book": "ACT", "chapter": 12, "verse": "25", "text": "And Barnabas and Saul returned unto Jerusalem having fulfilled the ministry (diakonian), having taken with them John, the one having also been called Mark."}
{"book": "ACT", "chapter": 13, "verse": "1", "text": "Now there were existing in the church in Antioch, prophets and teachers, Barnabas and Simeon, who was called Niger and Lucius the Cyrenian, and Manaen who was brought up (reared) with Herod the tetrarch (a minor governer, ruler over a ¼ part of a region), and Saul."}
{"book": "ACT", "chapter": 13, "verse": "2", "text": "And as they were ministering (this word is a special type of ministry) to the Lord and fasting, the Holy Spirit said, Set apart to Me Barnabas and Saul unto the work to which I have called them."}
{"book": "ACT", "chapter": 13, "verse": "3", "text": "Then having fasted and having prayed and having laid hands upon them, they sent them away."}
{"book": "ACT", "chapter": 13, "verse": "4", "text": "They then having been sent out by the Holy Spirit went down unto Seleucia. And from there they sailed away unto Cyprus."}
{"book": "ACT", "chapter": 13, "verse": "5", "text": "And having come unto Salamis, they preached the word of god in the synagogues of the Jews. They had also John as an assistant (hypereten, under-rower, a crewman on a boat, a subordinate officer/servant)."}
{"book": "ACT", "chapter": 13, "verse": "6", "text": "And having passed through the whole island as far as Paphos, they found a man- a certain magician, a Jewish false prophet- whose name was Bar-Jesus (means son of Jesus/Joshua),"}
{"book": "ACT", "chapter": 13, "verse": "7", "text": "Who was with the proconsul (latin-proconsule) Sergius Paulus, an intelligent (greek-syneto, personal comprehension, to understand by synthesizing, latin-prudente) man. He having called to him Barnabas and Saul, desired (inquired, sought upon) to hear the word of God."}
{"book": "ACT", "chapter": 13, "verse": "8", "text": "However Elymas the magician- for thus is the interpretation (translation) of his name- opposed them, seeking to turn away the proconsul from the faith."}
{"book": "ACT", "chapter": 13, "verse": "9", "text": "And Saul, who is also Paul, having been filled with the Holy Spirit, having looked fixedly on (into) him,"}
{"book": "ACT", "chapter": 13, "verse": "10", "text": "Said, O full of all deceit and all mischief (fraud, craft, villainy, criminality, latin-fallacia-fallacy), son of the devil, enemy of all righteousness, will you not cease perverting (latin-subvertere like subverting) the straight ways of the Lord?"}
{"book": "ACT", "chapter": 13, "verse": "11", "text": "And now behold, the hand of the Lord is upon you and you will be blind, not seeing the sun during a season. And instantly a mist (latin-caligo-fog root is thick) and a darkness fell upon him and he went about seeking someone to lead him by the hand."}
{"book": "ACT", "chapter": 13, "verse": "12", "text": "Then the proconsul having seen that having happened, believed, being thunderstruck (struck out of one’s senses, astounded, dumbfounded) at (upon) the teaching of the Lord."}
{"book": "ACT", "chapter": 13, "verse": "13", "text": "Now having sailed away from Paphos with those around him, Paul came unto Perga of Pamphylia. And John having departed away from them, returned unto Jerusalem."}
{"book": "ACT", "chapter": 13, "verse": "14", "text": "And they, having passed through from Perga, came unto Antioch of Pisidia, and having gone into the synagogue on the day of the Sabbath, they sat down."}
{"book": "ACT", "chapter": 13, "verse": "15", "text": "And after the reading of the law and the prophets, the rulers of the synagogue sent to them, saying, Men, brothers, if there is any among you a word of entreaty to the people, speak."}
{"book": "ACT", "chapter": 13, "verse": "16", "text": "And Paul having risen up and waving (making a sign) the hand, said, Men, Israelites, and those fearing God, listen."}
{"book": "ACT", "chapter": 13, "verse": "17", "text": "The God of this people Israel elected (chose) our fathers and exalted the people in the sojourn in the land of Egypt, and with an uplifted arm brought them out of it,"}
{"book": "ACT", "chapter": 13, "verse": "18", "text": "And about the time of forty years, He endured their ways in the wilderness,"}
{"book": "ACT", "chapter": 13, "verse": "19", "text": "And having destroyed the seven ethnicities in the land of Canaan, He gave their land as an inheritance- About four hundred and fifty years."}
{"book": "ACT", "chapter": 13, "verse": "20", "text": "And after these things, He gave them judges until Samuel the prophet."}
{"book": "ACT", "chapter": 13, "verse": "21", "text": "Then after that they asked for a king and God gave to them, Saul, son of Kish, a man from out of the tribe of Benjamin, for forty years."}
{"book": "ACT", "chapter": 13, "verse": "22", "text": "And having removed him, He raised up David into a king to them, to whom also He said having carried witness, I have found David the [son] of Jess, a man according to My heart, who will do all My will."}
{"book": "ACT", "chapter": 13, "verse": "23", "text": "Of this man’s seed according to promise, God raised up to Israel a Savior, Jesus,"}
{"book": "ACT", "chapter": 13, "verse": "24", "text": "Before the presence (face) of His coming, John preached a baptism of repentance to all the people of Israel."}
{"book": "ACT", "chapter": 13, "verse": "25", "text": "And while John was fulfilling his course (race, running, career), he said, Whom do you suspect me to be? I am not [He], but rather, Behold, He comes after me, of whom I am not worthy to untie a sandal of His feet."}
{"book": "ACT", "chapter": 13, "verse": "26", "text": "Men, brothers, sons of the family of Abraham, and those among you fearing God, the message (word) of this salvation has been sent to us."}
{"book": "ACT", "chapter": 13, "verse": "27", "text": "For those residing in Jerusalem and their rulers not having known Him nor the voices of the prophets who are being read every Sabbath, they fulfilled them by having condemned Him."}
{"book": "ACT", "chapter": 13, "verse": "28", "text": "And having not found any cause for death, they begged Pilate to kill Him."}
{"book": "ACT", "chapter": 13, "verse": "29", "text": "And when they had fulfilled all things having been written concerning Him and having taken Him down from the tree, they placed Him into a tomb."}
{"book": "ACT", "chapter": 13, "verse": "30", "text": "However God raised Him from out of the dead,"}
{"book": "ACT", "chapter": 13, "verse": "31", "text": "Who appeared for (upon) many days to those having come up with Him away from Galilee unto Jerusalem, who are now His witnesses to the people."}
{"book": "ACT", "chapter": 13, "verse": "32", "text": "And we preach the gospel to you, the promise having been made to the fathers,"}
{"book": "ACT", "chapter": 13, "verse": "33", "text": "That God has fulfilled this to us their children having raised up Jesus; as also in the second Psalm it has been written, You are My Son, today I have begotten You."}
{"book": "ACT", "chapter": 13, "verse": "34", "text": "And that He raised Him from out of the dead, no more being about to return unto decay, thus He spoke: I will give to you the holy and sure [blessings] of David."}
{"book": "ACT", "chapter": 13, "verse": "35", "text": "Therefore also in another [Psalm] He says, You will not allow You Holy One to see decay."}
{"book": "ACT", "chapter": 13, "verse": "36", "text": "For indeed David having served his own generation by the resolved plan of God, fell asleep and was added to his fathers and saw decay."}
{"book": "ACT", "chapter": 13, "verse": "37", "text": "However the One God raised up did not see decay."}
{"book": "ACT", "chapter": 13, "verse": "38", "text": "Therefore be it known to you, men, brothers, that through this One, the remission of sins is preached to you,"}
{"book": "ACT", "chapter": 13, "verse": "39", "text": "And from all things from which you were not able to be justified in the law of Moses, in Him everyone believing is justified (judicially approved)."}
{"book": "ACT", "chapter": 13, "verse": "40", "text": "See then lest that having been said in the prophets might come upon you:"}
{"book": "ACT", "chapter": 13, "verse": "41", "text": "Behold, despisers, and wonder and perish; because I am working a work in your days, a work that you would never believe, even if one should tell it in detail (narrate at length) to you."}
{"book": "ACT", "chapter": 13, "verse": "42", "text": "And having departed, they entreated that these words to be spoken to them on (into) the next Sabbath."}
{"book": "ACT", "chapter": 13, "verse": "43", "text": "Now when the synagogue had dismissed (released, dispersed, broken up, latin-dimissa-dismissed), many of the Jews and the worshipping (revering, venerating) proselytes followed Paul and Barnabas, who speaking to them, persuaded them to continue in the grace of God."}
{"book": "ACT", "chapter": 13, "verse": "44", "text": "And on the coming Sabbath, almost all the city was gathered together to hear the word of the Lord."}
{"book": "ACT", "chapter": 13, "verse": "45", "text": "Now the Jews having seen the multitudes were filled with envy (rivalry, jealousy) and contradicted (speak against) the things spoken by Paul, blaspheming."}
{"book": "ACT", "chapter": 13, "verse": "46", "text": "Now Paul and Barnabas having spoken boldly (freely) said, It was necessary (essential) that the word of God first be spoken to you; since you thrust it away (reject, refuse), and you judge yourselves not worthy of eternal life, Behold, we are turning (changing, transitioning, switching, converting) unto the ethnicities."}
{"book": "ACT", "chapter": 13, "verse": "47", "text": "For the Lord has thus commanded us: I have set you unto a light of the ethnicities, for you to be salvation as far as the end (last, latin-extremum-tip like extreme) of the earth."}
{"book": "ACT", "chapter": 13, "verse": "48", "text": "And the ethnicities hearing it, rejoiced and glorified the word of the Lord, and as many as were appointed (arranged, designated) unto eternal life believed."}
{"book": "ACT", "chapter": 13, "verse": "49", "text": "And the word of the Lord was carried through the whole region."}
{"book": "ACT", "chapter": 13, "verse": "50", "text": "However the Jews incited the worshipping women of honorable position, and the top people (chief, coming first, principal) of the city, and aroused a persecution against (upon) Paul and Barnabas, and banished them away from their borders (district, boundary),"}
{"book": "ACT", "chapter": 13, "verse": "51", "text": "However having shaken off the dust of their feet against (upon) them, they went unto Iconium."}
{"book": "ACT", "chapter": 13, "verse": "52", "text": "And the disciples were filled with joy and the Holy Spirit."}
{"book": "ACT", "chapter": 14, "verse": "1", "text": "And it happened in Iconium that they entered together into the synagogue of the Jews and spoke so that a great multitude of both Jews and Greeks believed."}
{"book": "ACT", "chapter": 14, "verse": "2", "text": "However the unbelieving (refusing to be persuaded) Jews aroused and evil-affected the souls of the ethnicities against the brothers."}
{"book": "ACT", "chapter": 14, "verse": "3", "text": "Therefore they stayed a considerable (sufficient) time, speaking boldly (freely) upon the Lord, who bore witness upon the word of His grace, giving signs and wonders to be done through their hands."}
{"book": "ACT", "chapter": 14, "verse": "4", "text": "And the multitude of the city was divided; and some were with the Jews and some with the apostles."}
{"book": "ACT", "chapter": 14, "verse": "5", "text": "And there was a rushing assault of the ethnicities and the Jews with their rulers to deliberately and spitefully injure (insolently mistreat) and to stone them,"}
{"book": "ACT", "chapter": 14, "verse": "6", "text": "Having become aware, they fled (fled for refuge) unto the cities of Lycaonia, Lystra, and Derbe, and the surrounding region,"}
{"book": "ACT", "chapter": 14, "verse": "7", "text": "And there they were preaching the gospel."}
{"book": "ACT", "chapter": 14, "verse": "8", "text": "And a certain man in Lystra, no ability (unable, incapable, powerless, impotent) in the feet, sat lame from his mother’s womb, who had never walked."}
{"book": "ACT", "chapter": 14, "verse": "9", "text": "This man heard Paul speaking, who having looked fixedly to him and having seen that he has faith to be healed (saved, sothenai- common for save),"}
{"book": "ACT", "chapter": 14, "verse": "10", "text": "Said with a great voice, Stand upright (orthos-straight) upon your feet! And he sprang up (leaped) and walked."}
{"book": "ACT", "chapter": 14, "verse": "11", "text": "And the crowds having seen what Paul had done, lifted up their voice in Lycaonian (the Lycaonian language) saying, The gods, having become like men, have come down to us."}
{"book": "ACT", "chapter": 14, "verse": "12", "text": "And they called Barnabas, Zeus (greek-Dia); and Paul, Hermes (greek-Hermen), because he was the leading speaker."}
{"book": "ACT", "chapter": 14, "verse": "13", "text": "And the priest of Zeus being before (in front of) the city, brought oxen and wreaths upon the gates and wanted to sacrifice with the crowds."}
{"book": "ACT", "chapter": 14, "verse": "14", "text": "However the apostles Barnabas and Paul having heard and having torn their garments, rushed out into the crowd crying out (shouting),"}
{"book": "ACT", "chapter": 14, "verse": "15", "text": "And saying, Men, why do you do these things? We are men of like passions (same feelings, same feelings, same nature) with you, preaching the gospel to you to turn away from these vanities to (upon) the Living God, who made the heaven, and the earth, and the sea, and all the things in them;"}
{"book": "ACT", "chapter": 14, "verse": "16", "text": "Who in the generations having passed by allowed (permitted with reluctance) all the ethnicities to go their ways."}
{"book": "ACT", "chapter": 14, "verse": "17", "text": "And yet He has not left Himself without witness, doing good, giving rains from heaven to us, and fruitful seasons, filling your hearts with food and gladness (a joyful, merry, good outlook)."}
{"book": "ACT", "chapter": 14, "verse": "18", "text": "And saying these things, they hardly stopped the crowds sacrificing to them."}
{"book": "ACT", "chapter": 14, "verse": "19", "text": "And Jews came from Antioch and Iconium, and having persuaded the crowds and having stoned Paul, they dragged him outside the city, supposing him to have died."}
{"book": "ACT", "chapter": 14, "verse": "20", "text": "However his disciples having surrounded him and he having risen up, he entered into the city. And on the next day he went away with Barnabas unto Derbe."}
{"book": "ACT", "chapter": 14, "verse": "21", "text": "And having preached the gospel to that city and having disciple many, they returned unto Lystra and unto Iconium and unto Antioch,"}
{"book": "ACT", "chapter": 14, "verse": "22", "text": "Making firmer (confirming) the souls of the disciples, entreating them to continue in the faith and that it is necessary for us to enter into the kingdom of God through many tribulations."}
{"book": "ACT", "chapter": 14, "verse": "23", "text": "And having chosen (by voting with outstretched hands) for them elders in every church, having prayed with fasting, they committed them to the Lord, unto whom they had believed."}
{"book": "ACT", "chapter": 14, "verse": "24", "text": "And having passed through Pisidia, they came unto Pamphylia,"}
{"book": "ACT", "chapter": 14, "verse": "25", "text": "And having spoken in Perga the word, they went down unto Attalia;"}
{"book": "ACT", "chapter": 14, "verse": "26", "text": "And from there they sailed unto Antioch from where they had been committed to the grace of God unto the work that they had fulfilled."}
{"book": "ACT", "chapter": 14, "verse": "27", "text": "And having arrived and having gathered together the church, they reported all that God had done with them, and that He opened a door of faith to the ethnicities."}
{"book": "ACT", "chapter": 14, "verse": "28", "text": "And they remained no little time with the disciples."}
{"book": "ACT", "chapter": 15, "verse": "1", "text": "And certain ones having come down from Judea were teaching the brothers that if you are not circumcised according to the custom (ethei) of Moses, you are not able to be saved."}
{"book": "ACT", "chapter": 15, "verse": "2", "text": "And there having been no small dissent (standing, position) and dispute (searching, questioning) by Paul and Barnabas with (to) them, they arranged that Paul and Barnabas and certain others from out of them to go up to Jerusalem to the apostles and elders about this inquiry."}
{"book": "ACT", "chapter": 15, "verse": "3", "text": "They therefore having been sent forward by the church passed through Phoenicia and Samaria, telling in detail the conversion (turning upon) of the ethnicities. And they brought great joy to all the brothers."}
{"book": "ACT", "chapter": 15, "verse": "4", "text": "And having come unto Jerusalem, they were welcomed by (from) the church and the apostles and the elders. And they reported all that God had done with them."}
{"book": "ACT", "chapter": 15, "verse": "5", "text": "And there rose up a certain sect of those from out of the Pharisees who believed, saying, It is necessary to circumcise them and command them to keep the law of Moses."}
{"book": "ACT", "chapter": 15, "verse": "6", "text": "And the apostles and elders were gathered together to see about this matter (word)."}
{"book": "ACT", "chapter": 15, "verse": "7", "text": "And much discussion having happened, Peter having risen up, said to them, Men, brothers, you recognize that from the early days God among us chose (elected) through my mouth for the ethnicities to hear the word of the gospel and to believe."}
{"book": "ACT", "chapter": 15, "verse": "8", "text": "And God, the Heart-knower, bore witness to them, having given them the Holy Spirit, just as also to us,"}
{"book": "ACT", "chapter": 15, "verse": "9", "text": "And He made not one distinction between us and them, having purified their hearts by faith."}
{"book": "ACT", "chapter": 15, "verse": "10", "text": "Now then, why are you testing God to put a yoke upon the neck of the disciples that neither our fathers nor we have been strong enough to bear?"}
{"book": "ACT", "chapter": 15, "verse": "11", "text": "But rather we believe that through the grace of the Lord Jesus to be saved, according to that manner they also."}
{"book": "ACT", "chapter": 15, "verse": "12", "text": "And all the multitude kept silent and heard Barnabas and Paul explaining (latin-narrantes-declaring like narrating, root for English exegete) what signs and wonders, God had done among the ethnicities through them."}
{"book": "ACT", "chapter": 15, "verse": "13", "text": "And after they were silent, James answered, saying, Men, brothers, hear me."}
{"book": "ACT", "chapter": 15, "verse": "14", "text": "Simon has explained (exegesato- root of the English word exegete) just how God first visited (looked upon, scoped upon) to take from out of the ethnicities a people for His name."}
{"book": "ACT", "chapter": 15, "verse": "15", "text": "And with this the words of the prophets agree, just as it is written:"}
{"book": "ACT", "chapter": 15, "verse": "16", "text": "After these things I will return and will rebuild the tabernacle of David which has fallen; and the ruins (demolish, dig down under) of it, I will rebuild and will set it upright,"}
{"book": "ACT", "chapter": 15, "verse": "17", "text": "So that the remainder of men might seek out the Lord and all the ethnicities upon whom My name upon them has been called, says the Lord doing these things,"}
{"book": "ACT", "chapter": 15, "verse": "18", "text": "Known from eternity (the age) {not in some translations- are to God all His works}."}
{"book": "ACT", "chapter": 15, "verse": "19", "text": "Therefore, I judge not to trouble (annoy, disturb) those who are turning (converting) to (upon) God from the ethnicities;"}
{"book": "ACT", "chapter": 15, "verse": "20", "text": "But rather to write to them to hold away (abstain, latin-abstineant) from the pollutions (contaminations) of the idols, and fornication (sexual immorality), and that which is strangled (killed without letting out the blood, latin-suffocatis-strangled like suffocated), and from blood."}
{"book": "ACT", "chapter": 15, "verse": "21", "text": "For Moses from out of generations of old, has in every city those preaching him, being read on every Sabbath in the synagogues."}
{"book": "ACT", "chapter": 15, "verse": "22", "text": "Then it seemed good to the apostles and to the elders along with the whole church, to send chosen men from out of them unto Antioch with Paul and Barnabas: Judas called Barnabas and Silas, leading men among the brothers,"}
{"book": "ACT", "chapter": 15, "verse": "23", "text": "Having written through their hand, The apostles and the elders, brothers, to those in Antioch and Syria and Cilicia: Brothers from out of the ethnicities, Greetings."}
{"book": "ACT", "chapter": 15, "verse": "24", "text": "Since we have heard that some from out of us went out, troubled you by words, upsetting your souls, saying, Be circumcised and keep the law to whom we had not given commands;"}
{"book": "ACT", "chapter": 15, "verse": "25", "text": "It seemed good to us having become of the same passion and having chosen men to send to you with our beloved, Barnabas and Paul,"}
{"book": "ACT", "chapter": 15, "verse": "26", "text": "Men having handed over (pledged, committed) their lives for (by, under) the name of our Lord Jesus Christ."}
{"book": "ACT", "chapter": 15, "verse": "27", "text": "We have sent therefore Judas and Silas, and they will tell you by word [of mouth] the same things."}
{"book": "ACT", "chapter": 15, "verse": "28", "text": "For it seemed good to the Holy Spirit and to us to place no further (more, greater) burden upon you, except these necessary things:"}
{"book": "ACT", "chapter": 15, "verse": "29", "text": "To hold away from things sacrificed to idols, and from blood, and from what is strangled, and from fornication (sexual immorality). Thoroughly keeping (guarding) yourselves from these, you will do (practice) well. Farewell (Be strong!)."}
{"book": "ACT", "chapter": 15, "verse": "30", "text": "They therefore having been sent away, went unto Antioch and having gathered together the multitude, they gave over the letter (epistle)."}
{"book": "ACT", "chapter": 15, "verse": "31", "text": "And having read it, they rejoiced at (upon) the entreaty."}
{"book": "ACT", "chapter": 15, "verse": "32", "text": "Judas and Silas, being themselves also prophets, entreated the brothers through much speech (word), and confirmed them (made them stronger)."}
{"book": "ACT", "chapter": 15, "verse": "33", "text": "And having made time, they were sent away with peace from the brothers to those having sent them."}
{"book": "ACT", "chapter": 15, "verse": "34", "text": "{however it seemed good to Silas to remain there.}"}
{"book": "ACT", "chapter": 15, "verse": "35", "text": "And Paul and Barnabas stayed in Antioch, teaching and preaching the gospel, the word of the Lord, with many others also."}
{"book": "ACT", "chapter": 15, "verse": "36", "text": "And after some days, Barnabas said to Paul, Let us return and look (scope) upon (oversee) the brothers in every city in which we have announced the word of the Lord, [and see] how they are."}
{"book": "ACT", "chapter": 15, "verse": "37", "text": "And Barnabas intended to take with them, also John called Mark;"}
{"book": "ACT", "chapter": 15, "verse": "38", "text": "However Paul thought it better (deemed it worthy) to not take him along as a companion with them, who had withdrawn away from them from Pamphylia and had not gone with them unto the work."}
{"book": "ACT", "chapter": 15, "verse": "39", "text": "Therefore a sharp disagreement (provocation) happened, so that they separated away from one another. And Barnabas having taken Mark sailed away unto Cyprus;"}
{"book": "ACT", "chapter": 15, "verse": "40", "text": "Paul however having chosen Silas went forth having been committed to the grace of the Lord by the brothers."}
{"book": "ACT", "chapter": 15, "verse": "41", "text": "And he passed through Syria and Cilicia, making firm (confirming) the churches."}
{"book": "ACT", "chapter": 16, "verse": "1", "text": "And he came also unto Derbe and unti Lystra. And behold, a certain disciple was there named Timothy, son of a believing Jewish woman, however the father a Greek,"}
{"book": "ACT", "chapter": 16, "verse": "2", "text": "Who was well testified of by the brothers in Lystra and Iconium."}
{"book": "ACT", "chapter": 16, "verse": "3", "text": "This one Paul wanted with him to go forth, and having taken, he circumcised him on account of the Jews being in those places; for they all knew his father was a Greek."}
{"book": "ACT", "chapter": 16, "verse": "4", "text": "And while they were passing through the cities, they were delivering over to them the decrees (dogmata in greek and latin), those decided on by the apostles and elders in Jerusalem, to keep (guard)."}
{"book": "ACT", "chapter": 16, "verse": "5", "text": "Therefore the churches were confirmed (made solid/stable) in the faith and abounded in number day by day."}
{"book": "ACT", "chapter": 16, "verse": "6", "text": "And having passed through Phrygia and the Galatian region, having been forbidden (prevented, hindered) by the Holy Spirit to speak the word in Asia,"}
{"book": "ACT", "chapter": 16, "verse": "7", "text": "And having come down to Mysia, they attempted to go into Bithynia; and the Spirit of Jesus did not allow them;"}
{"book": "ACT", "chapter": 16, "verse": "8", "text": "And having passed by Mysia, they came down unto Troas."}
{"book": "ACT", "chapter": 16, "verse": "9", "text": "And a vision (greek-horama, latin-visio) appeared to Paul through the night: A certain man of Macedonia was standing and entreating him, and saying, Having passed over into Macedonia, urgently help us."}
{"book": "ACT", "chapter": 16, "verse": "10", "text": "And when he has seen the vision, we directly sought to go forth unto Macedonia, concluding that God has called us to preach the gospel to them."}
{"book": "ACT", "chapter": 16, "verse": "11", "text": "Having sailed then from Troas, we made straight course unto Samothrace, and the next day unto Nea Polis,"}
{"book": "ACT", "chapter": 16, "verse": "12", "text": "From there unto Philippi, which is the leading city of that part of Macedonia, a colony. And we were in that city staying some days."}
{"book": "ACT", "chapter": 16, "verse": "13", "text": "And on the day of the Sabbath, we went forth outside the city gate beside the river where it was customary for prayer to be, and having sat down, we spoke to the women having gathered."}
{"book": "ACT", "chapter": 16, "verse": "14", "text": "And a certain woman named Lydia, a seller of purple, of the city of Thyatira, worshipping God, was listening; of whom the Lord opened the heart to give full attention (devout, pay attention to, set a course and keep it) to the things being spoken by Paul."}
{"book": "ACT", "chapter": 16, "verse": "15", "text": "And when she was baptized, and her house, she entreated, saying, If you have judged me to be faithful to the Lord, having entered into my house, remain. And she compelled (constrained, prevailed, constrain by entreaties, latin-coegit-forced) us."}
{"book": "ACT", "chapter": 16, "verse": "16", "text": "And it happened, as we were going unto the [place of] prayer, a certain girl (maidservant) having a spirit of Python (divining spirit, a mythical serpent that guarded the oracle at Delphi and had been slain by Apollo) met us, who provided her lords much business (work) by divining (soothsaying, foretelling, predicting, from mantis- a seer, latin-divinando-soothsaying)."}
{"book": "ACT", "chapter": 16, "verse": "17", "text": "She, having followed Paul and us cried out, saying, These men are servants (bond-slaves) of the Most High God, who preach to you the way of salvation."}
{"book": "ACT", "chapter": 16, "verse": "18", "text": "And this she did for (upon) many days. However Paul having been thoroughly labored (annoyed, troubled, exhausted, worked up) and having turned upon the spirit, said, I command you in the name of Jesus Christ to come out (go out) away from her. And it came out (went out) the same hour."}
{"book": "ACT", "chapter": 16, "verse": "19", "text": "And her lords having seen that the hope of their business was gone and having taken hold of Paul and Silas, they dragged them into the marketplace (place of public assembly) before (upon) the rulers;"}
{"book": "ACT", "chapter": 16, "verse": "20", "text": "And having brought them up to the magistrates (governors, latin-magistratibus), said, These men, being Jews, exceedingly trouble (agitate, stir up) our city,"}
{"book": "ACT", "chapter": 16, "verse": "21", "text": "And preach customs that are not permitted for us to accept nor to practice, being Romans."}
{"book": "ACT", "chapter": 16, "verse": "22", "text": "The crowd rose up together against them and the magistrates having torn off their garments, commanded to beat them with rods."}
{"book": "ACT", "chapter": 16, "verse": "23", "text": "And having laid many blows upon them, they cast them into prison having charged the jailor (prison keeper) to securely keep (guard) them."}
{"book": "ACT", "chapter": 16, "verse": "24", "text": "Who having received such an order, threw them into the inner prison and fastened their feet into the stocks (wood)."}
{"book": "ACT", "chapter": 16, "verse": "25", "text": "And at midnight, Paul and Silas, praying, were singing praises (latin- laudabant-praising, greek-hymnoun-to laud, sing a song that celebrates/honors/praises/thanks) to God. And the prisoners listened to them."}
{"book": "ACT", "chapter": 16, "verse": "26", "text": "And suddenly there was a great earthquake, so that the foundations of the prison were shaken. And instantly all the doors were opened and the chains (bonds) of all were loosed."}
{"book": "ACT", "chapter": 16, "verse": "27", "text": "And the jailor having been roused out of sleep and having seen the doors of the prison open, having drawn his sword, was about to kill himself, supposing the prisoners to have escaped (fled out)."}
{"book": "ACT", "chapter": 16, "verse": "28", "text": "However Paul called out with a great voice, saying, Do no bad (kakon) to yourself; for we are all here."}
{"book": "ACT", "chapter": 16, "verse": "29", "text": "And having asked for lights, he rushed in, and having become trembling (terrified), fell down before Paul and Silas."}
{"book": "ACT", "chapter": 16, "verse": "30", "text": "And having brought them outside, he said, Lords (Kyrioi, Sirs), what is necessary of me to do, so that I might be saved?"}
{"book": "ACT", "chapter": 16, "verse": "31", "text": "And they said, Believe upon the Lord Jesus and you will be saved, you and your house."}
{"book": "ACT", "chapter": 16, "verse": "32", "text": "And they spoke the word of the Lord to him together with all those in his house."}
{"book": "ACT", "chapter": 16, "verse": "33", "text": "And having taken them in that there hour of the night, he washed them from their wounds; and was baptized, he and all his immediately."}
{"book": "ACT", "chapter": 16, "verse": "34", "text": "And having brought them into the house, he placed beside them a table, and rejoiced with all his household having believed in God."}
{"book": "ACT", "chapter": 16, "verse": "35", "text": "And the day having come, the magistrates sent the officers (latin-lictores-lictors), saying, Release those there men."}
{"book": "ACT", "chapter": 16, "verse": "36", "text": "And the jailor reported these words to Paul, The magistrates have sent, so that you might be released. Now therefore having gone out, depart in peace."}
{"book": "ACT", "chapter": 16, "verse": "37", "text": "However Paul said to them, Having beaten us publicly uncondemned (not yet tried), men being Romans, they cast us into prison, and now do they throw us out secretly? No, indeed; but rather having come themselves, let them bring us out."}
{"book": "ACT", "chapter": 16, "verse": "38", "text": "And the officers reported these words to the magistrates. And they were fearful, having heard they are Romans."}
{"book": "ACT", "chapter": 16, "verse": "39", "text": "And having come, they entreated them, and having brought them out, they asked them to go away from the city."}
{"book": "ACT", "chapter": 16, "verse": "40", "text": "And having gone out away from the prison, they came to Lydia; and having seen them, they entreated the brothers and departed."}
{"book": "ACT", "chapter": 17, "verse": "1", "text": "And having passed through Amphipolis and Apollonia, they came unto Thessalonica, where there was a synagogue of the Jews."}
{"book": "ACT", "chapter": 17, "verse": "2", "text": "And according to Paul’s custom, he went in to them and for (upon) three Sabbaths he dialogued (getting a conclusion across, latin-disserebat-explained root is discourse) with them from the Scriptures,"}
{"book": "ACT", "chapter": 17, "verse": "3", "text": "Fully opening and setting forth that it was necessary for the Christ to have suffered and to have risen up from out of the dead, and that this Christ is Jesus, whom I preach to you."}
{"book": "ACT", "chapter": 17, "verse": "4", "text": "And some of them were persuaded and joined with Paul and Silas, and of the worshipping Greeks, a great multitude, and of the leading women not a few."}
{"book": "ACT", "chapter": 17, "verse": "5", "text": "However the Jews having become envious and having taken to them certain evil men of the market-loungers (loafers) and having collected a crowd, set the city in an uproar (noisy upheaval); and having assaulted (stood upon/against) the house of Jason, they sought to bring them out unto the people."}
{"book": "ACT", "chapter": 17, "verse": "6", "text": "And having not found them, they dragged Jason and certain brothers before (upon) the city authorities, exclaiming, These having upset the inhabited world are also present here,"}
{"book": "ACT", "chapter": 17, "verse": "7", "text": "Whom Jason has received; and these all do contrary to the decrees of Caesar, saying there to be another king: Jesus."}
{"book": "ACT", "chapter": 17, "verse": "8", "text": "And they stirred up the crowd and the city authorities hearing these things."}
{"book": "ACT", "chapter": 17, "verse": "9", "text": "And having taken security (sufficient money, bond money) from Jason and the remainder, they let them go."}
{"book": "ACT", "chapter": 17, "verse": "10", "text": "And the brothers directly sent away Paul and Silas during the night unto Berea; who, having arrived, went into the synagogue of the Jews."}
{"book": "ACT", "chapter": 17, "verse": "11", "text": "And these were more well-born (noble) than those in Thessalonica, who received the word with all readiness (pre-passioned), day by day examining (judging down to up, latin-scrutantes-searching root is examining like scrutinizing) the Scriptures if these things were so."}
{"book": "ACT", "chapter": 17, "verse": "12", "text": "Therefore many from out of them believed, and the prominent Grecian women, and men, not a few."}
{"book": "ACT", "chapter": 17, "verse": "13", "text": "And when those Jews from Thessalonica knew that the word of God was preached in Berea also by Paul, they came there also agitating and stirring up the crowds."}
{"book": "ACT", "chapter": 17, "verse": "14", "text": "And then directly, Paul sent away the brothers to go as upon the sea; and both Silas and Timothy remained behind there."}
{"book": "ACT", "chapter": 17, "verse": "15", "text": "And those escorting (conducting) Paul brought him as far as Athens; and having received a command to Silas and Timothy, so that they should come as quickly as possible to him, they departed."}
{"book": "ACT", "chapter": 17, "verse": "16", "text": "And in Athens, while Paul was waiting for them, his spirit was provoked (incited, sharpened, latin-incitabatur-stirred roots are agitation/urged) in him, seeing the city to be grossly idolatrous (full of idols)."}
{"book": "ACT", "chapter": 17, "verse": "17", "text": "He dialogued therefore in the synagogue with the Jews and those worshipping and in the marketplace every day with those happening to be present (meet by chance)."}
{"book": "ACT", "chapter": 17, "verse": "18", "text": "And some also of the Epicureans (those holding to the tenets of the philosopher Epicurus) and Stoics, philosophers, encountered him. And some said, What does this babbler (seed+word picker, one who picks up scraps of knowledge) wish to say? However others, He seems to be a preacher of foreign deities (word is properly the one for demons but in context it refers to what these philosophers believed to be strange heathen gods), because he preached the gospel of Jesus and the resurrection."}
{"book": "ACT", "chapter": 17, "verse": "19", "text": "And having taken hold of him, they brought him to (upon) the Ares Hill (Areopagus, the Hill of Ares, Mar’s Hill, a rocky hill in Athens where the supreme court was held), saying, Are we able to know what is this new teaching which is spoken by you?"}
{"book": "ACT", "chapter": 17, "verse": "20", "text": "For you are bringing strange things unto our ears. We resolve therefore to know what these things mean (wish to be)."}
{"book": "ACT", "chapter": 17, "verse": "21", "text": "Now all the Athenians and the visiting foreigners (strangers) spent their time in nothing else than to tell something and to hear something newer."}
{"book": "ACT", "chapter": 17, "verse": "22", "text": "And Paul having stood in the midst of Ares Hill (Mar’s Hill), said, Men, Athenians, I see that in all things you are very religious (timid/cowardly of deities, latin-superstitiosiores-religious possibly superstitiously religious, here again this greek word has demon in it referring to a diety);"}
{"book": "ACT", "chapter": 17, "verse": "23", "text": "For passing through and carefully observing your objects of worship, I found also an altar on which had been inscribed, To an unknown God (Agnosto Theo). Whom therefore not knowing you worship, Him I preach to you."}
{"book": "ACT", "chapter": 17, "verse": "24", "text": "The God having made the world and all things that are in it, He, being Lord of heaven and earth does not reside in hand-made temples,"}
{"book": "ACT", "chapter": 17, "verse": "25", "text": "Nor is served (interesting use of therapeutai which usually refers to healing) by hands of men as needing anything, Himself giving to all life and breath, and all things;"}
{"book": "ACT", "chapter": 17, "verse": "26", "text": "And He made from out of one every ethnicity of men to reside upon all the face of the earth having determined the appointed times and the boundaries of their habitation (residence),"}
{"book": "ACT", "chapter": 17, "verse": "27", "text": "To seek God, if perhaps indeed they might touch (feel, grope, greek roots are to handle and to pluck musically, latin-adtractent-grope root is attraction) Him and might find Him, though indeed He is not far away from each one of us."}
{"book": "ACT", "chapter": 17, "verse": "28", "text": "For in Him we live and move and are (exist); as also some of the poets among you have said, For we are also His offspring."}
{"book": "ACT", "chapter": 17, "verse": "29", "text": "Being therefore offspring of God, we ought not to think that which is divine (theion-this god word is an adjective) to be similar to gold, or to silver, or to stone, the engraven thing of man’s craft (art, skill) and impassioned imagination (inner passion, the emotional force driving meditation and reflection)."}
{"book": "ACT", "chapter": 17, "verse": "30", "text": "For indeed God having overlooked the times of ignorance (unknowing), presently He commands (informs from close beside) all men everywhere to repent,"}
{"book": "ACT", "chapter": 17, "verse": "31", "text": "Because He set a day in which He is about to judge the world in righteousness (justice) by a Man whom He appointed having given proof (pistin- common word for faith, trust, persuasion, assurance) to all in having raised Him up from out of the dead."}
{"book": "ACT", "chapter": 17, "verse": "32", "text": "And having heard of the resurrection of the dead, some indeed mocked, some however said, We will hear you again also concerning this."}
{"book": "ACT", "chapter": 17, "verse": "33", "text": "So Paul went out from their midst."}
{"book": "ACT", "chapter": 17, "verse": "34", "text": "And some men having joined (united with, cleaved to) him, believed, among whom also were Dionysius the Areopagite (a judge of the court of Areopagus) and a woman named Damaris and others with them."}
{"book": "ACT", "chapter": 18, "verse": "1", "text": "And after these things, having departed from Athens, he came unto Corinth."}
{"book": "ACT", "chapter": 18, "verse": "2", "text": "And having found a certain Jew named Aquila a native of Pontus, recently having come from Italy and his wife Priscilla -- because Claudius commanded all Jews to depart from Rome. He came to them,"}
{"book": "ACT", "chapter": 18, "verse": "3", "text": "And because of being of the same trade, he stayed with them and worked; for they were tent-makers by trade (techne, latin-artis)."}
{"book": "ACT", "chapter": 18, "verse": "4", "text": "And he dialogued in the synagogue on every Sabbath. He persuaded both Jews and Greeks."}
{"book": "ACT", "chapter": 18, "verse": "5", "text": "And when Silas and Timothy came down from Macedonia, Paul was occupied (held fast) with the word, thoroughly testifying to the Jews, Jesus to be the Christ."}
{"book": "ACT", "chapter": 18, "verse": "6", "text": "And they were opposing and blaspheming him; having shaken out his garments, he said to them, Your blood be upon your heads; I am clean. From now on, I will go unto the ethnicities."}
{"book": "ACT", "chapter": 18, "verse": "7", "text": "And having departed from there he came unto the house of a certain one named Titus Justus, worshipping God, of whom his house was bordering the synagogue."}
{"book": "ACT", "chapter": 18, "verse": "8", "text": "And Crispus, the ruler of the synagogue, believed in the Lord with his whole household. And many of the Corinthians hearing, believed and were baptized."}
{"book": "ACT", "chapter": 18, "verse": "9", "text": "And the Lord said in a vision by night to Paul, Fear not, but rather continue speaking and do not be silent,"}
{"book": "ACT", "chapter": 18, "verse": "10", "text": "Because I am with you and no one will attack (lay/put upon) you to harm (kakosai-evil-treat, inflict misery) you, because there are many of My people in this city."}
{"book": "ACT", "chapter": 18, "verse": "11", "text": "And He remained a year and six months teaching among them the word of God."}
{"book": "ACT", "chapter": 18, "verse": "12", "text": "And when Gallio being the proconsul of Achaia, the Jews rose up against Paul with the same passion and led him to (upon) the judgment seat (bema),"}
{"book": "ACT", "chapter": 18, "verse": "13", "text": "Saying, This man persuades men to worship God contrary to the law."}
{"book": "ACT", "chapter": 18, "verse": "14", "text": "And Paul being about to open his mouth, Gallio said to the Jews, If indeed it was some unrighteousness (injustice), or evil crime (reckless or villainous act), O Jews, according to reason (word or reasonably) I would have put up with you,"}
{"book": "ACT", "chapter": 18, "verse": "15", "text": "However if it is a question about a word, and names, and law which is according to you, you see to it yourselves; I resolve not to be a judge of these things."}
{"book": "ACT", "chapter": 18, "verse": "16", "text": "And he drove them away from the judgment seat."}
{"book": "ACT", "chapter": 18, "verse": "17", "text": "And all having seized Sosthenes, the ruler of the synagogue, beat him before the judgment seat. And nothing about these things concerned Gallio."}
{"book": "ACT", "chapter": 18, "verse": "18", "text": "Now Paul, yet having remained many days, having taken leave of the brothers, sailed away unto Syria and with him Priscilla and Aquilla, having shaved his head in Cenchrea; for he had a prayer comprising a vow."}
{"book": "ACT", "chapter": 18, "verse": "19", "text": "And he came unto Ephesus, and left them behind there. And he having entered into the synagogue dialogued with the Jews."}
{"book": "ACT", "chapter": 18, "verse": "20", "text": "And when they asked him to remain for (upon) a longer time, he did not consent (nod approval, nod as a sign, nod upon),"}
{"book": "ACT", "chapter": 18, "verse": "21", "text": "But rather having taken leave and having said, I is necessary for me by all means to keep the coming feast at (into) Jerusalem; I will return again to you God willing. He sailed away from Ephesus."}
{"book": "ACT", "chapter": 18, "verse": "22", "text": "And having landed at Caesarea, and having gone up and having greeted the church, he went down unto Antioch."}
{"book": "ACT", "chapter": 18, "verse": "23", "text": "And having stayed some time, he went out passing successively through the Galatian region and Phrygia, making firm all the disciples."}
{"book": "ACT", "chapter": 18, "verse": "24", "text": "Now a certain Jew named Apollos a native of Alexandria, an eloquent (greek-logios-gifted with word/learning/reason, latin-eloquens) man, came into Ephesus. Being powerfully able (mighty, powerful, able) in the Scriptures."}
{"book": "ACT", "chapter": 18, "verse": "25", "text": "He was orally instructed (taught by word of mouth, sounded down) in the way of the Lord and being fervent (zeon-burn in spirit, hot enough to boil and bubble over) in spirit, he spoke and accurately (carefully, with exactness) taught the things concerning Jesus, understanding (long knowing by standing upon) only the baptism of John."}
{"book": "ACT", "chapter": 18, "verse": "26", "text": "And he began to speak boldly (freely) in the synagogue. And Priscilla and Aquila having heard him, they took him to them and more accurately expounded (set out, explained) to him the way of God."}
{"book": "ACT", "chapter": 18, "verse": "27", "text": "And he resolving to pass through into Achaia, the brothers urging him forward wrote to the disciples to welcome him, who having arrived, contributed much to those having believed through grace."}
{"book": "ACT", "chapter": 18, "verse": "28", "text": "For he vigorously (well-stretched) and thoroughly refuted the Jews publically, showing (proving) Jesus to be the Christ through the Scriptures."}
{"book": "ACT", "chapter": 19, "verse": "1", "text": "And it happened while Apollos was in Corinth, Paul having passed through the upper parts to come unto Ephesus and having found certain disciples,"}
{"book": "ACT", "chapter": 19, "verse": "2", "text": "He said to them, Did you receive the Holy Spirit when you had believed?"}
{"book": "ACT", "chapter": 19, "verse": "3", "text": "And they [said] to him, We did not even hear whether there is a Holy Spirit. And he said, INTO what then were you baptized? And they said, INTO the baptism of John."}
{"book": "ACT", "chapter": 19, "verse": "4", "text": "And Paul said, John baptized with a baptism of repentance, saying to the people, so that they should believe unto the One coming after him that is unto Jesus."}
{"book": "ACT", "chapter": 19, "verse": "5", "text": "And having heard they were baptized INTO (unto) the name of the Lord Jesus."}
{"book": "ACT", "chapter": 19, "verse": "6", "text": "And Paul having laid hands UPON them, the Holy Spirit came UPON them; and they were speaking with tongues (glossais) and prophesying."}
{"book": "ACT", "chapter": 19, "verse": "7", "text": "And all the men were about twelve."}
{"book": "ACT", "chapter": 19, "verse": "8", "text": "And having entered into the synagogue, he spoke boldly (freely) for (upon) three months, dialoguing and persuading concerning the kingdom of God."}
{"book": "ACT", "chapter": 19, "verse": "9", "text": "And when some were hardened and refused to be persuaded, speaking evil of the Way before the multitude, having departed away from them, he took separately the disciples, day by day dialoguing in the leisure hall (place where there is leisure of work, latin-scola-school, greek-schole) of Tyrannus."}
{"book": "ACT", "chapter": 19, "verse": "10", "text": "And this happened for (upon) two years, so that all those residing in Asia heard the word of the Lord, both Jews and Greeks."}
{"book": "ACT", "chapter": 19, "verse": "11", "text": "And God did extraordinary (not being ordinary) miracles through the hands of Paul,"}
{"book": "ACT", "chapter": 19, "verse": "12", "text": "So that even handkerchiefs and workman aprons from his skin were brought upon those ailing (infirmed) and their chronic diseases left (released, removed, freed, changed away from) them and evil spirits went out."}
{"book": "ACT", "chapter": 19, "verse": "13", "text": "And some of the Jewish exorcists (exorkiston, latin-exorcistis) going about in a circuit attempted (take upon in hand) to invoke (call the name) the name of the Lord Jesus upon those having evil spirits, saying, We adjure (bind under oath, solemnly charge, force to take an oath) you by Jesus whom Paul preaches."}
{"book": "ACT", "chapter": 19, "verse": "14", "text": "And they were certain men, the seven sons of Sceva, a Jewish high priest, that were doing this."}
{"book": "ACT", "chapter": 19, "verse": "15", "text": "And the evil spirit answering said to them, Jesus I know, even Paul I am quite acquainted with; however who are you?"}
{"book": "ACT", "chapter": 19, "verse": "16", "text": "And the man in whom was the evil spirit having leapt upon them and having overpowered (exercised lordship down on) them all (both of two), prevailed (showed strength over) against them, so that they fled from out of that house naked and wounded (greek root is traumatize like traumatized)."}
{"book": "ACT", "chapter": 19, "verse": "17", "text": "And this became known to all the Jews and Greeks residing in Ephesus, and fear fell upon all them and the name of the Lord Jesus was magnified."}
{"book": "ACT", "chapter": 19, "verse": "18", "text": "And many of those having believed came, confessing and announcing (reporting) their practices (greek-praxis)."}
{"book": "ACT", "chapter": 19, "verse": "19", "text": "And many of those having practiced the curious arts (perierga- all around work, spending excessive time/effort where it doesn’t belong, latin- curiosa sectati- curious arts, possibly means wasting time on anything unrelated to work, especially things that make the flesh wrongly curious), brought the books and burned them in the sight of (before) all. And they counted up their values (prices) and found it five myriads (50,000 pieces) of silver (AMP-puts this at about $9300)."}
{"book": "ACT", "chapter": 19, "verse": "20", "text": "Thus the word of the Lord increased and prevailed with dominion (exerted power, might)."}
{"book": "ACT", "chapter": 19, "verse": "21", "text": "And after these things were fulfilled, Paul purposed (set, laid, placed, latin-posuit-set) in the Spirit, having passed through Macedonia and Achaia, to go unto Jerusalem, having said, After my having been there, it is necessary for me to also see Rome."}
{"book": "ACT", "chapter": 19, "verse": "22", "text": "And having sent away into Macedonia two of those ministering to him, Timothy and Erastus, he remained (hold upon) a time in Asia."}
{"book": "ACT", "chapter": 19, "verse": "23", "text": "And there happened at the same time no small disturbance concerning the Way."}
{"book": "ACT", "chapter": 19, "verse": "24", "text": "For a certain man named Demetrius, a silversmith making silver shrines of Artemis, brought no little business to the craftsmen (technitais);"}
{"book": "ACT", "chapter": 19, "verse": "25", "text": "Whom having brought together the workmen in such things, he said, Men, you understand that from out of this business is our prosperity (plenty, wealth)."}
{"book": "ACT", "chapter": 19, "verse": "26", "text": "And you see and hear that this Paul having persuaded, turned away a considerable amount of people not only of Ephesus but rather almost of all Asia, saying that they are not gods which are made (coming into being) through hands."}
{"book": "ACT", "chapter": 19, "verse": "27", "text": "And not only is this endangering to us that our part [in this business] to come into disrepute, but rather also the temple of the great goddess Artemis (latin-Dianae-KJV-Diana) is reckoned for nothing, and her majesty is about to also be deposed (pull/take down) whom the whole of Asia and the inhabited world (inhabited Roman world) worship."}
{"book": "ACT", "chapter": 19, "verse": "28", "text": "And having heard and having become full of rage (wrath, outburst of passion), they cried out saying, Great is Artemis of the Ephesians."}
{"book": "ACT", "chapter": 19, "verse": "29", "text": "And the city was filled with confusion (riotous disturbance); and having seized with them Gaius and Aristarchus, Macedonians, fellow-travelers of Paul, they rushed with the same passion into the theatre."}
{"book": "ACT", "chapter": 19, "verse": "30", "text": "And Paul intending to go into the assembled people (latin-populum-people); the disciples did not allow him,"}
{"book": "ACT", "chapter": 19, "verse": "31", "text": "And some also of the Asiarchs being friends to him, having sent to him, entreated him not to place (give, offer) himself into the theatre."}
{"book": "ACT", "chapter": 19, "verse": "32", "text": "Different ones were crying out (shouting) another thing; for the assembly (ekklesia primarily used of the church but here not) was confused and most did not know for what cause they had come together."}
{"book": "ACT", "chapter": 19, "verse": "33", "text": "And from out of the crowd they put forward Alexander, the Jews having thrust him forward. Then Alexander, having waved with his hand, wanted to make a defense to the assembled people."}
{"book": "ACT", "chapter": 19, "verse": "34", "text": "And having recognized that he is a Jew, there was one cry from all, crying out (shouting) for about two hours, Great is Artemis of the Ephesians."}
{"book": "ACT", "chapter": 19, "verse": "35", "text": "And the town clerk having pacified (appeased, calmed, restrained) the crowd, says, Men, Ephesians, what man is there then who does not know that the city of the Ephesians as being the temple-keeper of the great Artemis and of that fallen from Zeus?"}
{"book": "ACT", "chapter": 19, "verse": "36", "text": "These things being then undeniable (indisputable, not to be contradicted), it is necessary for you to be calm (pacified, appeased, restrained) and do nothing rash (reckless, impulsive, headstrong, headlong)."}
{"book": "ACT", "chapter": 19, "verse": "37", "text": "For you brought these men, [who are] neither temple-plunderers nor blaspheming our goddess."}
{"book": "ACT", "chapter": 19, "verse": "38", "text": "If then Demetrius and the craftsmen with him have a matter (word) against anyone, the courts are conducted and there are proconsuls; let them accuse one another."}
{"book": "ACT", "chapter": 19, "verse": "39", "text": "And if you inquire anything beyond this, it will be solved in the legal (subject to law) assembly."}
{"book": "ACT", "chapter": 19, "verse": "40", "text": "For we are in danger of being accused of insurrection concerning today, there is not existing one cause which we will be able to give a reason (word) concerning this conspiracy (riotous concourse, twisting together)."}
{"book": "ACT", "chapter": 19, "verse": "41", "text": "And having said these things, he dismissed the assembly."}
{"book": "ACT", "chapter": 20, "verse": "1", "text": "And after the uproar had ceased, Paul having called to him the disciples, and having entreated them and having said farewell, departed to go unto Macedonia."}
{"book": "ACT", "chapter": 20, "verse": "2", "text": "And having passed through those parts and having entreated them with much speech (word), he came unto Greece (Hellada)."}
{"book": "ACT", "chapter": 20, "verse": "3", "text": "And having spent (done) three months, a plot having been made against him by the Jews, as he was about to sail into Syria, a purpose (gnome- like a knowing, opinion, counsel, consent, latin-consilium-plan) arose (happened) to return through Macedonia."}
{"book": "ACT", "chapter": 20, "verse": "4", "text": "And there accompanied him as far as Asia, Sopater Pyrrhus, a Berean; and of the Thessalonians, Aristarchus and Secundus; and Gaius and Timothy of Derbe; and of the Asians, Tychicus and Trophimus."}
{"book": "ACT", "chapter": 20, "verse": "5", "text": "These having gone before, waited for us in Troas;"}
{"book": "ACT", "chapter": 20, "verse": "6", "text": "And we sailed out away from Philippi after the days of the Unleavened Bread (the Passover Week) and we came to them at (unto) Troas within five days where we stayed seven days."}
{"book": "ACT", "chapter": 20, "verse": "7", "text": "And on (in) the first [day] of the week, we having come together to break bread, Paul dialogued with them, about to depart on the next day; and he extended the talk (speech, word, logon) until midnight."}
{"book": "ACT", "chapter": 20, "verse": "8", "text": "And there were many lamps (torches, lights) in the upper room where we were assembled (gathered together)."}
{"book": "ACT", "chapter": 20, "verse": "9", "text": "And a certain young man, named Eutychus, was sitting upon the window, overpowered (brought/carried/lead down) by a deep sleep as Paul dialogued on (upon) longer, having been overpowered (brought/carried/lead down) from the sleep, he fell down below from the third story, and was taken up dead."}
{"book": "ACT", "chapter": 20, "verse": "10", "text": "However Paul having descended, fell upon him and having embraced (to take/receive together all around) him said, Do not be alarmed (striken with panic, terrified, greatly disturbed); for his soul (life, psyche) is in him."}
{"book": "ACT", "chapter": 20, "verse": "11", "text": "And having gone up and having broken bread and having eaten and having conversed for a considerably long [time] until daybreak, so he departed."}
{"book": "ACT", "chapter": 20, "verse": "12", "text": "And they brought the boy alive and not a little (greatly, moderately) were comforted (consoled, entreated)."}
{"book": "ACT", "chapter": 20, "verse": "13", "text": "And we, having gone ahead upon the ship, sailed to (upon) Assos, there being about to take up (pick up) Paul. For so having arranged, he himself was about to go on foot."}
{"book": "ACT", "chapter": 20, "verse": "14", "text": "And when he met with us at Assos, having taken (picked) him up, we came unto Mitylene;"}
{"book": "ACT", "chapter": 20, "verse": "15", "text": "Having sailed away from there, we arrived on the next day opposite Chios and we arrived another (different) day at Samos; and we came the next day unto Miletus."}
{"book": "ACT", "chapter": 20, "verse": "16", "text": "For Paul had decided to sail past Ephesus, so that it might not happen for him to spend time in Asia; for he was hurrying if it was possible for him to be in Jerusalem the day of Pentecost."}
{"book": "ACT", "chapter": 20, "verse": "17", "text": "And from Miletus, having sent unto Ephesus, he called for the elders of the church."}
{"book": "ACT", "chapter": 20, "verse": "18", "text": "And when they had come to him, he said to them, You understand how I was with you all the time from the first day that I arrived in Asia,"}
{"book": "ACT", "chapter": 20, "verse": "19", "text": "Serving (bond-slaving) the Lord with all lowliness of perspective (humility of outlook), and tears, and trials, having happened to me through the plots of the Jews;"}
{"book": "ACT", "chapter": 20, "verse": "20", "text": "How I have kept (concealed) nothing back of that being profitable, so as not to report it to you, and to teach you publicly and from house to house,"}
{"book": "ACT", "chapter": 20, "verse": "21", "text": "Thoroughly testifying to the Jews and to the Greeks, repentance unto God and faith unto our Lord Jesus Christ."}
{"book": "ACT", "chapter": 20, "verse": "22", "text": "And now, Behold, I bound in the Spirit, go unto Jerusalem, not knowing the things in it which will encounter me;"}
{"book": "ACT", "chapter": 20, "verse": "23", "text": "Except that the Holy Spirit thoroughly testifies to me in city by city saying that bonds and tribulations await (remain for) me."}
{"book": "ACT", "chapter": 20, "verse": "24", "text": "But rather I make not any account (word) of my life (psychen, root is soul) [as] precious (valuable, honored) to myself, so as to finish my course (race, running) and the ministry (diakonian) that I received from the Lord Jesus, to thoroughly testify the gospel of the grace of God."}
{"book": "ACT", "chapter": 20, "verse": "25", "text": "And now, Behold, I know that you all, among whom I have gone about preaching the kingdom, will see my face no more."}
{"book": "ACT", "chapter": 20, "verse": "26", "text": "Therefore I testify to you in this day that I am clean (pure) from the blood of all,"}
{"book": "ACT", "chapter": 20, "verse": "27", "text": "For I did not draw back (retreat, withdraw, conceal) from announcing the resolved plan of God to you all."}
{"book": "ACT", "chapter": 20, "verse": "28", "text": "Take heed (pay attention, beware) to yourselves and to all the flock among which the Holy Spirit has set you overseers, to shepherd (pastor, latin often uses the word for pastor here but in this case it is regere which means govern root is king, of note- the word poimainein means to care for/protect/tend while the greek word bosko means to feed- bad translating in the KJV) the church of God which He purchased through His own blood."}
{"book": "ACT", "chapter": 20, "verse": "29", "text": "I know that after my departure oppressive (burdensome, heavy, grievous, latin-graves-serious root is heavy like grave) wolves will come in unto you not sparing the flock,"}
{"book": "ACT", "chapter": 20, "verse": "30", "text": "And from out of your own selves will rise up men speaking distorted things (thoroughly turned/changed, latin-perversa-perverse) to draw away the disciples after them."}
{"book": "ACT", "chapter": 20, "verse": "31", "text": "Therefore be vigilant (stay awake, watch), remembering that for three years, night and day, I did not cease admonishing (to place in the mind) each one with tears."}
{"book": "ACT", "chapter": 20, "verse": "32", "text": "And now I commit (set close beside) you, to God and to the word of His grace, being able to upbuild and give you an inheritance among all those having been sanctified."}
{"book": "ACT", "chapter": 20, "verse": "33", "text": "I have not lusted after (passioned upon) no one’s silver or gold or clothing."}
{"book": "ACT", "chapter": 20, "verse": "34", "text": "You yourselves know that these hands have supported my needs and those being with me."}
{"book": "ACT", "chapter": 20, "verse": "35", "text": "I showed you in all things that thus exhaustively laboring it is necessary to aid (take hold of, support corresponding to the real need) those being weak (sick, infirmed), and also to remember the words of the Lord Jesus, how He Himself said, It is more blessed to give (offer) than to receive (take)."}
{"book": "ACT", "chapter": 20, "verse": "36", "text": "And having said these things and having bowed his knee, he prayed with all them."}
{"book": "ACT", "chapter": 20, "verse": "37", "text": "And there was much weeping of all; and having fallen upon the neck of Paul, they repeatedly kissed him,"}
{"book": "ACT", "chapter": 20, "verse": "38", "text": "Painfully sorrowing (very painful sorrow) most of all for (upon) the word which he had spoken that they were about to not see his face any more. And they accompanied him unto the ship."}
{"book": "ACT", "chapter": 21, "verse": "1", "text": "And when having drawn away from them, we began sailing, and having run a direct course, we came unto Cos, then next unto Rhodes and from there unto Patara."}
{"book": "ACT", "chapter": 21, "verse": "2", "text": "And having found a ship passing over unto Phoenicia, having gone on board, we set sail."}
{"book": "ACT", "chapter": 21, "verse": "3", "text": "And having sighted Cyprus, and having left it on the left side, we sailed unto Syria and landed at Tyre. For there the ship was unloading its cargo."}
{"book": "ACT", "chapter": 21, "verse": "4", "text": "Then having sought out the disciples, we remained there seven days; who told Paul through the Spirit not to go up unto Jerusalem."}
{"book": "ACT", "chapter": 21, "verse": "5", "text": "And when it happened that we completed the days, having gone out, we journeyed, all accompanying us with wives and children until the outside of the city. And having bowed the knees upon the shore, having prayed,"}
{"book": "ACT", "chapter": 21, "verse": "6", "text": "Having said farewell to one another. Then we went up into the ship; and they returned unto their own."}
{"book": "ACT", "chapter": 21, "verse": "7", "text": "And we, having completed the voyage from Tyre, arrived at Ptolemais, and having greeted the brothers, stayed one day with them."}
{"book": "ACT", "chapter": 21, "verse": "8", "text": "And on the next day, having gone out, we came unto Caesarea; and having entered into the house of Philip the evangelist, being from out of the seven, we stayed with him."}
{"book": "ACT", "chapter": 21, "verse": "9", "text": "And with this man there were four daughters, virgins, prophesying."}
{"book": "ACT", "chapter": 21, "verse": "10", "text": "And staying on many days, a certain one came down from Judea, a prophet named Agabus;"}
{"book": "ACT", "chapter": 21, "verse": "11", "text": "And having come to us and having taken the belt of Paul, and having bound his own feet and hands, he said, This says the Holy Spirit, The man of whom is this belt, thusly the Jews will bind in Jerusalem and will hand him over into the hands of the ethnicities."}
{"book": "ACT", "chapter": 21, "verse": "12", "text": "And when we heard these things, both we and those of that place entreated him not to go up unto Jerusalem."}
{"book": "ACT", "chapter": 21, "verse": "13", "text": "Then Paul answered, What are you doing, weeping and breaking my heart? For I have readiness to not only be bound but rather to also die at Jerusalem for (for the sake of) the name of the Lord Jesus."}
{"book": "ACT", "chapter": 21, "verse": "14", "text": "And he not being persuaded, we were silent having said, The will of the Lord be done."}
{"book": "ACT", "chapter": 21, "verse": "15", "text": "And after these days, having prepared our bags for the journey, we went up unto Jerusalem."}
{"book": "ACT", "chapter": 21, "verse": "16", "text": "And also [some] of the disciples from Caesarea went with us, bringing one with whom we should lodge, a certain Mnason, a Cypriot, an early (old, original, from the beginning) disciple."}
{"book": "ACT", "chapter": 21, "verse": "17", "text": "And we having arrived at Jerusalem, the brothers gladly received us."}
{"book": "ACT", "chapter": 21, "verse": "18", "text": "And on the next day, Paul went in with us to James, and all the elders arrived."}
{"book": "ACT", "chapter": 21, "verse": "19", "text": "And having greeted them, he explained one by one each of the things God had done among the ethnicities through his ministry (diakonias)."}
{"book": "ACT", "chapter": 21, "verse": "20", "text": "And those having heard, glorified God. And they said to him, You see, brother, how many myriads there are among the Jews having believed and all are zealous ones for the law."}
{"book": "ACT", "chapter": 21, "verse": "21", "text": "And they have been informed (instructed orally or by word of mouth) concerning you that you teach apostasy from Moses to all those Jews among the ethnicities, telling them not to circumcise the children nor to walk in the customs."}
{"book": "ACT", "chapter": 21, "verse": "22", "text": "What is it then? Certainly they will hear that you have come."}
{"book": "ACT", "chapter": 21, "verse": "23", "text": "This then do you that we say to you. We have four men that have a vow upon them."}
{"book": "ACT", "chapter": 21, "verse": "24", "text": "Take these, be purified with them, and spend upon them, so that they will shave the head; and all will know that of which they have been informed about you is nothing, but rather that you yourself walk orderly (walk in line/rank/cadence) also, keeping (observing, guarding) the law."}
{"book": "ACT", "chapter": 21, "verse": "25", "text": "And concerning those having believed of the ethnicities, we wrote, having adjudged them to keep from the things offered to idols, and blood, and what is strangled, and fornication (sexual immorality)."}
{"book": "ACT", "chapter": 21, "verse": "26", "text": "Then Paul, having taken the men on the next day with them, and having been purified, entered into the temple, announcing the fulfillment of the days of purification until the sacrifice was offered for each one of them."}
{"book": "ACT", "chapter": 21, "verse": "27", "text": "And when seven days were about to be completed, Jews from Asia having seen him in the temple stirred up all the crowd and laid hands upon him,"}
{"book": "ACT", "chapter": 21, "verse": "28", "text": "Crying out (shouting), Men, Israelites, help! This is the man who is teaching all everywhere against the people, and the law, and this place; and still also he brought Greeks into the temple and defiled this holy place."}
{"book": "ACT", "chapter": 21, "verse": "29", "text": "For they had previously seen Trophimus the Ephesian with him in the city, whom they supposed that Paul had brought into the temple."}
{"book": "ACT", "chapter": 21, "verse": "30", "text": "And the whole city was moved (excited, stirred up) and there was a riotous gathering (mob, running together) of the people. And having laid hold of Paul, they dragged him outside the temple and the doors were directly shut."}
{"book": "ACT", "chapter": 21, "verse": "31", "text": "And while they were seeking to kill him, there came a report to the commander (military leader of a thousand) of the cohort (tenth part of a legion) that all of Jerusalem was in an uproar;"}
{"book": "ACT", "chapter": 21, "verse": "32", "text": "Who at once, having taken with him soldiers and centurions (captain of a hundred), ran down upon them. And having seen the commander and the soldiers, they stopped beating Paul."}
{"book": "ACT", "chapter": 21, "verse": "33", "text": "Then the commander having drawn near, laid hold upon him, and commanded him to be bound with two chains (bonds), and inquired who he might be and what it is he had been doing."}
{"book": "ACT", "chapter": 21, "verse": "34", "text": "And some were calling out one thing and others a different thing in the crowd. And he not being able to certainly know on account of the uproar, he ordered him to be brought into the barracks."}
{"book": "ACT", "chapter": 21, "verse": "35", "text": "And when he came upon the stairs, it happened that he was carried by the soldiers because of the violence (force) of the crowd."}
{"book": "ACT", "chapter": 21, "verse": "36", "text": "For the multitude of the people followed crying out (shouting), Away with him."}
{"book": "ACT", "chapter": 21, "verse": "37", "text": "And being about to be brought into the barracks, Paul says to the commander, Is it permitted to me to say something to you? And he said, Do you know Greek (the Greek language)?"}
{"book": "ACT", "chapter": 21, "verse": "38", "text": "You then are not the Egyptian who before these days, having led a revolt and having led out into the wilderness the four thousand men of the assassins?"}
{"book": "ACT", "chapter": 21, "verse": "39", "text": "And Paul said, I am a Jewish man of Tarsus, a citizen of no insignificant city of Cilicia. I implore (beg, request) you, allow me to speak to the people."}
{"book": "ACT", "chapter": 21, "verse": "40", "text": "And he having allowed him, Paul standing upon the stairs waved his hand to the people; and a great silence having taken place, he spoke to them in the Hebrew language (dialekto like dialect), saying,"}
{"book": "ACT", "chapter": 22, "verse": "1", "text": "Men, brothers, and fathers, hear my defense to you now."}
{"book": "ACT", "chapter": 22, "verse": "2", "text": "And having heard that he was addressing them in the Hebrew language (dialekto), they became even more quiet. And he says,"}
{"book": "ACT", "chapter": 22, "verse": "3", "text": "I am a Jewish man, born in Tarsus of Cilicia, and brought up (reared) in this city beside the feet of Gamaliel (a renowned Pharisee and teacher of the law), having been instructed according to the exactness (accuracy, strictness) of the law of our fathers, being a zealous one for God, just as you all are this day;"}
{"book": "ACT", "chapter": 22, "verse": "4", "text": "Who persecuted this Way as far as death, binding and handing over both men and women into prisons-"}
{"book": "ACT", "chapter": 22, "verse": "5", "text": "As also the high priest and all the elderhood bear witness to me; from whom also having received letters to the brothers, I went unto Damascus to bring also those being there bound unto Jerusalem so that they might be punished."}
{"book": "ACT", "chapter": 22, "verse": "6", "text": "And it happened to me traveling and drawing near to Damascus that about noon, suddenly from out of heaven shone a considerable light around me."}
{"book": "ACT", "chapter": 22, "verse": "7", "text": "And I fell unto the ground and heard a voice saying to me, Saul, Saul, why do you persecute Me?"}
{"book": "ACT", "chapter": 22, "verse": "8", "text": "And I answered, Who are You Lord? And He said to me, I am Jesus of Nazareth, whom you are persecuting."}
{"book": "ACT", "chapter": 22, "verse": "9", "text": "And those being with me, indeed beheld the light; however they did not hear the voice of Him speaking to me."}
{"book": "ACT", "chapter": 22, "verse": "10", "text": "And I said, What shall I do, Lord? And the Lord said to me, Having risen up, go unto Damascus and there you it will be told concerning all things that it has been appointed (arranged) you to do."}
{"book": "ACT", "chapter": 22, "verse": "11", "text": "And as I could not see from the glory (splendor, latin-claritate-clarity) of that light, being led by the hand by those being with me, I came unto Damascus."}
{"book": "ACT", "chapter": 22, "verse": "12", "text": "And a certain Ananias, a devout man according to the law, borne witness to by all the Jews residing [there],"}
{"book": "ACT", "chapter": 22, "verse": "13", "text": "Having come to me and having stood by me, said to me, Saul brother, receive your sight. And I looked up unto him that same hour."}
{"book": "ACT", "chapter": 22, "verse": "14", "text": "And he said, The God of our fathers has appointed you to know His will and to see the Righteous One and to hear the voice from out of His mouth."}
{"book": "ACT", "chapter": 22, "verse": "15", "text": "For you will be a witness for Him to all men of what you have seen and heard."}
{"book": "ACT", "chapter": 22, "verse": "16", "text": "And now why do you delay? Having arisen, be baptized and wash away your sins, having called upon His name."}
{"book": "ACT", "chapter": 22, "verse": "17", "text": "And it happened to me having returned unto Jerusalem and my praying in the temple, I became into a trance (ecstasy),"}
{"book": "ACT", "chapter": 22, "verse": "18", "text": "And saw Him saying to me, Make haste and go out with speed from out of Jerusalem, because they will not receive your testimony concerning Me."}
{"book": "ACT", "chapter": 22, "verse": "19", "text": "And I said, Lord, they themselves understand (stand upon because prolonged acquaintance) that I was imprisoning and beating in every synagogue those believing upon You."}
{"book": "ACT", "chapter": 22, "verse": "20", "text": "And when the blood of Your witness Stephen was poured out, I myself was also standing by and consenting and watching over the garments of those killing him."}
{"book": "ACT", "chapter": 22, "verse": "21", "text": "And He said to me, Go, for I will send (root is word for apostle) you out far away unto the ethnicities (latin-nationes-nations)."}
{"book": "ACT", "chapter": 22, "verse": "22", "text": "And they heard him until this word and they lifted up their voice saying, Away with such from the earth. For it is not fit that he live!"}
{"book": "ACT", "chapter": 22, "verse": "23", "text": "And they were crying out and casting off their garments, and throwing dust into the air."}
{"book": "ACT", "chapter": 22, "verse": "24", "text": "The commander ordered him to be brought into the barracks, saying for him to be judicially examined by flogging, so that he might recognize for what cause thus they called out (shouted, sounded out) against him."}
{"book": "ACT", "chapter": 22, "verse": "25", "text": "And as he stretched him out with the straps (a binding for one about to be flogged), Paul said to the centurion standing by, Is it permitted for you to flog man that is a Roman and uncondemned?"}
{"book": "ACT", "chapter": 22, "verse": "26", "text": "And the centurion having heard it and having gone to the commander, he reported it saying, What are you about to do? For this man is a Roman."}
{"book": "ACT", "chapter": 22, "verse": "27", "text": "And having come up, the commander said to him, Tell me, are you a Roman? And he said, Yes."}
{"book": "ACT", "chapter": 22, "verse": "28", "text": "And the commander answered, I with a great sum bought this citizenship. However Paul said, I however also was born so."}
{"book": "ACT", "chapter": 22, "verse": "29", "text": "Then directly those being about to judicially examine him departed away from him and the commander was fearful having recognized that he is a Roman and because he was binding him."}
{"book": "ACT", "chapter": 22, "verse": "30", "text": "And on the next day, resolving to know for certain the why he is accused by the Jews, he unbound him and commanded the chief priests and all the council to assemble and having brought down Paul, he set him unto them."}
{"book": "ACT", "chapter": 23, "verse": "1", "text": "And Paul having looked fixedly at the council, said, Men, brothers, I have lived as a citizen in all good conscience to God as far as this day."}
{"book": "ACT", "chapter": 23, "verse": "2", "text": "And the high priest Ananias commanded those standing by him to strike his mouth."}
{"book": "ACT", "chapter": 23, "verse": "3", "text": "Then Paul said to him, God is about to strike you, whitewashed (plastered over-with dust/lime) wall! And you, Do you sit judging me according to the law, and violating law, command me to be struck?"}
{"book": "ACT", "chapter": 23, "verse": "4", "text": "And those who stood by said, Do you revile (abusively insult) the high priest of God?"}
{"book": "ACT", "chapter": 23, "verse": "5", "text": "And Paul said, I was not aware, brothers, that he is a high priest; for it has been written that You will not speak evil of a ruler of the people."}
{"book": "ACT", "chapter": 23, "verse": "6", "text": "And Paul having known that the one part were of Sadducees and the other of Pharisees, cried out in the council, Men, brothers, I am a Pharisee, the son of a Pharisee; concerning the hope and resurrection of the dead I am judged (on trial?)."}
{"book": "ACT", "chapter": 23, "verse": "7", "text": "And when he said this, a dissension happened between the Pharisees and Sadducees and the multitude was divided (split, rend)."}
{"book": "ACT", "chapter": 23, "verse": "8", "text": "For even the Sadducees say there is no resurrection, nor angel, nor spirit; however the Pharisees confess (voice the same conclusion) them all."}
{"book": "ACT", "chapter": 23, "verse": "9", "text": "And there arose a great outcry, and some of the scribes of the part of the Pharisees having risen up, they were contending, saying, We find nothing evil in this man. What if a spirit or an angel has spoken to him? {not in Vulgate and some translations but in KJV/YLT- Let us not fight against God.}"}
{"book": "ACT", "chapter": 23, "verse": "10", "text": "And a great dissension arising, the commander having feared lest Paul should be torn in pieces by them, commanded the company of soldiers having gone down to take him by force from out of the middle of them, and to bring him into the barracks."}
{"book": "ACT", "chapter": 23, "verse": "11", "text": "And the next night, the Lord having stood by him said, Be emboldened within with courage, for as you have thoroughly testified about Me at Jerusalem, so you must also testify at Rome."}
{"book": "ACT", "chapter": 23, "verse": "12", "text": "And when it was day, the Jews having made a coalition (latin-collegerunt-gathered), put themselves under an anathema (oat-curse unto destruction), saying, neither to eat, nor to drink, until that they should kill Paul."}
{"book": "ACT", "chapter": 23, "verse": "13", "text": "And there were more than forty having made this sworn conspiracy (plot, swearing together),"}
{"book": "ACT", "chapter": 23, "verse": "14", "text": "Who, having come to the chief priests and the elders, said, With an anathema (oath-curse unto destruction) we have curse-bound ourselves, nothing to eat until we should kill Paul."}
{"book": "ACT", "chapter": 23, "verse": "15", "text": "Now therefore you along with the council make an exhibit to the commander so that he might bring him down unto you, as being about to thoroughly know with exactness (high accuracy, strict carefulness) the things concerning him; and we, before his drawing near are ready to kill him."}
{"book": "ACT", "chapter": 23, "verse": "16", "text": "And the son of the sister of Paul having heard of the ambush, having come near and having entered into the barracks, he reported it to Paul."}
{"book": "ACT", "chapter": 23, "verse": "17", "text": "And Paul having called to him one of the centurions said, Take this young man to the commander; for he has something to report to him."}
{"book": "ACT", "chapter": 23, "verse": "18", "text": "He therefore having taken him, brought him to the commander and he says, The prisoner Paul, having called to me, asked me to lead this young man to you, having something to say to you."}
{"book": "ACT", "chapter": 23, "verse": "19", "text": "And the commander having taken hold of his hand and having withdrawn to his own (in private), inquired, What is it that you have to report to me?"}
{"book": "ACT", "chapter": 23, "verse": "20", "text": "Then he said, The Jews have agreed together to ask you, that you might bring down Paul tomorrow into the council, as being about to inquire something more precisely (accurately, exactly, carefully) concerning him."}
{"book": "ACT", "chapter": 23, "verse": "21", "text": "You therefore do not be persuaded by them. For they lie in wait (to ambush) for him, from out of them are more than forty men, who have put themselves under an anathema (oath-curse) to neither eat nor to drink until they have killed him; and now they are ready, awaiting the promise from you."}
{"book": "ACT", "chapter": 23, "verse": "22", "text": "The commander then dismissed the young man, having commanded him to speak out (divulge) these things to no one that you have exhibited (reported, made apparent) to me."}
{"book": "ACT", "chapter": 23, "verse": "23", "text": "And having called to him a certain two of the centurions, he said, Prepare two hundred soldiers, so that they might go as far as Caesarea, and seventy horsemen, and two hundred spearman, for the third hour of the night."}
{"book": "ACT", "chapter": 23, "verse": "24", "text": "And to provide mounts (beasts of burden-usually horses or mules), so that having placed Paul upon, they might bring him safely (thoroughly save/rescue/sozo) to Felix the governor (latin-praesidem-governor close to presider),"}
{"book": "ACT", "chapter": 23, "verse": "25", "text": "Having written a letter, having this form (type):"}
{"book": "ACT", "chapter": 23, "verse": "26", "text": "Claudius Lysias, To the most excellent (strongest, noblest, latin-optimo-best) governor, Felix, greetings."}
{"book": "ACT", "chapter": 23, "verse": "27", "text": "This man, having been apprehended by the Jews, and being about to be killed by them, having come up with the company of soldiers, I rescued (removed) him, having learned that he is a Roman."}
{"book": "ACT", "chapter": 23, "verse": "28", "text": "And resolving to recognize (know exactly, know upon) the charge on which they accused him, I brought him down unto their council,"}
{"book": "ACT", "chapter": 23, "verse": "29", "text": "Whom I found being accused concerning questions (question from a hot dispute/rigorous debate) of their law; and not having accusation worthy of death or of chains."}
{"book": "ACT", "chapter": 23, "verse": "30", "text": "And it having been disclosed to me of a plot to be [executed] against the man, at once I sent him to you, having commanded also the accusers to speak these things against him before (upon) you."}
{"book": "ACT", "chapter": 23, "verse": "31", "text": "The soldiers therefore, according to that having been ordered them, having taken Paul, brought him by night unto Antipatris."}
{"book": "ACT", "chapter": 23, "verse": "32", "text": "And on the next day, having allowed the horsemen to depart with him, they returned unto the barracks-"}
{"book": "ACT", "chapter": 23, "verse": "33", "text": "Who having entered into Caesarea and having delivered the letter to the governor, presented Paul also to him."}
{"book": "ACT", "chapter": 23, "verse": "34", "text": "And having read it and having asked of what province (latin-provincia-province) he is, and having learned that [he is] from Cilicia,"}
{"book": "ACT", "chapter": 23, "verse": "35", "text": "I will thoroughly hear you, he said, when also your accusers should have arrived, having commanded him to be guarded in the praetorium (governor’s official residence) of Herod."}
{"book": "ACT", "chapter": 24, "verse": "1", "text": "And after five days Ananias the high priest came down with some elders and a certain orator (public speaker, rhetoros, latin-oratore, possibly an advocate or attorney) Tertullus, who made a representation to the governor against Paul."}
{"book": "ACT", "chapter": 24, "verse": "2", "text": "And he having been called, Tertullus began to accuse him, saying, Great peace we are obtaining through you and excellent measures (improvements, rectifications, to thoroughly straighten) are being done to this ethnicity (nation) through your forethought,"}
{"book": "ACT", "chapter": 24, "verse": "3", "text": "We gladly accept it always and everywhere, most excellent Felix, with all thankfulness."}
{"book": "ACT", "chapter": 24, "verse": "4", "text": "However so that I should not be a hindrance upon you any longer, I entreat you to hear us briefly in your fairness (considerateness, equitableness, latin-clementia-clemency=mercy/lenience)."}
{"book": "ACT", "chapter": 24, "verse": "5", "text": "For having found this man a pest and stirring insurrection among all the Jews in the inhabited world and a front-running leader of the sect (latin-sectae-sect, greek word is close to heresy, a self-chosen strong distinctive opinion) of the Nazarenes;"}
{"book": "ACT", "chapter": 24, "verse": "6", "text": "Who even attempted to profane the temple, who also we seized. { not in Vulgate and some translations- And according to our law wished to judge.}"}
{"book": "ACT", "chapter": 24, "verse": "7", "text": "{not in some translations- not in Vulgate or ESV- However Lysias, the commander, having come up, took him away with much force from out of our hands.}"}
{"book": "ACT", "chapter": 24, "verse": "8", "text": "{Commanding his accusers to come to you}; from him you will be able yourself having examined him recognize concerning all these things of which we accuse him."}
{"book": "ACT", "chapter": 24, "verse": "9", "text": "And the Jews also agreed, affirming these things to be so."}
{"book": "ACT", "chapter": 24, "verse": "10", "text": "Then the governor having made a sign to him to speak, Paul answered, Knowing that for many years you have been a judge to this ethnicity (nation), I make a defense cheerfully (of good passion) as to the things concerning myself."}
{"book": "ACT", "chapter": 24, "verse": "11", "text": "You being able to recognize that there are not more than twelve days to me from which I went up to worship unto Jerusalem."}
{"book": "ACT", "chapter": 24, "verse": "12", "text": "And neither did they find me dialoguing with anyone in the temple, or making a riotous gathering of a crowd, neither in the synagogues, nor in the city."}
{"book": "ACT", "chapter": 24, "verse": "13", "text": "Nor are they able to prove (stand close beside) to you concerning the things of which they now accuse me."}
{"book": "ACT", "chapter": 24, "verse": "14", "text": "However I confess this to you that according to the Way which they call a sect (possibly heresy), so I serve the God of our fathers, believing all things throughout the law and that have been written in the prophets,"}
{"book": "ACT", "chapter": 24, "verse": "15", "text": "Having a hope unto God, which they themselves also await expectedly, that there is about to be a resurrection of the just and of the unjust."}
{"book": "ACT", "chapter": 24, "verse": "16", "text": "In this also I exercise myself to have a conscience without offense toward God and men in everything (all)."}
{"book": "ACT", "chapter": 24, "verse": "17", "text": "And through many years I arrived to bring alms unto my ethnicity (nation), and offerings,"}
{"book": "ACT", "chapter": 24, "verse": "18", "text": "In which they found me purified in the temple, not with a crowd nor in uproar. However some Jews from Asia,"}
{"book": "ACT", "chapter": 24, "verse": "19", "text": "Who ought to appear and to make accusation before (upon) you, if they may have anything against me."}
{"book": "ACT", "chapter": 24, "verse": "20", "text": "Or let them themselves say what unrighteousness they found in me having stood before (upon) the council-"}
{"book": "ACT", "chapter": 24, "verse": "21", "text": "Other than concerning this one voice which I cried out standing among them: I am judged this day by (upon) you concerning the resurrection of the dead."}
{"book": "ACT", "chapter": 24, "verse": "22", "text": "And Felix put them off (deferred, postponed), he having more precise (exact, accurate, careful) knowledge of the things concerning the Way, having said, When Lysias the commander might come down, I will examine (thoroughly know, determine) the things as to you,"}
{"book": "ACT", "chapter": 24, "verse": "23", "text": "Having ordered the centurion to keep (guard) him and to let him have ease (a loosening, relaxation) and not to forbid his own to serve (support) him."}
{"book": "ACT", "chapter": 24, "verse": "24", "text": "And after some days, Felix having arrived with Drusilla his own wife, being a Jewess, he sent for Paul and heard him concerning the faith unto Christ Jesus."}
{"book": "ACT", "chapter": 24, "verse": "25", "text": "And dialoguing concerning righteousness, and dominion-within (mastery within), and the judgment coming; Felix having become frightened answered, Go away for now; and I will call for you when I have found an opportune time."}
{"book": "ACT", "chapter": 24, "verse": "26", "text": "And at the same time, hoping that money would be given him by Paul, therefore sending for him often, he conversed with him."}
{"book": "ACT", "chapter": 24, "verse": "27", "text": "And two years having been completed, Felix received as a successor, Porcius Festus; and wishing to acquire for himself favor with the Jews, Felix left Paul bound."}
{"book": "ACT", "chapter": 25, "verse": "1", "text": "Therefore Festus having come upon the province, after three days went up unto Jerusalem from Caesarea."}
{"book": "ACT", "chapter": 25, "verse": "2", "text": "The chief priests and the principal men (latin-principes) of the Jews made a presentation (exhibit) before him against Paul, and entreated him,"}
{"book": "ACT", "chapter": 25, "verse": "3", "text": "Asking favor against him- that he would summon (send after) him unto Jerusalem- making an ambush to kill him on the way."}
{"book": "ACT", "chapter": 25, "verse": "4", "text": "Therefore Festus answered, Paul is to be kept in Caesarea, and he himself is about to set out in quickness (speed)."}
{"book": "ACT", "chapter": 25, "verse": "5", "text": "Therefore those in power among you, he says, having gone down too, if there is anything wrong in this man, let them accuse him."}
{"book": "ACT", "chapter": 25, "verse": "6", "text": "And having spent among them not more than eight or ten days, having gone down unto Caesarea, on the next day having sat upon the judgment seat, he commanded Paul to be brought."}
{"book": "ACT", "chapter": 25, "verse": "7", "text": "And he having arrived, those Jews having come down from Jerusalem stood around him, bringing many and weighty (heavy) accusations (charges of guilt, complaints) which they were not able (had no strength) to prove."}
{"book": "ACT", "chapter": 25, "verse": "8", "text": "Paul making his defense: Neither unto the law of the Jews, nor unto the temple, nor unto Caesar, in anything have I sinned."}
{"book": "ACT", "chapter": 25, "verse": "9", "text": "However Festus wishing to acquire favor with the Jews, answering Paul, said, Are you willing to go up unto Jerusalem, there to be judged before (upon) me concerning these things?"}
{"book": "ACT", "chapter": 25, "verse": "10", "text": "And Paul said, I am standing before (upon) the judgment seat of Caesar where it is necessary for me to be judged. To the Jews I have done nothing wrong (unjust), as also you very well recognize."}
{"book": "ACT", "chapter": 25, "verse": "11", "text": "For if indeed I do wrong and have done anything worthy of death, I do not refuse (beg off) to die; however if there is nothing of which they can accuse me, no one can give me up (charisasthai) to them. I appeal (call upon, latin-appello) to Caesar!"}
{"book": "ACT", "chapter": 25, "verse": "12", "text": "Then Festus having conferred with the council, answered, To Caesar you have appealed, to (upon) Caesar you will go! (You have called upon Caesar, upon Caesar you will go!)"}
{"book": "ACT", "chapter": 25, "verse": "13", "text": "And some days having passed, Agrippa the king and Bernice came down unto Caesarea, having greeted Festus."}
{"book": "ACT", "chapter": 25, "verse": "14", "text": "And as they stayed there many days, Festus laid before the king the things relating to Paul, saying, There is a certain man left by Felix as a prisoner,"}
{"book": "ACT", "chapter": 25, "verse": "15", "text": "Concerning whom, on my having been in Jerusalem, the chief priests and elders of the Jews made a presentation (exhibit), asking for judgment against him;"}
{"book": "ACT", "chapter": 25, "verse": "16", "text": "To whom I answered, It is not Roman custom to give up any man before that the one being accused, may have the accusers face to face, and he may take the place of defense concerning the accusation."}
{"book": "ACT", "chapter": 25, "verse": "17", "text": "They then having come together here, having made no delay, the next day having sat upon the judgment seat, I commanded the man to be brought,"}
{"book": "ACT", "chapter": 25, "verse": "18", "text": "Concerning whom the accusers having stood up brought no charge of which I suspected evil things."}
{"book": "ACT", "chapter": 25, "verse": "19", "text": "However certain questions concerning their own religion (religious-superstition), they had against (toward) him and concerning a certain Jesus having been dead, whom Paul affirmed to be alive."}
{"book": "ACT", "chapter": 25, "verse": "20", "text": "And I being at a loss (perplexed) concerning this inquiry asked if he was willing to go unto Jerusalem and there be judged concerning these things."}
{"book": "ACT", "chapter": 25, "verse": "21", "text": "However Paul having appealed for himself to be kept unto the judicial decision (greek word like diagnosis) of the Emperor, I commanded him to be kept until I might send him to Caesar."}
{"book": "ACT", "chapter": 25, "verse": "22", "text": "And Agrippa [said] to Festus, I myself have also been wanting to hear the man. Tomorrow, he says, You will hear him."}
{"book": "ACT", "chapter": 25, "verse": "23", "text": "On the next day then Agrippa and Bernice having come with much pomp (show, display) and having entered into the audience hall (latin-auditorium) with commanders and men in prominence in the city and having commanded Festus, Paul was brought in."}
{"book": "ACT", "chapter": 25, "verse": "24", "text": "And Festus says, King Agrippa and all being present with us, you see this one concerning whom all the multitude of the Jews pleaded with me here and in Jerusalem, crying out that he ought to no longer live."}
{"book": "ACT", "chapter": 25, "verse": "25", "text": "However I comprehend him to have done nothing worthy of death, and this one himself having appealed to the Emperor, I determined to send him,"}
{"book": "ACT", "chapter": 25, "verse": "26", "text": "Concerning whom I have nothing definite (secure, reliable, certain) to write to my lord. Therefore I have brought him before (upon) you all and especially before (upon) you, King Agrippa, so that the examination having happened, I might have something to write."}
{"book": "ACT", "chapter": 25, "verse": "27", "text": "For it seems unreasonable to me in sending a prisoner, and not to specify (signify, indicate) the charges against him."}
{"book": "ACT", "chapter": 26, "verse": "1", "text": "And Agrippa said to Paul, It is allowed you to speak for yourself. Then Paul, having stretched out his hand, made a defense:"}
{"book": "ACT", "chapter": 26, "verse": "2", "text": "I reckon (esteem) myself fortunate (happy, blessed, made large), King Agrippa, being about to make a defense before you today concerning all of which I am accused by the Jews."}
{"book": "ACT", "chapter": 26, "verse": "3", "text": "Especially being that you are a knower (expert) of all of the customs and also the controversies of the Jews; therefore I implore you to hear me long-temperately (patiently, long tempering of passion)."}
{"book": "ACT", "chapter": 26, "verse": "4", "text": "My manner of life then from out of my youth, which having been from its beginning among my ethnicity (nation) in Jerusalem, know all the Jews,"}
{"book": "ACT", "chapter": 26, "verse": "5", "text": "Knowing me from the first, if they would be willing to testify, that according to the strictest sect of our religion (ritual/religious worship), I lived a Pharisee."}
{"book": "ACT", "chapter": 26, "verse": "6", "text": "And now I stand being judged upon the hope of the promise having been made by God to our fathers,"}
{"book": "ACT", "chapter": 26, "verse": "7", "text": "Unto which our twelve tribes serving in earnestness night and day hope to attain; concerning which hope, O king, I am accused by the Jews."}
{"book": "ACT", "chapter": 26, "verse": "8", "text": "Why is it judged incredible (incredulous, unbelieving, not faithful) by you, if God raises the dead?"}
{"book": "ACT", "chapter": 26, "verse": "9", "text": "I indeed then supposed in myself that it is necessary to do much contrary to the name of Jesus of Nazareth."}
{"book": "ACT", "chapter": 26, "verse": "10", "text": "Which I also did in Jerusalem; and having received authority from the chief priests, I locked up many of the saints in prisons; and they being put to death, I cast a vote against them."}
{"book": "ACT", "chapter": 26, "verse": "11", "text": "And often punishing them in all the synagogues, I compelled (forced) them to blaspheme. And being exceedingly furious (madly enraged) against them, I persecuted them as far as even unto cities outside [exterior to our land],"}
{"book": "ACT", "chapter": 26, "verse": "12", "text": "During which, journeying unto Damascus with the authority and commission of the chief priests,"}
{"book": "ACT", "chapter": 26, "verse": "13", "text": "Mid-day on the road I saw, O king, a light from heaven above, the brightness (splendor) of the sun having shone around about me; and those journeying with me."}
{"book": "ACT", "chapter": 26, "verse": "14", "text": "And all of us having fallen down unto the ground, I heard a voice saying in the Hebrew language (dialekto), Saul, Saul, why do you persecute Me? It is hard for you to kick against the goads (sharp points)."}
{"book": "ACT", "chapter": 26, "verse": "15", "text": "And I said, Who are You Lord? And the Lord said, I am Jesus whom you are persecuting."}
{"book": "ACT", "chapter": 26, "verse": "16", "text": "But rather rise up and stand upon your feet; for unto this, I have appeared to you to appoint (pre-hand-picked) you a servant (under-rower, subordinate, underling) and a witness of that which you have seen of Me, and of those in which I will appear to you,"}
{"book": "ACT", "chapter": 26, "verse": "17", "text": "Delivering you from out of the people and from out of the ethnicities unto whom I am sending you,"}
{"book": "ACT", "chapter": 26, "verse": "18", "text": "To open their eyes that they may turn away from darkness unto light and from the authority of Satan to (upon) God that they might receive the remission of sins and inheritance among those having been sanctified by faith that is in Me."}
{"book": "ACT", "chapter": 26, "verse": "19", "text": "Whereupon, O king Agrippa, I was not unwilling to be persuaded to the heavenly vision (sight, greek-optasis, latin-visionis, appearing, spiritual seeing);"}
{"book": "ACT", "chapter": 26, "verse": "20", "text": "But rather I announced to those in Damascus first and then all of Jerusalem and the region of Judea and to the ethnicities to repent and to turn to (upon) God, practicing works worthy of repentance."}
{"book": "ACT", "chapter": 26, "verse": "21", "text": "On account of these things, the Jews having apprehended me being in the temple, attempted to lay hands on as to kill me."}
{"book": "ACT", "chapter": 26, "verse": "22", "text": "Having obtained then help from God until this day, I have stood bearing witness to both small and great, saying nothing other than what both the prophets and Moses said was about to happen:"}
{"book": "ACT", "chapter": 26, "verse": "23", "text": "That the Christ would suffer; whether first from out of resurrection from out of the dead, and ready to preach light to both our people and to the ethnicities."}
{"book": "ACT", "chapter": 26, "verse": "24", "text": "And as he answered these things in his defense, Festus said with a great voice, You are insane (raving mad), Paul! Your great learning, turns you about to insanity (manian like mania, latin-insaniam-madness)!"}
{"book": "ACT", "chapter": 26, "verse": "25", "text": "However Paul said, I am not insane, most excellent Festus, but rather I utter out sayings (rhemata) of truth and soundness of perspective."}
{"book": "ACT", "chapter": 26, "verse": "26", "text": "For the king understands concerning these things to whom also I speak using boldness (freedom, confidence). For I am persuaded that not any of these things are hidden from him; for this thing is not done in a corner."}
{"book": "ACT", "chapter": 26, "verse": "27", "text": "King Agrippa, do you believe the prophets? I know that you believe."}
{"book": "ACT", "chapter": 26, "verse": "28", "text": "Then Agrippa [said] to Paul, In so little do you persuade to make me a Christian?"}
{"book": "ACT", "chapter": 26, "verse": "29", "text": "And Paul [said], I would wish (euchomai-short word for pray/wish, latin-opto-wish) to God, both in a little and in great, not only you but rather also all those hearing me this day to become such of what sort I also am- except these chains (bonds)."}
{"book": "ACT", "chapter": 26, "verse": "30", "text": "And the king rose up, and the governor, also Bernice, and those who are sitting with them,"}
{"book": "ACT", "chapter": 26, "verse": "31", "text": "And having withdrawn they spoke to one another saying, This man is doing nothing worthy of death or of chains."}
{"book": "ACT", "chapter": 26, "verse": "32", "text": "And Agrippa said to Festus, This man might (was able) have been released if he had not appealed to Caesar."}
{"book": "ACT", "chapter": 27, "verse": "1", "text": "And when our sailing unto Italy was decided, they delivered both Paul and certain other prisoners to a centurion named Julius of the cohort (company, latin-cohortis-cohort) of Augustus."}
{"book": "ACT", "chapter": 27, "verse": "2", "text": "And having boarded a ship of Adramyttium, being about to navigate unto the places along Asia, we set sail- being with us Aristarchus, a Macedonian of Thessalonica."}
{"book": "ACT", "chapter": 27, "verse": "3", "text": "And on a different [day], we landed at Sidon. And Julius having treated Paul humanely (friendly of humanity), allowed him to go to his friends to obtain care."}
{"book": "ACT", "chapter": 27, "verse": "4", "text": "And having set sail from there, we sailed under Cyprus, because of the winds being contrary."}
{"book": "ACT", "chapter": 27, "verse": "5", "text": "And having sailed across the deep sea along Cilicia and Pamphylia, we came unto Myra of Lycia."}
{"book": "ACT", "chapter": 27, "verse": "6", "text": "And there the centurion having found a ship of Alexandria sailing unto Italy, he placed us unto it."}
{"book": "ACT", "chapter": 27, "verse": "7", "text": "And sailing slowly for considerable days and having come with difficulty over against Cnidus, the wind not permitting us, we sailed under Crete over against Salmone."}
{"book": "ACT", "chapter": 27, "verse": "8", "text": "And coasting along it with difficulty, we came unto a certain place called Fair Havens to which was near the city of Lasaea."}
{"book": "ACT", "chapter": 27, "verse": "9", "text": "And considerable time having passed and the voyage already being dangerous because of the fast (fasting) being already passed, Paul advised them,"}
{"book": "ACT", "chapter": 27, "verse": "10", "text": "Saying to them, Men, I perceive that the voyage is about to be with disaster and much loss (damage), not only of the cargo and to the ship, but rather also our lives (souls)."}
{"book": "ACT", "chapter": 27, "verse": "11", "text": "However the centurion was more persuaded by the pilot (greek-kybernete, latin-gubernatori-pilot) and the ship-owner than by the things spoken by Paul."}
{"book": "ACT", "chapter": 27, "verse": "12", "text": "And the harbor being unsuitable to winter in, the majority reached a plan to set sail from there, if somehow they might be able , having arrived at Phoenix, to winter there, a harbor of Crete, looking southwest and northwest."}
{"book": "ACT", "chapter": 27, "verse": "13", "text": "And a south wind having blown gently, having thought to have obtained their predetermined purpose, raising up [anchor], they coasted along very near Crete."}
{"book": "ACT", "chapter": 27, "verse": "14", "text": "And no long after there came down from it a tempestuous (violent, stormy, the greek and latin words are like typhon) wind called the Noreaster (Euroklydon- a northeast wind)."}
{"book": "ACT", "chapter": 27, "verse": "15", "text": "And the ship having been caught and not being able to resist the wind, having given way we were driven along."}
{"book": "ACT", "chapter": 27, "verse": "16", "text": "And having run under a certain little island called Cauda, we were with difficulty able to gain full control of the boat;"}
{"book": "ACT", "chapter": 27, "verse": "17", "text": "Which having lifted up, they used supports, undergirding the ship. And fearing lest they should fall off into the sandbars of Syrtis, and having lowered the gear, thus they were driven along."}
{"book": "ACT", "chapter": 27, "verse": "18", "text": "And we being exceedingly storm-tossed, on the next [day] they made a jettison of cargo,"}
{"book": "ACT", "chapter": 27, "verse": "19", "text": "And on the third [day], they cast away the tackle of the ship with their own hands."}
{"book": "ACT", "chapter": 27, "verse": "20", "text": "And neither sun nor stars appearing upon us for many days, and no small tempest lying upon us, beyond that all hope was abandoned of our being saved."}
{"book": "ACT", "chapter": 27, "verse": "21", "text": "Also there being much time without food, at that time Paul having stood up in the midst of them, said, O Men, you ought to have been obedient to me and not have set sail from Crete and incurred this disaster and loss."}
{"book": "ACT", "chapter": 27, "verse": "22", "text": "Now I advise you to be of good cheer (good passion), for there will be no loss of life from among you, only of the ship."}
{"book": "ACT", "chapter": 27, "verse": "23", "text": "For an angel of God, whose I am and whom I serve, stood by me this night,"}
{"book": "ACT", "chapter": 27, "verse": "24", "text": "Saying, Fear not, Paul; it is necessary for you to stand before Caesar. And behold, God has given (graced) to you all those sailing with you."}
{"book": "ACT", "chapter": 27, "verse": "25", "text": "Therefore be of good cheer (good passion), men, for I believe God that thus it will be according to the way it has been said to me."}
{"book": "ACT", "chapter": 27, "verse": "26", "text": "However it is necessary for us to fall into a certain island."}
{"book": "ACT", "chapter": 27, "verse": "27", "text": "And when the fourteenth night had come, we being driven about in the Adriatic. Toward the middle of the night, the sailors suspected that some land drew near to them,"}
{"book": "ACT", "chapter": 27, "verse": "28", "text": "And having taken soundings, they found twenty fathoms. Then having gone a little farther and again having taken soundings, they found fifteen fathoms."}
{"book": "ACT", "chapter": 27, "verse": "29", "text": "And fearing lest we might fall somewhere on the rocky places, having cast four anchors from out of the stern, they wished for day to come."}
{"book": "ACT", "chapter": 27, "verse": "30", "text": "Then the sailors seeking to flee from out of the ship, let down the life boat into the sea under pretense of being about to cast out anchors from the bow,"}
{"book": "ACT", "chapter": 27, "verse": "31", "text": "Paul said to the centurion and to the soldiers, Unless these remain in the ship, you are not able to be saved."}
{"book": "ACT", "chapter": 27, "verse": "32", "text": "Then the soldiers cut away the ropes of the life boat and allowed her to fall away."}
{"book": "ACT", "chapter": 27, "verse": "33", "text": "And until the day was about to come, Paul entreated all to partake of food, saying, Today is the fourteenth day that you continue awaiting (expecting, anticipating) without eating, having taken nothing."}
{"book": "ACT", "chapter": 27, "verse": "34", "text": "Therefore I entreat you to partake of food, for this is to your preservation (soterias-salvation); for not one hair from your head will perish."}
{"book": "ACT", "chapter": 27, "verse": "35", "text": "And having said these things and having taken bread, he gave thanks to God in the sight of all and having broken it, he began to eat,"}
{"book": "ACT", "chapter": 27, "verse": "36", "text": "And having been cheered (good-passioned), all of them also took food."}
{"book": "ACT", "chapter": 27, "verse": "37", "text": "And we were all in the ship, two hundred seventy six (276) souls (lives)."}
{"book": "ACT", "chapter": 27, "verse": "38", "text": "And having been satisfied with food, they lightened the ship, casting out the grain (wheat) into the sea."}
{"book": "ACT", "chapter": 27, "verse": "39", "text": "And when it was day, they did not recognize the land; however they noticed a certain bay having a shore unto which they determined, if they should be able to drive the ship."}
{"book": "ACT", "chapter": 27, "verse": "40", "text": "And having cut away the anchors, they left them in the sea, at the same time having loosened the ropes of the rudders, and having hoisted the foresail to the blowing [wind], they made for the shore."}
{"book": "ACT", "chapter": 27, "verse": "41", "text": "And having fallen into a place where two seas met, they ran aground the vessel; and the bow having stuck fast, remained immovable. And he stern was being broken up by the force (violence) of the waves."}
{"book": "ACT", "chapter": 27, "verse": "42", "text": "And the plan of the soldiers was that they should kill the prisoners; lest anyone having swum away should escape."}
{"book": "ACT", "chapter": 27, "verse": "43", "text": "However the centurion willing to save Paul hindered them of their plan, and commanded those being able to swim, having cast themselves off first to go out upon the land;"}
{"book": "ACT", "chapter": 27, "verse": "44", "text": "And the remainder, some upon boards, and some upon various thing from the ship; and thus it happened that all were brought safely (root is saved) upon the land."}
{"book": "ACT", "chapter": 28, "verse": "1", "text": "And having been saved, then we recognized that the island was called Malta."}
{"book": "ACT", "chapter": 28, "verse": "2", "text": "And the natives (barbarians-foreigners who do not speak Greek or Latin, uncivilized and lacking culture) showed us no ordinary benevolence (philanthropy); for they received all of us having kindled a fire because of the rain coming on and because of the cold."}
{"book": "ACT", "chapter": 28, "verse": "3", "text": "And Paul having gathered a large quantity of dry sticks and having laid them upon the fire, a viper (poisonous snake) having come away from the heat, fastened on his hand."}
{"book": "ACT", "chapter": 28, "verse": "4", "text": "And when the natives saw the wild creature (beast, wild animal) hanging from his hand, they said to one another, By all means this man is a murderer, whom having been saved from out of the sea, Justice (latin-Ultio-Revenge, greek-Dike) has not permitted to live."}
{"book": "ACT", "chapter": 28, "verse": "5", "text": "He then indeed having shaken off the wild creature into the fire, suffered no evil (kakon)."}
{"book": "ACT", "chapter": 28, "verse": "6", "text": "However they were expecting him to be about to become swollen or to fall down suddenly dead. However upon a great while they waiting and seeing nothing out of place happening unto him, having changed their opinion, they said he was a god."}
{"book": "ACT", "chapter": 28, "verse": "7", "text": "Now in the parts around that there place were lands belonging to the chief of the island, named Publius, who having welcomingly received us three days entertained (receive as a guest) us in a friendly way (of a friendly mind-set)."}
{"book": "ACT", "chapter": 28, "verse": "8", "text": "And it happened that the father of Publius was lying afflicted with fevers and dysentery (greek-dysenterio, latin-dysenteria, bloodiness coming from the intestines), to whom Paul having entered and having prayed and having laid his hands upon him, healed (iasato) him."}
{"book": "ACT", "chapter": 28, "verse": "9", "text": "This, therefore, having happened, the rest also on the island having infirmities came and were healed (etherapeuonto),"}
{"book": "ACT", "chapter": 28, "verse": "10", "text": "Who also honored us with many honors, and on setting sail, they laid upon us the things for our necessities."}
{"book": "ACT", "chapter": 28, "verse": "11", "text": "And after three months, we sailed in a ship having wintered in the island, an Alexandrian with Dioscuri (the twin sons of Zeus-Castor and Pollux) marked as the figurehead."}
{"book": "ACT", "chapter": 28, "verse": "12", "text": "And having put in at Syracuse, we stayed three days,"}
{"book": "ACT", "chapter": 28, "verse": "13", "text": "From where having gone around, we arrived at Rhegium. And after one day, a south wind having come on, we came unto Puteoli on the second day,"}
{"book": "ACT", "chapter": 28, "verse": "14", "text": "Where, having found brothers, we were entreated with them to remain seven days. And so we came unto Rome."}
{"book": "ACT", "chapter": 28, "verse": "15", "text": "And the brothers from there having heard the things concerning us came out to meet us as far as Appius market and Three Taverns; whom Paul having seen and having given thanks to God, took courage (inner emboldening)."}
{"book": "ACT", "chapter": 28, "verse": "16", "text": "And when we came into Rome, {the centurion delivered the prisoners to the captain of the guard}, Paul was allowed to stay by himself with the soldier who was guarding him."}
{"book": "ACT", "chapter": 28, "verse": "17", "text": "And it came to pass after three days that he called together those being of the leaders of the Jews. And they having come together, he said to them, I, men, brothers, having done nothing against the people, or the customs of our fathers; was delivered a prisoner from Jerusalem into the hands of the Romans,"}
{"book": "ACT", "chapter": 28, "verse": "18", "text": "Who having examined me, willed to let me go, because there did not exist one cause of death in me."}
{"book": "ACT", "chapter": 28, "verse": "19", "text": "However the Jews objecting, I was compelled to appeal upon Caesar, not as having anything to accuse my ethnicity (nation) of."}
{"book": "ACT", "chapter": 28, "verse": "20", "text": "For this cause therefore I entreated you to see and to speak to you; for I have this chain around me on account of the Hope of Israel."}
{"book": "ACT", "chapter": 28, "verse": "21", "text": "And they said to him, We neither received letter concerning you from Judea nor has any one of the brothers having arrived reported or said anything evil concerning you."}
{"book": "ACT", "chapter": 28, "verse": "22", "text": "And we deem worthy to hear what you think, for as concerning this sect it is known to us that it is spoken against everywhere."}
{"book": "ACT", "chapter": 28, "verse": "23", "text": "And having appointed him a day, many came to him unto the lodging to whom he expounded (explained), thoroughly testifying of the kingdom of God, and persuading them concerning Jesus both from the law of Moses and the prophets from morning until evening."}
{"book": "ACT", "chapter": 28, "verse": "24", "text": "And some were persuaded of the things he was speaking; and some refused to be persuaded."}
{"book": "ACT", "chapter": 28, "verse": "25", "text": "And being discordant (dissonant, not being of one voice/sound) with one another, they departed; Paul having spoken one saying (rhema): Rightly (kalos) the Holy Spirit spoke through Isaiah the prophet to our fathers,"}
{"book": "ACT", "chapter": 28, "verse": "26", "text": "saying, Go to this people and say, In hearing you will hear and not comprehend (synthesize, join facts together); and seeing you will see and not perceive (envision)."}
{"book": "ACT", "chapter": 28, "verse": "27", "text": "For the heart of this people has grown thick (fat as to make unfeeling/insensitive/dull) and they barely (heavily, with difficulty) hear with the ears, and they have closed their eyes, lest ever they should see with the eyes and they should hear with the ears and they should comprehend with the heart and should turn and I will heal (iasomai) them."}
{"book": "ACT", "chapter": 28, "verse": "28", "text": "Be it known therefore to you that this salvation of God has been sent to the ethnicities; and they will listen!"}
{"book": "ACT", "chapter": 28, "verse": "29", "text": "{And these things he having said, the Jews went away, having much disputing among themselves.}"}
{"book": "ACT", "chapter": 28, "verse": "30", "text": "And he stayed two whole years in his own rented house and welcomed all coming to him,"}
{"book": "ACT", "chapter": 28, "verse": "31", "text": "Preaching the kingdom of God and teaching the things concerning the Lord Jesus Christ with all boldness unhinderedly."}
{"book": "ROM", "chapter": 1, "verse": "1", "text": "Paul, a bond servant of Jesus Christ, a called apostle having been placed apart for the gospel of God,"}
{"book": "ROM", "chapter": 1, "verse": "2", "text": "which He promised beforehand through His prophets in the holy Scriptures, And having been determined the Son of God in miraculous power according to the Spirit of holiness, by resurrection from the dead, Jesus Christ, the Lord of us;"}
{"book": "ROM", "chapter": 1, "verse": "3", "text": "concerning His Son, having come of the seed of David according to flesh."}
{"book": "ROM", "chapter": 1, "verse": "4", "text": "And having been determined the Son of God in miraculous power according to the Spirit of holiness, by resurrection from the dead, Jesus Christ, the Lord of us;"}
{"book": "ROM", "chapter": 1, "verse": "5", "text": "Through whom we have taken hold of grace and apostleship (commissioning) unto compliance (to hear beneath) to the faith among all non-Jew ethnicities, on behalf of His name:"}
{"book": "ROM", "chapter": 1, "verse": "6", "text": "In whom are you also called of Jesus Christ:"}
{"book": "ROM", "chapter": 1, "verse": "7", "text": "To all the ones that be in Rome, beloved of God, called saints: Grace to you to you and peace from God our Father, and the Lord Jesus Christ."}
{"book": "ROM", "chapter": 1, "verse": "8", "text": "First indeed, I thank my God through Jesus Christ for you all, that your faith is being heralded in the whole world."}
{"book": "ROM", "chapter": 1, "verse": "9", "text": "For God is indeed my witness, whom I serve with my spirit in the gospel of His Son, as how unintermittingly (incessantly) I am making mention (remembrance) of you always in my prayers;"}
{"book": "ROM", "chapter": 1, "verse": "10", "text": "Beseeching, if by what means now at one time or another I might have a prosperous journey by the will of God to come to you."}
{"book": "ROM", "chapter": 1, "verse": "11", "text": "For I am indeed longing to see you, that I may impart a share unto you of some (any) spiritual (pnuematikon) grace endowment (charisma), that you may be firmly made fast;"}
{"book": "ROM", "chapter": 1, "verse": "12", "text": "That moreover is, that I may be affirmatively urged together among you through the faith both of you and me."}
{"book": "ROM", "chapter": 1, "verse": "13", "text": "Moreover, I am not willing that you be ignorant, brothers, that oftentimes I purposed to come to you and I was prevented until the present that I might have some fruit among you also, even as among the other ethnicities."}
{"book": "ROM", "chapter": 1, "verse": "14", "text": "I am a debtor to both the Greeks and to the barbarians (uncivilized foreigners that do not speak Greek or Latin); to both the wise (learned) and to the unthinking (not understanding, dense, foolish)."}
{"book": "ROM", "chapter": 1, "verse": "15", "text": "So, as for me, there is eager readiness to preach the gospel to you who are in Rome also."}
{"book": "ROM", "chapter": 1, "verse": "16", "text": "For I am not ashamed of the gospel of Christ: for it is the power of God unto salvation to everyone that is believing; to the Jew first, and also to the Greek."}
{"book": "ROM", "chapter": 1, "verse": "17", "text": "For in it is the righteousness (justness) of God revealed out from faith to faith: as it has been written moreover, The righteous (just, judicially approved righteous) will be living out of faith."}
{"book": "ROM", "chapter": 1, "verse": "18", "text": "For the wrath of God is revealed from heaven against each and every irreverence and injustice of men, who suppress the straightforward truth in injustice;"}
{"book": "ROM", "chapter": 1, "verse": "19", "text": "Because that which may be known of God is clearly apparent within them; for God has made it apparent (illuminated) to them."}
{"book": "ROM", "chapter": 1, "verse": "20", "text": "For the unseen things of Him from the creation of the world are clearly discerned, being inherently understood by the things that are made, even both His eternal power and divinity; so that they are without a defensible rationale:"}
{"book": "ROM", "chapter": 1, "verse": "21", "text": "Because that, having known God, they neither esteemed Him glorious nor were thankful to Him as God; but they became vain (aimless, pointless) in their imaginations (back and forth reasonings), and their incoherent, uncomprehending heart was obscured (darkened)."}
{"book": "ROM", "chapter": 1, "verse": "22", "text": "Professing to be wise (learned, cultivated, skilled, clever) they became fools (morons, insipid, stupid, tainted),"}
{"book": "ROM", "chapter": 1, "verse": "23", "text": "and they changed the glory of the incorruptible God into a resemblance of a representation of corruptible man, and winged creatures, and four-footeds, and creeping creatures (reptiles)."}
{"book": "ROM", "chapter": 1, "verse": "24", "text": "Therefore God also gave them up in the lusts of their own hearts to uncleanness (mixed impurity), to dishonor their own bodies between themselves;"}
{"book": "ROM", "chapter": 1, "verse": "25", "text": "who changed the straightforward truth of God into a falsehood, and revered and offered divine service to the creation more than the One having created it, who is blessed to the eons! Amen."}
{"book": "ROM", "chapter": 1, "verse": "26", "text": "Because of this God gave them up to dishonorable, befalling, depraved passions (pathos- depraved pathology): for even their women (females with nursing breasts) did change the natural use (in a sexual sense) into that which is contrary to nature:"}
{"book": "ROM", "chapter": 1, "verse": "27", "text": "And likewise also the men, leaving the natural use (in a sexual sense) of the woman, were inflamed in their craving one toward another; men with men- their unseemly indecency working out, and receiving the recompense which was inevitably fitting of their deviant error in themselves."}
{"book": "ROM", "chapter": 1, "verse": "28", "text": "And as they did not see fit to possess God in their knowledge, God gave them over to a failed reasoning, to do those things which are unfitting."}
{"book": "ROM", "chapter": 1, "verse": "29", "text": "Being made full with every kind of injustice, pain laboring trouble, covetous greed, malicious disposition; full of spite (ill will toward others, grudge, envy, glad for others misfortune), murder (unjustified slaughter), strife (contentious, ready to fight), deceit (guile, treachery, baiting), malevolence (evil-mindedness, vicious disposition, malignity) ; gossips (secret slanderers, whisperers),"}
{"book": "ROM", "chapter": 1, "verse": "30", "text": "defamers (slanderous, backbiters), hateful of God, insolent (damaging to others by lashing out with a nasty spirit), arrogant (disdainfully proud), boastful (wandering vagabond boasting to those foolish to take him seriously) ; inventors of evil things, unwilling to be persuaded by parents (stubborn disobedience);"}
{"book": "ROM", "chapter": 1, "verse": "31", "text": "foolish (incoherent in comprehension), untrustworthy (untrue to an agreement), unaffectionate (devoid of natural affection), implacable (unable to be appeased or mitigated) , unmerciful (cruel, without compassion);"}
{"book": "ROM", "chapter": 1, "verse": "32", "text": "Who having known the just pronouncement of God, that they which regularly commit such things are deserving of death, not only them that regularly commit such, but also those that join in identifying with and consenting (well seeming) of them committing such."}
{"book": "ROM", "chapter": 2, "verse": "1", "text": "Wherefore you are defenseless, O man! Whoever you are that judges: for wherein you judge another, you are giving judgment against yourself; for you that judge commit the same things."}
{"book": "ROM", "chapter": 2, "verse": "2", "text": "However we know that the judgment of God is according to straightforward truth on them which regularly commit such things."}
{"book": "ROM", "chapter": 2, "verse": "3", "text": "And you reckon this, O man, that judges them which do such things, and does the same, that you will escape the judgment of God?"}
{"book": "ROM", "chapter": 2, "verse": "4", "text": "Or despise (think little of) the abundant wealth of His productive kindness and patient endurance and long temperance; not knowing that the productive kindness of God brings you to a difference of thinking?"}
{"book": "ROM", "chapter": 2, "verse": "5", "text": "According to your obstinate hardness (hard from being dry) and impenitent (not differing in thinking) heart, you are hoarding up to yourself wrath for the day of wrath and uncovering of the right and just judgment of God;"}
{"book": "ROM", "chapter": 2, "verse": "6", "text": "Who will return to each according to their accomplishments (works that complete an inner intention):"}
{"book": "ROM", "chapter": 2, "verse": "7", "text": "to those that endure in good works, seek for glory and honor and incorruptibility, eternal life:"}
{"book": "ROM", "chapter": 2, "verse": "8", "text": "But to them that are selfishly rivaled and refuse to be persuaded to the truth, but are yet persuaded to injustice, indignation and wrathful opposition,"}
{"book": "ROM", "chapter": 2, "verse": "9", "text": "constriction (tribulation, hemming one in with no escape) and great distress by narrow confinement, upon every psyche of man that effects evil with poisonous inner malice, of the Jew first, and also of the Greeks;"}
{"book": "ROM", "chapter": 2, "verse": "10", "text": "But glory, honor, and serenity (peace by being made whole), to every man that works inherent good, to the Jew first and also to the Greek:"}
{"book": "ROM", "chapter": 2, "verse": "11", "text": "For there is not partiality (favoritism) with God."}
{"book": "ROM", "chapter": 2, "verse": "12", "text": "For as many as have sinned (forfeited-to have no share in by missing the mark) without law will also completely perish without law: and as many as have sinned in the law will be judged by the law;"}
{"book": "ROM", "chapter": 2, "verse": "13", "text": "For not the hearers of the law are just with God, but the doers of the law will be declared justified."}
{"book": "ROM", "chapter": 2, "verse": "14", "text": "For when the ethnicities, which do not have the law, do by inherent nature the things of the law, these, not having the law, are a law unto themselves:"}
{"book": "ROM", "chapter": 2, "verse": "15", "text": "Which undeniably indicate the work of the law written in their hearts, their conscience also bearing witness, and meanwhile their reckoned reasonings accusing or else defending them;"}
{"book": "ROM", "chapter": 2, "verse": "16", "text": "In that day when God will judge the hidden things of men, according to the gospel through Jesus Christ."}
{"book": "ROM", "chapter": 2, "verse": "17", "text": "However if you name yourself a Jew, and are resting upon the law, and boast (hold your head high) in God,"}
{"book": "ROM", "chapter": 2, "verse": "18", "text": "And know His preferred will, and approve the things that surpassingly carry through (excel, are of consequence), being orally instructed out of the law;"}
{"book": "ROM", "chapter": 2, "verse": "19", "text": "Are persuaded that you yourself are a guide of the blind, a light to those in darkness,"}
{"book": "ROM", "chapter": 2, "verse": "20", "text": "An instructor (one who constructively corrects in order to train, trainer, chastiser) of the foolish (senseless, inconsiderate, lacking moderation, willfully ignorant, without perspective as it regulates behavior), a teacher of unlearned minors, which having a semblance of knowledge and of the truth in the law."}
{"book": "ROM", "chapter": 2, "verse": "21", "text": "Then you which are teaching another, do you not teach yourself? You that preach no one should steal, do you steal?"}
{"book": "ROM", "chapter": 2, "verse": "22", "text": "You that say one should not commit adultery, do you commit adultery? You that abhor (detest as stench) idols (false god, image for worship), do you commit sacrilege (rob temples)?"}
{"book": "ROM", "chapter": 2, "verse": "23", "text": "You that make your boast in the law, through the transgression (willfully disregard and overstep) of the law you dishonor (disgrace the value of) God?"}
{"book": "ROM", "chapter": 2, "verse": "24", "text": "For the name of God is blasphemed among the ethnicities through you, as it has been written."}
{"book": "ROM", "chapter": 2, "verse": "25", "text": "Indeed circumcision profits, if you regularly keep the law: but if you be a breaker (transgressor, one who goes contrary, steps over the line) of the law, then your circumcision has become uncircumcision."}
{"book": "ROM", "chapter": 2, "verse": "26", "text": "Therefore if the uncircumcision vigilantly keep (guard, observe, keep secure/watch over) the righteous justice (a thing pronounced to be just) of the law, will not his uncircumcision be counted (reckoned reasonable for a logical conclusion) for circumcision?"}
{"book": "ROM", "chapter": 2, "verse": "27", "text": "And will not the uncircumcision which is by nature, if it fulfills the law, judge you, who by the letter and circumcision do transgress the law?"}
{"book": "ROM", "chapter": 2, "verse": "28", "text": "For he is not a Jew, which is one outwardly, neither is circumcision that which is manifest in flesh:"}
{"book": "ROM", "chapter": 2, "verse": "29", "text": "But he that is a Jew is one inwardly, and circumcision is that of the heart, in the spirit, not in the letter; of whom the befitting praise is not of men, but of God."}
{"book": "ROM", "chapter": 3, "verse": "1", "text": "What then is the superiority of the Jew? Or what is the advantage of the circumcision?"}
{"book": "ROM", "chapter": 3, "verse": "2", "text": "Much in every way. Indeed chiefly, for that they were entrusted with the oracles of God."}
{"book": "ROM", "chapter": 3, "verse": "3", "text": "For what if some refuse to be persuaded? Will their unbelief render naught the faithfulness of God?"}
{"book": "ROM", "chapter": 3, "verse": "4", "text": "May it never be! Let God be true (unconcealed), and every man a liar; as it has been written, That You may be justified in Your sayings, and may overcome when You are judged."}
{"book": "ROM", "chapter": 3, "verse": "5", "text": "But if our injustice commends the justice of God, what will we say? Is God unjust who brings forward wrath? (I speak as a man)"}
{"book": "ROM", "chapter": 3, "verse": "6", "text": "May it never be! For then how will God judge the world?"}
{"book": "ROM", "chapter": 3, "verse": "7", "text": "For if the truth of God has more abounded through my lie to His glory, why am I also still as a sinner judged?"}
{"book": "ROM", "chapter": 3, "verse": "8", "text": "And not, as we are evil spoken of, and as some assert us to say—Let us do evil things, that the good things might come? Their condemnation is just."}
{"book": "ROM", "chapter": 3, "verse": "9", "text": "What then? Are we better? Not at all! For we have already accused both Jews and Greeks all to be under sin."}
{"book": "ROM", "chapter": 3, "verse": "10", "text": "As it has been written, There is none righteous (correct, innocent, just, impartial), not even one;"}
{"book": "ROM", "chapter": 3, "verse": "11", "text": "there is none comprehending (putting it together); there is none seeking out after God."}
{"book": "ROM", "chapter": 3, "verse": "12", "text": "Each and every one have turned away, together they became good for nothing, there is none doing good (kind, useful, profitable), there is not as much as one."}
{"book": "ROM", "chapter": 3, "verse": "13", "text": "Their throat is an open grave; with their tongues they have used deceit; the poison of asps is under their lips:"}
{"book": "ROM", "chapter": 3, "verse": "14", "text": "Of whom the mouth is full of cursing (praying for evil) and embittered harshness;"}
{"book": "ROM", "chapter": 3, "verse": "15", "text": "Eagerly swift are their feet to liberally shed blood;"}
{"book": "ROM", "chapter": 3, "verse": "16", "text": "Crushing calamity and miserable hardship are in their ways;"}
{"book": "ROM", "chapter": 3, "verse": "17", "text": "And the way of serenity (peace, wholeness) they have not known first-hand;"}
{"book": "ROM", "chapter": 3, "verse": "18", "text": "There is no fear (alarm, reverence, panic, withdrawal from feeling inadequate) of God before their eyes."}
{"book": "ROM", "chapter": 3, "verse": "19", "text": "Now we know that as many things as the law says, it says to those in the law, that every mouth may be stopped (fenced in, blocked, closed, obstructed), and all the world may come under judgment (answerable to, liable to) to God;"}
{"book": "ROM", "chapter": 3, "verse": "20", "text": "Therefore by the works of the law, not any flesh will be justified (defend the cause of, acquit, judicially approve) before the eyes of Him, for through the law is the knowledge (recognition, discernment) of sin."}
{"book": "ROM", "chapter": 3, "verse": "21", "text": "But now the righteousness of God apart from the law has been made apparent, being witnessed to (attested to, testified of) by the law and the prophets;"}
{"book": "ROM", "chapter": 3, "verse": "22", "text": "Even the just approval of God is on account of faith from Jesus Christ, toward all those believing. For there is no distinction;"}
{"book": "ROM", "chapter": 3, "verse": "23", "text": "For all have sinned (having no share in do to forfeiture for missing the mark) and fall short of (come behind/late and therefore left out of) the glory of God,"}
{"book": "ROM", "chapter": 3, "verse": "24", "text": "Being shown to be righteous (made justified, acquitted)) as a free gift by His grace (extended favor/kindness) through the redemption (a release effected by the payment of ransom, redeem from) that is in Christ Jesus,"}
{"book": "ROM", "chapter": 3, "verse": "25", "text": "Whom God set forth as a propitiatory (covering, sin offering, the covering of the ark- mercy seat), through faith in his blood, for the showing forth of His justness, because of the passing over (remission of punishment for, letting go from close beside) of the bygone sins in the forbearance (bearing up, delay, suspense) of God;"}
{"book": "ROM", "chapter": 3, "verse": "26", "text": "For the demonstration of His justness in the present time, for His being just and justifying those of faith from Jesus."}
{"book": "ROM", "chapter": 3, "verse": "27", "text": "Where is the boasting (glorying, exulting) then? It has been excluded. By what law? Of works? No, but through a law of faith."}
{"book": "ROM", "chapter": 3, "verse": "28", "text": "Therefore we reckon a man to be justified by faith separate from the works of the law."}
{"book": "ROM", "chapter": 3, "verse": "29", "text": "Is He only the God of the Jews only? Is He not also the God of other ethnicities? Yes, also of other ethnicities!"}
{"book": "ROM", "chapter": 3, "verse": "30", "text": "Since indeed there is one God who will declare righteous the circumcision by faith, and the uncircumcision through the same faith."}
{"book": "ROM", "chapter": 3, "verse": "31", "text": "Do we then abolish (sever, render inoperative) the law through faith? May it never come into being! Rather we cause the law to stand."}
{"book": "ROM", "chapter": 4, "verse": "1", "text": "What then will we say that Abraham our father, according to the flesh, to have discovered?"}
{"book": "ROM", "chapter": 4, "verse": "2", "text": "For if Abraham was justified by works, he has a ground of boasting (glorying), but not toward God."}
{"book": "ROM", "chapter": 4, "verse": "3", "text": "For what does the Scripture say? And Abraham believed (entrusted) God, and it was reckoned (taken into account) to him as righteousness (judicial approval)."}
{"book": "ROM", "chapter": 4, "verse": "4", "text": "And to the one who is working, the reward is not reckoned according to grace, but according to debt (obligation)."}
{"book": "ROM", "chapter": 4, "verse": "5", "text": "And to the one not working, but believing upon Him that justifies those that fail to honor the holy (impious, ungodly, irreverent), his faith is reckoned for righteousness."}
{"book": "ROM", "chapter": 4, "verse": "6", "text": "Even as David also declares the blessedness of the man unto whom God imputes (credits, charges, reckons) righteousness separate of works."}
{"book": "ROM", "chapter": 4, "verse": "7", "text": "Blessed are they whose lawless acts are remitted and whose sins are covered over."}
{"book": "ROM", "chapter": 4, "verse": "8", "text": "Blessed is the man against whom the Lord will not reckon sin."}
{"book": "ROM", "chapter": 4, "verse": "9", "text": "Is this blessedness, then, upon the circumcision, or also upon the uncircumcision. For we are saying that the faith was reckoned to Abraham as just righteousness?"}
{"book": "ROM", "chapter": 4, "verse": "10", "text": "How then was it reckoned? When he was in circumcision or in uncircumcision? Not in circumcision, rather in uncircumcision."}
{"book": "ROM", "chapter": 4, "verse": "11", "text": "And he did receive the sign of circumcision, a seal of the just righteousness of the faith that he had while uncircumcised: That he might be the father of all those believing, though they be uncircumcised; That the just righteousness may also be reckoned to them."}
{"book": "ROM", "chapter": 4, "verse": "12", "text": "And the father of circumcision to them who are not of the circumcision only, but who also walk in the steps of that faith of our father Abraham, which he had being yet uncircumcised."}
{"book": "ROM", "chapter": 4, "verse": "13", "text": "For indeed not by law was the promise to Abraham or to his descendants, that he should be the heir of the world, but through the just righteousness of faith."}
{"book": "ROM", "chapter": 4, "verse": "14", "text": "For if they which are of the law are heirs, faith has been rendered void, and the promise rendered of no effect:"}
{"book": "ROM", "chapter": 4, "verse": "15", "text": "For the law brings about wrath; for where there is no law, neither is there transgression (deviation, to go contrary, overstepping)."}
{"book": "ROM", "chapter": 4, "verse": "16", "text": "Therefore it is of faith, that is according to grace, for the promise being sure to all the seed, not to that which is of the law only, but also to that which is of the faith of Abraham, who is the father of us all."}
{"book": "ROM", "chapter": 4, "verse": "17", "text": "As it has been written, A father of many ethnicities I have made you. Before God whom he believed, the One making alive the dead, and calling the things that do not exist into existence."}
{"book": "ROM", "chapter": 4, "verse": "18", "text": "Who against hope, in hope believed, for his becoming the father of many ethnicities, according to that having been spoken, “So will be your offspring.”"}
{"book": "ROM", "chapter": 4, "verse": "19", "text": "And not having become weak in the faith, he did not consider his own body having already become impotent, being about a hundred years old, and of the lifelessness of Sarah’s womb."}
{"book": "ROM", "chapter": 4, "verse": "20", "text": "Yet he did not waver (judge back and forth) in unbelief at the promise of God, but was empowered in faith, having given glory to God;"}
{"book": "ROM", "chapter": 4, "verse": "21", "text": "And having been fully assured that, what He had promised, He is also powerful to do."}
{"book": "ROM", "chapter": 4, "verse": "22", "text": "Therefore it also was reckoned to him for just righteousness."}
{"book": "ROM", "chapter": 4, "verse": "23", "text": "Now it was not written on account of him alone, that it was reckoned to him,"}
{"book": "ROM", "chapter": 4, "verse": "24", "text": "But also on account of us, to whom it is about to be reckoned, to those believing on the One having raised up (aroused, waken) Jesus our Lord out from among the dead,"}
{"book": "ROM", "chapter": 4, "verse": "25", "text": "Who was delivered over for our falling aways (false steps, lapses, non-deliberate falling aways after being close beside) and was raised up for our justification (acquittal, absolution)."}
{"book": "ROM", "chapter": 5, "verse": "1", "text": "Having been showed justified therefore by faith, we have peace toward God, through our Lord, Jesus Christ,"}
{"book": "ROM", "chapter": 5, "verse": "2", "text": "Through whom also we have access, by the faith, into this grace, in which we stand; and we boast (head up high, exult) upon hope of the glory of God."}
{"book": "ROM", "chapter": 5, "verse": "3", "text": "And not only so, but we also boast (glory, head up high) in the tribulations, knowing that the tribulation works perseverance (remaining/enduring under);"}
{"book": "ROM", "chapter": 5, "verse": "4", "text": "And moreover perseverance, proven character (approval through testing, proof of genuineness); and moreover proven character, hope (expectation of what is sure)."}
{"book": "ROM", "chapter": 5, "verse": "5", "text": "And hope does not make us ashamed (disgraced, confound, put into confusion), because the love of God has been poured out (gush forth) within our hearts, on account of the Holy Spirit, who has been given to us."}
{"book": "ROM", "chapter": 5, "verse": "6", "text": "For when we were still without adequate strength (without vigor thus frail/ depleted/insufficient), yet in the opportune time Christ died on behalf of the impious (irreverent, ungodly)."}
{"book": "ROM", "chapter": 5, "verse": "7", "text": "For scarcely for a righteous (correct, innocent, just) man will anyone die. For on behalf of an inherently good man perhaps someone would even have the daring courage (boldness, endurance) to die."}
{"book": "ROM", "chapter": 5, "verse": "8", "text": "But God demonstrates His love unto us, in that, we being still sinners, Christ died on behalf of us."}
{"book": "ROM", "chapter": 5, "verse": "9", "text": "Much more then, now having been justified by His blood, we will be saved from the wrath because of Him."}
{"book": "ROM", "chapter": 5, "verse": "10", "text": "For if, being enemies, we have been reconciled to God through the death of His Son, much more, having been reconciled, we will be saved in His life."}
{"book": "ROM", "chapter": 5, "verse": "11", "text": "And not only this, but we are also boasting in God, because of our Lord Jesus Christ, through whom we now received the reconciliation (restoration to an exact point of favor)."}
{"book": "ROM", "chapter": 5, "verse": "12", "text": "Because of this, as by one man the sin entered into the world, and by the sin, the death; so also the death passed through (spread) to all men, for all that sinned."}
{"book": "ROM", "chapter": 5, "verse": "13", "text": ""}
{"book": "ROM", "chapter": 5, "verse": "14", "text": "However the death reigned from Adam until Moses, even over those who have not sinned in the likeness of the transgression (going contrary, over stepping) of Adam, who is a type of the coming One."}
{"book": "ROM", "chapter": 5, "verse": "15", "text": "But, not as the fault so also is the free gift. For if by the fault of the one the many did die, much more did the grace of God and the free gift in grace of the one man, Jesus Christ, to the many did abound."}
{"book": "ROM", "chapter": 5, "verse": "16", "text": "And not as through one who did sin, is the free gift. For indeed the judgment was of the one to punishment following condemnation; but the free gift is of many faults unto justification."}
{"book": "ROM", "chapter": 5, "verse": "17", "text": "For if by the fault of the one the death reigned by the one; much more those, which receive the exceeding abundance of the grace and of the free gift of the just righteousness, in life will reign because of the One, Jesus Christ."}
{"book": "ROM", "chapter": 5, "verse": "18", "text": "So then, as through the one fault condemnation came to all men, so also through one act of righteousness justification of life came to all men."}
{"book": "ROM", "chapter": 5, "verse": "19", "text": "For as through the disobedience (hearing that will not comply- to hear contrary) of the one man, the many were constituted sinners, so also through the obedience (submission to what is heard- to hear beneath) of the One, will the many be constituted righteous (innocent, correct)."}
{"book": "ROM", "chapter": 5, "verse": "20", "text": "Now the law entered in that the fault might abound, however where the sin abounded, the grace abounded more exceedingly."}
{"book": "ROM", "chapter": 5, "verse": "21", "text": "That as the sin reigned in death, so also the grace might reign through righteousness, unto life eternal, through Jesus Christ our Lord."}
{"book": "ROM", "chapter": 6, "verse": "1", "text": "What then will we say? Will we persist in sin that the grace might abound?"}
{"book": "ROM", "chapter": 6, "verse": "2", "text": "May it never be! We who died to sin, how will we still live in it?"}
{"book": "ROM", "chapter": 6, "verse": "3", "text": "Or are you ignorant (not knowing) that, as many as have been baptized (dipped under, submerged, immersed) into Christ Jesus, have been baptized into His death?"}
{"book": "ROM", "chapter": 6, "verse": "4", "text": "We were buried along with Him, then, through baptism into the death, that just as Christ was raised up out of the dead, through the glory of the Father, so also we should walk (going full circle) in newness (freshness) of life."}
{"book": "ROM", "chapter": 6, "verse": "5", "text": "For if we have become united with (grown together) in the likeness (sameness) of His death, so also we will be of the resurrection (rising again to stand)."}
{"book": "ROM", "chapter": 6, "verse": "6", "text": "Knowing this, that our old man was crucified with Him, that the body of the sin may be rendered ineffective, that we should no longer be subject to (serve as a slave, be in bondage to) sin."}
{"book": "ROM", "chapter": 6, "verse": "7", "text": "For the one who has died has been shown justified from the sin."}
{"book": "ROM", "chapter": 6, "verse": "8", "text": "Now if we died with Christ, we believe that we will also live together with Him."}
{"book": "ROM", "chapter": 6, "verse": "9", "text": "Knowing that Christ having been raised up from out of the dead, dies no longer, death no longer lords over Him."}
{"book": "ROM", "chapter": 6, "verse": "10", "text": "For in that He died, he died to sin once for all, but in that he lives, He lives to God."}
{"book": "ROM", "chapter": 6, "verse": "11", "text": "So also you, reckon yourselves to indeed be dead to the sin and living unto God in Christ Jesus."}
{"book": "ROM", "chapter": 6, "verse": "12", "text": "Therefore, do not let sin reign in your mortal body, so as to hearken to (obey what is heard, under hearing) its lusts (being focused on/eager for the passion of strong urges)."}
{"book": "ROM", "chapter": 6, "verse": "13", "text": "Neither present (stand close beside, ready to exhibit) your members as implements (weapons to wage war) of unrighteousness (injustice) to the sin, but present yourselves to God, as living out from among the dead, and your members as tools of righteousness to God."}
{"book": "ROM", "chapter": 6, "verse": "14", "text": "For sin will not lord it over you, for you are not under law but under grace (freely extended favor)."}
{"book": "ROM", "chapter": 6, "verse": "15", "text": "What then? May we sin, because we are not under the law, but under grace? May it never be!"}
{"book": "ROM", "chapter": 6, "verse": "16", "text": "Do you not know that to whom you present yourselves bond slaves for hearkening, you are his bond slaves to whom you hearken, whether of sin resulting in death or of hearkening resulting in righteousness?"}
{"book": "ROM", "chapter": 6, "verse": "17", "text": "But thanks be to God that you used to be bond slaves of sin, but you have hearkened out of the heart, to that type (form, pattern) of teaching which you were given over to (pledged to, delivered to, give from close beside)."}
{"book": "ROM", "chapter": 6, "verse": "18", "text": "And having been freed away from sin, you have become bond slaves to the righteousness."}
{"book": "ROM", "chapter": 6, "verse": "19", "text": "Humanly, I speak because of the weakness of your flesh. For just as you presented your members in bondage to impurity and lawlessness resulting in lawlessness, so now present your members in bondage to righteousness resulting in sanctification (the process of advancing in holiness)."}
{"book": "ROM", "chapter": 6, "verse": "20", "text": "For when you were bond slaves of sin, you were free in regard to the righteousness."}
{"book": "ROM", "chapter": 6, "verse": "21", "text": "For what fruit had you then in the things of which you are now ashamed? For the end result of those things is death."}
{"book": "ROM", "chapter": 6, "verse": "22", "text": "But now, having been freed from sin, and having become slaves to God, you have your fruit resulting in sanctification, and the end result life eternal."}
{"book": "ROM", "chapter": 6, "verse": "23", "text": "For the wages of sin is death, but the free grace-gift (charisma-the operation/endowment of grace) of God- life eternal in Christ Jesus our Lord."}
{"book": "ROM", "chapter": 7, "verse": "1", "text": "Or are you ignorant, brothers, for to those knowing the law I speak, that the law lords over the man for as such time as he lives?"}
{"book": "ROM", "chapter": 7, "verse": "2", "text": "For the married woman has been bound to her living husband by law, but if the husband dies, she is discharged from the law of the husband."}
{"book": "ROM", "chapter": 7, "verse": "3", "text": "So then, while her husband lives, she will be called an adulteress, if she becomes joined to (come into being, transition) a different husband, but if the husband dies, she is free (unbound, delivered from obligation) from the law, so as not to be an adulteress having been joined to a different husband."}
{"book": "ROM", "chapter": 7, "verse": "4", "text": "Likewise, my brothers, you also have been put to death to the law through the body of Christ, so that you should belong to a different one, to the One having been raised from out of the dead, that we might bring forth fruit to God."}
{"book": "ROM", "chapter": 7, "verse": "5", "text": "For when we were in the flesh, the passions (capacity to feel strong emotion) of the sins, that were through the law, were operative (at work, energized) in our members, to bring forth fruit unto death."}
{"book": "ROM", "chapter": 7, "verse": "6", "text": "However now we have been discharged (rendered inoperative, released) from the law, having died to that in which we were held, so as to serve in newness (freshness) of spirit, and not in oldness (obsoleteness) of the letter."}
{"book": "ROM", "chapter": 7, "verse": "7", "text": "What then will we say? Is the law sin? May it never be! But I did not know sin, except through law, for also I did not perceive to know lusting after (focused on the passion built on strong urges) if the law had not said, You will not lust after (covet, take pleasure in)."}
{"book": "ROM", "chapter": 7, "verse": "8", "text": "But sin having taken opportunity (what violently rushes off a starting point) through the end result of the commandment, accomplished in me each and every lusting after, for separate from the law sin is dead."}
{"book": "ROM", "chapter": 7, "verse": "9", "text": "And I was living separate from the law once, but the end result of the commandment having come, the sin revived, and I died."}
{"book": "ROM", "chapter": 7, "verse": "10", "text": "And the end result of the commandment that is for life was found by me to be for death."}
{"book": "ROM", "chapter": 7, "verse": "11", "text": "For sin, having taken an occasioned opportunity through the commandment, wholly deceived me and by it was put to death."}
{"book": "ROM", "chapter": 7, "verse": "12", "text": "So the law indeed is holy and the commandment is holy, and just, and good."}
{"book": "ROM", "chapter": 7, "verse": "13", "text": "Then has that which is good become death to me? May it never be! Rather sin, that it might appear sin, working out death to me through that which is good; that through the commandment sin might become exceedingly sinful."}
{"book": "ROM", "chapter": 7, "verse": "14", "text": "For we know that the law is spiritual, but I am however fleshly (of flesh but not in the heavy derogatory sense of carnal), having been sold under the sin."}
{"book": "ROM", "chapter": 7, "verse": "15", "text": "For what I work out, I do not know (ascertain, realize), for what I want (wish) not this I practice (require), but what I hate (detest, denounce, love/esteem less) this I do (cause, make)."}
{"book": "ROM", "chapter": 7, "verse": "16", "text": "For if what I do not want this I do (cause, make), I consent to the law that it is appealingly good (beautiful, winsome, attractively good, worthy)."}
{"book": "ROM", "chapter": 7, "verse": "17", "text": "But now then I no longer work it out but the sin inhabiting (making a home in) me."}
{"book": "ROM", "chapter": 7, "verse": "18", "text": "For I perceive that in me, that is in my flesh, there inhabits nothing inherently (intrinsically) good: For to wish (intend, design, will the best) is present with me, but to work out (accomplish) the appealingly good is not."}
{"book": "ROM", "chapter": 7, "verse": "19", "text": "For I do not do (cause, make) the inherently good I wish (intend, design, will the best), but that which I do not want this bad (inwardly foul, rotten, of inner malice) I keep on practicing (requiring, exacting)."}
{"book": "ROM", "chapter": 7, "verse": "20", "text": "For if what I do not wish (intend, design) this I do (cause, make), it is no longer I who work it out, but sin inhabiting me."}
{"book": "ROM", "chapter": 7, "verse": "21", "text": "So then I find the law, that I wish to do (cause, make) what is appealingly good, the bad is present (lies beside) with me."}
{"book": "ROM", "chapter": 7, "verse": "22", "text": "For I delight in the law of God according to the inner man,"}
{"book": "ROM", "chapter": 7, "verse": "23", "text": "However I see another law in my members strategizing against (campaign/war against) the law of my reasoning faculty, and making me captive to the law of sin existing in my members."}
{"book": "ROM", "chapter": 7, "verse": "24", "text": "O wretched (distressed, miserable, afflicted, to undergo severe side-effects of strain until callous) man I am! Who will deliver (draw/pull/snatch up to oneself) me out of this body of death?"}
{"book": "ROM", "chapter": 7, "verse": "25", "text": "Grace (favor) be to God through Jesus Christ our Lord! So then I myself indeed with the mind (reasoning faculty) do serve as a slave God’s law, but with the flesh the law of sin."}
{"book": "ROM", "chapter": 8, "verse": "1", "text": "There is then now no punishment following condemnation (penalty, according to the results of judgment after due process/establishing guilt) to those in Christ Jesus, who walk (conduct their life, walk around full circle) not according to the flesh, but according to the Spirit."}
{"book": "ROM", "chapter": 8, "verse": "2", "text": "For the law of the Spirit of life in Christ Jesus freed (exempted from liability) you from the law of sin and of death."}
{"book": "ROM", "chapter": 8, "verse": "3", "text": "For in that the law being powerless (incapable) to do, in that it was weak through the flesh, God having sent His own (of Himself) Son, in likeness of sinful flesh, and concerning sin, gave judgment against sin in the flesh."}
{"book": "ROM", "chapter": 8, "verse": "4", "text": "That the just results (a judicially approved act) of the law should be fulfilled in us, walking (walk around full circle) not according to the flesh, but according to the Spirit."}
{"book": "ROM", "chapter": 8, "verse": "5", "text": "For those being according to flesh, have in their disposed mindset (mindset regulated from the parts around the heart, inner outlook, insight, combines the visceral and cognitive aspects of thinking that regulate outward behavior) the things of the flesh; however those according to Spirit, the things of the Spirit."}
{"book": "ROM", "chapter": 8, "verse": "6", "text": "For the disposed mindset of the flesh is death, but the disposed mindset of the Spirit is life and peace (serenity, wholeness)."}
{"book": "ROM", "chapter": 8, "verse": "7", "text": "Because the disposed mindset of the flesh is openly hostile against God; for it is not subject (to arrange under) to the law of God, for neither can it be (to show ability/power)"}
{"book": "ROM", "chapter": 8, "verse": "8", "text": "and those in flesh are not able to please God."}
{"book": "ROM", "chapter": 8, "verse": "9", "text": "But you are not in the flesh but in the Spirit, since the Spirit of God inhabits in you. Now if anyone has not the Spirit of Christ, he is not of Him."}
{"book": "ROM", "chapter": 8, "verse": "10", "text": "However if Christ is in you, the body is dead on account of sin, but the Spirit is life on account of just righteousness."}
{"book": "ROM", "chapter": 8, "verse": "11", "text": "But if the Spirit of the One having raised up Jesus from out of the dead inhabits you, the One having raised up Christ Jesus from out of the dead will make alive also your mortal bodies on account of His Spirit inhabiting (settled in, abiding indwelling) you."}
{"book": "ROM", "chapter": 8, "verse": "12", "text": "So then, brothers, we are not debtors to the flesh, to live according to flesh."}
{"book": "ROM", "chapter": 8, "verse": "13", "text": "For if you live according to flesh, you are about to die, however if by the Spirit, you put to death the functions (mode of action that implies sustained activity or responsibility) of the body, you will live."}
{"book": "ROM", "chapter": 8, "verse": "14", "text": "For as many as are led (brought, carried, guided, go) by the Spirit of God, these are the sons of God."}
{"book": "ROM", "chapter": 8, "verse": "15", "text": "For you have not received (taken, laid hold of) a spirit of enslavement (bondage) again unto fear (withdrawal, flee, panic, avoid dread/terror/alarm), but you have received (taken, laid hold of) the Spirit of sonship (to place as a son) by whom we cry aloud (cry out loudly with an urgent scream, urgent inarticulate shouts that express deep emotion), Abba! (Aramaic way of saying Daddy as a term of tender endearment) Father! (Pater in Greek, Latinization of the P to F)"}
{"book": "ROM", "chapter": 8, "verse": "16", "text": "The Spirit Himself bears witness together with our spirit, that we are the children of God."}
{"book": "ROM", "chapter": 8, "verse": "17", "text": "And if children also heirs: heirs indeed of God, and co-heirs of Christ; for if we suffer together (sympathize) with Him, that we might also be glorified together."}
{"book": "ROM", "chapter": 8, "verse": "18", "text": "I reckon that the sufferings (strong feelings) of the present time are not comparable (worthy of, to weigh in, of weight) with the coming glory to be revealed (uncovered) unto us."}
{"book": "ROM", "chapter": 8, "verse": "19", "text": "For the earnest expectation (eager, strained, out-stretched, intense thinking forward) of the creation, eagerly awaits for (welcomes away from and out of) the revelation (unveiling) of the sons of God."}
{"book": "ROM", "chapter": 8, "verse": "20", "text": "For the creation was subjected to futility (vanity, emptiness, aimlessness, frailty, nonsense because transitory), not willingly (voluntarily), but because of the One having subjected it—in hope (assured anticipation),"}
{"book": "ROM", "chapter": 8, "verse": "21", "text": "that also the creation itself will be freed from the enslavement of corrupting decay, into the freedom of the glory of the children of God."}
{"book": "ROM", "chapter": 8, "verse": "22", "text": "For we perceive (see and know) that all the creation groans together (to groan from compression/constriction) and travails together (suffers birth pangs) until the present."}
{"book": "ROM", "chapter": 8, "verse": "23", "text": "And not only that, but ourselves also, having the first-fruit of the Spirit, we ourselves also groan within (express groaning because of constricting pressure being exerted forward, moan with frustration) ourselves, early awaiting (expectant welcoming) sonship (son placement), the redemption of our body."}
{"book": "ROM", "chapter": 8, "verse": "24", "text": "For in this hope (assured anticipation) we were saved; however hope being looked at (seen) is not hope; For what anyone looks at (sees), why then does he hope for it?"}
{"book": "ROM", "chapter": 8, "verse": "25", "text": "But if what we do not look at, we hope for, we eagerly await through endurance (remain under)."}
{"book": "ROM", "chapter": 8, "verse": "26", "text": "And in like manner the Spirit also jointly helps (assist, to take hold with at the side, take share in, closely correspond with and aggressively laying hold of) our weakness. For we do not perceive (see and know) what we should pray for, as it is necessary (fitting, as we ought), but the Spirit Himself (itself- neuter in gender) makes intercession on behalf of us (to benefit as to cause to come in line with) with groanings inexpressible."}
{"book": "ROM", "chapter": 8, "verse": "27", "text": "But the One who is searching (examining to know) the hearts, perceives (sees and knows) what is in the mind (visceral opinion/insight/aspiration/purpose) of the Spirit, because He intervenes (entreats, to hit upon, obtaining by hitting the mark, lights upon (meet with), obtain) according to God for the saints (holy, set apart, sacred ones, different, other)."}
{"book": "ROM", "chapter": 8, "verse": "28", "text": "And we perceive (see and know) that all things work together (synergize) for inherent good to those loving God, to those who are being called according to His predetermination (purposefully set forth beforehand)."}
{"book": "ROM", "chapter": 8, "verse": "29", "text": "For those whom He knew beforehand (foreknew), He also established boundaries beforehand (predestined, predetermined) to be conformed to the image (icon, a prototype from which we are drawn and do not merely resemble) of His Son, for Him to be firstborn (pre-eminent, bring forth first) among many brothers."}
{"book": "ROM", "chapter": 8, "verse": "30", "text": "For those whom He established boundaries beforehand (predestined, predetermined), these He also called, and whom He called, these He also showed justified, and whom He showed justified, these He also glorified."}
{"book": "ROM", "chapter": 8, "verse": "31", "text": "What then will we say to these things? If God is for us, who (what, which)[can be, is] against us?"}
{"book": "ROM", "chapter": 8, "verse": "32", "text": "He who did not spare His own Son, but gave Him up on behalf of us all, how will He not with Him also freely grace (show favor, give freely, freely extend favor/grace that pardons/cancels) us all things?"}
{"book": "ROM", "chapter": 8, "verse": "33", "text": "Who will bring an accusation (call into account a debt or demand) against the elect (chosen, select) of God? God is the One showing just."}
{"book": "ROM", "chapter": 8, "verse": "34", "text": "Who is the one giving judgment against? Christ is the One having died, but also was raised up out from the dead, who is also at the right hand of God, and is intervening (entreating, obtaining by hitting the mark) for us."}
{"book": "ROM", "chapter": 8, "verse": "35", "text": "Who will separate us away from the love of Christ? Tribulation (distressing affliction without escape, hemmed in), or distress (difficulty from being confined to a narrow space), or persecution (suppress convictions, to hunt to bring down, follow with pursuit to punish), or famine (hunger), or nakedness, or peril (danger, risk), or sword (short dagger for stabbing)?"}
{"book": "ROM", "chapter": 8, "verse": "36", "text": "As it has been written, “For your sake we are being put to death the whole day long, we have been reckoned (accounted) as sheep for slaughter.”"}
{"book": "ROM", "chapter": 8, "verse": "37", "text": "But in all these things, we are super-conquerors that are completely and overwhelmingly victorious (conquer beyond) through the One having loved us."}
{"book": "ROM", "chapter": 8, "verse": "38", "text": "For I am persuaded that neither death, nor life, nor angels, nor rulers, nor things present, nor things to be, nor powers,"}
{"book": "ROM", "chapter": 8, "verse": "39", "text": "nor height, nor depth, nor any other created thing, will be able (have power) to separate us away from the love of God that is in Christ Jesus our Lord."}
{"book": "ROM", "chapter": 9, "verse": "1", "text": "I speak the truth in Christ, I am not lying, my conscience bearing witness together with me in the Holy Spirit,"}
{"book": "ROM", "chapter": 9, "verse": "2", "text": "that I have great and heavy sorrow (heart-sorrow/grief that brings a person down, vexing/distressing pain) and unremitting (no interval, incessant) anguish (consuming grief, pain, distress) in my heart."}
{"book": "ROM", "chapter": 9, "verse": "3", "text": "For I could wish that I myself to be accursed (laid up/pledged to destruction, anathema) away from the Christ for my brothers, my kinsmen (relatives, countrymen), according to flesh,"}
{"book": "ROM", "chapter": 9, "verse": "4", "text": "Who are Israelites, whose is the sonship, and the glory, and the covenants, and the law-giving, and the sacred service, and the promises,"}
{"book": "ROM", "chapter": 9, "verse": "5", "text": "Whose are the patriarchs, and out of whom is the Christ, according to flesh, who being over all, God blessed forever (into the ages/eons). Amen."}
{"book": "ROM", "chapter": 9, "verse": "6", "text": "However it is not as though the word of God has failed (faded away, withered away, fallen away), for not all who are of Israel are those Israel."}
{"book": "ROM", "chapter": 9, "verse": "7", "text": "Nor because they are seed of Abraham are they all children, but “In Isaac will a seed be called to you.”"}
{"book": "ROM", "chapter": 9, "verse": "8", "text": "That is, the children of the flesh, these are not the children of God; but the children of the promise are reckoned for seed."}
{"book": "ROM", "chapter": 9, "verse": "9", "text": "For the word of promise is this; At the time will I come and there will be to Sarah a son."}
{"book": "ROM", "chapter": 9, "verse": "10", "text": "And not only this, but also Rebecca, having conceived by one, Isaac our father,"}
{"book": "ROM", "chapter": 9, "verse": "11", "text": "For they being not yet born, nor having done anything inherently good or bad (worthless, base), that the purpose of God, according to election might remain, not of works (accomplishments), but of the One calling,"}
{"book": "ROM", "chapter": 9, "verse": "12", "text": "it was said to her, “The greater will serve the lesser.”"}
{"book": "ROM", "chapter": 9, "verse": "13", "text": "As it has been written, “Jacob I loved, but Esau I hated."}
{"book": "ROM", "chapter": 9, "verse": "14", "text": "What then will we say? Surely there is not injustice with God? May it never be!"}
{"book": "ROM", "chapter": 9, "verse": "15", "text": "For he says to Moses, I will show mercy to whom I might show mercy, and I will have compassion on whom I might have compassion."}
{"book": "ROM", "chapter": 9, "verse": "16", "text": "So then it is not of him who is willing, nor of him who is running, but on whom God is showing mercy."}
{"book": "ROM", "chapter": 9, "verse": "17", "text": "For the Scripture says to Pharoah, “For this very thing I have raised you up (raised up wholly out from), so that I might show in you My power, and so that My name should be declared in all the earth.”"}
{"book": "ROM", "chapter": 9, "verse": "18", "text": "So then to whom He wants, He shows mercy, and to whom He wants, He hardens (dried out, obstinately stubborn)."}
{"book": "ROM", "chapter": 9, "verse": "19", "text": "You say to me then, Why does He still censure (find fault, rejected because condemned)? For who is resisting His plan (purpose, will, counsel, pre-set resolution)?"}
{"book": "ROM", "chapter": 9, "verse": "20", "text": "Rather, O man, who are you who are answering against (contradict in reply) God? Will the thing formed (a thing formed, fashioned, molded) say to Him that has formed it, Why have You made me like this?"}
{"book": "ROM", "chapter": 9, "verse": "21", "text": "Or has not the potter authority over the clay, out of the same lump to make one vessel of honor and another to dishonor?"}
{"book": "ROM", "chapter": 9, "verse": "22", "text": "What if God wanting to show forth the wrath and to make known His power, bore in much forbearance (long-suffering) the vessels of wrath having been fitted together (prepared, properly adjusted) for destruction (cut off, perdition not annihilation, loss of well-being not being);"}
{"book": "ROM", "chapter": 9, "verse": "23", "text": "And that He might make known the riches of His glory upon the vessels of mercy, which He prepared beforehand in advance (predestined) for glory,"}
{"book": "ROM", "chapter": 9, "verse": "24", "text": "us, whom He has also called, not only from out of the Jews, but also from out of the ethnicities?"}
{"book": "ROM", "chapter": 9, "verse": "25", "text": "As also he says in Hosea, “I will call that which is not My people My people, and her who is not having been loved (not Beloved), having been loved (Beloved)."}
{"book": "ROM", "chapter": 9, "verse": "26", "text": "And it will happen that in the place where it was said to them, You are not My people, there they will be called sons of the living God."}
{"book": "ROM", "chapter": 9, "verse": "27", "text": "And Isaiah cried out aloud concerning Israel, Though the number of the sons of Israel will be as the sand of the sea, the remnant will be saved."}
{"book": "ROM", "chapter": 9, "verse": "28", "text": "For the Lord will perform (do, make) upon the earth His word, finishing (completing, fulfilling) it and cutting it short (bring to swift accomplishment)."}
{"book": "ROM", "chapter": 9, "verse": "29", "text": "And as Isaiah said before, “Except the Lord of Hosts (Sabaoth) had left us a seed, like Sodom we would have become and like Gomorrah we would have been made like.”"}
{"book": "ROM", "chapter": 9, "verse": "30", "text": "What then will we say? That those ethnicities not earnestly chasing after justice (righteousness), have attained (laid hold of, seized, aggressively take tight hold of) justice (righteousness), and that is justice (righteousness) out of faith."}
{"book": "ROM", "chapter": 9, "verse": "31", "text": "But Israel earnestly chasing after a law of justice (righteousness), at that law they did not arrive (precede, arrive ahead of time)."}
{"book": "ROM", "chapter": 9, "verse": "32", "text": "Why? Because it was not out of faith, but as out of works. They stumbled over (at) the stone of stumbling,"}
{"book": "ROM", "chapter": 9, "verse": "33", "text": "As it has been written, “Behold I lay in Zion a stone of stumbling, and a rock of offense (means of entrapment, a trigger of a trap for someone to be caught by their own devices, scandali in Latin) and the one believing on Him will not be put to shame.”"}
{"book": "ROM", "chapter": 10, "verse": "1", "text": "Brothers, the good pleasure (good-will, favor) of my heart and entreaty to God on behalf of them is for salvation."}
{"book": "ROM", "chapter": 10, "verse": "2", "text": "I bear them witness that they have a zeal for (of) God, but not according to knowledge (first hand relational knowing)."}
{"book": "ROM", "chapter": 10, "verse": "3", "text": "For they being ignorant (unknowing) of the justice (righteousness) of God and seeking to make to stand their own justice (righteousness), they did not submit to the justice (righteousness) of God."}
{"book": "ROM", "chapter": 10, "verse": "4", "text": "For Christ is the end of law unto justice (righteousness) to everyone that is believing."}
{"book": "ROM", "chapter": 10, "verse": "5", "text": "For Moses writes that of the justice (righteousness) that is from out of the law, that man which having practiced them will live in them."}
{"book": "ROM", "chapter": 10, "verse": "6", "text": "But the justice (righteousness) from out of faith, thus speaks: You should not say in your heart, Who will ascend into heaven? That is to bring Christ down."}
{"book": "ROM", "chapter": 10, "verse": "7", "text": "Or Who will descend into the abyss? That is to bring up Christ from out of the dead."}
{"book": "ROM", "chapter": 10, "verse": "8", "text": "But what does it say? The saying (word- rhema) is near you, it is in your mouth and in your heart; that is, the saying (word- rhema) of the faith which we preach (proclaim, herald),"}
{"book": "ROM", "chapter": 10, "verse": "9", "text": "That if you confess (agree, speak together to the same conclusion) the saying (word- rhema) with your mouth that the Lord is Jesus, and believe (be persuaded, entrust) in your heart that God raised Him up from out of the dead, you will be saved."}
{"book": "ROM", "chapter": 10, "verse": "10", "text": "For with (in) the heart one believes unto justice (righteousness) and with (in) the mouth one confesses unto salvation."}
{"book": "ROM", "chapter": 10, "verse": "11", "text": "For the Scripture says, “Everyone believing on Him will not be put to shame.”"}
{"book": "ROM", "chapter": 10, "verse": "12", "text": "For there is no difference between Jew and Greek, for the same Lord of all is rich unto all those calling upon Him."}
{"book": "ROM", "chapter": 10, "verse": "13", "text": "For each and every one that will call upon the name of the Lord will be saved."}
{"book": "ROM", "chapter": 10, "verse": "14", "text": "How then can they call unto Him whom they have not believed? And how will they believe on Him whom they have not heard? And how will they hear separate from one preaching (announce publicly with conviction)?"}
{"book": "ROM", "chapter": 10, "verse": "15", "text": "And how will they preach if they are not sent (- send away from, commissioned on a defined mission by a superior)? As it has been written, “How beautiful in timing (seasonable, timely, fruitful because fully developed) are the feet of those announcing (evangelizing, heralding) the good news of peace (serenity, wholeness) and of those announcing (evangelizing, heralding) the good news of intrinsically good things!”"}
{"book": "ROM", "chapter": 10, "verse": "16", "text": "But not all hearkened (obey what is heard, to hear under) the gospel. Isaiah says, “Lord, who has believed our hearing (spiritual hearing that goes with receiving faith from God)?”"}
{"book": "ROM", "chapter": 10, "verse": "17", "text": "So faith is from out of hearing, and hearing by (by the instrumentality of) the saying (word- rhema) of Christ."}
{"book": "ROM", "chapter": 10, "verse": "18", "text": "But I say, Have they not heard? Yes indeed, “Their voice (sound) has gone out unto all the earth and their sayings (words-rhemas) to the ends of the inhabited world.”"}
{"book": "ROM", "chapter": 10, "verse": "19", "text": "But I say, Did not Israel know? First, Moses says, “I will provoke you to jealousy through those which are not an ethnicity, through an ethnicity without comprehension (foolish because incoherent, without synthesized understanding) I will provoke you to anger (exasperate, push their buttons).”"}
{"book": "ROM", "chapter": 10, "verse": "20", "text": "And Isaiah assumed boldness(to be very bold, to be bold of oneself) and said, “I was found by those not investigating (seeking, searching for) Me; I became manifest (visible) to those not inquiring after Me.”"}
{"book": "ROM", "chapter": 10, "verse": "21", "text": "But to Israel he says, “All the day I have stretched out My hands to a people refusing to be persuaded and voicing opposition (contradict in a hostile/argumentative way in order to thwart).”"}
{"book": "ROM", "chapter": 11, "verse": "1", "text": "I say then, Surely God did not cast away (thrust away, put away, reject, repulse, refuse) His people? May it never be! For I am also an Israelite from out of the seed of Abraham of the tribe of Benjamin."}
{"book": "ROM", "chapter": 11, "verse": "2", "text": "God did not cast away His people whom He foreknew. Do you not know what Elijah says in the Scripture? How he pleads with God against Israel,"}
{"book": "ROM", "chapter": 11, "verse": "3", "text": "“Lord, Your prophets they killed, Your altars they have dug down (torn down by digging, demolished), and I have been left behind (left surviving/remaining) alone and they are seeking my soul (psyche).”"}
{"book": "ROM", "chapter": 11, "verse": "4", "text": "But what is the divine answer (oracle, divine response) spoken to him? “I have left to Myself seven thousand men who have not bowed the knee to Baal.”"}
{"book": "ROM", "chapter": 11, "verse": "5", "text": "So then also in the present opportune time (fitting season), there has been a remnant according to the election (divine selection, choosing out) of grace."}
{"book": "ROM", "chapter": 11, "verse": "6", "text": "But if by grace, it is no longer from out of works; otherwise grace no longer would be grace. But if it be out of works, then it is no longer grace; otherwise work is no longer work."}
{"book": "ROM", "chapter": 11, "verse": "7", "text": "What then? What is Israel seeking after, this it did not obtain (obtain by lighting upon it), but the elect obtained it and the rest were hardened (render callous, made of stone, insensible)."}
{"book": "ROM", "chapter": 11, "verse": "8", "text": "As it has been written, “God gave them a spirit of stupor (stupefaction, deep sleep, a violent strike, the bewilderment which comes after being stuck, like falling into a mental stupor), eyes not to see, and ears not to hear, ” unto this day- today."}
{"book": "ROM", "chapter": 11, "verse": "9", "text": "And David says, “Let their table be for a snare and for a trap (entrapping, hunting) and for a stumbling block and for a retribution to them;"}
{"book": "ROM", "chapter": 11, "verse": "10", "text": "Let their eyes be darkened not to see and their backs You always bend down (bow together with, oppress).”"}
{"book": "ROM", "chapter": 11, "verse": "11", "text": "I say then, Did they stumble that they might fall? May it never be! But rather in their falling away (false step, trespass, fall away after being close beside), salvation is to the ethnicities so as to provoke them to jealousy (boil over with desire, to apply heavy/hot pressure to provoke change especially in an ‘up-close-and-personal’ way)."}
{"book": "ROM", "chapter": 11, "verse": "12", "text": "Now if their falling away is the wealth of the world and their diminishing (loss, defeat, failure) is the wealth of the ethnicities, how much more their fulfillment (completion, sum total, fullness)?"}
{"book": "ROM", "chapter": 11, "verse": "13", "text": "For I am speaking to you, the ethnicities, inasmuch as I am an apostle of the ethnicities, I glorify (esteem honor to) my ministry,"}
{"book": "ROM", "chapter": 11, "verse": "14", "text": "If at all I may provoke to jealousy those of my flesh and save some of them."}
{"book": "ROM", "chapter": 11, "verse": "15", "text": "For if their casting away is the reconciliation of the world, what will their reception be, if not life from out of the dead?"}
{"book": "ROM", "chapter": 11, "verse": "16", "text": "Now if the first-fruit is holy, the mass (lump) also; and if the root is holy, the branches also."}
{"book": "ROM", "chapter": 11, "verse": "17", "text": "Now if some of the branches were broken off, and you, being a wild live tree, were grafted in among them, and have become a co-partaker of the root and of the fatness (richness) of the olive tree;"}
{"book": "ROM", "chapter": 11, "verse": "18", "text": "Exult (boast, speak loudly) not down over against the branches. But if you exult (boast) down over against them you do not support the root, but rather your root."}
{"book": "ROM", "chapter": 11, "verse": "19", "text": "You will say then, “The branches were broken off that I might be grafted in.”"}
{"book": "ROM", "chapter": 11, "verse": "20", "text": "Rightly so (well-perceived). By unbelief they were broken off, but by faith you stand. Be not high (loftly) minded (thinking, understanding, from the parts around the heart), but rather be afraid (fear, withdraw from, avoid)."}
{"book": "ROM", "chapter": 11, "verse": "21", "text": "For if God has not spared the natural branches, He may not spare you either."}
{"book": "ROM", "chapter": 11, "verse": "22", "text": "Behold then the kindness (goodness, useful, profitable, well fit for use, kindness that is also serviceable, kind and good) and severity of God; severity upon those having fallen (fallen under as under condemnation), however upon you the kindness of God, if you remain persisting in the kindness, otherwise you will also be cut off."}
{"book": "ROM", "chapter": 11, "verse": "23", "text": "And those also, if they do not remain in unbelief, will be grafted in; for God is able to graft them in again."}
{"book": "ROM", "chapter": 11, "verse": "24", "text": "For if you, from out of the wild olive tree, were cut off and contrary to nature were grafted into a properly cultivated (desirable) olive tree, how much more will they who are according to nature, be grafted into their own olive tree?"}
{"book": "ROM", "chapter": 11, "verse": "25", "text": "For I do not want you to be ignorant (unknowing), brothers, of this mystery, that you may not be wise (practically wise, sensible, savvy, prudent) unto yourselves, that a hardening in part has happened to Israel until the fulfillment (fullness, sum total, completion) of the ethnicities comes in."}
{"book": "ROM", "chapter": 11, "verse": "26", "text": "And so all (each and every of) Israel will be saved. As it has been written, “There will come from out of Zion the Deliverer (the One delivering), He will turn away irreverence (ungodliness) from Jacob.”"}
{"book": "ROM", "chapter": 11, "verse": "27", "text": "And this is the covenant from Me to them, when I should take away their sins."}
{"book": "ROM", "chapter": 11, "verse": "28", "text": "As regards the gospel (God’s good news), they are enemies (hostiles) because of you, but as regards the election, they are beloved because of the fathers."}
{"book": "ROM", "chapter": 11, "verse": "29", "text": "For the gifts (charismata- free grace-endowments) and calling of God are irrevocable (not repented of)."}
{"book": "ROM", "chapter": 11, "verse": "30", "text": "For just as you once were refusing to be persuaded (disobedient, disloyal) to God, but now you have obtained mercy by their willful unbelief (obstinacy, disobedience, not persuaded)."}
{"book": "ROM", "chapter": 11, "verse": "31", "text": "So just as you were once refusing to be persuaded to God, but now having been shown mercy to you they also may now be shown mercy."}
{"book": "ROM", "chapter": 11, "verse": "32", "text": "For God has shut up together (enclosed) all into refusing to be persuaded, that He might show mercy to all."}
{"book": "ROM", "chapter": 11, "verse": "33", "text": "O the depth of the wealth, both of wisdom and knowledge of God! How unsearchable His judgments and untraceable His ways!"}
{"book": "ROM", "chapter": 11, "verse": "34", "text": "For who has known the mind (reasoning) of the Lord, or who has been His advisor?"}
{"book": "ROM", "chapter": 11, "verse": "35", "text": "Or who has first given to Him and it will be given back correspondingly (recompense) to Him?"}
{"book": "ROM", "chapter": 11, "verse": "36", "text": "For from out of Him and through Him and unto Him are all things. To Him be the glory for ever (to the ages/eons). Amen."}
{"book": "ROM", "chapter": 12, "verse": "1", "text": "I entreat (exhort, call from close beside) you therefore, brothers, through the compassions (pity) of God, to present (stand close beside) your bodies a living sacrifice, holy, well-pleasing, which is your reasonable sacred service."}
{"book": "ROM", "chapter": 12, "verse": "2", "text": "And do not be conformed to (identified with the outward mold /form/expression) this age, but rather be transformed (transformed after being with) by the renewing (completing the process of making fresh/new) of your thinking (mind, reasoning), for your proving what is the will of God- the good (intrinsically good), and acceptable (well-pleasing), and perfect (full-grown, consummated)."}
{"book": "ROM", "chapter": 12, "verse": "3", "text": "For I say through the grace having been given to me, to everyone that is among you, not to be high-minded (high notions, overly proud) above (from beside of) what it behoves (what is proper, what must happen, what is absolutely necessary) you to be minded (thinking, understanding); but think so as to be sound-minded (safety-minded, sober outlook, think shrewdly, safety regulated for proper control, temperate from the diaphram), as to each God has apportioned (distribute as properly needed) a measure of faith."}
{"book": "ROM", "chapter": 12, "verse": "4", "text": "For as in one body we have many members and not all the members have the same function;"}
{"book": "ROM", "chapter": 12, "verse": "5", "text": "So we, the many, are one body in Christ and each one members of another."}
{"book": "ROM", "chapter": 12, "verse": "6", "text": "And having differing (different, varying, surpassing, excellent) gifts (charismata- free grace-endowments) according to the grace having been given to us: and if prophecy, according to the proportion (analogous reasoning, moving from one point of comparison to the other) of faith;"}
{"book": "ROM", "chapter": 12, "verse": "7", "text": "and if service (waiting on table), in the service; and if the one teaching (causing to learn), in the instruction;"}
{"book": "ROM", "chapter": 12, "verse": "8", "text": "and if the one exhorting (entreating, encouraging, urging), in the exhortation (entreaty, encouragement, urging); the one giving (sharing, imparting, give a share of), in simplicity (not over-complicated/needlessly complex); the one leading (pre-standing, a well-established character that provides the needed model to direct others), in zeal (swiftness to show zealous diligence, speed on); the one showing mercy, in cheerful readiness."}
{"book": "ROM", "chapter": 12, "verse": "9", "text": "Let love be genuine (unhypocritical), abhorring (detesting) the evil (toilsome, pain-ridden, emphasizing the misery that always go with evil); cleaving (glued together) to the intrinsic good."}
{"book": "ROM", "chapter": 12, "verse": "10", "text": "As to the friendly affection of brothers (brotherly love) be kindly affectionate as if family (a lover/friend of family, a devoted love shown by family members) unto one another; esteeming (to go before- as a leader, prefer) one another in honor (paying respect, valuing, according worth);"}
{"book": "ROM", "chapter": 12, "verse": "11", "text": "In zealous diligence, not delaying as if reluctant-lazy-indolent; in spirit, being fervent (bubble over because hot enough to boil); serving (serve as a slave having willingly given governing over) the Lord."}
{"book": "ROM", "chapter": 12, "verse": "12", "text": "In hope rejoicing (being glad in grace); in tribulation (pressure that hems in, what constricts, compresses, distresses, afflicts, persecutes, confines) enduring (bearing up/remaining under); in prayer, be prevailing (persist in showing steadfast strength)."}
{"book": "ROM", "chapter": 12, "verse": "13", "text": "Have a share in the necessities (useful needs) of the saints (set apart ones), earnestly pursue hospitality (friendly love to strangers)."}
{"book": "ROM", "chapter": 12, "verse": "14", "text": "Bless (reason well of, confer what is beneficial) those persecuting (hunting you down) you, bless and do not curse (doom)."}
{"book": "ROM", "chapter": 12, "verse": "15", "text": "Rejoice (glad for grace) with those rejoicing, weep (mourn aloud, expressing uncontainable grief) with those weeping;"}
{"book": "ROM", "chapter": 12, "verse": "16", "text": "Be of the same thinking unto one another, not thinking lofty (highly), but carry along with (condescend to) the lowly (humble, low-lying, lowly in position or spirit). Be not wise (intelligent, prudent, sensible, practically wise) in yourselves (of your own estimation/conceit)."}
{"book": "ROM", "chapter": 12, "verse": "17", "text": "Give back to no one bad (rottenness, inner malice, foulness) for (over against) bad (kaka), providing forethought for (think/plan before, showing necessary forethought to act properly) winsomely good (kala- attractively good) things before all men."}
{"book": "ROM", "chapter": 12, "verse": "18", "text": "If possible, as far as it depends on you, be at peace with all men;"}
{"book": "ROM", "chapter": 12, "verse": "19", "text": "Never avenging (dispense justice, vindicate) yourselves, beloved, but give place (offer opportunity) to His wrath; for it has been written, “Vengeance (avenging) is mine, I will recompense (give in return, pay-back fittingly), ” says the Lord."}
{"book": "ROM", "chapter": 12, "verse": "20", "text": "But rather if your enemy should hunger, feed him; if he thirsts, give him drink; for doing this, you will heap (load) charcoals of fire upon his head."}
{"book": "ROM", "chapter": 12, "verse": "21", "text": "Be not overcome by the bad (kaka), but rather overcome the bad (kaka) in the intrinsically good (agatho)."}
{"book": "ROM", "chapter": 13, "verse": "1", "text": "Let every soul be subject to superior authorities. For there is no authority if not by God; and those that exist have been appointed (arranged in order) by God."}
{"book": "ROM", "chapter": 13, "verse": "2", "text": "So that the one setting oneself against (arranging to be opposite/against) the authority, standing against the ordinance (that thoroughly set in place) of God; and those who stand against will take judgment (a verdict) upon themselves."}
{"book": "ROM", "chapter": 13, "verse": "3", "text": "For the rulers are not a terror (fear, alarm) to intrinsically good works, but rather to the bad (kaka- rottenness, foulness, inner malice). Do you wish then not to be afraid (fearful, alarmed) of the authority? Do the intrinsically good and you will have fitting praise from the same."}
{"book": "ROM", "chapter": 13, "verse": "4", "text": "For it is an administer (servant) of God to you for intrinsic good. But if you do bad (kaka), be afraid (fearful, alarmed), for it does not bear the sword (slaughter dagger for retribution) without grounds (without cause/purpose); for it is an administer of God, an avenger for wrath to the one practicing (performing a routine/habit) bad (kaka)."}
{"book": "ROM", "chapter": 13, "verse": "5", "text": "Therefore it is necessary to be subject, not only on account of the wrath, but also on account of conscience (innate persisting notion, joint-knowing, to see and know together with)."}
{"book": "ROM", "chapter": 13, "verse": "6", "text": "Because of this you also pay taxes (tributes); for they are public administers (public servants- one that works belonging to the people) of God attending continually (prevail steadfastly) upon this very thing."}
{"book": "ROM", "chapter": 13, "verse": "7", "text": "Render to all their dues: to whom the tax, the tax; to whom the revenue, the revenue; to whom the reverence, the reverence; to whom the esteem, the esteem (valuing)."}
{"book": "ROM", "chapter": 13, "verse": "8", "text": "Owe nothing to no one, except to love one another; for the one loving another has fulfilled the law."}
{"book": "ROM", "chapter": 13, "verse": "9", "text": "For, “You will not commit adultery, You will not murder (intentional homicide), You will not steal, You will not lust after (be focused on passionate desire), ” and if there is any other commandment in the word it is summed up in this saying, “You will love your neighbor (the one nearby) as yourself.”"}
{"book": "ROM", "chapter": 13, "verse": "10", "text": "Love does not work bad (kaka) to its neighbor; therefore, love is the fulfillment (sum total) of the law."}
{"book": "ROM", "chapter": 13, "verse": "11", "text": "And this, knowing the fitting time, that the limited time period (hour) already is for us to awaken from out of sleep (hypnos), for now our salvation is nearer than at which time we believed."}
{"book": "ROM", "chapter": 13, "verse": "12", "text": "The night-time is nearly over, and the day comes close near; let us put off (lay aside, renounce) the works of darkness and let us put on the weapons (instruments to make war) of light."}
{"book": "ROM", "chapter": 13, "verse": "13", "text": "Let us walk becomingly (properly, having good form), as in the day; not in debauched partyings and drunkennesses, not in sexual promiscuity/co-bedding (cohabitation in the bed, bed chambering-for sex) and licentious sensuality (spite that rejects restraint and indulges in lawless and lewd insolence, wantonness, lewdness, conduct shocking to public decency, violent outrageous brutality), not in contentious strife and boiling rivalry."}
{"book": "ROM", "chapter": 13, "verse": "14", "text": "But put on the Lord Jesus Christ and make no forethought (advance knowledge, enabling/allowing for something to happen) for focusing on the lusts (inordinate passions built on strong urges) of the flesh."}
{"book": "ROM", "chapter": 14, "verse": "1", "text": "For the one being weak (feeble, without strength) in the faith receive (take to yourself, welcome, take in addition, lay hold of with initiative, aggressively receive), not passing judgment on his reasonings."}
{"book": "ROM", "chapter": 14, "verse": "2", "text": "For one believes to eat all things, but the one being weak eats vegetables (garden herbs, things dug from a garden)."}
{"book": "ROM", "chapter": 14, "verse": "3", "text": "Let not the one not eating despise (cast out as nothing, set as naught, treat with utter contempt) the one eating; and let not the one who is not eating judge (decide to separate, distinguish) the one who is eating, for God has received (take to Himself, welcomed) that one."}
{"book": "ROM", "chapter": 14, "verse": "4", "text": "Who are you judging (deciding to separate, distinguish) another’s household servant? To his own master, he stands of falls. He will be made to stand, for the Lord is able to make him stand."}
{"book": "ROM", "chapter": 14, "verse": "5", "text": "For truly one judges a day to be above another day, and another judges every day alike. Let each in his own understanding (reason, mind) be fully convinced (fully carry through, bear fully)."}
{"book": "ROM", "chapter": 14, "verse": "6", "text": "The one regarding (has understanding to, observes) the day, regards it to the Lord; and the one not regarding the day to the Lord does not regard it. The one eating, eats to the Lord, for he gives thanks to God; and the one not eating, eats not to the Lord, and he gives thanks to God."}
{"book": "ROM", "chapter": 14, "verse": "7", "text": "For no one of us lives to himself and no one dies to himself."}
{"book": "ROM", "chapter": 14, "verse": "8", "text": "For if we both should live together to the Lord we live, if we also should die, we die to the Lord. Therefore if we both should live, or if we also die, we are the Lord’s."}
{"book": "ROM", "chapter": 14, "verse": "9", "text": "For from out of this, Christ died and lived again, so that He might be Lord over both the dead and the living."}
{"book": "ROM", "chapter": 14, "verse": "10", "text": "But you, Why do you judge your brothers, or Why do you also despise your brother? For we all will stand before the judgment seat (tribunal, raised place) of God."}
{"book": "ROM", "chapter": 14, "verse": "11", "text": "For it has been written, “I live, ” says the Lord, “that every knee will bow to me and every tongue (glossa) will wholly consent (to say the same thing about wholly out from, fully agree and acknowledge that agreement openly, confess without reservation) to God.”"}
{"book": "ROM", "chapter": 14, "verse": "12", "text": "So then each of us will give an account (logon- word, speech) concerning himself to God."}
{"book": "ROM", "chapter": 14, "verse": "13", "text": "Therefore we should no longer judge one another, but rather judge (decide) this- to not put any stumbling block (occasion for falling) or trap (cause for error/offense) before your brother."}
{"book": "ROM", "chapter": 14, "verse": "14", "text": "I perceive (see and know) and I am persuaded (convinced of the trustworthy) in the Lord Jesus that nothing is unclean (common because defiled of its specialness, stripped of specialness/sacredness thus defiled because treated as common/mundane/ordinary) of itself, but to the one reckoning anything to be unclean, to that one it is unclean."}
{"book": "ROM", "chapter": 14, "verse": "15", "text": "But if your brother is grieved (distressed, pained) on account of food of any kind, you are no longer walking according to love. Do not destroy that one for whom Christ died with your food."}
{"book": "ROM", "chapter": 14, "verse": "16", "text": "Therefore let not your intrinsic good be spoken evil against (blasphemed, profaned, sluggish/slow the reputation of),"}
{"book": "ROM", "chapter": 14, "verse": "17", "text": "For the kingdom of God is not eating and drinking, but rather righteousness (justice) and peace (serenity, wholeness) and joy (joy because of grace, the awareness of God’s grace, be favorably disposed, delight) in the Holy Spirit."}
{"book": "ROM", "chapter": 14, "verse": "18", "text": "For the one serving Christ in these things is well pleasing to God and approved (acceptably received because validated genuine) by men."}
{"book": "ROM", "chapter": 14, "verse": "19", "text": "So then let us pursue the things of peace and the things for building up one another."}
{"book": "ROM", "chapter": 14, "verse": "20", "text": "Do not, for the sake of food, overthrow (break up, find a lodging) the work of God. All things, indeed, are clean (without admixture), but it is bad (kaka) to the man who through a stumbling block eats (or for the man who by eating causes stumbling)."}
{"book": "ROM", "chapter": 14, "verse": "21", "text": "It is winsomely good to eat neither meat nor drink wine nor anything in which your brother stumbles or ensnares or weakens."}
{"book": "ROM", "chapter": 14, "verse": "22", "text": "The faith which you have (keep, hold), have (keep, hold) it to yourself before God. Happy (become large, fortunate) is the one not judging himself in what he approves."}
{"book": "ROM", "chapter": 14, "verse": "23", "text": "However, the one doubting (vacillating back and forth), if he eats has been condemned (given judgment against) because it is not of faith; for anything that is not of faith is sin."}
{"book": "ROM", "chapter": 15, "verse": "1", "text": "Now we who are able (strong, powerfully able), to take up (bear, carry) the weaknesses (no strength) of the unable (weak, not powerfully able) and not to please (satisfy, to win someone’s favor because of meeting their expectation) ourselves."}
{"book": "ROM", "chapter": 15, "verse": "2", "text": "Let each of us please (satisfy) his neighbor (one nearby) unto intrinsic good, for building him up."}
{"book": "ROM", "chapter": 15, "verse": "3", "text": "For even Christ pleased (satisfied) not Himself, but rather, as it has been written, “The reproaches (insults aimed to damage/disgrace reputation, undeserved condemnation) of those reproaching you have fallen upon me.”"}
{"book": "ROM", "chapter": 15, "verse": "4", "text": "For whatever was written before was written for all our teaching (applied teaching, teaching for necessary lifestyle application), that through endurance and through the entreaty (to call with urging, exhortation, encouragement) of the Scriptures, we might have hope (expectation of what is sure/certain)."}
{"book": "ROM", "chapter": 15, "verse": "5", "text": "Now may the God of endurance and entreaty give you the same mind (understanding, the diaphragm, that which regulates inner perspective that shows in outward behavior) among one another, according to Christ Jesus,"}
{"book": "ROM", "chapter": 15, "verse": "6", "text": "That with one accord (the same passion), with one mouth, you may glorify the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ."}
{"book": "ROM", "chapter": 15, "verse": "7", "text": "Therefore, receive (take in addition, take to yourself, aggressively welcome with strong personal interest/initiative) one another as Christ also received you unto the glory of God."}
{"book": "ROM", "chapter": 15, "verse": "8", "text": "For I say that Christ has become a minister (servant, deacon, administrator) of the circumcision for the sake of the truth of God, in order (unto) to confirm (ratify, secure, guarantee) the promises given to the fathers,"}
{"book": "ROM", "chapter": 15, "verse": "9", "text": "And that the ethnicities should glorify God for mercy, as it has been written, “Because of this I will confess (wholly agree) You among (unto) the ethnicities and I will make music (sing with plucking instruments) to Your name.”"}
{"book": "ROM", "chapter": 15, "verse": "10", "text": "And again he says, “Rejoice (have a merry/cheering outlook because of a sense of inner triumph), you ethnicities, with His people.”"}
{"book": "ROM", "chapter": 15, "verse": "11", "text": "And again, “Praise the Lord, all the ethnicities, and let all the peoples fittingly praise (praise on, fitting, praise on in a fitting/apt manner) Him.”"}
{"book": "ROM", "chapter": 15, "verse": "12", "text": "And again, Isaiah says, “There will be a root of Jesse, and the One rising up to rule over ethnicities; upon Him the ethnicities will hope.”"}
{"book": "ROM", "chapter": 15, "verse": "13", "text": "Now may the God of hope make you full (be full, fill to capacity, complete) with all joy and peace in believing, for you to abound in the hope, in the power (might, miraculous power, ability to perform) of the Holy Spirit."}
{"book": "ROM", "chapter": 15, "verse": "14", "text": "And I myself am also persuaded (confident) concerning you, my brothers, that you yourselves are full of intrinsic goodness, being made full with all (every kind of) knowing (to experientially know by direct relationship), also being able to admonish (to place the mind, reasoning by warning) one another."}
{"book": "ROM", "chapter": 15, "verse": "15", "text": "But I have written from some share (in part) to you more boldly, as aptly reminding you again, because of the grace having been given to me by God,"}
{"book": "ROM", "chapter": 15, "verse": "16", "text": "For me to be a public minister of Jesus Christ to the ethnicities, administering in sacred service (work of the Temple/priest) the gospel of God that the offering up of the ethnicities may become acceptable, having been sanctified (set apart holy) in (by) the Holy Spirit."}
{"book": "ROM", "chapter": 15, "verse": "17", "text": "Therefore, I have my boasting in Christ Jesus as to the things pertaining to (toward) God."}
{"book": "ROM", "chapter": 15, "verse": "18", "text": "For I will not dare to speak anything of what Christ did not work out through me for the compliance (to hear beneath) of the ethnicities by word and deed,"}
{"book": "ROM", "chapter": 15, "verse": "19", "text": "in power of signs and wonders, in power of the Spirit of God; so that I, from Jerusalem, and in a circle around unto Illyricum, I have fully preached (completed preaching) the gospel of Christ."}
{"book": "ROM", "chapter": 15, "verse": "20", "text": "And so strongly valuing (to show affection/friendly love for what is personally valued, loving what has great personal value) to preach the gospel where Christ has not been named, that I might not build (build a house) upon another’s foundation;"}
{"book": "ROM", "chapter": 15, "verse": "21", "text": "But as it has been written, “”To whom it was not declared (completing the process of declaring) concerning Him, they will perceive (look upon, experience, see with the mind-spiritually see) and those that have not heard, will put it together (put together with, synthesize, join facts into a comprehensive whole).”"}
{"book": "ROM", "chapter": 15, "verse": "22", "text": "Therefore also I have been hindered many times from coming to you."}
{"book": "ROM", "chapter": 15, "verse": "23", "text": "But now having no longer a place in these regions (territories) and having had an eager longing to come to you for sufficient years,"}
{"book": "ROM", "chapter": 15, "verse": "24", "text": "Pending whenever I may go to Spain (Spanian in Greek), I expect (hope for) to see (look upon, gaze on as a spectator) you as I go through; and by you be sent forth (be set forward, accompanied) there, if first I should be filled up in part (from some share) by you."}
{"book": "ROM", "chapter": 15, "verse": "25", "text": "But now I go to Jerusalem, ministering to the saints."}
{"book": "ROM", "chapter": 15, "verse": "26", "text": "For Macedonia and Achaia were pleased to make a certain contribution unto the destitute (beggarly, poor) of the saints in Jerusalem."}
{"book": "ROM", "chapter": 15, "verse": "27", "text": "For they were well-pleased and they are their debtors, for if the ethnicities have shared in their spiritual things, they ought also in fleshly (physical, material) things minister (publically serve, minister in an official capacity for the community) to them."}
{"book": "ROM", "chapter": 15, "verse": "28", "text": "Therefore having completed this and having sealed to them this fruit, I will set off (go away from, depart) by you into Spain."}
{"book": "ROM", "chapter": 15, "verse": "29", "text": "And I perceive that coming to you, I will come in the fullness of the blessing of Christ."}
{"book": "ROM", "chapter": 15, "verse": "30", "text": "Now I entreat you, brothers, by our Lord Jesus Christ and by the love of the Spirit, to strive (fight, agonize, struggle) together with me in prayers for me towards God,"}
{"book": "ROM", "chapter": 15, "verse": "31", "text": "That I might be rescued (draw/pull/snatch out to oneself) from those refusing to be persuaded in Judea, and my ministry which is in Jerusalem may be acceptable (well-received) to the saints;"}
{"book": "ROM", "chapter": 15, "verse": "32", "text": "That in joy I may come to you by the will of God and be refreshed (rest along with, pause completely with) with you."}
{"book": "ROM", "chapter": 15, "verse": "33", "text": "And the God of peace be with all of you. Amen."}
{"book": "ROM", "chapter": 16, "verse": "1", "text": "Now I commend (stand together with in union) to you Phoebe, our sister, being also a minister (servant, deacon) of the church in Cenchrea,"}
{"book": "ROM", "chapter": 16, "verse": "2", "text": "That you may receive (welcome, accept) her in the Lord worthily of the saints and you may assist her in whatever pending matter (pragma- habit needed to accomplish what is necessary in a practical, reliable way) she might need of you. For she also has been a patroness (prostatis- female guardian, protector) of many and of myself."}
{"book": "ROM", "chapter": 16, "verse": "3", "text": "Greet (welcome) Prisca and Aquila, my fellow workers in Christ Jesus—"}
{"book": "ROM", "chapter": 16, "verse": "4", "text": "Who for my life (psyche) have lain down (risked) their neck, to whom not only I give thanks, but also all the churches of the ethnicities"}
{"book": "ROM", "chapter": 16, "verse": "5", "text": "and in their house church. Greet Epaenetus, my beloved, who is a first-fruit of Achaia unto Christ."}
{"book": "ROM", "chapter": 16, "verse": "6", "text": "Greet Mary, who labored (until exhausted) much for you."}
{"book": "ROM", "chapter": 16, "verse": "7", "text": "Greet Andronicus and Junias, my kinsmen (fellow countrymen/relatives) and my fellow prisoners, who are notable among the apostles, who also became in Christ before me."}
{"book": "ROM", "chapter": 16, "verse": "8", "text": "Greet Ampliatus, my beloved in the Lord."}
{"book": "ROM", "chapter": 16, "verse": "9", "text": "Greet Urbanus, our fellow worker in Christ and Stachys, my beloved."}
{"book": "ROM", "chapter": 16, "verse": "10", "text": "Greet Apelles, the approved in Christ. Greet those from out of Aristobulus."}
{"book": "ROM", "chapter": 16, "verse": "11", "text": "Greet Herodion, my kinsman. Greet those from out of Narcissus, those being in the Lord."}
{"book": "ROM", "chapter": 16, "verse": "12", "text": "Greet Tryphaena and Tryphosa, those laboring (until exhaustion) in the Lord. Greet Persis, the beloved, who labored (until exhaustion) much in the Lord."}
{"book": "ROM", "chapter": 16, "verse": "13", "text": "Greet Rufus, the choice one (chosen by favoritism) in the Lord and his mother and mine."}
{"book": "ROM", "chapter": 16, "verse": "14", "text": "Greet Asyncritus, Phlegon, Hermes, Patrobas, Hermas, and the brothers with them."}
{"book": "ROM", "chapter": 16, "verse": "15", "text": "Greet Philologus and Julias, Nereus, and his sister, and Olympas, and all the saints with them."}
{"book": "ROM", "chapter": 16, "verse": "16", "text": "Greet one another with a holy kiss. All the churches of Christ greet you."}
{"book": "ROM", "chapter": 16, "verse": "17", "text": "Now I entreat you, brothers, to take heed (regard attentively, beware) of those who cause separate-standings (divisions, dissensions) and entrapments (bait of a trap, causes for error/offense, stumbling-blocks, greek word is close to the word scandal) contrary to the established teaching (summarized body of respected teaching) that you have learned and turn away (fall away from, bow out from and to, fully avoid by deliberate rejection, latin word is declinate, like decline) from them."}
{"book": "ROM", "chapter": 16, "verse": "18", "text": "For such, do not serve (subject to, serve as a slave) our Lord Christ, but rather their own belly (koilia, appetites and base desires); and by smooth talk (ingratiating words, plausible speaking, kind address, suitable words) and flattery (adulation- excessive admiration, obsequious flattery, a blessing in a good context) beguile (wholly deceive/seduce out from, hood-wink) the hearts of the naÏve (simple and guileless, not malignant, not malevolent, not harmful rather innocent)."}
{"book": "ROM", "chapter": 16, "verse": "19", "text": "For your compliance (submitting to what is heard) has reached unto all. Therefore, I rejoice over you, however, I wish you to be wise (learned, clever, skilled, cultivated) to intrinsic good and unmingled (innocent, pure, unmixed, simple, unsophisticated) to evil (kaka)."}
{"book": "ROM", "chapter": 16, "verse": "20", "text": "Now the God of peace will crush (break into pieces by crushing, shatter) Satan under your feet speedily (quickly, hastily, swiftly without unnecessary delay). The grace of our Lord Jesus Christ be with you."}
{"book": "ROM", "chapter": 16, "verse": "21", "text": "Timothy, my fellow worker, and Lucius and Jason, and Sosipater, my kinsmen greet you."}
{"book": "ROM", "chapter": 16, "verse": "22", "text": "I, Tertius, who has written this letter (epistloten), greet you in the Lord."}
{"book": "ROM", "chapter": 16, "verse": "23", "text": "Gaius, my host and all the church greet you. Erastus, the city manager and the brother Quartus greet you."}
{"book": "ROM", "chapter": 16, "verse": "24", "text": "The grace of our Lord Jesus Christ be with you all. Amen."}
{"book": "ROM", "chapter": 16, "verse": "25", "text": "Now to Him being powerfully able to fix you firmly (a support that fixes, plants down with standing, set fast/fix) according to my gospel and the preaching of Jesus Christ, according to the revelation (uncovering) of the mystery (anything hidden), having been kept in silent secrecy in times of ages ago."}
{"book": "ROM", "chapter": 16, "verse": "26", "text": "But now having been made apparent (illuminated, visible, clear, manifest, graspable) also through prophetic Scriptures, according to the fitting arrangement (a command) of the eternal God having been made known to all the ethnicities for compliance (submit to what is heard) of faith—"}
{"book": "ROM", "chapter": 16, "verse": "27", "text": "To the only wise God, through Jesus Christ, to whom be the glory unto the ages (forever). Amen."}
{"book": "1CO", "chapter": 1, "verse": "1", "text": "Paul, a called apostle of Jesus Christ, through the preferred-will of God, and brother Sosthenes,"}
{"book": "1CO", "chapter": 1, "verse": "2", "text": "To the church of God being in Corinth having been sanctified (set apart as holy, regarded as special/sacred) in Christ Jesus, called holy together with all those calling upon the name of our Lord Jesus Christ in every place, both theirs and ours."}
{"book": "1CO", "chapter": 1, "verse": "3", "text": "Grace to you and peace from God our Father and the Lord Jesus Christ."}
{"book": "1CO", "chapter": 1, "verse": "4", "text": "I give thanks to my God always concerning you for the grace of God having been given to you in Christ Jesus,"}
{"book": "1CO", "chapter": 1, "verse": "5", "text": "That in everything you have been enriched in Him, in all speech and all knowing (knowledge),"}
{"book": "1CO", "chapter": 1, "verse": "6", "text": "Just as the testimony (witness, evidence) about Christ was confirmed (walk where it is solid, guaranteed, ratified) in you,"}
{"book": "1CO", "chapter": 1, "verse": "7", "text": "So that you will not be lacking (fall short, be behind) in not even one of the grace endowments (charismati), eagerly awaiting the revelation of our Lord Jesus Christ;"}
{"book": "1CO", "chapter": 1, "verse": "8", "text": "Who will also confirm (walk where it is solid, ratify, guarantee, fully secure) you to the consummation (the end-goal), unconvictable (not making legal charges against someone in a court of law) in the day of our Lord Jesus Christ."}
{"book": "1CO", "chapter": 1, "verse": "9", "text": "Faithful is God by whom you were called unto fellowship (participation, what is shared in common as the basis of fellowship) of His Son, Jesus Christ, our Lord."}
{"book": "1CO", "chapter": 1, "verse": "10", "text": "Now I entreat you brothers through the name of our Lord Jesus Christ that you all speak the same and there be no divisions (splits, schisms) among you; but that you be exactly adjusted together (exactly fit together to be in good working order) in the same understanding (mind, reasoning) and in the same judgment (gnome- opinion or judgment formed in active relationship, the result of first-hand knowledge)."}
{"book": "1CO", "chapter": 1, "verse": "11", "text": "For it was shown (informed, signified) to me concerning you my brothers by those of Chloe that there are contentions (strifes, a readiness to quarrel, affection for dispute, latin- contentiones) among you."}
{"book": "1CO", "chapter": 1, "verse": "12", "text": "And I say this, that each of you says, “I am indeed of Paul” – “but I of Apollos, ”- “but I of Cephas, ” – “but I of Christ.”"}
{"book": "1CO", "chapter": 1, "verse": "13", "text": "Has Christ been divided? Was Paul crucified for you? Or unto the name of Paul were you baptized?"}
{"book": "1CO", "chapter": 1, "verse": "14", "text": "I thank God that I baptized none of you, except Crispus and Gaius,"}
{"book": "1CO", "chapter": 1, "verse": "15", "text": "that no one may say that unto my name you were baptized."}
{"book": "1CO", "chapter": 1, "verse": "16", "text": "And I did also baptize the household of Stephanas. Beyond that I do not know whether I baptized any other."}
{"book": "1CO", "chapter": 1, "verse": "17", "text": "For Christ did not send me to baptize but rather to preach the gospel; not with wisdom of speech that the cross of Christ be emptied out (made valueless, made unreal, without recognition)."}
{"book": "1CO", "chapter": 1, "verse": "18", "text": "For the word (speech) of the cross is absurd folly (senseless, folly, absurdity, foolishness, dull, lacking sharpness, moria- like moronic) indeed to those perishing; but to those of us being saved it is the power of God."}
{"book": "1CO", "chapter": 1, "verse": "19", "text": "For it has been written, “I will destroy the wisdom of the wise and the synthesized holistic understanding (synthesized understanding, putting or running together in the mind) of the intelligent (ones that understand by synthesizing) I will confound (un-place, disregard as spurious, do away with, set aside, reject what is already laid down)."}
{"book": "1CO", "chapter": 1, "verse": "20", "text": "Where is the wise? Where is the scribe? Where is the debater (ostentatious disputer that sounds off to look important/impressive) of this age? Has not God made absurd (stupid, dull, foolish) the wisdom of this world?"}
{"book": "1CO", "chapter": 1, "verse": "21", "text": "For seeing that indeed in the wisdom of God the world by its wisdom knew not God, it well-pleased God because of the absurd folly of preaching to save those believing."}
{"book": "1CO", "chapter": 1, "verse": "22", "text": "Seeing that both Jews ask for signs and Greeks seek wisdom:"}
{"book": "1CO", "chapter": 1, "verse": "23", "text": "But we preach Christ crucified, to the Jewish indeed a stumbling block (cause of offense, snare) and to ethnicities absurd folly,"}
{"book": "1CO", "chapter": 1, "verse": "24", "text": "But to them who are the called, both Jews and Greeks, Christ the power of God, and the wisdom of God."}
{"book": "1CO", "chapter": 1, "verse": "25", "text": "For the moron-ness (stupidity, dullness) of God is wiser than men and the weakness (frailty) of God is mightier (stronger, engaging combative strength) than men."}
{"book": "1CO", "chapter": 1, "verse": "26", "text": "For consider (see, look at) your calling, brothers, that not many are wise according to the flesh, not many powerful, not many of noble birth."}
{"book": "1CO", "chapter": 1, "verse": "27", "text": "But rather God has chosen the moronic things (stupidity, foolishness, dullness) of the world that He may confound (shame, put to utter confusion) the wise; and God has chosen the weak things of the world that He may confound (shame, put to utter confusion) the mighty;"}
{"book": "1CO", "chapter": 1, "verse": "28", "text": "And God has chosen the ignoble of the world and the despised things, even the things that are not, to bring to nothing things that are,"}
{"book": "1CO", "chapter": 1, "verse": "29", "text": "So that all flesh may not boast (glory) in the sight of God."}
{"book": "1CO", "chapter": 1, "verse": "30", "text": "And from out of Him you are in Christ Jesus, who became wisdom unto us from God, righteousness (justice) together with sanctification and redemption;"}
{"book": "1CO", "chapter": 1, "verse": "31", "text": "so that as it has been written, “The one boasting (glorying) in the Lord, let him boast (glory).”"}
{"book": "1CO", "chapter": 2, "verse": "1", "text": "And I, having come to you, brothers, came not according to superiority (hold above, excellency, preeminence, elevated prominence, loftiness) of speech or of wisdom, preaching to you the testimony of God."}
{"book": "1CO", "chapter": 2, "verse": "2", "text": "For I decided not to perceive (see and know) anything among you, except Jesus Christ and Him having been crucified."}
{"book": "1CO", "chapter": 2, "verse": "3", "text": "And I was with you, in weakness, and in fear, and in much trembling."}
{"book": "1CO", "chapter": 2, "verse": "4", "text": "And my speech and my preaching were not in persuasive words of wisdom, but in demonstration of the Spirit and of power-"}
{"book": "1CO", "chapter": 2, "verse": "5", "text": "That your faith may not be in the wisdom of men, but in the power of God."}
{"book": "1CO", "chapter": 2, "verse": "6", "text": "Yet we speak wisdom among the mature (full-grown), but not the wisdom of this age, nor of the rulers of this age, who are coming to nought."}
{"book": "1CO", "chapter": 2, "verse": "7", "text": "But rather we speak the wisdom of God in a mystery, the wisdom having been hidden, which God foreordained (predestined, predetermined) before the ages for our glory,"}
{"book": "1CO", "chapter": 2, "verse": "8", "text": "Which none of the rulers of this age have known, for if they had known, they would not have crucified the Lord of glory."}
{"book": "1CO", "chapter": 2, "verse": "9", "text": "But rather, as it has been written, “What no eye has seen, nor ear has heard, nor has ascended (come upwards) upon the heart of man, what God has prepared for those loving Him” —"}
{"book": "1CO", "chapter": 2, "verse": "10", "text": "But God has revealed them to us through the Spirit. For the Spirit diligently searches (examines) all things, even the depths of God."}
{"book": "1CO", "chapter": 2, "verse": "11", "text": "For who among men knows the things of the man, except the spirit of the man that is within him? So also the things of God no one has known, except the Spirit of God."}
{"book": "1CO", "chapter": 2, "verse": "12", "text": "Now we have not received the spirit of the world, but rather the Spirit who is from out of God, that we may know the things having been freely given in grace (charizomai- extend favor, exercise grace, freely show favor)) to us by God,"}
{"book": "1CO", "chapter": 2, "verse": "13", "text": "Which we also speak, not in words taught of human wisdom, but rather in those taught of the Spirit comparing spiritual things with (by) spirituals (possibly …spiritual things by spiritual means)."}
{"book": "1CO", "chapter": 2, "verse": "14", "text": "Now the soulish (natural, psychikos, of the soul or mind) man does not accept the things of the Spirit of God, for to him they are absurd folly (dullness, foolishness) and he is not able to know them, because they are spiritually discerned."}
{"book": "1CO", "chapter": 2, "verse": "15", "text": "Now he who is spiritual discerns all things, however he himself is discerned by no one."}
{"book": "1CO", "chapter": 2, "verse": "16", "text": "For who has known the understanding (mind) of the Lord, that he will instruct (put together in reasoning, prove, cause to get on board a ship) Him? However we have the understanding (mind) of Christ."}
{"book": "1CO", "chapter": 3, "verse": "1", "text": "And I, brothers, was not able to speak to you as to spiritual, but rather as to carnal (fleshly), as to young children in Christ."}
{"book": "1CO", "chapter": 3, "verse": "2", "text": "I gave milk to you to drink, not food, for you were not yet able [to receive it]. But still now you are not able."}
{"book": "1CO", "chapter": 3, "verse": "3", "text": "For you are still carnal (fleshly), for where there is among you jealousy (to boil, zealous/boiling rivalry) and contentious strife, are you not fleshly and are you not walking full circle according to man?"}
{"book": "1CO", "chapter": 3, "verse": "4", "text": "For when one may say, “I, indeed, am of Paul;” and another “I- of Apollos;” are you not men?"}
{"book": "1CO", "chapter": 3, "verse": "5", "text": "Who (what) then is Apollos? And who (what) is Paul? Ministers (servants) through whom you believed, even as to each the Lord has given."}
{"book": "1CO", "chapter": 3, "verse": "6", "text": "I planted, Apollos gave drink, but rather God gave growth."}
{"book": "1CO", "chapter": 3, "verse": "7", "text": "So that neither the one planting nor the one giving drink is anything, but rather God who gives the growth."}
{"book": "1CO", "chapter": 3, "verse": "8", "text": "Now he who is planting and he who is giving drink are one, however each will receive his own reward (compensation, wages) according to his own wearisome labor."}
{"book": "1CO", "chapter": 3, "verse": "9", "text": "For we are God’s fellow workers, God’s cultivation (tilled field, vine-dressing), you are God’s building that serves as a home (oikodome- dome house)."}
{"book": "1CO", "chapter": 3, "verse": "10", "text": "According to the grace of God having been given to me, as a wise master craftsman (first/ruler craftsman, chief artesian, architekton- architect), I have laid the foundation however another is building upon it. But let each man be aware (see, look at, discern, perceive) how he builds upon it."}
{"book": "1CO", "chapter": 3, "verse": "11", "text": "For another foundation of the same kind no one is able to lay besides the One being laid, which is Jesus Christ."}
{"book": "1CO", "chapter": 3, "verse": "12", "text": "But if anyone builds upon the foundation gold, silver, precious stones, wood, hay, stubble (reeds, stalk, straw);"}
{"book": "1CO", "chapter": 3, "verse": "13", "text": "Each one’s work will become apparent (visible, clear, manifest), for the day will disclose (make evident/clear) it, because it is revealed in fire and the fire itself will put to the test and prove what sort is each one’s work."}
{"book": "1CO", "chapter": 3, "verse": "14", "text": "If anyone’s work will remain, which he built upon [a foundation], he will receive a reward."}
{"book": "1CO", "chapter": 3, "verse": "15", "text": "If anyone’s work will be burned up, he will suffer loss, but he himself will be saved, however so as through fire."}
{"book": "1CO", "chapter": 3, "verse": "16", "text": "Do you not know that you are God’s temple (part of temple that God dwells) and the Spirit of God dwells (lives at home) in you?"}
{"book": "1CO", "chapter": 3, "verse": "17", "text": "If anyone destroys (destroys, corrupts, wastes away, deteriorates) the temple of God, God will destroy him, for the temple of God is holy, which you are."}
{"book": "1CO", "chapter": 3, "verse": "18", "text": "Let no one deceive (hood-wink, seduce) himself. If anyone among you supposes (seems, has an opinion) that he is wise in this age, let him become moronic (dull, stupid, foolish) that he may become wise."}
{"book": "1CO", "chapter": 3, "verse": "19", "text": "For the wisdom of this world is absurd folly with God. For it has been written, “He is the One catching (entrapping) the wise in their every shrewd craftiness (cunning, cleverness).”"}
{"book": "1CO", "chapter": 3, "verse": "20", "text": "And again, “The Lord knows the back and forth reasonings of the wise, that they are vain and aimless (futile, groundless, purposeless, fleeting).”"}
{"book": "1CO", "chapter": 3, "verse": "21", "text": "So then, let no one boast (glory proudly) in men, for all things are yours,"}
{"book": "1CO", "chapter": 3, "verse": "22", "text": "Whether Paul or Apollos or Cephas or the world or life or death or present things or coming things, all are yours,"}
{"book": "1CO", "chapter": 3, "verse": "23", "text": "And you are Christ’s and Christ is God’s."}
{"book": "1CO", "chapter": 4, "verse": "1", "text": "Let a man so reckon (account, regard) us as servants (attendant, underling, under-rower, subordinate executing official orders) of Christ and stewards (household managers) of the mysteries of God."}
{"book": "1CO", "chapter": 4, "verse": "2", "text": "So as to the rest, it is sought in the stewards (household managers) that one be found faithful."}
{"book": "1CO", "chapter": 4, "verse": "3", "text": "As for me it is for the very least thing that I be examined (investigated) by you, or by man’s day [in court], but rather I do not even examine myself."}
{"book": "1CO", "chapter": 4, "verse": "4", "text": "For I am conscious of (privy of) nothing against myself, but rather I have not by this been shown justified; but the One examining me is the Lord."}
{"book": "1CO", "chapter": 4, "verse": "5", "text": "So then do not decide judgment against anything before the time, until the Lord has come, who will also bring to light the hidden (secret) things of darkness and will make apparent the resolved plans (counsels, determined-plans, deliberations) of the hearts; and then fitting praise (commendation) will come to each from God."}
{"book": "1CO", "chapter": 4, "verse": "6", "text": "Now these things, brothers, I have figuratively adapted (bring about change in outward shape, change in outward appearance after a change, transfigured, latin- transfiguravi) to myself and Apollos, on account of you, that in us you may learn not to go above what has been written, that none of you may be puffed up one above the other."}
{"book": "1CO", "chapter": 4, "verse": "7", "text": "For who distinguishes you? What do you have which you did not receive? And if you also did receive it, why do you boast as having not received it?"}
{"book": "1CO", "chapter": 4, "verse": "8", "text": "You are already satiated, you have already been enriched, apart from us you reigned, and I wish that you really did reign, that we may also reign with you."}
{"book": "1CO", "chapter": 4, "verse": "9", "text": "For I think that God has exhibited (shown forth with proof and separation from) us apostles last, as condemned to death, because we have become a spectacle to the world, and to angels and to men."}
{"book": "1CO", "chapter": 4, "verse": "10", "text": "We are morons on account of Christ, but you are wise in Christ; we are weak, but you are strong; you are held in honor, but we are without attributed honor."}
{"book": "1CO", "chapter": 4, "verse": "11", "text": "As far as the present hour, we hunger and thirst and are poorly clothed and are struck with the fist and wander homeless (unsettled),"}
{"book": "1CO", "chapter": 4, "verse": "12", "text": "And grow weary, working with our own hands. Being reviled (to say harsh things, verbally abuse insultingly, spew bitter-mean-insulting words to demoralize), we bless (speak well of); being persecuted (chased/hunted to overtake, put to flight), we still bear up (hold up, endure);"}
{"book": "1CO", "chapter": 4, "verse": "13", "text": "being defamed by evil report, we entreat. We have become as the scum (refuse filth) of the world, the wiped-off scum of all until now."}
{"book": "1CO", "chapter": 4, "verse": "14", "text": "I do not write these things to turn you away in shame, but to admonish (place in mind, reasoning by warning) you as my beloved children."}
{"book": "1CO", "chapter": 4, "verse": "15", "text": "For if you should have ten thousand legal guardians (legally appointed overseer, authorized to bring up children) in Christ, yet not many fathers; for in Christ Jesus through the gospel, I have begotten you."}
{"book": "1CO", "chapter": 4, "verse": "16", "text": "Therefore, I entreat you to become imitators (mimetes- mimic, emulators) of me."}
{"book": "1CO", "chapter": 4, "verse": "17", "text": "Because of this, I sent to you, Timothy, who is my beloved child and faithful in the Lord, who will remind you of my ways that are in Christ Jesus, just as I teach everywhere in every church."}
{"book": "1CO", "chapter": 4, "verse": "18", "text": "Now certain ones have become puffed up, as to my not coming to you now."}
{"book": "1CO", "chapter": 4, "verse": "19", "text": "However, I will come to you without necessary delay (speedily), if possibly the Lord wishes (wills) and I will come to know (find out) not the speech of those being puffed up, but rather the power."}
{"book": "1CO", "chapter": 4, "verse": "20", "text": "For the kingdom of God is not in word (speech), but in power."}
{"book": "1CO", "chapter": 4, "verse": "21", "text": "What do you want (wish)? Should I come to you with a rod (staff/specter of authority, often for chastising/scourging) or in love with a spirit of meekness (mildness, gentleness, balanced gentle strength)?"}
{"book": "1CO", "chapter": 5, "verse": "1", "text": "Fornication (selling off-surrendering of sexual purity, promiscuity of any-every type, porneia, latin-fornicatio, sex between unmarrieds) is actually (wholly, altogether) heard among you and such fornication which is not even among the ethnicities, that someone has his father’s wife."}
{"book": "1CO", "chapter": 5, "verse": "2", "text": "And you are puffed up and did not rather mourn (manifested grief over a relationship that dies) that the one having done this work might be taken (removed) from out of the midst (middle) of you."}
{"book": "1CO", "chapter": 5, "verse": "3", "text": "For though I am absent in body, I am present (near) in spirit; have already come to a judgment, as being present, the one in this way has done this."}
{"book": "1CO", "chapter": 5, "verse": "4", "text": "In the name of our Lord Jesus, when you are gathered together also my spirit with the power of our Lord Jesus,"}
{"book": "1CO", "chapter": 5, "verse": "5", "text": "To deliver (give over from close beside, hand over) one of such a kind to Satan for the ruination (this is not extinction/annihilation but rather the loss that goes with undoing) of the flesh that the spirit may be saved in the day of the Lord."}
{"book": "1CO", "chapter": 5, "verse": "6", "text": "Your boasting is not winsomely good (kalon). Do you not know that a little leaven leavens all the lump (mixed mass)?"}
{"book": "1CO", "chapter": 5, "verse": "7", "text": "Thoroughly purge out (ekkatharate- like catharsis, cleanse out thoroughly) the old leaven so that you may be a new lump (mixture), according to the manner in which you are fully unleavened. For Christ, our Passover lamb, has also been sacrificed."}
{"book": "1CO", "chapter": 5, "verse": "8", "text": "So that we may keep the feast, not with old leaven, nor with leaven of inherent malice (kaka) and pain-ridden maliciousness (poneria- pain-ridden/spreading evil, iniquity), but rather in the unleavened of clearness (rightly judged in the light of the sun/the shining of the sun, rightly judged because seen in full light, pure inner motives, purity, clarity, sincerity) and of truth (true as fact, reality)."}
{"book": "1CO", "chapter": 5, "verse": "9", "text": "I wrote to you in the letter (epistole), not to identify with or be mixed closely together with (associate intimately with, mix closely together with, to be identified with a finished mixed process) the fornicators (pornois),"}
{"book": "1CO", "chapter": 5, "verse": "10", "text": "And by all means not the fornicators of this world, or with the coveting defrauders (one desirous of having more even trampling on the rights of others) and rapacious extortioners (suddenly snatching/seizing like as a robber, swindler- close to the word for rapture) or idolaters (image worshippers)—since you would be obligated (ought) then to go/come out of (from) the world."}
{"book": "1CO", "chapter": 5, "verse": "11", "text": "But now, I wrote to you not to be identified with being mixed together with him, if possibly any brother be given a name that he is a fornicator or a coveting defrauder or an idolator or an abusive reviler (denigrating another’s reputation by abusive insults) or a drunkard or a rapacious extortioner (swindler); with such a one do not even eat with."}
{"book": "1CO", "chapter": 5, "verse": "12", "text": "For what is it to me to come to a judgment of those outside? Do you not come to a judgment of those within?"}
{"book": "1CO", "chapter": 5, "verse": "13", "text": "But those outside God will come to a judgment. Expel (remove, eject) the malicious (poneron-evil) person out from among yourselves."}
{"book": "1CO", "chapter": 6, "verse": "1", "text": "Dare anyone of you having a matter against the other, go to be judged before the unjust and not before the saints?"}
{"book": "1CO", "chapter": 6, "verse": "2", "text": "Do you not know that the saints will judge the world? And if the world is to be judged by you, are you unworthy (inadequate, unfit, tested and found wanting) of the smallest (least, trivial) cases?"}
{"book": "1CO", "chapter": 6, "verse": "3", "text": "Do you not know that we will judge angels? How much more the things of this life?"}
{"book": "1CO", "chapter": 6, "verse": "4", "text": "If then you have cases as to the things of this life, why do you set them up before those being despised (treated with contempt) in the church?"}
{"book": "1CO", "chapter": 6, "verse": "5", "text": "I say this to your shame. So is there not among you a wise man who will be able to investigate thoroughly and distinguish in between his brother?"}
{"book": "1CO", "chapter": 6, "verse": "6", "text": "But rather brother goes to be judged against brother and this before unbelievers?"}
{"book": "1CO", "chapter": 6, "verse": "7", "text": "It is already now altogether a defeat (loss, failure) for you that you have lawsuits among one another. Why not rather inflict wrong? Why not rather be defrauded (deprived of)?"}
{"book": "1CO", "chapter": 6, "verse": "8", "text": "But rather you inflict wrong and defraud (deprive) and these things to your brothers."}
{"book": "1CO", "chapter": 6, "verse": "9", "text": "Or do you not know that the unjust ones will not inherit the kingdom of God? Be not led to wander (go astray, deviated, caused to wander, deceived): neither fornicators, nor idolaters (image worshippers), nor adulterers, nor effeminates/molesters (WSNTDICT-soft to the touch, one that allows themselves to be sexually abused contrary to nature, HELPS- catamite-a pubescent boy who is the intimate companion of a young man in Roman times, modern definition of catamite- a boy as a passive or receiving partner in anal intercourse with a man, THAYERS- soft to the touch, effeminate, of a catamite, a male that submits his body to unnatural lewdness---latin word is molles, which is possibly a semantic precursor to a molester in my estimation I conclude that malakoi pertains to those that sexually abuse children or women, and possibly to those that sexually act as the opposite sex especially to a man being effeminate with the wearing the soft/delicate clothing of women), nor homosexual bedfellows (greek word- arsenokoitai, from arsen, “a male” and koite, “a bed” or properly, a man in bed with another man- it can also be understood as those that abuse/defile themselves sexually with others of same sex to make a play on the semantics of the greek? koites in the ars latin words- masculorum concubitores, masculorum means abuser and concubitores means homosexual and as concubitor it means bedfellow, so in latin it is abusing homosexual bedfellows—a lot of old translations say “abusers of themselves with mankind” and another old translation uses buggerer which means one that has anal intercourse),"}
{"book": "1CO", "chapter": 6, "verse": "10", "text": "nor thieves (kleptai- one that steals in secret with stealth, rather than in open with violence), nor covetous defrauders (one desirous of having more, trampling the rights of others), not drunkards, nor abusive revilers, nor swindlers (rapacious extortioners) will inherit the kingdom of God."}
{"book": "1CO", "chapter": 6, "verse": "11", "text": "And such some (certain) of you were, but rather you were washed, but rather you were sanctified, but rather you were justified in the name of our Lord Jesus Christ, and in the Spirit of our God."}
{"book": "1CO", "chapter": 6, "verse": "12", "text": "All things are lawful (permitted, possible) to me, but rather not all things concur for benefit; all things are lawful to me, but rather I will not be mastered (exercised authority over) under anything."}
{"book": "1CO", "chapter": 6, "verse": "13", "text": "Foods for the belly (koilia) and the belly for foods, but God will bring both of these to naught. Now the body is not for fornication but rather for the Lord and the Lord for the body."}
{"book": "1CO", "chapter": 6, "verse": "14", "text": "Now God has both raised up the Lord and also will raise us out by His power."}
{"book": "1CO", "chapter": 6, "verse": "15", "text": "Do you not know that your bodies are members of Christ? Should I then take the members of Christ and make them members of a female prostitute (pornes- possibly a female fornicator- latin word is meretricis, not fornicarii, which translates as prostitute with meret meaning gains, the tricis part may have the semantic overlay of one turning tricks for gain)? May it never be!"}
{"book": "1CO", "chapter": 6, "verse": "16", "text": "Or do you not know that he being joined to the female prostitute is one body? For He says, “The two will be into (unto) one flesh.”"}
{"book": "1CO", "chapter": 6, "verse": "17", "text": "But the one being joined to the Lord is one spirit."}
{"book": "1CO", "chapter": 6, "verse": "18", "text": "Flee (escape, shun by flight) fornication. Every sin which a man may do is outside (exterior, without) the body, but the one committing fornication, sins against their own body."}
{"book": "1CO", "chapter": 6, "verse": "19", "text": "Or do you not know that your body is a temple of the Holy Spirit within you, who you have from God and you are not your own?"}
{"book": "1CO", "chapter": 6, "verse": "20", "text": "For you were bought with a price (valuing, perceived value, the weight/honor/value willingly assigned to something), therefore glorify God in your body and in your spirit, which are God’s (note: the latin vulgate and various new and old translations do not have the part after …in your body and the latin vulgate, Wycliffe, and drv all have …glorify and bear God in your body.)."}
{"book": "1CO", "chapter": 7, "verse": "1", "text": "Now concerning the things which you wrote about: It is good (kalon) for a man not to touch (touch that influences, fasten to, adhere to) a woman."}
{"book": "1CO", "chapter": 7, "verse": "2", "text": "But because of fornications, let each man have his own wife, and let each women her own husband."}
{"book": "1CO", "chapter": 7, "verse": "3", "text": "Let the husband give his due to his wife, and likewise the wife to her husband."}
{"book": "1CO", "chapter": 7, "verse": "4", "text": "The wife does not exercise authority over her own body but rather the husband and likewise the husband does not exercise authority over his own body, but rather the wife."}
{"book": "1CO", "chapter": 7, "verse": "5", "text": "Do not deprive (defraud) one another, except it be by mutual consent (be of one voice) for a fitting time (suitable/opportune time) that you may be unoccupied (be at leisure) for prayer and be together the same again that Satan may not tempt you because of your inability to maintain control (not prevail, take dominion, want of power)."}
{"book": "1CO", "chapter": 7, "verse": "6", "text": "Now I say this according to concurrence (knowing together), not according to a command."}
{"book": "1CO", "chapter": 7, "verse": "7", "text": "For I wish all men to be as I myself am. But rather each has their own grace endowment (charisma) from God, one this (thus, in this manner) and one that (thus, in this manner)."}
{"book": "1CO", "chapter": 7, "verse": "8", "text": "And I say to the unmarried and to the widows, it is good (kalon) for them if they may remain even as I."}
{"book": "1CO", "chapter": 7, "verse": "9", "text": "But if they do not exercise control from within (continency), let them marry, for it is better (better because more fully developed in reaching the needed mastery- greek word comparative to kratos) to marry than to be inflamed."}
{"book": "1CO", "chapter": 7, "verse": "10", "text": "And to those having married I give this charge- not I, but rather the Lord- that the wife is not to be separated from her husband,"}
{"book": "1CO", "chapter": 7, "verse": "11", "text": "But if she may be separated (separated by vacating in body and soul- latin discedere), let her remain unmarried or be reconciled to her husband and that the husband not divorce (send away, put away, release, discharge- latin word is dimittat which translates as divorce, the latin word for leave is different it is discedere) his wife."}
{"book": "1CO", "chapter": 7, "verse": "12", "text": "But to the rest say I, not the Lord- If any brother has an unbelieving wife and she consents (joins in approving) to dwell (oikein- root word means home) with him, let him not divorce her."}
{"book": "1CO", "chapter": 7, "verse": "13", "text": "And if a woman who has an unbelieving husband and he consents to dwell with her, let her not divorce the husband."}
{"book": "1CO", "chapter": 7, "verse": "14", "text": "For the unbelieving husband is sanctified in the wife and the unbelieving wife is sanctified in the husband, otherwise your children are impure (not pure because mixed), however now they are holy."}
{"book": "1CO", "chapter": 7, "verse": "15", "text": "But if the unbeliever separates himself, let him separate (latin discedat) himself: the brother or the sister is not under bondage (enslaved) in such cases, for God has called us in peace."}
{"book": "1CO", "chapter": 7, "verse": "16", "text": "For how do you know, wife, whether you will save your husband? Or how do you know, husband, whether you will save your wife?"}
{"book": "1CO", "chapter": 7, "verse": "17", "text": "If not, as the Lord has distributed to each, as God has called to each, so let him walk, and so I order in all the churches."}
{"book": "1CO", "chapter": 7, "verse": "18", "text": "Was anyone called already circumcised? Let him not be uncircumcised. Was anyone called uncircumcised? Let him not be circumcised."}
{"book": "1CO", "chapter": 7, "verse": "19", "text": "Circumcision is nothing and uncircumcision is nothing, but rather keeping (final safe keeping, well-kept preservation, -latin word observatio) the commandments of God."}
{"book": "1CO", "chapter": 7, "verse": "20", "text": "Let each abide in that calling in which he has been called."}
{"book": "1CO", "chapter": 7, "verse": "21", "text": "Were you called being a bond slave? Let it not be a concern, but if you are able to become free then take advantage of (make use of) it."}
{"book": "1CO", "chapter": 7, "verse": "22", "text": "For the one having been called in the Lord being a bond slave, is the Lord’s freedman: likewise the free man having been called is a bond slave of Christ."}
{"book": "1CO", "chapter": 7, "verse": "23", "text": "You were bought with a price; do not become bond slaves of men."}
{"book": "1CO", "chapter": 7, "verse": "24", "text": "Brothers, let each man, in that which he was called, there abide with God."}
{"book": "1CO", "chapter": 7, "verse": "25", "text": "Now concerning the virgins, I have no commandment of the Lord, however I give my opinion (first hand knowledge) as one who having received mercy from the Lord is trustworthy (faithful)."}
{"book": "1CO", "chapter": 7, "verse": "26", "text": "Therefore, I think this is good (kalon), because of the present necessity, that it is good for a man to be as he is."}
{"book": "1CO", "chapter": 7, "verse": "27", "text": "Have you been bound to a wife? Do not seek to be loosed. Have you been loosed from a wife? Do not seek a wife."}
{"book": "1CO", "chapter": 7, "verse": "28", "text": "However if you have married, you did not sin and if the virgin has married, she did not sin; but such will have tribulation (restricted without options, pressure, a narrow place that hems someone in) in the flesh and I am sparing you."}
{"book": "1CO", "chapter": 7, "verse": "29", "text": "And I say this, brothers, the fitting time is shortened. From now on, those having wives should be as though they had none,"}
{"book": "1CO", "chapter": 7, "verse": "30", "text": "and those mourning as though they were not mourning, and those rejoicing as not rejoicing, and those buying as not taking possession,"}
{"book": "1CO", "chapter": 7, "verse": "31", "text": "And those using the world as not making full use of it, for the present form of this world is passing away."}
{"book": "1CO", "chapter": 7, "verse": "32", "text": "But I wish you to be free from anxieties (cares, worries). The unmarried man is anxious for the things of the Lord, how he may please (winning someone’s favor because meeting their expectation) the Lord."}
{"book": "1CO", "chapter": 7, "verse": "33", "text": "But the one having been married is anxious about worldly things, how he may please his wife."}
{"book": "1CO", "chapter": 7, "verse": "34", "text": "There is a difference between a wife and a virgin. The unmarried is anxious for the things of the Lord, that she may be holy both in body and in spirit, but she that is married is anxious for the things of the world, how she may please her husband."}
{"book": "1CO", "chapter": 7, "verse": "35", "text": "And this I say for your own benefit, not to place an unnecessary restraint (noose, halter) upon you, but for what is of good form (seemly) and constantly attending (devoted) to the Lord without distraction."}
{"book": "1CO", "chapter": 7, "verse": "36", "text": "And if any man assumes that he is behaving improperly (to act without proper form, behave unseemly/unbecomingly) to his virgin, if she is beyond her prime (past her youth, past the bloom of youth, of full age), and it ought to be so, let him do what he wishes: he does not sin- let them marry. {{following verses need more contextual review to determine best translation}}"}
{"book": "1CO", "chapter": 7, "verse": "37", "text": "But he who stands firm in his heart, having no necessity, but has mastery (authority) over his own will, and this he has determined in his own heart, to keep (to watch over, to guard, maintain/preserve) the virgin of himself/his own virgin daughter (possibly his own virginity- the “of himself” is 3rd person masculine but the virgin is feminine) does well."}
{"book": "1CO", "chapter": 7, "verse": "38", "text": "So then both he giving the virgin of himself/his own virgin daughter in marriage (here is the same issue as verse 37- “ten heautou partenon” which could be understood as giving his virginity in marriage – of note: the word for male virgin partenoi is used in Rev 14:4) does well and he not giving in marriage will do better."}
{"book": "1CO", "chapter": 7, "verse": "39", "text": "A wife is bound to her husband as long as he lives, but if the husband has died (fallen asleep, put to sleep- latin word dormierit for sleep- greek word is koimethe, possibly like coma), she is free to be married to whom she wishes, only in the Lord."}
{"book": "1CO", "chapter": 7, "verse": "40", "text": "But she is happier (blessed, become long, large) if she so remain, according to my opinion (personal judgment, first hand knowledge): and I think that I also have the Spirit of God."}
{"book": "1CO", "chapter": 8, "verse": "1", "text": "Now concerning the things sacrificed to idols (images), we know that we all have knowledge. Knowledge puffs up but love builds up."}
{"book": "1CO", "chapter": 8, "verse": "2", "text": "If anyone supposes (to have an opinion, to seem, root of dogma) to have come to know anything, yet he does not know it just as it is exactly necessary to know."}
{"book": "1CO", "chapter": 8, "verse": "3", "text": "But if anyone loves God, he is known by God."}
{"book": "1CO", "chapter": 8, "verse": "4", "text": "Therefore, concerning the eating of the things sacrificed to idols, we know that an idol is nothing (none, no one) in the world and that there is no God, except one."}
{"book": "1CO", "chapter": 8, "verse": "5", "text": "For even if there are those called gods, whether in heaven or upon earth, even as there are many gods and many lords—"}
{"book": "1CO", "chapter": 8, "verse": "6", "text": "But rather to us there is one God, the Father, from out of whom are all things and we unto (into, for, among) Him and one Lord, Jesus Christ, through whom are all things and we through Him."}
{"book": "1CO", "chapter": 8, "verse": "7", "text": "But rather not all are in this knowledge, but some being accustomed (together with habitual use/custom/ethos) to the idol until now eat of a thing as sacrificed to an idol and their conscience (persisting notion, joint-knowing/seeing) being weak is defiled (to soil, make mucky, pollute, stain)."}
{"book": "1CO", "chapter": 8, "verse": "8", "text": "But food does not commend (place us in standing beside) to God, neither if we may not eat, do we come short, nor if we may eat, do we exceed over and above."}
{"book": "1CO", "chapter": 8, "verse": "9", "text": "But see (be observant/watchful, look, beware, be alert) that your authorization (a right, power to act, authority, latin word is licentia for license) does not somehow become a stumbling-block to those being weak."}
{"book": "1CO", "chapter": 8, "verse": "10", "text": "For if anyone sees you who has knowledge reclining at a meal in an idol-temple, will not the conscience of him being weak be upbuilt to eat the things sacrificed to idols?"}
{"book": "1CO", "chapter": 8, "verse": "11", "text": "And so in your knowledge, the one being weak is destroyed, the brother for whom Christ died."}
{"book": "1CO", "chapter": 8, "verse": "12", "text": "And thus sinning against your brothers and wounding (beating, striking) their weak conscience, you sin against Christ."}
{"book": "1CO", "chapter": 8, "verse": "13", "text": "Therefore, if food snares (causes one to fall into a trap, sets a snare, causes to stumble), I should never eat meat (krea not broma-food) in this age that I might not cause to snare (greek is skandaliso, latin is scandalizem)."}
{"book": "1CO", "chapter": 9, "verse": "1", "text": "Am I not free? Am I not an apostle? Have I not seen Jesus our Lord? Are you not my work in the Lord?"}
{"book": "1CO", "chapter": 9, "verse": "2", "text": "If to others I am not an apostle, yet at least I am to you, for you are the seal (signet of proof) of my apostleship in the Lord."}
{"book": "1CO", "chapter": 9, "verse": "3", "text": "This is my reasoned defense (apologia- from intelligent reasoning/speech, well-reasoned reply) to those examining (investigating) me."}
{"book": "1CO", "chapter": 9, "verse": "4", "text": "Do we not have the right (authorization, license) to eat and drink?"}
{"book": "1CO", "chapter": 9, "verse": "5", "text": "Do we not have the right to take along a sister, a wife, as do the rest of the apostles and the brothers of the Lord, and Cephas?"}
{"book": "1CO", "chapter": 9, "verse": "6", "text": "Or is it only I and Barnabas who do not have the right to not work?"}
{"book": "1CO", "chapter": 9, "verse": "7", "text": "Who serves as a soldier (contends in a war) at his own expense at any time? Who plants a vineyard and does not eat the fruit of it? Or who shepherds a flock and does not partake (eat, same word as eat above) of the milk of the flock?"}
{"book": "1CO", "chapter": 9, "verse": "8", "text": "Do I say these things as a man? Or does not the law say these things also?"}
{"book": "1CO", "chapter": 9, "verse": "9", "text": "For it has been written in the law of Moses, “You will not muzzle an ox treading out grain.” Is there care (concern) with God for the oxen?"}
{"book": "1CO", "chapter": 9, "verse": "10", "text": "Or does He say it entirely for our sake? Yes, it was written for our sake, because he that plows ought to plow in hope and he that threshes in the hope of partaking."}
{"book": "1CO", "chapter": 9, "verse": "11", "text": "If we have sown spiritual things among you, is it a great thing if we reap fleshly things from you?"}
{"book": "1CO", "chapter": 9, "verse": "12", "text": "If others partake of this right (authority) over you, should we not more? But rather we did not use this right (authority), rather we bear up under (cover over, place under roof) all things that we may not give any hindrance to the gospel of Christ."}
{"book": "1CO", "chapter": 9, "verse": "13", "text": "Do you not know that those who are working in the temple get to eat the things of the temple? And those waiting upon (minister, serve) the altar have a share in the altar?"}
{"book": "1CO", "chapter": 9, "verse": "14", "text": "So also the Lord has ordered (appointed, arranged) to those preaching the gospel to live from out of the gospel."}
{"book": "1CO", "chapter": 9, "verse": "15", "text": "But I have not used any of these, neither have I written that these things should become so with me. For it is better (more good- mallon kalon) for me to die than anyone may make my boasting void (deprive of content, empty out, make unreal)."}
{"book": "1CO", "chapter": 9, "verse": "16", "text": "For if I preach the gospel there is no boasting to me. For necessity is laid upon (insistent) me. Woe to me if I do not preach the gospel!"}
{"book": "1CO", "chapter": 9, "verse": "17", "text": "If this I willingly (voluntarily) do, I have a reward, but if unwillingly, I am entrusted (persuaded) with a stewardship."}
{"book": "1CO", "chapter": 9, "verse": "18", "text": "What then is my reward? That is preaching the gospel I should place (establish, fix, put) the gospel free of cost, so as not to use up (make full use of) my right in the gospel."}
{"book": "1CO", "chapter": 9, "verse": "19", "text": "For being free from all, to all I myself became enslaved that I might gain (win) the more (greater, many)."}
{"book": "1CO", "chapter": 9, "verse": "20", "text": "And I became to the Jews, like as a Jew that I might gain (win) Jews. To those under the law like as under the law, though myself not being under the law, that I might gain (win) those under the law."}
{"book": "1CO", "chapter": 9, "verse": "21", "text": "To those without law, like as without the law, not being without the law of God but rather under the law of Christ that I might gain (win) those without the law."}
{"book": "1CO", "chapter": 9, "verse": "22", "text": "To the weak I became weak that I might gain (win) the weak. I have become all things to all so that by all means I might save some."}
{"book": "1CO", "chapter": 9, "verse": "23", "text": "And I do all things on account of the gospel, so that I may become a fellow-partaker with it. of a Roman mile), but only one takes (receives) the prize? So run that you may obtain it."}
{"book": "1CO", "chapter": 9, "verse": "24", "text": "Do you not know that all those running in a race (stadio- stadium race-course about 1/8 of a Roman mile), but only one takes (receives) the prize? So run that you may obtain it."}
{"book": "1CO", "chapter": 9, "verse": "25", "text": "And everyone contending for the prize (striving, struggling, word close to agonize) exercises mastery (control, dominion) from within in all things, so that they may receive a perishable garland (wreath awarded to victors in ancient athletic games, latin is coronam, royal crown is diadema) but we an imperishable."}
{"book": "1CO", "chapter": 9, "verse": "26", "text": "So I run, not as uncertainly (not apparent because not clearly seen). So I fight (box, fistfight, root word is fist) not as beating (scourging, flogging, thrashing, skinning) the air."}
{"book": "1CO", "chapter": 9, "verse": "27", "text": "But rather I beat (strike under the eye) my body and subdue (enslave, bring it into subjection) it, lest by any means when having preached to others, I myself might be unapproved (failing to pass the test)."}
{"book": "1CO", "chapter": 10, "verse": "1", "text": "Brothers, I do not want you to be ignorant (unknowing) that all our fathers were under the cloud and all passed through the sea,"}
{"book": "1CO", "chapter": 10, "verse": "2", "text": "And all were baptized unto (into) Moses in the cloud and in the sea,"}
{"book": "1CO", "chapter": 10, "verse": "3", "text": "And all ate the same spiritual food,"}
{"book": "1CO", "chapter": 10, "verse": "4", "text": "And all drank the same spiritual drink, for they drank from out of the spiritual rock (petra- large mass of connected rock, projecting rock/cliff) following (accompanying, walk the same road) them, and the rock was Christ."}
{"book": "1CO", "chapter": 10, "verse": "5", "text": "Nevertheless, God was not well-pleased with most (many) of them, for they were overthrown (strewn/scattered down on the ground) in the wilderness (desolate/solitary area, desert, an uncultivated/unpopulated place, latin- deserto)."}
{"book": "1CO", "chapter": 10, "verse": "6", "text": "Now these things have become types (repeated model) for us to not be eager cravers after malices (evil foul things, kakon), as they also craved."}
{"book": "1CO", "chapter": 10, "verse": "7", "text": "Neither be idolaters as some of them, as it has been written, “The people sat down to eat and to drink and rose up to play.”"}
{"book": "1CO", "chapter": 10, "verse": "8", "text": "Neither should we commit fornication as some of them committed fornication and twenty-three thousand fell in one day."}
{"book": "1CO", "chapter": 10, "verse": "9", "text": "Neither should we test (tempt) Christ as some of them tested (tempted) and by serpents (snakes, latin-serpentibus) perished (fully destroy, cut off entirely)."}
{"book": "1CO", "chapter": 10, "verse": "10", "text": "Neither are you to grumble (murmur or mutter with muffled undertones with smoldering discontent) as some of them grumbled and perished (fully destroyed) under (by) the destroyer."}
{"book": "1CO", "chapter": 10, "verse": "11", "text": "Now these things happened to them as types and were written with admonition (warning, setting/placing the understanding, reasoning by warning) to us, to whom the ends (consummations) of the ages have arrived (come down to, reached)."}
{"book": "1CO", "chapter": 10, "verse": "12", "text": "Therefore let the one supposing he stands take heed (see, look, be observant, watchful) lest he fall (fall under)."}
{"book": "1CO", "chapter": 10, "verse": "13", "text": "No temptation has taken you except what is human (belonging to humans). God is faithful and He will not allow (leave, let alone) you to be tempted (tested) beyond (above) what you are able, but rather will make with the temptation also the escape (successful way out, exit, outcome, move forward out from and to) to be able to bear under it."}
{"book": "1CO", "chapter": 10, "verse": "14", "text": "Therefore, my beloved, flee (shun) away from idolatry."}
{"book": "1CO", "chapter": 10, "verse": "15", "text": "I speak as to sensible ones (practically wise ones, savvy intelligent, prudent, relates to how we size things up): judge for yourselves what I say."}
{"book": "1CO", "chapter": 10, "verse": "16", "text": "The cup of blessing that we bless, is it not a sharing (koinonia- what is shared in common as a basis of fellowship) in the blood of Christ? The bread that we break is it not a sharing in the body of Christ?"}
{"book": "1CO", "chapter": 10, "verse": "17", "text": "Since there is one bread, we are the many, one body, for all partake of the one bread."}
{"book": "1CO", "chapter": 10, "verse": "18", "text": "Behold Israel according to the flesh: Are not those eating the sacrifices fellow-partakers in the altar?"}
{"book": "1CO", "chapter": 10, "verse": "19", "text": "What then do I mean (shine, bring to light by asserting one view over another, speak comparatively)? That sacrificed to idols is anything or that an idol is anything?"}
{"book": "1CO", "chapter": 10, "verse": "20", "text": "Rather that what the ethnicities sacrifice to demons, they do not sacrifice to God. And I do not wish you to be fellow-partakers with demons."}
{"book": "1CO", "chapter": 10, "verse": "21", "text": "You are not able to drink the cup of the Lord and the cup of demons. You are not able to partake of the table of the Lord and of the table of demons."}
{"book": "1CO", "chapter": 10, "verse": "22", "text": "Or do we provoke the Lord to jealousy? Are we stronger (mightier, more powerful) than He?"}
{"book": "1CO", "chapter": 10, "verse": "23", "text": "All things are permissible (possible, latin- licent for license), but rather not all things are beneficial. All things are permissible but rather not all upbuild."}
{"book": "1CO", "chapter": 10, "verse": "24", "text": "Let no one seek that of himself, but rather that of the other (heterou- other of a different kind)."}
{"book": "1CO", "chapter": 10, "verse": "25", "text": "Eat everything being sold in the meat market without inquiring (examining) on account of conscience."}
{"book": "1CO", "chapter": 10, "verse": "26", "text": "For the earth is the Lord’s and the fullness (sum total) of it."}
{"book": "1CO", "chapter": 10, "verse": "27", "text": "If anyone unbelieving calls you and you wish to go, eat everything being set before you without inquiring (examining) on account of conscience."}
{"book": "1CO", "chapter": 10, "verse": "28", "text": "But if anyone should say to you, “This is sacrificed to idols.” Do not eat it on account of him having made it known and conscience. For the earth is the Lord’s and the fullness of it."}
{"book": "1CO", "chapter": 10, "verse": "29", "text": "I am not saying your own conscience, but rather that of the other (other of a different kind): for why is my liberty judged by another’s conscience?"}
{"book": "1CO", "chapter": 10, "verse": "30", "text": "If I partake with grace (charity- grace, kindness, thankfulness), why am I blasphemed (refuse to acknowledge good, speak evil against reputation) for that which I give thanks (give good grace)?"}
{"book": "1CO", "chapter": 10, "verse": "31", "text": "Therefore, whether you eat or drink or whatever you do, do all things to the glory of God."}
{"book": "1CO", "chapter": 10, "verse": "32", "text": "Become you without cause for stumbling to Jews and Greeks and to the church of God."}
{"book": "1CO", "chapter": 10, "verse": "33", "text": "Just as I also please everyone in all things, not seeking my own benefit, but rather that of the many, that they might be saved."}
{"book": "1CO", "chapter": 11, "verse": "1", "text": "Become you imitators of me, just as I am of Christ."}
{"book": "1CO", "chapter": 11, "verse": "2", "text": "Now I fittingly praise you that in all things you have remembered me and that you are holding fast to the traditions (givings/handings over, deliverances) just as I handed (gave/handed over, delivered) them over to you."}
{"book": "1CO", "chapter": 11, "verse": "3", "text": "But I wish for you to see (perceive) that the head of every man is Christ and the head of the woman is the man and the head of Christ is God."}
{"book": "1CO", "chapter": 11, "verse": "4", "text": "Every man praying or prophesying, having anything against his head, shames (disgraces, dishonors) his head."}
{"book": "1CO", "chapter": 11, "verse": "5", "text": "And every woman praying or prophesying with her head uncovered shames her head, for it is one and the same thing with having been shaven."}
{"book": "1CO", "chapter": 11, "verse": "6", "text": "For if a woman does not cover her head, let her be shaved. And if it is shameful to a woman to be shaven or to be shaved, let her cover her head."}
{"book": "1CO", "chapter": 11, "verse": "7", "text": "For indeed a man ought not to cover the head, already being the image and glory of God: However, the woman is the glory of man."}
{"book": "1CO", "chapter": 11, "verse": "8", "text": "For the man is not from out of the woman, but rather the woman from out of the man."}
{"book": "1CO", "chapter": 11, "verse": "9", "text": "And also man was not created because of the woman, but rather the woman because of the man."}
{"book": "1CO", "chapter": 11, "verse": "10", "text": "Because of this the woman ought to have authority upon her head because of the angels."}
{"book": "1CO", "chapter": 11, "verse": "11", "text": "However, neither is the woman without (separate from, latin is sine which means without and different from words related to divorce) the man nor is a man without (separate from) the woman in the Lord."}
{"book": "1CO", "chapter": 11, "verse": "12", "text": "For just as the woman is from out of the man, so also the man is through the woman. And all things from out of God."}
{"book": "1CO", "chapter": 11, "verse": "13", "text": "Judge in yourselves: Is it appropriate (fitting, becoming, proper, suitably stand out) for a woman to pray to God uncovered?"}
{"book": "1CO", "chapter": 11, "verse": "14", "text": "Does not even nature itself teach you that if a man wears the hair long it is a dishonor to him?"}
{"book": "1CO", "chapter": 11, "verse": "15", "text": "But if a woman wears the hair long it is to her glory, for her long hair instead is given as a covering (that which is thrown around) to her."}
{"book": "1CO", "chapter": 11, "verse": "16", "text": "But if anyone seems (supposes) to be contentious (fond of strife, strife-loving), we have no such habitual custom nor do the churches of God."}
{"book": "1CO", "chapter": 11, "verse": "17", "text": "Now in this charge (authorized informing), I do not fittingly praise you, because you come together not for the better (stronger, more excellent) but rather for the worse (weaker, lesser, inferior)."}
{"book": "1CO", "chapter": 11, "verse": "18", "text": "For first, when you come together in the church, I hear there are divisions (splits, latin- scissuras) among you and I believe it in part."}
{"book": "1CO", "chapter": 11, "verse": "19", "text": "For there must also be sects (factions, self-chosen opinion, a personal decisive choice, a strong distinctive opinion, latin- hereses) among you in order that those who are approved genuine may become apparent among you."}
{"book": "1CO", "chapter": 11, "verse": "20", "text": "Therefore, when you come together upon the same, it is not to eat the Lord’s supper."}
{"book": "1CO", "chapter": 11, "verse": "21", "text": "For in eating, each (every) one takes beforehand his own supper and this one is hungry and that one is drunk (greek-methyei, latin- ebrius)."}
{"book": "1CO", "chapter": 11, "verse": "22", "text": "What! Do you not have houses to eat and to drink (greek-pino, latin-bibendum) in? Or do you despise the church of God and put to shame those who have not? What should I say to you? Should I praise you in this? I do not praise you!"}
{"book": "1CO", "chapter": 11, "verse": "23", "text": "For I received from the Lord, that which I also delivered to you, that the Lord Jesus in the night in which he was betrayed took bread,"}
{"book": "1CO", "chapter": 11, "verse": "24", "text": "And having given thanks (given good grace) he broke it and said, “This is My body, which is on behalf of (for the betterment) you, do this unto remembrance of Me.”"}
{"book": "1CO", "chapter": 11, "verse": "25", "text": "In like manner also the cup, after having eaten supper saying, “This cup is the new covenant (testament, latin- testamentum) in my blood, do this as often as you may drink it unto remembrance of me.”"}
{"book": "1CO", "chapter": 11, "verse": "26", "text": "For as often as you may eat this bread and may drink the cup, you openly declare (preach, proclaim) the Lord’s death until He comes."}
{"book": "1CO", "chapter": 11, "verse": "27", "text": "Therefore, whoever may eat the bread or may drink the cup of the Lord unworthily will be liable to the body and the blood of the Lord."}
{"book": "1CO", "chapter": 11, "verse": "28", "text": "Let a man examine (test to show approved) himself and in this manner let him eat from out of the bread and let him drink from out of the cup."}
{"book": "1CO", "chapter": 11, "verse": "29", "text": "For the one eating and drinking not discerning the body, eats and drinks judgment (condemnation, verdict, lawsuit, it emphasizes the result) on himself."}
{"book": "1CO", "chapter": 11, "verse": "30", "text": "Because of this, many among you are weak and chronically sickly (an persisting illness that will not leave- greek word is close to arrest) and sufficient are fallen asleep (dead)."}
{"book": "1CO", "chapter": 11, "verse": "31", "text": "For if we discerned ourselves, we should not be judged."}
{"book": "1CO", "chapter": 11, "verse": "32", "text": "But being judged by the Lord, we are strictly disciplined (chasten, to train up a child under development with strict training so they mature and realize their full potential) so that we may not be condemned with the world."}
{"book": "1CO", "chapter": 11, "verse": "33", "text": "So then, my brothers, when coming together in order to eat, wait for (welcome from out from and to) one another—"}
{"book": "1CO", "chapter": 11, "verse": "34", "text": "If anyone is hungry, let him eat at home, so that you might come together not unto judgment. And the other things I will set in order as soon as I may come."}
{"book": "1CO", "chapter": 12, "verse": "1", "text": "Now concerning (all about, all the bases covered) spiritual things, brothers, I do not want you to be ignorant (unknowing)."}
{"book": "1CO", "chapter": 12, "verse": "2", "text": "You perceive (see and know) that you were ethnicities led towards mute voiceless) idols (images/seen form for worship), however you were taken away."}
{"book": "1CO", "chapter": 12, "verse": "3", "text": "Therefore, I make known to you that no one speaking in (by, with) the Spirit of God says, “Jesus is accursed (anathema)!” and no one is able to say, “Jesus is Lord!, “ if not in (by, with) the Holy Spirit."}
{"book": "1CO", "chapter": 12, "verse": "4", "text": "Now there are distinctive varieties (diairesis- differences, distinctions, distributions) of free grace-endowments (charismaton, latin-gratiarum), but the same Spirit;"}
{"book": "1CO", "chapter": 12, "verse": "5", "text": "And there are distinctive varieties of ministries (services, latin-ministrationum), but the same Lord;"}
{"book": "1CO", "chapter": 12, "verse": "6", "text": "And there are distinctive varieties of operations (effects, energizings, latin-operationum), but the same God, who is working (energizing, empowering) all things in everyone."}
{"book": "1CO", "chapter": 12, "verse": "7", "text": "But to each (distinctly each not as a group) is given the disclosure (coming to light, manifestation) of the Spirit for the collective gain (common benefit)."}
{"book": "1CO", "chapter": 12, "verse": "8", "text": "For, truly, to one is given by the Spirit a word of wisdom (skill, clear insight, clarity); and to another (allo- another of the same kind) a word of knowing (a knowing, knowledge from first hand experience connecting theory to application, application-knowledge gained in a direct relationship) according to the same Spirit;"}
{"book": "1CO", "chapter": 12, "verse": "9", "text": "And to a different one (hetero- another of a different kind) faith by the same Spirit, and to another (allo-another of the same kind) and free grace-endowments (charismata) of healings (iamaton- curings, remedies) by the one Spirit;"}
{"book": "1CO", "chapter": 12, "verse": "10", "text": "And to another (allo) operations (energemata- operations, effects, energizings) of miraculous abilities/powers (dynameon of dunamis- ability to perform, power thru God’s ability, miraculous power, might, strength); and to another (allo) prophecy; and to another (allo) discernings (act of thorough judgment, a discernment/conclusion that distinguishes look-alikes or things that appear to be the same) of spirits; and to a different one (hetero) kinds of tongues (glosson); and to another (allo) interpretation of tongues (glosson). (note- the interpretation is singular to tongues being plural)"}
{"book": "1CO", "chapter": 12, "verse": "11", "text": "And one and the same Spirit operate (effect, empower, energize) all these things, apportioning (assigning, distributing) to each individually (uniquely one’s own) as He wills (resolutely plans not wishful)."}
{"book": "1CO", "chapter": 12, "verse": "12", "text": "For even as the body is one and has many members, and all the members of the body being many are one body, so also is Christ."}
{"book": "1CO", "chapter": 12, "verse": "13", "text": "For in one Spirit, we all were baptized (dipped under, submerged) unto one body- whether Jews or Greeks, whether slaves or free- and we all were made to drink of one Spirit."}
{"book": "1CO", "chapter": 12, "verse": "14", "text": "For also the body is not one member but many."}
{"book": "1CO", "chapter": 12, "verse": "15", "text": "If the foot should say, “Because I am not a hand, I am not of the body;” is it because of this, not out of the body?"}
{"book": "1CO", "chapter": 12, "verse": "16", "text": "And if the ear should say, “Because I am not an eye, I am not of the body;” is it because of this, not out of the body?"}
{"book": "1CO", "chapter": 12, "verse": "17", "text": "If all the body were an eye, where the hearing? If the whole were hearing, where the smelling?"}
{"book": "1CO", "chapter": 12, "verse": "18", "text": "But now God has set (placed) the members, each one of them in the body, as He wanted."}
{"book": "1CO", "chapter": 12, "verse": "19", "text": "And if all were one member, where the body?"}
{"book": "1CO", "chapter": 12, "verse": "20", "text": "But now they are many members, but one body."}
{"book": "1CO", "chapter": 12, "verse": "21", "text": "The eye cannot say to the hand, “I have no need of you, ” nor again the head to the feet, “I have no need of you.”"}
{"book": "1CO", "chapter": 12, "verse": "22", "text": "But much to the contrary, the members of the body seeming to be weaker (without vigor/strength) are necessary (indispensable, essential)."}
{"book": "1CO", "chapter": 12, "verse": "23", "text": "And those that we think to be less honorable of the body, these we bestow (place around) more abundant honor; and our unseemly (without external shape, unattractive, shapeless, unpresentable, indecent) things have more abundant seemliness (good outward form, comeliness, decorum, becomingness, embellishment)."}
{"book": "1CO", "chapter": 12, "verse": "24", "text": "But our seemly things have no need. But God has combined the body together having given more abundant honor to the deficient (lacking) parts."}
{"book": "1CO", "chapter": 12, "verse": "25", "text": "That there may be no division (schism, split) in the body, but that the members may have the same concern (drawn in opposite directions, care for, anxious) for one another."}
{"book": "1CO", "chapter": 12, "verse": "26", "text": "And if one member suffers, all the members suffer with it; and if one member be esteemed glorious, all the members rejoice with it."}
{"book": "1CO", "chapter": 12, "verse": "27", "text": "Now you are the body of Christ and members in particular."}
{"book": "1CO", "chapter": 12, "verse": "28", "text": "And some, God placed (set) in the church: first, apostles; secondly, prophets; thirdly, teachers; then, miracles; then, gifts (charismata) of healings (iamaton- curings, remedy); helps (one that takes initiative to aid); administratings (kyberneseis- someone who steers a ship, governments- note not service/ministry); kinds of tongues (glosson)."}
{"book": "1CO", "chapter": 12, "verse": "29", "text": "Surely not all are apostles? Surely not all are prophets? Surely not all are teachers? Surely not all have miraculous powers?"}
{"book": "1CO", "chapter": 12, "verse": "30", "text": "Surely not all have gifts (charismata) of healings (iamaton)? Surely not all speak with tongues (glossais)? Surely not all interpret?"}
{"book": "1CO", "chapter": 12, "verse": "31", "text": "But be zealously earnest of the greater gifts (charismata); and now I show to you an exceedingly excellent (surpassingly excellent) way."}
{"book": "1CO", "chapter": 13, "verse": "1", "text": "If I speak with the tongues (glossais) of men and of angels, but have not love, I have become a resounding instrument (copper, brass, bronze instrument) or a clashing (clanging, to raise a war cry) cymbal."}
{"book": "1CO", "chapter": 13, "verse": "2", "text": "And if I have prophecy and perceive all mysteries and all knowledge (a knowing) and if I have all faith, so as to remove (cause to move out of its place, change, transfer) mountains, but have not love, I am nothing."}
{"book": "1CO", "chapter": 13, "verse": "3", "text": "And if I dole out (feed with morsels) all my possessions to feed others, and if I give over my body that I may boast (glory), but have not love, I have helped (benefitted) nothing."}
{"book": "1CO", "chapter": 13, "verse": "4", "text": "Love is long-tempered (forbearing, have patience, suffer long), is kind (gentle, full of service to others); love is not envious (jealous of); love is not braggart, is not puffed up (inflate by blowing, egotistical blowing arrogant thoughts),"}
{"book": "1CO", "chapter": 13, "verse": "5", "text": "acts not unseemly (unbecomingly, lacking proper form); seeks not the things of its own, is not easily provoked (cut close alongside, irritated, sharpened, incited), it keeps no reckoning (take into account, reason to a logical conclusion) of bad (kaka- foulness, inner malice)."}
{"book": "1CO", "chapter": 13, "verse": "6", "text": "It rejoices not at injustice (unrighteousness), but rejoices with the truth."}
{"book": "1CO", "chapter": 13, "verse": "7", "text": "It covers (places under) all things, believes all things, hopes for all things, endures (bears up under) all things."}
{"book": "1CO", "chapter": 13, "verse": "8", "text": "Love never falls away (fails, fall, fall under); but whether there be prophecies, they will be put out of use (brought to naught, render inactive-inoperative-inert-invalid); whether tongues, they will be ceased; whether knowledge (a knowing), it will be put out of use (note: same outcome/word as for prophecy above)."}
{"book": "1CO", "chapter": 13, "verse": "9", "text": "For we know from out of a part (share, portion) and we prophesy from out of a part (share, portion),"}
{"book": "1CO", "chapter": 13, "verse": "10", "text": "But when the consummate comes, the from out of a part will be put out of use."}
{"book": "1CO", "chapter": 13, "verse": "11", "text": "When I was a young child, I spoke like a young child, I thought like a young child, I reasoned like a young child; but when I became a man, I put out of use the things of a young child."}
{"book": "1CO", "chapter": 13, "verse": "12", "text": "For we presently-now see (look at) through a mirror (an object for looking into, mirror made of polished metal in Bible times) in obscurity (enigma, puzzling, indistinctly, a riddle, latin- enigmate); but then face to face; presently-now I know from out of part; but then I will exactly know (fittingly know, fully recognize), just as also I am exactly known."}
{"book": "1CO", "chapter": 13, "verse": "13", "text": "And now abide faith, hope, love- these three things; but the greatest of these is love."}
{"book": "1CO", "chapter": 14, "verse": "1", "text": "Pursue love, and be zealously earnest (burn with zeal, bubble over because boiling hot) of the spiritual things (spirituals), especially that you may prophesy."}
{"book": "1CO", "chapter": 14, "verse": "2", "text": "For the one speaking with a tongue (glosse) speaks not to men, but to God, for no one hears, however in spirit he speaks mysteries."}
{"book": "1CO", "chapter": 14, "verse": "3", "text": "However, the one prophesying speaks to men for upbuilding (edification, building a home- dome part of word speaks to architectural strength) and entreaty (exhortation, encouragement, an call/urging done by someone close beside) and consolation (comfort, speak closely to anyone with a greater degree of tenderness)."}
{"book": "1CO", "chapter": 14, "verse": "4", "text": "The one speaking in a tongue (glosse) upbuilds himself, however the one prophesying upbuilds the church."}
{"book": "1CO", "chapter": 14, "verse": "5", "text": "Now I wish that you all speak with tongues (glossais), and moreover that you should prophesy, for greater is the one prophesying than the one speaking in tongues (glossais), except if one should interpret (thoroughly interpret, accurately/fully explain, interpret thoroughly across, to the other side) that the church may receive (actively lay hold of) upbuilding."}
{"book": "1CO", "chapter": 14, "verse": "6", "text": "And now, brothers, if I should come to you speaking with tongues (glossais), what will I benefit you, except I should speak to you either in revelation, or in knowledge, or in prophecy, or in teaching (doctrine, established respected summary of teaching)?"}
{"book": "1CO", "chapter": 14, "verse": "7", "text": "Even lifeless (no soul) things giving a sound (voice, noise), whether flute or harp (kithara sounds close to guitar), if they give no distinction to the sounds, how will it be known what is being piped or being harped?"}
{"book": "1CO", "chapter": 14, "verse": "8", "text": "For if also a war-trumpet gives an indistinct sound who will prepare (make ready) himself for battle?"}
{"book": "1CO", "chapter": 14, "verse": "9", "text": "So also you with the tongue (glosses), if you do not give intelligible (clear meaning) speech, how will it be known what is being spoken? For you will be speaking unto the air."}
{"book": "1CO", "chapter": 14, "verse": "10", "text": "There are, it may be, so many kinds of voices (phonon- voices, sounds, noises) in the world and none without signification (aphonon- no voices, voiceless, unmeaning)."}
{"book": "1CO", "chapter": 14, "verse": "11", "text": "Therefore if I do not know the power of their voice (sound), I will be to him speaking a barbarian (barbaros- any foreigner who speaks neither Greek nor Latin), and the one speaking is to me a barbarian."}
{"book": "1CO", "chapter": 14, "verse": "12", "text": "So also you, since you are zealously earnest of spiritual things (of spirits, of spirit things) towards the upbuilding of the church, search that you might cause it to abound (surpass, exceed)."}
{"book": "1CO", "chapter": 14, "verse": "13", "text": "Therefore, let the one speaking in a tongue (glosse) pray that he may interpret."}
{"book": "1CO", "chapter": 14, "verse": "14", "text": "For if I pray with a tongue (glosse), my spirit prays, but my understanding is unfruitful."}
{"book": "1CO", "chapter": 14, "verse": "15", "text": "What is it then? I will pray with the spirit, but also I will pray with the understanding. I will make music (psalo- pluck, twang, sing along with instruments, sing psalms) with the spirit, but also I will make music with the understanding."}
{"book": "1CO", "chapter": 14, "verse": "16", "text": "Otherwise, if you bless with the spirit, how will the one who is filling up the place of the uninstructed (private or unskilled, unlearned, unrefined, unlettered in speech, ordinary) say Amen at your thanksgiving, since he does not perceive (aware, know) what you say?"}
{"book": "1CO", "chapter": 14, "verse": "17", "text": "For you indeed give thanks well, but the other is not being upbuilt."}
{"book": "1CO", "chapter": 14, "verse": "18", "text": "I give thanks to God that I am speaking with tongues (glossais) more than all of you. (YLT- I give thanks to God- more than you all with tongues speaking)"}
{"book": "1CO", "chapter": 14, "verse": "19", "text": "But in church, I wish to speak five words with my understanding, that I may also orally inform (sound down, teach by word of mouth) others, rather than ten thousand words in a tongue (glosse)."}
{"book": "1CO", "chapter": 14, "verse": "20", "text": "Brothers become not children in thinkings (perspective, outlook). But in the inherent malice (kakia- inherent evil, malice, wickedness) be infants (childlike), but in your thinkings (perspective, outlook) become mature (fully-developed, consummated)."}
{"book": "1CO", "chapter": 14, "verse": "21", "text": "In the law, it has been written, “By other tongues (heteroglossois) and by other lips, I will speak to this people and not even thus will they hear Me, ” says the Lord. (note- hetero- another of a different kind)"}
{"book": "1CO", "chapter": 14, "verse": "22", "text": "So then, tongues (glossai) are unto a sign, not to those believing, but rather to the unbelievers, and those who prophecy not to the unbelievers, but to those believing."}
{"book": "1CO", "chapter": 14, "verse": "23", "text": "Therefore, if the whole church comes together upon the same and all should speak with tongues (glossais) and there come in uninstructed ones or unbelievers, will they not say that you are insane (manic, to rave, raving mad, deranged, act as though out of one’s senses, latin- insanitis, mainomai- greek for English root of maniac/mania)?"}
{"book": "1CO", "chapter": 14, "verse": "24", "text": "But if all prophesy and a certain (some, any) unbeliever or uninstructed should come in, he is convinced (convince with solid compelling evidence, expose, convict, reprove, prove wrong) by (under) all and he is examined (investigated, completing the process to select by separating/judging) by (under) all."}
{"book": "1CO", "chapter": 14, "verse": "25", "text": "The hidden things of his heart become apparent (clear, visible) and thus having fallen upon his face, he will do reverence (to kiss towards, to kiss the ground when prostrating before a superior, to fall down oneself to adore, to do obeisance to) to God, declaring (declaring a report) that God is really (truly) among (in, with, on) you."}
{"book": "1CO", "chapter": 14, "verse": "26", "text": "What (how) is it then, brothers? When you may come together, each has a psalm (Scripture set to music, often sung accompanied by a plucked instrument), has a teaching (latin-doctrinam), has a revelation, has a tongue (glossan), has an interpretation. Let all things be done for upbuilding."}
{"book": "1CO", "chapter": 14, "verse": "27", "text": "If anyone (a certain one, some one) speaks with a tongue (glosse), let it be by two or the most three and in turn (in part, share, portion) and let one interpret."}
{"book": "1CO", "chapter": 14, "verse": "28", "text": "But if there is not an interpreter, let him keep silent (keep secret) in church, let him speak to himself and to God."}
{"book": "1CO", "chapter": 14, "verse": "29", "text": "And let two or three prophets speak and let the others discern (judge thoroughly back and forth)."}
{"book": "1CO", "chapter": 14, "verse": "30", "text": "And if a revelation should be made to another sitting by, let the first be silent."}
{"book": "1CO", "chapter": 14, "verse": "31", "text": "For you all are able to prophesy one by one that all may learn (ascertain, come to realize) and all may be entreated (exhorted)."}
{"book": "1CO", "chapter": 14, "verse": "32", "text": "And spirits of prophets are subject (arranged under in place/rank, under God’s arrangement) to prophets."}
{"book": "1CO", "chapter": 14, "verse": "33", "text": "For God is not of dissension (can not stand, commotion, confusion, instability bringing on disorder, unsettled, unstable in tumult, confusion when out of control i.e.up for grabs, latin-dissensionis), but of peace, as in all the churches of the saints."}
{"book": "1CO", "chapter": 14, "verse": "34", "text": "Let the women in the churches be silent, for it is not allowed (entrusted, permitted, turned upon) to them to speak, but rather to be in subjection (placed under God’s arrangement), just as the law also says."}
{"book": "1CO", "chapter": 14, "verse": "35", "text": "And if they wish to learn anything, let them fittingly inquire of their husbands at home, for it is shameful for a woman to speak in church."}
{"book": "1CO", "chapter": 14, "verse": "36", "text": "Or has the word of God gone out from you? Or has it come unto you only?"}
{"book": "1CO", "chapter": 14, "verse": "37", "text": "If anyone considers himself to be a prophet or spiritual, let him fittingly know the things that I write to you are a command of the Lord."}
{"book": "1CO", "chapter": 14, "verse": "38", "text": "But if anyone is ignorant (unknowing), let him be ignorant."}
{"book": "1CO", "chapter": 14, "verse": "39", "text": "So then, my brothers, be zealously earnest to prophesy, and do not hinder (prevent) to speak with tongues (glossais)."}
{"book": "1CO", "chapter": 14, "verse": "40", "text": "Let all things be done becomingly (having good form, decorously becoming, decently) and with an orderly arranging (arranging, orderly array)."}
{"book": "1CO", "chapter": 15, "verse": "1", "text": "Now I make known to you, brothers, the gospel that I preached to you, which you also received and in which you also stand,"}
{"book": "1CO", "chapter": 15, "verse": "2", "text": "through which you are also being saved with what word I preached to you if you hold fast unless you have believed in vain (without cause, without basis and therefore not to be taken seriously)."}
{"book": "1CO", "chapter": 15, "verse": "3", "text": "For I delivered to you in the foremost (what comes first, chief) that which I also received, that Christ died for our sins according to the Scriptures,"}
{"book": "1CO", "chapter": 15, "verse": "4", "text": "And that He was buried and that he was raised up the third day according to the Scriptures"}
{"book": "1CO", "chapter": 15, "verse": "5", "text": "And that He was seen of Cephas then of the twelve."}
{"book": "1CO", "chapter": 15, "verse": "6", "text": "Then he was seen of more than five hundred brothers at once, of whom the greater part remain until now, however some have fallen asleep."}
{"book": "1CO", "chapter": 15, "verse": "7", "text": "Then he was seen of James, then of all the apostles."}
{"book": "1CO", "chapter": 15, "verse": "8", "text": "And last of all, he was seen of me also, as it were an untimely birth."}
{"book": "1CO", "chapter": 15, "verse": "9", "text": "For I am the least of the apostles, who is not sufficient to be called an apostle, because I persecuted the church of God."}
{"book": "1CO", "chapter": 15, "verse": "10", "text": "But by the grace of God, I am what I am, and His grace unto me has not been void (empty, worthless), but rather I labored (to exhaustion) more abundantly than all them, however, not I, but rather the grace of God that was with me."}
{"book": "1CO", "chapter": 15, "verse": "11", "text": "Therefore, whether I or they, so we preach and so you believed."}
{"book": "1CO", "chapter": 15, "verse": "12", "text": "Now if Christ is preached that He has been raised up from out of the dead, how say some among you that there is no resurrection (to stand up again, raising up) of the dead?"}
{"book": "1CO", "chapter": 15, "verse": "13", "text": "However if there is not a resurrection of the dead, neither has Christ been raised up."}
{"book": "1CO", "chapter": 15, "verse": "14", "text": "And if Christ has not been raised up, then our preaching is void and your faith is void."}
{"book": "1CO", "chapter": 15, "verse": "15", "text": "And we are also found false witnesses of God, because we have witnessed as to God that He raised up Christ, whom if He has not raised up, then the dead are not raised up."}
{"book": "1CO", "chapter": 15, "verse": "16", "text": "For if the dead are not raised up, neither has Christ been raised up."}
{"book": "1CO", "chapter": 15, "verse": "17", "text": "For if Christ has not been raised up then your faith is futile (useless, without purpose, groundless, without basis), still you are in your sins."}
{"book": "1CO", "chapter": 15, "verse": "18", "text": "Then those also having fallen asleep in Christ have perished."}
{"book": "1CO", "chapter": 15, "verse": "19", "text": "If in this life only we have hope in Christ, we are of all men most pitiable."}
{"book": "1CO", "chapter": 15, "verse": "20", "text": "But now, Christ has been raised up from out of the dead, the first-fruit of those having fallen asleep."}
{"book": "1CO", "chapter": 15, "verse": "21", "text": "For since through a man came death also through a man came the resurrection of the dead."}
{"book": "1CO", "chapter": 15, "verse": "22", "text": "For just as in Adam all die, so also in Christ all will be made alive."}
{"book": "1CO", "chapter": 15, "verse": "23", "text": "But each in their own order, Christ the fruit-fruit, then those of Christ in His coming (parousia- arrival, presence, a royal visit)."}
{"book": "1CO", "chapter": 15, "verse": "24", "text": "Then the end (consummation) when He will give over the kingdom to God and Father, when He will bring to naught every rule (preeminent) and every authority and power."}
{"book": "1CO", "chapter": 15, "verse": "25", "text": "For it is necessary for Him to reign until He has placed (put, laid, set) all His enemies (irreconcilable hostiles wishing to do harm from deep hatred) under His feet."}
{"book": "1CO", "chapter": 15, "verse": "26", "text": "The last enemy brought to naught is death."}
{"book": "1CO", "chapter": 15, "verse": "27", "text": "He has put all things in subjection under His feet. But when it may be said that all things have been placed in subjection, it is apparent that He is excepted who having put in subjection all things to Him."}
{"book": "1CO", "chapter": 15, "verse": "28", "text": "And when all things have been placed in subjection to Him, then the Son himself will also be placed in subjection to Him who placed all things in subjection to Him, so that God may be all in all."}
{"book": "1CO", "chapter": 15, "verse": "29", "text": "Otherwise, what will they do who are baptized for the dead? If the dead are not raised up at all, why are they also baptized for them?"}
{"book": "1CO", "chapter": 15, "verse": "30", "text": "And why are we in danger every hour?"}
{"book": "1CO", "chapter": 15, "verse": "31", "text": "Every day I die by your boasting, brothers, which I have in Christ Jesus our Lord."}
{"book": "1CO", "chapter": 15, "verse": "32", "text": "If according to man, I fought wild beasts in Ephesus, what cumulative advantage is it to me? If the dead are not raised up, we should eat and drink for tomorrow we die."}
{"book": "1CO", "chapter": 15, "verse": "33", "text": "Do not be misled (caused to wander, deceived): Bad (kakai- inner malice, foul, rotten, evil) companionships (consort with, talk with, associate, conversation) corrupt beneficial (useful, productive, beneficial, usefully good and kind, suitable, well-fitted) ethics (familiar morals, moral habits, custom behavior, latin-mores of morals). { Malicious associations deteriorate beneficial ethical customs.}"}
{"book": "1CO", "chapter": 15, "verse": "34", "text": "Return to sober soundness, as is right (righteously), and sin not. For some have no knowledge (ignorance) of God. I say this to your shame."}
{"book": "1CO", "chapter": 15, "verse": "35", "text": "But rather someone will say, How are the dead raised up? And with what body do they come?"}
{"book": "1CO", "chapter": 15, "verse": "36", "text": "You foolish (without reason, senseless, without perspective) one! What you sow does not come to life unless it dies."}
{"book": "1CO", "chapter": 15, "verse": "37", "text": "And what you sow is not the body that will be, but rather you sow a bare grain, perhaps of wheat or of some of the remainders."}
{"book": "1CO", "chapter": 15, "verse": "38", "text": "But God gives it a body, as He has willed and to each of the seeds its own body."}
{"book": "1CO", "chapter": 15, "verse": "39", "text": "All flesh is not the same flesh, but rather one of men and another flesh of beasts of burden and another flesh of birds and another of fishes."}
{"book": "1CO", "chapter": 15, "verse": "40", "text": "And there are heavenly bodies and earthly bodies, but rather different is the glory of the heavenly and that of the earthly is another of a different kind."}
{"book": "1CO", "chapter": 15, "verse": "41", "text": "One is the glory of the sun and another is the glory of the moon and another is the glory of the stars, for a star differs in glory from a star."}
{"book": "1CO", "chapter": 15, "verse": "42", "text": "So also is the resurrection of the dead. It is sown in corruption (decay), it is raised up in incorruptibility (unable to decay)."}
{"book": "1CO", "chapter": 15, "verse": "43", "text": "It is sown in dishonor, it is raised up in glory. It is sown in weakness, it is raised up in power."}
{"book": "1CO", "chapter": 15, "verse": "44", "text": "It is sown a natural (psychikon- soulish, latin- animale) body, it is raised up a spiritual body. If there is a natural body, there is also a spiritual."}
{"book": "1CO", "chapter": 15, "verse": "45", "text": "And so it has been written, “The first man Adam became unto a living soul (psychen), the last Adam unto a life-giving spirit.”"}
{"book": "1CO", "chapter": 15, "verse": "46", "text": "But rather the first was not spiritual, but rather the natural then the spiritual."}
{"book": "1CO", "chapter": 15, "verse": "47", "text": "The first man is from out of the earth, made of earth, the second man is from out of heaven."}
{"book": "1CO", "chapter": 15, "verse": "48", "text": "As the one made of earth, such also are those made of the earth and as the heavenly one such also those of heaven."}
{"book": "1CO", "chapter": 15, "verse": "49", "text": "And just as we constantly bear the image of one made of earth, we also will constantly bear the image of one of heaven."}
{"book": "1CO", "chapter": 15, "verse": "50", "text": "Now this I say, brothers, that flesh and blood are not able to inherit the kingdom of God, nor does the corruption inherit the incorruptibility."}
{"book": "1CO", "chapter": 15, "verse": "51", "text": "Behold (see), I speak to you a mystery: We will not all fall asleep, however we will all be changed (made another of the same kind)"}
{"book": "1CO", "chapter": 15, "verse": "52", "text": "in an indivisible instant (atomo- indivisible part of time), in the twinkling (any rapid movement) of an eye, in the last trumpet (salpigx- war-trumpet): for the trumpet will sound and the dead will be raised up incorruptible and we will be changed."}
{"book": "1CO", "chapter": 15, "verse": "53", "text": "For it is necessary that this corruptible put on incorruptible, and this mortal put on immortality."}
{"book": "1CO", "chapter": 15, "verse": "54", "text": "But when this corruptible has put on the incorruptible and this mortal has put on immortality, then will come to pass the word having been written: “Death has been swallowed up (to drink down) in victory.”"}
{"book": "1CO", "chapter": 15, "verse": "55", "text": "“O death, where is your victory? O death, where is your sting (prick, goad)?”"}
{"book": "1CO", "chapter": 15, "verse": "56", "text": "And the sting of death is sin and the power of sin is the law."}
{"book": "1CO", "chapter": 15, "verse": "57", "text": "But to God be thanks (charis-grace), the One giving us the victory through our Lord Jesus Christ."}
{"book": "1CO", "chapter": 15, "verse": "58", "text": "Therefore, my beloved brothers, be steadfastly stable (well-seated, solidly-based, morally fixed, securely positioned, latin- stabiles), immovable (not moving away from), always abounding (surpassing, being over and above) in the work of the Lord, knowing that your labor (unto exhaustion) is not void in the Lord."}
{"book": "1CO", "chapter": 16, "verse": "1", "text": "Now concerning the collection which is unto the saints, just as I have ordered (thoroughly systematically arranged) the churches of Galatia, so also are you to do."}
{"book": "1CO", "chapter": 16, "verse": "2", "text": "On every first day of the week, let each one of you set (put, place) by him, treasuring up (save up, store up, put away) what he may be prospered in, that there should be no collections when I come."}
{"book": "1CO", "chapter": 16, "verse": "3", "text": "And when I have arrived, whomever you may approve through letters, these I will send to carry your gracious gift unto Jerusalem."}
{"book": "1CO", "chapter": 16, "verse": "4", "text": "And if it is suitable (fitting, deserving, weigh in) for me to also go (transport), they will go (transport) with me."}
{"book": "1CO", "chapter": 16, "verse": "5", "text": "Now I will come to you when I have passed through Macedonia, for I am passing through Macedonia,"}
{"book": "1CO", "chapter": 16, "verse": "6", "text": "And I will possibly stay with you or even pass the winter so that you may send me forward (aid/accompany/fit for a journey) wherever I may go (travel, journey, transport)."}
{"book": "1CO", "chapter": 16, "verse": "7", "text": "For I do not wish to see you now just in passing. I hope to remain (fittingly persist on, stay on) with you for some time, if the Lord permits."}
{"book": "1CO", "chapter": 16, "verse": "8", "text": "But I will remain in Ephesus until Pentecost."}
{"book": "1CO", "chapter": 16, "verse": "9", "text": "For a large and effectual door (great and productive opportunity) has been opened and many are opposing."}
{"book": "1CO", "chapter": 16, "verse": "10", "text": "And if Timothy comes, see that he may be without fear with you, for he is doing the work of the Lord, even as I am."}
{"book": "1CO", "chapter": 16, "verse": "11", "text": "So no one should despise him. Set him forward in peace that he may come to me for I am expecting him with the brothers."}
{"book": "1CO", "chapter": 16, "verse": "12", "text": "Now concerning Apollos, our brother, I greatly entreated him that he should go to you with the brothers, but it was not at all his wish that he should come now, but he will come when he has opportunity."}
{"book": "1CO", "chapter": 16, "verse": "13", "text": "Be vigilant (watchful, stay awake, latin-vigilate), stand firm (latin-state) in the faith, act as men, grow in strength (prevailing, gaining mastery, kratos at its root)."}
{"book": "1CO", "chapter": 16, "verse": "14", "text": "Let all be done of you in love."}
{"book": "1CO", "chapter": 16, "verse": "15", "text": "Now I entreat you, brothers-- you know the house of Stephanas that it is the first-fruit of Achaia and that they have devoted themselves to the service (deaconing, ministration) to the saints,"}
{"book": "1CO", "chapter": 16, "verse": "16", "text": "That you also be subject to such as these and to everyone cooperating with us and laboring (until exhaustion)."}
{"book": "1CO", "chapter": 16, "verse": "17", "text": "I rejoice at the coming of Stephanas and Fortunatus and Achaicus, because they have filled up your deficiency."}
{"book": "1CO", "chapter": 16, "verse": "18", "text": "For they gave rest to my spirit and yours, therefore recognize such as these."}
{"book": "1CO", "chapter": 16, "verse": "19", "text": "The churches of Asia greet you. Aquila and Prisca greet you much in the Lord together with the church in their house."}
{"book": "1CO", "chapter": 16, "verse": "20", "text": "All the brothers greet you. Greet one another with a holy kiss (philema- kiss sharing warm affection between friends)."}
{"book": "1CO", "chapter": 16, "verse": "21", "text": "I, Paul, write this greeting with my own hand."}
{"book": "1CO", "chapter": 16, "verse": "22", "text": "If anyone does not love (philei-show warm affection in intimate friendship) the Lord, let him be accursed (anathema). Maranatha! (Our Lord has come! in Aramaic)"}
{"book": "1CO", "chapter": 16, "verse": "23", "text": "The grace of the Lord Jesus be with you."}
{"book": "1CO", "chapter": 16, "verse": "24", "text": "My love be with you all in Christ Jesus. Amen."}
{"book": "2CO", "chapter": 1, "verse": "1", "text": "Paul, an apostle of Christ Jesus through the will of God and Timothy, our brother, to the church of God being in Corinth with all the saints being in the whole of Achaia."}
{"book": "2CO", "chapter": 1, "verse": "2", "text": "Grace to you and peace from God our Father and the Lord Jesus Christ."}
{"book": "2CO", "chapter": 1, "verse": "3", "text": "Blessed be the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, the Father of compassions (pity, mercies) and God of all comfort (paraklesis-entreaty, latin- consolationus),"}
{"book": "2CO", "chapter": 1, "verse": "4", "text": "Who is comforting (consoles, encourages, entreats) us upon all our tribulation (pressure, hemmed in), for us to be able to comfort (latin- consolari) those in every tribulation through the comfort (latin-exhortationem) with which we ourselves are comforted (latin-exhortamur) by (under) God."}
{"book": "2CO", "chapter": 1, "verse": "5", "text": "Because just as the sufferings (latin-passiones) of Christ abound (exceed) unto us so our comfort also abounds through Christ."}
{"book": "2CO", "chapter": 1, "verse": "6", "text": "And if we are oppressively afflicted (tribulation), it is for your comfort (entreaty, latin-exhortatione) and salvation; and if we are comforted (latin-exhortamur), it is for your comfort, being done in the endurance (remaining under) of the same sufferings that we also suffer."}
{"book": "2CO", "chapter": 1, "verse": "7", "text": "And our hope is firm (solid, secure, sure) for you, knowing that, as you are sharers of the sufferings so also of the comfort."}
{"book": "2CO", "chapter": 1, "verse": "8", "text": "For we do not want you to be ignorant (unknowing), brothers, as to our tribulation that happened in Asia, that we were weighed down (burdened, latin-gravati) excessively beyond our power (ability, strength) so that we utterly despaired even of life."}
{"book": "2CO", "chapter": 1, "verse": "9", "text": "But rather we had the sentence of death in ourselves, that we should not be trusting upon ourselves, but rather upon God, who is raising up the dead."}
{"book": "2CO", "chapter": 1, "verse": "10", "text": "Who has rescued (draw/pull to oneself, deliver) from out of so great a death and will rescue us. In whom we have hope that he will still also rescue us."}
{"book": "2CO", "chapter": 1, "verse": "11", "text": "Your cooperating together (joining to help) also for us by entreaty (supplication, petitioning for a specific, felt need) so that from out of many faces (persons) thanks may be given on our behalf for the grace endowment (charisma) unto us through many."}
{"book": "2CO", "chapter": 1, "verse": "12", "text": "For our boasting is this: the testimony of our conscience, that we have conducted ourselves (overturn, turn back) in the world and exceedingly toward you in simplicity (singleness, not needlessly complex) and clearness (sincerity, judged in the light of the sun, sincere because transparent) of God and not in fleshly wisdom but rather in the grace of God."}
{"book": "2CO", "chapter": 1, "verse": "13", "text": "For we write no other thing to you other than what you know again through reading or exactly know and I hope that you will exactly know until the end (consummation)."}
{"book": "2CO", "chapter": 1, "verse": "14", "text": "And just as you have known us from a part, that on the day of our Lord Jesus we are boasting of you even as you are of us."}
{"book": "2CO", "chapter": 1, "verse": "15", "text": "And with this confidence (reliance, persuasion), I resolutely planned to come to you before that you might have a second grace."}
{"book": "2CO", "chapter": 1, "verse": "16", "text": "And through you to pass through unto Macedonia and again from Macedonia to come to you and be sent forward by you unto Judea."}
{"book": "2CO", "chapter": 1, "verse": "17", "text": "Can it be that I used fickleness (levity, lightness) when I resolutely planned this? Or what I resolutely planned, did I resolutely plan according to the flesh that there should be from me- Yes, Yes and No, No?"}
{"book": "2CO", "chapter": 1, "verse": "18", "text": "But God is faithful that our word to you was not Yes and No."}
{"book": "2CO", "chapter": 1, "verse": "19", "text": "For the Son of God, Jesus Christ, who having been preached among you by me and Silvanus and Timothy was not Yes and No but rather it has always been Yes in Him."}
{"book": "2CO", "chapter": 1, "verse": "20", "text": "For as many as are the promises of God, in Him are Yes. Therefore also through Him, the Amen, to God with glory through us."}
{"book": "2CO", "chapter": 1, "verse": "21", "text": "But the One confirming us with you unto Christ and having anointed us is God."}
{"book": "2CO", "chapter": 1, "verse": "22", "text": "Who also having set a seal upon us and having given the earnest-pledge (a deposit which guarantees the balance) of the Spirit in our hearts."}
{"book": "2CO", "chapter": 1, "verse": "23", "text": "But I call upon God as a witness upon my soul, that sparing (abstaining) you, I have not yet come unto Corinth."}
{"book": "2CO", "chapter": 1, "verse": "24", "text": "Not that we lord it over your faith, but rather we are fellow-workers with you for your joy, for you stand firm in the faith."}
{"book": "2CO", "chapter": 2, "verse": "1", "text": "For I judged this within myself, not to come to you again in heavy sadness (heavy heart-sorrow, heaviness, grief, distress, vexation)."}
{"book": "2CO", "chapter": 2, "verse": "2", "text": "For if I sadden you, then who is the one gladdening (good state of mind, to cheer one’s perspective, merry outlook) me, except the one being saddened from out of me?"}
{"book": "2CO", "chapter": 2, "verse": "3", "text": "And I wrote this same, that having come, I may not have sadness from those of whom I ought to be glad (rejoice, favorably disposed, delighting in grace), having confidence in you all that my gladness (joy) is of you all."}
{"book": "2CO", "chapter": 2, "verse": "4", "text": "For I wrote to you through many tears and from out of much tribulation and distress (something held together in close hard tension, tightly pressed with feeling locked in) of heart, not that you might be saddened but rather that you might know the love that I have exceedingly (greatly, abundantly) unto you."}
{"book": "2CO", "chapter": 2, "verse": "5", "text": "Now if anyone has caused sadness, he has not saddened me, but rather from a part, so that I might not become heavy (burdensome) on you all."}
{"book": "2CO", "chapter": 2, "verse": "6", "text": "Sufficient to such a one is this punishment, which is by (under) the majority (greater part),"}
{"book": "2CO", "chapter": 2, "verse": "7", "text": "So that on the contrary you are rather to forgive (freely show favor that cancels) him and comfort (entreat, console) him, lest perhaps such a one should be swallowed down (overwhelmed, latin-absorbeatur) with exceeding sadness."}
{"book": "2CO", "chapter": 2, "verse": "8", "text": "Therefore I entreat you to validate (latin-confirmetis) love unto him."}
{"book": "2CO", "chapter": 2, "verse": "9", "text": "For unto this I did write that you may know the proof of your genuineness, whether you are compliant (giving ear, listening) unto everything."}
{"book": "2CO", "chapter": 2, "verse": "10", "text": "To whomever you forgive anything I also do: for if I have forgiven anything to whom I have forgiven it, it is on account of you in the face of Christ,"}
{"book": "2CO", "chapter": 2, "verse": "11", "text": "That we may not be taken advantage of (defrauded, to have more, latin-circumventiamur) by (under) Satan: for we are not ignorant (unknowing) of his thoughts (mental efforts, designs, purposes, the final output of the mind, latin-cogitationes)."}
{"book": "2CO", "chapter": 2, "verse": "12", "text": "And having come to Troas for the gospel of Christ and a door having been opened to me in the Lord,"}
{"book": "2CO", "chapter": 2, "verse": "13", "text": "I had no rest (loosening, relaxation, relief) to my spirit, when I did not find Titus, my brother, but rather having taken leave of them I went out unto Macedonia."}
{"book": "2CO", "chapter": 2, "verse": "14", "text": "But thanks be unto God, who in Christ is always leading us around in triumph (making a spectacle of us, displaying triumph openly) and making apparent the aroma (smell) of the knowledge of Him through us in every place."}
{"book": "2CO", "chapter": 2, "verse": "15", "text": "For we are the sweet aroma of Christ to God among those being saved and among those perishing,"}
{"book": "2CO", "chapter": 2, "verse": "16", "text": "To one, a smell from out of death unto death, to one a smell from out of life unto life. And who is sufficient (competent, worthy) for these things?"}
{"book": "2CO", "chapter": 2, "verse": "17", "text": "For we are not like many peddling (marketing for fast gain, huckster, making a trade of, hawking, latin-adulterantes) the word of God, but rather as from out of clearness (transparent sincerity), but rather as from out of God in front of God, we speak in Christ."}
{"book": "2CO", "chapter": 3, "verse": "1", "text": "Are we beginning to commend (to stand together with) ourselves again? Or do we need, as some, commendatory letters to you or from out of you?"}
{"book": "2CO", "chapter": 3, "verse": "2", "text": "You are our letter having been inscribed (written) in our hearts, being known and being known again through reading by all men,"}
{"book": "2CO", "chapter": 3, "verse": "3", "text": "Being made apparent that you are a letter of Christ, having been ministered (deaconed, served) to by (under) us, having been inscribed not in ink, but rather with the Spirit of the living God, not on tablets of stone but rather on tablets of fleshly hearts."}
{"book": "2CO", "chapter": 3, "verse": "4", "text": "And such confidence we have through Christ toward God."}
{"book": "2CO", "chapter": 3, "verse": "5", "text": "Not that we are sufficient (competent) from ourselves to reckon anything as from out of ourselves, but rather our sufficiency (competency) is from out of God,"}
{"book": "2CO", "chapter": 3, "verse": "6", "text": "Who has made us sufficient (competent) ministers (deacons, servants) of a new covenant, not of the letter, but rather of the Spirit, for the letter kills, but the Spirit gives life."}
{"book": "2CO", "chapter": 3, "verse": "7", "text": "But if the ministry (service, diakonia) of death, having been engraven in letters on stones, came into being in glory so as the children of Israel were not able to steadily fix their gaze unto the face of Moses because of the glory of his face which is fading (passing away, vanishing, brought down to no effect, bring to naught)."}
{"book": "2CO", "chapter": 3, "verse": "8", "text": "How will the ministry (diakonia) of the Spirit not be more in glory?"}
{"book": "2CO", "chapter": 3, "verse": "9", "text": "For if ministry of condemnation was in glory, then ministry of righteousness exceeds much more in glory."}
{"book": "2CO", "chapter": 3, "verse": "10", "text": "For that which having been made glorious, has been made not glorious in this respect, because of the glory surpassing it."}
{"book": "2CO", "chapter": 3, "verse": "11", "text": "For if that which is fading away (passing away, bring to naught) was through glory, much more that which is remaining is in glory."}
{"book": "2CO", "chapter": 3, "verse": "12", "text": "Therefore having such hope, we use great (much) boldness of speech (freedom of speech, out-spokenness, openness, bold resolve, leaving a statement with resolve that is to be taken seriously),"}
{"book": "2CO", "chapter": 3, "verse": "13", "text": "And not just as Moses, who would put a veil over his face that the children of Israel could not steadily fix their gaze unto the end of that fading away."}
{"book": "2CO", "chapter": 3, "verse": "14", "text": "But rather their thoughts (minds, purposes, latin-sensus) were hardened. For until this present day, the same veil remains unveiled upon the knowing again by reading (recognition, reading) of the old covenant, which in Christ is being removed (fading away, passing away)."}
{"book": "2CO", "chapter": 3, "verse": "15", "text": "But rather unto this present day, when Moses is read (known again by reading), a veil lies upon their heart."}
{"book": "2CO", "chapter": 3, "verse": "16", "text": "But whenever one will have turned to the Lord, the veil is entirely taken away."}
{"book": "2CO", "chapter": 3, "verse": "17", "text": "Now the Lord is the Spirit and where the Spirit of the Lord is there is freedom (liberty, latin-libertas)."}
{"book": "2CO", "chapter": 3, "verse": "18", "text": "And we all having been unveiled in face, seeing reflected in a mirror (reflect as a mirror, beholding as in a mirror) the glory of the Lord, are being transformed (metamorphoo- changed in form after being with, latin-transformamur) into the same image from glory unto glory, just as from the Lord, the Spirit."}
{"book": "2CO", "chapter": 4, "verse": "1", "text": "On account of this, having this ministry (diakonian), just as we have received mercy, we do not weary (become innerly deficient, faint, to be negatively influenced with the outcome of experiencing inner weariness, latin- deficimus, ekkakeo- out from and to- inwardly bad)."}
{"book": "2CO", "chapter": 4, "verse": "2", "text": "But rather we have renounced (disowned, latin-abdicamus) the hidden things (latin-occulta) of shame, not walking around in craftiness (cleverness, unscrupulous cunning, shrewdness), nor adulterating (falsifying, ensnaring, luring by using bait, handle deceitfully, latin-adulterantes) the word of God, but rather by the disclosure (manifestation, a coming to light) of the truth we are commending ourselves to every conscience of men in the sight of God."}
{"book": "2CO", "chapter": 4, "verse": "3", "text": "But if our gospel is concealed, it is concealed to those perishing."}
{"book": "2CO", "chapter": 4, "verse": "4", "text": "In whom the god of this age has blinded (blowing smoke to cloud their vision) the thoughts (minds) of the unbelieving unto the light (radiancy, illumination) shining forth of the gospel of the glory of Christ, who is the image of God."}
{"book": "2CO", "chapter": 4, "verse": "5", "text": "For we do not preach ourselves, but rather Christ Jesus- Lord, and ourselves as your bond-slaves because of Jesus."}
{"book": "2CO", "chapter": 4, "verse": "6", "text": "Because it is God who has spoken light to shine from out of darkness, it is He who shone in our hearts to light the knowledge of the glory of God in the face of Jesus Christ."}
{"book": "2CO", "chapter": 4, "verse": "7", "text": "Now we have this stored-up treasure in earthen vessels that the surpassing excellence (superiority) of the power might be of (to) God and not from out of us."}
{"book": "2CO", "chapter": 4, "verse": "8", "text": "In every way being hard pressed but rather not being crushed (severely cramped into narrow space), being perplexed (being at a loss/at wits end, being in difficulties) but rather we are not despairing (being utterly at a loss, without an exit),"}
{"book": "2CO", "chapter": 4, "verse": "9", "text": "Being persecuted but rather not being forsaken (abandoned, deserted in a dire condition), being struck down but rather not being destroyed,"}
{"book": "2CO", "chapter": 4, "verse": "10", "text": "Always carrying about the death of Jesus in our body that also the life of Jesus should be manifested (made apparent) in our body."}
{"book": "2CO", "chapter": 4, "verse": "11", "text": "For we the living are always being delivered (given over) unto death because of Jesus that also the life of Jesus may be manifested (be made apparent) in our mortal flesh."}
{"book": "2CO", "chapter": 4, "verse": "12", "text": "So then death works in us, but life in you."}
{"book": "2CO", "chapter": 4, "verse": "13", "text": "And having the same spirit of faith, according to that having been written, “I believed therefore I have spoken, ” and we believe and therefore speak,"}
{"book": "2CO", "chapter": 4, "verse": "14", "text": "Knowing that He having raised up the Lord Jesus will raise us up together with Jesus and will present us together with you."}
{"book": "2CO", "chapter": 4, "verse": "15", "text": "For all things are on account of you, so that the grace having abounded through more and more people may exceedingly increase the thanksgiving unto the glory of God."}
{"book": "2CO", "chapter": 4, "verse": "16", "text": "Therefore we do not become weary, but rather if our outward man is being brought to decay, yet our inner is being renewed (renewing in a process, move from one state to a higher one) day and day."}
{"book": "2CO", "chapter": 4, "verse": "17", "text": "For the momentary (immediate) lightness (easy to bear) of our tribulation is producing for us an eternal weight (of real substance and significance) of glory far surpassing excellence unto surpassing excellence."}
{"book": "2CO", "chapter": 4, "verse": "18", "text": "While we are not looking at the things being seen but rather at the things not being seen, for the things being seen are temporary (of a limited season), however the things not being seen are eternal."}
{"book": "2CO", "chapter": 5, "verse": "1", "text": "For we know that if the tent (tabernacle, booth, habitation), our earthly house, should be destroyed, we have a building from out of God, a house not made by hands, eternal in the heavens."}
{"book": "2CO", "chapter": 5, "verse": "2", "text": "For in this we groan, longing to be clothed with (put on over) our dwelling which is from out of heaven."}
{"book": "2CO", "chapter": 5, "verse": "3", "text": "If so having been clothed we will not be found naked."}
{"book": "2CO", "chapter": 5, "verse": "4", "text": "For while being in the tent, we groan, being weighed down, upon that we do not wish to be unclothed, but rather we be clothed upon, so that the mortal may be swallowed down by life."}
{"book": "2CO", "chapter": 5, "verse": "5", "text": "And He having worked us out unto this same is God, who has given to us the earnest-guarantee (deposit which guarantees the balance) of the Spirit."}
{"book": "2CO", "chapter": 5, "verse": "6", "text": "Therefore always being of good courage (boldness) and knowing that being at home in the body, we are absent (away from home) from the Lord—"}
{"book": "2CO", "chapter": 5, "verse": "7", "text": "For we walk around (going full circle) because of (through) faith not because of (through) sight. [if the word by is used here it is to mean by reason of]"}
{"book": "2CO", "chapter": 5, "verse": "8", "text": "We are of good courage and are well-seeming rather to be absent from out of the body and to be at home with the Lord."}
{"book": "2CO", "chapter": 5, "verse": "9", "text": "So we also are ambitiously aspiring (fond/aspiring for what is honorable, latin-contendimus, to love or seek after honor, philotimeomai- lover/friend- acknowledged honor) to be well-pleasing to Him, whether being at home or being away from home."}
{"book": "2CO", "chapter": 5, "verse": "10", "text": "For we all must (it is necessary and proper) be made apparent in front of the judgment seat of Christ, so that each may receive the things done through the body with what he practiced (regularly or habitually did, required, different from a single act-poieo), whether intrinsically good or worthless (phaulos-base, worthless, bad)."}
{"book": "2CO", "chapter": 5, "verse": "11", "text": "Therefore, knowing the fear of the Lord, we persuade men. But we have been made apparent to God and I hope to have been also made apparent in your consciences."}
{"book": "2CO", "chapter": 5, "verse": "12", "text": "We are not commending ourselves to you again but rather giving occasion to you of boasting on our behalf so that you may have an answer to those boasting in face (appearance) and not in heart."}
{"book": "2CO", "chapter": 5, "verse": "13", "text": "For if we are beside ourselves, it is to God or if we are of sound mind (sober-minded, latin-sobrii, safe in what regulates life, properly regulated), it is for you."}
{"book": "2CO", "chapter": 5, "verse": "14", "text": "For the love of Christ compels (holds together with compression so as not to fall away or into pieces) us, having judged this, that One has died for all, therefore all have died."}
{"book": "2CO", "chapter": 5, "verse": "15", "text": "And for all He died so that those living should no longer live to themselves but rather to the One having died for them and rose up again (latin-resurrexit)."}
{"book": "2CO", "chapter": 5, "verse": "16", "text": "Therefore from now on, we see no one according to the flesh. Even though we have known Christ according to the flesh, but rather now we know Him no longer this way."}
{"book": "2CO", "chapter": 5, "verse": "17", "text": "Therefore if anyone is in Christ, he is a new creation. The original (ancient, primitive, archaic, greek-archaia, latin-vetera) have passed away, behold, the new (latin-nova) has come into being."}
{"book": "2CO", "chapter": 5, "verse": "18", "text": "And all things are of God, who through Christ has reconciled us to Himself and has given to us the ministry (diakonian) of reconciliation (restoration to favor);"}
{"book": "2CO", "chapter": 5, "verse": "19", "text": "How that God was in Christ- reconciling the world to Himself, not reckoning to them their failings (false steps, falling away after being close beside, offenses, latin-delicta) and having put (set, placed) in us the word of reconciliation."}
{"book": "2CO", "chapter": 5, "verse": "20", "text": "Therefore, on behalf of Christ we are ambassadors, like as though God is entreating through us. We earnestly appeal (implore, request, beg, beseech) on behalf of Christ, be reconciled to God."}
{"book": "2CO", "chapter": 5, "verse": "21", "text": "For Him who having not known sin, He made Him sin on our behalf so that we may become the righteousness of God in Him."}
{"book": "2CO", "chapter": 6, "verse": "1", "text": "And working together also, we entreat you not to receive the grace of God in vain."}
{"book": "2CO", "chapter": 6, "verse": "2", "text": "For He says, “In an accepted opportune time I hearkened (fittingly hear) to you and in the day of salvation I quickly came to the urgent aid of (run to meet an intense exclamation/distress call) you.” Behold, now is the time of acceptable-ness (well-receiving); behold, now is the day of salvation."}
{"book": "2CO", "chapter": 6, "verse": "3", "text": "Giving no cause for stumbling in anything that the ministry (diakonia) should not be disgraced because found blemished (found fault with, slandered, blamed)."}
{"book": "2CO", "chapter": 6, "verse": "4", "text": "But rather in everything we are commending (standing together) ourselves, as God’s ministers (diakonoi), in great endurance, in tribulations, in necessities, in distressing difficulties,"}
{"book": "2CO", "chapter": 6, "verse": "5", "text": "In beatings, in imprisonments, in unstable disturbances, in wearisome labors, in sleeplessness, in fastings;"}
{"book": "2CO", "chapter": 6, "verse": "6", "text": "In purity, in knowledge, in long patience (long to passion/anger, long forbearance), in useful kindness, in the Holy Spirit, in sincere unhypocritical love,"}
{"book": "2CO", "chapter": 6, "verse": "7", "text": "In the word of truth, in the power of God through the weapons of righteousness on the right and on the left."}
{"book": "2CO", "chapter": 6, "verse": "8", "text": "Through glory and dishonor, through defamation and commendation, as misleaders (misleading others to wander) and yet true (unconcealed, truthful, attested because tested);"}
{"book": "2CO", "chapter": 6, "verse": "9", "text": "As being unknown and yet being well-known; as dying and yet behold we live; as being strictly chastised and yet not being killed;"}
{"book": "2CO", "chapter": 6, "verse": "10", "text": "As being in deep sadness yet unceasingly rejoicing; as poor (beggarly, destitute), yet enriching many; as having nothing and yet possessing all things."}
{"book": "2CO", "chapter": 6, "verse": "11", "text": "Our mouth has been opened to you, Corinthians; our heart has been broadened (enlarged, expanded)."}
{"book": "2CO", "chapter": 6, "verse": "12", "text": "You are not restricted by us, but you are restricted in your gut-level feelings (internal organs, visceral feelings, latin- visceribus, capacity to feel deep emotions)."}
{"book": "2CO", "chapter": 6, "verse": "13", "text": "Now as the same matching recompense, I speak as to children, you be also broadened."}
{"book": "2CO", "chapter": 6, "verse": "14", "text": "Do not become yoked (yoked with those of a different kind, mis-matched) with unbelievers. For what partnership (metoche, sharing, joint activity) have righteousness and lawlessness? Or what fellowship (koinonia) have light with darkness?"}
{"book": "2CO", "chapter": 6, "verse": "15", "text": "And what accord (harmony, agreement, word like symphony) has Christ with Belial (a name of Satan that stresses his utter worthlessness because he is vile)? Or what part to a believer with an unbeliever?"}
{"book": "2CO", "chapter": 6, "verse": "16", "text": "For what consent (assent, agreement, putting down together, latin-consensus) has the sacred abode (inner temple, part of temple where God resides) of God with idols? For we are the sacred abode (of the inner temple) of living God, just as God has said, “I will dwell at home in them and will walk among them, and I will be their God, and they will be a people to Me.”"}
{"book": "2CO", "chapter": 6, "verse": "17", "text": "Therefore, come from out of their midst (middle, between) and be separate (separate from with making boundaries), says the Lord, and touch (touch that influences or impacts) nothing unclean (impure, mixed) and I will welcome you."}
{"book": "2CO", "chapter": 6, "verse": "18", "text": "And I will be unto you a Father and you will be sons and daughters unto Me, says the Lord Almighty."}
{"book": "2CO", "chapter": 7, "verse": "1", "text": "Therefore, having these promises, beloved, we should cleanse (katharizo- make pure removing all admixture) ourselves from every defilement (pollution, staining, smearing with filth) of flesh and spirit, consummating (epi-upon is apart of this word) holiness (a sanctified state) in the fear (reverence, but can be withdrawal from fright in other contexts) of God."}
{"book": "2CO", "chapter": 7, "verse": "2", "text": "Make room for us; we have unjustly wronged no one, we have corrupted (ruined, deteriorated) no one, we have exploited (defrauded, taken advantage of) no one."}
{"book": "2CO", "chapter": 7, "verse": "3", "text": "I do not say this with condemnation, for I have said before that you are in our hearts to die together and to live together."}
{"book": "2CO", "chapter": 7, "verse": "4", "text": "Great is my boldness of speech toward you, great is my boasting on behalf of you; I have been filled with entreatment. I overabound with joy upon all our tribulation."}
{"book": "2CO", "chapter": 7, "verse": "5", "text": "For we having come into Macedonia, our flesh had no rest, but rather we are being oppressed in every way, on the outside conflicts, on the inside fears."}
{"book": "2CO", "chapter": 7, "verse": "6", "text": "But rather God, who is entreating the downcast (lowly), entreated us in the coming (parousia) of Titus,"}
{"book": "2CO", "chapter": 7, "verse": "7", "text": "And not only in the coming of him but rather also in the entreaty with which he was entreated upon you, making known to us your earnest longing, your lamenting, your zeal on behalf of me, so that I rejoiced the more."}
{"book": "2CO", "chapter": 7, "verse": "8", "text": "For if I have saddened (grieved, distressed, vexed, pained) you in the letter, I do not regret it, though I did regret it, for I see that that letter saddened you even if for an hour."}
{"book": "2CO", "chapter": 7, "verse": "9", "text": "Now I rejoice, not that you were saddened but rather that you were saddened unto repentance, for you were saddened according to God that you might experience loss in nothing from us."}
{"book": "2CO", "chapter": 7, "verse": "10", "text": "For sadness according to God works repentance unto salvation without regret, on the other hand the sadness of the world works out death."}
{"book": "2CO", "chapter": 7, "verse": "11", "text": "Behold, for this very same thing, how much earnestness (speedy diligence, haste) it has worked out in you that have been saddened according to God, but rather also what well-reasoned defense, what indignation, what fear, what earnest longing, what zeal, what vindication! In everything you have proved yourselves to be uncontaminated (chaste, pure, unmixed) in this matter."}
{"book": "2CO", "chapter": 7, "verse": "12", "text": "So then if I wrote to you, it was not for the sake of the one having done unjustly wrong, nor for the sake of the one having suffered wrong, but rather for the sake of your earnestness on behalf of us being made apparent to you in the sight of God."}
{"book": "2CO", "chapter": 7, "verse": "13", "text": "Because of this we have been entreated. Upon our entreaty, we have rejoiced exceedingly more upon the joy of Titus, because his spirit has been refreshed (paused to rest) from all of you."}
{"book": "2CO", "chapter": 7, "verse": "14", "text": "For if I have boasted anything to him about you, I was not put to shame. But rather as we have spoken all things in truth to you, so also our boasting upon Titus became truth."}
{"book": "2CO", "chapter": 7, "verse": "15", "text": "And his deep feelings (gut-level affections) are exceeding unto you, remembering the compliance of all of you, how you received him with fear and trembling."}
{"book": "2CO", "chapter": 7, "verse": "16", "text": "I rejoice that in everything I am of good courage in you."}
{"book": "2CO", "chapter": 8, "verse": "1", "text": "We make known to you, brothers, the grace of God having been given in the churches of Macedonia,"}
{"book": "2CO", "chapter": 8, "verse": "2", "text": "That in much proof of tribulation, the abundance of their joy and their deep poverty abounded unto the wealth of their unworldly simplicity (singleness, not over-complicated)."}
{"book": "2CO", "chapter": 8, "verse": "3", "text": "I testify that according to their ability and beyond (from close beside) their ability they were willing of themselves,"}
{"book": "2CO", "chapter": 8, "verse": "4", "text": "Imploring (urgently appealing from a pressing felt-need) of us with much entreaty, the grace and the fellowship of the ministry (diakonias) unto the saints."}
{"book": "2CO", "chapter": 8, "verse": "5", "text": "And not just as we had hoped for, but rather they gave themselves, first to the Lord and to us through the will of God."}
{"book": "2CO", "chapter": 8, "verse": "6", "text": "We entreat unto Titus, that just as he had begun, so also he may complete unto you this grace."}
{"book": "2CO", "chapter": 8, "verse": "7", "text": "But rather just as you abound in every way, in faith, and speech, and knowledge, and all earnestness, and in the love in you from out of us, that in this grace you should abound."}
{"book": "2CO", "chapter": 8, "verse": "8", "text": "I do not speak a command, but rather proving because of the earnestness of others the genuineness of your love."}
{"book": "2CO", "chapter": 8, "verse": "9", "text": "For you know the grace of our Lord Jesus Christ, that for the sake of you, He became poor, though being rich, so that you through that poverty may be rich."}
{"book": "2CO", "chapter": 8, "verse": "10", "text": "And I give a judgment in this, for this is beneficial for you, who have begun a year ago not only to do, but rather also to will."}
{"book": "2CO", "chapter": 8, "verse": "11", "text": "And now complete doing it, so that just as there was a readiness (eagerness, pre-inclination) to will, so also the completing, from out of that which you have."}
{"book": "2CO", "chapter": 8, "verse": "12", "text": "For if the readiness is present, it is acceptable according as if possibly he may have, not according as he does not have."}
{"book": "2CO", "chapter": 8, "verse": "13", "text": "Not that others may be eased but for you tribulation, but rather from out of equality."}
{"book": "2CO", "chapter": 8, "verse": "14", "text": "In the present time, your abundance unto those in need, so that their abundance may be unto your need, so that there may be equality."}
{"book": "2CO", "chapter": 8, "verse": "15", "text": "Just as it has been written, “He who has much, did not abound, and he who has little, did not lack.”"}
{"book": "2CO", "chapter": 8, "verse": "16", "text": "Thanks to God who is putting the same earnestness for you in the heart of Titus."}
{"book": "2CO", "chapter": 8, "verse": "17", "text": "Because he accepted our entreaty, being of his own accord very earnest, he has gone out to you."}
{"book": "2CO", "chapter": 8, "verse": "18", "text": "We have sent with him the brother, whose praise in the gospel is throughout all of the churches,"}
{"book": "2CO", "chapter": 8, "verse": "19", "text": "And not only that, but rather also he has been chosen (voted for by stretching out the hand) by the churches to be our fellow traveler with this grace that is being ministered by us for the glory of the Lord Himself and our readiness,"}
{"book": "2CO", "chapter": 8, "verse": "20", "text": "Avoiding this lest anyone should blame us in this abundance being ministered by us,"}
{"book": "2CO", "chapter": 8, "verse": "21", "text": "Providing for the winsomely good things, not only in the sight of the Lord but rather also in the sight of men."}
{"book": "2CO", "chapter": 8, "verse": "22", "text": "And we sent with them our brother, whom we have often proven earnest in many things, being now much more earnest by his confidence which is toward you."}
{"book": "2CO", "chapter": 8, "verse": "23", "text": "As regards Titus, he is my partner and unto you a fellow worker. And as for our brothers, they are apostles of the churches, the glory of Christ."}
{"book": "2CO", "chapter": 8, "verse": "24", "text": "Therefore, show unto them and unto the face of the churches, the proof of your love and of our boasting on behalf of you."}
{"book": "2CO", "chapter": 9, "verse": "1", "text": "Now it is superfluous (more than enough) for me to write to you concerning the ministry unto the saints."}
{"book": "2CO", "chapter": 9, "verse": "2", "text": "For I know your readiness, of which I boast of concerning you to the Macedonians, that Achaia has been prepared from a year ago and your zeal has been provoking (stirring up) the greater number of them."}
{"book": "2CO", "chapter": 9, "verse": "3", "text": "But I have sent the brothers so that our boasting which is about you should not be made void in this matter, so that you may be prepared just as I have been saying."}
{"book": "2CO", "chapter": 9, "verse": "4", "text": "Lest perhaps if the Macedonians should come with me and find you unprepared, we- not to speak of you- would be put to shame in this assurance."}
{"book": "2CO", "chapter": 9, "verse": "5", "text": "Therefore, I highly esteemed (lead, suppose) it necessary to entreat the brothers so that they should go before unto you and prepare beforehand this foreannounced (promised beforehand, announce before) blessing of you, so that it may be prepared as a blessing and not as taking advantage of (avarice, covetousness, lusting after temporal things beyond what God determines as best)."}
{"book": "2CO", "chapter": 9, "verse": "6", "text": "And this: the one sowing sparingly (abstemiously, stingily) will also reap sparingly, and the one sowing upon blessings, will also reap upon blessings."}
{"book": "2CO", "chapter": 9, "verse": "7", "text": "Each one just as he purposes (proposes, brings forward, prefers before) in the heart not from out of regret (pain, sadness, vexation, distress, heavy emotions that bring one down) or from out of necessity (compulsion, constraint, compelling need), for God loves a cheerful (propitious, disposed because satisfied, non-reluctant, cheerful because already approving, favorably inclined) giver."}
{"book": "2CO", "chapter": 9, "verse": "8", "text": "And God is able to make all grace abound unto you, so that always having all sufficiency (self-sufficiency, independence) in everything, you may abound unto every good work."}
{"book": "2CO", "chapter": 9, "verse": "9", "text": "Just as it has been written, “He has scattered abroad; He has given to the poor (one who works for his living, so poor that he earns his bread by daily labor): His righteousness abides unto the age.”"}
{"book": "2CO", "chapter": 9, "verse": "10", "text": "He who is supplying seed to him sowing and bread unto food, will richly supply (one that funds and leads a grand event/chorus) and will multiply (increase, make full to max capacity) the seed for your sowing and will increase the fruits of your righteousness,"}
{"book": "2CO", "chapter": 9, "verse": "11", "text": "Being enriched in everything unto all unworldly simplicity (generousity, latin- simplicitatem, not being over-complicated, not folded), which accomplishes through us, thanksgiving to God."}
{"book": "2CO", "chapter": 9, "verse": "12", "text": "For the ministry (diakonia) of this service (official sacred ministry) is not only filling up (fill up by adding to) the needs (what is lacking) of the saints but rather it is also abounding because of many thanksgivings to God."}
{"book": "2CO", "chapter": 9, "verse": "13", "text": "Because of the proof (approval) of this service (diakonias), they are glorifying God upon the submission of your common confession unto the gospel of Christ and the unworldly simplicity (generousity) of the participation unto them and unto all,"}
{"book": "2CO", "chapter": 9, "verse": "14", "text": "And their supplication (entreating for a specific, heart-felt need) is on behalf of you, a longing for you because of the surpassing grace of God upon you."}
{"book": "2CO", "chapter": 9, "verse": "15", "text": "Thanks be to God upon His indescribable gift!"}
{"book": "2CO", "chapter": 10, "verse": "1", "text": "Now, I, Paul, myself entreat you through the meekness (mildness, gentle strength) and reasonableness (gentleness, considerateness, equitable, fairness) of Christ, who in presence am lowly (humble) among you, however being absent am bold (of good courage) unto you."}
{"book": "2CO", "chapter": 10, "verse": "2", "text": "I implore you that, being present, I may not be bold with the confidence with which I reckon to be daring (of bold courage) upon some reckoning us as walking according to the flesh."}
{"book": "2CO", "chapter": 10, "verse": "3", "text": "For walking in the flesh, we do not wage war according to the flesh."}
{"book": "2CO", "chapter": 10, "verse": "4", "text": "For the weapons of our warfare are not fleshly, but rather powerful to God towards the demolition (pulling/taking down, destroying) of strongholds (fortifications)."}
{"book": "2CO", "chapter": 10, "verse": "5", "text": "Deposing reasonings and every barrier (height, lofty, that which is lifted up) lifting up against the knowledge of God and taking (leading) captive every thought (mental effort, design) unto the compliance of Christ,"}
{"book": "2CO", "chapter": 10, "verse": "6", "text": "And having in readiness to avenge (give justice over) all non-compliance, when your compliance may be fulfilled."}
{"book": "2CO", "chapter": 10, "verse": "7", "text": "Are you looking at things according to appearance? If anyone is persuaded in himself to be of Christ, let him reckon this again upon himself that just as he is of Christ so also are we."}
{"book": "2CO", "chapter": 10, "verse": "8", "text": "For even if I should boast somewhat more abundantly about our authority, which the Lord has given us unto building you up and not unto taking you down, I will not be ashamed,"}
{"book": "2CO", "chapter": 10, "verse": "9", "text": "So that I might not seem as if to frighten you through the letters."}
{"book": "2CO", "chapter": 10, "verse": "10", "text": "For they say, because the letters are weighty and strong, but the presence of the body is weak and the speech despised as nothing."}
{"book": "2CO", "chapter": 10, "verse": "11", "text": "Let such a one reckon this, that, such as we are in word through letters, being absent, we are such also in deed, being present."}
{"book": "2CO", "chapter": 10, "verse": "12", "text": "For we dare not classify or compare ourselves with some commending themselves, but rather these measuring themselves in themselves and comparing themselves with themselves, do not understand (synthesize, put together)."}
{"book": "2CO", "chapter": 10, "verse": "13", "text": "However we will not boast unto the things immeasurable, but rather according to the measure of the standard (measuring standard, rule) that the God of measure has distributed to us to reach as far as you."}
{"book": "2CO", "chapter": 10, "verse": "14", "text": "For we are not overextending ourselves as reaching unto you: for we came as far as you in the gospel of Christ."}
{"book": "2CO", "chapter": 10, "verse": "15", "text": "We do not boast unto the things immeasurable in others’ labors and having hope, increasing your faith, to be enlarged in you according to our standard unto abundance, [having hope that as your faith increases that our standard among you may be abundantly enlarged],"}
{"book": "2CO", "chapter": 10, "verse": "16", "text": "To preach the gospel unto that beyond you, to not boast in another’s standard unto things prepared."}
{"book": "2CO", "chapter": 10, "verse": "17", "text": "The one boasting, let him boast in the Lord."}
{"book": "2CO", "chapter": 10, "verse": "18", "text": "For it is not the one commending himself who is approved, but rather he whom the Lord commends."}
{"book": "2CO", "chapter": 11, "verse": "1", "text": "I wish you were bearing with me in a little lack of sense (lack of perspective, foolishness), but rather you do indeed bear with me."}
{"book": "2CO", "chapter": 11, "verse": "2", "text": "For I am zealous (jealous) as to you with the zeal (jealousy) of God, for I have betrothed (to fit, join) you to one husband, to present you a pure virgin to Christ."}
{"book": "2CO", "chapter": 11, "verse": "3", "text": "However, I fear, lest by any means, as the serpent thoroughly seduced Eve in his cunning craftiness, your thoughts (systematic understandings, designs) might be corrupted (wasted away, ruined) from the unworldly simplicity and the purity unto Christ."}
{"book": "2CO", "chapter": 11, "verse": "4", "text": "For if one coming preaches another Jesus, whom we did not preach, or you receive a different spirit which you did not receive, or a different gospel which you did not accept, you are bearing up well (winsomely good, beautifully) with it."}
{"book": "2CO", "chapter": 11, "verse": "5", "text": "For I reckon to have been inferior (falling short, come last) in nothing to those most eminent (hyper- above, beyond, better, latin- magnis meaning great) apostles."}
{"book": "2CO", "chapter": 11, "verse": "6", "text": "However, if I am unskilled (amateur) in speech but rather not in knowledge; but rather in every way we have made this apparent unto you in all things."}
{"book": "2CO", "chapter": 11, "verse": "7", "text": "Or did I commit a sin, humbling (make low) myself, that you may be exalted (made high), because I preached the gospel of God to you freely?"}
{"book": "2CO", "chapter": 11, "verse": "8", "text": "I plundered (seizing spoils of war) other churches, having received wages (provisions, support) for ministry (diakonian) to you."}
{"book": "2CO", "chapter": 11, "verse": "9", "text": "And being present with you and having been in need, I did not burdened anyone, for my need was supplied from the brothers having come from Macedonia. And I kept (guard, maintain, preserve, watch over) myself unburdensome in everything and will keep."}
{"book": "2CO", "chapter": 11, "verse": "10", "text": "The truth of Christ is in me because this boasting will not be obstructed unto me in the regions of Achaia."}
{"book": "2CO", "chapter": 11, "verse": "11", "text": "Because of why? Because I do not love you? God knows!"}
{"book": "2CO", "chapter": 11, "verse": "12", "text": "And what I do I will also do, so that I may cut off the opportunity of those desiring an opportunity, so that in what they are boasting they may be found just as we."}
{"book": "2CO", "chapter": 11, "verse": "13", "text": "For such are false apostles, deceitful (fraudulent, treacherous) workers, disguising themselves (changing the outward shape, metaschematizo not metamorph) unto apostles of Christ."}
{"book": "2CO", "chapter": 11, "verse": "14", "text": "And no wonder, for Satan disguises himself unto an angel of light."}
{"book": "2CO", "chapter": 11, "verse": "15", "text": "Therefore, it is no great thing if also his ministers (diakonoi) disguise as ministers of righteousness, whose end will be according to their works."}
{"book": "2CO", "chapter": 11, "verse": "16", "text": "I say again, no one should suppose me to be a fool (senseless, without reason/perspective/moderation). However, even if you receive me as a fool, so that I too may boast a little."}
{"book": "2CO", "chapter": 11, "verse": "17", "text": "What I am saying I am not saying according to the Lord, but rather as in foolishness, in this assurance of boasting."}
{"book": "2CO", "chapter": 11, "verse": "18", "text": "Since many boast according to the flesh, I too will boast."}
{"book": "2CO", "chapter": 11, "verse": "19", "text": "For you gladly (pleasantly, sweetly) bear with fools (senseless), being wise (sensible)!"}
{"book": "2CO", "chapter": 11, "verse": "20", "text": "For you bear it if anyone enslaves you, if anyone devours you, if anyone takes from you, if anyone exalts himself, if anyone strikes into your face."}
{"book": "2CO", "chapter": 11, "verse": "21", "text": "According to dishonor, I speak, as that we have been weak! However, in whatever anyone may be daring- I speak in foolishness- I too am daring."}
{"book": "2CO", "chapter": 11, "verse": "22", "text": "Are they Hebrews? I too. Are they Israelites? I too. Are they descendants of Abraham? I too."}
{"book": "2CO", "chapter": 11, "verse": "23", "text": "Are they ministers of Christ? I speak as being beside myself (deranged, out of my senses/mind), I too more (above, beyond, better); in labors more abundantly, in imprisonments more abundantly, in beatings above measure, in deaths often."}
{"book": "2CO", "chapter": 11, "verse": "24", "text": "Five times I received forty lashes minus one by the Jews."}
{"book": "2CO", "chapter": 11, "verse": "25", "text": "Three times I was beaten with rods. Once I was stoned. Three times I was shipwrecked; a night and a day I have been in the deep (sea);"}
{"book": "2CO", "chapter": 11, "verse": "26", "text": "In journeyings often, in dangers of rivers, in dangers of open robbers, in dangers from out of my own race, in dangers from out of the ethnicities, in dangers in the city, in dangers in the wilderness, in dangers in the sea, in dangers among false brothers;"}
{"book": "2CO", "chapter": 11, "verse": "27", "text": "In weary labor and hardship, in watchings often, in hunger and thirst, in fastings often, in cold and nakedness."}
{"book": "2CO", "chapter": 11, "verse": "28", "text": "Besides the things without (in addition to), the crowding (tumult, gathering) upon me every day is my concern (anxiety) for all the churches."}
{"book": "2CO", "chapter": 11, "verse": "29", "text": "Who is weak, and I am not weak? Who is caused to stumble, and I do not become set on fire?"}
{"book": "2CO", "chapter": 11, "verse": "30", "text": "If I will boast, it is necessary that I will boast in the things of my weakness."}
{"book": "2CO", "chapter": 11, "verse": "31", "text": "The God and Father of the Lord Jesus, who is being blessed to the ages, knows that I am not lying."}
{"book": "2CO", "chapter": 11, "verse": "32", "text": "In Damascus the governor (ethnic ruler) under King Aretas was guarding the city of Damascus in order to apprehend (lay hold of) me,"}
{"book": "2CO", "chapter": 11, "verse": "33", "text": "But I was let down in a basket (plaited rope) through a window through the wall and escaped his hands."}
{"book": "2CO", "chapter": 12, "verse": "1", "text": "To boast is necessary, though it is not beneficial to me. I will go on unto visions and revelations of the Lord."}
{"book": "2CO", "chapter": 12, "verse": "2", "text": "I know a man in Christ who fourteen years ago was caught up (raptured, seized by force, snatched up, latin-raptum) as far as (till) the third heaven- whether in the body or outside of (ektos, without, exterior) the body I do not know, God knows."}
{"book": "2CO", "chapter": 12, "verse": "3", "text": "And I know such a man- whether in the body or apart from (choris) the body, I do not know, God knows-"}
{"book": "2CO", "chapter": 12, "verse": "4", "text": "That he was caught up (raptured) unto/into Paradise (Paradeison) and heard words (rhemas) not to be uttered because too sacred (unutterable because beyond description, secret), which are not permitted to man to speak."}
{"book": "2CO", "chapter": 12, "verse": "5", "text": "On behalf of such a man I will boast, however on behalf of myself I will not boast except in my weaknesses."}
{"book": "2CO", "chapter": 12, "verse": "6", "text": "For if I should desire to boast, I will not be a fool, for I will be speaking the truth, however I refrain lest anyone should reckon unto me more than (above, beyond) what he sees in me or anyone hears from out of me."}
{"book": "2CO", "chapter": 12, "verse": "7", "text": "Therefore, so that I should not become conceited (uplift oneself, raise over) by the surpassingness (surpassing excellence, superiority) of the revelations, a thorn (anything with a sharp point) in my flesh was given to me, a messanger (angelos) of Satan, so that he might torment (strike hard with knuckles, treat with violence) me so that I should not become conceited."}
{"book": "2CO", "chapter": 12, "verse": "8", "text": "Concerning this, I entreated the Lord three times, so that it might depart (led away from, depart from, stand away from) from me."}
{"book": "2CO", "chapter": 12, "verse": "9", "text": "But He said to me, “My grace suffices (to assist, be enough, contented) you, for My power (ability, strength) is consummated (perfected, brought to an end, completed) in weakness.” Therefore I will boast most gladly (most sweetly, pleasantly) in my weaknesses, so that the power of Christ may dwell (pitch a tent/tabernacle over) upon me."}
{"book": "2CO", "chapter": 12, "verse": "10", "text": "Therefore, I am well-pleasing (well-supposing, good seeming) in weaknesses, in insults (reproaches that adds insult to injury), in hardships (pressing necessities, constraints), in persecutions and restricting difficulties (distresses, confining in narrow spaces) for the sake of Christ. For when I may be weak, then I am strong (able, powerful)."}
{"book": "2CO", "chapter": 12, "verse": "11", "text": "I have become a fool. You compelled me, for I ought to have been commended by you. For I was in no way inferior to those most eminent (super, latin- supra) apostles even though I am nothing."}
{"book": "2CO", "chapter": 12, "verse": "12", "text": "For the signs of the apostle were accomplished (worked out) among (in, on) you in all endurance, in signs and wonders and miracles."}
{"book": "2CO", "chapter": 12, "verse": "13", "text": "For what is it that you were inferior beyond the rest of the churches, except that I myself did not stupefy (make numb, encumber, burden) you? Forgive me this injustice!"}
{"book": "2CO", "chapter": 12, "verse": "14", "text": "Behold, this third time I am prepared to come to you and I will not stupefy (burden, encumber, make numb) you, for I do not seek what is yours, but rather you. For the children ought not to lay up treasure for the parents, but rather the parents for the children."}
{"book": "2CO", "chapter": 12, "verse": "15", "text": "And I most gladly will spend and be utterly spent for your souls (psychon), if loving you more abundantly, am I loved less?"}
{"book": "2CO", "chapter": 12, "verse": "16", "text": "However, be it so, I did not oppress (burden all the way down) you, but rather being crafty (clever, skillful, cunning), I caught (took, received) you by trickery (alluring with bait)."}
{"book": "2CO", "chapter": 12, "verse": "17", "text": "Did I exploit you by any of whom I have sent to you?"}
{"book": "2CO", "chapter": 12, "verse": "18", "text": "I entreated Titus and sent with him the brother. Did Titus exploit you? Did we not walk in the same spirit? Did we not in the same foot-steps?"}
{"book": "2CO", "chapter": 12, "verse": "19", "text": "Have you been thinking all along that we have been making a defense (defending ourselves) to you? We speak in front of God in Christ, and of all things for your upbuilding, beloved."}
{"book": "2CO", "chapter": 12, "verse": "20", "text": "For I fear lest perhaps, having come, I may find you not such as I wish and I may be found by you not such as you do wish, lest perhaps there may be strife (a readiness to quarrel), jealousy (eagerness to boil over), outbursts (outbursts of strong impulses), self-seeking rivalries (selfish ambitions), slander (down-speaking, defaming), gossip (malicious whispering as to keep secret), conceit (ego inflating, puffing up), disorder (down-standing, instability, out of control confusion). Noah Webster Dictionary) that they have practiced."}
{"book": "2CO", "chapter": 12, "verse": "21", "text": "Lest, my having come again, my God should humble me as to you and I should mourn over many of those having sinned before and have not repented upon the uncleanness (mixed impurity) and fornication (promiscuity of any type, surrendering/selling off sexual purity) and sensuality (root of latin word means abuse, greek word means brutal, violent spite that rejects restraint and indulges in lawless insolence, could mean unrestrained abusive sensual even sexual looseness, older translations translate as lewdness or lasciviousness which means looseness; irregular indulgence of animal desires; lustfulness- from 1828 Noah Webster Dictionary) that they have practiced."}
{"book": "2CO", "chapter": 13, "verse": "1", "text": "This is the third time I am coming to you. Every saying (rhema) will be made to stand upon the mouth of two or three witnesses."}
{"book": "2CO", "chapter": 13, "verse": "2", "text": "I have foretold (forewarned) those having previously sinned and all the rest, and I foretell (forewarn) them now being absent, as I did when present, the second time; that if I come again I will not spare (forbear, abstain) anyone."}
{"book": "2CO", "chapter": 13, "verse": "3", "text": "Since you seek a proof of Christ speaking in me, who is not weak unto you but rather is powerful in (on, among) you."}
{"book": "2CO", "chapter": 13, "verse": "4", "text": "For He was crucified from out of weakness, yet (but rather) He lives from out of God’s power. For we are weak in Him, yet (but rather) we will live with Him from out of God’s power unto you."}
{"book": "2CO", "chapter": 13, "verse": "5", "text": "Test yourselves, if you are in the faith. Prove yourselves. Or do you not know yourselves that Jesus Christ is in you, unless you are unapproved (failing to pass the test, latin- reprobi like reprobate in KJV)?"}
{"book": "2CO", "chapter": 13, "verse": "6", "text": "But I hope that you will know that we are not unapproved."}
{"book": "2CO", "chapter": 13, "verse": "7", "text": "Now I pray to (towards, with) God that you do nothing wrong (kakon, malice), not that we might appear (shine, bring to light) approved, but rather that you might do what is right (kalon- winsomely good), though we might be as unapproved."}
{"book": "2CO", "chapter": 13, "verse": "8", "text": "For we are not able (powerful) to do anything against the truth, but rather for the truth."}
{"book": "2CO", "chapter": 13, "verse": "9", "text": "For we rejoice when we may be weak, however you may be strong (able, powerful). And this we pray (wish) for your making complete (making fit, making consummate, latin- consummationem)."}
{"book": "2CO", "chapter": 13, "verse": "10", "text": "Because of this, I write these things being absent, so that I should not treat you with severity (sharpness, cut away from) being present, according to the authority that the Lord has given me unto upbuilding and not unto taking down (taking apart, pulling down)."}
{"book": "2CO", "chapter": 13, "verse": "11", "text": "Finally, brothers, rejoice. Be complete (prepared, fit together, adjusted to exactly fit and fully function, latin- perfecti); Be entreated; Be of the same understanding (insight, perspective); Be at peace. And the God of love and peace will be with you."}
{"book": "2CO", "chapter": 13, "verse": "12", "text": "Greet one another in (with, by) a holy kiss."}
{"book": "2CO", "chapter": 13, "verse": "13", "text": "All the saints greet you."}
{"book": "2CO", "chapter": 13, "verse": "14", "text": "The grace of the Lord Jesus Christ and the love of God and the fellowship of the Holy Spirit be with all you. Amen. (Last 2 verses not in Latin Vulgate. And Amen is omitted in some translations.)"}
{"book": "GAL", "chapter": 1, "verse": "1", "text": "Paul, an apostle, not from men nor through man, but rather through Jesus Christ and God the Father, the One having raised Him from out of the dead-"}
{"book": "GAL", "chapter": 1, "verse": "2", "text": "And all the brothers with me, To the churches of Galatia:"}
{"book": "GAL", "chapter": 1, "verse": "3", "text": "Grace to you and peace from God our Father and the Lord Jesus Christ,"}
{"book": "GAL", "chapter": 1, "verse": "4", "text": "The One having given Himself for our sins, so that He may deliver us from out of the present (at hand) evil (poneros- toilsome, pain-ridden) age, according to the will of God and our Father,"}
{"book": "GAL", "chapter": 1, "verse": "5", "text": "To whom be the glory unto the ages of the ages. Amen."}
{"book": "GAL", "chapter": 1, "verse": "6", "text": "I am astonished that you are so quickly deserting (transferring, changing) from the one having called you in the grace of Christ unto a different gospel,"}
{"book": "GAL", "chapter": 1, "verse": "7", "text": "Which is not another one, except there are some who are troubling (agitating, stirring up) you and are desiring to pervert (turn about) the gospel of Christ."}
{"book": "GAL", "chapter": 1, "verse": "8", "text": "But rather if we or an angel from out of heaven should preach a gospel to you from beside (contrary to) what we proclaimed to you, let him be accursed!"}
{"book": "GAL", "chapter": 1, "verse": "9", "text": "As we said before, and now I say again: If anyone is preaching a gospel to you from beside (contrary to) what you received, let him be accursed!"}
{"book": "GAL", "chapter": 1, "verse": "10", "text": "For do I now persuade men or God? Or do I seek to please men? If I were still pleasing men, I would not be a bond slave of Christ."}
{"book": "GAL", "chapter": 1, "verse": "11", "text": "For I make known to you, brothers, the gospel having been preached by me that is not according to man."}
{"book": "GAL", "chapter": 1, "verse": "12", "text": "For I did not receive it from man, nor was I taught it, but rather through a revelation of Jesus Christ."}
{"book": "GAL", "chapter": 1, "verse": "13", "text": "For you have heard of my former manner of life (up-turning- change of outward behavior from an up-turn of inner beliefs) in Judaism that I was exceedingly persecuting against the church of God and ravagingly laying waste to it."}
{"book": "GAL", "chapter": 1, "verse": "14", "text": "And I was advancing in Judaism beyond many of the same age among my countrymen (kind, race, family, offspring), being exceedingly zealous of the traditions (that given over from close beside) of my fathers."}
{"book": "GAL", "chapter": 1, "verse": "15", "text": "But when God was well-pleased (well-seemed/supposed), the One having selected me from out of the womb of my mother and having called me through His grace,"}
{"book": "GAL", "chapter": 1, "verse": "16", "text": "Revealed His Son in me so that I might preach Him among the ethnicities, I did not immediately consult with flesh and blood,"}
{"book": "GAL", "chapter": 1, "verse": "17", "text": "Nor did I go up unto Jerusalem to the apostles before me, but rather I went away unto Arabia and returned again unto Damascus."}
{"book": "GAL", "chapter": 1, "verse": "18", "text": "Then after three years I went up unto Jerusalem to visit and inquiringly learn of (historeo- like history, gain knowledge by visiting to conduct a full interview) Peter (Cephas-Aramic for Peter) and I remained with him fifteen days."}
{"book": "GAL", "chapter": 1, "verse": "19", "text": "But I saw none of the other apostles, except James, the brother of the Lord."}
{"book": "GAL", "chapter": 1, "verse": "20", "text": "Now what I write to you, behold, before God, I do not lie."}
{"book": "GAL", "chapter": 1, "verse": "21", "text": "Then I went unto the regions of Syria and Cilicia."}
{"book": "GAL", "chapter": 1, "verse": "22", "text": "And I was unknown by face to the churches of Judea that are in Christ."}
{"book": "GAL", "chapter": 1, "verse": "23", "text": "They were only hearing that one was persecuting us then is now preaching the faith which he once was ravagingly laying waste to."}
{"book": "GAL", "chapter": 1, "verse": "24", "text": "And they were glorifying God in me."}
{"book": "GAL", "chapter": 2, "verse": "1", "text": "Then after fourteen years, I went up unto Jerusalem again with Barnabas, also having taken Titus along with me."}
{"book": "GAL", "chapter": 2, "verse": "2", "text": "I went up according to a revelation and set before them the gospel that I preach among the ethnicities- but privately to those reputed (seemly, of opinion)- lest I should be running or have run in vain."}
{"book": "GAL", "chapter": 2, "verse": "3", "text": "But not even Titus who was with me, being a Greek, was compelled (necessitated) to be circumcised."}
{"book": "GAL", "chapter": 2, "verse": "4", "text": "Yet because of false brothers secretly brought in, who came in secret to spy out our freedom, which we have in Christ Jesus, so that they might enslave us,"}
{"book": "GAL", "chapter": 2, "verse": "5", "text": "To whom we did not even yield (give way) in subjection for an hour so that the truth of the gospel may continue with you."}
{"book": "GAL", "chapter": 2, "verse": "6", "text": "And of those reputed (seemed) to be something- whatever they formerly were makes no difference to me, the face (surface) of a man God does not accept- for to me those reputed (seemed) added nothing."}
{"book": "GAL", "chapter": 2, "verse": "7", "text": "But rather on the contrary, having seen that I have been entrusted with the gospel of the uncircumcision, just as Peter with that of the circumcision-"}
{"book": "GAL", "chapter": 2, "verse": "8", "text": "For He who having worked in Peter unto apostleship of the circumcision, worked also in me unto the ethnicities-"}
{"book": "GAL", "chapter": 2, "verse": "9", "text": "And having known the grace having been given to me, James and Peter (Cephas- Aramaic for Peter) and John, those reputed to be pillars, they gave to me and Barnabas the right hands of fellowship, so that we should go unto the ethnicities and they unto the circumcision."}
{"book": "GAL", "chapter": 2, "verse": "10", "text": "Only, they asked that we should remember the poor (beggarly, destitute), the same thing I was also eager (speedily diligent, hastening) to do."}
{"book": "GAL", "chapter": 2, "verse": "11", "text": "But when Peter (Cephas- Aramaic) came unto Antioch, I opposed (stood against) him to his face, because he was blameworthy."}
{"book": "GAL", "chapter": 2, "verse": "12", "text": "For before certain ones came from James, he was eating with the ethnicities, but when they came he was drawing back and was separating himself, being afraid of those from out of the circumcision."}
{"book": "GAL", "chapter": 2, "verse": "13", "text": "And the rest of the Jews acted hypocritically (to play a part with, dissemble with, latin-simulationi) with him, so that even Barnabas was led away of them by the hypocrisy (greek-hypokrisis, latin- simulation, under-judging, profession and practive do not match)."}
{"book": "GAL", "chapter": 2, "verse": "14", "text": "But rather when I saw that they were not walking a straight course according to the truth of the gospel, I said to Peter in front of all, “If you being a Jew, live like a ethnicity and not like a Jew, why do you compel (necessitate) the ethnicities to Judaize?"}
{"book": "GAL", "chapter": 2, "verse": "15", "text": "We by nature Jews and not sinners of the ethnicities,"}
{"book": "GAL", "chapter": 2, "verse": "16", "text": "Knowing that a man is not justified from out of the works of law, if not through faith of Jesus Christ, even we believed unto Christ Jesus, so that we may be justified from out of faith of Christ and not from out of works of law, because not any flesh will be justified from out of the works of law."}
{"book": "GAL", "chapter": 2, "verse": "17", "text": "But if, seeking to be justified in Christ, we ourselves have been found sinners, is then Christ a minister (diakonos) of sin? May it never be!"}
{"book": "GAL", "chapter": 2, "verse": "18", "text": "For if I build again that which I had torn down, I prove (latin-constituo, stand in union with) myself a violator (transgressor, to go contrary to, one who stands beside)."}
{"book": "GAL", "chapter": 2, "verse": "19", "text": "For through law I died to law, so that I may live to God."}
{"book": "GAL", "chapter": 2, "verse": "20", "text": "I have been crucified together with Christ. I no longer live, however Christ lives in me, that which I now live in flesh, I live in faith of the Son of God, who loved me and gave up Himself for me."}
{"book": "GAL", "chapter": 2, "verse": "21", "text": "I do not do away with (make void, annul, set aside) the grace of God, for if righteousness (justice) is through law, then Christ died as freely done to no purpose."}
{"book": "GAL", "chapter": 3, "verse": "1", "text": "O thoughtless (senseless, latin-insensati, not understanding, without- to think) Galatians! Who has bewitched (spellbound, fascinate, exercise evil power over someone as putting under a spell, latin-fascinavit) you not to be persuaded of the truth before whose eyes Jesus Christ was previously written (previously portrayed) as having been crucified?"}
{"book": "GAL", "chapter": 3, "verse": "2", "text": "Only this I wish to learn from you: Did you receive the Spirit from out of the works of law or from out of hearing faith?"}
{"book": "GAL", "chapter": 3, "verse": "3", "text": "Are you so thoughtless (senseless, foolish, not understanding)? Having begun in the Spirit, now are you being consummated (completed, perfected, latin- consummamini) in the flesh?"}
{"book": "GAL", "chapter": 3, "verse": "4", "text": "Did you suffer so many things in vain, if really in vain?"}
{"book": "GAL", "chapter": 3, "verse": "5", "text": "Therefore, the One lavishly supplying the Spirit to you and working miracles among you, is it from out of works of law or from out of hearing faith?"}
{"book": "GAL", "chapter": 3, "verse": "6", "text": "Just as Abraham believed God and it was reckoned to him unto righteousness (justice)."}
{"book": "GAL", "chapter": 3, "verse": "7", "text": "Know then that those from out of faith, these are the sons of Abraham."}
{"book": "GAL", "chapter": 3, "verse": "8", "text": "And the Scripture having foreseen that from out of faith God justifies the ethnicities, preached the gospel beforehand to Abraham saying, “In you all the ethnicities will be blessed.”"}
{"book": "GAL", "chapter": 3, "verse": "9", "text": "So then those from out of faith are blessed along with the believing Abraham."}
{"book": "GAL", "chapter": 3, "verse": "10", "text": "For as many as are from out of works of law are under a curse. For it has been written, “Cursed is everyone who does not continue (remain, abide, latin- permanserit) in all things having been written in the book of the law- to do them.”"}
{"book": "GAL", "chapter": 3, "verse": "11", "text": "Now it is clear (evident, certain) that no one is justified in the law before God, because the righteous (just) will live from out of faith."}
{"book": "GAL", "chapter": 3, "verse": "12", "text": "And the law is not from out of faith, but rather, “The one having done these things will live in them.”"}
{"book": "GAL", "chapter": 3, "verse": "13", "text": "Christ redeemed (taking full advantage of a buying-opportunity) us from out of the curse of the law, having become on behalf of us a curse, since it has been written, “Cursed is everyone hanging upon anything made of wood.”"}
{"book": "GAL", "chapter": 3, "verse": "14", "text": "So that unto the ethnicities the blessing of Abraham may come in Jesus Christ, so that we may receive the promise of the Spirit through faith."}
{"book": "GAL", "chapter": 3, "verse": "15", "text": "Brothers, I am speaking according to man, even a man’s covenant having been ratified (validated, confirmed), no one does away with (sets aside) or adds additions thereto."}
{"book": "GAL", "chapter": 3, "verse": "16", "text": "Now the promises were spoken to Abraham and to his offspring. He does not say, “And to offsprings, ” as upon many, but rather as upon one, “And to your offspring, which is Christ."}
{"book": "GAL", "chapter": 3, "verse": "17", "text": "And this I say, the covenant having been ratified (validated, confirmed) beforehand by (under) God, the law, having come four hundred and thirty years afterward, does not annul (make of no effect, cancel, revoke), so as to nullify (abolish, render inoperative, bring to naught) the promise."}
{"book": "GAL", "chapter": 3, "verse": "18", "text": "For if the inheritance is from out of the law, it is no longer from out of a promise: however God has graced (graciously- freely given) it to Abraham through a promise."}
{"book": "GAL", "chapter": 3, "verse": "19", "text": "Why then the law? It was added for the sake of transgressions (violations), until the offspring should come to whom the promise had been made, having been thoroughly set in order (ordained, appointed, latin-ordinata) through angels in the hand of a mediator."}
{"book": "GAL", "chapter": 3, "verse": "20", "text": "Now a mediator is not of one, however God is one."}
{"book": "GAL", "chapter": 3, "verse": "21", "text": "Is the law then contrary to (against) the promises of God? May it never be! For if the law had been given being able to make alive, then righteousness (justice) would have really been from out of the law."}
{"book": "GAL", "chapter": 3, "verse": "22", "text": "But rather the Scripture shut up together all things under (by) sin, so that the promise from out of faith in Jesus Christ may be given to those believing."}
{"book": "GAL", "chapter": 3, "verse": "23", "text": "Now before faith came, we were kept under guard (keep watch like a military sentinel) under (by) law having been shut up together unto the faith about to be revealed."}
{"book": "GAL", "chapter": 3, "verse": "24", "text": "So then, the law has been our guardian tutor (legally appointed childhood overseer, a child overseer placed for development by strict instruction, guardian, latin-pedagogus) unto Christ, so that from out of faith we may be justified."}
{"book": "GAL", "chapter": 3, "verse": "25", "text": "However faith having come, we are no longer under a guardian tutor."}
{"book": "GAL", "chapter": 3, "verse": "26", "text": "For you are all sons of God through faith in Christ Jesus."}
{"book": "GAL", "chapter": 3, "verse": "27", "text": "For as many as were baptized unto Christ, you have put on (clothe) Christ. (of note- they enduo not epiduo)"}
{"book": "GAL", "chapter": 3, "verse": "28", "text": "There is neither Jew nor Greek; there is neither bond slave nor free; there is neither male and female; for all you are one in Christ Jesus."}
{"book": "GAL", "chapter": 3, "verse": "29", "text": "And if you are Christ’s, then you are Abraham’s offspring, heirs according to promise."}
{"book": "GAL", "chapter": 4, "verse": "1", "text": "Now I say, upon the time, as long as the heir is an immature child (unlearned, infant), he differs not from a bond slave, being lord of all."}
{"book": "GAL", "chapter": 4, "verse": "2", "text": "But rather he is under entrusted guardians and household managers, until the time appointed beforehand of the father."}
{"book": "GAL", "chapter": 4, "verse": "3", "text": "Even so we, when we were immature children (infants), were held in bondage (enslaved) under the basic fundamentals (elementary/first principles, rudiments, latin-elementis) of the world."}
{"book": "GAL", "chapter": 4, "verse": "4", "text": "However when the fullness of time had come, God sent forth (exapesteilen- sent from out of) His Son, having been born from out of a woman, having been born under law,"}
{"book": "GAL", "chapter": 4, "verse": "5", "text": "So that he may redeem those under law, so that we may receive back the placement as sons (sonship, latin-adoptionem). times]"}
{"book": "GAL", "chapter": 4, "verse": "6", "text": "And because you are sons, God sent forth the Spirit of His Son unto (into) our hearts, crying out loudly (screaming, cawing as a raven), Abba! Father! [Abba is of Aramaic origin and is a term of tender endearment by a beloved child like Daddy, always joined to Pater in the NT -3 times]"}
{"book": "GAL", "chapter": 4, "verse": "7", "text": "So you are no longer a bond slave, but rather a son and if a son also an heir through God."}
{"book": "GAL", "chapter": 4, "verse": "8", "text": "But rather then, not perceiving (eidotes) God, you were enslaved to those by nature are not gods."}
{"book": "GAL", "chapter": 4, "verse": "9", "text": "However now knowing (gnontes) God, rather moreover having been known by (under) God, how do you turn back again upon the weak and poor (beggarly) basic fundamentals, to which again anew you desire to be enslaved?"}
{"book": "GAL", "chapter": 4, "verse": "10", "text": "You observe days and lunar months and seasons and years."}
{"book": "GAL", "chapter": 4, "verse": "11", "text": "I fear for you, lest perhaps in vain I have wearisomely labored unto you."}
{"book": "GAL", "chapter": 4, "verse": "12", "text": "Brothers, I appeal to you, become as I am, for I also have become like as you. You have acted unjustly towards me in nothing."}
{"book": "GAL", "chapter": 4, "verse": "13", "text": "And you know that because of weakness of the flesh, I preached the gospel to you at first."}
{"book": "GAL", "chapter": 4, "verse": "14", "text": "And the test to you in my flesh, you did not despise (ignore, treat with contempt, cast out as nothing) nor reject (spurn, spit out, loathe) me with contempt, but rather you received me like as an angel of God, like as Christ Jesus."}
{"book": "GAL", "chapter": 4, "verse": "15", "text": "When then of your blessedness? For I bear witness to you that if possible you having gouged out your eyes would have given them to me."}
{"book": "GAL", "chapter": 4, "verse": "16", "text": "So have I become your enemy, speaking the truth to you?"}
{"book": "GAL", "chapter": 4, "verse": "17", "text": "They are not rightly (kalos-winsomely good) zealous (jealous) after you, but rather they desire to exclude (shut out, separate, ekkleisai) you from us so that you may be zealous (jealous) after them."}
{"book": "GAL", "chapter": 4, "verse": "18", "text": "Now it is always good (kalon-winsomely good) to be zealous in a good (kalo) thing and not only in my being present with you."}
{"book": "GAL", "chapter": 4, "verse": "19", "text": "My children, of whom again I travail in birth pangs until Christ has been formed (morphoo, latin-formetur) in you."}
{"book": "GAL", "chapter": 4, "verse": "20", "text": "And I wish to be present with you now and to change my voice (tone, sound) for I am perplexed (at a loss) in you."}
{"book": "GAL", "chapter": 4, "verse": "21", "text": "Tell me, those wishing to be under the law, do you not listen to the law?"}
{"book": "GAL", "chapter": 4, "verse": "22", "text": "For it has been written that Abraham had two sons, one from out of the young slave woman and one from out of the free woman."}
{"book": "GAL", "chapter": 4, "verse": "23", "text": "But rather the one has been born from out of the young slave woman according to flesh, however the one from out of the free woman through the promise."}
{"book": "GAL", "chapter": 4, "verse": "24", "text": "Which things are allegorized: for these are two covenants, one from mount Sinai begetting unto slavery, which is Hagar."}
{"book": "GAL", "chapter": 4, "verse": "25", "text": "Now Hagar is mount Sinai in Arabia and corresponds to Jerusalem now, for she is in slavery with her children."}
{"book": "GAL", "chapter": 4, "verse": "26", "text": "But the Jerusalem above is free, who is our mother."}
{"book": "GAL", "chapter": 4, "verse": "27", "text": "For it has been written, “Rejoice, O barren woman, not bearing; break forth (break apart/asunder, throw down) and exclaim aloud (cry out shouting), the one not travailing in birth pangs; because many more are the children of the desolate (uncultivated, barren, desert) woman, than of her having the husband.”"}
{"book": "GAL", "chapter": 4, "verse": "28", "text": "Now you, brothers, according to Isaac, are children of promise."}
{"book": "GAL", "chapter": 4, "verse": "29", "text": "But rather just as at that time, he having been born according to flesh persecuted the one according to Spirit, so also it is now."}
{"book": "GAL", "chapter": 4, "verse": "30", "text": "But rather what says the Scripture? “Cast out (banish) the young slave woman and her son for the son of the young slave woman will not inherit along with the son of the free woman.”"}
{"book": "GAL", "chapter": 4, "verse": "31", "text": "So then, brothers, we are not children of the young slave woman, but rather of the free woman."}
{"book": "GAL", "chapter": 5, "verse": "1", "text": "In this freedom, Christ has set us free; stand firm therefore and do not be held in (entangle, grudge against, latin-contineri=contained) again in a yoke of slavery."}
{"book": "GAL", "chapter": 5, "verse": "2", "text": "Behold, I, Paul say to you that if you become circumcised, Christ will benefit you nothing."}
{"book": "GAL", "chapter": 5, "verse": "3", "text": "And I testify again to every man being circumcised that he is a debtor (one obligated) to do the whole (entire) law."}
{"book": "GAL", "chapter": 5, "verse": "4", "text": "You are severed (brought to naught, abolished, latin-evacuati) from Christ, whoever are being justified in law; you have fallen from out of grace."}
{"book": "GAL", "chapter": 5, "verse": "5", "text": "For we through the Spirit from out of faith, eagerly await (apo and ek in this word- welcome away from and from out of and to) the hope of righteousness (justice)."}
{"book": "GAL", "chapter": 5, "verse": "6", "text": "For in Christ Jesus, neither circumcision nor uncircumcision has any power, but rather faith working through love."}
{"book": "GAL", "chapter": 5, "verse": "7", "text": "You were running well (kalos-winsomely good). Who cut into (hindered) you to not be persuaded of (confident of) the truth?"}
{"book": "GAL", "chapter": 5, "verse": "8", "text": "This persuasion (latin-persuasio) is not from out of the One calling you."}
{"book": "GAL", "chapter": 5, "verse": "9", "text": "A little leaven leavens the whole lump."}
{"book": "GAL", "chapter": 5, "verse": "10", "text": "I am persuaded unto you in the Lord that you will have no other perspective (insight, mind, understanding) and the one troubling (agitating, stirring up) you will bear the judgment, whoever he may be."}
{"book": "GAL", "chapter": 5, "verse": "11", "text": "And I, brothers, if I still preach circumcision, why am I still persecuted? Then has the offense (trigger of a trap, snare, stumbling-block) of the cross been brought to naught (severed, abolished, ceased)?"}
{"book": "GAL", "chapter": 5, "verse": "12", "text": "I wish those turning you upside down would emasculate (cut off away from) themselves."}
{"book": "GAL", "chapter": 5, "verse": "13", "text": "For you were called upon freedom, brothers. Only do not use the freedom unto a starting opportunity (starting point) to the flesh, but rather through love, serve one another as a bond slave."}
{"book": "GAL", "chapter": 5, "verse": "14", "text": "For all law is completed (made full, fulfilled) in one word. In this: “You will love your neighbor (one nearby, latin-proximum) like as yourself.”"}
{"book": "GAL", "chapter": 5, "verse": "15", "text": "But if you bite and devour one another, be observant (look at, behold, watchful) lest you might be consumed (expended, conquered) by one another."}
{"book": "GAL", "chapter": 5, "verse": "16", "text": "And I say walk by the Spirit and you should not consummate (bring to an end, complete) the passionate outburst (wrath, passionate longing, rushing heated strong impulse, the word is singular) upon flesh."}
{"book": "GAL", "chapter": 5, "verse": "17", "text": "For the flesh passions with strong impulses against the Spirit and the Spirit against the flesh; for these are placed fully against one another, so that you would not do those things that you may wish."}
{"book": "GAL", "chapter": 5, "verse": "18", "text": "For if you are led (carried, brought) by the Spirit, you are not under law."}
{"book": "GAL", "chapter": 5, "verse": "19", "text": "Now the works of the flesh are apparent (evident, visible, manifest), which are fornication, uncleanness (admixed impurity), sensuality (latin, luxuria=luxury, sensual looseness, lewdness, irregular indulgence of animal desires, negligence of restraint, a violent even abusive spite that neglects restraint and indulges in wantonness),"}
{"book": "GAL", "chapter": 5, "verse": "20", "text": "idolatry, sorcery (drug, spells, and magical arts related, pharmakeia, latin- veneficia=witchcraft, root word means to administer drugs), entimities (quality of being an enemy, hostile), contentious (variance, strife, readiness to quarrel), jealousy in a bad way (boiling hot in jealousy-rivalry, latin- aemultiones=competiveness- KJV- emulations=the act of attempting to equal or excel in qualities or actions; rivalry; desire of superiority), outbursts of anger (latin-irae=anger, wrath, passion-driven strong impulses), self-seeking rivalries (self-seeking, selfish ambition, selfish rivalry for mercenary-like gain, latin-rixae=selfishness), dissensions (separate-standings, to stand separately, latin-dissensiones), heresies (greek-hairesis=a self-chosen strong distinctive divisive opinion, latin-sectae, a sect),"}
{"book": "GAL", "chapter": 5, "verse": "21", "text": "envyings (embitterings, grudgings, strong feelings that sour, that which breaks down/corrupts/decays, uneasiness that causes one to depress another to their level), homicides (murders, slaughter, latin- homicidia, note- in older translations but not newer), drunkenesses (latin-ebrietates like inebriate, greek word like meth, intoxicate), carousings (a riotous debauched drunken partying, revelings, originally of village-merrymaking that took place at the gathering of the grapes, carousing=drinking hard, reveling), and things like these, as to which I forewarn you just as I warned before, that those practicing (doing as a regular practice, requiring) such things will not inherit God’s kingdom (kingship, sovereignty, royal power)."}
{"book": "GAL", "chapter": 5, "verse": "22", "text": "But (And, Now) the fruit of the Spirit is love, joy (delight, gladness), peace (serenity), patience (latin-longanimitas=forbearance, long to passion/anger), useful kindness (latin-bonitas=goodness, useable, well-fit for what is really needed, kindness that is serviceable, goodness that meets a need and avoids harshness), intrinsic goodness (latin-benignitas=goodness/kindness/favorable of nature, stresses the kindly rather than righteous side of goodness), faithfulness (faith),"}
{"book": "GAL", "chapter": 5, "verse": "23", "text": "Meekness (balanced gentle-strength, mildness, gentleness, balanced reserve, latin-modestia=modesty), inner control (temperance, control/mastery/dominion within, continence= to withhold, restraint one imposes, latin-continentia=containing): against such kind there is no law."}
{"book": "GAL", "chapter": 5, "verse": "24", "text": "And those of Christ Jesus have crucified the flesh with its depraved passion capacity (pathemasin of pathos like pathologies, capacity to feel strong emotions, raw depraved passions, that which befalls one, latin-vitiis=vices) and its strong passions built on inordinate urges (latin-concupiscentiis, concupiscence= irregular lust, inordinate desires, passionate longing, lust)."}
{"book": "GAL", "chapter": 5, "verse": "25", "text": "If we live by the Spirit, we should also walk in cadence (keep in step, be in rows/lines/rank) by the Spirit."}
{"book": "GAL", "chapter": 5, "verse": "26", "text": "Let us not become vain-conceited (empty glory, self-deluded conceit driven by delusions of grandeur, groundless conceit), provoking (challenging, calling forth) one another, envying (being embittered from others success) one another."}
{"book": "GAL", "chapter": 6, "verse": "1", "text": "Brothers, if a man should be overtaken (taken beforehand, latin-praeoccupatus sounds close to preoccupied) in some false step (falling away after being close-beside, lapse), you, the spiritual, restore such a one in a spirit of meekness (gentle-mild reserved strength), considering (skopon-scoping, latin-considerans, watching, taking heed, root has the idea of fixing the eye on a mark, take aim at a goal) yourself, lest you also be tempted (latin-tempteris)."}
{"book": "GAL", "chapter": 6, "verse": "2", "text": "Take up (bear, carry) one another’s weights (heavy, burdens) and thus you will fulfill the law of Christ."}
{"book": "GAL", "chapter": 6, "verse": "3", "text": "For if anyone supposes to be something being nothing, he deceives by distortion the inner outlook (latin-seducit, deceives/deludes/distorts/seduces their perspective that regulates behavior) of himself."}
{"book": "GAL", "chapter": 6, "verse": "4", "text": "However let each approve (approve by testing, prove, latin-probet=approve) the work of himself and then unto himself alone he will have a ground of boasting and not unto another."}
{"book": "GAL", "chapter": 6, "verse": "5", "text": "For each his own load (burden which must be carried by the individual, phortion like portion) will take up (bear, carry)."}
{"book": "GAL", "chapter": 6, "verse": "6", "text": "Now the one being taught (teach by word of mouth, literally sound down, instruct orally) in the word, let share with the one teaching him in all good things."}
{"book": "GAL", "chapter": 6, "verse": "7", "text": "Do not be caused to wander (caused to wander, lead astray): God is not mocked (turn up the nose, scornfully disdain, sneer at); for whatever a man might sow (spread, scatter) this also he will reap (gather)."}
{"book": "GAL", "chapter": 6, "verse": "8", "text": "For the one sowing to his flesh from out of the flesh will reap corruption (decay, rottenness, deterioration, destruction), however the one sowing unto the Spirit from out of the Spirit will reap life eternal (agelong, unending, latin-aeternam)."}
{"book": "GAL", "chapter": 6, "verse": "9", "text": "And we should not grow weary (faint, ekkakeo- out from and to+inner malice, latin-deficiamus like deficient) in well (kalon-winsomely good) doing; for in our own distinct time we will reap if we do not succumb (let go, loose out from)."}
{"book": "GAL", "chapter": 6, "verse": "10", "text": "So then as we have an opportune time, we should work good toward all, most of all toward those of the household of faith."}
{"book": "GAL", "chapter": 6, "verse": "11", "text": "See in how large letters I have written to you with my own hard."}
{"book": "GAL", "chapter": 6, "verse": "12", "text": "As many as wish to make a good outward appearance (fair show) in the flesh, these you necessitate (compel, constrain) to be circumcised, only so that they may not be persecuted for the cross of Christ Jesus."}
{"book": "GAL", "chapter": 6, "verse": "13", "text": "For not even those being circumcised keep the law themselves, but rather they wish you to be circumcised, so that they may boast in your flesh."}
{"book": "GAL", "chapter": 6, "verse": "14", "text": "However, may it never be for me to boast, except in the cross of our Lord Jesus Christ through whom the world has been crucified to me and I to the world."}
{"book": "GAL", "chapter": 6, "verse": "15", "text": "For neither circumcision nor uncircumcision is anything; but rather a new creation."}
{"book": "GAL", "chapter": 6, "verse": "16", "text": "And as many as those who will walk in step by this standard, peace and mercy upon them and upon the Israel of God."}
{"book": "GAL", "chapter": 6, "verse": "17", "text": "From now on let no one give (provide, furnish) troubles (hits so hard they debilitate or weaken) to me, for I carry (take up, bear) the marks (latin and greek-stigmata, often branded as a scar) of Jesus on (in) my body."}
{"book": "GAL", "chapter": 6, "verse": "18", "text": "The grace of our Lord Jesus Christ be with your spirit, brothers. Amen."}
{"book": "EPH", "chapter": 1, "verse": "1", "text": "Paul, an apostle of Christ Jesus through the will of God to the saints being in Ephesus and faithful in Christ Jesus."}
{"book": "EPH", "chapter": 1, "verse": "2", "text": "Grace to you and peace from God our Father and the Lord Jesus Christ."}
{"book": "EPH", "chapter": 1, "verse": "3", "text": "Blessed be the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ who has blessed us in every spiritual blessing in the heavenlies in Christ."}
{"book": "EPH", "chapter": 1, "verse": "4", "text": "Just as He selected us in Him before the foundation of the world for us to be holy and unblemished (blameless, undisgraced) in the sight of Him, in love,"}
{"book": "EPH", "chapter": 1, "verse": "5", "text": "Having predetermined (foreordained, predestined, before established boundaries, latin-praedestinavit) us unto sonship through Jesus Christ unto Himself according to the good pleasure of His will,"}
{"book": "EPH", "chapter": 1, "verse": "6", "text": "Unto the praise of the glory of His grace which He has freely graced us (echaritosen like charity) in the Beloved."}
{"book": "EPH", "chapter": 1, "verse": "7", "text": "In whom we have redemption through His blood, the remission (something sent away, dismissal, release, pardon, complete forgiveness, latin-remissionem) of failings (false steps, trespasses, falling away after being close beside), according to the riches of His grace,"}
{"book": "EPH", "chapter": 1, "verse": "8", "text": "Which He lavished unto us in all wisdom and understanding (perspective, latin-prudentia),"}
{"book": "EPH", "chapter": 1, "verse": "9", "text": "Having made known to us the mystery of His will according to His good pleasure which He purposed beforehand in Him,"}
{"book": "EPH", "chapter": 1, "verse": "10", "text": "Unto the stewardship (household management, latin-dispensationem) of the fullness (sum total, completion, fulfillment) of times; to head up (sum up, gather up, recapitulate, bring to a head, summing up all as a whole) all things in Christ, the things upon the heavens and the things upon the earth, In Him,"}
{"book": "EPH", "chapter": 1, "verse": "11", "text": "in whom we have also been assigned (assigned by casting lots, made a heritage, obtained an inheritance), having been predetermined (latin-praedestinati) according to the purpose of Him working all things according to the resolved plan of His will,"}
{"book": "EPH", "chapter": 1, "verse": "12", "text": "Unto us to be, unto the praise of His glory, having fore-hoped (hoped before) in Christ,"}
{"book": "EPH", "chapter": 1, "verse": "13", "text": "In whom you also having heard the word of truth, the gospel of your salvation in whom also having believed, you were sealed with the Holy Spirit of promise,"}
{"book": "EPH", "chapter": 1, "verse": "14", "text": "Who is the guarantee (down-payment) of our inheritance unto the redemption of the acquired possession unto the praise of His glory."}
{"book": "EPH", "chapter": 1, "verse": "15", "text": "Because of this I also having heard of your faith in the Lord Jesus and your love unto all the saints."}
{"book": "EPH", "chapter": 1, "verse": "16", "text": "I do not cease giving thanks for you, making mention (recollection, remembrance) upon my prayers,"}
{"book": "EPH", "chapter": 1, "verse": "17", "text": "So that the God of our Lord Jesus Christ, the Father of glory, might give to you the Spirit of wisdom and revelation in the upon-knowledge of Him,"}
{"book": "EPH", "chapter": 1, "verse": "18", "text": "The eyes of your heart being enlightened unto you knowing (seeing and knowing, perceiving), what is the hope of His calling, what is the wealth of the glory of His inheritance in the saints,"}
{"book": "EPH", "chapter": 1, "verse": "19", "text": "And what is the exceeding vastness (greatness) of His power unto us, those believing, according to the working of the might (dominion, exerted power) of His strength,"}
{"book": "EPH", "chapter": 1, "verse": "20", "text": "Which He worked in Christ, having raised Him up from out of the dead and having made Him to sit down at (by, in) His right hand in the heavenlies,"}
{"book": "EPH", "chapter": 1, "verse": "21", "text": "Far above every preeminence and authority and power and lordship and every name being named not only in this age but rather also in the one coming."}
{"book": "EPH", "chapter": 1, "verse": "22", "text": "And He put (arrange under) all things under His feet and gave Him to be the head over (above) all things to the church,"}
{"book": "EPH", "chapter": 1, "verse": "23", "text": "Which is His body, the fullness of Him filling all in all."}
{"book": "EPH", "chapter": 2, "verse": "1", "text": "And you, being dead in your failings (false steps, trespasses, falling away after being close beside) and sins"}
{"book": "EPH", "chapter": 2, "verse": "2", "text": "in which you once walked according to the age of this world, according to the ruler of the authority of the air, the spirit now working in the sons of willful unbelief,"}
{"book": "EPH", "chapter": 2, "verse": "3", "text": "Among (in) whom we also all once lived (turned back, overturned, conducted) in the strong urges (passionate desires) of our flesh, doing the things willed of the flesh and its dispositions (thoughts, understandings), and we were by nature children of wrath, even as the rest."}
{"book": "EPH", "chapter": 2, "verse": "4", "text": "However God, being rich in mercy, because of His much love with which He loved us,"}
{"book": "EPH", "chapter": 2, "verse": "5", "text": "even we being dead in failings, made us alive together with Christ- by grace you are saved-"}
{"book": "EPH", "chapter": 2, "verse": "6", "text": "And raised us up together and seated us together in the heavenlies in Christ Jesus,"}
{"book": "EPH", "chapter": 2, "verse": "7", "text": "So that He might show in the ages that are coming the exceeding wealth of His grace in useful kindness upon us in Christ Jesus."}
{"book": "EPH", "chapter": 2, "verse": "8", "text": "For by grace you are saved through faith, and this not from out of yourselves; it is the gift of God,"}
{"book": "EPH", "chapter": 2, "verse": "9", "text": "not from out of works, so that not anyone may boast."}
{"book": "EPH", "chapter": 2, "verse": "10", "text": "For we are His work, having been created in Christ Jesus upon good works, which God prepared beforehand so that we should walk in them."}
{"book": "EPH", "chapter": 2, "verse": "11", "text": "Therefore remember that you once were ethnicities in the flesh, the ones being called the uncircumcision by that being called the circumcision in the flesh made by hand—"}
{"book": "EPH", "chapter": 2, "verse": "12", "text": "That you were at the time separate from Christ, alienated from the citizenship of Israel and strangers to the covenants of promise, not having hope, and without God (godless) in the world."}
{"book": "EPH", "chapter": 2, "verse": "13", "text": "However now in Christ Jesus, you once being far away have become near in the blood of Christ."}
{"book": "EPH", "chapter": 2, "verse": "14", "text": "For He himself is our peace having made both one and has broken down the middle barrier of the partition (fencing in),"}
{"book": "EPH", "chapter": 2, "verse": "15", "text": "Having annulled the enmity in His flesh, the law of commandments in ordinances, so that he might create the two in Himself into one new man, making peace;"}
{"book": "EPH", "chapter": 2, "verse": "16", "text": "And He might reconcile both in one body to God through the cross, having slain the enmity in it;"}
{"book": "EPH", "chapter": 2, "verse": "17", "text": "And having come He preached the gospel of peace to you who were afar away and peace to those near."}
{"book": "EPH", "chapter": 2, "verse": "18", "text": "Because through Him we both have access in one Spirit to the Father."}
{"book": "EPH", "chapter": 2, "verse": "19", "text": "So then you are no longer strangers and foreigners, but rather you are fellow-citizens of the saints and of the household of God"}
{"book": "EPH", "chapter": 2, "verse": "20", "text": "having been built up upon the foundation of the apostles and prophets, Jesus Christ Himself being the cornerstone,"}
{"book": "EPH", "chapter": 2, "verse": "21", "text": "In whom the whole building being fitted together is increasing unto a temple, holy in the Lord,"}
{"book": "EPH", "chapter": 2, "verse": "22", "text": "In whom you also are being built together unto a habitation of God in the Spirit."}
{"book": "EPH", "chapter": 3, "verse": "1", "text": "For this reason, I, Paul, the prisoner of Christ Jesus for you ethnicities,"}
{"book": "EPH", "chapter": 3, "verse": "2", "text": "If, indeed, you have heard of the stewardship (administration, latin-dispensationem, household management) of the grace of God having been given to me unto you,"}
{"book": "EPH", "chapter": 3, "verse": "3", "text": "That according to revelation He made known to me the mystery, just as I have written before in brief,"}
{"book": "EPH", "chapter": 3, "verse": "4", "text": "By which you are able reading it, to understand the insight of me in the mystery of Christ,"}
{"book": "EPH", "chapter": 3, "verse": "5", "text": "Which in other generations was not made known to the sons of men, as now it has been revealed to His holy apostles and prophets in the Spirit."}
{"book": "EPH", "chapter": 3, "verse": "6", "text": "That the ethnicities should be joint-heirs and joint-body and joint-partakers of the promise in Christ Jesus through the gospel,"}
{"book": "EPH", "chapter": 3, "verse": "7", "text": "Of which I became a minister (diakonos) according to the gift of the grace of God, having been given to me according to the working of His power."}
{"book": "EPH", "chapter": 3, "verse": "8", "text": "To me the very least of all saints was given this grace to preach to the ethnicities the incomprehensible (untraceable, unsearchable) riches of Christ,"}
{"book": "EPH", "chapter": 3, "verse": "9", "text": "And to enlighten all to what is the stewardship (administration, household management, latin-dispensatio) of the mystery having been hidden from the ages in God who has created all,"}
{"book": "EPH", "chapter": 3, "verse": "10", "text": "So that it might be known now to the preeminent and the authorities in the heavenlies through the church, the manifold (much varied, ultra-diverse, latin-multiformis) wisdom of God,"}
{"book": "EPH", "chapter": 3, "verse": "11", "text": "According to the purpose (predetermination) of the ages which He accomplished in Christ Jesus our Lord,"}
{"book": "EPH", "chapter": 3, "verse": "12", "text": "In whom we have boldness and access in confidence through the faith of (in) Him."}
{"book": "EPH", "chapter": 3, "verse": "13", "text": "Therefore, I implore you not to be weary in my tribulations for you which is your glory."}
{"book": "EPH", "chapter": 3, "verse": "14", "text": "For this reason I bow my knees to the Father of our Lord Jesus Christ,"}
{"book": "EPH", "chapter": 3, "verse": "15", "text": "From out of whom every family in the heavens and upon the earth in named,"}
{"book": "EPH", "chapter": 3, "verse": "16", "text": "So that He might give you according to the riches of His glory to be strengthened with power through His Spirit unto (into) the inner man,"}
{"book": "EPH", "chapter": 3, "verse": "17", "text": "That Christ may dwell in your hearts through faith, being rooted and being founded in love,"}
{"book": "EPH", "chapter": 3, "verse": "18", "text": "So that you may be fully able to comprehend (lay hold of, seize, take hold of exactly with decisive initiative) with all the saints what is the breadth and length and height and depth,"}
{"book": "EPH", "chapter": 3, "verse": "19", "text": "To know the love of Christ surpassing knowledge, so that you may be filled unto all the fullness of God."}
{"book": "EPH", "chapter": 3, "verse": "20", "text": "Now to Him being able to do exceedingly above all that we ask or think according to the power working in us,"}
{"book": "EPH", "chapter": 3, "verse": "21", "text": "To Him be the glory in the church and in Christ Jesus unto all the generations of the age of the ages. Amen."}
{"book": "EPH", "chapter": 4, "verse": "1", "text": "Therefore, I, the prisoner of the Lord, entreat you to walk worthily of the calling to which you were called,"}
{"book": "EPH", "chapter": 4, "verse": "2", "text": "With all humility (lowliness, modesty, lowly-moderation regulated by inner perspective, lowly mindset, latin-humilitate) and meekness (gentle strength, mildness) with patience (long passion, latin-patientia, long tempered, forbearance) still bearing up (holding up) one another in love,"}
{"book": "EPH", "chapter": 4, "verse": "3", "text": "Being diligent (swift, speedy, make haste) to guard (watch over, maintain, preserve, keep) the unity of the Spirit in the bond of peace."}
{"book": "EPH", "chapter": 4, "verse": "4", "text": "One body and one Spirit just as you were also called unto one hope of your calling-"}
{"book": "EPH", "chapter": 4, "verse": "5", "text": "One Lord, one faith, one baptism,"}
{"book": "EPH", "chapter": 4, "verse": "6", "text": "One God and Father of all, who is upon all and through all and in all."}
{"book": "EPH", "chapter": 4, "verse": "7", "text": "And to each one of us has been given grace according to the measure of the gift of Christ."}
{"book": "EPH", "chapter": 4, "verse": "8", "text": "Therefore, he says, “Having ascended up unto high, he led (took) captivity captive and gave gifts to men.”"}
{"book": "EPH", "chapter": 4, "verse": "9", "text": "Now this, he ascended up, what is it, except that he also descended unto the lower parts of the earth?"}
{"book": "EPH", "chapter": 4, "verse": "10", "text": "He that descended is the same who also has ascended above all the heavens so that he might fill all."}
{"book": "EPH", "chapter": 4, "verse": "11", "text": "And he indeed gave (the word some here does not exist-tous in greek is not usually translated as some but rather as the) apostles (apostolos), prophets (latin-prophetas), evangelists (latin-evangelistas), shepherds (latin-pastores) and teachers (latin-doctores),"}
{"book": "EPH", "chapter": 4, "verse": "12", "text": "To the perfecting (preparing, exact adjusting, latin-consummationem) of the saints unto the work of ministry (diakonias, latin-ministerii), unto the upbuilding of the body of Christ,"}
{"book": "EPH", "chapter": 4, "verse": "13", "text": "Until we all reach unto the unity of the faith and of the knowledge of the Son of God, unto a full-grown (complete, consummated, latin-perfectum) man, unto the measure of the maturity (full-aged) of the fullness of Christ,"}
{"book": "EPH", "chapter": 4, "verse": "14", "text": "So that we may no longer be infants (simple-minded/immature/unlearned person), being tossed to and fro by waves and being carried about by every wind (gust of air) of teaching in the trickery (sleight of hand, dice playing) of men in cunning craftiness (cleverness) toward the scheming (systematizing, greek-methodeia, latin-circumventionem) of wandering error (latin-erroris),"}
{"book": "EPH", "chapter": 4, "verse": "15", "text": "But truthing (more than speaking) in love, we should grow up unto (into) Him in all, who is the head, Christ,"}
{"book": "EPH", "chapter": 4, "verse": "16", "text": "From out of whom the whole body, being fitly joined together and combined together through every joint (fastening, band, ligament) of its supply (provision, equipment) according to the working in the measure individual of each part, making for itself the increase of the body unto the upbuilding of itself in love."}
{"book": "EPH", "chapter": 4, "verse": "17", "text": "Therefore I say this and testify in the Lord, you are to walk no longer just as the ethnicities are walking in the futility (purposelessness, emptiness, vanity, aimlessness) of their mind (latin-sensus)."}
{"book": "EPH", "chapter": 4, "verse": "18", "text": "Being darkened in their understanding, being alienated (estranged) from the life of God, because of the ignorance (unknowing) being in them through the hardness of their heart,"}
{"book": "EPH", "chapter": 4, "verse": "19", "text": "Who having ceased to feel for (become callous, apathetic, insensible, cease to care, cease to feel pain for) have given themselves up to sensuality (brutal spite that rejects restraint and indulges in lawless insolence, lasciviousness, wantonness, licentiousness) unto the working of all impurity with greediness."}
{"book": "EPH", "chapter": 4, "verse": "20", "text": "However you did not learn Christ this way,"}
{"book": "EPH", "chapter": 4, "verse": "21", "text": "If indeed you have heard Him and have been taught in Him, just as the truth is in Jesus,"}
{"book": "EPH", "chapter": 4, "verse": "22", "text": "To have put off you according to your former way of life, the old man, which is being corrupted (deteriorated, spoiled, ruined) according to its deceitful (deceit motivated by guile and trickery) strong urges (lusts, latin-desideria, upon passionate desire),"}
{"book": "EPH", "chapter": 4, "verse": "23", "text": "To be renewed in the spirit of your mind,"}
{"book": "EPH", "chapter": 4, "verse": "24", "text": "And to have put on the new man according to God having been created in righteousness and holiness (sanctioned, what God sanctions) of the truth."}
{"book": "EPH", "chapter": 4, "verse": "25", "text": "Therefore having put off falsehood, let each one speak the truth with his neighbor because we are of one another’s members."}
{"book": "EPH", "chapter": 4, "verse": "26", "text": "Be angry (irritated, provoked) and do not sin (miss the mark, forfeit, have no share in): let the sun not set upon your anger (provoked irritation, exasperation, slowly built-up provocation),"}
{"book": "EPH", "chapter": 4, "verse": "27", "text": "Neither give place to the devil."}
{"book": "EPH", "chapter": 4, "verse": "28", "text": "No longer let him steal who is stealing, rather let him labor hard, working with his own hands what is good so that he might have something to give a share of to the one having necessity."}
{"book": "EPH", "chapter": 4, "verse": "29", "text": "Do not let any rotten (worthless, useless, of poor or bad quality, putrid, over-ripe) word go (come) forth from out of your mouth, but rather if any good to the upbuilding of the necessity, so that it might give grace to those hearing."}
{"book": "EPH", "chapter": 4, "verse": "30", "text": "And do not grieve (distress, pain, vex, sadden) the Holy Spirit of God in whom you were sealed unto the day of redemption."}
{"book": "EPH", "chapter": 4, "verse": "31", "text": "Let all bitterness and heated outbursts and opposing anger and clamorous outcrying and slanderous defaming (slow to repute, latin-blasphemia) be lifted up (raised, removed) away from you along with all malicious evil (kakia)."}
{"book": "EPH", "chapter": 4, "verse": "32", "text": "And be kind (furnish what is suitable/useful/serviceable/good/pleasant) to one another, good hearted (good gut-level compassions), giving grace to each other, just as God in Christ also gave grace to you."}
{"book": "EPH", "chapter": 5, "verse": "1", "text": "Therefore, be imitators of God, as beloved children,"}
{"book": "EPH", "chapter": 5, "verse": "2", "text": "And walk in love just as Christ also loved us and gave Himself up for us, an offering and a sacrifice to God unto a sweet smelling savor (aroma, latin-odorem)."}
{"book": "EPH", "chapter": 5, "verse": "3", "text": "However, fornication and all impurity or covetous greed, let it not even be named among you just as is proper (becoming, fitting) to saints,"}
{"book": "EPH", "chapter": 5, "verse": "4", "text": "And filthiness (baseness, indecency, obscenity) and moronic talk or coarse jesting (ready wit, low jesting), which are not fitting (proper, becoming): but rather thanksgiving."}
{"book": "EPH", "chapter": 5, "verse": "5", "text": "For this you know that any fornicator or unclean person or covetously greedy man who is an idolater has no inheritance in the kingdom of Christ and God."}
{"book": "EPH", "chapter": 5, "verse": "6", "text": "Let no one deceive (latin-seducat) you with empty words: for because of these things comes the opposed anger (wrath) of God upon the sons of willful unbelief."}
{"book": "EPH", "chapter": 5, "verse": "7", "text": "Therefore do not become joint-partakers with them,"}
{"book": "EPH", "chapter": 5, "verse": "8", "text": "For you were once darkness, however now light in the Lord; walk as children of light--"}
{"book": "EPH", "chapter": 5, "verse": "9", "text": "For the fruit of the light is in all goodness and righteousness and truth—"}
{"book": "EPH", "chapter": 5, "verse": "10", "text": "Discerning (testing to prove) what is well-pleasing to the Lord."}
{"book": "EPH", "chapter": 5, "verse": "11", "text": "And do not have fellowship with the unfruitful works of darkness, instead expose (reprove, convince with solid, compelling evidence) them,"}
{"book": "EPH", "chapter": 5, "verse": "12", "text": "For the things being done in secret by them, it is shameful to even speak."}
{"book": "EPH", "chapter": 5, "verse": "13", "text": "However, everything being exposed (convinced, reproved) by (under) the light is made apparent (visible), for everything becoming apparent (visible) is light."}
{"book": "EPH", "chapter": 5, "verse": "14", "text": "Therefore, he says, “Awake you, the one sleeping and rise up from out of the dead and Christ will shine upon you.”"}
{"book": "EPH", "chapter": 5, "verse": "15", "text": "Therefore, look carefully at how you walk, not as unwise but rather as wise,"}
{"book": "EPH", "chapter": 5, "verse": "16", "text": "redeeming the time because the days are evil (pain-ridden, ponerai)."}
{"book": "EPH", "chapter": 5, "verse": "17", "text": "Because of this, do not be unperspective (senseless, foolish), but rather comprehend (synthesize, put facts together) what is the will of the Lord."}
{"book": "EPH", "chapter": 5, "verse": "18", "text": "And do not be drunk with wine in which is wasteful prodigality (without save- wastefulness due to excessive behavior and its dire consequences), but rather be filled (be made full, complete, fulfilled) in the Spirit,"}
{"book": "EPH", "chapter": 5, "verse": "19", "text": "Speaking to each other in psalms (Scripture sung with accompanying plucked instruments) and hymns (songs that give honor, praise, or thanksgiving) and spiritual odes (songs- spontaneous, impromptu unrehearsed melodies of praise sung to God and not merely about God), singing and making music (with plucked instruments) in your heart to the Lord,"}
{"book": "EPH", "chapter": 5, "verse": "20", "text": "Giving thanks at all times for all things to Him who is God and Father in the name of our Lord Jesus Christ,"}
{"book": "EPH", "chapter": 5, "verse": "21", "text": "Submitting yourselves (arranging yourselves under) to one another in the fear (reverence) of Christ."}
{"book": "EPH", "chapter": 5, "verse": "22", "text": "Wives, to their own husbands, as to the Lord,"}
{"book": "EPH", "chapter": 5, "verse": "23", "text": "For the husband is head of the wife, as also Christ is the head of the church- He Himself Savior of the body."}
{"book": "EPH", "chapter": 5, "verse": "24", "text": "But rather like as the church is subjected (arranged under) to Christ, so also wives to their own husbands in everything."}
{"book": "EPH", "chapter": 5, "verse": "25", "text": "Husbands love your wives just as Christ also loved the church and gave Himself up for her,"}
{"book": "EPH", "chapter": 5, "verse": "26", "text": "So that He might sanctify her having cleansed her by the washing (bathing, not baptism rather loutro) of water in the rhema word,"}
{"book": "EPH", "chapter": 5, "verse": "27", "text": "So that He might present the church to Himself glorious, not having stain (spot, fault) or wrinkle (flaw, contracted, bunched up, wrinkle from aging) or any of such things, but rather that it would be holy and unblemished."}
{"book": "EPH", "chapter": 5, "verse": "28", "text": "So also ought husbands to love their wives as their own bodies. He that loves his wife loves himself."}
{"book": "EPH", "chapter": 5, "verse": "29", "text": "For no one at any time has hated his own flesh, but rather he nourishes and cherishes it, just as Christ also does the church:"}
{"book": "EPH", "chapter": 5, "verse": "30", "text": "For we are members of His body from out of His flesh and from out of His bones."}
{"book": "EPH", "chapter": 5, "verse": "31", "text": "Because of this a man will leave his father and mother and will cleave to (to glue to) his wife and the two will be unto one flesh."}
{"book": "EPH", "chapter": 5, "verse": "32", "text": "This mystery is great and I speak unto Christ and unto the church."}
{"book": "EPH", "chapter": 5, "verse": "33", "text": "Yet you also, every one, let each so love his own wife as himself and the wife, so that she might revere (fear) her husband."}
{"book": "EPH", "chapter": 6, "verse": "1", "text": "Children listen and obey your parents in the Lord for this is right (just)."}
{"book": "EPH", "chapter": 6, "verse": "2", "text": "Honor (value at a price) your father and mother which is the first (foremost, principal) commandment with (in) a promise,"}
{"book": "EPH", "chapter": 6, "verse": "3", "text": "So that it may be well with you and you will be long-lived upon the earth."}
{"book": "EPH", "chapter": 6, "verse": "4", "text": "And fathers do not provoke your children to anger (exasperate), but rather bring them up (nourish and nurture to maturity) in the discipline (instruction with chastisement) and admonition (warning through teaching, set the mind thru warning) of the Lord."}
{"book": "EPH", "chapter": 6, "verse": "5", "text": "Bond-slaves, listen and obey masters (lords) according to flesh with fear and trembling in simplicity (singleness, not compounded or over-complicated) of your heart like as to Christ,"}
{"book": "EPH", "chapter": 6, "verse": "6", "text": "Not with eye-service (service rendered only while the master watches) as men-pleasers, but rather as bond-slaves of Christ, doing the will of God from out of the soul (psyches),"}
{"book": "EPH", "chapter": 6, "verse": "7", "text": "With good will slaving as to the Lord and not to men,"}
{"book": "EPH", "chapter": 6, "verse": "8", "text": "Knowing that whatever good each one may have done, this he will receive back from close beside (in the presence of) the Lord, whether bond-slave or free."}
{"book": "EPH", "chapter": 6, "verse": "9", "text": "And masters (lords), do the same things toward them, giving up threatening, knowing that their and your Master (Lord) is in the heavens and there is no partiality with Him."}
{"book": "EPH", "chapter": 6, "verse": "10", "text": "Finally, be empowered (filled with power, strengthened, in sharing power-ability) in the Lord and in the exerted power (dominion, mastery, might, strength) of His might (forcefulness, force to overcome immediate resistance)."}
{"book": "EPH", "chapter": 6, "verse": "11", "text": "Put on the whole (complete) armor (panoply is close to greek which is a complete and splendid collection of things, latin- arma) of God, for you to be able to stand towards the schemes (methods) of the devil,"}
{"book": "EPH", "chapter": 6, "verse": "12", "text": "Because our wrestling (struggle, fight) is not towards flesh and blood but rather toward the preeminents (rulers) toward the authorities toward the world-rulers of this darkness toward the spiritual forces of pain-ridden evil in the heavenlies."}
{"book": "EPH", "chapter": 6, "verse": "13", "text": "Because of this, take up the whole armor of God so that you may be able to withstand in the evil (pain-ridden evil) day, and having done all, to stand."}
{"book": "EPH", "chapter": 6, "verse": "14", "text": "Therefore, stand having your loins (reproductive area, where the Hebrews thought the generative power (semen) resided, waist, hips) girded (belted) with truth and having put on the breastplate of righteousness,"}
{"book": "EPH", "chapter": 6, "verse": "15", "text": "And having shod (put on my feet, bind/fasten/tie under) your feet in the readiness (preparation) of the gospel of peace."}
{"book": "EPH", "chapter": 6, "verse": "16", "text": "In all having taken up (raise) the shield of faith in which you will be able to quench (extinguish, suppress) all the flaming arrows (arrows, spears, javelins) of the evil one."}
{"book": "EPH", "chapter": 6, "verse": "17", "text": "And receive (accept, welcome) the helmet of salvation and the sword (short sword or dagger, slaughter-knife) of the Spirit which is the rhema word of God,"}
{"book": "EPH", "chapter": 6, "verse": "18", "text": "Through all prayer and heart-felt petition praying in the Spirit in every opportune time and watching (not sleeping to stay vigilant) unto this very thing in all perserverance and heart-felt petition concerning all saints,"}
{"book": "EPH", "chapter": 6, "verse": "19", "text": "And also for me so that a word may be given to me in the opening of my mouth to make known in boldness the mystery of the gospel,"}
{"book": "EPH", "chapter": 6, "verse": "20", "text": "For which I am an ambassador (presbeuo- an older, venerated person, an elder, also an established trustworthy statesman/diplomat) in a chain, so that in it, I might be bold to speak as I ought (it is necessary)."}
{"book": "EPH", "chapter": 6, "verse": "21", "text": "Now so that you might also know, the things concerning me, what I am doing, Tychicus, the beloved brother and faithful minister (diakonos) in the Lord, will make all things known to you,"}
{"book": "EPH", "chapter": 6, "verse": "22", "text": "Whom I have sent to you unto this very thing, so that you may know the things concerning us and he may entreat your hearts."}
{"book": "EPH", "chapter": 6, "verse": "23", "text": "Peace to the brothers and love with faith from God the Father and the Lord Jesus Christ."}
{"book": "EPH", "chapter": 6, "verse": "24", "text": "Grace be with all those loving our Lord Jesus Christ in incorruptibility."}
{"book": "PHP", "chapter": 1, "verse": "1", "text": "Paul and Timothy, bond-slaves of Christ Jesus, to all the saints in Christ Jesus being in Philippi with the overseers (episkopos- look intently upon, bishops) and ministers (diakonois):"}
{"book": "PHP", "chapter": 1, "verse": "2", "text": "Grace to you and peace from God our Father and the Lord Jesus Christ."}
{"book": "PHP", "chapter": 1, "verse": "3", "text": "I thank my God upon every remembrance of you,"}
{"book": "PHP", "chapter": 1, "verse": "4", "text": "Always in every heart-felt petition of me for all of you making heart-felt petition with joy,"}
{"book": "PHP", "chapter": 1, "verse": "5", "text": "Upon your fellowship unto the gospel from the first day until now,"}
{"book": "PHP", "chapter": 1, "verse": "6", "text": "Being confident (persuaded, latin-confidens) of this same that He who has begun a good work in you will complete (epiteleo, latin-perficiet, consummate) it until the day of Jesus Christ,"}
{"book": "PHP", "chapter": 1, "verse": "7", "text": "Just as it is righteous (just) for me to think this about all of you, because I have you in my heart, in both my chains and in the defense (apologia) and confirmation of the gospel, you are all fellow-partakers with me of grace."}
{"book": "PHP", "chapter": 1, "verse": "8", "text": "For God is my witness how I long after you all in the gut-level emotions of Jesus Christ."}
{"book": "PHP", "chapter": 1, "verse": "9", "text": "And this I pray, so that your love will abound yet more and more in knowledge and all perception (sense-discernment, latin-sensu),"}
{"book": "PHP", "chapter": 1, "verse": "10", "text": "Unto you to approve the things being excellent (that differ, that which carries through, surpasses, takes all the way through, distinguishing what differs), so that you may be pure (judged in the shining light, sincere because transparent, rightly judged because seen in full light) and not causing to stumble (not stumbling, blameless, not offending, not striking against) unto the day of Christ,"}
{"book": "PHP", "chapter": 1, "verse": "11", "text": "Being filled with the fruit of righteousness that is through Jesus Christ unto the glory and praise of God."}
{"book": "PHP", "chapter": 1, "verse": "12", "text": "Now I resolutely want you to know, brothers, that the things concerning me have really (more, rather) turned out (come) unto the advancement (progress by chopping down whatever impedes-used of pioneers and armies clearing the way) of the gospel,"}
{"book": "PHP", "chapter": 1, "verse": "13", "text": "So that my chains in Christ have become apparent in the whole governor’s residence and its guard (greek and latin- praetorium) and to all the rest,"}
{"book": "PHP", "chapter": 1, "verse": "14", "text": "And most of the brothers in the Lord, trusting by my chains, are more abundantly daring (bold courage), fearlessly speaking the word of God."}
{"book": "PHP", "chapter": 1, "verse": "15", "text": "For some through envy (ill-will, spite, gudge, strong feeling that sours) and strife but some through goodwill (good pleasure, good favor) are preaching Christ."}
{"book": "PHP", "chapter": 1, "verse": "16", "text": "These from out of love, knowing that I am appointed (destined, laid, set) unto the defense of the gospel,"}
{"book": "PHP", "chapter": 1, "verse": "17", "text": "However those from out of rivalrous self-interest (selfish ambition, self-seeking, rivalry) are preaching Christ, not of holy motives, supposing to raise up tribulation to my chains."}
{"book": "PHP", "chapter": 1, "verse": "18", "text": "What then? However so that in every place whether in pretense or in truth, Christ is preached. And in this I rejoice. But rather, and I will rejoice."}
{"book": "PHP", "chapter": 1, "verse": "19", "text": "For I know that this will turn out (come) unto my salvation (deliverance) through your heart-felt petition and the provision of the Spirit of Jesus Christ,"}
{"book": "PHP", "chapter": 1, "verse": "20", "text": "According to my strained expectancy (thinking forward with head out-stretched) and hope, so that I will be ashamed in nothing, but rather in all boldness, as always, now also Christ will be magnified (made great) in my body whether through life or through death."}
{"book": "PHP", "chapter": 1, "verse": "21", "text": "For to me to live is Christ and to die is gain."}
{"book": "PHP", "chapter": 1, "verse": "22", "text": "However if I am to live in flesh this is for me the fruit of work and what will I choose? I do not know!"}
{"book": "PHP", "chapter": 1, "verse": "23", "text": "For I am pressed together from out of the two, having the passionate urge to depart unto and be with Christ, for it is much more better,"}
{"book": "PHP", "chapter": 1, "verse": "24", "text": "However to remain on in the flesh is necessary for your sake."}
{"book": "PHP", "chapter": 1, "verse": "25", "text": "And having confidence of this, I know that I will abide and continue near you all unto your progress and joy of the faith,"}
{"book": "PHP", "chapter": 1, "verse": "26", "text": "So that your boasting may abound in Christ Jesus in me through my coming (parousias, latin-adventum) again to you."}
{"book": "PHP", "chapter": 1, "verse": "27", "text": "Only conduct (live the life of a citizen) yourselves worthily (becoming, suitable because fitting) of the gospel of Christ, so that whether having come and having seen you or being absent, I may hear the things concerning you, so that you are standing firm in one spirit with one soul (psyche) contending together (athleo is part of word like athlete, compete, latin-conlaborantes) for the faith of the gospel,"}
{"book": "PHP", "chapter": 1, "verse": "28", "text": "And not being frightened (terrified, latin-terreamini) in anything by (under, about) those opposing you, which is to them an indication of destruction (ruin, loss, cut off), however to you of salvation and that from God,"}
{"book": "PHP", "chapter": 1, "verse": "29", "text": "Because to you it has been graced (freely given) on behalf of Christ, not only to believe unto Him, but rather also to suffer on behalf of Him,"}
{"book": "PHP", "chapter": 1, "verse": "30", "text": "Having the same conflict (greek word agona like agony, agon referred to an athletic contest, struggle) such as you saw in me and now hear of in me."}
{"book": "PHP", "chapter": 2, "verse": "1", "text": "If, then, any entreaty (latin- consolatio) in Christ, if any solace (solacium) of love, if any fellowship (greek-koinonia, latin- societas) of the Spirit, if any deep gut-level affections (visceral deep emotions, latin- viscera) and sympathetic compassions (visceral pity, sympathy, empathy),"}
{"book": "PHP", "chapter": 2, "verse": "2", "text": "fulfill my joy so that you may be of the same perspective (mind) having the same love, joined in soul, of one minding."}
{"book": "PHP", "chapter": 2, "verse": "3", "text": "Do nothing according to rivalrous self-interest and not according to empty conceit (vainglory, cheap pride), but rather in humble perspective (tapeinos-phren, lowly mind, humility of mind, latin- humilitae), supposing (highly regarding, counting others in the lead, esteem) one another superior to (latin-superiores, have above, prominent, surpass) themselves,"}
{"book": "PHP", "chapter": 2, "verse": "4", "text": "Each not looking attentively (scoping) to the things of themselves, but rather each to the things of others."}
{"book": "PHP", "chapter": 2, "verse": "5", "text": "Let this perspective be in you which is also in Christ Jesus,"}
{"book": "PHP", "chapter": 2, "verse": "6", "text": "Who, already existing in the form of God, did not suppose (esteem, count) it something to be seized to be equal (greek-isos, latin-aequalem, identical, equivalent) with God,"}
{"book": "PHP", "chapter": 2, "verse": "7", "text": "but rather emptied Himself, having taken the form of a bond-slave, having emerged (become, been born) in the same likeness of men."}
{"book": "PHP", "chapter": 2, "verse": "8", "text": "And having been found in outer appearance as a man, He humbled Himself, having become compliant even to death, even the death of the cross."}
{"book": "PHP", "chapter": 2, "verse": "9", "text": "Therefore, God also highly exalted (elevate beyond/above) Him and graced to Him the name above (beyond, over) every name,"}
{"book": "PHP", "chapter": 2, "verse": "10", "text": "so that at (in) the name of Jesus every knee should bow upon heaven and upon earth and under the ground/earth (subterranean, latin- infernorum like inferno, its root inferno translates as hell, of note the greek words for upon earth and under the earth are different- roots ge vs. chthon),"}
{"book": "PHP", "chapter": 2, "verse": "11", "text": "And every tongue (glossa) should wholly confess (fully agree, wholly say the same thing about) that Jesus Christ is Lord unto the glory of God the Father."}
{"book": "PHP", "chapter": 2, "verse": "12", "text": "Therefore, my beloved, just as you have always complied, not as in my presence only but rather now much more in my absence work out your own salvation with fear and trembling."}
{"book": "PHP", "chapter": 2, "verse": "13", "text": "For God is working in you to will and to work on behalf of His good pleasure."}
{"book": "PHP", "chapter": 2, "verse": "14", "text": "Do all things apart from grumblings (murmurings, mutterings, latin- murmurationibus) and disputings (back and forth reasonings),"}
{"book": "PHP", "chapter": 2, "verse": "15", "text": "So that you may be blameless (not to find blame, free from fault) and unmixed, children of God, unblemished in the middle of a crooked (bent because dried out, greek- skolios) and distorted (perverted, thoroughly turn, latin- perversae) among (in) whom you shine as lights in the world,"}
{"book": "PHP", "chapter": 2, "verse": "16", "text": "Holding forth the word of life unto a boast to me unto the day of Christ, so that I did not run unto vanity nor unto vain wearisome labor."}
{"book": "PHP", "chapter": 2, "verse": "17", "text": "But rather if I am being poured out as a drink offering upon the sacrifice and service of your faith, I rejoice and rejoice together with all you."}
{"book": "PHP", "chapter": 2, "verse": "18", "text": "Likewise you also rejoice and rejoice together with me."}
{"book": "PHP", "chapter": 2, "verse": "19", "text": "And I hope in the Lord Jesus to soon send Timothy to you, so that I too may be good-souled having known the things about you."}
{"book": "PHP", "chapter": 2, "verse": "20", "text": "For I have no one of equal-soul who genuinely will care for the things about you."}
{"book": "PHP", "chapter": 2, "verse": "21", "text": "For all are seeking the things of themselves, not the things of Jesus Christ."}
{"book": "PHP", "chapter": 2, "verse": "22", "text": "But you know the proven genuineness of him that as a father with a child, he has ministered with me unto the gospel."}
{"book": "PHP", "chapter": 2, "verse": "23", "text": "Him therefore I hope to send immediately when I have seen to the things concerning me."}
{"book": "PHP", "chapter": 2, "verse": "24", "text": "However, I am confident in the Lord that I myself will also come soon."}
{"book": "PHP", "chapter": 2, "verse": "25", "text": "And I supposed it necessary to send to you Epaphroditus, my brother and fellow worker and fellow soldier, your apostle (apostolon) and public servant (latin-ministrum) of my need,"}
{"book": "PHP", "chapter": 2, "verse": "26", "text": "Since he was longing after all you and being deeply distressed because you heard that he was sick (ill, weak, latin-infirmatum)."}
{"book": "PHP", "chapter": 2, "verse": "27", "text": "For he was sick nearly unto death, but rather God had mercy on him and not on him only, but rather also on me so that I should not have sorrow upon sorrow."}
{"book": "PHP", "chapter": 2, "verse": "28", "text": "Therefore, I have sent him all the more eagerly (more speedily/earnestly), so that having seen him again you may rejoice and I may be less sorrowful."}
{"book": "PHP", "chapter": 2, "verse": "29", "text": "Therefore, welcomingly receive him in the Lord with all joy and hold such in honor (valued, precious),"}
{"book": "PHP", "chapter": 2, "verse": "30", "text": "Since he came near until death because of the work of Christ having disregarded (risked) his soul (life) so that he may fill up (make up, fulfill) your deficit (lack) of service to me."}
{"book": "PHP", "chapter": 3, "verse": "1", "text": "Finally, brothers, rejoice in the Lord. To write the same things to you, to me indeed is not irksome (indolent, delay, hesitate, reluctant, irksome, latin- pigrum- tiresome) for you however is sure (certain, secure, not cast down, secure because it does not totter, reliable)."}
{"book": "PHP", "chapter": 3, "verse": "2", "text": "Look out for (beware of) the dogs, look out from (beware of) the malice (kakous) workers, look out for the concision (latin- concisionem, mutilators of the flesh, false circumcision, valueless circumcision)."}
{"book": "PHP", "chapter": 3, "verse": "3", "text": "For we are the circumcision, who worship in the Spirit of God and glory in Christ Jesus and do not have confidence in the flesh."}
{"book": "PHP", "chapter": 3, "verse": "4", "text": "Though I have confidence in the flesh. If any other thinks that he has confidence in the flesh, I have more:"}
{"book": "PHP", "chapter": 3, "verse": "5", "text": "As to circumcision, on the eight day, from out of the race (family, offspring, descendants) of Israel, of the tribe of Benjamin, a Hebrew from out of Hebrews; according to the Law, a Pharisee;"}
{"book": "PHP", "chapter": 3, "verse": "6", "text": "According to zeal, persecuting the church; according to righteousness in the law, having become found not blameworthy."}
{"book": "PHP", "chapter": 3, "verse": "7", "text": "But rather whatever things were gain to me, these I have supposed loss (damage, detriment, a bad deal) because of Christ."}
{"book": "PHP", "chapter": 3, "verse": "8", "text": "But rather yes, I suppose all things to be loss (damage, a bad deal, detriment) because of the excelling (surpassing, superior) knowledge of Christ Jesus my Lord, because of whom I have lost all things and suppose them rubbish (skybala- what is thrown to dogs), so that I might gain Christ,"}
{"book": "PHP", "chapter": 3, "verse": "9", "text": "And be found in Him, not having my own righteousness, which is from out of the law but rather that which is through faith in Christ, the righteousness from out of God upon faith;"}
{"book": "PHP", "chapter": 3, "verse": "10", "text": "To know Him and the power of His resurrection (to stand again, latin- resurrectionis) and the fellowship of His sufferings (greek- pathematon, latin- passionum, strong emotions), being conformed (latin-configuratus) to His death;"}
{"book": "PHP", "chapter": 3, "verse": "11", "text": "If somehow I might attain unto the resurrection from out of the dead."}
{"book": "PHP", "chapter": 3, "verse": "12", "text": "Not that I have already obtained it or have already been perfected (consummated); however I am pursuing (as hunting a prize) if also I may lay hold upon that which also I was laid hold of by Christ Jesus."}
{"book": "PHP", "chapter": 3, "verse": "13", "text": "Brothers, I do not reckon myself to have taken hold of it. However, one thing- forgetting (unnoticing, neglecting, overlooking) the things behind and reaching forward (extending on) to the things ahead (in front of, before the face),"}
{"book": "PHP", "chapter": 3, "verse": "14", "text": "I pursue according to the scoped end-marker (skopon) unto the prize of the upward calling of God in Christ Jesus."}
{"book": "PHP", "chapter": 3, "verse": "15", "text": "Therefore, as many as are full-grown (mature, of full age, consummated, perfect, latin-perfecti) should be of this perspective (mind, understanding); and if you are differently minded in anything, even this God will reveal to you."}
{"book": "PHP", "chapter": 3, "verse": "16", "text": "Nevertheless, unto that which we have attained, walk the same standard (rule, regulation), think (perspective) the same."}
{"book": "PHP", "chapter": 3, "verse": "17", "text": "Be imitators together of me, brothers, and observe (scope, latin- observate) those walking thus, just as you have us for a type (greek-typos, latin-formam, model, repeated pattern)."}
{"book": "PHP", "chapter": 3, "verse": "18", "text": "For many are walking, of whom I told you often, and I tell you now even weeping, as enemies of the cross of Christ;"}
{"book": "PHP", "chapter": 3, "verse": "19", "text": "Whose end is destruction, whose god is their belly (kiolia) and their glory is in their shame, who are minding earthly things."}
{"book": "PHP", "chapter": 3, "verse": "20", "text": "For our citizenship (form of government, state, commonwealth, the greek word politeuma may be the root of politics) exists in the heavens, from out of which also we are eagerly awaiting the Savior, the Lord Jesus Christ,"}
{"book": "PHP", "chapter": 3, "verse": "21", "text": "Who will change the outward appearance (not metamorphe/transform but metaschematisei- with change of the outer shape, latin-reformabit) of our lowly (humiliation, low estate, abased) body to be conformed (symmorphon- formed together with, latin-configuratum) like unto the body of His glory, according to the working of His ability (power) even to subdue (subject, arrange under, latin- subicere) all things to Himself."}
{"book": "PHP", "chapter": 4, "verse": "1", "text": "Therefore, my brothers, beloved and longed for (missed, yearn after with deep affection), my joy and crown (not a diadem but a victors garland), thus stand firm in the Lord, beloved."}
{"book": "PHP", "chapter": 4, "verse": "2", "text": "I entreat Euodia and I entreat Syntyche to be of the same perspective (mind) in the Lord."}
{"book": "PHP", "chapter": 4, "verse": "3", "text": "Yes, I ask you also genuine (lawfully begotten, true, sincere, legitimate) yoke-fellow (colleague, those united) assist these women who contend together (compete, strive, wrestle, greek root- athleo) in the gospel with me, also with Clement and the rest of my fellow workers, whose names are in the book (greek-biblo, latin-libro) of life."}
{"book": "PHP", "chapter": 4, "verse": "4", "text": "Rejoice in the Lord always; again I will say rejoice!"}
{"book": "PHP", "chapter": 4, "verse": "5", "text": "Let your equitableness (upon-fair, fairness, moderation, reasonableness, gentleness, seemliness, latin-modestia-modesty) be known to all men. The Lord is near."}
{"book": "PHP", "chapter": 4, "verse": "6", "text": "Be anxious about (divided into parts, to go to pieces because pulled apart) nothing, but rather in everything by prayer and heart-felt petition with thanksgiving, let your requests be made known to (towards, with) God."}
{"book": "PHP", "chapter": 4, "verse": "7", "text": "And the peace of God surpassing all understanding (latin-sensum) will guard your hearts and your minds (thoughts, purposes, latin-intellegentias) in Christ Jesus."}
{"book": "PHP", "chapter": 4, "verse": "8", "text": "Finally, brothers, whatever is true (latin-vera), whatever venerable (reverend, august, dignified, deeply respected, honorable, latin-pudica-modest), whatever right (just, latin-iusta), whatever pure (holy, sacred, latin-sancta), whatever lovely (amiable, friendly, pleasing, agreeable, latin- amabilia, extending toward phileo/affectionate caring), whatever well reported of (greek-euphemos, latin- bona famae- well famed); if any virtue (moral excellence, latin-virtus) and if any fitting praise (upon praise, fitting commendation), reckon (think/compute/reason to a logical conclusion) these things."}
{"book": "PHP", "chapter": 4, "verse": "9", "text": "What you have also learned (ascertained), and have received, and have heard and have seen in me, practice these things; and the God of peace will be with you."}
{"book": "PHP", "chapter": 4, "verse": "10", "text": "And I rejoiced greatly in the Lord that now at last your thought (mind, latin-sentire-feeling) for me has flourished again (revived, sprouted again, latin-refloruistis); upon which also you were thinking (concerned, latin-sentiebatis-sentiments), however you were lacking opportunity."}
{"book": "PHP", "chapter": 4, "verse": "11", "text": "Not that I speak according to shortage (need, want, poverty, latin-penuriam-shortage); for I have learned to be content (self-sufficient, satisfied) in whatever I am."}
{"book": "PHP", "chapter": 4, "verse": "12", "text": "I also know how to be brought low, and I know how to abound. In all and in all things, I have learned the secret (been initiated into the mysteries) to be full (fed, fatten) and to hunger also to abound and to be deficient (in shortage, need)."}
{"book": "PHP", "chapter": 4, "verse": "13", "text": "I am strong (ischyo-to be strong) for all things in Him empowering (endunamoo-imparting power-ability, strengthening, latin-confortat) me."}
{"book": "PHP", "chapter": 4, "verse": "14", "text": "Nevertheless, you did well (kalos-winsomely good) having fellowship with (shared in) my tribulation (affliction)."}
{"book": "PHP", "chapter": 4, "verse": "15", "text": "Now you know, Philippians, that in the beginning of the gospel when I came out from Macedonia, no church fellowshipped with me unto the word (logon) of giving and receiving, except you only."}
{"book": "PHP", "chapter": 4, "verse": "16", "text": "For even in Thessalonica, once even twice you sent unto my necessity."}
{"book": "PHP", "chapter": 4, "verse": "17", "text": "Not that I seek after the gift, but rather I seek after the fruit abounding unto your word (logon)."}
{"book": "PHP", "chapter": 4, "verse": "18", "text": "And I have all things and abound; I am full having received from Epaphroditus the things from you, an odor of a sweet savor, an acceptable sacrifice, well-pleasing to God."}
{"book": "PHP", "chapter": 4, "verse": "19", "text": "And my God will fill up all your necessity according to His wealth in glory in Christ Jesus."}
{"book": "PHP", "chapter": 4, "verse": "20", "text": "Now to God and our Father be the glory unto the ages of the ages. Amen."}
{"book": "PHP", "chapter": 4, "verse": "21", "text": "Greet every saint in Christ Jesus. The brothers with me greet you."}
{"book": "PHP", "chapter": 4, "verse": "22", "text": "All the saints, especially those of the household from out of Caesar, greet you."}
{"book": "PHP", "chapter": 4, "verse": "23", "text": "The grace of the Lord Jesus Christ be with your spirit. Amen."}
{"book": "COL", "chapter": 1, "verse": "1", "text": "Paul, an apostle of Christ Jesus through the will of God and Timothy the brother,"}
{"book": "COL", "chapter": 1, "verse": "2", "text": "To the saints and faithful brothers in Colosse: Grace to you and peace from God our Father."}
{"book": "COL", "chapter": 1, "verse": "3", "text": "We give thanks to God and the Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, praying always for you,"}
{"book": "COL", "chapter": 1, "verse": "4", "text": "Having heard of our faith in Christ Jesus and the love that you have unto all the saints,"}
{"book": "COL", "chapter": 1, "verse": "5", "text": "Because of the hope, being laid up for you in the heavens; which you heard of before in the word of truth, the gospel,"}
{"book": "COL", "chapter": 1, "verse": "6", "text": "The one being near unto you, just as also in all the world, it is bearing fruit and growing, just as also among you from the day you heard and knew the grace of God in truth;"}
{"book": "COL", "chapter": 1, "verse": "7", "text": "Just as you learned from Epaphras, our beloved fellow bond-slave, who is a faithful minister (diakonos) of Christ on behalf of you,"}
{"book": "COL", "chapter": 1, "verse": "8", "text": "Who also has made evident (plain, clear) to us your love in the Spirit."}
{"book": "COL", "chapter": 1, "verse": "9", "text": "Because of this we also from the day we heard of it, do not cease praying for you and asking so that you may be filled with the knowledge of His will in all wisdom and spiritual comprehension (synesis- synthesized understanding, running/putting together in the intellect, latin- intellectu),"}
{"book": "COL", "chapter": 1, "verse": "10", "text": "To walk worthily of the Lord in all pleasing, in every good work bringing forth fruit and growing in the knowledge of God;"}
{"book": "COL", "chapter": 1, "verse": "11", "text": "Being strengthened (empowered, made able) in all power according to His glorious might (dominion, exerted power) unto all endurance (latin-patientia) and long-tempered (long in tempering passions, latin-longanimitate) with joy;"}
{"book": "COL", "chapter": 1, "verse": "12", "text": "Giving thanks to the Father who has qualified (made sufficient, competent) us unto the share (portion, part) of the inheritance of the saints in light,"}
{"book": "COL", "chapter": 1, "verse": "13", "text": "Who has delivered (drawn to Himself, rescued) us from out of the authority of darkness and transferred us unto the kingdom of His beloved Son:"}
{"book": "COL", "chapter": 1, "verse": "14", "text": "In whom we have redemption, the remission (pardon, forgiveness, something sent away, dismissal, release of debt, latin-remissionem) of sins;"}
{"book": "COL", "chapter": 1, "verse": "15", "text": "Who is the image of the unseen (invisible, not see) God, the firstborn (bring forth first/pre-eminent, eldest) of all creation,"}
{"book": "COL", "chapter": 1, "verse": "16", "text": "since in Him all things were created in the heavens and upon the earth; the seen (latin-visibilia) and the unseen (latin-invisibilia); whether thrones, whether lordships, whether pre-eminents (principalities, origins, beginnings, foremost over the rest, rulers), whether authorities: all have been created through Him and unto Him."}
{"book": "COL", "chapter": 1, "verse": "17", "text": "And He is before all and in Him all stands united together (synesteken, latin-constant, consist, hold together)."}
{"book": "COL", "chapter": 1, "verse": "18", "text": "And He is the head of the body, the church; who is the beginning (pre-eminent, origin), firstborn from out of the dead, so that He may be holding preeminence in all;"}
{"book": "COL", "chapter": 1, "verse": "19", "text": "Because in Him, it was well-pleased for all the fullness to dwell (inhabit, latin-habitare),"}
{"book": "COL", "chapter": 1, "verse": "20", "text": "And through Him to reconcile completely all unto Himself, having made peace through the blood of His cross- through Him- whether the things upon the earth, whether the things in the heavens."}
{"book": "COL", "chapter": 1, "verse": "21", "text": "And you being once alienated (estranged) and hostile (an enemy, in enmity, hating) in mind (disposition, sense, latin-sensu) in your evil (poneros-pain-ridden misery going with evil) works,"}
{"book": "COL", "chapter": 1, "verse": "22", "text": "However now He has reconciled you in the body of His flesh through death, to present you holy and unblemished and irreproachable (unconvictable, unrebukable, unreproveable, not to be called to account, not convictable when properly scrutinized, latin- inreprehensibiles- irreprehensible) before the sight of Him;"}
{"book": "COL", "chapter": 1, "verse": "23", "text": "For if you continue (stay on, persist, latin-permanetis) in the faith, founded (latin-fundati) and firmly fixed (seated, based, latin-stabiles-stable) and not being moved away from the hope of the gospel that you have heard, having been preached in all creation under heaven, of which I, Paul, have become a minister (diakonos)."}
{"book": "COL", "chapter": 1, "verse": "24", "text": "Now I rejoice in the sufferings (passions, strong emotions, latin-passionum) for you and I am filling up that which is lacking of the tribulations of Christ in my flesh for His body’s sake, which is the church;"}
{"book": "COL", "chapter": 1, "verse": "25", "text": "Of which I became a minister (diakonos) according to the stewardship (household management, latin-dispensationem) of God that has been given to me unto you, to complete (fulfill, make full) the word of God,"}
{"book": "COL", "chapter": 1, "verse": "26", "text": "The mystery having been hidden away from the ages and away from the generations, however now has been made apparent to His saints;"}
{"book": "COL", "chapter": 1, "verse": "27", "text": "To whom God has chosen to make known what is the wealth of the glory of this mystery among (in) the ethnicities, which is Christ in you, the hope of glory;"}
{"book": "COL", "chapter": 1, "verse": "28", "text": "Whom we preach, admonishing (placing in the mind with warning) every man and teaching every man, in all wisdom, so that we might present every man full-grown (consummate, mature, latin-perfectum) in Christ."}
{"book": "COL", "chapter": 1, "verse": "29", "text": "Unto this also I labor exhaustively, struggling (greek word like agonizing, contending for a prize) according to His working (greek like energy, power in action) working in me in power."}
{"book": "COL", "chapter": 2, "verse": "1", "text": "For I want you to know how great a struggle I am having for you and those in Laodicea and how many have not seen my face in the flesh,"}
{"book": "COL", "chapter": 2, "verse": "2", "text": "So that their hearts may be entreated, having been brought to stride together (get on board, unite, to board a ship) in love, and unto all the wealth of the full assurance of comprehension (synthesized understanding); unto the knowledge of the mystery of God- Christ;"}
{"book": "COL", "chapter": 2, "verse": "3", "text": "In whom are all treasures of wisdom and knowledge hidden away."}
{"book": "COL", "chapter": 2, "verse": "4", "text": "I say this so that no one may delude (beguile, distort your reason, reason contrary to truth) you in persuasive speech (confident/faith/persuade word)."}
{"book": "COL", "chapter": 2, "verse": "5", "text": "For if I am absent in the flesh, but rather I am with you in spirit , rejoicing and looking at your arrangement (order, latin-ordinem) and the solidness (stereoma, solidity, firmness) of your faith unto Christ."}
{"book": "COL", "chapter": 2, "verse": "6", "text": "Therefore, just as you have received Christ Jesus the Lord, walk in Him,"}
{"book": "COL", "chapter": 2, "verse": "7", "text": "Having been rooted and being upbuilt upon in Him and being confirmed (made sure) in the faith, just as you were taught, abounding in it with thanksgiving."}
{"book": "COL", "chapter": 2, "verse": "8", "text": "Look lest there be anyone carrying you off as spoils (plunder, victimize) through philosophy (love of wisdom, greek-philosophias, latin-philosophiam) and empty (vain, hollow) deceit, according to the tradition (given over from close-beside, latin-traditionem) of men, according to the fundamentals (latin-elementa) of the world and not according to Christ."}
{"book": "COL", "chapter": 2, "verse": "9", "text": "For in Him inhabits (dwells, houses) all the fullness of the Deity (Theotes, Godhead-note:head is not part of the word, latin-divinitatis-divinity, more than just divinity though/more His personality/state/essence than His attributes/quality/power) bodily;"}
{"book": "COL", "chapter": 2, "verse": "10", "text": "And you are complete (made full) in Him, who is the head of all pre-eminence (latin-principatus) and authority,"}
{"book": "COL", "chapter": 2, "verse": "11", "text": "In whom you were also circumcised with the circumcision made without hands, in wholly stripping off (the removal, putting/casting away from from out of) of the body of the flesh in the circumcision of Christ;"}
{"book": "COL", "chapter": 2, "verse": "12", "text": "Having been buried together with Him in baptism in which also you were raised together with Him through the faith of the divine working (energeias- power in action, always used of God) of God, who raised Him up from out of the dead."}
{"book": "COL", "chapter": 2, "verse": "13", "text": "And you being dead in the trespasses (deviations, failings, lapses, transgressions, falling away from being close beside) and in the uncircumcision of your flesh, He made you alive together with Him, having given favor that pardons (graced) us all the trespasses;"}
{"book": "COL", "chapter": 2, "verse": "14", "text": "Having wiped out (blotted out, erased, obliterated, to rub/smear wholly out from) the handwriting (handwritten legal bond/note of a debt) in the dogmas (greek-dogmasin, opinions, suppositions, public decrees, ordinances, latin-decretis-decrees) against us, which was contrary (set over against, adverse, opposite) to us; and He has taken it from out of the middle (midst), having nailed it to the cross;"}
{"book": "COL", "chapter": 2, "verse": "15", "text": "Having completely stripped away from (divested, disarmed, apo/ek make it very emphatic) the preeminents (origins, beginnings, foremost, latin-principatus) and the authorities, He made a show of (held up as an example, expose) them in openness (publicity, frankness, out-spokenness, bold resolved confidence), having triumphed (exhibiting the totally defeated while publically exalting the victor) over them in Him."}
{"book": "COL", "chapter": 2, "verse": "16", "text": "Therefore, let no one make a judgment- in food and in drink, or in part to a feast or a new moon or Sabbaths,"}
{"book": "COL", "chapter": 2, "verse": "17", "text": "Which are a shadow of things coming; however the body (soma-body but here it is figuratively the reality/substance of what was shadowed) is of Christ."}
{"book": "COL", "chapter": 2, "verse": "18", "text": "Let no one defraudingly deprive (defraud, disqualify, beguile of reward, arbitrate a wrong judgment against thus depriving them of something rightful) you of your prize, insisting (wishing, willing, desiring) in lowly-mindedness (humble-perspective, self-abasement-NASB, asceticism-ESV, latin-humilitate, in this context likely a false humility) and the religious worship (ritual worship, religion, latin-religione, worship as expressed in ritual acts) of the angels, detailing (speculating on, setting foot on, entering, prying into, intruding into) that which he has seen (horao- as spiritually seen, same word at root to visions in acts 2:17, envisioned), being vainly puffed up by (under, about) the mind (understanding, latin-sensu- sense) of his flesh,"}
{"book": "COL", "chapter": 2, "verse": "19", "text": "And not being controlled (ruled, mastered) of the Head from out of whom all the body through the joints (fastenings) and ligaments (bondings) being lavishly supplied upon and combined together (to get on board), grows with the growth of God."}
{"book": "COL", "chapter": 2, "verse": "20", "text": "If you have died with Christ away from the fundamentals of the world, why, as if living in the world, do you subject to dogmas (greek- dogmatizesthe, decrees, opinions, suppositions)?"}
{"book": "COL", "chapter": 2, "verse": "21", "text": "You should not touch that which impacts! You should not taste (eat)! You should not handle (manipulatively touch, handle to do injury/violence)!"}
{"book": "COL", "chapter": 2, "verse": "22", "text": "Which are all unto deterioration (decay, corruption, destruction) in the using up (abusing, misusing), according to the precepts (latin-praecepta) and teachings of men,"}
{"book": "COL", "chapter": 2, "verse": "23", "text": "Which are having a word (in context an appearance) of wisdom in will worship (self-willed religion, self-imposed worship, arbitrary religion, will-worship/religion exalting the worshiper) and false lowly-mindedness and harsh treatment (ascetic, unsparing severity/treatment) of the body, not in any (a certain, some) value (valuing, price) toward [restraining] the filling up (satisfaction, indulgence, latin-saturitatem-filling, latin roots satur=sated mean satiated-saturita-satisfying) of the flesh."}
{"book": "COL", "chapter": 3, "verse": "1", "text": "If, then, you have been raised together with Christ, seek the things above, where Christ is seated at (in) the right hand of God."}
{"book": "COL", "chapter": 3, "verse": "2", "text": "Mind (perspective) the things above, not the things upon the earth;"}
{"book": "COL", "chapter": 3, "verse": "3", "text": "For you died and your life has been hidden with Christ in God."}
{"book": "COL", "chapter": 3, "verse": "4", "text": "When Christ, your life, may be made apparent then you with Him will also be made apparent in glory."}
{"book": "COL", "chapter": 3, "verse": "5", "text": "Therefore, put to death (mortify) the members (limbs of the body) which are upon the earth, fornication, uncleanness (admixed impurity), depraved passions (befalling passions, pathos-strong feelings unguided by God), malicious (kaken-bad, rotten) desire (strong passionate urge, upon outbursts of passion) and covetous advantage (greedy desire to have more), which is idolatry;"}
{"book": "COL", "chapter": 3, "verse": "6", "text": "Because of which things is coming the wrath (settled/swelling opposition/anger) of God upon the sons of willful unbelief,"}
{"book": "COL", "chapter": 3, "verse": "7", "text": "In whom you once also walked when you were living in these things."}
{"book": "COL", "chapter": 3, "verse": "8", "text": "However now, put away from (put off, lay aside) you also all these things: swelling anger (wrath, impulsive opposition, settled anger), rage (outburst of passion, rush along, get heated up), malice (kakian-rotten bad), slander (blasphemian, slow to fame, slow to call good what really is good and bad what really is bad, speech injurious to anothers reputation), shameful speech (abusive/foul/improper/base/disgraceful words) from out of your mouth."}
{"book": "COL", "chapter": 3, "verse": "9", "text": "Do not lie unto one another, having put away from you the old man with his functions (greek-praxesin like practices- sustained activity/responsibility, latin- actibus-actions),"}
{"book": "COL", "chapter": 3, "verse": "10", "text": "And having put in (put on) the new, who is being renewed (made new) unto knowledge, according to the image of the One having created him;"}
{"book": "COL", "chapter": 3, "verse": "11", "text": "Where there is no Greek and Jew, circumcision and uncircumcision, barbarian, Scythian (wildest of barbarians in the Scythia area-today is modern Russia), bond-slave, free; but rather Christ is all and in all."}
{"book": "COL", "chapter": 3, "verse": "12", "text": "Put on (put in), therefore, as the elect of God, holy and beloved, viscerals (inward parts, gut-level, internal organs, latin-viscera) of compassion (sympathy, pity), useful kindness, humble-mindedness (lowly midriff/diaphragm that regulates), meekness (gentle strength, mildness), long-temperance (long to passion, patience, latin-patientiam);"}
{"book": "COL", "chapter": 3, "verse": "13", "text": "Holding up one another and extending grace (freely given favor that pardons) to one another. If anyone should have a complaint (blame, fault) toward another; just as also the Lord has extended grace to you, so also do you."}
{"book": "COL", "chapter": 3, "verse": "14", "text": "And upon all these, love, which is the uniting bond of perfection (consummation, completeness)."}
{"book": "COL", "chapter": 3, "verse": "15", "text": "And let the peace of Christ arbitrate (umpire, decide as an umpire) in your hearts unto which also you were called in one body. And be thankful."}
{"book": "COL", "chapter": 3, "verse": "16", "text": "Let the word of Christ indwell (inhabit, house within) in you abundantly (polys at root- much in quantity, latin-abundanter) in all wisdom teaching and admonishing each other in psalms (Scripture set to music- sung and accompanied by a plucked instrument), hymns (songs that praise/honor/thank/celebrate a hero/conqueror), spiritual songs (odes- spontaneous, impromptu (unhearsed) melodies of praise sung to God and not merely about God), singing in grace in your hearts to God."}
{"book": "COL", "chapter": 3, "verse": "17", "text": "And all which you might do in word or in deed, do all in the name of the Lord Jesus, giving thanks to God the Father through Him."}
{"book": "COL", "chapter": 3, "verse": "18", "text": "Wives, be arranged under (ranked/placed/subject under, submit to the control/admonition/advice of, latin-subditae-submit, latin word looks like subdue) your husbands, as is fitting (proper, becoming) in the Lord."}
{"book": "COL", "chapter": 3, "verse": "19", "text": "Husbands, love your wives, and do not grow bitterly harsh (sharp, bitter, irritate, acrid, piercing, pungent “a prick”) toward them."}
{"book": "COL", "chapter": 3, "verse": "20", "text": "Children, hearken (listen, obey/comply what is heard, to under hear) to your parents (begetters) according to all things; for this is well-pleasing in the Lord."}
{"book": "COL", "chapter": 3, "verse": "21", "text": "Fathers, do not provoke (stir up, irritate, incite, stimulate, at root- strife, make ready to quarrel, latin-provocare-challenge the latin adds indignationem which the greek does not) your children so that they may not become dismayed (despondent, disheartened, passionless, broken, literally no expressed passion)."}
{"book": "COL", "chapter": 3, "verse": "22", "text": "Bond-slaves, hearken (listen, obey what is heard, to under hear) to masters (lords) according to all things according to the flesh, not in eye-services, as men-pleasers, but rather in simplicity (not compounded, not over-complicated, not needlessly complex, sincerity, latin-simplicitate) of heart, fearing (revere-ing) the Lord."}
{"book": "COL", "chapter": 3, "verse": "23", "text": "Whatever you might do (make), work from out of your soul (psyches), like as to the Lord and not to men;"}
{"book": "COL", "chapter": 3, "verse": "24", "text": "Knowing that you will receive back from the Lord the recompense (reward) of your inheritance. You serve (slave) the Lord Christ."}
{"book": "COL", "chapter": 3, "verse": "25", "text": "For the one committing injustice (act unjustly toward, doing wrong) will carry (bear, receive) what he has committed unjustly and there is no partiality (favoritism)."}
{"book": "COL", "chapter": 4, "verse": "1", "text": "Masters (lords), provide (furnish, offer in a up-close-and-personal way) that which is just (righteous, latin-iustum) and that which equal (fair, latin-aequum) to your bond-slaves, knowing that you also have a Master (Lord) in heaven."}
{"book": "COL", "chapter": 4, "verse": "2", "text": "Continue steadfastly strong (attend constantly, towards/with consistently showing strength which prevails despite difficulty, latin-instate-continue like constant) with prayer, watching (staying awake, being vigilant, latin-vigilantes) in it in thanksgiving;"}
{"book": "COL", "chapter": 4, "verse": "3", "text": "Praying at the same time also concerning us, so that God might open a door to us for the word, to speak the mystery of Christ, on account of which I have also been bound (tied, fastened),"}
{"book": "COL", "chapter": 4, "verse": "4", "text": "So that I should make it apparent, as it is necessary for me to speak."}
{"book": "COL", "chapter": 4, "verse": "5", "text": "Walk in wisdom toward those outside (exo- outside, without, ek root- from out of, latin-foris-outdoors), redeeming (rescuing from loss) the opportunity (time as opportunity, fitting time)."}
{"book": "COL", "chapter": 4, "verse": "6", "text": "Let your word (speech) be always in grace, having been seasoned with salt, to know how it is necessary of you to answer each one."}
{"book": "COL", "chapter": 4, "verse": "7", "text": "All the things concerning me, Tychicus will make known to you, who is a beloved brother and faithful minister (diakonos) and fellow bond-slave in the Lord;"}
{"book": "COL", "chapter": 4, "verse": "8", "text": "Whom I sent to you unto this same, so that you may know the things concerning us, and he may entreat your hearts;"}
{"book": "COL", "chapter": 4, "verse": "9", "text": "With Onesimus, the faithful and beloved brother, who is from out of you. They will make known to you all things here."}
{"book": "COL", "chapter": 4, "verse": "10", "text": "Aristarchus my fellow prisoner greets you, and Mark, the cousin of Barnabas, concerning whom you have received commands (instructions, latin-mandata-commands like mandates); if he comes to you, receive him,"}
{"book": "COL", "chapter": 4, "verse": "11", "text": "And also Jesus called (said) Justus, who being from out of the circumcision, these are the only fellow workers unto the kingdom of God who have been a solace (soothing help, alleviation, latin-solacio, English term-paregoric comes from the greek here and it means soothing medicine) to me."}
{"book": "COL", "chapter": 4, "verse": "12", "text": "Epaphras greets you, who is from out of you, a bond-slave of Christ Jesus, always struggling (contending for a prize, like the English agonize) for you in prayers, so that you may stand full-grown (mature, complete, perfect) and fully carried through (fully convinced, fully assured, bring in full measure) in all the will of God."}
{"book": "COL", "chapter": 4, "verse": "13", "text": "For I testify to him that he has much concern (labor, pain) for you and those in Laodicea and those in Hierapolis."}
{"book": "COL", "chapter": 4, "verse": "14", "text": "Luke the beloved physician (healer, iatros of iaomai, latin- medicus-doctor) and also Demas greet you."}
{"book": "COL", "chapter": 4, "verse": "15", "text": "Greet the brothers in Laodicea, and Nympha and the church in her house."}
{"book": "COL", "chapter": 4, "verse": "16", "text": "And when the letter (sent message, epistle, epistole-epi+stello=arrange upon) may be known by reading with you, cause (do, make) so that it may be known by reading also in the church of the Laodiceans and so that you may also know by reading the one from out of Laodicea."}
{"book": "COL", "chapter": 4, "verse": "17", "text": "And say to Archippus, Look at the ministry (diakonian) that you have received in the Lord, so that you may fulfill (complete) it."}
{"book": "COL", "chapter": 4, "verse": "18", "text": "I, Paul, greet you with my own hand. Remember my bonds (bands, chains). Grace be with you. Amen."}
{"book": "1TH", "chapter": 1, "verse": "1", "text": "Paul and Silvanus and Timothy to the church of the Thessalonians in God the Father and the Lord Jesus Christ: Grace to you and peace from God our Father and the Lord Jesus Christ."}
{"book": "1TH", "chapter": 1, "verse": "2", "text": "We give thanks to God always concerning all of you, making remembrance (latin-memoriam) of you in our prayers,"}
{"book": "1TH", "chapter": 1, "verse": "3", "text": "Remembering (latin-memores) unceasingly (not across to leave, without unnecessary interval) your work of faith and the labor (weary toil) of love and the endurance of hope of our Lord Jesus Christ in front of God and our Father;"}
{"book": "1TH", "chapter": 1, "verse": "4", "text": "Knowing, beloved brothers, by God, your election (eklogo- selection out of, latin-electionem),"}
{"book": "1TH", "chapter": 1, "verse": "5", "text": "Because our gospel did not come unto you in word only, but rather also in power and in the Holy Spirit and in much full assurance (fully come to bear, full carry-through), just as you know what we were among (in) you on because of you."}
{"book": "1TH", "chapter": 1, "verse": "6", "text": "And you became imitators of us, and of the Lord, having received the word in much tribulation with joy of the Holy Spirit,"}
{"book": "1TH", "chapter": 1, "verse": "7", "text": "So that you became an example (type that is repeated) to all those believing in Macedonia and in Achaia."}
{"book": "1TH", "chapter": 1, "verse": "8", "text": "For from you has sounded out the word of the Lord not only in Macedonia and in Achaia, but rather in every place your faith toward God has gone out, so that we have no necessity to say anything."}
{"book": "1TH", "chapter": 1, "verse": "9", "text": "For they themselves report concerning us what entry we had to you and how you turned to God away from idols to serve (serve as a bond-slave) the living and true God,"}
{"book": "1TH", "chapter": 1, "verse": "10", "text": "And await His Son from out of the heavens, whom he raised up from out of the dead, Jesus, who is delivering us from out of the coming wrath."}
{"book": "1TH", "chapter": 2, "verse": "1", "text": "For you yourselves, brothers, know our entry to you that has not been in vain;"}
{"book": "1TH", "chapter": 2, "verse": "2", "text": "But rather having previously suffered and having been mistreated (shamefully/outrageously/injuriously treated, latin-contumelis-insulted), just as you know, in Philippi, we had boldness in our God to speak to you the gospel of God among (in) much struggle (contending, greek word like agony)."}
{"book": "1TH", "chapter": 2, "verse": "3", "text": "For our entreaty (latin-exhortatio) was not from out of error (wandering, departure from truth) nor from out of uncleanness (admixed impurity), nor in trickery (baiting, deceit by guile/snaring);"}
{"book": "1TH", "chapter": 2, "verse": "4", "text": "But rather just as we have been approved (approved by testing) by God to be entrusted with the gospel, thus we speak; not as men pleasing, but rather God, who is examining (approving by testing) our hearts."}
{"book": "1TH", "chapter": 2, "verse": "5", "text": "For never at any time were we being in flattering word, just as you know, nor in pretense for covetous advantage- God is witness;"}
{"book": "1TH", "chapter": 2, "verse": "6", "text": "Nor seeking from out of men glory, nor away from you, nor away from others, though having power (ability) to be a burden, as Christ’s apostles."}
{"book": "1TH", "chapter": 2, "verse": "7", "text": "But rather we were as infants (nephios-unlearned simple innocent babes, latin-lenes-bland) in the middle (midst) of you, like as if a nursing mother (female care-giver, nurse- latin-nutrix-nurse) nurturing (nourishing, cherishing, keeping warm) her own children."}
{"book": "1TH", "chapter": 2, "verse": "8", "text": "So yearning over you, we were well-pleased to have imparted (given a share of) to you, not only the gospel of God, but rather also our own souls (psychas), because you have become beloved to us."}
{"book": "1TH", "chapter": 2, "verse": "9", "text": "For you remember, brothers, our labor (wearisome toil) and hardship (hard toil): working day and night toward not putting a burden upon anyone of you, we preached unto you the gospel of God."}
{"book": "1TH", "chapter": 2, "verse": "10", "text": "You and God are witnesses of how holily (holy-ly, piously) and righteously (justly) and blamelessly we were to you, those believing;"}
{"book": "1TH", "chapter": 2, "verse": "11", "text": "Just as you know how to each one of you, as a father to his own children, we were entreating you and consoling (solacing, soothing speaking from close beside) and testifying (summon as a witness, affirm, latin-testificati)"}
{"book": "1TH", "chapter": 2, "verse": "12", "text": "unto you to walk around worthily of God who calls you unto His kingdom and glory."}
{"book": "1TH", "chapter": 2, "verse": "13", "text": "And because of this we also give thanks to God unceasingly (without any unnecessary interval-not across to leave), that, having received the word of God by your hearing from beside us, you did not accept the word of men, but rather just as truly, it is the word of God, which also effectually works (energizes) in you who believe."}
{"book": "1TH", "chapter": 2, "verse": "14", "text": "For you became imitators, brothers, of the churches of God being in Judea in Christ Jesus. Because they suffered the same things by your own fellow-tribesmen, just as they did by the Jews,"}
{"book": "1TH", "chapter": 2, "verse": "15", "text": "Who have killed the Lord Jesus and their own prophets; and have driven is out (chased out/expelled with persecution, latin-persecuti, different from other persecution word); and not pleasing God; and who are set against (opposed, hostile) all men,"}
{"book": "1TH", "chapter": 2, "verse": "16", "text": "Forbidding (hindering, latin-prohibentes) us to speak to the ethnicties, so that they might be saved, unto always filling up their sins. However the wrath unto the end (utmost, reaching the end, consummation) has come upon them."}
{"book": "1TH", "chapter": 2, "verse": "17", "text": "However, we, brothers, having been deprived as orphans (separated from as defenseless orphans, of aporphanizo like orphan) away from you to an hours’ time from your face (presence, sight), not in heart, were exceedingly diligent (be speedy, in haste, be swift) to see your face in much desire (upon strong/passionate urge)."}
{"book": "1TH", "chapter": 2, "verse": "18", "text": "On account of that we wanted to come to you, I indeed Paul; once and twice and Satan impedingly hindered (cut in, block) us."}
{"book": "1TH", "chapter": 2, "verse": "19", "text": "For who is our hope or joy or crown (victor garland not a diadem crown) of boasting? Or is it not even you- before the face of our Lord Jesus in His coming?"}
{"book": "1TH", "chapter": 2, "verse": "20", "text": "For you are our glory and joy."}
{"book": "1TH", "chapter": 3, "verse": "1", "text": "Therefore, no longer enduring (endure because shielded/covered over-sustinentes-sustaining), we thought it best to be left behind alone in Athens,"}
{"book": "1TH", "chapter": 3, "verse": "2", "text": "And sent Timothy, our brother and fellow worker of God in the gospel of Christ to set you firmly (give support that secures, latin-confirmandos) and entreat you on behalf of you faith,"}
{"book": "1TH", "chapter": 3, "verse": "3", "text": "That no one be disturbed (shake, wag the tail, latin-moveatur) in these tribulations. For you yourselves know that unto this we are positioned (set, reclined, appointed, latin-positi like positioned-placed)."}
{"book": "1TH", "chapter": 3, "verse": "4", "text": "For truly when we were with you, we were telling you beforehand that we were about to suffer tribulation, just as it came to pass (be) and you know."}
{"book": "1TH", "chapter": 3, "verse": "5", "text": "Because of this, I too, no longer enduring, sent to know your faith; lest somehow the tempter had tempted you and our labor would be unto vanity."}
{"book": "1TH", "chapter": 3, "verse": "6", "text": "And just now, Timothy having come to us away from you and having brought to us good news of your faith and love and that you always have a good remembrance of us, longing to see us, just as we also you."}
{"book": "1TH", "chapter": 3, "verse": "7", "text": "Because of this we were entreated, brothers, upon you upon all our pressing necessity (latin-necessitate) and tribulation (latin-tribulatione) through your faith."}
{"book": "1TH", "chapter": 3, "verse": "8", "text": "For now we live, if you are standing firm in the Lord."}
{"book": "1TH", "chapter": 3, "verse": "9", "text": "For what thanksgiving are we able to give in return (give back as an equivalent, pay-back, latin-retribuere-requite) to God about you, upon all the joy that we rejoice because of you before the face of our God."}
{"book": "1TH", "chapter": 3, "verse": "10", "text": "Night and day, imploring exceedingly to see your face and to properly adjust (exactly fit/adjust to full function, supply, complete, fit together) the things lacking in your faith?"}
{"book": "1TH", "chapter": 3, "verse": "11", "text": "Now may the God Himself and our Father, and our Lord Jesus, direct our way to you."}
{"book": "1TH", "chapter": 3, "verse": "12", "text": "And may the Lord make you to abound in number and exceed in love unto one another and unto all, just as we also unto you,"}
{"book": "1TH", "chapter": 3, "verse": "13", "text": "To confirm (fix firmly, establish, solidly secure, latin-confirmanda) your hearts, blameless (unblameable, not blameworthy) in holiness before the face of our God and Father in (at) the coming of our Lord Jesus with all His saints. Amen."}
{"book": "1TH", "chapter": 4, "verse": "1", "text": "Beyond that then, brothers, we implore and entreat you in the Lord Jesus, so that just as you have received from us, how it is necessary to walk and to please God, just as you walk, so that you should abound more."}
{"book": "1TH", "chapter": 4, "verse": "2", "text": "For you know what commands (authorized instructions, latin-praecepta-commands) we gave you through the Lord Jesus."}
{"book": "1TH", "chapter": 4, "verse": "3", "text": "For this is the will of God, your sanctification: you are to abstain (be away from, latin-abstineatis) away from fornication;"}
{"book": "1TH", "chapter": 4, "verse": "4", "text": "Each of you comprehend (perceive, behold, see and know) how to possess (acquire, purchase, latin-possidere-possess) his own vessel in holiness and value,"}
{"book": "1TH", "chapter": 4, "verse": "5", "text": "Not in the passion of lust (greek- pathei epithymias, latin- passion desiderii, strong feeling of passionate urge), just as the ethnicities not knowing God;"}
{"book": "1TH", "chapter": 4, "verse": "6", "text": "Do not overstep (over/beyond-foot, transgress, go beyond, step over, latin-supergrediatur-overreach its roots mean overpass and greed) and defraud (latin-circumventiat-circumvent its root means cheat and go round) his brother in the practice (matter, pragma-accomplishing by regular practice, habit needed to accomplish what is necessary, latin-negotio like negotiation-business); because the Lord is avenging (ekdikos- from out of justice) concerning all these things, just as we also said before to you and thoroughly testified to you."}
{"book": "1TH", "chapter": 4, "verse": "7", "text": "For God has not called us upon uncleanness (admixed impurity), but rather in holiness."}
{"book": "1TH", "chapter": 4, "verse": "8", "text": "So then, the one disregarding (un-placing, annuls, makes of no effect, sets aside, rejecting, despising, latin-spernit-rejects, do away with what has been laid down), does not disregard man, but rather God, the One giving His Holy Spirit unto us."}
{"book": "1TH", "chapter": 4, "verse": "9", "text": "Now concerning brotherly love (philadelphias- brotherly friendliness), you have no need for me to write to you, for you yourselves are God taught (theodidaktoi) to love (agapan) one another."}
{"book": "1TH", "chapter": 4, "verse": "10", "text": "For you are doing this unto all the brothers who are in the whole of Macedonia. And we entreat you, brothers, to abound (exceed) more,"}
{"book": "1TH", "chapter": 4, "verse": "11", "text": "And show affection for what is valued (philotimeomai-friend/love-valued/honored, aspire from what is honorable, to be fond of honor) which is to be tranquil (keep/fell silent, rested, stilled, silent, root means quiet, tranquil, peaceful, stillness) and to practice (regularly do) your own and to work with your own hands, just as you were commanded (latin-praecepimus like precept),"}
{"book": "1TH", "chapter": 4, "verse": "12", "text": "So that you might walk becomingly (having good form, decently, properly) toward those outside (exo, latin-foris-outdoors) and have necessity of nothing (none, not a possibility-“one” as a number, “no one, nothing”, “not even one”)."}
{"book": "1TH", "chapter": 4, "verse": "13", "text": "Now I do not want you to be unknowing (latin-ignorare like ignorant), brothers, concerning those having fallen asleep (latin-dormientibus like dorment-asleep), so that you should not be deeply saddened (in heaviness, in emotional pain/distress, severe sorrow/grief), just as the remainder who have no hope."}
{"book": "1TH", "chapter": 4, "verse": "14", "text": "For if we believe that Jesus died off (died away from, latin-mortuus like mortified) and rose up again (latin-resurrexit like resurrected), and so God will bring (carry) with Him those having fallen asleep (latin-dormierunt) through (because of, on account of) Jesus."}
{"book": "1TH", "chapter": 4, "verse": "15", "text": "For this we speak to you in the word of the Lord that we the ones living- the ones left remaining, unto the coming of the Lord will not precede (come before, arrive ahead of) those having fallen asleep,"}
{"book": "1TH", "chapter": 4, "verse": "16", "text": "Since the Lord Himself in a rousing command (cry of incitement, arousing outcry, stimulating cry/call, latin-issue like issue possibly an issued command, greek- keleusma only used here in the NT) in the voice of an archangel (transliterated from greek and latin- preeminent angel, chief/foremost/superior angel, ruler of angels) and in the trumpet (war-trumpet, used in OT to call His people to war and to announce victory) of God, will descend (come/go down) away from heaven and the dead in Christ will rise up first."}
{"book": "1TH", "chapter": 4, "verse": "17", "text": "Only then (afterwards) we the ones living- the ones left remaining, we will be caught up away (raptured comes from latin-rapiemur, greek root-harpazo here it is harpagesometha [we will be/exist seized up], seized by force, snatch away, seize with open display of force and not covertly or secretly, used of people transported and taken to the third heaven/paradise/etc.) at once together (along with, at the same time, greek-hama is unlike para, it is not “together” in the same sense, latin-simul like simultaneously) with (syn) them in (en) the clouds unto the meeting (friendly encounter) of the Lord unto (eis) the air (greek and latin- aera not ourano/heavens- Greeks believed this to be the space between earth and the moon); and thus we will always be (exist) with the Lord."}
{"book": "1TH", "chapter": 4, "verse": "18", "text": "Therefore, entreat one another in these words."}
{"book": "1TH", "chapter": 5, "verse": "1", "text": "Now concerning the times (time in sequence and duration, latin-temporibus-time like temporaries of time) and seasons (time as opportunity and an opportune moment, latin-momentis-moments like the right/fitting moment), brothers, you have no necessity to be written to you."}
{"book": "1TH", "chapter": 5, "verse": "2", "text": "For you yourselves exactly (extremely accurate, precisely) know that the day of the Lord comes thusly like as a thief (thief stealing in stealth/secret rather than in open) in the night."}
{"book": "1TH", "chapter": 5, "verse": "3", "text": "For when they might say, Peace and security (not totter/cast down, secure because on solid footing, safety, reliability, certainty, firmness that equates to security, latin-securitas-security), then suddenly (and unexpectedly) ruination with destructive results stands upon them, just as to her having agonizing birthing contraction pains (the pain necessary to open up) in the womb (latin-utero-womb like uterus); and they will not escape (flee out from)."}
{"book": "1TH", "chapter": 5, "verse": "4", "text": "However, you, brothers, are not in darkness so that the day should overtake (aggressively take hold of) you like as a thief."}
{"book": "1TH", "chapter": 5, "verse": "5", "text": "For you all are sons of light and sons of day; we are not of night nor of darkness."}
{"book": "1TH", "chapter": 5, "verse": "6", "text": "So then, we should not sleep like as the remaining (the rest, those left, those left behind), but rather we should be vigilantly staying awake (latin-vigilemus-watch) and sober (latin-sobrii-sober, having unintoxicated presence of mind and clear judgment, free from intoxicating sinful influences);"}
{"book": "1TH", "chapter": 5, "verse": "7", "text": "For those sleeping, sleep at night; and those becoming drunk (greek-methyskomenoi, latin-ebrii like inebriated), get drunk at night."}
{"book": "1TH", "chapter": 5, "verse": "8", "text": "However, we being of the day should be sober, having put on a breastplate (greek-thorax, latin-loricam) of faith and love and the helmet (latin-galeam, all around the head) the hope (expectation of what is sure, anticipation) of salvation (latin-salutis-safety);"}
{"book": "1TH", "chapter": 5, "verse": "9", "text": "Since God has not set (fixed, placed) us unto wrath, but rather unto acquiring (making to remain over and above/all-around, make one’s own, take ownership, completely obtaining, full possession, preservation for oneself, latin-adquisitionem-purchasing) salvation through our Lord Jesus Christ;"}
{"book": "1TH", "chapter": 5, "verse": "10", "text": "The One having died for us so that whether we might be vigilantly awake or we might be asleep, we might live along (at once, latin-simul-together) with Him."}
{"book": "1TH", "chapter": 5, "verse": "11", "text": "Therefore, entreat one another and upbuild one to one, just as you are also doing."}
{"book": "1TH", "chapter": 5, "verse": "12", "text": "Now we ask you, brothers, to know (mentally see/know, perceive) those laboring hard (wearisome laboring) among (in) you and take the lead before/over (pre-standing, diligent to take the lead, before stand, latin-praesunt-initiative like take initiative) you in the Lord, and admonish you;"}
{"book": "1TH", "chapter": 5, "verse": "13", "text": "And to esteem (regard, suppose, to lead, what goes before, in front, latin-habeatis-have) them exceedingly (more abundantly) in love, because of their work. Be at peace among (in) yourselves."}
{"book": "1TH", "chapter": 5, "verse": "14", "text": "Now we entreat you, brothers, to admonish the unruly (out of line, without order, not arrange, disorderly, slack), console (solace- sooth speaking from close beside) those little-souled (with an undeveloped soul, greek-oligospsychous- little/small soul), support (help, firmly uphold, latin-suscipite-undertake) the weak (without vigor/strength), be long-tempered (latin-patientes-patient) toward all."}
{"book": "1TH", "chapter": 5, "verse": "15", "text": "See that no one has given back (return, repay, give away from) to anyone, evil (kakon, latin-malum-evil like malice) for (greek-anti-over against, instead of, for) evil (kakou), but rather always pursue good also unto one another and unto all."}
{"book": "1TH", "chapter": 5, "verse": "16", "text": "Rejoice always."}
{"book": "1TH", "chapter": 5, "verse": "17", "text": "Pray unceasingly (without any necessary interval, latin-sine intermission-without intermission)."}
{"book": "1TH", "chapter": 5, "verse": "18", "text": "Give thanks in everything; for this is the will of God in Christ Jesus unto you."}
{"book": "1TH", "chapter": 5, "verse": "19", "text": "Do not quench (extinguish, suppress, latin-extinguere-quench- root is extinguish) the Spirit."}
{"book": "1TH", "chapter": 5, "verse": "20", "text": "Do not utterly despise (treat with utter contempt, bring to naught from out of, cast out as nothing, latin-spenere) prophecies."}
{"book": "1TH", "chapter": 5, "verse": "21", "text": "However test to prove all. Hold firm to the good (kalon, winsomely good/appealing/beautiful)."}
{"book": "1TH", "chapter": 5, "verse": "22", "text": "Abstain (be distant, be away from, keep off, have away from, latin-abstinete-abstain) away from every appearance (visible form, shape) of evil (poneros- pain-ridden miserable evil)."}
{"book": "1TH", "chapter": 5, "verse": "23", "text": "And may the God of peace Himself sanctify you completely (greek-holoteleis, entirely, to the whole end-goal); and wholly (greek-holokleron, entirely, to the whole apportioned/lot/portion), your spirit, and soul, and body, may be preserved (kept, guarded, maintained) blameless in the coming of our Lord Jesus Christ."}
{"book": "1TH", "chapter": 5, "verse": "24", "text": "Faithful is He calling you, who will also do it."}
{"book": "1TH", "chapter": 5, "verse": "25", "text": "Brothers, pray also for (concerning, about) us."}
{"book": "1TH", "chapter": 5, "verse": "26", "text": "Greet all the brothers in a holy kiss (sign of affection)."}
{"book": "1TH", "chapter": 5, "verse": "27", "text": "I adjure (make one give oath to, to bind under obligation of oath, latin-adiuro-charge) you by the Lord, to make known by reading this letter (epistolen) to all the brothers."}
{"book": "1TH", "chapter": 5, "verse": "28", "text": "The grace of our Lord Jesus Christ be with you. Amen."}
{"book": "2TH", "chapter": 1, "verse": "1", "text": "Paul and Silvanus and Timothy to the church of the Thessalonians in God our Father and the Lord Jesus Christ."}
{"book": "2TH", "chapter": 1, "verse": "2", "text": "Grace to you and peace from God our Father and the Lord Jesus Christ."}
{"book": "2TH", "chapter": 1, "verse": "3", "text": "We ought to always thank God concerning you, brothers, just as it is deserving because your faith is exceedingly increasing and the love of each one of you all is abounding unto one another;"}
{"book": "2TH", "chapter": 1, "verse": "4", "text": "So that we ourselves boast in you in the churches of God for your endurance and faith in all your persecutions and the tribulations that you are sustaining (holing up, bearing up, latin-sustinetis like sustain);"}
{"book": "2TH", "chapter": 1, "verse": "5", "text": "An exemplary indication (plain token of proof, sign, indication, evidence, latin-exemplum-example) of the righteous (just) judgment of God unto you being weighed worthy (count/deem worthy) of the kingdom of God, for which you also suffer (are acted on);"}
{"book": "2TH", "chapter": 1, "verse": "6", "text": "If so it is righteous (just) from close beside God to repay (give in return, give back correspondingly, latin-retribuere-requite) in tribulation to those troubling (causing tribulation, latin-tribulant-trouble like tribulating) you,"}
{"book": "2TH", "chapter": 1, "verse": "7", "text": "And to you being troubled (caused tribulation), repose (rest, relief, liberty, easing, loosening, relaxation, latin-requiem-rest) with us in the revelation of the Lord Jesus from heaven with His mighty (powerful) angels,"}
{"book": "2TH", "chapter": 1, "verse": "8", "text": "In a fire of flame (latin-in flamma ignis- in flame of fire), giving vindication (vengeance, from out of justice/righteousness, latin-vindictam) on those not knowing (perceiving, seeing that becomes knowing) God and on those not complying (obeying, listening, hearkening, to under hear) to the gospel of our Lord Jesus;"}
{"book": "2TH", "chapter": 1, "verse": "9", "text": "Who will pay the just penalty of unending (eternal, age-long) ruination (destruction not extinction/annihilation) away from the face of the Lord and away from the glory of His mighty strength (force to overcome immediate resistance);"}
{"book": "2TH", "chapter": 1, "verse": "10", "text": "When He will come to be glorified in His saints and to be wonderously admired (admired, marveled at, wondered at, amazed at, latin-admirabilis) in all those having believed, because our testimony was believed (entrusted) upon you in that day."}
{"book": "2TH", "chapter": 1, "verse": "11", "text": "Unto which also we always pray concerning you, so that you might be deemed worthy (reckoned worthy, latin-dignetur like dignified) of the calling of our God and might fulfill (complete, fill) every good pleasure of goodness and work of faith in power,"}
{"book": "2TH", "chapter": 1, "verse": "12", "text": "So that the name of our Lord Jesus may be glorified in you and you in Him according to the grace of our God and the Lord Jesus Christ."}
{"book": "2TH", "chapter": 2, "verse": "1", "text": "Now we ask you, brothers, by (beyond, on behalf of, above, for) the coming of our Lord Jesus Christ and our gathering together (greek-episynagoge- gather/group upon, latin-congregationis-congregating) upon Him,"}
{"book": "2TH", "chapter": 2, "verse": "2", "text": "Unto that you not be quickly (speedily, swiftly) shaken (agitated, cast down, disturbed) away from your mind (latin-sensu-senses), and not be unsettled (troubled, thrown into confusion, emotional uproar), neither through spirit, nor through word, nor through letter, as if (like as) through us, like as that the day of the Lord is present (stands in)."}
{"book": "2TH", "chapter": 2, "verse": "3", "text": "Let no one deceive (latin-seducat) you in any way (manner), because it will not be unless the apostasy (greek-apostasia, latin-discessio-lawlessness, leave/depart away from a standing, departure, desertion, a leaving from a previous standing) has first come and the man (greek-anthropos, latin-homo) of lawlessness (not law-without law- latin-peccati-sin), the son of perdition (greek- apoleia, loss of well-being, entire loss or ruin, to be cut off, latin-perditionis-destruction its root has the idea of abandoning in it) shall have been revealed (uncovered, away from to cover, have the covering taken away from, latin-revelatus-revealed, greek-apokalyphthe);"}
{"book": "2TH", "chapter": 2, "verse": "4", "text": "The one opposing (placing against) and exalting himself (uplifting, raising/lifting above) upon all spoken (said) god or object of worship/veneration, so as for him to sit down unto (into) the inner temple of God, exhibiting (showing forth, setting forth, to show from, latin-ostendens-showing) that he himself is God."}
{"book": "2TH", "chapter": 2, "verse": "5", "text": "Do you not remember that, being yet with you, I said these things to you?"}
{"book": "2TH", "chapter": 2, "verse": "6", "text": "And now you know that which is restraining (hold fast/back, latin-detineat-restraining like detaining) unto him being revealed in his own time (fitting/opportune time)."}
{"book": "2TH", "chapter": 2, "verse": "7", "text": "For the mystery of lawlessness is already working; there is only the one restraining it at present until he might be gone from out of the middle (midst, latin-medio)."}
{"book": "2TH", "chapter": 2, "verse": "8", "text": "And then the lawless one will be revealed, whom the Lord Jesus will put to death (slay, take away/up, abolish, make to end, consume) with the breath (spirit) of His mouth and will bring to naught (sever, annul, render inoperative) by the appearance of His coming;"}
{"book": "2TH", "chapter": 2, "verse": "9", "text": "Whose coming is according to the working (greek-energeian, latin-operationem) of Satan in all power and signs and wonders of falsehood,"}
{"book": "2TH", "chapter": 2, "verse": "10", "text": "And in all deceit of unrighteousness (injustice) unto those perishing (cutting off entirely), over against which they did not receive the love of the truth unto them to be saved."}
{"book": "2TH", "chapter": 2, "verse": "11", "text": "And because of this God will send to them a working (greek-energeian) of delusion (wandering, error, latin-erroris) unto them to believe what is false;"}
{"book": "2TH", "chapter": 2, "verse": "12", "text": "So that all those having not believed the truth but rather having resolved to think well of (taken pleasure in) unrighteousness (injustice) should be judged (come to a choice/separation)."}
{"book": "2TH", "chapter": 2, "verse": "13", "text": "However, we ought to always give thanks to God concerning you, brothers beloved by the Lord, because God has chosen you from the beginning (origin, pre-eminent) unto salvation in the sanctification (the process of advancing in holiness) of the Spirit and belief of the truth;"}
{"book": "2TH", "chapter": 2, "verse": "14", "text": "Unto this He also called you through our gospel unto the acquiring of the glory of our Lord Jesus Christ."}
{"book": "2TH", "chapter": 2, "verse": "15", "text": "So then, brothers, stand firm and hold fast to the traditions (instruction handed down/over, latin-traditiones) that you were taught, whether through word or through letter from us."}
{"book": "2TH", "chapter": 2, "verse": "16", "text": "Now our Lord Jesus Christ Himself and God our Father who has loved us and given us eternal entreaty and good hope in grace,"}
{"book": "2TH", "chapter": 2, "verse": "17", "text": "May He entreat your hearts and confirm (support to secure/stand, latin-confirmet) them in every work and good word."}
{"book": "2TH", "chapter": 3, "verse": "1", "text": "Finally, brothers, pray for us, so that the word of the Lord might spread rapidly (run wide-open/as quickly as possible) and might be glorified, just as also with you;"}
{"book": "2TH", "chapter": 3, "verse": "2", "text": "And so that we may be delivered away from out of place (perverse, improper, strange, not ordinary, unsuitable because warped, latin-inportunis-unreasonable- root is dangerous) and evil (poneron) men; for not all are of the faith."}
{"book": "2TH", "chapter": 3, "verse": "3", "text": "However, faithful is the Lord, who will confirm you and will guard (keep watch, keep secure) you away from the evil [one]."}
{"book": "2TH", "chapter": 3, "verse": "4", "text": "And we have confidence in the Lord upon you, because you are doing and will do the things that we command."}
{"book": "2TH", "chapter": 3, "verse": "5", "text": "May the Lord direct (make straight, make to go straight by the most direct route) your hearts into (unto) the love of God and into (unto) the endurance of Christ."}
{"book": "2TH", "chapter": 3, "verse": "6", "text": "Now we command you, brothers, in the name of our Lord Jesus Christ to withdraw (arrange, restrain) yourselves away from every brother walking disorderly (unruly, breaking rank, also unproductive because lacking order) and not according to the tradition that you received from us."}
{"book": "2TH", "chapter": 3, "verse": "7", "text": "For you yourselves know how it is necessary to imitate us, because we were not out of order among (in) you;"}
{"book": "2TH", "chapter": 3, "verse": "8", "text": "Nor did we eat bread from anyone without giving (payment), but rather in labor and hardship, working night and day not to be burdensome upon any of you."}
{"book": "2TH", "chapter": 3, "verse": "9", "text": "Not that we do not have the authority, but rather so that we may offer ourselves as a type (example) to you to imitate us."}
{"book": "2TH", "chapter": 3, "verse": "10", "text": "For even when we were with you, this we commanded you, that if anyone is not willing to work, do not let him eat."}
{"book": "2TH", "chapter": 3, "verse": "11", "text": "For we hear that some are walking among (in) you disorderly (idly, unproductively), not working, but rather being busybodies (wasting one’s labor about a thing, being fixated on what others do instead of doing what they are supposed to)."}
{"book": "2TH", "chapter": 3, "verse": "12", "text": "Now to such, we command and entreat in our Lord Jesus Christ, so that working with quietness (calmness, stillness, silence, latin-silentio) they may eat their own bread."}
{"book": "2TH", "chapter": 3, "verse": "13", "text": "And you, brothers, do not grow weary (be bad at, ekkakeo-from out of inwardly bad, latin-deficere-fail-root is deficient) in well-doing (latin-benefacientes-doing well like being beneficial)."}
{"book": "2TH", "chapter": 3, "verse": "14", "text": "And if anyone does not comply with our word through this letter, take note (mark) of that one not to mix with (associate intimately with, keep company with, mix-closely-together to influence) him so that he might be ashamed (in to turn, in a state of turning, recoiled, turned about, turn ones attention to in a riveted way, latin-confundatur-confused-root is confound)."}
{"book": "2TH", "chapter": 3, "verse": "15", "text": "And yet do not suppose (esteem, count, lead) him an enemy, but rather admonish him as a brother."}
{"book": "2TH", "chapter": 3, "verse": "16", "text": "Now may the Lord of peace give you peace through all in every way (manner). The Lord be with all you."}
{"book": "2TH", "chapter": 3, "verse": "17", "text": "The greeting in my own hand- Paul, which is my sign in every letter: so I write."}
{"book": "2TH", "chapter": 3, "verse": "18", "text": "The grace of our Lord Jesus Christ be with all of you. Amen."}
{"book": "1TI", "chapter": 1, "verse": "1", "text": "Paul, an apostle of Christ Jesus according to the command of God our Savior and of Christ Jesus our hope,"}
{"book": "1TI", "chapter": 1, "verse": "2", "text": "To Timothy, my legitimate (genuine, true to origin, real, lawfully begotten, latin-dilecto-beloved at root-dear) child in the faith: Grace, mercy, and peace from God our Father and Christ Jesus our Lord."}
{"book": "1TI", "chapter": 1, "verse": "3", "text": "Just as I entreated you to remain (wait longer, persist) in Ephesus, when I was going (journeying, traveling) unto Macedonia, so that you might command (inform from close-beside, charge, warn, enjoin, latin-denuntiares-charge-root is give notice) certain men not to teach other doctrines"}
{"book": "1TI", "chapter": 1, "verse": "4", "text": "nor pay attention (take heed, attend to, devote to, latin-intenderent-attend-root is intend) to myths (greek-mythois-an idle tale-a false account yet posing to be truth-a fabrication, latin-fabulis-fables, root is story) and endless (unfinished) genealogies (making of a pedigree), which present (furnish, offer, have from close beside) questionings (speculations, debates, meaningless question to investigate a specific practice, latin-quaestiones-questions) rather than stewardship (household management, latin-aedificationem-building of note not dispensationem) of God, which is in faith."}
{"book": "1TI", "chapter": 1, "verse": "5", "text": "And the end-goal (aim, consummation) of our command (instruction, charge, full authorized command/announcement, latin-praecepti-precept) is love from out of a pure (katharas-without admixture, clean/pure because unmixed, purged of contamination) heart and an intrinsically good conscience (joint-knowing, persisting notion, consciousness, to know/see/perceive together with, latin-conscientia-consciousness-joint-knowledge of note scienta is the English root of science) and a sincere (unfeigned, not a phony, non-fictional, without hypocrisy, not to act as a hypocrite, latin-non ficta- non fiction) faith;"}
{"book": "1TI", "chapter": 1, "verse": "6", "text": "From which some, having missed the mark (off-target), have turned aside (turn from out of) unto vain talking (idle/foolish/useless/unproductive/aimless/purposeless/groundless talking),"}
{"book": "1TI", "chapter": 1, "verse": "7", "text": "Wanting to be law-teachers, not understanding what they are saying nor about what they emphatically assert (confidently assert/affirm, latin-adfirmant-affirm)."}
{"book": "1TI", "chapter": 1, "verse": "8", "text": "Now we know that the law is good (kalos), if one uses it lawfully,"}
{"book": "1TI", "chapter": 1, "verse": "9", "text": "Knowing this, that the law is not enacted (laid, appointed, placed) for a righteous-just one, but for the lawless and the insubordinate (unruly), for the irreverent (impious, ungodly, latin-impiis) and sinful, for the profane (regard nothing as holy, without reverence for what should be hallowed, utter disregard for the sacred) and unauthorized (profane because of improper entrance, permitted to be trodden), for murderers of fathers (latin-patricidis-patricide) and murderers of mothers (latin-matricidis-matricide), for slayers of man (murderers, latin-homicidis-murderers like homicide),"}
{"book": "1TI", "chapter": 1, "verse": "10", "text": "For the fornicators (latin-fornicariis-sexually immoral), homosexuals (greek-arsenokoitais- arsen-male koite-bed-male in bed with another male- coitus between men, latin- masculorum-male sexual abusers like masculine abusers), enslavers (slave dealer, kidnapper, man-stealer to enslave, one taken in war and sold into slavery, bringing men to their feet), liars (falsifier), perjurers (sworn/given oath falsely) and if there be anything other opposed (placed against) to being healthy (sound, greek-hygiaino like hygiene-healthy-well working, latin-sanae-healthy like sane) teaching (latin-doctrinae-doctrine),"}
{"book": "1TI", "chapter": 1, "verse": "11", "text": "According to the gospel of the glory of the blessed God which which I have been entrusted."}
{"book": "1TI", "chapter": 1, "verse": "12", "text": "I have gratitude (thankfulness, latin-gratias) for the One having empowered (enabled, greek-endynamosanti, latin-confortavit-strengthened) me, Christ Jesus our Lord, since He supposed (esteemed, counted, am of opinion, lead, reckoned) me faithful, having placed (set, put, latin-ponens-placing) me unto ministry (diakonian, latin-ministerio),"}
{"book": "1TI", "chapter": 1, "verse": "13", "text": "Formerly being a blasphemer and a persecutor (latin-persecutor) and insolent (someone damaging others by lashing out in a nasty spirit, violent insulting person, latin-contumeliosus-abuser); but rather I was shown mercy because I did it being ignorant (unknowing) in unbelief."}
{"book": "1TI", "chapter": 1, "verse": "14", "text": "And the grace of our Lord was exceedingly abounding (latin-superabundavit) with the faith and love that are in Christ Jesus."}
{"book": "1TI", "chapter": 1, "verse": "15", "text": "Faithful is the saying (word, latin-sermo like sermon) and worthy (deserving) of full acceptance (glad reception, approval) that Christ Jesus came into (unto) the world to save sinners, of whom I am foremost (first)."}
{"book": "1TI", "chapter": 1, "verse": "16", "text": "But rather because of this, I was shown mercy so that in me, the foremost, Jesus Christ might show forth (make fully evident because of undeniable proof) His whole long-temperance (patience) towards a pattern (delineation, example, outline, hypotype-under type) for those about (about to happen) to believe on Him unto life eternal (age-long)."}
{"book": "1TI", "chapter": 1, "verse": "17", "text": "Now to the King of the ages (eternals), the incorruptible (latin-inmortali-undeadly root is immortal), invisible (unseen), only God, be honor (valuing) and glory unto the ages of the ages. Amen."}
{"book": "1TI", "chapter": 1, "verse": "18", "text": "This charge (command, precept) I commit (set/place/put before) to you, my child Timothy, according to the prophecies being made previously (going/leading before, preceding) upon you, so that you might war (campaign, military service, greek-strateue like strategy, latin-milites) in them the good (kalen) warfare (greek-strateian, latin-militiam),"}
{"book": "1TI", "chapter": 1, "verse": "19", "text": "Holding faith and an intrinsically good conscience; which some, having cast away (thrust/push away from, repelled, rejected), concerning their faith, have caused a shipwreck (to suffer shipwreck, break/ruin the vessel/ship);"}
{"book": "1TI", "chapter": 1, "verse": "20", "text": "Among whom are Hymenaeus and Alexander, whom I handed over (latin-tradidi-delivered) to Satan so that they might be disciplined (train as a child so they mature, chasten, latin-discant-learn) not to blaspheme."}
{"book": "1TI", "chapter": 2, "verse": "1", "text": "I entreat, then, first of all, that heart-felt petitions (entreaty for a need in lack, supplication, latin-obsecrationes-petitions at roots-beseech/petition/solicitation), prayers, intercessions (intervention, intersection that hits the mark, latin-postulationes-requirements-roots-demands/ask/postulate which means to suggest an idea or theory that starts a discussion), and thanksgivings, be made (done) for all men;"}
{"book": "1TI", "chapter": 2, "verse": "2", "text": "For the sake of kings and all who are in prominence (eminence, superiority), so that we might lead (carry over, pass time, live) a quiet (undisturbed and tranquil because composed and discreet, latin-quietam-ease) and tranquil (latin-tranquillam-tranquil) life (bios and vitam) in all reverence (piety, godliness, well venerate, latin-pietate, a good inner response to the things of God) and gravity (dignity, gravity referring to what has real weight/dignity, dignity because weighty, moral and spiritual gravity that invites reverence from others, seriousness, solemnly respectable, venerableness);"}
{"book": "1TI", "chapter": 2, "verse": "3", "text": "This is good (kalon) and gladly acceptable in the sight of God our Savior,"}
{"book": "1TI", "chapter": 2, "verse": "4", "text": "Who wishes (desires, wants) all men to be saved and comes unto the knowledge (upon knowing, recognition) of the truth."}
{"book": "1TI", "chapter": 2, "verse": "5", "text": "For there is one God and one mediator (in the middle) between God and men, the man Christ Jesus-"}
{"book": "1TI", "chapter": 2, "verse": "6", "text": "The One having given Himself as a ransom for all, the testimony in its own times,"}
{"book": "1TI", "chapter": 2, "verse": "7", "text": "Unto which I was appointed a herald (proclaimer, preacher, “town-crier” proclaiming critical news for the public, latin-praedicator-preacher) and an apostle- I am speaking the truth; I do not lie- a teacher of the ethnicities in faith and truth."}
{"book": "1TI", "chapter": 2, "verse": "8", "text": "I resolutely plan then, that men pray in every place, lifting up holy hands, apart from wrath (settled anger in opposition) and back and forth reasoning (deliberating, debates, latin-disceptatione-debate-root-dispute)."}
{"book": "1TI", "chapter": 2, "verse": "9", "text": "Likewise women also adorn themselves in orderly (well-arranged, seemly, proper) attire with modesty and moderation (sound-mindedness, temperance, discretion, moderated/regulated/balanced sound/safe perspective) soundness of mind, sobriety, sound outlook because moderated/balanced), not with braided hair (braiding, anything interwoven) or gold or pearls or very costly (very precious) clothing,"}
{"book": "1TI", "chapter": 2, "verse": "10", "text": "But rather what is becoming (fitting to, suitable, proper) to women professing (promising, upon announcing) the fear of God through good works."}
{"book": "1TI", "chapter": 2, "verse": "11", "text": "Let a woman learn in stillness (calmness, quietness, calmly quietness) in all subjection (submissiveness, latin-subiectione-subjection, arrange under);"}
{"book": "1TI", "chapter": 2, "verse": "12", "text": "However, I do not permit (latin-permitto) a woman to teach or dominate over (govern, exercise self-authority over, domineer over, unilaterally take up arms, self-appoint over, self-arms/armor, usurp authority over, be autocratic over, latin-dominari-dominate) a man, but rather be in calm quietness (stillness);"}
{"book": "1TI", "chapter": 2, "verse": "13", "text": "For Adam was first formed (moulded) then Eve;"}
{"book": "1TI", "chapter": 2, "verse": "14", "text": "And Adam was not deceived (lured into deception, deluded), however the woman, having been wholly deceived (deceived into illusion, hood-winked), has come unto transgression (overstepping the line, go contrary)."}
{"book": "1TI", "chapter": 2, "verse": "15", "text": "And she will be saved through childbearing if they abide in faith and love and holiness with sound-mindedness (moderated/balanced/regulated sound/safe perspective)."}
{"book": "1TI", "chapter": 3, "verse": "1", "text": "Faithful is the word: If anyone aspires (stretch forth, reach after, yearn for, desire to attain) to overseership (greek-episkopes-to scope/look intently upon, latin-episcopatum-bishopic), he is desirous of a good (kalou) work."}
{"book": "1TI", "chapter": 3, "verse": "2", "text": "Therefore, it is necessary that the overseer be without reproach (not found wrong when censured or attacked, not apprehended/arrested, not open to censure-latin-inreprehensibilem-blamed-root unrebukable/blameless), the husband of one wife, sober (clear-minded, free from negative influences/intoxicants, latin-sobrium), sound-minded (moderated/regulated/balanced sound/safe outlook/perspective, latin-prudentem-careful-roots are wisely/prudent), orderly (decent, properly organized, ordered, well-prepared, latin-ornatum-root is furnished), hospitable (a good host, philos-xenos, loving strangers/foreigners/guests, fondness for guests, latin-hospitalem-hospitality-root is host/lodging), apt at teaching (able to teach, latin-doctorem-doctor- root is learned);"}
{"book": "1TI", "chapter": 3, "verse": "3", "text": "Not given to wine (paroinon- para oinos- from close beside/with wine, alongside or intimate with wine, latin-non vinolentum-brawler- root intoxication- possibly getting intoxicated to the point of being violent, note this is not the common word for being drunk-methuo), not a striker (contentious, latin- non percussorem-not a striker), but rather equitable (greek-epieikes- epi eikos- be like/resemble upon, likeable, seemly, yielding, reasonable, fair, latin-modestum), not quarrelsome (not a fighter, not contentious, abstaining from fighting, peaceable, not a strife-maker, latin- non litigiosum- not litigious), not a lover of money (greek-aphilargyros- not fond of silver, non-materialistic, latin- non cupidum- not greedy);"}
{"book": "1TI", "chapter": 3, "verse": "4", "text": "Presiding before (greek- pro histemi- before stand, ruling, standing before) his own house well (kalos-winsomely good), having his children in subjection (arranged under) with all gravity (dignifying, seriousness, dignity, veneration for what is worthy of respect/admiration/of real weight)-"}
{"book": "1TI", "chapter": 3, "verse": "5", "text": "And if one does not know how to preside over his own house, how will he care for the church of God?-"}
{"book": "1TI", "chapter": 3, "verse": "6", "text": "Not a recent convert (newly-planted, newly-growing, novice, latin and greek-neophyte), lest having been puffed up, he might fall into (unto) the condemnation (judgment) of the devil."}
{"book": "1TI", "chapter": 3, "verse": "7", "text": "And it is also necessary, to have a good (kalen) testimony from those outside, so that he might not fall into (unto) reproach (an insult aimed to damage/disgrace reputation) and the snare of the devil."}
{"book": "1TI", "chapter": 3, "verse": "8", "text": "Ministers (diakonous) likewise, must be of gravity (dignified, venerable, serious, august, weighty), not double-speaking (diologos-twice-to speak to a conclusion, to speak to two conclusions, deceitful, vacillating thus giving a misimpression by taking two sides of a conclusion, given to repetition), not being addicted (attended, devoted, held, turned, set a course and keep it) to much wine, not greedy of shameful gain (greedy of disgraceful/base/sordid gain/advantage),"}
{"book": "1TI", "chapter": 3, "verse": "9", "text": "Holding to the mystery of the faith in a clear (kathara- pure, without admixture, purged, latin-pura) conscience."}
{"book": "1TI", "chapter": 3, "verse": "10", "text": "And let these be tested (approved by testing, latin-probentur like be probated- root is approve) first; then let these minister (latin-ministrent-minister, being blameless (not convictable when properly scrutinized)."}
{"book": "1TI", "chapter": 3, "verse": "11", "text": "Women likewise (it is assumed to mean women ministers but the word here is just gynaikas not a plural feminine form of diakonos, the term can be used of wives but “their” wives is not qualified here as the KJV interjects the word is just simply women but context implies they are ministering, also of note in the next verse a singular gynaikos is used of male ministers wives), must be of gravity (dignify-able, dignified), not slanderers (diabolous, she-devils, to cast/throw through/because of, word used of devils, false accusers, defamers, backbiter), sober (clear-minded, free of negative influences/intoxicants), faithful in all things."}
{"book": "1TI", "chapter": 3, "verse": "12", "text": "Let ministers be husbands of one wife, presiding before their children and their own households well (kalos-winsomely good)."}
{"book": "1TI", "chapter": 3, "verse": "13", "text": "For those having ministered well (kalos-winsomely good), acquire for themselves a good (kalon) standing (a step, rank, degree, step up on the staircase, a stage in a career, a position, maybe a degree of standing/stepping, latin-gradum-degree-like a grade of standing) and much resolved boldness (openness, freedom of speech, leaving a witness/proverb/statement given with a resolve that deserves to be remembered and taken seriously, latin-fiduciam-confidence like fiduciary) in the faith that is in Christ Jesus."}
{"book": "1TI", "chapter": 3, "verse": "14", "text": "I am writing these things to you, hoping to come to you in swiftness (speed);"}
{"book": "1TI", "chapter": 3, "verse": "15", "text": "And if I should delay (to be slow, to retard, loiter, be unduly slow), so that you might know how it is necessary to conduct (behave, live, turn back, overturn, convert back) oneself in the house of God, which is the church of the living God, the pillar (support, column) and base (base that supports the foundation, firm/solid base) of the truth."}
{"book": "1TI", "chapter": 3, "verse": "16", "text": "And confessedly (admittedly, as agreed, by common consent, speaking together to the same conclusion- word is an adverb) great is the mystery of godliness (well venerating the things of God shown in godly piety/reverence): He who was made apparent (visible, manifest) in the flesh, was shown to be righteous (judicially approved) in the Spirit, was seen by angels, was preached among (in) the ethnicities, was believed on in the world, was taken up (raised up, received up) in glory."}
{"book": "1TI", "chapter": 4, "verse": "1", "text": "Now the Spirit expressly (in stated terms, explicitly, greek-rhetos of rheo-a root of rhema) speaks that in latter (later, last) times (time as opportunity, fitting time, the right moments, occasions, seasons) some will depart away from (apostatize, be lead away from, stand away from, latin-discedent-depart- roots are dissent/withdraw like being a dissident) the faith, turning towards (have towards, devoting to, giving heed to, holding to, attending to, latin-adtendentes-seducing roots are regard/heed) deviating (misleading, wandering, deceitful, erroring, getting others to veer off course, latin-erroris-error root is maze) spirits and teachings (doctrines, latin-doctrinis) of demons (latin-daemoniorum, greek-daimonion, fallen angels, evil spirits),"}
{"book": "1TI", "chapter": 4, "verse": "2", "text": "Speaking lies/falsely in hypocrisy (acting under a mask/as a stage-player, under-judging), having been seared (cauterized with a hot iron, latin- cauteriatam-seared- roots are caustic/brand) in their own conscience,"}
{"book": "1TI", "chapter": 4, "verse": "3", "text": "Forbidding (hindering, preventing) to marry, keeping away from foods of any kind that God created unto reception (sharing, participation, aggressive receiving) with thanksgiving (gratitude) by the faithful and those knowing (knowing upon, recognizing) the truth. for it is sanctified through the word of God and intercession (intervention that hits the mark, a petition that is spot on/hits the bulls eye)."}
{"book": "1TI", "chapter": 4, "verse": "4", "text": "Because every creature of God is good and nothing is to be rejected (worthy to be cast/thrown away), being received (taken) with thanksgiving;"}
{"book": "1TI", "chapter": 4, "verse": "5", "text": "for it is sanctified through the word of God and intercession (intervention that hits the mark, a petition that is spot on/hits the bulls eye)."}
{"book": "1TI", "chapter": 4, "verse": "6", "text": "Setting (placing, laying, suggesting) these things under (by, about) the brothers, you will be a good minister of Christ Jesus, being nourished (trained by continuous instruction in an area of skill and practical knowledge) in the words of the faith and of good teaching (doctrine) that you have closely followed."}
{"book": "1TI", "chapter": 4, "verse": "7", "text": "However, refuse (beg off) profane (permitted to be trodden) and old women’s (anile, latin-aniles-wifeish root is creeps, belonging to old women) fables (myths-mythous, latin-fabulas); however, exercise (train to top condition, latin-exerce-exercise) yourself to godliness (godly response, to be well venerating, piety),"}
{"book": "1TI", "chapter": 4, "verse": "8", "text": "For bodily exercise (training to top condition, conditioning, latin- exercitatio- exercise root is practice) is to a little useful (beneficial, profitable), however the godliness is useful (beneficial, profitable) towards everything, holding promise for the present life and the one about to happen (latin-futurae)."}
{"book": "1TI", "chapter": 4, "verse": "9", "text": "Faithful is the saying and worthy of full acceptance."}
{"book": "1TI", "chapter": 4, "verse": "10", "text": "For unto this we labor hard and struggle (agonize, strive), because we have hope upon a living God, who is the Savior for all men, especially (most of all, mostly) of believers."}
{"book": "1TI", "chapter": 4, "verse": "11", "text": "Command and teach these things."}
{"book": "1TI", "chapter": 4, "verse": "12", "text": "Let no one despise (think down on, scorn, view down with a negative perspective, think little of, latin-contemnat-despise root is contemplate) your youth (latin-adulescentiam-youth like adolescence), but rather be a type (greek-typos, latin-exemplum-example like exemplary) for the believers in word, in behavior (conduct, manner of life), in love, in faith, in purity."}
{"book": "1TI", "chapter": 4, "verse": "13", "text": "Until I come, devote (attend to, pay attention to, hold to, turn to) to the reading of Scripture, to entreaty, to teaching."}
{"book": "1TI", "chapter": 4, "verse": "14", "text": "Do not be negligent (not concern/be affected, careless of) of the grace endowed gift (greek-charismatos, charismatic gift), which was given to you through prophecy with the laying upon (epititheseos-place upon, latin-inpositione-laying like imposition) of the hands of the assembly of elders (greek-presbyteriou, latin-presbyterii-presbytery, a body/council/group of elders, an elder is a mature/aged/senior/advanced in life man having seasoned judgment/experience thus seasoned elderly elders)."}
{"book": "1TI", "chapter": 4, "verse": "15", "text": "Care for (ponder, occupy, practice, devise, plan, latin-meditare-meditate root is meditation) these things; exist in them, so that your progress (advancement by cutting down before you) might be apparent to all."}
{"book": "1TI", "chapter": 4, "verse": "16", "text": "Give heed to (have/hold/possess upon) yourself and to the teaching. Continue in them, for in doing this, you will save yourself and those hearing you."}
{"book": "1TI", "chapter": 5, "verse": "1", "text": "Do not sharply rebuke (to strike/smite upon in a vulnerable place with sharp, insensitive even brutal words, latin-increpaveris-rebuke-roots are reprimand/complain) an elder (presbytero), but rather entreat (latin-obsecra-exhort root is acquiescent) him like as a father; younger men (latin- iuvenes like juveniles) as brothers;"}
{"book": "1TI", "chapter": 5, "verse": "2", "text": "elder women (presbyteras) as mothers; younger women as sisters (latin-sorores like sorority), in all purity (hagneia is related to word for holy)."}
{"book": "1TI", "chapter": 5, "verse": "3", "text": "Honor (price, fix a value, assign value, latin-honora-honor) widows who are truly widows;"}
{"book": "1TI", "chapter": 5, "verse": "4", "text": "And if any widow has children or grandchildren (descendents, latin-nepotes-grandchildren the “nep” may have been KJV misconstrued as nephews), let them learn first to be devout (show piety towards, revere) to their own house and give back reciprocity (exchange, return, requital, recompense) to parents (latin-parentibus-parents, greek-progonos-born before-ancestors including grandparents and forefathers); for this is gladly accepted (gladly welcomed/accepted because pleasing/pleasant, latin-acceptum-acceptable) in the sight of God."}
{"book": "1TI", "chapter": 5, "verse": "5", "text": "And she that is truly a widow and left alone (greek root-monoo-only-solitary-desolate, latin-desolata-desolate root is waste), has her hope upon God and continues in heart-felt petitions (-of her need/lack) and prayers night and day."}
{"book": "1TI", "chapter": 5, "verse": "6", "text": "However, she indulging in luxurious prodigality (living in self-indulgence, living extravagantly/luxuriously/riotously/wastefulness/unneeded surplus, latin-deliciis-deliciously root is offense) while living is dead."}
{"book": "1TI", "chapter": 5, "verse": "7", "text": "And command these things so that they should be without reproach (never caught doing wrong, not apprehended/found wrong when censured)."}
{"book": "1TI", "chapter": 5, "verse": "8", "text": "Now if anyone does not provide for (foresee, think/plan before) his own, especially (mostly, most of all) his household (of his family, latin-domesticorum-domestic), has denied (refused, said no, disowned, repudiated, contradicted) the faith and is worse (more severe, latin-deterior-worse like deteriorated) than an unbeliever."}
{"book": "1TI", "chapter": 5, "verse": "9", "text": "Do not let a widow less than sixty years old, being (having become, latin-fuerit-been, having been?) the wife of one man, be enrolled (entered on the list, registered),"}
{"book": "1TI", "chapter": 5, "verse": "10", "text": "Being borne witness to in good works: If she has brought up children, if she warmly receives strangers/guests (entertains guests, shows hospitality to foreigners/strangers/new/guests), if she has washed the saints’ feet, if she has rendered aid to the oppressively afflicted (tribulated, distressed), if she has followed after (attended, accompanied- latin-subministravit-assisted like sub-ministered) every good work."}
{"book": "1TI", "chapter": 5, "verse": "11", "text": "However, refuse (beg off) younger widows; for when they might have grown wanton against (to run riot, wanton-roving;frolicsome;loose; playing without restraint;negligence of restraint-- root of greek here means living luxuriously-living in sensual, lustful behavior-wanton luxury, feel sensual desires in disregard of, latin- luxuriatae-revel roots are luxury/wanton) Christ, they wish (will, desire) to marry,"}
{"book": "1TI", "chapter": 5, "verse": "12", "text": "Incurring condemnation (greek-krima, latin-damnationem) because they have abandoned (un-placed, annulled, made void, done away with) their first faith."}
{"book": "1TI", "chapter": 5, "verse": "13", "text": "And at the same time they learn to be idle (non-working, lazy, thoughtless, inactive, latin-otiosae-grinders roots are idle/leisure), going around (make a circuit) house to house; and are not only idle, but rather also babblers (prating, boiling over, talking foolishly, latin-verbosae-wordy) and busybodies (over-doing, worked all around, spending excessive time/effort where it does not belong or should not happen, latin- curiosae-busybodies root is curious), speaking things not being necessary/proper."}
{"book": "1TI", "chapter": 5, "verse": "14", "text": "Therefore, I want the younger ones to marry, to bear children, to manage their homes, to give no occasion (latin-occasionem) to the opposing in favor of reproach (abuse, reviling, railing, insulting words that demoralize)."}
{"book": "1TI", "chapter": 5, "verse": "15", "text": "For some have already turned aside after Satan."}
{"book": "1TI", "chapter": 5, "verse": "16", "text": "If any believing woman has widows (dependent widows), let her render fitting aid to them and let the church not be burdened (weighed down), so that it might render fitting aid (sufficient aid/relief) to the truly [needy] widows."}
{"book": "1TI", "chapter": 5, "verse": "17", "text": "Let the well presiding elders (presbyteroi) be counted worthy of double (two-fold, latin-duplici-double like duplicated) value (valuing, a price, honor), especially those laboring exhaustively hard in the word and the teaching."}
{"book": "1TI", "chapter": 5, "verse": "18", "text": "For the Scripture says, “You will muzzle an ox (cow, bull) treading out grain” and “The workman is worthy is of his wages (latin-mercede-reward).”"}
{"book": "1TI", "chapter": 5, "verse": "19", "text": "Do not openly receive (admit, warmly welcome, receive from close beside, receive openly, welcoming with personal interest, latin-recipere-receive) an accusation (latin-accusationem) against an elder (presbyterou), except it be upon two or three witnesses (upon the accusation of 2-3, testimony is not is the greek here)."}
{"book": "1TI", "chapter": 5, "verse": "20", "text": "However, those sinning in the sight of all, expose (rebuke, reprove, convict, convince with solid compelling evidence especially to expose/prove wrong, latin-argue-rebuke roots are argument/objection), so that the remainder might have fear."}
{"book": "1TI", "chapter": 5, "verse": "21", "text": "I thoroughly testify in the sight of God and Christ Jesus and the elect angels, so that you should keep (guard, watch, observe-latin-custodias root is custody) these things apart from prejudice (latin-praeiudicio- root is bias), doing nothing from out of partiality (greek-prosklisis- pros klino- being inclined towards, latin-partem declinando- declining in part)."}
{"book": "1TI", "chapter": 5, "verse": "22", "text": "Lay hands hastily (speedily, quickly) on no one, nor share (participate, fellowship, partake) in the sins of others; Keep (guard, latin-custodi like custody) yourself pure."}
{"book": "1TI", "chapter": 5, "verse": "23", "text": "No longer drink water, but rather make use of a little (few, small, brief) wine (oino) because of your stomach (greek-stomachon, latin-stomachum, stoma refers to the mouth) and your frequent (latin-frequentes) ailments (weaknesses, frailties, latin-infirmitates)."}
{"book": "1TI", "chapter": 5, "verse": "24", "text": "The sins of some men are plainly evident beforehand, going before (preceding) them unto judgment; however of some they follow close after (latin-subsequuntur-follow like come subsequent)."}
{"book": "1TI", "chapter": 5, "verse": "25", "text": "Likewise also the good works [of some] are plainly evident beforehand, and those otherwise not being able to be concealed (hid, latin-abscondi-hid like absconded)."}
{"book": "1TI", "chapter": 6, "verse": "1", "text": "As many as are under a yoke as slaves, let them suppose (reckon, esteem, count, lead) their own masters (despotes not kyrios, a despotes is an authority figure who exercises unrestricted power and absolute domination, latin- dominos) worthy of all value (latin-honore-honor), so that the name of God and the teaching should not be blasphemed."}
{"book": "1TI", "chapter": 6, "verse": "2", "text": "And those having believing masters, let them not despise (scorn, think little of, have a negative/down perspective), because they are brothers; but rather let them slave, because they are believing ones and beloved, who by their benefiting service (latin-beneficii-benefit) are being helped (latin-participes-share). Teach and entreat these things."}
{"book": "1TI", "chapter": 6, "verse": "3", "text": "If anyone teaches another doctrine (teaches a different teaching) and does not draw near (latin- non adquiescit- not acquiesce) to being healthy (sound, well working not debilitated) in the words of our Lord Jesus Christ and the teaching according to godliness (piety, well-venerating, reverence),"}
{"book": "1TI", "chapter": 6, "verse": "4", "text": "He is puffed up, standing upon (gaining knowledge from prolonged understanding) nothing, but rather diseased (sick) about questions (debates, controversies, meaningless questions investigating specific practices, latin-quaestiones) and word-disputes (strife of words, contention about words, unprofitable controversy, word fights/contentions, latin-pugnas verborum- battles of words, logomachy-a war of words), from out of which come envy (spite, grudges, ill-will, embittered), strife (latin-contentiones), blasphemy, evil (ponerai) suspicions (latin- malae suspiciones),"}
{"book": "1TI", "chapter": 6, "verse": "5", "text": "Constant arguing (latin-conflictationes-conflicts) among men corrupted (defiled) in mind (understanding) and deprived (defrauded) of the truth, assuming godliness (piety, reverence) to be a means of gain. Withdraw (stand away from, depart away from, lead away from) away from such."}
{"book": "1TI", "chapter": 6, "verse": "6", "text": "However there is great gain in godliness with self-sufficiency (greek- autarkeias- autos arkeo- self - to suffice, be sufficient, latin-sufficientia-sufficiency)."}
{"book": "1TI", "chapter": 6, "verse": "7", "text": "For we brought nothing into (unto) the world, and neither are we able to bring anything out."}
{"book": "1TI", "chapter": 6, "verse": "8", "text": "And having adequate provision (diatrophe- thorough for a period of time, adequate provision- thorough food and supplies, latin-alimenta-food) and coverings (latin-tegamur- clothing) we will be sufficient with these."}
{"book": "1TI", "chapter": 6, "verse": "9", "text": "And those determined (resolutely planned) to be rich, fall into (unto) temptation (testing) and a trap (snare) and many thoughtless (without thought, non-thinking) and injurious (hurtful) strong urges (focused upon passionate desires, lusts), which plunge (sink root is deep) men into (unto) ruin (latin-interitum) and destruction (apollumi- to destroy away from, latin-perditionem-perdition-entire loss or ruin)."}
{"book": "1TI", "chapter": 6, "verse": "10", "text": "For the love of money (love of silver) is a root of all rotten malices (kakon- evils, rottennesses, bads), which some are stretching after (reaching after, yearning after), have been caused to wander away from the faith and have pierced themselves through with many consuming grieves (pains, distresses, latin-doloribus-pains roots are pain/grief)."}
{"book": "1TI", "chapter": 6, "verse": "11", "text": "However, you, O man of God, flee (shun, escape) these things; and pursue (hunt after) righteousness (justice), godliness (piety), faith, love, endurance, and meekness (mild gentle strength, latin roots are mild and meek)."}
{"book": "1TI", "chapter": 6, "verse": "12", "text": "Fight (struggle, contend for a prize, English term for agonize) the good (kalon) fight of the faith. Lay hold upon (aggressively take upon) the eternal (age-long) life unto which you were called and did confess (speak the same, to speak to a conclusion together) the good confession in the sight of many witnesses."}
{"book": "1TI", "chapter": 6, "verse": "13", "text": "I command you in the sight of God, who is giving life to all things and Christ Jesus, the One having testified upon Pontius Pilate the good confession,"}
{"book": "1TI", "chapter": 6, "verse": "14", "text": "That you keep (guard) the end-result of the commandment (latin-mandatum) without stain and without reproach until the appearing (epiphaneias-appearance like epiphany- to become apparent upon) of our Lord Jesus Christ;"}
{"book": "1TI", "chapter": 6, "verse": "15", "text": "Which He will display (show, exhibit) in His own opportune time, the One who is the blessed and only Sovereign (greek- dynastes like dynasty, latin-potents- KJV makes this Potentate), the King (rex) of those being kings, and the Lord of those being lords;"}
{"book": "1TI", "chapter": 6, "verse": "16", "text": "Who alone has immortality (freedom from death), dwelling in unapproachable light, whom no one of men has seen, nor is able to see; to whom be honor (price, valuing) and dominion forever (age-long, not focused on the future per se rather the quality of the age now and outside of time). Amen."}
{"book": "1TI", "chapter": 6, "verse": "17", "text": "Command them that are rich in this present age not to be high-minded (high-perspectived, self-exalted outlook, self-inflated ego, self-greatness, latin-sublime sapere-high relishing like relishing sublime, sublime=high in place=high in excellence=exalted by nature=loftiness of style/sentiment), nor to have hope in the uncertainty of riches; but rather upon God who is providing (to have from close beside, giving to in an up-close-and-personal way) us all things richly unto enjoyment;"}
{"book": "1TI", "chapter": 6, "verse": "18", "text": "To do good, to be rich in good works, to be good imparting (well at giving over, generous, willingly sharing, generous in distributing), ready to partner with/fellowship in,"}
{"book": "1TI", "chapter": 6, "verse": "19", "text": "Treasuring up for themselves a good foundation unto the future (about to happen, latin-futurum-future), so that they might take hold upon that which is really life."}
{"book": "1TI", "chapter": 6, "verse": "20", "text": "O Timothy, guard the entrustment committed to you (latin- depositum), avoiding (turning away) the profane (permitted to be trodden, latin-profanas), empty talks, and opposing ideas, falsely named knowledge,"}
{"book": "1TI", "chapter": 6, "verse": "21", "text": "Which some are professing, have gone off-target (not on target, missed the mark) concerning the faith. Grace be with you. Amen."}
{"book": "2TI", "chapter": 1, "verse": "1", "text": "Paul, an apostle of Christ Jesus through the will of God according to the promise of life in Christ Jesus,"}
{"book": "2TI", "chapter": 1, "verse": "2", "text": "To Timothy my beloved child: Grace, mercy, peace from God the Father and Christ Jesus our Lord. I have remembrance of you in my heart-felt petition night and day, longing to see you, remembering your tears, so that I might be filled with joy;"}
{"book": "2TI", "chapter": 1, "verse": "3", "text": "I have gratitude to God whom I serve (serve because hired because qualified) from my forefathers (those born before, ancestors, parents) in a pure (purged clean and unmixed, latin-pura) conscience, like as unceasingly"}
{"book": "2TI", "chapter": 1, "verse": "4", "text": "I have remembrance of you in my heart-felt petition night and day, longing to see you, remembering your tears, so that I might be filled with joy;"}
{"book": "2TI", "chapter": 1, "verse": "5", "text": "Having taken remembrance of the sincere (unfeigned, not phony, not acting as a hypocrite, latin- non ficta like non fictional) faith in you, which dwelt first in your grandmother Lois and in your mother, Eunice; and I am persuaded (latin-certus-definite like certified root is sure) that it is also in you."}
{"book": "2TI", "chapter": 1, "verse": "6", "text": "Because of that reason I remind you to fire up (greek- anazopyrein- ana-up-again zoon-living creature pyr-fire, up the living fire, latin-resuscites-stir like resuscitate) the gift (charisma- grace-gift) of God, which is in you through the laying upon (latin- inpositionem-laying like imposition) of my hands."}
{"book": "2TI", "chapter": 1, "verse": "7", "text": "For God has not given us a spirit of timidity (greek is deilias not phobos- it is not fear here rather cowardice, latin-timoris like timidity), but rather of power (ability, might) and of love and of a sound perspective (greek- sophronismou- safe/sound/sensible moderated/regulated/balanced perspective/outlook/mind)."}
{"book": "2TI", "chapter": 1, "verse": "8", "text": "Therefore, you should not be ashamed of (disgraced upon) the testimony of our Lord, nor of me His prisoner; but rather suffer together (suffer hardships together with) for the gospel according to the power (ability, might) of God;"}
{"book": "2TI", "chapter": 1, "verse": "9", "text": "The One having saved us and having called us with a holy calling, not according to our works, but rather according to His own pre-purpose (predetermination, purposefully set forth before, latin-propositum-purpose like proposition) and grace, having been given us in Christ Jesus before the times of the ages;"}
{"book": "2TI", "chapter": 1, "verse": "10", "text": "And having been made apparent now through the appearing upon of our Savior, Christ Jesus, having abolished (brought to naught, annulled, rendered inoperative) death, and having brought to light (enlightened) life and immortality through the gospel;"}
{"book": "2TI", "chapter": 1, "verse": "11", "text": "Unto which I was appointed a preacher (herald, proclaimer) and an apostle and a teacher."}
{"book": "2TI", "chapter": 1, "verse": "12", "text": "Because of this reason I also suffer these things. But rather I am not ashamed; for I know whom I have believed and I am persuaded (latin- certus-definite root is sure) that He is able (powerful) to guard my entrustment to Him unto that yonder day."}
{"book": "2TI", "chapter": 1, "verse": "13", "text": "Hold the pattern of healthy words which you did hear from me in faith and love that are in Christ Jesus."}
{"book": "2TI", "chapter": 1, "verse": "14", "text": "Guard the good entrustment to you through the Holy Spirit indwelling in us."}
{"book": "2TI", "chapter": 1, "verse": "15", "text": "You know this, that all who are in Asia turned away from me, among whom are Phygelus and Hermogenes."}
{"book": "2TI", "chapter": 1, "verse": "16", "text": "May the Lord give mercy to the house of Onesiphorus, because he refreshed (bring cooling, to cool by blowing, latin- refrigeravit-refresh root is cools) and he was not ashamed of my chain;"}
{"book": "2TI", "chapter": 1, "verse": "17", "text": "But rather having arrived in Rome, he quickly sought me out and found me."}
{"book": "2TI", "chapter": 1, "verse": "18", "text": "May the Lord give unto him to find mercy from the Lord in that yonder day! And you know very well, how much he ministered (diekonesen) in Ephesus."}
{"book": "2TI", "chapter": 2, "verse": "1", "text": "You, then, my child, be empowered in the grace that is in Christ Jesus."}
{"book": "2TI", "chapter": 2, "verse": "2", "text": "And the things which you have heard from me through many witnesses, commit (set/place/put close beside, latin-commenda-entrust root is commend) these to faithful men, who will be competent (sufficient, fit, attain to, adequate, latin-idonei-suitable) to teach others also."}
{"book": "2TI", "chapter": 2, "verse": "3", "text": "Suffer hardships together (bear evil treatment along with, take your part in suffering hardship/malice/evil/pain/harm) as a good soldier of Christ Jesus."}
{"book": "2TI", "chapter": 2, "verse": "4", "text": "No one warring (serving) as a soldier intertwines (latin-inplicat like implicates root is puzzle) himself with the affairs (greek-pragmateiais- business, occupation, transactions, latin-negotiis-business like negotiations) of this life (biou), so that he might please the one having enlisted him as a soldier."}
{"book": "2TI", "chapter": 2, "verse": "5", "text": "And if anyone competes [athletically], he is not crowned (adorned, decorated, latin-coronatur like coronated), unless he has competed lawfully (latin-legitime like legitimately)."}
{"book": "2TI", "chapter": 2, "verse": "6", "text": "It is necessary for the hard-working farmer (earth/land/field worker, vinedresser, latin-agricolam-farmer like agriculturist root is field) to first partake of the fruits."}
{"book": "2TI", "chapter": 2, "verse": "7", "text": "Consider the things I am saying; for the Lord will give you comprehension (synthesized/holistic understanding, running together, latin-intellectum-understanding root is intellect) in all."}
{"book": "2TI", "chapter": 2, "verse": "8", "text": "Remember Jesus Christ, having been raised from out of the dead, from out of the seed of David, according to my gospel,"}
{"book": "2TI", "chapter": 2, "verse": "9", "text": "In which I suffer hardship (kakopatho, suffer malice/evil/harm/pain), even to chains (bonds), as a malefactor (criminal, kakourgos). But rather the word of God is not bound!"}
{"book": "2TI", "chapter": 2, "verse": "10", "text": "Because of this, I endure all things for the sake of the elect, so that they might obtain (hit the mark, fall in line with, happen, strike on, latin-consequantur-obtain like consequant) salvation that is in Christ Jesus with eternal glory."}
{"book": "2TI", "chapter": 2, "verse": "11", "text": "Faithful is the saying: for if we have died together with Him, we will also live together with Him;"}
{"book": "2TI", "chapter": 2, "verse": "12", "text": "If we endure, we will also reign (king) together with Him; if we will deny (refuse, say no, repudiate, disown, latin-negibimus-deny like negate) Him, He will also deny us;"}
{"book": "2TI", "chapter": 2, "verse": "13", "text": "If we are faithless, He remains faithful; for He is not able (have power) to deny Himself."}
{"book": "2TI", "chapter": 2, "verse": "14", "text": "Remind them of these things, thoroughly testifying (solemnly affirming) them in the sight of God to not contend about words- useful upon nothing, subversion (turn against, latin-subversionem-subversion root is overturn) upon those hearing."}
{"book": "2TI", "chapter": 2, "verse": "15", "text": "Give full diligence (to move speedily showing full diligence/fully applying oneself) be speedy, hasten, latin-sollicite-anxiously root is rouse) to present (stand close beside, latin-exhibere-exhibit) yourself approved (validated genuine, tested, acceptable, welcomed, latin-probabilem-approved root is probable/examine) to God, an unashamed (not ashamed, having no cause to be ashamed, latin-inconfusibilem-unashamed root is without confusion/insecurity) workman, straightly handling (accurately cutting/dissecting, to cut straight, latin- recte tractantem- rightly handling root is drawing/treating) the word of truth;"}
{"book": "2TI", "chapter": 2, "verse": "16", "text": "And avoid (turn around from, shun) profane empty-chatterings (latin-inaniloquia-chatter roots are vain talk/empty), for they advance upon more ungodliness (impiety, bold irreverence, latin-impietatem);"}
{"book": "2TI", "chapter": 2, "verse": "17", "text": "And their word will have spread (pasturage, grazing, growth, latin-serpit-spreads) like as gangrene (disease that eats/gnaws away, greek-gangraina, latin-cancer); among whom are Hymenaeus and Philetus;"}
{"book": "2TI", "chapter": 2, "verse": "18", "text": "Who have gone off-target concerning the truth, saying that the resurrection has already happened; and they are subverting (against turning, overturning, latin-subvertunt) the faith of some."}
{"book": "2TI", "chapter": 2, "verse": "19", "text": "However, the foundation of God stands solid (stereos-firm, hard, solid, immovable, stable, latin-firmum-firm), having this seal: The Lord knows those being His, and, Let all naming the name of the Lord depart away (stand away from, latin-discedat-depart root is withdraw-like discede/dissent) from unrighteousness (not justice, injustice, latin-iniquitate-violence like iniquity root is lawlessness/unjust/injustice)."}
{"book": "2TI", "chapter": 2, "verse": "20", "text": "And in a great house there are not only golden and silver vessels (latin-vasa), but rather also wooden and earthen; and for some unto value, and some unto no value (without value/price, dishonor, latin-contumeliam-insult)."}
{"book": "2TI", "chapter": 2, "verse": "21", "text": "If, then, anyone will have purged out (ekkathare-from out of clean/purge, latin-emundaverit-purge roots are washed/cleanse/cleansing) himself away from (apo) these, he will be a vessel unto value (valuing, price, honor), having been sanctified (made holy), useful (beneficially serviceable) to the Master, having been made ready (prepared, latin-paratum-ready roots are prepares/enlarge) unto every good work."}
{"book": "2TI", "chapter": 2, "verse": "22", "text": "And flee youthful (latin-iuvenilia like juvenile) lusts (strong/passionate urges); and pursue (hunt) righteousness (justice), faith, love, peace along with those calling upon the Lord from out of a pure (clean, purged) heart."}
{"book": "2TI", "chapter": 2, "verse": "23", "text": "Refuse (beg off, reject, excuse) moronic (moras-dull, insipid, flat, nonsensical) and uneducated (uninstructed, latin-sine disciplina-without training/discipline) questionings (speculations, debates, searchings), knowing that they generate (beget, latin-generant-generate) fights (quarrels, contentions, latin-lites-debates)."}
{"book": "2TI", "chapter": 2, "verse": "24", "text": "And the bond-slave of the Lord must not fight (quarrel, latin-litigare like litigate), but rather be affable (placid, mild, gentle, calming, affable=easy of conversation) towards all, apt at teaching, patient of evil (enduring evil, holding up under malice, anexikakos- to bear up malice/evil/harm),"}
{"book": "2TI", "chapter": 2, "verse": "25", "text": "Disciplining (strict training/correcting/chastening of a child toward maturity) in meekness those opposing (those placing/arranging themselves separately/against, resisting, latin-resistunt), lest God may ever (when, at what time) give them repentance unto a cognizance (knowledge, a knowing upon, latin-cognoscendam-acknowledging like cognizance) of the truth,"}
{"book": "2TI", "chapter": 2, "verse": "26", "text": "And they might come to their senses (KJV-recover themselves, latin-resipiscant-soberness) from out of the snare of the devil, having previously been captured alive by (under) him unto his will."}
{"book": "2TI", "chapter": 3, "verse": "1", "text": "And know this, that in the last (end, extreme, final, farthest) days harshly difficult (fiercely difficult to cope with because harsh, latin-instabunt-difficult and periculosa-dangerous root is threaten) times will be present (in standing, in place, at hand);"}
{"book": "2TI", "chapter": 3, "verse": "2", "text": "For men will be self-lovers, money-lovers, empty braggarts (empty pretender, braggart, a wandering vagrant boasting to anyone foolish enough to take him seriously-always moving looking for new naÏve listeners because he claims things he can’t really do, latin-elati-elated), arrogant (over/beyond to shine, to over-shine, latin-superbi-proud roots are higher/superb), blasphemers (transliterated from greek and latin), unpersuaded (disobedient because unpersuaded) of parents, ungraceful (also ungracious/ungrateful), irreverent (unholy, profane, not pious, without reverence from what should be hallowed, latin-scelesti-unholy root is criminal),"}
{"book": "2TI", "chapter": 3, "verse": "3", "text": "Without family affection (astorgos- without natural/family affection, latin- sine affectione- without affection), unappeasable (negating of a libation-sacrifice used in making treaties and covenants, implacable, irreconcilable, trucebreakers, without truce, admitting of no truce, unable to please, latin-sine pace-without peace), false accusers (diabaloi- slanders, defamers, backbiters, devilous, latin-criminatore-slanderers roots are accuser/charges/crime/impeaching), unrestrained (without prevailing power, powerless, impotent, incontinent, uncontrolled, unable to subdue, not controlled, without dominion/exerted power, no mastery, latin-incontinentes-incontinent), cruel (not tame, harsh, sour, savage, fierce, brutal, latin- inmites-fierce-cruel), not good-lovers,"}
{"book": "2TI", "chapter": 3, "verse": "4", "text": "betrayers (traitors, treacherous, undependable), reckless (to fall before, rash, careless, impulsive, heady, rushes carelessly headlong into, fall headlong into), smoke-blinded (beclouded, to raise a smoke, muddled/cloudy mindset, blinded with smoke, puffed up, swollen with conceit, lifted up with pride), sensual pleasure-lovers (hedonistic, philos-hedone, greek root is hedone for sensual pleasure, latin-voluptatium-pleasure like voluptuous) rather than God-lovers;"}
{"book": "2TI", "chapter": 3, "verse": "5", "text": "having a form (morphosin- fashion, shape, semblance, outline) of godliness (well veneration, paying good homage, piety, reverence), however denying (negating, disowning, refusing to affirm, latin-abnegantes-denying root is refuse) the power (ability to perform) of it. And turn away (latin-devita-avoid like deviate) from these."}
{"book": "2TI", "chapter": 3, "verse": "6", "text": "For from out of this sort are those who are creeping into (unto) houses and leading captive (subduing) weak women (little/silly/immature/lack of dignity women, possibly naive), heaped on with sins, being carried away (brought/led away) by various (many/different colored) passionate urges,"}
{"book": "2TI", "chapter": 3, "verse": "7", "text": "Always learning and never being able to come (go) unto a cognizance (knowledge upon, knowing upon) of the truth."}
{"book": "2TI", "chapter": 3, "verse": "8", "text": "And, by which way (manner) Jannes and Jambres took a stand against Moses, thus these also take a stand against the truth, men corrupted in understanding (mind), failing to pass the test (not welcomed/received/approved, latin-reprobi-disqualified like reprobate) concerning the faith."}
{"book": "2TI", "chapter": 3, "verse": "9", "text": "But rather they will not advance (proceed, make progress, latin-proficient-advance roots are prosper/forward) upon more (greater), for their mindlessness (no mind/understanding, lack of sense, folly, madness, latin-insipientia-foolishness like insipidness=want of life or spirit) will be fully evident to all, like as also that of those yonder became [referring to the two spoken of before]."}
{"book": "2TI", "chapter": 3, "verse": "10", "text": "However, you have closely followed (latin-adsecutus-attainment root is closely) my teaching (latin-doctrinum), conduct (guiding, leading, latin-institutionem-education roots are institution/ training/ institute/ accomodation), purpose (predetermination, setting forth, latin-propositum-purpose root is proposed), faith, long-temperance, love, endurance,"}
{"book": "2TI", "chapter": 3, "verse": "11", "text": "my persecutions, my sufferings (strong feelings, latin-passiones-emotions): such as happened to me in Antioch, in Iconium, in Lystra; what persecutions I endured; and the Lord rescued (delivered) me from out of all."}
{"book": "2TI", "chapter": 3, "verse": "12", "text": "And all, desiring (willing, wishing) to live godly (piously) in Christ Jesus, will be persecuted."}
{"book": "2TI", "chapter": 3, "verse": "13", "text": "Now evil (poneroi) men and charlatans (seducers, wailers, imposters, conjurors, sorcerers, enchanters, frauds) will proceed (cut/beat to go forward, progress, advance) upon worse (more severe), misleading (wandering, leading astray, deviating) and being misled (deviated, led astray)."}
{"book": "2TI", "chapter": 3, "verse": "14", "text": "However you abide in the things you did learn and have been convinced of (assured upon), having known from whom you learned them;"}
{"book": "2TI", "chapter": 3, "verse": "15", "text": "And that from infancy you have known the sacred writings, which are able (powerful) to make you wise unto salvation through faith in Christ Jesus."}
{"book": "2TI", "chapter": 3, "verse": "16", "text": "All Scripture is God-breathed (greek-theopneustos- God-breathed out/blown, God-spirited, latin- divinitus inspirata- divinely inspired root inspira is breathe) and beneficial (useful, profitable, latin-utilis-useful like utility) towards teaching, towards convincing (proving, conviction, reproof, exposing, latin-arguendum-reproof roots are arguing/rebuke/objection), towards correction (upon straightening up again), towards instructing (strict training to reach maturity, chastisement, child rearing) in righteousness (justice),"}
{"book": "2TI", "chapter": 3, "verse": "17", "text": "So that the man of God might be proficiently ready (greek-artios-ready because prepared, fitted, complete, competent, adequate, latin-perfectus-perfect), having been completely made proficiently ready (greek roots exartizo-ek artios-completely out from/make suitable-fitted-complete, entirely outfitted, thoroughly furnished, fully fitted, fully equipped, latin-instructus-furnished) towards every good work."}
{"book": "2TI", "chapter": 4, "verse": "1", "text": "I thoroughly testify (solemnly affirm, thoroughly bear witness) in the sight of God and Christ Jesus, the One being about to judge the living and the dead, and by His appearing, and His kingdom;"}
{"book": "2TI", "chapter": 4, "verse": "2", "text": "Preach (herald, proclaim) the word; be opportunely (latin-oportune) and inopportunely (latin-inoportune) ready (to stand upon, be present, be at hand, be set upon, latin-insta-persevere); convince (expose, convict, reprove), rebuke (re-direct, to place value upon, to warn to prevent something from going wrong, admonish, warn, latin-obsecra- root is acquiescent), entreat, in all long-temperance and teaching (latin-doctrina-doctrine)."}
{"book": "2TI", "chapter": 4, "verse": "3", "text": "For there will be a time when they will not hold up (have/possess up) healthy (sound, well working greek like hygienic, latin-sanam-healthy like sane) teaching; but rather according to their own passionate urges (lusts), having an itching ear (hearing), they will accumulate (gather/heap/pile upon, obtain a multitude of) to themselves teachers;"}
{"book": "2TI", "chapter": 4, "verse": "4", "text": "And they will turn away their hearing from the truth and upon myths (fabrications that subvert what is actually true) they will be turned away (turned out to)."}
{"book": "2TI", "chapter": 4, "verse": "5", "text": "And you, be sober in all things, endure malicious and painful hardships (kakopatheson-evil/malice- pain- sufferings), do the work of an evangelist, fully carry out your ministry (diakonian)."}
{"book": "2TI", "chapter": 4, "verse": "6", "text": "For I am already being poured out (poured out as a drink-offering) and the time of my departure (other translations-release, latin-resolutionis-resolution, greek-analyseos-departing, loosing root is to unloose for departure) is come."}
{"book": "2TI", "chapter": 4, "verse": "7", "text": "I have fought (contested, struggled, the greek is the English root of agonize) the good fight; I have finished the race-course; I have guarded (watched over, kept, maintained, preserved) the faith."}
{"book": "2TI", "chapter": 4, "verse": "8", "text": "From now on the crown of righteousness (justice) is laid up for me, which the Lord, the righteous (just) judge, will award to me in that yonder day; and not only to me, but rather also to all those loving His appearing."}
{"book": "2TI", "chapter": 4, "verse": "9", "text": "Be speedily diligent to come to me quickly,"}
{"book": "2TI", "chapter": 4, "verse": "10", "text": "For Demas has deserted (left, abandoned, latin-dereliquit-abandoned root is forsaken like derelict) me, having loved the present age, and he has gone unto Thessalonica; Crescens unto Galatia; Titus unto Dalmatia."}
{"book": "2TI", "chapter": 4, "verse": "11", "text": "Luke alone is with me. Take Mark, bring him with you, for he is useful to me unto the ministry (diakonian)."}
{"book": "2TI", "chapter": 4, "verse": "12", "text": "And Tychicus I have sent unto Ephesus."}
{"book": "2TI", "chapter": 4, "verse": "13", "text": "The cloak that I left behind in Troas with Carpus, bring upon coming, and the books (biblia-papers, papyrus rolls, latin-libros), especially the parchments."}
{"book": "2TI", "chapter": 4, "verse": "14", "text": "Alexander the coppersmith did much harm (kaka-malice, evil) to me. The Lord will return (give back) to him, according to his deeds,"}
{"book": "2TI", "chapter": 4, "verse": "15", "text": "Whom you also be on guard, for he has exceedingly stood opposed to our words."}
{"book": "2TI", "chapter": 4, "verse": "16", "text": "In my first defense, no one has come beside me, but rather all deserted me. May it not be reckoned to them!"}
{"book": "2TI", "chapter": 4, "verse": "17", "text": "The Lord stood beside me and empowered me, so that through me the preaching might be fully accomplished and all the ethnicities should hear; and I was rescued from out of the mouth of the lion."}
{"book": "2TI", "chapter": 4, "verse": "18", "text": "The Lord will rescue me away from every evil (ponerou) deed and will bring me safely (sosei-save) into (unto) His heavenly kingdom; to Whom is the glory unto the ages of the ages. Amen."}
{"book": "2TI", "chapter": 4, "verse": "19", "text": "Greet Prisca and Aquila, and the house of Onesiphorus."}
{"book": "2TI", "chapter": 4, "verse": "20", "text": "Erastus remained in Corinth, however Trophimus I left ailing (weak, sick) in Miletus."}
{"book": "2TI", "chapter": 4, "verse": "21", "text": "Be speedily diligent to come before winter. Eubulus greets you, and Pudens, and Linus, and Claudia, and all the brothers."}
{"book": "2TI", "chapter": 4, "verse": "22", "text": "The Lord be with your spirit. Grace be with you. Amen."}
{"book": "TIT", "chapter": 1, "verse": "1", "text": "Paul, a bond-slave of God, and an apostle of Jesus Christ, according to the faith of the elect of God, and knowledge (knowing upon, cognition, acknowledging, latin-agnitionem-acknowledging) of the truth, which is according to godliness (piety, reverence);"}
{"book": "TIT", "chapter": 1, "verse": "2", "text": "Upon the hope of eternal (age-long, latin-aeternae-eternal) life, which God, who cannot lie, promised before the ages of times (time eternal);"}
{"book": "TIT", "chapter": 1, "verse": "3", "text": "And He made apparent in His own opportune times, in His word, in the preaching with which I have been entrusted, according to the command (a command that is a fitting arrangement) of God our Savior;"}
{"book": "TIT", "chapter": 1, "verse": "4", "text": "To Titus, my dear (legitimate, lawfully begotten, true, own) child, according to our common faith: Grace and peace from God the Father and Christ Jesus our Savior."}
{"book": "TIT", "chapter": 1, "verse": "5", "text": "I left you on account of this in Crete, so that you might set in order (improve upon) the things left behind and might appoint (set down, put in charge, latin-constituas-appoint roots are establish/determine/constitute) elders (presbyterous) according to the city (city is singular, most translations translate this “in every/each city/town”), as I directed (commanded/ordered with detailed instructions) you,"}
{"book": "TIT", "chapter": 1, "verse": "6", "text": "If anyone is irreproachable (not convictable when properly scrutinized, not to be called to account, latin- sine crimine- not crime root is impeaching), the husband of one wife, having believing children, not in accusation (latin-accusatione-prosecution root is accused) of prodigality (without saving, wastefulness, profligacy, riotous living, unsavedness, dissipation) or unruliness (insubordination, not subject to rule)."}
{"book": "TIT", "chapter": 1, "verse": "7", "text": "For it is necessary that the overseer (episkopon- scope upon, latin root is bishopric, KJV-bishop) be irreproachable (unimpeachable, unconvictable) as God’s steward (household management); not self-pleasing (self-indulgent, self-satisfying, self-pleasuring, self-hedonistic), not prone to anger, not given to wine (paroinon- from close beside wine, addicted to wine, a drunkard, latin-vinolentum-brawler- vino-wine like lent to wine), not a striker (bruiser, smiter), not greedy of base gain (fond of sordid/shameful gain);"}
{"book": "TIT", "chapter": 1, "verse": "8", "text": "But rather lover of hospitality (lover/fond/friendly of guests/ strangers/ foreigners, hospitable), a lover of good (fond of good), sound-minded (sound/safe moderated/regulated/balanced perspective/outlook/mindset), just (righteous, upright), holy, mastered within (mastered/controlled from within, latin-continentem-continent=restrained-moderate-chaste-refraining, dominion/mastery within);"}
{"book": "TIT", "chapter": 1, "verse": "9", "text": "Holding to the faithful word according to the teaching, so that he might be able to both entreat in healthy (sound) teaching and convince (refute, expose, reprove, convict, latin-arguere- convincing like argue roots are rebuke/objection) those contradicting it (speaking opposite, latin-contradicunt-contradict roots are gainsay/against)."}
{"book": "TIT", "chapter": 1, "verse": "10", "text": "For there are many unruly (insubordinate, not subject to rule), empty talkers (aimless/purposeless/useless/groundless talkers), and perspective-deceivers (phrenapatai-phren apatao- outlook/perspective/mindset seduce with deception/distortion/delusion/error, to deceive, lead into error), especially those from out of the circumcision,"}
{"book": "TIT", "chapter": 1, "verse": "11", "text": "Whom it is necessary to silence (muzzle, stop the mouth, upon mouth), who subvert (overturn) whole households, teaching things that they must (ought) not for the sake of shameful (sordid, base) gain (advantage, profit)."}
{"book": "TIT", "chapter": 1, "verse": "12", "text": "One from out of them, a prophet of their own, said, Cretans are always liars, malicious wild beasts, lazy (latin-pigri-lazy) bellies (greek-gasteres-used of belly and womb, latin-ventres-bellies, gluttons/pregnants)."}
{"book": "TIT", "chapter": 1, "verse": "13", "text": "This testimony is true; because of which reason rebuke (expose, convince, refute, convict, latin-increpa-rebuke) them sharply (severely, to cut away from, latin-dure-roughly), so that they might be healthy (sound) in the faith,"}
{"book": "TIT", "chapter": 1, "verse": "14", "text": "Not giving heed to Jewish myths and commands of men, turning away from the truth."}
{"book": "TIT", "chapter": 1, "verse": "15", "text": "All things are pure (clean, purged, latin-munda-cleansed) to the pure (clean, purged, latin-mundis-clean); however to those being defiled (stained, polluted) and unbelieving, nothing is pure (clean, purged); but rather both their mind (understanding) and conscience are defiled."}
{"book": "TIT", "chapter": 1, "verse": "16", "text": "They profess to know God; however in their works, they deny Him, being detestable (abominable) and unpersuaded (disobedient, unwilling to be persuaded/faithful), and failing to pass the test (unapproved, unfit, latin-reprobi-reprobate) for any good work."}
{"book": "TIT", "chapter": 2, "verse": "1", "text": "However, you speak the things that are fitting to healthy (sound) teaching (latin-doctrinam-instruction like doctrine roots are learning/doctor):"}
{"book": "TIT", "chapter": 2, "verse": "2", "text": "The elderly men (presbytas, latin-senes-elderly root is old) are to be sober (clear-minded), of gravity (dignify-able, venerable, revere-able, deeply respectable, august, serious), sound-minded (temperate, controlled within- auto=self is not a part of the word sophronas=sound/safe moderated/regulated/balanced perspective/outlook/mindset), healthy (sound) in faith, in love, in endurance;"}
{"book": "TIT", "chapter": 2, "verse": "3", "text": "The elderly women (presbytidas, latin-anus-old woman) likewise, be in demeanor (settled-lifestyle, down standing, behavior, conduct) fitting to the reverence in the sacred temple, not false accusers (slanderers, backbiters, diablous like a she-devil), not being enslaved to much wine, teachers of what is good (kalo-didaskalous),"}
{"book": "TIT", "chapter": 2, "verse": "4", "text": "So that they might recall the new women (neas-young, fresh, new on the scene, latin-adulescentulas-young root-growing like adolescent) to sound-mindedness (sophronizosin-recall/admonish to own’s senses, make sound/safe-minded, to make safe/secure/sound moderated/regulated/balanced in perspective/outlook/mindset), to be loving their husbands (fond of men), loving their children,"}
{"book": "TIT", "chapter": 2, "verse": "5", "text": "Sound-minded (sophronas, latin-prudentes-wise roots are intelligent/prudent/wisely), pure (holy because uncontaminated/unmixed), working at home (house-worker), good, being subject (submissive, arranged under) to their own husbands, so that the word of God should not be blasphemed (disreputed, defamed, maligned)."}
{"book": "TIT", "chapter": 2, "verse": "6", "text": "Likewise, entreat the new men (neoterous- new on the scene, young, fresh, latin-iuvenes-young like juvenile) to be sound-minded (sophronein),"}
{"book": "TIT", "chapter": 2, "verse": "7", "text": "In all things holding forth (presenting, offer in a close personal way) yourself as a type of good works; in your teaching no corruption (latin-integritatem-integrity), being of gravity (dignify-able, venerable, latin-gravitatem-gravity roots are gravitates/serious),"}
{"book": "TIT", "chapter": 2, "verse": "8", "text": "Healthy (sound) speech, closely known as irreprehensible (not able to find fault from being closely known, unimpeachable, not known down), so that he who is from out of the contrary (set against, opposite, contrary) may recoil in shame (in turning, to turn about, put to shame), having nothing foul (phaulon like foul, latin-malum-evil, note the word is different the the normal words for evil, bad, malice) to say concerning us."}
{"book": "TIT", "chapter": 2, "verse": "9", "text": "Bond-slaves are to be subject to their own masters, in all well-pleasing and to not be voicing opposition (latin-contradicentes-contradicting roots are gainsay/against);"}
{"book": "TIT", "chapter": 2, "verse": "10", "text": "Not being fraudulent (embezzling, abandoning, keeping back/apart, purloining, pilfering, latin-fraudantes-cheating root is robbing), but rather be undeniably displaying all good fidelity (trust, faith), so that they might adorn (to beautify, embellish with honor, kosmeo-English root for cosmetics) the teaching of God our Savior in all."}
{"book": "TIT", "chapter": 2, "verse": "11", "text": "For the grace of God has appeared (appeared upon), bringing salvation to all men;"}
{"book": "TIT", "chapter": 2, "verse": "12", "text": "Instructing us so that, having denied ungodliness and worldly passionate urges, we should live sound-mindedly and righteously and godly in the present age;"}
{"book": "TIT", "chapter": 2, "verse": "13", "text": "Actively and expectantly awaiting (latin-expectantes-looking roots are wait/expectant/expect) the blessed (become large, happy) hope (sure expectation) and the appearing of the glory of the great God and our Savior, Jesus Christ;"}
{"book": "TIT", "chapter": 2, "verse": "14", "text": "Who gave Himself for us, so that He might redeem us away from all lawlessness and might purify (purge) to Himself a people being all about Him (being special to, being/exisiting about/around, being all about, being a special possession of His), zealous (latin-sectatorem-pursuer) of good works."}
{"book": "TIT", "chapter": 2, "verse": "15", "text": "These things speak, and entreat, and rebuke with all authority (command upon, fitting command/arranging). Let no man look down on (exercise personal perspective about, think beyond/around/about, to over-think, injecting personal bias, disregard, slight, disdain, examine on all sides, despise, latin-contemnat-despise) you."}
{"book": "TIT", "chapter": 3, "verse": "1", "text": "Remind them to be subject to pre-eminents (rulers that have priority/come first), to authorities, to obey what must come first (to obey authority, be persuaded of what is pre-eminent/what has priority/higher authority); to be ready (ready because prepared) towards every good work;"}
{"book": "TIT", "chapter": 3, "verse": "2", "text": "To blaspheme no one, to not be quarrelsome (non-fighting, latin-non litigiosos-not litigious), equitable (fair upon, gentle/mild because fair, latin-modestos-moderate root is modest), undeniably showing all meekness (gentle/mild strength/force, gentle power with balanced reserve) toward all men."}
{"book": "TIT", "chapter": 3, "verse": "3", "text": "For we ourselves were once non-thinking (thoughtless, unintelligent, not understanding), unpersuaded, being led astray (caused to wander, deceive), serving as a slave various passionate urges (lusts) and sensual pleasures (hedone), living (carrying over, leading life, spending/passing time) in malice (kakia-bad, rottenness) and envy (souring feelings, spite, grudge, embittered, ill-will), hateful, hating (detesting, latin-odientes-hating) one another."}
{"book": "TIT", "chapter": 3, "verse": "4", "text": "However when the useful kindness and love of mankind of God our Savior appeared,"}
{"book": "TIT", "chapter": 3, "verse": "5", "text": "Not from out of works in righteousness that we practiced, but rather according to His mercy, He saved us through the washing (bath) of regeneration (rebirth, birth/beginning again, born again) and renewing (up make new/fresh, completing the process of making new, new development, latin-renovationis-renovation roots are renewal/fresh) of the Holy Spirit;"}
{"book": "TIT", "chapter": 3, "verse": "6", "text": "Whom He poured out upon us abundantly (richly) through Jesus Christ our Savior,"}
{"book": "TIT", "chapter": 3, "verse": "7", "text": "So that having been justified by His (that One there) grace, we should become heirs according to the hope of eternal life."}
{"book": "TIT", "chapter": 3, "verse": "8", "text": "Faithful is the word, and I want you to thoroughly affirm these things, so that those believing God might take thought (care, heed) to be devoted to (pre-standing in, presiding in) good works. These things are good (kala) and beneficial (useful, profitable) to men."}
{"book": "TIT", "chapter": 3, "verse": "9", "text": "However avoid moronic (greek-moras, stupid, dull, nonsensical, foolish, latin-stultas-foolish roots are fool/silly) questions (debates, controversies, latin-quaestiones-questions) and genealogies (a greek and latin transliteration) and strifes (contentions) and quarrels (fights) about the law; for they are not advantageous (useless, unprofitable, latin-inutiles-unprofitable like of no utility) and aimless (vain, unproductive, groundless, purposeless)."}
{"book": "TIT", "chapter": 3, "verse": "10", "text": "A factious (heretic-would be a greek and latin transliteration, one causing harmful divisions) man reject (refuse, beg off, latin-devita-avoid like deviate) after one and a second admonition,"}
{"book": "TIT", "chapter": 3, "verse": "11", "text": "Knowing that such a man is turned completely out of place (subverted, perverted, latin-subversus-subverted) and is sinning, being self-condemned."}
{"book": "TIT", "chapter": 3, "verse": "12", "text": "When I will send Artemas or Tychicus to you, be speedily diligent to come to me unto (into) Nicopolis; for I have decided to pass the winter there."}
{"book": "TIT", "chapter": 3, "verse": "13", "text": "Speedily send forth equipped Zenas the lawyer and Apollos, so that nothing should be lacking to them."}
{"book": "TIT", "chapter": 3, "verse": "14", "text": "And let ours also learn to devote themselves to good works unto essential necessities, so that they should not be unfruitful."}
{"book": "TIT", "chapter": 3, "verse": "15", "text": "All those with me greet you. Greet those loving us in the faith. Grace be with you all. Amen."}
{"book": "PHM", "chapter": 1, "verse": "1", "text": "Paul, a prisoner of Christ Jesus and Timothy our brother; to Philemon the beloved and our fellow-worker;"}
{"book": "PHM", "chapter": 1, "verse": "2", "text": "And to Apphia our sister; and to Archippus our fellow-soldier; and to the church in (according to) your house:"}
{"book": "PHM", "chapter": 1, "verse": "3", "text": "Grace to you and peace from God our Father and the Lord Jesus Christ."}
{"book": "PHM", "chapter": 1, "verse": "4", "text": "I thank my God always, making mention of you upon my prayers,"}
{"book": "PHM", "chapter": 1, "verse": "5", "text": "Hearing of your love and the faith that you have toward the Lord Jesus and unto all the saints,"}
{"book": "PHM", "chapter": 1, "verse": "6", "text": "So that the fellowship of your faith might become effective (operative, energized) in the acknowledgment (knowing upon, cognizance, latin-agnitione-ackowledgement) of every good thing that is in us unto Christ."}
{"book": "PHM", "chapter": 1, "verse": "7", "text": "For we have much joy and entreaty upon your love, because the gut-level inner parts (splanchna not kardia, bowels, latin-viscera-bowels, internal organs including intestines-heart-lungs-liver-etc.) of the saints have been refreshed (given pause, given rest, given intermission from labor, latin is refreshed roots are rested/quietness) through you, brother."}
{"book": "PHM", "chapter": 1, "verse": "8", "text": "Therefore, having much bold resolve in Christ to order (arrange upon, enjoin, command) you what is fitting (becoming, proper, suitable, latin-pertinet-belonging like pertinent),"}
{"book": "PHM", "chapter": 1, "verse": "9", "text": "For the sake of love I rather entreat you, being such a one, as Paul aged (presbytes-elderly, an old man), and now also a prisoner of Christ Jesus."}
{"book": "PHM", "chapter": 1, "verse": "10", "text": "I entreat you for my child, Onesimus, whom I have begotten in my chains (bonds);"}
{"book": "PHM", "chapter": 1, "verse": "11", "text": "Once to you useless and now to you and to me useful;"}
{"book": "PHM", "chapter": 1, "verse": "12", "text": "Whom I have sent back him to you- he who is my bowels (heart and other internal organs, greek-splanchna, latin-viscera)—"}
{"book": "PHM", "chapter": 1, "verse": "13", "text": "Whom I resolutely wished to keep (hold fast/back) with myself, so that he might minister (diakone) to me for you in the chains (bonds) of the gospel;"}
{"book": "PHM", "chapter": 1, "verse": "14", "text": "And without (separate from) your consent, I wished to do nothing, so that your good might not be according to compelled necessity (compulsion) but rather according to voluntary willingness;"}
{"book": "PHM", "chapter": 1, "verse": "15", "text": "For perhaps because of this, he was separated from you for a time, so that you might have him eternally,"}
{"book": "PHM", "chapter": 1, "verse": "16", "text": "No longer like as a bond-slave, but rather above a bond-slave, a beloved brother, especially to me, and how much more to you both in the flesh and in the Lord."}
{"book": "PHM", "chapter": 1, "verse": "17", "text": "Therefore, if you hold me a partner (koinonon-sharer, joint-participant), welcomingly receive him as me."}
{"book": "PHM", "chapter": 1, "verse": "18", "text": "And if he has wronged (done injustice to) you in any way or he owes you, charge this to my account."}
{"book": "PHM", "chapter": 1, "verse": "19", "text": "I, Paul, wrote it with my own hand; I will repay it; so that I might not say to you that you yourself also owe me."}
{"book": "PHM", "chapter": 1, "verse": "20", "text": "Yes, brother, I may have profit (derived benefit, help) from you in the Lord; refresh my visceral organs (bowels, splanchna-internal organs including the heart) in Christ."}
{"book": "PHM", "chapter": 1, "verse": "21", "text": "Being persuaded (having confidence-latin-confidens-convinced) of your compliance (obedience, latin-oboedientia-obedience roots are submit/ answer/ loyally), I write to you, knowing that you will do above what I say."}
{"book": "PHM", "chapter": 1, "verse": "22", "text": "And at the same time also prepare me a lodging; for I hope that through your prayers I will be graciously given (charisthesomai- graced, latin-donari-gifted) to you."}
{"book": "PHM", "chapter": 1, "verse": "23", "text": "Epaphras, my fellow prisoner, greets you in Christ Jesus,"}
{"book": "PHM", "chapter": 1, "verse": "24", "text": "And so do Mark, Aristarchus, Demas, Luke, my fellow-workers."}
{"book": "PHM", "chapter": 1, "verse": "25", "text": "The grace of the Lord Jesus Christ be with your spirit. Amen."}
{"book": "HEB", "chapter": 1, "verse": "1", "text": "God having spoken long ago (of old, in times past, former) in many parts (portions) and in many ways (manners, avenues) to the fathers in the prophets;"}
{"book": "HEB", "chapter": 1, "verse": "2", "text": "Has spoken to us in His Son, upon these last (greek-eschatou, latin-novissime-afterward) days, whom He appointed (placed, set) heir of all, and through whom He made the ages (aionas-ages not worlds, latin-saecula-ages root is century, likely a KJV problem because they like to make aionas mean eternal and saying eternals would be problematic),"}
{"book": "HEB", "chapter": 1, "verse": "3", "text": "Who being the radiance (to shine away from, gleam, radiation, shining, latin-splendor-brightness root is luster) of His glory and the exact impression (expression, likeness, reproduction, engraving, brand-mark, identification-marker, greek-charakter-a tool for engraving, latin-figura-shape like figure, id-marker that provides undeniable identification and an irrefutable conection between parties) of His substance (support, assurance, reality, legitimate standing/claim/title of possession, latin-substantiae-substance) [could be translated- and the legal brand-mark of His legitimate standing], and carrying (bearing) all by the word (saying, Greek- rhemati, latin-verbo-word roots are verb/spring) of the power (ability to perform, might) through Himself, having made the purification (purging, cleansing) of sins, He sat down at (in) the right hand of the Majesty (Greatness, greek-Megalosynes-root is great, latin-Maiestatis-Majesty) on (in) high (lofty, latin-excelsis-highest-root is excel)."}
{"book": "HEB", "chapter": 1, "verse": "4", "text": "Having become so much more superior (better, more excellent, mastered, dominion-ative) to the angels, He has inherited a name more excellent (distinguishing what differs) than theirs."}
{"book": "HEB", "chapter": 1, "verse": "5", "text": "For to which of the angels did He ever say, “You are my Son; today I have begotten you? And again, “I will be to Him unto a Father and He will be to me unto a Son?”"}
{"book": "HEB", "chapter": 1, "verse": "6", "text": "And again, when He brings in His first-born (firstly, eldest, brought forth first/pre-eminent) into (unto) the inhabited earth (oikoumenen-inhabit/ dwell/house earth/land, latin-orbem terrae- world earth like orbed territory), He says, “And let all the angels of God do reverence to (worship, to kiss the ground when prostrating before a superior) Him.”"}
{"book": "HEB", "chapter": 1, "verse": "7", "text": "And as to the angels, He says, “Who making His angels spirits (winds, latin-spiritus) and His ministers (leitourgos-official public ministers- different than diakonos, administers, officials belonging to the people for the good of the community, used of priestly-service) a flame (latin-flammam-flame) of fire;”"}
{"book": "HEB", "chapter": 1, "verse": "8", "text": "However, to the Son, “Your throne, O God, is unto the age of the age, and the scepter (rod, staff of authority, latin-virga-rod) of undeviated straightness (straightness without deviation, straight/ upright as with complete justice) is the scepter of Your kingdom.”"}
{"book": "HEB", "chapter": 1, "verse": "9", "text": "You have loved righteousness (justice) and have hated lawlessness; because of this, God, Your God, has anointed You with the oil (olive oil) of exhilaration (exuberant joy, glad exultation, intense joy and gladness) in the presence of (para- from close beside/alongside, in the presence of) Your partakers (those sharing in, companions, partners, latin-participibus-fellows like participants root is partner)."}
{"book": "HEB", "chapter": 1, "verse": "10", "text": "And, You, Lord, according to the beginning (origin, preeminent), laid the foundation of the earth and the works of Your hands are the heavens."}
{"book": "HEB", "chapter": 1, "verse": "11", "text": "They will perish; however you remain (continue); and they all will become old (make/declare old, be worn out become obsolete) like as a garment (tunic, robe, outer garment);"}
{"book": "HEB", "chapter": 1, "verse": "12", "text": "And like a covering (mantle, wrapper, veil, something thrown around) You will roll them up (coil up, roll up like a scroll) and they will be changed (altered) like as a garment; however You are the Same and Your years will never cease."}
{"book": "HEB", "chapter": 1, "verse": "13", "text": "And toward which of the angels did He ever say, “Sit at (in) My right hand/side, until I might place (put, set) Your enemies (hostiles, hating), as a footstool (under the feet) for Your feet?”"}
{"book": "HEB", "chapter": 1, "verse": "14", "text": "Are they not all ministering (leitourgika-public officials, administering) spirits, being sent forth unto ministering (service, diakonian), for the sake of those being about to inherit salvation?"}
{"book": "HEB", "chapter": 2, "verse": "1", "text": "Because of this, it is necessary to more abundantly give heed to the things we have heard, lest we should ever drift away (flow by, slip away, taken away from close beside by the current)."}
{"book": "HEB", "chapter": 2, "verse": "2", "text": "For if the word having been spoken through angels was fully secure (firm, solid, sure, unshakable), and every deliberate deviation (contrary overstepping, going aside, transgression, latin-praevaricatio-transgression like prevaricate- root is trespass) and non-compliance (contrary-hearing, inattentiveness, hearing that will not comply, refusal to listen properly, attitude that chooses to be inattentive and disobedient because of disinterest, latin-inoboedientia-disobedience) received a just retribution (due payment, latin-retributionem-retribution),"}
{"book": "HEB", "chapter": 2, "verse": "3", "text": "How will we escape having neglected (to have no concern) such a great salvation?- which having received an origin (beginning, starting point, latin-initium-beginning like initiation) to be spoken through the Lord, it was confirmed unto us by (under) those having heard;"}
{"book": "HEB", "chapter": 2, "verse": "4", "text": "God bearing witness with them by signs together with wonders (portents from heaven to earth, marvels, latin-portentis-wonders root is carry) and various (of many/different colors, varied, manifold, diversified, latin-variis-various) miracles and distributions (apportionments, separations, dividings, note-merismos not charismas- word only used in Hebrews twice- the other time it is in relation to the dividing of the soul and spirit in Heb 4:12, latin-distributionibus-distributions root is distinctions) of the Holy Spirit according to His will (wish, desire)."}
{"book": "HEB", "chapter": 2, "verse": "5", "text": "For He did not subject to angels the world (oikoumenen- inhabited earth) that is about to happen, about which we are speaking;"}
{"book": "HEB", "chapter": 2, "verse": "6", "text": "However someone somewhere has thoroughly testified saying, “What is man that you are mindful (remembering) of him or the son of man that you look upon (scope upon) him?”"}
{"book": "HEB", "chapter": 2, "verse": "7", "text": "For a little while You made Him One lower (made less, inferior) than the angels; You crowned Him with glory and value (honor), and have appointed (set in order over) Him upon the works of Your hands;"}
{"book": "HEB", "chapter": 2, "verse": "8", "text": "You have put all in subjection/arrangement under His feet. For in that all things are subject to Him, He left (permitted) nothing unsubject (unruly, not subject to rule) to Him. However, at present we perceive that all is not yet subjected (arranged under) to Him."}
{"book": "HEB", "chapter": 2, "verse": "9", "text": "However, we see Jesus having been made lower (inferior) for a little while than the angels, because of the suffering of death, having been crowned with glory and with value (honor); so that by the grace of God, He might taste (experience, eat) death for everyone."}
{"book": "HEB", "chapter": 2, "verse": "10", "text": "For it was fitting to Him for whom are all things and through whom are all things, having brought many sons unto glory, to make perfect (consummated, complete, latin-consummare-finish) the originator (founder) of their salvation through sufferings."}
{"book": "HEB", "chapter": 2, "verse": "11", "text": "For both the One sanctifying and those being sanctified are all from out of One; because of which reason, He is not ashamed to call them brothers,"}
{"book": "HEB", "chapter": 2, "verse": "12", "text": "Saying, “I will declare (announce, report) Your [the Father’s] name to My brothers; in the midst (middle) of the church I will sing Your [the Father’s] praises [or I will laud You- I will sing hymns to You].”"}
{"book": "HEB", "chapter": 2, "verse": "13", "text": "And again, “I will be trusting upon Him.” And again, “Behold, I, and the children (paidia-young children under training) whom God has given Me.”"}
{"book": "HEB", "chapter": 2, "verse": "14", "text": "Therefore, since the children (paidia, latin-pueri-boys) have partaken (have shared of) of blood and of flesh and He likewise took part in the same things, so that through His death, He might render inoperative (sever, bring to naught, annul) the one holding the dominion (kratos-exerted power, might, latin-imperium-government root is empire) of death, that is the devil;"}
{"book": "HEB", "chapter": 2, "verse": "15", "text": "And He might set free, those who by fear of death were subject to slavery all their life."}
{"book": "HEB", "chapter": 2, "verse": "16", "text": "For surely it is not the angels that He lays hold upon, but rather the seed of Abraham that He lays hold upon."}
{"book": "HEB", "chapter": 2, "verse": "17", "text": "For which reason He was obligated in all to be made like His brothers, so that He might become a merciful and faithful high priest (chief/pre-eminent priest) in things relating to God, to make propitiation (appeasement of divine wrath for sin, latin-repropitiaret-reconciliation roots are expiate/ pardons) for the sins of the people;"}
{"book": "HEB", "chapter": 2, "verse": "18", "text": "For in that He Himself has suffered, having been tempted (tested), He is able (powerful) to quickly supply urgently needed help (run to a distress-call for help) to those being tempted (tested)."}
{"book": "HEB", "chapter": 3, "verse": "1", "text": "Therefore, holy brothers, partakers of the heavenly calling, consider the Apostle and High Priest (latin-pontificem) of our confession (speak the same, common confession, affirmation, profession, latin-confessionis), Jesus,"}
{"book": "HEB", "chapter": 3, "verse": "2", "text": "Being faithful to the One having appointed Him, like as also Moses in the whole of His house."}
{"book": "HEB", "chapter": 3, "verse": "3", "text": "For He has been deemed worthy of greater glory than Moses, so much as He having built it has greater value (honor) than the house."}
{"book": "HEB", "chapter": 3, "verse": "4", "text": "For every house is built by someone; however He having built everything is God."}
{"book": "HEB", "chapter": 3, "verse": "5", "text": "And Moses indeed was faithful in the whole of His house, as an attendant (willing servant, greek-therapon, latin-famulus-servant) unto a testimony of the things going to be spoken;"}
{"book": "HEB", "chapter": 3, "verse": "6", "text": "However, Christ as a Son upon His house, whose house are we, if indeed we should hold (retain, latin-retineamus-retain root is maintain) firm (secure, solid) our bold resolve (confidence, unreservedness in speech) and the boast of our hope until the end."}
{"book": "HEB", "chapter": 3, "verse": "7", "text": "Therefore, just as the Holy Spirit says, “Today, if you should hear His voice,"}
{"book": "HEB", "chapter": 3, "verse": "8", "text": "Do not harden (dry out, become inflexible) your hearts, like as in the provocation (rebellion that irritated/embittered, latin-exacerbatione-provocation roots are exacerbation/ exasperation/ provoke/ anger) according to the day of testing in the desolate wilderness (desolate, solitary, deserted, unpopulated, uncultivated, barren),"}
{"book": "HEB", "chapter": 3, "verse": "9", "text": "Where your fathers tried Me in (by) proving and saw My works for forty years."}
{"book": "HEB", "chapter": 3, "verse": "10", "text": "Therefore, I was offended (sorely angry, displeased) toward that generation and said, They always go astray (wander) in their heart and have they not known My ways;"}
{"book": "HEB", "chapter": 3, "verse": "11", "text": "So I swore (took an oath) in My wrath, They will never enter into (unto) My rest.”"}
{"book": "HEB", "chapter": 3, "verse": "12", "text": "Look, brothers, lest ever there be in any of you, an evil heart of unbelief, in departing away (apostenai- standing away) from the living God."}
{"book": "HEB", "chapter": 3, "verse": "13", "text": "But rather entreat yourselves according to each and every day, while it is called Today, so that not one of you might be hardened by the deceitfulness (latin-fallacia-fallacy) of sin."}
{"book": "HEB", "chapter": 3, "verse": "14", "text": "For we have become partakers of Christ, if indeed we should hold (retain) firm the beginning of the assurance (legal standing/title of possession) unto the end;"}
{"book": "HEB", "chapter": 3, "verse": "15", "text": "In that it is said, “Today if you should hear His voice, do not harden your hearts, like as in the provocation.”"}
{"book": "HEB", "chapter": 3, "verse": "16", "text": "For some having heard provoked? But rather were not all those having come from out of Egypt through Moses?"}
{"book": "HEB", "chapter": 3, "verse": "17", "text": "And with whom was He offended (angered, displeased) forty years? Was it not with those having sinned, whose bodies fell in the wilderness?"}
{"book": "HEB", "chapter": 3, "verse": "18", "text": "And to whom did He swear that they will not enter into His rest, if not to those having refused to be persuaded?"}
{"book": "HEB", "chapter": 3, "verse": "19", "text": "And we see that they were not able to enter in because of unbelief."}
{"book": "HEB", "chapter": 4, "verse": "1", "text": "We should fear, then, lest ever a promise being left (left behind, abandoned) to enter into His rest, any from out of you should seem (suppose, have an opinion) to have fallen short (come late, failing to fulfill a goal)."}
{"book": "HEB", "chapter": 4, "verse": "2", "text": "For we are those having had the gospel preached to us just as they did; but rather the word did not benefit (help, do good, be useful) their hearing, not having been united (mixed into a new and improved compound) with the faith of those having heard."}
{"book": "HEB", "chapter": 4, "verse": "3", "text": "For we, those having believed, enter into the rest; just as He has said, “So I swore in My wrath, They will never enter into My rest;” and yet His works are the ones having been finished from the foundation of the world."}
{"book": "HEB", "chapter": 4, "verse": "4", "text": "For He has spoken somewhere concerning the seventh day in this way, “And God rested (katepausen- down pause/ cease/ restrain/ hinder, latin-requievit-rested root is quietness) in (on) the seventh day, away from all His works;”"}
{"book": "HEB", "chapter": 4, "verse": "5", "text": "And in this [passage] again, “They will never enter into My rest.”"}
{"book": "HEB", "chapter": 4, "verse": "6", "text": "Since then, it remains for some to enter into it and those formerly having received the good news did not enter in, because of refusing to be persuaded (willful unbelief, obstinancy),"}
{"book": "HEB", "chapter": 4, "verse": "7", "text": "Again He appoints a certain day, saying in David, “Today, ” after so long a time, just as it has been said, “Today, if you hear His voice, do not harden your hearts.”"}
{"book": "HEB", "chapter": 4, "verse": "8", "text": "For if Joshua had given them rest, He would not have spoken about another day after this."}
{"book": "HEB", "chapter": 4, "verse": "9", "text": "Then, there remains a Sabbath rest for the people of God."}
{"book": "HEB", "chapter": 4, "verse": "10", "text": "For the one having entered into His rest, he also rested from his works, just as God did from His own."}
{"book": "HEB", "chapter": 4, "verse": "11", "text": "Therefore, we should be speedily diligent to enter into that rest, so that no one should fall in (by) the same example of refusing to be persuaded."}
{"book": "HEB", "chapter": 4, "verse": "12", "text": "For the word of God is living and effective (active, energized, operative, latin-efficax-effective), and sharp above every two-edged sword (short sword, dagger, slughter-knife), and piercing through as far as the division (distribution, separation) of soul and spirit, of joints and marrows; and it is skilled to judge (discriminative, discerner, fit in judging, latin-discretor-judges root is discretion) the empassioned deliberations (inner-passion, passionate idea lodged within, inner emotions driving the reasoning, passionate pondering/surmising, deep meditations, latin- cogitationum-thoughts roots are planned/ forces) and intentions (in-mind, in-understanding, considerations, insights, notions, latin-intentionum-intents) of the heart."}
{"book": "HEB", "chapter": 4, "verse": "13", "text": "And there is no creature (creation) hidden in the sight of Him; and all things are naked (nude, stripped, uncovered, wearing only underwear) and exposed (laid bare/open) to His eyes to whom is our word."}
{"book": "HEB", "chapter": 4, "verse": "14", "text": "Therefore, having a great high priest, having passed through (gone through, spread) the heavens, Jesus, the Son of God, we should hold firmly (kratomen-seize/lay hold of, put under control, master) to our confession."}
{"book": "HEB", "chapter": 4, "verse": "15", "text": "For we do not have a high priest not being able to sympathize (a greek transliteration) with our weaknesses (infirmities, ailments); however, having been tempted in all according to the same manner (likewise, resemblance); yet is without sin."}
{"book": "HEB", "chapter": 4, "verse": "16", "text": "We should come near, then, with bold resolve to the throne of grace, so that we might receive mercy and might find grace unto timely help."}
{"book": "HEB", "chapter": 5, "verse": "1", "text": "For every high priest being taken from out of men is appointed on behalf of men in things towards God, so that he might offer gifts and sacrifices on behalf of sins;"}
{"book": "HEB", "chapter": 5, "verse": "2", "text": "Being able to empathize appropriately (measured-feeling/passion, bear gently with, hold one’s emotions in restraint, feel with divinely-measured intensity, expresses empathy which is not too severe or too tolerant) with those being unknowing (ignorant) and wandering astray, since He Himself also is surrounded (encompassed, beset) with weakness (infirmity, ailment);"}
{"book": "HEB", "chapter": 5, "verse": "3", "text": "And because of this He is obligated, just as concerning the people, so also concerning Himself, to offer (bring to) concerning sins."}
{"book": "HEB", "chapter": 5, "verse": "4", "text": "And no one takes to himself the valuing (honor), but rather being called by (under) God, just as was also Aaron."}
{"book": "HEB", "chapter": 5, "verse": "5", "text": "So also Christ did not glorify Himself to become a high priest; but rather the One having said to Him, “You are My Son, today I have begotten you.”"}
{"book": "HEB", "chapter": 5, "verse": "6", "text": "Just as also in another [passage] He says, “You are a priest unto the age, according to the order of Melchizadek;”"}
{"book": "HEB", "chapter": 5, "verse": "7", "text": "Who in the days of His flesh, having offered (brought) up heart-felt petitions and pleadings (supplications for peace-relief and reconciliation-an olive branch) with strong outcrying and tears to the One being able to save Him from out of death and having been heard from reverent caution (latin-reverentia-reverence)."}
{"book": "HEB", "chapter": 5, "verse": "8", "text": "Though being a Son, He learned compliance from the things He suffered,"}
{"book": "HEB", "chapter": 5, "verse": "9", "text": "And having been perfected He became to all, the originator of eternal (age-long) salvation to those complying to (obeying) Him;"}
{"book": "HEB", "chapter": 5, "verse": "10", "text": "Having been designated by (under) God a high priest according to the order (rank, position, arrangement) of Melchizadek;"}
{"book": "HEB", "chapter": 5, "verse": "11", "text": "Concerning whom there is much speech (word) and things difficult in interpretation (hard to explain) to speak from us, since you have become slow (dull, sluggish, slack) in the hearings."}
{"book": "HEB", "chapter": 5, "verse": "12", "text": "For you ought to be teachers, because of the time, you have necessity again that one teach you what are the fundamentals of the beginning (origin) of the oracles (logion-divine saying, latin-exordii sermonum- oracles speech root of exordii are of the beginning/gifted) of God, and you have become of those having necessity of milk, and not of solid food;"}
{"book": "HEB", "chapter": 5, "verse": "13", "text": "For everyone partaking [only] of milk is unskilled (untested, not successful when tested, inexperienced) in the word of righteousness (justice); for he is an infant;"}
{"book": "HEB", "chapter": 5, "verse": "14", "text": "However, for the mature (full-grown) is solid food, who through constant use (conditioning, practice, habit) have proficiently trained (intensely exercised) their senses (perceptive faculty) towards thoroughly distinguishing (conclusively discerning, latin-discretionem-discretion) good (kalou, appealing good) and evil (kakou, maliciously foul)."}
{"book": "HEB", "chapter": 6, "verse": "1", "text": "Therefore, having left the word of the beginning of Christ, we should carry on (upon) to maturity; not laying down again a foundation of repentance away from dead works and faith upon God,"}
{"book": "HEB", "chapter": 6, "verse": "2", "text": "Of teaching about baptisms (baptismon- can be translated washings, submergings, possibly ritual washings of NT times, word is used of washing cups), and of laying upon of hands, and of the resurrection of the dead, and of eternal judgment;"}
{"book": "HEB", "chapter": 6, "verse": "3", "text": "And this will we do, if God permits."}
{"book": "HEB", "chapter": 6, "verse": "4", "text": "For it is impossible (unable, powerless, incapable) for those having been once (once for all) enlightened, and having tasted of the heavenly gift, and having become partakers of the Holy Spirit;"}
{"book": "HEB", "chapter": 6, "verse": "5", "text": "And having tasted God’s good saying (rhema, latin-verbum), and the power of the age about to happen,"}
{"book": "HEB", "chapter": 6, "verse": "6", "text": "And having fallen away from close beside (defected, fallen from close beside), to restore (renew, bring back, make new again/back) them unto repentance, crucifying again in themselves the Son of God, and making a show/example of Him."}
{"book": "HEB", "chapter": 6, "verse": "7", "text": "For the earth having drunk in the rain coming upon it often and producing vegetation (greek-botanen like botany, latin-herbam-herb root is plant) useful (well-placed, suitable) for those through whom it is also tilled (worked the soil, cultivated), partakes of blessing from God;"}
{"book": "HEB", "chapter": 6, "verse": "8", "text": "However that bringing out thorns (prickly plants) and thistles is rejected (failing to pass the test, reprobate, unapproved, worthless) and near to a curse, of which the end is unto burning."}
{"book": "HEB", "chapter": 6, "verse": "9", "text": "However, beloved, we are convinced of better [things] concerning you and things belonging to (having, holding, possessing) salvation, though we speak like this."}
{"book": "HEB", "chapter": 6, "verse": "10", "text": "For God is not unjust to forget (unnoticed upon, overlook, neglect) your work and the love that you undeniably display (show forth, indicate, prove) unto His name, having ministered to the saints and still ministering."}
{"book": "HEB", "chapter": 6, "verse": "11", "text": "And we wish each of you to undeniably display the same speedy diligence towards the full assurance of the hope until the end;"}
{"book": "HEB", "chapter": 6, "verse": "12", "text": "So that you might not be sluggish (dull, slow, slack); However imitators of those through faith and long-temperance are inheriting the promises."}
{"book": "HEB", "chapter": 6, "verse": "13", "text": "For God having made His promise to Abraham, since He had no one greater to swear according to, swore according to Himself,"}
{"book": "HEB", "chapter": 6, "verse": "14", "text": "Saying, “Surely blessing I will bless you, and multiplying I will multiply you;”"}
{"book": "HEB", "chapter": 6, "verse": "15", "text": "And thus having long-endured (waited patiently, long-temperanced), he obtained the promise."}
{"book": "HEB", "chapter": 6, "verse": "16", "text": "For men swear according to the greater and the oath is the confirmation of the end (limit, boundary, conclusion) of all their disputes."}
{"book": "HEB", "chapter": 6, "verse": "17", "text": "In the same way, God wanting (plan with full resolve) more abundantly to show to the heirs of the promise, the unchangeableness (not to change position) of His resolved plan (purpose), He mediated (interposed) it by an oath,"}
{"book": "HEB", "chapter": 6, "verse": "18", "text": "So that through two unchangeable matters in which it is impossible for God to lie, we might have strong entreaty, who having fled for refuge to take hold of the hope being set before us,"}
{"book": "HEB", "chapter": 6, "verse": "19", "text": "Which we have as an anchor of the soul, secure (secure because on solid footing) and firm (solid-footed, dependable because of solid footing, solid enough to walk on); and entering into that within the veil,"}
{"book": "HEB", "chapter": 6, "verse": "20", "text": "Where Jesus entered as a forerunner for us, according to the order of Melchizadek, having become a high priest unto the age."}
{"book": "HEB", "chapter": 7, "verse": "1", "text": "For this Melchizadek, king of Salem, priest of the Most High God, who having met Abraham returning from the slaughter of the kings and blessed him;"}
{"book": "HEB", "chapter": 7, "verse": "2", "text": "To whom Abraham apportioned a tenth from all. First being translated (interpreted), King (latin-rex) of righteousness (justice), and then also, King of Salem, which is King of peace;"}
{"book": "HEB", "chapter": 7, "verse": "3", "text": "Without father, without mother, without genealogy; neither beginning of days, nor of having end of life; and having been made like the Son of God, he remains a priest unto perpetuity (unto continuousness, latin-perpetuum-ever like perpetually)."}
{"book": "HEB", "chapter": 7, "verse": "4", "text": "Now consider how great this one was to whom the patriarch Abraham gave a tenth from out of the best spoils (top of the heap, first-fruits, Greeks customarily selected from the topmost part of the heaps and offered it to the gods)."}
{"book": "HEB", "chapter": 7, "verse": "5", "text": "And those from out of the sons of Levi, receiving the priesthood, have a command to take a tenth from the people according to the law, this is, from their brothers, though having come from out of the loin (osphyos-reproductive area, latin-lumbis-loin) of Abraham."}
{"book": "HEB", "chapter": 7, "verse": "6", "text": "However the one not tracing his ancestry from out of them has collected a tenth from Abraham; and has blessed him having the promises."}
{"book": "HEB", "chapter": 7, "verse": "7", "text": "And apart from all dispute, the less (inferior) is blessed by the better (superior)."}
{"book": "HEB", "chapter": 7, "verse": "8", "text": "And here dying men receive tithes; however in that place, being testified that he lives on;"}
{"book": "HEB", "chapter": 7, "verse": "9", "text": "And so to speak: through Abraham, Levi also, who is receiving tithes, has paid tithes."}
{"book": "HEB", "chapter": 7, "verse": "10", "text": "For he was still in the loin of his father when Melchizadek met with him."}
{"book": "HEB", "chapter": 7, "verse": "11", "text": "If indeed then, perfection (consummation) were through the Levitical priesthood, for upon it the people had received the law, what still necessity was there for another priest to arise, according to the order of Melchizadek, and not be spoken of according to the order of Aaron?"}
{"book": "HEB", "chapter": 7, "verse": "12", "text": "For the priesthood being changed, a change of the law also takes place from out of necessity (constraint, compulsion)."}
{"book": "HEB", "chapter": 7, "verse": "13", "text": "Upon whom these things are said, belonged to another tribe from which no one has attended at the altar."}
{"book": "HEB", "chapter": 7, "verse": "14", "text": "For it is evident beforehand that our Lord has arisen from out of Judah, unto which tribe, Moses spoke nothing concerning the priests."}
{"book": "HEB", "chapter": 7, "verse": "15", "text": "And it is still more abundantly quite evident, if according to the likeness of Melchizadek, another priest arises,"}
{"book": "HEB", "chapter": 7, "verse": "16", "text": "Who has not become according to a law of a fleshly command but rather according to the power of an indestructible (indissoluble, latin-insolubilis-insoluble, base greek root is destroy/ overthrow/ disunite) life."}
{"book": "HEB", "chapter": 7, "verse": "17", "text": "For it is testified, “You are a priest unto the age, according to the order of Melchizadek.”"}
{"book": "HEB", "chapter": 7, "verse": "18", "text": "For there is truly a nullification (annulment, abrogation, cancellation) of the preceding command, because of its weakness and uselessness—"}
{"book": "HEB", "chapter": 7, "verse": "19", "text": "For the law perfected nothing, however the introduction (importation, bring in/introduce upon) of a better hope, through which we draw near to God."}
{"book": "HEB", "chapter": 7, "verse": "20", "text": "And (according to as much as) it was not apart from an oath, for those become priests without an oath,"}
{"book": "HEB", "chapter": 7, "verse": "21", "text": "However He with an oath through the One saying to Him, “The Lord has sworn and will not change His mind, ‘You are a priest unto the age.’”"}
{"book": "HEB", "chapter": 7, "verse": "22", "text": "According to so much Jesus has become the surety (security, latin-sponsor) of a better covenant."}
{"book": "HEB", "chapter": 7, "verse": "23", "text": "And those having become priests indeed are many, because of being prevented from remaining by death;"}
{"book": "HEB", "chapter": 7, "verse": "24", "text": "However because of His remaining unto the age, He holds the priesthood permanently (unchangeable, not to be violated),"}
{"book": "HEB", "chapter": 7, "verse": "25", "text": "Wherefore also, He is able to save unto the entirety (all completeness) those drawing near to God through Him, always living to intercede (intervene, to obtain by hitting the mark) for them."}
{"book": "HEB", "chapter": 7, "verse": "26", "text": "For it was indeed fitting (conspicuous, standing out) for us to have such a high priest, holy, not of malice (akakos-innocent, guileless, harmless, latin-innocens-innocent), undefiled (unstained), having been separated away from sinners, and having become higher than the heavens;"}
{"book": "HEB", "chapter": 7, "verse": "27", "text": "Who has no daily necessity (constraint, compulsion), just as the high priests, to offer up sacrifices first for His own sins then for those of the people; for He did this once for all, having offered up Himself."}
{"book": "HEB", "chapter": 7, "verse": "28", "text": "For the law appoints men as high priests having weakness; however the word of the oath, which is after the law, appoints the Son having been perfected unto the age."}
{"book": "HEB", "chapter": 8, "verse": "1", "text": "Now the main point upon the things being spoken of is that we have such a high priest, who sat down at (in) the right hand/side of the throne of the Majesty (Greatness) in the heavens;"}
{"book": "HEB", "chapter": 8, "verse": "2", "text": "A minister (public official) of the holy places and of the true tabernacle (tent), which the Lord, not man, has pitched."}
{"book": "HEB", "chapter": 8, "verse": "3", "text": "For every high priest is appointed to offer gifts and sacrifices; for which reason it is necessary for this one to have something that he might offer."}
{"book": "HEB", "chapter": 8, "verse": "4", "text": "Then if he were upon the earth he would not be a priest, there being those offering the gifts according to the law;"}
{"book": "HEB", "chapter": 8, "verse": "5", "text": "Who serve (as a qualified hire) as a copy and shadow of the heavenlies, just as Moses was divinely warned, being about to complete the tabernacle; See that, indeed, He declares (bring to light by asserting one statement over another), “You will make all things according to the type (pattern) having been shown to you on (in) the mountain.”"}
{"book": "HEB", "chapter": 8, "verse": "6", "text": "However now He has obtained a more excellent (surpassing, differing) ministry, how much also He is the mediator of a better covenant, which has been enacted (made law) upon better promises."}
{"book": "HEB", "chapter": 8, "verse": "7", "text": "For if that first [covenant] had been faultless, then a place would not have been sought for a second."}
{"book": "HEB", "chapter": 8, "verse": "8", "text": "For finding fault with them, He says, “Behold, the days are coming, says the Lord, I will culminate (complete, fulfill, consummate) a new covenant upon the house of Israel and upon the house of Judah;"}
{"book": "HEB", "chapter": 8, "verse": "9", "text": "Not according to the covenant that I made with their fathers in the day of having taken hold upon their hand by Me to lead them from out of the land of Egypt; because they did not remain in My covenant and I disregarded them, says the Lord.”"}
{"book": "HEB", "chapter": 8, "verse": "10", "text": "“Because this is the covenant that I will make with the house of Israel after those days, says the Lord, putting My laws into their mind, and I will inscribe (upon-write) them upon their hearts; and I will be God unto them and they will be a people unto Me.”"}
{"book": "HEB", "chapter": 8, "verse": "11", "text": "“And they shall not each teach his fellow-citizen and each his brother saying, Know the Lord; because all will know (see and know, perceive) Me, from the least to the greatest of them, ”"}
{"book": "HEB", "chapter": 8, "verse": "12", "text": "“because I will be merciful (propitious, forgiving, latin-propitius-pardon roots are merciful/gracious/kinder) to their injustices (unrighteousnesses) and I will remember their sins no more.”"}
{"book": "HEB", "chapter": 8, "verse": "13", "text": "In saying, “New, ” He has made the first old (obsolete); and that becoming old (decaying, obsolete, latin-antiquatur-decaying root is ancient) and aging (latin-senescit-aging) is near vanishing (disappearing)."}
{"book": "HEB", "chapter": 9, "verse": "1", "text": "The first, then, also had just ordinances (a judicially-approved act) of sacred service (latin-culturae-culture roots are cultivation/ worship) and a worldly (pertaining to this world) sanctuary."}
{"book": "HEB", "chapter": 9, "verse": "2", "text": "For a tabernacle was prepared, the first [room] in which were the lampstand (latin-candelabra) and the table (latin-mensa) and the bread of the showbread (providence, setting forth in advance for a specific purpose, Presence, latin-propositio-proposition, purposed/consecrated bread), which is called “Holy;”"}
{"book": "HEB", "chapter": 9, "verse": "3", "text": "And after the second veil, a tabernacle, called “Holy of holies, ”"}
{"book": "HEB", "chapter": 9, "verse": "4", "text": "Having the golden altar of incense (latin-turibulum-burner- turi means frankincense) and the ark (greek-kiboton, latin-arcam) of the covenant, having been covered all-around in every part with gold, in which was the golden pot (jar, vase, latin-urna-pot) having the manna and the Aaron’s staff/rod having budded (sprouted) and the tablets of the covenant."}
{"book": "HEB", "chapter": 9, "verse": "5", "text": "And above it were the cherubim of glory, overshadowing the mercy seat (place of propitiation); concerning which it is now not [the time] to speak in (according to) detail (portion, part)."}
{"book": "HEB", "chapter": 9, "verse": "6", "text": "Now these things having been thus prepared, the priests enter continually into the first tabernacle, completing the sacred services;"}
{"book": "HEB", "chapter": 9, "verse": "7", "text": "And the high priest into the second, only once a year, not without blood, which he offers for himself and the sins of ignorance (things unknown/ignored, latin-ignorantia-ignorance) of the people—"}
{"book": "HEB", "chapter": 9, "verse": "8", "text": "The Holy Spirit signifying (making plain/evident/clear, latin-significante) this that the way into the holies has not yet been made apparent; while still having the first tabernacle standing;"}
{"book": "HEB", "chapter": 9, "verse": "9", "text": "Which is a parable (greek and latin-parable, simile, comparison) unto the present time according to which gifts and sacrifices are offered, that are not able to perfect (complete, consummate) the conscience of the one making sacred service,"}
{"book": "HEB", "chapter": 9, "verse": "10", "text": "[consisting] only in in foods and drinks and various washings (greek-baptismois, latin-baptismis), ordinances (judicially-approved acts) of the flesh until the time of setting things straight (to thoroughly straighten, improvement, reformation, amendment, correction, latin-correctionis) is imposed (placed upon)."}
{"book": "HEB", "chapter": 9, "verse": "11", "text": "However Christ, having come as high priest of the good things having come through the greater and more perfect tabernacle, not made by hand—that is, not of this creation—"}
{"book": "HEB", "chapter": 9, "verse": "12", "text": "Nor through the blood of goats and calves, however through His own blood, He entered once for all into the holies, having found (obtained, latin-inventa-found like invented) eternal (age-long) redemption."}
{"book": "HEB", "chapter": 9, "verse": "13", "text": "For if the blood of goats and of bulls and the ashes of a heifer (young cow) sprinkling those having been defiled, sanctify them for the purification (cleanness) of the flesh,"}
{"book": "HEB", "chapter": 9, "verse": "14", "text": "How much more the blood of Christ, who through the eternal Spirit offered Himself to God unblemished, will purify (purge) our conscience away from dead works to serve (serve because qualified) the living God!"}
{"book": "HEB", "chapter": 9, "verse": "15", "text": "And because of this He is the mediator of a new covenant, so that by death having taken place, unto redemption of the transgressions upon the first covenant, that those having been called might receive the promise of the eternal inheritance."}
{"book": "HEB", "chapter": 9, "verse": "16", "text": "For where there is a will, it is necessary (constraint, compulsion) for the death of the one having arranged it to bring it forth."}
{"book": "HEB", "chapter": 9, "verse": "17", "text": "For a will after (upon) death is affirmed, since it is not in force while the one having made it is living."}
{"book": "HEB", "chapter": 9, "verse": "18", "text": "For which reason the first has not been inaugurated apart from blood."}
{"book": "HEB", "chapter": 9, "verse": "19", "text": "For every command having been spoken by Moses to all the people according to the Law, he took the blood of calves, and of goats, with water and scarlet wool and hyssop, he sprinkled both the book and all the people;"}
{"book": "HEB", "chapter": 9, "verse": "20", "text": "Saying, “This is the blood of the covenant, which God commands (latin-mandavit-commands like mandates) towards you.”"}
{"book": "HEB", "chapter": 9, "verse": "21", "text": "Likewise he sprinkled with blood the tabernacle and all the vessels of the sacred service;"}
{"book": "HEB", "chapter": 9, "verse": "22", "text": "And almost all things are purified according to the law, and apart from blood-shedding there is no remission (dismissal, pardon, release)."}
{"book": "HEB", "chapter": 9, "verse": "23", "text": "It was necessary then that the copies (examples, representations) of the things in the heavens be purified with these, however the heavenly things themselves with better sacrifices than these."}
{"book": "HEB", "chapter": 9, "verse": "24", "text": "For Christ has not entered into holies made by hands, copies of the true, but rather into heaven itself, now to appear in the presence of God for us."}
{"book": "HEB", "chapter": 9, "verse": "25", "text": "Nor so that repeatedly (often) He should offer Himself, just as the high priest enters into the holies every year with (in) the blood of another;"}
{"book": "HEB", "chapter": 9, "verse": "26", "text": "Otherwise it was necessary for Him to have suffered repeatedly (often) from the foundation of the world. However now once upon the consummation (culmination) of the ages, He has been made apparent unto the putting away of sin through the sacrifice of Himself."}
{"book": "HEB", "chapter": 9, "verse": "27", "text": "And as it is apportioned (reserved, laid away, stored) to men once to die, and after this, judgment;"}
{"book": "HEB", "chapter": 9, "verse": "28", "text": "So also Christ, having been once offered to bear the sins of many, will look from out of a second time, apart from sin, to those eagerly awaiting Him unto salvation."}
{"book": "HEB", "chapter": 10, "verse": "1", "text": "For the law having a shadow of good things coming, itself not the image of the things, each year with the same sacrifices, which they offer continually, is never able to perfect those drawing near."}
{"book": "HEB", "chapter": 10, "verse": "2", "text": "Since, would they not have ceased being offered, because of those sacredly serving having once been cleansed would no longer have conscience (consciousness) of sins?"}
{"book": "HEB", "chapter": 10, "verse": "3", "text": "But rather in these, there is a reminder of sins every year."}
{"book": "HEB", "chapter": 10, "verse": "4", "text": "For it is impossible for the blood of bulls and of goats to take away sins."}
{"book": "HEB", "chapter": 10, "verse": "5", "text": "Therefore coming into the world, He says, “Sacrifice and offering You have not wanted (willed, wished, desired), however You have prepared Me a body."}
{"book": "HEB", "chapter": 10, "verse": "6", "text": "Whole burnt offerings and [offerings] for sin You have not delighted in."}
{"book": "HEB", "chapter": 10, "verse": "7", "text": "Then I said, Behold, I have come – it is written in the scroll of the book about me—to do Your will, O God.”"}
{"book": "HEB", "chapter": 10, "verse": "8", "text": "Above saying, “Sacrifices and offerings and whole burnt offerings and [offerings] for sin, You have not wanted (desired, willed, wished); nor have you delighted in—which are offered according to law, ”"}
{"book": "HEB", "chapter": 10, "verse": "9", "text": "Then He said, “Behold, I have come to do Your will.” He takes away the first so that He might establish (make stand) the second;"}
{"book": "HEB", "chapter": 10, "verse": "10", "text": "In that will, we are sanctified once for all through the offering of the body of Jesus Christ."}
{"book": "HEB", "chapter": 10, "verse": "11", "text": "And every priest stands daily ministering and repeatedly offering the same sacrifices which are never able to take away sins."}
{"book": "HEB", "chapter": 10, "verse": "12", "text": "However He, having offered one sacrifice for sins unto perpetuity, sat down at (in) the right hand/side of God;"}
{"book": "HEB", "chapter": 10, "verse": "13", "text": "From now on awaiting until His enemies should be placed as a footstool for His feet."}
{"book": "HEB", "chapter": 10, "verse": "14", "text": "For by one offering, He has perfected (completed, consummated) unto perpetuity (continually, all time), those being sanctified."}
{"book": "HEB", "chapter": 10, "verse": "15", "text": "And the Holy Spirit also bears witness to us; for after having said before,"}
{"book": "HEB", "chapter": 10, "verse": "16", "text": "“This is the covenant that I will make with them, after those days, says the Lord: giving My laws upon their hearts and I will inscribe them upon their mind;"}
{"book": "HEB", "chapter": 10, "verse": "17", "text": "And their sins and their lawless acts, I will not remember anymore (still).”"}
{"book": "HEB", "chapter": 10, "verse": "18", "text": "Now where remission of these is, there is no longer an offering for sins."}
{"book": "HEB", "chapter": 10, "verse": "19", "text": "Having therefore, brothers, bold resolve unto entering the holies, in the blood of Jesus,"}
{"book": "HEB", "chapter": 10, "verse": "20", "text": "Which He inaugurated (made new in) for us a new (freshly-slain) and living way through the veil, that is, His flesh;"}
{"book": "HEB", "chapter": 10, "verse": "21", "text": "And [having] a great priest upon the house of God,"}
{"book": "HEB", "chapter": 10, "verse": "22", "text": "We should draw near with a true (real, genuine, authentic) heart in full assurance of faith; with our hearts having been sprinkled clean from an evil conscience; and with our body having been washed with pure (clean, purged) water."}
{"book": "HEB", "chapter": 10, "verse": "23", "text": "We should hold fast to the confession of our hope, unwavering; for He is faithful who promised;"}
{"book": "HEB", "chapter": 10, "verse": "24", "text": "And we should consider one another unto stirring up (stimulating, provoking, inciting) to love and to good works;"}
{"book": "HEB", "chapter": 10, "verse": "25", "text": "Not forsaking (abandoning, deserting) the gathering together (greek-episynagoge, latin-collectionem-collection) of ourselves just as is the custom (greek-ethos-ethic) with some; but rather entreating [one another], and by so much the more as you see the day drawing near."}
{"book": "HEB", "chapter": 10, "verse": "26", "text": "For if we willingly sin, after [we are] to receive the cognizance (awareness, knowing upon, knowledge, latin-notitiam-notice root is awareness) of the truth, there remains no longer a sacrifice for sins,"}
{"book": "HEB", "chapter": 10, "verse": "27", "text": "However a certain fearful (terrifying) expectation (waiting for) of judgment and zeal (fury, burning, to boil from heat, red-hot) of fire (possibly fire of zeal) about to devour (eat, consume) the adversaries (those set opposite)."}
{"book": "HEB", "chapter": 10, "verse": "28", "text": "Anyone having set aside the law of Moses dies without mercies upon two or three witnesses."}
{"book": "HEB", "chapter": 10, "verse": "29", "text": "How much worse punishment do you suppose he will deserve who has trampled down the Son of God and has supposed the blood of the covenant in (by) which he was sanctified as ordinary (common) and has insulted (treated contemptuously/ insolently/ spitefully, outraged) the Spirit of grace!"}
{"book": "HEB", "chapter": 10, "verse": "30", "text": "For we know Him having said, “Vengeance (from out of justice, latin-vincictam-vengeance root is retribution) is mine; I will repay (give in return), ” and again, “The Lord will judge His people.”"}
{"book": "HEB", "chapter": 10, "verse": "31", "text": "It is a fearful thing to fall into the hands of the living God."}
{"book": "HEB", "chapter": 10, "verse": "32", "text": "However, remember the former days in which, having been enlightened, you endured much conflict of sufferings;"}
{"book": "HEB", "chapter": 10, "verse": "33", "text": "For this, being made a spectacle by revilings (insults aimed to damage reputation) and tribulations; and this, having become partners of those thus being treated (passing through them, living, being overturned)."}
{"book": "HEB", "chapter": 10, "verse": "34", "text": "For you sympathized with the prisoners and you accepted with joy the plundering of your possessions, knowing yourselves to have a better possession, and abiding."}
{"book": "HEB", "chapter": 10, "verse": "35", "text": "Therefore, do not throw away your bold resolve, which has a great reward."}
{"book": "HEB", "chapter": 10, "verse": "36", "text": "For you have need of endurance so that having done the will of God, you might receive the promise."}
{"book": "HEB", "chapter": 10, "verse": "37", "text": "For, “Yet a very little while, He who is coming will come and will not delay."}
{"book": "HEB", "chapter": 10, "verse": "38", "text": "Now the righteous (just) of Mine will live from out of faith; and if he might draw back (pulling back to retreat), My soul delights (well-pleasures, well-supposes) not in him.”"}
{"book": "HEB", "chapter": 10, "verse": "39", "text": "However we are not of those drawing back unto destruction, but rather of faith unto the preserving of the soul."}
{"book": "HEB", "chapter": 11, "verse": "1", "text": "Now faith is the assurance (to stand-under, reality, standing under a guaranteed agreement, title of possession, legitimate claim because it is under legal-standing, latin-substantia-substance like sub-standing) of things hoped for (expected, anticipated), the compelled persuasion (to convince with compelling evidence that exposes, proof, persuasion, conviction, evidence, test, latin-argumentum-argument root is proof) of things (greek-pragmaton-matters, deeds, a thing done) not being seen (looked at, observed)."}
{"book": "HEB", "chapter": 11, "verse": "2", "text": "For in this the elders (presbyteroi-elder, latin-senes-elderly men) were testified of."}
{"book": "HEB", "chapter": 11, "verse": "3", "text": "By faith we understand the ages (aionas- age, latin-saecula-ages, the KJV likes to interchange the rendering of this word from eternal/for ever to worlds this maybe be because the latin word saecula like secular may be connected with secular/worldly things at that time) to be fit together (prepared, completed, properly adjusted, exactly fitted), by a saying (rhemati-word) of God, the things being seen have become from out of that not being visible."}
{"book": "HEB", "chapter": 11, "verse": "4", "text": "By faith, Abel offered a more excellent (better, greater) sacrifice to God than Cain; through which he was testified to be righteous (just), God bearing witness upon his gifts; and through it, he still speaks though having died."}
{"book": "HEB", "chapter": 11, "verse": "5", "text": "By faith, Enoch was transferred (greek-metetethe- to place/set among/with, to transfer, transport, latin-translatus-translated root is transplant, older translations translated which follows latin the newer translations- taken up), not to see death, and he was not found, because God had transferred (greek-metetheken like above, latin-transtulit-removed) him; for before being transferred, he was testified to have pleased God."}
{"book": "HEB", "chapter": 11, "verse": "6", "text": "Now apart from faith it is impossible (incapable) to please [Him]. For the one drawing near to God must believe that He exists (is) and that He becomes a rewarder (wage payer) to those seeking Him out."}
{"book": "HEB", "chapter": 11, "verse": "7", "text": "By faith Noah, having been divinely warned concerning the things not yet seen, having been moved with cautiousness, prepared (made, built) an ark unto the salvation of his household; through which he condemned (gave judgment against) the world and became heir of the righteousness (justice) according to faith."}
{"book": "HEB", "chapter": 11, "verse": "8", "text": "By faith Abraham, being called to go out unto a place that he was about to receive unto an inheritance, complied, and he went out, not knowing where he was going."}
{"book": "HEB", "chapter": 11, "verse": "9", "text": "By faith he sojourned into the land of the promise, as in a foreign land, having dwelt in tents with Isaac and Jacob, the joint-heirs of the same promise;"}
{"book": "HEB", "chapter": 11, "verse": "10", "text": "For he was expecting a city having foundations of which God is the crafter (technites-craftsman, artisan, artist, artificer, architect, latin-artifex-craftsman) and builder (maker, creator, latin-conditor-maker)."}
{"book": "HEB", "chapter": 11, "verse": "11", "text": "By faith also, barren Sarah herself received the ability unto conceiving of seed and [did give birth] beyond the conceivable time (when she was in the end-stage of a full life-span), because she heavily regarded Him having promised faithful."}
{"book": "HEB", "chapter": 11, "verse": "12", "text": "Therefore also from one man were born and he having been as good as dead, even as the stars of heaven (ouranou) in multitude, and like as the uncountable sand by the shore of the sea."}
{"book": "HEB", "chapter": 11, "verse": "13", "text": "These all died according to faith, not having received the promises, but rather having seen them from afar and having welcomed them and having confessed that they are foreigners (strangers, guests) and sojourners (sojourning/residing/passing through in a strange place) upon the earth."}
{"book": "HEB", "chapter": 11, "verse": "14", "text": "For those saying such things make apparent that they are seeking their own country (fatherland, one’s native place)."}
{"book": "HEB", "chapter": 11, "verse": "15", "text": "And if they had been remembering that from where they came out of, they would have had opportunity (time) to return;"}
{"book": "HEB", "chapter": 11, "verse": "16", "text": "However now they yearn for (stretch towards, reach after) a better [one] that is a heavenly [one]; therefore God is not ashamed of them to be called their God; for He has prepared a city for them."}
{"book": "HEB", "chapter": 11, "verse": "17", "text": "By faith Abraham has offered up Isaac; and he was offering up his only begotten (one-and-only offspring) son, the one having received the promises,"}
{"book": "HEB", "chapter": 11, "verse": "18", "text": "As to whom it was said, “In Isaac your seed will be called;”"}
{"book": "HEB", "chapter": 11, "verse": "19", "text": "Having reckoned that God was able to raise him from out of the dead from also where in simile (parable, comparison) he received (conveyed, bared, carried) him."}
{"book": "HEB", "chapter": 11, "verse": "20", "text": "By faith Isaac blessed Jacob and Esau concerning the things coming."}
{"book": "HEB", "chapter": 11, "verse": "21", "text": "By faith dying Jacob blessed each of the sons of Joseph and worshiped upon the top of his staff."}
{"book": "HEB", "chapter": 11, "verse": "22", "text": "By faith Joseph at the end [of his life] made mention concerning the exodus (departure, exit, greek-exodou, latin-profectione-departure) of the sons of Israel and gave instruction (command) concerning his bones."}
{"book": "HEB", "chapter": 11, "verse": "23", "text": "By faith Moses, having been born, was hidden three months by his parents, because they saw the little child was beautiful (elegant, fine); and they did not fear the edict of the king."}
{"book": "HEB", "chapter": 11, "verse": "24", "text": "By faith Moses, having become great, refused to be called the son of the daughter of Pharaoh (greek-Pharao, latin-Pharaonis);"}
{"book": "HEB", "chapter": 11, "verse": "25", "text": "Rather having chosen to suffer ill-treatment (evil-treatment) with the people of God, than to have the temporary enjoyment of sin;"}
{"book": "HEB", "chapter": 11, "verse": "26", "text": "Having esteemed (supposed) the reproach of Christ greater wealth than the treasures of Egypt; for he was looking away from all else unto the reward ahead."}
{"book": "HEB", "chapter": 11, "verse": "27", "text": "By faith he left Egypt, having not feared the wrath of the king; for he persevered, as seeing (perceiving, greek-horon) Him who is unseen (invisible, not horao)."}
{"book": "HEB", "chapter": 11, "verse": "28", "text": "By faith he has kept (latin-celebravit-celebrated, done) the Passover (greek/latin-pascha) and the sprinkling of the blood, so that the one destroying the firstborn would not touch them."}
{"book": "HEB", "chapter": 11, "verse": "29", "text": "By faith they passed through the Red Sea (greek-Erythran-red Thalassan-sea) as through dry land; who the Egyptians having made an attempt were swallowed up."}
{"book": "HEB", "chapter": 11, "verse": "30", "text": "By faith the walls of Jericho fell, having been encircled (surrounded) upon seven days."}
{"book": "HEB", "chapter": 11, "verse": "31", "text": "By faith Rahab the prostitute (greek-porne, latin-meretrix-whore roots are prostitute/gains) did not perish with those having refused to be persuaded (disobeying, disloyal), because she had received the spies (scope down, scouts, latin-exploratores-scouts roots are spy/explore) with peace."}
{"book": "HEB", "chapter": 11, "verse": "32", "text": "And what more shall I say? For the time will fail me telling of Gideon, Barak, Samson, Jephthah, David also, and Samuel and the prophets;"}
{"book": "HEB", "chapter": 11, "verse": "33", "text": "Who through faith conquered kingdoms, worked justice (righteousness), obtained promises, shut (closed up, stopped) the mouths of lions;"}
{"book": "HEB", "chapter": 11, "verse": "34", "text": "Quenched (extinquished, suppressed) the power (ability) of fire, escaped the mouths of the sword, were made strong (became empowered) away from weakness, became mighty (strong) in war, put to flight the armies of foreigners."}
{"book": "HEB", "chapter": 11, "verse": "35", "text": "Women received back their dead from out of resurrection; and others were tortured, not having accepted their release, so that they might obtain a better resurrection."}
{"book": "HEB", "chapter": 11, "verse": "36", "text": "And others received trial of mockings and of scourgings; and yes, of chains (bonds) and imprisonment."}
{"book": "HEB", "chapter": 11, "verse": "37", "text": "They were stoned, they were tried, they were sawed in two, they were killed by (in) slaughter of the sword; they went about in sheepskins, in goats’ skins, being destitute, being oppressed, being evil-treated;"}
{"book": "HEB", "chapter": 11, "verse": "38", "text": "Of whom the world was not worthy; wandering (led astray) upon deserts and mountains and caves and holes of the earth."}
{"book": "HEB", "chapter": 11, "verse": "39", "text": "And these all, having been testified to through their faith, did not receive the promise;"}
{"book": "HEB", "chapter": 11, "verse": "40", "text": "God having foreseen something better for us, that they should not be made perfect (complete) apart from (without) us."}
{"book": "HEB", "chapter": 12, "verse": "1", "text": "So therefore we also having so great a cloud of witnesses surrounding us, having laid aside (put/place away from) every weight and the sin easily encircling (besetting, well standing around), we should run the race laid before us through endurance,"}
{"book": "HEB", "chapter": 12, "verse": "2", "text": "Looking away from all else unto Jesus, the originator (founder, pioneer) and completer (perfecter, consummator) of [our] faith: who for the joy lying before Him endured the cross, having despised (view/think down, think little of, scorn) its shame, and sat down at (in) the right hand/side of the throne of God."}
{"book": "HEB", "chapter": 12, "verse": "3", "text": "Reckon fully Him having endured such hostile-speaking (speak opposite to, latin-contradictionem) by sinners against (unto) Himself, so that you will not grow weary, wearily succumbing (fainting, desponding) in your souls."}
{"book": "HEB", "chapter": 12, "verse": "4", "text": "You have not yet resisted unto blood, struggling against (with, towards) sin."}
{"book": "HEB", "chapter": 12, "verse": "5", "text": "And you have totally forgotten the entreaty that speaks conclusively to you as to sons: “My son, do not regard lightly (care too little) the discipline (instruction that trains someone to full development, latin-disciplinam-correction root is training/discipline) of the Lord, nor faint (succumb to losing strength), being reproved (rebuked, convinced, convicted, exposed) by (under) Him.”"}
{"book": "HEB", "chapter": 12, "verse": "6", "text": "“For whom the Lord loves, He disciplines; and He scourges (flogs, whips) every son whom He welcomingly receives.”"}
{"book": "HEB", "chapter": 12, "verse": "7", "text": "If you endure discipline, God is dealing with you as sons; for what son is there whom his father does not discipline?"}
{"book": "HEB", "chapter": 12, "verse": "8", "text": "And if you are without discipline, of which you all have become partakers, then you are illegitimate children and not sons."}
{"book": "HEB", "chapter": 12, "verse": "9", "text": "Furthermore we have had fathers of our flesh who discipline us and we respected (regarded, revered, latin-reverebamur-respected root is revere, greek-entrepo-to turn in, recoiling in shame- a wholesome shame which leads a man to consider his condition, to turn about) them; will we not much more be in subjection to the Father of spirits and live?"}
{"book": "HEB", "chapter": 12, "verse": "10", "text": "For truly they disciplined us for a few days according to that seeming good to them; but He upon our benefitting to share of His holiness."}
{"book": "HEB", "chapter": 12, "verse": "11", "text": "Now all discipline for the present seems not to be of joy but rather of pain (grief, distress, vexation, heaviness); however afterward it yields peaceable fruit of righteousness (justice) to those having been trained (exercised) through it."}
{"book": "HEB", "chapter": 12, "verse": "12", "text": "Therefore set straight again your drooping (slack, weakened) hands and your enfeebled knees;"}
{"book": "HEB", "chapter": 12, "verse": "13", "text": "and make straight paths for your feet, so that that which is lame should not be turned aside (forsaken, avoided); however should be healed (greek-iathe, latin-sanetur-healed)."}
{"book": "HEB", "chapter": 12, "verse": "14", "text": "Pursue peace with all, and holiness, which without no one will see the Lord;"}
{"book": "HEB", "chapter": 12, "verse": "15", "text": "Exercising oversight (upon looking, latin-contemplantes-looking-contemplating) lest any fall short away from the grace of God; lest any root of bitterness springing up (growing up) should disturb (annoy, crowd in, in-mob) you, and through this the many might be defiled (polluted, stained);"}
{"book": "HEB", "chapter": 12, "verse": "16", "text": "Lest there be any fornicator or profane person (profane because of improper entrance, permitted to be trodden), as Esau, who for one meal, sold his birthright (rights of the first-born)."}
{"book": "HEB", "chapter": 12, "verse": "17", "text": "For you know that afterward, when wishing to inherit the blessing, he was rejected (disqualified); For he found no place of repentance, although he intensely sought it out with tears."}
{"book": "HEB", "chapter": 12, "verse": "18", "text": "For you have not drawn near to that being touched and having been kindled ignited, burned, consumed, latin-accensibilem-burned) with fire, and to darkness (darkness of a storm/cloud) and to deep gloom (dark murkiness/blackness), and to storm (whirlwind, tempest),"}
{"book": "HEB", "chapter": 12, "verse": "19", "text": "And to the sound of a trumpet (war-trumpet), and to a voice of words (rhematon, sayings); which those having heard, excused themselves, asking the word (logon) not to be addressed (put towards) to them;"}
{"book": "HEB", "chapter": 12, "verse": "20", "text": "For they could not bear that being explicitly commanded: If even a wild animal (beast) should touch the mountain, it will be stoned;”"}
{"book": "HEB", "chapter": 12, "verse": "21", "text": "And so fearful was the thing appearing that Moses said, “I am greatly terrified (wholly fearful) and trembling.”"}
{"book": "HEB", "chapter": 12, "verse": "22", "text": "But rather you have come to Mount Zion; and to the city of the living God, the heavenly Jerusalem; and to myriads of angels,"}
{"book": "HEB", "chapter": 12, "verse": "23", "text": "To the festal assembly-place (assembly-place where people met for a common purpose, especially to celebrate/commemorate/be festive); and to the church of the firstborn, having been enrolled (inscribed in a register, registered) in the heavens; and to God the Judge of all; and to the spirits of the righteous (just) having been perfected (consummated);"}
{"book": "HEB", "chapter": 12, "verse": "24", "text": "And to Jesus the mediator of the new covenant; and to the blood of sprinkling, speaking better things than that of Abel."}
{"book": "HEB", "chapter": 12, "verse": "25", "text": "See that you do not refuse Him who is speaking. For if those did not escape, having refused Him divinely instructing them upon the earth, much more we turning away from the One from the heavens,"}
{"book": "HEB", "chapter": 12, "verse": "26", "text": "Whose voice shook the earth at that time; and now He has promised saying, “Yet once more I will shake not only the earth, but rather also heaven.”"}
{"book": "HEB", "chapter": 12, "verse": "27", "text": "And this, “Yet once more, ” signifies (makes evident) removing of the things being shaken, as those having been created, so that the things not being shaken should remain."}
{"book": "HEB", "chapter": 12, "verse": "28", "text": "Therefore we receiving a kingdom not to be shaken, we might have grace through which we might well-pleasingly serve God with reverence (godly fear, pious caution) and cowering awe (timid dread)."}
{"book": "HEB", "chapter": 12, "verse": "29", "text": "For our God is a wholly consuming fire."}
{"book": "HEB", "chapter": 13, "verse": "1", "text": "Let brotherly love abide;"}
{"book": "HEB", "chapter": 13, "verse": "2", "text": "Do not be forgetful (overlooking, neglecting, upon-unnoticing) of hospitality (showing friendliness/love to guests/strangers); for through this some have received as a guest angels unawares (escaping notice)."}
{"book": "HEB", "chapter": 13, "verse": "3", "text": "Remember prisoners like as being bound with them; those being evil-treated like as yourselves being in their body."}
{"book": "HEB", "chapter": 13, "verse": "4", "text": "Let marriage be greatly valued (great value/price, precious) by (in) all and the marriage bed (greek-koite, latin-torus-bed) undefiled (unstained, latin-inmaculatus-spotless like immaculate); the fornicators and adulterers God will judge."}
{"book": "HEB", "chapter": 13, "verse": "5", "text": "Let your manner of life (mannerism, way, character, behavior) be without the love of money (non-materialistic), be satisfied (sufficed, content, sufficient) with the present things; for He Himself has said, “Never will I leave you nor will I forsake you.”"}
{"book": "HEB", "chapter": 13, "verse": "6", "text": "So (to be of good courage/cheer/confidence, to show boldness/courage, latin-confidenter-safely like confidently) that being courageously confident we say, “The Lord is my helper and I will not be afraid (fearful, withdrawn, put to flight); what will man do to me?”"}
{"book": "HEB", "chapter": 13, "verse": "7", "text": "Remember those leading you, who spoke the word of God to you; of whom, considering thoroughly (observing carefully) the outcome of their way of life (up-turning of behavior from their beliefs), imitate their faith."}
{"book": "HEB", "chapter": 13, "verse": "8", "text": "Jesus Christ is the same yesterday and today and unto the ages."}
{"book": "HEB", "chapter": 13, "verse": "9", "text": "Do not be carried away (turned aside) by various (many colored, of different colors) and strange (foreign) teachings; for it is good for the heart to be confirmed (secured, latin-stabiliri-guaranteed like stabilized) by grace, not with foods; in which those walking in were not benefited."}
{"book": "HEB", "chapter": 13, "verse": "10", "text": "We have an altar from out of which those sacredly serving in the tabernacle have no authority to eat;"}
{"book": "HEB", "chapter": 13, "verse": "11", "text": "For of whose animals the blood is brought into the holies through the high priest for sin; the bodies of those are burned outside the camp."}
{"book": "HEB", "chapter": 13, "verse": "12", "text": "Therefore also Jesus suffered outside the gate, so that He might sanctify the people through His own blood."}
{"book": "HEB", "chapter": 13, "verse": "13", "text": "Therefore we should go out to Him, outside the camp, bearing His reproach;"}
{"book": "HEB", "chapter": 13, "verse": "14", "text": "for here we have not an abiding city, but rather we are seeking for the coming one."}
{"book": "HEB", "chapter": 13, "verse": "15", "text": "Through Him then we should offer up (carry/lead/bring/offer up) the sacrifice of praise to God continually (through all, always), that is, the fruit of the lips affirmingly confessing His name."}
{"book": "HEB", "chapter": 13, "verse": "16", "text": "And do not be forgetful (overlooking) of doing good and of sharing (koinonias-fellowship- what is shared in common as a basis of fellowship, latin-communionis-communion); for with such sacrifices God is well-pleased."}
{"book": "HEB", "chapter": 13, "verse": "17", "text": "Be persuaded by (obedient to, have confidence in) those leading you, and be yielding; for they watch over your souls (psychon) as about to give account (logon-word); so that they might do this with joy and not with inner groaning (groan from pressure being exerted forward- to feel pressure from what is coming on), for you this would be detrimental (not-releasing/ loosing, not helpful, latin- non expedit-not helpful like not expedient)."}
{"book": "HEB", "chapter": 13, "verse": "18", "text": "Pray for us; for we are persuaded that we have a good conscience, willing (wishing, desiring) to conduct ourselves well (kalos) in all things."}
{"book": "HEB", "chapter": 13, "verse": "19", "text": "And more abundantly I entreat you to do this, so that I might be restored back to you more quickly."}
{"book": "HEB", "chapter": 13, "verse": "20", "text": "Now the God of peace, having brought the Great Shepherd of the sheep from out of the dead, by (in) the blood of the eternal (age-long) covenant, our Lord Jesus,"}
{"book": "HEB", "chapter": 13, "verse": "21", "text": "Completely prepare (prepare, exactly adjust to fully function) you in everything good, to do His will, working in us that which is well-pleasing in His sight, through Jesus Christ, to whom be the glory unto the ages of the ages. Amen."}
{"book": "HEB", "chapter": 13, "verse": "22", "text": "I entreat you, brothers, bear with my word of entreaty, for I have written a letter to you in few words."}
{"book": "HEB", "chapter": 13, "verse": "23", "text": "You know our brother Timothy has been released; with whom, if he should come sooner, I will see you."}
{"book": "HEB", "chapter": 13, "verse": "24", "text": "Greet all those leading you and all the saints. Those from Italy greet you."}
{"book": "HEB", "chapter": 13, "verse": "25", "text": "Grace be with you all. Amen."}
{"book": "JAS", "chapter": 1, "verse": "1", "text": "James, a bond-slave of God and of the Lord Jesus Christ; to the twelve tribes which are in the dispersion (greek-Diaspora, latin-dispersione, scattering abroad): Greetings!"}
{"book": "JAS", "chapter": 1, "verse": "2", "text": "Consider (suppose, esteem, lead) it all joy, my brothers, when you might fall into the midst of various trials,"}
{"book": "JAS", "chapter": 1, "verse": "3", "text": "Knowing that the testing of your faith works out (accomplishes, works down to an end-point) endurance."}
{"book": "JAS", "chapter": 1, "verse": "4", "text": "And let endurance have its perfect work, so that you might be perfect (full-grown/developed, mature, consummated) and whole (entire, complete in all parts, latin-integri like integrated), lacking in nothing."}
{"book": "JAS", "chapter": 1, "verse": "5", "text": "If anyone of you lacks wisdom, let him ask from (from close beside) God, the One giving to all generously (bountifully, openly, freely, simplicity, unfolded like without undue complications, latin-affluenter-liberally root is overflow) and without finding fault (reproach, latin-inproperat-ungrudgingly), and it will be given to him."}
{"book": "JAS", "chapter": 1, "verse": "6", "text": "However let him ask in faith, doubting (judge thoroughly back and forth, vacillating in judgment) nothing. For the one doubting (vacillating in judgment) is like a wave (billowing surge, surf) of the sea, being blown by the wind (being wind-gusted with storm-like force) and being tossed to and fro by the wind (being wind-agitated/fanned)."}
{"book": "JAS", "chapter": 1, "verse": "7", "text": "For let not a man suppose with that preceding, that he will receive anything from (from close beside) the Lord;"}
{"book": "JAS", "chapter": 1, "verse": "8", "text": "He is a double-souled (dipsychos, two souled, of two selves, a person split in half, latin-duplex animo-double mind anima is soul) man, unstable (latin-inconstans-unstable roots are insecure/inconstancy like unconstant or inconsistant), in all his ways."}
{"book": "JAS", "chapter": 1, "verse": "9", "text": "Let the brother of low degree boast in his exaltation (height, eminence, latin-exaltatione-lifting);"}
{"book": "JAS", "chapter": 1, "verse": "10", "text": "However he who is rich one (wealthy, fully resourced)[ought to boast] in his humiliation (lowliness, abasement, low condition, latin-humilitate-humility), because he will pass away like a flower of the grass."}
{"book": "JAS", "chapter": 1, "verse": "11", "text": "For the sun has risen with its burning heat (scorching heat) and withered the grass and the flower of it has fallen (faded/withered away) and the beauty of its appearance has perished. Thus also the rich man will fade away (fade away because depleted/dried out) in his pursuits (undertakings, journeying)."}
{"book": "JAS", "chapter": 1, "verse": "12", "text": "Blessed (happy) is the man who endures trial (temptation, testing); because having been approved (tested genuine), he will receive the crown (plaited victor garland/wreath) of life, that He has promised to those loving Him."}
{"book": "JAS", "chapter": 1, "verse": "13", "text": "Let no man say when he is being tempted, “I am being tempted from God.” For God is not able to be tempted (untempted) with evils (kakon); and He Himself tempts no one."}
{"book": "JAS", "chapter": 1, "verse": "14", "text": "However a man is tempted by (under, about) his own passionate urge, being drawn out (drawn/dragged out/away, latin-abstractus-withdrawn like abstracted) and being enticed (lured, baited, latin-inlectus-lured root is enticement);"}
{"book": "JAS", "chapter": 1, "verse": "15", "text": "Then the passionate urge having conceived (apprehended, become pregnant) gives birth (brings forth, begets) to sin; and sin having become fully grown (fully forms, completes, matures), brings forth death."}
{"book": "JAS", "chapter": 1, "verse": "16", "text": "Do not be misled (deviated, caused to wander), my beloved brothers."}
{"book": "JAS", "chapter": 1, "verse": "17", "text": "Every good act of giving and every perfect gift is from above, coming down away from the Father of lights with whom there is no variation (change, transmutatio-changing like transmutating root is transformation) nor shadow (latin-obumbratio-turning roots are obscured/ overshadows) of shifting (turning, latin-vicissitudinis-shifting roots are alteration/ reverse)."}
{"book": "JAS", "chapter": 1, "verse": "18", "text": "Having willed (resolutely planned) it, He brought us forth by the word of truth for (unto) us to be a certain (a kind/sort of) first-fruits of His creatures (created things, latin-creaturae-creatures root is created),"}
{"book": "JAS", "chapter": 1, "verse": "19", "text": "Know/see this, my beloved brothers, let every man be swift to hear, slow (greek-bradys-slow, unhurried as in taking time to deliberate, still moving forward after considering all the facts, latin-tardus-latest root is delay) to speak, slow (bradys, tardus) unto wrath (settled anger/opposition)."}
{"book": "JAS", "chapter": 1, "verse": "20", "text": "For the wrath of man does not produce (work, accomplish) the righteousness (justice) of God."}
{"book": "JAS", "chapter": 1, "verse": "21", "text": "Therefore having set aside (put/set/laid away from) all filthiness (moral filth, pollution) and abundance (all-around, a brand of abundance, superfluity) of maliciousness (kakias-wickedness), receive in meekness (gentle strength) the implanted (in-germinated) word, being able to save your souls (psychas)."}
{"book": "JAS", "chapter": 1, "verse": "22", "text": "And be doers of the word and not only hearers, deluding (to reason contrary to truth, deceiving) yourselves."}
{"book": "JAS", "chapter": 1, "verse": "23", "text": "Because if any man is a hearer of the word and not a doer, this one is like a man considering at his natural (birth) face (appearance, surface) in a mirror."}
{"book": "JAS", "chapter": 1, "verse": "24", "text": "For he has considered himself and has gone away and immediately has forgotten what he was like."}
{"book": "JAS", "chapter": 1, "verse": "25", "text": "However the one having looked intently (look carefully) into the perfect law, that of liberty (freedom), and having remained near in it, a hearer having not been forgetful, but rather a doer of the work—this one will be blessed in his doing (performance)."}
{"book": "JAS", "chapter": 1, "verse": "26", "text": "If anyone supposes (seems) to be religious, not bridle-leading (bridle-lead, leading with a bridle) his own tongue (glossan), but rather deceiving (lead/lure into deception/error) his own heart, the religion of this one is aimlessly vain (groundless, purposeless, worthless)."}
{"book": "JAS", "chapter": 1, "verse": "27", "text": "Pure (purged clean) and undefiled (unstained) religion (worship/devotion as expressed in ritual acts) before our God and Father is this: to look upon (visit, look after) orphans (fatherless, parentless, bereft of a parent-s) and widows (this is feminine) in their tribulation; and to keep oneself unstained (unblemished) away from the world."}
{"book": "JAS", "chapter": 2, "verse": "1", "text": "My brothers, do not hold in partiality (favoritism) the faith from our glorious Lord Jesus Christ;"}
{"book": "JAS", "chapter": 2, "verse": "2", "text": "For if there should come into your assembly (synagogue) a man with gold ring in splendid (shining, bright) apparel; and there might have come in also a poor man (beggarly, destitute) in filthy (latin-sordido-shabby root is sordid) apparel;"}
{"book": "JAS", "chapter": 2, "verse": "3", "text": "And you might have looked upon the one wearing the splendid apparel and might have said, You sit here well (kalos), ” and to the poor you might have said, “You stand there or sit under (by) my footstool, ”"}
{"book": "JAS", "chapter": 2, "verse": "4", "text": "Have you not made a distinction among (in) yourselves and have become judges with evil reasonings (back and forth reasonings)?"}
{"book": "JAS", "chapter": 2, "verse": "5", "text": "Listen, my beloved brothers: Has not God chosen the poor of this world to be rich in faith and heirs of the kingdom that He promised to those loving Him?"}
{"book": "JAS", "chapter": 2, "verse": "6", "text": "However you have dishonored the poor. Are not the rich oppressing (overpowering, overruling, tyrannizing) you and dragging you into court?"}
{"book": "JAS", "chapter": 2, "verse": "7", "text": "Are they not blaspheming the good name, having been called upon you?"}
{"book": "JAS", "chapter": 2, "verse": "8", "text": "For if you keep the king’s (royal, regal) law according to the Scripture, “You will love your neighbor (nearby) as yourself, you are doing well (kalos)."}
{"book": "JAS", "chapter": 2, "verse": "9", "text": "However if you show partiality, you are committing (working, doing) sin, being convicted (convinced, exposed, reproved, rebuked) by (under) the law as transgressors (contrary go-ers, deliberate violaters)."}
{"book": "JAS", "chapter": 2, "verse": "10", "text": "For whoever shall keep the whole law, however at one [point] shall stumble, he has become guilty/liable of all."}
{"book": "JAS", "chapter": 2, "verse": "11", "text": "For He having said, “You shall not commit adultery, ” also said, “You shall not murder (homicide, latin-occides-murder root is slaughter).” Now if you shall not commit adultery, however commit murder, you have become a transgressor (latin-transgressor) of the law."}
{"book": "JAS", "chapter": 2, "verse": "12", "text": "So speak and so act (do), as being about to be judged through the law of liberty (freedom)."}
{"book": "JAS", "chapter": 2, "verse": "13", "text": "For judgment will be without mercy to the one having not shown mercy. Mercy exults over (boasts against) judgment."}
{"book": "JAS", "chapter": 2, "verse": "14", "text": "What is the gain (advantage, something heaped up), my brothers, if anyone says to have faith, however has not works? Is that faith able to save him?"}
{"book": "JAS", "chapter": 2, "verse": "15", "text": "Now if a brother of a sister is without clothes and lacking of daily food,"}
{"book": "JAS", "chapter": 2, "verse": "16", "text": "And anyone from out of you says to them, “Go away in peace; be warmed and be fed (to feed, fill, satisfy, fatten); and does not give to them the necessary things for the body, what is the gain (advantage)?"}
{"book": "JAS", "chapter": 2, "verse": "17", "text": "So also faith, if it has not works, by way of (according to) itself is dead."}
{"book": "JAS", "chapter": 2, "verse": "18", "text": "But rather someone will say, “You have faith, and I have works. Show (point out, exhibit) me your faith, without works, and I will show you faith from out of my works.”"}
{"book": "JAS", "chapter": 2, "verse": "19", "text": "You believe that God is one. (some translations render this- that there is one God) You do well! And the demons believe that and quake (shiver, shudder, tremble, bristle from fear, latin-contremescunt-shudder root is quake)!"}
{"book": "JAS", "chapter": 2, "verse": "20", "text": "Now do you want to recognize, O hollow (empty, void) man, that faith apart from (without) works is dead?"}
{"book": "JAS", "chapter": 2, "verse": "21", "text": "Was not Abraham our father justified from out of works, having offered Isaac his son upon the altar?"}
{"book": "JAS", "chapter": 2, "verse": "22", "text": "You see that his faith was working with his works; and from out of his works, his faith was perfected."}
{"book": "JAS", "chapter": 2, "verse": "23", "text": "And the Scripture was fulfilled saying, “And Abraham believed upon God and it was reckoned to him unto righteousness (justice)”, and he was called a friend (philos-friend, beloved, dearly loved, latin-amicus-friend) of God."}
{"book": "JAS", "chapter": 2, "verse": "24", "text": "You see that from out of works a man is justified and not from out of faith alone (only)."}
{"book": "JAS", "chapter": 2, "verse": "25", "text": "Likewise also was not Rahab the prostitute (porne) justified from out of works, having received the messengers (angelous) and having sent them forth by another way?"}
{"book": "JAS", "chapter": 2, "verse": "26", "text": "For just as the body apart from (without, separate of) the spirit is dead; so also faith apart from works is dead."}
{"book": "JAS", "chapter": 3, "verse": "1", "text": "My brothers, let not many of you be teachers, knowing that we will receive greater judgment."}
{"book": "JAS", "chapter": 3, "verse": "2", "text": "For we all stumble in many [things/ways]. [Or- For we stumble all in many things/ways]. If anyone does not stumble in word, this one is a perfect man, able to lead with a bridle his whole body."}
{"book": "JAS", "chapter": 3, "verse": "3", "text": "And if we put bits into the mouths of horses for (unto) them to be persuaded of us, and we turn about (direct, change the position of) their whole body."}
{"book": "JAS", "chapter": 3, "verse": "4", "text": "Behold, also the ships, being so great, and being driven (pushed, propelled) under strong winds are turned about by (under) a very small rudder, wherever the impulse (rapid motion forwards, onrush) of him steering wills."}
{"book": "JAS", "chapter": 3, "verse": "5", "text": "Thus also the tongue is a small member (limb, organ) and boasts great things. Behold, a small fire ignites (lights up, sets on fire, kindles, latin-incendit-burned root is arson like incendiary) such a great forest;"}
{"book": "JAS", "chapter": 3, "verse": "6", "text": "The tongue is also a fire, a world of injustice (unrighteousness). The tongue is appointed (set in order, put in charge) in our members, defiling (staining) the whole body, and setting on fire (inflaming, causing to blaze) the course of life (nature, birth, origin) [wheel of human origin], and itself being set on fire (inflamed) by (under) hell (Gehenna, greek-geennes, latin-gehenna)."}
{"book": "JAS", "chapter": 3, "verse": "7", "text": "For every nature (physis-inner nature) of beasts and of birds, of creeping creatures (greek-herpeton- reptiles, crawling things, latin-serpentium-reptiles roots are serpent/snake) and of marine creatures (things living in the sea) is subdued (tamed) and has been subdued (tamed) by the human nature (physis-inner nature);"}
{"book": "JAS", "chapter": 3, "verse": "8", "text": "However no one is able to subdue (tame) the tongue of men; it is an unstable (unsettled, inquietum-restless) evil (kakon), full of deadly poison (rust)."}
{"book": "JAS", "chapter": 3, "verse": "9", "text": "In it we bless our Lord and Father, and in it we curse men, those being made according to the likeness of God."}
{"book": "JAS", "chapter": 3, "verse": "10", "text": "From out of the same mouth come/go out blessing and cursing. My brothers, these things ought not to be so."}
{"book": "JAS", "chapter": 3, "verse": "11", "text": "Does the spring gush forth (full to bursting) [both] fresh (greek-glyky like glucose, sweet) and bitter (sharp, acrid) from out of the same opening?"}
{"book": "JAS", "chapter": 3, "verse": "12", "text": "My brothers, Is a fig tree able to produce olives? Or a grapevine figs? Nor can a salt [spring] produce fresh (sweet) water."}
{"book": "JAS", "chapter": 3, "verse": "13", "text": "Who is wise and skillfully experienced (skilled, endued with knowledge, long understanding, stood upon, thoroughly knowledgeable from gaining understanding over a long term) among (in) you; let him show from out of his good conduct (behavior) his works in the meekness (mild/gentle-strength/force) of wisdom;"}
{"book": "JAS", "chapter": 3, "verse": "14", "text": "However if you have bitter jealousy (rivalry, zeal, fervency) and self-seeking (selfish ambition/interest/rivalry, mercenary self-seeking) in your heart, boast not of it and lie against the truth."}
{"book": "JAS", "chapter": 3, "verse": "15", "text": "This wisdom is not coming down from above, but rather is earthly (of the earth, upon earth), soulish (psychikos- of the soul, natural, sensual, animal), demon-like (demonic). [Or- but rather is of the earth, of the soul, such as demons have]."}
{"book": "JAS", "chapter": 3, "verse": "16", "text": "For where jealousy and self-seeking exist, there is instability (instability bringing on disorder/disturbance, commotion) and every vile (phaulon- worthless, wicked, foul, latin-pravum-degenerate possibly English root of depraved) practice (pragma- habit, matter, everyday business, latin-opus-work)."}
{"book": "JAS", "chapter": 3, "verse": "17", "text": "However the wisdom from above is first pure (holy, unadultered, unmixed), then peaceable, equitable (upon fair, seemly, yielding, gentle by being truly fair to spirit over law), well-persuaded (pre-disposed, already inclined/willing, compliant, reasonable), full of mercy and of good fruits, unambiguous (indistinguishable, without uncertainty, impartial), and unhypocritical (sincere, authentic, genuine, not a phony, undisguised, unfeigned)."}
{"book": "JAS", "chapter": 3, "verse": "18", "text": "And the fruit of righteousness (justice) is sown in peace by those making (doing) peace."}
{"book": "JAS", "chapter": 4, "verse": "1", "text": "From where come battles (wars, disputes, strifes, latin-bella-wars) and from where conflicts (fights, contentions, latin-lites-debates) among you? Is it not from there, from out of your sensual pleasures (hedonon like hedonistic, pleasure senses) waging war in your members (limbs, organs)?"}
{"book": "JAS", "chapter": 4, "verse": "2", "text": "You passionately urge upon and have (hold, possess) not; you murder and envy (are jealous), and are not able to obtain (to hit the mark); you fight and battle, yet you have not, because of your not asking."}
{"book": "JAS", "chapter": 4, "verse": "3", "text": "You ask and do not receive, because you ask wrongly (badly, kakos), so that you might spend (expend) it in your sensual pleasures (pleasure senses, hedonais)."}
{"book": "JAS", "chapter": 4, "verse": "4", "text": "Adultresses! Do you not know that the friendship (friend love, latin-amicita-friendship like amicable) with the world is enmity (enemy, hostility, latin-inimica-hostile) to God? Whoever then has resolved (willed, determined, resolutely planned) to be a friend of the world is constituted (set down in place, appointed, latin-constituitur-constituted roots are appoint/ determine) an enemy (someone openly hostile) of God."}
{"book": "JAS", "chapter": 4, "verse": "5", "text": "Or do you think that the Scripture says in vain, “The Spirit that He has made to dwell (settle down as a permanent resident, inhabit, reside) in us earnestly yearns (yearns upon) with envy?”"}
{"book": "JAS", "chapter": 4, "verse": "6", "text": "However He gives greater grace. Therefore He says, “God resists (sets Himself against, squares off to, opposes, to arrange against) the proud (arrogant, over-shining), however gives grace to the humble (lowly).”"}
{"book": "JAS", "chapter": 4, "verse": "7", "text": "Be subject (arranged under) then to God. And stand against (stand opposed, fully oppose, latin-resisite-resist) the devil and he will flee (escape, shun, avoid in flight) away from you."}
{"book": "JAS", "chapter": 4, "verse": "8", "text": "Draw near to (approach) God and He will draw near to you. Cleanse (katharisate) your hands, you sinners and have purified (hagnisate) your hearts, you double-souled (dipsychoi, two-souled, double-self)."}
{"book": "JAS", "chapter": 4, "verse": "9", "text": "Realize your own misery/wretchedness/calloused-ness (to bear/undergo callous, miserable, distressed, afflicted, miseri-wretched miseri estote-grieve, wretched (beaten down) from continued strain leaving one full of callouses/deep misery), and mourn and weep aloud. Let your laughter be turned into mourning and your joy into gloom (dejection, downcastness, to bring to light/appear down, your shine/appearing is down)."}
{"book": "JAS", "chapter": 4, "verse": "10", "text": "Be humble (lowly) in the sight of the Lord and He will exalt (uplift, raise high) you."}
{"book": "JAS", "chapter": 4, "verse": "11", "text": "Do not speak against (down) one another, brothers. The one speaking against his brother or judging his brother, speaks against the law, and judges the law. And if you judge the law, you are not a doer of the judge, but rather a judge."}
{"book": "JAS", "chapter": 4, "verse": "12", "text": "There is One lawgiver and judge, being able to save and to destroy. However, who are you judging your neighbor (nearby one)?"}
{"book": "JAS", "chapter": 4, "verse": "13", "text": "Come now, those saying, “Today or tomorrow, we will go into this city and will spend (do, make) a year there, and will trade (our English root for emporium) and will make a gain” –"}
{"book": "JAS", "chapter": 4, "verse": "14", "text": "You who do not know what will happen on the next day, what is your life? For it is a vapor appearing for a little and then vanishing,"}
{"book": "JAS", "chapter": 4, "verse": "15", "text": "Instead you ought to say, “If the Lord should will, we will live and we will do this or that.”"}
{"book": "JAS", "chapter": 4, "verse": "16", "text": "Now, however, you boast (latin-exultatis-rejoice root is exalt) in your empty boastfulness (pretensions, vauntings, superbness, superbiis-presumptions root is pride/superb/higher like presumptive pride). All such boasting is evil."}
{"book": "JAS", "chapter": 4, "verse": "17", "text": "To him knowing then to do good (kalon) and not doing it, to him it is sin."}
{"book": "JAS", "chapter": 5, "verse": "1", "text": "Come now, you rich, weep aloud, wailing upon the miseries that are coming upon you."}
{"book": "JAS", "chapter": 5, "verse": "2", "text": "You riches have rotted (corrupted) and your garments have become moth-eaten."}
{"book": "JAS", "chapter": 5, "verse": "3", "text": "Your gold and silver have corroded (rusted over, tarnished) and their corrosion (rust, latin-erugo-corrosion) will be a testimony unto you and will eat your flesh like as fire. You have stored up treasure in the last days."}
{"book": "JAS", "chapter": 5, "verse": "4", "text": "Behold, the wage of the workmen having harvested (reaped, mowed) your fields, having been kept away from (by defrauding/depriving) by you, piercingly cries out (cry out loudly with an urgent scream/shriek), and the strong cry of those having harvested has entered into (unto) the ears of the Lord of Hosts (Sabaoth-armies, innumerable throng)."}
{"book": "JAS", "chapter": 5, "verse": "5", "text": "You lived in over-indulgence (luxury) upon the earth and lived extravagantly (lived with riotousness, wastefulness, and prodigality); you have enlarged (fattened, nourished, grown) your hearts in the day of slaughter;"}
{"book": "JAS", "chapter": 5, "verse": "6", "text": "You have condemned and have murdered the righteous (just); he does not resist (arrange opposite/against) you."}
{"book": "JAS", "chapter": 5, "verse": "7", "text": "Be long-temperate (patient) then, brothers, until the coming of the Lord. Behold, the farmer awaits the precious (of great price/value) fruit of the earth, being long-temperate (patient) upon it until it receives the early [greek root is dawning/early in the morning, autumn, crop/rain] and latter [late in the year, spring, rain/crop]."}
{"book": "JAS", "chapter": 5, "verse": "8", "text": "Be you also long-temperate (patient); fix firmly (latin-confirmate-confirm) your hearts, since the coming of the Lord has drawn near."}
{"book": "JAS", "chapter": 5, "verse": "9", "text": "Brothers, do not groan within (latin roots are groan/sigh) against one another, so that you might not be condemned. Behold, the Judge is standing before the doors."}
{"book": "JAS", "chapter": 5, "verse": "10", "text": "Take as an example, brothers, the prophets, who spoke in the name of the Lord, as an example of suffering evils and of long-temperence."}
{"book": "JAS", "chapter": 5, "verse": "11", "text": "Behold we count blessed those having endured. You have heard of the endurance of Job and you have seen the outcome of the Lord that the Lord is deeply visceral (very tender-mercied, very compassionate, many-boweled) and deeply sympathetic (deep sensitivity/sympathy/compassion) [latin words mean merciful and compassionate as in opposite being a miser/miserable]."}
{"book": "JAS", "chapter": 5, "verse": "12", "text": "Before all however, my brothers, do not swear (take an oath), neither by heaven, nor by the earth, nor by any other oath; however let your yes be yes and your no be no, so that you might not fall under judgment."}
{"book": "JAS", "chapter": 5, "verse": "13", "text": "Is anyone among you suffering evil (pain, hardship, affliction)? Let him pray; Is anyone cheerful (of good passion)? Let him make music (sing/play psalms);"}
{"book": "JAS", "chapter": 5, "verse": "14", "text": "Is anyone sick (asthenei- weak, feeble, infirmed) among you? Let him call to the elders (presbyterous) of the church and let them pray upon him, having anointed him with oil (olive oil) in the name of the Lord."}
{"book": "JAS", "chapter": 5, "verse": "15", "text": "And the prayer (just euche, vow) of faith will save (sosei-save, heal) the one ailing (kamnonta- weary, ready to collapse) and the Lord will raise him up; and if he might be one having committed (done) sins, it will be discharged (sent away from, released) him."}
{"book": "JAS", "chapter": 5, "verse": "16", "text": "Therefore, wholly confess (fully agree, wholly out from-say the same thing about) your sins to one another, and pray (euchesthe) for one another so that you might be healed (iathete). The effecting (operative, accomplishing, energoumene- like energizing) heart-felt petition (deesis-supplication) of a righteous (just) man prevails (has power and is strong against resistence) much. [The energizing supplication of a just man overpowers much]."}
{"book": "JAS", "chapter": 5, "verse": "17", "text": "Elijah was a man of like feelings/passions to us; and he prayed for it not to rain with prayer and it did not rain upon the earth for three years and six months."}
{"book": "JAS", "chapter": 5, "verse": "18", "text": "And again he prayed and the heaven gave rain and the earth produced its fruit."}
{"book": "JAS", "chapter": 5, "verse": "19", "text": "My brothers, if anyone among you might wander away from the truth and someone should turn him back,"}
{"book": "JAS", "chapter": 5, "verse": "20", "text": "Let him know, the one having turned back a sinner from out of the error of his way, will save his soul from out of death and will cover over a multitude of sins."}
{"book": "1PE", "chapter": 1, "verse": "1", "text": "Peter, apostle of Jesus Christ, to the elect sojourners (sojourners in a strange place. Foreigners, exiles) of the dispersion (Diasporas, latin-dispersionis, scattered) of Pontus, Galatia, Cappadocia, Asia, and Bithynia,"}
{"book": "1PE", "chapter": 1, "verse": "2", "text": "According to the foreknowledge (greek-prognosin like prognosis) of God the Father, in (by) the sanctification of the Spirit, unto the compliance and sprinkling of the blood of Jesus Christ: May grace and peace be multiplied (increased, made full) to you."}
{"book": "1PE", "chapter": 1, "verse": "3", "text": "Blessed is the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ who according to His great (much) mercy, having regenerated (give birth up/again, born again) us, unto a living hope, through the resurrection (standing up/again, raising up of Jesus Christ from out of the dead,"}
{"book": "1PE", "chapter": 1, "verse": "4", "text": "unto (into) an inheritance imperishable and undefiled (unstained) and unfading, being reserved (kept and guarded) in the heavens unto you,"}
{"book": "1PE", "chapter": 1, "verse": "5", "text": "Who are being guarded in (by) the power of God through faith, unto the salvation ready (prepared) to be revealed (uncovered) in the last (eschato) time."}
{"book": "1PE", "chapter": 1, "verse": "6", "text": "In this you greatly rejoice (much/very-leap/jump), even though now for a little while, if being necessary, you have been put to grief (deep sadness, severe sorrow, distress) by (in) various trials,"}
{"book": "1PE", "chapter": 1, "verse": "7", "text": "So that the proving (approved genuine after testing) of your faith, much more precious than gold that is perishing, and being proved (approved with testing) through fire, might be found unto praise, and glory, and value (price, honor), in the revelation (apokalypsei, to pull the cover away from) of Jesus Christ;"}
{"book": "1PE", "chapter": 1, "verse": "8", "text": "Whom having not seen, you love; unto whom though now not seeing, however believing, you greatly rejoice with joy inexpressible (not fully tell-able) and filled with glory,"}
{"book": "1PE", "chapter": 1, "verse": "9", "text": "Receiving the consummation (end-goal, outcome) of your faith, the salvation of your souls."}
{"book": "1PE", "chapter": 1, "verse": "10", "text": "Concerning this salvation, the prophets sought out and searched out diligently, who have prophesied about the grace unto you;"}
{"book": "1PE", "chapter": 1, "verse": "11", "text": "Searching diligently into who or what manner of time the Spirit of Christ in them was making evident (making plain/clear, indicating, signifying, latin-significaret-signify), testifying beforehand unto the sufferings of Christ and the glories after these;"}
{"book": "1PE", "chapter": 1, "verse": "12", "text": "To whom it was revealed that not themselves however to you they were ministering in those things, which now have been announced to you through those having preached the gospel to you in (by) the Holy Spirit, having been sent (apostatenti- like an apostle) from heaven; into which angels passionately long to look intently."}
{"book": "1PE", "chapter": 1, "verse": "13", "text": "Therefore, having girded up (latin-succincti-tucked) the loins (latin-lumbos-waist like lumbar) of your mind (thorough reasoning, critical thinking) [prepared your minds for action], being sober-minded, fully (completely) set your hope upon the grace being brought to you at (in) the revelation of Jesus Christ;"}
{"book": "1PE", "chapter": 1, "verse": "14", "text": "As children of compliance (obedience), not conforming (fashioning, latin-configurati-fashioned root is configure, assuming a similar outward form/expression by following the same pattern) yourselves to the former passionate urges in your ignorance (unknowing);"}
{"book": "1PE", "chapter": 1, "verse": "15", "text": "But rather according to the Holy One having called you, also be (become) holy yourselves in all your conduct (manner of life, behavior);"}
{"book": "1PE", "chapter": 1, "verse": "16", "text": "Because it has been written, “You will be holy, because I am holy.”"}
{"book": "1PE", "chapter": 1, "verse": "17", "text": "And if you call upon as Father the One judging impartially, according to each one’s work, conduct yourselves in fear during the time of your sojourning (stay in a strange land),"}
{"book": "1PE", "chapter": 1, "verse": "18", "text": "Knowing that you were redeemed from out of your futile (aimless, useless, purposeless, groundless, vain) manner of life (conduct, behavior) passed down from your fathers (inherited) not by perishable things- by silver or by gold;"}
{"book": "1PE", "chapter": 1, "verse": "19", "text": "But rather by the precious (of great value/price/honor) blood of Christ, as of the lamb without blemish, and without spot;"}
{"book": "1PE", "chapter": 1, "verse": "20", "text": "Having been foreknown indeed before the foundation of the world, however having been made apparent (visible, clear, manifest) upon the last (eschatou) times for your sake,"}
{"book": "1PE", "chapter": 1, "verse": "21", "text": "Who through Him believe unto God having raised Him up from out of the dead and having given Him glory; so that your faith and hope be in God."}
{"book": "1PE", "chapter": 1, "verse": "22", "text": "Having purified (greek word for holy, cleansed from defilement) your souls by (in) compliance (obedience) to the truth unto authentic (genuine, sincere, without hyprocrisy, not phony) brotherly love, love one another fervently (fully-stretched, extended out, intently) from out of a pure (purged clean) heart."}
{"book": "1PE", "chapter": 1, "verse": "23", "text": "Having been born again (regenerated, latin-renati-reborn, born again/up), not from out of perishable seed, but rather of imperishable, through the living and abiding (remaining) word of God."}
{"book": "1PE", "chapter": 1, "verse": "24", "text": "Because, “All flesh is like as grass and all its glory like as the flower of grass. The grass withers and the flower falls off,"}
{"book": "1PE", "chapter": 1, "verse": "25", "text": "However the word (saying, rhema) of the Lord abides unto the age.” And this is word (saying, rhema) having been preached unto you."}
{"book": "1PE", "chapter": 2, "verse": "1", "text": "Therefore, having put off (set/placed away from) all malice (kakian-inherent evil) and all deceit (deceit by trickery, baiting) and hypocrisies (latin-simulationes-simulations root is pretend) and envies (grudges, spites, feelings that sour, feelings of ill-will) and all evil-speakings,"}
{"book": "1PE", "chapter": 2, "verse": "2", "text": "Yearn upon the divinely reasonable (logical, latin-rationale-rational) pure (unadulterated, guileless, genuine, without trickery/deceit, free from fraud/craftiness/adulteration) milk like as newborn babies, so that in (by) it you might grow into (unto) salvation,"}
{"book": "1PE", "chapter": 2, "verse": "3", "text": "If you have tasted that the Lord is good (suitable, usefully beneficial, latin-dulcis-sweet root is fresh)."}
{"book": "1PE", "chapter": 2, "verse": "4", "text": "To whom drawing near, a Living Stone, rejected by (under) men, however chosen (eklekton, selected, elected) and precious of (from close beside) God,"}
{"book": "1PE", "chapter": 2, "verse": "5", "text": "You yourselves also, as living stones, are being upbuilt, a spiritual house, unto (into) a holy priesthood, to offer up (lead/carry/bring up) acceptable (well-received) spiritual sacrifices to God through Jesus Christ."}
{"book": "1PE", "chapter": 2, "verse": "6", "text": "Therefore it is contained in Scripture: “Behold, I set (lay, place) in Zion a stone, a chosen (elect) and precious cornerstone; and the one believing upon Him should not be put to shame (shamed down, disgraced, latin-confundetur-confounded).”"}
{"book": "1PE", "chapter": 2, "verse": "7", "text": "To you believing therefore is the preciousness; however to those refusing to be persuaded, “The Stone which those building rejected, this has become unto the head of the corner;”"}
{"book": "1PE", "chapter": 2, "verse": "8", "text": "And, “A stone of stumbling and a rock of offense (snare, means of stumbling/tripping up, greek-skandalou like scandal, latin-offensionis-offence);” who stumble at the word, refusing to be persuaded, unto which they were also set (destined)."}
{"book": "1PE", "chapter": 2, "verse": "9", "text": "You, however, are “A chosen (elect) race (family, offspring, latin-genus-race), a kingly (royal, latin-regale-royal root is regal) priesthood, a holy ethnicity (greek-ethnos, people of a common culture, latin-gens-nation), a people made His own (possession, ownership, preservation, acquisition, obtaining, latin- adquisitionis- root is purchased like acquire/acquisition), ” that you might fully declare out the excellencies (virtues, moral goodness/excellence, latin-virtutes-virtues roots are power/man) of the One having called you from out of darkness into His marvelous (wonderful) light;"}
{"book": "1PE", "chapter": 2, "verse": "10", "text": "Who were once not a people, however now the people of God; those having not received mercy and now having received mercy."}
{"book": "1PE", "chapter": 2, "verse": "11", "text": "Beloved, I entreat you, as foreigners (strangers, temporary dwellers as non-citizens) and sojourners (residing in a strange country), to abstain away from (keep off, have/hold away from) fleshly passionate urges, which war (greek word like strategize) against the soul;"}
{"book": "1PE", "chapter": 2, "verse": "12", "text": "Holding your conduct winsomely good (kalen) among (in) the ethnicities, so that in which they speak against you like as evildoers, having witnessed from out of your good (kalon) deeds, they might glorify God in the day of inspection (episkopes, word close to overseer, oversight, scoping upon, looking intently upon, latin-visitationis-visitation)."}
{"book": "1PE", "chapter": 2, "verse": "13", "text": "Be in subjection (arranged under in rank) to every human institution (creation, latin- humanae creaturae- human creation) because of the Lord; whether to the king, as being supreme (surpassing, superior);"}
{"book": "1PE", "chapter": 2, "verse": "14", "text": "Or to governors as being sent through him unto retribution (vengeance, justice out from) to evildoers, and praise to good-doers;"}
{"book": "1PE", "chapter": 2, "verse": "15", "text": "Because this is the will of God: that by doing good you may put to silence (muzzle) the ignorance (unknowing) of unperceptive (senseless, without reason) men."}
{"book": "1PE", "chapter": 2, "verse": "16", "text": "Be as free (liberated) and not having the freedom as a cover-upon (cover-up) for evil (maliciousness), but rather as bond-slaves of God."}
{"book": "1PE", "chapter": 2, "verse": "17", "text": "Value everyone. Love the brotherhood. Fear God. Value the king."}
{"book": "1PE", "chapter": 2, "verse": "18", "text": "Household-servants (oiketai), being subject in all fear to masters, not only to the good and equitable, but rather also to the crooked (skolios, crooked because dried out, warped, morally twisted)."}
{"book": "1PE", "chapter": 2, "verse": "19", "text": "For this is favorably disposed (gracious), if because of conscience toward God, anyone endures griefs, suffering unjustly."}
{"book": "1PE", "chapter": 2, "verse": "20", "text": "For what sort of fame (credit, praise) is it, if sinning and being struck (struck with knuckles/fist) you shall endure it? But rather if doing good and suffering you shall endure it, this is favorably disposed (gracious) before God."}
{"book": "1PE", "chapter": 2, "verse": "21", "text": "For unto this you have been called, because Christ also suffered for you, leaving behind to you an example (writing to be copied) so that you should follow upon (after) His steps (tracks);"}
{"book": "1PE", "chapter": 2, "verse": "22", "text": "Who committed no sin, neither was found deceit (deceit by trickery) in His mouth;"}
{"book": "1PE", "chapter": 2, "verse": "23", "text": "Who, being reviled (verbally abused) did not revile in return; suffering did not threaten; however He gave Himself over to Him judging justly (righteously);"}
{"book": "1PE", "chapter": 2, "verse": "24", "text": "Who Himself bore (offered up, carried/lead/brought up) our sins in His body upon the tree, so that having been dead to sins, we might live to righteousness (justice); by whose wounds (bruises, stripes left by scourging, latin-livore-stripe root is bruises) you have been healed (iathete)."}
{"book": "1PE", "chapter": 2, "verse": "25", "text": "For you were like sheep going astray (wandering), but rather you have now returned (turned back) upon the Shepherd (latin- Pastorem-Pastor) and Overseer of your souls."}
{"book": "1PE", "chapter": 3, "verse": "1", "text": "Likewise wives, be subject (arranged under) to you own husbands, so that if any are refusing to be persuaded to the word, they will be gained (trade up, exchanging what is mediocre for the better), without word, through the conduct of their wives;"}
{"book": "1PE", "chapter": 3, "verse": "2", "text": "Having looked upon the pure reverence (fear) in your conduct;"}
{"book": "1PE", "chapter": 3, "verse": "3", "text": "Whose conduct, let it not be that external (latin-extrinsecus- externally like extrinsic) of elaborate braiding (plaiting/tressing, latin-capillaturae-hairstyles) of hair and putting around (latin-circumdatio-wearing) of gold or putting on of garments of adornment (beautification, kosmos-the world, used of decoration in greek as well like as an ornament of the heavens/universe);"}
{"book": "1PE", "chapter": 3, "verse": "4", "text": "But rather that of the hidden (secret) man of the heart, in the imperishable (uncorrupted) [adornment] of the meek (gentle/mild reserve with strength) and tranquil (calmly quiet/still) spirit, which is very precious (of great worth/price/cost) in the sight of God."}
{"book": "1PE", "chapter": 3, "verse": "5", "text": "For in this way of a former time the holy women also, hoping in God, adorned (ekosmoun root is kosmeo, put into order, decorate, to beautify by ordering the right arrangement, English root of cosmetics) themselves, being subject to their own husbands;"}
{"book": "1PE", "chapter": 3, "verse": "6", "text": "As Sarah complied under Abraham, calling him lord; of whom you have become children, doing good and not fearing any dismaying disturbance (consternation, dismay, fluttering/excitement caused by any emotion, latin-perturbationem-disturbance roots are perturbation/dismayed)."}
{"book": "1PE", "chapter": 3, "verse": "7", "text": "Husbands likewise, dwelling with them according to knowledge, rendering (apportioning, assigning) value (honor) to the female (wife) as a weaker vessel, also as joint-heirs of the grace of life, unto your prayers not being impeded (cut into by blocking, hindered, latin-inpediantur-hindered like impede)."}
{"book": "1PE", "chapter": 3, "verse": "8", "text": "Finally, all being same-minded (sharing the same perspective), sympathetic (greek-sympatheis), loving as brothers, tenderness (good viscerals), humble-minded (humility, lowliness of mind);"}
{"book": "1PE", "chapter": 3, "verse": "9", "text": "Not returning evil over against evil or insult (verbal abuse) over against insult; however on the contrary, blessing (speaking well of); that unto this you were called out to, so that you should inherit blessing."}
{"book": "1PE", "chapter": 3, "verse": "10", "text": "For, “The one wishing to love life and to see good days, let him cease his tongue (glossan) away from evil and lips not to speak deceit.”"}
{"book": "1PE", "chapter": 3, "verse": "11", "text": "Also “Let him turn away from evil and let him do good. Let him seek peace and let him earnestly pursue it.”"}
{"book": "1PE", "chapter": 3, "verse": "12", "text": "“Because the eyes of the Lord are upon the righteous and His ears unto their prayer. However, the face of the Lord is upon (against) those doing evil.”"}
{"book": "1PE", "chapter": 3, "verse": "13", "text": "And who is he who will ill-treat you if you should be zealous for that which is good?"}
{"book": "1PE", "chapter": 3, "verse": "14", "text": "But rather if you should suffer because of righteousness, you are blessed (happy, made large/long); and you should not be fearful of their fear (terror, intimidation, latin-timorem-fear) neither should you be troubled (agitated, stirred up);"}
{"book": "1PE", "chapter": 3, "verse": "15", "text": "However sanctify Christ as Lord in your hearts; always ready (prepared) with a defense (apologian) to everyone asking you a word concerning the hope in you; yet with meekness and fear,"}
{"book": "1PE", "chapter": 3, "verse": "16", "text": "Having a good conscience, so that in this when they might speak maliciously against you, those reviling abuse (threatening) upon your good manner of life in Christ, might be ashamed."}
{"book": "1PE", "chapter": 3, "verse": "17", "text": "For it is better, if the will of God wills it, to suffer for doing good than doing evil;"}
{"book": "1PE", "chapter": 3, "verse": "18", "text": "Because Christ indeed suffered once for all for sins, the Righteous for the unrighteous, so that He might bring us to God; having been put to death in the flesh, however having been made alive in the Spirit;"}
{"book": "1PE", "chapter": 3, "verse": "19", "text": "In which also having gone (traveled, transported) to the spirits in prison, He preached [to them];"}
{"book": "1PE", "chapter": 3, "verse": "20", "text": "Who at one time having refused to be persuaded, when the long-temperance of God was eagerly awaiting in the days of Noah while the ark was being prepared, into which a few, that is eight souls, were thoroughly saved through water;"}
{"book": "1PE", "chapter": 3, "verse": "21", "text": "Which also a corresponding type to us now of the baptism saving, not a putting away of the filth of the flesh, but rather the answer (response to an inquiry) unto God of a good conscience, through the resurrection of Jesus Christ;"}
{"book": "1PE", "chapter": 3, "verse": "22", "text": "Having gone into heaven, He is at (in) the right hand/side of God with the angels, and authorities, and powers having been subjected (arranged under) to Him."}
{"book": "1PE", "chapter": 4, "verse": "1", "text": "Therefore Christ having suffered in the flesh, also make ready (weaponize) yourselves with the same engaged mind (in-thinking); for the one having suffered in the flesh has ceased from sin;"}
{"book": "1PE", "chapter": 4, "verse": "2", "text": "No longer to live the still remaining time in the flesh unto men’s passionate urges, but rather to the will of God."}
{"book": "1PE", "chapter": 4, "verse": "3", "text": "For the past time is sufficient to have worked out the resolve of the ethnicities, having journeyed (gone, traveled) in unrestrained insolence (sensuality, looseness), passionate urges (lusts), drunkenness (overflowing with wine, excess of wine, wine-drinking, latin-vinolentiis-intoxication root is drunkard), debauched partying (includes unbridled sexual immorality, carousing, revellings, village-merrymaking that was wild, riotous, and with orgies, latin-rioting), drinking bouts (latin-carousing), and non-customary (lawless, unlawful, criminal) idolatries (image worship/render sacred service)."}
{"book": "1PE", "chapter": 4, "verse": "4", "text": "In this they think it strange of you not running with them into the same overflow of debauched prodigality (unsavedness, wastefulness), blaspheming you (speaking evil/defamation of you),"}
{"book": "1PE", "chapter": 4, "verse": "5", "text": "Who will give (return) word (account) to Him who is ready to judge the living and the dead."}
{"book": "1PE", "chapter": 4, "verse": "6", "text": "For unto this, even the gospel was preached to the dead, so that they might be judged indeed according to men in the flesh; however so they might live according to God in the spirit."}
{"book": "1PE", "chapter": 4, "verse": "7", "text": "Now the end of all has drawn near. Be sound-minded (safety-minded, sober/safe balanced outlook) therefore and be sober (unintoxicated) unto prayers;"}
{"book": "1PE", "chapter": 4, "verse": "8", "text": "Above all things, having fully extended (intent, stretched out, latin-continuam-continuous) love unto yourselves, because love covers over a multitude (greek like plethora) of sins;"}
{"book": "1PE", "chapter": 4, "verse": "9", "text": "Be hospitable (loving guests/strangers) unto one another without murmuring (grumbling);"}
{"book": "1PE", "chapter": 4, "verse": "10", "text": "Just as each has received a gift (charisma) ministering (diakonountes) it unto each other, as good (kaloi) stewards (household managers) of the manifold (many colored, of different/various colors/kinds) grace of God."}
{"book": "1PE", "chapter": 4, "verse": "11", "text": "If anyone speaks, as the oracles (logia-divine communication) of God; if anyone ministers (diakonei), as from out of the strength which God richly supplies, so that in all things God shall be glorified through Jesus Christ, to whom be the glory and the dominion (exerted power) unto the ages of the ages. Amen."}
{"book": "1PE", "chapter": 4, "verse": "12", "text": "Beloved, do not be surprised (think it strange) at the burning refinement with (to, towards) trial taking place among you, as if a strange thing were happening to you;"}
{"book": "1PE", "chapter": 4, "verse": "13", "text": "But rather just as you have shared in the sufferings of Christ, rejoice, so that also in the revelation of His glory, you might rejoice exulting."}
{"book": "1PE", "chapter": 4, "verse": "14", "text": "If you are insulted (reproached) in the name of Christ, you are blessed (made long/large); because the Spirit of glory and of God rests upon you; according to them He is blasphemed, however according to you He is glorified."}
{"book": "1PE", "chapter": 4, "verse": "15", "text": "For let not anyone of you suffer as a murderer, or a thief, or an evildoer, or as a prier into the affairs of others (troubling overseer/meddler/intruder of others office/affairs outside his calling);"}
{"book": "1PE", "chapter": 4, "verse": "16", "text": "If however as a Christian (greek-Christianos) let him not be ashamed; however let him glorify God in this name."}
{"book": "1PE", "chapter": 4, "verse": "17", "text": "Because the time for judgment has begun from the house of God; and if first from us, what will be the end (outcome) of those refusing to be persuaded of the gospel of God?"}
{"book": "1PE", "chapter": 4, "verse": "18", "text": "And, “If the righteous one with great difficulty (hardly, scarcely, barely) is saved, where will the ungodly (irreverent) and sinner appear?”"}
{"book": "1PE", "chapter": 4, "verse": "19", "text": "Therefore also, those suffering according to the will of God, let them commit (set/place close beside, entrust) their souls to the faithful Creator in good-doing."}
{"book": "1PE", "chapter": 5, "verse": "1", "text": "Elders (presbyterous) among you, I entreat, a fellow elder and witness of the sufferings of Christ, also who is a partaker (sharer) of the glory being about to be revealed:"}
{"book": "1PE", "chapter": 5, "verse": "2", "text": "Shepherd (pastor, tend to) the flock of God among you, exercising oversight (episkopountes- look intently/scope upon) not under compulsion (of necessity/force/constraint, latin-non coacto- not compulsory root is force/under duress), but rather willingly (voluntarily, latin-spontanee-willingly roots are spontaneous/yielding) according to God; nor for disgraceful gain (sordid/base/filthy gain), but rather readily (pre-inclined, eagerly, showing passion for in advance);"}
{"book": "1PE", "chapter": 5, "verse": "3", "text": "Not as exercising lordship over those in your charge (lot, assigned portion), but rather being examples (types) to the flock."}
{"book": "1PE", "chapter": 5, "verse": "4", "text": "And when the Chief Shepherd has been made apparent, you will receive the unfading crown of glory."}
{"book": "1PE", "chapter": 5, "verse": "5", "text": "Likewise, younger ones (new on the scene), be subject to your elders (presbyterois); and securely fasten humility on you all one to another; because, “God opposes (arranged against) the proud, however gives grace to the humble.”"}
{"book": "1PE", "chapter": 5, "verse": "6", "text": "Be humbled therefore under the mighty (strong, powerful, dominating) hand of God, so that He might exalt you (lift you up, raise high, elevate) in opportune time;"}
{"book": "1PE", "chapter": 5, "verse": "7", "text": "Having cast upon Him all your anxiety (what is separated from the whole, what divides/fractures a person’s being into parts, latin-sollicitudinem-carefulness root is anxiety), because with Him there is care (latin-cura-care) concerning (all about, all-around, encompassing) you."}
{"book": "1PE", "chapter": 5, "verse": "8", "text": "Be sober-minded; watch; your adversary (judge against, opponent, opponent at law like a prosecuting attorney), the devil, roaring as a loin who prowls (walks) about, seeking whom to devour (gulp down, swallow, drink down),"}
{"book": "1PE", "chapter": 5, "verse": "9", "text": "Whom you should fully stand against, firm in the faith, knowing the same sufferings are being completed upon in your brotherhood in the world."}
{"book": "1PE", "chapter": 5, "verse": "10", "text": "However the God of all grace, who has called you unto His eternal glory in Christ Jesus, you having suffered a little while, He Himself will complete (exactly fit together, properly adjust, latin-perficiet-completion roots are perfect/fulfill) you, will confirm (solidly plant, securely support, latin-confirmabit-confirm) you, will strengthen you, will establish (lay a foundation, ground, found, settle, latin-solidabit-firming) you."}
{"book": "1PE", "chapter": 5, "verse": "11", "text": "To Him be the dominion (exerted power) unto the ages of the ages. Amen."}
{"book": "1PE", "chapter": 5, "verse": "12", "text": "Through Silvanus, the faithful brother to you- as I regard him- I have written briefly, entreating and testifying upon that this is the true grace of God in which you stand."}
{"book": "1PE", "chapter": 5, "verse": "13", "text": "She that is elected with you in Babylon greets you; and Mark my son."}
{"book": "1PE", "chapter": 5, "verse": "14", "text": "Greet one another with (in) a friendly kiss of love. Peace be to all of you who are in Christ. Amen."}
{"book": "2PE", "chapter": 1, "verse": "1", "text": "Simon Peter, a bond-slave and apostle of Jesus Christ, to those who have obtained an equally valued (latin-coequal) faith with ours, through the righteousness (justice) of our God and Savior, Jesus Christ:"}
{"book": "2PE", "chapter": 1, "verse": "2", "text": "Grace to you and peace be multiplied in the knowledge (recognition, cognizance, know upon, latin-cognition) of God and of Jesus our Lord."}
{"book": "2PE", "chapter": 1, "verse": "3", "text": "His divine power having given to us all things advantageous for life and godliness through the knowledge (knowing upon, recognition, cognizance) of the One having called us to His own glory and virtue (moral excellence/goodness),"}
{"book": "2PE", "chapter": 1, "verse": "4", "text": "through which He has given His preciously valued (latin-pretiosa-expensive root is price) and great (latin-maxima-greatest) promises to us, so that through these you might become partakers of the divine (theias, latin-divinae) nature, having escaped (fled away from) the corruption (decay, deterioration, destruction from decay) in the world in passionate urge (lust)."}
{"book": "2PE", "chapter": 1, "verse": "5", "text": "And for this very reason also, personally carry through with all speedy diligence, supplying (supplying upon) virtue (excellence) in your faith,"}
{"book": "2PE", "chapter": 1, "verse": "6", "text": "and knowledge in virtue, and inner-dominion (mastery within, control within, temperance, latin-abstinentiam-abstinence) in knowledge; and endurance in inner-dominion;"}
{"book": "2PE", "chapter": 1, "verse": "7", "text": "and godliness in endurance; and brotherly affection in godliness; and love in brotherly affection."}
{"book": "2PE", "chapter": 1, "verse": "8", "text": "For these things already existing and abounding in you make you neither idle (lazy, inactive, non-working) nor unfruitful unto the knowledge (knowing upon, recognition, cognizance) of our Lord Jesus Christ;"}
{"book": "2PE", "chapter": 1, "verse": "9", "text": "For in whomever these things are not present, he is blind, being short sighted, having received forgetfulness of the purification (purging, cleansing) of his former sins."}
{"book": "2PE", "chapter": 1, "verse": "10", "text": "Therefore all the more, brothers, be speedily diligent, to make your calling and election (eklogen-choosing out, selection, conclusively speak out of and to a given outcome, latin-electionem) sure (secure, solid, solid/sure enough to walk on), for in practicing these things you shall never stumble at any time."}
{"book": "2PE", "chapter": 1, "verse": "11", "text": "For in this way the entrance into the eternal kingdom of our Lord and Savior, Jesus Christ will be richly (abundantly) supplied to you."}
{"book": "2PE", "chapter": 1, "verse": "12", "text": "Therefore I will always be ready to remind you concerning these things, although knowing them and having been confirmed in the truth being present in you."}
{"book": "2PE", "chapter": 1, "verse": "13", "text": "And I consider (lead, suppose) it right, as long as I am in this tabernacle, to stir you up (arouse your mind) by (in) reminding you;"}
{"book": "2PE", "chapter": 1, "verse": "14", "text": "Knowing that the putting off of my tabernacle is impending, just as also our Lord Jesus Christ has made evident (clear) to me;"}
{"book": "2PE", "chapter": 1, "verse": "15", "text": "And I will be speedily diligent to make a lasting remembrance of these things for you to always have after my departure."}
{"book": "2PE", "chapter": 1, "verse": "16", "text": "For we have not followed out cleverly devised myths (fables) when we made known to you the power and coming of our Lord Jesus Christ; but rather having been eyewitnesses (looker-upon, spectator) of His majesty (splendor, greatness, latin-magnitudinis-greatness like magnitude)."}
{"book": "2PE", "chapter": 1, "verse": "17", "text": "For having received honor (valuing) and glory from God the Father, such a voice having been brought (carried) to Him by (under) the Majestic Glory: “This is My beloved Son unto whom I am well-pleased.”"}
{"book": "2PE", "chapter": 1, "verse": "18", "text": "And this voice that we heard having been brought (carried) from out of heaven, when we were with Him on the holy mountain."}
{"book": "2PE", "chapter": 1, "verse": "19", "text": "And we have more sure the prophetic word, to which you do well taking heed, as to a lamp (oil-fed portable lamp) shining (latin-lucenti) in a dark place, until this day should have dawned and the morning star (light-bearing/carrying/bringing, radiant) should have arisen in your hearts;"}
{"book": "2PE", "chapter": 1, "verse": "20", "text": "Knowing this first, that all prophecy of Scripture is not of its own interpretation (to loose upon, unraveling, explanation, “untying/unpacking/unloosing unterpretation knots”)."}
{"book": "2PE", "chapter": 1, "verse": "21", "text": "For a prophecy was not brought forth (carried, beared) at any time by the will of man, but rather men spoke from God, being carried (brought forth, beared, latin-inspirati-inspired) by (under) the Holy Spirit."}
{"book": "2PE", "chapter": 2, "verse": "1", "text": "And there were also false prophets among the people, as also there will be false teachers among you, who will stealthily introduce destructive (ruinous, causing loss, cut off) heresies, even denying the Master having bought (purchased) them, bringing upon themselves swift destruction (ruin, loss)."}
{"book": "2PE", "chapter": 2, "verse": "2", "text": "And many will follow after their unrestrained insolence (sensuality, lewdness, looseness, violent spite that rejects restraint and indulges lawless insolence), through whom the way of the truth will be blasphemed (maligned, defamed, spoken evil of)."}
{"book": "2PE", "chapter": 2, "verse": "3", "text": "And in the desire for covetous advantage they will exploit you with fabricated (made-up, contrived, forged from something artificial, shaped from a mold thus predesigned, root of English word for plastic, latin-fictis-feigned root is madeup like fictitious) words; For whom the judgment of long ago is not idle (motionless, delaying, lingering) and their destruction (ruination) does not slumber (sleep)."}
{"book": "2PE", "chapter": 2, "verse": "4", "text": "For if God did not spare the angels having sinned, but rather cast them to Tartarus (kjv-hell, netherworld, under-world, place of punishment fit for demons, abode of the damned, term only used here), turned them over to chains of deep dark gloom (darkness so dense it is despairingly felt), being guarded (maintained, kept, watched over) unto judgment;"}
{"book": "2PE", "chapter": 2, "verse": "5", "text": "And He did not spare the ancient world, but rather preserved Noah, a herald (preacher) of righteousness, he being one of eight preserved, having brought a deluging flood (kataklysmon-greek word is like our word for cataclysm, latin-diluvium-flood like deluge) upon the world of the ungodly;"}
{"book": "2PE", "chapter": 2, "verse": "6", "text": "And having reduced to ashes (latin-reddigens cinerem- reducing to ashes like incinerated) the cities of Sodom and Gomorrah, He condemned them with a catastrophe (overthrow, katastrophe- greek word like catastrophe, ESV- to extinction, latin-eversione-overthrow root is destruction), having set an example to those being about to live ungodly;"}
{"book": "2PE", "chapter": 2, "verse": "7", "text": "And He rescued righteous (just) Lot, being oppressively overwhelmed (labored-down/against, worn out, oppressed, ill-treated, overpowered, latin-oppressum-oppressed roots are overwhelmed/suppression) under (by) the unrestrained insolent (sensual) conduct of the lawless ones (out of place, not set in place, illegal, criminal, licentious)—"}
{"book": "2PE", "chapter": 2, "verse": "8", "text": "For through seeing and hearing, the righteous (just) man, while residing among them, was tormented (tortured, vexed) in his righteous (just) soul day after day with their lawless deeds;"}
{"book": "2PE", "chapter": 2, "verse": "9", "text": "The Lord knows [how] to deliver the godly (pious, revering, devout) from out of trial (temptation, testing); and to keep (guard, watch over, maintain) the unrighteous being punished (chastised, to punish/curtail/dwarf in a way that restrains/impedes/restricts) unto the day of judgment;"}
{"book": "2PE", "chapter": 2, "verse": "10", "text": "And especially those walking after the flesh in the passionate urge (lust) of producing defilement (uncleanness) and despising (thinking little of, scorning, viewing down with a negative outlook/perspective) lordship (latin-dominationemque-powers roots are domination/ruled). They are blatant (presumptuous, bold, daring, darers who foolishly ignore what should make them afraid and blatantly practice their vile/disrespectful acts), self-pleasing (self-gratifying, self-indulging, greek roots are autos-self and hedomai- gratify/indulge/pleasure self), they do not tremble (shake with dread) blaspheming glorious ones;"}
{"book": "2PE", "chapter": 2, "verse": "11", "text": "Whereas angels, being greater in strength and power, do not bring a blasphemous judgment against them before the Lord."}
{"book": "2PE", "chapter": 2, "verse": "12", "text": "However these ones like as irrational natural (physika like physical) animals, having been born unto capture and destruction, blaspheming in what they are ignorant (unknowing) of, will also be destroyed in their destruction,"}
{"book": "2PE", "chapter": 2, "verse": "13", "text": "Suffering injustice (wrong) as the compensation of injustice (wrong-doing); As supposing it pleasure to over-indulge (effeminate luxury, feebleness brought on by self-indulgence/luxury, latin-delicias-delicacy) in the daytime; stains and blemishes, over-indulging (latin-deliciis affluentes-reveling) in their deceptions, feasting/entertaining lavishly (sumptuously) with you;"}
{"book": "2PE", "chapter": 2, "verse": "14", "text": "Having eyes full of adultery and unceasing from sin, enticing unstable (not firmly fixed, unsettled unestablished) souls; a heart having been exercised in having covetous craving (lusting for more, covetousness, advantage, latin-avaritiae-greed)—children of a curse!"}
{"book": "2PE", "chapter": 2, "verse": "15", "text": "Having left behind (abandoned, forsaken) the straight way, they have wandered astray, having followed (imitated) in the way of Balaam, son of Beor, who loved the wage (compensation) of unrighteousness (injustice);"}
{"book": "2PE", "chapter": 2, "verse": "16", "text": "And he had rebuke (reproof, refutation) for his own law-violating, a mute donkey (kjv-dumb ass) having spoken in a man’s voice, restrained the madness (thinking beside oneself, insanity, acting out of mind) of the prophet."}
{"book": "2PE", "chapter": 2, "verse": "17", "text": "These are the springs without water and mists being driven by a sudden storm (tempest, gale, squall, whirlwind, fierce wind), for whom the deep gloom of darkness has been reserved."}
{"book": "2PE", "chapter": 2, "verse": "18", "text": "For speaking words of pompous (oversized, exaggerating, braggart-like, swelling beyond, excessive weight/size) aimlessness (vanity, purposeless), they entice with (in) the passionate urges of the flesh to unrestrained insolence (sensuality, dissoluteness), those scarcely escaping from those living in wandering (error, deviant behavior);"}
{"book": "2PE", "chapter": 2, "verse": "19", "text": "While promising them freedom, they themselves being bond-slaves of corruption. For by what anyone has been overcome by (made inferior, subdued, defeated, latin-superatus-overcome), by that also he is enslaved."}
{"book": "2PE", "chapter": 2, "verse": "20", "text": "For if having escaped the contaminations (pollutions, defilements, stains) of the world in the knowledge (knowing upon, recognition, cognizance, latin-cognitione) of our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ, and in these again having been entangled (entwined, enweaved) they are overcome, having the last state become worse to them than the first."}
{"book": "2PE", "chapter": 2, "verse": "21", "text": "For better it would have been for them to not have known (latin-cognoscere-learned roots are known/recognized) the way of righteousness (justice), than having known it (latin-agnitionem-acknowledgment), to have turned back from out of the holy command having been closely delivered to them."}
{"book": "2PE", "chapter": 2, "verse": "22", "text": "It has happened to them of the true proverb: “A dog having returned upon its own vomit;” and “A sow having washed unto her rolling (wallowing) in the filth (dung, mud, mire, latin-luti-clay).”"}
{"book": "2PE", "chapter": 3, "verse": "1", "text": "This second letter, beloved, I already now am writing to you, in which I am stirring up (thoroughly arousing/ awakening) your transparent (clarity, shining of the sun-clear/transparent/brilliant as crystal, sincere because transparent, latin-sinceram-sincere) mind (disposition, understanding, critical/ dialectical/ thorough thinking) in remembrance,"}
{"book": "2PE", "chapter": 3, "verse": "2", "text": "Be mindful (recall) of the sayings (words, rhematon) having been spoken beforehand by (under) the holy prophets and the commandment of the Lord and Savior through (of) your apostles;"}
{"book": "2PE", "chapter": 3, "verse": "3", "text": "Knowing this first that there will come upon the last of the days mockers (scoffers) with scoffing (mocking) journeying (traveling, walking, going) according to their own passionate urges,"}
{"book": "2PE", "chapter": 3, "verse": "4", "text": "And saying, “Where is the promise of His coming (arrival)? For from the time that the fathers fell asleep, all things continue (remain) as they were from the beginning of creation.”"}
{"book": "2PE", "chapter": 3, "verse": "5", "text": "For this is concealed (escape notice, hidden) from them, they wanting (willing) it so, that the heavens existed long ago, and the earth (land, soil) having been composed (standing together, latin-consistens-consisting) from out of the water and through water by the word of God,"}
{"book": "2PE", "chapter": 3, "verse": "6", "text": "Through which the world at that time violently and completely perished having been deluged (inundated, flooded over, greek-kataklystheis like cataclysmed roots are kata-down/against and kludon-rough water/ violent surge/ to wash over), latin-inundatus-overflowed like inundated root is flooded) with water;"}
{"book": "2PE", "chapter": 3, "verse": "7", "text": "However now the heavens and the earth by the same word exist having been stored up for fire, being kept (guarded) unto the day of judgment and destruction of ungodly (impious, irreverent) men."}
{"book": "2PE", "chapter": 3, "verse": "8", "text": "And, beloved, do not let this one thing be hidden from (escape notice) you, that one day with the Lord is like as a thousand years; and a thousand years are like as one day."}
{"book": "2PE", "chapter": 3, "verse": "9", "text": "The Lord does not delay (unduly slow, tarry) His promise, as some suppose slowness (delay, tardiness), but rather He is long-temperate unto you, not willing for any to perish (be destroyed), but rather all to come (make room/space) unto repentance."}
{"book": "2PE", "chapter": 3, "verse": "10", "text": "Now the day of the Lord will arrive like as a thief in stealth, in which the heavens will pass away with a great rushing noise, and the elements will be dissolved (unbound/released so that something no longer holds together) fervently burning up with great heat, and the earth and the works in it will be exposed (discovered, found out)."}
{"book": "2PE", "chapter": 3, "verse": "11", "text": "All these things then being dissolved, what kind of persons it is necessary for you to be in holy conduct and godliness,"}
{"book": "2PE", "chapter": 3, "verse": "12", "text": "Expecting (awaiting, anticipating) and hastening (urging on) the coming (arrival) of the day of God, through which the heavens will be dissolved (latin-solventur-dissolved like become solvent), being set on fire, and the elements are melting away (made liquid), fervently burning up with great heat."}
{"book": "2PE", "chapter": 3, "verse": "13", "text": "And according to His promise, we are awaiting (expecting, anticipating) a new (fresh) heavens and a new earth in which righteousness (justice) resides (fixly dwells, settled down as a permanent resident)."}
{"book": "2PE", "chapter": 3, "verse": "14", "text": "Therefore, beloved, expecting these things, be speedily diligent to be found by Him in peace, unstained and unblemished."}
{"book": "2PE", "chapter": 3, "verse": "15", "text": "And the long-temperance of our Lord, consider as salvation; just as also our beloved brother Paul, wrote to you according to the wisdom having been given to him,"}
{"book": "2PE", "chapter": 3, "verse": "16", "text": "As he also does in all his letters (epistles), speaking in them concerning these things, among which some things are hard to be understood (difficult for the intellect), which the unlearned and unstable (not firmly fixed) distort (twist, pervert, latin-depravant-twist like deprave), like as also the remaining Scriptures to their own destruction."}
{"book": "2PE", "chapter": 3, "verse": "17", "text": "You, therefore, beloved, knowing this beforehand, keep vigilant guard, so that you have not been led away with the error (wandering, deviation) of the lawless ones (illegal, out of place) that you should fall from your own firm stability (latin-firmitate-firmness)."}
{"book": "2PE", "chapter": 3, "verse": "18", "text": "However grow in grace and in the knowledge of our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ. To Him be the glory both now and unto the day of eternity (the age). Amen."}
{"book": "1JN", "chapter": 1, "verse": "1", "text": "That which was from the beginning; that which we have heard; that which we have seen with our eyes; that which we have spectated, and our hands have touched, concerning the Word of Life;"}
{"book": "1JN", "chapter": 1, "verse": "2", "text": "And the life was made apparent and we have seen it and bear witness and announce (report, preach, proclaim) to you the eternal life, which was with the Father, and was made apparent (latin-apparuit-appeared) to us;"}
{"book": "1JN", "chapter": 1, "verse": "3", "text": "That which we have seen and have heard, we announce (report, preach, proclaim) also to you, so that you also might have fellowship with us; and indeed our fellowship is with the Father and with His Son, Jesus Christ."}
{"book": "1JN", "chapter": 1, "verse": "4", "text": "And we write these things so that our joy might be complete (full, fulfilled)."}
{"book": "1JN", "chapter": 1, "verse": "5", "text": "And this is the message (greek-angelia) that we have heard from Him and announce (preach, proclaim, report) to you, that God is light and in Him is no darkness at all."}
{"book": "1JN", "chapter": 1, "verse": "6", "text": "If we should say that we have fellowship with Him and yet should walk in the darkness, we lie and do not practice (do) the truth."}
{"book": "1JN", "chapter": 1, "verse": "7", "text": "However if we should walk in the light as He is in the light, we have fellowship with one another and the blood of Jesus, His Son, cleanses (purifies, purges) us away from all sin."}
{"book": "1JN", "chapter": 1, "verse": "8", "text": "If we should say that we do not have sin, we deceive (cause to wander) ourselves, and the truth is not in us."}
{"book": "1JN", "chapter": 1, "verse": "9", "text": "If we should confess our sins, He is faithful and just (righteous), so that He might remit (send away, discharge, release) us our sins and might cleanse (purify, purge) us away from all unrighteousness (injustice)."}
{"book": "1JN", "chapter": 1, "verse": "10", "text": "If we should say that we have not sinned, we make Him a liar, and His word is not in us."}
{"book": "1JN", "chapter": 2, "verse": "1", "text": "My little children, I am writing these things to you, so that you might not sin; and if anyone should sin, we have an Advocate (Paraclete, Parakleton- called to be close-beside, latin-advocatum-advocate) with (to, towards) the Father, Jesus Christ the Righteous (Just);"}
{"book": "1JN", "chapter": 2, "verse": "2", "text": "And He is the propitiation (greek-hilasmos- an atoning offering/sacrifice to appease/satisfy an angry/offended party, lation-propitiatio-propitiation) for our sins; and not only for ours, but rather also for the whole world."}
{"book": "1JN", "chapter": 2, "verse": "3", "text": "And by (in) this we know that we have come to know Him, if we should keep (guard, observe) His commandments."}
{"book": "1JN", "chapter": 2, "verse": "4", "text": "The one saying, “I have known Him, ” and is not keeping His commandments, is a liar, and the truth is not in him;"}
{"book": "1JN", "chapter": 2, "verse": "5", "text": "However whoever might keep His word, truly the love of God has been perfected in him. By (in) this we know that we are in Him:"}
{"book": "1JN", "chapter": 2, "verse": "6", "text": "The one saying (claiming) to abide (remain) in Him ought himself also to walk in the same way just as He walked."}
{"book": "1JN", "chapter": 2, "verse": "7", "text": "Beloved, I am not writing a new commandment to you, but rather an old commandment, which you have had from the beginning. The old commandment is the word that you have heard."}
{"book": "1JN", "chapter": 2, "verse": "8", "text": "I am again writing a new commandment to you, which is true in Him and in you, because the darkness is passing away (departing), and the true light already shines (appears)."}
{"book": "1JN", "chapter": 2, "verse": "9", "text": "The one saying (claiming) he is in the light, and is hating (detesting, denouncing) his brother, is in the darkness even until now."}
{"book": "1JN", "chapter": 2, "verse": "10", "text": "The one loving his brother, abides (remains) in the light and there is no cause for stumbling in him."}
{"book": "1JN", "chapter": 2, "verse": "11", "text": "However the one hating his brother is in the darkness and walks in the darkness; and does not know where he is going, because the darkness has blinded his eyes."}
{"book": "1JN", "chapter": 2, "verse": "12", "text": "I write to you, little children, because your sins have been remitted (sent away, discharged, released) you, through His name."}
{"book": "1JN", "chapter": 2, "verse": "13", "text": "I am writing to you, fathers, because you have known Him who is from the beginning. I am writing to you, young men, because you have overcome (conquered, niked, prevailed) the evil one (poneron). I have written to you, young children (paidia-child under training usually under 20), because you have known the Father."}
{"book": "1JN", "chapter": 2, "verse": "14", "text": "I have written to you, fathers, because you have known Him who is from the beginning. I have written to you, young men, because you are strong, and the word of God abides in you, you have overcome the evil one (poneron)."}
{"book": "1JN", "chapter": 2, "verse": "15", "text": "Do not love the world nor the things in the world. If anyone should love the world, the love of the Father is not in him;"}
{"book": "1JN", "chapter": 2, "verse": "16", "text": "Because all that which is in the world, the passionate urge of the flesh, and the passionate urge of the eyes, and the boastfulness (vaunting, empty boasts, braggadocios) of life, is not from out of the Father, but rather is from out of the world."}
{"book": "1JN", "chapter": 2, "verse": "17", "text": "And the world is passing away and the passionate urge of it; however the one doing the will of God abides (remains) unto the age."}
{"book": "1JN", "chapter": 2, "verse": "18", "text": "Young children (paidia), it is the last hour, and just as you have heard that the antichrist is coming, even now many antichrists have emerged, whereby we know that it is the last hour."}
{"book": "1JN", "chapter": 2, "verse": "19", "text": "From out of us they went out, but rather they were not from out of us; for if they had been from out of us, they would have remained with us; but rather so that it might be made apparent that not all are from out of us."}
{"book": "1JN", "chapter": 2, "verse": "20", "text": "And you have the anointing (greek-chrisma root is anoint with oil, latin-unctionem-anointing) from (away from) the Holy One, and you know (perceive, see & know) all things."}
{"book": "1JN", "chapter": 2, "verse": "21", "text": "I have not written to you because you do not know the truth, but rather because you know it, and that any lie is not from out of the truth."}
{"book": "1JN", "chapter": 2, "verse": "22", "text": "Who is the liar, if not the one denying (repudiating, contradicting, refusing to affirm/confess, disowning) that Jesus is not the Christ? This is the antichrist, the one denying the Father and the Son."}
{"book": "1JN", "chapter": 2, "verse": "23", "text": "Everyone denying the Son, neither has he the Father. The one confessing (speaking the same conclusion) the Son, also has the Father."}
{"book": "1JN", "chapter": 2, "verse": "24", "text": "As for you, let what you have heard from the beginning abide (remain) in you. If what you have heard from the beginning should abide in you, you also will abide in the Son and in the Father."}
{"book": "1JN", "chapter": 2, "verse": "25", "text": "And this is the promise that He promised us: eternal life."}
{"book": "1JN", "chapter": 2, "verse": "26", "text": "I have written these things to you concerning those leading you astray (causing you to wander/deviate off-course);"}
{"book": "1JN", "chapter": 2, "verse": "27", "text": "As for you, the anointing that you received from Him abides in you, and you have no need that anyone should teach you; but rather as the same anointing teaches you concerning all things, and is true, and is not a lie; and just as it has taught you, you shall abide in Him."}
{"book": "1JN", "chapter": 2, "verse": "28", "text": "And now, little children, abide in Him, so that when He appears (is made apparent) we might have bold resolve (boldness), and not be put to shame from Him in (at) His coming (arrival)."}
{"book": "1JN", "chapter": 2, "verse": "29", "text": "If you know that He is righteous (just), you know that also everyone practicing righteousness (justice) has been begotten from out of Him."}
{"book": "1JN", "chapter": 3, "verse": "1", "text": "See what kind of love the Father has given to us that we should be and are called the children of God. Because of this, the world does not know us, because it did not know Him."}
{"book": "1JN", "chapter": 3, "verse": "2", "text": "Beloved, we are now the children of God and it has not yet been made apparent what we will be; we know that when he is made apparent that we will be like (resembling, the same as) Him, for we will see Him just as He is."}
{"book": "1JN", "chapter": 3, "verse": "3", "text": "And everyone having this hope upon Him, purifies himself, just as He is pure."}
{"book": "1JN", "chapter": 3, "verse": "4", "text": "Everyone practicing sin also practices lawlessness; and sin is lawlessness."}
{"book": "1JN", "chapter": 3, "verse": "5", "text": "And you know that He appeared, so that He might take away sins; and there is no sin in Him."}
{"book": "1JN", "chapter": 3, "verse": "6", "text": "Anyone not abiding in Him sins; anyone sinning has not seen Him nor has he known Him."}
{"book": "1JN", "chapter": 3, "verse": "7", "text": "Little children, let no one deceive (cause you to wander/deviate) you; the one practicing righteousness is righteous, just as He is righteous."}
{"book": "1JN", "chapter": 3, "verse": "8", "text": "The one practicing sin is from out of the devil; because the devil has been sinning from the beginning. The Son of God appeared unto this [reason/purpose], so that He might dissolve (unbind/release/loose so something no longer holds together, latin-dissolvat-undo root is dissolve, Darby-undo) the works of the devil."}
{"book": "1JN", "chapter": 3, "verse": "9", "text": "Anyone having been born (begotten) from out of God does not practice sin, because His seed abides in him and he is not able to continue sinning because he has been born (begotten) from out of God."}
{"book": "1JN", "chapter": 3, "verse": "10", "text": "In this the children of God are made apparent, and the children of the devil: Anyone not practicing righteousness is not from out of God; and also the one not loving his brother."}
{"book": "1JN", "chapter": 3, "verse": "11", "text": "Because this is the message that you have heard from the beginning, so that we should love one another;"}
{"book": "1JN", "chapter": 3, "verse": "12", "text": "Not just as Cain who was from out of the evil one (ponerou), and slew (slaughtered) his brother; and he slayed him because of what? Because his works were evil (ponera); and those of his brother, righteous."}
{"book": "1JN", "chapter": 3, "verse": "13", "text": "And do not be surprised, brothers, if the world hates (detests) you."}
{"book": "1JN", "chapter": 3, "verse": "14", "text": "We know that we have passed over from out of death unto life, because we love our brothers. The one not loving, abides in death."}
{"book": "1JN", "chapter": 3, "verse": "15", "text": "Everyone hating his brother is a murderer; and you know that any murderer has not eternal life abiding in him."}
{"book": "1JN", "chapter": 3, "verse": "16", "text": "In this we have known love, because He laid down His soul (psychen, life) for us; and we ought to lay down our souls (psychas, lives) for our brothers."}
{"book": "1JN", "chapter": 3, "verse": "17", "text": "And whoever might have the life’s subsistence (bion, life, livelihood, life’s possessions, latin-substantiam-substance) of the world and might see his brother having necessity, and might close up his viscerals (splanchna- heart, lungs, and other organs) from him, how does the love of God abide in him?"}
{"book": "1JN", "chapter": 3, "verse": "18", "text": "Little children, we should not love in word nor in tongue (glosse), but rather in deed and in truth."}
{"book": "1JN", "chapter": 3, "verse": "19", "text": "And in this we will know that we are from out of the truth and will persuade our heart (kardian) before Him."}
{"book": "1JN", "chapter": 3, "verse": "20", "text": "Because if our heart should condemn us, God is greater than our heart and He knows all things."}
{"book": "1JN", "chapter": 3, "verse": "21", "text": "Beloved, if our heart should not condemn us, we have boldness (bold resolve, confidence) toward God,"}
{"book": "1JN", "chapter": 3, "verse": "22", "text": "And whatever if we might ask, we receive from Him, because we keep His commandments and we practice the things pleasing in His sight."}
{"book": "1JN", "chapter": 3, "verse": "23", "text": "And this is His commandment, so that we should believe in the name of His Son, Jesus Christ, and we should love one another, just as He gave the commandment to us."}
{"book": "1JN", "chapter": 3, "verse": "24", "text": "And the one keeping His commandments abides in Him and He in him. And in this we know that He abides in us from out of the Spirit whom He gave to us."}
{"book": "1JN", "chapter": 4, "verse": "1", "text": "Beloved, do not believe every spirit, but rather test the spirits, if they are from out of God because many false prophets have gone out into the world."}
{"book": "1JN", "chapter": 4, "verse": "2", "text": "In this you know the Spirit of God: every spirit that confesses (voice/speak the same conclusion) Jesus Christ having come in the flesh is from out of God;"}
{"book": "1JN", "chapter": 4, "verse": "3", "text": "And every spirit that does not confess that Jesus Christ has come in the flesh is not from out of God. And this is that of the antichrist, which you heard that he is coming and now is already in the world."}
{"book": "1JN", "chapter": 4, "verse": "4", "text": "You are from out of God, little children, and have overcome them, because He who is in you is greater than he who is in the world."}
{"book": "1JN", "chapter": 4, "verse": "5", "text": "They are from out of the world; because of this they speak from out of the world, and the world listens (hears) to them."}
{"book": "1JN", "chapter": 4, "verse": "6", "text": "We are from out of God. The one knowing God listens to us. He who is not from out of God does not listen to us. In this we know the spirit of truth and the spirit of error (wandering, deviation, latin-erroris-error)."}
{"book": "1JN", "chapter": 4, "verse": "7", "text": "Beloved, we should love one another; because love is from out of God; and everyone loving has been born (begotten, brought forth, latin-natus-born) from out of God and knows God."}
{"book": "1JN", "chapter": 4, "verse": "8", "text": "The one not living, has not known God; because God is love."}
{"book": "1JN", "chapter": 4, "verse": "9", "text": "In this has been made apparent the love of God among (in) us, that God has sent His only-begotten (greek-monogene, latin-unigenitum-only-begotten) Son into the world, so that we might live through Him."}
{"book": "1JN", "chapter": 4, "verse": "10", "text": "In this is love, not that we loved God, but rather that He loved us and sent His Son, as a propitiation (latin-propitiationem, atoning sacrifice) for our sins."}
{"book": "1JN", "chapter": 4, "verse": "11", "text": "Beloved, if God so loved us, we also ought to love one another."}
{"book": "1JN", "chapter": 4, "verse": "12", "text": "No one at any time has spectated (gazed on as a spectator, beheld, intently observed) God; if we should love one another, God abides in us, and His love is perfected (having been perfected, consummated, matured, completed) in us."}
{"book": "1JN", "chapter": 4, "verse": "13", "text": "In this we know that we abide in Him and He is us, because He has given to us from out of His Spirit."}
{"book": "1JN", "chapter": 4, "verse": "14", "text": "And we have spectated and testified that the Father has sent the Son as Savior of the world."}
{"book": "1JN", "chapter": 4, "verse": "15", "text": "Whoever [if] shall confess that Jesus Christ is the Son of God, God abides in him and he in God."}
{"book": "1JN", "chapter": 4, "verse": "16", "text": "And we have come to know and have come to believe the love which God has in us. God is love, and the one abiding in love, abides in God, and God abides in him."}
{"book": "1JN", "chapter": 4, "verse": "17", "text": "In this love has been perfected with us, so that we might have boldness (confidence, bold resolve) in the day of judgment, that just as He is, we also are in this world."}
{"book": "1JN", "chapter": 4, "verse": "18", "text": "There is no fear in love, but rather perfect (mature, complete, consummate) love casts fear out (exo- outside, without); because fear has dreadful punishment (chastisement, correction, torment from living in dread of upcoming judgment, latin-poenam-penalty); and the one fearing has not been perfected (matured, consummated) in love."}
{"book": "1JN", "chapter": 4, "verse": "19", "text": "We love because He first loved us."}
{"book": "1JN", "chapter": 4, "verse": "20", "text": "If anyone should say, “I love God, ” and should hate his brother, he is a liar; for the one not loving his brother whom he has seen (perceived) is not able (empowered, has ability) to love God whom he has not seen (perceived)."}
{"book": "1JN", "chapter": 4, "verse": "21", "text": "And this commandment we have from Him, so that the one loving God should also love his brother."}
{"book": "1JN", "chapter": 5, "verse": "1", "text": "Everyone believing that Jesus is the Christ has been born from out of God and everyone loving the One having begotten Him also loves the One (one?) having been begotten from out of Him."}
{"book": "1JN", "chapter": 5, "verse": "2", "text": "In this we know that we love the children of God, when we love God and keep (do) His commandments."}
{"book": "1JN", "chapter": 5, "verse": "3", "text": "For this is the love of God, so that we should keep (observe, guard) His commandments; and His commandments are not heavy (weighty, oppressive, burdensome, latin-gravia-heavy like gravity)."}
{"book": "1JN", "chapter": 5, "verse": "4", "text": "Because everyone having been born from out of God overcomes the world; and this is the victory having overcome the world- our faith."}
{"book": "1JN", "chapter": 5, "verse": "5", "text": "And who is the one overcoming the world, if not the one believing that Jesus is the Son of God?"}
{"book": "1JN", "chapter": 5, "verse": "6", "text": "This is the one having come through water and blood, Jesus Christ; not in water only, but rather in water and in blood. And the Spirit is the One testifying, because the Spirit is the truth."}
{"book": "1JN", "chapter": 5, "verse": "7", "text": "Because there are three bearing testimony: [in heaven: the Father, the Word, and the Holy Spirit- and these three are one;--- this is not in some translations including the Latin Vulgate]"}
{"book": "1JN", "chapter": 5, "verse": "8", "text": "The Spirit and the water and the blood—and these three are unto one."}
{"book": "1JN", "chapter": 5, "verse": "9", "text": "If we receive the testimony of men, the testimony of God is greater. For this is the testimony of God, which He has testified concerning His Son."}
{"book": "1JN", "chapter": 5, "verse": "10", "text": "The one believing unto the Son of God has the testimony in himself; the one not believing God has made Him a liar, because he has not believed unto the testimony that God has testified concerning His Son."}
{"book": "1JN", "chapter": 5, "verse": "11", "text": "And this is the testimony, that God has given eternal life to us and this life is in His Son."}
{"book": "1JN", "chapter": 5, "verse": "12", "text": "The one having the Son has life: the one not having the Son of God has not life."}
{"book": "1JN", "chapter": 5, "verse": "13", "text": "I have written these things to you, to those believing unto the name of the Son of God, so that you might know that you have eternal life and so that you may believe unto the name of the Son of God."}
{"book": "1JN", "chapter": 5, "verse": "14", "text": "And this is the boldness (confidence, bold resolve) that we have toward Him, that if we might ask anything according to His will, He hears us."}
{"book": "1JN", "chapter": 5, "verse": "15", "text": "And if we know that He hears us, whatever [if] we might ask, we know that we have the requests that we have asked from Him."}
{"book": "1JN", "chapter": 5, "verse": "16", "text": "If anyone should see his brother sinning a sin not to (towards) death, he will ask and He will give him life- those sinning not to (towards) death. There is a sin to (towards) death; I do not speak concerning that [sin] so that one should implore (ask, question)."}
{"book": "1JN", "chapter": 5, "verse": "17", "text": "All unrighteousness (injustice) is sin; and there is a sin not to (towards) death."}
{"book": "1JN", "chapter": 5, "verse": "18", "text": "We know that everyone having been born from out of God does not continue to sin, but rather the One (one?) having been begotten from out of God keeps (guards, maintains, preserves) him (himself?), and the evil [one] (poneros) does not touch him."}
{"book": "1JN", "chapter": 5, "verse": "19", "text": "We know that we are from out of God and the whole world lies in the evil [one] (ponero)."}
{"book": "1JN", "chapter": 5, "verse": "20", "text": "And we know that the Son of God is come and has given us thorough understanding, so that we might know Him who is true; and we are in Him who is true, in His Son, Jesus Christ. He is the true God and eternal life."}
{"book": "1JN", "chapter": 5, "verse": "21", "text": "Little children keep (guard) yourselves away from idols. Amen."}
{"book": "2JN", "chapter": 1, "verse": "1", "text": "The elder (presbyteros) to the elect lady (possibly a real name instead of Kyria/Cyria- YLT-Kyria) and her children, whom I love in truth, and not only I, but rather also all those having known the truth-"}
{"book": "2JN", "chapter": 1, "verse": "2", "text": "Because of the truth abiding in us and will be with us unto the age:"}
{"book": "2JN", "chapter": 1, "verse": "3", "text": "Grace will be with us, mercy, peace from God the Father and from Jesus Christ, the Son of the Father, in truth and love."}
{"book": "2JN", "chapter": 1, "verse": "4", "text": "I rejoiced very much that I have found [some?] from out of your children [those?] walking in truth, just as we received commandment from the Father."}
{"book": "2JN", "chapter": 1, "verse": "5", "text": "And now I implore you, lady (Kyria/Cyria), I am not writing to you as a new commandment, but rather that which we have had from the beginning, so that we should love one another."}
{"book": "2JN", "chapter": 1, "verse": "6", "text": "And this is love, so that we should walk according to His commandments. This is the commandment, just as you have heard from the beginning, so that you should walk in it."}
{"book": "2JN", "chapter": 1, "verse": "7", "text": "Because many deceivers (wanderers, deviators, misleaders) have entered into the world, those not confessing Jesus Christ coming in flesh. This is the deceiver (planos) and the antichrist."}
{"book": "2JN", "chapter": 1, "verse": "8", "text": "Look to (watch, see) yourselves, so that you should not lose (destroy) what things we have accomplished (worked, done), but rather we might receive a full reward."}
{"book": "2JN", "chapter": 1, "verse": "9", "text": "Everyone proceeding (going before/further/forward/too far) and not abiding in the teaching of Christ has not God. The one abiding in the teaching, this one has the Father and the Son."}
{"book": "2JN", "chapter": 1, "verse": "10", "text": "If anyone comes to you and does not bring this teaching, do not receive him into your house and do not say to him, Rejoice! [a greeting- possibly Grace! Be glad! God speed!]."}
{"book": "2JN", "chapter": 1, "verse": "11", "text": "For the one saying to him a greeting [to rejoice] partakes (shares, fellowships) in his evil works."}
{"book": "2JN", "chapter": 1, "verse": "12", "text": "Having many things to write to you, I resolved not through paper and ink; but rather I hope to come to you and to speak mouth to mouth, so that our joy might be completed (full, fulfilled)."}
{"book": "2JN", "chapter": 1, "verse": "13", "text": "The children of your elect sister greet you. Amen."}
{"book": "3JN", "chapter": 1, "verse": "1", "text": "The elder (presbyteros) to the beloved Gaius, whom I love in truth."}
{"book": "3JN", "chapter": 1, "verse": "2", "text": "Beloved, I wish (euchomai, pray this does not have the “pros” that prayer usually has) concerning all things that you prosper (be on a good journey) and be healthy (root for English-hygiene), just as your soul (psyche) prospers."}
{"book": "3JN", "chapter": 1, "verse": "3", "text": "For I rejoiced very much, when the brothers came and testified of your truth, just as you are walking in truth."}
{"book": "3JN", "chapter": 1, "verse": "4", "text": "I have no greater joy than these things, so that I should hear of my children walking in the truth."}
{"book": "3JN", "chapter": 1, "verse": "5", "text": "Beloved, you are doing faithfully whatever, if you might have done unto the brothers [especially when] they are strangers;"}
{"book": "3JN", "chapter": 1, "verse": "6", "text": "Who testified of your love in the sight of the church, whom you will do well having set them forward [in a manner worthy] worthily of God;"}
{"book": "3JN", "chapter": 1, "verse": "7", "text": "For on behalf of the Name they went forth accepting nothing from the ethnicities."}
{"book": "3JN", "chapter": 1, "verse": "8", "text": "Therefore we ought to receive hospitably (take/bear up, support, under-take, latin-suscipere-receive) such [men], so that we might be fellow-workers (latin-cooperatores-collaborators like cooperators) with the truth."}
{"book": "3JN", "chapter": 1, "verse": "9", "text": "I have written something to the church; but rather Diotrephes, the one loving to be first among them, does not welcome (receive upon) us."}
{"book": "3JN", "chapter": 1, "verse": "10", "text": "Because of this, if I come, I will bring to remembrance his works which he is doing, prating (talking nonsense, gossiping, making empty charges) against us with evil words; and not being satisfied (sufficed) upon these, neither does he himself receive the brothers, and he forbids those resolving [to do so], and he casts them out of the church."}
{"book": "3JN", "chapter": 1, "verse": "11", "text": "Beloved, do not imitate what is evil (kakon), but rather what is good. The one doing good is from out of God; the one doing evil has not seen (perceived) God."}
{"book": "3JN", "chapter": 1, "verse": "12", "text": "To Demetrius witness has been given by all and by itself the truth; and we also bear witness and you know that our testimony is true."}
{"book": "3JN", "chapter": 1, "verse": "13", "text": "I had many things to write to you, but rather I do not wish to write to you through ink and reed-pen (reed);"}
{"book": "3JN", "chapter": 1, "verse": "14", "text": "And I hope to see you soon and we will speak mouth to mouth. [Peace to you. The friends greet you. Greet the friends by name.] –-- this is not is some translations nor the Latin Vulgate"}
{"book": "JUD", "chapter": 1, "verse": "1", "text": "Jude, bond-slave of Jesus Christ, and brother of James, to those called, having been loved in God the Father and having been kept (guarded) in (for) Jesus Christ."}
{"book": "JUD", "chapter": 1, "verse": "2", "text": "Mercy to you, and peace, and love be multiplied (increased)."}
{"book": "JUD", "chapter": 1, "verse": "3", "text": "Beloved, using all speedy diligence to write to you concerning our common (shared) salvation, I had necessity (compulsion, constraint) to write to you, entreating you to contend earnestly for the faith once for all having been given over to the saints."}
{"book": "JUD", "chapter": 1, "verse": "4", "text": "For certain men came in stealthily, those having been previously written of long ago unto this condemnation; ungodly ones, changing the grace of our God into unrestrained insolence (sensuality) and denying the only Master and our Lord, Jesus Christ."}
{"book": "JUD", "chapter": 1, "verse": "5", "text": "And I want to remind you, you having known all this at one time, that the Lord having saved a people from out of the land of Egypt, afterward (secondly) He destroyed those having not believed."}
{"book": "JUD", "chapter": 1, "verse": "6", "text": "And the angels having not kept (guard) their own principality (domain, origin, preeminence, latin-principatum-leadership), but rather having abandoned (left behind, latin-dereliquerunt-abandoned like derelicted) their own habitation, He keeps (guards) in eternal bonds (chains) under deep dark gloom (latin-caligine-thick) unto the judgment of the great day;"}
{"book": "JUD", "chapter": 1, "verse": "7", "text": "Just as Sodom and Gomorrah and the cities around them, in like manner gave themselves over to indulging in sexual immorality (fornication) and went after different (other) flesh, are set forth as an example of undergoing the penalty (verdict) of eternal fire."}
{"book": "JUD", "chapter": 1, "verse": "8", "text": "Yet also in like manner these dreaming ones, defile the flesh indeed, and set aside (un-place) authority (lordship), and blaspheme the glorious ones."}
{"book": "JUD", "chapter": 1, "verse": "9", "text": "However Michael the archangel, when disputing with the devil he reasoned about Moses’ body, did not dare to bring a blasphemous judgment upon/against him, but rather said, “The Lord censure you!” (the greek word used here in not the common one for rebuking, it is epitimesai which in a negative way means to not place value upon/ a warning to prevent something from going wrong, to sternly warn, latin-imperet-commands but with tibi it means rebuke-like imperative)"}
{"book": "JUD", "chapter": 1, "verse": "10", "text": "However they blaspheme whatever things they have not seen/known (seeing that becomes knowing); and whatever things they understand (stand upon) naturally, like as non-reasoning animals, in these things they corrupt (ruin) themselves."}
{"book": "JUD", "chapter": 1, "verse": "11", "text": "Woe to them! Because they went in the way of Cain and rushed to the error of Balaam for reward, and perished in the rebellious contradiction (latin-contradictione-contradiction/gainsaying) of Korah."}
{"book": "JUD", "chapter": 1, "verse": "12", "text": "These are the hidden reefs/rock ledges in the sea (greek-spilas) in your love-feasts, feasting together with you fearlessly, shepherding themselves; clouds without water being carried about by winds, trees in autumn without fruit, having twice died, having been uprooted;"}
{"book": "JUD", "chapter": 1, "verse": "13", "text": "Wild (fierce) waves of the sea, foaming out of their own shame; Wandering stars to whom the deep dark gloom of darkness has been reserved (kept, guarded) unto the age."}
{"book": "JUD", "chapter": 1, "verse": "14", "text": "And Enoch, the seventh from Adam prophesied also as to these, saying: “Behold, the Lord has come among myriads of His holy ones,"}
{"book": "JUD", "chapter": 1, "verse": "15", "text": "To execute (make, do) judgment against all, and to convict (convince compellingly, expose, reprove) all those ungodly ones concerning all their works of ungodliness which they have done in an ungodly way and concerning all the harsh things (stern, stiff, hard because dried out) that the ungodly sinners have spoken against Him.”"}
{"book": "JUD", "chapter": 1, "verse": "16", "text": "These are grumblers (murmurers), complainers (discontented), journeying after their own passionate urges; and their mouth speaks great swelling [words] (oversized, braggadocios, exaggerated), flattering (amazing, admiring, marveling at) people in favor of profit (assistance, benefit, advantage)."}
{"book": "JUD", "chapter": 1, "verse": "17", "text": "However you beloved, remember the words having been spoken beforehand by (under) the apostles of our Lord Jesus Christ,"}
{"book": "JUD", "chapter": 1, "verse": "18", "text": "That they said to you, “In the last time there will be mockers (scoffers) journeying after their own ungodly passionate urges.” [possibly translated- “In the last time there will be mockers according to their passionate urges journeying (walking) for ungodly things.”]"}
{"book": "JUD", "chapter": 1, "verse": "19", "text": "These are those segregating themselves (latin-segregant-separation like segregate, marking off, making a distinction, to boundary away from), soulish (natural, sensuous, animalistic, latin-animales-sensual root of anima means soul), not having the Spirit."}
{"book": "JUD", "chapter": 1, "verse": "20", "text": "However you, beloved, upbuilding yourselves upon your most holy faith, praying in the Holy Spirit; [in the Holy Spirit praying]"}
{"book": "JUD", "chapter": 1, "verse": "21", "text": "Keep (guard) yourselves in the love of God, awaiting expectantly the mercy of our Lord Jesus Christ unto eternal life."}
{"book": "JUD", "chapter": 1, "verse": "22", "text": "And those who are doubting (judging back and forth) indeed have mercy on;"}
{"book": "JUD", "chapter": 1, "verse": "23", "text": "And save others, snatching (seizing, rapturing) them from out of the fire; and to others show mercy in (with) fear, hating (detesting) even the undergarment (underwear, tunic worn next to the skin) having been stained from the flesh."}
{"book": "JUD", "chapter": 1, "verse": "24", "text": "Now to Him being able to keep (guard) you from stumbling and to present you unblemished with (in) exuberant joy (latin-exultatione-exultation roots are hearty/ rejoice) in the very presence (sight) of His glory,"}
{"book": "JUD", "chapter": 1, "verse": "25", "text": "To the only God our Savior, through Jesus Christ our Lord, be glory, majesty (greatness), dominion, and authority before all the age (aionos-age), and now, and unto all the ages (aionas). Amen."}
{"book": "REV", "chapter": 1, "verse": "1", "text": "The Revelation (Apokalypsis-same in greek and latin, to take the cover away from) of Jesus Christ, which God gave to Him to show to His bond-slaves what things must happen (become) in quickness (speed). And He signified it, having sent through His angel to His bond-slave, John,"}
{"book": "REV", "chapter": 1, "verse": "2", "text": "Who testified to the word of God and to the testimony of Jesus Christ, whatever things he saw (perceived)."}
{"book": "REV", "chapter": 1, "verse": "3", "text": "Blessed (happy, made large) is the one reading (knows again by reading) and those hearing the words of the prophecy and keeping (guarding) the things having been written in it; for the opportune time is near."}
{"book": "REV", "chapter": 1, "verse": "4", "text": "John to the seven churches that are in Asia: Grace to you and peace from Him being and who was and who is coming; and from (away from) the seven Spirits who are in the sight of His throne;"}
{"book": "REV", "chapter": 1, "verse": "5", "text": "And from (away from) Jesus Christ, the faithful witness, the firstborn (preeminent, first brought forth) of the dead, and the preeminent ruler (chief, one that takes precedence) of the kings of the earth. To the One loving us and releasing (loosing, dissolving, unbind so something no longer holds together) us from out of our sins in His blood,"}
{"book": "REV", "chapter": 1, "verse": "6", "text": "And He has made us a kingdom, priests to His God and Father [possibly- to God and His Father-kjv is in minority among translations on this]: To Him be the glory and the dominion unto the ages of the ages. Amen."}
{"book": "REV", "chapter": 1, "verse": "7", "text": "Behold, He is coming with the clouds and every eye will see Him, and those who pierced (latin-pupugerunt-puncturing) Him, and all the tribes (descendants of a common ancestor) of the earth will wail (be smitten, be striken, cut to the heart) upon Him. Certainly. Amen."}
{"book": "REV", "chapter": 1, "verse": "8", "text": "I am the Alpha and the Omega, [not is a lot of translations- the beginning (origin) and the ending (end)] says the Lord God, the One being and who was and who is coming, the Almighty (greek-Pantokrator- All-Prevailing/Ruling, latin-Omnipotens like Omnipotent)."}
{"book": "REV", "chapter": 1, "verse": "9", "text": "I, John, your brother, and fellow-partaker in the tribulation, and kingdom, and endurance, in Jesus, was on (in) the island called Patmos, because of the word of God and the testimony of Jesus."}
{"book": "REV", "chapter": 1, "verse": "10", "text": "I was (became, came into being, emerged, born) in the Spirit on (in) the Lord’s day, and I heard behind me a great (large) voice, like as a trumpet (salpingos-war-trumpet),"}
{"book": "REV", "chapter": 1, "verse": "11", "text": "Saying, [“I am the Alpha and the Omega, the first (protos) and the last (eshatos);” not in some translations and Latin Vulgate] “What you see (observe) write into a book (greek-biblion), and send to the seven churches: unto Ephesus, and unto Smyrna, and unto Pergamum, and unto Philadelphia, and unto Laodicea."}
{"book": "REV", "chapter": 1, "verse": "12", "text": "And I turned back (upon-turn) to see the voice that was speaking with me. And having turned back, I saw seven golden lampstands (latin-candelabra)"}
{"book": "REV", "chapter": 1, "verse": "13", "text": "and in the midst (middle) of the lampstands, one the same as (resembling, like) a Son of man, having been clothed to the feet and girded around the breasts with a golden sash (girdle, waistband, belt, latin-zonam-sash)."}
{"book": "REV", "chapter": 1, "verse": "14", "text": "And His head and His hairs were white like as wool, white like as snow; and His eyes were like as a flame of fire;"}
{"book": "REV", "chapter": 1, "verse": "15", "text": "And His feet were similar to (resembling, the same as, latin-similes-similar to) fine bronze (fine copper-bronze-brass), like as having been refined in a furnace; and His voice was like as the voice of many waters; it has to do with the facial/eye region) was like as the sun shining in its power."}
{"book": "REV", "chapter": 1, "verse": "16", "text": "And holding in His right hand, seven stars and from out of His mouth, a sharp (latin-acutus-acute) two-edged (double-mouthed, latin- utraque parte- both sides) sword (greek-rhomphaia- long/broad sword, latin-gladius-sword) going forth; and His face (sight, greek-opsis-sense of sight, outward appearance, features, countenance, latin-facies-face, not the normal word for eyes or face but close to ophthalomos, in John 11:44 it has to do with the facial/eye region) was like as the sun shining in its power."}
{"book": "REV", "chapter": 1, "verse": "17", "text": "And when I saw Him, I fell to His feet, like as dead. And He placed His right hand/side upon me, saying, “Fear not; I am the First and the Last;"}
{"book": "REV", "chapter": 1, "verse": "18", "text": "And the Living One. And I was dead, and behold (look) I am living unto the ages of the ages, and I hold the keys of death and of Hades (greek-hadou- literally the unseen place-not see, latin- inferni-hell like inferno)."}
{"book": "REV", "chapter": 1, "verse": "19", "text": "Write then the things that you have seen, and the things that are, and the things that are about to happen (become, emerge, be born, come into being) after (with) these."}
{"book": "REV", "chapter": 1, "verse": "20", "text": "As for the mystery of the seven stars, which you saw upon My right hand/side and the seven golden lampstands: The seven stars are the angels of the seven churches; and the seven lampstands are the seven churches."}
{"book": "REV", "chapter": 2, "verse": "1", "text": "To the angel of the church in Ephesus write: These things says He holding (kraton-ruling) the seven stars in His right hand/side, walking in the midst (middle) of the seven golden lampstands:"}
{"book": "REV", "chapter": 2, "verse": "2", "text": "“I know your works and your labor and endurance, and that you are not able to tolerate (take up, carry away, bear, latin is like sustain) evil [ones]; and you have tested those claiming (saying) to be apostles and are not and you have found them false (liars);"}
{"book": "REV", "chapter": 2, "verse": "3", "text": "And you have endurance and have persevered (tolerated in last verse, latin-sustinuisti-endured like sustained) through My name and have not grown weary (exhausted, depleted, latin- defecisti like deficient)."}
{"book": "REV", "chapter": 2, "verse": "4", "text": "But rather I hold against you, that you have left (left alone, sent away from, in other verses forgiven/remitted is used here, latin-reliquisti-leave like relinquished, abandoned is a different word in greek) your first love."}
{"book": "REV", "chapter": 2, "verse": "5", "text": "Remember therefore from where you have fallen and repent and do the first works. However if not, I am coming to you and I will remove (move) your lampstand from out of its place if you should not repent."}
{"book": "REV", "chapter": 2, "verse": "6", "text": "But rather you have this, that you hate (detest) the works of the Nicolaitans, which I also hate (detest)."}
{"book": "REV", "chapter": 2, "verse": "7", "text": "The one having an ear, let him hear what the Spirit says to the churches. To the one overcoming, I will give to him to eat from out of the tree of life, which is in the paradise of God."}
{"book": "REV", "chapter": 2, "verse": "8", "text": "And to the angel of the church in Smyrna write: These things says the First and the Last, who became dead and came to life:"}
{"book": "REV", "chapter": 2, "verse": "9", "text": "I know your tribulation and poverty—but rather you are rich (wealthy)—and the blasphemy from out of those claiming (saying) to be themselves Jews but rather are a synagogue of Satan."}
{"book": "REV", "chapter": 2, "verse": "10", "text": "Fear not what you are about to suffer. Behold, the devil is about to cast [some] from out of you into prison so that you might be tested; and you shall have ten days of tribulation. Be faithful until death and I will give the crown of life to you."}
{"book": "REV", "chapter": 2, "verse": "11", "text": "The one having an ear, let him hear what the Spirit says to the churches. The one overcoming shall never be harmed (latin-non laedetur-not hurt) from out of the second death."}
{"book": "REV", "chapter": 2, "verse": "12", "text": "And to the angel of the church in Pergamum write: These things says the One having the sharp two-edged sword:"}
{"book": "REV", "chapter": 2, "verse": "13", "text": "I know where you reside, where the throne of Satan is; and you hold fast My name, and you have not denied (refused) My faith, even in the days of Antipas, My witness (greek-martys), My faithful [one], who was killed beside you, where Satan resides."}
{"book": "REV", "chapter": 2, "verse": "14", "text": "But rather I have a few things against you; because you have [some] there holding the teaching of Balaam, who taught Balak to cast a snare in the sight of the sons of Israel, to eat things sacrificed to idols and to commit fornication (sexual immorality)."}
{"book": "REV", "chapter": 2, "verse": "15", "text": "So have also you, likewise [some] holding the teaching of the Nicolaitans."}
{"book": "REV", "chapter": 2, "verse": "16", "text": "Repent therefore! And if not, I am coming quickly (speedily) to you and will make war against (with) them with (in) the sword of My mouth."}
{"book": "REV", "chapter": 2, "verse": "17", "text": "The one having an ear, let him hear what the Spirit says to the churches. The one overcoming, I will give to him the manna having been hidden; and I will give to him a white pebble (small smooth stone used to vote with in ancient elections- a white stone meant Yes and a black stone meant No), and upon the pebble a new name having been written, which no one has known, except the one receiving it."}
{"book": "REV", "chapter": 2, "verse": "18", "text": "And to the angel of the church in Thyatira write: These things says the Son of God, the One having his eyes like as a flame of fire and His feet similar to fine bronze."}
{"book": "REV", "chapter": 2, "verse": "19", "text": "I know your works, and love, and faith, and ministry (diakonian), and your endurance; and your works, the last are greater than the first."}
{"book": "REV", "chapter": 2, "verse": "20", "text": "But rather I hold against you that you permit (latin-permittis-permit) the woman Jezebel, the one calling herself a prophetess, and who is teaching and misleading my bond-slaves to commit fornication (sexual immorality), and to eat things sacrificed to idols."}
{"book": "REV", "chapter": 2, "verse": "21", "text": "And I have given her time so that she might repent and she is not willing to repent from out of her fornication (sexual immorality)."}
{"book": "REV", "chapter": 2, "verse": "22", "text": "Behold, I will cast her unto a bed (possibly sickbed, latin-lectum-bed) and those committing adultery with her into great tribulation, except they will repent from out of her deeds."}
{"book": "REV", "chapter": 2, "verse": "23", "text": "And her children I will kill with (in) death; and all the churches will know, that I am the One diligently searching affections (affectives, nephros- innermost emotions that drive the conscience and decision-making, kidney as a general emotional center, the reins, latin-renes-kidney) and hearts; and I will give to each of you according to your works."}
{"book": "REV", "chapter": 2, "verse": "24", "text": "And I say to you, to the rest who are in Thyatira, as many as do not have this teaching, who have not known the depths of Satan, as they speak; I will not cast upon you another burden (weight)."}
{"book": "REV", "chapter": 2, "verse": "25", "text": "Nevertheless what you have, hold fast until I might come."}
{"book": "REV", "chapter": 2, "verse": "26", "text": "And the one overcoming and keeping (guarding) My works until the end, I will give to him authority over (upon) the ethnicities (ethnon-nations),"}
{"book": "REV", "chapter": 2, "verse": "27", "text": "And he will shepherd (poimanei-shepherd, tend, latin-reget-rule-kjv goes with latin) them with a rod (staff) of iron, like as the vessels of the potters are broken in pieces (break by crushing); like as I also have received from (from close beside) My Father."}
{"book": "REV", "chapter": 2, "verse": "28", "text": "And I give to him the morning star."}
{"book": "REV", "chapter": 2, "verse": "29", "text": "The one having an ear, let him hear what the Spirit says to the churches."}
{"book": "REV", "chapter": 3, "verse": "1", "text": "And to the angel of the church in Sardis write: These things says the One having the seven Spirits of God and the seven stars. I know your deeds, that you have the reputation (a name) that you are alive and yet you are dead."}
{"book": "REV", "chapter": 3, "verse": "2", "text": "Be watching, and confirm (affix firmly) the things that remain, which are about to die off; for I have not found your works having been completed (made full, fulfilled) in the sight of My God."}
{"book": "REV", "chapter": 3, "verse": "3", "text": "Remember therefore what you have received and heard- and keep it and repent."}
{"book": "REV", "chapter": 3, "verse": "4", "text": "If the you shall not watch, I will come like as a thief and you shall not know at what hour I will come upon you. But rather you have a few names (persons) in Sardis, who have not soiled (stained, polluted, defiled) their outer-garments and they will walk with Me in white, because they are worthy (deserving)."}
{"book": "REV", "chapter": 3, "verse": "5", "text": "The one overcoming, thus will be clothed in white over-garments; and I will never wipe out (to rub/smear from out of, completely remove, erase) his name from out of the book of life, and I will confess his name in the sight of My Father and in the sight of His angels."}
{"book": "REV", "chapter": 3, "verse": "6", "text": "The one having an ear, let him hear what the Spirit says to the churches."}
{"book": "REV", "chapter": 3, "verse": "7", "text": "And to the angel of the church in Philadelphia write: These things says the Holy [One], the True [One]; having the key of David; the one opening and no one will shut; and shutting, and no one opens."}
{"book": "REV", "chapter": 3, "verse": "8", "text": "I know your deeds. Behold, I have offered (given) in the sight of you a door having been opened, which no one is able to shut it, because you have little power (ability to perform), and yet you have kept My word and have not denied (refused) My name."}
{"book": "REV", "chapter": 3, "verse": "9", "text": "Behold, I give [those] from out of the synagogue of Satan, those declaring (saying) themselves to be Jews and are not, but rather do lie; Behold, I will cause (make) them, so that they will come and will worship (do reverence to, to kiss the ground when prostrating before a superior) in sight of your feet and they shall know that I have loved you."}
{"book": "REV", "chapter": 3, "verse": "10", "text": "Because you have kept the word of My endurance, I also will keep you from out of the hour of the trial being about to come upon the whole inhabited world to try those residing upon the earth."}
{"book": "REV", "chapter": 3, "verse": "11", "text": "I am coming quickly. Hold fast what you have, so that no one might take your crown."}
{"book": "REV", "chapter": 3, "verse": "12", "text": "The one overcoming, I will make him a pillar in the temple of My God and he shall never go outside (exo-exterior) anymore; and I will write upon him the name of My God and the name of the city of My God, the new Jerusalem, coming/going down from out of heaven away from My God, and My new name."}
{"book": "REV", "chapter": 3, "verse": "13", "text": "The one having an ear, let him hear what the Spirit says to the churches."}
{"book": "REV", "chapter": 3, "verse": "14", "text": "And to the angel of the church in Laodicea write: These things says the Amen, the faithful and true Witness, the Beginning (Origin, Ruler) of the creation of God."}
{"book": "REV", "chapter": 3, "verse": "15", "text": "I know your works that you are neither cold nor hot; I wish you would be cold or hot."}
{"book": "REV", "chapter": 3, "verse": "16", "text": "Thus because you are lukewarm and neither hot nor cold, I am about to vomit (latin-evomere-vomit) you from out of My mouth."}
{"book": "REV", "chapter": 3, "verse": "17", "text": "Because you say, I am rich and you have grown rich, and have necessity of nothing, and you do not know (realize) you are wretched (miserable, full of callouses, beaten down) and pitiable (pitiful) and beggarly (destitute, poor) and blind and naked (very poorly clothed)."}
{"book": "REV", "chapter": 3, "verse": "18", "text": "I advise (latin-suadeo-recommend) you to buy gold having been refined from out of fire from (from close beside) Me, so that you might be rich; and white outer-garments, so that you might be clothed and the shame of your nakedness (latin-nuditatis like nudity) might not be made apparent; and eye-salve to anoint (latin-inungue-smear) your eyes, so that you might see."}
{"book": "REV", "chapter": 3, "verse": "19", "text": "As many as I might love (philo, be fond of), I rebuke (convince, convict, reprove, expose, latin-arguo-argue root is object) and discipline (chastise, strictly train, latin-castigo-buffet root is chaste); be zealous then and repent."}
{"book": "REV", "chapter": 3, "verse": "20", "text": "Behold, I stand at (upon) the door and knock; if anyone should hear My voice and open the door and I will come in to him and will dine (eat) with him and he with Me."}
{"book": "REV", "chapter": 3, "verse": "21", "text": "The one overcoming, I will give to him to sit with Me on My throne, like as I also overcame and sat down with My Father on His throne."}
{"book": "REV", "chapter": 3, "verse": "22", "text": "The one having an ear, let him hear what the Spirit says to the churches."}
{"book": "REV", "chapter": 4, "verse": "1", "text": "After these things I looked and behold a door was standing open in heaven and the first voice that I heard was like as a trumpet speaking with me, saying, Come up here and I will show to you what must take place after (with) these things."}
{"book": "REV", "chapter": 4, "verse": "2", "text": "Immediately I was in the Spirit; and behold, a throne was set (laid) in heaven and One sitting upon the throne,"}
{"book": "REV", "chapter": 4, "verse": "3", "text": "And the One sitting, similar in appearance (vision) to a jasper and a sardius stone; and a rainbow (greek & latin-iris) in a circle round about the throne, similar in appearance to an emerald."}
{"book": "REV", "chapter": 4, "verse": "4", "text": "And in a circle round about the throne were twenty four thrones; and twenty four elders (presbyterous) sitting upon the thrones, having been clothed in white garments; and golden crowns (latin-coronas-crowns) upon their heads."}
{"book": "REV", "chapter": 4, "verse": "5", "text": "And from out of the throne go forth flashes of lightning, and voices, and thunderings. And there were seven lamps of fire burning in the sight of the throne, which are the seven Spirits of God;"}
{"book": "REV", "chapter": 4, "verse": "6", "text": "And in sight of the throne was something like a glassy (glass, transparent like glass) sea, similar to crystal (greek-krystallo). And in the midst (middle) of the throne and around the throne were four living creatures (latin-animalia-animals), being full of eyes in front and behind;"}
{"book": "REV", "chapter": 4, "verse": "7", "text": "And the first living creature (latin-animal) was similar to a lion; and the second living creature, similar to a calf; and the third living creature having the face like as a man; and the fourth living creature, similar to an eagle flying."}
{"book": "REV", "chapter": 4, "verse": "8", "text": "And the four living creatures, each one of them having six wings; full of eyes all around (latin-circuitu-round) and within and they have no rest (cease from labor) day and night, saying: Holy, Holy, Holy, Lord God Almighty, the One having been and the One being and the One coming."}
{"book": "REV", "chapter": 4, "verse": "9", "text": "And whenever the living creatures give (offer) glory, and value (honor), and thanksgiving, to the One sitting upon the throne living unto the ages of the ages,"}
{"book": "REV", "chapter": 4, "verse": "10", "text": "The twenty four elders fall in the sight of the One sitting upon the throne and they worship the One living unto the ages of the ages, and they cast their crowns before (in sight of) the throne, saying,"}
{"book": "REV", "chapter": 4, "verse": "11", "text": "Worthy are You, our Lord and [our] God, to receive glory and value (honor) and power; because you created all things and through Your will (wish, desire) they existed and were created."}
{"book": "REV", "chapter": 5, "verse": "1", "text": "And I saw upon the right of the One sitting upon the throne a book having been written inside and on the back, having been sealed with seven seals."}
{"book": "REV", "chapter": 5, "verse": "2", "text": "And I saw a strong angel proclaiming (preaching) in a great (large) voice, Who is worthy to open the book and break (release, unbind) the seals of it?"}
{"book": "REV", "chapter": 5, "verse": "3", "text": "And no one was able in heaven, nor upon the earth, nor under the earth to open the book, nor look at it."}
{"book": "REV", "chapter": 5, "verse": "4", "text": "And I was weeping much, because no one worthy was found to open the book nor look at it."}
{"book": "REV", "chapter": 5, "verse": "5", "text": "And one from out of the elders says to me, Do not weep. Behold, the Lion from out of the tribe of Judah, the Root of David, has overcome to open the book and the seven seals of it."}
{"book": "REV", "chapter": 5, "verse": "6", "text": "And I saw in the midst (middle) of the throne and the four living creatures and in the midst (middle) of the elders, a Lamb standing like as having been slain, having seven horns and seven eyes, which are the seven Spirits of God having been sent away into all the earth."}
{"book": "REV", "chapter": 5, "verse": "7", "text": "And He came and took it from out of the right hand of the One sitting upon the throne."}
{"book": "REV", "chapter": 5, "verse": "8", "text": "And when He had taken the book, the four living creatures and the twenty four elders fell down in the sight of the Lamb, each having a harp and golden bowls being full of fragrant incenses, which are the prayers of the saints."}
{"book": "REV", "chapter": 5, "verse": "9", "text": "And they are singing a new song, saying, Worthy are You to take the book and to open the seals of it; because You were slain, and You purchased to God by (in) Your blood, those from out of every tribe and tongue and people and ethnicity,"}
{"book": "REV", "chapter": 5, "verse": "10", "text": "And You made them a kingdom and priests to our God and they shall reign upon the earth."}
{"book": "REV", "chapter": 5, "verse": "11", "text": "And I looked and I heard the voice of many angels around the throne and the living creatures and of the elders; and the number of them was myriads (ten thousands) of myriads and thousands of thousands;"}
{"book": "REV", "chapter": 5, "verse": "12", "text": "Saying with a great (large) voice, Worthy is the Lamb having been slain, to receive power and riches and wisdom and strength and value (honor) and glory and blessing!"}
{"book": "REV", "chapter": 5, "verse": "13", "text": "And every creature which is in heaven and upon the earth and under (hypokato-underneath- under below/down/lower) the earth and upon the sea and all in them, I heard saying, to the One sitting upon the throne and to the Lamb, Blessing and honor (value) and glory and dominion unto the ages of the ages."}
{"book": "REV", "chapter": 5, "verse": "14", "text": "And the four living creatures kept saying, Amen; and the elders fell down and worshiped Him who lives unto the ages of the ages."}
{"book": "REV", "chapter": 6, "verse": "1", "text": "And I looked when the Lamb opened one from out of the seven seals and I heard one from out of the four living creatures saying, like as a voice of thunder, Come!"}
{"book": "REV", "chapter": 6, "verse": "2", "text": "And I looked, and behold, a white horse, and the one sitting upon it having a bow; and a crown was given to him, and he went out overcoming and so that he might conquer."}
{"book": "REV", "chapter": 6, "verse": "3", "text": "And when He opened the second seal, I heard the second living creature saying, Come!"}
{"book": "REV", "chapter": 6, "verse": "4", "text": "And another horse, a fire-colored (pyrros, latin-rufus-red) one, went out; and the one sitting upon it was given to him to take the peace from out of the earth, so that they will slay (slaughter by violence) one another; and a great sword (slaughter-knife/dagger) was given to him."}
{"book": "REV", "chapter": 6, "verse": "5", "text": "And when He opened the third seal, I heard the third living creature saying, Come; and I looked, and behold, a black horse, and the one sitting upon it, having a pair of scales (also used of a yoke) in his hand. pints) of wheat for a denarius (small Roman silver coin about 53 grams, it was equal to one days wages in Roman times for a common soldier or farmer, possibly worth between $70 today by minimum wage standards for a 10hr day, if you go by the current value of silver+53 grams=$29), and three choenixes of barley for a denarius; and you should not act unjustly towards (damage, injure, harm, latin-laeseris-hurt) the oil (olive oil but olive oil was used for feeding lamps and healing sick- possibly an indication that petro oil and medicine are a possibility here, latin-oleum-oil possibly like petroleum) and the wine."}
{"book": "REV", "chapter": 6, "verse": "6", "text": "And I heard like as a voice in the midst (middle) of the four living creatures, saying, A choenix (a Greek dry measure for less than a quart, equal to 1.92 pints) of wheat for a denarius (small Roman silver coin about 53 grams, it was equal to one days wages in Roman times for a common soldier or farmer, possibly worth between $70 today by minimum wage standards for a 10hr day, if you go by the current value of silver+53 grams=$29), and three choenixes of barley for a denarius; and you should not act unjustly towards (damage, injure, harm, latin-laeseris-hurt) the oil (olive oil but olive oil was used for feeding lamps and healing sick- possibly an indication that petro oil and medicine are a possibility here, latin-oleum-oil possibly like petroleum) and the wine."}
{"book": "REV", "chapter": 6, "verse": "7", "text": "And when He opened the fourth seal, I heard the voice of the fourth living creature saying, Come!"}
{"book": "REV", "chapter": 6, "verse": "8", "text": "And I looked, and behold, a pale (chloros, a pale green, yellowish, greenish yellow, root of chlorine which is a pale greenish yellow color, latin-pallidus-pale), and the one sitting above (upon-up) it, his name was Death, and Hades followed (accompanied) with him; and authority was given to them over (upon) the fourth of the earth to kill with (in) sword (rhomphaia-long-large-broad sword), and with (in) famine (hunger, scarcity of food, root is destitute/lack, latin-fame-hunger like famine) and with (in) death, and by (under) the wild beasts (wild animals, latin-bestiis-wild root is beast) of the earth."}
{"book": "REV", "chapter": 6, "verse": "9", "text": "And when He opened the fifth seal, I saw (looked) underneath the altar the souls of those having been slain because of the word of God and because of the testimony which they held;"}
{"book": "REV", "chapter": 6, "verse": "10", "text": "And they were crying (like a raven’s piercing cry, urgent screaming) with a great voice, saying, Until when, O Master, holy and true, will You judge (not do you judge) and avenge our blood from out of those residing upon the earth?"}
{"book": "REV", "chapter": 6, "verse": "11", "text": "And white robes (stole, a long robe worn by the upper/elite classes in the east) were given to each of them and it was said to them so that they will rest yet a little time, until their fellow-bondslaves and their brothers being about to be killed like as they also [had been] would be fulfilled (completed, made full)."}
{"book": "REV", "chapter": 6, "verse": "12", "text": "And I looked when He opened the sixth seal, and there was a great earthquake (seismos, latin-terraemotus) and the sun became black like as sackcloth (used in mourning) made of hair, and the whole moon became like as blood;"}
{"book": "REV", "chapter": 6, "verse": "13", "text": "And the stars of heaven fell unto (into) the earth, like as a fig tree casts its unripe figs (not ripening in due time, untimely, unseasonable, winter, latin-grossos, grows through the winter, yet does not come to maturity but falls off in the spring) being shaken by (under) a great wind."}
{"book": "REV", "chapter": 6, "verse": "14", "text": "And heaven departed (separate away from, part asunder, severed) like as a book being folded up (or scroll being rolled up), and every mountain and island were moved from out of their places."}
{"book": "REV", "chapter": 6, "verse": "15", "text": "And the kings of the earth, and the great ones (grandees, magnates), and the commanders (military commander of a thousand soldiers), and the rich, and the strong ones, and every bond-slave and freeman, hid themselves into (unto) the caves (latin-speluncis-caves like spelunking) and into (unto) the rocks of the mountains;"}
{"book": "REV", "chapter": 6, "verse": "16", "text": "And they say to the mountains and to the rocks, Fall upon us and hide us away from the face of the One sitting upon the throne and away from the wrath of the Lamb;"}
{"book": "REV", "chapter": 6, "verse": "17", "text": "Because the great day of His wrath has come and who is able to stand?"}
{"book": "REV", "chapter": 7, "verse": "1", "text": "After (with) these things I saw four angels standing upon the four corners (quarters, angles, latin-angulos-corners root is angle) of the earth, holding the four winds of the earth, so that no wind would blow upon the earth, nor upon the sea, nor upon any tree."}
{"book": "REV", "chapter": 7, "verse": "2", "text": "And I saw another angel, having ascended away from the rising of the sun (the east), having the seal of the living God; and he cried (latin-clamavit-cried possibly like clamored=shout loudly) with a great voice to the four angels to whom had been given them to harm (this word has to do with committing injustice, latin-nocere-hurt) the earth and the sea,"}
{"book": "REV", "chapter": 7, "verse": "3", "text": "Saying, Do not harm the earth, nor the sea, nor the trees, until we shall have sealed the bond-slaves of our God upon their foreheads (latin-frontibus-foreheads, greek-metopon which is meta-ops, ops is eye and meta is with/after thus with or after the eyes)."}
{"book": "REV", "chapter": 7, "verse": "4", "text": "And I heard the number of the ones having been sealed, a hundred forty four thousand (144, 000), having been sealed from out of every tribe (tribe here is feminine) of the sons of Israel;"}
{"book": "REV", "chapter": 7, "verse": "5", "text": "From out of the tribe of Judah, twelve thousand (12, 000) having been sealed; from out of the tribe of Reuben, twelve thousand (12, 000); from out of the tribe of Gad, twelve thousand (12, 000);"}
{"book": "REV", "chapter": 7, "verse": "6", "text": "From out of the tribe of Asher, twelve thousand (12, 000); from out of the tribe of Naphtali, twelve thousand (12, 000); from out of the tribe of Manasseh, twelve thousand (12, 000);"}
{"book": "REV", "chapter": 7, "verse": "7", "text": "From out of the tribe of Simeon, twelve thousand (12, 000); from out of the tribe of Levi, twelve thousand (12, 000); from out of the tribe of Issachar, twelve thousand (12, 000);"}
{"book": "REV", "chapter": 7, "verse": "8", "text": "From out of the tribe of Zebulun, twelve thousand (12, 000); from out of the tribe of Joseph, twelve thousand (12, 000); from out of the tribe of Benjamin, twelve thousand (12, 000) having been sealed."}
{"book": "REV", "chapter": 7, "verse": "9", "text": "After (with) these things I looked, and behold, a great (much, many) multitude, which no one was able to number it; from out of every ethnicity, and tribes, and peoples, and tongues (glosson), standing in the sight of the throne and in the sight of the Lamb, having been clothed with white robes and palm branches (greek-phoinikes, latin-palmae) in their hands;"}
{"book": "REV", "chapter": 7, "verse": "10", "text": "And crying with a great voice, saying, Salvation to our God sitting upon the throne and to the Lamb!"}
{"book": "REV", "chapter": 7, "verse": "11", "text": "And all the angels stood around the throne, and the elders (latin-seniorum) and the four living creatures, and they fell in the sight of the throne upon their faces and worshipped God,"}
{"book": "REV", "chapter": 7, "verse": "12", "text": "Saying, Amen! Blessing and glory and wisdom and thanksgiving and value (honor) and power and strength to our God unto the ages of the ages! Amen."}
{"book": "REV", "chapter": 7, "verse": "13", "text": "And one from out of the elders answered, saying to me, These having been clothed with the white robes, who are they? And from where have they come?"}
{"book": "REV", "chapter": 7, "verse": "14", "text": "And I said to him, my lord, you know. And he said to me, These are those coming from out of the great tribulation and they washed their robes and made them white in the blood of the Lamb."}
{"book": "REV", "chapter": 7, "verse": "15", "text": "Because of this, they are in the sight of the throne of God and serve Him day and night in His temple; and He sitting upon the throne will tabernacle (encamp, dwell as in a tent) upon them."}
{"book": "REV", "chapter": 7, "verse": "16", "text": "They will not hunger any more, neither will they thirst anymore, nor shall the sun fall upon them, nor any scorching (burning) heat;"}
{"book": "REV", "chapter": 7, "verse": "17", "text": "Because the Lamb who is in the midst (middle) of the throne will shepherd them, and He will guide them upon living fountains of waters, and God will wipe away every tear from out of their eyes."}
{"book": "REV", "chapter": 8, "verse": "1", "text": "And when He opened the seventh seal, there was silence in heaven as long as half an hour."}
{"book": "REV", "chapter": 8, "verse": "2", "text": "And I saw the seven angels, who stand in the sight of God and seven trumpets were given to them."}
{"book": "REV", "chapter": 8, "verse": "3", "text": "And another angel came and stood at (upon) the altar, having a golden censer of incense (frankincense); and much incense was given to him, so that he will offer it with the prayers of all the saints upon (at) the golden altar in the sight of the throne."}
{"book": "REV", "chapter": 8, "verse": "4", "text": "And the smoke of the incense with the prayers of the saints went up (ascended) from out of the hand of the angel in the sight of God."}
{"book": "REV", "chapter": 8, "verse": "5", "text": "And the angel took the censer of incense and filled it from out of the fire of the altar and cast it into (unto) the earth; and there were thunders and voices (sounds, noises, possibly rumblings), and flashes of lightning, and an earthquake."}
{"book": "REV", "chapter": 8, "verse": "6", "text": "And the seven angels having the seven trumpets, prepared themselves so that they might sound their trumpets."}
{"book": "REV", "chapter": 8, "verse": "7", "text": "And the first sounded his trumpet; and there was hail and fire having been mixed with (in) blood, and it was cast unto the earth; and a third of the earth was burned up, and a third of the trees were burned up, and all the green grass was burned up."}
{"book": "REV", "chapter": 8, "verse": "8", "text": "And the second angel sounded his trumpet; and something like as a great mountain burning with fire was cast into the sea, and a third of the sea became blood;"}
{"book": "REV", "chapter": 8, "verse": "9", "text": "And a third of the creatures in the sea having life died; and a third of the ships were destroyed."}
{"book": "REV", "chapter": 8, "verse": "10", "text": "And the third angel sounded his trumpet; and a great star, burning like as a torch, fell from out of heaven and it fell upon a third of the rivers and upon the springs of waters."}
{"book": "REV", "chapter": 8, "verse": "11", "text": "And the name of the star is called Wormwood (greek-Apsinthos, latin-Absinthius); and a third of the waters became unto wormwood and many of the men died from the waters, because they were made bitter (latin-amarae-bitter)."}
{"book": "REV", "chapter": 8, "verse": "12", "text": "And the fourth angel sounded his trumpet; and a third of the sun was struck, and a third of the moon, and a third of the stars; so that a third of them should be darkened and the day should not appear for a third of it, and the night likewise."}
{"book": "REV", "chapter": 8, "verse": "13", "text": "And I looked and I heard one eagle flying in mid-heaven saying with a great voice, Woe, woe, woe, to those residing upon the earth, from out of the remaining voices of the trumpet of the three angels being about to sound their trumpets!"}
{"book": "REV", "chapter": 9, "verse": "1", "text": "And a fifth angel sounded his trumpet; and I saw a star from out of heaven, having fallen unto the earth, and the key of the pit of the abyss was given to him."}
{"book": "REV", "chapter": 9, "verse": "2", "text": "And he opened the pit of the abyss; and smoke from out of the pit went up, like as the smoke of a great furnace; and the sun and the air were darkened from out of the smoke of the pit."}
{"book": "REV", "chapter": 9, "verse": "3", "text": "And from out of the smoke came forth locusts unto the earth and authority was given (latin-data-given) to them, like as the scorpions of the earth have authority;"}
{"book": "REV", "chapter": 9, "verse": "4", "text": "And it was said to them, so that they will not harm (act unjustly) the grass of the earth nor any green thing, nor any tree, except the men not having the seal of God upon their foreheads."}
{"book": "REV", "chapter": 9, "verse": "5", "text": "And it was given to them, so that they should not kill them, but rather so that they will torment (torture) them five months; and their torment (torture) was like as the torment (torture) of a scorpion when it might strike a man."}
{"book": "REV", "chapter": 9, "verse": "6", "text": "And in those days, men will seek death, and will not find it; and they will passionately long to die, and death shall flee away from them."}
{"book": "REV", "chapter": 9, "verse": "7", "text": "And the likenesses (forms, resemblances) of the locusts was similar to horses having been prepared unto battle and upon their heads were something like as crowns, like gold; and their faces like as the faces of men;"}
{"book": "REV", "chapter": 9, "verse": "8", "text": "And they had hair like as the hair of women; and their teeth were like as those of lions;"}
{"book": "REV", "chapter": 9, "verse": "9", "text": "And they had breastplates like as breastplates of iron; and the sound (voice) of their wings was like as the sound of chariots of many horses rushing (running, latin-currentium-running, advancing speedily) into battle;"}
{"book": "REV", "chapter": 9, "verse": "10", "text": "And they have tails similar to scorpions and stings; and their authority is in their tails to hurt (do injustice) men for five months."}
{"book": "REV", "chapter": 9, "verse": "11", "text": "They have a king over (upon) them, the angel of the abyss. His name in Hebrew is Abaddon, and in Greek, he has the name Apollyon. [the Latin Vulgate adds- in Latin his name is Exterminans (Exterminator)—in English it they mean Destroyer]."}
{"book": "REV", "chapter": 9, "verse": "12", "text": "The first woe is past. Behold, two woes are still coming after these things."}
{"book": "REV", "chapter": 9, "verse": "13", "text": "And the sixth angel sounded his trumpet; and I heard one voice from out of the four horns of the golden altar in the sight of God,"}
{"book": "REV", "chapter": 9, "verse": "14", "text": "Saying to the sixth angel, the one having the trumpet, Release the four angels, those having been bound at (upon) the great river Euphrates."}
{"book": "REV", "chapter": 9, "verse": "15", "text": "And the four angels having been prepared unto the hour and day and month and year were released, so that they might kill a third of mankind;"}
{"book": "REV", "chapter": 9, "verse": "16", "text": "And the number of the armies of the horsemen (cavalry) was twice ten thousand ten thousands (or two myriads of myriads, twice 10,000 x 10,000 NASB-two hundred million); I heard their number."}
{"book": "REV", "chapter": 9, "verse": "17", "text": "And thus I saw the horses in the vision, and those sitting upon them, having fiery breastplates, and hyacinthine (dark purplish blue to vivid violet color), and brimstone-like (sulfurous); and the heads of the horses were like as heads of lions and from out of their mouths go out fire and smoke and brimstone."}
{"book": "REV", "chapter": 9, "verse": "18", "text": "From these three plagues (blows, wounds, calamities), a third of mankind was killed from out of the fire and the smoke and the brimstone going out from out of their mouths."}
{"book": "REV", "chapter": 9, "verse": "19", "text": "For the authority of the horses is in their mouths; and in their tails; for their tails are similar to serpents (snakes) having heads and with them they do harm."}
{"book": "REV", "chapter": 9, "verse": "20", "text": "And the rest of the men, who were not killed in these plagues, did not repent from out of the works of their hands, so that they will not worship the demons and the golden idols, and silver, and bronze, and stone, and wooden, which neither are able to see, nor hear, nor walk."}
{"book": "REV", "chapter": 9, "verse": "21", "text": "And they did not repent from out of their murders, nor from out of their sorceries (pharmakon- used of people using drugs and religious incantations to drug people into living by their illusions, latin-veneficiis-pharmaceuticals- roots are poisoning/ drug/ witchcraft/ veins), nor from out of their fornication, nor from out of their thefts."}
{"book": "REV", "chapter": 10, "verse": "1", "text": "And I saw another strong angel coming down from out of heaven, clothed with a cloud and a rainbow upon his head and his face was like as the sun and his feet like as pillars of fire,"}
{"book": "REV", "chapter": 10, "verse": "2", "text": "And having in his hand a little scroll (book) being open. And he placed his right foot upon the sea and his left upon the earth;"}
{"book": "REV", "chapter": 10, "verse": "3", "text": "And he cried out with a great voice like as a lion roars. And when he cried out, the seven thunders sounded their own voices."}
{"book": "REV", "chapter": 10, "verse": "4", "text": "And when the seven thunders had spoken, I was about to write; and I heard a voice from out of heaven, saying, Seal what things the seven thunders have spoken, and do not write them."}
{"book": "REV", "chapter": 10, "verse": "5", "text": "And the angel whom I saw standing upon the sea and upon the earth lifted up his right hand unto heaven,"}
{"book": "REV", "chapter": 10, "verse": "6", "text": "And swore by (in) the One living unto the ages of the ages, who created heaven and the things in it and the earth and the things in it and the sea and the things in it, No longer will there be delay (time)!"}
{"book": "REV", "chapter": 10, "verse": "7", "text": "But rather in the days of the voice of the seventh angel, when he is about to sound the trumpet, and the mystery of God would be completed, as proclaimed His bond-slaves, the prophets."}
{"book": "REV", "chapter": 10, "verse": "8", "text": "And the voice that I heard from out of heaven was again speaking with me and saying, Go, take the little book (scroll) having been opened in the hand of the angel standing upon the sea and upon the earth."}
{"book": "REV", "chapter": 10, "verse": "9", "text": "And I went to the angel, saying to him, Give me the little book (scroll). And he says to me, Take and eat it up; and it will make your stomach (koilian) bitter, but rather in your mouth, it will be sweet like as honey."}
{"book": "REV", "chapter": 10, "verse": "10", "text": "And I took the little book (scroll) from out of the hand of the angel and ate it; and it was in my mouth like as sweet honey; and when I had eaten it, my stomach was made bitter."}
{"book": "REV", "chapter": 10, "verse": "11", "text": "And he says to me, It is necessary for you again to prophesy upon many peoples and ethnicities and tongues and kings."}
{"book": "REV", "chapter": 11, "verse": "1", "text": "And a measuring rod similar to a staff (rod, scepter) was given to me, saying, Rise, and measure the temple of God and the altar and those worshipping in it."}
{"book": "REV", "chapter": 11, "verse": "2", "text": "And the court that is within the temple leave out and do not measure it; because it has been given up to the ethnicities and the holy city they will trample on forty and two months (3.5 years)."}
{"book": "REV", "chapter": 11, "verse": "3", "text": "And I will give to My two witnesses and they will prophesy a thousand two hundred sixty days (1260 days), clothed in sackcloth."}
{"book": "REV", "chapter": 11, "verse": "4", "text": "These are the two olive trees and the two lampstands standing in the sight of the Lord of the earth."}
{"book": "REV", "chapter": 11, "verse": "5", "text": "And if anyone should desire to harm them, fire goes out from out of their mouth and devours their enemies. And if anyone should desire to harm them, thus it is necessary for him to be killed."}
{"book": "REV", "chapter": 11, "verse": "6", "text": "These having the authority to shut the heaven, so that no rain shall fall in the days of their prophecy; and they have authority over (upon) the waters to turn (change) them into blood and the strike the earth with (in) every plague (calamity), as often as they might desire."}
{"book": "REV", "chapter": 11, "verse": "7", "text": "And when they shall have completed their testimony, the beast coming up from out of the abyss will make war with them and will overcome them and will kill them."}
{"book": "REV", "chapter": 11, "verse": "8", "text": "And their body will be upon the street of the great city, which is spiritually called Sodom and Egypt, where also their Lord was crucified."}
{"book": "REV", "chapter": 11, "verse": "9", "text": "And from out of the peoples and tribes and tongues and ethnicties, they will gaze on their bodies three and a half days and they will not allow their bodies to be put into a tomb."}
{"book": "REV", "chapter": 11, "verse": "10", "text": "And those residing upon the earth rejoice over (upon) them and make merry (cheer) and will send gifts to one another, because these, the two prophets, have tormented those residing upon the earth."}
{"book": "REV", "chapter": 11, "verse": "11", "text": "And after the three and a half days, the spirit of life from out of God entered into them and they stood upon their feet; and great fear fell upon those beholding them."}
{"book": "REV", "chapter": 11, "verse": "12", "text": "And they heard a great voice from out of heaven, saying to them, Come up here. And they went up into heaven in the cloud; and their enemies beheld them."}
{"book": "REV", "chapter": 11, "verse": "13", "text": "And in that hour there was a great earthquake and a tenth of the city fell, and seven thousand names of men were killed in the earthquake. And the rest became terrified and gave glory to the God of heaven."}
{"book": "REV", "chapter": 11, "verse": "14", "text": "The second woe has passed. Behold, the third woe is coming quickly."}
{"book": "REV", "chapter": 11, "verse": "15", "text": "And the seventh angel sounded his trumpet; and great voices in heaven were saying, The kingdom of the world has become that of our Lord’s and of His Christ and He will reign unto the ages of the ages."}
{"book": "REV", "chapter": 11, "verse": "16", "text": "And the twenty four elders sitting upon their thrones in sight of God fell upon their faces and worshipped God,"}
{"book": "REV", "chapter": 11, "verse": "17", "text": "Saying, We give thanks to You, Lord God Almighty, the One being and who was and is coming that You have taken Your great power and begun to reign."}
{"book": "REV", "chapter": 11, "verse": "18", "text": "And the ethnicities were angry (wrathful), and Your wrath came, and the time for the dead to be judged and to give the reward to Your bond-slaves, the prophets, and to the saints, and to those fearing Your name, the small and the great, and to destroy those who are destroying the earth."}
{"book": "REV", "chapter": 11, "verse": "19", "text": "And the temple of God was opened in heaven and in His temple was seen the ark of His covenant. And there were flashes of lightning, and voices, and thunders, and an earthquake, and great hail."}
{"book": "REV", "chapter": 12, "verse": "1", "text": "And a great sign was seen in heaven: A woman clothed with the sun, and the moon under her feet, and upon her head a crown of twelve stars;"}
{"book": "REV", "chapter": 12, "verse": "2", "text": "And having [a child] in her womb (gastri-belly, latin-utero-womb), and she cries out travailing in birth pangs and being in pain (torment) to bring forth (beget, produce)."}
{"book": "REV", "chapter": 12, "verse": "3", "text": "And another sign was seen in heaven, and behold, a great fire-colored dragon, having seven heads and ten horns, and seven diadems (royal crowns) upon his heads;"}
{"book": "REV", "chapter": 12, "verse": "4", "text": "And his tail drags a third of the stars of heaven, and he cast them unto (into) the earth. And the dragon stands in the sight of the woman, being about to bring forth, so that when she should bring forth her child (teknon-is neuter) he might devour (eat all the way down) it."}
{"book": "REV", "chapter": 12, "verse": "5", "text": "And she brought forth a male son, who is about to shepherd all the ethnicities with (in) a rod (staff) of iron; and her child (teknon-is neuter) was caught up (raptured) to God and to His throne. months, 3.5yrs) days."}
{"book": "REV", "chapter": 12, "verse": "6", "text": "And the woman fled into the wilderness (desert, desolate area, uncultivated/unpopulated place, latin-solitudinem-waste root is wilderness), where she has there a place having been prepared from God, so that there they should nourish (feed to enlarge/grow) her one thousand two hundred sixty (1,260, 42 months, 3.5yrs) days."}
{"book": "REV", "chapter": 12, "verse": "7", "text": "And there was war in heaven: Michael and his angels warred against (with, after) the dragon, and the dragon and his angels warred [back];"}
{"book": "REV", "chapter": 12, "verse": "8", "text": "And he had not strength, nor was a place found for them any more in heaven."}
{"book": "REV", "chapter": 12, "verse": "9", "text": "And the great dragon was cast (thrown), the ancient (primitive, original, latin-antiquus-old root is antique like antiquity) serpent (ophis-snake, latin-serpens-snake), who is called the Devil, and Satan, deceiving (causing to wander, latin-seducit-seduces) the whole inhabited world; he was cast (thrown) into (unto) the earth and his angels were cast with him."}
{"book": "REV", "chapter": 12, "verse": "10", "text": "And I heard a great voice in heaven, saying, Now has come the salvation, and the power, and the kingdom of our God and the authority of His Christ, because the accuser (latin-accusator-prosecutor) of our brothers has been cast (thrown), the one accusing (prosecuting) them in the sight of our God day and night."}
{"book": "REV", "chapter": 12, "verse": "11", "text": "And they have overcome him through the blood of the Lamb, and through the word of their testimony; and they have not loved their life (soul, psychen) until (as far as) death."}
{"book": "REV", "chapter": 12, "verse": "12", "text": "Because of this rejoice (cheer, make merry/glad) you heavens and those dwelling (tabernacle-ing, dwell as in a tent, encamp) in them! Woe to the earth and the sea, because the devil has come down to you having great fury (wrath), knowing that he has a short time (opportunity)!"}
{"book": "REV", "chapter": 12, "verse": "13", "text": "And when the dragon saw that he had been cast (thrown) into (unto) the earth, he persecuted (pursued, put to flight) the woman, who had brought forth the male (arsena)."}
{"book": "REV", "chapter": 12, "verse": "14", "text": "And to the woman were given the two wings of the great eagle, so that she might fly into the wilderness, into her place, where she is nourished there a time, and times, and half a time, away from the face of the serpent."}
{"book": "REV", "chapter": 12, "verse": "15", "text": "And the serpent cast from out of his mouth, water like as a river (latin-flumen-river), after the woman, so that he might make her be carried away by a river."}
{"book": "REV", "chapter": 12, "verse": "16", "text": "And the earth helped the woman, and the earth opened her mouth and swallowed up the river, which the dragon had cast from out of his mouth. interlinears- And he stood upon the sand of the sea. Most translations use this as the start of Revelation 13- the Amplified and older translations start this in Revelation 13 but say that “I stood” the NASB says the “dragon stood”]"}
{"book": "REV", "chapter": 12, "verse": "17", "text": "And the dragon was irate (made angry, irritated, provoked, latin-iratus-angry) at (upon) the woman, and went to make war with the rest of her seed (offspring, word is neuter) keeping the commandments of God and holding the testimony of Jesus. (this is not is a lot of translations, but is in the ESV and 2 interlinears- And he stood upon the sand of the sea. Most translations use this as the start of Revelation 13- the Amplified and older translations start this in Revelation 13)"}
{"book": "REV", "chapter": 13, "verse": "1", "text": "And I saw a beast (wild animal) rising from out of the sea, having ten horns, and seven heads, and ten diadems (royal crowns) upon its horns, and names of blasphemy upon its heads."}
{"book": "REV", "chapter": 13, "verse": "2", "text": "And the beast that I saw was similar to a leopard, and its feet like as a bear’s, and its mouth like as the mouth of a lion; and the dragon gave to it his power and his throne and great authority."}
{"book": "REV", "chapter": 13, "verse": "3", "text": "And one of its heads like as having been slain unto death; and its wound (blow, stripe) of death was healed; and the whole earth marveled after the beast."}
{"book": "REV", "chapter": 13, "verse": "4", "text": "And they worshipped the dragon, who had given his authority to the beast; and they worshipped the beast, saying, Who is similar to the beast? And who is able to make war against it?"}
{"book": "REV", "chapter": 13, "verse": "5", "text": "And a mouth speaking great things and blasphemy was given to it; and the authority to act was given to it for forty and two months (3.5yrs)."}
{"book": "REV", "chapter": 13, "verse": "6", "text": "And it opened its mouth unto blasphemies against (toward) God, to blaspheme His name and His tabernacle, those dwelling (tabernacle-ing) in heaven."}
{"book": "REV", "chapter": 13, "verse": "7", "text": "And it was given to it to make war with the saints, and to overcome them; and authority was given to it over (upon) every tribe, and people and tongue, and ethnicity;"}
{"book": "REV", "chapter": 13, "verse": "8", "text": "And all residing upon the earth will worship it, of whom their names have not been written in the book of life of the Lamb having been slain from the founding of the world."}
{"book": "REV", "chapter": 13, "verse": "9", "text": "If anyone has an ear, let him hear."}
{"book": "REV", "chapter": 13, "verse": "10", "text": "If anyone [is to go] into captivity into captivity he goes; if anyone will kill with (by, in) the sword, it is necessary (inevitable) that he be killed with (by, in) the sword. Here is the endurance and the faith of the saints."}
{"book": "REV", "chapter": 13, "verse": "11", "text": "And I saw another beast rising from out of the earth and it had two horns similar to a lamb, and it spoke like as a dragon;"}
{"book": "REV", "chapter": 13, "verse": "12", "text": "And it exercises (makes, does) all the authority of the first beast in the sight of it, and causes (makes, does) the earth and those residing in it, so that they shall worship the first beast, of whom it’s fatal wound had been healed."}
{"book": "REV", "chapter": 13, "verse": "13", "text": "And it makes great signs, so that it should make even fire to come down from out of heaven unto the earth in the sight of men."}
{"book": "REV", "chapter": 13, "verse": "14", "text": "And it deceives those residing upon the earth because of the signs that were given to it to make in the sight of the beast, telling those residing upon the earth to make an image (idol, icon) to the beast that has the wound of the sword and has lived."}
{"book": "REV", "chapter": 13, "verse": "15", "text": "And it was given to it to give breath (spirit) to the image of the beast, so that the image of the beast should also speak and should cause (make) so that as many as would not worship the image of the beast would be killed."}
{"book": "REV", "chapter": 13, "verse": "16", "text": "And it causes (makes) all the small and the great; and the rich and the poor; and the free and the bond-slaves; so that it should give them a mark (engraving, brand-mark, identification-marker, latin-caracter-mark root is character) upon their right hand or upon their forehead;"}
{"book": "REV", "chapter": 13, "verse": "17", "text": "And so that no one should be able to buy or to sell, except the one having the mark- the name of the beast, or the number of its name."}
{"book": "REV", "chapter": 13, "verse": "18", "text": "Here is the wisdom. The one having understanding let him calculate (compute, latin-conputet-count root is compute) the number of the beast: it is indeed a man’s number; and the number is of it, six hundred sixty six (666)."}
{"book": "REV", "chapter": 14, "verse": "1", "text": "And I looked, and behold, the Lamb was standing upon Mount Zion and with Him a hundred forty four thousand (144, 000), having His name and the name of His Father, having been written upon their foreheads."}
{"book": "REV", "chapter": 14, "verse": "2", "text": "And I heard a voice from out of heaven like as the voice (sound) of many waters and like as the voice (sound) of great thunder. And the voice (sound) that I heard was like as harpists harping with their harps."}
{"book": "REV", "chapter": 14, "verse": "3", "text": "And they are singing like as a new song in the sight of the throne and in the sight of the four living creatures, and the elders. And no one was able to learn the song, except the hundred forty four thousand, having been redeemed from the earth."}
{"book": "REV", "chapter": 14, "verse": "4", "text": "These are they who have not been defiled (stained) with women; for they are virgins (latin-virgines, word is masculine). These following the Lamb wherever He shall go. These have been redeemed from men as firstfruits to God and to the Lamb:"}
{"book": "REV", "chapter": 14, "verse": "5", "text": "And in their mouth was not found a lie; they are unblemished [not in some translations- in the sight of the throne of God]."}
{"book": "REV", "chapter": 14, "verse": "6", "text": "And I saw another angel flying in mid-heaven having the everlasting gospel (glad tidings) to preach upon those seated upon the earth and upon every ethnicity and tribe and tongue and people;"}
{"book": "REV", "chapter": 14, "verse": "7", "text": "Saying with a great voice, Fear God and give Him glory because the hour of His judgment has come; and worship Him having made heaven, and the earth, and sea, and springs of waters."}
{"book": "REV", "chapter": 14, "verse": "8", "text": "And another angel, a second one, followed, saying, Fallen, Fallen is Babylon the great; she has given to all the ethnicities to drink from out of the wine of the passion (heated outburst) of her fornication (sexual immorality)."}
{"book": "REV", "chapter": 14, "verse": "9", "text": "And another angel, a third one, followed them, saying with a great voice, If anyone worships the beast and its image and receives a mark upon his forehead or upon his hand,"}
{"book": "REV", "chapter": 14, "verse": "10", "text": "He also will drink from out of the wine of the passion (heated outburst) of God having been mixed undiluted (possibly poured out unmixed) in the cup of His wrath; and he will be tormented in fire and brimstone in the sight of the holy angels and in the sight of the Lamb."}
{"book": "REV", "chapter": 14, "verse": "11", "text": "And the smoke of their torment goes up unto ages of ages; and they have no rest day and night, those worshipping the beast and its image and if anyone receives the mark of its name."}
{"book": "REV", "chapter": 14, "verse": "12", "text": "Here is the endurance of the saints, those keeping the commandments of God and the faith of Jesus."}
{"book": "REV", "chapter": 14, "verse": "13", "text": "And I heard a voice from out of heaven, saying, Write, Blessed are the dead dying in the Lord from now on. Yes, says the Spirit, so that they will rest from out of their labors; for their works do follow with them."}
{"book": "REV", "chapter": 14, "verse": "14", "text": "And I looked, and behold, a white cloud, and the one sitting upon the cloud was similar to a son of man having upon his head a golden crown and in his hand a sharp sickle."}
{"book": "REV", "chapter": 14, "verse": "15", "text": "And another angel came out from out of the temple crying with a great voice to the one sitting upon the cloud, Put forth (send) your sickle and reap; because the hour to reap has come, since the harvest of the earth has ripened."}
{"book": "REV", "chapter": 14, "verse": "16", "text": "And the one sitting upon the cloud put forth his sickle upon the earth and the earth was harvested."}
{"book": "REV", "chapter": 14, "verse": "17", "text": "And another angel came from out of the temple in heaven, he also having a sharp sickle."}
{"book": "REV", "chapter": 14, "verse": "18", "text": "And another angel came from out of the altar having authority over (upon) the fire and he called out with a great voice to the one having the sharp sickle, saying, Put forth your sharp sickle and gather the clusters from the vine of the earth; because its grapes have fully ripened."}
{"book": "REV", "chapter": 14, "verse": "19", "text": "And the angel put forth his sickle unto the earth and gathered the vine of the earth and cast them into the great wine-press of the passion (heated outburst) of God; hundred miles, one stadia equals 1/8 of a mile)."}
{"book": "REV", "chapter": 14, "verse": "20", "text": "And the winepress was trodden outside the city and blood flowed from out of the winepress as far as the bridles of the horses for one thousand six hundred (1,600) stadia (200 miles, one stadia equals 1/8 of a mile)."}
{"book": "REV", "chapter": 15, "verse": "1", "text": "And I saw another sign in heaven, great and wonderful: seven angels having seven plagues (calamities) - the last, because in them was completed the passion (heated outburst) of God."}
{"book": "REV", "chapter": 15, "verse": "2", "text": "And I saw something like as a glassy sea mingled with fire, and those conquering over the beast and over its image; and over the number of its name, standing upon the glassy sea having harps of God."}
{"book": "REV", "chapter": 15, "verse": "3", "text": "And they are singing the song of Moses, the bond-slave of God, and the song of the Lamb, saying, Great and wonderful are Your works, Lord God Almighty! Righteous and true are Your ways, O King of the ethnicities!"}
{"book": "REV", "chapter": 15, "verse": "4", "text": "Who should not fear You, O Lord, and glorify Your name? For You alone are holy; for all the ethnicities will come and worship You in Your sight; for Your righteous acts have been made apparent."}
{"book": "REV", "chapter": 15, "verse": "5", "text": "And after these things I looked and the temple of the tabernacle of the testimony in heaven was opened;"}
{"book": "REV", "chapter": 15, "verse": "6", "text": "And seven angels having the seven plagues came out from out of the temple having been clothed in pure (clean) and bright (shining) linen and having been girded around their chests with golden sashes."}
{"book": "REV", "chapter": 15, "verse": "7", "text": "And one from out of the four living creatures gave to the seven angels seven golden bowls, full of the passion (heated outburst) of God, the One living unto the ages of the ages."}
{"book": "REV", "chapter": 15, "verse": "8", "text": "And the temple was filled with smoke from out of the glory of God and from out of His power; and no one was able to enter into the temple until the seven plagues of the seven angels were completed."}
{"book": "REV", "chapter": 16, "verse": "1", "text": "And I heard a great voice from out of the temple, saying to the seven angels, Go and pour out the seven bowls of the passion (heated outburst) of God unto the earth."}
{"book": "REV", "chapter": 16, "verse": "2", "text": "And the first departed and poured out his bowl unto the earth; and bad (foul, rotten) and evil (pain-ridden) festering sore came upon the men having the mark of the beast and those worshipping its image."}
{"book": "REV", "chapter": 16, "verse": "3", "text": "And the second poured out his bowl into the sea; and it became blood like as of [one] dead; and every living soul died that was in the sea."}
{"book": "REV", "chapter": 16, "verse": "4", "text": "And the third poured out his bowl into the rivers and the springs of the waters; and they became blood."}
{"book": "REV", "chapter": 16, "verse": "5", "text": "And I heard the angel of the waters saying, Righteous (Just) are You, the One being and having been, O Holy One, because these things you have judged."}
{"book": "REV", "chapter": 16, "verse": "6", "text": "Because they have poured out the blood of saints and of prophets and You have given them blood to drink; they are worthy."}
{"book": "REV", "chapter": 16, "verse": "7", "text": "And I heard the altar saying, Yes, Lord God Almighty, true and righteous (just) are Your judgments."}
{"book": "REV", "chapter": 16, "verse": "8", "text": "And the fourth poured out his bowl upon the sun; and it was given to it to scorch men with fire."}
{"book": "REV", "chapter": 16, "verse": "9", "text": "And the men were scorched with great heat and they blasphemed the name of God, the One having the authority over (upon) these plagues and they did not repent to give Him glory."}
{"book": "REV", "chapter": 16, "verse": "10", "text": "And the fifth poured out his bowl upon the throne of the beast; and its kingdom became darkened; and they were gnawing their tongues from out of distress (anguish, pain);"}
{"book": "REV", "chapter": 16, "verse": "11", "text": "And they blasphemed the God of heaven from out of their distresses and from out of their sores; and they did not repent from out of their works."}
{"book": "REV", "chapter": 16, "verse": "12", "text": "And the sixth poured out his bowl upon the great river Euphrates; and its water was dried up, so that the way of the kings from (away from) the rising of the sun might be prepared."}
{"book": "REV", "chapter": 16, "verse": "13", "text": "And I saw three unclean spirits like as frogs [coming] from out of the mouth of the dragon and from out of the mouth of the beast and from out of the mouth of the false prophet;"}
{"book": "REV", "chapter": 16, "verse": "14", "text": "For they are spirits of demons making (doing) signs, which go out upon the kings of the whole inhabited world to gather them together unto the battle of the great day of God Almighty."}
{"book": "REV", "chapter": 16, "verse": "15", "text": "Behold, I am coming like as a thief. Blessed is he who is watching and keeping his garments so that he might not walk naked and they might see his shame."}
{"book": "REV", "chapter": 16, "verse": "16", "text": "And He gathered them together unto the place called in Hebrew Armageddon (Harmagedon)."}
{"book": "REV", "chapter": 16, "verse": "17", "text": "And the seventh poured out his bowl upon the air; and a great voice came out from out of the temple away from the throne saying, It is done!"}
{"book": "REV", "chapter": 16, "verse": "18", "text": "And there were flashes of lightning and voices (sounds) and thunders; and there was a great earthquake such as there has not been since men were upon the earth, so large (great, mighty) was the earthquake and so great."}
{"book": "REV", "chapter": 16, "verse": "19", "text": "And the great city became into three parts; and the cities of the ethnicities fell; and the great Babylon was remembered in the sight of God, to give her the cup of the wine of the passion of His wrath."}
{"book": "REV", "chapter": 16, "verse": "20", "text": "And every island fled; and mountains were not to be found;"}
{"book": "REV", "chapter": 16, "verse": "21", "text": "And great hail about the talent weight (weight or worth of a talent, NASB- 100lbs.) comes down from out of heaven upon the men; and the men blasphemed God from out of the plague of the hail because the plague of it is exceedingly great."}
{"book": "REV", "chapter": 17, "verse": "1", "text": "And one of the seven angels having the seven bowls came and spoke with me, saying Come here, I will show you the results of the judgment of the great prostitute who is sitting upon many waters;"}
{"book": "REV", "chapter": 17, "verse": "2", "text": "With whom the kings of the earth have committed fornications (sexual immoralities); and have been made drunk those residing on the earth from out of the wine of her fornication (sexual immorality, latin-prostitutionis-prostitution)."}
{"book": "REV", "chapter": 17, "verse": "3", "text": "And he carried me away into a wilderness in the Spirit; and I saw a woman sitting upon a scarlet beast, being full of names of blasphemy, having seven heads and ten horns."}
{"book": "REV", "chapter": 17, "verse": "4", "text": "And the woman was clothed in purple and scarlet and adorned with gold and precious stone and pearls, holding a golden cup in her hand, being full of abominations and the impurity of her fornication (sexual immorality, latin uses fornicationis here);"}
{"book": "REV", "chapter": 17, "verse": "5", "text": "And upon her forehead a name was written, Mystery Babylon the Great, the mother of the prostitutes and of the abominations of the earth."}
{"book": "REV", "chapter": 17, "verse": "6", "text": "And I saw the woman being drunk from out of the blood of the saints and from out of the blood of the witnesses of Jesus. And I marveled, having seen her with great wonder (marvel, latin-admiratione)."}
{"book": "REV", "chapter": 17, "verse": "7", "text": "And the angel said to me, Why did you marvel? I will tell you the mystery of the woman and of the beast carrying her, having the seven heads and the ten horns."}
{"book": "REV", "chapter": 17, "verse": "8", "text": "The beast that you saw was and is not and is about to come up from out of the abyss and go into destruction; and those residing upon the earth will marvel, whose names are not written in the book of life from the foundation of the world, seeing the beast which was and is not and yet will be."}
{"book": "REV", "chapter": 17, "verse": "9", "text": "Here is the mind having wisdom: The seven heads are seven mountains where the woman sits upon them;"}
{"book": "REV", "chapter": 17, "verse": "10", "text": "And there are seven kings: the five are fallen, the one is, the other has not yet come; and when he shall have come it is necessary for him to remain a little while."}
{"book": "REV", "chapter": 17, "verse": "11", "text": "And the beast which was and is not, is himself also an eighth and is from out of the seven, and goes down into destruction."}
{"book": "REV", "chapter": 17, "verse": "12", "text": "And the ten horns which you saw are ten kings, who have not yet received a kingdom, but rather receive authority as kings for one hour with the beast."}
{"book": "REV", "chapter": 17, "verse": "13", "text": "These have one plan (purpose, opinion, consent, intention, latin-consilium-plan), and they shall give up their power and authority to the beast."}
{"book": "REV", "chapter": 17, "verse": "14", "text": "These will make war with the Lamb and the Lamb will overcome them; because He is the Lord of lords and King of kings; and those that are with Him, called, and chosen, and faithful."}
{"book": "REV", "chapter": 17, "verse": "15", "text": "And he says to me, The waters that you saw, where the prostitute sits are peoples and multitudes and ethnicities and tongues."}
{"book": "REV", "chapter": 17, "verse": "16", "text": "And the ten horns that you saw and the beast , these will hate the prostitute and will make her desolate and naked; and will eat her flesh and will burn her with (in) fire;"}
{"book": "REV", "chapter": 17, "verse": "17", "text": "For God has put into their hearts to do His plan (purpose, intention) and to do one plan and to give their kingdom to the beast until the words of God be fulfilled."}
{"book": "REV", "chapter": 17, "verse": "18", "text": "And the woman whom you saw is the great city having kingship over (upon) the kings of the earth."}
{"book": "REV", "chapter": 18, "verse": "1", "text": "After these things I saw another angel descending from out of heaven having great authority; and the earth was illuminated from out of his glory."}
{"book": "REV", "chapter": 18, "verse": "2", "text": "And he cried with a strong voice, saying, Fallen, Fallen is Babylon the great! And she has become a habitation of demons, and a hold (prison, guard, watch, latin-custodia-custody root is keep) of every unclean spirit, and a hold (prison, guard, watch, latin-custodia-custody root is keep) of every unclean bird, and a hold (prison, guard, watch) of every unclean wild animal (beast) having been hated (detested)."}
{"book": "REV", "chapter": 18, "verse": "3", "text": "Because all the ethnicities have drunk from out of the wine of the passion of her fornication (sexual immorality); and the kings of the earth have committed fornication (sexual immorality) with her; and the merchants (traders) of the earth have become rich from out of the power of her luxury (excessiveness, latin-deliciarum-delights roots are luxuriously and delicacy)."}
{"book": "REV", "chapter": 18, "verse": "4", "text": "And I heard another voice from out of heaven, saying, Come you my people from out of her, so that you might not share (fellowship, partake) together in her sins and so that you might not receive from out of her plagues;"}
{"book": "REV", "chapter": 18, "verse": "5", "text": "Because her sins have been heaped as far as heaven and God has remembered her unrighteousnesses (injustices, crimes, wrongs)."}
{"book": "REV", "chapter": 18, "verse": "6", "text": "Give back to her as she has also rendered; and render back double to her double according to her works. In the cup which she has mixed, mix double to her."}
{"book": "REV", "chapter": 18, "verse": "7", "text": "So much as she has glorified herself and lived in luxury, give as much torment and mourning (sadness, grief) to her. Because she says in her heart, I sit as a queen and I am never a widow and I shall never see mourning."}
{"book": "REV", "chapter": 18, "verse": "8", "text": "Because of this, in one day will come her plagues, death and mourning and famine, and with fire she will be burned up; because strong is the Lord God having judged her."}
{"book": "REV", "chapter": 18, "verse": "9", "text": "And the kings of the earth having committed fornication and having lived luxuriously with her will weep and wail (be cut to the heart) upon her, when they see the smoke of her burning,"}
{"book": "REV", "chapter": 18, "verse": "10", "text": "Standing far away from because of the fear of her torment, saying, Woe, woe, the great city, Babylon, the strong city! Because in one hour your judgment has come."}
{"book": "REV", "chapter": 18, "verse": "11", "text": "And the merchants of the earth weep and mourn over (upon) her, because no one any longer buys their cargo-"}
{"book": "REV", "chapter": 18, "verse": "12", "text": "Cargo of gold, and of silver, and of precious stone, and of pearl, and of fine linen, and of purple, and of silk, and of scarlet, and all thyine (citron tree of Northern Africa used as incense) wood, and every article of ivory, and every article of most precious wood, and of bronze, and of iron, and of marble,"}
{"book": "REV", "chapter": 18, "verse": "13", "text": "And cinnamon, and spice, and incense, and anointing-oil (myron), and frankincense, and wine, and oil, and finest wheat flour, and grain, and cattle, and sheep, and of horses, and of chariots, and of bodies, and souls of men."}
{"book": "REV", "chapter": 18, "verse": "14", "text": "And the ripe fruits which are the passionate urge of your soul are departed away from you and all the sumptuous (fatty, oily, rich) things and the splendid (bright) things have departed away from you, and they will no longer find them."}
{"book": "REV", "chapter": 18, "verse": "15", "text": "The merchants of these things having become rich from her will stand far away from, because of the fear of her torment, weeping and mourning,"}
{"book": "REV", "chapter": 18, "verse": "16", "text": "Saying, Woe, woe, the great city having been clothed with fine linen, and purple, and scarlet; and having been adorned with gold, and precious stone, and pearls!"}
{"book": "REV", "chapter": 18, "verse": "17", "text": "Because in one hour such great wealth has been made desolate. And every shipmaster (greek-kybernetes-steersman/pilot, latin-gubernator-pilot) and all those sailing upon a place, and sailors (seamen), and as many as trade by the sea stood a distance away from,"}
{"book": "REV", "chapter": 18, "verse": "18", "text": "And cried seeing the smoke of her burning, saying, What is similar to the great city?"}
{"book": "REV", "chapter": 18, "verse": "19", "text": "And they cast dust upon their heads, and cried, weeping and mourning, saying, Woe, woe, the great city in which were made rich all having boats in the sea from out of her wealth! Because in one hour she has been made desolate."}
{"book": "REV", "chapter": 18, "verse": "20", "text": "Rejoice over (upon) her, O heaven, and you saints, and apostles, and prophets; because God did judge judgment for you against her."}
{"book": "REV", "chapter": 18, "verse": "21", "text": "And one strong angel took up a stone like as a great millstone and cast it into the sea, saying, Thus with violence Babylon the great city will be cast down and shall not be found any longer."}
{"book": "REV", "chapter": 18, "verse": "22", "text": "And the sound (voice) of harpists, and musicians, and flute-players, and trumpeters, shall not be heard in you any longer; and any craftsman of any craft shall not be found in you any longer; and the sound of a millstone shall not be heard in you any longer;"}
{"book": "REV", "chapter": 18, "verse": "23", "text": "And the light of a lamp shall not shine in you any longer; and the voice of a bridegroom and a bride shall not be heard in you any longer; because your merchants were the great ones of the earth, because in your sorcery all the ethnicities were deceived."}
{"book": "REV", "chapter": 18, "verse": "24", "text": "And in her was found, the blood of prophets and of saints and of all those having been slain upon the earth."}
{"book": "REV", "chapter": 19, "verse": "1", "text": "After these things I heard something like as a great voice of a great multitude in heaven, saying, Hallelujah! Salvation and glory and power of our God!"}
{"book": "REV", "chapter": 19, "verse": "2", "text": "Because true and righteous are His judgments; because He has judged the great prostitute who corrupted the earth with her fornication (sexual immorality), and He has avenged the blood of His bond-slaves from out of her hand."}
{"book": "REV", "chapter": 19, "verse": "3", "text": "And a second time they said, Hallelujah! And the smoke of her goes up unto the ages of the ages."}
{"book": "REV", "chapter": 19, "verse": "4", "text": "And the twenty four elders and the four living creatures fell down and worshipped God, the One sitting upon the throne, saying, Amen, Hallelujah!"}
{"book": "REV", "chapter": 19, "verse": "5", "text": "And a voice from the throne came forth, saying, Praise our God all His servants (bond-slaves) and those fearing Him, the small and the great!"}
{"book": "REV", "chapter": 19, "verse": "6", "text": "And I heard something like as the voice of a great (much, many) multitude, and like as the sound of many waters, and like as the sound of strong thunders, saying, Hallelujah, because our Lord God Almighty has reigned."}
{"book": "REV", "chapter": 19, "verse": "7", "text": "We should rejoice and should exalt (leap with joy, celebrate) and will give glory to Him; because the marriage of the Lamb has come and His bride (wife, woman) has made herself ready."}
{"book": "REV", "chapter": 19, "verse": "8", "text": "And it was given to her so that she should be clothed in pure and bright fine linen; for the fine linen is the righteous acts of the saints."}
{"book": "REV", "chapter": 19, "verse": "9", "text": "And he says to me, Write, Blessed are those having been invited into the supper of the marriage of the Lamb. And he says to me, These are the true words of God."}
{"book": "REV", "chapter": 19, "verse": "10", "text": "And I fell in front of his feet to worship him. And he says to me, Do you not see that I am your fellow servant, and your brothers holding the testimony of Jesus. Worship God; for the testimony of Jesus is the spirit of prophecy."}
{"book": "REV", "chapter": 19, "verse": "11", "text": "And I saw heaven having been opened, and behold, a white horse, and the One sitting upon it, called Faithful and True, and in righteousness He judges and makes war."}
{"book": "REV", "chapter": 19, "verse": "12", "text": "And His eyes like as a flame of fire and many diadems upon His head having a name having been written which no one knows, except He Himself,"}
{"book": "REV", "chapter": 19, "verse": "13", "text": "And having been clothed with a garment having been dipped in blood; and His name is called, The Word of God."}
{"book": "REV", "chapter": 19, "verse": "14", "text": "And the armies who were in heaven were following Him upon white horses having been clothed in fine linen, pure and white."}
{"book": "REV", "chapter": 19, "verse": "15", "text": "And a sharp sword goes out from out of His mouth, so that with it He might strike down the ethnicities; and He will shepherd them with a rod of iron; and He treads the press of the wine of the passion of the wrath of God the Almighty."}
{"book": "REV", "chapter": 19, "verse": "16", "text": "And He has upon His robe (outer garment) and upon His thigh, a name having been written, King of kings and Lord of lords."}
{"book": "REV", "chapter": 19, "verse": "17", "text": "And I saw one angel standing in the sun; and he cried out with a great voice, saying to all the birds flying in mid-heaven, Come! Gather yourselves together unto the great supper of God,"}
{"book": "REV", "chapter": 19, "verse": "18", "text": "So that you might eat the flesh of kings and the flesh of commanders, and the flesh of strong men, and the flesh of horses and of those sitting upon them, and the flesh of all, free and slaves, and small and great."}
{"book": "REV", "chapter": 19, "verse": "19", "text": "And I saw the beast and the kings of the earth and their armies having been gathered together to make war with the One sitting upon the horse and with His army."}
{"book": "REV", "chapter": 19, "verse": "20", "text": "And the beast was captured and with him the false prophet having done the signs in his sight, in which he deceived those having received the mark of the beast and those worshipping its image. The two were cast living into the lake of fire burning with brimstone;"}
{"book": "REV", "chapter": 19, "verse": "21", "text": "And the rest were killed with the sword of the One sitting upon the horse having gone out from out of His mouth; and all the birds were filled from out of their flesh."}
{"book": "REV", "chapter": 20, "verse": "1", "text": "And I saw an angel descending from out of heaven holding the key of the abyss and a great chain upon his hand."}
{"book": "REV", "chapter": 20, "verse": "2", "text": "And he laid hold of the dragon, the ancient serpent, who is the Devil and Satan, and bound him for a thousand years;"}
{"book": "REV", "chapter": 20, "verse": "3", "text": "And he cast him into the abyss and shut and sealed it over him, so that he should not deceive the ethnicities any longer until the thousand years were completed; after these things it is necessary for him to be released and a little time."}
{"book": "REV", "chapter": 20, "verse": "4", "text": "And I saw thrones; and they sat upon them, and judgment was given to them; and the souls of those having been beheaded 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 take the mark upon their forehead and upon their hand; and they lived and reigned with Christ a thousand years."}
{"book": "REV", "chapter": 20, "verse": "5", "text": "The rest of the dead did not come to life until the thousand years shall have been completed. This is the first resurrection."}
{"book": "REV", "chapter": 20, "verse": "6", "text": "Blessed and holy is the one having a part in the first resurrection! Over (upon) these the second death has no authority, but rather they will be priests of God and of Christ and will reign with Him a thousand years,"}
{"book": "REV", "chapter": 20, "verse": "7", "text": "And when the thousand years shall have been completed, Satan will be released from out of his prison;"}
{"book": "REV", "chapter": 20, "verse": "8", "text": "And he will go out to deceive the ethnicities in the four corners (angles, quarters-KJV, latin-quattuor angulos- four corners root is angle) of the earth, Gog and Magog, to gather them together unto the war, of whom the number is of them like as the sand of the sea."}
{"book": "REV", "chapter": 20, "verse": "9", "text": "And they ascended upon the breadth (platos like plates, latin-latitudinem like latitudes) of the earth and encircled the camp (barracks, army in battle array) of the saints and the city having been beloved; and fire came down from out of heaven and devoured them;"}
{"book": "REV", "chapter": 20, "verse": "10", "text": "And the devil, the one deceiving them, was cast into the lake (latin-stagnum-lake root is pools) of fire and of brimstone (latin-sulphuris-sulphur), where are also the beast and the false prophet; and they will be tormented day and night unto the ages of the ages."}
{"book": "REV", "chapter": 20, "verse": "11", "text": "And I saw a great white throne and the One sitting upon it, away from whose face the earth and heaven fled and no place was found for them."}
{"book": "REV", "chapter": 20, "verse": "12", "text": "And I saw the dead, great and small, standing in the sight of the throne and the books were opened; and another book was opened, which is the one of life. And the dead were judged from out of the things having been written in the books, according to their deeds."}
{"book": "REV", "chapter": 20, "verse": "13", "text": "And the sea gave up the dead who were in it; and death and hades gave up the dead who were in them; and they were judged each of them according to their works."}
{"book": "REV", "chapter": 20, "verse": "14", "text": "And death and hades were cast into the lake of fire. This is the second death, the lake of fire."}
{"book": "REV", "chapter": 20, "verse": "15", "text": "And if anyone was not found having been written in the book of life, he was cast into the lake of fire."}
{"book": "REV", "chapter": 21, "verse": "1", "text": "And I saw a new heaven and a new earth; for the first heaven and first earth had passed away (gone away, departed), and the sea is not any longer."}
{"book": "REV", "chapter": 21, "verse": "2", "text": "And the holy city, the new Jerusalem, I saw coming down from out of heaven from God having been prepared like as a bride having been adorned for her husband."}
{"book": "REV", "chapter": 21, "verse": "3", "text": "And I heard a great voice from out of heaven, saying, Behold, the tabernacle of God is with men and He will tabernacle with them and they will be His peoples (of note-people is plural here), and God Himself will be with them as their God."}
{"book": "REV", "chapter": 21, "verse": "4", "text": "And He will wipe away every tear from out of their eyes; and death will be no longer, nor mourning, nor crying, nor pain; they will be no longer because the first things have passed away."}
{"book": "REV", "chapter": 21, "verse": "5", "text": "And the One sitting upon the throne said, Behold, I make all things new. And He says, Write, because these are faithful and true words."}
{"book": "REV", "chapter": 21, "verse": "6", "text": "And He said to me, It is done! I am the Alpha and the Omega, the Beginning and the End. I will give to the one thirsting from out of the spring of the water of life freely (as a free gift)."}
{"book": "REV", "chapter": 21, "verse": "7", "text": "The one overcoming will inherit all things and I will be his God and he will be My son:"}
{"book": "REV", "chapter": 21, "verse": "8", "text": "However to the cowardly (timid, fearful of losses), and unbelieving, and having become abominable (detestable), and murderers, and fornicators (the sexually immoral), and sorcerers, and idolaters, and all liars, their portion is in the lake burning with fire and brimstone (sulphur), which is the second death."}
{"book": "REV", "chapter": 21, "verse": "9", "text": "And one from out of the seven angels came having the seven bowls being full of the seven last plagues, and spoke with me, saying, Come here, I will show you the bride (nymphen, latin-sponsam-bride), the wife (gynaika, latin-uxorem-wife) of the Lamb."}
{"book": "REV", "chapter": 21, "verse": "10", "text": "And he carried me away in the Spirit upon a great and high mountain and showed me the holy city Jerusalem, descending from out of heaven away from God,"}
{"book": "REV", "chapter": 21, "verse": "11", "text": "Having the glory of God. Its radiance was similar to a most precious stone, like as a jasper stone being clear as crystal;"}
{"book": "REV", "chapter": 21, "verse": "12", "text": "Having a great and high wall, having twelve gates and twelve angels at (upon, over) the gates, and names having been inscribed which are the names of the twelve tribes of the sons of Israel."}
{"book": "REV", "chapter": 21, "verse": "13", "text": "From the east (rising of the sun, latin-oriente) were three gates (latin-portae-gates like portals); and from the north, three gates; and from the south, three gates; and from the west (setting of the sun), three gates."}
{"book": "REV", "chapter": 21, "verse": "14", "text": "And the wall of the city having twelve foundations, and upon them the twelve names of the twelve apostles of the Lamb."}
{"book": "REV", "chapter": 21, "verse": "15", "text": "And the one speaking with me had a golden measuring reed, so that he should measure the city, and its gates, and its walls. stadia, about 1500 miles-NASB and AMP). The length, and the breadth, and the height of it are equal."}
{"book": "REV", "chapter": 21, "verse": "16", "text": "And the city lies foursquare (laid out as a square), and its length is the same as the width. And he measured the city with the reed at (upon) twelve thousand stadia (12,000 stadia, about 1500 miles-NASB and AMP). The length, and the breadth, and the height of it are equal."}
{"book": "REV", "chapter": 21, "verse": "17", "text": "And he measured its wall, a hundred forty four cubits (about 72 yards-NASB-AMP), the measure of man, that is, of an angel."}
{"book": "REV", "chapter": 21, "verse": "18", "text": "And the structure (material of the building, latin-structura) of the wall, of it jasper; and the city pure gold similar to clear glass."}
{"book": "REV", "chapter": 21, "verse": "19", "text": "The foundations of the wall of the city having been adorned with every precious stone; the first foundation, jasper; the second, sapphire; the third, chalcedony; the fourth, emerald;"}
{"book": "REV", "chapter": 21, "verse": "20", "text": "The fifth, sardonyx; the sixth, sardius; the seventh, chrysolite; the eigth, beryl; the ninth, topaz; the tenth, chrysoprase; the eleventh, jacinth; the twelfth, amethyst."}
{"book": "REV", "chapter": 21, "verse": "21", "text": "And the twelve gates, twelve pearls; each one of the gates respectively was from out of one pearl; and the street of the city pure gold like as transparent (able to shine through) glass."}
{"book": "REV", "chapter": 21, "verse": "22", "text": "And I saw no temple in it; for the Lord God Almighty is its temple- and the Lamb."}
{"book": "REV", "chapter": 21, "verse": "23", "text": "And the city has no need of the sun nor of the moon so that they should shine in it; for the glory of God enlightened it and the Lamb is its lamp."}
{"book": "REV", "chapter": 21, "verse": "24", "text": "And the ethnicities will walk by its light; and the kings of the earth bring their [ethnicities] glory and honor (valuing) into it."}
{"book": "REV", "chapter": 21, "verse": "25", "text": "And its gates shall not be shut by day; for there will not be night."}
{"book": "REV", "chapter": 21, "verse": "26", "text": "And they will bring the glory and the honor of the ethnicities into it."}
{"book": "REV", "chapter": 21, "verse": "27", "text": "And there never shall enter into it anything defiling and those practicing abomination and a lie; only those having been written in the book of life of the Lamb."}
{"book": "REV", "chapter": 22, "verse": "1", "text": "And he showed me a river of water of life, bright (shining, splendid) as crystal, flowing forth from out of the throne of God and of the Lamb."}
{"book": "REV", "chapter": 22, "verse": "2", "text": "In the middle of its street, and on this side and on that side of the river, the tree of life, producing twelve fruits, yielding its fruit according to each month; and the leaves of the tree unto the healing (therapeian, latin-sanitatem-health) of the ethnicities."}
{"book": "REV", "chapter": 22, "verse": "3", "text": "And there will not be any longer any curse; and the throne of God and of the Lamb will be in it; and His servants (bond-slaves) will serve Him."}
{"book": "REV", "chapter": 22, "verse": "4", "text": "And they will see His face; and His name will be upon their foreheads."}
{"book": "REV", "chapter": 22, "verse": "5", "text": "And there will be no night and they have no need of the light of a lamp and the light of the sun; because the Lord God will enlighten upon them and they will reign unto the ages of the ages."}
{"book": "REV", "chapter": 22, "verse": "6", "text": "And he said to me, These words are faithful and true; and the Lord, the God of the spirits of the prophets, sent His angel to show His servants the things that must come to pass in quickness."}
{"book": "REV", "chapter": 22, "verse": "7", "text": "And Behold, I am coming quickly. Blessed is the one keeping the words of the prophecy of this book."}
{"book": "REV", "chapter": 22, "verse": "8", "text": "And I, John, am the one hearing and seeing these things. And when I heard and saw, I fell down to worship in front of the angel showing me these things."}
{"book": "REV", "chapter": 22, "verse": "9", "text": "And he says to me, See not [to do this]: I am your fellow servant and of your brothers, the prophets, and of those keeping the words of this book. Worship God!"}
{"book": "REV", "chapter": 22, "verse": "10", "text": "And he says to me, Do not seal the words of the prophecy of this book; for the time is near."}
{"book": "REV", "chapter": 22, "verse": "11", "text": "The one being unrighteous (unjust), let him be unrighteous still; and he who is filthy, let him be filthy still; and he who is righteous (just), let him practice righteousness (justice) still; and he who is holy, let him be holy still."}
{"book": "REV", "chapter": 22, "verse": "12", "text": "Behold, I am coming quickly, and My reward (wages) is with Me, to give (give back, return) to each as is his work."}
{"book": "REV", "chapter": 22, "verse": "13", "text": "I am the Alpha and the Omega, the First and the Last, the Beginning and the End."}
{"book": "REV", "chapter": 22, "verse": "14", "text": "Blessed are those washing their robes so that there will be their authority (right) upon the tree of life and they shall enter into the city by the gates."}
{"book": "REV", "chapter": 22, "verse": "15", "text": "Outside are the dogs, and the sorcerers, and the fornicators (sexually immoral), and the murderers, and the idolaters, and everyone loving and practicing falsehood."}
{"book": "REV", "chapter": 22, "verse": "16", "text": "I, Jesus, have sent My angel to testify these things to you in the churches. I am the Root and the Offspring of David, the Bright (latin-splendida) Morning Star."}
{"book": "REV", "chapter": 22, "verse": "17", "text": "And the Spirit and the bride say, Come! And the one hearing, let him say, Come! and the one thirsting let him come; the one wanting, let him take the water of life freely."}
{"book": "REV", "chapter": 22, "verse": "18", "text": "I testify to everyone hearing the words of the prophecy of this book, If anyone should add upon these things, God will add upon him the plagues having been written in this book."}
{"book": "REV", "chapter": 22, "verse": "19", "text": "And if anyone should take away from the words of the book of this prophecy, God will take away his part from the tree of life and from out of the holy city, of those having been written in this book."}
{"book": "REV", "chapter": 22, "verse": "20", "text": "He testifying these things says, Yes, I am coming quickly. Amen. Come, Lord Jesus!"}
{"book": "REV", "chapter": 22, "verse": "21", "text": "[The grace of the Lord Jesus Christ be with all the holy [ones]. Amen.]—this is not in Latin Vulgate but is in most English translations."}